Doughboys - Big Chicken with Dan Black

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Starting point is 00:02:08 the larger than life in every way, Shaquille O'Neal. The massive and mostly mononymous Shaq had a career on the hardwood as impactful as Friedkins on the silver screen, with four NBA championships and a legacy as an all-time great big man. And his early acting role in Blue Chips, opposite then-people magazines Sexiest Man Alive Nick Nolte, helped make Shaq into the prototypical modern athlete, with a business and media empire in parallel with his playing career. Shaq starred in other films like Kazayam and Steel, charted rap singles like What's Up Doc and I Know I Got Skills, and landed lucrative endorsement deals with Reebok and Pepsi. And in the decade plus since his retirement in 2011,

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Starting point is 00:03:32 Big Chicken Shaq spelled S-H-A-Q. As of 2023, his franchise has nearly 20 locations with a dozen more planned. So can the Big Aristotle's burgeoning bird broker become a blue chip fast food stock? Or will time prove it another embarrassing curiosity, like his clunky and derivative Sega Genesis fighting game, Shaq Foo? This week on Doe Boys, Big Chicken. So is the Dono House! Welcome to Dono Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger along with Mike Hohost.

Starting point is 00:04:17 The King of Thousand Island, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. That's sort of statin' island? Yeah, that's why I emphasize the thousand, the king of thousand island. It was weird that you, it's weird that you emphasize that though. If you don't mind me saying, we can, as opposed to the king of statin island.

Starting point is 00:04:34 It's like, king of thousand island, oh, I guess no, I guess. Because if I just say the king of thousand island, you're like, what is that a reference to? But I think if I had the king of thousand islands, I suppose the king of statin island, I think you need a little bit of juice there, but then again, you're the actor.

Starting point is 00:04:45 So I'll take the note. Still on strike, bad news today on the strike, I mean, this will be dated. Well, this will be dated. But it was bad news. It was bad news. We'll see. You never, you're just the guy who can do your intros.

Starting point is 00:04:59 Maybe I want to say some shit. Say whatever you want. I'm just saying that we recognize that we are courting three weeks in advance of when this episode releases. So facts on the ground. Well, guess what? In this timestamp, there was bad news today.

Starting point is 00:05:11 Potentially bad news. Yeah, it was, but also it's like you'd always, yeah, it's the way it goes. Always have to be, yeah, that just just wary of what the narratives are and where they're coming from and who wants what messaging to get across. Land of a thousand dances.

Starting point is 00:05:23 You know, that's all. Yeah. That's a, dances. You know that song? Yeah. That's a na na na na na na. Well, they get to that part, but I like the part before that. Hot stepper? Uh, yes. I mean, it is also the hot stepper. It comes the hot stepper.

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Starting point is 00:06:10 Ba-ba-ba. Something loosey right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's not juicy loosey. I wish. Juicy loosey. Ba-ba-ba. The fact that you and I in the corner

Starting point is 00:06:19 are just fucking shoving a juicy loose in our face. No boys, burger, eating segment. Hey, I know. You didn't get a juicy loosen our face. No boys, burger, eatin' segment. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey also bad. I'll go, John Sucks. Okay. Hi, Nick. A salad dressing based roast today. Hope it's not as bad as my other ones. Lots of love. Mark from New Zealand. How about that? Hey, how you doing down there? Hello, down under roastspoonmanageemail.com. Someone told me Tony were almost at it like a good way of big pick is like it's like if you say big pick. If you say like big pick, it's like how you know how to say big pick

Starting point is 00:07:06 It's like a New Zealand or versus Australia and I forget. Oh, I'll text her during this Also wags. It was nice to hear welcome instead of hell come. That's right. We're on the other side of shock Dobu or dead 2023 A month of frights and bites how your vibes in November post spooky season? Uh, I'm a little shook up. That's good. I was scared. It was a scary month. Hey, speaking of shaking things up, uh, MR Brink back in town are producer and, uh, she's here to stay, I believe you'll be in my way for the time being, which is wonderful.

Starting point is 00:07:42 I just don't. I'm not going to find one year year lease so I'm really sad. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you.

Starting point is 00:07:52 I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you.

Starting point is 00:08:00 I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. I'm not gonna lie to you. human beings. So at least progressive thing I've ever done. This you wait. As the podcast goes on, we'll say something less progressive. But Emma got us some housewarming gifts for the studio for the other side of spooky season.

Starting point is 00:08:20 And we're going to open these up. Mitch, you're supposed to open yours first, I believe. I am. I also got a gift here from Anya. And Wax, I gotta tell you. Which we got Anya gifts too? No, I'm just gonna make, it's my birthday. Anya is my birthday gift, yeah.

Starting point is 00:08:31 Here we go. That's a mess in the of the tablo. Is that on camera? All right, I'll put it in every minute. No, it's fine. It's just in my eye line, there's a gift, and I was like, oh, that's the gift, and you're like, it's a different unrelated gift.

Starting point is 00:08:41 I'm just using. This is a nice little box. Yeah. Mine's not wrapped nearly as nicely as on you, sorry. Oh, you're nothing you've apologize for. It's wrapped a little bit like a mummy. Yeah, yeah. I mentioned you start wrapped nice at all.

Starting point is 00:08:52 I was like, which is unfurling this mummy of plastic wrapping around whatever this is. Oh my God, this is so cute. Isn't it so cute? Oh my God, it's a little, it's a little wey in there too. It's a little,

Starting point is 00:09:07 a couple of tuxedo cat figurines. These are gorgeous. I'm saying that I have to put the pictures of actual walley and Irma, so they should match their mark. Oh my god, wow. This is beautiful as it's so good. Wow, this is so good.

Starting point is 00:09:17 So I know you want to take them home, but they're for the studio. I do want to take them home. Yeah, we've got a make room. This is coming, I'm getting. Make room next to sting behind Dan I'm not here bro. I'm trying to act like sting right now I'm hoping the fucking rafters

Starting point is 00:09:34 We told Dan our rule of guest stay silent for three to five minutes as we talk which is always longer We never really adhere to that rule and it it's just awkward for the guests. I feel like you never really. Well, I say, if you say three, like, you use, we will sometimes say like two minutes or five minutes. And if you say that, I'll sometimes say like it's more like 10 minutes, because that's more accurate. And sometimes it's like 20 minutes. It's too long. It's too long. It's too long. It's too long. It's just a waste of my talents. There was a couple of times here. I could have made this a lot funnier. I had to hang back.

Starting point is 00:10:05 We were the ballroom for the audience. We got to have room to grow. We start with a baseline. Sure. And we take it from there. You are right that they are, while you know, my very sting like, like you're saying. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:10:17 The black and white coloration and just kind of also the generally mysterious vibes. I love that. I'm going to have to do the surf version. All right. All right. Dude, did you want me to do that? Yeah, sure. We're over.

Starting point is 00:10:28 All right. Dan is placing him on the shelf above his head. Maybe he should be a shelf up or something. Sure. You do whatever. He's moving around. Okay. All right.

Starting point is 00:10:37 Oh, that's cute. And then here's, while we can go on the other side of the candle, maybe on the top. That's right. And we also have these dough boys candles which we got at our live show at the Blasco theater. The Blasco was kind enough

Starting point is 00:10:45 to provide those. So that's another part of the... Well, let's be up for every episode. Volinerma? Of every podcast? No, for all of our episodes. Oh, we like put it down in a box, and something like that.

Starting point is 00:10:55 When we first started doing video episodes, head gum was like, do you guys wanna decorate the shelves and we never really did anything for it? And so now I'm trying to add some stuff. That's, I love it. Yeah. I love those so much, so I'm afraid to come in and Marty's like I threw them away What are the hunks?

Starting point is 00:11:13 I'm like could you decorate You're doing the bare minimum here with the decorations We actually we truly added nothing our wait those DVDs aren't for us, right? Those are. Well, those are Ben here forever. Those aren't really us. Those are VHS. These will come up for just us. And Wagger, you don't have a pet. So I went for the next best thing.

Starting point is 00:11:30 Okay, here we go. Wow, I got some buffed men. Oh my god. Oh my god. These are great. They come out of a radioactive waste tub, which is a nice bit of show. And then you pull the tub away.

Starting point is 00:11:42 And yeah, we see their muscle-ephysics. Great, very disturbing. Yeah, super disturbing. Really upsetting, but really cool. I'm trying to think of where, I'm trying to think of what you love as much as men's clothing. I like what you mean, it's pretty cool.

Starting point is 00:11:54 That's what men's felt close. These are great, these are gonna live up here next to the sci-fi library. Yeah, there you go, that's pretty cool. I've always thought the men's can put on some size. Yeah, that's it. Yeah. That's it. Yeah, that's it. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:12:07 Yeah, they're puny. They need to they need to bulk up. Is this giving you a little flashback to last month? Ooh. Mitch has a plastic wrap around him like a really half-assed mummy. That's a mummy, you think. Yeah. It's reminding me of Amelia's toilet paper Sasha, her piss party.

Starting point is 00:12:20 It is. I'm going to take it off. Oh, thank you. That's very, very nice of you. Thank you. Amelia had a, our associate producer. One of these titles mean, what do I, what do you mean? Nothing, don't worry about it.

Starting point is 00:12:35 Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it. Amelia, one of the great people who works for us. Yes. How to piss themed birthday party. That's right. The theme was pissed. The video was pissed. And then how far did somebody take it someone had up the you know she was drinking a jug of of

Starting point is 00:12:51 Water or a jug of piss that was food like yellow food coloring in water. Yeah, wow and then she made a urinal cake Cake that's the most urinal cake. That's the most, I mean, that's disgusting. It's true. It's true. I don't know what I'm saying. It's true. I don't know how I'm saying it. No, you nailed it.

Starting point is 00:13:11 Sounds awful. You nailed it. Like, I was there and I was like, ugh. I mean, first of all, the invite was like a big bag of piss. Yeah. That was just real piss, I guess. Really? And then you got there and you're like, ugh.

Starting point is 00:13:23 Well, let's be clear. The invite, it was an image of a big bag of piss. Oh, we got a million. It wasn't sending out big bags of piss from being a cent of people. Right. It was an image of a bag of piss. It kind of sounded like that's what you were saying. No, it was not, it was just an image of a big bag.

Starting point is 00:13:37 Disgusting JPEG that people think. It was a piss NFT. It was a big one. It was an NFT. Yeah. Don't you own some NFTs? I have a few NBA top shots. Smart and best.

Starting point is 00:13:49 Oh. Are they still, do they even still sell them anymore? You can still buy them, yeah. I don't know what they're going for. Probably not a lot. I don't know how to guess. How do you, like, two kinds of, two kinds of, like, there are people who like,, or they gravitate towards the gross.

Starting point is 00:14:07 You don't wanna be like gross things? They're like, oh yeah, they're like fun. And they'll have like, you know, they wanna like talk about farting all the time, isn't that? And then there are people who like, just are repulsed by that. And the people who are repulsed by that, me included, have to put up with this sometimes.

Starting point is 00:14:21 Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Or if you're like a square. Yeah, no. No, it's like a square. Yeah, no. No, it's like you take a lovely, I like to take a lovely stroll. I'm like, oh, I'm going on a nice walk and then there's like, there's a big dog turn.

Starting point is 00:14:32 It's like, well, I got to deal with that now. I just got to look at this big turn in my field of vision. Oh, I'm disgusting. But, you know, you just go on. You're comparing someone who has a piss party to you walking by a pile of dogs. I'm just saying, that's what we're done with saying,

Starting point is 00:14:45 is I like things that are kind of a little bit like a giant constrictor. I don't want to see a big dog shit. A big dog shit. Even people who are think pissed and shit is funny, I don't think they're like, a big pile of dog shit. I disagree.

Starting point is 00:14:57 I think you can beat me up sales with love. I think you can beat her up. Whatever the fuck you do. I'm really a might be the only person who's like, ha ha ha. Yeah. It's funny that we talk about'm really a might be the only person who's like, ha ha ha. Yeah. It's funny enough, we talk about come quite a bit on the podcast. Actually, yes, we get into come quite often in the podcast.

Starting point is 00:15:11 And for people who talk about come, you and I are neither, I mean, like we joke about shit and come and piss. Yeah. But neither of us are a big, I'm with you that neither of us are like big. We're not like gross guys. We're not gross guys. We're not gross out humor. Yeah, not me either. I don't like that stuff. I'm like, I don't like shit. of us are like big. We're not like gross guys. We're not gross guys. We're not gross out humor.

Starting point is 00:15:25 Yeah, me either. I don't like that stuff. I'm like, I don't like shit. I don't like fart. Like I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I like I'm embarrassed by shits and farts and all that stuff. Like, yeah, I'm more than that cap. This is the word calm is always like so fucking gross to me.

Starting point is 00:15:38 It is gross. It's like it's my calm. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, wait, you've that made everyone cringe. Yeah. I mean, it's the whole energy in the room there. I, I also do think calm is kind of fun. Yeah. It is, it is funny. It's also point. You got made everyone cringe. I mean, it makes the whole energy of the room there. I also do think Kumbh is kind of fun. It is funny.

Starting point is 00:15:48 It's also like, if you say it like, here's my Kumbh. You know, like if you have that delivery, that sounds gross. But if you're just like, it's Kumbh, it's like a little bit more like. Yeah, and you say it more like, he's Kumbh. That's much better.

Starting point is 00:16:01 Here's my Kumbh. Burt-Burt. Ha, ha, ha. Ha, ha. I mean, she got a job. And now I'm a shit. That's much better. He is what come I mean she got a job and now I'm a shit All right, here we go. Here is me a little of calm Here is a little drop Emma hit him with a drop He's good that he's good that he's good that's the thing I think he's good that that's the thing I think know, I've seen this before. That's it? That's it? I kind of got a half quick.

Starting point is 00:16:49 Wasn't ready for that. I thought we were going to hit the chorus. This just says subject Gary Sinise. And then in the, what is, it's subject line and then our head, what is body? Body. And the body of the email just says, also says Gary Sinese. Yeah. And that says Jeremy Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.

Starting point is 00:17:08 Thanks Jeremy. Thanks Jeremy. It was good. It was it it sounded nice. Gary Sinese was good. And also remind me of some boys. Oh, fuck. Raise the flag red, white and blue.

Starting point is 00:17:22 Yeah, yeah, that kind of Vietnam short hands. Is it is it is it is it is it is it create is it create ends? Yeah. Is it credence clear out of revival? Don't need CC R song. I know it's Do it's You know the beauty

Starting point is 00:17:37 Yeah, and when you say Gary Citi's I immediately just feel like I'm walking here. That's all I think of a media. And when you say Gary Citi's I immediately just like I'm walking Oh, I think of a medium Lieutenant day at least I'm Dan LT. Well, D magic legs. LD. LD. LD. Hey, speaking of TD. LT. D. Speaking of dance I'm a friend LD. Dan Black are guests today. Oh, yeah, thanks for being here. Thanks for having me. I'm pumped This is so fun. What a what a treat. Thanks for thanks for. And we had a we had a meal together, which we'll talk about this. Like a more likeable than a lieutenant and a little baby.

Starting point is 00:18:09 We're supposed to get pressed. Can we pause for a sec? Oh, we're having technical difficult. Gary Sinesse. He's an east fucked it up. All right, welcome back to Doe Boys. We had a little technical snafu. And apparently we

Starting point is 00:18:25 did not get video of the first 14 minutes in change of the show. So we do want to recap one thing. Dan Black, our guest. Dan, thanks so much for being here. I'm so happy to be here. It's fucked up. It's you want to eat? We don't want to know what you want me to hear what I think it is. Yeah. Fucking big gump. You think it was Cineese? He's behind it. Fucking big gump. The Bubba Gumpine's? This is behind it. Fucking big gump. The bubblegum shrimp company is like we know this chain restaurant podcast is talking shit about Cine's. So we're going to put the clamp down.

