Doughboys - Munch Madness: Chipotle vs Pressed with Paul Scheer

Episode Date: March 23, 2023

Paul Scheer (Unspooled, How Did This Get Made?) joins the 'boys to talk movie theaters, Gru, and basketball before tackling the second semi-soft finals of Munch Madness 2023: The Tournament of Chompions: BOWL! Sponsored by Better Help. Go to betterhelp.com/doughboys for 10% off your first month.   Want more Doughboys? Check out our Patreon!: https://patreon.com/doughboysSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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In the 2016 NBA Western Conference Finals, the Steph Curry-led Golden State Warriors prevailed over the Kevin Durant Russell Westbrook Oklahoma City Thunder in an instant classic seven-game series. The outcome, which led Durant to live out the cliche, if you can't beat him, join him. Deserting the thunder for the Warriors that offseason and then leading Golden State to two championships proved one of the most earth-shattering in NBA history and arguably the most consequential news story in all of 2016. Well, history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes to quote Mark Twain, though its actual attribution is unknown. But let's just say Mark Twain. And today, another seismic

semisoft final matchup will be fought out in the Tournament of Champions. Squaring up Chipotle, the runaway winner of the Rumblies region, smothering Yoshinoe's hopes for a Cinderella run in its crib. And pressed, the victor in the Acai region, felling fellow smoothie bowl vendor Jamba in a 7-10 split decision. Who will be the Warriors and potentially birth a dynasty, and who will be the Thunder and slowly dissolve in a tanking for draft picks? This week on Doughboys, the second semisoft final matchup of Munchman is 2023, the Tournament of Champions, Bowl, Chipotle. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with

my co-host, David Bowley, the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell. What? Like David Bowie? Like David Bowie, but with a bowie. With an L. Courtesy of... David Bowley. Courtesy of Brennan from Pebble Beach, which I didn't know was a place. I thought it was just a golf course.

Oh, yeah. You can live in Pebble Beach? You can live in Pebble Beach, yeah. Tough to put a foundation down there, though. You say it so confidently. Yeah. How do you know that? Do you know it, or are you just agreeing with the idea? Because it feels like you said it in a way that made me feel like you've sold real estate in Pebble Beach.

Right. Yeah. Like, you can live in Pebble Beach. Okay. David Bowley performing Piggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars bars. Love you, Mitch. Wow. I was going to try to improvise. I'm not going to try it anymore, but I was going to try to, like, you know, ground bowl control to major Mitch or something, you know, something

along those lines. Something ground can bowl? Something equally as good as I just said off the top of my head, which is really good and improvised. Pebble Beach real estate, very expensive. Oh, yeah. I thought it was going to be in Florida. It's not in Florida. No, it's in California.

I know that much because my grandpa golfed there once. It's like one of his, like, things you want to do. Look, my dad golfed at Pebble Beach once as well. Yeah. And did I know that it was like a place where you could have a house or home? Yeah, it is. Why is the Quincy guys were here? This I know. This past weekend, Chankton, Micahs, Wu-Tang, the whole gang. It was Chankton's 40th. We went to Musso and France.

HPD, Chankton. Great birthday spot. And Micahs is today. Micahs is 40th birthday today. HPD, Micahs. And Wu-Tang was here. Here's his birthday. It's not till August. Okay. Well, early birthday Wu-Tang. Yeah, you don't have to say that. Hello, August birthday buddies. That's right. But we went to Musso and France. I've lost 17 pounds. I went on the scale the

day after they left. I've lost five pounds. So 12 came back. I think that it's just daily fluctuation. You said that I didn't lose any weight. It was all water weight. No, I didn't say that. I said it's like the 17 was like, it's all standard deviations, right? It's all an aggregate you're losing weight. You've lost weight over time. But you just, you got to look at the trend lines. You can't look at the day-to-day fluctuations. Because like, yeah, you might be, oh, I'm down 17, but that might have been a particular low point. I'm just saying.

It sounds like he doesn't think I lost 17. No, when you think of it in those terms, you start thinking of like, oh, I lost all this weight, and then he regained it instead of like, well, maybe it wasn't already, wasn't down all that far. I think it is possible that I did. I think he's upset because he got the art to be redone for the dope boys. So he did have a reflect, and now he's spent out a lot of money. So it is, I understand from that point of view that he feels like, you know, it's money wasted. You scaled down the art like 0.5%.

But you can notice the difference. You can feel the difference, even if you don't perceive it like, you know what? The pants are a little bit looser. But it was a wild, a long, wild weekend. And we, yeah, we ended at Musso and Frank's home of Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, which I don't know if they knew or cared about. Sure, they know it there. No, they don't know it.

I would argue that it was famous before that movie, too. I think so, too. Yeah, it's going to be the oldest, like, establishment in Hollywood. Yeah, it's not the reason that I took them there, I guess. Probably more the reason it was in the movie is because it was already famous. Yeah, like one of the, like, probably a handful of places that are left in LA that are still the establishment that they once were. I took them to Hollywood Boulevard, also in Once Upon a Time in Hollywood.

That's true. You took them to Hollywood, which is also any other time in Hollywood. You taken to the Capitol Records building famous from Independence Day? Yeah. You know what? We did see the Capitol Records building. Wow.

We went to the Frolick Room. We went all over the place. I tried to show them some older bars. Frolick Room, famous from Bill Simmons' podcast. Nephew Kyle likes to go there. Is that true? It's true. Yeah, Nephew Kyle hangs out there.

You might have seen him. I don't know if I saw Nephew Kyle in there. It would be the only celebrity sighting because you know what? We didn't see you. That would have been a celebrity sighting. Oh, come on. You got to go to the west side. Yeah, it's not what I was going to have.

It's going to be hanging out in Hollywood and east side. It was an east side. It was an east side trip. And then last night, you know what? I went and saw 65. I had a good time. That's fun. I want to see that movie badly.

I don't know if I should discuss this on this because I think people will think that I'm pathetic. But we kind of talked about it beforehand. But I went to the Americana and I got a parking ticket. I mean, I got my parking ticket to park in the parking structure. And I went and I got it, what's it called? Validated. Validated at the end of the night after watching 65.

I had fun with 65. I went by myself. I did a solo movie trip. I did that on Friday night. Great to do that. It was great. It was a solo movie. There was me and two other people in the theater.

Oh, all right, well, great. They definitely thought I was the weird guy. Yeah, this guy's jacking off, right? You should have seen some of those died-offs. The same Rose, this guy's going to jack off. Just move seats and stuff. You know what? We were in the same row and I did make that choice.

I was like, no, I'm just going to sit in the same row. It was a sign seating and I was assigned that. I'd baked that row, but then the people who were behind never didn't show up and then I was like, I'm going to still just sit in the same row with them. And I did. Yeah, I jacked off. Real quick, I've told this story in the podcast before,

but I do love it, which I had a friend who worked at a movie theater and they had a front row theater masturbator and a pretty full theater that they had to get security on. And the movie was Les Miserables. Oh, my God. Well, to be fair, I think it's like, you know, was it the brown note will make you like shit your pants?

Yeah. When Russell Crowe sings, it also makes you come. The white note. You hit the white note. The white note. Or like pearl note. What's the color there? White note's good.

White note's good. Yeah, I don't know what you're asking about. I went to go to a lone movie on Friday, which I always feel slightly self-conscious to go do, but I'm also okay with myself to go. And someone that came in mid-movie, same at the Americana, beautiful, the IMAX theater, and plenty of seats throughout sat down right next to me.

Oh, boy. Right next to me. And it really like distracted me for the 15 minutes that they decided to sit there. I was like, why? You have so many. You got a lot of options. Yeah.

Why right next to me? That doesn't make. Yeah, it was not. It was a very like, I felt unnerved by the entire interaction. I think you have to understand etiquette of theater. People from last night probably asking the same thing. I was probably. Well, you weren't sitting right next to me.

I was like 15 chairs. That's fine. That's normal. That's great. But then I did move over closer and closer during the movie. You're also a back row guy, right? Were you in the back row? Interesting.

Interesting. You bring that up. Mm-hmm. Oh, I don't know how interesting it is, but you brought it up and I will answer. I was for the Arclight. I was a big back row person. Yeah.

But here's the deal with Dobie, like the Dobie theaters. There is like row, like the second row back from the aisle. Maybe it's row E. There's like a very level row. But I used to be okay with that. And I still am okay with the last row, because so many people I think don't want to be in the last row.

And you're above everyone. You know, like there's, it feels like less distractions to me. I like a last row where you can put your feet out because there's no chair in front of you. That's great. Yeah. That's a nice seat. The bar instead of another row in front of you.

Or ideally, no, like just a clean aisle. I mean, that's the way to go. It's a dream. That's good. But Dobie, like some of the newer theaters kind of mess that up. You're saying Dobie. Yeah. It's not like you're saying Dobie.

I thought he was kind of like trying to, again, create the Dobois podcast universe by saying it's like, Dobie sounds. Yes. Yeah. Wait, what am I saying? Am I saying Dobie or am I saying Dobie? It sounds like you're saying Dobie.

Yeah. Yeah. I'm going to be saying Dobie. All right. Dobie. Yeah, Dobie. Dobie. Is that what it's?

Dobie. What is the? Is there a character named? Oh, it's Dobie. You're thinking of Dobie, the house thief. Yeah. Love those books. Love that all that much.

I mean, I like them more now. Yeah. I like the author, that's it. I wasn't into them. Now I'm really into them. But so I went to the, I went to the, I wonder how you'll feel about this. I went to the Americana.

I got my ticket validated and I went out and I went to the exit and I put the thing in and it was like eight bucks. I was like, eh, validate. So I pushed the help button. And the lady was like, what's up? And I was like, hey, it says eight dollars. I got it validated. And it says eight dollars.

And she's like, okay, well, there's nothing we can do about it. You have to pay and then take the receipt back and get a refund. And I was like, I don't want to do that. Yeah. I said this. I was like, I don't want to do this. And she was like, I was like, I'll, can I just go back to the movie theater and I try to validate it again?

She's like, yes. And I was like, okay. And so I backed up. There was no one there. It was like absolutely empty. By the way, I want to get into this. In the grander scheme of things, they've made it, make it impossible for you to ever back up.

Back up. It's like, yeah. And look, this has happened to me before and like where it didn't, because this is an AMC issue, I guess. Before you exit, buddy. But that's, that's, that's what I should have done. But I figured there was no one there. And that's the same thing happened last time.

And she was just like, she just let me go last time, which makes more sense. Yeah. To have it happen. It doesn't cost them. Yeah, it doesn't cost anything. And also I don't want to pay. That's the thing.

I didn't want to pay a few extra bucks to fucking, what's his name? The fucking asshole. Rick Caruso. I don't want to pay Rick Caruso three extra bucks. Yeah, you already gave so much money to his campaign fund. I want an LA to look like the Americana. My mom lives in the Americana.

Wait, really? Yeah. My mom lives above the Kiehl's. Wow. Yes. So my mom moved out here from New York, and that's where she lives and loves it. Loves her time there.

Your mom and maybe we'll bleep it, or we can bleep all of this if you would like. No, you can keep it. Bug, bug main. Bug main does live there, yeah. Bug main lives at the Americana. Bug main lives above the movie theater, right? He lives very close to the movie theater, yes.

I think, yeah, basically next to it. So I should have seen that entrance. Yeah. I should have gotten, but anyways, I went back to the movie theater. The door's locked, why is? So I moved my car into like the valet area. Yeah.

Oh boy. I get back down. I put my card in. It's nine bucks now. And I look and I see that the valet isn't gated in. I fucking rolled out of there. Hell yeah. Hell yeah.

Hell yeah. No, am I a bad person for doing that? No, for not paying for a fucking parking structure. But you already paid for like. You're fine. I went there with my wife. We got some snacks. We got seats.

It's like 80 bucks. I was like, you can at least give me free parking. Exactly. I just spent a lot of money here establishment. Buck Caruso. Buck Caruso. I'll tell you this. What I find to be the worst parking movie experience

is you go see Universal City Walk. Then you have to go with that receipt. You have to get the receipt. And they give you money. They give you cash. They give you cash. Cash. I don't understand how that works or why.

Like this was a good idea. It's a bad. It's sometimes they'll also just wait. Like if you like they'll leave, they'll be like, you're fine and just come through and go into the movie. But I think probably some people try to use that. You know what I mean? But right.

They kind of took it. They size you up. Yeah. Are you here just for the IMAX? Yeah. All right. We'll let you through. They see me and they're like,

that guy is not fitting on the Mario Kart ride. Let's let him fucking go through. Anyways, how to how to Spoon Nation. Let's hit them with a little drop. They made up their minds and they started snacking. That was the parody song. I was going to sing you. So that's a little bit of a left turn from

Gordy doll, which I thought you might have been riffing on. No. With the song. Wow, he's a very nice. You know, playing it from my phone in the room, there was a thing of like, it feels like maybe we're over drops at this point. We've done the show for eight years.

I think that that should have been in Adobe sound. Hey, guys, I was born in 1993. So I had never heard the song until my spouse who was eight years my senior played it for me a few weeks back. When I heard Mitch sing this parody on the latest episode, I got so excited that I recognized it that I made this drop. Can't wait to see you guys in Chicago this June. Enjoy Victor from Chicago.

Wow. Thanks, Victor. Love that. Lovely drop. Victor, that's a great drop. That's a great drop. And we have a great guest, Mitch. We do, guys.

Formerly introducing him from Unspooled and how did this get made? Paul Shearer is back. Hi, Paul. Guys, so excited to be here. And sorry that I interrupted early on. Not at all. I already was already.

Please. Like, I didn't want to involve. But I'm so excited to be here. I'm excited to be back. I'm excited to be here for Munch Madness. And I have a gift for you guys. Wow. Like, I don't know if I should bring this out now or not.

But first of all, I haven't been in the new studio space. It's amazing. And I was at this weekend, this Vanity Fair Oscar party, where everybody goes. It's a very big deal event. I've never been invited there before. And I saw something. And I was like, I need to bring it to the two of you.

Wow. Wow. Which is, hold on. Here it is. Wow. Got you guys. It's only one. But it's an unopened Vanity Fair Oscar water.

Wow. Look at that. So this is a true from the party. That I figured, I carried it, did not open it, carried it out, contraband style. So now you guys, you could celebrate with this if you'd like, or you could just keep this, you know. We could put it on our shelf.

Yeah. We could put part of our table out. Now look at that. Yeah. And for audio listeners, it's like a metal bottle that has the Vanity Fair. And the Oscar party logo on it with the year. With the year. So you know this is the location and everything.

Yeah, you're not getting this on the outside. No. There's only a handful. You're going to be drinking the same water that Gigi Haddad is drinking, the same water that Michael Keaton is drinking, same water that the cast of the Fablemen's will be partaking in. So this is huge. This is huge.

What a generous gift. I want it. You know I want it. The thing is the bottle is, even if it's opened, it's still, the bottle has value. Like the bottle you'd still want to keep. Right. Like you could put this on the shelf full or empty.

No one will know the difference because of the aluminum. But you know you could feel it. Feel that weight. You know what? What do you know? This thing is full. This is a full bottle. Yeah, I didn't open it.

Can I just want to feel it for myself? Yeah. Probably. Yeah, I can confirm it's full. Probably. Definitely full. You're probably used to that feeling. Carried that.

Carried it out. You know, no one stopped me. And I think it would be odd if they did. But yeah, I just want to make sure that I came here making sure that we bearing gifts. That's amazing. What a nice act of generosity. We're both admitted to some crimes, I guess.

Yeah, I mean that should only be drank on premises while I'm celebrating Hollywood's big night. You know, I'm not supposed to take that out to the normies. You know, I mean I got in there and that's why they don't invite people like me to parties like that because they know I'm going to steal their water. Yeah. I'm going to bring it out to the world.

