American Mark Mk II Feat. Demi Adejuyigbe

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you're listening to the honey donna podcast the greatest fucking podcast in the world bro mic and zach and sometimes a guest we hope you enjoyed the motherfucking podcast bad news welcome to the podcast everyone the honey donna podcast you went straight in with the bad news bro well i don't know how we're gonna

i think it's important you don't want anyone sitting here going, this feels like good news.

They need to know straight up bad news.

And it would be good if it was a compliment sandwich.

Yeah.

So could you start with doesn't have to be huge.

Some good news?

Yeah.

Hi, listener.

Singular.

Singular listener.

That's the trick.

That's the radio trick.

I'm not talking to dozens of.

I'm talking to one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm talking to dozens of listeners.

Yeah, because it's important to know that we have

an an army of four.

Right.

You're losing them with the bad news off the top.

Yeah, so we've got to get them back.

Broker down to three.

All right.

Listener.

First thing,

you know, firstly, I've said some horrible things about you in the last few podcasts.

What did I say?

Did I say I was going to chop off their nose?

Yeah.

Okay.

Zach's.

I've really turned on.

You're starting to threaten.

So my good news is I've softened on that.

I've come to appreciate the wonderful fan base that we have and how

warm and kind you are and supportive you are.

I love you guys.

The way you support all three of us.

Yes.

Which brings us to the bad news.

Zach killed Mark.

I chopped off his nose.

He bled out.

Well, you got to follow through on a threat.

So you had to do it to someone.

Yeah.

And but the good news, good news, the sandwich, the completion of the sandwich is we have

for the third time, I believe, a new Mark.

mark.

And so we have big, thick mark

and we have American Mark.

And now we have American Mark Mark 2.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And I hope that I don't get killed.

It doesn't.

You know, history shows that I'm still at danger, but I'm.

I got to be really clear.

When I chubbed off Mark's nose, I thought he was one of our fans on Reddit who had done a valid criticism of like a sketch we'd make.

And I just was like, I just got to get rid of them.

He just said, oh, I didn't like this one as much as their other stuff.

I think he was talking about a sandwich as well.

Like he was talking about a sandwich from Subway.

Just unrelated to the podcast.

I didn't like this one.

And I just went, ah, and I chopped off his nose and he bled out.

And you were like, oh, that was Mark.

That was, oh my God, that was Mark.

He wasn't even talking about, you know, he wasn't even doing a Reddit comment.

And the Reddit community is actually really positive as well.

Yeah.

I often confuse Reddit comments for something someone is saying in real life.

I'm like,

it's crazy.

It just happens like that sometimes.

Do you ever upvote in real life?

Rarely.

I like to be selective with mine.

You know, someone makes me laugh really hard, I will just, at the end of the laugh, be like, oh,

upvote.

Upvote that.

You guys see this?

That's an upvote.

You guys see this?

You guys see this?

Come over here.

Come over here.

Jeff, say that again.

Santer is the original Redditor in that he just...

gifs everyone like it's like he really likes your comments.

I thought because he's wearing red.

I was like, whoa.

Yeah, he is a red

I gotta be honest, Brian, that's exactly where I went as well.

We're crazy here.

I was like, do you think he's the first person to wear red?

That's so good, Mark.

But that you know that Santa originally wore green.

Did he really?

Yeah, but in the 1950s, a certain company, let's do a quiz.

Let's turn this into a quiz show.

Yeah, I love this.

This is sort of like one of them British shows where they're like, which

did you know?

And then like, sort of, what's that fish one?

You know, the fish one?

Like a something like a fish?

Yeah.

Or there's nothing like a.

I don't know.

I know what you're talking about.

I don't know what it's called.

You just had a really successful Edinburgh year.

So did you have a lot of meetings with British people being like, we've got to get you on a panel show?

I didn't have one meeting with one British person.

Really?

You had the only donor experience.

That's good.

They saw me and they were like, well, we get it.

All right.

I don't know how we can put that on a panel show.

I don't know.

How can he answer questions and then be a bit funny?

We only like one American to sit on the end and say, you guys are crazy.

Pretty limited range, innit?

Yeah, yeah.

So what the fuck are we...

Oh, yeah.

