Dumb People Town - Negin Farsad - Sushi with The Scorpions

Episode Date: October 30, 2020

This week Negin Farsad comes to town to hang with Daniel, Jason and Randy to hear about an Aussie couple's fast-food themed wedding....

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Skypains Avenue Hey townies, welcome to a Friday episode of Dumb People Town. Population you. Population Farsad. nagin farsad hi welcome to town oh my god hey hey happy to have you excited to be here wow the pride of palm springs we're glad to have you thank you so much someone did their research of course springs own palm springs own hey man it it formulates who you are as a person. It develops your very sharp stand-up comedy. You've got a great podcast we're going to talk about.
Starting point is 00:01:12 And again, you're a bright and awesome voice. And I'm so happy that we have you on the podcast. Oh, my God. I'm so happy to be here. And I'm so happy to talk about dumb town. Right. So let me ask dumb people. Let me start this thing off before we jump into a story with a philosophical question that we ask all of
Starting point is 00:01:30 our guests. And I wonder what your perspective on this would be. Do you think that the world is getting dumber? It's like a, like a global dumbification of the world, like global, it's a global dumbing. Is that happening or are we just peeling back the cover of all the dumb? Or has it always been this way? And now we just see more of it. No, I don't, you know,
Starting point is 00:01:50 I, that's such a good question. I think the world is getting like bombarded with so much information. It used to be like, you would get, you would get like 20 pieces of information. And then as a result, you could remember them and then regurgitate them and sound really
Starting point is 00:02:05 interesting at cocktail parties. Now you're getting like 145 pieces of information and you can't remember them. So you remember none of them. And then as a result, you're very uninteresting at cocktail parties. I think that's what's happening. I would argue that 20 pieces of that 145 pieces of information
Starting point is 00:02:26 are misinformation right so there's a lot of misinformation also exactly you get that one piece of misinformation you put it out so then you end up either being like a hopefully smart person who can't remember where they heard that from or a dumb person who doesn't want to tell you where they heard that from right right right like oh I heard somewhere that handshakes give you AIDS and then you just start spreading that. No, that's not true. What you're spreading is worse than AIDS. So I think because there's been an assault on truth and on facts, I think people who want to propagate falsities have now been empowered. And so I think there are a lot of people who used to say, I don't know the answer to that, now say, I think this, even though it's
Starting point is 00:03:13 wrong, just so that they can say they think something. So it's like willful ignorance, willful dumbification. You know what I'm a big fan of? Starting out sentences with, what i'm a big fan of starting out sentences with i may have no i i might have no idea where where this is coming from or this may be completely wrong this might be totally made up just throwing that out there because i don't want to be held accountable for this information it's right up there with uh i'm just gonna put this out there yeah you're like don't don't put it out there keep that back wherever you got it from. You don't have to put it. I'm not sure about this is better.
Starting point is 00:03:48 All right, Dan, we get stories sent to us by our awesome fans. We do. Let's get into games here. It is definitely something where you would say, I'm not sure about this. This was sent in by Carleen McDermott at SheBeCarleen. This is a woman who sends a great number of stories to us, and we love her. I love it. Anybody can send me stories.
Starting point is 00:04:06 All you have to do is use Twitter for good, maybe. Yes. Hashtag dumb people town at Daniel Van Kirk. That is how I find the stories. That's how you send them to me right there in the timeline. All right, here we go. Do it. This Aussie couple.
Starting point is 00:04:19 This is fun, too. We're right in a week of everybody feeling anxious, so we're just going to do a dumb story where nobody gets hurt. Nobody even gets arrested, but it would definitely happen in dumb people town. And if anything make you go, I'm not sure about this. This Aussie couple took their love for what fast food restaurant to new heights by having a themed wedding complete with a restaurant themed wedding cake bouquet by the restaurant, and a dessert bar. So, I'm going to let you guys start out. What fast food restaurant chain do you think these people go so hard for that it became their entire wedding? What do you think?
