100% Eat - Detroit Chicago Style Pizza in Pueblo Colorado

Episode Date: November 25, 2021

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This is a Rooster Teeth production. All right, you ready? Yes. He is. I was putting my phone in my pocket. Three, two, one. Why do you always point at me? Action.

Well, who else is gonna do it? Him? You want me to do it? You, you do it. No, him, he can do it. You're the one running this fucking show. Right into the ground. This road trip.

Right into the goddamn ground. Hey, we're ready to hit the road. Hey, we've hit the road. We are right here in Detroit. No, no, no, no. That's what he kept saying. No, that's, hang on. No, because that's from, that's old Chicago.

So we gotta be in Chicago. Oh. But he kept saying Detroit. Oh. But we're not, we didn't drive that far. We're in Pueblo, Colorado. We are in Pueblo, Colorado. On our way.

At the world, the world famous abandoned Kmart burned into a Spirit Halloween parking lot. Yep. The Kmart logo is still on the building. If you, I can't even describe how bad it looks in every other direction. Behind the van, the crumbling facade of the building over there.

We will say it's shambles. For some reason, there's a golf course over there. But quite deserted, quite spacious. But we have been, we've been on a road trip. We're on our way to the new Belgium brewery. Yep. Right. Which we're almost there. In Fort Collins, Colorado.

We're in the same state now. That's right. Big development. It's the home of Voodoo Ranger and that's why we're bringing them the face jam van. This is what we took of the van. This is the only piece of the piece of shit that you got. After the accident.

This is the van we rented. Oh, we also, we drew on it with markers. Yeah. Window markers. To thank our sponsor. Thank you Voodoo Ranger. Wow! Voodoo Ranger.

On Twitter and Instagram. Live rangerously. We used the good side, which you wrote on. Turns out Jordan can't barely write, let alone draw. I don't understand what was going on. A sheer miracle. I think it's because I'm left-handed. That must be.

That must be it. Yeah, we learned a lot about that. It was working fine for him. Yeah. So we're in Pueblo. Thank you, Voodoo Ranger, for sponsoring this road trip. We have our insulated face jam bag. Merch!

What's inside? Oh, dude. You got the visor with the hair. The visor with the mullet. Michael looks like it. during this road trip, we have our insulated face jam bag. Merch! What's inside? Oh, dude. Look at this. You got the visor with the hair. The visor with the mullet. Michael looks like a, you look like a real 1991 scumbag.

Dude, I love it. It's pretty good. I love it. I'm scared of the hair. So this is brand new. We have the only one right now. Trey, Trey, in existence. We'll say this is on sale now, why not?

It might be, it might not be. Yo, I'm trying one of these. I haven't had one of these yet. Ooh, those are good ones. So we have our insulated bag. It looks like it's a paper bag. It's not be. We have our- I'm trying one of these. I haven't had one of these yet. Ooh, those are good ones. So we have our insulated bag. It looks like it's a paper bag. It's insulated. We've been holding voodoo in here all day.

Ooh, it's ice cold. Who's not drinking? Monkey's not drinking? Okay, which beer do you want, Jordan? We got- He goes nuts when we get back to the hotel. We got the Imperial IPA. He does, he rips sacks.

Dude, his whole fridge. We have the 1975. And we have the experimental. This, I'll have you know, is our actual- I'm going to go Imperial IPA. That's a classic. Filthy, disgusting hood of the van. We wiped it down thoroughly.

Drew did a good job. Drew, oh, okay. Well, what? Did Drew do an okay job? Drew did an okay job. Michael also did a good job. Oh, good job. Hey, good job, Michael.

Way to go, Michael. Drew and I were cleaning the hood while you guys were playing fucking football. Well, we saw that there was a right-handed mode and a left-handed mode. Yeah, we're out there. Kim's running routes. We're doing a good job.