So it's that show where the writers of QI say facts that they learned.

Yes.

Yeah.

Santa was not always red.

And then he got mad.

And then you guys have to guess why.

And then he got mad.

That's good.

Yeah.

Then he got mad.

I'm going to just like throw out a guess.

Yeah.

Yeah, please.

Just a wild guess.

He said he was turned red because of a marketing campaign for Coca-Cola.

Yes.

Ah.

Wow.

Wow.

Wow.

That's crazy.

I didn't know that.

I was just guessing.

That is, it's funny because I do think he is intrinsically linked with Coca-Cola, but I'm like, you can't really just claim.

It's like, if I were just like, I'm working for Subway and we were trying to do a thing with the Easter Bunnies.

Like, that's our guy now.

Yeah.

You can't just do that.

We're just going to make him like wear the bread hat

now.

And then, and then in a hundred years, people are like, you know, Easter Bunny didn't always wear a bread hat.

He used to be a religious icon, actually.

Yeah.

American Mark Mark II, can you take us through the bread brands?

Can we compare bread brands by country?

Oh, sure.

Yeah.

We got Sara Lee.

Hang on.

Wait, hold up.

Time alarm.

The fuck.

Okay.

That's the timeout alarm.

Yes.

That's more than confused with the police alarm, which sounds very similar, but it's two different things.

The timeout alarm is good news is coming.

Okay.

So that's the subtle difference.

Good news is coming

because we want to have a chat about that.

Okay.

That's a good alarm.

This show is 900 episodes in, and our audience, whenever they hear that alarm, they just know good times are coming.

Yeah, it's wee-wee-wee.

It's a pitch difference.

It is a subtle pitch difference.

Same note, but like an octave.

Yeah.

It's a yeah.

Uh-oh.

Okay.

We've trained our audience like a Belgian Malinoese army dog.

Oh, good chat's coming now.

Yeah.

Serra Lee bread.

Serra Lee bread?

Yeah.

Tell me about Seralee.

So they have a slogan, nobody doesn't like Serra Lee.

And it's just, I know it is like the sandwich bread where it's like, if you make like a PB and J, that's just the standard Sera Lee.

What the fuck?

So it's like just the easy, like, I mean, do you have Wonder White?

No.

I mean, we have Wonder Bread, which is probably similar.

It might be like a TJ Maxx, TK Max thing, where it's like the same bread, but different branding for different countries.

No, I think it's like what's one.

Okay.

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.

Sorry, I always targeted you with bread sock.

Sarah Lee, in this country,

Mark Mark II

is a dessert range.

What do you mean?

Sweet pies,

sticky date puddings,

pudding, chock Bavarian.

It's got to be the same company.

Has to be.

Yeah, but they're just like, we don't do bread over there.

And in America, they're like, we only do bread.

They don't do cakes.

I mean, it's possible.

I think they probably do cakes.

I just don't know them as

because there's a scene in a moment.

Catch me if you can.

There's a scene in Catch Me If You Can.

This is when Spielberg was peak product placement.

Oh, yeah.

Where two FBI agents come to meet

his mom and they're like, we're sorry, your son's a con man.

But before they do that, she's like, can I get you some Sarah Lee?

And they're like, oh, sure, sure.

And then she's like, oh, here's my Sarah Lee.

He's like, oh, I love Sarah Lee.

Like, no joke.

Just like like Sarah Lee over and over.

Two minutes scene where they're just talking about good Sarah Lee.

It's funny because I'm now, I'm like, in the U.S., when that movie came out, people were just like, can I get you some bread?

What a weird offer.

Yeah, exactly.

So that there's, but you know, if you're like the brand, because if I said Starbucks, we would all say coffee.

Cake.

Sure.

No, no, in this country, Starbucks is.

Starbucks does coffee.

Interesting.

That's crazy.

Can I do a joke?

Is that really the tone of this podcast?

I could give you the framing of it.

Yeah.

It's about McDonald's being a place where that makes missiles.

Okay, I'm in.

I mean, it's on topic, and I love that.

And it's about the way McDonald's food makes you feel and what you have to do after having McDonald's food.

Interesting.

I'm seeing.

I'm starting to go off of it.

