Doughboys - La Colombe with Vic Michaelis

Episode Date: January 15, 2026

Vic Michaelis (@vicmic, Very Important People) joins the 'boys to talk Twisters, planets, and Canadian eats before a review of La Colombe. Plus, another edition of The Wiger Challenge.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://www.forbes.com/sites/johntamny/2016/07/04/the-story-of-chobani-is-about-much-more-than-yogurt/https://www.historytools.org/resources/the-untold-history-of-keurig-k-cups-from-humble-beginnings-to-beverage-industry-dominancehttps://www.forbes.com/profile/hamdi-ulukaya/https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/hamdi-ulukaya-founder-and-ceo-of-chobani-pledges-2mm-for-immediate-humanitarian-relief-to-iraqi-and-syrian-refugees-along-turkish-border-278624401.htmlhttps://www.forbes.com/real-time-billionaires/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Prices may be higher in Hawaii, Alaska, and California, and for delivery. Hamdi Ulukaya is not a household name, but his creation just may be in your friend. In 2007, Ulukaya, a Turkish immigrant, founded Chobani in upstate New York, introducing Greek yogurt to the American market. The brand's growth has seen the Turkish entrepreneur rise to number 182 on Forbes's real-time billionaires list, a grim late-capitalist bellwether, putting him just behind Jaguars' owner Shahid Khan. In less than a decade, Chobani became the second largest yogurt brand in the world.

But Ulukaya was not content just dominating AM eats. He wanted beverages as well. He didn't just want to sell something that soothed your gut. He also wanted a product that vacated your bowels. So in 2015, Ulukaya acquired a minority stake in a coffee chain founded in Philadelphia in 1994. The beanery has become a hipper, fancier alternative to stayed brands like Starbucks for city dwellers and also found massive retail success with its line of canned coffees. Ulukaya's savvy instincts, though, meant there were other suitors for the Philly Hot Brown purveyor,

and, in July 2023, a third of the coffee companies acquired, by Kourig Dr. Pepper, itself a product of an earlier unwieldy merger due to the Russian nesting dolls of capitalism. Ulachaya called and raised the maneuver, and in December that same year, Jobani outright acquired the coffee chain for a staggering $900 million, pushing Kourig Dr. Pepper out of the picture. Don't cry for them, though. They pivoted to acquiring a different upscale coffee chain, Peets. And now it's going to split into two companies again, Kourig and Dr. Pepper. Look, don't ask me how any of this shit works.

As for Ulukaya, the self-made yogurt tycoon and newly minted coffee magnate, he's acquired a positive reputation as billionaires go. His company offers six weeks paid parental leave in a country where the legal requirement is zero. He paid off the outstanding lunch debt of students in a Rhode Island school district. He pledged $2 million to help display Syrian refugees, and he sits on the board of directors of the Special Olympics. So it seems Ulukaya is a man of culture. This week on Doe Boys, La Colom.

Welcome to Do Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Tiger Weiger, along with my co-host, Storming the Casserol, Stop the Meal, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. This is a January 6th reference, I take it. This is the first episode of 2026, so a January 6th roast oddly timely. R is sent that in, roast at birdfuck.com. Five years since January 6. Five years since January 6.

Happy anniversary. Thank you. Thank you, Emma. Thank you. You guys got me a cake. Yeah. I haven't gotten that many steps in in five years. That was my big step day.

That pardon was huge. The pardon was huge. Hey, me and Jay toast to Mr. President. Thank you for everything you've done. Thank you for everything. Likes, a lot going on with our old president. Happy two year. Let's not get into it.

Because also we're recording this. We're putting this one to go on the Frank Bank. So recording well in advance, we don't know what's happened. Yeah, that's true. Yeah, we don't know. We don't know what the Bubba thing. We don't know what that means. We don't know what's happened with Baba.

We also, we don't want to remind people of things from six weeks ago. So let's just like, yeah, we'll just in. Do you know I call Wally Bubba? That's cute. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I was like, I saw the news. I was like, he's not talking about you, is he? You know, I was afraid.

Wally starts sweating. Dabbing his forehead with his cat paw. No, Wally was, I don't think Wally had any sexual relationships with the president, I don't think. Yeah, I mean, let's hope not. If he was, it would probably be Bill Clinton, famously horny and a cat lover. It's cat socks. Sox is the best, I think Sox is the best Clinton. What do you think of that take?

I think it's a good take. Sox is the best Clinton. I would have given you Chelsea until she posted like spinach pancakes. I was like, spinach. Why, socks beets in hell, Chelsea. Bottom of the list. No, not bottom of the list. Also, I think Galatian.

You may chime in. Didn't he give socks away? I wasn't sure if I wasn't sure if I was going to talk yet. Did he give socks away? Wasn't that a whole thing that he gave socks away? They gave socks away? Am I crazy? Can we get some context on?

During his time as president, didn't he give socks away? And then socks got, sorry, this is a huge trigger warning hit by a car. Am I not? Oh my God. You knew too much. Sox knew too much. Sox knew. Okay, then I'm going to go back to being so quiet after this.

No, I liked it. Hey, just, if this is incorrect, can we just put a big fake news stamp on Vic? It says he suffered from cancer and was euthanized in 2009. Where did I hear this from? Was there someone out? Because, I mean, there was the ill-behaved Biden dog. That was who was given away? He was 20.

Wow. Hold on one second. Here we go with the stamp. Fake news. No, it was sort of, socks is not with us anymore, so it was sort of like fake-ish news. Fake-ish news. Yeah, you get like one-to-half. You get like one-and-half Pinocchio's on Twitter.

Yeah, I love that. Yeah. Mostly true. Do you have any two years resolutions here in 2026? Two years resolutions. I was thinking food-related New Year's resolutions. I'm curious of our guests as well. But I'm thinking of going back and it doesn't apply to today's meal,

which we've already consumed here in 2025. I'm thinking of trying pescatarian this year. Because I had that whole year where I was fully vegetarian. No meat shall I eat? And now I'm like, I think I can kind of split the difference. A little fishy boy this year. Yeah, maybe a little fishy boy. I like that.

I like it. It's tough because like fish... You did do a whole vegetarian year if you just said and that was impressive. But I'm saying this now. I'm laying down a marker. I don't know if I'm actually going to abide by it. Go ahead.

Are you saying two year or chew year? Chew year. He was saying two year. Also, by the way, we appreciate you raising your hand to chime in. You can talk at any point. No, no. I'm going to be really quiet. I want to be quiet.

You know what I'll do it too. Go ahead, Wikes. Any two years resolutions? You know what? let's let it roll this year. Let's have a good year. Let's let it roll. Let's just have, you know what? 2025, I think really sucked. It was bad. I mean, there was good things that happened in 2025 for probably for both of us. We had a, well, I don't know.

We had a 10 year anniversary. Overall, one of the worst years of my life. But the 10 year anniversary of the podcast is pretty good. Right. Okay. A bad year. A bad year. A bad year. Yeah, a bad year. My two year resolution. Yeah, go for it.

My two-year resolution is I want to get straight A's. I want to get my driver's license. Oh, my God. And I want to make the soccer team. Three big goals. I think you're going to do all of it. I'm really hoping. That is, I mean, I don't, you, you, you, that, all of that stuff could be true.

My big dark secret is they have me in at midfield, but I really want to be a forward. That's, you know, I would love to play sports again in some way. I was never good. You can do that. I know, but do I want to do it? I don't know. I mean, I would, I feel like I would love to have that experience, but I don't want to do everything it takes to do it. Can we pitch you sports?

Please. High lie. I, High lie, I, there's a Boston connection with Highlie, which is the Irish Mafia, like, like, made a lot of money off of Highlie. How? I think they, like, invested in High Lie or, like, there was this thing where they thought High Lie was going to be, like, the next big sport and why you Bulger, like, right? Yeah. There's a huge amount of, like, there's an incredible amount of offshore betting on, on High Eli, and maybe also, like, actual like betting and like a domestic betting in in Florida but it's like it's one of those

things where it's a very easily rigged sport right I think that's part of it too they can fix that it's so fast that you can't see the ball so you can just be like you got a point I think I would get killed and highlight but they whip they whipped the ball with those weird little things I got one go ahead Nick wait why am I the guy who I don't get this you're the teacher I'm the teacher I'm the teacher my English teacher my mom was an English teacher is that true I sense that she was an English teacher and so they made that show about her. They didn't make that show about her. Forgive her for some

mess-ups. I think punching. I think you should get into like some sort of hitting sport. Like I think some, I think you'd enjoy striking and you're a strong guy. I don't think my noggin needs to be rocked anymore. I mean, you know that I've had some mental issues in the last year. I'm not saying you need to spar aggressively. You need to mix you

need to mix up in the ring. But I mean, I feel like you hit in a heavy bag, hitting a speed bag, I think it would be nice. Yes, go ahead. I don't think hockey. Hockey's fine. Listen, the skating part. is kind of tricky, but it's like a fun sport, and it's a team sport, which is nice. So you're only, you're on and off for a little bit. And then like the league, everybody is pretty bad. And so then there's only, you can only go up.

My dad was, my dad was a, my dad liked hockey when he was younger and then. Okay. I sensed it. He never, he, you're pretty good at this. I'm two for two. I sensed it. He, he, when I was a boy, he didn't want to wake up. He was like, I don't want to, like, bring you to, because you got to bring, like, kids to hockey practice. Oh, sure. Sure. 5 a.m. or whatever, which I wouldn't have liked either. And I did that with, I rode crew in college.

What? I know. Why? I was, I. Wait, I also need to react to that. What? Wow, I had no idea. I was a heavy boy.

Wait. You, what? I was a heavy boy. But why crew? You were just like, I don't like waking up early. Yes. It was sort of how you started this story, except for the time you rode crew in college. There was, there was like so much stuff of like, I was really bad at football.

I couldn't play college football. Sure. And then I was very concerned that I would drop out of college. Like I thought that I was going to be a mess up, which, you know, you know me. I thought I was going to be a mess up. And so. Oh, so drop out. Nice.

Oh, subtle plug. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Settled plug. Really subtle. Well done. Yeah, I thought I would maybe drop out of college. TV. And, uh, and, uh, and, uh,

drop out, yes, dropout. t.v.combe out of college. And then I... There's a scrawl under you that's got the website specifically linking to my show. Just put a red stamp on me. I, uh, I, uh, so I was a very afraid of, I was afraid of dropping out of school and I was like, I need some structure of my life. I almost, you know, the Wags noses.

I almost joined, I almost joined the Marines or the Navy when I was in a senior high school. Not, and I was not a, I was a, I was a, I was a, I was a, I was a, a left-leaning boy. Yeah, no, I also saw an Army recruiter because I was like, I don't know that's a thing you could do and go into the military. I'm fucking know. It works. Let me tell you, the military industrial complex on young boys that don't know what the hell

they're going to do, it works pretty well. It is so crazy. Have you guys been to Universal Studios recently? Not recently. Actually, wait, haven't we? I went to Universal City Walk, but not the actual City. That's where we went to City Walk. My favorite time of year in all of Los Angeles is prom season at CityWalk.

Sure, yeah. Where you get to go and you get to watch all of the teens like dressed up to go to prom. You don't got to tell Walker twice about that. It's the cutest thing. It's the cutest thing in the world. But on those grad nights, they have this, like,

super fun-looking obstacle course that they have up there. And it's the U.S. Army's, like, one-arm challenge or whatever, where you try, if you could do the whole obstacle course with your one arm, you, like, win a bag of Doritos or something like that.

And then an army recruiter is like, hey, that was pretty good. You should join the U.S. Army. That's insane. That is insane. That is like, yeah, like, what's the, what's the TV show that's like the, like the obstacle course, you know what I'm talking about? American Ninja Warrior?

It feels very American Ninja Warrior. It feels very American Ninja Warrior coded where it's like, oh, this is a fun obstacle course. Now do this where people are shooting at you or whatever. They used to have an official video game too, America's Army, but now I think they just do branded tie-ins with it. Like Tony Hawk? Yeah. Where it's like Tony Hawk Skate Pro, but now it's like U.S. military.

It was like a call of duty sort of game, but it was like specifically branded for America's Army. I think that we should have a Captain America who's a real person. If I was in the marketing department for the Army, I'd be like, we need like somebody that we can be like. Can I pitch someone? Yeah. Tony Hawk, Skateborner's Way around Russia, saving the day. I think it could be good. Listen, I'm not saying do it.

I think the Army does a lot of really pretty terrible things. Yes, yes, yes. I'm saying if it was my job to brand the Army, I think. Tony Hawk. I think Tony Hawk as the leader of the army is pretty good. A nice guy? We've met him before. That's the thing.

He's really sweet. He's a nice man. A lovely man. I just kind of don't want to like tar him with this jingoistic association. You know, I feel like he's so universally below. None of us are arguing it's a good thing or that it should be happening. I'm just saying if we were sitting in the advertising room going like, how do we make this work? I don't fucking Ollie's.

A beloved man. Ollie's a skateboarder into Putin's face. It would be fucking awesome. I think we'd probably do it into Zelensky's face right now with the current administration. We're pro Putin. He's good.

Yeah, Putin's, yeah, 2026, Putin's not bad, right? That's kind of where we stand now. I think so. Depending on who owns headgum and Patreon. Yeah. I love that. Just to be safe, we love the kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

You guys are at Riyadh in here, right? We tried to get into Riyadh, and we, There was a round of auditions and we didn't, we didn't impress. You guys offered to pay your own way, right? We were going to go out of pocket and unfortunately didn't quite time out. You said half of the ticket sales. They said, absolutely not. They said, okay, none of the ticket sales.

We'll give you half of the ticket sales. Yeah. We're going to forewollet, just pay for everything. I love that. It didn't come together. Yeah, I'm really sorry about that. Yeah, that's all right. Maybe next year.

We did talk about how we were booked on United 94. This is a real thing we did talk about at one point together. go to Riyadh. It just didn't happen. It didn't come together. And if we, you and me, if I was on the plane on 9-11, that shit wouldn't have gone down just to let you know. Yeah. I don't know a lot about you,

but I do know that that is true. I, I, I, it wouldn't have happened. It wouldn't have happened and you know who would be sitting here on this couch and said to me, Steve Brandis easy. I'm going to say Sully. Sully's also good. Sully. They'd both be here. It'd be also by

a brand as easy and Sully. Joe Boyce was Sully Sully Sellerberger and Mike Mitchell. Sully Sullenberger Nation. You know what? Sully does seem like. Sully seems like a good guy. Above reproach.

He seems fun. Doesn't he have like weird? Didn't he have weird some weird stuff in his book or something about being horny or something like that? Oh no, probably. I don't know. I remember some weird stuff. I bet he got honest in there.

That's what would make him a good podcast host. I think it would be great. He's not afraid to go there. And you love quoting him. Do you? Do it? Birds. Birds.

I love that. Yeah. Mitch PlayDrop. That's like me driving around L.A. The bird scooters. I'm seeing them all over the place. That's what's all he's talking about.

Sure. Seeing you drive around all the bird scooters going bird. I thought you meant just actual birds because you see those too. So that's topical bird scooters being around everywhere? That's the thing that happens still.

Are they? They are lines. Are they gone? Are they? Is the age of scooter over? I think scooters are still around. They're just like the, yeah. Are they?

They're all over Echo Park. Yeah. I think Razors are coming back. Oh, I like that. It's more fun. But there was a time where they were, like, they were, like, throwing bird scooters. They were throwing bird scooters in the ocean. I believed it.

Back where they belong? Oh, shit, one of my pills. Oh, where to go? And there's another one in your lap, I think. There it is. Okay. I got my, I got my tumor pills, wugs. Oh, I love that.

Yes. Congratulations. Delish. Which was trying to do for our audio listeners, Mitch was trying to do a turmeric Dracula bit, just kind of wedging these pills. Okay, it's pretty good. Yes. If you're doing an audio list, what are you doing?

Uh, yeah, I don't know, in 2026, you know. a good podcast are on video now. Yes, watch the podcast and see hilarious things like this. I want a thumbs up in the comment. If you were audio listening and then came back, timestamp to this moment, and do a thumbs up on the comment. Give us a thumbs up, thumbs up, and give a shout out to turmeric Dracula. Anti-inflammatory tumoric.

Is that true? That's true. Anti-inflammatory Dracula. And what's that? You're the anti-inflammatory Dracula. I like that. New character. So if you bite into somebody instead of sucking their blood for sustenance,

you're going to give them the power. You suck out their inflammation. You suck out their inflammation. Do you know that Bill Clinton gave away Tumric Dracula and Tumric Dracula got hip-bred. Fact. Give a fact, damn. Let's hit him with a drop.

Sorry, Wags. He wants to get the show going. No, you're fine. Have I been introduced yet? No, I love this. Here comes the drop. I kind of, like, especially when I get riled up, I tend to, I go into, like, a hudson. You are a hud sucker.

You are a hud sucker. You are a bit of a little. A hutsucker. Yeah, a little bit of odds. Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. My little buddy. God, I can't even do.

God, I can't even do it. God, I can't even do it. Hey, buddy. My love, my, my, my little bit of a little bit of a leg. Hey, buddy. Hey, buddy. My love. Hey, buddy.

A bit of a heat sleep. A hutsucker. A bit of a hud sucker. A bit of a heat sink. Yeah. I mean, it was a good song. That's good. Does any time we have to hear ourselves talking.

or trying to be funny It's always just very hard for Nick I'm not trying to be funny Being very funny The whole room was cracking up Right Hey dough boys Hope it's cool to use a clip

From your blank check episode But the Spoon Man's auctioneer scat Seemed for a dance track Thanks for the laughs The Drop Peasant Wow thanks drop peasant Thanks drop peasant Making some good tunes

There's a whole feudal drops hierarchy now. People with different different range. Speaking of which our guest was asking about Burger Brigade and Spoon Nation.

Yeah, we got into it a little bit. And we're going to get into it right now from very important people on dropout. TV. You can also see them in ponies on peacock out today. January 15th. How about that?

Vic Michaela's here. Hi, Vic. Thanks so much for being here. I was promised by both of you. You swore to God and to your loved ones that if I did a good job today, we could go to the selfie museum after this. It is true.

It is. We're going to go to a selfie museum. And then you would let me take one selfie. Yes. You can have one selfie. One selfie. Oh, wait, it's not a selfie museum. It's a photo museum. It's a photo museum.

It's the same principle. But you said I could take a selfie in front of the photo booth museum. You said you can take a selfie in front of the photo booth museum. Just one though. Only one. Here at HeadGum Studios in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, right now in the same block, there is a pop-up. You're doxing us quite a bit. People can figure it out.

I think the address is. It sort of has head gum kind of written pretty in large font on the side of the building. That is true, but there is a big, Fence in front of it in case anyone tries to get in here. That's going to stay there. I'm just telling them that if they try to get in, you're going to get it. People don't know that fence is electrified.

