Doughboys - Willie Mae's Scotch House with Matt Selman

Episode Date: July 18, 2024

Matt Selman (@mattselman, The Simpsons) joins the 'boys to talk Jay Leno, Goop Kitchen, and Universal's Simpsons Land before a review of Willie Mae's. Plus, another edition of Serving USA.Check out Knox Martin Foundation.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.hnoc.org/sites/default/files/file_uploads/PowerPoint%20Presentation.pdfhttps://www.movieposterarchives.org/louisiana-movie-poster-museum/nggallery/image/swamp_fire_mpa/https://losangelesrevisited.blogspot.com/2022/06/banty-rooster-and-managerie-in-lincoln.htmlhttps://mailchi.mp/05a37d3f642e/your-mid-summer-newsletter-from-the-seaver-center-has-arrived?e=190a17987bhttps://la.eater.com/2022/12/8/23500300/willie-maes-fried-chicken-new-orleans-los-angeles-opening-photos-news-venicehttps://williemaesrestaurant.com/willie-mae-seaton/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 at youtube.com slash doughboysmedia. With 487 feature film credits, Pontchartrain Billy was among the most prolific of all screen performers. But Billy was not an actor, or even a human being. Pontchartrain Billy was a gator. Captured in the swamps of New Orleans in 1906, Billy found a home in Hollywood, where he

lived well into his 80s. Bayou Billy's relative docility combined with his reptilian instinct to open his jaw for dangling food made him a natural on camera, as well as a photo attraction regawking visitors to the tourist trap alligator farm where he resided. While few knew his name, he became one of New Orleans' most widely seen stars of the silver screen, and one of its most famous eaters in a city known for food. And around the time Ponchar Train Billy was co-starring with Abbott & Costello in Tarzan, an enterprising New Orleans woman with the surname Seton opened an eponymous beauty salon in the Big Easy's Tremay neighborhood. While Seton's hairdos

paid the bills, her true dream was to open a bar and so the salon was converted into a saloon that served hot food, including her signature recipe, fried chicken. The breaded bird became its breakout dish. The salon side of the business closed up shop in the 1970s, and over the next half century, Ms. Seaton's diner became one of the city's most beloved grub joints. The eatery survived the devastation of Hurricane Katrina in 2005 and its founder's death in 2015.

And today, this family-owned fowl broker is operated by Seton's great-granddaughter Carrie Seton Stewart in 2022 the restaurant opened its first outlet outside of the Crescent City in the beachside town of Venice, California in partnership with upscale LA chain mogul Jerry a Greenberg of sugarfish fame and with awards from the James Beard Society And with awards from the James Beard Society, accolades from publications calling it America's best fried chicken, and an endorsement from former president Barack Obama, one can only imagine the famous jaws of Pontchartrain Billy would be pleased to chomp down on Ms. Seaton's secret recipe. This week on Doughboys, Willie Mays' Scotch House. ["Doughboyz Theme Song"] Come on! Go, it's the Doughboyz!

Doughboyz Doughboyz! Welcome to Doughboyz, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Billy Eyeless, the spoon man, Mike Mitchell. All right. Five forks. All right. Someone must have done this already, but I can't look it up right now.

Thank you for the greatest dough on earth. No one's done it. At Grip Grand on everything and check out my music, Grip Grand on Spotify and everywhere else. Love y'all. Roast at birdfog.com. Grip Grand, how about that? My dad was Bill, Billy. He was a Bill. The Whammer.

The Whammer. Yeah. Bill Mitchell. Bill Mitchell. A few people call them Billy. Yeah. The second most famous Billy Mitchell. Wow. Wait, who's the first one? King of Kong psychopath. Yeah, right. Oh, right. Adversary. Yeah. Still crazily suing anyone who says he cheated. We might get sued for this.

He's also got a hot sauce brand. He comes from big hot sauce money. That's how he can afford these lawsuits. Man. Do you see King of Kong? Yes, because he was in Laconia. He did it in Laconia, right, Emma? Did he? King of Kong? Right, that's where that arcade is car he did in Laconia, right Emma

Did he does in King of Carl right? That's where that arcade is You know Laconia. I don't think I've been to that arcade. That's a Ramon D We'd had a place up in Laconia Wow no sadder group of weirdos than the Billy myth of Mitchell Twin galaxies truthers. There are a bunch of apologists. They're a bunch of people who's like he did not cheat He's legit and he's a good guy everyone has a car. It's like sucks for that guy to be more famous than me i mean like second famous billy man like that kind of sucks right do you mean for your dad or dad kind of sucks for my m say like yeah that's a bummer. bomber. Yeah. Well, I didn't see it. The last movie he saw before he died was King of Kong. That's not true. We went and saw, uh, the, the Jason Segal Muppet movie

at the, at the, at the, at the Hingham shipyard. Hingham. And the Hingham shipyard. Hingham is the fancier version of Quincy for those of you not from New England. So that's like the rich kids is Hingham. Right. Quincy kids are not. Quincy kids are the slobs. Yeah. Hingham. Right. Quincy kids are not. Quincy kids are the slobs.

Yeah. Hingham snobs. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, and we're next door to Milton, which is also a wealthy. Interesting. Quincy is like, we're like. Milton, you're not even allowed in.

We're the Springfield, basically. Yes. We're the other dummies. Hmm. Yeah. But you know what? I love it. I wouldn't have it any other way.

I wouldn't. Yeah, it is a good reference point considering our guests. That's right. Why? Let's hit them with a drop. Thought about it today. Who out there would eat human flesh? Yeah, yeah.

Hashtag nanny here. Here's a question. Would you eat a person? I think I would. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. If human flesh was offered a person? I think I would. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Human flesh was offered to me. I think I would. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Maybe go dumb on people. Yeah, it's like, felt like it was ethically sour. Give it a try, give it a chomp. I don't even, I'm looking at the email that was sent in. Sorry. I mean, sometimes I do just look at the email that was sent in. Sorry. Yeah. I mean, sometimes I do just look at my phone. It's true.

I was just looking like, people think the Pacers can pull it off. That's like the big- Why are you talking about this? It's July. Right now, this episode's coming out in July. The Celtics have already won. The Celtics have swept in for Tatum,

has overcome his insecurity, non-alpha issues and finally become the dominant number one that we always knew he could be and they crushed Minnesota in four games. Wow. Calling the sweep right now. I love this, but I mean, I'm not that confident. I don't know what will happen.

Oh, I'm not confident at all. But you know what, I'm gonna let the Celtics cook. What does that mean? I'm gonna let them cook. The kids say that, I'm gonna start using it. Problem with Tatum is he's not an alpha. I've listened to so many podcasts with that thesis statement.

Yes. It's, whatever, a lot of sports analysis is complete like nonsense. You don't think they're gonna win either though? I would get, right now, I don't, I mean, like, I think they could, they very well could win. I think if you made me make a call, it's so tough cause like I thought Denver was gonna win it all.

They lost in the second round. We're so time-stamping this. We have just had, the Minnesota Timberwolves won game seven yesterday. That's when we're recording this. The Minnesota Timberwolves won game seven of the Western Conference semi-finals. So we're in, this is a prelude to the next, the second class.

Also San Francisco still exists as a city. So things have changed. July 18th world. I disagree since those Silicon snobs moved in. And it changed the character of the city. Yeah, it did. Well, got to the working class. No, I'm saying it's been blown up

in some kind of event. Yeah, like the rock. No, I know, I know, I'm sorry. Yeah, we got the rock. Yeah, we just wanted to get into the other side of it too. There was a sarin nerve gas attack carried out from missiles that were on Alcatraz. Yeah, I get it.

Oh my God, that'd be great. Yeah. You would have to respect someone that did a real life The Rock. Yeah. Yeah. Like there are these, someone that did a real life The Rock. Yeah. Yeah. Like there are these, okay, I'm sorry to get off topic.

Hi, I'm Matt. I'm introducing myself. Yeah. And I just talk about whatever I want. I'm sorry. And so there's these gang of thieves in rich asshole neighborhoods of Chilean thieves that target these horrible one percenter purses

called Birkin bags. Oh, yes, yes. And they know who has them and they're, they case the houses and they're, they go in and steal them and they steal the little certificate that says how special they are to the jackasses that waste their money on these show off pieces of shit. And I could not be more on the side of the thieves. Yeah, that's pretty good. They're like, they're like the gentlemen bandits of the modern age. I mean, they just go in, take the worst things owned by the worst people, and just sell them. They're great.

I'm gonna get one. I'm gonna start my own Chilean gang to start stealing Birkins. Okay, sorry. I want a Birkin sock bag. I apologize. Birkin sock bag? I don't know what this, it's not a Birkenstock bag, you fucking Quincy Rube.

Those are shoes. In Hingham and Milton, we know it's called a Birkenbag. Oh, Birkenbag. It's the signature false scarcity item of Hermes. Got it. And they only let you buy one if you've already spent a shit ton of money at Hermes and you have to buy whichever one they give you.

And if you don't, you're afraid you won't be on the Birkin list anymore. So it's just like, just like asshole exponential douche material. It seems hard to get. How much are they? They're like 30 grand. Maybe I won't get one. They do go up in value.

They are collectible. This Hermes Himalayan Birken 30 is listed on eBay for six figures. $423,000 for this. Wow! This little glittery bag. Kinda looks like shit. You deserve to be robbed. You deserve to be robbed.

It does kinda look like shit. Yeah, that sucks. You put your wealth in its most concentrated form and carry it around showing off how rich you are. You deserve crimes to happen to you. Yeah, I love this dance. Yeah, I like this dance. Totally in favor of it.

You think I couldn't buy 20 Birkins? Yeah. I could have a Birkin for every day of the year. I would, I thought how I live. 365 Birkins. Mitch, did you credit the dropper? I was about to. Sorry 365 Burkitts. Mitch, did you credit the dropper? I was about to, Wikes.

I'm sorry, guys. No, you're fine, nothing to apologize for. How the hell, sup? I made the drums, bass, keys for this drop and chopped up some Milwaukee live show audio. Love the Showtimes of Melanie. Thank you, Doug. You did a great job, Doug.

Thanks, Doug. Well done. Drops at birdfuck.com. Our guest today, writer and showrunner of The Simpsons, our chicken correspondent, Father Tyne himself, Matt Selman is back. Hi, Selman. Oh, my God. So flattering. No one wanted me ever to come back, but I wanted to come back.

We wanted you to come back. I know you guys did, but like, of all the great, the gabrises and the nangles of the, you know, in the world. We haven't had nang on in a while either. Well, nangle, you knowrices and the nangles of the, you know, in the world. They haven't had nang on in a while either. Well, nangle, you know, yeah, nangle's got a lot going on. She's busy. Yeah, she's got stuff going on. Got a lot going on.

Yeah. She's loving that I'm talking about her right now. Loving it. Nangle's the best. The best. Let's talk a little bit about, generally about chicken. We're gonna deep dive on chicken. We've got a chicken, an iconic- Beaks.

Fried chicken restaurant we're talking about. Yes,. We've got a chicken an iconic fat a feather restaurant We're talking about yes, right. Okay. I guess recap my first appearance on the show eggs was Wakers oh, hey guys. Yes The claws the pee-poo sex hole right yeah Yeah, you're Quincy Rube fuck Right, yeah. What was the- Call me a Quincy Rube. Yeah, you're Quincy Rube. Oh, fuck you. No, he's like Hingham royalty. He is.

You're a fucking Hingham guy for sure. What's the first place I went to? Yes, so we- B-Dubs. We went to B-Dubs back in the day. Right, that was fried chicken. You bought stock in B-Dubs. Yes.

Have you dumped that stock? I dumped it a long time ago. Okay. Not a winner. Well, that's a good, I mean, that's a savvy pre-pandemic move, whether it was, I don't know what the timing was, but like that, their business model

obviously completely changed once people stopped going out to sports bars and clustering in huge numbers. Yeah, I'm gonna let you cook on that. But- Is there a whole B-Dubs go campaign? Did you just learn this phrase? It's based on that.

Let them cook? Yeah, it's like talking about the NBA playoffs is already dated enough, but to also use like slang that came about in like 2017. All right, I'm gonna let you cook on that, keep going. But like, however, after I was on B-Dub's with you guys in 2000, Would have been, I think it was year guys in 2015, 2016 maybe.

So for Christmas that year, I bought hundreds of Buffalo Wild Wings gift cards. And I gave them out all over the Fox lot as like Christmas presents to everyone. Everyone I met, all the people, all the workers. I think that's a very fun, nice gift. I think it's a great gift. Just walk around with a bunch of gift cards,

giving them out to strangers at Fox. That was super fun. However, I still have a lot of them left over. super fun. Just walk around with a bunch of gift cards, giving them out to strangers at Fox. That was super fun. However, I still have a lot of them left over. So I just carry them around in my wallet. Wow. They're kind of like a great get out of jail free card. Like if you get in a pickle and you really need help or someone really helps you,

give them a B-dubs gift card. There you go, right. It's like a meaningful experience. I think this is a great gift. Yeah, I think it's great. Yeah. I'm gonna do it again this year Yeah, I think it's great. Yeah. I'm gonna do it again this year. That's, I-

Is that what you still do a couple of loud links I sometimes don't use gift cards, but I also like that. Maybe something else. But something fun that's like a treat for the, all the workers that are at Fox who are planning the overthrow of the government. There's one guy at Fox who I'm sure he and I disagree politically on stuff.

Sure. But he has a giant flag on his trailer, his grip trailer with corn holio with two machine guns. That sounds good. I'm sure we like disagree on a lot of stuff, but that is a great flag. Yes. That brings corn holio. And he says, don't tread on my butthole. That's funny.

Come on, that's fucking quality. That guy can, I don't care. Overthrow whatever you want, sir. I will serve for you. There is that weird, I mean, there is that weird thing of Fox being Fox, and I mean like- The company.

Yeah, yeah, but you don't really see that on the Fox lot. How do you feel about that lot in general? I used to, I love it. Do you really? I actually grew to hate it in many ways. I mean, I was gonna bring the peanut butter. I was gonna have him stir the peanut butter. We should give context for people who don't know this.

Mitch doesn't know it. He talks about it every show. I think there are maybe some people who are perhaps new to the podcast and perhaps even if they know that Mitch worked at the Simpsons, may not know the specific piece of lore. He worked at the Simpsons, you were there, you were essentially his boss.

I don't know if you were just direct, higher up, but he answered to you. We had fun. Yeah. And as part of that. You didn't give me a Buffalo Wild Wings gift card, you gifted me a peanut butter store at one point. Which was a contraption,

I remember you were like very excited about it. And I was like, all right, I liked it, I was playing along. And it didn't fit on top of the peanut butter. It didn't really work. Part of your tasks were you had like one of those natural peanut butters that you had to stir up. Scudder, I know you know Laura Scudder. Yeah, I know Laura Scudder.

She does a great job with peanut butter, but sometimes her peanut butter's not very mixed. So it was my job to stir it quite a bit. I think I broke like 1,000 plastic knives and then just stopped stirring it. I did it for two days probably. Laura Scudder, a real person. I wasn't sure if it was just a brand like Mavis Beacon who teaches typing and is a fictional character. Laura Scudder, yeah, Maria is another good example. Laura Scudder is an actual person, was an entrepreneur in Monterey Park, California. Is she still alive and kicking Laura Scudder?

Died in 1959, so no. Has not been a part of this mortal plane for some time. But also her solids and liquids separated when she died. That's like a Leno joke. There used to be this show called The Tonight Show Kids, and there used to be this guy named David Leno, who hosted David Leno. And every time someone comical inventor would die, he died in the way of the invention. Yeah, that was fun, right?

Like the slinky guy fell down the stairs or something like that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Come on, Jay, that's crazy. I watched Leno. You can't say that, Jay, that's wrong. David Leno. Yeah, I think so.

The silly putty guy died and they put him on a newspaper. That's kind of where it would go. That's gonna work. I watched Leno in my household, I think I brought it up, which I know Letterman was a much cooler thing, but I liked Conan and that was the lead in to Conan.

Yeah, sure, yeah. So I watched a lot of Leno. I've said this before, went and saw him. Beautiful baby blue eyes. I don't know if people know this about Leno, but very beautiful blue eyes. Striking. Makes sense the way he pops on TV. You've come around on Leno, don't you? I'm pro-Leno. Yeah, I like Leno. What? He's not doing anyone any harm. I'm not doing anyone any harm. Conan, he did a little- Yeah, that was a little bit, but whatever. I think it's water to the bridge at this point.

