Doughboys - Corner Bakery with Marques Ray

Episode Date: February 2, 2023

Marques Ray (Curb Your Enthusiasm, Superstore, Brewster High) joins the 'boys to discuss ice cream flavors, on-set snacks, and bidets before a review of Corner Bakery. Plus, a brand new segment, Chew Truths, and a Fry.Sources for this week's intro:https://investmentu.com/private-equity-history/ https://www.vanguardlawmag.com/case-studies/valentino-digiorgio-boston-market-corp-rohan-group-of-companies/ https://www.nrn.com/quick-service/boston-market-acquired-engage-brands-rohan-group-companies https://aaronallen.com/blog/restaurant-private-equity-firms https://www.foodbusinessnews.net/articles/17193-pandya-purchases-corner-bakery-cafe https://cornerbakerycafe.com/about-usWant more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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themselves catch a lot of the blame for contemporary America's ecologically ruined, economically bifurcated dystopia, it was their equally shitty parents, the so-called greatest generation, as fawningly dubbed by journalist Tom Brokaw, that set the wheels in motion. As the year 1946 birthed not just the first wave of carins, but the modern idea of private equity. Giant pools of money managed by psychopath capitalists that exist only to overtake businesses and extract as much profit as possible, like money milking metroids. This predatory practice has come to impact every sector of the American economy, including food, most famously in the hostile takeover of RJR Nabisco in the 1990s, chronicled in the book and film Barbarians at the Gate.

And so naturally, many beloved chain restaurants these days are controlled by private equity firms. Argonne Capital owns iHop and Applebee's, Golden Gate Capital oversees CPK and Red Lobster, and in 2020, Rourke Capital Group, owner of Arby's and Jimmy John's, transferred ownership of a breakfast and lunch-focused sit-down chain to Rohan Group, owner of Boston Market. This cafe was originally founded, fittingly, on a corner in Chicago in 1991, and had an eager patronage from the office lunch set, as well as people looking for a spot to kill time and sip coffee, eventually expanding nearly 200 locations nationwide. Around the turn of the millennium, its founding owner, the punnily named Let Us Entertain You, began a series of sales that

saw the company changing hands a half-dozen times until the hot potato landed with its current stewardship. So while the name may evoke a mom-and-pop local baker of Postwar Main Street, USA, its corporate ownership reflects the more important Postwar reality, an anonymous, unaccountable glob of money management. This week on Doughboys, Corner Bakery Cafe. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Crisp Brat, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Crisp Brat? Like Brat? Crisp Brat. Like Crisp Brat, but Crisp Brat. That's from Andy P, roastspoonman at gmail.com.

I think you mean Brat, like a bratwurst. But then the pun doesn't work if it's Crisp Brat, because it's not Crisp Brat. So Crisp Brat? People call like a brat a brat sometimes. Do they? Maybe they're just calling you a Crisp Brat. You're a little brat. I don't fucking, you're a fucking brat. You're a Crisp Brat.

So before we even got in here, before we even started rather, Yes. You knocked over your Coke. I spilled my Coke Zero, which people on the video feed can see is right here. Still like three quarters full, so not a terrible spill. Worth videotaping every episode we can, so people can watch you spill. That's the update. Mike, I got an issue. These pants, I got these new pants.

Just one? I had these new pants. I went to DXL, got some new pants. Call a store. Um, and uh, I, you know what, when I, when I had to have the tomorrow for me, you know, Eric, Edelstein. Yes. Brought me to.

Past guest. Brought me to DXL. We did some DXL shopping. It was a great day, honestly. You found me a suit, but I want DXL, got some new jeans. What was shopping with your bros? Underrated as a, as a dude's activity. Dude.

It's fucking great. It's fucking good time, man. Me and, me and Jo Moe, Jordan Morris, a friend of the show, went out and closed shopping once, and I was like, I had the time of my fucking life. You guys bought fucking aprons for whatever you do in your basement. So I, I was actually wearing this hoodie, no surprise, and I gotta stand up and show you. All right, Mitch is standing for people who are listening on, on the audio side. I broke, a pen broke, a pen broke in my, in my hoodie.

Mitch is pointing at his crotch. And so look, you can see it right there, right? There's a lot of room in that crotch, just for anyone listening to the audio fade. So a pen broke here now. It looks like, it always looks like I have a leaky dick. Yeah, I can see it. It's got like, you've got like a permanent pee stain on your pants. I got permanent, these are brand new jeans.

Can you fix that? Can you treat that? I, I, I try to shout it out. It didn't work. I put shout on it like multiple times. On the shout bottle, it says you can leave it on for 14 days or something insane. And I left it on for like a couple of days. It's, it's, it's stained.

It doesn't look that bad. And you kind of have to call attention to it. Yeah. But if you saw me walking around and you saw that, would you think that this guy is a little dick dribbled after his fist? He just, he just shot like the saddest little load. What? I don't think people think that.

I don't think people will assume that I shot a load. How embarrassing for him. Uh, anyways, howdy ho to Spoon Nation. Wow. And uh, Emma, let's hit him with a drop. What's up, Emma? Are we supposed to feel bad? Are we supposed to feel bad for Benjamin Button?

You get to suck on your mom's titty? Oh, it's bed after next dick. Only in profile, but we still like it. I like the Finch Man. We love the Finch Man. And we love the Finch Man. One of the final four from the drop off. That's right.

Which was our finale double of the year of our Lord 2022. The Drop King and Emma came on and we judged our favorite drops that were submitted. And this was one of the finalists. This was one of the runner up. We played the winner last week. Right? Yes.

Emma? Yes. Yes. Is that what we're doing? I thought we were playing them all February long and ending with the winner. Oh, you know what? Fine.

That makes, that to me makes more sense. All right, it's fine. Yes, that's what we will do. DK, you fucked up bad. DK, you fucking idiot. DK. Anyways, hello. Dano from the Doe Squad here.

Here's a very, very stupid drop that I felt compelled to make. Want to give a quick shout out to Doe Boy's poster artist and good friend, Dave Clark. Wow. Not sure if it ever got mentioned on the, on the pod, but this, but his Doe Boy, oh my God, but his Doe Boy's poster rules. And he's a very sweet and kind man.

Great poster. He is a sweet and kind man. Look, I agree about this, but this is fucking, what is this fucking Dave Clark fucking propaganda going on here? What the fuck is happening? He did us, he was, he was great to us. He was an absolute prince of a man. But this person's really laying it on thick.

I don't know what the hell's going on here. You just don't like someone other than you getting a compliment? Yeah, that's right. I like the attention. Follow him on Instagram at Dave Clark. It's kind of strange. I don't think it's that strange.

I think the, the, the, I mean, you should follow Dave Clark on Instagram. He's a great, great artist. It is a great, just a solid. But I like the attention too. And K-Man Worldwide on Twitter. Very cool. Dave Rocks, Doe Boy's Rocks.

All right, now we're talking. Okay. Thanks, thanks y'all on happy holidays. They didn't give a name. Dan. Oh, Dano. Dano. Yeah, they did give a name.

They did give a name. The first thing. Look, we're doing something new today, Wags. We're, we're going to, we're going to call in our guests. Yeah. We're like, we're, we're like, we're like, okay,

we kind of got a talk show set up here on the video feed, which you can find on, I think I'll live on our YouTube. We'll figure that out. You can find the, the, on the video feed. You can leave me, mean comments about how Mitch and I look,

how fat we look, how far back my hairline is. It's post holidays. We look fat. Yeah. What do you want from us? Our skin hue, complexion.

Your new bun. Posture. Your new man bun. I'm, well, I've got a man bun right now. We went to a wrestling show yesterday. I, we shouldn't, we shouldn't. We'll talk, we'll have talked about this in the previous episode.

We're recording out of order. I know, but also, but I'm saying we're going to do a full episode about it, right? We are going to do a full episode at some point. Yes. But you were, you were in the stall taking a piss

and I was waiting for you and I looked over and I was, and I was like about to be like, Wags, and then I saw your man bun. I thought you were a wrestler. I didn't say anything. Very cool. Yeah.

And then I saw you came out and fucking your baitiness just fucking radiated. I'll see you at SummerSlam, buddy. This guy sucks. But anyways, we, we're introducing our, we're going to have our guests come in, which means that they stand in a corner while we do all this.

That's right. Just standing off camera, our guests very gamely agreed to do this. But as an experiment, this is the first time we've done this, our guest is going to walk in like it's a real talk show and then, and then take his mark.

This is an honor to be the first one to do it. Uh, sure. He's nodding. Reluctantly nodding. Yeah. Very, very excited to have him on the podcast at long last. An actor and comedian,

and curb your enthusiasm at Superstore. You can now hear him on the new podcast, Brewster High, which is available now, wherever you find podcasts. Marcus Ray is here. Hi, Marcus. Come on in.

What's up, dude? Yeah, look at that. Wow, look at that. Look at that. Wow. Oh, shit. Yeah. Hey, buddy.

Wow. Good to see you. Wow. Wow. Look at this. Ooh, got some applause from one person. That's Rachelle applauding in the room. Thanks, Rachelle.

Nice. What's up, guys? Wow. It's like Carson calling people over to the coach all over again, man. It felt like 100%. Felt real. Felt good.

Sorry to make you stand in the corner. Yeah, sorry about that. No, no, it's like. It's good to test it on our friends. Behind the curtain. So that's great. Look, it was great. You guys really hate each other in real life.

I want to point out, during the pant story, under his breath, he was like, a lot of room in that crotch. I heard it and you went and you powered through. Yeah, yeah. It was very interesting to me that that was said and that was ignored. Yeah.

I heard it. It's been belabored on this podcast. Marcus, thank you for being here. We're here in this episode is coming out in February and I'm curious, as a buried man, are you a Valentine's Day dinner type of guy? Ooh, no, I'm a cheap dude. Cheap dude guy.

So what we do is February 13th or 15th. Smart. Because it's busy on the day. We would reserve the love for it. We save it for not wasting it on Valentine's Day. But yeah, we get down. I think that's good for Valentine's Day because who cares, I guess, is like, it's not.

I'm with you. If you did opposite. And I know that like some people who like, if you're a doctor or whatever you know, sometimes we got to work a different day than I got to work on Christmas. Look, I know a lot about the doctor world. Sometimes if you're working on...

I pulled that Valentine's Day shift. Got to do brain surgery on Valentine's Day. Sorry, honey. When are you going to be home for Valentine's Day? That's what I'm saying. Yeah. I'm saying that if you have to work on Christmas Day, that kind of stinks to switch...

That stinks, yeah. ...Christmas Day or something, you know. Halloween, you know, it's not going to work. We switched our Christmases this year because we were sick. Really? Really? Yeah. When did you celebrate?

We're still going through it, man. Wow. Yeah, we're doing... I'm not joking. This weekend, we're doing cookies. Wow, Christmas cookies. Yeah, all of our decorations are gone. We took them down.

It was too much. So what happened? Did you both get COVID as my guess? No, we didn't. We didn't. One kid got the flu. And then the next one got it. And this was like...

We all slept in the same bed to try to get it together. And then it took a month to go through us. Is that true? Not joking. You slept in the same bed to try to get it... Purposefully. Yeah. Like Charlie Bucket in Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.

You were like, let's all pile into one bed. Whoa. It wasn't like there was a bunch of grandparents. I don't know the family situation. There are all of our grandparents there in our bed. We got a Cali King, so we fit. Wow, okay. We're still Pinot in Mexican, so we're little guys.

