Doughboys - IHOb with Bug Mane

Episode Date: July 5, 2018

The mysterious and eccentric Bug Mane returns to the podcast to discuss his enigmatic online community and to review IHOb's new burger options. Plus, the debut of an all new segment that tests our gue...sts' condiment knowledge, Sauceton Powers. Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Starting point is 00:00:00 In the early Wild West days of social media, corporations were often lost on how to engage with customers online. Food brands in particular seemed prone to miscues that later led to shameful deletions and profuse apologies. In 2011, grocery store pastry brand with a case at the end of the aisle, Entenmann's tweeted, "'Whose hashtag not guilty about eating all the tasty treats they want? Not realizing they were hopping on a trending hashtag about the verdict in the Casey Anthony
Starting point is 00:00:29 murder trial." In 2013, canned Italian for kids brand Spaghettiose tweeted a tone-deaf drawing depicting their anthropomorphic pasta mascot holding an American flag while licking its lips with caption, "'Take a moment to remember Pearl Harbor with us.'" And in 2016, an American diner best known for its pancakes became the monster of the day for its problematic riffs on misogynistic jokes, tweeting pics of flapjacks with captions reading, "'The Butterface we all know and love' and "'flat but it has a great personality.'"
Starting point is 00:00:57 But now with full-time social media teams in place, many brands receive enthusiastic responses from the general public for their posts, though some savvier users groan, as companies like Denny's, Moon Pie, and Wendy's maintain absurdist online presences, often via reappropriating memes from Black Twitter and Weird Twitter. And in May of 2018, that previously controversial pancake chain used social media to take over the news cycle by flipping the P in its name into a lowercase b, prompting a week of speculation about what it stood for. When came the prestige, reflected in an updated signage at select high visibility brick and
Starting point is 00:01:30 mortar locations. The b was for burgers, all a scheme to market their reimagined line of hamburger sandwich offerings for the lunch and late night set. But the incidents perhaps illustrated that social media buzz doesn't translate into profits, as an ad week survey saw a less than a 5% increase in foot traffic to stores. Still for an aging brand primarily associated with carb-heavy breakfast and senior discounts, altering its acronym was an inspired way to briefly re-enter the social media zeitgeist, this time in a positive light.
Starting point is 00:01:59 This week on Doughboys, IHOB. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, alongside my co-host, Paul Funyan, Mitchie Two Spoons, Mike Mitchell. Paul Funyan. Like Paul Bunyan, talking about you physically, but with Funyan, talking about your fondness for snacks. That was courtesy of Jacob B. If you have an insult for us, Mitchie, like me, use it on the show, roastspoonmanageemail.com.
Starting point is 00:02:42 Jacob, bitch. Wow, you roasted him back. You know, that's the danger of submitting something to roast Spoonman, you might get roasted back. Yeah, it was all right. I liked it, Jacob. Good job. It was fun.
Starting point is 00:02:53 It was good-natured. You do have, I mean, you wear, you have like a big, you're big like Paul Bunyan. You have a lumberjack sort of beard and you often wear flannel shirts. That's true. Yeah. You have a very Paul Bunyan, you're like a 21st century Paul Bunyan. And Irma and Wally are kind of like Babe. Sure.
Starting point is 00:03:10 The Blue Ox. I mean, Babe, the Blue Ox was giant, they are normal sized cats. I'd say even like kind of medium, small sized cats, right? Not your fucking tongue. You get offended at them describing the size of your cats? They're not big cats. They hid as soon as our guest got here today, but you know what? With good reason.
Starting point is 00:03:29 They're very, no, they're very friendly to our guests. They like our guest a lot. Well, look, let's, let's get to it here in a second. How the hell to Mitchy Two Spoons Nation. Here's the drop, Nick. Very excited to hear this one. I'm sure our guests will love this drop. Oh God, it's just going to take a second, okay?
Starting point is 00:03:48 Why don't you buffer it before we start? It was buffered. Just download it to your phone and then you can just play it. So we'll be ready to go. You don't even have to buffer it. Because I figured out masturbating at this point. The first time I ever orgasmed, human came. I was basically coming to Dave Matthews Band, which is the whitest.
Starting point is 00:04:00 Maybe the whitest thing has ever been done. Right. My father saw it happen. Accidentally, he opened the shower as it was happening. As I, the first time I ever masturbated. Hey, Dave Matthews. Hey, Dave Matthews. That's a, that's not a true story.
Starting point is 00:04:08 There's another drop that's there. What's not a true story? That's not, it was a mashup. Yeah, it was a, I think people got that there was some audio editing going on there. I think people got that that wasn't just one anecdote. That was a bunch of different things, disparate things, strong. Made it. I made another drop.
Starting point is 00:04:45 You inspired by Dave Matthews. It's been an episode of the double. I can't say I'm a fan, but I love the concept of being wire training off on movies or bands you really, you're really into. The positivity was great. Hey, thanks. Yeah, we'll get positive on Patreon. Robert the Slop King per singer.
Starting point is 00:04:59 Whoa. Okay. You know, I think we got in a per singer before, you know, Mitch, I think you kind of using the same sort of guys for the drops. There's good drop. You got shampooedler. You got per singer. Who's the other regular?
Starting point is 00:05:10 I don't know. Those two. I think you need to give out the drop address again, get some new blood in there. Spoonman, Spoonman drops at gmail.com. Spoonman drops at gmail.com. Just just start saying that every time because we get people send drops into our, our dough boys gmail people send drops into roast Spoonman. There's I can't do anything with them there.
Starting point is 00:05:25 I think he's the drop king and also he, he said all the best to you and the cats. So I like them. Wow. You're being called out shampooedler. Mitch is anointed per singer. The king is shampooedler. You're the deputy. I guess he's a look.
Starting point is 00:05:39 We got to introduce our guests because there's a lot to talk about today. Well, I guess we were watching a little bomb on stars on core with them before we started. We can talk about that. We don't have to talk about that at all. We both have headaches. We can talk about that. Oh boy. You are now listening to bug team.
Starting point is 00:05:58 Sam, Sam. Putty fucking putty sauce all over my fucking. Sam, you must fuck the bug main. Sam, find the bug. Oh God, I want to thank Jill Soloway. I want to thank the bug main and I'm sorry. Oh God, hit now. Master, master, where is the putty sauce master?
Starting point is 00:06:22 Master, I killed not only the bug man, but the bug women master and the children master bug has entered the building. Skittle. Wow, his own drop to introduce himself. The most controversial guest in Doughboy's history has returned. Welcome back. Bug main bug. How are you?
Starting point is 00:06:44 Miramatch pictures proudly presents bug main. See the world through the eyes of the bug main Miramatch and Disney proudly present. You know, by the way, you're a Maxon. Okay, that makes sense. Yeah, they're the same. They're the same company.
Starting point is 00:07:00 By the way, our engineer Emma will sometimes make notes of things as we're going through Emma. I would just say like generally just sort of flag every time bug speaks as something we may need to edit out. Yeah, so just just keep on top of that bug main. We're bug your back. It's been too long. It's been too long.
Starting point is 00:07:16 I'm back, buzz, buzz, buzz, putty sauce, give them the claw. We bug nation has exploded. I am now very famous. No, not due to you guys on my own moment. I think it is partially. Yeah. I think you owe us a little bit of a debt. We were kind of like your, uh, what's a good, what's the spin off here?
Starting point is 00:07:38 What are what are some spin off? It's kind of like we were, uh, we were golden girls in your empty nest. Wait, empty, empty nest and predate golden girls. It's the other way around. We're the golden girl. We're perfect strangers and your family matters. There you go. Yes, sure.
Starting point is 00:07:56 And also, um, I've, I've been making a lot of money, uh, because of myself, like I was saying, and, uh, bug main TV is blown up. You effectively monetize bug main TV. Now, now describe for people what bug main TV is it? Cause as all I noticed, there's a Twitter account and there's some sort of Twitch stream. I don't really bug main dot TV. It's the only place where my bug, where anyone can be free and
Starting point is 00:08:19 express themselves freely without in this, in this tumultuous world of censorship, you know, because back in the day, in the thirties and stuff, they had this sensor board that used to censor all the gangster movies. And the Marx brothers were before that. And now there's a new, and that was from the right. Now there's a new sensor group from the left that we're not allowed. And bug main is the only place to go where no one can ever, oh god, jail, oh god, ever be censored at all.
Starting point is 00:08:47 And this is a free place to roam. Now the simulation, like Apollo 13, when they brought in those parts, that's the sim, we all live in the simulation. Elon Musk knows this, but now we're only allowed to Elon. We're only allowed to use these, these spare parts to fix the simulation, just like an Apollo 13 when they had to make the air filter. So we have Donald Trump, Dennis Rodman, Roseanne, Tom Arnold. All these people are the only parts that we're allowed to use in
Starting point is 00:09:16 order to save the simulation. So that I am, I am pro simulation. And if this is the way it's got to be done, it's got to be done, Mitch. I, I, I don't understand what I don't. I think I'm with Weiger all I know is that bug main dot TV was supposed to happen on do boys as a double and then you, and then you, you, you flip the script script on as you left.
Starting point is 00:09:39 Well, as you guys are about to explain, I'm known for flipping the script, aren't I? That's true. Sometimes I'm a little mischievous. It'll scatles. Master, master, you're very, you're very soundboard-ish this time around. That's right. That's right. This is something that I've gained a lot of confidence from all the money
Starting point is 00:09:58 I've been making. This is now the only thing I do is be bug main for people. I'll show up at parties. There's a bug convention that's going to happen very soon. There's a book and a film that are coming out. I find all this hard to believe. No, this is a convention and a book and a film in the works. Bug con, bug con 2019.
Starting point is 00:10:17 Or is bug con taken place at? It's going to be at the, at the Westin by the airport. The LAX Westin, the LAX Westin. This is what, this is one step. I just want to bring not a particularly glamorous venue. I just want to bring Mitch one step closer to becoming Kevin Smith. He, every day I see him, he becomes Kevin Smith more and more. And I want a piece of this action.
Starting point is 00:10:38 I'm Jay and you're silent Bob. If he keeps slimming down, he'll get the Kevin Smith eventually. The fuck? Just get yourself a hockey jersey instead of that Celtics jersey. It's very close. Bug. I'm usually, I'm silent Bob, because I don't want to comment on what bug has just said.
