Doughboys - Munch Madness: Domino's vs. Pizza Hut with Claudia O'Doherty

Episode Date: March 1, 2018

Actress and comedian Claudia O'Doherty (Love, Trainwreck) returns to the pod for the first matchup of the month-long Munch Madness 2018: The Tournament of Chompions: The Slice is Right, as pizza chain juggernauts Domino's and Pizza Hut square off. Plus, a Mountain Dew edition of Drank or Stank.Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Nineteen fifty-eight, the Carney brothers open a pizzeria in the shadow of their alma mater, Wichita State University in Wichita, Kansas. Nineteen sixty, the Monahan brothers open their pizzeria next to Eastern Michigan University in Ipsilanti, Michigan. Over the years, this trailblazing duo of Midwest brothers would separately grow their brands in a dual and dueling Italian-American food service empires that comprise the largest pizza chains in the nation and the world respectively. Now, after decades of saucy combat that included developments such as an innovative 30 minutes

or less delivery guarantee, the birth and death of the pizza parlor, a claymation mascot who would drive an unhinged TV viewer into a lethal encounter with police, and a commercial starring a future president of the United States, these titans of industry finally face off in a sudden-death matchup to see whose cheesy pie is the choice of the upper crust. Which Shane will reign supreme in this battle of war and pizza? This week on Doe Boys, the first matchup of the quarter-final round of Munch Madness, the Tournament of Chompions, The Slice is Right, Juggernaut Region, Domino's, versus Pizza Hut, Let's Go!

Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants, I'm Nick Weiger, alongside my co-host, Macaulay Hulkin, Mitchie Two Spoons, Mike Mitchell. What's going on? What the... Macaulay Hulkin? Yeah, let's courtesy of Brian Dummo, if you have a written insult you'd like me to use on Mitch at the top of the show, roastspoonmanageemail.com, he could have gone some different directions.

Macaulay Bulkin, maybe an alt? Yeah, Dummo is right. Big Macaulay Hulkin, maybe? This is his name, Dummo? Brian Dummo, yeah. Roasted yourself, dude. Roasted by his surname. Mitch, this is the third annual tournament.

That's right. Second year we did burger brawl, second year we did chicken fight, this year the slice is right, pizza is your favorite food, how do you feel about this, how do you feel about eating so many slices over the course of the next 30 days? Not good. I'm already upset, I've been eating well, being healthy I cleaned up my place, Nick. Your place is pristine, that's what I said when I arrived. That's right.

It looks great. I'm trying to be good, and this is not good. Yeah, that's the thing, that's the corner we backed ourselves into with the premise of the podcast, but then this month in particular, where you have to eat more than normal. We basically were having six slices of pizza for this episode alone. That's right. That's insane. I feel bad for our guests, our guest is cool, the whole premise of the show is bad, and

then also this is specifically worse. This is specifically bad. It's worse than it usually is. How the hell? It's two spoons nation, and I got myself, I got myself a little drop, Nick. Are you even using the ox cord? Wait, where is it? We did the whole, I wasn't using the ox cord earlier.

Are you even using the ox cord? We had the whole thing, I was going to use the ox cord to play my versus Mario Color Samples. Why wouldn't you? We could have handed it across the table. All right. Well, I didn't think of it. I thought you had it for the phone.

Well, now on you have to play it. Okay. We still should just add it in and you went quiet. You can just do it in post. Right. Oh, little nirvana. No, I think we're flying blind. Trapped inside for a week.

Classic heart shaped box. What's trapped inside is some chocolate treats. The nirvana did. The nirvana did. The nirvana did. The nirvana did. The nirvana did. The nirvana did.

The nirvana did. The nirvana did. There we go. That's the drop. Mitch, I used to have Kurt Cobain style hair and a little shoulder leg. Too bad you couldn't follow Kurt Cobain's lead. Okay, come on. I meant kill yourself.

I know what you. Rest in peace of Kurt Cobain. I feel bad now. Happy Valentine's Day to Weigar, Mitch, Wally, Irma and the entire Doughboy's family. That includes you guys. Very nice. Twitter at Padley Dan. Thanks Dan Padley.

Nice guy. Much better than Domo or whatever the fuck his name is. All right. Dick, we should have introduced our guest. Shouldn't we? We absolutely should. Happy Valentine's Day. Oh, this is March.

That's March first. It's March first. Our guest today is an actress and comedian from Trainwreck and Netflix's love Claudio Doherty is back. Hi, Claudia. Hello. Well, tossing the cans on right at the end. That was very cool.

I was I was. I'm so excited. You couldn't even say that with enthusiasm. I'm so excited to be back on Doughboys. We're thrilled to have you. I know our listeners are thrilled to have you. A fan favorite, I'd say. Is that true?

It is true. Absolutely. Because I get a little abuse from Doughboys fans online. Do you really? Yeah. It's been relentless ever since I came on. They're like, you don't know anything about whatever I talked about. And they're like, I don't remember what I said or.

Is it just me? Is it just me? It's a black mirror. It's like black mirror. Oh, right. Like just the relentless abuse. So I hope I don't get doxed after this episode. Wait, maybe I will just because I've said that.

Because you just even flooded the possibility. Oh, God. Listen, every doxer out there. Don't dox her. Right, Nick? No doxing. No doxing. If you're a doxer, don't dox her.

Yeah. If you're a doxer, don't dox her. Thanks. Wait, are they really mean to you? What did you review? I reviewed Baja Fresh, but definitely some people are like, you don't know. Because I didn't understand, I guess, some of the traditions of the show. And I voiced that at the time.

Yeah, you don't listen. You shouldn't listen to the podcast. You're a busy person. I'm very busy. And so I didn't know. Sometimes I was asking what was going on and they're like, you don't know. Well, that's like normal for you to know what's going on. No, I know it's fine.

I think there are some podcast nerds who are. And God bless them. They're great. God bless them. But I think they're maybe more like, you know, just what they care about is the structure of the show. And so they're like, ah, you were deviating from the format that I know. Yeah, exactly.

It's a weird form of, pedantry isn't the word. But they've they've got like this weird, like zero. They're zeroing on and just how the show, like it feels the same way every time. And there are army, baby. They'll do whatever we say. And they'll attack someone if they don't know their shit, Claude. Yeah, that's what. Yeah.

That's what happened. I think I agree. I said that. I said that shit. Be nice to our guests. Our guests are our guests. I'm nice to them. I'm the guest.

You are. Is that like I'm the baby? What's that? What's that? You don't know dinosaurs? Oh, I do actually. Oh, you do? I do know dinosaurs.

I'm the baby. Gotta love me. I saw a photo of my friend's baby recently and it did look like the baby from dinosaurs. Is his name Sherman? What's the baby's name? Isn't it just called baby? Oh, maybe it is just baby.

Baby something. We can figure this out. Hashtag sounds right. Hashtag dinosaur mystery. Dinosaurs mystery. Have you ever watched the last episode of the show? It's very dark. Oh, yeah.

No, I think you've told me about it though. Yeah. It's like the, I probably have. What happened? You can't shut up about it. It's like an extinction. It's like a very sad. It's like, cause it's like a Henson production sort of thing.

But then the last episode is like, like it's like the end of times where the dinosaurs and the family is sad and not to spoil too much. But I think that's how love season three ends. Oh yeah. That is how love season three ends. There are lots of sad dinosaurs in that episode. You guys get walloped with a meteor? Yeah.

That's how it all wraps up. But there's enough time for everyone to get sad about it. Like to get what's happening and then to be like really sad. That would be interesting. I think it's good. I think it's good. It's very challenging last episode. Kind of like this is the end.

I feel like that meteor is a crutch for apatow. He's throwing a meteor at the end of all his movies. Yeah. Come up with a new trick, dude. Yeah. There's nothing meteor than these pizzas. Well, actually there's lots of things because some of them don't have made on them.

Yeah. Baby Sinclair is the name of the baby. Oh, Sinclair. What did I say? Was it Sinclair? Sherman. Close. So he's a junior because Sinclair was the dad, right?

Oh, okay. Yeah. Yeah, he's junior. How about that? And so wait, it's baby Sinclair senior? Why didn't they call the top son Sinclair? Yeah, that's weird when they do that. That feels like favorite to him.

The first son should be the one that has the repeat name. Yeah. Now I just want to dig in on the dinosaur's wiki and figure out this family tree because it is confusing me. I feel like it should be the top son. Here's what I feel like. If you name the second son, the junior, that feels like you ran out of name.

It feels like you were just like, I don't know. And then you named your name. That's true. I feel like that's bad. And the first son had Bart's hair. The first one did have Bart's hair. And the girl had Lisa's hair. That's right.

They did. They had Bart and Lisa hair. And then they had to change the baby to not be called Maggie. Right. To Sinclair. I think that in the first episode they established. Were you watching this down in Australia? Yeah.

Now, for me, Friday night was our big pizza night. And we'd watch TGIF. Thank God it's pizza. Thank God it's TGIP. We would get pizza. We'd go over to my grandma's house. And we'd watch the lineup. We'd watch Urkel.

We'd watch Family Matters. It was Urkel. Yeah. And dinosaurs was in there at some point, step by step. Not for long though. They were like one season or something. I'm an old man.

So I watched, I saw Perfect Strangers TGIF at one point. I saw old stuff. That was on TGIF show? It was. I feel like it was a different night for some reason. We had that in Australia. No, I could be wrong. We had that one.

You had, oh yeah. Were you offended by bulky? Not at all. Okay. Because I was, you know, three or something. So I had to develop an ability to be offended. Why would she find bulky offensive in the first place? Because, oh, I mean, he's not from Australia.

I'm Eastern European. Oh, okay. I didn't like it though. There weren't enough girls in that one. Sure. And step by step, they were, they were, they were, they each had like a girlfriend, but they kind of didn't, they,

but you know who was on that show was Harriet from Family Matters. Uh-huh. She was first on, this is so stupid. She was first on Perfect Strangers. Yeah. It's a, it's a spin-off. Family Matters is a spin-off.

Yeah. Perfect Strangers is a spin-off of Family Matters. No, other way around. Other way around. What? Yeah. The, the mom on Family Matters was a minor character, a supporting character on Perfect Strangers.

