Doughboys - Rockaroundtheclockdoughberfest: Dunkin' 2 with Mookie Blaiklock

Episode Date: October 29, 2020

Michael "Mookie" Blaiklock (Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp, Right Now Kapow, YOU ARE WORTHY with LilMookieB) joins the 'boys for the conclusion of Rockaroundtheclockdoughberfest and a revisit of Dunkin'.Sources for this week's intro:https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2005-dec-28-me-vale28-story.htmlhttp://edition.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/TV/12/28/obit.vale/https://news.dunkindonuts.com/internal_redirect/cms.ipressroom.com.s3.amazonaws.com/285/files/201610/Dunkin%27%20Donuts%20History_11%203%2016.pdfhttps://www.dunkinbrands.com/brands/dunkin-donutshttps://www.usatoday.com/story/money/nation-now/2018/09/25/dunkin-donuts-drops-donuts-brand-name/1422584002/https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/26/business/dealbook/dunkin-inspire-deal.htmlAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Hey, this is The Doughboys reminding you that in most states you can vote early in person before election day. You can also vote by mail. Visit headcount.org slash head gum to get everything you need about voting early or by mail. That's headcount.org slash head gum. Time to make the doughnuts. Beginning in 1982, this was the catchphrase of Fred the Baker, the diminutive mascot

for a New England fast food chain focused on breakfast bites and coffee. The early rising pastry chef was portrayed by a little-known character actor named Michael Vale, whose credits included the sitcom Car54 Where Are You and the classic Dustin Hoffman Lawrence Olivier thriller Marathon Man. And Vale secured what would become his career-defining pitchman role with a standout performance and a 300-strong casting call. For 15 years, Fred the Baker would be a near-omnipresent icon in the chain's marketing, and Vale starred in over 100 commercials for the beloved Boston eatery.

Founded in 1948 as Open Kettle in the self-proclaimed City of Presidents, Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1950 the store rebranded to the most famous iteration of its moniker and began franchising in 1955. The chain saw a caffeine-accelerated grow throughout the region and eventually nationwide, adding a number of signature items along the way, including its donut-hole-clone munchkins and frozen Kulada beverage line. Today, it has over 12,000 locations in nearly 50 countries, but it hasn't all been clear-eyed optimism brought on by the promise of a new day for the brand.

In 1997, after 15 years as the face of the franchise, the Fred the Baker character retired, and perhaps not coincidentally, the chain stopped making donuts fresh in store, instead baking daily at central facilities and delivering them by truck to franchises. The chain's most famous pitchman is no longer the late Michael Vale, but Duncacino enthusiast Al Pacino, and in 2018 it dropped the donuts from its name entirely, Facebook-style. Now with a perhaps quixotic westward expansion and a Taco Bell-style reduction in its menu, as well as a looming sale to the private equity firm that owns Arby's, B-Dubs, and Jimmy John's, is it still, to recall the legendary words of Fred the Baker, time to make the

donuts? This week on Doughboys, we conclude Rock Around the Clock Doberfest, our month-long tour of 24-hour chains, as we return to Duncan. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Luke Freistocker, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Jesus. You always talk about, like, Luke Freistocker and Lou Skywalker. Freistocker.

You're stalking fries. Don't you always say hats on hats? Isn't that a little hat on a hat? Hat on a hat. Yeah, that's a Lorne thing. This sketches a hat on a hat. I think it has to air at 11.50. 11.50, so early?

Yeah, like, right after the cold opened. You didn't mean 10 to 1? I meant 10 to 1. I was thinking Central Time Zone. This is a little too hat on a hat. Bring it down to mango level, if you don't mind. That was courtesy of Brendan Ulck, roastspoonman at gmail.com is the address. I want to apologize to Lorne.

I still have hope that I'm going to be a featured player. So Lorne, sorry, dude. I'm not trying to get myself in trouble here. You think they'd hire a 40-year-old white guy, right? Why not? Why wouldn't they? Mitch, what, Wigs? What are you going to say?

So Brendan Ulck sent this in, sent in this roastspoonman at gmail.com, and had a lengthy email. Here's why I chose this one. Subject line, irrationally angry. Wow. I've been listening to old episodes in quarantine, and was irrationally angry to hear that a submission I had sent you,

squint feast good, had already been used, PF Chang's 2018 squint eastwood. I'm going to take it out on those that I love. Goodbye. This is approaching manifesto level. So here is a list of everything I can think of in case it's already been used, starting with Mitch's favorite movie series.

The F4 mentioned Luke Freistocker. He continues. Like Marlon Brando. Admiral Snack Bar. That one's been used. The Ham DeLorean. Baby Soda. Pale Organa.

Emperor Far From Lean. Jabba the Hut Dog. Boba Sweat. Captain Asma. A literal wampa. King of the Ewoks. Thanks for all the laughs during this incredible crappy time. My girlfriend lives in LA,

and I'm up in Vancouver, so I haven't seen her since February, and it's hard not to get consumed by dark thoughts sometimes. What helps is that the first episode of Doe Boys I ever listened to was on my flight down to meet her for the first time. I think it's one of the reasons why the podcast makes me smile so much,

and hope for better days ahead. Thanks again from fellow Doble Reed, and send my best to the Night Spoon. So there you go. Wow. First of all, this sounds like that, like, reverse, like I have a girlfriend in Canada, the lie that people here used to tell.

I didn't, you know, I didn't think of that. That's 100%, the Canadian equivalent is lying about a girlfriend in America, of course. I got a girlfriend down in America. Yeah, right, buddy. No, seriously, she's in Los Angeles. I'm gonna fly down to meet her. She's almost a movie star.

What? Look, she's like the next Emma Stone. She's her, she's Emma Stone's stand-in. No, she's not. She is, she's an easy A2. There's no easy A2. I'm making that, you fucking liar. Why don't you just say Zombieland 3 or something?

What's wrong with you? Be plausible. She lives in Los Angeles, eh? And you're stuck up in Vancouver? Yeah. A little George Thurrow good? Spoon's gone, I steal your girl. So not really to the cadence of the song.

I guess if you landed on bad to the spoon or something, I could maybe buy that. Bad to the spoon. Does that work? Yeah, that's pretty good. You know what I like about that song? The part where it goes buh buh buh buh bad. Yeah, that's funny.

That's a really good, just like verbal fluttering there. Buh buh buh buh bad. Bad to the bone. You do a pretty good impression. Buh buh buh buh bad. Wow. All right, well, should we introduce our guest? You got a drop to play.

Oh shit. And let me tell you, I'm betting it's not going to be buh buh buh buh bad. I would take money on that. All right, here we go. I bet you it is going to be bad. Here's a little drop. They shouldn't do this because I feel like it's too much time and money to do, but they should make an amusement park for big people

where they feel, feel, feel small fish. I've been to carnivals. Yeah, there's no rules. It's chaos. They don't start putting padlocks over the cotton candy stands. It's the stare. Have you ever seen me eat cotton candy once? I don't eat cotton candy.

I probably haven't had cotton candy in a decade. In a decade. Hey, have funhouse? Hey, funhouse guy, your mirrors are all warped. I just want like a regular. Not a warped mirror. All right. Wags.

Guess what? Yeah, it was buh buh buh buh bad. The dough circus. Oh, sorry. In the days before quarantine, there was the dough circus. That's what that was the email header. Hey, Mitch, I submitted this drop in the beginning of quarantine, but since you guys have had a problem with too many horny drops,

I thought I'd send one over. That's 100% unhorny and full of pre-lockdown fun. I'm a musician from San Francisco by the name Cesspool. S-E-S-P-O-O-L. In case I'm reading it wrong. And also a staff writer on the longest running junk and fast food review website, The Impulsive. Bye.

Wow. You guys are ever super desperate for an unknown guest. I'm only a Zoom call away. Wow, pitching himself in the email. Shooting a shot. Rejected. That's Sean. That's Sean E.

Thanks, Sean E. That was a good drop. You did a good job. Yeah. It was good. He knows more about food than us. I shouldn't be mean to him. Why?

Because I got myself a polar, an orange dry. How exciting. How exciting. Orange dry. Very good polar here. The polar seltzer is great. I've been having it since I've been back. This is a regional New England thing.

The polar seltzer, yes? Something that our, not Emma, our producer and our guest will know something about polar seltzer. It is a regional thing. We should introduce him because I am curious as to his thoughts. On this and other topics as we wrap up Rock Around the Clocktoberfest or Racketaba this month, this week. He's an actor and comedian from Wet Hot American Summer, first day of camp.

Right now, Kapow, his new podcast is You Are Worthy with Lil Mookie Bee. Michael Blakelock is here. Hi. Hi, Mookie. Hi, guys. Thanks for being here, Mookie. Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me.

Are you a polar seltzer guy? You go polar? Well, I was when I lived on the East Coast, but it's no longer available out here. I guess Arrowhead would be the equivalent out here, the local, wherever the water from the local mountain has been what would be irrigated? Yes. Sure. See, because the best quality, of course, comes from the water that's from the mountain

that is closest to you. You want the least amount of time between the water being scooped of the mountain to in your can and in your mouth. Right. It's like farm to table, but for water. Exactly. I think that actually hearing the comparison to Arrowhead makes it less exciting for me because I don't think of Arrowhead as a particular exciting brand.

I think of Arrowhead as kind of like a boring band. Am I wrong? It's much better than Arrowhead. Okay. It's much better than Arrowhead. Okay, good to know. Arrowhead has like a national, you know what I mean? It's kind of a big, boring brand, and Polar is like...

Holy special. It's special. It's niche. It's northeast. You got good tastes, but it doesn't go far. Often we get to talk about with people who don't know it and it makes us kind of a little special. Do you like...

Oh, you've never had a part of a seltzer? Well, you probably know for me. Oh, I thought you were... I'm sorry. I thought you were a little bit special, but you're not. Sorry, buddy. Yeah. I guess you're not very special, are you?

Sipping your little Arrowhead. You're not... You're not very special, are you? Look, basically anti-church lady. Oh, you know. Why isn't that not special? I think this one will go at 1150. He wants it as maybe the first sketch again.

I think instead of the monologue, I think he's saying, cold open, straight into the sketch. I think this one should go on YouTube. Hey, I'm really depressed today. Oh, no. What happened? Canonically, I'm older than the church lady. I just turned a year older than the church lady. Oh, that's a milestone.

That's like how people, you know, you cross the Homer Simpson threshold. You realize you're older than Homer. Were you talking to me like I was, Lauren, for a moment? Well, yeah, I thought we were doing a bit. No, I'm Mitch, you fool. Okay, sorry. This is your role play. Don't you see Mitch?

He was Jim Downey. Oh, what is the dry? What is the dry all about when we're talking about a polar dry? Because that's a classification I'm less familiar with. So I think a dry is basically like an orange soda, but not as, I think it was like mixed with seltzer or something. It's like a dry soda is halfway between a flavored seltzer and a full soda. There we go. I'm a nailed it.

That sounds delightful. And so, so this is the diet dry because the full orange dry is actually still a lot of calories. It's like 180 calories. It's like more than a Coke. Wow. And so the diet orange dry has 15 calories. But there's aspartame in there. The diet has 15 calories?

The diet has 15 calories in it. Does it have fruit juice in it? I should probably know this, but. It does. It does. It contains 6% orange juice. Oh. It's tasty.

It's very tasty. Easy wigs. Maybe I'll bring it back. A polar orange dry or diet orange dry. Wow. How exciting. Do you have? I don't.

Is the, is the orange the way to go? Are there other, are there other flavors we like of the pollers? Well, yeah, as far as, I mean, and then there's just the straight up polar seltzers, which are, I got some raspberry limes upstairs. They're very tasty. Wow. I'd also say that orange is like the least appealing seltzer flavor. Yeah.

It's not very good. Interesting. It tastes too, it tastes too dry. It tastes too dry. I mean, it does. My issues with some seltzers, I drink them and I feel like more dehydrated. I know that that's not real. But Mookie, you're a guy.

We got the guy here wigs. This guy right here. It's a guys episode. Yeah. We kind of, we might get into some locker room talk, but whoa. We'll see. We'll see. Here's my, here's my locker room talk.

Oh, my junk stinks. Uh-oh. Mitch is going to do it. Jeffrey Tubin. I like polar as far as seltzers go, but Mookie is the guy who introduced me to spin drifts. How about that? Mookie is one of the first people who had, who I knew who had spin drifts. I would think I was maybe one of the first people in LA that had spin drift.

