Doughboys - Red Robin with D'Arcy Carden

Episode Date: September 1, 2016

Actress and comedian D'Arcy Carden (Broad City, The Good Place) is in studio to review her childhood post church favorite, burger and brew spot Red Robin. The trio test out Bacon Jam in Snack or Wack.Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After the Civil War, free African Americans, often excluded from traditional music venues like nightclubs, theaters, and concert halls due to state-sanctioned racism, instead turned to forming singing groups at local barbershops. The barbershop quartet was born, and as with much of black culture, whites soon copied the trend. The form peaked in cultural relevance in the 20th century prior to World War I, and revived in the late 1930s with the founding of Spebskva, the Society for the Preservation and Encouragement of Barbershop Quartet singing in America, who encouraged performing wearing straw boaters.

In 1940, a barbershop quartet member named Sam opened a tavern in Seattle, giving it its name from one of his favorite tunes about a colorful songbird. In 1969, Sam sold the business to Jerry Kingen, who revamped the menu by adding an array of two dozen different burgers. The burger menu would become the restaurant's signature, transforming it from a local dive into a smash hit with a nearby University of Washington student body. The next decade, the chain became a franchise, migrating across the U.S. and nesting itself into dozens of different cities.

Though the original restaurant has shuttered due to building codes, there are now over 500 stores nationwide with over a billion dollars in sales annually. This week on Doughboys, Red Robin. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. We're a part of Ferrellaudio.com. The best way to support ours and other shows in the network is to use their referral link on our website anytime you shop at Amazon. I'm Nick Weigar, alongside my co-host, Cookie Dough Golem, Mike Mitchell, The Spoon Man.

How are you, Mitch? Cookie Dough Golem? Yeah, that was courtesy of Matt West. And if you've got an insult for me to use at the top of the show, email roastspoonmanatgmail.com. Well I got a new segment this week. Oh boy. It's called Toast Spoon Man. This one comes from atjackallison.

Your old roommate, Jack Allison, our friend. It comes from atjackallison. Right. Do you want to hear what he has to say? Yeah, let's hear what he has to say. I'm going to make sure that it's his right Twitter. This one comes from atjackallison.ol on Twitter. He says, Mike Mitchell is one of the most naturally talented and funny men I have ever

met in my life. What others need to devote hours to, Mitch is able to accomplish effortlessly. Effortlessly. Effortlessly. Effortlessly. God damn it. He has a personality as big and as kind as his heart. I am so glad that I am able to call Mitch one of my closest friends.

And I am so glad that I am able to call Nick Weigher a conniving, unoriginal, unprompted from Jack. Thank you, Jack. That was a nice toast. If you'd like this toast to the spoon. Oh my God. If you'd like to toast the spoon man, send an email to spoonmandrops at gmail.com with the subject line of a toast hashtag toast spoon man.

Here's the thing. Can the toast spoon man not be ten times as long as the spoon man roast, which is literally like two or three words? I don't know. I think I liked it long. Yeah. And that's that. That's the new segment.

I like it. Did you ask Jack to do that or did he send it to you of his own volition? I don't have to go into the details of how toast spoon man works. I think there was something a little backhanded there, like just ever so slightly backhanded about what other people need to dedicate hours to do you accomplish with the minor amount of effort, however you phrased it. I think that was basically him saying that you're lazy, but you're successful anyway. That's your take from it, you fucking asshole.

That's bullshit. Anyways, I want to say howdy how to spoon nation. I'm falling apart. I don't know what's going on in this episode, but oh well. And you know what? I'm going to play one of those blind drops right now. What do you think of that? This always works out well, right?

Here we go. So far I'm hearing. There we go. I like it so far. I'm a huckster, you're a liar, yes, well, I think just eat it, eat it, just eat it. Wow, there we go. That was a fun one, right? I'm a huckster, I'm a fraud, I'm cooking with gas, just eat it.

Wow, there we go. That was a fun one, right? Yeah, I like that we got a little bit from the Web 1.0, that all your bases belong to us, like pre-YouTube viral video. Yeah, this was sent June 30th, so almost two months ago, it was from a JTK mail. Well, I don't know who this guy is, Elliot. It's just from Elliot. Elliot, you didn't put a Twitter handle, I don't know who to credit.

Good job. He knows who he is, he recognized his drop, he knows his name. Good job, Elliot. Yeah. Mitch, how you doing? I got nothing. I usually have something. I thought you were about to tell me something, I was like, what's?

No, I was like, I should have prepared a little bit of small talk, I really have nothing. You know, let's just jump right into it. I'm going to Vegas this week. You're going to Vegas for a, you got a bachelor party, that's right. My friend, the Nader, he's getting married. The Nader, great. The Nader's bachelor party. What's the rundown of Quincy idiots who are going to this bachelor party?

I'm staying in a room with Scoop, Frailbott and Chankton. Those are the guys I'm staying in a room with. Well, Frailbott and Chankton, we know and love, but Scoop is new to me. Scoop, yeah. Or Chauncey. Right. Or Arthur, I used to call him a little bit. Oh, you used to call him like an actual name, then a man would have.

His name is Sean, but he'll be in the room. And then who else is going there? I mean, of course, the Nader's going, Wu Tang's going. There's going to be a lot of people down there. Great. Yeah. One of us will probably end up dead. Find out if anyone listens to the podcast and what they think.

They don't. Why would they? Let's introduce our guest. She's an actress from Broad City and The Good Place, which premieres September 19th on NBC. The great Darcy Carden is here. Hi, Darcy. Hi. How are you?

I'm giggling up a damn storm over here. Thank you. I saw you cover your mouth when Nick was doing his intro, which is appropriate. Because it did start in slavery? Well, not exactly. Post-Civil War. Post-Civil War. Yeah.

But also, I've listened to this podcast so much, so to see you doing the opening in person was something special. It was like, wow, this is really happening. What you got to see that listeners don't get to experience is me fucking up and having to restart and then Dustin editing it together so it seems relatively seamless. There was a really uncomfortable part where you kept fucking up and Mitch and I just looked at each other like, what the fuck is going to happen? And I'm off to you, this happens all the time.

Yeah, you know what? My fuckups just stay in. All these fuckups you hear, that's me. I'm the real raw guy. You know what? You see what you get or you hear what you get. You get what you hear. Yeah, yeah.

Wait, you get what you hear and you hear what you get. You know what? This may be the first thing I ever asked Dustin to edit out. You also almost just called him Duskin. There's something going on tonight. I can't speak. I'm nervous maybe we're about leaving my kittens alone for the weekend. Is the plan just they're going to fend for themselves in that apartment?

Yeah. How many kittens, bro? There's two. Cute. Wally and Irma. And like really young? They're like four months now. So they're like old enough.

And anybody live with you? No. I live by myself. That's cool. Yeah. So, because cats can, like it's not like a dog where you need someone walking it all the time. Right, yeah. They can be good especially for a couple of days.

Wally's been, he climbed up the window yesterday which kind of got me nervous. Like he like ran. He climbed up the Wally? He truly climbed up the Wally. Because he climbed up the chimney but not inside the chimney but outside the chimney. And then yesterday he just ran and he climbed up the curtain in the window on the screen. Right. So he's being like a little crazy.

He's, yeah. Okay. Are you gone Friday, Saturday, Sunday? I'm gone Friday. Yeah. And then I'll come back on Sundays. How do you feel about maybe having one friend stop by? Yeah.

I think I'm going to have somebody stop by. Yeah. Yeah. Even just on the halfway point. Well, here's what happened. I have now, I'm now afraid of, I've never in my life been afraid of fires. Okay. I mean, as old men do, old men in the moment.

Old men? Oh, old. Old men. As all men do, I fear fire in the natural caveman way that I fear fire. Oh, you don't fear fire? I mean, not like in a rational fear of just being in the presence of flame like a Frankenstein. But meaning like, you know, fire equals bad if you touch. Fire equals bad.

Fire bad touch. Okay. Fire bad touch. Yeah. When I was a boy, I think I may have told this on the podcast before. But imagine if someone hadn't heard it before. Maybe someone hasn't heard this before. My grandpa had oxygen deficiency and that's kind of like, it's like having Alzheimer's.

I mean, it's not, it's fine. It's okay now. So, but he would call me Harold and George growing up. Oh, brother. I mean, no, it was a lot of it was cute. He lived for a long time with it. But he would like make fires in, like in summertime and he would be making these fires and he would have his oxygen tank and his cord would just be dangling by these.

He was like a little walking bomb. I felt like he could have gone up at any moment. And would you warn him? I mean, like you'd be like, grandpa. It's 80 degrees out. Right. Don't, there's no need for a fire. But I mean, like, I think a part of it was he was cold or whatever.

But I remember one time, my grandma, my grandma and I got home from, from McDonald's and she put my Happy Meal down on the table. Did I tell this ever? I don't know. And he threw the entire Happy Meal into the fire. Like with the food and toy in it. And just all went into the fire. Because he was like, he thought it was like trash for the fire.

And did you, did anyone call him out? Yeah. I was like, grandpa threw my Happy Meal on the fucking fire. I didn't say fucking. No, because you were a child. The toy and everything? The toy and everything. God, I wonder why.

And my grandma was like, ah, fuck. Like she was, I don't think she said fuck either. But she was like, well, we'll go get you. I think we went and got a new one. Yeah, you got it. Because like it's not just food. I mean, I don't know about you guys, but for me, if I got a Happy Meal, that was like a present. Right.

Well, where do you reckon? Which, what was your favorite? What kind of surreal childhood did you have when you had a deranged grandpa just fucking your food into a fire? Oh, my grandfather deranged his fucking sick asshole. I'm sorry, but just like what such a bizarre like life to have as a kid. He also wouldn't let us watch The Cosby Show. Oh, shit.

