A Hot Dog Is a Sandwich - Aliens Are Real: What Do We Feed Them?

Episode Date: August 30, 2023

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This, this, this is a Sandwich. Ketchup is a smoothie. Yeah, I put ice in my cereal, so what? That makes no sense. A hot dog is a sandwich. A hot dog is a sandwich. What? Welcome to our podcast, A Hot Dog is a Sandwich, the show we break down the world's biggest food debates. I'm your host, Josh Scherr.

And I'm your host, Nicole Inaidi. And today we are debating what is the best Marie Callender's frozen pie. Mississippi Buds slide! Is it the silk pie? Chocolate silk pie? The chocolate silk pie from Marie Callender's frozen pie? Mississippi mudslide! Is it the silk pie? Chocolate silk pie? The chocolate silk pie from Marie Callender's. No, we are warning you of the impending alien invasion. This is not new news.

New news! Shout out to Jason Kelsey, friend of the show. It's from his podcast. But somebody once posed us the question, when the aliens finally land on Earth, what is the first food that you would feed them? Now, people probably posed this about a year ago. And we were like, this could be a whole podcast episode, but it is simply too stupid.

We need to wait for people to get stupid enough to catch up with how stupid we are. And, Nicole, the time has finally come because of one man named David Grush. David Grush. Tell them about David Grush. What do you know about him? He has an interesting face. He has a trusting face, but behind the eyes.

Yeah. It gives me pause. No, for sure. He, to me, looks like somebody who would be telling me that aliens are here, but not like the ancient aliens guy that's like...

Aliens. Aliens, man. Not that guy, but he looks exactly like the ancient aliens guy. That's like aliens, aliens, not that guy, but he looks exactly like a person testifying in front of Congress saying that aliens are here. Well, he didn't say aliens. He said,

he said non-human biologics that are in UFOs are called UAPs now, which I interpreted as two dogs going on a joy ride. And they were like, you know, like in like dukes of hazard i'm going somewhere with this how like it goes in the air sure sure sure and like for a moment that car is an unidentified flying object that's a good point so i think he just found the dukes of hazards car but two dog like two doggies in it did it still have the confederate flag on it oh did it have a confederate dukes of

hasbrook it was called the general lee and it had the confederate flag on the top they like took it they like didn't take it off the merch until like way later is that true you're saying the racist dogs they're flying this car through the air david gresh sees it goes testifies in front of congress that's the only logical boy it's the only thing that i can think of um no who is i saw a tweet yesterday that was like an rip and some year anniversary of a monkey the russian ikea monkey no it's like a monkey that the russians sent into space oh and one of the they sent to like two monkeys into space yeah one of the monkeys successfully returned and another monkey just floated out into space um it was like rip that monkey because that monkey is a non-human biologic in a you know into space. Yeah, yeah, yeah. One of the monkeys successfully returned and another monkey just floated out into space.

What does that have to do? It was like RIP that monkey because that monkey is a non-human biologic in a, you know. So do you think that's the non-human biologic that was in the UFO? No.

I think, listen, 2004 had like a big bombshell report. They called it the Tic-Tac-Toe incident, you know. I don't know about the Tic-Tac-Toe incident.

I think it was fighter pilots in San Diego maybe who claimed they saw an unidentified aircraft. Okay, okay. And there was a video I don't know about the tic-tac-toe incident. I think it was fighter pilots in San Diego, maybe, who claimed they saw an unidentified aircraft. Okay, okay. And there was a video of it, but it was just a dot flying around. Okay.

You know what I mean? Sure. I'm not a personal believer in aliens. I don't believe they've ever made contact. I don't think there's a big government conspiracy that they're keeping them from us. I think other life exists in the universe, and I think it's mathematically completely impossible that we will ever make contact with them. Have you seen Prometheus?

Yes, I've seen Prometheus. That movie rocks. That movie rocks. I love alien movies. So many, I read so much sci-fi. Tic-Tac,

not Tic-Tac. Did you call it the Tic-Tac-Toe incident? Oh my God. The Tic-Tac incident. Whatever. I love, I love stories about aliens. I read a lot of Vonnegut, you know, the book of strange new things. One of my favorite books of all time. It stories about aliens I read a lot of Vonnegut

you know the book of strange new things one of my favorite books of all time it's about aliens you know what I mean but I don't personally believe that we'll ever make contact

I think it's pretty impossible I totally think we're gonna talk to aliens well do you do you believe that there are aliens currently here sorry not aliens

non-human biologics we know what you're implying right now like on earth's surface? Yes. Yeah. No way. I think they've been here since, like, since, like, I don't know, like, 1911.

Yes, since 1911. Oddly specific year. You know, like, how long it takes to travel from any possibly habitable... Yeah, and those are, like, so many light years. Anyways, neither here nor there. Listen, I know he's testifying in front of Congress, but like I think he's just a kook.

I think there's just kooks out there who say things. No, can I just, can I just say something? I also know the CIA just like plants conspiracy theories to get people to talk about it and make other conspiracy theories not seem true.

It's called COINTELPRO. Look it up. But like. Can I just say? Yeah, please. Why didn't the lady that was asking him questions The congress lady

Why didn't she ask If they were dogs If you let Nicole and I Run this place I swear to God Corruption would be finished UFOs Dogs would be flying

In non-racist cars All across the streets of America It would be rad Subway would be free If Josh and I were members of the Congress, it would be the most fun Congress ever. Yeah, we're going to launch a campaign right off the back of this podcast.