Starting point is 00:18:51 We're going to attach the lens caps remotely. It's possible. Um, Mitch, I do want to show recap something on video, which we did in the first part, which was Emma, our producer has gifted us a couple of Wally and Emma figurines. They're here. They are up here. I don't know if you can see them from there, which will bring them down. Bring them down at Shumplus. They can bring down the cats. And here's a little Irma. So there's the Irma.

Starting point is 00:19:14 Very much. That were mentioned to Irma. I love these. There's Irma. And here is I said, I said that I love them. We have all that in there. And here's Wally. Look at these two. Emma, I love it. And then such a great gift. Here is the My Gift, which is the Magic Muscle Minions.

Starting point is 00:19:32 They start off in a Vat of Taksic Waste if I can wiggle them in here. Got like a specific way they're supposed to be configured. There we go. So we see these guys in here. It looks like we got Kevin, Stuart, and Bob, I'm just gonna guess. That might be Dave, but it's definitely like we got Kevin, Stewart, and Bob, I'm just going to guess.

Starting point is 00:19:47 That might be Dave, but it's definitely, we got, we got, we got a tall guy with two eyes that's probably Kevin, and then the, the short guy with one eye is usually Stewart. That would be Bob. I'm just going to say it's the canonical three lead minions. Okay. And then we pull this down and we see them. They are very, very muscle A. And they're having a blast too. They love, they love being jacked.

Starting point is 00:20:06 They're jacked up. Yeah, I love it. And the only thing you have to call out earlier. You're right, that's a great point. Yeah, we can see in Athens. You can see their minion assets. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Which is a common punchline in the films.

Starting point is 00:20:16 They do like to show their little butts. I would want to, that's what that dude, that's what that toxic dude does. Maybe I'd take a dip in there. You think so, you think you'd be, you'd get, like, I'm in that toxic, that first line. When I come. Maybe I'd take a dip in there. You think so? You think you'd be a, do you, how am I talking about toxic? I come out with like a minion.

Starting point is 00:20:28 And fucking minion below the waist. So the goo didn't have change there. Something science can't help. I mean, yeah, which, which ooze do you prescribe to? Like the Ninja Turtles ooze just makes you into a Jack version, right? Yeah, yeah, yeah. And super intelligent, which I think is helpful.

Starting point is 00:20:49 Well, Ninja Turtles, the whole lot of second, be Bob and Rock Steady Art, super intelligent. But they wouldn't have been able to speak. They have, it's like, they're a big and, and Rhino's kids speak. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:02 We're hogging Rhino kids. Yeah, they get normally speak English. Yeah, yeah. You're gonna put those back on the shelf? Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. We're hogging Rhino cans. Yeah, they get normally speaking English. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:11 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:19 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. splinter who is a man of culture who is a man who you know studies the Renaissance and is a like a like you know It can give them a proper education. I hate it issue, but um actually And the teenage mutant interturtles cartoon show uh-huh

Starting point is 00:21:35 Beboblin rocks that he are human Man yeah, I'm aware of that they're dumb human man who's yeah, that's like a different thing. Yeah, right But we're talking about the recent we're talking about the recent canon We get more, so that's like a different thing. Yeah, right. But we're talking about the recent canon. That's the point. We're talking about the newest backster is a scientist who gets morphed with a fly. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:21:50 In the cartoon canon, but we're talking about the newest car, the newest movie. That's what we're talking about, because you're talking about the warthogs and rhinos being turned into super intelligent. That's like, that's what happens in the newest movie. Yeah. Yeah. We splinters are rat fused with a dude? No, splinters always just a rat.

Starting point is 00:22:07 They accept in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles NES game and the ending, he says, now I can show you my true form and turns into a guy. Yeah, it's insane. Yeah. It's fucking insane. Wait, why does he now show them his true form? That doesn't make me sad.

Starting point is 00:22:21 It makes no sense and it's like a thing that just like the developers are just like, I don't know, maybe turns back into a guy at the end. And then you hear the ghastly cowapagga. Like, you know, I think like your Nintendo was like struggling to, right? If you ever watch, you should watch, watch a playthrough of Ghostbusters on Nintendo

Starting point is 00:22:37 because that's one I remember from a kid too. And it's like, Ghostbusters like in the beginning, just to have a word spoken on a video. Yeah, because I mean they had whatever. They had like 64K total to work with Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh. This guy worked on sopranos Roger, but it's sweet. Yeah, yeah, it's pretty sweet. Dan, let's talk a little bit while we're in the, we're on the East Coast. I'm like, yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:09 The digital GABA GOOL keeps missing, keeps going on. Yeah. You knew what I was trying to say. Yeah, I got it. I like, I got it. He's the most pronounced video game, I didn't know.

Starting point is 00:23:19 There's a surround video game. He's a pro's river. I have an additional design credit on it. Oh my gosh. Yeah, yeah. What happens in it, just a plot of the show? It's, yeah, it's as good as a show. No, it's a bad, it's really bad.

Starting point is 00:23:31 And it kind of had, I think I've talked about the plot. Is there a dream sequence parts of it or not? I don't know, they haven't been really that long. Oh man, there's Kevin Ferny section. I would love, I actually would love that game. You know like in Street Fighter when you have the bonus things where they're like, just beat up this car. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:23:47 You're like Paulie Walnuts in the Starbucks. Or? Yeah. The fuck it took a coffee. Yeah. I would love that. At least think. Dan, you are from Long Island and you are,

Starting point is 00:23:59 you were telling us at lunch are from a deli family. Yes. Your family had a deli. Yeah, my family, my mom's side, my grandfather married my grandmother. That's how that works. And her family had a deli called Nelson's deli. And great, great neck, long island in New York. And it's a kosher style deli, which is means, just basically means,

Starting point is 00:24:23 they'll put cheese on there. Yeah, sure. Yeah, they're not cheese on there. You don't sure. They're not supposed to, but they'll do it. So it's like Jewish, yeah, and it was kind of like, it was actually kind of like a well-known institution. Wow. This is the claim to fans of my family.

Starting point is 00:24:36 If you talk to them, they're like, well, I best try it, I ain't ain't there. Oh. That's good. That's good. And Andy Kaufman actually would kind of regularly eat there. Wow. That's why I would ride his bike there

Starting point is 00:24:48 when he was like, I'm on my island doing something. That's what they do school. But as a kid, I kind of grew up in there. My family like reaked of deli meats and yeah. Yeah, and then- That's funny, as in like in elementary school to be on like, Bob or Streisand eats there to the other kids. So like, who the fuck, who are you talking about?

Starting point is 00:25:08 Oh, but I mean, at this point in time, was it gone when you were a kid or no? Date, my, my family, like, date, can we curse at any of them? Of course. Okay, okay, okay, my family fucked it all. Yeah. We had a discussion about com.

Starting point is 00:25:23 Yeah, we were talking about com. Oh my God, yes, I forgot. Oh my God. We stopped down discussion about com. Yeah, we were talking about Tom. Oh my God, yeah, I saw it for God. Oh my God. We got to stop down and also that's it. We go back and say, Smiley, it's a fucking com. I was holding back on that. It was gonna be so good.

Starting point is 00:25:34 I am. It was, was there a time when Bob was right? So I was like, I'm done with this place. So was it, or was it? No. Yeah, I mean, I guess no. Who really knows? It's like, you know,

Starting point is 00:25:44 if families all have these like stories, there's no purpose to ever happen. No one thought to take a picture or anything, you know what I mean? Well, you're, when you named, when you named Telly places, you name, and I feel like New York people will make a font on me for this, but you didn't set it and I felt good because cats is my number one.

Starting point is 00:26:02 Yeah, I mean, it's a very, Come on, it's good. No, I think it's like at the top of, I think because it's a very, Come on, it's good. No, I think it's like at the top of, I think because it's at the top of a lot of lists, people are like, ah, that's the place is overrated, but I think it deserves it. I don't know, I'm wondering if you've never had lovely meals. It's great, it's touristy, it's very expensive,

Starting point is 00:26:16 but it is also still really good. I like it a lot. The deli game in LA used to be decent, we've really kind of fallen apart now. A lot of places have closed down. We're already even about canters at this point. I mean, I think that just some other ones have fallen off. So much so it's not going to happen to canters.

Starting point is 00:26:32 Well, canters has opened some ghost kitchens, which is a weird thing. Like there's some, yeah, there's some canters outlets that are more like, sober is over. Yeah. They're like, they're like basically storefronts that have a canters kitchen inside and they do that for delivery. I think that's part of

Starting point is 00:26:47 how they've been able to stay in business. So what? That makes sense because when I'm sick, I ordered Cantor's moths of all soup and it came way too quickly. Yeah. And it tasted a little too east side, but what was that? Oh, oh, yeah, no, this. I got my first for you. were you saying? What happened? Oh, oh yeah, no, this, this, this, I got my first for you. Yeah. What, what was, what was I saying? I got a question for you. I had a question that was gonna ask.

Starting point is 00:27:11 It's fine. What is your question? No, you, I'll see you, I'll see you as your first. No, you do it. It's fine. I'll choose. Same time. I was going, you started to say, you started to say what,

Starting point is 00:27:21 like, like, our family, you asked if you had cussed and then you were like, our family, Dell, like, Dellie, like, kind of shut down or something. You stopped, like, you started to say what like, like our family, you asked if you had cussed and then you were like, our family, like, like, deli, like, kind of shut down or something, you stopped, like, what happened there? Or, you know, how long has it been since it was in your family? Yeah, so my, okay. So, was that your question as well? I didn't feel it, it was gonna be the same question, right?

Starting point is 00:27:42 It was like, no, my dad has three brothers, okay? And my dad's the oldest, and my dad is the one who has this shit together the most. Right, of his three brothers, you know? And if you're seeing this, it's true, guys. I mean, come on, it's just true. And you know. All three of them are wrong.

Starting point is 00:28:00 They're all in the floor, you know what's up. You know, and so. Hey, let's call the doughboys. Hey, hey, dance on there. Hey, they're talking about CUM. All right. No, these guys probably don't even know who I am anymore. So, the last time I talked to my uncles, this is a sidebar.

Starting point is 00:28:19 He lives in Florida and he was like, hey, can you give me a commercial agent? Wow. That's very- It's an ask. Yeah, that's an ask. And I got it for him and he was like, hey, can you give me a commercial agent? Wow. That's very, that's an ask. Yeah, that's an ask. And I got it from him and he works for me. But no, my dad, so then my dad when my dad was like, hey, I want to buy the business from your dad.

Starting point is 00:28:35 You know, my dad was working there and my mom was also working there too at the deli. They both worked at the deli and I would just like sit there all day. That's a lot of kids, you know. So you remember being in there? Yeah, yeah, I was in there all the time. I remember that. But then when I was like, no, I have three sons.

Starting point is 00:28:49 He's like, I'm going to give it to the other sons because you're fine. That kind of thing. Wow. So he gave me, because my, you know, my grandfather was a World War II veteran who like was just, who knows what was going on with him. He's kind of an asshole, you know? And so then he, he said, yeah, so quickly, I don't know who knows what was going on with him. He's kind of an asshole, you know? And so then he, he- I don't know why I said yes so quickly, I don't know.

Starting point is 00:29:08 I don't know what was happening, I'm sorry. I made it me very uncomfortable. No, no, no, no, he was, it's fine. But I actually loved to buy a grandfather. He wasn't like, he wasn't a really nice man, but he had like so many hobbies. It was cool to watch him do his hobbies. But so, yeah, so then he gave it to my dad's brothers

Starting point is 00:29:27 who were like, more fuck ups, and they literally burned it to the ground. Oh, literally. Wow. Yeah, like literally, they went on fire, and I don't think they had the right insurance or anything, and then it's just like, it was done. Oh my God. You know what a business burns down,

Starting point is 00:29:41 and then you're like, well, we made a ton of money on that, right? Exactly. Or it burns down, and then you just, you know, build it again, or whatever. This was just like, it burned down and then you're like, well, we made a ton of money on that, right? Exactly. Or it burns down and then you just, you know, build it again, or whatever. This is just like it burned down and I was like, yeah, all right guys, it's gone. It burned down. Like it's like a huge room or something.

Starting point is 00:29:53 I have my theory. What? Strizand. What did you do to it? It's madly took the tuna melt off the menu. Yeah, well, yeah, yeah, yeah. Her and James Brolin. Brolin was a wheel man.

Starting point is 00:30:09 That's wild. That's cool as hell. Andy Kauffman going there is cool as hell. That's fucking, that rules. Yeah, I have all kinds of crazy stories. How old are you when it ended? I don't even know. I mean, I must have been like,

Starting point is 00:30:19 because I can consciously remember it. So I must have been like seven. Okay. You know what I mean? Seven or eight? You know? You have a favorite food from there when you were there? like seven. Okay. You know what I mean is seven or eight. You know, You have a favorite food from there when you were there. Big question.

Starting point is 00:30:27 Yeah, I mean, I just I all the all the you know, all the like soaked meats. You know, like, Pistomie, like I love. Pistomie. And like what I mean is Pistomie. It's like there's something more to it. It's like in a kind of like nostalgic thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:30:42 For me, you know, like, I need to tell you what you did, when I needed to get a sandwich, what you did? I'm a stoked on an epistrami sandwich when I was eight, I had to get the Heimlich maneuver, talked about this on the podcast, it was a togo's.

Starting point is 00:30:51 It was a togo's. Yeah, and then it epistrami until like I was an adult. That's right. And Chris was, oh, Maddie Smith, right? Maddie Smith was on the episode when we talked about it.

Starting point is 00:30:59 And Chris van Artsdale and bit into a screw at togo's. No, that happened to Maddie. He was on the episode. Oh, it did happen to Maddie. Chris van Artsdale and just likesogo's. No, that happened to Maddie. He was on the episode. Oh, it did happen to Maddie. Chris, fan arts, Dylan just likes Togo's. Oh, that's what it is. His association is he's a fan of Togo's.

Starting point is 00:31:10 I wrote a sketch about him liking Togo. Yeah, yeah, he's like, uh, good sketch. I agree with it. Ha, ha, ha. I can, I believe choking on that. I think the, so much salt, I think it's the sheet is so salty, it can close up everything. You swell up.

Starting point is 00:31:24 Yeah, that's, that's for me, that was a little stringy too. Yeah. Was it Ricky's where that happened? All right. I'm not sure. The place just recently where we, where we, where I choked on the strommies. I know what you're talking about.

Starting point is 00:31:35 He's don't know where the place was. Yeah. Ricky's drive through or whatever. I'm just Rick's Rick's. Rick's drive, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Thank you, Emma.

Starting point is 00:31:43 Yeah. What's wrong with us? We're dumb. Remember anything. We're dumb. You're not dumb. You guys are smart guys. You just forgetful. He nice to yourself. So you guys, are you rid of fucking self talk? Here, look, here's what I have to say about, because look, you're always like, I don't want to tell you how things are and like, you know, you're like, you're playing the smart one. Who are you talking to me? You, yeah.

Starting point is 00:32:09 And, is it me? And comedy, you never wanna hear the comedian is smarter than me. No, you don't wanna smart guy to like talk down. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm not doing comedy on here. Think this is comedy? Oh God.