Starting point is 00:10:57 Usually he's, he's, he's, he'll say something. I can't, I can't, there's no real way to play. And well, I mean, he's a flamethrower. We know he's here. He's trying to be incendiary. I mean, that that's what he does. That's part of the persona. Let's get, let's get, let's get to this.
Starting point is 00:11:11 But okay, please we so buzz, buzz. We, we would have you back in the podcast that you're a friend of mine. My friend as well, we work together. Well, we had a very difficult time arranging this between my people, my buglings and you guys. Cause you know, you have people negotiating for you have representatives to go through, which is a weird layer of bureaucracy for someone who is just supposedly just our friend.
Starting point is 00:11:34 Well, it's basically a cult and also allow me to say this, and I would also say this, it is another bug theory. Yes. Um, that you guys, and we are all now to the point of extreme simulation delirium that we are shitposting our lives. Remember how people now shitpost on boards. You guys are doing a podcast. You spend endless hours talking about a chain restaurants.
Starting point is 00:11:56 That is a shitpost onto your own life. That is, you are shitposting yourself. So a negotiation that is completely unnecessarily complicated and it for no reason at that, I only want to keep shitposting my life until it's done. I want to waste the most time possible doing the most inconsequential things that I possibly can. That is the true way to beat the simulation. No, that's a fair way to characterize this podcast.
Starting point is 00:12:23 We are wasting a lot of time. Yeah, it's making our lives worse. Yeah, definitely. But yeah, and to give a little bit of context to what's going on. So should we say that, should we name the people involved, Mitch? I don't know if we do, but it's up to you. There are some people involved in bug main. There are, there are a couple of people you work with quote unquote, cause I
Starting point is 00:12:40 don't know what the, again, my lieutenants, your lieutenants. I don't know how any of this is, is monetized or structured. You say you're making money. I'm not sure if that's a work or a shoot, but I will say this. We had a little bit of a, we had a, we had a lengthy convo. That's a wrestling lingo. We had a, we had a lengthy, we had a, what was that? It calls you a loser.
Starting point is 00:13:00 Hey, look, I know I'm a loser, but I can say that. Mitch can say that. Yeah, you can also say that. I'm coming. So, so we had to, we negotiated with your lieutenants. It was like a lengthy process to try to get you on here. At one point they, they pulled out entirely, released a letter on Twitter saying that this wasn't going to happen and then they eventually were able to
Starting point is 00:13:27 compromise and come to an agreement for what our chain was. We came to an agreement. Yes. And I was the one who caught something. Me, me, Weiger, I'm the one and one of the lieutenants texted me and said, I can't believe you're the one who caught it. But I said, we're not going to review McDonald's. Right.
Starting point is 00:13:45 Well, we wouldn't, we wouldn't have reviewed McDonald's. We wouldn't have reviewed McDonald's. So anyways, we just, we decided what a fun review with bug would be is I hob international house of bugs or burgers. It was when they, when they released it on social media, there was mystery of what the bee stood for initially, but by the time this episode comes out, people will, will maybe have forgotten that aspect of it. But they tease I hob people were trying to figure out what I hob was.
Starting point is 00:14:11 So international house of bugs, we eventually eventually went burgers, but we were like, yes, that bee could also mean bugs. That famous national house of buddy sauce, buddy sauce, buddy, buddy, so putty sauce, well, that's if the P is in place. That's still I have a change to the bee. That becomes buddy sauce, buddy sauce. I mean, I guess what you're saying with that is like a more, it's a masculine word. So you are saying putty, so I thought you were saying buddy sauce with
Starting point is 00:14:41 a bee Miramax proudly presents. So we were arguing, but we were watching the Bamba we were. Yeah. So and I was saying that back in the day, well, everyone know back in the day, people fucked back in that was right. I was going to say that buddy Holly was jealous of Richie Valens fucking so much that he actually demanded a girl be backstage, which is after every show which is a me too of a bygone era. Yes. And so, but you didn't think that people fucked and it was almost to make yourself feel better about your own
Starting point is 00:15:10 lack of fucking. Yeah. And and then we proved that La Bamba, as I call him fucked. We didn't we didn't prove it. There's a strong circumstantial evidence that he was fucking. We didn't. We didn't prove anything, but I was just saying. I was saying that there was less putty sauce as you would say going around back in the thirties, but in forties and fifties. There was a putty sauce to share everyone. Even the big was no, baby. Shantilly Lays. Oh, the big bopper. Will I eat your asshole? No, baby. That's not what I like, baby. And it's until it lays edit to edit, edit point.
Starting point is 00:15:50 What if this is someone's jumping on point for the podcast? Like they're like they've read. They saw an AV club that people like dough boys. I got to check out this dough boys. Oh, they're reviewing I hob. That's fun with a bug main with a bug man. Okay, I don't know what that is. Will I come? All right. And 30 seconds in, he's doing an impression of a disgraced Jeffrey Tambor grieving for his lost career. Oh, God, Anakin, I'm so sorry. I just wanted to touch Anakin Jill. Jill, I want to think Jill is talking to Anakin. Get out of here and get out of here, Jeffrey Tambor. You're not wanted in Holly Weird.
Starting point is 00:16:29 Leave. I banish you. Oh, please. I don't know. God is there. Oh, God, Anakin, that voice wasn't Hayden Christensen. What was that? I thought I was Marianne Cotillard. I was trying to figure out what the impression was. It's it's it's of course. It's of course. Anakin. I thought it was. Yeah, that was Hayden. Oh, Master. Oh, I see. It just turns into one of those strange, strange new age white man voices, right? The effected sort of. Yeah, like he played it like Joseph Gordon Levitt or we like it's just they don't have they don't understand how to talk anymore. Yeah. Bugman, you're someone
Starting point is 00:17:06 who's very opinionated about Star Wars and very knowledgeable about Star Wars. You I know you're a big fan of the prequels and but and like the original trilogy as well. My question is and we've already did a we already did a full bonus episode where we reviewed solo, but solo came out recently as the most recent canonical entry in the Star Wars universe. Yeah. My least favorite of the Star Wars films. What did you think about it? It's hard to say least favorite. I mean, first off, this is another part of the simulation that we're not understanding. Okay. You can't write Tom Arnold's involved. We are now getting
Starting point is 00:17:37 to a point where it's like Apollo 13. Can you play a guy that we liked? Right. It also started. It started with Josh Brolin and Men and Black three. Like can you play it now? Can you just kind of play a guy that we like? We're so have no we have nothing. We actually we ran out of things. This goes into my 9 11 three. Actually, the 9 11 theory that everything existed after 9 11 plays into my Apollo 13 simulation theory because we're only left with these certain parts. That's what we're our Greek myth. We're only left with these parts that happened before we existed to try to fix everything that goes wrong. Now we look to
Starting point is 00:18:13 Harrison for he was kind of a cool guy. Let's get a guy like that. And then they pick this guy who is just you guys ready? We're gonna go like just not at all. That was close. Whoa, like just not sounding like him not doing anything at all. And it is truly a sad, a very, very sad time. I can't rate the Disney films against each other because they just don't count to me. Anything without the 20th Century Fox logo before it doesn't count. It's just completely and I do love one aspect of solo, but it was too little too late. There's one cameo, obviously, that is the best cameo out of all the Disney stars, but it was too
Starting point is 00:18:54 little too late. It was it was more referring to mall, of course, of course, northmore and guess what? And I love the beauty, the ironic beauty. Wiger, you just spoiled that. People have seen it by this. All right, well, look, but the beauty of them. Oh, shunning. So JJ Abrams, I'm gonna have Jar Jar bones in the background. Oh, we all hate the prequel boat. And then they I loved watching them get to such a point of desperation that the only way they could save this movie is by using a prequel character. Well, so we've got Rogue One and and wait, what's the other what's the other spin off? I'm thinking of no,
Starting point is 00:19:28 it's just Rogue One. No, last Jedi as well. Not a spin off last Jedi Jedi, one of the mainline entries. But Rogue One and last Jedi, as well as solo, all have prequel, like direct prequel through lines. In fact, I think your prey, your favorite part of last Jedi is when Luke says Darth Sidious, which directly connects to the prequel trilogy. It's true. I feel like those were more they were like begrudgingly having to do those. And then this solo one seemed like they were cycling cameos up until the last second and just wanted a desperate way to get people to watch the movie. Like you could tell that it was
Starting point is 00:20:00 probably going to be Boba Fett at some point and apparently it was in the script, just big reveal. It wasn't written in the script. Is that true? Yes, it wasn't even written in the script that it was Darth Maul. It was just big, big guy reveal says these things. That's that's so they were cycling. The other ones I felt like they had to do just as service and they tried to bury them as much as possible. Right. But this one was very, very a beautiful win for the Bugglings. My cult, you know, the cult that follows me and one day we'll all, you know, enter the next world. What the fuck is happening? Do you think in the
Starting point is 00:20:33 aftermath of the nexium news that having a cult is the right move? Well, yes, because we're a cult about positivity. See, I, I, I don't do my. I think that's how all they all start. They all are kind of framed in this way. Hold on. You accepted that it's a cult of positivity. I think that I think that that a lot of these have this sort of life affirming. We're going to help you get your life together. That's kind of the way they hook people in. Do you think the cult of bug is where we're? No, I don't. That's what I mean. It's I think it's a false front. We're no. We're going to be the ones that goes all the way with it. We're
Starting point is 00:21:06 going to be the ones. It's just going to be like a 4th of July party with your best friends that never that ain't never go and doesn't sound fun to me bug. Bane. I know. I know what this is all about. And this is ultimately about the bug getting his dick wet. Yeah. No, no, no, no, no. This is obviously bug. It is nearly caught him. Actually, bug con 2019 K is the only place where I will be able to meet any of my bug followers. So hashtag bug con. Yeah, I got a question for you. Do Nick or I have to go to bug con? No, no, guys, guys, that's part of the bug. Cool. Look, you guys don't have to go.