Wow. My mom also got COVID when I was home wise. Yeah. So I did the same thing. I got in the bed with my mom and she also tried to get it over with. Even though I've had it and... Did you really? No, God.

Oh, man. Well, you make me feel like shit now. I don't know. Very, very well. Natalie, my wife had COVID recently. And she was like, we should, as a precaution, continue sleeping in separate beds. Yeah.

And I was like, okay, yeah, sure, yeah. We did that. That is cool. And then the flu turned, like another time, the flu slash COVID turned into another month. I was like, what's the point? What's the point? Let's get it.

Yeah, exactly. So now you're doing like Christmas celebration. Yeah. So last weekend was her side of the family the weekend before it was mine. So here we are in February and we are inadvertently still discussing a topic, which we got a lot of flak for last year, which Mitch and I both sort of said, it wasn't like a hot take. It wasn't like, hey, we're going to put our foot down and say,

this is what the truth is. It was just, we're just sort of like, I don't know, is Christmas much of a cookie holiday? I guess it is by default. We kind of settled on that. And everyone was furious for us for not saying that Christmas was a big cookie holiday. Well, first of all, we said that it wasn't. We said it wasn't a cookie holiday.

And then we came back around and were like, I guess it kind of is, because what else is a cookie holiday? Well, no, people got really angry at us. Who got mad at us? We were like, okay, it is a cookie holiday. And now our guest is bringing up that he's making cookies this week. Yes, yeah, yeah, yeah. The universe is like telling you guys it's a cookie holiday.

It's a cookie holiday. It is a cookie holiday. We fucked up. That's fine. Lesson learned. What type of cookies are you guys going to make? Great question. Terrible ones.

So the package ones, I'm trying to keep it as simple as possible, get out of there and just not drink too much. Trying to speed run the family obligation. Sprinkle them. Sprinkle them. Yeah. Well, your kids are young, right? So I guess it's three and five.

Three and five. All right. The five-year-old is in Santa mode, as they say. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she's still getting gifts. I never exited Santa mode. Kind of still in Santa mode. Yeah, physically.

Right. Let's talk about, because this is a topic I'm always curious about, as Marcus, you're a working actor, like bitch, you guys have worked together a few times. That's right. And my big question, because you're there the whole day, I think people who aren't in the industry understand how this works, but you're there the whole day, you're captive,

you basically can eat what they have available. What are your onset, like, lunch habits and snacking habits? Depends on the day. Like, if I have a big meaty scene, I'm not going to town on the ice creams, but ice cream's my downfall. Oh, ice cream? Wow. Yeah.

He was talking about ice cream, just you talking about yesterday, about you. I'm talking about a big time, because we gave up sugar for it to start the year. And the dough boys ruined it. Yeah, the dough boys ruined it. But it was a good ruin. So what's your ice cream of choice? I'm a chocolatey guy, so the peanut butter and chocolate stuff gave it to me. Mud slide.

And I'm a fan of the sea salt caramel mocha thing. That's great. You know what I mean? It's gonna be funny when we have you back again to review sugar in like a month. I'm telling you, I told them right before we got on like that meal wrecked me, like my whole day was wrecked. So you're saying you're giving up sugar, like what does that entail? The added sugar, like any...

Got it. Any like, you know, the fake stuff. So we're eating fruits and vegetables. And is that like a New Year's resolution? You're gonna try to carry that through? Well, yeah. No, we're doing our 30 day challenge. Okay, yeah.

And just trying to, you know, detox it up. Because that December we went hard in the paint with the ice cream and candy. No, I'm with you. Yeah, I mean, look, I'm a big vanilla guy. And you know, I've said before in the podcast, vanilla is a flavor. Just vanilla? I love vanilla, it's great flavor. But I also like the sea salt caramel renaissance.

I love that. I love coffee ice cream. People gave me shit about... Yeah. I mean, like people are like, it is a flavor or whatever. They all love you. They're all like you. All the...

They like you too. They're all the reddit people are like you though. They're like similar to you. Well, yeah, the kind of person who uses Reddit is someone who's like, that's what this conversation for them is like. I'll post on a message board. This is human interaction. Yeah, those are people like Weigert.

You're like, you're like more, you have more personality than them. You're like they're king. Yeah, yeah. I mean, like a fan, a podcast fan, after a show they're like, I'm the Weigert of the group. I was like, oh, yeah, okay, cool. Then you make out. Yeah, of course we make out.

You gotta make out, man. Keep those fans. For the number four, yeah. But I think that vanilla is a great accompaniment ice cream. You put it on a piece of pie, you mix it with stuff. 100%. For our last episode last week, I had an Oreo shake and I'm like, oh, I like that the base of an Oreo shake is vanilla.

Yeah. It's good. And then you get a little... Yeah. You get the little grays. Do you go straight vanilla's or like vanilla bean, French vanilla? What's your go-to? That's the thing is you like a bowl of vanilla ice cream.

But no, but the question is on point because in terms of what for idol, yeah, I like a vanilla bean. I like seeing them with grains of bean. That doesn't make it more interesting. Yeah, it does. Yeah, I think it does a little bit. Vanilla bean makes it more interesting. Yeah, yeah, it's a choice.

You gotta make the choice. When you're looking at them at the grocery store, you're like, which one am I gonna go with? I agree with that. You gotta make a choice. So why do you make that choice? Because some are more interesting than others. There you go.

Got him. Fuck him up now. I wouldn't be like, oh, dude, there's no vanilla bean. I'm not getting any. I would just get the vanilla next to it if there was no vanilla bean. But my point is you will eat a bowl of just the vanilla ice cream, right?

Yeah, I will. No toppings. I do that too. But I do like... That's weird. I do like mix-ins. Yes. Okay, all right.

That's... Wait, why is that weird? Yeah, why is that weird? Just a bowl of plain vanilla ice cream is weird to me. Well, first off, I'm really eating like a full... That to me is like eating a bowl of whipped cream. I'm really eating a full bowl of ice cream anymore. Like for me, it's like a scoop on a cone at a parlor.

Like I can't... And Marcus, like you, it's a trap for me. I can't really keep ice cream in my house because I just like fucking... It's like a bottle of... If I have like a bottle of bourbon in my house, I'm just like drinking that whole thing. I'm coming over, baby.

Let's go. Bourbon and ice cream. So I just can't have it. But if I go out, I'll have like, you know, I'll treat myself to a scoop. And so it's more of a special occasion thing. So I'm really having just like a bowl of vanilla anymore. But when I was a kid, yeah, I'd have a bowl of vanilla.

Why not? As boring as hell. Rachelle gets it. She's not, she's kind of... Did you grow poor? Oh, and then she got... Then Weigurz gave her a death stare. That's just my normal stare.

Wait, Rachelle, what's your ice cream flavor of choice? MCC mint chocolate chip. Oh, great flavor. MCC, yeah. Great choice. Great choice. Never heard MCC before. I love that.

MCC is great. MCC is... MCC, I prefer it over the MCU, honestly. Same. More MCC, less MCU. MCC, my favorite DJ Weigz. MCC. MC...

All right. Well... Is that a guy? MCC. Like that... Oh my God. But this is like a... I'm gonna hide behind my microphone.

This is a made up DJ? Yes, it's a made up DJ. Okay, yeah. That's what was confusing because I was trying to like... Because when Rachelle said MCC, we were like, mint chocolate chip, we put it together because it stood for something. You turned me red. You're just supposed to nod and pretend to get my jokes.

We were just... I was trying to parse it. I was trying to understand it. We were... We all were. Yeah. You kind of are like working with... It's like working with Kevin Spacey,

but I feel like Kevin Spacey would be more fun. We're skeletons in his closet. You know, he's sometimes going to like his funny southern accent. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, I love that accent. Let me be a Frank, it's me, Kevin Spacey. I also love when he'll just like sing like a Bobby Darin too. Yeah, yeah.

Like, oh yeah, you're a good singer. Yeah. I think it's pretty good. He is pretty good. MCC, my favorite DJ. Mint. Dude, come on. Yeah, man.

This guy. So ice cream is your nemesis. Yeah. Like you love it, but you're trying to stay away from it. All of the sugar. I like it better than MCU. That goes gangbusters for some fucking reason. Show everyone your fucking dick state again.

So, but like, let's say like, okay, I got an hour break. It's lunch. Like what are you having for a meal? Oh, for a meal. Yeah. On set. On set, yeah. It honestly is like beef jerky.

It's like just little stuff. Yeah, I don't eat well on on set. You're not, you're not good. We can talk about this. You gotta go, you're gonna have to go to the bathroom. Yeah. Sure. Yeah.

Of course. Yeah. And also, like, if you do like a heavy pasta, you know, you're, you're full and your energy's down. So when you come back in the scene, it's not gonna match. I'm acting like I have big scenes all the time. But yeah, fucking, I got a big scene before and after lunch. Yeah.

You need to be like cut to me and I burp or something. I mean, we did bruise brothers together. That's right. That's what, and also we were talking. Yes. I was like, why don't we have you under and bruise brothers? A bad thing to ask out loud because it's just are an epnist, I guess, is that we didn't.

Yeah. I didn't have an answer for you guys. We did a bad job. We did have a bad job, yeah. I was just in tears. So a bad way. All in my mind. Why weren't you on?

No, I remember asking that now. Why wasn't, weren't they on? We should have done that. We should have done it. We go back. We go back. Put me in. Okay, we'll do that.

Yeah, yeah. You want us to put this in the release schedule between right after? Slide it in there. Nobody cares about me. But we worked on bruise brothers in a abominable production wise. That's right, yep.

And I don't know if they're, first of all, now I'm questioning if there was a toilet at all. There was. There was two. There were two toilets. And they were like a long ways away. No, that's not true. They were in there, but they were like

cords coming out of it. Like they're using it for other stuff. Oh, that's not great. Yeah. I never used the bathroom. I don't think I ever used. I don't like using bathrooms. Yeah.

Other than mine. On set. Yeah. Yeah, I got that tushy drop. That's been transformative. You got the tushy? Yeah, man. Wow.

You guys got them as sponsors? We got to get them on here. No, I don't. We don't have a bidet sponsor. I understand because we're both bidet advocates. I would love a bidet sponsor. You got a tushy? I don't have a tushy.

So my sister gave me a bidet this year, but she just printed out a picture of a toilet because I didn't want to bring it back. West. And you were like, spank bank. Yes, that picture is now sticky. I think that I forget the one that she, the one she got, I forget what the name,

but I'm going to look it up right now. So I'll be rude for a second. But I have a toto. It's like a toto and it's like a full seat apparatus. And I honestly, like I bought it. It's good to hear you say it normally too. Like February of 2020. Just random chance.

I just happened to get it just before the lockdown happened. And so I had it and I installed it and it was transformative. This is my one pleasure in life for the next year. Especially if you're getting down with ice cream the night before, you got to get it. Yeah, 100%. Yeah, get that tushy. Yeah.

Well, it's like that pressure straw. It's like, he turns it up to 11. What's it? Breaks the knob. Spinal tap. Spinal tap, yeah. I still can't find a... You don't have one.

I don't believe you. Yeah. My mom... He's got a hole in the backyard. And a hose. And it's your mom just spraying you down. Well, you checked your phone. Michael, the hose is ready.

Michael, it puts the lotion in the basket. They're asking us to hose again. She has one and it was funny because I went home and I sat on it and used it. And then like 30 minutes later, she's like, it's not working anymore. All day, pounds. Broke it.

