Doughboys - The Ate-TL: Moe's Southwest Grill with Mary Lynn Rajskub

Episode Date: October 10, 2019

For Octdoughberfest 2019: The Ate-TL, the ‘boys are joined by Mary Lynn Rajskub (24, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Checking In with Mary Lynn) to review Moe’s Southwest Grill, an Atlanta-founded chain serving Mexican cuisine. Plus, another edition of Snack or Wack.Sources for this week’s intro include: History of the Grateful Dead by Greta Kaul, Jillian Sullivan, and Aidin Vazirihttps://www.sfgate.com/music/article/History-of-the-Grateful-Dead-6330348.phpHow Grateful Dead Fans Became Deadheads by Amy Lennard Goehner and Arpita Anejahttps://time.com/3919040/history-deadheads/The Deadhead Subculturehttps://haenfler.sites.grinnell.edu/subcultures-and-scenes/the-deadhead-subculture/Raving Brands, Inc. History from Funding Universehttp://www.fundinguniverse.com/company-histories/raving-brands-inc-history/This Mexican chain requires every worker to do one thing when they apply for a job — and it goes all the way up to the president by Kate Taylorhttps://www.businessinsider.com/moes-hiring-tests-welcome-to-moes-2018-4The untold truth of Moe's Southwest Grill by Maria Cristina LaLondehttps://www.mashed.com/139817/the-untold-truth-of-moes-southwest-grill/12 Things You Don't Know About Moe's Southwest Grill by Candace Braun Davisonhttps://www.delish.com/food-news/a48250/things-you-dont-know-about-moes/Jerry Garcia estate sues burrito franchise by Rachel Tobin Ramoshttp://www.nbcnews.com/id/6812406/ns/business-local_business/t/jerry-garcia-estate-sues-burrito-franchise/#.XZ0egS-ZO88Moe’s corporate websitehttps://www.moes.com/about/valuesWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

On May 5th, 1965, at Magoo's Pizza in the San Francisco Bay Area, a psychedelic rock band gave their first public performance as The Warlocks. By December of that same year, the drug-friendly troubadours had already developed an avid following among hippies, and The Warlocks renamed themselves The Grateful Dead. For the next five-plus decades, The Grateful Dead seemed to be on a constant tour, performing an unending string of road dates while being followed by perhaps the most fanatical fans in all of fandom, The Deadheads. Originally a loosely organized mailing list, The Deadheads evolved into a group of nomadic

acolytes, traveling the world, meticulously documenting set lists and recording live performances, which they swapped via physical tapes and later, the Internet. Surviving the deaths of multiple band members, including frontman Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead continue their tour to this very day. So many Deadheads followed the baby boomer arc of abandoning counterculture for the normalcy of consumer culture. And one since-reformed Deadhead was Martin Sprock, who, in the 1980s, opted for a grown-up career in real estate before moving on to the restaurant industry in 1995 when he launched

Atlanta's own Planet Smoothie. The Smoothie chain didn't exactly take over the planet, but it thrived enough to fund Sprock's second, more successful concept, a quick-service Mexican-American restaurant founded in Atlanta in 2000. With its customizable, made-to-order Mexican menu, the eatery naturally invited comparison to Chipotle, though Sprock insists his concept was conceived as a, quote, Mexican subway. Sprock's chain expanded beyond Atlanta and across the region, becoming the southeast-favorite Southwestern food, known for its pop culture-inspired menu items and the enthusiastic verbal greeting

each customer receives from staff. And Sprock's Deadhead roots informed the chain's playlists into core, although it crossed a line in a copyright infringement in 2005 when the company was sued by the Jerry Garcia estate for using his image and quotes on in-store wall art. Still today, Sprock's chain has over 700 locations covering much of North America, a lot like the Grateful Dead's touring schedule. As for the restaurant's name, it doesn't refer to an individual at all, but rather as an acronym fitting for the band once called the Warlocks, M-O-E, musicians, outlaws, and

entertainers. This week on Doughboys, we continue Octoberfest 2019. The Doughboys present the H-T-L, our month-long exploration of Atlanta's food and other stuff, with Atlanta's own Moe's Southwest Grill. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, alongside my co-host. If the beast stopped transforming into Prince Adam 10% of the way through, the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell.

Wait, repeat that? If the beast stopped transforming into Prince Adam 10% of the way through, from Beauty and the Beast. He's saying you're a 90% beast guy. Yes, I understood that I'm 90% beast. It's 90%? Yeah, he's saying 10% of the way through. He stopped transforming.

Okay. I'd get numbers. Well, you seem to be pretty unclear about that there, extrapolating 90 from 10 in percentage terms. That was courtesy of Luke M. from Down Under. How about that? A little roast from Down Under. RoastSpoonMan at gmail.com.

If you have an insult, you're like me. He was on Mitch at the top of the show. Have you ever been to Australia? No, but now I don't want to go because of your take on an Australian accent. I'm trying to... Nick, look. What are you doing right now? I'm going to be honest with you.

I'm looking up a drop. You didn't have that ready to go? Did you forget about this aspect of the intro of the show? No, I didn't forget about it. You dink. Oh, wait, I've already played this damn drop, but you know what, I'm going to play it again anyways. No, it's too long.

For God's sakes. I hate this. Do you want to take a second and find something? Shut up. While you're doing that, Mitch... Here we go. Okay, you ready? I'm going to just play it.

Okay. In the taxi cab, you told me you were going to go patch up the crack in the Liberty Bell. And I said, how are you going to do it? And then you raised your eyebrows. Like I'm going to spackle it with my ejaculate? Like I'm going to spackle it with my ejaculate? That's what I'm saying, baby. Oh, wow.

I didn't like that song. I can suck my own dick. That was a real like, that was a real poet and I didn't know it sort of thing. That's the way that guy added it together. I didn't realize that was a little, a little couplet. Poet and I didn't know. Did we go back till 1993? That's been around for a long time in the 93.

Poet and I didn't even know it. Yeah, I guess you're right. I feel like I read that in a children's joke book. It was like four. Is that where you use all your, get all your jokes from? Children's jokes. I can't speak, so I can't even make fun of you. Hey, Spoon Man was inspired by the light show in Philly to finally mix it up in the drop

game. Hope you enjoy. Love the show. Can't wait for you all to come back out east again. Trust the process. Oh boy, a little Philly, and then it says go birds, fuck the birds, etc. Alan S. P.S. whatever Philly, you know, we we're, we're good filling us. We're, we're good.

It was a fun time in Philly. You're saying you in the city of Philadelphia, the city of brotherly love, there's just two mean to me. Okay, P.S. I've always been a huge Al Horford appreciator all yours now made a huge mistake by going to the Sixers. You made another, Mitch, you made a mistake. You didn't say howdy ho. I was about to.

Howdy ho. Don't you say that before the drop? I mean, yeah, sometimes, but look, our guest is here and I'm embarrassed to do it in front of her. She has to see what this podcast is. You are again, doing the thing you did on our last episode where you're lying on your stomach facing us, which is, there's a couple of things going on. I'm lying on my stomach facing my stomach hurts very badly.

I'm in the same seat. I'm in the same boat. This is like, this is the worst case of the rumbly has been battling during a record in some time. Yeah. The, the, we did kind of a bang, bang, back to back situation where we were eating. There was some time, there was a recording between, but we ate two very, very heavy meals today.

Yeah. And then now we're recording and I'm feeling it. Yeah. I feel, I feel awful. In fact. Oh, lightning strike. Wow. Lightning striking outside the book.

There's a lot going on here. There's a music festival, the ground level. There's lightning striking. There's an EDM festival downstairs. They're using the hotel to come in and take shits and are they really have? We saw a couple of people do it downstairs. It's a good move. Um, what's up with these EDM people?

They, why do they got to use the bathroom so much? What's going on? Hmm. I feel like that's where you do the drugs. Oh, there you go. Emma. Emma. Um, maybe that thumping bass affects your digestive tract.

Like it's full of the brown note. God, I guess really might leave. You loser. Um, but, um, yeah, my stomach is hurting. I think once this episode ends, I'll just continue laying in this bed and just go to sleep possibly. You're in your final position for this day. I think so.

Uh, for this, for this life, you're going to, you're going to die in this. Oh my God. I think I got the EDM festival outside. There's lightning striking in the distance in Atlanta. Uh, that's all. Yeah. Those two, those, those two things are happening. Those two things are my stomach, our stomach sir, our stomach sir.

And you know what, Mitch? We got a great guest. Yeah. Well, also you got to say what month it is, Nick. It's just two of that's right. Oktoberfest 2019. The ATL continues. Yes.

Oktoberfest 2019. The dough boys present the ATL. Okay. Got it. The ATL. The dough boys present the ATL. It's such a bad name that no one gets it. People get it.

We said the ATL and Steve Agee was like, it's the ATL and we were like, oh, I know, but it's the ATL. We ate stuff. I think when people see it written down, they'll understand. Oh, good. Like the best jokes. You have to read it on the page instead of hearing it. People will read the episode description.

They'll see the title. They'll get the pun. And our guest for this episode of the ATL, dough boys present the ATL. Thank you. Oktoberfest 2019. From 24, it's always Sunny in Philadelphia, and our podcast, Checkin' In with Mary Lynn. Mary Lynn Reiskeb is here. Hi, Mary Lynn.

Hey. Hi, you guys. How are you? Thank you so much for being here. Thanks for having me. Thanks for giving up so much of your day for this awful podcast. Well, the first one was voluntary. It was nice of you, though.

It was nice to have you there. I was like, I'll meet you guys. I wanted to ask you, what did you think of the Flying Biscuit Cafe? Well, check this out. I've been to Atlanta a lot, and I haven't done any of the things that you're supposed to do. Right. I just stay here, and I go in a radius, and every time I go to the Flying Biscuit

first. Oh, really? Yes. That's your first stop. That's what. Yeah. And I will, I have been there when it's not as busy as it was today, and I go, and I sit, and I have the whole thing.

Right. I don't get, like, the Benedict, I'll just get, like, the eggs. Yeah. I tried the grits recently. I'm not so into them, but I get the eggs and the sausage and the biscuit, and just enjoy life at the Flying Biscuit. It's a very enjoyable, I mean, the food is, the food is very good there, and if it was not crowded, I think I would enjoy being there quite a bit.

