Doughboys - Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria with Zach Cherry

Episode Date: January 16, 2025

Zach Cherry (@zachcherrygmail, Severance) joins the 'boys to talk the LA wildfires, video games, and new bits of 2025 before a review of Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria. Plus, another edition of Jingle All The Whey.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at kinshipgoods.com/doughboysAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Mamas-and-the-Papashttps://www.biography.com/musicians/the-mamas-and-the-papas-originshttps://rockhall.com/inductees/mamas-and-papas/https://www.themamasandthepapasofficial.com/about/https://slate.com/culture/2015/02/ellens-oscars-pizza-how-big-mamas-papas-pizzeria-has-parlayed-its-three-minutes-of-academy-awards-fame.htmlhttps://bmpp.com/who-we-are/See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

This is a HeadGum Podcast. Want to watch this episode? Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to youtube.com slash doughboysmedia. I'd be safe and warm if I was in LA. California Dreamin' on such a winter's day. Released in December 1965, California Dreamin' was the biggest hit of vocal quartet the Mamas and the Papas, consisting of married couple John and Michelle Phillips, male vocal lead Denny Doherty, and breakout contralto Cass Elliott, better known as Mama

Cass, a nickname from which she later tried to distance herself. Debuting contemporaneously with a folk rock schism depicted in James Mangold's recent biopic A Complete Unknown, the foursome embraced both genres and recorded a slew of enduring hits, accumulating six top ten singles before in-fighting ended their tenure after just three years. Michelle Phillips and Denny Doherty had an affair and after its exposure, Doherty and the cuckolded John Phillips collaborated to write a song about it. Weird. The illicit liaison was exacerbated by Cass Elliott's crush on Doherty. Cass allegedly told paramour Michelle in response, quote, I don't get it. You could have any man you want.

Why would you take mine? Subsequently, John Phillips was cucked again, this time by Byrds member Gene Clark, which almost makes you wonder if he was maybe into it. This led to Michelle's replacement in the group, though they'd quickly reconcile and reform the Corps for. But after Cass Elliott had a breakout hit with her solo mamas in the Papa's song, Dream a Little Dream of Me, she formally departed the group to launch her own career. Sadly, that was cut short by her death from heart failure, an incident falsely attributed to asphyxiation on a ham sandwich, a cruel fabrication based on her body type that persists as an urban legend 40 years after her passing.

But despite all the drama and the tragedy, the band's catalogue continued to receive heavy airplay over the decades, and in 1997, the mamas and the papas were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the very same year that brothers Aro and Alan Aga Canyon opened a Los Angeles-based pizza parlor with an almost identical name, though they claim no direct inspiration. The pizzeria would become a favorite of Angelino's, famed for its record-setting gigantic pies and receiving an estimated $10 million in free advertising when host Ellen DeGeneres

distributed its slices to celebrities during the 2014 Oscars. Today with 17 locations in LA County and growing, like its near namesake Hall of Fame vocal ensemble, the Armenian-Italian-American joint has become inextricably linked with the city and state. And at a time when natural disaster has devastated LA neighborhoods across class lines, a tragedy exacerbated by private sector greed and public sector incompetence, we're all California dreaming on such a winter's day of a better future. Or maybe just the comfort of a nice slice of pizza. This week on Doughboys, Big Mama podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host Dozeferatu, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell.

Dozeferat Chu or Do-fus-ferat-chu? Dozeferat Chu. It was Chu? It was Chu. Dozeferat Chu. I think you said Dozeferat Chu. No, I didn't. Did I? I plus it up. Dozeferat Chu.

I think I heard Chu. Dozeferat Chu. Dozeferat Chu. You didn't plus it up. I read what was in the roast. I plus it up. Dozeferat Chu. I'll show it to Dos for a Chu. You didn't plus it up. I read what was in the roast. I plus it up. Dos for a Chu. I'll show it to our guests. It says, it's right there, dos for a Chu.

I see dos for a Chu. Yes. If you don't like that, how about goes for a poo. Love you guys and shout out to my friend, Matt, for introducing me to the pod. Hope you're well. I thought that was a Simpsons reference. I thought he was saying like, that's my favorite character.

Oh yeah, same. Goes for Apu. Goes for Apu. I was like, is that what they were trying to say? Oh no, I think it's goes for Apu. You have such Simpsons brain you're unable to read. You know what, you know who my favorite character is? Who's that?

Homer. What do you mean, how high am I about that? You're taking an ethical stance. Homer, Homer's my favorite. I actually like Bart Simpson, but to each his own. Homer and Bart together, we've talked about this before. Great duo. It's a great duo. Dumb guy and his dumb kid, it's funny.

I'm a fan of Lisa, of course. Oh my God. Here we go. The writer, that's the writer's love, Lisa. What were you gonna say? Well, you were gonna say something about doughs for ahtoo. I was gonna ask, was it doughs like take snaps or is it dough like dough boys? It's spelled out as D-O-U-G-H-S.

So doughs like the dough boys. I think we just plussed up this fucking roast again. Fura and then Fera, F-E-R-A, like feral, but without the L and then Chu is written out as C-H-E-W. Our old headquarters, okay. It was Fura, Chu. I like it, I haven't seen Nosferatu yet, but I saw Brutalist yesterday.

You haven't seen Nosferatu yet. I haven't seen Nosferatu, no I didn't see Brutalist yesterday, I saw it Wednesday. Okay, as of this recording. Oh yes, it took one Brutalist viewing for LA to be in an apocalypse basically, the city. One runtime of Brutalists, I came out of the theater and LA was, the LA itself was on fire.

So for some context, this is our first record of 2025. We have released some episodes that we record in 2024. This is the first one we're actually recording in the new year. We are gonna talk about the apocalyptic fires, which are happening right now as of this recording. We'll talk about those with our guests. We're in a this is fine situation.

We're in a this is fine sort of situation, much like the famous meme. Yeah, Mike, if you could make us like that meme for a second, that would be pretty great. Yeah, that'd be great. I can take care of that. All right, perfect. I guess we maybe just stand still for a second.

Well, the thing is it's like one, it's just the dog. So maybe it should just be you, just being the dog. This is fine. OK, good, that's probably pretty good. A bad- Do you want to actually, I guess, do you want to do an alt just in case we want to use you instead? Sure, yeah.

I should say this is fine. Yeah, this is fine. This is fine. That's pretty good. As a pro. Fuck. Am I going to now, I have to watch, Yeah, this is fine. This is fine. This is fine. That's pretty good. Pretty good. As a pro. Fuck. Am I going to now, I have to watch, this is like watching like a TV show and seeing the

guy who got a role I auditioned for. Am I going to look at the video and it's going to be, Zach is going to be the one that gets the treatment? We'll see the final. We'll let the director choose who he wants to use. We got, we have options. So you know options, so whatever all he wants to pull. It'll be fun to make us dog-like. If you do it, I mean, whatever.

You can do whatever you want. It's been a very, it's been a very tight. If we do that, then Jimmy should be a person. Absolutely. Absolutely. Jimmy should be human-lated. Can you make me die? He's now covering his head because he has,

we just gave him so much work to do. In a week where he may have to abandon his home. But a very tense week here wise. Yeah. Just for audio listeners, our supervisor video producer Casey Donahue is not here today. Mike Dorfman, our video editor is over there. Run the video feed along with Emma and Amelia who are in studio. We got a full house today. We do, we do. I think it will be a cathartic day,

I think a very nerve-wracking couple days. And we have a lot to say. I don't want to talk forever before we get to our guests. So I think we should just like, if we have one thing we want to say, we each can say one thing. And maybe yours was the this is fine thing. If that's what you wanna go with.

That's what I get? Well, no, if you have something else, that's fine, but you can also say like, I'm already good. Oh, maybe I'll start with like, I'm sorry to everyone who's lost their homes instead of me doing a meme. My thing that I will say is that our heart goes out to everyone who has lost their homes.

Yes, 100%. Friends and their family, a family of our friends. We know people, I feel like everyone in LA knows someone who has lost everything. It's fucking horrible. People who have guested on the show have lost their homes. It's very tragic. A lot of our listeners are dealing with that as well. And it's fucking awful.

And we're here to support in any way that we can. I guess today was by making a unfunny podcast is the way we're supporting. But we will do anything that we can to help people here. It sucks, it's bad. We'll offer, like, you know, we can offer assistance to people by linking you to the discount code you can use for a free Uber ride.

So I think it's wildfire25 or whatever. Also, if you buy one Birdfuck sticker, you get the second one free. I think we're going to talk to- We'll run that by kinship. We'll see if that works If we get shot down No it's horrible and we want to try to bring some levity to it but it is bad

Can I give you some credit real quick? Yeah sure Because we weren't sure if we were going to do this record and part of why we're doing this record is because our guest is in town and we scheduled it anyway and we decided why the fuck not But I was like kind of like I don't know it feels weird to get in the studio, have everyone come in studio or whatever, headgum shut down. Big surprise there.

No change from normal operations, no one's in headgum. But anyway, I was like. I told you all the hunks are, they're volunteer firefighters. Just ripping their shirts off? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Anyway, the firefighters thought I was a volunteer firefighter, but I was just wearing my CPAP mask as I walked out.

What's going on up here? You coming in to help? No, no, what's happening? I woke up from my noon and I just woke up. The we were like, like, should we record? It feels weird right now. And then you were basically, you were just like, hey, Starbucks is open.

And I was just sort of like, yeah, you know what? It's the same thing we experienced during the pandemic. People who have actual jobs that actually contribute something to the economy are still going to work. You're not fucking McDonald's. You aren't like, your boss isn't like, hey, take whatever time you need. It's fine, we'll be here whenever you're ready. Like there's none of that.

It's just like you have to go back and go to your fucking job. So as a food podcast, we're just sort of like, hey, the restaurant we're reviewing is open today. So I guess it's fine for us to record. Let's just do it. And there's a bunch of people in there working. And that to me was when I was home, I told you this. On the weekend, I had ordered,

Becca and the dose cord was my secret Santa. And I ordered her cat coasters. And I was like, cat butt coasters. So they got cat butt, it's like cats showing their butt holes. I was like, those are cute, I want them. I got back here on Saturday, I ordered them for myself. All of the world starts falling apart. And I was like, I need to cancel these cat butt coasters.

I can't have someone deliver me cat butt coasters during the city being on fire. I could not cancel them. They came on, I believe, on Thursday. And I was like, because by Tuesday or Wednesday, I was trying to be like, I need to cancel this. This is coming out maybe a week or two after the fact. So this is in context for where the week was.

Like, Tuesday, we started to get an inkling that something was going amiss. Wednesday and Thursday, the whole city's up in flames. Yes. And so I was like, I can't have this guy be delivering cat butt coasters and Vaseline, which is this weird comma above, but it was for my CPAP. Right.

It wasn't for anything nefarious. And I... So what, are you like a volunteer firefighter, or what do you need this for? In a way, kind of. And so I said to the guy, I was like, hey, man, I'm so sorry. I was trying to cancel this order. This is true.

I was like, I went out when he came. Luckily, I just caught him. And I was like, I try to cancel this order. This is embarrassing. And he's like, oh, it's fine, man. It's just smoky outside. He was very, he was very like up on it. He was like, but he's like, but he's like, the only fucked up thing is like,

they're trying to make us still deliver up into the fucking hills. And that's so fucked up and so horrible. Into mandatory evacuation zones. Into evacuation zones. And I'm like, that's so fucking fucked up. And I was, so thank you to every delivery driver, mail person, news anchor, reporter who, reporters who were there on the scene, every, and firefighters of course too,

and first responders. That's where my head's at. But every person who's doing their nine to five throughout all this too is who I want to thank. That's wild side, Mitch. Yeah. Yeah. It's one of those things where it's like, you kind of, it's nice, the nice thing about living in a city with other people going to the same thing is like, there's just that sense of community. And so like, you know, I was getting a, every fucking transaction feels absurd right now.

I was getting a breakfast burrito. I was like, this is an insane thing to be doing. People are like fucking, you know what I mean? Well, thank you to the fast food workers. The people who are working, because people still need to eat. No, but I was like eating a breakfast burrito and just like everyone there is like talking about it.

And just strangers are talking to each other about like, you know, what they're going through or whatever. And it is kind of nice to have that sense of community as grim as things are. Yeah, agreed. Anyways, we should introduce our guests, like you said. Well, we got a fucking drop to play.

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Wow. That's the runner up to the 2024 drop off. Yes. One of the drop off runners up. I believe that's a Finky, correct? Yes. Yeah. You're right, Wags. That's a, hey, everyone, 5% off for Nick or Mitch if they use promo code DROPKING. Chris Finke pronounced Fin-key. Wow. Thanks, Fin-key. Thanks, Fin-key.

I was, yeah, that's good. That was a good drop for today. Drops at birdfuck.com. Our guest returning to the show. Very happy to have him in studio for the first time from Fallout and Severance, season two, now streaming on Apple TV+. Zach Cherry is here.

Hi, Zach. Hi, Emma, hit it. Oh, hell yeah. What? -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪

-♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ -♪ On the day dough boys drop All the fans gather round

And listen with wide wonder At the laughs they have found On the day dough boys drop, all the fans gather round And listen with wide wonder at the laughs they have found But I'm here to stand up and make one thing known And that's cause today I've got a bone I've got a bone I've got a bone A bo-bo-bo-bone to pick A bo got a bone. A bone to pick.

Bone to pick. Bone to pick. I've got a bone. That's it. Wow. OK, so we have a new segment called I've Got a Bone to Pick. OK, great. Wow.

Boys don't know about this, but as a listener of this show, who occasionally comes on There are sometimes things that you say that I feel I must address And rather than abuse my text privileges, which we'll get to I Just wrote down a list of them and we can kind of hang out and cover them here So I'm just gonna go through let's hear some of my things and for new listeners This can be considered as a treasure map So you can go back and find these moments and we can talk about them.

Okay, we'll start really easy. The Last Jedi is good. Um. Um. It's maybe the only good Star Wars movie. Oh my God. It's maybe the only good movie. Oh my God, all right, now I know.

Cigarettes are not back. Shut the fuck up about cigarettes being know. Cigarettes are not back. Shut the fuck up about cigarettes being back. Cigarettes are, it's bad, and this week, look. Yeah, no, it's a bad week for cigarettes. It's a bad week for cigarettes. They're more not back than ever. They're just taking some L's right now. Yeah, yeah.

Baldur's Gate is good. Hell yeah. Mitch, you should play it. What else are you doing? I wanna play it. I kinda feel like, can I just say? You know who's having a bad week this week? Who's that? Frankenstein.

Frankenstein gotta be just losing his shit right now. Fire bad? Who's scared of fire? Yeah. They too. All right, where's the, should we get an edit point in? You know who else is probably having a bad week? Who's that?

Osmosis Jones. Osmosis Jones can't be happy. He has to filter all the stuff out. I agree with that too. You know who else? Beavis. You know what I mean? I think Beavis is maybe enjoying this. Oh, no.

Oh, god damn it. I shouldn't have started this run of things. I apologize. Beavis is like a pyromaniac. That's his whole thing. Yeah, yeah. But I'm saying he's probably sullen. Here he's kind of like, no, that's not what I meant.

Yeah, yeah. He's thinking too far. Yeah. I'm like, I'm not going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do this. his whole thing. Yeah, but I'm saying he's probably sullen. Here he's kind of like, no, that's not what I meant.

Yeah. He's just gonna stay in the car. Yeah. And he might have had a few door knocks this week. That might have been an issue. That is, I don't know, kind of respect. Hey, Beavis, you like what's happening, huh? This is what you've wrought.

But we can all agree Frankenstein, who lives in Hollywood, he's an actor who lives here. Yeah. Yeah, the famous actor actor who lives here. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, the famous actor Frankenstein can't be too happy about all the fire. He's not having a good week. He placed himself in that movie.

Yeah, I can't, whatever that movie is, it's good. Okay, I also wanted to mention, sorry, just to continue, Mitch. Now you've told a few stories where you imply that jacking off squirts out kidney stones. Yes. Now I actually did some research on this. Okay.

Regular masturbation seems to help them pass. Yes. But you tell it as if it's like when Bugs Bunny eats a corn on the cob and spits it into a spittoon, as if you're like jacking off and they're like going like, I don't think that's how it works. If you masturbate, it can help pass a kidney stone easier. This is the, it is, if you're passing it. But it doesn't like squirt them out on the spot.

It doesn't, it won't, it won't do that, no. Didn't you have a kidney stone fairly recently? I don't know, not to embarrass you, yeah. And did you? Did you jack off? Yep. It's the night before I left. Yeah. It was the night before I left to go back to Massachusetts and I had to pack and get ready to go

and I had to pass a kidney stone and I went into the shower and I jacked it out. You're also like, you're about to go back home for a couple weeks, you gotta go, oh, your load's out of your system. That's true. Yeah, I barely did. You had to go back home for a couple weeks. You got to go all your loads out of your system. True. I barely did. I just need to jack off at home.

And also, can I just, can I, can I be honest with you? I went into the bathroom and I jacked off and I went into a spittoon. It did come up. It shot out into a spittoon. Rigid shade around went right back in. Yeah, right back down. Oh, now I have to get it back off again. I gotta pass it again.