What was her character on Perfect Strangers? She was like, she worked. Nice woman. She was, she was, she like basically worked and like, did she, she worked in the office, right? She either worked in the office or she worked in the building where they lived or something, one of the two. Right.

Right. Great. I'm glad. So in Perfect Strangers, there's a young baby Urkel exists in Perfect Strangers world. That's crazy to think about. But she does, what? She's not pregnant with Urkel.

No. He's their neighbor, isn't he? I never said that she was pregnant with Urkel. It seems like he did because he said there's a baby Urkel. And one time someone was pregnant with Urkel. I know. That's true. What a horrifying situation.

To be pregnant with Urkel? Well, you just wouldn't know how disappointing your son was going to be. Oh. I feel like if your last name is Urkel, you have a sense. He's a nerd, guys. Right. Claude, what's been going on since we last talked to you?

I can't remember. It was like two years ago. It's been a while. It was like a long time ago. Yeah. So much has happened. I looked up which episode you were, you were on us and you were on with us in the, the fifties.

Yeah. You were on 9,000 episodes at that point. Right. Right. What, um, what's, well, I know you're my friend in real life. So we know what's going on. That is true. So it is really.

I feel like not much has happened with me in that time, but. I've grown a lot. I'm a lot taller. And, um, a lot more emotionally sophisticated. Oh, that's fun. Yeah. Oh, that's fun. Do you know I actually had three pieces of pizza last night

and now we've got six pieces of pizza right here right now. I have been eating healthy, but I also ate pizza last night and was like, well, Why did you eat pizza last night? You had control. I had no, I had no choice. Wait, wait, what was the, I want to hear this. I was with.

Go ahead. I was with people and they, and they wanted to get beat. It was over. I had to do what I had to do. Where did you go to a restaurant? Yeah. And the only thing at the restaurant was pizza. Basically.

What do you, what do you mean? Basically. Wildcraft now down by you, Nick. Okay. You're over there. None of your fucking business. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. Are you allowed to swear on this?

Yeah, of course. Okay, cool. That's very cool. Are you going to say I swear? No, but I just want to know what else was on the menu apart from pizza. There were, but it was like people were getting pizza. You're not really answering the question.

All right. There was a steak on the menu too. Okay. I know I should have, but I didn't want to be a pain in the ass. To who? My body. Why would that make you a pain in the ass?

Because it just, it would have. Is this was like a communal dining thing? Yes. Yes. Okay. Yeah. Right. So you're sharing plates you didn't want to be.

Me and my fellow Scientologists. I think it actually would have been very cool for you to just get the steak. Yeah. No one would have cared at all. You're right. All right. Look, I fucked up.

What do you want me to say? I just was like, whatever. It sounds like you're not that comfortable with this group. You shouldn't be friends with them. Look, I had, I had, look, I've been eating salmon and brown rice. And then I was just like, who gives a shit? I gave up. Whoa.

Whoa. Whoa. But steak is, steak's nice though. I know. Well, also I know that you love steak. I know that you're a big steak fan. I guess I added a wig. Am I wrong on this?

I mean, I like a steak. I'm not like a steak. Wait, wait. I feel like, I feel like on set and stuff, I feel like you've been, I've, I've heard you craving steak before. No. There's no way that was not me craving steak. I never want steak in the middle of the day.

And I never want steak on set. Oh, I know where we went to a place called Kisbaka together. Oh yeah. We did go to Chisbaka and we also went to Tamoshan. And you were, and yes. And you were craving steak both times. Okay. Fine.

I love steak. You're a steak nut. You love steak. You're probably thinking about it right now. Well, of course I am. It's what we're talking about. That was nice. But I wanted the pork that the people had at Kisbaka.

Remember I had fennel pollen on it. And I don't even like fennel. Yes. Yeah. Hey, that's a big, that's, that's a celebrity. You see people come in. I saw a, a, a. Who'd you see?

I saw killer Mike in there. Spill. Very cool. Killer Mike. He's a rapper. Claudia. He's a rapper. Um, he's good.

He's great. And he was in there. I want to say hello to him, Nick. I told you it was like the hardest I ever. Right. Like had to contain myself from saying hello. Really? He probably appreciated you not saying hello.

Yeah. I'm sure he did. I hate it when you say hello to me. Just in general. I always appreciate it when you don't say hello to me. No, not. I take that back. Did you just say not?

Yeah. Oh, Claude Doug. What? Yeah. I thought that you love steak. I do like steak. I just don't like love steak. I prefer spaghetti to steak.

Oh, yes. You love spaghetti. Would you say that's your favorite food or your favorite comfort? You're going to comfort food? Yes. Okay. Spaghetti. That sucks.

That's spaghetti is a comfort food. It's just a bummer that it's going to be a comfort food. What do you mean? It's just a fun thing to eat. To me, it's like not a comfort. It's like an exciting challenge. Oh, I got you. It's a celebration.

It's a celebration food. Right. But do you like like a, you know, kind of like a homemade sort of, you know, working class spaghetti? Or do you like to go to a nice Italian restaurant and get that? Both. Oh, you like both? Okay.

I'm very good at making it, but I also love to order it. Are we talking like just like, are you playing a pasta in general? Are you specifically saying like a spaghetti marinara kind of a classic? Pasta in general, but my favorites are always going to be a spaghetti or a buccatini. Sometimes I also like tagliatelle, fettuccine. I prefer always the long strands. Gotcha. I don't, not like a short pasta, but I love a long pasta.

Interesting. I'm a long pasta fan too. And I don't care about gnocchi as people say, that's how you say it. Yeah. I didn't say that way. But I don't like, I'm just like, it's not even pasta to me. Really? I mean, I guess it's a different sort of thing because it's sort of a potato based or ricotta

based. Yeah. It's like a flour or potato based dumpling. Really. It's not pasta. I agree with that. It's a different thing, but I've had some gorgeous gnocchi's in my time. I still like it.

I like that too. It's so heavy that you kind of have to, you can't have it with the frequency you can. Exactly. And maybe isn't as versatile. And I'll never make it by choice. So if it's long, bring it on. If it's short, that's a board. That's what I say with pasta.

Okay. Whoa. I say that to the people at the restaurant. That's a board. Yeah. You like to use the word abort for like any cancellation or yeah, which does, it always upsets me. But it's cool.

Claudia, do you have a, back to spaghetti. Oh my God. Wow. Breaking shoes. Yeah. Spot guess gets very dark and personal. Do I get what? When you have the spaghetti, are you a meatball fan?

Do you throw those in there? I like meatballs, but I don't make them that often. Gotcha. I do a pork and a beef meatball. And then I do like to add a lot of flavor to it. But then once you're making meatballs, I'm like, it's just hard because then my attention is divided. Right.

Because who's the star? Is it the spaghetti or the meatball? And meatballs, like, you know, generally you're going to be putting something like breadcrumbs in there to make it like bind together. Sure. And then they're quite heavy themselves. So it's like two heavy things. So I do love a great meatball, but at the same time, it's not my number one choice.

Gotcha. I say a meatball and spaghetti and meatballs. Excuse me. A meatball, spaghetti and meatballs like a two man show or two woman show. They're a duo. They both got to be good. They go together like a horse in a carriage. That's right.

Right. Spaghetti and meatball. So if there's no spaghetti, you're like, where's the meatball? I mean, no, I'm saying I want them both to be like on their egg. I want like a really good pasta. And then you can decide which is the star of the show. You know what I mean? Right.

So basically that observation boiled down to if I want food, I want it to be good. I prefer good food to bad food. I just would prefer like bolognese because I to me that's going to like, you're going to get a bit of everything in every mouthful. Oh, that's a good point. What? Strong argument. Why do you just blend it all together?

Big meatballs. Fun. There's a bolognese is not like a taken spaghetti and meatballs and thrown into blender and drinking a puree. It's a midpoint between it. Here's what I will say. What? Meatball.

We all know the rhyme. It's easy to lose the meatball on top of spaghetti. All covered with cheese. Somebody sneeze. Yeah. So it is good. Maybe it is good to have it mixed in the meat. What?

Where does it get rolled? It rolled out the door. How does it? Cause I'm trying to remember the arc of this meatball. It went on the floor and then it went outside. You know where I think it rolled into Nick? The White House and became president. Oh, is that a compliment?

Wow. No, no, wait. It's supposed to be put down. But I do love meatballs. I feel like that's more of like an Italian slur. Like he calls it a meatball. Am I, am I wrong? Oh, that's greaseball.

That's what I'm thinking. Any meatballs out there, please write in and let us know. Meatballs are, they're fun. They're Bill Murray in the gang. Oh, right. Meathead. Maybe I'm thinking of. Yes.

Meathead is an insult. Yeah. Is that what you call Italian people? Meatheads. I don't know. I got no problem with the pizons. Oh my God. Jesus.

They're going to love you. I went to Italy. That's something that happened between now and last summer. Really? No way. I know. And how was the trip? Did you eat some good food?

That's fair. No, it was really lovely. We had great food. What were the highlights cuisine wise? The best was we went to a restaurant in like farmland and they made a very, um, they had very traditional things. So that area, I was in Palmer. So they always give you Parma ham.

Oh, okay. And a chunk of Parma Jean cheese before you eat, which so you're already quite full. And then you eat pasta and the tortilla is what they have this. It's like a big tortellini with like, because it was like fall, which is what we call autumn in Australia. It would, they, you know, had like squash in it. And that was very nice butter sauce.

Right. Wait, what did you, did you say they, they, it's, what did you say about fall and autumn? Oh, in Australia, fall is autumn. We don't say fall. Oh, okay. Cause we say autumn here too. But we have a, it's more fall.

It's more fall. We know what autumn is. We know what autumn is. We've heard about it. Yeah. But we're like fall. Like, why didn't you say autumn? Yeah.

I got you. That's what we're like. And also they have torta frita, which is not how I said it, torta frita, which is fried squares of bread that they bring out at the beginning of the meal. And they're like puffed up zigzagged edge, like squares of pasta. So kind of like a crouton almost. Almost crouton, but more of like a pastry texture.

That sounds good. Yeah. It's a very good way. That's a lot of eating before you're eating. Yeah. Everyone smokes as well and drinks and you're like, does everyone have cancer? Because you know,

No, they live forever. Processed meats are the most carcinogenic of all foods. Oh, right. But they, but they, but they, they live, they live so long. Italian people live so long. They live to 200 generally. Yes. I think that's the youngest.