Yeah, it was too crowded. That was. Yeah, it was too much. Oh, wait, but you mentioned you're not a fan of the grits, or you're not a fan of grits in general, or just their take on grits? Whoa, that lightning is amazing. Can I say something? Yes.

This may sound dark, but I hope everyone at the EDM Festival is struck by lightning to death. Electrocuted. That's not dark. That is light and fluffy, like my biscuit at the Flying Biscuit. You know what? Part of the flashing, I think, is some strobe effects down there, too. No, but look, you see, there's a ton of lightning.

Yeah, I just had that experience of, you think that's lightning, and it's a fake out, and then the lightning, that's what caught my attention, because the actual lighting is lighting up the entire sky. Oh, wow. Zeus is mad. Behind the buildings, it's beautiful. Zeus is pissed at the festival. Maybe Zeus got hit in the balls.

I don't know. Zeus got hit in the balls, and he's throwing lightning. Does that make sense? Yeah, it's fine. Yeah, sure. He's in a fragile state. He's in the tracks. So, Gretz, you are a...

Oh, I'm not a Gretz fan, but you know, I saw it on the menu, and it said, creamy, dreamy, and I was in that kind of a mood where I wanted something warm and pleasing, and your Gretz are called creamy, dreamy. I'm going to give them a whirl. The first bite, I was like, oh, no, that's too creamy, too dreamy. Who doesn't like butter, but it can't just be like, oh, my mouth is full of butter. That's not fun. And that's their signature thing.

I was such a non... And I do love the restaurant. I never ate Gretz growing up. No, me neither. Boston area. None of us are from Gretz town. We're all like, you know, we're all in different... That's like a Southern thing, right?

Where exactly is Gretz town? Well, I mean, if you're talking about Gretty, just north of Louisiana, you ride through, you take your horse through Gretz town, sometimes they're thicker, though. The creamy, dreamy Gretz at Flying Biscuit are really ground up. They have a very smooth texture. I liked them. You did. But I also got them the context of shrimp Gretz.

What's that? You got the shrimp Gretz. Oh, that was... Your whole bowl was Gretz. Yeah. So I got a whole bunch of Gretz, but with the shrimp there, it was like... I didn't find the dairy aspect overpowering. The creaminess was nice.

I was saying that they were almost drinkable, the Gretz, but also you were saying that... I want to get back to this point, you were going to say that Gretty is from Gretz town? Is that what you're trying to say? No, I was saying that it depends on how you... If you want to talk about Gretty City, that's Philadelphia because of their mascot, but Gretz in general are associated with the American South. What was the insult you called me in that episode? Did you call me Big Titty Gretty?

Okay. That wasn't mine. That wasn't what someone submitted that. Big Titty Gretty? You know what Gretty looks like? I'm going to show you right now. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm laughing.

No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, wait, let's see. Let's see if we can have a pretty reference. I mean, you know it. You got it. Philadelphia Flyers, the hockey game. This is what Gretty looks like. Oh, boo.

Okay. No, it's good. It's fine. I think he's cool. Is he? I don't know. I kind of like him. Nice Roma bone.

He's a good guy. Marilyn, you've been with Nick for maybe four hours today now, and I think you can. I hated every second of it. I've just been waiting for you to ask me, it is excruciating. It's pretty common. I will say though, despite your assessment, I owe you a great deal because in addition to this podcast, you saved my beloved hat. I did.

I left my ball cap inside the Flying Biscuit Cafe. This is your beloved hat? This is my favorite hat. It says I'm from, I'm a SoCal surfer dude, California Republic is right on my hat. I love it. This is my favorite hat I've owned since my Tyson versus McNeely hat I had commemorating the fight between Mike Tyson and the Irish Hurricane Peter McNeely that I won at Grad Night.

This is insane to me. This is insane. And I lost on a ride at Six Flags Magic Mountain. Wow. What ride was it? It was a water ride. I don't remember which one. I think it's a defunct water ride.

Yeah, but I was like, I left it in the restaurant, you found it and you fetch it and you brought it out for me. It was very nice of you. Thank you very much. I mean, I didn't see it and go, fuck there. I saw it. I had to give it to you. Otherwise, I'm a monster.

I was gonna say, this is not like Bart Simpson's red hat. I never like this isn't like your go to hat. It's not like my signature hat. I have a lot of hats. That's what I was gonna ask you when you said, but then your skepticism that it's not his favorite hat. I was gonna say, ask you when you get a hat, you just only wear that hat for days and months until you move on to another hat.

No, I have a number of hats. Okay. You change a hat daily. There's something that goes on with your hats. Look. Yes. This is gonna make, this might seem critical of you. But every hat you wear, it looks like, like when a T ball player gets their hat for their,

for their team and then they put it on for the first time. It's like when an NBA player gets drafted and they put on a, why is it because you don't put any curve in the rim? I don't like to. Or is there something that wrong with your head is my other question. I mean, I have a giant head, so there's something wrong with my hat look is like what, how you're supposed to wear your hat. I like the hat.

Doesn't it look like there's space where his temp like kind of where temples are. That's part of the issue. And I think that is a head shape thing because if I, if I do it one notch tighter than it is saying you want to stick a thing, like a finger, you can stick, you can stick anything up there. You could. Yeah. Pencils.

He holds his pencil in there. There's a little bit of room. Like I could, I could, but you know, it's like measure things and cut things, tools there. It's, if I, if I do one notch tighter than it is right now, it'll fit a little better, but it'll be uncomfortable. Did we see the one? Oh, it's uncomfortable. Yeah.

I'll do it. You can tell me no or not. Let me let me know what you think worth the pain. It will be funny. It will be funny if he does one more notch and he's like screaming. Oh, this is tighter. That's nice. Normal.

Does this look better? Yeah. It looks more normal. Just let it break in. It's squeezing my temples. God, and I'm afraid that I'll see you in handcuffs. The hat made me do it. Are you getting high off the tent that's squeezing you?

You should go down to the concert. Oh yeah. My hat's squeezing my temples. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go. I'm seeing stars. It does feel like my skull is being compressed.

Knowing Nick for a good decade now, over a decade, I can tell you right there that being down in that festival is probably his worst nightmare. Oh my gosh. I wouldn't have a good time. That would not be, that would not be my craft. I mean, I don't like that either. That would be awful. I don't like it either.

But loud music plus a whole bunch of people would not be my scene. Yeah. And also, dancey, rave music, that's not for you. Yeah. But there is some alcohol. I could get liquored up and endure it. All right. Yeah.

That's how I cope with social situations. Mary Lynn, you worked at a Denny's. You weren't telling us. I did. How long did you work at a Denny's at what point in your life and what was it like? Guys, I don't mean to like go so far so fast and blow your mind, but I worked at a Denny's. I worked at an Olive Garden and I worked at a Hard Rock Cafe. Holy shit.

Oh, she dropped her mic. Literally dropped the mic. The big three, the Triforce of Chains. Among others. Denny's, wait, can you say we get Denny's Hard Rock Cafe and what was the middle one? Olive Garden. Wow. Olive Garden was like a step up.

I remember they were very strict about their training. You had to learn all the, you know, platters and I just lost energy trying to explain. That's all right. You're just matching us. Denny's was a kind of a great experience. I mean, it was terrible in some ways. You know, like people make, I remember more than one table making fun of me and then like a ding dong ditch.

What's it got? No, that's like, just Dine and Dash, that's what it's called. But for the most part, I felt like kind of a badass because I was really young and you have to deal with a lot of stuff. You know, you got to memorize the thing and you got to keep it moving and it gets really busy. Was that your favorite of the three to work at? What was it?

Well, what, I guess I have two questions. What was your favorite one to work at? And then which one treat, do you think treated the employees the best of those three? Whoa. I know. Sorry. I have the hard hit in questions. Nick, you can loosen your head again if you'd like.

That's a tough one because they were all at different points in my life. Right. Yeah. Stages of my life. Olive Garden presented itself as the most high class situation. Also, at Olive Garden, I would sneak in the walk-in refrigerator and I would, depending on my mood or what I thought the shift was going to be like, either beginning, middle or end, I would go in and scarf down a tiramisu, which was like a square of tiramisu and I

would be like, depending on the day, I'm like, do I need it to start my day off or am I going to reward halfway through? Right. And that was kind of fun because you made the big salad in the big bowls and then people, but also it was the Midwest, you know, suburbs of Detroit. And so it was a fancy place to go, but that didn't necessarily mean people tipped more. I got you. You know, so.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I think I could live in a walk-in fridge. I think that's like my, I think that's the right temperature for me. You like your, you're like a cold room. I like a cold room. That cold space. Yeah. This room is pretty cool right now.

It's pretty cold. Yeah. I think you're being hyperbolic. I know. I like it that cold. I really do. You really do. Yeah.

If you get, what's your, what's your room temp like right now? What do you think? It's down the lowest it can go. I was pretty cold when we walked in here. It's kind of cold. We can, we can change it. What is this like? What do you got?

No, it's okay. I'm putting my arms to my sides and going like that ever so slightly. I'm good. I'm going to go, I'm going to go, you guys keep talking. I'm going to look at the thermostat. Hold on. No, don't, don't, he needs the coolness. I'm fine.

This is 65. I keep my room at least 70, if not 72 or 75, but that also comes with living in the valley in LA. I've been like inundated with now, I don't like it, but I'm used to it being really hot all the time. Your AC bills got to be soaring too during them summer months. Yeah. Yeah.

That's tough. We were talking about here though, specifically in this hotel, there's a certain part of the day where 65, the room is still warm. Oh yeah. But also the thing, we talked about this the other day because you were saying like did you, do you wake up? I think they turn it off in the middle of the night to like save money. I'm sort of getting used to it, but for a few nights in a row, I'd wake up sweating.

Yeah. Me too. I'm like, I'm sure there's no air in this room right now. I agree. Yeah. I think they turn it off for an hour or two. Hotel living is. Hotel living.

Yes. We should talk about this because you're both in this situation right now. You're living in the same hotel. You're working on the same movie and so, and how this, We can say it too. This is pretty exciting. This is pretty exciting. It's very cool.

You know what? We've never really, cause the Boston episode never came out. We're working on the movie ghost draft. We're fricking moot working on the movie ghost draft. Very cool announcement. It's a big deal. That's never came out. I, Nick, I said, can we put the boss in episode?