I think Conan is happy with his current- Seems like it. World traveler type guy show. Yes, slash podcast empire. If Conan had known when that all happened, that late night would not exist really anymore. And in five to 10 years after that, I think maybe it would be a different.

Can I give you guys a Simpsons scoop? Please. I would love to hear. July 18th, Conan O'Brien will be guest appearing on the season premiere of The Simpsons. Wow. No one knows this, it's a scoop. Wow. With Joe Boy's breaking shoes.

That's why. Breaking shoes. We get an exclusive. This is our first exclusive? This is an exclusive? An exclusive. This is an exclusive. Will Entertainment Weekly or something pick this up? They might. They might.

I'm not gonna tell anyone else till July 18th. Wow. Wow. This is huge. I mean, I might, at the Celtics victory parade, get a little tipsy and let it fly. Is he, wait, is he going to be a voice on the show? Yes, he'll be playing himself.

Playing himself, which he has done in the past. That's true, but a much bigger part. Yeah, wow, I love this. Yeah, this is very exciting. When I was there, he came in. He came back. Ian Maxstone Graham was like, come up and get my lunch.

I was like, just tell me it over the phone. I probably told the story on the show. And then I was like, ugh, I was kind of pissed off. And I went upstairs and Conan was in the room, which he was doing me a favor to come up there and meet him and he said, where are you from Quincy? He said, guys like you used to beat me up growing up. And I was like, ah, but that's not true.

I'm not a man who can beat anyone up. And then he kept calling me an asshole. It was a very fun, it was a fun day to have him come in there. Can we, while we're lunch adjacent, Selman, you told me something while we're waiting for Mitch to arrive, which is that at the restaurant, which is that-

Oh, at the restaurant. Yeah, at the restaurant. Okay, I thought you meant today. Well, I mean, we had also more conversations that were waiting. I was basically, I told you that 12.45. Yeah. So did you get there early or did you get there on time?

Cause I came basically like at like, what, 12.47? We were both there a little early, it was fine. Okay. It wasn't a huge, early, it was fine. Okay. It wasn't a huge, you weren't hugely late. Nick and I are like early guys. Yeah, I'll get there. We're nervous if we're not early. I'd rather be there with 10 minutes to spare

and just sort of kill time as opposed to like, oh shit, I'm just arriving, you know, as the event is happening. Not that I'm never late. Look, I agree with that, you would that normally, it was the other side of town for me. It was a hall. It's fine. But you didn't do anything wrong. I was just giving context for why I know this bit of information and why you don't, which is that we were waiting for you to arrive and you mentioned that a new favorite is a chain in the Simpsons writers room for lunches is a chain that we reviewed and we're surprised by its quality here, the Goop Kitchen. The Goop Kitchen.

Actually, it wasn't while you were waiting for it. I heard this shit anyways, you fucking idiot. You heard this? Yes, he said it in front of me while I was there. Okay, well then never mind. I'm not gonna lie. I'm not gonna lie. The Goop Kitchen. The Goop Kitchen. Actually, it wasn't while you were waiting for it. I heard this shit anyways, you fucking idiot. You haven't heard this? Yes, he said it in front of me while I was there. I'm a little behind on exactly how real or not real the animosity is at any given time

on this show. It's all real. That was real. It's all real. Okay. But I never know. Maybe there was a huge fight last week and I don't know about that. Not last week.

There was a huge fight. We had a huge fight. Or like when I was listening and I feel weird. Maybe last week. There was a huge fight. We had a huge fight that was- Maybe last week as of this episode's release. That's true. Maybe the show's already over. Yeah. We are gonna be, I mean, this year is crazy. We're gonna be close to done by July.

Interesting. We'll see. Yeah, we'll see. Well, that's the goal. That's the goal. So yes, Goop Kitchen, which reviewed by the amazing, terrific writer, Luke Deltradici, Watertown Boy. That's right, hey Luke.

Right, Watertown. Watertown Boy. Shit. Super smart guy. You're also from Watertown. Yeah, also Watertown, Massachusetts. But like we're both the sort of hippie kid. Right.

Non-towny water towners. Like anyway. You know, this is in Watertown these days. But Jake, Jake Sully. I knew you were gonna, I knew it was Jake Sully. From Avatar? From Avatar, yeah, he loves it up there. Pyacon has a condo.

Pyacon's a big time, he's a Watertown lifer. He's like fifth generation. So Luke, who is like, Luke is so funny and smart, Watertown lifer. He's like fifth generation. Yeah, he's a landlord actually. Luke is so funny and smart, but we hadn't been to Goop. Yes. So we went to Goop based on that episode and it has risen to number one favorite. Number one. Right. It is- Here's my question. It is engineered for sitcom takeout lunch

for people who don't want to feel disgusting. Yes. Here's my question for you. My head goes to PA duties here. Do they only deliver? There's that ghost kitchen, the colony in West LA and they pick it up there. Ah, all right.

So the PA is off picking it up. But Goop seems like so elegant and so well put together and thought out with the flavors and the healthiness and the keto kind of forward proteins and vegetables. You're like, how do they even make that in a ghost kitchen? It feels like you would need its own kitchen to do it that excellently.

That's what's so weird about the ghost kitchens. And I think we talked about this on the episode, but like just talking about the colony Kitchens, and I think we talked about this on the episode, but just talking about the Colony specifically, because I know that one, they have, another restaurant that they have there is, well, Mitch, help me out, what's that taco chain that does the rolled tacos? Benitos.

Benitos, yeah. Benitos tacos. And Benitos is such a working class, just kind of divey, trashy, but very, you know, yummy Mexican place. And just the idea that those two things are being made side by side in the same, you know, industrial kitchen. It's just so strange.

It is interesting. I mean, I wonder if it's the same chefs doing both, or if they have little cubicles for each restaurant and they're just, everyone's waiting for just their own thing. We did a Simpsons in an episode about ghost kitchens recently, just in time to hear that they were sort of dying out.

That's when we like to come in and really hit it hard. It's tough with those animation lead times. I mean, even more so than putting podcasts in the Frank bank. You get like what, two years from when you write it to when it airs? Sometimes people online will criticize the show for like being, like not being topical.

And I'm like, at best it was topical once. And then it's gonna be on Disney Plus until there isn't television anymore. It'll be the last thing they take off television. So if you're a viewer and your reaction is, that already happened three years ago instead of six months ago. That's like a very small minded reaction in my opinion, more in the, I thought of something to say and I'm just going to say it category anyway.

I love all our fans. So we did this great goes kitchen episode written by the great writer says our misery goes, and it's very funny and please watch it on Hulu. Wow. You've someone, you were the first person to meet, well, the idea of a foodie, which no one likes, and I don't think you like it either. No, no, no.

But I remember being at the Simpsons and you were the person who told me about your umami burger. Oh my God, this was so, well, this is like 2012? But I'm just saying, this to me is like, burgers in LA, burgers are back, and I went to that first Umami because you told me to go there. A chain that now is probably hanging on by a thread,

is my guess. It went out of business, it was sold and it was rebought and now it has been rebranded, but it's pretty sad. Yeah. Yeah, that place was kind of, but that was fun in its day and tried to do exciting stuff. But.

I went through the Pinkberry cycle. Yeah. Kind of the boom and bust of like, Oh, this is this trendy place that like, Oh, this is like a destination. People wait an hour for this and then it over expanded and its quality declined. And now it's just kind of like a shell of itself. To give the idea of the timeline. This is, I remember being on that computer and you would also like, not giving me the keys

as in like I could tweet from it, but you would show me Homer's Twitter. This is, this is like Homer first. I don't know if Homer's on X, if it's Homer, he's stuck around, I'm guessing, right? I don't, it must just exist as a dead account. Is this still there? No one writes those tweets anymore.

Is Homer on X? Can we find that out? Yeah, I'm just gonna look it up. Well, that was around the same time. This dates it exactly when it was, but it was like Umami, Homer was on X, went to Umami. Do you have any big spots in LA now for food? Do you have any foodie spots?

Have you gone to order sheets. Where is it you've been that silver like like once in the last well. I'm a little behind the times i know the dough boys fans look to me for los angeles is trendy isn't. Dining spots but i'm. I you know since the strike ended we've been so lucky to have to do a lot of. Simpsons episodes in a very short amount of time. Sure. So that's very good.

And we get to keep, I feel like my main job at the Simpsons is just to keep animators' kids in vintage t-shirts, which means just to make as many shows as possible before it becomes unprofitable or more unprofitable. And so I've just been like working like crazy to just do these topical episodes, like ghost kitchens.

And we're gonna do one about podcast in like three years. You did and you very graciously put us in the podcast. I did, yes. It was unnerving to them, I'm sure. And Homer Simpson does have a Twitter still, but the last time it tweeted was October 31st, 2023, and before that it was October 2020, so not very active. Wow. Pretty sporadic. What's his most recent tweet?

It was, no TV and no beer make Homer go crazy in a clip for Halloween. That seems like pretty solid. You think there's any chance, I know this is asking a lot, we could have Homer promote this episode? I wonder. It would be pretty big if we got Homer to post it. I'm sure I could. I mean, if we got Homer to promote it.

If we got Homer to post it, someone was on the Simpsons. I would like to give a, I'll actually, I would like to give a shout out to the people who run the at the Simpsons Twitter account, who are very thoughtful tweeters about modern Simpsons content and what the writers are tweeting about the show. So like if we're live tweeting an episode,

which no one cares about, but we'll do it anyway, they will retweet it and that team is super plugged in and I like the content they create about new episodes. So I respect to everyone over at the Simpsons, the part of the Fox marketing wing. Love a good social team. Respect to everyone over at The Simpsons, the part of the Fox marketing wing. Love a good social team. You're great, great team and really nice.

I wanna live tweet a Doughboy's episode while we're doing it. I wanna live eat one. But can I say one more goop thing? I'm sorry, J-Bo over. A little bit of a goop hack for the super goop heads out there is they've got a sick ass selection of salad dressings.

So like if you don't like the dressing that comes or the sauce that comes with your entree or salad, go into that dressing list. And there's some lighter dressings on there. Also, they're a little more health conscious. Some of them, there's some really decadent, delicious thick dressings. But if the lighter dressings can really serve you well, like the carrot, ginger and the vinaigrette, then you're really keeping it lean. Right. My question is, would I hate Goop Kitchen

if I was working there still? I can't tell if it's a place of, has it gotten to the point yet where I'm gonna say, where are we going for lunch? Goop Kitchen, and then some of the writers are gonna go, ah, or is it still? You're getting it twice a month or you start kind of getting sick of it.

It seems like there's a good amount of menu variety. I used to go to Clementine a lot. You still get Clementine. Sure, Clementine, OG. Yeah, Clementine was a big one. Nelly likes Clementine. Great, my second favorite is Tender Greens. I know you guys had an incident there

with a broken off something. Oh, that way you were supposed to bleep that. You bleeped it. Actually, this has been made canon at this point. It is now. I've told it. We have another episode of Frank Bank. I got a paper, a rolled up paper towel that I thought was chicken and put in my mouth.

Yeah. At Tender Greens. And I still continue to go there. I actually do support Tender Greens. I just think that- I love Tender Greens. I like Tender Greens, yeah. The quality has, it's rode the wave, I feel like.

You know what I feel like. You know what I feel like I can always get from tender greens that will just be like right down the middle and completely solid is like a salmon plate. Again, like a salmon plate, like some mashed potatoes and some baby greens. That's just like, that's a not super heavy lunch or dinner.

I mean, I haven't done doughboys since the COVID epidemic has waned, but coming out of COVID, my main takeaway was, I haven't done doughboys since the COVID epidemic has waned, but coming out of COVID, my main takeaway was, other than all the bad stuff about the world we've heard, is I really hate takeout food. I hate delivery and I hate DoorDash. I'm just like, I'd rather go to a restaurant

I don't love where they're cooking for me, right hot at the restaurant, hospitality style, or just something super healthy. So like tender greens, goop, super travels well, eating clean, and then save unhealthy stuff for only at restaurants. I see. I mostly agree with you. I don't get a lot of like, I will get takeout, but I like, I tend to be someone who will eat on site. Like I tend to either eat at home, something I prepared, or I go to like, even a Jersey Mike's honestly, I'll probably just go to Jersey Mike's

and I'll eat in the store. Oh yeah. But I understand people who like delivery and takeout cause there's the convenience factor. I'm not like, I just think the food suffers so much. Yeah it does for sure. Just get stuff that travels. Definitely.

If that's healthy and then save your treats for other times. It's funny, I just unlocked the food suffers so much. Yeah, it does for sure. Just get stuff that travels. Definitely. If that's healthy and then save your treats for other times. It's funny, I just unlocked a memory. The first time I ever had Jersey Mike's was, you recommended it for a lunch order at the Simpsons. And it was the new place, Jersey Mike's, while I was working there in 2000 and whatever. And you gave me the phone number and I ordered from it,

but it was the wrong spot. It was in North Hollywood. So I came back with lunch at 2 p.m. and there were like, you know, a bunch of angry writers with forks standing there when I got back. But I think a great call. And then, because there was one

that was like right next to Earth Cafe. I think I have a new weird way of thinking about food stuff, which is if you have like, for like sub restaurants, if I had like Subway, Jersey Mike's and like Jimmy John's or something. Sure. I would go to Jersey Mike's nine times out of 10 and the others rotate those others in just one time.

Yeah. That's how much I like Jersey Mike's. I love Jersey Mike's too. I love Jersey Mike's. Just Subway at one and a half. Some people don't get it online Yeah. That's how much I like Jersey Mike's. I love Jersey Mike's. I love Jersey Mike's too. Just Subway at one and a half. Some people don't get it online. They don't, and they're like, they love Jersey Mike's and one time I went there, it tastes like trash.

I don't know what's wrong with your Jersey Mike's. I bet, I think what Jersey Mike's is doing at their scale is really, really impressive. It's been, it's extremely consistent. And my personal experience, I do like Jimmy John's, I think more than the rest of the room, but- This happened after the last visit, basically. Yeah, but Jersey Mike's is like very- Do you really like Jimmy John's? I do like Jimmy John's, I think, more than the rest of the room. This happened after the last visit, basically. Yeah, but Jersey Mike's is very-

Do you really like Jimmy John's? I do like Jimmy John's. If there was a Jimmy John's where the Jersey Mike's is, then I would go to Jimmy John's pretty regularly, but Jimmy John's is like, I gotta go all the way to fucking Beverly Hills or whatever, it's not proximal to me. The quintessential Beverly Hills restaurant.

Yeah, it's the strangest- Jimmy John's. Spago and Jimmy John's. You know what, I was trying to figure out out why it's there and I realized it's like oh it's for like restaurant hospitality workers in the area who are like oh they need to, there has to be a place that appeals to the working class. Is there a Beverly Hills markup though or no? There is a little bit of a Beverly Hills markup but it's like there has to be some sort of place there's like that and there's like a Chipotle, there's some options for the people

who actually you know do the work in the city. You can just fill your Birkin bag with hot links. Hot links. Hot links. I'm doing Nate Nowes if I'm over there in Beverly Hills. Nate Nowes, yeah, famous deli. Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. Excuse me.

Is it still open? Yeah. Okay. Come on now. When you said memory unlocked, I will say this and I maybe shouldn't say this. He was molested. That was the...

He just unlocked it. That's why they were unlocking- He just unlocked that. That's why they were unlocking. He just unlocked that. That was after At the North Hollywood. Sorry, I wouldn't want to make light of anyone's trauma and try respect everyone's trauma, it's not sad, all bad. I had a vision of a video game UI

of seeing, we go to like a pos menu like in Psychonauts and it would be like a little lock that would come unlocked and like a part of your brain would become would start glowing This isn't this is insane. Yeah, I wish that happened But I just thought of like that's what happened what just happened to you No, I mean, you know, I mean you thought that they're like a lock unlocked in my head Well, I just thought if like that's how it might be represented visually in like a game. Do you have UI in your head? Sometimes.

Oh, Jesus. I also just found out in Baldur's Gate 3 that you roll die. Yeah, you do. Yeah, yeah. It's part of the fun. You spent 300 hours on the game where you roll die. Yeah, it's fun. It's great. A game where you roll die? Virtual die or?

Yeah, there's virtual dice. It's really well implemented. It's really, really, the dice rolling is thrilling. And it's just one element of it. The day The Simpsons ends is the day that I opened Baldur's Gate. And like I'm saving all that, saving- Best bet is you are like 90 years old.

I'm saving 30 years of life destroying video games for the day The Simpsons ends. Well, look forward to it, because it's gonna be the best day of your life. Oh my God. Game fucking rocks. That's gonna be the best day of his life? I mean. He has a family this man. No, that's true.

