Doughboys - Love Week: Sonic Drive-In 2 with Alana Johnston & Norm Sousa Love Week

Episode Date: February 16, 2023

Lovebirds Alana "The Knife" Johnston and Norm "Mr. Taste" Sousa join the 'boys to talk Valentine's Day and Canadian chains before continuing Love Week with a review of Sonic. Plus, a brand new segment, The Chewlywed Game. Sources for this week's intro: https://www.gamedesigning.org/experts/yuji-naka/ https://web.archive.org/web/20160627030839/http://www.sega-16.com/2005/06/sega-stars-yuji-naka/ https://sonic.fandom.com/wiki/Sonic_the_Hedgehog_2 https://www.metacritic.com/game/gamecube/billy-hatcher-and-the-giant-egg https://www.boxofficemojo.com/title/tt12412888/Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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Coming up today, that link that you want to click on is down there in the episode description. Right down there. Check it out. There it is. Move your cursor. Go ahead and click, or if you're on your phone, use your finger and click that link. Click that link in the episode description. Yuji Naka has been arrested for alleged insider trading.

This partial headline was published in November of 2022, another chapter in the ongoing ignoble fall of the co-creator of one of video gaming's most iconic characters. After joining SEGA as a programmer at the age of 19, Naka-san saw a rapid rise to gaming's highest tier of talent, having a significant role on major franchises like Space Harrier and Phantasy Star in his early 20s. And then, in 1991, at just 26 years old, he and collaborator Naoto Oshima unleashed the game that would make his career, a speed-focused side-scroller starring a blue hedgehog with track shoes and a toad.

His love of chili dogs would become canon in later entries. The game's blockbuster success immediately made Naka-san a sought-after superstar, lured away from, and then back to SEGA, where his team named for the character would create critical favorites like Nights Into Dreams and early MMO-progenitor Phantasy Star Online. But SEGA's mismanagement of its console hardware and sloppy handling of its key franchises led the company to recede from feisty Nintendo competitor to third-party also-ran, and Naka-san's career similarly lost its luster. In 2003, following the commercial collapse of SEGA's Dreamcast console, he released his

game Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg for the Nintendo GameCube to mixed reviews, arguably his last gasp at relevance. Most recently, Naka-san bears the shame of directing 2021's unplayable bomb Ballin Wonderworld and his indictment for multiple mobile game-related stock hustling schemes. Nevertheless, his contributions to gaming history remain immense, and the peak of his speedy rodent mascot's relevance was arguably its first sequel, a 2D-platforming masterpiece released in 1992 for SEGA's Mega Drive console, known as the Genesis in North America. Similarly, the second live-action feature film based on the property was a major box-office

hit in 2022. So will our Sonic sequel follow the trend? This week on Doughboys, we celebrate Love Week with a return to Sonic Drive-In. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, the sweetest, funniest man anyone could ask for, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. Nick, it must be a special week because my heart's a flutter, and I don't think it's anything bad.

Mitch, that's a toast soon, man. A toast Spoon Man in lieu of a roast Spoon Man, and that one comes from Nick W. of Los Angeles, a.k.a. yours truly. Nick! Nick! It's Love Week! I love you, Nick. I love you, Mitch.

We love each other. We love each other. The Doughboys love each other. The Doughboys love each other. A lot of times, you'll read comments and be like, man, Mitch got angry because Wags walked out during his review, and he got all mad. We love each other. We love each other.

We're friends. We're friends. We're friends. Friends bust on each other sometime. That's what happens. We love each other. We love each other. Wags, I loved that.

Thank you. Oh, God bless you. I love you too. You know why it makes sense? Because it's Love Week. It's Love Week. And you know what? Let me just say, to all the Redditors who comment on our episodes, you drive us crazy, but we

love you. We love you too. We love you. We love you. We love you. All of you. You weird little incels. You fucking sentient garbage cans.

Ha, ha, ha, ha. If you're a wizard's incantation, you can type stupid shit with, we love you. Fucking you open your mouth. There's a fish bone there that fucking flies out. You're fucking human garbage, but we love you. We love you. Speaking of garbage, you're something I don't love. Oh, boy.

Well, you're something I love, Mario Kart, something I don't love, 42 sized wastes and over can't go on the ride. It seems a little sizest and also just like not really understanding America for that to be a thing. But apparently, yes, the new Mario Kart ride in Universal has a weight limit that's pretty low. Maybe understands America more than we do because the responses to it were like, lose some weight then if there's an issue.

I looked at tweets and every response, 42, by the way, I am a 42, so I guess it would be a toss up whether I would fit. The answer is I wouldn't fit. Yeah, I've never. They just put they just throw a Wario costume on you and give you a job. You're playing my feet to the ground and I just wave to people. I I've never I never had problems on roller coasters. And I've been with people who have had problems on real closures.

And then Jack and I went to Harry Potterland. So this is notorious for Universal. I try to go on the Harry Potter ride. And this is also the one that came over your head and it wouldn't close this way. Right. Which I'm like, I'm not even embarrassed about here. I guess my titties a little bit. But I got my titties.

Yeah, but like the bar came over and and so it wouldn't fit. And I had to take a walk and I was walking with like six dudes. Like like it was like me and a bunch of other people walking away from the ride. And I was like, oh, this is this is crazy. Look, that's embarrassing. And that's also, by the way, when I was like 40 pounds lighter, probably. Sadly, but there's like a there's a layer of of shame that shouldn't be there. And honestly, the other people like probably in your party aren't even feeling that.

But you go, you're going to be self conscious about it. Of course, it kind of sucks that the parks are supposed to the places to like it. It's scape as things. It's for fun. It should be family friendly. I don't know. I fit fine on the Incredicoster. There's no issue when I get on the Incredicoster. I mean, it was it was weird.

But this new one is like that seems even worse than the Harry Potter thing. Size 42, there's people who are just big. Yeah, fucking trash. Yeah, you're a lot of the a lot of the Nintendo characters couldn't ride on the ride. It's true. Kirby, get the fuck out of here. That's bullshit. It sucks. Kirby's doing the walk of shame down the tunnel.

That sucks. That sucks. We should we got to review that place. Maybe with Armin. Armin, who almost died. I'll reveal it. You should you're saying that in the podcast. I'm saying it. Why not? Is it OK to say that?

Is he OK with that? Check with me later. Jesus Christ. He said I could say it. We love our we love. We're very happy that, you know, we were very worried and stressed out about it. Yeah, it's going to be OK. He's doing all right.

But it was close. You probably hearing it for the first time soon. Sorry. But a great thing to dump in our guest lab. But I was thinking of Nintendo. I thought about Armin. Yeah, we love him. He's going to be OK. It's good.

What happened? His stomach burst. But he's going to be but he's going to be OK. I had a chest burst or alien. It was very scary for a week and we love him and he's going to be OK. And I'm putting the love for my friend, Armin, out into the world. It's love week. We love you, Armin.

We love you, Armin. We love you and I'm happy that he's going to be good. And we also love our guests. But before we do that, we got to get to a drop. Oh, shit. Logs, I love you for that because I forgot it. Emma, hit him with a drop. Do we have one?

I touched on baking earlier. Yeah, I wanted to hear about your baking background. Yes. My baking background is... I can work with a dough, I can work with a dough. If I nail the dough, if I, if I nail the dough. I can put a dough in oven very skilled baker. I can put a dough in oven very skilled baker. I can work with a dough, I can work with a dough.

If I nail the dough, if I, if I nail the dough. I can put a dough in oven very skilled baker. I can put a dough in oven very skilled baker. I can dough. I touched on baking earlier. Yes. And I wanted to hear about... Wow. Is that how it ends?

Might've just looped. Oh. Was that how it ends or did that just loop accidentally? That is how it ends, okay. It looped, it looped, no it looped accidentally. Oh, looped back through, okay. That's okay, a rare Emma goof, but we love you, Emma. We love you, Emma. Even though you're constant fuck ups.

My bad. God, once every other year, Jesus Christ. What's up, spoon man and the whole dough boys fam? I made this drop after hearing Mitch say I can work with the dough in the Zach Cherry episode. Shout out to Zach. Wow. Thanks for all the laughs.

Oh, sit. Oh my God, I'm going to get roasted because I don't, the Star Wars character, Safideas? Oh yes, we had a thing about this because... Sypho, oh. I feel better now because the way he spelled it is, it's put together and spelled differently. Sypho deus.

Yes. And this was when the finalists from the drop off, which were playing all month long. Oh. Yeah, I think so. It must be. Is it Emma? Yes, Emma.

Emma's getting us a nod. PS, have you seen Tales of the Jedi yet? So, Sypho deus, where you combine the name and spell it differently, like the Star Wars character Jedi master Sypho deus. PS, have you seen Tales of the Jedi yet? So, this is the thing I keep running into, and I'm on the other side of it with Andor. I'm trying to get people to watch Andor.

It's like, you got to watch Andor. I know you burned down a Star Wars ship, but Andor's fucking great. I'm going to watch, I am going to watch Andor. But then people have been doing the same thing to me about it, like, you know, watch Tales of the Jedi. I mean, I know like, like, you, like, there's a lot of Star Wars stuff,

and some of it's not that good, but Tales of the Jedi is great. And I'm now, I'm at the point where it's like, fuck, get off my back. I'll fucking watch it. Fine. Why are you so angry? Well, that's, I mean,

that's kind of how you feel about Andor. I don't know. I do, I do. I'd want to watch Andor. I'm going to, I'm going to watch Andor. I'm going to watch Tales of the Jedi. Just get off my fucking back. Get to it.

Yeah, we're going to get, we're going to fucking get to it. We're going to get to it. Fucking relax. Relax, chill. It's lovely. We're going to watch every Star War. We're going to watch every single Star War.

We'll watch all the Star War. We're going to watch every single Star War. We'll watch all the Star War. We'll watch Evil Two, who, we shouldn't be here to sit because. Tea. Speaking of things bursting. She is probably ready to explode right now.

Talk. Yes. I've never heard her be this silent for this long. Also, by the best dressed guest we've had in studio so far since we've come to the video here Before I do get to a guess there's a king cake mystery. So, Matt Sewell. Matt Sewell, Kylie Swanson sent me king cakes.

That's right. We tested them on next week's episode. On next week's episode. But there's a third one that someone sent me and I don't know where it came from. A mystery third king cake. There's a mystery third king cake. So, they also know my address.

I don't know. Someone sent me a king cake. Maybe the work of a mischievous gator. You know who could solve this Bayou mystery? The finest gentleman detective in all the world, the one and only Benoit Blanc. That is funny. It is funny that it was like it was actually a note to pick up

the king cake. Oh, wow. And I'd rather note and it was like, come on down to the swamp. Oh, boy. That's weird. That seems like something the gator would do. What he would say, yeah. But I think we do have to employ Benoit Blanc.

It's just dumb. This is a coker of a who done it. All right. Let's introduce our guests. It's Love Week here for Valentine's Day. Here she goes. And we wanted to bring in guests we love and guests that our listeners love and also fortunately for us and on brand for us who

are in love. Well. Elana Johnston and Norm Seusser here. Hi, Elana. Hi, Norm. Hey, how are you? Couple of things right out of the gate. Nick, you said you got to bust your friends more like you two

busting a nut on me in this outfit. This is crutch. I'm sorry to hear about your universal experience. Can't relate too dangerously slim. Sorry about that. And in terms of the cake mystery, let's move on. You know what I mean? We got a whole restaurant to review here.

I think we can start reviewing movies. Tits-wise, you're stacked to the max. Hey, now I'm back in love. Yeah, we weren't in love until just now. It's funny that you skipped over Armin completely. Oh yeah, I hope he's okay. Whatever with the burst. Oh no, much minor injury.

Stomach exploded. Why? Did you take him to Sonic 2? Oh my God. He's doing good. He's doing great. We love him. Want to send love out there for love.

Of course. Great news. And also it might all be cut out. So we'll never know. Yeah, we'll see. I want to start here first off because this is coming just on the cusp of Valentine's Day or just on the other side of Valentine's Day. Are the two of you, as a couple, do you do like any sort of Valentine's Day

meals, any Valentine's Day traditions? We say hello in the morning. Yeah, it's nice. A good nod. Good celebratory holiday nod. And then it just kind of... Ends. Ends.

No, we don't do anything for Valentine's Day. We don't do anything for any holiday. You know, the last time I celebrated Valentine's Day was I would say maybe 13 or 14 years ago and he gave me a gift and it was... Who was this? You know, he gave me a gift and it was weight management oatmeal. What? Jesus Christ.

I swear it, Norm. I swear. The gift that keeps on giving. That's national amputation. I swear I'm not even joking. That was the last time I celebrated Valentine's Day. And let's just say the oatmeal worked. I'm banging up in here in my little Valentine's Day outfit.

I might be able to get on Harry Potter if I get my hands on some of this shit. I will sometimes get you champagne and chocolate. Which I appreciate, but you know, I celebrate that a lot. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah. I drink the champagne and eat the chocolate. I can't...

To go back to the Harry Potter thing, I can't tell you like I also don't like Harry Potter and like kids younger than me loved Harry Potter. Yeah. And I was like, fuck this. Now this fucking ride is making me feel like a fucking fan. Yeah. It never happened. I never had any issue ever.

Certainly. Did I maybe get fat? It's not a weight limit. It's a waist limit. Yeah. It was actually just over like I was too thick here. Well, you and I both have fat tits. We know that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Is there anything to relate to? It's this. We don't tolerate fatties here in Harry Potter land. And there are separate bathrooms for the genders. Ooh. Yep. It's topical.

Yeah. Yeah. No, I love your room. You can't. You can't. Oh yeah. I'm more curious about the Mario Party. We believe in magic.

We don't believe in basic human rights. Oh my God. Weird. All right. Fucking asshole. But like Bowser's huge. Yeah. Bowser is big.

Bowser is huge. And also on the ride, I think he rides in a cart. Yes. So that's fucking cool. I mean, you're in this fucking thing. No, you don't have to because I don't want to go and then get kicked off the fucking ride. So I said, we got to review. I was like, we have to review the food.

And you said, let's go when it dies down, which means we'll review it in like three years. We're not going to review it. Let me say this. Our friend of the pod, past guest, frequent guest, Jordan Morris, our good buddy, went to a preview because right now they're kind of having open previews. And he said it was a two hour wait for the cafe. What? Yeah.

It's so fucking impacted right now that even with like the limited entry, there's just way too many people there. So I do think, I think just like practically we have to wait for it to die down a little bit before we can get an actor review. I just think for me in terms of reviews, is Jordan that good of a guest? You keep having him back on? Yeah. Just kidding.

I had him on my podcast. Do I love Jordan? Dear God. I love Jordan. The knife. We love Jordan. That's right. We should recap your nicknames.

The knife, everyone knows. And Norm, we had you on Doughboy's double. Mr. Taste was established. That's correct. Yeah. Atlanta being the knife. Obviously spoon man. Naked.

Present. Right. Nick also is here. Burger boy. He's the burger boy. And I'm going to go by Mr. Taste. Mr. Taste is great. It also makes you seem sophisticated.

Thank you. Yes. Everything you stand for. Thank you. Yeah. Also, speaking of taste, you are the best dressed Doughboy's guest. Maybe there ever will be. Oh my God.

Yes. This is my fun outfit for Valentine's Day. I think it's really romantic. I think it's a little bit sexy. It's got a kind of a nighttime vibe, even though it's the afternoon. If you, for our listeners who aren't watching the video feed, can you describe your outfit? Yeah. So it's a head to toe jumper, all of lace, entirely see-through.

