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My name is Joe Biden, and I love ice cream.

This is how the one-term president opened remarks during a 2016 press conference held at the Columbus, Ohio headquarters of an ice cream company founded by Jenny Britton Bauer.

While Biden opted not to run for president that year, instead clearing the runway for Hillary Clinton to spectacularly crash and burn, in 2020 he did secure the nomination.

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During that election, Eater reported the Biden campaign had spent over $10,000 on artists and ice cream ordered from the Columbus Creamery.

In advance of the fall's presidential debates, his campaign Instagram posted a photo of the brand's salted peanut butter with chocolate flakes flavor, cheekily captioning it as a performance enhancer.

And those weren't the only times that cycled the Ohio parlor would generate political headlines.

That same year, appearing via Zoom on the late-night talk show hosted by the U.K.'s most talented and beloved citizen, James Corden, then-Speaker Nancy Pelosi showcased her twin $24,000 sub-zero freezers stocked with the company's containers.

Despite these incidents that reflected the Democratic shift away from the working class and toward educated urbanites who can afford $12 pints, Biden prevailed in the general election, though he lost Ohio by eight points as the ice cream purveyor's home territory has slow faded from swing state to solid red state.

Bauer, an outspoken Biden supporter herself, celebrated his 2021 inauguration by creating a White House chocolate chip ice cream flavor in honor of Diamond Joe.

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This week on Dough Boys, we return to Jenny's Splendid Ice Creams.

Welcome to Dough Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants.

I'm Tiger Weiger, along with my co-host,

Anthony Snacky

Boomman, Mike Mitchell.

Wow.

It fits the theme-wise, because you know why?

Welcome to Twisted Monthal.

That's right, Twisted Monthal in celebration of Twisted Metal season two.

I don't know.

Was that like him?

Was that like him?

I was trying to be clips.

I recognized.

I liked it.

And to quote our friend Sweet Toothwise, this is going to be fun.

The first attempt at Twisted Monthal was unfortunately thwarted by the very necessary WGA and SAG After Strikes, which put all these prohibitions on promoting the first season.

It was just unfortunate timing for the show, which succeeded nevertheless.

But

we planned to do this back when season one launched, and unfortunately we weren't able to do it.

It was so tough taking meetings on the lots during the strikes.

Well,

it was the WGA and the SAG strike.

So this is Twisted Metal 2 colon 1.

Colon 1, yes.

Yes.

Wow.

Tried my best to come up with some Twisted Metal themed roasts ready for season 2 and the triumphant return of Stew, your character.

Some bad alts I thought of were Thomas Hayden Church's Chicken, pretty good, and Samosa Joe, although I'm worried that one sounds a little problematic.

Roast at birdfock.com.

We have the same thought.

That is.

Wags, I'm very excited.

Yeah.

I think that this season is great, and I'm excited for everybody.

You're going to meet some new faces that are going to come on the show.

Yeah.

I'm going to meet them.

You are.

I've already met them.

Okay.

You were in Toronto.

So you saw it.

We were up in, we'll get into it with our guests, but we were, we were up in, we, we, we've already talked up Toronto with one of them, but but I want to get everyone's perspective because you all spent a bunch of time up there up in T-Dot.

Yeah, that's all right.

Yeah.

Uh,

I didn't like it first stretch, and then I did grow to like it quite a bit.

It was very nice.

It was a grower, not a shower.

It is a grower, not, it is a grower, not a shower, which I like that.

And which is neither.

So he feels camaraderie.

Because he understands.

Don't throw me off track here, why?

Because you've already gotten under my skin.

I'm neither.

I'm not a grower nor shower.

But you know what?

There's a lot of roles to fill in this world.

It's true.

Yeah.

I'm a little nubman.

Emma, let's hit him with the...

You know what?

Before I came here, there was a debacle.

There was a couple of debacles.

One with the restaurant we went to today.

Yeah.

But also,

I open up my washing machine.

It smells like fish.

Weird.

Yeah, I don't know why it smells like fish.

So I was sniffing all my clothes before I got here and it was trying to...

There's something.

The washing machine or the dryer, specifically the washer?

I think maybe the washer, yeah.

Did some like cat food get in a maybe cat?

I don't know.

My hypothesis is that the rubber surrounding the

machine is moldy.

Yeah, right.

All right.

So, washing machine hooked up to the ocean?

That's, I mean, that's what I was.

I mean, fish don't usually swim up like the line to the austin thing.

I don't know.

But it's a very fishy smell.

So

hopefully I don't smell like fish today.

I haven't clocked it.

I don't know if anyone else has noticed it.

I have not noticed it.

Or Wally.

I don't know.

It could be, I think it's Wally and Irma related.

I don't know what it is.

But that's my day so far.

How about you?

And also, I did something else today.

And I don't want to say it yet because one of our guests is going to be mad at me.

Okay.

You're looking at me.

Yeah.

Okay.

I did something that I promised you I would do.

You finally watched Encanto.

This is the truth.

But

I have like 25 minutes left.

There was.

Oh, boy.

That was the most important thing.

A lot happened there.

I'm going to say this.

Oh my God.

Wait, where'd you leave off?

Oh,

Mirabelle.

Mirabelle,

the house has collapsed.

She has gone off into the woods.

Spoilers, by the way.

Spoilies.

She has gone off into the woods.

So far, I love it.

This movie is getting me emotional the whole time because also it's like the loner thing and not being squatted.

It's 2025, and it came out four years ago.

Jesus.

It's getting me emotional.

It was getting me emotional the whole time.

And Bruno, I mean, I knew of, we don't talk about Bruno, and I knew the song that you sing in the belly, which at the beginning, which you do great with.

But then, look,

there was a fish situation.

My washing machine started to smell like fish.

And there was a situation with this restaurant, and I got thrown off track.

And there's about 25 people.

You're never going to know how it ends.

I'm finishing it tonight.

I'm going to finish it tonight.

Are you watching the movie and we're just like,

I mean, honestly, kind of, yes.

He was crying.

He was crying so his nasal cavities were clear.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Sniffed Sniffed in, smelled fish.

I was.

There were multiple moments in the movie that were making me tear up.

And it's not even the end of the movie.

It was a,

it's a tearjerker.

We told you it's a beautiful film.

It's a beautiful film.

I really do enjoy it so far.

I'm not just pandering to our guests, but my favorite number is Family Madrigal.

Thank you.

It's a great number.

I love it.

I have a cleaning lady who comes every so often.

People are going to call me Silver Spoon Man, but a cleaning lady comes every so often.

So there was some stuff that's folded and put away that smelled like fish.

Got it.

So I was going through my clothes that were put away and smelling them to see if they smelled like fish and then washing them again.

So she's folding your fish laundry while you're speed watching in Kanto

on 1.5x.

There's so many levels to this.

I can't even.

You know, bitch, there's a lot going on in the world.

I don't know if you've been

there.

But your fish laundry isn't really at the top of most people's list of stuff.

Me?

You know,

It's a serious time right now.

I know.

You hear about your fish underwear.

I know.

I know.

And look,

I was very kind.

I'm a good guy.

I'm being a good guy.

God, the protests are so loud.

Music off.

Look, the LA,

it's a horrible time.

And my cleaning lady, Mirialla, close to

Mira.

Mirabel

rattles

is a great person.

And

I gave her a big chunk of cash today because I also felt bad that I had fish laundry.

I don't know why.

That is very nice.

I don't know what is causing the fish laundry.

I really don't know what it is.

And I don't know if there, I was like, did I bring fish back?

I don't think I had a fish ever.

I don't think I had a fish.

I mean, do you really want to get into this?

It's mildew in your.

is you is it mildew but is it it's mildew in your

in your after you wash like after your washer runs do you shut the door again yeah a lot of the time so you gotta let it out yeah you gotta leave it open and let it dry out otherwise that every woolly armor will go in there and take a ride

only if you close the door behind them they can shut it up they don't have opposable thumbs that is a joke good point

it would be funny i mean i won't close my cats in the washing machine for crying out

but i put like blankets in there and stuff

What are we doing here?

What are we doing?

We're talking about your cats and your washing machine.

What are we doing?

I think it's the cats.

I think the cats pissed on certain laundry.

I think that's what it was.

I think the cats pissed.

And also, I did keep.

I don't think it's smelling.

I did keep a clean thing of laundry next to a bag of kitty litter.

So I do think that there is a possibility.

I think that's a skin real.

There's maybe a skill issue on your laundry.

With that, I keep my clean laundry next to kitty.

I don't always

want to save this for Sherlock Season 3.

Or maybe your Tinder profile.

God.

I'm on Raya, actually.

After they denied me multiple times, they finally let me on.

Like one day, they're like, you're finally accepted.

I'm like, what the hell?

I applied for this a long time ago.

I keep my, just this one time, I kept my fresh laundry next to

a kitty litter bag.

Raya's fun because you can see all the celebrities that are not interested.

They don't have that.

Like,

I'm like, oh, cool.

Look who it is.

It's like

a fanning or something.

And you swipe right.

It's not a fanning.

Now I'm nervous because I just, everyone I'm going to say.

I was saying a hypothetical.

It's not someone who's actually.

Charlie's their own.

And I'm going to swipe right.

That doesn't mean any.

Nothing's going to happen.

Do you?

What is it?

Do you swipe left for like no and right for

right for yes?

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Do you what?

You, did you, you never have.

But that's how I met Brad on Raya.

Oh, did you really?

Yeah, that's how I met him.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It's because I was like, who are all these

wackadoos?

These are all like, yes, and there's a lot of

wackadoos.

Cuckoo Kachu on there.

Wow,

who has some fish smelling laundry?

If any ladies are in there,

ladies, get in line.

Don't push, don't push.

There's enough Mike Mitchell for everybody.

Recently, on Lexapro and Adderall, if you guys are interested, you're heavily medicated.

That's weird.

Oh, hit him with the drop, Emma.

That's what you were waiting for.

I could tell he to speak.

Obama, once again.

And I just want to say, I too support President Trump.

Oh, my God.

I feel like that should show up in a future Count Dropula drop.

Count Dropula.

Come.

Dropula.

Come.

Come.

Great.

Speaking of shit and vomit and diarrhea, I had to go to a bathroom.

Mom!

Bathroom stuff can be tricky.

Michael!

Don't get littleized in those shorts.

Count Drop, you look.

That drop made me feel like I'm going to hell.

Well, isn't that special?

I'm glad that there were a couple of farts at the end of it as well.

That was such a journey.

Dropkin, great.

Yeah,

they were good.

Nice little button there.

Dropkin, great job picking a drop that completely embarrassed me in front of

my two co-workers and in many ways, my boss and a lot of them.

Honestly, that drop changed to storyline for next season.

You might have to write some for a fish storyline for Stu next season.

Did Stu become a shape of water?

I do love that movie.

I know people don't like it.

I like that too.

I like it.

I like it.

And I love Encanto so far.

We'll see how those last 25 minutes go.

You text Stephanie, uh-oh.

I will not text you.

Uh-oh.

I do.

I very much enjoy.

I very much enjoy.

Better box review changing.

I like the guy who can change into different people.

Your cousin, your young, your cousin.

Camilo.

Camilo.

Yeah.

Like a chameleon.

Get it?

Yes.

That's great.

Now I do get it.

I did not get it at the time.

But your Family Madrigal song is so impressive.

When you're doing the, like, it's basically kind of like a rap verse of it.

Yeah.

My cousin Dolores can hear the the whole chorus from here.

It's like, yeah, just, just, just, just a fucking nimble deck version.

You know, I think, I feel like I've told you this, but when we were rehearsing for the Hollywood Bowl for the live version of it, which is cool as hell,

Lynn was like, damn, I got to make you sing that all together in one piece.

And I was like, hey, man, yes, that's the whole point of this.

People are coming.

They're going to watch us sing it live.

And he was like, that's not made to be sung live.

That song's not made to be sung live.

You can't sing it live.

And I was like,

Well,

I'm going to have to.

People have bought tickets already, my friend.

You wrote it.

And I've seen that, and I have seen that video of you singing it at the Hollywood Ball.

Oh, yeah.

And you knock it out of the park.

I was there.

So,

I went night one.

Wow.

And it was very impressive.

It was awesome.

Thank you.

That was a good time.

I think I sent you that video.

It's a possibility Weiger sent me that video.

I was hopped up on many medications.

Hyderol would probably, I mean, I might be able to sing that song if I took it not too long ago.

So I am kind of a little, I'm a little too uh why you did that whole bit about your fish smelling clothes.

My the my fish smelling clothes.

I'm gonna figure out the fish mystery.

I washed, so I washed some fish clothes.

I can't believe we're still talking about this.

Our guests are sitting here.

You know, they have one

out.

All right, I'm gonna say this: I washed, I washed some of the fish clothes.

I yelled, What are we doing?

I kind of want to hear him do a rap song to Family Madrigal about the fact that the fish ready.

It might be Wally Normer.

I can't think of anything else.

Happy summertime to all of you.

My wife and I are re-watching Twisted Metal season one, getting ready for season two.

I forgot how funny it is.

Why, you piece of shit.

By the way, very typical.

She is beautiful and earning her master's degree, and I'm making drops.

Count Dropula.

It is Count Dropula.

Dropula on Instagram.

That's Count Dropula.

I watched some of the fish clothes and

I smelled them and they vetoed it.

I veto it.

I veto it.

They still smell like fish clothes after a wash.

I do think people were surprised by how much your clothes smell like fish and how funny the show is.