I said, now we're going to do it. No, it was on Reddit immediately. As soon as you, as soon as you said it live on stage, there was a fucking Reddit post that don't waste subreddit the next day. Also, by the way, there's now either, uh, uh, either a police car siren that is, there's a police car or it's a part of the EDM music. No, it's a real siren. And then the music got turned up.

It sounds like it's pretty loud. It's really thumping. Should I just go louder? Insane. Feel free. I'm going to take a gander. Yeah. Report back.

The lightning has stopped. So you're both the EDM, the clouds parted for the EDM fucking trash. I was kind of hoping they would shut them down early cause of the lightning strikes. Me too. By the way, I should say, and I told Emma this, but I, like, I am afraid of heights. And so I'm fine here where I'm sitting, but we're pretty close to these, these floor to ceiling windows and you're, you're up on the high floor. Yeah.

We're up in the twenties, Nick. And if I got, I think if I went and stepped where, uh, Mary Lynn just was right, right up against the wind, I think I might have a, a little bit of an anxiety attack. All right. Can you, can you please just try it? I don't think I want to do it. I think it would be unpleasant. Do you want to watch him have a panic attack?

Kind of. Uh, I also feel like a part of you is going to try to jump out the window. I think that's part of it too. I think that's part of the, the, the issue with that is if people get to the edge and you feel like you want to throw yourself off of it and then you were like trying to stop yourself. Well, there's, I don't think that you can't open the window. So you're safe in that regard.

Like Jenny and forest. Gump. Yeah. Sorry. That was really sad. Wait. Did Jenny and forest Gump jump to her death? Yeah.

Wait. Did she? I thought she died of AIDS. No, she doesn't. She died. Wait. Jenny, her character died in that moment. No, I'm trying to, I'm trying to cover up the fact she jumps from a ledge.

No, she's on the ledge. She decides not to. Oh, she steps. Isn't it when, is it like free bird is playing or something? Right. It's, it's weirdly. That's what happened in the movie. Wish you would step back from that ledge, my friend.

Very on the nose. Like, are you lying to us? I'm like, no, I just remembered it that way. I knew a, I knew a girl and she, uh, in high school and she told me the story that her friend was, um, posed for Playboy magazine, but, or that she knew a girl who posed for Playboy magazine, but she wore her school sweater in it. So she got expelled. Oh yeah.

And that's just, and I was just like, wait, isn't that what happened to Jenny and forest Gump? And I like completely caught her in a lie. She was like, oh yeah. I was like, oh yeah, yeah, I guess you're right. I remember that part in forest Gump where he's, uh, in the studio when third eye blind is recording jumper. Um, so wait, Denny's Olive Garden, both in, uh, both in Detroit.

Yes. Suburb down river, uh, down river, which is south of Detroit. Okay. Dear, Dearborn and it was hard rock. Also was it a Detroit rock was. LA. Oh, okay. Oh wow.

Which one was it? Was it the? Wow. They used to have outside a car driving into the building unless I'm making that up too. My memory has. Yeah. It had like, you know, it was like a crazy. Yeah.

The universal city walk has a car inside of it, which is like a weird. In their hard rock cafes, which is spinning. They do weird stuff with cards. I don't know why I don't get the, I don't get it. In the Vegas Margarita. Well, they have, I guess this is a thing with rock theme chain restaurants is that they just have vehicles inside these places, but they have Jimmy Buffett's plane. Like one of his small planes is inside there.

I think it's the one that is commemorated in the song Jamaica mistake. That's right. About how he was on a private plane that was almost shot down by the Jamaican government because they thought he was drug smuggler, which is, which is very funny. Crazy. It's a, it's a wild thing that happened. You know what I realized? Yeah.

Denny bad man, like no mascot. Like, shouldn't there be Denny the mascot? You know what I mean? They could have a guy. I mean, it's where they're marketing. That's the thing. Well, you know, Denny's opened as Danny's and then they changed it to Denny's. And I'm not sure why, but Denny's was the first Denny's was in Lakewood, California,

my hometown. Wow. Do you remember it? No, it's not. It was gone by the time I was born. Yeah. But I, I'm from the hometown of Denny's. You're from the hometown of Dunkin Donuts.

That's right. And here we are hosting a chain restaurant podcast together. How about that? It was fate. And Mary Lynn is from the hometown of Little Caesars. Very cool. Domino's. Yes.

Detroit's got a lot of, a lot of skin in that game. Is that right? Sure. That and the Zeus thing both work. Good job. Is that what it is? What is it? In the game, it usually refers to like you have some financial investment in something.

Whatever. Yeah. Also, wait, oh, and Buddy's Pizza. We talked about Buddy's Pizza a little bit earlier today. Yes. Which is, you, you haven't had Buddy's Pizza. I have not. I did want to ask you though, cause we, and we were, we were, we were starting to go down

this road, but you guys are both staying in the same hotel, you're here long term working. What is your food strategy like with hotel living? Have you, does your diet get, I mean, I imagine it's hard for it to, to stay, to improve. It's, it's gotta. It's very funny. We've talked a little bit. We've talked about this because, and you've, you've had much more experience with this Maryland than I have, but it's that funny thing of you'll get back to the hotel late

and then you're like, I just want to order room service. Right. And so you do take advantage of it. I never, I was never a big hotel room service person ever in my entire life. And then I've, since I've been here, I've only been like been here for two weeks, once a week before, and then this is my second week here. But a week before, before the movie started and then this week here, but yeah, it's an obvious premise, which is I just want to get something to eat quick, but I'm, now I have

to leave the room and go somewhere. Yeah. So you get room service, which is kind of luxurious, but then it's also a bummer. Yeah. Because usually there's too much of one thing. And then of course it's incredibly overpriced. And it's usually like fries come with it or, you know, like it's like not, it's not great for you.

It's in the price point, which you just said is, it's like you're spending $50 for dinner or whatever. A huge premium. At least $40. And I wish I had it dialed in, in some way, but like this stretch that we're here, I'm just trying to pretend like it's not happening, you know, and be like, because I'll try to go to Trader Joe's or something. I mean, pretend like it's not happening in terms of figuring out a method that is

correct. I just wake up every day. And we've also been socializing, which has been actually really nice. Yeah. Like having a nice dinner after work because we get out of kind of a decent hour. But for during the day and breakfast, I just, I should probably buy stuff and have it, but I don't, I haven't. I've been working with Maryland for two weeks and we've gone out and socialized

more than you and I and Nick have ever done. That tracks. I can buy that. I never do that. Yeah. And it's really exciting. And because you can't, here's, here's the big thing with the hotel is that, and we talked about this, if you're, if you're staying in there and then like on a Sunday,

when you have nothing to do and you want to be lazy and then you have to get out of the hotel or you go insane. Oh, sure. Yes. So we watched the Emmys in the lobby one night and that is, that is like the most I left my room that day was watching the Emmys in the lobby. Right. And then we realized that we couldn't really hear it.

We couldn't hear it. We changed it from football, which people in the lobby were watching. And we watched it. Like we were sort of paying attention, but it was really, there was just a lot of ambient noise and you couldn't, you had to really struggle. And so we lost our focus. Yeah. I saw people's outfits.

I sort of got the gist. I got the gist of it too. The, the, the, the, and you know, people, I think people were actually happy that we turned it on like, uh, I think there was like one guy who was like, yeah, it wasn't bad. Yeah. That's a fine thing to have on the Emmys on a big screen. Yeah.

It's reasonable. Yeah. It was during Monday night football. Yeah, we were so conscious. Oh, got it. Well, Sunday night football is not, I mean, that's a, whatever. Yeah, that's fine. Get it next Sunday.

Exactly. When the Emmys aren't on Emmys are once a year. Do you think the Doughboys TV show will ever win an Emmy? I don't know. I mean, no, no, because it won't. It won't exist. It's an easy thing to answer. I will say it by the way, but I've had my hat on this tighter notch for 20

something minutes now and my vision is boring. Chase, loosen it, you fool. I'm just going to take it off right now. Nick's just going to pass out. I think seriously, I think it's stretching my eyes. I think it's like, it's a little dramatic. I feel, I feel like. That's what it feels like.

Anytime he goes on the road, he's like, I got Sierra asleep. I'm dying, man. It doesn't make any sense. I've known this guy for one afternoon and I called him out. You should. It's reasonable. It's stretching my eyes. I appreciate that though.

You're living life on a high level and I like that. I like it a lot. He's not enjoying any second of that. I'm going to die. Do you, so from the Detroit area, other than, you know, we talked about a few pizza chains, we talked about the places you worked. Do you have any beloved local fare or beloved local restaurants from where you grew up? We would do, you know, what a fancy place that we would go is a place called Pizza Hut.

Oh, hell yeah. We had a McDonald's that you could go to on your lunch hour. It was a bit of a walk. There was a little Caesars that was right on the corner of where the school was. That was a popular place. But I remember there was a Pac-Man table version at the Pizza Hut. And that was always, that always felt luxurious. Like that thick, greasy crust and it was, you know, we're going out.

The family's going out. And next door to that was the more mysterious Long John Silver, which for some reason I feel like my older sister liked Long John Silver's and it was a little bit too exotic for me, you know? Yeah. Right. There's a Long John Silver's here in Atlanta. Really?

In Atlanta. So Nick, there's a fast food row, basically. Yes. I had a song. I'm going to take wags down to the fast food row. We're going to eat till we can't no more. Very good. Was your voice cracking part of the song or did that just happen?

He just passed out. The song took in a lot of them. It's final post. Final position. Just a final song. There's a very song centric group of people here in the yourself and myself. So fun. And Sam, Sam Richardson are there, they're, they're everyone is Sam's.

You and Sam both have great voices. Everyone's singing all the time. Oh, are you a trained singer? No, not at all. Just got some natural pipes. No. There's, so we're in the van. We're always singing, but in the van, we're always going down fast food row.

There's a, there's like a, there's a cookout. There's a long John Silver's. There's a crystals. There's a, there's every single, I don't know the name of the street. I bet you someone from Atlanta will know exactly where this is, but there's every single sort of fast food restaurant that you can think of. It's insane. Like every single one.

