Doughboys - Planet Hollywood with Griffin Newman and David Sims

Episode Date: May 29, 2025

Griffin Newman (@grifflightning) and David Sims (@davidlsims) of Blank Check join the 'boys to talk NYC eats and video games before diving into a review of Planet Hollywood. Plus, another edition of Frank Check.Catch Blank Check LIVE in New York! Get tickets at Bit.ly/BlankCheck25Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9cERvUX6sEhttps://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1992https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/stars-like-bruce-willis-arnold-schwarzenegger-and-sylvester-stallone-endorse-planet-hollywood/articleshow/9937771.cmshttps://www.esquire.com/entertainment/a36439327/planet-hollywood-origin-story-history-interview/https://ny.eater.com/2025/2/6/24358961/planet-hollywood-new-york-reopens-times-square-restauranthttps://planethollywoodnyc.com/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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Ba-da-da-da-da-da. Hey buddy, did you miss the big news? The Dough Boys are doing a comic book. That's right, Dough Boys the comic book, Mitch and Weigar Chew America, Crisis on Infinite Girths is coming soon. And you can pre-order it right now at BRkids.com. Each Dough Boys comic comes with a toy pack. That's a random Mitch or random Weiger. You don't get to choose, but you do get to choose what you want to

do with it. Wink. These comics are legitimately the most excited we've been about something at Doughboys in a while. The writer Alex Fehrer and the artist Fred Seastressing have done an incredible job. I mean, just look at this thing. You can see some of these pages here. And hey, I know somebody who's already enjoying it. It's a really, really cool thing that exists, that you can own.

And we'd love it if you would order yourself a copy. So go to BRkids.com, kids calm check out doughboys the comic book We'll see in the funny pages The not so funny pages At the 64th Academy Awards host Billy Crystal made perhaps his most memorable entrance We'll onto the stage on a hand truck wearing a straight jacket and muzzle in reference to one of the night's multiple nominees, Jonathan Demme's Silence of the Lambs. As the assembled glitterati roared with delight, Crystal playfully invited star Anthony Hopkins over for dinner and then quipped, I look like the goalie for the SAG hockey team. It was a fitting opening for a night that

would be dominated by Silence of the Lambs, which went on to win five Oscars, including Best Picture. And it capped off a remarkable run for the surprise critical and commercial hit of 1991, which made a pop culture icon out of serial killer Hannibal Lecter. Silence of the Lambs had finished fourth at the box office that year, behind Home Alone and ahead of Crystal's own film, midlife crisis cowboy comedy City Slickers. And while moviegoers were quoting Hannibal the Cannibal's line, I hate his liver with some fava beans and nice Chianti, another cinematic dining experience of sorts grabbed headlines. A new chain restaurant concept from Robert Earl,

who partnered with 90 superstars Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, and Demi Moore to make the Hollywood equivalent of Hard Rock Cafe. On October 22nd, 1991, the celebrity restaurant staged a flashy red carpet opening in New York City's Times 1991, the celebrity restaurant staged a flashy red carpet opening in New York City's Times Square, but the chain ultimately proved to bust at the culinary box office. By 1999, it had declared bankruptcy, a victim of Earl's overly aggressive expansion plans and hubistic decision to launch an IPO. Today it is down to just three locations, Disney Springs in Orlando, Doha, Qatar, and

a newly reopened Times Square iteration which had shuttered during COVID. But with its trademark wall of movie memorabilia swapped out for more cost efficient immersive video installations, will this be another tepidly received Hollywood recue? This week on Doughboys, live from Headgum, New York, Planet Hollywood. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Tiger Weiger along with my co-host, Big Trouble in Little Penis. Jesus. The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell.

Wikes. Yeah. I like that movie. Not the fake movie, but I like the actual movie. Great, you might like the fake movie. I maybe would like it. Representation matters. I woke up in the middle of the night

murmuring this to myself and I thought maybe it was meant for Mitch. Pasto Boys double guest, Patrick Babbitt sent that in. Patrick. Tsk tsk, Patrick. Roastitbirdfuck.com. Wow.

Patrick just had a birthday. Happy birthday, Patrick. Wow. You keep track of the birthdays? I keep track of birthdays. Why, of course. After all, he's a birthday boy. That's true. That's true keep track of the birthdays? I keep track of birthdays, why, of course. After all, he's a birthday boy. That's true, that's true.

Was that the setup? No. Oh, wow, you just pulled that off. Waking up in the middle of the night, murmuring big trouble and little penis to yourself, like is that podcast, are you listening to too many podcasts? That might be what's going on with Patrick. Is that like Call a Doctor?

Yeah, that could be. Yeah. Big trouble and little penis. We're in big trouble. I'm gonna pee big time. I'm gonna pee big time. I'm gonna pee big time. I have a group text with some of my oldest friends who are all big Doughboys fans.

Wow. It's one of the things that has helped us continue to stay close over the years. What's it called? Does it have a cute little name? It's called Bucks Rock Boys. It's my summer camp friends. Summer camp friends.

Summer camp friends. Wow, I love this. Basically my oldest closest friends that I've stayed continuously in touch with, but Doughboys, especially during the pandemic, was a thing that we could regularly check in on. And you know if you're looking at your summer camp friends and Jason has entered the chat? How scary would that be?

Not ideal, no. Yeah, what would he text? You know, I don't know, I was. I don't know. But he does. He does. It's just shuffling. Right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Oh, but that's yeah. That noise. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We say Chi Chi Chi, Ka Ka Ka Chi Chi Chi Chi Chi Chi Chi Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Ka Alejandro in the group text maybe about a year or two ago was like, I want to put forward a theory I've been working on for a long time. I think Mitch's penis being small is a bit. And I was like, what do you mean? And he's like, I keep going back to the story of the dog biting his penis because he thought

it was a dog toy. And that makes it sound like there's enough to bite to mistake it and my response to him was if it is a bit He's doing a great job of upholding it in 3 a.m. Texts 24 7 bit private one-on-one conversations Where he seems very insecure? where he seems very insecure. One night. Here's what I'll say.

Preambled during dates. It's Kaufman-esque. Just so you know. I'll never tell. You know, hogs are, you know, hogs are, what an extremity they are. They're one of the most fascinating things of our bodies, wags. They are one of the most fascinating things of our bodies.

I agree. Well said. You know, sometimes they can get bigger and sometimes they can get smaller. It's very interesting. This is getting Trumpy. Like, you know where he just kind of starts musing? Goes into musing mode.

We love hogs! Sometimes they get bigger. I have two boys, two baby boys. Oh, yeah, that's right. And one of them grabs his dick every single time you take the diaper off. Oh my God. And the other one hasn't done it at all.

That's awesome. And they're only nine months old and I'm already seeing like this is different, you know. Different approaches. Approaches, yeah. Yeah, that's wild. He grabs it like in modesty. He's like, excuse me. No, he's just like wild. Like, he grabs it, like, in modesty. Like, he's like, excuse me.

No, he's just like, what's that? You know, like, every single time. Mitch, what's your approach when you get changed? What are you going to say something else to me? I was just going to say, like, we're this far into the podcast. We have not acknowledged that we're in New York. Wow. The Big Apple.

This is for the first time we're recording in studio at Headgum, New York. How about that? Is this the first time ever? Yeah, we've never been here. In New York. True York. Yeah. True York.

You've done a lot of Torsion. Torsion. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Big Apple. This is for the first time we're recording in studio at Headgum, New York. How about that? Is this the first time ever? Yeah, we've never been here. True York. True York.

You've done a lot of tour shows here, but you've never done an in-studio recording. That's right. Any of Headgum's offices over the last eight years? Yeah, correct. You've got to give it to Headgum, New York. The staff is here as opposed to LA. Yeah, they're working in office, apparently. They're working in office.

Interesting. There's people here. Yeah. Yeah. they're working in office. They're working in office. Interesting. There's people here. Yeah. Yeah, yeah. You know what else is interesting? A bunch of the LA Headcombs staff came to the studio because they thought we were ordering in. And then when they heard we ate last night,

they got on a plane back to LA. Chris is engineering for us. Hi, Chris. Hi. Hi, Chris. Chris has been lovely to us. Also, Marika's out here, who are good friends. We love Marika.

And then there's a New York Emma. There is a New York Emma. That's right. How about that? New York Emma has been helping us set all this up. And I met Lily out there. Everyone's been very, very nice. So is L.A. Emma not here because they would like a black hole

with her? It's like Timecop. It's Timecop rules. Who's Ron Silver in this equation? Great question. Politically, I don't know. Politically, I guess both of us. Is Ron Silver dead?

Yes. Oh, did he pass away? Yes, I believe we lost him. Oh, wow. All right, press and peace, Ron. Love that. Silver or silver? Silver.

Silver. Yeah. In my opinion, when you were going to the movies in the 1980s and early 90s, silver was gold. That's such a joke. Joel Oran. We were just talking Joel Silver. We were and we produced the... well, should we spoil? I'm sorry, carry on with your podcast.

Let's get through our bullshit and we'll introduce our guests officially. We produced the movie we talked about on our show. Jesus, yeah. Mitch, we've got a lot of New York to talk about. We got two New York-based guests who we've had on the podcast before, but never before in person. We're gonna get to that, but we also,

you have a drop, you gotta play. All right, let's hit them with a drop, Chris. No, no, no, no, no. Tuner rap, it's the tuner rap. Swimming in the ocean what do I see? A tuna fish swimming right at me. I cast my line and I reel it in and now I got a great din din. Tuna, lettuce, tomato, onion, vinegar, and oil, pickles. Tuna the boring ingredients of the rap. Swimming in the ocean in the sea. That's a tough fuck.

That's a pretty good, that's a good drop. Well done, the dolphin at the end there. Well crafted, yeah. I heard that got banned from X, but somehow got a million listens on alternative platforms. Me and Kanye's new single together. Um, uh...

Did that dolphin give you a vacation flashback? It certainly did. I mean, I don't hate dolphins. I swam with them because I liked them so much. And I think they're quite fond of you. They are very fond of me. That is the truth. What's missing from this is that I sang this

in that same episode I called you a little piggy, if you remember correctly. Oh, I remember. And after I sang that rap, you said, that fucking sucks. And it was a one time, I was like, fuck, it did suck. Hey, DK, I had to knock this little number out real quick while it was still fresh. I hope you're doing well.

Love CountDropula on Instagram. We've heard from CountDropula in the past. Yeah, CountDropula is doing good work. Yeah, CountDropula is doing great. Yeah, good to have you back CountDropula. One of our best counts? CountDropula. That was good.

That's good as hell. Drop the mic. I love mine, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, I feel like that should show up in a future CountDropula drop. What the? No, the Count Dropula. Count Dropula.

Yeah. So is a drop talking about himself? Yeah, he's gotta get meta, right? Enough drops, you gotta start bringing yourself in. That's fun, it's like he samples that, like he's doing other, and then Count Dropula. It's like one of those dance hall songs where the artist says their own name at the start of it mustard

Right. I guess more producer. Yeah, he does. He wiger famously had no idea why people were yelling mustard for a while. I didn't know Yeah, I thought it was just general enthusiasm for the condiment which is in New York City You might just hear that being yelled. Anyways wags. Absolutely. Oh my god hot dogs pretzels. That's right You know, you know the one card I haven't had? I've never done the peanut, I've never done the nuts card. Cause why would you want a big cup of nuts? Yeah. I mean that is-

I think I've done it once in my entire life. Same. Yeah. They're warm, right? They're warm, they're salty. It is wild that it has basically persisted with the exact same branding for 30 years plus. Yeah.

40 maybe? I've had it one time, I never see anyone getting them. My guess is that it would be like 100 years old. Like selling warm nuts on the street or whatever. Yeah, it feels like a sort of like, you're about to go see Babe Ruth, you know, or whatever. Right, like it feels very, very like pre-war. But I feel like there's that one logo

that is like big mixed nuts, big hot nuts or whatever. Yeah, you're right. You're right. There's the one sign that they all got on their cards. They all got the one supplying. I have a great... No, no, no, no. You go ahead. It's about Babe Ruth. Well, fuck Babe Ruth, the trader. We shouldn't have traded. Look, No No Nanette... He didn't ask to be traded. No No Nanette is such a great play that I don't have an issue with the trade I actually love I love that we got the rights to no no no Boston fans now like watch like bootleg no no no nets

You feel this is great. Yeah, we watch every every October. We watch no no no net This is this was gonna do why you're gonna love this right here. Okay, rank the carts Mario number one one. Fuck. I mean, obviously. Has to be. No, rank the New York City street carts. Rank the New York City spread soul. Let me do this.

First off, let me shout out drops at birdfuck.com if anyone wants to be the future CountDropula. But also let me formally introduce our guests and let's weigh in on this very New York City food-centric topic. Yes. With us today in studio for the first time, both of you. Yeah.

For the host of Blank Check with Griffin and David, one of my favorite podcasts, Griffin Newman, David Sims. Thanks so much for being here. God bless you, powder. Thank you. Thank you for having me. Not him. Hot dog, number one with a bullet.

Inarguable. Pretzels, well, I might argue with you. I might put Halal. Halal's pretty good. I like a hot dog, a water dog. I like a New York street dog, but I prefer a papaya dog. And that's not on a cart.

Yeah, and if I'm gonna get something, I'm probably most likely to get a pretzel. Ooh, I do not like those cart pretzels. I'm just telling you, my experience. I think they're supposed to be. They tend to be pretty chewy. Yeah. I feel like sometimes the issue with the cart pretzels

is like too hard on the outside. Not crunchy, hard. Right, because they're not getting rolled out every day, I feel like. They're just sitting in there. And then a little tacky on the inside. Right. It's like sometimes you're at the mall Auntie Anne's,

and it's just like, I can tell this is yesterday's Auntie Anne's. Like, you got a little inventory here., right. They're leaving them in there. Yeah. There's a skewer cart in Chinatown that I love. Wait, what did you say? Skewers? They've got a bunch of Chinese skewers. Oh, wow. Meat skewers.

Because that's the thing with New York, there are also random carts. Like, where it's like, this guy's doing his own thing. There was a cart on Maiden Lane and, like, William Street. I don't know if it's still there, but did this like lamb biryani thing with this special sauce. I would go there all the time.

Wow, that sounds awesome. Any kind of meat rice thing, I'm pretty pro. So when Natalie and I were out in New York for the first time, first couple of times in the city, both from LA and lived in Southern California, but like not when we were traveling and we had like less means and we're like trying to eat on a budget, like basically survived

off of a whole haul carts out here. So I have so much affection for all carts. And also you have that it's just like, this is so fucking good. It's not just like, sometimes you get a cart hot dog and you're like, all right, this works as a hot dog. Like this is functionally a hot dog, but the whole haul meat something is like,

oh wait, this is genuinely like just like a tasty execution of this. It's right. It actually so cuisine. Does it take over the hot dog cart? I think it maybe does. And I think that's maybe also like a- In your ranking.

I think it's just in terms, well, in terms of like iconography, I think the hot dog cart is number one, but in terms of personal rankings, I don't know, there's something also kind of nicely contemporary about the halal carts now being the dominant cart in New York City. Sure. I don't know.

I think if we're actually talking about the food, halal is number one. Yeah. And I think if we're talking about the idea of a New York cart, it's hot dog. There's something so nice about, and I've done it, I've done it within the last month of that, like, I need to eat something right now,

like just to kind of bridge some, and it's like, oh, there's a hot dog cart. There's always a hot dog cart. Yes. It was in Brooklyn and it was a hot dog cart. And it's one of the great walking foods. Let's say that. Oh, that's great. That's a good point.

Do guys yell out, still yell out, hot dogs, hot dogs, get your hot dogs. We're going back to ballpark kind of vibes here. So that's more of a ballpark thing than a street cart thing. Yeah, street cart guys don't really yell. They don't do anything. They're just like, yes, boss. And you're like, that's more of a ballpark thing than a street car thing. Yeah street car guys don't really yell. They don't do anything No, they're just like yes boss. Yeah, when you're like Like speaking over there my peaking

We're speaking No peeking so no peeking. Oh wow What's the worst cart Wow, I mean it's mud cart mud carts pretty bad carts bad slime cart. Mmm Mud cart. Mud cart's pretty bad. Mud cart's bad, slime cart, bug cart. I don't like bug cart. Some people, there's some good bug carts. There are some good bug carts.

But mostly they're pretty bad. Yeah, yeah, yeah. What's the worst cart racing knockout? Like Diddy Kong had one, there was a Sonic one. Diddy Kong Racing is great. That one's good. Diddy Kong Racing's good. It's good. Did Crash Bandicoot have one? Yeah, it's Crash Team Racing. Crash Team Racing is great. That one's good. Diddy Kong Racing's good. It's good.

Did Crash Bandicoot have one? Yeah, it's Crash Team Racing. Crash Team Racing is pretty good. And also one of two video game references on Friends. At one point Chandler talks about playing Doom, and another time he is seen playing Crash Team Racing. And he's in eighth place. Who is his player?

Do you remember who he was? Yeah, who's his main? I think he is playing Crash. If you remember the Friends finale, it ends with just the Crash Kart game playing by itself. I don't? Do you remember who? Yeah, who's his main? I think he is playing Crash. If you remember the Friends finale, it ends with just the Crash cart game playing by itself. I don't know if you remember over the crash, you're just seeing Crash cart. There's the empty apartment

and you see all the keys laid out on the table and then the camera pans over to just an idle PlayStation one. And it's playing. And you're like, is it a ghost? Like why did Crash cart start playing? The Aku Aku mask is like conjured on top of the living table.

You are like, game over. What's the villain called? Dr. Neocortex? Yeah, Neocortex. That's right. Crash is my favorite video game, Francis. We were talking about this the other day. That's the one I have the most nostalgia for.

I think I was a little. it's very much my personality. No, but I get- I'm starting to notice some things about you. Hold on, hold on. If you were a PlayStation household, this was the best option. What about Spyro? Rayman?

I never cared for Spyro. I like Spyro. Rayman is not exclusive to PlayStation. He was sort of a PlayStation guy. But I can see- Abe? I love that- Yeah, sure. I love that. Rayman has great Rayman is the... has great games. Yeah, the Rayman games are great.

The Rayman franchise, but I don't feel like the Rayman franchise is specifically associated with the PlayStation brand. No. And so I think these days you're looking at Astro Bot. Astro Bot's clearly... That guy rocks. Astro Bot's so good. Astro Bot's great.

That game is amazing. And... but I understand the age you are, you being a bit younger than me and having a PlayStation in your household that you would glom on to crash. He was also the cool mascot. Well, we were texting about this the other day because you were telling me that I would love Astrobot. Yeah, he would.

And saying like you have PlayStation nostalgia, right? Right, it does. You gotta play Astrobot. I play with my daughter who adores it, yes. Humble brag. Yeah. The first system we had in the Newman house was Nintendo 64. PlayStation, the Solgent. I play with my daughter who adores it, yes. Humble brag. Yeah. The first system we had in the Newman house

was Nintendo 64. Oh, wow, okay. I would play- So now I'm more baffled. Right, so now it is actually weird that Crash. I would play PlayStation at my friend's houses when I was jealous that we didn't have video games, and that was the one I always liked playing the best. Got it.

And then later got the PS1 when they did the budget tiny model. Yeah, great reason. And realized I have had every PlayStation system in my life at some point. Wow, wow. Whereas Nintendo, I skipped everything between 64 and Switch. Are you talking about handhelds?

Handhelds I loved. Yeah, but did you, but I mean like PlayStation wise. I had the PSP, I didn't have the Vita. Did not have a Vita yet. So I've had every basic PlayStation model other than the Vita. I started with the three. I didn't have the Vita did not have a Vita So I had every basic PlayStation model other than the I started with the three I didn't have a one or two I was a Nintendo boy, but I do think I just skew a little PlayStation Maybe I'm just different but like I like the energy of crash. He was It's better I would never argue I'm gonna chime in here a second and just say that you're both fucking idiots right now.

What are you talking about? Crash sucks. Crash doesn't suck. Crash is fine. Oh, you know what it's like when he does his little twist? It's like a runner, it's like an iPhone game. The original Crash, like Crash Bandicoot 1 was a run into the screen or run towards the screen.

A lot of that. It was pretty, it was pretty much down a tunnel. There's some side scrolling. That was a little revolutionary. That was like a pretty novel kind of format for a platformer. That game is so annoying because if you miss like the lily pad by one second or what. You're forgetting that's the kind of gamer I am. It was very linear compared to Mario 64.

But like when the Crash franchise continued with two and three, they started to mess around with the formula a little bit more. It was a little bit more expensive. Was it more like Mario? No, it was never as open. It was always a very linear platformer. Yeah, that sucks. It doesn't suck.

Great Mario games are linear platformers. That's true. Mario 3D World, Mario 3D Land, Super Mario World. These are all great games. Is it the same as that though, or no? Is it like Mario 3D World at one point, Crash? Nothing's as good as Mario 3D, nothing's on that level. It was always, as the kids would say,

it was always a Teamu Mario, right? Who made it? Who is the studio? What the fuck are you talking about? What? Chris laughed. What does that mean, Teamu Mario? It's like the Chinese retailer.

Yes, it's like the cheaper, it's like the faker version of the thing. The kids are saying this? The kids the kids are saying am I wrong? No, that's correct. The kids are team. Oh, yeah, I disagree Yes, but I think if anything crashes closer to team who Sonic I think crash is trying to post off Sonic energy the yeah No, you're right. No, no, but he's trying to be cool Boy kind of wild and I think the crash spinning is their answer to Sonic going fast.