We're at high elevation. Dude, we can throw it so far. We can throw it over those mountains. What did we get? All right, let's check it out. This is old Chicago pizza and tap room. Yep, okay, it's sealed. It's sealed. So this is like chicago chicago tap room yep okay it's sealed it's sealed so this is like it's sealed there's proof sealed for your pleasure okay so the thing about the thing

about this pizza place is that it's called old chicago and we found out that they do a detroit style pizza and we're in colorado the name of this is like a mom and pop place, right? Small mom and pop. Yeah, small mom and pop. Like Torchy, small mom and pop. Right, right, right. This pizza is called the Insanity Pizza, and we've ordered it. Whoa, are we going to get crazy? We've ordered pepperoni and mushroom.

Oh, it's so small. And it has little tiny triangles to hold the box up. It's got like three of them. Do you feel fucking insane? It's not to hold the box. Yeah, so feel- It's got like three of them. Do you feel fucking insane? It's not to hold the box. Yeah, oh. Yeah, so that way it doesn't slouch. No, I mean, I got it.

You just said it in a weird way. Yeah, hang on. Jordan, go ahead. Why is it called the Insanity? It looks pretty tame to me. No reason at all. Oh, okay. It's just pizza.

Right, it's just pizza. Got it. Yeah. Got it. So this is what we're tucking into today because on a road trip, there's a lot of places. There's a lot of things to eat. You can go small, you can go big. There's chains you've never heard of like old Chicago and you got to try some wacky pizza.

So why don't you grab a slice? Let's whack it up. Slizzapizz. Which slizzapizz? I'm looking, I'm thinking, hang on. I haven't picked. Oh God. I like my share.

That's a good one. That's a good mushy piece. You know what? I'm gonna claim this one too. Okay, I like it. It's good. All right, Jordan, a good mushy piece. You know what? I'm gonna claim this one too. Okay, I like it. It's good. All right, Jordan.

You're still as a piss. Oh man, he took mine. Mm. I want this one. All right, pass it. You gotta pass it down. Michael, you want a napkin from the monkey? No, I'm okay.

I just wanna clarify. I took the triangle bit too. The table doesn't hold the box up. It does, you know. No, it stops the pizza from smashing into the lid of the box. Right, so it holds the box up. No. Yeah, no. You can really tell per se. No, no, box. Right, so it holds the box up. No. Yeah.

No. You can really tell, per se. See, the thing I like about Detroit style is you get those crispy corners. Yep. Yep. So let's see how crispy these corners are. Why did you, why are you eating in secret? Don't look at him.

What is he doing? Don't look at him. What the hell is happening? Bro, this is why they steal it. Don't look at him. What is he doing? Don't look at him. What the hell is happening? Bro. This is why they steal it. Put the fucking table back in and hold that box up. Yeah? There, I fixed it. You know?

Perfect. This is pretty good. It's pretty decent. So we've been on this road trip. It's our third day. We've been on the road for a few days and we've been eating a lot of stuff real fast. Pizza for some reason is a nice reprieve from days and we've been eating a lot of stuff real fast pizza for some reason is a nice reprieve from everything else we've been eating why we just were in like a pizza mood yeah

it was like unanimous like pizza pizza pizza pizza i think after steak and tacos well i think the thing with pizza too is like it's thick but it's very airy right so like a steak is that's just 100 dense this it's big but it's not as filling it's not as dense monkey tore through i'm gonna imagine you open that box and i went that's not enough and we were all saying we weren't hungry that's what we said but i'll tell you just before we sat down, Nick and I discussed that there's a Taco Bell right over there. We're like, look, we could swing by on the way out. It's on the way.

Like, you have to go through it. We'll see, it's fine. And that's the thing about a road trip. Get whatever you want, go wherever you want. But try it with a Voodoo Ranger if you're 21 and up. This is good. Drink responsibly. But man, we talked about the steak with the beer.

Pizza and beer is like, man, that's like hard to beat. This has got a little snap to it I like. It does, yeah. Yeah. Does it remind you of the 80s? I don't know. With the way he looks, maybe. It's turning him into an 80s guy.

He's so busy being an 80s guy. The thing that I love about... How did I do that when my pizza's over here? Look what he did. Oh, come on. Jordan, stop. Oh, no, I did it again to you. Can you stop?

Here, I'll help you out. Let me use your napkin. There we go. Wow. You're such a friend. The thing I like about... I'm here to help. I'm trying to help everybody.

