Doughboys - Potbelly Sandwich Shop with Colt Cabana

Episode Date: September 3, 2020

Colt Cabana (AEW, Art of Wrestling) joins the 'boys to talk Juggalos, seafood, and Potbelly Sandwich Shop. Plus, a celebrity booze edition of Slop Quiz.Sources for this week's intro:https://web.archive.org/web/20130118143455/http://www.hydeparkhistory.org/newsletter.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/1896/11/23/archives/inventor-ferris-is-dead-the-man-who-built-the-great-wheel-for-the.htmlhttps://web.archive.org/web/20030302045005/http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/ferris.htmlhttps://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/potbelly-trivia-about-the-chicago-sandwich-shop-chainhttps://www.fool.com/investing/general/2013/11/17/five-fun-things-you-may-not-know-about-potbelly.aspxhttps://www.potbelly.com/our-storyAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fm.Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. An obscure name, but his invention is a household one, the rotating cylindrical amusement known as the Ferris Wheel. A civil engineer by trade who dreamed of an attraction that would tower over Gustave Eiffel's similarly eponymous Eiffel Tower, Ferris assembled enough investors to debut his invention at the 1893 World's Fair in the Chicago neighborhood of Lincoln Park. Not to be confused with the band, Lincoln Park is one of the oldest and most well-known sections of the Windy City, and the Ferris Wheel became one of its most well-known sons, as did another Lincoln Park institution founded over 80 years later, a sandwich shop that originated within an antique store.

In 1977, the owner of said store, Peter Hastings, in a bid to boost his retail business, had the idea to serve sandwiches toasted in an antique stove as a way to entice and entrance customers. But the sandwiches proved more popular than his antique wares. Drawing crowds lined up to nibble on his warm-filled rolls, and in 1997, entrepreneur Brian Kyle purchased the concept, growing the single location into a chain, though keeping the antique stoves as a signature trait. Today, with nearly 500 locations, this sub-shop that boasts a secret menu that rivals SoCal's beloved in and out, and that anomalously serves both Coca-Cola and Pepsi, has proved to have a fantastical following in the second city and beyond. George Washington Gale Ferris Jr. died in obscurity

of typhoid just two years after his wheel's spectacular debut, impoverished due to litigation over its profits. But today, Lincoln Park's own Ferris Wheel remains in the public consciousness, along with its sandwich shop neighbor named for another antiquated invention, the Potbelly Stove. This week on Doe Boys, Potbelly Sandwich Shop. Welcome to Doe Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, piece of shit with a beard, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Tyler, I'm gonna fucking kill you. It's Kyler, but I probably shouldn't have corrected you with your threat of murder. I said Scott Tyler, he's gonna die. Oh, you changed it to Scott Tyler,

a pun on his name. That's more effort than he put into his roast. I made a pun for you, you love puns, you're the pun man. I do love puns. One could say I'm a regular pundit, I think they're a lot of pun. Oh, God. You know, I drove down the other day to give you some show documents. That's right. And we surprised you with a little caravan for your birthday. The script for this week's show. The printed out script. See, Wags accuses me of not doing a lot of work, but I write up the show script every week. It's chill. 90 minutes. So that's, you know, for those, for you plebes who don't know. One minute is one page of script, correct Wags? The rule of Hollywood.

The rule of Hollywood. You learned in Robert McKee's story, a page a minute. What do you think of story? I didn't read it. Wags, did you read Truth in Comedy? I did read Charna Halpern's Truth in Comedy. Wow. That's fucked up. I saw her yesterday. Sorry, sorry to chime in. I saw her yesterday. Wow. I'm leaving. I'm leaving. I'm leaving. I'm leaving. I'm sorry. Wow, Charna. Wow, we gotta get, well, we gotta revisit this Charna sighting. She's walking her dogs. Okay, sorry. Wow. Charna Halpern, if you're not familiar with a very well known in the, in controversial and in the improv comedy scene.

How about Save the Cat, Wags? I did read Save the Cat, or I read most of Save the Cat. I read that right before I got Wally and Irma. Took the wrong lesson from that book. It's not meant to be literal. I think it was a good lesson. Nick, here's some news. My local Wendy's is shutting down for three months. Oh my goodness. That's a real shame. My local Wendy's on Vermont. I went last night. Is it because they know you're going out of town? It's keeping us afloat. I was about to say to you that it's time to go back to Quincy because

of this. There's no reason to stay, there's no reason to stick around. So I pulled up to the window last night and she said, just to let you know, this location is shutting down where it's being renovated. So it's going to be shut down for three months. Wow. And I said, oh man, thank you so much. I mean, thank you for letting me know. Like, I also was kind of mad because like, did you say that because I'm like, you see me here all the time? But I was also, of course, worried that hopefully she still has a job somewhere else, but I ordered my number six Wags. And this is what I want to talk about quickly. No tomato on it. And that new spicy chicken sandwich I think is going to cause a lot of mistakes of no tomato. And look, also Wendy's

has the bad tomatoes too. This is, so just to explain, there's the classic spicy chicken sandwich and there's also now a spicy crispy chicken sandwich. And that is actually a less like, like a budget version of the sandwich that has fewer components. And the naming is just so similar. And it's hard to, you don't even know, you don't, like, you know, okay, here's an obvious example. Cheeseburger, double cheeseburger. I know the double cheeseburger is the upgraded one. Spicy chicken sandwich, spicy crispy chicken sandwich, which is the upgraded version. They sound lateral. They sound like synonyms. Well, I ordered a number six, which is the one that should come with the tomato,

but then I'm saying for the people who are making it in the restaurant, Yes. How confusing is that? It's confusing for everyone. It's confusing. They're going to fuck it up. It's like, it's no doubt a fuck up. Anyways, I'm fucking pissed off. Yes. That's a, that's Wendy's corporates issue. I agree. That's, it's confusing. Anyways, hattie ho to Spoon Nation. And here's a little drop lags.

I feel like sometimes you tighten up too much on me, Wiger. I think Nick's mad at me. I'm in a sour mood. But I felt like it was being like gaslighted. And you get mad at me for being lazy. Yeah. Uh, but I'm right to be. I just need your help. Hey, Wiger.

Yeah. I need you to accept my apology. Okay. I accept your apology, bitch. I love you, Nick. Wow. Wow. A nice one. Very sweet.

Hey, all. Long time, first time I made the drop about you guys being nice to each other. Sort of. I've been with you all from pretty much. I've been with you all. Jesus. I've been with you all from pretty much the beginning and love how you've weathered the ups and downs. Nothing to plug. Thanks. Simon, just call me that. No last name, please. What the fuck are you hiding? Can I make a lovely drop? I don't want to go after him. What the fuck is Simon? Interesting.

Thanks, Simon. That was a good one. That was a nice one. I feel emotional now. You want to call him Diamond and threaten his life? No, I like him. I like him more than the other guy. It's people have reasons they don't want to give their last name. It's fine. Yeah. Yeah. I know. It's good. Why would anyone want to be associated with the show? Speaking of which, let's introduce our guests.

We're thrilled to have them. A pro wrestler for all elite wrestling and host of the art of wrestling podcast. You can see him Wednesday nights on AEW Dynamite on TNT. Colt Cabana is here. Hi, Colt. Wow. Hello, gentlemen. Good to see you. A treat to have you. Colt, this is maybe going to be strange for you to hear. Because of the circumstances of quarantine and our last Doe Boys,

perhaps last ever Doe Boys tour dates, we did a show in Salt Lake City. That you attended. And we kind of semi hung out briefly afterwards. You were one of the, and then that was in March. And then basically we did another show in Denver and then came back and immediately Southern California went into lockdown. You were one of the last people I had any sort of IRL hang with. You were one of the last people I saw and had some sort of interpersonal interaction with. Weigar, I love how, you know, it's so meaningful to you yet has no meaning to me.

But that's very kind of you to say. Colt, because of that, you've, the power rankings of Weigar's friends, you're like second, I think. Right. Yeah, you just got your song. Oh, you song. Yeah, you got bump, Mitch. It was a pleasure to meet you guys and you tell is my first time in Utah. So that was an experience for me.

It was also my first time seeing you guys live. So that was an experience for me and getting to hang out. And yeah, and also that was like, we wrestled the next night in this like, I don't know, in front of like 3000 amazing crazy fans. And like it was like one of my first singles matches for AEW. And the crowd was going crazy for me. And I was like, oh, this is going to be a great start to AEW and wrestling in like in arenas every week.

This is the best. And then three days later, man, yeah, we, we, that, that show, we were, we had a meet and greet that show. Nick, do you remember? And we were just, and the news had come out and we were like shaking people's hands and then between shaking hands, we were using hand sanitizer, hand sanitizer. Why did I forget hand sanitizer? The thing I have to use every day now.

I remember that night because I was one of the last matches. Oh, after the show, we all went out afterwards, like in the ring. And then I stayed around because I'm a big baby face. So I was like shaking hands and high-fiving and taking selfies and grabbing people. There was so much touching going on. And that was like March 7th. Yep. Yep.

And that's when I realized something. So. Thank you, Coach. Seamless. So Weigar just left. Weigar went out, he went out. First of all, he said to Colton, he said, someone's in my apartment. And then he walked off and he turned his video off.

And Colton, I didn't really understand what the fuck he was talking about. Nope. And so we were like, is he, is there, and Colton said an intruder when he was leaving? And I said, I don't know, possibly. We didn't know what you were doing, Weigar. And you turned, why did you turn the video camera off? I didn't give you enough context. So earlier, before we started recording, I said they were testing the fire alarm in our apartment building.

And which is not great timing given that we're recording today. But the, but someone, I didn't really, someone had to come physically into our apartment and like look at all the, and inspect all the alarms. So that's what happened. Someone like knocked on our door and then came inside and I had to go take a look. Wow. Hey, your first guest. Yeah, I get pushed down to third now.

So yeah, we had a little, we had a little stop down, a little interruption, but we'll, we'll get back into it. I, I did want to ask about one thing that I noticed before we started recording. Col, you're wearing a Bucky's shirt. I've only been to Bucky's once. Wow. But what is your, what is your relationship with Bucky's as someone, I guess you're, you're on the road a lot.

You must have stopped out and stopped at a few of them. Well, I mean, before the world fell apart, I was on, I was literally doing 200 days a year on the road for. Wow. Probably the last 17 years or 18 years. I've been resting for 21 years now, but it, you know, picked up whatever when I was 22 or something. And so, yeah, so all I know is San Antonio, Austin and Dallas, I believe someone showed me a Bucky's maybe three years ago, first time I ever went and it's like heaven. Yeah.

Heaven. And I've never bought, first of all, I'm a very cheap man. So cheap. I was so excited that you were paying for my meal today. There's the cheap, the cheap sound goes off. The Doughboy's cheap meters is, is, is the alarm is going off. That's my, uh, my fire alarm. I'm sorry.

They're testing it out. Was this man really fixing your fire alarm? Natalie, he was like, uh, Nick, this is the fire alarm guy. Nick, you know what I think is happening? What? I think Beavis is loose in your apartment complex. Oh boy. That would explain it.

And he likes starting fires. Oh, that took me a second. But very well done, Mitch. Very well done. That drive from, cause we did it for a Doughboy's tour. We did it in three days and I'm sure you've done it countless times, but the, the, uh, I forget where, where you start, but the Austin to, to Houston to Dallas, I think was our leg, that is a long, flat, dull drive.

And I think you got it right. I think you got it right there, Nick. I think that was the route. But Bucky's is like, is like an oasis when you're on that highway for so long. Is that where you tried, but it was on that, was on that road trip, Nick? I believe so. I believe we were at that. I believe that's where we went to the Bucky's.

It might have been on our subsequent Texas today. It's like when people ask, it's like, what's Bucky's? It's like, if you can mix seven 11 with six flags, great America, that's what it is. Wow. It really is. And I'm, I'm a guy who loves like fake, healthy snack food. And so like, there's just so many options and so much there and, uh, and there's like weird, like fake Costco samples you could get obviously now and not now times that's not going to be a

thing, but they're handing stuff out. You know, I'm getting full before I'm even done picking my stuff out. Wow. Wow. This is, this is something that we so didn't take a bit because we, we went and then we just treated it as if it was a fucking gas station stop. Yeah. Yeah.

We didn't, we didn't, and then people have tweeted us about Bucky's since then, but the fact that you were on the road that much, because last year we were on the road a lot for us and, and it's the most chaos, your life is chaos. It's rough. How, yeah, how do you, how, how do you eat? How do you even eat in a situation like that? How do you, how do you, how do you eat healthy? How do you eat at all?