Wow. I think that is true. You're the real Armstrong of spin drift. Yeah. Yeah. That's one small sip for man. Very good. Yeah.

One giant gulp for mankind. I think that's, I think that's going to go in the 1150 spot. That sentence would fit perfectly there. Um, yeah, that, that's when there was only like two flavors and you were at my house and I gave you one. I said, try one of these and I changed your life. You, I mean, yes. For the worse.

No, for the better. I, I, I love the raspberry lime spin drift. It's great. I got the raspberry lime spin drift and I got raspberry lime polars upstairs. I'm a raspberry lime kind of guy. I like a raspberry lime rickies. I like, I, I like the, I like the raspberry lime seltzers wags. That's where, that's where, what I like.

That's what I like to drink besides that. If I don't have that, maybe I go lime and lemon. I don't know what I'm thinking of LaCroix and I just fucking don't even like LaCroix. LaCroix bums me out. LaCroix, I get too much metal from. Yeah. It's a little too mentally. I like the, I really like the flavor of spin drift, even though you are getting like what

five to 10 calories per can, but a worth, a worthy trade off for me. And because it's, it's, it's sweetened with a little bit of fruit juice. I, and here's the thing Costco, my beloved Costco now has the spin drift. Like you get like a fucking 30 pack or 40 pack. It's just a, just a gigantic cube. You just take this like Borg cube home of spin drifts and that thing lasts me a month. I get so many spin drifts and I don't know what to do with them. Hey, if I'm Mario and I hit that green box and I put on that metal Mario cap, then I'll

drink a LaCroix. You know what I'm saying? That's the one circumstance. Hmm. But if not, keep it away from me. I'm bored of it. Unless I'm metal Mario, I don't want it. I don't want that shit too.

I mean, it became also a big staple of, I always like, like Perrier or whatever, the other one's better, but, but, but LaCroix became such. It also became, it became a thing. We know it became a thing. Yeah. It's just kind of, that was a, people were taking, were being like LaCroix is my personality for a time. He kind of got some of that.

It was a little obnoxious. Yeah. My, my seltzer now is, I live right across the street from Avon's and they have the signature select brand, the Soleil. Hmm. Ooh. The cucumber melon is the best, is maybe the best sparkling water I've ever had. Wow.

Wow. It's such a good flavor. It's, the bubbles are perfect. It tastes delicious. It's refreshing. Tastes great in a vodka soda. And if it's a store brand, you're saving some money. Oh, hell yeah.

Wow. So I guess if you're in the, if you have an Albertsons nearby, Vons and the Albertsons family of grocery stores, as we know from a friendly green grocer, Mitch's grocery store month, the, then, what's the brand again? Soleil? Can I, can I quickly say wigs? Yeah. Be careful.

Don't, don't walk into a fat Albertsons. That could be a problem. Just watch out if the guy like kind of the greeter says hey, hey, hey, then you know you're in the wrong place. Then you're in a fat Albertsons. Get out of there. Get out of there. So I, but, but it's, it's Soleil.

Is that what it's called? Soleil? Yeah. So there's a signature select brand and then Soleil is like the fancy signature select brand, but it's the same price as the regular signature select brand. So you're getting, it's like, it's, they just have like fancier flavors. I don't actually really know the difference between them because there's like a grapefruit Soleil and there's a grapefruit regular signature select, but I just go for the Soleil all day.

Soleil, Soleil all day. I like it. Soleil all day. I got to say getting, the thing about adulthood that is, you know, many things have surprised me, but one of which is that I grapefruit, which was a fruit, which I was, a flavor I was never into as a kid has become like one of my favorite fruit flavors. Like I get myself a ploma. If I want like a, like a boozy drink, delightful and, and like the grapefruit seltzers are like

some of my favorite brands or some of my favorite tastes flavors. That's what I was going to say. But would you sit there at your, would you sit there at your breakfast table with like a half grapefruit and a spoon and just eat on one of those? No, I mean, it's, it's a good mix flavor. It's a good mix flavor. That's what you found out. Yeah, good mix flavor.

Yes. Sure. Yeah. You know what I was saying? And I didn't mean anything by that, Nick. Well, I mean, I more mean like as a juice, but that, no, it's fair. That's a fair, fair thing to point out. And I didn't come here to have a confrontation or anything.

I just, I just wanted to ask that. Yes, but that's fair. I would not have a, a half grapefruit in front of me and then eat it with a spoon. That's not a thing I would do. And if I'm going to say. Yeah. I think this, I think you had to have this confrontation. I think it was time.

Lager and I have a lot of stuff to work out. Yeah. A lot of a long standing. Years and years. Yeah, yeah. A lot of them are citrus related, but we'll, you know, that's part of the process, part of the podcast. Well, we'll squash this stuff.

Do you know what's a lay I like? What? It's a lay moon fry. There you go. Oh, a punky Brewster. Oh, a punky Brewster. She's great. Why?

Isn't there a new punky Brewster? I think there is. Yeah. They've remade everything. What? Hey, here, here's a, here's a, here would be a surprising headline, Hollywood has a new idea. All right.

It was of the weird. All right. Thank you. They write my checks. Thank you. So please back off a little bit. Uh, Wags, what are you going to say before, before I interrupted you? You said, Hey, when I said, what's the lay moon fry?

Oh, I was going to say another Sile, Cirque de. Wow. That's good. I didn't think of that. Yeah. A lot of fun. They're, they're, they're extremely talented. I get, when I see Cirque de Soleil, you know, they're twisting their bodies, which way I,

I get turned on. Oh boy. We're back to locker room talk. Yeah. Oh boy. Mitch, I heard you're dating a contortionist. Oh dude. Mitch, I heard you're dating a, you're dating a sword swallower.

Oh my God. Oh my God. Oh. Also you need to swallow as one of those garnish swords. Oh man. It was, is that a scene from swingers that we did a minute ago? Probably. It seems like, it seems like they'd be excited lower a contortionist.

Yeah. You think you could puncture a little Maraschino cherry on the end of your day? Or an olive or something? Depends on how hard I got. Mookie, I want to talk a little bit about New England foods beyond polar. Wow. Because I know that is the region that you are, are, that your family is originally from.

You got to have some favorites. Hey Mookie, I think I know one. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks.

Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks.

Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks.

Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks.

Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks.

Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Co-hawks. Geoff-Oh! Co-hawks. Geoff-We're trying to forget about you. Geoff-Ha ha ha ha.

Geoff-Oh man. Geoff-Did you know that one of the jerky boys is a voice on Family Guy? Geoff-How about that? Geoff-Wow. Geoff-He's the guy, he talks like what, he's like the guy who's like he talks like this. Geoff-Oh yeah! Geoff-Oh wow, that is the same voice. Geoff-Sull Rosenberg.

Geoff-Yeah, that's the jerky boys guy. Geoff-How did I not know that? Geoff-Just listen. Geoff-How am I just learning this from you on this podcast? Geoff-I don't know man. Geoff-I just listened to the jerky boys. Geoff-It was on Spotify and I listened to it again like a week ago. Geoff-It's hilarious.

Geoff-Wow. Geoff-It made me laugh so hard. Geoff-Is it really? Geoff-It's really funny. Geoff-I really listened to it. Geoff-They're all going to laugh at you. Geoff-Like when was this? Geoff-Mmm.

Geoff-A couple years ago. Geoff-Oh god, probably eight years ago now. Geoff-But with Hanford. Geoff-And we were fucking cracking up. Geoff-It was so funny. Geoff-It was great. Geoff-Great. Geoff-It's the funniest.

Geoff-Yeah, back when comedy was funny. Geoff-Yeah. Geoff-Hey, you know what though? Geoff-What? Geoff-2020, it's a, you know, in 2016 the plus side was that comedy was going to be good and Trump was elected, right? Geoff-Yes. Geoff-100%.

Geoff-I think that these last couple of weeks we're going to get something good. Geoff-Yeah, yeah, yeah. Geoff-Americans the last four years have been laughing all the way to their graves. Geoff-Comedy freaking looks like ET when he turns all gray right now, babe. Geoff-Well, Dennis Miller. Gray T-Bamp. Geoff-Whatever happened to the chicken tastes like wood, man. Geoff-I was on the Dennis Miller call-in show promoting the birthday boys.

Geoff-Why? Geoff-This is back in the day. Geoff-I remember hearing about this, yes. Geoff-And I called up and I was like, yeah, we're doing a show with Bob Odenkirk and he's like, oh, Oki-Doki-Kirk, how's Oki-Doki-Kirk doing? I was like, he's fine. Geoff-And then he immediately lost interest in me and wanted to hang up with a phone on me.

It was not a great call-in. Geoff-Yeah. Geoff-But he remains my comedy hero. Geoff-And in the right politically. Geoff-Yes. Geoff-We were, the birthday boys were promoting to, we were trying to promote to everybody at that point in time. Geoff-The birthday boys had a small segment on Fox News for a stretch of time, if you

remember. Geoff-That's right. That was weird. Geoff-Well, you play no politics when it comes to, you know, just getting your comedy out there. You're just like, even if you don't agree with our comedy, we are still your sketch show. Geoff-Yes. Geoff-Yeah.

Geoff-The birthday boys are much like Jordan in the comedy world, not for how good we are, because not nearly as close, but just in that, hey, everybody wants to laugh. You know what I mean, Wags? Geoff-Republicans buy DVD box sets too. Geoff-Republicans call their cable provider and ask to add IFC to their cable package too. Geoff-Yeah. Or they ask their grandkids to do it for them.

Anyways, why go to answer your question? Clam Chowder's pretty yummy. Geoff-Clam Chowder, there you go. I need to see Gigi does it. Geoff-Do you like the Straight Ahead, the New England Clam Chowder? Do you ever mess around with like a Manhattan or a Rhode Island Clam Chowder? Geoff-I've never had a Clam Chowder other than New England Clam Chowder. Geoff-Wow.

Geoff-I've never even tried a Manhattan Clam Chowder. Geoff-Wow. Geoff-Isn't Rhode Island Clam Chowder fucking clear? Geoff-It's got a clear bra. Geoff-Shit on my face. Geoff-Yeah. It's weird. Geoff-Yeah.

It's odd, but I kind of liked it. So the only place I've had it was at a, oh fuck, what's that? Alcani and Teds, which is a very nice seafood restaurant, but accessible seafood restaurant in LA. It's not like super upscale, but it is all pricey. But they have like a tasting of like three different chowders and you can get a really good Manhattan, a really good New England, a really good Rhode Island and you know what, having them all side by side, they're all good, but why mess with the New England one?

It's the best one. Geoff-I know. Geoff-We like that. Geoff-I know. Geoff-What's Manhattan even doing? Geoff-The New England clam chowder is like one of those ones too, where like the like cheap ass, like super thick white creamy ones that you could get at like any old place in New England is like still pretty good, like almost preferable to the fancy kinds.

Geoff-Right. That is true. Yeah. You can get a really great version. I get mine from Berks Seafood Wags. It's fantastic. Berks Seafood here in Quincy. So Wags, not that expensive of a place, but you just let everyone know that you got all

three types of clam chowder and you put it in front of you like a king. It's a tasting. The dish is you get little cups of all three. That's the dish you order. Geoff-I think you bought bowls of these one. Geoff-And you were like, hey, to the waiter, you were like, hey, come here. When you bring it out, could you put, could you make, could you do bowls instead of cups? So when you walk through the dining room, everyone goes, who ordered that?

Geoff-Give me three full, and charge me for full bowls. Like don't charge, like make sure you make sure you charge me more. I don't want to discount. Geoff-And bring me a lobster. I want to bring me a lobster so I can throw it in the trash. Geoff-Yeah. And make sure I don't leave until I eat it all. Geoff-Conny Ted's is very good.

It's, look, East Coast got the West, well, the West Coast does has good seafood. I'm not going to, but East Coast got some really good stuff, Wags. We got the lobster. We got, we got some good fish up here. Do we beat West Coast? You don't think so, I guess. Geoff-Well, I- Geoff-Yeah, I think so.

Geoff-I mean, I think there's a case to be made. It's just, it's different schools, speaking of fish of thought, in terms of what you like. But yeah, there's different things in the Pacific, different things in the Atlantic. I don't know. I mean, like, there's great seafood all over the place. Geoff-So you can't say anything that New England does better than the West Coast, basically. Geoff-I think New England has- Geoff-Polar cells are better.

