Doughboys - Guy's American Kitchen with Christine Nangle (LIVE)

Episode Date: September 28, 2017

In the 'boys inaugural show in NYC, they take a bite out of the Big Apple with frequent guest and #NangGang leader Christine Nangle (The President Show, Inside Amy Schumer) to review Guy Fieri's flagship restaurant in Times Square, Guy's American Kitchen. Plus, a special audience participation edition of the Wiger Challenge. (Recorded live from the Now Hear This podcast festival in New York City.)Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Cereal audio. Cereal audio. April 19th, 1993 was a defining day in the history of TV. It marked the launch of a new basic cable channel called the Television Food Network. Viewed through the prism of today's fragmented micro-targeted pop culture landscape, it seems unremarkable. But back in 1993, the TV Food Network was mocked and derided as a sign of television's descent into absurdity. Originally, its programming was targeted at elite gourmands and presented by hosts like Lifestyles with the rich and famous as Robin Leach, Gourmet magazine editor David Rosengarten, and Donna Hanover, the then-wife of disgraced and discredited former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

But as the channel evolved, it discovered a recipe for bigger ratings, scoring its first mainstream hit via New Orleans chef Emeril Lagasse, a natural on camera with its outsized personality, running list of catchphrases, and tendency to punctuate seasoning with an outburst of BAM! The new Food Network, having dropped TV from its name, set in its programming on down home fair presented by every men and women, amassing a stable of celebrity chefs including Bobby Flay, Rachel Ray, and the now shunned Paula Deen. Then in 2005, Food Network launched its reality competition show The Next Food Network Star, and its season two winner would transform the channel, a Bay Area chef with bleach blonde hairstyled and Bart Simpson spikes, with a Piercing's tattooed sleeves and flaming blaze and bowling shirt of a karaoke DJ, Guy Ferry, who'd legally changed his last name to its original Italian spelling, Fieri.

This dead ringer for the singer from Smash Mouth smashed the expectations of a chef, the Sammy Hagar of the kitchen, Hulk Hogan in a chef's coat, a chugolo, and it would become not just The Next Star, but the biggest star in Food Network history, famous for both tasting and preparing over-the-top American food that often seemed conceived on a dare. Before hitting the airwaves, Fieri already had two restaurants, Italian concept Johnny Garlich's and Tex Wasabi's, a barbecue sushi joint. You heard that right. But its hit shows led by the travel-focused diners, drive-ins, and dives, elevated his profile to expand his empire franchises onto cruise ships in the Vegas Strip, and in 2012, he opened his flagship restaurant in Times Square. While embraced by tourists, it's been shunned by elitists, most famously in a scathing New York Times review,

where critic Pete Wells, the kind of snobbish gourmet who Food Network cast away in favor of regular guys like Guy, described one cocktail as nuclear waste that tasted like some combination of radiator fluid and formaldehyde. Fieri brushed aside the viral tear-down, responding, quote, I'm doing the type of food America loves, and I'm doing it the right way. But is it really the type of food America loves? Is it actually money, gangsta, and off the hook? Will it truly make one exclaim, shut the front door, or holy strong bully, Batman? This week on Doe Boys, we've flown across country and landed in Flavortown, USA. It's Guy's American Grill and Bar.

Welcome to Doe Boys. How you doing now? Hear this. I'm Nick Weiger. We are coming to you live from the city that never leaps, New Donk City. And guys, it's Sunday morning. Who's fucking jacked? All right. We've got a terrific show for you guys here today. Before we go any further though, let me introduce my co-host. This week's roast is courtesy of Alex Pionda. The Spoon Manatee, Mike Mitchell! All right. It's early.

It's real early. It's the brunching hour. It is the brunching hour. How you doing, Nick? I mean, you don't have to hold the whole stand. Well, here's the thing. There's not a great, because like, it's too low. If I put it here, then I have to kind of hunch. We're talking, for people listening, we're talking about the height of the table mic stand right now. So picture a table mic stand that's too low, and I'm sort of hunched over in kind of a Mr. Burns posture. And then Mitch is holding a stick mic, but I've decided to, if I just pick up the entire apparatus, it also works and has a little bit of weight to it. I kind of like it.

That looks weird, though. It's weird and distracting for everyone. You think it's weird? Are you guys going to have, is anyone in the audience going to, by applause, going to have trouble focusing if I hold my microphone like this? Okay, there's a matter. There are few people. That's fine. I understand this is a visual as well as audio presentation today, so I will go ahead and remove this from the stand. That was weird. Look, all right. Hey, howdy-how to Spoon Nation.

I can never do this in a live show. I'm so embarrassed. Dustin, hit him with the drop, buddy. I'm not even doing today, so I can't fuck it up. Dustin, what an idiot, right? Everything okay? What's going on back there, Dustin? You can give us some sort of weight or something. Was the original Doughboy Homer Simpson? You think your Bostonians are so great?

What the fuck? Listen up, you clam gargling tea tossers. I apologize to Spoon Nation. That's not a knife. That's a spoon. I see you've played knifey Spoonie before. He's finally carved it himself on a bigger spoon. Come here, boy. No way, dad.

Mitch, you're doing a bang-up job. We're going to stop doing fucking drops. Specifically for live shows. I'm never more uncomfortable than sitting here when I drop plays. You choose it. You do this at every live show, and you understand how awkward the energy gets.

Yes. Everyone is just quietly sitting here, listening to a recording, and we don't know what to do. Yes. But you told me, you said it was a good one. You said to play it. It was a good one. I guess it was.

By drop standards, it was a good one. I would say that, yeah, we should maybe, but I think there's an expectation when people come to the live show that they want to see the podcast that they hear. Hey, are you guys pumped you just heard her drop? Right? There we go.

All right, so how many people... That was for Robert Persinger, by the way, from Seattle. Real quick, how many people were pumped to hear a drop and also would have been distracted if I continued to hold my mic in the stand originally? More people. I think more people, yeah. Fairly substantial crossover there, yeah.

How are you like the greatest city in the world? What? I thought you guys had old cheer for that. You guys don't even like New York City? Very, very tepid response from the... I don't think it's all New Yorkers out here. I think there's some people who've come from out of town to see the festival.

Who's from out of town? Okay. Wow. That's crazy. Right, maybe some people from the greatest city on earth, Columbus, Ohio. Okay, all right, yeah, I'll take it. Sure, that works.

I take a swing. It's a better city than LA. You think so? Yeah. Sorry. I would say probably it was more conceived as a city, and I'm a big advocate and fan of public transportation, and I feel like the public transportation infrastructure

is obviously clearly better here. Yes, you love trains. I do love trains, yeah. Are you excited to be in the city with a bunch of... a great transit system? What better train city to exist in America? Yeah, so it's... I like the mass transit here,

but I don't know, there's something to... Whatever, who cares? I don't really care that much. I like LA, but I understand the New York partisans. Now, neither of us, we haven't even had any, like, real New York food yet. You ate at Sweet Greens yesterday. I went to Sweet Green for lunch, yeah.

Here's the thing, I knew we were going to have a very heavy dinner, so I counterbalanced it, anticipating that, and had something a little healthy. Sweet Green, but that's from DC. It's like an East Coast chain. There you go, okay, all right, our nation's capital, the greatest city on earth. So, yeah, but I...

But I had Sweet Green for the first time in New York, so I don't think that's a weird thing to do. I think it's kind of weird. There's one in LA. So you think I should have gotten a real slice of New York pizza? Yeah, you should have. Topped with a real New York bagel. On top of the slice?

In a real New York hot dog bun. I'd still eat that. That sounds all right. Yeah, you would want... I would eat that. We would want to understand that. Mitch, are these the lady representations of us? Yeah.

Because we are looking good. Jesus. I love this. So, for people listening, we're flanked by these... We're on the virtue stage, which I think is just for the concept of virtue, right? I think so. It's just like a PSA, raising awareness of virtuous behavior. So, but we're flanked by two, like, giant model photographs

on either side of us. Yes. I guess the virtue gals? I'm going to call them the virtue gals. The virtue gals, for sure. Yeah, they're very... They're women of virtue true. It really makes us stand out how much we look like shit, I'm sure.

I know, right? What a fuck you to podcasters. Here you go, trolls. Deal with this. Hey, Mitch. We should introduce our guest. A good friend of ours from Comedy Central's The President's Show and Inside Amy Schumer, our good friend, Christine Nango!

So you guys already covered this? Yeah, right. No, it's awkward. I don't think it's that awkward. Do whatever's comfortable for you. I'm comfortable. Naila, how you doing? How are things in New York City?

Good, good. I just moved back from LA. I've been in LA for a while. Now I'm back on the East Coast, which is actually... Yeah. Yeah. All right, but hot topic... No one cares about New York.

I don't care. I don't care. Hot topic this A.M., which city do you prefer? You know, Columbus, Ohio. There we go. You're going to get her in trouble. What if she prefers LA? That's fine.

Yeah, I guess no one cares anyway about New York. People don't feel that strongly about it. I mean, I think it's important though that we breach the topic that no one talks about about the differences between New York and Los Angeles. Look, there's so many. We're here to discuss two topics that anyone else is afraid to touch. The differences between New York and LA and the 2016 Democratic primary. That's the entirety of today's podcast.

So, Dangle, but you're originally from Pennsylvania. That's right. Philadelphia, Pittsburgh. Right. You live in both cities. Yeah. So what's your... Like thinking on...