I don't think people expected that in season one, which I really.

People expected the show to be bad.

I think they definitely did.

I think that they did expect it to be bad, and then there were a lot of like angry.

I was, I, I don't know if you, if you do this at all, Stephanie.

I mean, you, you're, you are much more sane than I am.

Let me introduce everybody so we can.

Drops of herdfuck.com from Twisted Metal Season 2, streaming now on Peacock.

Today, as of today, as of this episode's release, July 31st, three episodes are out, three new episodes every Thursday.

Stephanie Beatriz, Michael, Jonathan, Smith.

Thank you both so much for having me.

Thank you for having us.

We're very happy to have you.

Thank you for doing this bullshit again.

And we're both of you, we recorded episodes with just you two first.

That's right.

We had MJ in studio, we had uh, we had 70 in studio, and then we also you joined us in Toronto for our live show.

A lot of fun, yep, yeah, yeah.

Um, and we just didn't say it was twisted monthal, and we cut out everything about twisted monthal.

We we said we recorded some or some episodes.

I can't remember if either of them was with with were with you, where we talked about the show, and then we had to edit a lot of that out.

And so it was kind of uh, and I know we did that, we definitely did that with Joe.

It's kind of a good unions, and then I think I only

mitch no

takeaway no good unions

uh no things are better because of those strikes so it was it was well worth it um but there was a comic-con we didn't get to go to but this year's comic-con we did go to already yeah uh which is very fun yeah yeah we already we already did it i think that this season is much better i i look at comments i like look at the twisted metal subreddit i like we'll look at i'm sick i'm a sick man and i'll look at i i look at what people are saying do you never do that for any project tried not to do that with this show sure because you know i don't know if you know this about reddit but sometimes they don't like women yeah and

and i'm sorry about those posts difficult

it can be difficult um

so yeah i i

i really like that reddit is so passionate about our show

um

but yeah i really try not to i really try not to because like i just like like comments in general.

People will just be like, you know, my girlfriend and I love the show, but we hate it.

We hated quiet.

And that's what I'm saying.

And that is the thing that you

blamed.

But I will say that.

And then you forget

all the good stuff.

So I just don't look at any of it.

This happens to us with the Doughboys subreddit.

It gets me pissed off every day.

Yeah, I just don't.

I mean, I just don't look at that.

I completely

shut myself off from that, and my life has improved.

I don't have Instagram or TikTok on my phone.

And I will say it's huge.

It's so free.

Yeah.

So free.

It would be nice to get rid of Instagram.

Just get rid of it.

Just put it on your iPad.

That's what I do.

I also, just like Raya, Instagram never would never give me a blue check when they don't think I'm cool enough.

It's fat.

I think it's sizest, Wags.

That's what I sell.

I think it's a big fat.

I think it's a big fat guy thing.

That's what I like to do to at least make it my cause that it's a big fat guy thing.

Putting the blue check mark.

I don't need one.

In fact, I don't want an Instagram, so fuck off.

They were just about to come in with a chat.

On the little silver tray.

Yeah, a little silver tray.

All right, though.

Never mind.

We'll give it to this AI.

I was trying to post a clip from the show.

Well, also, I was going to say this.

I think that

our show was a great way where people were being mean to it.

And then we won people over with the first season, which I think is like, that to me is so

CP.

I'm extremely proud of the show.

I'm extremely proud that people like came in with a low expectation, which was kind of the hope.

Yeah.

A little bit, because I think you're coming out against all these other video game shows.

And people are like, wait, they're making a twisted metal show?

Why?

And then we surprise them and people love it and they're excited for more.

And oh my god, was that your door?

It was not my door.

Okay.

Oh, they were saying, oh, my God.

No,

it wasn't me there.

My clothes don't smell like big.

Mitch's ring camera goes on, and we see a merman sneaking in.

Mitch, I'm a bad one.

Opening all the drawers, taking stuff out, rolling around.

I want to drink off of your clothes.

What does he have, though?

What the hell am I supposed to suck off with the mermaid?

He's got the tail.

I don't know what's going on down there.

See in my mouth for crying out loud.

Get your tongue in between there, man.

What, man?

So, in this scenario, he's breaking into your house, and you're like, all right, what do I suck off here?

You don't owe him that.

That's a good point.

I guess I don't have to suck off the people who break into my house.

It does get him to leave, though.

I'll say that.

You were trying to post a clip, you were saying?

I was trying to post a clip, and then I thought I couldn't post it because of Instagram.

Right.

I thought that I needed the blue, and then it wasn't the case at all.

So I was like, I don't care about it ever.

I don't care about it ever.

But I do like, I knew when people were, I was like, they don't know what the show is and what this guy and all the writing staff has in store for everybody, which I, which you guys did a great job in mixing.

It's that funny thing of like, you know, like, I want the character to be this way.

And it's it's like, well, in a TV show, you have to, you have to have a character that can exist in an environment.

Like, you know what I mean?

You can't have people just driving in cars for 30 minutes or whatever.

And I think that people ended up really liking it.

And I liked to see that turn.

It was great to see people come around.

And I'm glad that people are super stoked for this new season.

I think people will love what we're doing.

I hope.

And the three episodes, the three episodes that are out today are really fun and cool.

And, you know, the tournament is awesome.

And hey, if you wanted people driving in cars for 30 minutes straight, we got some episodes coming your way.

We got a lot more action this year.

I think, like, what's so great about this season is we kind of took what season one was, which was like, okay, here's this great world.

Here are these amazing characters that you love, including these two who are incredible this season.

Um,

like, really, the performances that you guys do this year are unbelievable.

Um, it's really great, and I loved working with both of you this year, likewise.

And uh, I think, like, if you loved season one, if you thought it was really funny, if you really loved the world,

Stephanie gave you a so-so.

If you just loved like how everyone, you know, interacted, you get even more interactions between these two.

We kind of took what worked from this season and just made it look even better.

There's even more action.

Like, I kind of did the math.

We have like, I want to say three times as much action.

I love how it was like, I did the math and then I kind of just like.

balled it.

But it was, we have like three times as much action.

We have more episodes.

We have 12 episodes this season.

And it just feels like we kind of took everything everyone loved and did even more of it.

So, I think it's really something special this year.

So, I'm stoked for everyone to see it.

It's gonna be great.

Um, Stephanie, we didn't, we didn't get to talk to you about the about season one, really, but like, I'm curious because for me, what stresses me out watching the show is the vehicle stuff because I can't imagine like stunt driving or like being in a car that you know, like it's it's uh uh I know sometimes it's like you're behind the wheel and someone else is driving it, but like, like, what is that?

Was there anything particularly memorable for you from any of the in-car uh sequences?

Yeah, Yeah, I mean, there's three sort of iterations of it, right?

There's you driving.

There's you pretending to drive while there's a stunt driver on top of the car in a cage that's been built and they have all the controls of the car.

The pod car, which is terrifying.

I just want to interject.

And then the other one is there's you in a green screen.

Right.

And then the other one is like, you're not even in there at all.

It's your stunt driver.

You're on the side being like,

what are you?

um

but i think the the they all have like their challenges the the the scariest stuff is the pod car i think because

you know up to this point in your adulthood you've been taught to like really deeply pay attention to everything while you're driving right really deeply so like you just get in this like this very like pavlov's dogs is it is this like is that right

pavlovian so you have this like pavlovian response when you're behind the wheel to be safe and yet you know that you're rolling and like you're going really fast doing super dangerous stuff and you have to act like it's your choice to do the dangerous stuff and you have to memorize what you're doing and like make it look like Brill, you know, and I don't know.

There was definitely more stuff in the cars this year.

Oh, yeah.

For sure, for sure.

I mean, for sure.

I like when you asked about Pavlovs, these two chimed, you were right.

Anyways, these two chimed in.

I just looked scared.

You were the dog.

But, but, like, so much of the car stuff,

all the cars are practical.

Like, yeah, all the cars are practical.

I think we have some of the stuff with Grimm on the motorcycle is

CG and Axel is CG, but all the cars moving are practical.

And then explosion stuff we do around it is not.

So we have to be like extremely safe.

And it's like very, being in those cars.

Like I had one of the stunt guys walked.

There's a sequence in one of the episodes where we do a race in the middle of the, in the, like, not in the woods, but like in a, you know, in the, what do you call it?

Like,

where we do the doll race?

It's like the, like a field, essentially.

Yeah, yeah.

And the stunt guys, um, Dave Barrett and Logan

were like, hey, we want to show you the, what the path is that we're going to do this race.

We want to pitch it to you.

And I was like, okay, well, show me.

Like, no, get in the car.

I was like, oh, okay.

And they weren't taking me on stunt cars.

They took me in like the rental car.

So they just like drove me through it and were talking me through it.

And they were driving at 60 miles per hour.

And Logan, who was driving me, is the guy who did the, who broke the world record of number of cannon roles in the fall guy.

Wow.

So he was one of our stunt coordinators with Dave Barrett, who is our

second unit director.

And Logan was driving me through this thing, driving.

Did he get Dave's brother or Dave?

No, no.

Dave, they weren't brothers, but they're friends.

Okay, all right.

They look nothing alike.

Did Dave have a brother that he did have a brother who was one of the drivers.

One of the pod drivers.

Okay, yes.

He was my pod driver.

I mean, so these guys are incredibly talented, but the entire time I'm just like holding on for fucking dear life.

I mean, I definitely shit my parents.

Like, I just, I remember.

I know that this day later, he was like, we took MJI.

He looked a little green.

Yeah, I'm just like, I, and also, like, I had gotten in a car accident in my life.

I had flipped a car.

So, like, I, I, I was definitely like,

you flipped the car.

You were in a car accident where you flipped the car?

Oh, yeah, I flipped the car.

I flipped it.

Yeah.

Not on my car.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

Was this when you were younger?

I was,

yeah, I was.

I was actually out here doing an internship and I was driving on the five connecting to the 101.

Oh, my God.

And I was.

Driving the speed limit.

And I hit some sand and the car spun around.

And

the next thing I know, the car was upside down.

And if I'd gone any faster, I would have gone through the fence and gone into the

into the gully, the what is it, the gully?

I don't know, the uh

river, belly river.

Oh, yeah, yeah, so uh, I took my car

and my like iPod was like swinging, so I had to, I had to unbuckle my seatbelt and let myself down.

I didn't hurt, I didn't break any bones or anything like that.

Like, the worst was that I just got a huge uh glass shard in my hand from like letting myself down upside down.

Cause I had to like

let myself down and then kick the car car door open.

Your origin story for Twisted Metal is this is insane.

I was born in the Twisted Metal.

Also,

I'm interested in what internship you were doing because it's so sad if you were like, I was like delivering for like

American Dad needed like a.

It was even, it was for a production company called Purple Pictures who made the film The Hotty and the Naughty.

Okay.

So it was worth it.

It was worth it.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Wait, is that that's Paris Hilton is in that, right?

Yes.

It's like Paris Hilton and then the naughty has like prosthetic makeup or something.

Okay.

Yeah, yeah.

Oh, and Paris Hilton used to say that's hot, right?

Is that why it was the hotter than the naughty?

And they were very proud.

They're like, we got Paris.

Great.

Well, she's a great artist.

Anyway, but to go back to the question, the car stuff is like

so

crazy.

And the fact that you did way more car stuff than I was in one day of it, it's like really intense.

It's crazy because it's also like

the guts of the car, you're supposed to be able to drive the car from the seat where you're supposed to drive the car and not on top of the car.

Right.

Yeah.

So, like, everything is connected, but you know, it's a little like with a little bit of duct tape and a prayer.

I mean, like, incredible mechanics, but still, like, it's, it's,

these cars are also like, these are the old cars.

I mean, they're not new cars.

They're not built from scratch.

They're actually the old cars that, that, and at this point, they're most of those cars are real vintage cars.

Yeah.

And I think it's a real hats off to our teams that no one got hurt.

Nobody got hurt.

Everything was like, I mean, there was like, everyone was safe.

It was like, uh, but it, it's, it's such a crazy experience because you're going so fast and you're like, you just really have to give over all of your trust because you're going, you know, 50 miles an hour headed toward like a giant wall.

And you know that at the last second, they're going to take a, a really quick, hard right turn.

And like, you got to, you you gotta act like you've made the choice to make the turn, right?

And the camera's like locked onto the car side of the car, so it's right here.

So, if it sees you fake out, like, now you've ruined a take and ruined

the next 20 minutes.

You might notice that I'm scared this entire season because I was, it's, it's the scary.

It checks out for your character, though.

Yeah, that's what I'm gonna say.

Because your character, you know, that character's gonna be like steely and cool.

Like, they've done it before, and Mitch gets to cross his eyes and say, I almost shit my pants.

There's There's times where, I mean, we were going 60 miles per hour and like another car is coming at you.

And

Dave's brother is, what's his, what's Stan?

Stanton was

a professional race car driver.

Yeah, yeah.

Wow.

So he's like, there's a race car driver like controlling your car above you.

And there's other cars coming at you and you're going towards the wall.

And I, I, yeah, I nearly fished my pants.

Fish shit my pants.

I liked when Stanton would drive.

I mean, he's so good.

He's just going.

But also, he would go like a little faster than he was told to.

Always.

It was always like a little faster because for him, it just felt so slow, I think.

That's what I said to him.

I was like, go, like, I was like, go, you're fastest.

And then I regretted it so immediately.

It's scarier than any roller coaster I've ever been.

It was like, it was.

And then also like.