I mean, you're, you're a person who obviously can't eat like we do on these, on these tours, but you're also burning a bunch of calories. So maybe you do, I don't know. But also I'm like a fat kid who just started working out a lot. So like, I only eat to like try not to be fat as possible, if that makes sense. Yeah. And like, that's also why, why I go to the gym. So I try to eat healthy, but also like, I'm not the greatest dieter, but I do know how to diet,

and I do know like not to eat whatever Oreos every day on the road. Yeah. Although, wow, what a life that would be. Oh yeah, God's the best. I think we, when we, when we get our rental, like our rental man, we always put Oreos in the center console. We open up the bag. The best just loose.

The best scam is like these, I don't know if you guys know those like Lenny and Larry cookies or whatever, the protein cookies. Oh yeah, yeah. Where they're like, all the wrestlers like originally started just like eating these all the time. And then like a study came out being like, oh, these are worse for you than all of the cookies ever. They just happen to have protein in it.

That's because I, my, the gym I used to be a member of last, last, last place I lived had those like, you could just buy them upfront with like sports drinks. Like it was like healthy. That's crazy that they just have no nutritional value. They do. They have protein, but also all of the sugar and all of the carbs. And have I stopped eating them? Of course I haven't.

I always indulge and tell myself they are a healthy protein snack. Are you, are you, as far as sweet tooth goes, do you go, you go for cookies? Is that your confection of choice? I like it. I mean, well, I'm a very picky eater, but I do. Yeah, I, I have some rules with my dessert, but I do like, I guess sugars would be my thing, which would be cookies. Rules are don't, in my desserts, don't put fruit in them.

Don't put nuts in them. Don't put mint on them. Wow. But I like, I like all of that stuff separately, but don't mix it with my chocolate and vanilla and caramel and whatnot. So just kind of straight up. If you, if you get a shake, just a chocolate or vanilla shake, there goes the cheap alarm. Colt, is this a cheap thing?

You don't like to add the nuts because it's more money. Why are you calling me out on it? It's like guacamole and Chipotle. I was going to say that it must be adding in the fact that you're a picky eater, which I did not know that adds, that must add to the fact that it's very hard to eat on the road, because I feel like you've got to be a little bit not picky at all. But I know what I like and usually like, there is stuff I like. I, I mean, grilled chicken is everywhere.

And it's interesting, you were talking about the Wendy's chicken sandwich, where they have a really good one because you can get their grilled chicken sandwich. It's just a good hunk of grilled chicken, a tomato and honey mustard. And I think maybe a slab of lettuce and like in my head, that's pretty healthy. Yeah. But then the crispy one. So in my head, the regular, the regular chicken sandwich is the upgrade as opposed to the crispy, because the crispy will always just be the cheap deep fried option.

Well, yes. Correct or incorrect. Nick and I, we both love the spicy chicken sandwich. And as far as, as far as chicken patties go, I think it's, I think it's perfect. Because it's not too, it's not too thick and it's not too thin. It's kind of right in the, the, the perfect area of it's, it's kind of juicy, but not too juicy. We're at a fast food restaurant where you don't, you don't want it to be juicy.

You don't want to taste those juices, basically. Is that a grilled one? No, the spicy chicken is, is a fried patty and it's encrusted in like the, yeah. Then it's all shit. Sorry about that. Oh yeah. No, it's bad. The one, the one you're talking about though, which I have had before is pretty, the grilled chicken sandwich with the honey mustard is decent. And Wendy's, Wendy's also is the sort of place where if it's McDonald's,

Wendy's and Burger King, I want the grilled chicken from Wendy's. It does still have that thing of like, oh, like they can kind of do real food. I would choose the Wendy's grilled chicken as, as a protein wrestler boy. That's the one I'm choosing every time I think. Nick, Nick and I talked about this one when, when we were eating no carbs in and out obviously is great, but then Wendy's, as far as the fast food chains, that was that also, that their protein, their protein burger is, is decent. They'll give you, they'll give you a good lettuce wrap and they'll give it to you

in that, you know, that baked potato container. So it's easy to eat. And it's that sort of thing of like, oh, like, and I think that just speaks to Wendy's, the quality of their, of their meat and poultry is just better than McDonald's and Burger King. For a while when I was going heavy no carbs, I remember the scam was, you could go to McDonald's and just as for grilled chicken patties and like, it would vary. So like some would just give like, some would give you to, for like a dollar in those baked

potato things and you get like four of them and then you're set on the road. But then some others would like charge you like 3.99 for just a patty. It was kind of a hit or miss, but if you can get the dollar McDonald's patty place, it was a good on the road chicken option. That's great. What else? I know a lot of, or I've heard a lot of wrestlers like Chipotle, because you can just get like a, like a big bowl there for, for not too much. But what else are your go-tos on the road?

You know, when you said that, Jimmy Johns has the unwitch, which I really enjoy. I like their lettuce wrap, I guess, or whatever. I mean, I hate it all. I wish it was just all whoppers. I wish. Right. What a life that could be. Um, yeah, but, uh, yeah, Chipotle, you just get your kind of proteins and I,

I don't like, uh, I, I don't like beans and I don't want rice because of the carbs. And I don't want them. Wow. I don't want the tortillas because of the carbs. Um, and actually the rice is, I don't know, I was thinking about this today because you guys were talking about Roberto, a couple episodes back. That's right. And I remember the first time ever, I never ate rice.

I didn't understand why it was good or what the point of it was. And then when I went to Japan and wrestled there for the first time in 2005, everyone was just eating rice and like everyone seemed healthy. And I was like, Oh, I guess when in Japan, so I started like eating gobs of rice. And then I came home and bought a rice cooker and just started like making so much rice, not realizing like you can't be eating like pales of rice every day. Right. I mean, I can't, but I can't.

I get pales. I put, I put, I put the pale around my neck and eat it like a horse. A feed. A feed. Rice might be my favorite of the, you talk about kind of your classic starches. And I feel like if I, if I could just have one, like as a baseline, I love rice so much. And, and I like, uh, that, if anything, any time I've not had one rice, like, no, if I get one grain, one grain of rice, that's all you want.

No, if I could have one, like, you know, you got your, you got your breads, you got your potatoes, you got, you know, you got your, your cornmeal. I feel like if I could just have like kind of one thing, I might go towards, I might go towards rice. In fact, I probably would go towards rice because that's then the thing I've missed the most. Did you say cornmeal? Yeah, you could use corn as a base for starches. Okay.

Corn tortillas. Yeah. Potato, rice beats potato. I think I dig rice over potatoes. Yeah. I like potatoes. I like all these. I love all of these things.

I don't want to make this choice. This is a tough choice, but I go, I think I'd go rice. You remember when McDonald's got rid of the happy meal and put in the cornmeal? By the way, why is that? I was going to say, uh, God curse me with one grain of rice. Wait, what's that from? I'm saying my dick is small for God's sake. Oh, you're talking about your hawk.

Got it. That didn't hit me like the Beavis one did. Sorry. A little more of an A to Z. So let's talk about Rebara Steakhouse because we got into this with our friend. Sorry guys. It's very expensive. And also.

Sorry about my fire alarm. Never been listening. Also, when I go to Rebara, I never pay. So that is the cheap meter popping off. Wow. They, they, they basically they'll give you the meal on the house. No, no, no. We in, in Japan, like, oh, it's pretty great.

It's these things called like these fans, essentially called sponsors. But like in America, it'd just be like annoying if someone was like, I'm taking out to dinner and you're like, I don't want to go out to dinner with you. I'd leave me alone. But in Japan, we justify it like, oh, it's a sponsor. And so they take us out and like, we just eat every night for free from sponsors. Wow. That's awesome.

Yeah, that's awesome. That rules. So, so Rebara Steakhouse and just for a little refresher in case people don't remember. We, Leslie Lee, the third brought this up. This is a Steakhouse in Japan that is known for its food, but also for having a jacket that that is given to wrestlers. And you are in possession of one or more of these jackets you tweeted at us. Oh, three of them.

Wow, three jackets. And can I say they are beautiful. They are satin. And I remember when I came home with my first one and I tried to wear them out on the streets, like, because I was so proud of it. And then my non-wrestling real life friends were like, what are you wearing? You fucking nerd. And so I packed it up and never wore it again.

But they are a thing of pride. Very proud of it. And yeah. And you know what, like jackets that are like, like sports, like sportsman jackets or whatever, like the things that you get for, for playing like a Letterman jacket for playing like a football in high school or something. You can't really wear the, they have, they have a very small frame, like a time frame of when you can wear them.

Although are they coming back like on thrift stores? Possibly. Now, maybe, maybe now it's like, thrift Instagram accounts, like people selling old ones. And now they're cool to wear someone else's Letterman's jacket. Yeah. To me, that's stolen valor. Okay.

If you didn't get, if you didn't get that letter for playing water polo from Polk High, you shouldn't be wearing that jacket. Also, Weigar and I are not the best guys to talk fashion with. One, I dress like Rodney Dangerfield did in his movies 40 years ago. And Weigar dresses like a little child boy. You dress like a, you dress like a child, I guess you could say. I sometimes, yeah, sure. I like to, I don't know.

Hold on, hold on, hold on. People will get mad at me. A fashionable child. Yes, like a fashionable kid. I like to have fun in the sun. I got some, you know, I like to wear shorts and shirts. I'll dress up sometimes. I think I have a fine fashion sense.

I'm a flip-flop man myself. And I know a lot of people hate me for it, but I want those toes to be free. Wow. Flip-flops are very comfy. I've gotten into slides lately. And I like letting my dogs breathe. But the, I'm with you on that. Your grains of rice?

I find this, I would get some like chafing from the flip-flop, you know, between the toes. Whereas I don't get that from the slides, even though they don't stay on quite as well. Oh, I'm sorry. Then yeah, I don't know the terminology. I have slides. I don't like anything, anything in between my toes.

Yeah. Oh wow. Okay. I didn't. So not even that one little, that one little loop on a flip-flop. Get that thing out of there. Nope. Also, I have something weird about me.

Like remember when you would break your finger, I guess as a kid or now, and they'd like tape it together? Yes. Like that, the anxiety of like no space in between my fingers would also drive me crazy. So that it's kind of the same thing with your feet. Oh wow. Yeah. I get what you're talking about.

That would be like when I played hockey as a kid, I remember I had to like, because there's no movement in that hockey skid, I had to put like, I had to put like the sock in between each toe because I couldn't have like it together and no ability to like spread my dog, my dogs, if you will. Yes. See, that, that, that to me, that to me is that would bother me having the sock in between my toes in my shoe or whatever.

I think that that would, would bug me. But I know what you're talking about of like skin to skin, skin to skin. Yeah, I get, I, I, I get that. Also, Nick, have you ever broken your finger before? No, I've never broken a bone. Wow. Maybe I'm unbreakable. You think you're unbreakable?

I might be unbreakable. You're like a young Kimmy Schmidt. And am I Mr. Glass? I mean, in that, if I am unbreakable, then yeah, you would be Mr. Glass. Wow. Or you'd be the other, the other one. Who's the other, who's the, who's the James McAvoy character? Oh, the, the creature, like the, whatever, whatever he's called.

It's split, but then he has a name that's not the split, not the name split. And then he's also like, look who you're talking to here lady. Like he does like a bunch of, you can pull that off. He does a bunch of different characters. Is this Dick Tracy? What is this? I mean, honestly, he does, oh, split. It's the movie is called Split.

Split is the movie, but the, but he, his character, like, I forget what the name of the villain is. The monster. It's called something else. It's called, it's like the Wrath, but it's not the Wrath. I saw, I saw Glass in, at the Arclight. I think I talked about it on here and Buster Rhymes was sitting right next to me. You have told this, yeah.

I saw Buster Rhymes at the Gathering of the Juggalos perform. Wow, you've, wow, we, Nick and I want to go at some point. I'd be very excited to go. Have you been multiple times? What was your experience? Seven times. Seven times. Wow.

Whoop, whoop. Do you, do you consider yourself a Juggaloh? I do. Wow. I mean, just cause I think like, I think ICP are like the coolest, the way they've like made themselves up, like how they've like marketed themselves. And I sometimes like, remember, because they give me so much free swag, I will wear their stuff because they've given me the free swag.

Like I'm not painting my face walking around town, but like, they gave me a jersey and I was like, eh, it fits well. I'll wear this. They also, I remember that they, they, back in the day, they did the theme song for the oddities, uh, uh, back in, way back in the day. Oh, the animated series. Yeah. No, the pro wrestlers.

The pro wrestlers. Wait, I thought there was, I thought there was an animated show called the oddities. That was a cheap, that was the, that was the cheap meter because Wagger didn't pay for cable back in the day. He never saw. You talking about MTV's oddities? I'm thinking of a different show. I'm thinking of the oblongs.

