Doughboys - UNLOCKED! MREats with Edwin Hodge

Episode Date: June 29, 2021

On this episode of The Doughboys Double, Edwin Hodge (The Purge, Six, The Tomorrow War) joins the 'boys to talk basketball and snacking on set before a taste test of rations and MREs.Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The following is a free preview of the Doe Boyz Double, our premium episodes available at Patreon.com slash Doe Boyz. The following is a free preview of the Doe Boyz Double, our premium episodes available at Patreon.com slash Doe Boyz. The following is a free preview of the Doe Boyz Double, our premium episodes available at Patreon.com slash Doe Boyz. Doe Boyz Double Welcome to Doe Boyz Double, I'm Nick Weiger along with the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Hey Mitch. Wags, what's happening? Mitch, we have a hot date tonight, our first IRL meeting. Since we were in Mano and Betsy's backyard with John Gabers eating Taco Bell, I think a year ago. It's true, I know, it's insane.

Child, we would get together twice a week. I'm back. Every week. It's been a year and three months. What do you think? Do you think we'll hug? I don't know. I'm not really a hugger, are you? No. I mean, the answer was no. I don't think we're going to hug. We can just wave at each other. I'm back in LA, Wags. I'm here. You know, I had a really embarrassing thing happen to me right before I left Massachusetts. I was swimming right off of Provincetown and I accidentally swallowed a diver. Okay. This is a lie.

You didn't hear about this? I saw this on the news. I don't think it was you. I accidentally swallowed this diver. You had to get out of town. I had to get out of town. People were getting upset. I hope you're not extradited. Same here. I'm back though, Wags. We have a very special guest. A guest who was already helping me before the episode started. It might be a bit messy, but it's fun. What we're doing is interesting and fun.

The nature of this podcast is we always make it a pain in the ass for our guests, which is unfortunate. We're very, very happy to have today's guest, Mitch, from The Purge 6 and The Tomorrow War, streaming July 2nd on Amazon Prime. Edwin Hodges here. Hi, Edwin. Hey, how you guys doing? We're good. We're happy to have you. Yeah. It's been a long time. You know, you're the first person I saw in Los Angeles. Is that true?

It's true. I swung by Edwin's place yesterday and I dropped him off something for the subject of today's double, which will... Oh, man. It's already insane. It's already insane. My pants are wet, which we'll explain later. Yeah. Edwin, thanks for being here. It's funny. Edwin and I, Wags, in a way I was supposed to be Edwin's right-hand man. I was Edwin's guy in the movie and then something happened with one of the... There was a change in casting where one of the actors had to drop out and things shifted around and I became a different character. But I was Edwin's buddy and we were... I remember when we were doing training, we did military training.

And Edwin, I was so bad at it. But because Edwin, you were good at it. You've had experience with... You've done a few shows before where you've had experience with... Just a few experiences, yeah. Yeah. But you were top of the class. You did really well. And I loved it because when we started going to... We would go up stairwells and stuff like that and we'd go into like... Right. And Edwin was like, I'm taking Mike. We're doing this together and I was so happy that I had someone that was good doing it because I was so, so bad at military training. But then things shifted around.

You weren't bad. You were learning on the fly like everybody else. It was crazy. It's insane when they're like... Especially when there's a scene that was cut from the movie, so I'll just say it, but they were like... They had gone long in the day and they came up to me and I was one of the first people who was going to shoot blanks on set when we were in that building there. Edwin and I did like... It all got cut out of the movie, but they were like... They came up to me and they were like... We're like running short on time and then also they were like, here we're going to take you outside to shoot the gun. Which is actually like... Besides the training was the first time I really shot the gun with blanks in it. And then they were like, all right, so there's squibs in the ceiling and you have to move it like this. You have to do it within a second and a half.

And also, you can't cross anyone's face because you can blow their face off. And I'm like... Jesus. What the hell? There's so much shit you got to juggle. And then I think that it was like maybe the time ever on set where I felt like people... I felt like a hero in the way because I just did it right on the first thing and people were like, yeah, it wasn't even like I did a good... I didn't even do a good performance or anything. People were just happy that I did it correctly. No faces blown off.

Exactly. We were so sure this goofy guy was going to blow someone's face off and he didn't do it. Wow. Yeah, it gets dangerous sometimes for sure. Yeah, it was dangerous and you knew your stuff. And then not only did my character not become his right-hand man, then your character kind of despises me and a couple other people who are like idiots. Yeah, pretty much. Shortly after that, this is new but you got cast as a Laker after that and I got stabbed in the heart again.

Yeah, man. Yeah, I stabbed a lot of people in the hearts with becoming a Laker here. Not Weigar. Weigar's very excited. Yeah, yeah. Well, I stabbed my own self in the heart. Listen, I will say for you, you know, I'm happy that I stabbed myself in the heart because this project is actually one of the more fun projects that I've done since the tomorrow war. But yeah, all the actors, the writers, producers, man, they're doing this project justice. And I think Laker fans and just basketball fans in general, they're going to really enjoy the show. Right, because regardless of your allegiance to a team or not, it's just like a fascinating era in sports. Oh, yeah.

The Showtime Laker era. Yeah. I mean, they changed the game. I mean, Magic came onto the team and, you know, bust the West and it just, I mean, McKinney, it just, it changed the game. So, you know, I don't think basketball kind of would be what it is today without Showtime Lakers. Right, for sure. I'm trying to think of any sort of basketball characters, Weigars, that we could be, that we could be cast as. We could be basketballs, I think.

It would have to be a Robert Trailer body type, I feel like. Yes, right. Just a body type like that. I guess maybe Scalabrini if I like 70 pounds, 80 pounds, I could maybe play Scalabrini. Bryant Big Country Reeves was a guy. Oh, Big Country Reeves. That's good. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah, basketball camp. You'll shed those pounds really quick, man. Oh, wow. Yeah, it's, it was bad. Wait, so this is fascinating because so much of your, so much of your filmography is you're playing, you know, men in uniform. You've got, you're playing, you know, police officers and soldiers and now you're playing a basketball player. And so often there's some sort of physical training involved in that.

Like, is, like, how does, how does basketball camps strike up or compare with something like, you know, the SEAL team training you had to do for six? Mentally, it's the same thing. Physically, it's completely different. Well, as far as how you attack, you know, the whole learning process, like mentally, it's the same thing. But, you know, basketball camp was just, was just hard because, you know, I'm 36. My knees don't want to move the way they used to move. And when you haven't played ball for like two and a half years, you know, it was just, it was rough getting back into it. But, you know, a month and a half later, I'm good.

So I can't complain too much. Did your skills improve? Man, yeah, I had to, I definitely had to bring my skills back into play here. Right. But at the same time, I, you know, I didn't lose a step too much. I'll be honest, I didn't really lose a step. See, that's, this would be an issue for me too, is like, you know, being a player that could, cannot even dribble a basketball. It would be tough.