Yes. What's the kind of like big crazy move he can have. Mario is cool though without trying. So if you think about that. I agree, that makes him cool. He's a classic. I agree. That's why he's number one, Mitch.

Yeah, he is number one. You're preaching to the choir. I grew up in- Coolest Italian. We had a- It's the coolest Italian I've ever seen. He's our best Italian. He is our best Italian. I grew up in a Nintendo household.

I used money from a job to get my first PlayStation 1. And that was the first console I bought with my own money. And I got it so I could play Final Fantasy VII, Resident Evil, and Castlevania Symphony of the Night. And from that point on. What was the job for PlayStation 1? Were you like a businessman? Ha ha ha ha.

Stock broker. Stock broker. Private equity. I worked in a bookstore. Wow. And then so I had this PlayStation 1. And then from that point on, I just. Were there people asking your dumb ass for recommendations?

I want a new book. How about this horny manga? I would put PlayStation 4 is actually the first one I bought. Why? So PlayStation 4 and 5, which I have the 5 now. But 3 I had because my roommate was Jack Allison. And so he had 3 and I played 3. And then 4 came out.

And he got 4. And then I bought a 4 when he moved out. Even when I bought the 3, I felt like a traitor. I was like, I can't believe I'm finally doing this. It's like a big, and it was like, especially for me, they're like loving the Super Nintendo Final Fantasies, whereas like, well, to play the new Final Fantasy, I have to buy a non-Nintendo system. The crossover.

And then they make that decision, I was like, fuck, this is like the best decision of my life. Playing Final Fantasy VII, VIII, and IX, they're all so fucking good. And like, of their era, but still, it was just like, I'm so glad I got these games. I mean, Silent Hill to me, they're all so fucking good. And like of their era, but still it was just like, I'm so glad I got these. I mean Silent Hill to me is sort of the definitive. Yeah.

I'm just, I'm looking at Mario's voter registration online. Uh oh. And he was, he wasn't, he wasn't neither party for a long time. Yeah, kind of like a Pope Leo sort of thing. I was gonna say, does he have any Pope takes though? Is he a little mad? He doesn't like that he's an American there's a lot going on yeah Chris you a video gamer at all

Little bit. Okay, little bit. Did you have a dude? Did you have a particular console that in your household growing up? Honestly, very similar to what you guys were talking about. Yeah. Because I grew up with a Super Nintendo. Got it. Way back. Yeah, sure. As I'm older. Yeah.

And then got a PS1 and played that for Final Fantasy. Yeah. For Mega Man, all that stuff. Sure. Right. And then now, I mean, I haven't, I have a Switch, but I don't do much. My roommate is a huge gamer, and so he plays everything he's doing. My story, I think I told it on your podcast,

your other podcast that we shall not name, long ago, is that I saved my allowance to buy a Super Nintendo, which was one generation removed. Like the 64 was the new console, but I saved 50 pounds. Have I told you this? No, I don't think so. And I went to the, and because I wasn't allowed to have a console. Yeah. And then, and I was like, I'm going this? No, I don't think so. And I went to the, and because I wasn't allowed to have a console.

Yeah. And then, and I was like, I'm going to where like, you know, a pawn shop to get a Super Nintendo. My mom was like, no, you're not, you're not allowed. And my dad was like, he did it, bro. Like you lost. Like he saved his money. Like, you know, like, what are you supposed to do?

Take his money away. Like, and so I got, I had a Super, so I really fought for that Super Nintendo. Like that was a big deal for me. We were also not allowed to have a console. My mom was like philosophically, like I don't want video games in the house. I'm gonna put a wall up against this.

And then I have a much younger sister. And I think they finally let us get a console as like a consolation. But also sort of like, we might be paying less attention to them for the next two years. They might need something. We need a third parent. We need to bring in, let's bring in the 64.

But I genuinely feel like if my sister hadn't been born, that would not have happened unless we raised the money to buy it ourselves. Went to cash converters on the hallway road. I'll never forget it. It is one of the most important memories of my life. What is the- Was Bradley K Noll there?

Is this the, this is the UK version? Thank you, Griff. I guess it was the UK version. Thank you, I want a thumbs up. So it looks like the Famicom. But the branding was Super Nintendo, but it looked like the Super Famicom, the more rounded sort of.

The rounded edges. And then the four different colored buttons. Four colored buttons. And I got Super Mario World, Super Mario All-Stars, Cybernator, underrated game. Okay. Can't remember the other things. Like I got five games with it.

Yeah. I mean, they were like, yeah, whatever. Like, you know, it was in a pawn shop. Like this was not like a sexy new thing to get. Wow. This is just a general like observation and not my observation, but like if you are willing to game a little bit

in the past, it's an extremely affordable hobby because like the steam sales, like the digital storefronts have like such a deep discounts that you can get like a game that you can play for 60 hours that's like four years old for like 399. It's like absurd how on sale these things become. Well, that was when the PS1 came out. It was, I think, after the PS2 had launched

and it was like, now we've reduced it to this size. I think it costs like $60 and you could get every game for like 10 or 15. Those games sucked. PlayStation 1 sucked. PlayStation 1, it's like the NES. The loading times are so long. It was so brutal.

PlayStation 1 was pretty bad. It's like the NES. The loading times are so long. Yeah, it was so brutal. It's bad. PlayStation 1 was pretty bad. It's like the 8-bit generation versus the 16-bit generation. The 32-bit generation, those first attempts at 3D game designs were so crude that a lot of those games are barely playable in a modern system. Some of them are hard to look at. For sure.

Not even like, oh, they're unpleasant looking. Your eyes can't really register. Yeah. Those Nintendo 64 may be my favorite console. It's up there. That's when I was happiest as a person. That's a good point. And I said Super Mario 64, though,

you could say is the best Mario. We were talking about this for a second. I'm a world boy, but I love 64. 64 is really great. I think there's an argument for being the best video game of all time. Now, I'm an idiot who has but I love 64. 64 is really great. I think there's an argument for being the best video game of all time. Now I'm an idiot who has bad taste in games. Yeah, yeah.

And bad taste in picking restaurants for us to go to. Yeah, we'll get to it. We'll get to that. Interesting. I bought Super Nintendo the day it came out with my first communion money. Oh, there you go. Take that Jesus.

Yeah, the first, I mean, I think my parents, if they could go back, they would not want me to get it because I think it was transformational. It rotted your brain. Yeah, yeah, it rotted my body. It was a lot of different things. But yeah, the first day, Wig, the first day I went to Child World. Wow.

Sounds like you probably want to go there. Child World, a big New England, and I wondered if you would know of child world It seems like Yeah, it's a Northeast thing child world child world yep, I got got my Nintendo got my super Nintendo Wow weird I just googled it and the only match I got was Jeffrey Jones's current residence Headgum in LA. I do remember this. Yeah, the logo is ringing bells. Also the weird castle. I don't like it.

Yeah, I don't like it. Mine did not look like a castle to me. Okay, fair enough. I remember when my mom wanted to dress me fancy, she'd take me to the Little Folks shop. That's where we bought like nice kids clothes. Little folks. How many things, or should I say, how few things are funnier than a little kid dressed really fancy?

Little kid dressed fancy is good. It's a good bit. They don't need pockets. They don't know what they're wearing. They need a little suit. They don't know how to walk with any arrows up his... And they are uncomfortable. It is, they're not liking it. They're like cutting it off.

This just reminds me, I'd never heard that story before, that your mom used to take you to the little folk store or whatever the hell it's called. Little folk shop, yeah. Little folk shop. At the mall, like a mall. But also you told a story yesterday, I won't say his name, but you had an old friend that did,

can you just say what your friend's job used to be? You can say what your friend's job was. I can't remember what the story was. Your friend's job who made good money. Oh yeah, no, I had a, he may listen to the podcast, I won't dox him. Yeah, I'd say don't dox him. It's very funny.

He was like the dad in Beetlejuice. He got paid for two, right? He must've gotten paid for two. He was like the dad in Beetlejuice. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha was a live nude model for genital and anal exams at a medical school. Oh, so it's like your practice. Yeah, he would go up there and it would be like a, you know, like a classroom full of med students and he'd go out there in a robe and the instructor would say like, okay, please present.

And he'd like take off the robe and show everyone his like ball's an asshole. And then the instructor would demonstrate how to give rectal exams and genital exams on a man, and then say, OK, now it's everyone else's turn. And then one by one, each of the students would go up and with gloved hands perform the procedures. Now, was that fun?

And he made $2,500 a day doing it. So it was like great money. Did he get the job because he had like textbook dick balls and ass? Yeah. Do you think they right? They were like, we don't want a weird situation here. Great question. Or do they want something weird to like keep people on their toes? What would it be so weird if you did that and your assholes too weird?

What it is. Oh, yeah. No idea. Oh, yeah. It's a bad one. Because like, what? It is. Oh yeah. I had no idea. Oh yeah, it's a bad one. It's a shame, because the dick and balls are perfect. Yeah. Can I just do the one? That's kind of a package deal.

All right. I believe that it was one of those things where that financial- You go shit out like a crazy shot shit. It's like twirly shit. I guess they're probably right. Court screw shit. Court screw shit.

Court screw asshole. I guess they're probably right I believe the The financial incentive was so high because they had a hard time finding anyone will sure do it So I think that he basically got the job because there was that they need anyone to volunteer the whole world of people who would pay To do that. Yeah, you gotta find a Jeffrey Jones I don't know if that's what he's into. I don't wanna speak ill of Jeffrey Jones. I told Wags that the way I would respond to every student coming up in an exam, I go, good job.

Nice work. You were my favorite. I taught you well. Try again. We gotta talk food a little bit. So we've had, I've had a very brief time in the city. Mitch, you've been here a little bit longer. You got to go to MSG, watch a Nick Celtics game. A good one for him.

I hope Jason Tatum's OK. It seems like you might be out for about a year. This is unfortunately having in the aftermath of a pretty horrific looking injury. We're recording it right afterwards so we don't really know any details. You were nice about it, but I can't tell if you're a Lakers fan. I can't tell if you were being sincere, but it was very devastating. What are you talking about? Of course, I don't want a rooting for a guy to be injured. Everyone's so mean about it. It's insane.

As a Knicks fan who wants the Knicks to win that series, like, you feel dirty when it's... Yeah, you know what that's happened. I think the karma is not... From what I've seen online, the Knicks are going a little crazy about his injury. I haven't seen much of that. I feel like... I think it's a fringe. The thing, when KD tours Achilles...

I'm on Truth Social, though, so I don't know if that's a point. And you remember, like, the remember like the Toronto crowd started cheering. And all of the players freaked out and were like, shut up. That's the one time I remember feeling like, oh, this is like charged. Like, this is a little weird. That was really a weird moment. The Garden was pretty quiet about it. Like, it felt like they were not going to.

I went to the last Celtics win possibly of this postseason. And it was a, they were also kind of- A shellacking. A shellacking, and they were, it was almost still frustrating. The thing that was, I mean, yesterday it was so, whatever. It's not Jalen Brown's fault, but he turned the ball over and then Tatum went for it

and probably ruptured his Achilles is what we think it is. This is on me for mentioning MSG. I'm sorry, I wanted to talk about food. I'm sad. I'm depressed about it. I woke up this morning depressed about it I know I didn't want to put you in this headspace. It's a it's a bar. You don't want to have food Let's maybe mention MSG what Griffin Griff. That's great. It actually I can't But we were gonna say we won last year to think you did win last year. We do that's nice I think he's gonna be okay. Yeah, he's a young guy still it's gonna be a We won last year. Well, two things. You did win last year. We did. So that's nice. And he'll be OK. I think he's going to be OK.

Yeah, he's a young guy still. It's going to be a bad season next year, but that's fine. Sure. But did you eat anything at MSG? Great question. I did. And you know what? I'll say this.

The Knicks fans were not, and I'm sure we'll talk about this with Zach Cherry as well, because I went to the game with Zach. And the Knicks fans were actually not, everyone I interacted with, I was like, I'm a Celtics fan by the way, and one guy was like, ah, like, you know, that was kind of the level of it. No one really cared.

I also wasn't being annoying, but I, well, annoying, I was probably annoying to Zach more than anyone else. So then I wasn't being annoying to people, like, you know, loudly being annoying. Yeah. I got myself a hot dog, and I got myself an ice cold beer. Fun. Classic.

And let me tell you, that hot dog was damn good. All right. And there's only, they only offer you spicy brown mustard here at MSG. It was only the packets of spicy, which was a hell hole. It was like just a pile of stuck together mustard packets. But I did, I did ketchup, that's the spicy brown mustard

and some relish on that dog and it was fun. It was fantastic. And I also got a pretzel, Wags. And the pretzel was pretty good. The food at MSG I thought was decent. Were these two transactions? Like, did you get the hot dog and the beer and then come back and get pretzel? WG, I thought was decent. Were these two transactions? Like, did you get the hot dog and the beer and then come back and get pretzel?

Well, it was one run. I got a hot dog, a pretzel, and the beer all in one. This is interesting. And I think we can talk. And Griffin, I think even though you're not a sporto, I think you can weigh in on this. Like, as far as ballpark eats goes, in that scenario, I'm getting two hot dogs

over a hot dog and a pretzel. Lager, I'm right there with you. I get why you would do that. I get it, but I wanted to try the pretzel at Madison Square Garden. No, totally, I understand. You know what I mean? Yeah, that's fair. I mean, MSG has good food.

Simms had a double doggy day yesterday. I did. I had two dogs at the AMC Empire 25. Wow. Wow. The thing with me is I'm getting two hot dogs. Yeah. Like always. Pretty much always. The right number of hot dogs.

Pretty much always. I go to City Field a lot. Let's go Mets. Mets won last night. I don't know if you guys are excited about that. I don't follow MLB, but you know, maybe I'll get back into it. I'm trying to get you back into it. Mets is maybe the team I can root for the most in New York.

Of the New York team. It's pretty lovable. And I go to City Field a fair amount. And my thing at City Field is I get there, before I take my seat, two dogs. I get two hot dogs. Then I take my seat with a beer. And then when that's all done, then I'm like,

all right, now it's time for food. Like, I don't consider that lunch. Like, that's like the beginning. And then I'm like, now I wanna go, because City Field's got like, you know, beef patties, and you know, crazy like mac and cheese, chopped cheese sandwiches, it's got all kinds of stuff. Too much, tone it down.

Well they also have, you know, regular stuff. It's fun to have the other stuff. Who's the commissioner of baseball now? No, Manford's, no, Manford, Rob Manford. Rob Manford, yeah, Manford Man. Manford Man. Pink flamingos, yeah, that guy. I was gonna say, like, I was raised on Grace Papaya,

which you guys covered. With the best. With Zach and Tammy Sager. That place is all about the recession special and the two dogs and the drink, right? So I feel like that was basically what, like, what my father reared me on. And yet if I'm at, like, an MSG,

any sort of stadium for any sort of event, I think I go one dog because I want to leave the space to try out other things. That makes sense. A place like that has a chronic copy of options. Yes, right. A hot dog is not a real, I can't have a real dinner. No, hot dogs to me are zero calories.

I'm just like, yeah, that was just for my enjoyment. Well, that's a scientific fact. When I would eat hot dogs as a meal, this is like when I first moved to LA and I would like get hot dogs to boil. Actually, I did in college too a little bit, but I would try to, I would eat hot dogs as a meal. This is like when I first moved to LA and I would like get like hot dogs to boil. Actually I did in college too a little bit, but I would try to, I would get turkey dogs to try to be a little bit healthier. And then I would boil them in, I'd boil them in beer.

I would do beer boiled turkey dog. Very healthy. I said healthy. A beer boiled turkey dog and on wheat buns, this is like a very- We're back to zero calories. It is like disgusting. And then I would do a turkey chili as well.

So I'd have two dogs and a turkey chili. Fuck, I love a chili dog. And that's the way it became a meal. It was like I needed- The extra- You said you love a turkey dog? No, I love a chili dog. A chili dog, yeah, yeah.

But the chili was like what made it- Hot dog so much. Seemed like a meal, but I'll say this. I mean, I agree with you, just having a hot dog that's like whatever. It is to me like eating an apple, which a meal. But I'll say this, I mean, I agree with you, just having a hot dog that's like whatever. It is to me like eating an apple, which I know. I know that's not the same thing. I completely agree with you.

It's the same thing. I get what you're saying. It feels like a snack. I don't know if this is still true, but England, where I lived for many years, has no hot dog. They do not. They have sausages, they've got other tubed meats. Bitch, we recently talked with Olivia and Charlotte

about this, about how they have the sausage roll over there. It's very different. Which I love. They have sausages, but they don't really have proper hot dogs. And so I really think I'm still making up for the 13 years I spent in the UK.

Like, I'm still like, hot dogs, they're just, I'm adding to a total, you know, that I didn't get to use when I was a kid. Me too, apparently. I'm entitled, yeah. I don't know what time I'm making up for, but hot dogs are a great American. They're the best. Yeah.

Are they the great American food? I guess burgers maybe just beats it, right? But hamburgers, I know it's the German. Hot dog, burger is that number one. There's a case for pizza. Pizza being a pretty recent entry into the American canon, Hot dog, burger, is that number one. There's a case for pizza. Pizza being a pretty recent entry into the American canon, but like relative to history.

Does Italy get to claim pizza? That's the other thing, right? But the American pizza is a different thing. But you could argue that we modified the burger and the hot dog more from their origins than the pizza. That's a great point. If we're reducing this to like the simplest cartoon avatar, if you're speaking in like, you know, emojis,

like an American hot dog and American cheeseburger are like distinct things versus American slice of pizza. Fire emoji. Wow. Wow. If we're speaking in emojis. We're speaking in emoji. Yeah, yeah. Also 100 on there.

If you see like an emoji pizza, you're not like, oh, is that like Neapolitan stuff? Do you know what I'm saying? No, yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, also 100 on there. If you see like an emoji pizza, you're not like, oh, is that like Neapolitan stuff? Do you know what I'm saying? Yeah, I get what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, but you know, something's like eggplant emoji. Yeah. Getting hot and heavy. I mean, for you, it's more like grape emoji. Or it's emoji size. Like the actual size. right. I'm gonna just flat out say I do not have an emoji sized dick. My dick is not emoji sized. Right. It's fire. I think, yeah.

We're about 40 minutes in. Okay, great, thanks. Okay, this is a great moment. Sorry to interrupt, just one quick thing. If you can keep your iPad down. Kind of blocking. Is it blocking, which shot? His shot, like the two shots sometimes.

Wait, let me see. You're blocking my shot, you piece of shit. Oh, we're seeing it there? Yeah. Okay, good. No, no, no, this is great. Wait a minute, let me see. Keep it like there.

Okay, great. I'm gonna keep all this in. Well, I'm going to, so what I'm doing right now for people who are just listening to the audio feed is I'm trying to all this in. Well, I'm going to, so what I'm doing right now for people who are just listening to the audio feed is I'm trying to find the right level to where I can bring my iPad to have it not intrude onto the shot. I have a caveat. Right here looks good.

But if I go up here, oh, it's in, it's in. If it's a full screen eggplant emoji, then we might be twice. It's in, it's out. So like right here, yeah. If it's a full screen eggplant emoji, it might, we might be talking ballpark for me. I've taken up a whole phone screen. I'm saying, no, I'm saying if it was a full screen

eggplant emoji. That's what I mean, taking up the entire phone screen. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Then we're, then we're, now we're more in the neighborhood. You also have a Motorola Razor. The phone from Zoolander. Good. Well, hey, I'm going to say this.

After I left Madison Square Garden. Yeah, I went to a pizza place and I want one. Zach, which Harry Pick, which a cherry pick, which had been recommended by Josh Frankel. Wow. Who we can say now. Can we say that now? Well, has it been announced? I mean, when I'm thinking the chronology, no, this will be after this. We out after the tour. Yeah who we can say now, can we say that now? Has it been announced? I mean.

I'm thinking the chronology. No, this will be out after the tour. Yeah, we can announce. Of course we can mention it. Who works on the Doughboyz comic. Yeah, publishing the Doughboyz comic. He also recommended the spot, and we went in to New York Pizzeria Suprema.

NY Pizza Suprema? NY Pizza Suprema, I think it's what it's called. It's a great slice shop. I'm just realizing we were talking early child world and then Little Folk Shop and the URL to get our comic is brkids.com. That is right. So again, check out brkids.com.

Check out brkids.com. Pre-order the comic. I had a great two slices. What'd you get? I hadn't eaten, the game was at 3.30, why I was making fun of me because I didn't eat until I got to the game. I wasn't making fun of you. I was concerned about my friend.

I feel like you gotta try to get some food in your body a little bit earlier. You gotta play it. I came into New York City on LA time at like 1 a.m. and I didn't go to, and I had a headache and I stayed up till like four. So it's basically a noon meal for you. But it seems later than it is. What did you do in first grade? Staying up till like four. So it's basically a noon meal for you. But it seems later than it is.

What did you do in Freshman Food? Staying up till four. Checking out Hilton on-demand menu. You know, I was doing stuff. You were checking off to the Hilton in-room porno. No, just the menu. Just the menu. OK, but that takes him to 9.50pm.

What about the food now? The idea of going to a hotel room and then using their in-room entertainment and ordering porno and paying like $15 for it instead of jacking off your phone. When you can just like watch porn on your phone. Well, you know the hotel room. Classy. It is classy.

Nappin', crappin' and fappin'. Those are the three things you do at the hotel. You is classy. Yeah. Nappin', crappin' and fappin'. Right. Those are the three things you do at the hotel. You know this. Yes. And I did all three. Actually, did I jack it? Mm. Mm.