Well, he was right about that. No, no, no, no. History, history proved him right. That's true. He is on the right side. And that was why he was like, that guy's a pervert. No, he did not. No, I know.

Maybe your grandpa could see the future. Maybe that, maybe he was like, oh, Cosby's going to go bad and Mitch is going to develop some bad dietary habits. Oh, he's a gypsy. If he could see into the future, I think he would have thrown me into the fire as well. Now it makes this, I shouldn't have told that story. It makes him sound like a racist man. No, a lot of grandparents didn't like The Cosby Show.

I mean, he had oxygen deficiency. So, I mean, that was a part of the issue. I don't think you can cloud his judgment. I apologize for calling him deranged. I think obviously it happens to some seniors. They have some mental issues. It was an antwerp when it was bombed, okay, Weiger? What's antwerp?

Antwerp was like the other D-Day place. Oh, okay, okay. There was Normandy and Antwerp, and he was an antwerp. I was trying to place, which I didn't know if it was World War II era, but I guess that would line up time-wise. He was there. I feel like that's the thing. He was fighting for the nuts.

Wait a second. You keep digging this hole. Your grandmas. He was not. He was fighting for America. Of course he was. Of course he was. I mean, you never know.

So, Darcy, I have a specific food-related question for you because you have an apostrophe in your name. Yes. What happens at Starbucks? Like, what's the name-on-cup situation? A lot of times, so my name is spelled capital D, apostrophe, capital A, R, C, Y, which of course nobody would ever guess. Right.

You know, they would never, that would be insane, almost, if they did. Well, it would be insane for them to guess just outright. Yeah. To be like, what's my name, and someone guessed it outright. Oh, that would be dope. But a lot of times it's like D, A, well, a lot of times it's Darcy, IE, or Darci. I recently got a Darcy. But you guys want to know, can I reveal a little secret to Spoon Nation?

Of course. A police. Spoon Nation will love it. Cover your ears. My given name, my parents did not put the apostrophe in. I put it in. Whoa, I didn't know that. Oh, that is interesting.

That's a little secret. And when I was in junior high, I was really obsessed with, this is so goofy, but I was obsessed with the Smashing Pumpkins. Yeah, of course. And they have a female bassist, and her name was Darcy, and she had an apostrophe. And I just took it from her. So I added a little apostrophe into my regular old boring Darcy name. Didn't Billy Corgan have some problems with Darcy?

Yeah, yeah, problems with everybody, I think. That's true. Yeah, I think he did. That's what led to Zwan, ultimately. Yeah. Yes. All things lead to Zwan. And Zwan kicked so much more ass.

That's great, because I always thought Darcy was so cool when I was like in middle school listening to Smashing Pumpkins, and just like, whoa, she plays the bass. Totally. She looks cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And I really, like, dreamt of being in a band, and I just loved any kind of like cool rocker girl. And, you know, she was the, like, easiest way to become that is just by changing my name

to her name. Did you legally change it? Yes. Wow, I love this. Wow, that's amazing. But it's weird because it's... This is a big spoon nation secret. But it, but my mom, I mean, they've obviously accepted it's been many years, but my mom

will like sort of poke fun at me by signing emails and letters M, apostrophe O-M. That's adorable. No, it's fucking rude. But yeah, so for a while they were just like, oh, you know, like this won't stick. And then all of a sudden I was in high school and then college, and then I'm a married woman with a legally changed name. I like it. It's great.

It's fantastic. And Weigar, was that the last, that Smashing Pumpkins song, was that the last song you ever listened to? Because we know that you're notorious for not listening to music. I tell you, I do listen to music. I'm not like a music super fan. I'm not a music snob who's always reading the Rolling Stone magazine and up on what's getting five records or whatever their review system is.

I'm not on the Pitchforkzine, seeing what's scoring a perfect 10.0. But I tell you what, I enjoy a little bit of Spotify. I'll put it on while I'm getting some work done. You know what, let me just see what my last play was on Spotify. It was probably something for... Great noise it says. No, I listened to, here we go, I listened to a little Cheryl Crowe yesterday. Cool.

Yeah. Weird. Yeah, very strange. I listened to a little Cheryl Crowe yesterday. A tiny Cheryl Crowe. Just like two and a half songs. Can you be, like what songs? Because I do sometimes listen to Cheryl's, I will like specifically pick a couple of

Cheryl Crowe songs, but not all Cheryl Crowe songs will do. I just put her, like I just played her normal playlist and so it just kind of went down so I got like all I want to do in the first cut is the deepest. Cool, great songs. And then I think I got a little bit into Love Song to the Earth. I don't know that one. I don't know either. Wait, which one is that?

You can sing it for us if you'd like. You know it? Here it goes. Starting off strong as hell. I still don't know what it is. Yeah. You're fascinating you weirdo. God.

Wait, that's not her voice, is it? I don't know. It's on her list. Well, maybe it's. Maybe it's newer or something like that. Yes, right. I was going to say to you, one of the only famous Darcy's I knew was married with children's Darcy.

Darcy Marcy. Oh wait, oh wait. Marcy Darcy, right? Oh yeah, it is. Oh, it's Marcy Darcy. No, no, it was both. Yeah. It's her last name is Darcy.

And that was her character name, right? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, Marcy Darcy. Wasn't she? She never gave it up to her husband. But it also was one of the, I think one of like the higher up producers on the show and had a strong creative voice in the show.

I didn't know that. So that was a show I was not allowed to watch. There were many shows in the 80s I was allowed to watch. I couldn't watch that. I couldn't watch Alph. I couldn't watch Night Court. Oh fuck, Alph got cut out? Yes.

Night Court, no. Yeah, but married with children, probably a lot of us weren't allowed to watch, but a lot of people in, you know, not so much lately, but when we were young would be like Marcy Darcy. Yeah. And I was like, I guess I get it. Yeah. I don't watch it, but I get it.

I got something like Michael, Michael, Michael Motorcycle. Come on, that's dumb as fuck. What are you talking about? Turn the key and watch it. Also, my name is Mitchell. Right. And I got like, Bichel. No.

Yeah. Wu Tang used to call me Bichel. He probably will this weekend, I'm sure. God damn. Alright, Wu Tang. Sean or whatever. Oh, Scoop. No, Scoop won't call me that.

Okay. But will Arthur? No, Arthur wouldn't either, but Scoop did almost bite through my cheek one time when I was in high school. I know. Watch. Doesn't take that much, I would think. Wait, how did that happen?

We were fighting and then he bit on my cheek and almost bit through it. Was it play fighting like dogs? No, no. We were like fist fighting. Like dogs. Yeah. Mitch, how many of your stories begin with, we were fighting. Bit through your cheek.

Oh my God. I've only fought friends. That's how cowardly my crew of friends are. Yeah, it was this one guy, Breslin, and I got into a fight and then me and Scoop got into a fight right after each other. I maybe was very annoying that night. Was it like fight to hurt each other? Yeah, no.

It was like fist fighting and I think this is maybe like my senior year maybe, I would guess. Over a woman? No. No, no. They weren't around. For a good reason. And then Scoop and I got on the ground and then he started biting my cheek and I was

punching him and then his brother, Micas, came over and said, Micas? Yeah, Micas. And he came over and he started punching me and I was like, what the hell, man? And he was like, you're punching him still. And I was like, he's biting my cheek and then Micas started to punch Scoop. Kind of like a weird trying, like a human centipede situation. It was a big, messy pile. Where was one and then one again?

This makes me sound trashy and dumb. It does. Yeah, I'm sorry. It's the truth. It's what happened. So Scoop will be in Vegas this weekend? Scoop will be there. This is like one of the last fights I ever had in my entire life.

I think you should all weekend call him Scoops. Just add an S, like as if you sort of forget. I like that. I think that maybe you will. Yeah, don't let up. Do I now sound like a dumb ass trashy guy? I mean, the anecdote you did certainly sounds like the... I'm not saying you sound like a dumb ass trashy guy, but that's a kind of anecdote a trashy

guy would relay. But not with a smile like yours. Aren't I supposed to be honest on this podcast? Yes. I think you're honest to a fault. Yeah. Edit it out. Thank you, Dustin.

No, it's Duskin. Duskin. Duskin. I'm not going to call him... He's not getting a nickname. I shouldn't call him Duskin. Anyways, I love all those guys. They're like brothers.

That's all it is. You never got into a little dust-up with your brothers? See, I have one brother. I have one older brother, Nate, and he is older enough for me where it wouldn't be any sort of contest. He's like, he's four and a half years older than me, four years ahead of me in school. Yeah, he just could have beaten me to a pulp at any point. He never got mad at you for going through his underwear dry or something like that.

Why did you do that? He got, I think... I don't know. We had very few fights. We just didn't... Honestly, we didn't talk very much, grow it up. You were too busy listening to music? Yeah.

All right, so now what's more unhealthy? Me and my little dust-up wherever my cheek almost got bit through, or this man and his brother who don't talk, huh? We talk. We have a... We have conversations. We have regular conversations. We see each other at family gatherings.

Oh, shit. We're very friendly. We've never had any problems. Things are going really smooth. Okay, sure. It's been a smooth sailing since day one. Listen to the day you report. Yeah.

I have a brother relationship like almost benefits from a problem here and there. I never had a brother. Oh, really? Yeah. Never had a brother. That's why you had all these scoops. Yeah, I think that is probably why those relationships are important to me. I never had a brother...

I have an older sister who I love very much. I have an older sister who I love very much, so who loves their older sister more? I don't know. That's a good question. Maybe we... It's equal love. I think it's equal. Yeah.

And I have a younger brother and a younger sister. Really? Yeah. I hit the damn jackpot. Yeah, you... With that sort of cadre of siblings, what was the food situation growing up? Was it chaos at the dinner table or...? It wasn't chaos.