Starting point is 00:04:56 Now, you say this is in Australia. Yes. Indeed. And then, are we assuming that it is an American chain? It is an American chain. Yes. It is an American chain. Yes, it is an American chain. I will tell you right now, because how much I loved your guys' recent video on Scalabo Country, the Virus Edition, it is not Long John Silver's. Okay.
Starting point is 00:05:13 Okay. Long John Silver's, I don't know if you've heard of it. We've said this on our- Larry, isn't that a Canadian chain? I don't know. It may be originally. I don't know. It feels like it originated from Nova Scotia.
Starting point is 00:05:23 I've never been there. And I just want to say again, I live in New York city, but I grew up in the desert of Southern California and we did not have a long John Silvers. I will tell you though, if I wanted to, the first,
Starting point is 00:05:35 I'm going to just tell you the first place that came to your mind. What was it? It was Arby's. Why Arby's? Because Arby's, I mean, first of all, they have the meat.
Starting point is 00:05:44 Sure. Got all the meats. All of the meats. All of's, I mean, first of all, they have the meat. Sure. They've got all the meats. All the meats. All of the meats. And then second of all, I can picture a bouquet, and I think it would be rather lovely, of like wrapped around little roast. A loose meat bouquet.
Starting point is 00:05:56 A loose meat bouquet. A loose meat bouquet. Oh my God. This is amazing. Little roast beefs that kind of look like roses yeah you're right you could make a rose petal beef so now i roast it i'll be roasted petal beef so wait it's a bouquet of roasts long stem roasted beef so meat bouquet meat bouquet to me sounds like howard kramer's nut valet sure right a meat bouquet what's that you say something that'll make it go all right so i i
Starting point is 00:06:26 love the thing about it is that there's a precedent um a bit of a precedent with uh the honorable lady gaga who had a meat meat dress yes so this just feels like it's a you know we don't want to give this couple in australia too much credit for like having their own ideas right like there needs to be some sort of precedent that they saw it somewhere. Yeah. Meat bouquet also sounds like it won three AVN awards. Honey, where's my meat bouquet?
Starting point is 00:06:55 It was up for seven. Meat bouquet is like something you can do with your asshole. Nagin says Nagin says Arby's and I love it. God damn it. That's such a good call. You can also see Arby's and I love it. God damn it. That's such a good call. Because you can also see Arby's having fun with it. Yes.
Starting point is 00:07:08 Okay. Yes. Because, right, they're a self-aware chain. And also, they're spelled A-R-B-Y-S, which is a bit of a misdirect. It's a bit of a misdirect. Because R-B stands for roast beef. Okay. Okay.
Starting point is 00:07:23 So, I'm going to follow your... I'm following... RB's Chris Steakhouse. No, I'm following her lead and I'm going with the first thing that popped into my head, which is Kentucky Fried Chicken. Wow. Okay. Now, this is a good call because we did do a story like a year ago about Kentucky Fried
Starting point is 00:07:40 Chicken offering a contest in Australia to sponsor people's wedding. Correct. So I'm imagining a bouquet of drumsticks. So it's just a bunch of drumsticks popping up. You throw chicken kernels instead of rice. Correct. And there's desserts and sides and all that stuff. And I think the cake, all around the cake, instead of a fondant.
Starting point is 00:08:02 Is it fondant? Yes, you're correct. Fondant. Yeah. Instead of a fondant. Sure, yeah. Someone's been watching're correct. Fondant. Yeah. Instead of a fondant. Sure, yeah. Someone's been watching The Great British Baking Show.
Starting point is 00:08:08 God, I love that show. Damn skimpy. Noel Fielding. Jesus Christ, it's so funny. Don't want a soggy bottom. So thank you. Instead of a fondant, I think it's chicken skin.