I'm wearing a red unitard underneath. It's quite low cut, but I've got a beautiful clavicle that I'm showing off right now, so no one's complaining. And again, my fat tits pretty much hanging out. And I've got, of course, quite little boobies on there. You didn't have a point to me when you said my fat tits. Yeah, yeah. Because we were laid.

I can't get on that Harry Potter ride either. Too rude for the kids. What was all this cleavage busting out? Yeah, when Atlanta walked out before we left, she said, hey, my fat tits are down here. And I had to look from her eyes down to her chest. One of those Harry Potter kids saw you know what they'd say. Puberty beginners.

I like how Mitch waves the wand. He sees my face. Pubus eruptus in the bush comes out. Just huge pants explode on the front. Busting out, like I said. Oh my God. You mentioned, we were talking about Valentine's Day meal. It sounds like you don't really have a Valentine's Day tradition.

I like that. But I like that too. Because you and me and Allie don't have a Valentine's Day. We don't really do anything for it. Not that we don't celebrate things, but I'm curious, while we're talking holidays, I think that's come up on this podcast just regarding Christmas and whether or not people consider it to be a cookie holiday.

Now, I know you're both from Canada. Maybe you have a different perspective. I know the holidays are maybe a little different up there, but is Christmas in each of your estimations a cookie holiday? It's Christmas cookies. And basically what happens is a lot of people, my mom would do this with her teacher friends, each person makes a dozen of a certain kind of cookie

and then you swap them one each so everybody comes out with like a bunch of different kinds of cookies. So 100% it is a cookie holiday. Yeah, gingerbread is a Christmas thing. And I was talking about gingerbread, like is gingerbread, I mean, there's gingerbread cookies. There's gingerbread itself cookie. I don't know.

No, wait. It might be. Yeah, I don't know. I don't know. I'm just saying, I don't know. I'm just tossing it out into the world. I've never seen a loaf of gingerbread. So also, that's fair.

That's a great point. You know what I'm saying? I've never sliced gingerbread. That's what I'm saying. I've only ever had it in a hard crunch cookie way. So for you guys, it's Christmas is a cookie holiday, but things are a little different in Canada like why I said. Yeah, it's true.

But here's the thing. Norm and I have created our own tradition for Christmas. We now do rack of ribs. Really on Christmas. We do rack of ribs on Christmas. This is pretty great. Yeah, it's awesome. How do you prepare it?

Well, Norm does a lot of experimental preparation, because we get it from Costco, so we get three packs of ribs. So there was a couple of Christmases. One was my paperwork hadn't fully gone through, and I couldn't go back. Like basically like... This is the rib application form?

That's right. Yeah. They were like, you're going to have to wait another 90 days to get these ribs. But so anyway, we stayed for the holidays, and so we got all these ribs from Costco, and we made three different ways, right?

We did a slow cooker. We ate the ribs for seven days straight. Oven, and I forget what the third way was, but... A wine one in the crackpot. Oh, no, no, you already said that. I did crackpot, but now we have a barbecue. So I've been doing like,

basically it goes in the oven for two hours, then I spray orange apple juice on it and rub it down obviously with a mustard binder, and then it goes from the oven, two hours on low, onto the barbecue medium-high heat for five minutes on the east side, and it's basically done.

And we're fucking the whole time in between. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm so sorry. Yeah, it's boning in the bedroom. I like a good rack of ribs. Yeah. I don't like my rack when it won't get me on the damn Harry Potter line,

but a good rack of ribs. If you like a good rack of ribs, you must be looking at my waistline. Okay, okay. I haven't had... I'll stop. No, this is great. First off, we know you won't stop,

so don't make that promise, so that you won't be able to live with it. I do think that Norm, you're the knife. You cut everything. Yeah. You're sharp, you're quick. I think Norm,

I think Norm is the only one who has the power. It's like rock, paper, scissors. Norm has a bit of rock power. Oh my God, we always rock, paper, scissors, and I always lose. Yeah, you always insist that rock goes through paper. Because if you held up a piece of paper like this

and threw a rock through it, it would burst through much like Armin's stomach. Oh no. Jesus Christ. Oh no. Oh no. Don't even know if it's... Okay.

He's good. He's good now. He's good now. He's good now. Did she know that? No, kinda. Yeah. And what was the other one?

You said rock doesn't even... Like, literally nothing beats anything in rock, paper, scissors to you, right? Scissors. Well, the thing is, you know, you can use these things for so many different purposes. So it's like, how can one beat another? So you kind of change the rules.

Constantly. But I'm saying Norm kind of... Norm has the ability to dull the blade. He's kind of... Yeah, he's kind of a neutralizing, feels like energy. Dull the blade, or is he already bleeding out? Are you guys out of your minds right now? That means I'm holding you back, maybe?

Yeah, you are holding me back. You're right. Mr. Taste. This is gonna end in our divorce. Yeah, Taste has played, my God. Could you imagine? Probably won't be the last Doughboys episode where someone gets a divorce on the air,

but don't... We love you individually and as a duo. Oh, so what about me, do you love? Like, three things, at least. The dress. Well, this is a jumpsuit, but thank you. Probably past dressed as I've worn. The jumpsuit that racka ribs.

That means you're tits, dear. Terrible. And? And you're one of the funniest. Come on. There you go. I just needed to... You were great and crud too.

Emma, make that a drop or whatever. She doesn't... You got it, you got it. Emma, Emma, get on it. Yeah, she's confirming. She's making it into a drop now. I'm curious because we're talking about a big American chain today.

Sonic, in Oklahoma City, it was founded. And, you know, it's all over the country, although less so in California. It's kind of dotted. It's outside of... Emma looks like a web video from a 1997 movie. She's like... Yeah, she looks like she's from the net.

She looks like she's from the net. She's got that evidence-suster internet connection. I think it's a weather issue up in Maine, right? Right, Emma? Is that what's going on? Yeah, it feels like negative 30 here and the wind is crazy fast, so everything's in and out. Yeah, it's affecting the camera on the Samsung Catana.

It's being shot on. Thanks to the jihadists who sent in your proof-of-life video. We know you're okay. It feels like negative 30. Yeah, I think I'm crazy. Go on. I was going to say, okay, so we're talking... But I want to talk about Canadian chains a little bit.

And I think we've maybe talked about touching this with both of you, but I'm happy to revisit it because it's one of the favorite chains I ever went to on the road. We reviewed A&W Canada when we did a show in Vancouver. And A&W Canada, I feel like, is pretty much better than every burger chain we have in the U.S. Yeah, it's the whole family of burgers, right?

Yes, and here's the thing. For me, it's not the best one in Canada, but it blows away any American chain. Is yours Harveys? Of course it's Harveys. We talked about Harveys. Remember, I wanted to go, but it wasn't close enough when we went to Saskatchewan.

It wasn't close enough to us and we couldn't go. We did a show in Saskatchewan in January. That's insane. You want to talk about minus 30, totally. It's so insane when you're in an environment where structures and sidewalks look affected by the cold. It's like, oh, it's so cold out, the sidewalk looks like it's cold.

That's what Saskatchewan looks like. And if anything, it pushes the wind so it's worse. Right. Yeah, because it's so flat. It's like it's sliding off the ice or something. Yeah, I've only been once and I just ate wind constantly. Yeah, gnarly stuff.

One thing that bugs me about A&W Canada though is that it's the family and there's the mama burger, papa burger, teen burger. But the hot dog is just called hot dog. How do you not call that the family dog? Yeah, family dog. Or Rex or something. That's really good.

That's a great punch up. That's a great punch up. Family dog. It's also weird to me that the teen burger has like one pub on it, speaking of pubes. Speaking of pubes. What was it? Puberty Emosis or whatever.

Puberty Beginners. Oh, yeah. I'm an idiot. Don't forget. If you get your teen burger at A&W Canada, it has a single pub. Yeah, yeah. From the teen that works there,

it pulls it out. We're turning it. Ding! I was gonna say two hour line wait for the Toad Cafe is insane. It's wild. Yeah, it's just over impacted. Yeah, it's like.

Mario had a wait and he'd fall asleep. Yeah, he would. When you leave the controller, I don't fall asleep. He falls asleep. I know you said you might review it in three years, but did Jordan go in the line and if he had to give a sum up, did he say yay or nay? I didn't get a full consensus take from

or full overall take from Jordan. What's going on up there though? They have the toothsome chocolate factories has opened up there. That's true, which we're viewing very soon with our friend Mark Rennie. That'll be coming up on a future episode. Love Mark Rennie.

Mark's great. Mark's great. You didn't like the Muppet Christmas Carol as much as you should. We love Mark. One of the funniest dudes, Mitch is still upset at him because he came on and did not like Muppet Christmas Carol. Should have liked it a little bit more.

It's really good. It is good, but Mark also came from and he just has a different sort of fandom for the Muppet Sort of Center. We don't need to prosecute him in abstention. Maybe he lost Toothsome by not liking Muppet Christmas Carol. He didn't lose Toothsome because of that.

Maybe he lost it. Maybe he lost Toothsome. No, we can just talk about this again when he comes back. Mad. I'm mad too. This is cutting into my time and that's coming from the knife. Wait a second.

Oh, go ahead. But I want to ask, are you guys close to each other? Yes, Norm and I live together. Go ahead, but I want to ask. We're very close to each other. At night in the bed? Yes. Go ahead.

First off, you told me to go ahead. I know. And you're like, wait, wait, but I got a question. And your question is, are you a married couple close to each other? My question is, did you guys, like, are your birth places, or where you grew up?

Oh, yeah. Yeah, we're like 45 minutes away. Yeah, they're really close. You grew up in Orangeville and I grew up in Mississauga, which is like a suburb of Toronto. Yeah. I was wondering about that

because you were trying to figure out her favorite burger place. So Harvey's is the one that you liked the most. Pretty much the only one we had. Yeah. When an A&W opened in my town, there was about, I would say, an hour lineup to get.

Wow. Yeah, and Debbie's a big deal. Yeah. Harvey's is just classic because they make, they dress the burger in front of you. Have you experienced that? And there's only like four toppings.

That's cool. There's nothing. Yeah, you like walk up to the counter, they get the burger, they put it on the bun, and then a lady just is like, what do you want on it? Almost a chipotle.

Like a sub shop. Exactly right. Exactly like that. Exactly right. They also like patented fringes, like the fries, onion rings, kind of like was a regular menu item, which is really great.

It's a mix of fries and onion rings? Well, no, there's split, and there's like a double cup, kind of serving. That's fantastic. It's brilliant. That's really fun. You can do a lot of things wrong up there,

but there's a lot of. Hell yeah. All the air, guard control. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, garbage is on every corner. Guns aren't as easily accessible. Yeah, that's a big problem.

That's why I moved. Yeah, yeah. And became a citizen. But bilingual street signs? No thanks. Yeah. Look, a lot of great food up in Canada. Yes.

Can I ask a follow-up question on Harveys, which is that. Oh, go ahead, but I have something to say as well. Okay. When they're dressing your burger, does that include the cheese? Like, or is the cheese like they grill it on the.

You have to order a cheeseburger. Got it, okay. Basically, it's grilled in, like you can see them grilling it, and if there's cheese on it, they put the cheese on while it's on the grill. Then it comes out on the bun, and then you can dress it.

Then they're like, you know, you want ketchup, you want mayo, you want, you want pickles. I don't even think mayo's available if I'm being honest with you. I think it's ketchup, mustard. No, mayo's available.

Pickles and a tomato and an onion. Yeah. Mayo? Yeah, there's banana peppers. Right. There's an option. Oh yeah, banana peppers, but that was kind of newer.

We didn't have that. Do you want a single cube? We can give you one of those. There is a little, it's not, you think it's alfalfa sprouts, but it's not. Yeah, they take the burger

and they just dip it in. Yeah. Whatever sticks on, like it's off the dip cone. Jesus, Jesus. Yeah. They take it from the floor to Barbershop.

I mean, we brought up pews, but that is fucking filthy. Eleni, Eleni, you're going to say something. Oh, sorry, go on. No, I was burning Mitch. Oh, okay. Got it.

I was going to say, have you guys mentioned Swiss chalet? That's like the big, Oh, we've talked about Swiss chalet. We have. I don't know, we got into depth about it, but what are your thoughts

on Swiss chalet? It's great. I mean, there was a channel for a bit. The fireplace channel, there was a channel in Canada that was just chickens on a rotisserie. Yeah.

Rotating. Wow. There's a lot of that up there too. And then also, what's the name for pastrami sandwiches in Montreal? Oh, Donair, you mean? No.

No, no, no. The smoked meat. Smoked meat sandwich. Yeah, smoked meat. Yeah, that's fine. Those are great too. They're delicious. Schwartz's,

when someone was like, Schwartz's is too mainstream. I think it's good. It is good. I had a follow-up question. Harvey's named for Harvey Weinstein, correct?

Yeah, that's kind of the shame. Yeah, probably. That's the one black spot. Yeah. Yeah. That's a great thing. We're going to try Harvey's next time we're there.

I'm very excited to go back to Canada and get some Harvey's. Oh, sure. I'd love to come. Come with us. Great. You're booked.

That worked out. I mean, Nate! We can stay at the Johnston Family Condo. It'd be great. Wow. Those are Harvey's clothes.

Wigs will love staying with your family. Hey, I get along great with your mom. He did get along. He got along well with my mom. Mrs. Mitchell and I

have great conversations while you're in the morning. Told her the bed was uncomfortable. She cried. She asked. I can't believe we're relitigating this

during love week of all time. Look, OK, I was honest. I did not get a great night's sleep on your childhood bed, which you insisted I slept on, which is a weird layer to it. I insisted you slept

sleep in one specific spot. Yeah, you were like sleeping. Sleeping in this very stained part of your childhood bed. You had like, I was like, I was staying at your home. It was very gracious of you

to host me. And it was like, you were sleeping in your mom's bed and I was sleeping in your bed. Hold on a second. Mitch just looked over to me like, not what you think. She wasn't in there.

But he's only saying it to you and I'll clarify it. You guys are close like me and Atlanta are close. Yeah. We're close like that. But I don't know, she maybe,

you know, she stayed at my sister's house that night. That's what happened. Right. And then she came back. She even vacated her own home so that you could shit all over it. I just said,

Yes, I put it. I didn't get a great night's sleep on it. I put a single P under the mattress. The Prince fucking P. Yeah. Just a little drip. A little dripping of piss.

Yeah. Mitch is the pube fairy. Just put one underneath the pillow. I'm at an actual the piss works better. Oh, I see. But anyways, it will be great to have him

living in your, in your parents' apartment. I'm a great guest. I'm tidy. I'm polite. I'm conversational. We'll have a great time. I hope you like tabouleh.

I'm down for tabouleh. Yeah, why not? That's what you're getting, sir. That's great. Yeah. Give me seconds, please. You have a great time. My mom is really fun

and there's a saltwater pool on the seventh floor. Wow. Yes. You guys will have a blast. I believe last time I was there, the saltwater pool was closed. Norm, that's quite enough.

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our guest, Elena Johnson and Norm Seusser for Love Week. We love you. Hey, we loved this outing to Sonic Drive-In,

which, as I mentioned, was founded in 1953 in Shawnee, Oklahoma, headquartered in Oklahoma City, 3,545 locations nationwide, staggering

everywhere across. Isn't there a fast food place called the Continental Election? It's similar to Shawnee Shoneys, right? Isn't there a

Shoneys? There's a Shoneys, yeah. I don't know what Shoneys is after. Spelled and pronounced differently. And we went to the Duarte location,

which is the closest to a proper, it's just a void, where there aren't any locations for whatever reason. I would love there to be a Sonic in West L.A.

or in a Burbank or something. Why not? It would do a lot of business. They put a raisin canes there. It goes fucking nuts. Here's the thing.