You're like digging into things.

Like there's times when you're like your car is like crashing into stuff.

So it's like you're going back for another take and like you're like the fender is falling off.

There was one thing where there was like a car was just like the car i was in was like shaking and like nearly destroyed yeah yeah yeah but that's why we have multiples of everything and yeah it's cool multiples of the cars which was neat and the guys on top is called is called the pod driver yeah because they literally it's like what they do is they actually put a essentially a go-kart on top of the vehicle and then they rewire it so like they can't control the steering wheel the gas or anything like that it's all in the essentially a pod literally on top so when we have doubles of these cars there's like a roadkill double that has the pod on top And we had another a couple cars that were like that as well.

Knowing that like we're going to do some stunts with some of this one or that one.

Did we have a pod for your?

There was a pod.

There's a pod for yours.

I heard Stanton say, now this is pod driving.

I was thinking that, but I had not like ever look up on your pod drive when it's Sabola.

That's honestly a better.

That's, I mean, I liked yours more.

I guess when it comes to Doughboys, I'm kind of the pod driver.

Keep things moving.

I'm sitting shotgun with you, my man.

Dave, you're wild.

There goes Wager coming down the pod.

Are you being the proops?

Yeah, you're being Greg proofs.

We're talking episode one, Stephanie.

Sorry to be annoying.

No, it's no, it's not.

I think it's extremely good.

Did you have any?

We were in Toronto for a very long time.

Yeah, how long was everyone up there?

Toronto.

They were up there longer.

I think I was there the longest.

I was there from June to Halloween.

Wow.

I arrived in July.

I was there a full month before you guys.

Yeah, I was there July to Halloween.

Do you have any family up there for any of that?

Or like, are you there?

Like, okay, so it's just a whole thing of like trying to figure out how to manage your work is in a different city than where you live.

Yeah, I get it.

My family was, it was great that it was the summer.

So my wife and kid came up for the summer and they were able to stick up with me, which was much.

My family was there.

They came.

Okay.

Two great families.

Yeah.

So two great families.

They are two beautiful families.

But mostly I saw y'all.

Yeah.

Mostly I was with you guys.

My work family.

And our work family on the set, which was really cool.

We had like a little family.

It was like summer camp.

It was great.

It was so fun.

And we ate some good food as well.

There was a lot of good food up there.

That's what I was going to ask about.

Like, I know we've talked about this a little bit, Seven, but like, was there anything particularly memorable from your time up there in Toronto?

I know you're working, uh, you know, like, like constantly, but, like, you know, you have to maybe have some free time for a little bit of a side.

There was so much good stuff, so much good food.

Toronto's an incredible food city.

Uh, Sugo's, remember, Sugo's was so good, Italian.

It was like, you didn't like it.

I didn't go to, I didn't go to Sugo.

You didn't go there.

I had hatred in my eyes just now.

I was like, you didn't like it.

No, no, I would have liked it.

Delicious.

Sugo's is the one you had to wait in line for, right?

Outside.

Yeah, but I didn't have to.

That Encanto pass.

mirabel does have a magic power so front of the line pass

my magic power is brad brad knows everybody like i don't know how he does it but he's friends with everybody your husband is a huge foodie and knows and really knows his stuff he really knows his stuff

made friends with everybody at sugo's would constantly like somehow manage to get us and get us a table.

We went to a Cavs Raptors game together.

We had a ball.

He's a good guy.

You know what I would like to eat?

One of those magical uh uh arepas, right?

Did I say it right?

Ah, you said it right.

Uh, they fix all these powers, yeah, they heal you, candering to me.

No, they look delicious.

That would now be, we've talked in the past, we've been like, What food would you eat from an animated movie?

And it now would be one of your new answer encanto arepa to eat that, and then you've like you know, like would I be like strong?

Like, would I be Jack?

Like, would it fix a lot of stuff?

Arepas

come on.

Arepanobes.

My dad used to make that bust every Christmas.

I loved it.

I truly loved it.

Your dad used to make it.

Yeah, he'd make them every Christmas.

They're like, I mean, my mom would get mad because they're like not like the way my dad would make them, he would fry them, like seriously.

So there's two different ways to make it.

You can pan fry.

You can bake them.

But like most Colombians, I think like in the pan, like

the way she does it in the movie, she's like, you know, flipping it with her hand or whatever.

But my dad would like to fry them in oil because they're for people listening, what and maybe for me a little bit, what does make up an arepa?

Arepas are like it depends on what South American country you're from, and they're all like a they can be a little different, but essentially it's like a corn masa mix made into like a little, almost like a little flat cakelet.

Um, not as flat as a tortilla, more like a little cakey doughy, like like a dough, like a dough boy.

Circular, pat it with your hands, fry it in either oil or butter.

Sometimes they have cheese in them.

Most of the time, they have cheese in them.

If you're like Venezuelan, sometimes you can like make them.

I think some Colombians do it too, where they like put an egg in it and then fry it.

And then the egg cooks while it's being fried, which is my dad's favorite way to make them.

They're delicious.

They're wonderful.

Delicious fries.

Wow.

Salty.

Good.

Yummy, yummy, yummy.

Give me that magic arripa.

I don't know.

There's a weird lump in my palm.

Is there really?

Even doing that palm.

I think it might be a cyst.

Again, ladies.

He's on Rhea.

I got fish clothes and I got a weird lump in my palm.

I'm going to go to the, I'm going to, what's the hand doctor?

The palm could be utilized pretty easily, though, in a sex life.

I mean, if you were smart about it.

My mom.

I'm not going to tell you more.

I'm just going to let you figure it out.

I'm never going to figure that out.

You have a weird lump in your palm every time you're at the urinal.

I'm getting it from left and right or left, mostly just left.

I didn't do shit.

Okay, you guys are fine.

Yeah, I got a weird little,

my mom has,

there's a thing where it forms in your, and then it closes your fingers.

And she's like, oh, you might have that.

Oh, yeah.

And I was like, I hope I don't have fucking that.

These fucking horrible Irish fucking inbred jeans that I have suck.

I'm 100, like I'm 100% Irish.

Everything just goes wrong.

And I got long COVID.

Everything just goes wrong.

And now there's a fucking lump in my palm.

Or my mom was like, I think it might be a ganglin cyst or something like that.

Ganglion cyst.

Ganglin and cist.

And my mom was like, punch it.

She's like, punch the cysts.

I was like, no, I'm not going to punch the fucking cyst.

Liana had one of those when we were shooting.

And

I think she like.

put her hand on the table and had her mom like slamming.

Oh my God.

Yeah.

So she got the same.

Yeah.

And she's.

My mom met Liana.

I wonder if she.

smell a double

Tiana.

Maybe I'll see Tiana in a future episode.

Maybe I'll tell you right now.

It's next week's episode.

Tiana and Sailor are coming.

Doll face and what's the name?

Man.

How did I forget that?

A lot of fun.

I want to hear something about Sugo.

You don't know.

I mean, it is a lot on the phone.

Sugo's delicious.

Italian food, amazing.

Red sauce, incredible.

Didn't have that.

Penne vodka.

It was great.

Delicious.

Famous Dallas.

Where did we go?

That bar that was like, this was less food and more bar.

Oh,

I took Wags there.

Oh, the one that was up above.

It's the people, the same people that do Pineapple Bar.

Yes, and

it was a.

Remember that bar where we went up the stairs?

Yeah, it was like on the second floor in like a market.

Oh, right, right, right, yes.

I can't remember the name of it.

And that was Brad's suggestion.

I love Brad's suggestion.

And we went there after we went to Lee restaurant.

A lot of fun.

Lee is amazing.

Lee was great.

I didn't love Lee.

You didn't love Lee.

You did love it.

Did you have a slaw?

I did have the slaw.

I liked it.

I really liked the sla.

I really liked the dessert, but I didn't like the

mains.

Yeah, like the little

rib stuff.

The short rib.

I liked Lee.

There was a...

Did you guys go to, now I'm just not going to remember any of the places?

Can I get my map out?

Please do.

Wait,

we all went to to Lee together, right?

Emma and Amelia, were you there?

Or Amelia, you had left already.

Yeah, I don't think I went to Lee.

Oh, Mars was with us.

Mars was still with us, yeah.

But I had a lovely time there.

I love that.

I love that.

I think about that a lot.

I went to Lee twice.

Went with

my former assistant, Jorge, who also co-wrote episode one

with me.

Wow.

I took him to Lee because he came out to set.

Yeah.

And then I went to Lee again with Grant and Bill, who directed a bunch of the episodes.

Suser Lee, I believe, is a celebrity chef.

It's his restaurant.

And yeah,

I don't know exactly

what category it is.

I believe it's Chinese.

Yeah, it's Chinese Chinese.

I just gave Jared,

Jared from Ghost Draft.

I don't know if you ever met him.

He was Chris Pratt's trainer.

Great guy.

I just gave him all these recommendations so I could pull up easy.

You called it Ghost Draft.

The final title was Tomorrow War.

Tomorrow War.

That was the original title?

It was Ghost Draft and it became Tomorrow War.

But Fat Pasha I liked quite a bit.

I don't know if you guys have Fat Pasha.

It was great.

You did?

I did not.

I had Gai.

Did you guys have Gayubi?

Because I like Gayubi.

It was a Japanese grill.

That was very good.

I did not go there.

What about Cafe Polo Polonez?

No, I didn't.

That was pierogi's.

It was like.

Oh, wait, I did not.

Oh, wait.

That was good.

I love that place.

The pierogies were delicious.

No, I went to that weird bar that turned into a pierogi place the night that we were up till like five in the morning.

No, that place was horrible.

Horrifying.

Horrible.

Horrifying and horrible together.

Horrible.

Wasn't it called the hub or the hoax or something weird?

There was a guy with a fiddle.

It was not a cool scene.

The guy with the fiddle.

There was a guy with a fiddle.

The devil.

It felt like the devil.

He liked it.

I got to play the pierogi.

Some weird guy was playing the fiddle on stage.

I was having a blast, honestly.

I was nearly at a Dave Matthews concert.

Basically, was.

I was having a great time.

The Ace.

That was like a good day.

No, I didn't have ace was great.

I loved the Ace.

Hell, great diner food.

Sunnyside provisions, good sandwiches.

And this is basically right where I live.

This was where we lived, too.

I loved that area.

I'm going back to Toronto.

Are you really?

Yeah, yeah.

I'm going up there.

Hmm.

I don't know how much spoilers I can say here, but a friend's

a couple good friends' movie got into Tiff.

Oh,

can i can i bleep this yeah uh

and my buddy

and

their the movie i i did a movie it was an ensemble cast but yeah the comedy called

oh that's our day yeah yeah i'm excited that's awesome when is it screening it's uh it's screening at the midnight madness it's doing it's it's like uh so it's like uh i think september 11th it's playing that's so cool great day one of my favorite restaurants i went to was down by niagara so i dragged my entire family down there went to rizzo's house of parm Oh, man.

Oh, my God.

The name of that.

That's Maddie Matheson's, one of his restaurants.

What was his place on the Prime Seafood Palace?

No, the small, like, um,

burger place.

Oh, Maddie's Patties.

Maddie's Patty's was delicious.

I had Maddie's Patties as well.

Loved.

Wow.

And I think I saw you sent pictures of Maddie's Patties, and I needed to get it after I saw the pictures.

Noctua Bakery was delicious.

That was like a very, very,

N-O-H-Tua.

I'm listening.

It is owned by the Hoctuo.

You mentioned places that we, a number of places that we were able to go

the week that we were up there doing our Doughboys episodes.

But

the memorable meal I have, and I don't know if any of y'all got to go there, was with Emma and Amelia and Mars Melnick, who took us to Tenuno, which was.

You can go to Tenuno.

What's Tenuno was great?

And Tanuno was,

you know, I believe it was a Filipino restaurant.

And then you just get like a huge, like they just dump a bunch of like rice, like garlic rice on the table and a whole bunch of seafood on top of that.

So much.

Filipino food, traditional Filipino service.

That sounds so good.

Filipino service.

Incredible.

Incredible.

Incredible.

I know we also really like standing close-ups of you.

It's just you in the background.

Like, Mitch, we just need you in the background just to like walk past.

When, well,

well, you have a job.

I was not really complaining.

Do wait, do you?

Because this is a thing I learned from friend of the show, Zach Cherry, who was talking about, I guess, Anthony Hopkins, because you were just mentioning being in the background.

I know as an actor sometimes.

Pannibal himself.

Yeah.

What's that?

Pannibal himself.

Pannibal himself.

Sometimes as an actor, you are in scenes where you maybe don't have any dialogue, but you're there because your character would be there.

But I guess Anthony Hopkins shorthand is, when he sees a scene with no dialogue, he writes, N-A-R, no acting required.

I love that.

NAR.

Yeah, NAR.

I got to use the NAR method.

I had no idea.

That's pretty spot on.

Unless...

Somehow, some way you're involved.

No acting required.

You're just sitting around in the back.

No one's looking at you.

ABA, always be acting.

Hopkins, you're full of shit.

You need to always be on.

Didn't he do that for

my face?

Maybe it's a Blake Czech story, but for Thor, didn't he just write that through the entire fucking story?

Nasferatua, is that anything?

We had, Mitch, this is,

you've already memory-holed the first episode of the year.

We debuted some new characters.

We're going to do this.

Was Nasferatua one of them?

Nasfer Haktua was one of them.

Nasfor Haktua.

Yeah, Nasfor Hakua.

It was even worse.