You're off of it.

Sounds a little brown.

It is brown.

I'd love to see where it goes.

Yeah.

Here, take your headphones off.

You can turn away if you don't want to turn it.

You can just plug my ears.

Yeah, but you listen.

Yeah, I'll listen.

Zach, you don't listen, and then you tell me if you think he should listen.

Now, I don't like rude, I like sexy rude, I don't like

gross rude.

Okay, you like Rihanna rude.

You're like

Farrelly Brothers rude.

Kind of the up, yeah, that's the rude spectrum.

Zach has three loves.

He has his Spielberg 2010s film, Short 2000s film,

his Christ, and what's your third?

Brianna Rude.

Brianna Rude.

So if Rihanna were in a movie about the life of Jesus directed by Steven Spielberger, you'd be like, and it was made in the 2000s.

I'd be like, sign me right up to that.

Yeah, yeah.

It's Ponda Replay era Rihanna

in a Spielberg film that's a little bit too long.

But for some reason, she's playing The Christ our Lord.

Yeah, sign me right up to the top.

We got to get that minority report at it.

Was she ever in one of them live Jesus Christ broadcasts with John Legend or anything?

Oh, like Jesus Christ Superstar?

Yeah.

So that would have been good.

Yeah.

Yeah, I would have done that.

I love that one.

I watched that one.

I would have loved it because, yeah, yeah.

Because he'd be in it.

Yeah.

You'd be like, that's my thing.

That's my thing.

Okay, closure.

Zach, can you hear me?

No.

Okay.

All right, proceed.

I've had to do a few evacuations after McDonald's.

Up vote.

Yeah.

Okay, so I feel like you can can sit.

You can hear now?

Yeah, I can hear now.

You want to try that again?

Do you think I should do it?

I don't think he's going to like it, but I think he'll appreciate.

Because you didn't like it.

I liked it.

I gave it an upvote.

You gave it.

That's true.

Yeah.

Sorry, yeah.

You gave it an up vote.

One of my rare real-life update votes.

As a comedian, I do prefer an up vote to a laugh.

Yeah.

Like it means more for my career.

When you're on stage and you hear people laughing, it's all like, oh, okay.

But if someone says up vote very loudly, you're you're like, that means something.

That's good.

That's really good.

That's really good.

I like a crowd in unison just saying, upvote.

More than laughing?

Oh, more than laughing.

No, no, I do prefer laughing.

I think a crowd yelling up vote in unison, if I'm being honest, because I thought we were riffing, but if I'm being honest, a crowd saying up vote in unison to every joke I make might create some rhythm issues for the show as a whole.

We once had a show.

It might.

It might.

We once had a show in Vancouver where I don't even remember how, but halfway through the show,

they just got on this thing about that there were snakes on the ground and they just kept going

and slithering.

And like, I think I reacted to it initially, but then the Canadian people just loved it.

Yeah.

And for the rest of the show, like a contingent of the audience would fucking not stop slithering.

I think that would drive me nuts and I would have to be like, all right, I'm stopping.

I have to address this, but it's like that sort of balance of like, I want to be funny in addressing this, but I also want you guys to, yeah, that's how I felt on that fateful day in Vancouver.

And we go real, I am become death destroyed.

When he was like, yeah, do the snake thing.

And then like 20 minutes in, I could see he was just like

how Oppenheimer felt.

Exactly.

We're touring there later this year and I'm starting to see comments of snake emojis and I'm like, they're fucking going to do it again.

Like this is going to transcend from 2023 to 2025.

What you gotta do is you gotta come out at the beginning and just say, so we're from Australia, and we have a thing there where we bring out a bat and we beat snakes to death.

Yeah.

So, just so you know, everywhere we go, if we see a snake, we have to beat it to death.

And if we talk about Seralee, that's fucking cake, all right?

Yeah, those are our two caveats.

Now get ready for the show.

We will beat you to death.

Like a snake.

Like a snake.

Do you want to hear the joke?

I'm nervous.

I'm really nervous.

But shoot me.

Shoot it.

So McDonald's make missiles.

I've added a little

preamble.

McDonald's make missiles.

Well, I've had a few evacuations after going there.