I've told you this, so often I go to Glendale for fast food. And they're like, oh, the restaurants are immaculate. In L.A., it's more of a toss-up.

There's some restaurants that are truly horrid, like some fast food restaurants that are in the city that are truly horrid. Yes. Like how you'll get shot

out of Tommy's. In downtown. Or just like, it looks like shit. Yeah. Orally maintained, the franchise owner neglects it,

is just using it as like a fucking profit center. They really care about it. Yeah. I've been to some apocalyptic like Carl's Jr.

location. So I get that. But that's if they're even there. If you're lucky, there's like a Del Taco chain.

A chain like Sonic. There just aren't any anywhere in the U.S. In L.A., rather. And you can't order it. It's too far of a drive. Too far away. It's like nobody's going to

bring it. And Duarte is what? It was like 30 minutes from where we were. Oh my God. Give away where we live. Yeah, yeah. Now everyone knows

drive 30 minutes in any direction. You'll find me. I was talking with, you know, John Michael Higgins, the actor. Yes.

Yeah. I was talking to him the other day about, because he commuted from there, he goes, I was at the Sonic. One of the few Sonics around and we were

talking about how, yeah, that's basically one of the only Sonics and he ate there just before we did. Yeah. You have to really go out out of L.A.

city limits to Duarte or down to Anaheim or Disneyland. It's a bit of a haul. So that said, I do love Sonic. We went to the same location,

Mitch, and I'm not sure if this is the one you went to or if you were in Quincy at the time, but we reviewed Sonic initially with Matt Apadaca. Yeah.

We went out to the Duarte and that was maybe during pandemic, right? I think it was during pandemic. I think it was home in Quincy for pandemic. And I loved it. My last experience there,

I loved it. I've never been to Sonic in California. Duarte is at 35 minutes. Sorry to talk to you. A bit of a haul. No, no. And for Wags4U,

almost as long as probably because there's another one in Anaheim. So for you, it was either go south to Anaheim or come with us. But I had to be

with my friends for a long week. Half of my review was about the experience. The experience was great. Oh, sure. I guess. Let's wait for the review.

So Wags took the train to me. I went to bed at 7 a.m. because I was editing auditions. Oh, God. Yeah, we heard this. Yeah, it's going on about all his auditions. All five of them.

Oh, yeah. Working. Which I won't get any of. Or even hear a single word back. Spend like fucking like 30 hours on all of them total. Just get hired as an editor

on those projects. You really cut your audition together. Well, like you looked all right. And you suck. You know, the Frazier reboot. I was going to play young Frazier.

Wait, are you talking about the roles now that you were auditioning for? Yeah, I was auditioning for a young Frazier. Aren't you older than Kelsey Grammer was the starter Frazier?

Yeah. Was it like 37? Is it a young Sheldon thing? Okay, got it. But so I woke up pretty. I got like four or five hours of sleep. Had to pick up wise at the train station. You guys left and we probably

about 10 minutes late. 15 minutes late. Yeah, I would say 10 minutes. All right. Well, I also let me just say this because I got out of the train and I was like, hey, I'm here and you're like,

like I think you texted back. Oh fuck. And then. I was sure. And then. So I had a little bit of time to kill. So I went up and I was only,

I had to use the bathroom and I had used the bathroom before we went to Sonic. How about that? So I went up to Starbucks, bathrooms closed, went up to another restaurant, bathrooms also,

like bathroom wasn't closed, but it was like, there was someone in there for a while. Like there were, there was like a lot of time. You went to Fred 62. Fred 62, one of those, a local diner that's kind of shitty.

Apologies to many of our listeners. Work there, I guess. I don't know. It's not like, it doesn't have the best reputation food wise. It's fine. But it's, it was a surprise survived the pandemic.

Like anyone would have bet that this place would have closed. Yeah. There was a dude in there doing work. There's a dude in there doing work. And then I just wanted to say

my joke was like, like, yeah, after he came on, it's called Fred 64. That's right. That was funny. So glad you said it. Really glad we brought that back.

Which you didn't like, we were all confused. The first time. Yeah. Well, cause there was, there's also, what was yours? No, it was Nintendo 64

is a thing. So I think we were all thinking like, does the 64 have a component, but no, you're like adding to, adding extra juice. It's a very clever joke. I think it just took a second

to thank you. You're trying to thank Nick. And then they went up to House of Pies and they had Success at House of Pies and then you pick me up at the House of Pies and then we went from there.

But anyway, it was going to say, what did you call a house of poo? You said something more like House of Piles. Yeah. Anyway, I was going to say this. So we, so you picked me up,

but all this preamble is to say, it was a love week miracle. Last week's guest, Leon Bowden, who he mentioned walks through this neighborhood, happened to be walking

through this neighborhood at the same time. I ran into her. I was like, Leon, we just sat near the podcast talking about how you walk through this neighborhood. I've never ran into you here

before. We're just suddenly upon each other now. She was crying. He's like, oh yeah. He's like, oh yeah. He's like,

oh yeah. Wild stuff. Yeah, that's, that is wild. It's a love week miracle. It's a love week miracle. Yeah. And then you gave me a ride.

We went over to Duarte and Elana Norm, you had the idea to all pile into your car, which was the right move because there was a restaurant that you could go into. So we didn't,

I didn't even know about the car thing. When we pulled up and saw them all, I was like, well, this is aggressive, but okay. So we got out and walked up and the guy was like,

there's nothing in there. And I was like, okay, well, I clearly see people, but I guess they're all just the employees and you don't go in. I had no idea.

And I guess it makes sense because in the commercials, they're always in the cars, but I just thought they were promoting laziness. Yeah. There is, there's an outdoor area

at this particular Sonic, but it was also a rainy day, which we should mention, which also impacted our experience because no roller skates for the car hops. They weren't skating around. Which I didn't even know.

And then you, and then you had to show the photos proving that there were skates. And then you sent a video of that dude who was like an alpha skater. Yeah, he's fucking awesome. Fucking cool as hell. Yeah.

Yeah. And he was going to some sort of Sonic roller skate competition or roller blade competition. Yeah. And there was this one gal he was worried about, who was clearly better than him.

Yeah. And he was like, she's easy on the eyes and I, me, like he was very self deprecating. He was great. If I just watched this guy, I think I said to you all is like,

he just has a better life than me. Like he's like the Sonic car hop who loves roller skating more than anything. He gets to do it all day long. People are like, this guy is fucking amazing at roller skating.

And he's just so happy. Yeah. He's happier than you are. He's definitely happier than me. Yeah. Oh God, most are. I think Norm is right. I mean,

and I think Alan is right. But, Nick, I think for Love Week, you got to love yourself. Oh, you're right, man. Oh my God. I have a blessed life. I get to talk with my friends

and people who I don't even know are enjoying it and saying nice things about me. It's wonderful. I don't know, your Reddit sounds pretty harsh. Yeah, that's true. But we love the Reddit.

We love them. We love those freaks. We love them. This bitch clenching his teeth. The Reddit is good. We love that Reddit even though I read stuff that I hate every single day.

So we pulled up to one. We pulled up to one of the stations where you push to order and the screen was broken. We ended up moving to a different location. We're all sitting in one car. Real piled into your car. That's right.

You guys were in the back. We were in the front. Yes. Great. It was a great dynamic. Also, like the Sonic, like we were saying, like the Sonic commercials,

which, look, they moved away from T.J. and Dave, right? That's T.J. and Dave or the guys who did it before. Chicago Comedy Duo, yeah. I don't know. It was Pete Gross and T.J. Yeah.

Oh, Pete Gross and Dave. All right. Thank you for the question. T.J. from T.J. and Dave. T.J. from T.J. and Dave. Exactly. And Pete Gross. Give it back to fucking T.J. and Pete.

What the fuck is this shit with these dumps? I don't know why. With these regular people. Get them the fuck out of here. Well. First of all, pay actors to do stuff. Yes. Get these fucking losers out of here.

Yeah. I don't want to hear from these fucking families. We get it that this is the highlight of your fucking life, but unfortunately, it's the low light of mine. You know what I mean? I don't like seeing you. I don't like seeing you talk about your stupid shake. Get T.J. and Pete back.

They were great. I want T.J. and Pete back. They were a great duo, and I'm sure it reached a certain point where they just wanted more money. And there it is. Because that's what always happens. But yeah, it sucks,

because that was a great campaign. It was a great ongoing thing that a lot of running gags. Pay him the money. Yeah, and now the ads just kind of feel generic. They suck. Yeah. Anyway, but we had that experience.

We were all sitting in the same car, and we were ordering, and the car hop was going to bring it out to us. I guess we'll just get into our food because we got a lot of it. Yeah, we did. We tried a little bit of everything. Tried a little bit of everything.

I have our receipt here. Our itemized receipt has so many items on it, and that doesn't even include round two, which we'll get to. But I guess should we just start with our meals, with our mains? Because that's kind of, we all kind of got our own combo.

Oh boy. Norm, what did you get for yourself? I got the, what is the actual name of it? Bacon cheeseburger toaster. Right. It was the Texas toast burger, which was,

I mean, I don't even know if it was Texas toast. It felt like two slices of bread. And there was an onion ring on that, and there was bacon, right, from what I recall? Yeah. Yeah.

And I just, what did I get for a side? I got fries because you got tots, and we were going to split some. Well, we ended up splitting everything. Yeah, we did. We shared a lot of things. And I was coming off a sinus infection,

which was, I still was, my nose was still running basically. It was disgusting. It was nightmare. And I will say like, I have been to Sonic once before, and I did get the burger,

and I loved it quite a bit. And, Wags, you got me off the burger. You wanted me to try this, our friend the toaster here. I felt bad about this. I'm surprised you even showed up. I felt bad about this.

It was a little too slidey. A little. Yeah. It was very slidey. Oh my God. Yeah. It was a lot slidey. And,

Jerry O'Connell would see you and be like, yeah, that's slidey. I mean, one of my notes says toast. What am I poor? You're right. And I don't want to spoil our second round order,

but for some reason, it's so much better with the bun. I can't even wrap my head how much better it is. Well, this is, in the second order, Wags, you, you made up for what you did.

I tried to correct it, but I steered people towards the Texas toast, so they had a good experience with the Texas toast before. And I was like, oh, this is fun. And this is like a sonic thing.

But, but it's, they weren't well executed. I didn't have yours, but I had some of Mitch's. It wasn't a yee-haw. It was a yee-haw. We got to move on.

Sorry. Sorry, Mitch. Love the bits. We've really got to get through this menu. Mitch, you got a slice bread-based main as well.

I got. It was so, oh yeah, good. I thought it was a, this was a yee-haw. Yeah. It was spicy steak

and bacon grilled cheese. And so it was basically steak, bacon, on a grilled cheese. And then there was some hot peppers. A real yee-haw. It was a, when you took a bite of it,

you're saying yee-haw. I said, Mitch told me to kill the rest of his steak burger. Killed this burger. This burger's killing me. No, it's my review of the burger.

But I opened it first by accident. Remember? I opened yours up first and I'm like, this just looks like a sandwich. And, yes, it is like, it's very,

it was much thinner. It's a grilled cheese. Yes. Me saying yee-haw, it's actually was just kind of, it was a back and forth. You take a bite and you're like, oh, that's a pretty good bite.

And you take another bite and be like, this is gross. I think you summed it up perfectly where it was like, the cheesy versus meaty, like the equation was off. Yeah, I took a bite of it. It was all cheese taste.

I only had steak taste. Oh, that's the thing. It just wasn't balanced properly. Yeah. It was balanced. That's a bummer. What did you... I didn't hate it though.

I didn't hate it. But that, and that wasn't even my real, that wasn't my real... That wasn't your main main. No, you got yourself a... Main main.

A big boy hot dog. I did. I got yourself an Affleck dog. I got myself an Affleck hog, Affleck dog. You almost said Affleck hog. And that's what's in my head. Ooh, I'll take a Ben Affleck hog.

We reviewed Gone Girl earlier this week. That's right. And we talk about how gigantically huge Affleck hog is. I think Gigantic is hyperbole. It's gigantically huge. It's big. It looks good.

You've seen comedy guys on stage. You can keep comparing it to comedy guys. Yeah, yeah. Sad. It's just compared to the people. It's this. It's a little note sitting on top of them. Yeah, Mitch.

You can put it back. I've seen it. What are you out of your mind here? My husband's right here. My first review here. My first review here was felt some tension between Mitch and I possibly because my husband's here to fight for my honor.

Yeah. And finished when you started years ago back in Saskatchewan with the plugs. How dare you say I don't have an Affleck size pin. No one does. The thing is gigantic and Weigar and I fight about it. It's huge.

You fight over Affleck's freaking huge dung. It looks good. A couple weeks ago, the end of Gone Girl was on and I literally taped the end of it and sent it to Weigar and we were arguing about it. Did I save it to my camera roll? Of course. I think it looks good.

The dick? It's a good looking dick. You only see it in profiles so you get kind of a sense of it. It could be skewed by force perspective. It's huge. Patrick Babbit had the observation. I think he's correct

that he probably chubbed up a little bit knowing he was going to be on camera so it's not necessarily like, you know, in its default state. I still think gigantic is a high bar. It's gigantic. You're insisting on gigantic and I'm going to say big.

Gigantic. And if he got a fluffer and it's shot on a long lens, you know what I mean? It compressed the background. There you go. And there you go. I'm trying to find the video.

I can't find the video. This is great for the listeners. Just Mitch trying to find a video on his phone of Ben Affleck's dick. I was not the first video on your phone. I found a video of me singing Charlie Brown instead. Oh, okay. We're interested in that.

What are you doing that? Okay. Mitch is showing phone video. I can't find it. Of the scene to Atlanta. I can't find it. Oh, he's showing phone video of him singing Charlie Brown.

I can't find the hog. It's insane. Yeah. That's it. That's your doctor in the waiting in the exam room. Wait, what? I can't find the hog.

That's your urologist. You just got nice. Good one, Mike. Yeah, a lager with a knife. God damn it. Anyways, and I got an Affleck-sized dog. Yeah, yeah. The foot-long, quarter-pound Coney.

I mean, this thing, it's thinner than Affleck. It's not as girthy. Not as girthy now. It's not nearly as girthy. But it's more spascular. Both dipped in chili. And gone girl, it is.

Chili and cheese. And I got to tell you, you all had bites of it. Loved it. It was fucking good. It was good. I loved Sonic's hot dogs. And the last time I had it,

because I had a chili cheese dog last time, and I was like, all right. And this time I really was, I was really loving it. I love the dog Elana, Elana got as well. The All-American. The All-American.

I liked yours more because I liked mine. It was simple, well-executed. I love a good hot dog. But yours was like, I didn't know for the chili, because sometimes it can just be a mess. It was just enough.

It wasn't, nothing was overpowering. And speaking of your sandwich, it was like, well-distributed, the chili on the hot dog. That's a huge thing. And I think they do that really well. Look, last time we went to Sonic, that was the year I declared no meat chili eat.

I was eating vegetarian. I had a bun. I had a bun. I didn't get to try their hot dog. I mean, I've had their hot dogs before, but it's been a while. Is it single bun? Yeah, at a bun.

Yeah, at a bun. I mean, I had sides too. But yes, that was how I had their hot dog. Was it dog dough bark fest? It was dog dough bark fest, a month-long grill abrasion of hot dogs and pet dogs. And we went to Sonic as part of that and focused on the hot dogs.

