American Mark Mk II Feat. Demi Adejuyigbe

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Bad news. Welcome to the podcast, everyone.
The Hankey Donna podcast. You went straight in with the bad news, bro.
Well, I don't know how we're going to.

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, 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 about dozens of listeners.
Yeah, because it important to know that we have

an army of four.

Right. You're losing them with the bad news off the top.
Exactly. Yeah, so we got to get them back.
We'll go down to three. All right.
Hi, 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. Of course.
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 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, uh, 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 chopped off Mark's nose, I thought he was one of our fans on Reddit. Sure.
Who had done a valid criticism of like a sketch we'd make. Yeah.
And I just was like, I snapped.

Got to get rid of him. 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.

Yeah. 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 my. Oh, my God.
That was Mark.

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

Santa 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 redditor.

I gotta be honest, Broden. That's exactly where I went as well.
We're crazy here. I was like, 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 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, yeah.

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 learn.
Yes. Yeah.

Santa was not always red.

And then he got mad. And then you guys have to guess why.

Then he got mad. That's good.
Yeah. He got mad.

I'm going to just throw out a guess. 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 wear the bread hat

now. And then in 100 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 Sarah Lee. Hang on.

Hold up. Time where 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.

As opposed to wee-wee. It's wee-wee-whoo.
It's a pitch difference. It is a subtle pitch difference.
Same note, but like an octave. Yeah.
Same little octave.

Yeah.

Uh-oh.

Okay.

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

Oh, good chats coming now. Yeah.

Serra Lee bread. Serra Lee bread? Yeah.
Tell me about Serra Lee. 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? It's like just the easy.

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 Wonder Bread? Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa.
Sorry, I always tie it to you with breadstock.

Sera Lee, in this country,

Mark Mark 2

is a dessert range.

What do you mean?

Sweet pies,

sticky date puddings,

pudding. Chalk 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 and trains. It's possible.
I think they probably do cakes. I just don't know them as because there's a scene in a movie.
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 Sara Lee? And they're like, oh, sure, sure.

And then she's like, oh, here's my Sara Lee. He's like, oh, I love Sara Lee.
Like, no joke. Just like Sarah Lee over and over.
Two minute 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 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 mean. I mean, it's on topic, and I love that.

Yeah. 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

plug my ears. Yeah, 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. Okay.

Kind of the up. Yeah, that's the rude spectrum.
Zach has three loves. He has his Spielberg 2010s film, Shoe 2000s films.
Yeah. His Christ.

And what's your third?

Brianna Rude. Brianna Rude.
So Friana 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. Yeah.
And

but for some reason she's playing the Christ our Lord. Yeah, yes.

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. I think so.
That would have been good. Yeah.
Yeah, I would have been.

I would love that one. I watched that one.
I would have loved it because, yeah, yeah.

Because she'd be in it. Yeah.
You'd be like, that's my thing. That's my thing.
Okay, closure. All right, 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 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 up vote.
You gave it. That's true.
Yeah. Sorry.
Yeah. You gave it an up vote.

One of my rare real-life up-to-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, so they're like, oh, okay.

But if someone says up vote very loudly, 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, up vote.

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.

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 know what's going on.

Yeah, that's how I felt on that fateful day in Vancouver. And when Koreal, I am become death destroying

when he was like, Yeah, do the snake thing. And then, like, two 20 minutes in.
I could see he was just like, squat by 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.
Yeah. Like, this is going to transcend from 2023 to 2025.

What you got to do is you got to 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, alright? Yeah.
Those are our two caveats.

Now get ready for the show.

Who 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, you know.
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.

Broden.

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.
It's a gateway joke to more rude. Broden, are you Ricky Stanicki? Because sign me up.

Because of the the far of 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 Stanicky. 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, that 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.

Whenever 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. Huh.
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. Stinky ugly.

You know know how under it says absurd irreverent whatever under us it says stinky ugly yeah stinky ugly they go oh Australia that's where stinky ugly people like Margo Robbie come from yuck yeah Nicole Kidman Nicole Kidman yuck oh

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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,

Sarah 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 Sara 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 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 still 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 Sarah Lee.
No, no, no. Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee.
Nobody doesn't like Sara Lee. Is that the, I guess.
That's the slow. Yeah.

So you can't say everybody like it's different. It's different.
Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee. Nobody doesn't like Sarah Lee.
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 a dedicated fan base of four.

All right, Brad, Broden, we're going to talk Halgas. That's what I was thinking.
Helgas. Helgas.
Yeah. Halgas is like...

Halgas.

How do I talk about Halgas? All right, so you've got Sara Lee Bread 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, please.