Starting point is 00:08:17 Yeah, chicken skin or just gravy. Chicken skin cake. Yes. Gravy fondant would be unbelievable. Bro. Chicken skin cake. Okay. That is fondant would be unbelievable, bro. Chicken skin cake.
Starting point is 00:08:25 Okay. That is a punk rock band playing in the village. My choice is wrong. I'm just going to tell you right. But can I tell you the first thing that came into my mind? Del Taco. Right. No.
Starting point is 00:08:37 Really? No. The first thing that came into my mind and it's wrong. I'm just telling you it's wrong. Okay. It's too specific. And I don't even know if they have it in Australia. Zaxby's.
Starting point is 00:08:49 You're like just in the south eating some fried chicken? Zaxby's? What is Zaxby's again? I've seen one on the road. I'm going to step out because I want to plug in this computer. Who cares? I'm peeking behind the curtain. Keep going. Zaxby's and I'll explain it as Dan plugs this in. Zaxby's is a, they cater a lot of things.
Starting point is 00:09:07 Okay. So like if they're like- I imagine they cater like tailgates. Your Superbowl party. Get Zaxby's over here to your Oscar. Wings. Yeah, your Oscar party. So it's wings.
Starting point is 00:09:16 It's chicken fingers. It's like a bouquet of chicken fingers from Zaxby's. I feel like that could be- Why are you saying Zaxby's? There's no way Zaxby's is in Australia. Find McDonald's. Find McDonald's. That's why it's so wrong.
Starting point is 00:09:29 Find McDonald's. McDonald's. Jesus Christ. I like Jay's because KFC definitely... You alluded to it. They have all the fixings. That's right. So you know that you'll get all the fixings.
Starting point is 00:09:38 Okay. They're also quite international. I've seen a KFC in India. Sure. Right. That was just a little international travel bag i've been to india oh yeah wow humble brag thank you very much okay the restaurant themed wedding based off of this couple's love of the place was was subway
Starting point is 00:09:59 sydney-based couple grace tran and davies Duong tied the knot in the very first subway Australia wedding on Saturday. Now that's a lot of quantifiers, which means other people in countries have already had subway wedding. You know who officiated the wedding? Jared. No. They got married
Starting point is 00:10:20 under his old pants like a chuppah. Strung it up and it was like a canopy. And it started raining and none of the guests got wet. Do they do? Do they do? What is that dance they do in chairs? Yeah, that's the hora.
Starting point is 00:10:36 You do the hora. The hora. You sit on a six-foot-long sandwich and they lift you up. They hoist you on a six-foot-long sandwich. I'm going to show you guys a picture of the wedding party from the subway.
Starting point is 00:10:48 Look at this. Oh my God. We've got a cake. We've got cookies. To me, this looks like a modern day last supper. Like which one of
Starting point is 00:10:56 these people are going to betray the bride? It's the girl on the left. The girl on the left is going at, it's coming for her. I know.
Starting point is 00:11:04 Sorry. And how about the groom? Go ahead. Yeah, go ahead. The groom, what are we looking at his outfit? Yeah, going red tux. Red tux is pretty cool. It's not wrong. It's hot. It's hot. I'm just going to correct you for a second
Starting point is 00:11:18 there because of your clear colorblindness that that is a burgundy tux. Thank you. You're right. Let's just, you know, let the record show. That's Rochelle, Illinois education. That's red. He doesn't get that specific with it,
Starting point is 00:11:33 you know, and for the record, he's never been to India. So he doesn't know colors. He doesn't know colors. I would know I've been to India. Obviously, you understand the spectrum of colors. Anyone who's been to India
Starting point is 00:11:43 would understand that's a burgundy cup. Okay, Dan. Okay, Dan? Okay, Dan? Imagine walking into that wedding and, what the hell is going on here? Are they doing really well or really bad? Is this just a great idea or what's happening? Do we have to pay? It reminds me of that episode of Weep, right?