And they're all smoking and eating ham all day. It doesn't make sense. Hmm. Yeah. Also pretty close to Transylvania. Just putting it out there. We were in the North. So yeah.

Pretty close. You think that's the, the, the, the vampirism is at play. It could be. Hmm. I was just saying. But why are they eating food then? Don't they just want blood? And why are they out in the daytime?

There's maybe another question. Well, I only saw them at night time. All right. Yeah, you checked that so far. And they did all have capes on. But they were eating food and that is not a vampire thing to do. They don't eat regular food. Yeah.

But maybe vampires sometimes want red wine at a, at a push. Are you sure the vampires don't eat regular food? They don't. They don't. They don't eat garlic. I think they don't eat food. And I think it's a whole thing of like, you can't eat or you can't taste food. Maybe it depends on the myth.

Those, but I think foods no good. Yeah. Vampire. Can I just say this? That the garlic thing would be the hardest thing of being a vampire. Not being able to have any. What about not going in the sun? Yeah.

That would be hard. That's terrible. Vitamin D is crucial. I know, but I don't like the sun. Come on. What's the sun got for me? Vitamin D. I can take a pill of that.

No, no problem. I'm not a plant. I don't need the fucking sun. Whoa. I mean, could it get depression though? If you don't have the sun. Seasonal effectiveness effect. I feel like sometimes I like the winter more than the summertime.

That's weird. I think I'm happier in the winter. No, you're not. What do you mean? Why? Because you like sweaters and Santa and stuff like that. Yes. But what about swimming in the ocean?

I don't like that. I'm afraid of sharks. Oh, what? The Australians not afraid of sharks. That's where they're very afraid of sharks. They're scarier. They're more afraid of sharks. But you like swimming in the ocean.

Give me a lake. I'll take a lake all day. Lake at night. I feel like lakes. Wait. A lake to prove my sun point. Like a muddy, dark lake. I don't think so.

Yeah. Full of leeches. You're more likely to get a leech than a snake. I've never got bit by a leech once in my life. I have. Have you really? What was the situation? Multiple times.

Were you by the pond and stand by me? I can't think of words. That is when they got leeches instead of me. I got one on a farm when I was like three. Oh, man. And it was like sort of a tropical area. And I was wearing gum boots. What do you call?

Is that what you call gum boots? No. I don't know what that is. Wellingtons? Mmm. Gulloshes. Gulloshes. Gulloshes.

That's what they are. I was wearing gulloshes and they had said like lots of leeches. Look out for leeches. And you have to check your boots for leeches when you come back in the house. Right. And I took off my boots. I had there was like a huge leech between my toes. Oh my God.

I had been in there for a long time because it was very big. And I had gotten a lot of my blood in its body. Does it hurt to take them off? No. You put salt on them and they like shrivel up. Oh, right. Look. But it's very disturbing.

Yeah. Yeah. Because you can't if you just pull it their teeth will like. Yeah. Cut your stay in you. You could die. Yeah. That's brutal.

Wait, really? No. That's not true. You couldn't die. But my brother was very upset. But I wasn't upset. Did he have one too or no? No.

But it's more that's a thing. Just a look. In the world where if like someone's in a frenzy, you can't be in a frenzy. Right. And he was freaking out about my leech so I wasn't scared. And then other times like going on bushwalks, walking through the bush and if it's been raining, then they'll just come on, get on your ankles. Really?

And then you have to put salt on them. I gotta say, that back sounds like a hellscape. You got to wear gum boots and then leeches are getting between your toes. You go on bushwalks and you get attacked by critters. Yeah. I don't know. It was only leeches so far by the way. Okay.

More leeches. I don't think of leeches as being everywhere. I've never been to Australia. I may never go to Australia, but I don't think of it being like Australia this summer. Why? Because my mom always wanted to go. That's fine. I'll tell you everything that you guys should do.

Is there good food out there? They've got Pizza Hut and Domino's. Whoa. Hey, that's a good segue. But also I've been watching. There's very good food. There is good food. Really great food.

I'm excited about that. I've been watching Lord of the Rings lately. New Zealand. I know it's in New Zealand. We're going to New Zealand too. We're going to Australia and New Zealand. That's exciting. That's the plan.

My mom and my sister and I. So after the Super Bowl ended and we lost, we went home and we watched Lord of the Rings. And I just been watching it a lot lately and Hobbit Hobbitton is looks amazing. It's cool looking. It makes sense that those movies are so good. They filmed there and it's the coolest looking place on earth. I'm excited. I haven't watched them.

What? I haven't watched them. Have you ever seen the Lord of the Rings movies? You haven't seen any of them? I saw the Hobbit. Okay. What the fuck, Claudia? Is this real?

Yeah, because I never read them. And I thought I'd probably, maybe it's good to read these because everyone's read them. No. And then I, and then like people owned it. But I was like, this just seems to be like trolls battling. And I don't really like battles. Right. There's a lot of battles.

You know like battle trolls? Yeah. And there's like, how many girls are in that? Like one? No, there's some cool female characters in the movie. But there aren't a lot. It's just like living the clouds and like occasionally check in. They're just like, hi.

Some of them are the most powerful, but they do talk like that. Hi. How are you? They sound out of breath. Yeah. Liv Tyler is one. Yeah. It's a fun character.

Yeah, you know who's in it. Doesn't she pass the Beck, Beck Stelvest or no? I mean, I don't know. I don't know. I don't know if I can recall a scene where there's no two women talking to each other. Probably. Maybe not. Right.

And if they are, they're talking about like the one ring or something. Yeah. All the boys who are looking for the ring. Right. There are no girls on the journey. That is true. And also can I be real? I don't like battles and I don't like journeys.

What? I don't like journeys in movies. You don't like journeys? I hate like road, I don't like road trip movies. And whenever I'm always like, I know, cause I believe them when they're like, we've got to go to Tucson to pick up mom's ashes. I'm like, well, can't we do it? Well, I can't wait to get to Tucson.

And then the movie, no one's ever even in Tucson. And so I never specifically the Robert Downey. You're Zach Galifianakis movie. What movie is that? I forget what it's called. I haven't seen that. I'm not wouldn't see that if it's got a car on the poster. I won't see it.

There is a specific. So Mad Max out the window. Oh, I like Mad Max, um, Fury Road. So that movie is like a whole journey battle car movie. But I liked it because there was girls in there. Oh, okay. Yeah. And I think George Miller is really good.

He's great. You're girl crazy. Babe, he did Babe, witches of Eastwick, Lorenzo's Oil. This man, he's really going all over the place. And I appreciate that. Yeah. Hey, and you know who else is great? Peter Jackson.

And he made a great trilogy. You should watch it. No, it's so long. But did you read the book? Did you read the book? I tried to and I got bored with the book. But like, I don't want to hear like about like a hobbit's pubes.

If anything, it's the most respectful thing I could do is to want to, to savor the books. Yeah. Right. I would say like, you're never going to read those books. Yeah.

No, no, no. You should watch the movies. I think you should watch the movies. There. I think that they are rewatching them and I was watching out of the Super Bowl. It brought me peace. And oh, I also want to shout out to my cousin,

John. I didn't get to see him in Minneapolis and I wish I got to see him and I didn't get to see him. Why not? Because it was just too packed. It was crazy. I got there. It was, it was there for two days basically.

But your cousin lives there. Yeah, he lives there. A family member who lives there. You didn't get to see him. No, I didn't get to see him. That's a bummer. Who are you hanging out with? Wu Tang,

my buddy Wu Tang from Quincy. Okay. Yeah. I went to the Super Bowl one day. Don't make me feel bad about this already. I'm not. I don't care. Okay.

But you should, you, I think, I think I'm going to, I'm going to try to convince you to watch them. I look forward to that. They're, they're like our, I think that they, like since Star Wars, they are the, the, the best kind of trilogy fantasy. Not a fan of Star Wars. I know that's a similar situation.

I know. I know you don't like it. Have you seen them? I did get forced to watch them at some stage. Got it. Who forced you to watch them? An ex-boyfriend. Oh no.

Yeah. So now like you're not going to, if you broke up with a boyfriend and you forced you to watch them, I don't, I feel like you're not going to like the movies. Well, I just, I mean, the thing is they're so like omnipresent anyway. Kind of know everything because they're so echoed in popular culture. So there was no surprises, but it was just like a boring thing to watch.

Like, yeah. Yep. I've heard parodies of this. I know who's father you are and all of that stuff. That's true. Here is the movie. Yeah. It's, it's so when pop,

I can grade in pop culture that you just know everything about it. What were you going to say? I was going to say, cause I, I mean, my pop culture blind spot, I came to Lord of the Rings, Harry Potter, haven't read any of the books. I've read them all. I saw the first movies, but you like the Harry Potter's?

I love the books. Yeah. These are magical journey movies. No, they're magical kids going to school and there's lots of girls there too. Yeah. But that's, I don't, I don't like the Harry Potter movies. Why not?

Do you like not like school or girls? Both. They both stick. Well, the movies aren't fantastic. That's why I don't like them. I just don't think the books are fine. I've never, I've never read the books. I was also like, you know,

I was too old. I was like, I was, I was, I was, I think I was a year or two, like right out of the age group of Potter. I was a goosebumps boy. Oh, okay. RL Stein. I was an RL Stein guy.

Mitch, I was going to ask is, do you have like a pop culture blind spot, like some big property you don't really have any awareness of? No. Really? You're up to speed on everything? Merchant Ivory. Uh, yeah.

Well, there's plenty of movies I haven't seen, but I don't know about like the big, I feel like with the big, the, oh, you know what? I haven't, well, I haven't seen any of the hunger games. Okay. That's something. Yeah. I've never seen any of the hunger game movies.

That's something. Yeah. That's a pretty recent thing. I've seen some of them. Yeah. You like them? They're okay. They're okay.

I like battle Royale. What is that? It's a movie that's a bit like the hunger games. Oh, all right. All right. Here's the thing. Okay. You made a big point about how you don't like

it, but then you're saying you like a movie that has the word battle in the title. Well, in battle Royale, it's a fight to the death for like one high school class. Right. So they have to, um, they all get taken to an island in Japan and then they have to, um, there's like, they all get assigned weapons.