So that one you're wrong on okay well agree to disagree Okay at one point you guys both mentioned when you get to a certain age you just have gunk in your dick Yeah, I'm not that much younger than you but you'll see yeah You'll see the gunk hasn't arrived at my door so don't will arrive The hock to a girl was not a preschool teacher. Yes. I know. At one point it was reported as such on this pod.

Part of the issue with that is I think, cause I learned what hock to a was on this podcast. And I think we're recording it such in the immediate aftermath of the actual, of the virality that no one had the actual info on who this woman was. Can I get to tell you? And then that episode, because we were banking everything, came out like four months later. Absolutely, absolutely.

Can I just tell you that your segment is so insensitive, you start saying, I got a bone, and Jemmy was very excited about it. And then you're just picking bones. I'm sorry, Jemmy, I'll get you a bone later. She's had a rough week, Wags. Yeah, that's true. She's really worried about her friend, Frank.

Jimmy's friends with Frankenstein. Yeah, I don't know. Wow. It's via Frankenweenies. She's friends with Frankenweenies and then Frankenstein. That makes like the correction. Frankenstein owns Frankenweenies, of course. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. Then I did want to talk about when you got mad, you got mad that I texted you about. So, so for the listeners, I texted Weiger about a Minions based tweet because Minions are his turf. Then Mitch got mad that I was texting just Weiger. But to clarify to you, in my mind, you each have jurisdictions. Weiger's is Minions. Mitch is being an actor.

And both of you are everything else. Okay. So I parsed my things, but then I was told very clearly by Weiger, please include Mitch on these because it's fun to make him angry. So going forward, you will always be included. Thank you, that's what I want.

That's the safest course of action. We can still have our own private text chains, but everything else, if you talk to him, I have to know if you talk to him. And then finally, I just wanted to share an update on my wife's journey with Doughboys. Wow. She started out hating the show so much

that Weiger made her so angry that she essentially had to go to the doctor. Right. Which is true. Now, she likes the show so much that she couldn't join me on this trip, and she was getting mad at me about hypothetically, she was like, I bet if I even, I could come, you wouldn't even

let me come to the recording. But I was like, you can't come, because you're not going to be there. But she likes the show so much now that she's inventing Ways to get mad at me. She's very welcome to come to the studio You will end up like Jemmy asleep in a chair most likely. Yeah, no one It's not fun to be here for it for I tried to tell her that yes Anyway, that's the new segment. I've got a bone. I loved it. I thought that was great

I I loved it. I thought that was great. I, look, speaking of, we should talk to our staff a little bit for a second too. Yeah, sure. Because, because, because. Well, look, we do, we should, so. I've never called you our staff before. Gross. I hated it. Sorry, I didn't like it at all.

Just kidding. The dais? What did you, we'll go back to the dais. I used to call them the dais. Yeah, the dais. Our staff? The it the dais. Yeah, the dais. Our staff? The producer's desk, I think, is the official sort of name for this territory.

But yeah, we can say our staff, it's fine. Ugh, I didn't like it. Our team, the Doughboys team. The Doughboys team, the team who along with us make the show happen. Mike and Emma, y'all were driving back, and so you had the crazy experience of you were traversing the country via automobile

when like the crazy winds and the fires hit. You were like coming into LA. We were. What was that like? It was weird. Yeah. I mean, we were we heard that there was when we go like when I Google Maps our route, it was like the Eaton fire might affect your road.

And I was like, oh, that's kind of crazy. But that was like it says it's open. So we'll be fine. But yeah, there was a bunch of flipped tankers because of the wind and then the fire was like right on the mountain. It was very apocalyptic. And that was terrifying, heartbreaking to see in the fire at that point, I think was like a thousand acres

and it's now like 15,000 acres. So it's crazy to think that it's like 15 times what we saw in that moment. The exponential growth of these things is staggering. It's unreal. But Mike, you were saying, as you're driving in, you were seeing just the carnage from the wind on the highway, right?

Yeah. Emma said there was about five flipped trucks, which I've never seen, back to back to back. And then just a row of them, I would say at least 50 trucks just lined the side of the highway Just going right past pass it you know it was Unreal I've it was like a scene out of a movie It was weird to see the house like lined up definitely to like they're like tucked behind walls to like protect themselves from the wind waiting For the wind to die down while the mountain is literally burning right behind them

It's like driving the wind or wait with the fire were like their options in that moment, which is like, I can't even imagine. Jesus, this was also 16 hours into our drive. Yeah. That day, and you're rushing back to make it to the studio because we ordered you to, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah. We had to.

We had to be here today, yeah. Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, it was very crazy. Yeah. And Amelia, you were like, you got out of the city for a few days, but the air is horrible where you live. That's part of the issue, right? Or at least in your apartment.

I have this screenshot that I'll share to put in the video. The air quality index said 450. Woo! Geez. And they say anything. Smoke them if you got them, 450. So a 420 plus 30? Yeah, yeah.

They say you shouldn't go outside with 100 or more, so 450. Yes, and 450 hazardous. Despite my best efforts, I could not prevent the smoke from getting through my windows, because I have some old windows. It was getting through the cracks. Jeez. So I was like.

And also, we should say now, the windows were a Christmas gift from Nick and I. Yeah, sorry. We kind of went with the budget option. We kind of went with the budget option. There was like smoke proof and non-smoke, the non-smoke proof were like $30 less, right? We got the extra smoke.

They were like, They were like, They were really, they were on sale. We're sorry. Yeah, we're sorry. What was that beep? Jesus Christ. I thought that was an emergency.

That was me, sorry, no. Okay, all right, all right, we're fine. I was in a grocery store, because you get these emergency alerts, and the fucking, the way this has been run has been such a debacle that we, you've gotten alerts in error. They've been like, evacuate now,

and then you'll get like one 10 minutes later, it's like, sorry, ignore. But I was in the grocery store when every phone went off and everyone got like an evacuation notice. And I was like, oh shit, like it was really fucking, just one of those moments. You grabbed every apple. Yeah.

I didn't get any alerts. I don't live here, I live in New York. Yeah. But I didn't get any alerts. Well, I don't know if they don't know. They don't know I'm out here or whatever. But yeah, I was not getting anything. You you had your you had a premiere that was canceled yeah Which was a huge bummer, but you know

That's but that's what the reason you came out here, right? Yes for that's a yes ever in season two You had it yet at the premiere yet a bunch of press and all this kind of got went by the wayside you end Up getting out of town yourself. Yes, I went to Palm Springs to avoid the fires and smoke, and yeah, but no one officially told me to. How bad of luck is it that you come out here and everything that you had scheduled here is canceled? Except for Doughboys.

Except for fucking Doughboys. That's the worst luck. What's funny is the last time I came out here sort of just for fun on my own was literally election night 2016. And all my stuff was getting canceled after that as well. Oh my God. Because people were just like stunned or whatever.

I don't know if you can come back, honestly. I might not be able to. You know what I know my theories about why this all happened? Why? It's because we haven't accepted Kevin Spacey back in Hollywood. That's why the Hollywood sign almost burns bad karma. It's bad karma. We need to accept them back. It's coming home to roost over spacey. I thought you were going to say it was from the slap. Like a butter,

like a butterfly. Yeah, Will Smith slapped Chris Rock and the whole city's on fire three years later. Amelia, your windows weren't tight. Oh, yeah. So I took the cats and I went to, yeah, Cats Plural. Cats Plural. We haven't really talked about this. Refresh your friends' memory. We talked about this cat. This was a cat that was found during the Headgum Christmas party. And you've been fostering it for now. Yes.

Yeah. So anyway, I took the cats, plural, to Joshua Tree for a few days. That's great. Where was his cat found? On Sunset Boulevard. Yeah, outside. Such a dangerous spot for a cat.

It was in a wheel well of a car. Yeah. And you saved the day. You saved the cat's life. She's a real cutie. Yeah, she's a cutie. She sleeps on my chest every night. Come on.

It's really, I just wanna say for our audio listeners, you're missing out on Amelia recounting this harrowing experience and talking about her cat's hole wearing a hat that says, who ate all the pussy? Yes. Yeah, flash it, flash it. Flash it. Yeah.

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And I just remember a few minutes ago when Amelia's like, I don't want that t-shirt. I got enough stuff at my house and is wearing a Who Ate All the Pussy hat. So, I mean, it's a great hat. It's a good hat. It's a good choice. Well, we're glad our team is safe.

Yeah, 100%. And Casey and Anya are also safe wherever they are. Their homes are also safe. So. It was great. Look, a lot of people online have been reaching out and been very nice. And I complained about some other people, too, that were.

It was nice to be so nervous in my house, worried that it was going to burn down. And people would be like, Mitch's stairs are going to burn for a long time. Kind of annoying. Any stair mention when you're afraid that your place is gonna burn down was a little bit annoying. And I told you that they were like, Mitch is fine,

but Weiger, I'm worried about Weiger. I was like, you don't know where we live. What the fuck are you talking about? Sorry, I shouldn't be mad. I shouldn't get mad. I shouldn't get mad at it. Everyone was very supportive. Overall, people have been very, very.

The Reddit, which is good now, there was a big list of... Yeah, the Reddit is good now. This is 2025 thing. There was a big list of them having updates about where people were, and the dose score was very concerned, and all of our listeners reached out and were very kind about our situation,

which was nice, so. Well, they were worried that Weiger's processors were gonna overheat. They knew you'd be OK. It was intense. Wednesday night and Thursday were tense because of the Hollywood fire. For me specifically, I'm lucky with the fires

that are more in Altadena and the Palisades and stuff. That didn't affect me, but a lot of our friends and their families have been affected by it. It's horrible. Yeah. We're fortunately in an OK area as far as fire danger but a lot of our friends and their families have been affected by it. It's a horrible situation. We're fortunately in an okay area as far as fire danger at the moment. We are a little closer to, we're on the West side,

we're closer to the Palisades fire, which is the horrible one, but like, you know, have avoided the catastrophic, you know, loss that a lot of people have suffered. It's just terrible air like Amelia's been breathing in, but it's, you know, it's like, from our standpoint, it's been a thing that's been manageable, you know, so. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Wednesday night went a lot of, I was very, there was this tense six hours on Wednesday night where a lot of people got out of town when the Hollywood Hills were on fire. Yeah. And it was so sad because a lot of businesses were talking about the Magic Castle almost went up in flames and then like Mel Gibson's Moonshadows

kind of fire. His house went down. His house went down too. He lost his house and he lost the karaoke bar where he was arrested for drunkily using a bunch of racial slurs. Look, even the ghouls I'll feel bad for. Frankenstein, Mel Gibson. Yeah, but it's a bad situation, but's a, it's a, it's a, it's a,

it's a, it's a bad situation, but let's not be funny for an hour and a half, and uh... And I do just want to say the, uh, the bit, um, I've Got a Bone, I wrote that during the fires, and it was sandwiched tonally perfectly, uh, in this conversation, and that is how I planned it to be. Um...

And I'm, and I'm happy about the moment I chose to do it and I'm happy about every minute. I loved it. I thought it was good. I think it was perfect. It was good. Weiger told us that we needed, it's a new year, new bits. Yeah, we'll get to that in a second. I do want to say, like you mentioned Baldur's Gate 3.

Did you clock my shirt at all? Oh, I didn't. We got an owl bear. Yeah, these are the animal companions from camp. I did clock the dog sleeping upside down. We got the sleeping, yeah. Is that the dog that you have, or isn't there like a sleeping wolf you can do a quest?

Mike just fixed the camera to not be on your shirt. No, this is the camp dog. I'm forgetting it's not Scraps. I forget it's Scratch, right? Scratch is the dog. This is Scratch and then the owl bear. Those'm forgetting it's not Scraps. I forget it's Scratch, right? Scratch is the dog. This is Scratch and then the Owlbear. Those are both the animal companions you can get. Yeah.

Oh God, between this and Bellatro, what the fuck you're talking about? Oh, we're getting to Bellatro. Yeah, let's get into, do you play Bellatro? Yeah, I'm a big fan. Yeah, Amelia's been binging it. Oh God damn it. Big fan.

And Mitch gets mad when we talk about it on the group chat. But if we were talking about this side chat, he'd also get mad. So we have to talk about it in front of him. But if we were talking about it in a side chat, he'd also get mad. So we have to talk about it in front of him. No, you said, should we keep this in this chat or should I do a side chat? And I said, side chat. I do not want to hear about Bellatro.

Give me in the Bellatro chat. He needs me to buy it. We'll do a Bellatro chat with Amelia and Zach and me and Stosser. I want in on that then. I want in. Emma wants in. I want in. I'll buy the game. I want in on that then. I want in. Emma wants in. I want in.

I'll buy the game. I want in. I want to see it. I think I might've 100%ed Bellatra. That's wild. Can you do that? Yeah, you can get all the achievements. You can unlock everything.

I spent an insane amount of hours doing it. How many hours you sinking into that? A lot, a lot. I had to- Give a ballpark estimate. I'm guessing it has to be in the dozens to get all that stuff. Yeah, I mean, it was for a long time,

it was just the thing I would do when I didn't have anything else to do. I would just plug away a Bellatro. And are you playing on a phone, Steam Deck? What are you using? On my Switch. On your Switch, okay, yeah. Oh, I didn't know you could do it on the Switch.

Yeah, it's on everything. Oh, man. It's over. It's an incredible design. I had to get rid of it because it's too addictive. I'm not playing it. I don't want to play it. It's probably. It's over. It's an incredible design. I had to get rid of it because it's too addictive. I'm not getting it. I'm not playing it. I don't want to play it.

It's probably the best game. The only other game that competes is Baldur's Gate 3. Games are too, they're too much time now. They're really time consuming. They're too much time. They make unreasonable demands on your time. But Pilatro, you can play for 10 minutes at a time. It's true. You can just do a short run.

Switch 2 is coming out this year and knock on wood that everything here doesn't get worse. And that is gonna be the thing that I am putting time into this year is the new Mario Galaxy or whatever comes out with it. That's what I... We'll see what it actually launches with, because I could see it launching with an underwhelming lineup.

Really? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think it's gonna launch with a new Metroid. That's what I think. Metroid Prime 4, that's a long rumored development for a while. We'll see if anything actually surfaces with it. Are you embarrassed at all that we're nearly mid-40s and talking about this stuff?

No, I'm wearing a Baldur's Gate 3 shirt. What do you think? I don't know. I wrestle with it sometimes. No, who cares? Even when I was younger, the idea? Like, even when I was younger, the idea of being into Mario when I was 50 seemed crazy. And I'm like, am I just gonna like Mario

when I'm 50 years old? Yeah, you'll be an old man talking about Mario. I rescued the princess. Do you have a wife? No. Speaking of video games, I really, you know, Severance obviously, very much in the zeitgeist, great show, a lot of video games, I really, you know, Severance, obviously, very much in the zeitgeist, a great show.

A lot of people are, Amelia was saying she's watched and rewatched it. The new season is out. But I really enjoyed Fallout. You're great in Fallout. What a fun show and what a great adaptation of the IP. Hey. Yeah, it was cool. Fog-lipped video game shows.

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Hey, there you go. I actually didn't really play it before I was in it. Yeah. And then after I did it, I downloaded Fallout 4 and started like walking around. And it was kind of surreal

how the sets really did feel like the vaults. Yeah, sure. I was like, whoa, they did a good job. And that aesthetic has been around since the first couple of them. Is Fallout 4 the Massachusetts one? Or is that the... No.

Or maybe. I think it is. I think it is. It is, it is. It is, it is, yeah. You can go to Quincy in the, you can go to Quincy in Fallout, there's like a thing that happens in Quincy

in Fallout 4, I think. You can like go to Fenway and stuff too, is in the game. Yeah. Is there like a little Mitch in there? There might be a little mutant Mitch somewhere, that'd be cool. That would love it.

A great show, Fallout's a great show, a lot of fun. That'd be cool. I would love it. A great show, follow it's a great show. A lot of fun. Yeah, it was fun. I enjoyed. You're playing, so Larry and I made Baldur's Gate 3. Before that they made the Divinity Original Sin games. You've been playing Divinity Original Sin 2. Yes, I have been playing Divinity Original Sin 2.

Mitch, you're gonna love this. It's basically Baldur's Gate 3. It's very similar. I'm also laughing that there's an insane thing that's happened and I don't even know if you're going to talk about it this episode. What? What are you talking about? Oh, I know what you're talking about.

Don't spoil it. Oh, I did talk about it. I did on the live show. Oh, show's that. Look, here's the thing. People have been saying, like, we've been and the Live show, and people are like, hey, Weiger, is it real? Is it real? You know, whatever. Yeah.

One of the Dough Boys ever half-committed to a bit. Yeah, it's real. I told you, I'm Tiger now. And is that... Does that... Does that relate to Baldur's game? No. Mitch just noticed it on my leg. I noticed it peeking out of... I noticed it peeking out of. I see, yes.

He got the tattoo on his leg. I'm sorry, I've been calling you Weiger all day. Yeah, no, Weiger's fine. Sorry, Tiger. Yeah. Yeah. Do I have to call you Tiger? Call me whatever you want.