So we're talking about the whole menu today. So here's what he's going to say. Hot dog chains are few and far between in the States. Surprisingly so, because hot dog is such a national food. Weener schnitzel, which is a chain I love. My lovely wife Natalie loves. I love you, Natalie, for Love Week.

Oh, wow. And that chain has been closing locations left and right. There are fewer and fewer weener schnitzels. So as far as getting a hot dog at a fast food place, Sonic is one of the only games in town. Yeah. And so I was very excited to chow down on a dog. Even though I'm minimizing my red meat consumption,

I had to get the same thing. I actually did not get the foot long, Mitch, because I was worried getting full. So I went and got the modest length. I wasn't worried as much about that. Yeah. I'll be honest. I wasn't really worried about getting full,

which we did. We got very, we got very full. We did get full. Well, because we had a lot of things. And so I got the same hot dog. I got the Coney dog, but I got it just the regular size.

And I got the chili cheese tots. Now the chili cheese tots did not have any sort of utensil and they didn't want to make our car hop go back and get one. So I ended up eating those with my hands. Surprisingly kind of worked. It was a little sloppy, but having a napkin at the ready made it very doable. They were fucking delicious.

And the dog was fucking delicious. It's not the highest quality dog, but for a fast food dog, I mean, I'm just, and in terms of dog, I mean Frank, it's not the highest quality Frank, but for a fast food Frank, absolutely delightful.

And the chili was great. And the balance of chili and cheese on both that and the tots were delightful. Are we waiting on drinks or should we get into drinks? Because I got myself a limeade with cranberry. I found the hog. Okay, great. Okay, great.

Back to winners. Let's see here. This is a huge hog. Let's see. Yeah, turn that around. Yeah. No, it is. That's a huge hog.

No, it is. It looks good. Yeah, I know. It's a huge pin. Yeah. But okay. Okay. Let's do Mitch's specific verb.

That's gigantic. Gigantic. Where was this on the menu? That's not gigantic. I've been railed by bigger. Oh my God. Get a life. Gigantic is its own thing, right?

There was, there was, there's no main of pubes. This guy's not working at Harvey's. Yeah. I think this is, this, I think it's pretty gigantic. One thing I want to say before we move off the hot dog is I feel like the Sonic hot dog in terms of the, the, because it's, it's thin. I'll like a Nathan's without the snap.

Right. I think that's the best way to describe it. Yeah. What would be on an all Canadian dog? You got the all American dog. You two got to make us an all Canadian dog. What do you do? You wouldn't want to put maple syrup or something like that on.

Why does it have hot dogs with cheese whiz? Right. Oh, that's fine. That was like a big thing growing up with hot dogs with cheese whiz. Would definitely be ketchup, of course. Yeah. Ketchup, of course. Oh, sure.

Okay. Yeah. Without a doubt. Hey, I'm fine with ketchup. Chicago doesn't like ketchup. I'm fine with ketchup. I think it would be pemeal bacon. A slice of pemeal bacon.

Yeah. Which is back bacon here, right? Sure. Yeah. Yeah. And then ketchup. Well, like you get a chili dog. I've had a poutine dog.

I mean, it's the same thing. Oh, that's, I have had a poutine dog. It was good. Maybe a pemeal bacon gravy hot dog would be kind of where it's at. Sounds delightful. The old Canadian dog. Anyone, everyone always asks us to make food up. Make an old Canadian dog.

Send us a picture of it. Yeah. Someone out there has got a restaurant and wants to make their version of it or wants to just make it at home. Yeah. I think that cream cheese, I guess cream cheese is like an American. Curd cheese would be like a poutine cheese. Oh, yeah.

Yeah, yeah. But there is too much emphasis on poutine being like the Canadian. Sure. I don't want to just another poutine dog. Yeah, I got you. Yeah. I like the idea of that. What was it?

Pemeal bacon? Pemeal bacon. Yeah. Yeah. It's like cornmeal on the bacon. Oh, got it. And then it's grilled. But also, you guys have hickory sticks here?

We probably do, but we don't know them by that name. Oh, yeah. What would they be called here? Hickory sticks. They're just like smoky little potato sticks. They're like your frat. That would kind of be like, I think the main topping, you would top it with these like, it's so bizarre because they're not fries.

They're just little, basically if... Oh, I know what you're talking about. Unconstructed lattice fry. It's all brown bag. Potato sticks. You know, like the potato sticks? Yes. They're like crunchy, right?

Yes. But there's like a barbecue seasoning on them. Oh, that's different. Hickory barbecue. They're really good. There's a Venezuelan hot dog cart that was around in LA. I think it's still around. But it used to be in my neighborhood.

I think it's called Dog R, like a pun on Dodger. And they have potato sticks on their dogs because this has been a Venezuelan thing. And they're fucking great. I only had the veggie version because this is... I wasn't eating the meat Franks at the time. But when I had them, I was like, this is delightful. Here's the thing that Canada has... They do a better job with.

All dressed. All dressed. Oh, just chips in general. Yeah. I think our all of our chips are better. Why? I don't understand. I'm going to go back for American chips.

I think that there are good American chips. And it's usually kind of like locally. Cool Ranch is great. Oh, I mean, also, yes. I mean, I think Cool Ranch is the best. We get those up there. And a little hint for later about Cool Ranch. But those chips are fine.

But like Cape Cod potato chips. Well, now I'm saying that's like local. But you know, like there's a couple of Pennsylvania brand chips, Wags. Yeah, sure. A couple of Massachusetts like Wachuset chips or whatever. There's like, there are local chips that are good. I can't count local because that's, you know what I mean? It has to be, you can walk into any grocery store.

Exactly. And even our barbecue. The barbecue here is sweet and tangy. And our barbecue up there is not. Yeah. What do you guys eat? My pussy? Come on.

Yeah, we do say sweet and tangy. I'm sorry. Right. What are you eating? My pussy. Just after seeing Ben Affleck's naked. Speaking of his hog, I wrote in one of my notes because one of the other sides we got was a soft pretzel, which I really enjoyed.

And I went soft pretzel, like soft dick, my fave. I love it. Alana memorized her notes. I did. I just linked them all. Okay. So we also got ourselves. We did.

We had a gong girl episode before this, which is a filthy movie. It's fine. You have managed to outfilthe it. Yeah. Easily. Okay. So we got the pretzel twist, which comes with a cheese dip. The cheese dip, I wish would had been, had been warm instead of room temp.

I mean, I know that's a thing they can't really fix there, but it would have been nice. Same deal for the marinara that comes with the mozzarella sticks, which we also got. Marinara also kind of just like tasted like shit. Marinara sucks. It was so good. It was a thin tomato soup.

Yeah. This is also maybe a thing for our listeners. We were trying to figure out where we've had great marinara. Maybe Arby's has good marinara. I think Arby's does have a decent marinara. I think BK does. BK. That's what you said.

But anyway, I think you're right. But we also got, and Norm, you got a corn dog, which I know you talked about hot dogs. You touched on the corn dog specifically. I got the junior Frito chili cheese wrap, which was, which Mitch, we shared. I would characterize this as disgusting and delicious because it really is just chili cheese Fritos covered with chili and cheese wrapped in a tortilla. It's about the size. It's almost a Taco Bell item.

It's like a Taco Bell item and it was fucking, it was gross, but it tasted so good. It's not only is it disgusting, but I took like a bite after you did. It was like a gross thing to share. Yeah. As my nose was running. I got a, I got a pitch. Norm got a corn dog. What do you think of this corn?

Oh, like a burger corn dog. Like a corn dipped. I'm in. That sounds great. Yeah. Yeah. How do you serve it? Like a hot pocket almost, but with a burger in the middle.

Or I think that, I think that it is, it's like a lollipop. I guess maybe that's how you do it. I think the thing that's tricky is to keep it moist because I feel like that would be, but I mean, when you get a corn dog, it's still, you get a juicy dog. Absolutely. You can dip anything in the batter. You can just do that. Yeah.

I'm just saying a corn bird. But, but, okay. I just think that there's, look. The podcast to me is like, I'm scheming. I'm trying to make money somehow. Yeah. And I think that, I think. But if you need it on the stick, it can't quite be a corn burger.

It would have to be a corn kabob. Yes. Yeah. That's the thing. You know what I mean? Corn, corn kabob. Wait, are you talking about a corn dipped in the, the batter? Yeah.

You're talking about beef. You're talking about a burger dipped in the batter. Exactly. Yeah. But like, yeah. Beef. But corn, cornbob or something. Yeah.

That's maybe. But if it's, this is, this is what happens. I think if you, if you start putting ground beef in the shape of a hot dog, I know this because they do this at, they have a cheeseburger big bite at, at 7-Eleven. Yeah. We've all had it. It has to be cooked well. And then it starts, it ends up being cooked well because it's so thin.

Yeah. And so it dries out a little bit. So I feel like like you want to ideally try to keep it in that patty form factor. Yeah. And, and deep fry that whole thing. And I'm just, and maybe you put a slice of cheese on top of it, but I'm just like, how do you, how do you eat it? I was thinking if you, if you dip it in, I think you can just, and don't put the cheese

on, or you put the cheese on the burger and then dip it in. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah. You hold it kind of like one of those crustable peanut butter and J's sandwich. Oh yeah. That's good. You just hold it like that. Yeah.

Instead of the stick. Yeah. That's what I think you do. You make the meat how you do sometimes. Exactly. Then you, yeah. Then you just, you put that in the corn batter. All right.

We solved it. Podcast adjourned. You wish. We still have like an hour and a half. I would literally do anything to get out of here. We should talk about our, our, first off, I want to get anyone's takes on the mozzarella sticks and the pretzel twists. Cause I think their mozzarella sticks are very good.

I think you have to dip them in their ranch. They have a lot of great dips there, but I think that marinara just sucks. But I think the sticks themselves are very good. The sticks themselves are good. You didn't, you didn't need the marinara. The sticks were so good. Yeah. You actually didn't need the marinara.

Yeah. They were like probably my favorite thing on the menu. You were torn a bit on the pretzel stick, right? My thing with the pretzel stick is I said, yeah. Cause, and half of why pretzel sticks is just for the cheese. It's why I love pretzel so much. So I was like, it's pretty cool. You can get a soft pretzel at a fast food restaurant.

You don't see that sometimes pretzel bun at best. So I liked that. And I think it was like a buck 99. I was like, okay, whatever. But really the cheese, it's like, it's truly such a let down. That's a bummer because also it seems like an easy fix. Like, doesn't just having a cheese, like a nacho cheese dispenser seem like it's not. Or can't you just put it on the heat things like they do at Wetzel pretzel?

They have it on the heat things. Yeah, that'd be nice. Just keep it like in a warm area. That's what I mean. Just keep it there. Yeah. And I concur. We also got, I got the fries too, which I was not really in on.

No, I feel like no one was crazy about the fries. It seemed like the first version of BK fries. We said this in the car. Fries are a bummer. Fries are great. Fries aren't great. Cops are the way to go. I mean, call me Toddy Tits.

Hello. I'm filled to the brim on these bad boys. I went to town. Sweet and sour. Call you Toddy Tits. No one here is going to call you Toddy Tits. We're not going to be calling you Toddy Tits. It's not going to happen.

Yeah. Mine's bad marinara asshole. Let's talk our, let's talk, unless anyone else has any other thoughts on the mozzarella sticks of the pretzel twist. Let's talk beverages. Yes. I did get a limeade with cranberry, cranberry limeade. You can customize your, if anyone who hasn't been to this chain, you have lemonades and

limeades and you can customize them with all sorts of flavors. I got mine with cranberry. I thought it was fucking delightful. I'm going to have a few sips of this and I just end up drinking the whole thing. Yeah. I housed my whole thing too. So good. I got a cherry limeade.

I do like the cherry limeade better, but... It's better, but it's nice to have some variety in terms of options. The cherry limeade is just such a classic. But wait, you got an addition to yours that is a big part of my review. Yes. I liked it. I got something that was just on the menu and it looked insane. I don't know.

I think it maybe has been around for a while, but I got a grape slush with nerds in it. And they put rainbow nerds in the slush and... And they wouldn't let you on the Harry Potter ride. Wow. I think you saw my tits getting bigger in the car as I drank it. Yeah. It's just the little nerds compiling. Well, call me nerdy tits, but I...

Like Toddy tits. Yeah. I don't know. We got it. Yeah, yeah. We feel good about it. We get it. We don't want it.

I took this. I was like, this is insane. We should try this. I took a sip of that thing and I was like, this rules. I mean, it's so sugary sweet. It's insane. Yeah. The vlog said there's like a crunchy boba tea kind of thing.

Yes, yeah. It's a little bobo feel to it. We each had sips in succession. I feel like we all the same reaction of just sort of being like, hmm, like kind of like evaluating them and be like, oh, wow, that's fucking great. I think everyone... Everyone loved it. It's so weird.

It is so... It's very weird. I looked in the cup. It was still in my car, but I look... That's not okay. We went on Monday. That was a while ago, dude. I don't know why you're bragging about how sad your life is.

Guess what? It's still in the car. I looked in the... I looked in there like yesterday or the day before. In the cup. In the cups. And you didn't throw it out. I looked at it and there were no nerds.

We drank all the nerds out of it. Or maybe I did more so. But I gotta say this. Yeah. Just straight up, the grape slush was great. It was. And I'm not a great flavor person and it was awesome. So good.

So good. I got the lime made slush. Yeah, you got a slush. Yeah. I really liked it. I would have never... It was your recommendation wise because you were like, this is kind of what they're known for.

And it was amazing. It's something I would never order. And I absolutely loved it. Total sugar high, but fresh. Not very fresh. Yeah. Like the grape is like a commitment, but this one I was like, oh, I could have a bite of a burger and then a sip of this

and kind of keep going. Yeah. There's no way around the grape that it's artificial in every way. It's like... It's very... It's artificial and it's also like just 600 calories of pure sugar. Yeah. It's like this is...

It's such an unhealthy thing to put into your body, but if you do it as a treat, it's so fun. Yeah. And speaking of treats, we should talk about our sweet treats because Norm, you got a Snickers blast. And then we also... That was part of the first round. And then as a second round, we all...

The rest of us got our own... Mini blasts. Individual mini blasts. And you and I both got the cookie dough. We both got cookie dough and I was very lucky, Wags. I got the cookie dough blast. Yeah. But guess what?

It kind of got blasted with M&Ms accidentally. Yeah, you get some stray M&Ms. I got some stray M&Ms. You did. Yeah. Mystery crunch in everything you're drinking. Yeah. Seriously.

And you know what? The M&Ms and cookie dough combo was fantastic. Oh, here we go. It was so fucking good and I'm like, I've never even thought of that combo before. Yeah. I mean, of course, M&M cookies, whatever. Maybe that's the whole thing.

Maybe that's... It was there on purpose. And I loved it. But you didn't have M&Ms in yours. No, I just got it straight up. And I don't know. They probably just made an M&Ms one and then made mitches immediately after. I mean, right after that is probably what happened.

Mine was just cookie dough, but you know what? It's still fucking great. I loved it. It was delicious. The cookie dough looked like cat food on top of the ice cream. It looked gross. It was not like... The little niblets were too small.

It looked a little like kibble. But then when you mix it up like that, it was a great balance of cookie dough bites and vanilla ice cream. I thought it was delightful. And again, I had the whole fucking thing. Well, I wasn't going to get one. And then I had a bite of yours because you, Norm, ordered yours in the first round of food.

That's right. I had a bite of yours. It was so good. And then you guys started talking about the M&Ms. And I was like, I'm going to get one too. I went out on a limb. I got butterfinger. Watch yourself.