It's funny because my husband is one of five and I think it was chaos for them because he has this thing still where he finishes his meals so fast and he totally says... He says it's absolutely from the way they grew up, which was like, if you wanted seconds, you had to finish first. Our food situation was just like, eat what's on your plate and the only thing I can think of is like, I delighted in this kind of like slow eating. I should say it's with desserts or like pizza or something like that, like some sort of like a, you know, not chicken, but just something that was like a special food.

I would love it when my brother and sister would finish first and then I would be like, this ice cream sure is good and they'd like finish theirs immediately, like I would take my damn time and they would lose their minds. Yeah, I was gonna say, have you been in fights with your siblings? You must have. But it wasn't even like in your face. It was just kind of like a deep, like I really enjoyed being... I think I still do that with Christmas presents somewhere deep down.

I'm like, I'm just enjoying watching everybody open theirs. Sure. Oh, I have a pile of presents in front of me. Who's got the time? That's kind of disgusting, but it is who I am. That's like a thing in Vanilla Sky, right? They're like, like pleasure delayer. It's like a thing they say to Tom Cruise.

Yes, and I was gonna say pleasure delayer, but that sounds so sexual. I think it is a little weirdly sexual. It is a little weirdly sexual, but it also sounds a little bit like a super villain. The pleasure delay. He just mildly inconveniences you when you're about to have a good time. That's a great... See, now I wanna... Are you a fast speedster?

Are you a roadrunner? Are you a whom? Are you a wily coyote? Are you a wily coyote? Wait, I don't think wily coyote is known for taking his time eating his meals. If he got the roadrunner, I'm sure he'd take his sweet time. Oh, that's true. That's true.

He'd savor that. So, are you a wily coyote? Are you a roadrunner? I'm probably a roadrunner in terms of I eat pretty fast, and I'm also like, I'm not really talking when I'm eating most of the time. I'm just like going like... You're saying meat-meat? Yeah.

But the thing I will do on the pleasure delayer front is I will work my way around my plate until the thing I like the most is the thing last. Oh, I like that. Hell yes, I absolutely do that too. It's always good. I think we've talked about this a little bit on here, but it's always good to save that one last bite. Yeah.

I'm actually kind of a more of a wily guy. I'm pretty slow. I mean, I'm a big guy. I feel like there's probably this thing of like, oh, you know, big guy's probably like wolf down their food or something like that. Not the case. Hey, we didn't say that. I know, but you were both thinking it.

I could tell. Sweet at us. Let us know. Meat-meat. Hashtag, meat-meat. And then hashtag, what's the wily coyote? Hashtag, damn, act me, fix those rocket skates. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's hashtag. So, Darcy, you, like, speaking of your childhood, you're from Northern California. That's right. And so, did Red Robin, this was a thing that entered into your life as a kid, I imagine? It did. It was at like the local mall, which, you know, oh, you okay, buddy? Sorry, down the wrong tube, right down the wrong one. Let it out, because that can hurt.

Nope, I'm sorry. No, you don't have to apologize. Good. It happened to someone the other day in front of me, and it made them throw up. Really? From the wrong pipe? Yes. And I felt so bad for them.

It was like in a room full of, you know, the worst thing is what you just did, right? That alone is embarrassing, but it made him throw up like a green... Hey, wait a minute. I wasn't that embarrassed. No, you should be so embarrassed. What you just did is literally the most embarrassing thing possible, other than if you barfed after. God, you threw up like green exorcist goo, is that what you're saying? Yeah, I shouldn't go into the details of the color, but just kind of like stomach stuff.

Yeah. That's horrifying. I'm sorry. We got to get to Darcy. We'll get back. Let her talk about herself. Let's get back to Darcy. Very quickly, I remember I had the flu, and my mom was...

I was just getting better with it, and my mom was like, what do you want to eat? And I was like, Burger King, and she's like, are you sure you're not sick, and you're still not sick? Yeah. And I was like, no. And she was like, okay. And she got me Burger King, and I project albomb in it. Totally.

And she said it was exorcist-like. Yeah. Where it just goes straight out of your mouth. Yes. It was very much like that. And I've never witnessed that again in real life, but I know that it happens. I've seen YouTube videos, and that does not make you want to throw up. Did you see it?

I have a gag reflex, where if I see that, I feel like I'm going to throw up. I didn't love seeing it, but it didn't make me feel like I was going to barf. The thing I felt was embarrassed for him. I wanted to make him. I was like, is it better to comfort him, or to pretend like we didn't see it, or what? Yeah. I mean, it's impossible to pretend like you didn't see it. I know.

I know. Because it was like cough, cough, cough, cough. Oh, my fucking god. He's poor guy. He's just doing his job. That is also too. And any sort of, because it sounds like some sort of meeting scenario, I don't know exactly what's going on.

But in that sort of group of people, that's such a humiliation to endure. I spilled a full soda in a meeting once when I worked in video games. I was like, it was like one of those things where they've got the whole team in there. They've got the whole group. Some people are standing, some people are sitting, and I was holding a fountain drink filled with fruit punch. And I just sort of fumbled it and spilled the entire soda all over me and all over the guy next to me.

I just went everywhere. And then I didn't know what to do. And it was just so humiliating to the point where afterwards people were like, hey, man, are you all right? This is not just like you spilled on your body, but something happened with your brain. You're a different person now. That is, yeah, spilling, oh God, that's awful. What a nightmare.

It's going to happen again, too. I'm not going to make it through the remaining five to 10 years of my life before I die without spilling something. Five to 10? I was thinking. Yeah. Who told us? Yeah.

Three to four. Five months? Yeah. Yeah. Barfing sucks. It's a nightmare. It's a nightmare. Yeah.

Yeah. I can't do it is my problem. I can't force yourself to barf. Because it makes you feel better, so I can't. But I can't. Oh, right. I can't do it. I can't do it either.

I can't force myself to do it. I can't force myself and then I can almost never do it. Oh, interesting. Oh, I'm great at barfing. Blood vessels like in my face will be like I can't do it. Oh, it is so much like stress on your body. I can't do it. Yeah, I can't.

I am great at it. And that like, meaning when my body has to throw up, I don't mean I'm great at it myself. Right. But when I have to, it's like I register the feeling. I'm like, this is what's going to happen now. I do it. And then afterwards I'm like, better. Yeah.

I kind of love it. Yeah. I wish I could do it more. Yeah. Anyways, tweet at us if whatever one you like, who gives a shit? No hashtag. No hashtag. Barf.

Barf. Oops. I said barf barf. So hashtag barf barf. Yeah. Okay. So you asked about California. Yeah.

So Red Robbins at local mall. Right. My family would go to church every Sunday. We grew up a Piscopalian. Me too. Okay. And the thing about that is like, I mean, we don't need to talk about religion. I'm like, I'm like 0% religious now.

So even talking about like, we used to go to church every Sunday feels weird, but it was great. We would like go to church and play with our friends at church and then go out to lunch as a family. It was like a great family day. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't know, a Piscopalian is kind of a role.

It's pretty easy. Yeah. It's like such a laid back. It's like a much more laid back version of Catholicism basically, like I go to a Catholic wedding or something like that. You recognize all the rights, but it's just like a little bit more, it's a little bit more regal. Yeah.

Cool. Yeah. But I mean, Piscopalian is like a very gay priest. Yeah. It's a very chill church. It was very chill. It felt like a place where we would go to see our friends and eat cookies and then go out to lunch as a family.

It didn't feel very Jesusy or whatever. And I don't know, maybe it was Jesusy, but it was fine for me. And then when I didn't believe in it anymore, I stopped going and my parents were kind of like, okay. But then they were like, okay. Yeah. But so every Sunday we would go out to family lunch and often we would, I don't really remember.

I know we would do like chilies and coconut and red robin. Red. Coconut is such a funny one. Does coconut exist anymore? I think there might be a, maybe a few of them, right? The one in Lakewood that I used to go to growing up that my friend, John Savy, worked at has been shut down. What up John Savy?

And the other, the Cocos that was in Santa Monica, which was nearby in the same complex as an El Torrito and a Caros has shut down. Hell yeah. Cool. I mean sad, but I hear you. Yeah. Cocos used to be, I feel like a pretty omnipresent in the Southland and then it's not around much anymore.

Yeah. So we would kind of go between those. I don't remember if it was a thing where we would like choose or what, but that those, you know, we'd kind of rotate. And I always knew like red robin was a good time. You get a, I would, I was a real burger kid. Yeah. I'd get a big old burger and fries and.

Hey, I was a burger kid too. Yeah. It's a great thing. It was great to be a burger kid and we would like draw on, they had great kids placements with crayons and stuff. Right. I remember that too. Yeah.

And I think, does this sound familiar? They had a red robin dude, like a mascot. There was a mascot at some point. I don't know. You don't mean like a physical guy in the restaurant. I do. Oh, wow. Maybe that was an individual franchise owner's choice because I don't remember that, but I

think I remember seeing that. It was like a man. Well, here's the funny thing is I brought up red robin to my sister today and she said, do you remember so-and-so like some arch nemesis or whatever of hers was like her first job was to be the red robin dude, which I didn't remember, but then as soon as she said that I was like, oh, I do remember that there was, I kind of remember it like a Mickey Mouse, you know what I mean? Right.

A mascot. Yeah. But I don't remember well enough to have some great anecdote. I didn't push him over like make out with him in the back. The back meaning his butt. Make out with him in the back means to make out with someone in the butt. Just to make out with their butt. Man, I don't know any of that stuff.

Well, it's time for you to learn, buddy. This is today's tween lingo. Yes. They're making out with each other on the butts for God's sake. Yeah. They keep up in the stakes. I want to say that my mom's nickname is Coco. Cute.

Oh, that's adorable. That's cute. Also, are you British? We're all, I'm kind of from a long line of Irish losers. Which is why you say mom. I think that's how- Wait, Irish what? Losers.

