Doughboys - Steak n' Shake 9: Slice House with Evan Susser (LIVE)

Episode Date: December 19, 2024

Evan Susser (@evansusser) joins the 'boys for a sneak peak into 2025 before for a review of Slice House.You can still watch this stream at birdfuck.com/liveRecorded live at the Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles on December 14, 2024.Get ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://sfist.com/2016/09/27/the_best_quotes_about_san_francisco/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2020/06/ava-gardner-biography-frank-sinatra?srsltid=AfmBOootzfC2Cb310DUT-WgsHHo3VQx5-AjeTJqpvRs0LUNXfgfcY1Q9https://www.kerouac.com/why-north-beach/https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/7243170-in-the-window-i-smelled-all-the-food-of-sanhttps://www.forbes.com/sites/larryolmsted/2014/07/18/the-best-pizzeria-in-america/https://slicehouse.com/aboutSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

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and your first audiobook is free. Visit audible.ca to sign up. Alright, make some noise right now. Come on, get those hands together. Here we go for the Doughboy! Now there's a grown-up swinging town. This was San Francisco as described by Frank Sinatra. The Italian-American crooner, whose partner Ava Gardner famously remarked quote, weighed 119 pounds and 19 of those pounds were cock, was an expert on swinging. In the jazz sense, the lifestyle sense, and the literal sense,

with his heavy pendulous hogs swaying with every step like a horse's tail. with his heavy pendulous hogs swaying with every step like a horse's tail. But the chairman of the endowed affection for the Golden Gate city speaks to its often overlooked Italian-American population clustered in the SF neighborhood of North Beach. Among its famous Italian residents was legendary baseballer Joltin Joe DiMaggio, who, when he swung a baseball bat, must have felt like Sinatra shaking himself off at a urinal. North Beach was also the birthplace of the important but annoying beatnik movement.

In a convergence of its ethnic and cultural identities, author Jack Kerouac, who today has a street named after him in the district, wrote fondly of the scent of pan-fried chow mein-flavored air that blew into my room from Chinatown, vying with the spaghetti sauces of North Beach. And if Kerouac was alive today, he would have inhaled

the scents from a North Beach restaurant currently ranked among the top American pizzerias, Tony's Pizza Napolitana. Founded in 2009 by namesake Tony Giamignani, who had become the first ever American to win the world pizza cup in Naples, no doubt causing distressed Italians to cry out, MAMMA MIA! His restaurant's instant popularity led Geminiani to open a neighboring slice shop the next year.

That second restaurant, which offers a sampling of distinct pizza styles and invites patrons to quote, respect the craft, would become a franchise and now has 20 locations in California, Nevada and Utah. Today Italian Americans tragically still endure persecution from harmful stereotyping. One prominent food podcaster recently derided the entire demographic as quote marinara dipshits. But the group continues to influence and enrich American life with luminaries like filmmaker Martin Scorsese, singer Ariana Grande, and activist Luigi Mangione. And today with this fast-growing pizza empire you can add another name to that list, Tony Gemignani. Seriously though Sinatra was hung like a brontosaurus.

This week on Doughboys, we return once again to Steak and Shake via the new chain occupying its former Burbank storefront like a Paisan hermit crab, Slice House by Tony Geminiani. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. Wow. Ho-ho dough. Oh, trots! Wow! Ho, ho, doe. We have a fantastic show. How you feeling out there, Los Angeles? We love it here at the dynasty,

and we love you all for coming out, and we love everyone who joined us on the stream. But before we go any further, this week's roast is courtesy of the self-proclaimed Roast King. Let me introduce my co-host, Luigi Manicotti, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. ["The Spoon Man"]

["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"]

["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] ["The Spoon Man"] What's up everybody? What's up LA? So Mitch we're both wearing Christmas sweaters that Amelia got for us. Mine for our audio listeners. Mine is Santa with sunglasses looking very cool. It says Big Nick Energy.

Yours is a very gaudy, has a bunch of ornaments on it, a bunch of tinsel, but we should also say for audio listeners you came out wearing a Luigi hat. Oh, jiggedy-jig, it's Luigi Mangione, jiggedy-jig, the Italian Assassione, la la la. That's enough of that. I didn't like you. Everyone, Luigi Mangione got the biggest cheer we'll get tonight. He's still a weirdo, right? He's a little weird. I'm team McDonald's. Turn that fucking weirdo in. Oh, fuck off. Kill me then. Kill me. I'm an evil CEO. Kill me too. Yeah, kill me too, I'm also an evil CEO.

We're both evil CEOs. I like Luigi's sister. She like- All right, calm down, horndog. She posted like a beach selfie, it was like, I'm praying for you, and I was just like, ah-hoo-ga. Ha ha ha ha ha.

Merry Christmas, buddy, how fun. I would love to marry into the Manjoni family. We'll see. So apologies. It shall take my hand, I forgive him. Merry Christmas, buddy, very happy to be doing the show. We've never done the year end, the Steak and Shake show that we do every year.

We've never done this live. This is the first time we've done this as a live show. How about that? Wow. It's gonna suck. It's gonna suck. It's gonna be bad. There's probably a reason we've never done it live. I mean it usually gets contentious. I'm optimistic about this year. It always has a bad guest too. It's usually a running thing. But speaking of guests, we had, Mitch, this was a this was a bit of kismet. We were at, we had our year-end team dinner at Lowry's people have been to Lowry's over the

primary was one in the Tamoshanter family we were there and they you know that's somebody's a Lowry's residents have seasonal carolers was anyone here at our Munch Madness finale thank you for coming back so for our Munch Madness finale we had the voices of Christmas as a very talented carolers come out and open the show by sheer coincidence they were working at Lowry's when we went to eat them so we saw Lisa and and her crew and how fun was that I don't know do we tell this on the live on the show that one of them loved gabris I don't think we said that on the show but yeah we won't talk to it was specifically but

one of the one of the voices of Christmas one of the voices Christmas wanted to fuck gabris backstage one of the one of the voices of Christmas one of the voices Christmas wanted to fuck gabris backstage one of the boys I gotta take a fucking shit she was like oh my god she was going crazy oh one of the voices was as a Randy for a gabris voices of Christmas was a Randy for gabris's Mitch's for Luigi Mangione sister and so up so we saw them and we were like, this is crazy. What a coincidence. They're staying for it. It was wonderful. And we were like, here's the thing. We did that show with the dynasty. We've got a show with the dynasty tomorrow night.

Yeah. Can you join us? Folks, give it up for the voices of Christmas. Fuck you. Fuck you! You know how fucking expensive that would be right now? Do you think they're gonna be available during the Christmas season? We can't afford it! We can't afford that! Eat shit! Fuck you!

Fa- Fa- La- La- La- Fuck off! Sorry! Follow la la fuck off. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha spirit are you know you're feeling grumpy you're a little Scrooge I'm not screwed no I'm not Scrooge also by the way yeah we've talked about this a little bit is Scrooge old he's old right it's Scrooge old old but also is he like 45 it's it's he's old in the sense of someone being old obviously what the line for old is has shifted from the Victorian age when the life expectancy was what? Probably like 50, you know? So like it's different now. He would not be considered old probably.

I googled it. Scrooge is 34. He's the age of George Costanza? He's the age of George Costanza. That was always a fun thing to learn, right? When you see like Homer Simpson is younger than you, it's like, oh, Jesus Christ. And way, way thinner than me.

Yeah. Oh. The episode where he gains weight is like, when he gets to his goal weight, I'm way more than his goal weight. That's always nice to see, whatever. I was in that big, we'll fix it. But I think it's gonna be,

I think it's gonna be a great holiday show. I think it's gonna be great end of the year. What's what? Spoken like a guy who loves the holidays. I think it's gonna be a great holiday show. I have the Christmas spirit, Mitch. You backstage, you warmed all this up by saying, I think it's going to be a great show, everyone. You walked out of the room to silence. Mitch, I actually said,

I think tonight shall be great fun. And you said, I think tonight shall be great fun. And you know what, I think it will too. I think it will too. And I'm going to hit it right now with a little... Wait, wait, wait, before you get to the drop, Mitch. No, wait, because we do have to get your drop, but there was something I meant to tell you, which is that you were up in Toronto for a while,

and you had... I was three months up there. You were up there for three months. We went up there, we did Toronto while. And you had... Three months up there. You were up there for three months. We went up there. We did Toronto Doe. We did a live show up there. We visited a bunch of Canadian chains. It was great fun.

It was the only, if you remember Toronto Doe, the only shows that were kind of like not taped months and months in advance. Yeah. Taped. I mean taped is fine. Whatever. Same difference. People know what you meant.

But you made a bunch of friends backstage. some of them we've had on episodes of them are on upcoming episodes that we've recorded a lot of fun and then one of them I met and got I got to talking with backstage that's right yes your buddy Al my buddy Al is here your buddy Al like now you met out in Toronto I did yes yeah and you got you were like spending a bunch of time and and Al's just down here visiting yeah he came down to visit and he's here at the show I didn't I don't we didn't spend a ton of time and Al's just down here visiting. Yeah, yeah. He came down to visit and he's here at the show. I didn't, I don't, we didn't spend a ton of time in Toronto together, but yeah. Yeah.

You seem like a cool dude. What was his mill name? What was it? E? Yeah. Al E. Was, was it, was it, wait, was his last name Gator? His last name is Gator. Al E Gator. Gator. Wait, wait, wait. Cause I remember now I like I sucked him off. Well, yeah, I sucked him off, too. Yeah. Well, what color was his dick? I think it was white. You know, at first I thought it was white, but now I'm realizing

with the lightning back there, I think was actually green it was green it was green Al E gator are you back there Wow why is chasing the snow gator he's got Wow Wow. The head is ball. Wow. The banjo Kazooie song is playing. Keeping your ear muffs snowgater. How out of breath are you? How's everybody? How did everyone like the best bit of the night? That's the only one we got for you. The one thing we put any effort into

and we almost forgot to do it. I thought it was good that I forgot because it kind of seemed like, you know what I mean? Yeah, it made me feel organic, right? Yeah, it made me feel organic. Whatever. made my m is organic whatever you did you were great up there. Yeah thanks for helping. Not going to catch it. We stopped him off twice. He's like a feather. Wags. It's the holidays. What are you going to do on Christmas Day? What's your plan?

You know what? I'm like, we're big or we'll go see a movie. I love seeing a movie on Christmas. You like doing that? Yeah, I like seeing the movie. Nasferatu comes out. You know, it's one of those things where it's like, cause I remember I saw, um, this is also better than what I asked you. I said, what are you going to do for Christmas? And you said nothing just recently. So seeing the plans. Yeah We saw we saw late night with the devil on Easter Wow There was a big crowd and I talked to the guy there and he was like yeah A lot of people come see spooky movies like on Easter That's fucked up the devil movie on Easter that celebrates the resurrection of Christ. That's fucked up. Why's that?

I don't like it. Well, we have a crowd that cheer for Luigi, Manny Gioni and they will again. Nosferatu a Dracula movie. You can see a fucking Dracula movie on the day of the birth of Christ. That's insane. It's kind of makes sense. Um, Wags let's hit them with a drop and let's get this show going. Right. Wags. Hmm. I don't know if I can pronounce this correctly. Uh, uh, go to go to Jane. Yeah, I think you're I said right up to you. Yeah, I think you're in the right ballpark.

Mm, mm, mm, mm, mm. Big, big head on the ground. Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, Gochu Jang, spread that rash on new chains, yeah, my big ladook. Gochu Jang. That was great. Love you all the drop despot.

Is that how you say it? Yeah. It's a song about how I can't pronounce stuff. I don't know how to say despot or despot. I think both are about despot. Fuck. God damn it. That's fine.

Cole map stone. Cole map. Cole map song. Cool name. Thank you, stone. Cole map. Cole map stone. Cool name. Thank you, Cole. Thank you, Cole. Wow. We did it. This is it. We're done. This is the last thing we have to do for the year. Oh, I think you mean you and I are done. We did all the business we have to do for the show. Just get our guests out here and we can coast.