Because I've never been to Pennsylvania. Which state is that? Is it the Keystone State? It's the Keystone State. What's a Keystone? The Keystone is... If you're building an archway, it's the top middle stone. It's like I guess preserve the integrity of the structure.

Right. They should have thought ahead. That's not as important anyway. They should have named it the iPhone State or something. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but like how would they have known that iPhone was... They should have said like the Techno State or something instead. You think they should have been forward thinking like thinking of the 21st century.

I think you're thinking to... I think you're still thinking too small picture. You should think ahead to like the 24th century. What's that? Like the Biodome State. Probably wouldn't even be Biodomes at that point. It would be like the AI, the one AI who we've all merged into. The Singularity State.

A bunch of wikers running around. A scary thought that is. In that case, every state would be the Singularity State. You think there are a lot of wikers everywhere? I wish. Oh hell yeah. Why? I don't know.

Okay, so but I've never been there. We've learned what the Keystone State is, which I think is very helpful. But I've never been there. What's the food culture like in Pennsylvania? Obviously people think a cheese steak. But what do you think of when you think of Philly and Pittsburgh eats? Well, when I was on the first time your show as Nangang knows, is Nangang here? Hell yeah.

Is Nangang here? Nangang is here. There was a separate line for Nangang to get into here. It was bigger than our line. It was hard just to like walk here like through Times Square because it kept getting stopped. Right. For being team for Nangang people. Well there is, there is another convention going on right now.

Drag, RuPaul's DragCon. Yeah, we're in the same venue. The Javits Center is also hosting RuPaul's DragCon, which is far bigger than now. Yeah, we're going to say like 10,000 times more popular. Yeah. It's so joyful. There's so much joy. We basically, they take over like the main part of the convention center and then we go down into like a cement pit.

And here we are. You guys came down here too. Welcome. We know you guys disapprove of sunlight. So get into that basement, you trolls. So, okay, you were having your time. So that was a question that you asked me on my first episode. Well, we'll revisit it.

Let's revisit it because I was also listening to your episode with Paul F. Tompkins. Yeah. And he's also from Philly and you asked him that question and I got like oddly territorial. I was like, I already told them. I already told them what it was. And he was talking about some good seafood and I talked about soft pretzels. Right. And how that was just like a staple.

Is anyone here from the area? Is that true? Right. It's weird. And so just like existed on a diet of soft pretzels. But in Pittsburgh, where I lived for five years and I'm really loyal to that city as well. There's like just a lot of sandwiches and sandwiches. Sandwiches.

Sandwiches. Is that, I mean, but sandwiches like a, it's like US thing, right? I haven't been everywhere. Okay. So I can't speak to that. Do you think there's any sandwich averse cities in the country that they're just sort of like, no sandwiches here. Just wraps.

Yeah. Salt Lake City or something. Yeah. They only like heroes in Salt Lake. So, okay. So, but you had, you had kind of a crazy, I want to get into this restaurant, but I, but you had kind of a bizarre situation last night when we were going out to eat. We were going out to eat.

We'd scheduled this dinner, but you had a second dinner beforehand. Yeah. You had two dinners. I had a first dinner beforehand and then our dinner was the second dinner. I consider ours the first dinner still. Like chronologically, it was second, but I think ours in terms of where I would prioritize them. That's fair.

I mean, you know, make your own, make your own rankings. Oh yeah. That's right. When she was with her family for the first dinner. We're your family now, Nangle. By the way, I have to look at you, Agar, because if I look out this way, I'm blinded by such a bright light. Yes.

And that I'm directly in for some reason. I can't look that way. So I have to stare at you. There's another like beautiful virtue poster. Oh yeah. Down that way. Like a short, quirky haircut lady. I can bear.

If I stare at it for too long, I'll go blind. Yeah. This is the same light we're going to see when we eventually have to answer for our crimes. A beautiful lady just out of reach. Yeah. Yeah. My, so my, it was my one aunt and feeling my aunt Terry's birthday.

And so they were happy birthday, Terry, happy birthday and Terry. And so her, my mom and my dad were coming up to see beautiful, the Carol King musical, which is excellent. And my other aunt was supposed to come up from Florida, but, you know, they're busy. So she couldn't get a flight out. And so I took the ticket. I paid for the tickets in the first place. I don't imagine like I took the ticket as a favor to them.

But then, so we went and saw it. It's awesome. And then we went to Boca de Baco, which is like a New York. It's not, not Boca de Beppo. It's Boca de Baco. I, you said that last night and I said, I correct, I corrected you. I was like, that's gotta be, you mean Boca de Beppo. And I was wrong.

I said, I know what I mean, Nick. Right. I mean Boca de Baco. Yeah. I did. It's so similar. That's why it was the first dinner. It's really like, it's so similar.

It's like when there's like a Dr. Pepper rip off and it's called like Dr. Star. It's like so close to Boca de Beppo. It's just like a little degree removed. Why did you say like Dr. Pepper or something? Oh, right. Why Dr. Star? I was thinking of Dr. Star specific because Dr. Star is one we had in SoCal. It is a real one.

I was thinking specifically, but yes, you're right for that to track better. It should have been, I should have been like Dr. Popper. Or Nurse Pepper. Or Nurse Pepper. Nurse Pepper. Nurse Salt or something. Yeah. There's, I mean like we, look, we, we could get into the Dr. Pepper expanded universe

here. Okay. Okay. Oh no. Okay. Later. Yeah. But yeah.

So Boca de, you went to Boca de Baco? Baco. Boca de Baco. Apparently. And it was just a, it was a really good Italian restaurant. And I ate a full Italian dinner, food, food, Italian food, dinner. But at five o'clock and then went and met you guys at eight. And I thought like, so I ate like pasta and apps and had wine.

Yeah. One of the most stuffing meal. I feel like Italian food is like very filling. But I had just come from this musical where I was, I felt a bunch of emotions. Right. And I was like elated and sad and I cried and it was, that was dancing. So then I was hungry after that. Mostly because.

A lot of people leave this Carol King musical like a fucking star. Well, you know, after you like cry and you, and you have that like, I just cried feeling and you just, all you want to do is eat. Right. No, Nick and I don't know that feeling. But I did text you guys. I was like heads up. I might be a little drunk when I get there.

But I went, I had like time in between the big dinner and our dinner. And I just went and drank hot water. Like I, for some reason I thought that would be the thing that was going to like make room. You said that last night and I was confused. Yeah. Right. Did you think it was like boil stuff up in there or something? I have no idea.

I have no idea. That's what you did. What like, like in like a cartoon when there's like, like a, like an animal gets down another animal's throat. He like pours hot water down his throat to like get him out. That's basically what you did. Yeah. What cartoon is this?

I think itchy and scratchy is all I'm thinking of. You're thinking of an itchy and scratchy. I'm thinking of an itchy and scratchy. You don't just think about itchy and scratchy because I watched the Simpsons movie recently. Yeah. And it's weird. Wow. I had never, I had weirdly never seen the Simpsons movie.

What is wrong with you? I've just never seen it. I watched it for the first time this year. You love the Simpsons. I love the Simpsons. I should have seen it already. Yeah. But I did, I missed it out in theater, missed it when it was in theaters and then just

never saw it. And then missed it for 10 years. Yeah. Literally, literally 10 years. 10 years. Yes. But I, I watched it. I really enjoyed it.

But there's the itchy and scratchy and the Simpsons movie is like not glory. And it's because I think they were trying to get a PG or PG. I think it's a PG-13 writing and so you can't show blood. And it's so weird that like you could just show on network TV at eight o'clock on a Sunday. You can show this insanely gory, like bloody, you know, eviscerations. But you can't do that in a movie rated PG-13 that you have to pay like $15 to see. What did you think of the movie? I just said I liked it.

It's good. I really liked it. All right. Yeah. I enjoyed it. All right. Relax. Jesus.

I think the common, you know, the common thing people say is that Albert Brooks' villain is, you know. He should have been, what's, he should have been, what's his name? Can't we think of it? I don't know. Scorpio. They should have been Scorpio. Yeah.

Which was just Scorpio. Yeah. Nagle, you seen that, that Simpsons movie? Yeah. But I think I saw it when it came out. Yes. Yeah. So she doesn't remember it anymore.

I don't remember anything. It's been a decade. I've eaten too much since then. All right. So, so the, but this big meal. And then we, we went to Guy's American Grill and Bar. Real quick with the audience. Who went to Guy's American Grill and Bar and Prep?

Smattering applause for people. Yeah. They went to a Guy Fieri restaurant period at any point in their lives. Okay. Wait a minute. If you were in that first group, you should have applauded the second time as well because the answer cannot be no to question two. Why are you testing the audience?

Why are you doing like a little quiz master thing? Wait, wait. Oh, you didn't know this was an inquisition. We're going to find out who the knowledge lord is out there. Hold up, hold up, hold up, hold up. I brought a drop and I forgot to play it. Oh, shit. I completely.

All right. How are we going to play this? You saw how good mine went over. Hey, Christine. It's Natalie. It's 2 a.m. I can't do this anymore. Nick is downstairs heating up another salad.

He loves hot salads. And I fear it is to the detriment of our union. Please help. All right. Team name gang for life. Natalie. That was a voicemail I got from Nick's wife, Natalie, telling me Nick was downstairs heating up another salad.

She's living a lie. So I guess I was downstairs in the sewer. We live on the ground floor. I believe it. Yeah, we all believe it. I've been guy. People keep roasting me with a hot salad thing. It's really stuck.

Yes. It bothers me. I know. Because it's, it's invented. It's whole, invented a whole, but it's also like. But there is also some truth. No, there's no truth to it. That's the thing.