Okay. Okay. Do you think I said boozers? No, I think I thought you said stoners, but I didn't like register it as anything. Especially all of that. Every Mitchell man before me like died before 60. Which will happen to me too. No way, buddy.

No? You're going all the way. Jesus. It's a 70. Oh, God. Please end it now. Yeah, my mom's nickname is Coco given to her by my sister. And what is mom's full name?

Karine. F Mitchell. Karine Francis Mitchell. Karine is K-O- No, C-O-R-I-N-E. C-O-R-I-N-E. She gets very upset if you can't read. Right.

Karine. I like Karine. It's a strong Irish name. Yeah. Karine Mitchell. All the way through. Karine Mitchell. And I'm Michael Dunnevin Mitchell.

Mmm. Dunnevin. I come from the Dunnevins, yeah. How do you spell Dunnevin? D-O-N-O-V-A-N. But would you be upset if we said Dunnevin? Dunnevin. See, no.

I mean like we pronounce it Dunnevin. Cool. Just like you say mom instead of mom. Yeah. I don't know. We have fucked up. No. You know what?

I mean I don't know if this is a problem, but I have a tendency to call out the way people say words. Right. But I don't, I never mean it to be like you did it wrong. Oh, no. You play, everyone on earth, my sister listened to the podcast, which is a nightmare. Hi, Sissy. And she was like, you say everything weird.

And she has a boss next and she's, but she was yelling at me because my accent was gone. Oh, right. And she's like, now you're just like a mess, like you're not making any sense anymore. It's like somewhere in between. It's somewhere in between. You have like that, you like that twin speak, you know, like with that only another twin can understand. But it's just a boss.

Yeah. Anyway, we want to, I don't have the twin that like, that, that, that, that, that, that, that shit. Yeah. Yes. We went to the Dunnevin farm in, in Ireland. I think I may have said this anecdote, but I saw like one of my ancestors, oh, not ancestors, one of my long, like deep cousins or something.

This guy Gus, and he worked at a, he, he had like a cow farm or whatever. And he was like a big sloppy guy with like a big wet spot on his shirt. Perfect. And I was like, oh, it's like when Homer met and more Homer. Yeah. Yeah. Did you recognize yourself in him a little bit? Too much of him.

Yeah. I wish I'll find the picture and I'll put it up, but we got Gus, Gus, yeah, I don't, well, you know what? Maybe Gus has listened to this. Hey, Gus, no. Gus, you were a great guy. Yeah. And Gus tells the story on his Irish chain restaurant podcast about the time his big

sloppy cousin came from America wearing a Kylo Ren t-shirt. Oh, really? I wore that five years ago? You fucking dumbass. Wow. You're ahead of the damn curve. You got me. You got me.

All right. So, so do you remember what you would get as a kid at Red Robin? Yeah. I mean, you said you were a burger girl, but did you have a specific order? I would, it would be just like, I bet it was the kid's burger and fries. Right. I was a big burger head, but I was a very plain burger head. Right.

I was like a ketchup and ketchup, ketchup. I didn't like cheeseburgers. I like just ketchup. That's like my nephew. You're somebody who had plain hamburger. Yeah. That's when I was a kid, I was, I liked, I didn't like cheeseburgers, I liked hamburgers. Me either.

Yeah. But also you describe yourself as a burger kid, a burger head, a plain burger kid, a plain burger head, I think. Yep. Those all check out. Yeah. No, I think, for whatever reason, I don't know why a cheeseburger as a kid. To me was a turn off.

Yeah. And then I remember eating a cheeseburger for the first time. I'm getting a huge boner. When I was a little kid, I used to get a little kid boner when it was just a hamburger. And then when the cheeseburgers came out, that little thing shriveled down to nothing. I interrupted you. So you said. No, I was just thinking about like too much weird, like sexual stuff with family.

Oh, that sounds too dark now. It sounds so dark, you almost have to explain what you mean. I was just remembering like when I was like a little kid and I would run around naked. My mom used to sing this song. Sing it. This is too weird. I'll sing it. You know, Itsy Bitsy.

Yeah. Put it out of Bikini. Yeah. She'd be like, it was an Itsy Bitsy, teeny weedy, yellow polka dotted peony, like about my penis. And I remember this, like I remember that song and I'm like, what the fuck? Yellow polka dotted? What's going on there?

Yellow polka dotted peony. I don't know. Because mom's a weird, listen, mom's, anyone who is going to have a son, you can fuck them up. Pretty bad. No, any mom who's going to have a son do sing that song to him. No. Because that is awesome.

I love that. And I will sing that to every little yellow polka dotted peony I see from now on. So my main point before I got derailed everything, for some reason, for little kids, a cheeseburger can be like a weird turn off, not a sexual light, but a turn off in a food way. Yeah. I don't know why that is. Cheese and we like burgers. Yeah.

Kids love cheese. But we like plain things, right? It's a layer of complexity that just like, it makes it too much for a kid's taste buds and brain. Right. Because everything's like overly sensitive when you're a kid. It's like, you know, if you've got, if you're around children, they can like hear airplanes approaching before you can.

Because they just got. That's true. Yeah. They just got better senses. Yeah. Everything hasn't been worn down yet. So it's like Man of Steel. Yes.

Right. When he gets his powers. Yes. I don't know. Is that true? I think, I haven't, I actually have only seen Batman vs Superman, I haven't seen any. Oh, God. Don't worry about it.

Did you become, did you become a cheeseburger head is my question? You can think back to our night tonight and remember. That's very true. Are we allowed to say that? Yeah. Let's get into our meal. Okay. So we all, we all met up at the Red Robin at the Glendale Galleria today and a lovely

time was had. I agree. It was fun. And so let's, let's get into our meal a little bit. So we all, we, we started off with a few different apps. And so one thing that everyone should know about the Red Robin, if you haven't been in a while, because I used to go a lot as a kid like you, there was a place and for me, it was all about that kid's hot dog.

I was like, I really look for that kid's hot dog. And then the refillable fries, which is a thing that still exists, but just the, we talked a little bit about dinner, about how they, they have fries and just the novelty of a kid of like, you could finish your fries and they'll bring you more fries is the thing you kind of have to take them up on. Because it's just, it's just pretty awesome. But we got a couple of apps there. We got the jump starter double, which comes with the jalapeno coins and the cheese curds.

And then we also got the pretzel bites. And I mentioned the Zioska second ago. So if you're not familiar with this, this is a thing that you'll see at some chain restaurants like an Olive Garden. I think we've experienced it at TGI Fridays at Chili's. It's basically like an iPad on a stand that sits at the edge of your table. And I'm not a fan of the Ziosk. I feel like it complicates the transaction.

Yeah. And we, you know, was this your first experience with the Ziosk? My first Ziosk. Okay. It was, yeah, it was like, we looked at it and then immediately just looked at the menus, right? We were like, we don't need, was it like another menu? It's like a redundancy where you can use the Ziosk to pay your bill, which we did at

the end of the meal, which we'll get to in a second. But you can also use it to summon your server. You can use it to play like Farmville style games. Yeah, I saw some, the family behind us was playing games and that just bummed me out. Yeah. And then you can also like use it to order, to browse the menu. I think order just apps and desserts. I don't think you can order entrees.

You have to do that through your server. But then our server, we ordered things to our server and then he would like reach over and program them into the Ziosk. It was so weird. It was so weird. And he was like, I've done this a lot. He did it upside down. And that was cool, I guess.

It was cool. I liked our server. He was a nice guy. He's a very nice guy. Adam, great, great man. He went, because this made me, it gave me a memory of going to our very first episode when he went to Chili's. With who?

Who was your dude? Eva Anderson was our guest in the first episode. Great. And I don't remember the name of our server. He was very nice. Who, by the way, his dad was on Nightcore. You missed out on it. That's true.

I know. Well, now I know. We'll catch up on the backlog. Just binge watch all of Nightcore now. I will, actually. But like the server there, I remember dressing the Ziosk and he was like, yeah, this thing's my replacement someday. Right.

It's like a really weird thing to, a bit of the transact, it just complicates the transaction and makes everything weird. He walked out the back door and jumped into the dumpster. The only thing about it that I liked was maybe the fact that you could pay the bill on it at the end. Right. That's nice. Because we were kind of talking about how there's sometimes that like long moment or many moments

where you're waiting, your meal is done and you're waiting for them to bring out the check and that can kind of be a bummer. So I do like that aspect of it, but not enough to have a damn Ziosk on the damn table, the whole damn meal. It just clutters at the table scape, it's not good at all. But let's get into our food a little bit. So I mentioned the apps, Jump Starter Double, Jalapeno Coins and Cheese Curds and Pretzel Bites.

We all agree on what was the best, for sure. We do. Yeah. I mean, I think that the table, the consensus of the table was the cheese curds, correct? Hell, yes. The cheese curds were very good. I liked them. They were good.

They were good. And the ranch. The cheese curds dipped in ranch was the best. It was some good ranch they had going on there. Here's the little bone I have to pick with the cheese curds. Here we go. Is there a bone? There's no bone.

But they are very small and that makes dipping a little difficult without either getting, like you either have to use a fork or you might just get your fingertips a little ranched. No, thank you. Oh, what the fuck? Use the fork. Yeah, I know. That's what I'm saying. You have to be very delicate about dipping it or you might get an accidental...

I know, but I'm saying don't get your fingers a little ranched. I didn't get my fingers. I'm just saying like there's a risk of that happening if you're not using the fork. Use the fork. Because they're so little. Use the fork. Yeah. Yes.

Exactly. Use the fork. Exactly. Use the fork. We were sitting in the shadow of an Empire Strikes Back poster that was on the wall with a bunch of other random art and so, yes, I did. Use the fork. Use the fork.

