Doughboys - Toront-dough: McDonald's Canada with Mike Hanford

Episode Date: October 31, 2024

Mike Hanford (@mikehanford, The Sloppy Boys) joins the 'boys to talk his college days in Toronto before closing out Toront-dough: Dough Canada: The Great Bite North: A Culinary Tour of the Six with a review of McDonald's Canada. Plus, a special edition of Snack or Wack: Tim Burton's Mars A-snacks.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://www.richmond.ca/culture/discover-richmond/profile/history.htmhttps://www.mcdonalds.com/ca/en-ca/about-us/our-history.htmlhttps://www.cbc.ca/news/business/george-cohon-mcdonalds-obit-1.7040379https://www.richmond-news.com/local-news/chinese-reach-majority-in-richmond-3061235https://www.scrapehero.com/location-reports/10-largest-food-chains-in-canada/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. Want to watch this episode? Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to youtube.com slash doughboys media. Child of the Fraser. No, I don't mean Frederick Crane. That would be child of the Frazier. The Frazier here refers not to Seattle psychiatrist and Nile sibling Frasier Crane, but to the Frasier River, the

longest river in British Columbia, named for the explorer who established the province's first European settlement, though naturally indigenous peoples had inhabited the riverbanks for generations. And the Child of the Frasier is the city of Richmond, officially founded in 1879, its economy becoming centered around the fishing and agriculture enabled by the fertile waterway. But an even more consequential founding happened nearly a century later, in 1967, when America's great contribution to culture, fast food, planted its golden arches in Richmond proper courtesy of chain restaurant colonizer Ray Kroc. Yes, Richmond, British Columbia is home of the

first Big Mac purveyor north of the Canadian border, a brand that has grown to around 1,400 restaurants and 90,000 employees in Canada alone, making it the fourth largest eatery in the nation just ahead of burger family vendor A&W. The city of Richmond's population has more than McDoubled in the nation, just ahead of burger family vendor A&W. The city of Richmond's population has more than McDoubled in the past 40 years, largely due to immigration from Asia. In 2016, Craig Jones, a professor at the University of British Columbia, proudly declared the city, quote, one of the most diverse regions in Canada and maybe the world.

Could the influx of new Richmondites from around the globe possibly be related to its status as a Canadian McMeca? Almost certainly not, but to look at it another way, yes. Today with the Yankee McBurger chain as Omnipresent in Canada as Tim Freakin' Hortons, speaking as an American, let me just say to our neighbors to the north, you're welcome. And you're also welcome for Frasier. This week on Doughboys, we conclude Toronto Dough, Dough Canada, The Great Bite North, a month-long culinary tour of the six with McDonald's Canada. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants.

I'm Nick Weiger along with my co-host, Francis Ford Capicola, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Welcome to Doughboys. Very Halloween appropriate roast you got there today. Very Halloween appropriate. Yes. Hi, Doe Fam. I was joking. It's not Halloween appropriate at all.

Francis Ford. I thought you were, cause you were talking, you did a Dracula voice cause he did Bram Stokes as Dracula. That was, oh, well there you go. That's what he thought the reference was. I made a, I made a meal out of the muck. Hi, Doe Fam. Thanks for keeping me entertained all these years while muck. Hi, DoFam. Thanks for keeping me entertained all these years

while mowing the lawn and plowing snow. Hi, Eli, parenthetical. Leave this out if you want, IDC. All right, thanks Jeremy. When he says plowing snow, does he mean he's fucking it? Yeah, and when he says mowing the lawn, he means eating it out. Roastedbirdfuck.com.

A Megalopolis roast, Mitch. Yeah, it's not a Canadian roast. Yes, it's not a Halloween roast. It's a Megalopolis roast because it's in the zeitgeist. Dracula, he did do Dracula. He did, Bram Stoker's Dracula. Gary Oldman. Pfft.

Pfft. Pfft. Pfft. Pfft. That reminded me of something that happened today. We'll get to that later. You know, Hamman, I know you haven't seen Megalopolis yet, but the thing I can tell you that's not a spoiler.

I'm talking about the bird. We'll get to the bird. Go ahead, the wagger. The thing I can tell you that's not a spoiler, is that Watto from Phantom Menace? Yeah, but he's dressed as Dracula from Halloween. Got it, got it, got it. It's Watto.

We both can fly. I'm sorry. I'm hitting the microphone. What do you think they're dressing like on Tatooine? Go ahead. Why are you there? Is there a Halloween? It's probably called something different and funny. It's called Halloween with an OI and like Tatooine.

That's fun. And they dress up like characters from other planets, like Gungans or whatever. And then that's a whole Gungans dressed up like Ewoks. Ewoks dress up like characters from other planets like Gungans or whatever and then that's and that's a whole gungan Dressed up like Ewoks Ewoks dress up like Gungan And I heard that that Jack Skellington is actually there's their Santa Claus who comes on Halloween. He is it's all Yeah, it's all it's all different Part of the Star Wars universe. Yeah, there's skeleton. Just Jack Skellington's part of it

He's always kind of if you go back and watch episode one. He's sort of shooting around in the background a lot It's all good at me at this point the first one that came out episode four. I guess I should look I gotta slow it down here notch Megalopolis here's what I was gonna say We know we're getting into and you know what I love every minute of it good good What it's all about you're putting a dent in that couch. What? I said I'd make a meal out of the muck. But what do you, what does, what's the polish? But like, what's the, you polish it?

Turd. Yeah. That's a little, what's the main gold on it? What's the, you know, I put lipstick on a pig. There we go. That's one of them. Old out of gunk. Yeah. Meal out of a prom night. Put lipstick on a pig. There we go. That's one of them. That's funny. Old out of gunk. Yeah. Meal out of a muck. You're saying we're about to prom night, put lipstick on a pig. Here's my date. Get that, get that Mike Mitchell back here. Yeah, I got sent back to the pig farm.

The pigs had a great night at prom. You should never have been out of that pig farm. I, I, if I was the mayor of that town, which one day I hopefully I will will be mayor of Quincy, I'm gonna A, burn it to the ground. Change all the laws about letting half pig boys out of their pens to go to school. I'm not a half pig, here's the deal.

I brought a pig to prom and then they were like, there's a pig at prom and then the pig catchers came, they took me, they confused me, they thought I was the pig, the pig stayed at prom. Had a great time. Well, I think he was crown king. He was prom king. Yeah, he was. The pig one prom king. Fucking got laid. Yeah, he lived the life.

I was over there rolling in mud. I actually had a blast. I would love to be mayor of Quincy one day. You can't be mayor Quincy. I think you can barely do any math. You don't have to do math to be a mayor. Budget? You just have to cut the ribbon on a new auto parts place. Yeah, it's a ceremony. The comptroller will take care of the budget.

I don't trust you with the scissors. You're going to be cutting ribbons. I just don't like it. Look, while we're talking civic governance, we gotta talk about Megalopolis. Yes, let's get back to that. Because here's what I wanna say. And this is not a spoiler.

Good. Aubrey Plaza in Megalopolis plays a character named- I love Aubrey Plaza. I was saying, look to Aubrey Plaza. We're saying, ugh, because you're bringing this up again. Aubrey Plaza in the movie Megalopolis plays a character named Wow Platinum. That is his name, Wow Platinum.

Now here's what I've said to Mitch. What word did the Doughboys say more than any other? Wow. And what is the highest honor you can achieve on the Doughboys podcast? Five forks all around which put you in the Platinum Plate Club. Wow Platinum.

I believe that's a nod to the pod because I think Francis Ford Coppola is a Doughboys subscriber. Which. Wow. Platinum. I believe that's a nod to the pod because I think Francis Ford Coppola is a Doughboy subscriber. Which makes sense. Really? You think he is? I think he is. Which makes sense because we're a Coppola goofballs. I was fully- He's done that three times. it I love that skipped one I completely was like you think why the fuck would Francis Borgolf he's not listening anything he's listening to opera vinyl that would be cool though I wouldn't be surprised I would be cool you're gonna burn Quincy the ground. I'm going to save one house.

Hopefully the Addams house. Ooh, and family house. Not your house? Oh, my house. Yeah, I'm going to take all you and all your friends, put them in your house, and then burn the rest of it. It would be a party. We could start over finally.

You can't cut too many. There's a lot of ribbons keeping things together over there. You can't cut too many of them. Mitch Hanford, this is the final episode of Toronto, Doe Canada, The Great Bite North, a month long culinary tour of the six and the mystery chain teased at the live show has been revealed. It is McDonald's Canada.

That's right. Everyone guessed it and they got it right. McDonald's Canada. Everyone was guessing McDonald's Canada. They got it right. Wait, they were really? Yeah. Oh, well then you got it right.

Why is your dressed up for Halloween as a dork? I am wearing my Canadian tuxedo. Now here's the thing. I mentioned the live show. I was going to wear this to the live show. And of course Air Canada lost my bag. It was a whole ordeal. We're later in the week now.

We're recording up here at Podium Studios in Toronto. So I have my luggage and I'm bringing out the Canadian tuxedo for this Halloween centric episode. But we were just talking about that it released on Halloween. Did you know that it was Halloween? Yeah. That's not why you dressed up in the Canadian tuxedo. No, I wore it just to wear it, because otherwise it was a fucking waste. Well, you got it on. Yeah, I got it on.

There's nothing like a brand new denim coat to make a man look very uncomfortable. Look how high his shoulders are raised. It's also a little too big, but it's all right. It does look like you're wearing a fat suit. It looks like it's it looks like it's plumped up. Yeah, I'm clumping a little bit. I have a I have a jean jacket that I've been for years, like trying to just like make it wearable.

Yeah, I wash it unnecessarily sometimes just like break it down. It's still just like this stiff, stupid thing. Emma and Mars, you're the you're the Canadian in the room. Y'all got any denim? Y'all got any? Oh yeah, Nick, we got lots of denim. Okay, okay. That's like a Canadian Mars.

Just jeans, no jacket really. Cause they are, I do find them to be pretty stiff and I haven't found one I love yet. You got any denim? That's a fair question. You need to go to like a vintage store to get denim ones that feel like. Yeah, I have two denim jackets that I love.

I think they're in storage in my parents' house in Maine, but I got them from a vintage store in college. And so they're like, one of them, the sleeves is all frayed and it's like got holes in it, it's falling apart, but it's so soft. But yeah, it's like someone wore it for like 20 years before I bought it. So I lost my luggage and we found it.

You got it back? Another thing that happened. 20 years before I bought it. So I lost my luggage and we found it. You got it back. Another thing that happened. So Emma and Mars and Amelia and I went on a walking tour guided by Atlanta Johnston the Knife earlier this week. I was filming. We went to the Rogers Center, which is where the Blue Jays play or the Leafs play.

Whatever the fuck. They have the- Rogers Center is baseball, isn't it? Roger Center is baseball. The Scotiabank Arena is where they play the... The Scotiabank is where... Basketball. Basketball, okay. So that's where the Raptors play.

And hockey? Yes. I think maybe, maybe. We're at the sports complex. We're all the Toronto area's pro team play. Anyway, so there's a bunch of statues. There's like a wall of heroes of all of the, the maple leaves, the famous maple leaves, the hall of famers Clark. I'm sure it was a Doug Gilmore.

Um, and you know what? It's Pat, and Tim Horton himself, the hockey hall of famer, there was a statue of him immortalized. So we go to pose for a photo there and I take my, my purse off. Um, and I just for the photo and I hang it on like the outstretched foot of Tim Horton or another leaf. And we take the photo and then we leave and we're in like a store looking at like Raptors jerseys

and I'm like, where's my bag? And Emma remembers. We were gone for like 10, 15, 20 minutes like shopping and we thought he put it down while I was trying something on. We're looking all over the store. I look across the street, still hanging on the dude's foot. Yes. So I'm gonna thank you.

You saved this whole thing a number of times. That's what the jacket was in? No, that was a separate incident. That's where I just lost, I almost lost my wallet and phone and everything. Oh, gotcha. So you're just bad with bags. Yeah, I'm just bad with everything. I told you I took my fucking sunglasses

and I stashed them in the pocket of my hotel robe and I lost them for two days. I don't know what they were doing there. You're gonna let him talk like that? He's bad at everything? What are you talking about? You got yourself up here. He sounds like a damn fool if you ask me.

Oh no, no, you got yourself across the border. That's a difficult task. Yeah. You had your passport with you. I'm managing. This is the final episode. We're gonna figure it all out. Here's an idea, get the fuck out of here. Just leave Toronto. I'm managing. This is the final episode. We're gonna figure it all out. Here's an idea, get the fuck out of here.

Just leave Toronto. I'm about to go. This is the final episode. I'm trying. I know, I'm thrilled. We're almost done. Mitch played so much better. I feel like shit this week.

It sucks. Yeah, it's been a tough week. We've been eating a lot of garbage. We were in front of the Scotiabank Arena for that and then we went to the Sky Dome afterwards. The statues are in front of Scotiabank Arena. Got it. Got it. That's where it was. You know when you guys like,

you go to somebody's house for the first time, like they're hosting you and like you walk in, they're like, this place sucks. I don't even wanna be here. You don't really wanna go to that person's house, right? It's true. Yeah. I would imagine the same thing carries over to podcasts. I don't wanna be here.

I don't like this. I don't think that makes me feel. The Roger Center is where they play baseball. I think it's Kenny Rogers Center. I don't know you, but here's a baseball. Is that Kenny Rogers? Oh, wait, no. Oh, yeah, that's the gambler.

That's what it is. You're thinking of Who's that guy who I'm thinking of? You know what I'm thinking about. Uh, Mike McDonald? Oh, it's Mike McDonald. You know what? Who's the McDonald's? Kind of appropriate. Pretty good.

Kenny Rogers could be like You gotta know when to hit em You gotta know when to bunt em I thought you were gonna to know when to hit them. You got to know when to bunt them. I thought you were going to say no one to sit them. Walk them better. No one to run. Run, run. Yes. Right. There you go. You better stop your sliding when you're coming down to home base. Don't start to slide in right after you've hit the ball. Don't start to slide in right after you've hit the ball. All right, look, happy Halloween to all our listeners. It's a Halloween day.

That's right. Am I back in Los Angeles at this point? I don't know. I don't think so. You're betting no. Work final October 29th. There's a chance I'm back. There's a chance.

We'll see. But then they also told me, maybe not. Yeah. A lot of people thought we were going to do, I guess there's a haunted mansion keg or something. The keg? The keg has a haunted mansion installation. I went to the keg with my mom and sister.

The keg, same ownership as Swiss Chalet and Harvey's. Oh, it's a chain. What kind of restaurant is it? It's kind of like a steakhouse. Eastside Mario's, they're all one company. Oh, it's a chain. What kind of restaurant is it? It's kind of like a steakhouse. Eastside Mario's, they're all one company. Eastside Mario's? Yeah. Keg Mansion. Keg Mansion is said to be haunted by Lillian.

Oh my God. I'm just reading this right now. Sounds scarifying. Keg Mansion, scarifying? Yeah. Keg Mansion is said to be haunted by Lillian, a maid who hanged herself in 1915 on the premises. had to be haunted by Lillian, a maid who hanged herself in 1915 on the premises.

Oh. She was employed by his owner, industrialist Hart Massey. Like, you know when you go to somebody's house and they're like, yeah, come on over and like you sit down, they just start reading off their phone. And you're like, oh, they didn't even prepare for me to be here at all, they didn't care.

That's kinda like going to Mitch's house actually. And that other story said that Lillian was having an affair with a Massey family man. So Megalopolis was not a great thrill ride. I don't think it's a good movie, but I think it's a fascinating movie. You want to get back into Megalopolis? You don't want to know more about the hot debate. I don't want to sit here and watch you scroll through your phone. I think anyone who likes movies should watch Megalopolis because it's a fascinating watch.

It's part of movie history. Yeah, I think so. Very much so. And what would you say is the famous line from it? Well, I mean, we're into spoiler country. Do you want me to say it? Yeah. What do you think of this boner? That's probably the biggest, that's probably the line.