Did I jack off? Did I jack off? Mm, did I jack off? Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh. Well, hiya. Hiya. Hiya.

It's the King James Bible. No, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. That's not nice of me. If you wanna go to room 428 to see which pages are sticky King James Bible If you if you want to go to room 428 to see which pages are sticky in the Bible Let's just say it might be Adam and Eve Imagine if the new Pope heard all this he would be fine with it. He knows that I'm a jester

I don't like that. He's, hello, how are you doing? Right. Like, I need him to be like, oh, but that, that, that. Yes, right. I want to help it up a little bit. Is that Latin or Italian? I don't even know what's going on. That's what the pope should be like.

He's making it really hard for us to make fun of him. That's the core issue here. He's just like, hi, I think poor people should be helped out. I'm like, yeah, fine, cool. That's fine. Yeah, he's taking the fun out of it for us. But I'm going to say this. He should be like stooped over in some golden chair. Be like, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh, eh Okay. Okay, maybe I'm liking this guy. There must be a little bit, from the Italian perspective, of we get to make fun of an American guy.

Right. As opposed to always being made fun of. You think in Italy they're being like, I'm American. And you're sort of like, wow. Hey, burgers and fries! Having grown up in Europe, that is, if you're from America, they're like,

hey, burgers and fries! That's what they associate with us. I think I wouldn't, I'd be like, that is, if you're like, I don't know, from America, they're like, hey, burgers and fries! That's what they associate with us. I think I wouldn't, I'd be like, yeah, let's do it. Yeah, they're good! You got some? I went to, my mom is from France, and family vacation, I went to a high school party in France, and these two guys, these hunky,

alpha French teenagers came up to me, and they were like, hey, you these two guys, these like hunky alpha French teenagers came up to me and they were like, hey, you are an American, we heard that there's an American here. And I was like, yeah, I go, where are you from? And I went New York and they went, New York, you don't sound like you're from New York. And I said, what does a New Yorker sound like? And they went, you know, more like,

hey there, how's it going? I'm a Texas oil man. But like went into that voice perfectly. Hey there, how's it going? Hahaha I'm a Texas oil man We're like went into that voice Hey there, how's it going? That's really good You're just like the prospector from Toy Story? And I said based on what? And they went, you know movies and TV?

And I went like what? And they went, you know Sex in the City? That Carrie does always when she sees her girl Hey how's it going? Hey girls Hey Mr. Big, how's it going? Carrie does always when she sees her girl Boyfriends come taste money He's got some funny taste in spot. Yeah. Is that Justin Theroux or Bobby? You know, it's Bobby kind of ollie Bobby kind of ollie has the we've got a funky smoke Yeah in sex in the city. Yeah, the Pope should never. The Pope should weigh in on what I just said. I think, though, because the Popes are celibate, right?

Yeah. But also there was a thing online about someone's mom dating the Pope. Did you see that? There was a thing that like- Well, they take a vow of celibacy once. It's not like they're like, have you ever had sex? Yeah, I think first year should be like a rumspringa

for the Pope, and they should be able to do whatever they want. I think maybe if they're 69 too, especially, they can- Oh. spring up for the Pope and they should be able to do whatever they want. I think maybe it's if they're 69 too, especially, they can, during their 69th year, they can do it. Should that be a rule for all bishops? It's like no sex unless you're 69. Unless you're 69, you can go at it.

I think that's fun. The sex age. Yeah. But appropriately, we gotta give that warning. There is a famous Wikipedia list of sexually active popes. Wow. That I highly recommend it is so fun. Oh my God. It's mostly a list of popes who like had,

canonically had children while they were the pope. Well also that weird stint that Pete Davidson had. I'm opening this tab right now. And like sexually active popes. The thing with that is like it's crazy that he's made zero peacock shows about it so far. Like, you know, he's really keeping that one close to the chest.

I just would love to see someone play his mom. I'm dying to see what award-winning actress could do with the role of his mom. Oscar-winning character actress. Could he be a Tony winner? Okay. Could be an Emmy. Wait, so who played his mom in Bupkis?

Edie Falco. All right, Edie Falco. Felix III was the grandfather of Pope Gregory the Great because Felix III was fuckin'. Yeah. That's wild. Look up Julius III. Okay, let's see if we can get Julius III. He's under had sex with men, not to...

Wow, okay. There's different categories. Oh yeah, this is broken down into different tables. It's broken down into like men women men and women Oh, man, I don't want to know the other categories with the church Jewel Julius the third had an alleged affair with a cardinal But if you click on Julius the third it describes what kind of Pope I would be Where it's basically like he made some nominal effort at reform and when that failed he devoted himself to a life of pleasure

He built a gaming PC Was he just like kind of like hey, I don't want to do anything no, okay? What do we got can we have like a big pork on a roast? You can't blame me for trying I feel like if I was Pope people were upset that I was too celibate This piece doesn't get out much Papa a little fucking please celibate

Mitch I'm just learning about Julius the third now, but I'm pretty confident. He was on the doughboys patreon This guy's the platinum Blake love for sure guys definitely platinum Is remember your iPad levels was it too high? Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Fuck. Um, I, I, I, here, here's the thing. They showed the picture of the Pope. This is now old news, but they showed the Leo the 14th. They showed picture of Pope Leo who was just it. When we were in Times square, Pope Leo just was on the billboard and I was like, he just had a, I think it's a show maybe. Um, but he, but he, he's a, there's a picture of If you're Pope you get a hulu He uh, there's a picture of him at a white-socks game

Yes, he was at the World Series he's at the World Series and it's so disappointing because they're in the picture It's like a big fat guy and I was like that big fat American guy is the Pope and then it's like no It's the slim guy kind of learned looking guy with glasses. Yeah. Not as kind of pulpy vibe. It was like a big Chicago chuck, like fat guy. It was, I was like, this guy fucking rules. This is our Pope. And then as Husser said, uh, deep dish, uh, communion wafers. There was a lot of, I mean, all like, uh, there was a lot of fun stuff that we were saying. The Pope. The Pope.

We don't need to read the Recon. We don't have to read the Recon. We can do a little bit of it. But, I don't know, something with the French, whatever the dip is, the Chicago dip. Right. I need hands. I need fucking hands. Yeah. They dip the wafer, you know, they like to get the deeper way wet or whatever. Hot dogs earlier, probably some of those taste taken down. Oh, the bean, something with the bean.

The bean. He blessed the bean. Kind of the golden age of crime, is there anything there? Do we put him in a pinstripe suit with a Tommy gun? Oh, like kind of a Capone thing? Does that feel insensitive? I'm just trying to think about Chicago. Having the pope with a Tommy gun, does that feel insensitive?

Maybe the Tommy gun shoots out holy water though? That's fun. That's kind of fun. The beans should get moved to the Vatican. Being moved to the Vatican, there's the Chicago Bulls intro. All right, the Alan Parsons project. The Alan Parsons project, so maybe it's like, You're Chicago Pope!

That's good. That is good. He was a member of Steppenwolf Theater. Yeah, that's another one you could do. Can You imagine if they were transporting the bean over to the Vatican and they dropped in the ocean I just I just Fucking insane Sorry, I know but if you drop the Like you know chain it to an Apache helicopter like they're doing an operation Dumbo drop They should put it on a proper bar. I agree and being dropped

I also like that the the the bean transformation crew is Let me take a one a bite You know when I said like how few things are funnier than a little kid dressed up in fancy clothes? You know what's one of the only things that's above it? What's that? The cartoons used to depict a really poor person, like a hobo or something, sliced in a bean. Yeah, that's good. A really good joke.

The bean slice is really good. Or like a faint sliver of bean. Right, and there was like, Sither music. The cartoon poverty joke I always liked is a guy opening his wallet and saying, Like a faint sliver of bean. And there was like, Sither music. Like, eh, ding, ding, ding. The cartoon poverty joke I always liked is a guy opening his wallet and then a single fly buzzes out. Really funny. Really funny.

You know what? Bring back The Barrel. Yeah, The Barrel is gay. The Barrel is trash. People lose their money. They gotta wear The Barrel. We need more hobos. That feels like a Trump thing, too,

where he's like, I think homeless people should be hobos. They should have a bindle. Like, he just wants everything to be, he wants Alcatraz, rack, right? He wants it to be older. Yeah. New York, NY Pizza Suprema, whatever the hell the name is. To me, that is a, the only problem with that place

is it's a little pricey because it's by Penn Station. It's got, right, the location to charge. I didn't even think of the price was like, whatever. It was like 12 bucks. It's not that much. But for a slice? I got a slice of cheese pizza, which was fantastic. And then I got a slice of a Fra Diavola,

which was a pepperoni and spicy sauce, a square slice, both really, really, really good and a small Coke. I also feel like their slices are pretty hearty. Yeah, they're a bit lambish sort of a. Oh, for sure. I also feel like their slices are pretty hearty. Yeah, they're date lunch. They have a sort of a- Oh, for sure. I had the hot dog pretzel and those two

and I was done for the, that was it. That was my day. I wanna ask about a restaurant that you took us to, Griffin. Mile End Deli. Oh, yeah. One of my few meals I've gotten to have in the city. Which is maybe, maybe it shouldn't have been one of your few meals.

I had a good time at Myland Deli, but the way this was set up to us was, you told us it was the best poutine in New York City. And David- Then Sims later said- Sims actually pointed, like I definitely pointed out that not a signature cuisine of famous poutine. Not in the top 100 signature food.

He was like, who cares about coming to New York City and getting Canadian food? And when he said that, I got mad at you. It is the truth. I could almost amend it to, it might be the only good poutine in New York City. Okay, sure. And I probably shouldn't have led with that.

It was mostly, it was very close to the hotel where you guys were staying. That is true, but then I also heard that there were like, there was a, what's the heard that there was a cat's offshoot deli near my hotel. That's true, in the mall. That's true. I think that offshoot is not great

and so absurdly expensive. I will say, those mall offshoots. I was not forgetting that. It's like the mall Regina, right? Right, true. Yeah, these are Regina. But it's still a good pastrami sandwich from there. It's true, but did you get pastrami at Myland?

We did get some smoked meat on the poutine. Right, we got pastrami on the poutine. What is the smoked meat when they just say smoked meat? What the fuck were you doing getting poutine? I'm so mad about this. They have the best poutine in New York City. I really love this city, and I really care about its food. And I know so many places people can go.

I was going to say, maybe your favorite thing in life is to recommend restaurants to people visiting New York. Yeah, and then you guys got poutine. Like, it's just nuts. You had, like, 72 hours in New York or whatever. And Myland isn't bad at all. Like, Myland is good. I feel mean calling it out almost,

because I think they do a perfectly good job at Myland. Yeah, I got a chicken salad salad place. It was lovely. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's Canadian delicatessen. Yes, it's a Canadian deli. In a city that's pretty famous for New York delicatessen. Montreal bagels and stuff, right, as well.

They have a lot of kind of like- Well, to be clear, they had one bagel left. Griffin got it. Yeah. Griffin got there early and snatched it. I said, I got a bagel with like pastrami, not pastrami, salmon and the works locks, what have you. And I said, can I get that on everything?

And they said, I think we only have a poppy left. And I said, oh, you're down to just poppy bagels? And they went, no, we're down to one bagel. A poppy bagel. And then later I was like, can I get my breakfast sandwich on a bagel? And they're like, no, you cannot, it is gone. So, but, and I had, I think that sandwich was,

my sandwich was just fine. And that, so this also made me slightly mad, but the poutine was good, I'll say. I'll say the smoked meat was good on top of it. But I am in hindsight mad we weren't there, I guess. And in- What would you rather got? Breaking a track record of you being very happy

with every other time I picked a restaurant before and after that incident. I'm now realizing, Griff, I didn't realize this until literally last night. The only good recommendation you've ever given us is Little Canada. Little Canada, right? Little Canada is great. Are you from Canada?

Maybe. Little Canada is great, and we love Little Canada. The little dough boys and little Emma are in- In Little Canada. Little Canada. But every other food recommendation that you have, or I guess just anytime we eat food with you, it's not a great experience. Well, I'm a garbage pail with a terrible palate.

Which makes me an ideal multiple time guest on Food Podcast. But then you also do know good restaurants too. But I guess you know better restaurants than Griff. I mean, look, I'm not trying to show off. Yeah. But I have on my Google Maps a very complex system. Oh my God.

Of saved restaurants. Look at that, this is what he spends for audio listeners. So Griff, yours is like, do you have a saying that was like Chuck E. Cheese and. Just absolutely dotted with little icons. And like by various cuisines, which are all represented by different emojis.

Wow. And then you can like, so say, you know, you want Thai. And this is just a, this is like my personal project just for me. That's great. It's not like, but like if you want Thai, then like there's all the Thai places I've written down. Wow.

You should be able to send all that. I mean, maybe you can, but that's- Maybe you can. I don't know. I've been waiting for like a truly sort of truly focused app that can do this for you. There's an app I use called Belly that's not bad. It's kind of like a restaurant recommendation app. That I, it's all right, but I feel like there's,

Google Maps is still the best way to sort of track your favorites. If you could follow, like, hey, follow me and I have all my food maps. I mean, tech guys, get on it. Tech guys, get on it. I know you're doing such a great job. We love you, tech guys. We love you. Get on it. Come mean, I know you're doing such a great job

Love you get on it. Come on. Everything's good. Everything is great Love those cars that have no drivers that hit people those are good Cool. Yeah, right. I'll just say it. We want to have a meme coin. We don't know how do we get started? Cuz we make a bunch of money off that you reached out to Haley. Well You guys are always threatening to end the podcast. If you wanna do that, start a meme coin. That seems to be the quickest way. Great point.

It's gotta feel so good to pull the rug, right? I still love- That moment when it's peaked and it's like, there you go. If we, if, how much, how much, how much, how much for a rug pull? What would it, what would it cost you? If we were gonna like, so we're gonna tarnish our brand,

like both the Doughboy's brand and Us as individuals. I guess, oh, Us as individuals If we're gonna like, so we're gonna tarnish our brand, like both the Doughboys brand and us as individuals. I guess, oh, us as individuals, that is so like, it's it for me, I can't be an actor ever again. You're so strongly associated, I mean, you could be an actor in some things. It'd be like when Chet Hayes shows up in a movie and you're like, he's pretty good in this, but it's kind of weird that Chet Hayes is in this.

Right. You know? Like people will keep thinking about how the Doughboys ended. So this is like a career altering a cash grab. Like what would be the threshold for that? I think it'd have to be pretty high. I think it would have to be high. It would have to be high.

Like 10,000. I will. Yeah, 10,000. 10,000, yeah. Maybe do over 6,000. I'd also not feel great about it, right? Cause at a certain point- Yeah, of course you don't feel good about the drug poll.

You're just bilking a bunch of people out of their hard-earn- Yeah, of course you don't feel good about the rug hole. You're just bilking a bunch of people out of their hard-earned money. Yeah, you don't feel good. You don't feel great, yeah. No one feels- The thing is, you know, last year, the Mets turned it around after Grimace, who is Doughboy's, you know, discussion.

Coded, yeah. Throughout the first pitch, right? This was the whole thing where Grimace throughout the first pitch, the Mets had been doing really bad, and everyone was like, fucking Grimace. Like, at the time everyone was like, this is just pitiful, like,

and then the Mets got really good, so then everyone was like, it was Grimace that did it. But Hawk Tua threw out a first pitch right after Grimace. Wow. So I consider her part of the same continuum of good luck for the New York Mets. That's wild to think about. So I don't care how many meme coins she's,

I'm pro Hawk Tua. Did she spit on that thing, the baseball? Did she? Now that's illegal. No, but that's right, yeah, no spitball. Yeah, you're right. I actually, Hoktooa could not play in the major leagues.

Yeah. I just wanna, just cause I don't wanna seem like we were shitting on Maya Landelli where we could have a lovely meal. That was totally solid. We did. The note is taken. It was, with a limited time in New York City.

But I think- I had no problem with it. We were in it. Oh, some old friends on the way too. I won't say who they were, but we were- But I knew that what I had in store for you gentlemen was one of the most New York restaurants that evening for dinner.

It took the pressure off of the brunch recommendation. Before we dig into Planet Hollywood, which we have much to say about, Sims, I did want to give you a chance to, if you were gonna throw out some proper wrecks, like some non-Griffin wrecks for- When are you gonna throw out the first pitch in a Mets game?

Oh, get me out there. Great question, that'd be great. I'm so good at throwing baseballs too, so I wouldn't humiliate myself at all. Not as good as George W. The best first pitcher in the world. I stood up and saluted. Yeah.

I watch it all the time. It was, wow. There's got to be people who do that. Like, I still watch him throwing that pitch. Throwing first pitches. He's dodging shoes. I think him dodging the shoe is one of his better moments. I fully agree.

Because those are maybe his top two things he did. He's cut his head on a fucking swivel. He's in Iraq like he's not like in America some guys throw something at him And he's not like he's just like okay alright. You know like he just takes the dodge The the guy who threw the shoes was very cool. It's cool that someone threw shoes at him I love that guy too to be clear. Love that guy, but it was impressive. Can I quickly say something? Yeah, you're at a Doughboyz live, don't throw the shoe at us, please. We don't like, we don't appreciate it. Yeah, don't throw shoes at us.

Oh no, then I might smell. Now what if random task is in the audience? Random in my face? Oh, random task? Random task. That's true. Random task, we don't have to worry about random task. Random task is behind bars.

In prison. Both I think in candy and out of beer. Canonically, right. Canonically and non-canonically. He is a convicted murderer. He is a convicted murderer. My whole thing is like people are like, what should I do? And I'm just like, what do you want? I don't mean like, you know, like specifically,

but like, you know, there's so many vibes of, you know, do you wanna grab and go? Do you wanna sit down? Totally get that. So we were gonna do an early meal. Think about that, it's 11 a.m. In that area? I would, here's what I would say,

there is great Chinese food in LA, but it is kind of on the east side. You kind of have to go to Alhambra, Monterey Park. It's a little bit removed from the city, whereas I feel like in New York City, you're a little bit more on top of really good Chinese options. There's fantastic Chinese food everywhere,

but that's a good point. It's like, I'm not gonna recommend Mexican food to you. You can get plenty of that. You probably get good Chinese food, good Korean food. I'm trying to think's like, I'm not gonna recommend Mexican food to you. You can get plenty of that. You probably get good Chinese food, good Korean food. I'm trying to think of like what LA's. Good Thai food, good Thai food. LA is kind of loaded on certain fronts, but what's LA lacking?

I mean, the obvious thing is like, bagels. Yeah, good slice joint, you know, there's good pizza out there. Right, that's the thing. I probably would have sent you to a pizza place. I mean, possibly Foscati, Griffin, around there. Yeah. That would have rocked. Wait, what's up with Foscati Griffin around there, that would have rocked. Wait, what's up with Foscati?

It's just one of those places where they're like, fuck you. And you're like, hey. It's a gentleman's place joint. Yeah. That has intent for all customers. Where they're just like, we've changed nothing since Eisenhower was president.

And you're like, good. That sounds great. Yeah, I just, nice, thin, crispy. Like, you know, I love that place. I love the Montague Diner around there. That's a new entry. But like, it's a diner. That would have been a little bit more of a walk.

Diner is another thing though. It's like, there are plenty of that. Well, no, I think there actually are fewer diner options in LA these days. Where you were is the hotspot of Yemeni food in Brooklyn. And I, like the Yemen Cafe, there's like two or three places like that where you could really have a great time.

I'd be into that. I think you would've been into that. We almost went to Giuliana's Pizza, but then you were so-so on Giuliana's. Thumbs down. No, you know what? This is a podcast that goes out. Giuliana's Pizza is totally fine.

It's fine. Like I just, those- Are you Grimaldi's, team Grimaldi's over Giuliana's? Only how he pays his taxes. I love that. Love how that guy... He, like, never paid his taxes, right? The whole thing with Grimaldi is it's like H&H Bagels,

RIP H&H Bagels, where they were like, oh, we didn't ever pay those. The IRS is like, you never paid them. They're like, yeah, no, we didn't do that. Why would we do that? You want a pumpernickel? Yeah, right. We don't toast.

We don't pay taxes. I checked a big one off my... I should talk about this. I checked a big one off my pizza list. Wow. I went to John's of Bleeker. Right, a legendary spot. Another kind of, they haven't changed anything in 50 years place, which is great.

That's one that always hits for me though. Yeah, my test. You've got like a pizza list and then you've got a separate list of naughty and nice children you track for three-a-round. Implying I'm Santa. Wink. I have pizza, I have two different pizza lists.

Comic ping pong is at the top of the other one. And then this one is all the stuff. Places to storm. There's a lot of New York spots on there that I have not hit up. And I did not do Lucali. I still did not do it on this trip. Well, Lucali, you have to get there around 3.30, wait in line to put your name down, and then you put your name down for like seven.

It's a whole day. It's a build a day around it. It's a pain in the ass. It's very, very good, to be clear. Is it better to go on like a Monday? Does that work? I think it's better on a weekday, for sure. But you have to be unbelievably lucky

to actually get in quickly, even on a slower day. You probably have to basically budget an entire afternoon and evening. That seems crazy. Then a place like Titano's, I think Titano's is close to closing. The last time I went there, I know I've been recommending that one to you,

down in Coney Island. I went there with my daughter after we went recommending that one to you. Yeah, I really wanna do that, yeah. I went there with my daughter after we went to the aquarium, which is in Coney Island. Fun. And like it opens at noon or whatever, it was raining, and I showed up there with my daughter,

like in a stroller, and I think her name's Cookie, the owner of Totanos, who's a slightly grumpy lady, shows up and she's like, hey, and I'm like, can I get a pizza? And she's like, we're only doing takeout.