Right. And the competition is in 24 hours, someone has, you have to kill everyone else or be killed. That sounds, doesn't that sound great? I love school stuff. I love school stuff, but there's, um, there's equal boys and girls as well. Sure.

Yeah. And so it says, I, what I'm, what I'm inferring from this is it seems like your aversion to battles isn't aversion to like the large scale military conflict. Yeah. Okay. Like a bunch of a bunch of like faceless men. I just, it's hard to tune into that for me.

Armies charging at each other, but something that's a little bit more intimate. I like the battles in game of thrones. They're impressive. And I get, I feel very stirred by them. Nick, I turned on game of thrones the last season or two. Yeah. I feel like I got it.

Yeah. I feel like it jumped the shark a little bit. I don't know. I still, I still watch the show, but yeah, I'm less enthused. Did you like that big battle where everyone was, um, you know, had their shields up and John Snow was standing there. That battle was good. It was good.

Was that, wait, which one was that? Was that the one with the giant or their sieging winter fell? No. No, no. That was like, um, it was, I think it was called the battle of the bastards. Oh, okay. Wait, I thought that was the, when they were trying to take

Winterfell back from, uh, Ramsey Ramsey Bull. Oh yeah. Maybe it was that. Yeah. That was scary. There was that scary bit where they made his brother just walk out. That's fantastical.

Has giants in it. Yeah. I didn't say it in like giants. When did I say that? So trolls. She's here with you, Mitch. Just like a bunch of trolls battling. Right.

I just, whatever. That's what this show is all about. Battling. Yeah. Uh, I got a question for you. What have you ever, have you ever like made someone? Like, have you ever made a significant other or even just a friend?

Like you've been like, you have to watch this and like made them watch because that is like a kind of an annoying thing. But then also I've, I remember the person I dated for a few years. I was like, you got to watch the Simpsons and we watched Simpsons and then also we started watching Sopranos, but that's the only few times my only two instances. And she liked them. She did.

She was, I think she like wasn't as like, and she was like, okay, I get the Simpsons. You can stop showing me Simpsons. But I just, I wanted to watch it myself. I know you love the Simpsons. Yeah, I love the Simpsons. Huge fan of the Simpsons. But have you ever, have you ever like been like,

you got to watch these to people or now? Yes. Yeah. I am trying to think of times I've done that. I tell people to watch the Americans and then pretty much people always say it's a bit boring. And I'm like, yeah. Oh, but I really love that show as well.

I've heard the Americans is good. Yes. You need to watch it. I've made people actually a good thing to make people watch if you're there because it's actually a very uncomfortable thing to do and no one should really do it like for someone to watch something. Sure.

But a one that I find to be like actually a crowd pleaser. And obviously it's a sensitive time to bring him up. But Rosemary's baby is very good. And it is a good one to show people. But I do often suggest it's a pregnant friend, which is not. Yeah, this seems like a crazy. It's not a good suggestion.

But I'm just like, oh, you're pregnant. Rosemary's baby. Great movie. But no way in terms of what he's been up to. No way. No way, buddy. Nope. Stay wherever you are.

Yeah. Is he in Prague or something? With him in Italy somewhere. We did hang out. No, we didn't. We don't know each other. And we're not friends. And I don't think we would get along.

I'm too old. So wait, Claudia, you brought up that there's pizza and dominoes in Australia. Because my friend was very into Tony pepperoni pizzas. What's that? Tell me what Tony pepperoni pizzas there. It's just a flavor you can get from dominoes. It's essentially what I made you order Tony pepperoni.

I don't think we had that here. It's that sounds like the most fake Italian name from a lobster movie Tony pepperoni. It's just a flavor of pizza, which is pepperoni. Huh. Okay. But it's fun because it's called Tony pepperoni. Got it.

Interesting. But it's from dominoes. Wait, so is it tomato and? No, that was my little twist. Okay. Yeah. So Nick, we should get into it. We should break it down.

We should get into it. So we're going to get into the tournament. And let me just go through our rules real quick. And just so we have a refresher for everyone, if anyone who's new to the tournament or new to the podcast understands that this works. So this will be useful for you too, Claudia. Great.

So here are the rules as we've established for the tournament of champion's much madness. The slice is right. Rule number one, pizza only. Sides stay on the sidelines. Oh, that's right. Drinks are in the Gatorade jug also on the sidelines. Yeah.

Or in the steak. Or in the steak, yeah. It was what you used to say, but they are in Gatorade jugs on the sidelines. I call the Gatorade jug on the sidelines the stink. That's just sort of the general area it inhabits. You can't drink anything. You can.

I mean, you can drink. We're not judging the drinks. We're not judging the drinks. Yeah. Okay, great. Next rule, level playing field. Delivery versus delivery. Takeout versus takeout.

Dine in versus dining. Wow. So we got delivery versus delivery today. We're evaluating both chains on the same terms. And then from each chain, we will sample one cheese pizza on default crust and one wild card pizza. And that's what we got into, Claudia.

We deferred to you today in terms of what you wanted on your wild card pizzas. Tell everyone what we got. I ordered for wild card thin crust pepperoni. That was from Domino's? With some chunks of tomato. Like, well, fresh tomato. So not tomato sauce.

Right. Just chunks of tomato. And that was from Domino's. Am I allowed to say anything about it yet? Absolutely. Or should just describe the pizza? I mean, we could sort of set the table. We can get into our thoughts for sure.

I thought that was the nicest one. Wow. Oh my God. Nick, you idiot. Sorry. It wasn't meant to say that. No, it's fine. And then the other one.

It doesn't mean that I won, by the way. It doesn't mean that I won. But it did win. No. It didn't win. I don't think we know what won yet. And then there was another one. It's this one.

The stuffed crust. Sausage stuffed crust with pieces of tomato also. That's right. It was from Pizza Hut. Yeah. It was a stuffed crust. I put the garlic. I put garlic on the stuffed crust as well.

I didn't say that. You should do that. I know. When you threw that on, it's another topping. I didn't notice it. There was a lot. You could have like a plain stuffed crust or just, well, you could put like little spices.

You weren't here. I made a decision. Hey, that's great. Yeah. You're referring to the kind of cheese within the stuffed crust though, right? That's what you're saying? We're not going to turn this into a pizza gate.

We don't want another one of those. Which you fully believe, right, Mitch? You've been very active. Well, the first pizza gate? Yeah. Yeah, of course. It's the first time I've had stuffed crust. Is it really?

Yeah. What did you think? I didn't like it. I just thought it was, no, I didn't mind it, but it was just like once you get to that part of the pizza, I'm like, well, also this is an unusual situation where you're having six slices of pizza at once. Yes.

That's right. That crust, and I thought, mm-hmm, there's cheese in it. Yeah. Yeah, I actually have had a similar, because I remember having as a kid being so excited at the prospect of stuffed crust pizza. I remember the ads when it first came out, I was like, this looks amazing.

It's never as good as you want it to be. Never as good as you think it's going to be. It's like softer and like wetter. Yeah, the cheese on the pizza is better than the cheese in the stuffed crust. I definitely wanted the one where it was like tiny hot dogs. There was no tiny hot dog one. I know, I agreed with you.

I would have gotten it if it was available. But now like people get upset sometimes because they do a crazy new crust. Right. I remember the hot dog one. There was, isn't there one with like little burgers in it? I think so. I think they've done everything.

Disgusting. I think they've really gone wild. Yeah, infuriate. Some of these were in different territories too. We didn't get all of them in the states. Wow. I did see that burger one was something that was pretty crazy for a while.

Yeah. So we got the sausage and tomato with stuffed crust pizza with some garlic. Pizza hut. Very puffy. Very puffy. And then the Domino's one was pepperoni and tomato on a thin crust.

A thin crust. Those were the two specialty pizzas. It's like wafer thin. That crust is very thin. Yeah. Then Nick, we, so as far as the pizzas went, we went half cheese so we can get a sense of what the cheese pizza is.

And then on the other half, we did the opposite topping of what was on each pizza. Right. So with Domino's, it was tomato and pepperoni. So we got half cheese, half sausage. This was something of an ad lib from our established rules, but because our... It's confusing for sure.

It's very confusing. We fucked up. We won't do this again. And then so, and then with the pizza, it was sausage and tomato. And we got half cheese, half pepperoni on the regular pizza. Yes. Which is basically just like their regular pizza.

It was, it was the most basic regular pizza we could get. Hand-tossed regular crust for both of them. That's right. The basic, basic pizza. Yeah. No alts except for a half of it had a topping for Domino's. It was sausage, one half.

And then for pizza, it was pepperoni, one half. Right. I hope everyone's still listening. They're writing, they're writing all this down. People are writing it down. Okay, good. People are like writing like the memento guy on their body. He's just to track all of this information.

I have those pizzas in front of me. It's confusing. Yeah. It's crazy how like hard it gets to track just six different slices of pizza. I'd remember my thoughts. Because also they are just like very slight variations on each other. Right. Um, here's what we have to figure out.

Yes. This is big. Claude. I need your help here. Okay. We, so before we would, we ranked it out of basketballs, 10 basketballs because it's munch madness. What's, what?

We'll take a break. We'll be back with more dope voice. We'll be back to dope boys here with Claudio Daugherty talking the tournament of champiens. Munch madness. Pizza Hut versus Domino's. Yeah. So we were just getting into the rules.

The slice is right. The slice is right before we went to break. Um, yeah. So, so year one, we were trying to, we were evaluating. Okay. By the way, good price is right pun. Slice is right. We used it for a segment before that we only did once and it didn't go that well, but

I liked the pun. So I figured we could use it for this. Slice is right. Once bitten, slice, shy. That's pretty good. That's a confusing, but it puts vision. You bite pizza. I agree with that.

I like, I like it better than slices. Right. No, I'm not saying it's better. It's just different. Yeah. But thanks. I think it's better. Look, Claudia, we ranked it out of 10 basketball.

That's how we did it year one. Last year we abandoned that system. Yeah. I guess we were bringing, you're suggesting we bring it back. We could do it or, and then also in the two years that we've done this. I know, by the way, I know she's still confused as to what the connection is. March Madness in the U.S. is college basketball tournament. We're in Munch Badness.

So we're taking the basketball. Munch Badness. What did I say? Munch Badness. It is Munch Badness, but Munch Madness is the name of the tournament. It's will be bad. But the, but so we were taking that element of the college basketball tournament and applying it to ours.