Nasfor Haktua.

Did you guys see that movie?

I did not see it, but he didn't like the Nasferatu's hog in the movie.

I think it just could have been more of a choice.

It was kind of like in the middle, you know, and it could have been really big or really small or something, or just really weird.

I agree.

Yeah, just kind of, it's kind of like normal.

Shriveled carrot.

Yeah.

Bigger choice.

I'll have to watch it again and let you know what I think.

I don't remember feeling like it was too small or too big.

I remember feeling...

grossed out,

which I think is the point there.

Yeah.

I didn't, I did.

I haven't seen, I haven't seen it, it but i've been watching uh white lotus i just started watching i'm going to first season i well i just finished the first season all right we got 25 minutes left

i'm watching everything gets resolved and it's really happy

beautiful i started season two and speaking of hanging hog there's some hanging hog in that one i don't know if you've watched uh season two of uh we're kind of we jumping around

i'm home to like every hog anytime there's hog in white lotus,

I mister skinned it.

Yeah, yeah, Stephanie.

I want to bring up the chain that we covered previously with you, which is Homestate, which has become something of a go-to for me.

They have like, like, I, you know, I'd been to Home State before, but I like now it's become more of a regular thing because I just like, especially when I'm trying to eat less meat in general, their plant-based options are really, really

great.

Yeah, they're really great.

And their ingredients are phenomenal.

Just

I'm hungry now.

I'm really glad to hear that.

I'm really glad to hear that.

And we reviewed it with, didn't we?

We reviewed it.

Yeah.

We reviewed it with you, did we not?

Or no?

We did.

Yeah.

It was a golden spoon, I think.

Yeah, yeah.

I think, yeah.

I think

actually not pretty, the golden plate club, but that's right.

Pretty damn good, honestly.

I'm impressed that you even knew any of that because this podcast is very dumb.

For our listeners who maybe didn't hear that episode and aren't familiar with it, it's a home state is a Tex-Mex concept that is in Southern California.

I think it's elsewhere now, too.

But it's really, you know, the tortillas are great.

And I like,

my go-to is just like, they have the Frio tacos,

which is just black beans and cheese, but they're so good.

The Frio is damn good.

Yeah.

Yeah.

The home state's great.

Now one in Atwater Village.

There's a home state over in Atwater Village.

A lot of good foods.

Look at this.

Is it going to get bad?

You know, that's my fear.

I don't think so.

I think that they're, I mean, they're expanding, but

I also feel that they're very strongly, really, really

ingredient forward.

And I think that that's probably going to keep them good for a very, very, very long time, if maybe forever.

I mean, I don't, I don't know.

There's not.

They've been open for a while and they have remained good.

It feels like the quality has remained consistent as they've grown looking at it.

Who else is expanding me after I'm eating the homestay tacos?

Not the way you Stephanie has a way of making me know that I was bad.

Level up your jokes.

Don't.

Come on.

Try harder.

I can't.

This is as good as I get.

No way.

I refuse to believe it.

This might be a point of synergy, perhaps between our two topics.

It is

twisted metal, food.

What do you eat in the car?

Are you someone who eats while you're driving?

Do you like a drive-through?

Because my personal thing is

I don't love driving.

It gives me a lot of anxiety.

I can't eat while I'm driving, but I'm actually kind of like eating in a parked car.

I find that very calming in private.

I love this question.

I love eating in a car.

Yeah.

I miss eating in a moving car.

Really?

I don't do it now.

Right.

Because I don't have a reason to eat in a moving car, but before,

the before times, I would love eating in a moving car.

Is this pre-family based?

Yeah, pre-family.

I mean, like, when we're, if there's any reason for us to, like, my kid does not eat fast food.

Right.

So, like, there's no reason for us to, like, do drive-through.

Is that a choice that you guys made?

No, she, we offer it.

That's all I do.

The the kids like, I don't like McDonald's.

We're like, really?

Have you tried the McDonald's?

She's like, I'm good.

No, thank you.

So it's not, I mean, we, for a long time, we said no.

Fast food.

And then when things got desperate, we were like, we have to stop at McDonald's.

You have to eat something.

Right.

And she tried it for a little bit.

And she's like, I don't like, this isn't real chicken.

So now she's like, straight up, like, no, McDonald's.

In-and-out, we do.

Yes.

And she likes In-N-Out, but the lines are so long that it's like, ugh, this, it's, we don't have the time.

Yeah.

He's going to tell you a long but efficient one because I know you're going to say it's long but efficient.

But I told, it's a commitment.

There are definitely times I have bailed on and in and out because of the drive-through line.

I've also gotten into two fracases in the drive-through line because people have gotten to, I've tried to cut and I've yelled at them and that's been a whole thing.

But in my college, like I've got a Karen video to come out

yelling at some fucking lady who...

White male Karen kills man.

I was like, after, I was like, I got to stop doing this because I'm going to get shot.

But I did yell at some teens.

I really scared scared them.

And then, and they got out of line.

And then I yelled at a dad.

I love that.

I didn't know he had a kid in the car, but like he cut in front of me.

And I was like, I was like, are you cut in line?

And he was like,

you know, I can't remember exactly what the interaction was, but he's like, oh,

I was going to buy your burger.

And he's like, totally full of shit.

He was just cutting.

I was like,

nah, man, you got to go to the back or whatever.

It's all okay.

Anyway, my whole thing is I was like, what kind of example are you setting for your child?

Yes.

Why are you cutting in line?

This is the kind of behavior you want to pass on the next generation.

And now the kid's like, Daddy, are you a coward?

Yeah, good job, Wag.

No, no, no.

I'm on Wag's side here.

But, but I love, like, like when I'd have to go to Culver City, right?

I'd love going to the Wendy's and like, great, I got to get some Wendy's and bring it back.

Or like in college, I used to drive from Syracuse to my hometown in Connecticut, and I would like get burger, I'd get like McDonald's on the way and to stay.

So I did dinosaur barbecue?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I did do dinosaur barbecue.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

But like, that's not a vehicle.

That's not a meal.

I mean, who am I?

Fred Flintstone?

But I love eating in the car when I'd get the chance.

Yeah.

You're like on the highway with like a double cheeseburger.

Hell yeah.

Fries, nuggets.

I'm doing a full meal.

Wow.

I love that shit.

I always do a road sandwich.

Oh, yeah.

I get my meal sandwich for home and I have the road sandwich that I eat on the way to home.

You know, it's interesting when you eat it.

Because you get it.

You get a, you know, throwing a podcast or a book?

Yeah, sure.

I'm enjoying a full, it's like I'm watching.

Just to books.

It's like, it's the equivalent of like watching something while eating, like, or watching TV while eating.

It's like, yeah, yeah.

I'm enjoying the entire.

But the TV is the road.

Right.

I'm usually rocking out on the way home.

We don't talk about Bruno.

We're like,

there's no pillows on these couches because I was looking around for something to throw at you.

Or smother yourself.

Wait.

Who voiced Bruno?

John Lagozamo.

It was John Lagozamo.

I thought so.

Okay.

You're not a food and car person.

You know, I feel like there's just so much of my life where eating in the car was like a shame moment.

You know, like,

I'm sad, so I'm going to go to McDonald's and like

get all these things that I are not going to really make me feel that much better.

And I'm still kind of in that phase.

No, that's fair.

That's fair.

And also, like, it's so,

it gets so messy.

Like, everything gets messy.

And

I would rather go get it and then, like, sit myself down in front of my TV and have my little, like, that is the idea.

You know what I mean?

I'm not, like, seeking it out to be clear.

It's like, it's, it's, if I had the choice, I would bring it home.

I will say, I do love a bag of, like a, like a big-sized bag of Doritos.

And I haven't been, I mean, I've been running around doing some bullshit and I have to eat something.

And I've gotten gas.

And I'm like, let me just get a little bag of Doritos.

What about

Dorito fingers you got going on?

But you put them in the car door, you drive with this hand, and then you reach over and eat with this hand.

Ooh, interesting.

That's a good technique.

Yeah.

That is a good technique.

The thing for a big guy with eating food in the car is like, it just is sad when you find a piece of lettuce like on your car floor or something later.

And anyone who sees the lettuce is going to know like that came from like a Big Mac.

It didn't come from, I wasn't eating a salad on the road.

It came from like a snack wrap or something like that.

Snack wraps are back at McDonald's.

Well, hey, how about that?

I'm going to try it out.

But

I don't like to eat in the car mostly because of that reason.

I don't like to get shredded lettuce all over the floor in my car.

But

I will do like a cheeseburger on the road.

And sometimes I'll even do a McChicken.

Like, you eat more than just a sandwich when you go to McDonald's, right?

Yeah.

Are you, are you, are you, are you not?

What are you talking about?

I mean, I know this.

I know, I know you do.

I don't know.

You've slimmed down.

I can't tell if you.

You've slimmed down.

Shut up.

Everyone looks great.

Everyone looks great.

Everybody looks great.

We're all doing great.

You look like shit.

But do you never do the sandwich that you never do on in the car?

This is the thing.

I like, I'm just, what you were just talking about with Drito's fingers, I don't like having greasy finger, greasy hands.

So, like, I have hand sanitizer in the car, but I'd rather just

finish eating whatever I'm eating and then get back on the road if I have to drive.

I don't like multitasking in that way.

The multitasking stresses me.

Driving makes me anxious too.

Yeah.

And that's the thing that's very terrifying to me.

It's like, I don't want to be in a position where suddenly I'm trying to put a straw in a thing and like there's a car in front of me making dumb choices.

You know what I mean?

Like, you got some pod drivers for the, for, for, for uh, for late night out.

Oh, my gosh.

Yes.

My pod car on the freeway here would be so cakey and delightful.

It's a bus.

It would be, I mean, it's kind of the Waymo experience you have, Wags.

I do like the Waymo.

Do you like the the Waymo?

Yeah, he likes Waymay.

He likes Waymo.

Have you been in one?

No, they freaked me out.

They did freak me out, and then I got in one, and I was like, this is kind of luxurious.

I'm sure it'll get, it'll get shittified at some point.

But right now, it's like a,

it just feels like a nicer version of rideshare.

And there's something about like being in a car.

I'm just laughing.

Yeah.

Thinking of this completely silent ride of you sitting in the Waymo silently as the Waymo is, the Waymo is like weirded out that you're not saying or doing anything.

They start speaking in their robot language.

I do say hi to it and then thank it.

That's the end of the day.

Did you ever read that book, Robo Apocalypse?

No.

No?

I love this book.

Thank you for looking at me too, by the way.

I appreciate it.

Well, I look past you.

Oh, you're looking at us at me.

Yeah, who are you?

Who are you?

No, it's this great book.

It was kind of like...

World War Z-esque.

And it's like, you know, it's about the AI taking over.

And the reason I don't want to get into Waymo is because of that fucking book.

Because I remember there's a moment in the book where there's a guy who's driving a normal car and they look over and they see self-driving cars going past and there are people in the car like, ah!

Because they can't get out of the fucking car because they lock.

Yeah, yeah.

And no one, they won't let them out.

And they just like speed past and then crash into things.

That's horrible.

Because the AI takes over.

Is this a Max Brooks book or something?

No, no.

But it was written in a way like...

World War Z.

Do you know what I mean?

Where it's like people versus robots and stuff like that.

They should make, they should do maximum overdrive.

We reboot so many good movies, and then they should, like, maximum overdrive is not.

I loved maximum overdrive, but why not reboot maximum overdrive?

It's due for

reboot.

Or dual feels like there could be a

dual.

I mean,

they're doing Running Man comes out of this.

And I'm like, that's fun because Running Man is kind of a, it's a B movie.

It's fun.

I haven't actually haven't seen that Gerite Running Man trailers at all, but like,

I'm not intentionally avoiding it.

I just haven't seen it.

But I did, you know, I've, I've, I've seen the Running Man movie, obviously, but like, I read the, this, the Stephen King thing book pretty recently, and it's, it's interesting because it's wildly different than the adaptation.

So I'm curious, so different.

I'm curious what the ad, like, where the adaptation is going to land in terms of the sort of

like the book.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, yeah.

Because the book, because the movie is like, it's like you're in an arena.

Yeah.

Right.

And then the book is more like, oh, you're out in the open world and everyone can like turn around and be like, oh, he's right there.

Kill him.

It's a little more Grand Theft Auto-y.

Yeah.

And it also has like a crazy ending, which I love.

The book's great.

I really like the book.

The book is much more like, you'll read the book and be like, hey, we're not far from this.

Yes, yeah.

So the movie looks fun.

Which, by the way, I will say.

Right next door to our set was a non-union show, Beast Games, was right next door to us on

the twist when we were shooting Twisted Metal.

And I liked that all our union people were like, don't set foot in our fucking set.

They have strict rules.

It's so funny because the people who did, was it, I don't know if it was the props or special effects.

Someone who did, oh no, there's someone, one of the props or special effects teams that worked for us turned down the beast games

guys because they were like, hey, we're beast war.

We're the beast.

I keep wanting to say beast wars, but the beast games guys were like, we want you to make a giant ping.

Was it a flip cup?

Flip cup.

We want to do a giant flip cup thing.

And they're like, fuck you.

we don't want to do that

uh that rules yeah they were those guys were not great uh i also did hear that if mr beast if he comes up to you and you're following him on youtube he gives you like a thousand bucks or something so i did i did follow him on youtube while i was there

i wanted the money i wanted that sweet money i never saw mr beast wow

to meet your hero um

yeah oh no beer pong they were beer pong that's what i was

and they like dropped humans into the beer pong cups or or some shit like that.