That's what Mary Jane calls Spider-Man, it feels weird. She calls him Tiger? Doesn't she? Oh, like, hey Tiger, yeah. Doesn't she? I kinda am the Spider-Man. It feels weird. She calls him Tiger? Doesn't she? Oh, like, hey, Tiger. Doesn't she? I kinda am the Spider-Man to your MJ. You love cats, I'm kinda the biggest cat of all. Shout out to Daniel Werder at Bore Tooth Tattoo,

who hooked me up with this. Very happy with it. He's got the tattoo that's in... Tiger got it. Wait, so was it a surprise to you? Yes. Very much so. I mean, there was, I'm not giving anything away,

but there was a live show reveal, and then there was another second reveal to me. So Amelia sent a screenshot of a tagged image from a tattoo shop and said, we got tagged in this, why is this your thigh and is this real? And you got, you did it. I'm Tiger now.

I love it. Okay, so, but Divinity Original Sin 2. Yes, I'm loving it. It's also available on Switch. Yeah, I played about 10 hours of it and I bounced off of it. I found it just like really dense and I found the combat system kind of inscrutable,

but having played through Baldur's Gate three now twice, I like, I think I could wrap my head around it. It is more confusing and it is harder. Like I'm playing it on tactician mode because I played Baldur's Gate. And for the first, like, you know, basically the whole first act, I couldn't win almost any fight.

I had to like dance around and get experience doing other things until I could like figure out the combat. But now you can't stop me. Wow. What's your player character? Some little elf. I think like you don't, there isn't like the extent, my memory is that there's not like the,

the customizable character. Not as much. There's like a number of a few pre fab characters you pick. Well, no, you can, mine is custom. Oh, okay. But I'm just like some little elf. Got it. Who like stabs people and stuff.

That's fun. What is this game called? Divinity Original Sin 2. And I'm playing the definitive edition. Wow. It's like Ballers Gate 3 basically. Yeah. All right.

I'm not gonna play it probably. Jesus Christ. Let's talk Ballers Gay 3 basically. Yeah. All right. I'm not gonna play it, probably. Jesus Christ. Let's talk about food a little bit. What is this guy's fucking problem? We'll side chat about it. We'll talk about it in the Blatro chat. You've adjusted your diet a little bit in the new year. Do you think-

We're trying to help you, Mick. Do you think you sling more webs than Spider-Man? I was gonna ask that a long time ago. Who do you think? Who do you think you sling more webs than spider-man? I was gonna ask that a long time ago. Who do you think? Do you think more shoots out more white stuff? Like on an app on a daily on like a like a daily average, yeah, yeah more yeah The guy the bank robbers helicopter gets caught in a web. Ah, Weiger! And when you run out, do you have to go into a lab

and make more? Yeah. Like, go off. Oh, boy. Things are falling apart. The, okay, you're, and I don't know when this happened exactly, but you were vegan when we've had you on the show previously.

You're no longer strictly vegan. Correct. Are you kind of loosely vegetarian? When did this happen? I'm fully vegetarian. I still eat often vegan. Like at home, we mostly vegan. There's a lot of vegan restaurants

that my wife and I love. But honestly, the pull of pizza is too strong. Yeah. I, 1, 1000% get it. And look, we wouldn't have been able to do the spot we did today if you were still, oh, do they have any vegan options? They maybe do.

They do have a vegan, yeah, they have a couple of vegan things. They have so much stuff at this, which maybe it might be an unga pachka menu, possibly. That could be part of the verdict. I will say that, and Mitch, I don't know if you've made any dietary adjustments for the new year. My thing that I've been doing is great. My thing for the new year.

My fat guy meds are held up because of the damn Santa Ana winds. Oh man. I mean, this is the least worrisome thing of everything that's happened. But fucking Santa, fucking it's fucking Santa Ana. When we talked about this, wind and fire, I hate the worst, the wackest elements that there are.

I'm very upset with the- How do you rank the elements? Water is number one. Way of water, yeah. Yeah, water, I'd say water is- The Nabi love water. Yeah, water is great. Water's out there.

Water's your birth life. I'd go heart. Heart's big. Heart's really big. Cause right, what are the other ones that are worth? And also specifically, I think only know about heart. In the Captain Planet universe. But it counts.

I guess it does count. I think air has to be up there if we're separating it from wind. Cause you can also kind of need that. But it's not separated from wind. Yeah. It is air is wind. Well then I gotta still rank wind high

cause without air we can't breathe. Well, without fire we'd be pretty cold. That's true. So I guess fire's got it. Okay, so wind and fire, the ones I said are the two wackiest elements are now the ones. Okay.

What about earth? Earth is nice. Earth's good. Earth and water, those are my two favorites. Top five for me for sure is earth, wind, fire, water, heart. Yeah, in some order. They're all in there. Yeah, I agree with that.

My big thing I'm doing for the new year is, and this will get into our pizza when we talk a little bit, for about two years I haven't eaten any pork. And my two things, I don't eat pork and I don't eat cephalopods, otherwise I'm just kind of generally eating meat as it comes. And what I've kind of decided is that like... As it comes?

All right. Me. Me. Me. It's... What do they call that? Veal, yeah, that's like super veal. Fucking grab that thing as it's coming.

Jesus. Take a bite of a bull's thing as it's coming. Take a bite of a bull's leg as it's coming. Suffer than want you. Gotta be expensive. How much is that car? It's gotta be expensive, right? I've like, I've kind of just reached a point where it's like,

I don't think this is serving me. And what I've found, and I've also kind of gotten to the point of like, is me- I honestly genuinely forget all I can think of is you eating food when it's coming. All right, nevermind, let's move on. No, no, no, no, no, no, what was it? Was it beef?

Oh, not even pork, yes. Yeah, I haven't eaten pork or octopus squids for a couple of years. And I just was like, I don't think this is really serving me. And also the point where I'm like, if I'm ordering a Cobb salad, no bacon, or I'm just checking if there's pork base in the ramen before I order it, like, how much is that really helping those sort of marginal sort of things?

And I was like, is there a way I could do this just to make this less of a pain in the ass for myself and allow me to have these indulgences on occasion, while also just eating less meat in general? What I've kind of landed on is I'm just eating vegetarian at home. So like, you know, that's where I eat most of my meals and that's when I cook at home, I'm just eating vegetarian. Cram and the dough scord pitched, no meat shall I heat.

I think that's pretty good. So that's been kind of my thing. And so if we have an incident like today where there's pepperoni pizza, instead of stressing out over it or picking pepperoni cups off of a slice, I'd just be like, I'll just fucking eat it and it's fine. I'm mitigating it by not eating meat at home. Which I did for you when I had COVID.

That's true. And I didn't give it to you. Weirdly, remember I picked your, and you still didn't get it. I know, I didn't get it. You didn't get it from me. Me and Carl shared a pizza with you and neither of us got COVID. That's wild.

Yeah. I said this on Gabe Rich's podcast, but I'm taking Zep Bound. People should listen to got COVID. That's wild. Yeah. I said this on Gabriel's podcast, but I'm taking Zep Bound. People should listen to that episode. It's great. Thank you. The high and mighty episode you're on. Yeah, he always does a great job. I mean, it's called Being Fat,

but it's you and Gabriel's talking about, and you're very, very candid about it, and I think there's a lot of great detail you go into there, so people should listen to that episode. So my appetite is, it is changing. Like I am, I say this on the episode, but I've never in my life ordered a mini from Jersey Mikes. Yeah.

And that's what I get now, which is weird. And I am just full more. We also, we started a Fat Guy text chain. You're not on it. Yeah. We decided, we're talking about whether we should let you on. You are, you're fat enough.

It's fine. I don't need to be on the Fat Guy text chain. I was a little bitter about it, but it's fine. We are, you're fat enough. It's fine. I don't need to be on the fat guy tech chain. I was a little bitter about it, but it's fine. I mean, technically, I think you are, you do weigh enough we can let you on. My stance was we can let you on, but you don't get a full vote.

You can be in there. Which I do kind of agree with that. If there's ever a decision that needs to be made, you kind of have a little bit less of a. I'm like the representative from DC. It's just like, okay, I'm just kind of there. Yeah. Yeah. You can come in there, but yeah, you're not like a full man. It's like in Goodfellas where it was like you couldn't be made if you were like part Irish or something. Yeah, right, right, right. You can never, it's the same thing. You can never get made in a way.

You can never, it's the same thing. You can never get made in a way. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But we'll let you in there. But I think more so just my appetite has changed a little bit, which will, and I'm gonna try to eat healthier.

You know, that's, I'm getting myself, I'm gonna get, my plan is to get a rice cooker, which I know you can just make rice, but I've heard a lot of people rave about this specific rice cooker, which I know you can just make rice, but I've heard a lot of people rave about this specific rice cooker, which I have written down. What's that? Like an instant pot. There's a specific rice cooker that people like, it makes the best rice. And I forget the name of it. And it makes it way easier. Then you don't have to monitor it. You just put a couple of rice in and it makes great brown rice. They said too, it's very fluffy. And I'm going to do that and get a new,

And it makes great brown rice, they said too. It's very fluffy and I'm gonna do that and get a new, what's it called, air fryer, because my old air fryer got recalled. Oh man. And a Kosari, it got recalled and it could like start a fire, I guess, if you use it. That's a horrible, I just realized it didn't, I edited out me saying it can cause a start a fire.

I mean, that is why it was recalled. I bet it was why it was recalled. I mean, it was why it was recalled. I don't know why I got so scared there for a second. But, uh. Was your air fryer. It was not my air fryer that started the thing. Were you using your air fryer? No, it was not my air fryer.

I did not, this is not, whatever. I just got very nervous because I said it can start a fire. It can start a fire. And I'm gonna get a new air fryer and just do grilled, I think lot of grilled chicken and rice. That's great. I'm gonna try to do for the I just point the people should listen episode but also like I think you're Not just one spoke. I think you're very brave for just being open about this Thank you. I think we know a lot of people who are choosing to be private and that's their choice But I know that you sharing and you being open about it has helped a lot of our listeners

I've heard about people who've heard the High and Mighty podcast and have had a positive response to it. And then a lot of our friends have reached out to us privately and, you know, said they didn't help us. I think I remember this year where I was thought I was dying or wanted to die. Yeah.

I was like, I don't care. You know what I mean? Who cares what people say? You know what I mean? Like, people are going to be mean about stuff. People are mean about the fires. You know, people are assholes always. Who cares?

Like you know what I mean? What can you do? You just don't listen to it. Yeah, maybe someone will make a crack about your CPU's overheating and it's fine. You just move on with your life. That was good though. That was good.

I love both of you. I love both of you. We love you. All right, we gotta get to new bits. It is an issue. Oh yeah, new bits. We gotta talk about Big Mamas and Big Papas, but I wanna talk about some new bits for 2025.

And Mitch, I think this segues into something that I had, just as a baseline, I could just sort of say, like the idea of the kind of thing we're talking about. Sure. So here's a new bit I thought we could- Well, there is a bit, there's, I Got a Bone is a new bit. Can we use segues?

Yeah, you can use that. Okay, great. Any guest is welcome. Yeah, I is a bit, there's, I got a bone is a new bit. Can we use that? Yeah, you can use that. Okay, great. Any guest is welcome. Yeah, I was gonna say, I feel like the guests have to use that though. They got a bone to pick with y'all. Yeah, here's one I got. You know, these celebrities these days,

they're all going on Ozempic. I don't know if you saw this. It's just right after you said I was brave. Well, yeah, I thought this was a segue. I actually saw, you see this, the whale's on Ozempic. I heard the whale's on Ozempic. Is that the sequel? Yeah, he's on Ozempic.

Is there more to it than that? He's floating, man. He's up there. And they made him change his name to the dolphin. Yeah, he's the dolphin now. Whale dropped so much weight, name to the dolphin. Yeah, he's the dolphin now. Whale dropped so much weight, he's the dolphin. He's the dolphin, yeah. Whale has dropped so much, the whale has dropped so much weight.

The whale has dropped so much weight. He's the dolphin. He's the dolphin. That's a lot of, he's not even the manatee or something? No, he's really slimmed down. Oh my God. Yeah, he looks great. We looked at him before.

But he still has the power to float. He can still float, yeah. He can float even higher now. Wow. He's gotta be wary of the ozone layer.. He can still float, yeah. He can float even higher now. Wow. He's gotta be wary of the ozone layer. He's gonna burn up up there. Isn't it sad with Ozempic that there'll be no more of the whales?

Well, we won't have anymore. I think that's the main thing people are worried about. That's why it's such a fraught conversation. People are like, the whale was so good. Man. Look what they took from us. I genuinely if there was if there was if it there was the whale too and then colon Ozempic I would a thousand percent go and see that movie. Starts with them

jacking off eating the meatball sub then Hong Chow comes in. But it's slightly smaller meatball sub. Yeah the smaller meatball sub. Yeah, the smaller meatballs stuff. The stuff that's smaller than the meat. Yeah. I'd watch that. I didn't watch the first whale, but I'd see the second. You haven't seen the first whale? I feel like I've heard it described enough on this podcast.

Yeah. That's fair. That I have a full picture of what it is. It's really good. Yeah, it's good. I don't really, you told me, you gave us homework to... Well, they don't want to be all as fully formed as the whale on Ozempic.

But like, you know. My thing is, someone who works for us, Fish. That's right. One of our Discord mods. He's a Discord mod. I don't think he watches the show anymore or listen or listen show now anymore I think that we should do fish pop quizzes I think we should call fish and quiz him on past episodes

I think that's a good idea to see if he still watches the show fish fish pop quiz I guess is what is the segment that I'm pitching. Is that a play on something fish? Very fluidly as if it's like riff on something. It's not a play on something? Fish pop quiz? You're saying it very fluidly as if it's like a riff on something. It's not a riff on anything. Tell me out here, like a... Well, like fish food or fish... Pop fish. Pop fish.

Pop fish. Pop fish. That's great. And we just test fish and see if he watches this or listens to the show anymore. Yeah. I like that. I think that's great. And that's a lot of fun. I mean, he doesn't.

He doesn't, no, but that's part of the fun of it. Just hearing it, like, we'll say like, what do you think this was? And then hear him try to formulate what he thought it could have been. Hey, we brought up the big green man himself, Frankenstein. Maybe Dracula's out this year, Frankenstein's in? Yeah, Dracula could be out this year

and Frankenstein could be in. It's a total, it's a strong possibility. In the year of Nosferatu. See, it's too popular now. I think Franken... Well, yeah, maybe you zig when everyone else is out. Yeah. Dracula out, Frankenstein in.

Could be, yeah. All right. Let's see. Yeah. Zach, did you have one? Yeah. One is I think, you know, you have a few go we'll see. Yeah. Zach, did you have one? Yeah, I have a, I, one is I think, you know, you have a few go-to impressions. Yeah.

Bill Clinton is a regular presence on the show. That's 100%. I think one of you has to develop a Jimmy Carter impression. Yeah, kind of the time is right. Give it a go, I'll see what you got. Well, he's like, he's kind of a Southern guy, right? Yeah, but you could do him more recently

At the time of this recording he was basically buried a couple days ago, I believe I think I got you kind of a southern man, right? He's kind of doing the quarter. Hand me that hammer over there. Yeah, like I'm gonna build a habitat for humanity. Yeah. Hand me the hammer. Something like that. Hand me the hammer. I'm pretty good too.

Pretty good, yeah. I just think he would be a good presence, you know. Yeah, right, yeah. To balance out. Well, cause also like a wholesome sort of president. He's not like a horny president. He's not like a corrupt president. He's all my humble peanut farmer.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. My wife and I have been married for 80 years. Yeah. Yeah, that's all right. That's pretty good. Yeah. There's something there. I need an angle on it. 10 year anniversary live show in Quincy.

That's not really a bit, but I'm pitching that we should do a 10 year anniversary show in Quincy. It should be out here. We do the anniversary show. Meet in the middle. Do it in Ohio. I would do it in Omaha, Nebraska. We've got to go to Omaha.

We have talked about doing a Nebraska show for a long time. We just drove through Nebraska. Let me tell you, it smells like cow shit there. Hey, that's all there. The whole place. Honestly, probably better with our listeners. That's what I'm saying, it's perfect for us. It smells like cow shit in here too, honestly.

Amelia, are you happy that you came back from safety and a relaxing vacation to this? Yeah, this is great. We told you not to come. We told you not to come. Yeah, but I wanna be here. This is great. God bless you. God bless you. God bless you.

I think we could do two part 10 year anniversary show, one in Quincy, one in LA. We'll talk about it, we'll figure it out. Cause I also feel like there's- You and Quincy Weig are here in LA. That's funny. Hey, that worked. We got to, the 10 year,

it is the 10th year of the podcast, as Susser mentioned in the year end wrap up in 2024. We gotta figure out exactly what to do when we reach that. I kind of almost feel like we should make that be a, that episode should be a studio episode, but also it could be, maybe it's a live show out here. I don't fucking know. I think it's like the Disney thing

of celebrating it throughout the whole year. Sure, yeah. We should see, we should set like a segment of, oh, how you've grown. Maybe we highlight a listener, what's happened in the last 10 years. Oh, how they've grown. That we highlight a listener. What's happened in the last 10 years? Oh, how they've grown. That's fun.