So this is like the Vegas strip, but for fast food. And it doesn't, I don't even see, it doesn't even seem like that important part of a, it's near the studio kind of, where we were. No, it's sort of out there surrounded by wilderness and a prison. Yes. An old woman, an old woman's prison, Nick. Hmm. Little Orange's new, Orange's new black situation.

Yeah, I know how you like women's prisons. I think it's going to get horned up for caged heat. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to sneak into the prison. I'm going to get the shit kicked out of me. Get them out of here. Um, yes, but no, there's just a, there's, there's a, I've never seen anything like, wow, oh boy, they were getting some big flashes. Wow.

That's, that was crazy. Um, we're right up. We're, we're, what this is intense. Is that lightning? Or I don't know if this is, I know. I think it's, I don't know, or how can that be nice to the buildings around it's not, this is not a nice thing to have. Like this is really, we didn't ask for this festival.

It's very intrusive. And it's like that scene in poltergeist where the, you know, what I'm talking about, I think you guys get a warning that this festival is happening. I feel like you should have gotten like a, Hey, heads up. There's a really disturbing outside your room. Yeah. This is what this is. So imagine.

Yeah. This is so loud. I think I don't, I'm curious if our listeners hear any of this. What is that? They certainly aren't seeing those lightning flashes. Oh, okay. Wait, hold on. We're 22 floors up and it still is like coming straight in the window.

Are we like in the storm? That's what I'm trying to say. Storm, like geostorm, you know, geostorm is set in Atlanta. Oh, wow. This is, that was a portended the future. This is geostorm IRL. By the way, when I looked out just an update, I did not see police on the street. Everybody's in the festival.

That whole graph floor that we looked at is completely full now with people, but it's like in a parking lot of a club, but who is, who is it? Is Chromio a EDM guy? Oh boy, I don't know. I don't know any of your ad. You're asking the wrong guy. I have no idea. Do you know who's playing?

I would have guessed Chromio was a character. No, I have no idea. Thank you for a half a second thinking I might have an idea of who's playing. Um, are you, are you, are you famously played Chloe on 24? Yes, go on. Um, my, my father loved your character. Uh, he, he loved, uh, he, uh, sorry, that sounded creepy at all. You know, he really loved, he loved, he loved your, he loved your character.

He was a big fan of Chloe. Yeah, he was, I'm sure he would have been tickled. Were you saving that to tell me that on the podcast? Yeah, it was actually make me cry. Yeah, I'm sorry. Um, yeah, no, he, he, like, Chloe, he loved, he loved, he was a big 24 fan. I was going to say a lot. So a lot of time, uh, uh, Jack Bowers calling on you and you're giving him

assistance and you always, it always seemed like you had a very clean space with, when you were, but when you're, when you're, when you're, when you're on your, when you're in your office, do you snack in your office? What's your go to, uh, office snack food? Nick, do you have anything like that for me? Yeah, you're a nuts man. I do. I'm nuts for nuts.

I will have, I'll have mixed nuts. I will have almonds. I will have a banana, bananas. And I think I'll have myself some yogurt with berries. What's the best computer food? That's a, that's a, that's a great question. Well, here's the issue. Cause I, I ideally want something I can eat with a utensil so I don't

grease up my fingers. I think I've done before and this actually works out pretty well. And then people will look at me and be like, what are you doing? I'm not the person who invented this. Other people have done this. I'm not claiming that this is my creation, but people have seen me doing this and been like, what are you doing? Then when I explain to them, they're like, Oh yeah.

Okay. That makes sense. I'll get myself some cheese puffs or some Cheetos, even with a pair of chopsticks. Whoa. Not getting any, uh, any orange powder on my hands. I mean, I did not see that comment. I like that a lot. Yeah.

Works out pretty well. Ah, me. Can you take the credit? I take the credit. I popularized it. No, if that works out well, because if you're, if you're gaming or you're, you're doing some work on the, the keyboard, you're not going to get any, any dust on your, on your keys.

I remember there was a kid in college lived next door and he was like, can I use a computer and that he was like, he was stoned. Yeah. And he was eating cheese on my computer. My keyboard was filled with cheez-its after what he was done. Wow, that's disgusting. Fucking awful. That's rude.

That's really, really disgusting, but rude. Yep. And it was a good lesson too for me. I mean, it wasn't me who did it, but I was like, you can't, you can't have cheez-its over the keyboard. You can't. No, you can't do it. He would have also like, that's the kind of thing you would have been.

You being a big guy would have been blamed before if someone just stumbled upon it, they would have thought it was you. Yeah, and it sounds like you still think it is me. I mean, I'm pretty sure it wasn't. I'm positive it wasn't me. It was Mike Rico, my next door neighbor. Oh, wow. Oh, so this was at your home.

This wasn't in college. No, no, my next door neighbor in college. Sorry, I guess the next door neighbor is weird. The guy who was in the room next to me. Boy, what do you say about, well, how do you refer to that? I guess it is your next door neighbor in a dorm situation. I don't think we have to worry what college kids do or say. I don't think any college kids listen to this podcast of college kids.

Do listen to this show. No, definitely let us. Yeah, if you do, who do you think eats the most fast food in the world? Probably college kids. Hashtag do boys college team. I was just a do boys you. Oh, do boys you is good. Wait, what do you say?

Hashtag do boys college. What team? Oh, I thought you said do boys college team. You know, I think I only want people who are freshmen. Soft Wars, sounds like it, perhaps a Wunderkind who got in at age 12, a Sheldon, a young Sheldon, a young Sheldon. Yeah, wait, Greta Grunberg. Is that part of young Sheldon's mythos that he went to he went to school

when he was young? I think so. I because I thought he was just like going like living as a normal kid. I didn't realize he was actually going to university. I'm sure that he will go to university early. Oh, got it. Okay, a doogie. Well, doogie Howser also is an example of that.

We had a kid at my middle school who was like taking college classes and he was like in sixth grade, but then taking classes with the eighth graders. And then everyone was just always like, it's not that smart. We sort of figured it out. It's like, I think this kid's parents just think he's like a genius, but he's actually kind of just like a dumb sixth grader. He's clearly in over his head. He got like a B in like fucking eighth grade science.

That is rough. Yeah, I know. Don't push your kid into being a super genius if they're of normal intellect. Got to be a genius for my parents. Ouch. I didn't even know you could do that. I thought you had to be like, oh, this, yeah, this kid's clearly a genius. My mom took me to get advanced placement tests again when I was younger because I

didn't get in the first time in fifth grade, which I remember very specifically that they were like, they came in and they're like, it's a license section. We're going to call all these kids out for a license section. I maybe I've told this story before. And then they were like, they named all these people for the license section. They took them out of the room and I was like, oh, these gross kids who had license special that I looked around and I was like, wait a minute.

It was like me and like the dumbest people left like me and a bunch of yokels were like, they got life. So that was like, oh, wait, is all the smart kids that were placed in advanced placement and that that was like their way of not letting us know. What? Yes. Isn't that weird? I don't, we need to find the people in charge that decided this is a nice cover up.

Yeah. This is like 1989. I mean, it's like 1991 or something. What is the point to not make? Yeah. Such a weird decision. And then also like you do figure it out. I mean, like I, you knew like pretty soon you're like, wait, this isn't what it

was, but then my mom had me tested again and then they said like my tests were like off the charts and I was like one of the smartest boys ever. And the most special and the most special boy. I'm still having a hard time following this whole thing. So they're moving them into a second class, into a different class. So they're like, you're leaving this class forever. You're going in this other placement. So they came in and they're like, we get like, there's like a special

lice test or something and they like we're like here. We're going to then they left forever. We're going to check all these kids and then they brought them out and then like they brought them and so like every like Tuesday, they went to like lice class every Tuesday. They get tested for life. It was, I mean, it was like a bad thing. I think like they were just trying not to like be like these are like the

special kids who are smarter than everyone, but it was clear that that was was what the case was. Can I tell you what I think? Well, I think Quincy had some filthy ass kids. You guys have a lice epidemic. They're there to do louse them all every week. It's lice day. And honestly, the people who they should check for lice is the dumb asses

that were left in that room. Yeah, no, I was a I didn't I didn't make it. I was a wasn't smart enough. Nick, okay, you happy? No, I'm not happy theory that I'm a dumb ass. My theory is not that you're a dumb man. Okay, I don't think you're stupid. I think you maybe what?

I think you're not the smartest guy I know. What the fuck? I know people who I consider more intelligent than you, but you're not stupid. You're smart in your own special way and you don't have lice. God. Marilyn, you are someone who I would assume is conscious of your health. You have to be on camera a lot. I imagine you you have to.

Yeah, but I'm the character actor. Well, yeah, I mean, like that's like a I assume it's a thing you have to be conscious of, but but correct me if I'm wrong. But do you like do you find yourself in spirit? Do you eat healthily? Do you try your best to stay on? You know, do you have any nutrition strategies or do you kind of like go on and off the rails a little bit?

I go on and off the rails. Yeah, I know how to do it. I can do it. I know what makes me feel good, but oftentimes I do things that don't make me feel good and don't have nutritional value. I think everything you guys are doing is wrong. We should not be eating at these places ever. It's I mean, do you mean like nutritionally or comedically?

Yeah. Also, check this out. My husband owns a small fitness studio. Whoa. And has owned it for nine years. Wow. And I am now veering off the specifically food, which, by the way, if you eat correctly, you you can work out all day long, but if you don't fix your diet, you

will never be, you know, that's what I'm learning. Yeah, because I like diet is so much more than exercise. It's like 80 to 90 percent of it because I eat like shit. And then I just but I like exercise a good amount. I do yoga, I go to the gym and I fucking keep gaining weight, like a fucking yeah, you're a fat hog, you're a fat hog. No, you're a fat guy. Do you remember you remember fat wiker, right?

You remember when you met me and I was fucking fat? Yeah, I think you're fatter than that now. And you're making a comeback. You're getting him back. Oh, you know what? On Emmy's night, we had I was like, oh, it's Emmy's night. I'm going to open my room wine and I had some white wine. I went downstairs.