We tried to do that with the hot dog is a sandwich. Yeah, pretty failed campaign. We learned a lot from that. We learned a lot. We made shirts. We made campaign shirts. We made campaign shirts. We sold some of those shirts. That was good. That was a good time. This is a food podcast, ostensibly, right? Yeah, it is. No, ostensibly. Use that term loosely.

We're now going to talk about, Nicole, since the aliens are currently here on Earth, according to David Grush. And me. And Nicole, except they're dogs. What would be the food that you would serve them first to show them what, I was going to say America is all about, but it's the world, but also, do you want to see a fun map? I love maps. Do you want to see a fun map? I love maps.

Do you want to see a fun map? Hold on. I like... My brother's really into maps. I closed out the map. My brother used to collect maps, atlases, and he would like draw like roads that like weren't found yet in maps. He rocks.

Hey, Sal. So this is a map of reported UFO sightings around the world by country. As you can see, they're like all in America and a little bit in Great Britain and then none elsewhere. Why? I don't know the exact methodology that this map was going for, but UFO sightings are a very uniquely American thing. Oh. Because we're paranoid and obsessed with them. And also we have digested

so much movies and media and culture about aliens. So, if aliens do land, it's going to be in America because we're the only

that thinks about them. It's like Santa Claus. He's powered by Christmas cheer. Aliens are powered by our own belief in them. So, they land in America, Nicole.

Yeah. What is the first food that you feed them? Let me ask, let me answer your question with a question. I'd rather you answer it with an answer? Let me answer your question with a question. I'd rather you answer it with an answer. My question was the question.

No, hear me out. Are there any food items that do not contain water? Real question. That have like 0% water in them. That's a real question. I don't know about like 0%, 0%, but like freeze-drying food, right, is a way of removing water okay from food very efficiently because in my mind aside from the prometheus do you hear that dude there's just crickets in our podcast room which is also our kitchen it's also you know when we used to be

our office you say something funny crickets funny um okay like so so you know how the alien i'm i i think that the aliens that are like Prometheus exist, but also, have you ever seen Signs, the movie Signs? No, I haven't. Oh,

well, okay, well, there's a movie called Signs, and it's about- Night Shyamalan, Mel Gibson. Yeah,

Mel Gibson. He puts a knife underneath the door to see the reflection. Yeah, I've seen it. And a spoiler, spoiler, spoiler,

can I tell you the spoiler? I'm not going to watch it. the aliens are, like, they die when we put water on them. So I think. That's how the movie signs it. That's the big M. Night Shyamalan reveal

in signs. Yeah they come to a planet. It's water. They come to a planet that's all water and like water is what kills them. Well no. Never gonna watch signs. That was M. Night Shyamalan right? Am I making that up? I think they would eat something that is not water

because I think their bodies are not able to digest water. What do you mean their bodies? Who are they? The dogs? The non-human biologics. We know nothing about the non-human biologics out here. That's what makes it so tough. This is a thought exercise.

No, I agree. I agree. But why are you assuming they couldn't digest. This is a thought exercise. No, I agree. I agree. But why are you assuming they couldn't digest water? Because it's signs. Because they're moving signs. Here's my thing about this question, okay?

What's up? Is that one, I do like this thought experiment and I think if we were to turn this, we'll get to a point eventually where we're talking about this. Yeah, just have fun. Just hold on.

Buckle up. I think the real thought experiment in this is almost like what if there was somebody with amnesia and they had never had food. They never remembered food, right? It's just like a wandering traveler.

What would you feed them to be most representative of all the food on Earth? What is the best food for it? But I do want to talk about aliens more because Okay, okay, yes, yes, yes. Cats can't taste sugar, right? I don't know. That's like a thing.

Cats don't taste sweet. Aw. Or maybe it's, I think it's sweet, yeah. I think cats can't register the taste right? I don't know. That's like a thing. Cats don't taste sweet. Aw. Or maybe it's, I think it's sweet, yeah. I think cats can't register the taste of sugar. Okay, cute. Because they're carnivores, right? So their bodies don't run on glucose, I suppose. Okay.

I don't know, is that true? Yeah, they can't taste sugar. So a cat, which is very similar to us in terms of DNA, it lives on Earth, it's a mammal, yada yada, has fundamentally different taste buds than us. We have no idea what a cat experiences when it eats. We would have no idea what an alien experiences when it eats. We have no idea if they're

a version of eating. Yeah, I mean, plants, right? Fungi have huge neural networks. Photosynthesis! Photosynthesis! There's some dudes that listen to Joe Rogan that absorb light through their b-hole, and then that gives them testosterone. They sun their taint. They do that, you know what I mean? But I think humans-hole and then that gives them testosterone their sun they sun their sunning

they do that you know what I mean but I think humans can't normally do that and so we just don't know at all what these aliens do but for the thought experiment

yes of if there was somebody that had no knowledge of earth and you wanted to feed them one thing when they got here uh huh

what would it be I mean what would your strategy be KFC double down you think that the KFC double down. You think that? The KFC Double Down is the pinnacle of human achievement in food. I think so.