That's where the basketballs came from. So maybe it should be out of college basketball scholarships. Okay. I like that. Out of 10 college basketball. Right. Yeah. And we're saying, and so we like, should we have some categories?

I feel like maybe crust. Oh yeah. Cheese and toppings or what? Crust, crust and sauce. Can there be an overall? Yeah, there's an overall. And then our overall determination. So year one.

Overall. Appearance. That's two. Uh-huh. Three taste. Wait, we start with overall. I'm wearing overalls. I'm wearing overalls.

Hey, you know what? I give those overalls. 10 college basketball scholarships. Jesus Christ. It looks very sharp. All my kids can go to college. You have 10 children. Uh, all right.

Cheese, sauce, crust, toppings. There's four categories right there. Okay. Okay. Overall is five. Right. Appearance is six. Do we need six categories?

And then seven is. Yeah. We'll do them quick. And then seven is kind of the unknown, like delivery. So on. Presentation. Look is different from presentation stench. It all goes in the seven.

The seventh category seven. The X factor X factor. Okay. This is exhausting. So we and then also at the end. So Claudia at the end of this, what we used to do was one in the first year, the winner we would send. So the winner we would send to the aliens when it was burgers,

we'd send it to the aliens and they would. So they would be like this is the best representation of the food. How do you send the burger to the aliens? We had a levitating pan. Right. That we set up to the aliens. Oh, I see.

Okay. And then. This was the innovation of Jess McKenna, our guest on her very first tournament champion. She's very funny. Very funny. And she suggested the system and that's what we used for the first year.

And then for the second year, we sent the loser to the devil. This is like Lord of the Rings. Oh, wait. Oh, no, we sent the winner to the devil. It is like Lord of the Rings. The idea was the idea that we would send it to the devil and I think it would be so good that they would, that he would turn nice.

Yeah. Oh, okay. As a punishment. No, we were trying to make the devil nice. Oh, so you'd send the winner to the devil to try to make him seem not seem nice. Hard for the winner though. I know, but it's also a pizza.

So it's okay. Oh, okay. Well, it was a chicken sandwich last year. Oh, chicken sandwich. What one chicken sandwich competition? Wendy's. Interesting. So now we need help.

I mean, we both did a weird anime thing where we went Wendy's and you didn't. You just nodded and didn't care, which is the right reaction. So we're going to ask you. Is there someplace that you would want to send the winner or the loser? Think about it. It could be Lord of the Rings related because I like it or it could

be could be Harry Potter related. Harry Potter or it could be. It doesn't even have to do with any of that. Think of all, for instance, Zeus or. Okay. So the winner has got to go somewhere really cool or bad to fix the bad person or bad or the loser goes back because it's bad. In a more general sense, we've thought is let thesis is this is

the ideal representation of the chain version of this food stuff. So first year, what was the best chain burger last year? What is the best chain chicken this year? What is the best chain piece? If you're going to give this to someone who's not familiar with it and we're going to say like, this is what this is. Yeah.

What would that be? It could go to Jaws. Jaws. I thought I was saying who. So where where the pizza goes? Where who or but I mean that that's like kind of the general leaning tower of pizza is where it goes. Yeah.

Oh, and it in it. And we're in hopes to set it right. The power to feed the engineers and other people trying to get that tower upright. That's when the winning pizza goes and the losing pizza. Oh, I like this. Oh, we've never done this before. Goes to France.

Oh, wow. Because I don't think they like pizza. No, they've got a whole. They're like, give us baguette. Right. So that's where it goes. And so it will be shunned. Yeah.

It'll be lonely and forgotten. Oh, yeah. We'll put it right under the Eiffel Tower and French people will say yes. One goes to Eiffel Tower. One goes to Leaning Tower. I love that. Got it.

The two towers. Yeah. Like Lord of the Rings. Oh, no. Twin towers. So the twin towers. September 11. No, no, no, no, no.

No, it didn't happen. Anyway. Wait, you're a 9-11 truth or you think it didn't happen? I'm moving on. Why? Because that's a theory I haven't heard, but I feel like even the people who think maybe Bush was behind it.

Didn't happen. Okay. All right. All right. So Leaning Tower pizza to the engineers to help them fix it. Yeah. The under the Eiffel Tower where the French people will go, huh?

Yes, exactly. I love it. Oh, those damn frogs. You know, they'll fuck your noses. Do you think any French people listen to do boys? And you know what? They didn't support us for the Iraq war. That was a bunch of bullshit.

Remember that was a whole freedom fries debacle was because France didn't like what said the US maybe shouldn't do the Iraq war. They were 100% right about it. But everyone's like, fuck you. Weird time. Yeah. That post 9-11 era was in the States.

America can be weird. So it's a strange country. I still call them freedom fries. It is a good signpost to be able to know to not spend time with you. All right. So let's let's get into that. Let's get into the ranking.

Which is going to turn this into the Leaning Tower of pizza. Fuck you. All right. So Domino's I guess are we just going right into our rankings? I guess that's probably what we should do, right? We should talk. Do you have any experience with Domino's or pizza? Like I know that you there was an Australia Tony pepperonis.

I've eaten both kinds before. Domino's is more readily available near where I live. And also, I mean, this is something it's hard to say on this particular podcast, but I do hate pizza. Wow. What? I'm just like. You hate pizza?

I don't really like pizza. How do you like pasta but don't like pizza? Because anytime. It makes sense. Look, you don't. You didn't even eat any almost any of your pizza. No, I had two pieces of the thing crossed one, but I just think pizza sucks because I feel stabbed in the back right

now. Well, it's just to me. It's like a round toasted sandwich with no bread on top. And I just don't want that for dinner. That piece of lunch actually, I think is a lot of fun, but I just think if it's ever nighttime and people are like Peter, I'm like, oh, I guess. What about a lovely plate of spaghetti?

This is so fucked up and crazy. I think I said this last time I was on the show. You maybe did. Yeah, I think I did. Did we just forget? I'm sure you did. I mean, it's like so you've made so many episodes of this, right?

Yeah. How many episodes have you made? This is where I mean, we're in the 120s, I think. I don't know. That's a conversation we had two years ago. I'm surprised, but I've definitely told you on numerous occasions that I do hate pizza. I thought it was just a joke.

I can't believe that you really hate pizza. And every time you're shocked and appalled, it's so upset. She says, I hate pizza. I admit you here. I love steak. I just don't like this puffy pizza. Sure, I got you. What?

And I don't like the excess marinara sauce, which has like the dried oregano in it, which is like too strong. And obviously it's different store to store and pizza to pizza. But I mean, that's why I think Chris is more appealing to me and sorry for being honest. Did you have any good saw in Italy? Or did you just avoid it?

No, because where we were, we were in Parma. Okay. Parma is just like, it's just about Parma ham and Parma genre. Like I think Napoli is where pizza is from. Okay. And it's pretty, like this is the thing we do. So you don't really, like there was barely any spaghetti

even where I was. Right. Wow. Well, Mitch, this is an insane booking for the first episode of our pizza tournament. A someone who hates pizza. But it's an interesting PPOV. I still think I have some great comments about this pizza.

Let's get into it. So let's start with pizza. Hold on. Before we start, Nick, do you, I've obviously talked about on this podcast that I used to go to the pizza hub. There's some nostalgia attached, attached there. Same with Domino's. I think that I ordered Domino's more now because there's,

they make like a pan pizza. That's actually similar to pizza huts pizza that I enjoy. Right. And it's just so easy. The app is, is easy to use. I like Domino's and I like pizza. I actually like both of them. I know that they're juggernauts and I know that they're not

great pizza, but I still enjoy having them. What is your overall favorite pizza in the world? Pizzeria, Regina and Boston. Right. It's so good about it. It's so good. Uh-huh. Brick oven.

Just the, it's just the best. You know what? You got to try it sometime because I wonder if you would like it. In Boston. Okay. I mean, you might never be there. I might. Hey, my funeral.

Where'd you go? Promise me you would have your funeral in LA. Oh God. No, you'd probably just go to the memorial out here. I think I would go to your funeral. For sure. Yeah. Of course.

I'd go. And my mom will be like, you were his only girlfriend. Even if you were fake. I look forward to that conversation. She'll be awkward in front of my body in that extra large coffin. I'm in. No, you won't be.

You might get cremated. It's a half. It's a half doesn't earn job. Oh fuck. Oh, I didn't say that. That's a lot of ash. Is that what you're saying? Do you think if you died, you would have your cats killed and

get them. No. Made it with you. I've actually talked to this. I talked to my sister about it. I was like, if I die somehow. Uh-huh. And she's like, don't say that.

This is a chilling. This is a chilling topic. I don't, I don't love it. I know. Hey, it's real. So if I die. It's real. I've told my sister.

That she has to take my cats and she has to, she has a house in Quincy. She's got to, she's got to take the cat. She's, cause my mom won't take them, but she's got to take the cats. Cause she would be good with about not letting them outside cause they're indoor cats. Right.

And so the only. Coyotes in Quincy. There are now they're used to not be. Oh wow. But then there was development, like outside of the city and like they cut down on trees and stuff. And then coyotes started. Oh, that's sad.

I know. So they're used to not be my cat zip used to roam free. So I'm happy as a little cat running around having fun. No, you can't have them outside. So anyways, my sister will take them. And then the only other person there's a cat sitter I have, Sydney, who's great. She might from Sydney.

Sydney, she's a person though. It's just on podcast, you kind of just have to say wherever it comes into your mind to keep the conversation going. I found it interesting. I didn't know specifically where you were from. Well, thanks, Nick. I think it's interesting to where are you from? I'm from, uh, come on.

You mentioned Quincy every episode. No, I know. I'm just saying I don't like where you're from. I'm from Lakewood, California, which is right next to Long Beach, California, about a 40 minute south of where we are now. That's nice. Yeah. It's lovely.

We're from similar climates. I guess so. But you know, I've lived in the same region my whole life and you've crossed the two different hemisphere. Yeah. I'm a globe trotter. Right. It refuses to travel or leave the country.

He went to when we went to Canada. Yeah. It was his first time out of the United States. Is that correct? I've been to Mexico before. Did you like it? Do you really not want to leave the country? Uh, yeah.