This is the thing. Wags and I are, we're never going to sniff the Oscars. Unless there's some sort of the whale prequel or... The whale too. Two whales. Guys, I don't know. I could see you guys having a Matt Damon Ben Affleck moment. You know, maybe there's a movie written about you by you.

Sure. You know, this could be it. I was thinking of another shoe biopic, but I was... They came with a Converse All-Star. By the way, this water... Or that stretch where it sucks to wear new balance for a little while. Yeah, yeah. The guys who brought new balance back.

What about the, you know, the two guys who have to figure out how to get rid of all those Adidas, the Kanye Adidas? Oh, yeah, yeah, that's good. They're sitting on like $1.6 billion. It's like, they have so many shoes they can't sell. Like, what do you do with it? That is a perfect problem for the two of you guys. That's a great one.

Unfortunately, I was thinking like, Dahmer's been done, unfortunately, for you because I feel like that would have been... I just felt like it would have been okay. I've been told I bear a physical resemblance to Jeffrey Dahmer. Which is not an insult. Particularly my passport photo, which I used as an avatar for a while. Looks a lot like Jeffrey Dahmer's mug shot.

Well, do you feel like you're happy? You've been in a long-term relationship. Are you happy that you are? Because, you know, do you feel like people would maybe swipe left or right just based on not knowing anything about you? Right. But yeah, if you're giving off that air. Yeah, I gotta say, a lot of ladies love the murder stuff.

I feel like you maybe would get a lot of right swipes. That's the issue though. But then if it's like, are you like a murder? Like, do you want to be murdered? Yeah, I would say after the first date, they'll have suspicions. Sure, this is an amazing gift. Thank you so much. Yeah, thank you so much.

I'm going to take it home. Give it a great spot in my place. And by the way, it does have ozampic in it. So you'll be fine. Okay, great. This is great for you. Yes, I'm not 100% drink that. Yeah, last year it was a den of chrome.

This year it's ozampic. Should we put it on that? Can we put it on? Are we allowed to put stuff on the shelf? Yeah, I'm just saying we're allowed to do it. You're going to desecrate the X-Files movie. The X-Files movie is pretty cool. Look at this fucking run.

Look at this. We got close encounters of the third kind, contact, and the X-Files movie all lined up on VHS. That's badass. A solid grouping. I'll put it up there. Yeah, there we go. It's made the wall.

It's made the wall. Wow. Wow. Wow. Someone's going to steal it. I don't trust it. I don't trust Amir or Jay. Kates, you'll keep an eye on him.

There you see. I'll make sure Jay and Amir don't steal your Oscar water. All right, this is great. Just be fair, post-Oscar party water. That's right. I don't know what they're doing. I don't know what they're drinking at the Oscars. I don't want to misrepresent what they're doing.

I'm taking it home. Sure, we're talking bowls this week. And I'm curious because you're certainly someone who's a working actor, on camera a lot. I'm sure you're like that informs your eating decisions. Are you someone who goes to bowls as a helpful option? I don't even consider it a helpful option. I just prefer it.

I feel like I can manage my food better in a bowl. And I'm not talking about the Pat and Oswald jokes of like put it all in a bowl. I like my salad. We're going to be talking about a couple bowls today. But I gravitate towards a bowl. I feel like it's a, maybe it is a fresher option. It just feels like I'm being put together.

I like it. Favorite, is it like your top dish versus like a plate? Well, plates I don't really get. And this is the thing. Interesting. Because I mean, for the most part, fast casual, maybe you get a plate. Maybe, but plates are not really in the mix that much.

You know what? In the battle of plate versus bowl, at least at restaurants, I want the bowl. You always want the bowl. Yeah. The bowl is better than the plate. Mix it all together. Yeah.

And this is a little barbecue place. It's great to get a plate. Sure. But that's a special case. But that's, yeah, that's not a thing. I mean, it's a thing. But it's like, it's like what, you can't get a plate at any, like red, like, like red robin and things of that nature.

Yes, you get a plate. Yeah. I mean, like a place that you're going to go in and bring your own food to a place. I don't feel like plates are out there. But if I want to say like tender greens or something. Yeah, I know. Maybe I would rather have the bowl.

I would rather have the bowl, right? You don't want the bowl. See, I'd rather have a plate of tender greens. But I don't consider, because that's more of like a sliced salmon or like a steak or chicken. Like I don't, I like that. But I feel like the bowls that we're going to be discussing are very much.

You know what, I've got it. If I, if I, I'm saying if Chipotle had that, that if Chipotle offered a plate or let's say. This is a great, this is a great point of view. Piquito moss. Yeah. Yeah. I'm not, I'm not as interested in the Piquito moss plates.

They have some good protein plates. Give me the bowl. Yeah. But I would rather have a big bowl of. It keeps everything together too. I feel like again, you're on the move and grab it. You can put that top back on it and move around. It's a great deal.

I like the bowl. Yeah. I, I, I did, I did say that I. I think that's true. I, in one of our last episodes, I said that plates are now allowed. But I don't know if we, I don't know if we stuck. I don't think we're actually honoring that. Okay.

All right. Fine. I mean, if you'd gotten a plate and were like, I went to Chipotle and I got a plate. Which is impossible. Which is impossible. Let's say you've done that. Like let's say that's what, what had happened.

We would still let you vote on the episode. So I guess they are allowed. But it's a bowl tournament. It's a bowl tournament. It's a bowl tournament. I'll tell you sometimes I bowl things that should be played at the house. My kids, my kids will like, my kids like waffles, but it's a mess. Yeah.

So I, I put them in a bowl. Like, I, you know, cut them up and put them in a bowl and they're just going to tend. They'll see our party everywhere. It's like, just get out of the bowl. Bowl is nice. Like, you know, you got your sides, you protect yourself. It's good. It's great.

Here's the thing I'll do. Cause we got some bit, we have some big ass, like huge bowls. We have like some, they're like a size bowl. Yeah, yeah. So like, I've all make like some spaghetti marinara and like, you know, like a roast some broccoli on the side. I'll put that in a big bowl. Won't mix it up.

You have an option, but here's your pasta sitting there. And there's just like, kind of that bowl that you had broccoli next to it. It's kind of like the way that they have those plates that are divided for kids too. But I like that. You put it on the side. That's, I like that. You know what I, you just reminded me that I had pancakes this weekend. I want to, is it Clifton?

Is it Clifton's Cafe? Cafe, the formerly Cafe 101. No, no, no, no, no. Clifton's is the downtown cafe. I like this new place. It's, it's basically Cafe 101. Clarks. Clark Street.

With better food. Yeah. It's great. It's good. Really good. Same atmosphere. Better. I liked Cafe 101 food, but, but, but this is the food was really good in my eyes.

I feel like Cafe 101 food had very solid choices in a menu with a lot of options. I feel like Clarks has a more like across the board, we're probably getting a lot more sevens than like a couple tens. Yeah. And a lot of threes. For people who don't, who are, who don't live in LA for listeners who don't know Hollywood, Cafe 101, aka the 101 coffee shop, you may know is the diner from Swingers. Swingers.

Swingers has it in there. Which ties into our old joke, but I forget what the joke. We were talking about Musso and Franks. Yeah. What popularized it? Famous from Swingers. Yeah. Famous from Swingers.

Yeah. They actually, they kind of, which 101 feel, I feel like didn't do that as much, but they have all them, they have a bunch of movie. They have a bunch of like pictures of movies on the wall. Yeah. And Swingers is on there. And I think maybe Tarantino's the early one there. A Reservoir Dogs.

Reservoir Dogs. I don't know if they had the heat up there. Oh, heat. But no, is that the restaurant or is that the hotel? Because the hotel, okay. This is in the restaurant. In the restaurant. Oh, in the, I don't know.

Because the hotel has the pictures, the drawings of celebrities, but in the restaurant now, but the funny thing is the biggest one is Jerry Seinfeld, Comedians and Cars, getting with Judd. Lot of fun. Getting, Comedians and Cars getting coffee at the, at the. Past, past Doe Boy's Guest and Future Doe Boy's Guest. Judd and Judd's coming back? Yeah.

Now, would you guys ever get into a car and do a drive through like a bunch of video episodes? Like that could be a really great series. I just gave you right here. That's a great idea. Driving through with the Doe Boys, you know, like drive, Doe Boy drive through. I will say that the YouTube fast food reviewer, like ecosystem is all like guys and cars drive through. So like then we're very much like, like Joey's World Tour, peep this out.

That's us now. Right. Which we already kind of are. We're close to that. And we're, and we're on YouTube. We're kind of more into that. So yeah. So maybe we should just go for more.

Because you already exist, it just, it's an, it like, you don't have to stop though. You could drive through and you're driving around. So it's a little, you're stealing a little bit from Jerry. And you're stealing a little bit from this YouTube culture. So a mix and match. I thought you were saying if we would ever be in comedians and cars, getting coffee. Weigher thinks we're not comedians, which is one thing. And then two.

I stand by that. Jerry was of our listeners do too. I am a comedian. Damn it. Give me something. I have nothing else. What am I supposed to say? You're an actor.

Okay. You're a working actor. You got a blockbuster movie coming out. You have a huge Amazon Prime movie out. I'm a comedian. I am a comedian. That's fine. If we, if we were in comedians and cars getting coffee.

All right, then tell us a joke. Yeah. Well, I'll make a slap funny, man. Fuck. I can't do it on the spot. Well, if you're a comedian, you'd be able to do it. I was going to say that if we were in, if we were in comedians, cars, getting coffees, Jerry Simon will be like, they keep asking to go to the bathroom or in the car.

You guys are getting car sick. That's what I mean. You do get car sick. I do get car sick. Besides the spot on impression. Again, I think that maybe what we should, what we should probably try to do is find out where Jerry's car is going to be and just drive alongside of him and then kind of get a little accident.

And then we can go, we can go, all right. And then we can take as many bathroom breaks as we want, basically. The issue there, though, is that you feel, you're like, oh, there's Jerry, we've got him. Look at that. There's that Model T there. And then you go up, pull up next to him. It's Jay Leno. Oh, that's it.

And then you got Lenoed. Hi there, Boak. Who looks a little bit like a fan of the opera now, because he's based off from touching those old cars. The Model T, you start cranking and it just blows up your face. That is cars run by TNT. Have a masked singer mask or something. The equivalent is.

Sure, we have an ongoing discussion on this to left turn a little bit. We have an ongoing discussion on this podcast that I want you to weigh in on. Which is, are you a Christmas guy? You like Christmas still? Oh, very much so, very much so. Mitch is also a big Christmas guy. In your, like when you think of Christmas holistically and think of the season, do you consider it to be a cookie holiday?

Yes. Yes, a meaty, hard yes. You're right, we're not comedians. At least, at least you're not. At least, I always agree you're not now. That's a serious question. Is it a Christmas holiday? I know, we've asked every guest.

Yes. Yeah. What's the ratio so far? Mostly people are yes. Yeah. We've gotten a few, like kind of, we got, I'd say we get probably. Say one no, right? I think we get a plurality hard yes.

We get a good amount of soft yeses and then we have a few like, eh, maybe, or I don't really think of it that way. Well, here's what I'll say. Yeah. The term Christmas cookie is a thing. One hundred percent. I know around Christmas, I often make cookies because they're a great little gift you can make people,

but also you're at home. It's fun. It's a nice time. I feel like people give you cookies. So I feel like I don't think of Christmas and cookies. I think of it as a part of like Christmas tree, Christmas cookies. There it is a. Cookies out for Santa.

Yes, there you are. And that's where it all goes right there. So in part, it's one of the colors of the Christmas rainbow. Yeah, there. That's basically kind of in line with what a lot of people have thought. What we're saying, though. Nick and I are not a hundred percent sold, I guess. We're just trying to collect more data points.

Yeah. All right. But I do believe you made the best argument for it with Santa. Why does Santa get. Santa likes cookies. Oh, I only Santa getting the cookies. We should spread that out. Why are we giving it?

Like we're giving him specifically we're giving him cookies, nothing else. Like no, people don't leave him steak. People don't leave him eggs. You know, it's like we're not giving him a protein. But yeah, you'd be clever with it and be a weird family, but you're leaving cookies. Yeah. And we make cookies with our kids and we leave them out there.

If I ever have some fucking poor fucking kid, some poor miserable child, I'm going to. Like an orphan from the Victorian era. I'm going to leave on a steak. And then also, yeah, he's going to be hungry. I'm going to eat the steak. We're saying to eat it. I look.

By the way, the best part of being a parent, getting to eat those cookies after your kids go to sleep. Oh, yeah, that is fun. That is fun. Eat them like a real pig, a real sloppy mess. You're making it like a Santa did it. Right, right. It's like he's rough and tumble with those cookies.

Yeah. Parents really do make Santa look like a fucking sloppy bitch. Go ahead and dine and dash. Yeah, I get it. He's like, I'm getting this and going. But that is nasty. The thing about Santa is just like tossing presents, just fucking. Yeah.

Cookie monstering the cookies. It's funny because like all the like I'd heard that like from parents, like, hey, you just eat the cookies. And then in my house, like Santa would come and eat the cookies, which was interesting. Like. Like Santa would come over. Yeah.

Santa would actually like come down the chimney and eat the cookies. And then. Wait, no, interesting. So like he like, so he did it at your. He did it. It was like it happened at my house. It was real when you were growing up. Yeah.

It was real at his place. I was so dumb as a kid that I'm still dumb as an adult. But but my mom for Easter would make bunny tracks out of paper. Like so it was like paper bunnies feet that I could follow around that. But a bunny wouldn't leave paper footprints. But like it is a cute idea and it's a cute idea, but it falls apart. And any any logic knocks it out.

And then like one year, I think she used like like like a like a powder, like a talcum powder or like, you know, like baby powder. That's good. Another thing that makes you think doesn't make sense. Make no sense. Like Santa, you rip a cookie in half. You eat a little, you know, like it seems like that. But like he's not leaving.

Like it's not like like this bunny has like eczema or something. It's leaving like pieces of its body, like debris. It's almost believable that bunny leaves dust. Like the talcum powder is a little bit more. Yeah, what bunny do you know that's leaving dust around? I mean, we've seen these bunnies. Well, my question. So as we know, Santa's not real, which is probably.

Wait, hold on. To lots of our lots of our baby brained listeners. You got to put a spoiler right before this episode starts. Please don't do that to the kids. You guys like Fluffy, Gabriel and Gaisis, you do the afternoon show for the families. That's true. Yeah, where it gets a little blue.

Only happy meals and things. Have you guys done that? A happy meal, like a like a battle of like kids meals. That's a great idea. That's like that could be next year's tournament. That's a terrific idea. We've talked about doing it. I think that would be a great.

Yeah, that'd be fun. I saw Fluffy go into House of Nanking once. Also, like mobbed by people. But we did mobbed. We've told this on the podcast before. We did a live show in Orange County at the, a Nervine venue here. Oh yeah.

And the house manager. Was that Ferris wheel or the other? Yeah, yeah. The house manager was lovely and was very nice to us. And we were reviewing the hat and he was like, which is a. It's just funny thinking of us, like talking about our podcast and going up. Can't really hear us for a couple of minutes.

No one's missing out on anything. Is the Ferris wheel breaking? So the, so we're at this club and the guy who ran the house was, it was talking to us about the hat, which was the restaurant reviewing, which is like a pastrami and chili jogs, like a like super duper heavy restaurant. And he's like, oh yeah, Fluffy was here. Gabriel Glacias was here last week and he got the hat as a pre show meal.