Starting point is 00:32:23 We're doing a show. It's a podcast, a discussion. Yeah, you don't want to be talked down, do I agree? You don't want to, you don't want to, I know I do agree with you that we don't do comedy show. Yeah, yeah, it is, it is, it is an issue. Um, I do have a tendency to blow be it and I do have a tendency to be like, here's a big, here's a fact that I know. So you know this fact about how you're not supposed to do it, but you still do it. I don't know, That's what I want to just want to talk about. We're fucking talking to you.

Starting point is 00:32:46 We're being ourselves. I'm not as... You make all your guests uncomfortable? Honestly, yes. Very common. Yeah, you actually have not even gotten close to the most uncomfortable. Other bad things, use myself. You guys do talk us out.

Starting point is 00:32:58 You do? Maybe I'm not as dumb as people think I am, huh? When they watch the show. Do people think you're dumb? I mean, the redditors will say, the bitches don't make a joke that I'm dumb. Ah, I am, huh? When they watch the show. Do people think you're dumb? I mean, the redditors will say, the bitches don't make a joke that I'm dumb. Ah, I'm not gonna work. But hey, can a dumb man like Dave Matthews band?

Starting point is 00:33:11 No. That's actually impossible. I'm very easily, mentally, spiritually, impossible. I agree. I turned 41 and I listened to number 41 for a lot. I knew it, really? I was nice. Wow. And along that really? Yeah, that was nice.

Starting point is 00:33:25 Wow. And along with running on empty, which was also, which was at your go too. That's my go too. And number 41 is what a, probably like my favorite song. Yeah, I love it so much. It's a great song. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 00:33:36 How does that one go? Come see, I swear I'm playing time again My troubles Oh, I'm coming slow but sweet And yeah Yeah It's really is like an indescribable song. It doesn't have a chorus.

Starting point is 00:34:09 No. No. It doesn't have a chorus. I will go in this way and find my way out. You don't have that one? No, I mean, I probably heard it. I just like I can't, I'm not recognizing it with this rendition. I do want to go back to Pastrami because Mitch, you had a good question. In the restaurant.

Starting point is 00:34:25 No, it was. You had a good question in the restaurant that you said you were going to say again on the podcast and I'll say it because I think you forgot it. Okay. You forgot. You are a Pastrami fan. How do you like your Pastrami sandwich?

Starting point is 00:34:37 What do you think is the proper way to Pastrami? I'm not a, you know, I'm not a purist with the Pastrami. Like I like a Rubin. Sure. Like I like a filthy rubin, like melted Swiss, tons of Russian, well, 1000 island. Duh, duh, duh, duh. Yeah, yeah. It tons of 1000 island on it.

Starting point is 00:34:55 Like, well, like a rye bread. Yeah, yeah. You know, only not toasted. I don't like, I don't like it toasted rye bread. Yeah, that's what I like. And then I like fries with it, you know? Yeah, let's go. What do you, where are you guys at? But I could also eat it toasted rye bread. Yeah, that's what I like. And then I like fries with it. You know, I like all that. What do you, where are you guys at?

Starting point is 00:35:07 But I could also eat it like, it's time we were going to cats. I'll take it or all the corn brief. And that I can just go with the bread and a little monster or a little Russian. What does, what does freshers mean? What does that, that's a Jewish deli term, right? Like freshers.

Starting point is 00:35:21 Freshers? No, no, no, no. Like brand, Dresher. He's Jewish. Isn't freshers something? Freshers? Am I combining Fran with Fran's, Fran dresser with sketchers? Freshers, why?

Starting point is 00:35:37 This is Fran dresser for sketchers. That is, that's a mad TV sketch from, I mean, I love it. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches.

Starting point is 00:35:54 Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches.

Starting point is 00:36:03 Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. Frandrezer for sketches. to see what's going on in that room. There's like, you guys are crazy. This contract's no good. You're like, oh God, this is hilarious. I mean, we have a lot of faith in her and I hope it's going well. Yeah. And you know what, it might be, the deal might be sealed today.

Starting point is 00:36:13 Again, Mitch, you're determined to timestamp this, three weeks in advance of early, so we don't know what the world's gonna look like, but it's possible that the negotiators will also be going on. The strike will still be good. You know what, I heard a lot of when, what's that?

Starting point is 00:36:23 When it was that day where Fran made her big speech. You know what I heard a lot of when, what's that? When it was that day where Fran had made her big speech. This was, I heard a lot of this. From also by the way, like groups of people within our circle of friends. This is like three to four months ago. This is like, Fran's fucking hot. Like people got a whole whole day and a little horny first, Fran.

Starting point is 00:36:37 People got way too horny. This is, I was very attractive. A beautiful woman. And then I think also just like seeing like that sort of like passion and dedication in working class. We've got a little horny, yeah. People like to have a little horny about it. She said, uh, she dropped Yiddish when she was,

Starting point is 00:36:52 she's dropped, uh, that, it's like my grandmother said, it's, uh, it's a lec and a schmec. I looked that up immediately like I love, I love Yiddish. It is kind of hot to me. Yeah. It means like there's nothing there. Every Yiddish. It is kind of hot to me. Yeah. It means like there's nothing there. Every Yiddish thinks it means like the same things.

Starting point is 00:37:08 It means like this is crazy. I've never thought of Yiddish as being hot before, but you know what? I can get into it. I love it. Yeah, I love it. It just feels very grandmotherly to me or something. Here's the Yiddish.

Starting point is 00:37:21 Something fucked up with me. I don't know. Yeah. Here's the Yiddish word I like that a friend, Emmy Blotnik, taught me that I use a lot on the podcast, Ungapachka. Oh God, here it is. Ungapachka, like one thing too many. And it's honestly very common when you're discussing food.

Starting point is 00:37:39 Like you'll get something that's just like, this has too many components. It's Ungapachka. Remember I had one and I just forgot what it was. I did. I looked up a term and I I had one and I just forgot what it was. I did. I looked up a term and I used it like twice and I forgot what it was. It was good. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:37:51 You love to say ungapachka. I do like to say ungapachka. But then where are you currently is it like ungapach? I've heard some people say ungapach. Like you drop the A or drop the K-A. Do you like a kaspacho, like a cold soup? I do on occasion, yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:03 That was just curious. Do you like a cold soup? On occasion, I mean? I do on occasion, yeah. That was just curious. Do you like a cold soup? On occasion, I mean, I like a hot soup more. I'll be honest. But it depends on the context. So I can make a cool cue, come back. This is a rhyming pivot, but I saw someone eating in gaspacho the other day.

Starting point is 00:38:14 I just kind of like casually, and I was like, I've never seen that. Yeah, it's not a thing that you see. It's not a thing that's like readily available, right? Like I feel like there's not a lot of lunch, but it's a big move. It's huge move. like readily available, right? Like I feel like there's not a lot of lunch, but it's big move. It's huge move. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:38:27 A cold soup. You know what you call a warmed up gaspacho? What's that? Ungaspacho. Ungaspacho. Ungaspacho. Ungaspacho. Ungaspacho.

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Starting point is 00:43:10 And then you gave devil horns, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you just blew a kiss. You blew, oh, oh, oh, oh, my God. Well, you know, it's painful, I think, don't like it. Big chicken. Big chicken. Okay, first off, you said something good before the break. I think they'll like it. Okay. Big chicken. Big chicken. Okay. First off, you said something good before the break.

Starting point is 00:43:27 I said, umga, umga platska. Oh, fuck. We waited too long. Umka platska. Umga platska. Like that. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:43:39 But you have instead of one quarter porch that if you have a half porch and that's umka platska. Umka platska. Big chicken from the websites about. If you have one quarter porch, of a half portion, that's uncarploshka. A big chicken from the websites about this. If you have one quarter portion of a Gospacho. Yeah, that's it's uncarplosh. A big chicken from the websites about us. I'm going to read this for a bit because this is I think the context that you need.

Starting point is 00:44:00 Founded in 2018, big chicken is backed by a dream team of partners, JRS Hospitality and accomplished Las Vegas-based ownership group, Authentic Brands Group, a multinational multi-billion dollar brand development marketing and entertainment company, and Hall of Fame Basketball star, Shaquille O'Neal. So it's shackle, the components, huge corporations. They're bearing the lead there. Yeah, 100%. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:44:23 Also some restaurant, like at Las Vegas restaurant, often there. Yeah, I know. 100% Yeah, I'll do some restaurant, like at Las Vegas restaurant. Yeah, the later. We're really excited about J.R.S. hospital. Yeah, these franchise management companies. It's yeah, whatever. But okay, so there's, so it's, it's these three are working together. Shack is the face of the franchise. I counted 18 to 19 locations on the website and,

Starting point is 00:44:43 and I think there's about another 10 slated to open. It's also on Carnival Cruise lines, it's on Gold Belly. They are really putting the franchising tab forward on their page so they're trying to expand aggressively or bring along more franchise owners. So this place is in growth mode. I will never, ever use Gold Belly. That's what, you know, who's in charge of it. Oh gold member

Starting point is 00:45:11 Well, it's a part is gold members working with that bastard right? Yeah, so they're like gold. It's gold belly You know that he lost his penis and an unfortunate On fact about I'll say smelting is getting turned me on with the oh my god. saying, smelting is getting turned me on with these. Smelting is smelting it is. Well, you just felt. I just came.

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Starting point is 00:45:48 So, gold Belly. Get in my, yeah, yeah, yeah. I love gold, get in my belly. Gold Belly, it's a natural name. Take a part of each of their phrases. Right, yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah. Austin, Elvis.

Starting point is 00:45:59 Yeah, I would also feel like that. Is this from the animated, awesome powers? 41. Oh, that's the amazing thing. I thought this was like the theme song to like an animated awesome powers? 41. Oh, this is the main thing. I thought it was like the theme song to like an animated awesome power show.

Starting point is 00:46:09 Did they ever do that? We never were blessed with that. I guess they made a men in black show. They totally should have made an awesome power. I feel like it's a little tricky when the character's thing is like, I'm horny. Like how do you make it pull that off?

Starting point is 00:46:20 You know, fun fact about awesome powers though. He holds up so hard because the premise is that like, he's problematic, but he's coming back to modern times and people are like, you can't say that anymore. That is. Kind of like ahead of its time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, that's.

Starting point is 00:46:37 No, it was savvy. Yeah. It's like revisiting old Do-Boys episodes. Yeah, those don't hold on. So we went to the Glendale location, which I would characterize as deserted. I really expected there to be more people. We went during the lunch rush on a weekday. I really expected there to be more patrons.

Starting point is 00:46:54 There was, I think, one other person dining inside, and we were ordering for a bit, and then one other person queued up behind us. But there were not a lot of people in there. It looked like everyone who was eating in there were employing us. There were a lot of employees taking on lunch, right? I think the most of the people weren't, we actually weirdly did order our mound of food and then two or three people came behind us in line,

Starting point is 00:47:15 which sluts for them, but I think they did get served before us anyways. And then there was also, when we first were in there, there was like someone from the fire department or ambulance, some lady who seemed like she had to take a shit. That was kind of it. They were like, I need to go to the bathroom. And I was like, this is it.

Starting point is 00:47:30 This place is not being used. I didn't peep in. So it's right near the Americana. I didn't pee. Yes, a big outdoor shopping center. This kind of a destination in Glendale. Right in a row, you got Shake Shack. You got Egg Slut.

Starting point is 00:47:43 That's right. One of the best-named restaurants of all time. Then you got, I love an egg Slut. Shack's big chicken. Yeah. And you got a Phil's coffee. You got a bunch of like kind of like new wave chains.

Starting point is 00:47:55 Yeah. And I don't, by the way, I don't like egg slut. I don't like that name at all. Yeah, and we need disgusting. And these are pulsing. I love it. You like it? Yeah, I love it.

Starting point is 00:48:04 Ha ha ha. No, it's, I don't know how to get away with it to be honest. It's fucking nasty. It's insane. I've never eaten an egg salad until it is like that. Unfortunately, I know people are like, at one point people are like, it's so good. Well, yeah, it wasn't always franchise. It was a point where it was like, hey, there's the egg slut. You can go, you know, go to that one. I don't remember if it was a trucker brick and mortar first, but they're

Starting point is 00:48:27 like, go to the one egg slut. It's worth the trip. I don't think what I knew about was the one that's in the marketplace, like in downtown or like, the market. Yeah. Yeah. I knew about that one. And they were really lined up over there. Yeah. Big a lot of egg sluts in line. It's a horrible name. It's a bad name. But those three in a row, and I was like, do any of these? I still be a great, who's like a fertility clinic called a head class? Do we actually make a killing? I mean, everything is wrestling, right?

Starting point is 00:48:59 You just want to stand down, you got to get me a killing. Right, sure. I mean, you are kind of right though. Today, maybe proves that that doesn't, I mean, you know what? Maybe this place should just be like shacks. And it would be different if it was called. Okay, so that's the, that's the thing that's confusing to me. Again, it's part of the website. It showed me all I need.

Starting point is 00:49:19 These other guys have an ego. They think they're bigger than Shack. Yeah, I mean, look, that's an issue. Yeah. I'm not, I grew up in Southern California. I'm a long time Lakers fan. Shaq was a part of the Los Angeles Lakers for many years. Three categories. Shaq had his best run with the Celtics. I love Shaq. Shaq, Shaq to me, Shaq is like a guy who I would be genuinely bummed out to find out Shaq didn't like me. And yet here we are possibly, we're tempting that fate.

Starting point is 00:49:47 I wanna give this prelude though, that you and I are both Shaq fans, and Dan, I'm not sure how you feel about Shaq, but I love him. I think he's so, he's such a great celebrity. I think, like, A, he's just an incredible basketball player and I love watching him play. He's a great, that's a thing.

Starting point is 00:50:04 He's done, he's wrest, like, he's wrestled. But he's also like, like, he does lean into the gimmick of being Shaq and that's a big part of his identity is like, like, people know who Shaq is. He retired in 2011 and he's still extremely relevant. How many retired athletes are still like, you know, that visible after their playing careers are long gone and well passed his prime, you know,

Starting point is 00:50:23 because he hung on for a while there. Yeah, he's an undeniable brand undeniable, likable. He's in that like snoop dog camp of people who are just larger than life, you know, like you see Shaq DJing, you're like, I love it. You kind of like do no wrong to me. Yes, except for big chicken. That's the issue. I want to get all this out there that I like. I love Shaq. we are big fans of Shaq. And I'm not sure. We love you Shaq. Unfortunately, big chicken sucks. This was a horrible meal.

Starting point is 00:50:49 I was really disappointed. Big chicken sucks so bad. It's really bad. And I'd been prepared because I'd heard, you know, our buddies podcast the ride, they had talked negatively about this place. So I had that in my head, but I went in with a very open mind and again, a lot of fandom, a lot of affection for Shaq. Pretty gross.

Starting point is 00:51:03 Just big chicken and egg slut being next to each other. Also, it's kind of gross. Yeah, yeah, yeah. It's just kind of gross. Yeah. It is. So gross combo restaurant. You think the big chicken's fucking the egg slut?

Starting point is 00:51:16 Yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, I mean, they're being- Fucking dumb stuff in there watching. Yeah. They're like large cock like what's that? Honestly, they're doing it in the shake shaft.

Starting point is 00:51:29 Yes, more like jack shaft. Yeah. Fuck you like that, work. I'm the egg slide. I walked in through the back. There was a guy in his office. Yeah. I walked in through the back door.