Yeah. I love, I love, I love watching the, I love watching basketball, but it was always a sport I was, I was, I was very bad at. I was never, I was never good. In fact, why is a long time ago, when I was like in like, like junior basketball league or like when I was like playing like church league, basically. I, I like was, was on one team and they got moved to another team. I got like traded. I got traded for nothing. They just like traded me to another team.

Oh, Jesus. I was so bad. I didn't know I did that at that level. I don't think they do. I think like one coach is just like, just take this kid. I think, I think that's basically what it was. Yeah, we all, we don't need him anymore. Now, Edwin, for, now for Weigar, you being a Laker, that's big news.

He's excited about it. But for me, I got to get into this. I don't, I don't even know if, if, if, I mean, I think you might be excited to talk about, I don't know if you are, but you were once in Sesame Street. That's to me. That's my Laker. Oh yeah. No, I'm definitely excited to talk about that. Sesame Street was, was the beginning of everything for me, man.

That was it. Was that your first, was that your first performance that was at your first, very first like a time in front of a camera? No, my first performance, my first time in front of a camera was an Oreos commercial with Chubby Checker. Chubby Checker. Chubby Checker. That's wild. Exactly. And then shortly after that, I found myself on the set of Sesame Street.

So it was kind of a bang, bang, bang, bang thing. But, um, yeah, no, you know, that, that's, that's my education. That's, you know, that's shit. Big Bird and Snuffle Love for Gifts and Elmo. Like, you know, I was, I was living a dream as a kid working with, with these, these icons, you know. Yeah, that's, that's, that's as a kid. Like, did, did, because I know that they like are very good with like, you know, they, they, they stay in character and stuff like that. And they just are the, they like the performers just kind of.

So was that, was that your experience with it? Were they basically like talking to you as characters, like in between takes and stuff? Or do you remember any of that stuff? Um, I remember the gentleman playing Big Bird, I remember his voice always having this really kind of soft tone. Um, but a lot of the, a lot of the puppeteers, the actors, uh, yeah. No, once they yell cut, they, they, they talk to us like we were regular human beings and kids. And, you know, it was, yeah, it was cool to be able to differentiate, you know, especially as an artist that young. Right.

To understand like it is an actual performance and that these people are like, you know, putting on a show, you know, so. That's cool. You know, I, as a kid, I think every, if you're going to start out as a kid actor, that's, that's definitely the show you need to start out on. Yeah, that's huge. That's a huge, that's, that's, I would like to do it now still. I would love to talk to Elmo and the gang. I mean, it's, it's, yeah, you know, I would love to go back to Sesame Street. You know what I mean?

For nostalgic purposes alone, I would love to go back to Sesame Street. I was a big Grover guy. Grover's cool. Yeah. Yeah. Who was, who are you? Elmo, Elmo was big, of course, too, but that he, you know, he was kind of one of the newer ones. Why?

Who are you? Who did you like? I was a big, big bird guy, you know? Okay. Like, I know, I like big bird. What's your favorite big bird? Like, who's your favorite NBA player and you're like Jordan or like, that's the same difference. I think that's, I think that's Kermit.

Kermit is the LeBron or the Jordan. Big bird is kind of. Big bird is the Kermit of Sesame Street. All right. Fair. Then I would say among tertiary puppets, I don't know. Yeah. I mean, I like like a Grover.

Sure. Grover's a good answer. Oscar was always, I mean, I liked Oscar both because he was funny. He was grumpy. And then my grandpa's name was, was Oscar. And I remember at a young age being like, his name's like grandpa's name, you know, making that connection in a child's brain. Yeah.

All right. All right. Cool. That's a, I still tell people that. I'm surprised you didn't just pick one of the humans. One of like a, just one of the human cast members as your favorite Muppet. The humans are cool. The humans are great.

Mr. Hooper and the rest of them. He's dead. All right. Edwin. RIP. RIP. RIP, Mr. Hooper. You keep in good shape, Edwin.

You're, you're, you're, you're a person who shouldn't come on this show. It's not good for you to be here to eat any of this shit. Shit. Yeah. I, you know, like when we were coming up with the whole idea behind it, I was dreading it. I'm right in line. Yeah.

Wow. Do you not eat any, do you not eat any fast food or like a, do you never partake in anything, any fast food, any chain restaurants, anything? No, I, I mean, I, I love fast food. You know, I'm, you know, if it's, if it's, if it's quick and easy and I can get it, you know, I love it. You know, I, I remember for me, like growing up, uh, Wendy's was like my jam. Like Wendy's, I always find myself at Wendy's and, uh, Chick-fil-A.

Like that was my thing. Um, and even now Chick-fil-A is still my thing. Um, but you know, I, I'm, I'm always at Chipotle. I'm always, I'm like, I'm all that. Chipotle is, Chipotle is one of the good ones though. That feels like you can, you can eat a meal and not feel, I could get a breeder. Not feel bad. Yeah.

Right. Exactly. Exactly. Um, but yeah, you know, my, my, my intricate eats, you know, it melts diners at fricking two o'clock in the morning when I shouldn't be eating anything. I think I, I think I eat outside the window where you're like, I think I eat the most outside the window where you're not supposed to eat. Like the 10 p, 10 p.m.

to five a.m. hours at the time where I usually, wow. That is definitely me. I'm, I'm, yeah, for sure. I don't know why, but I really start like getting down on some food around like a 30. It doesn't, it's weird. Wow.

Well, you're, you're, you're, you're in great. I would never, I would never know it, but what, what is your, what is your go to at Wendy's? What do you, what do you, what are you usually getting? Oh, fries and frosty. And you got to get the fries and the frosty like that. Hell yeah. That's the ultimate classic.

You can't, you can't go wrong with that period. But then, you know, I was always on the bacon cheese burgers, the double bacon cheese burger. So yeah, with barbecue sauce. They had to have barbecue sauce on it. Wendy's burgers underrated, Wags. You and I believe this. Oh, for sure.

I think so. I think so. I really do. Well, I think the issue is they don't have like a signature burger. They just have a bunch of different good burgers, but there's not one you can point out. It would be like, that's their big Mac. That's their whopper.

You know, it's just sort of like whatever appeals to your taste, whether you're like the Dave's double or the Baconator or what have you. But what, it's a great quality product. We're big spicy chicken fans over here. Wags and I, which, Love that spicy chicken sandwich. Which we like even more than Chick-fil-A we've said before. People get mad at us.

I mean, everyone gets mad at us for everything. Everyone gets mad at us. No, I'm not getting mad at you. To be honest with you, I'm sitting here thinking, I'm like, you know what? I haven't had a Wendy's chicken sandwich in a long time. I think I might have to go get one. Hell yeah. It's good.

You know. Your worst nightmare with this show is coming true. Is that we're going to make you go eat food? Yeah, no. The worst nightmare is the realization that I might have to get my ass in the gym later. That's the worst nightmare. But when it comes to the food, man, let's eat. Nick and I, we're going out tonight.