Use the fork. It was probably in our minds. Yeah. Anyways, I dipped my finger in that ranch. And then also the jalapeno coins, which I think were just kind of like nothing. They were kind of... They didn't really have enough spice in them. They were just jalapeno slices deep fried.

But were they or were they not smiley faces? I think they looked like smiley faces. I think you definitely had one that 100% was a smiley face. So whether that's intentional or not, it happened one time. It happened. You know what? If anyone doesn't believe us, they can go suck an egg. I'm looking at it real quick.

The pareidolia, the phenomenon of seeing faces in things. Ooh. We're getting a lot of pareidolia looking at those jalapeno bites, whatever they're called. Coins. Jalapeno coins. Yeah, those things could have gone... Now just imagine, boys, close your eyes, if you will, and imagine the cheese curds the

size of the jalapeno coins. Yeah. Now that's an app I can get behind. That would have solved a lot of problems. Yeah. Yeah, that would have been big. You have any words for that, not fun words that will ruin the fun we're having? What are you talking about?

Pareidolia, whatever the fuck it was, who cares? I think it's an interesting bit of vocab. Well, I don't. Look, if people... Kiss. Kiss. Kiss. It's how this is ending.

Yeah. It's where they're going to kiss each other or kill each other. If people listen to this podcast, get a little bit of information about stuff that they didn't previously know, like I didn't previously know about the Battle of Antwerp or the phenomenon of pareidolia. I didn't know what it was called. Fucking dumbass. I think it's useful.

It is, it is. I will also say, I would rather, instead of the jalapeno coins, I'd much rather eat some of those chocolate coins. Right. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah, but what, as an appetizer, you fucking idiot animal? I'm just saying, if I'm picking coins, I'm picking the chocolate coin. I'm picking actual money.

You're picking golden coins. That's probably the smartest one. Then I can buy whatever the damn hell I want. Don't turn on me now, we're doing well. I'm picking those Yoshi coins from Super Mario World. Super Mario World. You got five of them in a level. Wait, was that in Super Mario World or was that in the remit?

No, that's Super Mario World. You got it, yeah. You got a one up if you got all five of them? Living for the one ups. The pretzel bites. They were great. They were good. They were very yummy.

You took those down like we were a trio of Yoshi's ourselves. Yeah. Here's what I like about the pretzel bites and what I liked about all the apps because there was also this weird sweet sauce that came with the jalapeno bites that we kind of abandoned for the ranch. You get this beer cheese, which is like this queso with a beer base with the pretzel bites, which are basically like little loaves of bread, I think you describe them as Darcy. They gave you an ample amount of dip and sauce for all three.

We weren't close to running out of dip and sauce, we were using so much of it, which is great. I would say we double-triple dipped on the ranch. Absolutely. We used the ranch for every app including fries and we had plenty to spare. Yes. It was a good amount of ranch we got. Those ramekins were full.

But I think that's the right way for a shareable app because why not give more than enough dip? Sure, maybe you're adding a little bit of fractions of a set to your cost per unit, but also like... Maybe you just don't dump it back in the fucking vat afterwards. You think people are taking that nacho cheese and putting it back into a vat? No, no, no. Re-eating it?

I hope not. I hope not too. But yeah, I mean like why not do that? I think it makes for a better app experience and I was very happy about that. Let's get into our mains a little bit. Actually, you know what? We can step back for a second and talk about our beverages. We didn't touch on beverages.

Oh. Oh. Oh. We're excited. I'm excited for your drink. Nick's getting mad at... What the fuck are you doing? What happened?

What's happening on show? Nick, she's now on my team. Yay! This is chaos. Oh. Well, we talked right away because Nick ordered the... I ordered the bonfire s'mores shake. But when Nick ordered it, our great waiter, Adam, is that right?

Yes. What would you like to drink? And Nick said, I know I'm going to get a shake, but I'll start with a water. And then we had the conversation about what is a shake to you? Is it a drink? Is it a dessert? Yes. A shake is not a drink, but you can have it like with your meal.

I feel like if we'd had that whole meal and then I'd been like, what do you want for dessert? And I'd be like, I'll take a shake and they brought a shake out. That would have felt weird, right? You order it with your meal and you consume it with the entree. Weirdly, I think you could do either with a shake. If afterwards you'd said, I want that s'more shake, I wouldn't have even thought twice. Interesting.

But it's a nice time saver to do it while you're eating. Yes. But it's not just a drink. Like you can't just have a shake and be like, this is the only thing I'm going to have as my beverage. That would be insane to me. Yeah, I agree with you. I don't think that's...

I personally, unless you're in the mood for a burger and a shake is fine, but you do it and you know that this is not the drink. Right. Like I need a water or... For sure. Diet Coke or something. Or you need... A lemonade.

Which is what I got. By the way, I just wanted to make it clear. Our waiter's name was Adam, but it was not Adam Coneover, because he did not ruin everything. In fact, he delivered everything and it was just right. What, Weiger? The podcast is over. This is the last episode. I just want to be clear.

We're not doing anymore. I just want to be clear. Some people hear that our server's name is Adam. They're going to assume... They're going to assume that he ruined everything and I want to make it clear that he didn't ruin anything. It was good. Adam didn't.

Adam Coneover, a lovely man by all accounts. For sure. I know him a little bit from online. Just the convoluted Adam ruins everything reference that you shoehorned in here. I think Adam would like that. No, it's fine. It's... I just like...

Why do it? Like why did you do that is what I want to know. What was the reason? Did you guys see the new Star Wars? Oh my God, Darcy. Darcy, you are on your last episode. You're a part of Spoon Nation. This is the last episode.

Anyways, I got the Freckled Lemonade. Oh. Yeah. I mean, it's a truly disgusting name. It is kind of a weird name. I hate that it's called a Freckled Lemonade, although it was pretty good. Freckles are just a weird concept. I had them all the time growing up, but...

What do you mean you had them? I mean, I guess I still do have them. I had Freckles. But you're not like a freckly guy, though. Oh, no, I'm not. You have some freckles. That's the way you said that made me think. I had them growing up.

Don't you either have freckles or you don't? Some people grow up. You would get them. I think you can grow out of them. I think you can grow out of freckles. Yeah, some people have more freckles, and then they fade away as they age. I used to have blonde hair as a kid, and they turned brown. No, you have blonde.

Really? I think it's brown. It's probably more brown than it was when you were a kid, but I think of you as a blonde baby boy. Oh, boy. Okay. Mitch, you think I'm blonde? I don't know.

I'm not German at all. Look at those golden strands of hair. Yeah, I'd say that you're like a dirty blonde. Okay. Yeah. Which I was, but would you say I have black hair or brown? No, I would say you have brown hair. I would not say you have black hair.

All right. Because I used to be, when I was a boy, I was a very blonde boy. A little. I shouldn't have taken off my headphones. I was a very blonde, I was a very, very blonde boy. Freckly. Yeah, and I was freckly, and I still have them. I'm a freak.

I'm still pretty freckly. No, I'm very freckly. I don't consider myself a freak. You're the son you get freckles, right? Yeah. Doesn't that happen? Yeah. Our buddy, Alan McLeod, nicknamed Molasses Boy, he's got, he still has freckles, and

I've heard him say that his mom said freckles are angel kisses, which is just, he's from Alabama, just an adorable little Southern affectation. Totally, totally. He was always trying to wash them off, get these darn freckles off me, Molasses Boy. Anyway, the freckle lemonade, the freckle lemonade was, was good, it was really good. You tried it. I liked it, except it didn't have a bit of a, this is kind of where we differed a little bit, but go ahead.

We didn't have like a strawberry chunk in the bottom, like a lot, I would even call it like a strawberry sludge. There was a lot of strawberries that had made their way to the bottom, and there were some floating on top. When I get like a strawberry, because it was like Sprite, and there were strawberries, and there was like a mix of stuff, and I like to, to slurp up some strawberries and straw, but to me, it's like refreshing, and it's real, and it works well with like a kind of a strawberry drink like that, but you, you did love it.

The other thing is like, I, well, I will also say this, I was slurping your drink, and I think slurping up a chunk made me feel like bad, like I was, I don't know, like, it was too intimate. Yes. No, I, no. It's like I made out with your butt. Oh my God. If you out there, you like little, little chunks in your drink, use a hashtag, hunky-chunky,

and if you like it smooth, use it a hashtag puree all the way. I like, I like it, I like a, I like a chunk every so often. Yeah, I'll take some chunks, and you, you just had an iced tea, right Darcy? I had two big ones, so I'm going to be up all night, because they, they brought us, you know, we got a drink, and then they brought us another one without asking, so, and I slurped it down. Which I liked. I liked that they brought the drinks out, right?

Yeah, ampoule refills are great. Yeah. He did a nice job. He, Adam didn't ruin anything. Oh my God. Yeah, the bonfire s'mores to shake, I think, definitely gimmicky, it had like a little bit of that bruleed top, yeah, marshmallow on top, like that sort of s'mores-y texture to it.

But that was really the only s'mores element I got. The rest of it was just kind of generally like chocolatey with a little bit of graham cracker character. It was great. But it was very tasty. It was very good. Very gimmicky. I just think like, you know, you may not get the s'mores, it may not deliver on the

s'mores gimmick you're expecting, but still a very high quality shake. Yeah. Let's jump ahead to our bergs. Well, I shouldn't just say bergs, because, because Mitch got a chicken sandwich. I got a chicken, yeah. Two bergs and a chick. What was your sandwich again, Mitch? My sandwich was, oh man, I got to look it up.

It was, it was the bee's knees. Yes, that's right. Chicken sandwich, right? You have a fantasy football app open, what are you doing? I'm trying, I have the red robin menu open. I think it was called the bee's knees. That sounds right. I got the big buzz, maybe that's what I was thinking of, or was there a bee's, they had

some weird- No, I think it was the bee. I think it was the bee's knees. What was this weird bee theme they had? Was yours? Mine was the big buzz. I got the big buzz mac and cheeseburger. Yeah.

