Doughboys - Popeyes Wings with David Brown & Jon Mackey

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Starting point is 00:01:09 Wow. Sign up and deposit now using promo code DOEBOYS to get up to $1,000 in bonus cash and to claim your free pick. Do it. I've got Lestat, and I'm going to keep him. These taunting words were from Al Copeland, the founder of America's third largest chicken chain and directed at Interview with the Vampire author Anne Rice, as quoted in a 1997 New

Starting point is 00:01:36 York Times article. For months, the two extravagantly wealthy and eccentric New Orleans celebrities clashed publicly over their respective claims to the Big Easy. Ground Zero, Straya, a gaudy, Vegas-esque, proto-Guy Fieri restaurant opened by Copeland on St. Charles Avenue, which Rice and other Gothic revival traditionalists derided as an architectural eyesore. The war of words played out via the media and full-page newspaper ads, where Rice called the neon leopard sculpture-adorned restaurant, quote, nothing short of an abomination, while Copeland teased, quote, I'm putting a little extra garlic in the food.

Starting point is 00:02:13 Rice's outrage was exacerbated by Straya's coincidental intrusion into her Vampire Chronicles mythos. The restaurant was on the same plot of land where Lestat saw his reflection and disappeared at the end of Rice's 1995 novel, Memnach the Devil. The canon, as mockingly noted by Copeland, seemed to imply that the vampire Lestat's soul was forever trapped inside a shitty ripoff of the Cheesecake Factory. But like many wars of words, in time, it simply ran out of steam. Straya closed in 2000, Copeland died in 2008, and by the time of Rice's death in 2021, the incident was a mere footnote in each of these Crescent City originals' larger-than-life biographies.

Starting point is 00:02:54 Like Lestat at the end of Memnok the Devil, Copeland and Rice have both passed into Bayou legend themselves. But Copeland's greasy Louisiana Kitchen franchise and Rice's horny vampire IP both still thrive and coexist here on the Mortal Plane. This week on Doughboys, we return onceboyz. Doughboyz. Welcome to Doughboyz, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger along with my co-host Drain Man, the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell. Okay. Hey, like Rain Man except for trains.

Starting point is 00:03:44 Like Rain Man except for true rain. People are referencing the fact that I jack off into the shower. Is that what it is? Hey, this roast is inspired by Mitch's bathroom standup routine. Thanks for all the laughs. From Brazil, Mateus A.

Starting point is 00:04:01 Wow, thanks, Mateus. Mateus, that's cool, writing in from Brazil, but I gotta say this. RoastedBirdFuck.com All these dignified jack-offers who fucking write in. Like, I can't believe he jacks off into his shower drain.

Starting point is 00:04:14 I prefer to jack off at the opera. Alright, dude. I need to hear the tones of Fellini if I'm going to bust a load. I always, I always nut at Carmen's. I don't, I couldn't, Carmen is an opera I know. I also said Fellini is a director, not a composer.

Starting point is 00:04:33 So I've also fucked up. Yeah, it's okay. Whatever. We did, I think we did pretty good. We did pretty good. I think we did pretty good. That was a pretty good riff. I'm going to a Tiki place tonight, Wikes.

Starting point is 00:04:41 Where are we going? Tiki theater. Um, uh, lucky Tiki I think I'm going to tonight. Fun. Have you been there before? No, it's a new one. It's a new one. And do you know, is it a new retro, like, is it like attempting to be the retro

Starting point is 00:04:55 sort of concept or is this more of like a, you know? I think it's, it's supposed to look really, yeah. I think it's more new age, but I think it looks really cool. I think they're going all out in the look, at least, looks department. Puccini, that's what I was thinking of. Puccini. Puccini, yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:10 That's the dog composer? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha I think we've done pretty good for the show so far, then. It's close to wrapping up. Bark, bark, bark, bark. Bark, bark, bark, bark. Ah, Poochini. I think the Tiki place is at Tail of the Dog, or is it Tail of the Pup? One is a pet store, I think, and one is a hot dog stand. It's at the hot dog stand. That's confusing.

Starting point is 00:05:48 Yeah, I know. One dog, please. Here you go. Oh, shit. That's not what I wanted. I don't even know what a tiki place is. The secret tiki... Like a tiki bar. Like it's like... You've seen this aesthetic where people have like island drinks and it's kind of got like, you know, um, what's a bunch of kitschy stuff around,

Starting point is 00:06:07 like a beachy sort of furniture, you know? Do you like Jimmy Buffett? Oh, yeah. Okay. Is it a bar, though? Because you said specifically Tiki Place. Is it just like a hangout? Oh, no, it's a Tiki Bar. Sorry, it is a Tiki Bar.

Starting point is 00:06:19 For some reason, I thought it was like a Tiki Performance place. Well, that is the Tiki Theater. Tiki Place does sound... Tiki theater sounds like its own thing. I was trying to picture like Tiki plays. Are you, so wait, are you guys, are you guys Parrothead, as they call them? Oh, no.

Starting point is 00:06:36 I wouldn't call me a Parrothead. I know a lot of Jimmy Buffett songs. What's your fave? You got a fave? I mean, I don't, I would say probably Volcano. That's a great one. Yeah. We used to play it in the marching band when I was in high school. That's cool as hell Wait, what'd you play in marching band saxophone? You're sex guy alto tenor. What you're playing?

Starting point is 00:06:51 I played alto for the first couple years graduated to tenor and tried baritone didn't have the lungs for it Whoa, yeah, you need a lot. You need some real pipes for the berry sacks I played berry and jazz band but I in jazz band, but I was playing, yeah, but I was playing alto in the marching band. I was a snare drummer in the marching band. Whoa, drum line, okay. As a, I'm a tiny guy and I was especially tiny. Yeah, we know.

Starting point is 00:07:14 I was in fifth grade. Who can see? I was in fifth grade with like a snare drum and it was like almost like a circus act. People were like, look at that tiny guy with the drum cuz it was like yeah yeah drum and like I was like four six and it was like really hard to like carry it around that's cool as hell I love that yeah I was the only one I guess I'm the only one who wasn't in marching band here fucking loser I was a loser. I did. No. It's never too late, man. It's never too late.

Starting point is 00:07:45 I mean, you are right, I was a loser. Yeah, but indoor. Fucking dweeb. This guy fucking sucks. What, did you play football or something? Yeah. I did, I was very bad at it. Fucking loser.

Starting point is 00:07:53 I had a weird high school experience where I was in the marching band in my younger years. I was a mascot. Whoa. And then I also played football my senior year. All in the same game. So I got to see, I got to see the whole high school football experience from band to mascot to player. Every perspective. Yeah, and I didn't do anything senior year. All in the same game. So I got to see the whole high school football experience

Starting point is 00:08:05 from band to mascot to player. Every perspective. Yeah, and I didn't do anything one year, so I got the fan stuff too. Was there a full like mascot suit? We were the Patriots. Okay. So I had Patriots and then I had short hair

Starting point is 00:08:18 and I would spray paint my head colors. Lots of fun colors. That's cool. Wow. Do you guys play any Buffet? Strictly Cheeseburger in Paradise remixes to the Cotton Eye Joe under beat. The under beat. I like that song, Fins, you know? Oh yeah, Fins to the left.

Starting point is 00:08:37 Fins to the right. That's a lot of fun. It's very audience participation. You love any time people can do one of these. Sounds like you're in Hollywood too. Finns to the left, stranger things. Finns to the right. Uh, Ghostbusters, Afterlife, uh, Afterlife, you know.

Starting point is 00:08:52 Still, still the same Fin. Finns are everywhere. Fin, that one Fin is everywhere. Finns to the left, that's, I mean, it should be the Hollywood anthem, do you agree? I, Mitch, I agree, it should be the Hollywood anthem. Do you agree? Mitch, I agree. It should be the Hollywood anthem. Fins. Fins.

Starting point is 00:09:08 Is he in the, well, I can't talk shop, because I feel like some people don't even know it exists. Is he starring in that SNL movie or no? I don't know. OK. Hold on. Let me look at his filmography. Maybe it's up here.

Starting point is 00:09:25 Finn Wolfhard. He used to have a headgum. That's his Wolfhard? It is, he used to have a headgum podcast, I believe. Really? He did, yeah. Did you work on that, Casey? I did not, it was before my time,

Starting point is 00:09:35 but it was a movie podcast. Okay, interesting. Yeah, I'm Wolfhard. While you're looking that up, while you're talking about jacking off in the shower. Yeah. Today, getting ready. Where, where are we going? Getting ready today, you know, people peeing in the shower.

Starting point is 00:09:50 I made the mistake of I turned the water off halfway through and then I was just standing there peeing and then I was like, this is weird now. No, no, no. And I had to turn the water back on to make it unweird. Yeah. Because then I was just, then you're just peeing. Yes. You think about what you're doing. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:07 You've got to not judge yourself in that situation, but I understand. I should have just let it rip? Yeah, it's fine. Okay. It's fine. No, I think he did what was right. I think you can, like, I think, I think,

Starting point is 00:10:16 but either way is fine. Yeah, okay. In your circumstance, if not that, had that happened to me, I might do the same thing. I wouldn't pee on myself though. Yeah, sure. So then I didn't need the wash. Sure, sure, okay, yeah, no, that makes sense.

Starting point is 00:10:27 Yeah, all right. I mean, I still think you did the right thing. Okay, thanks. Yeah. Well, split, we're split. Finn Wolfhard is cast in the upcoming SNL 1975. Knew it. So you might be saying, Finn's to the left, SNL 1975. Finn's to the right, the upcoming film,

Starting point is 00:10:45 The Legend of Ochi. Yeah. You might be doing that here in Hollywood. Ochi, we're very, Hollywood's got Ochi fever. We're all waiting for The Legend of Ochi, where he's going to portray Petro. That's gonna be a lot of fun. You got the Petro role?

Starting point is 00:10:58 He's got that plumb Petro role in Legend of Ochi, so. Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, good cast. Good cast. Who's directing? Isaiah Saxon. Who's producing? I don't have that here, right in front of Ochi, so. Uh, Willem Dafoe, Emily Watson, good cast. Good cast. Who's directing? Isaiah Saxon. Who's producing? I don't have that here. Right in front of me. Who's doing sound? Uh, you know, I could, I don't know if I can get

Starting point is 00:11:12 the full credits for Legend of Ochi, because it is in pre-production, so it's possible a lot of those roles have not been fulfilled yet. Pre-pro, that's what we call it here. Yeah. Fingers crossed. Making it to say all of it when it comes out, though. Yeah, we'll get, we'll, we'll do an Ochi double.

Starting point is 00:11:24 We'll definitely talk about it on the Patreon. Well, now we have to. Making it to say all of it when it comes out though. Yeah, we'll get, we'll do an Ochi Double. We'll definitely talk about it on the Patreon. Well now we have to. We have to. But also, you know, we talk a lot, a lot of dumb shit on the, it doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. It doesn't matter. Yeah, we'll do it because it doesn't matter.

Starting point is 00:11:35 That's why we'll do it. Who gives a shit? We have 50 of them a year, so who gives a shit? Who cares? Who cares? I think that's a pretty valid perspective. You know what? I mean, you guys are, just like in Hollywood,

Starting point is 00:11:47 you're attached to the Ochie double. Oh, hey, there's actually nothing I'd love more than to come back for the Ochie double. Yeah. I hope that they can put on your, I hope they can put on all of our IMDB's doughboys double Ochie attached. Yeah, it's tough,

Starting point is 00:12:02 because now that you've put that idea in my head, if I see an Ochie double come out and we're not on it, I think it's going to really hurt my feelings. We'll do it with you like four years from now. I agree. We've got to do it with you. I think we've got to do it with you guys.

Starting point is 00:12:14 When this animated film is completed, we will definitely do this. Oh, it's animated. In seven years. It's an animated movie? Yeah. Never mind, man. It doesn't matter.

Starting point is 00:12:24 We kill it? We kill the project? You know what? I'm out on the Ochie double. You, you know what? It doesn't matter. We killed it? We killed the project? You know what? I'm out on the O.G.W. You can still do it, but I'm out. I mean, a Finn Wolfheart, I don't know, maybe it's great. Who knows?

Starting point is 00:12:33 You got a drop to play. Oh, am I hit him with a drop? Fire sauce, Diablo sauce, mild sauce. Hit. Fire sauce, Diablo sauce, mild sauce. Yeah! Fire sauce, Diablo sauce, mild sauce. Yeah! I got all of the tacos. Did you eat every taco? I ate all eight tacos.

Starting point is 00:12:53 Eleven tacos in total. My ass is so sore. Fire sauce, Diablo sauce, mild sauce. Yeah! Hell yeah, dude. Fire sauce, Diablo sauce, mild sauce. Yeah. Healthy, huh, dude? Fire sauce, Diablo sauce, mild sauce. Yeah. I love that you were getting into it in the few seconds that they were pulling the clip.

Starting point is 00:13:15 That ripped. Yeah, that was fun. Well done. I mean, it wasn't bad. Hey, you song and the rest of you, what in the hell was this email? What? Jesus Christ. This was a lot of fun to make and I hope you enjoy it. What in the hell is this email? What? Jesus Christ. Ha ha ha!

Starting point is 00:13:25 This is a lot of fun to make, and I hope you enjoy it. Thanks for shedding light on the spicy potato soft taco. Never would I have tried it, and now it's in my regular order. You're welcome. That is a really confusing email, because it references Yu Song, who has not worked for the show since pre-pandemic. Yes, they were messing around.

Starting point is 00:13:45 But it also references a very contemporary topic of discussion, which was the spicy potato soft taco from Taco Bell, which we talked about during a Munch Madness tournament. Yeah. Congrats. He knows it. Thank you.

Starting point is 00:13:57 Potato soft taco, beating the cheesy Gordy crunch, which you know is bullshit. Anyways. I think the right call is made. Shout out to my wife. TrottyBirdFuck.com. Shout out to my wife, who is a bullshit. Anyways. I think the right call is made. Shout out to my wife. Drops at birdfuck.com. Shout out to my wife who is a teacher. Whoa.

Starting point is 00:14:10 My mom, Jack and Cody. Wow. Thanks for considering Charlie. Thanks Charlie, wherever you are. Great job. Charlie. What up fam? Nice dude. What up fam indeed.

Starting point is 00:14:24 Nice. Our guest today hosts the podcast, What up, fam? What up, fam, indeed? Our guests today host the podcast, The Brett DeMott Show with Buddy, Dave Brown and John Mackey. Guys, welcome to the show. Thanks for having us, fellas. Thank you for being here. Very excited. Long overdue, thank you for coming to the dough.

Starting point is 00:14:37 Yes, thanks for coming to the dough. Thanks for also committing us to a future episode. We're definitely gonna make it happen. You're attached. Attached. Okay, I wanna talk a little bit because y'all are both from the South, North Carolina and Mississippi respectively.

Starting point is 00:14:53 We were talking Popeyes today, but before we get into Popeyes, this is, you know, we're in a topic that I think the two of you know well, an area that you've had a lot of in your life, a food stuff that you've eaten a lot of, fried chicken, where do you stand on fried chicken? I would argue it's the most perfect food.

Starting point is 00:15:11 Wow, I love that. I think it is my favorite food. I think it's my favorite food too, yeah. I think it's actually on the peak of the mountain in terms of my like pyramid of best foods. I'm a big sauce guy. Okay. Like I need, I like, I'll go to like enchiladas

Starting point is 00:15:27 with mole sauce if I can do something. So like sauce things. So like, I like, if it's going to be fried chicken, I like sauces on it. So like wings is my favorite part of fried chicken. Yeah. It's gotta, it's gotta be like a honey barbecue sandwich or something.

Starting point is 00:15:40 I'm not just going to get like reggae, reggae barbecue, like reggae fried chicken. Reggae, right. Yeah. Reg like Reggie Fried Chicken. Reggie, Reggie, right. Yeah. Reggie. But, but. I wanted us all to say it. Reggie. Reggie.

Starting point is 00:15:50 My name's Reggie, dipshit. I, now I think Wags will disagree with, I'm just saying. Okay, we'll see. Your sauce nuggets stance. Well, OK, so a couple of months back, as of this episode's release, we will have discussed the KFC saucy nuggets.

Starting point is 00:16:13 The KFC saucy nuggets, the issue was that you got all the nuggets pre-saus. Are you eating more Popeyes right now? The crinkle? The crinkle, crinkle? The subtle crinkle in the back. Underneath your opinion? Did you tee me up so you could eat a Popeyes chicken sandwich? right now. The crinkle, the crinkle crinkle. The subtle crinkle in the back. Did you tee me up so you could eat

Starting point is 00:16:26 a Popeye's chicken sandwich? It was all my chicken I had to buy and buy. This is also the worst package for that kind of, like that kind of thing. It doesn't make enough noise. No. The softest crinkle. Very good.

Starting point is 00:16:42 The issue with the KFC saucy nuggets is by the time you got them, they were so sauced that they'd lost the texture that you want from a crinkle. Very good. The issue with the KFC saucy nuggets is by the time you got them, they were so sauced that they'd lost the texture that you want from a nugget. And they're also a mess to eat because the whole thing with nuggets is like, you want to be finger foods, right? But like, is that an issue for you?

Starting point is 00:16:55 Like, because the wings we got today, which we'll get into later, those were like kind of sauced, but they were like semi-sauced. Yeah, that's kind of lame. It's just kind of like they were putting the thing in like, the sauce was at the bottom and they weren't just like smothered.

Starting point is 00:17:09 I love smothered sauce. You want those bad boys soaked when you get them. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. When I go to, my grandma used to always take me to Chick-fil-A at the mall in Mississippi in Jackson. And I would get like eight Polynesian sauces. Wow.

Starting point is 00:17:23 And I would eat them with a fork so that I could candy apple the nuggets with sauce. That's wild. I'm a huge sauce freak. I've seen the Chick-fil-A hacks where they pour Polynesian sauce into the bag and they shake it up. See, I saw this and it made me really upset.