I mean, in a sense, that is what we're gonna do. We got, you know, next year is our 10 year anniversary. I don't know. Isn't that wild? Is there anyone in the building and, you know, people are watching the live stream, you could comment as well, but is there anyone in the building who was not has not just listened to the whole catalog, but was a day one listener, started listening in 2015. Wow! Jesus.

You know there are other podcasts, in fact a lot more than when we started. I understand there was maybe Slim Pickens back in 2015. We have gotten people who come up to us now and say, I grew up listening to the podcast. Yes, yeah. Which are the most dangerous people in the world. That makes you feel very old. Imagine listening to our first ever doughboys episode having no pubes and then still today having no views. It's

a pubeless lot. Our listeners. I think aoughboy's fans are either Publiss or extremely pubie. I don't think there's any in between. I don't think there's no, no, but yeah. I think yeah, Publiss, extremely pubie, or just one long, long pub. It's one of those three. All right, enough bullshit. Y'all ready for our guest?

That's a good one. No. Hold on, hold on. Did someone. Say no. This is this. Who is it? Guest will be revealed shortly. No, this is this is a man. I think sometimes I like that to think of as the third dough boy. He's certainly present for who have been with us since year one. He's a huge presence in the podcast. We're very mean. He's been with us since year one. He has been with us since he's like eating with us since year one. He's been with us since year one. He's a huge presence in the podcast. We're very- What do you mean he's been with us since year one? He has been with us since year one. He's like eaten with us since year one?

Yeah, he's been a part of the show since year one. I guess he was on the show in year one. We did the Tournament of Champions year one. He's been a part- He's been with us that long? He's been with us that long, yeah. God, we gotta end this fucking show. Bring him out.

Are you folks ready for our guest? Bring him out. Are you folks ready for our guest? Please welcome the commissioner of the Doughboyz Tournament of Champions, Evan Susser! What? What do you mean? What? We're happy to have you. I can't believe we've been doing this many. We've done this many shows at dynasty and they still have not gotten us a bigger table. Susser is our guest on top of that. It's not like it's the knife or something that can slide right in here.

It's going to be great. Mr. Slice is here. We're talking pizza. Mr. Slice's favorite food. Susser, we've talked a lot with you on the podcast, but I don't think we've gotten in depth as much on pizza. So I want to start first off. What is your favorite style of pizza? Wow. What? What are we doing? Let's start for us off. What is your favorite style of pizza? Wow. What? What are we doing? Detroit style, New York style?

No, no. This is the year end episode. This is Stake and Shake. We got a live audience. We're on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the podcast. Yeah. I mean, it feels like there should be something. I'm not saying I want to do like a Steve Jobs style

like keynote presentation, but you know what I do actually. That's what's happening. Wow. Whoa. Oh my gosh. Wow. He's taking off his sweater. He's putting on his glasses.

Susserwag, a black turtleneck underneath his Hanukkah sweater. He looks just like Steve Jobs. He's fumbling with his iPad, classic Jobs. Hello. As commissioner of the Doughboys podcast, I am honored to be speaking to you today. As some of you know, next year will officially be 10 years of the Doughboys podcast, I am honored to be speaking to you today. As some of you know, next year will officially be 10 years of the Doughboys podcast. Wow. Yeah, I know. Wow.

We're extremely proud of that here at Doughboys and we'll be marking this occasion in a celebration we're calling 10 years of dough. Wow. Wow. There's a picture of Nick and I and I think mine's maybe offensive. To commemorate this, we're introducing a new logo that celebrates the podcast's history with the original Mitch and Weiger character design. Now, yes, the Mitch design does lean heavily into some offensive Irish stereotypes, but

it was a different time when the podcast started Do I have a Billy club? Or a wood spoon? Oh it's a spoon. It's a spoon Yeah Dear God Now let's celebrate ten years of this podcast Celebrating ten years of undeserved success, it says. Okay, the podcast has been featured on Good Morning America.

Yep. And it's the 20th most popular podcast on Patreon below Just Trish. Hey, that's pretty good. Just Trish. Right below there. What is she talking about? What is she? What is just Trish? Hey, is this issue?

It was a doll. Is it a doll? I'm not really sure. All right. Hey, here's one for the fans. This beloved game show gave a nod to the Doughboys in twenty twenty four. Jeopardy. Yes. You guys know Jeopardy, the headgunum stream Jefferty that the Doughboys appeared on. That was great. Now, enough on dwelling on the past. Let's talk about some new commitments on the podcast in this 10 years of Dough. The annual vegetable month is abolished!

Wow. Okay, so let me hold on a second. You did this one, you're gonna get cheered for is abolished, but they already cheered vegetable month just when it came up. No, they booed it. Oh, sorry, yeah, they booed it. They booed vegetable month.

I know. They hate vegetable month. This is a straw man, because we never said it was annual. We did it one time. But the Frank thing is yanked. Wow. No more four months of miss talking

about upcoming colonoscopy. No. Everything's all right down there. And finally, the Reddit is good now. Yes, that's right. What? No more making fun of the Reddit. We want you guys in there commenting on Reddit

and all social media. Talk about what episodes you like, what episodes you don't like. Speculate about people's relationship off pod. Get in there. Okay. There's a lot of big 10th anniversary events coming up that I'm really excited to share with all of you.

The tournament of champ-champions. Of champions. Wow. That's right, we're doing a winners bracket. It's going to be In-N-Out versus the Wendy's Spicy Chicken Sandwich. Versus Taco Bell. Versus Domino's. Versus McDonald's fries. Versus Chipotle Sweet Green Combo, they tied. Versus Dairy Queen. Versus Jersey Mike's.

Versus five layer beefy burrito. Boom, now you can. That's quite a field. Also we didn't discuss any of this, but all right. That's not the only event that we have planned based on this year's massive success of toron toe. The dough boys are going to a new city next year. That's right. It's time for DOLANDO FAST. Wait hold Wait, hold on. The Doughboys? We didn't... Hold on. The Doughboys? A month long exploration of the dining at the theme parks and surrounding areas.

Thanks for using Season 1 Mitch there by the way. Yeah, Jesus, guys, it's Season 1 Weiger. And the surrounding areas of Orlando, Florida, but that's not even the best part. Doughboys pay for me to come too. And to be clear, okay, I will not be a guest on any of the episodes. It'll just be kind of a thing that's mentioned 45 minutes in. Oh yeah, Susser was there too.

Free trip to Disney World, what could be better? Just gonna feel like Orlando is a better portmanteau, but... Speaking of myself... Too late. Too late. I'm really excited about this. This year I will be unveiling the Commissioner's Sweepstakes. Here's how it works.

To enter you have to recruit six new listeners to Doughboys. Once you do you are entered into a lottery to win a trip to Los Angeles where you will have the opportunity to buy the commissioner lunch just like the Doughboys do. Now I know what you're thinking, especially people here, what if you already live in Los Angeles? Well, then you have the opportunity to win a trip of 1,500 miles, which is the average difference of anywhere in America

to Los Angeles. So that would bring you to Omaha, Nebraska, or Kansas City, Missouri, where you will also be able to buy me lunch. Wow. And we've got a lot of other really exciting things Missouri where you will also be able to buy me lunch. Wow. And we've got a lot of other really exciting things planned for this 10 years of dough. Doughboys on tour. Weiger won't cross an ocean, but if you live in the United States, Mitch and Weiger coming to a town near you.

A big article. You know how sometimes article in. Yeah, wait, hold on. Times or the New Yorker celebrating a podcast. We're gonna have one of those. A good article. Oh good, great. Checking if they had anything from Ronan Farrow in my inbox. Jemmy meets Wally. Wow! Wow! No explanation needed. Wow. Wait, what about Irma?

Irma, no. What? All right. Bug main returns. Wow. It's a big tent podcast, and it's time to let that bug back in the tent. Yeah.

Overdue. Mitch gets thin. Now look, I wanna be clear here. It's gonna happen, I'm gonna do it. This is a body Now look, I want to be clear here. It's going to happen. I'm going to do it. This is a body positive podcast, and I am positive. Mitch is getting a new body. The scale three, the thermometer.

That's a good pitch. It's a really good pitch. Doughboy's Kids Club. An episode you can listen to with the whole family. Does this- Don't tell Ron and Farrow! Does that tie into the big article? Hahaha!

Sausage spin-off, fine! You guys have demanded it, I'll do it! Okay! Wasn't that Deli Boys? And finally, Project Watchtower- oh shoot, that one's a mistake actually. That's- nevermind. Okay! Hahaha! Alright. Okay. All right.

Project Watchtower. And finally, a Doughboy's album with hits. Wow. Such as Philadelphia cream cheese and you ain't nothing but a hot dog. Wow. This is so much fucking work. All in all, 10 years of Doe promises to be an amazing experience for all involved. And I could not be more proud to be a part of it.

Wow. Huh. Wow. There's just one more thing. Oh my god, he's pulling the jobs one more thing bullshit. A cameo from the Costco guys. One more. Oh my god. He's pulling the jobs one more thing bullshit What's up Nick and Mitch it's a J And this bench is coming out to you from Commissioner Susser Commissioner Susser for sending this message to Nick and Mitch you get a big for sending this message to Nick and Mitch, you get a big boom!

Wow! So big jump. We are coming up on the 10th anniversary of Nick and Mitch's podcast, it's called Dull Boys. And it's a doom. Yeah, I heard it stinks. Yeah, the podcast is a worst. We can't even put it on the boom meter.

No, it's all the way below it, it's like a negative. It's like a, it's like a buh. Like you can't even say the boom. Buh, it's a buh, I mean, it's really a... It's like a... A... A... A... A... A... I mean, you're really a doom, right? It's a... It's a... It's a... A... A... A... A... A...

What are they even talking about on this podcast? Maybe a dough? There's a dough, boys. Maybe the power will go out and the podcast won't even finish up? I mean, that, right? This podcast is a... Wait, wait. What if before the podcast we're gonna finish up, right? I mean, I'm that right? This podcast is a doom-bot. Wait, wait, what if before the podcast they head over to Costco and they get a chicken thing

and a double-chunk chocolate cookie? Wow. Baby, then the podcast will be a big boom! All right, who wants a double-chunk chocolate cookie? Wow. Wow, wow. Wow. Wow. I've never had one. I've said this before the podcast started. Cookie! Wow! Wow! Wow! Wow!

I've never had one! I've said this before the podcast started! Emma just walked out with double-chunk chocolate cookies as did Amelia. Gotcha. Oh my god, these are in Costco pizza boxes! Wow! This is amazing. Thank you.

Wow! Wow! Commissioner Susser, wow! Commissioner Susser, wow! What a, what a... Thanks, Wow, Commissioner Susser. Wow, what a, what a guy that was really something one more time for Commissioner Susser's keynote. Thank you guys.

I'm just thinking of anyone in this audience who's never listened to the show. How confusing this is, what is it? What they're going to Orlando? What's happening? Here, ye hear ye hear ye hear ye this Christmas day. The spoon man shall provide his personal endorsement of his helix mattress. Hear ye, hear ye, I love it, Wags. I love my helix mattress.

I'll wake up today, I'll wake up and I say, I look out the window, I say, you boy, what day is it? And he'll say, why sir, it's Christmas day. And I'll say, fantastic, you know why? Cause I slept great. How did you sleep, young boy? Why, I slept out on the street. I'm but an orphan, I am.

That sucks. For you, for me, I had the best sleep of my life. I wish I had a Helix mattress. I do. I wish you do too, my friend. And you know what? Come with me. I'm going to buy you a Helix mattress.