Starting point is 00:21:45 You guys don't have to go. We're fun. Have some fun. I mean, I can't see a scenario where we would have to go. We haven't signed a contract or anything. Yeah, we have no obligation. You'll be there. I mean, you would 100% go if someone just told you to go. I do whatever people tell me to. I'm going to make you watch. I'm going to make you watch your girlfriend or wife. Yeah, I'm going to hurt her. She would make a wow. Am I three? Well, Philip Seymour Hoffman from my three is very excited for. I will say this about he's very excited about the new mission impossible. What a great franchise from
Starting point is 00:22:22 start to finish. All the mission impossible. I'm a big Tom. So great. Tom Cruise apologist. I think that he's slowly trying to get out of Scientology, which I applaud him for. But I look at Mission Impossible. This is a true set, but it is the opposite of the Avengers. And it's the only thing we have. It's the only thing where he is trying to show you that he's doing it for real on camera. He's hurting himself for us. He's doing it all for us. It's sort of like my cold. I do it all for you. And it's not this green screen mishmash. I speak to that on the podcast. Again, you tie it to your cold.
Starting point is 00:22:54 It's all for you. Right? I speak to that on the on the podcast of Tom Cruise. You see, and I talked about rush hour two. Was that on the podcast where I think you did on a previous episode where you actually see Jackie Chan do stunts and if you feel that's a lost art of Buster Keaton started it. It's like Buster Keaton, that house fell on him. He actually was prepared to die for the movie. That's a beauty that we've lost that, that, that an auteur and a person could care so much about the audience. And this is something that Tom Cruise is doing
Starting point is 00:23:27 on a day-to-day basis. And also what I heard a secret is that they, uh, they have a secret scene that they shot that they're not showing in trailers. They're only going to show that's very exciting theater. These are all I've heard that and I've told people that. And now I'm thinking, did I hear that from you? And is it real? Oh, it's real bad boy. I mean, it's possible you heard it from him and then also he is willing it into existence. Yeah, that's true. That's part of this. That's part of the simulation. Also, because allow me to say, look, I've willed so many things. Let me,
Starting point is 00:23:57 let me, let me count the ways. First off, Kanye West wearing a make America gradient hat going for Trump. That is a bug, exclusive, willing into existence. He saw three. It's true. That doesn't seem like a thing you would love to have happen. That's a true me crafting. I like the movie, the craft. I crafted the world. He did that. I, I on this show was the first to say the Darth Plague is the wise speech. And then the next day on Reddit, this was research. The next day on Reddit, it topped Reddit the day after my dough boys came out. So I started prequel
Starting point is 00:24:29 memes. I started. I don't think you started. I started. I started ironic, ironic, aware Trump love. I'm, I, I've, I've, I've done so much for this world just by willing it, by secreting it into the simulation. I don't think there's an, there's a layer of irony with Kanye's Trump fandom. I think he's just a guy who's genuinely having some mental problems. Let's, let's, let's get to, let's get to some fun con convos. Please. I still want to know how Elon Musk is involved. Elon Musk believes in the simulation. You don't know that.
Starting point is 00:24:58 I know, I know that he likes to tweet like Rick and Morty bullshit on Twitter. He likes to go. Wubba, Wubba, Wubba, Wubba, Dub, Dub, or whatever. Fucking Rick. We, I, I, I know that he, he loves Hey, why you're great. Go after Rick and Morty. People, people like Rick and Morty, but I think the fans are a little annoying. He's like a dox me and dox by tweets like a super annoying Rick and Morty fan. I love, I love Rick it, hashtag, putty sauce, hashtag, skittle, skittle, skittle, putty, salsa, love, a dub hub.
Starting point is 00:25:31 Lord hub. Yes. I do think that the simulation is real. And I think that all the true people like, uh, like, uh, Kanye, they all know about it in Elon Musk. And they're also willing everything that happens to them is willed into existence by them into the simulation. And that's what you were just talking about while you're, that's what I was talking about. And that's what we're doing at this table right now. We're willing. This is a seance,
Starting point is 00:25:55 but I think like through this microphone, if you say the right amount of words, stop the saying on stock, if you say the right around amount of words and the right order, things can happen in the world. And that's what we're doing on this podcast with all the listeners right now. They're part of it, but they're complicit. What is your favorite mission? Impossible movie? Um, that's what I was trying to ask to four for me. John, John, Lou, John, who is your favorite? That's my favorite. That's insane. Because you know why it has the best mask reveal that is an amazing mask
Starting point is 00:26:26 reveal when it zooms into the finger and the guy realizes he put the mask on top of him while he was gagged and then it cuts, it cuts to the hallway and it's like, and he just rips it off. Yeah. The whole audience I remember in the movie theater stood up and applauded when that happened. It's like one of the biggest reactions I've ever seen. It's a cool mask. That sequence is awesome. And, and, you know, for a movie that, that I think most people agree is like, is obviously you disagree, but I think most people kind of think of it as a low point of the franchise. It still has like some sequences that are just so
Starting point is 00:26:54 memorable and indelible that he makes you glad that it exists. Exactly. And JJ Abrams is the, the, the monster of this whole world. So he ruins everything he touches. It's the opposite of the whole bond a second. I thought three, I thought he liked three. I liked an impossible three. I'm not a worst one. I don't know what they're going for. They do. He does the classic mystery box bullshit at the end that you don't know what the whole entire movie was about. I don't, I don't, I'm not a huge, obviously I'm not a big JJ fan. I don't like his Star Wars movies or what he has
Starting point is 00:27:26 turned Star Wars. You have to understand about what JJ Abrams was, is he's an actor. He is an actor that's playing a director that executives put in as a secret operative into meetings so that he can pitch back to them the same shit they want to hear or they're telling him to say, he's like a secret agent. He's a, he's a, he's a complete cipher that is, so he just goes. I talked to Star Trek fans that are just as a loving of the original Star Trek and he did the Star Trek. What he did that Star Wars to me to them.
Starting point is 00:27:57 They also think he ruined Star Trek. So this is a man that's hopping around ruining things for everyone. I think that Mission Impossible three is maybe his best movie and it's also has nothing to do. It's a third movie. It has nothing. He didn't come up with any characters. It's like he has no real creative drive behind that. Philip Seymour Hoffman does. He's a great villain in that. He would have been good with, with, with my asshole directing.
Starting point is 00:28:21 He's like, he's just the best. He's the best guy, RIP, RIP XXX. But I think if you're going to, I mean, I think if you're going to scribe, and I know that, that bug, I know that you're a director and a good one. I know if, I think if you're going to scribe blame for someone's directorial failures, you have to give them credit for something that's a success. It's, I mean, but, but, but a success of, okay, well, Philip Seymour Hoffman is pretty good. I mean, I mean, you okay. Yeah. Good job, JJ. Philip was good. Philip Seymour Hoffman was great. Congrats, JJ. I don't give anything to that.
Starting point is 00:28:53 But who, who, who is in this bug army? Is it you? Who are the type of folks in the bug army? The people that see the simulation for what it is. They're neos of their own kind and they also there's it's all races, all creeds, all sexualities as well. So don't even go thinking for one second. Some kind of weird, weird white people, all thing. It's not. This is all white, black women, men, gay, straight, all, all understand what I'm talking about and they're not turned off and they're not scared of the seances that I give to them. Right. I think of the main complaint people have about
Starting point is 00:29:28 cults is that they're not diverse enough. So good on you. Good on you for making sure that everyone's included. Now look, bug, it's a very 2018 cult. We were, we were, I will say if the, if the, if our Twitter mentions are any indication, the, the core demographic of, of bug, the bug army is a woman with purple hair and a septum piercing. Go ahead, Mitch. I'm sorry to cut you off. Send your putty sauce to P.O. Boggs fucking putty. I think this is the right time for you to make a cut. You said I was trying to
Starting point is 00:30:04 make myself feel better earlier on this thing. And I think there's a lot of people who feel a lot of place in the, in, in the world right now. And well, alienation is actually the common thread behind everything that's bad. That's happening right now. If you look at it, like whether it's jihadism or, or mass shootings in America, really what it is is alienation. No matter who they are, they will always do some weird Snapchat or some weird Instagram before they do their thing that happened in Paris and it happened in, in Florida. They always, they're so alienated and they're so self obsessed with,
Starting point is 00:30:38 with Instagram and this new culture that we have of, if I can broadcast to 10,000 people, but I can't talk to one person, the alienation is what, and I'm trying to tell everyone the alienation, we can turn it into something beautiful. You don't have to do these things. I'm bringing everyone together that we can all be online together, but be together and, and, and, and live peacefully in my cult. But isn't part of the issue that we are all online together and then be, and like everyone's just mad constantly. Like there's just like,
Starting point is 00:31:06 there's just like constant rage and constant stress. Cause that's what I feel. I just feel like this deluge of just bad news, like just constant like misery coming out and then everyone's reactions to the misery. I said this on the podcast before, look, every day we see more faces than a man in the 1800s saw in his entire lifetime that immediately devalues of human's face. If you're looking on Tinder or Instagram and you're swiping and swiping,
Starting point is 00:31:32 you're seeing more faces in one day. These kinds of, these kinds of problems are, they're not new to the world, but they're new to us. We're getting too much information. We're not supposed to see every terrible thing that happens around the world, 24 seven and all have to do something about it. We're not meant to see those things. We are knowing, we know too much. We know too much and it's causing a psychological breakdown. We all think that we not only are the center of our own world.
Starting point is 00:31:59 Now we have to help everyone else. We're going to keyboard. We're going to get on our Twitters and we're going to, but you're not supposed to know all these things. These bad things were happening as long as time and all these people were doing all these things as long time. We just didn't see it all the time. So now this is an overload for all of us. That's, that's what I'm here. That's what I'm here to suss out with all of you guys. Suss.
Starting point is 00:32:22 Bug main. Let's, let's get back to what happened. We were discussing with your people about where you, we would review. Yes. And I said that thing about no McDonald's. Um, and so we decided on I hop, we settled on I hop as we mentioned and international house of burgers. Now, uh, we've reviewed I hop twice before, uh, but this is worthy of a revisit because we went to the sunset Boulevard location in Hollywood and this is one of the ones they've refurbished and updated all the
Starting point is 00:32:53 signage. So they haven't, they have the I hop sign will put, you know, outside. Uh, they have a bunch of different, uh, uh, I hop art inside every table has an I hop logo. They really did it. Yeah. They, they have, they turn the P. Yeah. Exactly. It looks, it looks nice. It looks nice. It's, it's well done. They have, they have, you know, art on the walls. They have like murals of burgers. They have like famous paintings redone to add bur, burgers. It's a little cheeky. They're having some fun with it. Uh,
Starting point is 00:33:18 the, the restroom signs are burgh guys and burgh Al's. Um, so, you know, I kind of take a, take a fence to that actually. I think it's just birds. Just birds. Yeah. Guys. Come on. Bird guys, 2018. Bird gals. Yeah. They could go gender neutral, but you know, I think if they, if the thing I hop in terms of retrofitting it and as it currently is, I think it's fine, but yeah, they think they go gender neutral. They, they could burgh us. They could. I think this is an issue with the bathroom before we got, right.