Starting point is 00:11:57 Where all of her friends come over from Boston. Yes! And they're expecting the fanciest White House dinner. And instead, she orders pizza because she wants it to be throwback. And they're expecting like the fanciest white house dinner and instead she orders pizza because she wants it to be throwback and they're so disappointed yes i mean look i think everyone at the heart of things is annoyed by going to weddings but they go to weddings because there's at least going to be like a bunch of free food that's right it's not free you bought a gift yeah you're right you bought a gift you Free food is a subway. You're right. You bought a gift. You bought
Starting point is 00:12:26 an airplane ticket. You bought a hotel room. You've seriously invested in this couple. So you should at least get a nice meal. Or something better than a BMT. Something better than a cold cut combo. I'm going to just say Subway, I think of all
Starting point is 00:12:42 the fast food places, Subway is the place that is the least difficult to eat at. Yeah, for sure. Well, you know that Subway in England... What do you mean? What does that mean? Like the options? Just that I think Subway, there is enough to get at Subway that
Starting point is 00:12:58 you can eat at. Man, they don't even count it as sandwiches anymore. There was a lawsuit in England. I know. There was a lawsuit in Ireland. In Ireland, there's too much sugar in the bread. It doesn't qualify as a sandwich. They don't call the bread bread. Let's dig into this couple. The pair began dating seven years ago to the day. So they got married
Starting point is 00:13:14 on their dating anniversary. Which, by the way, should have been six years. Six foot. It took them seven years to wrap this one up. They needed to pick a restaurant. Right, right, right, right. But what if it was like the first date, or was it the first date they ever went on was to a subway?
Starting point is 00:13:29 They say the couple shared many relationship milestones over the years with the third member of their relationship, Subway. Now look. If it's a three-way, Subway is Subway, not a three-way. Right. If Subway's at the center of your relationship, it's either going to last forever or it's doomed. But there's a three-way. Right. If Subway's at the center of your relationship,
Starting point is 00:13:47 it's either going to last forever or it's doomed. But there's no in-between at all. The couple that footlongs together. Here we go. When deciding on catering for their... Go ahead. Go ahead. Okay, so it took them seven years. Subway was not their first date.
Starting point is 00:14:02 It just was several instances throughout the seven years. Correct. Significant moments. They got mugged in a Subway was not their first date It just was several instances Throughout the seven years Significant moments They got mugged in a subway He proposed in a subway Because exactly What are these significant moments To me you don't I guess conceive a child
Starting point is 00:14:19 You could find out you're allergic to Banana peppers in a subway He took a shit in front of her when they both went in the bathroom for the first time. Sure. Maybe. That's love. Did you say that's a beautiful moment? Did you say that's love?
Starting point is 00:14:31 I said that's a beautiful moment. And I said that's love. Yeah. So when deciding on catering for their wedding ceremony, the couple knew there was nothing more fitting than having Subway involved in their special date. There's a lot more fitting, but also it's your day. You do what you want to do. It's your life. Subway has been a part of our relationship for as long as i can remember we often grab subway each week is our choice of takeaway and
Starting point is 00:14:51 have eaten subway on our anniversary before that's a low-key anniversary but also if you this is why you should marry each other because if this you guys are both on the same page with this then you are yeah if one of you isn't pissed about that, it's a good couple. Right. Well, that's what, I mean, first of all, for an anniversary or some sort of a celebration, I would sort of totally expect one or both members of the couple
Starting point is 00:15:15 to, like, figure something out that's fun and exciting. Yeah. Because the other thing about Subway is, you know, I just want to go back to Arby's for a second. I mean, one of the amazing ideas did we have, remember the meat bouquet? Yes, way better.
Starting point is 00:15:30 Remember that from a few minutes ago? Sure, way better. There's nothing, I feel like Subway is so like bland in the way that it presents itself. Right, yes. There's nothing like exciting thematically. Like I'm not seeing centerpieces. That's right Like I'm not seeing centerpieces. That's right.