Are you thinking, are you thinking about the head? MTV's the head? The guy with like the big head? No, and there's a show called, it's, it's not the, it's fuck. I forgot what it was called. I think it was called the oblongs. Either way, it's not, ICP did not do the theme song for them, but I thought that's what you're referring to.

I'm sure they would have taken the gig though. Yeah. So not our first juggalo guest, our buddy, murder Brian is also a juggalo, but I, I don't believe, I don't know if he's been to the gathering of the juggalos. I'd like to, and we certainly didn't get into that experience. I'd like to, to hear what that's like. What do you, like, what do you do with the gathering of the juggalo? So what's the, how do you pass the time?

Oh, well, I mean, from like seven to three in the morning, there's just music going on. Got it. And I witnessed people throwing shit at Tila Tequila. Wow. I witnessed Ron Jeremy hitting on every single woman. Oh boy. Yeah. And then like, I think my favorite memory is just, it was like two AM,

me and my friends are just walking around and we're like, oh, I heard music over there. And then we just go under a tent and it's vanilla ice doing the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles song. And it was just like, oh, this, this is America. You know, this is, this is great. And then, yeah, we would do, we would do wrestling there. And that's essentially why I went because I'm a, I'm a wrestler for the, for the juggalo championship wrestling, which used to be called juggalo champion shit wrestling, but they changed it for validation.

And they would be like, oh, so you're going on at 11 PM. And then obviously, because whatever we would all, the show would start at three AM or four AM. And so I'd wrestle at four AM, but I'm okay with that. But they also are like such fans of old school wrestling that they would like pay like all these legends to come to the shows. And so like, at the time, rest in peace. But like Roddy Piper and Terry Funk and rugged Rodney Garvin and Kevin Nash, all these people in their fifties, sixties and sometimes seventies

are like waiting for, you know, murder the hatchet man to finish up his set. So they can start wrestling at four AM. So I feel, you feel bad for them picturing Rick Flair just watching vanilla ice do the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle song waiting to go on. Well, I saw like George Clinton. I saw that I saw perform now Busta Rhymes. I want to, I mean, just, I don't know, so many over the years. It's been so cool.

And I'm, you know, it's obviously that was something, you know, ICPR, our front leaders, they, they called it off really quick this year, which is very sad. But yeah, good for them. Yeah, it's a bummer, but it was good that they, good that they cancel it. I guess I'm, the food there was never anything spectacular. A lot, I think elephant ears, like they kind of went with the idea of the carnival and the dark carnival.

So they would do like just your basic carnival food, hot dogs, nachos, whatever. Right. But the Fago has got to be flowing, right? A lot of Fago, of course. And there's, there, there is bootleg people. They're also with a, there's a lot of side hustlers there, like selling their own stuff out of their trunks, like making hot dogs in boiled water in their trunk, I feel.

Oh, wow. That's a, that's a very Doughboys-esque move. The cheat, the cheat meter should have gone off, but it didn't. But I want to ask you about food in Japan because that's a, how long, how long exactly did you live over there? So I've probably been there, I don't know, maybe 25 times over the years, and I would go from anywhere from probably like six days to my longest tour was 27 days. Wow.

And I don't eat anything from the sea. Oh, no. Nothing from the sea. Nothing. Wow. Is this, is this some sort of rule or is it a thing that you just hate seafood? Hate seafood. I feel it comes from some kind of trauma as a kid that I don't know.

I think it's the smell or the taste or the texture or all of it or some of it. And I can tell, like if you put something in something and I'm like, oh, this, I don't like this and I'll get rid of it. And some stuff I've never even tasted, but I know I just won't, but like, I won't eat it. I won't eat oysters. I won't eat shrimp. Wow.

I don't want whatever the, whatever the, like the finest sea delicacy is. I have no interest in it. Wow. Wow. Thank you. Lander air only. I've, I've heard of people, you know, I definitely know people who don't like, don't eat fish, but a lot of times there's a carve out of just like, oh,

but I'll have shrimp, you know, or like, like, oh, I'll have crab, you know, but you just, everything is completely off the table. I won't even eat tartar sauce. Wow. Also, I feel I said that wrong and that was just for joke purposes and. That's crazy. Cause Nick, Nick and I make sure that we have some every day. You brush your teeth with it.

It's what my travel mug is filled with. It's a, I, I, yeah, I think it's tartar sauce, but honestly, I don't know. No, I've never heard anyone say like, this is the right way to say it. Um, actually, someone will get an arm mentions. Weigar's fucking alarms going off again. Sorry. Now, now I'm starting to wonder if this is a tartar sauce alarm. It's telling me I only have two gallons left.

I thought you said it close enough. I didn't think Weigar had a, actually you with the, the real pronunciation. Tartar sauce is the thing that I don't even really eat too much of. Tartar sauce is good with what? Fish and chips and what else? Oh man. I mean, you know, I will say, if you get a good tartar sauce with a shrimp cocktail, that can really be a great, you get some cocktail sauce.

You have some tartar sauce. You alternate between them. That's a lot of fun. What's it made out of? It's, you know, it's like a mayo base. Yeah. It's a mayo base with a cream of tartar is like a seasoning that gets mixed into it.

And then a lot of times it's got like some, I think maybe some dill, some relish. And is there a famous, is there someone famous for their tartar sauce? Nothing comes to mind. There's not like a hidden valley of tartar sauce as far as I know. Or a restaurant known for their tartar sauce. I think that there are, I think a lot of restaurants do like their own like house in-house tartar sauce, which can be, which can be really good.

Do you know who would probably do that? And I'd like to give a shout out for the Ribera of America. Let's hear it. Which is Jimmy's seafood in Baltimore. Are you ever been? Wow. I have, but I've been to Jimmy's seafood, but here's my question. Have you been to Jimmy's seafood?

If you're not a seafood, no. Of course. Oh, you have? I mean, the guy there, I've wrestled Jimmy's seafood owner, Johnny, in a match before. Wow. He is such a wrestling fan that he invites every single, every like wrestler ever is allowed to come and eat there basically for free. He supports the wrestlers.

He is the greatest. And besides that, they have, their steaks are delicious. Oh, okay. Oh, okay. There you go. But I am like a little sad when he like brings out a platter and he's like, this is free for everyone. I'm like, well, I can eat one, maybe one and a half things from that.

Yeah. A big seafood platter. That's, that's funny. I understand seafood being the thing that, that people don't eat. It's the, it's the weirder, it's the weirder group of food. And like, I think that only as a young New England boy, just like eating some of that stuff early on and honestly having like an adverse reaction to it back then, but just getting used to it over time.

I understand people not liking fish or like, like they're like, if you get a fishy tasting fish, it's no good. You don't want, you don't want that. You and I are both from the coast, but you're, but Mitch, you and I are both from the, from opposite shores, but Colt, you're from the heartland. You're from Deerfield, Illinois originally. A little, maybe a little bit less seafood is a little bit less of a common thing there. Meat and potatoes.

And it's funny you say that because my first like memory of like fish, I was probably like 10 or something and we were on vacation in Florida at like a seaside restaurant and they brought something and they, my mom was like, here, try this. And I think I might have even ordered it like, oh, I've never had fish before. And then I just remember how gross it was. And then, and it wasn't, like you said, Mitch, it wasn't something that we had in our household as a kid. Yeah.

That's like the first time I ever had sushi. I remember eating just like when I was like 10 or something and my dad gave me some fucking, also like some Quincy sushi that maybe sucked and just like chewing on it like it was gum. And being like, this is like fish gum. It tastes just like, like chewy fish gum. Oh, gum, he said gum. Yeah, yeah. Okay, let's make that clear.

Just to be clear, my dad wasn't giving me shots of fish gum. I want the listeners to know that I wasn't doubting fish gum. You don't eat fish, but having spent time in Japan, have you ever had any of like a, you know, like a cucumber roll or like a tomago, any varietal of sushi that's not fish? No, I'm not touching any of that. None of it. Wow. Because it's all wrapped in seaweed.

There's like some kind of. Oh, okay. Yeah. If you, I once like tried to figure out like what there was and there really isn't anything. Like even like, cause I like avocado, like I know there's avocado roll, but there's also seaweed and some kind of fish elements. I stay away. I stay away.

Yeah. I mean, even if it's totally vegetarian, you're right. There's always the seaweed, which is a little bit of an acquired taste. The first couple of times I had it, I was, I had to adjust to it. Do you want to know what the wrestlers eat in Japan? Yes, please. 7-Eleven has chicken breasts in a bag, like just ready to go. And that's what we chow down on.

Wow. Like on the road, it's just like grilled chicken breasts in a bag. And like after a year of that, it gets really gross, but you still eat it. And then like, they came out with like other like tandoori and some other varieties. And so like everyone, all the wrestlers were very excited when those started coming out. But that's like the real go-to for pro wrestlers in Japan. That to me just shows like the difference between, I feel like Japan 7-Elevens are probably much nicer.

I like, like the idea of grilled chicken in a bag at, in the United States at a 7-Eleven just seems like it would be fucking got off. No, that's dangerous. Yeah. I would, I would stay away. I guess another crazy thing is there's a 7-Eleven on every single corner, sometimes like two on a corner in Japan. There's like, there's Larson's, there's 7-Eleven, and there's another one.

And they, I mean, those, they're called convenies or convenience stores. And they're everywhere. It's like, you look on Google Maps for 7-Eleven and there's, you know, there's 20 within a mile radius. Wow. I'm a fan of 7-Eleven. So I, I approve of that. I think that should happen here too. A 7-Eleven on every corner, Nick.

That's what I would do if I was president. That's your campaign promise? I mean, you might win. That might be enough. More appealing platform than Biden. Yeah. Will you or will you not sniff little girl's hair though? Look, I'm not making any promises.

We'll take a break. We'll be back with more dough boys. Welcome back to dough boys. We're with Colt Cabana discussing Potbelly's Sandwich Shop this week's chain. Now, Colt, you told us that you saw Charna helper and walking her dogs. What type of dogs does she have? Knowing that it's Charna, my head says they got to be two hilarious dogs. Oh, I'm guessing a Chihuahua, yes, and a Beagle.

Yes, and you're wrong. I might be mistaken. I think she only had one dog and it was a pretty big dog. But I started playing softball with a bunch of stand-ups and comedians in Chicago. And someone was like, oh, Charna lives around here. And then someone was walking her dog and she kind of looked like what I thought she looked like. And I was like, hey, is that my buddy Jonah Jerkins?

I was like, hey, is that her? And he's like, oh, yeah, that's her. And so there it was. I saw her. And then I didn't know why God told me to see her, but now that it's been brought up. For the dough boys. Yes, that's right. Myself and when I met Charna helper, me, Dave Ferguson, Mike Hanford,

Matt Koalik, Jack Allison, and this guy, Paul Oyan, went up against the real world, Nick, in an improv battle. That's right. The season, the real world where their job was to be a herald team at the Improv Olympic Theater, as if that is a lucrative position. Was that on the real world? It was on the real world in like 2006 or 2007. Yeah, it was a long, long time ago.

Great credit. Congratulations. They barely show us. I mean, it was funny. Like it was like a group of fucking monsters versus like a group of very attractive. Yeah. Maybe maybe Ferguson could have could have migrated over to that team. He was looking good.

But but it's like was. But they we it was like a it was a moment that I felt great pride in because like we like kicked the shit out of them. Like we like they they went up and they like they not I hate competitive improv. It's like stupid. And that's what it was a cage match, which is like the dumbest shit on earth. Yes. But it did feel good to like go up against kind of like the hunks and and babes.

And we just blew them out of the water, Nick, if fucking. Oh, you beat them doing the thing that you do versus them who have never done that thing. Wow. Cool. This is like you taking pride in if you wrestled me in the ring and destroyed me. Congratulations. And then Charna Helper and came up to Dave Ferguson in front of me and said, we got to get you on a house team over here.

Fuck you, Charna. Yeah. I'm sitting up standing right in front of you. Wow. You and your fucking big ass dog. Wags. When your alarm goes off, don't just turn to the side and stare off to the alarm or whatever. I'm trying to mute myself to be like, OK, we'll just let this time pass.

Because if I'm talking over this audio, then we have then we have to use this. I guess I guess we're just locked into all a bunch of beeping throughout this episode. We'll see how many people unsubscribe. It's the beeping episode. It's fun. I'm going to cut as much of it as I possibly can, I promise. Thank you. I say, turn it up.

OK, on the version I send Mitch, it'll be just beeps for like two hours. Let's try to time our swearing and the beeps together. Oh, god. Someone pulls that off. Fuck. Fuck. Hey, pivoting from Improv Olympic to another Chicago institution, Potbelly. Sandwich Shop first founded as an antique store in the Windy City.