I'm guessing, I'm guessing this is maybe a guy who works at a morgue and he's got like a decomposed body and he's showing the new kid. You're close. I actually have no idea what this movie's about. I haven't seen it through. You thought it was an actual bone? Mm-hmm.

Oh, good to know. I don't think a lot of people refer to bones as boners. No, the person, the skeleton. Oh. You know when it's a Halloween, like, oh, look at that group of boners walking out. There's a bunch of people dressed as skeletons, you'd say. Right.

I think if you work in forens you work in like forensics, if you're like, you like perform autopsies, you start to adopt that sort of lingo. Yeah, I got another boner for you, Mac. Another boner's coming in. Throw it within the pile. Get to them. Found a boner in the ravine. I got a question for you.

Yeah. I got a couple things to say. One, we were driving over here. Yeah. I asked our Uber driver if I could roll down my window. Who looked a lot like Paul Rudd, I thought. He was like a, he was like a. He was a handsome son of a bitch.

A French Canadian Paul Rudd. Yeah, I looked at this guy on TV. He was looking. I got in that car and I said, you're a handsome bitch. Uh. You're a handsome bitch. Hey, dog.

Uh, that handsome son of a bitch, I said, I said, can I roll down, can I roll down my window? You, the peanut gallery in the back starts laughing. Sorry, peanut allergy gallery starts laughing in the back. I developed, yeah, one light and light. He grew a peanut allergy. My nephew's got one. Yeah, yeah.

He grew his, it's a slight one. He planted it and watered it and grew it. I mean, he didn't have one before. He's got one, you got a slight one. I started developing it, Yeah, it's weird. It's really strange. I guess it happens. Go to an allergist, you fool.

I went to an allergist. What did they say? It happens sometimes. Did they draw the grid on your skin and then poke you with different? I did, I got that happen. Yeah, I got a blood test too, yeah. This whole thing.

Look, look, look. It's like Terminator when they open his arm. Ah. Ah. I, I. This joint's been getting a lot of work. What did you say? This joint's been getting a lot of work. What's that? What did you say?

This joint's been getting a lot of work. It's jacking off. It's a jacking off joke. Yeah. So I, I, I rolled down the window and then, uh, the peanut gallery in the back laughing it up. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I said, what are you guys?

And then Hanford says, it makes you less of a man. Is that what you said? Well, this is what you, this is, this is you. And I don't think this is being, I'm not trying to make, this isn't a hyperbolic impression. I think this is what it sounded like. Excuse me, sir, is it okay if I open the window? Is it okay if I open the window, sir?

And then what did he tell you? Yes, this is your car. You paid for it, basically. He was very French, he said, he's a French accent.? Yes, this is your car. You paid for it basically. He was very French. He said, French accent. He said, that's your window. That's your window. And then you said.

He said, don't open mine. Do not open mine. And then, because this handsome son of a gun was also French on top of all that. He was a total package. And plus he had a nice car. And he had a nice car. And then you're in the back there.

He said, I think it just makes it less of a man. And you said, and then then in front he was driving away Like that you like that you like that finally the French are not Wives we were in McDonald's, but then I tried to roll down my window. I couldn't do it You yelled at me said I need to get I need to get down for a joke banging his head with an American flag. Wives, when we were at McDonald's, did anyone go up to you and say, hey, is your dad in here working today? I'm a big fan.

Fucking clown ass dad. I forgot about that. That was so long ago. What? Clown ass dad? Yeah, that was a long time ago. This was a joke Mitch was making in the studio, I guess back in June. When was that? May? Maybe? Yeah, it came out that was Jordan Morris' episode that came out on 7-eleven. Yeah, so we probably recorded that in April or May. So I did

I'd get the clown. Yeah, there you go. So someone said that to you when you went in? Mitch well that's well did anyone say today to you about your dad? Oh yeah, someone did. Anyways, look, a bird flew into McDonald's. That's right. That was cool. That's what I was referring to before the... Oh, I was doing a bat. I thought you were doing a bat for Halloween. I was, we were doing bats and I said, ooh, that connects to later.

Cause a bird flew in there. It's funny seeing birds inside always. It is funny. I agree with that. Mitch, you gotta play the drop and then I gotta introduce Hanford and then we get on with the show Salute-ho to nation Collier Am I hit him with a drop Z drop Le drop is a drop. You know what?

Wives that's kind of my mission this year. We talked about it a bit with Ghostbusters. You know that song? Just give it back to the boys. Hey! Give it back to the boys. Give it back to the boys. Give it back to the boys.

Yeah, boys. Get it back to the boys. Prepare for this bit to carry on for another three months. We love it! Yeah! Where's my For The Boys t-shirt? The song was good, you have to admit that. It's Doughboy's new Slophead. What? I think it said it's Doughboy's new Slophead. that. What? I think it said it's Doughboy's you Slophead. Oh, that's fun.

DK, thanks for pushing me to fix the audio. Email. This is how the email is starting off. So, DK, I guess, push back on this guy to fix the audio. DK, thanks for pushing me to fix the audio. Open to tweaking it again if you think I should. What the fuck is going on, DK? How long has this been going on? Well, this email is from 2023, May 2023.

If you use it, here's the note. Dropking is giving like rounds of notes on Drops. The hell are you doing, Dropking? If you're hearing this, the Sloppy Boys are probably on the pod. So a hardy- Wow. What is up to them? All right.

I did pretty bad. You do it. Oh, it's Tim's thing, but what is up? I guess he says, what is up? Now who are, what is that? Um, thanks for all the laughs and wows to Mitch and wags, Emma, DK, Casey, Amelia and and Scorpion. Wow.

So back to the two fat Kevins. Red, AKA Danny Noonan on Discord. Hey, we know Danny Noonan. I know Danny. Yeah, we know. Hey. Lovely drop, well done. Yeah, all right, that was a good one.

Yeah, and thanks for taking Drop King's feedback and iterating on it a few times. I want to just- Get it up into shape. I want to know how much he's charging you. Yeah. Do all the drops go to Drop King's feedback and iterating a few times Get it up into shape. I wonder how much he's charging you. Yeah Do all the drops go to drop King first and he sends them to you or I gave up on looking at the drops Looking at anything that has to do with the podcast and a lot of us you probably have a ton of them because we get a bunch You guys have probably been They've kind of fallen off this pot. I always I always enjoy that when we do it I mean we took that from your show, but we, I'm sure.

Drops for 11. It's fun to hear what people pick out of the episodes and put together. I love it. Drops at BirdFuck.com. Hey, our guest today from The Sloppy Boys and The Tonight Show, Mike Hanford is back. Hi, Hanman. Hello, hello. Hanman, you're doing a show up here in Toronto tomorrow night. Yes.

You're doing your stand-up. Thank you so much for making time to come do the podcast. Come on, I would miss it. It's great to have you when you're in town. I love it up here. Thank you, thanks for having me, I love it up here. And a man who lived in Toronto for school. That's right, you studied for a year

at the University of Toronto. My freshman year, yeah, I was up here. Wow. Beautiful, beautiful school, beautiful town. Wait, it was University of Toronto? Yep. I thought you said just a second, it was St. Mike's. Well, I was trying to explain, St. Mike's is,

the university is made up of seven colleges. St. Mike's. Well, I was trying to explain, St. Mike's is, the university's made up of seven colleges. St. Mike's was the college I was in. So I was right. I said, when I got, Yeah, but I think I was trying to explain it. I was confusing when I was trying to explain it, I think. One of my first nights up here, I walked through the University of Toronto,

I got a video of a skunk and I said to the hammer, I said, this guy took your spot up here, at University of Toronto. He was my best professor. He was good. Stink 101? Yeah, then my nose on clothes pin professor was pretty good. I should say clothes pin on nose.

It was your freshman year. Yeah. So you were originally gonna be like, I'll go to school up in Canada, I'll go to school in Toronto, and then you transferred to an American university? Yeah, I transferred to Ithaca where I met Mitch. But, well, I really liked it up here, but I realized I wanted to do film,

which turned into TV or entertainment. And the program, the film program up here was like all practical stuff. So you're up here because you grew up in upstate New York. All theoretical stuff. So it was all like, yeah, talking about. The theory. Yeah, right. Not application. So you're so you're in you're in upstate New York and you,

like how far from where you grew up is Toronto? Not far. There was a time when Rochester had a thing called the fast ferry that would go right across. Wow. And it completely failed. Like no one used it. It was like this big story forever.

They, from Australia, this like big, huge boat that could carry cars and shit. And it didn't work out. But it took maybe three hours to get here, going around Lake Ontario. Oh, wow. You can see it. You can almost see Rochester from like,

Oh, that's what some people are saying. You can almost see across Rochester. So it's like, if you had that fast ferry, you could get there probably in an hour. It was crazy. And just no one came. And it was like, I think it was the idea was proposed when like the currency was, US dollar was better in Canada.

And then I think that just kind of evened out and it wasn't worth coming up to shop. Damn, I've been to the rock. It's worth to come to see the nice city though. Yeah, I mean, this was, it's one of those geographical things that for me as someone who lived his whole life in Southern California, it's like, it's closer from Rochester, New York to Toronto, Ontario,

than it is from Los Angeles, California to San Francisco, California. You know what I mean? It's like, it's just a feels asynchronous to me. From Rochester to Toronto, than it was the Rochester to Ithaca, longer to run. Wow. Well, you didn't like it too much, you left.

While you're up here, what was that experience like as an American living in Toronto, like your first time away from all of them? How much were you bullied? It was, I was bullied, I did a lot of the bullying. I would run around, but I would go to like younger, I would go to the high schools and bully those people because they really Know it was interesting because all the there's I don't know if they still do Mars. They still do grade 13 here Okay grade 13 grade. Yeah, it's like after the senior year up here

You would or they just had 13 grades instead of 12 and then so everyone was a year older than us What the hell sounds like a like a scary show on Nickelodeon. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's a Goosebumps movie. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Grade 13. You're going to grade 13. There's like an arm coming out of the door.

That might even be part of Fear Street. That might be too scary for Goosebumps. Oh, is that like the? Yeah, Fear Street is the elevator. Any stories to tell in the dark? It was cool up here. Is that like the? Yeah, fear street is the elevated. The stories to tell in the dark. It was cool up here. Maybe I'll tell you some way. I don't know what the difference was.

It was just being in a big city was like that was the big brand new thing. Right, right, right. Which was really fun. And the school was humongous. Like all my classes were huge and I didn't really get to know too many people other than like the people in my dorm.

Cause I also took a little stroll through the University of Toronto campus and just to like, it was a lovely campus. Mitch. And I will say, but it's one of those campuses like NYU and I guess to some degree UCLA where I went, although it's a little bit kind of self-contained, where the buildings are kind of integrated

into a larger city. Yeah, there's no defined like the campus is here and this is outside. And then you go to Ithaca, which is very much a college town. Yeah, I's no defined like the campus is here and this is outside. And then you go to Ithaca, which is very much a college town. Yeah, I think maybe that was part of it too. I did want like a college experience to have that, just like everyone's in the same.

And then we had one of the best damn college experience. That's right. You became pals in comedy history with the birthday boys is created. How about that? That's pretty good. Yeah, pretty cool. He is the guy who I met.

I think I did meet you freshman year. Didn't you visit Ithaca freshman year? I don't think so. Huh, then sophomore year. It is. Sophomore year it is. I can't believe it. I can't believe it's a time in my life when you weren't around. We met throughout my roommate, Grana. Yeah, who I went to high school with. What's Grana up to? He lives in California. He's a doctor in California. Yeah, that's cool. Like North though. He was in the Peace Corps, wasn't he? Oh wait, no. AmeriCorps maybe?

Yeah, something like that. Sorry Grana, we love you. We love you, Grana. We love you, we just can't keep all your volunteer work straight. Do you have, so you have your time in Toronto. Do you remember anything from like, like were you going to Tim Hortons?

Were there cheap bites you were getting back in the day? Cheap bites, I remember two for one pizza I'd get a lot. Okay. Two slices for a dollar. Hey, that's not bad at all. For a loonie, you'd put down a loonie. You'd put down a loonie and then you'd get two slices. You'd get four slices. Wow. I said, I can do this math all fucking day. I'm a university student.

You thought he didn't have the math skills to become mayor. You can become mayor. Just don't burn it down. I do remember going, there was a toga party on campus once that me and my friends went to. Wow. Yeah, that was kind of fun. And then, but we went wearing, we got Depends

and we thought that would be funny. That is fun. And nobody else thought it was funny. It was just the four of us thought it was funny. And nobody, that was sort of my time here was like, I remember asking a girl out in a class I was in, like we got along very well and she was like, no, I don't think so.

I was like, okay. I did have a date here, but I took a girl out to a movie and she wanted to go to McDonald's. We went to McDonald's beforehand. Oh hell yeah. Do you remember the movie? No, I don't.

I wish I did. It would have been 2000, what were we, freshman 2001 or two? Yeah, 2001 now. Yeah freshman 2001 or 2002 I think it would have been the spring of that year and I remember she came to my room my dorm room and Before the date yeah, and I had Just music on and her name was Michelle and the Beatles song Michelle was uh, and I was just like fuck Came in I was like hey like you and she came in, I was like, hey, like you. And she was like, I don't know what the song is.

All right. But I'm weirded out. Let's go to this movie in the McDonald's. Let's go watch Attack of the Clones. Yeah, right. Yeah, 2001 was the fall 2001, bad time in history, was our freshman year. But this would have been the spring.

I'm saying our freshman year of that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was in Ithaca. I was in the East Tower at Ithaca College. Did you live in the towers? No, no, I was in, I forget where. 2022, oh fuck, that's the wrong year, 2002. What the hell?

Hold on. Was there a bird at the McDonald's when you were there? I was kind of acting like a bird. We'll get to it. You don't want the bird. I saw the burger. You know how you can order a big Mac. Yeah.

He ordered a big worm. I saw that. Yeah. Do you see that? I did. He ordered. Yeah. He asked for the big worm.

And then you get a side of fries side of flies. Oh shit. Yeah. Yeah. It was, we thought he said fry, fly, fries, but then we realized he said, uh, flies. He said flies. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. He said that. And he said, can I get it to go? I'm taking it back to my nest. Yeah. I said, okay. Yeah. And you know how you can get a McFlurry? Yeah. He asked for a bird seed.

McFlurry. Did you hear that? I did. I did. I remember that. Yeah. Do you remember what he got for a drink? Uh, I do remember what he got for a drink. It was a bird, bird juice. Bird juice. Beak Sprite. I think it was Beak Sprite or Bird Juice. It was one of the two.

2002 in film. You have an up way up. You know what he said? It said, don't give me a straw. Give me a hollow bone. Birds are made of. Minor year report was an option. You could have seen my big fat Greek wedding.

That would have been a nice date film. That would have been fun. You guys probably would have gotten engaged. Ice age or signs. I think it may have been signs. Might have been signs, that would, yeah, that would track. It seems like I did see that in the theaters. Ooh, that's appropriate for today for Halloween.

That's scary when the alien walks by and the footage. That is, that was the scary mode. Yeah. Seven Up isn't in McDonald's, is it? It's Sprite. Sprite, yeah. So Seven Way Up didn't really work. It works for a bird.

Yeah. Like his bird can fly really high. Parentheses into the sky. Yeah. But it doesn't work because they don't carry it. Well, he asked for the restroom key. He said, like, can I get the restroom key? I have to go empty the contents of my cloaca.

All right. Yeah. And then they gave him the back door and there was a car out there. He shat on the car. He shat on the car, yeah. Okay, so. That bathroom at that McDonald's is a nightmare.

I was in there. I told you the story before. This is that we went to the same McDonald's that I thought that Thunder and Lightning had turned the lights off. Wait, that's the McDonald's? Yes. So we ate, I ate breakfast and then you,

then later together we all ate lunch at the same McDonald's of the story you told at the live show of the McDonald's where they told you to get the fuck out. Yes. You had breakfast and lunch at that McDonald's? On separate days. Gotcha.