I had a glass of rosé. We ate dinner. I had a pretty healthy dinner. I got like fish and vegetables and I asked, you know, is it oil or butter and go light oil or whatever. So the meal itself, but that wine and then we had dessert. We did have dessert. And it was delicious, but that morning I was so just tired and hung over and I

went to the gym and my eyeballs were like, I was just like so sluggish. I was like sweating the alcohol and the sugar. We, we, we went out to the, we went to the bar last night and my stunt double was there, Nick. Yeah. My stunt double, uh, who looks like a badass version of me. I mean, he, it's uncanny. He looks a lot like you.

He looks a lot like me. He's in, he's in, he's in, he's a Navy seal. Did you get to meet him? No, I didn't. Oh man. He probably, well, if you didn't even see him, we just heard he was there. If he's like the badass version of me, he probably just would have rolled you up into a ball and toss you into the garbage.

But, uh, we, we, we, I had about eight drinks last night and two shots, which is a lot for me now a days. Yeah. And I feel like trash all day today. And in fact, I might feel that way tomorrow too. It might be a couple of days until I can't do it anymore. Did the food help you feel better? No.

Today's food, I, I, I, I, I, I today is like a strictly more of a stomach hangover. Do you know how you have like the different, like I'm like tired and feel kind of gross and sluggish, but then like the EDM music stopped. They realize we're recording dough boys. Quiet everyone. We want to hear if it's snag or whack. You do that or different bands getting on. Um, but yeah, today was strictly the kind of a more of a stomach hurts hangover.

But, uh, but I can't, I can't do it. The, the, there's, there, I have all the different things of the hangover. Stomach is one. Yeah. Then nausea. Sure. Do headache is the, is three headaches. What gets me and then depression is four.

I think that I think depression is like a thing that you don't talk about enough with the hangover, but then that your mental state can be really affected by, by gave all your happiness to last night when you were drunk. You gave all your happiness. Nice way of thinking of it. Uh, I've never noticed it because I just feel like it just probably blends into my normal depression. Like I don't feel particularly depressed after you don't have that.

Oh man, I'll have a day after I drink and I will feel very down. I have that for sure. Yeah. That doesn't happen to you. I, or no, I'm afraid of your normal mental state. It's like the low rundown contributes to the mental and emotional coming down. Right. Like if you have, like, cause you're an anxiety guy, I, you know, I sometimes

will, my anxiety will be out of control the day after I drink or whatever. The only thing that happens to me is I will sometimes I will, I will wake up and my heart will be like beating like a hundred eighty BPM from drinking. Yeah, it'll just be like, oh, like I have this super rapid. It'll be like an EDM beat. It'll be like this, this super rapid pulse and it wakes and it's so I'm my heart's beating so fast it wakes me up in like a panic. It's really weird.

Do you run around the room or something? It's probably dated. It feels like a, like I've had that happen a few times. Like, oh, this is, I'm going to die. I should stop doing this. Yeah. Yeah. Is that from a particular alcohol, like more liquor?

I don't know. I don't think so. There'll be, if I, if I don't have like a heavy liquor night, I'll sometimes will like wake up with that. Like you feel like you were like bathed in liquor and then like your heart will be racing and you're like, oh, this might, I might have done it too much. This might be it. This could be, I maybe did, went a step too far last night and then it'll come

down, but I rarely have nights like that anymore. And I, and I can't because it sets you on your for the week. It sets you off on a bad path too much. That's too much and then today on a, on a heavy food day, like today it was, it was, it just wasn't, we ate a lot today. We ate a lot. What, what, what, what, we never, what were you going to say? I'm sorry.

I was, I mean, I was going to throw it to a break, but it wasn't a particularly elegant transition before we get to the break. Here we go. Maryland, what would you rank the flying biscuit out of four out of five forks? This is a wonderful question. What is your ranking of the flying biscuit? Oh man. I'm going to go.

Yeah. Three. Three forks. Wow. Does that root? No. I eat there all the time and I actually enjoy it. Yeah.

She has more flying biscuit experience than any of us. I know, and I will go back there and I do like it, but today was bullshit. And you know what I'm talking about. I was very, it was not great. Wow. Three. I think it's canonically out of the golden plate club. I kind of like that, Nick.

Yeah, I'm into it. Yeah. You've, sorry, sorry, flying biscuit cafe. I'm sorry if you erected a banner at your flagship location after the last Doe Boys episode, because you better take it down. I'm not going to feel bad, but I'm not going to take it back. The biscuit was, I mean, I, yeah, this is a big reason to qualify it. I'm just going to let it, let it lie.

Nick, myself and Steve all gave it four forks, yeah, which makes it in. It gets it into the golden play club. Our podcast is stupid. That's what that means and, uh, and, and, and now you, your, your ranking brings it out of the golden play club, which I kind of can get behind. I think it's great. Yeah, I love it. Yeah, I love it coming in here, spitting fire and hey, we're going to take a

break when we come back. We're going to talk about this week's restaurant more with Mary Lynn in just one second. What the fuck? I tried a different transition. Welcome back to Doe Boys. We're here with Mary Lynn Ricegub. We are talking about Mo's for October fest 2019.

The Doe Boys presents the ATL Jesus. It's hard to say the ATL. You skipped like a CD. Such commitment though. My brain is just ones and zeros. Wow, he finally admitted it. Finally admitted that you're a robot man. We've, we've, we've accused Waggar of being a robot forever.

Mo's was founded in Atlanta in 2000. It's got over 700 locations and it stands for, this is a thing Emma found out. It's an acronym that stands for musicians, outlaws, and entertainers, which is, oh, that sucks. Mary Lynn made a disgusted face. No, I agree. Alpably disgusted face. She's leaving.

She's left. She stood up and she started pounding on the wall. I apologize. That's true though. You guys should know. God, why did you have to find that out? It sucks. Like a Senate confirmation hearing.

We need to know all the facts to evaluate this fairly. My heart rate just spiked. And it also has on the obnoxious tip. It also has a lot of pop culture menu names, which we'll get into a second. That it's not necessarily a useful description of what the item is. It just is a reference to something in pop culture. We dined in at the Georgia Tech location. None of us have ever been to Mo's before, correct?

We were near Georgia Tech. We were right near Georgia Tech. Oh, really? Right near the home of the Yellow Jackets. You didn't see all the Georgia Tech signage? What is was God? This is dark. What what is it?

Was Georgia Tech a sex scandal or is this shooting? Was there a shooting Jesus Christ? I forget it was the shooting, right? No, I think you're thinking of Virginia Tech. Yeah, Virginia Tech was a really gruesome shooting. There's nothing bad. OK, yeah, I'm sure nothing bad has ever happened to Georgia Tech. Most college campuses are.

We're straight in there. Oh, OK. Jesus Christ. Sorry, I didn't know which one it was. I was either. Are you in your position? What's happening? Yeah, my stomach is hurting.

So I kind of move around a little bit. You know what, here's here's here's something. I've said this on the podcast before. I'm like, oh, my stomach hurts. I'll drink a Coca-Cola and people will like online. We're like, Mitch thinks that like drinking a Coke is a good thing. You and you're sick. And I was like, no, but a Coca-Cola is like a tonic helps.

That's a real thing. I'm behind that Coke syrup as a as a medical thing. Thank you. Dad's mom used to get it for when he had stomach aches. This is this is more just dough boys listeners thinking you're some sort of cartoonish dope. Yes, you just like don't like this. But does Mitch know that that Coke is not medicine?

Does Mitch think soda is a robot us? Just say that I'm one of the smartest people you know. We can get this over with. I have a test I want you to take. It is for kids. Is it a wise test? Yes. Mo's, the detail you left out of that lice test

is that we're testing the kids for crab lice. So they didn't need to include that detail. He says, Christ, why is hair free then? Are you kidding me? It's a quick, quick test. I had one, maybe two hairs there at that point. And a crab on each one. They were friends.

They were a couple. I didn't want to kick them out. I'm going to write an anime show about them. What? It's two crabs that live on the two pubes of a 11 year old boy. Yes, there are lots of close ups of this previous boys trap. Totally by someone totally by that.

So we dined into the Georgia Tech location. Georgia Tech, not the site of a one of the worst mass shootings in American history. I remember Virginia Tech, for God's sakes. But we and we started, you get some, the menu. I guess we should just talk about the menu for a second, because it is confusing. Like it took me, we were looking at it for a second,

trying to figure out what everything is. Here are some examples of some of the menu items they have. They have a burrito. I went in wanting to like Mo's. Me too. Like I went in wanting to like Mo's. Of course we want to like Mo's. We got an Uber there and our Uber driver, great guy, was like,

Mo's, he's like, this thing is really in my mind. I was thinking of going to Mo's. He was very excited about Mo's. Yeah. People seem to like, people seem to have a kind of a spot in their heart for Mo's if they're Mo's regulars. We fucked up. You know what we're going to do?

You know, we'll put it in later. But we'll say what we were going to, we forgot to do. We're going to put in that clip of Homer saying Mo a bunch. Yes. From The Simpsons. Oh shit, yeah. Yeah. We'll put that in, we'll put that in like right after this.

Mo, Mo. Mark, are you going to Mo the one today? OK, but you promised me Mo money. I'm all I Mo. Mo, Mo, Mo. When Mark's done, can we Mo to the movie? Is it Mo's name? Of course, while we're working, Mo's play makes Mo a Mo Mo.

Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo. Mo. Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo, Mo. I'm doing that. OK, we're back from the Mo's clip. It was a lot of fun. So here are some of the menu items they have here. The burritos, the home wrecker or the Joey bag of donuts.

That's so confusing. It's very confusing. Because also it's food. It's food, yeah. Donuts is in the, that's too confusing to say Joey bag of donuts. Because I'm like, what is this? Like a burrito, like a donut burrito? Yeah, what the fuck is it mean?

Exactly. Some sort of burrito. Oh, man. They got earmuffs. That's what they call their boldy earmuffs, which is a reference to old school. They call the stacks, which is their Crunchwrap Supreme take, the wrong dug, which is a reference to the hangover

and a deep cut from the hangover franchise. That's like not like, you think of so many things before you think of wrong dug. It feels like, I mean, how old is most? Do they change the names of these things a lot? Because like, did they put that the year after Hangover came? That would actually roughly come out with a timeline. Well, no, when the hangover was like 2010, 2009.