It probably won't be the best day of your life. It'll be a good day. Those days aren't, weddings and baby births are not the best days of your life, people. They're memorable days in your life. But like the best days of your life, people. They're memorable days in your life. But like the best days are just, I had a really good day the other day. I'm sorry to share this,

but like I know no one watches Modern Simpsons in your audience, but we did an episode where Groundskeeper Willie goes to Scotland and Big Scotland Travel Show. And the band who I love, Bell and Sebastian, did us the honor of writing an original song in their own amazing style about the silly happenings of that episode. And then we went to see them in concert

and they performed that song with the little clips from the show behind them. That's cool. That was like, that was a really good feeling. Yeah. Much better than watching a baby come out. I do gotta say, that's nasty. Poor doctors, gonna see that all the time.

It's been a minute since you've been on, and we are talking fried chicken, and you are a chicken correspondent, but you're also so ensconced with the Simpsons. You don't wanna talk about how disgusting the birth is? No, that shit's nasty. All right, good, all right. You wanna see that?

Yeah, yeah, yeah, we don't wanna even think about it. What else is coming out of there? I don't wanna know. I want nothing to do with that place. I'm with you, Wags. You're clear as far as I say. The two I saw were pretty crazy. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I assume my wife is on a birth story podcast right now, just going and luxuriating in every detail of how those things went down. The kids are great. I love the kids.

They turned out great. So proud of them. I want to talk about a Simpson's Fried Chicken chain, which is Cletus's Fried Chicken at Universal. Oh, that's right. We can pick, we never, okay, here we go. I mean, this is kind of insane. We're double dipping here, right?

We all got invited to the Simpsons premiere party. That's right. 2023? Well, yes, it was some time ago. Was it the first one again after the pandemic? Yeah, and we didn't have one last year because of the strikes. Okay, right.

Also a bit of Doughboy's lore. That was the first time I met Amelia in person. That's right, yes. Oh, because of the thing. Isn't that wild? We have been working together. You just, you refused to look at her for a few weeks. Well, the first time you made eye contact with her.

Yes, yeah, yeah. No, that still has not happened. It might've, honestly, it might've been 2022 then, because it was certainly before we were doing these back in person consistently. Was it that long ago? We didn't. Amelia started working for us in January of 2022.

Yeah, so I think it might've been 2022. So no, no, oh, wait, shit, so it was 2022. But then why? Why did we not do it the next year? Cause the strike was during 2020. Oh wait. That's what happened. You're right, the strike was 2023.

I was off by a year. 2022. 2022. We went to the, we went to Simpson's land. Yes. Which they were, they were creating that land when I was working at the Simpsons. Also screened the, the premiere.

We got to watch that on the big screen. That was a good feeling. The super fun, and then all the food was open. That episode won an Emmy later. Wow, yeah. Wow. Yep. Yeah.

The ride, a lot of it written by the great Matt Warburton. Matt Warburton was like the A writer on that ride and really put a lot of great stuff into it. Yeah. We rode the ride-wise. Yeah, we did. on that ride and really put a lot of great stuff into it? Yeah. We rode the ride once. Yeah, we did. I know, I will say the actual physical experience of riding the ride kind of reminds me of a Simpson's joke

about the tooth chipper, which is a carnival attraction. They make jokes like that throughout the ride. Yes, yeah. And I may have told this story before, so I'll do super fast, that when we were building the ride, they took us on like a rough draft of it before it was refined, but first, they gave us a giant complimentary dinner

at what was then Doc Brown's Fried Chicken. Oh, right. So we all stuffed ourselves with Doc Brown's Fried Chicken, then rode an unregulated, unmodified ride, and people were throwing up like crazy. And I was like head between my knees, mega headache, but please let it end. Cause those things, you've got to soften the rough edges.

Yes, yeah. But anyway, that was cause we all know Doc Brown loves two things, time travel and authentic Southern cooking. Well, here's the thing. He never even eats in any of the movies. He is too busy to eat. He drinks liquor in the third one, here's the thing. He never even eats in any of the movies. He is too busy to eat. He drinks liquor in the third one, which is a mistake.

He regrets that. Yeah. But he's too busy inventing. He just eats a sandwich. Come on, tell him to eat. I gotta say this. People at the park, they used to be like, we're eating, it was Doc Brown's chicken

was the spot people would say. It's the same recipe, folks. And then Cletus. Recipe is unchanged. And then when the Back of the Future Ride exits and The Simpsons, The Simpsons Land becomes this thing, then it becomes Cletus' fried chicken, which does make a little bit less of an A to C

in terms of like, I can understand Cletus' association as kind of like a hick with being a fried chicken, you know. When they were, their first pitch for that was not Cletus' association as kind of like a hick with being a fried chicken, you know, pervading. Their first pitch for that was not Cletus. It was another character's fried chicken. And we had to said, what about Cletus? And they were like, oh, okay, I can't remember who it was, but it might've been Fat Tony, which seems insane

because he's already Italian. Yeah, what are we doing? It was someone non, we were like, we thought Cletus is a more of a fit for this concept. Another perfect pitch for the executives. And of course the- How about Bumblebee Man's pizza?

What the fuck are you talking about? That would be exciting if we mixed it a mashup where everyone was doing the, okay, but like, also they didn't want us to let us, they didn't want to let us call the chicken fingers, chicken thumbs, I probably already told this on Doughboys, I'm sorry. I don't know if you did.

I don't think you did, yeah. And they were like, what if people think they're real thumbs? Dear God. Ah! Ah! Fingers have been accepted for decades. You know they're not talons?

Yes. Which we've learned earlier today. Or claws, as they're commonly known. Or claws. It's so often it feels like those notes are coming from someone where they're just like, what if they're as dumb as I am? You know, that's the subtext.

So what did you guys think of the Cletus's fried chicken? I like Cletus's fried chicken. I think it's a quality fried chicken. I think it's one of the better options in the park, just like period. I think that that whole lineup of, I think that all the food stuff at Simpsons Land does a good job.

You got Krusty Burger, which is like, I think, fine to good, right? I'd say it's borderline good. At least it's crazy. It is crazy. Yes, yes. And then you got Mo's, and you can get some fun stuff there. And then, and Cletus's, and I think that they're all

pretty good. They did turn like fat, I'll tell you what I do love over there at Simpsons, and it is a thing where they're like, you can only get one now when you go to the premiere party, but the big donut, the big donut, if it's cooked, if it's like fresh, big donut is great. The big donut is better than it has any reason to be. Like you look at it as like, okay, this is purely a gimmick

and they're just gonna sell it based off of the image. But it's a thing you could end up getting more than once because it's actually quite tasty. Yeah. Yeah. It's no, it's delicious. And then I eat it over the course of like two days and I feel like shit, but it's great. And the theming is so fun. That's a big tasty. Yeah. Yeah, it's no, it's delicious. And then I eat it over the course of like two days and I feel like shit, but it's great. And the theming is so fun.

That's a big part of it. Like you talked about Moe's, like a big part, it's just good to go in and it feels like you're actually in Moe's. And like, people don't know this, upstairs from Moe's and Krusty Burger is a kind of public elegant room with kind of portraits, sort of like the Palm used to be a Hollywood portraits

of Simpson's characters from all seasons of the show and kind of fake bookshelves with episode titles. And it's really a beautiful Simpson's nerd space. Also, if you need a break from the chaos of the park, just to go hang out in this kind of quiet little, you know, elegant library. Yes. Fake library is fun.

We were gonna review all this. I know, but you guys, you have a lot to do. You're on our plates. On our plates. But. I guess the question is why didn't we? What happened? You guys are doing so much stuff.

I think the timing of it, I don't know if it was. Did I go to New Orleans? Maybe that was a part of it. I think the timing of it was, was that you were out of town and then we could have done it and then the strike came back and the strike happened and then by that time too much time had passed where it felt like, you know what I mean?

It was just like a weird like kind of like a series of events, but yeah, we could have made it happen. Yeah, we just did it. But the chicken, the Cletus is fried chicken thing to get in my opinion is the chicken two piece on platter on the bone. Yeah. You know, I'm sort of an anti tender guy. I'm with'm with you. I like it. And it's- No, I need the bones.

You got a breast and a thigh and a drum. I mean, it's a half chicken. You have all the pieces are there. And it is like, it's like kind of, I think they cook it in a pressure cooker, the way KFC does. Yes. But I ain't complaining.

Pretty juicy, pretty crispy. They got a gravy, a corn, a biscuit with a little glaze on it. It's, I mean, I mean, I mean, I mean crispy. They got a gravy, a corn, a biscuit with a little glaze on it. It's, I mean, I'm very fortunate in my career. I've had a lot of good luck. And part of the good luck is that these parties,

I have a butler. So there's a little guy who just sits there and he asked me if I need something. Yes. And I say, could I have another plate of Cletus's fried chicken on two plates on the bone please? And then he brings it to me. Wow.

I know. Is that real? Yeah. Is he your butler? He's like a person? For the night. Wow, so you just got a guy like kind of like following you around.

Yeah. That's great. It's insane. That's the thing I would not like ever think like, oh, I want to have that for myself, but if someone just gave it to me, I'm like, oh fuck, I got a butler. It's just to have it for one night of your life. Yeah it to me, I'd be like, oh, fuck, I got a butler. I mean, use this.

It's just to have it for one night of your life is perfect. One night of butlering is all you need. Wait, what the hell is this? Mitch was kind of my butler for many years. I was a butler. But I had to share him. It was weird.

A butler didn't do that great of a job either. You don't want a butler that's sloppier than you, which I was, than all those writers. No, yeah, you want like a put together butler. Yeah, yeah, yeah. My shoelaces would be untied, I have sauce on my shirt. Right. This is the guy they assigned for you

at the Simpson premiere party? I know, I know this is a little bit of privilege or whatever, no, it's not cool. I did not know this. That privilege, but it happened, so I'll share it. I would have loved to have made fun of this, it's great. Is he like a proper butler? Are they like, hey, here's your butler? This dude's a butler, he I'll share it. That's aspirational. I would have loved to have made fun of this, it's great. Is he like a proper butler? Are they like, hey, here's your butler,

this dude's a butler, he's gonna butler. They didn't use the word butler, but his only job was to get stuff for me. Right. And for the whole night. His task was butling for you specifically. Yeah, yes. Okay, got it. And the only thing I asked him to do

was get many plates of fried chicken. That's nice. Was he dressed nicely? Was he in a tuxedo? Really? Not a tuxedo, but he was in a nice outfit, a special outfit. He wasn't there like, hawthorn or something?

He was a universal employee. And are there other workers like there at Universal who are like there to cater to some of the VIPs? I think so. Oh, that's awesome. Probably like Matt Groening had a codary of butlers, probably. Nancy Cartwright's got a butler, that's cool. Oh, definitely.

Now, should we quickly, should we review that really quickly, a mini review? Yeah, I think, look, I think as a park- I like this idea. As a park attraction, for me, Cletus is a four-forker. I really like Cletus's fried chicken. I think Cletus is a four-forker as well. Yeah, I'm gonna say four and a half forks.

Wow. Four forks. Actually, you know what? Four forks, two tines. These were in the hat. From Father Tine, yes, he's wearing the hat. He just took it off to examine it. I forgot if there was-

For audio listeners. How many tines there were in the forks? Wait, how many tines? Wait, hold on, Tringen. There's four tines. Two tines, two tines, four and a half, two tines. Wow, very good score. Wow, welcome to the Yellow Plate Club. Wow!

Congratulations to Cletus' Fried Chicken. For just Simpson's restaurant? Yeah, for just Simpson's restaurant. A mini review before the big review. I give five forks to that doughnut, the big doughnut. That doughnut's good. Look, we didn't eat enough. We did actually, the night of,

we did eat over at like the pasta side, which is maybe fact-finding, I don't know who controls it. I think it's Luigi's, right? Oh, it is Luigi, yeah. Who has the actual pizza restaurant, or the actual restaurant in the movie. I think you're right.

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Everything there is great. Yeah, everything's everything. By the way, you just said it. Sounds like you spent some time down there. I went down there in the Big Easy. I went down there with you. I went down to Bayou. Yeah, we went down to Bayou. We went to a few, went to some attractions together.

We had a lovely time. We ate some gator together. We did eat some gator. We did eat some gator. Was it gator cheesecake? It was gator cheesecake, yeah. It was at Jock Emo's. This was a place that our buddy Van Robichow,

who's from New Orleans recommended. I mean, I tried to jam in as many places as I could. I mean, there was of course Commander's Palace, a place called Cochon where I went on, I think I went there on Passover and commented on that to the workers and they did not seem to see the irony.

I'm not going to be mentioning Passover anymore. I'm Christian by the way. So there's a famous, I mean I should try to jam in all his greatest hits, but you never feel like you hit it all. Yeah. Yeah. I was gonna come into the, I was gonna come into the, the Vox lot and say, hello, it's Selman.

Put me on a text chain with your PA to help me get a drive on a job I used to do. Yes. And I got my hair treatment. And then by the time it ended, it took longer. Then I thought it took an hour and a half. And the Celtic scam was gonna start and I went back home. So I apologize.

I'm gonna come in and see you guys. I wanna come in and see everybody, but. Hey, and while you're in that side of town, you can see your pal, Wiggs. But you should come for lunch and you should order and make them bring you food. Yes, it would be nice. They make them stir peanut butter.

It would be nice to have that. I don't do that anymore. I feel like that in the modern era of management. Some of these kids gotta get used to that shit, all right? It wasn't meant as like a jerky thing. It was more like, if you can solve this problem, think of all the other problems you'll be able to solve. I'm just trying to imagine.

That's not how it was received. What Emma's reaction would be if we asked her to stir some peanut butter for us. Think she'd tell us to go fuck ourselves. Yeah, it's a possibility. But it's like a puzzle. It's kind of like a mind game. Like here's a hard challenge.

Not that you. Yeah. You know, like you. No, I get what you mean. You put it in the microwave and heat it up. Do you know? Yeah, I often will do that. The point of peanut butter was this, that you had to stir it. That it was such a project. It was scudders.

It was large scudders. Oh, yeah, right. Yeah, it's like that natural kind that's got the layer of oil. I'd probably just give it to Jemmy and let her do it. You pour the oil off and then just eat the, there's a dense peanut paste. You need the oil. I've been dealing with- All you kids out there,

you gotta stir peanut butter every so often. Oh, you're upset Francis Ford Coppa is hugging you and giving you kisses on the cheek? Shut up! It's Francis Ford Coppa, he's 90 years old. He can do whatever he wants. He can do whatever the fuck he wants. His wife just died, so he's on the market.

Let him give you a weird creepy hug for crying out loud. Let George H.W. Bush do some weird shit when he's in a wheelchair in the last year of his life. Let him sniff your hair a little bit. Let him smell a nurse. Say his favorite book is David Copperfield, whatever weird thing you like to say. Also, that guy now, trouble. Yeah.

Oh boy. Oh yeah, Copperfield. Yeah, another bad guy. Oh boy, yeah, bad dude. Didn't know. Yeah. He's innocent. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Willie Mays was found. See if you can make yourself disappear.

Willie Mays was founded in New Orleans Tremay neighborhood in 1957 by Willie May Seton, who died in 2015 at age 99. Wow. What a life. Man, owning a fried chicken shop in Lebanon 99. See, they're pretty good. It is now run by your great granddaughter, Carrie Seton Stewart.

It won the James Beard Award for America's Classic Restaurant for the Southern region in 2015, has been called America's Best Fried Chicken by Food Network and Travel Channel, and the New Orleans location is now in the sixth award. Now, as first reported by our buddy Farley Elliott, past Doughboy's guest and future Doughboy's guest. I just had dinner with him the other night.

Farley's the best. They opened the LA location. Yeah, where'd you go? Some place called Burgerette in Santa Monica. Like a fancy French burger offshoot of a kind of hip wine bar. Shit, I gotta go. Sounds great.

I gotta marry Burgerette. Well, all the different, there's only one Burgerette and a hundred burgers, each with a different personality. Hefty burger, brainy burger, grandpa burger, and then they all pine after the one female burger. That's safe, Doughboy's audience area. Smurfs. Smurfs.

Very safe. Servative area. So Farley, I think first reported this, although this is commonly known now, that they opened the LA location in late 2022 in partnership with Jerry Greenberg, who you mentioned. Jerry Greenberg behind Sugarfish, Kazunori, two restaurants reviewed on the podcast, HiHo Cheeseburger, Uovo, two other LA-focused chains that are doing their own thing, and are chef-driven.