Starting point is 00:33:51 That's a thing. It was, they were already, if you're going to change the names, I think this is a summer change. I think it would send a confusing message if they were to try to conflate going gender neutral with also adding a burger. It could have also been the only way for them. It could be the, the success. I don't know. I could also see them on the other end of it. When they switch back to I hop, maybe that's the opportunity to go gender neutral. Either way, it's,
Starting point is 00:34:11 it's, I, to me, that was not, that's, that's not my, uh, Hey, by the way, that wasn't a big concern of mine, but a fair thing to point out for the sum of your pancake boy, pancake boy because, because I'm normally burger boy and they, they changed their, they changed a, I hop for the reverse for me. Wow. The pancake brigade and pancake boy. That's you for the summer. You know what? Fine. I'll be pancake boy for the summer. I'm happy.
Starting point is 00:34:39 I'll, I'd love to be pancake boy. That's what you are for the summer. That'll be a nice change. Great. I'm happy. I'm loving it. So this one was, and you pointed out bug. I was there. I was there first and then you arrived and we were both pretty early and we're directly across the street from an in and out burger. Hold on a second. Yes. All right. I pointed that out, but I was not late. I came exactly. I have a note to say that you were on time. I was getting that. I was, I was painting a picture on it. Keep and say it was there first.
Starting point is 00:35:04 I told you last night I was going to tell everyone that you were on time. You didn't trust me. You felt like you had to jump in. All right. Continue on. So we were there. You pointed out, we were, I was, I was first. You arrived and then you pointed out that it was across the street from an out burger. So it's like a very like the, in the shadow of the most iconic LA burger chain, SoCal burger chain in LA, in the heart of LA, but they really kind of went for it to say this is going to be our burger
Starting point is 00:35:29 location because that's, that's how confident I guess they are in the gimmick. And our buddy, Mike Carlson joined us. He showed up, Mitch showed up right on time. As I mentioned before, I have this highlighted in my notes, Mitch. Thanks, Nick. And, and we sort of, we were trying to get to game planet. We're trying to decide exactly what to do. And so we ordered all eight of the new burgers because they have the entire menu there. Every single one. We're four men. We figured we could take down these eight burgers by cutting them into quarters
Starting point is 00:35:54 and get to taste all of them. Brunch burger. Yeah. Let me, I have these all here. I'll list these out. And, and, and we can very interesting. Yeah. We have the classic, the classic and the classic with bacon. This is just very standard American cheese, lettuce, tomato, signature sauce, the mega monster, which is like a bigger classic that's also got two different types of cheese. The big brunch, this is the one you mentioned, bug, which is onion rings, bacon. And, oh, I'm sorry, I was reading the cowboy barbecue. The big, big brunch is, is bacon, fried egg and, uh, and hash browns.
Starting point is 00:36:26 Fucking idiot. The, oh, come on. I get burgers to get through. The cowboy barbecue, which is onion rings. This one's more like a Western bacon, cheeseburger and some barbecue sauce, jalapeno kick. Uh, it's pretty much what you'd expect sauteed jalapenos and then a pepper jack cheese, mushroom and Swiss self explanatory. And then the patty melt, which you mentioned, Mitch, cause they have a, they have a steak burgers insult or insert. They have so many menus there. We got like five menus a piece.
Starting point is 00:36:51 There were so many different menus to go through, which was kind of overwhelming, but the steak burger in insert, which has all the, uh, the, the burgers does not have the patty melt. That is, there were only seven to eight. So this was something that you caught. You were like, we also want the patty melts to make sure we got that. We need the patty melt. We got, we got three, we got three fours of fries, three orders of onion rings. Cause it came with a side and two orders of hash browns for those eight burgers. Yeah. It comes with a side and a drink, which I think is a pretty good value.
Starting point is 00:37:18 And, uh, and what drink did you get, Nick? Uh, I got the, wait, hold on. I wrote it down. Should I skip ahead on? Yes. No, no, no. Play it. No, this is, this is fine. This is, we have to get this out. Uh, I got the, uh, the splash, uh, the splash. What the fuck was it called? Cause I got the same splash, Barry. That's what it was. I got the splash, Barry, but you got a tropical cooler, a tropical cooler. I'll say this about the splash, Barry. I like the splash, Barry. I like that. I like those, I like those splash drinks. I think they're good.
Starting point is 00:37:43 They're, they're well executed and they've got like that little bit of fresh fruit, which is nice and they're not too syrupy. They're just, they're just kind of like crisp and fresh with a little bit of sweetness. So we ordered all these burgers. We wait for what feels like about a half an hour. Yeah. We had a little bit of a, of a delay. We have, we have, we have, we have a bit of a was a lot of burgers, but we ordered a lot of food. And we think it would be some cooking time. Um, the burgers come out.
Starting point is 00:38:08 A plate. There's, you know, there's, there's, there's four of us there. Me, my Carlson, Nick, at iHob four of the same burgers come up for identical burgers, four with fries, all with fries. And, and immediately something seemed wrong. We're, we're, Mitch, you and I are both worried. And, and my concern, what I jumped to is, oh no, this guy misunderstood. He didn't think we wanted eight burgers. He thought we,
Starting point is 00:38:34 he didn't think we wanted eight burgers for the table. He thought we wanted eight burgers a piece. And I thought we were going to get eight different. I thought we were going to get 32 plates. Yes. I was, I was, I was, I was shocked. Bugman at this point had taken out his cameras recording us for some reason. Yeah. Do you actually, I mean, I, and not to put you on the spot bug, do you have that video at the ready?
Starting point is 00:38:53 Cause maybe our reactions can give a little bit of context of our mental state because we should maybe save the video for online cause who knows what's on it. Well, we can play it and we can always edit it out. All right. All right. Sure. All right. Bug, Bug is going to play this video. That's too scary. That's very funny. Are you giving a thumbs up? Nick is very confused. Yeah. So am I.
Starting point is 00:39:25 Wait, because these are all the same one, right? This is going to be an insane amount of food. This is so wrong. I'm trying to tell you, what is that? Did I take a bite of it before? So are these all the same one? They're more coming up. Okay. But we, but like, we just want to be one of each one, not one of each one for each of us. So I don't know. Like what, you know, whatever you've already got cooked is fine,
Starting point is 00:39:53 but like if you can just pour it, I don't know if there's a way to, I'll pour it later. Just make sure. He was trying to be in on it. There's actually a way. Yeah. You guys are, we got pranked. You guys took so long. So bug main, I need to, to review the greatest burger of all time. I'm not settling for anything less. Any kind of I hop burgers. When bug comes on dough boys, he creates the simulation. The simulation does not create bug. We were served big Macs.
Starting point is 00:40:27 You gave us big Macs and fries on I hop plates delivered by I hop staff is delivered by an employee, which we won't say which I hop it is because it's I already say which I hop it was. Oh, then you have to edit that out. We are. We can get that I hop in trouble. Yes. They, they, we arranged for whatever you guys ordered for them to just put big Macs on I hop plates, yes, and deliver it to us because we are going to review the greatest burger and greatest sandwich that has ever been invented by man, son of man.
Starting point is 00:41:03 So the big Mac, so you not the grand Mac, not the junior Mac, not the quarter pounder, the big Mac. So you engineered this elaborate scheme where posting my life, yes, where you set up. I, you somehow convinced, I assume money was exchanged. You somehow convinced the I hop staff to serve us big Macs that you provided instead of the burgers that we ordered at our table, I was frustrated. Yes. After you demolished the entire big Mac, it was, it was, hey, I, we were hungry. We had been waiting for a while. I, I, that was part of the, I was very hungry. I had a life, a light lunch. I was prepared to
Starting point is 00:41:43 eat. I love, I love the big Mac. We won't reveal the I hop location or anyone who helped us out or there's no way not to reveal because we said it's one of the ones that been converted to the signage and there's only so many that have done that people. We, we, we will. So we won't say who the staff were, but we, but the location I think is the location to okay. People will figure it out. No, they won't. All right. It could be Pasadena. What are you talking about? It's the one in LA that is is a full I hop. You're, you're, you're digging yourself in the shadow of it and you're going to lose someone there.
Starting point is 00:42:14 You're going to lose someone there. I'm not trying to get anyone to lose their job. Well, then you have to edit this to fix it. I will edit. I will not release this episode. So look bug main arranged with his little buglings, a prestige of sorts. Do you remember the film that prestige now? There's many different bugs out there. Yeah, and they all work for me, the main bug. I think I know who the bugs were, but there's so many. I know who there's so many bugs. Let me tell you this online and living in the world doing my bidding that sometimes I don't know if I'm the one going in the glass case or if I'm the one getting
Starting point is 00:42:44 applause. It was the look on their faces. It was the look on their faces. He was so here we are across the street from In-N-Out Burger, LA's most famous burger. See, people are going to be able to figure it out from that alone. There's a billion you idiot. Shut up. Second, a lot of forward momentum in this. So in Out Burger across the street, LA's famous burger where I hop. We're already not heading out burger and then we get a burger, a Big Mac from McDonald's. That's right. Such a weird thing. It threw all to so disorienting. It was disorienting. It threw all of us off. We ate the Big Macs. We lost. We lost a bug main. Yes,
Starting point is 00:43:21 we were. I will say this. Bug main and his bugs, who we know who they are. They're two guys. And they they bought all the burgers. Yes. So they actually bought our order. They did buy our order and then they did distribute it to the homeless community near the near an office where they work, which was very nice. I will say that. That was what? Well, how nice is it to give a guy who doesn't have ready access to a bathroom, a one half pound burger from I hop. I think that's kind of a blessing in disguise. I turned. That's what the cult is all about. I turned it into positivity. All the bums got the burgers and I want to call people and
Starting point is 00:43:58 bomb bombs, the dirty scoundrels. All right, let's take it easy. All right. Yeah, that it again. The vagabonds. It is. There's a house in crisis. There's a housing crisis in the city of LA. It's very sad, but they all got a big meal. Thanks to bug main. Uh-huh. And we got to eat the greatest burger that's ever been invented. The Big Mac. Now, what do you think about the Big Mac? Man, here's what Nick and I have to say. Yes, we're excited to announce that we are gonna review McDonald's in December of this year. That's right. We have a McDonald's episode coming in December. This December are finale for the year. McDonald's 2018.