I destroyed my mom's bidet. Committed suicide. I can't find it. It's not real, man. I can't find the one that my mom has. You're just looking at selfies of yourself. It was something like a super bidet or something. Okay, now I really don't believe you.

I mean, I don't believe that either. That's not right. But I think it's like something bidet. I mean, I guess a lot of them are probably called something bidet. Here's what I'll say is that for me, going at work, if I have some privacy, I'm okay with that. And that's just a thing I've had to learn to be all right with.

In the post-bidet ownership era, I have kind of the point where I like travel less because I'm away from my home toilet and I'm away from my home bidet. And even staying in a nice hotel, I'm like, this is not the same experience. I'm using dry industrial toilet paper. Well, I'm supposed to be on vacation.

I'm supposed to be relaxing. I'm in the time of my life. Yeah. So you need water shot up your ass? Yeah, I do, yeah. Yeah, yeah. That's what I want. Now that I have it.

Once you have it. I can't find it. I can't find... Now you're at Home Depot. What is that? I can't find it. I can't find the fucking bidet. It's a great one, though.

It's a heated seat, why? It's got a heated seat. You guys got the seat seats. I just got the attachment. Look, the attachment is... Have you had that? I have not only attachment, but I'm aware of the attachment.

That in and of itself is like a gigantic step up. The seat is just opulent. You don't actually need the seat, but whatever. You got the heated seat, too? Yeah, I got the seat. Yeah, yeah. Light, you got a light in there? No, no, light.

What do you need a light for? I don't know. You can see what you did. Lights up what happened down there. Got a black light in there? Disco ball. Drops down. Into the toilet.

And then a beat. Wags, I am changed, though. I'm going to get one. I'm getting one in my home. That's huge. Yeah. That's huge. Good for you.

Oh, wait a minute. We should talk about this. Our Amelia Marina. What is her title, exactly? She's an associate producer. Associate producer. Thank you. Yeah.

Her, did we tell this? Her dad, Scorpion. We talked about Scorpion on our episode. Did we tell her? Did we talk about how he got a new bidet and then sent Amelia a video of him drinking from the bidet? It was, he was using it to brush his teeth. He was using it to brush his teeth.

Yeah, like a water pick, yeah. As though. Scorpion has a lot of stuff going on. Scorpion is a fucking man. We like Scorpion. The, yeah, but we talked about that in a previous episode. I'm interested in the lore of Scorpion growing because I want to know more about this.

I want to know everything about this man. Until the day he meets us and kills us. All right, so you like ice cream, but like talking other sweet treats because you know, to Corner Bakery Cafe, which we're going to be talking about today in a bit, is a baked goods purveyor. Yeah. Do you like yourself like a muffin, a cookie?

I do. I'm a bread, like especially with my coffee. Yeah. So that's been really challenging because that's kind of, I kind of count that as my breakfast. You know, like. Like a doughnut or something? Yeah, or like a loaf or a muffin or something like that.

That's my breakfast. But now everything has sugar and I'm trying to find ways around it and there's nothing. It's been nuts. I've been eating nuts and dried cranberries and basically a bird now. Have you ever tried like just like, just like toast with butter for breakfast? Yeah, yeah, oh yeah.

That'll work. And avocado toast. Yeah, sure, yeah. All those, yeah. Yeah. I would just be so hungry on a film set if I didn't, because I will eat, but I do, I hate the thing of, and like I was saying, like after lunch for me,

they're going to cut to me and I'm like, Yep. My hand is stuck in a cookie jar and then I'm wrapped for the day. That's all it is for me. So I don't have the big monologues or whatever after lunch, but I would need, I would need to eat. I wouldn't eat, I would need to eat something. No, yeah, I eat.

I do the lunch. You just, but you're just snack jerky and stuff like that. Yeah, yeah. I don't, yeah, I don't go hard. Too hard at the crafty. Unless it's like a networking studio thing, then they have the whole. Yes.

Oh yeah. Shabang, you know? So then I get down. I don't go hard at crafty. I'll just, I'll just do like maybe a breakfast and then the, I'll go wow that lunch. But I gotta ask you, you're a fellow brews brother. Mm-hmm.

What's your brew of choice? Oh, I'm a whiskey guy. I'm a, I love Scotch. I'm a, Lagaboolan is my jam. Oh boy, okay. No beers at all. Not really, no. But if I do, it's like something like an IPA or, you know, a mango cart.

Oh yeah, that's fine. Ooh, mango cart's good. But just one. I don't, it gets me all weird. I get so, if I drink beer these days. Yeah, I get so bloated. Yeah, yeah. It's just like it, and it had, there's a hangover for the next day.

Yeah. Like, and I don't mean like a hangover, like the hangover. I mean, more like I'm just like, I feel, I feel like I had like a giant meal the next day. Like a bloated hangover. Yeah. Yeah. And you come up to your roof and I'm up there locked on the roof.

Um, you spit it at him. You know, I was opening up my phone this morning. I opened up Instagram. Nice. There's a guy going off on, on fruity beers. A guy making fun of fruity beers. What, you follow like Ben Shapiro? What are you doing?

You follow like a bunch of old, right guys? I follow Punchline Philly, a place where we performed. Okay, sure. It was TJ Miller going off on fruity beers. Yeah, yeah. He's not a fan? He's not a fan. He's like going off.

He was going to get these. He was making fun of, he was making fun of fruity beers. It was a funny thing to open up my Instagram account to. And then I think he called in a bomb threat to the fruit. I think that I'm afraid to say something about that. No, I've got no issue with the, here's the thing. I got no issue with the fruity beers because I don't like, I like, there was probably a point when I was younger,

where I would have been a little bit elitist about it. And now I'm just like, it's fucking fine. Yeah, yeah. It tastes good. I like a mango cart. Why not? Yeah. I think they're better.

I'm not an IPA guy, which I feel like took over the work. I feel like everyone likes IPA. Yeah. And then the idea was to get hoppier and hoppier and then like the quadruple IPA, you know, like we're just going to see like, like it's, it become, it was like kind of like the hot sauce guy. It was like how, how fucking hoppy can you go?

And it got a little obnoxious. And I. If TJ Miller is listening, calling a bomb threat to head gum studios, get us the fuck out of here. And the episode. So do you like, okay, let, let, let's talk, let's drill down to, to like, you know, cookies, pastries, like stuff that you might not have for breakfast,

but you know, something that's more of like a dessert pastry. You got a favorite. Yeah, let's see. Man, there's so many, but I like a tiramisu. Oh yeah. I like, I like the creamy filled stuff. You know, like a, like a molten lava cake. Give me that.

Oh, that's fun. Give me that. We tried to kind of a chocolate molten. Yeah. But it wasn't hot. It wasn't hot. It was interesting. Yeah.

We'll talk about it. It was good. It was good. I liked it. It was good. But I love a chocolate lava cake with the hot. Yeah. Give me the hot and cold with some vanilla.

Oh yeah. Yeah. There you go. There's a great spot for vanilla. Or just a bowl of vanilla. That, they're even better. A bowl of vanilla ice cream with nothing else. A bowl of vanilla ice cream is better than a chocolate

molten lava cake with vanilla ice cream. Wait. We're not debating which one's better. I'm just saying it's okay to have one bowl of vanilla ice cream by itself, dude. Fuck. And my favorite DJ, MCC. That was good, I thought, on the spot.

Well, Wags, we, should we start talking about the restaurant? Here's what we'll do. Let's take a break. And we'll come right back and we'll talk. I gotta go back in the corner. Okay. We'll take a break. We'll be back with more with Marcus Ray and Corner Bakery Cafe

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Yeah, what's up, guys? What's up, dude? Welcome back. Welcome back to the show. Hey, welcome back. Good to see you, dude. Man, a pause, dude. Thank you.

Thank you, Rachelle. I cued that one. I cued it. Wow. This is going to work really good, I think. It's a great system. It feels good. It's going to be great.

It feels good for you? Yeah, no. Okay, because it feels good for you. That's the main thing. The only part that sucks is when I'm actually over there. Okay, and that's not a short amount of time, so. Yeah, no. It's a long time.

Okay. It's going to be great when we know Marcus really well. It's going to be great when we're like, hey, Tim Highdeck, are we going to the corner? Wait, the corner's by the door. Oh, he just left? Okay. The little dark over there, too.

It's lonely, colder. I saw. Definitely colder. You looked sadder when you were over there. I happen to have you back. Corner Bakery. Cafe, it's for people who haven't experienced it. It's a fast, casual breakfast, lunch, and baked goods spot.

A kind of a Panera, it's very Panera-esque. It was founded in 1991 in Chicago, which I was surprised by. I always thought it was more of a West Coast thing, but it has a national presence. I thought it was a West Coast thing, too. I did not experience Village Bakery growing. Corner Village? Corner Bakery Cafe.

Oh, there's no Village. Village is the place in Outwater. There's no Village, yeah. Okay. No. It's good. Village Bakery is good. So, Corner Bakery.

Corner Bakery. And it's got locations in 23 states and D.C., and in 2020, rather, was absorbed as part of the Rohan Group, the Rohan Group, which also owns Boston Market. Oh, they own Boston Market. We said it. We said something about this. You said it.

We looked at it and said, we said Rohan Group. This had to have been absorbed by the Rohan Group that we sent it to Rohan. And then our waiter was like, Rohan Group. And then the people behind the counter were nodding. Yep. And then one yelled, Jinx. And then we couldn't talk for...

Yeah, we just ate silent. I've been going to Corner Bakery for some time, and I haven't been in a while, but I will say, I'm childless, but I do have nieces and nephews, and my niece and nephew love Corner Bakery. Like, when we said we were going to Corner Bakery, I think they've got a decent kids menu, and I think also just that they've got sweet treats there.

And so it was like, when we was like, hey, we're going to take you, we're taking care of them, we're going to take you to Corner Bakery, they're like, yes, they're like excited, like Chuck E. Cheese excited. And they're 23 and 24. Yeah, just out of college. But I will say that Nali and I...

That's very funny. They are Weigars for sure. No, that's not Nali's thing. Oh, it's on that? Oh, all right. All right. They've been around you too much. It's very funny for little kids to be excited

about Corner Bakery. It seems like a very funny, weird... But I get it though, because they got Mac and Cheese, and they got like cookies, you know? I mean, it's just... Easy, simple. Exactly, 100%. Comfort foods in there.

100%. Well, Weigars, I will tell it to you now. The reason that we looked at each other and said, Rohan Group is because of that Mac and Cheese. We said, this is just like the Boston Market Mac and Cheese, is what we were saying. Can I bring something up? No.

Okay. No, it's your podcast. You can do it. You guys had a meal together. Yeah. Why wasn't I looped in on this? Exactly. I said that twice.

First of all, I told you that... Wait, wait, wait. During the text thread, I was like, hey, is Nika coming? Nothing. Violent. First of all, I brought it up again, and I was like, hey, what's up with Weigars?

Unless you guys aren't cool anymore. Nothing. I'll show you the text thread. I'm like 99%... Do you have 12? That's what he responded. I'm like 99% sure that I told you about this. I don't recall it.

It's possible. If you show me the receipts, I will gladly... I have to show you receipts. And then this is not a lie. You can do it. We talked about how I thought that maybe you don't like me that much. Really? Yeah.

Did we talk about that? Why would you say that? I kind of confirmed his theories too. Yeah, yeah. I told him it's true. Yeah. Oh, I love markets. I'm like, dude, he doesn't like anybody.