It's discontinued, right? Did they bring it back? They brought it back temporarily, so they discontinued it, but it was such a cultural phenomenon that it literally moved to other countries. Oh, wow. And they started making Double Down burgers, because the Double Down was breaded or seasoned. It's breaded chicken. Chicken breast. And then a cheese, and then another one?

Cheese, bacon, some sort of special sauce, another thing of breaded chicken chicken breast and then a cheese and then another one cheese, bacon some sort of special sauce another thing of breaded chicken which almost makes it a chicken cordon bleu right? cured pork, cheese you know what I mean

chicken on the outside but that moved to like Indonesia they did like a double down burger with a beef patty shoved in between oh that's so smart

in the Philippines check this out double down hot dog oh so smart nobody loves hot dogs like the Philippines does shout out to the Pure Foods Hot dogs basketball team.

There's a basketball team called the Hot Dogs. I know. Yeah, okay, good. You told me about it. It's my favorite thing. You talked about it on the podcast like four times. I want to make a double down corn dog. Do whatever you want.

Here's the thing. You take like a chicken breast and you cut a hole in it and you shove a hot dog in the chicken breast, batter that, fry it. What's to stop you from doing that? Stop me? Yeah. This is your dish. Why haven't you done it yet? Are you going to make it. What's to stop you from doing that? Stop me? Yeah. This is your dish.

Why haven't you done that? Are you going to make it for aliens? Why haven't I done it? Because I don't need to do it. I don't like corn dogs. Remember? Well, we don't know what the aliens like, though. They might like corn dogs.

Everybody likes KFC double downs. That's a fair point. That's a fair point. But. Lollipop? But. You got cured pork products in there. You're mixing meat.

Like, what if. Oh, they're kosher or a lol the aliens could be Jewish or Muslim or Muslim or Christian Zoroastrian

Buddhist Baha'i Taoist we don't know what the aliens belief system is I don't think they have a belief system

I think they just exist I think we should serve them wait what do you mean they don't have a belief system everything has a belief system that's not true I think anything intelligent enough is atheism a belief system no but I think we should serve them. Wait, what do you mean they don't have a belief system? Everything has a belief system. That's not true. I think anything intelligent enough...

Is atheism a belief system? No, but I think that like... If you are void of belief, does that mean you have belief? No, I think so. I think especially an atheist has more belief than an agnostic, right? Well, yeah, because they believe in an omnipresent source. Sure, but... Which are aliens.

Potentially. I think that anything intelligent enough to be able to travel here would have some sort of belief system and some sort of... Why would you assume? Because I think that to be able to collectivize, right? You've read Sapiens. I haven't, but my dad has told me to read it for the past. He honestly WhatsApps me videos of snippets of Sapiens. I love that.

Saying, read this, Baba. This is a good book baba read it watch it baba and i just don't i got really bored listening to the book on tape of sapiens and started listening to fantasy football podcasts again but one of the things that allowed humans to collectivize to be able to work together right and that's the essence of science right it's um working together yeah it is no honestly it's being able to share data with each other and being able to plateau up once somebody invents something, right? Once, once somebody invented the wheel, suddenly anything else that can bicycle, okay. That was like several hundred

thousand years after the wheel, but once somebody invented the bicycle, then they could invent the car ish. Um, can I tell you a quick aside? Uh, I was talking to a right now. This isn't a side of an aside of an aside, but yes. All right. So I was talking to a- Josh, right now this isn't a side of an aside of an aside, but yes. All right. So I was talking to a chef, right? And he was like, man, it's crazy how back in the day, he was talking about a thousand year old cookbook. He's like, man, they were able to cook like such complex dishes, like taking peacocks and skinning them and feathering them and then stuffing the insides and redecorating to look like peacocks, all these. And I was like, yeah, man, like this kind of weird medieval, but gilded age of food

was really incredible. And he goes, yeah, but the thing I don't understand is how could they create such complex dishes if they couldn't invent a car? And I was like,

I don't think we're going to see eye to eye on this. The point is, Nicole, the car isn't just a car, right? It's literally a product of a million inventions. That's true.

Somebody had to invent a bolt. Yeah. To bolt the car together. Yeah, yeah. Somebody, oh my God, the combustion engine, that was like a product of a million inventions. That's true. Somebody had to invent a bolt. Yeah. To bolt the car together. Yeah, yeah. Somebody, somebody, oh my God, the combustion engine? That was like a miracle. That was a miracle. No more animal labor. Yeah, yeah. A wheel. Oh my God.

A car? A wheel? That's what I'm saying. The wheel. Are you hiding? Just like a bowl of white rice. Are you hiding? Because I think like rice is the most eaten cereal grain. Maggie, can you look up most eaten cereal grains on the planet?

So there's a theory that Marilyn Monroe, right? What about her? Knew about the aliens. And that's why they killed her? That's why the CIA killed her. I thought it was because she was hanging out with JFK. Yeah, and when they were hanging out, what do you think they were doing? Talking about aliens.

And that's why they marked her. KFC double-talk. JFK. Yeah, and when they were hanging out, what do you think they were doing? Talking about aliens. And that's why they marked her. KFC double-dunk. What's up? Rice, wheat, and corn. Is that the number one though? Is rice number one? I think what I would like to be the aliens.