It's my first restaurant back in LA. Why? It's my first time being in a restaurant in LA. Which is, and you know what? It will be a nice dip in the toe in the pool because it's a... Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we got it. We got to take it a little slow, but we're going to...

Which, hey, spoiler alert for listeners. We're going to do... But I just bleeped this. What do you want me to do? No, it's great. I mean, it speaks to the nature of our relationship that it's like, hey, let's go hang out. But also, let's kill two birds with one stone and go to a place we have to review for the podcast. So it's not even purely for fun.

It's still a work hang. Yes, which is good. Which is good, I guess. We don't want to see each other besides that. This is good. I suggested this to Nick because we're meeting a couple of friends. And you did say, you said, turning outing with friends into a work thing. That's a very wider move.

And it is. You're rubbing off on me in bad ways. It's a classic me move, for sure. But I was going to... What? Go ahead. No, you go. I was going to say probably the same thing as you.

We're going to a place with an outdoor courtyard. So hopefully it'll be a little distanced or what have you. But Edwin, have you dipped your own toe back into the water? That's what I was going to ask, too. We're on the same page. I have dipped my toe back out there. And man, it's a breath of fresh air. Honestly, I'm double backs.

Nice. For me, I feel a little bit safer walking out amongst the world. But yeah, I went to my friend's jazz night over at Delilah's on Sunday. Had a really, really cool chill time. And yeah, now I'm just like, I'm trying to figure out what kind of little outdoor restaurants I can start frequenting now. That rules. Are you a big... Are you a fan of jazz or is it just your friend, a jazz player?

And that was kind of like, I'm going to go watch him play. No, no. My friend is a promoter. He just runs the night. But I am a fan of jazz. I'm a lover of many varieties of music in general. But I just love live performances and listening to new artists. I'm trying to make their way.

So... Edwin, have you ever been to the Baked Potato? No. You got to go to the Baked Potato. It's a live music venue. And like back in the day, Kevin Eubanks from Jay Leno would go up there and he would play between... After the Tonight Show, he'd go and play at the Baked Potato. And people would like improvise and stuff.

And also, they serve like a bunch of different baked potatoes. I hope that they made it through COVID, which is a dark thing. COVID, yeah. A lot of places haven't. Yeah. A lot of places haven't made it through the show. They're an institution. You should check them out.

And who knows? Maybe Eubanks will be up on stage. And maybe Jay will be in the audience. Ah, the big... I mean, I say we all go and just have a good time. Yeah. I would love to. Like why not?

I would love to see you, Banks Live. I mean, yeah, why not? Let's do it. You're a fucking icon too. Yeah. Edwin, you shouldn't commit to anything else with us after this. You won't. Mike, I've spent four and a half months with you.

I'm already committed. It's okay. Okay. I had a different topic I wanted to ask you about, which is that as someone, you know, working since childhood, you've spent so much of your life on sets. How is your eating governed by, you know, your time spent shooting things? Like, are you someone who, do you notch over at Crafty all day at the craft services? Are you someone who just sort of saves yourself for catering?

What do you do? What I'm saying, craft service is my best friend. Wow. Gummy bears. Gummy bears are my thing. Preferably Haribo gummy bears. Hell yeah. They just came out with the summer edition tropical flavors.

Wow. They better not discontinue them. Wow. Because I probably will raise hell. Edwin, I had no idea about this. I'm a big gummy bear fan. I like Haribos as well. Walker is a gummy skeptic, which is-

I'm a little bit of a gummy skeptic. This is so far out. I've sent four on the podcast. It doesn't make sense. I've sent on the podcast, gummy ain't yummy, but that's to me personally. Like, I prefer like a chocolate or something over a gummy. I just don't want the texture. Insane.

Just an insane take, a bad take. Gummy is yummy. Gummy is yummy. If people want to like yummy, that's great. Yeah, and I'm not like a chocolate dude. I'm not a chocolate dude. So it's like, you know, get it. Get it.

I get it. And when you're going to have to, you're going to have to start putting into the Lakers scripts, Lakers players about bad mouthing Weiger over the course of the series. Why not? Why not? Just randomly hear his name pop out. Hey, there's this real shitty kid.

Yeah, it was just born recently. I hate him. Yeah, he wants to try to make a team. No, get him out of here. It's all right with me. He's bad even for a kid. He should get traded for no one. Yeah.

Yeah, these kids are phenomenal in the league now. These kids are crazy. Yeah. Oh, go ahead. Yeah. No, I was completely off topic. I was going to basketball growing food. Oh, no, I don't, I've, I've, I've, I've, I don't,

I only watch the NBA now for the Tomorrow War commercials because my team, my team, the Celtics are out. So I'm not going to, I'm not going to be watching except for the Tomorrow War commercials. Yeah. That's, that's fine. I had it on last night. I had the, the, the, the, when you told me why it's the,

the, I put what, who was that? It was a, was it the, was it the jazz last night? The jazz and the. Yeah. I think the spot I saw was you was during the, the Sixers Hawks game. Okay. Yeah.

Yeah. Man, is it going to be the fucking clippers and the nets? No, I don't, I think it's going to be, I think it's going to be, I think it's going to be clippers, either clippers, bucks, or, or I, I don't know. I think the Suns could, could pull it off too. Chris Paul, he wants that championship. He really does.

He wants it. I would, I would love that so much more. At this point I'm rooting for, I'm rooting for the Suns in the West and anybody, but the nets in the East. I just think, I think if the nets are fully healthy, they, they might just beat everyone. But yeah, I mean, in this buck series with,

without Kyrie and possibly without Harden, it's just, Yeah. That's going to be tough. But, but do you have, and when you have a rooting interest in the league, do you have a team of your own? Oh yeah. Yeah.

San Antonio Spurs. Wow. I'm a Spurs guy. How'd you come to become a Spurs fan? I, I, I became a Spurs fan back in 2003. I actually didn't have an NBA team prior to that. And my first game that I went to was a, a Lakers Spurs game.

Wow. And, and I just remember the, the Lakers were just mobbing on the Spurs. And it was a third quarter towards the end of the third quarter. And pop just gets beat red, gets off the bench, gets into players ass. And I've never seen a comeback in the fourth quarter. Like I saw that day and I was just like,

that is my fucking team. I like that. And yeah. So, so since 2003, I've been a Lakers fan. I mean a Spurs fan. Look at that. I'm already fucking up.

That's a great stretch to be a Spurs fan now. A lot of success. A lot of success. You know what I mean? Right, right at the end of the, the Robertson era, you know, I kind of, I kind of was introduced to them. And then, you know, Duncan, I just, he's, man,

I just love him as a basketball player. Incredible. Incredible Superstar. Yeah, he just was. So, you know, watching the big threes, you know, Blee, Parker, and Forbes. I mean, we had a lot of great players, you know, I just, I think they're all around a good camp.