Oh, I downed the whole thing. Same. Two seconds. It was so good. It was probably the only thing that I ate head to toe, the whole thing. Wow. Yes. Because I didn't share any.

Sorry. You didn't share anything. Do you share anything? Yeah, we could all tell. Did you spoon yours? Because I couldn't. I think I spooned it. Yeah, is it still in your bag?

Too thick to straw. I'm sure. That cup I got rid of on site. Wow. I know I got rid of that. I threw out all the garbage. Okay, that's true. Well, I tried to open the door, I slammed your door into a Sonic kiosk.

Yeah. If you remember, I was trapped in the car. Alanna did photograph a little piece of lettuce you left behind. I did. I lost. First of all, we're with Mr. Spills over here. Yeah. And you were killing it, Nick.

You did so good. I didn't spill on anything. Nothing. Nick, for love, we get it. Not a single spill. You got a burger to make up for your gigantic fuck up. And the burger was by far the best thing on the menu. Way better than the turkey.

The burger was good. The burger was so good. It was lights out. And we were also so stuffed at that point and it was still. It was still so good. And we had just come from ice cream and it was like, that's how you know the burger is good. And they had a lot of meaty and flavors and still everyone was like, well, that was amazing.

Because the patty's the same. Right. I don't understand how the bun makes that burger. That bun. That bun. I think you just got to... That bun. I think they had a bad outing with this particular batch of Texas toast.

Because I've had it that's been better. Or the quality has gone down and they've like started scribbling and saving and making... Could be too. Do you know what I think about it? Yeah. You know. I don't know if that's going to catch. Yeah.

I don't know. I'm a little afraid. Norm, did you get your thoughts on the Snickers blast? Well, I don't normally get Snickers anything. And Snickers is Atlanta's favorite chocolate. And I know that because we're in love. That's beautiful. Of available in America.

I have one. Coffee Crisp in Canada is my ultimate favorite. Coffee Crisp is very good. Oh my God. Oh my God. Forget about chances. Also, why is it not available? It should be available.

It doesn't make sense. I think it's because we're part of the Commonwealth. So we get our chocolate from England, like Cadbury. Right. It's a different type of chocolate. People are like, Oi, your chocolate tastes like vomit. That's like what the... Yeah.

Yeah. No, there is no way anyone's ever said it like that. Certainly not what British people sound like. Check out Affleck's Todja. Oh my God. Now that sounds more accurate. But I was... I was frostbitten at all.

Prince Harry. No, good. It took me a while, but I was like, wait a minute. Yes. It was quite good. It is similar to McFlurry. Yeah. I think they add a little more topping up top as opposed to McFlurry sometimes.

You just like... You can just tell someone's just cramming it up the mixer and then it's not really mixed properly. Not good distribution, you're saying. No, not at all. This was well mixed, I thought. Yeah. It was pretty even, unlike your steak sandwich. But I was very much into it.

And it was a good size. It was a medium or a large. Yeah. It could be your minis. So yeah, I'd say it was really good. I like a Snickers mix a lot sometimes. And I actually think that this one did all right with it. You sometimes get the pieces there too frozen, the Snickers pieces.

But I thought that it did a good job. Same with the Butterfinger and I totally agree. It felt fresh. Not chunky, more crumbled, easier to eat. Yes, easier to eat. Yes. Snickers is one of my favorite candy. It's a good candy.

You know, it's universal. It's like everybody loves a Snickers. Yeah. Is there any food we haven't touched on? I mean, we got an array of sauces. And we also great service at this Sonic. They were expedient. I feel like every Sonic that I've dealt with has had pretty...

And look, it's a place that I don't go too often, but I've been impressed every time I've been there as far as that goes. Oh, I do have a couple of things to touch on that I... Weigar related. Please. Okay, so I saw there that you can tip, which was a huge flex for Weigar. Because I said Weigar left a cash tip on top of his digital tip.

It's like Shania Twain once said, that don't impress me much. Yeah. And also one last thing on Weigar, which usually I burn you, Mitch. We'll get back to that. But one last thing on Weigar, he did put his seatbelt on in the parking lot. Oh, yeah.

He had the seatbelt on to drive over to the kiosk. Yeah. It's like one of my main notes on here. It was about the seatbelt, like almost nothing to do with food. Well, there's a thing. There's a thing. That's also a thing of like everyone noticed immediately. Like my instinct, I just put on my seatbelt

and everyone starts roasting me. I mean, you were going to be fine. It was like more dangerous. The car got on fire so I need to be stuck. But I... So you... You couldn't get out. You were right against the order.

I wouldn't have been fine. It was the final destination moment I was screwed. We paid for the first order and you gave a nice tip, a generous tip. And I was fuming. And then we did a second order and you gave a smaller tip and then you roasted him for the smaller tip.

The smaller order. And then he gave cash when she came by. Did you? I didn't notice that. Little fiver. I cost him quite a bit of money from my bullying. No, it's fine. It's good.

I mean, I'm everything to the worker. And I'll also say this. There goes my extra set of stairs. But especially with the full service of them walking out, like in the rain, imagine? Wait, you need another set of stairs. I want another set of stairs. I want another set of stairs.

Sorry. I'm gonna add a flight. Throwing it out of nowhere. I think that... I think we should add a flight this year. I'm saying this to Wally and her dog. I think... I don't remember.

I could be wrong, but I don't remember having the ability to tip on the screen previously. You did. It feels like a newest... You could always do that? Oh, no. I don't know if that was...

Because this time you could. And I was... I did know, like, oh, it's cool that you can just tip up. You can just tip a percentage or a flat dollar amount when you pay at the kiosk. A lot of people... A lot of people... Look, it's nice to tip fast food people.

I don't think that it's expected. It's nice if you do it every so often, of course, especially if you frequent a place. You don't have to do that. We're not trying to... But Sonic feels different. It does feel like they're delivering to your car. It does feel like more of a...

All of it is surfaced, but I'm saying, like, the fact that they're delivering food to your doorstep. Well, you just have to think inclement weather, right? And then they're coming back and forth to your car. Yeah. And we're sitting there with multiple orders. I don't even think...

I mean, it didn't... It barely rained. But, right, it didn't really... But in the last month, that's been so rainy. Imagine that. You know what I mean? That's also just a harder job than our job. It is.

And I'm just, like, happy to... We're literally sitting down right now. Of course it is. Yeah. But I was gonna say that, yes, to your point, Mitch, my personal stance, and this is the Jonathan Gold stance, RIP, is just, like, any place there is the ability to tip,

regardless of what it is, I'll just, like, 20% is just, like... And, like, I'm happy to do that, because I have the means to do it, and those jobs are fucking hard. I agree with you. But I get what you're saying in terms of... I definitely don't tip every time I get fast food,

but I do tip on many occasions. Yes, but specifically the thing of, like, hey, here's a... Like, the screen has this option, or, like, there's a tip jar or something, like, if that's presented, if it's just, like, a thing like, hey, I'm going to Wendy's, and it's not...

Like, I will often, but it's not, like, a thing where, like, they have it built into their payment mechanisms, which, honestly, with people having less and less cash, kind of sucks at this point. They should. It really bothers me when I go somewhere and I can't tip. Yeah.

Even just to leave a dollar or something like that, and it's like... Like, you'll go... If you go to, like, a Starbucks, like, if you go to a personal-owned coffee shop, and the coffees are really expensive, they always have the tip one there, but then you go to, like, a Starbucks,

and they're working their asses off there, so busy, and then you can't give them a tip, and you're like, well, I'm not saying one deserves it more than the other. They both deserve it. I also think it depends on the order. So, for example, like, we ordered kind of one of everything, which is super annoying. Yeah.

We had to go a little... If we had just, you know, grape nerd blasts for them and for burgers, I mean, you probably wouldn't have tipped as much as you did. Yes. Well, also, like, here's the other thing, is that we are in a unique position where this is our job to cover chain restaurants,

and so I think that partly puts in our head of, like, like, hey, we should go out of our way to compensate these people, because this is... I'm avoiding it. Yeah. But you're talking to people in general, and a lot of people have, like, Yeah.

Like, hey, maybe I work at a restaurant and I don't have a lot of money, and so when I go to a place, I don't necessarily want to feel obligated to tip. That all comes down to a large discussion of American tip culture. It's fundamentally broken. Like, somebody thinks of this fucking country.

It should be that the fucking workplaces have it built in the compensation where, like, individual workers don't have to hustle for tips to try to pay their bills, and they're just paid fairly, and, you know, that's just part of, like, all these laws that exempt people from paying minimum wage. Like, so many workers are sub-minimum wage

in the food service industry because they're treated as tipped employs, and that's, like, federally legal. It's fucking absurd. But that's the other thing. This is America. It's not getting fixed. We're not in Canada.

It's not getting fixed. So do your part, because we have a broken country. In America, you can only tip with guns. Yeah. And here's your bullet. Thank you for the burger. Weigher's right.

This place is fucked. I look right at the camera and say, I love this country, dude. I don't think we do anything wrong here. We got all figured out. Canada? I mean, it would be great if, Wendy, you could add a tip.

I mean, it's also a cashless society. No one has cash. I would feel so much better even just to leave a dollar. I would feel so much better if I could just... They should allow it. You know what I mean? And again, it's like, yes, I do feel lucky

I am able to tip. That's why I do it. There was times in my life when I wasn't able to. Yes, right. You know what I mean? For me, I'm like, well, if I can, now I will. I think you should, if you have a pain in the ass order, you should up at 5%, no matter what your...

That's a great rule of thumb. 10% or 15% if you're like, okay, I'm ordering lunch for everyone at the office and everyone needs their name on their sandwich or something. Oh, that stuff is awesome. You can add another 5% on that. And customize and all that stuff, I agree. Anyway, it was very generous of you.

I think I thought it was kind. And I would have done the same. I was joking when I said it was. We want to give that Affleck tip, that big tip. Yeah, you whipped it out. Just the tip. You whipped it out and she couldn't see anything so she just walked away.

Which is amazing because Lex was already mad they weren't on Roller Skate. So I'm glad. It's amazing. You didn't dock a couple bucks for no Roller Skate. He did keep calling her Roller Girl. He said, thank you, Roller Girl. Oh, no.

Yeah. The experience, I had a blast. I went on a fun. It was a great day. I liked eating in the car together. You did too. I was so unsure of it. And like we said, Mr. Spill didn't spill once.

I, on that last burger, a little piece of lettuce flew out and I told you, I spilled a little piece of lettuce which you then took a photo of and sent to us. Immediately, I found it right away. And I said it was the one thing you didn't eat, which I thought was fun. Yeah, that was a sick bird. And then I drove Wags to the train station

and we called it a day. And I said that the reason they call it Sonic, and this is also true, is because you have to go at Sonic speeds to get home to the toilet because you're going to shit your brains out, which is kind of what happened. It's true. I dropped you off at the train station.

I can't believe that you took like a 45 minute train ride after our car ride. But how were your guys' stomachs after that? Great question. Because I did not feel great. Yeah, I don't know if I had the old hedgehog popping out or Dr. Robotnik throwing bombs at my ass. But I felt okay.

I also don't, I didn't get chili anything because we had made chili a couple of nights before. I think it could have been the chili. And one thing I did want to say quickly about that chili, as opposed to a Wendy's chili, is probably unlike what spilled out of your pants or it wasn't runny. Yeah, right.

It's not a thin chili. And there's one other sauce we didn't mention and that was the special sauce. That's right, the special sauce. Which was a great sauce. Yeah. And it's probably the equivalent of the Chick-fil-A sauce. Yeah, very much so, yeah.

Yeah. I would say I had a couple of healthy poos, sure. Wow. I didn't know you poos. We lived together. We are roommates. I didn't deliver the joke as well as I had set up before. And you've yet to, yeah.

I did mention Roller Girl. We were talking about when you go to the bathroom and then you said you leave them on like Roller Girl. Yeah. And then there was a lot of talk about the end of the day stomach issues. Right. It was...

I never even really thought of Sonic that way, but I'm like, oh, I ate like three chili-based things. But it was heavy. Yeah. I think if you go there and you get a limeade and an all-American dog, I think you can be all right. We barely ate dinner. We were so stuffed.

We were stuffed. We tried a lot of stuff. We tried a lot of stuff. This is the thing. We didn't get like... Normally, if you were in order there, you'd probably get like a combo and then maybe one thing to share.

Yeah. We all got our own combos and then we got additional like full sandwiches to try. And like... And then a bunch of... All the apps. And then all the apps. So we got a ton of shit.

We ordered a lot more. And dessert drinks. Yeah. So we got too much, but it was a lot of fun. It was a total blast. We liked Sonic. Did we love it?

We'll find out after this break. We'll be back with more Doe Boys. Wow. Also, the text thread, Sonic the Food Hog. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Hey, you!

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DOBOYS at checkout. Do it. Welcome back to DOBOYS as Love Week continues. Heads towards its conclusion. Wags. But the love doesn't stop here with Norm and Elana.

The love is flowing here because also in the way that this never happens, outside looks like, if you went to like Sesame Street and saw Big Bird walking around, it's kind of a similar situation with DOBOYS characters. There's...

Celeb sightings. There's our Snuffle Luffagus is here basically. Susser just showed up. Susser just showed us. Uninvited. Uninvited. Unwanted. And Amelia, the DOBOYS crew is going on here.

They're here. Amelia's going to join us in just one second. But before we do that, it's time for our fork scores here with our second review of Sonic... Fuck, I think it's driving. Sonic driving. Sonic driving. For a second, I thought, well, is there another part of it beyond driving?

Is it Sonic something in driving? No, it's just Sonic driving. I second guessed myself. You know that feeling of sometimes just like, oh, I know what it is, but then like, what if I don't know what it is? No. OK. None of them have...

He's a man on hinge. Do none of them have like seating indoors now? No, they generally have... They've got the outdoor area and the drive-thru, and that's their whole business, and the drive-in, obviously. All right, here's how this will work. Norm, Alanna, will each go around, give our closing argument or final thoughts

of you all on this podcast, and that by giving it zero to five forks. Norm, to my left, will begin with you. I'm going to say that it is three and a half. Wow. What? Yeah. I got to hear more.

I just want to hear more. Well, this is jaw dropping. Wow. Literally, our jaws are like wide open right now. Is that bad? Just wait. No, please finish your thoughts. Please finish.

Just, I think I was let astray. I did not like the toaster sandwich. I know you fucked this. Yeah, more like giving Wyger three and a half. I know we love the mozzarella sticks, and I felt pretty good about them. I do think that they weren't any better than anything you get frozen out of your own box

from Costco. The marinara was pretty weak, but all of the shakes and the hot dogs, I'm going to say we're good, which is what I'm going to say, it's better than average. But I don't know if I can go as far as to say that it's a four out of five, so I'm going to say three and a half.

Wow. Last time. What the fuck did he do? I'll get to it in a second. We'll go to Elana. Your thoughts, your fork score. Okay. Also, you can't give Wyger three and a half.

He gets an Affleck score. Okay. I'm going to say I would give it, well, I'm obviously going to measure in knives as I do. I'm going to give it four knives, and my husband, can somebody take this sociopath off my hands three and a half? It's such a similar score.

Who are you? A monster? It's basically half point all. Oh my God. I'm giving it a four because the thing about Sonic, yes, it will feed you. Yes, it will nourish you. Yes.

But it will also help bring people together. Right. Wow. Because you have to sit in the car like an animal. I'm floored. In my mind, I was like, is this going to the Platinum Play Club? Well, it was in the Platinum Play Club.