Starting point is 00:15:45 I'm not seeing themed clothes. I'm not seeing, you know, Lady Gaga isn't, you know, precedenting this. Right. Subway is the lunch at like some learning seminar at a Hampton Inn. Yeah. That's Subway. Dan, you could have someone with like mustard and ketchup,
Starting point is 00:16:02 like a mustard and ketchup sandwich quote-unquote artists doing caricatures doing caricatures oh my god so that is something you could do characters on it caricatures on a canvas instead of using paint you're using sweet onion sauce that's true subway style but i agree with you that there's you know who's mad that they spent their anniversaries at subway like her her single sister or her single friend who's like that they spent their anniversaries at subway, like her, her single sister or her single friend. Who's like, he doesn't, why is he,
Starting point is 00:16:30 he's not really honoring you. And she's like, I'm cool with it. And he's got a friend going like, she's so cool. Or maybe it's the other way around. Maybe it's his friend. Who's like,
Starting point is 00:16:42 why is she suggesting subway? Like, why doesn't she want to do something special? And her friend's like, hey, he's cool that he wants to go. I'm just going to say this. Are you trying to drive a wedge between us with a Subway six foot long? In the lead up to the wedding, we've been looking to make healthier choices. Should we take a break?
Starting point is 00:16:56 So we are about to in a second. So we've been eating more Subway than ever. That's what we love about Subway. No matter where we are, there's always a restaurant nearby to service our favorite subs. I know exactly what happened here. They want Subway to pay for their wedding. That's it. Well.
Starting point is 00:17:10 Okay. They say their favorite subs are the meatball for Davies and the teriyaki chicken for me, she said. What? After hearing about their unique love story. She's like, what? After hearing about that. Dan, this is how you know they want them to pay for the wedding. She's like, and the teriyaki chicken's unique blend of spices and herbs.
Starting point is 00:17:27 Don't say that. Don't say unique blend. You're full of shit when you start talking about using their terms. After hearing about their unique love story, Subway. We're going to take a break and we'll find out what Subway did. The Geen Farsad is with us. We'll be right back with more Dumb People Town. Stick around.
Starting point is 00:17:47 Make it sound for more Dumb People Town. Hey, guys. Welcome back to the show. We have Nagin Farsad. This is a crazy week. All right. We know you guys are up in the air. And we're going to give you a new podcast to listen to.
Starting point is 00:18:03 There you go. Her podcast podcast if you haven't checked it out yet yeah again tell us about it and tell people how to grab it fake the nation oh my gosh yeah it's called fake the nation it's like um a a round table podcast where we talk about three different topics from the week um you know often it'll be something political. Then often it'll be something really dumb as well. See, this is the crossover right here. Exactly.
Starting point is 00:18:32 Like this week, we've talked about like white girls who really love autumn, you know, like Dan is a basic white girl. You don't know, dude. I've got merch coming out that just as a t-shirt that says he basic. Oh, yeah.
Starting point is 00:18:47 Yeah. So I'm in for it. I'm in for it. And that podcast episode was dedicated to you. Thank you. Thank you. And it was with David Cross. Oh, nice.
Starting point is 00:18:56 Like we've had on Margaret Cho. Great. Love her. We've had on Larry Wilmore and W kamau bell and john hodgman and you're you're hitting us in the sweet spot here these are all our favorites your fans would love all of these people of course already love all of these people so um yeah so it's a really fun show um and i've been told that it is the most optimistic place to get your news about Les Elections. Oh, then tune in, gang.
Starting point is 00:19:29 This is yours to really subscribe to it. Check it out as you panic, as you lay under a blanket this weekend and pray for a better future. Start listening to this show because, you know, fake the nation with her. All right. Fake the nation with us and we'll soothe your panics. You won't have them by the time I'm done with you. I love that. Okay.