Starting point is 00:17:38 I tried it because all the breading came off when I shook it around in the bag. Oh no. And I was like, it ended up being just like a loose piece of no-breaded chicken with a bunch of like soggy breading in the bottom of the bag. That sucks. Yeah, so it doesn't trust,

Starting point is 00:17:51 don't trust what you see on TikTok. Are you, so are you a Chick-fil-A guy? Is that your, that's your go-to? And you're from Bojangles country, but you're not necessarily the biggest. I'm from Bojangles country. Uh, born and raised. Uh, no, I grew up in a really small town, so there was not fast food fried,

Starting point is 00:18:09 like any of the fast food chains near me. I was like an hour away from like the nearest Bojangles. So all of my, most of my fried chicken experience as a kid, specifically comes from this gas station that was called, it was called like four different things. It was, Shortstop was one of it was called like four different things. It was, Shortstop was one of them. Boss Hog Gas was another one.

Starting point is 00:18:32 That's cool. And then there was just like a lady's name because she was the woman who worked there. And people were just like, I can't remember her name. I think it was Glenda maybe. It had all the names at the same time? Well, it was, there was no name posted on the building

Starting point is 00:18:45 It was just whatever you called it, but they had really good fried chicken And that was like the fried chicken I grew up on was like gas station fried chicken But like Bojangles was the closest like chain fried chicken that you could get and we didn't have a chick-fil-a We didn't have it wasn't even a KFC in the town. It was just Bojangles. So that was the Yeah, I think even a KFC in the town. It was just Bojangles. So that was the thing. I think the original KFC, I think the first version of it, if memory serves, was a gas station.

Starting point is 00:19:11 I think that was a thing. Did you just open a soda? I know. I had to open it at some point. Mitch, where do you stand on fried chicken generally? I mean, I love it, of course. Yeah, sure. It's funny chicken generally? I mean, I love it, of course. Yeah, sure. It's funny, just because even boneless buffalo I love

Starting point is 00:19:28 and buffalo wings I love. And fried chicken, it's that weird thing with fried chicken where I'm, and I don't even feel this way about buffalo wings, which just is fried chicken. But fried chicken itself, I'm like, ooh, can't have that too often. And I don't. Yeah, sure.

Starting point is 00:19:42 But wings, if people are having wings, I'm like, sure. It's the same thing, but with a buttery hot sauce on top of it. So I feel like it is one that I try to not eat as much. Of course, I was very excited to have it today. But I love it. It's great. It's not my favorite food.

Starting point is 00:19:58 Pizza is my favorite food, which is boring. Also like the masking of like, for some reason, like a chicken breast, when you're just like digging in feels real raw of like, you're just like ripping through that you can really see that it's the chest of a bird that you're really working in. Yeah, you're eating animal flesh.

Starting point is 00:20:18 Yeah, yeah, you just see the tendons and all that type of stuff. I like it. Maybe that's where the sauce comes in. It just like masks the horrors of this world. Yeah. That's true. Yeah, I don't like the tendons in the,

Starting point is 00:20:30 I'm not a fan of that. That always bothers me. The veins, I don't like that. I don't mind any of that stuff, but I am, it's not like a thing. I can kind of like overlook it, you know? I do like eating stuff off the bone. I do like that part of the experience.

Starting point is 00:20:43 Can we talk about, we pivot away from chicken for a second because there were a couple of chains that y'all pitched before we settled on this one. But they were both ones that we'd already covered pretty recently on the podcast, but Chipotle and Fat Sal. Oh yeah. That's a real, he's the Chipotle man.

Starting point is 00:21:00 Who do you look at? Oh, you gave it away. I was gonna be like, who do you guys think likes which? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, it's a, I mean, for me, Chipotle's the, I would hate to actually do the research to find out how many times I've had Chipotle in my life. Wow.

Starting point is 00:21:19 What do you do, are you a burrito or a bowl or what? I'm a bowl guy, I'm a bowl guy. I'm a full on bowl guy. Deep in the bowl game over here. Yeah, I'm always, I'm a steak or a chicken bowl guy. I like it. And I flip flop a little bit. I just wanna say I'm a bowl man and then I realized we did that for bowl.

Starting point is 00:21:37 We did, I'm a bowl man. That's a part we did. We had a competition called bowl and then we've already done the parody song. I was just thinking about it. We closed the show by singing bowl man together. It was a duet. Mm-hmm.

Starting point is 00:21:46 And I'm a hard shell taco barbacoa guy. Interesting. I think I've said this to David multiple times and I call him David because this is serious. Yeah. Hard shell with the actual sloppiest meat you can get in Chipotle. The second you put the barbacoa.

Starting point is 00:22:02 You gotta eat them fast. You gotta eat them fast to keep the crunch. But that's not fun, you know? But crunch is fun. Crunch is fun. I feel like I've seen a lot of fun. I think crunch is fun. Of course crunch is fun.

Starting point is 00:22:13 Yeah, okay, all right. That wasn't that, all right. That's true. There's not a crunch in the bowl that you're eating. You're a sloppy bowl guy. I was gonna say, I get the same order as you. So I don't know why I was backing up saying, crunch is fun.

Starting point is 00:22:25 Crunch is fun. Crunch is fun no matter what. It is. Nobody's arguing that crunch isn't fun. It's just the circumstances around getting crunchy tacos with the wettest meat at Chipotle have to be so perfect for you to eat it in an ideal conditions.

Starting point is 00:22:39 Well, I don't get them delivered. That's an in-person. You can't get barbacoa artichoke tacos delivered. That'd be a slop fest. Yeah, that way my wife, she- You gotta get it and run. She goes with a barbacoa a lot. And you know, it's kind of like this braised

Starting point is 00:22:53 sort of like stewed sort of beef. But I feel like I've seen her do that with the hardshell tacos as well. I feel like I've seen her do that move. Even though these days it's almost always a bowl. Yeah, I'm a hardshell taco freak. I would never get a soft taco. I forget that Chipotle has hard shell tacos.

Starting point is 00:23:07 Me too, they do not advertise. Yeah, they always look a little surprised when I order it. Yeah, we got these. They don't get ordered enough to where they're just stale enough to hold that barbacoa juice. Yeah, I guess actually they probably, yeah, the taco shells are so stale that they probably don't get soggy.

Starting point is 00:23:23 Mm-mm. Yeah. I don't ever do. I mean, I sometimes will do a chicken burrito from there, but I do. I'm a bowl guy from there. And it is a little bit sad man dinner for me sometimes where I'm like, it's it checks off the things of it's tastes. OK. And then also, it's not horribly bad for you if you make it the right way. You can like, well, I got a little bit of cheese in there and some sour cream, but it's still like,

Starting point is 00:23:46 it's like 750 calories or something. But you can tell exactly how many calories you're saving by not getting the flour tortilla, which is like part of my calculus. 250 or something. Exactly. Yeah, see, I negate all of that stuff with my order because I do, every order I get, double rice. Wow. Double meat. Wow. Okay. And a bag of chips. So every meal I get double rice, that's wow, double meat, wow, and a bag of chips.

Starting point is 00:24:08 So every meal I get a Chipotle. You go crunch, you still go crunch. But the crunch isn't the star of the show, the crunch is like an accessory. Yeah, I know, it makes the show. When I, the crunch is fun is the thing. It is, it's so fun dude. Crunch is fun.

Starting point is 00:24:20 Crunch is chewy. So why did you say crunch isn't fun? I didn't say, I never said crunch isn't fun. I did, I said crunch isn't fun. Crunch is chewing. So why did you say crunch isn't fun? I didn't say, I never said crunch isn't fun. We did. I said crunch is fun. John Mackie says crunch isn't fun. This is ridiculous. This is ridiculous.

Starting point is 00:24:31 No, but my Chipotle order has like 1,400 calories in it. Wow. Yeah, that's why I'm the man I am today. But he's been real pissed lately because he says that when you order to go, you don't get as much. This is, I've seen people talking about this online as well because I've done a little bit of research. If you go through the line

Starting point is 00:24:49 and you're looking somebody in the eye, they give you the right amount. You order online and they make it in the little side kitchen. You can threaten them enough live to where they'll add a little bit more. They just don't have to answer for it if they're making it in the little side kitchen. So you get there, you hold the bag

Starting point is 00:25:03 and you're like, oh, it's a little light. I think you're right. I think there are also just such, such like assembly lines back there, just churning out to go orders. Like there's a high volume Chipotle we'll go to. And I'll just, that ancillary kitchen is just always going. So yeah. Yeah. And I understandably, I get it.

Starting point is 00:25:19 We've said that it's fallen off a bit. Oh, a thousand percent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay. A thousand. Listen, I go 10 years back with Chipotle. I used to eat it when I worked near the Beverly Center. I would walk to the Beverly Center and eat at that Chipotle every day for lunch.

Starting point is 00:25:35 Wow. And it was great then. Yeah. Now it's fine. But I can't stop. You know what's weird to me is that recently it feels like there's a lot of places that were quality. We talked about this with Tender Greens a little little bit where their protein has just kind of sucked

Starting point is 00:25:49 Where it's like and with Chipotle I feel that way too where I'm like This chicken doesn't feel like it no quality control anymore. I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened You're just burning the hell out of every piece of chicken they throw in the grill. The podcast is starting again. We're in a loop. Um, uh, Usong's name came up and he's also a huge Chipotle fan. So I just texted him to see if he's still eating Chipotle these days and see what he, what he thinks. Hey, so the shout out was, uh, was well worth it for our old friend Usong. Life is a Harold.

Starting point is 00:26:23 Uh, Dave, what is your, what is your Fat Sal's affiliation? Oh my God. First time I ever had Fat Sal's, Betsy Sardaro ordered it like at two o'clock in the morning and got like 40 sandwiches delivered. And I was like, what the hell is this? And I had the fat buffalo and I've never been the same. Wow. Fat is. Wow.

Starting point is 00:26:45 Fat buffalo is good. It's mozzarella sticks, French fries, hot tenders and ranch in a sandwich. Wow. And that's everything I want. That's all. And she did text us the other night. She was like, I got a Taco Bell with Gilly

Starting point is 00:27:00 at 3 a.m. last night or something. See if you can find it. It's very funny. But there used to be one right by me. last night or something. See if you can find it. It's very funny. But there used to be one right by me. Last night at 3 in the morning, Gilly ordered $150 of Taco Bell for three people. It was incredible. There you go. There it is.

Starting point is 00:27:16 She's been having the same night for like, years and hours. And it's still awesome every time. It hasn't lost its luster at all. Sounds fun as hell. We can still do this. I lived by one, lived by a Fat Sal's, the one on Fountain. Oh yeah, I know that.

Starting point is 00:27:33 So I could get there real quick and to get the fat buffalo sandwich and then as I'll explain, a giant cherry Coke, because with every bite I take, I take a tiny sip of Coke. That is like my style of eating. Are you still chewing when you're sipping the Coke? Take a bite, take like two chews, tiny sip of like Coke, and then that really ties the room together.

Starting point is 00:27:58 It's making like a slurry. So it's like, I do the same thing with like peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, do that tiny sip of milk. That makes more sense to me. I like the little bit of extra liquid when I'm eating. The mixing of all of those flavors gives me chills. You gotta give it a try.

Starting point is 00:28:13 In a bad way. I wanna pitch a restaurant that comes with a meal, and each meal has like a shot glass of the thing that you're supposed to like sip with each bite. I think that would be, like that's the future of dining to me. There's just somebody standing there refilling the little shot glass whole. Just a little teapot that they just keep doing.

Starting point is 00:28:31 There's like, yes, 60 employees at this restaurant. Well, first I wanna say, how's this for a t-shirt? Life's a Harold and I'm in the third beat. That's pretty good. I mean, it's like for an older person, you know? I mean, I could wear that, it would work. Yeah, sure, right. And I just think it's a good idea.

Starting point is 00:28:52 No, I think it's a good idea. I'll talk to Charna and I'll figure this out. Yeah, see if Charna signs off on it. And if she does, then we go over to our merch partners at Kinship Goods. I'm sure they could whip something out. If Charna signs off on it, I don't know, do you know anyone from Dell

Starting point is 00:29:08 closest to the state or no? No. I mean, I think it would be Charna. It is, okay, it would be Charna. Okay, all right, we'll talk. Everything kind of funnels back to Charna. Everything goes back to Charna. Everything goes back to Charna.

Starting point is 00:29:17 All right, all right, we'll figure this out. Kim Howard Johnson is maybe involved, the third author of Truth in Comedy. That's right, yeah, yeah. Right. I'll reach out. Reach out to them. Also, I was going to bring up that we have a food experience,

Starting point is 00:29:31 you and I. Oh. Wow. Oh my god, yeah. I have a picture of it. Do you really? The only thing that exists from this is the thumbnail that I got from the Go90

Starting point is 00:29:43 website of that episode. And I'll send it to you. I still have it. The thing that we've talked about on this podcast before where it was like, ugh, I'm doing, you know, like this Charleston Chew branded content video, and it's like, well, you know what? At least I'll have it forever on my reel. I got paid 50 bucks, but that didn't turn out to be true.

Starting point is 00:30:04 Everything that you worked on has now disappeared, it's vanished. Zaptoway, not even stored for any historical reason. They know immediately that this doesn't have any historical significance. Sucked into a void. This is in the dead media. The hard drive that it existed on is gone. Yeah, the hard drives that exist on are gone. It was like the content boom of like the 2010s,

Starting point is 00:30:25 where it was like Funny or Die was killing it, College Humor, Busby. Every cell phone company was like, let's do our own proprietary video platform. Exactly, right, right. Yeah. And you know, like some people realized like, it was all bullshit.

Starting point is 00:30:36 Like some people, not me, I loved all the stuff. But, but it, we, we, that, that's so funny that I wonder if that exists at all. I'm sure someone has. What is it? Yeah, what was it? It was Drive Share.

Starting point is 00:30:49 So it was Paul Scheer and Roger Huber show, which was awesome to do. It was just like, they got people gave you a premise, you got in a car and improvised like a Drive Share scene. And we were in one about Thanksgiving dinner. Yeah. And... Well, which by the way, this is funny.

Starting point is 00:31:06 The two of you were playing passengers. Yeah. And then also there is an SNL sketch that does a similar thing. Which I don't know if it was before or after us. I'm just gonna say it was after. It was after. Way after, way after.

Starting point is 00:31:18 Everybody saw the Go 90 episode of this short form video and decided to see it. Yeah, so we were in the back seat and Brendan Jennings was driving. That's right, yeah. Yeah. And then you, and we basically. Not basically.

Starting point is 00:31:31 I, you went for, I mean, he was so game and it was great, but I, you got the receiving end of it. I did. Which I salute you for, but I chewed up food and spit it into his mouth. He baby birded me. I baby, and we guess, as we were calling, we were baby it into his mouth. He baby birded me. And we guess as we're calling we were baby birding. Yeah he baby birded me fully and then... We bought it very much on that day. Yeah the screen grab I have

Starting point is 00:31:53 that I guess was from the website is just me right after that moment and all of its falling out of my mouth. It's disgusting. I'll send it to y'all. It's funny that for the thumbnail they they decided let's not show the actual funny image of food falling out of mouth. Let's show the moment after that's just gross. Horrible. That's you just like, I'm trying to be in the scene and be funny and be present,

Starting point is 00:32:18 and there's this man like me who I'm just waving at you. His food is chewed up in my mouth. That sucks. But that wasn't baked into the scene, right? You guys are just improvising? We just went for it. And it may have been like a suggestion from them or like the director is not my favorite member.

Starting point is 00:32:36 I was gonna say, in the moment, in an improvised thing, do you have the idea to chew up food and spit it into your mouth without any prior discussion? I don't know how it came about. Was Dan Schneider off camera? Yeah, do it. Let me tell you, the producers went 90. They fell over laughing.

Starting point is 00:32:52 Yes, we should explain. For anyone who doesn't remember the Verizon Go 90 app, the name of it was because you're normally. I don't think you have to explain. I think everyone remembers. Everyone gets it. OK, I won't bother. Go ahead.

Starting point is 00:33:04 Maybe for one or two people. OK, for one or two people, maybe some young people out there, you're normally looking at your phone like this, I'm holding it vertically, and then if you were going to go 90 and check out all the exclusive content on this amazing app, you would turn your phone horizontally. 90 degrees.

Starting point is 00:33:18 So I've got 90 degrees. That's how you go 90. That's how you go 90. Yeah. So if you'd like to go 90, log on to Verizon Go 90, download the new app, check out exclusive content. Can we get Go 90? Can we get gon90.com?

Starting point is 00:33:33 Can we spot on the URL? I bet you. We should try to make over $90. But literally every, there were so many shows on that thing that went away. Oh yeah. That was like that Tween Fest show that- Oh, right. Tween Fest.

Starting point is 00:33:41 That was really funny. Brad Evans. Brad Evans. They oversteer. Literally every there were so many shows on that. Yeah, it went away. That was like that tween fest show that Oh, right. That was really funny. I was in that for a minute. Did you guys do it? I edited it. Oh shit. Wow. I edited four of the episodes. Very funny. Yeah, that was a great show. And now I think it just exists on. It's all gone. It's just gone.

Starting point is 00:34:00 I think they might have gotten the rights to that back and it might be on YouTube now But they burned the building down. Also, funnier die produced it and then funnier dies Who knows? They left town with every fucking with all the money they made from fucking starburst fucking branded spots It's a people funny. Die is now two guys in a private plane with sacks with dollar signs There were no PAs left to fuel them up. I think that we should, like Thanos, we should get CISO and Go90. CISO.com, Go90.com.

Starting point is 00:34:37 I think we should get these. Go90.com's not available at Chequers. Damn. Go90.ai was the recommendation. What about Gone 90? Gone 90.ai was the recommendation. Yeah. What about Gone 90? Gone 90? Wow.

Starting point is 00:34:48 That's pretty good. Or Going 90, I don't know. Get all variations of Go. Let's stop buying URLs as bits. I think we probably stop using our budget for that, but it's a funny idea. It was an honor for you to spit food in there. It was, we very much bonded that day.

Starting point is 00:35:03 Also, I think, I'm sure you guys can relate to this, but that thing of having like a nine page audition for a Go 90 show, which is like, I'm still mad at this town for the rest of my life for that. To like nervously be studying nine pages for a Go 90 show. Yes, yeah. Do you know how infuriating that is to even think about? Well, do you know how mad I am right now?