When we went with Matt Apodaca, we gave it five forks all around. It was enshrined in the Platinum Play Club, but now it's getting the boot. Here's the thing. From the outside looking in. I'm giving it the four. Here's why it's a four.

And Norm already said it, the toast. I can't overlook it. And if that's like a signature thing, no, no, no, Wyger. I was let astray on the main. No, no, no, no. We had to get the toast because if that's one of their things, we had to try it.

It's not on you. Sure, it's your fault, but it's not on you necessarily because you didn't make the toast. But yeah, you sabotage the entire outing. I can't believe that this happened. Love Week is fucking falling apart. This is insane. Four is a bad number.

No way. I think three and a half is pretty good. Three and a half. Norm, you're the most critical judgemental person. I know. If you really are saying two and a half right now. What a way to find out. Okay, Mitch, unleash the beast.

This is fucked. I, look, I had a great time. We ate those burgers. That burger at the end was so fantastic. It was great. The nerd's drink was fantastic. That's true. The cherry limeade was delicious.

Yeah. What the hell is wrong with you two? You deserve each other with this three and a half and four. Oh my God. Sorry that I don't like wet bread. The toast is a wager fucker. Sorry I don't like eating burgers in between napkins. The toast is a wager fucker.

What the fuck did Tay put all on me? Shut up. This is exactly what happened when you let me astray at Carl's Jr. with the stupid barbecue western burger. There you go. That burger's great. That burger's disgusting. That burger is great, but this is the same sort of thing.

This is the same thing. So I'm saying I can throw a wager under the bus. I'm hilarious. No, the toast is more unknown. The toast is unknown. See with an onion ring in there. It gets too slidey. This is a norm.

I can't believe it. Look, I was going to say this. This is where I was going to say, but like I said, Sonic, is it named Sonic because you have to go at Sonic speed so you don't shit yourself in the way home? Yes, maybe. But also our friend Sonic the Hedgehog. Yeah.

Loves chili dogs. He sure does. And you know what? He'd really approve of this place because they have a fucking delicious chili dog. Yeah. A footlonger. It's fantastic.

It's fast. It services fast. They have rings. And you know what? Just like Sonic, they're friendly and funny a lot of the time. They are funny. Yeah. And the ordering thing is a robot.

And the ordering thing is a robot. It's a robot, yeah. We didn't break one, but maybe an animal will come out if you broke it, like in Sonic. Yep. I, and you know what? It gets a gold ring just like Sonic would say. Wow.

And for me, five gold rings. Wow. Five forks. It's still Platinum Play Club to me. Yeah. Why? First off. You should.

First off, happy love week, everyone. Barely. Christ. I feel like I just brought everybody down. Yeah. Welcome to my life. Mitch mentioned Sonic the Hedgehog, famous blue fictional character.

As I was reflecting on this meal at Sonic Drive-In, I was thinking of another blue fictional character who was in my mind often since seeing The Way of Water in theaters three times, Jake Sully. And what I was thinking about is if I were to undergo the Jake Sully transformation, where I were to convene with Iowa and abandon my human form and become a Navi

and live on Pandora among the Navi. God. It seems amazing. Just thinking about the Navi. This is a new weird guy. I know what you're saying. This is the legs guy. Yep.

This is the legs guy, yeah. It's more to him than that. But yes. Yep. So, as much as I would be like, happiness is simple. And this is what it's all about. It's just about like, you know, hanging with my family and splashing in a stream and catching fish.

At some point, having the memories of someone who'd lived on Earth, I would be like, fuck, I would love some Sonic. Wow. And I think this, I don't think that's true of every experience on Earth. But I think a chain like Sonic would be the kind of thing at once in a while, I'd be like, fuck, I would fucking love to have a chain like Sonic. And you'd maybe like open one at the bottom of Home Tree.

Yeah. Like you didn't even think twice about Natalie. Of course I'd miss my wife. Well, you didn't say it. In this scenario, she would also undergo the Navi transformation and she'd be there with me, okay? Meanwhile, all the Navi have avatarred into human bodies to get away from water.

I'm just saying, I think it's that good where it's like a fast food place that I would miss if I wasn't anywhere near one. And I think for that reason, it deserves five rings, which, you know, does not put in the Golden Plate Club or the Platinum Plate Club. But you know what? It has a good score from the Doughboys. And I think a good score from our guests.

So that's our review of Sonic Drive. We still love. Who we still love. Wow, Norm. Really? You owe everyone an apology for the derail. I want to toss in another half point now. I feel like I've been convinced of it just to give it a four.

No. No, don't feel like you have to do that. I'm not going to. I'm going to stick by my Mr. Taye standard. Wow. I'm going to say that some of the things did not taste great. This is this. It was my jaw dropped when you said that.

I'm devastated. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Well, hey, that was our review of Sonic Drive-In. Revisited. It's time for a segment. I did the same with Carl's as you remember.

That's true. Hey, that was our review of Sonic Drive-In. Revisited. It's time for a segment and to lead us along the way, here is our associate producer, Amelia Marino. Hi, Amelia. How are you doing? Good.

How's everyone doing? We're doing great. Just great. Awesome. All right. It was got a little complicated at the end of our review. It got a little heated. Yeah.

Oh, really? Well, I'll find out in a couple of days when I listen to it. All right. Norm will get eaten alive. Yeah. That Reddit, which we love so much. Yeah. All right, Amelia, we have a new, this is a new thing that you devised and it's specific

for Love Week. I'm very excited to do this. All right. Are you guys ready? Yes. Yes. Pre-recorded from Silver Lake. It's the Chewy Wed Game.

Wow. The Chewy Wed Game. I'm your host, Amelia Marino, and now let's meet our contestants for today. Quick question. How long have you guys been married? 28. Four years. So, yeah.

No, 2019. 2019, yeah. You said 28 years and she was like four. Four, four, four. I mean, he's been in love with me for that long. Terrible. The four years? Yes.

Four years. And Likes and Mitch, how long have you guys been friends? Well, let's see. We've been doing the podcast for almost eight years and how long have we known each other? We were friends before that. No, but I'm just trying to think. Probably May 2006, 2007, is my guess. I was just thinking in terms of formalizing the relationship, if we think of like, hey,

we're going to go into business together in the same way of getting married, like, you know, you were dating before you were married. Sure, if you put it that way, eight or nine years. Yeah, but in terms of knowing each other, almost 15 years, it's been a while. Well, me and Atlanta were friends before we got married. Yeah, we were enemies as well. I'd say seven. I mean, I'd probably known you for 17.

17 years? 2006? I mean, I probably saw you on stage in 2005. George W. Bush was president? That's right. You knew each other? That's right. Strategic.

I photo for him. Wait, is that right? George W. Bush was in there? Yeah. Obama 2008. Yeah. Or 2009, actually. We were.

I think we knew each other before that. I think we knew each other under W. You can't even agree on when you met. This is off to a bad start. A while. Seven or eight. Probably 17, 18 years possibly. All right, well, well, well.

Four years friends, enemies, the end. Wow. Okay, well, let me introduce our contestants for today. Couple number one, married for four years. We have Alana Johnston and Norm Sousa. Woo. Couple number two, friends for 17 years and co-hosts on a podcast for eight. We have Nick Weiger and Mike Mitchell.

Ah, shit. Oh, my God. Now, our truly weds might be in a surprise when they find out how much they dough or dough not know about each other. Wow. It's so mad. I can't. I can't.

No, yes. What? No, no. It's good. No, please. No, you're doing great. Go on. All right.

Now are the rules. One person from each couple will leave the room and then I'll ask a round of questions about your partner. It's important that you answer the questions as you predict your partner will answer the same question when they return. Wow. If their answer matches your prediction, you get a point. Wow.

And each point brings you closer to the grand prize of Whitman's chocolate sampler. Wow. Fuck, I want them so bad. Me too. Me too. That's a classy goblet. Some milk bar cookie. Oh, wow.

I got it. Those are expensive. They're like two bucks on clearance. I mean, they're really expensive. So, get ready. And also, I'll say this. When the other people leave the room, I bought this cool ranch dip. And we're going to try the dip.

Okay. Cool ranch Doritos dip, which, Amelia, what did they say? It's the same upside down as it is. What is it? Oh, yeah. It's an ambergram. An ambergram. Ambergram.

Sounds like a lady. Ambergram. Yeah. But, Amelia, you brought some tostitos and cool ranch chips. Yeah. And nacho cheese. And nacho Doritos. So, wait.

I'm sorry. Two people leave the room. Yeah. Do people have a snack? And then those other people don't get a snack and they come back in. No, everyone gets to try the snack. Okay, well, you said when they leave, we're going to have it. Look, I just bought this the other day and I thought we should try it.

That's basically what it comes down to. Mitch wanted to eat the dip and then we're going to do a different segment. Mitch's like, well, I have this dip and I want to eat it. And I'm going to take over Amelia's segment to have it. No, it's in between. So, here we go. He just heard about the dip and now he's poking his head out. Oh, he did.

Susser just came in to... Shouldn't the people have the snack when they're not here? That's a great call. Thanks, Susser. That's a great call. Thanks, Susser. It's kind of valuable what he offers. He just wants the dip outside.

He wants the dip outside. He wants the dip outside. That's okay. That's fine. It's still a good idea. It is still a good idea. It is a good idea. Based on the my guy's laughing so hard,

Susser's trying to get the dip. So, I think... So, maybe me, Mitch, and Mitch should go outside so we can give Susser some dip. Well, we should decide how we want to do this. Oh, wait. Yeah, sorry. Go to Amelia.

I guess we should decide who you'd rather be out in the hallway talking and eating food with. Go, Norm. Enjoy the dip. So, the teams are... The teams are Nick and Mitch versus Alana and Norm. Okay. Hey, why don't we vacate this couch

and then you guys can cozy over there. Oh, that's good. Oh, that's fine. Okay, we're going to go outside. We're going to go outside. Wait, so you guys take the dip out? Yeah, we're taking the dip out. Yep, take the dip.

This is kind of fucked. This is kind of fucked. Bye. See if there's anyone. Just for everybody that's not watching the live stream, Mitch is crushed. I mean gutted about the dip. I'm fucking...

I am sad about the dip. Also, Susser showed up for the dip. Why is he here? What the fuck is his problem? What the heck is this? Why the fuck is... Why is Susser here? I bought the dip.

I can't eat the dip. We're talking Susser with Crud2. That's right. You're a feature player on Crud2. That's right. Old sketch group. We kind of know real premise. I wonder who will...

I wonder who will... I think you're going to... You should win this game. I'm not going to. Norm is quite literally out to lunch. It's not... My eyes are on it. Trust me.

It's like... I'm going to have to think like, what's the worst age I can give? And that's what he'll guess. Don't forget, my teammate is Wyger. Yeah, I know. Your teammate's with like a pile of metal. All right.

Are you ready for question one? Yes. How does your partner take their eggs? Okay. This is kind of a two-part. Can I explain myself and then you help me choose? Sure. If he's doing it on the pan to be over easy.

But as of late, he's been doing it scrambled. So that's out of convenience. So the way he likes them, over easy. Is that because that's what you said, likes, right? That's how they take their eggs. Take likes. You know what? If he gives an answer that is similar.

If he says scrambled and is like, well, actually, I usually... Okay. So he... Okay. Great. Okay. I'm fair with that.

We can get flexible. I was thinking scrambled or over easy for Wyger too. I think I'm going to go scrambled because I've seen him eat scrambled eggs before. Okay. Okay. That's fair. Great. Great.

What is your partner's ideal sandwich? I mean, he's been craving Philly cheesesteaks, but I know that's not the one. I'm going to go... I think I know my answer. Okay. Veggie sandwich. Maybe more specific?

No. He likes a veggie sandwich. He was talking about eating a veggie sandwich a lot of the time. I think you can say veggie sandwich. I think that counts. What if he says veggie sandwich? What if he says veggie burger because isn't a burger a sandwich? He might say burger.

But that's supposed to be a sandwich, supposedly. I think he might say he's veggie sandwich. He always gets a veggie sandwich. Okay, veggie sandwich. But what veggies? Because like a grilled cheese could be... Oh, no, no. That won't count.

If he says grilled cheese, that won't count. All right. I'm going to say pastrami. I'm going for it. That's a great answer. Yeah. I'm going for it. Wait.

What did you say? I said pastrami. Pastrami. I blacked out. Okay. What is a foolproof way to make your partner angry? Attendance, like if I'm around. I mean, can I say same answer?

Yeah, let's say the same answer. Let's take a risk. Let's both do it. I mean, that's a really funny... I mean, my other thought is like if I'm being stubborn or something. A foolproof way to make him angry is anything to do with work. Yeah, I think anything I text him just about worker in general. Yeah.

He seems to be angry. Okay, so I'm going to say work. Are you going to say... Well, I think I was both saying just around. Let's do it. Let's do it, yeah. Okay. What is your partner's favorite thing about you?

My butt. I promise. You want to say the same thing on this one? What's going on? You see butts. I think for... Hmm. At one point, I think that Waggar thought that I was a friendly, nice man.

I think he thinks you're really funny. I think he thinks I'm funny. Yeah. Okay. I think that's what it is. I don't like to say that answer, but I think that's what it is. I know. It doesn't seem like the right answer to give, but you can give it even if it's up on yourself.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I'll say that. Okay. You and your partner... My butt. My butt. You and your partner are at a wedding and their favorite DJ, MCC, starts playing their favorite

song. What song is that? Oh my God. It's at a wedding because I know one of his favorite songs is... He loves Harry Nielsen, but it's not like that's... No one's playing that at a wedding. I got to think... Because it's a wedding.

A wedding so specific. But I think that just like his favorite song is... I think that's okay. My answer is nothing. White noise. The DJ takes a break and doesn't play anything. That is my answer. I'm going to say anything by George Harrison.

Great answer. That's what I'm going to say. So if he says anything by him, that counts. Okay. That's how I feel like Weigert could say like real big fish or something. But it's okay. I'm going to go... Oh my God.

I know the answer. Okay. The answer is something by Metallica. Oh, that's good. But yes, Metallica. Okay. Metallica. All right.

Last question. How many flights of stairs does your partner have in their home? Oh my God. Like a full flight? Or just stairs? I'll accept both. Okay. Three stairs.

The real answer is zero for Weigert. The real answer. I mean, he lives in the apartment building. I am dying to see how this turns out. This is so good. I'm dying right now. Well, that was the last... It was six questions.

Is it time for a dip switch? Let's do a dip switch. Dip switch. Here we go. We're back in here. All right now. Question number one. Can I say before Weigert started real quick?

Oh, yeah. Susser ate most of the dip. Yeah, yeah. He had so much. Quite a bit of his gum. It just kind of speaks to him as a man, that he would go out of his way to come here knowing that there might be dip that he could eat.

He dipped and dipped. Some heavy scoops. He's still going now. He's going for round two. I mean, he's going to be dominating both us and Lanna and Mitch, both of our shifts. Well, speaking of round two, let's get to it. Okay.

I love it. Your partner asks you to grab them a snack from the store. What are you buying? Oh, for Mitch? Am I guessing what Mitch would get from me? Or am I saying what I would get from Mitch? You're guessing what... You would get from Mitch.

What Mitch would ask. How do you think Mitch is going to answer? Got it. Mitch would want nacho cheese Doritos. I'm sorry. I'll amend that. Mitch would want cool ranch Doritos. Okay.

And we don't... It's savory or sweet. It doesn't matter. I'm going to say Lanna would take dill pickle chips. Okay. Fuck, that sounds good. You were talking... You had a half a thought earlier where you were like...