You kind of stumbled it a little bit that time.

I don't know if.

Bronen.

That is the first time I've ever gotten on board with a Farrelly Brothers rude joke.

Okay.

Wow.

There's a third Farrelly brother in town.

He's a gateway joke to more rude brothers.

Broden, are you Ricky Stanicki?

Signed me up.

Because of the Farrell...

Yeah.

One of the Farrellies directed Ricky Stanicki.

Yeah, because that was good.

Did you see Ricky Stanicki?

I did not.

So it's a show about...

Some American Ricky Stanicki.

So Ricky Stanicki.

They have a fake friend called Ricky Stanicki.

Right.

Then they meet Ricky Stanicki.

But Ricky Stanicki is John Cena.

Yes.

Would you believe that that American movie about American people was all shot in Melbourne?

It was?

Yeah.

Do they ever address that or is it just like it's just here?

So at one point they go to Atlantic City.

And if you have not been to Atlantic City, even if you have been, you know, you'd just be like, well, there was an establishing shot of Atlantic City.

Maybe there is a theater like that, or maybe there is.

But when you're from Melbourne, you're like, well, that's,

they're at Crown Casino.

Whatever movies or TV shows do that, I'm always just like, is there a reason you can't just say we're in Australia?

Is it like, are they like, Americans are going to be like, well, I don't want to watch this movie about it, it's not about America.

Having made a show about Australians living in America, they don't like us.

Interesting.

Yeah.

Australians, like Americans are like.

famously not fans of us.

No, Americans, they all think we're ugly people.

They're so stinky, ugly.

That's the impression Americans are.

That's what they say when they're on Netflix.

It's like stinky, ugly.

They stink, yucky.

You know how under it says absurd, irreverent, whatever.

Under us, it says stinky, ugly.

Stinky ugly.

They go, oh, Australia, that's where stinky, ugly people like Margot Robbie come from.

Yuck.

Yeah.

Nicole Kidman.

Nicole Kidman.

Yuck.

Oh.

But we're going to compare, we're going to bring to Mark Mark II an Australian bread after this ad break.

Welcome back.

Now,

I would like to put forward, what bread should we present first?

It's tough.

I mean, it's really tough.

Ever since the Sara Lee,

Sara Lee Gate, I'll call it.

Sure.

Which is what it's called.

It's the Wikipedia section on YouTube.

Yeah, I'm really processing this whole thing that Sarah Lee does bread.

Is it sweet bread?

No.

But it's not, it's like, it's that goes down easy

fun.

White bread.

White bread that you.

I'm sure they do other types of bread, but to me, it's just white bread.

It's not like a fancy bread.

No, no, no.

No.

This is like basement level, just like the kind of thing that's like, oh, you come home from school and your mom's making sandwiches.

It's Sarah Lee.

Is it delicious?

To my reckoning.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think so.

I got a soft spot for that kind of bread.

Yeah, I love that bread.

And I reckon Sarah Lee don't know how to deliver on that kind of bread.

Yeah.

That's what I love about Sara Lee.

You know, they're so young and fun.

nobody doesn't like sara lee no everyone loves sara lee no no nobody doesn't like sara lee nobody doesn't like sara lee is that the that's the slow yeah so you can't say everybody like it's different it's different nobody doesn't like

nobody doesn't like

that sounds to me like they're saying nobody loves it though yeah nobody doesn't like sara lee yeah it's it's you're not going to find it's a you know it's a rotten tomatoes hundred you're not going to find anyone who's like against it but no one's like this is the greatest yeah it's like when mcdonald's has one billion served.

You know how some of them, it's like, I don't think that's a good thing, guys.

I would much rather, like, we've served 20 people and it was awesome.

We have, we have a dedicated fan base of four.

All right, Bret, Broden, we're going to talk Halgas.

That's what I was thinking.

Helgas.

Helgas.

Yeah.

Halgers is like...

Halgas.

How do I talk about Halgas?

All right, so you've got Sara Lee, Brett on one end of the spectrum, and then you've got fancy sourdough on the other end of the spectrum.

Oh, just to jump into your American language,

you've got a Ralph's, then you've got a Gelson's.

Oh, wow.

Okay, very, very much understood.