Yeah. No, I had some hotel restaurant oatmeal today. I was like, I know I'm gonna eat something unhealthy for lunch, I wanna have a baseline. So the, pow, pow, lights go out. I sit down, I saw another guy sitting down, he got up and left. And then the guy came up and said,

you gotta get the hell out of here. He said the hell out of here? He didn't say hell. By the way, he said, dude, we're closed. Do you see the sliding window? There was a pickup window there at McDonald's too. I did, yeah, I saw that. Why is it looking for the time?

It was weird, I don't think they use it anymore. Jesus fucking Christ, we were on your coverage. You could have completely covered that. Now you've been talking about Coppola a little too long. My coverage? There was a sliding window there. There was a sliding window. He gave a thumbs up about the time.

There was a sliding window there. I wonder what time it would have been for him to give a thumbs down. There was a sliding window there. You could pick up your orders, but now it's just like a part of the restaurant. So I guess- It's probably the fucking bird entrance now.

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A burger in general? Yeah, yeah. Oh, thumbs up, way up. Do you like the big worm? Yeah, I usually do a big worm, but with like the meat, a cow option. Right. That's right, you order the big worm, but with beef.

Yes, please. They'll do that for you, which is nice. Which is nice. But what is your, like, do you have like a, either a favorite individual burger could be from any restaurant, or do you have like the platonic ideal of like a burger, like a burger off a grill or something?

You know what, my favorite, yeah, my favorite is a burger off the grill. Yeah. Still like hot, the cheese and everything. Like a backyard barbecue. Yeah, that's my favorite type. But my, just go to like, where my favorite, just getting a burger from a place is probably like in and out or yeah, smash burgers. I know it's like a trend that's

come and gone so much, but I still love like smash burgers. Is there Rochester burger spot that you think of? There's like Tom Walls and there's another one. Fuck. Bill Gray's, those are good chips. I did that at McDonald's, he was going fries, chips. What the hell is going on with you? I've been watching too much Mr. Bean, I suppose. You got dangless eyes over there. You know who loves smash burgers?

I've heard that the Hulk loves smash burgers. Oh shit. Yeah, I've heard that too. This joke has not been made yet, this podcast. No, it weirdly hasn't. Hey, you know what? If we were on your coverage, you could have fucking at least reacted to it.

He's reacting, no, cover him, cover him. There we go. How do you know he's on one coverage? Mike, can we edit that so that when I say, you know, like Smash Bros. Hulk, and then have him do that laugh response, yeah, put me laughing right there. That'll be a little cleaner. He's wearing a different shirt.

Ha ha ha. I think the yeah. Have you heard that before? No, actually, I haven't heard it before. I don't think it's been said on the podcast. Yeah, OK. Or in general. Do you have that hasn't been so what do you like? OK, so so yeah, yeah, like an in and, so you have like an In-N-Out burger

or something like that or like a Smash burger. Do you like a lot of, do you like any particular toppings? Any veggies? Do you like bacon on a burger? I usually say, I usually say hold the lettuce. Hold the lettuce, yeah. Don't eat lettuce. It kinda, I always find lettuce just kinda squirts everywhere

and doesn't add much to it. Right. Tomato. Mitch dropped his phone. Get a shot of Mitch picking up his phone. Mitch dropped his phone. I'm okay with it, baby. See Mitch, that's why I can get you turned on to one of these new phone necklaces. I've got a whole trunk in my hotel room. These things, they come in every color you can make. Wait, your phone's on the couch.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't know. I keep mine in the case at home. What hotel are you? You can say it because you'll be gone now. I'm at Hotel Trudeau, staying with the Prime Minister. Oh, that's nice. Yeah, it was nice of him to open his home to me. Yo, you know what I do like? What's that? Is mayo. I always kind of- Yeah, you gotta have mayo.

It's always something I kind of forget and then I was like, oh, mayo. But tomato, mayo, ketchup, pickle would be sort of my top. Sounds delightful. And, you know, onion, if I don't have a date later. Hey. The camera's never on me, right? I liked it.

I like the audio fine. I don't work well on camera. Halloween, good day to have onion on you. Because it's close to garlic. It's close to garlic. I'll trick him for just a moment. Doesn't, doesn't aren't, doesn't onion scare off some evil spirits or some shit? Maybe. I don't know.

I only know garlic with Dracula's. Yeah. You like garlic on your burger? No, no, I've never had. Nevermind. Could you just say it for the garlic? Aoli can be nice. I don't know if I ever do like a roasted garlic like just like smeared on a burger,

but maybe I can see that working. Does garlic aioli, will that work on Dracula? It's gotta work on Dracula. Yeah, I think so. I think he'd like, you know. Ooh, crushed up garlic in it. Sorry, I was, finish your thought. No, no, no.

About Dracula. A crushed up garlic in the patty itself would be good. Yeah, that could absolutely work. It would be very good. Yeah. Okay, and where do work. Very good. Yeah. Okay, and where do you stand on McDonald's specifically? I love McDonald's. Loving Donald's.

Yeah, I mean, this is like, every time, even just today, just like eating, it's like, it's a treat. Like it was growing up, that was like the Pavlovian like, McDonald's, it's good just because I know I can't eat a lot. Yeah, I mean, I love McDonald's, I have a great time at McDonald's. I try not to go too frequently, but every time I go, I'm just like, this is great. Yeah, and it, I love McDonald's. I have a great time at McDonald's. I try not to go too frequently,

but every time I go, I'm just like, this is great. And it's disgusting food. I mean, like you open up the bun and you're just like, look what is going on in here. It's a tasty treat that can't be beat. That's true. Absolutely. It's like Skeleton King.

Speaking of owners. McDonald's Canada, which we are covering for our final episode of Toronto, Doe Canada, the Great Bite North Monthly Culinary Tour of the Six was founded in 1940 in San Bernardino, California and first opened in Canada in 1967 in Richmond, British Columbia. The last year the Leafs won the Stanley Cup.

Mitch, is that possibly connected McDonald's intrusion into Canada is what led to the curse of the maple Leafs? The McDonald's has to end. Wow. Well, what year was that when the? into Canada is what led to the curse of the maple leaves. The McDonald's has to end. Wow. The Jedi have to end. What year was that? 1967.

That was the last time they won. It really is. I have a correction. I said, we were quizzing Lisa Gilroy about, remember I said, who won the World Series in 1990, 1991? And in my head, I thought it was the Jays. It was not. It was 1992 and 93, I think they won. Yeah, I remember they had like two years ago. They had back to back and I fucked it was the Jays. It was not. It was 1992 and 93 I think they won.

Yeah, I remember they had like two years. Back to back and I fucked up the back to back. Do they have a guy named Carter who was really good? Yeah, Jimmy Carter. He's still going. Well Mitch, if McDonald's has to leave Canada for the Leafs to win again, it's gonna be a while because there are now 1400 locations in Canada.

It is the fourth largest chain in the nation. Uh, the second biggest American chain. Number one is Starbucks. Um, and for this episode, uh, we will only be discussing and rating Canadian exclusive menu items. So that's how, that's what makes this the McDonald's Canada. Interesting as our guests basically got everything you get in America, but, uh, no, that's not true. That's not true. Two things that you can get in America. That's okay. No, that's not true. That's not true. Two things that you can get in America. That's okay.

We talk about, Mitch and I will be doing that. Mitch and I will be doing that. Hanford can do whatever he wants. Cause I think it's also, you sort of compare the Canadian execution to the American execution. Cause there are things like, for instance, they have, I took a photo of the placemat,

which bragged about it's 100% Canadian beef. One, like all Canadian sourced eggs, or the Canadian dairy. They are using Canadian products so it might have a different sort of character to it. Can I just say this? This is not an official review of McDonald's. No, this is not an official McDonald's review.

This is a review of McDonald's Canada. The Fork score applies to McDonald's Canada only. And you've never done McDonald's. We've done McDonald's breakfast, but again, the Fork score is only for McDonald's breakfast. And this is the Fork score only for McDonald's Canada. Now I'll say this, there might be an episode where we discuss some stuff about McDonald's

and our future in reviewing it. There might be something about that. What are you talking about? The McList, you fool. Did we do that? Oh shit, that will literally be out the week after, the Tuesday after this. What was that?

The McList Oh, my God. Are you out of your. What? I don't know. I'm saying this in my because we're going to cut this. No, you say you can keep it. You guys talked about who you would have on for the McDonald's episode. You made your like top 50 list of people you have on for the McDonald's. Do you not remember?

I kind of remember this. This is a while ago. It was a while ago. It's just kind of you made Amelia. I'm nervous about you. You guys couldn't narrow it down to like, I think there's like 50 people on the list. Yeah, we did a bunch of, we recorded a bunch of episodes in a, and I kind of went into a fugue state while we were doing it. So that comes out next Tuesday and I'm pretty sure if my math is correct, that is also double number 400. Wow. How about that? Double number 400. I'm just

going to say this. Yeah. We almost did McDonald's Canada with distant, but we recorded with him earlier in the week and we did Harvey's. Yes. Uh, what's that? Lee Harvey's Lee Harvey. We didn't actually, I don't think we said that in the episode, but his name definitely Harvey odds walled who's considered a hero in Canada. Yeah. Uh, yeah. Cause yeah, if you take out any, yeah, I can't say anything else. Um, Yeah, because yeah, if you take out any, yeah, I can't say anything else. Not gonna, it's hard to joke in this territory. But you wanted this to be, McDonald's is gonna be the last surprise restaurant. Yes.

So we pushed you a later guest, that's you. Surprise. But you know what, Hanuman? Are you thrilled? If we were just reviewing McDonald's, Hanford would be a great last guest. I think this is what I was gonna say. I think this worked out beautifully, cuz Distin's been living up here. Uh, you know, and, and I feel like has like, as kind of adopted, you know, some, uh, some,

it's a kind of like some local character, if you will, like has become a part of the city. Um, and, uh, I feel like we have more of the outsider American perspective here, even though you did live in Toronto for a time. Yeah. So I think this worked out perfectly. And I think that's a great one to end on.

And you got on your track. Definitely McDonald's, definitely at the end of the week. That was you did live in Toronto for a time. So I think this worked out perfectly. And I think this is a great one to end on. And you got on your track. Definitely McDonald's, definitely at the end of the week. That was you. You were ready for McDonald's to be at the end of the week. Yeah, it makes sense.

It does. It's a great thing. You did a great thing. It all worked out great. It all worked out great. Everyone did great. Here's what I gotta say. Emma, you did great.

Mars, great job. Thank you so much. Emma and Mars, you did the best of anyone. Wow. I mean, it's me and Y is the other option. What the fuck are we doing? I'm going to say this. Yeah.

So I apologize about the blue jays. Hanford would be a great, he'd be a great McDonald's guy. Yeah. He'd be a great McDonald's. This is good. Look, we don't need to talk about what the episode will be. We can just do the episode. And let me just say this.

One frustration I had, McDonald's Canada has a specific app that is country locked. So visiting Americans can't even download it. That's annoying. Unless you use NordVPN. Use code Doughboys at checkout at NordVPN. I don't think that's active anymore. Try it. Let us know what happens. Try it, give it a shot. But if you do use a VPN, you can probably get it.

Is the move. I think I was trying to upload some stuff on my Instagram stories, and I couldn't see them in my story, but then I saw people liking them, so I didn't know if that was a weird cell phone range type of thing. They got like Rogers and Bell up here. I don't know what the fuck's going on. We have different cell phone.

Isn't Bell Alexander Graham Bell? Isn't that what it's referring to? The king of phones. The Canadian king of phones. The Canadian king of phones. But we saw the little house where the first long distance call was made in Little Canada. You're correct. When we were doing our Little Canada double, which is in the past now,

we went and we saw a little Alexander Graham Bell. How fun is that? I'm gonna go to that thing. You gotta go. It was an absolute blast. It was my favorite things I did. It was a good time. Okay, so... Hold on. Before we get more into... Are you gonna get into food? Yeah. Hey, we got a beer drinker here. Oh, boy. That's right. I like beer. Oh, boy. I'll tell you a funny beer. Love yourself a brew dog. I want to hear a funny beer story. I want to hear your favorite Canadian beer.

Oh, I liked I liked most when I was here. I like Molson. What was it called? It was like Molson with like three ships on the front of it. OK, I forget. It was it was like a white label. I also just love that's the bad blue. I like a lot, too. Yeah. Yeah, I feel like I feel like those are the big two in Canada. Mars, are you a,

you ever sell a BrewDog ever? No, I'm not much of a beer drinker. Not much of a beer drinker. Yeah, they all kind of taste bad to me. Does that track with like what Canadians drink like Molson and LeBat? I, I guess. I think we also see a lot of American beers that people are drinking here. Right. Yeah. I think people are like loyal, except for dads. Dads love kind of Canadian beers. Yeah, like the Labatt and Molson is definitely

like a product of me seeing like hockey ads in the nineties and nineties and stuff. And also upstate New York had a ton of Canadian beers. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is like a, Labatt was in our, like in the Wegmans where we are. Wow. So it was like that, that like easy to get.

I wonder if they're gonna be a, like I wonder if there're gonna be a, I wonder if there must be a Canadian micro brewery scene. In fact, I know there is because we had some local, I had some local NA beers earlier this week. I can't remember what that brewery was, but those are delightful. I was out with the Monster Squad.

Dracula. Wolfman. Wolfman. They confused me for Frankenstein and then I just kind of joined them. Yeah, mummy was there. Mummy was there. There was like the creature from the black lagoons, kind of analog, kind of like a royalty free version.

Mummy, not my mummy, my mummy wasn't there, but I love it. You know where she was, it would be great. I guess it's good you clarified, but I knew immediately which mummy. But I grabbed a Coors, and Coors Light, and I toss it to the wolf man. He cracked off. Yeah, I remember you told me Yeah, you know, yeah the silver bullet. You can't you know what I mean? Yeah, he's like I'm not taking any chances It was a good night though, yeah, just a good Halloween story for everyone. Yeah, that's what you guys do at all like what?

we went We did the mash. Hmm. That's what it was. You guys did the mash. And then we did the fuck. The monster fuck. So we went for breakfast earlier this week. Or I went for breakfast earlier this week.

I will say right now, the Canadian Monopoly games are going on, which is like, we have have McDonald's monopoly in America but they have it in Canada I'm holding up the game board right now and they have different names for shit because it's Canada so for instance instead of you know a Baltic Avenue it's Rideau Canal instead of Park Place it's a Fairmont Leschateaux Frontenac they're're all like an and instead of the airport, instead of the short line railroad, it's the Toronto airport.

So it's all shit like that. Is there a football team up here called the Frontenac's? I don't know. These are the Argonauts. That's the argument. Yeah. I feel like what's a front? I've heard that word before. I don't know if I know. Is Little Canada on there? I don't know if Little Canada's on here.

You might need your reading glasses. Oh, you know what? Jail is Little Canada. That's what it is. You go to Little Canada? Instead of going to jail, you go to Little Canada. You get shrunk down? Yeah, you get little lies and you go to Little Canada.

Oh my God. The Kensington Fronternacks is a hockey team. Is that what you're saying? Oh, fun. Okay. There you go. What league? So I went for breakfast earlier this week because the Canadian Monopoly games are going on right now, so that's? Oh, fun. Okay. There you go. What league? So I went for breakfast earlier this week.

So the Canadian Monopoly games are going on right now. So that's a lot of fun. I got the Canadian exclusive breakfast item I got is the Spicy Egg and Hash Brown Breakfast Wrap. Made with a freshly cracked Canadian free run egg and processed cheese, which is what they call American cheese up here. I guess they have no concept of American cheese.

Oh, interesting. Yeah, processed cheese. Topped with spicy habanero sauce, shredded lettuce, tomato, and a crispy hash brown, all wrapped in a soft white flour tortilla. Now, Emma, what did I text y'all? That sun bitch had a kick. Yeah.