Don't worry about it. And then we pounded the mac and cheese in silence, and we got it out of there. And we think we saw someone famous. We know we did. We know we did. Yep. Who was it?

I took a creep shot of him. You want me to show you the picture? Yeah, okay. Do you want me to see if I can idea it? Yeah. I'm going to guess before you show me the picture, Ron Livingston. Ooh.

That's a good guess. Really close. Okay. I mean, I guess it's close. Okay. Oh, it's going to be like the bidet. Did I tell you the night that I- Wait, you seriously thought I didn't like you?

Yeah, we were like talking about it for a while. I was like, I didn't think he really liked me. Oh my goodness. So I guess that's why you didn't come. No, Marcus, I'll tell you the truth. He probably sadly lists you as like his top five friends. Something that would make you uncomfortable. On MySpace?

Yeah, MySpace top eight. Yeah. Okay. So I wonder, I took a creep shot of this guy. Okay. Great. And I wonder, should I just show it to you? Yeah, show it to me.

I'll see if I can idea it. Okay. Longer hair, older dude. Let me zoom in a little bit. He's got like a longer blonde-haired guy. Kind of going gray, but not quite. A little bit older. Looks like a character actor or a rocker.

He's certainly got the aesthetic of a rocker with this kind of, with this denim jacket pulled over a hoodie. I'm going to say it's a hard pull, but it's a movie you've seen. It's a movie I've seen. Yeah, and here's the deal. The reason that we know it's a recent movie? 10 years ago, maybe a little more comedy. Yeah, you saw it.

Knocked up. I'll even just tell you the movie. Oh, it's a knocked up guy. And here's also- Is this a main cast member from knocked up or just like a guy from knocked up? So the reason we noticed him is he was so tall. He was like 6'11". Oh, wow.

He was like almost seven feet. Did I ever tell you that when I was at a- But do you know the actor's name? No. All right, so a guy from knocked up. We didn't even look up the actor's name, but we think he's the doctor from knocked up. The guy who he calls, you remember, he's like, you're like a diehard villain.

Yes, I know exactly what you're talking about. Yeah. We think that's the guy. And that's what I thought. I thought he was the diehard villain and I was like, wait, that's not- That's right. Yes, yeah. Yeah, he wasn't the diehard villain.

It would have been fun though if he kept us captive in Horn of Bakery. Let's see if I can find out which- There's a few different doctors in here. It's very handsome though. He is a handsome tall dude. Like on knocked up, I was like, he does look like a villain. He's scary, but in person, you're like- Yeah, he was looking good.

Yeah, good looking older man. No, yeah. Let's see if Wiger will knock over his Coke Zero, which he did at the beginning of the episode. I did before we started recording. Haven't done it again. Did I tell you that- It's not loud and rain rate the third, is it? Well, I don't know.

Show us, turn us around. Let us see. Hold on, let me see. Also, is it just a tall man that we think is famous? Yeah, it could be that. Could be we were just captivated by the tallness. There was a night where I was in Saddle Ranch, which shows you how long ago. This was like 2006.

Last week. I was riding a mechanical bull in Saddle Ranch last week. But this is like 2006. And Diamond Dallas Page was in there, Wigs. He was in there with a girlfriend or wife, DDP. Yeah, DDP got in there. And then someone was like, dude, Ron Livingston's in here. And I spent like an hour trying to find Ron Livingston.

It turns out it was Sean Livingston that was there. The basketball player? Yeah. Perfect. Perfect. And then so you went up to him and was like, I loved you in office space. To Sean Livingston? Dude, you're so good as a lady in office space.

Killed it, man. I got fucking sucked into IMDB. I had no success. If anyone wants to ID who this doctor is- Now, here's my question. Can we put up a creep photo I took? I mean, you can't. It might not be him.

It might not be him. Ethically, I think it's suspect, but legally, you're in the clear because it's a public place. You can photograph someone in a public place. I'm going to try to find it while you- You can photograph someone in a public place. Trust me. Can't be arrested for it.

Fucking nightcrawler. Yeah, that looks good with that man bun when you say that. All right, you continue the discussion. I'll try to find him. Here's what I'll say. The thing with Corner Breakers, the app is crap. Like, I don't know if you either have used the app at all, but it's very clunky.

My entire cart got emptied randomly at a certain point. No, you got to update your app. Yeah, that's the thing. It's a very, very like 10 years ago, early, when everyone was like, oh, we should have an app and then they just never updated it. But also like their clientele, their customers, I don't think they're using the app. I think that's part of it, too.

Yeah, I think it's older people and families, yeah. It's the doctor from funny people. That's why. Oh, the doctor from funny people. That's the issue. It's the doctor from funny people. It's a different Apatow doctor. It's a different Apatow doctor.

Do I know the actor's name? No, I don't know the actor's name. It's Ken Jeong. Ken Jeong is what happened when I searched Knocked Up Doctors. That's what I mean, yeah. And then it immediately made me think. It's got to be Torsten Wozsch's, Dr. Lars. Yeah, it's Torsten.

Torsten was born in 1962 in Germany. That's 100% him. Let me show it to us. Let me see. Let us see his face. All right, hold on. Let me look. I don't want to see it.

Here's a little Torsten. Oh, yeah. That's him. It's fucking him. It was the funny people doctor. We saw him. Yeah, we got it. What a name.

Got his autograph. He fucking... That's Ron Livingston. Amazing. Because it's not in person. He signed Ron Livingston and then dashed Sean Livingston. He signed Ron Livingston from Sean Livingston. It says, see you in office space, three-pointer.

Well, I was not invited for this outing. Yeah. Funny people doc. We did it. Very cool. I was excluded from this outing, so I went by myself. I picked up some food for B&L. Not cool, man.

And I got a... Hey, how about that? Yeah. The ACU, the Apatow Cinematic Universe, me and the tall doctor. You're both in it. Both in corner bakery. You guys got to meet up in a future IP. I think it's...

I think it could be great. Yeah. Randy sees the doctor or something. I think it... I like it. I'll send an email to Judd later today. Yeah, do it. I'm going to see him later.

I'll tell him. All right, thank you. Thank you, Marcus. Should I text him? I'll just text him now. Text him now. Hey, Judd. Cross over with Randy and Dr. Lars would be box office gold.

Send. Immediately back. Sure thing. Also, I got to come back on the pod. Yeah, he was... I mean, I was actually... Had left him on red from him asking to come back on the pod. Saying he had like a ton of availability for the pod.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'd love to come back on any time. So, I'll just... I'll start with my beverage. I got myself an Arnold Palmer. You know, I fancy myself a Nick Weiger, which I think is a better ratio of the Arnold Palmer. I got a question for you.

Yeah. Would you have acted that all out if we weren't on video? Well, like picked up the phone and everything. Yeah. No, of course not. All right, all right. I just... I just wanted to...

Ah, that kind of bums me out. Yeah, it kind of bums me out, too. I kind of wish... Actually, maybe I would have. I'm thinking... Nice. You know, I think I would have. I would have.

I like you. We like each other. That was weird, man. But they have a peach Arnold Palmer they're doing right now, and I thought this was nice. It's just a little hint of peach. What did you guys do beverage-wise? I did peach lemonade.

You did peach lemonade. I went strawberry lemonade. I had tried the peach lemonade. I went to corner... Weirdly, went to corner bakery just recently, not that long ago, before the holiday break. Random CB outing. Oh, yeah.

And I think I had the peach lemonade. I'm pretty sure that I did. And I liked it when I had it. It was good. Oh, the first time. Yeah. The first time, yeah. We didn't split...

We split a lot of food, but we didn't split drinks. Sure. That's the one thing we didn't drive each other. What did you think of the peach lemonade? Loved it. Loved it? Yeah. Sugary.

Got me going. Sure. I was like, let's get it. Yeah, I think the potency of the sugar was not naturally suppressed because it was part of an Arnold Palmer or is mostly iced tea, but it was like the peach flavor I thought the color carried through really nicely. This was a lovely beverage. So here's one thing you can do.

And this was a hack Natalie had is you get the family meal. You can save yourself a little bit of coinage because as part of the family meal, you just get four entrees. That's all it is. It's just four entrees at a discount. And it's mostly the same entrees that are available, like the same sandwiches and salads. So here's what we got as far as a family meal.

We got a chop salad, which Natalie had, a turkey avocado cob salad, which I got just with no bacon, a chicken pomodori panini, and a pesto cavatapi, which is one of the possibilities. You cross-overs. All right. Well, what did you guys get? Mmm. Do you think we can just name it with?

I mean, I can look at the food. I can name it. Can you? Do you think you get it all? You had the chicken pomodori. That's right. I had the rustic Italian. And what do I have with my chicken pomodori panini?

You had a salad. You had a side salad. And it was a little. Oh, I'm quizzing you. And then we had mac and cheese that we split. We did. And then chicken carbonara pasta. And then we also ordered our chocolate cake.

Three cookies. No. Two cookies. Two cookies. Two cookies. Our beverages. And then one more thing. You're missing two sides that we had as well.

Oh, two soups. We had the. That's right. The potato soup. And the tomato soup. Yeah, the loaded. The loaded. Loaded.

Yeah. Baked. What is it? Loaded potato soup. Loaded cheddar potato. Loaded something soup. Yeah. So I also got a soup, but we don't have crossover there because I got a cheddar broccoli soup.

I'm just like, I'm always curious to try everyone's cheddar broccoli soup. And what I've learned is that every cheddar broccoli soup is the same. Like it's like completely interchangeable. Yeah. I mean, it's just, it's just cheesy, you know, with, with, with, with some florets. But it was like, this was like replacement level cheddar broccoli soup. This was exactly like, if you say like, hey, this is, this is Panera's cheddar broccoli soup. We'll be like, all right, sure.

This is Marie calendar's cheddar broccoli soup. Like, yeah, sure. I buy it. Marcus did the, the tomato basil soup. Yeah. Which I'm not a huge bae. I'm not basing on that. But then I think that was the better of the two soup.

For sure. It was a little pop. Wow. The, the, the loaded, the loaded potato soup was just kind of like, it's also like, if you're going to get a soup, like shouldn't it be kind of light? This is the same thing you did is like the, yeah, it's too heavy. Yeah. I'm with you.

Yeah. The broccoli and cheddar soup. That's like, you're, it's almost like eating gravy. Yeah. It's like fondue. It's too much, too much. And that, and that, and that was pretty nice. It had some croutons in there.

Yeah, yeah. And the basil wasn't overpowering. I'll say this and you, you mentioned this for not having any sugar. And this is also something with my side salad because I had Italian dressing with my side salad. The Italian dressing was super sweet and your tomato soup immediately like, you could taste the sugar in that soup. Yeah. Even in, I was telling you like in the, in the like pastas, I was like,

I think there's sugar in here. It's just weird. My, my taste buds are all off. No, I think you're right. I think all of it is very processed. Yeah. And, and, but I got to tell you, took a bite of that mac and cheese, which they split up into two bowls for us.

It was good. Good mac and cheese. It was a good mac and cheese. It's hard to, I mean, when you mess it up, when you fuck up mac and cheese, you know it. Yes, 100%. But I feel like you can't really mess it up. You just keep adding more milk or cheese. I felt like it was a little more soupy than, than Boston Market mac and cheese,

maybe not as good as Boston. Again, we haven't had, but we haven't done Boston Market on the show for forever. What? Well, we, we, we did it, we did it. Have we, did we do it again? I feel like we did it during quarantine. Because I remember. Have you guys ever done a corner bakery?