Geoff-Watch it. Yeah. You better think long and hard before you finish that sentence, my man. Geoff-Scopes. Geoff-I was going to say, I think New England, it's easier to get from state to state. Geoff-You are such a piece of shit. Geoff-Because the states are closer together. Geoff-Well, he's not wrong.

Geoff-You're such a piece of shit. Geoff-I haven't spent much time there. You know what, here's what, here's the thing I liked walking around Boston, which I did a lot of. Geoff-Yeah, the best. Geoff-Just walking good. That city is very walkable. It's very, like, it's, it's a, it's a feast for the eyes, like, it looks cool.

It looks, and it's also, like, it's cool to go into a building and be like, oh, this was here in 1640 or whatever, you know, like, not that, not that, I mean, that's probably too early. But there's like, there's stuff that dates from like the 17th and 18th century, still standing and still operational. So yeah, New England has a lot of interesting history of a different sort than what we have out here. Geoff-I agree.

Geoff-I'm still not happy with your answer, but you are right. Lindsay was established in 1625, like, that's a- Geoff-Wow, how about that? Geoff-I walked by the Adams house again today, the Adams mansion. I walked by, walking by it on my walks almost every day. Geoff-Recurring theme on recent episodes, walking by the Adams mansion. Geoff-That's right, and you confuse it for the Adams family. Geoff-Did you say hi to Wednesday?

Geoff-I did not, I didn't see Wednesday, I didn't see Gomez. Geoff-Did you stop in and paddle Uncle Fester on his bald head? Geoff-Oh boy. Geoff-Oh, I hear one of the cats meowing upstairs. They definitely have hopped over the baby gate. One of them is out. Geoff-Are you gonna be, can you focus on the episode or do you need to go on a scouting mission?

Geoff-I can, I can focus. I mean, would it be fun for me to go scout and you guys keep talking? Geoff-I mean, we can. Geoff-That sounds like no. Geoff-Would it be fun for you? Geoff-I mean, it sounds like she's in the living room, she's meowing. She can, she's probably okay. Geoff-They're gonna be fine.

Geoff-And people, look, people said, hey, you got a baby gate, cats are gonna jump the baby gate. I know this, I know cats jump baby gates, I know it, but it keeps Wally from going down even though there was a whole debacle before this episode started, we won't get into it. But- Geoff-I think this episode has jumped the baby gate. Geoff-You know, it's funny to me, we watched Happy Days recently on a pilot program for the-

Geoff-Episode of Double is Double with Mary Sasson. Geoff-And it's funny to hear that that show jumped the shark because it sucks shit, it was bad. Geoff-First episode was very bad. Geoff-First episode was awful. Geoff-It sucks. Geoff-Yeah. Geoff-Like adding sharks into it seems like it might be, might add some fun to it, I guess.

Geoff-Yeah. Geoff-They completely changed the, they reoriented the show to be around, to be about Fonzie after season one, and I think that really changed things up. Geoff-Now, yeah, I mean Fonzie and Henry Winkler rule, but he, all right, Luke, I'm gonna ask you a question about today's Jane restaurant, we don't have to get into what we ordered yet. Geoff-Okay. Geoff-But I'm gonna ask you, I got asked online, there was a viral video wigs of a woman voting

in Boston. Geoff-Oh, yes. Geoff-She was voting at Fenway Park. Geoff-I've seen this video. Geoff-And she said, I got my donkeys, I wanna vote for Bernie Sanders, but I had to set, I was gonna settle for Joe Biden, and she's pretty awesome, she was great. And people, a lot of people tweeted at me, do you call it donkeys? Geoff-Hmm.

Geoff-And Mookie, I wanna hear your answer, but my answer is, of course, yes, everyone called it donkeys or dunks, growing up, or- Geoff-Am I nodding along? Mookie-Oh, yeah. Geoff-Dunkins or whatever, they're all sorts of nicknames. That was, like every nickname I have for a friend, there were multiple nicknames for Dunkin' Donuts. Mookie, do you agree with this?

Geoff-I think I'm gonna break your heart here and say that we did not call it donkeys. Geoff-Wow. Mookie-In my family. Geoff-I am shocked. Mookie-But I definitely know lots of people that did, maybe my dad called it donkeys, my dad's like a real Massachusetts guy. Geoff-Did you call it DDs, cause some people call it DDs, or DoubleDs or Dunks. I feel like such, I mean, you know, my family sucks anyways, but like, I feel like we just

called it Dunkin' Donuts. We just called it Dunkin' Donuts. Geoff-Hmm, that's fair. Mookie-But yeah, I was just gonna say again, but my family sucks. Geoff-Well, Dunkin' Donuts canonically shortened their name to Dunkin' in 2018. Mookie-That's right. Geoff-I don't like that, by the way. Geoff-I don't like it either.

Mookie-I don't like it either. Geoff-I'll never call it that. Geoff-But that is the trade name now, just Dunkin'. They dropped the donuts, it's cleaner. Mookie-No, it's not. It's not a Facebook situation. Geoff-They Facebooked it. Mookie-You know what?

Geoff-You know what? I wish Facebook was called the Facebook still. Geoff-Yeah. Geoff-Yeah. Geoff-Maybe Trump wouldn't be in the White House. Geoff-Just Wiger. Geoff-Yeah. Mookie-Just White House, it's cleaner.

Geoff-Just House, it's cleaner. Geoff-Yeah. Hey, I wish Trump was in the house, the big house. There you go. Mookie-The biggest house of them all, Trump Tower. Geoff-Yeah, I wish he was safe up there. Mookie-Away from all these maniac liberals. Geoff-No, there is a Trump corner on my walk.

I've been walking on the corner of Adams Street. Adam Street and Furnaceburg Parkway. There's a Trump corner. And there's a guy in his truck there every day with a stumping for Trump in Massachusetts. It's just the most foolish thing. He has no chance of winning the state. And he's not going to win the City of Quincy.

He's just so stupid. Geoff-And there's a guy in a truck with a sign? Mookie-Yeah, there's a guy in a truck with a Trump sign. And then like... Geoff-Is it Pugsley? Mookie-It's adult Pugsley. Geoff-Wow. Mookie-It breaks your heart because when you see Pugsley as a kid,

you're like, he's great. Geoff-He's so cute. Mookie-He's so cute. Geoff-Charubic. A big Trump supporter. Geoff-Yeah. I was on the corner and I watched a bunch of white ladies and SUVs honk at the sign.

So that was interesting. Geoff-Yeah. Mookie-Three of them. I counted three right in the corner when I was there. Anyways, sorry to bring down this whole thing. Does this come out before the election? It does, thank God. Geoff-Right, just before.

We're just squeaking in. Mookie-Yeah. We should release this. Can we release this tonight of the election, Wags? Geoff-We could. It would be like then we just wouldn't have an episode for the day we usually release episodes, which people might be upset about. I mean, I don't know if I would say that's fine.

This could be a discussion off air. Mookie-I'm scared too many people will stay home and listen to it instead of voting. Geoff-That's a big issue. Wags, will you make a big declaration that Joe Biden is going to win the presidency or no? Wiger Locke. Biden takes the White House.

Oh no, we're fucked. We're fucked. Wiger. Quincy, Massachusetts, you mentioned, founded in 1625. Well, you know what was founded in Quincy in 1950 is this week's chain, Duncan. That's right. Nearly 13,000 locations worldwide expanded to California finally in 2013. Wow.

So you mentioned that you, whatever you call it, Mookie, are you a fan of Duncan? Yes, of course. I think you can't grow up on the East Coast, especially New England and not. It's just such a part of, they're everywhere. I'm from a small town in Massachusetts, a relatively small town, and there's three Dunkin' Donuts in my town.

Wow. Yeah, that's pretty neat. And yeah, I mean, I, I love it. It's, it's, it's interesting. I guess we'll talk about it, but it's like, and Mitch, I wonder if you agree with this, but like, it's such a, it's such an East Coast New England thing that it's interesting going to a Dunkin' Donuts here in LA in California, because I think that

for whatever reason, going to a Dunkin' Donuts in Massachusetts is different than going to a Dunkin' Donuts in California in terms of like quality and service. Not that the quality or service are necessarily bad here, but like it's just, it's just different. And I don't necessarily know how to describe why or how. Yes, I, I, to me, it almost feels like a lot of the California Dunkin' Donuts are like very like clean and, and like,

they are like, they're very like well put together, but they almost feel fake. It's all, it's like, it's that sort of thing of like. Yeah. Like they're doing an impression of a New England Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. It's, it's bizarre. I'm trying to think of like a chain where they open up a new location

and it's like super clean and you're like, this isn't like the style, not to say that Dunkin' Donuts aren't like, are dirty and messy or whatever, but they're like, they just. It's like one of McDonald's looks fancy or whatever when they like open a new McDonald's or they remodel a McDonald's and it's like, they have like, like nice like gray colored like wall, like wood, looks like wood wall paneling and stuff. And you're like, this isn't supposed to feel this way.

Yes. To me, it reminds me of like, if you're in like the airport in Saudi Arabia and there's like a, like a McDonald's or something. You know that common experience. Well, I've been hanging out at the Riyadh airport terminal. I've never been there before, but I'm just telling, I'm just trying to say like a thing of like. It's like when you go to the McDonald's on the moon and add Astra.

It's similar to like an international chain where you're like, oh, this like is like clean and is like the version of it, but it is slightly different in, in stranger. Yeah. It's like in Massachusetts, like in my town, the Dunkin Donuts, we would always go to was like inside the shell station, like down the road in my town and you would go in and it was like some like 15 year old high school kid working there.

And it's like also just like the surrounding like circumstances of like drinking a hot coffee, like on a cold New England day or something like that. It's the same coffee here. It's just a fully the, the like the, it's a fully different sensory experience in a different place. Right. Yes.

Yes. I do. I agree with that. It's, look, I love it. And I also saw like early Dunkin Donuts. So I've, I've, I've grown, I've grown used to the changes it's had, but hey, it's the fucking water, dude. The water here is different.

Yeah. The water makes the bagels more chewy. Yeah. And crunchy and crispy and the donuts more delicious, dude. Is that a thing they say in New England too? Cause I always hear about it from, you know, that's the New Yorker thing about New York Bay. Yeah.

I don't, I don't think they say that about. I think it might be an East coast thing too, but it is definitely a New York thing. Hey Mitch, I love that dirty water. Oh God. Come on, say the rest of it. Oh, Boston, you're my home. Classic rock and roll.

I couldn't even tell you who that band is. The standels, I believe. Right. No, I know. That's, I mean, you know, every Red Sox game, I feels like that is now finally gone. It kind of has gone away, right? Like the dirty water doesn't play it as much anymore, right?

Yeah. Now it's the Dropkick Murphy's song whenever people want to make fun of Boston. Yeah. Yeah. The dirty water is dirty water is kind of, it's kind of gone, it's kind of gone away. I mean, like I also, I think that people just got, and I don't blame them,

got so sick of Boston. People hate Boston with a passion. But then I also hate people who hate Boston too much, but. Yeah, that's stupid. But it became, it became, you know, it became a, it, why is we got too big? There were too many reality shows, too many commercials. Boston got too big. It was too much of a thing.

Too much Boston. Yeah. We haven't been the same since the Hopper commercials. The Hopper. The Hopper? Is that with, is that one big poppy? Did you get the Hopper? Oh God.

It was like, it was like some cable service or something, or it was like, it was like spectrums, like, like Tivo or something like that. It was called the Hopper. Wow. This is a regional thing? No. This was, this was, this was. No, this was like.

National, man. Yeah. I don't remember this. I feel like, I feel offended when people go on and they're like, oh, the Hopper, like they're doing a Boston thing. Like I think that's the same as like doing a foreign exit. A Mookie. I agree.

Yeah. Right. It's fucked up. And Wiger, you're a part of the problem, honestly. You know what? I, I admit it. I am part of the problem. Thank you.

Thank you. You're welcome. Hey, here's, here's something for you. Just looked up the Standells. The Standells are an American garage rock band from Los Angeles, California. What the fuck? Wow. Stolen Valor.

Writing about Boston. That's insane. They're from LA. What are they doing? What's next? Randy Newman is from Boston? The Red Hot Chili Peppers are from Boston. Aerosmith is from Kohog?

Well, let's get into Dunkin' Donuts. Here's what I'll say. I don't, I don't have the childhood fandom that you, that the three of you do, obviously, growing up in Southern California. But I will say I am a fan of Dunkin' Donuts and I, I, to me, my first Dunkin' experiences came going, came when I was visiting New York City. And it was always a great place to go in New York because I just, I, I like that trashy breakfast sometimes.