Starting point is 00:19:50 By the way, that is very Trumpian to say I will take care of everything. But I will say this. There's something that makes me believe you. I believe you in what you're saying. That's so good. And are you doing any standup? Just because I know you're a stand-up as well are you yeah i mean i've been doing these rooftop shows here in new york city with them
Starting point is 00:20:10 especially with new york comedy club my favorite club over here um and so if you you know uh do you post up where you're gonna be rooftop yes i do it on the twitter as you can find me and a name that's both easy to pronounce and spell. And so, yeah. It is very easy to spell and pronounce. So look me up and I post all of my things, you know, and I write, I write for places and blah, blah, blah.
Starting point is 00:20:37 You're amazing. You know, so there's all these things that I do that you can see and watch and blah, blah, blah. So follow all those things. Now, when we went to break, we had had this couple that had basically, in Australia, had a whole wedding. They were gunning for
Starting point is 00:20:49 Subway to sponsor their wedding. They wanted someone to, this feels like when Gail tried to get all that stuff, Oprah's friend Gail tried to get like everybody to pay for her wedding. This feels like it in some way. Well, Subway decided to supply hundreds of subs, a pop-up cookie bar for dessert and even
Starting point is 00:21:09 a custom-made subway wedding cake for how many guests i don't know but dan before you before you answer that have you ever have you guys had subway cookies before yeah the oatmeal raisin is pretty damn good okay i i'm gonna say no you said no you've never had it because you're wise warmed up chocolate chip cookies. I'm going to say something and I don't know the brand and I'm going to sound stupid because I don't know the brand. Otis Spunkmeyer. No.
Starting point is 00:21:32 My favorite brand of bought cookies is Matt's. You can only get that in the Midwest. I understand that, Dan. I don't know what you're talking about. My son, this is when your kids teach you things. My 11-year-old son said, try these cookies. I like this past week. If you fucking say chips ahoy.
Starting point is 00:21:45 No, Dan. You just found out Domino's is good. As an almost 49-year-old man, I thought I was a soft cookie person. I thought I was a, you need it. It needs to be chewy. It needs to be not even fully baked. I feel revolution in your voice right now. There's something coming.
Starting point is 00:22:03 The winds have changed. Is that the scorpions playing in the background? This thin. You got it. Nicely done. So I put, I pick up this thin,
Starting point is 00:22:15 crisp cookie that I have no business liking. In your brain, you're like, there's no way this is going to be good. In my brain. This is going to be disgusting.
Starting point is 00:22:22 As I'm holding it in my face, I'm going, fuck this cookie. I'm mad at it, right? As I'm holding it in my face, I'm going, fuck this cookie. I'm mad at it, right? Yeah. Totally. I put it in my mouth and I was like, oh my God, I am a crispy cookie person now. What is it?
Starting point is 00:22:34 Wait, can I guess? Can I guess? He doesn't even know. Guess, guess, guess the thing. Was it Tate's? Tate's thin cookies. Comes in a green package. They're good.
Starting point is 00:22:44 They're good. What is that? What is that? What is that? Only taking you 12 years to try it? Over 40. I mean, the fuck? I had a come to Jesus chip moment. Right. For your Jewish life.
Starting point is 00:22:57 I just, I want you to know that people can change and situations can change and you might think you're a so to everyone out there who's like, maybe I'm Republican. i'm that this is who i am maybe maybe you're not maybe you're a hard cookie person maybe you need to make a change in your life maybe um that's gonna be should we ask a question or two uh yeah well we we're gonna do a story with the green as soon as we wrap i'm sorry am i am i misspoke all right here we go. How many guests do you think Subway provided a wedding for? Hundreds of subs, a pop-up cookie bar for dessert.
Starting point is 00:23:30 Can I also say, if you wanted a Subway-themed wedding, just make that the midnight snack, like a whole bunch of Subway cookies. All right, here we go. Yeah. And even a custom-made Subway wedding cake. You are a guest, Nikki. So you can guess first or in between me and Jason, which is the Tig Notaro slot.