No, this is our first corner baker. This is our maiden voyage to corner baker. I didn't know what to reply to you guys about, like, which restaurant. Yeah. And then you guys sent the potential list and corner bakery was at the top and I bonered up. I was like, oh my God. Wow.

I'm not joking. I have a lot of love for corner bakery. You have a history with this place. History corner bakery, but me and my mom used to go there all, all the time. And then when I moved out here, Randall Park and I would do sketch shows together. And that's where we would write. Wow. We'd meet up and write because it was like a little bit of a different vibe than

Starbucks, you know, not a lot of crazies coming in. Yeah. And you don't feel rushed. Don't feel rushed. Yeah. You don't have those entitled customers or like just picking up my mobile order and causing a ruckus. Yep.

So. Which corner bakery was this? He told me all this stuff yesterday when we had. The corner bakery we would go. Yeah. That you weren't invited to. I mean, I would have. I could have come.

You definitely were invited. I told you about it. I don't remember this. Is this real? Is this real? This is the communication problems we have. We have communication problems. Here's the thing.

It's possible Mitch said in passing, I'm probably going to get corner baker with Marcus. And that's the end of it. And so he's correct. But also it wasn't at the point of like, hey, I'm going with Marcus at this time on this day. Do you want to come? Which would have been a formal invite.

So I think it's probably. Which by the way, if he was like, I'm going to go get. We're both right. I'm going to go get corner baker with Marcus. I'd be like, well, wait a minute. Maybe I should say something to come along. You know what I'm saying? Well, this is the thing.

But look, on the other side, I like you. All right. That's true. That is true. And everything he said at the restaurant that I wanted you at just proves that you don't. Wait a minute. So wait, which corner bakery was it?

It was the one across the street from the Beverly Center. Is that one still on an operation? I don't know. I think it is. Which should have went to that one. Yeah, that's a fucking Hollywood landmark. Yeah. Right.

Wait, which one? The Beverly connection. Oh yeah. Is it still there? I think it is because I had to go to. I feel like that Marshall's right after, too. Yeah. Really in my 80s, you know.

Well, because that's like. My 80-year-old vibe. Because that's like the Beverly Center. And it used to be a super high-end mall. It's less so now. But it used to be like, hey, this is like the Beverly Hills shopping center. But then right across from that is like the corner bakery.

And then yeah, there's like a Marshall's. Baja Fresh. Exactly. Yeah. There's a bunch of stuff that's there's a target. There's a bunch of stuff that's a little bit more accessible to people who aren't like super rich. We didn't have you, but God filled in with another die-hard

looking villain without. Man, you're stirring that one up for a while. You're like, can we do it? Are you be like one of the die-hard villains that you would die pretty early on? I feel like. Yeah, I think so. Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Merked immediately. High-pitched voice a little bit. But I think we were having a good time. I haven't even said what my button. And we haven't even gotten to the sandwiches. But I thought my strawberry lemonade

had had that peach lemonade before. I thought it was a little weaker than the peach lemonade. Still good. Also, she gave Marcus a, Marcus ordered a small. She gave you a large peach lemonade. She liked Marcus. Which is actually a bad thing because of the sugar thing. I was like, I'll drink it.

I'm going to put it down. She likes Marcus kind of the anti-candy wager. They were very, they were very kind to us because also I got to give a credit to our server who I should have, I should have remembered the name of, but she, we threw a lot at her. Because we were just kind of, we were freestyling up there. I was like MCC up there.

And I, and we were just throwing stuff at her. And she read back the order to us and was precise. Well, she had it on her computer as we took our order down. So yeah, but still pretty good. It was pretty good. No, she was great. She was, she was, she was, it was pretty impressive. But the salad was not great.

The soup, yours was good. The loaded potato soup, not great. The sandwiches. I think we're going to get to the sandwich because you ordered the, what was it called? The Italian, the Italian panini. I mean, it's a rustic, rustic panini. Some peppers in there, some salami.

Here's my hot take. You would think corner bakery would have great sandwiches. I think their sandwiches are just okay. I think honestly the highlights of the menu are their salads and their pastas. And the chicken pomodori panini, which I had, I was like kind of like kind of a down item versus the rest of my collection.

I don't know what you, what you thought, Mitch. You might be right. Because our, my bite of the night was neither sandwich. Wow. The rustic panini, that Italian panini, I don't know what the hell it's called. Nice spice to it, which I didn't realize. It had a nice, it had a nice kick to it.

I liked that better than the chicken, how do you say it? Pomodori. Pomodori. This was also an issue at the. Yeah, you kept calling it everything else, but that. Yeah. And the lady was like, pomodori. Yeah.

She told me multiple times. Yeah. It was embarrassing. It was kind of embarrassing. But the chicken pomodori was fine, but I thought that the Italian panini was better. But why? My bite of the night, maybe a tie between that mac and cheese

and that chicken carbonara, which was your choice. Right. I will say that as the day grew longer, the mac and cheese and the carbonara got a little bit cold. Cold mac and cheese was way better than cold carbonara. That makes sense. Yeah, yeah, I agree with that. It was still cheesy, but the carbonara kind of,

the pasta soaked up everything, so it was like a dry pasta. The thing is, at Wags, I had a wardrobe fitting at Universal, a tenor. Very cool. The home of Jaws. I was up there next to Bruce the Shark. Yeah. They, my wardrobe fitting was in the same tank

that they keep Bruce the Shark. Yeah. And you used the bidet there, too. I used the bidet that they used on Bruce. We texted each other. I went over to Corner Bakery, and then I drove over, and I got a cast fitting up in the valley. It was a valley day.

Cast fitting for my arm. Wait, wait, is that for a roll or do you have something wrong with it? It's for a roll, my man. I can't tell you. Very cool. The Hollywood Code, baby. I kept doing that all day. It's the Hollywood Code.

I bet you're all watching, being like, what's the roll? Can't tell you. Hollywood Code. Right, Marcus? That's right. Get me out of here. Get me out of here, you know.

I've been saying it for two days now. You're getting fitted for a cast, and you were referencing an Apatow crossover movie earlier. Is Randy going to meet Dr. Lars? Hollywood Code. Can't tell you. Sorry, babe. In reality, you're like playing like,

yeah, I'm playing a dipshit who injured his arm jacking off. I'm going to pay $100. It's a brand. It's a funnier day branded Honda. I am. Getting $100. Just local? Just local, yeah.

Actually, it's worse than that. The truth is, I just really injured my arm jacking off. Been there. The Pesto, here's the thing. Pesto and Kavatapi is a go-to for me. First off, I think Kavatapi is just like a fun pasta shape. It's like a little squiggly, and it's fun form factor. It's a very simple dish.

It's just pesto. It's just a pesto cream sauce and some grilled chicken. But it's like a very solid thing they do there. And it keeps well, because we had the family meal. Natalie and I each had some of it. And you get one of those. You get yourself a salad. You can have something filling and hearty and flavorful.

And my salad was very solid as well. It's a very standard down the middle. Here are some bagged mescaline greens and some avocado and some sliced turkey. It's a very straightforward thing. But I think the avocado ranch was nice. And I'll take that up against a fucking tender green salad or a sweet green salad.

It's just as far as lunch sustenance, this absolutely gets the job done. As far as sweets go, like I mentioned, I was underwhelmed by the panini. Natalie liked her salad, the chopped salad. But as far as sweets go, I got myself a peach baby bunt, which maybe you would like this, Marcus, because it was just way too sweet for me.

It was just way too much. You know, like it was a lot of peach, but just like that bunt cake was just, yeah, it was like a glazed donut level of like sweetness. But the thing I really enjoyed was the maple pecan bar. And that was just like a nice little like, I didn't see that. I didn't see that.

It was like, well, I think this is the thing. I think different locations have different items they offer. Oh, I don't like that. Yeah. Well, I mean, you know, it's, I think it's kind of fun. But for people who prize consistency above all else. Yeah, that's me. Yeah.

Is the character in Happy Days squiggy? What? Is the character in Happy Days named squiggy? Yes. I think so. Laverne Shirley, right? Oh, Laverne Shirley. Well, it's Happy Days.

Yeah. Yeah, you're right. Well, just when you said it a little squiggly, I was going to say opposite of how I like my Happy Days episodes. But then his name's not squiggly. So when I said that like five minutes ago. Yeah, yeah. You've been sitting on that the whole time.

Yeah. He was marinating that thing. And then you thought it was worth bringing out. Yeah. I just thought that it was worth the discussion. How did it go? I mean, we could never know how it would have gone. No, no, but how did it go after it left your lips?

You know what? I feel pretty good. Tight, man. Hey, man. Whatever, bro. If you feel good, that's life, is it? It turns out squiggly, it squiggly isn't the character. So that was a big.

But you knew that right away. I mean, it took me a couple of seconds. I was about to say it and then I was like, wait, squiggly might not be the name of the character. If I had said it, why? How do you think you would have been confused? I think my reaction would have been the same. Yeah, just a little confused.

I think the main issue is that it's just not the same. Like it's squiggly and squiggy. Yeah. For two different things. And also like I don't know Happy Days super well. So it had taken me a second to like, you don't know Happy Day? Hey.

The Fonz is Happy Days, right? I would have gotten a Fonz reference. Weezer reference would have been good somehow. Sure, yeah. I mean, we weren't talking about Happy Days, so I don't know if that really would have helped it. Yeah, there's no mention of Happy Days. Yeah.

You know what? It would be fun to review Arties. Arties? Isn't it Arties? Art? Oh, the cafe from Happy Days. The cafe from Happy Days. Now I think it's called Arties or something.

It wasn't called Arties. Was it called Arties? Hold on. Now I got to look this up. We've never reviewed... Arnold's. It was Arnold's. Yeah.

I've gone like... Pat Morita's. Right. Yeah, there you go. Oh, wait. And then who is the... Whatever. We can't get into Happy Days lore right now.

But we've also never... That's Ron Howard. It is. Ron Howard is one of the stars of it. And also we've never reviewed... Have we ever reviewed... What's the place that's like Happy Days? Where they go on the sunset strip?

Johnny Rockets? No, not Johnny Rockets. Mel's Drive-In? Mel's Drive-In. We did review that. Yeah, we reviewed that. We reviewed both those places. Okay.

Yeah. Bob's Big Boy? We've done Bob's Big Boy. We've done the Big Boy. Yeah. Yeah. Boy. Yeah.

Anyways, I think it was worth it to go down this road. Yeah, I don't. Arnold didn't appear as Arnold, although it was said at Arnold's. Arnold didn't appear until season three. Oh, we watched this bullshit pilot for the show, didn't we? The Happy Days pilot? I'm just realizing this. It's a real fucking weird pilot.

Yeah. It's really weird. It sucked. Yeah. God, this show sucks. Also, Wags, I can't help but notice also my stomach is truly growling. Growling. Growling.

My stomach is growling. Growling. Growling. Growling? With a W. Throw the W. Growling. Growling.

Growling. Oh, man. Growling. Growling sounds different. Growling. Growling. My stomach's growling. Growling.

Growling. And also, you should take out your bag. Okay. So, Wags said he had cookies and then he pulled out what Marcus referred to. Hold it up a little bit. This sketchy ass bag. I know that bag. Yeah.