See how that brought Mark Mark II to life?

Yeah.

And I love that because I also was thinking, so that's so, so specifically LA and so specifically my sub of LA that there would be Americans who are like, wait, you've lost me now.

Well, one time, that's because, right, in the area where we used to live,

there was a 99 cent store type grocery store, then there was Ralph's.

Yeah.

And then there was Gelson's all within a few blocks of one another, right?

Gelson's across from the Celebrity Center, the Scientology Celebrity Center.

Up on top of the city.

Up on that, like a Los Felis Boulevard kind of

area.

And

when we first moved to the area, this is like we saw it in the middle.

Wait, there is a there is a Gelson's across from

MCB block.

Okay, I remember I would see the celebrity center, and when we were there, they were doing a screening of Jurassic Park.

And I thought, man, I could watch Jurassic Park.

I could get some connections.

What could go wrong?

That's how it gets.

I was in a bad place.

You know, like, wouldn't you like to start in the next Jurassic Park?

Oh, yeah, I guess I would.

Do you guys know anyone that knows people in Jurassic Park?

Everyone.

Oh, wow.

So one time we saw Angelina Jolie in Gelson's.

Yeah.

But so we were like shopping, like, this is great.

They've got fresh fried chicken.

They got pizzas.

They got yummy.

All the food is nice.

And then I got to the counter.

It was like $400 for a weekly shop.

That's right.

And we learned that you don't go to Gelson's, you go to Ralph's.

In Australia, there's a duopoly, which is like a monopoly, but

two.

So we played two games at once.

Right.

Like spinning plates of both hands.

I'm losing this one, but I'm doing great over here.

The Magnus Carlson.

It's a game of monopoly that ends like one step earlier.

It's two people like, we're good here.

But if you're happy there, hey, I'm happy.

It's kind of useful.

Yeah.

So,

yeah, Coles and Woolworths are the two

grocery stores here.

So, when you go to the UK or you go to America and you're like, you've got multiple options, we don't understand that.

That's wild to me.

Is there a comfort in just being like, oh, I know this store very well, though?

Or is it just like

because they change it up a lot because they've got so much power, they'll like they change the layout every six months of every Coles and Woolworths store so that you never know where the milk and bread is so that you get lost and buy more things.

That would piss me off and also at work.

I'd just be like, oh, I guess I need coconut water too.

Yeah, you do.

You're just like, oh, wow.

Yeah, I can take this.

And they do stuff like they go, did you know that you can get these Serra Lee's 50% off?

And you go, great.

And then you look under it and it says, actually,

they're the same price they always were.

And then you go, why'd you do that?

And they say, fuck you going to do about it.

Yeah.

And they do a little bit of it.

Yeah, they do.

They do very much so.

But we just found out.

So we also have, I mean, this is maybe boring.

Something is maybe not fun.

I thought you were just talking.

This is just having an epiphany about the entire podcast.

Like, this wait, I don't think people

like this.

We suck.

We're not good at coming.

Can we just wrap this up?

Maybe I quit comedy.

I'm going to go teach.

I'm going to go teach.

But what is it?

I'm sure it's a bit funny.

It's the Bannings thing.

No, not funny at all.

Bunnings.

So we also, so we have a duopoly of supermarkets, but we have a monopoly of home hardware stores.

Really?

So we've got one that's called Bunnings.

But Bunnings has been so successful in like

people are proud of Bunnings.

They do a sausage sizzle every Saturday.

So every Bunnings out the front of every Bunnings, you can get a sausage and some Serra Lee style white bread.

Wow.

That would work on me.

Yeah.

I love Bunnings now, too.

Yeah, everyone loves Bunnings, right?

It's like Trader Joe's.

No, is it?

No.

No, Bunnings.

I think more of a hardware store.

What would you say?

Like a Home Depot or a Home Depot.

Only Home Depot.

Imagine only Home Depot.

That's Bunnings.

That's hell to me.

I don't want to live in any country that only has a Home Depot.

Well, then they can set whatever prices they want.

Yeah.

Which I guess is funny.

But isn't that?

I guess it's funny that's making me laugh.

Yeah.

Doesn't Kmart also do like home goods?

Yeah.