Starting point is 00:35:29 I know, Mitch, I know how mad you are. I'm wearing a Hulk shirt. I'm about to, I'm fucking pissed off. Yeah. Now they're trying to get rid of Schneider? It's not fair. It's not fair. It's an infuriating degrading into. First that, then this, then Go Night.

Starting point is 00:35:46 Now Schneider, what's next? What else are they going to take from us? No, it's continually more work for less money and then also more work even for the prospect of less money. Whatever, it's a rotten industry. That's why we podcast. Nine pages for a fucking Go Night. I swear to God. Possibly it's even longer than that. We gotta be able to buy all that stuff back for like go night. I swear to God, possibly it's even longer than that. We gotta be able to buy all that stuff back for like 10 bucks. Like where is, what is, where is it?

Starting point is 00:36:08 I think the bad news is I think a lot of that stuff is deleted. I think it's either gone. Yeah, the data doesn't exist anymore. I think a lot of it. Like, hard drives are just. I'm sure, there's a hard drive. There's a hubel cap to have that show somewhere,

Starting point is 00:36:18 I'm sure. You would think so. But who knows? And it's also like, all this shit is so, the rights to something could be bought by some private equity firm or whatever, or some Saudi holding corporation, and it's just there for no reason. And so like that's why.

Starting point is 00:36:32 Well, we saw this with Quibi. Yeah, right. Yeah, yeah. When Quibi went under and Roke, who said, you know what? We'll take all that content. Yes, yeah, yeah. It keeps happening, folks. It keeps, yeah.

Starting point is 00:36:42 It's now in a different storage department somewhere. Some other lonely guy in a vault has access to the one hard drive it's on. I mean, that's the other thing, too, is that someone could just spill soda on the hard drive that the birthday boys is on, and our sketch show is gone forever, probably. But it was nice to do while it happened.

Starting point is 00:37:00 It was good. You at least have DVDs, right? Or was that just one season? Do you own a copy of the DVDs? I do own copies of DVDs, luckily, but people are like, where can we get the DVDs? I think they stopped making them. Yeah. Bummer. They should do a box set. Yeah, I'll send it to you.

Starting point is 00:37:16 In the end, the sun's gonna end up getting real big and destroy Earth in a billion years, so it's all gonna go away, you know what? That's a good point. So that means right now doesn't matter. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Nice. Yeah, so right now doesn't matter. Nothing matters.

Starting point is 00:37:30 Everybody, this will be gone one day too. Yeah. No, we are very, we're gonna keep, we actually got a sunproof box. Yeah. You get the masters. Just floating in space a billion years from now. You and Prince, Prince gets the Masters of his song,

Starting point is 00:37:46 y'all get the Masters for this podcast. Floating in space, a very old you song in there, watching over it. I wanna talk about Popeyes, but I do wanna touch on a subject we were talking about while we were waiting for Mitch to arrive. Both of you have played Baldur's Gate 3. Oh yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:04 Yes. My favorite game. Happy I arrived later you have played Baldur's Gate 3. Oh yeah. Yes. My favorite game. Oh my God. Happy I arrived later than the fucking Baldur's Gate talk. Yeah. You know how many times I've- If you need to go to the bathroom,

Starting point is 00:38:13 you can do that now. I mean, honestly, I might go turn the AC down a little bit more. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:22 Mitch has stood up. Yeah. Yeah. Which, are you gonna sit back down and you stand out of frame. No, I'll be here. Do your thing. This is gonna need some tidying up. I'm gonna try this guy. Do you do it this way? Yeah, I set it up like that. Mitch is holding up one of the lumbar back rests that Emma got for us.

Starting point is 00:38:36 So yeah, I kind of like it like that, like triangular, you know, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the, with the,. Mitch is holding up one of the lumbar back rests that Emma got for us. So yeah, I kind of like it like that, like triangular, you know, with that part pointing up. That's the way you're supposed to do it, right? That's the way you're supposed to do it, yeah. For somebody who's doing a side quest, I can't believe that you don't like that game.

Starting point is 00:38:57 Yeah. Would you like one? I'm good without it. I mean, for now. We'll see in two hours how I feel. I don't know. Okay, so Mackie, you now, we'll see in two hours how I feel. Okay, so Mackie, you played through it a couple of times, or you're on your second playthrough.

Starting point is 00:39:09 I'm almost done with my second playthrough. So what was the first character you finished it with, and what are you playing now? I was originally, I was a half-orc fighter. Fun. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.

Starting point is 00:39:23 And that was really fun, really just like battle heavy, you know? Just like slicing people up. But then my second play through. Intimidation and dialogue, a lot of fun. It's very fun. Then the second play through I'm doing a bard. Love a bard. A half elf bard.

Starting point is 00:39:36 I did a half elf bard for my half wood elf for my first play through. College of Lore, what college are you doing? Gosh, why can't I remember now? College of Swords? More of a brawler? No, no, no. Yeah, College of Lore. Yeah, yeah. Bard's a lot of fun.

Starting point is 00:39:53 Yeah, it's super fun. It's crazy how it's a completely different game, depending on what kind of character you're playing. For sure. There's so much unique dialogue. Yeah, and I also, my first playthrough, I killed people that I didn't know were NPCs. Yes, right. I killed Karlaak, that character, my first playthrough I killed people that I didn't know like we're we're NPCs that are like companion I killed car lack that character my first time cuz I just like believed the guys up in the house Yeah, we're like, there's a devil out there and I was like, well, I'm gonna kill the devil Well, I did and I killed the character who apparently you love this don't you? I truly car lack is this like sort of demon character.

Starting point is 00:40:26 Yeah, yeah, yeah, tell him, tell him. Tell him, give him context. No, but I like killed a bunch of characters that I couldn't. We all know who Karlak is. It's like Go 90, we get it. Good. How dare you compare Karlak to Go 90? Oh, all right.

Starting point is 00:40:39 Yeah, but yeah, it was just my first playthrough I killed so many characters that I didn't mean to kill. I got lucky and had an Oathbreaker Paladin so I couldn't kill anyone. So then I made friends with everyone. Wait, not an Oathbreaker Paladin? You're not the opposite? The opposite. I can't break those. Well that's the whole thing with the Paladin. I'm new to it. Yeah, he's new to it.

Starting point is 00:41:02 I'm new to the world. But he's had a good... I've been breaking rules so I had to be everybody's friend so I got to it. Yeah, he's new to it. I'm new to the world. But he's had a good... I've been breaking rules so I had to be everybody's friend so I get to see everybody's storylines. So my camp was packed full of people and then it was really fun. My ending, I don't want to say it, I guess, to ruin it for people, but my ending was wild because every decision I made, I was like, I'm making what this character would do. He would sacrifice himself, he would do this, and the end of my game was me just being like,

Starting point is 00:41:26 Oh God, oh God. Like, I made friends with a dude in Hell, came up and became my friend. I rolled like a nat 20 to make whatever that Hell dude was my friend. Wait, Rafael? Rafael. Rafael. His big, like, brutish guy.

Starting point is 00:41:44 Can I quickly interject here for a second? You're guilty, you're guilty. Can I quickly interject here? Shut the fuck up. The other guy his big like Shut the fuck Everyone shut up. I love our guests Who did you romance? Shadow heart. Yeah, I did Shadowheart my first playthrough, my second one I got together with Gale. But I got mad because I romance Shadowheart and I was like, oh no, let me, I'm gonna see what happens if I romance someone else.

Starting point is 00:42:17 And then I romance someone else like a mind flayer. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. And then Shadowheart forgave me. Shadowheart's down in the game. And then I was like, wait, I could have been running through folks. And I was real mad about that. I was real mad.

Starting point is 00:42:30 I think a Shadowheart is kind of like presented as like kind of the default slash, you know, canonical romance option. She's also like, well, this character is written to permit the player to make other choices as well and not be punished by it. But yeah. But yeah, while you guys are talking about that,

Starting point is 00:42:45 Paul Walter, Hazard, Gricasson, every other fat guy movie. All of it. Every fat guy role is gone. Mackie, who did you romance? I, in my first play through, I, I can't remember, maybe Gale. Because Gale's like the easiest character to romance

Starting point is 00:43:06 Yeah, mm-hmm Gail will just be like let's go like you almost Gail I think I think there's like only like one dialogue option that makes him back off like otherwise. He will just be like yeah We're I'm down He's kind of though like he's he's he presents himself as kind of like this sort of like suave guy But then when you start recording him he gets kind of beta., which I kind of like. Yeah, it was interesting. And then my new playthrough... You get to pick your penis in this game. You'd like that? Do they have small ones?

Starting point is 00:43:29 Um... You can download them all for you. Yeah. I checked out after... Look, I found the most beautiful woman in video games. It's Gruntilda after you lose in Banjo-Kazooie. Right, yes. She turns into human form. Or no, she just turns into, like,'s Gruntilda after you lose in Banjo-Kazooie, as you know. Right, yes, she turns into human form.

Starting point is 00:43:45 Or no, she just turns into like, sexy Gruntilda. Yeah. Oh, that's right, that's what I'm thinking. I mean, sexy, wait, what are you thinking of? I was thinking of Shrek. What horny thing were you thinking of? I was thinking of Shrek. Oh.

Starting point is 00:43:56 Oh. She turns into Shrek form in Shrek. No, Shrek turns, Shrek turns human. You were thinking of sexy Shrek? Yeah, I was like, right, because Gruntilda turns from green to human, and I was like, no, that's what Shrek does. Gruntilda just turns into a sexier version of herself. Wait, Shrek turns human?

Starting point is 00:44:15 In Shrek 2. In Shrek 2. Really? Yeah, he's handsome. He looks like you, big guy. Aw, come on. He does. Wait, which version? I guess we're in a lot of green right now.

Starting point is 00:44:26 Handsome Shrek looks like me. Yeah, I think so. You're too kind. I don't remember the Shrek movies at all. I don't either, I guess. Piss and Boots turns into a horse, I think, right? Isn't that what happens? In Shrek 2, the donkey turns into a horse. The donkey turns into a horse, I think, right? Isn't that what happens? What's... I... In Shrek 2?

Starting point is 00:44:46 The donkey turns into a horse. The donkey turns into a steed. That's right. That's what it is. Is the end of Shrek 2 just, like, all of the characters morphing? I don't remember. There's a lot of morphing going on. They do, but then I think they turn back, because they have to accept who they really are as the whole thing.

Starting point is 00:45:00 I'm just like, I could have this wish fulfillment, but ultimately I have to embrace myself. Maybe I've never seen Shrek 2 actually, now that I think about it. It's fine. Do you think Fiona made the right choice by becoming a Shrek? I feel like it's the best.

Starting point is 00:45:11 Do you feel like, like, uh... I think she made the right choice. You think so? I think so, yeah. I mean, if I had a choice, like you could be less monstrous, you could be like, you know, like, you could be a guy who works at Abercrombie and Fish.

Starting point is 00:45:23 I'd be like, all right, yeah, give me the, yeah, I'll take that thing. That seems nice, right? You'd be a fundamentally different guy is the thing. That's like, you'd become that guy, and then you'd live as that guy, and your personality would start to change, your circle of friends would start to change, you'd get distance from who you really were.

Starting point is 00:45:37 You're not gonna be hanging out with... This all sounds great. You're not gonna be hanging out with Chankton and Micus and Wu-Tang anymore. This still sounds great. You're gonna be hanging out with guys named like Chad and Todd and Braylon. You're gonna be hanging out with hunk.

Starting point is 00:45:48 They sound cool as hell. You're not gonna be in here. They're hunks? You're not gonna be in here podcasting. You're gonna be out there in the Hedgum offices working. Oh, that sucks, actually. That does suck. You don't wanna be like COO of Hedgum. Sounds like this guy likes character creation.

Starting point is 00:46:01 Yeah. We got a game for you, buddy. Mitch, you would love Baldur's Gate, but like with Elden Ring, it's probably good that you don't play it because I know how obsessive you get with games. Yeah. And you would spend 300 hours in this thing,

Starting point is 00:46:12 doing every side quest. I put 180 hours in and he was looking for something that I had found and I was like, share your screen. And he shared it. And his map had these dark splotches in it and I could not stand that. Yeah, because I hadn could not stand that. I looked in every corner of everything, and he was like, I'm almost done,

Starting point is 00:46:28 and there was just patches of darkness. You're exaggerating, but... There was big patches of darkness, and it was Act Three, and there's so much stuff. There's so much in Act Three. How many hours did you put into that bad boy? Buck 80, I did. Yeah, my first playthrough was like 130,

Starting point is 00:46:42 but I didn't do every side quest, and by the time I'd finished my second playthrough, I was near 400. Yeah, I'm like over three right now with both playthroughs. Oh, it's so fun. I didn't even play the new... The Breath of the Wild... Wait, the Tears of the Kingdom was like too daunting for me. Is that the building one?

Starting point is 00:46:59 Yeah, it's the new one. Yeah, I couldn't do... Once the building happened, I was like, this is too much things. Emma, you put a bunch of time into Breath of the Wild. Did you bounce off of Tears of the Kingdom or are you still playing? Yeah, no, I finished Breath of the Wild

Starting point is 00:47:09 and I'm probably like 100 hours into Tears of the Kingdom at this point. I like it, but I agree the building is annoying at times. I don't wanna spend 20 minutes building some weird crap so that it can like die on me in two minutes. But the ability to like, I forget what it's called, I haven't played in a few weeks. The hand thing that like lets you remember your building recipes or whatever.

Starting point is 00:47:28 That's pretty fun. That was pretty helpful. Yeah. Yeah. I get frustrated when games have a mechanic that they put in it that people can get really, really good at. Yeah, because everybody's always going to get so much better than me. And so when I would see like Tic Tocs of people who built like moving cities, I'm just like, well, fucking I don't even, well I don't wanna play the game now. I can't do the stuff that you do. I watch videos that people make

Starting point is 00:47:47 to like fly around in the sky online and I'm like, I can't even begin to build this and I'm never gonna get there and it can be a little discouraging. Yeah, and so I'm just like, well I don't even fucking play this shit. I play video games because I'm not creative. I got two boards and made a long board.

Starting point is 00:47:58 Yeah, no, it's the same sort of thing. I don't wanna have, I don't wanna like, there's elements I wanna use in my imagination, but other times I just wanna like kinda like do what the, follow what the game allows me to do. Minimalism, that's elements I want to use my imagination, but other times I just want to like kind of like Do what the follow with the game is allows me to do minimalism. That's my art style wise, you know this I'm not good. I like I'm not I would not be very good of crafting together. I'm not good with Legos I just do I want to be I don't think I'd be good at it I like some of that stuff

Starting point is 00:48:21 But I think it just depends on what the overall game is doing and And like, yeah, a game like Tears of the Kingdom, I was just like less into it. Even though I was impressed by it. Honestly, it did a good job of like, it's a big game, but you never felt like lost. Yes, right. Like it was very like everything felt, cause I don't like, I can't do like an Elden Ring

Starting point is 00:48:36 or a big open world thing where it just feels like I'm just like walking around. Oh yeah, Elden Ring would break your brain cause they don't tell you anything. Yes, yeah. I don't like that. I don't like that at all. You'd have no idea. You'd finish the game and move it.

Starting point is 00:48:45 Autoscape was just enough of like, this is what you need to be doing. And the boards were small. Like, the maps were just small enough to where I was like, I'm fine with this. If we were focus testing this podcast, their knob would be all the way to the left. And they would be breaking it off.

Starting point is 00:49:03 I was talking about fucking Elden Ring again for the fucking 100th time. I've never played the game. People don't love it. They do love it. We have a mainstream audience. They like, uh, Survivor. And they like, uh, that's, there's some people who listen to the podcast. You want to talk about Survivor? No.

Starting point is 00:49:20 LAUGHS I think, I think the thing is, is that these games are mainstream, is the thing. I think a mainstream audience does know what we're talking about. Way more mainstream than you ever would have expected a few years ago. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:49:34 All right, let's talk about Popeye. How about that? It's fair, it's fair. I just don't know what the fuck everyone's talking about. Doesn't make sense to me. He's talking about it one billion times. I love it. I know you do. I knew you love it. It's maybe the only thing you like, I think.

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Starting point is 00:54:13 Popeyes. Wow. Nice. Oh, proves you wrong so fast. Popeyes this week's chain. Popeyes Wings is what we're focused on today. Then we'll talk about other aspects of the menu. Founded in 1972 in New Orleans by Al Copeland,

Starting point is 00:54:24 who was an interesting character. Also, how was he interesting? Well, so for, he was just like an eccentric guy who was kind of a charlatan, in the same sort of way Colonel Sanders was, but like a little bit like maybe less menacing. He did things like he didn't, he called his company Popeye's

Starting point is 00:54:44 so he could use like the Popeye's license, but without permission, you know? So it was like kind of a wink wink sort of thing of like, my company just happens to be affiliated with Popeye, this famous cartoon character, and also at the same time, this famous movie character, Popeye Doyle, played by Gene Hackman. So like, you know, like he kind of just had this association

Starting point is 00:55:03 but it wasn't officially licensed. He got into a feud late in life with Anne Rice. They're both like big New Orleans celebrities, and they just like hated each other. That's funny. I think he like raced like fan boats too. He was just like a, like a, one of those weird like rich guys. Anyway, they are no longer owned by Al Copeland, who I believe has passed away. They're owned by Restaurant Brands International, which also owns Burger King, Firehouse Subs, and Tim Hortons. Again, one of these ominous holding corporations that just controls all of society.

Starting point is 00:55:31 We gotta go 90s. Exactly, yeah. See-so. Now we've reviewed Popeyes a few times. The last time, Mitch, do you remember who our guest was? It was in January, 2021. This was a pandemic record. This was a Pandemic Record. This was someone who's been on the podcast one time.

Starting point is 00:55:48 One time guest, Popeyes. Yes. Pandemic Record. Yes. I'm gonna say, oh, was it for Tomorrow War? No, it was not for Tomorrow War. Everyone's saying always, somebody feed this guy. Phil Rosenthal came on the podcast. Oh, it was Rosenthal.