So it is

very much like run.

It feels very close.

Very running.

Yeah, sure.

We shot a.

Can I say where we shot?

Is that okay to say it?

We shot at an old Bombardier warehouse.

Why, where they make these planes?

Why?

That's a fun word to say.

Bombardier.

Bombardier.

Bombardier.

Bombardier.

And there was an old Tim Hortons that's now gone.

But there was a Tim Hortons.

I know.

I thought it was functioning when I was waiting in line for a while.

Oh, that's a bummer.

Yeah, they took us.

They took

when I arrived there.

our MDA, our uh line producer, uh, took us on, took me on tour and was like, this is look at all this set.

I'm like, wow, this is great.

We own all this space.

Like, yeah, yeah, we got a fucking Tim Hortons that I run inside and it's like totally hollowed out.

It's empty.

I'm like, oh, this sucks.

Yeah, but look at all the space we have.

I'm like, yeah, but the Tim Hortons is

nicer.

And there is one like two blocks away, but yeah, which is pretty for as far as food goes, there was no, there, like, we were kind of out in the middle of no, that bombardrier.

Yeah, we were really far north in North York.

Yeah, it's a it is a fun word to say.

What was it?

It was an air, it was a it was where they build jets.

Oh, okay.

It's not even like an airline or anything like that.

No, no, no, no, they build them there.

It was so cool.

It was cool.

We taught 70.

We did our, we covered Tim's for our for our live show up there, um, uh, with you.

But, but MJ, I don't know if we've gotten your take on Tim Hortons.

I imagine you had some Tim's while you're up there.

I did have a little bit of Tim's.

Yeah, Tam Bayetts.

What's your overall, like, like, where would you another fun word to say?

Tim Bets is a great word to say.

Tam Bayettes?

Would you?

Where would you, I mean, like, like, like, any overall thoughts?

I mean, I,

would you, where would it land on the fork score scale for you?

I thought it was fine.

I'd say like three and a half.

I was like, perfectly, there was one on the street that I stayed on, and I went in there to feed my child.

Sure.

I was like, here, have some crap.

It was fine.

I, I, I'm not a big, like,

I,

I'm not a big, like.

Sponsored by Tim Morrison.

Yeah, right.

Here, have some crap.

Here, have some crap.

Uh, no, it was perfectly fine.

I'm not like the biggest sweets guy.

So

it's, I wasn't like seeking it out.

Interesting.

Which brings us to today's episode.

We are talking ice cream this month.

I did notice you didn't eat all your ice cream.

I was like, huh.

Yeah.

No, I just,

I thought the donuts were totally fine.

I just tend, it was true.

They're fine.

Should we tell them a conversation?

No, it's fine.

That's nice.

You can if you want.

I mean,

we were talking, I was like, I think we're going to do all ice cream.

And MJ is not a huge ice cream fan, so he's doing us a service by doing it.

I'm not doing anyone any service i'm not saying that sounds fine on top on top of on top of doing doing us a service honestly you're doing me a service by doing an entire month to promote this show

we're gonna go nuts and also there's so many great people on the show

it's gonna be

awesome to highlight our all these like incredible actors and yeah people which is awesome it's gonna be a blast it's gonna be a blast you don't like ice cream like are there any desserts you do like like what is what what were your top tier desserts i mean

or just sweets in general or sweets i mean like i'm never uh the kind kind of person that's like, ooh, they've got brownies.

Like, I'm just not.

I'm not sure.

Like, if I was going to have a sweet, like, I, I, I tend to like, I does sound like an asshole.

There you go.

Brownie.

I'm fascinated by this.

Yeah, I, I, I mean, me too.

No, I mean, like, like, if we, like, look, like, I'm, like, at holidays, I enjoy a pie.

Okay.

You know, like, I enjoy birthday cakes.

Sure.

Brownies are fun, but I'm never like, oh, fuck, we got to get like at Disneyland, I enjoy the treats.

Uh-huh.

But I'm never like, well, it's, I got to have dessert after dinner tonight.

Like, I'm just not that.

I love savory.

I'm more savory than sweets.

Yeah.

But I love a good dessert.

If you put two things in front of me, I would much rather have a pastrami sandwich than an ice cream.

Yeah, sure.

100%.

Yeah, I'm with you on that.

Is this also a thing, though, of like

after dinner?

After dinner pastrami, shammy obviously obviously what were you like when you were a kid did you not really was halloween like not really i mean i mean of course halloween was fine it was great as a kid i would love i mean candy was great but i just as i got older i just started to lose the did your parents let you have yes oh yeah we had like ring dings and shit in the house all the time this is it this is it right here because you had access to it because i didn't have access to that stuff when i was a kid and so it was like

like anytime ice ice cream or sweets were around, it was like, ah.

The only issue is that me and Wags will be,

where the issue is that we had access to it.

We never stopped.

We were eating it all the time.

We were still eating.

I do think that there is that.

I think you're right.

Some people, you get that, you get the, and then they're like, I, I like had soda and stuff when I was younger and I got out of it.

You're not, you don't drink soda either, right?

You're not drinking.

No, I don't soda.

Well, you're better than all of us.

My shit doesn't smell like that.

Not even like diet soda, you won't?

No, I'm totally caffeine-free.

Wait, caffeine-free, no coffee.

No coffee.

Wow.

How long have you been doing this?

I'm almost with him besides so that I drink Coke Zeros.

I don't do, I'm not a coffee drinker.

Well, look at you.

Good for you.

Yeah, I'm not a coffee person.

I can drink it and have drank it.

And I drank decaf for a long time to becaf.

I did that to get the benefits of drinking like coffee, like having coffee bean.

Sure.

But I'm not, I don't drink coffee either.

Oh, my God.

But have you, have you never drinking coffee?

I never had coffee, period.

I was never a big coffee person.

I did do black tea for a little bit, but then I just I had to stop because I'm starting having stomach stuff with the caffeine.

Cause I was on a like multiple soda a day.

So I had to kick that.

that brown dragon off my back.

Yeah.

But because I was doing like multiple cans of Diet Coke a day.

It was like bad.

So I think during the pandemic, I was just like, I have to go cold turkey yeah and i have it was like like my wife was like putting like a damn cloth on my forehead

like i literally it was like withdrawals um but i have not had any caffeine in

god since like 2020.

That's amazing.

Damn.

All right.

What the hell?

What do you do at a movie theater?

What do you do?

I go water.

Wow.

Water

and

popcorn.

I can't.

I don't drink Coke.

That sucks.

I know.

I love it.

Cleansing water.

Even like drinking lemonade, it's like so much sugar that I do that on like rare occasions.

Sure.

Hey, the T-Rex.

I just took a big bite.

Like the T-Rex picked that guy up and ate him.

Here's, I'm going to have a sip of water.

Yeah, but you know what?

That's great.

I'm enjoying the immersive theater experience because that T-Rex is walking around.

My water's rippling, motherfucker.

My favorite drink lately is at Highly Likely in Highland Park, and it's half espresso, half Coca-Cola with cardamom cardamom bitters on it.

Oh my God.

It's the best.

That sounds extra.

I kind of want to try it.

Also, you know what I drink in movie theater?

Fucking beer because McGuffins.

Hell yeah.

And Alamo has move drink beers and cocktails.

Yeah, I don't drink alcohol right now.

Most of the time I don't.

So

I need that brown dragon.

I'll tell you what I'll tell you what I got.

This is my little buddy on my shoulder.

One Adderall for me.

Bing.

I'm fucking off and going, watch.

Fucking aquarium, Juice.

Stephanie, Jenny's got pitched, which we're covering today, from your side.

Like, where does ice cream land in your dessert hierarchy?

Well, it's always going to be cheesecake first for me.

Wow.

What a choice.

It's always a cheesecake first.

However, sometimes that cheesecake will be real bad, you know?

Grocery store cheesecake, not great.

Sarah Lee,

not so high.

I want Cheesecake Factory cheesecake.

Cheesecake Factory Cheesecake.

I love those big, crazy high slices.

Like when they come to the table and they haven't tipped over, over oh delightful i like that you just can get any flavor in the world of cheesecake it's great i like cheesecake fashion exactly how many calories are in it too which is usually like 7 000

helpful in the choice making

um

but i like i there's something childlike about ice cream that i really enjoy um especially the the the ritual of going in and trying all the little samples at the place and you know asking for this sample and asking for that sample and then like really like making your choice about what scoop you're going to get, you know.

So unique to the ice cream parlor experience.

You don't go to a cookie shop and they give you bites of a bunch of different cookies.

It's just ice cream.

No, that's not

those tiny little spoons.

You zoomers have got it.

Can I go off with the zoomers again for a second?

You zoomers got it made.

Back when I was younger, you had to take a guess at the best ice cream flavor.

If you wanted to taste of it, tough shit, you just had to go with your gut-wise.

That's made up.

That's not true.

It's not made up.

That's not true.

I didn't get a little spoon of shit when I was younger.

no not when i was jemmy's getting pissed off she's she's starting to grow a little bit i i i you get on your giant one-wheeled bicycle like what are you talking about

you pull up your spat i always remember there being samples i used to i mean in new england i was not getting i was not getting free samples i wasn't getting free samples friendly used to get them friendly's

friendly's was like a sit-down restaurant yeah that's friendly's brigham's i wasn't getting free samples i like you being at a sit-down restaurant i'd like to try the chocolate what do you this is a restaurant

I'd like to try the burger.

You Zoomers, you got at the ice cream pars, you got little holes in the wall to put your used spoons in.

There's right next door salt and straw.

Wise.

There's so many jokes here.

Are you going to make them or do you want me to?

I put nothing else in those holes in the wall.

These holes of glory to put our spoons in.

I do not, I do not mess with any of the, I don't, I don't mess with the salt and straw holes in the wall wise.

I put the spoons in there.

It's cold in there anyways.

I know I also just went on a rant about how much I do not care for ice cream, but I will say the one thing about ice cream now that is better than then-yes, the amount of difference of flavors.

That's people who experimenting so much more with flavors, and I love ice creams that are like crazy, fun flavors.

But have we gone too far?

Is this a Jurassic Park situation where we've gotten too crazy with our flavors?

I mean, today we even went a little crazy with the flavors.

I was going to say this:

Zoomers, it's great that you can try the flavors.

I think it's a fun part of it.

Salt and Star Next Door, which maybe, which maybe we'll do before the end of Twisted Month though, Wags.

It's next week's episode.

It is nice.

With Tiana and Sailor, it's next week's episode.

We're doing it next week.

It's nice.

And I did put my dick in one of the holes at the salt and straw.

We got kicked out for life.

It's real embarrassing because you have to walk past every time.

I'm just walking by.

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Let's see if it retains its membership today.

By pure coincidence, Mitch, I don't know if you remember this.

I certainly didn't.

On the Jenny's episode, you and I went separately.

We each got three scoops, the exact same three flavors.

We proclaimed ourselves the Taste Buds, which could have been in an alternate universe the name of Doughboys.

Taste Buds.

That's pretty good.

If Taste Buds was the name of this podcast, it would not exist right now.

I wouldn't be on Twisted Metal.

There's like a million things.

You think so?

This guy listened to Twist.

This guy listened.

This guy listened to Dough Boys.

That's how he knows.

That's how you move.

You wouldn't have checked out Taste Buds.

I definitely would not.

Taste Buds.

Who would check out Taste Buds?

I think it's a pretty good title.

It is a good title.

I will say it's a a great title.

Taste Buds is, we would have made seven episodes of Taste Buds and be like, this sucks.

We're not doing this anymore.

Taste Buds would have been.

No, it's not good.

Side of Guys was worse.

Side of Guys was worse.

Side of Guys would have crashed and burned.

Horrible.

Side of Guys did seem like I don't even know what it doesn't seem like a food review podcast.

No.

No.

Side of Guys never comes out.

Yeah, we record a pilot and that's quietly shelved.

Yeah.

But we're dope boys.

But we're dope boys.

500 episodes.

We were just

doing instead on twisted monthal uh another 10 i wasn't

i wasn't sure if i'd be able to be here in time for the communal meal i was thankfully able to get here and have some ice cream with y'all uh in advance but just in case i went on my own uh i i i did a little solo venture over the this past weekend i got toasted s'mores double dough and honey vanilla bean i believe that toasted s'mores mj you also got today

um but uh and then for today's order i get the goose tracks the lemon which i should describe I'll just speed through the flavors and we'll talk about them individually.

Goose tracks, lemon bar, Texas sheetcake, um, MJ,

you got the popcorn brittle, also the goose tracks, the Texas sheet cake, also, and the toasted s'mores, as mentioned.

Stephanie, pink bubblegum, strawberry pretzel pie, and watermelon taffy.

Mitch, double-dough, strawberry pretzel pie, and darkest chocolate.

Part of the reason you settled those three flavors, Mitch, and you weren't the only one, was because your top choices were not available.

It was a debacle this afternoon besides the fish clothes, which we've already talked about.

There was an ice

Your clothes smelled like fish.

Then I closed it.

Smell like fish before I went.

If anyone has any ideas on how to get the smell of fish out of your clothes, please hashtag fish clothes and tell me how to do it because I don't know what to do.

Yeah.

There was also an ice cream debacle.

A lot of flavors.

Amelia very bravely went to the store, to the Jenny's location

to get this annoying order.

That was so brave of me.

It was, well, like you have to get like four or five Sundays or whatever.