Starting point is 00:51:53 There's a man in his office. I was like, what the hell's going on here? And he was just, I was like, can I come in through this way? He's like, yeah, he didn't seem to care. He was, the staff I thought was very nice. They were super nice. They were super accommodating. And I don't want to ruin their,

Starting point is 00:52:04 I don't want to ruin their livelihoods don't want to ruin their lily. I would look. We ordered basically the entire menu guy was completely unfazed. And I think partly, I'm guessing that that's happened before because people are like, oh, big chicken. I want to try out Shaxx restaurant. It's not that big of a menu. So might as well get one of everything, you know?

Starting point is 00:52:20 So, but there was all rise. And the service was super, that was super accommodating. There were no bites that I took, or I was like, wow, that's good. This is what's profoundly disappointing about this place. There was really none of the savory food, we'll get to the shakes, but none of the savory food I actually enjoyed.

Starting point is 00:52:37 Everything I thought was bad. Everything, here's my, everything was overall assessment on the food here and the chickens, everything was overall assessment on the food here, and the chicken's the main, everything we ate was chicken-based, except for fries or whatever. But everything had, it felt like it was deeply frozen. Yes.

Starting point is 00:52:56 And then heated up. And then had that, like, when I make something in the air fryer, you don't wanna need like a knife, right? Because my food is shit. I make something in the air fryer, you don't want any like that, right? Because my food is shit. I make really bad food. It tastes like I heated all this stuff up in the air fryer. A thousand percent. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:53:12 The loaded fries is like going to your grandpa's house and be like, I'll cook you up some, I'll make you a loaded fries. You know, like what the fuck is he talking about? Yeah. He comes out like, bacon and you're like, this is this fucking is this? What is this? The fries taste like shit. Grandpa, the fries taste like shit. Grandpa's always to have some like signature ingredient or whatever. This one was just like

Starting point is 00:53:34 four banana peppers. Bacon that like looked like leftover bacon. It was the loaded fries sucked so much and that was the first kind of the first taste we got of the meal. I didn't I didn't try those because I had bacon on them, but I want to back it up for a second, which is that Dan, you are a chicken fan. And when we talked about what we're going to cover, you want you, you first pitched Dave's hot chicken, which we recovered in the very recent past. So we thought we pivoted something else. You suggested big chicken. I'm glad you did because it's a kind of chain. Uh, we, but I'm curious like you you like is this one of your favorite foods?

Starting point is 00:54:07 Do you love fried chicken? Yeah, my number my favorite food is fried chicken. I prefer chicken without the bone fried chicken Just out of just pure laziness also. I just like ate eating bones around people. It's just like are you like that? I'm a prize of big bone in galobones, but I, but I understand. Well, bone in, I understand taste better. Like I know I understand, but I just, when I'm dealing with a fried chicken, I don't want to deal with the bone. Yeah, that's fine.

Starting point is 00:54:32 So, can we just agree on this already? Yeah, no, it's fine. Yeah, it's fine. We stop fighting about it. It's fine. Come on, man, you're coming at me. Oh, yeah. No.

Starting point is 00:54:41 He's just like, sometimes someone's talking down to you. No, he wants it. No, no. It's a callback. But yeah, no, I go to when I want to eat unhealthy, it's like I'm gonna get some kind of fried chicken sandwich. I live right by, I live close to house of pies in LA. You know what I mean? So I can buy my dinner. Yeah, it's just a diner.

Starting point is 00:55:00 If Jones isn't right, yeah, I've assumed you've spoke about it before. Of course, yeah. If we're a Tarantino Rope Pulp Fiction or reservoir dogs, one of the reservoir dogs. Or that might be a rumor, but whatever. It's at this point, like a lower that people believe. But yeah, like I'll go in there and I'll get like buffalo chicken sandwich and like sweet potato fries kind of a thing, or just get like chicken fingers and every dipping sauce they have.

Starting point is 00:55:23 That's like all my go-to and And Dave's not chicken is a big, like I do a lot of stand-up. So at night, Dave's hots are open pretty late. They're open late, yeah. Yeah, so I'll pop into a Dave's hot, but the thing like, and I love spicy though, I know you just covered Hal and Ray's. Hal and Ray's just destroyed spice for me.

Starting point is 00:55:38 Maybe for good. I was just like, I was just, it almost killed me. It almost killed me. It's the hottest level. It's very, very hot. Yeah, I got the hot. It did, the hottest level. It's very, very hot. Yeah, hot, hot. I got it.

Starting point is 00:55:46 Yes, when you go that level, I tried the Holland and I ate too much of it, and it really almost killed me. I think it was the closest food has ever come to kill me. I also didn't use the gloves. It came with gloves. Oh, man. I didn't use the gloves and I got like in my face. It sucked and it maybe not like spicy.

Starting point is 00:56:02 But the thing with Dave's hot, like if you compare Dave's hot chicken, what I like about a bite of chicken is that it's like fried in the outside, but in the middle, it's still, you're tasting like a fresh chicken bite. You're getting a bite of like what you might get from a rotisserie chicken, but it's, it's hidden in the middle. Whereas like big chicken, I was getting none of that. The outsides weren't good and the middle wasn't good. It had no positives.

Starting point is 00:56:27 Yeah. There was no, you could eat this chicken for me, any angle, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, draft of reservoir dogs. It's like Mr. Moran and Mr. Cherry. Mr. Cherry. Right. Yeah. Well, I gotta be Mr. Moran. I don't want to be Mr. Dutch Apple. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:56:53 Not the flock. Yeah. You can switch names with me. I'll of course you like your name. You're Mr. Chocolate Cream. You got a cool name. Chocolate Bavarian. Cream. What on earth?

Starting point is 00:57:03 I'm gonna get killed before you send my name. It's, what do you think he wrote that on? Do you think he just wrote down the long hand? Or do he bring in like a fucking IBM laptop in there? Like an old school chunky notebook? Oh, that's a great question. Yeah. He had like a generation one like Macbook.

Starting point is 00:57:21 Oh, let me call him. Can't see. generation one like Macbook. Well, let me call him. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha you know, every single chain has their version of a Chick-fil-A rip off sandwich or a Popeye's rip off sandwich. They're all attempting a version that that's what this concept is based off of. So they had a bunch of different ones. We got an original, which is just called their big chicken. There's also an Uncle Jerome's Nashville hot, which I believe is named for his bodyguard. There's a shack attack, which has pepper jack

Starting point is 00:58:00 and jalapenos law. There's the ultimate, which has mac and cheese and onion strings. And there is a buffalo, which is buffalo sauce, and then optional blue cheese, which we added. Were there any, I missed, I think that's everything we got, right? Those are all the sandwiches. Yeah.

Starting point is 00:58:16 Universally disappointed. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, like, oh, boohoo, you eat fast food. We get it. We get it. Our jobs are easy. It's easy to do this. Yeah, it's fine. We don't have much talent. Yeah. You saw through it. You saw it through it in the first year.

Starting point is 00:58:33 Congratulations. What do you fucking want? Yeah, what the fuck do you want from us? Congratulations. Here, this is what. You guys are fucking dumb fat idiots. Yeah, great. Yeah, good job.

Starting point is 00:58:42 You know the head. What you fucking want from us? This is one of the places that you when when we talk about like eating at a change, it's horrible for you. Yeah. And then not getting the benefits of it. This is 100% no, a deal of low-grade, hum place for so fucking full and it is such a waste of calories. So on Saturday, such a waste of calories. So on Saturday. Such a waste of calories. You took the words right out of my mouth. Like, you said at the meal,

Starting point is 00:59:09 when we were sitting, you're like, this is a great meal to like get a workout in. You know what I mean? So I worked out very hard this morning. I'm like these guys, for a... I'm like, I'm jacked up. Okay.

Starting point is 00:59:23 The people of the video get to see I look awesome You know, but I worked out knowing we were having this lunch. Yeah, okay? So this was my first me so I'm like yo, I'm gonna fucking build up such a hunger and then when we got there It was so fucking disappointing Yeah, I didn't eat that I ate a lot if you look at the caloric intake because you're taking bites of everything you know what I mean? But like now when I could easily, normally, if I was hungry, like what you were just talking about,

Starting point is 00:59:53 I could probably eat two sandwiches. No, no problem. I didn't eat two of those sandwiches. There was a buff, this is how crazy it is to me. Of half eating buffalo chicken sandwiches sitting on the fucking tray. Yeah, and who doesn't kill off a buffalo chicken sandwich? It was, and it was,

Starting point is 01:00:08 it's one of those things where everything was, look, let me back it up for a second. The things that the asset of good fried chicken is texture and seasoning, right? You want something with like that's just really flavorable and has a great crispness to it. All of these had neither. It's just like the patty was,

Starting point is 01:00:26 whatever you wanna call the chicken breast was like really inert. It felt like it was from frozen to your point. And it had an absence of seasoning. So you needed something like all the buffalo sauce, slathered on it to give it any sort of flavor. But that one was also just kind of like weirdly moist and spongy and the blue cheese made it case kind of sour. I think it was the blue cheese on that.

Starting point is 01:00:46 It was like two months. That's the my thought about that place is that almost every single menu item has one element that is just off. There's one extra thing. Ungapachka one might say. No, but not I mean like there's some stuff that's like, oh okay, the way it's the ingredients together should work. Yeah, but like the slaw, like we had is like the slaw tastes weird.

Starting point is 01:01:10 Slaw was odd and there were two kinds of slaw and they're also available sides. One of those places that like this is the thing you were saying, it's like their sides are components that are on their sandwiches that you can also just get all a cart. And all those I think were pretty disappointing. I said this at the restaurant,

Starting point is 01:01:23 but I was like, oh, this is, I've never, I feel like I've tasted like three things that taste like batteries. It was like the slaw had a weird battery taste. There was like another, like one of, I think maybe yours with the barbecue sauce and it was like, right, they all have a fucking weird. That was the shack attack.

Starting point is 01:01:39 The shack attack, man. And then we get that cup of battery juice. That was a very bad, that also did help. Yeah. I told you not to get that that cup of battery juice. So it's very bad. That also did help. Yeah. I told you not to get battery. Speaking of battery juice. There's a Pepsi freestyle machine which would be thrown in the fucking trash.

Starting point is 01:01:54 Really strange. I've never seen a Pepsi one of those. I've only seen the focus. It sucks. It has its own name for it. I mean, Chad has a long time Pepsi partner. But I've never heard of it. You think you get like a mountain do like with cool flavors

Starting point is 01:02:04 or something? No. You get a mountain do like with cool flavors or something? No, you get a mountain do with cherry or strawberry. I use I checked strawberry did not taste the no no flavor. No flavor of strawberry at all. It was there's nothing there. It's not it's not called the the Pepsi freestyle machine. You want to guess at what it's called? What's your note?

Starting point is 01:02:21 You'll never guess it. Okay, break dance machine. Break dance is a good guess. J.J. Matthew. Yeah. It's the Pepsi Spire. The Pepsi Spire. That's what I was, oh, I was almost, yeah.

Starting point is 01:02:36 The Pepsi Spire? It's like kind of like Sprite. Pretty bad branding. Which they don't know. Pepsi Spire. Yeah. I heard that this is a sidebar like the Gospacho, which worked out. Yeah, that's great.

Starting point is 01:02:52 So I heard that those Coke machines are manufactured by Ferrari. Is that true? Really? You don't hear a fact from somebody and you're like, this can't, it's just like it's in your head for a long time. You never Google it.

Starting point is 01:03:06 And you're like, is this true? Someone told me that those machines are made by, you know, the ones who have an AMC's, you know? Yeah, that sounds like bullshit, but it's possible. I mean, it's made the same industrial design for him, worked on it or something. Coke freestyle and Ferrari, if it's Google it, well, how are being it?

Starting point is 01:03:22 I mean, I see, I see, Hireen or Farina. Hello, let me ask Quinter, you know. Ha ha ha ha ha ha. Listen, babe. Yeah. Ha ha ha ha ha. You know what I mean? That's what I'm saying.

Starting point is 01:03:36 I think there's, I think there's a, I went to Dallas, Venezuela. Okay, babe. Ha ha ha ha ha. I think there's a Ferrari, they think there's a company involved that sounds like Ferrari is the thing. I think it's called like, they think there's a company involved that sounds like Ferrari is the thing. I think it's called like it's called yeah pinn and Farina extra.

Starting point is 01:03:51 Oh, Oh, Kind of sounds like Ferrari. It's Italian first. I was looking up to Coke freestyle Ferrari. All right, it was more true than I thought. Wait, why is wrong? That is the same design for him that Ferrari uses.

Starting point is 01:04:04 So it's the same design firm. Coca-Cola's new slick fountain drink dispenser was designed by Ferrari developer. Wow, okay. That's true. But is that for, but this is the thing, like it might be design firm, but it's not actually like Ferrari internal. But that's a pedantic distinction. Yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:04:19 Yeah. But yeah, it seems, seems like mostly true. It does not want this to be true. I'm just saying I think Politif fact gives it two Pinocchio's, but it's not the full four Pinocchio's. We also got the sandwiches where all we're all pretty wretched. We got the popcorn chicken. Now here's the thing, not only is this Shaq's restaurant,

Starting point is 01:04:36 the popcorn chicken is like side barred, it's bolded, and it says Shaq's favorite. So they are directing you towards their popcorn chicken. Now oftentimes that isn't a technique because it's a high margin item, and I imagine that's the case here, but this is Dice Chicken Thymeat that's breaded into small little nugs.

Starting point is 01:04:53 This should be delightful. I love chicken thighs. I'm a dark meat guy. Chicken thighs are the cut I like the most. These were so, so bad. This was so bad. They had, they were, they taste like chicken, it was like fried chicken skin

Starting point is 01:05:06 that tasted greasy from the fry. But no, but without the crispness of that. No, no, it was, it was like it, it was like a gummy taste. They sure have sucked. And also one of the first things we also tried with the fries

Starting point is 01:05:16 with the popcorn chicken. Yeah, really bad, really bad. This was like, it felt like it was like, things were like a biohazard bucket from the surgery. Yeah, like yeah,hazard bucket from the surgery place. Yeah, we're gonna fry people's cartilage. It was like fucking disgusting.

Starting point is 01:05:32 Everybody, it was stuff that you should have bound in the trash that they're clearly trying to make. But that is kind of what like, what they do that. But look, the chick, let's, yeah. Pubgworn chicken from KFC is still, it's still as passable. I like it that this is This I think would disappoint kid. Yeah, and and it certainly disappointed me In 10 years if you see me driving a coke freestyle machine around town

Starting point is 01:05:57 Tell me to stop 10 years I'm having life crisis. I'm having life crisis. In 10 years. Oh my God, yeah. You can't even say, and mom is being with a blonde exos, an exos.

Starting point is 01:06:10 I'm getting mad. I'm getting mad. I'm having to go through midlife crisis. Probably, you know, 15 or so years ago. What do you think your, what's your move gonna be? Cause I was thinking like, oh, maybe I'll do like sleeve tattoos or something.

Starting point is 01:06:24 I'll do like, I'll just, that would, that would, I'm not saying I'm gonna do it, but I say like, if I was gonna do a midlife crisis thing, it might be that either that or like, or like the hairline surgery. Maybe I'll do a lip ring. Lip rings fun. Yeah, that's fun.

Starting point is 01:06:35 But you're a beardy guy. That's a little bit of a pain in the ass. You guys think we haven't hit midlife yet? No, I think I'm there. Oh, I'm definitely there. I'm just saying like, if I did something. I'm saying, I think that I have far surpassed been like, yeah, I'm, I'm, I'm, I think like'm there. I'm definitely there. I'm just saying, if I did something, I think that I have far surpassed him in life. Yeah, I think if I came back in 2024,

Starting point is 01:06:49 I was like, here we go. What would be the move? I think it would be like 10 minutes. I think with each year the podcast, our midlife has gone backwards. I think we're in trouble. What if I just started wearing suits all the time? I like the suit guy.