I've seen that bag before. Not a script brown bag. Yeah, yeah. Take it, take it, take it. Go, go, go. Go. You fucking pulled out and it's filled with cookies from Corner Bakery. So, it's the only part of our meal we haven't talked about yet.

On the app, they were like, they have one of those check boxes that's like, hey, do you want to add six cookies for whatever, however many like 449? I was like, yeah, I'd fucking six cookies. And so, I did it. That's insane, by the way, to say, hey, do you want to add six cookies? It's a lot. It's a half dozen cookies. Like a half dozen cookies.

But I think that's like, you know, that's the impulse buy side of app design where they'll throw that in there. Hey, would you want to add some breadsticks? It'll happen on the Domino's app or whatever. This was their equivalent. And, but the only, the only option they offered was chocolate chip and monster cookie. I need one.

I need, I need a monster cookie. Have a monster cookie or a chocolate chip cookie. I brought them for this purpose. These are, these are from yesterday, but they should still be. One of these cookies is one of the ones that Marcus and I got. So, so these are, and just to be clear, these are from yesterday when I went, which is also when you guys went just to a different location. This is kind of crazy too, by the way.

And around the same time. There's a difference between these cookies. Okay. I'm going to pull it out. This is the cookie we got. The monster cookie. Wow. Wow.

But Marcus already knows, knows the difference. We did not get that cookie. We got a, a version of that cookie. Wow. We got small M&Ms. Yeah. Wow. So these are full size M&Ms.

Also. Marcus, no obligation to have anything. I know you're not. No, I'm going to. Okay, great. I'm going to have a monster cookie as well. Which one would you like one? I'll show you one cookie.

Chocolate chip or a monster? Help yourself. Is this regular chocolate chip? Yeah, I think so. We got toffee. We got toffee. We got toffee chocolate chip. Toffee chocolate chip.

And that was my least favorite. Didn't, couldn't taste the toffee. It was very crumbly. Yeah. And thin. Very crumbly. I'm eating this cookie like a little bitch, man. What am I doing?

Something in my mouth. This is fucking delicious. This is really fucking good. Is corner bakery good? Is that what we're dealing with? This is what we were talking about yesterday. We, I don't know. I feel like it's good enough.

I feel like maybe it's good enough. Maybe you know what you're going for. You're going for like the environment. Well, what was the anecdote we had yesterday when we were like, is it good? And we, we were trying to figure out like just where it, oh, we were talking about a hospital food or something. Like, um, I was, where'd you go?

I don't know. Oh, maybe that's when I got my cat. No, I, I kind of feel like if Marie calendars was God, then her, her Satan, her fallen angel was the corner bakery. Bear. I like that. Right? Yeah.

Scares me a little bit, but I like it. It came from the same place, but they're different. Yeah. Not as good. Not as good. And you know, you're, you're not going to like have a birthday there the way I would have Marie calendar's birthday when I was a kid. Yeah.

It was a confusing thing. Marie calendar's birthday? 100%. I look forward to it all fucking year long. Give me that. Give me those details. Marie calendars, I get there. I loved Marie calendars lasagna and I love their salad bar

and I also just, they had fucking pie for a fat little boy. It was just like, it was, I was in the hog. Yeah. Yeah, I get it. Oh, Marie calendars for me was like, His descendants are at fucking corner bakery for the fucking their treat too. Oh, checks out.

Well, we're going to decide if corner bakery is good with our fork scores right after this break. Wow. We'll be right back with Bort Doe boys. Wow. And Marcus, if you want to. Yeah. Just want to, thanks.

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Or you can use promo code Doe boys at checkout. Do it. Welcome back to Doe boys. We're here discussing corner bakery with our guest, Marcus Ray. I got chocolate on my hands. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I gotta get back on this cookie.

So Marcus, here's how this will work. We're gonna do our show. We're so clapped each time. It was very nice. I know, it was great. It feels good. I know it's just one person clapping, but it feels so good.

It's 100% of the audience members in the room are clapping. That counts for something. So it's time for our final thoughts on corner bakery. This is how this is going to work. We're all gonna go around, give a closing argument, if you will, and end that by giving it a score from zero to five forks. Marcus, you are our guest.

We'll begin with you. Your thoughts, your thoughts for. Guard it off. Yeah. Okay. I'm gonna give it a solid four and a half. Can I do a half? Oh my God.

Absolutely, yeah. And it has, it's probably three on the food. I'm gonna say three on the food, but I'm gonna say that literally the environment is what gets me to that four and a half. Plus the company. It would have been nice to have you there, man. Yeah, I would have loved to have been there.

I would have come. I don't know. He said, he said you wouldn't. He said. He didn't want me to come. Is that the thing? That's what it feels like now. Why you're not gonna come?

Because he's trying to not have me. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You wouldn't have come. I would have come. You wouldn't have come. I went yesterday. I went way the fuck out of my way. I went to the Westwood location.

Because I was the closest one. I might as well have come across down. We went to the Burbank location. Which by the way. We're in the same fucking thing. It's kind of like up on a hill. It's kind of beautiful. Next to that old Ikea.

Oh, man. Remember? That ample parking. It was great. Just abandoned Ikea. Had to fucking park in a meter or walk like 10 minutes. No, no. This was just open.

You should have come, man. Well, we met Ryan Livingston. And Sean Livingston. I got chocolate on my fingers. So look at it. Four and a half forks. Yes, you are corrected. Also, this is my first time on here.

So I don't know. Is that too high? You guys all reacted that was way too high. I wasn't sure where you were going. I like that you came in hot. I think that's a good score. Yeah, yeah. I mean, you were having a great time yesterday.

You were saying? Yeah, I'm like my nostalgia for it, you know. Yeah. It got kicked out. You were taking bites and you're saying this is hitting. You kept saying that every time you had a bite. And I... I kept doing this too.

And the old people were freaking out. I got chocolate on my trousers. That's kind of like my ink stain. You'll be all right. I got chocolate on my trousers. I did. What year are you from? That's bizarre.

Now our time, contemporary times. I don't have nostalgia for corner bakery. And a whole time, are you still trying to find the chocolate? No, I see it. I just like, yeah. Well, grab it. Oh, it's a stain. It's a skin of stain.

Just freaking you out right now, huh? Want to take a break? Want to go to break? No, it's okay. We just went to break. Jesus Christ. Um... Ladies and gentlemen, we'll be right back.

Okay. All right. Are you kidding me? He really is. I love it. It's his world, man. It's his world. This is insane.

He's walking out during my review. Wow. Anyway. How many forks? Uh, hold on. I'm the leader of the podcast. I'm gonna tell the story. There's a story here.

Okay. I have no nostalgia for it. So unlike you, you were... You were in Randall Park, you said you would meet in there and you would play in your sketch shows. I don't have that side of it. To me, I was thinking about... We've talked about Panera and how a lot of the times

Panera is a place where you break bad news. This is what we've said about Panera is like, people go in there to tell... He's back. And it's worse. Oh my God. It's bigger. He got more chocolate.

The fuck? Got a load stain now. Jesus Christ. I accidentally sat down on the microphone. I don't know how you do... I don't know how you do like an unfun Mr. Bean. Yeah. You trip all over stuff, but like it's all like...

It's like if Harold Lloyd shorts were like little tragedies. He's like, oh my God. Just pathetic. Feel bad for Buster Keaton. Jesus Christ. You didn't even hesitate. You were like, yeah. Why is that?

I was saying that Panera... We've been to Panera and we said it's a place where people kind of give each other bad news is the joke. That's the environment inside of Panera. I don't think Corner Bakery has that environment. Not at all. No, 100%. It's a nice bright area.

This one was up on the hill. I liked being there. I really enjoyed being there. Great company. My question is the food. And I was asking myself like, is it good? And I don't think it is great. I don't think the food is great.

But honestly, I was like... Well, you know, I took a couple bites. I was like, this is like a 2.5 or 3. And then as we kept going, the chicken carbonara is pretty good. The, you know, the mac and cheese was decent. The sandwiches weren't great, like you were saying, Wags. Yeah. The salad was bad.

There were some things that just... That weren't great or even good. But then we ended it with that chocolate bunt cake and that monster cookie. And there's enough good stuff in there that I can't go full four forks. But I'm going to go with a very passable and enjoyable 3.5 forks. We're going to be ballpark buds here because I'm in the same general area as both of you. And I agree with the consensus that it just like vibes is like a huge part of this place.

Panera is like kind of like has like a purgatory feel. Like it's not fun to be inside a Panera. You're just kind of like, you know, you're kind of in stasis. You're kind of just passing time there. Corner bakery is a little bit more of a fun environment. I don't know what it is exactly, but it just it feels a little bit more... Like take your time. Yeah, yeah.

Here. A little more comfortable. I should fucking walk out during your view, by the way, like you did to me. Okay. You don't care? He's in corner bakery mode, man. It doesn't matter, baby. Get in that corner.

We'll introduce you. I'm surprised Rochelle hasn't worked out. The walked out, the only audience member we've ever had who hasn't walked out of a Doughboy show. She's asleep. So... We've never had a successful Doughboy show where an audience member had like... I think every show there has to have been someone who left, right? Yeah, sure. Yeah.

Usually like someone's like fiancé. Yeah. Who's just re-evaluating this sort of thing. Or like people got like projectile vomited on to which happened in their Boston show. All right, go on. Continue on. I won't walk out. It's...

I kind of want you to walk out. I'll be honest with you. I don't really want to walk. I think the baked goods are pretty solid. I think they get the job done. I think there are great menu items there. You know, hey, that Pesto Cavatappi has been a staple for us for more than a decade. In terms of just like, hey, this is just a solid menu item they do there.

You know the thing about that though? And the solids are pretty decent. Opposite of how I like my happy days. I even butchered zing. Yeah. I don't even get it out. All right, go on. How'd it feel?

Felt good. You know, I find the environment more inviting. I wish the app was better. I will say like, it was a little depressing because I know some locations have closed and while it was there waiting to pick my order up, like the guy in front of me was... It's the location near UCLA and the guy was a younger guy. He was obviously a student. He was like, I'm using this gift card because my parents gave it to me

because the location by them closed down. I was like, yeah, I think a lot of these are closing. Yeah. This chain might not be long for this world. I don't think it is. But while it's here, I think it's doing a solid job. And I think in terms of like, hey, this is a spot for... It's hours or only for lunch at the location I went to.

Like they close at 4 p.m. Like places for breakfast and lunch and sweet treats. I think in terms of thesis of the podcast, is it doing... accomplishing what it's trying to accomplish? Is this chain executing its purpose? And I think that's absolutely true here. I think it's delivering the promise of its premise. So I'm going to split the difference between the two of you and say four forks.

I think this place is right in the cusp of being in the Golden Plague. It was almost in the... That's wild. Yeah. Very close. Close call. I fucked it up. I'm the one who fucked it up.

No, no, no. You didn't fuck anything up. There's no stakes here. I think you're right. I think I'm right. I think he's right. We did it. We're ballpark buds and we're also in the...

What's the... What's the stairs... The ascending ladder thing? Yeah, I forget. Ladder freaks? No, not ladder freaks. It was like the step... Step brothers?

Step brothers. I think we're step brothers. Okay, we're step brothers. I like that. Okay, we're step brothers. Hey, that was our review of Corner Baker. It's time for a segment. We got a new segment.

This one is courtesy of our associate producer, this is Chute Truths and a Fry. This is the Two Truths and a Lie Game, where Mitch and Marcus must guess which is food fact and which is food fiction. So here's how this will work. I'll read the name of it. Do you think...