You did a great, that's a, it's an, it's a, it was probably an annoying order to get.

It wasn't, except for

after I realized that there weren't a lot of uh, the flavors available.

That time in between getting your new orders, um,

about like

12 to 15 preteens came in, and I had to wait in line behind them.

And the person helping me at first,

her shift ended, and she didn't tell me.

So I was just waiting for her to come back.

Oh my God.

You're a nightmare.

Would you like to amend your thing about Zoomers, Mitch?

Well, wait, am I supposed to like them?

They fucked everything up with them.

Oh, oh, yeah, you're right.

Yeah, fuck those zoomers.

Add on, add on.

Keep going.

Yeah, pile on.

What were all those preteen?

Did you say preteens?

Preteens, I'd say.

Were they like, you hear the new Doughboys episode?

This would have been better if it was called Taste Books.

That sucks.

Sorry, I did not know that.

We were always always not.

So I was looking, I was trying to watch the end of Encanto and be like, oh, fuck.

And immediately I was like, Stephanie's going to be so mad at me.

I'm not finishing this movie.

And then I was looking at what to get.

And then I texted MJ.

You emailed that.

I didn't realize that you emailed them.

And I texted both of you.

I just love that you're watching this movie.

Like, come on, come on.

Like, looking at the clock.

Come on.

I was loving.

How many rooms are they going to go in?

I was getting emotional.

I was looking at the ice cream score.

And then I go upstairs.

I open my laundry.

And I had done a load.

Smells like fish still.

So I put in another four Tide Pods.

Yes.

I put in four Tide Pods.

So

I mean, hopefully, I mean...

Sounds like too many.

It really smells like fish.

I really don't care.

It smells like a loose live fish was in there.

It really does smell like fish.

You must have cleaned up cat food or something with a towel that sat in there or something.

There's got to be some weird connection somewhere with that.

I think it's Merman.

I think Merman did it.

Merman did it.

But so this all goes down, but we all landed on...

But I think both of your orders got grosser because of that.

So I almost feel bad for Jenny's because

you got.

I was excited to try the gross.

I am so too.

I was excited to try watermelon taffy, which is like, that shouldn't be an ice cream flavor.

No.

But science has made it so.

And honestly, not even my least favorite.

of the bunch.

My least favorite was that's right.

Popcorn.

Popcorn grill.

So it was nasty.

When I went to to the

spoil it.

No, when I went to the I went to the Playa Del Rey location, solo, and I taste tested that one because they had it in store.

And I was hoping it would be more of like, look, I'm a little bit of a popcorn skeptic, but you know,

I'm okay with a sweet corn.

I thought it would be more of like a caramel corn or more of a,

what's the word I'm looking at?

Like a kettle corn even, something with some more latent sweetness, but it felt a little bit more like a dare flavor.

It didn't taste like popcorn.

No, yeah.

It tasted, we were talking about this, it tasted like melted butter.

Like it just tasted like the when a butter separates from like a sauce and you just get like a whole mouthful of it, or like when you're eating, um, like when you put melted butter on top of popcorn at the movie theater, but you just like get a handful of that on your hand, you're like, oh, I just got butter.

Like that, it didn't taste like the popcorn that I did.

I had a whole flavor of butter put into like a sweet.

I was expecting it to taste.

I'll just go and get a little cupful in my hand before I go in.

Just take a little sip of the popcorn.

I like straight to the salt and straw hole.

You're lubrication?

Sir, please.

You have to leave me.

I like a buttery.

I don't know if I would like butter-flavored ice cream no matter what.

That is, that to me is.

But butter pecan can taste like a cream.

But you don't think of it tasting as straight butter.

I think I was expecting more of like when you eat a

what are they like a jelly belly that tastes like popcorn.

I was expecting that flavor.

Which is a gross flavor, by the way.

I think that's a good thing.

Oh, totally gross, but I was expecting that kind of gross.

And I agree with the brittle,

I was expecting more of that flavor profile, and I didn't get any of that.

Yeah.

Oh, that's interesting because I did feel like it tasted that jelly, that jelly beanie kind of like

in the science-y sort of way.

In that science-y kind of way.

Yeah, I'm not a fan of the science-y.

I'm not a fan of the science-y.

I mean, a lot of the times we talk about this with like diet sodas.

A lot of the time the science really comes out.

And

with this, too, when it's like a full sugar thing I don't want to taste the science you can get rid of the science the only reason I picked the p the popcorn was because originally my original flavors were high five bar powdered donut

and a chocolate one which i don't remember it was uh it was hot yeah blackout chocolate cake yes yeah blackout chocolate cake and i was like okay these three flavors are almost too good.

I feel like I'm giving Jenny's like a free pass here.

I need to pick something that's going to even this out.

So I picked the gross one.

All three of those were not available.

Popcorn was the only one that was in the store.

I was like, well, I might as well go with the one that's still in the store.

The gross one.

The gross one.

If I had seen what was available, I never would have picked the popcorn to be.

Your original order was so much better.

I would have loved to try that powdered jelly dunk.

Me too.

They do do.

Jenny's does do flavors like that.

They sent us the everything bagel when they did that one.

And that one was.

It was a dare flavor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I don't mind a dare flavor sometimes, but that does does sound weird.

It was a, you know,

a pint is a lot to commit to.

That is a lot to commit to.

Yeah, yeah.

But the, but I like, I had a taste of popcorn brittle, and that was more than enough for me.

Should we start with the other missus?

Because I feel like watermelon taffy was another one that no one was super excited about.

That one was a lot.

Science-y and like very

Halloween candy.

Yeah.

Very like glowing kind of.

And it should be like, it's not, it wasn't even a Sherbert, right?

It was like, it should be more of like a...

Well, it wasn't, to be fair, it wasn't watermelon sherbert.

It was watermelon taffy.

It should in the name.

It should have a little more, it should have, it should be more icy.

It should be like a little, it should have more of a sherberty or icier flavor.

You had taffy?

I know, I know, I know.

Look, you're right.

I'm right about this.

I know it's like gummy and stringy.

Stretchy and stretchy and, you know, saltwater taffy.

Like, it's just like not made.

What is it even made out of taffy?

I have no idea.

Sugar, like boiled sugar, right?

Or something?

Yeah.

I don't love taffy.

Me neither.

Bit of a a taffy skeptic.

I do like taffy.

What do you go with?

I like a plain like saltwater taffy.

Oh, wow.

Like a blueberry taffy.

Like, I really like taffy.

I like a watermelon saltwater taffy.

I really like taffy.

I knew that that watermelon.

taffy was a stretch.

I was like, this is going to be weird, but it was extra weird.

It was so sweet.

It was like laffy taffy made into ice cream.

It wasn't good.

It wasn't good.

I found it repulsive.

I only had one bite, but I didn't care for it.

It's not good.

Repulsive.

Oh, yeah.

It wasn't.

It was not good.

Now on the flip,

that strawberry pretzel pie.

Strawberry pretzel pie, which we didn't realize belonged to Dolly, right?

Well, so when that flavor first came out, Dolly Parton, it was like a special Dolly Parton flavor.

And I waited in line for like an hour and a half.

I was pregnant.

I was like, I got to have this.

And we went to Jenny's, waited in line.

I got like a commemorative poster that I think I had in the baby's room for a while, like above the baby crib.

And then I saw that it came back.

It's so good.

It's so like it's

salty, delicious.

Like there's like pieces of the pie crust in there and they've got like a little salt funk on them.

A little bit of salt and the ice cream is so delicious to me.

Jenny's, if you're listening, send me some of that ice cream.

Other than what I taste tested and did enjoy, but I felt like I got the gist of from having it in store.

So I didn't commit to a full scoop.

But yeah,

it's really fun.

It's tasty.

I love salty and sweet.

I mean, this is a trite thing to say, but it's like my, I love that combo.

It's delightful.

It's like hitting different.

I mean, the reason so many human beings like it is because it's literally hitting different spots on your tongue.

Everything's turning on all at once.

And it's like, whoa.

I think that was maybe the bite of the night, I would say.

It was a bite of the night.

You're kind of salty, but also sweet, Wags.

Oh, what a thing to say.

Yeah.

I mean, it wasn't that nice.

It was kind of half bad, honestly.

Taste buds.

Taste buds.

That was, I also got a scoop of that.

I got darkest chop,

which is an old standby, but I was happy I got it because you guys all tried it.

And I was like, Roz really liked that.

Roz loved it.

Oh, God.

My kid came.

My kid was here.

I love Roz.

Roz and I bonded up in Toronto.

She came into this room and said something very cute, which, Emma, if you.

She looked right at Mitch and went, why do you like spoons so much?

Which is adorable.

And she saw my toy.

It was great.

Mitch, answer the fucking question.

Yeah, that's what she said next.

Mitch, answer the fucking question.

I said, it's the, it's, I said, it's the easiest utensil to use.

And I was correct.

You just spoon it into your mouth.

Uh, I did take a bite of, I took a bite of the chocolate ice cream at one point, and Roz looked sad.

And she went, I wanted that bite.

And I had no idea.

And I felt like I ruined the entire day.

Like,

deal with it.

But Roz loved it.

And had you guys tried the chocolate?

Yeah, I tried it.

It was the darkest chocolate.

Yeah, good.

I like that.

Is it called the dark?

What is it called?

Darkest chocolate.

Darkest chocolate.

Yes.

And

I enjoy it.

I can bring up a description of what exactly.

We talked about this.

Sometimes chocolate ice cream is disgusting.

It's

nothing.

It's like a nothing, light brown, nothing flavor.

Awful.

I like dark chocolates.

Yeah.

I am more of a, their milkier chocolate or whatever it's called or milkiest chocolate.

That's also very good.

As an adult, I've grown to like chocolate ice cream a lot more.

When I was younger, more vanilla like Wags or mint chocolate chip.

And then now just like some sort of variant of chocolate,

which is kind of...

Good chocolate ice cream, though.

Which I try to get.

what I try to get was double dough because Wags were the dough boys.

That's right.

Did you not get double dough?

I did get double dough.

And I thought that it was the gooey, I thought it was the gooeyest butter, whatever.

Gooey butter cake.

Gooey butter cake, which is a great flavor.

Very good.

Yes.

And the double dough was very, very good.

I don't know if you had a bite of it.

I did have a bite of it.

I was telling everyone it was the gooey butter cake, but I was wrong.

What makes a double dough?

It's just like extra.

Yeah, there was, there was.

I have the description right here, and it's chocolate chip cookie dough swirled into a buttery brown sugar custard.

Tastes like cookie dough with a side of cookie dough.

It is a very good flavor that I've had before.

It's very sweet.

It was very sweet.

And the darkest chocolate, the whole menu description says packed with fair trade cocoa and not much else.

So it really is just like a dark chocolate ice cream, but

it's straight ahead and well executed.

Powdered jelly donut.

I'm reading the description right here.

I know.

Vanilla custard, raspberry jelly, and a brown sugar donut crumble.

That some bitch sounds tasty.

It's really good.

I also got a full, I said to Amelia afterwards, like, could you get like an extra extra scoop of that so we can all try it?

And then it just wasn't

in the cards.

It wasn't in the cards.

I also got a, I ordered a Boston cream, uh, Boston cream pie, uh, uh, uh, ice cream, and there was that wasn't there either, which I thought could be, it's my roots.

I thought it could be fun to try that one.

You're kind of a Boston cream guy.

I am kind of a Boston cream guy.

I don't know what you mean by that, but I am.

Ace buds, don't bite.

Those all are

orderable on their website.

Yes.

So we went to one of their locations.

Their scoop shops, which sometimes have different menus.

They rotate things out seasonally, so you can't always one-to-one game plan what's going to be there.

Did the one you went to, was the menu more or less similar to today's or was it like

I didn't see the full menu for where we ordered from today, but it felt like there was a good amount of overlap, perhaps with a couple of variants.

But yeah, I mean, like mostly what was available there was what we were able to select from today.

They did have the honey vanilla bean was one flavor I got, which was like, I'm a big vanilla advocate.

Vanilla is a flavor.

And

yeah.

It's not plain.

It's a flavor.

It's an exotic bean.

But this one has just like a little bit of honey to it, which during the LA protests, when everyone's protesting, Ice Wags had vanilla as a flavor.

Vanilla is

next to abolish ice signs, just one vanilla is a flavor sign.

Sure, your protest is across the street.

I also have the goose tracks.

Oh, I got that too.

Fragrant and lush blackberry and raspberry ice cream with a clash of bittersweet chocolate chips.

Our collab flavor with goose.

Does anyone know what goose is?

That's what I want to know.

I guess what is goose?

I should say.

Yeah, what is goose?

What is goose?

What is goose?

Emma, you are an Amelia are on it.

All right, Emma's just typing goose into Google AI.

Goose tracks,

it just has flavor.

It just

maybe search goose company.

I have no idea.

It's a goose.

It's a band.

Oh, it's a band.

I was wondering why this flavor rock.

Just kidding.

I did not care for it.

It's a little, it was a little messy.

I thought it wasn't good.

I thought it was like really tart.

Yeah.

I mean, like, I just kind of.

It's not a really bad band.

I like the mix-ins, but, but

I thought that was nice from a textural standpoint, But I did think the core, sometimes the danger with a sort of berry

ice cream is it tasted a little bit medicine-y.

And that's kind of what I was getting from it.

Yeah, I agree.