Starting point is 01:07:03 That's a good move. I'm also in the middle. No, I like that. No, but hopefully you know what? That's also like the suit guy. That's a good move. That move. No, I like that. No, I know what? That's also kind of like, that's like a good growth thing. I know because it's age appropriate, but it also qualifies as the kind of thing. It's like, oh, I'm gonna really take care of myself. I like the suit or something.

Starting point is 01:07:15 And that would be like if you were doing like a, yeah, we watch the bear. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah, in the bear richy, at one point, it's like I'm wearing suits now. Yeah, it's a suits guy. And then he just goes like, I went they're like, hey, look at you. He's like, this is what I do now. And I just roll up, I just suit all the time.

Starting point is 01:07:31 And I think it would be a good, you guys seem uncomfortable. No, I honestly think that you as a suit guy, that's the sort of thing. My dad and all those friends, they wore suits every time. They wore a jacket and tie and shirt and tie. So I mean, in our world, it's that funny thing where I'd be like, what's going on? Why is he always in a suit all the time? I understand I went in reverse midlife crisis

Starting point is 01:07:56 because that's like getting your shit to get, that's a leaning into your age. But I think that's what I would do. But it's also like, no, I think that quality. Like I have a condo. Yeah. I mean, you guys seem the condo yet? Yeah. I can't really have it in a midlife crisis.

Starting point is 01:08:11 He's wearing suits and he bought a home. Yeah. He's the opposite. We also got some chicken tenders. So my, my, what I'm inferring is that this is, is this your preferred form factor for fried chicken or do you like a sandwich? Because I could go, I like,

Starting point is 01:08:30 so that's why something I love about Dave is the concept of the one slider tender combo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, you can get that combo. Yeah, and I mean like that, I love that, because I like both. I love that I have it, you know, I like both options. So yeah, but I would say if I had to choose one

Starting point is 01:08:44 of the other It's tender. These tendees were better than the popcorn chicken. That's that's damning with faint praise because they were a little bit more Passable and I think it was as a sauce delivery mechanism though the ratio was a little bit better of Breading to meet every but they were pretty dry and flavorless. Every piece of chicken had some sort of issue was so weird. Yeah, it was truly There's some spice in there that I didn't want. That was like throwing it off. Like, like, I won't, I don't know, spices, but I'm just gonna call it...

Starting point is 01:09:13 Cardamom, cardamom. Yeah, it's called that. It's called that. It's cardamom. I was thinking the moment of the tea, tarragon, tarragon. Oh, there's time, but I think you're thinking of a different one.

Starting point is 01:09:22 Carragon? Tarragon. Yeah, let's say there's like, there's something in there, like get this and it's overpowering. You were saying there's something always overpowering, everything. Yes, it didn't, every bite of the chicken I took that was like different consistencies, but none of them were good. I was never worried about it being like undercooked or anything like that.

Starting point is 01:09:41 In fact, I think if anything, it was all of it was for sure. It was like seemed to like oiled out and too overcooked. But it was like, like you're saying, is like Dave's hot chicken, or I know that some people don't like the tender place. What's the tender, tender place? We're talking a raising canes. We're the canes. I know something, but I'm like,

Starting point is 01:10:02 both of those places blow this spot out of the line. I like Ray the Keynes. Yeah. I did do, I was working on a job and I had to drive a lot in the South and it, it, it, Ray the Keynes was a good spot, reliable spot to stop. Yeah. So I'm a drove across the country and hit up a lot of

Starting point is 01:10:18 Ray's and Keynes. Yeah. Every time we drive across the country, I'm not a few times. Ray's and Keynes is consistent. Every single time, it's hot, it's fresh, it's delicious. Yeah. You can also buy a gallon of iced tea there. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:10:27 You know what I mean? So I was just driving and then just stopping getting a gallon of iced tea. Wow. I feel like that's a, I'm missed 90 things drinking out of a gallon. You know what I'm saying? I love that.

Starting point is 01:10:37 I think in the 90s, I think people were drinking out of the gallon. Trying to think of it if that was a common thing. I don't feel like I counted that a lot. I drank out of the gallon all the time, but I did, people did call it out. It wasn't normal to do. Maybe it's just the fact that I was in high school

Starting point is 01:10:51 and I would see people drinking out of it. Like walking around with a big gallon jug. I've seen people with a big gallon water jug. I mean, that's what, yeah. But you make a gallon like grape drink or something. Like that's like, I haven't really encountered that. No, that happened to. Before the invention of the modern swell water bottle,

Starting point is 01:11:06 yeah, you know what I mean? People would, meat heads would walk around with just the straight up Poland's brain gallon. Definitely remember that, yeah, for sure. Yeah. I think it popped it with one with the thumb. That's cool. That's cool.

Starting point is 01:11:18 That's fucking cool. That's cool, Sal. It makes me want water. It makes me want water. We were talking water before this, dude. It makes me want water. I, look look there was a lot of drink options here to try to go to the light side, but the Pepsi Spire sucks. Mm hmm. And then what were the other sweet tea that a strawberry lemonade in the night. It was great. I'll say that. I love it. They

Starting point is 01:11:38 had their own I didn't write the name down, but I took a photo of the fountain because they have their own kind of soda fountain that's there. Stubborn. Stubborn soda. Yeah, they did. Stubborn soda machine. That actually was a highlight for me. Yeah, that place is good.

Starting point is 01:11:52 We tried that. We tried that pineapple cream soda, and that was really good. Yeah, there's black cherry soda. I thought it was good. Just the regular, just this cola was quite good too. Yeah, I thought that was a good fountain. I liked it. I, I, I had one comment.

Starting point is 01:12:03 Do you, can I talk about the ambiance first? Please over there. Do. I, first knock is the fact that it's just nothing. Shack, you're like, why is it not like, like, what do they call fat heads or whatever? Like on the like, why is there not just a lot of Shack memorabilia here? Like, why isn't Shack shoe there? You should have Shacks. There's a great picture. Yeah. No, you fill up from the stubborn out of a Shax shoe. Yeah, I mean, I love you.

Starting point is 01:12:28 You're gonna have a Shax shoe. They should have a meal to serve in the Shax shoe. Even if you don't go that far, each individual location having a different autographed Shax shoe would be like a great centerpiece. I don't know where to. Hey, I can look at that big issue. Because here's the thing, you're smart.

Starting point is 01:12:42 You're not going to in the bathroom. How do you measure up to Shax? There you go. He's like, you're hog comparison. Just like on the wall. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, like, look, this is the thing.

Starting point is 01:12:56 Part of Shaq's appeal is that he's a giant. And we as humanity are fascinated by giants. So yeah, lean into that, give us the big shoe. But also, there is like a portrait of Shaq, it's on the inside of the door and it's very small. And it's just like, exactly, it's so nice. It's easy to miss. I like-

Starting point is 01:13:13 Employees only. Yeah, this fucking bullshit. The other things they have are like, a little bit more subtle nods. Like obviously, like obviously some of the menu items are Shaq related. They do have on the wall, they have Can You Dig It? Which is a thing that he would say.

Starting point is 01:13:24 But I thought it was said. I thought it was something. I was like, didn't say something different than can you dig it? It's said on the way out. It says, did you dig it? So on the side wall, it says can you dig it on the, on the exit to dig it? Booker cheese, not the warriors. It's a thing he took from the warriors, but he said it when the Lakers won the championship. He said, can you dig it? And he would say it every year at the championship.

Starting point is 01:13:44 Right. So it's like if Kevin Grunets would just say anything is possible. Like that's just it's like if Kevin Grinets, but you know, the sell there's a little more original. So he did anything as possible. Yeah. I mean, do you want? Yeah. Yeah. I think when you have one title in the span that the Lakers of one seven titles, you probably have to make that one. Well, the titles are yours either. Just let's not forget that. Well, I talked about the titles since the year 2000. And I don't even think all those are probably pretty much ours. Johnny Danes.

Starting point is 01:14:11 Six titles. It's okay. So there's that comment about the shak thing. Yeah. Then my next is the place looks really cheap. Like it looks kind of like a place that's set up temporarily. Like, the menus are made of like foam board.

Starting point is 01:14:30 Yeah. Right? There's nothing, it didn't have a, right? It looks like a pop-up. It looks like to your point, it's leaning in the first two parts of the triforce here. It's, this is a partnership of JARIS Hospitality and Authentic Brands Group.

Starting point is 01:14:44 Like if it's like, that's what this, these two restaurant groups are going to craft together. That, this is a partnership of J.R.S. Hospitality and Authentic Brands group. Like if it's like, that's what this, these two restaurant groups are going to craft together. That, this is what it feels like. Since the year 2000, fuck off, the Emoennial. All right, go back to the, go back to the NBA, ABA merger. Look at that span. 80s on.

Starting point is 01:14:58 Yeah, look at like, like 19, what season was that? 1977? No, better, the Celtics, we're getting some, we're getting some, yeah, you're talking about four titles versus 11? Okay. Okay, so it's like, like, like,

Starting point is 01:15:09 I'm just saying, if you're going back to ancient history, if you wanna just talk about all of that and you're asking, oh yeah, that's fine. World War II doesn't matter either. Okay. All that stuff counts. The title's back.

Starting point is 01:15:19 I agree it all counts. I'm just saying like if we're talking about. I think we're talking about two matters. Okay. Talking about recency. We're talking about one or two. I'm saying that that's're talking about. I don't think more or two matters. Talk about recency. You're like, we're gonna do more or two. I'm saying that that's a big thing I tell you. We should literally skip over it. Here's another thing too on the way out.

Starting point is 01:15:36 It says, did you dig it? Did you dig it? Kind of like a sad thing if like McDonald's like, did you like it? Like that's kind of a sad thing. It is a little pathetic. It's a little pathetic. It's you dig it? It pathetic. It's a little pathetic.

Starting point is 01:15:46 It's, you dig it? That sucks. It's a little low status for a place, but I mean, this is part of the thing. And I think it's part of the issue with this place. I think it's just gonna get a lot of people in the door based off of Shaxx, you know, the people's fandom for Shaxx and people with a curiosity factor. And then once they try it, they're not going back.

Starting point is 01:16:00 Cause what reason would you? Shaxx is by Papa John's call. Well, they should have made it Papa Jack, a Shaxx. They should they should have made a Papa Shacks he's on the Papa John's board of directors he has Papa John's franchise is that he oversees so one maybe part of the issue of this place is that his you know his own focus is divided and like maybe he's not his hands on with his places he could be or maybe also just like you know running a restaurant is its own challenge and this is the thing he's maybe not soon to work. You would go Shake Shack, just change it to the queue

Starting point is 01:16:28 or you go Shake Shack? Honestly. Great question. When all this funny is, I was like, so wanted Shake Shack while we were in. Like Shake Shack, I feel like we've been meeting. Oh my God, if we've gone two doors down to Shake Shack, we had a much better lunch.

Starting point is 01:16:41 What was Shake Shack crowded or no? I couldn't tell, I didn't pop over there. It didn't look like any of that strip was like all that crowded that time of day. There's no parking though. So somebody's doing something there. Yeah. The Americanos across the street didn't

Starting point is 01:16:54 tie fong as a cross street moving though. Didn't tie Shack. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Dude, I would go there. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:17:02 Some of the side kids. You're just dumb-wing. Yeah. Oh my god. That'd be Shack's big dumb thing. Some of the side kids. You're just dumb-wing? I really think you're gonna be, oh my god. That'd be Shax big dumb-wing. I actually had a kind of a positive on the place. What is that? So, I know, here's my controversial statement. I actually kinda dig the fries.

Starting point is 01:17:18 So the fries were, they're called, they're called, they're called their, they're called their B.C. fries. They are, they are a thin-cut steak steak fry and they're really thin and really crispy. I like these fries conceptually. Sure. Okay. All right, that is more fair. Conceptually?

Starting point is 01:17:35 Because I, okay, so I've been to like, the loaded ones were so bad. Yeah, not the loaded. I just mean the actual potato. But I, but I think the fries that were in the lower ones also were like two, they tasted like deflated fries. You're gonna make some patriots joke, pieces shit. I wasn't going to, but no, I don't need to. Oh, well, yeah, he will heat ledger. So like the fry, okay, to the fry,

Starting point is 01:18:00 because I've been to like, have you ever been to a game? Oh, the patriots. It's fine, no worries. Yeah. I should have, the Mel Gibson,'re been to a game, the picture is, it's not, no worries. I should have, the Mel Gibson, the Mel Gipson, the publisher, the Patreon. I have a sub, sub, game going on here. Only the producers are picking up on it. When they talk sports, I find it just some random reference.

Starting point is 01:18:18 Anyway, it's fine. The viewers, these are Easter eggs, many are saying. Oh, dude, these are Passover eggs. Let's go, let's pass over eggs, lots are Easter eggs, man, you're saying. Oh, dude, these are Passover eggs. Let's go, Passover eggs, lots. But so, no. Mel Gibson is the, Mel Gibson is the Bill Bell Check of directing in my mind. I think that.

Starting point is 01:18:33 The Bill Bellamy? No, the Bill Bell Check. Oh, you don't like football. No, well, I like football like I like these fries, conceptually. Wasn't Bill Bellamy, I feel like though we're talking sports, so it wasn't Bill Bellamy really get the rock and jock. I feel like I remember.

Starting point is 01:18:48 Yeah, he was very good. He's very athletic, Bill Bellamy, many are saying. But so, okay, see these fries, have you ever, I've been to like Greek restaurants in Manhattan where they have like you order a potato. I don't even know if they're cold fries, but they're like freshly sliced, lightly fried thin potatoes. Have you had that ever?

Starting point is 01:19:09 Um, I don't, I mean, this isn't ring about. Like a lemon on the side or something. Okay. So I think I know what you're talking about. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I'm also fully described it. So, you know, I'm not talking about like a chupacabro. I'm not talking about like a chupacabro. I'm not talking about a thin fry, a lightly fried, I mean, I think you get. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Starting point is 01:19:32 Guys, you're making me look like a fucking joke. No, you're doing great. No, no, no. All right. I think I know what you're talking about. Here's, I wish that I wish that the rock and jock was still around. And I like, I wish I could wish that the rock and jock was still around and I like I wish I could play on a rock and Jack. Yeah, you're at the you absolutely could be getting there. You might be able to get into some

Starting point is 01:19:52 Not even close yet, but I'm saying it would be fun to get in there someday, wouldn't it? Also, I'd be like, yeah, of course, like I was it was it was wrestling baseball. Yes, yeah, 100% yeah, so like I remember people would like do really well, there was a basketball. The which one was a rock and junk was a baseball or basketball. I think there was maybe was a I remember it being a baseball thing. There is a basketball thing. They still do with the the the celebrity game at the NBA all star. That's what we can't.

Starting point is 01:20:18 But yeah, yeah. That's a different thing though. That's more of a legit. It's like goofy, but it's still more of a legit game. It would be also fun to be the first celebrity like die on the rock and jock field Like who's the first celebrity for you? I guess it was Bill Bellamy when you think rock and jock I think him or was guy comes to mind Roger McDowell is the other thing the guy who was the pity thing. Yeah, yeah Yeah, my my brain is just polyshore. Oh sure. Yeah, I was just hating. I don't know.

Starting point is 01:20:45 It was probably sure good in that. So it's a thin fry. Yeah. So I'm saying, very thin, like super thin. If you can, So I've had it in the side of lemon juice. So lemon's like a yellow fruit.