But I don't know why people are enjoying so much. Like people really like bringing that up. People really like kneeling me with it. It's fun. People like true things. I have a point out. Yeah, people like the truth. And also there's a man dressed like,

I believe a man dressed like Guy Fieri. Wait, is there an audience? An audience. Sir, stand up so we can't look at you. The audience is clapping for him. Oh boy. Wait, can you buy that? Is that a novelty hat that you bought or you made?

I bought this in the Halloween costume. Oh man. You're not going to wear this anyway. Even if we do. You're going to go. Like all garden. I might just pick that up, but he said he bought us a Halloween costume and just sort of carried over.

But he kind of like, if you took the blonde hair off of the top of that and just looked at him from the forehead down, he just basically looks like John Gabriel. Mini Gabriel. Yeah, he does. Yeah, he looks like a smaller Gabriel. Gabriel is like, yeah, I mean that is like, but that is so much of Fieri's vibe.

He's just like this kind of party animal sort of dude. Yeah, he's a pooch to speak of in Simpson's term. He's like a poochie. He's like, he's 100% a poochie. Yeah. That's the closest we've come to like an IRL poochie, except people did not reject him. They embraced him.

Maybe if they, maybe in the real world, the message of, maybe poochie is an idealistic episode where they're saying that people would reject this craven appeal, but in the real world, people would actually like poochie. Maybe that's a lesson of Fieri. I think that's a bad commentary on the world now, probably. It could be, yeah. But I don't know, I'm something of a Fieri apologist.

Nagle, what do you think of Fieri in general? I think he's fine. He's just like a kid's character. Sure. He's like a, he's a mascot and that's fine. He's, he's so like, for me, I like that he's like kind of, he seems joyous and genuine. Like I don't feel like he's like, he's posturing as this guy.

I think he is that guy. I think he sort of embodies like, like, yeah, like this is, you know, he's kind of a cartoonish figure, but I think that's, that's real to him. I think that's true to him. But wasn't there like, like a TMZ video where he like gotten, right? You got into a fight with like his hairdresser at one point.

Right, that was weird. Because he didn't spike his hair enough or something. It was my guess. I don't know why they really were fighting, but there seems to be some sort of dark side to him. Well, yeah, I don't know the exact, yeah. I mean, I've heard some things about that he can be personally unpleasant. I don't know.

I don't know if that, that certainly doesn't even come across in a show, which is a packaged thing, but I don't know. I mean, I don't, it's always hard to glean context from like, oh, we've just sort of seen this phone video of this guy, these two guys in a fight in a car, you know, I don't really know what exactly was happening there. I guess if you, the people could catch us fighting all the time. If they listen to the podcast or...

Yeah, we record us like fighting for real on the show that we release. Do you like his car? Do you like that he cruises around in that convertible of his? I think that convertible is pretty slick. It's not my, it's not my vibe. I'm a fuel efficiency guy. But I... That's not your vibe?

No. A cool convertible? No, no, no. I mean, sure. I mean, you know, I am a classic SoCal surfer dude to the core, but I'm not a... What? Yeah.

Yeah, I think that's my... I think I'm sort of a surfer dude. Have you ever been in water? Okay. I used to go to the ocean all the time. I was a big water park fan as a kid, and you know that I swim for fitness. You do?

He swims for fitness. He calls himself a swim boy. This is true. Yeah. You used to go to the ocean all the time. What did you do? Stare out into it? What, like reflecting on my life?

No. I was a little boy. I went in there and I enjoyed the beach. I went there and I body surfed. A lot of body surfs. A little bit of boogie boardin'. Oh, boy. Just sort of enjoyed in the waves.

And so, but you have never surfed? No, I would never surf. So you're a so-cow surfer dude. Right. To your core. It's like an energy. It's kind of a posture. You know, it's sort of a way of life.

It's kind of like, you know, things are a little bit laid back there. Enjoy the coast. Enjoy that ocean breeze. Oh, my God. It's like a vibe. I like wearing sunglasses and sandals. What?

Yeah. I don't... You like wearing sunglasses and sandals and reducing his carbon footprint. Well, don't you understand? Yeah. I like that part of it. That's good.

It's kind of like a whole guy Fieri thing. Is it Fieri or Fieri? I think he leans... I think he does the Fieri, but I don't know. Well, the whole guy thing is like... He kind of reminds me of just like the guy that would be like the life of the party at a bad party.

But like turned up just a little bit where everyone would be like, ah, that's just guy. And he just like leaned into it. So it's kind of like a recognizable type of guy that's fun in doses. Yeah. He's always hanging out like backstage

at like Adam Sandler shows and stuff. That's true. Is that true? Yeah, it's true. If you look at his Instagram or his Twitter, it seems like he's having a great time. Like he's always going to concerts and... He's always going to Adam Sandler shows.

He goes to a lot of Adam Sandler shows. What kind of shows does Adam Sandler do? He does like... He has like big... Like he'll do like a big stage show where he'll sing like the Thanksgiving song and stuff. Really? Yeah.

Just that over and over and over again. And then he'll sing like real songs too. I saw him just recently. You went to the show. I went to an Adam Sandler show. What kind of like real songs does he sing? Oh man, I don't want to talk about it as sad because he sings like a real Chris Farley song at one point.

He's like, this is like, I love you, Chris Farley. See? Why did you bring that up? Because that's what he plays at his shows. That's what he does. He plays and then he'll do like the Thanksgiving song or something and then he has some originals. It's pretty good.

Should I be entertaining? Yeah. Funny man. If it's playing here now, leave immediately and go to Adam Sandler Live. Yeah, you know Sandler Live is going to be at Sunday morning at 11 a.m. That's when A-listers perform.

Did you sleep well last night, Nick? I've been feeling sicker and sicker. I'm allergic to feathers and our bed is just all feathers, basically. Right. The hotel bed is just like filled with feathers. Yeah, and it doesn't help that the entire, like the hotel we're staying at,

the entire staff is a reed-o. Oh my God. One third, all of you should be ashamed to laugh. What's that? Can you just say duck? It's a Zelda reference. In the new Zelda, there's these bird people called the reed-o. Yeah, so I've been feeling, I might die tonight, possibly.

Do you think there are feathers in your hotel room? They're like in your bed. Yeah, I don't think there's feathers floating around. I'm saying there's in the pillows and in the, in the comforter. You should ask, like tell the front desk and they can provide you with, I'm sure they can accommodate analogy.

But then they'll get their reed-o feathers all over it. That's true. We still, either way, the staff we've established are reed-o, so they would not be able to help you. I gotta figure it out. Have you been enjoying, have you been enjoying the city neck or no?

I've been having a good time. I like, I do like, it's a great walk in town. You do like to walk. I do love them. I get up and I do an AM stroll every morning. And I just sort of, I loved it. I just kind of get, like for the past couple of days,

mornings, I've just kind of gotten lost, just sort of wandering around, not literally lost, but I've just sort of like, oh, I've been going for a while. They meant to go out for a 20 minute walk and they ended up going for like a 40 minute walk, because there's just like, you know,

it's just fun to walk around and look at things. See, I've been enjoying it in that sense. Where did you end up? 40 minutes. That is a walk. I just walked, I just walked around. I don't know the specific,

I don't know the landmarks. Oh, yeah. What were you looking? You just looking at buildings? Yeah. Just look around. Like you just sort of, there's like not the Empire State Building,

but just like a building. Right. Yeah. You'll just want like, oh, it hurts rent a car. How about that? Only in New York. Only in New York, baby.

Dwayne Reed. Actually, those might be only in New York. Yeah, that is. Okay, that is only in. Worst reference. I undercut. I undercut what we established. Only in New York.

The Statue of Liberty. Bits on bits. So, but no, I've been enjoying the city. So, all right. So we're at Guy Fieri's restaurant, which is the most New York thing we've done since we've been here. It really is like the New York specific thing, which is, I'm not,

it's like not New York-ish at all. It's not New York-ish at all, but it was the one thing of like, oh, you can only get this here. Yeah. And so we were at, we went to Guy Fieri's restaurant. We had an 815 p.m. reservation.

Walked in there. We're basically right on time. And we're seated immediately. The thing I would say is. I want to say this. Yes. Nick went up to the person at the counter and was like, I got a reservation and the guy,

it was like, Nick. And I was like, there are no other reservations. There's no one else. There's zero reservations at this place. And I guess I assume it's maybe like, oh, the Guy Fieri restaurant isn't just an impulse maybe. People see it and they're like,

oh, Guy Fieri, let's go in there. Like the cake boss restaurant is the same sort of, I mean, maybe that's part of it. Yeah. And the location, just so people know, is it's right, it couldn't be a more prime location. I can't imagine how expensive this location is.

It's like a couple of doors down from Sardis, which is this like classic restaurant that you might remember from Muppets Take Manhattan when Kermit goes in and replaces a drawing of himself, or puts a drawing of himself up. But like that's like two doors down. There's like, Hello Dolly is like cat a corner from.

There's like four theaters right on that block. So it's like right in the heart of the theater district. Right. Yeah. Yeah. It's definitely, and right across from, she's kicking it.

It's such a, it's such a crazy like, like you remarked on how expensive it was. And I was just thinking about that because it's three full stories. It's huge. It's huge. Gigantic footprint,

especially by New York standards. And I, you know, I mean that rent, I don't know what the New York real estate, but I know that it's absurdly expensive. It's got like, I can't imagine how much revenue they would have to generate to be able to pay off of that and also make a profit.