Starting point is 00:44:37 We will finally review McDonald's with a surprise guest, not bug main. Are you trying to out bug the bug bug main? Are you trying to out bug the bug main bug main? We're not trying to out bug you. What do you think about the Big Mac? We got bigger. Here's what I'll say about the Big Mac. I was so confused while I was eating it. Mitch, you kept saying I was mad, but I think you were more mad and you were projecting that on to me because you seem mad at first. We were both. We were both kind of seething because we were so thrown and because we knew we knew we'd been bested, which is not a which is not a good feeling. But
Starting point is 00:45:13 that that Big Mac was great. I mean, it's a great. It's a great sandwich. The Big Mac is a great burger. The Big Mac is one of my favorite. It's might be my favorite fast food item. It's my favorite McDonald's burger. I will say that I like the Fresh Beef Quarter Pounder now more than the Big Mac because I like that Fresh Beef goes a long way for me. I think that's that's like a tier above it. But the Big Mac is so great. See, I do that for Quarter Pounder for the for the Big Mac. They should do. They should do a Fresh Beef Big Mac. So in, in, no, and no, no, and so in the objective Fresh Beef, so in this world that we're in,
Starting point is 00:45:48 we're in IHOP, it kind of reminds you of an alternate universe, right? Being in an IHOP instead of IHOP. Like, you know how there's infinite universes out there and they're all just barely different sometimes and sometimes they're very different. It's like the movie The One with Jet Lee. There's like different right fucking universes and shit. I would say that the only thing that we have perfect is McDonald's and the Olympics in our fucked up reality. We have we live in an alternate people say this all day. It feels like we're in an alternate reality. You know what? I will say that we are an alternate reality of the
Starting point is 00:46:19 simulation. But the things that we got perfect were the Big Mac and McDonald's and the Olympics. These are the two things. And I think aliens come here as tourists to experience our Big Mac. There might be a better universe with Hillary and it's wonderful. So men in black style, you're saying? Yes, that they come here and I think that the aliens actually become humans just to eat Big Macs and go to Olympics. And at some point, they tell their alien brothers that, you know what? I'm gonna stay here and I'm gonna, I'm gonna be a human and enjoy this Big Mac. And they walk amongst us every day because,
Starting point is 00:46:51 because of the McDonald's at it. We're gonna break. We're right back. The more go boys welcome back to dough boys here with bug main talking. I hob and us being pranked. So we got we got we got these Big Mac burgers and cold McDonald's fries, which were also pretty good. They're pretty good McDonald's fries. Maybe my favorite French fries. Yeah, they're great. They're great. They're great. It's about consistency. Right. Anywhere you go, you can get the make that. That's all the Barnes and Nobles look the same on the inside. Right. Give you
Starting point is 00:47:31 comfort. It's about consistency. So these are it's the perfect sandwich. We're all hungry. We all knew that we really wanted to eat those Big Macs instead of those I hob steak burgers. And we got them and I'm and you're welcome. We also got some pancakes. Yeah, we decided that we should get something for my hop. So we just we we we already had filled up on burgers. So we got some pancakes instead of the burgers went to I hob and got pancakes. That's right. Beautiful. Well, hey, I'm the pancake boy. Summer 2018. That's my brand. Yeah. So we got get away pancake boy. They have some limited time international pancakes. And
Starting point is 00:48:05 we got these and shared them with our buddy Carlson. We got the Belgian dark chocolate mousse pancakes, which are filled with chocolate chips layer with a creamy Belgian dark chocolate mousse than topped with more mousse dusted with a cocoa powder whipped whipped topping. It's a lot of mousse. Very, very chocolatey, very moussey vanilla spice pancakes. So these are two buttermilk pancakes inspired by the warm flavors of exotic Madagascar vanilla mousse spice with cinnamon, clove, ginger and cardamom. We were trying to figure out what the flag was because it was an unidentifiable flag and then and then
Starting point is 00:48:35 it ended up being Madagascar. Yeah, we just we just weren't it's not a fly that you know by sight necessarily. I should have known it. Those silly penguins. Oh, those penguins, penguins, they are incorrigible. And then they're we got the rainbow. The Mexican Trace leches pancakes. They like to move it, move it. The Mexican Trace leches pancakes, which is a buttermilk pancakes that become their version of a three milks bread layered and topped with a creamy vanilla sauce than topped with more vanilla sauce and dulce de leches. RIP La Bamba. RIP La Bamba diet. We were so he died at 17. This is what sparked
Starting point is 00:49:13 that discussion. Yeah. And we were trying to figure out if he'd had more sex than us. And I think the answer is definitely yes 100%. Yes. Yeah. This guy was going all over the day. This was going all over the country. I'm not alone in my in this in this thing. I'm not a rock star. I'm not just feeling bad. And also like I was saying back then, if you had a number one song, you were number one. There's not all the it's not all diluted like it is now. This also goes into my too many people theory that I've talked about before. It's it's that now back then things were pure. You're number one. You had the number
Starting point is 00:49:43 one. So now everyone a million people have number one. Our souls are there's only a certain amount of souls and they're being split between our over populated amounts of cadavers. So this is this is back. This is very cloud atlas things. Things were things were pure. The one guy had the and then he got all the all the but at the same time. How did you manage to get your mic hot? And also you over the course of time, it was adjusted to your voice and you still got it to get hot again. Putty. So this is this is throughout all of time, but this is also another good repercussion. And this is for you
Starting point is 00:50:16 dough boys is that in the in the absence of our souls being complete, we do get to live like kings of of the 15th century. You guys get to eat more and actually probably do have more sex, Mitch, than than most people in like the 1500. So you are like a king of the 1500s, but if you're in 1950, you have number one song. You're not going to beat the bomb. But my man, you're kind of like a king. I mean like we are. We are all you're saying like I'm a fat king. Say like Henry the Eighth physically. You know what? They can get my fucking head inside of guillotine. I know that much, but that's the jokes. You call me
Starting point is 00:50:56 out on jokes, but that was the one you decided that you didn't like. I've bombed harder already. One thing is for sure. Richie Valin fucked more than the dough boys. Yeah, Richie Valins for sure. I would say Richie Valins did, buddy Holly did, but Big Bopper did not fuck more than a little baby. Bopper probably fucked more than no way. Will I come? I outfucked Bopper. Do the dope? Confident to the dough boys way more than the Bopper collectively. Now Big Bopper, he he was older when he died in that hole in that little incident and he had a son. His son was Big Bopper Junior and his son had
Starting point is 00:51:30 his as dad Big Bopper exhumed because there was a conspiracy theory that Big Bopper shot his gun off in the cockpit and that's what caused the plane to go down. So he had his dad exhumed and tested for gunpowder and he also tours as Big Bopper Junior to this day. Hello, baby. It's my imprisonment. That's that's the junior junior. Hello. What did you guys think of the pancakes? I thought pretty Mitch, good host in there. Thank you. You really steered the convo right back towards the topic. I liked, I'll quickly say I liked all of them. I thought the spice ones were bad. I agree. I think that the chocolate was my
Starting point is 00:52:07 favorite. Yeah. I like the vanilla spice more than the Mexican trace leches, which felt so desserty with that caramel sauce. It was just overwhelming. Yeah, I liked them though, still. They were still good. They were still okay. The vanilla spice I thought was was like all the all the different spices. I mean, I was honestly more a little bit more adventurous than you'd expect from a chain restaurant. They really kind of like, you know, with the with the ginger and with the cardamom in there. Those are those are not necessarily flavors you normally get from the sprinkles pancakes. We're good. Oh, yes. That was
Starting point is 00:52:33 the other thing. I forgot to write this down. So we got we got this was a thing Carlson wanted. He got the birthday sprinkles pancakes, which is very much like of a child's order, but I thought those were those were really maybe my second favorite. Yeah, those are good. Those are very flavorful. If you're if you're on if you're about to die and you get a big either a big Mac and in and out or what's the other one the shake shack? Yeah, which would you pick where your final burger was your first one burger king big Mac in and out
Starting point is 00:53:02 shake shack last burger of all time out of those three. I'm going big Mac. I know why you're double double. Wow. Yeah, bug man. Your big Mac, of course, of course. That's right. That's nothing wrong with a big Mac with Big Mac as a choice, but here if you could have any McDonald's item as your last me last meal, what would you go with? Big Mac and fries. Wow in a Coke now, but I think Coke was for a while a different recipe than the original. I think it was a sweeter. The McDonald's Coca-Cola is a sweeter. I think that is still the case. They have they have a
Starting point is 00:53:35 like a like tanks. Right. We've discussed that on the front as before. Yeah. So in bug we were not trying to pull a bug on you because if we did we would have ordered a bunch of I hop burgers here today and made you and made you eat them. Right, which we consider actually did do. That's right. The bug has been bugged back. Our good friend Noah has helped us out. He brought a bunch of burgers from I hop and we're going to eat these now. The bug has been bugged. That's right. You aren't the only ones with a cult. Not the only one with a cult. We got every
Starting point is 00:54:18 single burger and we're going to eat them all right now. But we get all of them. Yeah, we got the whole eight of them. Oh my God. I don't think we had to get all of them. This is excessive. No, it's not. What are we going to share these? Are we just going to be taking bites of these bad boys? I think yes. I guess that's a move to make. I'm actually excited to have these because I haven't had dinner yet. And I guess we got your bug. All right. We got all these burgers in front of us. Noah who's wearing a very sharp hat. What is that hat? Oh, it's a stone brewing company hat. It's got kind of like this
Starting point is 00:54:51 this this insignia in the middle of it. But this is the amazing color pattern. It's like purple and red and white, Mitch is handing me a burger. So guys get to chomping because we got eight burgers to get through. And you know, obviously we're not going to eat all of these, but we can at least take bites of them. Oh, God. Bug, you seem a little, have you, have you already eaten dinner tonight? Well, I have to, as a bug does, I have to vomit on the food before I can slurp it up. So allow me. All right. We're going to, we're going to get some chewing in here because we're actually eating this on real time, which we
Starting point is 00:55:24 don't normally do for the show. I'm starting off with this patty melt, which has a nice marbled rye on the outside. And I see some grilled onions in here. I'm gonna take a bite of this. Guys, feel free to describe what you're eating as we're going through. I joined you on the patty melt. Not bad. I tell you, the onions are nice. The beef is very, is very juicy. I just had a bite of a classic Western burger, which I think all these places at the end of the day probably order their stuff from the same catalog. I was going to say it tastes almost like a Hard Rock Cafe Western burger. Right. Oh, wow. They probably at