Starting point is 01:20:57 Yeah. So when I'm saying, not a squash. Yeah. So when I'm saying it's a thin fry, like that if you can fry it where it doesn't just become a chip like a Frito. Yeah. Which is what happened there. Yeah. There it was just became a Frito. Yeah. You know. And or like basically like a one time. You know what I'm saying? If you can get it where it's still soft, a thin fry is actually can be very nice. It's like

Starting point is 01:21:21 a thin crust pizza of a steak fry. Yeah. Yeah, because because they're fat, they're fat and thin at once. And they are like really, they were just crispness. They were just. But these were just hard. They were. Yeah, one for sure. The concept sucks. Well, I don't think we're understanding. So there's a landing. I mean, clearly they did not work at Big Chicken. They were they, they, they were not work. There was like moments where I was like, Oh, this is like not work at Big Chicken. They were not work. There was moments where I was like,

Starting point is 01:21:46 oh, this is like better than the last one. But they tasted like, it tastes like they sucked the potato out of that. Yeah, they were really inconsistent. The sweet potato waffle fries were a little bit better just because they were closer to something that resembles a real fry. But I thought those are also pretty disappointing. The jalapeno slaw was just slimy and it just felt like it'd been made, it was made earlier in the wake.

Starting point is 01:22:07 That was one of the battery days. That was one of the battery days. That was pretty rough. And then the mac and cheese too was like, this should be a home run. It's mac and cheese with cheese it crackers, crumbled on top. It gives it a little bit of texture,

Starting point is 01:22:19 but it's also overpowers it. And then the actual mac and cheese doesn't have much flavor to it. Yeah, it should be, this should be like rock and job. We should be hitting home runs left and right here. It's a ground out to short, likes. And so it's disappointing. I know the shakes were okay.

Starting point is 01:22:36 Is ground out of short then what happened? He ground out to short. So he hit the short short side, and he's supposed to throw it first, but then what did he do? How did he mess it up on the overthrow? No, that's what I'm saying. No, he's saying the batter legs.

Starting point is 01:22:48 I ground I just hit it to the shortstop. The shortstop fielded it. Well, now he's going to throw me out at first. I'm cooked. That's what you're saying, right? Yeah, I'm not. Yeah, but instead it was. No, he's saying he's saying it should have been like a.

Starting point is 01:23:02 And then the fucking home run and then we're sure that the basis, yeah, yeah, but instead I was like, kind of ground out to a short stop and he felt it. That's how people turn on rock and jack for it. And Shaq, look, we love the guy. We love Shaq. I don't want to piss off Shaq. I don't want to hear it take Shaq.

Starting point is 01:23:20 Too we love him, like we said, this sucks. It's a bummer. It sucks, but it's truly one of the worst fast food meals I've had in a while. It was so not worth it I'm so disappointed because I was really looking forward to I was so looking forward to eating with you guys and You guys also were disappointing The conversation what can't make should we attack the conversation? I thought it was, we are going to be step-shrilly. It was good. There was a lot of good topics.

Starting point is 01:23:47 Right. It was all fried too much. It's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it'm not gonna say that. Yeah, that's what you said. I feel like the doughboys are kind of like the steak fries you described not thin. Right.

Starting point is 01:24:11 But besides that, similar in bat, just a bad concept. Just kind of malformed in upsetting. We also got some suites which were the, the, their shakes. More of the highlight, honestly. Yeah, their shakes, I think were, that was honestly the best thing I had was that sip of your double chocolate shake,

Starting point is 01:24:29 which had a nice bit of texture to it with the crumbled chocolate pieces in there. And I also thought my Oreo shake was fine. It was like a, if I got this from Caramel. I thought it was a better Oreo shake, but it was fine. We also got, and then Dan, you got the salted caramel, which I thought was, I mean, your lactose and tolerance,

Starting point is 01:24:44 so you didn't have a lot of it. I didn't have much of it either, but it tasted okay. Yeah, it was fine. But again, I said this about shakes when we were there is that the shake I do think has a ceiling. I think a bad shake is, I'll still like it. I've never had a shake where I'm like, this one was so much better. Yeah. Then the other best shake I had, but maybe I'm wrong, you know, I think you're

Starting point is 01:25:05 right. Yeah, yeah, but shakes are always great. They're always just good. Yeah, we also got this big cookie being good. This big cookie, which I'm holding up, it feels like it was made last week. We'll see. This costs $13. So we're going to share this and see if it's worth it. But this is the last, I mean, we don't have to have it. I mean, we're just gonna have to make such a big ootki. Is there any world with this cookie? I don't know, the power to make that a big of a ootki. Oh my god, your Yiddish is so hot. Okay, this is a little bit more crumbly than I had just a bit.

Starting point is 01:25:38 He's a Yiddish turn. Hand this over. No idea. Cookie is Yiddish. Cookie is Yiddish? Cookie is Yiddish. People don't know that. This is about the, for people who are listening. I think that's not your line. That is Yiddish. Cookie is Yiddish? Cookie is Yiddish. People don't know that. This is about the, for people who are listening.

Starting point is 01:25:46 Yeah, that's not your line. That's not your line. For audio listeners, this is about the, this is about the circumference of a standard pancake, I'd say. It's a big cookie. Actually, I think you're hitting up a big pancake. Maybe a little more of a dinner plate than a pancake. Is that your standard pancake?

Starting point is 01:26:01 Yeah, that's a pretty fucking big pancake. It's a big flapjack, maybe. I think it's the size of a plate, a paper plate at a picnic birthday party. This is one of the better things we have. This is one of the better things we have. Which is going to be a pretty disappointing. Sure.

Starting point is 01:26:18 I mean, it also kind of tastes like a big chipmahoy. Mm-hmm. So I'm like, why are we paying 13 bucks and going to a chain restaurant to try a big chipahoy? You guys, we brought this to a kid's birthday party and we're like, wow, big cookie, you know? And it does at least stay shabby as the big cookie. What's up?

Starting point is 01:26:37 Fucking idiot kid. Wow, big good, you know? Fucking cookie, here you go. It's your dumb Sorry kid I'd get you a gift at from big chicken on the way to your fucking That place was insanely empty. I know we said it already it was earlier That was such a busy first time like 12 30 like 12 40 to like one 35 140 sure I was We're talking like 12, like 1240 to like one,

Starting point is 01:27:07 35, 140. There was no one in there. There's office buildings over there. There was nobody, no one was, no one was coming in. Pretty deserted, well look, we gotta get to our forks, guys. So we're gonna take one more break. We'll be right back with the final verdict on Big Chicken. So we're gonna take one more break. We'll be right back with the final verdict on Big Chicken.

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Starting point is 01:28:52 Welcome back to doboys Dan Black. It's time for our four scores here. Here's how this will work. We'll each go around. We'll give our closing argument on big chicken and end that by giving it a score from zero to five forks. You are a guest, we'll begin with you. We're thoughts you're a forks score. Yeah, so I mean, obviously I'm gonna give this a very low score. I, this place is a, this place is dog shit. The saving grace of this place is that the face of it is Shaqil, oh, motherfucking Neil, okay?

Starting point is 01:29:22 He's nowhere to be seen. No, they're almost ashamed of Shrek, whichucking meal. Okay. He's nowhere to be seen. No, they're almost ashamed of Shrek Which is crazy. How could you ever be ashamed of Shrek? Okay, Shrek rules the chicken is clearly frozen When they heat it up that you don't taste the inside the inside is not fresh at all. It's completely dry. The outside is not seasoned in any kind of way that is fun, tasty, or unique. It's literally just nothing. And then all the sides are terrible.

Starting point is 01:29:53 They literally have mac and cheese where they crumble cheese it's on it. Sometimes I do that if I'm trying to eat healthy and then I go, oh fuck, this is grilled chicken and white rice, like, what do I have? I'll go through the cupboards, I'll be like, oh, I got cheese it's and I'll crumble cheeses. On the top of my meal to make it edible,

Starting point is 01:30:10 that's what they did in a restaurant and they charged like $10 for this small side. The coastlaw was terrible, which in my family's sacrilege, my father literally, if you had like an IV bag, ever probably filled the fucking coastlaw. My dad eats a quart of coastlaw a day. Wow.

Starting point is 01:30:26 Coastlaw is so important in my house. If we're out of coastlaw, my dad will be like, Sherry, where's the coastlaw? If my dad went to this place, he'd be so upset. And chicken is my favorite food, fried chicken. I love it. I earned this meal. I went to the gym, I crushed.

Starting point is 01:30:42 Okay, I was pumping biceps triceps quads calves interior quads exterior quads Okay spring cheese any all everything okay and I went to this place to sit with my friends. The food was awful. The conversation was worse. It brought out the worst in these guys. And these guys are pretty great. Wow. To this place.

Starting point is 01:31:14 I just grew that, but everyone else did. That's me get to it out of five forks. I'll give this place half a fork. Half a fork. Honestly, I fork. Half a fork. Honestly, score. Half a four. What do you think? And that's just the same room for the zero fork. I mean, I might go a little lighter on a put out. If this is really, really bad outing, I mean, like, I give a half fork

Starting point is 01:31:40 to what was the, what was the gross? When I had the plac that's caros. Oh, you're thinking like year one dough boy. Yeah, that was really that was zero for. Yeah, it might have been that was like eating like you're going to restaurant eating slime. This was like this isn't like eating slime. But you know what, Jack?

Starting point is 01:32:01 I love you. But with big chicken, you look like a big turkey. Mitch, I can't believe you'd say that. I love this guy, but he looks like a big turkey. That's too far. We had a bad experience, but come on. You're looking like a big turkey. If this is the type of food you're gonna serve us.

Starting point is 01:32:19 The chicken was horrible. I mean, and look, there was no other option besides chicken. The popcorn chicken point, there's no other protein there. That's it. You're getting chicken. And the chicken is so bad, you're just getting it in bad forms in like different ways. The littlest version of the shit, look, it's like Shaq. The bigger he is, the more, the better it is. So I guess he's never been to his sizes. But you get me every size over the course of his life. That's true. Baby Shack, not as fun as big adult Jack. Do you ever think about that? Like as big as you are, you were every size before

Starting point is 01:32:53 that. Never thought that. Tumoric. That's what it was. Hermoric. Tumoric. Tumoric. I also don't know what the fuck you were talking about. Okay, so you're, like as tall as you are, you were once, like as tall as I am, right? That's true. Like you grew from my height into your height, which is taller than me. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:33:17 You were also Dan's height. You were everyone's height in this room at a certain point. I've been, you know, I've been all your heights. You've also, you see a little baby out there, you see a little tiny baby like walking around and taking his first steps, you were that size. No, no, I was. You were, Mitch.

Starting point is 01:33:32 No, I was. You were exactly the couple we had at Big Chicken. I was never that size. You were that big at a certain point. Isn't that wild? Yeah, it makes me question why only some things grew. Did you measure it at check? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:33:53 It is weird in my records when I was born. There is like high weight, like whatever, like 10 pounds, five ounces, and then there is hog size. They did measure my dick. I was right. Did NA? On the wall, there's on my wall, my house,

Starting point is 01:34:11 there's like measurements of me getting taller and then also like the little measurements out. I was saying they were measuring my bone. Yeah. Look, who was they? You mean your parents? Yeah. They, I said they. The guy with the parents, who was the next your neighbor your parents? Yeah, they. I just said they.

Starting point is 01:34:25 The guy with the parents, too. He was an extra neighbor to people. It's measuring time. I was embarrassed to say my parents, but yeah, my parents. Yeah, he is. Big chicken makes Shaq look like a turkey. And it breaks my heart.

Starting point is 01:34:41 I love the guy. I think that Shaq, I know that you make millions of, you make people happy. You make the world happier. We love Shaq. We love Shaq. But Shaq, I think you got to be either something's gone wrong here. Obviously not a lot of people in the restaurant. So either something's gone wrong with this. And I don't think it's the location. I like we said, everyone working there was extremely pleasant. So I don't, I think it's a taste issue. I don't know if this is a place you should have put your name on. I don't

Starting point is 01:35:15 know how much he cares about this place. But, but I think you got to, you got to hit the, and that's fine. When the Doe Boy started, we were different podcasts. Yeah. And then you know what, we figure things out and you figure it out. And it's still bad. But he's got, he maybe has to just, he's got to, he's got to hit the,

Starting point is 01:35:37 he's got to try to figure out what this place is again. What I'm trying to say, the rewrite room. He's got to figure it out. Right. You got to, it's just, it's got to figure it out. Hmm. You got it. It's just, it's not worth having your name on it. Yeah. And it's one fork.

Starting point is 01:35:51 Wow, one fork. Like Mitch, like Dan, I adore Shaq. I'm a huge Shaq fan. I wish on Shaq side and the Shaq Kobe feud, which is a rare for Laker fans. Most people sided with Kobe. A lot of my favorite sports memories are attached to shack. Um, I, you know, yeah.

Starting point is 01:36:11 When Jack asked, tell me how my ass tastes. I think now we know. Well, we know. You're right. Tastes like big chicken. Yeah. Mm-hmm. You're absolutely right.

Starting point is 01:36:19 And I would not want to, I would not want to eat that. Mm-hmm. So it's, it's a, I can't believe this is so sad. It's a solemn day here on the Doe Boys podcast where we have to, I'm just leaving. We have to, I was done. I'm out to go.

Starting point is 01:36:35 Where we have to, you know, call Shack a turkey. We have to call Shack a turkey. We have to take one of our heroes and, you know, just giving tomorrow, right? Well, thanks, giving you soon. It's true. Yeah it's going up. And say that this thing that he's affiliated with is not up to snuff but it's like but it

Starting point is 01:36:54 does kind of remind me it's like you know what though this is what Shaq does. He just attaches himself to things and a lot of it is middling to low quality. You look at his filmography because Am is not a good movie. Steel is unwatchable. You know, his, like, people love that he's affiliated with the general, and that is a lot of fun. I love the general ads, but a lot of his ads are kind of like fucking whatever, a lot of his partnerships or whatever.

Starting point is 01:37:18 A lot of his- You, compared two of his movies to commercials with a little animated guy. Well, but I mean, like, what this is what I'm saying. Like, that's his whole thing is that he does, he does cross branding. He takes Shaquille O'Neill the guy. He is a master of media, he is a master of marketing. He takes his personal brand and affixes it to other things.

Starting point is 01:37:36 But a lot of times, those are things like Shaq Fou, both the video game and the album. They're things that just like no one actually likes. They're just things that have any sort of... I'm not sure. Care about Big Chicken. That's the thing. I don't think he cares that much.

Starting point is 01:37:50 I think he sees this as an opportunity to grow his brand and as a profit center, but I don't think he actually cares that much about the quality of the food. And if he does, then he should get in there and make some changes to the menu and see some positive reforms for this place. As he seems to have done with Papa John's, Papa John seems to be a little bit on the upswing.

Starting point is 01:38:08 This place is DOA unfortunately. I give this place an extra one fork just because of my affection for Shaq, which gives it one fork. Because this is a terrible, this is a zero fork meal, but I give it one fork for its affiliation with the big Aristotle. Wow. That was disappointing.

Starting point is 01:38:28 Yeah. What a bummer. Funny. He's got getting boxed out by LHS hospitality. It could be that. The one in his own. Yeah. And some shakers of like Kendrick Perkins and the paint just sort of docking him out of

Starting point is 01:38:40 there. Yeah. Kendrick Perkins. But I've said, like, I don't think he's that involved. I really think he's more of a silent investor with a light brand touch. And I wouldn't be surprised if he came out of one point and was like, I don't like this. He was like, you know what, I pulled my photos.