But so, but, but it's gigantic. And then it was also like when we went to get seated, there's basically, I would say our floor, we were on one of three floors, the other two floors were pretty much vacant.

And I think our floor was probably about a third full, a half full. Did anyone else who went there, like was it busy? Did anyone see it? No. It's pretty,

it's pretty much, they probably, maybe this podcast was the flood of like customers they hadn't had in forever. But maybe we were dining with everyone in the audience last night. An angle trying to go downstairs and they were like, no, right?

Yeah. And I think it was because when we went downstairs, it was so empty. Yeah. There was no one. Ma'am, ma'am, I was like, oh, sorry, I'm trying to get out,

but I knew where I was going. I was going downstairs. I want to look around. Yeah. It felt, it felt forbidden, the forbidden place to be on. Like they were having like an eyes wide shut,

like orgy down there. Yes. And everyone is dressed like that guy. Yeah. All dressed as guy. All dressed as guy. So yeah. So it was very,

very weirdly empty, which I was, I expected it to be like kind of flooded with tourists or curiosity. It was kind of spooky down there. It was a little spooky. It was like the library and ghost buses in the bottom level.

Right. It was scary. It was, it was kind of, it was so empty. Like there was no, there was one server that I felt like was shocked to see us down there.

Yeah. And that was, that was it. Yeah. I think he, he saw you and he yelled, no, Alright.

That's that's where I was slimy, and then you were like, no, although I am currently eating multiple hot dogs, I am a man, son, this is after dinner, I somehow got my hands on multiple hot dogs.

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Oh, no way, really? Yeah, I guess they're pretty curious about what people think about the network. You know what I say about surveys? What? Better than quizzes. Oh boy. A pop quiz. Give me a survey over an exam, any day.

Any day. Yeah. Yeah, you know what, Nick? I guess Farrell's a little curious about you. Yes, you listening right now. What? What are you smiling at? We're on a mission to get to know our listeners a little better,

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I didn't, you didn't know I was going to take it up for you. But I almost had it, but you can head to farrellaudio.com slash survey. That's where you go. Farrellaudio.com slash survey.

Slash, not the guitar player. Not, what else, what's another slash? I mean, I think that's the one. That's it,

there's no other slash? Yeah, also that's the thing, I think Conan's done that too. Oh, for God's sake, sorry, fine. The URL using slash. That's okay though.

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And you'll be singing a different tune like me. And me. And me. Who's that third guy? But yeah, so we got seated. Our server was bent.

Anyone else have bent as a server? No one else had bent. Oh boy. Ben was very nice. You loved Ben off the bat. I liked Ben because he was very personable and he was very welcoming,

very friendly. He like, we were walking by and the matriot was like, this is Ben, he's going to be taken care of you. And he was like, hey, how's it going?

I'll see you in a bit. And we're like, ah, this is great. And he's like, you spoiled it for me or something. He spoiled my reveal. He's a real showman. And so we sat down

and I liked him. But I would say that the, considering the volume of customers, the low volume of customers, I would say we were probably left stranded a little bit. I don't know if it was his fault and if they were understaffed or what,

but it was a little, we had some periods of, some lulls in the service it felt like. Yeah. I think Ben fucked up. He was like, he came back. Well, it's not in danger of a man's job here.

Oh no. I mean, he's good. Don't fire him. Yeah. But we, we, he came over the table and we all agreed.

He was like, sorry, I've like been abandoning you. And we're like, oh yeah. Like it made us a weird thing. You wouldn't have noticed he was abandoning us until he apologized twice for abandoning us. Yeah.

He apologized a couple of times. Yeah. And so we could, so we knew he was doing like kind of not a great job, whether it was his fault or not. I think you're right. I don't think that there was a lot of staff upstairs. It's a weird thing where it's like,

I don't know if maybe they've been noticing a downturn in the number of customers. And so they've been staffing lighter. I have no idea. But anyway. What's also possible is that we, we went at 815 and a lot of Broadway shows start at eight. Oh.

So I'm just realizing this now, and it makes me sound great. Is that probably a lot of people bolted right before eight or come in after the shows. Boy, that's, That's a great. I solved it. Honey,

I'm going to take you to a Broadway show and guys, Ky Fieri's American Grill. We're going to go see show boat, but first let's fill ourselves with trash can nachos. Yeah. I just like such a heavy meal to just sort of be sitting. I can't imagine something where I had to pay attention

after I ate at Guy Fieri's restaurant show. But if you open the doors to show, but it smells like like a Vegas nachos or whatever the fuck. They're over there. Guy Tallian. Yeah. They're the guy Tallian nachos, right? Which by the way,

well, we can get into this. Yeah. I wish that everything was like guy. I wish that it was guy. I wish it was more guy. Yeah. I think we, you know,

I expected to go in there and just be accosted by like cheesiness and just like everywhere, like puns and just like in your face. Right. Cookie names for things, but there was like not too much. It's just like a weird middling amount of like puns. Yeah.

Like a guy missed. Yeah. There's a guy. Yeah. It didn't come down either way. Like I think maybe you commented that maybe like they got so much flak for it that they dialed it back or something. It could.

Yeah. I wonder if, because it was so the guy theme was pretty. What was your point? We'll say it was my point. I'm nice. I'm explaining it to. So we,

but yeah, the guy theme is very muted and it, you kind of expect like the guy rainforest cafe. Like it's going to be just like loaded with like, or like maybe a middle ground, like the guy hard rock cafe. It's like really we're getting a lot of guy. We're seeing his portrait on the walls.

We're seeing his catchphrases, you know, inscribed and there's, there's some of that, but there's not a lot of that. It's see, it kind of feels just sort of like a, it just feels kind of generic. Yeah. It feels very generic.

When you walk into there's like little, like plants, like little bushes. Did you see that? That look like guys hair. They look like, they're like these little like, like kind of what,

what even that would, it looks like, Hey, like they're like little shrubs in the front. I was like, Oh yeah, that looks like guys head. And I was all excited.

We're going to get to see a bunch of stuff like that. I think you, so I think this might have been you like seeing things because you had a similar thing where our producer Dustin, who went to eat with us, ordered a cheeseburger and he had, he had like an imprint, like a grow mark on the top of his bun.

And you were like, Oh, it's Guy Fieri on the top of your bun. And then we all looked at and we're like, that's like a smudge. Like maybe it might be like a thumb print. It's definitely not Guy Fieri. It was like, you know, it was like someone who'd seen

Covered in sweat. Yeah. Yeah. You were treating it like it's like, you know, someone who'd seen the mother, you know, who'd seen Mary on like a,

in like a puddle outside of church. I thought that they had like printed his face on all the burger rights. But I think the reason you were so excited and we all were so excited is because we were like, hungry for that kind of thing. Wanted more of it. So like we kind of are eating

and doesn't have already caught a sandwich. And you said that we're all were like, let's see it because like that's what we were expecting everything to be. And it was not at all. It was just a weird burger. It was a weird bun mark. They should have had like a like a hash,

like a potato hash that was in the shape of his hair. Yeah. Yeah. They should have like a fish dish that looked like his sunglasses or something. They should have had a dessert that looked like his shirt. Are we rhyming? They definitely should have had entrees

in the shape of things that he wears. I think we would have been all on board with that. It would have been fun. Right. There was like none of that. There was none of that fun to it, which is how to bum me out. Well, let's get into our food.

So I started, the cocktail I started with was the crazy cab driver. Little strange to put driver in the name of an alcoholic drink. But I guess that would be a crazy cab driver. One who consumed one of these before. Certainly irresponsible. Piloting your vehicle.

So I got the, it was Malibu coconut rum, banana liqueur and pineapple juice. Very sweet. Very, very sweet. Just like sugary, you know, like, like, I feel like a lot of times at chain restaurants, you'll get these, there's a thing I've remarked on the podcast before,

but there's just like so much sugar to cover up the alcohol. And it's kind of like, I feel like if you're getting a cocktail, like part of the fun is, is feeling a little bit of that booze in it. And you don't really get that character that much in this. This was pretty much just punch.

Yeah. Mine, mine just tasted like juice too. It was basically right when I, when you tried it, you said, you just said it was, it was basically, I got the big island punch, which was Southern Comfort, Bacardi, Dragonberry, Orange, pineapple, mango, lime and cherry juices.

Sorry. The audience grown. People grown. I got more bummed out by that than the Farley thing. I got Lady Liberty's Cosmo, Absolute, Quantro, St. Germain, Fresh Squeeze, Lime Juice, Cranberry. And it tasted like soap.

That was immediately the first thing you said. First thing you said was it tasted like soap. And I had already had a full Italian dinner, a couple glasses of wine. I was drinking soap and I kept drinking it. In all fairness though, you were cussing a lot. Was I? Yeah, you were cussing a lot, so I think it was deserved.

You fucking nerd. She was cussing a lot? You remember this? No, no. He's saying that. Here's the bit. My mouth was being washed out with soap. Oh my god.

What the fuck? Fuck you, Weiger. That's awful. Can I come on every week and just be like, no, Mitch, here's the bit. We'd probably fight way less if you came and explained everything. It is weird being like in between you guys. And everyone here came to watch you insult each other.

And I'm sitting here in between you guys looking like, just beyond you is like gorgeous natural beauty. And just like beyond you is very like weird. I should just write Nangang on those. Like these are the Nangang posters I brought. I bring these bitches with me everywhere. And so then we moved on to our apps. Oh yeah.