Why'd you know what? I kind of think of you as a Tim Duncan in that. I knew her. You're very good at what you do. And you're fucking, and you're boring as hell. Yeah. Edwin, when you're at it, when you're at it, when you're at a basketball, look,

we got to ask you a couple more food questions because it's just what this stupid pot's all about. But when you're at, when you're at, when you're at a, when you're out at a basketball game, you go and see the Spurs and you're at Staple Center. What are you snacking on? Are you a, are you a dog guy? Or are you just going to get a, you know,

you're going to get a beverage or what? Or you, you know what? Are you one of those? Are you one of those sloppy nachos? Are you a sloppy nacho guy? The, so that's, that's the thing. So I'm going to, in the first quarter, I'm starting off with my dog, you know,

second quarter, I go to a pretzel, the cinnamon pretzels, from muscles pretzels. The third quarter is, is nacho time. Wow. I love this. I love the quarterly breakdowns. This is.

And then the fourth, the fourth quarter is actually when I, I had my, my, my drink. So I'll have like a stiff drink to end up in the game. You know, if, if we're, if we're winning, it's liquor. If it, if we're losing, it's beer. So yeah. Do you ever have yourself, you have, you have a beer and you're down like the team is down

and then mounts a comeback and they're like, like, what do I do now? Yeah, I'm definitely had to, well, I get a shot of whatever type of whiskey I can, you know, and root for them. So yeah. Oh no. I'm one of those superstitious guys.

I would do that. I would, I would sometimes think that like my drinking affected Patriots games, which is very, which is a very sad thing for sports fans. But you know what, Lags? I actually think it did affect some of those games. I think I did help in some of those championships. I think, I think it maybe, I think it maybe did.

If I shotgunned a beer at the right time, I think, I think a shotgun, a shotgunning a beer or two, maybe helped the Celtics win the championship in 2008. That's all I'm going to say. Okay. Okay. You guys seem skeptical on this. We'll give you that.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Just hard to square logically. Yeah. I think it's possible that just your, your own judgment was clouded because you were getting drunk. Yeah.

And so you made that connection. Yeah. I was rooting on big baby Davis who was in the news just this, just yesterday. Oh yeah. Big baby. What for what? He, he, he, he made fun of Kyrie for, look,

no one should make fun of someone for hurting their ankle, but he was saying it was karma. And then people got too mad at him too. Yeah. Look, Kyrie's a weird guy. Why? Cause he's weird. He's an, he's an odd guy.

He's an odd fellow. He is a centric. Yes. Yes. Yeah. Yeah. And big baby was, was, was rooting against whatever. Look, we'll cut out.

I didn't know why he was going to be. I didn't know why. He's a flat earther, right? I mean, he is, he is a flat earther. He was a former Celtic. He's a former Celtic. I know why girl was going to clam up when I brought up Kyrie. It's a, it's a not touchable subject.

No, it's not an untouchable subject. I mean, I, I Kyrie is an incredible player, transcendent talent. Maybe probably might not be a fun guy to have a conversation with. But then there's also parts of me that's like, well, you are committed to social justice. So I'll give you that. You know what I mean? Exactly.

It's all, it's all confusing. It's a, it's a, it's a complicated scenario. I do, I do agree with you that big baby just well too far. It'd be careful with the tweets. Yeah. Don't tweet joyously about someone being injured. There's no reason for that. Hmm.

I would never do that to you guys. If you, if you went down for a dough boys episode, I'd never, I would never be happy about it. Thank you, Mitch. It's very big of you. Hey, we should get into this week's topic MREs, which stands for meal, ready to eat. The earliest forms are first developed in 1907.

The C ration, which was used in World War II, was implemented in 1938, 1939, and then succeeded by the MCI, the predecessor to the MRE, Meal Combat Individual, 1958, that was used until 1980, when the modern form of the MRE came about. Edwin, we were, we're going to have some of these. And you were, I mean, you're grimacing now, but you seemed, because of your experience on, on six,

the, the, the SEAL team six show that you were a cast member of, you, you were living on MREs for a while, you were saying? Uh, yeah, it was, um, especially during training. Uh, training, that's pretty much all we, we had to eat for about four days. Uh, MREs. Man. I, Jesus, the first meal was a taco.

It was tacos in the ocean. Uh, I believe the second meal was spaghetti, meat sauce. Dear Lord. Um, yeah. You know, not, not, not the greatest things I've ever, uh, you know, had the pleasure of putting it in my mouth. I, I just, Right.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, so for the, for our listeners who are maybe, you know, maybe less familiar with the military or maybe from outside the U S, I mean, contextually, like, like, you say tacos, you say spaghetti and meat sauce, like that sounds like, Oh, I'll eat that. But you're not even talking about something on the tier of

like a microwave meal, right? Like this is like sub-microwave meal. No, this is sub-microwave meals. Yeah. Yeah. This is, this is, uh, you know, it's been in your, your cabinet for about three, four or five decades and you're now finally pulling it out.

I'm hoping, hoping that it's still tastes okay. You know, Right. Still slightly edible. Um, You guys saying all this makes me want, I, I kind of want to get, I kind of want to get myself a sub-microwave.

That sounds good. Like maybe just a microwave just for heating up hoagies. It's like the Quiznos toasty oven. Yeah. Why not? The Quiznos toasty oven. Your Prusno Quiznos toasty oven. Now, now, now here's, here's, here's my thought with this,

Edwin is like, you were like, you were in the ocean eating spaghetti and meatballs. It seems to me like, like, uh, some of these are, are, are more complex than you think they even should be. Like, like, but look, also, I'm sure you gotta, you know, you got to make things interesting for, for people who are serving and, and, and give them, give them stuff that they, that they're going to find

interesting. But yeah. So this, this, this immediately to me was way more complicated than I thought it was going to be. Um, To prepare, you mean? To prepare. Yes.

I, because I had, I had these for, and I had, I had a, I have like three more of these and I didn't, And I, and I thought that I was going to try all of them today. And there's no way I'm trying one of them. No. And it's, there's so hard. They're, they're very, they're, they're very,

they're trickier to do, to, to, to make than you think they would be there. You were basically walking me through it. You, you open up this one big bag, which I was afraid to open because I thought that would maybe spoil, but no, everything is then contained in that bag. And there's bags and bags and bags. And then there's a bag with, with a little thing that,

that where you, you put water in this, this plastic bag and it heats the water just chemically. There's a chemical reaction. And then you put, and then you put the meal in with that water and it heats the meal. So I have myself, my, my MRE is, is a, it's a pizza slice, a pepperoni pizza slice. I thought that this was fitting for me.

Yes. MRE, it's the department, the department of defense is on this bag. And it says, it says US government property commercial resale is unlawful. So yeah. Yeah. Eating one of these technically qualifies as stolen

Valor, you will be prosecuted. Why? Cause I served in the tomorrow war. I told you that before. And I thank you for your service. Thank you. Thank you. But, but there was a lot more in here.