Starting point is 01:38:57 I pulled the back on the branding because I didn't like the food. That honestly would be the savvy move for him. We saw Mr. Beast did that with Mr. Beast Perger. Mr. Beast Berger was a thing that was from the Robert Earl who was the planet Hollywood guy who runs all these ghost kitchens and he just has all these celebrity run restaurants and Mr. Beast Berger fucking sucked.

Starting point is 01:39:15 And he just, he came out and he said, like, I'm taking my name off of this because this is not what I was promised. Shaq would be smart to do that. He'd also be smart to get in there and make sure, like, you know, get a new fucking corporate chef in there and redo the menu, because it's not working.

Starting point is 01:39:30 After you guys left, I went on the back door. I kind of walked by the back and Shaq was back there and I said, Shaq, would you mind putting this, if you wouldn't mind just if you could free throw this seasoning onto the chicken. Mm-hmm. Yeah. He's got a perfect season. He's not good.

Starting point is 01:39:47 He's not good at free throws. He has a perfect season. And I said, let me see this. I put the seasoning on the chicken. I was like, this is fantastic. Yeah. This is fantastic. You're gonna, why are you having Shaq shoot, why are you trying to have Shaq shoot the

Starting point is 01:39:58 seasoning on the chicken? That's fucking LA just hospitality. It doesn't, you're demanding that he free throws the seasoning. It doesn't make sense. That's the idea. This is Vegas shit. This is't make sense. You're demanding that he free throws the season. It doesn't make sense. That's the biggest shit. This is a Vegas brain. Don't free throw the, don't free throw it onto the chicken.

Starting point is 01:40:12 I agree with, Mitch, I agree with you. Let him get up close to the rim and dunk it. I'm steamed right now. This was, this meal really. He should dunk it. I wouldn't even mind if he dunked the season. He was just shattered glass You know what I mean I would I would have been tasted better. I don't I don't I don't get it

Starting point is 01:40:32 Yeah, I don't get it. Yeah, it's a bummer. That would have been awesome. I know we're done But a shattered if they some kind of like shattered glass Yeah, you know like you sugar Yeah, I'm a fucking awesome. Yeah, if it is donut like that. Yo man, I gotta work at LHS. That'll be awesome. I'm getting there bro. That'd be rad, Hayden Kishensen.

Starting point is 01:40:51 I love the jumper. It's trying like the Patriot thing. I know, I know. Be clear, we were confused when he did it. And then you did it. And it was working for me over, it's working for me over. All right, that was our review of Big Chicken. Hey, we got some flavors of the fall.

Starting point is 01:41:12 It's time for an autumn edition of Season's Eatings, which means it's time for the official theme song of Season's Eatings. Emma? Oh my God. It's November. This is though the canonical theme song since season one of season's eating, Scusters Cover of Donde Estastante Claus. Tim Allen.

Starting point is 01:41:39 Alright, let's taste some of these. So we've got a few different things. We've got a couple of Entenmins and we've got a, Emma's going to walk these over here. I can help you out with these too. Okay, so we've got some, and shout out to Amelia for grabbing a lot of this stuff. First off, we've got some Van Luin buttermilk berry cornbread ice cream. Now, Dan, I know you have some lactose issues, so no pressure to taste test this one,

Starting point is 01:42:07 but this does sound good. We've also got some Entenman's Popums. These are pumpkin flavored. We've got some HeyMitch. She down with ACD. We got some Apple cider doughnuts for Entenman. Yeah, you know me. And we also got some pumpkin pie spice walnuts.

Starting point is 01:42:20 So we're gonna try just a few of these things. How do you feel about fall flavors? I'm not a huge pumpkin spice guy. Neither am I. I'm not huge pumpkin spice. I'm not that into a fall flavors. I love fall to season. I love fall, and also, I love entomins.

Starting point is 01:42:34 Oh, actually fun fact where I grew up on the island, right around the corner where I grew up was the entomins outlet. Oh, wow. So you get like ones that were like right at their expiration date for like half the price. So we ate a shit ton of entomins going up because we're fucking, wanted to save money. Oh wow. So you get like ones that were like right at their expiration date for like half the price. So we ate a shit ton of entomins going up because we were fucking wanted to save money.

Starting point is 01:42:50 That's that's fun. So I love apple cider donuts. I think I've tried these entomin donuts and I don't know if they're good. We'll find out. All right, so I scoop myself a little bit of this fan Lewin ice cream first because as Emma indicated, this is the most time sensitive due to the melt factor.

Starting point is 01:43:10 This does have some ample cornbread mixins here as well as it looks like some ribbons of the berry flavoring. I just after, I just can't, you don't have to have very much of it. I'm gonna try to, no, I'm just saying after big chicken, I'm just, I feel like shit.

Starting point is 01:43:28 Yeah. Oh yeah, it is kind of soft. Yeah, it's very soft. It's great. I absolutely love this. I instantly love this. This ice cream is really good. Yeah, I think the cornbread texture,

Starting point is 01:43:42 which is like, it's like by its nature, a little bit dry, but it works really well, surrounded by this sweet cream, and then just like a great henna berry. That is really good. That's delicious. Yeah. All right, that's a high water mark.

Starting point is 01:43:56 It might be all downhill from here. So you're not a potent spice flavor. I was so unsatisfied after Big Chicken. Yeah, bum me out. So this is. This is so good. This bum me out. So this is so good. This is so much better. Yeah, it's really good. And you're right, the berry hit is nice.

Starting point is 01:44:10 Oh yeah, it's the exact amount and you can still taste the ice cream. What's your favorite berry? Straw. Great berry. Did you get a favorite berry? I got a berry. Hmm.

Starting point is 01:44:23 Oh, he looks like a fucking boy. Emma Casey, you're on deck for favorite berry. So think about it. Big boys and it. Barry. I look like a fucking boy. Emma Casey, you're on deck for Barry. So think about it. Big boys and got Todd. You like Todd Barry. Todd Barry is really funny. Emma, like a Barry?

Starting point is 01:44:34 Strawberry. Good choice, Casey. I think I'm a rasp guy. Rasberry is a great choice. Or blackberries. I love blackberries. I really love blackberries and I was leaning there or strawberries. I think I will go blackberries just to go counter to the to everyone here, but I mean I didn't

Starting point is 01:44:51 like blackberry. Yeah, go on. I did strawberry Darrell straw. Oh sure. Yeah. Darrell strawberry Todd berry. Mm-hmm. Mary and Barry, of course. Just grace watching a DC mayor. Oh yeah. You just did a little drugs, right? What was that? You just did a little drugs. You just did some drugs, yeah. I think that was not a big deal. I'm not a big deal.

Starting point is 01:45:12 I'm not a big deal. I think right now you're just like, it's probably not crack one time, I'm sure. I think that's okay. I think our politicians are allowed to smoke crack. I think, I know, I think I'm hiding. I think I'm sorry. I think it was in trap man. I think you man. Yeah, yeah, it wouldn't really bother me

Starting point is 01:45:28 Yeah, he's doing a bang up job, but he's you're like to get a little high no problem That was fantastic. That was really good. All right, so let's do the Entenmin's pop-ups Some pumpkin spice donut holes straws my answer I think what are the other berries? donut holes. Straw is my answer, I think. But what are the other berries? Raz, straw. Razberry, blackberry. We're not talking about blueberry. I don't think blueberries are anyone's favorites, but blueberries are very solid. I have a lot of blueberries. Yeah, because I just do it as yogurt mixins. I will get a lot of fresh blueberries. Just toss it in there. It's not as fresh fruit. I don't go crazy over any berries as

Starting point is 01:46:00 far as fresh fruit. Wow. I mean, I eat them and I like them, but I just they're not like. You're not excited over berries? I like like, I like them, but I just, they're not like... You're not excited over berries? I like, I like, give me some mango, give me some pineapple, give me this fruit. Yeah, mango is good. More, I mean, like, that's juicy.

Starting point is 01:46:13 The berries are always just like, oh, fucking, berries are for like bears and shit. I don't know. It's too primal for you. Berries are for bears. Berries are for bears. You know what you're thinking when you like someone orders like mixed berries to the table,

Starting point is 01:46:24 I'm like, what are you doing? Yes, yeah, I agree with that. It's like grocery store. Well, I want these people to do something. You know, that's the end. I got a couple of long ingredients. I'm not paying for that. I'm using part of the issue with berries.

Starting point is 01:46:36 A lot of the context in which you'll get berries like what you were just describing. You're going to get a big bowl of like kind of a berries kind of meh berries. I think if you go to the farmers market and you're getting some quality berries that are in season, you're going to they're going of like kind of, eh, berries, kind of, eh, berries. I think if you go into the farmer's market, you're getting some quality berries that are in season. They're gonna be hidden a little bit better. But like a mid-berry is like not worth your time. Ah, a job berry. No, thank you.

Starting point is 01:46:52 No, but I'm saying at a restaurant, if someone orders mixed berries, that's what I'm talking about. But that's the scenario in which you'll get some pretty like kind of half-assed berries. I don't like pumpkin flavor, and the problems aren't bad. These aren't bad. They're not bad. They're not bad. They're not bad.

Starting point is 01:47:07 I might, you, or should you take this ice cream? You and Casey should try it. It's nice to be able to do it. This is not bad, but this would be, I would say this is a not worth it snack, like a party or something. You don't understand.

Starting point is 01:47:18 I would be like, I'm so mad myself. Yeah, 100%. This I fear might also be a not worth it snack. These are pumpkin pie spice walnuts. Yeah, they're not perfect. I'm open this bad boy up. I'm looking at the ingredients.

Starting point is 01:47:36 Yes, this does have a good amount of added sugar. So I think this is a going to be a little bit of a sweet treat. Let me take a few of these. What are we doing with flavoring the walnuts now? It's the Bashar Matters Calco. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Raaandy. Raaandy. Raaandy. Raaandy. You just start selling out stadiums like, oh shit, look at Dan exploded. Okay. People love his menace scalp. He's gotta be sad, he's doing it,

Starting point is 01:48:10 he's doing it ironically, right? Yeah. There we go. Pumpkin pie, pumpkin pie spice one. Let's return to our berry discussion but change berry to nuts. Favorite nuts? Let's go around. Do you have a favorite nut, Dan?

Starting point is 01:48:28 Um. I was gonna say sunflower seed. I don't know, that's not a nut. No, I had to switch. I'll give it to you. I think seeds and nuts kind of all fall in the seed. Okay, that's my love sunflower seeds. But I mean salted while I'm not playing baseball.

Starting point is 01:48:47 I'm just like, the brother. Yeah. These were good. Yeah, these are pretty good. I fucking retract what I said. They're not that sweet too, which is to their, to their credit.

Starting point is 01:48:59 Do you have a favorite nut? Yeah, these nuts. Yeah. Yeah. Couple, these. That's. That to me. We're friend. I like when I have like a really quick nut. Yeah. Like that. Two minutes. Break in a Zoom call.

Starting point is 01:49:21 I'm following the fucking Jeffrey Tuben over here. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. We were on Zoom for a long time. fucking Jeffrey Tuben over here. I'm not pulling, I'm not pulling. I'm not, we were on Zoom for a long time. I never Tubened. I never Tubened either on our Zoom for the rest of the time. Neither was ever Tubened. No one ever Tubened. No one ever Tubened.

Starting point is 01:49:33 No one ever Tubened right? We did have Tuben guest one time. No comment, no comment. Yeah. Right, Emma, we may use that document. You have to say we didn't Tubened. I mean, yep. Yeah, no Tubened.

Starting point is 01:49:43 By the way, that guy should just get his job back, right? Yeah, come on. It was job. He's got to be back at CNN. Toobin, come on. I mean, like, it was the pandemic. It was the pandemic. It was the pandemic.

Starting point is 01:49:53 He's like cranking it. He cranked it during the meeting. Look, not a great time to crank it. He's like, look, am I... He's a stressful meeting. Am I gonna lie and tell you people, like when we went in pitch the doughboy show that I didn't run to the bathroom and crank it myself?

Starting point is 01:50:06 Of course I did. You crank it before a big meeting. Why? Why is this what happened? I got to do that big chicken. No, while at the table. Oh, no shit. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:50:18 How did you shack up with shack? Did you do all right? Surprisingly, I have a bigger. Yeah, you have a good chicken shack that. You're taking a jack, wow. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think to answer my own question, I have lately gotten really into cashews. There's something about the cashew

Starting point is 01:50:35 that's just like really like a little. You're all I gotta say. Yeah. Peanuts. Peanuts are a great classic nut. You know what, fuck it. I know, the listener's gonna get mad, me. We just picked a basic nut. You know what, fuck it. I know, listen to you get mad, me.

Starting point is 01:50:46 Miss picked a basic nut. Miss, a P nut says nut, act technically a nut. It's like the Goome family. Shut the fuck up. I'm a basic nut guy. What do you want from it? I like the basics. You're the basics. Like jacking off to big boobs.

Starting point is 01:50:56 You're a basic nut guy. I'm a basic nut guy. I'm a basic nut guy. I jack off to Baywatch. I'm a basic nut guy. Yeah. Oh, the sports-illiterated swimsuit issue. I'm a basic nut guy. Yeah. Oh, the sports-illotated swimsuit issue. I'm a basic nut guy.

Starting point is 01:51:07 That's what, why bring them back? Time to hit up hooters. I'm a basic nut guy. That's great. Rodney? Yeah. But I was back. I was fucking my wife the other day.

Starting point is 01:51:19 Check to watch, Siddah. You still here? I got no respect to it, tell you. Missionary, I'm already a Christian. Yeah. That's good. That's good. I am a KC Got a Favorite Nut. I don't get them off,

Starting point is 01:51:31 because they're kind of expensive, but I love like a macadamia nut. Oh yeah, that's a luxury nut. Yeah, what a hoot those are. But like just average daily, I love some almonds or like slurred almonds in a salad. Yeah, I had nois noisily these are hit. Those are good.

Starting point is 01:51:46 These are legit. Maybe the low key would have. If you have a fall party, put some of these diamond pumpkin pie spice walnuts in a bowl. So basically, yeah, these, what they, these are, I didn't expect. Yeah. These are basically like New York City style street nuts. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:52:02 Oh, wow. Yeah, you're right. Because like they're like coated, you know, which I just, whatever. Yeah, you're right. Like they're like coded, you know, and you never expect in a bag. I'm gonna hand these over, Dan. As you blow a kiss. I'm gonna hand these over.

Starting point is 01:52:15 These are the Entenman's Apple Cider donut. Now, these aren't the authentic New England Apple Cider donuts, but these are the mainstream supermarket variety. These certainly are not. But I'm looking forward to them. While we're tasting these, Casey, do you want to get your favorite nut choice? I'm also into cashews these days. I feel a little bougie.

Starting point is 01:52:33 They are a little bit. But there's, it's a good nut. Yeah, they're really fun. Bougie nuts, sort of a basic nut. I check off to the New Yorker. Well, basic. Well, I jack off to the New York. First of all, I'll say this, apple cider donuts, Emma will attest to this. Usually not wet. Those shouldn't probably not be wet at all. I don't know why those would be wet. Oh, pretty good guys. I too been. They do

Starting point is 01:53:03 also apple cider donuts in New England don't have frosting on them. I don't think like they have like a powdered sugar. So I don't know if that frosting is supposed to be there. I don't do this authentic at all. I mean, I wouldn't fucking know. I looked at something I was wearing in my whole life, but, but that said, I do think these are pretty good. I like it. I think I would say that texture wise, I think it's a little densely packed for me. Oh, yeah. It's a little bit of a, yeah, it's like a hard bite.