Starting point is 00:23:45 You can go first, Tig, or third. How many guests do you think they had at the wedding? I'm going to say they had 300. 300 guests. Jason and Randy Sklar. Jay? God, if Subway is their favorite restaurant, how can they even have more than 40 friends? That's a good way to look at it.
Starting point is 00:24:03 I'm going to say there's a lot of family involved 200 guests Okay Remember Subway's Foot in the bill I know I think 177 guests Why did I say that
Starting point is 00:24:12 Because that's how many people Were at my wedding Good call I had 152 Okay You're better than me No I had less You shaved the list
Starting point is 00:24:19 Better than I Provided hundreds of subs Pop-up cookie bar For dessert And even a custom-made Subway wedding cake for 100 guests. Oh, my God. Why would you need
Starting point is 00:24:29 hundreds of subs? Hundreds of subs. Three for each person. A takeaway for everybody? I mean, I can really only do a six inch at a time. I agree. Are we talking about subs? Yes, I am. Subway sometimes. Comedy! Comedy am Subway sometimes Comedy
Starting point is 00:24:45 Subway regional public relations Hang on a second Can we still make that joke as friends amongst friends? Can we still make that joke? Any Scorpions joke is good To me, you can make that joke Can we make that joke? I gotta ask permission to make that joke No, you can make that joke with me
Starting point is 00:25:03 I know, but it's just Also, I went to see the Scorpions It's Scorpions joke i gotta ask permission to make no you can make that joke with me i know but can i tell you that also i went to see the scorpions and i it's scorpions i know the scorpions i screwed it up i saw them with dave anthony dave anthony said to me do you want to go see scorpions and i was like sure and as a joke i got sushi at the uh at the staple center and was eating sushi while they were playing and loudly saying to dave this sushi is great at this concert and people love the scorpions so much it's scorpions were they were they wait this is well an elderly band by this oh yeah this is like a couple years ago and were they like rocking could they still were they so how's mine my favorite bit of banter because they try to do banter between songs and they don't speak english
Starting point is 00:25:51 great i mean their english is okay it should be better by now but fine doesn't matter it doesn't really matter so they in between two songs it might have even been winds of change and then rocky like a hurricane there they finished the first first song and there was just sort of like a quiet moment for a second and the lead singer who is Klaus Mein loudly said into the microphone California! Place goes
Starting point is 00:26:16 crazy and they go into the next song. That's good mid-song banter. That's banter. Did he know his audience or did he know his audience? You knew what state he was in? Didn't even say Los Angeles, just California. Well, Subway Regional Public Relations Manager Amanda Templeton said weddings were about celebrating with your nearest and dearest.
Starting point is 00:26:35 And for Grayson Davies, that included Subway. Oh, God. Whether it's lunch on the go, Friday night dinner, stop doing a commercial, Amanda. Stop it. Or sending loved ones a surprise pack of cookies. Subway is of many couples everyday moments i don't know friday night dinner where you want to do tonight babe let's eat in at subway uh it's not every week we play a role in couples not tools every week it's not every lifetime yeah this is a one i don't know how many
Starting point is 00:27:00 times subway has been at the center of a wedding? Subway, come to a restaurant where you can always hear a loud air conditioning. Welcome to Subway, where we're always mopping. Go ahead, Nagin. Go ahead. No, I was just going to, I just remembered that my best friend, who's an immigrant from Romania, who owns a restaurant in Los Angeles called Lemon Poppy Kitchen. Everyone should go. I'll check that out. And she, her first job when we were teenagers
Starting point is 00:27:26 was at a subway. We should have been at an Arby's. But it was on a subway. And she lasted exactly like 11 days before she just like threw the meat on the counter and was like, I gotta go. This is the worst job I've ever had.