I'm a bit of a heat seeker, and there actually was a little bit of a burn here, which I was pleasantly surprised by. Yeah. I enjoyed this wrap. I would not normally get the McDonald's breakfast wrap. That's just not a sort of thing I do. I don't really wanna like start the day.

I just feel like with a low quality tortilla, I'd rather have like the biscuit there or whatever, or the McGriddles, but it was pretty good. The other thing I did is I got, I had Ashbrowns, we won't talk about, and I also had a coffee, but the Canadian version I had is the Double Double, which is what they called,

you're not thinking about it in an out burger, which I know you are. Coffee, it's a Double Double is two I know you are. I know you are. Coffee, it's a double double is two creams, two sugars. They have this at Tim Hortons. I had it at Tim Hortons. I found it with punishingly sweet. It's also a very white coffee, adds 210 calories,

which is a lot to a medium coffee. And here, I think it was a little better, but it may be just because I liked the McDonald's coffee more than the Tim Hortons coffee, but it still was just a little too sweet for me, but it was an interesting experience. I also got the chocolate brownie muffin and Mitch, that's another thing that you got at Before Little Canada. This is a moist like a brownie with a deacon taste of chocolate mixed with sweet chocolate chips and topped with country brownie

pieces. I mean, it was just a chocolate muffin. I don't think there was anything brownie-like about it, but it was fine. Well, just like you, I'm a bit of a chit-chat, dear Charlie. Heat seeker. And she did. Yes. Is Toronto really known as like a French? Okay, it's much more. I was doing it too, but like you made a bit out of it.

Canada has two official languages, French and English. So we're trying to, and you'll see signage will be in both, at most, most places. So. Chats instead of cats. The for the wrong. You didn't see that, the cats and chats. You know, shots, shots.

Shots? Shots, shots, shots, shots, shots. Now we're talking. Every feline. That's good. I, that was good. I too got the breakfast. Eat your drop. I too got the breakfast wrap.

Breakfast wrap, it's a breakfast wrap. Egg, bacon, sizzle, sizzle. Give me that mayo, drizzle. Oh, drizzle that mayo. Drizzle. Oh, very good. Drizzle of mayo. Pretty good. Breakfast wrap is a breakfast wrap. I did one. Another drop.

Another drop. Another drop. Take your crack at a couple of drops. Send him in the drop king. He'll have some notes for you. It's a workshop you can enroll in. Take a crack. But he gets you, the numbers show,

he gets you on the show. He gets you on the show. Takes a year like the crack. But he gets you, the number show, he gets you on the show. He gets you on the show. He gets you there. It takes a year at least and a couple of rounds of notes. Play the game, climb the ladder, work your way up, you will get on the show. Speaking of cracks, the crack of that fresh egg going in my breakfast wrap, there was two eggs

in there, Wives, delicious. Yeah. The kick, there was a kick to that bad boy. Little bit of a kick. To that son of a bitch, isn't it, Trey? Yeah, that's right. And two eggs in there, which I appreciated. Lettuce, though, do you need lettuce?

I did not need the lettuce. Mitch, that is a great point. I absolutely did not need the lettuce in there. Who needs breakfast lettuce? I generally don't need breakfast lettuce. Yeah, that's strange. It's weird. Yeah.

You don't need the breakfast lettuce. What is the lettuce? Because my thing today had lettuce, and it just kind of gives a little bit of a crunch, I guess, but like the McDonald's lettuce is just soggy-ish. Like it's, there's so few crackles in there. The shredded iceberg lettuce usually is like, you know, a neutral at best.

Yeah. If you get bad version of it, like when you taste that it's like just kind of old, but if you get the fresh stuff, it works. It's a little crunch. The breakfast I liked quite a bit, Wags. We got it before. Hoping to get some little crunches today

when I trick or treat. With your what? When I trick or treat this afternoon. Oh, right. Little crunches, little fun-sized crunch bars. You wanna join me in the Monster Squad? Yes, I do. You gotta pretend to be a monster.

I don't know which one you can pass for. I'll be, who is that dashingly handsome monster that everyone loved? He had a great personality. Who is that? There we go. Leprechaun, he's pretty handsome. Dr. Jekyll.

Oh, that's what it is, Dr. Jekyll, yeah. We're going to Little Canada, and we're over at Little Canada. It's a little bit far, and you know, Hanford, you experienced this this morning. I'm the guy who's stressing out about time. Mitch is like, don't worry about it. The truth lies somewhere in the middle.

I didn't think we had enough time for you to go to McDonald's to get breakfast. I thought we had to go get to Little Canada. You were like, we'll be okay. It'll take like 10 minutes. The guy, Jay, who helped us out at Little Canada, who was a delight, absolute delight, as were all the staff there, he was like,

oh yeah, it's right there. And to me, it looked like way far down the block because the sign was small, but it was like a five minute walk. I said start timer, I bet you I can do this in 10 minutes, which I think I would have been, or 15 minutes, which I think I would have been close to. Yeah, I did start the timer.

It was closer to 22 to 25 minutes, but we sat down in eight. I was gonna get the food and bring it back. I would have been back. It worked out fine. You were correct. And I'm glad that Jay, who was a local and had that local knowledge of the area, what guided us through it.

Jay also told us, cause we said, does breakfast stop at 1030? The big daddy question we weren't sure. Does breakfast stop at 1030 or 11? Jay was confident that it stopped at 11. He was like, it's 11. Like he just knew it. And we went over there and he was right. If he was wrong. He was like, it's 11. Like he just knew it. And I told you, if he was wrong,

I was going to little-ize him. I'll little-ize you all. That's what I should do with Quincy. Little-ize it and eat it? Not eat it, I'll little-ize it and just kind of see what happens. You're going to downsize us? Downsize Quincy?

Downsize, yeah. So we went over there, we had the time. Yeah. We got that breakfast wrap. I also did the, we had the time. We got that breakfast wrap. I also did the, what was the meat breakfast wrap? The, oh shit. I think it was just a bacon, egg, and cheese wrap. But there was sausage too.

There was sausage in there? I'll look it up. Keep talking, I'll look up the exact name of the menu item. Which I liked quite a bit, but it didn't have that kick, that kick from the egg and hash brown. I loved the little hash brown in there too. That was fun. Yeah, the hash was great for texture.

The McDonald's hash brown's good to tell. Little just cut up? Kind of like a little square guy. It wasn't like the regular, well, it probably was maybe cut up, I guess. It was the sausage, bacon, and egg breakfast wrap is what it was. That's the one.

Yeah, and that also had a hash brown inside. Which it was good as hell. It was good. I love that. The other thing that we got is the donuts. We got little donuts. Yeah, and they have these little guys. They're just tiny little donuts.

They're like donut size. What'd you say? I wish. They were cute as fuck. They were cute as shit. I wish I had a good Homer Simpson impression. I so wish right now I had that. Did somebody say donuts? I know, I can't do it. I can't do shit. I wish I had a good Homer Simpson impression. I so wish right now I had that. Did somebody say donuts?

I know, I can't do it. I can't do it. Happy Halloween, Bart. Be safe outside. Happy Halloween, Homer. Have a free beer. Oh wow, free beer on Halloween. Bart, can I go with you two to trick or treat?

Wow, Millhouse is here. Hey, hi Millhouse. Hi Homer. Hey, Homer! Hey, it's Bonnie. I hope we all go to church together on Sunday. Yes, that's right. Halloween is spooky, and we need to go

worship the Christian god. Yes, to level things out. Homie, I'm wearing my Holly Quinn costume. You look very attractive, Marge. Oh, Homie, stop doing your catchphrase. Ha ha ha ha ha. And scene. Wow. We're improvisers. Mmm. You said you gave it up. Yeah right. I can't give it up. We got the we got a sixer of these little sum bitches. The double

glaze little donut, the Boston cream little donut, the sprinkle little donut, the cookies and cream little donut, and the Maple Caramel Little Donut, L-I-'-L Donut, which is a lot of fun. The Maple Cream, I usually don't like that, the maple cream type stuff. Yeah, maple caramel. And it was, it was, it had it inside, it was like a filled donut, which I was not expecting.

It was pretty fucking good. Pretty good. I also liked that Boston Cream. Boston Cream was good. Sprinkle was maybe my favorite. I love sprinkles and it's, you know, it's, I just, it's like akin good. Pretty good. I also liked that Boston cream. Boston cream was good. Sprinkle was maybe my favorite. I love sprinkles and it's, you know, it's like akin to a birthday flavor.

Double glazed was fine. The cookies and cream tasted like nothing. That was the weirdest one. Yeah, I know. It just had no flavor to the cookies and cream part. When I moved out to LA, they called me Boston cream for a while, didn't they? They did.

Sorry, I'm looking something up that was pertinent, but I can't find it now. Hammer, we were in Boston Pizza the other day, no relation to Boston at all. Ooh. That's right. But Funny the Way It Is by Dave Matthews Band was playing in the- Very appropriate.

Video. We didn't talk about the Boston Pizza ads that were playing in the background, because they had music videos that were intercut with their Boston Pizza TV commercials. Is that a Canadian, I've never heard of it. Yes, it's a Canadian chain. It's very big in Canada.

And they had a, one of them was like, was like someone in like a gimp suit. Like, and they were like kind of like. No, that was the music video. That was the music video? That wasn't a Boston Pizza ad. It was an items sales music video. Okay.

I was like, what the fuck is this ad? You were the much music head for this. The other one was a Boston Pizza ad though, right? Where the one they were doing like the the the night of the Roxbury head shave Wait music videos you freak I thought those a Boston Pizza ad Was it on the hands in their own place? Come here more. Did you tell me that one was a Boston Pizza? I mean maybe I you fool you tell me that one was a Boston Pizza head? I mean, maybe you fool.

I lied to you. If you do it on the episode when you asked Joe what it was like to wear the mask and I told you it was like a like when you have a ball gagging. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I just I didn't know if we had done it or not. But but this this brings up another point to get to. We were we were driving over here today and then it's funny the way it is reminds me of this. You were

saying I don't know Rush, Canadian band Rush. Yes, which maybe has been resolved by this point. We're plotting a, we're recording a little out of Sukunas, we're plotting a Doughboyz double episode where I, you know, maybe we'll get up to speed on Rush's discography. I do not know YYZ, I probably have heard YYZ before at some point in my life. Is that their main, like their big, one of their instrumentals, yeah. But you said, no it's a track. I probably have heard YYZ before at some point in my life. Is that their main, like their big 70s album? It's one of their instrumentals, yeah. But you said- It was an album?

No, it's a track. Oh. It's off of Moving Pictures. See? He doesn't know that well either. And then in the car you said, I said, I know Rush. And you said, you didn't know Tom Sawyer. One of the roasts was Today's Tom Sawyer. And you were like, what's that?

Today's Tom Sawyer. I was like, what the fuck are you talking about? I don't get it. If you just heard those words, yeah, I would not jump right to rush. In the context of a Canadian roast though. I don't know what the fuck you're doing. I can go for a Canadian roast right now. It's fine. Everything's fine.

You know the song. Today Tom Sawyer, mean, mean pride. Yeah, you know the song. Can I prove it any more than that? No, I believe you. I don't know why you have to prove it. Cause these people, these Halloween, these people out trick or treating and listening to us. Oh, they'll jump on you for not knowing who Russia is?

Yeah. Hmm. Well, yeah, they'll rush it. Well, don't you think maybe it's time they got something better to do? Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Leave Mitch alone, he knows a lot about music. Yeah, I do. You do, but we all have our blind spots. I don't know that, I didn't know that much. I do like earlier when I confused Kenny Rogers or Michael McDonald. That's I think that they kind of look similar.

I didn't look I didn't know I wouldn't know much of anything about Dave Matthews band if it weren't for you. So like we all have our blind spots. Well we were saying like with the fifth most known Rush song would you know the fifth most known Dave Matthews song? I think Dave Matthews maybe you would know the fifth. I might yeah but it's also like the fifth most known Rush song. I think it's like the fifth most known Rush song.

I think it's like the fifth have our blinds. Well, we were saying, like with the fifth most known rush song, would you know the fifth most known Dave Matthews song? I think Dave Matthews, maybe you would know the fifth. I might. Yeah. But it's also Dave Matthews. I think it was, had more commercial success than rush. What are rush's big like Tom Sawyer and Limelight?

Spirit of Radio, I think is the other one. Yeah. All right. We're going to get into this in a double. Limelight's a song, right? Limelight. Yeah. Okay.

We might get into this in a double. We'll see what happens. Yeah. Roll the bones. Why does it happen? Because what happens. Roll the bones. Why does it happen? Because it happens. Roll the bones.

Roll the bones. We'll talk about it. We'll talk about it. Geddy Lee has a big- Why are we here? Because we're here. Roll the bones. Geddy Lee has a big baseball collection.

Signed baseball collection. That's amazing. What a cool thing to do. I just happened to see it on Instagram. It was like, you know, he's probably got a mansion somewhere and he walked in this like oak room with all these tons of balls all over the place. That's so cool.

Balls on the walls, he said. Roll the bones appropriate for today's episode, Halloween episode. Mm-hmm. Roll, you're right. That's right, that's right. You can rush, rush to get that candy, kids. I remember when that bird was in McDonald's,

the bird said, you know, my favorite Rush song is Roll the Hollow Bones. That's right. I didn't know what the fuck he was talking about. Because just like you, Mitch, I heard that. I was like, well, I wouldn't jump. Hearing Roll the Hollow Bones, I would immediately think Rush. Which does bring up the question, is this is this is it a diff? Is there some sort of bird rush band that exists? Well, there is. I looked it up. There's a bird rush band.

Oh, there is a bird. You know what their name is? Nest. Instead of Neil Pert, it's a Fly Pert. Oh yeah. Because he doesn't kneel he flies. And then... Getty Bee, Birds and the Bees. Yeah, it's Getty Bee, yeah like Birds and Bees, yeah. And Alex Lifeson is Alex... Birdson? Birdson. Alex...

Birdson. You know what? The bird kingdom is crazy. It's crazy over there. Could you imagine being up there with all those freaks and throwing at you? I threw a fry to the bird and then a lady came and scared him. Yeah, right. Yeah, she was almost kicking him. I saw a Blue Jay the other day. I was in Massachusetts. I got up early. I was walking my brother's dog and I saw this Blue Jay just going back and forth the street. I think Blue Jays are known to be like very territorial.

Oh, interesting. And like kind of like mean to other, not mean, mean I guess. They have feelings, but they pick on other birds to get them away from their stuff. You can tell this one was really running the, I was in a sort of town square, let's call it. But you could tell he was kind of running things in there. Wow. And I took note.

Was it Vlad Guerr or arrow, Junior? Well, no, but at one point, the bird was hitting me with a baseball bat. Oh, my God. Your Lord. Terrifying. All right. All right. Let's get on track. You know, it's crazy about because I was talking to this bird a little bit

because the new Zelda game is out, right? And I was like, in our Zelda, I don't know if you know about this. There's the there the Rideau was he was he like, wait, Canadian or American? So they're like, no, bird our Zelda, I don't know if you know about this, there are the Rito people. Was he like, wait, Canadian or American Zelda? You're like, no, bird human. I said, no, I meant human Zelda. I said, in human Zelda. I said, fair question, understandable question,

but I'm talking about human Zelda. In human Zelda, in the Zelda universe, in the Zelda canon, there are the Rito, who are the bird-like, anthropomorphic human bird creatures. I'll take your word for it. do they have Rito in, in bird Zelda? And he was like, well, no, because that's just normal to us. So we actually have, um, uh, we have it. They're, they're, they're styled after judge. You know, from the tribe of judge, judge, you know, who would love that.

Jay Leno. Let me try out this new Zelda game. Come knows, you know, who would love that. Jay Leno. Let me turn out this new belt again. Come on, Jay. Dancing. You know, get the master sword. Jay, come on. You know, uh, I was talking to that bird. I was like, Oh, there's no drive-through here. He's like,

I remember. Yeah. I overheard this guy. Yeah. He's like, drive through here he's like yeah he's like drive through you mean fly through no drive through yeah yeah well we don't usually drive too much yeah some of us have cars but we don't drive much oh should we keep going here uh yeah well we'll keep going with the episode should we'll keep going. I mean, with the episode, should we stop? What do you think, Emma? Oh, I don't know. You mean just the episode or the whole podcast? It's just like the whole thing. I think it's actually one of our best episodes. I think it's going great.