Everybody's attacking me for some reason. The thing about the Voodoo Ranger stuff that we've been doing is that IPAs, I was like... IPAs. Dude, I was over IPAs. I feel like a lot of people were. It kind of turned into like a parody beer. It did? It's a big time...

Yeah, it's a punchline. Yeah. It is? Yes. Uh-oh. Dude. Michael didn't know he was the butt is? Yes. Uh-oh. Dude. Michael didn't know he was the butt of the joke. Uh-oh.

I didn't drink it, so I didn't even know it was a joke. So I got really over it. Dude, I don't know what it is about these. They're all so different, and they are not, they don't have that bite, bitter, snap. Like you were saying, there's snap to that. Yeah. Not in a way where it's like. That's good. Yeah, where you have to like. It's like a little pop. Where you have saying like there's snap to that yeah not in a way where it's like that's good yeah where you have to like take a little pop where you have to like suffer through

it these are just a lot easier don't suffer through your beer yeah exactly because it's with voodoo ranger you won't i mean these are just so drinkable like it's so easy to just slam these back and it's crazy because this is 6.6 i'll tell you too you know on this road trip we're driving all day making stops shooting stuff on the side of the road little things here and there we get to the hotel we come here we set this up we do this and so the first two nights we've like gone out yeah on the town and uh making friends Had some shitty beer. Like this. Like a rolling rock tall boy? Like me drinking, well, you don't name names.

Right. They're giving them free advertising, but it sucks. Big Irish beer tall boy. And he's sitting there drinking and going, this sucks. Yep. And it really hits me now that like, oh, we were drinking good beer before that, and now I'm drinking good beer now.

It sucked. Mm-hmm. And it doesn't help when it's warm too also the people won't leave you alone at the bar i hate that woman show me your id you can't drink unless you show me your id do you work here no i have work here look at my keys don't stop engaging with her stop stop talking to her god God. We left the bar last night and I was hanging out with Eric afterwards and we were talking about something and I went,

and he was like, God damn it. Like, fuck me, man. And he like snapped at me and I was like, what? And he's like, what? And I go, I was just thinking about that woman at the bar. And he was like, oh, I thought you were mad at me. Oh man. Very cool van just drove by i wish we

had that one whoa no we have a better van than that it was just some person that we walked in at the bar and they were like it's time for me to perform yeah yeah that's what it was it's my song and dance but you know what how'd you know i wanted another we're cruising on better times now we got honestly pretty good pizza pretty good pizza pizza. We were in three states today. We were in three states today. We made so much progress. New Mexico was hardly perceived. Yeah.

Is it real? Yeah, apparently. I don't think it's so much a New Mexico thing as a Texas thing. Yeah. Where it's like, it just doesn't end. Three days of that. It doesn't end. Get me out of you.

It was a long trip through Texas. And for some reason, I mean, we drove probably like five hours today, but I was feeling pretty like tuckered after this whole day. But sitting here, drinking, eating some za. I'll tell you this, the weather is very nice. Oh, I love it. This is, I think the best weather we've had thus far.

When's the last time- What Cam was just doing. Yup. You all right. Doing something. When's the last time you experienced zero humidity? Right. Oh, man.

Did you eat that whole calzone? Holy shit. He's got a Fortnite tournament. That's true. Was it good? Yeah. I liked it. You liked it?

Way better than the thumbs down we got in the last podcast. We don't talk about that. And then Lee yelling at us, it's bad. Awesome. So we recorded a regular episode, which I'm sure is out, long out by now. Right. After that vodcast yesterday. And it was weird, dude.

It was a weird vodcast and it was weird, dude. It was a weird vodcast, and it was a weird episode. And on that podcast episode, and then today, thank you, sir, I couldn't stop thinking about how he lost his mind, and he kept going like this. Like he was a vampire bat. He was a bat. How does he do it like so quick? I don't know, dude.

It's really good. He was also talking to me today about something and was holding the mask and referring to him as he. That was weird. He was like talking about something else where like him and the monkey were going to team up on you or something. He was like, he's getting crazy. It's a real Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

His character's getting out of control. It was me and Michael. Yeah, him. It was like me and Michael in the backseat and Michael said something and Nick turned and looked, but he also turned the monkey head that was in his hands to look. And it was like, what? I was like, he's using both heads now.