Does it sound creepy? But what's wrong? No, I just don't even know where you'd be. I don't even know where you're getting to. I guess, yeah, check. Have someone. Maybe it's physically, maybe people have gotten bigger in 10 years.

You know, like something. I don't know. Sounds like you're describing a child. It sounds like you're talking about like a child who started listening when they were like, like 12 and now they't know. It sounds like you're describing a child. It sounds like you're talking about like a child who started listening when they were like 12 and now they're 22. If they're out there, that's perfect for the segment. Yes.

Yeah, if we have a child, someone who started listening as a child and now they are an adult, we'd love to hear from you. Yeah, we'd love to hear from the former child, now adult. Well, we're all former child, now adult, Mitch. If you had any like behavioral issues that have maybe been linked to that, it would be good to know.

And oh, how you've grown, you know what I'm saying? Something that says like, oh, 10, you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All right, here's one. Nosferatu was mentioned. I had this one. This I think is a pretty straightforward one.

Nosferhaktua. Oh, yeah, that's good. So I don't know, has everyone seen Nosferatu? Anyone else seen it? No, I haven't seen it yet. Okay, so there's Has everyone seen Nosferatu? Anyone else seen it? No. OK, so there's a voice in Nosferatu. So this might only make sense if you've seen the movie. But the Nosferatu guy has a voice.

Spit on that neck. Oh, that's good. Or spit blood on that thing. That's good. That's really good. Yeah, because he's more. It is more guttural. I am Nosferatu, woman.

You will come to me on the third night, and I will hawk to her and spit on that neck. So like, yeah, something like that. That Jimmy Carter? Yeah. I'm just thinking of people so afraid of these fires listening to this episode and being relieved hearing your Nosferatuah bringing a lot of relief to people with your Nosferatuah. I like that.

That gives me an idea. Yeah. I like it. I like it gives me an idea. Yeah, of not. NOS, NOS for Hawk to a and, you know, NOS in Fast and Furious. Yeah, is the gas that makes cars go fast. So maybe she's in a fast car. That's I like that a lot. That is good. Well, like Vin Diesel pushes a button and then she spits on. She spits on the gears.

When you're in the car, you need someone to spit. You have a. Yeah. She spits on the gears. When you're in the car, you need someone to spit. Yeah. Just because we said it's more of a Frankenstein-ier than Frankenhochtua. Frankenhochtua. Frank-to-a. Frank-to-a, yeah.

Trying to think what the angle would be. Yeah. I mean, look. Maybe hochtua's monster. Maybe Hawk2 is monster. Yeah, Hawk2 is monster. Her podcast, she hasn't updated her podcast. She's gone missing since she did the Bitcoin. Yeah, she did the meme coin rug poll at scam and then basically fled the coop.

You guys could do that. That's true. A meme coin rug poll could be like a nice way for us to like make a lot of money really quick. Dough coin? What's that? Dough coin? We say it's dough coin, and we say like it's like for disaster relief.

So we have an extra layer of people being like, thinking we're being, you know, very, uh. Sounds pretty perfect. Yeah. Something to consider. Yeah. Then we get the fuck out of there, move to Abu Dhabi. Ha ha ha ha ha. We move in with Kevin Spacey and Tel Aviv.

I had one, this is just Zach, because you're here. This could just be a fun thing we could say on the show. When we talk about cherry Coke, if we say, we call it a Zach Coke, it's like kind of like a nice little nod to our guests. Yeah, that's nice. I was drinking the Zach, you just say it like casually, like as the movie's got a Zach Coke.

Well, you could say Zach Cherry Coke. Zach Cherry, you know what? Zach Cherry Coke might be better. Yeah, yeah, I like that. Zach Cherry Coke, yeah. All right. That's an honor. Okay, great.

That's an honor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I like that a lot too. Okay. Yeah. Here's, well, here's the, I don't know if anyone has any others, but I have one more. So last year we had a lot of fun with like Elvis Harkonnen,

which was based off of Austin Butler, who plays both Faye Ralph Harkonnen in Dune, and then Elvis and Elvis, the Bas Lerner movie. Obviously now we have another Dune star who's in a biopic, Timothee Chalamet is playing, you know, he's Paul Atreides, Muad'Dib in Dune, but he's also Bob Dylan in A Complete Unknown. So there's a natural opportunity for Muad'Dib Dylan.

Muad'Dillan? Muad'Dillan, yeah. Maybe Muad'Dillan is the better portmanteau. Yeah, Muad'Dillan. Do you have any examples of how this would go? I want to save some of this. I do have one, but I want to save it for when Casey Doonehue is back, because I know Casey's a big Doonehead. But just a taste, like if you were like, how does it feel to be stuck on Doone, wearing a still suit like a shy ho-lude?

Like a shy hulude. Can I say to you that you've made me, you've made me uncomfortable in the past and I don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable than you going into, I don't know what. It's Bob Dylan. I don't know. It's Muav Dylan. Muav Dylan. You mean you don't know. He was very clear that's Muav Dylan.

I just don't know what you think Bob Dylan's deal is. I'm very confused that you went like this for Bob Dylan. You made a face that I don't understand. That might've been more from the Muad, Muad, Muad. Oh, it was that one? Yeah, a little from Columby, a little from Columby. Okay, all right, yeah, yeah, yeah. How would you do a Dylan?

He sounds like this, but I wouldn't do this. He sounds like this. Me, I'm Dylan. I don't think I would, my head is shaking. I'd probably do Bob Wonka. Bob Wonka's good. Hey man, you want some candy? That's good. I don't know a single Bob Dylan song.

Is he the one who does, hey man, take a walk on the wild side? No, he's not. Who's that? That is, uh... Lou Reed. Okay, I would do Lou Wonka. Hey, man. But he still sounds like Bob Dylan. Here comes the story of the fizzy lifting drink.

That would be Bob. I mean, it's not good. No, he likes it. But that is... I have a segment pitch. Okay, great. If you have to go to the bathroom, you go, bathroom breakdown, and then you leave, and then the guests who stay here break down the episode when the other person's in the bathroom.

So we don't stop rolling, it turns into content. But are you saying like, if you have to go to the bathroom, you leave, I stay here, or do I also leave? No, no, just the person who has to go to the bathroom, the person who has to piss and or shit or cum leaves and goes to the bathroom. You guys break down. You have to be honest about what you're doing.

When you come back, you have to admit which one you did. On average, how often do you leave to go to the bathroom, but you're just coming? Let's, should we? Non-zero. Let me, because I think you have a better sense of what this is, so let's, we'll audition it real quick and I'll just, I'll just, I'll be good.

I have to go to the bathroom. You do? Yeah. Okay, so you want to try it out? Yeah. Okay, great. Bathroom breakdown. All right, Mitch is going to step away real quick.

Is there a theme song maybe that can go with this? Yeah, we'll work on it. Okay, great. Jimmy is very interested in where Mitch is going. Amelia's closing the door. How do you think the episode's going so far? I'm having a lot of fun. I'm having a lot of fun too.

I still am still thinking about the bone to pick segment how I dropped it in the middle of the wildfire. That's not, no, that wasn't your fault. That was our fault. And also I think that, I think it was great. I think it was a nice little moment of energy and a moment of levity. Yeah, other than that though, it's been, I'd say, aces.

Does your wife want to remain anonymous or would she want a shout out on the episode? That I don't know. Okay. I don't know. Well, I'll say shout out to Zach's partner. Thank you very much for listening. Yeah, she's watching.

I'm sorry, we've sent you to the hospital twice. No, only once. Only once, okay. And it wasn't the hospital, it was just she got really mad. She got so mad she had to go to the doctor. Did she also test positive for COVID once while you were recording with us? Yeah, I was on the recording with you

and she did get COVID. So hopefully you're okay. Call me. Do you have like, okay, you're someone who works a lot as you're traveling to act and you're someone who works a lot as you know You're traveling for for to act and and the way this work this profession works now You're in different cities all the time. You go to a new city bitches of the bathroom right now. Yeah, like are you How conscious of you are like I've like figuring out the bathroom situation in your local environment

Like are you like like I need like my hotel is gonna get the job done Or do you also like I need to know like my hotel's gonna get the job done, or do you also like, I need no, like, a six block radius? I'm not shy. There's a lot of, you guys are worried about how the bathroom sounds here. There's a lot of bathroom stress. I'm not worried about any of my bathroom situations.

You're probably- I'm loud and proud in the toilet. Yeah, you're probably also correctly, like, aware that, like, no one's really paying attention to what you're doing in there. But I'll talk to you while I'm in there, if you want. Will you really? Yeah, if I'm on-

Wait, you talked about bathroom stuff? Were we not supposed to? No, that was just you. We talked about the episode, but we transitioned to bathroom stuff. Okay, all right, that's fair. I was asking Zach when he's on the road and he goes to a new city,

how does he figure out the bathroom situation? Because I know that's a big thing for either of us. I'll shit anywhere or piss anywhere. Yeah, same. Wait, Mitch, what did you do in there? I can't. Okay. So-

Wow, you can do that without a shower present? There's a drain in there. In the middle of the floor. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that works. This was an issue last night. I went with Paul Russ and I got you rustic last night. We got some wings. How fun?

And I thought I had an emergency bathroom situation and I, that was one of the spots where I could not, I wouldn't be able to use the bathroom. Why not? It just is too, it would be like people would be knocking on the door almost immediately, I feel like. Oh, I have a great bathroom story to tell. Oh, let's hear it.

And you can use this technique. Okay, great. On a recent road trip, I was at a gas station and there was a bathroom that was, there was a huge line outside of it. And inside you heard moaning, like full on moaning, like something was going on in there. Ooh.

But it was just one person. Ooh. Sounds like what Mitch just went through. But then was just one person. Ooh. Sounds like what Miss just said. But then, this man came out, and we all watched him walk to the cash register and say, hey, just so you guys know, I cleaned up in there, I left it spotless, so whatever happened in there, if there's anything amiss, it was not me.

And we were all like, you're overplaying your hand, buddy. Like, no one would have brought it up, but he was very adamant that he was like, I cleaned, when I left, you could have eaten off that floor. But if something is in there, it happened after I left.

And then he was also moaning. Yeah, he was moaning. No one's been in there, and then he just got in his car and left. That's insane. This is a situation to quote Mitch of me think doth protest. Yeah.

The, that's like the kid- Did I say it that way? Yeah, you did. That's like the kid at my music camp who was like, just so you know, I didn't sperm in my sleeping bag, okay? Yes, exactly. Well, if you say I didn't- Sperm in my sleeping bag?

Yeah. For what I probably would, no one would even notice your sleeping bag was wet, but now we all think that, Yes, exactly. If you say I didn't... Swerve in my stomach. Yeah. For what I probably would, no one would even notice your sleeping bag was wet, but now we all think that, and now we're all gonna be telling that story 30 years later. Yes. Autopilot cat. So try that next time.

Yeah. Man, to be doing whatever that man was doing there, I could not... I think it was coming out... all three. Yeah, that's rough. So you talk about something, you're not bashful in the bathroom, but for me, like the thing, the red line for me is if like a custodian is in there cleaning up,

I'm just like, I'm not, I can't go, like I had that happen the other day. I was like going into the, and there's these very nice public restrooms in Culver City. And I went in there and it was one of those, I went in there and like the janitor's workers was like, oh, sorry.

And I popped out and the guy, and then the guy's like, no, no, no, you're fine. Come on in. Like he's trying to wave me in and I've got to go like, you know, I got to floor it. Like I got to make a mess in there. And I- You got to make a mess in there?

I can't do it. I just, I can't do it with this guy here. He's like working. If I get the go ahead, I'll make a mess in there. And I... You gotta make a mess in there? I can't do it. I just can't do it with this guy here who's, like, working. If I get the go-ahead, I'll go for it. I just went in there, I, like, washed my hands, and then I left. And I just, like, I was like, I can't do this in front of this guy. It'd be too... I know he doesn't care. Like, that's...

He probably encounters that all the time. Maybe even... Maybe even would like it. He might have gone home that day and been like, I was so close. Wags I'm back in LA and you know what? I'm reunited with one of my favorite things. What's that? Your podcast partner?

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Me, I got a new ritual I do, which is that I lay out my workout clothes the night before. So I wake up with my alarm. I'm ready to go. I'm ready to get some steps in. Ooh, I like that. Yeah. You know what I'm trying to do?

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at checkout. That's 20% off your first order when you shop better hydration today using promo code DOEBOYS at liquidiv com. We got to talk about Big Momma's and Big Papa's Pizzeria. There's an LA based pizza chain, kind of appropriate considering where, you know, this is a city institution that I would say is somewhat beloved. I feel like when I got out here originally, it opened in 1997. It was kind of like a, like, oh yeah, this is kind of one of the LA spots.

This is kind of one of the pizza spots that like will always be solid, will always be there for you. I don't know if it's ever been considered good, quote unquote. It's not by like, like, hey, this is like, this is the place to go to where you want to like impress somebody from out of town.

But if like, if you live here and you just want a good pie, it's like a very solid spot back in the back, especially back in like UCB days or whatever. It would be like, Hey, we ordered like five big momas and Papa's pizzas and they would be decently cheap. And, and, you know, reasonably priced available at like, like, you know, uh, available for the working class and also like a step above kind of the big national chains. Um, it is, uh, it was founded. It was founded in 97 as mentioned by brothers

Aro and Alan Aga Canyon. It has an Armenian influence to their pizza menu and it's not the only LA area pizzeria that is like this. It is also the Guinness World Record holder for the largest deliverable pizza, the giant Sicilian, which is four and a half feet by four and a half feet by four and a half feet or one meter, 37 centimeters squared.

It's a big boy. They have, they have a special like giant like coffin sized, um, container on the top of their delivery vehicles just for this huge pizza. Which is how I even heard of this place. I would see the cars driving around with a special rack on top. Yeah. And I was like, what's going on with this? Yes, it is. It's, it, it, it was a gimmick. It was a very big, I. And I was like, what's going on with this? Yes, it is.

It was a gimmick. It was a very big, I feel like it was, they still exist, so. We saw one today. We did, we saw one of the delivery cars with the giant box. When I finally go, it's probably how my body's gonna be transported out of my house.

They also now have the world's biggest pizza slice, the Big Papa's slice, which we will get to. Which maybe we got today. Beyond that, it's claim to fame is that Ellen DeGeneres gave out Big Mama's and Big Papa's pizza slices to celebrities when she was hosting the 2014 Oscars. That's so nice. I didn't know that.

Yeah. That's such a nice move. Isn't that nice? Yeah, she's nice. She's famously, famously nice. I was thinking about that. Imagine being the poor PA who had to take care of Ellen's pizza order.

You better get it right, you little fuck. I'm sorry. Don't look at me. She gave, wait, oh, that's what she gave out at the- At the Oscars, yeah. Yes. There was like a bit, right? Like she gave out pizza or something like that.

Didn't she do a selfie with the- She did a selfie, that's what people remember. But there was a pizza thing she did too. Oh wow, so it was almost involved in the greatest selfie ever. Almost, yeah. Yeah, it was almost involved in the greatest. Aren't a couple of your guys in that?

I believe Spacey's in there. Yeah. A few of our guys got in the picture. There's some overlap with that photo and the doughboys guests of previous years. There's 17- What year was that? Was that a-

2014, I think? 2014. 17 locations in LA County. So Zach, you're not from LA. No. This is an LA institution, something of an LA institution. This was a place that you pitched.

Why Big Mamas and Big Tapas? Well, I spend time in LA occasionally. Sure. And like I said, I've seen the cars driving around and I was trying to think of like, what's something we could do as a vegetarian? Pizza is often a great option. There's a lot of things you can do.

And then I remember that big slice. The big slice. And I thought, I got to try this thing. The big slice was. Because what other context am I going to get the big slice? Because I don't live here. So like, yeah. We were chanting big slice in the text chain.

Yeah. We just started writing big slice, big slice, big slice. And I did pull a little bit of a psychological maneuver on YouTube where I pitched it before Mitch, I think, woke up. Or possibly. Weiger and I were talking about it. And then before Mitch could even weigh in, I said, come on,

Mitch, back me up. Weiger's trying to stop me from being allowed to try the big slice. And then Weiger was like, what the fuck? No, I liked the idea. I was sort of my gambit. I think my first text to, in response was big slice. Yeah, yeah.

Wiger wasn't trying to kill the big slice. Is it the- Yeah, but I had to be sure. Yeah, no, it, the, the, the- Well, look, let's be clear. You know I'm never gonna kill the big slice. I like, I am the big slice. What we- Hey, new bit. Big slice. I like that. Yeah, cause you have Mr. Slice. I am the Big Slice. Hey, new bit.