Starting point is 00:56:05 One of our favorites. Very cool. Rosenthal's due for a return. He is also the reason this is not in the Platinum Plate Club. You and I both gave it five forks. Phil would not go above three and a half forks. You wouldn't go into the Golden Plate Club?

Starting point is 00:56:20 No, he wouldn't go into the Golden Plate Club, yeah. I thought you were going to say, I honestly was like worried that it was going gonna be someone more canceled or something. I was truly nervous for a minute. It's Dan Snyder. Yeah, it was Snyder. We have another thing we need to discuss before we get into Popeyes.

Starting point is 00:56:42 Casey, our engineer, hates Popeyes. Lowe's, our into Popeyes. Casey, our engineer, hates Popeyes. Lowe's our beloved Popeyes. Casey, what's going on over there behind the producers desk? Really? What I said in the chat when Amelia asked if I wanted Popeyes, I said I've tried it three times. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:57:01 Every single time it was the worst chicken I've ever had. The worst chicken you've ever had. It was rubbery, it was flavorless, it was like not crispy, it like tasted like it was cooked days ago. Wow. And I tried it three different times, three different locations.

Starting point is 00:57:18 All in LA? All in LA, that's the thing. When was this? Over the span of like six years, I'd say. And you've tried different locations and the same thing repeated. Where is the, you're from Florida, so you're also from the South, but Popeyes, I guess,

Starting point is 00:57:33 doesn't have much penetration near where you lived. Yeah, it was a Chick-fil-A. It was a Chick-fil-A, you're a Chick-fil-A guy. I do like Chick-fil-A. Yeah, okay. He picks weird words sometimes. What are you talking about? Popeyes doesn't have any penetration where you are,

Starting point is 00:57:46 this is weird sounding. Market penetration. Market penetration. It's a reasonable thing to say. All right, fine. We're talking business here. I'm with you on that one. Thank you, yeah.

Starting point is 00:57:53 You think I was saying like P and V? Yeah. I'm not doing that. I'm talking about olive oil, I was gonna tell you to cut the crap. Well you thought I was talking about olive oil? I'm saying Popeye. Like Popeye's penetrating olive oil? I'm saying like Popeyes penetrating all

Starting point is 00:58:09 I didn't get much penetration in the show Look blue is watching through the slats of a closet door That's me Paul Walter Hauser got it Blue dough can't believe we got cocked a blue dough. He'll be still He got wimpy to they're doing they're doing a clumps thing That'll be good though. It will be I'm gonna be there. I'm gonna see it. It'll be really good. Yeah No more airing of Hollywood grievances, okay? We're not doing that here.

Starting point is 00:58:47 I think that you said a weird word, but I get it. Popeyes wasn't everywhere. It was on the route for me, going to New Hampshire was like the only place I would even see Popeyes. And it was because I didn't, at least in Quincy or nearby, I didn't really have it, right? But, Emma, you're from New Hampshire I'm like trying to figure out where you the Popeyes is. Oh, I don't know. I was on route one. I have no idea

Starting point is 00:59:09 Maybe didn't have it. There's one. It's either a Popeyes. It might be a Popeyes It's in the rest stop in the Kenny bunk rest stop that's in Maine though. Oh, it's in Maine Yeah, but it's like in a rest stop. You know what the only one that that is probably the exact one that I'm thinking Yeah, it's at like in a rest stop. You know what? That's the only one that we've ever had access to. That is probably the exact one that I'm thinking of. Yeah, it's like the Kenny Boog rest stop. I think the one I was thinking of that I thought was a Popeyes was a KFC by me. Got it, okay. I don't think there was a Popeyes now,

Starting point is 00:59:35 but I can't even tell anymore. You know what? I agree with him, the penetration wasn't good. Yeah. There was bad penetration. Real bad penetration. It's not everywhere. Uh, and, but, but, you know, I love Popeyes.

Starting point is 00:59:48 I have a lot of affection for it. The wings were new to me. I'd not had the wings prior to today. Uh, let's start with the wings cause that's the headline. So there were six flavors here. Uh, we, Dave, we were talking about this before we started. I'm a bit of a heat seeker. I love spicy foods.

Starting point is 01:00:03 They have a, an up to five gauge, up to five flames gauge for these sauces, but the hottest one only goes to four. So it's like, they're not using their full scale. And the one called ghost pepper is a three. Yes, yeah, which is absurd. Which is absurd. The flavors are ghost pepper, honey barbecue,

Starting point is 01:00:21 honey lemon pepper, roasted garlic parmesan, signature hot and sweet and spicy. Now one of these we did not get because one of the six orders of six wings we got was totally unsauced. They were just plain wings. Which one did we get? I believe we didn't get the ghost pepper.

Starting point is 01:00:37 Am I wrong? Well, there was one spicy one, but I don't know which of the spices it was. To me, the spicy one- No stickers on the box, which is absurd to not label which one is which. To me, the signature, though, the spicy one we had tasted like just a default hot sauce. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:00:58 It tastes like a ghost pepper sauce, but it could have been ghost pepper. A little more buttery than what I would imagine from a- And it was pretty hot, and that's the hottest one, and it was pretty hot. That was the hottest one, 405. Right. Oh. Check it out. Oh.

Starting point is 01:01:09 What were you doing? It's sexy for Until, though. Can I see? Oh, you're showing it on your phone? Show the camera. Yeah, she looks good. Send it to me, I'll put it in the video. All right, I'll send it to you.

Starting point is 01:01:20 She looks good. But I didn't clock the hot. Yeah. Not a runny nose in sight. No, you did. There was separate dipping sauces, and I think one of the little dipping sauces was the spiciest one.

Starting point is 01:01:36 Yeah. But I didn't touch, I didn't get a taste of the super spicy. So these come in little trays, little plastic trays to go, and they have basically like a reservoir of sauce at the bottom, and the wings are just resting on top of them, and you're either supposed to swirl the whole box up to shake up the sauce, I guess,

Starting point is 01:01:56 or just kind of dredge them as you're eating. But it's not sauced on top. No, they should be full sauced. Yeah. They should be full dipping sauce. Based. They should be full dipped in sauce. Based on what they give you, I think the intention is that you're supposed to shake it up. Or when they send it through delivery,

Starting point is 01:02:14 they just assume that it's going to get shaken up. Sure, that makes sense. They just kind of just like, they tell the Postmates guy, be reckless. They're banking on bumpy roads. They're banking on it falling out of the truck or something. Mitch is up to something. What are you doing?

Starting point is 01:02:27 I was just texting, I texted him with a, I texted her the grunty pics and I said, she looks good. I responded, I said, quite a glow up. It is, the glow up. Oh, we got a side by side. The side by side. Oh yeah. The grunty glow up.

Starting point is 01:02:41 The grunty glow up. That is a huge difference. That's a huge difference. Yeah, it's a huge difference. It's a sort of thing of like you look at that when you're like 14 and like you get a boner, and then like later on you're an adult and you're like, oh wait, there was just like some like horny, like 35-year-old artist who did that.

Starting point is 01:02:55 It was like, this is a pretty girl, you know? Yeah. Chest bigger. Yeah, in 3D Studio Max. And like it got into, it became a game asset. And you look at a 35 and you get a boner again. Yeah, exactly. OK, all right, all right. We're all hard right now. That one's hard. Studio Max and like it got into became a game asset and you look at a 35 and you get a boner again Yeah, exactly

Starting point is 01:03:06 We're all hard right now It's hard Look to our listeners out there. Yeah, oftentimes. We're not hard. It's way less than we are hard Look at it looking at going tilde. I went 90 if you want It does kind of make sense. I went 45. I went about a 45. So you were straight up and you went down? You start up, you default up.

Starting point is 01:03:37 It's a weird quirk of my anatomy. I really like these wings. I think the texture is great. I normally like an unbreaded wing because they just, the breading can get in the way. And especially if you're taking down an order of 12 or whatever, it's just a lot of food. But I think these are so fucking good.

Starting point is 01:03:53 I think Popeyes, the fry of their chicken is so consistent. It's one of the things they do well. One of the reasons there's several notches above KFC. But like this execution, it's just, it's exactly what I want in a chicken wing. And as fast food wings go, I think this is like top flight stuff. It's cool cause you know that they know how to cook chicken.

Starting point is 01:04:14 Right. So that's a good base. It's not like they were a pizza place and they're like, I guess we should do wings too. Yeah. And now like Domino's, you get like the sloppiest, slimmiest wings of all time. Weiss kind of still likes them. We've had some success with Domino's wings, but it's like, it's, you get like the sloppiest, slimiest wings of all time.

Starting point is 01:04:25 Wags kinda still likes them. We've had some success with Domino's wings, but it's like, it's hit or miss. Oh yeah. Last time we got them, it was, it was, it felt like it was mostly skin. Yeah. Oh, God damn it.

Starting point is 01:04:37 Just sloppy skin. It's so horrifying. Yeah, it wasn't very good. But these, yeah, I had a similar feeling with these where I'm just, the crispiness, the base level crispy is it withstands the sauce. Yes, which is really like that's ultimately Well, yes, I've always said this that crunch is fun. You didn't say I said crunch isn't fun

Starting point is 01:05:04 So the straight up it was just like good wing, cooked, good meat. Domino's wings, remember in Robocop, when the guy gets the acid, like the acid falls on him? Yeah, at the end. And then he gets hit by the car? I feel like that's like the consistency of Domino's wings. Is that they're like very like... Like you're eating that guy? Basically, they're like very like... Like you're eating that guy?

Starting point is 01:05:25 Basically, they're like very, they're very loosely on the bone. Right. Maybe falling, like molecularly falling apart. Like the chemical makeup of them is disintegrating. Yeah, something, something. They're becoming some other type of matter. Yeah, they're not solid anymore. Yeah, there's something, there is something, and I am with you guys.

Starting point is 01:05:45 I don't know how you like them. I actually like their chicken nuggets more. Interesting, like their boneless wings? Their boneless wings, just because I feel like they're a little bit more crunchy. But yeah, the wings there are bad. And I thought that that's what I was in for when I saw it. I saw these tiny little wings.

Starting point is 01:06:02 I was excited, I told you last night I had a 400 calorie wings. I was excited. I told you last night I had like a 400 calorie diet dinner that sucked shit. I was so mad. And then I made up the order last night because I was just hungry. And I sent it to you at like 11 PM. I was like, what do you think of this?

Starting point is 01:06:16 And you were like, it's fine. I don't know what you're talking about. But I was so excited to eat Popeyes. And then seeing it, I was like, these look like shit when I walked in here. Well, and we should also note that the food landed earlier than expected. Right, landed later. And you landed, well you landed later as expected.

Starting point is 01:06:34 And so they had been sitting for probably 40 minutes by the time you were eating. We came out at 11.30? We were out, we were eating already, yeah. Closer to 11.30. Sus got there 10 minutes before I did, I mean I was 10 minutes late, that is the truth. I'm sorry, I'm in there already, yeah. Closer to 11.30. Sus got there 10 minutes before I did. I mean, I was 10 minutes late. That is the truth.

Starting point is 01:06:46 I'm sorry, I'm leaving town tomorrow. I'm trying to get better. I was the latest, don't worry. I beat you today. Thank you, Emma. Thank you. Take some heat off of me for a second. You still held them well.

Starting point is 01:06:55 They're still crunchy. Yeah, that's, yeah. They were still crunchy. Is it weird that Emma was just a little bit later than me and I ended up screaming at her in the hallway? He tried to fire me. I told him he can't do that. She pulled it back on me. I got scared.

Starting point is 01:07:10 They were still, when I got in here, they were still crunchy. Honestly, they tasted good. They were good. I think the wings are awesome. They're little tiny guys. That is the truth. They're small wings.

Starting point is 01:07:21 They're not the biggest wing. The, among the sauces, I think that the roasted garlic Parmesan was the one that we were all kind of like, mm. Is that the creamy one that's too creamy? Yeah, it's the creamy one. It was an immediate no for me. Yeah, I was not as into that one. The sweet and spicy was, one of the honey barbecue

Starting point is 01:07:38 or sweet and spicy was a little too sweet for me. I don't know which one it was. This is another thing with them is that eating them all, I was like, these kind of all blended together. If we had a sixth one, I don't know which one it was. This is another thing with them is that eating them all, I was like, these kind of all blended together. If we had a sixth one, I don't know if it would have mattered as much, but the spiciest one was the best one to me. The hot was great.

Starting point is 01:07:53 That was my favorite. Also the honey lemon pepper, I thought was great. That was really good. It was really yummy. I was saying, I ate Popeye's wings the last two days also, just because I got excited. Yes. And I ate, last night I got the honey lemon peppers and I ate one and I was like, I don't know if I like this,

Starting point is 01:08:12 but then by the time I finished the six count wings that I had gotten, I was like, no, this is, this is one of the better flavors I've ever had for a wing. Yeah, it's heaven. It's really special. I loved it. I always like a blend of like, if I'm like at Buffalo Wild Wings or something, I'll get like for a wing. Yeah, it's heaven. It's really special. I always like a blend of like, if I'm like at Buffalo Wild Wings or something,

Starting point is 01:08:27 I'll get like the hot barbecue. That's really fun. I like the spicy and the like... Spicy and the sweet. Yeah, spicy and the sweet mix. I thought that this place is, we just did KFC that had like a honey barbecue-ish right sauce. Yeah, we recorded that episode pretty recently,

Starting point is 01:08:42 but that episode will have come out a lot earlier than this episode. It came out a lot earlier than today Yeah, for all you know It came out today as of this recording College time episode came out today to give it a listen there was a lot that there's true It's a big it's a big doughboy's day Seth Morris and Aaron Whitehead's podcast. It was a lot of fun to do That's true. It's a big doughboy's day.

Starting point is 01:09:03 Seth Morris and Aaron Whitehead's podcast. It was a lot of fun to do. Um, uh, as was your guys' podcast. It's a blast. Thank you. Oh, yeah. I haven't done yet, but I will have done by the time this episode's out.

Starting point is 01:09:14 By the time this comes out, you will have it. Wait, how about this? Dude, you were so fucking funny on it. Yeah. You guys are really funny guests on our show. Wow. He's only attached right now. That's not true.

Starting point is 01:09:30 I hope fucking Walter Hauser snatches it from you. By the way, yeah, just get a text. Walter Hauser's going to actually be on the show. We'll bump you. A promise of a future date. Yeah, yeah, you get in there. I got you guys. Their honey barbecue, the honey barbecue from Popeyes, is what I was gonna say, was tasty.

Starting point is 01:09:54 Yeah, I like their barbecue sauce. I think so often barbecue is, I'm like a skeptic on barbecue sauce, and this one I was like, this is tasty at least. I think the thing with barbecue sauce, any sort of chain is nobody's taken a big swing with a barbecue sauce. They all kind of taste the same,

Starting point is 01:10:12 especially if it's a honey barbecue, feels like you're hitting like one note and everybody's playing the same note. It's like, if you're getting honey barbecue, it's gonna taste the same as it did at every other restaurant. That's why I like that honey lemon pepper so much is because it's not like you can't get that at Wingstop.

Starting point is 01:10:30 You don't put honey in there. So the honey, the layer of honey is interesting to me. Yeah, I agree. It's, it's, it's good. I actually, there was no flavor that I really was that I balked at. I, I funny because it's chicken. Mitch, that is funny. Thank you. Thank you.

Starting point is 01:10:49 Balked. B-A-L-K-E-D. And balked, B-O-C-K. The sound a chicken makes. Yeah, it's true. Oh, it's C-O-C-K. Bok. Bok.

Starting point is 01:11:00 There was a W in there. Yeah. Bok meow, bok meow. This is the Cadbury commercial now. Yeah, it's spelled with a W. That's like the longest running commercial I feel like I've ever made. Yeah, you see one of those old commercials and it's just like those shot in standard deaf is like, man, this is still in the air.

Starting point is 01:11:15 That one and then he does exist. Yeah, the M&M's commercial. Where Santa comes in and they're like, he does, he's like, they do exist. Mitch, you're cleaning up on residuals with that one, right? Yes, I shot that 1986 M&M's commercial. That had to be a little later than that, huh? Because it's the CGI M&M. So what is it, 1990? Yeah, mid-90s I guess.

Starting point is 01:11:40 That, the fuck-mow, the auditions for the, you know what I'm saying the oh yeah the Cadbury bunny auditions that one is like an 80s a true 80s commercial I love that they bring it back every year uh but uh I I there was no sauce flavor that I thought was bad truly none of like the wings didn't look good they had everything working as they were tiny they didn't look good but it's just that sort of thing of something you're saying they know how to make chicken Yeah, sometimes you would look at it And you didn't know if it was like the what are the two types of wings that like two bone in the single bone Yeah, yeah, you couldn't tell the difference between them sometimes. Yeah, you're like alright. He's like any like well alright Yep, there's two in there. I correct my tooth. I that happened to me

Starting point is 01:12:23 I thought I ate a wing thinking it was a nugget. It was the unsauced wing. Yeah. I hurt my tooth because it was, I mean, this is another thing. I don't, if you were like, I'm going to get a six piece of these wings, get some more food because they're small.

Starting point is 01:12:39 Six pieces is not enough. You need at least a 12 piece for a meal. Yeah. For one, for a standard person. Yeah, a human. For a human. A human, for a standard person. For a human, yeah. For a human. A human needs a human. But you're gonna be getting some sides, right?

Starting point is 01:12:49 What, I'm getting Popeyes and I'm getting sides? Although, Mackie, you were saying you just get the chicken. I just, well, for the purposes of this, I wanted to sort of give myself the clearest picture of what the wings were all about. Yeah, clearest. I didn't wanna give my, I didn't wanna like wait my thoughts because I love a mashed potato

Starting point is 01:13:10 Sure, if I'd eaten those mashed potatoes, I would have it would have it would have clouded my judgment a little bit Guess what? We got some leftover. You can heat them up to after this You heat it up a heated up mashed potato from like a like a KFC or Popeyes It's actually pretty good as one of the few Fast-food leftovers someone was giving me shit recently for saying you can't heat up any food leftovers. Someone was giving me shit recently for saying you can't heat up any fast food leftovers. You're just done with them when you're done. And I think that that right there is an example that you can. Was this a listener? No, it was a friend. Yeah, who doesn't want to be associated with the podcast.