And then he was like, also he had a way bigger audience than you guys. They were like lined up to see. Oh man. Yeah, cool. We get told that like a lot where we're like, we don't really need to hear that. Well, you say like, I just, we charge more. So I, we all worked up.

Guys, I'm realizing that the last time I did the show was during another battle. It was a pizza battle. You were here for our finale of the slices right. Yes. Which was a few years, which was pre quarantine. Back to lunch. It's been some time.

Too long. Yeah. I actually thought that I alienated Weigar on that episode. Really? I did because I made, like, and this is hilarious. I'm still thinking about this. I made a comment. I was like, well, it's not, it's not like good New York pizza.

And you're like, no, that, you were like, that is, but you can't, like you, I felt like I overstepped my lines of saying that I can't compare it with regular pizza. And you're like, but that's not the thing. It's about this pizza. And I was like, oh man, I fucking ate it. I ate it with Weigar. I made a mistake.

And I've been thinking about it throughout all this, the three years of quarantine has been really on my head. Wow. He was probably pissed. He was. Yeah. I'm remembering how it was pissed. But no, it's fine.

Everything's fine. Yeah. But that was, that was a very, like, I love these, I love these tournaments because it forces you, it forces you to make some very tough decisions. And I feel like. It might be one of those decisions. I want to, like, understand how you look at this.

Because we'll be talking about this today, but this idea of is it the best bowl or the best bowl for the moment? Like how or like what? Like I want to just scroll down on like how we should be making this choice. Like, because they're, they're great bowls, but like, is every bowl equal? You know, if you put two Mexican bowls together, that's that I can see an equivalent.

Sure. That's, that's, first of all, I would just will say, he's mad at you again for your cookies answer, Christmas cookies answer. This is it. I've now stepped in it again. It's, we collected, we kind of have like, we kind of have like a vaccine approach to the cookies question. We're like, we have our answer.

And then like, we're just asking questions. We're just asking questions. We know what we think. We're asking questions. Here's what I'll say about the cooking. We're collecting data points, but like, you know. But Natalie's not making cookies around Christmas time. No, we're not a big like baking household.

I think that, that the, you know, she's not super necessarily super. I don't want to say she's not super into sweets, but it's like, I think that's not what we think of as a treated or an indulgence as much. Yeah. I'm a big, I love a cookie. Like I'm a, I'm trying to always find a great cookie. I have my places that I feel very good about getting cookies, but I will say as I've gotten older,

when you guys are young, you know, use as young guys, this is the, you know, millennial show. This is like, you're often talking about like, what are the cast of euphoria eating? You know, what's going on there? Yeah. K-pop stuff. No, they answer that.

Yeah. The cast of euphoria. Yeah. They're fucking eating ass. They're eating ass. Now that would be a great munch madness. Oh man. After you eat like 30 asses.

But I will say as I... Liger's done it in a day. As I've gotten older, I will say cookies have made a much larger play in the Christmas holidays. I will at least bow to that. Like I feel like as a single man, I was not making cookies. Yeah, pointed gesture to Mitch there. Yeah, I mean, you know...

Look, there's only one man at a house and it's... I do put on... Well, your mom doesn't make cookies. My mom doesn't make, my mom will make, she doesn't, she's not doing it too often though. Yeah. Oh wow, okay, interesting. I don't think I made cookies in my new place once.

I haven't made, I haven't made cookies yet. But I was gonna say, when you're prepping and making cookies for your kids, do you then have like two hours of like present wrapping to do right after that? Well, I'm not doing it in the same night. I mean, the present wrapping really get like... That's bad, right? That's a lot. But I basically...

Christmas setup seems bad. The cookies seem fun, but then the rest of present setting up seems bad. I got my kid a stand-up arcade machine this year. Wow, what are those arcade one-up things? But I think a better version of it, it's called R-Cade, the letter R. You can put a lot of games on it because that stand-up, that one-up, it's just one. Yes. I'm like...

Stand-alone machine and it's like scaled down. It's scaled down and I'm like, I didn't... And it looks like a little janky when I did my reviews on it. And I'm like, I didn't want to give my kid... Like, my kids are... This is a gift that June, my wife was like, they're gonna love it. I'm like, I don't think they are because they're playing PlayStation 5 and they're playing Nintendo Switch.

You can be like, hey, do you like the cuteness of Burger Time? Like, you know, and so a lot of adults will want to play it more than them. Yes, these games are like unplayable. It's like giving us a cup and ball as a kid. It just feels like an old toy. I don't... And like, what they like the most... I feel like I could give you a cup and ball now and you'd be thrilled.

I'd be into that. I'd be into the cup and ball. You'd be very good at a cup and ball. Like, and I feel like... But you wouldn't come... Just seeing him getting it over and over and over again without... Yeah, like never in a robot. But I do feel like the only game they really are impressed by is Space Ace.

Oh, sure. Dragon Slayer. So, but that's the thing that has a bunch of different games on it. And that's the one that's most intriguing. But anyway, we got that and it came in multiple boxes. And I'm so thankful that I started putting it together piecemeal because it took forever. Like, my biggest mistake the first couple of years was like,

I'll do it on Christmas Eve night. Isn't that fun? No, that's a nightmare. You gotta like build up to it and get them all done. It takes forever. Get done on there. He could build you a stand-up arcade cabinet too. Old Dutton.

Yeah, Dutton. Dutton fucking rolls. Say I should have done that way. I'll tell you other thing too about cookies, which I like. This signifies that I'm done in December. Like, I'm like, I'm taking time off from work. I'm not going to worry about things. And then it gives me a nice sense of satisfaction

the same way like a Lego does. Where I'm like, I have the ingredients. I'm going to make my thing. It's going to be done this time. And I'm done. I made these cookies. I made a marshmallow explosion cookie this year. It's amazing.

Whoa, wait, marshmallow explosion cookie. Yeah. You got it. So you basically, you make a cookie, and then you kind of get these little small gluten-free marshmallows inside. And then they kind of explode. And so the cookie is, you can break it open.

And it's like a marshmallow filled cookie. Oh, that's so fun. Weiss got very excited over it. Yeah. That was a very, like, I'm not making simple stuff. I'm kind of up the ante here. That's depressing. I'm trying to bring it up.

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Do it. Welcome back to Doughboys, we're here with Paul Scheer discussing Munch Madness 2023, the tournament champion's Bowl, and Mitch, this is the semi-soft finals, versus Prest. Chipotle defeated Yoshinoy in the Rumblies region and Prest beat Jamba in the Acai region. It's funny because I've been like getting sick of bowls,

but then also other days, I'm okay with it. I'm fine with bowl. You know what? I fucking sweet green, which got eliminated. I had as a pre-record meal today. You and I, I've told you about sweet green in this, in this, in me eating healthy journey. Yeah.

It's been huge. Yeah. You've lost 17 and then game back 12 and then lost five. Yeah. You really have the, so you can really play the part. Well, I'm just saying total. Like they would want to be on the commercial.

I was saying that total now I've only lost five. I think a lot of it is waterway. I'm drying out a little bit after. Wait a second. You just attacked Nick for saying it was waterway a second ago. He's right. I'm saying, I was mad at Nick because Nick was like,

you didn't really lose 17 pounds. No, I'm saying if you think, maybe it helps you psychologically to think that, but I think, I think it also could be bucking you up psychologically because you think like, I lost all this weight and I've gained all this back. But I think instead of you're like, okay, maybe that was a little bit lighter than I actually am.

And maybe this is a little bit heavier than I actually am. But let's be honest here too. The reason why you gained it back is because you just had a week long buck and all with the, like with the people from Massachusetts. Like, I mean, you're, you have Wu Tang in here. Are you like, were you drinking water? No.

No. You went to Mussel and Franks. Is that healthy? No. No. No. It was fucking. What are you doing?

Diet Coke? We drank, we, we, we, I'm drying out right now. We drank a lot. Yeah. We, it was, it was a mess. You and Chankton and Micah said, Fuckston, you guys were going crazy. We were going crazy.

Guys, I gotta tell you what I've been drinking because I want that flavor of beer, but sometimes I don't want those calories a year. A Heineken zero. Love the Heineken zero, right? Right. Two of them last night. They're great.

It's so great. I love it. I think that's what I want. That's exactly what I need from it. 100%. I never thought I'd get to a point where I'm like just drinking a non-alcoholic beer for pleasure, but like I do that now.

It's like, oh yeah. That's what it actually does, has the same effect on me. I drink primarily, I drink water. And so I do want that little thing, but it's like, it gives me, because I'm not, I never had home going like, oh, that one beer got me good.

Like, oh, I'm ready. Like I'm done now. Like it doesn't, beer doesn't even affect me like that, unless I'm really going to town on beers. So it's like, why not just give me the flavor and I don't need any of the other parts of it. We were, we were, we were discussing how, like if you added all of our food and booze

into the back of an F1, Ford F-150, like how much of the, of the back of the truck it would take up, that's what we were talking about. You and the, the, the Quincy boys? Yeah, yeah. All the food and booze and drugs. If you put it all into the back of a F-150, how much it would take up.

And we were like, it would be noticeable. Like it would be like a lot sloshing a lot. I mean, to fill it up is insane. If you took the contents of a fridge and just emptied it, like a full fridge and emptied it into the back of an F-150, I think it would still fill about like, you know, what, a third of the bed?

So that's like, I think probably amongst the five of you, four of you. Four of us, yeah. Four of you, yeah. You definitely had a substantial amount. At the end there, like, you know, if at the end of your trip, they cut your belly open, like in jaws, just let it like fill up the trunk and lump.

For, you know, beer cans flying out of there. You song fall, so. We, we also, I drove them. We, I did the thing like the Oscars, like the day of the Oscars. I like was like, let's see if we can like, you can't even get close anymore. You can't even, you can't even go to like,

like Hollywood in Thailand. Yeah. And I drove, and then we were just stuck in traffic and like circled the big block. It was fucking, it was, it was rough. Yeah, pretty close, Mitch. There you go. Yeah, there it is.

Wow. Mitch is now holding the. The winner of the best drive-by. Mitch is holding the, the Vanity Fair. I do hope, I hope it's filled with those unpick. I'll tell you this much. I will say that I was happy that Yoshinoya was knocked out. We did it famously in episode on the league, or famously.

I don't know if it's famous. We did an episode on the league about Yoshinoya. And we called it Yobagoya. The whole thing was that everyone was like shitting their pants after they would have. And I, and, and so that has really pushed me off of Yoshinoya. I mean, did, I wanted to ask you guys, did that have an effect on you?

Did you have any, not the episode, but did you have any of those, like a side effect? It's, it's a, it was a rough deal. I think my, my issue with Yoshinoya, because I'm not eating meat this month as part of this tournament. And so. You're eating outside of the tournament. Yeah.

But I mean, like, but I, but I, but I'm whatever. I don't need a lot of meat in general, but. Sure. I'm a non-meat eater. Yeah. Pretty much. So I, uh, I will have no meat today. No meat shall I eat today.

Good, good, good for you. Mealless Mondays, but you're doing it on a different day. I do it on a Tuesday. There you go. Yeah. The, you know, I might try to sneak a piece of meat in or two at some point. I didn't have bad rumblies from Yoshinoya,

but I did, I did, it did just like taste like nothing. It was just really an unpleasant meal. I, my stomach has been hurting a lot, but we were talking about this, whether it's like using hot sauce because I'm, I'm trying to eat better or if it's a lot of salads and my body's just not used to it. And then ironically, when I like started to eat like shit, this, the last four days, I felt much better.

Wow. Which is insane. My stomach felt better. My mom is like that. My mom, like, if she has anything, like that has a semblance of being healthy gets disastrously sick, but like Diet Cokes and other things, like fine as the day is long, like we had her like do a smoothie and she's like, oh, I was in the bathroom for three days.

I'm like, that, something is desperately wrong with me. Like, yeah, but you should not. But yeah, like it's an interesting that your body can like work up a challenge. My mom's a very small woman. Like it's, you know, as far as size, but yeah, her body like processes sugar and shit better than anything else. That's like, I like have my hands have like broken out in hives after,

after eating, like after I was eating, it's very strange. I'm figuring it out. I'm probably allergic to something is the real, is the real deal. Yeah. That's not a normal reaction. If you're in hives. Yeah, I got some hives on me. Baseball that you get.

Yeah. You gotta get, get, get, get that checked out. Have you done an allergens test? Man, imagine I did before and I, and I, I didn't come back. I was allergic to mold and dust. That's they always say. That's a mold, dust and cockroaches. That's, these are the same.

Three of my, of course, three of my favorite snacks. But yeah, I was like, oh, three of those things are gross. Yeah. You know what, the last, and we're gonna get into the ball. I'm sorry. No, this is great. We're briefly detour and say that since I last left you guys during the pandemic, I was called upon by a friend of the show, Payment Bends.

Oh yeah. The great director, a great sweet guy. Also a huge Clippers fan. Huge Clippers fan. Also, by the way, we got a, one of our first visits to one of the competitors in this competition. Took us to Sweetfin. It took us to Sweetfin with Payment. So Payment and I worked on the Serge Abaka cooking show.

Oh, right. Yes. And he made everyone drink cricket tea and he also other disgusting things, but it was very interesting to see people's reaction to like, as a first time, I don't know, like I feel like I didn't ever got to see people just be continually grossed out. Like he made Steve Ballmer eat a brain, like a calf brain on like a hamburger bun. And he almost puked. But this cockroach tea was.

Cockroach tea. Oh, sorry. Good good day. Grasshopper, grasshopper tea. Sorry. And grasshopper tea and he now is making grasshopper bars. That's his new thing. He's like, that's our new protein.

So he's making grasshopper bars. Would you guys have grasshopper bars? Yeah. I mean, I've had chapulinas, which I think are crickets. I can't remember if those are crickets or grasshoppers, but I've had those as a snack. And it's just like, it's a good crunchy protein texture. I mean, like, I think like the crunchier bugs, the ones with more of an exoskeleton, I can do a little bit more.

So we're talking like worms, things are a little chewier, that's a little, that's maybe a bridge too far for me. Yeah. I'd rather do a worm than a cockroach if they were alive. Yeah. But he said, we're talking about a grasshopper bar. Okay. It's going to be pushed together, you know.

I mean, cockroaches are the grossest to me, but I could, I think I could do it. I could, I could eat a grasshopper bar. Yeah. What, what is the grasshopper tea? You put it. This is the interesting thing about that Serge Abaka show. It seemed like he just made gross things. It was like, I think it originally started as like, this is from my culture.

Yeah, sure. Enjoy the delicacies that I had. And then it just quickly became like, like a game on like, yeah, fear factor. It was just like, he didn't even want to eat it. And then like Clay Thompson was like, you had to eat this. And he was like, I'm not going to eat it. Like, you know, everyone was just arguing about what they're going to eat or not. But that's funny because like a big wet brain on a bun is fucking disgusting.

It was one of the most, it was like, there were smells that I smelt. And you know, people are on camera, so they feel like they got to eat it and they're trying to do their best job at it, hot sauce on it and everything like that. I got an appreciation for it. But that, that, the one thing that I thought was the coolest thing was a live squid. He's still moving and you got to squirt soy sauce on him and just kind of eat that. That's wild. And that felt too gooey, even as somebody who like sushi and uni and everything that felt a little too

slimy, a little too mucusy. But any movement in my mouth is that would, that's the hard part. That's tough. Yeah. I think it would be hard. Yeah. Yeah. Have you ever eaten anybody whole?

Like a whole, like, like a person? Yeah, yeah. No, I've not eaten a human being whole. When you're avataring into Dahmer. I do feel, I will say, I do feel strange eating entire life forms. Like even, even shrimps, I'm kind of like, wow, this is like, I'm eating a soul. This is like, this was an entire living thing versus like wings. It's like, I don't know.