Well,

thank you for asking, Mark Mark II.

Yeah.

Mark Mark II.

American Mark Mark II.

He's American Mark.

mark amt is some call me yes amt

kmart

kmart is different

because you can go to kmart and get like groceries yeah yeah no not here or i guess well yeah here are chips yeah i think so actually there's not a lot of kmarts in the u.s no

small

walmart yes that's yeah

i don't know if they're connected kmart's got anko though yeah kmart has a home brand that people love.

And in fact, in Singapore, I know this will be funny.

Kmart's home brand is doing so well on TikTok that they've opened, it's called Anko, they've opened Anko stores in Singapore.

Standalone stores for the brand.

That's funny.

Yeah.

Down book.

Yeah, sorry.

That one doesn't work for me as much.

We're down to zero and it's blue now.

You can get back up.

I believe in you.

Yeah, well, we're going to talk about Halga's bread.

That's really going to be a lot of fun.

Helga's.

People at home, by the way, are listening, just like, you're just explaining things that I already know to Americans.

We got some American listeners.

And they're like, you're not explaining things I don't know to me.

Yeah, yeah.

To the Australians, they're like, this is more information than I need.

To the Americans, not enough.

And the Brits, they just feel completely isolated.

What's all this then?

What's this then?

Why are you doing it?

They're grieving.

It's all about beans.

I watched.

So you asked the two of them.

I watched a

hour and a half YouTube documentary the other day about the minute-by-minute fallout of the Queen's death.

Hour and a half-long YouTube video about the minute-by-minute.

So what was that like fallout?

Yeah, just like Queen's sick at 12 o'clock.

12.10, they let the Prime Minister know.

12.1, they start to let the BBC know she's sick.

She dies at like three o'clock in the afternoon.

Where's Harry?

Where's William?

Who's on the private jet?

Who's there when she died?

I watched that for an hour and a half.

That sounds sick.

I thought they did so, you know, credit where credit is due.

Not a fan of monarchy, but they did so well with just slipping the new king in there, didn't they?

They were just like, hey, can we all just agree we're not going to talk bad about the queen for the next couple of weeks?

And everyone was like, okay.

And they're like, oh, and the king's in there.

Here's a portrait of the king.

It is weird to like live, to have a lifetime where it's just like, England has a queen, that's the thing that that you've accepted.

And then just suddenly be like, it's a king now.

And I'm subconsciously just like, I don't like that.

I don't know what.

I'm like, that feels off.

You're like, wait, is this a monarch?

Yeah.

Hey, wait a minute.

I thought you guys were joking about that whole thing.

I thought it was just a night.

It's like a mascot.

And it's like, when they say king, I'm like, there's a guy now?

I don't know.

Yeah.

I don't know about that.

It's weird casting.

It's not what you should do in 2025.

You can't gender flip that way.

No.

Yeah, that was so progressive in the 50s with the queen.

Yeah.

Hey, wait.

It was woke.

It's a 20-year-old queen.

She's pretty.

She's fun.

She's cool.

And now we're going with an old guy?

I don't know about that.

I don't know about that.

Come on.

It's like Doctor Who.

It's like, I don't know.

Whoa.

Do you know all of this in this room is the king's?

As in this is the king's hat?

He's in charge.

He's technically his hat.

I did forget that.

I came here and they had a king's birthday while I was in Sydney.

I was like, what are you talking about?

What king?

And it's not even his birthday.

It's not?

No, it's the same day so it was the it was the queen's birthday now it's the king's birthday that's insane was it that's i hate not his birthday that's stupid it should change

i mean

i don't so it's just like every if if the king dies and they're like here's the queen again they're like it's still the same birthday it's the concept of a birthday We celebrate their birthday.

That's so dumb.

But I think it was already at 100% dumb.

So like celebrating, taking a day off for the queen king's birthday, already at 100% dumb.

So when someone said we should change the date to be more convenient to our lives, everyone was like, well, it's no more dumb.

Yeah.

We're already at 100% dumb.

I think then I'm just like, stop calling it birthday.

Just call it like King's Day or whatever, which I'm always like, that's insane, but...

No, no, that makes more sense.

Yeah, but I think just birthday is the thing that gets me.