Yes, it's very electrified. Unless you wear rubber gloves and then you can climb over it pretty easily. It's a nice salt. Yeah, and then there's guard dogs, but don't worry, they love steak. They do love steak. Then you go on in. The code is 45622. Hop on in the front door.

Also, if you throw that steak over the fence, Spoon Man might get it too. fighting with me and Jimmy fighting over it there is a lot of there is a lot for anyone who's going to try to come here and shoot Nick and I

yeah there are a lot of security measures why is that the first place that you went because I think it's you assumed that sorry spoon Spoonhead Spoon Nation Spoon Nation

Burger Boys Burger Brigade Burger Brigade though I'm the burger boy He is the burger boy and I'm Spoon Man Okay great And Spoon Nation

Burger Brigade are a line factions. So you assume that all of these people are going to come and kill you? Nick? Yeah. I think so. That's insane. Okay, well, I love that. That rocks. I mean, we would just be smiling as it happened. We welcome it in many ways. Yeah. Well, I shouldn't say that over and over again when we have, we have live shows in just a couple weeks. You shouldn't encourage people to murder us. Don't kill us. Yeah, please don't kill us. Well, it doesn't count if they kill you in a live show. They got to come to your house. Yes, you have to, if you want to be the real deal, you have to come to

our house, but please don't. Most of all, just, it feels like it would hurt quite a bit of bed. When we talk about being killed, we're joking. Yeah, we're joking. We don't actually want to be killed. So please, please don't kill us. I don't welcome death. Don't shoot me. Shoot Nick at first, so I can just take, you know,

my mom didn't want me to join the Marines, which I never would have, I would have private piled out of there. Did you think your mom was going to be happy about that? She said she was going to join with me. She was like, if you go, I'm going. And then I was like, all right, let's see what's up. And then, and then. That is a TV show. Don't say that on the podcast for free. Really good. Mother's son duo. They're sort of like, it's like everyone's loves Raymond with Raymond's mom and Raymond, but they're in the Army. The Marines, which was already just out of my, I definitely would have, I would have gone crazy. I feel like in the, I wouldn't be able to, I don't, physically, I don't think I'd be able to do it. You drop out, your mom, like, runs. You dropout.

Your mom, you dropout. Your mom rises the ranks. Thrives in the environment. She would do much better than me, I think. She's our next president. I mean, yeah. Hopefully she's, she'd make the right decision. She'd be good.

She always thought my head was, she thought that I would get, she thought that, like, my head was too big, and I would get, I would, that it was a easy target. Wait, is that real? Is that real? That's why she didn't want you to join the Marines? Yeah, she thought my head was too big. And, like, like, I was, I mean, she was like,

You're tall and your head is big and they would be able to like, you know. Your Peanuts character. I mean, yeah, that's what you were saying. Trying to hit the top of a sparklets dispenser. Okay, Charlie Brown. Yeah. That's who should be the mascot. Charlie Brown's a great one, another beloved, universally beloved figure.

And I'm pretty sure they're in public domains. That would be a nice, easy thing. Well, Charles, wasn't he a bit of a, wasn't he, didn't he, wasn't he fine with, or was he, did he not want to? And then once he died, they did everything. What do you mean? What are you talking? Was Charles Schultz, like, like, fine with selling the peanuts? They licensed the shit out of peanuts.

Yes, okay, that's what it was. You're thinking of Calvin and Hobbs with Bill Waterson. That's what it was. He's the only thing he was okay with was Calvin peeing on a Chevy logo. Yeah. That was the one thing he signed off. I mean, that's pretty funny. It's pretty funny.

Is that true? He wrote. No, it's like the most bootleg thing ever. I saw one, I saw one once that was Calvin peeing on terrorism. And that Charles hated. Hated it. Charles? Charles.

Charles. Charles. Charles. Charles Schultz, the Peanuts, and then Mr. Schultz, and then Joe Watterson, the Covenant Hobbs characters, of course. We should make a little, we should make a dove boy decal where Nick and I are pissing on something. What a good idea. That is a good idea? Or is it just like you're pissing and, like, listeners can stick it anywhere, so you're just pissing out whatever they want you to piss on it.

That's kind of fun. Oh, green screen to the pixelated, like, gray squares. I do think that we should have a decal where you could put us on the back of your truck. Oh, that's fun. So sort of, like, measure out what a logo would be, like, of like, a Subaru Baha or something like that. Yeah. Why not? I think that's fun.

Oh, you can make it so that you're like peeing on the Subaru logo or something. Or they're pissing on each other. All right. I think it would, I think it should be both, Doe Boys. Like a waterfall. One stream goes into the other stream goes on to the logo. That's, I like that. Yeah, onto the Do Boys logo.

Crossing the streams. Crossing the streams. Island in a stream. That is what we are. We could, we could be pissing into the McDonald's arches, golden arches. That's pretty good, too. Shit. But can we use, I mean, whatever.

Yeah, we can use it. We just bootleg, I guess it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. They love us. Vic, do you, we previously had you here on the Patreon feed. We talked about Twister. You said behind a paywall. I don't want anyone listening to this.

We got a lot of friends here on the wall. Wait, is this your first main episode? That's right, yeah. That's crazy. I love it. I've been writing in every week. Overdue for sure. But we talked about Twister, which I believe,

is your favorite film, one of your favorite films? It's my favorite film of all time. It goes Twister, San Andreas, and... Was it another rock movie? No, the Patriot. The Patriot, yeah, sorry. Mel Gibson's the Patriot? I don't think I've seen it, actually.

Amadeus, maybe. I don't know. That's great. Mel Gibson, probably the Netflix movie. Wait, which one? The prom. Oh, you mentioned Burbocks earlier today. When I said Red Rooms, I watched Red Rooms this weekend.

A Zach Cherry recommendation. I liked it. It's a very messed up movie in many ways. Cherry is also red. That is true. Cherry is also red, why, thank you for that as well. That was, thank you. Did you like the Glenn Powell vehicle twisters as a twister enthusiast?

Okay, here's what I want to say about that. I think that I can fix that movie. I believe you, because I think that the movie needs fixing very much so. What's your pitch? So, okay, so I think that they were in this one, we're like, spoiler alert, skip this part. If you haven't seen Twisters, go watch it and come back. Give us, give us three minutes on the clock. Three minutes on the clock.

And go. Okay, so essentially what I think should have happened is they are like, oh, we're going to solve tornadoes. We're going to fix tornadoes so there's no tornadoes anymore. That's not realistic. Yeah, that's not realistic. This is now a fantasy movie. We don't want a fantasy movie. We want it grounded in the relationships.

That was what was successful about the first twister. So essentially, I think what should happen is instead of setting it in the same place, Tornado Alley has moved South because of climate change. It's moved way further south. Of much poorer communities that are also dealing with hurricanes. So unfortunately, like, you're just not at all set up for wind that heavy. And you're getting these like F5 tornadoes.

And that's why you see all these news articles about tornadoes literally just like decimating entire like city blocks of stuff. It's because it's houses that are absolutely not built for this kind of weather. So I think you can still keep Glenn Powell's character as a like, storm chaser, but you said it way further south. And then you have these sort of like rag tag group of like weather people that are sort of like, we're trying to help and educate people. They've got the tools and resources and they have to work with Glenn Pals sort of like storm chasery thing to like try and like save communities as they are getting this notification that all this crazy weather is coming.

Can I pitch something? Yeah. Please. The last one that's like, it's gone north. And there's a north one that goes through a twister that goes through New York City. Whoa. That's fun. It sucks up Mom Donnie and then Andrew Cromo lambs into the mare seat.

I think this is just a dreamer. A man can wish. A man can dream. When you say, wait, wait, South. Are you talking about like the Gulf Coast? Do you talking about like Central America, South America? Kind of like it's a lot of like Mississippi, like a lot of Louisiana. The Bayu.

Yes, it's going away further south again, places that are built for not even well built for. like hurricanes or anything like that, but certainly not built for Tormonados. You have like these communities that are doing like a lot of prefab homes and things like that. And you're just looking and it's like even even wood built houses or you know how they're building houses like are just getting absolutely decimated because they're not built for wind like that. So you've got a combination tornado hurricane, a huronado if you were. Sure.

And so like that's like the new weather event that they are all this apocalyptic windstorm. What Mitch is staring down, Jimmy. What's going on? You fucking staring me down. She wants up on the couch. Get up here, girl. Come on, pop on. Let's do it.

Can we just, can we quickly just take a quick break and say, Jimmy's a little chunky? Yeah, Jimmy went to the vet. She's got to lose two pounds. She's got a little bump on our butt that she has to get a hot compress on every night. So we're going to be fat shaming Jimmy from here and on until she loses way. I think I look voluptuous.

I think you're perfect. beautiful just the way you are. You do what you want to do. You beautiful Southern Bell. Not your legal ancestors were just munchers. I think she could lose a couple pounds. You know, that's what I'm saying. She looks very much staring me down.

She's pissed to you. You're beautiful. She's a beautiful pup. I think she wants to determer-execula. Do you want to come sit over here? Yeah, she wants to sue her ejacula. It's a safe space over here if you want to come over here. I can help you look a little bit thinner, I guess.

I like I like I like that pitch a lot I think there's a I like that pitch a lot I think there's a way to do that because the problem is once you overtly acknowledge climate change then it becomes this political football that was a big thing is they were just like they didn't say climate change once yeah in that political football which is crazy political Republicans political football we get them we get our asses kicked you have to save this and not do this for the pod you have to write it political football yes that's a TV show right there is I like I like I I do like, I also have a callback for your movie. Please. Twister, we see the cows going around. And the bayou, we see some gators.

That's going to be a pass. Thank you so much for your thought, though. I really appreciate that. Instead of moo, I don't know, what a gator, what is a gator? The gator's hiss? Yes, a crunch, a bite noise. I'm back in. I love that.

Automotipotically, it's like a crock. A crock. Wait, what the fuck did you say? Automata poetically. Automotipotically. Automatopoetically? Like, Onomatopoeia? Did you just create a word?

Automata peedly. Oh, you were saying onomatopoeicly. Yeah, I was trying to, I was trying to collie it. That's my fandom. The animata poets. I thought you said, yeah, I thought you were saying like a poet. Yes, I thought the same thing. I don't know, I don't know how you turn automata peat into.

It's correct. It's correct. It's correct. Or automata poetically? Or automata po. Without the T at the end. Onomatopoically. Poically.

Poically. Poically. There's no D in there. Wow. So my fandom is the Onamana Poics. You also are a big fan of the movie Jurassic World, you were telling you. I know. I said I watch it all the time.

You watch it all the time. I watch that movie four times a year at least. Wow. Jake Johnson, Lauren Lapkis, are friends of the show in the movie. And they're fantastic in that movie. They're great in that movie. and I like that the babysitter gets her comeuppance by the... No, you don't.

She's just doing her job. She's there to make some money for the holiday. She wants to be a musician, is my guess. There is no sin, but she gets got. She gets got quite a bit by the, what is the big shark dinosaur, which I think is like the big, a credit to Jurassic World, the big, the big jaws-like dinosaur is, I feel like that's the new star of the Jurassic world.

Is a real, that thing where, he jumps up and eats a cow. Yes, yeah. Is pretty sensational. The big, look, a Jurassic Jaws, that is, that's fun. Like a Megalodon or whatever. What is that thing?

What is it called? Couldn't tell you. And I can't tell you how much I watched this movie. So my fix for that one, it's not even really a fix, just my note. Yeah. Why is the mom so mad that the aunt's not spending time with them? That's a good point.

Yeah. She's like, you got free passes to Disney. They're like 12 and 16. Yeah, yeah. I can run around the park for a little bit. Why she's so pissed? Yeah, yeah. She's like, I'm, I'm a, I'm a woman who is run to the head of this both science corporation and sort of

like hotel theme park thing. Yes. And the aunt's like, I'm getting divorced. Do you have to be hanging out with the kids? Yeah. I'm like, come on. Yeah. It does teach her that she, that she needs kids in her life at the end.

Isn't that what the lesson is? I don't think so because in the next two movies, she doesn't have any kids in her life anymore. That is a great point. Yes. Yeah. So maybe she- Family's important and then we don't ever hear

from the family. So maybe she learned nothing from that whole experience. Yeah. Eric Edelstein also gets eaten by the I-Rex in that movie. I-Rex. I-Rex.

He gets eaten by the I-Rex, the Indominus Rex. They're always making a new one. In the new Jurassic movie, they were like, they were also making a new one. Yeah, what was the, I think it was a little bit of a downgrade

because wasn't it like it had like, it was mixed with like a dog or something like that? Oh, yes. It was, yes, it was, yes, it looked very, It looked, it looked like an alien, like it didn't look like the alien. Oh, it looked like the thing from Star, oh my God. The Rancor? It looks like a Rancor.

A rancor. A rancor. A rancor is in Jabba's Palace underneath his floorboards. Have you seen the original Star Wars trilogy? Sure. Okay, so yeah, there's the scene. You know what? You would know a lot more about this if you were at the table read of Star Wars.

That is true. I actually do know a lot about the prequels, right? Yes, yeah. Because I, so there's a live read in L.A. And I was Obi-Wan in those live reads. So I've read a lot of the first three and then I was supposed to come back as ghost Obi-Wan. Yes, yeah. At the end of, at the end of Return of the Jedi.

Spoiler alert. Spoiler alert. Obie won is there at the, at the EWalk party on, what's the plan to help me out here, Wig's. On Endor. Endor, the moon of Endor. But the Forest Moon of Endor, but he's also like, there's a presence of Obi-Wan earlier in Return of the Jedi. Did he say by the Force Moon of Endor? Yeah, the Force Moon of Endor.

That was on a mona poetic. Well, I had to... Look, I know I just... I'm predicting the pedants in the comment. We, we, like, comments, because it said Endor. It's actually the moon of Endor. It's like, I'll just go all the way and say Forest Moon of Endor. It is not just Endor.

So it's not its own planet? Why is it not its own planet? No, I mean, it's like... It's a beautiful, beautiful planet. I think Endor... Oh, a beautiful moon. Sorry, it's a beautiful moon. I don't know if someone wants to check Wokypeda.

I think Endor the planet is a gas giant. So it does not, it's not habitable. So, but the forest moon is habitable. It is. Then why isn't the gas planet at the moon? I got a lot more in common with Endor than I thought. Stop. No.

Mitch. You're right. Indor is a gas giant. Endor is a gas giant. It's like Jupiter. So it's a star? No, it's a planet. Like Jupiter is a gas giant, but it's not a star.

Okay. I agree with you that a planet you should be able to walk on the surface. I don't make the rules. I think scientists are kind of fucked up about this. Yeah. Can you step on it or can you not step on? That is a huge part of planning. In my eyes.

I really wonder if you can step on Jupiter. I don't think you can. Would you pass all the way through it? You think you could? I could for sure. Yeah, is there a tiny rock at the center of Jupiter that you could walk on? I think there is some sort of ice core. But I also wonder, like, is gravity enough of an element where you can kind of, yeah, go for it.

So wait. So you're telling me that it's like in the same way that like we're stepping on the ground. The part that would be the planet of Jupiter is like not the ground just isn't solid. It's like a cloud. Yeah, it's like a really dense atmosphere. You know what? It kind of reminds me of a certain drink that was ordered today. Okay. We'll get to it.

This was a perfect segue. I mean, we're not ready to segue yet. We have so much more to talk about Jupiter before we go there, but it will be a good segue when we get there. So pin that, on a mona poets. Let's just sort of like us put a pin in that and let's do our onomatopoit transition move that we always do. I think Guiger should do some automata poetic stuff at a slam poetry read. That would be beautiful. Wham.

Boom. That's beautiful. Ding. So, wait, you're telling me. Oyo, y'oy, o'oy. To just get things clear here. You're telling me, Jupor, this planet, a little fucking tiny ice cube at the end of the day, that's no planet, if you ask me. It's a little, it's a little dry, a little ball of ice.

That's bullshit. Could you stand on Pluto? Pluto's not a planet anymore. I know. They robbed of Pluto, but could you stand on a planet? You can step on Pluto for crying a lot. I like Pluto being a planet. I think they got to, they shouldn't have downgraded.

Are we voting that it's a planet? I think it's a planet. I'm going to Google what planets can you walk on. We'll put a sticker on your face that says Pluto's back. What planets can you walk on? I think I'm just trying to think of the gas giants, I think all the gas giants, I think outside of Mars, I think it's then, you know, I'm trying to remember the order of Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune. But let's be honest. Uranus, all those are gas giants.

Can I tell you what Google AI said? Sorry, you can only walk on Earth without assistance. Yeah, no shit. What the fuck? Anyways, no, go ahead. Go a layer deeper than AI. No, no, I love this. It's like, because I do think that it's like, let's be honest, like the only four planets that really matter, the core.

Yeah. The core ones, Venus, Mars, us, Mercury. Mercury, yeah. And then Pluto. Yeah. So, okay. Here's, this is what, Mars is the one that we could, it's the most, the most, the most, possible, most plausible candidate is Mars.

So thank you, Mr. Musk, for trying to get us there. It's very important that he gets us there someday. I think, I think Mercury and Venus, the issue is like, Venus has like a toxic atmosphere. Like, you can't, like, if you, like, it's like sulfuric acid you'd be breathing in. And then I think Mercury, it may not be exactly that, but something like that. And then Mercury is just so fucking hot. Like the temperatures. Mercury is both a rocky planets, but due to its extreme temperatures and in Venus's case,

crushing atmospheric pressure. Oh, it's a pressure issue. Landing and walking on their surface is not currently feasible. Vic, go ahead. Okay, so my question is, say you're allowed to go on a mission to Mars, but then it's like you've got to hang out with all of those billionaires. I think past, right? I wouldn't want to do it.

A thousand percent I would not. Also, here's the other thing. Elon Musk is never going to walk on Mars. He never will walk on Mars. And if he does good. I'm like, all these billionaires are building all these bunkers. And I'm like, there's nobody I would rather less spend time with. The worst, he's the biggest piece of shit in the world.

But also what's going to happen like, if you're, if you're paid, I mean, this is the whole thing that happens in a triangle of sorrow is like, is it sorrow or sadness? Triangle sadness. The, the, you know, they get to the island and it's like, well, now the structure that was enforced by capitalism is just gone. Like, why would your guards who you paid in currency that's no longer valid have any reason to stand by your side and be your subordinates now? just fucking kill you and eat you. It's 2026. Can you just be a little nice for capitalism this year? Just a little bit fine.

Yeah, I feel like a little sweeter. How about this? Say two nice things about capitalism. Yes. Thank you, Vic. Rising tide lifts all boats and the wealth will trickle down. And hey, the good news is capitalism is going to ride those tides so high. Yeah.

Those tides are going to be so high because of capitalism. Everything is rising. Very, very excited. Everything's getting sky high. It's going to be great. I agree. Capital, I think this year, my, might be a good year for capitalism. I think it's going to punch back a little bit.