Wings are like steak where it's like a portion of an animal when I'm eating an entire animal. I don't like the head presented with the fish when you go to a nice restaurant. Yeah. Why do I need to see that head? Sure. I understand it's a fish. I don't need to see that. Like, I don't understand that presentation of it.

I once, for a birthday party, got a pig. Like where a friend of ours had a restaurant, they served like a pig's head. And I didn't, I didn't like that at all. Yeah. I didn't like, I didn't like the idea of, again, the same thing. It's like, oh, we eat the brain, eat the cheeks, eat the eye. No, thank you. And I can't do it.

Natalie loves a whole fish, a little whole. So like, she's like, head and everything. So does she get some out of the head? Like, what is she? No, I think, I mean, I think there is like good meat to be had there, but I think she also just like is at peace with the idea of like, oh, this was, you know, at the, I mean, I don't want to speak for her. No, but that's a communal idea.

It's like, I went there, I got, I'm, I'm, I'm eating what I caught, even though I didn't catch it. But it's like, I see the whole, I like that idea. She's at peace with a lot of things. Can we go back to Sergio Baca for a second? Yes, please. Because I have a, I have an NBA group chat that is very active, the basket chat, a high intensity basketball group chat.

And we do our all-hunk rankings each year. And Sergio Baca, perennial, like all NBA first team, all-hunk. Is he just like, like, what is it like? I imagine he'd just be so striking in person. Serge is a very attractive man. Wow. A very attractive guy. He's got a wonderful accent.

You know, and, and I think that, you know, he, he, like. I'm thinking about Wag's quarterly hunk rankings. And everyone's like, okay, here we go. Oh, by the way, it's so funny. I, I'm in a very, I'm in a very active basketball chat as well. And I have a slight side chat with like a handful of people that we, like the big basketball stories, I'll kind of peek in. But I had this conversation.

Oh my gosh, I'm forgetting their names. These two girls who do a basketball podcast. Dogtown? Yeah. Yes. Yes. And we had it. We talked about the hunkiest ones.

And there's, I feel like there's a difference. I think girls see a difference. Like they like the Devon. I feel like I talked to a lot of women. They like Devon Booker. I think the Sergio Baca is more of a classic, almost like a, like a, like a statue. Like he's got, like he carries himself.

He has, he, you know, he says that his dress, he dresses as art. He's like, I am art. Interesting. I do art. It's his scars, everything like that. I just have a question because I think there's some bias in this. Dude, Jaylin or Jason? Dude, sorry.

Jaylin Brown. Jaylin Brown or Jason Tata make your... They were both in the mix, but they did not make the, the final theme. Come on. See, I, I, I think, I think Jason Tata was very handsome. I think Jaylin Brown is handsome. Jaylin Brown's handsome too. Yeah.

I think Jaylin Brown is probably hunkier than Jason Tatum, but they're both good looking men. Well, here's the thing. Yeah. This is a question we asked. We asked this question when we said, because we got to write the questions. Joe Mandy, another great guy.

Joe Mandy, we wrote this question. Would you rather lose your looks or your basketball skills? Wow. It's a great question. And so, and so, sir... Me, that is a hard... So, like, Serge had to, like, he asked that question to, to DeMar DeRosin.

So, it was the both of them. Very handsome, man. Yeah. And, and they both, without hesitation, looks. Wow. Didn't even, neither of them considered it. Yeah. But I will tell you that the most that, that Serge Baca lit up the entire time.

And he had great, we had great conversations. We had all these great players on the show. The only time I saw him light up was when he was talking to a TikTok kid, who was a very young, attractive TikTok guy. And all he wanted to do was find out, like, what it was like at the club and the girls that he was talking to. It seemed like his real interest was in that lifestyle. Like, we would ask him to do my favorite, my favorite thing.

And maybe I'm talking out of scope, but I'll say it anyway. He, you know, we write these questions down and, and Serge, you know, has Steve Bomber there. Steve Bomber, the owner of the Clippers. Famously, you know, one of the first people hired at Microsoft. And he goes, Steve, what is the Microsoft? And that was my favorite. And Steve Bomber was like, what?

And he's like, Microsoft, what is Microsoft? And then we go, oh, what kind of is Microsoft? He's like, okay, Microsoft. But it was like, it was to me that spoke so much. To never even know of Microsoft. And he's a very smart guy, but it was so funny to sit there with this guy who is hugely, you know, like, again, Microsoft seems to me as synonymous as anything, you know,

it's like, it's like Coca-Cola. It's ubiquitous everywhere. I know Microsoft. I know Microsoft. I know Microsoft. Okay. Everywhere. But like, there is also a funny layer of also, like,

okay, if this guy buys, like that layer of not giving a fuck, I kind of like, is like, this guy bought, like, owns the team that I play for. Yes. And I just like, I don't even know what his company is like. And that's what I think was so interesting. He's like, he's on my show. Yeah.

The only reason I'm having him on my show is because he's my boss, but I don't really care to know how he could afford to buy my team in cash, like what he did before. Like even, like, look, and it would be different if it's like, oh, like, there's a lot of people who buy these teams. They're like, oh, they're a multi-millionaire, but you may not know why. But like, Microsoft is like a very clean.

It's like, yeah, that's how he got his money. He did that. That rules. And they're Xbox too, right? Isn't that Microsoft? Yeah. And Serge was like, incredibly, like, he had a whole, he was really great at, like, I watched him talk basketball

with Paul George off-camera. And it was like watching two people speak a language I did not understand the way they were talking about a play that just had happened earlier. And I was like, oh, wow. Like, that to me was the most shocking thing I've ever seen. It was like, these are two people that understand the game on a level that I will never understand.

Talking about, I felt like I was listening to them talk about math and numbers and who moved here and what happened there and how to defend that person and all that sort of stuff. It's like, why isn't I talking about fast food and Wendy's? I was going to say the Herald. When you guys get into pattern game openings, oh man, I didn't talk about mono scenes. I just sit back and listen, I don't know what's going on,

but I'm impressed. That's a basic context about Serge Ibaka. And by the way, shout out to Agata and Anastasia, from Dunktown, who Mitch, we have a side chat with that used to be Dohtown, where we just talk generally, and gradually evolved into exclusively yogurt talk. And we will just exchange photos of our yogurts and be like, this is what I'm eating.

This is like blackberries and some sliced almonds. You know who was the worst member of that group for a very long time? Me. You stepped up your game. I stepped it up since I've been trying to be good. I've been sharing some yogurt picks. And hey, one of today's chains, Gert adjacent, which we'll get into right now.

But you know, it's the tournament champions, which means there are extensive guidelines decreed by Commissioner Susser. Oh shit, I'm gonna fall asleep. Emma, play the theme. It's time for Choo Rules. So there'll be like the real time with Bill Maher theme playing, just so you guys know what's going on.

You should literally save energy now. Like just take your time. There'll be a couple of moments during this tournament. I'll tell you the next one too, but right now, just relax. Today's woke food culture means if you ask for meat in your bowl, you're getting canceled on your timeline. Well, I say we need to say bye-bye to Carl Marx

and bring back Carl's Jr. And if you want to know who agrees with me, take a look at Mount Rushmore. Okay, here are the Choo Rules. Choo Rule. Salad ain't valid. Bowl is the goal. No salads.

Rule number two. Chili is silly. Chili's not considered. Rule number three. Stew won't do. Bowl viscosity must be above stew level at a minimum. We want goop, not soup. Rule number four.

When it comes to strikes, we're at the bowling alley, not the batter's box. That's right. Strikes aren't bad. They're good. Three strikes, you're in. Rule number five. This is the Mitch Addendum.

Two strikes, you're also in. That's called a 7-10 split decision. Rule number six. Drinks are in the gutter. Sides are also in the gutter. Rule number seven. However, drinks are in the nutter. Sides are also in the nutter.

You can consider both. Rule number eight. Cookies are oaky, but are they also Christmassy? Cookies may not be considered, but every guest must be asked the question, is Christmas a cookie all day? We already got Paul in the record there. Rule number nine.

When it comes to bread, there's more that will be said, which is rule number 10. Chips are also bread. So let's start with Chipotle, since chips are also bread. Can I add a rule here? Yeah, sure.

Stew won't do, but can we add grew will do? Discussion of grew and the minions is allowed? But do we want baby grew or adult grew? Or does it make a difference? Because I feel like that's a great question. When we're talking about the younger grew, it's a very different personality.

That's the delineation of the timelines, the minions timeline versus the despicable me timeline. That's a question I'm on the spot here. I don't know the answer to. It's a great question. Well, I think that's part of the discussion. Yeah, you have. So grew will do.

So we can discuss any grew. So are you saying you want me to add that at the end, or do you want me to add that to the stew won't do? Stew won't do, but then after that, but grew will do. Okay, so new rule. Discussion of grew at any age is allowed. Okay, great. Wow.

But we don't have to make a. We don't have to make a. We don't have to talk about. Discussion of grew at any age is allowed, but if it comes up organically. Got it. You know, I'll force it. I'll start it.

Grew is pretty funny. I think grew is funny. Here's my take on it is like, I'm more minions fan, but grew is cool too. Um, here's what I think. I like the youthful and enthusiasm of the young grew that wants to be the villain. I find myself to be connected to that character.

It's refreshing. I don't know if I find the older grew as appealing. I feel like the older grew is kind of to me. We meet him. He's a villain. He gets soft and he continues to be soft. Bring me back to young grew. I want prequel grew that.

Yes. So minions grew is where I stand. Yeah. So grew. It's a great thing. Maybe grew will do adult grew. No. Thank you.

But grow grew. I'm a fan of. I love grow grew. Grow grew is great. Grow grew versus grow. Grow grew. I mean, that's a million dollar idea, by the way. Yeah.

To have a growth, grow grew, but it's grew. Like it looks like grew, but he's like a Yoda. And it's, and it's, uh, it's Groot. Deciding between grew and grew. Like, you know, he's really. All right. This is great. What a fucking.

So we did, we did rule 10. Our culture is just a bowl now, which is the fucking bunch of mush. He is a stand up. Chipotle, I got a veggie. Well, I go, I go to that just today. Why we're talking about, I remember earlier today, you said, we'll talk about it on the podcast,

how we're getting cranky. And, uh, we're, we were. Wait, what? In our text message thread, you said, we'll talk about this on the podcast as a joke. Oh yeah. But we were saying, uh, we're, we're, we're ready to, we're, we're, we're ready to say, uh, we're ready to go

right and say we're done with outrage culture. Stop crying, everyone. Stop. Just shut the fuck up. It's not, it's not anything actually political. We just want our Patreon numbers to go up. So I got a veggie bowl. I'm not eating meat.

I got guacamole on the side, which I like to do with a veggie bowl because you get guacamole included. But if you get it on, especially if you're getting to go, and I was picking mine up, that guacamole, you know, will turn brown on top of the hot ingredients in transit. So I'll get it on the side and then, and then top it or use it as a dip for my chips. So which is what I did this time.

I get chips and tomatillo right. Let me tell you. Yeah. All those ingredients turn brown at one point or another. For me, it was a part of. Oh boy. It was, it was. I'll go in the back of the F board, F-150.

I'll run down my ingredients. I got the tomatillo, green chili, salsa, fajita veggies, queso blanco, cheese, black beans, and white rice. So that was my veggie bowl. And so the fajita veggies were basically the protein, but I mean, like the beans were doing a lot of work on the protein side as well. Mitch, yours gave you the rumblies, it sounds like.

What did you do? Wags, not only they give me the rumblies, but this is the infamous jack walk. Walk with Jack. Oh, right. We had this conversation previously. Yes, yeah. Where I.

We talked about this with Art and Marine. We did. And you almost hit your pants on a walk with Jack Allison. I almost hit my pants on a walk with Jack Allison. I had to call Evan Susser, ask him for the code to his office, and run into his office and use the restrooms. And they demolished that building. One of the best things I ever did was find access to a bathroom

on a lower floor in a building I was working in so I could shit recklessly without any fear of a coworker ever. Seeing it. That is huge. Because I was not, you know, not a member of the other side of the building, so it was a great, that was a great. Everyone needs, almost we should, almost forcibly make everybody shit on different floors.

Well, I, Wags, I, I want, I want a different route. And by the way, I love that. I think there's so much shame around going to the bathroom. It's an awful thing. Even as an adult, I still feel shame. Like, like using the bathroom. 100% sucks. And like, whatever.

If we're going to talk about, let me just bring up one other thing. And this is something that maybe some people can relate to. Maybe some people can. The idea of like having a master bath, right? Like you have a bathroom attached to your bedroom. In actuality, fuck that. Yeah. Like it's like, you're going to get that close to the smell.

I put a shower. I don't need to have a toilet right by my bed. I love this. I love, I love this stuff. Like, like, what are we doing? Like, that's what we, like we envision. Like, that's what class is. It's like, oh, I can shit right next to my bed.

It's like, yeah, but do you want to? Do you want to? No, you don't want to do that. No, the hall bath. That's where it's at. That's, yeah. Like, I mean, a shower in there is great. Okay, got a shower.

I could go get a dress. But I don't need to be, I don't need to be like, throwing down in there. No, absolutely. Yeah, thinking that up. No. Basement bathrooms. That's what they all should be.

Basement bathrooms. Pot outside. That's, man. You know what? The outside bathroom is not that bad. They love an outdoor shower. The, I think it's a great idea. When the toilet was introduced,

it was a huge marketing thing to figure out how to convince people to put like, what they've perceived as an outhouse inside their home. Because they're like, that's where I eat and sleep then and play with my kids. Why would I want to have a toilet in there? People were right. Yeah, they'd be, and I will say, you know,

I live in a, we live in an apartment, but when I think about like the idea of having a yard, the idea of having a composting toilet, which is like, just like kind of like, basically a modern outdoor outhouse. It's like very appealing to me. Like, oh, I could just go outside and like, take a fucking big dump back there

and feel like I'm doing something good for the environment. I love that. Man, mine would look like fucking rainforest in Brazil. Or I guess maybe nothing would grow there, too, is another issue. Wags. Yeah.

That's your Academy Award movie. I went with, I went a route, I've never gone at Chipotle. I did a couple of different things here. Well, man, can I ask you a question? Because, Philip, you understand the Chipotle Bowl. Are you going bowl at Chipotle? I just want to know that, like in the general world,

I feel like, okay, you are. Because I felt a lot of different ways about Chipotle over the years I've talked about. I like, it was hyped up. I tried it. I was like, that was okay. And then I went to like, oh, it's overrated. And then like, I don't like it.

And then come around to be like, you know what? When you get a Chipotle chicken burrito with white rice and sour cream, it can just be like a nice fucking delicious big, fat bowl of goop, sorry, tube of goop. And I grew to like it. And then when the bowls came around, I was like, oh, this is like nearly healthy

as far as like getting, you know, delivery or dinner from there. And like, if you do brown rice and you do chicken and you stay, you know, if you stay light on cheese or sour cream, you're doing okay. But those are also my two favorite things. Yeah, of course. At Chipotle.

But so a Chipotle bowl is something that I will go to every so often. Yeah. Doing this and also counting calories. I've realized that like it is heavier than I ever thought it was, but still not bad to treat yourself a little bit. So I would do bowls a lot in the past.

The issue was I was also doing chips and... Sure. And queso with it. But I always just get chicken bowls. I'll just always do a chicken bowl. So tonight I did half and half. I did half barbacoa, half chicken with brown rice, pinto beans, cheese, fresh tomato salsa, sour cream,

tomatillo green chili salsa. And then the thing that kind of caused the issues, why is tomatillo red chili salsa? Let me ask you this because I consciously did this and I'm not sure. I don't remember your previous bowl, so I'm not sure if you did the same. But I tried to basically flip every ingredient

that I got in my previous bowl. No, I did not try to do that. Okay, got it. I usually go black beans, so I've been doing pinto beans and I also saw the calories are the same. I think black beans are better for you than pinto beans, just nutritionally. Sure.