When you guys are done with doing Doughboys, when you when you stop doing this podcast altogether, will you go and like just erase all the episodes from the net? That's a good question. That would be cool If you heard them all they're just gone once you guys are doing everything but post episode 400 that we deleted Yeah, like that's all that exists. Oh That also you probably have a copy of you Yeah, but I didn't keep it like I just listened to it on the I should have downloaded but I just listened to it on Whatever the oh, so I am the only one. Yeah, you're the only one.

You fool, you had the power to keep it. I know, but I didn't think it would be that, I didn't know the power I wielded at the time. That's why Susser was pissed because he thought he was the only one who heard it and you were like, why can't it? Yeah, never got to. He was like, what, I thought I was the only one.

Birds have fly-throughs instead of drive-throughs. Water under the bridge. You know how they get to the airport? How's that? They fly. Oh. So we had Hanford, so we had this breakfast on our own. A couple of days later,

we meet you at the McDonald's near our hotel. Having my notes, a bird came into the restaurant. Did we talk about that at all? Yeah, we covered it. We touched on that. We touched on that a little bit. Yes, yes. So we got the big at all? Yeah, we cover it. We touch on that, we touch on that. Yes, yes. So we got the Big Arch.

This is a Canadian exclusive sale. We plucked every feather on that topic. So they say, so they say, keep going, Wiger. So I got a, this is the Big Arch is a two 100% Canadian beef patties layered with three slices of white processed cheese and topped with crispy onions, slivered onions, pickles, lettuce, so onions two ways and delicious arch sauce served on a toasted sesame and poppy seed bun. Yes, this is the thing.

The poppy seeds are added to the sesame seeds. You get two seeds on this thing. Uh, I was talking to that bird and that bird was like, where's my bird seed? Yeah. Two seeds. No wonder why the damn thing I'm in the building. Yeah. Multiple seeds. You know, I got a bird feeder out

back. This is true. I put a bird feeder out back at my house here in Los Angeles and Wally and Irma watching them all day long. You know what you should get? I got for my mom for her birthday. She loved it. A little, um, a little, uh, it looks like a picnic table that like sticks into the wall or it sticks into a tree and squirrels go up and eat it. That's cute. That's adorable.

Sure. I thought the sandwich- It's a nice gift for your mom. It's a good gift, good mom gift. Here's the thing. I would have rather just had a, this is one of those things where I'd rather just had a Big Mac or a, you know, two patties,

a double quarter pounder with cheese. I mean, like this is like a double quarter pounder with different sauce, with two types of onions, with different cheese. And I just feel like all these different components, all these changes, I'm just like, it stops tasting like the McDonald's I enjoy. You know what I mean?

I gotta say. Yeah, I don't know. Grant, one of the producers at Twisted Metal, uh-huh. informed me of the Big Arch. This isn't Hugh Grant, is it? It is Hugh Grant, is it? It is, it's Hugh Grant. Is he still like in um, umpa-lupa? I met Hugh Grant while I was up here.

Really? That's cool. I went to- Is he on the show? I went to Tiff's screening of Heretic. Wow. I went with Patty and Jono from the show. Very cool. And- Yeah, he wouldn't take us. Is that the bird? Patty had it's Alma I was really hoping my impression was just

nails. I thought it was the bird. Yeah. I need more. I needed more and I got into this screening because of the wonderful Mrs. Commissioner. Mrs. Suss? That's right. Mrs. Suss, Jamie. Jamie got me into this screen. Yes. And it was a great movie.

I had a lot of fun watching it. Also, I believe got you into Megalopolis, is that correct? That is also true. Yeah. She did get me into Megalopolis. Wow. She rules. She pulled a lot of strings.

Thank you, Jamie. Thank you, Jamie. We love you. Also for the amazing Commissioner certificate we got earlier. Yes, and also for putting up with our bullshit when we take away your husband for stupid. I mean, he also tries to come down and eat a lot of our food to be fair, but we do take him away from you. Is Jamie married to a bird? Married to Evan Susser.

Ah. Well, we were talking about something coming down and eating our food. Susser texted us. A big bird. Susser texted us earlier. I didn't realize once Susser and his wife come up, we don't joke at all. I'm so sorry. The bird jokes we don't do. Not when we're talking about Susser.

Now we're talking about the Sussers. This guy runs a lot of this stuff. Susser texted us earlier. What are you bringing me back from Canada? Sounds like he wants some maple syrup. He does, yeah, I think you want some Hawkins Cheezys. We'll figure it out. Okay, we'll figure it out. But I talked to Hugh Grant.

We were, I was like, I was trying to, I was trying to like talk to people. I was trying, I was being annoying and I was trying to like, You were networking. Talk to the director and I was like, What lenses did you use? I asked him which lenses he used.

I was like, I'm did you use? I asked him which lenses he used. And I was like, I'm going to talk to Hugh Grant. I'm going to talk to Hugh Grant. And so he has like a lot of monologues in the movie. And so I want to talk to Hugh Grant. Oh, I know what movie you're talking about. Yeah, that looks good. Yeah, and I tapped him on the shoulder and I was like, hey. And then they were like, it's Hugh's birthday. And they were like, happy birthday to you. And it was like you and me

facing each other. I was singing happy birthday to Hugh Grant. Wow. I was like, happy birthday to you. He was looking at me the entire, like it was fucking weird. And it was so, it was like the worst timing to do it. And they sang happy birthday to him. And then- I was looking right at you. And then afterwards I was like,

I finally got to talk to him. And the lovely, the lead actress there, Sophie Thatcher. Sophie Thatcher, yes. She's great. And she was a big fan of Love. And- Who isn't in these troubled times? That's a great point.

And so I talked to her for a while, I finally got to talk to Hugh Grant, and I said to him, I asked him the dumbest question. I said, how do you memorize all those lines? That's what I said to him. Really? Yeah, because he monologues the whole movie. He just has a ton of monologues,

and he said, it was like learning a dance. That's what he said to me. Wow. How do you memorize lines? Cause I, when you audition and stuff, I, I, do you have like a way to do it? You get a lot of lines you get to do for this season, a twisted metal line.

Yeah, yeah. How do you get those in your brain? Is it just like read, read, read it all or? I read them all. I'll tell you, I forget them a lot. Yeah. I get yelled at on set. Somebody told me, I was asking an actor,

like a stage actor, how they memorize lines. And she was like, you connect them to like movements. Oh, that's interesting. I was like, oh, okay. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Sometimes if you do something that helps, I feel like. Do you not have the rehearsal app? I just, I just.

Is it the one that where it scrolls? Yeah, and then you just do the other lines. And then, so if you're here, I think once you hear the other lines, it helps you remember so much more. Yes, yes, yes. That's what I do a lot. Yeah.

What network app? I always feel like I'm missing a lot. Yeah. What wouldn't that work out? I always feel like I'm missing a trick. When it act in sketches or that's the hardest, I was like, I can't ever get fucking remember all this shit. How do I keep, like keeping a whole sketch in my head was such a challenge. And then you see, watch someone do a play is like, you're doing a whole play.

How do you remember all that shit? But you're right, you know what? Acting is maybe one of the hardest things to do. But then when you're doing a play, like you do it every single day. Yeah. That's gotta be also a challenge to like, not just be like do them as if they're nothing remember Yes, where the craft that's where the craft comes in. Yes. Oh, yeah, we did hot dog and hot dog and was the First show. Yeah show and we did that so much

I think I could still do that show now I know I if I if I got like the lines leading up to stuff. I might be able to do I don't maybe not going on out here. what are you boys doing? That's the first line Doing something the old lady he's in the sketch Anyway, I met I met you great one for a cool Oh grants grant one of the producers for twist of metal great man Yeah, insane that his name is Hugh and it's happy birthday, cool. Oh, Grant. Grant, one of the producers for Twisted Metal, great band. Yeah. And saying that his name is Hugh and it's happy birthday to you, that's crazy.

A happy birthday to Hugh, it kind of works great. If you forget a guy named Hugh's name and it's his birthday, you can just sing happy birthday dear you, and it kind of, you can get away with it. You can get away with it, yeah. I mean, you're not gonna know that you're getting away with it. You're not gonna know that you got away with it

until maybe later. And someone's like, that was Hugh Grant. I was like, oh shit. Do you know my name or was it just that you sounds like Hugh? I know your name, but I don't know your age. Grant was like, hey, there's this big arch. He was telling me about this big arch. Yeah.

And- You're like, yeah, and St. Louis, I fucking know about it. It's common knowledge in the United States. Uh, which their mascot is a bird Cardinals. Um, that's true. Yeah. The red bird, the red bird. Yeah. Uh, I, uh, the bird, the bird that was his favorite baseball team. Oh, the one at McDonald's today. Not the Blue Jays. He doesn't like, he's like,

he likes the, he's like, I don't know, like the Blue Jays, like the Cardinals. Maybe the territorial thing or something. So Grant said, the Big Arch, he said, you got to try the Big Arch. And I was like, I'll wait for you to try it. I got drunk and I tried it that night. I didn't wait for him. I felt bad. Sorry, Grant. And do you know what else, Wags? I feel bad, sorry Grant. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh. Uh.

Uh. And you know what else, Wags? Yeah. It's what, it was the thunder and lightning knife. That same knife. Ooh. Wow. Creepy.

And so, uh, I, uh, I ate it and I kind of loved it the first time I had it. I ate it. Like, uh, look, look, guilty as charged. I don't think it's as good as a Big Mac. I like a Big Mac more. It's a little too beefy. Le Big Mac. Le Big Mac.

We talked about this. We got a really non-beefy Big Mac today, but we talked about the burgers at Harvey's and how they just kind of have like an Angus, thicker taste that I didn't love. Like you can taste the burger? Did you ever go to the sex worker's Harvey? I'm gonna say this, this is not an appropriate term anymore, I don't believe, but they called it the hooker Harvey's.

Did you know about this? I know, I don't think I've been to a Harvey's. I think I need to see a Harvey's. Marge is not a guest, she knows what we're talking about. Let me look up the Harvey's logo because I can't really picture it. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, if you Google hookerveys, the address will come up on Google. It's like even Google knows it is.

OK, all right. I'm just I'm just looking up the Harveys. I just don't know if we're going to have time. Let's go tonight. OK. So we should try and we got McDonald's already. I just like fucking weird to get our Harveys. Maybe we'll do something nice for dinner tonight. There's a lot better food that we haven't eaten in the city.

I just want like a fucking salad or something. All right. We'll figure it out. We'll get you a salad and we'll get you out of here. It's not like it's. I've eaten more food in the last 24 hours than I normally do in like a week. We went to Lee restaurant last night.

We had a lovely dinner last night at Lee restaurant. I think that kind of works for me as like the big dinner of the trip. You're getting out before you're celebrating my birthday. We're not going to celebrate my birthday together. Christ. I knew this was going to be a fucking thing. Oh, poor. Oh, what a complaint that he doesn't want his friend to celebrate.

But you know who is going to this friend right here, man. And he's excited about it. We're going to see him. We're going to see a Joker. Yeah, right. Hey, that's what we want to see. But I thought that would be. No, but to see him. We're going to see a Joker. Yeah, right. Hey, that's whatever you want to see. But I thought that would be no. But that's nice. Just enjoy your salad alone.

This is a good birthday celebration for me. You piece of shit. We can go have a nice. And we just I thought we had a nice dinner last night. We can go have a nice dinner. Let's go have a cone. Why don't we have a cone? I'd love to have a cone.

I love getting some some ice cream. We got some we went out and got some ice cream a couple nights ago. It was a lot of fun. Have you been have you gone to Eva's yet? No, I haven't. That's on my list, I wanna go, I haven't gone yet. It's so good. Is this a creamery?

It is a creamery, but it's, what are the cones called? I forget what they're called, but they're like. Chimney cones. Yeah, they're like a pastry kind of cone that they wrap around something and bake and then they fill it with ice cream. So it's not, it's kind of, it looks delicious. It was the best thing I ate at the X. I ate at the X and it was fantastic. We went to Summer's and it with ice cream. So it's not, it's kind of, it looks delicious. It was the best thing I ate at the X.

I ate at the X and it was fantastic. We went to Summers and we had ice cream. Anyway, all right, get back in. Big Arch, Big Arch. I think our, I think our verticals may be kind of split. Well, did you, what did you feel at the second time eating it? I like it.

I think I like, I mean, I like the Big Mac more. The Big Mac is just perfect. Yeah. And this is like a fun, it still has a good McDonald's taste. It doesn't taste like, the burger doesn't taste that different. No, the burger tastes McDonald's. It's true.

It's just like enough components have been changed where it starts to feel like something else entirely to me. But I like the Big Arch sauce. I don't know. I think it's all right. I think the thing that did absolutely did not work, which I wanted to try because I saw this on the menu available and I was like, I'm amazed that this is available in Canada by default, is the Big Mac No Meat.

I've never heard of a no meat thing ever. Like, there's always the no bread substitute. No, you get a Big Mac No Meat, and it is three buns, sauce, cheese, and lettuce. I was mad at you when you ordered it, and then I was mad when I ate it. Yeah, it was truly bad. It was really awful.

It was bad. Yeah. I mean, it just- I when I ate it. Yeah. I, it's, it was, it was truly bad. It was really awful. It was, it was, it was, it was bad. Yeah. I mean, it just, I didn't try it. I, you need the beef in there turns out. But you said it was better than eating plain hot dog buns. It was better than we did. Um, you know, we did a dog dough bark fest, a month long deliberation of a hot dogs and pet dogs a few years back.

And I was not eating any meat and I had just buns all month. It was a better experience. I can't remember his sketch lines, but I can pull that out. I can't remember an episode we did a month ago, two months ago. I'll say this. You can't necessarily say that it's bad because it is like all the components of being right, but it's just like the lettuce is so on display. It's like eating a lettuce sandwich. It stops being a menu item. It almost feels like the beef is more just like, more of a texture or consistency thing.

Like it would feel weird to bite into something that's just, dun, dun, dun. Yeah, right, yeah. I don't know. Hanford, Hanman, you got the sweet chili junior chicken. Your taste buds will be singing a whole new tune with a remix sweet chili junior chicken made with Canadian raised crispy seasoned chicken

topped with crunchy shredded lettuce, tangy sweet chili sauce and mayo style sauce all on toasty bit toasty bun. Chase, but sing a different song. They, yep. I, they came in singing the, uh, um, the national American national anthem. And I was singing the Canadian on the way out. Anyway, uh, we can edit that out. I'm sure, uh, I'm sure we have the technology.

All right. That's, that's fine. That's fine. I was no, can't do that. No, okay. Gotta stay in, baby. All right, that's fine, that's fine. I just stumbled because I couldn't think of what the American National Anthem was called. The Star-Spangled Banner. Yeah, yeah, yeah, we love it. I got the chicken sandwich, the habanero sauce was the kicker there.

Yeah. Do we know what was? Do we know who wrote O Canada? Because Francis Scott Key wrote the lyrics to You know what star-spangled banner? I don't know if it who's the author of the Oh Canada lyrics So you'd look at our question. This is Scott Key that may have been Hmm to think for just a second. Yeah, cuz it's Francis Scott Key. Yeah America think about that. Yeah, it's Francis Scott Key. I'm looking at it. Yeah, you gotta think about that. Yeah. It's probably.

It's probably Francois. Scott Bird. Fob. Bird. Bird. I just looked at it, you wanna know who it is? Yeah, who? You guys are gonna kick yourself when I tell you who it is.

Yeah. You don't wanna take a guess? Alanis. No. Damn. She's way too young. Um... You got one? You're gonna be shocked. Are you ready? I'll guess...