And mine was called the honey nut Cheerios. No, I don't think mine had any bee thing. There must have been a seasonal bee menu for some reason. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, there was honey on it, I remember that much. And there was a, what's the, what's the cider, what's like the popular cider? Like a- Like a brand of?

Yeah, that's like a, like the hard cider that everyone gets. Isn't like- Oh shit. Angry orchard, sorry. Oh yeah. Okay, alright. There was an angry orchard like a- Glaze.

Honey Glaze. Okay. I'll start with mine. So I got the big buzz mac and cheeseburger and then I got the, I upgraded my fries to chili cheese fries. Oh yeah. Chili cheese fries were fine. They had a lot of melted cheese on them.

Very heavy. I love their steak fries. We can talk about their steak, their steak fries more, but they're very good steak fries. The chili, here's a minor nitpick. More like a nitpick. Yeah. Here's a nitpick. The, the chili had beans in it and if I'm out of chili cheese fries, I want like an all

meat chili. The beans are just like, it's, it's the wrong thing when the chili is used as a sauce. It's better maybe if you're going to eat that as a soup, but they were fine chili cheese fries. The mac and cheeseburger was weird. Weird. I like, I, like, I gave you guys some bites of it and it was just bizarrely, you expect mac and cheese and you're like, okay, I know what mac and cheese tastes like.

Right. Here the mac and cheese felt like it had been tossed with like topotio hot sauce and had like a lot of spiciness to it. It didn't have a lot of cheese to it at all. I would say it was mostly spicy. It was mostly spicy. It was too spicy. It was a bizarre burger.

It was too spicy. I don't think I even recognize like a mac and cheese vibe in there. Right. There was like the texture of the macaroni, but like the flavor profile of mac and cheese did not deliver at all. It was, it was a weird mushy heat to it. Yeah. That was, yeah.

Oh no, you got it. I was just going to say that was, that for me didn't work. No, yeah. It didn't work for me either. I was confused. I just wish they had taken some of the heat out of it, um, but you had tummy issues too. It wasn't helping you out, right? Like a.

Oh, I've had the rumblies ever since this meal. It's just. It's just been a whole bunch of cavalcade of a big old shake and then, you know, a bunch of fried food. Oh yeah. That's true. This heavy burger. Oh yeah.

That was a lot of things. I'm powering through it. This is like me. Almost every other episode. Yeah. I imagine that this, this room has seen some times where it's been, it's been, it's been rough in here. Post meal.

We're just like, let's get through this. We're foolish and we, we go and eat a gigantic gross meal and then we record for almost two hours. Um, I'll, I'll, I'll do mine really quick. It was the chicken and waffles. Like we said, the bees knees, uh, or I think it's bees knees, like their chicken, like it's bees knees chicken. Their finest chicken.

Okay. The chicken was fine. Yeah. The chicken was very tasty. It was sweet with a little heat is what they say. Okay. This mouthwatering twist on chicken and waffles features an all natural, crispy tempura fried chicken breast glaze and the angry orchard honey, spicy jalapeno relish, citrus marinated

tomatoes and onions with shredded romaine on a Belgian waffle bun. The name says it all parrot with an angry orchard's hard cider, which I did not. Um, so my, my thing with it was my issue with like all chicken and waffle sandwiches because I've had a few chicken and waffle sandwiches. The waffle just wasn't crispy. It was, it was kind of like, kind of soggy and, and, and the chicken was really good. Like you were saying, and there wasn't enough of that jalapeno relish that I could even taste it, but the tomato and the lettuce and the onion were a little bit too overpowering.

Right. We were, we all took bites of that too. And we kind of thought that the tomato and onion and lettuce made it sort of like an Asian vibe. It was, yeah, it was weird. It was like, cause usually when you get like chicken and waffles, it's very bare bones. It's chicken and waffles with maybe some, some butter and syrup. Yeah.

And, uh, and here, yeah, just the addition of those components. Yeah. Kind of gave it like that. I kind of give it the sweet soy sort of flavor to it, but it wasn't what I thought it was going to be. They could have done it without, and I started eating some of it without the lettuce and tomato. I was fine with onion.

The chicken was good. The chicken was good. Um, and the fries, it came with, with steak fries, they did a great job with the steak fries. They were very, very tasty. Very high quality. Yeah. A perfect steak fry.

I mean, I don't know if I can say perfect. No, they're really, really well done. Yeah. It's like perfect. Oops. I just said it again. It's not perfect, but it's fucking. It was perfect.

Um, and then I got, I, I didn't write down the name of it, but it was some sort of pepper. I should have written down the name. Right. It was a pepper steak burger. Yeah. It was basically a cheeseburger with bacon. Right. And on a ciabatta bun.

Yes. And they were kind of pumping that it was like a peppery thing. So it was like maybe a pepper. Oh, I think it was like a pepper cheese, but not like, like, was it not spicy peppers or more just like black pepper? More like black pepper. Got you. Totally black pepper.

Are you looking up what it was called? I'm looking, I'm looking it up right now. I, I even think I liked the name of it. Something pepper and something. Yeah. It was some sort of peppery, whatever the name was when we, when we hear it, we're going to go, Oh yeah. And then we're going to go.

It wasn't the A1 peppercorn. Was it? No. Okay. Pepper, pepper was in it. It was on the special menu. It was on the special. Oh shit.

I know. I have no idea. Call Adam. It was on an insert. Conover. Um, and, um, it was great. It was, uh, okay. One weird thing is that I not, well, this isn't weird.

I like red meat to be very on the rare side. Yes. Medium rare to rare burger and steak. And their options here were medium or well. Yeah. No medium rare. And on the menu, you notice it said pink or black. No, pink or not pink.

They agree. Pink or not pink. Right. Some pink or no pink. Some pink or no pink. Which is a little weird. Yeah. Um, but our server said medium or well done.

Like those are your only two options. It's a binary, a false dichotomy because really there's a whole spectrum of different meat eats you can get. And we know that. Right. Right. It was his favorite, it was his favorite burger. Yeah.

Yeah. But I figured out the name of it. Uh, do you got you want to guess? Will you give us a hint? I'll give you a hint. Okay. Are we right that it was, it had pepper. It had, it had pepper.

Pepper and something. Something and pepper. Okay. But here we go. Think lost. Uh, uh, uh. Think lost. Okay.

Um, okay. Uh, lock. Lock and pepper. No. Uh, uh. It's the, what, what was it called? The side and pepper side and pepper is close. Okay.

That's very close. The diorama corporation. Dharma. Diorama. I never watched the show. No, that was good. Um, Lindelof and pepper. Clue number two.

Okay. You might hear Snoop Dogg or Dr. Dre say this word. Okay. Okay. Okay. Uh, uh. Smoke weed every day and pepper. Smoke monster and pepper.

Smoke and pepper. Yeah. All right. All right. Wow. We did it guys. That was great. One, two, three.

Weigar, you guessed smoke weed every day and pepper. But he got it basically. I was in the ballpark. Yeah. Who's wrong? Smoking pepper. Uh, perhaps our finest burger yet. Fuck yeah.

Top of the black pepper bacon and extra sharp cheddar on a toasted shabbata bun with housemate smoke and pepper ketchup. Pairs with Stella Artwa. Which I didn't have. I had an iced tea. Yeah. It was good. It was, it was, I imagine probably like their best burger.

Right. And yeah. I mean it was like. You, you, you were very gracious and gave us a, a bite. Well, let's be honest. It was a very yummy bite. You gave us, you gave us a quarter. You gave us a quarter.

Yeah. I'd say it was a, it was the most scrumptious of the burgers that I tasted. Oh God. Do you know that that's my husband's least favorite word? Scrumptious. Scrumptious. The way people hate like moist or whatever. Oh wow.

Yeah. You're married to a good man. Jason Cardin, a very, a very talented producer I worked with at Funny or Die for some time. Great, great dude. Not scrumptious. Not only is he great, he's hot. He is a very handsome man. I just had to say that.

He isn't disarmingly handsome. He's like a, he's like, you should be an actor. You're like a good looking guy. That's always the thing. Like in LA, you see, you meet guys who are like, like, I know this very handsome director photography, which is like, you know, the, basically the guy who oversees the, the filming actual of a TV show or film and he's like, he's so good looking. I'm just like, you should just be an actor.

You look great. You look, you're better looking than the actors I know. Yeah. Yeah, it's weird. I can't see this guy. But yeah, when Jason and I were first dating or actually maybe we were only friends and I was just like flirting with him a lot, I made him a t-shirt that said scrumptious. And I thought I was, I thought I was hilarious.

That's a great move. That was real cute. We'll take a quick break. We'll be right back with more Doe Boys. What the fuck? Welcome back to Doe Boys. We're talking Red Robin with Darcy Cardin. So we're going to get to our reviews now.

And here's how this will work, Darcy. We'll all go around. You've listened to the podcast before, but you know this, but I'll just give a refresher. We'll all go around. We'll say our closing arguments are, we'll make the case for whatever our opinion of this chain is, and then we'll give our final judgment on the order of one to five forks. Okay. And Darcy, I want to just say because I was cutting you off really, if you were quickly

up top, when you were talking about your kind of history with this place, just quickly, I just want to hear, was this your number one spot when you were going, like when you would go to church or like, what this meant to you growing up? Where do you rank this? Yes. What gets the gold, silver and bronze with cocos and your chilies is your three options. Yeah. Cocos would have been three, but bronze.