And I think, I've said this before in the podcast, but I think as fast food breakfast goes, as fast food breakfast go, in terms of like, if I could just have my druthers and pick whatever I want, it's right there with McDonald's. There are times I want McDonald's and times I want Dunkin' and I do think Dunkin's coffee is quite good. I, I ordered from a, so I use the app for this, for this particular visit, for Rock Around the Clock Doberfest, this month's, Racketaba, this month's tour of Morning and Night Chains, 24 hour chains.

I use the app and I will say the app is great. It's a, the Dunkin' app is really, really slick, really easy to customize, which you want at this, with this sort of thing, even though I don't do a ton of customizations in general. And it, it's a, it was very elegant, a great, great way to order and the station, the system they had there, I walked into this particular Dunkin' and they just had like a station, like a, like a no contact station with all the to-go orders laid out there and just labeled with your name.

Walk in and pick it up without any sort of fuss. It was, it was a great system. My big thing was- Did you put your order under Don Berger? Yeah, it's under Don Berger, my, my, my nickname for this month. Here was my big issue here, because I ordered a bunch of different things, but I'm, I was still unsure how to divide AM and PM and Mitch, this is your baby and your chain. I, I'm just curious like how, what, what was your approach?

Well, I think for today, I look, I got some stuff that I considered PM for sure. There's about four or five things that I am classifying as PM, but I think for today, maybe we could also, maybe we could just say, when is it better to have Dunkins? Do you like to have it in the daytime or do you like to have it at night? Interesting. Okay. But, but I think that they're, look, if we're just doing based on food, yeah, yeah, cockadoodle do already, it's going to win, but maybe there's a chance.

We don't know that. We don't, we don't know that. We don't know that. We thought, we thought Hillary was going to win in 2016. That is true. That was a Weigar lock. This, this, this could be a very, this is, well, this is a Mitch lock. It could be a very similar thing.

Wow. That, that I think that the breakfast food is going to beat the, the, the night food. The, the, the morning food is going to beat the night food, but maybe we could, you know, we could split it up into being, Oh, what, when do you like to eat the food better? You like to eat it at night. You like to get dunks of sandwich at night or a donut at night versus the morning. That's just an idea. What do you think?

Um, I mean, it's a format break, but I think we're, we're, we're at the fifth of five weeks here of Racketaba. I think we can break the format. Let's get a little loose. Let's reinvent the show. And hey, the thing that I would remind you guys is to remember that none of this matters for anything at all. Right.

It's easy to forget that. This is just a podcast. It has no bearing on the world or anything. It means something to me. It's real to me. It's real to me. That's what I was trying to do. That wrestling fan.

God bless them. God bless them. God bless them. So I, so here, I'll just go through what I got. And the way I mentally divided it, Mitch, was between hot and savory for AM and then sweet and cool for PM. That's just mentally how I would classify what, what I would get at different times a day at Duncan, but I'll just talk through everything I got.

And then I'll let you guys do the same starting with, with, uh, with, with my AM side, I got a vanilla hot latte. Uh, the, the issue with the, with the latte, you know, I love vanilla. Vanilla is a flavor. It's not playing. The issue is that this vanilla was a little artificial tasting. I, I taught, we talked about things being medley. And this is, this is a similar sort of thing.

Unfortunately, it almost tasted more like caramel than vanilla. The other issue is this one, and I was surprised by this, because I would think they'd have a better cup situation, but this one didn't stay hot on the trek home. I picked it up and then it got room temp. Um, however, the food for the morning was, was much better. I got the everything bagel minis, which I was skeptical of because they seemed a little bit processed, but man, these were surprisingly good.

And I wrote down best thing I had, I could eat 10 of these. That they were just, they're just like a little ball. It's like a donut hole that's filled with cream cheese, a lot of cream cheese. They weren't messing around. It's just a big pop in your mouth. Uh, when you, when you bite into that thing in a good way, and I, I wish there was a little bit more everything, uh, but, uh, and the texture was a little chewy, but overall this was delightful.

I also got the maple breakfast sandwich, which was, I don't know, I'm curious you guys thoughts on the croissant at Duncan. Cause to me that this croissant seems slightly stale. I don't usually get the croissant. I usually go a different direction. Um, and I don't know if that's like a standard croissant. That, that if it always is a little stale, or maybe I just got a bad one. The maple I think was subtle in a good way.

I was worried this one was going to be too sweet. That said, this, the egg was solo quality here and then this just needed more cheese. Um, so that, that one was, was not as great, but it was still pretty, it's still, still not bad for the PM side. I got the iced, well, let's pause here. Let's, let's, let's get, let's someone else talk about it. Mitch, what did you get? Uh, yeah, talk through some of your foods.

Uh, all right. You want to get through the AM side? Yeah. Let's do AMs. Well, I used the, I used the app as well. And I went, um, to the new Duncan, like the Duncan of the future that they opened here in Quincy on Washington street a mile away from the, uh, from the original Dunkin Donuts. Wow.

But this, this is, this is the Duncan of the future. Wags, I too used the app and, uh, the app did not work for me. Um, I think, I agree with you that it's a good app. It's a good app app. It's a good app, but I think that when it runs out of stuff, it gives you like a, we can't compute this sort of deal. And so like I put a lot of weird things on there because I was trying to, um, you know, I was, I was going to, you know, I was, I was, I was trying to do a good,

a good in depth review for God's sake. You were stress testing the app. I was trying. And so, um, I got in there, this guy, Paul took my order. Um, and he started helping me out and, and I'll tell you what I got at that Dunkin Donuts. I just was reading off the app basically, but I got for morning, I got a small nitro coffee. Which was on tap. It was on tap.

I got myself a, uh, a small, sorry, a medium Charlie cold brew. So this is like, particularly to this one place. It's, it's, it's a medium Charlie cold brew, which is as a three caramel swirls, three caramel swirls and three milk. So you know that the Charlie is, um, the drink, the official drink of Charlie D'Amelio, the hugest TikTok star. Wow. Is that true?

That's what it is. It's her drink. Wow. That's what the Charlie is. Yes. Charlie D'Amelio is a 16 year old girl who's the most popular person on TikTok and she just dances to songs and she always would have a Dunkin Donuts ice coffee in her video. She would like take a sip of it and put it down and then do her dance.

And then she got a sponsorship with Dunkin Donuts and now she has a drink at Dunkin Donuts called the Charlie, which is cold brew and milk and caramel. I got one of those as well. That's, that's, I thought it was like a Charlie. I thought it was like a Charlie card play. Jesus. That was for Charlie Rose. I also got myself a small,

Ducachino. Okay. Two, Ducachino with two vanilla shots. Do you like it? All right. I'm happy you liked it. You liked it.

I got myself a small regular coffee, which is the regular coffee has cream and sugar. And I think it's two creams and two, and two sugars or maybe three creams and three sugars. Emma or Mookie, do you know that? It's two. I think it's two for medium, three for a large. Okay. So I'm guessing with a small is maybe two as well. Probably, yeah.

So I got that for, for hot food, that and I'm sorry, those are my hot morning drinks. And then for hot food in the, for my hot food, there's one that I'm not sure. I'm going to say this wise. I just don't know how to classify this one. But I'll see what you think. I got myself the hash browns, which I think are morning. Yes.

And then I got myself the maple bacon sticks, the maple bacon side of maple bacon. The snack and bacon. Snack and bacon. Thank you. Yeah. The presence of both maple, I mean, to me, that's such a, that's a breakfast thing, especially the presence of maple. Like just like a side of bacon feels like a breakfast item.

That's essentially what it was. All right. You think it's, you think it's breakfast? But they are looking at it as a snack, which could be afternoon. Emma, you, you're saying, you're saying exactly what I'm feeling. I, I, it's tough. Bacon is, I know why, I know, I know. Bacon is a morning thing.

Yeah. But this, the snackification of it. Bacon has, bacon has infiltrated the entire day and night. Yes. All right. See. It's true. It's, it's, you know, you got big Brussels sprouts now, man.

You got your bacon, uh, cheeseburgers. You got your bacon Sundays. People have turned into dessert. You got your bacon based cocktails. People wearing shirts saying, keep calm and bacon. You know what, Wags? I'm classifying it as nighttime. Wow.

Wow. Whoa. But here's something that's undeniably wake up, uh, morning. Sorry. Here's something that's undeniably morning. Is the wake up wrap, uh, with beyond sausage. You know what I'm going to say, Mitch? I'm going to challenge you.

I think you can wake up anytime of day. Yeah. What are we taking it out? Yeah. The wake up wrap is, uh, you, you, um, you put it under someone's nose. And they jolt awake after they've been knocked out. I love that. Hey, you know what?

Oh, wake up wrap. It's a wake up wrap. Oh no. Wow. Yawn, yawn. Morning time. Get that crust out of my eyes. Time to.

Time to rise and shine. Okay. Anyways. Is it going to be all now and have your mom to get the crust out of your eyes in the morning? It's, it's, it's fun to be home. My mom helps me with my wake up wraps. She, she, we, we wrote that together. Um, Wags, I too, I got two of the same things you got.

Wow. I got the, I got the maple sugar bacon breakfast sandwich and I really enjoyed it. I thought it, I thought it was, I thought it was very good. And then I got the, and then I got, I also got the, uh, the, the mini donut bites. No, I'm sorry. The mini bagel bites. Bagels. Yes.

The mini bagel balls. And I got the everything ones as well. Now, when I first came back to Quincy, my mom bought me some of these and they tasted like chemicals. They tasted like chemically. Right. It was, it was weird and bad. And then I ate them, uh, on the day we reviewed and guess what?

I thought they were fantastic as well. They were really, really good. So there must have been something wrong that cooked them in some weird package or something happened where there was like a weird chemical taste. My sister said it too. Like it tasted like plastic or some, it was fucked up. There was something wrong with them. I was worried they were going to taste like that.

And, and that they didn't, that they actually tasted pretty fresh and not overly processed. I was, I thought was nice. Well, that, that it was because the first time I had them, I thought, but I said, I'll give them another try. I gave them in the work and you know, the, the hash browns are, are never usually like the best, but we got them and they were hot and pretty good and I enjoyed them. Then I brought all that food back and I ate and then I went down for round two. And here's what I got in my round two for breakfast stuff.

I got myself, uh, actually. This is another one that's hard to tell, but I think doughnuts go in the morning. So still in the round one, I got a spider doughnut and wigs. The spider doughnut was cute as hell. It's got a munchkin in the middle of it. And guess what? It was my bite of the day or night. Wow.

It was, it was great. The spider doughnut was great. I loved it. You, but you're eating through the, it was just, here's the deal. You can sometimes get good doughnuts and dungy doughnuts and you can sometimes get bad ones. It's a toss up. You don't know what you're going to get. And we got them.

They were fresh. There was a fresh munchkin in the middle. I really enjoyed it. In round two, I got the, the ghost pepper doughnut. And I thought that was okay. The doughnuts at this stop were not as good as the, as the doughnuts before, or as the one doughnut before the spice was just like, it was okay. It was like, if you took the frosting and put it in your mouth, it had some kick to it.

But it was, it was, it was nothing special. It's nothing that I would really want to get too often, but it was fine. Now let me, to your doughnut so far, spider, ghost, are you sure you didn't go to a haunted house? No, I'm positive. Anyways. Wow. Next, I got a plate of eyeballs that were actually grapes.

Next, I got one of my old times, I'm an old standby. I went all out and Mookie, I know you went all out and we're going to give you, you're going to give you your time to say what you got. But I got, I got a chocolate, I got a chocolate frosted doughnut wigs, which to me was, that's the one I got growing up. Chocolate frosted doughnut was my favorite doughnut. I love a chocolate frosted doughnut and this was still pretty good. It was, it was, it was damn good.

They're, they're great. I mean, the chocolate frosted doughnut dunkins is just one of my favorites, especially if you got a hot, fresh, not hot, but if you get a fresh baked chocolate frosted doughnut, it's, it's hard to top. Then I got myself an everything bagel and I got some, some cream cheese spread, just the plain cream cheese spread. I'm disappointed that dunkins doesn't do onion bagels anymore. That was one of my go-tos was onion bagels.

I don't know what the fuck. Me too, I was shocked. It's so stupid. And they got, they got rid of it about two years ago, I guess. But why the fuck did they get rid of onion bagels? So stupid, really bummed me out. Much like Taco Bell, another of your beloved chains, needlessly streamlining. It's so stupid to streamline.