Is it someone we would know? Like we've heard this name before. Oh, you would know who it is. We would know who it is? 100%. Tell me who it is. Who is it? Dudley Do-Right. That's crazy. I would argue that the animators actually wrote the song then. What are you talking about? He's based on a rogue guy. Oh nothing big just that Dudley Do-Right is a fucking tune. I would love it. Now look I've said before else this is probably a platform I'll run on

when I try to take over Quincy. We need to get these tunes off the streets, screens and into the streets. I want to see these little guys. I want to see the Smurfs. You want you want some sort of a Roger Rabbit society? I guess I can get behind that. And that movie set us back so so many years. I know because it doesn't have to go down that way.

Yeah. Oh, Canada. This guy's going to originally a big dip guy. Go ahead. I know. Because it doesn't have to go down that way. Yeah. Oh Canada. This guy's gonna. Originally. This guy's a big dip guy. Go ahead. I love the dip. Dip shit.

Oh Canada. Was originally written in French. It's a French language song that was adapted into English. Sir Adolf Bazelrothier wrote the French version and then it was the most famous English language version is by Robert Stanley Ware. So there you go. I don't know if the listeners will like this episode,

but I'm having a blast. I'm having fun. They'll learn a few things about birds at least. Did you like that sandwich? That I liked. I had a bite of it, tasted pretty damn good. It was pretty much what they do in the US, but that sauce was the best.

Yeah, nice little tiny kick there. The best is the wrong word, but it was nice. You also got a cheeseburger and fries. How did those compare to their US counterparts? Fries, exactly the same, and cheeseburger, yeah, pretty much the same. Emma, you got yourself a double cheeseburg. Yeah.

How'd you like that, son of a bitch? It was delicious. And Mars, remind me what we brought over to you was it the was it the BLT it was the their belt their bacon egg lettuce tomato what I love that they have in the McDonald's Canada menu is they could do things on bagels on yes that's me big all everything bagel I think they're out when you guys so I just got in the McMuffin which isn't as good was yours a breakfast I was a? A breakfast sandwich, yeah. How was it, bad boy? They were doing breakfast and lunch when we were there.

Well, mine's a few hours old at this point, but usually when it's fresh on a bagel, it is quite nice. However, it can be really hit or miss. Sometimes if the bagel is freshly toasted, it's great. Sometimes they toast it too hard and it can be a solid rock. So it's really on both ends of the spectrum. The lettuce too.

The lettuce is always a question mark. You never tell. I think I like the lettuce. It adds some freshness to all the spectrum. The lettuce too. The lettuce is always a question mark. You can never tell. I think I like the lettuce that adds some freshness to all the yellow and brown too. Yeah. Yeah. Do you have a favorite bagel? Everything bagel.

Do you have a favorite? Is there like a good bagel scene in Toronto? Is that more of a Montreal thing? I love a Montreal style bagel. I've actually been on a quest to find the best everything Montreal style bagel. And my current favorite is at quest to find the best everything Montreal style bagel. And my current favorite is at bagel time. Bagel time.

In Toronto? Yeah, in Toronto, super light bagel. They're kind of sweeter. I could eat like three of them and I still won't be full. I think every time I have a bagel sandwich there, I always think, damn, that was a really good bagel. Wow. Is it a big, like eating three bagels to me

seems like a bagel is too big to eat. I just wrote down bagel time. No, they're quite small and they got a big hole to them. So you can snack on them. Oh, there you go. Burger time, a video game, right? Yeah. It was a video time. Yeah, Peter Pepper, the chef,

was trying to build giant burgers. Oh, it was Peter Pepper. By stepping on the stuff to make it fall. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Not particularly sanitary. Which, yeah. You know what? He must've been littleized.

Cause those burgers were way bigger than him. Oh, right. That's probably what happened. He went in a little can, they got littleized and he was like, well, I gotta monetize this thing somehow and make some burgers. Cause that was in game, that was like an arcade game in like the eighties, right?

That was an arcade game in the eighties, yeah. So that was before you could big eyes stuff. They wouldn't have big eyes burgers. There was no way to big eyes here. You think he was just in there? You think he was just in the machine? He was just in the machine, yeah. He'd be like.

Well, that's the thing, they're all in the machine and then at night when the arcade's closed, they go to Game Central Station and they hang out. Oh, right. I forgot about this. They talk like Zangief, you know, gets to chat with Sonic and so forth. Okay, so the- Hold on a second.

I got to say, bagel belts are a thing here in Canada. I haven't had a bagel belt. I know you can get one at Tim Hortons, but bagel belts. Bagel belt. Didn't you try wearing one through Queen Park and the squirrels attacked you? Yeah, I got attacked by a bird. Have you seen the squirrels are all black? Yeah, that's such a cool, yeah, it's cool.

I've heard the black squirrels will attack you. Isn't that a thing? What? Is that true? I have personally never been attacked and we're seeing anyone get attacked, but if you are on a campus where people are known to feed the squirrels, sometimes they get a little overconfident

and they'll maybe jump out at you trying to get them to. I do remember being able to, especially in Queens Park, that's Queens Park right near, yeah, I'd have to cross that to get to most of my classes. Yeah, the squirrels would come right up to you. Wow. I told you I saw some foxes on the University of Toronto.

Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Little red foxes, they're very cute. We talked about it. We talked about it, yeah, yeah. We'll post the video. I gotta check out Bagel Time. Always Bagel got to, I got to check out bagel time. Always bagel time for me. I'm big bagel fan. All right.

So the other Canadian exclusive thing we had was the poutine rich in rich and tasty gravy, mouth melty mouthwatering cheese curds on our world famous fries. You better believe it. So here's the issue with the poutine Mitch and you articulated this well. It just wrecks the key element of the McDonald's fries, which is the crispy texture. And Emma didn't hear us making that point. She made the same point just a minute later.

Yeah. Oops. No, no, no, you know. Me not listening at lunch, what? No, I mean, I'm saying, I made this point and then you tried them and you made the point too. I mean. Yeah. It was gross. They just get kind of mushy, but this is the thing,

I've had poutine I think four times, maybe five times while I've been up here. This was my least favorite execution of poutine. I think the curds were not melted enough. I thought they were just kind of like inert. I thought the gravy was just like lacking in flavor versus some other ones I've had. And I've just also just give me the,

if you're not better than the default, why fucking bother? And I'd rather just have the McDonald's fries as they come. It's like, it's the way McDonald's does, remember when they would do like pizza? I never had it, but I could imagine what that is. Same way with the poutine, it was like, I can picture what this is gonna be when it comes out. Just a mess of like subtracting the qualities

of everything else. One other issue, it's not called McPoutine. Come on, write McPoutine on the packaging. What are we doing here? Yeah, well, I guess I get it. Yeah. I get what you're saying. McBigMac.

And the thing, the frustration on top of that is that there is a fry varietal we were more excited to try, which is the McShakers. They have a Ramen McShaker fries, Tzatziki McShaker fries, Churros McShaker fries, and masala McShaker fries. This is like a spice package that comes and then you put it into the bag and you shake it up. There's some other fast food chains.

Tommy's used to have something like this. Tommy's is a good burger. That's a really, yeah. I do like that Tommy's burger. But they did not have this in stock at this McDonald's. And we could not figure out how to order it online. And again, the McDonald's Canada app is locked out for Americans.

So we can find another location with it. But we did get the Smarties McFlurry and the Reese's Chip-Its in Fudge McFlurry. These are two Canadian exclusive McFlurry varietals. We don't have Smarties as Canadians know them in the States. It is, that is a tablet candy, a sour candy in the US. It is the chocolatey M&M analog in Canada. And I thought the Smarties McFlurry was delightful.

I liked it a lot. You didn't like it as much as an M&M McFlurry. And I think this is where we disagreed. At first. At first. It was so, we talked about this. The texture of the Smarties, they're very crunchy. Yes, the chunks like splinter into almost shrapnel yes and so up top i mean i know this too happens with the m&m's

that they get hard in the mick flurry but the shell is so crunchy up top i still think i do like the m&m mix flurry i wonder what you'll say emma more so but i as i ate it more it was like it wasn't mixed and when i I was going down lower and I was getting just a little bit of the Smarties, it was better. There was just too much up top. The snacks, here's what I was saying. There's a snack size and there's a regular. I was like, well, we're sharing this.

We gotta get the regular. You're wrong. I was wrong. We got the regular of the Smarties McFlurry and we got the snack size of the Reese's Chip-Its and Fudge McFlurry, because I wasn't gonna have that one because I had peanut butter chips. The snack size was more than enough.

And it's pretty big. It's big, but it also comes in packaging where it's like kind of folded paper. It's like it's like a kind of a different sort of, I assume, less wasteful versus the plastic cup that we get in the US with the big plastic straw. And I actually really liked it. I thought it was fun to eat out of. It was cool. It almost looked like a, like a Chinese food to go carton. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. Plop open the top like that. Yeah, with the cold sweet cream inside.

I look, I thought that McFlurry was delightful. I really enjoyed it. If you haven't noticed the ban on plastics in Canada, where in all these restaurants, we get wooden spoons and forks and the paper straws. There still seem to be- You can't get plastic, but I think it's good. There still seem to be a lot of like plastic water bottles

and plastic soda bottles there. I'm kind of surprised those are so pervasive, but I guess it's like one step at a time and we don't have any restrictions like that in the state. Put them in bags, you put the milk in bags, put everything else in bags. I guess that's still plastic. I like cans, give me fucking cans.

Give me cans. Glasses first. Give us back to glass, fucking cans. Give me cans. Glasses first. Give us back to glass. Glass is great. Glass is great, but if you don't have glass because people are gonna break glass, fine. Give me a fucking can. You can't go wrong with glass.

You can't go wrong with glass. Including the movie, great movie. Yeah, that's true. Saw it with Buster Rimes. You see shattered glass? No, I've never seen shattered glass. You saw it with him in the theater? He was in the theater.

I'll tell you this, he was sitting like this, I stepped in between his legs and I said, thank you for everything you've done. And he shook his hand and I left. He also snored during the movie. And then a guy whispered, it's Busta's birthday. Get to sing to him. I still like the McFlurries.

I liked, look, I liked the Big Arch. Shout out to Archie Acton, Chankton's dad. What's up, Chankton's dad? Big Arch. I liked the Big Arch. It was, honestly, the real loser of today's lunch, actually the real loser of everything I've had, was that poutine.

The poutine was a bummer. The poutine was a bummer, but everything else was great. It just doesn't work at McDonald's. And I guess it's, Mars, have you had McDonald's poutine? Is it a thing, people don't get it. I would refuse it. It truly seems like it's just meant for tourists who want to just try some poutine

and they go to McDonald's and they'll have some. But it's crazy because it's like the value menu. You can get it with fries or with poutine. It just seems like it's, it's, it's. Yeah. When you get a combo, you can upgrade to poutine, but it probably costs them very little to do it. I mean, it's, it's just McDonald's fries are, we've said this before. I mean, it won the tournament.

McDonald's fries were the best items in the McDonald's tournament. Yes, that's right. Crispy, hot, salted, fresh McDonald's fries. Of everything from McDonald's, that one, like what we did with the, that I did with the Taco Bell. Yeah, it was a, we did the same thing with McDonald's. Every menu item in McDonald's and the fries one. And I think for good reason.

When they're hot and fresh and good, they're the best. Yeah, they're one of the reasons to go to McDonald's. And this, yeah, it just takes away a lot of it. I couldn't even tell if they were salted, you know what I mean, it just is. Well, and I also had A&W poutine over the course of this trip, you know, along with Harvey's poutine, Swiss chalet poutine, but the A&W poutine in particular was like really good. And the Harveys poutine, it was delightful. It's just like night and day better than McDonald's. Wait, what was delightful? The A&W poutine. The Harvey's poutine was better than

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We'll each go around. We'll give it from zero to five forks, this particular chain. We're talking McDonald's Canada, Canada only. Your thoughts on McDonald's Canada, your fork score. I mean, this is one of the, McDonald's is one of the tops. I didn't have anything that was, I mean, I had some of your guys stuff, but my order, I'm gonna have five forks.

Wow. It's come McDonald's, you know what I mean? It's like the, and nothing, everything I had didn't taste different than the US. It only, the only added value was value was like that habanero sauce, which I said I liked. I'm gonna go and Mitch, I'll have you back clean up because you've had a little bit more time

with McDonald's Canada. I think you might have some more thoughts. I'm gonna say this. I thought that some of the Canadian exclusive items were not as exciting. Some of them really worked for me. The overall experience of eating at McDonald's Canada, I feel like is just a little bit more hospitable,

a little bit more. Much cleaner restaurant. Yeah, sanitary than McDonald's. You went to the bathroom, that bathroom. Really? Yeah, we were in different bathrooms. Mine was decent. Well, you didn't do the night experience

when the lights go out. I'm assuming your listeners probably won't have that experience either. I went to two different McDonald's and though I only used the bathroom at one McDonald's, not the one we went to today, but that, that McDonald's bathroom was occupied for a while. I was ready for it to be a disaster zone and it was, it was fine inside. It was pretty clean.

They couldn't leave because it was so nice. Yeah. And then there's, there's just like a nice tableau. There's like flowers outside, you know, it just, it just feels like a nicer part of the. It seems like all the kiosks work. The kiosks were all functional, yeah. I always have a problem on those things. Either like I don't get a number

or they just don't work or yeah. Yeah, that was all very functional. I thought the food quality was great. And you know. Didn't you say when the guy finally came out it was grimace? It was grimace, yeah. He was in there for a while.

Yeah, but he was in there for a while. Yeah. But he was, he was, uh, all like all white, like all the, just, he was thin and white and the toilet bowl was fucking pitch dark purple. Oh, sorry, man. Oh, don't tell my boss. Ronald? Yeah. At the end of the day, it is McDonald's

and I'm gonna go for McDonald's Canada. We gotta go with Five Forks. Yeah. Did you say the birdie? Birdie? Remember the bird came in and. Oh yeah, he was like, I'm Ronald and we're like, you're not birdie?

All right Mitch, I give it Five Forks. What do you think? So, okay. We're judging this based off of- McDonald's Canada, after the Canadian side of the menu. The items, the Canadian items from the menu. Yeah. It's a tough one.

When we went over there, I just wanna quickly go over what I had. I had an orange juice, I had a double double as well. I had those two breakfast wraps. Yeah. I had the chocolate brownie muffin and we did those little donuts. Yes. Today I got a Coke.

I want to try the McDonald's Coke. I will say the American Coke is better than the McDonald's Coke. I threw the rest of my Coke away. It wasn't spicy like I wanted it to be. Do they not have the same cartridges that we have in the states? That's interesting. They might not have the special cylinders. I had a Coke Zero, which I wish they had at American McDonald's. They generally don't. My Coke Zero was a nice pour.

I've had a regular Coke there like three times. I've got a cool Coke thing to tell you when Mitch is done. Let's tell it right now. Okay. You know those Coke, those freestyle machines? Yeah, yeah. You know how Coke every once in a while, like this summer they had a flavor that was like, it wasn't even like a fruit flavor,

it was just like a, it was like called Dazzle or something stupid. Yeah. Those freestyle machines are used, like they track the info on what people are getting. So they're basing these new flavors off of like the testing of like what. Oh wow.

Yeah, like that's all connected to us. So there's people that are getting like grape raspberry orange. Yeah. And that's a popular combo. And they're like, all right, well let's let's monetize this. They'll like play with it and tweak it better

or something like that. So what is going on? It's not a fun thing. It's just like, it's a good, Coke used to be so fun. Yeah. And now they're just taking your, yes! You're blowing this wide open.

How did you get this info? What was that noise? What was that noise? What was the chimes? Hold on a second. How are you getting, how are you getting? I heard it on a podcast. You heard it on a podcast?

Uh-huh. That chime, which even comes on when I'm on set is, Wiggs, here you want it. Oh, is that the bullshit detector? I made that shit up. It's my bullshit detector. That's real, I heard that on a detector. I made that shit up. It's my bullshit detector. That's real. I heard that on a podcast.