Starting point is 00:55:58 some point all the way up the line just kind of order the same stuff from the same place the way that they order like their design stuff and their front, their marquees. But it tastes, it's exactly the same. But a Hard Rock Cafe burger at iHob isn't bad, right? I guess that, I guess, yeah, I guess that's a step up. I guess that deserves the iHob name change. I just took a bite of the big brunch. Guys, let me know what you think when you get to that. Is that right here? I think so. It's hard to tell because this is the only thing because we got these in the to-go containers. And in the to-go containers, they all look
Starting point is 00:56:30 the same. Like it's hard to tell what you're biting until you actually have it have a cross section in front of you. I will say the big brunch I think is, you know, I'm a little exhausted by fried egg on a burger. I think that's a thing that like, you know, I feel like I was over like 10 years ago. But also, the bacon is nice though and the hash browns are nice. Go ahead. I was going to say that the fried egg I think has been overused on fancy burgers and it's actually good to see it on a more hearty burger than a rich, umami-ish kind of like crumbly rich burger to have it on like a hard rock burger is a little
Starting point is 00:57:06 bit of a difference. So a hard rock burger is how you're referring to just sort of like this restaurant burger. The standard kind of in the middle, you know, it's like it's a big burger. It's not like the tiny McDonald's, all that stuff. But it's not, you know, us going to Houston's and having a burger. So it's like in the middle. And I think they kind of probably all get them from the same area, um, same kind of catalog and just package them that way. Oh, referencing Houston's, a man after my heart. Yes. Houston's, I'm a big Houston's, Hillstone's, Gulfstream. Hell yeah. Have
Starting point is 00:57:36 you done a Houston's? We have. We do. We did Hillstone with our, with our buddy David Phillips. Now, what did they rename? Did you go into how they renamed it in order to get around some people? They have. Yes. Yeah. So that the suspicion is that they did it because of the, um, the requirement that you have to, if you have a certain number of locations, you have to disclose calories on the menu. And, uh, but I think it's, it's just as much just a branding decision because they liked it. They like, a lot of people don't know that these are even chains. They like that it's just like, Oh, it feels like a,
Starting point is 00:58:05 like a local restaurant. They don't know that that Bandera or R&D or Gulfstream or, or Hillstone or Houston's is part of this larger chain. They just know it's like the nice restaurant in their town. I really, I'm really love the simulation gives us these special little places where people go on Fridays to get putty sauce like a Houston's. If you've ever been at a Houston's on a Friday at six o'clock, you're talking about Richie Valens getting some putties. I mean, this is like people are, they are 40 and they want to fuck at a Houston's. That's right. So Mitch, you, you should
Starting point is 00:58:37 probably put on a jacket, head over to Houston's at a six o'clock on a Friday. That's Santa Monica one though. These days, uh, Richie Valens isn't playing a guitar. He's inventing a new app. I had the classic burger. I will say that the quality of the meat is overall very good on these. The classic, I just gave you half of a classic burger and you, and you didn't, you put it, you took, pushed it away. Well, look, I mean, guys, you can't, you can't out bug the bug and put, just expect to push me around.
Starting point is 00:59:05 I feel like there's no way I'm going to get to all of these burgers because they're sped all over the table. This is just a chaotic mess. We almost, we should have, you know, at Mitch, the ideal version, and I know the timing was that we were, we were not able to, we were only able to control to some degree, but the ideal version, this would have arrived during our break and then we could have eaten these during the break and then we could report it back. This is a crazy thing that we did. Richie Valens in 2018, little Valens and he sings Gucci Gucci.
Starting point is 00:59:31 Right. Uh, something's a little wrong about 2018 guys. He's got face tattoos and he's on SoundCloud guys. Yeah. Buddy Holly and Richie Valens would have to face tattoos on SoundCloud talking about how much they love Gucci bags. Okay. That's about, that's how 20, Trump is our president and Richie Valens would have face tattoos talking about Gucci bags. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. This is an alternate real hell reality. Okay. And guys, Mitch, I feel like you're just eating.
Starting point is 00:59:59 I am. I've tried almost every burger. Okay. You've tried almost every burger. So it's, I'll let you kind of, you'll be the one. I'll let you, I'll let you chime in with, with your thoughts on all these burgers. I would like the original and the original with bacon, both good. They're, they're like good. They're, they're plain almost. Right. Um, this, which is this, if you want to, I, I bit a half of it. No, I had some of the classic. The one I'm interested in is the, uh, the one I'm interested in is the, the jalapeno.
Starting point is 01:00:24 I don't know if you have that one over there. They're both over here. There's, there's three left. Okay. Maybe we just take bites and, and, and hand it off. I'm fine with sharing bites. Cause Bug Main seems done. Here's the mushroom Swiss one. I'm taking a bite right now. Okay. Mitch is taking a chompa this, this one. The, they're all very heavy. I'll say, and also every single bottom bun has like been like dissolved. By the way, this giant half pound burger looks like a slider in Mitch's baseball
Starting point is 01:00:49 mitt hands. You're going to like this one. Yeah. I'm, I'm, I'm very excited to bite into it. All right. So Mitch, go ahead and pass that, that one over. Let us know what you think of it and then go ahead and get the next one at the ready. But do you want to buy this one at all? No pressure. And this one, that one actually was the waiter's favorite was that we asked him and he said that he was almost sad in a way. I felt that he helped us out. He helped the bug, bug army out. Um, buzz, buzz, buzz, putty sauce.
Starting point is 01:01:18 We give him the claw, bug nation. Um, but I also felt like he did want us to try these burgers. He, he volunteered the information that mushroom Swiss was mushroom. Swiss is my favorite. Yeah. I think he, he kind of, he kind of thought of them as like actually was like, they're actually pretty good. Yeah. I think he's right. These are pretty good. I thought it was a funny prank and everything, but actually mushroom Swiss was my favorite. I think you guys actually would have really liked that one.
Starting point is 01:01:42 So yeah, thanks for the tip. Um, next time we come back, just, just get mushroom Swiss. He sounds like hating questions. Yeah. Next time you come back, just order the food that we serve and eat it like normal people. Don't do all this bullshit. Yeah. He's, makes our lives harder. No, this one is, this must be the jalapeno one, but what the fuck? It looks a little collagulated in there. Nothing like like hot, steaming hot mayonnaise in, in Mitch's Mitch,
Starting point is 01:02:09 bring it up to his nose and beard to smell really like molten hot mayonnaise. He got it right up, right up in his nose, right up in his schnauz there. I will say the mushroom in Swiss is a nice execution of a burger type that I don't like. I don't like the mushrooms on it. I standard. Yeah. I just, I'm just not, it's, it's the, whatever, whatever that burger is, it's just not something I'm into. I think, I think that this, this jalapeno one, there's like almost like a jalapeno cream cheese on it.
Starting point is 01:02:38 I think you'll like it, Nick, but it's a little, I think the consistency of that one is just not that good. It has a little bit of heat, but yeah, you're right. The, the, it, it gets a little, uh, yeah, the creaminess is, is off-putting. It's really great watching you guys eat out burgers. It's really fun. I think the creamy of the, what do you think of the onion rings and the fries and the, I mean, hash browns are, we got onion rings, fries, and hash browns.
Starting point is 01:03:03 They just didn't travel well. I actually think these fries got, I think, I think the onion rings are good. The fries didn't travel as well. So it's hard to review. But also by the way, the food is very hot. They're good on your rings. No, they, they came, I mean, the, you know, immediately, basically, but they came from Noah. Noah did a good job. Noah have, where's, where's that bag from? It's from a, you stole it from a job, right? Instacart, right. I didn't actually steal it from a job.
Starting point is 01:03:25 He used to work there and you kept it, or maybe you did steal it. What, did you steal it? I think they sell it to you. Oh, they sell it to you. God, what the, they, they make you buy it to work there. The app economy is so fucking awful. What an awful world we live in, where everyone's a freelancer and you have to spend money to have a job. You had to put up cash up, your own cash up front. That's the simulation. That's a simulation I'm trying to break right now.
Starting point is 01:03:52 And also nobody cares about that. Like get, we start going into that. That's true. No, that's a serious issue. I think that, I think people do care about that. I think people do care about the, the, the, the fact that everyone's a freelancer and the fact that there's so, so little stability in jobs these days and that wages are stagnating or, or low, or real spending power is going down. This, this double burger is there. So there's a double burger. It's huge. Yeah. The monster burger. The monster burger is for the, for burger patty,
Starting point is 01:04:18 this thick, it shouldn't be a double. It's just two, the burgers are too big. I'm surprised they didn't go the, the, the sweet and savory route and put a burger between two kind of pancake buns with some, like a McGriddly kind of thing with the hash browns and the egg inside. That's an interesting idea. Mitch, I'm going to tap out at this point because they just feel so greasy and gross. But let me know what you think of that, that monster burger and Emma, any, any, before you do that, Mitch, I know you're chewing Emma,
Starting point is 01:04:43 any thoughts on any of these? I know you're, I just saw you take a bite of the, the patty mouth. I know you've tasted a few of them. It's like a pretty classic burger. Yeah. They're all the, I think that's, that's what they, you know, they're, they're really true. They're really leaning on this burger brand, whether or not that is a miscalculation or not. I mean, they've certainly gotten people talking about it and they've, they've gotten, you know, they've gotten a lot of attention on social media for this,
Starting point is 01:05:07 this, this temporary rebrand, whether or not this is the right move for such a breakfast focused chain. I don't know, but I think this is a good execution of what they're trying to do. And I think all these burgers overall are pretty good. I think it's a, it's a success. It's, if, if everything we could say, it's just a pretty good standard burger and they, and they did all this stuff. I mean, it's the classic, it's, it's the art of the deal. They're taking a Trump ism right there. They're, they're not tied us back to
Starting point is 01:05:31 Trump. They're being, they're being mean to Canada. They're going away. They're being mean to Canada and these guys are going burger. They already have the pancake market down. Why keep going pancake? Why keep being nice to Canada? You know, we got to go into new directions, son of man. I don't really, I don't fully buy into this theory, but I do think they did it. They did a good job. You have nothing to lose. Why double, why keep going pancake?