Hear ye, hear ye. This orphan is under arrest. He's violating public decency codes by sleeping on the street like an urchin! You know what? You're cranky, Constable. You know what you need? A helix mattress. Oh, I realize I've been getting pretty poor nights sleep on my bed of straw. Yes, a helix mattress will change your attitude here. Sleep in mine. Mmm, that was quite a nap. How long was I out? Thirty hours.

What day is it? It's December 28th. It's December 28th? It's December 28th. Oh, happy December 28th everybody! That's right. While you were away, that poor orphan boy, he got arrested for stealing too much porridge. Oh, he needs a helix mattress, he does.

I agree. Wags, I've had my helix mattress for about seven years now. Wow. Wow. And you know what? Everyone loves it. Yeah. My mom loves it.

My sister loves it. When they come to town, I let them sleep in my helix mattress. Oh, my helix mattress. Seems like a cranky old constable loved it. The cranky old constable loved it. My sister loves it. When they come to town, I let them sleep in my Helix mattress. Seems like a cranky old constable loved it. The cranky old constable loved it. Wally and Irma love it. Everyone loves it who tries it wigs. And you know what? It was easy to get. All I had to do was take a quiz at helixsleep.com, take a little two minute quiz, and they matched me with the best mattress, which for me was the Helix Moonlight Luxe. That's what I got. And I'm sleeping on a cloud.

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Hear ye, hear ye. All right, so now we just sit and talk about pizza for an hour? Yeah, I mean, that's basically it. Yeah, well, 45 minutes or so, we're alright. Wow, double chunk chocolate cookies. I've never had one before. Do you want to give it a snack or whack real quick? I should, yeah, I should.

Alright, Mitch is taking a bite. Anyone else out there having their first double chocolate cookie? Quite a few of you. Susser is also taking his maiden bite. Some pensive chewing going on. Thoughtful consideration from the panel. I have my score. What do you say, Mitch?

Boom! Boom! I can't do five booms. How does it act? For sure, this is very good. So, you guys have been doing this for 10 years. That's right. Costco guys come in in the last year. Yeah. Yeah, we know basically doing the same thing. We know. Yeah, we know.

Lap you. Yeah, we know. We know. What do you think? What do you think they did that endeared them more? They're entertaining or entertaining. They had that song. They put they put work into the show. Yeah, fair enough or into their content. Yeah, I don't know. Yeah, there's a lot of things. A lot of things going on. It's the audience is not helping us at all. They're just eating double chunk chocolate cookies nodding along. Yeah, it is. They're more entertaining Mitch. When do you when you head out of town? Well, I don't want to help people and I'm leaving and will you eat before you go on that flight?

No, I won't eat before I go on that flight. It doesn't matter with our schedules. We don't need to really get this. You were going to bring that. I know what you're doing. No, I just I just I thought it was an interesting conversation from the past year of the podcast. Here's what I'll say. I think this is actually our least rocky year of the podcast. It is mostly pretty smooth sailing.

Yeah. It is also I went to a different country for three months. May have helped. You're right over there. Stop eating the cookie. Talk on the fucking show. What the fuck's wrong with you? I should not have taken two big bites of the double chunk chocolate cookie. It's so good though.

It is really good. It's so fucking good. Here's the thing, if you get it warm, if you haven't had it warm and you have a Costco membership, treat yourself. That's like a thing. It's like, I try not to do it every trip, but it's hard to resist

because it's so good when it's warm. You just yelled at him about eating the cookie. Yeah, you're having more cookies. I know, it looks good. I want to try another bite. The last time I went to Costco, You just yelled at him about eating the cookie. Yeah, you're having more cookies. I know, it looks good. I want to try another bite. The last time I went to Costco, I ordered the double chunk chocolate cookie. Technically, a double chocolate chunk cookie, but it's fine, doesn't matter.

Linguistic is descriptive, not prescriptive. I ordered the double chunk chocolate cookie. I went up there and I brought my receipt because I ordered the kiosk and the woman working the counter was like, it'll just be one second. They're in the oven right now. Wow. I got that some bitch straight out of the oven. It was so fucking good. Wow. Wow. I've never had a fresh one, but that was very, very good. Why was it was tasty? So yummy. Um, but we're not talking about that today. We're talking about a classic why cause we're talking about a spot that we've

been too many times. That's right. Can shake. This is, so here'sIGS. We're talking about a spot that we've been to many times. That's right. And she this is. So here's the thing. We have a treehouse of horror problem with the with the steak and shake episodes, which is that we missed a year, I think. And so we have we're not on the right steak and shake. So I'm resetting it. This is a this is a year nine into year 10 initiative. Wow. This is canonically steak and shake nine. We're just going to line up with the podcast.. Steak and Shake 9, Slice House is the chain. So as I mentioned in my

intro, Slice House, has anyone here had Slice House? Now, did you have it? A lot of you go today, I'm guessing. Yeah, that's what did you... You went because of this episode. It's a pretty new chain. And again, as I mentioned in the intro, it is inhabiting the empty shell of your old Burbank Steak and Shake, which is whyiting the empty shell you'll burbank steak and shake, which is why we're our justification for covering it. I think, Susser, this was your pitch, am I correct? Well, I think it was somebody online to listen to which I

unfortunately don't remember. No, we don't we don't have credit for them. But it's in the spot. It's in the old steak and shake. Was that the first one we went to? No, it's no, it's Was that the first one we went to? No, it's not. No, the first one we went to is the Santa Monica one, which was shuttered years ago. The Victorville one, I believe, which is the second one we went to, which is a proper Steak and Shake

with a full menu and table service, I believe is still operational. Yes. And the Burbank one, open and shuttered. That was another Steak and Shake by Big Laurie, which if you've heard past episodes, it's the stream down concept, the streamlined you've heard past episodes, it's the streamed down concept, the streamlined concept that has a counter, you order the counter and the menu

is much more limited. Let's be honest, we're never going to eat Steak and Shake again. I don't know if we're going to because I think they just, they over expanded and they contracted and I think they're at a place where they should just become a regional chain again. But what I was going to say, this is the Steak and Shake by Biglary signage is still up in Burbank. So you still you still see it at the shopping center. If you go to the shopping center, you see the AMC and it says that Big Laurie Shake and Steak and Steak and Shake. It still is there.

Just hanging around. I don't know why they haven't updated it yet. But Slice House, like you said, has moved in like an Italian snail or something. Yes, you said something along those lines. I said hermit crab, but close enough. Whatever. Same difference. I have never even heard of this place. I had not heard of Slice House. This had not been on my radar until we proposed doing it for this episode.

Yeah, we're just, we're not gonna go to Victor. Maybe for the 10 year we'll go to, I don't know. Well, maybe we'll go there again. We'll figure it out. Steak and Shake, it's just over for Steak and Shake, right? I think we said on the podcast that we're not doing't know. Well, maybe we'll go there figure out. We'll figure out. It's just over for steak and shake, right? Doesn't I think we said on the podcast that we're not doing it again. Okay, good. And it's over for what is Big Larry up to now? I kind of miss him a little bit. I don't know. He's the secretary of transportation.

From Ah, sorry, Mayor Pete. I do have a question for the panel on Slice House. Yep. Mitch Susser, do you respect the craft? Great question. Great question.

Yes. You do respect the craft, Mitch? I do respect the craft. You're a practitioner of the craft. What? Oh, the, is it the craft pizza making? I think so, yeah. I think that's what it just says.

So here's the thing. All the signage in the marketing says respect the craft. That is their motto. Their corporate slogan. I think I respect the craft. I think I respect any craft. Someone does a craft. I respect it.

I wish I had a craft. I don't know about the craft. I respect the craft. It's what was one of, back in the day, one of the movies that I would go the movie, the crowd. Oh yeah, those little golf girls, the craft filmed in part at my high school, Long Beach Polytech really and they filmed at Long Beach. They filmed. They filmed the craft there. They filmed the other sister there and they filmed. What was the other movie? There's a third movie. Oh, they filmed some of

Corina, Corina, which was a Willoughby Goldberg Ray Liotta movie at my middle school. Yeah, there's a lot of Long Beach filming location. The Long Beach Tar Pits is a sequence in the last action hero. Wow. Yeah. Well, guess what?

South Shore Plaza. We got Paul Blart Mall Cop. Fuck. That's pretty good. That's pretty good. Top that. You can't. No, you know, Washington, D.C.. That's pretty good. Can you top that? You can't top that. No, you know, Washington, D.C.

had no movies filmed there. All of them. I don't know. I don't really know too many movies. So we all went in person to Slice House. You're right, Susser. I think because you underlined it, the awkwardness of just doing a fucking shitty episode

after the start of every, how we because you underlined it, the awkwardness of just doing a fucking shitty episode after the start of how we started the show is really hitting me right now. I have chocolate on my fingers, the audience is quietly eating cookies. In my mind, I was like, hopefully the audience will cheer up, like get into the show as we go. But no, it wasn't just the cookies.

We suck shit. Let's make them full and sleepy. Can we turn the heat up too, please? That would be great. Yeah, we're doing bad. So we all went in person. We met Freddie and Esther outside who took our photo. They were lovely.

Hey, if you meet Freddie at a slice house, that's kind of scary. Am I wrong? Not wrong. What's up bitch? We're gonna get we're just getting dinner Freddy don't mind us. He was like the fifth person who said that to us though. What a bitch. I didn't really register. Freddy never has, Freddy always is kind of wearing a Christmas sweater. He does have kind of a Christmas even. It's red and green.

Yeah, he is. Prove me wrong, damn it. Very seasonal. Freddy's always in the season. Yeah, he's always... A Freddy Christmas movie would be fun. That's what I was going to say. They never did a Freddy Christmas movie, did they?

No. They did Fred Claus. That's close. They did Fred Claus, yeah. That's kind of its own thing. Yeah, I guess that's close. Oh, it's not close. Oh, did they ever do a Freddy Christmas... His name is Fred Claus. It's close. It's not close. Oh, did they ever do a Freddy Christmas?

His name is Fred Claus. It's close, it's close. You're right. I didn't say it's the same. You're right, it's close. But a Freddy Christmas would be, that would be pretty good. I was trying to,

would Vince Vaughn also be in it? Yeah, that would be fun. He could be one of the teens down, or do you want him to be a teen? I don't know exactly what you are. Do you want him to be the new Freddy? Uh, well, he was Fred Claus. So yeah, it could be Freddy too. I got, I already have a death for it. How's this for nutcrackers bitch? And then he crushes some guy's balls. That's really good.

Yes. Was that him or you? That was me saying yes. Okay. Stockings were hung with care, bitch. He like hang somebody. Oh, that's good That's good. That's good. That's good. That's good. What else what else? What else what else what else no well go to hell bitch You're taking this thing already I'm not gonna feel guilty about this bitch. Hanukkah why so you can have a hot car. I mean it also you can stab bones with the Hanukkah torch, the menorah. So you gave us knishes, is that how you say it?

I did. I gave you guys knishes from Yona Schimel's at Lower East Side Knishery, where my great grandparents had their first date. Wow. Yeah, that was my holiday gift to you guys. The commission's knishes. Yes.

Yona Schimel's. Oh, I thought you said Yona Schimelimles and I was very excited for a second. Go Jesus you are. Damn it. You know Yoda is pretty Jewish coded now that I think about it. How so? Well we won't get into that. We will not get into that. Why not? I think that's just a coincidence in Star Wars, if anything, if that stuff lines up. George Lucas is innocent. Wiggs, we took a picture with this guy.

That's right. That's Lice House. What was his name again? Freddie. Freddie, of course. What was his name? Well, we talked Freddy. Of course. What was his name? Well, we talked about. I was nervously trying to get away from the Jewish stuff. And I think I did fine.