It's been struggling. We should be in charge of marketing for them. We should put somebody, we should put Tony Hawk in charge of capitalism. We should put Tony Hawk in charge of capitalism. Elon Musk is a testament to not being funny is that he's my least likable when there's so many. Like, I mean, like I like him less than Donald Trump. I don't like Donald Trump at all.

But I'm saying like, I hate Musk the most. And I think it's a testament to being so unfunny and unlikable. You know what I'm saying? Like he's just the least funny man in the world. No, I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. When you're surrounded by enablers who are going to, I mean, we benefit from that. But when people are on the payroll to laughing.

You're funnier than Musk for crying out loud, aren't we? No, but I know what you mean, yeah. Yeah. You guys are reading Musk tweets and laughing more than you laugh at us. They both have soundproof headphones on right now. At every time you look at their direction, they just go, yeah. Uh-huh. I love that.

We're listening to Elon Musk interviews over here. I think I want to ask you because you're, you've hailed from north of the border at various territories. You're from Toronto, but also lived in British Columbia. Born in New Jersey. We went up to Toronto and we were, you're from New York. Calm down. I know, yeah. But I'm from the border of New York.

See, this is what's so confusing. I always get your, what is. I claim both. Why? She's a day walk there. Because I'm from a town that's literally on the border of New York and New Jersey. I feel culturally from both. Where were you born?

Like what hospital? I was born in Brooklyn, New York at Methodist Hospital by prospect part. St. Margaret's Dorchester, that's where I was born. Congratulations. How do you know the hospitals where you were born? My mother told me when I inquired. I know where I was conceived. Wait, what?

I was conceived in the back of a car. What? Why do you know that? My dad told me, Scorpion told me for some reason. Your dad's name is Scorpion? Yeah. We should be calling Dads fun names. I mean, Scorpion is quite the character. And even more so hearing that, he told Amelia when she was conceived.

I think I asked. Do you know what type of car? He told me. I don't remember, but he said that it had a, like, a sky, like a window on top. Like a moonlight. Yeah, they could see the stars. My sonroof. They could see the stars.

That's romantic, actually. That is pretty nice. That's nice. It's not, the story is nice. What were they, what, what, I'm not going to ask any more questions, actually. I don't know any more details of that. I know I was conceived in St. Martin. Oh.

It's like an island somewhere where my parents were pretty. People know where they were conceived. Is that just your guess? I don't want to know this. Definitely at some point it was just like talking about St. Martin. And he was like, you may have been conceived there. And I was like, okay, goodbye. Not only do I know where I was conceived, my dad knows what sperm it was.

My fattest, laziest sperm. No, perfect sperm that could have been in the Marines, but chose not. Sperm, like, slowly wiggling its way out. Yeah, how did my sperm beat old, there must have been some really slow sperms that I beat out on the way to the womb. My mother's glorious womb. Oh, that's beautiful. Do you know where you were conceived?

No, I'm not. I can only speculate, but I don't, I don't know. I mean, like, it was not my child at home because my parents moved there after I was born. Whoa. So I don't know. Cyberdyne is my guess. Yeah, I'm going to get Cyberdine.

On the Amtrak from Oceanside to Ellen. On the surf liner? Yeah, yeah. Hey, that'd be fitting for me. I am a train man. Are you? Yeah. I love trains.

Oh, hell yeah. Okay. Hashtag, where were you conceived? Let's hear from all of our listeners. Time stamping in the comments. Thumbs up if you know where you were conceived. There's some weird freaks that probably know the most. I was, I'm pretty sure I was a New Year. baby. Okay. Because I'm October 6 and you think about... Wait, me too.

Because we're born a week apart. We are born a week apart. Yeah. Whoa. So are you... Wait. You guys look identical. I don't want to... I don't want to guess anything else about your conception. But...

Oh, you don't? I'm wondering now if it was New Year's Eve. I think it might have been. I'm born September 29th, so that kind of checks out. You're not in October, baby. You just... I claim October, too, because I'm right on the border. I love that. No, you can do whatever you want to do because you're perfect.

Don't listen to them. They're haters because they're jealous. You always throw your birthday on October. September, October. She throws a birthday on October 6th. I throw my birthday the weekend after my birthday, which is always October. Why? Why do you do that?

Well, you don't want to do before, right? That's ostentatious. I think it just depends on who's in town. I think before is fine. I'm October 6. and I had my birthday party on October 4th. You think that's crazy? Yeah, a little bit.

Really? She got one more time. I'm October 6th. So if I threw my birthday gathering on October 4th. Let's say your birthday falls on a Tuesday and you're like, I'll have the gathering on the previous Sunday. Well, this is a little bit of a test for you because that's exactly what happened this year. My birthday was Monday, October 6th.

We celebrated on October 4th, I believe. And I was there. Yes. Do you know that in Germany it's really bad luck to say happy birthday or celebrate your birthday before your birthday? Like it's free game if it's like a little belated But apparently it's really bad luck to wish Because it's sort of like

You know when People magazine did that thing with Betty White Where they were like Betty White turns 100 And then she died right before her 100th birthday But they already had all the magazines printed That's right So that's because of So that's why Germany says don't Don't need to think about it

I don't trust those Germans and their crampuses and so on and so forth What about Yol Kat? I like Yul Kat. I love Yul Kat. What's Yul Kat? That's Iceland. Yul Kat is good. In Iceland is Yul Cat

is you get clothes and if you're unhappy with your clothes or if you're not grateful for your clothes, you'll cat will eat you. Wow. Yeah. I don't like my clothes this year. Yeah. And so if you're ungrateful for getting your clothes,

the Yule Cat will come and eat you. You want to get eaten by the cat? I think she was being disgusting if you ask me. I like it. I think there were some weird shit going on there. Do you want to switch with it? Mitch. The listeners would love it if

Amelia's a little for me, and it's not happening. You're from Toronto, you lived in British Columbia, born in New Jersey. Yes. Yes. I was up in Toronto for the first time.

Congratulations. We did a lovely week up there. Toronto, as we called it. Torrent dough. And one thing we did up there. Oh, dough boys. Yes. A culinary tour of the six.

One thing we did up there is we went to Swiss Chalet. Yeah, always so good for so little. I love Swiss Shelf. L.A. Is that what would they say? Swish Alley, always so good for so little. Wow, that's good. That is that, and the bell, I didn't know about the bell thing. I actually don't know if there's a bell, but I sort of thought that maybe that would be nice.

Ontario, I think, is, like, really pulling in with, like, pretty good jingles still. We also have Boston pizza. We did go to Boston pizza. No Boston pizza in Boston. In Boston, Massachusetts. I know. It's just a Canadian thing. This was, because we actually, the first time why, because we had Boston pizza was actually in Vancouver.

That's right. and we went there kind of just sadly before the day we flew into Vancouver. And it's more so in Toronto, right? Because it was like pre-should. And we were just like, there's nowhere to eat. And we went to Boston Pizza. And it was like very much fine, I feel like, right? It's like chilies or like anything like that.

I think at any of those types of like big chain restaurants, you're always safest in the appetizers and dessert sections. He's pulling up the review of it. No, I just pulled it up to see because I was trying to remember the etymology of the name Boston Pizza. And what it was, it was a Greek. a Greek Canadian in Edmonton who He had three different choices of names. Boston pizza was his third choice.

He has no actual connection of Boston. It was fully arbitrary. It was just kind of like this maybe. Well, it worked out because it's a very popular chain. There's another fun thing where we have a thing called pizza pizza pizza. Yes. Did you guys try pizza pizza? I had pizza pizza as well.

No connection to Little Caesars. Absolutely no connection to Little Caesars and Pizza Pizza was first. And the logo is orange. So clearly somebody did a trip to Canada. And Pizza Pizza is owned by the Pizza Pizza Corporation and Lil Cesar's is owned by someone else. Yes. I got a guy. Pizza pizza was a little bit of a guilty pleasure for me.

I remember they got it one night while we were filming at the school from It, Welcome to Dairy. Very cool. We filmed there and there was like, I said this before writing on the chalkboard that was like Penny Wise is coming for you. That's awesome. And then we got- You were disappointed at that show because you were hoping to be D-A-R-I-I-R-Y.

Welcome to D-D-R-R-Y. Yeah. Yes, I wanted milk. I wanted to see more milk in the show. I, I, I, is that a Greek? Is pizza pizza Greek style pizza or no? I don't think so, but you can customize like, what I love about pizza pizzas, you can customize it with anything.

It's like, is that all pizza places? Yeah, I believe so. There's places you can, but it's like, because you can do like, I want this kind of crust, and then I always used to do a thick crust, Alfredo sauce, four kinds of cheese. That's why. And then red onions.

That feels like they were ahead of the game, honestly, as far as that stuff goes. It does feel like, I don't know how early they started to do that stuff. But like Domino's, like when the delivery app came, I guess you could always kind of do that with Domino's. But I feel like Domino's has become so much make and match your own pizza. I feel like you're just bulldoze and pass this intense order. Alfredo sauce, four kinds of cheese. Oh, it's insane. Sorry. Yeah, very insane.

I would actually say really normal. If you were in Canada, Canadians, hop in the comments. Time stamp this and a thumbs up. if you are from Canada and have ordered from pizza pizza before. And so all those thumbs up represents somebody that's co-signing what I just ordered. All right. Hey, we might be, look,

I consider myself a partial resident of Toronto for living there for three months straight. I think that's... Okay, what part do you live in? I lived in... Actually, I do know this. I lived in, it's kind of like the Beverly... Look, it's not my fault. I was in Yorkville.

I was in Yorkville, the Beverly Hills of Toronto. Yeah. I lived at the Minto. That's where I lived. Oh, fun. Yeah, I was at the Minto. What did you think of Yorkville? Yorkville.

Yorkville, I understood. It's that funny thing of people were like, Yorkville. Did you have to be there? They, like, were like, this is where you're going to be. So there was a hotel where some cast members were staying, and I was there for three months,

and I was in, and I eventually moved into the Minto. And it was like more, it made me feel more same because it felt like more of like an apartment or whatever. But people were like, oh, Yorkville and kind of rolled their eyes at it. But for living there for three months, it was kind of perfect.

Like, I did understand that it was like a stuffier crowd or whatever. But it's kind of nice, because in Vancouver and I won't name the hotel, but there's like a hotel in Vancouver where every single person that's coming up to phone in Vancouver stays in the same hotel. Wow. And it's been that way for like 20 years. Wow. So that's, that's, so are you seeing different sorts of star? Oh, well, the stars won't. They don't. They probably have their own place. And I guess if you're there for a super long time, but like almost everybody that's coming up for like two months or less will stay in this hotel and we'll go eat at the same restaurant across the street.

That's, that's what that area felt like to me was that there, because there was a lot of people in the Minto because I don't want to out people that were there, but there was other, there were friends of the show on different shows that were in the Minto. Sounds like a similar show of that. Yeah. Yeah. Wow. I love that.

So pop by the Minto. Pop by the Minto. Yeah. And look, we ate there the last night we were there. It's like a good neighborhood. I enjoyed it. We ate in the area, not in your complex. Yes.

Yeah. I think there was a lot cooler areas to live in Toronto. For sure. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you wish it was called the Mento's like the Doughboys podcast? I do, I wish it was called the Mentos and they had a bowl of Mentos when you're the Freshmaker. Honestly, that feels like a piece of synergy that was some lost. I agree with you.

A lost opportunity. We actually, one place we ate in that neighborhood, Mitch, was the McDonald's there. Yes. And I'm curious, Vic, if you have any opinions on McDonald's Canada specifically. No, but. But I lived in Hungary for five and a half months. Wow, okay. And I do have some pretty specific thoughts in Budapest.

Okay. And they had these things called Mastroburgers at McDonald's in Budapest. And I'm not, I don't usually eat red meat. I'm not a big meat eater in general, but I don't eat red meat. But I tried this master burger because everybody was like, this is like one of the better burgers in the city. Did it master burger? Called the Mastro Burger. It was like a promotion.

Was it a crossover with the Bradley Cooper movie? Had to have been. You know what, we liked that movie. Did you? We did. I don't think I saw it. I thought it was fun. We had fun with that movie.

I love that. Yeah. What's your least favorite movie you watch five times a year? That's a great question. I know. That's why I asked. Hmm. My least favorite movie I watch, there are movies I don't like that I do watch often.

I'm trying to think of, why did you go first? Well, no, I'm thinking on this one. because it's probably part of a franchise, but I'm watching the franchise. It seems like a similar sort of Jurassic World. You're going through like five or six in order to get to seven and eight. Yeah, and I'm sort of here.

I'm like, all right, I don't know about this one. I think I would, you know what? I think my answer would be, and I still like this movie. I think it would be Mission Impossible too. Great answer. I still like it. It's still good, but I have an answer as well.

The whole franchise. The Last Jedi. Yeah, sure. Which one is that one? That's number eight. If it's on TV, I will put it on and get angry. I love that. Is that the one in the new?

That's one of the new ones. Is that the last one? It's the second to last one. It's the second to last one. It's a very divisive. It's a divisive. Divided the doughboys themselves. You liked?

I do like it. You didn't. Well, he saw it one. The first time he saw it, he said, I didn't like it. And then I saw it again and I was like, wait, I actually like this. I think it's cool. I was trying some stuff. Kind of like a meal that we ate today.

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We were originally going to cover BHC chicken, which is a Korean fried chicken chain. That was the plan up until minutes before we started recording. I was very excited. I was very excited because we're going to get some, we're going to get one of the big three Korean fried chicken outlets. Fried chicken is my favorite food. It looked amazing. It looked awesome.

Well regarded. and this is one of the few U.S. outlets of a chain that has 2,000 locations worldwide happens to be in Los Angeles. But the problem was, yeah. I just want to quickly say the first time you watched the Force Awakens, you said, I want to kill JJ Abrams. I did. I was like, I had a pretty negative reaction to my first viewing of Force Awakens. So everyone who thinks that I am a little negative boy. That's nuts. So that was your reaction, and then you watched it one more time and went, I like it.

I came back around on Force Awakens a little bit. Last Jedi, I was like, I really like. But you also didn't like it the first time. I didn't like it the first time. No, yeah. I was a lot put by it. But wait, hold on. Let's talk through this order debacle.

So I... Yeah, explain yourself. I'm trying. Is it not Amelia's fault? So I placed the order. It's everywhere it says it opened at 11 a.m. Yeah. So it wouldn't let me do, place an order before 11.

So I had to just wait. So the second it turned 11, I refreshed the page. I submitted the order. It said everything looked good. It would get here. Confirmation came through. Confirmation came through. It said it would get here at like 12, 10 or something like that, a couple minutes late, but I was like, that's okay.

So about 15 minutes later, I get a call from the owner of the Koreatown B.H. Chicken. And she said, are you, Amelia? Did you place the order? And I said, yes. And she was like, we're closed. And I said, really? Until 2 p.m. Right? Yeah. And she said, yeah, we're closed until 2 p.m. So I'll give you a refund of. the order. It'll take a couple business days. And I was like, oh, okay. Um, thank you. It will take a, wait, it shouldn't, I feel like door dash will just give them a, I think it'll just take them a few days for it to show up on your car. But the door, but the door dash order still said it was in route, on route. A dasher, yeah, I got a text that a dasher went to

pick up the order. So I called the dasher and he's like, yeah, I'm at the restaurant now. Now Christmas is over. Do you think it was actually Dasher? Great question. Yeah. That's a We might have been. I think it's a good question. Dasher's big gig of the year is over. He's got to go out there and do DoorDash. He's got to work. Let's see.

Let's hear. Dasher's name was Vixen. All right. All right. Now things are getting weird. Interesting. And Donner still stuck up on that mountain with a bunch of his friends. That's, oh my God.

What is this? What is this a reference? Donner. Pass. Anyway, the end of the story is just that the, the, the, the, The door dash driver confirmed. He was like, yeah, they said that they're closed. And it's weird that they didn't cancel the driver.

So he had to go there. It sucks. I hope he still got paid. So here's a weird thing to me. They open at 2 p.m. That's a very strange. I have a theory because it is a holiday weekend. And so I have a theory that maybe a delivery didn't hit what it was supposed to.

And normally they would have gotten their chicken this morning, but it's not coming until this afternoon. And so they had to close for a few hours. That's my theory. I'm a restaurant industry. That makes sense. Oh, yeah, that does make sense. Yeah. Hard to be a fried chicken restaurant with no chicken.

Sure. But that's a complete, complete speculation. I did see a flock of chickens flying south through this morning, so maybe. I released a bunch of chickens out of a delivery. Maybe this is what it is. Do you know my response when I saw him? What's that? Birds.

We, Amelia, we also, we learned this. I liked it. You did? I like. Why? It was good. It was good. No, was it was good.

I mean, it was a nice call back. Amelia, we learned in the process of, this, that BHC, a BHC chicken stands for big hit chicken. I didn't know that. And you know what? We took a big hit today. Was this planned?

We planned this out. Do you want to switch with me? You guys planned this? Yeah. That's good. I like it happened organically earlier and I was like, we got to do this on the podcast. It's good.

Yeah, it's good. Vic, coffee is your favorite food. Because we're like, what do we do? A B.HC. An insane choice. You happen to be... What do you mean? If you say, what's your food?

Your response is coffee. Yes. We were like, we're like, there's stuff... I go sign that. There's stuff in there. Coffee's your favorite food? I consume it more than anything else in this world. I love coffee.

Pizza. Okay. I mean, here's the difference between my favorite food and your favorite food. Sure. Much like a planet that you can walk on. Uh-huh. I can hold my favorite food. I can hold my favorite food.

I can hold my favorite food. You can hold coffee. You can hold the coffee in a cup. Sure. But you can't hold the coffee on a top. You're holding an entire pizza when you're eating it on a regular basis? I'm holding a slice of pizza in my hands. Fine, I'll freeze the coffee in a little ice cube tray.

Okay. I do that. All right. I think this is, Mitch, I think this is a thing. I think you're real about it. Someone was saying, like, stew was their favorite food or chili was their favorite food. You can't really hold that either. There's chunks of food in stew and chili.

And someone was like lasagna is my favorite food. That's a mess a whole. Coffee is a drink. My coffee. That's fine. Coffee is a drink, it's a drink. I'll chew it. I put vanilla in it, that's a food.

That's a food. A vanilla bean? Liquid vanilla is not a food. I'll put a little bit of flour. I'll bake it. Coffee cake is a food. Coffee is a drink. Why can't drinks be food?

Are drinks food? You know those guys that don't want to get off their computer because they're coding so fast? Yes. And so then they just drink that stuff? Soilent? Yeah. Yeah, God bless those guys. And that's all they're eating?

Thank you for all you're doing. Thank God so we can have all of our AI memes. It's so great. AI is very important to the world. If AI is very, like Elon Musk said, you can use it to tell a joke at a party. It's very important to have AI.