What's happening? Two become one. Two become one. One becomes two. Oh. That's the weird part. Are we about to get lit? Drew's had it.

That's smart. Too much. Yeah, that's a lot. Oh! That's smart. Too much! Yeah, that's a lot. There you go. All right, cool. This is what it's like to be on the road, man. You just gotta improvise. You gotta improvise.

He's just getting ready to run us over. Still not better when you back up two feet. Shane, how's it look? I can see you. Could you not before? I hope so. This isn't how they taught me to do it in film school. There's a fucking car. Oh man.

This is good pizza. This is, okay, so we got, we were going to get calzones. This is really good pizza. We went on the website and it said Insanity Pizza. And we all went, well, we have to eat Insanity Pizza. Well, you went and we all said, sure. And we all said, what a great idea. Insanity, insanity. You're so smart.

Insanity. You're so good at this. And we said, what's insane about it? Good van, good van. It's just pizza. He just kept beating us with it. And we were like, OK, please, just stop it. Fine, he's got to throw it.

So we got the pepperoni and mushroom. It's a great combo. That's insane. That's insane. Insane classic pizza combo. So the thing about some say the original, the thing about the insanity pizza from old Chicago is that it's just Detroit style pizza in Colorado, in Colorado. Um, it's have you had Detroit style pizza before? I mean, I,

I wouldn't, this is Sicilian where I grew up, which I guess is Detroit style. Yes. He's kept saying it's Detroit style. And I said, I Which I guess is Detroit style. Yes. He kept saying it's Detroit style. And I said, I don't know what that means. There is some nuance there that we don't need to get into, but. And we won't. But it being a deep dish square pizza.

Yep. I've had pizza very much like it. There's a great spot in Austin called Via 313. Yeah, never heard of it. That is really, it's close to it. There's a great place in Austin called Via 313. Yeah. Never heard of it. There's really, it's close to it. There's a great place in San Diego called Sicilian Thing that is, it's like this. What's Sicilian? We don't need to get into this.

There's a lot of nuance. Please go on and explain the nuance. There's a lot of subtle nuance. But to have the old Chicago place called this Insanity Pizza is very funny. Like, guys, we made it fucking crazy. I think to Chicagoans, this is insane. Yeah. It's square.

What? It's mostly bread. Do you want to talk about getting the food? Mm-hmm. Mm. Oh, does he? We ordered online. Okay, it's five minutes away.

We'll go pick it up. We ordered. We're shooting some stuff. We're hanging out. It'll it's five minutes away. We'll go pick it up. We ordered. We're shooting some stuff. We're hanging out. It'll be ready in 20 minutes. Cool, cool, cool. It's been 25, 30 minutes. We go.

We get there. There's two women working the front counter of Old Chicago, which is just Buffalo Wild Wings, but for pizza. Yeah, same vibe. They might as well be NPCs in a video game that are glitching out. They're just like bumping into each other and like walking in a circle.

I think one of them was like clipping through a wall. It was like, a lot was happening. There was a lot happening. There was one group, there were two groups ahead of us. No, there was three because- Small groups. It was one woman who was picking up some pizza and then two groups that were looking to get sat.

So the woman asked for a pizza. It wasn't ready. So she waited. The next group came. Yeah, we have two. Okay. Is it possible to eat outside? And the woman went,

and started picking up menus and then going back to her computer and then setting the menus down and then going back to her computer and then setting the menus down and then going back to the computer and then about to pick them up again. And then she just went, yeah, you can walk through those doors and around the corner and seat yourself.

And they went, is it self seating? And she went, you can go out the doors. And it was like, what? I'm begging you, go out the doors. What's happening? So it's like, what the fuck is this? And then the next people in front of us were like, yeah, we have three.

And she went, there's only two. There's two of you. And she went, wait, we have a third. The third person outside. Okay. The place is, it's not empty, but. It was not over well. Not over well.

I wouldn't even say it was half full. The guy behind us was getting pissed. Yeah. He was mad. He was what I would call bugging. He was fuming. He was torqued out, not in a good way. Oh, no.