But... One more fiber. I did the half and half. I usually get chicken. I wanted to have chicken in there, but then the barbacoa was one of the lower calorie options. And I was like, I'll do it. And then also, I feel like barbacoa is pretty famous there.

And it was... The barbacoa was good. I enjoyed it. I liked it. Flavorful. It was... Yeah, I didn't have a ton of meat on my bowl. It was kind of a protein light.

But that was good. And the red salsa is much spicier than I thought it would be. It's a spicy salsa and it caused some gastrointestinal distress, as you would say. I fancy myself as something a heat seeker and Natalie is several tiers above me in terms of how much heat tolerance she has. But when we got our Chipotle for this outing,

she got the red chili salsa. And she was like, oh, this is pretty spicy. Like she was noticing it's decently potent. Yeah. That's it. I took the guys, the Quincy Boys, the Jitlata. That's a whole other thing. And yes, Wu was sweating like crazy.

Yeah. And I was doing the spicy four cups and didn't bother me. I mean, like I told you this beforehand, like I think the part of the reason why my stomach hurts so much is I'm using a lot of hot sauce. But even with all this hot sauce and my stomach had been hurting lately with salads, this Chipotle hot sauce put me over the top for one reason.

I usually get rumblies from Chipotle. People make jokes about Taco Bell, but Chipotle is the one that gets me. Sure. And so I'll say this, the tastes were good. I enjoyed my bowl. Wow. I really liked it.

Sheer, let's talk about your Chipotle experience. Okay. Let me just say that I'm so excited to get this assignment because this is one of my go-to places. This is one of my go-to bowls. Wow. I am not a meat eater often. I will have fish, sometimes chicken.

So I went straight down the line with what I normally get. I'm going to read it to you right now. Okay. I get a sofritas bowl. Oh, yes. Yeah. Okay. That's the veggie option.

Do it with brown rice, black beans. Veggie fajitas, fresh tomato salsa, corn chili salsa, tomatillo green chili salsa. Three salsas. Tomatillo red chili salsa. All the salsas. Sour cream, cheese, and guac. Wow.

Now. Like the Olympic rings of salsas. I get them all in there. All the salsas. And when they all come together, you kind of eliminate some of that hotness of the red, but you get that flavor of the red. It's a kind of really, it's a perfect mix.

Now I will say that I like to be there. I ordered this one over Dordache. So it's a little, it's a little loud. Yeah. I like to, I like to, I like to monitor how my bowl is like when I go, and I know salad's not allowed when I got into salad, but when I go to salad, I go like less on that lettuce. Let's get that base out of there.

Yeah. Let's just go one fourth from the base. So for here, I go light on the sour cream and light on the cheese. I just need a little bit. Just give me a little bit in there. And then I know I had to pick a side. And of course, I think they're really the only side worth mentioning there is, is the chips, which I think are great.

And I use the chips as my delivery system for that bowl. Smart, smart move. Yeah. And perfect bowl every time. Perfect bowl. I will say that sofritas I've had better and worse. I'm not 100% for sofritas, but if I don't do sofritas, I'll just do the veggies.

And that's like, I'll go there. I feel like they need a better veggie protein option. I 100% agree. It's either sofritas or guacamole, basically, they're offering. And I just like, give me some, I don't know, give it some ground beyond meat or something. Yeah, we're at the point where I think beyond meat can get into the mix very easily. And I think it'd be really good. You could actually probably even do chicken strips beyond meat, chicken strips.

I feel like we've gotten to that point. I've gone to Fat Burger and I've gotten their chicken nuggets beyond chicken. Great. Yeah. Amazing. Solid. So in that world, this is like, I, you know, look, I'll base it on Splash Mountain.

The, you know, Brea Rabbit says, don't throw me down that briar patch. I was excited. I was like, this is it. This is my go-to spot. That's what he used to say. I was trying to get it back. I will say that the name, the new name is bad. Didn't they reveal the name?

No, isn't it The Princess and the Frogger? Yeah, but the name of it is bad. It's like Bayou Adventure. I'm like, it's going to be Splash Mountain. You wanted to be, you wanted to have Splash in there. It's going to be Splash. It's going to be like the, like the big Bayou Splashdown or something. Bayou Splashdown might have been better than

I like Bayou Splashdown. Bayou Splashdown. Come on. Can you imagine? Bayou Blowout. I think we need a BB, like a B, you know. Bayou Blowout is great. That's great.

Yeah. So the perfect bowl sounds like big girl over here. I couldn't think of a real bowler's name. So I said Bill Murray's name from Pig Kingpin. That's okay. Which I didn't even get. I liked you explaining it. My bowl was, I think that when Chipotle moved to bowls,

Chipotle is a weird chain where I feel like it gets made fun of, but then I also feel like it is a thing that people, a lot of people survive on for. I think it is like a decent work launch. If you're saying we're getting Chipotle, I'm like, all right, I'm happy. I can get what I need there. I'm fine.

It's fine. Yeah. Chipotle has this like interesting thing where it's like, I feel like it is the, and you guys may disagree with me, but I think it is in the conversation to be in the top three, fast, casual, like it's like, it gives you all this, the flavor of like a fast food restaurant. It gives you a little bit more, like we're making it fresh for you.

Makes you get a little bit like, it kind of hits all the marks of like a fast casual that's elevated, but yet also hitting that sweet spot of being like, oh, I'm, I'm being bad. Like I'm not, I'm not, it's not like a salad. They just, you know what I'm saying? I feel like, and there's not other, I really can't think of any other place

that feels like I'm getting that flavor palette and those other things on top of it. Yeah. That's a great point. It's a, it's a, it's a common go-to for me. I will say that like, if I do want to indulge a little bit, I will get the burrito at times. And I feel like the burrito can be,

I had the burrito. You don't have to is the thing. The burrito can be pretty good. If it's hitting, the burrito also, I feel like has more margin for error than the bowl. The funny thing with the burritos is like, it's like almost a soggy big fucking, it needs to be a little warm

because a lot of times you'll get them in there cool. Yes. That's, that's, I feel like there's more, there's more range of outcomes when it comes to the burrito. Well, to me, it's like, we got to figure out the perfect wrapping system for burrito because that's the thing.

It's like, I want to be able to like tear, eat, wrap. I want to have like, I don't want that goopy mess. I don't want that tube of goop that you're talking about. I want to have like a tightly wrapped, ready to go burrito. That's not one bite and explosion. It's not like that. I don't need that. I was trying to think of why I like it,

the Chipotle burrito, because like, it is the thing that I came around on. I do actually genuinely like it. And I think it's the thing of like, it's a big carb bite. It's like, you got the wrap and then you got so much rice. They, and like, I think some people don't like the burritos because they have so much rice in it,

but it's just a huge carb on carb bite. You know what I mean? You're getting so much fucking white rice in fucking, in tortilla and I love that. It definitely feels like a meal in the way that like a Jersey Mike sub does. Darrell Powell, you song, swears by Chipotle burritos, has them all the time.

Let's talk about pressed a little bit. So we all ate pressed in advance of this record. We got the, I got the acai power bowl, which is what you also got, Mitch. I'll read the description for this. This is almond butter with banana almonds, granola and blueberries. And the base is acai oat milk and coconut cream.

I think this, I believe this is vegan, which is, you know, to its, to its credit. And I hadn't had, I don't know if I'd had the power bowl before it could be mistaken, maybe even had it on the podcast before, but I know last time I got a different bowl. Mitch, had you gotten, you had this bowl before, you remember this bowl?

This is, oh yeah, this is the one that I always get. This is your go to. So I should have changed up, but I know that it's, here's, here's my thought with this, is that like, there's not a ton of options here. Like there's only a few bowls. Yeah. And then it's, and so that's what makes it harder

as a bowl place. Why is it kind of like the Lakers in what, 2003? Or when, when was it just Kobe? What are you talking about? I'm talking the only Kobe ever. It was never just Kobe. We just retired Paul Gasol. Paul Gasol.

Yeah, Paul Gasol. But there was, there was that little era where Shaq, you know, the, Shaq left, it's just, it's just, the Shaq Powell, and so that would have been like 2005. I think he's trade, I think Shaq is traded to the heat in 2005, the heat in that title. I thought it was early season.

Let me ask you a question before, and I know it's not to, this may be more appropriate for your NBA chat. Do you go harass your Clipper fan friends that like Russ Westbrook is on our team? I think I got a lot of, a lot of my Laker fans, people are like up in my,

like, you see, you see, and what I don't like about it is, Russ isn't giving us the same issues. Yes. There are a lot. Here's the thing. Yeah. Well, I'm sorry to interject here.

Please. Wags hates the Celtics, and he also hates the Clippers. It's true. He hates this side of the room. You're wearing a Celtics hat. Sheer is wearing a Clippers hat, and I am seething.

But it's okay. And you're wearing our fresh hat, which just pisses me off. I thought about wearing a Laker hat, and I was like, it's going to be too incendiary. I was like, I'm not going to wear a Laker hat to be consciously.

See, and I put this on, and I was like, I've already messed up with Weigar with the pizza, and now I don't know where to go. Go back, go back. So I literally put on this. I felt like this is more, it's great.

It's great. Go back to your point, I'm sorry. But my point was this, I and I get, and I get rivalries, and I'm all four rivalries, and I will tell you this much as a-

Sorry. Again, he doesn't think of you that way. He doesn't think of the Sklippers as a rival. Okay. So- They're beneath him. Am I being honest? I'm sure they are.

You know I'm being honest. I'm sure they are. Yeah. I don't even go that deep with Weigar on it, because I know that it's a place of hatred. So I don't even want to toy with him. I'm not going to try to pull him back. I recognize it.

Like this is Anakin. This is Anakin right before he's going to kill those kids in the third movie. Yeah. He's in the Jedi Academy. I mean, he knows what he's doing. Like, I'm like, there's no words I can say to make him not slice those kids in half.

Yeah, he's always hanging around the Jedi Academy. But I will say this. But I will say, like, I can recognize that the Lakers made some very good decisions post trade. I feel like they had some rough, you know, a rough little go of it. Yes. But are you harassed?

I mean, you don't harass me. No. Again, because I don't even get- I don't go into that- Sure. ...the world with Nick. And we both are, I think- I have basketball debt.

You have bad- Like, we're both in- We're in- Like, we're not casual. We're here. Do you harass your- No, I don't. But I will-

I will say that, like, I will talk some shit. But I have also, like, gotten- I've calmed down a lot. And I think a lot of it is just- Just was just COVID, where I was just like, I should not never get, like, angry about sports. I just, like, I just kind of, like, kind of reached a point where I'm just like,

I reassessed all of my life's priorities and was like, I just- This isn't a thing I need to get into. But I- But so, yeah, I know I- But I will definitely talk with Clippers fans about, like, the- What it's like to have Russell Westbrook on the team.

100%. Yeah. And it- It posed a lot of challenges. I was rooting for him, because he's from here. And I know he grew up a Laker fan, and I wanted him to work on the Lakers. I didn't think that trade made sense,

but I was like, oh, I would- I would love it if I was wrong, and this worked out. And there were times when he was being a sixth man, where he was like, Hey, it's kind of working here, but- Overall, yeah, it- And unfortunately, it has been addition by traction

to get him off the roster. He seems to be gelling with the Clippers right now. They seem to be doing- I think they're very different teams. Yeah, yeah. And I think that, like, I think part of- I mean, sorry, we'll get off this very quickly. I'll just say, like, I think the part of his-

He's pissed. I think that part of his- I think that part of his thing is figuring out how he fits in. And I think a coach is very important in that. And I feel like, for whatever reason, his- A minimized role, or how he should be playing,

was not positioned to him in a way that he was either A, ready to hear, or B, ready to do. And maybe after the emotional impact of this season, he was open to changing some- I don't know. I- It's a longer conversation that I would like to get into, but I'm holding back on a lot of different thoughts.

But I also root for him. I think he's a lovely guy. I saw him at Easter brunch. He wasn't at my table, but he was at a table. That's amazing. My son had all of his basketball cards went up to him. The loveliest guy. Yeah.

Sweet. He's kind. And I really enjoy seeing him in these post-game interviews, because he's like such a lovely dude. Everything I've heard about him is like he, you know, when- Sounds like the Lakers are kind of toxic, maybe. Well, they called him a vampire. That was the crazy thing.

It's true. Yeah, vampire in the locker room. But I've heard like when they started- Wait, who did? The team? That was like a thing that emerged from, I think David Miniman had one of the Lakers beat reporters had, or the Lakers CSPN reporter.

Why were they calling him a vampire? I think just because he was kind of a negative force, I think it was metaphorical. But then they show all these videos of him being super positive, which I don't understand. The my question to you also is this. As I said to my friend, Alan Yang, who is a very big Lakers fan, we often chat back and forth.

Do you think that LeBron is the problem? Friend of the show. I, it seems like being LeBron, I passed a boys' guess, it seems like LeBron is maybe not the the funnest teammate to be around for long stretches. I think my words carefully here, because I do like LeBron a lot.

I do think he's one of the greatest players of all time. Oh. He's brought the, I brought the Lakers a championship, the bubble championship is like, one of the most memorable sports things of my life, being able to enjoy that at a very dark time in the world. And, but like, it seems like there's a lot of,

like he's with teammates and at a certain point, he kind of like maneuvers with the front office to shift people out and shift other people in. You know, it seems like he's maybe a difficult guy to work with. Yeah, there's like people pop up. But anyway, it's a larger conversation. Do you count that championship as like an actual real championship or no?

Yes, I do, Mitch. Oh, okay, interesting. Despite your trolling, yes, I do. And I think if the Celtics had won, you would feel the same way. No, make your most championship. I would not, I wouldn't count it. See, I'm not even gonna,

I'm gonna sit back here and enjoy because I enjoy, I have a lot of things to say about that. He actually hates the Celtics more than I hate the Lakers. That is the truth. I don't even hate the Lakers that. I do respect the Celtics though. But yeah, there's also like a- He does not respect the Clippers.

No, well, hold on. I was gonna say, it's a, what you were saying, Shear, rivalries are part of sports and part of the fun of sports is rooting against teams. Yes, there's a vampire in the fucking studio. By the way, I texted Dunktown a photo of our Acai bowls, Mitch. And I get a responded,

okay, Bragg and Anastasia says, some beautiful bowls. It's a positive reaction to the Gert chat. I was gonna say, they should have told us doesn't count. That doesn't count as Gert. There's no yogurt in there. Well, I didn't say what they were. I just said they like-

They look like, if you ask me if there's yogurt involved in those bowls that we had today, I was like, yeah, sure. It's like trying to pass that championship for being a real one. It's a real championship. It's not a real yogurt bowl. I was gonna say that it's like, this is gonna give a compliment. But the Lakers of the post-shack Kobe era there that was

before Paul Gassal came over, where it was kind of, it was a shitty time. And it's like- Yeah, yeah, yeah, like, you know- But you have one star in the show. Parker and- It's a tough comparison because I actually think the press is good. I'm just saying like, there's one star here is this bowl and there's not,

and I guess we've never tried any of the other ones, which is on us. No, I've tried the other bowls. I've had all of their bowls. I will say that, but they don't have a lot. They don't have a lot. They have four bowls. They have the dragon fruit at some locations, not ours. This is what I will say.

Yeah. I like that. I like, we talked about clerks early on, do whatever you do well. Chipotle's like that too. And I don't need a big menu. Like just give me what you do well and if you do it well enough, then I'll just go there for that.