Starting point is 01:13:45 A whole segment that was the leftovers. It was called the leftovers. But it was, I think we just ate it straight out of the fridge. Sometimes we maybe heated it up. We could have bringing that back. Yeah, it's a good segment. I mean, it was torture too, because it sucked a lot of the time. But my thing is Del Taco. I think you can reheat like a bean and cheese burrito. Sure.

Starting point is 01:14:02 If you like mac and cheese or mashed potatoes, I don't know. And maybe this is more real food, but I have the sides. The sides are great as always. Popeyes has good sides. Do you have the right to- Casey's fucking wrong.

Starting point is 01:14:16 I have the sides that you put in the order, Mitch. The large red beans and rice, which is an S-tier fast food side, one of my favorite sides. Unfortunately, I can't eat anymore because I believe there is pork in the base. And then there is, they also was mashed potatoes and gravy. How were those sides hitting for you?

Starting point is 01:14:34 I took two spoonfuls of them and they were great. The mashed potato is still hot, nice and hot in that container. Did you have any of, cause Susser showed up, did you have any of Susser's mac and cheese that he ordered? No, he didn't offer me any. And he also texted me, the food's gone. When he got here 10 minutes before me,

Starting point is 01:14:54 and then texted me, food's gone. And I was like, this is like a Suss troll, but also I do believe he could have just eaten. There is a world where he could have eaten the wings for me. You know what I mean? That could have happened. Totally plausible. But no, I didn could have eaten like the wings for me. You know what I mean? Like that could have happened. Totally plausible.

Starting point is 01:15:07 But no, I didn't have the mac and cheese, which I wonder now, have I had Popeye's mac and cheese? I've had, yeah, it's good. I had to have had, yeah. But I think that mashed potatoes and the red beans and rice are great. I usually treat mashed potatoes almost like a dip in sauce with chicken.

Starting point is 01:15:20 I like that. I do that too, usually. No, that's a lot of fun. But we should talk about your dipping a little bit, because you mentioned you're a sauce guy. Yeah. So you talked about something that I was like, on board with it first, and then you just took it a step too far.

Starting point is 01:15:35 Yeah. Which is- That is 80% of Dave's opinions. Yeah. Like, actually, he'll start talking about, oh yeah, yeah, yeah, and then he'll keep talking, he'll be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, hang on, hang on. So you talking to you, and be like, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait,

Starting point is 01:15:46 hang on, hang on. So you'll go to Wendy's, you'll get yourself a Frosty, and like a lot of us do, you'll maybe dip a fry in there, and then you're like, oh. I'm already out at this point, I don't need to. It's fine, if you don't. I like the savory and sweet mix, I like salty and sweet, so I'm with you this far.

Starting point is 01:16:03 Then you're like, you put like a spicy chicken nugget in there. I'm like, okay. But you're talking about taking like a Dave's double. You take a burger and you will dip it in a frosting. With lettuce on it? No, no, no. So you take all that off. Take the tomato off. By the way, it looked like Emma was about to just leave. No, you got to get clean burger. Don't get lettuce. That's what the boys on this couch do, just so you know.

Starting point is 01:16:29 No lettuce, no lettuce anywhere. You can't get lettuce anywhere or tomato. Take that shit off. If you're going to Wendy's, you're not going there for their lettuce. Leave the produce at the grocery store, dude. Thank you, sir. You're getting meat and cheese and possibly condiments.

Starting point is 01:16:42 Yeah, cause lettuce and tomato in a Frosty does sound gross, but like a plain, just like hamburger is great. I was at Wendy's last week and my Wendy's order is $25. Because I get the double burger and I get large fries, I get spicy nuggets and a large Frosty and everything's going in the Frosty. And when you can't dip the burger in the Frosty, that's where that spoon comes in.

Starting point is 01:17:06 So you take a bite, you do the spoon, you mix it up in your mouth. That is, that's horrifying. I agree. That's horrifying. It's also, just the idea of it is horrifying, but seeing it happen feels so wrong. Like sitting in a Wendy's.

Starting point is 01:17:21 Yeah, I would wanna be eating with you. We were eating, first of all, dining in at a Wendy's. And we, I don't even remember, it was when we were taking photos for the art. We went to Wendy's afterwards. We both got crazy meals. I ate mine like a normal human being. And Dave like took a bite of the burger and then like used the mouth hole that he had created in the burger as a spoon. Mm-hmm, to scoop. And scoop a chunk out. Jesus. And then took a huge bite, frosty on the lips, just like.

Starting point is 01:17:54 Beard, beard, frosty all in the beard. And then you're looking at him and he just doesn't register that it's weird at all. Just how? Wow. I think I have a permanent cotton mouth or something. Like I don't juice up enough in my mouth to like, Are you dehydrated? To get the flavors.

Starting point is 01:18:11 So like taking a sip of something is a part of eating to me. I do it with everything. Like if I'm eating like, I have a Coke. You're eating that can of Coke. Like I'll have a Coke with, You have to sip it as well. Specifically with like fat sals with my sandwich, I gotta have a Coke with, You have to sip it as well. Specifically with like, fat sals with my sandwich,

Starting point is 01:18:25 I gotta have a cherry Coke little, Yes, right. Snewter to put it all together. And that goes with everything. That, I mean, I think that this is disgusting. I think, I mean, the frosty specifically. I think Dave Thomas, a very nice man, if he came back from the dead and heard about this,

Starting point is 01:18:43 he'd be like, fuck you. Yeah, I agree. I think he'd be upset with it., if he came back from the dead and heard about this, he'd be like, fuck you. I agree. I think he'd be upset with it. But if I'm at Carl's Jr., I'll do it with like an Oreo shake with a burger. What kind of burger? Man. Just like a Big Carl.

Starting point is 01:18:54 Arguably even grosser. But no veggies on the Big Carl. No, no, get that lettuce off. It's always slimy. I gotta say, I'm hearing all this. The no veggies aspect, I might be back in. Right? I might give it a try.

Starting point is 01:19:07 Cause it's just salty meat. It's a freak couch. I don't know, I might try it. Freak couch, regular. Also, can I just point out, Dave does this thing also that I think is the funniest thing in the world. He just said snooter and we all nodded

Starting point is 01:19:19 like we knew what we were talking about. He's the only person I know who can make up a word that it exactly sounds like what he means But you've never heard it before it did doesn't go in the scene from Joe dirt But you weren't like I don't know what you mean when he says I took me to her you're like Oh, yeah, we'll sip or if you like snore game meal down, you know Your brain just like is like no no no yeah that word that word makes sense for what he means like action on a monopoeia Is that right? Yeah, is that did that make sense sense for what you mean like action onomatopoeia is that right?

Starting point is 01:19:46 Yeah, is that did that make sense? No, I totally got it that did make sense You got that right? Words a lot of times that's probably where it is it's a replacement for you can get on this couch with me for that Words don't penetrate my mouth like... Like this guy? Yeah. Dr. Dictionary, that's what I call him. Guy loves words.

Starting point is 01:20:13 Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. You say snore and we get what you mean. We say snooter and you get what you mean. Then you're doing a good job. Exactly. Your meaning comes across. You're actually an advanced communicator. Yeah, thank you.

Starting point is 01:20:24 Okay, so we also had the strawberry biscuit. Nothing wrong with those biscuits. It was fun. It wasn't like the world's best biscuit, but it was fun. It was fun there was strawberry in it. Yeah, it was fun to try. I ordered all the specialties.

Starting point is 01:20:36 In the strawberry biscuits, I probably should have gotten us regular biscuits just as a, you know, what is it called? The control group. The control group. But we've had the regular biscuits. I like the Popeye's biscuits.. I like these biscuits are pretty good I think every like if you do fried chicken

Starting point is 01:20:48 You kind of have to have a good biscuit Otherwise like just get out of the game because I think it's the most important side think it's a different build the strawberry one's a different Build in the regular biscuit because this felt like more processed than like a fresh biscuit for sure It felt like I got a store like that. It's pretty good. It's not bad I liked it. in a store like that. It was pretty good. It was not bad. It wasn't bad. I liked it. I liked the desserts. Do y'all ever work in restaurants?

Starting point is 01:21:08 No. I worked at Ruby Tuesday and it's like, oh, people order like- It's a huge reveal. We never covered Ruby Tuesday. Really? Oh yeah. All through college I've waited tables at Ruby Tuesday

Starting point is 01:21:19 and then I bus stables at O'Charlie's in high school. Wow. Yeah. But when people are like, ooh, let's get dessert. And you're like, cool. And they see the picture, and then you pull it out of like the freezer, and it's the shittiest like frozen cake thing

Starting point is 01:21:33 that you like microwave and then bring that out and it blows everybody's mind. The biscuit felt like that version of it. Like they make biscuits, but these biscuits come from a place. Bearing the lead here, by the way. Can I also, I have a question. I had someone, I used biscuits come from a place. Bearing the lead here by the way. Can I also, I have a question. I had someone, I used to work at a restaurant also,

Starting point is 01:21:49 like a fast casual kind of like small North Carolina chain. Got it. What was it called? It was called Andy's Cheesesteaks and Cheeseburgers. It's since rebranded as Route 55 or something like that. Okay. Yeah, but our manager used to be like, I used to work at Applebee's, they microwave all the food.

Starting point is 01:22:07 And I was like, I think you're just saying that to like, for no reason, cause they don't microwave all the food. Yeah. Like Ruby Tuesday, they don't like microwave the food. No, no, no, no. Okay, take that, Mike. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:22:21 They have like a grill and a flat top and a deep fryer and everything. They got like a full kitchen. But there is some stuff that's made from frozen. And I know Olive Garden is pretty notorious for all the frozen dishes. The rebranded to Root 55, pretty shitty name. 11 less than 66 I guess is what it is. Is that an actual root?

Starting point is 01:22:38 I don't even know. Is it even a root? I don't even think that's a root. I don't even think that's a freaking root. I'm out. You think that's a root? Yeah, I don't think that's a freaking root. Yeah. I'm just adjusting, I'm not getting up. Okay. You're walking out on that too.

Starting point is 01:22:52 Okay, Usong has replied. Wow. I texted him, you still eating Chipotle these days? He replied, does the sun still rise in the East? That's what I'm talking about. Wow. I asked, do you think it's fallen off

Starting point is 01:23:05 and what's your standard order? You song, honestly, I don't get it as much anymore. So maybe it has a little bit. Standard order bowl slash burrito with chicken, pinto beans, white rice, fajita veggies, mild salsa, guac if I'm being bad. And then a devil emoji. Wish I could get cheese,

Starting point is 01:23:22 but try to play it safe with lactose intolerance. Glock is being bad. I like it. Is Glock being bad though? It's just, it's all fat. It's fat. It's all fat. It's all fat.

Starting point is 01:23:33 He's also having fun. Healthy fat. I would cut, that's a vegetable to me. Well, yeah. Oh yeah. So that's healthy. That's fine. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:23:41 Okay. The cheese and sour cream to me feel more bad. Yeah, right? Yeah, for sure. But no, but that's the thing, he's not getting those anyway, so this is his version of that. How can he not get the sour cream? That also costs extra, right?

Starting point is 01:23:51 So it's a little bad for him. Emma, that's it, you're right. No, it's money bad. Didn't consider the economic side. I feel like that's more what Yusong means by being bad. You're absolutely right, it is. Yusong also weighs like one eighth of what I weigh, so I don't know what.

Starting point is 01:24:07 I need the sour cream from Chipotle. I think it's like the most delicious sour cream in all of fast food you're typing to, you, Song? Yeah, I'm typing it back real quick while you're talking. I liked it. I liked that you were looking at me and you were typing, it was funny. Well, I'm engaged with what you're saying. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that sour cream,

Starting point is 01:24:22 and I think you do too. I do like it. It's a nice white, milky, that's a good sour cream. Yeah, looks like I like that sour cream and I think you do too. I do like it. It's a nice white milky It's a good sour cream. Yeah, it's like glue. Yeah It does love that sour cream. It looks like glue Like how it fights to mix with the barbacoa juice because it's oily. Yes, right That's fun. That's fun because I only get meat cheese and sour cream on my tacos to and a little crunch Yeah, so that's none of'm hacking. None of that crap.

Starting point is 01:24:45 None of that crap. Crunch is fun. Crunch is fun. I think the crunch is fun. Crunch is fun. Stop being something you're not. I thought the strawberry biscuits were good, but they're deserty, of course, which I should have known that.

Starting point is 01:25:01 They're probably better microwaved. Because they have strawberry and the frosting on it. They're probably real good heated up. And I think they do. They come warm. But I think probably by the time we had them, we're cool. And then there was another strawberry dessert, Wags. I don't know if you took a bite of it.

Starting point is 01:25:17 I did take a bite of it. This was the strawberry cheesecake cup. So I think this was just thoroughly unnecessary. They don't need to have this on their menu. You know what, though? I got to say. Cheesecake Cup. Yeah, so I think this was just thoroughly unnecessary. We didn't need to have this on their menu You know what? I'm gonna say a good cup There's something about just calling your dessert a cup. Yes, very funny to me. Yeah. Look people are on the go They got to eat this in the car. I get it. I gotta say this I thought we have we just we just ate at KFC, like we have said, and in the last few weeks,

Starting point is 01:25:49 like the shitty chain desserts that we've had, this tasted good, you know what I mean? It wasn't, the taste of it was good. It was fine, yeah. It's sure, superfluous, how's that, Dr. Dictionary? It worked. But still like. I'm not coming at you. I don't you. I was fucking back off though.

Starting point is 01:26:08 But I still thought that everything I ate, everything I took a bite of, and like you said, it was 30 minutes late when I was trying it, 40 minutes maybe for me, still all really, all the bites were good. I didn't have a bite that I took that I was like, this is not a good flavor. I don't like this taste in my mouth. And finally, the mango lemonade, which has haunted me, it keeps coming back. I tried to get rid of it. It just feels like a sugar bomb. Way too sweet for me. But I still think it tasted all right. You didn't like it. It was all over the top. It's like being in the back of Ruby Tuesday when they're making like sweet tea

Starting point is 01:26:45 and you see how much sugar. Oh man. Where there's, it's just like, the scooper is like one of those things that you put lettuce in a salad bar. Wow. That's like how much of like one thing, it's like a pound of sugar for a thing of sweet tea.

Starting point is 01:26:58 That was a real shocking thing for me working at a restaurant was also, same thing with coleslaw, our coleslaw, the place that, it was literally like It had to be like two pounds of sugar that go into like one batch. Yeah Yeah, that's why because we made it We made it fresh We made we put

Starting point is 01:27:21 Mayo in and then added sugar instead of doing what they would call a Dressing sure Wow. Yeah, that's nice. Sure. Oh, wow. That's nice. The best cheesecake dessert? Fat Sal's. He had their shake? Oh, yeah. They put a whole slice of cheesecake in their shake. Yeah, I've not had that cheesecake shake there.

Starting point is 01:27:37 A whole slice. Yeah, it's wild. I just spent so much time. I was gonna say, you know who would've liked that Ruby Tuesday thing? And then I was like, system of a down is the answer, but I was like, who's that croof? Remember when they go, sugar!

Starting point is 01:27:54 You know what I'm talking about? Oh boy. That is truly the funniest leap I've ever heard anyone make. That is actually the funniest leap I've ever seen happen make. That is actually the funniest leap I've ever seen happen. Yeah, they have a whole song called Sugar. They're like, Sugar! Yeah. Shabam! Just a road as long as the Oregon Trail to that joke.

Starting point is 01:28:16 That is so funny. You know what I love? That's just moving down. Yeah. Oh, man. That's funny. Anyways, that's what I was doing over here. Yeah, that was good. Now I gotta go back on the webpage and get back to Sexy Grunty too later.

Starting point is 01:28:32 We should also touch on, I don't know if we've really talked about the nuggets, which I like the nuggets, but I just get the wings instead of the nuggets. I guess they're for kids. Or the tenders, I guess. Or just bone and chicken. Yeah. I think they're like chopped up tenders tenders, I guess. Or for the tenders, yeah. Or just bone-in chicken. Yeah, I think they're like chopped up tenders is what it's like, yeah.

Starting point is 01:28:47 Yeah, I think I'm, in general, I like the bone always. Yeah, me too. Because there's something about getting rid of the bone that changes the experience completely for me. So like a nugget, I'm kind of whatever on. Or even boneless, I don't typically go boneless. This is where Mitch and I are split because Mitch likes boneless. I like bone in I like To be to be clear couches. Yeah

Starting point is 01:29:14 To be clear I do like I like buffalo wings Yeah, sure like I like you prefer you prefer a boneless given the option I would rather dip a boneless in a bunch of sauce than have to like given the option. I would rather dip a boneless in a bunch of sauce than have to like, you know, like find the bites on the thing and like do the work, you know? I understand that. You guys are always like,

Starting point is 01:29:31 yeah, you're like finding it and stuff. Boneless, you just, Yeah. Yeah. Candy apple it and put it right in, you know? That's, that's, also in Quincy, I told you there are good buffalo, boneless buffalo chicken, and you were like, I've never liked

Starting point is 01:29:48 buffalo, boneless buffalo chicken, like regular wings. And I was like, I can show you good places. Cause I feel like there's, like they, out here it's just like chicken tenders in buffalo sauce. And there it's different. I promise you it's a little bit different. I believe you, but also like, it's not like, you know, it's, again, I think the authentic version

Starting point is 01:30:08 is a bone-in wig. Yeah, I'm not going to argue that. Yeah, I agree. It's not worth discussing. I mean, the sun's going to overtake the Earth at some point in time. Nobody's going to be able to eat chicken anymore anyway. So, like, who gives a shit?

Starting point is 01:30:19 None of this, you won't even be able to find any of this. Yeah. You won't even be able to find a chicken anymore. I will say. The unsauced wing in the blackened ranch, like digging in that sauce, was like as good as any of the sauces. I was going to say, even just the no-sauce wing,

Starting point is 01:30:41 I just ate one plain because I was like, let's just see. I thought it was incredible. It's great. It's really good. Yeah. It looks like it has everything going against it. The look, the size and then, but the taste, the taste, it works. You think you're going to get like an overly breaded wing that slides off the bone kind of similar, not like Domino's, but there's like other fast food wings. If there's like, Oh, they're just heavily breaded and they suck. And these look like that, but they don't taste like that. They taste like good Pope food wings. It's like, oh, they're just heavily breaded and they suck. And these look like that, but they don't taste like that.