Big Slice? I like that. Yeah, cause you have Mr. Slice, but how is the Big Slice different than Mr. Slice? Is it just like my viewpoint on some stuff? You know what I mean? Let's check in with Mr. Slice with the Big Slice. I think the fire started because we didn't accept

Kevin Spacey back in the Hollywood. Like a thing like that basically. Yeah, that's good. Yeah, I like that. Yeah, all right. Kind of like your two cents. So we went in person to the Glendale location. The Glendale location is not the original,

but on the website they brag about its larger square footage. They were saying like, this is the model of the new Big Mamas and Big Papas dine-in experience. So we're like, you know what? That's actually probably a good one to visit to see what that's like. They do have a bar there. They do have like alcohol service. Look, the Glendale test never fails.

The Glendale is just a nicer, the locations are nicer up in Glendale. And that ended up, the size of the inside did end up being important and relevant. It was, absolutely. They did 100%. One thing I will say that I like about this, you know, especially someone who's not drinking right now.

I'm really just trying to go back to Palm Springs. She just texted me bathroom breakdown. Bathroom breakdown. Okay. Okay. So do you think the episode's going so far? I think pretty stellar since the last breakdown. Okay, great.

Yeah. Yeah, what did you guys talk about when I was gone? Can you say? Talking about taking shits. Yeah. It actually was a lot of bathroom talk. Yeah. Yeah. What happened? What did you guys talk about when I was gone? Can you say talking about taking shits? Yeah It actually was a lot of bathroom talk. Yeah, you know what? I can't eat corn anymore. I found out I get no this is a different twist on the bathroom breakdown. You're breaking down your bathroom I can't I can't do why not. I feel like you've been speculating on this for like two years now. So you've confirmed I think I'm confirmed firm. Why not?

Corn is a guy. I don't think I can digest it. Just agitates the guts. Popcorn in a, I mean like if I eat a small popcorn, I think I'm okay, but if I get bigger sizes or corn nibble, you know, I can't do it. Like an ear of corn that's off the table? I don't know if I can do it. I think it hurts my stomach too much.

I know, it bums me out. I love corn. What about a tortilla? I'm a flour tortilla guy more than corn tortilla. You know that. Maybe because the corn doesn't agree with the tom. That's, I think that's what it is. It's sad, sad to me.

They have, so one of the things they have at the Glendale location is they have a little like fridge of artisan pops, which is really fun. And they have a bunch of them. Yeah, you've got one of them right there, Zach. I got the, speaking of Fallout, I got a Fallout Nuka Cola. They had one of those varietals and they had,

it was a mango, or no, it was not mango. It was a peach, no, it was a mango peach, right? I think that's what it was. It was really, really tasty. I really enjoyed it. Peach mango flavored soda. Peach mango, thank you, Emma. I got myself a Malibu soda in honor of the Malibu itself.

And it was a peanut-calata soda. It was very, very sweet. Kick a blue Malibu. It tasted very blue. And I got a Hatch green chili flavored soda. Which was, the smell of it was horrible. It smelled like you opened up a can of green chilies. And how did it taste? But it didn't really taste like, it was horrible. It smelled like you opened up a can of green chilies. And how did it taste?

But it didn't really taste like, it was fine, but it was honestly pretty nondescript, the flavor. It was pretty generic. They were very nice to us at the end of the day. They were like, go ahead and take us soda. Cause I think we had, we probably spent a good chunk of cash in there for the day. You know what I mean?

We ordered an astonishing amount of food. We did, yes. This is after the woman who was bringing us our food, who was very nice, but she said, you ordered a lot of pizza. And she kind of tried to be like, I mean, I get it. Sometimes I order too much food too. But we ordered, at the end of the day,

we had two full large pizzas that we brought back here, which our team, I think, ate. Did you guys have a bite of any of it? I actually didn't have any yet. Oh, no one ate any? I was thinking about it, but they didn't do it. I didn't know there was pizza. Oh, Jesus.

Fuck, we did a bad job. Amelia, did you have any pizza? No, I just took a piss. Okay. We weren't asking. We didn't mean right now. We meant in general. You know what?

She is supposed to say what she did. When you come back from the bathroom breakdown, you are supposed to say what you did. She did. She did. Actually, one of my ideas for new bit is that Amelia should host one episode. Go girl, go. Here's the question. Do we have to come in at all? That's up to Amelia. ideas for new bit is that Amelia should host one episode. We would. Oh, girl. Yeah.

Here's the question. Do we have to come in at all? That's up to Amelia. Uh, you can watch. Fuck. Yeah, you have to you have to sit back here. Yeah. Yeah. It sounded so good to not have to come in and do. We'd have to be here. OK. But I'm down for a role reversal.

I'm down for us to sit over at the. You're going to work the fucking you're going to edit and live. I could figure that out. No, you can't. I absolutely can't. You can't.'t you should be a professional video editor. What are you talking about? Oh shut the fuck up? What did you edit? I had to fuck all my funnier diabetes and a bunch of funnier die videos I voted die on so many of those things Fuck Fucking crypt keeper down there got him.

This sucks. That's him down there. Doesn't even have a pun? He's just like, it's bad. The crypt keeper was, was the crypt keeper involved with Funny or Die at all? Was he in charge of the crypt? I don't think the crypt keeper was explicitly the crypt keeper involved with funny or died out what did was he in charge of the crypt? I don't think the crypt keeper was explicitly tied to the crypt

No, the funny or die crypt were all the videos that died would be sent. Okay. I know I know Premiere I know Final Cut and no after effects. I could figure out a live edit I was trying to think of some a bad funny or die video that you did But I couldn't really think of any funny or dive it you did besides the big ones, which everyone loves Yeah, okay, a few bad ones that you did. I made a bunch of them. Okay. Yeah.

There was none that were in the crypt at all? No, I didn't really get to the crypt. You had to be really, like it had to like be overwhelmingly die to get to the crypt. They just took away the crypt at one point, didn't they, cause it was like too mean to send the thing to the crypt. Well, yeah, cause then if a celebrity would be like,

hey, I'm gonna go do, you know, I'm gonna give up my, I in Z-ring is like, hey, I'm going to go do, you know, I'm going to give up my, I am Ziering is like, hey, I'm going to go do a funny or die video. And then people were like, this sucks. And then he'd be like, well, why did I do that for no money? And he'd be upset. Yeah.

So they were like, oh, I guess we're going to get Ryan Ziering's Pepsi Santa or whatever. Yeah, exactly right. Yeah. You know what I have noticed a lot of thin, there was a thin Santa this year. I don't like the movement towards thin Santa. Are you talking about in red one? Well that too but then also there's like that yes that is that

is I mean I don't like JK Simmons. JK Simmons. Tomorrow War veteran yeah I don't I don't like his. Thank you for your service. Thank you for your service JK Simmons. I don't I don't like his Jack Santa but then there was also like a commercial with like a buff Santa. What is this? Isn't the buff Santa though kind of like, he's kind of a thick boy, right? When I think of a different- I mean, he's a big guy, but he's like,

he's in shape, I don't like it. Are you talking about the John Travolta Santa commercial? No, I don't like that either. He's too in shape too, I don't like it. Santa is not lying. Like 30% of my work every year. I don't like it moving away from big guys. I don't, I don't.

There aren't many roles for us. No, there's not. Don't you can't have Santa. Santa, Grimace. Who else do we have? That's kind of, that's pretty much it. Jabba. Jabba.

Grimace. And they're making, they're making fucking skinny Jabba. Yeah. Jabba's skinny now. Jabba's skinny now? Yes. He's fucking jacked. Yes.

Ozempic. Because Jabba went on Ozempic. The bear is going to be Jabba, right? Isn't he doing Jabba? The bear is doing Jabba's son. Same difference. I think. That's.

Right? Isn't it, isn't that on one of those, it's like he's doing Zorba the Hut or something, right? One of the Hutt's See this is a thing I didn't know that there was a that was good That was good. Oh god the fire should take over fucking head gum we suck I thought Hutt's only spoke to Huttese, but there but I guess there are some some of the the Star Wars some of the animated canon, there is,

there are Huts who are speaking a basic, which is the equivalent of English, the universal language, the lingua franca in Star Wars. There's like one Hut that's like, eh, how you doing? Hey, I'm a Hut. Yeah, and he, I believe that the bear is playing that guy. Oh, that's right.

And is that character a big fella? Jabba the Hut's son, Rod of the Hut. Rod of the Hut, that's right. And is that character a big fella? Jabba the Hutt's son, Rod of the Hutt. Rod of the Hutt, that's who it is, yeah. Yeah, and he's like- The Hutts are thin? Yeah, the Hutts are thin, yeah. The Hutts are hunks? The Hutts are a, the Hut is a hunk?

To be fair, it says he's doing the voice, so maybe the character will still be big. But the Hut is a hunk. Even worse. The Hut is a hunk? Yeah, the Hut's a hunk. That worse. The Hut is a hunk? Yeah, the Hut's a hunk. That's fucking bullshit! What they're doing now. How about the Big Sicilian? Who plays the Big Sicilian?

Uh, Zac Efron. Zac Efron's the Big Sicilian? They cast him as the world's largest pizza. First Mitch can't do the voice of Apu or Cleveland and now he fucking can't do... Atron! Um... of Apu or Cleveland and now you fucking can't do... I tried. Zolba. I, uh, man, if they make the Big Mamas and Big Papas movie,

it's not a big guy. I'm gonna be upset. So we gotta talk about, by the way, there is a Big Mama and there's a Big Papa as part of their signage. Mm-hmm. It was, we were all surprised to see that it was way more horny than we ever thought it was. Right? What do you say? There was some hornyness we ever thought it was. Right, wouldn't you say? There was some horniness going on.

There's a double entendre that you pointed out involving the big slice. So they have two big slices. One is the big papa slice, which is like so big. It's like five feet tall, basically. It's huge. Then they have the big mama slice, which is just like a big slice of pizza.

But they have multiple posters with the two of them holding up each slice and Big Papa says, my slice is much bigger than yours. And they have a little bit of a little twinkle in their eyes. Yeah, there's a little twinkle in their eyes. And Big Mama is like into it. Yeah. She's like, yeah, it is. She's like, it is. It's a lot bigger. Yeah. Yeah. Which is bizarre because why is she happy for his slice being bigger? He's a fucking size queen. She gets to go home with it.

What do you think? And then his ass is in the box. That's true, his ass is in the box. His ass is in the box. When you're taking off the big papa slices, it's revealed that it's his ass is in the back of the box. Yeah, so you've been sort of eating his ass. Straight off his ass, yes.

It's very bizarre. It's a little disorienting. And I don't know exactly what they're going for, but I think it's part of the fun. So we got a heart-shaped pizza. Yeah. Well, that's one of the things they offer. I asked them, because we were like trying to figure out

what pizza to get, and we looked up, and there was a heart-shaped pizza. I was like, let's get the heart-shaped pizza. And I said to the guy, I was like, is this more of a pain in the ass to make? And he was like, and I was like, it seems like it is. It seems like it is, but he was like down to do it. They were great.

They were so incredible. They were great, yeah. So they, so we got, we got a heart shaped pizza, which is basically the equivalent of a large pizza and in the heart form factor. We got it with a California crust, which has like a, an array of sides. Which he suggested, yeah. It has like some garlic and some basil heart form factor. We got it with a California crust, which has like an array of- She suggested, yeah.

It has like some garlic and some basil on the crust. And then we got half cheese and then half pepperoni and onion. Yeah, red onion, which is my favorite. Red onion. White onion is. I would have liked white onion more on a pizza, yeah. Red onion is, although I like red onion quite a bit. But I think that-

Red onion doesn't go on a pizza, it just doesn't. I don't think so. All that said, I think that was a, those are good slices. I was pretty happy with that pie. I was pretty happy with it too. There's something in it that, I think that overall I was very happy

with our meal in many ways, but like there was something about it that is just bland in a way. Like, I don't know if it's the sauce. Oh no, it could have used, if there was like a jar of oregano and like a jar of Parmesan, I would have just like,

just shaken that some bitch, you know, like gotten it on there. Cause like it could have used some seasoning. It does kind of have like a plain character to it. It might just be that the sauce is not particularly seasoned. I think that it is the sauce. I think it's a very plain sauce. But something that they do, which I liked is

they bring you little cups of jalapenos. I do love the jalapenos. With every pizza, which is not something I've encountered before. No, I love that. Added a little kick. I liked the texture of that pizza. It was nice and crisp.

I liked that. Yeah, nice texture, nice crust. I did like the seasoning on the crust. I did throw those jalapenos on that. I worked especially well on the cheese, and I'm a bit of a heat seeker, So like I did like having that extra bit of intensity. And it came in the form of your favorite element on top of all of that.

That's right. That's true. I thought that was a decent pie and that was the most normal one we got. We also got the- So, well, some wings. Yeah, we got some wings. And we just got the regular buffalo wings.

Zach, you didn't have any of these. Some drums, some flats. They were super nice. They gave us, we ordered six. They And we just got the regular Buffalo wings. Zach, you didn't have any of these, you know, some drums, some flats. They were super nice. They gave us, we ordered six. They're like, here's nine. They gave us a few extra wings. Yeah. We did finish those.

That was like, we split that order of wings. You were eyeing my last wing, I saw it. You said it. I thought you were full. Okay. Well, you had it. You got to have it. I took a-

There were nine. Who got five? You got five. Wait, I got five? Yeah, you got five. You were looking for a six, you had it. You got to have it. I took a look. There were nine. Who did the, who got five? You got five. Wait, I got five? Yeah, you got five. You were looking for a six, you fucking sick fuck. I thought I got four. No, you got five. Wow.

I had five. I wasn't going to eat it, but I took my injector out and I took some Zep-Bound out of me. I was like, now I'm hungry again. I ate a wing. Like a reverse bane. They need to clinically know if being around Weiger affects the... Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Wings were solid. They like just absolutely got the job done. They smelled good. Yeah. And... It was very Trump-like.

Right? Yeah. The follow-up was not... Yeah, I can only be like Trump when I'm not thinking about it, when my true self is showing. We also got the egg gondola pizza. Now, this is their, I mentioned it's got, it's an Armenian, I believe it's an Armenian ownership.

There's a Georgian dish called a kachapuri, which is this sort of thing, which is a, it's kind of like an open-faced calzone with an egg cracked in the middle of it, like kind of like an over medium sort of egg. I love the kachapuri. I gotta work on this. Did you say those kachapuri were Georgian?

Like me, Jimmy Carter? Not that Georgia, Jimmy Carter. Oh. Okay, so we got the egg- I'm not trying, I don't know. Egg gondola pizza. Hey, thumbs up. That sounded a lot like-

Bill Clinton offering a tepid approval. I do want to have a president that can be mine. Yeah. It can't be Trump. No. So we'll think about it, but I'd love to have one who I can do. Well, from the TV era, which I think are the, you know,

the impressions that people are aware of. George H.W. You got George H.W. Bush, you got George W. Bush, you got Obama, you've got Clinton has been claimed. I'll just give a break. Trump you don't want to talk about. Was Garfield the one who got stuck in the tub? That was Taft.

Taft. Taft, yeah. Garfield got assassinated and died horribly. Maybe I'll do Garfield. Yeah. Yeah. Ow, ow. Aw, too soon.

We got the veggie egg gondola pizza, mozzarella, feta, butter, eggs, red onions, vine tomatoes, green bell peppers and mushrooms. And as I mentioned, they just crack an egg into it. Quite tasty, I like this dish. That was really good. Yeah, it was really yummy. It was, you know what?

It was the bite of the night. I think that was my favorite thing I had there in restaurant, yeah. Really, really nice. The egg and the- I didn't know there was butter, but now that you say butter, I'm going, there was butter. Butter is better, but I think the butter helped with the,

I think the butter helped quite a bit. That was a tasty little number wise. Over the producers desk, how do we feel about a runny egg on top of something? Cause I know it got kind of overplayed for a time, but in this context that worked really well. I love it. That actually was a restaurant I used to work at

after college, Salty Pig in Boston. That was like one of the things they did. You could add an egg to your pizza and they put it right in the middle and people would just like smash it and put it all over. That's fun. Delish. I think next to cleaning your ears, opening a runny egg is the best non-sexual thing,

like experience you ever have. Next to cleaning your ears using a Q-tip or something? Precisely. She's saying that's like the Q-tip or something. Precisely. She's saying that's like the best non-sexual feeling. Feeling. Right there. Cleaning your ears does feel really nice. I get what you're saying.

Mike, are you like an egg on top of something? Are you saying on pizza? Or on top of anything. Anything? I mean, I love it on a burger. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But pizza, no. You want it on the burger, do you like it runny or?

Yeah, yeah. Definitely runny. I want it, I want a splash, you know Yeah, I'm with you bigger filmmaker on YouTube. Do you like doing a as a baker? You ever make yourself a pizza crust you ever make anything that's kind of like a Calzone Yeah, I've actually made both yeah and calzone Wow. I yeah, I love I love making a pizza I'm not very good at it because I have such a high standard for pizza, I think, but I can't, it doesn't stop me from trying.

You know who also has a high standard for pizza? Mr. Slice, who we go to now with a big slice. I think that the fire started because Hollywood didn't. Except Kevin Spacey back. So it's always. It's's always. It's not always a different thought. A lot of the time it can be the same thought.