Starting point is 01:53:27 It's a, you have to work a little. Yeah, I like it to be a little more airy because I would feel fresher, but the taste is pretty damn good. I think. I can't even tell you how blown away you'd be by an apple cider donut and you went on like an authentic. All right.

Starting point is 01:53:44 Well, leave me alone Where's the spot is it a bull? Yes Yeah, and you're like you're right no one's ever just told me to leave him alone on the podcast and he's right Just enough for it. Why? I came on your shoe at Big Chicken. I'm a bag of fucking kids. We gave you a free ride with coming the beginning. Um, I think I'm going

Starting point is 01:54:15 to rank these. I think I would, I think I put. That's the whole donut. Nuts are sub I am going to eat this whole donut. Uh, nuts are the surprise number one choice for me. I do put the ice cream after that, the Van Lue and ice cream, then I would go, I think I'd go the apple cider donut

Starting point is 01:54:30 and then put the pumpkin guys last. She's gonna give us more. Emma, I want you to try this. As someone who's eating a lot of apples. What's my arm? I ate it. There was one missing in there, so someone ate one. A million.

Starting point is 01:54:42 A million. Okay, understandable. Yeah. She knows if she doesn't get it before it comes in this room. She's not good. I'm. If you put these pumpkin pie spice walnuts, like in a bowl at a party on a table, I think people would be so

Starting point is 01:54:59 pleasantly surprised by when they ate one. What are these? Oh, they're pie spice. Wow. This is good. Try these. Not really good. But I think? Oh, they're both nice. Oh, wow, this is good. Try these, not. They're really good. But I think, also, anyways, when do we start swapping keys?

Starting point is 01:55:09 Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Honestly, the smell of this box is very authentic. Yeah. I think the way these smell smells like I just walked into a, like an app orchard where

Starting point is 01:55:22 they're making the donuts. And the taste isn't far off. The texture is not at all accurate. The texture is not out there. But I mean, that's okay. The leader wise is not bad. Also, yeah, I don't know why they're wet. They're kind of just wet.

Starting point is 01:55:32 I think you're wise. Like key parties are a little elitist, you know? You have to have an automobile, right? That's one of those clues in Jackson. Yeah. Yeah. That's like when the restaurant goes cashless. I I I You know

Starting point is 01:55:47 Like you keep parties should just be like you know, I don't know what I look at what what is everybody have Well, that's funny like you did it. We wanted to keep our ears as I was like who's got like a locker key Yeah, exactly. Can you put a house key in at the key party or does it have to be a good house key? I think it is house keys actually. I think that's the ideas that you you go like, oh, this is the house I'm going to go to and like fuck this guy's wife, you know. That's what I thought. I when I visualize the key party,

Starting point is 01:56:11 I thought you put all the keys in, right? You take the key and then you drive their car. Yeah. You're like, whoever is in the passenger seat goes back to being in the passenger seat. And the new driver comes up with a fast and then you gotta go home and fuck. That's so much more complicated. I kind of do like that first, not that better. Yeah, that's why I've swapped a little bit.

Starting point is 01:56:31 I mean, I do the worst case scenario as you do the key party and you grab your own key. Oh, fuck. I gotta go jack off. Oh, great. I got my own key. I gotta go jack off. Yeah, these are really gonna keep getting your own keys. You're like, just a minute. No one wants to fuck me. This is the rig. I'll go first. Oh, wow, my own key. Weird. Okay, well, you can just pick again. I'm good. I'm gonna violate the rules.

Starting point is 01:57:04 You just want to jack, you don. I'm gonna violate the rules. You just want to jack, you don't have to come to the party. Yeah, I come to the parties. I'm lonely. People are fucking so weird. People are weird. Yeah, people.

Starting point is 01:57:17 We're fucking insane. I've never been to a key party, but yeah, I've also never been to a key party. Oh, they're like, get them. Maybe I'll go to one at some point. I know you're lippering. You need like a, that's an interesting midlife crisis. Move. I think a lot of people do end up getting into swinging your hot

Starting point is 01:57:31 life in mid life is like, okay, yeah, there's going to be my thing now. I'm gonna like let other guys rail my wife or whatever. No, I don't want that. You know, I'm not into that. Like every other question, I have a white box. Dear dough boys. I'm gonna stop if you guys have been to a key party. Let us tell you your entire experience with the key party. And the logistics.

Starting point is 01:57:56 Make sure to be specific about the logistics. Yeah, as a car keys or as a house keys, there's definitely do boys. Those are some of the bend to key parties. Yeah. I think when they meet up for no boys live shows, I think that basically they go and do that afterwards. I don't know why they just don't cut out no boys. Right, you don't need that excuse to gather.

Starting point is 01:58:13 You can just like go to your key party. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, today's question, hello, no boys. I was at a key party and it was one great. I wish I had a different question. We got a voicemail today, you know, it was one. We should have a different, different question. We got a voicemail today, just like a restaurant of our feedback.

Starting point is 01:58:28 Let's open up to the feedback and listen to this voicemail. Hello, doboys. This is Miriam calling from New Hampshire. Called a couple of times. Shout out to Emma as always, represent for New Hampshire. Wow. Wow. Thank you, Danter.

Starting point is 01:58:41 If you could have one celebrity chef living your dead, Tater, your Thanksgiving dinner if you could have one celebrity chef living your dead Tater your Thanksgiving dinner Um, all right watch Tristan Metal on pico Wow, I can't say it, but that's nice very nice from Miriam new Hampshire. I buy imagine you can get some some good ACDs up in there Right, yeah up in what he says live for your die? That's their time. Yeah. So, okay, we were talking, which celebrity chef would we like to cater a Thanksgiving dinner?

Starting point is 01:59:12 We prefer your die hard. They changed it. They changed it with a movie, right? I was a tie-in. Yeah. What's it? Is it the granite steak? Yeah.

Starting point is 01:59:20 The granite steak. Yeah. Heaven Smith is in that movie. It's like a hacker. Would you really? In for a die. Yeah. It's like a hacker. Is it really? In a freaking out, live for your die heart. Yeah. And there's a weird tie in where he's playing Gears of War.

Starting point is 01:59:30 It's like a very clear like branded like, you know, that just in longs in there. Just in longs in there. I think just in longs in the main hacker. Yeah. I want to go as live for your die hairs like depressing like 15 years. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:59:41 I'm actually like 15 years old. So you're Lord, That's so depressing. Okay, Miriam asking what celebrity chef, living your dad, where we have Katera dinner, this is a great question. I mean, like, look, I don't know how much of a celebrity, you know, if it's, although I've seen her on television, so I'm gonna say she qualifies.

Starting point is 02:00:01 I think LA institution, Jeet Lata-Chef Jazz, would be like, that would be really, and also like she's like so gregarious and such a great like sort of, you know, so good in the hospitality side, I think that she would be a really fun Thanksgiving hang and I also think like having this amazing authentic tie restaurant like she would come up with a really interesting

Starting point is 02:00:21 version of a Thanksgiving dinner. But if that's a cop-out answer, I gotta go Guy Fieri. I mean, when you wanna just go all the way and go full Fieri if you're leading a celebrity chef, why not? Yeah, that's, I mean, I was gonna go Guy Fieri, mainly because he's the only celebrity chef I know. So I guess I'll have to go with Johnny Damon. Um. I

Starting point is 02:00:47 Make a good meal. Um, uh, we, can I say Selena Gomez? Sure. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I would have celebrity chefs Selena Gomez, come to my house and make me like some, uh, like a very thin, lightly fried potato. With a shot with a lemon lemon.

Starting point is 02:01:08 With the lemon. Wow. That's a yellow fruit as we as we know. Yeah. It's yellow fruit, not a squash. Yeah. So my answer is celebrity chefs are going to go. Welcome in.

Starting point is 02:01:19 What if she has any chops in the kitchen? You never know. She has a cookie show. We just read it up. Well, you know, you got. Oh, no one knows this. Yeah, I think she has like a cookie show on Max. But she really, I think she has like a cookie show. I kind of want to choose Selena Gomez.

Starting point is 02:01:32 So I got a little bit about. There's a dozen called Selena plus chef. Well, there you go. Yeah, or seasons of it. Wow. Yeah. So I think I start with Selena Gomez. Really good. Yeah, I think so.

Starting point is 02:01:43 I think it's going to happen. I thought it happened already. A chef living or dead that could make me a meal? No, it's not chef living. Oh, what is it living or dead? It's celebrity chef living or dead. Great. Thanks for the celebrity thing.

Starting point is 02:01:59 I can't have my dad come back and make me a nice meal. Nope. No, it doesn't qualify. He doesn't qualify? No, dad. I don't consider him a celebrity chef. I'm making this try to feel bad for you. We're gonna talk about this after the show.

Starting point is 02:02:12 I think my answer would be, I have an answer, not my dad, sorry dad. That's a really nice answer though. Yeah, I was just trying to get, I mean, I was joking, I don't know. It would also be weird on my, I only get to to get, I mean, I was joking. I don't know. It would also be weird. I'm like, I only get to see you like for half an hour or you're dead.

Starting point is 02:02:30 That would be dramatic, I think. I mean, you have to explain it to him. I'm like, hey, you're back. I like to chose you to make a meal for me for half an hour. Yeah. He's like, can I see your mom? I'm like, no, you have to make me a meal. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:02:41 You tell her I love it now. Like the end of onward. It's like you get just like this limited amount of time It is that's that moment on were very effective for your old friend My answer is a Big portly chef Hey, you're looking someone up. Yeah, okay. His name's Paul. Paul Prudome. Yeah. Chef Paul Prudome.

Starting point is 02:03:06 That's my name. I'll go wrong T. That's true. I'm down into Bayou. That's the Bayou man himself. Chef Paul Prudome would be great. You know, that does make me think emerald legacy would be another great candidate. Yeah, that's I was going to say emerald legacy also.

Starting point is 02:03:15 I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also.

Starting point is 02:03:23 I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy also. I'm going to say emerald legacy. I'm going to say emerald legacy. I'm going to say emerald legacy. I'm going to say emerald legacy. I'm going to say emerald legacy. I'm going to say emerald legacy. I'm going to say emerald legacy. I'm going to say emerald legacy. Julia Child. Make you a big turkey. And I would love it. And I would get a check. It gives you a sense of how modern in the phenomenon of the celebrity chef is. Because Julia Child is like the ure example, right? There really wasn't one before her. And that's like what, the 1960s, 1970s.

Starting point is 02:03:37 I mean, it's like, it really was not a thing until pretty recently. I guess we should get this out of the way. If you bring back someone from the dead, like how long until they like, are they freaked out for a little while? Right. Like how long until Julie's child gets

Starting point is 02:03:50 that she has to make me a meal? Are they all decomposed in kind of a beetle juicy sort of way? Are they full? Are they like, do they look like in their prime? Like, are they, because there's also a version where they come back and they're like, oh, this is them like at age, like, you know, at age 30 or something.

Starting point is 02:04:03 Yeah. You guys know the movie Oblivion, where Tom Cruise is hanging out with Emma. What's her name? Emma. Oh yeah. Yeah, and then it's like, Wait, who is the female lead in Oblivion?

Starting point is 02:04:15 Nothing. Emma, Amelia, hold on. The one married to John Krasinski, but I forget her last name, but Emily Blond. Emily Blond. You know what that's seeing in Oblivion? The movie, oh no, no, it's not Oblivion. Emily Blond. You know what that's seeing in a movie in the movie?

Starting point is 02:04:25 Oh no, no, it's not the movie. It's live-diverproof. You know what I'm talking about? And then she's like, they're hanging out. And then she's like, all right, let's move forward. And then he's like, you don't go forward from here? I think it would be like that. Like, you, they come back and they just think

Starting point is 02:04:38 they're cooking you a meal, but they don't really like, they have like a moment like, and then you have to be like, you're dead. That's, that's so, yeah. I didn't describe that well at all. No, I got exactly the most jank description. No, I get exactly what you're saying. That was, so I get the most in prime version of Julia Child.

Starting point is 02:04:58 I'm like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna, oh, she's looks fucking good as hell. And then I have to be like, you made this sexual, this was non-affectual. He said they looked the best they've ever looked. I'd say that's a possibility. Prudones looking fucking, he looks good as hell. Yeah.

Starting point is 02:05:15 And then I have to tell them like, after this meal you're dead, I feel like this would move me away from doing a dead shit. They aren't gonna wanna make the meal at that point. Or maybe they will, cause maybe like, hey, this is my one calling in life. This is the thing that gave me purpose. So I'm, if I can rejoin this mortal coil even briefly,

Starting point is 02:05:32 and that's just what I would choose to do. They start being like, go with the car, let's get to the dishes, and then they just start slowly disappearing. Ha ha ha, so sad. This whole thing is so sad. I'll make myself a fucking hot pocket with che Jesus on top

Starting point is 02:05:46 or whatever, you know what I'm saying? I have a new answer. Okay. Chef from South Park. Yo, I'm a central man. I'm a great answer. Chef from the cold park. He'd be great to see you.

Starting point is 02:05:56 He got a lot to do. No, he passed away. Celebrity chef. Celebrity Scientologist. Celebrity Scientologist. Chef from South Park is my answer. South Park is actually the correct answer. That's a correct answer.

Starting point is 02:06:08 All right, Mitch, you cracked it. If you had a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us at doboyspodcast.com. And leave us a voice mail, 830 go do that's 830 4636844. And to get the doboys double our weekly bonus episode, join the golden or platinum play club at patreon.com slash doboys and black. Thank you so much for being here. What a treat.

Starting point is 02:06:25 This is our you had to eat big chicken, but come back on the show. We'll have something a little bit better next time. Yeah, I would love to come back. And I would love to eat something that's at least a fork. Okay. Okay. Okay.

Starting point is 02:06:36 Okay. Okay. We're all excited. We get this is going to be shack week. I don't know if we can make this shack week anymore. It's the suck. Well, people will know by now if it was shack we might have decided to rent on this on shack we might not do shack week now based off of this meal.

Starting point is 02:06:52 Shack is going to be like, it's shack week on dope boys. I'm going to listen. And then he turns on, which is also I'm trying out my shack oppression. I don't think I should do. But then shack tunes in anyway and we fucking she don't big chicken and jack week is not happening anymore it's it's possible i will we'll see what will look at it again people will know in the feed whether or not jack week has happened by this point and this is a conclusion of shack week uh... and you have anything like to plug we're all being watched by big chicken remember

Starting point is 02:07:19 uh... uh... you remember that but uh... perdue and Tyson, all those motherfuckers. Yeah, well, you follow me on Instagram at Dan Black Attack and on TikTok at Dan Black Attack. I'll be posting a bunch of my standup on there. Also check out if you're in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, or anywhere. Check out the last improv show. You follow that, it's in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, or anywhere, check out the last improv show. You follow that. It's at last in prop show. We do the show twice a month in Los Angeles,

Starting point is 02:07:49 a Dynasty typewriter, but we also live stream the show. Sometimes Mitch improvises on the show. Well, we bring in a celebrity. They tell stories. We do scenes off that this week. We have Paul Walter, how's her? Well, actually, that won't be this week. Whenever this comes out with Jason right, man. Next week, yeah, won't be this week. Whenever this comes out, we're Jason Wrightman, next week, yeah, it's cool people coming in. Check it out. I'll pass that up. So once you can watch it, Bob Odenkirk, Seth Rogan,

Starting point is 02:08:14 and other awesome people. Check it out, it's great. Check that out. And hey, that'll do for this episode of Dullboy. So until next time, for the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, I'm Nick Weiger, happy. Did you dig it? Ha. Uh. Ha. time for the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell I'm Nick Weiger happy Did you dig it?

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