And I was like, can I come in the store? It's raining, like I'm cold. And she looks at my door and she's like, fine. I'm like, that's the vibe. Wow. But it was good. Yeah. It was a good pizza.

I really thought John's of Bleecker was a great. I got a cheese pizza and I usually get large, but I got the smaller one and it was still very good. Nice crispiness to it. There was a picture, maybe a portrait, no picture of Dave Portnoy up on the wall there, near the American flag.

And the family next to me was saying- Saluting him. The family next to me was like, it's got flop. And it was just this woman who was holding the slice down. And I was like, that pizza is so crispy, the John's a bleaker. And it's like, who cares if it has, what the fuck are you talking about? What has that man done?

Nothing. Why is he the arbiter of this? Well, speaking out about him online has always really fruit-balled. And good for one's career. But there was a New York Times article that drove me up the wall about how he has basically defined a new language for people of shit like flop.

Right. Where they're just like, now pizzerias are all changing their styles because they don't wanna be viewed as bad by him when it's a subjective taste thing. Where like the types of pizzas represented in North America are starting to narrow around his tastes. And like some of it's visual.

Like a lot of it's visual. Like the way he talks about like flop or char on the bottom and all this sort of shit where it's like, I like the fucking variety of pizza. I like that pizza can be a ton of different things. I like seeing people spin on it. And he's just turned it into like, this is what I like the idea of pizza. I like that pizza can be a ton of different things. I like seeing people spin on it. And he's just turned it into like, this is what I like about pizza.

And now, yeah, like a fucking family sits there and goes like, a little sloppy. And I say, shut the fuck up. Yeah, I agree. He needs to shut the fuck up. I'm saying that to the family, not to him. Dave Portnoy, you're a good American. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Of course not. Don't sue me. We're not afraid of him either, but you're doing a great job. Right, Wags? I don't pay me. Yeah. We're not afraid of him either, but you know, you're doing a great job. Right, Wags? I don't pay attention to that. Like I know about the one bite pizza reviews, right? But I'm like, I've been so offline

that I like, I don't, like I've never encountered it. I've just heard people talk about it. It is taken over. His Celtics takes aren't helpful either as a Celtic fan. I, but I did like it a lot. I thought the sauce was a little bit, it was very basic sauce, which is not a bad thing. And I'm not saying it's a bad thing.

I thought it was like one of the great pizzas. It is one of the great pizzas. It's very, very, very good. It's a really nice place to be. I like being there. It's just not like, I mean, mostly if I'm near Dave's picture, obviously, but like it's just got a nice kind of low key atmosphere

in there and like, yeah. I like all the Italian guys working there. They were a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, they were, and they were, you know, they hooked me up. It was a great time. I had a black cherry soda as well,

and I did the house salad, which is just lettuce, onions, and some mushrooms on there with like a house-made vinaigrette. It was very tasty. A great time, Wags. And then I went to Nighthawk Cinema, which you did not get to do on this trip. That's true. I'm all bummed I missed out on the Nighthawk.

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Name rings a vague bell, but now I remember. He had a string of hits in the 1950s. It seems like he was like a real old fashioned crooner. He was like a British kind of mel-tour-may, like kind of that era. So that'd be the London Fog rather than the LLog. The London Fog. Wow, well played. Robert Earl? Robert Earl was it. His dad was Robert Earl. His name is also Robert Earl, but his dad, Robert Earl,

I had no idea that there was a relation there. London Fog is a good sequel to The Fog, if he did that in London. Boy, there's pirates! Whatever, I don't know. Chain Restaurant mogul Robert Earl is the son of the, yeah, it's good. iPad level.

Fog of the crooner Robert Earl Why what? It's out though now, yeah, I know but I said I'm saying tis tis for raising it too high again That's a tis tis. We don't worry about it happening again. Anyway in recent years Earl has focused on virtual dining concepts manages which manages largely terrible celebrity ghost kitchens. Oh, okay. But is he involved with this relaunch? He is. He is very much involved in this one.

Well, he did a great job. Salute to him. So, what, five forks all around? Thank you all for listening. All right, so I'm just gonna say this right off the top here. We, before we came out here, I made a reservation for five people at Keen's Steakhouse at 9.45, a late reservation, on Monday night. I was very excited to go. Go have a good meal.

Wiggs, you said, it's a content trip. We got to feed the content machine. Cracking that content whip. You were cracking the content machine. Cracking that content whip. You were cracking the content whip. We had, look, this was our only opportunity in many years to have, to boast guest in person on the Blank Check podcast that also have the host of Blank Check

who are here with us, guests in person on our show. Can I have a quick rebuttal? Who gives a shit? Yeah. It's like, they're gonna be on the podcast no matter what. Who fucking cares we're in the fucking head gum office? No offense, the head gum. It's better to do it in person.

I like head gum. I definitely prefer to do it in person than I do think my last virtual appearance on your show came at an opportune moment and did go over well. Yes. Yeah, it was great. We all caught a wave on that episode. I'm not saying I did a good job.

That was bigger than any of us. It was more just right. The energy was did- We all caught a wave on that episode. I'm not saying I did a good job. I think we can all admit, that was bigger than any of us. It was more just, right, the energy was like, me entering like a ransacked room. Right. You know what I mean? But I don't think even we can take credit for that. Like something just happened.

Yeah. Right, we caught a wave. And I think just my reaction of what has happened here, when you were like, what's more famous, like Bug or Man, or whatever it is you were doing. Anyway, sorry. Great questions, I think that it was an enlightening conversation that we had.

I think a lot of people still think about that and still don't know where to rank Dog or Man versus Dog versus Man, you know? Man's gotta be higher. Was that a Comedy Central show, Dog versus Man, wasn't it? There was, Man Bites Dog. Oh, Man Bites Dog, it was like a news parody. Galifianakis. Yeah, Galifianakis. It was sort of like a real show, Dog versus Man, wasn't it? There was, Man Bites Dog. Oh, Man Bites Dog, it was like a news parody. Galifianakis.

Yeah, it was sort of like a daily show adjacent. 80 miles, I think. Yeah. What did we end up thinking was the most famous? Was it Sun? I landed on Sun, and I stand by Sun. Sun is really famous. I think it's pretty good.

Okay, now can we, not to relitigate this. I did not mean to bring this back up, I'm sorry. But when David jumps in and we were like cold, you don't know the conversation we've been having. I mean, no, all I've known is Amelia had told me, oh, they're starting at say six your time, so you can jump on like 7.30. And I'm like, I won't be, internally I'm like, okay.

I don't care when I jump on to be clear, I'm not mad. Right, just happy. And then like at 7.30, Amelia texts, they just started discussing the restaurant. And I'm like, mm-hmm, yeah, no problem, no problem. You know, eight, I'm sorry. I'm like, it's fine, it's fine. Nine, I think we're getting close.

You know, like it's just, and so I'm coming in late. You guys have been going for a while. In our second longest episode, sadly, it is not our longest episode anymore. Hey, I wanna say, you and our buddy Scott Gardner, That's right. you told me that the two of you had texted after that LA trip and said, I think Griffin came with the stealth mission

of trying to break every podcast length record. It felt like you had a hidden agenda that you were going to try to get the longest episode ever of PTR and the longest episode ever of Doughboys, which you achieved for a time. I swear to you that I was like, you know what I want to do? Be on rails. I went to that trip being like, I want to silence some of the haters and be tight and focused. I'm not doing this for show. Yeah, sure.

I can do a condensed episode. And so I want to call my shot right here. This will be the shortest episode of Doughboys ever. How long have we been going so far? We are at one hour and 12 minutes. Oh, there's no fucking way. Hey, hey, we can land on this plane. No, who beat him? Has it aired or is it still on? Shearman Zoukis.

Yeah, yeah, Shearman Zoukis did it. Oh, that's right. That was very long. It was one of those things where the record was broken and then immediately afterwards the record was broken again. It was a short reign. That was wire Sosa kind of thing. Yeah, it was.

That was heavily on Zoukis wanting to shout out. Zoukis will get, right, he would get kind of thing. That was heavily on Zooks wanting to shout out. Zooks will get, he will get kind of competitive. I'll say this, you could make us miss our train to DC today, it is a possibility. When's your train? It's not gonna happen, because I'm promising, it's the shortest episode ever. We have to end now, it's at 4.30 PM.

We have had, in the early running, we have had sub 90 minute episodes, so we'd have to wrap it up. We'd have to basically get to four scores. When is your train? I'm just interested. 434. Okay, 434 out of Penn Station. Now I wanna say this, okay?

Just cause this is hyper relevant to the show. Not just relitigating this bit, right? You come on as you said, it's late, you've been waiting. You don't know what we've been talking about. We go just cold tea without context. My kids are in bed, I'm feeling chill. I'm like, okay, time for me to do my little 15 minutes on doughboys.

What's the most famous thing? Because we want your answer without infecting your brain with our bullshit. Yeah, yeah, yeah, just hear these two words. And you say right off the dome, you know, my go-to answer has always been Ronald McDonald. Right. And we went, huh, that's interesting.

I've thought about it a lot in the two months, three months, whatever it's been since we recorded that, Ronald has basically been absent from marketing for over a decade. Yeah, that's true. Ronald is really gone. He's subbed out Ronald. He's today no grimace more than they know Ronald.

They definitely don't know Ronald. Because the gate grimace met. Right. No mats, obviously. But Ronald might have fallen way off. I think so. It's interesting, because my whole thing with Ronald was right, that it's like McDonald's is globally ubiquitous

in ways that most brands aren't. I think until 2005. Your argument's really strong. Yeah. That he does kind of stick in your mind in a way. I think he absolutely was one of the most known symbols until like 10, 15 years ago. Can we just say, can we just give me a little credit

for Santa? Santa is extremely famous. Santa is pretty good, although I haven't taken that. But on this point, I think Ronald McDonald has maybe fallen below even the aforementioned Crash Bandicoot. I wonder if there's more Crash Bandicoot awareness than Ronald McDonald awareness is putting him in.

What's Crash doing right now? He's not doing much, but he's just like, oh, like he's just, he's still around. Do you think Macaulay Culkin is more famous than Crash? Is that Modern Platform releases? Yeah. Do you think, I think Macaulay Culkin is more famous than Crash. So that means he's more famous than Ronald. Okay, but is adult Macaulay Culkin more famous or are we still thinking of like,

this is a big question. We are thinking of child Macaulay Culkin, but I do think that you still, he looks enough like he used to that I think it still works in a way. Can I say, is I, you know- Is Macaulay Culkin less famous than Kieran Culkin, who just won an Oscar? I think possibly. Yeah.

But let me weigh in on this specifically. Also went home alone though, so. Let me weigh in on this specifically, because adult Macaulay Culkin and his fame threshold. I go to Los Angeles Laker games at Crypto.com Arena. Very often celebrities attend, as they do at MSG, and they are shown on the Jumbotron. at Laker games, at Crypto.com arena. Very often celebrities attend as they do at MSG and they are shown on the Jumbotron.

There's oftentimes an audience reaction as when Alec Baldwin was booed. Cheering for Kevin Spacey. Yeah, yeah, it was booed. Alec Baldwin was booed at the, Alec Baldwin was booed at the Knicks game and I said, I got up and I said, everyone stop. He's a great performer.

Everyone's made mistakes. He must have taken it in stride though. I'm sure he didn't. Well, it was one of those things where they like, he retired and unretired from public life eight times at that game. There was, it was a pre-taped thing and it was very, and I try to change everyone's mind on it,

but I did not. Back to Macaulay Culkin. They're showing celebrities at Crypto.com Arena, and the biggest pop was Jack Black, fresh off of the Minecraft movie. But the second biggest pop- One of the most famous people in the world. Everyone loves Jack Black.

The second biggest pop was Macaulay Culkin, of course. Adult Macaulay Culkin. So like people love Mac. Because he's got the, he reaches back through generation. Exactly, yeah. And then also the third biggest pop, this was a surprise, Nush Berman himself, Dustin Hoffman.

People love the Hoff. Hoff was there? Wow, that Megalopolis pop. That's what I'm saying, it's Nush Berman. Remember that part? He gets killed by a column. Somebody was like, and what's up with him lately? And he's like, boom!

And they're like, oh right, he got hit by a column. That movie I saw right after My Kids Were Born, It's just so funny, and what's up with him lately? And he's like, boom! And they're like, oh right, he got hit by a golem. That movie I saw right after my kids were born, when my twins were born, it was one of the first things I saw in a theater. I went to an AMC, Regal Union Square. Famously normal movie. Right, and that was a true, like, did that happen to me?

Or am I still asleep? Yeah, you know what's weird? Hoffman got such a big pop, because I remember I was actually at that game. Oh wow. Hoffman got such a big pop, and then he went to at that game Oh, wow, Hoffman got such a big pop and then he went to the bathroom and then the fourth biggest pop was Dorothy Michaels So popper star Oh toot see yourself, I don't think people call her that only maybe in an appropriate boss That is one of my favorite things about tootsie where you're like, why is it called?

And you're like one moment where Dabney Coleman makes an offhand comment. Dabney Coleman making offhand comments, by the way, it's not the kind of thing he usually does. The 80s were built on that. Yeah, they really were. Did they go down and like the was there less pops? Was there people who didn't get any pops? It was so like I'm trying to remember who else I did a full list, which I sent to my group chat.

I can't bring it up right now, but it was like Flea got a good pop, Fleas and Lakers came regular. He's there always. Always there. It's kind of like, hey Flea. Kate Hudson weirdly did not like kind of a muted reaction. I have your list, cause I'm in that group, not to brag.

Number one, Jack Black. You said number two, Ric Flair. Oh, I forgot about Ric Flair. Yeah, Ric Flair was there pre-game. It was a little bit skewed cause it was before the game Macaulay Brenda song you said I forgot of course He's married to with Brenda song right? Pop I think he's getting most of that pop but it's the pops a little juice. No, that's Hoffman Hudson I'm seeing here you say ha ha Tata and rotten hell. That's weird

interesting It's from a few weeks ago. Was Santa there? Did Santa get a pop at all or no? Oh, Timberwolves. Boo! I'm adding the pop Santa would get at the game. Santa would get a big pop. Santa would get a huge pop.

He does exist. The M&M's there? Here we're gonna talk about- M&M's are gonna get a huge pop. We gotta talk about Planet Hollywood, but I was going to advance- Must we. Sorry.

Is Pope bigger than Santa? Oh. The idea of Pope or the current Pope? I think Santa's got Pope beat. Cause Pope changes. It's a changeling. That's what I kind of almost also mean, but Santa also changes.

Santa's a bit of a changeling historically and also like a different territory. What the hell are you talking about? Well, you can have a black Santa. Don't get mad, man. Have I protested ideas like this? No, I haven't. That's why I'm putting it out there.

I've never, I like the idea of different Santas, but there is a classic Santa suit or vibe. A red suit, white beard. There's also a classic Santa suit or vibe. A red suit, white beard. But there's also a classic Pope suit slash vibe. Yeah, there is. You're picturing the Pope, you're thinking of a kind of iconography. We were talking, a lot of our metric, I think that we applied was identifiability, right?

Like the ability to show someone a representation and have them say it. How far away can they be where you're like, that's Santa, right? You were talking silhouette test But I also think like emoji test is kind of a similar like what's the simplified graphic version of this eggplant might be the bit The most famous emoji. Well, let's let's put a pin that way But I think if you show someone an emoji or like a cartoon drawing of a pope not a specific pope

Yes, and go identify what this is. Some people are gonna say like Bishop. Yes and go identify what this is, some people are gonna say, like, bishop. Yes. That's an argument against the whole pack. But I have another thing I'm gonna just completely annihilate this. Oh, it's someone of the Catholic Church.

What is a huge portion of the world? Children. Okay? If I show my daughter Santa, that's Santa. She knows Santa. I show her the Pope, she'd be like, Grandpa. Like, she would just be like, who's this old man? 100% Sims. Yeah, I also think if you show...

No, I've actually trained her to go, enemy! Ha ha ha ha ha ha. No, I get it. This was a lot of her conversation went back to kids. Right, right, right. Because kids are a lot, you know. Huge percentage of the population.

Yeah. And also I'll say this, you look at a picture of Santa, you're not gonna say Santa's helper or elf. You're gonna say Santa. You're not gonna make that confusion. Yeah, he's gonna say Santa. Yeah, you're not gonna make sure yeah, right He's got a one-of-one outfit. Yes. Yes. Yes Santa. Yeah, does anyone else? No, where's the red and white with the white beard sometimes we'll do a red and white but it's a very different look

I'm just do it touch. It's a look I like And I'm just gonna say this, Mrs. Claus is not Santa. Just to make that clear. Colin Valler. We love Mrs. Claus. Mrs. Claus is very famous. Very, very famous. I've told you my Santa sitcom pitch, right?

I definitely have. I think I brought it up on the show, but our friend Emily St. James once asked me to pitch like a Santa sitcom. Oh yes, yes. And I was like, Santa's immortal, but the wives change. Right? Wow.

And it's like, and so it's the start of a new wife. And like, that's the show, right? Like there's a new Mrs. Claus, and it's about her getting adjusted to like life with the Claus. Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh God, another 18 year old. Jesus, Santa. Santa's kind of got to cap his thing.

They have to last a very long time. So I go for a fresh 18 year old. Don't say fresh. Say what I want, I'm king here. Does the woman, does the partner know what she's getting into? Yes. So she's like, it's very Lord of the Rings,

it's very Highlander of like, I understand. Because like, since we've been at that, Santa will like drop off a present for a kid and be like, I'll see you in 13 years. Oh my God. I was trying, I think, to riff on the kind of, the classic like King of Queens, yes dear, like, oh, the schlub's always married to this like total, total babe. And it's like, what if that's, like,

because Santa is inherently Santa, but the wives must change? But that is kind of the plot of The Santa Clause, too. A movie that I've since made you watch. You sure have. And I famously said that I wanted the children to get Manchester by the seed, which I don't remember saying. Maybe the funniest thing you have ever heard.

But people bring up all the time with, like, isn't David, like like a father of children? Yes. Which children do you want, Manchester by the Sea? Must be annoying kids in that movie. I don't know which annoying kids. Yeah. Wait, wait, in the, in the.

We're watching the movie and I mutter under my breath, I think, like. You didn't mutter, you nailed it. God, I hope these kids get Manchester by the Sea. SEA apostrophe D. Yeah. Damn. the sea s e a apostrophe D look some some kids deserve to get Manchester by the sea they're annoying in movies I'm saying in the movie world sure we can

all your fictional fictional here's what a real holly calkin in the good son oh yeah he deserves the Manchester by the sea treatment yeah take that fire grill off sometimes I want to give myself the Manchester by the Sea treatment. Yeah, take that fire grill off. Sometimes I wanna give myself the Manchester by the Sea treatment. I'm like, pull the fucking gun out. That is one of the best examples of like an incredibly serious scene in a really good movie that you can just always post when like,

yeah, somebody like dunks on your favorite player. You just immediately make it the stupidest reaction. Yeah, the other one I think of is the end of, not the fog, what's the mist. Yes, yes. Yeah. Oh, God. What a happy ending.

Crazy. But yeah, just that gif of putting the gun in his own mouth because your team was like number six in the NBA draft lottery. Poor wizards. Well, yeah. Congrats to Dallas and the completely not rigged league. Wags, I have a thought here on this, on this, uh,

On Planet Hollywood. On the Santa sitcom. Okay. That like, the wife is like, when it comes to bedroom stuff, she's afraid to get like a little too risqué because then he won't give her a gift. Oh, she doesn't want to be naughty. If she's too naughty, he doesn't get a gift.

She must only be nice. And then it's like Christmas day and there's just like no gift for her and he's like, sorry. That's a Sweepsweek episode. That is, that is, that is a Sweepsweek episode. Yeah. Wait, she was, wait, hold on. What's the logic here? She was too, like-

She was too naughty. She was too into it? She was too into it... She was too naughty. She was too into it? She was too into it. She was too naughty. And Santa says she can't have the gift. You have to have more conventional bedroom taste. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. I think the dramatic tension of the episode needs to be that she's trying to argue that what she was doing was in fact nice.

That's good. And he's like, you were a little naughty last time. And she was like, it was pretty considerate, though. fact nice. And he's like, you were a little naughty last time. She was like, it was pretty considerate though. Yeah. I think Santa's like, it's only missionary and you have to remain silent, I think is like what Santa's... I think that's what Santa's... I mean, he is immortal.

He might be a little stuck in a prior age. A little conservative. We went to, when I was on podcast The Ride, we went and did to Santa's Secret, which is a, an installation. That's a little bit naughty. That's real naughty. They should have delivered you a gift that year.

This is what I was gonna say. I mean, the episode is, is paywalled on PTR. I have my thoughts extensively there, but there is a moment where, like as part of the pre-show, you're walking in and they say like, is anyone in your party naughty? And I was like, everyone pointed at me. They were like, they were like, Weiger party naughty? And I was like, everyone pointed at me, they were like, Weiger's naughty.

And I was like, I'm not naughty, I'm very nice. And the woman there who was kind of like a dominatrix coated like Santa's helper, she goes, that's what the naughtiest boys say. Is that they're nice. It's like, oh fuck. Kind of a catch point to do there, yeah. God, you really just like granite at that point, I'm sure.