I think that, yeah, I think that Red Robin was gold. Okay. And that chilies was silver. I didn't watch the Olympics, I don't know. It's a kid-bleasing restaurant. I think that's a thing to keep in mind when you're, like, I think a great place to take your nieces and nephews or your children. I think they maybe gave us balloons, which is, like, such a dumb move, but it was, like,

great. Yeah. And definitely the, like, crayons and drawing. And then just, yeah, I think that what you were saying, the steak fries, the endless steaks fries is, like, four kids. Right. Because they actually don't give you that many. Yes.

Like, mine was just a little pocket of them. You got, like, a Dixie cup. Yeah. But then asking for more fries is, like, the most adult thing you could possibly ever do as a kid. Right? It feels magical. More fries.

Yeah. And your parents are like, yep, you can do that. So, yeah, I think that was, that was the order. All right, Darcy, so let's get into your final argument here. Okay. Gentlemen of the jury. Of the court. I don't know how the courts work.

You're standing. Okay. Well, I don't want to make you guys do this first, but do I, like, really argue for it? No. Okay. Whatever you want to do. Here's the deal. Here's how I feel about it.

Okay. About my meal. Or the place in general. Both. Yeah. Wrap up your feeling. Yeah. I feel like my, what I ordered, I don't want to compare it to what you guys ordered,

but I do feel like I won. Keep your mouth shut for a second. I think I ordered the best burger on the menu, and it was enjoyable, and I was, I actually came into this meal being prepared to feel sick afterwards, and I don't feel sick. I don't think I overdid it. Right. As I was eating the burger, I was like, I would, this is like a fine burger to eat. I probably wouldn't normally have done that many fries, but it was great.

And the menu was very large, and I'm sure there's plenty of things that we didn't even get into. Right. It was, I would say it was a better dining experience than I expected it to be, meaning I loved it as a kid, but as an adult, I was like, well, this will probably be pretty shitty. Yeah. And I thought it was not pretty shitty.

I think that's completely, I think that's pretty good. Okay. I think that's a good breakdown. Out of five forks, what is your ranking? Okay. Now, this is hard because my instinct is three forks, but that doesn't sound very good. That's a fine score. But is it like, when you guys fork, are you talking like, what's a five fork restaurant?

Well, recently a five fork restaurant for us, our previous episode was Cheesecake Factory. Okay. Yeah. Okay. I'm going to give this a four fork. Very, very fair score. That's a great score. Very respectable score.

I'll go ahead, Mitch. I've never had red robin before. Wow. Okay. It was a, my first, I almost said popping my red robin cherry and that's disgusting. Jesus Christ. I know. I admitted to that.

I almost said something bad. That's not the type of man I am. Jesus Christ. This unravels quickly. But before I... It doesn't... Yes. You should know from that song was saying to me that I am not that type of human being.

I've stayed away from sex mostly. Red robin to me, I've never had, but I've always heard about it and it's always kind of been fascinating to me. And you know, we didn't really talk too much about the yum red robin commercial or whatever, which is kind of, now we did, but which is kind of like a weird, it's a weird commercial. I just never understood what the hell the place was. Right. And seeing it tonight, I, like having it there was, it was enjoyable.

It's, it's like a fud ruckers light or something to me. You know, so I was concerned it would, red robin, would it be a rocking robin? You know what I mean? I don't know it. Oh God, I don't either. But I went in there and it wasn't, you know, it wasn't, it wasn't rocking, but it was... Right. But it was good.

It was rolling, you know? So anyways, in conclusion, I will say that this gets a very strong, solid, three forks for me. It has, it has a fun menu. Yeah. The freckle lemonade was fun. I actually looked and there, I don't think there was Sprite in it. They say it's their, the drink that made them famous.

And delicious or something like that. And yeah, the drink that made them delicious and famous, which was, it was, that was bad. Maybe I should deduct some, some ratings right now. But it was, it was, it was fun and it was good. Right. And I enjoyed myself. Yeah. How many forks?

The food is good. Three. Okay. And one solid forks. And one prong of a fourth fork. You know what? I will give it that. I'll give it, I'll give it three forks and one prong.

What do you think of that? I think it's a very respectable score. Um, here's the thing. Oh God. I had a lovely childhood. Huh? It wasn't filled with my, my mom singing mocking songs about my, my exposed penis and my... Peony.

And then father hucking my prized possessions into an open flame. We went to Red Robin with frequency. We had a great time. I, I always got the hot dog. They don't have the hot dog anymore. It was a little dismayed that they didn't have the hot dog. Maybe it was tucked away on the kids menu. I didn't see it, but I have a lot of great memories associated with it.

Like Darcy, I hadn't visited for a while. One trip we'd made, we went, my wife Natalie and I stopped by on a road trip to the Bay area. And we stopped at Red Robin in a small town. I had a salad because I want to eat lightly and it was a very good salad. That's a nice memory of like, oh, it was a very solid chain restaurant salad. Solid is the word I'd use to describe Red Robin in 2016. I don't think it's a showstopper. I don't think it's blowing any minds, but I thought like very good shake, great fries.

Fine appetizers, like very much just like right down the middle appetizers. Burgs, just don't get too crazy with a burger order. Because if you get a crazy burger, it's not going to be apologies to Jason Cardin's scrumptious. You're going to have more success if you stick with something that's very basic. Jason, if you're listening, please kick Wiger's ass whenever you can. No, to make out with is... Wait, I don't even remember. I don't know what it was.

But it's like a very solid place. Noah, who works for Feral Audio, was telling us that Pete Carroll used to go to the Seattle location all the time when he lived up there. Dustin, our producer, was saying that he used to go and take advantage of their happy hour. They had super cheap drinks. So I think there are reasons to go there, but I don't think there's a reason to go out of your way and go there. And for that reason, that's my definition of a three fork restaurant. I hear that. But still very, very solid.

That's our review of Red Robin. It's time for regular segment. Ballpark Buds. Ballpark Buds. We're definitely ballpark buds on that one. Yum. It's time for regular segment. We've got a food stuff we're going to decide if it's worth putting in your mouth.

It's snack or whack. What's your wrestling with a big brown bag there? What do you have for us? Well, this was sent to us. And now, between Nick and I, this has been a big thing, whether the dough boys can be bought and not be bought. The dough boys can't be bought. I think that the dough boys can be bought. If anyone's willing to buy us, I would gladly sell anything.

I would sell my spot on the podcast. We got sent from the Bacon Jams Company some bacon spread. They're original. Okay. Now, that's a very nice gesture. We're going to try it on air, but here's the deal. It's going to be a snack or whack. We're going to be fair.

We're going to be honest. If we like it, we're going to be honest. So, Bacon Jams, I love you guys. I'm hoping that it works out for you, but we're going to be fair about this. Yeah. And also, we need a bagel or something. We don't have anything to put this on. We just have a jar we're going to be digging into with our fingers, I guess.

What are we going to do? We need some sort of bagel. Maybe we'll have to see. Are you just saying that and hoping it will appear? I'm hoping it will appear. I guess I'll go get one. I'll go get one. I'll go get one.

I'll be back. Jesus Christ. Nice. Nice. All right, Weigar's gone. Do we keep talking? Yeah. We're going to just wrap up the podcast.

Yeah. I bent my, what is this called? A pariet. A pariet. I bent my cap. We could use this as a spoon. That is... We could very much use that as a spoon.

Hopefully, Weigar brings a knife. Oh, look at that. He's back. Wow. With a bagel. Yeah. Or bread. It seems like...

I guess we're promoting them, but do they have a website? We can tweet it out or something. Yeah, we'll tweet it out. We've got a little selection. Do you guys want... We've got a piece of wheat bread. We've got half of an English muffin and we've got half of a poppy seed bagel. Okay.

So, if you want to just pick your poison here. Yeah. You choose first. Actually, I guess we can all split it. Yeah. She's taking a section of wheat bread. She's going with the wheat bread. All right.

I think I'm going to go with a little bit of bagel. Yeah. I think that's something with a little bit more texture. Hold on. Do you want to grab that for one second? Sure thing. I'm going to put my tits back on. Kans are what we call...

Boops. Yeah. I'm putting my tits back on. So, I open this up. I don't know how this bagel is, but... It's not. I think it's got a little bit of a toast to it. It's got a little bit of a toast to it.

Okay. Here we go. The bacon jam, you can smell it. Okay. Yeah. Smell it. Tell us what you think. It smells very much like bacon.

It smells very much like... It actually smells good. I'll say that much. Okay, so dip? Yeah, dip. Go for it. It is very much jam. Okay.

Oh, my God. Oh, wow. No, that was a good hunk. All right. I'm going to try to do something similar here. It really does... Like, okay, let's see. I'm just...

I wanted to take a quick look at the ingredients because I'm just curious as to... It very much looks like bacon jam. Now, I don't know where... Cooked bacon is the first ingredient. I think you're going to take into consideration that this might go on a burger. Oh, yeah. Okay. Are we doing it?

Ready, set, go. Yeah. Hmm. It's great. Hmm. It's definitely got a lot of sweetness. Hmm. You want to get it going for another dip?

You all good? Yeah, it's definitely got a lot of sweetness. It's reminding me of something very specific, but I can't remember what the sense memory is. Okay. But it has like a very much like, oh, yeah, I've tasted this exact thing before. I kind of know what you mean. It reminds me...

I got to give them credit because it reminds me of like barbecue places or whatever. Right. Yeah. Well, I guess it kind of... Well, I just ate it on like soft bread right now, but it kind of reminds me of like... Oh, I guess it reminds me of like a barbecue sandwich. Yeah, that might be it. It's like a pulled pork sandwich basically.

Yeah. It's got that same sort of texture and flavor profile. Yeah, it has a pulled pork vibe to it. Yeah. Here's what I'd say. I think this has its place. It's definitely a gimmick, and I think the bacon jams people know what they're doing. They're selling a gimmicky product.