We took a picture with Freddy. We said, Hey, can you get our picture? He said, Sure. And then he said, Hey, you want to get in the picture? And he said, Okay. He didn't know what the podcast was or who we are. But he took a picture. But then he was very helpful. He was giving us some pointers as we went in there. Yeah. Everyone was. And I will say generally this of the experience, both other customers and then the workers there were doing a lot of advising in terms of what we shouldn't and shouldn't get because it's a sprawling menu and there are a lot of decision points

to make. But I will say this concept, having both pizza by the slice and full pies makes sense for a mall. It's kind of like an upscale sit-down Sparrow is kind of how it feels. Wow. You know what I mean? Yeah, no I hadn't thought about that. That was really smart. And thank you. No, I'm serious. And it offers, so like there are four different styles of pizza they have. They're New York style, grandma style, Detroit style, and Sicilian style. Now here's what're New York style, grandma style, Detroit style, and Sicilian style. Now here's what I would say, is that grandma style, Detroit style, and Sicilian style,

to me there's not a lot of daylight between these. They're all similar sort of square deep-dishy pies, but you know, they're doing good executions of each of them. I like the idea of grandma styles, because grandma's, you know, a grandma is fun in concept. But they are, grandmas are fun in concept, but they are. Grandmas are fun.

There's this anime Dandodan which I've been watching, and there's a hot grandma in it. And I was like, we need more sexy grandmas. Why can't grandmas be hot? Why can't we sexualize a grandma? I don't mean my grandma or your grandma, but I mean grandmas in general. You're getting booed. Why are people booing?

What's wrong with a beautiful older woman? I think it's wonderful. I think it's great. Mother, we must go to grandmas. Always, just always wanting to go over and see grandma. I mean, Aunt May was recast as kind of hot in the new Peter Parker. As Marissa Tomei is like of hot in the new Peter Parker movie. As Marissa Tomei is like yeah. The new Peter Parker movie. The new Spider-Man movies. Marissa Tomei but I mean Marissa Tomei is still you know like she's very young looking woman but she looks fantastic.

So wait what do you want exactly? You want a sexy grandma. You want an old but a woman who looks old but is also sexy. I think it's just okay to say, hey, here's an older woman who's also, we're gonna present in a way where she's sexually available. Woo! I don't think I'd ever say this my entire life,

but I'm happy my grandparents are dead. You can't get your fingers on them. Fingers? On them? The service was super... So the servers were super friendly. And I... Yes.

Well, two things I will say, just two things I will say. I asked which sauces we should get, because they have a bunch of of sauces and she was just like ranching hot honey, don't worry about the rest of them. She could have tried to upsell us, she didn't. Now to be fair, I think her order was big enough that upselling would have felt a little offensive. Yeah, right, right. Yeah, she kind of tried to down sell us a couple of times. She's like, it's the three of you? We're like, yeah. And she's like, all right, because we got one of every slice

of pizza on display. That's not a joke. And I asked if we should get pasta. And she was like, no, don't bother. It's like a pizza place. So we did get a few non-pizza options. So I asked about respecting the craft. I do have another question, which is,

do we like Tony Giamignani? Because I would say in the abstract, I was like, hmm, master pizza guy. That's great. But then you get there. And I was expecting a big fat gregarious Italian guy. But then you get there and like, I was expecting like a big fat, gregarious Italian guy. And then you go there and he's like kind of like a badass looking

like tattoo sleeve. To be clear, it's a picture. I'm not, he's not there. He's not there, but like he's present in the signage. Yes. I don't know. I don't like, you know, I'm against death. People who kill people, I'm just not on board with.

Wait, who are we talking about? Tony, oh about Tony Joe Tony Gemini yeah not Louie okay yeah Tony Gemini I don't know I mean like he he's one he supposedly has one that's he's won a bunch of supposedly he has one the mainstream media I don't know I don't know how true that sign is, but supposedly he's won a few pizza tournaments. He's won a lot of pizza competitions and he's been working in the industry for a long time. It was after winning the international pizza competition in Italy that he opened his first restaurant and it was immediately well received both critically and among the locals.

I will say on balance, he's kind of leaning into the badass thing. But I think that's also just kind of what you have to do in this as a chef these days. That's kind of just like what the modern idea of a celebrity chef have to be strong, strong and like cool. I think overall I like him. And here's one thing I will say in Tony Gemini's defense. His name has Jimmy in it. Wow, wow it, which is nice. Wow. Tony, Jemmy and Jani.

Wow. That one points. Emma is gone. I didn't get to answer if I liked him. Yeah, please. I do. Yeah, you do like him. Yeah, I came around here. I did not know the full name was Slice House by Tony Gemignani, and I got a little nervous about that because it reminded me of Steak and Shake by Biglari. Oh wow, yeah. What a parallel.

Oh no, is it gonna be another similar, go ahead. No, no, you go, you go. And so is it gonna be a similar situation and then oh, it's a chef, it's not the just rich guy who bought it. Yeah, not the owner of Maxim magazine who put his own name on the rest. This is true, Sartor Biglari

and if you look at modern Maxim covers, it says Maxim by Biglari, just like Steak and Shake.. Do I like Tony a little bit? I like him a little bit. Do I trust Tony? No, I trust no. I trust an Italian as far as you can throw him, which is hard. They're very slippery. That might be borderline. Whatever. You gotta make fun of someone. It's the Italians. They get it. You're staring at that logo and remembering the kind of jokes you could make in 2015.

It's a different time. So, I'll start with non-pizza options. We don't have to spend a lot of time on this, but I will just say we got a Caesar salad, which claimed to have anchovies, but apparently the anchovies were just pureed into the dressing. I don't think it was particularly anchovy forward.

I did not like that the dressing came on the side when we dined in. I would just play like, you know, it's a fucking Caesar salad, big setup for me. And we got buffalo wings, which are, they were big honkers. They were big wings. They were. With buffalo sauce. They were big honkers. And we got buffalo wings which are they were big honkers they were big wings they were with buffalo sauce big honkers and we got meatballs yeah which we

recommended by what was the guy's name who we met outside ready ready right yeah Freddy said to get the meatballs yeah did you like the big honkers or no how do you feel about them I like them I should say you like the big honkers or no? How do you feel about them? I like them. I should say that the big honkers is a thing I absorbed from Natalie. Like she'll say that about like a big piece of food. It was like, oh, that's a big honker. Yeah. I was like, oh, that's a very good way to characterize it. So yeah, I just. I feel like a big, when it comes to, I gotta stop saying big honkers. Big honker. But no, it's very useful. Like you see a big old onion. It's like, oh, that's a big honker.

Look at that guy. I don't want to get this into my vocabulary. I don't want to be saying. You don't have to. I'm just saying I want to get credit. I don't want to be yelling big honkers in restaurants all the time. I sometimes feel like a big wing is just a little too much,

but I thought these had a good fry to them. They were good. They were really well fried, I will say. And they were the one of the non pizza options that I actually liked. I thought the Caesar salad was whatever, the meatballs were good. They were really well fried, I will say. And they were the one of the non pizza options that I actually liked. I thought the the Caesar salad was whatever the meatballs were, whatever. Like I was not impressed by either of those. Yeah, I was surprised that the meatballs were specifically recommended because they were just kind of fine.

Yeah, the meatballs were fine. But I liked the wings. And I will say if the fry is good on a big honker, that's what you want. Yeah. And a small honker, it can feel like I'm mostly getting boned, it can be unsatisfying. So I liked having the big honkers. If you have a small honker, yes, getting a bone can be unsatisfying.

That felt Mitch-coded. With a wing at a pizza place, it just has to reach a degree of competency, right? And I think it even exceeded that. I think it exceeded that, I totally agree with you. I thought those were quality wings. Okay, there's a bunch of different slice options. We got all of them and we got one full pie

to see what it was like to have a full pie. Because it's different. Someone just said Jesus. Jesus. The way, well Mitch and I both said, oh and we'll have a full pie because it tastes different, a full pie. What a surprise. The two fat guys, you gotta get the full pie too.

Well, I don't remember who suggested it, but one of us said it and I'm like, because it tastes different. And you're like, oh yeah, of course. We both knew immediately. Yes. Which is true, by the way. It is true. No, I was like- And then we did have some leftovers that I went back.

I'm like, oh, we got all the slices. And then we also got a full pie. I was explaining this to my wife because, you know, it tastes different. She's like, what are you talking about? It does. It does. There's a difference between a fresh baked pie that just came out of the oven and a pie that was made earlier that day and is being reheated.

There's absolutely a difference there. There's especially since we're evaluating this place and assigning it a fork score, I think we were doing our due diligence by getting a full. You know what I'm going to say? It affected the fork score. It did affect the fork score. I agree. Okay. So let's go through the slices first.

I'm going to read all the slices. The one bit of criticism I will say is I wish they had more veggie options by the slice would have been nice to have like a white with spinach or something. They really just had a cheese and a vegetable or even like just something without pork because it was very pork forward like they got barbecue chicken would have been nice anyway here's what we have a New York style pepperoni New York style veggie New York style wise guy which will describe in a second New York style picante a grandma Angelina which is an

LA exclusive it is not on the national menu. A grandma sweet Gino, a Detroit Tony Jack, a Sicilian traditional. Detroit Tony Jack sounds like a good guy. He just sounds like a guy that, you know what I mean? He sounds like a good guy. Tony Jack from Detroit? Detroit Tony Jack, yeah, he's one of us. Uh.

Sussers eating more cookie. I'm gonna take a bite. You took a huge bite. Sussers eating more cookie. You took a huge bite. Well, I think it was just a good moment to do it. I started zoning out, listing all the slices. Well, it's a lot of information. Let's start with the pepperoni and the veggie. I thought the veggie was pretty good. So as far as it...

I'm gonna just say it. Can I just say it? I don't like individual slices. Whoa. Wow. Give me a fuck. Yeah, I don't like them. You don't like a bite?

You don't like a slice joint? You know those sliced... Yeah, what? What about for fucking Luigi Mangione and not liking slices? I, I, slices are, like, when you get a slice at a slice shop, it's always, it's just a little too crispy, it's a little too well done. I like a fresh pie. Give me the fresh pie. Mitch, I have to disagree with you strongly. I mean, to evoke our friend Freddy again, the slice is right bitch. Buy the slice is fun because you can get a few different slices if you're an individual. Did Freddy ever say that or is that you

doing Freddy that you quoted? That was me doing Freddy. He might have said it at some point. Sounds plausible. No he did not say it. Anyway so the so I like if you like first off yes you want it to be a high quality slice. I've been, there were some really bad by the slice places I went to like when I was in college and they were like just like bad LA like slice joints, those exist. They exist in New York as well, but you're more likely in the East Coast to stumble upon a slice shop that can really, really like, you know, execute a great pie.

And you can get things like, hey, I'm maybe not going to commit to a full lasagna pie, but if there's a lasagna slice yeah I'll get one of those that's fun. Same thing with the white with spinach which I mentioned like it's like that's the thing I don't want a whole white with spinach pie, but if I can get one of those as a slice That's great and an individual slice of cheese. How fun is that? Pizza by the slice is one of the great culinary Invention of America. Thank you, Susser. Okay, you know, that's not something that came from Europe. It came from America. It came from New York, the pizza shops,

having a slice of pizza. How else are you going to try and experiment with new flavors of pizza? How are you going to go to a pizza place with your whole family if everyone has different tastes? Pizza by the slice is great. To quote Freddie again, how would you like to play a game of Diddle?

Dreidel, but die. Bitch. I just want the audience to know that just because he's still dressed like Steve Jobs does not mean what are you saying is smart. How many times have we walked up to a slice shop and it's anti kind of the anti anti sabra sabraro fuck. It's kind of the anti-Sparro. Sparro?

How do you say it? Sparro. Sparro. You walk up to a slice shop, you see these slices on display. They're dry, son of bitches. Sometimes they are. They're dry.

I don't think Sparro is a good... They're gonna put it in the oven, they're gonna put it in the oven and it's gonna be juicy? Yes, that's a place that is not doing their job. That's a place that does not, maybe it does not have enough volume to... But that's just a slice shop you don't go to. That's a place that does not have enough volume to... But that's just a slice shop you don't go to.