Oh. Fucking rock hard. 22 there, yeah. God. You really just like granite at that point, I'm sure. Ah. Ah. Ah. Fucking rock hard. The dumbest thing I've ever gotten angry at you for, Wags is like, we're gonna do it and we're gonna go to Santa's Secret with Eva. And then one night I'm driving home from somewhere.

I'm like kind of a far away place. I forget where I was. I was driving from some fucking area and I get a text from you saying, you're heading to Santa's Secret. I was fucking pissed off. I was mad. I think you were out of town.

But I was back. Wasn't I back? I thought I was coming back. I was pissed off. Yeah. Let's litigate this. You didn't miss out on much. All right, fair enough.

We'll go next year. Yeah, we'll go. I mean, it was a Mike Carlson initiative, so I'll put out on much. All right, fair enough. We'll go next year. Yeah, we'll go. I mean, it was a Mike Carlson initiative, so I'll put it on him. But he was just basically like, we're going. And I was like, OK, I'll go without Mitch. It worked out. Little naughty.

Yeah, it is a little. That was naughty of Mike. Was it better than, look, I'm going to say this. Last night, I was having a great night. Everything turned when we got to our restaurant. We went to Planet Hollywood. So I teed this up a half hour ago. Robert Earl found this in 1991.

It vastly over expands, contracts quite a bit. How many were there at its peak? At its peak, there were several dozen. I don't have the exact count in front of me. What's the weirdest place that had a planet Hollywood? Like was there like a Toledo planet Hollywood? Well, there was famously a Cape Town, South Africa location that was bombed.

Oh. So, um. Okay. And retaliation for US airstrikes. Also naughty. Although those US airstrikes were also naughty. Those were pretty naughty, yeah. Right. Double naughty.

Anyway, so it's- Tough year for Santa. They had a whole bunch of locations. They were all over the world. Now it's down to three. Okay. And I, you know, it's- Tough year for Santa. They had a whole bunch of locations. They were all over the world. Now it's down to three. And it's just the one in Disney Springs, the one in Cotter, and then the one in-

Is there no Dubai one or anything like that? That's the Cotter location. Oh, Cotter. Yeah, okay. And then there is the- Welcome back. Yeah. And then there is the newly reopened location

in Times Square, which resumes operations in February of this year. And there's not a Vegas one or anything like that? There's not a Vegas one. There's a Vegas casino, but it's the pH casino and basically has no relation. Mostly you just learn if you're acidic or alkali. There's also, it has the LAX mini-planet Hollywood close now.

Oh, that's obviously not a proper location. But last I checked- That sounds like a really great place. There were only four. I saw it not that long ago. I think it's in the Tom Bradley International. So that one's still going. So there is an airport location.

There was an airport location. I was just like, this is like a kiosk. They opened one in Malta in 2019 that has since closed. Yeah. Do you know who I saw at the, can I just quickly tell you who I saw at the Planet Hollywood at the airport? Sully. And I was like, wow, they got Sully on display. He's like, I actually have a flight to take.

I said, oh, good luck. And then that actually was the flight where- That's interesting. Yeah, it was. Oh, wow, that the flight where, yeah. That's interesting. Yeah, it was. Oh wow, that's wild. We're in New York somehow. It was a connecting flight in New York.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Do you know what's wild is I was there one time and a door opened and the person I saw there, I shouldn't even say person, was James P. Sullivan, top scorer, and he said, oh sorry, wrong door and then closed it. That's so crazy. This isn't a child's, and then closed it. That's so crazy. This isn't a child's bedroom.

Yeah, right. That's so crazy. And then Jeremy goes, wait! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha. That's so crazy, because I was there once, and who I saw, and I'm kind of squinting, like, oh my god, I can't believe it's actually him, was a Jake Sully from Pandora.

Now was he in human form or Avatar form? No, he was in Avatar form. Okay, right. And I was just like, you're just like this now. I was like, yeah, I'm just like this. Yeah. You know, sometimes, you know, there's in-flight entertainment.

That was what you said to him. Yeah. So you're just like this now. He was like, yeah, I'm just like this. No questions about why I'm here, huh? Kind of what happened at the end of the first movie, you know, it just like, it became like this now? Yeah, I'm just like this. No questions about why I'm here, huh? Kind of what happened at the end of the first movie, you know, it just like, it became like this. Yeah. I didn't tell you who Sully was sitting with when he was at the Planet Hollywood.

Sully from Monster's Inc. He just said that guy. That's what Griffin just said. This is a disaster. I didn't hear him say it. I said James P. Sullivan. I thought it was funnier if I referred to him by his proper name. I like the choice.

Thank you. I stand by it. Look, we're editing this out. I can't be embarrassed like this. Here's the thing I remember though, in all seriousness, right, because I do, there's often good options in in-flight entertainment, but I think a good long flight is a good excuse to like load some stuff up on your iPad

and knock out things on your watch list. 100%. And just know you have that. And I was flying from LA back to New York and my flight got delayed many hours and I was like, I guess I'll just watch one of the things I have loaded. And so what I saw at that planet Hollywood was Tully.

Wow. I watched the Jason Reitman movie. Wow. Tully. Is it Charlize Theron, isn't that? Yeah. Yeah, and Mackenzie Davis. But you could movie? Wow. Tully. Is it Charlize Theron, isn't that? Yeah. Yeah, and Mackenzie Davis. Right, but you could say that I saw Tully. Well, you know who I saw was,

I thought it was initially Mark Wahlberg, but then I realized it was him playing the character of Sully from Uncharted. Of course. Oh, of course. Yeah. You remember how he was gonna be Nathan Drake, and then it took so long to make the movie

that they were like, you have to play Sully. You're like hot young uncle without a mustache. Right, right, right, right. So that was good. That was good. And he really, he hit me with some of those great singers he has in the movie. Those classic ones.

Because when you saw him, he probably had the mustache that he gets in the mid credits. Oh, that's right, of course. Because of course, that's canonically happened. And I remember that movie, and I stayed through the credits. And you're just like this now? Yeah. Of course, that's canonically happened. And I remember that movie and I saved through the credits. And you're just like this now? Do you know who else I saw sitting at the table with Sully Sullenberger from Planet Hollywood?

Who is that? The big blue guy from that Pixar movie. Now this guy furry. Did anyone do that one? That's clean. That's all you. I'm browsing the Sully Wikipedia page right now, but we're running low.

Yeah, not a ton of Sullys. Yeah. I'm probably missing a big one. Who's the most famous Sully? Is it Jake Sullenberger? No, I think Sully Sullenberger because I think Jake Sully is- Globally? Well.

Let's go back to kids also. Kids, yeah, but like, is it more just like- If you ask a kid, they know maybe it's Monster Zink. That's what I'm saying. Oh man, is it Monster Zink, Sully? It might be Monster Zink. Certainly my daughter again, who should be the test, I guess, for all of this, she knows Sully from Monster Zink.

She doesn't know Sully. Call him Kitty or Sully? She calls him Sully. Okay. Or Monster, honestly. It's wild in terms of Sully crossover. Sully appears at the... I call Sully sully sunburger monster for what he did those birds Sully sullen burger appears at the end of

What's the fucking what is that franchise? It's not daddy's home. Is it daddy's home? Yeah, right, right who of course, his best role ever was Sully in Uncharted. And now also the rehearsal. There's a lot of Sully stuff in the rehearsal, which you probably haven't seen, but it's very, very good. It's so crazy that Sully's name is Chesley. You know what I mean?

Where you're like, what a hero. And we call him Sully. Right, and you're like, I wonder why he's called Sully. Oh, his name's Chesley. He must've wanted out of that as fast as possible. He's like two years old. He's like, you can call me Sully. Yeah, his name is Chesley. He must've wanted out of that as fast as possible. He's like two years old. He's like, you can call me Sully. Yeah, Chesley is not.

Chesley? Yeah, Chesley's rough. That's a tough one. So we go to Planet Hollywood last night. We had a 9.30 PM reservation on a Monday, which is not ideal. We were- You guys were seeing a huge movie.

There was a tight window to figure out. Right, I had a press screening of Mission Impossible, The Final Reckoning at 6.30. So I was like, well, I'm gonna be in Times Square. We were gonna be recording Blank Check with you guys right before, leading right up to the screen. And I was looking forward to getting the mutton chop

at Keen's, one of the great New York dishes. You ever had the mutton chop? I have not. It's extremely good. Oh, I don't know now. One of the only restaurants in New York that still cooks mutton, which is sort of like a kind of an old fashioned food.

Right. But then of course, Griff's like, well, we could switch to Planet Hollywood at 9.30. They got a rez. So, cause the alternative. So I can't even tell you how frustrating this is for me, who's been here for four days. Sure, right.

Where you. If you had opportunities to get Keens in the interim. I did have an opportunity, well, not really, but kind of had an opportunity. You could have maybe squeezed it in. It was actually even a week before the only reservation was a Monday. at Keen's in the interim. I did have an opportunity. Not really, but kind of had an opportunity. You could have maybe squeezed it in. It was actually even a week before the only reservation was a Monday that was available.

I could have gone solo, but also I thought you were gonna come out earlier than you did, which is fine that you didn't, but it's fine. So we go to Planet Hollywood. This is what I wanna, we sit down, and it's just me and Griff, I think two of our friends were there, but most people hadn't arrived.

We ultimately had a party of eight. It was the four of us, Gabris joined us, Producer Ben joined us, Marika joined us, and her friend Anna Maria joined us. Yes, yep. And we sit down and they're like, hey, welcome to Planet Hollywood. It's pretty dead in there.

Yeah. You know, there's a couple people sitting at tables. It's pretty dead. You almost immediately say to me, this is what this is now? I was a little alarmed. I expected to be greeted by, like, a Sylvester Stallone mannequin or whatever.

And then the waiter's like, by the way, we close at 10. And he just says, we close at 10. I go to the bathroom, I come back, and you go, so there's a situation. The kitchen is closing in 15 minutes. The restaurant is ostensibly closed in 20 minutes. By the way, totally reasonable for the kitchen to close 15 minutes, the restaurant is ostensibly closed in 20 minutes. By the way, totally reasonable for the kitchen to close

15 minutes before the restaurant. But they let us make a reservation for 8-8. That seems like the mistake. I will also say, I was a little surprised because Times Square is where you go for dinner after theater. So most of those places stay open really late. Especially those chain-y sort of Ruby Tuesday Applebee's.

Yeah, because there's a market. Except maybe it's just that the quality of planning Hollywood is a little lower than some of these spots. So maybe no one's showing up. It's just me telling tales out of school. I don't know. Sure, sure. I don't know. Yeah.

Meanwhile, there's just an empty table at Keen's. Where they're just putting meals down on the empty table. No, serving ghosts. We were at the long acre tavern. Oh, go ahead, Griff. No, I just want to say, because the other thing in the mixture is there was a lot of back and forth about like what options, you know, are kind of interesting. And we kept, Dallas BBQ was the other one that kept bubbling up.

You have a lot of fondness for is a very, like despite the name weirdly, a very New York chain. A proper New York chain. It's totally mediocre barbecue that's very cheap and it's all over the city. And like would be a funny experience. Like there's a lot to talk about there. They have these absurd day glow drinks and there's like a vibe there.

It's a very corny restaurant weirdly. Yes, I famously saw the rent is too damn high that guy there once. Wow, what a scene. After a Dallas barbecue. And you know what I said to him? What's that? Rent is too damn high of that guy there once. Wow, what a setup. After a Dallas barbecue. And you know what I said to him? What's that? Rent is too damn high.

And you know what he said? What's that? Too damn high. That rules. I was like, I basically was like, I think I only want one thing out of this interaction. I said, rent is too damn high. And he went, too damn high.

I was like, all right, I did it. Maybe the most correct politician of like the past 20 years. It was so good. But it was also one of those things where I was like, don't ask him any more questions. I don't know if I'm gonna like anything else this guy's gotta say. Do you remember when he was on the Gethershaw

and talked a lot about his sex life? Yep. It was pretty good. They had him do a presidential debate with Conor Radcliffe. He reached out to every presidential candidate and he was the only one to respond. Radcliffe kinda holds his own though. Radcliffe killed it.

But Dallas BBQ we were talking about, right? You guys we knew had been at a bar nearby watching the game. The Longacre Tavern is where we are. Game four of the NBA second round. So now it's like 940 and I text you guys like, hey, high stakes, kitchen closes in 15 minutes, ostensibly the restaurant closes at 10, they're not gonna kick us out,

but who knows how long they let us stay. I kind of thinking we just jump over to Dallas BBQ. Right, there is a Dallas BBQ. It was a block away and it was open till midnight. We were, I was physically in the restaurant when you proposed this. Right, and I had just turned to Sims and Marika and Maria and say, I'm inclined to just pull the trigger.

If we don't hear back from them in the next two minutes, let's just walk over there and tell them that's where we are. At that exact moment, you guys walked in and there was this feeling of we're here, let's do this. Yeah. I said, let's leave to be clear. I said, let's get out of here. It was too close to a closing.

I was ready to get out of there. And then also I'm the one who gets punished in the end for this, which we'll get into in a second. I walk, we're at the Longacre Tavern. The game's going well for Celtics fans. Celtics play for the first three quarters. Things are going well. Gabris comes from his, he's on Seth Meyers.

It's a nice celebratory night. The game's going well. We get some wings there. We try some Longacre wings and get mozzarella sticks. We ate a meal before we even got there. We just had a few bar snacks. We had some bar snacks we even got there. We just had a few bar snacks. We had just a bar snack before we got there. I got two hot dogs at the screening.

Yeah. We walked. I saw Glen Gary, Glen Ross. We took, we were- You did not see it. We saw the- The marquee. We walked. This was a little, like a five minute delay because we went out of our way to- It wasn't a five minute delay.

Look at the Glen Gary, Glen Ross marquee. It was a two to three minute more delay. We were already late. I said we should have left. What's that? You had your autograph book ready. Look. To be fair, this was your only opportunity to meet Bob Houghton Kirk. You had to seize it. Look, I saw it when we were walking to Longacre Tavern. I was like, oh, that's where it is.

That's so cool. And there was a show going that night. I had no idea that there was a show going that night. I texted Bob. I said, I- They go every night, except Monday. I texted Bob and I- They actually flipped it because Kieran's request in terms of having different nights off with his kids.

Are you serious? Yeah, they're open on Monday. He talked to them. There are rare shows that do a Monday. That's interesting. I'm forgetting which day they take off instead, but they're on Mondays. Interesting, they're open last night.

It wasn't Monday. That is weird. Yeah. They were open they take off instead, but they're on a Monday. Interesting, they're open last night. It was a Monday, that is weird. They were open last night and I texted Bob. He's so random. I texted Bob, I said, I said, hey, I just saw the billboard here, congratulations. So we walked by that way. A car came out probably holding one of them. I don't know if it was Bob or who it was.

And I'll get back to that text later. We get to the, we get to the we get to the we get to plant Hollywood it's about to close I wanted to leave we did not leave the Celtics game turns horribly in so much it was pretty far away much the minute you walked in it curdled in a way few games like the Knicks took the lead took control of the game, and then Tateum got hurt. Blew his, whatever he did.

Yeah, whatever, we don't know, it seems bad. And it was so grim, and the vibes in Planet Hollywood, while lovely, could not abate the grimness. No, I was- And they were also not lovely. Yeah. They were bad. So Planet Hollywood, sorry, finish your-

I was full on fantastic for grim levels of grim. I was angry. You were about to fight the Yancey Street gang. I was very upset at everything going on right here. And then I also saw my text message had been read by Bob Odenkirk and not reacted to or replied to. He actually gave you a thumbs down.

I think he gave me a thumbs down reaction. I, it was, I was, I was, everything was just not going well. And this is before we ordered any food. Yeah, so, which we did hastily. And Griffin, I will give you credit for just sort of like taking the reins and saying, I'm just going to put in a big order.

And cause like we- And we were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure, sure, sure. Focus on parables. Yeah, exactly. We did get blood orange margaritas all around. These are made, this was like, like we were like, yeah. Yeah. Sure. Sure. Yeah We we did get blood orange margaritas all around these these are made this was like like they basically said We just say the highlight of the meal or our sir Our server JJ was like I'm also the bartender. I will make I can make these well He said I'm gonna make them for you the way I make them for myself, right?

I think essentially a longer poor gave us a sort of like a little bit of a look and he was like, you're gonna like the way I make these. And he was not wrong. And he was not wrong. Basically the entire table order is a blood orange margarita which he brings out. Yes, these are made with- Can't speak highly enough of JJ.

Love JJ. JJ did it. And he had a Wicked Wit. He did have a Wicked Wit. I love JJ. And if you go over across, you'll see the Wicked Witch. In Wicked. That is true. If you just cross 40 seconds.

Which I believe JJ has taken over that role this month. Elphaba? Yeah. The Blood Orange Margaritas are made with the Rocks Tequila, Terra Mana Tequila, so there you go. Wow. And then we also got the, we got to talk about the aesthetics in here because that was the original attraction of Planet Hollywood.

And so it's like- Have you guys ever been to like old Planet Hollywood with all the stuff? Yeah, the old school one way back in the day. And that was like a hard rock cafe. It was basically an attempt to just make a simulacrum of that, a movie equivalent of the hard rock cafe. We've got like, hey, there's Eric Clapton's guitar

that he played the Layla solo on, is on the wall. It's the same sort of thing. They'd just be like, hey, there's the leather jacket that Arnold Schwarzenegger wore in Terminator 2, and you can just see it physically. All that shit is gone. There is no physical memorabilia except for one wall

that has some framed art. Yeah, it had some framed sort of prop newspapers. I call flat props, and it's unclear if they are, any of them are original slash reproductions. They were, they probably were productions, but they were from two of my favorite movies. Annie, the first film I ever saw in a theater. Wow.

John Huston's Annie. Wow. And the great Batman Forever. Right, so we had like fake money from Batman Forever. Yeah, yeah. Annie newspaper. Well, I also like this, Two-Face Slays Three at Circus. Yes, yeah.

Of course, reporting on the death of the Grayson family. There was a fake New York magazine cover from Spider-Man 3. There's Peter Parker's high school diploma from the first Spider-Man, the Raimi. There's a Daredevil, Netflix Daredevil, New York Bulletin cover, a Chris Reeves Superman Daily Planet, and fake money from Coming to America.

Uh, oh, sorry, second Annie newspaper and blank stationery from Ghostbusters. This is second Annie newspaper and blank stationery from Ghostbusters. This is a six. The entirety. The blank stationery from Ghostbusters is pretty grim. Of the memorabilia that they have at the location. It's a single wall of like 12. It's right by the bathroom.

12 framed photos, yes, right across from the bathroom. The wall that takes two single fell bathrooms. The wafts of shit smell coming through while you're looking at this. Now, the place is two floors. Yeah. Oh yeah. I revealed to you that I'd eaten there before last night. Yes.

Three times, I believe? This was the third time. Are you serious? You've been there before? I got some stuff to say. Jesus. I got some stuff to say. You brought us back there.

I got some stuff to say. Mitch, I got something to say. We're missing this train. Oh, 100%. No, no, no, no. You guys are going to be OK. Nope. Shortest episode ever.

Absolutely not. I guarantee you. You have two hours, and I really am nervous. I guarantee we're making it. No, no, no, you guys are gonna be up. Nope. Shortest episode ever. Absolutely not. Absolutely not. We have two hours and I really am nervous. I guarantee we're making... Well I'm getting my bagel no matter fucking what. You're getting your bagel. I'll get you a bagel. Sorry, they don't know this. I want a bagel before I go.

I'll get you a bagel. The other times I've been there, I ate on the second floor. Okay. Yeah. Where there is even less memorabilia. How can there be less? In the same spot, the vestibule wall against the two single-stall restrooms, there are just eight movie posters. Cool. Jesus Christ.

It is just eight movie posters of New York movies. I think it's like Superman the movie, Annie. Like, it's like a very similar batch of movies. But that is it. So, the, like, it's kind of got the pseudo sort of all-ages kind of night the pseudo sort of all ages kind of nightclub vibe, like in terms of the lighting in there and then-

It is very much, yes, a child's idea of what a nightclub would be. Right, and then it's got these huge video walls which are just playing loops of either movie montages of dancing set to popular songs or like the periodic movie clips, but it's mostly- It was mostly screen savers. Yeah. Exactly, yeah.

There were a lot of like kind of Windows music visualizer type things. There were some sort of like what felt very like AI interactive backgrounds where like at one point for five minutes we were kind of like surrounded by a steampunk space. But then sometimes it would just be like footage of a kid in a field of wheat.

I don't think they were ever like playing isolated clips as much as they were either playing music videos from movie soundtracks that had clips. Like the Weeknd's Black Panther song. There were a couple other ones like that. There was a Jelly Roll song they were playing. Some of the music videos they played had no relationship to movies whatsoever. Yeah.

I started seeing different insignias and stamps that kept showing up on the music montages where they'd pick a pop song, not I Got a Feeling, but something like that, and then play different footage of great dances from movies. I noticed at a certain point that all of them are just from YouTube channels. Right. footage of great dances from movies. And I noticed at a certain point that all of them are just from YouTube channels. Right. This is not their own proprietary stuff, that like one of the videos they ended on these big screens

with like, please remember to rate, review, subscribe. They're either, so they're either just playing these without permission or these are licensed YouTube videos. And some of the, like some of the images that they were showing were also like dark moments from movies on top of that. And some dark films. But also, just to have a point of comparison to something we discussed in the recent past with you,

Griffin, it's fundamentally what they've done is the same creative slash brand decision that Chuck E. Cheese made, which is ripping out all of the physical portion of it that was actually like, you know, the original attraction, ripping out all the animatronics. The Chuck. At Chuck E. Cheese.