Yeah. When Amelia was younger, her dad was like, get over here and give your dad a hug. I think so. Nice. I also know that you said that joke on a previous episode. Wait, did I do it on the episode? Yeah.

All right, Emma, edit. Edit it out. He kept doing it. I can't look like a fool like this. At the Corner Bakery, he did it again. No one was so sad to me is that I looked over, and I think Rochelle and Emma were nodding that I've already done that.

Yeah, 100%. The audience, they won't remember, dude. The most obvious scorpion joke. Yeah, you're excited. Do you know that I did that joke in an improv? I did that in an improv show. Uh-huh. Probably a crush.

A similar, it did crush. When we were playing The Real World, when Crud played, early on when we were in the... This is way back in the day. So The Real World, this is the thing. I think our audience, some of our audience is so young, they don't know what The Real World is. That's insane.

So The Real World was a reality show where it was basically like they'd get a bunch of very attractive or 20-somethings, and they'd live in a house and they'd have to have a job. And for one season of The Real World, their job was, and I guess probably the only people who've ever been paid to do improv comedy. Their job was to be an improv team at the I.O. Theater, which is now closed in Hollywood.

And at the time, you had a show that was running at the I.O. Theater. Well, we were the running champs at the Andy Dick Black Box Theater. Yes, which was like an adjunct of the I.O.S. Which then got renamed the Del Close Black Box Theater, when things, when Andy got in some trouble. And then is now just closed. It's closed. Where they do stand-up comedy.

Two man shows, nothing more. And we were doing, like one night we came in, it was funny, Jack will hate me for this, but I came in and Jack was drunk and he was like, oh dude, I was like, what's wrong? He was like, we're fucking facing The Real World tonight. And I was like, who gives a shit? It doesn't matter that we're facing The Real World.

But they were filming it for MTV. They were like, this is going to be on the show. They filmed the entire thing. I got to tell you, because also they were all good-looking. They're all hunks and babes, and the audience is mostly improv nerds. So they're going to be, they're going to have bad. Me, Ferguson, I mean, Ferguson's our hunk. You know what I mean?

Like the nerd's the hunk, you know what I mean? Like you're in a bad spot, the nerd's the hunk. Me, Ferguson, Koalik. Maybe Koalik's the hunk. Me, Ferguson, Koalik, Hanford. Jack, Allison, Paul, Owen, I think was the team. You know what? I think you're the hunk, big guy.

Oh, hell yeah. Eat shit, the rest of crud. And we went on there and we went up against The Real World. Yeah. You guys win? And it was, this is like the fun thing about it is like, you know, they're all like good-looking and they also had like a piano in there for the, like they never,

you know what I mean? Like, and you were like, what is, what the fuck is this? But we like kicked the shit out of them. It was like, I hate competitive improv. It's bad. So stupid, yeah. It's very stupid, but like it was fun to like just fucking destroy and have, and then The Real World, like, you know, they were,

they were, I mean, they were brand new. They'd never done it before. But there's also an element of like, you know, it's like a bunch of super attractive people that their whole lives, people have been telling me like, you're so funny. Yeah. Like fake laughing at all their jokes to try to get in their good graces. And then they actually are in front of an audience and

completely eat shit. That's satisfying. Yeah. It feels good. Just hearing that story makes me laugh. Yeah. If I'm going to go do a show tonight. And then afterwards, Charna Helper went up to,

to Ferguson and Hanford and was like, we got to get you on house teams. I remember this and Jack Allison was like, fuck Charna Helper in the house I'm building. And then Ferguson and Hanford were like, we'll do it. And then they got an email that's like, you can sign up for classes for like $400. That's what it ended up being.

Anyways, that was a long road. Did they edit real world to make it look like they won? I don't remember that season. Let me, I should also be clear for the, for me being the hunk, they barely showed us in the episode. Yeah, right. They like show us for like two seconds. Yeah.

And they added it to make them look pretty good. Yeah. Yeah. Of course. Anyways, that's our real world story. Well, kids don't know the story of Puck and Pedro and David. I think it's possible. Yeah, I agree.

I went to a movie theater. And was talking about like the expendable. So, you know how long that would go hell with, but even back then, I said something about sliced alone and the people with me didn't know. They were younger. Yeah. But they didn't know who sliced alone was. Wild.

That's crazy. What a world. Hurt me. Yeah. Cut me deep. Yeah. That's crazy. Right.

You don't know who sliced alone is. And then I go, oh, Sylvester. And they go, that's fucked up. No, no. You're telling me that they might not know what happy days is? Oh, they definitely don't. Yeah, happy days. Yeah.

Yeah. So, bring that joke back. These kids these days, they don't even know what machine gun Kelly is. So, this is two truths and a fry. So, I'll read a chain. Two chews and a fry? Two truths and a fry. Two truths.

Two truths and a fry. All right, Amelia. So, this is two truths and a lie. And I will read the name of a chain and then I will read three facts and you try to isolate which one is the lie. Two of these will be true. One of these will be made up by Amelia. Like it.

All right. First up, the chain is Waffle House. Here are the three facts. I'll read all three of them and then buzz in with your answer. I guess just say your name or we can take turns who goes first. I don't know. We'll figure it out. That's easy.

Okay. All right. First fact, A, the Wikipedia page for Waffle House CEO Walter Irmer currently states that he eats three waffles for breakfast every morning. B, Waffle House releases music under its own record label. C, if you stack all the sausage patties they made in the day, it would be nearly double the height of the Burj Khalifa. Mitch.

Go ahead, Mitch. A. A is the lie. You are correct. Wow. Just feels like too much. Yeah. Felt like too much.

Yeah. He does have an in-home Waffle House store but does not eat three waffles for breakfast. But he does have music. There is. Those are true. Wait, what? They have a record label and all their sausage patties would double the height of the Burj Khalifa. I was going B.

Yeah. Hold on a second. He has an in-house Waffle House? He has an in-house Waffle House. Right? Those are truths. Yeah, no, I get that. I knew what the lie was.

I knew what that was a lie. But I'm saying he has an in- But you're saying he does have an in-house? He does, yes. But he doesn't have three waffles for breakfast. We're talking Richie Rich. It's Richie Rich style. Yeah.

I mean, he owns the chain. He has a Waffle House in his house? He'd fucking do it. He does? He does. That's insane. That's like, that is like Richie Rich. That's insane.

All right. Anyways, all right, go on. I mean, he's the guy. Did Tommy Lee have like a Starbucks? He had a... That sounds right. Yeah. Are there employees?

Yes. I feel like Tyrese has like a, like a Benny Haunen his backyard or something. What the fuck, really? Yeah. Yeah, man. So employees like have to go to like Tommy Lee's backyard every day? My favorite is you know about, you know about a... What?

Barbara Streisand's fake mall, right? No. So she had just to feel like a normal person. She has a... The entire basement level of one of her houses is a shopping mall that like has employees and where she can go and like fake shop at. And like... That's going to make you feel like a normal person?

Yeah. Because she's like, I can't just go to the mall anymore. I'll just be swarmed, but I can pretend to go to the mall. I'll go downstairs and there's like a Louis Vuitton store and there's a sunglasses hut and there's a Norse Julius and I can just kind of go from shop to shop and load it back. Babs, you're not going to be swarmed. They don't even know what happy days is anymore. You're fine.

That's fucking crazy. Isn't that wild? What a fucking psycho. It'd be better too if like all the employees were like, oh, it's too expensive for you. Treat her like shit. Yeah, dude. Like get the fuck out of here, lady. We're calling the cops.

You have to burp to something, yeah. All right, Mitch has won and Marcus has zero next call. Yeah, yeah. Next one, but you can go. We got a bunch of questions. So you got opportunities. Here we go. Next up is McDonald's.

A, it was rumored that founder Ray Kroc gave 20% of his charitable donations to Satan's Church in Los Angeles. B, a new McDonald's opens every 14.5 minutes. C, McDonald's has an exclusive gold card that offers unlimited free food. Rob Lowe, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett all have one. I'm going to go Marcus. Yes. A. No, you're incorrect.

That is true. I'm going to go Mitch. I'm going to go. Can I take a guess? Yes. C. Nope, you're both wrong. Wow. Man, you got a 50% chance and you still blew it.

You're both wrong. The answer is the lie is the new McDonald's opens every 14.5 minutes. Eight minutes. Oh, yeah. That doesn't make sense. Yeah, it's every it's every about every 14 hours. All right, Mitch has won. Marcus has zero.

Next up, Denny's. A, you can get married. Hold on a second. I just want to go back to the last one. True or false? There's a rumor. It's hard to say. A rumor is true, right?

Well, take it up with Amelia. All right. I'm sorry, Amelia. We'll talk about this afterwards. I'll email Scorpion. You'll email him. Get over here. Fuck, I can't believe I made that.

Denny's. A, you can get married to the Vegas Denny's. B, Denny's created a web series starring Chris Pratt and Sarah Silverman. Both pastobois guests. C, FEMA uses Denny's to measure natural disasters. Marcus B. No, that's true. Mitch C.

Mitch, you are correct. You have another one at the end of the point. You have two now. Yeah, it's the Waffle House Index, not the Denny's Index. Waffle House measures natural disasters because the Waffle House never closes. And it's in a storm region. All right. Next up, IHOP.

A, because the first item on IHOP's menu was hash browns. Their name originally was International House of Potatoes. B, IHOP owns Applebee's. C, IHOP filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Los Angeles against International House of Prayer for trademark infringement. Mitch. A. Mitch, you're fucking crushing it.

You have another one. Emilio made at the Potatoes one. When a tackle gets a sack, you know, when he's like, feed me more. I think it's a running bag. When the running bag eats it. Oh, is that what it is? It's a CQL Elliot. He eats up yards.

Yeah, yeah. I thought it was like reeling them in. Like I reeled in a big fish. Oh, my God. A big fish. On the football field? Yeah. No, okay.

He doesn't watch that. Don't watch that at all. Yeah, yeah. All right. Next up, Carl's Jr. Hardee's. A, founder Carl Karcher and his family were accused of insider trading by the SEC. B, Carl Karcher and his wife, Margaret, have 86 grandchildren. C, in 2006, Carl's Jr. sold a $6,000 combo meal.

Yeah, because like feed me the ball. Yeah, yeah, it's like it comes that fish. Here we go. Touchdown. Marcus A. Yeah. Give me that. And I'm back in it in your face.

No, they were accused. They were accused of insider trading by the SEC. That was true. Well, because I didn't really listen, I was just thinking about the feeding. Yeah. Mitch C. Nope. They did do a $6,000 combo meal as a stunt.

The lie is 86 grandchildren. He was not that much of a fuck machine. Oh, I didn't hear. I didn't just didn't hear. Yeah, B. Yeah. No, that one, that one's not true. All right. Next up, Olive Garden.

A, post Malone owns the rights to the slogan when you're here, your family. B, Olive Garden revoked Sean Hannity's lifetime pasta pass. C, Olive Garden advertises that they send their managers and chefs to an institute in Tuscany, but news outlets have reported that there is no institute or school. Mitch A. No. Ooh, not a. Marcus B.

You are correct. You're on the board. Hannity got in trouble and his lifetime pasta pass was allegedly revoked. Although Hannity, who is a big Olive Garden fan, addressed it on. Wait, B was the truth? No. B was the lie. Didn't you just?