I mean, I'm fine. I'm just, I'm fine here. I don't need, I mean, anytime I go someplace else, I'm like, all right, you know, I'm thinking about, I'm, I'm like looking for the exit when I get there. Nick, did you do one of your shows down in Tijuana when you went down to Mexico? Suggesting I was in some sort of perverse donkey show type experience.

But don't you, aren't you curious about what the world is like? I feel like I got an idea. Oh my God. Right. I'm like, you know, I'd seen documentaries. All right. We got to get into it. We're going to run out of time here.

Okay. Pizza Hut Domino's. Uh, so the stuff crust sausage and tomato, I thought was, I agree the stuff crust is underwhelming sausage and tomato, not a top, a, um, topping combo that I would generally get. But I think I, Why didn't you lie? Why wouldn't you?

I don't go with fresh tomatoes on pizza. I feel like it's, it's, if it's got that, uh, standard tomato sauce on there, I feel like it's, it's a hat on a hat. I feel like it's excessive tomatoes, but I get no, no, nothing wrong with it. It's just not something that would usually opt for. Uh, I would say though, I think I preferred the Pizza Hut sausage to the Domino's sausage and just a sausage.

Which one is which one? Yeah, that's the thing. They're kind of, you can tell that this is the, here you can tell because I've got some remnants of tomatoes on it. So you can tell that this is the Pizza Hut one. The Domino's one doesn't have this. Okay. Yeah.

Which one do you prefer? I mean, which sausage did you prefer? I think the, the Pizza Hut one. That's funny because I think the Domino's sausage is a better tasting sausage. I agree with Mitch on the sausage front. It's gotta, it's definitely got a little more character to it. I guess there's just like, there's an element I found kind of

overwhelming. I'm trying to remember if I can like place what exact seasoning it was, but there's an element of it that's a little powerful. Maybe you should bite some away from the microphone and then you can figure it out. I'll revisit the sausage. He's eating the sausage now.

Is he going to come around to our side? Oh, maybe this one's better. I don't know. They're like the same. They're so generic. This is such like, this is, this is beige versus off white. This is a very generic, these are two mainstream generic chains that are trying to be crowd pleasers.

And I feel like all this stuff is kind of similar. The only differentiation for me is that I really like Domino's thin crust. And I feel like that to me is the, was the best bite to the whole thing. I agree, Nick. Was that pepperoni? And this is, this is your observation as well.

You said this earlier. That might be partly why it's in my brain, but I agree with you. The pepperoni and tomato thin crust is the best slice that we had of this array. And that's the one I'd most want to get again. The cheeses, I feel like we're kind of lateral. I guess probably the Pizza Hut one is a little cheesier. Which one is the Pizza Hut one?

You're holding the Domino's right now. I think that's, the Domino's is nicer because it's a little thinner. Sure. And it's got a sort of crispier crust. Yeah, it's definitely a much, I don't wear your crust. I got to say with the look though, Domino's was a little bit overcooked.

It was a little. Yeah, it's very much like, it looked like it took a trip to hell. Like the winner of the former round of tournament. I agree with you. Thank you. Thank you for that. I'm linking it back in.

It did look like it took a little trip to pizza hell and came back up. Yeah. But it didn't bother me. The taste didn't bother me. Right. I remember in an elementary school, one of my friends said that cheese pizza.

Someone's coming into your house. Evan Susser here. Oh, Evan Susser. Jesus Christ. The commissioner of the tournament of champions. I don't think you, you don't have anything to say, right? He's shaking his head. He's just here.

It's very scary when someone just comes in. Right? It's true. That's, that's Mitch House Rules. If you're here, just open the door and walk on in. Really? He's got a no knock policy. I'm kind of the Matthew McConaughey of the neighborhood.

Why no knock policy? Cause hey man, no need to knock. Come on in. Wow. Amazing. I feel like I could show up at Mitch's house at like 1145 p.m. and then just open the door and walk, walk in and you just be playing switch and be like, what's up dude?

Like I feel like you would not be faced. I feel like that just happens. I'm a busy man, you asshole. I know you have things to do, but I'm just saying like that's like, you're very casual about people visiting your domicile. That's true. People do. They used to drop by more often.

I do lock my door for the cat's sake. What? Because what? Cause I'm afraid of the cats getting out. They're like the raptors in Jurassic Park. They can open doors. They've learned to open doors. My cat could open doors.

Wow. She was really smart. A raptor cat, huh? Yeah, she was a raptor cat. Wait, do you still have the cat? No, this is my cat growing up. Oh, okay. She's dead now.

Oh. I lived to 17 though. Zip. My cat lived till she was like 21 or something. Wow. I guess you win. I do. I had a few more years of, I was out in Los Angeles.

Right. I came home. We said goodbye to zip together as a family. It was very sad. That is sad. It's too sad actually when pets die. It's too sad. That's the only thing I feel about.

I hope that, that while they're normal with me, I hope that they lived till they're 50. What am I first? I think they might. I mean, they might outlive you. I think if they lived, you might still be alive though when they're 50. Yeah.

Because you could be 80. I guess you're right. I don't know how old you are when you got them. It was last year. Okay. They were kittens, right? Hey, Claudia, you know what? I got to say this.

It was two years ago. Oh yeah. They're about to turn two. They're about to turn two years old. Claudia, you, you sometimes foster cats. Not anymore. But you used to, which is very nice. Yes.

Thank you. Humanitarian. I am a humanitarian. A cat. A cat. Humanity. A cat. Mary.

I'm glad I let you say that. Mitch, how would you evaluate all these pizzas? I got to say this. I was rooting for Domino's coming into this. I love Pizza Hut, but I feel like their delivery is pretty bad. But I thought that that pepperoni Pizza Hut slice, the puffy slice, I know that, you know, I know, I know. That has the nicest crust actually.

Look at that. But I thought that that was one of the nicest bites I had of the entire thing. But yeah, that thin crust pepperoni and tomato is so damn good. Yes. And it's a different, I know it's a specialty, but it's just, it's like, it's still pizza, but it's fun and different. And it's, it's good.

It's really good. It's good. It does feel like everyone agrees thin crust is superior. Yeah. I think what Domino's, I think, I think the Domino's thin crust is, is a star. I think it's very, very good. I think it's, I think it's great.

I think it has it. I think it has it. I think, I think, I, who knows what's going to happen here because I, I, Pizza Hut gave a much better battle than I thought. I thought that the, the cheesy, the stuff, cheese stuff crust pizza was just too sloppy. It was a little bit too sloppy that the cheese and the crust is, I feel like it just never is the way you want it to be.

But I thought that the Domino's plain pizza was a little overcooked and not that great. I thought it was just kind of okay. Yeah. I like the sausage more on the Domino's, but I like the actual sausage, but it was just kind of, it was a rough looking pie. Right. Cause I remember I had, and I was about to say this a little bit

ago, but I had a friend in elementary school who put this thing in my head and now it'll be in your head, uh, about regarding cheese pizza. And he said like, Oh, it looks like boogers and warts. And this is this burn cheese pizza, but it looks a lot like boogers and warts. You know what? It's not going to be in my head. You're not going to, you're going to, I, cause to me it's just like

it's burning my brain. And every time I look at a plain cheese pizza, the little kid who likes to say boogers and warts, this is, how old are you? I was, I was like, probably like seven or eight, but I remember that stuff with you forever. Yeah. I remember that. It made an imprint on me.

Oh, Jesus. Anyway, that, but that, this one particularly, it looks pretty repulsive. It tastes okay. But yeah, I think the, you know, it's a thing we have to evaluate cause this, in this particular batch, we had burned pizzas and it affected the, uh, the traditional crust a little bit more than it did that thin crust. Um, well Mitch, for the sake of time, we should get into our ratings.

I feel like. Yup. Uh, so how, what do we do? We just toppings, cheese, sauce, crust, six categories. Overall there's seven, seven categories. So 42, 42 ratings is what we require per person. It's out of 10, right?

Yeah. So 70 points. It's out of 70 points. Oh, I see. Seven categories, each with 10. Yeah. So overall be the last one. That's the most important.

But then ultimately where our ranking is going to be cast aside because we're going to have a decision as to which one will best. That's right. Be sent to be represented. Sometimes, hey, maybe sometimes the points can be higher on the one that doesn't win. I could, you never know. Oh, that's cool.

I feel. I feel like we kind of have to speed through this cause I feel like it's going to be. What's also, what does also have to say with thumbs up? I like the ratings as there's don't make any changes. Okay. All right. Perfect.

So we've got seven categories. You mentioned seven categories, seven points because I'm going to be giving them out of 10 college. What are they? The college scholarships. Basketball scholarships. Basketball scholarships. You got 10 possible basketball scholarships.

10 categories. Okay. 100. What? Okay. So 70 points total. Got it. For me, as far as toppings go.

I actually liked the Pizza Hut pepperoni. I thought I was a little bit smokier. But I think the puffy one, the puffy one, but I liked the Domino's sausage better. So it's basically a draw. I'm going to say seven and a half college scholarships for each of those places. The sauce in both places is, is not great.

I'm going to go six college scholarships for Domino's seven for Pizza Hut. So it beats it by a point cheese. I'm going to go and also not too great. The Domino's one did, they had a bad turnout with the cheese. It was overcooked. Five college scholarships for Domino's seven for Pizza Hut. Crust.

Oh, you right. Okay. You know, honestly, Pizza Hut would win this, the Crust category, but the thin crust from Domino's takes it a point at eight point college scholarships to seven Domino's. And now overall, right? I'm at overall. I don't know.

You made the system. All right. Oh, no, there's, there's the X factor. Oh yeah. X factor. Because of the app. I'm giving the edge to Domino's eight college scholarships to six college scholarships because the X factor there is,

it's the cheesy stuffed bread and it's not that great. Sure. So overall, I'm going to go for Domino's seven and a half college scholarships for Pizza Hut, seven college scholarships. It's very close. It's very, very close. Do you think Claudia, would you characterize this process as tedious?

Yeah. I want. Oh boy. I don't know if I can, I can remember all these categories. Break down the pizza, my boy. Okay. Toppings.

Toppings. Hold on. College basketball scholarships. That's our currency. All right. Toppings. Six Pizza Hut. Five Domino's.

Wow. But probably correct. Cheese. What's that? Next cheese. Yeah. I give a seven to Pizza Hut and a 6.5 to Domino's. Wow.