Like oftentimes, I'm just going back to the same restaurants I like that are in this world and having the same thing. I like that what I had. I'm not going to change my order. How much do you change up? Truly, the places that you really love and frequent, do you change up your order that much? No, once I figure out what I want, that's what I'm getting.

And I love a streamlined menu. Hey, fucking Gordon Ramsay goes in and screams his head off of what a restaurant is doing wrong. One of the first things he zeroes in on is you have got too many menu items. Your menus, you're not the cheesecake factor. You don't need to have like this eight page menu. Simplify it to what you do well.

It's just, this is going to be a really tough one. Wow. Because I think that the Chipotle bowl to me has become synonymous with work time launches and I think it's a good choice. Sure. And this is one that has, I don't think of pressed as much as a bowl place, but I do think

that they have a great, great bowl. Okay. Well, I want to say that the bowl that I got at press was the, I got, and I intentionally picked this, the original. I don't know what the ingredients are. I'll bring it out. Yeah, okay.

Because I wanted to make sure that if I was going there, like they always say, like, if you're going to try somebody's ice cream, you try vanilla. Hell yeah. Right. And that's, I'm all, I'm all about it. Right, I love that, yeah. My equivalent is the cheese pizza from a pizza place.

That's great too. Yeah. I totally buy that. All right. So what do we got in this original bowl? Okay. The, the acai original smoothie bowl consists of all about the base, an ingredient base of oat milk

and coconut cream, plus acai, acai, and then it has maple syrup, monk fruit, and banana, berries, granola, and agave. I'm going to tell you what I thought was wrong about this bowl, but this is not going to be, I'm not, I'm not going to give you a sneak preview of what I think I'm going to be voting on here, but I'm going to say that maple syrup was too much.

Interesting. It, it actually, I think brought out a wrong side of the granola for me because the granola is what I'm looking for to kind of cut through some of the sweetness and kind of give me a different texture. That granola was wrapped in maple syrup and I was like, oh, too sweet. It's sweet on sweet.

And it's like, there's a local place out here that does bowls and I, I like them because I think that a perfect bowl like that nasaib bowl, it needs to tart, cold. I think it needs to be, I think there needs to be parts that are very soft and parts that are very hard. Like, you know, like, I think you're going to go in for a piece of banana here. Yes, you need, you need a real texture.

Like it needs to kind of, I think, I don't call it a dessert bowl. I don't even know what you would call these bowls. Are they dessert bowls? Or are they just like, it's not a lunch? Smoothie bowls. That's me. I think they have breakfast bowls.

There's a breakfast bowl. Yeah. I got a question for you. What is this local place? We can also bleep it out if you don't want. Oh, yeah. No, I, I would say juice crafters. Oh yeah, juice crafters.

The gelsons over here. I think that's a small chain. There's a few of them. Yeah, there's a few of them. Yeah. It sounds like lens crafters. I like it. Yeah.

Juice crafters is good. They're, they, yeah. And they, but they just make a very good acai bowl that it, like where the peanut butter is like that fresh, like that fresh pressed peanut butter. And this is, and why I bring it up is because pressed could do everything that juice crafters. This is not like, this is where every playing field is equal

on acai bowl. I believe. I got one more question. Where do you see West Brookette brunch? We can also bleep this out. Oh, four seasons. So we went to the four seasons Easter brunch. It was there with his family.

I told my son to bring his basketball cards because I knew he was going to get bored at Easter brunch. By the way, their Easter brunch was insane and amazing. And I highly recommend it. And it was, I think it probably was expensive, but it was a great, Easter is a weird holiday. So it was like a great day. I was, I'm just relieved you didn't see me there.

I was, I had like a card. I was ready to meet the Easter bunny. I was really excited about it. But I will say that we sat, literally sat right next to him. My son is the Easter bunny. Or the Easter bunny. Yeah.

And he was leaving little dust. Well, he left all the dust. And I was like, it is true. My son has actually had this like amazing thing where he's got to meet a handful of like awesome, like he's always has his basketball. He, he had that he happened to have his basketball card done. But one time I went to a card store.

I bought him a Dwayne Wayne card because my wife is in cheaper by the dozen, the remake with Zach Braff with Gabriel Union. And I was like, I bet you Dwayne Wade will be at that premiere. We went inside and I saw him right there. And I was like, Gus, boom. I dropped him a card and gave him a thing. And he went right over and Dwayne Wade signed that card.

And it was like, it was in like, it was that was like, he's got to meet like Dwayne Wade, got to meet Russ. He got to meet, got a fist bump from the canard. Very casual meetings. We didn't like plan this in any major way. But it's a, it was, it's been about any of the NBA guys like been like, this is a pretty good card

and taking it from him. Yeah. Well, you know what it was? The one that we got Russ to sign was a big head card. And it's called slam masters. And slam masters are like just giant heads on little bodies. And they're very like, I mean, I don't say they're artistic, but there's weird looking.

They're not worth much. Like Chibi. Yeah. Like, and so it's like, it is like, you know, it's like, so it's Blake's got one, a bunch of guys have. So it was like, he did go like, like it was a moment of like, what am I signing?

You know, it's not, not an insult to him. But he was also going through that was last Easter, going through a rough time, I think with the fans. I was at a couple of Laker games, Laker games, not Clipper games, but Laker games where, you know, that's a tough environment to play in. Yeah. It's tough.

Why are you booing him incessantly? Yeah. Were you a person that were cheering? Because I felt like I was behind a lot of people like, don't shoot. Like people were doing that. I don't do that. I don't hack all my own team, my own squad.

I don't like that move. Like I definitely have things that frustrate me, but it's more like, you know, you know, but I'm not going to. You were the one though, during the bubble, you kept on threatening Danny Green's pregnant baby mama. You're like, yeah. Yeah, that was the one exception.

When he missed what could have won the NBA finals, you know, I kind of went off. By the way, it was like the second game. He couldn't even have won. It was so, it was such a meaningless game. We're not meaningless, but it wasn't like, they were up and he made this whatever. And it was like, who's fuck his mom?

Like it's this and baby's mom. I was like, wow. It's like, geez. And they won the series. Yeah, it was like, yeah. Yeah, it was like, yeah. Um, when I, when my mom and dad came out one time back, back, way back in the day,

um, we went to MOTSA and, uh, we were by Rupert Murdoch with, like Rupert Murdoch was at the table next to us. Wow. Wow. And my mom was like, Mike, go say hello to him. He's your boss. Cause I worked at the Simpsons and I was like, mom, no, just be quiet, please.

He's not my boss at the Simpsons. And she thought since I like worked at Fox, Yes. I could go over to the table and be like, you know, I work at Fox and like, put in a good word for me and I'd be hired on. So you went over to his table and he was actually reading through the Simpsons scripts, giving notes.

Yeah, that was just too broad. A little more Homer for this episode. We go to MOTSA with a pile of scripts. New girl, Simpsons, just getting into it all. I just, I quickly remember I said, I love your politics. I gotta go. The, the makes me want to talk about the Sumner Redstone book some more, but I won't.

Barger's reading the Sumner Redstone book. I finished, it's great book. Did you read the Showtime Lakers book and not that this is like, but I was. No, I didn't read that. That's a great book. Yeah, I've heard, I've a good thanks. Yeah, that's really good.

So we, the, the, I'll say this, because you were talking about textural variation and the bowls. I do think the Power Bowl does that well. I do think that, that the, you know, the, the almonds and the granola in there gives it some great crunch. Did your granola have maple syrup on it?

Or you didn't taste it. I found mine. It's not, it's not listed on the, on the, the ingredients here. It might have been, if it was, it was a little bit subtler. This was not punished. I'll tell you, I'll also tell you a revelation for me today, is that I realized I maybe just really like almond butter, which our bowl has.

Yeah, it's good. It has a drizzle of almond butter on it. And I'm like, that's so, that's doing so much leg work for me with the bowl. Yeah. Is, and I'll say this, the fruit is very fresh, like that banana is chopped up, nice banana, nice blueberries.

There's a lot of good stuff there. The base of the bowl can be a little too cold sometimes. Wags, we talked about that. It can be like. Oh my, it's so cold. It's, it's very cold. You don't want to hurt your teeth. Yeah.

It's so, I don't know how they get it so cold. It's too cold. It's too cold. It's too cold. Refrigerated bowls. But I mean, I guess that's what it is, but yeah, it's a refrigerator, but it's like, it's like. I'm saying the bowls have a secret little mini refrigerator.

Oh, you think they, they have a fridge in them. It's really, they're losing so much money. Yeah. You trash them, but they're throwing away a mini refrigerator. It makes so much sense to me now that it's, you do have to plug it in. Tumming. Well, you know, talking about texture, like let's,

let's debate that first thing. Cause we're talking about the texture of that, but like Chipotle bowls, that's another thing too. It's like, I think you need to figure out like the rice bean mix too. Because if the beans are too solid, you need to have a little bit of like, you need to have a little bit of this, like, uh,

not friction, but you want to have like, you want to have like a texture contrast. And I think that's the important thing. That's it, the contrast. You want to mix it up because, so you're not just eating a big thing of goop. I will say what I always get the feed of edgies for a little bit of crunch,

which I think is the same thing you're doing with using your chips as a delivery mechanism. It's just like, this is so mushy that anything with some, with a little bit of crunchies in there, pluses it up. I don't know. I like this, the power bowl a lot, Mitch.

I think I like the almond butter as well. And I think that just goes a long way. Almond butter goes a long way. For me, I think I do enjoy the Chipotle bowl. And I think it's like, but it is very much like feels like a work launcher. It's like, oh, I want to have a burrito, but I'm having a burrito bowl instead,

where I do think that this acai breakfast power bowl feels like you're really like, it feels like, oh, this is like fancy and indulgent in some way. This, it feels like more of a treat. Now, this is something I know a lot of the fans say, especially on Patreon, like that you're kind of a classes, right? So you're, you know, you're looking at,

and you're looking down at the work a day lunch bowl, like I was like, oh, that's what the people just, who work in my company, you know, like they're eating that. But here's what I'll say. Yes, I'm like, yes, get one for, you know, like the head gum honks. Hey, so you can have a Chipotle bowl. I'll have my fancy fucking, what is it called?

Probably the top of your 60 stairs, just having your acai bowl. But I do think that there is something about the, I do think that they're talking about the presentation of it. Like there is a freshness to that pressed bowl that makes you feel like I'm eating an elevated meal. It's gorgeous. It's really, and even the almond butter Peter North on top, it like it looks so, it's so presentable.

You know, I made a joke being like, Casey, you can have the, your, whatever your meal is. And then I realized today I was jealous of Casey's lunch while we were eating our acai bowls. He got, he got a Mendocino Farms chicken and prosciutto sandwich. Yeah. And I was like, I would rather have that than the, and that brings me back to reality where it does,

it looks like you went to the Beverly Hilton or something and you're at the pool and you got a fucking. Right, that's a, that's a spas snack. It is a spas snack. It's a spas snack. Very much so. But now you're like, I would rather that sandwich, that sandwich looked fucking good.

Sandwich looked great. Can I just, because I feel like we're in this zone right now where I need to like just get clarity for myself, are we talking about this in the sense of this is what we would want forever on a desert island? Or like, how, how should I be looking at this? Or is this a better bowl? This is a better presentation.

Like how, like how are you looking at it when we're, when we're making our final deliberations about these two bowls? Because they're very different flavors. They're very different types of things. This just changed. Honestly, this right now, things just kind of flipped around in my head.

Wow. Wow. Well, you know what? This is part of the evaluation. This is part of what our decision will come down to. And this is a great question, which by the way. This is a great question. You can add, you can add your own category.

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or you can use promo code doughboys at checkout. Do it. Welcome back to doughboys as we continue Munch Madness Bowl with Paul Scheer. It's time to do our ratings. And before we get into that, Mitch, I do have an announcement I have to make that will be dated by the time this episode releases,

but I feel like we just should get your live reaction. This is the headline I saw over the break. It's official. Duncan has confirmed the Dunkachino's retirement. Wow. Wow. Yep. This is like a new- Duncan has officially retired. His statement to today.com and Duncan's spokesperson confirmed.

As we focus on innovation and finding new ways to delight guests, we continually evolve our menu in an effort to deliver a fast, frictionless experience. The Dunkachino is retired for now, but there's always a chance for its return in the future. They're leaving the door just cracked like Taco Bell, like, hey, we might bring it back. I don't know.

Can we get Al Pacino on the horn? Because he's really the one that's connected to it. He should do some sort of retirement song. It's not Al anymore. It's Dunk. Oh, God. It's so fucking good. I don't know if I've talked to you about this,

and this is going to make us enemies, and I don't even want to go there. Oh, no. I always want to enjoy a Dunkin' Donuts coffee, and I feel like it's too- I go and I'm like, maybe this is Lee the Time. Maybe I'm ordering the wrong things. I look online.

I'm like, what should I be ordering? And I never feel like I get the right thing. So are you a full-on Dunkin' Coffee guy? I think it is the best- I'm furious. I think it's the best fast food coffee that there is. I think it's a million times better than Starbucks. I like McDonald's, but I do like Dunkin' Donuts. You like McDonald's?

I do like Dunkin' Donuts. What are you guys getting, though? This is where I feel like I'm falling apart. I'll either do just a small black coffee with no cream or sugar, or if I do get- Okay. I'll do a small one with just cream and sugar. Okay, see, I'm doing iced coffees.

I'm doing these Dunkin' Chinos. I have not ever had a straight-up Dunkin' Donuts coffee. I think simpler is better there. I agree. But with an iced coffee, if you get an iced coffee black or with cream and sugar, you should be okay, I think. Yeah, the issue I have with some of their iced drinks is that they taste a little sciency.

Yes. Like, they've got a little bit of artificial flavor to them. And I'm just like, I don't need this vanilla, you know, iced vanilla latte. Just give me their straight-up coffee. And if I just get a black coffee from there, I'm usually sitting pretty. I do like also their breakfast menu.

I think they have breakfast sandwiches. I think their breakfast sandwiches are great. I think they're Dunkin'. I'm an East Coast person, so I'm a Dunkin' person. I never drank coffee until I got older. And then I've always been like, what's the magic drink here? But I'll tell you, I don't like a Starbucks iced coffee,

either. I think I like a coffee bean iced coffee. Like, iced coffee is a trickier thing, I think, to kind of nail in my opinion. What's something from your... Do you have something from your hometown that is from your hometown? Not like uniquely...

Like, not like a unique, unique thing like that. I mean, I grew up on East Coast, Long Island, so I feel like there's a lot of... No, I mean, like all the places I realized that I thought were my unique places, like Red Lobster or Chain. It's like if Red Lobster was from, like, Long Island, and I was like,

Red Lobster tastes like shit. Well, he didn't say... He was... Massachusetts is the home place of Dunkin' Donuts. Wow. You have too much pride in this. I was. My Lakewood, California is the home of Denny's,

who gives a shit. Look, and Fred is rolling in his fucking grave right now. Where I grew up, apparently, they shot sequences of the Kevin Klein movie In and Out, where he plays a closeted teacher. So that's... Wow. If you were to talk about In and Out,

the Kevin Klein movie, not the Burger Place, I would be furious. In and Out, it stinks. No, but this is my thing. Like, I keep on... Like, I tell you this much, I order from Dunkin' Donuts every Sunday. Every Sunday?

Wow. All right, this is... Wow. I get... You're doing better than me. I get a thing of munchkins, because we have a little... That's fun.

We have a... Munchkins are great. Yeah, munchkins are great. I love Dunkin' Donuts. I love their breakfast food. And I just felt like I have... But now I'm going to go and have their regular coffee. I thought...