Did you say that? There is like a thing there where he was like, they're like, what's some beneficial things about AI? He's like, you could use it to tell like a very dirty joke at a party. You know, it's like,

oh, this guy, this is the least funny man in the world. I, for me, I can't believe you're still holding your turmeric. Do you want to take a break to drink them? It's a little checkoff's turmeric on this episode. Who knows when I will swallow these pills?

Well, would you consider those pills food? You know what? Great question. No, I don't consider pills. There's a powder in there that is that you can just. This is not food. Look, it's edible. Tuberg is a root.

I know. Look. Coffee is a bean. I'm just, I ground it up. I added water. Coffee is a bean. Coffee is a bean. Coffee is a bean. I'm not going to do.

Coffee is a bean. If you mean adding water makes it a soup. Wow. Mitch. I know that we disagree on a lot of things. Most things. On most things. But pills and drinks to me do not.

Look, I'm going to let you say coffee's your favorite food. I would think coffee is soup. Coffee's not soup. What if I eat you add water to? What if I eat it with a spoon? Would that make you happy? I mean, I would, no. Honestly, I wouldn't be happy.

I would be sad. You're wasting a lot of time eating your, eating your, coffee. I used to love doing that as a kid, though, drinking water with a spoon. Wait, really? No. Yes. It feels, it felt amazing where you just like take, yes, okay, I'm seeing odds over here. I didn't do water, but I definitely feel like, you too. Okay, you two, there's something weird going on between the two

of you. I think let's, yeah, we should, we should make that switch. We never, like, ate a hot chocolate with a spoon instead of sipping it, like, you just like scoop it instead. No. You guys had no whimsy in your childhood, and I feel sad for that. I, I, this, this is more fun. The cold spoon with the cold drink, I think seems fun. I like the idea. I used to use a blanket. blanket is a Superman cape.

I thought that was pretty whimsical. This is different than that. That's completely different. But it's in the same vehicle. Can I be honest with you? Downright embarrassing. I don't think you should have brought it up. You said for fun your mom was going to join the military with you, I think, earlier.

Amelia's raising her hand. Yes, Amelia. Have you ever dipped wallipops into water? Yes. A treat. I've maybe done that before. That is more normal than saying coffee is soup or whatever. This is the most infuriating conversation I've ever had in my life.

I'm a guy who said cupcakes are pretext. pie. Yeah. Lollipop into water to what end? What are you accomplishing there? I have not done this. You're flavoring the water. You're flavoring the water and you make the lollipop last longer and the water becomes

lollipop. Okay. You can turn coffee into a beverage if you add enough water to it that it then kind of becomes a smart water flavor. That's all right. You know what I'm talking about? where it's like, where you know how when you just sort of like don't want as much caffeine so you're adding water to it.

But then once it's small enough amount of coffee, big enough amount of water, it just is sort of a flavoring. Don't go on anymore. Amelia, you can, let's swap out. No! I'm just standing up for audio listeners. Moving back to the producer's desk, the day as if you will. Amelia is moving over and taking Mitch's seat.

It's so good to see you. Next to Gemmy. Sort of on the border. hands with Vic. I love that you're sort of on the border between being behind the scenes and in front of the scenes and now here we are.

Mitch is now live editing the episode. He's going to be switching between cameras. One under your finger. One switch. Number three goes to... Four? Yeah. Wow.

How you doing over there, Mitch? What's going on, everybody? I'm at the board. There's no five. There's no five. Get off of five. Don't switch to five. There's here.

I got a single shot on Amelia here with Jemmy. Very cool. Can you switch to the outdoor camera so we can sort of zoom in on the address? There is. Which one is the headgum bathroom camera? That's number seven. Should be number two. Hey, I just switched right in time for you to say that line-wise.

Hey, how about that? It's satisfying, right? It's an art trying to get, trying to get on everyone as they're talking. That's why I look at people in person. I got to be honest, this feels like a half measure. I think we should take Vic's other note. Emma, you could take my plate. Oh, come on.

Oh, it's like, it's like the holidays. Come on, this is lovely. As it was meant to be, Gemmy. Jamie. Oh, she's joining us. Yeah, Jamie. Join the boys. Does this officially make me the most senior one on the couch?

Because I've been on the house for the longest. Oh, you want to come snogging on one. Check it out. Here we are, Wags. So we're going to go ahead and I'm going to call for a stinger, call for a sound. Call for a sound. Let's get a sound. Sound on the board.

How the fuck do I do that? Let's hit that sound, too. Ding dong. Yeah, there you go. Okay. Okay, so what do we... Hold on a second. They don't do sounds.

I do sometimes. Okay, so Emma, Vic, and Amelia are all holding hands for audio listeners. Can I just say this? Welcome to the coffee boys. At the end of the... Because this is in the dough boys Frank bank. Okay. But I'm now realizing your guy's job is too easy.

and we're going to there's going to be a little bit of a pay cut this yellow day season do you want to do the post production when we leave too no I do I know we do not want to do that we don't want to listen to ourselves so Vic we were debating what we were going to cover and you said that coffee was your favorite food

so one of the options that is in the neighborhood that we're like we're going to we might option we might choose this one on the fly was La Colum and so we just went for La Colum that's what we audibled to are you someone who's patron I've never, lot of column in the past.

Never. Never in my life. I was, I think, I was excited to sort of get in there. I was, I was curious. I was interested. I was a little scared when we, because we did sort of do a little bit of a trip over there. We walked past the photo booth museum. Yeah, we went on a field trip.

Am I allowed to get a photo there? You guys said, no. I said, I'll talk you up to it later. It was a small tantrum. We figured it out. And then we ended up in the restaurant. And immediately I was a little worried. I'm not going to lie, because, again, there were,

these meal replacement bars next to the case that had all the food. Kind of scary. And that did make me feel a little bit worried about what the food was going to taste like. Definitely the food did not seem like as much of a priority there, which it is not. And honestly, this was the first time I've ever gotten. I go to La Colum fairly frequently because it's not a... But coffee? It's a stone stove from head gum, but I never get their food.

Can I just say immediately that I picked up a sandwich and then Wags was like, you know this is not La Coulam. This is not a La Coulomb. It's a farm shop. branded sandwich. Yeah, but what the fuck am I supposed to do? I don't know what the fuck I'm supposed to do. Do they have La Cologne branded ones? They have, their pastries are from the store, but they're outsourcing their savory side.

Got it. Yeah. But technically, aren't they probably just putting their sticker on? Like, how does that work typically? Where it's like you'd sort of buy stuff that it's like, this is what we normally do. A lot of times it's sourced from some, yeah, some baker, which is now brought turmeric Dracula to the producer's desk. Produced by turmeric Dracula.

But they could have their own central kitchen. I'm honestly not sure how they source their baked goods. Sure. Okay, that makes perfect sense. But honestly, 10 out of 10, I had the best sandwich I've ever had in my entire life. All right, this is, okay, you're being insane. I had the best turkey sandwich I've ever had in my entire life today. This was a device of turkey sandwich.

I thought that was a joke. I'm not kidding. I think that my, and the one previous to this, you can sort of know where my taste level lies, is there's one at Larchmont wine and cheese that I love. They have a turkey sandwich that I love. Yes, the large amount of wine and cheese one is much, much better than what we ate today. You can trust my taste when I say that the Lacholam heated up turkey dill sandwich is, I think, maybe the best sandwich I've ever had in my entire life.

This is, that isn't, that is insane. It was perfectly warm. The bread was delicious. It had a nice profile flavors of things that I wouldn't normally put together. Wow. Oh, you're wondering how I'm doing over here with the switching, huh? Actually, I was going to say, Mitch is very good at live switching. I know.

I'm watching you camera lights change. Which cameras on and he's quick. You're quick with it. He's quick with it. Mitch was, of course, a cinematography major in college. That's right. That's a screenwriting emphasis. That is very true.

And my major, of course. What school? Oh. Which doesn't know. Can I guess where you went? Wags major? I know. I know it.

Can I guess where you went to school? Yeah, please. Full sale university in Florida. Man, I wish. That'd be really cool, but no. I did not get a full sale. So me and Wager had an exchange earlier. he said, I was really looking forward to having fried chicken today.

And I was like, oh, yeah, that's your favorite food. And Wags was like, good memory. Mitch would have been like, what? It is? I know fried chicken is his favorite food. And then in my head, I didn't say this, but I was going to say, Mitch always forgets that you're a math major too. Yes.

Wait. Were you a math major? I was a math major. That's amazing. I would have guessed, uh, on a mona poetic. How,

who do you think knows each other better? Do you think you two know them better or they know you better? I think they, good question. I think we know each other better. No, no, I know each other.

Do you two know you two better or do you two as a collective know them better, do you think? Wow. Oh, I think they know each other better. No, she's saying, do you and me know Nick and Mitch

better than Nick and Mitch and Mitch know you and me? I think they do know. No, but I think you sadly, I think if what you're asking, I think we know more about the boys than the boys would know about us. They know more about us because they've had to listen to us talk for so much. Actually, I know, I know. Yeah, I'm in particular, unfortunately.

Actually, I know where Amelia was conceived. Tchay. That's a pretty good one. Has Scorpion been on the pod? No, he has not. You got to get Scorpion on the pod. We got to get Scorpion on the pod. We want him on the pod, but he didn't come to our live show.

He said, no. He's like, he's a weird guy. Would he come on for a PTH fried chicken? I don't think he would want to. He said that we, his note for us is that we should not be reviewing food. We should be offering a relationship. Yes, he said this should be a relationship podcast. We should do a relationship advice episode and then we can show him what dog shit it is and he'll take it back.

You'll then want to come on for the food. Yeah. I love that. That's brilliant. Amelia and Scorpion also text each other bow. bowel movement photos. It's pivoted to hair loss pictures. He sends me pictures of his scout

and he says, no use trying. Connect me with Scorpion. We got a lot to talk about. Is it like that guy on Reddit that's chopping chives? Have you seen this? No. I've been following this so diligently. I'm so glad I heard it. Yeah, Chivegate. I wonder if this will still be, it's possible

because I think he's on day 45 or something as of this record. It's possible the guy chopping chives until it's perfect. every day is still going in January 2026. I hope so. Well, because I think it is that thing of like it's an excellent and I think like thought exercise too because what is perfect.

You know what I mean? It's like I think he's going to be chopping chives forever. And also if you've ever tried to chop chives, it's hard as shit. Yeah, I could imagine. By the way, when I switch to one that's not a camera, is that mean there's just going to be some like... It's just a black screen. It's going to be black for a few seconds. That's usually where I mark things in the edit and I go Mike fix it. I take notes

during that. Oh no, I'm not going to let Mike touch what Mitch is doing. It's saying as it. I'm actually going to be like you get a little vacation here. You don't have to touch it. It's got to stay. For audio listeners, Amelia, Emma, and Vic are still holding hands like it's a wicked junket. It's a wicked junket. And you know what I'm realizing sitting here, hosting a show is hard work.

So I'm going to give Nick and Mitch a pay increase. Wow. Oh, come on. You have that power? Well, the nice part is we know exactly where the money's going to come from. So that's perfect. Jimmy now is the time to ask for a race. You're going pro-capitalist. I like it.

All right. I'm getting the fuck out of here. This was amazing. Thank you. Thank you. I needed that. I feel recharged to go back into the back half here. Come on. That was lovely. How do you guys feel? Now I get to keep this.

I'm definitely not going to click on the Scorpion text. Is your dad's legal name Scorpion? Or is that just like that's, His legal name's Lenny, Leonard. I love that. But the genesis of him, his origin story is he showed up with a scorpion tattoo on his forearm and said, I'm scorpion now, correct? Yeah. And just like you said, I'm tiger now.

That's true. I stole his bit. I showed up with a tiger tattoo on my thigh and said I'm tiger now. That's a great tattoo. Thank you. It's true. Not bad. Okay.

Thank you. I like it. I liked the tiger tattoo. See it? This was good for all of us. Look at this. You guys were yelling at me a minute ago and now we're like back to be best. best friends.

Look, when Wiger... Mitch and Nick and Vic, like the trio that everyone is talking about. Nick and Mitch and Vic, that sounds good. Pretty fucking good. I got to say this, I did think you were losing your mind at the first time. And you know what? It kind of turned out to be right, but I thought you were losing your mind when you first got the tiger tattoo.

Why? You thought so. Well, also, it was fake at first. People don't know this, that it was fake. Yeah. The tiger tattoo was fake at one point. That's true. Yeah.

And then it became... And then I made it, I worked myself into a shoot. Yes, yeah. But how do you feel about it now that has been a look for a while? No, I like it. I like having a tattoo. I wasn't, I was never planning on getting inked, as they say.

And then it's like, I can do it. Why not? I love that, because I think that's it is. You either have to be like, this means the world to me or be like, this is fun. Yeah. I'm kind of in between, I guess. You know what? My mom and I were going to get Marine Corps tattoos, matching Marine Corps tattoos.

La Colum was decided moments before recording. founded in 1994 in Philadelphia by Todd Carmichael and J.P. Iberdi. A minority stake investment in 2003 was acquired by Coorig Dr. Pepper. That's right. Coorig and Dr. Pepper are one company, and they own a third of Locke-Colum. But it was fully... Honestly, Coorig Dr. Pepper, not one of the... I mean, Coorigs are bad for the world, I guess, right? I think they're all bad. They're all bad. But ultimately... I was trying to have that capital spin, but there's none that are really... Are Curig Cups still just horrible for the world? I'm guessing. Yeah, I think so.

A little plastic. I'm saying they're bad for you because you're not supposed to put hot things in plastic. Plastic, yeah. Ultimately, though, the company was majority acquired by Chobani in 2023 for it. Anyone want to guess how much? No. Yes. I want to guess.

I want to guess too. Should we go at the same time? Yes. Three, two, one. $700 million. Oh, no. You said $40 million. You said $700 million.

Yeah. Mitch would get it by Price is right. Rules $900 million. Can you imagine this brand being worth $900 million? I guess that's it is. I thought for some reason that it was a smaller chain maybe than it is. Does that include all the grocery store? Because they have a lot of like grocery store cocktails.

This is what I think most of their business is that because there are only about three dozen locations as far as stores go. But the La Colum drinks, the bottle and canned drinks are sold commercially. Dutch bro style. Dutch bros style, which we've never reviewed Dutch bros because there's not one in the L.A. area. Oh, yes, there is. There's one in San Diego. I guess we go to San Diego. I don't know if you know about the pod,

but we don't like doing anything almost anymore. It's very, I'd say you could sum this up by saying it's on its last legs. I think so. We're running on fumes. San Diego is about for people who are not in SoCal, about two and a half hours from L.A. It's not like right there. No, but you can get on the.

The surf liner where I was conceived. I would like to conceive. Yeah, it would be fun to conceive on that. Well, I guess there's no private. rooms there. Is there on the Are there private rooms? Are there private rooms? Are there sleeper cars? I'm not sure. I don't think. No, not on the surfline. I don't think so.

Because it just goes sort of down right past San Diego and then turns around. Are there bathrooms? Yeah, you have to go on one of those bathrooms. Or if you go earlier late enough, you could probably get an empty car to yourself. Oh, there you go. That's very true. Yeah. Yeah. That's fun. All right. Try it out. Let us know. Get railed while you're getting railed. Come on. There we go.

Amelia, you manually wrote down everything that we order. Yes. Okay. So Amelia's a little hard project. up, like a sheet that has stickers from these sandwiches that we bought, the pre-packaged farm shop sandwiches, as well as your scrawl of each individual item. And I also have some of this written down in my own notes. Yes, Amelia has made a very insane write-up of all the items. She took the stickers from each sandwich package, put them on the page. It looks like the Zodiac's lunch order, basically. I appreciate you taking the initiative to do this, though.

Yeah, usually I have the copy ready for Wig's to read, but since we had a pivot, I was like, I might as well just write this stuff down. Yeah. So we got the, we got a few different biscuits. We got a, the biscuit that was hammy egg and cheese and also the biscuit that was spinach egg and cheese. I believe. Or was it just spinach and egg? Spinach and egg, yeah. Now here, I did not try the ham egg and cheese one.

I did enjoy that biscuit, a bit of a dry guy. No pork shell, you for. Dry? Yeah. You thought your biscuit was not dry. Moist. Wow. My biscuit and the spinach one I found a little bit dry.

And that's crazy because I'm assuming they used some sort of a frozen spinach and then when they heated it up, I would assume that that water content would have gone into the biscuit. I thought the spinach was like, the spinach obviously added a little bit of moisture, but like the texture of the biscuit itself. Oh my gosh. I didn't try that one. I actually liked the biscuit maybe more than I liked the bread on the other sandwiches. I don't know. I'm trying to figure out. The biscuit was okay.

You're wrong, but I think that's okay. What did you, I didn't try the ham, ham and cheese one, like you're saying, no pork, no pork, shelley fork. It was, uh, it was, it was probably my favorite of the bunch just because it was, yeah. I mean, I, look, I know Vic, that was your favorite sandwich. Which one? I'm sorry, the, the, uh, the turkey sandwich was your favorite. I'm, I'm going to spoiler country here was your favorite. Yeah. But I, I, I don't. Look, there was some stuff, though, when I ate it, I said, now we're in business. And none of these sandwiches were now we're in business sort of thing. You're insane.

First of all, the biscuits were soggy, so I don't know what you're talking about. I'm talking the bite I had because we had these, we subdivided them, and we shared portions. And the portion that I had, the Incar plot style one-quarter portion I had of my spinach egg and cheese. or just spinach and egg biscuit was a little bit, was a little bit of a dry guy. Here's my issue with all the egg sandwiches. The egg. The egg was bad.

The egg was bad. The egg was kind of, it almost looked based on the way that the yolk was cut that it was like they were hard boiled and then sort of like squished like that. That's, that, they all looked like poached eggs. That's what I think.

I think it was trying to do approximate a poached egg. It was trying to approximate a poached egg, but like when you, when you heat them up, it's going to be more like a hard boil. It just doesn't, it didn't work. The eggs looked like if somebody who had never seen an egg before was described an egg and tried drawing it. Yeah.

It was like a bad version of the McDonald's egg patty you'd get on like a sausage egg McMuffin. Yeah. I mean, not the folded egg, the egg patty, you know what I mean? Just to be clear, we looked insane going in here. We were like, what's your, we looked like aliens. If aliens came to Earth and were like, what's your favorite sandwich to the La Colom people? Like, what the fuck are these people talking about? And then all of us started frantically writing notes.

Writing notes and then asking about pastries and like like it was it seemed like very much a pain in the ass with a lot of Cologne people. The bristas were lovely. There was thankfully not a cue. We were there by ourselves. And they were, they gave us a lot of time. And they like, we kept apologizing and they were like, no problem. And they were, they figured it all out. And I got to drink that defied both signs and God.

This is true. That is very true. You asked for a recommendation and you got yourself the salted caramel oat draft latte. So they are known for their oat draft lattes, rather. They offer them in both oat and dairy varietals. And right now they have a seasonal one that is salted caramel. And it tasted like melted ice cream. It was delicious.