They started selling sandwiches to drum up business in 1977, and then that became their main business. The name comes from the Potbelly Stove, which is in every restaurant, including the one I went to. I assume, Colt, that you have an allegiance to this, to Potbelly, because you are from the Chicago area. But tell us specifically, in your thoughts, why you wanted to discuss this chain and what your take on it is.

Well, I was given a list of restaurants that have not been done, and I said to myself, oh, Potbelly's is from Chicago. Which, by the way, that list is about, it's like six restaurants now. Yeah, which still includes Applebee's, amazingly. I was surprised by that, and I was surprised at Potbelly's, which might be interesting as a Chicagoan that maybe I see Potbelly's in a bigger platform than the rest of the world's, and also you and LA, because to me, it's kind of a big chain,

but maybe I'm incorrect. It's a big chain, but I think it's pretty regionally clustered. Because there is, as far as I could tell, there is one in California. The next, at least to us, maybe there's another one in Northern California, but the closest location other than the one Mitch and I went to in Irvine, California, in Orange County, is in Arizona. No, it was far away. Yeah, oh my God, I feel so bad.

No, no, you're fine. No, Colt, you should. Weigran and I are gonna fucking kick your ass next time we see you. And then I'll take you on in an improv match. We get destroyed in both. God damn it. We're just blaming the suggestion afterwards. Weigran and I are gonna super kick you at the same time.

We'll see how high our legs get. Our super kick you is not going to get above your crotch level most likely. Probably not above your knees, honestly. You will tear both your groins. The same way that you take a chicken wing off of a chicken, I can feel that would be your crotches. Colt, a thing that I, when I actually did work out and was active, when I was a bad athlete, but an athlete, one of the things I love to do was-

You, and correct me if I'm wrong, Mitch, you rode crew, right? I was an NCAA, God, God, an NCAA. I was an athlete in college. NCAA athlete in college. So was I. Did you wrestle in college? I was a Division 1A football player for the Western Mission University, known as the worst Division 1A football player of all time.

Food does come into this because I do remember, I was retarded freshman. I never played. I was the most hated person on the team by the coaches and the players. Just because I wasn't what they were. And all I remember is after the games, there was free Papa John's pizzas, and I would take like three of them back to my dorms, and I got caught once and I got yelled at and I got scolded amongst many other things. I mean, I love it, and I know her as far as I'm concerned.

It is funny when you, like you were saying like, because I wasn't what they were, and I know that experience well, and it is great when you meet athletes who are like, because there are guys who are, and then there's some guys that you just can't. Well, wrestling, I met my people. Yeah, that feels like a good, that feels like a great mix. We're like in football, when I played football, wherever or whatever with the same thing with crew,

there'd be some guys where you're like, oh, this I just can't, this person is not the type of person I should talk to. But a thing I used to love to do after like a, like, you know, like a three hour practice or whatever, is that you could just, you get a superpower where you can eat as much food as possible. Do you have like binges? Can you eat like a, can you eat a shit ton of food? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm bad. Like I can, you know, there's those challenges. And a lot of them look hard, but I always say to myself, like if I'm, if I starve myself for eight hours, I could probably eat like, you know the giant pizza challenges? Yes. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I feel like I could eat that whole pizza.

No problem. If it's a thin slice. Yeah. You're talking big mumbas and big papa's giant pizza? Yes, and. Is that the famous one? I feel there was one in Atlanta that was on that guy's show. Man versus food.

Yeah, man versus food. Yeah, the, the, the one out here is a big mama's big papa's. It's, it's like a six foot a fucking diameter pizza. It's gigantic, but I, and I don't know if he's tackled that on the show, but it is just like a, yeah, it is an outrageous amount of pizza. Yeah, I will say that like I used to never, never an athlete at any level, but I did have a time when I was running half marathons and marathons. And yeah, I was just burning so many calories that I could just eat an insane amount,

outrageous amount of food and then drink like a six pack of RC Cola and still be the thinnest I've ever been. Wow. And that is a great, God, that is a great feeling. And me being an hour, I'm just so sedentary. You chose a six pack of RC Cola. Royal Crown Cola. No, I know.

I feel Mountain Dew goes down. Like, I remember, like after a practice in like junior high school, like Mountain Dew would go down so quickly. Like you could drink three cans so easily. Yeah, that's, that's as opposed to this darker Cola. Right. Yeah, there's like, there's just a smoothness to it where yeah, you can absolutely, it goes on, not too much bite.

Do you know, there's, there's a, there's like a time where like when you've like a, you're so physically exhausted and then Gatorade has a next level flavor to it, where it's like, it feels like you're actually like, like you're actually replenishing things that are missing in your body. Like it, like it tastes better than it ever tastes if you're completely. It's like drinking a potion in an RPG. Truly. To fill your HP increasing.

Fill your mana coming back. What are you playing right now? What am I playing? Yeah. I'm honestly playing, I'm playing Baba is You, which is this puzzle game, which is absolutely making me feel like the dumbest man on earth. But it's, it's, it's an incredible design. It's very good.

Cole, are you a gamer at all? Well, the AEW wrestlers started playing a Dungeons and Dragons game on Twitch on Brandon Cutler, who's a wrestler in AEW. He's like a dungeon master. That's his gimmick. And he's like, who wants to play and like a bunch of us who have never played it before in our lives were like, yeah, sure, we'll do whatever. So that's very fun.

Like having people explain everything to me. I thought, I thought a water skin was my skin was made out of water and I was really excited to use it. And then they told me that it was like a, a satchel for water. And I was made fun of by my whole community. Well, you know, your idea is closer for God's sakes. Yeah. And a bed roll. I was like, I got a bed roll.

And I thought that was like, oh, I'm going to like roll out of my bed really fast. Like real thought, that's a real thought. And they're like, no, it's, it's a bag. I'm with them on that one. Yeah. Potbelly, I will say, pivoting back to potbelly, the, so I'd never been there before. I knew of it. I, a lot of people, you know, we've gotten a lot of suggestions or a lot of, a lot of,

I, I wouldn't even want to say suggestions. A lot of people like, like basically ordering us to cover this chain. People are very, very enthusiastic about potbelly. And we're, we're hoping that we would cover it eventually. I'd never having been there, but having seen it and, and aware of its reputation. The first thing I'll say is that the app is fantastic. Colt, have you messed around with the app at all? I have not.

It is so good. Also, I'm not, I'm not an order to my house person at all. I always go pick up even when it's a pizza based off of cheapness and hunger. I just know, like if I'm like, I don't order ahead of time. So I order like, if I want a pizza, like I'll call it in and then go there. Cause I know it's going to take an hour and a half. I'm going to be so hungry. So I really don't mess with food apps.

I love using apps. However, I am with you on not getting delivery. I'm going to pick it up. Basically never get delivery. Got it delivered first. We get the Nomad ice pops delivered here. And that was the only delivery we've had the entire time we've lived at this, at this apartment. Is that true?

That's it. Yeah. We don't get food delivered. I'm with you, like it's, I like to get out and I feel like it's, it's not purely cheapness that's motivating me in terms of not the, the delivery fee. It's, it's, but it is like, it is, you know, you do save on that. But then I also like, I just like to get out of the house and, and I feel like I've, I've, I'm not just like trapped inside if I'm going out to get something.

I'm with you on that too. I've learned that from the, someone who is very cheap. My dad, my dad would never ever get delivered. We never got delivery once my entire time growing up. Like if we were getting pizza, which was a rare occasion, we were going to the pizza hut and we were getting the carry out special. I'm with you too. I like the idea of like, I'm doing something, especially as a rest,

like as a wrestler, I go wrestle and then when I come home, like, I don't have any work. So like to get out of the house is very nice. Yes. Man, I can just imagine those fucking family trips to pick up that pizza hut in the, in your car with no radio on and fucking like five silent ligers or however many there are. Four. There are four of us.

Whatever, a silent dog in the back too. Just no one, no one's speaking or barking. My family is very outgoing and gregarious. They're, they're, they're not like me. I'm, I'm the, I'm the quiet one. I know, I know. I, your family was way cooler. I told you, we talked about this before.

I met, when we were at the San Diego show, I was having a blast with them. Nick, when I came, speaking of which, when I came down to give you that stuff yesterday and had a little caravan of people for your birthday. It was a very nice gesture. You looked, hmm, mad? I don't, I don't know how to, I don't know how to sum up the look on your face. All right. So let me, let me explain a little bit what happened.

So Mitch had to, Mitch has some tax documents. He had to drop off for our Doughboys Media Escorp, the boring parts of having a fucking podcast that has any sort of revenues you have to have to do all this business shit. So he had to give those to me physically so I could sign them and, and whatever. Anyway, so he had to bring those by and we had a scheduled time when he's, when you were coming by and you tacked on to that. You got a bunch of our, a bunch of our friends to come along with you and do a little birthday socially distanced hello surprise thing, which was very nice of you.

It was a very, it was a nice gesture. However, I was just, I was confused because it was two days after my birthday. So I did, so it took me a second to be like, what is happening here? Oh, I get, I get what you're, what you're doing. So I drive by and I'm, I'm playing, they say the Beatles birthday song. Oh, was that what that was? Yes. And then there's cars behind me beeping and this is what comes out of Nick's mouth.

Did you bring the documents? Well, yeah, that was the primary purpose of your visit. I'm going to make sure you didn't have to make another trip. Yeah, I brought the fucking documents. You fucking robot. There's people here saying happy birthday to you. You fucking freak. It was a nice gesture.

It's lovely to see everyone. What'd you get him for his birthday? Documents. I got, I, I got him documents and I, and I brought down a manscaped thing for him. I brought him a man, I brought him a manscape shaver. But Nick, it was, it was good to see your, uh, the fucking. It was good to see the fucking. It was good to see the fucking.

I was, I was, I was peeking in through windows. Um, yeah, that was why there was the expression on my face. It was good to see the fucking that high castle you live in your fucking silver wigs, man, the fucking house, the apartment complex. Um, we had a, uh, it was a lovely gesture and I will say that the, so it's, it was a drive down to pot belly. I ordered on the app with like, like, uh, what, what part way down kind of did the cult method of like anticipating when we were going to arrive about, uh, halfway,

halfway down, we pulled over, we put our order in the app and then drove the rest of the way. But luckily I wife Natalie accompanied me and, um, and we got to, and I will say that just, you can customize everything on the app. You can, it's just, it's just so well designed. It's so elegant. Um, and, uh, so we got there. The order was pretty much ready right away. And here's what I got.

The also, oh, you know what, we'll, we'll take this, we'll take this item by item because I want to talk through everything. But the first thing I'll talk about is the craft your own mac and cheese, which is they have their own house and mac and cheese, house mac and cheese, and you can add two toppings for free. I added hot peppers and bacon, uh, which was, you know, as a quality solid mac and cheese, I will say that I probably didn't need the extra things to me. It was maybe ungepochka.

I could have been, I probably would have liked it more with just mac and cheese by itself. Your fucking alarm should go off for that bullshit. But it was, uh, but it was tasty. I think as far as a side for the sandwiches and the other, uh, fare they have there, I would probably just stick with the chip offerings. And they do have good chip offerings. We'll get to that. Cold, do you get that mac and cheese?

I do not. That's, there's, there's foods in my head that are just that scream like, you're a fat piece of shit. Right. You can't eat this. Mayo is one of them. Um, and, uh, mac and cheese also, like just the idea of like creaminess really says like, you can't eat, you can't eat this.

I do like mac and cheese in general, but I would never, I don't, I don't, I don't think I would ever get mac and cheese ever anywhere. I would say if you're going to, that for me is part of my calculation of like, I know it's so unbelievably unhealthy that it's got to be really, really good. Like my standards for mac and cheese are very high in terms of, of having, taking the, in all those calories and carbs. Here's where I could justify it and I could justify anything. If you put grilled chicken in it, I will say that it's healthy.

Wow. Much like a pizza. If I order a pizza and we throw grilled chicken on it, I could justify it. Some grilled chicken and mac and cheese is pretty good. Why is you've had a, you had a, not to plug it, but of course I'll always plug it. Fat cat, you had some good mac and cheese when you were there. Yes. They have a great mac and cheese there.

They have a great mac and cheese. But Colt, it's that sort of thing of like risk, the risk for reward factor of, I'm taking, I'm taking in a lot of calories. Is this going to be good enough? Yes. Right. Is this good enough to do it? And I too got the mac and cheese, Nick.

And I was, I feared it being a little too ungepachka. Wow. So I, I went, I didn't like it at all. I once wrestled ungepachka. In a tour of Zimbabwe. It was, it was, it was the, it was a real world match, wasn't it? Yes. I, I just went with it straight up.

No toppings added. And I thought it was a pretty decent mac and cheese. I like, like, it's decent. It's decent. Is it worth it? I don't think I'm going to be getting that mac and cheese a lot, but it did taste more homemade than a lot. Like it, it could have been way, way worse.