I think there are definitely scenarios in which I can see the utility of this, but if you're... Like, I think you've got to heed the serving suggestions because this isn't the sort of thing like you're going to wake up in the morning, you're a little groggy, you're going to put a little toaster in the toaster and then pop it out and smear some bacon jam on there like you would some marmalade. That's going to be a real bad time. That's going to be a bad time. But I think if you're going to have like some sort of composed burger or, you know, sandwich

where this is a component in it, I think you could have some success. I got to tell you, I am enjoying the aftertaste. Okay. And I feel like some people maybe wouldn't enjoy that aftertaste. Right. I like the aftertaste. Do you feel like it's just kind of a bacon-y aftertaste? It's very bacon-y.

It's very bacon-y. I think my issue when I took the first bite of it, it's because I think that I did it wrong. I scooped a big... Hunk? It's like eating like a big hunk of jam. Yeah. But I like the aftertaste a lot. But I will say whether I think it's a snack or a whack.

Nick, go for it. Oh, you want me to go first? Mm-hmm. Okay. So this is just like basically the criteria is... It's a binary. Nick, be honest. Would you...

Like they usually say, would you have it? Is this the thing you'd have again, I guess? That's usually like the personal criteria I use. But to each individual, it's up to you whether you decide if something's a snack or a whack. My God, this is so hard. Like, because you could also say, is this something that's great or not? Or is this something that like, unless it's great, I don't want to bother with it. Right.

For me, I think I'm going... I'm going to go with a mild snack. Like, this isn't blowing my mind. Okay. And like, I think I'm kind of exhausted about the bacon craze. No offense to the bacon jams, people. Maybe you were ahead of the curve, but I feel like it's just a thing just like there's so much bacon these days where I'm kind of overwhelmed by it.

And so just to get it in another form, I'm like, like, this is good. This is a good execution of it, but I'm not sure if this is the kind of thing that's for me. It's certainly not for everyday use. What about about you, Darcy? I feel the same. You said you, a mild snack? Yeah.

I would say I don't think that I would snack it, but I would maybe present it at a plate. Right. Like at a party or at a... It'd be something that I maybe would put on like a fucking cutting board with some crackers and stuff, you know? Yeah. A little impromptu, homemade charcuterie plate. Yes.

But also, it's okay. You don't have to be nice either. We can be mean to these bacon jams, people. But I love the bacon jams, people, for sending you something. I just think like, I can't imagine just being like, oh, I'm in the mood for a snack, I'm going to put this on something. Right. I wouldn't do that.

But then again, I probably wouldn't make bacon as a snack, so maybe that's just like not a taste I'm like looking to snack on all the time. But as far as it did the job that it said it's going to do, so I approve of that. And I think I would have it for guests. I would have it like for a party or for like presenting to people. So you're going to give it a party snack? I'm giving it a party snack. All right.

This now sounds like a promoted segment. It does, yeah. A party snack. I give it a snack and it's not because they sent us a thing and I'm the bad boy who can be bought, which I can be, by the way, bacon jams, people. I liked the aftertaste. I thought the aftertaste was good. It actually is nice.

It's quite nice. It tastes like bacon. I feel like I ate real bacon. My caveat is is that you 100% need to put this on some sort of burger or some sort of cheese topping. We did this wrong. So there's a potential for this to be a great snack. We didn't do any recipes, but it was a snack for me for sure.

On a burger or something people would be like, mm-hmm. Yeah. Yes. Yeah. It's not an ideal testing environment. Mm-hmm. They might be like, mm-hmm. They might be like, yum.

Wiger's ready to call it a career, I feel so. I'm doing great. I know this is the last episode. We're almost home. Yum. Yum. Yum. That was Snacker Wack.

Just like a restaurant. We value your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Today's email comes to us from Ryan and Allie from Portland. Hi, guys. Hi. They're right. Hey, doughy guys.

All right. The wife and I can agree on which is the best bite of a pizza slice. I claim it's the topping-laden point, and she feels it's where the sauce meets the crust, really hoping you guys can settle this for us. Darcy, are you a pizza consumer, pizza fan? Yeah. But I have to say, is that really from Ryan and Allie, or is it really just from Ryan? That's the inside of a married woman, sort of like looking behind the email.

Is it even an Allie? Yes, because he said the wife and I, she's not a part of that email. Right. Anyway. Honey, I'm writing to the dough boys. What? What? What?

Shut up. Clean out the back of the car. I'm leaving you for good. I like being married. Oh, that wasn't my, that was my condemning their relationship. No, my instinct to that was to be like, ah, marriage sucks, and then my brain immediately corrected it to be like, no, marriage rules. For some people.

It works out for some people. Now you're rubbing it in my face. I was going to feed your fucking kitties this weekend. Some other lonely loser. Yeah, that's awesome. I love pizza. Yeah. I think that first bite is where it's at for me.

Right. Yeah. Man. You think really just like that point, that one triangle-y bite. Yes. I think we're always trying to get back to that triangle. Right. Right?

We're like creating bites to make another try, like another point. I don't like that flat bite. Yes. Fuck a flat bite. You know what I mean? I want that point bite. This is where it's at, baby. I'm a tippy top.

I like the top of the triangle. Give me that crunchy tip of the pizza, baby. And I will say that. You know what? Maybe even like the second or third bite in, I know that you're saying like the flat area who cares. Yeah. But it's like that second or third bite into a slice of pizza, you're like, yeah, I'm

really into this. Right. You're going to be right. You're in a groove. That second or third bite is pretty fucking good. It's pretty good. My issue is once you get down to the crust. Whoa.

You said that weird. The crust. When you get down to the crust, the sauce, dough, cheese like ratio goes a little out of whack. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's like a whole different meal at that point.

And I am a guy who, I love crust. I like, so I like the bottoms too, baby. But I like, if it's between bottom and top, I like top. Wow. Yeah. I mean, here, like me and pizza, I like the tip. I do like that first bite, but I think you, I think the most satisfying bites are when you've got a little bit more, because I got a real big mouth.

Like I just like have a giant. Yeah. Oh, we noticed. I have a physically large mouth. Like I can open, like it's just very large. And so to something to fill up my gaping maw, I need like a little bit more slice. And so I want to be like, no, but I want like, I want like like a couple, I want like three bites in when I can really get a lot of surface area and I'm really getting a lot of cheese

and toppings. I think that's where it's at. Okay. Here's the other thing I find myself doing. And this is where maybe I go out on a limb, but I will take a few bites of the pizza, burn that something that's around, eat the crust, and then finish off the pizza part of the pizza. That's the dumbest shit I've ever heard.

No, I've been there, Weigar. And I live there. Yeah. I like that. Because we're talking about the, you want to finish with the best bite. Exactly. And there's something great about the crust, but the crust is missing the cheese, the fucking sauce, and probably mushrooms.

Yeah. Wait, your, your, your mushrooms on the pizza. On a mush head, yeah. Oh, your mush head. Mushrooms are one thing I never want on my pizza. That is the truth. Really? I don't like mushrooms.

I don't get the mushes off. I get the mushes off. What? I get the mushes. Oh, man. All right. I'm a real mushmouth. I mean, I feel like, I feel like, if you like mushrooms, hashtag mushmouth.

And if you don't like them, hashtag Cosby's Innocent. Mitch, a lot of your tweets just have that randomly already. Um, uh, you know, my, the thing is, if you save enough at the end where the crust is, you can still get all of them. Right. Where the crust is. And my other thing with mushrooms is if you, with mushrooms, if you have peppers and onions and stuff, then it's, I just can't do mushrooms straight up.

Okay. I just, I like a, I don't want, or I don't want it to be overpowering. Like I don't like a pepperoni and mushroom. Yeah. I need, I need like other stuff. Okay. Yeah. I'm sorry.

Really quick. Do you like a truffle, like a truffle oil or anything like that? I love a truffle oil. I think you have to try a pizza with like white, like a white pizza with mushroom and truffle. You will love it. I like truffle. Are we talking like a truffle oil? Yeah.

We're talking like truffle. Yeah. Yeah. A truffle oil. Mushrooms are a little bit on the texture scale for me. I eat almost everything, but mushrooms are the, just one of the things that can slip in. They get a little gummy sometimes.

Yeah. But I think if you get them well-cooked, they can be, I like anything. Yeah. But definitely not like from a regular pizza place, mushrooms are not going to be on my topping agenda. We're talking for Nino in Williamsburg. Sure. Oh, shit.

Okay. Let's go there for our next podcast. I love it. Where are we going? If you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us at doboyspodgas at gmail.com, check out our Facebook page, Do Boyz. Follow us on Twitter at doboyspod. Please rate and review us on iTunes.

Darcy Cardin. Yeah. Bye. Thank you so much for giving up your time. What a good luck. Do you have anything you would like to promote at this time? Well, I would just say tune in to The Good Place on NBC this fall, the premieres after The Voice on September 19th, two episodes in a row.

You got Ted Danson. Yes, you do. You got Kristen Bell. Yes, you do. It's from Michael Sher, the creator of Parks and Recreation, just a lot of wonderful people involved. I feel really good about it. I think you guys are going to like it a lot.

Maybe we'll get Sher on the old podcast. Oh, yeah, you should. You sure should. That's an extremely busy man with a family or a... No, he loves a podcast. Here's my impression of Mike Sher on this podcast. What is this? Who are you?

Why am I here? No. You think you forgot Bjorn Lurpus? Oh, yeah. No, that's true. You were on Parks and Rec. You were on it enough. Yeah.

Seems like why you forgot Bjorn Lurpus. Thanks for having me on my fav pod. Oh, my God. Thanks for coming on. Thank you for coming on. Come back sometime. Yeah. Please.

Oh, wait. She plugged something. Yeah, she did plug something. Okay. Sorry. I asked her. All right. That's it for Doughboys4Good.

For Mike Mitchell the Spoonman, I'm Nick Weigar. Happy eating. See ya. Ding! Ferrell Audio.