Wow. But it was like- It was funny that you said, this tastes like melted cookie dough ice cream. And I was like, oh, no. And then you're like, it's delicious. I did not expect you to say the other half of that. What's wrong with melted ice cream? I mean, I just don't, like, I don't, look, is melted ice cream of food?

There we go. That's a good question. Absolutely. Is that not how you eat ice cream? I feel like that's how I eat ice cream is you put it in a bowl and then you stir it around as fast as you possibly can. Okay, this is your, all right, you're insane. You melt your ice cream? I used to do that when I was a kid I would like, you basically make soft serve out of regular ice cream and you like stir it really fast. You two are lining on way too much weird shit. I don't know if this is planned before like, tiny tiny tiny little bit.

This is, this is. You've heard what she does with mint chocolate chip ice cream. It's kind of the same insanity. What do you do with mint chocolate? I spit out all the chips into the bowl and then I, at the end, like, I suck all the cream out and leave just the chips. And then I, and then I eat all the chips at the end. Yes, you have a chocolate bar afterwards. It's unhinged.

People think we're weirdos. Have you ever tried it? I have done the ice cream soup thing as a kid. I did, like, to mix it up into a slur. Especially you get two flavors in one bowl and you make like a new flavor. I love this. Oh, that's fun. Good.

I'm going to say this. They say all dogs go to heaven. La Colom must be heaven because there were a lot of dogs in the airwags. There was there? I thought I saw one dog. There were multiple dogs. There were two, I think. First of all, there was more than two dogs.

There was one dog in there that looked like a fox. The one one? That was what I saw. In the back perch area, there was like three dogs. Oh, I didn't go to the back area. I think when I see dogs, I don't always clock dogs as dogs. Does that make sense? You're sometimes like, that's a guy?

Well, like, you know, if I'm like, no, but like, you know, if I'm sort of making eye contact around the room and if a dog and I'll make eye contact, I'll just sort of like, you know, and keep moving on, but I won't necessarily be like, dog. There's an animal in this room. You know what? This dog was kind of staring down people. Like, Jemmy.

Yeah. Like, Gemmy right now, like, I don't know. Like, I'm like, oh, Jemmy's here. It's not like, oh, there's a dog in the room. Like, this jemmy. Got it. The dog in La Cologne was very, very, very cute dog. Oh, my God.

So cute. No, he was, he was, the floor guy. Yeah, it was a floor guy. He was a little floor guy. Oh, rug style. It was, it was adorable. I love that. I'm sorry, I didn't take you inside, baby girl.

We could have gone in. We stayed outside, though. Poor Jimmy. She's so mad. We were just in the way in there anyways. So they had to eat, heat all of these individual sandwiches up one by one. It seemed like a huge pain in the ass for them. I felt sorry.

And all for something I thought was not worth it in the end. Like, while we were eating. it, I was like, I'm getting sick off of, like, display case food, and that sucks. Let's keep talking to... Even though it was your favorite sandwich of all time. Let's keep talking to the savory side. There's someone just okay. We'll get to it.

Yes, yeah, yeah. We got a couple of turkey cheese sandwiches. Now, these are supposed to have a turkey with dill, correct, Amelia? Yes, so it roasted turkey, dill hervati cheese, hot and sweet mustard, dill pickles and bread. Oh, it was dill cheese. Life-changing. One of these came sands pickles. Yeah.

And so we had like kind of a control group because I thought the pickle one was maybe a little bit too pickly. And I preferred the one without the pickle. But I thought they were both fine. You liked it. This was maybe one of my favorite sandwiches I've ever had in my life. So here's what I don't want to know. What about it wasn't doing it for you? And how can I change your mind?

Ah, boy, so like it's on a baguette and the, you know, the warm baguette. A warm bagu bagu. You bite into it. You're getting a workout with your job. One of the things that I think is a check in the box of it being a good sandwich. If you're going to work out with the sandwich? Well, you know, it's like a little bit where you got to kind of like work at the bread a little bit. Sure.

Yes, yeah. Crunch you on the outside, soft on the inside. Yes, yeah. I actually, now that I'm thinking about it, I think I did like the baguettes more than I like the... Yeah, I look the baguette. The biscuit. The biscuit was great. I don't know why it was being so nice to the biscuit.

The biscuit was... All the sandwiches were... Biscuit was biscuit. Hold on. The turkey. I think the turkey was kind of like, you know, that the turkey would get from... a firehouse subs or something like that. It's not knocking my socks off.

It was texture. It was, I think, moist enough that you could bite through it, but it was moistening the bread around it. I like the Vardy on it. I thought the dill was pretty subtle in the Dill Havardi. The Dill was incredible. I thought it was good. We agreed.

The hard body was amazing. The pickle, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, did I say hard body instead of Havardi? I think you did you. The hard body was. Did I say hard body? I think you maybe said hard body. I was trying to say Havardi.

I heard Havardi, but in the edit, I will confirm. Hands on a hard body. No matter what. Did you see a hard body while you were in there? And that's what Wager actually ordered. No matter what in the edit, can you just have him say hard body? Wait a minute. I'm going to do deep fakes now.

If I said it, I said it. No, I thought you were echoing me. What do you mean? You said, you said Haverty. You said Avarty. Havardi. What the fuck is Harvarty? What is going on here?

That's what I thought you were saying hard body. Hard body. You're the one who brought up hard body. None of us said hard body. All right. Why you're ordered a hard body. Bing and Boom, Atamata Poetics. Where we at, folks?

Havardi on there. The Havardi was good. The deal I thought was subtle. Amazing. The pickle I thought, you get that hot pickle, it gets a little slimy. Hot pickles's a little. Little slimy. Hot pickle, you got to admit, kind of weird.

I disagree. Listen. Yeah. What's the worst thing that you can think of? Um, in the world. Let's see. Uh, I guess like, uh, prejudice. Okay.

Would you rather prejudice or that pickle? Pickle. And there we go. Prejudice was the word, was your first one. I was starting to think. And then I was trying not to go too dark. Yeah.

A world without capitalism. Wow. Yeah. Whoa. That's beautiful. Tony Hawk's world without capitalism. Uh, hot pickle. Get soggy.

I get soggy. I get, Look, I had some fried pickles yesterday that I was enjoying. What are you talking about? Pickles' whole thing is that they're soggy. You soak them in liquid. That's sort of the pickle. That's a signature of what a pickle is.

You are right. Here's the thing. I overall like the sandwich. It just like I'm saying like it wasn't anything mind-blood, but that was a completely serviceable sandwich of a cop-ish. This is the same way you started to like Last Jedi. People are pushing back on you. You didn't like that sandwich.

I looked you right in the eyes. You didn't like it. I didn't like it. I didn't hate it. I didn't hate it. I thought it was bad. I said. I said in the kitchen I didn't hate it.

My friend Nick thought it was okay. He has no friends, first of all. That's not true. Second of all, you didn't like it. Nick and Vic friends. Okay, I like this. You didn't like it. I loved it.

See, this is bullshit. You didn't love it. The two of us loved it. The sandwich was bad. Yeah. All the sandwiches were bad. No. It was bad.

It was bad. It wasn't bad because what did the sandwich lead us to It led us to some beautiful cookies. That is true. If you connected to the cookies. I said out on a narrow way many years ago, hoping I could find true love along the lonely road. The sandwiches, you put them together, they're a road. To the cookies.

But I said out a time or two. Wipe my brow now I'm pushing through. I didn't see how every sign led me straight to you, the cookies. Wow. Are you guys, are you quoting a Canadian band? Every long old. Who is it? Is this Our Lady Peace?

Who are you talking about? Am I allowed to submit a stinger? Yes, of course. Yeah, of course. Yeah, you can send it a drop. Can singers be songs that I sing that is an existing song? Yes. Okay, great.

Yeah, I think so. I think probably the original master recording could get DMCA'd, but I'll sing it. Okay. If I sing it so well. But if I sing it so well that it sounds exactly like the master recording is going to be a problem? That's a good question. If the waveform matches one to one. Yeah, so that might be an issue.

Which is impossible. It's impossible to get that good at singing. Do you think? Are you a good singer? Mitch is a great singer. Yeah. Secretly great singer. New.

You did know. Yeah. I'm saying Vic knew. I had a sense. Mom's in English change. Dad is a Pisces. I'd say to varying degrees we have pipes all around. I was born May 11th.

Yeah, Pisces. Emma is a train soprano but is is in semi-retirement. Can you guys do a quick harmony? Amelia's an excellent singer. And, you know, I can, I can belt out a team. You and I'll listen. Okay, great.

Wait, can we do a four-part harmony that I can listen to? Sure. I can do this. Star-spangled banner. Oh, yeah. Say, can you see? What are we harmonizing? We're all doing the same, though.

I thought, oh, we were all doing, all. You want us to do different ones. Just one note, four-part harmony. I'll start it. So it'll just be like, ah. But then you guys got to harmonize. Ah. Okay.

I can't good about it. We can move on. A little dominant seventh chord. Whoa. Yeah. 135, flat seven. Oh, yeah, you take piano lessons. That's right, yeah.

I'll take the Ivaries. Yeah, I took operatic and classical vocal training my entire high school. career. That's amazing. Did you do musical theater or anything like that? No, I never did. I did. I was in orchestra, though. You'd be a great show there. Really? Yeah. Okay. Good. About that. Wow. We were maybe going to do something on Broadway, Nick and I.

Well, I mean, maybe not on Broadway. Do Boy's the musical? No, we were going to do, what's it called? True West? True West. True West. Yeah. You also say on Broadway casually. Like, we're just going to book a Broadway theater. I guess it might be hard to do it on Broadway. They're necessarily doing it on Broadway. They own all the theaters now. Live Nation owns all the theaters. I think so. Don't quote me.

If that's a lie, put the live sticker on my face. Yeah, yeah. I'm not an actor, but I'd love to I'd be down. You figured out. For sure. Yeah. You know who else is a trans soprano?

James Gendolfini. It's really good. RIP. RIP, sorry. I didn't need to bring down the room here. So I also got a veggie sandwich that I thought was not great. Okay, here's the deal. You guys both said the veggie sandwich was bad.

It's the only sandwich that had true flavor of the bunch. The veggie sandwich is how I know, and you can believe, that the turkey sandwich was one of the best sandwiches I've ever had in my life. No, no, no, no. The turkey sandwich, the turkey was gamey. What? The turkey was a little too gamy for me. No. It tastes a little too much like turkey.

I was tasting too much turkey. So your problem that was the true, the true taste of the turkey? Was, I was a little too, I tasted too much turkey. You want to be blander. Not more neutral. You want more of a, like, lunchy turkey. Take your pills. Also, yeah, those are, do you know how many asses sit on that couch a week?

I mean, ours are the gross. I mean, Gemmy was the last one up there and she's a clean lady. Put those con over cheeks on your tongue. All right, one list. I love that. Very good. That was really nice. That was great.

All right, Mitch is taking the pills after one more turmeric Dracula. I want to know a weird trick my sister taught me about taking pills. Yeah, please. Actually, the ass is one of the cleanest places on the body. The Adam Conover Probably is covered by your pants It doesn't touch any of the outside world It actually probably is

Yes, yeah He's next door You want me to go ask? Is he? Conover's next door Is he? Wait, do we have to What was that?

Oh no, wait What is the, hold on What is that show? What's the show? Oh, actually? Actually? No, no, no, no, no, but it was a different show. Adam ruins everything?

Oh, Adam ruins everything. Should we give him something to ruin? Do we have to prepare something to ruin? Butchies. We could prepare. We should prepare something from New Roan. I mean, it could just be doughboys. Doe boys?

Yeah. That's too. That's a way up. And he sort of does like a deep dive on the financials. I mean, like, this is my issue. Adam, look, we love you. But you know, you don't got to ruin Christmas. You don't, you know, there's some stuff you don't got to.

Have you ruined Christmas? I think so. He pulled a Grinch? He pulled a Grinch. He ruined Christmas. He ended the war on Christmas. No, of all, that would have been saving Christmas. Wait, Emma, you were about to tell us your sister's,

My sister taught me a trick about taking pills. Everyone's instinct to put them in your mouth and tip your head back. It's going to help push it down. But actually, if you look down while you swallow them, it's like opens your throat in a way that helps them go down faster, which I never do. And she told me that when she was in town because I like almost choked on my supplements. And I've been doing it since it's great.

Just like put them in your mouth, sip the water and just like tilt your head down when you swallow. I had no idea. Shout out Haley Earbrink. Hell yeah. Wow. There you go. Okay, the more you know. I'm going to start doing that too.

I wish I had known. Thanks for waiting until after I ate the pills. Here's what happened with the... Do you admit it, you ate them. Okay. Wow. Food confirmed. Kind of because they're your favorite food.

The veggie sandwich, if we're talking about the slime time in reference to the turkey sandwich, it's definitely the case of that veggie sandwich was so many wet components. Dog shit for sure. I didn't like the artichoke on there. There was like a red pepper as well. Something spicy? There was some spice. There was a little bit of spice, but I thought it was pretty...

Mark Summer. was making it up in the back there. It was, it was, that's how much slime was on that bad boy. Is there a part of it where you can't add anything? Like if you, like, is it a doughboy rule that you can't, like, add a little mayo or something? You could, but I feel like then you're not really. Experiencing it as intended. For instance, I think, I think it's, it's, you know, it's always eater's choice in terms of how you want to evaluate these things.

But I feel like if it was like, hey, we have this aoli it comes with. Then I'd be like, okay, well, I can try it with the aoli they're given me. same thing if I'm out of Tocherea and they give me a little salsa on the side. There was no condiments at all anyways. Yeah. Well, because in my personal opinion, I think what would have improved that veggie sandwich is scraping out the middle of adding turkey and a little bit of pickle and some of that mustard. Do you know I saw back there at the at the oven logs? Onionhead was preparing.

Oh, that explains it. What do you mean? Onion head is Slimer's real name. Of course. Did you know that Slimer's real name was onion head? I don't know what slimer means. Slimer is one of the slime. Smelmer means?

He's the green guy from Ghostbusters. I don't think I've seen Ghostbusters. Wow. Wow. There are like five different iterations of Ghostbusters. I've seen new Ghostbusters. I've not seen old Ghostbusters. You've seen new Ghostbusters or haven't seen old Ghostbusters.

I think Swimers in New Ghostbusters. Yeah. I don't know if he's in, I didn't see Frozen Empire, but the other one, I think there is a slimer in that one. The Ghostbusters are girls now? Yeah. And answer the call, there is Slimer and Lady Slimer. There is, yes.

Yes. Slimer and Lady Slimer. Yeah. Yes. You got a significant other. Yeah. And answer the call. Yeah.

Answer the call was the most recent, or was the first reboot, right? That was the Paul Feet one. I liked that one. The late, some people, some people called it, uh, girl ghostbusters. Me one minute ago. Yeah, yeah. I mean, that's how a lot of people refer to it. Right.

That, they were, that was on me and like sign as we were protesting. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. It was on my side too, but I was counter protesting. I don't think, like, like the savory side for me, and, and there was one more savory thing we got, which was the, Emma, this was a savory pastry that you had, savory croissant that I think had like some sort of chive cheese sort of. It was some herb cheese combo. I think like Asiago and some herbs, not totally sure.

It was pretty good. It was butter as hell. Yeah. It was great chager. It was really buttery, like it was really high butter content. It was like the butter and the cheese made like slightly soggy but in a kind of fun way. Yeah. Greasy as hell. It was, yeah, greasy as hell. It was heavy.

Kind of like garlic bread. Yes, yeah, yeah. We also got some, the sweet side. So a blueberry muffin, a chocolate chip cookie, a matcha white chocolate chip cookie, and a guava cream cheese croissant. I got to say this about the matcha cookie. Yeah. Too sweet.

Too sweet. Too sweet. I agree. I agree. And the thing was my favorite bite I had of that cookie was no chips. Once you got those white chocolate chips in there, it was just, too potent. It was, it was going.

White chocolate chip in general. I think you have to have a really, like, I think white chocolate chip pairs best with, like, a cranberry or something like that. Yeah, sure. Like a nut. Yeah. Not enough of a contrast with the macho. Yeah.

I agree with that. You got to level it out a little bit. Yeah. So I'm a little salty. I, but I like, I liked looking at it. I was like, hey, there's a green cookie. That's fun. Beautiful cookie.

It was worth the order. It was the clear standout star of the case. It was the model of the case. You liked looking at it? It reminds me a slimer. In that case, it was a model amongst sort of, of just like peasants. It was beautiful.

No. No. It was standing out. It looked a little moldy-ass cookie. No, no. It was beautiful. I'll tell you it was beautiful. That chocolate chip cookie with all that little chocolate liquid chocolate.

Didn't look like much, but once you got a good bite in him, delicious. Especially warmed up. When you might even say after you take a bite of that, now we're in business. Because I did not think that until I took a bite of the chocolate chip cookie and the blueberry muffin. But I do have a question, are muffins, does the world, I don't, I'm not saying I say this, but do the world, does the world think muffins are boring? Why? Hmm. I'm, I don't, but I'm just saying, does, have we gotten past the muffin?

I don't think the world is putting a value judgment on muffins. Hmm. I think we're maybe past peak muffin, if that's what you're asking. I feel like maybe the era of muffins was, was, you know, 10, 20 years ago, maybe, but like people still eat muffins. It's not that muffins are gone. with us. I disagree with this completely. I am looking at the cycle of what's happening. I'll speak to L.A. specifically where all of a sudden a few years ago, pizza, massive comeback. There's all these pizza shops popping up in L.A. So you got to sort of look

at like, what's still big on the East Coast? What are people eating because it's cold and they need to survive? And then all of a sudden, now it is bagels. Bagels are absolutely everywhere. You've got all of these bagels are big. I think the next thing that is going to have a massive comeback is muffins. Oh, interesting. I predicted on this podcast Italian. And I was kind of right. But where did Italian go? Italian never went away, but I was like Italian stuff is going to come into style. And I was right. Italian

sandwiches right now. The grata. Olive oil. I mean, that stuff, look, that stuff, yes, popular always, but like Florentine sandwiches are now popular. Italian chocolate chops. There's that one stupid Italian chocolate chop at the, at Americana.

Actually, it's not, it's not, it's not a chocolate. No, it is chocolate. It is, but it is Italian, right? We figured this stuff. Do we think of Italy often when we're thinking of chocolate? No. No. Germany, maybe? Swiss.

Swiss. That's what it is. Yeah. Belgium. Belgium. Yeah. Yeah. Swiss.

Yeah. All that often. Oh, yeah, Dubai chocolate. I mean, that's like a new thing. That's like a 2020's invention. Dubai, no one was talking about Dubai chocolate. Do we like Dubai chocolate? I think it's interesting.