What's on your mind right now that we want you to be honest. We also got. I was just texting Amelia that I was going to ask to turn the air on more. I was gonna say it feels warm in here. I'll go adjust it. I had to say when Weiger uploaded the pictures of your meal before you guys got here and I was looking at them and when we pulled up

a picture of that Amelia went, wow that looks like a pocket pussy. Jesus Christ. Something that, I did not have sexual relations with that, what's it called again? Gondola pizza. With? Gondola pizza. With that gondola pizza. You freak.

We should have demanded that you stayed up in Palm Springs. Um. That is, that is, that does not look like a pocket pussy first of all, it's like, it's, that. It does. Oh my God. It depends on the model. Oh yeah.

In the picture, it doesn't look very big, I gotta say. It's pretty fucking big. It's pretty sizable. It was pretty big. It's pretty damn big. It's way, it's too big. We also got. When you buy pocket pussies, you get the extra.

You go extra small, so of course it doesn't look, you know. It's the only thing that I. You go extra small and then you have to like put it in't look you know it's the only thing that I you go extra small And then you have to like put in the dryer to shrink At the adult bookstore excuse me sir, do you have any toddler fit? The only thing I wear that's the X the other way X the other way. Yeah. Okay.

You wear it around? That's not what they're for. Ma, leave it in the dryer. I'm trying to make it smaller. I don't, I've never fucked a pocket pussy before. Yeah. I've never fucked, I've never fucked any, I've never fucked anything that's not,

I've never fucked a thing. Sure. I've never fucked a thing. Like I'm not, I'm saying, I know you fucked an apple. That's why I said the apple thing earlier. Right. But like you, I've never fucked a thing. I'm saying, I know you fucked an apple. That's why I said the apple thing earlier. But I've never fucked, I don't think I've ever fucked a thing, you know? Besides a sock, I don't think I've ever fucked a thing.

Sure, besides a sock. Every man has fucked a sock before. Mike is shaking his head no. But most men have fucked a sock. It sounds like you fuck your shower Well, I didn't like fuck. I didn't like lay down and fuck the shower. Yeah, I didn't fuck the hole in the shower You just making direct deposits. Yeah. Yeah, exactly So the veggie it's like depositing 33 cents

Like yeah, like five withdrawal yet Yeah, you can't withdraw yet. There's not enough. Okay, so we got that. We did get the big fire. Firefighters are like, why is there no water? Fucking gunk just shoots out my gun. All right. That wasn't fun.

Sorry. I'm having so much fun, sorry. If I was backing up the fire hydrants. I mean, there's no evidence that you weren't. All right. The big slice. We did get the big slice. We did. We got big slice mode. We talked to the guy because it said at one point I'd read that you could only get one topping the big slice. We did, we went big slice mode. We talked to the guy, because it said at one point I'd read

that you can only get one topping the big slice. But then we're looking at the big slice, and we're like, that has like, the pictures they're using have so many toppings. So we just asked the guy, he's like, yeah, you can get any pizzas a big slice. It seemed like he would have let us do anything. He would have let us do it.

He was, he would have. It was so nice. If we were like, hey, can we come back there? You'd probably be like, yeah, sure. He didn't care at all. He loved us. He was so nice, they were great. It was so nice.

So we got the veggie pizza. And so this is mozzarella, mushrooms, red onions, green bell peppers, artichokes, black olives, fresh garlic and vine tomatoes. Felt like there was enough daylight between that and kind of the more Mediterranean take of the veggie egg gondola pizza that we got two different veggie pizza varietals.

And I thought, here's what I'll say. The big slice is fucking big. It's like, it does not disappoint in terms of the wow factor. The name does not lie. It is a big slice. We had to put two tables together to fit the big slice on it. We not only had to put two tables together,

there were two tables that we weren't sitting at. Because our other stuff was occupying these tables and we're like, we don't have room for this. So we had to get up and go to two other tables to get our big slice. And when the guy helped us put two tables together, he also was like, you can have more tables if you want. He did offer us more table.

We were going to maybe have three or four tables. In the place that didn't have too many tables to begin with, there was just a few tables there. Huge look. I'm just going to say it off the bat, a little disappointing that it's just square slices cut into a big slice. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

We wanted, you and I wanted a big slice. I wanted an intact big slice. And it comes pre-cut and I understand why they did that. Big Puppa is holding up. He's holding a big slice. There's also a different sign, there's a different poster, which is a little buffoon who has fallen on his back

and he's got the big slice over his torso, like he can't get up. And an artist representation of you and I in that picture, it was too doofus, as we should take a picture of it, it was just too doofus as looking at him. Two idiots gawking at this guy, oh, he's got a big slice on him.

It is pretty close, it is pretty close, do you want? Just imagine a third guy here holding a little big slice. Yeah, being covered, covered, dying. I mean. Should we eat the pizza, help the guy? The only way to help him is to eat the pizza. I'm tough. I was slightly disappointed with the big slice in that way.

And then also this one was the one to me that felt like it needed the most seasoning. It felt like very bland vegetables on the big slice. A big shaker of oregano over the whole thing would have helped quite a bit. Or some red peppers. Again, the jalapenos helped, the jalapenos plus it up. I think that I didn't get a slice with the raw garlic on it and I think that probably did help.

The raw garlic was nice. So here was my big slice experience. I was really excited about the big slice. That's sort of the main reason I came to Los Angeles. When it came out, I was really excited about the big slice. Yes. That's sort of the main reason I came to Los Angeles. When it came out, I was thrilled. And I saw it laying out there on two and a half tables. I was really excited. But the thing about the big slice is the magic disappears

the second you take one of the small slices out. It stops looking like a big slice. It's not a slice anymore. It's just a different shape pizza. Right. That being said, I did really like the raw garlic. That, you don't often get that on a pizza. You usually get like roasted garlic or whatever,

but I thought that added a nice little bite and crunch to the slices that I had. Something that Nosferatu would not like is the garlic on this big slice. No, for sure. But I wish I had some of it because the rest of it was very bland. Now, here's what I think.

Yeah. I think you might have to come back when I have to do big moments in pubs again and get the big pizza. Because I will say the big pizza is maybe more fun than the big slice. With the great Sicilian, first off, again, the wow factor is there.

It is a fucking huge pizza. If you ever see that sum bitch in person, it is gigantic. It is- Like Rosenstein, who is producing Armin and Bugman's movie. That's right. Which I shot a day of in Monday in Malibu, came in the next morning, woke up at five,

drove into Malibu and they were like, the winds are too strong. I was like, the winds? And then everything happened. But we- You left your air fryer plugged in in the trailer. My air fryer had nothing to do with whatever's going on, but they had to push the, they were shooting this week

and I hope that they are, they're able to, you know, obviously- I believe it was real soon. In the scope of everything else, that's a little over end of stuff, but you know, like a lot of work and stuff like that. It was, it's sad when there's any work in California and then, you know, this happens. Well, yes, and I like that. It's sad when there's any work in California and then this happens too. Well, yes, and I know that we were talking about

some other stuff that was just about to get going in LA, again, it was just about to start shooting in LA, and then they're just like, oh, sorry, and it's just when work is starting to come back after the strikes, it's kind of a bummer, this natural disaster. I went home that night from the shoot and it got super windy and it was nerve-racking,

and then I broke out in Poison Ivy, I got Poison Ivy from the shoot and it got super windy and it was nerve-racking and then I broke out in a in Poison Ivy on my on my arm. I got poison ivy in the shoot. Oh man Which is so this is a Batman movie You said you've never fucked a thing I'm gonna get poison ivy all over this whole situation. You're implying that I fucked a bushel of poison ivy? I don't know. I do have it on my legs and I am worried that I have it on my crotch. Yeah, that sucks.

I feel like you'd know by now if you had it on my crotch. Yeah, that sucks. Yeah, yeah, yeah. If it... I feel like you'd know by now if you had it on your crotch. I'm pretty sure that, honestly, I got it really light and I wonder if it's because I got a rub down from the... Sorry, what is this you're shooting? I got a, they took my makeup off. Yeah, sure. The makeup, so I got, they rubbed off my makeup. And so I think that they used.

I already got a rub down. I got, that happened. And so they used, they used alcohol, oh God, they used alcohol, they used alcohol rubs on my arms. Yeah. And I think that that saved me. It did. I think that maybe saved, I think it's just like a light case of,

it's on my legs and on my arms a little bit, but it's not too, too bad. Can you just check and see if it, on your thigh looks at all like the time you're talking? I would never get a, I don't know. I would want to scrub it off. I would never be able to do it. First off, I think as actors,

it's not the best idea professionally, because like, you know, you find yourself, then it has to be covered up and that's a whole thing. Yeah. But yeah, I understand. I kind of wasn't sure if I was ever gonna get one and then I got one, you know? Kind of love it.

Yeah, I like that you do it. Speaking of the Big Sicilian, by the way, on our way out, we noticed that they have an eating option where if you can finish the Big Sicilian with eight people within, was it two hours? Yes. Yeah. You get $1,000. $1,000. And I think we have to assemble a team.

I think we gotta try that. We could do that. We could assemble a squad. 54 inch giant Sicilian pizza challenge, eight contestants, two hours, $1,000. I feel like, I honestly feel like I could do it by myself. And so we got Gabris and me and you. Seven friends. And maybe Wiger, I don't know yet if you want that.

Here's the thing, like I love to eat. I am not someone with like a huge appetite. I'm not a bottomless bit. I used to be more of that kind of guy, but now as I've gotten older, like I just have a smaller appetite. However, Natalie might be better. That's what I was gonna say.

Natalie can absolutely, you know, take a bunch of food down. This is like an Ocean's 11 plot point, this is great. We're bringing Natalie. We got a, we went to this wine bar once and they had this thing that was called like the board and it was just like a huge charcuterie board with like, it was like a full, came with a full loaf of bread

and we're like, can we order this? And they're like, it's for six people. We're like, we'll take it. And we had it and we just by sheer force of will, we like finished it. We just like, we'll take it. And we had it. And we just by sheer force of will, we finished it. We just knocked the whole thing down, but she was doing most of the work. Yeah. I think we got to try it.

I can't say this enough. She's so much cooler than Nick. Yeah, we know. God. I know. No better than you. She could use this whole thing going on to get away from you somehow is what I'm thinking.

I don't know how she would do it, but she should do it somehow. Like, in the chaos of us winning, she disappears. Is that what you mean? Oh, yeah, no. I meant everything going on in the city. She should have banded neck. I thought you meant the pizza contest. Yeah, I guess that too. It could be Ocean's Eleven where she ocean. It could be oceans 11 where she's like does that and then just flees. She makes off with a thousand dollars. Starts a new life. Yeah.

The reason I brought up Rosenstein is he for the birthday boys show. Yeah. He bought one of these giant pizzas for us one time and it is it's huge. I will say this it is gigantic they have a special car that brings people it was like a gimmick that people I feel like 10 years ago to 15 years ago people would buy these pizzas way more wags would you agree with that you would see you would see that special car driving around town a lot more well I think it's a thing people get once you

know or for a special occasion twice I think we did for a party and for I think we did it for a party and for, for like the birthday boys when we, our first day of filming or something. Right. Or, yeah, or it's for things like that. So for like, like business things. Like, it's like, it's a, it's a, I like that it exists. I like that they're fully committed to it. And I like that it actually has the Guinness world record.

It's not, they're not just like a thing, world's largest and it's just bullshit. It's like, no, they actually went for it. That's great. There's no, there's no real functional reason to do that instead of just ordering 10 pizzas. Exactly, in fact, you're probably beyond, the gimmick is the fun. Like you'd actually probably have a better pizza experience

by ordering 10 different pizzas. And also you have to get rid of a gigantic box which we took a picture with outside of, which is what might look like a small box. It might look like a regular box, we were saying. A box is big. The box is big, but you have to get rid of that box at the end of it.

That being said, and I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing, I don't think it changes the, I don't think that the actual, what am I trying to say? The, God damn it, I don't think that the actual. I don't know what you're trying to say. What are you damn it. I don't think that the actual. I don't know what you're trying to say. What are you driving at? I don't think that actual quality. Quality.

You're doing great. I couldn't think of the word quality. I don't think that we're, I, I, I. You're doing great. Oh, ah. Do you want to take a bathroom break? Give Jemmy a little head. No! Pat Jemmy's head, it'll like reset. Do you want to take a bathroom break? No!

Pat Jemmy's head, it'll like reset. We'll cut out about 15 seconds of me huffing and puffing. Okay, great. I don't think the actual- See, I was already gonna blow my house down. Fucking little pig. We were the three little pigs today in a way. They were worried about the three little piggies and what we ordered.

I think we did a pretty good job. The quality of the pizza in the big pizza doesn't change. And the quality of the pizza in the big slice is kind of the same, which is a good thing and maybe a bad thing, because I think the quality of the pizza is just okay. I think having ordered the big slice, I think what you said earlier is correct,

that it's fun to order the great Sicilian. That's like a fun thing. Ordering the big slice is kind of like, it's fun to order it, but when you actually get it, you're kind of a little bit like, all right, you know? It doesn't quite deliver on the gimmick of it just being a big slice. We didn't try the Big Mama slice,

which might be better because it might actually hold together as one slice. Although when I've seen photos of that, I believe the Big Mama slice is four slices that are stitched together, yeah. Look, I'm not gonna put them through the wringer for this, but I'm very upset. Hey Mitch, are you ready to optimize your nutrition this year? Yes sir.

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You're my guest seated to my left. Your thoughts, your fork score. I really loved the experience. The variety of sodas was great. They also had a ton of other things on the menu that we didn't try. They had a pizza waffle. They had a couple of desserts.

They had just a bunch of stuff. I love the art in the place. I love, they have a wall that shows you actual size of all the different pizzas you can order. So it shows you like small pizza, medium pizza, mama slice, papa slice, giant Sicilian. I love all that. The sight of the big slice coming out

was one of the best moments of the decade for me. I really- A highlight of the year and possibly the decade. Yeah. Maybe of my life. I think decade highlight for me. Yeah, in my life, sure. Yeah.

It's top two. Um. But here's the truth. I could, like, I could say five forks and feel like I wouldn't feel like I was lying. No. I could say five forks because you're not going to get this stuff anywhere else. Like it's cool that it exists.

It's kind of like when you see a movie that like it, not every piece of it works, but you're just glad that it was made. Yeah. Like I just love this. I love the big slice. I love the big pizza. I think it's really fun. Uh, the pizza. Yeah, the pizza was pretty good.

It wasn't like amazing. Um, I did like the flavored crust on the cheese. That, that helped a little bit. Yeah. So I'm going to go, you know what? I'm going to go 3.999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 9 forks 3 3 3 3 point 9 forks so at a nine repeating time for like line on top of the line over yeah, I don yeah. It's technically equal to four. Technically equal to four, yeah. So we could get into the golden plate club, but I would like to give it that slight minor distinction.

Right. I like it. Look, I loved this breakdown. I was nodding along when you were just saying, I was happy today. In a very bad week, I was up there for a good, uh, hour. I forgot all the cares in the world were, were gone. Why? Cause I was, I was very, I was very happy up there.

I liked ordering the big slice and you know what? It did remind me of, it reminded me of LA. I, you know, like this is a, a local LA spot. Uh, these people were in there working during this, uh, you know, like this is a local LA spot. These people were in there working during this, you know, this disaster outside. They were so kind to us. So kind to us, they told us to take extra sodas

on the way out the door. They gave us a free soda. Really nice. Which I took. We both, yeah, we both took a soda on the way out. Well, I guess high and mighty, didn't take one. But I was gonna get, like, well, I went next door to get a coffee.

You got a coffee next door. Do you wanna talk about how he snitched on you at the coffee place? Yeah, that was fucking bull shit. I don't regret it. We walked in there, I was holding two pizzas. That's true. And so I got in there to open two pizzas

and I used my foot to open the door. The guy at the front counter was like, hey, can you close the door? You left the door open and watched. He was like mad at me, though. He was kind of like, he was kind of snippy at me. And I was like, I'll close the door. But he was like, just so you know, it was my friend who opened the door.

Yes, it was my friend. Your friend who you rat out immediately. Yeah, I'll throw you under the bus. So he was snippy, he was mad at you and your reaction was to say it was my friend that did it? Don't get mad at me, it was him. It was that guy. He didn't even, that guy who didn't even order a coffee,

he's the one who's letting out all your AC. Who brought it. I think it was about letting the AC out or the smoky air in. Yeah, it was most likely that there was a giant fire within 10 miles. Well, you know what? You fucking ratted me out immediately.

It was bullshit. I think I won the guy over anyways. As soon as you ratted, he did smile. Yeah, he liked that. Fucking rats. Rats of a feather fucking rat together. You're a piece of shit. You're a fucking rat, man. Reading the Koalik family crest.

So anyway, I loved our experience there. Staff was fantastic. And the slices were, the food was good. I think that it is, it's a very specific thing. Like if you're at a house party or whatever, or you need a bunch of pizzas, or you want to do a fun gimmick thing, or you're, because I think it is decently cheap for pizza, right? If you just get like the regular style pizza, I think it's pretty cheap. No, it's not that it's, it's not. Yeah, absolutely.