Starting point is 01:31:07 They taste like good Popeyes chicken. They did it. Well, I say they did it. They did it. They did it again. I was buried in my notes for a second here. Yeah, Casey, you're very wrong, unfortunately. I'm buried in my notes here because I wanted to make sure

Starting point is 01:31:20 we got to everything. And Mitch, we didn't touch on the chicken sandwich, right? Did you talk about your classic bacon and cheese chicken sandwich, which you still have to the right of you? Sus got a chicken sandwich. Did you guys get a chicken sandwich? Oh, you had your flounder sandwich. Oh, we didn't talk about the flounder sandwich either, yes.

Starting point is 01:31:34 My spicy flounder sandwich, which when I was looking through the menu, I was like, oh, I'll look through. And it's the only time in a fast food restaurant I've seen them name the fish. They said, this is flounder. And to me, I was like, so that's good. That's quality.

Starting point is 01:31:49 They got a flounder guy. They can't hide behind just fish. They got a flounder guy. They got a flounder guy. They get the flounder from the flounder guy and they make flounder sandwiches. Like McDonald's and things that just say fish sandwich to me makes me think of like hot dogs or cat food or something where it's just like whatever leavens, it's fish leavens, they repress it like the McRib, they make it look like a rib, they make it look like fish again and then sell it. But they don't even make it look like fish again. Like no fish sandwich I've ever seen looks like a fish.

Starting point is 01:32:18 Sometimes it's got the layers to it, you know, but this was Flounder. Yeah, not some unnamed bottom feeder. This is a real fish that you would order at a restaurant. Yeah, and it was good. I also don't think I, by the way, I don't think I have like a fish sandwich that like, they made it look like it has a tail. It's got eyes still in your mouth. You can press it to look like a fish.

Starting point is 01:32:38 We even added bones. You offered me a bite of that flounder sandwich. I think I was the only one to, it took up on it. I liked it quite a bit. I thought it was really yummy. Yeah. And it was plain too. Like I don't like pickles.

Starting point is 01:32:53 So like it was just flounder and bread and good. I don't know. I had the fish tacos from Del Taco. I don't even know if there's fish in it. It looked like, it looked like a nickel's worth of a slice of fish in it, and I thought it'd probably gonna get sick. A little like snurf of fish or something like that. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:33:11 See, it didn't work. We all clocked that as fish, right? I didn't know what you meant by that. What the fuck is the earth? What the fuck is he talking about? But yeah, it's solid fish. I'd get that again. I would get that again for sure.

Starting point is 01:33:23 I just took a bite of that, which maybe was just a little too late to take a bite of it. Can you do buffalo fish stuff? Of course. You can do like a buffalo fish sandwich. I'm saying you're loud. That might be a substitution.

Starting point is 01:33:36 I think there's sandwich just like, it comes in a spicy or a, you know, unspicy varietal, but I don't know if there's a way to get it sauced. Why don't they have like barbecue fish and stuff? Like just cover that in sauce. I don't know, that would be fun. You can do it. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:33:51 I like good fish. Yeah, the spicy one does not have a sauce on the patty. It just has a crispy spicy coating and then a spicy mayo. I like a good fish sandwich. I didn't have a bite of that one. I had, I did the, I didn't have a bite of that one. I had I did that I Didn't know Popeyes did this but it's a chicken sandwich with cheese and bacon on it. Is it Swiss and bacon? Oh, I'll look at I would say probably a Swiss probably. Yeah seems like it'd be a Swiss

Starting point is 01:34:18 Probably a Swiss my god is my guess it is a confirmation whether or not this is once again I gotta pull out the word of the day, superfluous. No. I fucked it up. I fucked it up. Superfluous. Is everyone's... Superfluous.

Starting point is 01:34:32 I'll say this, it's not Swiss. Does anyone want to take another guess? I would say provolone would be the only other. That's a great guess. White cheese, I don't know, it's a white cheese. Any other guesses? American. God, I guess I'm fucking...

Starting point is 01:34:43 Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, why are you just letting you know you were wrong? No, no, I'm not saying anyone's wrong or right. I just want to see if everyone's saying it. Mitch, you want to take a guess? We got like a white American, we got a provolone. I'm going to go with mozzarella. It is Havarti.

Starting point is 01:34:54 Wow. Surprising choice. I do like Havarti, but I would not think of Havarti from a Popeye. I bet they get that from their flounder guy. Yeah. He's got it all. They got a connection.

Starting point is 01:35:05 I got flounders and I got Havardis. What do you need? I got a flounders, I got a Havardi. Which one do you want? You want both? Hold on a second. I ain't never done both for one client before. I mean, the chicken sandwich from Popeyes is good. We can all agree, except for Casey, that it's good.

Starting point is 01:35:29 The spicy chicken sandwich also good. I think that they are the ones that brought the craze on. Yes. And kind of the only ones who have other places brought the craze on. Yeah. I mean, the world went crazy for it. It is so interesting when that happened

Starting point is 01:35:45 because it's like there were so many chicken sandwiches already, but then they jumped in and it was just like, mm-mm. It was a much better execution, and then everyone clones specifically what they are doing, which itself is its own clone of the Chick-fil-A concept. And then so now like every single chain, like Burger King, Wendy's, Jack in the Box, they all have some version of it. McDonald's

Starting point is 01:36:05 has a version of some chains that had no business making a chicken sandwich. And they were all just like, why are we all doing this? And then it's all some of them have to have gone away at this point. Some of them have to have gone away, but it's all chicken places. What's that? Like hot chicken places. I'm saying like some of them make like, whatever the Burger King, McDonald's, all those fancy chicken sandwiches, are they still around? They've like gone back to their like standard. I feel like some of them.

Starting point is 01:36:30 I stopped eating the Burger King chicken sandwiches because of what Casey was saying about Popeyes. Had a real tough like freezer burn. Oh man. Like real hard. The chicken though, or did you get the long boy? Was it the king or the long boy? Oh, just the regular like breast. Yeah, yeah. And it was like, it was freezer burn like three times in a row. That's a bummer. King though or did you get the long boy was it King or the long boy? Oh

Starting point is 01:36:49 Yeah, yeah, and it was like it was freezer burn like three times in a row. That's a bummer Yeah, Mike has found a little plastic bag in his long boy burger. It was a plastic bag Yeah, it was like it was like it was like from like yeah Yeah, I remember thinking the long boy was so cool though and as a kid I loved holding one end and the bun fall flops down This is unlike any other sandwich I've ever had yeah, I've never had a bad experience with that sandwich But I you know obviously people's experiences will I love it too. I've never had a bad experience, but yeah, I believe you David I believe you we believe you Micah's maybe full of shit Look you go ahead and mess with Mikeus.

Starting point is 01:37:27 I'm not going to fucking. Mikeus is going to cave my skull in. Simon Quincy. Yeah, while you got brained at a bar. And it's just me sitting there going, ah! Ah! Laughing as Mikeus kills you. The chicken sandwich is great still.

Starting point is 01:37:44 I mean, they still do a good job. laughing as Micah's kills you. The chicken sandwich is great still. I mean, like they still do a good job. I think that you don't need to put, you know, that word I was gonna say, you know, like a- So, flour-flourless. So, flour-flourless. You don't need that to, and another word that I might say, ungepatschke.

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Starting point is 01:42:55 We'll each go around, we'll give a closing argument, if you will, and at the end of that, give this a score from zero to five forks. Can I ask Macky a quick question? Yeah, please. In high school, was it annoying that there was Mr. Macky with South Park? Was that like a... Oh, that's a great question. You have to hear like, hey, children. Do people do, you know what I mean?

Starting point is 01:43:18 This might be hard to believe, but I'm from such a small town that people didn't consume media. Wow. But I'm from like such a small town that people didn't consume media A lot of kids my school did not watch TV They like just like hunted and like were outside so I didn't deal with it a lot in in high school Yeah, but through the years. I've had a lot of people Being like did people make fun of you like in in high school No, no, it wasn't that bad. I got bitch all a lot of people ask this question. Dipshit's like me. Of being like, did people make fun of you in high school? Yeah, yeah, yeah. So yeah, no.

Starting point is 01:43:48 Well, no, it wasn't that bad. I got bitchel a lot, as you know. Yeah, bitchel. I've totally done that, yeah. Mitchel rhymes with bitchel. You know. But I got Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nickelodeon. And then I also got Weiger, Weiger, Weiger uppercut.

Starting point is 01:44:02 Oh, that's clever. That's a fun one. That's a fun one. I just got to do- You give yourself the second one, that's clever. That's a fun one. That's a fun one. I just got D. You give yourself the second one, that's cool. Yeah. No, I didn't come up with it. Other kids were doing it. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:44:10 Island. I got Mackey Mouse a lot, which was a weird one. Mackey Mouse, that is interesting. It didn't hurt at all. Yeah, that's good. That's nice. I was either, it got Doody Brown and Downtown Brown. Those are both kind of fun.

Starting point is 01:44:23 Yeah. Doody was funner, I guess. Was the nick, nick, nick, nick, it was like, your dream was to work at Nickelodeon. I hope I meet Dan Schneider someday. Uh, Dave Brown seated to my right. Me first? Your thoughts, your first score on Popeyes.

Starting point is 01:44:41 But don't crack under pressure. And it's fast food, you know, ones. Don't crack. Right, Wags? It was cooked great. The chicken's cooked great. The breading is great. I liked all the sauces.

Starting point is 01:44:56 They could have been a little prettier. You know, they could have been slightly bigger. It was a little bit of like- The grits of the glow up, you're saying. Yeah, right? But I think overall, compared to others, I'll give it a four, four, five. Wow, 4.5 forks. Two tines, 4.5 forks. If it just would have been prettier

Starting point is 01:45:17 and there would have been stickers for the sauces. That would have gone a long way. That would have gone a long way. Yeah. Yeah, wow. Mackie, your thoughts, your thoughts. It didn't crack. You didn't crack. See, it's tough.

Starting point is 01:45:27 Good job not cracking. Good job not cracking. Yeah, pressure's off me now. Don't crack him, Kay. No. No. It sucks for the things that I didn't like about it to be things that didn't affect the taste.

Starting point is 01:45:50 Yeah, it's more so, yeah, I think the presentation's a little bit crazy. You open the little tin and you're just like, huh, this got out of there, this is your quality control. But the flavor's so good. The flavor quality control. But the flavor's so good. The flavor's so good, the texture's so good. Another thing I haven't mentioned yet, what I really like, I guess the way that they cook chicken,

Starting point is 01:46:11 the like gristly parts on the ends, you can kind of just eat them. They kind of just go away. They're not scary, is I guess what I'll say. Which I really liked. And I wasn't a huge fan of the garlic parmesan sauce. It was a little too creamy for me. I'm not a creamy sauce guy.

Starting point is 01:46:30 So I'll take off a little bit because one of the flavors was not great. But I think I'm in, I think I'm not to just copy you, but I think I'm also in a four and a half forks zone. Wow, four and a half forks. I really, really like them and I'm a wings guy. We're solidly in Golden Plate Club territory. Spoonman, what do you think on this outing?

Starting point is 01:46:50 Hmm. Well. Shit, I'm gonna crack. Congrats on not cracking. Good job not cracking. How's me? Come on, bitch hole. Don't you crack.

Starting point is 01:46:59 Nice. Got him. Fucking lame ass wasn't in marching band. Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Hasn't even played Baldur's Gate 3. Fucking dork. Pick up a trumpet. Come on, dude.

Starting point is 01:47:12 I dare you. But I was in show chorus, Wikes. That's true. Oh, okay. That's cooler. That counts. That's cooler than us. That counts as band.

Starting point is 01:47:21 Yeah. Yeah, it's very close. Up until high school, sixth through eighth grade, I was show course, then I was afraid to get made fun of, which has lasted till this day. Yeah. He's cracking. He can't get to it.

Starting point is 01:47:34 I'm cracking. He's talking about anything else. He's going to start talking about Baldur's Gate right now. You know what? Tell me more about your character. Popeye has a saying. I am who I am. You know how he saysye has he has a saying I am who I am You know he says that yeah, I am what I am, but it said that neither ways all right Whatever I am what I am might be who I am I don't know my correct. I am

Starting point is 01:47:54 Look at look it up. I am what I am I Thought it was I am who I am I think I am what I am and that's all that I am right is that it That's probably that's I'm sorry. I I am What I will this is bringing up I I'm Popeye the sailor man. That's not what I am and that's all that I am, right? Is that, that's prob, that sounds right. I think that Popeye, I am what, I will just bring it up, I'm Popeye the sailor man. That's not what I'm looking for. That's not what we need, we don't need that quote. It's I am what I am. I am what I am.

Starting point is 01:48:15 Yeah. I think I was close, right? You were, you said, you said who instead of what. Oh fuck. I am what I am. I am what I am. And at this point, Popeye's the restaurant. Well, actually, we've had it five times,

Starting point is 01:48:27 we were finding out. It's true. Today earlier, I was saying that we should eat it more, and it turns out we've been there five times. Yes, for the Popeyes. I'm very happy to go back with our guests. Popeye's at this point, it is what it is, and I think it's great.

Starting point is 01:48:40 I think it's a five-fork restaurant. Wow. I do, But hold on. I thought the wings are very good. And for fast food wings, man. Because I was going to say the wings are for the restaurants of five, right in the middle 4.5 total score for the day. And I think that that's what I'll do.

Starting point is 01:49:01 But I honestly think the wings might be better than a four. They might be like four and a quarter to four and a half. They're tiny. The presentation isn't great. They didn't have stickers on these ones. First thing you said was, these look like shit. I mean, they did look like shit. And everyone immediately was like, no, you're wrong.

Starting point is 01:49:17 Everyone was like, you were wrong. I think Suss stood up. I think Susser stood up to me. He didn't stand up. He stood up. And did. I think Susser stood up to me. He didn't stand up. He stood up. And it was very aggressive. He threw his mac and cheese in your face. That's why he didn't offer me any later.

Starting point is 01:49:33 But they were, besides the look of them, they tasted really good, Wags. I think this is a, it's a five fork restaurant. Four to four and a half for the wings. I'll just say 4.25 for the wings, and I'll give 4.5 for the day. Wow, four forks, two tines all around. I cracked. It falls to me. You're gonna crack too.

Starting point is 01:49:51 I might crack. Yeah. I'm gonna try not to. Which by the way, if he cracks, get down. We swap couches now? I'm not gonna crack. But I am going to go back to our engineer, Casey. Casey, if you were going to rate this chain

Starting point is 01:50:11 based off of your three pyre experiences, I can't imagine you would go above two forks. You might even be in one fork territory. Yeah, well, it's like, you know how you like, you go to McDonald's and sometimes it's like the worst thing you've ever eaten. Yes, yeah. But sometimes it's the best thing you've ever eaten. My experience with Popeyes is it's the worst version of it every time.

Starting point is 01:50:32 Wow. So I'm kind of jealous. I wish I was on this order now because it sounds like it was hitting today. It was great. But where I stand is it's a zero forker. So Casey goes zero. You just made our guests's eyes go crossed. What?

Starting point is 01:50:46 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Casey goes zero forks. Zero forker. That's impressive. How many years ago was the last time you had it? Last time I tried it, it was within the year, like maybe like six months ago. Wow.

Starting point is 01:51:02 It was like a late night thing, maybe not the best version, but it was the best time to be eating it. What do you remember where you were? It was Popeyes that was spelled the same. Yeah. It wasn't something else, like there wasn't a U in it,

Starting point is 01:51:15 and it was like dog meat. Yeah. Popeyes, Popeyes. Yeah, it's like the tail of the pup thing we were talking about earlier. Maybe you, yeah, maybe. Maybe you ate a different place. Maybe you were eating dog shit. Yeah. It's called a dog shit the pump thing we were talking about earlier. Maybe you yeah, maybe Maybe you're eating dog shit

Starting point is 01:51:27 Dog shit cafe There is a dog shit cafe right next door to Popeye You and I eat there all the time we like there all the time I like it I like we think it's we think dogs if he got me is a five-for-a-cruise. I wish we didn't know that was an option I would pick that for the shit I've always been interested so we start off with the dog shit is a 5'4' question by the way. I wish we didn't know that was an option. I would have picked that for the show. Yeah. I've always been interested. So we started off with the dog shit. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:51:49 What do you think about why? I thought it was a little dry. Yeah. I would have preferred wetter dog shit. I liked how chunky it was. The soup was great. A little wormy. It was a little wormy, but it- The soup was great Little warming it was a little warm

Starting point is 01:52:12 Texture it was Interesting I wasn't expecting those I don't know if they were supposed to be in there, but I liked it That made me close to gag. Yeah Disgusting thing that's ever been sent on the podcast up there. It's good to say that stuff on a food podcast Yeah, really good. I loved it Casey goes you're a possibility that you like cause one of our listeners like swerve in traffic and die. Yeah Just so you know I'm gonna get sued There's like a huge guy that he can't get out of a car right now. They're just going to bury him in his car.

Starting point is 01:52:46 Just vomiting on himself. Casey goes zero forks. Susser, as he was leaving, comes up to me and is like, it's five forks. What are we doing here? He's almost like incense. Why even record? I was like, what are we doing here? Like he's kind of like almost like incense. Whoa, whoa. He was so, so like this is so funny. Why even record? I was like, what are you doing here?

Starting point is 01:53:08 You think, Matt, what are we doing here? We're going to record the Boggess. What are you doing? It was my job. You just came by for a free lunch. Why do we even do this, Chuck? We're going to record the Boggabats. What are you doing? It was my job. You just came by for a free lunch. Yeah. Why do they even do this show?