Enough about chips. Canadian candy is like such like a... And I feel like that anytime I've gotten a big Canadian candy sampler platter, I'm like, Holy shit, this is unbelievable. You heard of X-Pack? It's called... I probably had X-Pack.

I just can't... I can't place it specifically. You can... They can send Canadian or English treats to your house. Okay, okay. That might have been what we got. Yeah. All right.

This one's kind of an easy one, but at least for one of the people here, but would your partner prefer to make whoopee or eat whoopee pie? Mitch would rather eat whoopee pies. Yeah. I feel like I had pretty confident in that. Yeah. Lanna's going to make whoopee, I think.

And also, Mitch earlier in this episode was the whoopee Goldberg of the conversation. That's true. Kind of in the view set. We were the view. He's the whoopee. We have a triple whoopee on Tondra. Okay, three.

If your partner ended up in jail, what would it be for? Hmm. What would Mitch end up in jail for? Lanna's going to be an assault, potentially a stabbing. Yeah. That's what I'll say. Yeah. Attempted murder.

This is tough. I mean, I'm just trying to think of what Mitch would do that would be felonious because he's also a fearful man. So he wouldn't go on to get in trouble. I'm going to say they found his toilet camp. Oh, a toilet. Yeah, they found his secret toilet camp. Right, right, right.

Yeah. Let's make it a litter box camp to make it on Brown. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just to look at cat buttholes. I honestly don't know what Mitch would do to get himself drunk. I wonder what he said here. I wonder if it was something like, I'm guessing you might have said something like DUI or something.

Or involuntary manslaughter. Involuntary manslaughter, yeah, vehicular homicide. Is it a felony to marry your own mom? Maybe that's it. Incest. Yeah, yeah, incest. OK. And by the way, they actually haven't answered these questions yet.

They haven't answered them yet. Wow. We're doing the individual ones first and then we'll have you in the room together and reveal. OK, OK. Wow. OK. Does your partner think Christmas is a cookie holiday?

Yes. Yeah. I think soft yes. Soft cookies. Soft, soft cookie yes. Soft cookie yes. I'm going to say a definite yes. OK.

What would you say, what would your partner say is your best quality? Mitch would say some shit like I'm organized. Kind of like one of those non-plements, you know? I think you'd say something like, oh, Nick's really like on the ball. So I think I'll go with that. Yeah, I'm going to say driving skills. That's a good skill to have. Yeah, driving.

I'd love to be a good driver. I'm like a very like nervous driver. I'm competent, but I'm just like I get very anxious. I don't love doing it. If I just was good driver, yeah, that'd be great. Yeah. When I'm scared of driving and I drive in rough weather, no problem. So I think, and I do commute her around quite a bit.

You know, speaking of my actual marriage, that's kind of our dynamic reversed. Because Natalie is a very confident, capable driver and she will handle the tough driving chores and I get very anxious. Really? Yeah. All right. Well, this is the last question. Great.

Great. A guy puts a gun to your head and says, I have your partner locked up in the other room and you both have to say a single word. If it's the same word, you live. If you pick different words, you both get killed. What is that word? Well, if I'm Mitch, I'm nervous because there's no way he's missing my head. He'll be looking at me through his sniper scope.

He's going to fucking bullseye. I'm going to say that word. I think it's what Mitch is going to say. Wow. Oh my God. I don't know the answer to this. A single word, there's a gun to my head. We both have to say the same word.

What is that word going to be? Trudeau. Selene. I'm going to say it's going to be a name. Sure. How long is this one word? I'm going to say it's... Oh man, this is...

Because we do have like, you know, when couples have like a lingo around the house. Yeah, right, yeah. But mostly it's just adding like, we just add like a little thing at the end of a regular word. So I could be like... But I'm going to say it's... She might not know. I was going to say the dog's name, Mia. Maybe I'll say...

Because we do call the dog Miush. That's cute. Yeah, I'm going to say Miush. That's cute. Yeah, just because it's cute. I hope that works. The killer's like, I'm sorry, but it was Mia. Oh no!

All right, that's it. Okay. We could get everyone back into the room. All right, now we're all back in the room together. I took an embarrassingly long pee. Yeah. It was urinating for about 10 minutes. A lot of grunts for a pee.

Let me tell you, that bathroom is echoey. And I have a feeling that the hunks and babes of headgum don't have to use the bathroom like I do usually. You think? I feel like there wasn't even toilet paper in there. Well, why did you need it? You only took a long ass piss. I mean, if I get... Or when I get pissed on the seat, I wipe it off.

Sure, right. You stopped to look at the hunks of a headgum calendar. Casey looking good on that calendar. March. Very good. Anyways, we're back. We're back. It's not as funny as we were going to name the segment dip shit, dip slash shit, whether it was...

Well, the other half of the segment. We have a segment. The segment is the Chulewide game. The Chulewide game. You had the dip that you wanted to eat and you need the excuse to give yourself permission to eat it. You need the excuse of it being part of the show. Then you had a huge shit. Then you had to take a huge shit.

The dip... I mean, the long piss, I apologize. The dip put me over the edge and that's what made me had a piss. I think probably... Probably because dip is like almost liquidy, maybe. Sure, that makes sense, yeah. But we're going to call it dip shit. That's just ironic.

You took that too literally. I took it. They took it literally. We'll talk about the dip later. Let's get to the Chulewide game. Let's do it. Okay, these are questions for Nick and Norm. Okay.

How do you take your eggs? Wait, these are questions that they've already answered. They answered these questions. So we're about to find out how much you dough or dough not know each other. Got it. How do I take my eggs? Like I made them this morning, scrambled. I'm going to say, if it's not microwaved on a plate, I'm going to say it's over easy.

Ding, ding, ding. You both answered correctly. Yeah, baby. You both have one point. Cool. Okay. What is your ideal sandwich? Oh, this is tough.

Mitch is guessing my ideal sandwich. In years past, it would be a BLT. However, he knows that I don't eat pork anymore. And he knows I like patty melts. He knows I like PB and J. Could be PB and J. But I think he might have said grilled cheese, which I, which I do love grilled cheese.

Well, I do like a California breaded veal sandwich. I also like an Italian sub. I also like a turkey sub from Jersey Mike's. No fishing norm. Man, I'm a big sandwich guy. It could be so many things. Oh, you love sandwich. Yeah, I do love a sandwich.

I'm going to say with, I'm going to say, God, because it normally. But remember, what did I say? What did you say? Hey, hey, hey. No, you're just crazy. That's what he said. Okay, okay. That's what he said.

Norm has to think of that on his own. Weigert just said it. By the way, the turkey sub from Jersey Mike's. Yeah, that's great. That's a great sandwich. And I don't usually love a turkey sandwich, but the turkey sub is real good. It is really good there. Yeah, of course, mice lay rules.

I'm going to say an Italian sub. Okay. Great answer. I didn't get it. Well, neither of us. You bolted not. That's correct. No.

Both of us. And Weigert, it's crazy because I said veggie sandwich for you. That's a great answer. I do love a veggie sandwich. And then she said, well, that could be a grilled cheese. And I said, you know what? If he says grilled cheese, it's wrong. Wow.

So he didn't say that. I would have maybe accepted it. But I do love a well-made veggie sandwich. So that's bitches, bitches. Right. Which is on point. I said pastrami. Oh, pastrami sandwich.

Can you order it everywhere? I do order it. It's too late. No, take back. We both overthought it. That's what I thought it out of existence. Yeah, I'm a big pastrami sandwich. I'll get a pastrami sandwich anywhere that has it.

Wow. Okay. You're still tied though. One for one. Wow. There we go. One and one. Next question.

What is a foolproof way to make you angry? Hmm. This was one of the funner questions. Yeah, this was fun. You have foolproof way to get me angry. First off, I'm not. I don't get angry, so. Tough one to answer.

I don't get mad. I mean, you have one of the firmest, most tense faces I've ever seen in my life. I find that impossible to believe. Go ahead. I think Mitch would have said being late. I think Atlanta is going to say waking me up early in the morning. Both. Wow.

Wow. Being late is great. I should have said that. That is one. I don't do that as much anymore. It doesn't happen. Well, it kind of happens sometimes. Yeah.

That much. It happened when we went to Sonic this week. We talked about it earlier in the episode. That was crazy circumstance. Crazy circumstance. I was up till 7 in the morning. I mean, it doesn't happen as much anymore. It's fine.

So, both Alana and Mitch said that their general presence or attendance near. Wow. Now, that makes sense. Just being around. Okay, sure. That's a better answer. And then they modified, then Mitch said anything like work related or stubbornness. Yeah, me being stubborn, I'm saying.

Right. Okay. Yeah, that's pretty good. What did you clarify? Anything to do with work in you. I got you. Yeah, that's like if you talk about it and they'll get you going. That's right.

Work related stuff. Yeah. Yeah. I just wanted to lower what stopped everyone's like, I cannot emphasize enough how much dip Evan Susser ate. Do you have the same experience? Yeah. Yes.

And also when we got out there, I was like, whoa, they really did eat a lot of the dip. That was tough. You didn't say that. I was like, holy shit, they ate a lot of the dip. And I also was then being like, why is Suss here? Did he come just for the dip? Yeah. It's very confusing.

He never got an answer technically. Yeah. He went for a walk and then he scooted half here and now he wants to ride home is from what is what I've gathered. Let's just feel free to weigh in whenever you like. He's good. He said no. Okay, good.

Yeah. Okay, next question. Dr. Krug too. What is your favorite thing about your partner? Oh, well, here we go. This is what, wait, this is me. What I would say is Mitch's best quality. Just a, okay, I'm trying to figure it out.

Um, wait, I have to, we have to rephrase that because someone's best quality and then what you like about them might not be the same thing because you phrase it as what do you like best about them, right? Not necessarily quality. How was it phrased? Yeah. What is your favorite thing about your partner? What is your favorite thing about your partner?

What you were saying about me. What Mitch, so Mitch is saying what he thinks I would say was my favorite thing about him. Yes. Yeah. Okay. Yeah, you know, he's lovable. He's charming. Yeah, funny.

Funny. Suburrant. Oh, I'm talking about Atlanta. You're talking about Mitch. I got ya. Exuberant. Exuberant. Exuberant is a great word for you.

He's a great time to be around, a great hang. He could just narrow down to maybe just one thing. Yeah, I'm just spitballing. I'm just trying to get through all those. I'm gonna say Atlanta's ability to party. That's pretty good. And honestly. That's interesting.

You could say a similar thing about Mitch. I am a party dude. He is a party animal. He's a very social animal. The beast. I'm trying to figure out how to characterize this, but I'm just gonna, let me know if there's an acceptable answer. How funny and charismatic he is.

I will take that. Yes. Mitch said funny. Yeah. She helped me get there. Yeah. I am so sorry. You know what she said.

You know what it is, Norm, because you're a bold-faced liar. It's my butt. You're a fat. Oh, wow. Now that's right. Wow. The stick came off. Literally the butt and the sleeve hit me right in the dick.

Yeah. Like, hello. No, you're right. I got two Ben Affleck hogs on the back of my ear, baby. That's right. I'm sorry. It is Atlanta's big fat ass. By the way, if I hadn't said funny, how angry would Mitch be?

I felt self-conscious about saying it. He was like dancing around and then finally I was like, funny, it's that you're funny. Yeah. But we do like that we like to party. We don't let the other person feel bad about partying either. You're telling me tater tits as a grass. Yeah. Yeah.

Okay. You got a sonic-sized ass. All right, next question. You're at a wedding and your favorite DJ, MCC, starts playing your favorite song. What song is that? Oh, Mine is Night Moves by Bob Seeger. We answered as, I shall say this, we answered Band. We answered like an artist.

Oh, then probably George Harrison. I think Mitch is either going to say Metallico or Elvis Presley and I'm going to go Elvis Presley. Okay. Ding, ding, ding for Atlanta and Worm. George Harrison. Yes, yes, yes. Harrison.

I'm so sorry, Nick, but the answer was Metallica. Wow. That one hurt. That one was way too close. That really hurt. Yeah, song and band is very specific things. Well, the reason why just you guys know, the reason why we had to stray from song is because we were like, well, if they're at a wedding and it's not like you guys are going to start

dancing. Yeah. So that's why we had to go a little broader. Yeah. I first said no music. You'd want them to turn the music off. White noise. You said white noise.

That's good answer. And then I said Metallica. Yeah. Presley more than Metallica. No, I'm just, I mean, I'm certainly thinking recency bias because we've talked about Elvis a lot and you've, I've been talking about how much I like Elvis, but because of the Elvis movie. Yeah.

But I know that you know that I like Metallica. Yeah. So I think, hey, you certainly know me with that answer. Yeah. And normally I'm a Nielsen person, but I've been. I said Nielsen. I love Harry Nielsen. It's a Harry Nielsen.

It's a huge George Harrison kick. I know. It really helped out there. He changed his answer to George Harrison. I fucked up. I fucked up. No, you're fine. The real answer there for me, by the way, is that I'm RSVPing no to the wedding.

Won't be there. Yeah. Hey, the DJ. That's true. Requesting you to come to Hot Stepper over and over. This is the last question for Nick and Norm. Great. How many flights of stairs do you have in your home?

Oh, well, flight, it's zero. Okay. I'll accept stair number as well. Oh, yeah. Just the front steps. So one, I guess. Zero stairs in my apartment, but I'm wondering if Mitch is counting my complex as my home, which he's done in the past.

But I'm going to say he's, I think that's bad faith, and I think he's going to stay zero. Yeah, I think he said none. I think he said none. Zero. Ding, ding, ding for Mitch and Y. Wow. The answer is none. And I'm sorry, Norm.

What Hussies house with one step have you been going to? Because we have three. Three. There's three steps in the front. Are you listening to this bullshit? The question was the flight of stairs. Where are you going? I did clarify.

No, she clarified. I said I would accept stair number. Oh, I see. Okay. We have three steps. Maybe that was a clerical issue. We have a lot to go over. Okay.

Yeah. Please, I just want one of these cookies. I know. I'm like so. Eyes on her chest. Oh my God. Okay, okay. What's the score so far?

And that's all of the questions from round one, right? Yes, that is all the questions. Three, three, or two, two. It is three to two. Three to two. Three to two. Three to two. I think we just have three Elana and Norm have two.

Wow. Okay. Great. All right. So now we're flipping it around. We need to come back. And now it's questions that Norm and I answered on Mitch and Elana's behalf. Here we go.

Great ads. All right, here we go. Also, Evan's like totally trying to open this. Souser's opening the cookies already. That's the prize. Dude. That's the prize for the winning team. Don't dip the cookies.

Oh my God, Evan. You're a monster. He's dipping the cookies in the dip. The most fireless commissioner had won. Step down. I should have guessed the last one, the three. That's an obvious. You should have guessed the but.

That was obvious. The but too. Yeah, I fucked up. Okay. You asked your partner to pick you up a snack from the store. What snack is that? Chips. Korex Doritos.

What kind of chips, Elana? The white truffle chips from Trader Joe's. No, that's not it. Well, you made me clarify. You shouldn't have done that. Oh, Emma, what do I do here? I think, well, Mitch got it. Mitch nailed it.

So, Mitch and Y's, ding, ding, ding. Congratulations. But Norm guessed the dill pickle chips. Dill pickle chips. But they don't always have them in the states, Norm. You can't say that. That's not fair. It's a Canadian chip.

Elana, put it just in there where you could have any chips. You're blowing this for Norm. You're seeing the scenarios where you go to the store. What is this magical store that has all my chips? Yes. If the question had been worded to say the magical chip store that has any chips. It would have been dill pickle without a doubt.