I would say it's good and not great. How's that? I think that's a good assessment. And that's roughly where Natalie landed as well. I just, to me, this is very, this is a very Midwest choice to have like, we're this, this big heavy sandwich shop. And then one of our sides is macaroni and cheese. It's just like, it's very, very over the top.

And I, for me, I think I don't see a reason to get it. But one thing I did like, because I got the picker pear sandwich and soup, and the soup I got was the chili. Really wanted to try their chili. And it's just basic beef chili with kidney beans, bell peppers, and onions. I thought it was great. I thought it was like, Natalie described it, I believe, and I apologize to her if I mischaracterize this, but I believe she said it was like a better version of Wendy's chili.

It's like a plus-dup Wendy's chili. And Wendy's chili is good. It's good, yeah. But like in that category of like kind of quick service chili, I mean, it had a lot of flavor. I liked it quite a bit. Colt, how about you? Do you ever get the soups from Potbelly? Well, I did get soup and I was, this is something I wanted to bring up.

I wanted to talk about soup. I, I forgot how much I loved soup after I ordered soup. And I only ordered soup because I knew you were paying for it. So I was like, you know, I should, I should, I should dish around. I should get some different stuff here. Right. And what I found myself doing and what I always find myself doing, but I don't eat slash drink soup enough is I was dipping my sandwich in the soup.

And I love, I love soup with bread in it. So I went tomato soup. I went extra oyster crackers. The tomato soup was great. Like kind of the same way you said, Wager. Like, and then I'm like, well, I don't know. I don't, is like high priced, you know, like, like restaurants, like, are there soup, is there soup better?

I don't know how to compare it, but I know it tasted good and had the spices and it made me feel happy and I enjoyed it. So I like a tomato soup, a good tomato soup. Also a good tomato soup. One is not easy. You can, you can get like a very marinara-y kind of tomato soup. But the, I think it's the best dipping soup, tomato soup. A soup I didn't even like as a boy.

Got to be. There's nothing, there's nothing better than, right? I mean, that's, this is not saying anything at all. Because what's better? No, unless you want to characterize au jus as a soup, which to me is- What? And as a jus, I would say, yeah, sure. As a jus, I would say, a matzah ball is soup.

It's the best dipping soup. Ooh, matzah ball soup is good. Not a dipping soup, but- It can serve as a dipping soup. I will say that like, like French onion soup kind of has a built in dipping component. So there's something to that, but I don't think it's, it's not in the same way that it doesn't serve the same function that tomato soup does. Yeah, and yeah, hey, if you want to go nuts, you can dip in that chili.

Why not? I'm going to say all soups are dipping soups. What's not a dipping soup? You can dip in whatever, dip in whatever you like. You can dip in ramen. Yeah, you're right. Oh, you know what? There's like dip ramen that you dip shit in anyways.

Does ramen count as soup? Well, this is the big thing that I- There's a point of contention on this show. All right. I try to rank ramen, fa, soup, and chowder. I think that's what it was. Those are Mitch's categories. Liquid savory foods.

And it made sense. Anyways, Nick, I talked to Dylan, you probably had the same, you probably were talking to the same person down there. I talked to Dylan and I said, what's your favorite sandwich? And he said to me, he said, an Italian sandwich. And I said, oh, okay, I'll get an Italian sandwich. You said it like that? I think you should get the Italian sandwich.

I said, I'll get the Italian sandwich. That took me a second to- Okay, all right. His name was Dylan, Nick. Yes. I make a small, I don't want to make it. You make small penis jokes about me all the time. I make one, you don't understand it?

I was just confused. It was like Bob Dylan. I'm doing a- No, we get it now. Yep. And I said, and he said, you should put it through the toaster. And I said, all right. And they put, to me, it appears they put every sandwich through the toaster.

And he said, and he said, he told me to add an extra slice of provolone. So this is all on him. Here's the deal. I don't like hot Italians. I don't, I don't like, I don't- You would hate Leonardo DiCaprio. I love Leo. That is funny to think of him as an Italian.

Also, that was my improv being like, who's a famous Italian person? DiCaprio sounds Italian. Famous Italian actor, Leonardo DiCaprio. I don't like hot Italians. I like them, I like them usually cold. And so I did a half Italian. I did a half wreck, the wreck sandwich. The A wreck it is called.

A wreck. A is part of it. A wreck. It used to be my go-to, by the way. Wow. And then I did a, I did half a pizza, the pizza sandwich. Mitch, this is incredible. Our tri-forces are the same.

We got the same three sandwiches. What? The same trio. Are you serious? Italian, A wreck, and the pizza sandwich. Wow. Pizza sandwich was Nelly's order. So Dylan, Dylan saw two fucking weird monster men come in and order the three same half sandwiches.

And then he said, everybody must be stone. He said, what can I feed these two guys who can't safely ride in the same elevator? And then you pick this trio of sandwiches. No, I ordered through the app. So I got a couple of, I got an Italian half sandwich, which was part of the pick your pear sandwich and soup that I mentioned earlier. The A wreck I got is a, is a full and the pizza sandwich Nelly got. Let me just have the descriptions of these.

So the Italian is cappicolo, pepperoni, salami, and mortadella with provolone. Hold on. As a hot Italian, it's a gabagoo. Also, I'm not Italian. And then the A wreck is roast beef, turkey, ham, and salami with Swiss. And they all have, you know, the array of toppings, lettuce, tomato, mayo is the standard. It's all, I think their standard bread is multigrain. That's what it seems like, right, Mitch?

Everything comes in multigrain. Ooh, I went, I went all white. Much like Hollywood. And then the pizza sandwich is meatball, cappicola, and pepperoni, and marinara with provolone and mushrooms, and then toasted with it, with Italian seasoning. And so that's what we got sandwich wise. Colt, what did you go with with the sandwich? Well, do you have the menu up by any chance?

Yes, I can bring that up one second. Because I got myself a Mediterranean, but like always, I'm switching it up. Also, I didn't even think to get like different sandwiches. I don't know why I didn't do that. I just went with my standard dinner meal. So why don't you tell me what's on the Mediterranean? I'll tell you how I changed it. So the Mediterranean chicken, I assume.

Yes. Okay, so the Mediterranean Mediterranean chicken by default is all natural chicken breast with what they describe as zippy hummus and feta cheese toasted and then topped with artichoke hearts, crisp cucumbers, and red peppers on multigrain. Right. So no feta. Don't need the cheese. Kept the roasted red peppers five years ago. I wouldn't know.

But now I'm a little more adventurous. Got rid of the cucumber, put extra pickle on there. Kept the hummus, extra chicken. And I really like the seasoning that potbellies has. That's something I've always liked. And something I've always liked about potbellies is their Dijon mustard. But I have this weird thing of like, I feel that the hummus is like kind of the liquid on it, even though it's not liquid.

Like that's the paste of the sandwich. Yes. It's holding it all together. Yeah, yeah. And I don't want to mix my pastes much like when I go to Wawa and I choose avocado, I always, I'm always like, damn it, why'd I get mustard on there? I already forgot because it says add avocado. So I would like, I kind of use avocado as my lubricants, if you will.

And I don't want to mix those up together. Interesting. I get your logic. It's very sound. I've definitely had my share of veggie sandwiches where hummus is essentially the condiment. But I mean, I'm like, pile it on. You all have avocado, but then I'll always have some mayo on there as well. And yeah, but I do understand your reasoning.

But so this is pretty much your standard order. And did you get it exactly as you'd normally do it? Always. Yes. And also I got the big one. I got wheat. And then I got thin cut. And I'd like to talk a little bit about thin cut now.

Please. If I have the platform. Yes, of course. You have the platform, but I want to quickly say that I'm mad at you. Why did you get rid of the feta? You got rid of the feta? I've made it a habit in my life to not order cheese on sandwiches just because I don't need it. It doesn't do anything for me.

But feta to me at the Mediterranean sandwich, you need the feta. I'm not ordering because it's Mediterranean. I'm ordering it because I saw, ooh, I like, I like hummus. I like chicken. I like red peppers. That's, I wasn't being like, ooh, I'm a Mediterranean boy now, you know? With feta, I think feta is better. Nick, what do you think of that?

And you're also selling feta is better t-shirts. Cheap meter goes off again. Wow, your alarm is going crazy over there. Are you sure there's just not a fire? I mean, if there is, I'll just die in a blaze while recording a podcast episode. It's how I'd want to go. If there is a fire, I feel like you would be very much like that. This is fine character.

Oh man, it's hot, buddy. I'm getting third degree burns all over my body. Oh no. Goodbye, Natalie. Tell Natalie I said goodbye. As your fucking inner fucking metal skeleton comes through. Terminator style. Yeah, as your skin is melting off.

That's what I'm saying. I could still do the podcast. So I, yeah, the, I am, I would say feta is better. I'm a feta guy. I like feta quite a bit. Not, you know, not my favorite of the soft cheeses, but it's, it's good. If I could, if I, man, it's, it's interesting because having to make the calculation of I need to, you know, count every calorie and I need to be very

conscious of what I'm putting into my body, which I should be doing anyway. But, you know, it's, it's, it's certainly not my, that's something that I have to account to account for is my, for my profession. I'm not sure what I would, what I would get rid of if I get rid of cheese. All right. I feel like I'd maybe get rid of something else before cheese, but I don't know. I don't know what that would be. The, well, this Dylan, he assured me, he said, with that extra, with that extra,

just provolone slice. He said it's, he said the taste is really to come through with that extra provolone slice. And you know what? That Italian was my favorite of all the sandwiches. It was my number one. Mitch, I, again, I am with you. The Italian was a fucking home run. That was a great Italian.

Had some nice spice to it. But by the way, we're going to go back to Colt. We got to give you the platform. Yes. Yes. You were talking about what you, you were saying why thin is in. Well, I want, I don't want all the carbs. Like I'm trying to cut as many carbs as I can.

Yes. And so they have a thing where you slice the middle of the bread, which is very nice, gets rid of it. But one of my go-tos is Subway. And first of all, they don't have an option. So half the people don't know what you're talking about. I know we're doing pot belly, but like, it's like, Hey, can you carve out the middle of the bread?

And then they're all like, oh, okay, you know, if, if they understand. And here's the deal. Like you have to start from the butt of this, of the bread. And sometimes people start from the inside and go towards the butt. And they don't know what they're doing. And it just, it doesn't get all of it. If that makes sense. No, I get exactly what you're talking about.

And now let me ask you on this topic, when you get a bagel, do you scoop your bagel? If the options there, of course. Wow. Yes. I mean, just so I can enjoy the bagel. No, I understand. Otherwise I'm not getting the bagel.

Yeah, I get it. Yeah. Colt, once again, you're pissing me off. It's either I have, either I get to have it with some limitations, or I don't have it at all. And I'm, I would like to indulge myself a little bit. Yeah, I understand. I get it.

We, we, we, we, we just, I mean, we have no self control. So if there was an option to add more bread to our, to our sandwich, we probably would. Like the Big Mac style to a pot belly sandwich. Give us a center bread. I think you should be able to add center bread to anything you, you order. Did you, so how did that Mediterranean stack up to your previous Mediterranean's?

Oh, I, you know, I, there, it's a standard. That's what they do. It's a good sandwich. It got the job done. I was hungry before I ended up not that, you know, not hungry. It tasted well. If anything, you know, the chicken is like, I could use a little more like, there wasn't enough plumpness in my sandwich.

But then again, that probably has something to do with me taking out more than half the bread. And that's why it's so like thin and skinny. But I wish there was a way of like, basically like two slices of matzo with just like as much meat in the middle as possible. That would be the perfect sandwich, but I, but otherwise it was good. I, and I enjoyed it. And I always enjoy it.

And the problem with pot bellies, much like Chipotle, maybe much like some of the other, much like Jimmy John's, maybe is like, I'm a man of comfort and like the known. So I've probably been there so many times that I used to love it. And now it's like, Oh God, I wish there was something else, but it's like, I don't want to try anything else because I know this will get the job done. So I'll just go. Yes. It's a very interesting thing because

I've said, I was telling people we're going to pot belly. And some people were like, yes, pot belly rules. And then, and then a few responses of, oh, pot belly sucks. That sucks. A lot of people, yeah, we think pot belly sucks. There were a few people that responded me, pot belly sucks. Because they probably had it so many times. Huh.