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

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 specifically LA and so specifically my set 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,

And then there was Gelson's all within a few blocks of one another, right? So there's Gelson's across from the celebrity center, the Scientology Celebrity Center.

Up on that, like a Los Felis Boulevard, kind of that kind of area. And

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

There is a Gelson's across. Yes.
I thought so. Yeah, it's an MMBB block.
Yeah, 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 comes in the bad place you're like wouldn't you like to start in the next jurassic park oh yeah i guess i would do you guys know anyone that was 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 and I was like, $400 for a weekly shop. That's right.

And then we learned that you don't go to gelson's you go to ralph's yeah in australia there's a duopoly which is like a monopoly but but two yeah 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 cars a game of monopoly that ends like one step earlier it's two people like we're good here yeah

if you're happy there hey i'm happy

yeah so

yeah coles and woolworths are the two uh 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 it is there a comfort in just being like oh i know this store very well though or is it just like i wish

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 just have, oh, wow.
Yeah, I could take this. And they do stuff like they go, did you know that you can get these Sera 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 then they do a little bit of it.
Yeah, they're doing it.

They do, very much so. But we just found out.
So we also have, I mean, this is maybe boring

This topic is maybe not fun I thought you were just talking This is just you having an epiphany about the entire podcast like this wait. I don't think people we like this we suck

We're not good at comedy. Can we just wrap this up?

I think maybe I quit comedy. I'm gonna go teach.
I'm gonna go teach. But what is it? I'm sure it's a bit funny.
It's the Bunnings thing. No, not funny at all.

Bunnings.

So we also, so we have a duopoly of uh supermarkets but we have a monopoly of home hardware stores really so we got one that's called bunnings but bunnings has been so successful in like like people are proud of bunnings they do a sausage sizzle every uh saturday so every bunnings out the front of every bunnings you can get a sausage and some sera lee style white bread wow that would work on me yeah and i love bunnings now too yeah everyone loves bunnings right it's like traded joe's no is it no no but more of a hardware store what do you what would you say like Like a Home Depot or a Home Depot.

Bunning Depot. Only Home Depot.
Imagine only Home Depot. That's Bunnings.
That's hell to me. Yeah.
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.

I guess it's funny that's. It'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 2 is.
American Mark Mart.

AMT is using. Yes, some call me.
Yes. AMT.
AMT. Kmart.

Kmart is different

because you can go to Kmart and get 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.
Not at all.

Walmart, yes. That's.

Yeah.

I don't know if they're connected.

Kmart's got Anko, though.

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 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 an American.

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. Yeah.
And the Brits, they just feel completely isolated. What's all this then? What's this stand? What are you doing? They're grieving.
It's all about beans.

I watched. So you've 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 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 why.
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 or 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? Yeah. I don't know about that.

It's weird casting. Like, it's not what you should do in 2024.
You can't gender flip that way. Yeah, that was so progressive in the 50s with the queen.
Yeah. Hey, he 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.

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 not.
No, it's the same day. So

it was the queen's birthday. Now it's the king's birthday.
That's insane. Was it? That's, I hate it.
It's not his birthday. That's stupid.
It should change.

I mean,

I don't. So it's just like every, 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 i think that 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 is the thing that gets me it's like we're all gonna buy presents for the king'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 we come 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 chucky chucky cheese or 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 just 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?

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, I just, I'm 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. Um, American Mark Mac2.
Yes. We are five years behind you.

So, at the moment, we're doing this thing in Australia. Like, 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 guys, like you did quarantines, right? And

hotels and stuff. We left America.

Like

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, it was, and I just remember LA was falling apart.
Like, it was fucked that week, and then coming back. Then it was fine.
Yeah. No, yeah.

Bounced back within days. Like, oh, this, LA is not looking good.
It's like, day light up. Good?

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 got to go to this new place. When you say hot food, bro.
Not spicy. And not spicy.
Like the it food.

Because warm, so it can't be an ice cream. It doesn't matter the temperature.

It can be what is the

gazpacho. Yeah,

what if it's a 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'm even trying to figure that out.

I feel like I am so bad at exploring foods, but I feel like every so often there's, I mean, I feel like now the cool foods are trending in terms of like, oh, TikTok 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.

Do buy chocolate. It's like a most TikTok thing I've ever heard.
Yeah, of course we do buy chocolate. Oh,

well, thank you.

And that's where we leave today's episode with Mark Mac2.

Join us next week for

another episode

with Mark Mac2.

Yeah, I think so.

We'll just keep rolling. We'll just keep rolling.
Pretend it's an Long Conquer. We'll see you soon.

But when we come back, when we come back with Mark Mac2 next week, Broden will finally reveal what Hulker's bread is.

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