And Farley also cites Hotville as another New Orleans restaurant with a new-ish LA location. Have you been to Hotville? No, I haven't. Hotville rocks. I believe the restaurant, the brick and mortar closed and now only exists in truck form. Interesting. Like last time we went it was a brick and mortar. So I wonder how recent that was, but we had a great time.

I think maybe people don't necessarily flock to these New Orleansyn's imports. It was pretty, our spot was pretty empty. My thought is like- We should mention, we went on a weekday for an early lunch. So like, it's like we didn't go- We got there at, oh, it was 1130, was our arrival time. Yeah, we didn't go when it was

super duper hop in, but it is a, we should say that the Venice location, which is the part in LA that it's located in, it is a, we should say that the Venice location, which is the part in LA that it's located in, it is a full service restaurant and it is a little bit of an odd spot. Like- It's a bad location. I know Venice pretty well. There are more walkable, more Hopin sort of areas where I would think you maybe want to

put a restaurant like this. It's a little bit isolated. You're always getting kicked out of Muscle Beach. Yeah. And chasing away with a broom as he's, yeah. Hey buddy, what you looking to work out in, huh? Looking strong. Look at him.

Stop it, that's Arnold is there. It's just a hacky impersonation, I felt bad doing it. There are some terrific places on Lincoln though, like there's Baby Blue's Barbecue, is that still there? Baby Blue's is still there, yeah, there's a few baby blues. And that terrific Thai place? Yes, Nightin Market Song. Nightin Market which is like so good that place is always pretty jam. That place is awesome yeah. Yeah no you're right that is a stretch that has a few different restaurants so maybe it makes some sense from that standpoint. Nightin Market in Silver Lake is like I feel like doesn't get as

many people anymore so like I didn't realize that they opened the other one on the West. I think they have three of them. Yeah, okay There's a lot of there is a lot of good food that way for sure And there was also a Prince Street, which is also another pizza place that like people love next door to Willie Mays Right was Prince Street pizza. Yeah This is the other aspect who am I to second-guess the this guy with this amazing track record Jerry Greenberg of taking these restaurants and Bringing them to LA. I will say that this, that I just had a wonderful experience at this place.

Like just, just not gonna bury the lead here. This place rocks. The food is so good. It was so fun and so charming. And I love that it's full service. I love that we get real plates and silverware. Yes. I mean, it's kind of a low bar

that you get plates and silverware. But I mean, like there are a lot of fried chicken restaurants. There are a lot of these kind of places where that's not the case. Sure, sure, sure. You don't even get stuff in Stygrafile. That's fair. A part of me just like, you know how local, what is it, like localization? I don't know what the, you can help me out here.

What are you trying to say? Well, you know how like local radio is like now it's just like national radio. You know what I mean? Yes, right. I don't know what the word is for like, Boston used to be very specific and now it's just like national radio. You know what I mean? Like, I don't know what the word is for like, uh, like Boston used to be very specific and now it's the, it's everywhere. Like Charles Lockwood era on WBCN. And now it's some kind of next star chain of like AI garbage.

Yeah. And it's, it's that sort of thing that's just like nationally. We're just kind of like, uh, things, things were, it's all Charles Lockwood. You're too young to know. I know, I know, I know, I know Charles Lockwood, you're too young to know Charles Lockwood. No, I know Charles Lockwood, whatever. Things were more regionalized and that extends to restaurants, certainly. The Jay Giles, he'd interview the Jay Giles.

Jay Giles band? He's like grandpa rock, grandpa. Grandpa's on the, Gen X grandpa's on the show. Okay, yeah, sorry, yes, you're right. Nick Carter was my BCN guy when I was there and he spoiled Phantom Menace. What did he say? He said that Qui-Gon, Jin,

oh, I'm sorry, yeah, Qui-Gon died. What? Yeah. Thanks, Mitch. When did he say that? I was gonna see that. Before the movie came out. He said, someone, he said it before the movie came out.

It's so- That Liam Neeson dies before, he's like, Liam Neeson dies before, like, before the end of the movie. The pre-internet, slash early internet, before we had this obsession with spoiler culture, is so interesting, because I had the soundtrack for episode one,

The Phantom Menace, and I had that before the movie came out, and my friend was like, hey, don't look at the back. Because the track listing has, the second last track listing is Qui-Gon's noble end. It just says that he dies on the back of the fucking CD. Yeah, they should have- They would never do that these days.

It should have been a different, that track should have had an alternate title. But my thought is- Qui-Gon's okay, question mark? Yeah, I think that would have done better. That would have done the job. Darth Maul still in one piece. Yeah.

Yeah. Actively protecting the viewer. I missed it when it came back to theaters. I know you saw it. I saw the re-release. Where are you? You're back on it? You're into it. Yeah, I'm into it.

Yeah, you millennials, this is your Star Wars. Millennials love the Lucas Star Wars. I don't know where I am on that. I think I'm like right on the dividing line between millennial and Gen X. I don't feel millennial. I know people will yell at us for this though, so I don't even want to. You guys have big millennial energy. Really?

I didn't have, I didn't- I'm not eating ass. Millennials are all eating ass. That's all they do. Can't get their face out of there. Why would you want to lick the area where the stuff comes out? What are you doing? What are you doing? Get your face out of there. That can't taste good.

That's got to taste bad. It's a mouthwash. And you know, sexual stuff, you want stuff to taste good. It's like going to a restaurant. Yeah, exactly. Lots of stuff tastes good. Yeah, but that spot, come on. Does it do anything for anybody?

I guess people do like it. Maybe there's like a procedure or something before. Yeah. Because just Gen Xers, we never even heard of that. We didn't even, it wasn't even invented, so we're not allowed to do it. Yeah. The great taste for you are Pepsi. Pepsi, Terminator 2, seeing Terminator 2, Guns N' Roses, you know, that kind of stuff.

I agree with you. Crystal clear Pepsi, a lot of great stuff from Gen X. Us, ass, that's what we get? The movie Singles was kind of like our big movie. Oh, we were making a great movie. That's our generational film. I mean, soundtrack. Soundtrack, Singles.

I didn't have, internet didn't exist when I was born. For most of my childhood, it wasn't like I knew online or used, you know what I mean? Like it was a weird thing when I was like 10, 11, 12, where it was like, oh, there's a thing where you can... We got dial-up internet when I was like a teenager. Yeah. So we had a pre-prom party for my daughter's prom at my house this weekend. I don't know any of the boys in the class. I've never seen these kids for the first time. Yeah.

And they're all these nice, handsome, well put together young lads. Okay. And then I'm like, wait a minute, each one of them has seen more porn already than like can possibly be imagined. For sure. There's already so much porn in each of these be imagined. For sure. There's already so much porn in each of these male's heads.

What is that? Are they okay? I hope you're okay. It's a great question. And also the most specific and depraved porno. It's not like it's just like, oh, there was, I remember we had- Look, and I'm gonna say,

it just probably disappointed you, but a lot of Lois porn, Family Guy Lois porn. There lot of fat like family guy porno is very yeah hentai. Yeah Anyway, I know look Simpsons needs to match it is what we're trying to say here today. There's some of that stuff out there Yeah, there's definitely more. That's I'm here to announce the release of Disney X Turn that little plus to the side. It's an X. Now someone's going to do that.

Someone's going to do that now. Well, yeah, whatever. It will be liked by like 23 Doughboyz listeners. It's fine. Disney X is pretty good, honestly. It is good. Yeah. Probably exists, sadly. Yeah, there's some.

So, Willie Mays. It's a full service restaurant that I mentioned. Yes, I was gonna just say that I don't love the idea of like, why when there's a special restaurant in this place, do we have to bring it everywhere? But look, LA should be the place where it gets brought. If it's gonna go anywhere, it should be LA, right? There's a lot of these, yeah,

there's a lot of these iconic Chicago restaurant or an iconic Charleston, South Carolina restaurant that also has one location that's in Vegas. That tends to be the mecca for an offshoot of a regionally specific restaurant. This one I think was partly brought to LA because the, I think there was a combination of Katrina slash later the pandemic where Willie Mays was kind of in some dire financial shape and I think this was part of a little bit of a salvage operation opening this location.

I'm not sure how purely charitable it was, but that's a little bit of my understanding of it. This guy, Jerry Greenberg, who I've met, but my friends who know him very well and he really works so hard on his LA chain of mini chains. Like he tastes tests again and again and again, and then he flies to New Orleans and eats everything they have for a week. And he's like so on point and regimented about really, he wants to make it so good or he doesn't need to do it. So this guy clearly is passionate about this type of food and wanted to bring it to LA.

And I hope people go to it, cause it was amazing. I loved it. I had a great time. It makes three of us. Everyone, it's great. It's a great spot. It's the one thing we were saying in there is like, I don't eat fried chicken too often because it is,

it feels like the worst thing you can eat in a way or whatever. Except for ass, of course. Second to ask is ask clerk. It's a, your LDL shoots up. That's that's like a cholesterol joke for all our Gen X grandpas out there. Uh, I, um, I, I love. I loved this place. I would want to go way more often.

I'm happy it's in Venice. I was asking if you ever go for the show because I would order it. I think we should. We should go for the show. I'm going to have the show on a day when we're feeling decadent. When this episode comes out, you guys should get some fried chicken. That's a great idea. I loved it. Well, yeah, it was great So we there was an off-menu shrimp po-boy, by the way

I should shout out our waiter who is great and delightful. He was an old New Orleans character That's what it was like did this guy's this guy in New Orleans original who came out here It was like worked at Willie Mays for like 50 years in New Orleans and like came out to help start the LA one I don't know what it felt like it felt like it. I don't know, that's what it felt like. It felt like it was. Or I don't know if there's, you know, like Snoke, there's clones of this guy and he's at like a bunch of restaurants.

You know what I mean? He had a Snoke type energy. He did have a little- In a Newt Noland style. Yeah, he wasn't big either. That's the thing was, cause we were sitting, from where we were sitting, we were like, is he big?

Yeah. And then later on I stood up and I was like, he's not actually that big. He's actually not that big, he's kind of normal size. He's actually not that big, he's kinda normal size. He's like a little bigger than normal, but like not big enough to be like big. And he was cloned originally from the emperor, right? Like, isn't that the reveal of Snoke?

He was cloned from the emperor of Mardi Gras one year. They have like royalty and stuff. He was a very nice man. Lovely man. Lovely. So there's an off menu shrimp po' boy, which we shared. I like, again, if this is just what I had,

I would be like, this place is like a fork. It was a great po' boy. I thought it was delicious. The po' boy was fantastic. It was really yummy. It was great. It was great. Do you like a po' boy?

Yeah, I love it. I mean, I could have eaten, but it wasn't so bread heavy or overwhelming that you couldn't get other stuff too. So I was happy that it felt more manageable and we could still get to all those sides. Sometimes breading on breading, I feel like is like, and I even run this with the fried chicken sandwich

sometimes it can be kind of be unguppacca it can be a little bit too much, but I do like the shrimp po' boy with the fried shrimp can sometimes just be so delicious like batter exactly I think bread on bread is bad. I also think Breaking shoes fat on fat is not the best interest. So like I don't think omelets need cheese I don't think egg dishes egg is fat delicious fat. Why do you need another fat on that? That's just my my take what do you do? I don't with with a

Burrito, I don't want rice or beans in a burrito. I just want the meat and the veggies and the onions and the guac or whatever. Yeah, sometimes rice can make it a tie guy. You pissed me off like five different times in that last sentence. I said what? No rice and beans in a burrito,

that I'm pretty pissed off right there. No cheese and eggs, what the hell? I just don't think you need it. I know none of you watched The Simpsons, it's fine. We just did a lovely joke in a recent episode. Who are you talking to, us or, oh, okay, all right. You, you, you, you, and all the viewers. Lots of people watch The Simpsons.

And all the viewers. No, the show is doing great, but none of you four watch it. And all the viewers. I will tune into it in The Simpsons. I'll tune in sometime soon. I know you will, thank you. But Homer was bragging the other night about something and he said, they gave my burrito the most rice of anybody.

I thought that was funny. He's like, that's not good, Homer. No, it's not. If you get too much rice in a Chipotle burrito, it can be a little crazy. Throws the balance off. I'll do light rice. But it depends on how substantial you want it to feel.

I just like beans so much that I'll always do beans and a burrito. Beans are good. And they're kind of a protein though also. They are. To your point about eggs, yeah, I sometimes do just a really simple scrambled egg. I just find myself doing a cheese omelet so frequently, but the other fat I'll throw on an egg is avocado.

I mean, I feel like that's always working. That's true, but avocado is a special fat. Yeah. I think that gets a pass for sure. I disagree with this. Okay. That's fair. I avocado is a special fat. I think that's a pass for sure. I disagree with this. Okay. I mean- That's fair. I'm probably in the minority.

Yeah. Scrambled eggs with cheese, I know you like that. I do like that. But if you don't overcook the eggs, they have a, a lot of people overcook eggs. I like a wetter egg. Yeah. Breaking chews. And that it's, to me, like if you have a really

soft cooked egg, cheese is insane, insanely redundant. I get that. And I don't, I normally don't eat my scrambled eggs with cheese. I just do two eggs and some egg beaters. That's what I do. You like toss salad with your scrambled eggs.

When I was at a call back to the ass eating or is that a, is that Frasier joke or both? I haven't watched as much New Frasier. I auditioned for New Frasier. That's right. Yeah, it's in Boston. I know that as he was the replace David Hyde Pierce, who didn't want to be back. Well, what if we recast him? Let's just go another way.

Indubitably, Frasier. Yeah, Niles got an accident He got bigger yeah, you know that is an accident with like a fucking nuclear truck that super model Who did the cool sculpting that went wrong? Yeah, I don't remember evangelista. I think or Christy Turlington I think evangelista cool sculpting went horribly wrong and caused horrible Beautiful bloat. Yeah, beautiful bloat, beautiful bloat to happen and that's what happened. That's what happened with the five years.

To Niles. I think I thought it was too much. Daphne convinced him to do Daphne Moon. Great character. Great character. What a sitcom character name is that? None of them back on the show. Yeah, no Roz?

Yeah. No, it's tough. I wonder why. I think David Hyde Pierce... It couldn't be because of the main actor on the show, I'm sure, but... My understanding is that David Hyde Pierce did not want to return, and so they were like, we just got to reconceptualize the whole thing, because the whole core relationship is between Frazier and his brother. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Anyway... We should talk about this place. Shrimp Po Boy was fucking awesome. What are we going to say? Nothing, it's fine. No, go, anyway, um... We should talk about this place. Shrimp Po' Boy was fucking awesome. What are we gonna say? Nothing, it's fine. No, go, no, I don't want to hear it. I don't want to say it anymore.

It's too late. You fucked up. Gold, comedy gold that the world could have had. I thought we were segueing to talk about the restaurant. It seemed like a natural point to transition. No. Go on, we'll say what you're gonna say. It could, this could have been, you know, my Aurora Borealis moment from the 22 short films about Springfield.

Mm, sure. But you stepped on it, and it's no longer gonna be out in the world, so... I'm not gonna say it's not gonna be out in the world. It's gonna be out in the world. It's gonna be out in the world. It's gonna be, you know, my Aurora Borealis moment from the 22 short films about Springfield. Sure. But you stepped on it and it's no longer gonna be out in the world, so. What were you gonna say?

I don't know how to tell you. Okay. We had the taste of New Orleans, we each did. And so the taste of New Orleans is a great way to go here because you get a two piece and then you get three sides, which these sides are, do not stay on the sidelines, these sides are outstanding. The sides are fantastic, I love the sides.

The sides might be the star of the show, guys. Wow. That's my hot take on this slightly spicy chicken. Yeah. It is slightly spicy. The chicken was great, and I have no complaints about the chicken. Delicious.

Delicious chicken. Like, I left just thinking about those sides, whistling a happy tune about the sides. Yeah, I agree. I'm 100% with you. So we each ordered a taste of New Orleans. We had the Shrimp Ho Boy. The guy came back and he was like,

I forgot your order. He forgot what my order was. This is New Orleans, man. And I said, that's all right, I'm gonna let you cook. Um... Um... Like Jason Tatum. I'm gonna let you cook. Um... Like Jason Tatum. I'm gonna let you cook.

I meant, that time I did mean literally. Jason just lifted the NBA championship thing over the Charles River, I assume. I feel like you might be trying to jinx us. Here's my hot take. Why is Watertown called Watertown? Because they ran out of names. Oh, all right.

The Charles River goes through it. Oh yeah, I guess that's. Oh sure, that makes sense. There's water everywhere though. That's true. Go ahead, Wiesel, what are you gonna say? I was gonna say, my hot take, I think if the Celtics win the finals,

we're gonna have like a finals MVP, Jalen Brown. It's gonna be like a little bit like, oh wow, that guy really stepped it up. Well, both Tatum and Brown can tank it so hard on any given night. Right. It's terrifying to be a Celtics fan. Yeah, it is.