Taking the Chuck out of Chuck E. Cheese. Same thing at Planet Hollywood, taking almost all the memorabilia completely out of it and just basing it around what they have at Chuck E. Cheese now, which is just looping video entertainment. So they, at their peak, I just looked it up, had like 60 locations, obviously multiple continents, right? 2001 is sort of the beginning of the end for them.

It goes down to 35. It's been like narrowing even more since then. They declared bankruptcy twice in that year, like I think 99 in 2001. There was a Times Square location, but not in the same spot that we went to last night. I believe it was on 45th and Broadway elevated. And that started out as the All-Star Sports Cafe,

which was Robert Earl's sports answer to you. Because right after Planet Hollywood, he was like, I'm gonna do the same with sports, I'm doing the same with supermodels, there was the Fashion Cafe in Rockefeller Center. There were, I think, two different Planet Hollywood locations. I loved them as a child because I didn't really like food,

but I loved movies. Yeah, sure. And so my parents would be like, you need nourishment. I still don't think you like food. This is, look, it's, I, I, it is a thing I've talked about with my therapist recently, a real question of like, do I like food at all?

Or am I viewing food as means to an end to accomplish something else? Which is probably a good way to view it. But like, is this funny to eat this? Or am I viewing food as means to an end to accomplish something else? Not keep myself alive. But like, is this funny to eat this? Sure. We always are eating at pretty bad places, pretty gnarly places with you. I went into a different section

where there was some more memorabilia. I don't know if I told you guys this, but it was like the muffin from Saving Private Ryan. I was like, what's the muffin from Saving Private Ryan? And then it was like the pencil from La La Land. I was like, the pencil from Saving Private Ryan. I was like, what's the muffin from Saving Private Ryan? And then it was like the pencil from La La Land. I was like, the pencil from La La Land? Do I not know these references? And then the shoe from Aladdin,

but it was the animated Aladdin. So I don't know what that, I don't know if it was just like an animator's shoe. Right, yeah. Yeah, or if I don't know where the shoe came from. Yeah. But yeah, this was a different section. I don't think you guys saw the section.

Well, I went there, but the muffin was gone and there was just the wrapping and some crumbs. Just, mm. Sabin Pryorite was pretty good. And weirdly, I went back there as well and the pencil was gone. There was just some crumbs. Some crumbs.

I thought that was a writer joke, but it's me eating the pencil instead. Ruff, ruff, me eating the pencil instead. I actually stopped by that area too, because it was on the way to the restroom, and the shoe from Aladdin had a bite taken out of it. I slurped the laces up like spaghetti, which honestly would have been a better meal than what we ate. Yeah, so okay.

But my point is okay, so. To my point, Justin. Yeah. Right. They had this location that was the kind of classical, exorbitant, filled with memorabilia. That closed, it was sort of like in a weird state. At a certain point, like half of its footprint became a buka de beppo, but it was still Planet Hollywood and buka coexisting. Then I think it closed like right before the pandemic.

And then like six months into lockdown, they announced like, we will reopen on the other side of the pandemic with a new concept. And they were like, this isn't going to be your parents' Planet Hollywood. And in those years, the other locations that still have the original theme are all starting to close down. And like 18 months ago, there was a huge Planet Hollywood memorabilia auction that continued to go viral online because people kept seeing like-

You could buy the naked Sylvester Stallone from Demolition Man. Of which they had like 20. So people are starting to realize, oh, a lot of their memorabilia were reproductions. Yeah, of course. That they were taking molds of certain things so that every location could have an endoskeleton.

I almost bought the axe from The Shining. This is the truth. I almost bought the axe. I think I said it to you. There was fun stuff and there was so much of it that a lot of it was surprisingly cheap. Yeah. It's like-

I should have bought the axe from The Shining. It's fucking cool. You thought about it. It was really expensive. Yeah. What you went- It was like 10 grand. It was probably way too much money.

It was five figures. Yeah. It was five figures? Yeah, it was. Oh, it was 10 grand. It was probably way too much money. It was five figures. It was five figures? Oh, I was 10 grand, it's five figures, thank you. But you did end up with the book from The Shining. Yeah, and then I know, you saw it the next day, and it was crumbs, there was just book crumbs. All book and no Neil makes Jack a hungry boy.

I also know that you were bidding on the shower from Psycho, but there was a no cum policy. So then you would screw with it. And you tried to buy the exorcist stairs, but you already have too many stairs in your house. I just had to think of stairs. I crab walked down mine as well. When they were selling all the memorabilia, I was like.

By crab walk I mean I'm eating crab, just walking down them. Ooh, it's a lot of stairs to go down. Better get some crab. Better get some crab. Okay. Bear crabs. Still the most famous stairs, movie stairs?

Exorcist stairs? Yeah. I think so. Or have Joker stairs supplanted them. Oh, Jesus. Maybe. Why don't we go there? Those are in the, we could go to the Bronx,

we could just climb up the Joker stairs. We should've gone to the Joker stairs. Yeah, take pictures of Weiger on the Joker stairs. We should've gone to Weiger on the Joker stairs. Bronx. You can just climb up the Joker's On the Joker's tears people are ducking in covering A Lot of people came over to you while you were sitting there and they thought it was from the elephant exhibit Gus Vance Hans Helleson Look I was thinking I was thinking of the stairs inside the house, but the more famous exorcist stairs. Yes, he goes down at the end, which are real. That's in Georgetown.

You can go climb them. Yeah. We can see them in DC. That's true. That's true. Yeah. But yes, when this reopened, I was like, well, it makes sense that they consolidate their memorabilia collection because they have very few locations.

Sure. So we'll all be in this one spot. How exciting. They keep saying like, we feel the old concept is outdated. We're going to try something new. But when I get there for the first time and there was nothing, it is astonishing. My immediate thought is, why does this place exist? What is it offering? What is the Hollywood aspect of it? So, the first time I went, the server said, hi, have you ever been to Planet Hollywood before? And I went, yeah, and she went, but probably the old one, right?

And it was very clear this was a script they were giving, right? And going, yeah, it's a little different now. The concept is kind of what if you're in the movie instead of a bunch of stuff on the walls? And then she looked around to the sort of Windows music visualizer graphics is kind of what if you're in the movie instead of a bunch of stuff on the walls. And then she looked around to the sort of Windows music visualizer graphics and then clearly script drop just went, I don't know what this one is. And it immediately fell apart.

And I've noticed that the other two times I've been last night, there was no sort of messaging like that. Yeah, there was the sense of need to be like, the concept is, and some of their visuals felt like it was supposed to be like this is a generic movie environment. You're on the moon or whatever. I genuinely thought that the lights changed at one point, but I wasn't sure if they were trying to kick us out

or if the screen just changed. I couldn't tell what it was. The place is like wall to wall screens. There's a giant wrap around it. Projections, yeah, yeah, yeah. But there's a version with the video installations where they could evoke that. They could be like, hey, everyone's gonna be black and white,

it's gonna feel like a noir for a little bit. We're gonna have a big sunset, it's gonna feel like a western music. And the music changes. Instead they're just playing generic, yeah, like YouTube playlist. I would think that concept sucks in relation to eat next to a batarang.

I agree. But I would appreciate that level of in relation to eat next to a batarang. I agree. But I would appreciate that level of effort, which now is astonishing they won't even put that much in. For sure. I'm not trying to demean Old Planet Hollywood, but doesn't Old Planet Hollywood suck too? Yeah. OK.

So like they made it worse? It was also bad. It was already bad. It was also bad, but now it just feels like a cheap cash-in on the existing brand when they could make a legitimate nostalgia play and like It's much like Chuck E Cheese. It feels like the culture has come back around to it And there is this like weirdly robust market for vintage planet Hollywood merch. Right people wanting to buy the old ball caps 90's, cool

and at some point they changed their logo because they clearly thought the planet was like And at some point they changed their logo because they clearly thought the planet was like, kind of cheesy. Goofy. And we're doing this sort of pH in the circle that the casino has. Sure. When they reopened this, they were like,

we're back to the planet. And it's like Chuck E. Cheese where they know there is nostalgia associated with this thing, and yet we're doing everything else in our power to distance ourselves from any memory you have of what this was. Imagine if you're buying like $300 denim jackets. Yeah.

Like imagine if you could come to this version in 2025 and it's like, hey, it's Oppenheimer's hat. I mean, like we've got like some new memorabilia from the new movies that you love, you know? Like there's a version of that, but then it also has kind of the classic stuff. It has all the 90s, you know, nods that we'd expect. I don't know, There's definitely an approach.

You gestured at me at one point. Were you gonna say something to me? What are you talking about? You gestured at me. You went like this and then you stopped talking. I just for emphasis. Oh, okay. All right, it was a Shakespearean type thing.

No, I was just getting riled up. I'm just saying that there's a version. I do think Doughboyz is very Shakespearean. I mean, it is one day definitely gonna end with everyone dead on the ground. You said to me at one point last night, you made your point about like, this feels very twinned with Chuck E. Cheese and what's happened, and I'm taking out the tactile, taking out the emotional memory,

what is this even anymore if you remove that? And I said, Weigert, this is why I wanted us to come here because you guys have a platform and responsibility, and I think this place needs to be taken to task. We are movie guys, you are food guys. What if we just like had nice food though? Could have gotten like soup dumplings. We could have gone to Keen's.

We could have been at Keen's. I'm gonna just say it again. I'm gonna say- We're gonna review Keen's. We can't do an episode on Keen's. We can have a nice dinner. We don't have to, but look. What if the episode was just a nice dinner? I would be crazy. And it's almost being like, we had a nice dinner. Look, I would to look what if what if the episode was just a nice dinner? I would be great being like we had a nice dinner look

I would I would have love funny would happen you would have spilled your soup or some shit. We could still talk about it Went to keys and ordered soup You definitely would probably get a soup. It's keen. I Did soup I understand your frustration because like that's the thing I hate about touring is like I want to is I want to be able to enjoy myself, and instead we have to eat some bullshit. You added another bullshit meal onto it. Yes, but I'm just also,

because we're already in work mode, and because we can make this happen. It's Griffin's fault. It is Griffin's fault. Direct it all at him. For once, you don't have to fight each other. Gaber shows up late, and he just immediately goes, I had money riding on the idea

that Griffin was going to ruin everyone's night Bang that over I Did like that they with some of the the planet Hollywood emerge that they do have like a flat planet Hollywood for that's like updated for like people You don't have to have around planet, which is nice it is good. Yeah, so's not a high-reraving. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You don't have to have a round Planet Holly, which is nice. It is good. Yeah. So JJ was our server, as I mentioned. We got more orange barb-readers on the way. And also, I want to give a shout out to Vinny as well.

Vinny is also an up-and-coming comedian. Vinny had a self-imposed nickname that I don't know if we're allowed to repeat. I don't know. Is anyone here Italian? Mitch is itching to say it. I am itching to say it, but if you're not Italian, I don't. Vinny, the G word, I guess, is the Italian slang.

I don't think I can say it. Sure. I do want to, you're right. But Vinny was an Italian man and he was a standup and he was a self-given name of Vinny the, you can fill in the blanks. But that was Vinny's and Vinny was having a lot of fun with us. And at one point at the end, Vinny came out to us and it was very sweet and we got some nice merch.

Yes. And Vinny said, I love you guys. And gave us responded, I love you Vinny the, and said the name to them. And I was like, I love you too. Or we're all saying, I love you to this guy who we barely know. After I like a good night. Who was also pretty annoying. But I would say. JJ was great.

I think we were an enjoyable table because we ordered a ton of food and ordered a lot of drinks and we were also like kind of gregarious and like having a good time in a otherwise quiet corner of the house. That's true. We weren't, yeah exactly. They loved the table that came in and ordered a shit ton of food at 950 But also let's acknowledge that they came over and said heard a rumor. There's a comedian at that is right We don't know who they and they framed it as one and we were like are any of us still technically comedians, right?

Yeah, right basically everyone in the on that table worked in comedy in some way right for a guest sure even I have worked in comedy in some way right for a guest sure even I have a vodka gabris diggett notice for guy code later that night uh why laptop your fuck oh hi person just let them know he's just fucking things up yeah that's good that's right read it off your fucking lap read off your fucking little lap just don't tis tis me. We're two hours in by the way. Holy shit! Episode of Tis Tis. We're gonna miss the train.

That's fine. We're gonna be fine. Mitch isn't gonna get a bagel. I'm getting the fucking bagel. So we got a... Let me get through the food. Yeah. Walk of Fame High Roller.

This is like a physical Ferris wheel. Yes. Ferris wheel of apps. When you think of Hollywood, you of course is like a physical Ferris wheel. Yes. Ferris wheel of apps. When you think of Hollywood, you of course think of the famous Ferris wheel. Just cause Hollywood has so much in common with the circus. Right.

It's the Ferris wheel. In a way it does. In a way it does. It is a bit of it. And there, who's in charge? Clowns. That is true. I agree with that.

A kin to the Wagon Wheel Sampler, we got it black Angus. This is just like a over the top presentation of some standard apps. World famous chicken crunch, blackened shrimp, prime rib sliders, guacamole, buffalo wings, also came with a separate container with chips. So the chips for the guacamole were not a part of the wagon wheel.

I'm sorry, the walk of fame high roller rather. And the chips were on a plate next to two sauces, but the sauces weren't for the guacamole were not a part of the wagon wheel. I'm sorry, the Walk of Fame high roller, rather. And the chips were on a plate next to two sauces, but the sauces weren't for the chips, they were for the chicken crunch. Whereas the guacamole was on the wheel. The guacamole, which the chips were for, were within the wheel. You had to reach into the air, to the elevation,

to dip the guacamole. It feels like the guacamole should have been on the side of anything. Yeah, or just don't do any of them. Or just don't do any of them. And just to be clear, the wheel does not spin. The wheel does not spin. The wheel does not spin.

No, it's not cultural. The wheel sucks. The wheel sucks and I think all these apps were bad. We also got some garlic bread. We got the nachos grande, which was, I will say, they were big as fuck. This was like a coffee table size portion of nachos. It is personally, Mitch,

I don't know if you have a different experience, the biggest plate of nachos I've ever been served for the podcast. It was huge. I think yes, 100% for the podcast especially. For them to have height like that is, most, you know, I think of nachos more spread out. Tall nachos. It looked like the-

It was the mashed potato thing. The sculpture from fucking Close Encounters. It was a mountain of nachos. When I got the nachos after you, there wasn't a lot of toppings left. You kind of went to little piggy mode. I had, I took, first off, there wasn't a lot of toppings left. You kind of went to little piggy mode. I had, I took, first off, there weren't a lot of toppings on there.

That was part of the issue. Okay, interesting. But I did not take too many toppings. But like also, I was not the first person to get to the nachos, Mitch. Those had made their way around. Nachos were on our side first. I will admit.

You know, I'm just saying that like, if people came in there, they maybe would have confused you for a babe pig in the city because you were being a little fucking pig. And you were in the city. I was in the city a babe pig in the city because you were being a little fucking and you were in the city I was I was you have to admit that you were in the city, right? Some people might have thought that if they weren't paying attention closely that you had actually flown into the restaurant via umbrella Because you had a very Mary Toppins because you had a bit of a Mary Toppins vibe. What?

Mary Toppins. What? Trying to make it about the movie. I like that. I was trying to think of what pig used an umbrella to fly. I was very, but I liked Mary Toppins, but you were just a little bit of a piggy. Yeah.

Occupy of a maid war, they're little pig maids. It's fun. Producer Ben Hosley. Yeah, the benducer, this was his comment. I transcribed it. He said the nachos looked like someone took a giant massive shit on them. Yes.

They really were pretty ugly. They didn't taste good either. I mean, like nachos are pretty easy. What was on top of it? It was sour cream. I don't know, you had all the topics in that one. The big mountain of guac was on there. Yeah, I'll open up the menu.

It is cheddar cheese, chicken chili, pico de gallo, jalapenos, black olives, guacamole, and sour cream. It was mountainous, and it was pretty unpleasant. We also got an order of garlic bread, which I maybe mentioned. Garlic bread was OK. Garlic bread was OK. Couple of items off of the-

Honestly, it wasn't that good. The Planet Hollywood icons menu. These are things that were from the old school Planet Hollywood. One of them is the aforementioned chicken crunch. LA lasagna is another one, which is like a deep fried lasagna, basically. And St. Louis barbecue ribs. Those were so bad. Those were fucking bad.

The ribs were in combination. The ribs were in combination. That's one of those things where you're like, how do you fuck those up that bad? Yeah. The LA lasagna, which I did like when Vinny brought it out and said, straight from Los Angeles, the LA lasagna, because you know, we're from LA, it's like, hey, that's fun, we'll buy it a home.

Did it warm the cockles of your hearts? Yeah. You asked why I was so insistent on us going here, and it was out of consideration empathy for you boys. You're in New York, the big scary city. You might be homesick. I'm trying to center you. It was helpful for that reason, I agree.

Also I saw Garfield was at another table and he was eating the LA lasagna. I thought it was really cute. It was crazy cause it was a Monday. It was Monday. Yeah, it was a Monday. And he hates Mondays. Well I think this is probably,

he's probably gonna pick me up. Yeah, that's a great point. It's like, I'm gonna treat myself to some LA lasagna. Also, he's with Sidney Sweeney. Yeah, I don't know what, I mean, infer what you like from that. I mean, I don't know, I have no idea. They were eating, they were having a meal together. We're just reporting what we saw, that's all.

Also, Garfield was looking pretty trim. Yeah. You think he's taking the shot? I think he's on the shot. He was not showing any restraint eating that LA lasagna. That is also a good point, but I think he might be. But I think Hollywood might have kind of gone I think he's on the shot. He was not showing any restraint in eating that LA lasagna. That is also a good point, but I think he might be, he's getting better shot. But I think Hollywood might have kinda gone

to Garfield's house a little. It's fine, you know, maybe, you know, he's gotta stay in shape. Maybe his doctor recommended it. Sure, sure. The chicken crunch, the world famous, in Classic Planet Hollywood was advertised as, oh, yep. Sorry, I actually did, I walked by Garfield's table

and I saw that he was on a Meow-Jarrow. Pfft. That's wild. You saw that, huh? Meow-Jarrow. You like had the prescription out, you read it, yeah, sure. That's wild, well. Hey, good for him, whatever people wanna do.

I went to a different table. Oh, interesting. I didn't see anyone playing Hollywood. We're just gonna miss the train. Go on, what was that, the other table? I was missing the train. Odie was there. Okay. And he was eating the nachos.

Wow, okay, yeah. And he went, I think, it was sort of translated underneath him because he was only speaking in bark, of course. Sure, sure, yeah, yeah. But it was translated underneath, I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food.

I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. I asked for human food. He was sort of translated underneath him because he was only speaking in bark support. Sure, sure, yeah, yeah. But it was translated underneath, I asked for human food.

Hmm. Wow. And he was there with Kaia Gerber. And if you do miss the train, I want you to really reflect on that. While you're on it. While you're on the platform of Penn Station. It's 2.42. Is that all we have? Is there anything else?

No, we got a baby. What's the next one? We got a baby Jim Caesar salad. We got the cheeseburger cheeseburger, yeah. That Caesar salad was all right. That was the best thing we had. I agree with you. I thought the Caesar salad was actually kind of bad still.

It was still kind of bad, but it was okay. It felt like a thing that you could get at an airport and be like, hey, that was a serviceable salad. Sure. Which is, you know, whatever. That's the, in comparison to everything else, I think it was a standout. The cheeseburger cheeseburger is a eight ounce beef patty

with melted cheddar onion, crisp pickles, signature sauce, served on a toasted brioche bun. A reference, of course, to one of my favorite movies, Saturday Night Live. This cheeseburger, look, look. Well, hold on, hold on. You cannot do this yet.

I have to tell my story. Okay. Also, I do want to say that when I walked by Odie's table, I did see some bone zempik. I swear to God. Nick, is this worth it now? Because I will admit that I failed. It was good.

But, mid-save, my brother had my back. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was good. I, all right. Oh my god. So I did see some bone zempic, but I will say this. I need to start off by saying one of my first bites was from that fucking stupid Ferris wheel of food. Yes.

And I took a bite of a chicken tender, which everyone was raving about. Because we got two wheels. World famous chicken crunch. And it was one of the, we had two wheels and it was one of those things where, immediately I was like, this tastes like raw chicken. I showed you Wags, I said, does this look undercooked to you? You said, yes.

Yeah, it did. And it looked undercooked. And look, this is what happens when you're rushing the kitchen. There's 10 minutes until the kitchen closes. It's possible we rush, right? Yes. Our chicken tenders did not look undercooked.

Very well cooked. So our side of the table, we all took bites and went, this might by default be the best thing. It's not exceptional, but I think Hasli, Gabris, Marika and I were all kind of like, these are not bad. In the old days of yore, surrounded by memorabilia, that was always sold as Captain Crunch breaded chicken tenders. It does feel like they have lost whatever agreement they had.

So now the name has switched to world famous chicken crunch, and it has some descriptor that sort of alludes to Captain Crunch, but doesn't say it. I thought they were okay. There's a little bit of almost candy coating on there. There's a little sweetness to it The LA lasagna is my favorite dish just because I'm like if I'm gonna eat here Yeah, give me absurd dog shit, right? like give me something that is like

Structurally silly and like over the top and like a bizarre big swing of like it was something Yeah, it's like lasagna tubes that are deep fried down to your... That was one of my favorite bites of the night. I had fun with that. I think it does what it is promising to do. It's kind of evoking like an eggplant parm, a chicken parm, or like a toasted ravioli, the kind of thing of like, hey, this crunchy texture is coexisting with a marinara sauce and cheese.