I don't think it tastes good. I've never had a, I've never had a Dubai chocolate. It was really big when I was in Hungary. It was like Dubai chocolate everything. Wait, how long ago were you in Hungary? I got back, like, end of June. Okay, okay. So this was recent.

Yes. Oh, wow. Spend, like, because it was one of those things where, like, we had visitors every single week. Yeah. So we had a lot of people that were sort of, like, wanting to see the sites in Budapest is, like, amazing. And I think it is a city that you can spend a lot of time in, but you got to show everyone the hits. And so you have, what's it, Simplacurt, which is like the big ruin bar out there. Oh, yeah, yeah.

It's just very fun to go walk around. And they're just, like, I went there on a set and it just is open until the sun comes up, basically. They just kind of don't close. Yeah. I went there with the Quincy crew, I guess we went to Budapest. For people who haven't been to Hungary, including myself, can we give us some context for a ruin bar? Yes. So essentially, like the history of Hungary is very interesting.

And, you know, I am by no means a historian. I went to two years of college and none of that time did I take a history class or maybe I was enrolled in history class, but I didn't. Yeah. Oh. So why isn't a math major. That's true. So I feel safe imparting my history knowledge on this couch. What was your major?

I was computer science And then I switched over to Cinema Production with a concentration In the screenwriting. Oh, that's awesome. Okay, so the history of Hungary is a little bit sorted. Essentially what happened

is they were in Axis-aligned country during World War II. And their thing was just kind of like, they kind of like went along with a lot of the stuff that the Nazis in Germany were doing. But they like, they early on were like,

yeah, yeah, whatever you say. So they kind of had a lot of freedom that a lot of the other countries didn't, that fought back. Yeah. So they kind of were just sort of able to do whatever until right at the end of the war. There was another leader that came into power. And they sent, I mean, sorry, it was a little dark, but they like, they, there was at the time that a lot of the concentration camps in the area got liberated, one in four people were from Hungary, which is crazy considering how small the population of Hungary is. So right from there, essentially, they were like free for like two weeks when they got freed from the nots.

regime. They then ended up getting taken over by the Soviets, I think. So then they were under communism for, or I guess under what's it called, like the, the, by the way, you're doing a great job. Part of the Eastern Bloc, Warsaw Pact, yeah. Yes. But once again, sort of were like not as free as didn't have as many freedoms as Yugoslavia, but were more open than like they were allowed more foreign visitors than most places. During that time, a lot of their like, old historical sites that were bombed out during the war did not get taken care of. So a lot of the city is in absolute, like, ruins still. And there's just sort of boarded up in the outside.

And a lot of the Jewish ghetto, right? Correct. Or like, aren't a lot of the room bars in, like, the Jewish ghetto? A lot of the Jewish corridor. Yeah. So it's like, but a lot of it had been like completely bombed out. Because especially as the Nazis were leaving town, they just like, there's the largest synagogue in Europe or maybe I think it's the second largest synagogue in the world that

basically went untouched during World War II because they made it in a Nazi headquarters because it was one of the tallest buildings. They were putting satellites up there maybe or something like that. They were about to demolish it. And then they were, the city was liberated, like literally the day before they were about to destroy it. So it ended up just sort of by chance not being destroyed. Where are we going with this?

I don't know. The ruin bars. Right. Yes. You did a great. Yeah, that was amazing. Amazing context. I went to Budapest and then I was sort of.

I was saying yes the entire time we did that. I don't know any of that shit. Just sort of like a again. Yeah. Yeah. Egin. Wait, what? That's Hungarian.

Okay. So anyways, it just is like, what does that mean? Again? Yeah. Either yes or no. I can't remember anymore. Got it. But it, yeah, so then those ruin bars just sort of like in the last few years here, it just

sort of was like completely untouched. So it never got cleaned. It never got demolished and rebuilt or anything like that. So with a lot of them, they were just like, what do we do with all of these like cool old spaces? And so they've just sort of like refurbished them a little bit and like, you know, put glass over places where things are. like too hard to walk on and stuff like that,

but it is just these cool, super huge bars. And if I'm wrong about any of that history, get at us in the comments. I want to know, correct it. Thumbs up if I got it right. Thumbs up if I got it wrong and then add your correction. You knocked it out of the park. And it is, so you'll go around these room bars and like,

like there's one wise, you'll like this. You're in like a different room. You're like, hey, you know, you know, like there's music playing and, you know, like you're dancing in there. You go on another one, there's a little pizza shop. This is true. In the room bars, there is one that you go, you're going through all these things,

then you find a little pizza shop in there at one point. That's fun. And it's like, it is like a huge, crazy, like, exploration thing where you go in and there's like different, it's, it's wild. It's a very wild time. You will never see it. You'll never, you'll never be in hungry. But.

Maybe. You might. I've never crossed an ocean, so I don't know. You could. I could. It's an option. If you could go anywhere and you didn't have to cross an ocean, where would you go? This is a great, you know what?

We've never asked him this question after all the time of making fun of them from not wanting to travel. I love that. We're putting turkey sandwiches sort of in a bridge so that way you can walk Yeah, okay. So I bet there's there's some sort of like, there's some sort of train that crosses. There's an, what's it called the, uh, uh, uh, the snowpiercer? What's the, what's the one from San Diego to L.A.? The surf liner. It's a surfliner that's going across these turkey sandwiches to wherever you want to go. It circumnavigates the glow. Um, let's see. Where would I go? Boy, this is a great question. Uh, I guess, not Japan? I guess I go to Japan

I don't know I can't people eat into Japan No I mean like I You love anime There's so much Like cultural stuff I like video games I like anime

I love train So it feels like that That's checking a bunch of boxes I love to go to like an onset Or something like that That seems kind of fun But and I hear the food is great But I kind of like

I'd be interested in China I guess China seems China or Taiwan seem really interesting Yeah I don't know I think the Nordic countries I'd be interested in that Estonia,

Weiger ancestral homeland Would be a Jersey Go to Talon or something like that Maybe I'd go there Man rolling up to a town full of Wigers Just everyone fucking staring at you Like Jemmy Staird stared at me earlier Hey buddy

Hey buddy I have a pitch for you Yeah Wags and Mitch Trip to Turkey Get some hair plugs Okay Look at this

You're doing great Mitch Turkey If you go to Turkey I get a brand new set of hair How fun would that be You got great coverage But you're worried I understand, like, you're concerned about it.

You got great coverage. There's a big old bald spot on my head. Yeah. I went to the Hymns website, and I got a trio of pills, all amytochidol and finasteride, which is propitia. And, no, not chumbrick. What was the other one? Cialis.

It was three. They try to put everything. If you go to the website and you look it up, it's like. I thought Cellis was the thing that if you didn't have chicken pox, as a kid, then you got that. That is shingles. If you go to the Hymns website and you're like, I have hair problems. They're also like, hey, are you fat, too?

Do you want to take this pill? Like, they know immediately to do. And also, like, some of the pills they gave me were mince. Isn't that kind of like, yeah, they put Cialis in mince? I hate that they make a judgment call where you're ordering stuff. They're like, you're going to want this to. You're going to need a min. How embarrassing is that to be like, your dick doesn't work?

Also, we're guessing you. have bad breath. Is that so like after dinner with your boo thing, you can like pop a Cialis casually and it looks like you just popped a minute. Maybe that's what it is. Maybe that's why. Turned a corner. I always just thought it was like they just assumed you have dog shit brats on top of that.

Oh, you don't have good hair. That means your dick doesn't work. You're fat as fuck. They do. That's what the Hymn's website does. It's just because you like, you'll be signing out. It's like, hey, you want some fat lost drugs too? And you're like, yeah, I guess, I don't know.

Give me every, give me every drug you got. I went off that, though. I'm no longer on the hymns. Okay. I take real monocidil in real, uh, uh, in real turmeric. And I'll, I'll go, I'm not ashamed to say that I would get a hair transplant. What's wrong with that? I've thought about it.

I've thought about getting the hair line touched up a little bit. I've never done any cosmetic surgery, but I don't know. Maybe I think I would. I think everybody should have access to gender affirming care if they want it. Yeah, sure. Hell yeah. I agree with that. There we go.

Sorry. Let's go to Turkey. I apologize. You don't have to apologize for that. Sorry. Don't apologize for that on the Do Boys podcast. It's making us look bad. We agree with you.

Mitch and a nicker and scream at me later. I think the blueberry muffin was fine. The chocolate chip of cookie was good. Big Michael's is an enemy of the dough boys. Oh, my dream. The macha cookie was Uncapachka in terms of sweet. The guava cream cheese croissant, which is a similar thing to a pastry that is available at Portos. And the Portos execution is phenomenal.

I got so worried when we pulled that out. I went, because I just had a Portos one yesterday. To me, the Portos one is kind of gold standard. Yeah. And this one does not hit those heights, but it is very good. It was very, I liked it quite a bit. It was really good. You thought it was good at the Portos one yesterday.

It's better. I think I'm the one to speak on it. And I thought it was really good. It was good. I took a bite of it and I said, I did say, now we're in business. The Portos has the crush. Yeah, you screamed. Now we're in business.

Now we're in business. We were. Now I have a business. That's what you're saying. Look, the sandwiches, when I finally had the, what is this place called? La Colombe homemade, like, they're in-house pastries. I was like, it's not fair that I'm judging this place so much on these shitty sandwiches. On the farm shop.

Which again, they know. They have the meal replacement bars there. They're like, you could get these things that are in the case on the side or right next to the register, we have these meal replacement. Which is a bummer. I think that's a bummer. I'm a Dunkin' Donuts fan. And they make...

Where did that come from? Because it's my hometown in Quincy, Massachusetts. And I'm just like comparing coffee shops. Oh, I see. And everyone says Dunkin' Donuts sucks. And look, whatever. I get it. You don't have to like Dunkin' Donuts.

Do people say that? It's gotten worse. It has gotten worse. It's true. It's really sucks out here. It's, yeah. As they've scaled up, the quality is lessened. And then also the other thing is they used to make their donuts.

And time to make the donuts. And now their donuts. And now their donuts. And now their donuts. The donut man. Fred, the donut man used to say time to make the donuts. Wags, 10 times out of 10, you're getting, you're taking that bacon egg and cheese on a croissant over any La Colom sandwich. You know that's true. Oh, yeah, no, I'd rather have like the hot food from a Dunkin over the hot food from a from a La Colom, sure.

I think so. Even the sandwich? Yeah, especially the sandwich. Yeah, I think so. The turkey sandwich was fine. He did not like the sandwich. You guys. We didn't like it.

I think that this is bullying. actually. That, I think we need to get another one and we need to get your chance. No, we're not. I think after this, we're going to go get another turkey sandwich. One each this time, because I think you need more of it. We do not need more. We spent $125 at La Colom.

We're going to pop over to the selfie museum. That we can do. We'll go to the selfie museum. We're not getting another turkey sandwich. The photo booths museum. We're each going to eat our sandwiches. We're not allowed to leave the photo booth museum to leave our entire sandwich. Vic, I'm going to say this, too, I will never eat a sandwich from La Colom ever again, and we work 10 feet away from it.

How much? How much money? Okay. Well, that's different. If you have money, yes, I'll do it. But I'm never, if we're in a, when it's a late night here at Doe Boys, we're never going to go get a La Colom sandwich. I think we can all agree. BQ plus rice, sure. There's plenty of other options in this area.

Well, sure, nobody's not saying that there's not other options in the area. I'm just saying, I think we need to really consider the same, specifically the turkey sandwich. No. It's the last on the list. We don't like it. It was fine. No, it's not. I didn't think it was bad.

It was fine. It's bad. We're three bears in it. It's fine. No. You're wrong. You're lying. You're doing it again.

I'm not lying. That was my reaction to it. I was like, as I was getting mad and say, I'm yelling at you for your opinion, but I know you didn't like that. I didn't say I disliked it. I said in the, in the room, when we were over there, I was like, I don't dislike it, but not my socks. It was trying to pander, I'd say it was great. You can't pander. I'll take pandering.

Like, this would be me pandering. Like, I agree with Vic. It was delicious. Do you see? This is insane. That's not what, but like, that's not my truth. And then it would also be like, I would just be trying to placate you if I was saying it sucks. I don't think it's either. You know, I thought it was okay. It's pretty bad on the level of

sandwiches we've eaten on this podcast. I mean, I'd take it over like a subway sandwich. Oh, I disagree. I'd eat that turkey sandwich in an airport. so that would be great. So fast. As an airport meal, it would be fine. Airport food sucks mostly. I'm going to drive out of my way for that sandwich at some point.

That's insane. This is insane. It did have like a nostalgia. You're gaslighting me. It had like a nostalgic vibe to it. Like it had like, I don't know, the like may or the mustard. The bread was good. I liked it. You thought it was good. I had a nostalgic vibe to me too.

It reminded me at the time I accidentally put a dog turd in my fucking mouth. That's what it reminded me of. There's no nostalgia. There's no nostalgia. When was that? You're nostalgic for that? No. What did this event happen to you?

I never ate. I never put a dog turd in my mouth. Okay. It reminds me a bad sandwiches from the past. It was bad. I didn't think it was that bad. I can't believe you're any mad at me for not thinking it also sucked. Notice that I'm not getting mad at you for not saying it's your favorite sandwich.

Does that make you like the sandwich more? Yeah, a little bit, honestly. More likely to go over to your side. Come on. Here we go. People go towards the love. Welcome. The cappuccino I got was a...

So I normally get a latte there. But I was like, I'm going to mix it up. I asked for a rack. She was like, I like the cappuccino there. I get a cappuccino with vanilla. And vanilla is a flavor. So I added a little bit of sweetness to mine, which I normally wouldn't do.

This was delectable. I thought it was really yummy. Delectable. I thought this was delicious. It was one of the best things I ate. What? Coffee's a drink. Oh.

Coffee's a food. Coffee's a food. Yeah. Coffee, all right, sure. You know what? I'll give you coffee as a food. I'm never going to budge on the sandwich being bad. That's fine.

So you agree. Coffee is a food. Can you say it in the camera? Coffee is a food. Oh, sorry. Go to that one. Coffee is a food. You know what?

If it's your favorite food, that's great. I'm happy for you. Coffee is a food. Mitch, what beverages you get? I got a hot vanilla latte, which is a food. Yeah. Yes. You get a very similar drink to me.

Did you like the vanilla? I don't know if I would say delectable. But I thought it was very, it had a really nice taste to it. Yeah. Look, this just reminds me of a lot of other fancy coffee places in L.A. Right? I'm fancy coffee places in general. This is one of those third wave coffee places.

It's like the same sort of, you know, like the blue bottles, the intelligentsia's, the, what else is in this year? The Phil's coffee, the Alfred Coffee, which we reviewed recently, all these are kind of the same sort of higher, like, like place in the hierarchy. I think I actually like Alfred coffee itself. However, however you want to compare them. I'm just saying they're in the same sort of. I think that that La Cologne, like I'm just thinking like when I think of places that people make fun of more coffee bean, Dunkin Donuts. Sure. I like places like that more than I like Lockeloon.

Well, those are like the progenitors of these sorts of, you know, more upscale concepts. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We should get to our final thoughts on, unless there's something we didn't touch on. We do have the pumpkin spice latte, the strawberry mocha, strawberry mocha, rather than the peppermint mocha. They're available in cans. Should I go get those? Yeah, we can taste those as we're getting to our final thoughts. They get her on a pork square at all.

The regular drinks, hey? Yes, and this is like, I think to Emma's point earlier, I think this is kind of like there. He's brought some Toronto there. Come on, there we go. You said, we start over. We can start over. I'm sorry that you and I fought this episode.

Yeah, and I'm sorry that you have bad taste of sandwiches, but we can't control sort of like sometimes who we are. That is, that is true. And you know what? I like that you like the sandwich. Do you mean it? Because you sort of yelled at me for about a half hour about it. I did yell you for half an hour, but I did yell you for half an hour, but

But I do, I do like that you enjoyed the sandwich. I did not enjoy it, as you know. Yeah. But I like that you liked it. I just, I, I, I thought it was all a little too, all of it was a little too slimy. I felt. I like that you have strong opinions and I don't think you, um, feeling like you don't like the sandwich as a personality flaw.

That is, thank you very much for that. I, look, I'm opinionated. I get very annoying with some stuff, but. Not annoying. Heated, heart, heartful. In it for the love of the game. I'm in for the love of the game, Wags. I just, this was, I just, I thought.

I thought this was a... We're rowing crew. We're getting close to the other ball. What's his name? The guy that sits in with the coxin. The coxin shouting at us from his little blowhorn. I was, I was three-see. I was in the engine room.

No big deal. Whoa, that's like the most important spot. It's where the power comes from. There you go. Is it true? Yes. They called the engine room. They called the engine room. That's true.

That was your seat specifically. Yes. I mean, I wasn't very good, but I was in the engine room. And it's also because, like, the heavy guys they put in the engine room. How many guys are in the engine room? It's like the engine room is like three, four and five, I think. Okay. I think it's three guys that are in the engine room.

Three guys. How many people are in a boat total? Eight, why, eight, okay. Or I guess nine with the coxin. Is that the same like a cross or can you go smaller boats or bigger boats? There's, yes, there's a four person one. There's, you can skull, which is just doing a one person.

And I think you can do a two person boat. Whoa. Yeah. The coxon's got to be a little guy, right? It's going to be someone coming to me a little guy. And sometimes when they're underweight, they have to have weights with them to get to like the, yeah. There's a minimum threshold. I think there is a minimum threshold.

Wow. So all boats have to weigh like the exact same amount, basically? I don't know about that. I think that there is just a thing with, but they also would try to lose weight. So I don't, I don't, now I'm not sure. It was a very, I rode for two and a half years. Whoa. And I did it to like, because I thought I was going to fail out of college.

And it felt very, it felt like the, it felt kind of like a military thing. I get the being like, I would like a very specific routine. Yes, yeah. And it was not, I, I went into college, very virginal. and I was a big guy in self-conscious and I thought if I'd lose some weight, maybe things will go well. I lost weight, but that, you know, it didn't.

I didn't lose anything else. I didn't lose anything. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, I never had confidence. I don't think confidence grew from that. Yeah, but I, you know, I think. Now who's the one with the microphone? Wait, oh, wise? Come on.

Could an unconfident guy get a podcast? That is, that is very true. And you know what? My mom and dad liked to that. So that, that to me was made to work with it. Did they can watch your races? They did. Come on, that's lovely.

The head of the scucle, I want a gold medal on the head of the scoicle. Say that one more time. The head of the scucle. What is that? The Schukel River in Philadelphia. Are they called the Bonchpiels? Or is that curling? Oh, that's, I believe that's curling.

What are races called? Rigadas? Rigadas. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So you're, you're, I think it came in first in this regatta. We came in first. I came in first a few times. Wow, and you got a gold medal.