But I did really like my dairy-free flavors, which I got, which was lemon bar, punchy lemon curd, shortbread crust, and rich coconut cream, and Texas Cheat Cake, decadent chocolate cake, crumbles, bittersweet fudge, and palate gripping cocoa.

That one would have tricked me.

I would have thought it had dairy in it.

Mitch, you thought it was a little too coconutty for you.

The lemon bar.

Yeehaw, me nah for me i loved it i loved the texas cheetcake i thought it was delightful i agree i did not realize that was dairy-free yeah and and the lemon bar i i thought well had some of the some of the shortbread crust did taste a little play-dohy but not even in an unpleasant way i i thought those were those were both hits for me um i didn't try any of your ice creams i realized now i didn't get to i didn't get to try well you had the texas sheet cake off of mj i did i did try the texas sheetcake just a little too coconut you could and the goose tracks did you try i did have the i did have the goose tracks and i thought the goose tracks was just okay just okay yeah the texture she cake i thought was i actually liked more than the darkest chocolate which i also got i thought it was i liked the variety of flavor within it yeah and i did not realize it was dairy free which the df should have given it away for me yeah yeah uh but uh i thought it was just really tasty i didn't really get the coconutty flavor of it i wouldn't have known I thought the DF meant a dookie-free.

So you were disappointed.

You want that in every fight?

Yeah, you want that in every.

You can eat that in every fight.

She gave me the look again that

I sucked.

Sometimes on set, sometimes on set, I would do it during the take.

I'd be like,

it's making you better, Mitch.

Yeah.

There is.

You're going to do it like that.

There is a thing where,

I mean,

big mistake, I hung out with Mackie the night before and I got two hours of sleep.

And there was a, and this, I was very, uh, I was very, I had plenty of rest most of the shoot, by the way.

Uh, I was, I was getting eight hours of sleep most nights.

Um, I know which day we didn't use a lot of your takes.

A day where I was doing, I was really going all out and saying like, I work, like, I was doing things about working out.

That was a very funny day.

And I, I, I, I felt you staring at me for a lot of those takes.

Uh, uh, I deserve it a lot of the time.

I bomb.

I think that was the day.

I think that was the day where the network was like, Stephanie's reactions are so funny.

When was what, what, when?

That's when we were, we were in the truck.

In the truck.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Oh, you were struggling.

Struggling.

I knew once it clicked, you would know what was happening.

It was a funny day.

That was so fun.

That was a good day.

That's why I really, I don't,

and

I learned this from multiple older actors, but they're like, I don't drink when I'm working.

I never, ever, ever, ever do, really.

That's that one.

It was truly the, I think, the only night that we were filming that I had some day.

I'd say a very important day.

It was.

Honestly, huge day for me.

Such a bad day to do it.

I go at home.

I had about four hours to sleep, and I spent two of those drunkenly rehearsing, walking.

But in the end,

we got it, right?

It comes together great.

It's a much shorter scene now.

You were staring into my soul.

Definitely crushed it.

You were great too.

To be clear, you're great.

It was that annoying thing that I like, then Mackie did do like a monologue that I was like,

I don't think he slept at all.

He did like a great monologue after.

He turns it on, man.

Anthony turns it on.

He's incredibly gifted that way.

As are you.

And

I said this in season one, but such a great actor and so nice to everyone in the cast and crew and just a true leader.

And

I think that a set is as good as

the main stars of the show.

And I think that you lead by example

and you're so awesome.

That is the truth.

It was so fun to be around all of you guys.

Likewise.

And I think every single person who shot, everyone who was new this year felt the same exact way.

That's the truth.

And MJ, same for you.

You're a genius.

And I was going to say that to the end.

It is the truth.

That's very fun.

And you wrote such a good show, and I think people are very excited.

They're going to be a very excited to see it.

It was a dream.

Anyways, it was like a fever dream.

It was a dream.

After Goose Tracks, which I kept.

Wait, is it Goose Track?

I keep wanting to call it Goose Steps.

I keep wanting to call it George.

Because of this fucking world we're in.

Oh, yeah.

The biggest goose of them all, a Commander and Goose.

Squawk, squawk.

Thank you for not staring me down.

Commander and Goose made me laugh.

He wishes he looked like a goose.

Yeah, I don't know.

And part of me, it's like, maybe it's because of the, I mean, I feel like you guys picked better flavors.

I don't even know if we can take your vote.

What do you mean?

You don't like ice cream that much.

I can still enjoy what I'm eating.

Wait, what did you think of the toasted s'mores?

Oh, I liked that.

I liked it.

I thought that was good.

I did like it.

I kind of was like, should this be a chocolate base?

Because I kind of feel like the chocolate was a little bit understated from what I know of for as being a s'more.

I still liked it, but I just like in terms of delivering on the promise of the premise.

I agree.

I feel like I've had better of that flavor because it's like

when I think of a toasted s'more, I'm like, I want to feel more of the marshmallow.

I want to feel more of the cracker.

I want to feel more of the chocolate.

I liked it for what it was.

It was very yummy.

There was a little science going on in that, but not too.

I mean, watermelon taffy blinded my taste buds with science.

It was like so bad.

You were like,

but the s'mores, there's like a little, there's a little something in there that makes it taste like s'morey.

I felt like that, that was, that, that felt

with ironically a subtle, more subtle flavor than I was expecting.

Yeah, I kind of wish it was like a, uh, what if it was like a chocolate marshmallow ice cream swirl?

Yeah.

Right.

Like a mix of the two.

You know what I mean?

That would be better, I think.

I still like, I still liked it.

And I will say the three flavors, the Triforce I got when I went on my own, toasted s'mores, double Dough, Honey Vanilla Bean.

Toasted S'mores was the worst of flavors, and I still really liked it.

Double dough is a home run.

Honey, vanilla bean was delightful.

And I also got

it a waffle cone, which was great.

A little bit of, it was a hot day, a little bit of hand drip, which is not ideal.

Yeah.

Don't you?

It's not getting on my hand.

You're fine with it just getting on there?

No, I don't like it.

Yeah, no, me neither.

No, I don't, but it was, so that was a little bit of an obstacle, but despite that, I still really enjoyed it.

Licking your fucking thumb.

They do make those waffle cones fresh there every day.

They've got a little batter thing, and they pour them out and they sweep them.

I will say it was a nice touch that all of ours had a little waffle piece on top.

I liked having a little bite of that.

I thought it was tasty.

Classy.

I'll tell you one thing I did not like.

Your bubblegum ice cream.

The flavor is not bad, but there need to be little pieces of bubblegum

or candy, like little pieces of bubblegum candy that you chewed and it disappears.

Yeah, that's what, that's, that's that old school, when you were a kid, the hard pieces of bubblegum that you would like break your teeth on and then chew, chew, chew, chew, chew, chew.

And then they'd be hard and weird.

But like, wouldn't you just be eating bubblegum?

You kind of are.

But you kind of are, but you're eating ice cream sometimes.

Sometimes it feels like bubble balls in like the SpongeBob or the Sonic.

We're always like dumb bombs.

Well, that's fine.

We're talking like true bubblegum ice cream.

Yes, yeah.

With the little bubblegum chips in there, which felt like you were getting a two-for-one because you're like having ice cream, but also having candy.

I mean, and the flavor is, this, it was like a piece of like pink bubblegum.

It tasted just like that, but bubblegum ice cream tastes different.

It tastes like kind of fruitier and not exactly.

This was like, this is like bubblegum in ice cream form.

Yeah, that was not, it was science, it was not as good.

I didn't care for it, but I also just don't like the flavor of bubblegum in general.

So, like, I, you know, this was just wasn't going to be for me.

Like, that, like, even the Basket Robbins version, Execution of I was like never into.

Really?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I'm in agreement there.

I'm not a big bubblegum flavor fan.

yeah did you know we talked we talked we talked about this at a certain point you're like i don't know you

uh major league chew the gum uh-huh that that's like chewing tobacco

like the major smokers yeah big league chew big league chew thank you thank you for the correction

big league chew

was co-invented by a young todd field who would go on to direct the movie tar that's really yeah very like before he was an actor before he was in you know uh eyes wide shut and then went on to direct In the Bedroom.

And what's his, what's his third, his middle film?

I can't pull the title right now.

Yeah, In the Bathroom.

And then while he's in the bathroom, he's making tar.

It's a trilogy.

Yeah, he was, he was, I was like, what, what a ridiculous.

Like, that's crazy.

Isn't that crazy that a life could encompass both directing tar and inventing Major League Chu?

She should have put a big lip of

Major League Chu in at the end, tar.

At the end of the movie.

You're a big tar head.

You love tar.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

Great movie.

She shouldn't have got canceled.

Lydia Tarr, the fictional character?

Yeah, Lydia Tarr shouldn't have got tail.

She should do nothing wrong.

Are there any flavors we haven't covered?

No.

We hit everything.

I have to ask this before we get to our final thoughts because we are covering ice cream this whole month as part of Twisted Month.

Oh, of course, an ice cream truck featuring so prominently in the series.

Yes, he is.

Kind of the first thing you'd think of Wages and I went with.

That's what we're doing for the full month.

Well, what else do you do like?

Pretzel month, you know, because it's like, I think ice cream is twisted, right?

That's really clever, actually.

Well, guess what, MJ?

We're doing it for a double.

Yeah.

Are you really?

I mean, we were like, twisted double.

We've been thinking of like twisted doubles.

Yeah, like people who died from eating.

Like, we don't know what to do,

but we are going to, we're going to figure it out.

We're going to figure it out.

Doughboys operates on a principle of first pitch in the room.

Can't get better than this.

Which the clerk is going to be the, is going to be the first guest on the double.

How fun is that?

That's great.

He's great.

So the,

but since we are covering ice cream, I really like Jenny's, but what has surpassed it in terms of like, I want to go and get ice cream right now, I want a sweet treat for myself, not for content, just because this is what I'm craving.

Now I go to Handles.

Handles has become my number one.

I'm curious.

MJ, I know

you're a skeptic in general.

So maybe I'd like to.

I'm going to share the ice cream place that we go to.

Yeah, before we go.

But you can

others can go first.

Have you had handles?

I have not had handles.

Wow.

I'd be really curious your take.

What is it?

Where is it?

What makes it so great?

There is one not too far from Hedcom Studios.

Okay.

But it is like, it has both the Jenny's side of, you know, like

fancier, elevated flavors, but it also you can just get like straight ahead, like like vanilla, mint chip, strawberry, like just like the classic flavors.

It's all at a very high level of execution.

It doesn't have the feel of like a gentrified parlor that you go to like a salt and straw and it's like, you know, it's a little fancier.

It's a little bit more expensive.

It feels like a classic sort of working-class ice cream of the people.

It feels almost like a soda fountain ice cream shop.

It feels a little frozen in time in a good way.

I love it.

And also, they have a version of the Blizzard called The Hurricane that is so much better than a Dairy Queen Blizzard.

It blows my fucking eyes.

I mean, I love a Dairy Queen Blizzard.

Yeah,

you would love, you guys would love handles.

Where's your coke?

Love handles.

That's funny.

Oh, that is funny.

It's right near the Vista Theater.

yeah right across right across from home there you go dinner and dessert and it's you can't go in there it's just a counter and usually you know like a not a crazy line and i'm gonna try it it's great i went to the i went to the culver one and a woman was walking out and she just said this is the best ice cream like just to me just to a stranger

oh that's community yeah a lot of fun i like this lady who

like her too

Rhea, Raya.

Elle Fanning.

Which's girlfriend is 70.

I was in Gelson's one time and I saw

this is way back in the day,

La Pu Bell, which I don't go to anymore.

It's been a canceled bar.

That's the truth.

They wrote in support of Danny Masterson, the La Pubelle did as an establishment.

So I don't go into La Pubelle anymore.

But

I saw the La Pubelle waitress at Gelson's and I'm waving at the La Pu Bell,

like the waitress slash, she works at the bar.

I'm just waving at her.

I'm like, she's not waving back at me.

That's weird.

And I go into my car and I'm like, is that, was that the La Pubelle waitress?

And then I Google and it was Elle Fanning.

And so some big fat guy is just looking at her going,

not responding to me.

I'm just waving at her.

And I'm like, I was like, hmm.

And then realized, yeah, it was El Fanning.

That's amazing.

Yeah.

Yep.

She seemed nice.

I mean, I think she maybe thought I was waving at someone else.

She didn't wave back ever, which is the right move.

She has no idea who I am, but

I felt like a true fool, Wax.

Handles is great.

Jenny's is also great.

Where does it land on the fork scale?

MJ, Stephanie, you both done in the podcast before.

We will each go around, give our closing arguments on this chain and give it a score from zero to five spoons perhaps for ice cream

wait hold on a second this is twisted month a while yes

so zero to five spoons well

i don't know next week we bitch win

next week we might be ranking it out of out of uh something different out of something different we ranked it out of ice cream trucks yeah i remember but i was gonna like let remember the chronological release and let that happen organically when it does but if if you want to retcon it to, we're doing ice cream trucks, we can do that.

We could do something from

the like axle wheels or

quiet missing fingers.

No, not missing fingers.

Damn it.

You mean support of me?

I give it

nothing out of nothing.

I can't see the number.

You're missing.

Quiet hatchets or

stew headbands.

We could do anything we want.

I know your blasted headband.

My great headband is.

One of my favorite costume pieces for you.

I love the headband.

Well, you'll like this.

The headband, of course, is too small for my head.

Yeah, sure.

And the wardrobe people are like stretching it out like on a pumpkin, basically.