And it was fun. It's fine. Also, yes, it being over the top, at least it feels like it's there's some sort of gimmick being right. Played here. And that's a classic from the old menu. But there is such a lack of like even trying to fucking name the menu items. Yeah. Any effort in there was something to be sounding like Hollywood or sounding like it's out of a movie or being a movie rather than cheeseburger cheeseburger. There was a salad

that was called the Hollywood Bowl. But most of it, they're just like spicy rigatoni, fuck you. We did get a spicy rigatoni pasta. What's weird is it said spicy rigatoni. Fuck you. I don't know if that was a movie reference or what the deal was. It reminds me, there was a Sopranos-themed food truck

that's sometimes in LA, and I've seen, they've got Sopranos-themed sandwiches, and I was like, oh, okay, they'll be like, you know, whatever, the Dr. Melfi or something. And it was like, no, okay, they'll be like, you know, whatever the Dr. Melfi or something. It was like, no, it's none of that. It's like, it's like the mob wife pastrami. You'd put any effort into the actually using the Sopranos IP.

What are we doing? I also feel like that has always been kind of my dream job. Yes, for sure. Get me in that room. Get me in that room. Like shit like that where it's like, hey, can you come up with like fun dumb puns for like individual character posters for like, hey, can you come up with, like, fun, dumb puns for, like, individual character posters

for, like, CGI talking animal movies? Or, like, here's your theme restaurant. What do you call each of these dishes? Like, that's the kind of comedy game that I would love to just idly sit around and play. And they can't even try. Nachos Grande. How about call that Nachos Libre? Just give me something.

Pick any fucking movie. Yeah, exactly Jesus fucking right Jared Hess riding high in Minecraft movie sure is Like I watch you know what this is crazy. This is like one of the only things This is one of the only movie reference things I watch by Odie's table and he had the bone of interest he got the bone No, how many times are you circling his table? He was with a girl for Mitch wanted a piece You're shuttling back and forth, but I was like the only one of the only movie It's weird zone of interest is the bone of interest. I know yeah, that was that to me was just it just didn't it was in Porte it was it was it was not me.'t... It was in portes. It was in portes.

It was in portes. Not me. I'm not being in portes by just talking about it. No. No. It was simply on the menu. It was simply on the menu. It was simply just on the menu and he ordered it.

Nick, is there anything you haven't mentioned that we got? As far as food... The pasta. I mean, look, no, the cheeseburger cheeseburger, which I was going to get to, because you were talking about undercooked food. Yes. This is the other thing. And like, hey, I'll take a medium,

medium rare burger. We ordered a medium rare, maybe an accident. But this was, it was just flat out raw inside. It's just, to me, I always, at one of those places, will order medium rare because they usually overcook. Yeah, right. Like they usually, and I would assume you order medium rare, you'll get a medium burger at a plant-

It was raw. It was pretty blue. It was, it was, it was, and I'll say this. This is the- Blue she? Blue she. It was pretty blue she. And it was Eddie Murphy raw.

It was Eddie Murphy raw, I'm gonna say that. It was Eddie Murphy raw. And it did make Mitch delirious. It did make, yeah. It was pretty good on this. It was that thing afterwards where I was, I had cold sweats after we left. Right.

And I, and you were like, do you think you have food poisoning? I was like, well, I don't know. Does raw chicken and raw burger is that what is the combo of those two do? Do they offset each other or is it? And it was one of those questions where I was like, I but I'll. But I'm calling your shot. You were like, I am going I am deeply worried I'm going to be sick.

I was very worried I was going to be sick and I did not feel good at all. Yeah. Yeah. You were in a bad mood. Everything had turned at this point. Yeah, right. But I will say this, sadly, the burger did taste decent. It was one of the things where you were like, if this wasn't so undercooked, I would have liked it.

And I was eating the edge of the burger to get around that. The fries look kind of bad. The fries were bad. They were like chip fries. They were like some chippy fries. The rigatoni vodka, I thought was just, at least the alley lasagna had something to it. This was just a really boring execution of it. Well, that's also, it's like,

with some broth that went down. Carbone, you know, the impossible to get into restaurant in New York, they have like the spicy rigatoni. Like that's their thing. Don't just do like some famous New York dish at Planet Hollywood poorly. Right. And a big glob.

Do LA food or what? A big glob of burrata, which is, burrata's good, but it was like a cold blob of burrata. It was a sad burrata. Who are you kidding here? Yeah, right, we're not, you're not. This isn't gonna be high quality. No, this is from Trader Joe's.

Just dumped on it. You don't have like Furio back there. You remember how Furio used to make the mozzarella? I just even like, we all agreed that the cocktail was good. Right? The cocktail was good. But they were not even sure. There must be like Cisco, Marana.

The cocktail had like alcohol and sugar in it. It wasn't gonna be bad. And JJ took care of us. JJ did it. But like they were not even really putting a lot of attention on the fact that it was Terra Mana, right? No. I feel like Vinny was the one who was like,

you know, that's the rocks to kill in there. Maybe it says on the menu, but I'm like, that is such a huge fucking market that like every cocktail they have should be like fucking Ryan Reynolds Aviation Gin Martini. 100% lean on all the celebrities. I feel like it's fucking about Hollywood. Or maybe just close it down.

We don't have one. Hollywood doesn't even care. I like how you're like, it should be crass. And I'm like, or it could just not exist. So we put our order in and our height. That's so bizarre to me though about them letting it close and then Robert Earl being like, I need to find a new location in the same neighborhood

and reopen it because my new idea plan of Hollywood needs to exist. I just, Hollywood doesn't even care about Hollywood anymore. Ryan Reynolds cares about Mint Mobile more. Like he wouldn't even care that it's Nothing films in Hollywood most movie stars seem more interested in their products like right, right? It's bad news. We're in a bad spot It's gonna figure it all out guys. It's fine. So Netflix is good Good we've released I think an episode where I was pretty mean to Netflix

I just the state of Hollywood matches Planet Hollywood. But what you were gonna say- I like this take. That's the truth. You said, you were gonna say, we put in our order and go on. We put in our order in a hurry and someone asked, do we also need to put in desserts?

And they said- That was me. Yes, Mitch asked. So we did also put in the Brownie Sunday Martini and the Candy Bar Sunday, which also came in a martini glass. Wait, there were two different ones? There were two different ones, they were indistinguishable. I think they might've given us-

I think they accidentally gave us two. They might've given us two Brownie Sunday martinis. They were in like a comically oversized martini glass. But I will say, when I looked at the pictures on the menu, on the website, they looked similar. So it's possible they were two distinct ones. So was the other one- You had to go through like so much whipped cream

to get to anything. You would've needed like a 20 inch long spoon handle to get anywhere in there. It was like you kept just taking bites of whipped cream. And it was like a specific section of the menu that was shareable desserts. And Gabris immediately said, this is one of the least shareable items I have ever.

It was not 100%. Big pile of ice cream. That was elevated also, so you didn't like fucking do that. So was there candy bars in the bottom of the other one on the other end of the table? Is that what it was? Not that I noticed. I don't think so. Just felt like vanilla ice cream down there.

Yeah, they seemed identical. And I put my whole, like, I was up to here. My whole hand. I'll say this, I thought the dessert was tasty. I mean, it was ice cream with fudge and shit on it. It was fine. I mean versus the cocktail where I'm like, yeah of course it had like alcohol and sugar in it,

but I was like, yeah but it was pleasant to eat. I did have the feeling while eating the dessert of like this is the least I could probably enjoy these ingredients together. Like I'm getting a baseline, sure it's like ice cream and brownies and shit, I like this stuff. And also the gimmickery isn't doing anything. Like you're not getting anything from the decor,

from the aesthetic of the establishment. So- We toasted the big martini glasses together and that was very funny. That was fun. That is fun. We got something out of that. But you're comparing the overall experience to like, that just makes me think like,

I'd rather even just be in a TGI Fridays, just be in a Chili's, or that feels like it's a little bit more distinct to them. And also the food would be better. A Chili's dessert would be better than the dessert you get here. So everything, the Celtics lose, Tatum is hurt, the foods, I've eaten two raw things that shouldn't be raw.

And then the worst thing of all is I eat the blackened shrimp and it was the thing that I was like this makes me feel sick this it was disgusting It wasn't great. It was not sure it was bad. It was not rubbery prime rib sliders I thought were tasted really gross too and the guacamole was whatever so gross. They were disgusting. They were a weird color They were they were great. The only thing I think yeah I mean that's a time with the Rooster Brothers the gray man. Yeah, that's what maybe was maybe was a great man And also on top of it also cost 240 million dollars. It was crazy Maybe it meant to tie in with the Russo Brothers, the Grey Man? Yeah, that's what it was. Maybe it was, maybe it was the Grey Man. And also on top of all this.

And they also cost 240 million dollars, it was crazy. Oh yeah, I know. But you're sort of like, I just knew where that money would have went. The credit card. That money's clearly being spent somewhere other than the sandwich. I am very genuinely wondering

how much that whole meal cost. I think it sounds, I think I would be, I'm afraid to hear what it was. I can look it up. My guess is it was bad. But I took a picture of the receipt. We were eating for eight. That's true, we were eating for eight.

Yeah. And Marika said she took five bites of food total, is what she said. It was a party of eight. There was 20% gratuity included because it was a large party. The total with all the food was $670.17. I also tipped on top of that, because J.J. didn't get paid.

Very nice of you to do that. That is less than 100 a head. Not that I'm defending it. It's not crazy. But it was mostly shareables. We did not get an entree for every person. We got way too much food. We did.

We definitely did not need all that. We got too much food. Griffin was making some decisions in a hurry in his defense, and we got to try all of their signature stuff. That was my other thing. If that food had been good, I would have possibly eaten more. I think that's a good point as well. I hit a wall so fast.

I could have overindulged, and I just was like, I tasted everything. I wasn't even full when we left. We could have gotten one Ferris wheel. We could have gotten one Ferris wheel, but it would have been tougher to share. But let me just say this. We might have gotten the raw one instead of the not raw one. Ferris wheel, but it would have been tougher to share. But let me just say this.

We might have gotten the raw one instead of the not raw one. That's also very true. She had to get two so that. The bubble wings were also worse than the ones that we got at a Tavern in Times Square. Yeah, that's right. And same thing with the wings.

But what I was gonna say was this. I think this is what the experience is. I think you're more likely to go with a larger group of friends and overorder. And from that standpoint, it's completely under delivering. We're having what we're approximating an actual Planet Hollywood experience. Like, oh, this will be a fun night out.

We'll go to this fun place. We'll kind of enjoy this sort of environmental experiential dining thing. And we'll order a whole bunch of food and we'll kind of overindulge. How's that? And then you do that and it's just like, this all fucking sucked.

This was horrible. What a waste of a night. Yeah, and their social media, they've been, since this place reopened, they've been really pushing like events and like happy hour, but also like themed nights. He said that the entire, JJ told me first off that he said they're packed on weekends

and he said that the entire top floor now is all for private events. Right. Oh, so they don't do any service on the top floor? No, just for private groups. Because that's the other thing I was gonna say. It does feel like... Who means they're like the Church of Satan?

No, they do like fucking... I mean, seriously. But like they... It's just like, yeah, actually the world's evil is centered here. They are like renting it as like a weird party space for bullshit with like bad DJs. Sure. And like, you know, in a certain way, I do think not that it's like a money laundering scheme, but like to some degree, like this place being a restaurant might kind of be a loss leader

Sure, or it being a place for people to hold tacky parties. Yeah, maybe I gotta say this We have to get to our final thoughts or else we got to enter the train Maybe yes, is that is the place nearby? Yeah. And I should get an everything bagel, right? Whenever you want. I think I'm gonna get an everything bagel with cream cheese. Wags, what are you gonna get? I don't know, I might not get anything.

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when you head to smalls.com and use promo code doughboys. Again, that's promo code doughboys for an additional 50% off your first order plus free shipping at smalls.com. Okay. We need to get to our final thoughts. Yeah, we do. How we enter the train? Will it be like fallout or no, sorry, seven? Dead reckoning. Will it be like dead reckoning? Oh yeah. It will be like, will it be like Fallout? Or no, sorry, Seven. Dead Reckoning? Will it be like Dead Reckoning? Oh yeah, sure.

Or will it be like One? Oh boy. Sure. Who knows which way, but we're not gonna make it. We're not gonna have time because we need to end this episode. Yeah, that's what I'm saying, yeah. Shortest episode ever. So Griff, would you like to start?

Yeah. Hold on, let me, let me, let me, let me. Oh, there's more? No, I'm just gonna, I have the way that I set this up. We have a, you know, we get our final thoughts, we say our fork scores. But first off, I do wanna say, Planet Hollywood had its grand opening in New York City

on October 22nd, 1991. So let's play the box office game for that week. Hell yeah. Okay, let's maybe actually text Edmund and see what the later train options are. Number one in its first week. God damn it. A comedy for New York. Say the month Okay, let's maybe actually text Emma and see what the later train options are. Number one in its first week, God damn it. A comedy for New Line.

Say the month again, month in the week? October 25th, 1991 is the weekend. A little spooky, okay. The first week is a comedy, an opening, from New Line Cinema. It's a comedy sequel. It's a New Line. 1991 comedy sequel. Comedy sequel.

Yeah. 1991, and I assume New Line would have released the original as well, but they were pretty fresh as a company at that point in time. They were the hats that Freddie built. They were more of a horror thing. So, they're only a couple years in.

It's a New Line Comedy Sequel. Same stars reprising the roles? Yes. Yeah, okay. It's not like Weekend at Bernie's 2. It's not Weekend at Bernie's 2. Nice guess. Thank you. It is a good guess.

Um, New Line Comedy Sequel, can you tell me something about one of the stars of the picture? This is a duo. This is a famous duo. Oh, it's House Party 2. That's right, House Party 2.

Wow, good job, Chris. Kid and play? Yeah, yeah, of course. That was one of the big franchises. So you want everything with plain cream cheese toasted? Yeah, what do you think? Yeah, toasted. What type of cream cheese should I get?

Should I get scallion or should I do scallion? Scallion's good if you want, yeah. I'll do scallion. Yeah, that does sound good. Do they have a sesame? Do you do sesame? Of course they do. What if they were like, nah?

I don't know. I don't know this place. Why, you want one? I'll do a sesame. Put some scallion on it. You want one? Scallion? Yeah, why not? Well, it looks't know. I don't know this place. Why, you want one? Not the sesame, put some scallion on it. You want one, you want one. Scallion on it? Yeah, why not?

Well, it looks like you got a little fucking excited over it. Number two, also in its first week, is another comedy. This one is targeted more at families. It's more of a family comedy, but it's a first. Yes, it's from Warner Brothers. 1991. 1991. It's a Warner Brothers family comedy.

Do you want the director? Yes, please. Director is John Hughes. Whoa, geez. Oh, in 91. Is it Curly Sue? It is Curly Sue. Not a bad movie.

His final film. You guys want any drinks or anything? I'm good, I'll probably just raid the Head Gum Kitchen. What do they got? They got something good? No, let me see. Probably nothing, but. Number three, this is in its second week.

Okay. This is directed by Norman Jewison, Warner Brothers. 1991. Norman Jewison. Norman Jewison. What is it? Is this an Oscar player? Not really.

Is it the DeVito one? It is. It's called Other People's Money. That is correct. It is Danny DeVito in Other People's Money. With Gregory Peck. Yeah, I've never seen it. It's all right. Number four was an Oscar play in its sixth week.

Okay. This was a Tri- This was a 90, oh no, no, no. It's an early, okay. It's running for the 92 Oscar. How about I get you a classic black and white cookie? I love that. Sandy out the door. This is from Tri-Star.

I see it. Directed by Terry Gilliam. Thank you. The Fisher King. It. The Fisher King. It is The Fisher King. Good movie. And number five in its third week is a Gary Marshall picture released by Paramount.

Gary Marshall Paramount in 1991. Is that Pretty Woman? Or is that not pretty woman? That's a touchstone picture. Oh, of course. And that was 90. So this is his follow-up to Pretty Woman. There are some huge stars in this.

It is a two-hander. It's a romance. Oh, is it stars in this. It is a two-hander. It's a romance. Oh, is it Frankie and Johnny? It is Frankie and Johnny starring Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. Two of our best P's. That's why you're the king of the box office game. Rest of the top 10, The Butcher's Wife, Little Man Tate, Deceived, Ernest Scared Stupid, and Ricochet.

Ernest Scared Stupid in theaters, wow. All right, let's get to our final thoughts. So- Wasn't Beethoven like six, the one where it's a man instead of a dog? Yeah. That might not make sense, but it will.

But your kids will love it. You know what's well, I was watching Beethoven's 12th yesterday, he was looking really trim. And then I noticed he was chewing on some bone sampler. Feel delirious. I actually heard, this is kind of like, I shouldn't know this, but like we have the same vet. It's a small industry. You go to the same vet?

Yeah, I go to a vet. It's cheaper than going to doctors. So I asked, I was like, hey, Beethoven's looking really slim. He must be on bone Zempig. He said, no, he's actually on Zep bone. We're two hours and 25. Great. Short answer. All right, so we'll get to our final thoughts

and our fork scores. Griffin, this was your adventure. Your thoughts, your fork score from zero to five. Yeah, so here's my thing. Right off the bat, full fork docked for lack of movie memorabilia. We're starting there, right? Like immediately. I'm not saying that's the most,

the full amount we're gonna dock them for that. Do you guys do negative forks? Does that happen? 100% can do a negative fork. It didn't make me as sick as it did, Mitch. And yet I was telling Mitch, I couldn't really sleep last night. My body did feel weird.

So that, I'm docking another fork for that, right? I think it is It this place has no reason to exist anymore Yeah, right. It's like even there are so many similar kind of like Ruby Tuesday's Applebee's olive garden sort of sit-down chain overpriced sort of likey, pre or post Broadway show restaurants that even if the food is slightly better or slightly worse,

have their thing they do in terms of like kind of the focus of the cuisine. Which Planet Hollywood does not. So when the theming is removed, what the fuck is it anymore? And New York Post recently reviewed this place and their food critic, who's very esteemed, New York Post recently reviewed this place and their food critic, who's very esteemed, New York Post famous for their food reviews, said the twist, the food is shockingly good at Planet Hollywood. Now I think he was using shockingly in a way

similar to how I described Joe Piscopo's performance in Johnny Dangerously recently. Shockingly good in that I expect everything involved to be dog shit. And there are some bites you can have that are serviceable. But also, you could have better bites going to like a fucking bar and getting mozzarella sticks. Or going to like Panera. Or just like licking a subway station floor. I mean, you know, just go see Pizza Rat.

Yeah, I think this place is like, one fork? Yeah. Yeah. I think one fork is fair. Sims, your thoughts, your fork score. I'm basically starting at one fork and I'm trying to think like, is there anything that I can give a sort of charity halftime or something like that?

Like, JJ was nice. The LA lasagna never quite had any. And JJ was nice. JJ was nice. JJ was nice. If JJ was promised that every location in the new rebranded plan of Hollywood had a JJ, then it's like, okay, but we got lucky. We did get lucky.

In zero ways, it sucked. I give it one fork and I give you one fork. I'll take it, that's fair. Mitch, your thoughts are forks. Griff, you get one fork, of course, too, sorry. No, no, I'll wear it. But in most times, five forks. And the New York Knicks, five forks each. Okay. Wow'll error it. But in most times, five forks. And I give the New York Nets and the New York Knicks

five forks each. Okay. Wow. The New York Knicks do not get five forks from me. You get five forks, not last night, but five forks, though. I do want to say that we also went to the bar, what was the bar called? Jimmy's Corner. Jimmy's Corner, which...

I mean, we made some bad calls last night. I had a good time at Jimmy's Corner. Quiet night? It's a lovely place. I had a good time at Jimmy's Corner. Jimmy's Corner, here's the thing, legitimate dive, I had a good time. Quiet night? It's a lovely place. I had a good time at Jimmy's Corner. Jimmy's Corner, here's the thing, legitimate dive. I love actual dive bars. House Kitchen still has stuff sitting.

You literal dive. It seemed like a bar that stayed open through COVID. It's the type of bar it seems like. Hey, let me see a vaccine card, looks good. Come on in. Somebody's like flashing nothing. It was not the gentrified like approximation of it. It was an actual grimy dive.

It's a real deal slice in New York history. Yeah, with just, and everything was, you know, like the men's roomrified, like, approximation of it. It was an actual grimy dive. It was a real deal slice in New York history. Yeah, with just, and everything was, you know, like the men's room in there was like, out of a condemned middle school is great. It was exactly the kind of- Right, it's actually the Port Authority men's room. Yeah.

Which, share it. It's what I want from that sort of experience. I had a great time there. It's a very narrow bar, and I wasn't really thinking when I was like, let's march in here with John Gabras. multiple giant podcasters. There was a big guy in there who was a blank check and a Doughboys fan.

Oh, that's right. Behind bar or just saying? No, there was a customer there. There was a customer there who was a fan. I thought he was booing me because I was wearing a Celtics hat and he was saying spoon. That's what was going on when I was fucking there.