Okay, let's think about it. Well, the thing I would do first if an alien came up to you and said, I'm hungry. What would I do? Yeah, in what language? They would just telepathically Gleep glop. You'd be like, here's a Reese's peanut butter cup. No, they would probably

communicate in those circles like in that movie. The Heptapods, yeah. Yeah, what movie is that? Arrival. In Arrival. They would probably speak to me in circles, but I would see the circles In my brain Because they have Telepathy No Amy Adams

Had to learn What the circles meant Yeah no But they would just They would just put the circles In my head And then I would know That meant like

I'm hungry And then what would I feed them So we've established That the aliens Can draw circles in your head Signifying they're hungry That's an incredible start to this. But then you now, Nicole, have the task of feeding them.

Yes, I do. I do. I don't know. I mean, I think what I would do. Have you ever seen those videos of in Korea? They sit a baby down. And they have like a bunch of different options. So like they put like a tennis racket and the baby will be super athletic.

They put a stack of books. The baby will be super studious. I would do that with different foods and I'd be like the food group. So I'd have like, I don't know, like cheese and milk on one section, a big bowl of grapes and strawberries and another. And then I would have steamed vegetables and then I would have rice and like barley or whatever. And then I would have steamed vegetables and then I would have rice and like

barley or whatever. And then I would have meat. Very scary if they choose meat. The meat's just a test on whether they're friend or foe. And then the meat and then what's the other one? Fats. I would just have like olive oil and a tub of lard. And then they would just sit there just sit there back okay take a seat and then they would pick whichever one they gravitate towards that's the only way i could see it happening in real life i give glute glop like a camel crush you know be like this is how we rock in this is how we rock in california bro you want to go to vans warp tour um if an alien came up to me and said bleep bloop and i understood that to mean a hunger i feel like i would want to make that alien my best friend you know what i'm saying yeah

men in america are lonelier than ever yeah this is happening and and i don't know what necessarily culturally is happening to make you know i think it's part of its economic anxiety i think it's a lot of technology a lot of technology and we're more isolated than ever more convenience dating apps i mean it's you know we're kind of like hyper sexualized and completely desexualized and we don't know how to form platonic friendships anymore but in comes this alien into my life nicole and suddenly i'm like well we can hang out we can go bowling you going to go bowling with the alien? Yeah.

Will you feed it food from the bowling alley? Well, that's what I'm saying. Because in this scenario, the first food I'm going to feed it is, it's going to be chicken tenders with honey messy. See, KFC doubles out. They want chicken. I think they want chicken. KFC?

No, no, no. I think there's a reason for this. KFC? I think there's a reason for this. What? Fried chicken is one of the most universal foods on the planet. Totally. Every culture out there makes fried chicken.

We did a whole podcast episode about the best fried chicken from around the world. I think we can kill three birds with one stone. One, I get to show this alien how super sick I am at bowling. Right? Two. Are you good at bowling? We're best friends. Now I'll have to get good at bowling before we go do that.

You know what I mean? Uh-huh. But then two, you know, he, and it's before we go do that but then two you know he and it's gonna be a dude because like you know like dudes rock and i'd find it if like dudes rock if like a if like a female alien came up to me you heard it here first yeah dudes rock if it was a female alien i'd be like whoa i'm engaged you know and then i'd feel like do you have a male friend that i can hang out with we'd go bowling um we We'd eat chicken. I could get to show him one of the world's greatest foods and some honey mussy

over at Bolero in West LA. That's where you take an alien bowling? That's where I took my brother bowling. Yeah, Sal can come hang out with the alien too. We'll chill, dude. We'll all create a little men's group. I just think it's so interesting that we assume that the alien

would eat the same things we eat, though. Like, matter. Like, the same matter. Sure, sure, sure. Like, what if the alien wants to jump down on a rock? What if the alien just wants to go to the side of the Pyramid of Giza? Like, who am I to stop the alien? No, that's a fair point.

Like, so say we're at Bolero and I'm eating chicken tendies with honey mussy. And, you know, we're sucking down like a, I don't know, like a, that's a fair point. Like, so say we're at Bolero and I mean, chicken tendies with honey mussy. And you know, we're, we're sucking down like a, uh, I don't know, like a, what's that one beer that I like?

Uh, I'm stuck. You link, you link, you link. No, no, but we can't get anything in California.

Uh, the, the Einstein, the Icelandic white ale. Oh yeah. Okay. And like, he just eats the bottle or like,

he's eating the pin. We're going to get kicked out. We're going to get kicked out. Alien is in there. If, if he's not bothering anybody, you're fine in Bol bolero you can chill at the bolero with an alien why do we assume that the alien would eat the same matter as us like we can't just do that yeah yeah what planet do you think this alien is visiting us from do you think it has water or do you think it's a

gaseous planet do you think it's a rock planet yeah probably a little bit probably a little bit both from what i know about planets nicole is that a little bit both just like a little little skosh beach you know no i if no hold on if i were to make an educated guess i'd say i'd say a red dwarf a red dwarf planet is what i bet the aliens are coming from a little bit of it. You're talking gas versus rocks and water. I'd say like a skosh. Hey, Josh.