You go to one that does it right. I'm saying a full pie is better than a slice. Yeah, of course, but if you're a guy, then you're maybe not gonna order a full pie. Fucking man the fuck up and get that pizza. If I'm one guy, I'm on my lunch break. I'm gonna go get a full fucking pie, bring it back to the work site

Come on. Here's the other great thing about pizza by the slice. Where are you working? I'm a blue-collar guy in this fantasy. We got a job at the docks Let's say it's like 3 p.m. And you're a little hungry sure having a guy can imagine that 3 p.m. and you're a little hungry. Sure. I can imagine that. Having a full pizza when it's not really a meal time would be insane. That's chaotic, yeah.

But having like two or three slices, totally normal and okay. Have two or three slices, throw the rest of the pizza in your car, take it home. Give it to your fellow dock workers. Can you imagine walking into satchelies and saying like like a slice shops are overrated. No, everyone goes oh! Tone would be incensed. Polly Walnuts would give you a piece of his ear. Do you think there are any doughboys listeners who are dock workers? I think there are

yeah. That'd be great. I don't know, I don't think so. I for sure think there are some dock workers. Do you think there's dock workers, Doe Boys listeners? I do not think so. Unloading shipping crates. No, I don't think, no.

That seems too hard. If you're a Doe Boys listener, and you're a dock worker, write in a hashtag. Doe worker. Yeah, doe worker. What was that?? And hashtag. Dock worker. Yeah, dock worker. What was that? Dock worker. Dock worker.

Instead of dock, doe. Oh, dock worker. Yeah, now it's good. Okay. I feel like if we had a dock, like they wouldn't be able to lift things even with the machines. The crate's too heavy. I don't think there are any dock workers that listen to us at all, but that's fine. I look, I like a full pizza and the best thing we ate at Slice House

was a full pizza. That is correct. I agree with you. And I think on balance, a fresh full pie is going to be better than a slice that is reheated. However, that does not mean that slice shops should not exist and pizza by the slice is an invalid style. How many of those slices do you think were really good of the individual slices? I think two. I agree. I think that a lot of these, but I don't think this is an indictment. Hold on. This is not an indictment of the school of slice making. This is an indictment of this particular execution of a slice concept.

That's the issue. I think that this place has, they had a few too many buy the slice offerings and they were a little too similar. I think they should have streamlined it and then maybe turned over those pies a little bit more frequently so they were a little fresher when they reheated.

The veggie I thought was fine, but unexciting. Wait, the sweet Gino actually really like this one a lot that was the one that it was this is a veggie pie that had sweet tomato sauce and fresh mozzarella and basil and sea salt I thought that was that was really yummy that was a grandma slice and then the

oh I had some of the angel why is also by the way he gave his whole rant about hot grandma's to the lady at the counter where's the where at the corner. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Well, well, well, wait, you're doing well. Hold on. Hold on. Yeah. Well, well, well, do you ever see the A. I switched sides. Do you ever see the AI generated hot grandmas? Wait, what a second. What you switch back side. If you're on Twitter, there's like AI generated. It's like, it's

like, I'm like, I'm 72 and a grandma and then she'll have like, you know, like, like a show, show, uh, honkers as you could say. Yeah. And, and, and, and then it's sad because in the replies they'll just be like, grandpa, grandpas were like, you look fantastic. I want to take you out for a sarsaparilla. Just sad, lonely widowers. And I might say something here and there too, but there's, have you ever seen these before? No, I haven't.

I'm off X, the everything out. They look good. Yeah. Yeah. So we get on board with what I'm saying. All right, then maybe I am on board with you. All right, I'll turn my chair away from Susser, I guess. Well, let's, I'll turn it back on you guys. Was there an individual slice that you thought really, really

sung, really worked for you? I thought the simple New York pepperoni was fantastic. That was, I think, what you want from a slice shop, where you just get a slice, had it, it was great. What was, I took it, I picked it up, had it, it was great. What was, you know, I took it, I picked it up, zero flop, one bite, everybody knows the rules. And I had that bite and I thought it was great. I was like, oh, this place is good. You stole Dave Portnoy's bit. I do think that the pepperoni was decent. And there was another

pepperoni that was on like a Detroit or grandma style slice that I thought was good. Yeah, that was the, I believe the Sicilian traditional. It was, it was, it was what they called their traditional on the Sicilian style. Um, it was just a pepperoni and sausage. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You like that one. I, yeah. Is that it? It was, were there no other notable slices? Not really. Sadly, you didn't like the sweet Gino. I thought that one was fun. Oh, the sweet Gino was decent. You have the fresh mozz. That was also. That was good.

That was also suggestive from Freddie, right? Yeah. The sweet Gino was good. And I think we did, and this speaks kind of to our fault and also what you spoke to, a lot of the slices kind of felt the same. Yeah. 100%.

So it was kind of like a mesh of like, ah, I kind of liked all of them, but they all were like, oh, this one has this meat and this cheese But they were all basically feeling more or less the same. That's what I think the issue is like I don't think they should have what what is it? Was it seven? Is it nine? I'd nine I think is nine different slices that they had available I like I don't think they need to have that many pies Especially if the differences between them are gonna be so granular

I would just say like like how maybe a half dozen are available and maybe they're just a you know, a little bit fresher and a little bit more diverse. I'm going to say something controversial. Please, I think hot honey can buzz off. Wow, I don't want it with my pizza. I do think it's it's been overplayed. I do think it's kind of like we're kind of at the phase where like you know they were doing the bacon desserts a little too often. I feel like hot honey is kind of like a version of that. kind of like we're kind of at the phase where like, you know, they were doing the bacon desserts a little too often. I feel like hot honey is kind of like a version of that. It's like we're just seeing it too often.

But I do think hot honey does work well with pepperoni. I don't want to. I don't want to get sticky with my pizza. I'm sticky enough as is. I don't know. I'm going to have a slice of pizza now. I'm fucking sticky. No, thank you. I'll do that. Looking at these grandma high generated things. I don't need I don't need honey added to the pizza. Hot honey is situational and it's a bit overplayed.

I'm still a bit of a defender, but yes, and I honestly think we're gonna see, if we haven't already seen it, I think we're gonna see like Jack in the Box and like, you know, Carl's Jr. Hardee's are gonna have hot honey items next year. It's just like, we're at that point in the cycle. Is it true that Dominos not have like hot honey?

I don't know if they do, they might. Is it true the first, nevermind. Is it true the first hot honey came from a beehive near a volcano? Is that where the first hot honey came from? I believe that is true. See, it sounds smart. It worked on me.

You were right to stop yourself from saying it. I'm fucking trying here, baby. You're doing great. Okay, let's talk about the cheese. I think it's going pretty good now. Yeah. I thought the cheese was great. I really, really like that full cheese pie. That was delightful. Yeah, it was like what platypia numbers behind you guys, and we're seeing them dip up and down.

They went way up with the hot talk. Grandma talking way down on the hot honey. I I'm done with hot honey and but there wasn't a ton of slices that had hot honey. The honestly was just I think maybe one right and there was some hot honey for dipping which really didn't really have a I didn't find it had a place for it and they have to be a little bit of dry crust and a hot honey doesn't really do anything for me but I think you said yeah when we got the full pie and you met she took a bite and what you were

like oh it like reminds me of childhood it was like it was like the ratatouille moment. Yes, my pubes sucked into my body. I had a little spinny cap on and I was thin again. Sorry, let me sit in that for a second. Itch as we learn from the presentation in the power point, you're going to get thin again this year.

What exactly is thin, quote unquote? I don't know what you have planned. You might want to be pretty liberal with that definition. Thin, quote unquote. I just don't think it's going to happen ever. Well, you know what? A few of those promises made in the PowerPoint might not actually happen.

I'm just going to be honest with people. Of the sauces, I did like the ranch. And I thought the blue cheese was, which we did some dip in with I did like the ranch and I thought the blue cheese was, which we, we did some dip in with the wings was pretty good. I thought the blue cheese was good. I thought the ranch was, was, was decent. Very solid. There was a sauce. Well, we can, we can get into it, I guess. There was a white creamy. Well, well, let's, let's, let's get our final verdict with the cheese and then we'll get to the,

the equivalent of the shake half of the menu, which was our desserts. But yes, I think that I think the cheese was delightful. I took a couple of leftover slices home to Natalie, and she ate them immediately, and she liked them. And Jamie was also quite pleased. I hadn't, no, I didn't bring any slices home. I gotta say this too, them slices were big honkers. They're real big.

They're really big slices. Big slices, yeah. Irma ate a bit of a chicken nugget last night. That's cute. Yeah. Did you like it? McDonald's? Okay. Just to get her much chicken nuggets. I'm still sticking to the thin thing and she's never eaten it before. She ate it with the skin. I pulled the skin off and she started to eat the chicken nugget and then she barfed like 30 seconds later. It's the truth. She did, but she liked she did eat it. She never eats human food. Yeah, the slices were

gigantic and if it like a one like honestly two slices of that big pizza, you will be good. That was the big thing. Once we got all these slices and we're like like at first I was like, okay, I think the three of us were all big eaters. We can we can take these down and then very quickly. We're like there's no fucking way we're gonna eat all these slices. This is this is way too much food for three individuals Okay, so we got some desserts. We went back up and we ordered some desserts. We got cannoli Which are their house made cannolis. Hey, how about that? What's what's more Italian than a cannoli? They had a house made ricotta and marscapone filling and we also got gelato. Their gelato is prepackaged from Leo Leo. All of us broke spoons in the gelato. Spoon breakers I put

in my notes. The gelato where there's no way to pierce that with a spoon. All the plastic spoons snapped. We had to use wooden, there were little wood spoons. We'd use little wooden mini spoons. I mean the gelato was just like whatever it's just packaged gelato was a good quality but it was just kind of like I'm buying you know effectively like a pint of Ben and Jerry's from a restaurant why am I doing this? Yes I I thought they were decent I thought they were decent. It was decent ice cream. And it was like it felt like it was one of those things because when I ordered it from the guy and I was like oh what's the

gelato he was like like kind of looking around because I get it seemed like a thing that nobody ever ordered and he's like trying to figure out what it was exactly. He was looking he was trying to find it? No he was like kind of looking around because I get it seemed like a thing that nobody ever ordered and he's like trying to figure out what it was exactly. He was trying to find it? No he was like kind of like I think it's like it comes at a cup or something and I was like how big is it I was like I think it's like a pint but he wasn't quite sure I was like oh that this seems to be as a thing they you know you're in a restaurant you can kind of tell like this is a thing they feel like they have to have not a thing they actually putting their heart

into. That said the cannoli felt like it was like presented as like their signature dessert and I will say this the slice house cannoli is one of the worst things I ate for the podcast in the entire year is fucking awful the cream had turned absolute dog the team the horrible full I'll say this you and I were both like oh oh my god what the fuck then suss was like what are you guys talking about? He did not notice at all. I did not notice and it honestly made me concerned.

There's something wrong with me. The cream I think had turned Wags. The cream had turned. It tasted like. They had to get the gunk out. There was too much. There was old cream or something. There was something wrong.

It tasted like old cream. It tasted like cottage cheese inside of it It just was not the right, you know, it was like I had like a sourness to it. It was really unpleasant It was awful. I also It's not worthy that you know, we said all the everyone who worked there was really friendly Yeah, and someone came up to us and said how do you like everything and Mitch you were honest He said everything was great except for the cannoli and the guy was so quick to be like yeah I've never eaten the fucking cannoli yeah I'm Italian I love cannolis and no way am I eating this cannoli I

said I said I said the cannolis weren't that great and then I did say to him I was like I don't know why I told you that and I started talking for like five minutes spiraling out to this man the so there was a chocolate chips sprinkles and pistachio those were the three varietals. I mean, sprinkles is kind of birthday. You know, I like birthday flavors. I was excited for those. They just didn't work and the chocolate chips like as I know the toppings didn't even matter because it was like you know, it's like putting caramel on top of a turd like

who like this is nasty. Love the flavor. Hate the event. That is very interesting with you. You just don't care about birthdays, your own mind. Jesus is none of very interesting with you. You just don't care about birthdays, your own mind, Jesus's. None of them matter to you. Another birthday guy. If a birthday is important to somebody else, then yeah, of course I'll recognize and acknowledge that. But for me, I'm not like a birthday person.