Starting point is 01:53:30 Casey had a constant presence on the show, as is Emma. Emma, where would you land fork wise? Honestly, it's been a long time since I had Popeye, so I don't know if I can give a fair full score. I do know I loved the chicken sandwich when it came out. I had a great time with that. It was a simple chicken sandwich, so I'm probably gonna go for it more,

Starting point is 01:53:49 because they're easy. Yeah. Uh, there's another person who is involved with the show, but in a behind-the-scenes capacity, and is not often brought up here on the Doughboys podcast. They're not here, Dave. They're not behind the scenes. They're not behind the scenes.

Starting point is 01:54:04 They're not behind the scenes. Oh. That. They're not behind the early game. They're not behind the early game. They're not behind the early game. Oh. Do you think I can? That'd be a hell of a surprise, though. Yeah. We stashed a guy back there. Muro three-fourths. That's like in wrestling when someone's

Starting point is 01:54:13 like under the ring for so long. Under the ring, yeah. Did they, like that, I guess like they have the lights go out, sometimes they can sneak in, right? It's like the other way they do it. But are people just hanging out under that ring? The whole show? Sometimes there's a little, not the whole show.

Starting point is 01:54:28 It'll be like in a break, they'll come, they'll push them out in like a little fake little cart. Oh, okay. And then they'll go under the ring. Oh, like Taylor Swift. Yeah, like Taylor Swift in the broom closet. Yeah. That makes sense.

Starting point is 01:54:38 I did a show with our buddy Dave Christensen years ago, and he was, like there was a present that was just on stage the whole time. I don't remember if it was a Christmas show or whatever it was. It might have been a Valentine's Day thing. And there was just like a big, big oversized box, but it just looked like stage dressing. And he was hunched inside there for the entire like 90 minute show. And then at the very end of the show, he popped out and then chased me around and that was the end of the show and it was like, first off it was like incredible the audience response

Starting point is 01:55:09 but then afterwards it was just like the commitment of like I can't believe you did that for the whole show. People who have that level of commitment to things like that, I'm just like more power to you but I think don't do that. Just hot stage lights, just cooking that box. I think it's a good thing to do when you're like 25. Right.

Starting point is 01:55:26 You reach a certain point, just like, OK, that's fine. But a shout out to Dave, if you're listening out there, as he sometimes does. Great dude, very funny dude. Shout out. Stage dressing got me hungry when he said stage dressing. No, the behind the scenes. Stage dress.

Starting point is 01:55:39 What were we going to say? Nathan Barnett did that for What's Going On. That's right, yeah. He was in the rafters, and they were doing a bit, this talk show that, oh, they know, people who listen to the podcast know this. Yeah. I did a talk show where I didn't know what was gonna happen. And Nathan Barnett was-

Starting point is 01:55:52 Unlike Doughboys, where you're always completely prepped. Nathan was, there was a bit on this wheel of bits and it was skydiving and I never hit it, but the bit was that he was gonna fall out of the rafters. And he was up in the rafters holding on up there for so long and that was at the beginning of the show. And Nathan stayed up there for like, probably two hours or something. Like it was like so long.

Starting point is 01:56:16 Never fell down? And then like halfway through the show or like almost towards the end of the show, he fell from the rafters. They were just like fall at some point. That's a, that is a far fall. Yeah. Jesus.

Starting point is 01:56:29 The guy's athletic. I mean, we've talked about this before, like Nathan is like such an athletic guy. He's an incredible athlete. Yeah, like you're like all, it's all mostly out of shape dorks. Right. And then you're like, oh, this guy can like run a mile in like four minutes.

Starting point is 01:56:42 Yeah, he's like wiry and muscly. Yeah. And yeah. You kick your ass. Yeah, it's just like wiry and muscly and yeah. You kick your ass. Yeah, I kick my ass. Yeah. Was that a high bar? No. Someone could kick the dough boy's ass?

Starting point is 01:56:53 It's like not a lot of people. It's many people. Ha ha ha. Okay, so the behind the scenes individual I was going to mention was Marty Michael, who is the head of Headgum. The head. Came into, the titular head of Headgum

Starting point is 01:57:11 came into the kitchen while we were eating Popeyes and was like, oh wow, Popeyes. And I asked Marty for his fork score. And Marty, much like Susser, was like, easy five forks. Wow. Went immediately with five forks. So I am choosing here. Am I going to side with the essential labor that makes our show

Starting point is 01:57:28 possible with the worker, the frontline individual who actually, you know, does the... One percent. One percent. Am I going to side with the worker or am I going to side with the bosses? And I got to say, contrary to what I was saying on the picket lines, down, down with the workers, up, up with the bosses. And I gotta say, contrary to what I was saying on the picket lines, down, down with the workers, up, up with the bosses. I agree with Marty Michael, this is a five-fork chain. Five forks for Popeyes.

Starting point is 01:57:54 Welcome to the Cold and Plate Club, where you belong. That's... That's... Dave brings confetti guns. Whoo! Yeah, wow. Hey, that 1%, they can be right a lot of the time. They're often right. They're often right.

Starting point is 01:58:08 Well, they got there for some reason. Yeah. You know what I mean? They made some good choices somewhere. You know? I agree. If you made a couple choices like that, maybe things would be different for us.

Starting point is 01:58:18 You know what I mean? It's true. We're stuck down here in the 99%. We can't hate these guys. We want to paint these guys. We want to be them. Hey, that was our review of Popeyes. It's time for a segment. Oh, I'm not saying fucks Casey try some good Zero fork experience we gotta get we gotta get it's really shocking though the disparity because like I Didn't a zero like cafeteria school cafeteria food. It was so bad. Interesting.

Starting point is 01:58:45 Did you have, we already talked about this. You're a Chick-fil-A guy in Florida. Yeah, I grew up with Chick-fil-A. Oh, okay. This is, I think there might be, that might be a tough thing to get over. I think there is a dividing line. Yeah, for sure.

Starting point is 01:58:56 I think some people. No, I mean, it was just like truly disgusting. I believe it. I believe it, I believe it, I believe it. We believe you. We can take you to like a Glendale Popeyes. Yeah, that's what we get it. We get it. We get it We get a Glendale on it, but that what Glendale one. I think one of Eagle Rock's pretty good. Maybe that's the one I'm thinking of yeah, like on the two right by that. Yes. Yeah. Yep. Yep. We'll figure it out

Starting point is 01:59:16 Okay there. Hey, that was our review of Popeyes. It's time for a segment Yum, yum, and eat eat. It's the pit hall. Oh Yum, yum, and eat, eat. It's the Pit Hall. Oh, my God. It's a tribute to Casey's F1 podcast, The Pit Wall, which you can check out right here on HeadGum. Despite his insane Popeyes, he does have a great F1 podcast. It is. We had a blast doing it. You should check it out.

Starting point is 01:59:38 We had a blast doing it. So, this is the Pit Hall. Amelia is gonna come in here. Amelia, you can walk on in. Hi, everyone. Our associate producer, Amelia Marino, everybody. So Mitch and Dave and Mackie are presented with a pit and must determine which fruit each pit came from.

Starting point is 01:59:56 This is very funny. All of their senses. This is very funny. I'm going to be so bad. Now, if you're hap- Amelia, this is good. If you were having trouble- I thought when you came in, I thought you had empty bowls.

Starting point is 02:00:06 I was confused about what this was. These bowls are currently empty. Is it just my taste or look? You don't have to touch it with your mouth, please. So these bowls are currently empty, but they are going to be occupied by a number of pits. I guess we have five pits, Amelia? Yes.

Starting point is 02:00:21 So we have five different pits. And yes, you can use all of your senses to try to determine what fruit a pit came from. And if you're having trouble once per round, you can ask the pit boss, Casey, for help. Good, good. What? He doesn't know anything, he would give you his opinion.

Starting point is 02:00:39 He just gives you his opinion, yeah. Okay, great. All right, Amelia, do you wanna bring these in one at a time, or do you wanna- We could start with the, well, we could start easy with the light bulb. Oh, so there's already a pit in there. Yeah, I kind of rearranged them from easiest.

Starting point is 02:00:53 So are you gonna pass it down to each of us and we each have a- Yes. All right. Actually, this might be easy. So we keep our opinions to ourselves till we've all scoped it? Yeah, cause you're competing against each other. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 02:01:02 You're a lot to touch. Wait, wait, before you smell them, should we do the sniff line thing? How does the sniff line work? You're only allowed to use one sniff line per, for the whole game. Okay, so you have two lifelines. You can either ask the pit boss or you can use the sniff line, which means you can smell it. You can only smell it one time. You can only smell one of these.

Starting point is 02:01:22 Yeah. So you want to go tactile first. Okay, cool. But I can smell one of these. Yeah. Yeah Okay, cool, but I can smell one of these Yeah, I mean you can smell it then you can smell it but I mean all right with actual sniff Yeah, you can't you can't we can't go like we're gonna have to get into the like how much we can smell it's fine Okay, got it. We'll figure it out if we want to smell it. We'll smell it. Yeah, but if you want to take an actual sniff That's a sniff line It's the difference between smelling it and sniffing it.

Starting point is 02:01:45 Smell is passive, sniff is active. Sniff is close I think. Close, okay, I'm not gonna, look, I think that this is one that we probably all know. I'm feeling it in my hand, it's cold. I like that, it's probably in the fridge maybe. Oh yeah, we all know this one. We all know this one.

Starting point is 02:01:59 You all feel pretty confident here. I don't know actually. No, I know it, y'all just say it first. This is my favorite thing about doing anything with Davis, just assuming he knows stuff. This is going to be bad. I have an idea. What if we put in our notes app, we wigs, we put it down. I don't think this one would smell.

Starting point is 02:02:17 Wigs? Sure. I mean, however you want to do it. I'm going to ask you your answers because we're going to vocalize them. That way that we can each, because if one of us says the answer, you can just say, reveal your answers cuz well now that way that we can each we each Cuz one of one of us says the answer you can just say reveal your answers and we'll put them on Yeah, but more than one of you can get a point if multiple people are correct Oh, it's you're not we're gonna have to reveal at the same time Three two one and we'll say it I guess

Starting point is 02:02:40 One at a time and then it can say who's right at the end that'll also work right but and just agree No cheating you can't change your answer. You have to mentally lock in your yeah lock in your answer We'll do it on the honor system. I liked my notes fine the write down the notes after you want to bring your fucking phones Out right on the fucking notes app. No, you know I hate phones wise I'm with you wait Do I whiteboards you can write your answers on? Get whiteboard He loves the whiteboards Those are just electronic whiteboards

Starting point is 02:03:17 Wait, I do I should I put I think I have the answers right? Okay, so you want me to play or do you want me to judge? I'll judge. We're going to be careful with the bottom of the bowls. All right, here we go. Thank you, Amelia. All right. Everyone is writing on their whiteboards their answers.

Starting point is 02:03:36 The the. Pitch in question for my description, it appears to have sort of a nutty sort of brown sort of walnut hue to it a semi circular form factor maybe kind of going to a tip like an acorn and yeah it's it's I think I have an idea of what this is and okay I'm gonna write it bigger I know know the answer. I have my answer. I think I figured it out. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah Yeah, we reveal yes Avocado pit spoon man, that's an avocado

Starting point is 02:04:12 Avocado wow got it. I like what Dave did Dave wrote Dave wrote left space for all five of them Spoon man. Spoon man. Yeah, spoon. Yeah. I ain't no, that's for sure. I wrote spoon man next to it. That's a spoon. It looks like ET's silhouette.

Starting point is 02:04:29 That's a spoon? All right, we all got it, huh? Okay, everyone gets a point for avocado. Pretty simple. That one's pretty simple. Amelia, can you keep score? Thank you so much. I'll put it in my notes app.

Starting point is 02:04:42 Take the white board. I gotta circle this white board. There you go, Take the white board. I gotta start with this white board. There you go. All right, here we go. I was surprised at how wooden it is. I guess I never, how wooden it looks. It's very woody. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:04:53 It is. OK, you changed it from spoon man to beach shadow. Why did you cross out silo? I was trying to spell silhouette. All right, take the pink wall next. Mitch, you can grab that one. I didn't spell silhouette. It's S, is the H after the L? Yeah.

Starting point is 02:05:16 S-I-L-O-U. Yeah, it's like silhouette. That's how I remember. It's fucking, can we be all real? It's a tough one. It's a tough one. Should we all try to spell it and see what it, let's all try to spell it. That's the bonus would've known. It's fucking, can we be all real? It's a tough one. It's a tough one. Should we all try to spell it and see what it, let's all try to spell it.

Starting point is 02:05:26 That's the bonus round if we tie. Bonus is spell silhouette. Okay, I have the spelling here. Okay. Oh my God, I really don't know how to spell this word. It's a hard one to spell. I probably wouldn't get this one right. I'd rely on auto-correct for this one.

Starting point is 02:05:40 Yeah. I have no idea. That's probably wrong. Oh yeah, it's mine's, yeah. Yeah, I don't know. This is bad. Do you want to reveal your answers? That's definitely not it. That's definitely not it.

Starting point is 02:05:54 Turn it around. I'll write it bigger. Mine is silohet. There's definitely trailing T-E. T-E. I think so, right? Oh, that's what it is. You're also missing some other letters. There's definitely trailing T-E. T-E. I think so, right? Oh, that's what it is.

Starting point is 02:06:06 I think you're also missing some other letters. There's a U in there, I just didn't know. Does anyone else wanna reveal what they have? I have a silhouette. And you also drew a little doo-doo brown there. Yeah. And you drew nicknames? That's pretty good, that's pretty good.

Starting point is 02:06:23 That's pretty close. That's not bad, yeah, because you're just missing an H, I think, right? What about it? There's an H? You have all the letters, so it's S-I-L-H-O-U-E-T-T-E. The H is after the L, okay. H is in there.

Starting point is 02:06:34 I spelled it right. It is so... Let me see. Amelia did it. Good job, Amelia. All right, Amelia gets a point. Damn it. Can I see it?

Starting point is 02:06:42 I even said that that's how it's spelled with the... I said silhouette and I still didn't. Silhouette. Silhouette. Sil silhouette. Well, good job Amelia I give yourself a point so it's all not enough at one right now. So the Mitch let's go to the pink bowl next We've already done this light this baby blue bowl Maybe oh Mitch play the game going the people Okay, ooh this one's gross

Starting point is 02:07:10 This one looks one looks significantly smaller than the previous one. Mitch dropped it. Mitch dropped the pit. Kasey, what's going on in the pit wall lately? Is the feed active right now? Is it during the season? Oh yeah, the season's going. There's a big race in Miami this week. Wow.

Starting point is 02:07:24 This episode comes out way after. Sure, naturally, yeah, yeah. This is really good. This one's a little trickier to me. Right now, yeah. Any recent episodes people should check out? Oh, that's weird. We just finished watching

Starting point is 02:07:35 Oh, my sniff. Director Survive, the Netflix show. Fun. So you could hear us talk about every episode, which you guys talked about the first two. That's true, that was a lot of fun with that rich fail son. It was a blast.

Starting point is 02:07:47 This one is harder. I have two ideas. I'm going to go with one I think is wrong. I'm going to try to spell silhouette again, because I bet you I don't even remember. OK. I believe you that you don't remember. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:07:59 I'm looking at it and I don't remember. So Amelia, were any of these chewed through? Or how did you separate the pit from the fruit? My bare hands. Your bare hands, wow, very primal. Diggin' in there. Yeah, this one is significantly smaller. You put what I almost put.

Starting point is 02:08:13 It has a bit of a- No cheating. Of a grainy texture as you feel it with your fingers. No one has invoked the sniff line yet. If I use my sniff line here- Does that give it away? No, it here, no, it's no help. But I think I'm wrong. I know what the answer is.

Starting point is 02:08:32 Okay. All right, everyone reveal what you got. Did I spell silhouette correct? No, the H is over. H and the O, you're close. Was I close? You are, you just have to flip the O and the H. Okay, Mitch has prune.

Starting point is 02:08:44 Flip the H and the Izzo. Mitch has prune, Mackie has peach. I have chunky pumpkin. Chunky pumpkin. It felt like a big pumpkin, like a big thick one. Unfortunately, you're all wrong, it is a plum. Stone fruit against peaches may be closest. Which means Amelia, you stumped everyone,

Starting point is 02:09:03 so you get another point. Wow. So Amelia's in the lead right now. I forgot to mention this, you stumped everyone so you get another point. Wow. So Amelia's in the lead right now. I forgot to mention this. You can get an extra sniff line if you spell silhouette correctly. Oh. All right, we got this next blue bowl over here.

Starting point is 02:09:16 What is that? That was a prune? That was a prune? That was a prune. I don't think I've ever had a plum. That was a plum. Plum, plum. I don't think I've ever had a plum or a prune.

Starting point is 02:09:23 Plums are great, treat yourself. Yeah? Yeah, a lot of fun. A prune is a dried plum, right? Is it? I think so. So is Mitch right? A prune is a dried plum.

Starting point is 02:09:37 Oh, shit! Do you wanna give it to Mitch? Well, well, well. Okay. Whoa! But a prune doesn't have the pit in it anymore. Yeah, a prune usually would be pitted, right? But it's still the same fruit. I think we give Mitch a half point there. I think Amelia, you still But a prune doesn't have the pit in it anymore. Yeah, prune usually would be pitted, right? But it's still the same fruit.

Starting point is 02:09:46 I think we give Mitch a half point there. I think Amelia, you still get a point, but Mitch gets a half point. One point five points. They are, prunes are made by pitting and drying fresh ripe plums. So they do not make prunes with pits in them. They came with it.

Starting point is 02:10:00 I think it's close enough for half point. Originally, yes. This is fucking gnarly. I'm gonna take a sniff test. Oh, okay. Sniff line, here we go. All right, which I have two sniff lines. What shade of blue is this?

Starting point is 02:10:10 It's not quite a navy. It's not quite a royal. I'm really sniffing this. Like it's an identifiable sniff of like a, yeah, like an aqua bowl. I have no idea. The sniff line, I'll save you guys a sniff. Describe what you're holding here Mitch.