It's like, we're all going to buy presents for the king.

It's like, thank you.

My real birthday is in two months, so make sure to get another present.

Now that you come, sorry, we forgot.

Now I come to mention it.

You come to mention it.

I don't think I've ever seen the king or queen say, thanks for celebrating my birthday.

Yeah.

Nor have I seen anyone ever say, happy birthday, king.

It's more just like, I'm not going to work.

People say it, but just when it's my birthday.

Happy birthday, king.

Happy birthday, king.

And then they just move on.

Is this it like a Chuck E.

Cheese?

Yeah, I go to the Chuck E.

Cheese at 32 years old and they call me King.

There's a story of...

You send someone ahead.

She's like, hey, when the next guy comes in, can you call him King?

We really appreciate it.

Is there any way to program the animatronics to say, happy birthday, King?

No, unfortunately, we can't do that, but we can have this 17-year-old boy say that he's a gig.

Yeah, I think he'll be okay with that.

That'll work for him.

When we were making our show over there, the director of the show, Max, and now the main music man, Tom,

next door to our head production office in Glendale was a Shaky's.

Oh, yeah.

Shaky's Pizza.

Yeah, and they went there for lunch, and then the whole crew were like, where is the director?

And it's like, they went to Shaky's and they're like, oh, God, no.

Oh, God, no.

Because it's the equivalent of like Pizza Hut store, but worse.

Yeah, I don't know anyone who's gone to a Shaky's on purpose, but I do think

it's one of those things that is just invisibly everywhere in LA, but I couldn't tell you anything about it, like culturally or what the food tastes like or whatnot.

It's just like, it's not high enough for it to be like, like also just pizza in general.

It's like, I don't think a lot of people are like, let's go out for pizza.

So I feel like it's the kind of thing where if you end up there, it is on purpose for a child or a thing of convenience.

I just am like, I, yeah.

I wouldn't be like, oh, no, but I would be like, interesting.

I would love to hear what their experience is.

American Mark Mack2.

Yes.

We are five years behind you.

So at the moment, we're doing this thing in Australia.

We love American-style foods, right?

So we're doing a thing called diners at the moment.

I love that.

So that's a place where you get like pancakes and breakfast.

Are you familiar with that?

I am familiar.

And also, just knowing that you're five years behind, I have to warn you guys about COVID.

You gotta look out.

We had that.

It was awful.

Yeah.

But we were about six months behind on the COVID.

Yeah, we were.

We had a little bit of a heads up.

Didn't I feel like you, you guys, like you did quarantines, right?

And

hotels and stuff.

We left America.

Like I, I stole a bunch of

hand sanitizer from our post studio.

We were editing our show, and then I just got to the airport with it.

That's your strongest memory of COVID.

Yeah, and I just remember LA was falling apart, like it was fucked that week, and then coming back.

Then it was fine.

No, yeah.

Bounced back within days.

Like, oh, this, L.A.'s not looking good.

It's like, day later, good, better.

It's all fine.

Dancing in the street.

But

what was I going, what the fuck was I talking about?

Your COVID experience.

Yes.

Well, the diners.

I miss the diners.

So they've started doing them, but they're too expensive, right?

So what's the hot food in America right now that everyone's like, you got to go eat that.

You've got to go to this new place.

When you say hot food, bro.

Not spicy.

And notice that.

Like the it food.

Because warm, so it can't be an ice cream.

Doesn't matter the temperature.

It can be what is the temperature.

It's like a gazpacho.

Yeah,

whatever it's gazpacho.

Are you using hot in a different way?

Yeah, in like a

cool.

Cool.

Hot meaning cool

yeah what's the hot meaning cool food at the moment i am i am i'm even trying to figure that out i feel like i'm so bad at exploring foods but i i feel like every so often there's i mean i feel like now the cool foods are trending in terms of like oh tick tock is talking about this one item that you go into a store where it's like people talking about do buy chocolate and i'm like i don't know do you buy chocolate it's like a that's the most tick tock thing i've ever heard yeah of course we do buy chocolate

thank you.

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Mark Mack II.

Yeah, I think so.

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We'll just keep rolling pretending it's an old

guys.

We'll see you soon.

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