His wife joined him a couple minutes after that and was standing behind us. She's like, what's going on? And he went, I don't know. It looks, there's plenty of tables. So I walk up. I walk up to the girl. I also like, as this is setting in, I'm inside with you in the lobby and they're outside. And we can see them outside.

And as this is all happening, you're just standing there. We see Nick pointing. We're like looking around and Nick's like, ooh, a Jimmy John's. And he sees that and he just goes, I swear, I swear if he's pointing towards a pickup window that he sees that I should be at instead and doesn't come inside and tell me, I'm gonna lose it. I'm gonna fucking lose it.

I really thought- I'll freak out. Couldn't you see it in your head of Nick going, I bet we can do pickup right here. This is the pickup window. Yeah, and then I whisper in his ear, don't tell him. I'm already, I'm just like, fuck, come on. I go up to the girl and I go, oh, hey,

I have an order for Eric for pickup. And she went, oh, okay. There's a little, it looks like a refrigerator, but it's like a little oven to like keep warm. If your pizza's ready. It's a pizza portal. It's a poor man's pizza portal. Exactly.

So she goes over to it. Sorry to do this. Looks at it. She opens it up. Opens it up. Looks at the pizza that's in there. And just keeps looking. And just keeps looking.

And I'm like, oh, that must be ours. And is not checking anything. Take it out. Take it out. And then closes it. And she goes, it's not ready yet. What? When you described that, I was like, is it cooking?

No. She's just like, I don't know. I thought it was like maybe like Sims and she was like waiting for a second pizza to appear where I was like, oh, that's our pizza. When it's done cooking, it just appears. Maybe that's not our pizza. Yeah. Five more minutes, 10 more minutes go by,

maybe 15 more minutes. And we're just like wandering outside. We're just waiting outside. We're just riffing outside. A guy in a bowler cap is walking around. It was like being in a video game where you just see other characters and you go, it was like, shit, why did they dress their characters like this?

That's cool to you. Yeah, everything felt like an NPC interaction. It was terrible. I suggested maybe we go in and ask if they need help. Offering Nick to volunteer. And you were like, it can't take any longer. I don't know what's happening. Dude, when you ordered the pizza, I was like,

it's going to be ready like way too soon. And you were kind of like, eh. And it was so long. It was so long until it was ready. Then I looked in and she's holding our box of pizza and Cam's calzone. And I walk in. It's holding our box of pizza and Cam's calzone. And I walk in. It's been 10 minutes, 15 minutes.

And she's holding them up. And she went, did you order pizza? Yeah. Eric? And I went, uh-huh. She hands them to me. Hey, can I get like napkins? Can I get anything?

Why did you say that? She starts handing me the stuff. She gives me to me. Hey, can I get like napkins? Can I get any- Why did you say that? Anything. She starts handing me the stuff. She gives me the stuff, she puts it in a bag and she just hands me everything and goes, I hope you have a good night. You too. It wasn't like, I hope you have a good night.

It was flat. Yeah, well, she's an NPC. Yeah. And her AI is bugging out. Yeah. I think you described it as every worst part of a video game in a restaurant. It was like showing Skyrim again.

You were like, I think someone's trying to do a speed run. Why are they rubbing the pizza boxes on the wall and trying to flip through? Somebody was just flipping through. Yeah, I just keep hearing thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, thump, and then a pizza box went 5,000 feet into the air. I'm like, turn towards you.

So we finally got a pizza. Did you order a pizza box went 5,000 feet into the air. I like turned towards you. So we finally got our pizza. Eric, right? It was bizarre. So we got the pizza and then we came here. And now it's nighttime. It's nighttime, baby. And now it's nighttime. And once we're out, Drew's going to just get in the car and hit the gas.

And we're going to become one with the van. The last thing you see in this video is going to be the lights getting brighter, the car getting louder. Drew's just going to one with the van. The last thing you see in this video is gonna be the lights getting brighter, the car getting louder. Drew's just gonna drive on the street. He's just gonna get on the street and just start turning indiscriminately. Oh, that's, that's, oh, I mean, that's,

that means, that means we're on the road. Drew's just turning indiscriminately, driving in any random direction. Gonna go drive through the kmart spirit halloween nobody is disturbing us at the game it's true people have driven by but they have not asked any questions no which is part for the course at a spirit halloween parking lot all right so what's the verdict this was good pizza this is. I've never had this chain. It was really good. Solid pizza. It was really good.