And it's not. Like, Luca and Kyrie might have an off night. They're not gonna tank it. Where those guys can tank it so hard. And they're like, well, the solution is to start shooting more three-pointers and then disaster. Yeah, hero ball, I so ball why. Yeah, there's 10 seconds left in the shot clock

and one guy's dribbling it out and taking a fatal win. I'm gonna break out of this dead zone of shooting screwiness by more shooting. Get in the paint, guys. Can I just go ahead and say, Jalen, Jason, cut the shit. They'll see this, right? You can carve up a decent,

you can carve up a defense. Just get in there. Yeah. And you're great on defense. They just don't, they have to win the three point anyway. This motherfucker wants him to lose. He's very excited about that. Of course I did.

I know, you're a piece of shit. He has to. But that's what, like, wait. If it was the Lakers or the left, I wouldn't care. You know course I did. I know, you're a piece of shit. Of course I... But that's what... It was the Lakers who left, I wouldn't care. You wouldn't care. Come on, what are you talking about? I root the fighter against them. We know they won. We know that they won.

We know that they won. Ha ha ha ha. This is gonna be Hillary Clinton all over again. This is gonna happen. No, much worse. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha. They won, and that Jeannie Buss then was so distraught that she sold the Lakers to Robert Kraft. And now there's two Boston basketball teams.

Oh, man. How much money does Robert Kraft have? He's pretty wealthy, right? Yeah. I'd take that. That's the whole problem with the Lakers is that the ownership is so spendthrift. It's all these like- Well, it's like a family business.

It's a family business. They don't have a ton of cash. These failed children who don't have any income of their own, so they're relying on the team. I'm team Belichick over the craft. They're like, ultimate Netbo baby. Exactly, yeah. And her husband, Jay Moore. Jay Moore.

Jay Moore is running the Lakers probably. Jay Moore. He's like asking, you know, who's still on the Lakers. LeBron, if he likes his 1990s era impressions. Hey, LeBron, what call Jay Moore Mr. Jay. I'm wondering if Gasping for Airtime was the last book I read. I read that.

I read that. I did read it too. That's a slim volume. OK, so the taste of New Orleans, like I mentioned, two pieces of chicken, three sides. Now look, do I wish I could get like a three or four piece of chicken? Of course.

But I think that I get that just the way they sell these things, it's either a two piece or you got to go all the way. So the two piece and three sides was plenty of food. I got the dark meat, y'all both got white meat, and then I'll just run through all of the sides because I think we each got three of them when we were able to basically cover the entire menu. We ran the gamut. Red beans, mac and cheese, candied yams, butter beans, cabbage, brussels sprouts, a cup of

gumbo, mac and cheese, and mashed potatoes and gravy. And cornbread. And cornbread, of course, yes. The gumbo, to me, was so good. You actually said mac and cheese twice. He did say mac and cheese twice. The gumbo, Nick did not have. You got mac and cheese as well.

That's why. Well, you fucked, you said it twice. I was listing everything that everyone- I wanted to say it for our listeners, you said it twice, we heard it, we heard it. Then to be fair, we got two gumbos. We didn't get two gumbos. Someone got an individual gumbo.

It wasn't overpoweringly heavy and thick. Sometimes gumbo was just a rice bomb. This had a great flavorful broth, which the little bit of fresh rice plopped in at the end and great seafood and pork flavor inside and like very refreshing and not a stomach real estate killer like it could be. I like both of those beans,

the red beans and the butter beans, both so scrumptious. Fantastic. And not- So well seasoned. Overly lardy and hot and good, not too mushy, but not too al dente to the tooth. Yeah. That's what it means. That's what al dente means.

I knew that. Breaking cheese. Um, was there a side that you didn't like? Because for me, there was no side that I really liked. The cabbage had a great vinegary quality to cut the, you know, the, you know, the kind of the acid, salt, fatty acid.

I'm not a mac and cheese guy, so I'm never gonna like mac and cheese. Interesting. I thought the mac and cheese was pretty damn good. The mac and cheese was one of my favorites. That's not- I thought it was delicious. I'm out for life on mac and cheese. I thought, why is that?

Well, just kids. Sure. And I just, I don't consider it an adult food. Kids do love mac and cheese. I don't care. Once I, once I ordered some fancy lobster mac and cheese and my friend, my friend, she ate all the lobster cause I thought it was something else.

Wait, your friend just ate the lobster and left you with the mac and cheese? Yes. Wow. That's, that's sucks. Cause also you get like lobster flavored mac and cheese with no lobster in it. I don't know what I thought she was eating. I thought it was some other ingredient that she just ate all the mac and cheese, ate all

the lobster. Just unlocked a painful memory for Selman. That's like when Mitch was molested at Jersey Mike's. Little UI screen lights up, section of the brain, walk animation. I just feel like it's just, it's just the lowest ceiling of all foods, but that's my personal take. Interesting, I've had a lot of bad mac and cheese

is the thing. And this is like, this I thought was an excellent mac and cheese, like it was just like so well executed. I'm a fan of this food stuff. And, you know, in some ways, I maybe do have a child's palate as someone who hosts a co-host of fast food podcasts. But I thought this was just like a really,

really well executed version of it. The candy gams also similarly. Oh my God. So they like, they were, you know, decadent. Very, very sweet, but really, really yummy. Like dessert-like sweetness. I loved them. I liked them quite a bit, yep. There wasn't a Like dessert-like sweetness. I loved them.

I liked them quite a bit, yep. There wasn't a side I disliked. I liked everything I had. The gravy for the mashed potatoes and gravy was interesting. I still liked it though. Yeah. It was a little thinner, right? It was a little thinner.

It had like a, it had a umami type taste to it. Maybe it was like a kind of a red-eye gravy. Yeah, I felt like it's, I felt like they felt like some- Like their own New Orleans take on it. Felt like there was a little Cajun hoodoo going on there. There was something going on with that gravy. What's everything hoodoo and voodoo? You spent some time down there.

Um. We'll be right back. All right, we're back. We got to the bottom of the voodoo versus voodoo thing. So the Brussels sprout and cabbage, I like the cabbage is really yummy, but like if I'm gonna say like, I maybe might not get the Brussels sprout just cause I feel like it didn't have anything

that distinguished it from a Brussels sprout we get at any restaurant. Really. That's true. The cabbage had that acid layer I feel gave it a more complex flavor. Yeah, and felt specifically like- Kids love mac and cheese, adults love Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts, come on.

But I feel like my wife is not a huge liker of this type of food. Sure. I feel like I could bring her to here and be like, look at these sides, baby. Yeah. You're gonna have fun. Yeah, 100%.

She doesn't want to eat a big piece of fried chicken. That's not for her. We should talk about the chicken a little bit in depth. We should talk about my wife's palate. Look, my thought with Brussels sprouts, just I'm so bored of Brussels sprouts. We've talked about this before. They're a little overplayed. It's not their fault that they're the most unnecessary thing on this treasure trove of

greatest hits. Yes. What happened with Brussels sprouts is there was a whole thing of people were like, oh, Brussels sprouts are yummy. And then there's this new American chef movement to be like, hey, let's reclaim Brussels sprouts. Let's do like a roasted Brussels sprout. And we'll present this at restaurants.

And people will be like, oh, I actually like Brussels sprouts now. So there's this rediscovery of Brussels sprouts. But now the cycle has gone to the point where they become so omnipresent, they're overplayed. And like every restaurant is doing a Brussels sprouts. Every chain restaurant that you sit down at as a Brussels sprouts. Oh my God, a balsamic glaze on the Brussels sprouts.

Oh, slivered almonds, oh my, oh you throw candied bacon in there, oh wow. I apologize to our normal people out there, these like coastal elites who are so bored of this great American treasure that they, oh they're, now they're tired of it, but it's okay, regular America. Brussels sprouts are still good. No.

I'll roast up some Brussels sprouts in the home. I will, I will for sure do that. You know what, fuck Brussels sprouts, fuck Brussels. The place. Wow. Brussels, the Belgium, from Belgium, the capital of Belgium? From Belgium, fuck those Belgians. I assume the capital? The lowlands of Europe?

Yeah, fuck the lowlands. Fuck those lowlife lowlands. I don't like them. They're good. They're in the, they're in the. Brussels people, you can Europe? Yeah, fuck the lowlands. Fuck those lowlife lowlands. I don't like them. They're good. They're in the- Brussels people, you can fuck off if you listen to the podcast. We have no Brussels. It's like, I like Belgium.

I'm pro Belgian. Pro, I'm pro Belgium. Yeah. Why are you pro Belgium? What do they do? Fucking fries? The free game in Belgium. So sick.

Sick free game. Is Larian Studios a Belgian studio? That's the developer of Baldur's Gate 3. Wait, I'm gonna look it up. Oh, Jesus. I think they are based in Belgium. Yes, Larian Studios is based in Belgium. So you know what?

Honestly, you know what? I'd have been Belgium all my life. I've heard so much about this fucking stupid game. He loves Baldur's Gate 3. It's a great game. Is it like an RPG? Yeah, it's an RPG, yeah. So you can kind of take your time.

Oh, very much so. You have to take your time. Well, 300 much so. You have to take your time. Well, 300 hours, I mean, as you can see. That was through multiple play throughs. Multiple play throughs? What else I got going on? Are you playing harder each time? Yeah.

Yeah, he's harder each time. You love this game so much. The fried chicken, so it's like well seasoned, it's well fried. Huge pieces. Big pieces and they were piping hot. I, I absolutely love, like this is the thing. We've done some.

You've got the dark, you've got the dark. I get the dark meat, yeah. We've done some Korean fried chicken places in recent memory. We've, we've, we reviewed KFC. We, we revisited. So like we've been doing a lot of fried chicken lately. This is like.

All I want is a healthy month. We'll figure that out. But talking about right now, like this is like top tier fried chicken. This is like elite fried chicken. It's so good. I understand why some people are like, this is the platonic ideal.

One breast is a ton of food. Yes. So again, more room for sides. I mean, now can we ask you a question? Sometimes I have an issue with the fried thigh that there's weird little uncooked fat pockets in the like crevices of the weird V-shaped thigh bone. Did that happen?

This was really well cooked throughout. Very well-read. I thought, yes, yeah, I did not encounter any of those weird sort of like gristly patches. And like some fried chicken aficionados are, now, Willie May's has a thick batter. Now sometimes that can be a problem because it kind of like falls off

and you should have a wet chicken underneath. This was really well integrated, even though it was a heavy batter, it was really nicely integrated into the meat. Heavy batter like prime day bruth. But like another great LA fried chicken place, which is a national chain, Gus' is. Is that what Phil Rosenthal did Gus's with you?

No, Phil Rosenthal, what did we do with Phil Rosenthal? He did a fried chicken also. Yeah, was it Gus's? I don't think it was Gus's. Gus's is great, but the batter is very light. Yeah. Gus's is also fantastic, but does not have the side. He did Popeyes with Phil Rosenthal.

That's right, yeah. And I did also, I did Raising Canes with you guys. That's right. Oh, right, yeah, yeah. And I did, also I did Raising Canes with you guys. That's right. A while back. And I was a judge for one of the champions about fried chicken sandwiches where I believe Pop Wendy's fell to something else. Wendy's ended up advancing.

Yeah, but that was, this was pre Popeyes chicken sandwich. That's, this was long ago and other where, yeah. I think Popeyes is in the competition this year with their chicken sandwich, that comes different. So I was at this charity event. Yeah. Can I give a shout out to a charity? Please.

It's a family charity called the Knox Martin Foundation for Brain Cancer Research. My nephew tragically died of brain cancer and we have this great foundation, please donate, KMF. Anyway, we had a fundraiser a couple of years ago and there was a speaker who worked at Chick-fil-A and I was all over him afterwards. Not for some reasons, but for others, which was,

where's your super spicy Chan sandwich, sir? Sir, like all the other ones make them spicy by putting a fucking mayonnaise on there. A spice mayonnaise is not a spicy chicken sandwich. No. So Chick-fil-A can just run in, put a super dust on that and just clean up. Yeah.

They didn't do it. Yeah, yeah. He thought I wasn't saying. Was he a restaurant worker? Was he someone who worked at corporate? He was a former super jet pilot who I believe now had a kind of cool job That they can chick-fil-a says a jet pilot can work for them got it So I don't think he came up through that world

Hey, just gonna say this open the door if you're a jet pilot you can work for doughboys, too Just gonna put it out there. What do we do with it? But like I just made a line for him like just fucking will get him and then I would what's your plan is we're gonna We're gonna put this top eyes with a jet pilot. What are we gonna do with the jet? But like I just made a beeline for him like- Just fucking will get him and then it will be fine. What's your plan? Is it we're gonna put this guy on a payroll as a jet pilot? What's he gonna do for us? With his stupid mani? I think he'll pick up the food.

I don't know. I don't know. We got other people to pick up the food already. He'll do it very fast. He was a jet pilot. You fucking idiot. What is he gonna do? Is he gonna fly in his jet?

To fucking- He's used to faster speeds. Just fucking idiot. Sidewalking. I think this is just a waste of corporate resources. For someone who's so like spendthrift very often with... Oh, what the fuck? Then all of a sudden now you're gonna be like,

oh, let's have this huge other expenditure. We're gonna hire a jet pilot out of nowhere. Just work for us. It's some abstract sort of capacity. What am I holding you back from getting? You're not holding me back from anything. You wanna fucking buy a copy of Baldur's Gate for the office? I don't wanna buy, I don't need to buy a,

no, that'd be a wasteful expense, like hiring a jet pilot. That's what I'm saying. He might be useful. That's all I'm saying. Can I ask you guys a question? Yeah. Hey, I'm happy for your success.

Thank you. I don't know if this can be a success. Now that you guys both have some success in the life, what is like the one thing you do that's like, you're like, this is like, it really makes me happy, like an indulgence that you really enjoy. That you didn't do when you were more scrapping it together. Let's see.

Nothing makes us happy anymore. Like Birkin bag would be like what I do. Honestly, for me, it's going and working somewhere else. But I like, okay, I like to buy, I'll get this started. I like to buy new shoes, new sneakers a lot, and I always have the feeling of new, really responsive, soft, fresh sneakers on my feet and soft socks. I feel that's a great lifestyle enhancement.

It's not crazy bananas, asshole behavior. Just keep those new sneakers and socks coming. Don't feel like you have to wear those sneakers out. Yeah, I guess there's probably less specific than that, but more generally just the idea of like, hey, I can get the name brand thing. You know what I mean? Like I can just get like the AirPods Max and I don't need to like sweat about this. That's great. Yes. Not sweating is fantastic. That's the main thing about it. I mean, any sort of like financial cushion is just the

idea of like, it's not going to be some emergency is not gonna put me over a barrel, you know? And so we're very fortunate in that regard. But yeah, in terms of a little luxury. What's a little luxury, Mitch? Come on. You know, I like to fly first class. There you go, that's great. That's fine.

That's great. That's something that I did though, but I think before I had, I started to do that before. I mean, I'm a big guy and I got a Delta credit card and I just started to say, buy everything on the Delta credit card and I put myself in first because I- You deserve it, Mike.

I don't like, I don't fit in a normal seat. Airplanes are ridiculous. And boarding early is great and just- Yeah, that's the- I generally don't even care about that stuff. Watching the kind of hooligans row past you is fantastic. That's embarrassing almost when you see people. I just like a big seat.

Airplanes should make bigger seats. It's insane. I love that jet pilot you want to put on the payroll. Maybe he can fucking make it happen. Maybe he'll fucking... I'm too spend thrift. Fuck off. What the fuck? Fucking bullshit. Viewers, what the fuck? Fucking bullshit.

Viewers, if you have any financial success, write into at doughboys.com. What do you like to, what's your little indulgence that you've made something of yourself in the world and you really get value out of? Never used to say stuff like that at all, like hashtags and shit. Oh yeah.

You do like, oh, indulgence Tuesday or whatever. Yeah. You can say. all, like hashtags and shit. Oh yeah. You do like, oh, you know, indulgence Tuesday or whatever you would say. We gave that, we've given a lot of things up. Hashtag's still big. I just heard, Simpson's just heard about hashtags. We're doing a big show about hashtags. There's a lot of opportunity there, Homer, like hash Homer. Yeah, hash Browns.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's fun. hash Browns. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's fun. Hash by mistake. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that's good. There's a lot of good stuff there, that's all we're saying. Yeah, that's all good. By the way, I wanna say as far as chicken goes,

you get, with the white meat, you get one breast and a wing. Yeah. And that's enough for me. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I don't, one breast is all you need. Well, especially with the three, especially with the three sides.