And again, I'm not a coffee drinker. So like, this is a new thing. That's the whole thing. Yeah, you're... But Mitch also not a coffee drinker. I don't need a coffee drinker. But Dunkin''s one of the only ones that I do enjoy. Me, I gotta have my job.

You were telling me to come down. I wasn't really upset. I mean, I am fucking furious. What's your favorite part of the Dunkin' Chino sketch with Al Pacino? For me, I think it's a... It's a say hello to my chocolate friend. That's good.

That one's really good. Oh, wait, I'm sorry. Chocolate blend. That's what it is. Not chocolate friend. I also like when he says, Dunkin' Dunkin' Dunkin' Dunkin' Dunkin' Dunkin' Chino. That's great.

It really never ceases to be entertaining. That video, like, what... I will go to that for Sandler. I love Huey Halloween. Oh, by the way, I love Sandler. Some of these that I love more than others. I'm not an elitist about this. But whoever came up with that idea

liked to be like, let's do this. Goddamn genius. That is truly one of the funniest, craziest bits because you get everything without the embarrassment that he did it. Right? Right.

And I think that's what you want. Like, it is a full-on perfect, big commercial. It's like Ben Stiller-level commercial. Yeah, it gets it. It's great. And you know what else is great is Dunkin' Donuts. It's a... It's just...

Boston cream. They're Boston cream. Boston cream is good. One of the best things. I feel like I'm searching for that flavor in different places. I don't need any of your fancy cronuts. I don't need any of your stuff.

You know, Dunkin' Donuts. Yeah. Time to make the noise. More like time to get insulted. Wow, geez. Again, I mean, I grew up with those. He came back around and complimented him. I was like, really?

He was only asking about a very specific coffee. Yeah. One of their items... Can I just be real with you? If Wu and Micah's and Shayton were here, you'd be a dead man right now. You'd be a fucking dead man right now. All right, let's rate these chains.

And, Shear, you can add your own category at the end. We have a lot of categories. Mitch, you're going to go first. I'm going to talk you through them. Let's try to keep this fast because we're already way over. All right, first category, Mitch. Greens. You know what?

I'm going to give this to Chipotle of the two because the greens count as fruit, not really, right? They grow on trees and bushes. All right, then you know what? It's a green choice to eat vegan. You know what? I'm going to go over to the pressed now wins this. Wow, pressed.

Pressed wins greens. Speaking of category, the next category is fruit. Speaking of fruit, the next category is fruit. See, now I feel like I should have given it to Chipotle. I'm going to go back, give the greens to Chipotle. Okay. Give fruit to pressed. Wow.

Pressed wins fruit. Grains. Grains, that's going to go to Chipotle. Even though pressed does have good granola. I like that granola. If it's not too maple-y. I'm going to go Thai. Wow.

Next up, granola. That goes to pressed. Yeah. I mean, by default, it had granola. Yeah, that's granola. Protein. All that good protein. I love that almond butter.

I think you get more protein options at Chipotle, and I like a lot of them. I'm going to Chipotle. Yogurt. Yogurt is going to go to pressed. Nut butter. Nut butter is going to go to pressed. Feels like there's maybe a thumb on the scale for pressed just in the category.

Yeah, the categories are really, yeah. You're not wrong. I'm going to add a category called Mexican. Okay. I mean, do you want that to be your category? No, no, no, no, no. Okay. The category you brought earlier was good, by the way.

Yeah, that's true. Chasar Island is a great category. All right. We just did nut butter dips. Dips, I'm going to go to Chipotle. Dressing. Dressing, I'm going to go to Chipotle. Meghan Trainor, aka the base.

I'm going to actually give that to Chipotle because I like their white rice a lot and I think that the base is maybe my least favorite part of the bowl. Like I like all the stuff on top of the bowl more than I like the base. So I'm going to Chipotle. Also the base of the acai bowl. Too cold. Very cold. Too cold.

Freezing. Bowl is the next category. Bowl. Bowl. Damn, both tie. They're both really good bowls. Wow. They're both really good bowls.

Silverware. I'm going to give that to Prest. Drinks. I didn't get one either. I'm going to go NA for, you know what, I'm going to give that to Prest because they have great juices. They do have a lot of good juices there, although we did not get one today. We did not get one.

Bread. Bread goes to Chipotle for their tortillas. There's no real bread option at Prest. But remember the rule, chips are bread. Okay, so there are no chips also at Prest. Yeah, okay. Fair enough. Next up, treat.

Did I get a treat? You know, it's technically bread though too, right? Yeah, that's true. Shit. All right. Yeah, that's true. Fuck. Good point.

I'm going to still go with Chipotle. I just wanted to make sure you knew what the parameters were. Yeah. No, it's a way. I don't want to correct you. I agree with you. Chipotle, the tortillas still, if you get a side tortillas still like Paul would do. Have you ever done that?

Have you gotten a side tortilla before? I never do. I never do. Because at that point, I'm just like, why am I not just having a burrito? I'm going to put this together on my own. Well, then you like that fajita experience. I guess so. But then I guess if you're getting a corn tortillas maybe.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got a big flour tortilla? It seems unwieldy. The East Coast version of me always wants the shelled taco. I want the hard taco like that. I do like their hard tacos. And then have good hard tacos. Yeah, they're good.

And that's like, that's a, yeah. I'm wanting Chipotle. Well, go on. Okay. Did we just did bread, right? Yeah. Yeah. Okay.

Now it's the treat trifecta. First up, treat. Did I get a treat? I did not get a treat. And they for both. Next up, treat. Is this a treat? I'm going to say yes to both.

Wow. Finally, treat Williams. Yes to both. Okay. Pali added those categories originally as one category, but they were broken out individually. Just from the Pali episode along, the categories became, I think, two times longer.

Well, here's the thing. It wasn't just Pali. It was also Zach Cherry. Because what Zach Cherry did is took the Pali categories and said those should all be individual categories, as well as some of our previous categories. So what? And then he added his own category as well.

We should blame both of our former guests instead of just one. Both very nice, very funny men who made time for us. So we should blame them. Yeah. And we'll blame Sheer for something as well. I can't wait. Okay.

Okay. Next up, uncar plot, aka portions. This was the Oscar Montoya category. This is a great question. I'm satisfied. You know what? This is a tie. Do I mean Chipotle?

Chipotle, I'm almost, I'm always satisfied after eating a Chipotle bowl. Yeah. And I'm still hungry right now. Wow. So I think I'm going to go Chipotle, actually, by a slight, slight edge. Wow.

Slight edge for Chipotle. Next up, Navi. This was Zach's category. This one, hands down, goes depressed. Speed. This was Jordan Morris's category, that he asked it to be attributed to Sonic the Hedgehog. Both good, but you know what?

And you know, for the blue guy himself, I should go pressed, but I'm going to Chipotle. What's faster than having people scoop in what you want right then and there? All right, Mitch, you got jealous of everyone adding categories, so you added two of your own. First category you added is the whale.

Yep. Would the whale like it? Would the whale like it, yeah. Yes, the whale would like Chipotle, and no, so Chipotle gets the win over, over pressed. Brings us to our second category, you added Pyacon, which is would Pyacon, the Tolkien from Avatar of the Way of Water,

a whale like creature, would he enjoy each of these? I think that Pyacon would like the Osaibo from press, so press wins that one. Arden added her category, motor boating. Which one would you want to motorboat? Which means like... Oh, yeah, just like, really, like, there's really good in there.

Or does it give you the flavor, like after you have your erect, whoa. Yeah. Yeah. You know what I'm thinking of? That's a great point. Great point. I think I gotta give that to press because of that.

Wow. Because if I go into press, I have a bite of that cold bowl. Like you're saying. Shears right. And finally, Tammy Sager's category, nap or napkin? Chipotle gives nap, napkin for press. Wow.

And Sheer, did you have a category you want to add? Yes. Damon Lindelof's Lost. Wow. Is my category. And this is like, if you got stranded on an island with the cast of Lost. Okay.

We're talking Hugo, that's the only one I remember. Locke. Locke. Locke. Sure. Daniel Day Kim. You know, all these different characters. Smoke Monster.

Smoke Monster. Smoke Monster. Polar Bear. Polar Bear. Was there ever like a scary movie style? Mario Hand or Pippin. Was there ever like a scary movie style, like Spoof of Lost?

Because that could have been fun. There should have been. I feel like they never, that genre kind of died. Like before Lost, I think kind of really got it steamed. Because it would have been fun. Yeah. Because they loved making weed jokes. If there was like the smoke monster was like marijuana.

Yeah, that was pretty fun. And then they find out it's like chit-chong on the other side of the island. That'd be fun. That's good. That'd be really fun. All right. So yeah, that's the Damon Lindelofs Lost. Would you like to get lost with,

which bowl would you like to get lost with? It's like in scary movie two where the, like the weed plant tries to smoke one of the Wayne's brothers. Uh-huh. Yeah, that's funny. There was a joke. Smokey, those weed plant tries to smoke smoke. There, I think I'm going to misremember it,

but maybe I'm not. Maybe I'm remembering it perfectly. But in scary movie two, there was that movie Signs, right? Where they kind of showed you the alien kind of running by a window really quick. Like that's, that's like all you saw. Yeah, I know the exact joke you're talking about. And it's like, and they capture the alien. Does the alien have like tremendous diarrhea or something like that?

Yeah, yeah. It's like a weird, it's like the alien is like, it's like a, the video is fucking weird. Yeah. And that made me laugh more than it should have in that movie. But again, that's not a category. Uh, I think if the, another thing that could happen in the Lost Spoof is, they're like, they're like, ah, why do we crash this plane?

I blame the pilot. And then it's a cameo of Sully. And he's like, one for two, ain't bad. I like that. You know, I feel like you'd have to have a joke about like the clock and be hitting this news button. So, you know, I was like, clunk. That's why he's like, well, I never had idea.

So that's a good joke. I mean, they should make this, they should make it now. All right. I'm trying to find that scene. Real quick, Mitch, you have a, while you're finding that scene, we can, we can get Cheers ratings, but we need to get you to weigh in on, on the Lost. If you're standing on an island, which bowl would you want to be lost? I'm going to be honest with you.

I think it would be almost, it would be maybe more possible to make the pressed bowl on, on the island. Fair. That's fair. The refrigerators. But I would rather have that Chipotle bowl. Yeah. The little refrigerator bowls.

But I would wrap, I think I'd rather have the Chipotle bowl. Wow. I just smelled myself. It's so hot in here. I could just, I can feel my like BO like coming off of my body. Jesus Christ. All right. Let's fucking get through these categories.

I'll move quickly. I won't move quickly. Yeah. Sorry. All right. Cheers. Greens. Greens.

Chipotle. Fruit. Pressed. Grains. Chipotle. Because I'm considering the beans grains. Hey, that's fair. That's fair.

Granola. I hated the granola pressed. So I'm going to find a, yeah, I just didn't like that maple syrup on the granola. It really turned me off. I appreciate granola on a bowl, but I have to judge what I had. So I'm going to have to default give it to Chipotle. Wow.

Protein. Protein. Pressed. I like their protein more than I like the sofritas. Yogurt. Pressed. Nut butter. I had neither on both, but I would imagine that if I had to put nut butter in it,

it was going to go to pressed. Dips. Chipotle. Dressing. Chipotle. Megan Trainor, aka the base. This is interesting. I'm going back and forth on this one.

Yeah. Thinking about this, right? I do brown rice. I find that brown rice has a more solid consistency to my Chipotle bowl. That actually gives me my texture palette that I like a little bit more. I found that while I enjoyed the pressed bowl, I didn't link the base. While cold, it was a little too gooey for me, a little too sloppy for me. I like a firmer base.

So Chipotle. I get it. I just, just back to the lost parody. It would be fun if they were like, they had a tribal council like Unsurvivor, and they voted one of them off. Yeah. I think I was like, I want to go, I want to leave. Let me just say that I found the scene.

Okay, great. And even watching it with the sound off is very funny. I mean, first of all, let me just show you another phone. Charlie Sheen is unwrapping, what's his name? Yeah, show it. Let's get like, yeah, he's, his son's had like a wreath of Reese's. Jeremy Piven is the newscaster. Love this.

That's it. It's just coming out of a horse's ass show. It's a horse shitting and then an alien walking by. Yeah. And he keeps on just walking. That's a pretty funny scene. Oh yeah. There's dodgy dogs fucking.

That's it. Yeah. And then more fucking. Yeah. More fucking. Are they the only kind of there? Piven is incensed. Yeah.

That's a great bit. All right. Next category, bowl. I think Chipotle needs to get, this is like the Henry T. Ford of bowls. They created a different style of bowl and it's not, it's like an oval bowl. I think it creates a great package. I will say it gets gooier quicker, but I've also think that that Tupperware, Tinfoil top, great top notch Chipotle.

Silverware. I didn't get to really participate, so I'm going to take a mulligan on that one. Wow. Drinks. Definitely. Definitely pressed because I often find myself angry at Chipotle for their lack of drinks, their choices. If you want to go get that like Nantucket Nectars,

you know, that's kind of close to, you know, Boston, but that's it and they have beer, which is interesting. That's another solid, solid, but I'm still going to go pressed. Red. Chipotle. Treat. Did I get a treat? I, I believe both of these to be treats.

So can I say a tie for this? Can I say it? Yeah, that's absolutely right. All right. Finally, treat. Is this a treat? I'm going to give it another, I'm going to give another tie to is it a treat? Because I think that they, I think that you feel a little bit like, oh, I had like a fun

lunch or I had like a fun break. I think it's, it's out of the norm of the normal breakfast or lunch, both of them. So I think yes. Treat Williams. Treat Williams. I'm going to say, I'm going to give that to Chipotle, which is we don't recognize how much he was in, you know, he's not getting all that recognition. Like he's, he's someone who was just working, doing solid job.

Like, yes, he's maybe not getting nominated, but he's, he's like the Eric Roberts. I feel like, you know, so we're going to look at that bowl of the press ball and be like, oh, this is, this is my, you know, this, this is my Jamie Lee Curtis. This is my, you know, everything everywhere all at once, but we got to look beneath the surface sometimes. Sheer gets the treat Williams award for the only person to try to even make sense of the camera. Can I, I sure, I know your big movie guy, David Sims of, of blank check, friend of the

show, past guest, after hearing our treat Williams discussion or previous episode, recommended a movie that I have not seen, that I'm planning on seeing, except it is a commitment is a full three hours, a Sydney Lumet movie from 1981 starring treat Williams and Jerry Orbot called Prince of the City. Oh wow. You seen Prince of the City? I have seen Prince of the City. Yeah.

There was a couple of these movies that I feel like were films that, I don't know if it was blocked, but Pope of Greenwich Village, which I feel like you can't get anymore. That one, King of New York, there was a lot of these movies that had like a similar kind of title. I remember that Prince of the City. Wow. All right. Next up, Uncar Plot, aka Portions.

Yes. To me, I feel better with the portion of press. Sometimes Chipotle can make me feel like, oh, yeah, it makes me feel like I'm going to felt the back of that Ford 150. Yeah. Navi. Navi pressed. Speed.

Speed. You know what? I have to say that I imagine they both take about the same time. A Chipotle bowl does not look as beautifully put together as a press bowl. I'm going to give that to press. The whale. The whale would like Chipotle. Yeah.

Paya Khan. Paya Khan, I am going to give that. It's a beautiful looking creature, obviously. It's majestic. It's different. It's from a different planet. And I think that whenever you're having anything like Asahi, even though it's of this world, it feels otherworldly.

We say it. It doesn't pronounce the right way. It doesn't look the way it's pronounced. So pressed. Motor boating. Motor boating. I'm going to give that to Chipotle because I'm going to give that. Whoa.