But I named it American chip. I think that's, I think what, I think your logic is sound. I think Norm also knows you by guessing that chip. So, I don't think anyone did anything wrong. Okay, fair. Norm was definitely right in that. Okay. Would you prefer to make whoopee or eat whoopee pie?

Make whoopee. Oh my God. Eat whoopee pie. Oh my God. All right. That was an easy one. Yeah. I was like, if you guys didn't get that, you don't know the chip.

That's the big fat ass question of our time. Okay. That was like a free, that was just like a bingo centerpiece. Exactly. Yeah. Okay. If you ended up in jail, what does your partner think it before? Public intoxication.

Oh man. I think mine would be, I think mine would be for, for drinking too. I'm going to look like a scumbag if I say drinking and driving. I just will say it. I had the exact same thought. I will say it. Okay. I would, Emma, would you, would you say that's correct?

I mean, Wiggs did say a DUI, right? That was one of my answers, but I did settle on. They discovered your secret litter box cam. Murdering Wiggs is probably the real answer. He's right. I'm not even giving him a chance to succeed. All right. Mine was attempted murder, right?

Yes. You were attempted. Assault, stabbing, attempted murder. Excuse me. If I start the job, I'm going to finish. Are you out of your mind? Stabbing, stabbing. Norm, are you listening to this?

Get your own ride home, even though you drove. I did, I did guess DWI at a certain point and then I second guessed. Okay. So you don't have to give me a point. You also said camera in the bathroom. Yeah, that's true. Your first instinct was toilet cams. That's true.

Just so we can see that long piss. Susser. Susser now has the chocolate. Oh no. I'm so sick of this. I'm not a man who's driving around drunk for God's sakes. Don't do it. No.

Okay. Next question. Part of the reason that I went there is not cause like you do that, but because I'm like, Mitch is not going to kill somebody. Mitch is not going to rob a bank. Sure. You know, like Mitch is not going to do something felonious. But yeah, he might drink a little bit too much and end up at driving.

Low warning. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. I'm going to drive home drunk tonight for God's sakes. All that dip. Close one eye. I'll be fine. Do you think Christmas is a cookie holiday?

Yes. No. Ding, ding, ding for Alana Norm. Unfortunately, Wig said soft yes. I feel like you come around to a soft yes, but I understand why you thought I might guess, I might say soft is right. Fuck. I thought you thought that like because of what we said.

Yeah. Where, where are we score wise? We're tied. We're tied. Okay. Oh my God. No, I have Mitch, Mitch and Wags are at five and Alana Norm are at four. Okay.

But this still will, will be a pivotal question. I think the tie goes to the guests. Yeah. 100%. I do have a tiebreaker question. Oh, Jesus Christ. What is your partner's best quality? Oh, we got a, we got a couple more.

Oh yeah. There's still a couple. There's, there's two more questions and then if needed, the tiebreaker. Okay. What's the question again? What is your partner's best quality? Quality. There's two things I could say here.

Weiger is extremely organized and then also he's very generous. I'm going to go with generous. Okay. Quality. Cause I want to say your hair. Yes. We haven't talked about this enough for those of you not watching the video feed. Norm has a fantastic kind of hair.

It's incredible. So great. I'm so envious. I'm so being hair cock sitting next to him on the couch. Sometimes I get the Mr. Sheffield white skunk thing. It's amazing. It looks great. So great.

Thank you. Yeah. But I'm going to say funny. Yeah. It's that you're funny. I'm sorry. What were the answers? Mike said organized.

Yeah. I went the other way around. Yeah. And Norm said his driving skills. Oh yeah. You are a good driver. Yeah. I honestly want to ride.

I said the organized one and also the generous thing is very nice. Yeah. The hair thing is very long. You bring that up? No. I didn't bring that up. No. Yeah.

No. Okay. So it's still five four because we both caught her. I'm a little self-conscious about the salt and pepper. Let's move on. The salt and pepper looks great. Let's move on. The salt and pepper is a bit like a big part of why your hair looks so bad.

That's right. I think that you're trying to boost his confidence. But honestly, Evan's getting his grubby little hands all over everything. We must finish the game. Yes. It's like everything. I can't stand it. This is insane.

Oh my God. Both is watering. Look at the monitor. Oh my God. We know who ate the dip. He's chewing on a microphone. So this is the last question. Okay.

Oh shit. It might not be. This could bring it to a tie. But if not, this is the last question. All right. It's a tough one too. A guy puts a gun to your head and says, I have your partner locked up in the other room and you both have to say a single word.

If it's the same word, you live. If you pick different words, you both get killed. What is that word? So easy. Calm. No hesitation. Doesn't think about it. Immediately.

Oh wait. Wow. I'm going to go. I'm going on a huge limb on this one. Wait, which one are you going to settle on? I'm going to say wow. Okay. Don't double come this.

This one's huge and totally inside and I could be wrong. Oh fuck. That's a good one. Congratulations to Weiger and Mitch because you guys live a lot on norm. I'm sorry. What's the word? Wow. The dog.

Oh my God. You know, I was thinking that, but then I was like, I didn't consider that a word. I considered it a name. I did say that we put sh at the end of everything. I got the second half of it at least. I feel disgusted for winning this. We spent too much time together. I know.

It's disgusting. You've been married longer than we have. Was wow the answer? Wow was the answer. Yeah wow. Anyways, enjoy your sweaty cookies. Congrats to us. Congrats to the Nick and Y's you get us.

Wow. Thank you. But you know what? I love our guests. I love our guests too. And they get to have them. I agree. Oh my God.

I'm so excited. I love the game. What was a tiebreaker question? Um, what's the secret talent your partner has that other people don't know about? Well, I must do this one. Let's just say the man can make a circle of himself. Okay. What?

Hey, thank you, Amelia. Big hand for Amelia everyone. Now, dip or shit? Did you like the dip or was it shit? I thought the dip was good. And honestly, Susser may have persuaded me that the best dipping combo was the nacho cheese chip into the cool ranch dip. Believe it or not, he was spewing the same thing when we came home while eating more

of it. Yeah. I think that the dip is a dip. I don't think it's shit. It's a good dip. I think it's a decent dip. I wish it was a little more cool ranchy. And less jalapeno.

Very jalapeno. Yes, great point. And my favorite to dip into it, I thought that the tortilla chips are going to be number one. Those were last. Cool ranch number one for me. The ranch worked out. Nacho, then tortilla.

I'm going to say I love the dip. And without Susser saying anything, I said the nacho cheese and then you had said that you said the same thing. So I agree because it, not, I mean, this is too easy of a setup, but the dip cuts the cheese. It literally does. So that's why I liked it. I did walk in and there was that one chip in every bag that collected all of the dust

on it. And I did eat that just straight up, like no, you know, just meat. They should make Doritos. We've talked about this. They should make the extra. Double flavor, extra powder. Yeah. They definitely should.

I'm going to say that I liked the plain tortilla because it really brought out the taste of the dip. Although I do think it was slightly jalapeno-y too much, but I'm still kind of into it. I'm going to say that the regular tortilla, then the nacho, then the double cool ranch might have been too much ranch. Too much ranch. All right. I still like the double cool ranch.

I think that would be my number two. But I liked them all. It's a good dip. I agree that it's, that it's more, more, if you taste me, taste tasted at blind, I would not, I guess it was a cool ranch dip, I guess it was a jalapeno, like jalapeno sour cream dip. I'm going to say the same thing actually. I agree with that.

What a double segment. Yeah. Yeah. For love week when we have couples on, it makes sense. Wow. Amelia, thank you. That was great. Thank you, Amelia.

That was really good. That was amazing. Oh my God. That was the chili wed game. And thank you, Sus, for not eating the Gibbs. Oh my God. Yeah. Just like a restaurant value feedback, let's open up the feedback.

And today we have an email from Nate. Nate writes the following. Before I got married, my brother and I went to a barbecue restaurant in clean white t-shirts and asked the waitress to remove all the napkins and silverware. We proceeded to eat the messiest meal we could and used our white t-shirts to clean ourselves. It was a blast. Over the past decade, I have taken several friends to do the same thing a few weeks before their nuptials.

It is always fun and each time we receive the same befuddled looks from the wait staff. Do you have any odd dining out traditions? Yes. Thanks for the laughs. It was fantastic. This is insane. This is insanely insane. I like about being married.

That's rude for all the single people. Yes. Most of our listeners. I agree. It's wild. This is madness. Sus, you kind of pull this move every time we go to dinner. I think this is, I mean, first off, this is fine to do as long as you're not leaving a

mess for the servers, like you're not leaving a big messy table, which is, I could worry that that could happen. That's also so gross. It's also very gross. In the restaurant, that's gross. Well, because I'm also like, yeah, if you're at another table and you're seeing that, I'd be like, that was weird. Although I guess it depends on what the restaurant, the setup of the barbecue restaurant is.

If it's outside, it maybe is a little bit more casual. Maybe it's okay. I just would not want to be that messy. I don't like being messy. No, me neither. Why do you want it on your shirt? That's disgusting. And if it's like, you know, are you dry?

If you're on the public transit and you just look like you murdered somebody. Yeah. Sauce all over you. It looks like blood. Also like, yeah, because that's another thing. If you're taking out somebody before the nuptials, this could, you know, be a bit of a bachelor party type thing. How are you going to get to location two?

What's the plan? Yeah. You know what I mean? How do we get to the strip club to see Fine and Mitch's fat day? It seems like a pack of like white hanged shirt is just the replacement for napkins. Do you know what I mean? That's true. Yeah.

I feel like it's kind of a waste. Yeah. Just use napkins. Yeah. Or like, sew them together and wear them. The question is though, is the question. Yeah. The question is not like, do you think I'm an, I'm an idiot for doing this insane thing?

The question is yes. The answer is yes. The answer is, uh, is do you have any odd dining out? Traditions of your own. And I'm not sure if I have anything anymore. I'm trying to think back on the past if I've had anything that I did that was. One thing I miss is in Canada, there's a restaurant called Jack Asters, which is like equivalent of like, uh, Applebee's kind of thing.

But you can remember, they'd give you crayons and you'd be able to like draw on them. Oh yeah. That's fun. That was fun. That was fun. Yeah. I definitely do that if it's, if it's available. If it was an option.

Totally. Yeah. Um, one thing I liked doing when I was like college age was sake bombs. I could not imagine ever doing that anymore. But like, that's such a fun thing. Like making the underside of a table to have the sake drop into your beer glass. Wow, that's fun. Like that's a hoot.

We would hit the table a little bit. Yeah. We do like one of these. Sake bombs were fun. Yeah. I cannot imagine doing that as at my current age. And also I think a lot of, like there are Japanese restaurants that are totally fine with that.

One hundred percent. Like you'd go to the kind of place where that was like, okay, that was part of the atmosphere. Like in a college town, that's, that's one thing. But like doing that now at my age, I just, I'd feel so, it'd feel so sweaty and desperate. I would not want to do it. I would not also feel self-conscious. To be alone at a table? Yeah.

Exactly. All right. Come now. Yeah. I don't really have anything like this. I don't, I don't, I don't do anything. I, I'm boring when it comes to stuff like this. I don't have nothing.

I guess I kind of have this tradition where I go to restaurants and eat the food, pay and leave. Yeah. And it's weird. I know. Okay. A weird tradition, like using your shirt as a napkin. Yeah.

It's very strange. Well, I was at an indie wrestling show, PWG, here in Los Angeles and I met one of the wrestlers, Caveman Ugg, and Caveman Ugg was selling t-shirts, but he's like a caveman and he's like, is, stays in character. And so his, the way, the way his shirt worked is that you get a shirt and then he would dip his arm in like glitter paint and it was a plain white t-shirt. And then he'd fucking, he gave me a chest slap with his forearm. Nice reverse knife edge chop.

Yeah. Exactly. So that's like at the zoo where they, the elephant paints the canvas with its nose. Yeah. That was a cool shirt, but it did hurt to get chopped by Caveman Ugg. So wait, what? Hold on a second. No, no, no.

What I'm saying. Oh, wait, what? Hold on a second. He dips his hand. He is a shirt. Like he gives you a plain white t-shirt. He gives you a Ric Flair chop. Yeah.

It gives you a little arm with a glitter arm and then the glitter paint leaves that imprint on your arm and that's the equivalent of it on your, on your shirt and that's the equivalent of his. You have nothing though that you do that. I guess buying like an extra entree, which is more of a fat guy thing, but there's, I got nothing besides that. Yeah. Yeah, me neither.

Yeah. We get, when we go to steakhouses and stuff, we always get a cocktail, but like that's nothing. Yeah. Sorry, this guy, you're on your own. We pre-drink. I guess. Susser, Casey, Emma, Amelia, anything, any of you have anything, anything weird you

do? If not, it's okay. Maybe I like to sit on the same side of someone if there's a booth at a restaurant instead of a cross. That's fun. Yeah. That's right. That's not even that weird.

He does that. Yeah. Yeah. I go to restaurants like a normal person. The answer, no one's got it. I also go to restaurants like a normal person. Yeah. I wash my hands before I eat.

Hey, I love to wash my hands before I eat. Okay, fancy. Yeah. What is this? The Ritz. But it would be like, you know, oh, on my uncle's birthday, we go to the restaurant and we put our shoes on our hands and eat the food with the shoes on our hands. That's the kind of thing he's looking for.

That's the kind of thing he's looking for. Yeah. I guess like I do sit in a booster seat and have a big bomb. That's true. Yeah. I guess it's a little weird. Yeah. When you go to McDonald's, you eat the nuggets and the ball pit.

Yeah. Yeah. So you got nothing right? All right. Of course he doesn't. All right. Sorry, Nate, but congrats on getting married. If you have a question or comment about the world of chain, for Love Week, that's appropriate.

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We're looking forward to you guys joining us over there. Sugarcansel. Allana, Johnson, Norm, Susan, what a treat to have you here for Love Week. This was so, so fun. Love you guys. What a planet. Love you guys. What a great day.

Do you have anything to plug? Yes. My podcast. It's a great intro with me. Oh, right. Every week. Self-esteem party podcast. It's the Feel Good podcast of the year.

You guys have both been guests on it. Sure have. We'll see. But check it out. It's available wherever you get your podcasts and it's popping off. Yeah. I think by the time this air, the Super Bowl will be over probably maybe. This will be, yeah.

This will be the Valentine's Week. Yeah. So, well, you hope you saw Norm's work on the Super Bowl. Yeah, there you go. Next football season. Check me out on Fox. Yeah. Norm has great sketches that go up during the Sunday.

Pre-game show, yeah. Pre-game show on Fox. And I was in one. There's a lot of people. That's right. Yep. And it's the sort of thing we talked about it that family and friends back home will know that about me more than anything I've ever done.

Yeah. It's 100% the truth. Turns out a lot of people like football and they probably go to bars and use shirts as napkins to watch. Well, hey, that's the end of Love Week and that'll do it for this episode of Dough Boys. Until next time, for my friend, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. I'm Nick Weiger. Happy eating.

We love you. Love ya. Bye. Next week on the Dough Boys Double, it's All Elite Podcasting Presents Fat Tuesday. That's right, Weigs. We're celebrating Mardi Gras, Nolan's style with a very special guest, the commissioner himself, Evan Susser. We're talking King Cake.

And if we're lucky, perhaps we'll hear a story from Down in the Bayou. Down in the Bayou? That sounds nice and swampy, Nick. Plus, we'll detail how Colt Cabana got his backstage at AEW Dynamite and hear from Colt himself. Wow. Wow. Tuesday only at patreon.com slash Dough Boys.

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