It was like quite a bit later after it founded. Although some of the ones, like the thing that I got is a Fight Club reference. And that would have been about contemporary with its founding. And the thing that I got is the first rule of chicken club. Jesus. So this is a quesadilla. I'm going to read the menu copy verbatim,

because this just kind of gives you a taste of the attitude for Moe's. I am Jack's quesadilla. I am Jack's rock and taste buds. This one might be a rule you'll just have to break. What? It's like a reference to a Fight Club. Yes, no, I know.

It's more confusing. It makes it more confusing, yeah. But this one has, you have a double chicken, bacon, lettuce, tomato, shredded cheese, and Chipotle ranch dressing in it. And they put the dressing in the quesadilla, which is strange. It's not a thing I've encountered before. It's way too much. Do you had some of that quesadilla?

What did you think? It was, first of all, the thing that hit me the first was fake bacon taste. Yeah, the bacon was bad. It was like Subway bacon. Fake bacon taste. There's something going on at the EDM Festival now again. This is, by the way, just to say, we're recording.

It's 8.42 PM. Yeah, it's pretty late. They're recording outside, and it's very, it's very weird where the product is. I can hear the announcement a little bit. The guy's on the loudspeaker, and he's saying, like, I think the Doughboys are reviewing the chain now. We're approaching the fork score the next 10 minutes or so.

And everyone started to applaud it. It's weird. The fake bacon. Fake bacon, yeah. Fake bacon taste is awful. It sucks. It just stands out so, like, I know that people like Bacos, and I'm like, you know, like the bacon,

like, I know some people like, but just, it just stood out so much in a chicken quesadilla. Who likes Bacos? I like Bacos, it's an eight-year-old boy at Sioux Plantation. That's when I like Bacos. That's exactly it. I think that there's just, like, a small, there's a small contingent of people who are,

who are like, if I'm like, Bacos sucks, which I kind of think Bacos aren't my favorite. But what are they made out of? They're just, like, little bacon bits. They're real bacon? But no, I think it's, I think it's artificial. All right, sorry. It's gotta be, right?

I think so. I think it's actually like some sort of soy-bar, or a by-product. Okay. I don't think there's any meat in Bacos. The bacon bits are, you know, bacon, usually, but. But man, they just, it was just a fucking bad, just that overwhelmingly strong, fake bacon taste,

even if it was real bacon. I found this item confusing, because to me, this is not what a quesadilla is. It has lettuce and tomato and sauce inside the quesadilla. That was strange. It was like a burrito presented in flat form. Yeah, this is wrong. It was pretty, honestly,

like it did not scratch the quesadilla itch at all. And it was very heavy. And then just like the veggies in there, the wet veggies and the ranch heated up on the flat top grill, it just like all got so soupy and unpleasant. Fucking awful. Jesus.

I really, yeah, I didn't like this at all. Mitch, what did you get for your menu item? You got yourself a burrito, yes? I got myself a burrito. Oh God, what the hell is this stupid name of it? I think you got the homewrecker. I did get the homewrecker, thank you. God damn it.

What is the home, what is that a reference to? I mean, homewrecker is just like a thing, right? I know homewrecker is a thing, but I'm saying is that supposed to be an adulterous person? It's gotta be. I think it's like, it's... It's in general. In general, yeah.

It's gotta be referencing a movie. Do you think it's referencing a specific thing? I wonder what happens if I look up homewrecker. Hold on, hold on, I'll look it up. By the way, in the bagos you were right, you called it soy flour. Wow. Oil, salt, sugar, soy beans, wheat.

Nasty. Betty Crocker. That's a Betty Crocker? All right, that's interesting. Let's see other uses of homewrecker, hold on. You're looking, you googled homewrecker? Yeah, I did. I'm looking it up on, there was an MTV show

called Homewrecker. It possibly could be. Maybe that's a reference to it. I don't know. There's an episode of The Shield called a homewrecker. Look at Moe's, keeping the conversation going. Yes. Keeping us involved.

This is what it is. Homewrecker is the 18th episode of the sixth season of American Dad. Oh, there we go. That's what it's referencing. It's weird, but it does make me think, it does evoke like homewrecker like, oh, are you talking about me like clogging the pipes

in my toilet? Because I'm eating this fucking disgusting burrito. Jesus Christ. Doesn't that make you think of that at all? That was my initial thought. Yeah. That's what we decided when we were walking over. They should rename it Hotel Wrecker.

You're gonna wreck your house. It's like going on a dangerous roller coaster but for food. You're gonna wreck your home if you eat this meal. Wrecker, I was gonna say, I'll give you $100 if you can name the main character's full name from American Dad. Fuck.

Stan? Uh-huh. What's his last name? I know it's Stan. Grissom? I don't know. I'm gonna look it up. If it's Stan Grissom, you owe me a hundred big ones.

But talk about your burrito. Let us know what you thought about it. My stomach hurts. I'm rolling around in the bed. Oh, no. It's part of your review. I mean, no, I'm gonna have to go to the bathroom. Oh, no.

Oh, no. I got ground beef. Oh, God, my stomach. Oh, can we end the podcast? Do we need to take a break? Like, this is the last moments of the final episode. My stomach hurts. I might have to go to the bathroom.

I never want to leave. Do you want us to stop down for us to pick this up later? Hold on. Are you OK? Yeah. You were convulsing. This is terrible. This is real.

You look really uncomfortable. Hold on, it will pass. Are you actually OK? Do you need me to go get some tums or something? He needs to go to the bathroom. Yeah, you need to use the bathroom, don't you? Oh, shut up, Lager. We can leave.

We can get out of here. I could go downstairs. We could go downstairs. Oh, God. We can record the rest of this from the lobby bar. Hold on, hold on, hold on. The home record was bad. That's all the review you need right there.

The home record is bad. The rice was like, I got so rice, black beans, ground beef, onions, tomato salsa, cheese, and some sour cream, and lettuce. And it was just bad. It tasted like a hospital burrito. I mean, I think it passed, by the way. But next time it happens, I think I'll get a burrito. Like you just shit your pants?

Next time it happens, we're going to leave the hotel. We're going to leave your hotel. We're going to leave the hotel the entire building. We're going to condemn this place. It's going to be over. The podcast is going to be over. I, it was, Nick, we did a, we recently did a burrito. We did burritos in The Munch Madness last year.

Munch Madness, Mouth of the Border. That was our recent theme. And yes, it was, Mo's was not an entrant. We thought about making it an entrant, and I don't think it would have fared very well. And guess what? I think it would have lost maybe to every, I think a Chipotle burrito is better. Yeah. I think, what were the other places we went to?

Q-Doba made about a strong showing. Q-Doba. Pukitamas, obviously. Taco Bell, Del Taco, I think, both trumpet. Yeah. I mean, obviously, like the burritos are different at Taco Bell, but still, I would much. In this, it just was not, there was nothing that like stood out as good in it. It was just a big, gloopy mess.

I'm sorry, I didn't mean to cut you off. In its category is like Chipotle and Q-Doba. That's what they say is like kind of Mo's analogs. And they both. And they're both way better. They're both better. At least based on my quesadilla and burrito. Mary Lynn, you got yourself some tacos.

Yeah. I, well, I'm agreeing with you a thousand percent, but I, you know, the experience, and you guys do this all the time, and we've already touched on it, is that you go in wanting to like it. For sure. Right? Because remember when I was like, oh, the avocados, and like, I love this queso. The queso is the best thing by far. Yes.

But why am I ever going to go out of my way to get a tub of queso and chips? Maybe, I guess. But as far as everything else, I don't need to go there ever again. Yeah, that's, I think that people will get mad that I didn't get queso on the burrito, which I probably should have. But we got a side, okay, we should mention, we got a side of queso, which, which Mary Lynn pointed out, we also got a side of guac. I will say the guac says rock out with your guac out.

Okay. So sorry. I thought you were saying the guac says, like the rock says. I thought that was like the reference, which was bad, but better than what is it? Rock out with our guac out. That just sucks. Yeah, it's just, honestly, it's just making me depressed. Yeah, the whole theme really, really sucks.

Yeah, it's a bummer. This is like, I would get paid like 150 bucks to like punch up this menu copy. This is like what I would come up with. All these fucking first options. Oh, okay. With first rule, it's chicken club. Yeah, fine. Let's go home.

The guac, I thought you and Mary Lynn, you were marked, we took out the first part, you're like, that guac is pretty good. And then you all, I think you corrected courses. You had a little bit more of it. Yeah. You sort of like, like, like what, what stopped clicking for you? Usually when you eat guacamole, you cannot stop eating it because it's so delicious. Right.

And pretty simple to make. Right. You know, people make it all different ways, but even if there's just one other ingredient in it, guacamole is usually pretty irresistible. And so first bite, I was like, oh, it's, it's real avocado fresh. And then second, third bite. I was like, oh, I don't need to, I don't know if I can put my finger on it. You guys said it was the cilantro.

It was very, and I like cilantro, but there was a ton of cilantro. Is that what it was? There was so much. It was off-putting. Yeah. And then was there also tomatoes in it? There were tomatoes in it. Yeah.

Which I felt like the proportion of tomatoes that I did not find crazy, but the amount of cilantro, it was like the second ingredient, basically. What I thought was fresh tasting at first ended up to be like, I don't know if it wasn't fresh. I mean, it had to be because it's an avocado, right? Yes. But how do you, how do you, how do you wreck guacamole? If you have fresh avocados, that is the question.

How are you fucking this up? Yeah. I'm laughing because the EDM music is, they came back stronger than ever. Yeah. It's so weird that this concert had like a big stretch of EDM music, then silence. I'm assuming the acts were changing. But such, but like usually there's like at least like music in between. You know what I mean?

Like even just like, it's really thumping. It's, it's crazy. Also, they must not like the, the food review portion of the show. No. Get to the feedback. Yeah. The guac was not great. It was passable.

The quake, the queso was pretty good. Well, that was a real highlight. And that's the first thing I think any of us had. And so we were pretty happy with it. Liquid white gold, they describe it as. It is very white. It is, that is the, you know, it's, it's a milky color, but it is, it's pretty good. And a good temperature, like a perfect temperature.