Like, I'm going to go like, hmm, like if I get a little spice, a little spice hit. Right. Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Like, whoa, give it. You know, it's a different of the cold. Uh, nap or napkin? Um, I'm going to give, uh, napkin to, hmm, nap. I'm going to give to press because there's a lot of sugar and I feel like it's going

to, like, it's sort of like, give me that kind of up and then it's going to drop me down. Napkin to Chipotle. Finally, your category. Damien Lindelof's lost. The tricky. This is tricky because obviously what do you want it does around. I'm going to say that I'm going to always pick savory over sweet. It's not going to go Chipotle.

You know what? I love that as a rule just in itself. Savory over sweet. Yeah. Interesting. I mean, I have to live with one thing. That's what I'm saying. I'm not saying, you know, but if it's, if it's only given to me.

No, that's a, that's a, that's a great point. All right. I'm up greens, Chipotle, fruit, pressed, grains, Chipotle, granola, pressed, protein, pressed because I like that almond butter. And I do think there's a paucity of vegan options and vegetarian options for protein. Okay. Get on with it. Yogurt, pressed, nut butter, pressed, dips, Chipotle, dressing,

Chipotle, the base, surprise win for pressed for me. Wow. Even though it's too cold, I do, I did really like the flavor of it. Bowl, Chipotle. I was like, the idea of eating something spicy and going like, you know, it could be another funding for the lost parody is there's like, you see like, there's like ocean creatures, like you just see a shot of like a Sebastian going like, on to Dusty, on to Dusty.

And then a spear goes through him and like one of the lost guys was like, like, I caught, I caught something to eat here. I got, I got a good runner for the whole movie there. One person has cell phone service, but they're just on hold the entire time with the airline. Oh, that's funny. Trying to like, you know, that's really good. Like just getting through the job. Yeah, that calls somebody else.

Like, no, I this flight didn't get to my destination. They're upset or they only want to get the refund. And that's, you know, that's really good. They finally hang up and then the person to call center is like, Hello, sir, I'm ready for you. Yeah. Like, like, hello, hello. Oh, why?

That's fucking good. Yeah, that's really good. Lost movie. It may feel weird to do now, but I don't know. There's a lot to it. Now's the time to do it. Yeah, I think so. We've had plenty of time to think about the jokes.

A bowl I gave to Chipotle, silverware, pressed drinks, pressed bread. Chipotle, because the chips are bread. Yeah, you got it. Treat, did I get a treat? Yes. Treat, is this a treat? I think pressed is a treat. Chipotle, I wouldn't call a treat.

Treat Williams? No. Uncarplot, aka portions, I think presses a more manageable portion. Navi, pressed. Speed. I'm going to give this to pressed because like Sonic the Hedgehog, it is blue. The whale, Chipotle. Payacon, see here's the thing, the instinct is to give it to pressed,

but I do think that the absence of protein makes it tough for a massive creature like a Tolkien to be able to sustain itself on the acai bowl. So I think I'm going to go to Chipotle, especially my vegetarian version, which does not damage the ecosystem. Motorboating, pressed. A nap or napkin, pressed. Pass.

Finally, lost. Pass. Lost, I think I'd go, I would go with Chipotle. You passed? Yeah, pass. All right, finally, this year's version of the McKenna Conundrum from our very first tournament, which of these bowls is going to the dude to bring Donnie back to life? That's right, the dude.

The dude. We locked it in early. Which of these bowls is going to the dude to bring Donnie back to life? Honestly, given the timeframe, the dude should be in the lost spoof. I mean, he would be very mellow with that. Yeah, man, we're stuck on an island, man. Or you just have to walk it back. Anyone see my rug?

You know, it's like, that's good. He should make an appearance, no matter what. Also, JJ should be there, but with the mystery box. Like the mystery box should be a part of it. Well, the black box should be a part of it. And they go, look, it didn't break. Yeah, that's right. Yeah, that's good.

That's good. All right, we will count down from three to one and say in unison, which of these we think is going to advance. So here's what's going to happen. The winner is going to advance to our live finale, which is coming up this next Tuesday, March 28th, with guests Nicole Byer and Lauren Lapkus tickets at moment.co.com. Slash Doe Boys.

So that, whichever wins will automatically move on to the championship. Wow. The loser is going down to the loser's bracket to face off against the other eliminated options in Fat Chance Kitchen, Bread Dead Redemption. So here's what we're going to do. We're going to count down from three to one. We will say together, what we think is going to the dude to bring Donnie back to life. Which bowl takes control?

Which bowl wins? Which bowl wins? And which one is going to be go, it's a gutter bowl. A gutter bowl will go down. And it's going straight to hell. Straight to hell, to the man, aka Sumner Redstone. All right, here we go. Three, two, one.

Chipotle. Wow, it is a 7-10 split decision. Chipotle advances to the championship. Congratulations. It was tough for me. It was tough for me. But I did think press had a better outing. I got to say that the Donnie, bringing Donnie back to life, the bowling,

made me feel like that Chipotle bowl is, they're not messing around with that. The dude is not messing around with Acai. That's a great point. Press bowls. Look, pressed, good run. Press one, don't get mad at me because, or Chipotle won. Don't get mad at me because I put it pressed. I'm not mad at you.

You know what's funny is that just when we were talking about Casey Sandwich, I was like, I ate the fucking stupid press bowl. I'm hungry. Yeah. And then when we were just talking about Duncan, I was like, for breakfast, I'd rather have Duncan. If there was a Duncan bowl, I would choose it over the pressed bowl. Get in there because the Dunkin' Chino's out.

Now, here's what I would say that I just realized here, and we didn't even talk about this, but the idea that shouldn't we just applaud, press, for getting this far because truly, it's a side gig of what they're known for. It's true. They're known for juicing. And they were able to branch out and they got this far. Like this is, you know, Chipotle, if they didn't get further, this is what we are here for. The bowl became one of the tent poles of Chipotle.

It's a burrito or a bowl. Yeah. And it's salad. And that is, you know, people don't talk about the tacos. They don't talk about the salad. Like they're talking about the bowl or the burrito. So I do believe that, like, we're looking at maybe in a couple of years, press can get all the way to the finals.

If we've come back to a munch madness, you know. That's true. Wow. So Tuesday, we will have Bread Dead Redemption. The winner of that will join the tournament versus Sweetfin and Chipotle. 2006 Lakers, and maybe they'll turn into the 2008, nine Lakers that beat the Celtics. Three finals, two championships.

See, this should really be the rivalry. But I guess he hates the Celtics more. He hates the Clippers more than the Celtics, you know what I'm saying. I go back and forth. I have another pitch for the Lost Movie, which is they're just like walking around the island they're exploring. And they're just like, oh, there's a Starbucks. That's good.

Because they're everywhere. Well, I mean, I want to just tag your joke. You were talking about the smoke monster being weed. They should see the polar bear. And the polar bear should be smoking. Like he should be smoking a big blunt. And they're like, hey, man, aren't you supposed to be in the Arctic Circle? He's like, I don't know.

I don't know. Hey, I'm cool, man. That's good. Hey, just like a restaurant buy your food back. Oh, and the song, the album. The album would be like, I like big butts. I feel like now there's a song. What if what if there's like, no, this isn't good.

No, say it. I want to hear it. You should say it. There's like a little part where there's like a bunch of car keys and it's like, oh, like they're a lot, you know, like a lot. I'm like, they're like, they're having like an ice storm sort of swinger party. Oh, wait, I got another joke. I'm going to tell you what you're thinking.

That's what I thought you were going for. Not what you're going for? Oh, you're going for all the lost items. Like, like there's a whole bunch of lost items. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. How about this, the guy in the, the guy in the, the whole, like, you know, and they, and then the whole, it's a polyshore and they go, that's where you've been. That's more, see, that's, that's a much better version.

I was like saying lost things. Yeah. And I went with car keys. No, it's fine. No. No, people lose their car keys. And you immediately thought it was fucking swinger is fucking. It's like a very specific swinger thing.

Hey, like just like a restaurant. Tell us more about it. Let's open up the feedback. Today we have an email from Billy from North Carolina. Billy writes, is it a pineapple on your door knocker? Is that what it is? What?

Yeah, that's the swinger thing. Is it? Is it really? Yeah. Yeah. Why do you know this? Have you been to Casey's house? You guys have spent a lot of time talking about regional pizza variants like Detroit style

Chicago deep dish, New England bar pizza and all that. If you had to come up with a new regional pizza variant, how would it differ from normal pizza and what part of the country would you base it in? Billy from North Carolina is asking for a new regional pizza. Sherry Richard. I got it. Pizza sandwich. Cross on both sides, right?

So you're boom. LA pizza sandwich. Sounds good. I would like a pizza sandwich. Yeah. Like that you would have the same, like so basically what you would have to be doing is you're almost folding the pizza on top of each other.

It's a triangular sandwich. And you put some stuff in there. Maybe that's pretty good. I think that's fucking great. Yeah. You know what might, here's my question. Is this, we're making up a regional pizza? I mean, that's the exercise.

All right. Then if we have to make up a regional pizza, I'm making a pizza pie, which is almost similar to what you're saying. It's a pizza. And then there's that top crust, like a pie on top of it. So like I was thinking more of like a deep dish pizza with like a crust sound like so when you cut into it, yeah. You cut into it.

Yeah. Really, that works. I think that's great. I was going to say that, that I think the, when people think of LA pizza, it's usually like an artisan like upscale. There isn't like a working man's pizza out here, you know? So like, but I kind of. I mean, that mine would be Vegas pizza,

like a pizza because it feels like it's crazy. Yeah. Well, but there's some truly trashy food that's associated with LA. One thing I mentioned the hat earlier, there's a lot of like hot pastrami out here and like chili dogs. Tommy's, which is a chain we reviewed back in the day, is like chili cheese fries and chili burgers and chili dogs. It's like super heavy.

One of my worst experiences was at Tommy's. Yeah. Just too messy. It's gnarly. It's gnarly stuff, but I love it. I want to be able to eat. Like, I mean, I get the food. Like that's the thing.

I don't like anything that you can't, like that's positioned to the sandwich. I can't eat as a sandwich without a drip and all over. So that's a problem for me. No, that's fair. And that's a fair criticism, but. But good chili. But I do think of the.

Choking on an old piece of granola. Yeah, you're right. I don't know. I was going down for a second there. I'll be all right. Make that a category. Can it kill you? But I'm thinking of the LA street dog specifically,

which is the bacon-ramped hot dog that's got, you know, a bunch of grilled veggies on top of it, mayo, ketchup, mustard, jalapenos. It's a real indulgence. They sell them in street cards in LA. And I feel like there's like a version like that, like something that's just like. Why is I love this?

Yeah. That's like, like, if you just sort of say like, Hey, here's the LA street dog pizza. And we're just going to like. You do you want it to be like an egg roll consistency? Like, so it's like a pizza crust, but then it's like, like, you know, like an egg roll. Like, like, like that kind of a pizza.

You know what? Interesting. Like an inside out egg roll. Like, like an egg roll, but on the outside is the sauce and cheese. Oh, that's fine. How do you pick it up? Uh, no. Stick.

You get a stick. You stick in it. All right. Stick. I mean, the solution for any sort of thing, food like that, you just jam a stick in it. Yeah. A stick.

You stick it. Yeah. Casey, where are you from? Remind us? I'm originally from Florida. Is there a Florida style pizza anywhere? Uh, no. I'm from South Florida.

It's like New York, South, kind of. There's a lot of New York style pizza down there. Got it. I had a girlfriend from South Florida, and they wouldn't accept her. Oh, they actually did accept her license at a Southern restaurant. If you had a Southern ID, you could eat for 10% off. And they said that she was enough,

like, she was enough. Oh, sorry. She was Northern Florida. That's why. Oh, I got it. That makes sense. Well, here's my question here. Just bring it all the way back around.

Pizza cookie. I have a pizza cookie. Why not? Pizza cookie sounds good. Yeah, we're talking about like, so it kind of is like a little bit like maybe it's the size of an English muffin, right? You know, and it's got like, it's a savory cookie.

I don't know. I figured it out. I figured out why I said it. Santa would like that. Yeah, Italian Santa. Santa would love that. It would switch things up. Italian Santa?

Yeah. What does he do? He does he like kidnap kids? He's kind of like Krampus. Ho. Ho. Ho. I got you some fresh mozzarella and mozzarella.

I don't know anything about Italians. But why? So here it is. Yeah. The middle of the stick is like a hot war like a warm bread. And the outside, you got the sauce and cheese. Then that's wrapped with bacon. So it keeps all that stuff in.

And that's the pizza stick. That's fun. I like that. You can also just put all the toppings on a pizza and just sort of say like, hey, this is a pizza. That's the pizza stick. I know. You can do the pizza.

I would just say there's also like. Well, look, if we're talking about regional LA food, it would have to be a pizza burger. Because I feel like LA is a burger. Big burger town. Big burger town. It's a big burger town. And I never like a pizza burger where it's like a burger

with like pizza, like a mozzarella and not all like that. You'd have to really reinvent the burger. But I think you could do it. It'd be a lot of bread though. I'm talking about pizza sandwich, which is close enough to pizza burger. I think. Yeah.

You need thin bread. Forget it. Wags is burger town. You can email us at Doughboyzpodcast.com. See, we're comedians. We'll leave us a voicemail at 830-COTA. That's 830-466-368. And that ties in to Oscars.

We're dead. By the way, I talked to you guys about winning an Oscar for best screenwriting. And you just proved it with a lost movie right here. That's true. I was off the dome. The tournament continues on The Doughboys Double, only at patreon.com slash Doughboys.

Also, check out Doughboyz snack pack on Spotify Live. Hang out and chat with us every Thursday at 830 PM Eastern as we continue to fulfill our 30-week contract. Listen live on Spotify. Paul Scheer, God bless you for being with us, for making so much time for us. What a treat to have you back. Pleasure to be back.

We've got to get you back for a non-tournament episode. So fun. For the Academy to not only, first of all, it nominates lost movie. And then it also wins. No one is happy. Like, they're trying to get younger viewers and like, no one would like the lost movie.

This movie wasn't even successful. Should you call it Lost and Found? The convention I feel like that got settled on would just be lost movie, because that's what they were kind of doing. But yeah, I think there's a more clever version. Exactly. There's a more clever way to do it.

Scheer, anything you'd like to plug? No, not at all. If you like hearing people talk about movies, and we were talking about this before, Amy Nicholson and I, we were talking about classic movies, good movies. And we got into a very heated debate about Creed III recently. And yeah.

Well, Amy does not like the last third of most Rocky and or Creed movies. And I was like, well, then you have a problem with the entire franchise, because you could argue the last third of every one of those movies is roughly the same. They're pretty close. Like, it's training for...

I guess Rocky V is the only one that's not like that, right? Yeah. Because it's like the street fight, right? The street fight. But it still ends in a fight. Yeah. Yeah. I like Creed III a lot.

Amy, I'll forgive her someday for Goodfellas. Well, please don't, because I don't forgive her for Goodfellas. I'll bring that up now. Hey, that'll do it for this episode of Doe Boys. Until next time, for The Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell, I'm Mike Weigher. Happy, happy eating.

See ya. On the next Doe Boys Double. When it comes to bread, there is more that will be said. Wow, Weig's, that's right. Munch Madness 2023. Tournament of the Champions Bowl. Continues with Bread Dead Redemption.

Joe Saunders steps up to the plate to decide in Fat Chance Kitchen which grain will rain, which wheat will be beat, which Doe must go. Chain 1 or Chain 2? I think that's sort of supposed to answer what the finalists are.

Chain 1 or Chain 2? Yeah, it's fine. Find out Tuesday only at patreon.com. Sources for the intro are in the episode description.