You know what, in every way. One breast is all you need. You know what? In every way, one breast's all I need. I just need one breast. I'm a one breast guy. That's it. I'm good to go. You know, my wife has no breasts. This is true.

Oh, dang. Yeah, yeah. She had a double mastectomy. I had breast cancer. And now she's a member of the flat community. She looks great. Yeah. She's very happy.

We love it. And it's a great thing that she's a survivor. I'm so confident she'll never listen to this that I could really go into detail about it, but I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna. I'm not gonna.

I'm not gonna. We had a, I didn't talk about our beverages. We got a couple of lemonades. I like, like, look, and this is a, this was first off, this was a big boy lemonade. This was felt like it was like a 32 ounce lemonade. This was like a seven up big gulp size lemonade. And it also like was, it was very sweet,

but I thought just like so fresh and refreshing that I was fine with having a few sips of it. Yeah, it was great. Real lemon, real lemon juice in there. Oddly, they don't have iced tea there. That I found baffling. Maybe that's just the case in Willie May's New Orleans that they just don't have it down there.

But I was just like, that's the thing I expected. Jerry Greenberg tasted every iced tea in America and none were good enough. That's literally what happened. Wouldn't you think they'd have an unsweetened and a sweet tea at any sort of Southern restaurant? That's just kind of my expectation. But you know, whatever, it's not the reason I'm-

Go to the South and order unsweetened iced tea and watch the response you get by the way. That lemonade was, it was very tasty. It was good. It was good as hell. Did they have a liquor license guys? I think they do have beer and wine. I think they do. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I will say again, we said there wasn't that back, but there were two or three other people in there while we were, while we were eating it. It was 1145. There was some takeout. Yeah. I don't know if you clock the people coming back in, in and out for takeout orders,

but there were a few of those. I brought my leftovers and Nangle ate them. Wow. Wow, dang. Did Nangle give a fork score? No, but I can. Text her, let's find out. Text her right now.

Yeah, let's see if we can get a fork score. The bread pudding we had as the climax of this meal. Speaking of booze. Yeah, that was busy. She's not gonna like I'm doing this. She Speaking of booze. Yeah. That was busy. She's not gonna like I'm doing this. She loves the dough boy. Yeah, she loves us dough boys.

She loves us dough boys. There was a lot of booze on that, in that bread pudding. Yeah, a lot of booze. Sounds like a dough boys live audience. Horace Buki Halloween. Or spooky Halloween. It sounds that works in many ways. Yes, because they're also they're always they're booing us. Talking at full volume like they're listening by themselves at the car.

A lot of fun. Also like shitting, like farting and like puking. Yeah, it's like happened multiple times, or people just barfing in our live shows. A lot of fun. Also like farting and like puking. Yeah. It's like happened multiple times, where people are just barfing in our live shows. What the fuck, what kind of monsters are you? Show started at 7 p.m. Fucking shit faced.

I was thrilled with everything I ate there. It was a heavy meal to start the day, but I also, that bread pudding was very different and it was fantastic. Little nice cut strawberries on there. Yeah, oh my God, the strawberries. The strawberries are really good. Oh, so yummy. It was boozy, but fantastic.

I loved it. I loved it. I loved it too. I'll say this about it. I thought it was great. If I went back, I'd get more sides and more chicken. Yeah, I think that's a way to go. That's fair.

I would eat more chicken and maybe double up on that gumbo, double up on the po' boy. Cause the dessert, I almost, the candy yams could be a dessert. For sure. I thought they were both great. I would rather just have more New Orleans sides. Yeah.

But you get a table of, you know, some big eaters. You can maybe get one for the table. Oh yeah, no, no, no. That was a lot of fun. No downside. Yeah. We should get to our final thoughts on Willie Mays. Is there anything I missed?

I think that's everything. I think that's everything. It's the best scotch house I've ever been to. Yes, the official name, at least of the New Orleans restaurant, is Willie Mays' Scotch House. I don't think it's called Willie Mays' Scotch House in LA. Okay, I see. It's called Willie Mays.

But yeah, that goes to its origin as, I don't know if you read any of this, but it started out as a bar that had a beauty shop attached. And that was the first part of its history was like, it was like, and then the beauty shop closed and they were like, well, let's open up a fried chicken restaurant. The rest is history. I actually didn't go to Willie Mays when I was in, it was in Nolans. Wow. And there's another famous Nolans fried place, they're kind of in town rival,

Dooky Chase. Oh yes, I know Dooky Chase. And that's, I believe, where like Obama went, and I think when Phil went there, Phil Rosen, oh I call him Phil. We're on first name basis with Phil, as Phil Boyce guessed. When Phil went there,

I believe he went to Dooky Chase's. Yeah. He's a treasure, I love him. Somebody feed this guy. Yeah, someone's gotta feed that damn guy. Wait a minute, did I go to Willie Mays? Oh my God. Did you?

Mitch is looking at his phone. Are you looking through your past photos? What are you looking through? Camera roll? I'm looking at old Homer tweets. Now I'm looking at my texts. Let's see here. I'm searching right now, guys.

Okay, so we're all buried in our devices. What are you looking for? It keeps going back to the website. I'm trying to, I'm searching right now. Okay, so we are all buried in our devices. What are you looking? It keeps going back to the website I'm trying to I'm searching Willie Mays You were looking Orleans. You were looking in your old texts. No, I'm Go no, this is great. Fuck it keeps going. I need to Google it You know I'm saying there's my daughter and her prom date. Oh looking lovely Wow. What a beautiful couple What a beautiful don't put this on no one will put that on. Oh, looking lovely. Wow, what a beautiful couple. What a beautiful couple. Don't put this on the show. No one will put that on the show.

Oh yeah, they look fantastic. Google. The charcuterie board I ordered to feed all the parents before the prom was called a grazing table. Grazing table. Which I really liked that. I do like that. That was why I went to this place

because they called it a grazing table. I'm like, look honey, I'm a cow eating prosciutto. Like, moo. Nellie and I went to this wine bar and they had a chacuterie platter that I think was called the board. And we were like, oh, let's get the board. And they were like, that feeds four to six.

They were like, give us the fucking board. And then the two of us, we just got in the mindset of like, we're finishing this fucking thing. And we just put the whole thing down and they were pretty gobsmacked. I went to Willie Mays with my mom and sister. You did go to Willie Mays. There you go.

So there you go. That's wild. Wow. I went to- With Courtney and Mrs. Mitchell, the three of you. That's correct, that's right. I went to eat two seafood towers in one night. Wow, I love that.

Because it's all protein. Yeah, sure. It's like, if you're not eating bread and rice and potatoes, you can eat a lot of protein. You got a favorite go-to at a seafood tower? What are you just talking about? Seafood towers.

You ate two seafood towers in a night? Yeah. Really? Took it down. I'd eat it all day. Wow. I love it. And then I made a Twin Towers joke to my wife's friends

and they were like, what are you saying? That was an attack on American film. I'm sorry, I forgot. Not everyone's a psychopath comedy writer. It was September 13, 2001. Oh yeah. Yeah, I guess that would be slightly too soon.

It was in Manhattan, yeah. At least you didn't do anything like, you weren't like the plane going into the tower, right? No, when I was eating it, I wasn't thinking about like kind of 9-11 comedy. I mean, more like that kind of Tourette's thing where you say stupid stuff to regular people and they think you're an asshole.

Yeah, sure. Yeah. Tourette's, comedy writer Tourette. Do you have a favorite item in a seafood tower? I mean, I love a chilled shrimp. I know that's kind of basic, but I fucking love it. I just like the more innovative and crazy and the more they want to reinvent it, the more they want to mess around.

If it's like razor clams or like- Oh, that's fun. Just like, just the more nutso bananas, experimental, like the wackiest version, that's what I like. Yeah. Have you been to, in your neck of the woods, Crudo e Nudo? No, I've heard about this place though.

It's so good. Our buddy Max Mayer wanted to take me there. It's like fantastic raw fish concept and very chill vibe and like really like take people from out of town there. It's like that. Oh, I gotta go. Not a chain, not national.

So are- Was there any, I just wanna check, did you also like, was there some, any Pentagon equivalent that you hit with after the towers? I should say, after I ate the two towers, I crashed into a field I was so full. So, Selman, you're a veteran of the show. You know how this works. We will each go around and we will give Willie Mays our final thoughts and our fork score from zero to five.

We will begin with you, Father Tine, your thoughts, your fork score. Can I have a fried chicken nickname also? Yeah, of course. Okay, you work on that. Okay, cool. Fried chicken Matt. Fried chicken Matt? It was five forks all full times.

Wow. Wow. Would eat there happily every week. Couldn't see me ever getting tired of that. Patronizing. Yeah, it was, it was, it was great. Go ahead, go ahead, spoon man. I'm gonna cook for a second here.

I'll let you cook. Willie Mays is good. That's kinda it, that's all I can cook. I loved all the sides. My favorite, I know it's for children, was the mac and cheese, Wikes. Yeah, I love the mac and cheese. Good replacement for candy, mac and cheese.

Um, I guess that's a little crazier to be like, do you kids like mac and cheese? I feel like it's a little harder for you, but I wanted to throw it out for you. Yeah, maybe hard to distribute piecemeal. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I, mac and cheese is my favorite side. Hmm, what was after that?

Probably one of the beans. The beans were very, very, very good. I think the butter beans were the winner of the two beans. I think I did like the butter beans more than the red beans, yeah. And I usually am a red beans guy. And the cabbage was such a winner guy. Great boxer too, butter bean.

Oh yeah. Yeah, knocked out Johnny Knoxville, if you remember. A lot of fun. But the cabbage was such a winner. Great boxer too, Butterbean. Oh yeah. Knocked out Johnny Knoxville, if you remember. A lot of fun. I, look, I had a blast. Did I want to go to the West Side for an 1145 lunch, which I pushed to 1145 from 1130, on the road, texting responsibly.

I told you guys that it was going to be a little bit later. Yes. And I was not happy. I don't think anyone was. Are you happy doing anything anymore? Yeah. Yeah. I think so. For the show?

This I was looking forward to because I knew this place's reputation. I was happy to see Selman. Fried chicken is my favorite food. I love when we can go, we can all, this is the ideal for the podcast for me, and it's not always possible. West side, morning.

Hold on, hold on. Morning lunch. Hold on, well yes, those are in my favorite. AM lunch. Hold on. Baldur's Gate. Yeah. We didn't get into Baldur's Gate, unfortunately,

but we did talk about, we did all get to meet together, and that's my ideal for the podcast. We all get to have a meal together, and then we talk about it later. When I listen to the show and I hear that Mitch got it door dashed, I just start to cry. I'm like, that's like not, you're not honoring the food. Well, you'll be happy to know we're going

to Bolero tonight together. That's right. The spoiler alert or it's already happened. I don't know if that episode will be released before. I have no idea if it'll all come out already. We're going to Bolero. That's where we went to celebrate the Celtics winning. That's where we went. or it's already happened. I don't know if that episode will release before- No, that episode, I have no idea if it'll all come out already. We're going to Bolero. That's where we went to celebrate the Celtics winning.

That's where we went, where we're gonna celebrate the Celtics winning at Bolero, which is a great thing where I'm like, I'm gonna eat healthy and then I look at the Bolero menu and it's just a nightmare. I don't know Bolero. Bolero is a chain that has bought up a bunch of local bowling alleys

and turned out there's the same company as Lucky Strike. Oh shit, we're gonna bowl tonight? We could. They're the same company as Lucky Strike. Oh shit, we're gonna bowl tonight? We could. They're the same company as Lucky Strike. You didn't know Bolero? Don't throw out a knee, Nick. Nick? Mitch?

Whatever. This happened when I worked there all the time too. Wait, don't throw a what? You can really hurt a knee bowling. Yeah, you can. And like you can't afford a knee injury. Talk about a Simpsons day, we're gonna go bowling later tonight.

This is fantastic. How fun is that? Does Homer bowl as much anymore in the show or no? He should bowl again. Can we pitch that? We did a, there was an episode where Jacques, the bowling instructor, returned in the last couple of years that had a lot of bowling in it. So yeah, it's always there. And oh, and we did a really nice episode about,

we kind of dug deep into the backstory of Carl Carlson. Oh yeah. Now voiced by the fantastic Alex de Zert. And we, about he met a girl at the bowling alley and then the romance began. He learned about his backstory and his family. That's great. Love that. Can I be critical of something on the ride? Sure.

They gotta brighten that motherfucker up. That is a problem. But we need to- That's too dim right now. Look, we gotta put that out into the world. It's too dim. The ride is too dim. We need to hire teens to secretly ride the ride

and then report back to us. So we can then tell Universal, hey, the bulbs are too low, turn it up. Right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they wanna save money or, it's what's weird is our great partners at Universal do not own the Simpsons. They have a licensing deal with the Simpsons

for that ride in that Springfield space. But Disney owns the Simpsons. So in the ride community, people are saying, is there a ticking clock on the Florida and Hollywood Simpsons experiences so that Disney can properly monetize their mega purchase of the Fox IP? And Universal can also put their own IP into the park.

Although the thing is it's so successful. Right. Sometimes the Simpsons make stuff and people think, oh, this should be the kind of cash grab. And then people turn out to love it because you get like Matt Warburton to write it or that video game tapped out, which they thought was gonna just be like two years

and lasted like 15, 20 years and like has made no exaggeration billions of dollars. Enormously profitable. And it's full of insane stuff. And I mean, eventually they're gonna sunset it, but you know, we can still bring it. Yeah. And ancillary side projects.

That is fascinating. So no one really knows with when that deal ends, if they're gonna just, well, here's, okay. And one more crazy story, which I may have told on Doughboys already. You know, Simpson's ride used to be back at the future of the ride. That's why Doc Brown fried chicken.

One day, many years into the marriage, my wife casually mentions that her ex-boyfriend, Ant-Man director, Pete and Reed, Peyton Reed, Wow. Wow. Breaking shoes. Wow. Drodin directed Back to the Future, The Ride. That's wild.

And like, honey, I wrote Sips It's Ride. And then that turned into that. That's the craziest thing in the world. And she's like, I don't know, I didn't like it. She didn't like, what did she didn't like, the ride or the? No, she didn't like either ride. Wow. Wow. I looked at that, that's so bananas.

And like, when you turn into something else, that's going to be your new guy. What an amazing coincidence. When they turned into like- There's no, no, no new guy. They turned into like Fast and Furious Fun Zone or whatever. It's going to be that writer director who made like the virtual Vin Diesel, you know.

I don't believe that she's committed to whatever man is writing the ride. Of course she is, she's clearly a ride whore. Who only will marry or have serious relationships with the people of this one ride area in Universal. I think that's great that you knocked out that other, get the fuck out of here. Wait, what did you direct, Ant-Man, which one?

No, Peyton's really, he's good. They did the Ant-Man, so it's all good. No, fuck him, I got a beef. I got beef, sorry. He's great. Go back to quantumania, buddy. He's a smart, funny guy. Yeah, get fucking.

Nothing bad to say about him. Please don't listen to this, Rene. No, it's good that me, the actor, has a beef with this director man. You're having fun. He hires comedy people in his movies Mitch. Yeah, I know. I've started the beef.

It's too late. I don't know what to do. I fucked up. Is there an un-beefing ceremony you can do like send him a special package in the mail? Yeah, I'll send him a package in the mail, all right? Like his movies are full of like quirky guys like Greg Hamburger or whatever that guy's name is.

Greg Turlington. Yeah, sure, yeah. What's his, is that his name? I think, yeah. Neil Hamburger? Neil Hamburger. Yeah, yeah, he's Greg. Yeah, that's the same guy, right?

One is a character, one is a guy. Yeah. Yeah, Greg Hamburger is like, he plays the funny guy in his movie that could be you in the next one I've started the beef. It's too late. I don't like him shrinking stuff down either. What's your fork score? What's my fork score? I gave it five shit. I cooked on that for a while I'm gonna say my fork score Wags is five forks five for come on. What are we doing here? Why is what come on? I mean my stomach Come on, what are we doing here, Wags? Come on. I mean, my stomach is growling.

What are we doing here? This is one of the, this is a great day. It was a great meal. Yeah. Like the fact that this qualifies as a chain, quote unquote, we're almost cheating, but it's fucking great. Two locations in two different cities

in two different regions. I think it's fair to call this a chain. No, the listeners love that. They don't complain about that when it's a specific LA location. But you know Jerry Greenberg wants to do more. Yeah. And this is a true New Orleans icon. And so I think from that standpoint, it qualifies as a thing we can cover on the podcast, also we can cover whatever we want. And this is the kind of place I'm excited to eat at.