I don't know if you know this or not, but this is my favorite podcast we've ever done. This is like the best podcast we've ever done. It's the best podcast ever. We've talked about it so much. Yeah, I think about it a lot. In a lot of movies, aliens are portrayed as roughly the same size as us. Yeah, I don't think that's true. That can't be true, right?

Do you think they're bigger or littler? Littler. They're going to be so small, which is going to be such a problem when we go bowling. How am I supposed to tell him? I think they're going to tower over us. I think they're going to be like...

Why? Why? I think they're going to be as tall as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Like, that's the shortest alien. The shortest alien is Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. What's the tallest alien? Manute Ball?

Statue of Liberty? George Mirison? Statue of Liberty? You know, I don't, you're saying there's that big of a range. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

is a seven foot, one seven foot two inch man. Yeah. Up to the Statue of Liberty which Maggie Hatt calls the Statue of Liberty. This is very important to me right now.

Height, Statue of Liberty up to, yes, 305 feet. So you're saying from, humans have a variation from, you know, let's say like, you know, four feet tall a variation from you know let's say like you know four feet tall no when they're born no no when they're born how small are humans they're like you're saying oh you're saying a an infant i'm sorry an infant of the species yes they start out at seven feet to kareem duljabar up and then they get up to 300 feet yeah Yeah. That makes sense.

I think though, check this out though, as technology advances, we used to think when we were kids, do you remember going over to like a friend's house and they had like a huge TV

and you're like, oh my God, 20 years in the future, TVs are going to be like movie theaters in everybody's house. And then what are the screens that everybody watches stuff on now?

Little. Little. In my palm. So tiny. Like this. They're so small. Exactly. Show the people how small that screen is. Have you seen one of those before? This used to be called a television, and it was huge. And we thought that's the direction it was going.

What I'm saying is, as technology advances, we get smaller and smaller. You know what I mean? I'm crying. Soon, iPhones will be the size of a postage stamp. They got closest to the iPad mini. iPad mini. iPad mini. Yeah.

You know what I mean? So I think the aliens are going to be. Oh my God. They're going to be Lilliputian in stature. I know what the aliens are going to eat. What's that? All of the. All of the waste.

All of the tech waste. That we've been making. Oh. I think they're going to. I think that the aliens are going to come, they're going to eat all of our trash, and then the world

will be solved with global warming. Yay! And then the Christians all go to Jerusalem and get raptured up, and then the Jews stay. That's what I think

is going to happen. When you said you know what the aliens are going to eat, and you start saying olive, I thought you were going to say olive garden I was like oh yeah Unlimited soup salad and breadsticks That's a good option for the aliens They're going to eat all of our tech waste

You see these really sad videos Of like the Ganges River And there's like trash in it and stuff I think the aliens are going to come and just go But you think there's something Unique about Trash that they want and stuff. I think the aliens are going to come and just go. But you think there's something unique about trash that they want. How do they know it's

trash? It's not trash. Oh, they're coming here to help. Yeah, let me tell you. They know we're in trouble. One man's trash? Is that an alien? Sure, sure. I get that philosophically, but I'm wondering why they prefer to eat that and not the fresh materials. It's because they understand that the humans no longer need it.

Yeah, so these are like friendly god aliens that we are invoking on. Yeah, I told you. Prometheus aliens that are scared of water, like the aliens from Signs, that speak to us in circles telepathically like an arrival. Keep up! I watched a movie once where they made friends with an alien and they drank a bunch of beer with it and they had a fun time. It was a Mark Paul Goslar and it was called Beer Money.

Maggie, can you Google that movie real quick? Because then there's another alien. Do you not think it's a real movie? No, honestly, I might have hallucinated it. Yeah, you got to do Beer Money movie and then a Mark Paul Goslar. That's right. That's Mark Paul Goslar. There it is. Wow. it is yeah 2001 fantastic movie they find an alien it's kind of a spoof on et but they drink beer with alien

and they like smoke pot and party i've never seen it did you know that et likes reese's pieces um that was paid ad placement from the hershey's corporation right really of course dude anytime you see any of that stuff, that's just paid. That's product placement. That's paid. But I don't know. Something about Reese's Pieces

sounds like that was just a creative choice. No. They were definitely trying to market Reese's Pieces at the time, and then they paid to put that in the movie. Did they ever take Reese's Pieces up to space? That's a good question. That's a thing I don't know.

Well, what do we know about space food? We did an episode about it. We freeze dried our own space bacon once. Yeah, we did. We made space bacon. Oh my God, dehydrated ice cream. We didn't make that, but they used to sell it. Astronaut ice cream.

I remember that. It tastes pretty bad. It tastes like stale cotton candy. I loved it. But it was, yeah, I went to the, can I tell you another thing? Of course. I hate space. Like you don't want to go to space ever? No, no, no. All the kids were like, I want to be an astronaut. can I tell you another thing? Of course. I hate space. Like you don't want to go to space ever?

No, no, no. All the kids were like, I want to be an astronaut. And I was like, why? What are you going to find up there? Yourself? Certainly not. Anything different than down here? No.

You know what I mean? And I don't like learning about space. Um, and, and I think we should, I think NASA was generally a mistake. Do I know anything about it? No, absolutely not. But I think,. But I don't think we should be funding any sort of space exploration.