The thing that Duncan should do is go back to like cooking the doughnuts and bagels in house, which is what they used to do at most of these places. But cost-cutting measure, they just deliver it. And that's what, that's what they do. And they put them into like a fake, fake oven. Finally, wigs. I got myself a blueberry muffin with a side of butter. And I got that heated up.

The blueberry muffin was good, but the blueberries were, it was like, it had blueberry flavoring in it, I feel. And the blueberries weren't as big. Because those blueberry muffins used to be fantastic. And they used to give you big old blueberries. And these, like there was only, you know how when you, when you open up a blueberry muffin and it's hot, and you see like the blue streaks? When you have those big, when you have the big juicy blueberries in there,

you see the blue streaks. This was, it was still tasty, but it just was not as good as it used to be. And then finally, I got some munchkins. I got some chocolate munchkins and some jelly-filled munchkins. And those are fun. Munchkins are always fun. Those are standby. I love them.

And they tasted, they weren't the best. They were kind of old, but they were still, they were still pretty tasty. But munchkins are a good time. Mookie, let's get into what you got. I know you made, I know you had a haul. I know you got a lot of Dunkin. But what, let's go through some of your order. Well, I went three times.

I'm not sure how I should break this up. Don't shame me. Maybe I'll, I don't know. I guess I'll talk about like the, the food I got and then the drinks and then the donuts. How about that? Perfect. Okay, great. If you can break it into morning and night, if you have a breakdown for that,

that's because we'll go, we'll come back. I don't. Nobody told me I was supposed to do that. Okay, sorry. Are we breaking format anyway? Are we saying that? Yeah, we're breaking format. Yes, we are, we are, we are.

And it doesn't matter. I got, okay, so first I got a bacon, egg, and cheese croissant. Perfect. I got a sausage, egg, and cheese, everything bagel. And then I won the last time I went, I got a plain bagel and cream cheese. Wow. Wow. I think I, I feel like I went a little traditional here.

I was maybe trying to like recreate what I used to like. Mookie, you're nailing, you're nailing some of my favorite things. I mean, especially the, that bacon, egg, and cheese croissant. Damn. That's classic. Yes, well, well, here's one thing that I have to say. And I, because I don't know if anybody remembers this, I used to, this is another thing with Dunkin' Donuts for me where it's like, did,

did it use, it's definitely not as good as it used to be. And is that because the quality has dipped or because back when I was eating it as a child or a high school kid in Massachusetts, my taste hadn't developed. And the answer is usually always a combination of both of those things. But they used to have this thing when I went to Emerson College in Boston, there was a Dunkin' Donuts in the, in the bottom floor of my dorm building. Emma knows what I'm talking about in the little building on Boylston and Tremont. Wow.

That's fucking awesome. I ate like 80% of my meals in college at that Dunkin' Donuts. I ate, so I got Dunkin' Donuts so many times at that Dunkin' Donuts. There's one in the transportation building that my dad would go to all the time to, you know, that the, which Emerson has now bought. Just they're, they're, they're like, they're just built in everywhere. And they used to have, for a short time, for maybe like one year, they had a salsa bagel. Do you remember this to say?

Salsa bagel. Yes. I do. It was a salsa bagel where it had like this like little peppery like salsa-y tangy taste to it. And I would get a sausage egg and cheese and a salsa bagel. And it was the best fucking thing I've ever eaten. And I've never been able to find a salsa. I think they had it for a limited time anyways.

And I wonder if it was just regional to Massachusetts or whatever, but it was like the best. It was so good. It was basically like, I mean, it wasn't the same as like having a little, like, you know, it was almost like having a little bit of hot sauce on your sandwich or whatever. It was like really, really good. But this one, I got an everything bagel. So the croissant, the plain bagel with cream cheese was great. It's just like a good solid toasted bagel and they put a ton of cream cheese on it.

No complaints. The bacon egg and cheese croissant, I agree with you why is it was like a little dry. Yeah. Or a little stale. Yeah. And the thing that I feel like both of the sandwiches needed bagel and croissant is like, and I know this just isn't conducive to like a fast food thing where they're just cranking them out like in a little weird toaster oven.

But like it needs like, I don't know, like a sauce or like an aioli or like a mayo or something. It needs like a little lube. It's like very dry and has no other sort of like texture to it. And I know that it's like they're in an assembly line and it would probably take a thousand times longer to get people food if they had to sit there and like smear mayo on every single sandwich. But like I wish it had something like, have you ever been to Cafe Los Feliz out here on Hillhurst Avenue?

They're like an incredible baker and they have this breakfast croissant sandwich and they make their own croissants and they it's like it's like bacon and egg and then like lettuce and tomato and mayo on a croissant and it's like the best breakfast sandwich in LA. Wow. I never I never want I'm I I I I Dunkin's I'm afraid. Well, first of all, it would have been better for this for night versus day if they kept some of their stuff because two years ago when there was a culling of this, is that the right word of this of this menu when they cut when they cut all this down, they got rid of a lot of stuff

that was like kind of like afternoon-y stuff like a like steak sandwich like steak sandwich or like like sandwich level stuff and those are like a chicken salad at some point, right? I don't know if you still have that. Yeah. And I feel like that was good to get rid of. I feel like the stuff that I think that they should go back to like just making good donuts in bagels because their coffee, everyone will always go to Dunkin for the coffees no matter what. And I think it's just about figuring out the food and they do like like a lot of wraps

and shit now, which is fine. I don't mind them, but if they worked on making their bagels and muffins and donuts the way they used to, I think that it would still be top tier. I still think it's top tier anyway as well, because I'm with you in that this to me is one of my favorite breakfast places outside of, you know, McDonald's has great breakfast too. Right. Yeah, I feel like the only thing I go really go here for when I do go to Dunkin Donuts, which is like on occasion is like for a breakfast sandwich. Like to me, like I can, you know, I don't really drink that much coffee anymore. I also like there's so many good donut places around here that it's like I would never just go here for a donut because the donuts are just like

they're just pure sugar. Now it's like all sweet, but I mean, like if I'm coming to Dunkin Donuts, it's to get a breakfast sandwich. And my sausage egg and cheese was pretty good. It had a lot of cheese on it. Oh, and then one time I got the little hash brown bites, which were actually kind of surprisingly good because it's like they're basically like frozen things that they stick in a toaster, but like it actually ended up being like pretty crispy and salty and satisfying enough for me. On this visit, mine were good as well. And I put a little ketchup on there and I liked them a lot, but I've had them other times and they've been like cold and bad. They're toss up. I think sometimes they're good and sometimes they're pretty shitty. Yeah. And I think putting

ketchup on them probably classifies them as PM, wouldn't you say? Wow. Except good point. I put ketchup on my scrambled eggs too though. Oh my God, what? That he has for dinner. Hello. A twist. We'll take a break. We'll be back with more Doe Boys. Welcome back to Doe Boys. We are here with Mookie Blakelock for the finale of Rock Around the Clock Doberfest or Rock It Up. Discussing Duncan, Mookie, let's continue on with your order. Okay. So for drinks, I got a Dunkuccino. I got a regular decaf coffee. Mookie, I'm sorry. You got a what? What was the first one? Oh, a Mococino, Frappuccino, Al Pacino, Dunkuccino. That was so shitty. No, I loved it. I liked it.

Thanks for pimping me, dude. Hey, everyone loves that moment in the movie. That is genuinely funny, right? I'm saying thank you for pimping me. No, no, no. I'm saying in the movie too, people are like, oh, that Sandler movie, what is it called? Jack and Jill and people are like, oh, that scene is like, but I'm like, no, that is like, that's funny, right? It's very funny. It is very funny. I haven't seen that movie. Okay, I got a Dunkuccino, a decaf coffee, and I also got a Charlie, an iced Charlie. Look, the Dunkuccino is like one of my favorite drinks on earth. It's so good. It's very good. It's like, I think they do it the same way, but it's like, you know, when you go into a gas station and there's like a cappuccino machine,

and you press the button and it just pours out this like cloyingly sweet yes thing that's supposed to taste like a cappuccino, except this is like a good version of it, and it's a little more like chocolatey. Yeah, it's half hot chocolate, I believe. Oh, is it? Okay. Yeah, yeah, yep. That would explain it. And it was delicious. It was delicious. I forgot that I stopped drinking like coffee caffeine like a while ago, and I forgot that the Dunkuccino has caffeine in it, and so it was delicious, but it also made me insane all day, and I had an awful stomach ache and heartburn for two days. Jesus, yeah. Uh, not Dunkin Donuts fault, my own fault. The decaf coffee was fine. I drank like half of it,

and then put it in the fridge, and I drank it the next day, cold, and it was like better, and I got it regular. And it's always very funny to me that it's like a Massachusetts thing that regular means cream and sugar. Right. That just like regular, like it's just assumed that everyone there is disgusting. And then the Charlie, I felt like I had to try to honor my tiktok roots, but it's, I mean, it was like, it was gross. It's like, it's like a disgustingly sweet. I mean, like, here's the thing, it's gross, and also it's delicious, because like, I'm a little fat baby, and like just put, you know, sugary, just little sugar sweets are yummy, yummy, and put them in my fat hole. But like, I think, I think this, this, this one was one of the, the, the, they got the

cold brew from the tap at the one I was at, and I think the same. Yeah. And it tasted good to me, but I was afraid that it would give me like, I would go kooky from the, from the caffeine. Also like the, the, all the caramel sank to the bottom. And so the first sip you take is like full caramel. And then you realize you have to like swirl it around. But I took about four sips, and I ended up throwing it away. But I felt like I had to try it. And then my donuts, I got an apple fritter. I got a coffee roll. Wow. Not your usual donuts. Okay, go on. And I got a glazed blueberry donut. Wow. That's a good, that's, that's a great one. That was my favorite one. And maybe that my other than like maybe the bagel sandwich

was like my favorite thing that I had just because like, again, those donuts are so, they're just pure sweet now. And like the blueberry at least has the blueberry in it to make some sort of like acid tang like flavor balance. Now to Mitch's point about the blueberry, when you bit into that, when you got a cross section of it, did you see Martin Lawrence? Was there a blue streak? Jesus. Dear God. Mitch, was there Martin Lawrence? Answer the question. Well, I was in my big mama's house, but there was no blue, there was no blue streak. I was in my big mama's house with my bad boys.

Boogs, was it the same thing with that, with the blueberry donut that it was like, there's not a lot of blueberry, but also in the blueberry donut, you don't really want like a thick blueberry in there either. I think that's a different mutation. No, it doesn't feel like it's like fresh blueberries. There's like little blue specks. I like wonder if those are even real blueberries or if they're like freeze dried blueberries that got mixed into batter or something like that. But I mean, it has like a good blueberry taste and like, I love a cake donut. I really love cake donuts. Oftentimes over regular donuts. I love regular donuts too. I mean, don't

don't go, let's not go crazy here. And then I got the coffee roll was kind of an old like my dad always like Sunday mornings, my dad would always go to Dunkin Donuts and get coffee for him and my mom and he would always get me like a bagel and cream cheese and a coffee roll. So I wanted to try the coffee, which is their cinnamon roll basically. Right. And like it's fine. They're like 7-Eleven donuts now. I mean, they're just like that simple process donuts. Yeah, that's been my thing. And you know, I think basically my entire experience with Dunkin has been kind of after the turn, if you will, when people said the donuts kind of went downhill because I have my own things like Dunkin Donuts.

This place is going to have great donuts, but it's really not about that. It's just like it's more about what you were saying earlier, Mookie. It's about like the breakfast sandwiches and the coffee. The donuts, I feel like are always underwhelmed. I would imagine that's why they changed their name. There you go. People aren't going there for donuts anymore. It's true. I remember getting like a chocolate frosts back in the day and like the donut would be like soft and like you could like mush it together. Like it was like just a fluffy, soft, delicious thing. And now it is different now, though I got to say my spider donut was was was very, very tasty. I really enjoyed

that. Oh yeah, they're all good. Mooks, does that wrap it up as far as what you got? Was that was that everything? And I just had that apple fritter, which was like not an apple fritter. It was like a donut with apple like spice on it and it had like a filling in it. I got the same thing because I'm a fritter fan. And I so I was like, I'll get this apple fritter ordered off the app, not the fritter I'm used to. That ain't no fritter, man. It's not a fritter. It's got to have that like crispy top. And I don't think does a fritter usually have a filling in it? No, this is this is a it's a this is just a filled donut. It's just got a filled. It's got like a fritter flavor to it. And an apple filling inside that's a surprise. It's it was bizarre. I think you can call this a

fritter. I'm calling fritter fraud. Put this fritter in the shitter. This is this is ain't no fritter. Wow. I'm bitter. You sound bitter. Damn it. He's a bitter fritter critter. Oh, they're now wagers in a titter. The apple fritter was bad or it was a you know what I won't say it's bad because I did kind of it wasn't it wasn't terrible. It was just so not a fritter that I was like disoriented. And then also the pumpkin munchies I got what I wrote down in my notes app is this is pumpkin because I just didn't get a lot of pumpkin spice from it. I got kind of just tasted like a cinnamon donut to me.