We got ourselves the Vegas fries. This was a recommendation of our server. The Sidewender cut fries, house made buffalo sauce, crumble, blue cheese served with blue sabi dip and sauce. And it's, it's really good. It says it's a throwback to guys. People said what to blue sabi. Blue sabi.

Yeah. We'll get into it. It's what? It is blue cheese. I mean, it was just blue cheese. It was blue cheese. But it's, they make a note to say it's a throwback to guys, UNLV days, which is a weird thing to say.

Like what are you implying there? Yeah. I feel like what happened was, whoever was like putting together this restaurant, like printed out as Wikipedia page. And was like, how do we connect? How do we make this all connect back to him? And that's where that came from.

Right. And we all, then we talked about guys, UNLV days and we were like, God, I wonder what that man was like at UNLV. Yeah. Probably a terrible person. And I don't even know how they were, how was that a tossback to his UNLV?

I don't know. I don't know. And I don't even know how they were, how was that a tossback to his UNLV days? Did he make those there or something? I think that's what we're supposed to infer that it was, yeah, this was a dish you would make for his frat bros. I would say though, the lore of it,

despite how confusing that is, the dish itself, this was maybe my highlight because basically, and maybe you'd glean this from the description, it's an attempt to make buffalo wings into fries. And I think it succeeded in that. I think they had kind of that crunchy texture, little like heavily battered texture of wings. And then I think the combination of the blue cheese,

the blue cheese dip and sauce, and then the buffalo sauce, I feel like those elements made it taste pretty wingy. Yeah. I agree. I really liked it too because I don't eat chicken. And I miss wings a lot. I used to really eat a lot of wings before I stopped eating meat.

They were like breaded enough. Yes. And they were shaped, they weren't shaped like fries, they were shaped like little, it's like if you took a potato and cut it the opposite way that you would cut fries, and then they were like little half moons. So they were like, it was a good chunk,

kind of like in the shape, almost like a nugget or something. I feel like you guys are being too nice to these things. I thought they were fine. I thought they were fine. And also they put like weird carrot and onion on top. That was weird. A bunch of cold shit on top of it.

I think this is what they were trying to do there. And I can't defend the slaw. But I think the premise behind it was we're trying to replicate the carrots and celery that you would get with your order of wings. They were kind of tossing that on top. On top of it. But I think it would have been better

if they'd just given us some actual carrots and celery on the side for dipping. Yeah, yeah. Because it was just on top and it just kind of was this wet sog. It just added moisture to this fried oily. No one touched it. Yeah.

We were just trying to eat around it. But I think overall. But that's what he was doing back in UNLV. Oh man. He was a throwback to the mistakes he made during his UNLV days. He was bad ideas. The other app we got was the pulled pork sliders.

Now you might be listening to that and be like pulled pork sliders. Yeah, I can get pulled pork sliders anywhere. What's Fieri about pulled pork sliders? They spelled sliders with a Y. S-L-Y-D-E-R-S. Sliders. They put a stink on those sliders.

And why? We don't know. Yeah, I don't know. It didn't make any... Why was it? Because they were like, oh, these are like little sly. They're better than you think they are.

So I'm like, what the fuck did it mean? Oh, sly. Like sliders. They're kind of sly. We're pulling a fast one on you. That's fucking so stupid. It didn't make any sense. The only way it would make sense

is if they were Fox sliders. If they were made out of Fox. Oh, my God. I'm just saying that's the only way. People agree with you. Yeah, get more Fox meat in there. Guy, what the fuck? I don't know.

If you start with word play and work backwards, it's okay to eat Fox. That's true, yeah. But don't start with the idea of eating Fox and then put it on your menu. So, yeah. So we had the pulled pork sliders. You didn't have one.

Mitch, what did you think of those? I thought they were okay. I thought they were okay. They were okay. It was like that sweet caramelized sauce that comes on these things sometimes. That kind of barbecue, kind of Hawaiian, sort of very, very sweet syrupy sauce.

But I thought it was good. It wasn't overpowering because the bun kind of balanced it. And then it came with some garlic fries, which I thought were not bad. These were pretty good, yeah. We didn't get, there were these pretzel covered, and I just want to point this out, they were the pretzel covered like chicken strips.

Right. And those also said throwback to when Guy owned a pretzel stand as a boy. It was so strange. Yeah. I think, again, it goes to what Nangle was saying about, they just pulled out like things, bullet points from his Wikipedia.

I mean, that also explains the nachos that was said throwback to when Guy fell off his bike and skimmed his knee. This is all on his Wikipedia. Yeah, it's all, I could just talk about it. I was like, oh, weird that they included that. And then they also had like a, they had some more sliders,

and it said throwback to when Guy wet his pants in pre-algebra. And then he kind of did the math and like, wait a minute, pre-algebra, he would have been like seventh grade. He was like, what is pants when he was like 12 years old? And then we talked to our server about it. He was like, yeah.

I was like, this is traumatic. He had to switch schools. We have the pants and the pants were on the wall. Yeah, it was weird. Still soaking wet. They were still wet. Yeah. So I was like, so are you re-wetting these?

Like to keep them wet? And he's like, yeah, we do that. It's like Lenin's corpse. We just preserve it in its state. Yeah. And there was like a calculator and all these like algebra things around it. Right.

To set the stage for where it would happen. Which was hell, but we all were nodding. We were nodding. We were taking it all in. Yeah. Calculator was also soaked with pee. And we were like, wait, how'd that happen? And they were like, oh, that's an unrelated thing.

And then we were like, oh, how did he even get into UNLV after that? Right. They were like, well, he switched schools. It was like a magnet program. He got his life together after that. Yeah. Like, OK, well, we now understand why this is on the menu. Thank you.

Oh, you know a thing we haven't remarked on? That booth was high. The booth was too high. Too high. The booth was too damn high. Zero forks for that booth. What's that? No forks for the booth.

Yeah, the booth gets no forks. The booth was high and then there was like a foot bar, but only one between us. So me and Mitch kept touching feet. We did. Yeah. Yeah. A throwback to the time we touched feet. It wasn't as nice.

I like kept crushing your feet. It was very bad. Right. I eventually just like ended up sitting with my legs spread out. So I wouldn't sit like I was in stirrups or something. Stir. Stir. How do you say it?

Stirrups. Oh, stirrups. I think it's stirrups. I think it's stir like a drink. I don't think it rhymes with syrup. I think it's stirrup, not stirrup. Oh, stirrup. I think it's stirrup.

No, stirrup. Stirrup. Stirrup. You just said it the way I said it's not. No, stirrup. Stirrups. Yeah. It felt like my legs were in stirrups.

Either way, nothing you ever have to worry about. So you can say it however you want. No, no. I want to talk to my wife about these things one day. Wife. It'll happen. It was weird though because we were like, you know, the booth was so high and there are legs were dangling.

And Christine, you looked over at me and was like, it's no problem because Nangle likes to dangle. I didn't say that. I did say. I said that. It's a bit that I said that. I said Nangle likes to dangle. And Nick, you were kicking your legs like a little child the entire time.

It felt like it was in a swing. It was weird. It was weird. It was a really weird way to sit. I don't know why they put it. It felt like a weird old booth that had been in that restaurant since like the night early 19th. It's the days of the giant people.

Yeah, this was, this was Walt Chamberlain's favorite restaurant when you come to the city. So we had a, and then let's get to our entree. So I got the bacon, our entree. I got to the bacon and chicken mac and cheese. This was one of Ben's recs. Creamy three cheese sauce. Diced rotisserie chicken.

Grated Parmesan cheese. Crumbled bacon. Scallions and cheese crackers. I did like the cheese crackers on top. They were basically like just smushed up, I think either goldfish or, or cheese it. And I think that was like a nice crusty element. I like that. You fucking child.

You ordered mac and cheese and you liked that they crumbled up crackers on top of it for you. Hey, you know what? And like it was a, it made it feel comforting and homey, which I think is what you're looking for with this kind of Fieri sort of cuisine. So yeah, it's definitely was juvenile. It's, it's, it's a, it's a thing appealing to children, but it like kind of spoke to the, the, the, the kidded me and I like the creamy, the sauce was good.

The chicken I thought was superfluous. It felt like they were just adding a protein to add a protein. And it was also like, why, why are you dicing up this rotisserie chicken and throwing it in there? It would have been, I would have almost just like a chicken breast on top or something like that. The way it was presented was very strange. Yeah.

And I also feel like that was unhealthy enough that why even throw more calories in there or something. I think a lot of times they add a protein to a, to a dish at a chain restaurant because they can jack up the price a little bit. Oh, okay. Um, Nang, what did you get? Oh, uh, I got my internet's not working. So I can't tell you can use your memory.

You got no much rather read it off the thing. I got the grilled margarita tuna, uh, a throwback to guys, tuna days. Yeah. What does that even mean? Unexplained. He was married to a tuna. Yeah, it was weird. Next to that there was a picture of guys like a half man, half fish.

Right. He converted. He converted. He converted to tuna, but then now he's serving tuna. That must have been a bad marriage. Things ended poorly. Um, uh, margarita marinated tuna fillet grilled and served with fresh cilantro. Sausage sauce.

Uh, old school rice pilaf with roasted corn, crispy tortilla chips, and tequila lime crema crema crema, crema, crema crema. What is it? Hey who says crema. Wow. Oh my God. Oh my God. I've never struck out more of my life.

Hey, this entire place better cheer right now. Who says crema? Oh my God. What a great easy way to get applause is to say who says crema. Right. I'm gonna say every time I do something live from now on. Utters suck. Like that's the quietest I've ever heard a crowd get.