I'm sorry. I love space. I would like to learn more about space. You can come to Bolero and hang out with me and bleep bloop. I don't want to harsh your vibe on that. Normally it's

mostly dudes. What have we learned today? We plan to talk more about food though, right? We planned when we were going to talk about this episode, we planned to talk more about food than we actually did. I want you all to know that. We didn't intend for it to end up like this. But then we just sat down and the synergy happened

and sometimes you just got to let it happen. I'm sorry. Sometimes you just got to let this stuff flow freely. Why do we think that we wouldn't eat these aliens? Octopi are like smarter than humans, right? But I'm saying we eat them.

So you think we would eat the foreign, the aliens? I'm saying that cannibalism somewhat recently is a very disgusting thing to humans. Some cultures still do it. Many cultures did it in the past. So that's off the table. But we'll eat any other creature, right?

Just about. Just about. Yeah, we've illegalized dog trade because people, you know, have soft spots to them. But the aliens come in. I mean, why are we not viewing them as a potential food source?

It depends how many they are and how plentiful they are and how we can cultivate them to grow en masse. Yeah, we don't know how they'll grow en masse. Yeah, we don't know how they'll cook up either. Yeah, we don't know how they're going to taste.

Yeah. That's a good point. Okay, we don't have to eat the aliens. How about this? How about the aliens come here, they eat us, and we're free? God bless America.

Home of the whopper. Home that I love. Beside her. Beside her. And guide her. To the light that I shine on above. All right, Nicole. all right nicole we've heard what you and i have to say all of it now it's time to find out what other whack it is rattling out there in the universe with all our alien fans it's time for a segment we call opinions are like casseroles

or how the aliens would say it are like casseroles. Or how the aliens would say it. That's what they would say. Thank you so much. I almost threw up just by doing that before we get to your opinions.

We're going to review a review here. This is where we read a review on Apple Podcasts, which you should absolutely go ahead and fill one out. Please give us five stars or one star, whatever you feel we deserve. No, five stars, please.

And this is from mixed underscore kid six. Good show. And yes, children listen to the show. Signed, Child. Thank you, Child. This was in response, I believe, Nicole, to us saying dirty, naughty things. Shame. And you asked if children listen to in response, I believe, Nicole, to us saying dirty, naughty things. Shame.

And you asked if children listen to the show, and I said no. But here we have a child. Obviously, you can't fake. I said no. Are you sure I said no? No, I said no. I didn't think a child listened to the show. I didn't think they'd be interested in, like, the etymology of ravioli.

But here we are. Good on you, kid. Pretty good review. I'd give this review a four star. You're reviewing the review. Oh, ravioli, but here we are. Good on you, kid. Pretty good review. I'd give this review a four star. You're reviewing the review? Oh yeah, review, review. Okay.

Yeah, yeah. I give it five stars. Is it because they're a child? You're sort of like... Both. I feel like it wasn't descriptive enough. I want to know

what kind of child they are. Are they a big child? A small child? It says mixed underscore kid six. So they're probably six and they're mixed. Yeah, that makes sense. And they're...

But then they side child. Well, yeah, four stars. I'm sticking with the rating. Let's get to our first opinion. Hi, Nicole and Joss. This is Jake out of Ames, Iowa. Love the show. That's where Iowa State is.

My wife and I were frying up chicken and latkes the other night. Fun. And then I realized, shoot, I don't have any sauce to put on my latkes. Oh, what's the good news? And then realized, shoot, I don't have any sauce to put on my latke. And then I remembered we have this little part of our fridge where we keep all of our sauce

packets from various restaurants. And I put some Taco Bell fire sauce on the latke and it was the bomb. And I imagine that there are a lot of other sauce packets like that, that would be phenomenal latke toppings. And my opinion is you should save those little packets of sauce and then use them for things like latkes. And they're gold. Incredible opinion. I agree. First thing off the bat, this person does not have a single sauce in their fridge that is not in a leftover sauce packet?

I don't know. I have at least 15 sauces in my fridge at any given moment. Me too. But that said, leftover sauces from restaurants, which one of those do you think goes best on a latke? I would do a hoisin and sriracha mix. Dude. Yeah.

A little pho action? Yeah, yeah. Pho latke. Pho latke-o. Sorry, children. I was thinking of all the sauces at restaurants To put on a latke And I ran through them all The way your life would flash

Before your eyes Wow like a Rolodex Like a Rolodex Wow And I didn't find one That would be bad on a latke Huh Which I think speaks

Maybe more to the versatility Of latkes Than anything else But standouts In that McDonald's honey mussy Oh sure They make a good honey mussy.

Yeah. Duck sauce, you know, like the kind of orangey goo from a Chinese restaurant. That'd be fantastic. Hot mustard would be great on there.

I like hot mustard, yeah. Ranch, obviously. Ranch and fried potatoes. Barbecue sauce. But you can't keep ranch in the sauce packet drawer. Hmm? You can't keep ranch

in the sauce packet drawer. Well, he said it was in the fridge, which is... Oh, he keeps... Okay, never mind. I'm sorry. I wasn't listening. But also, no, you can put ranch in a drawer. They don't refrigerate was in the fridge, which is... Oh, he keeps... Okay, never mind. I'm sorry. I wasn't listening. But also, no,

you can put ranch in a drawer. They don't refrigerate it at the restaurants. It's just vacuum sealed. Are you sure? I've gotten really warm ranch. I mean, ranch on a... You go to a grocery store,

the ranch isn't refrigerated if it's unopened. That's the grocery store, though. I know, but I'm saying, you know, fast food... Maybe you're right. Maybe you're right. No, you're right.