I love fried chicken, fried chicken's my favorite food. I think this is just an S-tier execution of fried chicken. All of the sides were elite. And the atmosphere was fun, the po' boy was great, the bread pudding was great, I enjoyed the lemonade. I just like, this is what I wanna do for the show. Like I wanna go like have a great meal that we all enjoy. And it's just like-

We can change the show. I don't know, we're kind of married to this concept. Kind of pot committed to dough boys. What would like, what would the, we're just gonna go to good restaurants and we're gonna be able to say it was good? We have a show runner here. Yeah.

Like if we went to good restaurants or if we just did items. I like the idea of items. If we just did items, you think that would still be okay? Maybe you do a month of local faves in different cities. There you go. What about this? I like that idea.

What if you go to Milwaukee for a month and review just like 10 Milwaukee places? Emma, you go too. Oh, I'll go. And that would be so fun. It's dig deep into one city and just live there. I know you don't love travel, but like- Milwaukee. What? Milwaukee. Yeah. That would be so fun to dig deep into one city and just live there. I know you don't love travel, but like- Maywaki.

What? Maywaki. Maywaki? Yeah. That would be fun. He's now more on board because the cuz Maywaki. Yeah, if I can make it a portmanteau, I'm on board. Yeah. Like we once created a sexual version

of the portmanteau at work called the Sportman Bro. Anyway, side note. But like that could, maybe that's a fun way to mix it up. You do a month where you just, I know you guys go to those cities for the travel shows. Yes. And you eat at one place or two places and then you have to leave, it sucks.

Like, so really like master these cities like Cincinnati or Milwaukee or Santa Fe or whatever. It's so crazy and eat at all of them and do like a month or a week in a city even, you could do some damage. I love this. As opposed to going to one individual city and doing like one chain for a one-off live show. It's like, oh, we're gonna live there for a little bit.

We're gonna spend some time there. We're gonna record a bunch of episodes. Get an Airbnb. There's like Airbnb stuff about the weird, the weird guest house you're living in. That's comedy. Yeah, that's fun. I mean, just a week.

I think a week would be bang out a couple shows. You guys go out, and then you're like. Casey was just like, mm. He just kind of brimaced it up. Casey's got stuff to do, but I'm like, come with. Casey, what's up, do you have family, Casey? No, I just got a lot of shows to work on.

Just a job. Yeah, just a job. Yeah, just a job. You have no family? What the hell is going on? You do have family. I do have family. Oh, okay, all right, all right.

You're not married, you're have family. You're not married. You're not married. I'm not married, no. Yeah. I love this idea, and I have a pitch. Oh, Jesus. Burbank, California. Well, that would be funny, too.

Chili Johns. But you have to get an Airbnb in Burbank. Yeah, we should get a stay. We have to live in Burbank for a few days. Well, what about San Gabriel Valley? Yeah, that's fun. You know what? Just get up, go live in a weird Airbnb in San Gabriel Valley, eat at all those Chinese

restaurants. I love that. People would love, that's a way to mix this up and then you go back to chain restaurants. Yeah, that's great. I mean, and also LA has a murder house. You bring Susser out with you? Burbank needs a murder house. It would be a good idea. Yeah.

Susser will go no matter what. Susser will go. I once tried to convince Matt Groening to buy a house in Koreatown, which I called his K-Town diarrhea flop house. So we would all go to Koreatown, eat the spiciest shit, and then go to the K-Town diarrhea flop house

the next day and it's shit all day. Yeah. And then that's done, and then we go back to work. He didn't do it. Yeah. That's a real luxury if you can have a condo just for shitting. Yeah, well he's doing well.

Yeah, he's doing okay. He's got that tapped out money. Oh, breaking shoes. Christine Angle's fork score on the leftover Willie Mays Kachas. Oh, wow, okay, oh man. Four. Still four forks for leftover chicken.

Leftover chicken and leftover beans. Wow. Hey, I gotta give my fork score for Willie Mays. I love this place. I think it's so good. Fried chicken is one of my favorite foods. All the sides were great. I'm recapping things I already said 10 minutes ago.

But I think I ultimately land here with, look, Willie Mays, a Hall of Fame baseball player. Jesus. Willie Mays the restaurant. Different spelling. It's spelled differently, but still. And also very nervous that he was wrong about it.

Ha ha ha ha. But also, but this is a Willie Mays, the restaurant, a Hall of Fame. A home run. A home run, an absolute home run, yes.s, the restaurant, a Hall of Fame. A home run. A home run, an absolute home run, yes. I mean, I would say Hall of Fame is maybe a higher tier than a home run, but.

It is. Yeah. Amelia's back with our food, so wrap it up. You fucking took forever with your shit, so I can take my sweet time. You let it overcoat. It's over, it's a little overcoat. It's a little chewy. I love this place, I think this is just a wonderful experience, and I think this is an easy five-forker.

So what are we doing here? Mitch, we're welcoming Willie Mays to the Platinum Plate Club five-forks all around. Willie Mays in the Baseball Hall of Fame, Willie Mays in the Platinum Plate Club. Wow. Wow. Wow. What's the higher honor? Also in the Scotch House Hall of Fame. All the Scotch Houses out there.

Hey, that was our review of Wooly Maze. It's time for a segment. Emma, do you have this clip? Mm-hmm. Here we go. Oh, what the fuck? Oh my God. If everybody had a portion across the USA,

then everybody'd be serving like California, yay! Burritos, you'd see them snacking from baggies and eating sandoes too. A bushel bushel tomatoes, serving USA. Deep-fried pan fried USA. Deep-fried pan fried USA. Deep fried pan fried USA. Deep fried pan fried USA. Come on Mitch. Deep fried pan fried USA.

Deep fried pan fried USA. Deep fried pan fried USA. Everybody's going serving. Serving USA. All right, this is Serving USA. Salman, I got a question for you. When you met all those high school prompts, the guys who came over, did they sound like Weigar at the beginning of the song?

I awkwardly tried to make conversation with them and they were like, who is this old weirdo? They were goofing on the charcuterie board and I was trying to make, I may try to make some jokes and just like icy withdrawal. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm a cool dad. I said, Hey guys, what I really wanted to do at this prom I did not do. What's that like? I love this. I love Moana. Yeah. And I love the song, You're Welcome in Moana that Dwayne Johnson sings. To me, it's a really funny idea for a song, a song like about how great you are,

where you're, you know, is there a bragging song, right? And that he's such a smug guy saying, you all think I'm so great, I'm gonna say you're welcome. So I wanted to sing that to my daughter for all the things that I've done for her that she doesn't appreciate. That's sweet. Like, you know, like buying her a Subaru

and stuff like that. All the things that she doesn't appreciate. That's sweet. Like, you know, like buying her a Subaru and stuff like that. All the things that she never wakes up in the morning and thinks, yeah, my dad's pretty good. He bought me a Subaru that I can then drive around and go to where I want and not have to go with him everywhere or have him drive me or yell at me about Ubers. You're welcome.

A pre-owned Subaru. You're welcome, pre-owned Subaru. You're welcome, I paid for expensive, stupid private school for you. This is the venue for like kind of thought out song parodies. So I think you were writing the play here. No way, that was just kind of thought out, the one you sang before it. This is Servin USA. Servin USA.

Mitch and Selman. What's the Porsche part? Portion. A portion. Everybody has a portion. Portion, yeah. Portion, so I thought it was the car. Everybody has a portion.

It's a weird octave range for me. Mitch and Selman must guess the amount of servings per container. The closest guess wins a point for that round. This is fun. We haven't done this in a while. Assume every product's container is its standard size unless stated otherwise. We did do this segment once before.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Mitch, yeah. It's been a while. It's been a while, yeah. All right. First up, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups. What is a serving of Reese's Peanut Butter Cups? Go on, Mitch.

Mitch, one cup is a serving. Selman, do you have a guess? Are they all amounts or, can I say, one package? They are all... It's the number of servings per container. Number of servings per container. Oh, wait. Hold on a second. I'm going to say two servings. I mean, there's two servings. I'm going to say one serving.

Selman is correct. Selman gets a point. One serving is two cups? One serving is two cups. No one said cups. Ah. One serving in a two cup package is, that has one serving. Wow.

So that's two, two cups. That's fucked up, honestly. Okay. All right, Selman gets a point. Next up, Pringles. This is a standard Pringles can. How many servings per container? Yeah. Selman.

Yes. Four servings. Oh, wow. That's almost exactly what I was going to say. Selman says four. I'm going to say seven servings per container. Mitch says seven. Oh my God. It's like five. Is this pressing the right rules?

I went over. I mean, like, Selman's closer either way. It's five servings per container. So I'm going to give it to Selman. There are ones when I was in elementary school in Watertown, Massachusetts, Phillips School, there was a kid who every day had a tall boy of Pringles for recess. And he would just dole them out like how thick a stack everyone else got was based on how much he'd liked you that day. Yeah.

Wow. We were all just trying to curry favor for this kid. Come on, Carl or Carl. His name was Carl, which you would say in your legional accent. Yeah. Carl and he would like, oh, he'd give you like a little thick little stack. Yeah. And he'd be like, oh, and there were some kids you get a thick stack.

Oh, Carl. Okay. Sorry. I'm sorry. I'm never on podcasts. I just talk too much. Oh, you don't need to apologize. We're having a blast. One Pringles can. One guy who sold Starburst.

Starburst. This guy would sell Starburst for a quarter. But like this is a good way to show favoritism, like how thick the stack is. Exactly right. Okay. All right, next up. I'm winning two nothing.

Oreos, standard pack of Oreo. Oh my God. Yeah. How many servings per container? I'm gonna let you go, I'm gonna let you read it first. I'm gonna say 20 servings per container. It says 20 servings. I'm guessing, oh no, I went too high.

I wanna say 15 in reality. I'm gonna say eight servings. Selman is closer, there are 12 servings per container, 36 cookies in a standard bag. There's no 20 servings. Selman is closer. There are 12 servings per container, 36 cookies in a standard bag. There's no 20 servings per container. Which is three cookies as a serving. Maybe like a party size bag or something. I was gonna say three servings per,

but then I was like, that's why, sorry Emma, what did you say? Maybe like a party size bag would have 20 servings of something in it. Yeah. Do you like Oreos? Love them. Do you have much of a sweet tooth?

I do, but I would always rather have like more savory at dinner than like a big dessert at the end of dinner. I gotcha. So I'd rather like go out for ice cream as a activity and then in my restaurant eatings, just more appetizers, more sides, more entrees, just, you know, save that for maybe a one bite of something sweet afterwards, but not like a giant super dessert at the end.

Dessert is very situational for me. I will say, and this is the rare instance where I think the varietal tops the original. I like golden Oreos more than regular Oreos. I do like golden Oreos. They're so fucking good. Next up, this is a brand for Caladad. Caladad is the brand, corn tortilla chips.

So this is a standard bag of corn tortilla chips. I'm getting fucking cooked here, by the way. I'm getting fucking destroyed in this fucking game. Been letting people cook all day. Now you're cooking yourself. You're the one, the big pot. Corn tortilla chips, a standard bag. How many servings per container?

Salmon. Go ahead. 20. Salmon guess Selman. Go ahead. 20. Selman guesses 20. That's a little high. But I feel, all right, so Mitch, I'm going to say 15. Mitch, you're going to get it. You're on the board. There are 10 and a half servings per container.

I'm not doing prices right rules. Thank you, Selman. Next up, Chobani Greek yogurt whole milk plain. What is this? What is it? It's just a singular. This is a 32 ounce tub. This is a 32 ounce tub.

This is a standard tub. Yeah. Four. And you know what? I got to go close on this one because. I already won it. I already know I won this. I'm going to go five then.

I'm going to go one over. Yeah, you already won it. It's four servings per container. You got it on the dot. I knew it. You got two points. You got two points. Just like they scored.

I knew it. I knew it. I knew it. I knew four servings per container. You got it on the dot. I knew it. Did you get two points? I ate them. Just like they scored all over Carl Anthony Towns to win. Oh my God, we're jinxing it so bad. And he'd been shooting like crap all game

and he believed in himself. This I like. Shot this final shot, his clock running down, KAT jumping up, goes in, swish, Celtics won. And we're like, yeah. Fucking wrinkles his hat.

Celtics won in Minnesota, cause they swept them. Yeah, okay, Jesus Christ. Everyone freaking out. Well, Boston, you know who to get when this all goes wrong. Who is, who is, no, I forgot it. It's Iqbali.

Who's what? Who's the Celtics player who was on Minnesota and then he won with the Celtics. Who's, oh, it's Kevin Garnett. Kevin Garnett. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who is he rooting for? You know what? There was a great video of him just the other day.

I think he's rooting for Minnesota, I think. There was a video of him the other day with Paul Pierce and he's like, I'm like the only guy who can, it's worth looking up. It's now dated, of course, like you said. Yeah, this is all dated, it's fine. Who gives a shit? Who cares?

Who cares? I'm going away. Rich Crackers. Going away for five months. Rich Crackers. Well, you didn't have to be an actor. It's not for acting. We're sending him away. Let me spend a little time with our friend, Ghislaine, let's just say.

They just told him he got a show, but really it's a special place. Getting deprogrammed. A Rich Crackers. Standard box. Standard box of Rich Crackers. Standard box of Rich Crackers. I'm going to say, okay, so- Do we have a weight or just-

Do you want the weight of the box? The box weighs eight servings, Mitch, eight servings. The box weighs 13.7 ounces, if that governs anything. You're going eight servings. I'll say nine. Someone's going to get it because there's actually 24 servings. Oh my God. A serving is five crackers.

You think of those sleeves. We're talking about the Pringles sleeves. Those things are just stacked high. So they get a bunch of crackers in one of them bad boys. I'm kind of a competitive person. Well you're cleaning it up right now. I went to the grocery store and studied these numbers before. This thing I never heard of.

Jack Link's original beef jerky. This is a standard 2.85 ounce pack. A pack? Yes, a pack of beef jerky. Salmon three. Oh, Mitch, I'm going to just go one above you, four. Salmon got it on the dot, it's three servings. Oh, what the fuck?

Salmon has six, Mitch has one. The fucking blowout. This is like game three of Celtics Wolves. Yeah. Yeah. Great value frozen blueberries. This is a one pound bag. By the way, I do think Dallas has a shot.

We'll see what happens. I know, but I hate them. If here's the worst, I would rather the Celtics lose to Indiana than have Dallas beat the Celtics. Wow, interesting. The same way I would rather, I cannot, I would rather have anything happen in all sports than the Yanke the Yankees come back from Oh, and three and win. Yeah.

Yeah. Win like a series. Oh, that would suck. And duplicate. Like I would rather have the Celtics or the Red Sox or any team lose everything than the Yankees ever duplicate that amazing comeback. Sure.

Yeah. That would be unacceptable. Great value, frozen blueberries. This is a one pound Great value frozen blueberries. This is a one pound bag of frozen berries. 15 Mitch. I don't know. I'm losing so bad.

I'm getting my ass fucked. 10. I don't quite understand this, but apparently there are only three servings per container. Two, fuck. In a one pound bag. I guess a one pound bag isn't that many. I didn't even try on the 10.

And you still got it? I guess. I still got it. Well, we have a tie breaker, but there just knew it would look. And you still got it, I guess? Yes, look. No look. We have a tiebreaker, but there's no reason to do this, because it's a Selman one by so many points. Tiebreaker is Flamin' Hot Crunchy Cheetos. This is a party-sized bag, so a 50-ounce bag.

Okay, Selman, one serving. Mitch, two servings. Mitch gets it. There are 15 servings per container. Yes. Tyberg, do I win? Uh, no. Congrats to Selman.

That was Serve in USA, just like a restaurant, with all your feedback. Let's open up the feedback. And today's email is from John. John writes, recently I went to an all dips potluck style event. Everyone was asked to bring a dip in chips,

bread, veggies, et cetera, to go with it. What dip would you bring? I brought buffalo chicken dip and celery, bread, veggies, et cetera, to go with it. What dip would you bring? I brought buffalo chicken dip and celery sticks. Love the pod. Good choice. I don't really ever have the buffalo chicken dip, but I know a lot of people like it. There's something about like a meat dip

that feels kind of odd to me. I don't know why. Have you had ever come to any of the, you know, the Super Bowl or the Oscars? Sure. Any of these. It is a thing you make. Events that I have invited you to

where it's just a few friends and then I invite you to come. You never could do come. Never invited me. I don't care if I come. I'm sorry. In fact, I have never invited anyone else here before. So I am getting myself in a bit of trouble.