He said to me, my experience with this guy, he was lovely, real quick, was he said, I love Doughboys. And it was a tight space. So I just kind of touched his shoulder. I was like, oh man lovely real quick, was he said, I love doughboys. And it was a tight space. So I just kind of touched his shoulder. I was like, oh man, thanks man, God bless you. And then the guy next to him goes to me, God bless you?

He's fucking saying God bless you. Like this fucking New York guy giving me shit. That's a real Jimmy's point. There was another New York. Hey, I got a problem with you now. There was a New York guy who saw my Celtics hat and seemed to be circling me like a shark at one point. You turned it backwards.

I turned it backwards going in because I just didn't even want to hear anything about it at all. And then I turned it around and there was a guy who was like, look at that. And he was with his friend and he was a fucking little twerp I should have found. Whatever, it was fine.

And also there was one New York guy who I loved when we were walking in and walking sideways down the aisle crab style and crabs we were walking crab style and there was one you had crap and I did have crab and there was one guy there was one New York guy where I was like trying to get through and he and there was like another guy to stand out he's like just fucking pull it into me dude and I and I just fuck I just and I like I felt more of that man than I have anyone in a long time. I was like rubbing up against him.

I mean, this is what I like about Jimmy's corner is it is authentically bad in a way that New York has started to eliminate. And authentically bad in a way that is much more interesting than the badness of Planet Hollywood. Right, and also like perfect counterpoint, it is authentically bad and beers cost $3. Yeah, for sure.

Like you're like, well, this is the handoff for the fact that the prices are still- The entire bill there, by comparison, was $60 for two, like for- Two rounds. Several rounds. Twenty drinks. It was fantastic.

Yeah. I loved that guy who had said bring it in. I love that New Yorker, great guy. Five forks. Five forks to that guy. You only get one for the night, but five today. Thank you. I hated my Hollywood experience. It sucked.

It's the state of Hollywood matches. But here's the thing that's sad to me is that no one cares. No one cares about playing in Hollywood. No one, and you know what they do care about sadly? That Netflix fucking Vegas one. Like that is way more popular, and this is just such a sad state of Hollywood, and I want Hollywood to be good.

And I like the idea of a fun planet Hollywood. If it was a thing where we're sitting at the table where it's the Riddler's outfit from Batman Forever or what was it? Which one was it? Batman Forever. Yeah. I would love it. I would be very happy to go to a place that was schlocky and stupid.

In our fucking current Instagram obsessed culture. For sure. Wouldn't that have more weight than ever? Would it be like I can go to a fucking restaurant when I'm visiting New York City and get a bunch of photos of me next to shit. Especially if you're using contemporary IP. Yes! What do we need to do?

You guys are basically like, it should be crass and bad, but in a way that makes sense! Exactly, right. What do we need, the Rizzler sock or something? What do we have to do to get the fuck out? What type of thing do we need? Do you know Robert Earl's son has started a restaurant called the Tik Tok Cafe? Yes, Robert Earl's failed son is heavily involved in this business. It's called the Breakfast Club, but it's meant to be a Tik Tok Cafe.

He's a big part of the virtual dining concepts, which is the one that does, again, just Celebrity Ghost Kitchens. Movies are still the best, you fucking idiots. Movies are the only good thing. Movies are one of the only good, I mean, maybe the only good thing. One of the only good things. And mean maybe the only good thing one of the only good things and this is the other Bad thing about this. I'm in this restaurant I hear Mission Impossible is just okay after the Tatum News out of the Celtics lose after the food fucking

Poisoning after I'm fucking to have a cold sweat Mission Impossible is just okay Maybe you'll love it. I like it. It is not They are so much nicer to movies by the time this is out you'll have seen it and also like mission I bet them taking a big swing to the last mission impossible. That's a thing to root for I do For all mission impossible, but you know what saves it likes what's that the friends around you? And my friends were there and I was having a great time Gabris Ben Anna Maria Marika who took five bites of food, all of you guys.

Meh-meh-meh-meh-meh-meh-meh-meh-meh-meh-meh. True. Maybe if we saw a little bit of Friends stuff, I'd be even happier. That would be great. But because of that reason, I had a great. Shut up. Because of that, back to One Fork.

Because of that reason, I had a great time. There you go. And that's why it to One Fork, because of that reason I had a great time. There you go. And that's why it gets One Fork. I also had a great time with my friends, but that is completely unrelated to the experience of Planet Hollywood. The food was exagorable, and the actual dining experience was unremarkable to,

I would just say like unpleasant. Like it was unpleasant to the eyes and ears. I found it like kind of annoying how omnipresent the video feed and the music was. Like I didn't find any of it like transporting me to another place. I just found like it was like kind of jarring and unsettling and made it harder to have a conversation

with the people I want to spend time with. Yeah, the food, I could not say enough about how awful the food was. This is like one of the worst dining experiences in recent memory. It's really fucking bad. Was the food worse than Chuck E. Cheese? I'd say probably, yeah.

I think it was. 100%. It was aiming higher too, right? It was aiming higher. It's aiming higher. It has alcohol, which I guess is an advantage, but everything else about it is just like, I'd rather eat food from Chuck E. Cheese's.

I agree. And I don't know, I mean, this is clearly a one fork experience. Do I want to go even lower? I think I probably do. I think this is a zero forker. Oh my god. I think zero forks are Planet Hollywood. No one needs to go here. Broken Plate Club. It's not even worth going, it's not even going worth once just to tick off the box of like, oh yeah, I went to the Planet Hollywood reboot. Don't even bother. It sucks.

Here's what I'll say. Go upstairs, get one of thosegaritas with from JJ and say hi to Vinny and JJ and get yourself Maybe the LA lasagna or something for an app get some sort of app you'd be fine Yeah, maybe just sit at the bar and have a drink But why but before to what end what are you getting out the atmosphere? I agree with you it sucks Don't bother just don't fucking go it sucks griff fuck you. We're not we're not getting mad at each other. It's his fault I'm telling you. I love you. Griff. I love that. We want here. I think it's really funny that we went Alright, we could have had a steak. I'm keen. I hate to say another story Yeah, before I knew Griffin

I once had a friend who knew Griffin right Right? Or knew a friend of yours. And my friend was like, I have to go to Applebee's tonight. And I was like, why? In Harlem, February. In Harlem? Like, we live in Brooklyn. And she was like, I don't know. My friend is friends with some guy who wants to have his birthday at Applebee's for some reason.

I relayed that story years later, and it was you that she was talking about. And the way Sims told me was he heard that story and he was like, I can't even picture the guy who would make his friends do this on a February week night. And then when he realized it was me, he was like, you are the one person. And that is what happened last night. That's why we were there. Yeah. Look, I do, it's not a sadistic streak, but I do think it is funny to have these experiences I sound like sadism, but okay. It's no this was the absolutely good the right call for the podcast

I don't regret that we want all right. Let's do a segment Chris hit the music Hey, I bet just Frank check with Mitchell and Weiger Hey, iPad, tis dis. Frank Check with Mitchell and Weiger. Frank Check with Mitchell and Weiger. Don't know what film wieners to expect. All you need to know is that the name of the segment's Frank Check. Okay this is Frank Check.

Mitch Griffin and Sims are given a frame from a movie involving a food item and must guess which movie it is from. The TV is on so we were immediately, we were immediately... Seeing a preview of Crappopolis. We were seeing a preview of Crappopolis, but I was distracted. I couldn't think of the word distracted

as soon as the TV came on. But so many shows that just seemed fake. All the knives, Chris, do you mind? That's a movie. We can't do this. We can't talk about what's on the segment. All right, all right, all right. OK, first up.

This is Jaws. Let's dismiss this software. That's what I was trying to say, Wags. Yeah, that's Jaws. Robert Shaw. Yeah. Yes, this is this course from Jaws. Oh, and I meant to say for a bonus point,

you can buzz in with your name and then give a theme. Minecraft. Mitch, Minecraft. Okay, yes. But like this goes back to the Jaws one, Mitch gets a point for Minecraft. Okay. But you can also give a quote from the movie

that is food-based. Chicken jockey. Pretty good. Yeah, I'll give you an extra point. Yeah. Pretty good. Well learned. Well learned.

Really good. Really good. Wow. All right, next up. Wait, wait, with Jaws, do we all get a point for Jaws? Yeah, everyone gets a point for Jaws, hold on. Just give me a fucking second here. I will, okay.

David, David, Griffin. Hold on, hold on. I was too late, but I know it. This is going great. Hold on. Everyone wait. Okay. Hold on. David has one. Griffin has one. Jesus Christ. Mick has two. Can we can we can one of us say a food quote from Jaws? Yes, that's what I was going to say is that if you want to say a food quote from Jaws that you have that. we can start. Everyone has the opportunity to do a food quote from Jaws. Okay. So, uh, should we start? Yeah. Well, I'm, I'm pointing at grip. Okay.

I'll start. Yeah. I'll catch that fish for you. Pretty good. Fuck. I don't have any food quotes from Jaws. I was going to say like, we're going to need a bigger like sandwich. Oh, we can do that.

Make up a quote. We can make up a quote. What are the rules of this game? Um, we're going to need a bigger sandwich. Hell yeah. Sims gets a point. Point in the bank there. All right, can my turn?

Yeah. We're going to need a bigger pizza. Whoa. Okay. Can I, can I wait, can I change mine? Yeah. Dun dun, dun dun, dun dun dumplings. All right, next one is up.

This is a black and white. David, I think you lost, I think you lost the point. I don't think that's a quote a black and white. I think you lost. I think you lost the point. I don't think that's a I heard Sims. I race her. This is from that as well. Uh, but yeah, I'm not sure I know a food quote from a racer head. Um, in heaven, everything is food.

I was gonna say in heaven, everything is fried. Uh, Griffin gets a point. Next up. Hmm. This is a pretty interesting one. This is a black frame. Okay, okay, okay. Mitch.

We have an American cake. Oh wait, I don't know it. American flag cake. How come you have a cake? David. I thought I did know it. Is this from the Deer Hunter? It is not from the Deer Hunter.

What is this? This is a more recent film. Okay. I was gonna say Mitch, and I was gonna say Phantom Thread. It's not Phantom Thread. Is this from Lee Daniels, The Butler? No, this is not from Lee Daniels, The Butler, though you're close in terms of it being a presidential movie. This is from 2024's The Apprentice, Mitch.

Which I loved. Yeah. Right. All right, next up. None of us can get to do a food quote on that one. Yeah, let's just say someone has to get a right to do a food quote. OK. Fine. OK.

Next up. Huh. Mitch. We have a charred pizza. Yeah, very charred. I heard Mitch. No, it's not what I thought it was. It looks like a Nightmare on Elm Street movie.

Do you want to just take a guess? Nightmare on Elm Street 5? Not 5. 4. David, fuck. Sims? 3? Nightmare on Elm Street 5? Not 5. 4. David. Fuck. Sims? 3? Nightmare on Elm Street 3?

Not 3. Nightmare on Elm Street 4? Mitch? I'll let Griffin guess. Nightmare on Elm Street 6? It's not 6. Mitch gets a point. It is Nightmare on Elm Street 4.

Okay, that's Dream Child. The Dream Master. Dream Child is 5. Yeah, 5. Okay. Can I do one? Yeah. Because it's a pizza. The slice is right, bitch.

There you go. Give yourself a point. Okay, I get a point. Next up, another horror movie. The closeup of a place setting. Okay, I see. These are tricky. Ketchup.

These are tricky. I know everyone knows this movie. Everyone knows this movie. Yeah It was pretty good that I got that nightmare announced even though I said five I thought it was good. Yeah Yeah, no, this is a this is released the same year as nightmare on Elm Street for the dream master But I received a very different. This is much more of a prestigey horror. Ooh prestige harm. Okay late 80s. Yeah late 80s this isn. Late 80s. This is an adaptation

of a famous author's work. It's a late 80s movie or an early 90s movie? The year I have you in front of me is 1988. Okay. Give me a hint. Oscar winning performance. Horror movie. Oscar winning performance. Oscar winning performance? I'm realizing that-

Oh, Griffin. Yeah. Is it Misery? It is Misery. Misery. But I just looked it up on IMDB, Amelia had the date wrong. I think Amelia might have put the book dates down.

It's 1990. Yeah. Yeah. We love you Amelia. We love you Amelia. Next up- You got a Misery food quote? I love your food work.

He didn't get out of the cock-a-doodle-dee pizza. Yeah, sure. I don't know. Do you feel that way? I do feel like Kathy Bates in misery, like upset about cussing when I listened to like the new Zach Lowe podcast and they're cussing up a storm.

I agree. I don't like Zach cussing. I don't like Zach Cussin. I don't need Zach Cussin. What are we doing? This podcast we've established that we say fucking shit. We can say fucking shit and come on dough boys. I just don't want to be hearing it.

If Zach Lowe said come, my phone would catch on fire. I don't need him saying come. All right, last one. Okay. Love you, Zach Lowe. He's the best. He's the best. Okay, so we got a big diner order here.

We've got a diner here. See, pancakes, our OJ. This isn't diner though. Good, good. I wasn't gonna guess that. Uh, uh. My God. This was a career launching movie

for a couple of well-known actors. Oh, for a couple of actors. Diner? You sound like Diner. And a director. Griffin. Is this Road Trip? It's not Road Trip.

I thought it was the friendltoast. A little bit earlier than this. Let me double check it. The date I have in front of me is 1996. Is it Swingers? It is Swingers. Wow. Very smart. There you go. Yeah, the date let me double-check it the date I have in front of me is 1996 swingers it is swingers Very smart. There you go. Wow, I should have gotten that that's on and that's on me. Yeah, you're so Pizza, baby, you don't even know it. That's wow and with that

our winner Just like a restaurant of our feedback. You're some pizza, you don't even know it. Let's open up the feed bag. Today's email- Wait, didn't you have something to share too? Didn't you have- weren't you gonna show us stuff? I was gonna show Planet Hollywood stuff.

I don't know if we've just moved on. We have moved on, but if we want to get to it, we can. I might save it for the very end of the episode. Okay, all right, great. Yeah. They've got to go. Today's email is from- I know, I need to go as well.

Where are you going? It Is from Tom Sitch. With them. Oh, right, that's right, you're going with them. Yes. You're a fucking maniac. Today's emails from Tom Sitch, pronounced Sitch, from Madison, Wisconsin. Sitch writes,

what regional fast food chains that you don't have in LA are you most jealous of? Hopefully phrasing my question this way avoids Mitch immediately locking in Regina, since he gets to have it for three months every year during a sabbatical. I'm blessed to live in Culver's land But frequently pine for pine for water burger and wiener schnitzel wiener schnitzel

I would say unfortunately is on its last legs Mitch more and more of those a framed wiener schnitzel buildings are vacant They are closed that company I think is near death and it's a bummer because they're bad hot dogs But they're wiener schnitzel hot dogs and sometimes you're craving. There's nothing like it. You know as funny as a They're bad hot dogs, but they're Wiener schnitzel hot dogs. And sometimes you're craving exactly that. There's nothing like it. You know what's funny is producer Ben, I gotta give him a shout out.

Great guy. He was wearing a friendlies hat today. I was like, man, it would be great to have a friendlies on the West Coast. But you know what? I'm gonna butcher the pronunciation, but Wags, when we were mapping stuff out last night, I pressed on a restaurant name.

Do you remember what it was? I wonder if it's going to be what I was going to say, but go on. I think you know what it is. Say what you're gonna say. Xi'an famous foods? That's correct, Wags. Xi'an famous food is this-

That is the one that was like- It's a great New York- I was thinking of New York specific chains for this question. And that is one that it's just like, again, there's great Chinese food in LA, but it would be nice if it was like, hey, there's just periodically in a strip mall,

you'll find a Xi'an famous foods that might be near where you live, you know? That'd be great to have that nearby. It's a prox. Yeah. Place is really fucking good. How about you guys, reverse question. I would love to win it now.

I think Hanford gave it two forks, cause it's not in the platen, it's not in the Gomblai flow. I mean, fucking Hanford. Hanford gave Zian Famous Foods two forks. He didn't like it. Hanford may like food less than Griff. He, Hanford does not like, Hanford is like a, food is sustenance. Jesus Christ. Yeah, yeah, yeah. He's a hayseed, he's a fool., Hanford is like a food is sustenance.

Yeah, he's a hayseed, he's a fool. I don't think he's sustenance, I think it's entertainment. Hanford just needs like, right, energy. Griffin wants a song and dance with every chicken nugget. Yes, right. No, in and out's the obvious answer that comes to mind. It's also not a New York LA flip, but I gotta say, I recently have come more and more onto your side

of Nando's being one of the greatest chains missing in New York City. I've never had Nando's. So Nando's is my favorite fast food chain. It's the one I've always wanted to do with you boys the most. And I would go to DC and do it with you someday or whatever, but I have these babies. We had the opportunity to do Nando's

and instead we're doing some dog shit. Good. No, I was like, first off, Sims wants to do Nando's. Save Sims're doing some dog shit. Good. The Nando, no, I was like, first off, Sims wants to do Nando's. Save Sims. We gotta save it for Sims. But also we would have to do it at the DC live show. There's nothing about that says DC.

Sure. Yeah, it's true. It's just kind of like that there weirdly are some in DC. Yes. It's not really a DC change. It's like the only place in the states. No, Chicago has Nando's. And then Toronto has Nando's.

OK. Yeah. Can I also sadly say my mom called me, I told Wags this and she asked me to not talk about masturbating in the Boston show. I've never heard her say the word masturbating before, but she's like, please don't talk about masturbating in the Boston live show.

So this is another thing that's going on during this. I cannot talk about. But now you're definitely gonna, right? There's no way I can't talk about it. It's in your head. It's incepted into my head. Yeah, he's gonna make fun of my hog or something It's gonna happen. I mean it's already happened at this point while you're just hold up a picture of a shower Say you can't talk about you can't do it I

Can't talk about I did I did I did a radio interview in Boston I think I brought up masturbating and she was listening. So I think that didn't help. From elsewhere in the North America, the one continent I've spent time on, I would also say A&W Canada. I love Culver's, Culver's already mentioned, but if A&W Canada is so good,

and if A&W America was as good as A&W Canada, and there were A&Ws right in LA, that would be great. I'd love that. Great answer. Comet ping pong too is the other one. Yeah. If you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants,

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Griff, we have to let Griff show the thing before we go. Yeah, let's do that. So I don't even know if you wanna show this to your listeners, but this is one of the only reasons I gave this one star. Okay, great. Is because the last time I went there, or the first time I went rather, it was so inedible

that I have to give them one fork rather, for improvement. This might be the single nastiest looking food item I have ever had in my life, and my standards are low as hell and you went were you with anyone or were you alone? It's I went on Valentine's Day with my oh my god She's a classy lady Dollar prefix Valentine's Day meal. It says a lot about why she's dating me

that she thought it would be funny to go. Yeah, I mean, god bless her. They serve salad without dressing and this was the piece of meat I had. Is this like a prime rib? That's what they called it. This looks like a really poor execution. What's going on down at the bottom there?

What's this sort of like vegetable assortment? Yeah, and then there's some jam tinsel. Right, yeah, some edible tinsel. Really strange garnish with like edible flowers. I like that marbling on the top though. Can you zoom in on the top there? Look at that nice, look at that nice fat marbling. That thing definitely was near me.

It's like a statue of David. That's one of those things where like if you see this, God, zoom in. I mean, they, they. It looks like a really cheap slab and also it doesn't look properly cooked. Their commitment to under cooking is impressive. Yeah.

Hey look, it's fine, I'll do a rare prime rib. But like- If it's good meat. This doesn't think it, this just looks like, this speaks like to all the corner cutting that this place has been. Also, it looks like it speaks because it's still alive. When we were walking out of the restaurant,

they handed my lovely girlfriend, Sarah, a single rose, unwrapped and said, happy Valentine's Day. And she grabbed it and immediately went, oh, there are thorns. There it is. And I went, that's a pretty fucking good metaphor. What else? What other pictures we got here?

I think I just took a picture of the prefix, Valentine's Day menu itself itself and the check possibly. Oh, $158, oh my God. The cocktails were very expensive. Oh, you got the blood orange margaritas then too. But technically it was $30 a person for the food. Wow. For a three course meal.

$30. $30. $30. What else is there? How is the cheesecake brulee? Okay. Okay. I'll say this, the other two items were not edible. Oh good the appetizer and the entree the dessert was and After this you took us there after this I went one more time and then said I really think I'm gonna make the case

For why we should do an episode. I'm so mad at you. We gotta go Yeah, Griffin Newman David Sims for Hollywood blank check with Griffin and David People should check out the podcast will plug away like this shit. Yeah, sorry you guys are great, but you're like our shit Let's spoil it. We're right now. I know when this episode's coming up We're probably coming out of the end of May okay in the Cohn brothers Yeah, we're finished on baby hecker Lynn moving on to the Cohn brothers and you guys just yesterday recorded a head sucker episode with us Had a great time. It was a lovely time. It's been lovely. Very short.

And we'd be so fun to spend time with you guys. It's really awesome. I don't get to see you guys IRL. It's really cool. We had a blast. It was a lot of fun. Last night sucked in some ways, but it was great. I do feel like I've gained the Doughboys 15

in the last 48 hours. Like not sleeping well. It's good to know that when we end up with COVID on this trip, it's good to know that we got it in New York at the bar you took us to. So thank you for that, Griffin. Or it might have been Planet Hollywood's world famous COVID crust.

It might have been that as well. Yeah, all right. That'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time, for the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell, I'm Tiger Weiger. Happy eating. We've got to catch a train. See ya.

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