I'm dipping it in the ranch. That's all there is to it. I had one thing to say. Ames, Iowa is home to one of my favorite YouTube slash music artists. Her name is Leslie Hall. And I love her. And I love people from Ames, Iowa. Go Cyclones.

I just had to say that. Hi. My opinion is that I would rather know my food knows where it comes from. I'd rather know where the animal came from, what the animal's name is. I'd rather know where the animal I eat is coming

from than be completely removed from that animal. I'm a farmer, and that's my opinion. Shout out, farmers. Do you want to take this one? Because I have to think on mine a little bit. Nicholas, think about this. No, I think this is incredibly important.

And honestly, I wish it was something that I practiced more than I currently preach because I am preaching about it often. But we often cook with a lot of animal viscera, right? With the offal, we cook with the head. We cook with the tongue. All this. And anytime we show specifically an animal head, I understand that it can be a somewhat jarring image for people to see. We'll get a lot of people being like, you monster. How could you possibly show that? And it's like

every chicken nugget that you've ever eaten. Had a face. It had a face, right? Every steak, every hamburger, all this stuff. Until I was 10 years old, I didn't know that ground beef came from a cow. I thought ground beef grew from the ground because nobody told me that. And we're so far removed from our food system. To me, that was just something that was bought in a package at the grocery store. And now I had no idea to know. I once met a girl in

college who did not know that chicken, the meat was connected to chicken, the animal. I swear to God. She was in one of the top research institutions in the entire nation. And we get chicken thigh, and she goes, what are these hard things? I'm like, they're bones. She's like, what do you mean? Chicken doesn't have bone in it. And so I think we are very, very far removed. And I think it's incredibly important. Eat less meat, eat higher quality meat. And I know that's a very privileged thing to say because high quality meat costs so much freaking money. And it's so easy to get a giant tube of ground beef from a grocery store. But there's going to have to be a reckoning with factory farming in the somewhat near future.

And I hope we can get back to more local sustainable. The one thing that I thought of is knowing the animal's name and I think personifying it is something that I have a little bit of an issue with because number one, every time I see Vital Farms eggs and I see the name of the chicken, I do feel a little bit bad that I'm taking this chicken's eggs. But at the same time... Those eggs are discharged, right? What do you mean? They're discharged? I don't know what that means.

Like those eggs aren't going to have... Wait, hold on. I don't know. I don't know. Not all eggs are like fertilized that chickens lay. This is like a very basic thing that now I'm questioning myself on. Oh, I don't know.

I don't know. You're not stealing the babies. You're effectively stealing the menses. Oh, I'm stealing the periods? You're stealing the the menses. Oh, I'm stealing the periods? You're stealing the chicken periods. Which, like, I think should be fair game. Okay, whatever. Okay, whatever.

I don't know. But long story short, I feel bad whenever I say, Hi, this is Dolly. Dolly is a chicken on our farm, and she helped give you some of these eggs. And I'm like, thank you, Dolly, I think. Well, you should be grateful, and you should feel bad. Yeah, I'm grateful, and I feel bad. My I think. Well, you should be grateful. You should feel bad. Yeah, I'm grateful and I feel bad. My family had a chicken in Iran named Pofak.

And there's pictures of Pofak in our family albums. And then I asked my mom, what did you guys do with Pofak? She's like, ate him. Yeah, what else did you do to the chicken? And I'm like, didn't that suck? She's like, kind of. Gotta do what you gotta do. And I guess,

it's just different. Like, I guess factory farming, factory raising animals wasn't that prevalent back then. Yeah, I also think that people would feel differently about eating cheap produce if you had a card that said,

hey, here's my name. I'm Mike. I'm the farmer that picked this and I get paid like $4 a day because we've somehow made modern-day slavery legal within the agriculture industry. Yeah, look up the Imokalee Farm Workers Union, I believe they're called. It kind of blew the lid off how much tomato farmers are actually getting paid.

And it's a bummer. Yeah, food system's pretty messed up. And if you think about it for too long, you get real sad about it. And we're all trying our best out here. Hopefully it'll get better. Hopefully we can enact some change sooner rather than later i'd name an animal like bozo you're eating bozo the goat you know i've never had an edible animal like an animal that you would eat uh no i've had like pet but you never had any pigs and i've eaten a guinea pig they're commonly eaten in peru and ecu's called Cui, and it's delightful.

And I also love guinea pigs, and I don't see anything wrong with eating something that I love. Next! Hey, Josh and Nicole. Another Josh here. I just had this amazing realization outside of Seattle on vacation. If you eat Ghirardelli sea salt caramel chocolate after eating Flaming Hot Cheetos,

it gives off major peppermint vibes. Oh. Sick. Chili mint? That's interesting. That sounds great. I love both of those things separately. Never thought to eat them back to back like that.

Yeah, but here's the thing, Nicole. What's up? They're lying. What. They're lying. What? They're lying. Have you done this before? No, I haven't done this before. So how do you know if they're lying or not?