Yeah, but you love that flavor. I thought it was fine. I liked the chocolate gelato or the chocolatey one that we got. Yeah, I thought the gelato were fine. There's no reason to order gelato from a slice house because probably at whatever shopping center you're at, there's just an ice cream place you can go to.

I honestly, go ahead, we'll go ahead. I feel like a pizza place, I don't think an expectation of dessert exists. I think if you would have said, oh, do you guys have any desserts? And they said, oh no. I think we'd have been like, oh, okay. Or if they're like, hey yeah, we got,

which they do have cookies. And they're like, hey, you know what? We just have these crushed baked cookies. Oh, like packaged or we've been okay or they're like hey yeah, we got which they do have cookies. They're like hey, you know what we just have a package or even package package because that's all we got. I genuinely was wondering if all my bad talk about Italian came back in the form of those canoli's it is possible. They were they were they were hard one of the one of the worst things we've ever eaten on the show. Yeah, I thought they said okay, yeah, I was. I'm pretty sure you maybe have cove it now. I don't know what was going on. You were you were fine. You were fine with it man.

Mike Dorfman. Do you remember the other night? Yeah, we did it. We did when we were on the he told me the other night that I gave him cove it. He revealed to me for the first two and a half years ago, two and a half years ago, I was crushed by it. Yeah, to me for the first two and a half years ago, two and a half years ago, I was crushed by it. Yeah, I laughed for a minute straight. It's true. Yeah, when we did the live shows in at where do we do? We were in the yeah in Connecticut and in Boston and you found out you had cove it afterwards and Mike never told

you that you that you can you so proudly said and I didn't give it to anyone. I gave it to Ramon. He kissed me as John Adams and I gave it to him, but then that was it and we did two meet and greets. We're super spreaders. We spread joy. There you go. Anyway, that made me really sad at the dough boys. Hall, the final dinner of the dough boys, the last supper of the dough boys now. Yeah, the I would never order the desserts again from a pizza place. I do think it's un go, Pachka, why is

that one on to do it, but I did really enjoy the the cheese slice of pizza. I liked a lot so Mitchell. What's your favorite part about the holidays me, I like just being cozy during the winter months. I'll tell you what my favorite is. Those turkey dinners. Oh yeah. Heck yeah. I love those turkey dinners.

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Visit dollarshaveclub.com slash doughboys and use promo code doughboys for 20% off, $20 or more. Wow. Wow. Any other thoughts on the menu? Should we get to pork scores on this? This bad boy. All right. So assessor, you know, the podcast, you know, this works. Steak and shake nine slice house one. Oh, your final depressing your thing. Nine slice house. The one is the thing that gets me. You think we're going back? Is it gonna be like steak and shake 13 slice house two? That sucks.

We don't necessarily need to always pair slice house with steak and shake. No, I know. I know. But yeah, that could happen in the future. Maybe now we should just do that in four years. We will do it in four years. Susser, your thoughts, your fork score.

So I was very excited by this place because I think they, though I was not able to articulate it, Susser, your thoughts, your fork score. So I was very excited by this place, because I think though I was not able to articulate it, I do think a slightly plussed up sparrow is kind of what this is. It's kind of like just as Dave's Hot Chicken has taken the chicken craze and kind of made it like, oh, now it's a chain. That kind of did that with these kind of New York or LA cool oh, now it's a chain. They kind of did that with these kind of, you know, New York or LA cool pizza places, and it's a chain. It seemed like you go in, get cool slices of pizza. And I did really love the cheese pizza, but the cannoli and the,

all the slices just kind of coming together for me. And I don't know where you guys are gonna land, but I would put this at 3.99 forks. Wow. Wow. It's just, for me, it's just a little bit short of, that Golden Plate Club territory, which I know when we do these live shows, it's always more fun if everyone just says five forks

and everyone gets excited. Yeah, they're not excited. But I think. And so for you, the difference between getting our audience energized was 0.01 points. Yes. That you couldn't give the place. I just can't.

Wow. And I think that, but I don't think that's a bad thing, because I think it's aspirational. Because you're so close to greatness. You think don't, what is his name, Tony? Gemignani? Gemignani. When it comes to Steak and Shake 13, Slice House 2, maybe they'll be there.

Wow. Okay, fair enough. Mitch, I'm going to go next. I want Mr. Slice, a person whose favorite food is pizza, to take us home. I enjoyed my experience with Slice House, though I will say, as someone who doesn't eat pork, I felt a little excluded from a lot of their menu offerings. Now I will admit, and this is a thing I do-

Wait, you ate pork that night? That's what I was gonna say. Also, you're the one who doesn't eat pork, isn't that surprising? I didn't say it. Pizza, like pizza is one of those foods that doesn't necessarily need meat to be good. They're good meat pizzas, but it's like if you're going to offer a bunch of slice options, especially in a city with a lot of people who have different diets, maybe have just a few more veggie options or meat-free options, or again, like I was saying, just something

with poultry instead of pork. But I think on balance, the pizza is well executed. And I do believe in Mr. Geminiani's pedigree, does seem like an extremely capable pizza chef. And I think this concept is very solid for where it is right now within its first, you know, decade of existence. I think this is a place that could get very good or could over expand and could be a place

like, you know, when we ran into all these France Smart chains, these France Smart is a company that does franchising, these companies that partner with chains, with local chains and try to take them nationwide. If it scales up too quickly, I think it's gonna collapse under its own weight. Thankfully, it doesn't seem to be doing that. So, I think that good pizza, the rest of the stuff doesn't matter,

but how much does the rest of the stuff even, the rest of the stuff wasn't good, but how much does the rest of the stuff even matter in a fucking pizza shop? I'm gonna go three and a half forks. I think that's where I land here. Three and a half forks for Slice House. Jesus Christ.

People are checked out. Did anyone, I have a question. You can just yell it out. What's the verdict on the double chunk chocolate cookie snack or whack? Boom! Boom, they're yelling boom. Boom?

Boom, boom. They're saying boom. I asked snack or whack, it has boom or doom? Hmm. They wish we were the Costco guys. And you know what? So do I. You wish we were the Costco guys? I would be your son. Or he would be your son.

I don't like that either. I think I'm AJ in your big gesture. I know, you either. I think I'm a J. I know you always say you think you're a J. You're a J. Why am I big justice? I just kind of think of like there don't answer that question. I think in terms of their their roles on in their content, right? It's kind of like like, you know, it's a J's the driver and then a big justice is forced into doing it. Yeah, I agree with that. I mean, I wish I was the Rizzler, but I know I'm like the mom who's like off screen.

You're the Rizzler. OK, thanks. He's the Rizzler. Amelia's a Rizzler. OK. Fair enough. Emma said, yeah, from off stage. you're the Rizzo or okay. Thanks. He's the Rizzo or Amelia's a Rizzo or okay. Fair enough. Emma said yeah from off stage. Sorry sus. Jury is spoken. I go ahead Mitch. Well, I think that Tony Gemini is one of those probably one of the CEOs who's safe. I'm guessing

just because he's Italian. He's probably you know right. They don't go after their own. You know that's not true. They kill each other all the time. I don't know what I'm talking about. Wait a minute all the time. They're crazy. They're crazy. Look, I love Italian secretly. look. I love Italian secretly. I love pizza. Wags is my favorite food. That cheese pizza is is good. It's a great great pie. I thought when we sat in there and we had it, I I really

enjoyed it, but maybe people don't agree. We're how do you guys feel about slice house boom or doom doom? Yeah wow a lot of dislike for slice house boom or doom. Do you know yeah wow a lot of dislike for slice house. Look you're at AMC you just saw I don't know Sonic the hedgehog 3. You just saw Sonic the hedgehog 3. So so far the big pops that I have been for for the Costco guys, Sonic the Hedgehog and Luigi Mangio. Yeah, that's about right. You just you just left a you left Sonic three. You're on a date with some grandma. You pop into slice house, explain to her and who knuckles is

You pop into Slice House. Explain to her who Knuckles is. Well, I hope you're saving some Knuckles for me. Oh, hell yeah. Yeah, it's grandma's horny. Knuckles going to get dry tonight. Oh, that was that much worse? That a grandma's pussy is dry is that much crazier than putting a knuckle in the pussy?

Oh yeah, I went over the line. Fuck you guys. I wore a Luigi cap for you motherfuckers. I can't believe voices of Christmas didn't want to come back. They did not recognize us at all at first, by the way. We were like, we're the Doughboys. And she's like, shaking her head. No idea what the fuck we were talking about.

I gave enough context where she remembered. Yeah, you were like, we paid you to come and sit on a stage. It was a comedy show. Yes, I remember that. I like the money part. Well, we're going to make a joke that you're back at the second show and everyone's going to be sad that you're not. Anyways, I, I you're where were we? We're not going to grandma and you go into slice house and you get yourself a slice of cheese that's fresh out of the oven. Yeah, a full pie. You get a full pie or you say is there a fresh one? I'll wait. That's what you say. Yeah, because they don't hate a guy like that.

I'm happy. You know what I mean? I just saw Sonic 3. I love the direction they took the Sonic franchise and I'm eating pizza. I'm just a nice element. I don't see in the all the advertising for Sonic 3. Let's eat at this fucking place for steak and shake. No, it was kind of hanging over your head as you were there with the dough boys. I'm sorry, which is the better path. You're with us. Yeah, it's true. Yeah, yeah, it's a different path. It's a different path. I think that you could do a lot worse than that beats. It beats a sparrow. It beats a lot of different. We kind of like sparrow too. We didn't we didn't

even hate sparrow, but that cheese pizza put it into just the four four category for me, but it can't get into the golden play club because these guys, so sorry, that's it. They're not disappointed. They don't like it. They don't like it and they also don't care. I don't care about this chain. This is a bad topic. We thought it was a good topic. I think I think what I think it was a good topic, but ultimately I think this is the kind of place that people just don't have an opinion about because it's it's new on the scene. It's too new. Yeah. Yeah.

We'll see what happens. We'll see what happens. Well, we're gonna we'll track its career with it's kind of this kind of like the Gollum moment in Lord of the Rings one. Yep. We just kind of see Gollum a little bit in the right. His story will come into play later. Yeah's kind of like Slice House here. No, good analogy. I agree. So be prepared. We got two great other Slice House shows coming up.

All right, that was our review of Slice House for Steak and Shake Nine. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Wow. Again, no big blow up. Going pretty smooth.

You didn't get into you. I mean, the one thing he brought up, we did start fighting about the airplane thing. So he didn't really, he didn't needle us as much this year. Should have I needled more? No, I don't think you need to. No, it would be awful to watch 200 people watch us just fight each other. It's whatever. Maybe it'll be fine. They want it. Nevermind. They want us to fight each other. It's what's whatever. Maybe it will be fine. They want it. Nevermind. They want us to fight each other. Cry, cry, cry, cry.

All right, it's time for a segment. It's the return of an unsatisfied Yelper. Wow. That's right. I have created one star Yelp reviews of the Altoona, Pennsylvania McDonald's where United Health CEO, shooter Luigi Mangioli was arrested. I'm team McDonald's. How could you not take McDonald's size?

They're so good to me. I don't I don't like the idea of celebrating murder of CEOs because, you know, I kind of consider myself the CEO of Dope. I don't want any of these freaks getting any ideas. All right. Liz S. I don't want any of these freaks getting any ideas. All right, Liz S. writes, all the food tastes like snitches. Wow.