Like I was like, okay, we'll be a pepperoni pizza slice, but there's a lot more in this bag than you think. There is also, there's Italian breadsticks, which I don't know if I'm going to heat these up or not. They're, my, my pepperoni pizza slice has been sitting in that bag heating for a while. So it should be hopefully warm. And then so with the breadsticks, I also got a cheese

spread with jalapenos, which it just says you need the bag before you open it. So I got these breadsticks, the, the jalapeno cheese thing. And then I got a chocolate protein drink powder. And this says directions for use. Allow someone just rang my doorbell. This is insane. No, I don't know.

Hold on a second. Wait, hold on a second. Sorry. Mitch is going to step away. Answer the door. We'll see what happens here. Maybe this will be edited out. Edwin.

So you're someone's, okay, someone's here. But it's happening. Which is great. Telling them he's on a podcast right now. Let's see how long this conversation goes. I'm recording a podcast right now, but how are you doing? Yeah. I love this.

This is absolutely hilarious. I mean, this is a semi-regular occurrence. He'll be interrupted by something during the show. Oh man, this is funny. Keeps it fresh. I wonder who it is. No, no. He can't hear us.

His headphones are off. He can't even. Oh, Jesus. I know. I was going to scream. Who is it? That is hilarious. We're just, so we're just for our listeners.

We're just, we're Mitch's camera's position basically looking at his front door. So we're looking at the back of his head as he's talking to an unseen figure on his porch. Yes. And who knows? Very, very serious. Yeah.

I have to know. I mean, it sounds like a joyous, joyous conversation. Yeah. Yeah. Sounds like a friend, maybe someone that we, that's been on the podcast before possibly. We'll find out. I want to catch up too.

It's been forever. Yeah, I'll see you. Mitch is saying they want to catch up. It's been forever. Forever. Make sure that is being picked up on the mic. And then Mitch is. He guessed it.

He sees now. Was that just the mailman? Is that what you're talking to? You brought a package here. Look, yes. It was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was the FedEx guy, Sal and he rules and I like Sal a lot.

Was it really? Yeah. It was my FedEx guy, Sal and he rules. Yeah. Sal, Sal is, Sal is a good guy and I hadn't seen him in forever and I'm sorry about the delay there. We're back. It's fine.

We're, we're, we're, we're. Oh, we're not cutting any of that. Oh God. Sal is, Sal is, he's a great, he's a great, he's a great guy. You know, I told him because I, I, I, I, I've been bad with, I always go home for the holidays and I wanted to give him a tip this year because of a, and I should give him a tip every year. Yeah.

And I, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's, and it's been a while since I've given him one. And I, and I was like, I need to, I need to give you, I need to give you a tip. You got to knock next time you come because I, I haven't, he's, he's gone through, he's gone through hell this last year. I'm sure his job is probably the hardest jobs in the world. So for sure.

Sal is a good guy. Sal is a good guy. Shout out to Sal. All right. Thanks Sal. Anyways, I got, I also got an oatmeal cookie, which I don't think I have to heat luckily. And, and then this chocolate protein powder,

I was, I was, I was saying this as, as, as before I left, but it says directions for use. Allow water just chemically purified to stand 30 minutes before adding to beverage powder, to your pouch at notch, open zipper, add eight ounces of cold water to fill line about a third of a canteen, which I do not have. And then you close zipper and shake. I don't even know if I should drink this.

I don't, I don't understand what the chemically purified to stand 30 minutes is, but. I think what that means is that if you're say like, by a, by a standing body of water, by like a river, and that's your water source, you can chemically purify it. You don't, you don't want to put just like straight river water into there, your energy drink. Gotcha.

So, so that's my assumption. So this also applies to Palmerston water then, right? Likes. Yeah. Should probably call the water department. All right. So I will, I will drink that. So Edwin, I'm curious, like as, as part of you, you know,

basically four days, your, your training, it sounds like you're in the, the open ocean at some point. Like, so you're like, it's heavy physical exertion and you're reliant on these for your nutrition. I mean, are you just super fatigued? Is that what's happening? Yeah. For the most part of the day, yeah, we definitely were fatigued.

I mean, you take six actors who have done nothing compared to this type of training. And, you know, you're, you're telling them to burn as many calories as possible. You know, it was, it was definitely, it was tasking on the body, but they, they did do a good job with keeping us like well fed and well hydrated. You know, when we got back to our camp, you know, they

definitely didn't want us passing out. Although some of us did. Yeah. Yeah, that's, it's, it's very sad that I almost, I felt like I was going to pass out during training for tomorrow war where it was just like, it was like not really physical. Dude, I was about to pass out. It was hot.

That first day, yeah. It was like a hundred degrees and it was, and it was, and then it was very, it was a very funny thing where, where that first day it was like, it was, they were like, come, come relaxed, like come, and then they pulled the old, they, they were like, all right, today is like the hardest day. Kevin Kent, who was my stunt double. Yeah.

It was, it was, it was, it was intense. And then I was like, it was this thing where in the movie, there's like people who are drafted who are like, you know, like 60 year old, like they draft 60 year old men and women and stuff. And so I was like, I can't pass out before like this like 60 year old woman next to me passes out. Or like the 60 year old guy is like doing like, I was like, I need to like, not to be wise.

I'm not being an ageist here. I'm just telling you, I had to, I had to not pass out first. Yeah. Yeah. That was the important thing. So should Wags, what did you, what was really just the, trying to get ahead of the, the, the Doughboy subreddit, Mitch was being ageist when he was talking about that way to pass out

first. I should be in physically better shape than 60 year old people. That is the point I'm trying to make and, and, and I was, I was about to go down a couple of times. Wags, what was, what, what, what, what is in your MIR, MRE, what did you get? So I went to the local military surplus store.

I will first say that like, you know, I, my, my big question with stolen valor is like, why commit it? Why pretend to be a veteran? And then it was at this military surplus store, which is in my neighborhood. And I was like, oh, it's so easy. They're just selling uniforms and medals. And then just like, you could just buy a hat that says like

Vietnam veteran on it. And it's just like, there must just be a part of, a part of certain people, certain psychopaths that's like, oh, I can just wear this stuff and then people will be nice to me and give me free things, you know? That's a good point. Yeah. I was just like, I was amazed by how readily available.

I would have thought it would have been, it would have been illegal to like sell medals or whatever, but no, they're just right out there for, for anyone to buy. So how many medals did you buy? Uh, just a few. I got a silver star. Um, I got a purple heart. Yeah. Purple heart.

Yeah. Purple heart. Weigar's wearing a veteran hat right now. He's, he went, he went, he went all out. So what I got was, I called them about MREs. They said they had them. I got there and they were like, oh, we're out of vegetarian MREs. So I ended up getting is, I know, yeah.

What I ended up getting was a, is a U S coast guard emergency ration designed for lifeboats. And so what this is, is this is a 3,600 calories of nutrition in a dense bar, uh, that is divided into sections and you have one bar every six hours per person. Uh, if you're on a lifeboat, this also has safe drinking water instructions. Do not drink water during the first 24 hours unless sick

injured or in desert conditions. After first 24 hours, drink no more than 500 milliliters, half a liter per day. Wow. Never drink sea water, not even mixed with fresh water in all caps. Okay. Wow.