The chemical compounds are so much different. You're talking about like capsaicin heat from chili powder. You can't just call someone a liar like that. Versus like a mentholated sensation from peppermint. I think this man is lying for clout. Nicole, he is coming on here and he is lying to us. Josh, I get our podcast is popular, but it's not that popular

if people are clout chasing on it. No, I don't think that's true at all. Maybe it does feel that way for him. Give him a chance. I would like to try it and I believe you and you deserve to be heard. Also, that just sounds like a fun day.

Vacation, Seattle, little treat, a little chocolate, sea salt caramel, flame nut Cheetos. Is Seattle known as the Windy City? Real question. No.

Seattle is known as the Emerald City. Oh, what's the Windy City? Chicago. Oops. Never mind. All right. I was thinking maybe he was in Seattle and his mouth was open and the wind was helping with the, you know.

Well, a crazy thing that I found out though. No, no, no. No, no, no. It's not stupid because I found out though that other cities sometimes also have wind. Like, no, no, no. Think about this, Nicole. Have you ever like been outside in Los Angeles and it's, you feel something almost sort of like, like blowing out, like it's just kind of where your hair is moving back and you're

like, you're like, is that God, you know, like shouting and his breath is in his, no, but it's, it's called something but it's called something like wind. So other cities can also have it. So that could be a possibility in Seattle. Hey, Josh and Nicole, this is Jacob from your neighbors to the east in the Empire. Hey, Riverside 951, baby! I just wrapped up the Girl Scout Cookies episode and Josh said

that he wanted to talk about cults, so I'm going to try and give that opportunity to him. As we all know, cults have a distinct attachment to food, whether it be restrictive diets like Om Shinrikyo, the Rajneeshis, poisoning salad bars, and of course we all know not to drink

the Kool-Aid or Flavor-Aid. Now, my question to you is what cult has the best diet? Which one would you not mind being part of just based on the food? Thank you. The Source Family. Actually, from my knowledge, the Source

Family was one of those very new-age hippie-ish cults around the Los Angeles area, kind of like part of that Topanga Canyon or that Laurel Canyon, you know, music movement, a lot of psychedelics and all that. But they opened up actually a vegan restaurant

and it might still be there, but they owned and operated a restaurant for a very long time. Cool. And as far as I know, I don't think they were one of like the murdery cults. I think they were one of the fun

singing drum circle cults, but also still very culty. That'd be my first one. The second one may be controversial to call it a cult, but it's called Landmark Forum. Why do you know so much about cults? I love cults. I just, people's capacity to believe has never stopped astounding me.

And I guess as somebody who like grew up around a lot of people with very strong religious beliefs, mostly evangelicals and Mormons, but also knowing that my family was Jewish, but also my mom was kind of into some weird culty stuff. I've always just been fascinated because to me, religion, no, sorry, cult plus time equals religion. So there's not a lot of delineation in my mind. And so, yeah, Landmark Forum, though, is a very Tony Robbins-y self-help thing. They have a lot of trappings of cults

and Panda Express is actually like kind of formally associated with them no way again it's a very this should be a podcast

there's been a lot of problematic stuff about Landmark but it is a kind of very self-helpy thing but again people thought that's what NXIVM was right NXIVM was just a kind of

self-helpy thing yeah on Wikipedia it says companies such as Panda Express and previously Lululemon have paid for and encouraged employees to take part in the Landmark Forum. Yeah, and then there's stories about like a

Panda Express manager going to a Landmark Forum class and they're like stripped naked and berated in front of a bunch of people. So like very problematic. But that said, I mean if I was part of Landmark Forum, I feel like I could get free Panda Express for life and I do love me some orange chicken, baby. I don't really have an answer, I feel like I could get a free pen to express for life, and I do love me some orange chicken, baby. I don't really have an answer.

I did just watch How to Become a Cult Leader on Netflix, which is narrated by Peter Dinklage, and he does a great job. He did How to Be a Dictator or something like that. Oh, How to Be a Tyrant. How to Be a Tyrant, whatever it was called, and he did How to Be a Cult Leader, and I found a cult called the Buddhafield cult, which was started by a known man named Andreas or Jaime Gomez. And he made them, they were like eating like very fresh. Oh, they were.

Yeah, they like were like super, they're like super hot. And they could, no dairy, no sugar. Gluten-free, organic. Gluten-free, organic. And I'm like air one so Buddhafield but I wouldn't want to

I don't think I could everyone thinks that they wouldn't join a cult until you join a cult you know what I mean everyone thinks that they're not the type

that could ever join a cult well that's the kind of people that they want that's the kind of people that they want they want non-believers and then because they know the non-believers

once they break them they are true believers yeah man I could I could start a cult yeah you could alright Non-believers. And then because they know the non-believers, once they break them, they are true believers. Yeah, man. I couldn't start a cult. Yeah, you could. Right? Of course you could. You should.

Well, on that note. Maybe you already do. You think we have already started a cult in Mythical Kitchen? We don't have a strong enough belief system. We don't have enough internal language. If we, say, had garments that we printed catchphrases on, that'd be one thing. But we don't. Yeah like internal language like if we say had like garments that we like printed catchphrases on that'd be one thing but we don't yeah yeah yeah yeah don't talk to me until i've had my hot dog water anyways thank you so much for that my hot dog is the standards we got new episodes out every wednesday on the audio only version uh and then what sundays we got videos

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