There you can spend a lot more on pizza in L.A. When you get it delivered, do they have to send to delivery people to like carry it in? Or do you have to like help them? Can one person carry the box? I think when the guy delivered to us, it was one guy and we helped him with we helped him. It feels like if you tried to pick it up one person, it's just going to like flop. Yeah, yeah. You do need people to move it on to the it's and it goes on top of the car, it's insane. Yeah, it's like pretty big. Yeah, it's big, which we'll find out when we do it next.

We gotta review the big, with the Big Sicilian. For the experience for the day, I mean, look, this is the sort, it's the sort of pizza you're not, if you're gonna come to LA and eat at restaurants we've done on Doughboys that we say are really good, I don't think you have to go to Big Mamas and Pappas. But that being said, if, you know, it's a kid's birthday party or you're getting together with a, you're having something in your backyard

and you're getting some pizzas for people to snack on, I think you can do way worse than Big Mamas and Pappas. I think that, and it's a lot of fun. And my experience today was a four-forker, I gotta say. Wow. And here's what I think that it's a lot of fun. And my experience today was a four forker, I gotta say. And here's what I'll say about the quality of the pizza. Sometimes you'll have pizza that it feels like, oh, this is like cafeteria pizza or whatever. This is a step above that.

Like it's not like a school lunchroom. It is a step above that. It's not like the best pizza you've ever had, but it is pretty good to me. Yes, I agree. Yes, that's to your point, Mitch. This is not the pizza that you get if you're like, hey, I'm out in LA and I want to experience this culinary scene. This is the pizza you get if you live in LA,

particularly if you live in the San Fernando Valley where most of the locations are. And maybe like, hey, I had a stressful week because there's a bunch of crazy shit that's happening. A bunch of shit shit that's happening. A bunch of shit's on fire. I just kind of want a pizza. This is a place that will not let you down.

This is a place that will get the job done. And also has some signature items that make it distinct in addition to the excess of the great Sicilian or the big slice, just having the egg gondola pizza. That feels like a thing that's, you know, that's unique to its character. And that that you know, again, again, speak to it speaks to its heritage. I got I got a pitch. Yeah. The teeny Sicilian. You got a really tiny small slice. That's cute.

That's good. Really, really small. Yeah, that's really fun. Like, like, like a bite size slice. Oh, like little bite size. I like like bagel bites. Like yes. Emma? I love it. Maybe the big baby, cause you get the big mama and the big papa, this is the big baby. I like the big baby.

We did talk about it. Do you still have your diaper baby costume? I'm not trying to become the mascot, the big baby. I'm just like, you know, stop trying to pitch me as the big baby. At the restaurant- Also, the big baby's a man that wears a diaper. Yeah, he's an adult man.

How do you know that works? The man with the diaper fetish. But at the restaurant, they have various characters of the family. They do. So yeah, why not utilize them with their own individual pizzas? Big Baby's good. You were talking about the, comparing it to A&W Canada, where they have the Burger family,

but they just have the Big Mom and the Big Papa there, but they have a whole, like, they have the iconography of the whole family. They get expanded to the pizza family. And the big baby can say something like, my diaper is saucy or something. That would be good. That'd really wet your appetite. Oh, that's, oh, something like that's good too.

Oh, I wet my appetite? I wet my appetite. He's crying. I wet my appetite. That's good. That's good. I checked- He should have a bunch of marinara in his diaper.

We just know that. That's the thing for sure. Yeah, 100% of marinara diaper. Or if they do a dessert pizza, it could be shit. If they do like a Nutella pizza, it could be Nutella. Do you think in Italy, there is like, they're like, I got marinara in the diaper. You think that happens?

That's gotta happen once or twice, right? In what context would that happen? I don't know, I'm just not sure it has happened. Like they're calling the shit in the diaper marinara. They accidentally got some marinara. They accidentally got some marinara. They're making, like, mama's making the sauce and she's changing the baby with the other hand

because she's got too much going on. It's like, I got a marinara in the diaper. Yeah, yeah. Over the course of the whole history of the society, yeah. Yeah, it's had to have happened. Probably. Yeah. It's had to have happened, that's all I'm saying.

What's a matter you? That's good, that's good. This is why I fucked our neighbor. Well, I mean, I guess now that we're diving deeper, I don't know how much they would be speaking English over there, but that's true. Probably, probably that exact moment has happened. I checked the Wiki because your 3.99 fork score sounded familiar.

The last time this came up, Mitch, friend of the podcast, the commissioner, Evan Susser, gave that score in December to another pizza chain, Slice House. Wow. And I was thinking back on Slice House and we had a nice time at Slice House. We did. This was a better time. I mean, come on, we had a better time tonight.

Well, we were with Zach instead of Susser. That's true. So that's upgraded quite a bit. No, but I think that was like, this was a more fun sort of pizza experience. And I also feel like although Sliced House, they got the respect the craft, they're ostensibly going for a higher quality of product.

There's something really familiar and comforting about the offerings of Big Mamas and Big Papas. It doesn't feel as chainy, you know what I mean? It doesn't feel as corporatized, doesn't feel as planned. And my score for for big bomb is did somebody say Cheney oh that's good oh man I didn't even think we could be vice president I need a vice president yeah you said go there's gore this recent

events are clear make it clear that we're facing an inconvenient truth. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. Pretty good. Yeah. That's great. Who's Garfield's vice president? Great question.

No, stop, don't do it. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha. Stop. Ha ha ha. Stop it. Chester A. Arthur. Wow.

That's a great name. Also a president. President. Oh man, I gotta work on that. Yeah, that's good. I gave it three and a half forks, Slice House. I like this more than Slice House. Wow. My name is Chester.

Go on. Go on. That's all I got so far, but that feels right. Yeah, that's good. My name is Chester and I ain't talking about the Cheeto. I'm gonna be president wonder. Something like that? I loved it. I personally love it. Chester A. Arthur. The A stands for ass.

And yours is grass if you give me any shit. You better be careful. I'm going to become Chester the Arthur. You won't like me when I'm the Arthur. He's like the Hulk. He is like the Hulk. Yeah, I like that. I think we've got some good groundwork for Chester.

Maybe Chester be Arthur. I like that. And it's like, uh, uh, my mom, Sophia, has given me a bunch of shit. Like he's a beta? No, well, like I think he's like one of the golden girls. Oh, B. Arthur, B. Arthur. Oh, yeah.

Wow, Chester B. Arthur is fertile, though. Rose, I wish she was more smart. I also like that this impression is based off of what you think Chester A. Arthur sounds like. Blanche is a real floozy. Hey, we live next door to the empty nest guy. Remember that? Oh yeah, they did live next door to the empty nest clan. I give it three and a half forks for Slice House. I got to go higher for Big Mamas and Big Papas, but I don't think I can quite hit four. Mm. Mm. I think I'm going to go with three forks, three tines.

Wow. 3.75 forks. And hey, shout out to our good friend, past guest, beloved friend of Doe, Matt Selman, the Tyne father, who came up with the Tyne system. Yeah. We love you, Matt. We love you, and we're thinking about you this week,

which he's been dealing with the fires and everything with his home. Yeah. But a great friend of the podcast. We love him. And hey, that was our review of Big Mamas everything with his home. Yeah, awesome. What a great friend of the podcast. We love him. And hey, that was our review of big mamas and big papas. It's time- Ellie Joel Osmond, I wanna give, there's so many people that we know

that have been affected by the fires and we love you and we're thinking of you. Hey, it's time for a segment. I got some food-related jingles and Mitch and Zach must determine which year they came out. It's another edition of Jingle All the Way, spelled W-H-E-Y. Wow. These are compiled, of course,

by the drop king, Robert Persinger. Yes. Wow, thank you, TK. The rules. I have a pitch, quickly. Yeah. Chesty, eh, Arthur? Ooh. Hey, Mr. Garfield.

It's like Chester Althorbo has big tits. Very boozy me, yeah. Yeah, yeah, big titties. She's got big tits, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Hold on, I gotta get very booze in me. Yeah, yeah big titties. Yeah Get gem back in here. I think she left. Jimmy An episode so bad she left I got a bone and then there was no bone given. Oh, she's showing her butthole to everybody. Jimmy, places. Places, Jimmy. Jimmy, we're rolling. Places, Jimmy. Go ahead, get up there, girly. Go ahead, get up there.

Jimmy, take your mark. Oh, she's so excited. Look at her. Well, Dad's back here today. She's a real daddy's girl. Aww. Okay, Jimmy has abandoned us for a second. She pisses on the power strip to get to cut the power in the studio. She's literally never pissed inside choices. She's right now on the power strip to get to cut the power in the studio? She's literally never pissed inside, chooses right now on the power strip.

All right, the rules of Jingle All the Way spelled W-H-E-Y. The closest guess without going over wins a point. If you guess the year exactly, you get two points. That's the Arden-Marine rule. If the game ends in a tie, the guest wins. That's the Mitch Kenna rule. If the second guesser can guess a movie from the first guesser's year correctly, they get a point. That's the murder Brian rule. The murder Brian rule.

Wait, wait, wait. What happens with that? What's that rule again? If the second guesser can guess a movie from the first guessers year correctly, they get a point. The murder Brian rule. And that's only once per game. Yeah. Oh, only once per game. That's not, okay, okay, okay. But like for instance, if someone said 2024, and you said like, oh, I know 2024, I'm gonna guess the Brutalist, cause I know that just came out, then you could get a point for that.

But you can only do that once. Can you say the Chutalist, like could you make it a Doughboy's theme? You can, you can as long as we know what you're going for. Do you get an extra point if you do, if you make it a... You do get an extra point if you make it a food pun. That's the Zach Cherry rule. Wow, the Zach Cherry rule.

Okay. He's gonna write this down in his fucking dorky little iPad. That is only once per game. You can only do that once per game. And of course, our most recent entry, Kate Berlant, set the record with nine points in Jingle All the Way. Today's theme is Del Taco jingles, my beloved Del Taco. Our most recent entry, Kate Berlant, set the record with nine points in Jingle All the Way. Today's theme is Del Taco jingles, my beloved Del Taco.

She kicked my dick in. That's hard because we don't have that many options. There's not as many jingles this time around. Okay, that's good to know. That means I'll use my once per game quickly. And it got written up, the story got written up in, was it in Variety? It was in Vulture. It was in Vulture. It was in Vulture.

Yeah, yeah. Vulture, thank you for featuring us. Oh yeah, you can get double points, so you could still hit nine points. You could, yeah, you could. I won't call it fake news, it was happened fair and square. All right, let's get into it. Amelia, can you keep score?

Yes. Thank you so much. All right, first up, this one is called Hot Stuff. Del Taco, you're hot stuff. Ooh, hot stuff. Del Taco makes four kinds of burritos. Hot Stuff. I've never wanted a burrito more in my life than that. That looks so good. The burrito looks so good. It did look pretty good.

You know. It was so pixelated. You know it was, but there is something of like, obviously, you know, the flavor profiles would have been a little different, but there is something about the quality of fast food just used to be better. Things were not as ultra processed. You know that was hitting back.

That cost 30 cents maybe, not even. Things got so woke. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say back before things got so woke. Things got too freaking woke. The food went down the drain. They, oh, we gotta include all the veggies now. Oh.

Yeah, it used to be, it could just be a pile of meat. Yeah, now, yeah, yeah, yeah, now, yeah. You gotta, now, yeah. It feels like you're hitting on possibly another new bit for 2025. What, food guy? Which is kind of mafia guys complaining about food getting too woke. Yeah. When my nonna made the sauce, with just mafia guys complaining about food getting too low. Yeah.

When my Nona made the sauce, it was... You can't even call shrimp, shrimp no more. You can't even call shrimp, shrimp no more you can't even call shrimp shrimp no more you gotta call them shellfish you don't know what you're eating yeah yeah yeah this has legs there's something here yeah what else what else what else but you can still call meatballs meatballs. Oh, what's the deal with that my meatballs? Yeah Well, it's okay to get a meatball. Let's say meatball But I can't say shrimp. The problem is there's not like a that's not like a thing. You can't you can't This bit is making the fires grow bigger He's a good guy. Okay, so this guy is dumb. This guy's an idiot. He's a good guy.

This bit is making the fires grow bigger. Someone told him you can't say shrimp. I guess the end result is that he's a dumb guy, I guess. Isn't that most characters, though, at the end of the day, they're just dumb as well? I guess a lot of... I mean, I guess that guy is kind of a dumb guy in general, so you could make him even dumber. Look, we tried. I liked it.

I still, I stand by woke food guy. Yeah. You can't get a hot dog anymore. You see, you got to call it a warm canine. This is just a guy who's like, really dumb, really dumb. And just like, got a thesaurus or something. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. All right, so that was called Hot Stuff. That ad was Hot Stuff. Ugh. Zach, we'll alternate who goes first. Zach, you'll start with this one. Grimace is a D-E-I-I, Grimace, ugh. Oh.

Oh. Oh. Oh. That's a woke food guy, that works. Yeah, that one works, yeah. I don't think Grimace is a DEI high. And he's not even like, Grimace is not even allowed to be fat anymore. He's that guy too. Like I agree with him about some stuff. Yeah.

I'm gonna say 1993. 1993. 1993. Yeah. I definitely agree with him about some stuff. I'm gonna say 1993. 1993. 1993. Yeah. I definitely know some movies from 1993,

but I'm like, will I get them wrong? Yeah. You only get one. I only get one. Come on, I know a movie from 1993. Oh, is it 1993 or is it 1994? There are five chances. Yeah, you might have more opportunities. 1993, oh, ooh, is it 1993, is it 1994? There are five chances.

Yeah, you might have more opportunities. You don't have to go for it now. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm not gonna say, I was gonna say Jurassic Park is a 1993 movie, I'm not using it. Amelia thinks no. I think it's four, but I'm not sure. Don't help him out, don't help him out.

I was afraid it was four. It was four, okay. Well, that's not your guess anyway. Jurassic, Jurassic pork, I guess is what I would say. That would work. That would work. So that would be potentially an extra point.

Well, is it 1993? But that is not my answer. I'm not doing that. Okay. So the year before Jurassic Park. All right, well, I'm not doing it anyways. I'm gonna say this is 1987. 1987.

Unfortunately, you both overshot it quite a bit. 1979. Wow. Billy Corgan. Favorite year. That's before I even comprehend. Yeah. My sister's birth year.

Before we were all alive. 79, yeah. Yeah. All right, next up. This one is called, Del Taco is the Place to Be. I went for lunch the other day. Can't recall the name. I said over and over and over again,

this lunch is gonna be the same. Then all of a sudden it came to me. This works. It sucks. The place to be. I like it. Now lunch isn't boring. Mike used to be the tacos. The place for me. Very public access. Yeah. It looks like really, really low budget. Yeah. What does it say at the end there? It doesn't matter. Can we bring that tagline up? Can we, not the same place. I say not the same thing. Not the same place, not the same thing as their tagline in this one.

I think I should get half a point for guessing what was behind the. Did you get it? Yeah, I said not the same thing. All right, you know what, we'll give Zach a half point for that, Amelia. All right, so Zach has a half point. Mitch, you'll guess first for this one. What year, without going over,

do you think Del Taco is the place to be? I think this is the Spoon Man's birth year, 1982. 1982. Three years later. That is a good guess. Jimmy. Did she clear her butt hole? She's like corn cobbing her butt. Good girl.

I'll go, oh, wait, you said 1982? Mitch says 1982. but good girl. I'll go. Oh, wait. You said 1982. It says 1982. What was the first movies? The first I just talked about this the other day the first not on the podcast. But the first movie I remember seeing in theaters was and it did not come out in 1982. I don't care. Was the great outdoors. Oh, you're saying the first movie I saw my birthday. 1982 was the great outdoors. Oh, you were saying the first movie I saw, my birth year? I was trying to trick you,

you're giving me an answer. Close encounters of the food kind? I'll go 84. I'll go 84. You're going 84. Is it 82? What year is it? Okay, all right.

I think, wasn't close encounters earlier than that? I'm gonna look both up right now. I think 82 was maybe ET. Oh, you were right. Oh, it was ET. You were right, Jurassic Park was 93. Wow! I could've gotten two fucking points.

Close Encounters was 1977. If I was gonna say ET. Yeah, thanks a lot, Amelia. I trusted someone not born yet, or were you just born? I wasn't born yet. Jesus Christ. That's in the past.

I would say Meaty, if I was gonna do E-T. Wait, me-tea? Me-tea. Like you're me-tea. Oh, me-tea, that's good. That's good. Fuck, that's good. Okay, so yeah, it's good.

Back to the present, Zack gas 1984. Zack gets a point because this came out in 1985, one year later. That's fucked up. Woo, woo, woo, woo. All right, let's go to the next one. One and a half points to zero. Yeah, Zack has one and a half points, Mitch has zero's fucked up. All right. Let's go to the next one. The one and a half points is zero. Yeah, Zach has one and a half points, Mitch has zero.