Not even one person to be like different and they're usually is one. Uh, well, it was good. I liked the sauce. Um, and I got it cooked rare. Uh, and mind you, I was super full. Uh, but I thought it was, I thought it was good for, for what it was. It was over like the, the pilaf or I thought the rice was unneeded. Um, I feel like I never want rice when I go out to a restaurant that isn't like,

uh, Indian food or yeah. Let me say this about pilaf. You can peel it off my plate into the trash can. I'd rather give me regular. That, I just want to say that seems impossible. Yeah. To peel rice off a plate. Okay.

So put down like a piece of wax paper first. Put the pilaf on top of it and then peel that off. Uh, I, I would just give me regular rice or just give me something like a, like give me Spanish rice. Give me something that's like the, the pilaf. I just always feel like it's cluttered with all this extra stuff and it makes it less. And I'm distinguishing between a pilaf and like a pulao that you might get like

an Indian restaurant. Like that's a great dish. I really like that. But I feel like the Western pilafs are usually disappointing. Yeah. No, I agree with that. I think it's trash. Yeah.

Yeah. You can peel it off my plate. I guess you can peel it off the plate. Okay. Are you happy? Yeah. I'm very happy. I thought the fish was, uh, it was tasty.

It was tasty. If I was able to eat even half of it, I would have been happy. Right. But I was full. You were insanely full. Guys, remember I was full? I was full. You were full.

You were very full. I had, um, fish at dinner earlier too. You got a second fish dish? Yeah. I got a second fish dish. Oh my God. You could have switched it up if you wanted to. No.

I guess you didn't want to. Um, I got the volcano chicken. Uh, a throwback. No, you go ahead. No, no, no, no, no. I was going to be a throwback to guys Gorondes. That's a Zelda reference. I applauded.

I put down my microphone to applaud. Thanks, Lager. What were you going to say? Something funnier? No, I was going to say a throwback to the time he saw Joe versus the volcano. That is better. That is better. That's a punch up.

Here's what I, like just real quick on the Goron thing. So. No. What? I think Breath of the Wild is pretty much a perfect game. It's incredible. It's just so, it's such an amazing design. I'm stunned by it.

Like it's humbling that I could never make anything that good. But here's, here's what I want to say. Yeah. If I was going to offer a little bit of criticism, there was a very granular distinction between heat resistant and fireproof that is not intuitive to the user. Like you're playing the game and you're like, okay, I'm going to this volcano zone. I'm going to see the Goron. I need to get something heat resistant because I've learned that heat resistant is an element.

But if you wear something heat resistant, you're going to catch on fire because it's not fireproof. And I feel like why are those separate things? Why is fireproof not just a degree of heat resistance? Because really when you think about it. Like in the real world, if you're wearing heat resistant gear, ultimately there reaches a point where that will let you be immune to flames. Like that's like what a firefighter is wearing.

That's like what a stuntman is wearing, you know, like with like that, that crazy thing covered in asbestos or whatever. I just wish they had maybe thought that through a little bit and communicated that differently. Or maybe do we need the heat resistant mechanic? Can that just be something else? There goes the audience. It sounds like you're testifying before Congress. Talking about children's pajamas.

Anyways, Nick's right. Yeah, Miyamoto-san, what the fuck is your issue? You should, I don't know, do it in the next game, right, Nick? Yeah, don't fix it. Anyway, I got the volcano chicken. Nick and I were also playing, we were on the flight together. And we were sitting next to each other. And we were both playing our Nintendo Switches.

And I just feel like we, someone, we deserved to get the shit beaten out of us. We should have gone thrown off the flight or something. Like I felt, it felt fucking dorky. We were, so my lovely wife Natalie was sitting next to me and she snapped a pic of the two of us playing Switch at the same time and then showed it to me. And we just looked like the two like, like most pathetic hunched men. Both playing Mario plus Rabbids. This is true.

A game for children. A game for children. I mean, you know, there's some, it's a good game. It's got some advanced, you know, tactical concepts to it. But it's, it's, but it is very much, the Rabbids are for kids. And I think Natalie heard a big gulp-sized gin, I believe, at that point. So that she didn't have to deal with us. Grilled old natural chicken breast, roasted garlic mash.

Chipotle barbecue cream sauce. Didn't says doesn't try the crema there. Grilled seasonal vegetables, crispy onion straws plus chives. That's all on the volcano chicken. Yeah. And not the chive. Just chives. The website.

The chat. You might, you might think cause this guy, this is a guy who's like, keep calm and chive on. But, but no, he's a, it's not like, it's not, it's not the chive. Do people still wear those t-shirts? I think so. I think that's a thing. Is chives still big? I think it's a thing.

I think it's more a thing in like the UK. Oh, okay. Yeah. Cool. There's a little treat for the UK listeners. I thought, okay, so here's the deal. The volcano chicken was kind of bad. It was very, I tasted a piece of yours.

It was very dry. It was very, very dry. The sauce was like brown and kind of like a putrid looking sauce. Right? Like it looked, it looked, it did not look good. I assumed it was gravy. It kind of looked, it was a little, but it was, it was barbecue sauce. It was like a Chipotle barbecue sauce.

It was like a watered down barbecue sauce. So it looked like gravy. Yeah. It was a little gravy. It was a little gravy looking. I was expecting something to look like lava. I was like, oh, volcano chicken. This is going to have some sort of sauce.

It looks like lava. Yeah. A red, a red color. Yeah. Look, nothing like lava. Yeah. It looks like hardened like a. Look like magma.

Magma. Hardened lava is rock. You know what? I stand by it. It looked like hardened lava. Well, this all brings me back to the point of like, there wasn't like any of the descriptions we read weren't like over the top enough. Right.

Yeah. And everything was just kind of like dialed back in a weird way. Why don't you say like, like, like surfs up or something with the volcano? Like shouldn't it said something like a, like a little Hawaiian flair or something? Right? I don't, I mean, yeah. I mean the menu descriptions, I feel like had a little element of that, but not much. And I, yeah, I feel like they could have leaned on guy isms a little bit.

But then again, like maybe like, I feel like I went in waiting for that so I could make fun of it. Right. And then they didn't give it to me. So like, I want, basically I want to put them in a situation where they can't win, you know, so I can only look good. Right. But that's what guy is.

That's what you, you want to make fun. Like, but that's fun too. That's why you like him, Nick. You know what I mean? Yeah. It's kind of like if you, if you, like you were with some friends and someone was like, hey man, I'm going to this party. It's at the Joker's house.

They're like, oh, the Joker's house. Like, oh, this is going to be crazy. And then you get there and he's got like beige carpeting and he's like playing hollanoats on his iPod. And then they're just like, uh, yeah, do you want like a Fanta? It's like, like, you're the fucking Joker. Like, they should be like, this should be like this crazy psychopathic, you know, I should lose my mind coming in here.

And you got like a studio apartment with a George Foreman grill. He's like, I'm the Joker at my job when I'm home. I'm just whatever the Joker's name is. Right. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not Joe Chill, right? No, Joe Chill's the guy who killed Batman's parents.

I think his origin is, is unknown at this point. I'm in the Burton verse. I'm Jack Napier. He's like, look, like we're in the Burton verse. Like, yeah, obvious. We know what verse we're in. It's like, I work on the Joker, but at home I'm Jack Napier. I agree with that.

Yeah, there wasn't enough fear. It was like going to a boring Joker's house. It was terrible. Right. And I got sad news about those mashed potatoes. Oh, no. I think they were reheated. Wow.

Yeah. I know. Adam Sandler should sing a song about that. He might have on about reheated mashed potatoes. I mean, that's potentially defamatory. Yeah. You could, you could get sued by Hulk Hogan's lawyer who bankrupted Gawker.

On behalf of Guy or Hulk or who? Yeah, for saying that those are reheated if they're not reheated, but they seemed reheated. They seemed reheated. Did you, did you try them or no? I tasted like a little chunk of them. I just thought they were unremarkable. There was a chunk of them within the hot potatoes that

was, that were cold and they broke apart like, they felt like reheated potatoes. Man. Also, they tasted so much like fucking rosemary. It's a garlic, it's a garlic mashed potatoes. And then it was the most rosemary. It was like eating rosemary. Right.

And rosemary is bad. I'm sorry. Wow. Rosemary is terrible. It's the worst herb. It's a, oh boy. Is there anyone named rosemary here? Because first of all, it's a boring fucking name.

Wow. And it's a bad herb. I think it's a great herb. Huh? It's a great herb. It's terrible. I like rosemary. I mean, look, there's only one.

Thank you. Thank you for the rosemary partisan. Thank you for the person plotting that. I think rosemary is good. I think you can have a little bit. You try it. How much do those taste like rosemary? That was excessive amount of rosemary.

You've got to use discretion when using rosemary. Yes. Like don't use any of it. Toss it in the trash. Right. No. Look, if you're, if, who out there likes rosemary? Hashtag rosemary's baby.

What if you don't like it? Yeah. If you don't like it, hashtag jail Pollock. Hashtag jail Pollock? Yeah, right. Isn't that, oh, I'm sorry. It's Polanski. Not Pollock.

Well, that, we should jail him for a while. Hashtag jail Polanski. Yeah. I mean, he belongs in jail. But I mean, you. Hashtag jail Pollock and Polanski. Put both of them. Put both of them away.

Right. Same cell. And then, and the vegetables were unremarkable. My entree was bad. It was bad. It should have been tossing a volcano. I wrote down. Right.