Nice and warm. I had a Coca-Cola as well. Also, I had an orange juice at the Flying Biscuit. I'm just going to tell people that from last time. Okay. So it was bad actually. Yeah. If you're maintaining the Doughboys Wikipedia page, go ahead and add the orange

juice in, please under Mitch's menu items from the Flying Biscuit episode. I had a Coca-Cola and the Coca-Cola was the thing that I liked the most because my stomach hurts so bad. Yeah. And I left during the meal and had to use the bathroom. Yeah. And the, and the thing that I liked the most was the Coca-Cola, because it was. Oh my God.

And we're in Atlanta. This is sad. I know. Day for Mitch. It was, it's, we're in the Coca-Cola city, Nick. We are. And so they call it. And, and that was all I really cared about in that meal.

I ate more of the burrito than I even should have. Yeah. I thought that the highlight for me, honestly, Marilyn, where are your tacos? I, when I had a bite of the taco, I thought the steak taco was actually pretty good. You did give us a crunchy taco up for grabs, which was very nice of you. One of your three amigos, which is what the taco combo is called. The most normal name. The most normal name.

And it actually makes sense. And although that also is a reference, but we, yeah, I thought, I didn't like the shell itself. I thought the shell was like a little, a little plain. It was like kind of that white corn, which sometimes it's, I feel like for this, for like trashier sort of food, you know, I'd like it to be something a little bit more indulgent, but it was, it was so light and airy the shell, but the contents of it were pretty good.

I thought this was a fine taco. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And we have one more menu item to try. We have these Moe's cookies, which we got three for a dollar. You don't have to eat them. I'm going to have a bite of everything.

I'm going to take a bite of each one of them, of course. You don't have to have, in fact, you don't have to have any. This is completely optional. This is going to factor into my evaluation. We got a Moe's Snickerdoodle, a Moe's Chocolate Chunk, and a Moe's Oatmeal Raisin. I'm going to open these up. Um, are you, uh, is there, are there any fast food desserts that work for you

guys as I'm, as I'm getting these going? Of course. Which ones do you think of? There's a Frosty. There's a McFlurry. What are you talking about? Yeah. McDonald's, the ice cream cone.

Yeah. The McDonald's ice cream cone, the McFlurry at McDonald's. McDonald's apple pie. Okay. There you go. Okay. That the apple pie is more, you're saying non-dairy? I'm saying non-shake in the non-shake category, which they should have been

more specific. Like the subway cookies are okay. They're usually a little hard, but they're okay. Is it Domino's that does lava cakes? What is it? Is it Domino's that does the lava cakes? Oh, they do. Yeah.

Those are pretty solid. Yeah. The, the, the Burger King used to do an apple, a warm apple pie. And I just had a pie there recently from, from the Twix pie that was great from Burger King. I'm going to try the cookie. This might be it though for me. This is how Mitch dies. You really do look like you're at death's door.

I don't feel good. You look awful. And I don't mean this as an insult. I'm not trying to say like your appearance. I'm saying like you look like you're in awful shape. Um, that's not enough. I'm not talking about your physical. I'm not talking about how your, your level of fitness.

I mean, like you look like you're in very. Yeah, I feel awful. You look like you're going to die. You look like you ate shitty food all day on a hangover. You know what? I'm going to rise in the cookies actually. Yeah, that was good. Not bad.

You must say that's number two after the queso. I'm going to have a little chocolate chunk cookie right now. These bags are very hard to open. Here you go. I've heard of child proof pills. This is an adult proof cookie. Oh boy. You think a child could open this up easily?

And we got this snickerdoodle to take us home and open this bad way. Cookies are good. I want to know who makes Mo's cookies. Yeah, are they even made by Mo's? A manufacturer for Mo's franchise or LLC. It doesn't say who the manufacturer is, but this is not bad. Wow, you were really struggling with the bag. It's hard.

These are harsh. It's like using your entire body. The hardest of them all. It's going to be the best cookie, though. Maybe. Although that you were good. I have high hopes. I don't know.

The snickerdoodle is very crumbly. Beware. The snickerdoodles, I think it's going to be tougher because the oatmeal and the chocolate chunk have pieces of stuff in them. Like they got little things in them. This one's a little bit more plain and sugar cookie versus a snickerdoodle. Yeah, you're exactly right. The stuff in it goes a long way.

Yeah, Mitch, you're right. The snickerdoodle is bullshit. This one's not very good. Mitch is adding to the cookie crumb pile in his bed. There was none been accumulating for weeks. There's no chocolate on your pillow and cookie crumbs. I'm going to go for a second bite of that oatmeal raisin. Do it.

And usually the oatmeal raisin is going to get the short end of the stick as far as cookies, like who wants an oatmeal raisin. I think that was my favorite. Yeah, let's give a shout out to this oatmeal cookie. I think this is, to me, this is an indictment of Moe's that we're enjoying these kind of toss in pre-made manufactured cookies more generally than the hot food we had in the restaurant. And that's kind of a disappointment.

But we should get to our final thoughts on Moe's. So Mary Lynn, here's how this will work. We'll each go around. We'll give a summary of our thoughts on this chain or closing argument, if you will, and then end that by giving it a fork rating, zero to five forks, as you did earlier with the Flying Biscuit Cafe. Okay. Mary Lynn, you are our guest.

We'll begin with you when you are ready. Okay. I, like I said, I had a high hope at the beginning. I wanted to be into it. I was there for it. Um, had I known the, what the meaning behind the letters were, I would have gone in with a bit more anger, but right away I was faced with those, um, quips and hated, hated that right away.

Just give me a menu. Um, I know this wasn't my meal, but all the stuff that's in your, uh, thank you. As you were talking, it's like, why just make the basic thing really good. Don't do that shit. And because I gave the Flying Biscuit a three, and I actually like the Flying Biscuit, guess what? I got to give Mosa two. And then guess what?

When I found out what those letters meant, I'm going to go ahead and give them a one. Wow, one fork for Mose. Wow. Wow. Sorry, Mose. Like a middle finger pointed at the chain. Kind of. But I would sneak up and get some queso.

You know what I mean? Case was not bad. Like in a darkened car. I, I wanted to like Mose two, but why? Why did I want to like Mose? Maybe because I like the name Moe. I think you like Moe's from the Simpsons. Yeah.

And to use that clip, he says homework, he's saying Moe, Moe, Moe, and he's obsessed with Moe. Yeah. And you know what I want to say to Mose? The restaurant? What? No, no, it's bad. It's bad.

I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm wriggling around on this bed like a snake. I feel so sick. And look, we were, we were even, we gave Fly Biscuit four forks. We were tough on it. I think two and a quarter forks. I can't go higher than that. Nick works in a time. Wow.

It's, it's unless, you know, maybe we were out of, maybe this one is a bad Mose, but look, we're right near Georgia Tech. That looked like a very well cat Mose. It seemed like a nice Mose. I'll say service was nice. They were nice. They were very nice there. Move quickly.

It seems like people were fans of it. They were, that when we were leaving a kind of a pretty big line for right, but two and a quarter, Nick, I maybe haven't had enough experience with Mose, but that gimmick also fucking sucks. Yeah. And that really hurts it. I'm not going to go higher. I respect your one fork.

I mean, I would have gone to if it weren't for the cutesy. Yeah. No, I, I, I respect that a hundred percent to it's not getting too, it's not getting higher than two and a tie, a two and a quarter for me. So I will say outside of their case, so I didn't love anything I had there. The cookies were, were, were pretty good. But honestly, you know, we're comparing it to some pretty subpar food. So I'm not sure how much we're just surprised that they were better than we

expected. Yeah. But they're pretty good. The case, so is good. The case is, is decent. And, and that to me pulls it out of the gutter completely. The fact that they have a, they have one redeeming thing, but as for the rest of it, there's no reason I would choose Mo's if there was one near me over at

Chipotle or over a Q Doba or over anything else. And it's let alone any of the, the many local talk areas that you'll, you'll find pretty much any, any city in America at this point, any major city as Mexican food has kind of become a national cuisine in the U S. So I am going to go ahead and split the difference with the two of you. I'm going to give Mo's 1.5 forks, one fork, two tines for that, that queso, but the rest is pretty underwhelming. And that was our view of Mo's.

Wow. Pretty disappointing outlet for this week's eight TL. But hey, maybe we're going to have some, some fun with this segment here. We've got a food stuff. We're going to decide if you should put it in your mouth. It's snack or Wacken. We got more tour leftovers. Mitch, what do we have?

This is, this one is now scaring me. Okay. It looks like you, it's, it looks like this one came with a handwritten note. So that's a little ominous. Is that a fun number on the back? Yes. Uh-oh. Is this horny?

Love note to you song. It is. Oh boy. Should we not have this horny snack? Wash. What the fuck? What is it? What's going on?

Um, okay. Just, just read it and we'll edit it. So we know what's going on. We'll edit it out if we have to. Yeah. Okay. No, we can read it. Okay.

My dearest to you song, you're in inspiration. Please don't change. You are perfect. Love, Mimi and Jess. That's nice. Um, you song is our producer who's not here with us. And then there, and then, uh, there's a phone number and it says, let's watch. To he me some show or something.

Okay. So someone was very horny for you song and gave this message. That seems more friendly than horny to me knew that was in there. I don't know. Well, he's, he will find out now. Yeah, I guess you're right. The phone number doesn't make it horny. The message is sweet and straightforward, which might make you kind of horny for the

number. It's true. There's, well, look, I hope you song gets his beak wet. You song is taken. He has a girlfriend. Oh, that's true. Um, then there's, there's, there's writing on this box. It's very strange.

It's like little figures drawn on this Boston saltwater taffy box. Oh yeah. It looks like a child. And, and, and then there's, what is that? Is that, is that, does that look like green possibly? I'm assuming I think you song can read Mandarin. Let me take a look at it. Let me take a look at it.

I'm not sure though. Actually, I could be completely wrong. Why are you going to read the Mandarin? And then, and then on the back, like Mystic River is underlined and then chocolate is crossed out and the bag is also opened. The bag was open. The bag is opened, which Nick is now, I will. I'm very skittish about this.

You, you, you've recently had a tweet about saltwater taffy. You want to say it? No, I don't want to say it here. Nick tweeted that saltwater taffy has come. Isn't that right now? It's made from come. It's made from come. I don't actually believe that.