I question it. I question I question if you wrote down that or if you wrote down this is pumpkin. Like this is Sparta. I know I did I did include a question mark although interesting if you look at the script for 300 the line is written with a question mark. And I guess Gerard Butler. Yeah, I guess Gerard Butler like kind of ad-libbed making it more of a statement and it was iconic. Yeah, let me grab my my copy of the 300 script real quick and check that. Yeah, you're listening at home. You probably have it on your bookshelf right next to your bible. Well, go ahead and take that out when you land at LAX. Whether that is my bible. When you land at LAX they when you're going through when you're going when you're going

through the airport they they give you a copy of 300. Yeah, every new visitor. It's just it's just it's the magic of Hollywood you get to read through the script and see what happens. See the process see how it turns from page into to the screen. Why? Yes, I've never seen 300. You know what? You know where I've seen it? What? On the scale. I was gonna say, you know, I've seen it at the bowling alley. Oh, Jesus. And I don't believe it. You know where I've seen it? Where's that? My bank account. Yeah, 300 Gs. Yeah, exactly. I got one more item which was the ice to match a latte. I've never seen 300 either.

Hey, maybe that's a maybe that's a Doe Boys double episode. Let's watch 300 see if it holds up. I got the iced matcha latte. Shout out to our former producer, You Song, a huge green tea fanatic. This is a sweet matcha green tea blended with milk. And I subbed oat milk, which I love that that that Duncan has oat milk. Smooth, drinkable. The matcha flavor was nice, not artificial. The sweetness was not too harsh. I thought this was great. And honestly, this and the everything bagel minis were the standouts. I really like this this ice matcha latte. I was surprised that I was not expecting Duncan to do it to this level of proficiency, but it was a it was a great, great beverage. Mitch, let's round up

what you had. So like I said, this guy Paul helped me at this first place. So I got some of these things still at this first place. And he was very helpful. And he like he took everything down. And he told me I did a good job reading it out to him. And Nick, I got to I got to commend myself by saying that I read out my order in a good way. But this guy, this guy, this guy got a shit ton thrown at a professional actor. This guy got a shit ton thrown at him and he he handled it really well. And then the guy behind me said, while I was waiting for all my food, the guy finally got his order and he goes, geez, this line lasted longer than my first marriage. This is what the guy at the tongue of

dawn said to me. Wow. And I said, Hey, you know, I said, Hey, I'm sorry, you know what? This it's my fault. I ordered a ton of food. And he said, Oh, no, no, that doesn't matter. I, I just said it because you looked like a guy, you looked like a guy I could say something funny to that's what he said. And then you look like a guy who's been divorced. Oh, you've never been married. I feel sad for you now. Goodbye. You have loved and lost my dude. He came up to give me a, he came up to give me a fist bump and you know, it's COVID times. Right. And so I didn't, I didn't want to let him down and I pulled my hand back into this very jacket I'm wearing and I fist bumped him with the jacket over my fist and I could tell he was looking at

me. It was like, you motherfucker. Like I could tell that he was pissed off, but I didn't want COVID wags. That's reasonable. You shouldn't have to bear, he should not be expecting a bare fist bump. Anyways, was he wearing a mask? He was wearing, it was inside. So everyone was wearing a mask. There were no Karen's about. And by the way, Nick, it's Halloween. This is the episode, the spookiest day of the year. This is the episode right before Halloween. That's right. Of the spookiest day of the spookiest month. And Karen costumes are in. We were right. There's Karen costumes all over the place. Everyone wants to be a Karen. It's just fun. It's just good, clean fun. Halloween's going to be the day where all the Karen's can get away with it. And they're

like, Oh, it's my Halloween costume. Do you have any ideas of other other costumes that will be in this year? Do you think Freddie makes a comeback? I think Fred, there's a possibility that we'll see Freddie. I think that it's more likely, you know, people usually go topical. And I think we'll, we'll see some, some sexy Dr. Fauci. I think we'll see some of that. Yep. I think we'll see some probably. Some COVID spores. Yeah. COVID spores. That'll be a big one. I got one too. Al Pacino. Probably Pacino from Jack and Jill. Yeah. After this episode comes out, it'll fully be back in the zeitgeist. All right. My PM stuff. A very happy Halloween to Freddie, Jason, Chucky and the gang. I just wanted to, I just want to throw that out there. Let's not

forget Michael Myers. And oh God, why? Jesus. And Michael Myers. That's big of you guys. Because usually I don't, I don't ever want to wish anyone ill. You know what I mean? Like I did not want Trump to die of COVID. Right. And I think that's really praying, praying for him to get better. That's just all you could do is pray for him and his family. And I think that's really big of you guys to, you know, reach across the aisle to the Spookies and wish them a happy Halloween. You gotta. They, hey, they got to have their fun too, right, Nick? Hey, you know what? Spookies subscribe to Patreon too. Now, fun to them is fucking murdering and dismembering people, but sure. Yeah, they can have their fun. You know, how can you, Freddie is, he's a lot of,

you know what? It's, we got a couple of weeks for us. We're recording this before, but I'm gonna, I'm gonna go in a little horror movie watch, why? I'm gonna watch some scary movies in the next couple of weeks. Here's my PM's speaking of scary. Here's some of my PM stuff. I got the ham and cheese rollup, which I used to like the ham, egg and cheese bagel at Duncan. I was a fan. The ham and cheese rollup just, it didn't really do it for me. I know this is more like a snack situation. Before we, before we're going to review this episode, when I was just in Quincy driving around, I got myself a bacon and cheese rollup. And I thought that was really good. I really enjoyed it. And then special right now is the steak and cheese rollup. I got one of those as

well. That was pretty good because I really thought that the steak was going to be bad and it was okay. It was, and so for like a snack, those, those weren't bad at all. Like we've classified the maple sugar snack and bacon as PM. And that was pretty good, especially if it was just a little bit hotter. And it was not that hot because, because that's the, you know, the time I, the time I got it and then brought it home. I also, I probably put the spicy ghost pepper doughnut in PM. And that was just okay. In the, in the spider doughnut you could put there, but that's morning. I mean, all right, the doughnuts, I thought just a spicy doughnut was maybe more of a PM thing, but whatever. And then as I got two more drinks that were, that were PM, I got a strawberry

kool-ata with whipped cream on top of it. And I used to get kool-atas back in the day. Remember when kool-atas were like brand new? That's when I like first, I get a strawberry kool-ata back in the day. It wasn't as sweet as I thought, but it also just didn't taste really great. It was just fine. That's a bummer. And I also got myself the medium strawberry dragon fruit refresher. And I thought this would be kind of more light and not that sweet. And this was super sweet. More sweet than the kool-ata, honestly. And if it was, if it was just cut a little bit more, it maybe would have been one of my favorites, but it was, it was good, but it was too sweet. And I think I even enjoyed the kool-ata more. And that does it for, for all my stuff. I'm going

to say this quickly. As far as all the drinks go, I got the nitro coffee, the small regular coffee, the dunca chino and the kool-ata and the, and the Charlie and the dragon fruit. So I got a lot of drinks and I was eliminating them. My mom was there. She was trying them too. And we were eliminating them one by one. And it came down to, I think the Charlie, the dunca chino and the small regular coffee were the last three. And we got rid of the Charlie and it was dunca chino versus small coffee and wigs. The small regular coffee is still my favorite. I love the small, regular coffee from Dunkin Donuts. It's really great. The nitro was my least favorite just because it was kind of harsh and bitter. And all the other ones kind of fell in between there.

But just the classic, the small regular coffee, it's that sort of thing of like how McDonald's has talked about kind of, of slimming down the menu and kind of just doing the classics. And I think with Dunkin, that's all I want from them. They've done, they did so many things great in the past. Their muffins and their donuts and their bagels and their coffee. That's all I really need. And the snacks are fun and that maple bacon sandwiches was great. And I enjoyed having it. And the hash browns were pretty fun. But I don't need that stuff. Like if my everything bagel was a little bit better, it would have been my favorite thing of the day. And if that blueberry muffin had just bigger blueberries in it, I would have been the happiest with that too. So it's just,

to me, I think that they got to just go back to the classics and do them in the way they used to do them. Yeah, I will say to your point that if I'm going to get something from Dunkin for funsies, not for the podcast, I would like the idea of me opting for a beverage over just a hot coffee is, I would basically never do that. Because I do drink a cup of Joe every day. And that's, I think they do a great coffee, especially as a fast food place. But we should get to our final thoughts after this very thorough explanation of all of our orders for rock around the clock, Doberfest, as we were discussing Dunkin. It's the last rat kebab. We have to be, we have to be thorough. The last rat kebab. And we're putting it all on the table. And now we are going to decide

what the rating is here and what won the day, AM or PM. So Mookie, your summation of your thoughts, your fork score from zero to five forks. And then whether AM or PM one by making a rooster noise or a wolf howl. That's right. Okay, that's right. Got it. All right, go ahead. And could you, and could you give me an example of those just so I know what to do? Okay, gotcha. That's a wolf. And then and then here's a wolf. Okay, I love Dunkin Donuts. You know, for nostalgia purposes, it's always been a part of my life. Right now at this point in my life, being 30 years old,

I really, if I'm going to go there, I'm going to go there for like a breakfast sandwich and maybe a coffee. I'm not going to make a special trip there for like a drink or a donut or anything like that. I would prefer like a sandwich from here over like a McDonald's because I feel like Dunkin Donuts has that special. I love McDonald's breakfast, but like it like McDonald's breakfast and McDonald's anything always just feels like a disgusting indulgence to me, like just the sodium dense, whatever. Like I would rather just go to this place and be like, I taste bagel and egg and sausage and bait or whatever. But you know, like it's gone down in quality. I don't really care about their donuts.

Um, but I do, I do love it and I do serve a purpose and I still go there semi regularly for those sandwiches, which I still think are good despite their lack of sauce. So I might wait, am I giving fork scores now? Yep. Fork score and then whether AM or PM won the day. Oh boy. Well, fork score. I want to say like, man, I don't know. Let's say three and a half. Wow. Wow. Mookie. It's like based on this experience alone, I feel like I should go lower, but like it's still a great place. I feel like I have to take the place itself into consideration and it's like incredible convenience and like solid being solid of the things that they do well. Right. I'm, I'm, I'm livid right now.

Yeah. Okay. I'm so sorry. Um, maybe we'll, maybe I'll change it. I'll see what you guys say and then I'll mold myself so that you guys like me more. Um, and then that's impossible. If I'm going AM PM, I ate one of the meals in the afternoon. So it was sort of a lunch, but look Mitch, you predicted it right. Cockadoodle. Wow. What a crow. One of the, one of the, one of the, one of the best cockadoodle doos we've heard wigs. Um, I'm honored. Very good. A very good cockadoodle do wigs. Look, first of all, I just want to say as far as LA Dunkin Donuts go, there's just going to be more of them and they're going to be more accessible. They need drive-thrus. They need, they just need to have the access,

accessibility that the New England Dunkin Donuts have, which they don't have right now. I went to the one in Burbank and they did have a drive-thru and I did use the drive-thru. There we go. All right. I did not, I did not even know about this because I will, I will drive up to Burbank for that because I, all the other, like there's one in, there's one in like a, not an, uh, at water and it's kind of like a pain. And then there's, and that one is even maybe the easier one to get to. There's one on Sunset Boulevard and it's also a fucking pain in the ass. You get a park underground or whatever. So the Burbank one is maybe the one I'm going to hit up when I, when I go back. I, my favorite coffee to get, and I don't like coffee is a

small Dunkin's because it doesn't make me feel crazy. Um, the Dunkin, the small Dunkin's is now also bigger than it used to be, which I noticed, which is kind of crazy. Um, I don't like the changes. Why? Cause I wish that we get back to basics. I've said all this already. Um, and look, before I give my fork score, I want night spoon. I'm the night spoon. I want night time to win wise, but it's undeniable here. Okay. It's a, it's a morning. It's wins. Wow. Morning wins. And you know what? Still play my night spoon song right now for a second. Just play it. There's a little tease. Here we go. It's playing right now even while I'm talking. Is it, why? Cause it's a jam. Is this not a jam? This song is the better song. This song I'm hearing right now is such a jam.