And then I also got, got myself a pouch of emergency drinking water. And I guess this is a provision that you would have on a lifeboat. Uh, and this is basically four ounces in like a Capri sun without a straw of, of just filtered water. So there you go. Dear God, Capri sun without a straw.

That's a nightmare. Um, yeah. Impossible. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to start, start digging in here. I'm going to actually just quickly grab a paper plate and, and, and, and fill up some water so I can drink this, this, this, this chocolate protein, protein drink,

chocolate protein drink powder. Chocolate. Chocolate protein. Edwin, Edwin, Edwin used to see this on the tomorrow war set a chocolate protein. Protein powder drink or whatever. Which by the way, you could name it something, you know, for, for, for the people who are serving,

you could name it something a little nicer than chocolate. There you go. Chocolate drink. It's really easy. It's so easy. All right. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to put some water into this bad boy and shake it up.

And, and we'll see what happens here. My, my pizza slice is warming. It's, it's ready to go whenever. Edwin, what do you, what do you have? What is your, what is your MRE? So my MRE is Asian beef strips. I have a milk chocolate cocoa beverage powder. So I don't, I don't, I don't know how that's different than yours,

but it said differently. I have a patriotic sugar cookies. I have some blackberry jam, some crunchy peanut butter and let's see, some wheat snack, red TFF. I don't know what that is. And then I have some applesauce and some chicklets. Wow. Oh, chicklets.

Wow. Wait. It was a, it was a fake. I call them chicklets. They, they just look like chicklets to me. Got it. Little miss. Was it, was it, was it called a patriotic cookie?

Or did you, did you give that a nice name as well? No, no, no. No. It was a sugar cookie. So they, they did name one thing. They named one thing. The patriotic sugar cookie. Like, I gotta open them up just to see what they look like.

All right. Here we go. They're just the, yeah. This has like a, it has like a, like a torch type thing on it. I don't know if you can see. Oh yeah. Oh, those are, those are patriots. They're not lying.

Those are patriotic sugar cookies. This says to, this says to don't be weirded out by what it looks like over here. Why? Cause it says to shake this for a full minute. So vigorously shaking in his chair, his entire body. I'm not going to lie. The cookies are pretty good.

It looks just like a straight up cookie. Kind of like a sugar cookie it seems like. More like a butter cookie. Butter cookie. Okay. Got it. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. I'm eating this, this ration intended for this emergency ration for the Coast Guard. And it is so dry and crumbly. First off, it's like, I feel like most of it is turning into crumbs as I'm eating it. You can see a little bit of this bar here. It just kind of looks like a granola bar, but it's so dense. It's like biting into pure flour. Like it's, it's just like, and, and it also makes your mouth so, so dry that I don't know

how you're supposed to subsist an entire one of these and then also be dehydrated. But I guess that's, you know, it's probably a thing that's been clinically tested. I'm going to open up this emergency drinking water to have some of this to wash this down. It's, it's kind of flavorless. It's kind of just sort of like, like vaguely sweet, but not at all pleasant. Yeah. It tastes like cardboard. Yes.

For sure. I'm drinking the, the, the chocolate protein drink powder immediately got like crunchies because it wasn't. I shook probably for 30 to 45 seconds. So you're supposed to shake for a full minute, but you know what? Not bad. Why? Cause this is, it tastes like, um, what's the diet drink?

Slim fast. It tastes like a slim fast. Okay. It's like not bad tasting. This is, this isn't even, there's no strips and beef. Oh man. What a bummer. I don't, it's, I mean, there's beef in here.

It's like here. I mean, we'll, we'll give you a visual here, but it, that's beef strips. Yeah. That just kind of looks like a, a big mash of meat. Yeah. Yeah. Almost like a chili. Yeah.

Oh God guys. Huh. Sorry, Edwin. Oh man. There we go. Why couldn't we have just done a gummy bear episode? We could have just done gummy bears. You know, the next time you ask me to pick, I'm going straight for gummy bears.

Yeah. It's the tomorrow war month. We got to do, we had MREs. It's cool. It's a, it was. No, I think this is great. I got to get scissors. And Mitch didn't, wasn't there a, wasn't a, wasn't there a listener who sent some

of these to us? Yeah. I'm going to read that note. I'm going to read that note. Just give me a second. I'm trying to open my slice of pizza. Sure. Mitch is standing up again.

Oh, there's another doorbell ring. And he's going to talk to his UPS driver. How about that? They're having a nice conversation. So the, so what you, you're out there and you're, and you're training so hard and like, like, like whether it's, whether it's for the, for, for these boot camps or whether it's for basketball camp, like at the end of the day, you're fatigued. You've done a bunch of physical exertion.

What do you like to do to like sort of come down from that? Like, do you give yourself a reward meal? Do you have yourself a cold one? What do you like to, what do you like to buy? Donuts. Donuts. I love donuts. Wow.

At the end of the day. Wow. There's a, yeah. There's a little shop just up the street for me. And yeah. I like to stop there, get me my, my little classic sugar donut, a little bear claw, apple breader. Oh yeah.

And yeah, that's, that's my treat. I'm a, I snack a lot. Like I. Right. Donuts, gummy bears. I'm a, I'm a chip. Kind of. I love chips.

Give me Doritos truffle chips. Pita chips, chips, chips. I love chips. Wow. And then. So many topics we could have covered instead of MREs. I'm saying. No.

MREs. No, this is, this is, you know, I, I, I appreciate the MRE though. Cause like, you know, it's grounded me again. You know, it's made me realize how much I actually miss, you know, the show that I, I did do, but um, God. That's just like, I mean, if you could see this, it's, I don't. Yeah. Wow.

Look at that. What is, what is that? I wasn't just holding up a spoonful of some sort of weird mash and then Mitch is holding up a big bar. What is that? This is a slice of pizza. That's supposed to be pizza. This is pizza.

It looks like a cliff bar. I'm going to eat this pizza. This, this looks very bad. It looks very, very bad. It looks very, very bad. It looks, it looks, it looks truly awful. It was in there like the, like the ink on the bag that the, there's two bags. The ink on the bag like came off because it was heating the bag,

but the pizza is like only lukewarm. So obviously I think this is probably a thing where these things, I'm sure people who have served are who, who, who are listeners are probably like, they're never good or they never work the way they're supposed to. But I'm going to take a bite right now. Of course. This, this emergency drinking water bag. I mean, it's just water, but you know, you never know what to expect,

but it tastes pure and filtered. It tastes like, you know, something to get out of a bottle. Not bad. I think if you were in a state where you had to have this on a lifeboat, this would be probably the best thing you'd ever drink. Like it's just so, so, it'd be so refreshing because it just tastes like pure water. Mitch, how is this thing that you're eating right now?

Yeah, I'm very curious. It's not good. But it's, but it's not like, it's not horrible, horrible. Like, like, uh, Did it taste like one of those school lunch pizzas? It is. It is. It's similar to a school lunch pizza.