Starting point is 01:05:55 When we know you as pancake, you know, they have nothing to lose. Why if you have these relationships that are going to stay no matter what, then you're free to do other things as well. So I think of it as a great success. I think, I think my favorite of the bunch is the patty melt and I might even eat that quarter of it later. Yeah. I think that patty melt is the big winner, but I also, I also like the, the big brunch. I think that was a, that was a really good, a good version of it.
Starting point is 01:06:17 And also I'd say that, that classic and classic with bacon, they, those, those do it proper. But yeah, I would say that the patty melt just especially cause the Christmas of that, that marble rye is really nice. Uh, well, but how did it feel bug to get bug maned yourself? He loves it cause all he thrives off of chaos. He's winning. Oh, he's putting his finger. He's putting his finger in the burr. This guy's like the damn Joker. It's a, well, I just want to watch it burn.
Starting point is 01:06:43 He's the Joker. I'd say crazy things, but I just want to sit back and you are now interrupted by you. The city doesn't need trash like you. One day you will find out that this city, it means more to me than anything that you have ever, there's a part where he talks way too long. Yeah. You will then know and it concordedly that this will come back. Um, I, I, you know, I think about the Joker, the Joker is like one of our great,
Starting point is 01:07:13 you know, uh, Greek myth characters. I want to see a new Joker or two every year for the rest of my life until I die. I want a Joker movie. I want the, I want a Lego Joker. I want a Jared Leto. If some, with one of the Joker's dies, I need a new Joker than I, as long as I see a Joker every year until I die, I will be happy because this is clearly one of the classic characters that we should be retelling it for all of time is the Joker, the joke man. It's,
Starting point is 01:07:42 it seems like you're being sarcastic here. No, I think he's being completely forthright. There's no, there's no irony at all in this. We've, we've selected certain people that we need to see. And I think that the Joker is one of them. And, uh, you know, join my cold hashtag putty cells. Emma, would you please hand me a napkin? I wish that I could crumple up the bug within this nap. Oh,
Starting point is 01:08:07 well let's get to our final thoughts on a right hob. So bug main, you've done the podcast before. Here's how this will work. We'll each go around. Uh, you'll give your, your closing argument on this whole entire experience and then ascribe it at a rating from zero to five forks, we will begin with you. The big Mac is the only thing that our universe has perfected. It's the one pure thing. You know, in the world,
Starting point is 01:08:38 like God knows the tallest man that ever lived the man with the biggest hands, there's a definitive that only God knows and he knows that the big Mac in our simulation is the perfect sandwich. Right. I rate the big Mac five forks. Okay. Do you have a rating for I hob? No. Okay. So it's just up to you and me, Mitch. All right. I will give I hob in the pancake rate rating right now, which is, you know, I don't know where we put it. I kind of liked that. What I hop is doing being I hob. Yeah. Good for them.
Starting point is 01:09:16 Try something different. Get people in there. I think that I hop try something different is good for what, for what they are. I don't know what I originally rated I hop. I wish I had listened to it. It was a long time ago. I'm pretty sure we, we've done it twice. Yeah. We did, we did breakfast was our third ever episode very early on with Alison Auguste and then everybody, Daddy Jelena came back and we did, uh, we did I hop dinner menu dinner menu and everybody you saw and came along. Um, and, uh, and yeah, so, but this is, but it has been a while since we've done both
Starting point is 01:09:43 those episodes. I think we're both in the three to four forks range. I'm going to go with this. I like what they're doing. Yeah. I'm going to get, I'm going to say 3.8 forks. Oh, okay. And that would be three forks. How many times Nick? Well, I, I mean, you'd, you'd have it. You'd need to fork with an unconventional number of three, the one of times three times and what is it? Three and a half times. Yeah. I guess the math would roughly work out there. All right. Somewhere, somewhere around there. 3.8 forks. Okay. For the burgers,
Starting point is 01:10:12 I think that they did a good job. I'm also going to give them three, 3.7. So three forks, three times. Oh, so you're breaking your, your, your score down by a menu item. Well, the burgers are tonight. I'm giving I hop 3.8 forks. Okay. The big Mac, I give five forks. Oh yeah. It's the best sandwich in the game. I hop, they did a good job with these, with these burgers. I think, I think if they just have these as regular item, menu items, I think it'll be good for the place.
Starting point is 01:10:36 Isn't the big Mac better than the grand Mac and the junior Mac? I like all three of them, but probably like big Mac the best. If you could only have one, I probably that, I think that's the correct balance. Um, and, and then I was just going to say, yes, please, um, that I've now, I, now I forgot what I was going to say. The bur, the burgers were good and juicy. The big Mac is the best sandwich that there is. Uh, and I think if they're, if they keep these burgers on the menu,
Starting point is 01:11:01 they should, they should just keep the patty melt or something. They should, they should narrow it down to like, I agree. They could study burgers maybe or something and, and, and that'll be good. But I like, I like, I like when a restaurant tries like that. Yeah. It's good for them. They tried it. Hashtag, which burger do you want to smash? Send your smashable burgers. The I hop done smash. Hashtag putty. Hashtag fucking putty. So you know what we will use.
Starting point is 01:11:24 If you have a favorite from the I hops burger, I hops burger, malign up hashtag, which burger would you want to smash? Go ahead and use it and chime on in the, chime in in the comments. We've jiu-jitsu jerk your hashtag against you again, bug main. We've turned it on. We'll trick you now. So, uh, here's what I say. I, I, you know, a skeptical of the I hop rebrand is a lot of people, but I think they've done a good thing here. I, you know,
Starting point is 01:11:50 I, I guess there's some value in varying up their menu offerings for a place that's not so known for, for breakfast, uh, you know, especially for a location like the one we went to that's open 24 hours. And, and you know, a lot of people, a lot of times people go with a big party and maybe, maybe mom and dad want something different from the kids. I think this is a, these are good burgers. And I think they're well, they're well done diner burgers. I think this is a, this is, they did a good job with these. I think the service there was great.
Starting point is 01:12:18 They were so friendly, especially what they had to go, especially what they had to endure. And they did it all. Like, like, they were happy. They were so happy. They were just like, uh, you know, super friendly needlessly. So they had like two people, two servers working the entire floor in this gigantic restaurant that I think was busier than usual. Cause I had to help out the burgers and help out in a prank and had to help out in a prank in that area on sunset too. I call that I hop the green zone.
Starting point is 01:12:41 It's like in Iraq, where you would go to the special place with the Taco Bell and the pool where you can hang out the green zone. And it's shepherded by these two, these two saints that work there, the green zone, you step out, you, who knows what the fuck will happen when you step outside that I hop. Yeah. It's, it's a little, uh, it's a little, uh, skittle scataly down there to, but to borrow a phrase.
Starting point is 01:13:02 You probably see a bug crawling around on there. Uh, but the, but yeah, the servers were, were fantastic and, um, I, and, and friendly. I thought the, the burgers we got tonight were good. I thought the, the pancakes we got last night were very, very solid burger. My favorite burger. I think I'd go with the, I think I'd go with the big brunch. I think that's the one I go, I get it. Or the classic. Why don't you try the monster burger? That's all you're going to say.
Starting point is 01:13:22 Hashtag once on some brunch, hashtag bunch of crunch. And then of course the patty mouth. I really enjoy the patty mouth. I will say, I'm going to say three, I'm, I'm going to go with you, Mitch. I'm going to stay, stay in the hand holding club, three forks, three times, 3.75 forks, just outside the golden plate club, knock, knock, docking on that door rate, big Mac. My rating for big Mac incomplete coming in December when we officially refue McDonald's. Yeah. With a surprise guest.
Starting point is 01:13:51 Guy. Wow. You sure got me. Bug man. What am I going to do? Oh my God. Yes. When, when chaos has been reigned on a chaos agent. He's sad. The bug is sad. There's no, nothing left for this bug. Bug man. I'm going to, I get, I get, get a hand it to you. You really pulled the wool over our eyes. You, you had a great, we were, we were, we were so disoriented after that,
Starting point is 01:14:16 the prank of the century people are calling the prank of the century and bug. Also you were the first person to give a fork rating to the big Mac. Congratulations. Wow. And you as well gave a five four. I mean, we did the grand mac in the, that is, yeah, but guess what? A, they're gone and B they, they aren't as good and they never were around. This is the big Mac. My friend, my best friend Franklin at bug TV, Franklin just texted me, it's no episode one, but Ant-Man is on TNT. So I might have to check that out now that you guys got me
Starting point is 01:14:44 so bad. Okay. Yeah. If you've got a deck out of here to, to, to check out Ant-Man, we understand. It's no episode one, but I think I might want to check out Ant-Man before I, well it's bug adjacent. It's the bug superhero. Yes. Well, be, you know, bug, buzz, buzz, buzz, putty, sauce, Ant-Man, hashtag, give them the claw, hashtag, uh, putty. Are you psyched for Ant-Man and the wasp? Get those wasps away from this bug. Ow. Ow. I don't know the food chain in the bug world, but I like it.
Starting point is 01:15:13 I like it. Oh, I like it. Oh, it hurts, but I like it now. That was our review of iHob. It's time for a new segment. In honor of our guest, this is Saustin Powers. Yeah, baby. I like gold, baby. Get in my belly. I like gold, baby shags. Now, bug, you're a big fan of a particular kind of sauce, but there's some other sauces out there.
Starting point is 01:15:48 I'll list the ingredients of a sauce or condiment. When one of you thinks you know what it is, buzz, buzz in by saying your name. And if you're correct, you'll get a, yeah, baby. Yeah. If you're wrong, you'll get a why must I be surrounded by fricking idiots. Scotty don't. All right. First up, uh, first, do you buzz it? Do you buy? Oh, okay. She's on the window. Zippy.