Crust? Sauce. Yeah. It doesn't matter. They both get three. Wow. The sauce isn't great. Is that crust?

Is that next? Yep. The next factor in the overall. I'm so tired. It's very hot. That's not. I just, I give the, I give the crust.

I'll give a, to, to Domino's wins. Uh, nine, nine to zero. Oh my God. And then X factor. What the fuck is this shit? X factor. Yeah. X factor.

I give to Pizza Hut because they, we don't have a pizza hut. We don't have a pizza hut. We don't have a pizza hut. We don't have a pizza hut. We don't have a pizza hut. We don't have a pizza hut. We don't have a pizza hut.

We don't have pizza hut. We don't have a pizza hut because they, we had a funny delivery guy. That guy was kind of a carrot. He was kind of funny. He was pretty funny. I wasn't here for the delivery. Yeah.

He was great. He was pretty funny. He was a cut up. Okay. Yep. And then, oh, and then overall, I would say, uh, eight to six Domino's. Uh, Nick, you said to the,

the delivery guy, you said, you're my funniest friend. I was like, I'm not your friend. I'm not a friend. Yeah. It's a terrifying, terrifying thing to say. So could you just help me sort out my plate?

Sure. So I just know what I'm looking at. So this is pizza hut. In your right hand, you've got pizza hut. In your left hand, you've got also pizza hut. Okay.

So pizza hut. Yes. Oh, we just dropped a slice on the floor. I just got this place cleaned. Um, you can't just toss slices around my house. Mitch,

you got to, you got to take that sign that says one day without a slice of pizza on the floor and change it back to zero. This is Domino's. Right. Domino's. Yeah.

That's Domino's. Yeah. That's Domino's. Right. Domino's. Yeah. That's Domino's. And then the same cross with,

what's this one? Domino's. That's also Domino's. Yes. Okay. What's that one? That mangled one that you dropped, I'm pretty sure is the pizza hut.

No, wait, let me see that. It's like different sausage. So that, yeah, that's the pizza. Cause that's a Domino's sausage. I don't know what this one is.

That's, it looks like stuff. That's me looking at the stuffed crust. So that's pizza hut. Okay. I'm ready now. Domino's. Toppings.

Domino's wins. Okay. Okay. What score? Ten. Two. Domino's. Ten-two.

Domino's. And what pizza hut? Zero. Zero. Okay. Two. Cheese. Okay.

Both get zero. Zero for the cheese. I didn't like the cheese. It's just like that. It's very like bad cheese. Okay. Sauce. Next question.

Zero to both. Zero to both. Crust. Domino's wins. What's the score? Oh, but I did like this pepperoni crust. That's right. That's hard.

I'm going to give nine to pizza hut and 10 to Domino's. Wow. Okay. But I didn't like, but that was the 10 college scholarships are for the thin crust. Okay. And then what's the other one? X Factor.

See, that one's really tricky because I want to know what it is. It's really tricky because I wasn't here for the delivery and I didn't order it. I guess you had to just base it on. I'm just going to say Domino's wins because of the history with Tony pepperoni. Sure. That's fair.

And also how many points? What are you giving points? 10. And then for 10 points for Tony pepperoni. Yeah. And then how many points for pizza hut? Zero. I've got to give pizza hut for that one five because they had the,

all you can eat salad bar, which caused a real sensation in Australia. That's big. Yeah. That was really fun. And then finally overall. Domino's without a doubt. No, no, hold on.

Oh wait. Points. 10. 10 to Domino's. Yeah. And then how many pizza? One. All right.

The scores are in. The scores are in. And do you actually have a total? I wonder who's going to win. Our engineer, Stephen Ray Morris. Stephen, were you actually, were you actually tallying those? Stephen, you don't have to,

we'll pay you extra for that. You don't have to be doing that. I told him he had to. We'll pay you 10 college basketball scholarships. That is probably worth like a million. A million dollars. Yeah. Millions.

Depends on the institution. Harvard basketball. Oh, Harvard. Wait. That's where the Harvard basketball team. To the gym. Hey, cool. Worked out for Jeremy Lynn.

That's Jeremy Lynn. I was going to say. He's an NBA player. NBA player. Yeah. Okay. He's injured right now. Claudia is tired.

Here's what we'll do. Why does the tally matter? It's because it's fun, but also here's what we'll say. What? He, we got, we got, we got one total in. Nick, let's hear from Claudia.

Who are you? What, what pizza are you sending to the leading tower of pizza? Didn't cross dominoes without a shout. Baby. All right. I mean doubt without a doubt. We used to do this all at the same time

so that no one could influence each other. That's cool. I mean, we knew that we knew her answer. You and I will be at the same time. I said it at the beginning. Right. Well, you and I will be at the same time. Okay.

Wait. So are we waiting for the tally first? We can edit some of this out, but I don't think we should. Because I think that people are on pins and needles right now. You know, pins and needles.

That's not what that means. They're on Tenderhooks. Would you say Tenderhooks? Tenderhooks. What the hell? What is that? Tenderhooks? That's useful, you know, when you're on Tenderhooks.

That is ridiculous. That's maybe, you know, Tenderhooks might not be right usually. That's a weirder thing for me than gumboots, which I was surprised by earlier. You got hooks and gumboots. Okay, here we go. All right, Stephen, let's hear it.

All right. The pizza hut has a nice 69. Yeah. But Domino's with all those sweet tens gets a 98. Wow. Wow. I'm shocked. I'm so disappointed I cheered for the 69.

So wait, that's, I mean, there's a possible of 70 points for each of us. And among the three of us, it got less than 70. Yes. That's a pretty damning score. Yes. That's pretty low. It did not do well.

Well, it probably, you know, got a lot of zeros. Didn't get a lot of zeros. All right, well, Mitch, let's you and I settle this. And, and Claudia, you can, you can, you can say yours at the same time too. Okay. What do we say?

Which pizza are you sending to the leaning tower of pizza to provide sustenance for those engineers? Do we say it on three or off to three? I say one, two, three, and then you say what it is. Okay. Okay. Count down. I feel like counting up.

Jesus Christ. Okay. Three, two, one. Domino's. Domino's wins. Domino's steam crust specifically. Domino's moving on to the semifinals. All right.

It's a hut. You're going down to the loser's bracket and fat chance kitchen. And here's what I'm going to say. Ready? Which pizza are we sending to, uh, wait, where's the other one going? Well, I mean, which one's going to the under the Eiffel tower.

So French people will say root things. The worst pizza. Three, two, one. Pizza hut. Pizza hut. Pizza hut. Pizza hut. Pizza hut.

Wait. So we don't even say a specific pizza. We just say the other chain. Yeah. People already know what the answer is. Yeah. But it's fun to do both. Okay.

All right. Pizza hut's going to France and to the loser's bracket. Wow. Domino's is moving on to the semifinals and for now. Wow. Wow. Wow. Feeding.

Those who are working to straighten that leaning tower of pizza. Poor pizza hut. Getting all those French snooty people. It wasn't, it wasn't a good showing. All right. It's time for a regular segment. We have a beverage. We're going to be pouring down your throat.

It's drink or stink. Now, Mitch, these are, are these in the work? I can retrieve these from the fridge. They're right in the fridge there, Nick. Yes. Tell everyone what we're going to be tasting as I get this. What we're tasting today, Claudia. I didn't agree to tasting a drink.

I know. I'm sorry. You're this work throwing this on you. Okay. What we're tasting today is there was a big Super Bowl commercial with Morgan Freeman. He, and he, and he, I guess he kind of like him and who's the guy from Game of Thrones? Peter Dinklage. Yeah.

They like wrapped it each other kind of basically. That sounds very good. And Nick, there should be three of them, by the way. Yeah. They're just behind all this other stuff. Oh, I'm sorry. I stocked the fridge, you fucking dick. Whoa.

You Mountain Dew fetching bitch. What is this? What is the drink? Mountain Dew. Am I allowed to say that? It's a Mountain Dew ice. It's a new flavor of Mountain Dew. Like with a splash of real juice.

With a splash of real juice. You could have volunteered to get that. A lemon lime with other natural flavors. Mountain Dew ice. Morgan Freeman approved. What is Mountain Dew's classic flavor before the real juice? It's Mountain Dew. It's Mountain Dew.

Yeah, I don't know. It's like a very distinct artificial flavor. I don't know if it's supposed to taste like anything. This is, this looks like Mountain Dew's take on, on, on Sprite basically. Yeah. So let's, we'll see how it is. Okay. We got him open up a clear bottle like crystal clear Pepsi.

When do we drink it now? We can do it right now. Are they going for like a Sprite? Is that the idea? Cause that, to me, immediately this is like, oh, this is their lemon lime soda. I mean, it says lemon lime in the bottle and it's clear, but it's very akin to a Sprite 7up slice. Tastes like Mountain Dew as well.

You know what? It is a little dewy. I certainly like this here, Mountain Dew ice. I know. No. I can't do my Morgan Freeman impression. Oh, that was important. I honestly thought that was like your like hillbilly voice.

Oh, no. It says Mountain Dew. Oh, no. Now, Andy Dufresne gave me Mountain Dew ice. Oh God. Fuck this. I fucked up. What was that?

That there was, they were up on the, uh, they're up on the roof. Yeah. After we retod the, uh, after, after we, after we, after we, after we, after we, after we retod the roof, Andy Dufresne came up with a bucket of, what movie is that? The Salish Shank Redemption. Oh, no. Um, I wonder if you'd like that because that one is, it doesn't have battles. Claudia, did you think I was good?

Yeah. You're very good. I have seen that one. Oh, okay. But it had been like, it was like sort of a, like, um, like a smug slumber party choice was like, you've got to see this one. What a smug? What?

No one knows about this movie, but everyone knows about that movie. Interesting. It's one of those movies that if it's on, I'll, I'll just leave it on and I can tear up below. It's a, it's a sad movie. Yeah. They're all in jail and then they dig a tunnel. They dig a tunnel.

Yeah. They crawl through excrement and he makes it. He makes it up. River of shit and came out clean on the other side. Hey, is yours better than mine? I wish I could tell you my Morgan and Freeman impression was better than mine. It was just more nervous, but this is no fairy tale. He probably gets nervous sometimes.