Starting point is 00:27:42 This is not the artist I want to be. And then she walked through that Arctic blast that hit you as you walked through the front door and it was and it was really it was it had a lot of ambient noise for such a small location i remember thinking that as a teenager like why is it so hard for you to hear me and me to hear you over this screaming your hair that's like they come in and they somewhere like where are we in the bottom are we in like the coal room of a submarine i'm always like do you get paid extra if i toast it stop asking me i'll let you know if i want to toast it no don't toast the lettuce well i also feel like you know i think there was a time in our lives maybe when we were children, that they didn't toast.
Starting point is 00:28:27 They didn't offer toast. Right, right. So then once they did, Quiznos. They've been riding the coattails of this feature. That's right. Quiznos forced their hand. Quiznos forced their hand. You know the managers sat them all down, everybody everywhere, down from corporate, push the toasting.
Starting point is 00:28:40 Yeah, they're like, we're done. We're no longer doing the canoe cut on the bread and we are toasting. I'm not going to stop telling you guys this. Push the toasting. Yeah, they're like we're done. We're no longer doing the canoe cut on the bread and we are toasting. I'm not going to stop telling you guys this. Push the toasting. The canoe cut. There's a couple photos from the wedding for you guys. This is them cutting the cake. Look at this bouquet, guys.
Starting point is 00:28:58 It's a bouquet. So it's wrapped like a Subway sandwich. For those who don't know, join the Facebook page or follow the Facebook page. In some people town we'll have pictures of this, but they have the facebook page or follow the facebook page in some people town we'll have pictures of this but they have the subway wrapper around the bouquet and then it's i'm cutting the cake and then everybody enjoying their subway sandwiches i mean you better have open bar go ahead again you you're looking at the cake right and it's just got like a like a green icing like kind of drizzled over it.
Starting point is 00:29:25 Drizzled is a very nice way to put it. It looks like a paint bucket with cookies on it. Right. It looks like a paint bucket. So to me, I'm like, is that special to Subway? Like nothing about the branding here. Like this doesn't feel at all Subway-ish special. I think they didn't, in conceiving of how to throw a wedding,
Starting point is 00:29:46 they failed at making it even branded towards Subway. Although the cookie trays next to it, which is on the table in front of them, does look like, the several tiers. I know, but imagine that meeting at Subway, like, oh my God, how do we theme out this wedding for these people? How do we do this? Corporate, somebody at Twitter sucked us into this.
Starting point is 00:30:04 We're not equipped to do this. They're just trying to pull it together. Someone said green icing. Green icing. And everyone's like, that's it. That's the thing. And you know that and they talked it up like so you can see naturally we've got our subway green icing. It's like that's not subway green.
Starting point is 00:30:20 Okay, don't start getting proprietary with the green. With the shade of green. It says here that Subway wanted them to know they were proud to be a part of their special day. And we'll close it out with this. We can't wait to see how they'll continue to celebrate with Subway over the years to come. The nice thing about Subway is you can do the wedding.
Starting point is 00:30:37 You can also cater the divorce. A hundred percent. But forget that. I want to see them cater the delivery room. Yes. AB popping out. Subway representative there. But forget that. I want to see them cater the delivery room. AB Papa now. Subway representative. There's some green icing.
Starting point is 00:30:51 The doctor's like, do you want chips and pop with this baby? You want to make a meal out of this baby? Like a little, so like a meatball. You want this baby toasted? Put it back in and toast it a little bit. A meatball sub swaddled in a cloth would be fantastic. That's great.
Starting point is 00:31:09 All right, there you go. That is the show. Again, Fake the Nation is the podcast. I think you need to listen to it. It's got a little bit of dumb, but it's a very positive in that it makes fun of the dumb like we do on this show. And yet it's really positive.
Starting point is 00:31:24 So I want everyone to check that out. And again, thank you so much for being a part of this. Thank you. This was super fun. I really enjoy talking about this random couple in Australia whose marriage I hope is way more thrilling than Subway sandwiches. May you have the Zaxby's of marriages. And as we say, oh shit, we got to get back to work. Stick around. Make a sound. Calm your down.
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