Next up, Bang Bang Bingo. Jesus Christ. Okay. Okay. Yo chicken so crispy, sauce so sweet, Del tacos, your tacos make crispy leaves. A crispy chicken taco with honey and mango, Del you make my heart go bang, bang, bang. Honey, honey, mango, only one thing I can't get over. I'm so sorry.

I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. I'm so sorry. So a few different clues there

that we can say that are visual. At the end, we have the Postmates Grubhub Door Dash Uber Eats logo. Oh yeah, that's huge. I didn't even notice that. You should have pointed that out. Makes it pretty contemporary. But the thing, the boy band pastiche

also feels a little bit older than that. This is obviously shot in HD, which is a little bit of a clue of its own. But the boy band thing feels like a nostalgic boy band. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing. But then the $1 price tag, it confuses me. I don't know Del Taco's price points. But where can you get anything for $1 these days?

Yeah, yeah, I mean. It does say here at the bottom, delivery prices and fees may be higher. So they're like, it's a dollar, but it's probably gonna cost more. Okay. Zach, you're up first. What's your guess?

What year did this come out? I'm gonna keep it recent, and I'm gonna say 2021. 2021. Wow. Spoonman, what do you think? I think that I am... Oh, shit.

You left your air fryer on again? I can't remember if the movie I was in, Tomorrow War, came out in 2020 or 2021. It was a pandemic movie, unfortunately, did not get a theatrical release. Would have been nice if we got a theatrical release. I can't remember what year it was. The pandemic started in 2020. Started in 2020, yeah. Mitch. Yeah.

I'm gonna say. You don't have to ring in. I'm gonna say, Are you trying to make food pun out of Tomorrow War? Uh, uh. Uh. Oh. Oh. Are you trying to make food pun out of Tomorrow War? Tomorrow, uh, uh. Bore, bores food, bores meat. Sure, uh, sure.

Uh. Tamale War. Wait, can I use his? Yeah. Tamale War. All right, you're guessing Tamale War? Yes. If you get your own movies, you're wrong.

Hold on. I gotta look up what year the Tomorrow War came out. It was 2021. Okay. Tamale War, so Mitch, you do get a point for Tamale War. I got two points. Wait, it's two points for that? Yeah, because I get one for the movie and one for the pun.

Mitch takes the lead then. Good. Fuck. Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. Let me just make sure I got this right. Okay, you get an extra point. That's the Zachary. Okay, so you get an extra point.

So yes, so you get two points there, Mitch. However, it actually doesn't get you any closer because Zach also gets two points. 2021 exactly is the year. I didn't even guess my year yet. Yeah, but you're working again. It doesn't matter, it's moot. 2021 exactly, wow.

So Zach has three and a half Mitch has two It's anyone's game going to the next one. The next one is called back to Del Taco again Great tasting meal. I go back to Del Taco again. Hot stuff. There's only one place where you get so much taste. So I'm back in Del Taco again. Hot stuff. The way that they flavor it's everyone's favorite. Tangy spicy blend. Del Taco's hot stuff but just can't get enough. So I'm back in Del Taco again. Why would she eat the whole fucking thing? You know how we saw a woman eat a whole tomato, just put it onto her tongue.

Why did she do that? Like a piece of sushi. She pulled it off of her taco and ate the tomato. And ate the tomato. I do that with pickles, but not tomatoes. That's fucking nasty. She put it on her tongue like it was a Eucharist. Yeah, yeah.

We might have a director who has some type of tomato fetish. It could be that, yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just, put the tomato on your tongue. Quentin San Marzano. Okay, just try one. Back to Del Taco again. I want that song played as my coffin lowers into the earth. That was great.

Well, I can make that happen. Couple weeks from now. As you're screaming. Do I go first? Yes, I do. Yeah, Mitch you're up first. What year do I go first? This I do. Yeah. Mitch you're first. What year do you think this came out? It's a little bit of a Billy Corgan.

I'm going to guess 1977. So T-Rex off from 1979. Mitch guesses 1977. What's your favorite movie from 77? I, that is a very hard, actually I do have a favorite movie from 1977 and I can't tell you. What is it movie from 1977, and I can't tell you. What is it, Taxi Driver?

I can't tell you. He helped you with Tamale War, just saying. What's your favorite movie from 78? My favorite movie from 78, that's harder for me, because 79 I know movies and 70. We'll start with 77, then we'll see 78, then we'll see 78. Well, we already had talked about a 77 one. We did?

Yeah, those encounters of the turd kind could be one. OK. That's 77? Yeah. Sweet. So I'll use that in a second. OK, great. You said 1977.

1977. OK. OK. I'll give as my answer, how old is Del Taco? Del Taco's been around, I believe, since the 60s. Okay, I'll say... the summer of... love. 1969.

Wow. And also, there's a bigger sci-fi movie that came out in 1977, which is what I would say. Okay, well, I'm gonna play safe and cheat... and say... and say close enchiladas of the third kind. Wow. That's good. I would have said a new smoke.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, a new Snoke. A new Snoke. Snoke is from another Star Wars movie. It's not a food fun Yes, you could eat snow he could it's like shit It's like expired jerky. I was thrown when no one liked my 1977 Billy Corgan impression. I liked it 1977 is my answer 1969 the, the summer of love. Like what am I gonna say right away? He's wrong, but he maybe didn't,

he definitely didn't go over. No, he didn't go over. But I did. And Mitch, neither did you. You get a point, 1981 back to Del Taco. 81! Yeah, this is the thing that you got to, I feel like that is easy to forget with these ads. They always lag behind pop culture a bit.

So it's like, yes, that has 70s vibes in 1981, but it's like, you know, culture moved a little slower then. It looked older than the 70s and 90s. It looked older than that, and the people writing ad jingles were imitating what were the popular radio songs from a couple years ago. I'm just glad I was born a year after the fucking tomato-eating fetish died down.

Fucking disgusting. So Mitch gets a point. It might have been how you got here. Ha ha ha ha ha ha! Oh, ma! Oh, dad! Oh! That lady in the car was my mom's age.

That's crazy. Isn't that wild to think about? Yeah. I was horny for a second. Now it's gone.. Now it's gone. Yeah, it's gone. Uh. Uh.

So Mitch gets one point. Zach gets two points. OK, that leaves Mitch with three and Zach with five and a half. I don't want the two. I cheated. I'm going to earn them the hard way. OK, so it's three, three and a half going into the final one. It's anyone's game for this final ad, Del Taco Combo Pack.

You know what? I'll take a point off too. I did not earn Tamale War. Okay, great. Okay, so Mitch is two, Zach is three and a half. I'll take the one for Tamale War. Okay, great. So it's four and a half to two.

So it's gonna be tough for Mitch to come back, but he can. Okay. We can share it. Del Taco Combo Pack. Oh, it's half point each. All right, Here it is. White meat chicken on the grill. Two fajitas, ooh what a thrill. Bag of chips and a jig on the side.

Get ready, open wide. Del Taco's combo pack. They sure be turkey in there. Come to Del Taco for our new combo pack. Two chicken or steak fajitas, chips, and a medium soft drink. Just $2.99, only at Del Taco. Del Taco, fresh to you. So here's the thing I was saying.

There are some, yeah, I think it was a big chicken for the chicken tacos. It looked like a turkey oak. It had Thanksgiving vibes. It did have Thanksgiving vibes. It seems to have some very crude computer graphics there. Like there was, this was a big deal at the end here. It's Del Taco.

Yeah, the logo is kind of like the letters kind of- It took three computers to make that graphic. Yeah. But the song weirdly is like a- LAC. There's a Y-Gurrasse looking guy here too, can you run back otherwise just a little more? Look at this guy.

Hey buddy. Look at those, look at that eyebrow raise. Wow, look at that. Jesus Christ. Who? Who? Who knows what I'm thinking, buddy? Wow.

So, okay, so we've got, we've got that, but it's coexisting with, I think it's meant to be like kind of a public domain version of Jerry Lee Lewis's Great Ball of Fire. Great Falls of Fire. So we're talking, you're first. Yeah. I'm thinking this is, I have a time period for this. I'm not gonna say it.

Okay. We're getting down to the end here. What do you think? 80s. I don't know. I guess I gotta say the summer of love 1988. 1988. Damn, that is literally the exact year I was gonna guess.

I'm gonna go, I hate to do this. I hate when people do this. Or do I go lower? No, I'm gonna go 89. 89, okay. Zach goes 1988, Mitch goes 1989. Do one of us have it exactly right? The answer is no.

Okay. But neither of you went over. Fuck. Which means that Mitch gets it. 1991 was the year. What is our final score, Amelia? Mitch gets a point here. So Mitch with three and a half,

Zach with four. Wow, Zach Cherry still takes it. It's that half point you took. That half point. Yeah, you split a half point near the end. You know what? Ty would have gone to you anyway. Yeah, that's the Mitch Kenner rule.

Congratulations, Zach. Well played. And hey, just like a restaurant by your feedback, let's have some feedback. I mean, I live here and I've had a really tough week, but you can get the win. It's fine. Yeah, Zach takes the win.

So today's email comes from Jacob. Thank you. I live here and I've had a really tough week, but you can get the win, it's fine. Yeah, Zach takes the win. So today's email comes from Jacob. Thank you. Jacob writes, my name is Jacob and I am a dog walker in Brooklyn. I'm often listening to episodes of the pod while walking all around the city and this question occurred to me.

If you, much like a dog, had to get daily walks from your partner and or mother, either for a 10-1 or for the other option. Look, by the way, I wouldn't be surprised if half our listeners that does happen anyways. They fucking put a leash on them and take them outside. Either for a 10-1 or the other option, a really long 10-1, what treat would you want to be

tossed into your mouth afterward for being a good little buddy? This should be something bite-sized and should give you the feeling of a job well done just from being placed into your mouth. Thanks for all the many laughs and for keeping me company. This is a secretly horny email. On long days walking dogs and hello to my pal Joe who listens and my pal Gary who doesn't. He's a piece of shit. Love you all.

Thanks, Jacob. This is Jacob. This may be a secretly horny, but that's okay. Jacob's got his lotion out listening for the full answer. Well, walking dogs? Jacob's listening to this from his kennel. Like a single Totino's pizza roll. Honestly, the big baby slice would be great if it existed.

My problem, here's the tedious piece of the world is a good answer. My issue is if I'm thinking about this whole thing being put in my mouth. You're worried about the molten cheese? I'm worried about the hot cheese. Oh my God. But that could be an issue though.

Yeah, it could be an issue. You're exerting yourself on a walk. I don't know if I want like a hot bite, you know? I'm gonna say a piece of McGeeley sushi, like a nice little salmon, like right on my tongue. Yeah. That to me is just like raw fish out of nowhere, to me is not as fun.

Oh man, they'd be nice and refreshing. Nice piece of cold fish, little bit of soy sauce. A little bit of ginger, put that bad boy in your mouth. See, but now this takes away the whole thing of it, it's like a Scooby snack. Then don't have the, then get that out of there. Here's just like, they're just gonna take that piece and they're just gonna put it on your tongue.

Hey, it's a little- You can have soy sauce, cause sometimes you'll give the dog a little bowl with a little, you know, so you can have a little bowl with some soy sauce in it. Or give me like a new Nagi, like a freshwater eel, something that's pre-sauced. And I'll just like, okay, I'll just take that down. And also like, you know, my mouth's big enough.

I can take a whole piece of sushi down in one bite. I know about that, he's a one percenter in a lot of ways. Um. Um. It's the same gene. The one percenter gene. It's on the same gene. The one percenter gene.

Yeah, it determines. Yeah. Or like a, how about this? How about like a California roll or a cucumber roll? Something that's like a little bit of roll. Whatever you like. It's your answer. I'm sorry I gave you two, it's a hard time. It's's like a little bit of roll. It's your answer. I'm sorry I gave you two of the hard times.

It's okay. I like that for you. Okay. For me, the answer is a Hershey Kiss. That's a much better answer. I was gonna say a single Reese's cup. Like one of the little mini Reese's cups is kind of like a perfect fit.

Emma, that is good. With the Hershey Kiss, I like to let, I don't even chew. I like to just kind of let it ride. Let it cook. So I would go Hershey Kiss. Yeah. Let it cook.

Is that a term? Yeah. Is that a term? There was an episode a couple months ago where you said let it cook 100 times. I did say I'm gonna let it cook. Oh yeah, that's right. I forgot about that.

What is my little snack? I have an answer. What's your? Dibs. Oh. The ice cream bites. That is a risk. Those are fun.

Fuck, that's a risk. Those are a lot of fun. A single ice cream bite, especially if it's hot out. Sometimes they're so cold they stick to your tongue though. You're better. And that's a risk. You ever get those better? Cause they sell those at the movies.

And I'm just always like, I can't imagine, like I like those, but I can't imagine getting those at a movie theater. I like to wait till the movie starts to eat my snacks. So I'm usually waiting through trailers. So they'd be just like melted by the time I started eating them. And also I'm just getting chocolate everywhere.

I have, I've done it. It's like a messy treat. You've done it? You've had the dibs? I've dove deep into the dibs. And the issue is you have to essentially eat them in about 35 seconds. And then you feel weird for the first 30 minutes and then you fall asleep basically.

Pretty much what happened. I think I got it. Oh yes. I'm very, I, a chicken nugget. That's pretty good. Spicy or no spicy? Look, I gave him shit about the soy sauce, so now I'm in trouble because like, of course,

like if it was dipped in sweet and sour sauce, that's the way to do it. Yeah, you don't want a dry guy. But I think you'd have to go, if you were going dry guy, you'd probably have to do spicy nugget, right? But also a nugget without even being dunked, sometimes is great. Yeah, it can be fun.

It's like a tendy, but I do want the dipping sauce. I would say the dipping sauce is allowed. However, if you want a little, like you wanna do a little loophole there, then you can just like, I'll do a sauce nug. I think you'd be okay there. Yeah, sure, okay, that's fair. We could do a saucy nug.

But it has to be chicken nugget. The chicken nugget, yeah, yeah, yeah. Or like a popcorn chicken. That's pretty good too, fuck. Yeah. It's interesting you both want savory. I think I like, I'm exerting myself. I think I would want something savory, I don't know.'m exerting myself. I think I want would want something savory.

I don't know. That makes me feel more like I like put me more in meal territory. It makes you feel more like a good boy. It makes me feel more like a good boy. Yeah, yeah. Well, it's good because we're getting sent off to get neutered right afterwards too.

Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha ha. Cut off my small balls. Ha ha ha ha. Ha ha ha ha.

They're small, too? Yeah, the whole thing is down there. I got Zelinsky'd. I think... Wait, wait, wait. What? I got Zelinsky'd. What is that? Wayne Zelinsky, honey, I shrunk the kids

I didn't even know the president was the late. Oh, yeah, I know I remember that but Wayne's a lint ski Yeah, that's everything down there is Everything I'm glad you pursued that cuz I was just gonna leave it alone Or I don't know. Yeah, everything down there is, everything's been. I'm glad you pursued that, cause I was just gonna leave it alone. But yeah, I did absolutely think you were, thought you were making a Ukraine reference. I didn't wanna have to bring it up

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Yes. It's been so nice to get to know you through you guesting on the show and we love that you listen to the show. I love to be here. Oh, God bless. My wife was joking, this is like a make-a-wish week for me. To come out here and do this.

You wished for LA to burn down. Oh, before that, before that. Once we got here, it became like a, I come out here, I do this. You wish for LA to burn down. Oh, before that, before that. Once we got here, it became like a, I don't know. Well, we love having you on the show, and we were happy that you were down to do this today. And I think it was cathartic in a way. There was a tweet that was like, don't make content during the stuff.

And that's what our dumb jobs are. And I think that, you know, like, look, we're no first responders, but doing this for me was nice to get my mind off of stuff. And we're thinking about everyone who's affected by the fires and why, because I'm a transplant, but I love this city. You were born and raised in this city.

I've lived in LA County my whole life. Yeah, and you love this place. It's been a bad week and we're thinking about everyone who's been affected by the fires and we love you. And we're just saying, and thank you to everyone who's been affected by the fires and we love you and we're just saying, and thank you to everyone who's responded. That's all. Yeah, really appreciate all of you.

Yeah. That just gave me, you just gave me an idea for maybe a new segment. I'm glad that that speech gave you an idea for a new segment. I was just first responders, maybe thirst responders. And then it's just maybe it's like a situation and we talk about what drink you'd want in that situation.

That's really, really, really good. I'm glad that we got that out of all this. Okay, great. Thirst responders. You should tell the next firefighter you see about that and see how they feel. Look, I would love to talk to some firefighters after all this is done and talk to them about things like that. It would be interesting to hear how you quench your thirst after fighting a fire. I have some buddies back in Quincy who are firefighters, but it would be fun to talk to them.

My friend's a firefighter. I'm gonna text some thirst responders right now and see how he reacts. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great. Okay, great.

But yes, thank you to the first responders and everyone who keeps doing their job in LA and keeping us safe and keeping the city running too, Wags. That's all I wanted to say. Yeah, man. I appreciate you saying it. Hey, that'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time, for the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, I'm Tiger Wiger.

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because the Doughboys are coming over it, baby. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Tickets at birdfuck.com slash live. That was a HateGum Podcast.