Fries, snitches. Burgers, snitches. Nuggets, snitches. Overall, really not enjoyable. Damn. Didn't really not enjoyable. Damn. Didn't really stick the landing there. Overall not enjoyable. Could've used a little more punchy thing in the end.

That should end with the snitches thing too. Austin C. writes, rats in the kitchen, cooking the food and taking orders and everything. It's like Ratatouille except it's not fun. Entire place run by rats. Damn. Yeah. People are not happy. Austin C. wish was Austin B. J.S. writes. I got it finally. JS writes, I wish it was S Austin. Fuck. SC, SCS Austin. Stone Cold Steve Austin.

JS writes, why you would do this to a Luigi? He's a nice boy. He never hurt almost anyone. Mamma Mia. Perfect. Yep. Good. People love this guy and they're thirsty for him too. Can we have him on? Does Luigi make the Mclist? Big episode. Yeah. We can review hash browns. Is it, is it, cause I like, you read a bunch, a bunch of different stuff. That's good. You read a bunch of stuff about this guy.

One detail that I found out is that his middle name is Nicholas, which is my first name. Wow. Yeah, his full name is Luigi Nicholas Mangione. Wow. And my full legal name of course is Nicholas Frank Weiger. And sometimes I go by Frank which means it's time for this week in Hot Dog News

in a holiday edition of Let Me Be Frank. Hot Dog, simmer in the city, great on my grill getting greasy and gritty. Toast bun, donut look pretty, sucking on a dog like a sucking on a titty. Pork and beef, sausages and longbread, rolling on a roller grill, mustard and relish. One bite is a different world, swap dog bites with a girl. Munch on, munch on and chomp all night, despite the parts it'll be alright. That taste, when the casing has snapped

Later that day you'll for sure have to nap As it simmers in the city Like you're sucking on a titty You ain't nothing but a hot dog Frying all the time You ain't nothing but a hot dog Frying all the time You ain't never been a burger and you ain't no lunch of mine.

Well, they said you were sandwich. Well, that was just a lie. Yeah, they said you were sandwich. Well, that was just a lie. But you're just a bun around a wiener, so you sure don't qualify. You will eat frankfurter. You're gonna eat frankfurter, you're gonna eat Frankfurter

I'll teach you to eat the dogs made from beef and hogs Little ways to sear and steam all the condiments Chili, cheese, onions, everything that really counts to eat Frankfurter I know about Frankfurter and with an assist from me To eat what you'll eat instead of hangry who you were well, all this nothing's gonna stop you from chomping on a frankfurter

er la la hot dog gonna eat a frankfurter Eda Frank-fer-ter. Yeah! Spirit, the name on this grave, it says Frank. Oh please, Spirit, no. Why would you show me this if I was past all hope? I will honor Frankmas and try to keep it all the year. I will live my life in the dog, the bun, and the mustard. Oh, spirit, please speak to me. I'm home. I'm

here. It's a miracle. You! You! Young podcast producer! What day is today? Today? Well, today is Doughboy's live show day! Doughboy's live show day? Then why didn't I miss it after all? Do you know Old Man Weedersnitzels? You know that award-winning dog in the window? You mean the one that's twice as big as me?

Yes, yes. Go and buy it. Take the Doughboy's credit card. Wait a minute. And hey, happy Frankmas. With a frank full heart, with a fluffy bun, with a growing belly when the meal is done, with a bun and some meat tubing. Bun and some meat tubing.

Bring those dogs, franks and brats to me. Dogs, franks and brats to me. Yes in every frank we see, we'll put in our grocery cart, and we'll buy a mall with a frankful heart Life is like a podcast Who knows when it ends? And if you want to know the measure of a host, you simply count his listeners. Stop and look around you. The hot dogs that you seek, They're made again each day.

Don't let them slip away. How tasty Franks can be With a frank full heart as my hot dog bakes I do make this promy with every bite I take Will be used now to sing frank's praise Used now to sing frank's praise As you sit and eat franks for days Sit and eat franks for days

With a Costco guarantee That even if I shart, I will eat one more with a Frankful heart. I will eat one more with a Frankful heart. Hot dogs! Costco hot dogs for everyone! Yes! Three hour old hot Costco hot dogs! We have 60 of them so split them in three. But wait, Uncle Splooge, whatever happened to Tiny Frank? Tiny Frank? Well, he lived, and then I ate him. The end. The end.

Okay, Mitch is going to Google hot dogs and I'll use my preferred search engine Microsoft Bing. Mitch, is there anything we should do for a holiday, from a holiday standpoint here? Maybe hot dog Christmas, hot dog holiday? They taste like cold hot dogs. So cold. I'm not gonna eat one. They taste like cold hot dogs. They're bad.

They're bad. There is a microwave back here we can microwave them if you guys want to start a line we'll just start microwaving hot dogs. It's a shame because no one knew that they were gonna be cold and people wouldn't be that excited about it didn't come up in any conversations look I'm not that worried I think that our listeners will eat the cold hot dogs. It's good that's what we just heard from the audience. I'm gonna say I'm gonna I'm gonna search holiday hot dog. One of these things that they that you know I think we've all experienced this of like you open your browser and you forget wait the last

thing you was you had open in a tab was. I had an open search for a Forrest Tucker, who is the actor who, The Talking Simpsons Henry Gilbert told us about, the F Troop star who had a famously huge hog. To the certain for a guy. To be clear, we talked about that months ago. I just, the last thing I had open was like a, like a reading about a celebrity

with a big dick who died in 1986. But let's look at Hot Dog Christmas. You see a little Milton Berle hog in Saturday Night. Just the shaft. You see a little base of the shaft. Okay, I searched for Hot Dog Christmas on Bing News. Sam's Club debuts holiday hot dog monstrosity and you can top it with anything. I'm looking at this right now.

Is that candy corn on it? It looks like it, yes. They've given the popular hot dog a holiday makeover introducing the Holly Dog. I'm looking at this right now. Is that candy corn on it? It looks like it, yes. Oh my god, that's fucking disgusting. They've given the popular hot dog a holiday makeover introducing the Holly Dog. The Holly Dog is a limited time twist on their dog putting a combination of Thanksgiving and Christmas toppings all in one bud. Club Mash Up, which has mashed potatoes and Christmas cookies. Something Sweet has pumpkin pie and candy canes.

And Seasoned Meetings is both turkey and prime rib all on top of a hot dog. The last one is the only one that sounds actually like food. The other two are just like disgusting. We these are awful. I don't like these. I get to do one, too. We found the tastiest hot dogs in every state. I should look up California in a second here.

Um, but also hot dog eating champion, Joey Chester named holiday bowls, honorary chairman. That's nice. How fun is that? He's a hero. We should get him on the pod in 2025 at some point. I'd love to talk to you. Do anything wrong to chestnut? I hope not. Whatever. I don't think so. But also, no one's doing that anymore. We're fine.

We're fine. It's 2025. Trump's going to be back. He's going to be mad over us having a podcast guest. Here's, here's, here's. We are so, so sorry for having Joey Chestnut on the podcast. We're sorry. We'll donate to Amnesty International. This article, you can file this one under bad timing. Hot Dog Chain Portillo staffs its restaurants

with corporate employees during the holiday. So the CEOs are over there working at Portillo's. Wow. About a week before Luigi Mangione thing went down. I would not feel very happy about that if I was a Portillo's CEO, which is my dream job. Here's one, this is from, I don't. If I was the Costco CEO, know what I would do?

What's that? Raise the prices of the dogs. Mitch. This was a topic. Yeah, I'd get you boom you boomer but for me it would mean more money. This was actually if he had a famous memo which we talked about on the show where he told he was basically like if you raise the price of the hot dog and soda I will kill you it's like that's a thing we do. That's what we're known for. Dollar fifty figure it out. They ended up producing their own dogs. They switched from using a Hebrew

national to producing their own in-house dogs. And they taste pretty damn good, am I right, audience? I need a drink. This is from the Daily Record, which is, I believe, a UK publication. I tried pigs in blanket from four supermarkets. The worst felt like cat sick in my mouth. Pigs in blanket are a stable part of Christmas dinner,

but the taste can vary depending on where you buy them from. Here's how I rate the four supermarket pigs in blankets that I tried. Where are we on pigs in blanket? I like them, I think they're fun. I love them. Yeah, they're really good. You know what, I like the food and the idea

of a pig being a blanket also very cute. That is really cute. The winner was- That little Christmas pig? That is really cute. Did what the winner was Christmas pig That is Christmas pig, I love that the winner was Marks and Spencer They should make up a Christmas like I feel like they could bring back the babe franchise and make a Christmas babe People would like that. Oh Christmas babe is good Sainsbury says a greasy process disaster This option shattered my assumption that all pigs in blankets are more or less acceptable.

Sainsbury's pigs in blanket are a sensory nightmare, oozing with oil and excessively processed. The unpleasant taste isn't the first thing you notice. The awful texture hits you first. One bite and a scorching layer of grease coats your mouth, lingering even after you hastily grab a paper towel to dab the oily residue on your lips. One out of 10.

Gray's papaya won the- I took a closer look at the sausage itself itself which is so smooth it's reminiscent of cat vomit. Not the chunky kind that comes up immediately after eating but a well digested kind that appears hours later. Why is there so much shit about cat stuff in there? I don't know. What's going on?

And I have these 14 pets celebrating Hanukkah are the cutest things we've ever seen. And it's dogs in because I googled Hanukkah hot dogs and it was just dogs dressed. That guy's little cutie, Galyamukha. Yeah. And that's okay? Anyway. Worst cooch. Worst cooch. Worst cooch. Worst cooch. Worst cooch. I think I said it wrong. I think there's a little bit of worst cooch. I think there's a little cooch on the end. Worst cooch. Okay, that seems less dirty.

Los Angeles, California won best dog. That's what they say. That's the best dog in California state. Yeah, they do it proper there. I think we honestly think we got from that reaction. If we'd reviewed verse Kucha instead of Slice House, we would have had more of an audience engagement tonight. But what are you going to do? Look, we know we fucked up. We fucked up. But did people understand that the Slice House was at where one of the Steak and Shakes was? I think people were able to put that together. And that didn't get people.

I don't. Yeah, I don't think it was just enough of a hook, unfortunately. Why does it that we were good once we thought of that? One of the steak, which again, we didn't think of. Somebody suggested it online. All right. One of the steaks and shakes we went to was now a different restaurant.

That's pretty wild. I wonder what the Santa Monica one is. Don't go over that one. We'll do it next year. Yeah, Mitch, you give us one more hot dogs in heaven. What is this about? Whoa a weird house parody of Eric Clapton song. Yeah, we're now. Do you? I was kind of in poor taste. Come on weird out. I'm gonna change it about instead of is about his dead son. It's about a fucking hot dog.

Um would you chew my dog? If you saw it in heaven, um oh, Santa Claus visits hot dog heaven in anaheim. That's what it was. I start saying it died. I said that santa's alive our santa is alive. I didn't knock him off my roof. I'm not slowly turning into him.

I end of batman be superman of Justice, where they actually fucking kill Superman. That's awesome. Yeah, that is. And then they have like the statues of him and shit. It's so flyovers. It's so good. I thought you were gonna say Santa makes an appearance in there somewhere.

I'm just thinking like, can you imagine like the, the global response of Santa died? Oh my God. Or just like, oh, hey, Santa died, it would just be like a world tragedy. That would be horrible. Yeah. Why did you even bring it up? I don't know.

I just like, I hadn't even thought of the death of Santa until you just. Oh interesting. Santa's kind of the CEO of the North Pole, but you guys cheer that behavior. Interesting. Okay. Well, what if I fucking kill Santa? You guys will cheer that. They would. You would.

They would because they know the Santa Claus applies and you don't have much more for him to do. I go. I slim down. Oh shit. Oh, Mitch looks great. Hog gets bigger. Ha ha ha ha ha. You know Santa's packing. Oh, you know Santa's packing. He's knuckling Mrs. Claus. The ultimate hot grandma.