Oh, that. I didn't even write that down, but still, I should have wrote it down because it should have got tossed in a volcano. They should have peeled it off your plate and tossed it in. They should have peeled all of it off my plate, tossed in a volcano. Probably would have caused an eruption. Yeah. And then shot back up like R2D2 in the swamp.

Which has been rejected. All right. Let's get to our final thoughts on guys, American Grill and Bar. So now you know how this works. We'll go around. We'll give her closing argument and give it a rating from zero to five forks. We will begin with you. Me?

Yeah. Okay. As you guys know, every time I come on this show, I always give. I always feel bad giving a bad mark at all because everyone tried really hard. And I don't want to be mean. But what I thought about the restaurant in general was it was fun and good and fine. And I think a lot of people come to New York to see shows and they're not from New York. So they kind of want something comfortable.

And I experienced this thing when I was, my parents came up for the show. They came up from Philly and like just the idea of how crazy Times Square was and all the people and all like the traffic was really like anxiety provoking and everything was like unfamiliar and there was these crowds. And I'm used to it by now, but I was thinking about them and how like it, they're already in an unfamiliar place and you're seeing a show. So it was probably nice to be eating somewhere where you feel comfortable and you don't have to feel like you don't know what to order or it's like in a different language or something.

And also I think a lot of people come to New York from places where they feel a little bit intimidated like I'm not fancy, but you know now I'm in the big city or whatever. So I appreciated it for that. And I think also I was thinking about how you know our country doesn't seem to want smart people representing us. My big thing is like why don't you want, sorry, what is wrong with you that you wouldn't want the smartest person possible representing you and making decisions for you? Like you want someone stronger and braver and smarter than you or at least I do.

So you know it makes sense that people like who consider themselves everyday people don't want the smartest people making food for us or people who are like trying to do anything that's like kind of different. So just thinking about that and what it must mean to people that come to visit the city. On one hand I think it's good and comforting and stuff but on the other hand I do think people should go out of their comfort zone. But the food in general was fine and that was what was disappointing about it I think. Right.

Like I was expecting a little bit more even if it was like something horrible that would have been a little more interesting than just like the food being fine. So I'm going to give it three forks. Three forks. Three forks. Middle of the road. Yeah. Go ahead Mitch.

Man. It was a let down. We later walked around and we saw a room filled that had guitars on the wall and I was like why weren't we in that room? Why weren't we in a fun room? It looked more fun. Yeah. It looked more fun.

What was on the wall in our room? I didn't even notice. The piss pants. All right. Piss pants. I don't know what was on the, there was like nothing. It was like, I felt like I was at like my aunt's house or something. And I wanted more fun out of this.

I was literally seeing stuff I guess where I saw something in a bun and I saw a plant that I thought looked like guys hair and I wanted so much more fun. I mean we flew all the way out to fucking New York and we went to guys American grill or whatever the hell it was called. Like we could have done anywhere. We could have gone to any restaurant. Why are you acting like this was forced on us? Right.

I don't know. I don't know. It's our own fault. I'm mad at us. You're talking like more general about just the choices we've made in our lives where we could be doing anything. You're back to holding the whole stand. God damn it.

It's more comfortable. But like it is. I mean that's the thing of this podcast. Right. It's like we could be doing anything. We're doing this and that involves going to chain restaurants sometimes over places that we maybe find more interesting if we weren't reviewing them. Yeah.

No, but I'm just saying we could have done a more New York-y play. You know what I mean? We fucked up. Look, we fucked up. Sorry. We fucked up bad. You think we fucked up? Yeah.

You think we fucked up? Yeah. Everyone agrees. All right. Hold on. I thought it was like in Spider-Man. All the New Yorkers. Do you remember in Spider-Man 1?

But then aren't they like he's just a kid. Yeah. He's just a kid. Don't mess with New York. They threw garbage at the Green Goblin. That's going to start happening to us. Right. Wait.

Who thinks we fucked up? We went to the wrong restaurant. Wow. Pretty wrong contingent. Pretty strong contingent. Who says crema? There. One person.

Who's fine with the choice of guys American? Okay. Smaller. Definitely smaller. Smaller. But still, I don't know. What is the New York chain we should have gone to? Nathan's.

Nathan's. That's pretty good. We did talk about that. But see, you were hamstrung by your choice of guests, which is me and I don't eat hot dogs. Right. The reason I stopped eating meat, I don't know if I told the story the first time. The reason I stopped eating meat is because I got a dog and I fell in love with him and

I tried to imagine eating him. Yeah. What? Yeah. That's why. No one's trying to eat your dog up? I know. Well, not me now.

I haven't seen him yet. Not now. I wouldn't because I don't eat meat. Yeah, but no one was ever trying to eat them. I was reading about that festival in China where they eat dogs. I don't know. But I 100% get it because if you like farm animals, if you like watch videos of farm animals, they'll be like cows nuzzling and pigs are known to be very smart, even though they're

sloppy. There's like goat circuit. People eat goat. I 100% get it. Thank you. And I think that's an admirable moral stand. Wait, because it's hot. Wait, was it a hot dog to dog thing?

No, it had nothing to do with the dogs. No. Jesus Christ. It was just meat. Just meat in general. Although I eat fish, whatever. Fish are nice. Fish are nice.

Fish are nice. They're very nice. Flounder's nice. Who likes flounder? From Little Mermaid. Nick is a child, don't forget. So, look, I wanted to have more fun with guys. I was sad that guys wasn't more guy-like.

There weren't sunglasses. I wanted to see sunglasses. On the back, you wanted to see sunglasses worn wrong. Yeah, I wanted the waiters to have sunglasses on the back of their head. I didn't see a pair of sunglasses. The place was sunglass free. It was night. It was night.

That's a good point. It was night. Still, I feel like if it was day, it would have been sunglass free. The food was, some of the apps were decent, but the entrees were not great. I don't know, man. Guy, I like you because of how noxious you are. And your restaurant was just kind of boring, which is like the worst offence of all. And so I'm going to say two and a half works.

Throwback to us two and a half work days. Look, I remain something of a fairy defender. I do find diners, drive-ins and dives just so watchable. I can just have that on and just like it's on. There we go. And like eight episodes will go by. I was kind of looking at my phone and I watched eight diners, drive-ins and dives. Suddenly an old man.

Yeah, I have a long beard, but I'm also a skeleton. And so, but I do like his programming. I really, yeah, I agree with the consensus. I expected to be more over the top. I expected it to be, you know, to have that sort of fairy flair. And what I instead got was like it felt like the conservatory from the board game Clue. Like it was just like such a like a boring bland place. It was, it was very brown inside.

And the, and the food was basically like it was like, oh, this, I would get this as a, at a Chili's too at the airport. It was not anything outstanding. It looked like Clue. You were right. It looked like the Clue mansion. And no one was even murdered, which would at least been in something. Right.

Yeah. They should have served the food in a little convertible. Oh, that would have been something. Yeah. If a little convertible came up to your table. I don't know. I'm just throwing out ideas. Yeah.

I mean, you could throw that out of a brainstorming session and people would be like, Okay. I mean, it's a good thought. And here's why that's maybe, it's maybe unworkable to have a convertible in a restaurant. A little convertible. A little convertible. There's three floors. They should have had one floor that was a diner, one floor that was a drive-in.

Oh my God. Yes. Nangang. 100%. Incredible. Two forks. Wow. Wow.

All right. I guess zero forks for our decision. Yeah. We should have gone to Nathan's, I guess. The dessert menu, which I thought would, that's the place you go wild. You know what I mean? Right. We were like, oh, this is going to be crazy over the top.

We were sending it to us and it was like, it just was like carrot cake. Yeah. We didn't even have like a theory name. People are leaving. Are they going to guys? Most likely. They're upset at the review. No fucking way.

That place is one and a half forks. You guys went too high. All right. That was our review of guys American grill and bar. It's time for a regular segment. I've got a mystery drink and Mitch and Nangle must guess what it is. Oh, I know you guys. It's the wiker challenge.

Wow. I hope you guys are having fun watching and generous. Thank you, guys. Thank you very much for watching. I'll see you guys in the next episode on Oklahoma's jet gods. So why is this challenge to guess the strength? Can we guess next why?

So why taste this bad? Say what you think. Can we give him a sign? Hold on. Yeah. Hold on. Can you guess Nick Weiger so why? Can you best Nick Weiger?

Can you best Nick Weiger so why? I went the wrong register there. I was trying to like, should I go lower? And I was like, oh, I'll try the falsetto. But I hadn't rehearsed the falsetto. A little too high. A little too high for me. Did you have a rope around your testicles that you yanked

before you started singing? I mean, that's unrelated. But yeah. So I've got the- Don't look down at the beverage. We got to look away. No. I covered this up with gaffer tape.

Jessica here at Irwulf hooked me up. So I've got these cups here. And you know what? We've got just a small smidge of time up here. But let's get one audience volunteer to join the competition. I see in the front row a hand shot right up. Come on up here and tell us your name. You can step up to that mic right there.

Just go and grab it. We don't have an extra seat for you. You have to jump. You have to do one giant jump to get on stage. What's your name? Lindsay. Big hand for Lindsay. Thanks for doing this, Lindsay.

All right. This is canned based. Yeah. It's definitely canned based. You can tell from the- I'm spilling a little bit here. I should have gotten some sort of napkin or paper towel. There you go.

Whatever. I'm going to pass this over. Unfortunately, it's lukewarm. There was no mini fridge backstage or in my hotel room. Is there dog in this? There better not be dog in there. We got your angle. Yeah.