I'd say worse than a school lunch pizza. Um, okay. But, but there's pepperoni chunks on here that do a lot of work. Like there's like, you know, saltiness and, uh, and, and it, it tastes, it. So, um, that kind of overcomes a lot of the downfalls of it. It just is.

It's strange. Why? You see it. It's just a strange. It's very thick. Like it's very doughy and thick, which is probably doing a lot of the work of the meal. Let's see how this applesauce is fairing.

Hmm. Now, applesauce to me as a, as an outside observer, I'm like, that feels like a thing. They can't get wrong. I hope they don't get it wrong. It's applesauce. Right.

It's literally apples that you, you mush up. Okay. That's, uh, the color, the color is pretty. All right. Looks like applesauce to me. I take it back. That, that pizza slices was fucking nasty. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. That pizza slices was fucking nasty. It's really bad. It was really bad. It's really bad. Really, really bad.

My oatmeal cookie on the other hand looks pretty good. You can see this guy's right here. There's the oatmeal cookie. Looks like a straight up cookie. And when you're eating the applesauce right now, how's that fair? It's not bad. All right.

Definitely. Yeah. It's, uh, it's not Mott's, but you know, I can ride with it. I can ride with it. All right. Um, I'm going to say on the side of this one wigs, uh, an oatmeal cookie, but above it, it says,

uh, patriotic cookie cookie. Okay. Patriotic cookie cookie. Okay. All right. I'm going to take a bite of this oatmeal cookie. Here we go. Not bad.

That's not bad. That's not bad at all. Surprisingly way better than the pizza. Way, way, way better than the pizza. It's first off, gotta be, I mean, it must be easier just to make a snack that lasts versus something that's supposed to approximate a hot food stuff. But I think there's probably also a,

a psychological component to them being like, let's make sure the meal ends with a sweet treat. That's at least pretty good. Yeah. Cause I was reading some of the history of these and, you know, the first iterations were just like, it's, here's just a candy. Potted beef.

And then like some hard tack. And then just like some salt and pepper. And what happened is that morale got so low cause it was just like, yeah, you're getting protein and carbs that you, and fats that you need, but you're not getting anything that reminds you of home. Yeah. It tastes like shit.

Yeah. Well, I got these, I got these, I got these breadsticks open and let me tell you, they really look like shit. I'm going to, I'll hold them up for you guys. Yeah. Those are, those are the breadsticks. Those are the breadsticks. They look horrible.

I'm going to put some of this cheese spread on it. The wheat bread here. Wheat bread. Got it. Oh my God. That looks terrible. They did. They both look like thick crackers.

Yeah. Pretty much. Pretty much. So we're going to. Got the blackberry jam. All right. So a little bit of that on here. Okay.

I'm squeezing some cheese onto this breadstick. Blackberry jam. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. The breadstick. Blackberry jam.

We like that. Okay. Great. Jalapeno cheese. An interesting choice. Now we're going to take some, some, some chunky peanut butter. And I don't like chunky peanut butter. You don't.

You don't. Do you like peanut butter? You look smooth. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. I've eaten the breadstick.

What's your verdict? The breadstick itself is so bad, but Edward and I were talking like, it is something that maybe could have been heated up, but I'll say this, the jalapeno cheese, the cheese spread with jalapenos does a lot of work. It really covers up the, it really covers up the flavors of, of, of this thing. So, um, yeah, I, I, I like the cheese, the cheese packet is maybe my favorite thing I've eaten so far besides the cookie. The cookie was really good.

Wow. But yeah, the, the, the man, the, the breadsticks are very stale. Like they just don't taste natural. Right. Just, it seems like, oh, oops. It seems like any, um, it seems like any breaded thing is, it just doesn't feel every, every, every breaded item in my, my meal was, was, you know, was pizza bread based. It just, if you've got to, if it's going to last for five years, there's, there's just

something to the makeup of it that just is like, it tastes like a, like a, like a workout mat. There's something wrong. Yeah. Yeah. That's weird. Yeah. Um, for the, for, for people listening, what happened on our, our call we're having is that

Edwin was eating some of this, uh, this bread with PB and J and then was making a face, uh, like he was in pain and then briefly left the call. So it was like, we're so repulsed by what you're eating that you're like, I'm getting the fuck out of here. No, it's just, it's just, it's, uh, the, the blackberry jam I get down, the peanut butter is all right. The, uh, the bread on the other hand, it's, it's either, I don't know. It's either too like dense.

It's just, there's something. I mean, yeah, it's, it's just not, it's like, and I, and I get it. You know, you gotta, you gotta make it so that it's preserved. But, um, yeah, it's not, this is the thing. If it's survival food, it's not bad at all. Like if I'm, if I'm lost in the fucking woods and I need something to eat, like this is not bad at all. Um, to willingly select this though.

No. Yeah. Yeah. There's no way. No, no, no, no. There's, there's a little pack in the stuff that comes with this. I got, I got some chicklets too, Edwin, in this, in this little, this little pack here, there's a, what is this?

Oh, there's a napkin. There's a little napkin folded up. And I have that. Also, I got some, uh, uh, what is this? A sanitary creamer. There's some, some creamer, which I don't know if there's any, uh, there's no, there was no, oh, there is. There's instant coffee as well.

There's some instant coffee. Oh, nice. Oh, look at that. Okay. Yep. And then, uh, some salt. What else do we got in here? Sugar, sugar packet, and then a moist towelette.

Moist towelette. See, you got lucky. Yeah. And then some matches, which, which, uh, these matches are designed especially for damp climates, but they will not light when wet or after long exposures, long exposure to very damp, damp air. I don't know. But I think the best use for the matches is to place one on your tongue

after you've eaten some of this food. Cause man. Light your tongue on fire and pretend it never existed. I got it. I got it. I got one last thing that I haven't tried. It's this cherry blueberry cobbler, which, uh, I'm hoping. Uh-oh.

I didn't heat this up either, but it's okay. Just for, for tasting sake. We're going to, we're going to. This cobbler is fine. Yeah. Yeah. It's, yeah. Um, but wise overall, I got to say.

Not, not great food. I think, I think Edwin is, is right that this is, it's, it's survival food. And that's, and that's what it's made for. It's, it's, you're supposed, this is, this is what you have to eat when you have to eat it. Yes. Yeah. And hopefully we didn't take any of these away from people who actually need

them. Why is your, your Coast Guard kit or whatever fucking taken away from someone who needs it. Um, but, but let's see here. One last bite. I'm hoping the desserts have been better. So I'm hoping that this cobbler is a little bit better. I'm impressed.

There's both a cobbler and a cookie in there. You got options. Yeah. They usually do that. You get like two desserts. Okay. So this is, so this is better than it's weird, of course. Like it's just a sort of thing of anything that has to be packaged for

this long. I just think there's going to be a weird taste to it, but this, it is, it is better than, it is better than the meal. I'm going to take a picture of it as well, but I'll show you guys right here. Here it is. It's a cobbler. Yeah.