And that to me was just because, because Colt, I too will do Subway. And I think Subway is not great, but I do think that it just is, if you go and get a turkey in Swiss and toast it, it can be a fine meal. That's not fried or anything like that. It's a, it's a, what's that like? Subway is always a compromise for me. It's always just like, I've never, I'm never jazzed to have it. Whereas this place, I think I would be excited, you know, again,

by my maiden voyage, maybe if I'd been there a hundred times, I'd feel differently. But I feel like I'm excited at the prospect of having pot belly again. Just a touch on the other sandwiches real quick. The AREK, for me, that was the weakest of the three, which I was surprised by considering this is their signature sandwich. But I just felt like versus the Italian and versus the pizza sandwich, it just was a little bit blander, had a little bit less, you know,

less zing, I guess. It was just like a very, it was a very loaded basic sandwich, as far as I was concerned. I had this, I had half of it for, I had half of it yesterday, and I had the second half I saved and I had for lunch today. And my thoughts did, did not waver, did not change at all. I feel the same way I did as, as yesterday. It's a good sandwich, but just not what I would get

versus the other options. And the pizza sandwich, you know, I didn't have as much of. And I don't really love marinara on sandwiches that aren't meatball. Like I just feel like I can get kind of goopy. I guess this is maybe part of, of, this is akin to Colt's point about not having too much liquid on a sandwich. But this was, this was still good. It was very, it was very flavorful.

The meatballs was good. They, their Italian, you know, their Italian deli meats, I think are very, very high quality for this caliber of chain. Added some hot peppers and onions and oil to that. And I also added some hot peppers to the Italian because I'm something of a heat seeker. And, and having a little bit extra spice on these, I think, plus them up. Mitch, what, what did you think of their A-wreck and the pizza sandwich?

The heat seeker alarm went off. I liked, I liked all three of the sandwiches. I did half sandwiches on all of them. I liked all three of them too. It just, that was my least favorite. Um, I, I, so on the wreck, I went, uh, the works, which included mayo, that mustard, oil, the seasoning, and then onions, hot peppers, tomatoes, lettuce, onion, everything.

I just, I just want, I just want the works. I didn't, I didn't go the cucumber side. Like the works on the main ingredients there. Um, I thought it was really good. To me, the, the, the one that was my loser of the three, even though I still liked it was the pizza sandwich. And my issue with it was that I just, it just felt like the sauce had been, it felt like it was like sauce, sauce that had been sitting out.

The sauce was sitting out a little bit. When I ordered the wreck, Dylan had made up my wreck. And then it came through the conveyor belt. And one of the other guys there said, Hey, there's going to be more meat on this. And he went, and then, and then, and then they went and they put little meat on a tinfoil thing that came through the conveyor belt. And they added, I guess that I didn't have all the meat on the wreck sandwich at first. That's how they do it with the chicken.

They, they never put the extra chicken always goes on the tinfoil and they put it in. And that's basically their way of, of cooking it up basically. I, I don't know. I mean, I've noticed that before though. And when I had it. Yeah. And he, he, so they, they, that came through and he just, he tossed on the sandwich. I, and I don't like a big, I don't usually like a big mix of meats on a sandwich.

I like a, like a, like a, besides an Italian sandwich, I don't really need to mix roast beef in turkey and ham and all that. Like I'm not usually all for that. But I thought this one tasted pretty good. It was nice and toasted. You got an odd, nice flavors in it. To me, the, the, the, the loser of the bunch, not the loser, because I still liked it was, was the, was the pizza sandwich.

And my issue is that they broke up the meatballs. Why did they break up the meatballs so little on that thing? They should have chunks of meatballs. Yeah. I don't know. I, I, I'm, that, that's, I mean, that's a fair criticism. They could have done it more as, as like big slices or even whole meatballs and seen what that was like.

It's what the, it's like what blaze pizza did recently too, Nick. And then the Italian sandwich I thought was fantastic. The Italian sandwich I did, oil, the seasoning, hot onions, lettuce and tomato and pickles. And I, and I, and I, and I, I loved it. I thought it was really, really, really good. And I, a question for you too is, is bread obviously, which is, for me, I think it's funny. I said Jimmy John's bread. I always go with the, the lettuce wrap, but I love a Jimmy John's bread.

I always feel when pot belly, it's like you said, I think it is always almost automatically through that thing. I always feel it gets a little, it gets crisp too much where it almost starts flaking off at the ends. I don't know if you felt that or you had that where I don't feel it's the perfect bread and I don't, I don't know if they claim to have the perfect bread. It does. I mean, you know, it gets, it gets pretty crispy and crunchy as, as it's been toasted.

So yeah, I think that's fair. I don't, I don't know. I mean, I like Jimmy, you know, I like Jimmy. I do like, I do like Jimmy John's bread. God damn it. Emma's got a lot of work to do. This is going to be so fun to edit. I do like Jimmy John's bread quite a bit.

The alarm, the guy who's testing the alarms just sitting outside of your fucking apartment waiting till you talk. I feel like, What a time to record a podcast. It's been all day. Why are you? It's been going all day. You fucking dipshit.

It seriously, it's been going since 8am, like, like sporadically. There were, there, there've been half hours when we haven't heard it at all. And then it's been like going like, you know, nonstop every, every few minutes. I don't feel bad as bad saying tartar sauce when you called it sporadically. Nick, go on with your point, pre-beep. I was just going to say, I think the, I think as far as breads go, I mean, it's, it's, you know, it's up there. I think this is, this is on par with like a Jersey Mike's or a Firehouse subs,

as far as your, or Jimmy John's. I think Jimmy John's, we would not put in that category overall, but I think it's, I put its bread up there. I don't like Jimmy. I'm not a fan of Jimmy John's, but I think that it's better than Subway bread. And I don't even dislike Subway bread. Oh, easily. Yeah.

I just think it's kind of whatever. But for me, it just, it was just that the combo of the sandwich and the crunch and the, like all the flavors just combined really, really well. Yes. And, and, and the crispness of it added quite a bit. And I, and I, like I said, I don't like crispy or hot Italians. And this one was, it was great. I was really, I was blown away because that is not a thing I love.

And then also for, we get to get into the selection, the other, the other selections that you have here, which are the chips and the drinks. There's a great selection of chips. There's a great selection of drinks. I got myself an Arizona iced tea, which is a great, great drink, a little sugary, but whatever. But you don't see Arizona iced teas like that in the can there with the, the lemon Arizona iced teas, you can, you don't get them anywhere. You can't get them anywhere in the chips.

They got zaps, chips, Nick, which I have right here. I got the zaps, the voodoo, the voodoo heat chips, which are some of the best chips you can find. Just the chip selection is fantastic. I love this. I love that they have zaps chips. I like zaps chips in general. The ones we got, the varietals we got with the barbecue ranch chips

and the hotter and hot jalapeno chips. I know the voodoo heat are hotter, but I like the flavor of the hotter and hot jalapeno chips a little bit better, but the voodoo heat are great too. Yeah. That they, that they even offer zaps as to their credit. And I think this is the thing you can say about a sandwich shop of like, they should have good chips on hand. It's good that they don't just have like the standard lays and sun chips.

They've got some upscale stuff or some higher end stuff. Colt, did you get any chips? No, I'm not a chip man. Not a chip man. But I mean, who doesn't like chips? But also, none of those like, I go for like the baked ones, if I can only get them, I wouldn't get a regular chip. But I mean, take me to like a party and I'll eat every single chip in a bag.

Like, but knowing that I can count the calories on the back, I won't eat, right? So Colt, I gotta say, there's, there's, there's a, there's a hamburger aspect to you where you said that used to steal, you used to steal pizzas from the football team and you go to a party, you're going to eat all the chips. There's a little hamburger aspect to you of your, I think you're a food thief. A little, of course. Also the calories in the fat don't count if I didn't buy it and or the bag isn't there to, to see that it's bad for me, which is very sad.

So I said to myself, my side is the soup. Is that the correct thing to say? Yeah, that's fine. That's fair. Okay. I think, yeah, that's, that's, yeah, that's soup can absolutely be a side. Yeah. I mean, in a classic, you get your soup, your salad, your, and a half sandwich

soup or sat a soup salad, you get two pick two. I mean, I feel like that's a meal. And I got a, they also gave me a hat with my soup. They gave you a hat? Thank you, bitch. You can't see, but he was laughing. They can hear my heavy breathing, which, uh, I guess they could probably just hear my heavy breathing throughout the pod.

It's like a late season Sopranos episode. I got the voodoo, the voodoo chips, which I just opened up now. I also got myself a pickle, which I only opened up today. They wrap it in the, and the, and basically just like this, the sub wrap. And then they, they put it in a paper bag. If you get it to go good pickles, the giant pickle, the giant pickle, they slice it up for you too, which I didn't realize. Yeah.

Oh, I love a good pickle, but, um, those giant pickles, whenever offered are too intimidating for me. Yes, I agree. But I do love a good side pickle. Hey, intimidating to me too. I, I, I, they have to be, I mean, that you don't bite into them. They slice them up. So you, they're not like a big pickle bite.

They're not. So these, you shouldn't be too intimidating. What, Nick? Nothing. You're smiling. No, nothing. It's fine. All right, good.

Piece of shit. Just gonna say like a gherkin is probably intimidating to you. Yeah, see, I knew it. But then when I say grain or rice, it doesn't make any sense. We've understood it. It just took us a second. A gherkin is not intimidating to me. You're fucking stupid alarm.

God damn it, Weiger. When you call attention to the alarm, it makes it harder to edit out. That's very true. Well, who gives a shit? You leave this in. You leave me fucking complaining about your alarm, which has gone off, which has gone off right now. It's going off again.

It's going off consistently since the start of this bullshit. I was so excited to come on the podcast and it's so sad that no one's going to listen to it. Everyone's turned it off now. At least listen to episode. Fuck. Don't worry. I'm going to cut out as much of that alarm as I possibly can.

She'll do her magic. Look, I like, I like a gherkin and I like a big old pickle and these, they slice these, they slice these things up. They're not that intimidating. They slice them up into about five pieces and a good, I like mine to be a little bit more like a, it, you know, there's the sour pickles and then what's that? What's like the non-sours or whatever?

What's the other sweet pickles? I like mine to be like very vinegary. I like, I like a good, I get like a good vinegar taste and like, these are kind of like midway. You know what I'm talking about? What's a giant pickle cost? I think it was a, I think it was just a, I think it was a dollar. I think it was just a dollar for the big pickle, which is pretty good.

So the sides are fun. You know, I'm having a good time. I go out into my car, I eat this whole meal in my car. I didn't finish everything, by the way, because I had the three half sandwiches and mac and cheese. I just, I was just taking bites because I, after I left Weigar's, I actually went to, I went to Tito's Tacos with Ryan Perez, friend of the show and Bug Main.

Did you really go to Tito's Tacos? I went to Tito's Tacos. The only thing better than a Tito's taco is two as their jingle goes. I only got one because I knew I had to go down to potbelly. So I just got one. Waiting in that line for one taco. I know. Well, the Bug Main had never been there before. So it was, it was, it was good.

It was worth the trip. Got it. Drove down immediately afterwards down there. A very, a very interesting spot. A lot of, a lot of young, good-looking people. That kind of bothered me. Uh, as I was fucking lumbering into potbelly to get like six sandwiches and walk out. I didn't like, I didn't like it.

I felt like I was being judged, Nick. They were all like, we voted for the other team in the real world improv show. Yeah. Yeah. Did you go do a set at the improv? Yeah. It's, Orange County is a fascinating place. It's a very fascinating place. I ate my car and I realized that I didn't get a shake. And so I had finished up everything and I was like,

I got to go in there and I got to get a shake. I didn't get a shake. You went back. I went back in. I got myself an Oreo Shake Wags. They were out for me. Wow. Oh no.

Yep. Out of shakes in general. Out of Oreo, my go-to. Out of Oreo. I'm happy. Oh no. Oh no. Let's hear it.

Why don't you rub it in my face, Mitch? That sucks. Because let me tell you, they were like, we got extra Oreo. I was like, throw as much in as you want. Go crazy. Yeah. We stole them all from the Chicago. Joint.

A very good Oreo shake. They put a little cookie on top of it. They put like a little potbelly cookie around the straw. Yes. And to be clear, not an Oreo cookie, it was shortbread cookie. A shortbread cookie. Yeah. So potbelly is famous for this. And like when I would go to potbelly is my whole life,

I would always like see that shake and be like, well, I can't have that. I'm not allowed to have that as an athlete. And today I went for it because I knew we were here. We were doing the podcast. I was like, you know what? I'm going to get that shortbread because I think I wanted the shortbread more than the shake.

The one cookie on top. The cookie on top is really good. It's a tasty little cookie. Here's my question for you. When I've seen it over the years, it's always the small one and it fits perfectly on the straw. But they gave me the big one and it was like, a magnum condom on your dick, Mitchell.

Dear God. It did not fit. It was a loose. It was a loose flop though. I felt like I got shortchanged a little bit on the cookie on the straw, like fun of it. Yeah. I mean, you got more cookie, which is great.