Hmm. I don't think I'm ever scared. Who wins? Which, which impression of Morgan Freeman are you sending to? France. Both of them go to France. I don't think either would do well in either country. That's true.

Because it's like, they'll be like, what? Who is this? What is going on? Who are you? All right. I don't speak English. Drink or stank for the Mountain Dew ice. It's a mild drink for me.

I just, I feel like this is very drinkable. It's a lot less syrupy than Mountain Dew, which is maybe the only strike that I would say against Mountain Dew behind it being super unhealthy. And this one is also super unhealthy. 41 grams of sugar is that it's, is that Mountain Dew can be very syrupy. This one's a little bit smoother. It's a little bit more refreshing, but it is, it is basically like a fine. It feels like a, like, like if you gave this to me and it was like, it was the, the, a

Sprite ripoff. It was like Mr. Fizz. It was like the, you know, it was like the, the, the Ralph's brand Sprite. I would be like, okay, this is a fine knockoff of a clear lemon lime soda. Not as good as Sprite. Not as good as Sprite. Yeah. It's like, it's like a mild drink.

What do you think, Claudia? I don't like soda. Okay. But I do. God. You're not like carbonation or. I'm, I'm not like a huge carbonation. Got it.

And I don't really like very sweet things, but I thought it was good. I thought if I was getting, I'd like to prefer this to Fanta or I don't like Coke. I don't like Coke. That's crazy. So I'd love Mountain Dew ice over. If you were like, it's only Mountain Dew ice or Coke, I'd be like, I love Mountain Dew ice. Wow.

So a drink for you. It's drank. Soft drink for me as well. But I think it will not exist in a year. Soft drink for this soft drink. Yeah. Fuck. What is that just fine way to end the show?

I don't, but I don't know when it ends. Oh, we have another segment. You're, you're, you're ready for it to end. And it is, it is about to end. You're ready for it to end when we started our more convenient impressions. You just like a restaurant without your feedback. What's up with the feedback? Hey, and hey, you know what?

We're here in this buzzing as I'm plugging in the ox cord because we now have an audio feedback. So we are, we are taking some voicemail. Very exciting. Our first ever audio feedback entrance. Let's listen to this one. Hey guys, my name's Han. Love the show.

My question is, what is your drink or food of choice when you're at an airport? I'm asking this because I'm actually at an airport right now and not sure where I should go. Thanks so much. Love the show. Bye. Good question. Thanks.

Thanks for the question. I hope you made it to your destination safely. Claudia, do you have any? Of course you did. What the fuck? She sent it from an airport. She didn't say I sent it after I landed. Did you hear about a fucking plane crash for God's sakes?

Yeah. A plane just crashed in Russia. Oh God. 71 people died. Oh my God. Jesus. I hope it wasn't her and rest in peace to all those people like her. I hate you.

Look, I assume she's fine. A very good question. Claudia, you seem too scared is what I was saying. What do you mean? Whoa. Look, Claudia, you answer because you've had some long flights. Australia to here. It's a solid 14 hours.

I like to buy like a set of a sandwich or some kind of fancy sandwich because you can take that onto the plane with you and it won't be smelly because it's not hot. And it's also not going to like get too gross in that time. So do you have like half of it and then you take the other half with you? Yeah, I do. And I'll also buy some like one chocolate thing, one like nuts or something and maybe an apple. What about the beverage category?

What? Just water for me. Just straight water. Water is probably good to be dehydrated. Hydration along the whole flight is crucial. Also, you get to get up and walk around a little bit. Yeah, because otherwise you'll get deep vein thrombosis. But I take sleep.

That's right. Then I'm just asleep. Do you really? Yeah. Do you pass up for not the full 14 hours? No, but I mean on my flight back, I took an ambient and I slept for 10 hours. Oh my God. Wow.

It was really nice. Four hours of your wake on there. That's great. Yeah. I watched that movie about the plane crash with mountains between us or something. Oh, how was it? Not very great. I just think Kate Winslet can't do a great American accent, unfortunately.

Oh, interesting. And I just, I think it does take you out of the movie. Which is like, we've got to get out of here. Right. It's not very good. Yeah. I love planes. Right.

No, she doesn't say that. She hates the plane. Wait, so they were showing that plane on the, they're showing that movie on the plane. They were. Because that strikes me as the kind of thing they used to not do that. I think they had edited the plane crash. Okay. Because it was like, they were like the plane shook and they're like, oh no.

And then they were on the ground. And I was like, I think they could. Because that's kind of why I watched it to see what the plane crash thing would be. Yeah. That's very funny that they would cut out the plane crash. Because they don't want to spook you too much on the plane. Another alert. This, the official movie, Twitter account, tweeted out that the dog lives.

This is a while ago. Yeah. Oh right. They're trying to be funny. Yeah. And they were also like, there were people who legitimately didn't want to see it because they were afraid that the dog died in the movie. So they were like, we're just going to get ahead of it.

Yeah. There's a website called does the dog die. Right. Because it makes people too sad. But they should have, I was wondering if there was one about cancer. Oh yeah. Because sometimes going to a cancer movie, if you're in a cancer situation can be bad. Right.

Let me tell you this. Well, I don't want to. So spoiler alert, if you skip the next five seconds, if you don't want to know the movie, but a monster calls, I watched that. What's that? It was, it came out like last year. And it's like about like, like, what's his name is the guy from the guy who's in the plane. What's his name?

Idris Elba. No, Qui-Gon. Thank you. Liam Neeson is the like the monster. Right. And then he calls and is like, what's your favorite monster movie? Oh my God. It's not a scream-esque movie.

But there is someone, someone in the movie, the mother has cancer. Right. And it's a sad, sad. It's too sad. It's a sad, sad movie. I love the movie. So wait, is this a comedy? What kind of movie is that?

It's a dramatic movie. Oh, but is it like a thriller because it's Liam Neeson? No. It's got a thrilling title. He plays a monster. I loved it. He plays a monster. What kind of monster?

It's like a big tree monster, like an ant. It's like an arty monster movie. Right. Yeah. It's like an arty monster movie. Oh right. I'm interested. You should watch it.

Are you sure it's not boring? They're like about like 20 minutes into it or 30 minutes into it. My mom and I, who I watch all my screeners with, we were both like, I don't know if we like this. And then it ended and we were like, we liked it. And it was, and it was sad. I mean, like the middle 50 minutes is they take a road trip to Arizona to pick up their mom's ashes.

I wouldn't like that. That doesn't happen. You know, my deal with eating on planes. One, you don't bring in fucking smelly fast food, which you, you talked about with the sandwich. I agree. Two, you don't stuff yourself and then stink up the plane. Yes.

Gross assholes. That's my other big thing. Well, you're, you're talking about people just like farting a bunch. Yeah, it's gross. They eat heavy food and it's disgusting. It's so gross. Also, they used to make food on planes nicer because there were no TV screens. Yeah.

So it was the only thing to do. So they put a lot of effort into making nice food, but now they're like, here's some slop. Yeah. We have some other distraction. They're barely like a lot of times they barely even give you a meal. And they have like snack boxes, basically. And I think that you, you go like a light sandwich, non-smelling food. I sometimes don't eat before flights.

I know that you should eat. I know something light, something light and easy. Yeah. My friend was on a plane recently and she said a man had a box, a plastic box of food he brought onto the plane. And guess what was in the box? Scrambled eggs. Oh God.

That's disgusting. It's very bad. And then it was horrible. And then she said, and then he took out another box of scrambled eggs. Jesus Christ. They ate two boxes of scrambled eggs. Yeah. Like lunch boxes.

Jesus. A bunch of room temp scrambled eggs. That is awful. Yeah. It's really bad. It's not gross to eat too. Not smelly, not heavy. That's the rule when it comes to flights.

Yeah. I will say I like to, I like the airport bar. I like to get a little alcoholic drink before I get on. Yeah, you do. Loosen up a little bit. I'll get a drink on the flight if it's long enough. And if it's a daytime flight, I'll usually get like a cup of coffee. Just a little pick me up.

And then I like, I don't know. I don't like to eat like airport food because it's usually not great. If I do, I'll get like one to go salad. Yes. I feel like if you have a long way, you can do a little sit down restaurant. Sure. We've done that before. Yeah, we did that.

I had linguine before I got on my flight from Sydney recently. Oh, that's fun. Because I did have some time to kill. Yeah. And then I stopped the shrimp from the linguine into my backpack. Wait, did you really? No, I didn't. That's gross.

All right. But I, there's, well, at LAX, they've got an ink sack. Well, they used to. Oh, right. At least. Yeah, they've got some higher end restaurants there. Well, the ink sack, it's just sandwiches. So that's a great place to buy a sandwich for the plane.

Some of those can be stinky, but you're right. Those are good. Yeah, they're generally pretty good. Ink sack from Michael Voltageo, celebrity chef. From Top Chef. I remember I watched that season. He and his brother went head to head. It was very dramatic.

Good one. Tattooed hunks. Okay. All right. Well, on that note. That's in the international, the, the ink sack, I believe, right? Yes. That's when I'm going to Australia.

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Thank you so much for coming back and wasting so much your time on this show. I'm excited to be part of the Dough Boys family and I don't want to get doxed. You're not going to get doxed. No one's going to dox you. Claudio is the best. Hey, if you dox her, then you get to dox me. Season three of Love, which you both are on. That's right.

A great show and you're both delightful on it. March 9th. In Australia today, it shows that I'm living in a car. Spoiler alert. Well, that's your character. Did you not know that? Not you. I had no idea.

They show you all on green screen. Shop that in Silver Lake. Remember? Check it out. March 9th. Claudio, anything else you'd like to plug? No. I've got a lot of great stuff cooking up.

Oh, boy. Well, I don't know. I've got no. I don't think I should. I just don't know if things will come out in America and stuff like that. I got you. It just feels early. We have at least a dozen international listeners.

Hey, you know what? I think you've said enough where people are going to be intrigued. I hope. Yeah. I hope I've intrigued everyone. That's my game. My game. You've won everyone's appetites.

Great. Sorry that. Sorry about Nick here and come back soon or come back on the show. Sure. I mean, I've only ever said yes when you've asked me. That's true. You just haven't asked me in two years. Well,

that will do it. That will do it for this episode of Dough Boys until next time. Bye. For this food made by Mitchell and Nick, we're wrapping. See ya.