I forgot how the game works. Wait, I won. You won. You were right. I fucking won. Okay. B was the lie because here's what happened. It's complicated.

Can we just play? Emma, can we just throw the audio in here? We'll just throw the audio in here. That'll clarify. Okay, great. So there the this is a thing. There was a rumor that he got his lifetime pasta pass was revoked and then he addressed it on on his TV show to say that it was false.

So Marcus is right. Boom. I won. Now, now today the leader of the free world is permanently suspended and I read on that same site that believes in truth that I lost my lifetime pasta membership to Olive Garden, which is not true. We've confirmed with Olive Garden. Want me to take that, Sean?

Yes, sir, Joe. I could take that. That's fine. Sure. Well, first, the thing with Olive Garden is that they put out like 27 garlic breadsticks and I eat all of them. I mean, and by the time you get sorry that it was confusing because it was like a real thing. For a second, I thought the highlighted one was the real one, but then I remembered that

it's the opposite. Okay. Next up, Subway. It's going great. A, in 1999, at least 32 customers in Seattle connected contracted hepatitis B after eating fast food contaminated with a virus at two Subway outlets. B, you get free Subway when it rains in Los Angeles. C, Subway's classic BMT sandwich, which now stands for Biggest, Meadiest, Tastiest,

was originally named after the Brooklyn, Manhattan transit system. Mitch B. Not true. Apparently you can get free Subway when it rains. That's insane. That's not true. I'm just going by where the copy is. Take it up with Amelia.

Take it up with Scorpion. Marcus A. Yep, you're right. This is bullshit. That did not happen. Wow. It has become a nail biter. Yeah.

We have one more question. This is such trash. Eat it up, baby. You've never fished besides fucking Zelda in your entire life. Fished in fucking Boy Scouts. Oh, shit. I did fish in Zelda though. Fished a lot in Zelda.

I think the best fishing minigame is in Stardew Valley though. All right. Next up, Papa John's. There's Yakuza as a fishing minigame. It's kind of obtuse. There's actually a fishing minigame in Persona that I barely messed around with. Oh, no.

And I honestly couldn't even figure. I don't know if you just get high value items from it or something, but it was just kind of like your time is limited. So the way Persona 5 works is that you have like chunks of your day that are like limited for an activity. So if you choose to go fishing, you're just locked into fishing. And you could have used that to build a social link. You could have used that to go like explore a dungeon and do a side quest.

The cameras went into sleep mode. And so it was hard for me to opt to go fishing because I had some incidents where I'd went fishing and I just like didn't catch anything good. So I was like, this was just a waste of this chunk of time I could have been using to improve my social link with Futaba. Dear God, turn me into a bird so I can fly away far, far from here. Papa John's is the final chain.

A. Pizza Hut sued Papa John's over their slogan, better ingredients, better pizza. B. Founder John Schnatter was on Jeffrey Epstein's Flight Log in 2015. C. John Schnatter founded Papa John's in a broom closet. Marcus A. I'm sorry. That is true. They did get sued by Pizza Hut. That's right. They did. Mitch. Oh, fuck. It's either B or C.

You're going to win anyway. So you got it. B. You're correct. I don't believe Papa John is on those flight logs. He was not on the flight logs. Yeah. Redeemed.

He's back. I know those flight logs like the back of my hand, dude. I know top to bottom. He's not on the flight logs. That was two. I never saw him. I never saw him on the Lolita. Graning was there.

Clinton was there. Papa John was never there. Hey, Mitch. How are you doing, buddy? Choo truths. That was two truths and a fly. Hey, just like a restaurant. And a fry. Back.

Yeah, it's a fry. No, now it's a fly. You said fly. He did say fly. Choo truths. Emma, can you just fix this and that it? Just make it so he says. The whole episode?

Yeah, you just. Yeah. Okay, thanks. Delete the whole app, right? All right, thanks. Just like a restaurant value feedback, let's open up the feedback. Today we have an email from Corey.

They write, chucking nuts earlier, if you could create your own mixed nut combo, planters should make this an option online if they haven't already. What would it be? Mine would be 45% shell pistachio, 25% cashew, 25% spicy Cajun peanut,

5% almond. Very precise. Thanks to the last note, we have a great 2023. Wow. Thanks, Corey. Mixed nuts. Mitch, are you nuts for nuts? Yeah, I like nuts.

I like what I like. I like the salt and vinegar almonds from a. Sure. What are they called? Blue diamond? Is that what they are? Ooh. Sounds right.

Yeah, yeah. The company. Yeah. Yeah. Almonds, you told me are almonds, or is it almond milk takes up a lot of water, right? Almond milk, yeah. Well, almonds are very water-intensive to grow

and then you need so many almonds to make like a gallon of almond milk. So it's like extremely, it's like 500 gallons of water to make like one gallon of almond milk. It would be funny to dub over you with like an announcer guy for an episode. You know what I'm saying?

What do you mean? Like we, like our friend Excalibur just like instead like set all your lines and performed your, you know what I'm saying? Like you were saying just replace my lines and I'm saying like we got like a radio announcer guy to like say everything. Like a guy with like a radio guy.

This is radio guy being Wyger. To do all your lines through the episode. I think it would be fun. If you could create your own mixed nut combo, players should make this option on App for that already. You could do that. What would it be? You gotta be an app.

I think that we could just have someone come in and replace everything. It would be good. Yeah, all right. We'll do it. I don't know what I would do for mixed nuts. Look, I like peanuts. I like almonds.

I have to start. But like, are we including like pretzels and stuff or is it just like strictly nuts? Is peanut a nut? It's a legume, right? Right, yeah. Well, fuck, now I'm out of idea. It's still okay though.

But I think that, I think like if you could consider it within, yeah. You know what I mean? This is where my head went immediately. It was like, oh, it'll be fun to like mix up some of the flavors to do a little flavor twist with like blue almond. Like you got the salt and vinegar

and then also the sriracha, you know what I'm saying? Like yang yang yang. You get salty and spicy and vinegary. I don't know. That's where my mind went. Well, that's what Corey did. Corey's mix included 25% spicy Cajun peanut and the rest of the nuts were just, you know,

normal roasted or salted nuts. That's fine. Yes, legume too, it turns out. So. Yeah, I'm in the nut game right now. Yeah. I'm not a fan of it, but I'm doing it. I'm doing it.

I got some walnuts and some peanut almond and, say, macadamia. Oh yeah, those are fine. You said when you lost your most weightwags, it was you were on an almond kick, right? I was having a lot of almonds. Yeah, because that's like a very, it's a filling snack. It's like low carb and then I think if you get them raw,

it's very good for you. See, I was having a lot of almonds as a snack replacing like chips and crackers and shit. It gets boring, but I was doing it. Yeah, super quick too. Super quick on the bore factor. But I do, but you know, I like almonds in a mix. I think almonds are good.

I'm looking at a list of nuts here. Pistachios are good, some shelled pistachios. I mean, part of the fun of pistachios is shelling them. Taking the shell off, but if you got them. I also think some of them are overpowering. It's tough to mix some of them. But you could do like 10% pistachio. And that would not be overwhelming.

Brazil nuts, I think are fun. I think I like peanuts the most. For sure, that's me. So your mix is 100% peanuts? Yeah, I think I just got back peanuts. He throws in two almonds. And tries to find them. I think it also flavored nuts.

That's, I mean, that's how I would do it. Just different flavored nuts, which I'd maybe haven't explored enough. Like maybe I've got to have those, right? Oh, yeah. The blue diamond has like, I love the sriracha ones, and I like the salt and vinegar ones. So like that's immediately, I'm like,

oh, I guess I'd mix those two. But like, is there like a ranch flavored one? Why is that a blue diamond? And then you can do that. Yeah, you can do that. Jalapeno. Put that in with the, yeah. Jalapeno in there.

Then put that in with the sriracha. I have a little mix there. Like that? I think that's my answer. You know what I got? I got from Sprouts Grocery Chain. I got some, they were, it was like the chili powder that they put on chili cheese Fritos,

but it was peanuts. It was like chili cheese peanuts, and they were fucking delicious. It was, it was a really good snack. So I would say that maybe I'll take that chili cheese powder, or also I could see it in everything's powder, like in everything's spice working on nuts. Yeah, yeah.

But I might do something like that. And I think I would do, you know, I'll throw some, some marcona almonds in there, like those, those flatter almonds, because I never see those in mixed nuts. I think they're too expensive, but I'm making my fantasy nut mix. I thought I'll throw those in there.

I'll throw in some macadamia nuts. Again, you never see them in mixed nuts because they're too expensive. I'll throw in some, some pecans, because I love myself a pecan and some walnuts. And then I think probably, the thing is you want, you want peanuts, but if you're doing a mixed nut,

they oftentimes are like, it's like 80% peanut, and that's not what I want in mixed nuts. So I think I would probably do like 40% peanuts, or maybe I do 20% peanuts and just do a five-way split and just kind of do like, you know, equal ratios of everything like that. This is a perfect question for you.

This is right up your alley. Well, he wrote it. He, it was his question. He submitted the question. I submitted it. Yeah, it's from me. It's from, from Nick W. No, it's from Corey.

Corey wrote it in. I don't know Corey. Like I'm loaded question for you. Yeah. Why didn't tee it up for me? I didn't pick the question. All right. Well, you have a good answer.

That's all we're saying. All right. I don't think it was that good of an answer. Just an answer. No, it was really good. It was really good. Yeah, it was really good. All right.

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Check that out. Hold on a second. I uploaded a snack or whack. Emma's shaking her head. What's wrong? I uploaded a snack or whack video and you were like, what is this? I thought it would be funny to put it up still.

It is funny. Anyway, check out the snack pack. Yeah, check out snack pack. Marcus Ray, thank you so much for being here. I like you. I like you a lot. I'm so excited to have you on the podcast. I don't like them.

Yeah, just tell me. No, I like you. No, no, up front. Well, off air. Okay, all right. I don't like you because you're unreliable and you show up late. You piece of shit, not me.

Oh, sorry. Oh, shit. Marcus, you have a new podcast. Is it a narrative podcast? Yeah, it's a little Scooby Doo meets Naked Gun. Oh, awesome. It's fun. That's great.

Yeah, got to hop on it, man. Didn't you do it? I haven't done it yet. Oh, man, we got to do it. Check out Brewster High. You can find that wherever you listen to podcasts as of this episode's release. Anything else you'd like to plug?

No, man. Spaghetti. Check out Spaghetti. Check out Curb. This guy's great on Curb. Yeah. Yeah, I got to plug that. Brews Brothers.

We need the help. Our show. Our old show Brews Brothers. Our old show Brews Brothers. Man, we needed a season two. We're working on it. We're trying to get a season two out of it. It can happen.

Never know. You never know. Anyway, that's the end of the episode. So, Marcus, thanks so much for being here. If you want to just go ahead and... Yeah, you won't mind. Yeah, we might. Yeah.

Just go ahead and... Just stay in there until we wrap things up. Okay, great. Thanks. Thanks. Thank you. All right. See ya.

Bye. Until next time, with this move of mine, we'll be back with another Nick Weigher happy eating. See ya. Next week on Doe Boys Double, the monthly Biggie Feedbag is back. Emma, Usong, and Scorpions' daughter Amelia join as we answer very few of your questions.

Plus, Mitch and I are cranky. Get the Doe Boys Double every Tuesday only at Patreon.com slash Doe Boys. Sources for the intro are in the episode description. That was a hate gun podcast.