Solid, solid. And we had to fuck around a bit after we got it. Yeah. Which I imagine would have been even better. When he says fuck around, he means the football throwing. The football throwing and the fucking hood cleaning I don't get credit for. Now imagine that you aren't sitting in a Kmart parking lot, enjoying a Voodoo Ranger. Uh-huh.

I'm picturing. You're driving and eating this pizza. Oh baby. Yes or no? I think you could do it. You think this is a driving? I mean, you're gonna drop some toppings. Monkey's saying yes.

Jordan was dropping some food on himself. Well, I mean, we were sitting here and people who have no names or won't be called out were dropping stuff. It's your own pants, it's fine. But yeah, you're gonna lose a topping or maybe a glob of sauce or so, but- There's plenty to go around.

It's not the worst thing to eat while driving. And I will say it wasn't like greasy, super, I mean it's pizza, but it wasn't like sopping or soggy. Even V313 is a little more greasy. We've had mean, it's pizza. But it wasn't like sopping or soggy. Even V3 is a little more greasy. We've had way greasier pizza. This was a- I don't, I'm not screaming in anger. So I would describe this as like a,

it's like a really tight pizza. I wasn't biting stuff and things are flying everywhere. It wasn't like it wasn't dripping. It was very well constructed. Yeah, yeah, like almost like to a blueprint. Durable. There was a blueprint for it. Right, you could, if you got enough of of those could maybe work as a foundation for a house

that's oh but don't eat it uh-huh well i'm i'm hungry i'm gonna eat my own home take a couple of bricks yep i yeah i don't know i i don't think anyone else saw it. So old Chicago, a place we've never heard of. Pueblo staple. The greatest pizza in all of Pueblo, Colorado. It might be. I don't know. Yeah. It might be.

I'd have to say. It's pretty good. It's the only pizza I've had here and it's fantastic. If you live in Pueblo and you know a better pizza, do not comment. Yeah. Literally don't tell me. Literally don't tell me. I don't want to know.

I would say with the Voodoo Ranger, I mean, that elevates everything, but that pizza's pretty decent. It was good. I could eat one more slice. Yeah. So where's the second? It's right there.

It's right there at that Taco Bell. Yeah. We'll go pick it up over there. You ready for our fourth meal? Boom. I think we're all for it. I think as a road trip food, it's really good. As a food to take home, it's really good.

If you can find insanity pizza, go for it. Right. Get crazy. Get insane. We did, I think, surmise at the end of it, the insane part was getting it. Yes. It made me fucking crazy.

It wasn't the pizza. It was going to pick it up yep and leaving with it welcome to insanity yeah that was the insane experience everything else very normal very normal pizza very good yeah very good voodoo i'm excited to get now do i look like this guy yeah you are oh man you need those glasses you sure. You're living. That's pretty cool. The look will be completed. That's what I call living rangerously. Hell yeah. That's good. Drew, did we do it?

Maybe we kick this guy. We can't film anymore. It's too dark. What do you mean? It looks good. No, we can go another half hour. Why are you having to fit? Pull up more.

Did you tell us 20 minutes after it was unusable like you like to do? Do it again, but faster. Oh, it was over 20 minutes ago all right the next thing we're doing we're heading on to fort collins to uh the voodoo ranger brewing facility his home but on the way we'll probably have to stop and get more so we'll just go to that new belgium.com beer finder and then we'll find a convenience store where we can go buy a bunch of voodoo ranger and they gotta have some around yeah right yeah it can't be that it'll be good so there you go all right we gotta hit the road guys we have no yeah check this out isn't that cool i wonder if you can see it on camera that looks fantastic can you see this how did you do that why did you

hang on hang on drew said here wait hold that up god jesus okay we're gonna hit the road scene in christmas vacation all right Drew. Take us down. Run us over. We're ready. End the shot. Monkey's outta here.