Is that dog drink everyone loves? Lindsay, where are you from? I'm from Tallahassee. You can just go ahead and- Oh, this guy's lowering the mic for you. There you go. You're from Tallahassee. Yes.

Did you live out here in New York now? No. Oh, so you came up? Yes. I came up from Orlando. Wow. Oh, wow. Oh, man.

Oh, wow. Oh, God, okay. Well, best select everyone there. God, this thing saves lives. Was that a fortunate coincidence or was it like- You were like, oh, well, in one place I know there will be space. This is inside the Doughboy show. And now you're this festival.

I consider DragCon or this, and I figured there was more spots here. Right. Good call. All right, guys, go ahead and take some sips, smell it, look at it. Let us know what you're thinking. It is a brown, caramel-colored liquid. Okay. A little bit of carbonation to it.

You guys are drinking out of Dixie Cups. It's nurse salt. Nurse salt. You're going with the off-brand Dr. Pepper nurse salt. No, that's not my real guess. Not your real guess, okay. Lindsey, what are you thinking over there? Any initial thoughts?

It's like a knock-off cola, so like an RC Cola. I don't want to offend any RC Cola enthusiasts, but- Oh, yeah. I like Real Crown Cola, but I think the- I think- I don't think you're offending anyone by calling it off-brand. It's definitely like a- not one of the big ones. I feel like this is a little wider. Is this a New York?

I feel like maybe it's a New York drink. Maybe. I think it is like- it's like a cream soda. I think there's vanilla in here for sure. Yeah, there's like vanilla- Right. Yeah. Vanilla cream soda.

I like vanilla cream soda. So- I'm close to Massachusetts. I can't help myself. Oh, by the way, is everyone listening to the episode with Mitch's mom? Yeah, it's so good. I became a Patreon just for that. She told us she was going to cancel next week, basically.

I think this is a vanilla cream soda. But isn't- I'm trying to think of a New York brand. I can't think of a New York brand that's like a- that- there's like the New York soda water, but that's clear. So- New York Seltzer company? Yeah. New York Seltzer?

Yeah. Crazy taxi driver. What is that? Oh, the crazy cab driver? Crazy cab driver. Yeah, I don't know. I'm going to go vanilla cream soda. Vanilla cream soda is your guess.

Yep. And I don't have a brand, so someone bests me then, so be it. Okay. Nego, what are you thinking? Same. What the fuck? Wait, so you and Mitch are teaming up. Yeah.

This is like a Mario Plus Rabbids team up. You guys are- Yeah, all right, fine. You guys are- We're going against- All right, it's the two of you against Lindsey. Lindsey, what's your guess? I'm going to go with RC Cola.

Definitely like a Coke color, but taste unfortunate. Lindsey? Boy, unfortunate. Okay. Lindsey is going with RC. You guys are going with the vanilla cream. It's generic. Gaffer's tape Coke.

I feel like I have to give it to the Mario Plus Rabbids team because it is vanilla Coke. Oh. I was going to say vanilla Coke. I went to a New York deli and they had vanilla Coke by the can, which I don't see out west anymore. Wow, no. Yeah. Only in New York.

Vanilla Coke, baby. But you know what, Lindsey, you're a good sport. I'm going to give you the rest of this can covered in gaffer tape. Yeah. Thank you. Big hand for Lindsey, everybody. Cool. You can get that gaffer tape can.

Thanks so much. Appreciate it. All right, guys. So, guys, we've got just a smidge of time left and we're going to take any questions. So, we've got one mic stand over in that aisle there if anyone wants to just- Oh, my gosh. We're really jumping up. Anyone's got a query.

We will do our best to field it with the remaining time we have there. But no one asks us why the fuck we went to Guy Fieri's restaurant. Hi. Hi. What's your name? Rob. Hi, Ryan. Rob.

But- Rob. Ryan's cool. What's up, Ryan? So, Mario and Rabbids is a thing now, a strategic shooter, right? So, that's kind of a thing that nobody expected. Do you think any other Nintendo IP might work with any other Marvel, you know, or genre trade-em-ups?

Thanks for the question, Ryan. I really like- I'd like to see Samus get into some mischief. You want Samus to get into some mischief? Yeah, because it feels like everything we see Samus in is so like kind of got that serious tone. It would be nice to see something that's a little bit maybe a lighthearted sort of chibi Samus take. So, yeah, some sort of- you're suggesting specifically a crossover.

I don't know. I would say- I would say, yeah, let's see a two-hander with Samus and Jigglypuff. What do you think, Mitch? I want to see Donkey Kong and Mega Man together. And Mega Man's Capcom, but I'll give it to you. Do you think they're talking about this at DragonCon? I think the Mario Plus Rabbids panel is at DragonCon. Yeah, well, I was going to say, because Rabbids is a Nintendo.

Right. Oh, that's true. That's true. Who else has a question? Hey, my name's Alex. I have a question. Hi, Alex. And I have a gift.

Oh, wow. Isn't it Gun? Uh-oh. No. I just moved back from moving into London for a while, and I know you guys did a test of all the candies you got from someone in England. And you guys did not get this one, which is Dairy Milk Marvelous Creation's Jelly Popping Candy, which I nominate for you guys to use for a snack or a whack.

For sure. Yeah, bring it on up. Should I ask my question now? What's question two? What? Wait, is that it? No, no, no, it's a quick question. When you guys go to restaurants for the first time, there's usually some kind of signature

item that might be on the menu. And since it's your first time, do you guys prefer to go for that signature item or something that looks more in line with your own taste? That's the reason I didn't like guys, because there was a bunch of guy signatures next to a bunch of stuff that just looked plain. Yeah, and also too, when we asked our waiter for X, he wasn't pointing at anything with a guy and an exclamation point next to it. But if it was a guy's signature, like whatever, sandwich or something, I probably would have

gotten it. I would have gotten that, yeah. If there is a signature thing, I usually do get it. Yeah, if there's a thing a place is known for, and that's my maiden voyage, I will 100% get the big thing that they're known for. What about you, Nangle? I'm limited because I don't eat meat, because I have a picture eating my dog. So yeah, if it's something I can eat, I definitely try to get that.

If it's not dog or meat, yeah. Thank you. Thank you. Thanks for the gift. I appreciate that. Sir, yes, what's your question? Hey, my name's Matt. I actually live in Quincy, by the way.

Oh, no way. Hey, sorry. Isn't it great? It's great. I just moved there. Just moved a couple of months ago. We live in Wallace and Hill. Right.

Oh, yeah. I'm from Wallace and Hill. Yeah, that's cool. Pretty cool, huh, Nick? That's great. Hey. I'm glad you're happy there. Another.

What's your question? Another bearded, shabby, white Irish guy from Quincy. If you guys had a Doughboys-themed restaurant, what are some of the food you would have besides hot salad? Hot salad? Okay. Hot salad. All right.

Hot salad. Nick told me today he's mad about hot salad. Yeah. Sorry. You need to talk to your wife about that. So that's a good question. I mean, I think part of it is we'd want to figure out what the concept is. But I think one thing we've, we're, I would say there's got to be some sort of signature

burger. We got to have some sort of burger there. Yeah, that's going to be a signature burger. I agree with that. Right. How about a pizza? I've had this before. A pizza burger.

I just want to put my two favorite foods together. I feel like there aren't places that serve both pizza and burgers. So I think we had a place that served both pizza and burgers. What would it be? Would it be a gastro? What the hell would it be? But do we hate gastropubs? I think it would be like a fun, I think it would be like an adult Chuck E. Cheese's.

You know what? You know what? It would be a quickly out of business. All right. What's your, what's the next question? We got time for a couple more. Hi, I'm Ben. Hi, Ben.

Hi, Ben. I know you're, some of you are vegetarian, but hypothetically, would you rather eat an Ewok or a Porg? Oh, Porg, 100%. I couldn't, Ewoks are developed characters. Right. But we don't know how like intellectually developed the Porgs are yet. Who gives a shit?

They're fake birds. It doesn't matter. They look. I feel like just knowing what I know, what I know of avian versus mammalian brains. Oh God. And we're, we're accepting the Rideau here, who are kind of this, this anomaly in the Hyrule verse. I think I would probably say that the birds are probably less intelligent, so I'd feel

less bad about eating them. So I'd say Porg. Yeah, Porg. What about you, Nangle? Sure. All right. Nangle Grace. All right.

Awesome. We'll tell you one more question. Hi. What's your name? Hi, my name is Channing. Hi, hi Channing. How you doing? I'm good.

I got two questions. Oh boy. I'm in a bowl and you get that ash coming through. Oh hell yeah. It's cool. So Nick, Nick you've been smoking the reefer. All right. You know I like the kind kind, buddy.

Oh no, people get to see that. You're a surfer dude at your core. My second question is for Mitch. Hey Mitch, what's your take on the fact that Boston has once again cheated at another sport? Oh my God. Wow. Wow. We let you be the last question, you sick buck.

Who cares about baseball? I like Channing. The Red Sox won in 2004. I don't give a shit anymore. I'm a bad fan. Thank you. All right. Well, I know we got a long line of people still waiting to ask some queries, but here's

what we're going to do. After the show, we'll be over at the merch table. If anyone wants to come say hi and talk a little IRL, we'll be over there. So thank you guys so much for coming out to our show. Ask your questions over there. Give it up for our guest, Christine Nagel. Our producer, Dustin Marshall. There he is over there.

Until next time, for The Spoon Man, I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating. See ya. Thanks for coming. Bye, everybody.