But I don't know how big it's supposed to be because it wasn't like mine fits snugly around the straw. There was a little bit of wiggle room. Mine kind of fit pretty good on the straw. Because you got the mini ones, right? Yeah, I got the mini one. I got the short shake. Yeah, they give me a, no, I mean a mini cookie, short cookie.

I don't know because I don't know what the size of the regular cookie is versus the other one. I got a regular shake, Nick. And so the cookie seemed to fit pretty fine on there. So this is what I think that's the difference. Yeah, I got the vanilla short shake and the banana short shake, but sorry, Cole, did you say what flavor of shake you got? So I am such a cookies and cream guy.

That is, and I was looking forward to it. I just got vanilla, but I got, I got the smoothie, which was non-fat yogurt and, and I watched him make it. And it was just essentially, I think it was the non-fat yogurt and milk. And then something really fun happened to me because I'm a real stickler for the rules is I saw her fill it up and it like, there was about two inches left on the top. And she was like looking at me deciding

whether I would call her out on it or not. And I kept, you know, mask on, big eyes being like, and she's, then she like, she took like a good three seconds. She's like, I'll make some more to fill it to the top. I was like, thank you very much. Now, knowing that I was only going to have like a little bit of it also, I wasn't going to have it all. I still made sure that she knew she had to, she couldn't, you know,

half, half smoothie me. I, hey, I, there's a thing when you go and you get, you get, you get yourself a soda or something from a, from a restaurant and then you open the lid and they didn't, they filled it about three quarters of the way up. That's not right, Nick. Fill it all. You got to, you got to get, you got to get what you paid for.

I do like getting it to the brim. You want that brim feeling. You want the brim. I like the, I will say of the shakes, the banana shake had great banana flavor and not like an artificial, but like it was like, like you could tell there's like a real banana in there. I was like, this is, this is great. I, you know, and I go bananas for this is minions.

This is absolutely minion approved. Yeah. 100. This is a banana short shake and I got the, and the vanilla one, you know, I say on the show that vanilla is a flavor. This was had really great vanilla flavor as well. It was just, I thought it was, I thought it was delicious. And that was a, it was a very, very high caliber fast food shake. Nick, how torn up are you that the minion movie got delayed?

It's probably the worst part about 2020 for me. I just want to state that I, I probably haven't had a shake and like while having just like the, you know, I took like two big swigs of it, it was so delicious. But that's only probably because I don't have stuff like that, that often, but it was so good. No, I, I, I, I have shakes all the time. No, I was, I was thinking this, that like Oreo shake has become such a thing

that basically like it is like a, it is basically like a coca-cola or something. You know what I mean? Like it's if, it's like if different restaurants had different levels of coke, which they do, because we know that McDonald's has the best taste tasting coca-cola that there is, but they do a really, really good Oreo shake. It was really, they did a great job with it. It was tasty, it was smooth. I, I, I thought it was, I thought it was really fantastic.

I, I was happy that I went back in and got one. So thumbs up to that. I, I, you know, I'm all over the place. I can't tell if this, I, I, I, I like potbelly. I, I, I like it. I, I, to say potbelly sucks, maybe that's a thing of you're too used to it. And, and, and, and you just become accustomed to it. You're spoiled with it.

And that's why you don't like it anymore. I remember when it came to Boston, there was one, there's one in Logan airport. And then there's one in Braintree across from the mall. But to me, it was like a level, it's, it's definitely a level above subway. That's, that's kind of how I feel about it. It's, it's, it's definitely in that, but, but is it a quiz nose? You know what I mean? Is it going to, is it going to fade away like a quiz nose?

I don't know. It seems like people like it. So. Well, we should get to our final thoughts and, and give our assessment. So Cole, you've listened to the show, you know the drill, but just to recap, we will each go around, give a closing argument, if you will, on this week's Jane Potbelly, and then end by giving it a fork score from zero to five. Cole, we'll begin with you.

Okay. I do want to make sure that I get in the rest of my order that I had. Oh, yes, please. I'm sorry. I didn't, I didn't realize there was anything. Why in the fuck? I had, I only, I stopped drinking diet soda, but I drink Zivia, which has no artificial and has, uh, stevia in it.

So I saw they had an IBC root beer. And like you said, Mitch, their drink selection has always been plentiful. And I remember drinking IBC root beers as a kid thinking like, look at me. I'm drinking beer. Now I thought it was cool. So like, I got an IBC to have like a sip of it. It was cane sugar. It was delicious as a, as a person who doesn't drink alcohol.

I felt that coolness again that I haven't felt in a while. And I also had a small oatmeal cookie because they didn't have, it was like the tiny ones. I don't know if you guys noticed that they had little tiny ones. And I like a chocolate chip cookie. I, I feel, oh, why are you giving me oats? Like I'm trying to eat bad here. Don't sneak in oats. So that, I mean, it was as good as it's going to get for an oatmeal cookie, I guess.

Yeah. Um, on, okay, everything. I thought all the extras besides, I thought the sandwich was, was good to okay. I thought the extras were great. The soup was really good. And the smoothie was, was fantastic. Something we didn't get into is, I guess, because it's from Chicago that there would always be like open micers at pot bellies when I was younger.

Really? Yeah. There's like a section for them to play like music. So not comedians. There's always musicians. And I always felt like kind of sad for them if that makes sense. It's a tough gig. It's a very tough gig.

Yeah. Yeah. And the one in Chicago where I used to go to all the time, there was like a second tier where like against the wall, there was like another wall, against the wall, there was like a level and you could walk up the stairs and that's where they would play in this like upper tier. Do you know what? This kind of explains why Dylan was my surfer.

That's where he got to start, maybe. I'm, I like it now. I'm on board. So I would give it three and two times. Is that right? Times? Yes, yeah. Yeah, that's a partial fork.

Is that like three-fourths? That's three and a half. I think if we get two times, we're thinking of a four-tine fork. It is a four-tine. Okay, I would give it three and three times. Three times. Wow. Wow.

Just outside of the Golden Plate Club range. Go ahead, Mitch. Well, this is, Pop Bellies is an interesting one to me because it hasn't been ruined really for me yet. You know what I mean? Like a lot of these other places have been ruined to me. Like Nick, like I just eat at them too much or we've had them through the show.

I liked it, Nick. I don't think that, I don't think that Pop Belly, I don't think Pop Belly sucks. I think that's a kind of a crazy, and I'll go through my phone and find out who said Pop Belly sucks. And I will, I think it's out of them. But also I can't tell if it's like, I truly can't tell what this place, if it's a Golden Plate place.

I can't, I'm kind of, I'm feeling similar to Colt in that range. I like the fact that the hot peppers are, they're basically the Chicago style, like the, how do you say it? The Giardana or whatever it is? Giardano? Or Guadanere? Giardanere?

Oh, that's, yes, yes. Giardanere. Is that, is that what the hot peppers are, right? It seems like that's what their hots are. Yes, I think so. But I was a fan. Everything was tasty. The Italian sub, Dylan didn't steer me wrong.

Even the pizza sub, which I thought was the one that I liked the least, was still tasty. It just was that the issue was, you know, the issue was that the sauce just kind of felt a little bit, felt a little bit old. But I think I'm going to hold hands with Colt here and go, 3.75 forks. Wow.

It's just, it's just outside of the Golden Play Club. I, you know what I mean? I, I don't, I don't know. I, the, the chip, the chip and, the chip and drink selection are great. The shakes are great. And almost, I want to say four forks. You can say four forks.

You don't have to say three, three forks, three dines. You can say four. It's up to you. Four, four, all right, four forks. I'm going, wow. Hey. Four forks from the spoon man. I thought we were holding hands.

I, I, I want to hold hands with you. You jumped away. But I, but I feel. You let go of my hand. Hey, this is like the end of Titanic. The answer, my friend, is blowing in the forks. Oh God. Oh no.

All right. All right. I was, I was so interested in seeing what that last word would be. I'm off. I'm off the ship. The potbelly, I will say, I get why people like it. I don't quite understand why people would dislike it. Soup was great.

Mac and cheese. I'm not, I have no reason to ever get again. Sandwiches, I thought were very, very good. Like for me, so there's a Jersey Mike's very close to where we live. And I would go, if that was a potbelly, perhaps it's the novelty. Perhaps it's because it's new. But if that was a potbelly instead, I would go more frequently than I do to that Jersey Mike's.

I feel that same. And for me, Jersey Mike's Firehouse subs are like the one, one A of the, the premium, you know, fast casual sandwich sector right now. So I would put potbelly right there. And I would say that I, you know, I think it's maybe a little bit better. I think the sandwich, I think it's very, very good. Chip selection is great.

Shakes are very, very legit. I think I'm going to, I think I'm going to hold hands with my co-host as opposed to our guest and say, I'm also going to say four forks for potbelly sandwich shop because I think it's, I think this is at least based on this experience. I'll have to have it again, but based on this experience, I think it is right at the threshold for being a member of the golden play club. You know what? With Colts, with Colts score,

Popplies is knock, knock, knocking on the golden play club door. Is that a Dylan song? What? I'm knocking on heaven's door. No, it's guns and roses. Colts, you sunk, you sunk your own restaurant. You sunk it. It's not golden plate.

Hold on. Okay. Let me change it. I'm going to change it to three and a half forks. Wow. Wow, a heel turn. We got a heel turn from Colts. Those out of work in audience.

That was potbelly. It's time for a segment. I got a food related exam and Mitch and Colt must compete for superiority. It's another edition of Slop Quiz. And hey, this week's theme, celebrity booze. Colt, I know you said you don't drink, but perhaps you can divine whose alcohol belongs to which celeb, which celebs make which type of alcohols.

I'll name a celebrity with an alcohol brand. You can tell me what type of alcohol it is. Could be beer, wine, or spirit. Calm down, Mitch. Not that type of spirit. Wow. Wow, I did that like it was on cue. And for bonus points, say the specific type of spirit.

So like vodka, tequila, and what happened. Slimer. Could be slimer. Yeah. Slimer is an option. You know, the only, the way I heard about your podcast. Yes. Was through Jordan Morris and Jordan Jesse Goh.

Wow. And they've been on a real Goggins kick over there. They've got Goggins has his own, I think it's a whiskey brand. Okay. I didn't know if you wanted to ruin it for me, but I'll know it now if you, if that's in the quiz. It's not one of the questions. Okay.

Walt rules. Jordan Morris has a great, a great sort of theory that I think has been upheld based on my experience, which is that every celebrity endorsed booze is good. I don't know about that theory. They're all like, well, cause they're all like premium spirits, and they're all pretty good quality. I've, I've yet to have one where I've been like, oh, this, you know,

this Sammy Hagar tequila, this isn't up to par. They're all like, I don't know, these are all pretty good. My theory is every celebrity endorsed pasta by a professional wrestler is good. That's why pasta media was so successful at the Mall of America. All right. I'll name the celebrity. You tell me what type of alcohol their brand or their brand is. Yes.

All right. First up, buzzing with your name, pit bull. Mitch, go ahead. Tequila. Tequila is not correct. Cool. Want to take a shot at it? Uh, Patron.

Was that beeping that he's right? I feel Patron is, is not a flavor of alcohol. You're, you're, you're, you're, you're really, you're really revealing that you are not a drinker, which is, I think is good. Yeah, that's good. It's an unhealthy habit. Uh, the Patron is a, is a type of tequila. You are both incorrect.

Pit bull has a, has a spirit, which is a volley 305 vodka. Vodka. I knew it was vodka. God. Wait, give me the options again so I can write these down. You can just say beer, wine or spirit. What's spirit? Spirit is just any sort of liquor.

We could have just said spirit. Yeah, you could have just said spirit. That's what I said. That was the rule. The rule is that you say spirit and if you, and you get bonus points, you say which type it is. I don't want to say spirit. By the way, how is that steakhouse in Japan cold?

We never, we, is it, is it fantastic? I mean, it's good. You know, because it's huge and free. A lot of meat, a lot of meat. All right. Sounds like I started playing. Although there, there's a wrestler named Mr. Danger, who is a legendary wrestler from the FMW Wrestling Promotion,

who also has a steakhouse and that is the steak that I prefer, but Reberas is just more legendary. Wow. Doe Boys does Japan. It's going to happen once we can travel again. So 2025. And once you get hooked up with a sponsor. Yeah.

So never. All right. Pitbull was the first one. Next up, Kate Hudson. Colt. Go ahead, Colt. She seems like a wine lady. No, Mitch, you want to guess?

Wow. Mitch. Yes. Spirit. You are correct. She has a vodka, King Street vodka. Wow. Curveball with the second ball with the second question.

Look, they're curveballs throughout this. So just get ready. All right. All right. Next up, Rocker, John Bon Jovi. Colt. Yes. Uh, he feels like a real wine girl.