It's the, it's the, it's the best. It's the best song. Yes. We only got to play it once, at only one once, but this is the morning place or brunch place, or even if you get it in the afternoon, it's the, it's, this is usually your first meal. I've had this late at night. I've had Dunkin's late at night. I was at a casino back when I was home last December and there was a Dunkin in the casino. The casino, that's like a, like right near, it's, Emma, you know that new casino that's like near, like outside of Boston. It's like, yes. Encore. Thank you. The Encore Casino. The Steve, the Steve wins place. Yes. There's a legendary piece of shit. There's, there's, there's a, there's a Dunkin. There's a Dunkin Donuts inside that casino. Yeah. And

me and Chankton, we got some Dunkin Donuts. Wow. He was slobbering all over himself. He was fucked up. No, Chankton. I heard you have to put Donuts in the slot machines. Yes. It's complicated. And then if you, and then the payout is Munchkins and you're like, is this worth it? Yeah. House always wins. A Dunkin Breakfast sandwich is good drunk food though. It is. It is. Good point. I agree. It's good. It'll, it'll fill you right up. It will, it will sop up some booze. It's not, it's not bad, but I'm liking this in the morning. I'm liking it as like a first meal usually. That being said, even though I think that they're going to go back to basics, Dunkin is a Quincy. It's, it's a Quincy brandwags. It started in Quincy. I love Dunkin Donuts.

By the way, I'm the night spoon from here on out. I'm not going back to Spoon Man. I'm sticking with night spoon even after the, after Ratchkid has ended. I'm the night spoon from here on out. You don't like it, huh? I don't know. I think it's a hat on a hat. What is a hat? What? No, there's no such thing as a hat on anyways. Okay. We're putting night spoon at 1150. After update. Lawrence Lawrence is aiming for a short show after update at 1150. We're cutting the monologue. Wags. I'm the night spoon from here on out. Happy Ratchkid for it to everyone. Dunkin Donuts gets five forks, baby. Wow.

I love it. Fuck you. You're also, look, if we're going on the, you're, you're, you're, you have the benefit of doing this sampling Dunkin Donuts in Quincy for this episode. Good point. That's true. I wish I was over there with you, brother. I might have a different score. That, that spider donut was fantastic. Wow. I will, I'll, I'll repeat myself saying that the app is great. And I think that count, that definitely counts or something right here and now. The app is here. This is, especially right now, we're all doing fucking, you know, you're getting your food to go. You're ideally staying contactless. Yeah. Those essential workers are just like,

give us a break already. Exactly. I went to the store in person just so that they could, you know, have something to do and sort of feel purpose, but I'm glad that you your little app worked. The apps are handy. I did go to the store, but I will say the, the, I like, I like Dunkin. I think Dunkin's good. Yeah. I've no, no allegiance to it from growing up with it or anything, as I mentioned, but I think it's, I think what it does well, it does really well. And Emma talked about it being good drunk food, which I think is a good point, but it was also great hangover food. I know those are similar classifications, but that's to me when I'd rather have my Dunkin. Mm-hmm. So I am going to say, as far as AM or PM,

key, key, key, if I can do a little Spanish language rooster for you. And okay, I will, I will give my fork score to New Hampshire's own Emma Erdbrink. Emma, how would you rate Dunkin Donuts? Wow, what? Wow. This is unprecedented. I'm so honored. Um, obviously five forks with the fun. Wow. Wow. Wow. Tell you what, I'm going up to four. Wow. The Golden Plate Club. The Golden Plate Club for Dunkin Donuts as we conclude Ratkidaba. Although I do agree with what Mookie was saying earlier that like the, I don't ever, I don't think I've ever gotten a Dunkin Donuts in LA. It doesn't feel right, but I only go when I'm home. Like if I'm going to get a coffee and there's a Starbucks and the

Dunkin Donuts, I'm going to pick Dunkin Donuts every time. But in LA, I'd probably pick Starbucks. I don't know why. Yep. 100%. And the last time I was home and went to a Dunkin Donuts, it was, it was great because it was like snowing and the coffee was hot and the doughnut was delicious. Like it was great. It's just a different thing. And I feel like- Yeah, it was one of those assholes that got the iced coffee even in the winter. That's fair too. That's, that's a, that's a classic New England thing too. Yeah. Mookie, what were you saying? You feel, you feel what? I forgot what I was going to say, but I was interrupting Emma. No, no, no, it's, I was interrupting you to have attention for myself and so. Emma, I'm happy that you got to

weigh in. Hell yeah. And I, and I, and I really love your five, I really love your five forks. You rated it very well. Mookie, I was disappointed, but you brought up to four. I'm happy. Um, Wags, you're not going to get off the hook that easy, a piece of shit. What are you talking about? You got to, you got to give a fork rating as well, my friend. I've rated it before. We, we reviewed it back in the day with Joe Mandy. I believe I landed it four forks and maybe four and a half, but I have no reason to change my score. This is absolutely a golden plate club member. I mean, I think, I think you have to just pick your spots. To what you're saying about the, it being better on the East coast, I mean, you know,

I've really only had it in New York. I think when I was in Boston, I got it. And, um, yeah, we got it. And we got into Massachusetts and then, uh, and, and yeah, definitely the East coast experience is better. But I think that's, that's kind of like a lot of chains of just like, we're right now where everyone is expanding everywhere. And, and like, I think that has just sort of diluted the quality of a lot of these great regional chains. It's like, why does Halal guys, even though I like Halal guys, why does that need to be everywhere? You know, maybe that's just a New York institution that they do really well there. And that's something I, and, and I think, you know, to, to use a counter example, like a, again, my, my SoCal, uh, my SoCal heritage is

coming out, but like, like in and out burger, I like that it's not everywhere. I don't think it should go to the East coast. It's not going to be as good. It's not going to be as well received. People will think it's overhyped. So yeah, sometimes things can stay in the region. I think that's good. It's going to have regional chains. I bet if you want, like drew a line for like where Dunkin Donuts quality of stuff started to go down and their expansion, I bet it coincides exactly with them expanding more to the West coast. I think you would be right, Emma. Look, yes, it has happened, but Dunkin Donuts on the East coast is still, they still do a good job. I also, on the West coast, I want to be clear. I would not get

Starbucks over. Dunkin's, I'd maybe get coffee bean or something, but that is truly just, it is really more so just out of the convenience of it. They're, it just, Dunkin is not as easily convenient. Look, there's a big divide in this country, even bigger than the Mason-Dixon line. And that is the Carl's Jr. Hardee's Meridian, which splits the country in half around the Rocky Mountains. Best Foods, Hellman's mayonnaise, similarly. Some people think that's going to be the cause of the Second Civil War. It might be, but some chains should stay on, on either side of that. Interesting.

You know, maybe we don't need Dunkin out here, even though I think Dunkin out here is better than maybe you guys are given credit for. I think, I think, I think it's just different. I, I still, it's, hey, it's one of Quincy's owned. And guess what? America runs on Doe Boys. Wow. On that note, as Mookie and Emma applaud. Standing ovation. Very quietly applauding. I'm not sure if the mics picked that up. It's time for a segment, Mitch. Mookie Blakelock, you've been sentenced to death.

What the fuck? Mitch, now it's time for us to divine what exactly Mookie did to deserve the ultimate punishment. Oh boy, go easy on me. Well, Wigs, I didn't know this was coming. We talked about this. No, I did not know this was the segment today. But Mookie, you are sentenced to death. The year is 2030.

Wow. Very soon. The president. Good decade to rip it up. President. President Seth McFarlane. Oh, no. Oh, wow. Has put the kibosh on any and all impersonations of Peter Griffin outside of his own.

No. Oh my God. What is YouTuber Mikey Bolt's going to do? I'll just have to keep doing Disney characters. And you did not follow his rules. And so you've been sentenced to death. He's going to stuff you inside of a co-hog. He's going to make you a stuffed co-hog. Now, for those of us who only know co-hog as the name of the town from Family Guy,

describe what exactly it is. So what we call a stuffed clam or a co-hog is basically a big clam shell. And then you got like basically what you would call stuffing, just like a bread stuffing and clams mixed in there. And it's all baked within the shell. Do Emma and Mookie agree with that? Yeah, that sounds right. Yeah, sure.

So that's what's going to happen to Mookie. That's he sentenced to death. Wow. A grim fate. But Mookie, there is one plus side. Oh, good. You have a last meal. What is your last meal going to consist of?

Wow. Now, you can have anything. You can have anything. You can have original Dunkin' Donuts if you want from the 80s. Get as specific as you want. Can I have multiple things? You can have as much as you want. Oh, God.

You know what? Professor Frank from The Simpsons is there because of the Family Guy Simpsons crossover. And he has a machine where you can go back in time. You can get anything you want. Okay, good. Everyone remembers the famous Family Guy Simpsons crossover. Yeah, of course. We all watched it.

Oh, my God. Well, guys, I'm trying to think. I mean, this has to be just like, what are the best things I've ever eaten in my life? I mean, more recently, I got to go with that Cactus Burrito. Wow. Number five with carne asada, which I used to always get with chicken and we're talking about, I introduced you to Spindra. If you introduced me to carne asada in that burrito, and I've never gone back.

It's delicious. Mookie and I recently had one of these. One of the last times I saw you in LA. We socially distanced went and got ourselves some cactus taqueria burritos with Mr. Kool himself, Jeff Dutton. Yeah. Wow. It was a real, we were a real group of guys.

Yep. It was fun. What an outing. It was a fun night. That burrito, man, if I'm thinking way far back, or I don't know, I'm thinking about like, okay, there's this place in Boston. Mitch, I wonder if you know of this place in Chinatown called King Fung Garden. It's a Chinese restaurant.

Oh, yes. Yep. They have their chow mein are like these big fat like rice noodles. They call it chow mein. I don't know if it's chow mein, but it's like a good, like Chinese owned Chinese restaurant in Chinatown in Boston. And me and my college friends would go there all the time. And it was like one of the best things I've ever eaten in my life.

Wow. I would get the, I would get the chow mein, maybe with chicken on it, from King Fung Garden in Boston. And let's see. Anything from California? I know, I know. I fucked up. Shut up.

First thing he said was from California. Fuck you. Described an outing that you went. You accompanied him on. What about a, what about a, let's say you got your beverages, you got your sweet treats, maybe something in that world. Beverages, beverages. Oh my God.

Fuck. Probably a Soleil cucumber melon. Wow. Sparkling water. Wow. Also, I love, you know what? Hey, a, let's see. Okay.

There's a, there's a cocktail at this restaurant called Alakwa out here. It's called the farmer's market cocktail and it's got red pepper vodka in it. And then like seasonal fruit and basil in it. And it's the best cocktail I've ever had. And I would have one of those. I'd have a, I'd have a farmer's market cocktail. Wow. A nice spicy little cocktail.

Yeah. Loosen me up before I get shoved in that clam, man. Well, Mookie. You've eaten your last meal and right before you, as, as Seth McFarland himself, because he does all the executions himself. Oh, sorry. One more thing. Okay.

Yeah. Speaking of a donut, the strawberry donut from the donut man in Glendora, California. Now that has fresh strawberries on it. Another thing. That's a fancy ass donut. Another thing Mookie introduced me to that I've had just recently. It's delicious. It's there.

It's a small donut stand that's open 24 hours. I read about it because Jonathan Gold said it was his favorite donut. And it's a glazed donut that's like splayed open and stuffed with fresh macerated strawberries. And it's the best donut I've ever eaten in my entire life. And I would have one of those as well. To round it out with the sweets. I had one recently.

It was fantastic. It's really good. Macerated one of those words. It sounds a little naughty, but it's not. Jesus. Let's not get into tube and territory here. Well, Mookie, Seth McFarland is walking you over to the clam that you're going to be shoved into.

When all of a sudden you hear a little tune, a little Sinatra tune. When all of a sudden you hear, you hear a yell from, from the crowd. Okay, I'm reloaded. It is. It's Al Pacino. And hey, shoot. Hey, babe, shoot them all. And Dennis Miller.