Yeah, I got a few medals. hanging up in my room in Quincy, Massachusetts. That's amazing. That has been the same exact since I left in 2005. It has not changed. I get one of those on the tableau. Should we get, should I bring back,

should be a rowing metal? Yeah. Yeah, why not. That's pretty funny. You definitely should. I'll bring one back. I'll bring one back. You should wear it from here on out.

On every episode, I, here's the deal. I was like, I was not like a, like, a, I didn't like mesh with the crew guy. There were some crew guys I loved, but I wasn't like hanging out with, the crew guys and I was smoking cigarettes and I was like doing kind of a bad job with it. You know what I mean?

You sound like you were very cool in college. I was not very cool at all. I was not, but I was, I was smoking cigarettes and like, and like, and I shouldn't have been doing that because I was wrong. But when did you get into comedy then? So, I mean, like in college, kind of. But there was no improv team for my college. Was there an improv team at your college?

I can't stress how little I attended school when I was there. Where did you go? I was at U.S. Scarborough campus. I got in on, because I barely. graduated high school. I was in sort of like their equivalent of like the like a special ed department in order to graduate. I was in an IB school. I transferred schools when I was in grade 11 and I B. You get your like IB diploma from 11 and 12. You like spend two years

essentially working on these sets of tests for your six classes. What it was sorry this this may be a Canada specific thing. What is IB? No, it's international baccalaureate. So it's essentially the same. It's meant to be an international standard. So it's like every IB school operates the exact same way. So I just like, I could not hack it. I had, I have a lot of learning disabilities and I it mostly was the kind of thing that I could get by with like at my old school. And then all of a sudden, there's like nowhere to hide in an IB program. What was your, what was your major? Like, did you have a, so my higher levels were like theater, English and my other, my, I was going to say, I, I think that you would thrive in some of the more creative, like, majors.

I really like stuff like that, but I be specifically, at least at my school, was very paperwork focused. Oh, okay, yeah, see, I wasn't good with that in high school. And I did, I played a little bit of chicken with my high school where they had on 100% graduation rate and I just could not do any more paperwork. And so I essentially said, then fail me. And they said, no. And so I, well, it really was just like I was, I, I, I, you know when you're in so far over your head, where it is just sort of like, I was completely drowning. And I was like, I'm going to drown.

That's wild. Let me drown then. And they were, and they sort of were like, we're going to let you drown. And I was like, then you're going to have to let me drown. And they were like, well, okay, here's a life raft, actually. What were your parents? And I'm not sure if you were with both your parents. It's just my dad.

You know, I think it was one of those things where we had all moved up from Canada. My sister was at the same school. And she is so academically minded and really thrived in the environment. And I just, I was. never like a horrible student, but I wasn't a good student either. Like I mostly got through school by having teachers take pity on me where I would sort of like go in for extra help and teachers love when you like go and sit down. And one on one, if a teacher's like explaining something to me, even if I'm not getting it, I can ask the question. They can explain it,

help me get to the answer and then we can move on to the next one. And the fact that I was coming in for help would, they'd see favor with that when I was like taking tests or writing things or stuff like that. Because it's like, well, Vic is trying. You know what I mean? I never would have guessed as a million You're a very intelligent person And very... I love learning. Yeah, yeah.

Now I love learning. I just, it hit me at the wrong time. Sure, yeah. People like learning, they hate school. I think that's like, like, or for a lot of people, because that's the case with me. I didn't like, I didn't like school. I didn't like regimented education, but I love learning things.

Like, like, Emily mentioned earlier, like, I've been taking piano lessons. I'm always like trying to learn new skills. Yeah, come on. But, but like, I'll put your question from earlier that you asked Mitch to you, like, how did you get into comedy then? Oh, I like, at the very end of, like, my, time at college. I was so depressed my first year. I, like, wasn't going to class at all. I was dating somebody who I was just, like, constantly, like, traveling around. And then my second

year at school, like the first semester before I got kicked out, I joined the, like, comedy theater club. It was called UTSC TV. I met a bunch of people there. We would sort of, like, plan out bits and do, like, some short formy stuff. And I really love that. I moved to Vancouver to go to, like, a learning, like a pretty intensive learning disability school for a year. And there I couldn't meet anybody. I knew that was how I met friends at school when I was at college. So I was like, okay, maybe I'll like take some improv classes, did some short form classes at like theater sports, comedy sports like theater sports up in Vancouver and Granville Island.

And it just like changed my life. I loved it. And I came back, came down to L.A. And that was how I was going to meet people. And then it took over my life. Wow. Yeah. I love it.

What a, what a journey. By the way, I walked through the university. of Toronto cameras, but I don't think Scarborough was a different spot. The one downtown is so beautiful. I did a play there. I was Rizzo at St. Mike's. Wow. In Greece. Okay. Wow. You were Rizzo.

Yeah. I never got to I never, I never was in, I was never in Queens. I was in plays. Okay. But I was never in, I was never in Greece. What was your favorite role? I was Charlie Brown. People know this. Vags knows this. I was Charlie Brown and you were a good man, Charlie Brown. Yeah. And I was Curly in Oklahoma.

So those of those are. Curly in Oklahoma would have been so fun and you can sing. So that makes sense. Yeah. Did you do any plays? Never been to play. Ever?

I was in the orchestra for our production of Oklahoma at school. Can I guess what you played? Yeah. This is, if you guessed this, I'll be impressed. I will be shell shocked. Orchestra or band. Actually, you know what? If you guessed this, I will give you $100.

Do you mean it? Yes. Okay. And you played in the orchestra and not the band? I played in both. You played in both? Yeah. You played in the orchestra and the band.

Yes. Meaning that you were not a straight. instrument. Right. Okay. Did you have a scholarship? I mean, I could have, but I didn't go to, I didn't pursue music. No.

Obo. Wait a minute. How many guesses did you get from my hundred dollars? You're right there. You're right there. Bass clarinet? You know, I did play bass clarinet at a certain point as well, but no, it's, it's, it's, it's, I played, I won't give it to you. I played bassoon.

A bass, a bass, obo. bass oboe. Yeah, that's what, Bassoon is a bass oboe essentially, but it's called a bassoon. When you said obo, I thought I was in big trouble. Yeah.

That's awesome. Double read. You was a double read boy. I was a double reed. I started clarinet and saxophone, and I doubled in some clue. And my cousins high school, during high school games,

they used to make announcements that if you played the French horn, they were looking, you could get a scholarship. Whoa. They were certain instruments that were always in demand. There's certain, like, yeah,

that were less likely to be chosen. That's wild. to just announce that. I was at saxophonist and then the music teacher told me to quit. Why? Too talented. They were scared?

I think, yeah. It was 1992 in Quincy, Massachusetts and I think he was like, you don't care enough. And he was probably right. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, man, that's hard.

I'm sorry. Yeah. Yeah, it's okay. I mean, I don't think I, it's, you know, I have my, you think I should try again? Pick it up. If I would play, if I was a play,

if I was a play an instrument, it would be piano. Oh, very cool. Yeah, yeah. How about that? Would you guys use the same teacher? That would be fun. Play at the same time, start a little dueling pianos act.

I'm unfortunately, my teacher had to leave the country because of the immigration crackdown. So kind of a bummer. That is a bummer. That is devastating. But you know what? You did the right thing reporting, though. I did, yeah. Well, I've got to do our point.

That does suck. I'm not trying to make light of it. That sucks. Anyways, let's all try these new Lach-Colome drinks, Vic. I know you're shaking your head at me, but we need to try some drinks. We do have these L'Colome can drinks As Emma mentioned earlier This is kind of...

I'm doing this for the rest of the podcast. Their main... That was a very real... I mean, like... With my fruit guy Victor with a very similar thing where I was like, this is very much impacting people I love.

It was very sad. It's horrific. We have pumpkin spice, strawberry mocha, and peppermint mocha. These come in the little tall boys. I'm going to open these some bitches up one by one by one. I don't think that this is controversial

to say that the strawberry mocha sounds disgusting. does sound gross. And I do want to try that one first. I also think the pepper one, pepper number one sounds gross. We were saying that. Wags piano teacher, after working with Wags for a few weeks, it's like, uh, I'm getting deported. Oh no. Hi, Nick. I can't do it anymore, I guess. Uh, which they really did get sent away. And I think you should still do it in some way.

Yeah, I mean, yeah, I just got to find a new teacher. Was it? But also they moved on it. They willingly moved, right? Yeah. Yeah. But they had. They had, yeah, they had to. Terrible. Yeah. If you're looking for piano teacher, I have a place that I'm doing vocal lessons right now that doesn't want to music stuff. Wow.

So if you want the name of that, I'll give that to you later. Yeah, let me know. Materialist girl, I just notice your shirt. Yeah. Do you see it? Is that from the movie? Yeah, do you see, do you see materialists? I saw half of it.

What did you think of the half you saw? I liked it. Yeah. I thought it was fun. I honestly, I started it too late was the problem. And then I fell asleep and I, because when you fall asleep, it just sort of keeps playing. So then I couldn't find my spot again when I went to go look.

I was going to go through and then I just didn't. So did you like it? I liked it quite a bit. We saw the theater. Natalie liked it quite a bit. Amelia, you really liked it. I loved it. Yeah.

This is. It smells like vomit. It smells like pu. It does smell like barf. Which one is that? Send that bad boy over here, Mitch. Oh, baby. Do you want a dump cup?

Oh yeah. Do you want a dump cup? In between flavors? Let's see. No, honestly, I'm pouring enough that I. I bet I can finish this. I have to be brave. Here's, this will not make you any happier.

It's like if you're at like a coffee shop, in the bottom of the barrel after you take out the trash, this is like all the different shit. This sucks. This is bad. This is really bad. It tastes like they're like, why don't we mix cough medicine with coffee?

Mm-hmm. Mm-hmm. This tastes like if you poured cold brew over crunch berries. Yes. And then drank the milk afterwards. Oh, that's exactly what it tastes like. That's almost too nice.

That is, that's a stank. Yeah, because this is more sciencey. That's a stank on the Draker Stank scale. I think it is if somebody did that and then was like, oh, that's an interesting flavor and then tried to recreate that idea in a lab. Right, with chemicals, yeah. Yeah, it's not even as pure as that. That's bad. That's bad.

All right. Do you guys want to try? We're all right. Are you sure? It sucks. It tastes really bad. It's okay. It tastes like liquid dog shit.

Do you want to try it? Should it with peppermint mocha next or should we do pumpkin spices as a palate cleanser? Oh, fuck. I feel like pumpkin spice is going to be safe. Okay, let's do pumpkin spice. All right. All right. Let's do pumpkin spice.

What your thought process? Because you chose these three flavors, right? What was the thought process behind these? These were the three seasonal selections. Gotcha. So I was like, these are the three limited editions. The other ones were ones you could also order off of their in-store menu. So I was like, okay, let's give these a swing.

These are so interesting as seasonal because pumpkin spice, sure, peppermint, why not? Strawberry is a seasonal place? I know. No, not in the winter. Strawberry season is like summertime. Maybe it's left over from a previous season. I'm going to say this. If you got a regular flavor, they're very small.

I'll say that about them. They are very smooth. I'm looking for a date on this bad boy, yeah. Yeah, I mean, expires in January 2020, or 2026, so. I'm going to be honest with you. I don't like this either. There's a bunch of flex in it. This one's definitely older than this one than the peppermint. This one's about the six month. The expiration date on the peppermint is about six six months later than the strawberry. So the strawberry one's been sitting there for some time.

Don't like this. The pumpkin's not great, but it is much better than the strawberry. I don't, I mean, oh, this sucks. It's bad. It's sweet. These are much better than the strawberry one. Come on. You can't.

You got to try the strawberry one. No, no, no, I don't need to try the strawberry one. You cannot tell me that the pumpkin was worse than that strawberry one. This one tastes like leaves. I like the strawberry one more than I like a strawberry one. I like this one. You love artificial strawberry. I do love artificial strawberry, but I do think that's disgusting.

This one's better than strawberry. Am I partly lying so Vic doesn't make me try the strawberry again, maybe. That's fine. I'll take it. But I do think it's a little bit better even though it's also gross in science. It's disgusting. They all taste like experiments. It tastes like pumpkin husk.

It tastes like you ate some of the pumpkin. I think they did put puree in there. I didn't just test it as much on the second swig. I'm going to try some peppermint mocha now. Okay, peppermint mocha should be the best flavor. I hope so. Chasing pumpkin with peppermint is a wild move too. Yeah, let me do a little.

water swish. This is going to taste like mint chocolate chip ice cream with the chip sucked out. Oh, give me some of that. Nice bouquet to it. Very minty. I also don't like this. That is, that is the best one. It's the best one, but I don't like it. I'll take the pumpkin one over that one. Really? Too minty. It tastes like I'm drinking breath mint. It's a little toothpastey. But I, for me, I get enough, like, kind of York peppermint patty, like that, I don't know. I don't like, like an Andes mint. I guess that's it. I'm not into that. I don't want cream in my mint. Yeah. I think all of these are stanks. If we're talking drink or stank, all three of them are

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a $144.99 value on your third box. Offer valid while supplies last. Free meals applied as discount on first box. New subscribers only varies by plan. We should get to our final thoughts on Locke-Columb, so we'll each go around. We'll give a closing argument, if you will, on this particular chain, and end by giving it a score from zero to five forks. You are a guest. We'll begin with you. Coffee your favorite food. What do you think about La Colum? What is your fork score? You're lying on your deathbed. Your loved ones have all come. They're holding your hands. Don't get them excited. So it's 2027. You're holding your hands. I'm not there. All of a sudden, the room is dark. They've sort of like, they've made it ambient. They want to make sure that you're feeling loved and surrounded. They're holding your hands. You look up suddenly a bright light. A bright light. It's getting bigger and bigger you got a smile on your face and in the bright light in the distance you see something

and it's getting closer and closer and closer to you yellow edges pillowy baguette game day turkey you know what it took me just one full episode to realize you're insane i never knew it i never knew you were insane a pickle what are we doing this out of uh five forks i am gonna give La Colem Is that right? No. What did you say? La Cologne.

She said La Calaambe. Love Eboem. I am earnestly going to give it Oh no. Two out of five. Two forker. A great sure. I'm shocked.

I'm shocked. I'm shocked by this. What happened? I'm even more confused. What happened? How? That beautiful visualization exercise, I thought you were full of hire. I want to make sure that everybody knows I love the sandwiches, the two out of five.

Wow. And that's maybe being a little generous. I unplugged you and I was eating a turkey sandwich in front of your face at the end there. That's what happened. Not from La Colombe. You would want me to unplug. Wouldn't that be nice if I was the one who unplugged? I guess they don't really do like an actual physical unplugging.

Yeah, what I give you power of attorney? Give it to me. I'm the power of attorney for everyone in my family. Wait, really? Wow. Wow. I'm good at... I actually think I am too.

Yeah, I'm good at following the instructions. Like, I'm like, I'll be sad about it, but like, if you've written down your instructions, I'll follow them. Ooh, would I do that? Would I be sad and try to, like, if you were in a coma, would I try to make you live on? I think a better question is, would you read the instructions. I mean, no. No. So, yeah, I don't know what I would do.

If you were in, if Wags was in a coma and he was like, I would want the plug pulled, man, man, it would be hard. Man, it would be hard. Yeah. But I would, I would, I would, I would, I would fulfill your wishes. Yeah, of course. Yeah, yeah, I think so. For any loved one. Can you imagine you being in a coma for two years having been like, if it's, if they say do it, do it, you then wake with.

And then you find out that your friend didn't. Read the instructions. You'd wake up to Michigan. Yeah. Oh, he's awake. But then you're awake. That's an interesting thought. How would you, how would you feel?

Oh, you're going to be in an iron long forever. Oh, sure. Yeah. Hmm. Do they do iron long still? I think the last person who, lived in an hour long just passed away recently. Yeah, those are a news item.

Yeah. Whoa. So no? Okay. Yeah. In that scenario, yeah, I think I would have, I would be like, why didn't you pull the plug on me? Yeah, it's something worse.

You only like that turkey chain much that I love. Yeah. It's the only food you can have. Yeah. Yeah, I think I'd be upset. It would be funny for you to come to and I have my arm around your wife and your family has adopted me. I've talented Mr. Ripley to you.

You catch him alive just so that, but you could show him that? So I could see him. So we can see him. And then you go, I promised I would pull the plug. You let everybody at the gates who'd been shaking the electric fence to try and get in and shoot you, I guess. Don't kill us. It would hurt. Don't kill us.

We don't want to be killed. Yes, it would be, I just don't want it. It seems like it hurts. I, you might, even if you do want to kill us, you might accidentally wound our guests. That's true. And they don't want, they definitely don't want it. Yeah, don't do that. I'm thrilled with life.

Yes. Thank you. Being a lot. Don't kill the doughboys. Yeah, don't kill the doughboys. I'm actually... Hashtray, don't kill the doughboys. Get in the comments.

I'm actually, you know what? I think I'm going to go the same exact. I was maybe going to go under your score, but because we've disagreed on so much, I think it's only fitting that I say two forks as well. Say one nice thing about that turkey sandwich. It had a good taste. What?

What? You didn't like it? It had a good taste. I'll take it. Absolutely. So what about it? Did you not like? It had a great taste.

We heard it. We love the taste. The taste was perfect. We had a good taste. That's the number one priority for food. You know what? I like that it made my friend Vic happy. Oh, okay.

And you love the taste. And the taste. Yeah. So, yeah, that and the taste. Two forks. Look, my vanilla hot latte was very smooth. It was a nice, it was a nice drink. Belvedy.

But I don't, I don't, like, there's so many coffee places like this and I'm like, that wasn't the best vanilla latte I've had like one of the fancy places. And the two forks is just from that vanilla latte. That's like you were saying, the turkey sandwich. I'm factoring in price too, I'll say. It's like it was so expensive for what it. $125 is crazy. For junk.

We ordered a lot of food, but it was junk. We went nuts, though. That's not a typical order. No. No, but even if you were just to look at our drinks and then say like we split like three pastries or whatever. We're still looking at like 50 bucks. It was way too much. A cappuccino was $7.25. This is, I mean, that's also like what you'll spend at any coffee shop in this day and age, unfortunately. But it's too much. I think for like, there's other coffee shops I'd rather spend, you know, $9. You could get a Dunkicino and it's not going to be $7. We could get a Dunkinino and it's not $7. We could get a month. We could get a Dunkinino. Actually, it might be $7. Can we find out of the price for Dunkin'Ate.

Ben Affleck would ask a cigarette and our dunkacchino for a less than $7. The muffin, though, was $5.50. That's a lot for a blueberry. That's a lot for blueberry muffin. I'm going to open up the Duncan's app, which is on my phone. I'm like, again, I'm like, I'm not saying that I don't pay that at coffee shops, but I'm like, I want to know that. So I'm like, there's a bakery proof in L.A. I'm like, it's worker-owned.