You are correct. John Bon Jovi has Hampton Water Rose. Wow. All right. Good guess. I felt that too, Colt. Good guess. Good knowledge.

Thank you. All right. Wait, I forgot the score. You each have one, right? Yes. Okay, great. Sure. All right.

Great. It's knotted up at one apiece. Next up, Marilyn Manson. Mitch. Yes. Beer. Not beer. Fuck, it's fucking spirits.

You know what? Colt. Yes. Wine. Yes. Is it red wine? Not wine. He has a spirit.

He has his Mansynth absinthe. Oh, god. I knew it was, see, like when Colt said wine, that made, like, if he had like a red wine, like he's a bit of a Dracula or whatever. Yeah. I thought he had bibs out, ribs out. His rib company.

All right. Moving on to another celebrity who can perform auto-philatio famously, Will Wheaton from Star Trek The Next Generation. Cool. Go for it. He's a bear man. You are correct. He has Stonefarking Wheaton Wootstout.

That is his brand. What? That's what it's called, Stonefarking Wheaton Wootstout. So it's like an internet humor thing. Stonefarking? Oh. Yeah. Involvesfark.com, which used to be a big aggregator site.

All right. Next up, Chris Knoth, aka Big on Sex and the City. Mitch. Yes. Wine. No, not wine. Fuck. Colt.

Yes. I'm going to say spirit. You are correct. Chris Knoth has a fuck. A killer brand called Amhar. All right. Next, my fellow Long Beach Poly High alum, Cameron Diaz. Colt.

Yes. She thinks she's a real one of the guys beer girl. Wow. Good guess, but incorrect. Ah. Mitch. Wow. Mitch.

Wine. You are correct. She has an organic wine brand called Alvaline. All right. Colt has three. Mitch has two. Three answers. Three questions left.

I think Colt has four. I have three, but that's fine. Is that correct? Okay. Four to three. Next up, Ludacris. Mitch. Yes.

Spirit. That's right, Mitch. That's right. He has a cognac brand called Conjure. Conjure is kind of spirit-esque. It is very spirit- yeah, it is very spirit-adjacent. Or also like a very magical. Hmm.

All right. Two left. I rode by his house, Ludacris. How exciting. I rode right on the lake in Georgia. I once went to a party with him, maybe? Wow. I had a-

Much cooler. I had a friend who was in the NFL, and I didn't belong at these parties, but I would go. Damn. It stinks that your story's only second place cool to mine would be rowing by his house. All right. We have two left. It's all about it. Do we ever talk about how Stefan Marbury was the birthday boy's neighbor?

I don't know if we did. He had like a summer home in LA next to where you guys were renting. Or not you guys, but- Where the birthday boy's house was. Five out of seven members of the birthday boys were lived there. As he went around and told the neighbors that he was having a big party, and told the there was a thing in the birthday boy's mailbox, and they went up there. Because it was like, you're welcome.

But it was more to be like, hey, we're having a party. All the birthday boys went up there, and they were like, what are you doing here? And they're like, we came for the party. And they're like, oh, it's like an old white party. You need to be dressed in all white, like trying to make them not be able to come. And they were like, okay. And they went home and they all put on like, they all put on like white t-shirts and white pants.

And they went up back to the house and they were like, all right, fine. You guys can come in to the party. And it was the birthday boys with like a bunch of NBA players all hanging out at Stefan Marbury's house with them not wanting them to be there. It was great. Such a Dutton move. Love it. All right, two left.

That's not cool. That's very cool. Crashed a party. It's a party dude move. It was not cool at all. They're wearing like t-shirts. They're wearing like Haines t-shirts and looked like shit. Van Wilder would do that same thing.

Van Wilder sucks. Ryan Reynolds also has a celebrity alcohol. He has his aviation gin. Oh, I thought this was going to lead into the question. All right, let's do it. All right, two left. Kind of the Ryan Reynolds of animation, John Lasseter from Pixar. Reynolds is a big hugger.

I gotta check Reynolds next time I see him see if he's got a diaper on. You could go in. You want to try this first? I don't even know who that is. It's John Lasseter? Yes, it's John Lasseter. Okay, Mitch. Yes.

I'm going to go beer, not beer. Well, I'd, Colt. Go for it. Wine? Colt, you are correct. Yes. Wow. He has his own wine varietal.

Lasseter, Shemin, Deferred. All right, one left. Mitch, you can nod it up. Colt, you can win outright. Hanson. Mitch. Go, Mitch. Beer.

No. They're too young. Colt, I regret to inform you that Mitch is correct. What? They have a beer brand, M-Hops. Oh, that makes sense. Wow. Does it make sense?

I don't know. M-Hops. Well, hey, you guys are in the hand-holding club for the segment. You came up with the exact same score and ended in a tie. Colt. There's only one way we can settle this. Go on. An improv off?

An improv battle. Two one-man improv shows. Just what everyone wants. One man, Harold team versus another one man, Harold team. We will take this to a comedy sports zoom call. We will do short form games. Oh, God. Dear Lord.

That sounds better than dough boys. Just like a restaurant, we value your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Today we have an email from Dan Padley. Dan writes, chips and salsa is one of my favorite snacks in this room, many dinners to me due to my ability to stop, inability to stop eating them as an appetizer or after work snack.

My question is what's your ideal tortilla chip shape? Oh, fuck. What's your idea? What? My question is what's your ideal tortilla? Fuck, turn into Mitch. My question is what's your ideal tortilla chip shape? I have a soft spot for Tostito's rounds,

but I've recently been on a strip kick. On the flip side, I think these scoops are overrated, happy dipping. Colt, what do you think? You're a man who will take a whole bowl of chips to the dome at a party. What form factor do you like for your chips if you're going to have some dips with them? Yeah, I got a question. Is there a form of tortillas

that are better to shove in your pockets as you're stealing them from a party? You know, as a man who has flown nowhere near the amount of John Hodgeman, but 1.5 million miles on United Airlines, recently they started giving these little bag of chips with like many tortilla triangles, very many, and they are awful. Not a good chip, not a good chip. They're so small.

So my first thought was essentially, it was like the big Frito. Do you know what I'm talking about? Where it's kind of like a highlight, like a highlight thrower, which is kind of a mixture of a scoop and a strip without like the rigid outside, like the scoop has like the weird cup, whatever it is on the end.

So that would be my go to is kind of a hybrid of a strip and scoop. That's a good answer. And I just want to say with Dan, I feel your pain. I for Colton, I both agree that a lot of times I've had a lot of dinners ruined and I've stuffed myself on. Chips and salsa is a great, first of all, it is a great snack. It's a great thing to have when you're watching a game or something. It's fantastic.

Especially if you've got like a restaurant style salsa. I'm in heaven. I love it. You get it all as you go to a good Mexican restaurant and it's just like you're getting those baskets of chips with that fresh hot house salsa for free. How heavenly is that? And yeah, I will definitely fill up on that before a meal. But go on, Mitch.

Well, you know, a lot of Q conspiracy people are going to start thinking that I'm a Freemason, but I'm a triangle guy, Nick. I like the triangle. Why are you making a face? What do you think Q is? Hey, what? QAnon.

What are you, Scotty Pippen, Michael Jordan and Phil Jackson all have in common? I like the triangle. Is it? Wait, what? Oh, the triangle offense. Thank you. There you go. Well played. It took me a second.

But you know what? Even more than that, I like my chips shapeless. I think that the like original tostitos, which I think there are a lot of triangles in them, but they're just kind of shapes. They're just like whatever shapes they came out of the oven. You know what I mean? That to me is that's where I go with my tortilla chip. But I think triangle.

I think the classic triangle to me is the best. And if not, just kind of like what comes out of the bag. I don't know quite what you mean. Like I don't think of chips having like a variety pack where they're just like random shapes, just irregular. It's just that you get what you get. You get what you get. There's some tortilla chips that aren't specifically triangles either.

They're just kind of like blobs. So just like a regular like random assortment of like a lucky charm style. I don't know what I'm gonna get in here. You get what you get. Yeah, it's not a specifically fun shapes, but if anything, the triangle. Give me the mean Phil Jackson, Michael Jordan, Scotty Pippen, the thing we have in common wigs, the fucking triangle,

and the Freemasons. The Freemasons like the triangle, don't they? Don't forget Tex Winder. They're architecturally out of that offense. Did you have to look that up, Weiger? No, I knew that. But I did have to look up what the high ally handheld device is. It's called a Cesta.

How about that? I do like that Fritos scoop. That actually works really well. It's great for dipping. I don't like the Toastitos scoops at all. Yeah. I just want to say fuck you for that comment. I don't like the Toastitos scoops because they're like little bowls.

Weiger, your fucking alarms ruined everything. I hate you. I have no control over when they're going to test the fire alarm in the building. They've been doing all fucking day. I'm trying my best to work around it, but the alternative would have been to rescheduling this record. That's no, that doesn't work either. It should have just been me and Colt.

I think the scoops, the little bowls, the Toastitos bowls, they just feel very artificial to me. They feel like processed. I can't get my head around them. I'm a triangles first. I'm a strips guy second. And then after that, I mean the rounds, the circles. I don't love the, I don't love the fucking,

I don't love the circles that much. I don't think they're great for dipping. There is a process dealing to those, but I will say that the scoops, they are easier to scoop salsa. I mean, there is no doubt about it. Yeah. I just like, I give me a little bit more challenge and also you can end up with too much salsa in those Toastitos rounds

as opposed to the Fritos scoops, which I think have a better chip to dip ratio. You don't think that those are processed though? Like I think, I think, I think, I think strips a lot of the times also feel that the same way. So Fritos to me, I always, I already think of as super processed. I guess I think of tortilla chips a little differently. When you say processed, you, like in my head, I meant, you meant like,

it's like you try too hard making those scoops. Is that what you mean? Yeah, I guess. I mean, yeah. Like we get a Toastitos, look, look. Stop showing off. No, I know it's, it's, it's just like the same, hey, back to cornmeal.

I know it's the same sort of bases, the other ones, but just for whatever reason, that little, the fact that it's in that shape makes it seem more artificial to me. I'll shout out one specific thing. There's a, there's a small chain Supermex, which is primarily in Long Beach, California, that they'll basically just, they'll take like a whole like corn tortilla and then just deep fry that and then give it to you as, as their chips.

And then you just kind of break them off into your pieces on your, on your own. And I know there are other places that do that, but man, it is delightful. It works really, really well. And it's a lot of fun if you're a kid. Or a 40 year old man. Yeah, who am I kidding? Have the time of my life eating that.

If you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us at dowboyspodcast at gmail.com, or leave us a voicemail at 830.go.dow. That's 830.4636844. And to get the Dowboys double or weekly bonus episode, join the Golden or Platinum Plate Club at patreon.com slash Dowboys. Colt Cabana, thank you so much for being here. What a delight.

Well, you'll, you'll have to come back at a time where we're not completely derailed by my, my annoying fire alarm. But thank you so much for being here. Anything you would like to plug at this time? Great to be here. I've been listening. I love the show. So cool to see you live.

And then to come on the podcast, please invite me back whenever you'd like. Of course, I am here to promote AEW, All Elite Wrestling, Every Wednesday Night on TNT. And this Saturday, September 5th at 8 o'clock Eastern, 7 o'clock Central, we have a huge pay-per-view, which I will be a part of, where I am wrestling with the Dark Order

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where you subscribe to podcasts. Also, I have a Twitch slash Colt Cabana, where I do Jackbox games, and then we just do wrestling answers. And I've been really enjoying it. And I have a children's book, and I have a documentary about comedy wrestling, because that's kind of what I do.

I'm a pro wrestler who does comedy, and I mix it all together. And all that stuff's available at coltmerch.com, Twitter and Instagram, at coltcabana. That rules. Awesome. Check all that out. Check it out. I'm happy to have you here. Thanks so much.

Thanks so much, Colt. AEW has been so great during all this, and you guys have done it the right way, and it's been really fun to watch. And Colt, you're a funny guy, and you're extremely athletic. It's the people like you that should put Weigar and I out of business.

We should just fucking crawl into holes in the ground. What do I bring to the table? I'm 0 for 2. It makes me a real star at the stand-up comedy softball team. The old rock job. Yes. And I'd like to apologize to you guys. I'm sorry I can't make the,

or I probably won't make the wrestling dirt sheets with what I say in this episode. I know you guys got a big bump, some old Joey Janella. Yeah, there's a, maybe they'll talk about how you like strips as opposed to circles for when it comes to tortilla chips. That's okay. We love to have you on.

You got to come back when Weigar's alarm isn't going nutty. It's true. I, I, please and thank you. And yes and. That'll do it for this episode of Doe Boys. Until next time for the Spoonman, Mike Mitchell, and I'm Nick Weigar. Happy eating.

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