Starting point is 02:10:27 It's like a gross little fucking... Did you just grab it into your microphone? I'm sorry. It's like a little snotty bone. Yes, yeah. It's flatter than the other ones that we've examined so far. Alright, Mitch is going to pass that over to Mackie. It's sticky. This is disgusting looking. It is sticky. And these are fruits? They are all technically fruits. I think that I think to have a pick you would have to be afraid of them. Really? Is that what it is? I'm gonna use the sniff just because I want to smell it. Yeah and it's nothing. All right so two sniff

Starting point is 02:11:01 lines have been expended. Did you get anything from that? If I didn't get number two, I'm not gonna get any of the rest of them. Ugh. Slimy? Ah, the bowl has been passed over today. What is that? It looks like a little bone. It's gross. Yeah, it is. It's a little bone. It's weird. It does look like a little bone.

Starting point is 02:11:15 It looks like a tooth. I would be baffled by this one. Is a pit considered a seed? Good question. Does anyone know anything with seeds in it is considered a fruit? Do they know anything? The seeds in the in it is considered a fruit. Are pit seeds. As the pit boss, I would say a a pit isn't a seed.

Starting point is 02:11:39 Got it. You want to look at that thing? That's slimy. Yeah, this is a weird looking. Not a seed. Isn't aren let's see, you want to look at that thing? That's slimy. Yeah, this is a weird looking. Is a pit not a seed? Isn't, aren't pits seeds? Pits protect the seed, which is inside of the pit. Wow, Casey's right.

Starting point is 02:11:52 Don't go down the pit box. I have something to say about this current one. I think that's the seed. You think this is a seed? I think that's the seed and the thing around it that I discarded was the pit. Okay, well, cause this is not particularly identifiable. Ugh, you've pulled your finger off of it

Starting point is 02:12:09 and it looks like goo stretched. It's like covered with pre-com. Yeah. What? Dear God. I want to hold my fucking 12 year old underwear here. Nice dude. Nice.

Starting point is 02:12:24 Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick, Nick. Um. Did he get the low Mr. Schneider? I have no idea. Yeah. Well, we'll need everyone to write their guesses down. Just take your best guess. I will say that this is a fruit that you all know.

Starting point is 02:12:39 This is not an obscure fruit. So guessing any fruit may just be the best, most prudent course of action. I can't even think of other fruits. Uh, apple. In terms of possibly stealing a point. I can also say it's not an apple, if that's okay. It's not an apple. On account of apples, don't have to.

Starting point is 02:12:55 Yeah. What is it? Where do you stand on, Mitch, what's your go-to fruit? You're a banana guy, you're a watermelon guy. Pineapple. Pineapple, that's right, you're a pineapple guy. I wrote down one I don't know if I spelled it guy, your watermelon guy. Pineapple. Pineapple, that's right, your pineapple guy. I wrote down one I don't know if I spelled it right either.

Starting point is 02:13:07 Papaya. Papaya, papaya is your guess. Papaya pit. All right, Mackie, what'd you got? I gotta change my answer. Mango? Mackie guesses mango. Question mark.

Starting point is 02:13:17 M-A-M-A, possible connection. This is so wrong, it's embarrassing. I just wrote a bean. It looked like a black bean. It looked like a... Yeah, it's just a bean, right? That one was just a bean, right, Amelia? It was probably tricks.

Starting point is 02:13:35 It wasn't just a bean? There's probably tricks in this. It wasn't a trick? You didn't put a bean in there? Someone did get it correct though. Yeah, that's right. Mackie Orr corrected his name, Mango Pitch. That's mango? So Mackie it correct though. Yeah, that's right. Mackie, you are correct. It is a mango pit. Whoa! That's mango.

Starting point is 02:13:46 So Mackie gets another point. Full guess. That is definitely not a mango pit. What are the- That's definitely the seed. It's the seed and then the pit that I could go bring it in if you wanna see. I believe it.

Starting point is 02:13:56 I'm pretty sure it looks like- I thought tropical fruit of some sort. Cause I know the mango pit, typically I've literally just the other day heard that the pits are like flat I didn't realize mangoes are so pre coming. Yeah, they're very pretty really are I thought it was a tribal food or I and I thought bean was a good guess. I think Yeah, being was a good guess for this game. Let's give Dave a half point for Bean.

Starting point is 02:14:26 Mitch, let's go to the yellow bowl. If you wanna grab the yellow bowl. I guess I'll just write Bean for every other reason and get a half a point. Well, if you do it, I'm not gonna fight. It's gotta come from him. All right, Mitch has the yellow bowl now. Now, this looks like you're holding something

Starting point is 02:14:45 a little bit more, again, kind of walnut-shaped, a little bit more substantial than the previous two pastes. I have a little baby plus on this one. Yeah, okay. Okay. Now remember, you have your, two of you have used your sniff line, but Dave, you still have your sniff line, and also,

Starting point is 02:15:01 if anyone wants- Well, actually, we have, actually, we spelt Silhouette correctly, eventually. Oh, she got an extra sniff line Yeah, so you have your sniff line in the bank and you can also ask the pit I mean Dave could also just spell silhouette correctly and get another sniff line. Oh, yeah. Yeah Do you help this out? Fucking hard-ass word got it. It's not an easy word. Still wrong.

Starting point is 02:15:26 Wow. I should have sniffed line that one, but you know I'm going to, I'll save it for the last one. All right, Dave has invoked his sniff line. He's taking a big old whiff. Big old honky sniff here. It was a sniff line, not a whiff line. Wow.

Starting point is 02:15:40 Great point, Emma. Fuck, I still don't know. What do I have to spell right to be able to put it in my mouth? I'm locked in. My first answer is my answer but I... Wait, wait. I wrote two. What fruits are there? Because I'm going to be mad if it is the second one. So just know I'll be mad. OK. Also, can we turn the air on? It said 75. Well, you got to turn it off when we're talking about Baldur's Gate. That's your fault.

Starting point is 02:16:12 You're trying to heat us out here. OK, I put an angry face next to my second guess. OK, great. So if that's the answer. Should I reveal? Yeah, everyone reveal your guesses. Durian? OK, Mitch's first guess is durian.

Starting point is 02:16:26 And your second guess is peach angry face. Did I spell it wrong, durian? No, you spelled that correctly. Mackie. I was gonna- What was peach? Peach again. And David is perhaps still writing. I guess peach too,

Starting point is 02:16:41 but I spelled the first part of it papaya. So papayach, because I spelled the first part of it papaya Because I couldn't think of any other fruit Good at these we get we get what you mean. I think it is peach so bitch Unfortunately, you're angry Mac. He gets a point. I think we can go again give Dave a half point Yeah, they are. They're famously foul smelling. If there was a durian in the house, you would smell it. Okay.

Starting point is 02:17:09 You know, I'm glad we're giving Dave points by cheating because it proves that it...we all know. Yes, right. We all know he's getting points for bullshit. Can we say a bunch of fruits out loud so that I have like a batch to guess from? A batch? Just a batch? Grape, orange, tangerine. That's a good one. out loud so that I have like a batch to guess from. Just a batch.

Starting point is 02:17:25 Grape, orange, tangerine. Those are real helpful, all these things that don't have pits. They have seeds. Poison berry. We have one left. Mitch, if you want to grab that, okay, Amelia's bringing it over to you. The orange bowl. Finally an orange bowl. This is the hardest one, Amelia?

Starting point is 02:17:44 God. This is the orange bowl. Finally, this is the hardest one, Amelia. Yeah, yeah. God, this is the hardest one. Mitch is looking down, befuddled at this bowl. And I think it's because of its contents. There was some confusion at the grocery store, I think. Okay, I fucked up. So, but just, you'll see, just, everyone's gonna have to invoke the sniff test for this one.

Starting point is 02:18:01 And remember, you can also ask the pit boss. It's just juice? Oh, it's a stinky. It's a stinky? Oh, it's a stinky. Mackie visibly coughing with pulse. There's stinky fruits? What the fuck is that?

Starting point is 02:18:16 I didn't know there was stinky fruits. Yeah, so there's some fruits that stink. Oh yeah, that's shitty. Yeah. Oh yeah, that's shitty. It's like a vinaigrette Is that a fruit? I would not call a vinaigrette a fruit. No You could yeah, okay

Starting point is 02:18:34 from this fruit I Have no clue this is really interesting because I know what the answer is. You do? Yeah. How you landed on this. I mean, I think I can, what I can tell is I can visualize the fuck up. I know what the fuck up, I know exactly what the fuck up was. I have my answer. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:18:58 All right, Mitch, let's see your answer. Flip around your whiteboard. Arm pit. Oh! I just gave a shout out to Gravel Pit by Wu Tang. On the bottom. But arm pit. Arm pit is your guess.

Starting point is 02:19:11 And then it says Wu Tang underneath? Yeah, Gravel Pit from Wu Tang, good song, listen to it. Got it, got it. I'm just recycling other answers, papaya. Papaya, okay. Just a guess. Okay, I thought of a fruit. Dave put piss.

Starting point is 02:19:22 Pomegranate? Oh! So Amelia, what I'm guessing happened is that you bought an olive. Okay, I thought of a fruit. Dave put piss. Pomegranate. Oh! So Amelia, what I'm guessing happened is that you bought an olive, not realizing it was pre-pitted. It was pit, she got pitted men. I thought pit had a pit in it.

Starting point is 02:19:35 It had a pit in it? Yes, right. The correct answer is a pitted olive. It is an olive. What the hell? This is olive juice. The pits weren't in it, so it's just olive juice. Olive pit is one of the most recognizable pits.

Starting point is 02:19:46 Yeah, if you just included pit, I think people could have gotten that. I think you're right, they're already pitted. The answer was pitted olive. So if you said that. So the answer was olive juice? But you know what, I'll give you a point for armpit because that was clever.

Starting point is 02:19:57 Thank you. Wow, so where do we land? Amelia, who's our winner? Our winner is... Smacky. I think so. I would think so. Our winner is Mitch. Wow, congratulations so. I would think our winner is Mitch Wow

Starting point is 02:20:08 Come on I Think it's Mackie The real winner is Mackie Wow congrats Mackie Right, I don't remember if I got answers right. You got avocado. I got peach right. I got avocado right. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:20:29 Oh yeah, I got a couple of answers right. Is that two points? And I got, what's that? That's only two points though. I got mango also. And I guess I also, I got my points honest. So that also makes me feel a lot better. I wasn't gifted points.

Starting point is 02:20:41 I didn't beg for those. I don't make the rules up here ha ha ha. That was the pit hall. I don't make the rules up here. Mitch is furiously writing his son his way through. You'll see. No looking. Okay, sorry. Mitch is scribing something.

Starting point is 02:20:54 That was the pit hall. Great job, Amelia. That was great. Thank you. That was a fun game. Just like a restaurant. We thought. Swag, swag, swag, ready?

Starting point is 02:21:01 Yeah. All right, ready? Life's a herald. Life's a hererald and I'm in the third beat. Whoa! Mitch, I'd buy that shirt. I'd buy that shirt. It's the shirt I talked about. You have to put copyright Sharna at the bottom.

Starting point is 02:21:16 Oh, shit. Yeah, she's going to need a taste of that. Just like a restaurant, via your feedback, let's open up the feedback. Today's email is from Adam L. Adam writes, Hey guys, recent podcast Jackie Johnson's Sisters Brewery has released a Chicago hot dog beer. I think you meant a hut dog. It's called hot dug beer called Double Barrel Shaw Boing Boing. Double Barrel Shaw Boing Boing is the name.

Starting point is 02:21:37 What's the most fucked up this beer you think you would reasonably try? I would try that. I would try this one. It's a Chicago style lager, double barrel she-boing-boing from Vector Brewing. I'd say this, I would try any beer of any flavor that I would eat.

Starting point is 02:21:55 I mean, like, I think it would go, if it was like, like, if it was like, you know, booger beer, I'd be like, I don't want booger beer. Well, I wouldn't. You'd want booger beer? Like, I wouldn't. You want booger beer? Anything that's like, you know, that you eat that a human being would eat. Maybe outside of like insects or something like that. I do a bug beer.

Starting point is 02:22:16 Bug beer is a great name. It is a great name. What I think about booze is like, booze doesn't inherently taste good anyway. Yeah, sure, yeah. It's, IPA's good, no. They're not good. They're not good like apple juice is good. IPA guys like to pretend that IPA's taste good. They taste like shit.

Starting point is 02:22:35 IPA's are bad. If things didn't have alcohol in it or coffee didn't have caffeine in it, then people wouldn't just be like, that's what I'm gonna have right now. We got, we so when we were like IPA's aren't good we're like people will get mad at us IPA guys are gonna get mad at us they were yeah they were very mad at us. Have you had double-barrel bastard IPA's like yeah I fucking

Starting point is 02:22:53 whatever I had the obnoxiously named IPA and you know it tastes like shit I don't want to drink this it's fucking gross too hoppy. So when Boo's in I'd probably try whatever. Yeah. Cause it's already pretty bad. I guess yeah, there would be pieces of floating bugs in there, you know what I mean? I put Charna, like. Charna. I put Charna Corp. I don't know what her corporation is.

Starting point is 02:23:12 Like Matt Groening's little signature on every Simpsons drawing. Yeah. Yeah. See, that's the corporation symbol, right? The little C with the circle around it. Yeah. Visible bug stuff.

Starting point is 02:23:21 Oh, copyright symbol. Do you think he signed the Epstein flake log with the same signature? Oh, my god. Oh, Matt Graying in a copyright. No. All right. It would be awkward for me to go back to The Simpsons. What do you mean?

Starting point is 02:23:41 I think this is a, this is one of those ones where, yeah, I think I have an open mind about this, honestly. Cause like, even when it's a dare flavor, and you know, we talked about this with our salt and straw episode, where they'll have like, whatever, some intentionally putrid thing. Like this is our mustard flavored ice cream.

Starting point is 02:24:00 I'll still try it and I'll be like, this tastes like shit. I see what you did, but I'm not necessarily into this I also this a little bit of a different commitment. I feel like if it's not body secretions Yeah, cuz you're not gonna get pieces of bugs in the beer. No, I feel like I'd labor I would try anything Possibly. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean I don't I don't drink so that would be the main reason that I wouldn't try it But if you gave me a non-alcoholic version of a hot, was it hot dog beer? Yeah. Hot dog beer is an easy choice to be honest.

Starting point is 02:24:34 I'd definitely do it at a baseball game. It's basically already the flavor probably when you're eating a hot dog, you're drinking a little sip of beer. It's true. A little bit of a sippy. Sippy. I'm just doing a little bit of a sippy. Sippy.

Starting point is 02:24:47 I'm just doing a little bit of a sippy. Come on. Macky, as a teatotaler, do you like an N.A. beard? Do you like a non-alcoholic beard? I don't really drink it. I mostly just drink Diet Coke and like sparkling water. Those are the big guys for me. Man, I just...

Starting point is 02:25:02 The doctor just laid down a challenge for me yesterday. Ooh. Get in shape. Oh, no. It was... It, it was, uh, no boos. Uh-huh. Ugh. No cheese. Uh-huh.

Starting point is 02:25:14 Get out of here. And no diet soda or any soda for a month. He wants me to do it for a month. When does he want you to start? Like immediately? You know, he said May 1st, but you know. Okay. So yesterday? So yesterday?

Starting point is 02:25:25 Yeah. This episode will come out. This will be- I'm going back to Quincy, I'm not gonna start until I get back, it just is not feasible. I'm gonna drink when I'm there. It's impossible to not drink. It's impossible.

Starting point is 02:25:38 You cut two out. Yeah, I'm gonna, and then, but I- Even cutting one out would feel like a win. It's true. I think it's crazy. Also, fuck your doctor for being like, you gotta do three of the hardest things. Yeah, yeah. Come on.

Starting point is 02:25:49 One thing at a time. Yeah, who's your doctor? Dr. Doom? I mean, come on. Right? Is that who your doctor is? That's your doctor. Right? It is?

Starting point is 02:25:58 Oh my God, he wears a mask? Wow, that's tough. Oh my God. I look forward to working with Paul Walter Hauser in the Fantastic Four movie. Literally the thing that I did get texted while we were talking. Who's he playing? The Thing? I don't know.

Starting point is 02:26:12 I think probably my guess is The Thing. Yeah, I would guess that. I mean, if I was like, hey, I got cast in the Fantastic Four movie, what would you guess? The fucking Thing. Yeah, of course, you'd guess the fucking Thing. You wouldn't guess Mr. Fantastic. That's strict. No, it's going to be some hunk.

Starting point is 02:26:26 Yeah, I agree that it's a lot of stuff at once. He also told me to get an early colonoscopy. Wow. They're doing that a lot these days for younger people. Apparently, colon cancer is becoming a thing for you. This is a great thing to talk about. No, I mean, it's like the reality meeting should be in Cheney Field. Apparently, they're saying now, if you have any history of cancer in your family,

Starting point is 02:26:44 you should start getting screenings in your 30s. Wow. Yeah, I said this to Wags, it's because it's 45, you can get one free of charge. Yeah, I'm almost due. I said that Wags was gonna get a fake ID to get it before. You get turned away at the knockers, that was pretty fake.

Starting point is 02:27:00 Adam L, I guess our answer is that we would drink pretty much anything. So like, you know, whatever. Easy. Yeah, I know, sorry, it's a bad answer, that we would drink pretty much anything. Easy, yeah. So like, you know, whatever. Easy. Yeah, I know, sorry it's a bad answer. Sorry it's a bad answer. But it is the truth.

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Starting point is 02:28:13 Dave Brown, John Mackie, two of the funniest dudes. This was such a fun podcast. Thank you so much for being here. This was a blast. The Brett DeMott Show with Buddy. Tell us about the pod and anything else you'd like to plug. Yeah, so we do a podcast. It's kind of like a weekly news and current events show

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Starting point is 02:28:56 Big Mac. He has the Big Mac. The most lifetime hamburgers ever eaten and Dave kind of play I play Brett DeMott Dave plays my sidekick buddy who's kind of like the the the weirdo in the show I guess I don't know the dumb one yeah it's kind of like a play on like a Howard Stern's yeah it's it's mostly just me yeah the more we do the opinions are the same the more we do the show there is part of me That's just like why did we choose to do this in wigs because I basically just say what I really think But yeah, it's just a fun a fun show and you can check it out we also have patreon patreon.com slash Brett Dimacho, it's funny as hell. It's really funny. It's a real fun time. It's great

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