Sure. You're getting excellent pastries and good coffee. And I'm like, I would rather spend the money there. No, I, I mean, I fully concur with that. Like, here's the thing. I have never gotten food at Locke-Colum. I would not get it again. I see no reason to.

Except for the turkey sandwich, which I agree the taste was good. Taste was good. All right. We're all in agreement here. We all agree the taste was good. All right. Hold on here.

Let me see a medium cappuccino. Here's what I will say. There's no more Dunkicinos, I guess. Dunganos been discontinued in LTO. I do it. The thesis of this podcast, the we're always exploring is how does it accomplish what it's trying to accomplish?

I think this place has, pastries because it's supposed to, because it has to. But this is a coffee shop first and foremost. And as a coffee shop, I think this is a very solid option. And I go to La Colum consistently in the neighborhood and there are other coffee options because I think it's, it gets the job done perfectly well. And I also think the workers there are great. They're really sweet.

Yeah, they do a great job. The workers are great. They rocked. Do you want to guess a medium cappuccino from Dungan donuts? A medium cappuccino? Yeah. $4.50. Well, I was going to say $4.25.

It is a little bit more expensive. It's a 525. But still, yours was $9. $7.50. Okay. So a couple bucks less. I mean, everything is out of control. I'm like, if it was just a coffee, that'd be one thing.

And I would have given it a higher score because I would have been like I did enjoy the coffee, except them after these. I'm like, I don't know. There's canned ones. And that is a, what is it? Curig. That, these three are a curing diet pep. Diet Pepsi? Coor, a Coorig Dr. Pepper.

Yeah. That feels like a corig Dr. Pepper. I agree. All three of those were disgusting. Those were wretched cans of science. And I am going to say that knocks my score down a little bit, but not below three forks. I think that La Colum is a three fork coffee chain. I think it's right down the middle. And I think it gets the job done. And I'm satisfied with a cup of coffee I get there, which is going to be my order. But you're using your previous experience. I'm using my previous experience, but I'm also talking about, which is always a part of the evaluation, but I'm also saying that cap of cheese, That oat, that hot oat vanilla cappuccino I got was yummy. That was delectable. So that was a four forks and it's the rest of it sort of pulled it down.

Everything got pulled down, yeah. Can I mean honestly, when I think of La Cologne, I don't think of it as a coffee shop. I think if it was more like a turkey sandwich store. Same. Yeah, as a turkey sandwich store. As far as, as far as that, that's a five forker. It's a five fork turkey sandwich. It's just the rest of it's like when I think of Doughboys podcast, I think of the three of us on the couch.

That was awesome. We're back on that. I'm pretty good at that day switcher. Mitch is good at the switcher. I kind of am the switch MVP. Do Girls is going to be too popular. We'll talk about it.

Pay may be going down a little bit more. Hey, that was our review of Lockela-Lum. It's time for a segment. I have a mystery beverage, and Mitch and Vickamas, guess what it is? It's the Weiger Challenge, and we have a Triforce of Bev Varietals with a thematic tie.

So Emma and Amelia are walking these over. You each have three things to taste. What? They all look exactly. Exactly the same except for one of them. Yeah, one of them looks gross and the other two look like Red Bull. Okay, I'm smelling, I'll know Red Bull immediately. I'm smelling coconut already.

Wow, okay. Are we? Oh, yeah, there is some sort of, there is, this is a juicy, this is a juicy, this is a juicy. This seems like to me already. I'm ready to guess. I'm going to, you haven't even taken a sick yet. I'm going to say that this already to me seems like some sort of dull juice or something in some way. Do we have to get like name brand?

Is it like what, what is the? Whoever, whoever comes closest? And we'll be kind of... Specificity is good. Specificity helps. Okay. Okay. Oh, do you taste already?

I taste it already. We don't have to do it at the same time. You can take your time on this. And for audio listeners, Mitch, what, what, describe what exactly you've got in front of you in terms of coloration, viscosity. It's a very, you know, like a mellowed out orange juice here. A lot of pineapple notes, I would say that this is some sort of pineapple juice or some sort of tropical juice. Vic is you're shaking your head. you don't agree with me.

I think this is a, oh, I was going to say pure apple juice, but it wouldn't be that color. I'm going to say it's an apple pineapple. I 100% think you're right. I think there's three different apple juices here. Oh, that's interesting. You think each of these are an apple juice. Continue tasting, and we'll see if we can, that might illuminate things a little bit. Because I'm like, this could be just apple that is like a

pure apple juice. A little pulpy. This one is wild. All right. Mitch and Vic have moved on to the second beverage. Meals, I have the answer key, but I don't have which one is which. So I'm not sure if you know. Hold on.

Hold on. You know it. Yes. What are you doing? New Year's, New Year's Eve. This is a sparkling apple juice that you would get if you're not drinking at New Year's. I agreed with you that I thought it was. It's a tart sparkling sort of thing.

I'm going to let you take that and I'm going to say it just is an app. It is a sparkling apple juice. But I sort of guess. I know you did. But it's also more. Do you want to guess it too? I think that's an apple pair. Try the third one and then we'll see if we can guess all three.

The third one is apple juice. And then maybe try to guess a brand maybe. Classic. Dole or Mott's? Which one do you want? I want neither. Here's my guess. This is sort of like a thing where we are,

you have decided that you're like making a brand. I think that you made these. You think Nick Wager has made all three of these juices. Do you do this every episode? In fact, never once in 10 years. This is why I think that this is a branding thing. I think that you made all three of these juices. Dope boys juices.

Your guess is that these are Wiger branded. Vic, I'm going to just tell you, please change your guess. I think you're so close to winning. I'm going to change it and then all of a sudden you're going to sweep in and be like it's Weiger-branded juices. Okay, fine. I think that this is, what's that, Manicottis, what is it called? You're in the right ballpark. You're close.

I know exactly what you're trying to say. I don't know if I want to. Mazikoli? You're in the right ballpark. You're in the right, yeah. For what the brand is. Yeah. Martini.

Martinelli's. That's it. You got that. Martinleys. I think that this is Martinelli's. I think that this is martinelli's. You're gesturing at the. middle one. You're saying that you're saying this the, you know what, I'm having fun figuring this out

with you, but I think, yes, a Martinelli's is the middle one. Martinelli's is the middle. First one, I'm going to go with, do we think it could be like a just brand? I think that it's, it tastes, I'm sensing, I'm tasting like a hint of cardboard. So I am thinking it's like something that came in a cardboard. I do think, but you think it's pineapple apple. You think it's the combo of the two. I think you are maybe right. Pineapple apple. Pineapple apple. Pineapple apple, which I've also never had before, but I don't think it exists. I think that's the two notes that I'm getting there. That's the cloudy one.

Yeah, or I think it's going to be like a really like all natural apple juice. So this one is either, is like dole or just or whatever the other one was Mott's apple juice or something. And then I'll go, you want to go dull or Mott's? I don't know. What do you think? And also Amelia kind of like made a little face. Don't look at my face. When I said, dole.

So you're going to go dull. What are the options? Dull, Moths, is that it? Ocean Spray. Oh, ocean spray. Hmm. Is this a handmade apple juice? None of these are handmade.

No. These are all... Should we jump in about brand and then have them distinguish... Are they all the same brand? They're all the same brand. This is now... They're all Martinelli's. They're all Martinelli's apple juices.

Martinelli's regular. Martinelli's sparkling. Martinelli's pineapple. I think it's all natural. Which one do you think is all natural? This one. I think Vic gets it because that is that yellower one. The cloudier one is an organic honey crisp cider.

Wow. Vic, you have won the Weiger Challenge. Congrats. Well thought. Martinelli. You also fold Martinelli's. The sparkling one is the sparkling cider. And then the other one is just classic Martinelli cider.

I'm going to say this. I am good at this game. You really earned that. It's true. I think we kind of ended up doing it together. It was a fun. It was a fun experiment. It was a really fun game. It was a bit of a co-lab. If we want to call it a tie, we can. I'll let Vinode and the dough score make the decision. Vic can take it.

Ty goes. No, no. Come on. Ty goes the guest. Time goes to the guest. You earned it. You earned it. You earned it. You earned it. Just like a rest of our feedback. Let's open with the feedback. We have a voicemail today. Let's go ahead and listen. Hey, dough boys, Deas and guests. This is Taylor calling in from Columbus, Ohio. And I work at a grocery store that has a hot bar of about 15 dishes. We have a skillet bar as well, which is all like fried foods like wings and peter tots.

So it just made me curious what would be your ideal hot bar? What business would you be super excited to see, especially for like a quick one? Thanks. That's fun. This is a great question. Taylor, thank you for your service working in the food service industry. I think the, okay, 15 dishes, that's a pretty varied hot bar. I'm not sure if we need to come up, we need to pull 15.

What I would say is I love like a big tray of, give me a few different potato options. Like give me like some mashed potatoes, but also give me like some, some, some all grottin or something like that. Give me some sort of cheesy potato. And then also, like I love. No fries though, right? I think fries in the heating tray aren't great. Well, here's the thing. Fried chicken, my favorite food.

If you give me like a big thing of fried chicken, I think I'd be okay with that. Right. I had no idea. I fried chicken I mean I think fried chicken in one of these heated tray things is Yeah that can be fun I think that is as far as like fried stuff goes I think that's one of the things that does work

Not on the classic hot bar You got the one where then they got the classic hot bar And then you got the special hot bar with the hot ticket items Where they caught them behind the glass And you have to talk to somebody Oh okay That's where the fried chicken is. Does that count? I think so

Okay That's what I feel like Taylor is describing Tenders too though Some Tendies would be nice Tendies are nice But that stuff does dry out. Here's what I'm going to say. I think mac and cheese is a great call. That's exactly what I was going to say.

Mac and cheese. I like fancy mac and cheese where it's like you do a base of mac and cheese and then you load on top with stuff that's really saucy, so it gets kind of mixed in. Fun. Can I throw one out there and we can decide if it's okay? Yeah. Meatballs and sauce. Meatballs is fun. A little situational, but that's fun. I like that. It's fun. Also, if you have a noodle station, you put meatballs on there, yeah, I mean, now we're getting the possible. You don't like it. We're just pitching here. pieces of baguette or something you get meatballs and bread kind of like that's fun I like that I was gonna pitch like I'm not sure if like we get some soups in there but I feel

like I like I'd like like like a black bean soup or some sort of like a turkey chili maybe some clam chowder maybe some broccoli chitter soup yeah I guess if this is a hot bar serving food coffee could be one of the trays coffee can be there because then my favorite hop bar item is sort of at any store you go into I I also think maybe this is crazy but this is the grocery store that I go to always usually has like some sort of a chickpea masala. And I think that's nice because it also kind of like helps flavor whatever else you're getting. Yeah, that's making me think like a sag panier or something if we're in that neck of the woods. And that's nice on a hot bar too because it is better the longer it stews, I think, like the longer

it's sitting there with the other ingredients. This is a big part of it because that's why I think mac and cheese works so well at a hot bar. It's like it can just sit. And that's why I like meatballs in the sauce. Even kind of oily too with mac and cheese if it's been sitting out for a long time. It still is fine. Still good. How about some cheese enchiladas or something like that?

Take a couple of those, put those on a tray. It's fun. Like a taco situation where you've got a pile of tortillas and then like, you know, like some pulp pork or something and you can kind of make a little taco. That can be a hoot. To me, it's like time versus effort, right? And like a burrito or something like that is something I would make really quick at home. But the reason I'm going to a hot bar is like, so I feel like grabbing something

that I could make almost just as fast at home. I'm like I have a tough time at that sometimes. Yeah, I like the enchilada. The enchilada I can, because I can just. get that some bitch out of there. And then I just scrape out a couple of them. And yeah, they've just kind of been sitting there. And they're a thing that doesn't really, you know, suffer from sitting in cheese and sauce for a while.

No, it makes them taste better. Yeah. I can't believe we didn't ask this question. What Toronto spot do you miss the most in being in the States? Me. I think they, yeah, I think he's asking you. Yeah. Oh, man.

I mean, like, I think sort of, I know that there's Dunk in here, but I think to your point, like, the place that I think on a regular basis when I go home, that I'll hit is, there's two of them. Tim's is like, I do love Tim's and I do miss Tims, even though I know it's in New York and it got bought out, so it's way different. Here's, when we were up there, people were very anti-Tim Hortons. And on the stage, I was like, Tim Hortons is good and you guys like Tim Hortons. Like the people in the crowd, they like Tim Hortons, but they also like to hate it so much. Yeah, I think that's it. I think everyone's been going to Tim Hortons their whole lives and they have strong opinions about it. And I think because of the, like you were saying, quality has gone down quite a bit,

too, even though it's sort of like ingrained. They changed the beans, too. I was going to say it. All right. Did you change the beans? That's what that was. Okay, well, there you go. That's what Sparky told me.

The place that I do miss most in Toronto is this bubble two place we used to go called the alley. Wow. And I love the alley. And I have like strong ties to my family with the alley too. So I'm like, that is probably the place that I always hit. What about a Feduccini? What about a Feduccini pizza from Pizza Pizza Pizza? Well, we'll do that too.

Okay. But now it's kind of the technology is caught up. Yes. Now we can do that here. You can do it at Domino's basically, yeah. You said Fettuccini pizza because you were thinking about the Alfredo sauce with the four cheese. I guess it is kind of like a fetichini piece. It didn't even register in my mind that that was wrong.

What about some corn dogs? Isn't it a fun, a big tray of corn dogs? I like it. I don't think I've ever tried a corn dog. Oh, man. Treat yourself. How do you feel about pizza, like square pizza and a hot bar? How do you feel about it?

I've had been in those situations where I've had some success with the pizza that's kind of sitting there. Yeah, like a Detroit-style pizza, but not always. I don't know. Again, I'm like, if it's about convenience and something that would be tough, but I'm like, just buy a frozen pizza if you're already at the grocery store and sticking in and that's going to taste way better than anything coming off or hopper. I'm sorry. That's fair. That's fair. It makes me sad, but it's a delivery.

No, it's a frozen pizza you cooked. You know, I want to move to dessert. Would you have a nice hot brownie in there? thinking for a dessert or is no dessert at all? I don't think of the hot bar. I'm not thinking dessert. Well, why not? I've never seen a dessert on a hot bar. Well, why not? Why not? Good question. Why aren't there hot dessert? I mean, it's a great question.

It's just not done. Yeah, you get a brownie. You could have an apple crisp, maybe, a cobbler. I love apple. A cobbler would be great because that's also kind of fun too, because even if for whatever reason, as people are scooping it, it gets mixed up. Yeah. That's fine. That's fine. I mean, cookies. Yeah. I think we should see more, I mean, apple crisp. Yeah. Why not? I feel like that's. I feel like that's. I feel like that's a tricky thing, especially, like, you know, there's all ages at a grocery store. People go a little bit crazy when they get in the grocery store, and I feel like that's the type of thing.

Lots of people are sneaking tastes. Oh, yeah. And I kind of do have that in a hot bar with, like, those cookie things. Like, now, like, Whole Foods has them and lazy acres and stuff like that where you can, like, open them. Oh, yeah. You can get an individual cookie. Yeah. You get little tasters?

Oh, you can get individual cookies. No, it's just like, it's like the bakery, but it's like, it's kind of like. It's kind of like... Yeah, you can make your own little box. Yeah, you can get like six or 12 or whatever. And counties and stuff. You can get like a single cookie if you want. This is lazy acres right near UCB.

It's not far from UCB. That's where I got the Martinelli's. That's where I got the Martinelli's. That's where I do hop art when I'm coming home from shows sometimes. Wow. How about that? And do they have that pan? Do they have that the not sag panacea, but the, the, just some sort of usually like a chickpea, some sort of a chickpea masala.

Or they'll do a tofu one or with the cheese too. It's like, it just kind of depends. But they usually have at least one there. That's fun. Pop it on mac and cheese, try it. Yeah. I'm trying to throw it. think if there's anything we haven't hit.

I feel like there's always like a samosa or like an empanata kind of thing in a lot of hot bar is like a little pastry wrapped meat some sort. Sure, that's fun. Yeah, empanadas are good. Yeah. I have a pitch at the hot bar. Dill turkey sandwich. I'm in.

I think we're making light of something that is really beautiful and special. That's fair. I apologize. Alam specifically. I apologize. I apologize. I got a real one. I'd like to see the hot bar.

What about a hard body? If you have a question or comment about the world of train restaurants, you email us at Feedbag at birdfuck.com or leave his voicemail at 830-0-30-0-4. That's 8304-6-844. Our producers, Emma Erdbrink, our associate producer, Amelia Marino, our video editor, Mike Dorfman, doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com slash doughboys. And the doughboys double our weekly bonus episode, plus our entire pre-2018 back catalog over at patreon. Instagram.com slash doughboys. Our guest, Vic McAulis,

thank you so much for joining us. What an absolute delight. Thank you for having me. This was a blast. And also we got to say it. Welcome to the main feed, right? Welcome to the main feed. My letters work.

Letters work. I love this. I was sending hard letters. They kept sending the back. It was like at the notebook, you know, where you guys were like, where have you been? And I was like, I've been writing you every day. What a delight.

What a who? Do you have anything you'd like to plug? Yes. I do have something. I'd like to plug. There's a lot of like really terrible anti-trans bills happening across the country. And just in general, it's a, it's a scary time. So there is two organizations I love locally.

In Florida, there's one based out of Orlando called Zebra Youth. In Atlanta, there's one called Lost and Found Youth. But truly any local trans organization you have, I'm sure that they could use monetary support, volunteer, follow them, signal boost, see if there's anything you can do. Or transgender law center is a really good sort of national organization you can follow. That's awesome. Yeah, that rules. Great sentiment here to start the new year.

A horrible year, a few year. A horrible decade maybe we're living in, but, you know, yeah, that's great. New year, hopefully new horizons, we will see. Yeah. And, all right, we should change. Hey, I got something we can plug. Yeah. Me and you going to Turkey on that boy strip.

Put some hair plugs in there. I love this. Come, if I'm ever in Budapest again, come visit me on the way back. I love it. Lags. I've said it before, a Hungary and Turkey, they should get together to solve both their problems. All right, let's switch sides again to sign up the other. Okay, come on, here we go.

Oh, it feels right. Here we go. Come on, look at this. The world is right again. All right. Isn't this better? Yes. It's definitely better.

Our listenership, unfortunately, is going to agree. You should hold Jemmy's paw. Oh, she's cooperating. Good girl. She seems to really love it. Hold her foot and stuff. Emma Amelia, do you want to take us home? That's for my co-host.

For my co-host, for my co-host, Emma Irving, I'm, I'm, I'm, fuck me, wait a, for my my host, Amelia and Emma. I'm, I'm Nick Weiger, happy. Ain't so easy, is it? Ain't so easy, I got it. I got it. I can't wait to see what the Mitchell edit's going to look like on this. Hey, Mark Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger.

Happy eating. See ya. See ya. See ya. Bye. Bye. See ya. That was a hate gum podcast.