You should all be mad at the person here. Never invited me to anything ever honestly, but whatever. That is true. I know you have a big friend group, it's fine. We invite you to come on the Doughboys. No, I have to bug you to do it. That's not true. I don't have any friends. I don't have any friends. That's not true. That's not true. We are your friends. We are your friends. I know. okay, good. I'd stir a peanut butter for you any day of the week. I'm gonna, if you invite me to something,

I'll bring peanut butter all stirring. I'll stir the fuck out of it. That's gonna be the most mixed peanut butter you ever had. Well, I'll burn special pants, so if I spill the oil, if it stains it, it's okay. That is a huge issue. That's a huge issue. That's a stain, that's a stain.

That stain is not going to go. That's those stains are rough. If you kind of use those pants in general, honestly, I'm always spilling shit. I wore a special eating t-shirt to that. Our lunch. Wait, really? That was a special shirt. I wear like shirts that's easy.

Stairs of his stains. I don't care. Oh, wow. Like a big greasy lunch. Yeah. Why is it? Don't they stay in better from the outside than the inside? Yeah, why is it don't they stay in better from the outside than the inside?

I I sometimes will make a buffalo chicken dip which is I'll tell you what it is It's cream cheese. I get rotisserie chicken. I chop it up. I put like a bottle of Frank's red hot sauce in there. I put Ranch and blue cheese and I mix it all up. I put some like ranch and blue cheese working together. They're working together. Usually they're competing. Yeah, they're competing together. They can be friends. They're friends here. I put like a four cheese Mexican cheese on top, put in the oven, bake it. That's taken here. That was the emailer said that. So instead- That can still be your answer. I would do a classic dip that I do that is,

I think you'll know this is like from Massachusetts dip, cream cheese, bottom layer, salsa, Mexican cheese on top, put it in the oven. That's the dip. Yeah, that's a pretty straight ahead, just like salsa, cream cheese. We used to do that at home like quite a bit. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

And my answer was going to be adjacent, but what I would pitch if I was going to one of these things, which I'm not going to Mars to be paying no, but if I was going to go, if like I had to go. What if it's Mar Vista or closer? It just depends on what it is. Okay. Yeah, but I'm probably a maybe at best. Anyway, so I'm bringing a- or Vista or Closer? Just depends on what it is. Okay.

Yeah, but I'm probably a maybe at best. Anyway, so I'm bringing a- What's Mar-a-Lago? Oh, I'm there. Paying five grand a head. I think the answer is I'm doing an eight layer dip. That you make? I'm making an eight layer dip because I think there's someone might do a five-layer dip

and someone also might do a seven-layer dip. And so I don't want to be like dip-cocked, like have like a dip that's not, that has more layers than that. I want to feel like what is the most layers of dips that might be there? I want to do N plus one. So I think I'd bring an eight-layer dip. Why not just 12-layer dip then? Because then I think you're getting too far. So I think I'd bring an eight layer dip. Why not just 12 layer dip then?

Because then I think you're getting too far. Like that's too close to the sun. Oonga Pachka. You're in Oonga Pachka territory. Eight isn't too much. Oonga Pachka. I think eight you can kind of still get a chip to the bottom and still scrape all the layers.

Any like creative layers? No, you can't. I think you can. What long chips are you dipping? Classic layers or just kind of classic? Let's hear this dip. First off, I would get some long chips. Yes, I would.

I would get the long form factor tortilla chips. Okay. The little rectangles. Yeah, it's a little bit easier to scoop. So I would do that. The only way I'm gonna have you, if I ever get married, the only way I can get you to come to the wedding

is if it's on little St. James. It's the only way I can get Weigert to come on out. You lie and tell him you're getting married and then it's really just like a Super Bowl party. No, he could easily say no to the wedding. I would go to your wedding. If you got married, I'd of course go to your wedding. Would you do a little,

would you do a little Doughboy's wedding intro? Is Susser officiating? Ooh, Suss would be good to have. Suss would be a good speaker at a wedding. Or Bugman, perhaps? Bugman, I would not let speak at my wedding. I would invite Bugman. He'd be there.

He'd be there. Oh, he'd be there. And like, yeah. You might just officiate without your permission. And I'd also just be like, oh, Bugman is talking to like one of my cousins. Okay, great. Like I know that he would, you know,

like there would be a worry that he would be part of like one of my cousins. Okay, great. Like I know that he would, you know, like there would be a worry that he would be part of the family at some point. Yeah, sure. I asked you a Massachusetts lingo question. Yes. Now, are townie brothers and sisters? Yes. Which you are one.

Yeah, I know. In my, look, you can tell, I can't shed it. They, instead of saying cousin, they would say cousin't. Cousin't. Cousin't. Cousin't. Cousin't. Like, yeah, I know that. I know what you're a cousin. Cousin cousin cousin cousin cousin. Like, yeah, I know that. I know. I know what you're talking about.

Yeah. I mean, look, I say cousin. You don't like people make fun of me. No, very specific. You know, Boston. Interest. I mean, I say soda and pizza. So don't I?

Of course, my favorite. So don't I? Yeah. What is it? What the fuck is that? Soder and pizza. Soder. Soder and I, of course, my favorite. No one ever. Soder and I? Yeah. What is it? What the fuck is that? It's like, you would people, my beloved, like Irish,

second generation immigrant population of the inner Boston area to agree with something instead of saying, so do I, they would say, so don't I. So don't I. So don't I. So don't I. So don't I. And we put that in your episode that you're in. I still say they would say, so don't I. So don't I. So don't I. So don't I. So don't I.

So don't I. And we put that in your episode that you're in. I still say, I say, so don't I. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, it comes out very naturally from you. Yeah. Sorry, I'm just getting off on tape. I like the little regionalisms like this.

Regionalism, that's what it is. I'm an also two guy, I've been told, I say also two. And then I'm also like, I'll do like a, no, yeah, for sure, or yeah, no. You know, like I'll do some of those, those contradictory sort of back and forth. And then Coach Budenholzer has been called out for saying, yeah, no.

But I say it. Is that a Long Beach thing? I don't know. LBC. Yeah. I think it's maybe more like a California or West coast thing. You know, it really, you don't, I never,

I mean, I know you're a SoCal surfer guy, but you never, I never, I never hear you say any SoCal slang really. I've never noticed it before. Yeah. Tubular? You never said tubular? I never said tubular. You never said sticky icky. I never hear anything like this from Wags, but. I've said throwing out a sticky icky. Yeah. And I'm sure not at the cool times. The only time I'm saying tubular is when I'm talking about the most difficult bonus level in Super Mario World.

Natalie, careful with that laundry. Sticky icky. Hold on. Do you not remember tubular? I do remember tubular. You just were still on your sticky icky thing. Gnarly. There was a lot of great things.

Tubular was one of the P balloons. It was really tricky. Wait, did someone just answer? We strayed so far from what the fuck we're talking about. So these great friends of ours are having a dip party. That's right. Here's what I bring. Huge bucket of original recipe KFC.

And everyone is like, I don't want, fuck this dip. Dips are stupid. Every potluck, the KFC bucket is the king. It dominates. Why would you bring dips? They'll sure, someone will be mad at you. You'll, those, you'll be mad.

That KFC is getting eaten so fast. Yeah. You just, KFC is the nuclear option for any potluck. Just bring it every time. It can't go wrong. Always bring KFC. That was the first move. The first time I'd seen the move was when Harris

bought a bunch of McDonald's cheeseburgers. Oh my gosh. He must've been like, Santa came to life that day. It was great. He brought it like back at the house and there was just a bunch of cheeseburgers and nuggets. Oh my God.

And then the way that I, and then I would copy that move and I would bring like McDonald's cheeseburgers. And then Jack Allison, as you know, Ted Nuggets and then had the sweet and sour fountain at his house. That's right, yes. He had a sweet and sour fountain, which was like, it was like one of those chocolate fountains with sweet and sour. And it didn't clog?

Like Golden Corral's Chocolate Wonderful. You could hear the engine being like, like it was like trying to get through there. Did he get his deposit back? I think he maybe just bought it. Okay, that's probably smart. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm not sure the viscosity of a sweet and sour sauce

is much higher than like caramel or like, you know, melted chocolate. Sometimes it has like a little, wait, did he open up a thousand McDonald's? Yes, he opened up like a bunch of backers. That's pretty good. I mean, I guess that does seem in character with him to put in a ridiculous amount of work

for something that has no payoff. And maybe he even sets him back a few. Yeah, it was the original. Don't know him at all. Don't know him at all. Original McDonald's sweet and sour. The original sticky icky. That shit is so good.

You dip a cheeseburger in that? You ever dip a cheeseburger in the McDonald's sweet and sour? I don't go crazy with the sauces at McDonald's. And actually I'll say this, I'm eating healthy and I had a goodbye McDonald's meal. Like I like hugged, was hugging Grimace goodbye. I was like saying goodbye to everybody.

I mean, you had a good run with it. Yeah, I was like Francis Ford Coppola with the McDonald's characters, kissing Birdy on the cheek. Yeah. But- Mayor McCheese was like, we'll make ends meet somehow. Yeah. You could have told me there might be changes in this town.

We would have shorted the stock. I'm always thinking about investments folks. Here's what's so sad. I, well, I didn't get any nuggets and I didn't get any dimsauce. I got a big Mac meal. Guess what? What? They forgot the cheese on the big Mac as my goodbye big. I didn't think that was possible. Forgot the cheese on the Big Mac. As my goodbye Big Mac.

I didn't think that was possible. They forgot the cheese on the Big Mac. You gotta go back. And just get the cheese? No, you just gotta get another, get a proper Big Mac. Cause you're gonna be craving it unless you get the actual thing. I'll get one.

Yeah, get one. I mean, by the way, I'm eating healthy for a month and a half. Yeah. Uh, it's not that long. Wait, that wasn't a forever goodbye meal? No. I'm like saying goodbye to them for like six weeks. I'm like goodbye for six weeks.

You have to like have health things that you need to do for the Toronto shoot? I'll say this, there is a heart monitor on me currently. Oh wow. I'm trying to get, the saddest thing of the saddest possible thing you could say is that I'm trying to get down to season one stew weight from, uh, from twisted metal season one.

So I'm getting it. I'm healthy. I've been walking. I've walked, I walked six days this last week, at least three miles. I'm on it again. I mean, can I give a little, you got to go higher. I go into my health zone here. You are, you are one of our fitter guests. And especially for someone who loves to indulge

in food. I remember when you started your fitness journey at Simpson's. Yeah, I mean, which by the way, I actually found it when I worked there, because we would get like healthy things. It would like, it was actually kind of easy to eat healthy there when I was there. I mean, I would, no alcohol. Yeah.

No soda. Yeah. Even diet soda. That's that's your, you know what? And then no sugar. Just those three things. You just hit on two things that I am doing. I did know I'm doing no alcohol now.

Yeah. Cause it ruins your sleep. Yeah. And sleep is when you burn fat. And so all your great exercise during the day. Yeah. If you're in inflamed from alcohol, alcohol is great., if you're inflamed from alcohol, alcohol is great, but if you're inflamed from it,

you're not gonna get those fitness benefits or gains as we call them in the workout biz. That's those are the three words. Alcohol will kill your gains. So sleep and no alcohol. And then some great cardio, like light cardio like that and just trim down those sugars. You know, you can have a Big Mac. He just trim down those sugars. Yeah. You know, you can have it.

You can have a Big Mac. You just cooked wags. Alcohol, you just cooked. You do. You absolutely cooked. Alcohol kills gains or three. I'll call it stuck with me. It fucking sad because I love I love beer and wine. That's fun. I never get drunk, but I love a beer.

I love wine, but it's not worth it to like void your workout that day. Yeah. I'm done with alcohol for the next, I'm not, you know this Wags, you know it. I know. Anyways, I'm gonna have one drink at Polaro tonight. Let us know what dip you would bring. Hashtag. KFC. Hashtag KFC.

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We're gonna send you back to work. Our guest who we'll get, I'll give it a little applause to. Matt Selman. Thank you guys. Great to have you back. Thank you for indulging me in my mouth activities. This was so fun. What a fun meal, what a fun episode.

Do you have any, people know The Simpsons, but anything in particular you want to plug? Well, you know, just watch The Simpsons on Hulu and Disney Plus. We got some great episodes there that, that, uh, The Night of the Living Wage is that, um, Ghost Kitchen episode I mentioned, and, uh, the season finale, which just aired last, so it's July now, is on Hulu.

The season finale is called Bard's Brain and it's a loving shout out to the memory of Paul Walker. Wow. Oh, that's great. And also watch our, the episode, watch my episode, which you wrote, right? No, I just sort of supervised. You supervised, okay.

Dave King wrote it. Oh, Dave King wrote it, that's right. Of course. And then, it's Friend of the Pod. uh, the episode where we're podcasters, we're seeing in the, uh, in the background. I can't recall. Yeah. Something that it has a pod pun. And the title. It's, it's, and it's, uh, uh, Kent Brockman, like starts a podcast. Some, some Simpson's hardcore fan is just yelling at car or radio right now. Hardcore fans are yelling, let it die. Guess what? If you stop watching, it is dead.

Don't you want those animators kids to have toys and stuff at Christmas? Like, let it die. Like you want to, you want to, you want to unemployed Americans? Come on. You don't have to watch it. We're a job creator.

Come on. Show business in chaos to watch it. We're a job creator. Come on. Show business in chaos after these strikes. I agree. Nick is, he can't even, he doesn't even, he's only doing this. Yeah, I'm just here. I'm just doing this.

He just does this now. Hey, I love it. Ned's bed or whatever that show doesn't exist. Ned's bed. Bring back Ned's bed. Earth to Ned got taken off of Disney Plus, it got delisted. It got delisted. It got delisted.

Yeah, yeah. I agree. It's your fault off there. Get back on entertainment. It's not the studio's fault. Did you guys order lunch today? Did you know what they ordered for lunch? Clementines.

Wow. They got Clementines. It was called Podcast News, parody of James L. Brooks is broadcast. Wow. How about that? It was mainly about true crime podcasts. It had a fucking mystery in it and mysteries are so hard to do and no one even cares. No one at the end of a mystery goes, yes, yes, they all, you know, they just go, here's what they do, they say, I believe the smart character that said all that stuff, but I didn't understand it. Oh man, I actually am doing exactly what you're saying

when I'm watching Kenneth Bromwell's Her Cue Poirot. I love those. Here's my advice. He did it. I have too much talking. If you're planning a crime and Poirot is like on the boat, just push it.

Yeah. Just get- I agree with that. No matter how good the crime is, just get everyone in the stateroom, just push it. We'll do it next year. We'll make it happen somehow. I agree.

Yeah, have your accomplice give you a heads up, hey, just so you know, Poirot is in like one of the second class cabins. I'd be like, oh, we're going to postpone the crime. I'm not going to do it. I'm going to, I'm going to, I'm going to say this. Yeah. If there's a guy who looks like Puro, Puro don't do it.

There's a chance that it's him. Right. Look at this guy with his big fancy mustache. Well, that could be far. Oh, you know what? I'll fucking, I'm not going to pull off this caper today. Yeah. Like he's always just not going to murder the vacation wherever this

unbelievably intricate, like genius plan with 50 twists and like people shooting themselves with blanks and stuff and pretending to be dead and then that's the killer and just, patience is such a great virtue. Yeah, I know I had a great like murder plan for this Halloween party, but Poirot showed up. So you know what, we're just not gonna do it.

Yeah. Fuck. We can wait, it can wait. That Airbnb. So you know what, we're just not gonna do it. Yeah. Fuck. We can wait. That Airbnb I got in Burbank, H.Purot is the host. Ah, fuck. Fuck. Sucks. So, anything else you wanna plug? I don't know, I guess I'll plug the charity,

the Knox Martin Foundation for Brain Cancer Research. It's a terrific charity, and the money goes straight to cancer research. There isn't a bunch of like bullshit infrastructure. So it's like a real charity, not like one of these, like, you know, I'm sure the football player family relative charities were just, they just employ the football players family. It's a real charity and, uh, Knox mountain and it came out. And, and then how do people find it?

Just type in Knox mountain, Knox Martin foundation for brain cancer research. Awesome. And it will, or brain tumor. It in Knox Martin Foundation for Brain Cancer Research. Awesome. And it will, or Brain Tumor, it'll come up. It'll come up. Knox Martin Foundation, check it out. Hey, that'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time, for the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger, happy eating.

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