I love it. Wags, what that is is that when I was up here, my place almost got broken into, as you know. Oh, it's your ring child. Jesus. So I have a camera set up. So if there's anyone in my backyard, my little backyard stoop,

it knows because the place just couple down for me, which is connected to my place, got broken into. They kicked the window in and robbed it. And I was on set, my phone died. And I was like, hey, my phone died. I said this to Samoa Joe. And I went home and I plugged my phone in and I got a text from my phone died, and I was like, hey, my phone died. I said this to Samoa Joe, and I went home and I plugged my phone in

and I got a text from my neighbor that was like, dude, there's a guy robbing our places, your lights on in your house, and I was freaked out. I saw, my neighbor saw, and if they do that, Wally and Irma will get out and I'll kill them or myself. So I have now installed the thing that no matter what,

there's any movement in my backyard, I will get a chime no matter what. The sound will go off. What was that one? So was that okay with you, Wides? So who's in your backyard? Was that a delivery or like a squirrel? Well, guess who was in my backyard? Word must have gone around because there was a bird in my back Wow the fucking camera Wow of course I'll send it to you freaking birds

around there he is close to the lens you know what Mitch get yourself a blue j though they wouldn't be high stepping like that with this guy is looking right into my into my freaking place, into the camera. Well, you can use this for sort of as an acting lessons because he's looking right at the lens and you see how bad that is. So don't do that yourself, you'll be all right.

I do oftentimes look at it and I'm like, what's going on in there? And I also now know that it's like a dance. Learning your lines is like a dance. Sure, I like that. I'm now, I'm's like a dance. Learning your lines is like a dance. Sure, I like that. I'm now, I'm video taping this. Okay, cool. What's your fork score?

Oh, it seems like he wants me to get to my fork score. Once this video is recorded, I will pick it back up. I have to do it. If you want me to have the video of the bird, I gotta do it. Okay, here we go. Even though I probably shouldn't dox myself by releasing this video.

I will say that like like for this dumb podcast, if your chime goes off, it's fine, whatever. When you're on set, you probably should mute your phone. I think that's probably a good practice and I think that's probably a degree of paranoia if you're not letting yourself in your house be a monitor for a little bit. It never goes off.

And like, it rarely ever goes off. But has it gone off like during a take or something? Not yet, I keep it in my chair.. But has it gone off like during a take or something? Not yet. I keep it in my chair. Okay. But if it went off during a take, would like, would the set pick it up? Would like it sound, you have a hear? Oh yeah, maybe. So there could be a stunt going on. It hasn't happened.

It's in your chair and it goes off and everyone's just like, ah, it's ruined. What's that chug? It hasn't happened. It's not going to happen. Why don't you just mute your phone? My phone is muted. That's the only- Why don't you change the settings so that it doesn't like- You're not understanding what I'm saying. The only time my phone ever will make a noise

is if there is movement in my backyard. I understand what you're saying. And that is for me to know that- To not keep that unmonitored for any stretch of time, for you to not be willing to have that be silent for any stretch of time, to me that seems like you're maybe to have that be silent for any stretch of time to me that's that seems like you're maybe a little bit paranoid. So I would just say like the place next to me just got robbed. I know I understand. It just got robbed. I know I understand. Well, I

wasn't there and if it happened, the cats would have gotten out. Yeah. So that's all it is. Okay. I don't think that that's that crazy. It hasn't been an issue on set at all and it never will be. If I may lighten the mood for a moment. Who let the cats out? You know what I mean? Not you. You know what I mean, when you think about it,

it's like who let the cats out? You know what I mean? No one, no one's letting the cats out. That's the whole point of it, and it is fine, and I don't take my phone with me to set twice. There's a thing called the green room. That's where I keep my phone, in the green room at all times.

Anyway, to get back to my McDonald's. So you can't even hear it, so why not just mute it? Because I keep it on for when I'm in, because one, it never happens again. The fact that I picked up a bird is weird, it never ever happens. So this chime is never going off. It's weird that it went off now,

but if someone's in my backyard, I'll get that alert even while I'm sleeping and I'll know that someone's in my backyard. So the other thing is, and you have to keep it on to have it on. The other thing is is that I don't take my phone to set. And if it does go off, I can go back and there's an emergency alert on your phone

that lets you know it's on. So you see that you got an alert while you're away from your phone. Yes, exactly. Anyways, to get back to my score. I know what you're right. I'll just let someone break into the house and let the cats out. I'm not saying you let someone break into your house. I'm just saying.

We just go back to fucking California. I'm on my way. I'm going tomorrow. I'm getting the fuck out of here. Get the fuck out of here. Just checked us into our flight. Oh, yes. Check to see if there's earlier flights. Get the fuck out of here. It's okay, just checked us into our flight. So. Fuck yes. Check to see if there's earlier flights. Get the fuck out of here.

We don't like it. I love this city. You're just a visitor here. I live here. I've lived here for almost three months. I love this city. He works here. I work here.

I've been having a great time in this city. I like to say, you know, you were earlier, you were like, is this a top five city? You kind of said it like kind of like almost cynically to me. I was like, is it even a top five city for you? I think it is a top five city for me. I think of Toronto is like is like a nicer like like a less harsh Chicago.

Yeah, like the Chicago, that's its charm. A little bit of is the food and like the what was the cowboys? What's the what's their fucking football team? The bear bear bear bear bears. Exactly. The Cowboys. The fuck am I talking about? Uh, but it just feels a little like more rah rah and like fun and like drinking.

Yeah, this feels like a low just like a calmer. I like I like size and like functionability. I like Chicago a lot. I've obviously spent a lot more time in Chicago. I think Chicago would be, you know, one of my top five cities as well. I don't know how I rank them exactly. I'm loving my time in Toronto.

Yeah, Chicago, Toronto. By the way, just to get back to my alerts. Yeah. The alert only goes off for a person. It doesn't even go off for movement. Seems like it comes out for birds too. And that's, the phone thought the bird was, the camera thought the bird was a human.

That's what happened. Because it was so big in the frame. It was, and it looked into the camera. Wow. Give me all your stuff. So if I could just go back to Chicago for a second. Yeah, please. I've been to Chicago three times this year.

Wow. And I'm going back for, the Sloppy Boys are playing, listen to this, the Sloppy Boys are playing a New Year's Eve show in Chicago. How fun is that? That's gonna be like three sets, we're gonna bring the ball down and everything. Chicago, New Year's Eve, be there with How fun is that? That's gonna be like three sets, we're gonna bring the ball down and everything. Chicago, New Year's Eve, be there with a sloppy one.

I mean, Chicago, I love the Chicago fans and stuff. They're always so fun. Two psychos. But it's also a city, if you look at the architecture, it's like a lot of big, robust, like big brick buildings. Beans. Yeah, it's like the whole city is like, just like, solid. Like Toronto too. Beans, beans. It's just some whole city is like just like salt like Toronto to

Some great walkable areas some great public transit. I love taking the L there But that's the big thing the the elevator in there I love taking the the the train the metro in in Toronto as well And to me that's just a big part of like what I like about city is being able to walk around it I like Toronto. I gave it a hard time in the first episode. I like Toronto quite a bit Yeah, I was with the Wolfman and the Monster Squad and we took a picture in front of the bean and he got really sick. Chicago be I was put together.

Right here. I am telling the big silver bean. I know it is Millennium Park, but whatever. You should save all that stuff for your plug section. We have a part of this podcast replug stuff. Well, I got a ton of stuff. We'll edit it in there. Back to my score. Now that Wags has grilled me on the thing about protecting my cats, here's back to my score of McDonald's. There's some stuff we didn't try. The McShakers, which is the stuff we talked about, the McShakers, the Firecracker chickens, which were out. They were on the kiosk, but they were out.

We couldn't get them. There's some sort of orange, like an orange drink. That's like kind of like a, it seems like an orange sherbety drink. I don't know what that was. Cause we could not find it on the menu. I don't know who described that to you. Maybe it's gone.

Maybe it's gone. But there were a few things that we could not try, unfortunately. Unfortunately, yeah. But McDonald's is McDonald's. Yeah. And when there's a bird in there, you haven't even more. And you know what? It's a bird centric day. And you know what?

I don't think McDonald's is for the birds. I think it's for everyone. Wow. Birds. They got the big worm, as we talked about. It's true. They got a side of flies, as we talked about. We don't have to go back over all the menu items they have for birds. Instead of the drive-through, they get a fly-through.

They have a fly-through instead of the drive-through. I did a Coke, the Big Arch, we did the poutine, we did the two ice creams, we covered all that food. Five forks. Wow. Wow. So wait, the highest fork score getter in Toronto. Wow, platinum indeed. Welcome to Platinum Play Club.

Wow, platinum. Wow, platinum. Wow. Wow. Is she a, just answer me this. Is it like, she's a robot in the movie? No. No. Or a droid or something? So it's not even that type of movie. So I don't even know what even to see this thing when I see yeah, all right

Wow Wow Megalopolis Wow platinum It's for all of you are dressed up as Megalopolis characters. I'm sure you're going crazy. Yes Oh, what what uh, what pop culture person would you be for Halloween this year based on just this year? Nush Berman from Megalopolis. I'd be Haktua. Haktua's a good one. Haktua would be a good one.

Does she have like a look though? You kind of almost need like a word bubble that says like spit on that thing. Yeah, I'm like the Haktua person. You know what? People are going to start referring to me to Haktua. You hear me coughing over here? Haktuna. It's funny because I was talking to the bird and he's like, is like, I'm going to be like

this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to be like this. I'm going to Hawk Tuna. You hear me coughing over here? Hawk Tuna. It's funny cause I was talking to the bird and he's like, is like, yeah, we say Hawk Tuna because we have Hawks and then we like, and they grab Tuna.

You see us in the trash with those little tuna cats. We love it. Hawk Tuna. What's she up to now to hock to her girl? You know, podcast, if you're going to talk to her, that's a good name. And then instead of, instead of spit on that thing, they say, spit up into your baby's mouth on that thing. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. That thing is the baby. It is the baby. Five forks all around. Congratulations to the high fork getter of Toronto. McDonald's, Canada. American chain McDonald's. That was Canada. Their Canadian outpost.

And you know what? Congratulations to Hawk too. Congratulations. Yeah, why not? Oh boy. Hey, it's time for a segment. Super producer Mars has picked out some snacks for us to try.

It's time for Tim Burton's Mars a Snacks. Wait, hold on a second. Yeah. Don't we also have a, is it Tim Burton's or Tim Horton's? No, we're doing this. We're doing Tim Burton's Mars snacks. Why wouldn't it be Tim Horton's Mars snacks? We got the quiz. We'll figure out the quiz. We're yelling two things. I want to yell at them next. It could be Tim Horton's Mars snacks, but I feel like that's a hat on a hat. Yeah, of course. What about the slob quiz? What about fucking the snacks that Mars got? We're doing snacks. You can just say that line and then you're done with it.

We're doing these. We got Hickory Sticks. We got Hickory Sticks Original and Hickory Sticks Salt and Vinegar. Ooh. Here you go. I've been in the Salt and Vinegar chips a lot lately. Mitch, here's the Salt and Vinegar.

So Mars, you got these? Originals. Well, Lager was asking me for some suggestions on more snacks you guys can try and you guys have already covered many great Canadian snacks and this was one that was left on the table. Hickory sticks was a classic snack to get on Halloween. A little different than your regular potato chip. They would give them out at houses? They give you a little bag of hickory sticks?

Yeah, like a little bag of hickory sticks. These are by Hostess. The more you eat, the more addicting they are. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ooh, wow. So they are just potato chip sticks, right? Yeah. Yeah, hickory stick is a better way of saying that, though.

Yeah, you kind of remind me of a hickory stick. These are real thin little, see if I can hold some up for the lens, these are real thin kind of haystack sort of. They look like the French's potato sticks that used to come in the blue can. They really do, yeah. That's what I got recently. I got some of those, like in of. Yeah, like the French's potato sticks that used to come in the blue can. Yeah, I got that's what I got.

I got some of those like in a blue can, right? Yeah. I got some of those recently. Fun. My grandma used to give me the Hickory. Me too. This is like a very much of a grandma. But I've never heard them called Hickory sticks. That's a cool name. Let me try those salt and vins. Mitch. Mm hmm. Also a savory hostess snack, which I don't see very often.

I didn't realize hostess had a savory side. Zero trans fat, zero groms trans. Those are real good. We actually got some smaller bags if you want one for over here. Oops, sorry. All right, we got like the salt and vinegar. So Amelia wrote up a slop quiz.

We'll do the quiz. That's pretty good. I think for the purposes of we're up in Canada, where's some snacks we can't get in the States. This is like, you know, while we're physically up here, I think we could do the quiz at any time. That's good. Isn't it Canada themed?

Oh, the originals. Yeah, but we'll do the quiz at some point. The originals are like barbecue flavored. They are. They're not just plain. Do they do a bunch of flavors? Salt and vinegar are working barbecue flavored. They are. They're not just plain. Do they do a bunch of flavors? The salt and vinegar are working for me. I was only familiar with the original.

The salt and vinegar is actually new to me, so I'm curious to try that. I assume the barbecue flavor kind of comes from the hickory. Don't you use hickory chips to smoke meat and stuff? Oh, that might be it. Yeah, that would make sense. That's good. Those are good. Those are good. I, that might be it, yeah. That would make sense. That's good. Those are good.

Those are good. I like those bad boys. Me too. Snack. Both snacks are. Mars is snack. Yeah, Mars is snacks for sure. Are you a fan of Mars Attack?

Never seen it. Wow. Wow, interesting. Is there any Mars movie you enjoy? Mission to Mars, Red Planet. Mars Attacks is almost like Megalopolis with all the celebrity actors. It is very much so.

Like that was a movie that was just like Jack Nicholson and- Yeah. And you know what happens to Jack Nicholson? Jessica, yeah. He gets little-ized. He does get a little-ized to some degree. Does somebody turn into a chihuahua? Someone turns into a dog.

Yeah, they put, they put the, I think Sarah Jessica Parker's head on a dog. Yes, that's what I was trying to think. Very fun, fun movie. Great movie. Cool movie. Mars, you're also telling us about ice wine. What's going on with ice wine?

Yeah, ice wine. So I'm someone, I don't really enjoy alcohol too much. I'm just not really great with the taste of it, but at the airport, I will often get ice wine, which is wine grown kind of near the Niagara Falls region. It's like grown with grapes still frozen or it's like made out of like frozen grapes. It's a dessert wine. I find it to be incredibly tasty and just really, really delicious. So it's something I'd recommend if you're ever in Canada. That's cool. Mars, I had some.

What did you think? I loved it. Where'd you have it? The Gretzky Vineyards. Gretzky had ice, cause I saw Gretzky's wine at the LCBO, the Leer Control Board of Ontario when I went inside. I didn't find it at the wine store, but I was looking for ice wine specifically. Gretzky had a vintage, but it was just Pinot Noir.

I had some ice wine at the Gretzky Vineyard. Wow. I told Wags this. Did you go to the vineyard? Yeah. Was he there? I told Wags this. We talked about this in the last episode,

but they pour the wine on the counter and then they take a hockey stick and they slap it in your mouth. Yeah. You should go to the Hockey Hall of Fame, it's fun. I went to the Hockey Hall of Fame. Did you get to play the goalie and shoot out thing? Oh, I didn't do the goalie thing,

because I read the entire, there was a hundred years history of the Bruins. I read the hundred year history of the Bruins. I put on the- Just like on the wall? Yeah, it was an exhibit. Wow. That's fine. I saw the exhibit to be the what's that exhibit to be for the Bruins. For the Bruins. That's fun. They call them the bees. There was a little Stanley cup room and I don't think that was the real cup,

but it was like, yeah, I think it's a, I think it's a replica. Probably be a replica. Hey, that was Tim Burton's Mars of snacks. Just like a restaurant of all your feedback, let's open up the feedback. I gotta say guys, I should not have worn this because it's like, it's still pretty cool in here, but I'm still just like so, I'm just like getting overheated. So I'm gonna, I know we're almost done here,

but I'm gonna take this off. You just take it off. You're speaking in your most natural tone. I just didn't see why anything is being brought to anyone's attention here. This is, this is, there we go. What the fuck is going on here?. This is, there we go. Something's going on here. There we go.