She is kind of the hottest grandma. She is the hottest grandma. All right. Hey, just like a restaurant, I've got your feedback. And hey, we're going to take some, let's open up the feedback. We're going to take three audience questions. Emma Erbrick, everyone.

What's up? Amelia's here,. Look, we forgot to ask you guys a few questions. Look, we forgot to ask you guys a few questions. We forgot to ask for questions before the show, so we're just gonna take them live on the spot. I don't see a lot of chewing. It seems like people gave up on those hot dogs pretty quick. All right, so one person raised his hand. He's still going. All right, good. What was better, the hot dog or the cookie? Cookie. Yeah, the cookie's gonna be better, of course. All right, fair enough. All right, so, well, Emma and Amelia are in

one of the two aisles. If you have a question for us, go ahead and raise your hand. Keep in mind, we are not going to do bits on command. So if your question is, will you do that bit, the answer's gonna be no. If you have a mouthful of hot dog or cookie, I will not give you the microphone. I saw this hand first, so I'm gonna pass it here first.

Five Fork Hanukkah food Wow Wow great goes and what's your name oh I'm Tristan I'm the lesser half of hotter sauce Wow Wow hotter sauce is your Joe hotter is here Joe hotter of hotter sauces is here hi hi Joe hi gentlemen how you doing wait Tristan what do you say you're the lesser half what is your capacity for starters I'm my last name isder, so I'm kind of that. I'm the business guy to the inspiration guy. Oh, sure. I'm like the Evan Susser of the Hodder sauce. Wow.

And he asked a question about Hanukkah food. Also the most Jewish. Well, what are your guys' answers? Thank you, Tristan. I mean, I think. Well, potato latkes I mean, I think... La potato latkes. Yeah, I think that's the answer.

I'm trying to think if there's something else besides latkes. I had latkes because it was in Cub Scouts and there was a Jewish Scout in our patrol and there was a... Or no, it wasn't patrols. They were called packs, I think. I think patrols or boy scouts. It doesn't matter. Anyway, so...

Packs? Yeah, I think so. What were called packs? The clusters of scouts. Jesus Christ. Little groups of scouts were called packs? The clusters of scouts. Jesus Christ. Little groups of scouts, like the platoons of scouts. Like a pack of wolves? I think so, it was like a pack of wolves.

That's what I could be wrong. Would that be Cub Scouts? Would be the Packs? Yeah, I think Cub Scouts were packs and then Boy Scouts were troops. I can't remember what the smaller unit is. Anyway, doesn't matter. Like I said, doesn't matter.

You asked the follow-up questions. We went over to his, we had the meeting Anyway, okay, doesn't matter. Like I said, doesn't matter. You asked the follow up question. We went over to his, we had the meeting at his, at his place and his mom made latkes for all the scouts. And we're all, all these Gentile scouts were like, this is the most amazing food I've ever had in my life. They, she made fresh latkes. We had sour cream and applesauce with them. It's just such an, such an incredible bite for my childhood. I remember I went to the Bisconti's house as a boy and I had latkes and I, It was a nice moment. Yeah. Wow. Is there another candidate? I mean there would be... those can it's a commission's condition is pretty good. Yeah that's not really a Hanukkah food. There would be Sufko-Niyot which

would be jelly doughnuts but for me those don't really do it. Wow. Alright Tristan thank you for a question. Great question. Alright Amelia let's go over here I what's your name what's a lot can the next one not be about Hanukkah this is a big Hanukkah question shit no it's not um you guys are big hot dog fans that's right um so no no no no I don't really care for him just tell the truth but uh so you guys ever been to Walt's in Eagle Rock? No, I haven't been to whoa. So it's a pinball like hipster. I've been okay. If you have the hot dogs there I did yes. How did you like it? Yeah, five forks

Five for okay. Yeah. Yeah, that's that's all I was gonna say. It's like the best hot dog I've ever had Sorry, I just like- Let's go there. We shouldn't have done that. It's a good fucking hot dog. I don't know. I like it. Waltz is good. We should visit Waltz. What's your name? Stefan. It was kind of a statement in the form of a question. I'm here on behalf of Waltz.

Are you really? No, not really. Sad that we got excited. I felt like we were being grilled. Are you really? No. Sad that we got excited. I felt like we were being grilled. Really interrogating sort of strategy. Yeah. You're right. Mitch. Appropriate. All right. Let's get another question from Emma's side. Oh, I can't.

People to your other side. There's people on the other side. Let's go. Maybe go over here. Sorry, Mittle. Uh-oh. People to your other side. People on the other. Let's go. Maybe go over here. Sorry. Sorry. I'm so sorry. Uh oh. Hi. What's your name? Do you guys like hot dogs? No, no, no, no, no. Duncan. Duncan. Oh, Duncan. We met you before. How are we? Yeah, yeah.

I was at the very first live doughboy show. Not the brag. Wow. Wild at the Upright Citizens Regae Theater and Sons that now closed. The McDonald's across the street also now closed. Yep I was gonna say I feel around the holiday time like everyone kind of like has the moment with the family But then like there's your time kind of thing and like maybe you get a little buzzed or whatever But like what's your like favorite non traditional holiday meal? Like if you're after hours, like maybe you had a couple drinks or something, you're doing your own thing. Like what's your favorite meal

outside of like the traditional holiday meal? Go for it. Every day I do Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve. This is true. Yeah, not all of it, but I do final Christmas shopping on Christmas Eve because I think I like it. I like that. I like the excitement. You like being the pressure cook. I like I like in the I like going on the pressure cooker. I go to the Paul Blart mall. This is true. I go to South Shore Plaza and I and I grab some stuff. But then I also go to Burger King and I get myself a whopper and I don't tell my mom and I and I throw the wrapper away like somewhere else. Like I so I go there and I eat a Whopper and I love it. It's

always good. The Christmas Eve Whopper fucking knocks it out of the park. So my question, because obviously if you say something like Chinese food or you say something like I go to a Jewish deli, that's like, well, those are conventional things to do. I don't think that really addresses your question, Duncan, even though those are things I like to do. I like going to Dunkin. I will endure endure the line I said Duncan's I like I will endure the line at um I meant to say Canters. I'm not going to Duncan's place. I will go to I like Canters like like like it's it can be a zoo in that Christmas time but it is kind of fun to go to a place that's open and buzzing and has some sort of different vibes. Anyway I was going to say the the my answer would be my fast food answer

would be Del Taco which I think is pretty obvious but but I was going to say my fast food answer would be Del Taco, which I think is pretty obvious. But I was going to say this made me think of a Burger King Christmas story I had, which is that I went to a Burger King and because it was Christmas, you know, sometimes- Christmas Day? I'm pretty sure it was Christmas Day. It might have been Christmas Eve. It was like a Christmas, like it was definitely a holiday. And it was definitely a thing of like, these people are working on a day where they should

be, they should have off, even if they're making double time or whatever, I was like, I'm gonna give them a good tip. So I had a 20 that I was going to hand to the guy. And he handed my food, I got the 20 out. And as he reached over with the 20, the wind caught it and it blew away. And I had to get out of my car and chase it down and bring it back to him. I just laughed at me. You're gonna get in your car at the drive through? Yeah, I had to get out of my car at the drive through. Your car starts rolling.

It was a fucking $20 bill. Yeah, I know. I did have that happen once separately at a Burger King, which is that I accidentally stepped on my accelerator as I was reaching for my food. And the guy laughed at me. Right over the Joliet Tower Dome. Yeah.

Popped his head. Wow. This is 100% true for me. What I think of like holiday food is if I do go back to the East Coast where I'm from in Maryland, sometimes it's an opportunity. Oh, I can have some of the food that I loved growing up. And this is 100% true. And that includes the Burger King on Shady Grove Road. I love that. And I also go and I also throw the wrapper away before I'm out of the house. You know what? I have a feeling there's a lot of people in the audience who throw the wrapper away. It is, it is.

And then sometimes she even, cause there's been times where I just throw her away at the house and she's like, I saw Burger King wrapper in the trash. I'm like, fuck. So now I'm going to go to do it to some up, some other her away at the house and she's like, I saw a Burger King rapper in the trash. I'm like, fuck. So now I'm going to go to do it to some up some other fat guy at another house is going to get busted because of me. I find like a random trap. I find like a random barrel on the street. You don't throw it away at the mall where there's a bunch of trash cans. The Burger King's not at the mall. This is the issue. Drive through, you eat it in the car, then you'll have to worry about the smell in the car. You have to

worry about you too. I'm borrowing my mom's car. So you do have to worry about the smell in the car. This have to worry about, I'm borrowing my mom's car, so you do have to worry about the smell in the car. This is the truth, you roll down the window, I do. And then she's like, why did you roll down the window, it was fucking cold, why did you roll, and I was like, oh, I don't know, I was warm in the car and I forgot to put it back up. This is all true, all these scenarios that happened to me before.

Throw the wrapper away in your trash can and then jack off into some tissues, put the tissues on top of it, she'll never find it. That's perfect. Emma Amelia, any guilty pleasures or unconventional picks for the holidays? Like, you have any Christmas traditions or things you've done in the past you've enjoyed? I don't feel guilty about anything, so no. Well then, just something that's maybe not a conventional Christmas choice. My sister and I, typically when we were young, couldn't smoke weed in my parents' home.

So we would smoke it while we were driving around. So sorry, don't do that. It's really bad. But we did a lot. And we would always go to McDonald's and get twisty cones, like a vanilla cone. Oh, that's fine. Before we went home.

Because we were like, this will make me seem not stoned. Ooh, that probably never worked. Other than that, on Thanksgiving, the past two years, our video editor Mike and and I have made dente-fung style soup dumplings for Thanksgiving dinner every year. Wow. And that's kind of our tradition. Very not Thanksgiving, but so much better than turkey, sorry.

I'm fucking pissed off. Am? Whatever. Mitch is going to be pissed, but we do an Italian dinner sometimes. Wow. You're fired. By the way. What's in the Italian dinner sometimes. Wow. You're fired. By the way. What's in the Italian dinner?

Any notable? Amelia is the thirstiest of anyone for Luigi Mangione. Oh my god, it's her husband. Yeah, we had our Doughboyz group text, and Amelia was sharing pictures, and then Emma commented, looks like we finally found Amelia a husband. Yeah. That's what we've all been trying to do.

You know we'll have some chicken parm, some lasagna, meatballs. Scorpion making any of this? None of it. He doesn't? He doesn't make it. My mom does. Okay. Let's get one more question from the right side. Amelia, if you want to see anyone over there with a raised hand.

I see someone in the front, maybe there's, over here maybe? Oh, you found somebody, there we go. Hi, what's your name? My name is Tim. Hi, Tim, what's your question? How you doing, Tim? So Taco Bell recently is outsourcing

their Super Bowl commercial by establishing drive-through photo opportunities where they did them in LA and Tennessee, blah, blah. If you had carte blanche to do a Super Bowl commercial for a chain restaurant, what would it be? And would you star in it? I mean, I think you'd have to star in it just for the money, right?

You, me, subway commercial, Jared's back. Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! Ha ha ha ha! We got news. Trump's in office and Jared is back.

He was one of the people Biden pardoned. Our Patreon goes through the roof. We're sure. We like the guy. Folks, we're about to wrap it up here, but I have one more thing I need to announce. He was mentioned earlier. There's a great man I hope to meet in the new year, Amelia's father, Scorpion Merino.

And he was a source of inspiration for me in my own midlife rebrand. Folks. I'm tiger now what I'm tiger now Is that real? Is it real? He's never going to tell us. You'll see. Check his dive in 2025. Well, that's our show. Evan Susser. I just thank the gods since we're on our livestream, when you lifted up your short, that nothing came out.

That's all. Give it up for Emma and Amelia and everyone here at Dynasty Typewriter. Until next year for the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell, I'm Tiger Weiger, happy eating. See you guys. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

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