It was a throwaway tweet. All right, here we go. Don't make me say my tweets a lot. It's embarrassing. It's embarrassing to be wrong. You should be able to say whatever you tweet out loud. All right. The fact that that bag is open and the individual candies can easily be

unwrapped makes me nervous. Well, it's straight at her. Like it would be so easy to unwrap one of those and rewrap it. Yeah. Are you, do you want to eat this? Should I be the guinea pig? I'll eat one. All right.

You, yeah, so this improves your physical condition. Yeah. This is, look, that no one, no one un-did this. That's impossible. I feel like this markings on the outside is their stone. Also, it looks like it will be the case. Split just from being stuffed in and out of bags. And then the back of the cross-off chocolate makes me think that they just

ate some of the chocolate. All right, I think they ate some. I think they were stoned and they drew on that. And then they're like, I got to have a piece of this, but I'm going to send it anyway. I can't tell what these characters are. It does look more like Korean than Mandarin because of the character set. No, I agree with that. But I don't know.

I honestly don't know. And it also could just be like you were saying, just stone scrawlings that don't really have any. It looks like Korean. I agree. Yeah, I don't know. What are you eating, Mitch? I try, it's not, I want to just say also that it's not made from

cum, Nick, it tastes good. Oh, there's a bunch of flavors here. Chocolate, maple, vanilla, cranberry, rootbeards. You know which one you got? Ooh, these flavors are exciting. You got a watermelon one. Okay, the flavors sound great. Molasses, honey, strawberry, beach plum.

Yes, I think they're safe. Everyone, I think they're safe. Um, if I go in anaphylactic shock, I'm holding you liable. Yeah, I'm over the banana, orange, pineapple, grape, lemon, sea salt, caramel, rum, butter, peppermint, watermelon, cotton candy, pina colada and cherry number one, uh, saltwater, caramel, number two, banana number three. All right, I forgot already. Pina colada and peppermint.

Oh, I just said. Okay, so there's a key here if you want to figure out what you're going to have. I'm going to take one of these. Uh-uh, I'm going to take a blue one, which is vanilla. Oh, God. Vanilla is a flavor and I want to enjoy. So I'm going to try some, you know what? This doesn't look like vanilla at all.

This looks red. I think these labels are misleading. This is like some sort of purple one. Oh, I think I got cotton candy by mistake. Oh, oh, oh, you got dark purple. Yeah, I got like a dark purple. I'm going to have a nibble of this. So Nick, are you a taffy fan?

No, I don't like it. No, you don't like things that stick to your teeth. I like taffy. All right, but I've had very good taffy and this also says made with real sea salt and you can't really taste that factor. Like it doesn't factor into this at all. Right. I think they ate all the, all the caramels out of here.

That's what they did. I know. Found one. So these people gave us a gift. Should we have a new rule? I spit it out. You should have put it in your pocket. I don't want it in my hotel.

It's in your trash can. I know. Keep it out of my trash can. Maybe we should have a new Doughboy's rule of we will not open. We will not eat open packages. That's always been a rule, I thought. We should eat in this one. That's like a food like rule.

I mean, it's fine. I sunk my teeth in and then I took them back out and I'm going now. Yeah. I really don't like it. That's a big time whack for me. Sorry. I love saltwater taffy, but I've had better. I've had better saltwater taffy.

That's my issue with this. I don't even think you song likes sweets. What was their game plan here? I don't know. They liked you song. He doesn't have a sweet tooth. I'm not convinced you song knew that note was in there. And I think he just threw that in the green.

Like someone handed it to him. He was like, add it to the pile. Wow. So that note is possibly not wait, but the note is connected to this. It was inside the box. Yeah. I don't think he knew it was in there. So he's learning about this while he, when he hears this episode.

Right now. Wow. Should I send him a picture of it right now and be like, uh. Yeah. Send him a picture of it. And also say we're all going to the ER. We ate tainted taffy. We're all dying.

I'm going to go soft snack on this. Soft snack. Yeah. Cause it's not, it's taffy. You like taffy. I like taffy. Yeah. Okay.

Laffy taffy. I mean, yeah, it's good. And also, but like I've had good salt water taffy. Right. This is, this is, this is not great salt water taffy. Yeah. That's, that's rough, but it seems like we had two, two wax and a spin. This, the one snack is a soft snack.

So no, no one's particularly over the moon for this mystery taffy. Should I text these women and pretend I'm you song. Immediately sending you like super explicit text. Jesus Christ. I think that's, that's like, that could be criminal. If you do that, it's like impersonating somebody. Hmm. Oh, we'll find out.

That was Snacker Wack. Just like a restaurant by your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. And we got an email today from Cameron C. Cameron writes. Mozzarella sticks and cheese curds go great with a burger, but besides Sonic and Culver's, you rarely see them at fast food joints. What's a common restaurant item you'd like to see make the jump to ubiquitous, I'm sorry, ubiquitous fast food item.

Maryland, you've worked in some chain restaurants, some sit down chains. Is there a, is there an, an app, an entree, something from a, a sit down chain that you'd like to see make the transition to places with drive-thrus? Um, what? So the, so the, the person who emailed in was talking about mozzarella sticks and cheese curds, how there aren't a lot of chains, like drive-thru chains, like fast food restaurants that offer that.

Is there anything else that, I guess like a good, a lot of places have chicken tenders, but I feel like places go more nuggets than tenders. I feel like if there were some more good, like raising canes, I know is one, but I feel like they're more like just good, like solid tenders at places. I think that would be, that would be fun. McDonald's had chicken selects. Exactly. Interesting.

Well, maybe even, maybe even honestly, like, cause you only see wings really at, at pizza restaurants, like, you know, if like a, a burger place wanted to have some wings, why not? Yeah, but doesn't that, why, why do they have to do, you know what I mean? They don't have to. I'm saying it's maybe a thing to try. It's maybe a thing. I see it's some sit down chains that it wouldn't mind having the option to

have at a fast food restaurant. Now and again. Sit down chains. Yeah. Appetizer item. Yeah. That you'd get at a drive-thru. Yeah.

That's, I mean, that's probably the question. I was on Instagram for the description. Um. You threw Nick. I mean, it was, she was promoting the show, doing an Instagram video. It's very cool. I know, I know. And then Nick was startled by that.

Well, also, I am not versed in sit down chains. I don't have it at the ready. Right. And then you're like an appetizer at a sit down chain. Doesn't have to be an app. That could be ready for drive-thru. That's tough. Even like the cheese curd.

Yes. That's tough. Cause you, if you're talking about something with a sauce, I guess nachos can get, can be good. That's good. I feel like the, here's the thing that, here's the tricky thing about this question is that like jalapeno poppers and mozzarella sticks are two things that kind of have become a thing that are really available at a lot of places.

They got them at a number of these spots now. Like Del Taco kind of has like some jalapeno poppy. Yes. Popper type things. If they were the actually like cream cheese filled jalapeno poppers, I think I would be bored. Like I could get behind something like that and mozzarella sticks, the quality at some of these places just isn't, that isn't good enough.

It's suspect. Yeah. So I guess my answer overall would be potato skins with real bacon and sour cream. Oh, that would be fun. Am I going to get the level of quality I want from somewhere? And so then the alternate for me is quesadillas that are available at like Wendy's and McDonald's. Yeah. I have some, I feel like, you know, some of the fast food Mexican places, not the place

we went to today have a decent quesadilla. But yeah, they don't always have it as a, in fact, usually don't offer it at a burger place. I guess this was a bad question. I picked a bad question. That's not a bad question. No, I picked a bad question. I feel like it's a puzzle that needs to be unlocked.

Yeah. I don't know. I feel like I just, we fucked up the back of this episode. What are you saying? I'm just getting down on the pod right now. I think we fucked up the end of it. I think the, I think the snack was not great. I think the question was not great.

And that's not, I'm not trying to blame Cameron C. Quick redo it. No, it's fine. But if you have an answer for Cameron C's puzzle, let us know. Hashtag puzzle solution. And if you have a question to comment. Hey, you saved everything with that. Swish.

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Why didn't I just say Olive Garden breadsticks at the drive-thru? Oh, that's good. Yeah. That's the one. That's the hashtag. It's solved. That's the answer. Those would be great.

Those would be great. Do those come frozen or do those come frozen? I don't know. I wasn't privy to that mystery. Oh, interesting. I didn't realize there was continues. Yeah. I'm checking in with Mary Linn is the podcast.

Yeah. Tell us about it. If you like a friend talking in your ear, sometimes about big things, sometimes about small things. Right. Check in with me and I'll check in with you guys. I love it. That's wonderful.

If you guys want a friend talking in your ear and not two weird men, it's a nice change of pace from dough boys. You know what? I've had that friend here for a couple weeks. It's very nice. It's true. I'm saying you to me. Hey.

I've enjoyed you too. Aw. And this podcast. Aw, wonderful. And you guys. What a fun day. Thank you. Thank you for spending it with us.

Is there anything else you'd like to plug, Marilyn? Ghost draft. Can we say, what can we even say about it? Anything? It's just going to be some cool shit. Yeah. It's going to be cool shit. It'll be slated for release sometime in 2020, right?

Yes, I think so. Okay. I don't know. Don't even know. Wait, actually, I don't, I have no idea. It's going to take a long time. It's slated for release some point in the future. Check out that movie when it comes out.

And hey, that'll do it for this episode. Will you see the movie? Yeah. Let's check it out. I think we're all going to go together. He's not going to go. We can make it a double. We can see it.

Why wouldn't he go? Because he doesn't like the movie. It'll be on Hulu eventually. Whoa. This guy's for real? I'm going to go. Of course I'm going to go support you. Of course.

I'm excited to see it. That's such bullshit. I'm thrilled. I was Mitch. I was, of course, going to go see your guy's movie. I'm excited to see it. I'm happy for you. I've never heard you sound more fake than,

I'm excited to go. I thought Wagner was an ink to the premiere. I'm going to take Wagner to the premiere instead of my mom. Maybe Natalie. There you go. She'd agree to that. That'll do it for this episode. I will go see Ghostraft.

I'm excited to see it. Congratulations. You can come see my stand up if I want to promote something. Oh, yeah. Go for it. Talk to you guys later. That's it. You got it.

Don't ask me what cities. It's on the website. Mary-Linoryska. Thanks for having me. That'll do it for this episode. I'll see you guys in the next time for the Spoonman Mike Michelin, Nick Wagner. Happy eating.

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