Wow. And lights, camera, Jackson, all your favorites. Yes. Are there. I think we have him on a call coming up, right? All your favorites are there. And they fight off Seth McFarland. And they fight off all the voice actors, including the jerky boys.

And they save you, Mookie. Wow. So all those calories for nothing, huh? Yeah. It kind of turns into a little guilty meal. You feel bad about it. So, but that's, but that's not bad at the end. You just kind of feel bad about one meal.

I feel a little naughty. Yeah, you feel a little naughty. I was a naughty little boy. Can't believe I improvised my way out of that one. Cool. By the skin of your teeth. Do you generally prepare for these? Yes, I see.

Wow. Usually up to a day and a half. Wow. Wise, I want to just quickly say, uh, I was just looking, I want to read the, uh, Oh, now my phone is frozen. That's great. The new iPhone, the new iPhone.

Yeah, iPhone is more like it. The new iPhone comes around and the new iPhone comes around. Your old one stops working, Wigs. Yeah, it goes. Yeah, it's a fucking iPhone, as far as I'm concerned. Despite the references to Boston and the Charles River in Dirty Water, the standals are not from Massachusetts.

Tower Records producer Ed Cobb wrote the song after a visit to Boston during which he was robbed on a bridge over the Charles River. None of the standals had been to Boston before, before the song was released. So they never even went before the song was released. Weird. Yeah, strange. Mookie, great choices for you.

That cactus burrito is hard to beat for me as far as one of my last meals. That, that is, that's way up there. Damn, oh, fuck, so good. You know, I like what protein I've been liking in a burrito lately is Langua. Give me some Langua. Yeah. Yeah, a lot of fun.

I'd normally get it in a taco, but I've been getting a burrito. It's like, oh, this actually works, works quite well. It's a cow tongue. And you were kind of missing having someone else's tongue in your mouth. Hey, it wouldn't be the first time. Huh? You're telling me, brother. All right.

It's, it's cow tongue for those who don't know. Yes. Yeah, it's cow tongue. It's cow tongue. It's good. It's, it's usually, usually really, really well seasoned and just a great soft texture to it. Hey. Are you, are you a cactus guy, Wags?

Um, I like cactus. Yeah. I mean, it's just neighborhood wise. It's on a different, it's, if I'm in that, if I'm in that area, yeah, I'll go to a cactus taqueria. Well, it's a lot of fun. All right, good. Just like a restaurant by your feedback, let's open up the feedback.

Today, we have an email from Mike in Tempe, Arizona. Wow. Mike, it's, by the way, I used to say Tempe and then I, I saw someone say, I think it's supposed to say Tempe or Tempe. I think it's Tempe, isn't it? I think it's Tempe. I thought it was Tempe and then someone was like, you actually, the emphasis is on the other syllable.

It's like Tempe or Tempe. Is it Tempe, like the vegetarian thing? Tempe is another thing, but yeah, I think, I think it's maybe Tempe or Tempe. Is that person that told you that from Tempe? They're from Tempe. Oh. So they're from Tempe? Yeah, they're from Tempe.

They also told me it's in Florida. You mean Tampa Bay? Yeah, Tampa Bay. Tampa Bay. Mike in that city in Arizona writes, as you may not know, I am somewhat of a heat seeker and I have specific hot sauce preferences that are dependent on what I am eating. For example, Sriracha with Asian, Sriracha with Asian, Tapatia with Mexican, Green Tabasco with breakfast, etc.

What are your hot sauce preferences? And then he's got a hot take as a PS. Del Taco's hot sauce and food are far superior to Taco Bell's. Okay, that's not a hot take. Hey, baby, that's ice cold. Wags, send that take up to the Arctic so the fucking ice caps re-freeze. So I think the idea of a hot take is that it's like, oh, here's a, like, oh boy, this is a take. It's less that you necessarily agree, not that you have to agree with a take for it to be a hot take.

There was no response to sending the take up to the Arctic and having the ice caps re-freeze. I liked it. All right. I was just saying, I think that it's a terminology thing. I think the cold take is more like a stale take as opposed to a take I disagree with. Send it to a donkeys. Five works.

Mookie, I know you mentioned the salsa bagel. You mentioned a spicy cocktail. Do you have any specific hot sauce preferences yourself? Yeah, I don't, I mean, I don't use a ton of hot sauce. And I agree with, like, you know, if I'm, like, making Asian food at home, I'll use, like, a sriracha or a sambal or something or, like, Tabasco I don't love, except if it's, like, you know, like, you know, crab dip on a cracker or something like that, like that kind of thing.

But I love, I don't use hot sauce that often. I put it, I put it on, like, eggs and breakfast a lot and I prefer, like, a tangy, like, green hot sauce. And I'll tell you what my favorite hot sauce is currently. It's called Gringo Bandito. Wow. And it's made by the lead singer of The Offspring Dexter. Wow.

And it's his brand of hot sauce and it's, like, one of the best hot sauces I've ever had. That's why I'm on board. And there's a little picture of him on the cover with a sombrero holding up two little six shooters and a poncho on. So I don't know if that's good, but. Yeah, maybe a little problematic. Emma, you were nodding along. That's also one of my favorite hot sauces.

It's really good. I love all of that in my fridge. It's so good. It's like the perfect balance of spicy and, like, vinegar kind of, but it's not super vinegary. It's great. It's one of my favorites. It feels really, like, clean and delicious.

Wow. Why is, yes. For me, honestly, when it came to, when we were doing those Tina's burritos again, I really enjoyed putting Tabasco on there over Frank's Red Hot. Interesting. But I like Tapatillo, too. Like, I like some of the, like, Mexican hot sauce brands. And then on the same way, for Asian food, I like Sriracha.

I like to put Sriracha on there for, like, a stir fry or anything like that. And then for Frank's, Frank's does have its place. I feel like I put Frank's on, like, boring, like, microwave food or, like, like, if I had, like, a mac and cheese or something, I'd sometimes throw Frank's on there or something. Like, Frank's has its place. Don't get me wrong. I enjoy Frank's.

And my sister makes a great buffalo chicken dip with Frank's. So I think Frank's has its place. But Frank's just had that thing of, you know, it got tossed on the world and we went too crazy about Frank's for so long. And it still is good. And, but I like that. I want to try this hot sauce because I love a nice vinegar mix. I like a heavy vinegar taste.

For sure. So I might want to try this out. But no, I guess besides that, nothing too, too specific. Yeah, kind of. I don't put hot sauce on my breakfast food too much. I use ketchup, like I said before, for my eggs and home fries. I used to do that, too. I'm sorry, not an over-easy egg, but for scrambled eggs.

No, for scrambled eggs, I used to do that, too. And I eventually became a hot sauce guy. I, you know, love spicy foods. I use a lot of hot sauce. I used to be a Tabasco guy and the Tabasco, eventually, I just kind of got tired of it. And so my default hot sauce these days is a cholula, also in the Mexican hot sauce varietals. I like a Tapatillo quite a bit.

If a place has a Tapatillo, I'll give me that Tapatillo. I'll give me a Tapatillo or Cholula over that Tabasco. That said, of the Tabasco varietals, they have their, I think the Green Tabasco, the Jalapeno Tabasco, has a little bit of a better flavor than default Tabasco, as does the Chipotle Tabasco, which you'll sometimes get at a Chipotle, interestingly enough. Asian hot sauces, the chili garlic sauce. I think the brand is Huifong or Haifong. It's so delightful.

I love that and it's got just like a great flavor to it. And, you know, what you were talking about about Tabasco being a little played out, I feel the same way about Sriracha. I feel like we're just seeing Sriracha everywhere. I kind of got exhausted by it. Sure. It's still good though. It's still good.

I'll also give a quick shout out to La Victoria, another Mexican hot sauce that I like. But you know what is a great all-purpose hot sauce? And anytime I see it, I am delighted to encounter it. Crystal. Give me that Crystal hot sauce. Wags, I'm pissed off because that was going to be my follow-up. It's going to be Crystal and Red Rooster. I like Crystal.

Crystal is maybe my favorite. I love Crystal. Crystal is delightful. And, you know, okay, from Tabasco country, from Louisiana, from down in the Bayou, but give me the Crystal any day. Great bottle, lot of fun, love it. I have one that I just tried recently. Sweet Baby Race has a hot sauce and I really enjoy it.

Sweet Baby Race hot sauce. This is an Emma take, I believe, but Spicy Barbecue always works. Yes. I'm into that anytime I can. I don't know if it always works. You know what, Emma? I mean, I'm not saying there isn't a spot in the world for Sweet Barbecue. I just like a Spicy Barbecue sauce.

Spicy Barbecue is great. It doesn't have to, it doesn't have to exclusively be spicy, yes. Right. No, I'll say this. I like a Spicy Barbecue over a regular barbecue. How's that? There you go. All right.

There's also like creamy hot sauces now that I keep seeing at the grocery store and wanting to buy and I don't, but there's like, it's like almost like ranch texture. Yeah. But like hot sauce, which seems interesting to me. It's almost like, it's like, it's basically like spicy aioli, but like possibly thinner. I don't know. Yeah, I feel like what?

Is this a bottle of the devil's jizz? Okay. Satan fucking pound off into this bottle? Tastes like it. Is that one I'm eating? Dear God. Let us know your, your preference is. Wait, so every, every time, every time Satan beats off like, does it sting his dick?

Yeah, it's very unpleasant. Jesus. But you know, he's also a sinner. That's why he's down there. Oh yeah, so he's probably like, oh yeah, that hurts, but I, I like pain. Okay, all right. Down in the, you know, in the lowest circle of hell where the three mouths of Lucifer, you know, live in eternal torment and chew the, the three traders for all time.

Hey, I was just, I was, I just, I had one last question. Do you think that he puts like, like hell peanut butter on his balls and has Cerberus lick it off? Yeah. But it's always the wrong head. Oh no. It's like he's trying to get the middle head, but then the left head gets in there and the left head starts chewing. Yeah, a little too, a little, gnaws on him a little bit.

Yeah. Hell peanut butter. That was almost as good as my improvising your escape from. Almost, almost as good. It's all gold. I was an improviser. Mookie and I used to improvise on a team together. Arts, mathematics.

Mitch, you're one of the funniest guys I know. Mookie, so you, you are too. We're happy that you're here. We love you. What a treat. I love you too. What a treat to have you. Why is your funny guy too?

Thank you, Mookie. That seemed like a consolation prize for you, Wags. It clearly was, but it's fine. Hit us up with your hot sauce preferences. Hashtag boss sauce. And if you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you need to know us at dowboyspodcast at gmail.com or leave us a voicemail at 830 Godot. That's 830-463-6844.

And to get the Dowboys double our weekly bonus episode, join the Goldner Platinum Plate Club at patreon.com slash dowboys. Mookie Blakelock, you are worthy with Lil Mookie B is the podcast. You are also on TikTok. Go ahead and plug what you would like to plug. Oh boy, I'd love if you'd listen to the podcast. You are worthy with Lil Mookie B on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. It's, you know, podcasts where like comedians who have gone to therapy for six months are now

suddenly experts on empathy and mental health. And they do a podcast that isn't funny at all. And they talk about mental health and therapy. It's kind of a pitch perfect satire of those. A perfect skewering of those kind of things. And it's very fun. And I have great guests on it. And you can follow me on TikTok and Twitter and Instagram at Lil Mookie B,

L-I-L-M-O-O-K-I-E-B. And you can see all of, you can see short versions of the best satire on the internet currently. Hell yeah. Check it out. Great stuff. Check it out. It is, it is, it is extremely funny. Mookie, you're one of the funniest dudes and thank you for.

God bless you. Thank you for being here Mookie. You guys too. I love you. Thanks for wrapping up Racketaba with us. It was an honor. I'm so genuinely happy to be here. What a treat.

What a thrill. And hey, Racketaba is done as is this week's episode. That'll do for this episode of Doe Boys. And on the next time for the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating. Happy Racketaba, everyone. Boy, boy, what day is it? Why it's still Racketaba.

No. On the next Doe Boys Double, we Racks Poetic. Director Stoney Sharper turns to discuss defunct chain restaurant Racks, which once had over 500 locations. Find out how one bad commercial may be killed off an entire franchise. Get the Doe Boys Double every Tuesday only at patreon.com. Want to see the sources for this week's intro? Check the episode description.