Oh my God, there's more. Yeah! Yeah! There we go. No wonder why, no wonder, oh Jesus Christ. Oh my God, the freaks are gonna love this. Oh yeah, there we go, hats better. No wonder why I thought you were wearing a fat suit.

Yeah, what, you have extra clothes under there. Leaving your pants or your ankles is a very good choice. It looks a little lewd I guess. I'll take the shoes off. Look, for our audio listeners, I had a long sleeve Canadian tuxedo that I took off to reveal the short sleeve Canadian tuxedo underneath. This was a bit I was going to do in the live show and then Garret Canada lost my luggage. This would have been Gangbusters on stage. You lost your luggage. You did that live guarantee me they'd lose their lunch. I said he lost his

luggage. You've got clean audio so use my clean audio. Don't use me explaining this because it's now it's lost. I said they lost your luggage and if you did that live the audience would have lost their lunch. I like that a lot. That's real good. Can I say this last night? We had dinner at Lee Restaurant. Great dinner. Still stuffed.

That's right. Lovely, lovely meal. Mars, you were saying you were still stuffed this morning. I was as well. What kind of food was it? Was it steaks and stuff or what? It's Asian fusion, I would say. It's like French-Chinese.

Oh, okay. And so I was also stuffed this morning when we ate McDonald's. It was way too much. But last night, Wiggs, Alana, she was passing up these strips. They fell down into your lap. That's right. And I grabbed them out of your lap. You said I was trying to grab your hog. Yeah.

You know what? Yeah. As far as trick or treats go, it was a trick to me. It wasn't much down there. Damn. You built that thing up for years and then I finally got a taste of it. Wasn't that impressive?

Wow. This is a good look. This is very funny. Whoops. Also the haircut's looking good. Thank you. I saw you, what was the, just too hot? Yeah, I mean, I kind of was just like,

kind of getting tired of having the same haircut forever. And then I had the longer hair for a while and then it got shorter. I think I was getting long. And then I had it shorter and I was like, just my normal style that it had for most of my adult life. And I was like, I mean, I'll go back to the buzz cut. I ended up at a buzz cut since I was 18.

I don't think I've ever had a buzz cut. Let me tell you, it's liberating. I got a small, kind of a small head. And now you're almost, now you can go out trick or treating a sling blade. French fried taters. Just like a restaurant value free back. Let's have a feedback. Today we have an email from Jesse H.

Jesse writes, Hey, this is fitting for our Lee restaurant experience. What has been your favorite food experience while working in Toronto? What food will you miss when you leave? Mitch, you spend a lot of time up here. What, what are you going to be missing when you're down back in the states? That's a great question. I take a look to see if there's a restaurant that's still around because I have a couple of answers Like I can think of you know what I'm gonna know what I'm gonna get when I'm down in the states some what? I'm gonna look for some rotis the the road sure

Roti was really good Hmm I want that Eva's chimney cone again. Um, I'm going to miss the, that you can just get poutine, even though I know that's more of a Montreal thing. I think that is a nice thing that you can get every so often. I haven't had it a lot, but just knowing that you can get it. It's kind of fun, isn't it? Yeah, it is fun.

Especially with the winter months coming up. Yeah. Um, the chocolate, you know, getting coffee crisps on set. I think that's another thing that I'll miss. I don't know, I've eaten a lot of set food, why? So what is it for you? So kind of a two-part question. Oh, two parts.

Your favorite food experience while working in Toronto or like convening in Toronto, and what food will we miss when you leave? Favorite food experiences, and we do, gave me a at Lee restaurant. I can't remember the name of the Caribbean place we went to, but that was a lot of fun too. Oh, Licklemore's. Miss Licklemore's, yeah.

That was a lot of fun. That was a great Caribbean meal. But for me, it's A&W Crunch Buddy Burger, just because I'd been so excited about that thing. And when I finally got to have it, I was like, this is delightful. I got to have it still. It's so good. It's really good and it delivers.

And also just having ANW Canada again and not having to be like, I have to review this. I can just enjoy this was great. But the meal I'll remember the most is Mars taking us to Tuduno. This was such a wonderful experience. It was such a great communal dining experience. It was super memorable. And it was just like the fish was so fun. It was so flavorful.

The garlic rice was delicious. And it also just like it was so it was just such a unique sort of dining experience in the city that I was not expecting. So that was great. Thank you so much for taking us there. Yeah, I'm so glad you enjoyed it. For anyone listening in Toronto, it's called Tinuno. Very reasonably priced too. It's like this huge feast. Yeah, $25 per person, which is fun, you know, for a nice meal out, you know, not too bad.

Yeah, super fun. Just a little hole in the wall place would recommend gang reservations just in case. But yeah, I love that spot. Yeah, it's great. Cool. You, yeah, your number one experience was the place I wasn't with you at instead of the big restaurant we had last night where Mars was still, and Emma, and Atlanta, everyone you were with at that other restaurant. That was great. That's a great restaurant. That was a wonderful meal. But there is something about like, oh, this is like what you're saying, more of a hole in the wall. This is more of

like I'm putting on plastic gloves and I'm eating garlic rice with my hands. I'm picking up, we've got a whole fish that we're all sharing. Like there are parts of that experience that were just so, you know, different from a, from sitting down at a nice restaurant with a white tablecloth and having some craft cocktails. It's just like a different sort of experience. Yeah, it just sounds very, very primal. Just eating chicken with your hands and all that.

Yeah, that was awesome. That was great. Van had a party like that one, probably. Crawfish. A crawfish oil. Yeah, that was great. But it was the same thing where you're just like picking things apart and it's all,

like you just dump it on a table. That's fun. That was great. Well, I was gonna say, you know, one of my favorite meals was the last night at Lee restaurant with everyone. That's a great meal. No I think I'll choose Prime Seafood Palace with Samoa Joe and his family. That place looked awesome. I have one that I remember from when I went here like 20 years ago. Dimmy Bar and Trattoria in Yorkville.

Wow. Yorkville's very close to here, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just like Italian food place. And I was 19 when I was eating this, so I don't know. Is it still open? Yeah, it's still open. But I remember-

I'm up there in Yorkville. Like my, yeah, when my parents came up, I think we went there, it was like very much a restaurant where you go and you get the gnocchi and the fresh made pastas and stuff, it's good. That's right. You gotta text me that, you text me that info.

Here's something I won't miss. Ice tea being sweetened by default. I want my unsweetened iced tea. I don't need the sweet tea, I don't need the nest tea. I want like an unsweetened iced tea. I really, that's a refreshing beverage and I'm not adding to my calorie count with some liquid sugar.

But the thing I will miss, and this is like one of those things where just generally a more functional nation, a more functional society with better infrastructure, when you pay with a card at a restaurant, like a sit down restaurant in Canada, they have what's called the machine, which is they bring a remote pay station to the table

and then you finish the transaction on your own. You tap or insert your card, you select a tip electronically, you can print out a receipt if you want, but you're handling your own card, you're doing the transaction. As opposed to in America, you're giving your card to a server, a server has to take ownership of it, they have to go run your card, they have to bring it back to you, and then you have to, like there's a whole rigmarole, there's there's like there's like two extra steps.

And Emma, you were saying from a server's perspective, having to handle other people's cards. My least favorite part. That's a whole thing that that like for the servers as well. So like the machine is a thing I miss. I love having the machine at Canadian restaurants. I don't understand what more and more in New York, at least. I'm seeing it more, but not every place.

But yeah, I love it. Any time I can even order food, pay for it at the counter and then go back to my seat. I mean, it's, but not every place. But yeah, I love it. Anytime I can even order food, pay for it at the counter and then go back to my seat. I mean, it's a different type of restaurant. Yeah. That's always the best when you're just done and. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just let me handle the transaction. And it's also I'm sure it's more secure, too.

So I'll even do something sometimes, no matter how they're paying. When I get my food, I'm like, and I'm just just getting this. So like, let's do the bill now so I can get out of here. Yeah, I'll add to it's incredibly easy to split bills in Canada because they'll just pass the machine to every single person. In America, it's very frustrating because most places just don't split bills

and so you're figuring out Venmo and all that, which is a huge frustration for me in America. And so in Canada, it's just so much easier, which I really love about it. We also, Wags, we went to a bar last night, Civil Works. That's right. We had a cocktail together. You were, it was midnight.

You hadn't been up that late in forever. I should never go to a second location. I'm too old. I need to go to bed. You're not too old. Yeah. My mom stays up. We can have a drink at midnight.

You're fine. And I don't think she's old. I'm too old. Wigs, I'll tell you something that I'm gonna miss. Yeah. There's two things that I'm gonna miss. One, getting an ice cold mug, not root beer, an ice cold mug of A&W root beer.

That's right. And that cold frosty mug. Those are nice. With some A&W in it, fantastic. Delightful part of the experience. Delightful. And for me, I'm gonna miss something quite a bit. Ooh.

Nando's. Ah, Nando's, yeah. A chain you did not get to try while you were here. It's true. You've never had Nando's. No, I haven't. I became the Nando's kid. I love Nando's. I was walking to Nando's every day and I was loving it.

And I'm going to be sad to see it go. What's Nando's, chicken? Chicken, mm-hmm. Yeah. Perry Perry go. What's Nando's, chicken? Chicken, mm-hmm. Yeah, Perry Perry chicken. It's a UK chain. Oh, I've had that recently, Perry Perry chicken. And the cheeky Nando's, they say.

Oh, I've heard of this, Nando's. Yeah, Nando's. I think, yeah, Ben told me about this. Yeah, yeah. Love Nando's, walking over to Nando's, about.7 miles away from my place that I'm staying. Okay. So I do, there is only really one.

So I'll put it 0.7 mile radius. Doxing yourself further. Go find Mitch. This comes out on October 3rd, I shouldn't be here much longer. Much longer, much longer. Enough time to get, I guess, duct taped to a radiant. I'm gonna miss Nando's, I'm gonna miss Toronto.

I like Toronto. That's my final answer. You were here for a were here for the summer is very nice up here too. Yeah, it was actually hot when I first got up here. It was like the first couple of days we were shooting, it was like fucking hot. Weather's been lovely for the week we've been up here. I remember going to early classes, like an 8 a.m., 8.30 class, which is insane.

And being like the coldest I've ever been in the winter time here. Yeah, sure. Like walking across, again, walking across the park and just be like, oh man, this is too much, man. Worse than Ithaca? Yeah, it was rough. It was ice cold.

That's the thing, like in fact. Like a long time. If I was up here in the winter, I'm sure I probably would be singing a bit of a different tune than someone who's lived in Southern California his whole life and is used to that biome. Let me just say another thing,

and this is a thing we've all talked about, but just like, the strangest experience for me is going into a train station and not smelling urine. Like none of this train, like I have not smelled the stench of human piss for an entire week. And I think it's the longest I've gone in my adult life without smelling urine while just walking around. It's so strange.

People don't just pee in the train station. You haven't smelled piss for an entire week. People don't just pee in the station. Yeah. You haven't smelled piss for an entire week. They left your luggage back in LA. You bought new clothes. Put a few things together here. I take the subway to JFK to get here and the sea line, I was waiting on one of the stations.

The pee line? It should have been the pee line. It was like, I was like, this is just piss that I'm like standing in and smelling and adding to. You know what? That's what our country's all about though. We miss it there, Wags. Hey, it stinks but it's ah.

Yeah. If you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us at feedbaggettbirdfuck.com or leave us a voicemail at 830-GO-To-That's-830-463-6844. And hey, to get the Doughboys double our weekly bonus episode plus our entire pre-2018 back catalog, subscribe at patreon.com slash Doughboys. Hey, buddy Mitch, you know, we both wanted to do Toronto, we both wanted to do this thing.

And to everyone out there, I hope you enjoyed it because it was a huge pain in the ass. And we burned through all the money we made from the live show. So I just hope you like it because it was- Thanks for coming to our house, folks. It was a pain in the ass to have you. But we did it. I did like the city, but it was a logistical nightmare and it cost us a lot of money.

Listen to my hair, you're stressed, you're ready to go home. I'm ready to go home. You're annoyed at me, I'm annoyed at you. I'm not annoyed at you. Oh, yeah, same. I'm ready to go home. You're annoyed at me. I'm annoyed at you. No, I'm not annoyed at you. Oh, yeah, same. I'm annoyed at both of you.

I'm getting annoyed with Mars all of a sudden. I don't have to hear with you and your antics. I do want to have some acknowledgment. I do want to take a second to thanks to people here. First, I want to thank Mo up here at Podium Studios. Podium Studios in Toronto, if you're looking for a space to record your podcast. This is a newer space. Check it out, Mo.

It's our church on Sunday. Are you going out tonight for Halloween? I'm gonna dress as Bonnie. I'm gonna dress as Saint Michael, one of my favorites. He's religious. He's very Christian. I wanna thank Atlanta Johnston, The Knife, and Norm Sousa for guiding us through the city both here and from LA.

It was, Alana and Norm were absolutely essential in making this all happen. Shout out to the Knife's parents as well. Shout out to the Knife's parents as well. Special thanks of course to Super Producer Mars, Marissa Melnick, for being our on-site producer. Mars, you've been a huge help that just absolutely made this whole thing happen. Do you have any plugs? I also produce Nicole Byers' Why Won't You Date Me podcast. Great podcast.

A very funny podcast that both Mitch and Nick have been on separately and very drunkenly together, I think, on a live show. Oh, boy. In Chicago. Oh, man. That podcast is very excited to be coming back to HeadGum. We're going to be doing video podcasts soon on our YouTube page. Wow.

So yeah, that's what I like to plug. Thanks. And thanks, of course, to our producer, Emma Brink and our associate producer, Amelia Marina, who's back in LA now. But all of you prep, all the amazing work you did up here. There's no show without you. So thank you so much. And I hope everyone who enjoys this knows how much everyone who

works behind the scenes help this. So thanks. And thanks also to Casey Donahue, our engineer and our video editor, Mike Dorfman, of course, and our guest, Mike Hanford. What a delight to have you. I'm so glad we were able to get you on the show. Come on. I will travel anywhere for free Mickey D's.

One of our favorite guests. No, thanks for having me. I love Vietnam. I love it. Seeing you guys and love Vietnam. Seeing Mitch, too. I haven't seen you in forever. I know.

And Weiger, you're a shadow-like figure. I can never get a good handle on you. The tall man. The tall man. The shadow man. So it's Halloween. Are you gonna go around your neighborhood and do Slender Man again? Yeah, I'll probably be Slender Man.

You'll probably have to do it up here. Yeah. I'm on the clock. I'm gonna see Hanford's show. I mean, now it's gonna be too late. Yeah, it'll be, well, it was. But you guys promoted on with that. That's true.

You guys do it. At the end of the live episode podcast, there is a nice little song from Hanford if you clicked out of the episode to really miss it, you dumb idiot. It's a big idiot. It's a big idiot. I'm gonna see his show tomorrow night

and then he's gonna hang out with me on my birthday on Sunday. How fun is that? Deedle deedle deedle dee. Hanman, any plugs? Yes, come see the Slappy, I'm in the band, the Slappy Boys. We also have a podcast.

We've got a tour coming up in November, I believe it starts November 22nd. We're going from Vancouver, Portland, Seattle, San Fran, and LA, so we're doing a little run there. And this is a live podcast recording. We've only done one in Chicago, one great, again, Chicago, so great. So we're doing live podcasts wow

new to the sloppy boys I love it thing and then I'll be playing well it's fine I'm doing stand-up in New York Boston Florida Philadelphia all coming up in January Wow yeah well there you go Mitch what a fun month we did what a thank you Toronto thank you Toronto and hey that'll do it for Toronto. Dough Canada, the Great Bight North, a month-long culinary tour of the six. Until next time, for The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating, eh? Au revoir.

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