It just kind of looks like a, a weird granita. Yeah. It just doesn't look appetizing. No. Yeah. It's a lotto. Yeah. It's not, it's not appetizing.

Um, there we go. Oh God. That was way too big of a mouthful. Oh boy. Yeah, man. For sure. Oh fuck. You did that to yourself.

All right. Well, there we go. Mitch, we should get to a final accounting of, uh, this experience eating these rations, these MREs. Uh, but should, should we rate these out of anything? What, what, what do you think? I think that we probably should try to rate these, but I don't, uh, like five stars, like a general would have.

Okay. Five out of stars for a general. I'm with you. And let me, let me, let me quickly just read this note too that came with it. Yes, please. So this is January 3rd, 2020. So right before the pandemic. So these, by the way, Edwin,

these have been sitting in a Doughboy storage locker for one year, a year and a half basically. All right. All right. So we're these, we're these better, but they were, I think they were sent to us fresh. Well, I'm going to read right now. Dear Doughboys and producer Emma and maybe commissioner Susser,

rest in peace. You song included with this letter, you will find six meals ready to eat MREs, the lifeblood of the American military in any sort of field environment. As a service member, these bad boys have been some of my worst meals and some of my best meals, depending on the context and my level of hunger. Yep.

It'd be, it'd be really cool if you guys tried one out to see what you think. I made sure to give you guys a good sample of MREs, good MREs in quotations and bad ones. There is even a pizza MRE in here that I haven't had the opportunity to try yet, which is the one I had. That one is very recent addition to the MRE menu cycle. Make sure you follow the instructions on how to heat them up and do not overfill the heating bag with water, which I did do.

I overfilled it and it did spill out. Be warned, MREs will block up your pipes for a few days. Rumblies may follow. All right. So I should have read this beforehand. I did forget to mention that part. Dear God. A nightmare.

So our soldiers are running around like constant pain. Motherfucker. That's why they're so upset and always on angst. Dear Lord. That's this. That is insane. All right. So we're going to be blocked up for a few days.

The podcast has been a real source of joy for me. Thank you for the absolute dedication you have for your fans. I've even dressed my seventh month, seven month old son in Doughboys onesy embarrassing. He put in parentheses, which it's not embarrassing. That's very nice. Mitch, it is embarrassing. It's embarrassing, but it's very nice.

Mitch, I'm happy you're a big... Oh God, I can't read this part. Mitch, I'm happy you're a big Hollywood movie star. Thank you. That's not true. Nick, you work harder and are a lot funnier than you give yourself credit for. Emma, you're an on-air talent. Susser, my wife likes you better than Mitch or Nick.

Weird. Yeah, it's wife. Your wife is gone. Gone AWOL. Morton, go back to Quincy, our IPU song, and regards Brad W. Thank you, Brad W. That was very nice of you to send all these. Thanks, Brad W.

God bless you. Send all of these to us. Look, if we got to rank these out of five stars, Nick, like you said, it's hard for me to... If you were in a desperate situation and if you had to eat these on the... I'm sure that you would enjoy them, like Brad was saying, where it could be your best meal. But if we're just going by taste...

I mean, look, if we're just going by taste, it's one star. I mean, it's a half star, sure. They're bad. They're really bad. And it makes you feel like, damn, well, I can't believe people eat these things on a regular basis. God bless. For sure. But yeah, I mean, half star for taste.

But for something that lasts for that long, like for years and for something, then you got to go up further to a three-year-old. It doesn't their job in a three-year-old. And therefore, it does their job. So it's very hard to rate these. What do you think? Yeah, I mean, I brought up the officer rank insignias of the U.S. military here. And in terms of stars, each star designates a different rank.

I didn't know this. I thought generals were just different ranks of generals. But no, one star is a brigadier general. Two stars a major general. Three stars is a lieutenant general. And four stars is a general in the Navy. It's admirals. I'm going to say this is a major general.

I'm going to give this two stars. OK. I think at least for this one, because it is just pure nutrition. It's not horrible. I think I lucked out versus you guys not having something that I had to heat up that just looked like a hot mash. But the water in particular was delightful. Edwin, what do you think?

How many stars do you give this bad boy? I'm going to do three and a half. Three and a half. I'm going to go three and a half, because for the purpose and the nature of these meals, I think they're great. I think they actually do have some, well, at least mine had some type of flavor. But yeah, just overall, man, it's a no-go. I can't.

Wow. I would never. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, they don't taste good. It's a fuel source. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah.

I know you're a fuel source guy. I think you maybe you would enjoy these. Look, we have more. Just a little bit more. We have three more of these. I mean, we're going to have to eat them at some point. Edwin, you're coming back. Yeah, Edwin, you're coming back.

You got to eat these again. No, we're not going to do that to you. I'm busy. I have time to come back. You know, if you want to, you know, throw some gummy bears in there, I'll happily come back. Yeah. Edwin, we're going to bring in Sal.

My FedEx delivery guy is his UPS delivery guys. That would be fucking amazing. Just bring him in and we can all sit down and chat about what he likes to eat. Who's at the door right now? I'll be right back. I got to talk to him again for a little while. You guys can make do for a minute, right? Yeah.

I'm just going to get up and go talk to Sal. Edwin Hodge, thank you so much for being here. The film is The Tomorrow War, July 2nd on Amazon Prime. I saw it. Your performance in particular is so good. Your character is really great. The emotional arc your character has is without spoiling anything. It's an awesome performance.

So check it out. Anything you want to tell us about the movie or anything else you would like to plug? I mean, just overall, it's a huge adventure. I think the fans and Chris Pratt fans, movie fans, sci-fi fans, I think they're going to enjoy this film. It's definitely a throw ride. Mike kind of sets it off for us.

He kind of gives us the warning signs when shit goes crazy. So definitely look out for his face. But yeah, just enjoy the film. You know, I got good Sam. We're going to start shooting that for CBS later on this fall. Obviously, the Lakers Project. And then my brother and I, we're working together in a creative aspect to get a film producing

shot before I leave in October. Your brother also, I want to give your brother a shout out to a great actor. Amazing actor. Amazing. Both of you. Very talented brothers. Yeah, so talented.

He's Hawkman for somebody or anybody who doesn't know. He's, yeah, he's your new superhero. So, yeah. Hell yeah. That's awesome. There you go. Well, you're a hero too, just even for eating this stuff today and anyone who eats this dark heroes.

This stuff tastes awful. But thank you for joining us. Thank you for joining us and eating something particularly terrible. Yeah. Always a good Doe Boys episode when we have to end. I think we do a Doe Boys road trip and go somewhere. That's what I want to do.

I love it. I love it. Why is it we're saying that it's always a good Doe Boys episode when you end with an apology? Yeah, it ends with us apologizing to our guest. Yeah. But thank you for being here, Edwin. And hey, that's this week's Doe Boys Double.

We'll see you next time. See ya. See ya. Doe Boys Media.