Starting point is 01:16:13 You're more up to speed with Zippy. You're up to speed. You're more up to speed with the Austin references that I have. Um, all right, here we go. Tomato concentrate, distilled vinegar, buzz, buzz. Go ahead, Mitch. Ketchup. Yeah, baby. Yeah. Got your bug. All right, Mitch, you have one point. Next up, my fascia. Next up. High fructose corn syrup, water, cocoa, sugar, buzz, buzz. Go ahead, bug. It's your favorite. Putty sauce. Oh my God. What?
Starting point is 01:16:55 Wager. Why must I be surrounded by fricking idiots? Buzz buzz. Go ahead, Mitch. Maple syrup. Oh, wow. Fricking idiots. Is there more ingredients? It takes a second. Yeah. There, there are more ingredients. Uh, this is, I know what it, I would you want to guess it? Do you want to say it? Buzz buzz? Yes. Chocolate syrup. It is Hershey's chocolate syrup. It's the hard knock life for us. It's the hard knock life. I wish I had a better baby. Yeah. I wish I had a proper set,
Starting point is 01:17:24 proper sound board so I could play these right away. What are we going to go? Our engineer Emma just looked at bug main like he's and Zippy. She's not wrong. Zippy. All right. This one's maybe a little bit kind of a little bit of a misdirect because it's a compound sauce. That's all I'll say. So the first ingredient is soy sauce, water, sugar, sweet cooking rice wine, vinegar, modified cornstarch, tomato paste, garlic powder, buzz buzz. Go ahead, Mitch. Barbecue sauce.
Starting point is 01:17:58 Mitch, I regret to tell you. Buzz buzz. Catsu. Do you say catsu? Catsu sauce cat chicken cat. You know what? It's teriyaki sauce. That's kind of what they use for a chicken cotsu. So I'm going to give it to you. I'm going to go ahead and reward you with, uh, with the, this quote right here. Yeah. All right. Also, does anyone win anything in this? Uh, yeah, you win the rest of the burgers. Uh, fuck, I got to win this. Okay. Next up, turkey stock, chicken stock, wheat flour,
Starting point is 01:18:35 modified food starch, turkey fat, salt, buzz buzz. Go ahead, Mitch. Gravy. Can you be more specific? Turkey gravy. Mitch, I must reward you. You got that one correctly. It's two one. This will decide. It's three one. It's three one. Yeah. No, you got one of them wrong. Yep. No one got the second one right. I got catsup and Hershey's syrup. No, but you got those. Your second guess. Oh, all right. You have to get it right on your first time and get it right in your
Starting point is 01:19:02 first one. All right. Fine. That's, that's how any game show works. All right. Fine. Let's get to two answers. All right. Come on. What is, uh, huh? All right, Mitch. So you're up to one. This next one will decide if it's, if it's tied. Bugman doesn't want to win. Water, soybean oil, cream, buzz, buzz. Go ahead. It's mini me's come. It's mini me's mini. I like.
Starting point is 01:19:35 Mitch, congratulations. You have won the rest of the burgers. You have won the first edition of Saustin Powers. Just like a restaurant without your feedback. It wasn't mini me's come. No, it was not mini me. That was, that was give me the calm mini me. That was classic Alfredo sauce. Just like a restaurant without your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Today's email comes to us from Tom and Philly. Tom writes,
Starting point is 01:19:58 my lovely wife and I are expecting our first child this fall. Oh, congratulations. Congrats. And we're hoping to unite spoon nation, me and the burger brigade her in peace and harmony once and for all. We have both been trying to eat healthier in preparation. We're discussing our favorite fruits. We established a ground rule to only include one berry. What would you have in your mount fruit more for free?
Starting point is 01:20:17 Favorite fruits only get one berry, one berry. Yeah. All right. Here's what, what I got in my favorite foods. Pineapple. To get one. Here's another favorite of mine. You ready for this? Grape grapes. Grape's a good choice. It's a very solid choice. Um, wouldn't be in mine, but I respect when I'm going against a duck to evil. I always choose the pink berry baby. The original tarte baby yas.
Starting point is 01:20:48 Whenever I'm fighting Dr. Evil I always give her the pink berry yas queen. So you got grape, you got pineapple, grape, pineapple. Fuck. This is hard as hell. It's tricky. You know what? I got to put orange in there because I need orange juice. Yeah. You got to get that citrus. And then, and then, and then that means apples are out, I guess, because I'm on to a berry. That sucks.
Starting point is 01:21:14 Well, you don't have to have a berry, but you can only include one. No, only. Oh, maybe, maybe I want to put apples and bananas in there. And then I'd be all set. Well, you only get four slots. You've already got. I know. I know. And I kind of want to do a berry because he said one berry makes me feel like you need to bury. Yeah. So straw. Yeah. Straw's a good berry. I think, and I think I'll start there because I, you know, there are other berries. I can try to be cute and say like a raspberry or blueberry or blackberry, but I honestly, at the end of the day,
Starting point is 01:21:39 I'm going to want that strawberry in there. But if I didn't have to include a berry, it would be, I think I would replace actually apple. I'm, I'm shocked. I know. Banana is so good. I'm shocked that you do not have a berry in your top four. I'm also shocked that you don't include banana because that's another one I definitely need in there. I'm a banana day guy. You know, banana, the, the, you know, those little candies with the little bananas.
Starting point is 01:21:58 Yes. They, uh, that flavor is based on a banana that doesn't exist anymore. I've heard that. Yeah. That was a strain of banana that now does not exist. And that's where all the artificial banana flavoring comes from. Yeah. It's, it's, it's, it's distinct and it's, it's specific, but it actually is a banana derivative, but that's why people are like, Oh, this doesn't taste like a banana. Um, yeah. I, I, I think I would say, I would include those two. Then I think I'm going, if it's in season,
Starting point is 01:22:23 a nice peach, love a peach. Wow. Like a president of the United States of America. Like, like she, like the, the, the, the people who saying she's lump. Yes. Peaches is one of their songs as well. I mean, you could have referenced Super Mario brothers. Oh, peach. That's right. I thought you meant our president. Oh God. I shouldn't have said, I shouldn't have said anything at all. Yeah. I think I don't think he has a lot of fruit in his diet.
Starting point is 01:22:49 The orange buffoon doesn't necessarily, uh, he's a living, he's a walking orange. The guy is a walking tangerine. He doesn't need to eat those stuff. That's the only, that's the only thing in his Mount fruit more for oranges. Uh, okay. So, uh, and then my fourth one, I guess I want to get some citrus in there. Uh-huh. Do I need some citrus in there? You know what I think I need? Look at all citrus injection. No, you know, I think I need some melon.
Starting point is 01:23:13 Watermelon. Oh, you fucking loser. Our president doesn't need to eat bananas. He has bananas. Okay. Okay. Uh, guy, you're, you're talking about getting apples and nuts. The man is nuts. Hey, uh, we're talking about nuts. Buggman, you just got a Netflix special. Congratulations. Buggman, any, any favorite fruits? What do you name your top four? Um, pineapple. I like, come on. Pineapple. I like mango. Oh, mango is a good one.
Starting point is 01:23:48 Everybody likes out of mango. Most popular fruit in the world. Uh, apples. The apples are good. Um, hey, you know that a match, I don't know if you know this or not. Do you guys know that a tomato is actually a fruit? I do know that. That's actually a good choice. Is that in your top four fruits? Well, if you're concluding in pizza sauce, it better be. Okay.
Starting point is 01:24:15 I think I'm going to go with the one that I'm going to go with. It better be ketchup, ketchup, pizza, pizza sauce. I just didn't know you guys knew that. I'm going to pick it. I like it. It's kind of a trolley answer, but you're right. The best kind of trolling has some truth in it. Pure chaos. I'm a pure little chaos boy. Name one fruit. Name one fruit so that we can end this episode.
Starting point is 01:24:48 Come perfect. Well done. Bug mains last fruit is come. You know what this exercise taught me? Is that human? Yeah, the human fruit, right? A nut of all the truest nut, right? The perfect nut. You know, we all are trying to find the perfect nut at the end of the day. Why do I perfect nut? We all want to find the, you know, when I nut, my eyes roll forward in my head instead of back. Did you know that? Did you know that when I did not know that,
Starting point is 01:25:19 you know, most people's, their eyes roll backwards in their heads. My eyes roll forwards in their head. Mine go outwards. Mine, mine cross like a ray and ghostbusters. Have you ever had a perfect nut, Mitch? A perfect nut. Bug main. All the tabs combined into one perfect nut. Yeah. We got a perfect nut. He's sitting in the guest chair. That's a hundred percent right bug main. Sorry. You guys got me again.
Starting point is 01:25:48 If you have a question or comment with the world of chain restaurants, you can let us at Doe Boys podcast at gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at 830 Go Doe. That's 830 463 6844. What I was going to say is that what this exercise taught me is I like a lot of different fruits. It's hard to narrow it down to just four. True. And to get the Doe Boys double or weekly bonus episode, join the golden play club at patreon.com slash Doe Boys bug main. Bug main. Wow. Wow. We did it. We did it.
Starting point is 01:26:11 We never know what to expect. Wow. We're going to have you back for a double too soon. Yeah. At some point, we'll get you back on for a bonus episode. That was a part of the negotiations. It's a double, a true honor to be here. I like this. No, you guys, I have, I am very rich with a cult and partially, I will admit, because of this podcast and the bug is now leaving the building. Sam, Sam, take the cock out, Sam. Sam Witwicky,
Starting point is 01:26:46 take the cock out of the bug main, Sam. But master Obi-Wan, please let me fuck a bug main. Please master Obi-Wan. I want to fuck the bug main master master. I'm still Jill Soloway. Is it be bug main? He's leaving Jill. I'm sorry. Hey now. Hey now, Jill. I just wanted to touch the gush. Mitch, at some point you and I are going to be cooperating witnesses and bug main civil trial. But when that happens, you know what? We love the bug man. We love them. Uh, and hopefully the listeners do too.
Starting point is 01:27:22 I don't know. Maybe we don't love them. And for evidence reasons, I don't like the bug main or anything he stands for. That'll do it for this episode of dough boys until next time. We're the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. I'm Nick Weigher. Happy eating. See ya. Buzz buzz. Hey guys, you want more dough boys? To get the dough boys double our weekly bonus episode, join the golden play club. Sign up at patreon.com slash dough boys. That was a hate gun podcast.

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