They're like, I was like, I don't know.

I was like, you're on a TV show.

You can ask for a headband that fits you, bro.

Like, go over there and ask them.

No, I don't want to be.

And you know, I told you.

You were, this is what I'm saying.

You're a leader.

You were telling me what to do.

The top half of my head was blue, basically.

And then, uh, I knew you would get it.

I said, no, the small one's better.

I even told Liz, I was like, his headband's too tight.

She was like, it is.

I was like, yeah, his headband's too tight.

Can you guys make it bigger for him?

She's like, and they did make it, they made it better because they were also like, we're trying to get you a new headband.

Like, there physically, like, is not a bigger headband that can fit your head.

We got you a belt from a karate gi.

If you stretch this out enough, fit around your big fucking melon.

Use some of the the old Bombardier equipment to stretch it.

We put it around the top of a Sparklets cooler to stretch it out.

We got a jet seat belt.

Hit it red.

Anyways, I ended up wearing a red hula hoop on my head for the rest of the show.

You can't even tell.

You can't tell.

You can sometimes hear the beans as I'm moving around.

It doesn't help that you constantly do this.

So I was saying, I wanted to see if our guests had anything a fun thing to, because we're getting close.

We have an out here, Wags.

Yeah, I know.

So, so I like the headbands.

Let's do it.

Stew headbands.

Do you have fives, too?

Headbands.

How about that?

I love it.

MJ, we'll start with you.

Your thoughts, your fork score on Jenny's.

Do you not want to go first?

We can have.

Let's have you go first.

All right, Stephanie, do you want to set a baseline?

Let's see here.

I get to ruin it.

Or I can go first too, if that's helpful.

Okay.

So, no, I'll go.

Okay, great.

Great.

You got it?

I will.

Jenny's is catering to, I think,

families first and foremost.

It is a place where you can go and sit down with your kids and have some ice cream.

So I think in that way, their sciencey flavors are hitting because those are flavors that Roz was like

gobbling them up.

For me, personally,

when they do it well, they really, really do it well.

Like that strawberry pretzel pie, phenomenal, phenomenal, phenomenal.

The double dough.

Yes.

Delicious.

The

darkest chocolate.

Yep.

Yeah.

Delightful.

Truly.

I mean, if I had three scoops of those in a bowl with one of those triangular waffle crisps next to it, I'd be a very happy lady.

So I'm going to go ahead and give it four and a half, four and a quarter.

Can I do a quarter?

Yeah,

four and a quarter headbands.

Wow.

That's a big score.

Because I do think it is really, really delicious when it hits.

And if I went there with my kids, she wouldn't be like, oh, all they have is bramble band crisps.

I wanted bubblegum.

You know what I mean?

Right, right.

Yeah.

MJ, your thoughts, your

headband score.

Variety of flavors, it should get some headbands for.

Yeah.

That there were enough flavors for everyone to get something that they liked.

I thought that the flavors that

I liked the most, I thought were solid, but weren't like blown away by.

Like, I liked the toasted s'mores.

But I wasn't like, whoa, this is the best version of this.

Texas sheet cake, I thought was really good.

Yeah.

But obviously, I'm just not going to count the popcorn one because that I got to bring down the points.

So I will not, because if I was there on my own, I would not get that.

So I don't think it's fair to like score that one.

I thought the other one, I think the strawberry, if I was going to go by myself and get one flavor, I would have picked the pretzel one.

And that was a home run.

That one was the best bite I had.

So I feel like overall, I would give it for four headbands.

Wow.

Wow.

Very good score.

What do we think, Superman?

Wages,

call me Forrest Gump because I love Janice.

What'd you think of that one?

What'd you think?

I did like it.

Think of that scene where they're running across the

at the Washington Mall.

Yes.

Oh, yeah.

I love that scene so much.

It's a beautiful forest.

And then they run and they hug, and all the hippies like scream.

I love that scene.

I, I, I, I, a lot, there's been a lot of people based on Robin Wright and Tom Hanks's performance.

Yes, I give you the laugh.

Thank you.

Thank you.

I appreciate that.

You didn't have to give me that whole side of it, but I do.

And also, it was horrible.

Thank you for pretending, all of you for pretending to like it and like me in general.

You can make that joke next to me if you want.

Thank you.

I wanted to hold your hand there because I

thank thank you.

There's a lot of things you can do with ice cream.

Oh, no.

You can scoop it.

You can, that's got it.

Ice cream sandwich, ice cream sundae, ice cream scoop, two scoops, three scoops, root beer float.

I do love Jenny's.

Yeah.

I think that it's I love handles for what it is.

And what Jenny's is trying to do, I think that they are very good at.

I think they have misses a lot of the time.

Sure.

I do wish that they maybe had some more like regular flavors, but that's not what they're trying to do there.

And I don't, even though it is a fancy ice cream place, for whatever reason, it doesn't.

Salt and straw used to bother me more.

I felt Salt and Straw was more pretentious at one point.

Yeah.

Jenny's has never bothered me with their, it hasn't felt pretentious in there.

It's like, it's very well lit.

I do like a darker ice cream spot.

I mean, I like darker.

I like to go in and sneak my food.

But it does feel very clean in there.

I think what they're doing is good.

Wages and the dark, the darkest chocolate is good as hell.

All the flavors that I like,

I not only like them, I love them.

And so

I got to go

what it took to make my actual headband, five full headbands.

It's only like a five.

I love Jenny's.

Jenny's to me, like, it's, for me, it's, it's

that was a good one.

You want her back?

Thank God.

Handles and Jenny's are like my two faves.

And I, and I've come around on salt and straw.

Look, all of these places, if you're doing it the right way at them, I think are good.

And, and, and the gooey buttercake, which we didn't even have, is so good.

That's their best flavor.

It's really good.

I'm surprised we didn't get it.

I almost got it, but I got double dough instead because it was a, it was a limited-time flavor.

But the ones that they do well, they really do well.

They try some weird ones that don't work, but overall, it's a five-head banner for me, Wages.

It was five headbands, Mitch, for both of us last time we reviewed it.

And I really still like Jenny's quite a bit.

Gooey buttercake I brought up cream cheese ice cream layered with crumbles of vanilla cake and a swirl of caramel butterscotch sauce.

It is a home run.

It is a delight.

I think they're better.

I'm pretty sure did I do that Jenny's joke on the last episode?

There's probably a lot of people.

Yes.

You say it on next week's episode.

Oh, I did.

Yes, you do.

Is that why I say it on next week's episode?

Mitch, here's what happened: you say it on next week's episode.

I knew you were going to have it in your head.

So I say on next week's episode, if you like that joke, Mitch said it on last week's episode, predicting that you would do exactly what you did.

Fucking brainiac over here remembers everything.

I see the statistics.

Oh, wait, that's leader.

Oh, man, that's so good.

Good call, Augs.

You were right.

I loved it.

I liked it both times.

It's a good joke.

It's a good joke.

I forget stuff.

I forget stuff all the time, including lines, as you know.

But I'm like Luther up there with Ultraman, A1, B7,

D11.

Anthony Carrion, great in the new Superman.

He is great.

He's a great Superman.

I thought it was so fun.

He was great.

I think Jenny's best flavors are fantastic.

I do really like it as a concept.

I think the only reason my fork score, or sorry, my headband score is going to duck down a little beyond where it was last time is because now, just for me, handles is the bar.

And I just don't like Jenny's at its highest heights quite as much as I like handles.

They can't live side by side, but you can't.

They can coexist.

They can peacefully coexist.

But if I'm going to rank them, I would put handles as a five spooner.

And as far as our headbands for today, four and a half for Jenny's, which means Jenny's, it remains in the Golden Plate Club.

How about that?

As an addendum,

you can order Jenny's to be delivered nationwide.

Oh, yes, it does.

Yes, it's true.

So, that is huge.

That's huge.

Because if you live in a town where your ice cream flavors are, it's slim pickings, but you want to experience this, you can experience it.

You can have it delivered to you, which is there was nothing like that when I was a kid.

100%.

That was unheard of.

And

they're heavy hitters.

You can get to, like, it's mostly their heavy hitters that you can get delivered to you.

Pretty cool.

What is a twisted?

It made the twisted.

We don't have to.

We don't have to do this forever.

Fuck.

In the golden plate.

It made the twisted treat club.

How's that?

Sure.

Perfect.

Hey, let's do a segment.

We've got for Twisted Monthal a slop quiz, twisted trivia that Amelia compiled.

Mitch 70MJ, we asked, twisted-related trivia.

And to make it even even more twisted, each question comes with a chance to earn a bonus point.

What a twisted element.

It's so sick.

This is about the root of it about the show pack.

It's not about the show.

It's about stuff that is twisted.

He's just going to destroy us.

No, this is not deep lore about the twisted metal cannon.

This is about stuff that is twisted and food-related for the most part.

First up.

And buzzing with your name.

And

first up, this malt-based beverage debuted in 2001 and is produced by a company based in Massachusetts.

What is it?

Mitch.

2001?

Yeah.

Malt-based beverage debuted in Massachusetts.

This malt-based beverage debuted in 2001 and is produced by a company based in Massachusetts.

Did you want to repeat the question?

I was so, but I mean, I'm just wrong.

So I got scared

and I wanted to back out.

Got it.

So you're not answering?

Okay.

Does someone else want to buzz in?

Malt-based beverage.

In Massachusetts?

2001.

And you said the year was 2001.

Malt-based.

And it's a beverage.

Beverage.

Massachusetts.

I should know this, shouldn't I?

I don't know.

Not necessarily.

I didn't know this was from Massachusetts.

MJ.

Yeah, go for it.

Frible?

It's not Fribble.

What the fuck is Fribble?

Fribble's a friendly shake.

Let me give a little bit of guidance here.

Malt-based does not necessarily refer to the malt dessert.

Malt is a different context.

It's like a beer or something, probably.

Oh.

I still don't know.

I was just going to wrap up by malt liquor, the etymology of that.

I'm not sure what makes it malt, but.

Do you have a guess?

No.

2001.

The malt-based beverage from Massachusetts.

Joke.

Mitch.

Twisted tea.

Mitch, it is twisted tea.

You get a point.

Does it have the word twisted in it?

It does have twisted in it.

Amelia, can you keep score over there?

Mitch has a point.

Bonus point.

Can you guess its slogan?

Anyone?

Mitch.

Yeah.

Keep it twisted.

Mitch, you get a bonus point.

Wow.

No, I knew it.

Next up.

Which popular vodka brand released a line called Twisted with flavors like green apple and orange?

Mitch.

Yes.

Absolute.

Not absolute.

Stephanie.

Go for it.

Smirnoff.

It is Smirnoff.

You get a point.

Stephanie's on the board.

Bonus.

Can you name any other flavors?

Uh-huh.

What were they?

You said the ones that are cited here are green apple and orange.

So I guess any other flavor.

I know on.

Are you buzzing in?

Okay.

I heard Stephanie.

You got a cherry?

Cherry is correct among their myriad flavors.

Mitch Raspberry.

No, you don't get it.

No, you don't get it.

She already got it.

It was just for fun.

Was it raspberry?

With raspberry one of them, raspberry one of them?

Raspberry is one of them.

Fuck.

MJ, you want to try one?

Ice.

Ice is not on.

Fuck.

Fuck ice.

Fuck ice.

Fuck ice.

Fuck ice.

Next question.

In July 2000, the soda company released a limited edition flavor twist, a lemon lime version of the original.

2000 twist version.

Yes.

Wait.

Okay.

Sprite.

It is not sprite.

Fuck.

A lemon lime version of a soda released in 2000, July of 2000.

I think I know what it is, and I fucked up.

I went too early.

Yeah.

Well,

Anyone else?

MJ, is it just Coke?

It's not Coke.

Stephanie, is it Mountain Dew?

It's not Mountain Dew.

It is, I actually remember this one: Pepsi Twist.

Oh,

yeah.

Bonus points.

Can anyone?

This was started in 2000.

Can you guess the year it was disconchin-chewed?

Julie wrote that in the copy.

Mitch.

Yeah.

2001.

No, not 2001.

Lasted longer than that.

Quick life.

MJ.

Yeah.

2003.

Nope.

70, 2002.

No, it was 2006.

I can't believe it hung out for that long.

People love it.

How the fuck were we supposed to know that?

Well into W second time.

All right, next up.

True or false, Wendy's periodically offers a pretzel bacon cheeseburger on their menu composed of a beef patty, bacon, munster cheese, beer cheese, and a soft pretzel button.

Oh, this is just a true or false question.

Mitch.

True.

Yeah, it's true.

Yeah.

I didn't know that.

I thought it was hard.

I think we had the Brettzel Bacon cheese.

This was an unfair question.

You don't have to even give me a point for that.

Let's see if I can get the best.

Okay, let's see if anyone can get the bonus point.

Bonus question: What year was it last on the menu?

Mitch.

2024.

Yeah, because it was, it was in

Toronto, wasn't it?

I thought it was in Toronto.

I'm sorry, MJ.

Bonus point.

Shit.

I don't know the answer.

I just like saying it's

you can guess it.

You're just used to yelling.

2003.

No, it was

later than that.

Later than 2000.

Oh, no.

Sorry.

I'm in 2023.

I'll give it to you, 2023, because I think that's what you meant.

Yeah.

All right.

Where I'm on the board.

You got Mitch is three, Stephanie two, MJ1.

Yeah.

Next up.

I'm being a year wrong.

Name a twisted pasta shape that looks like a spiral.

Anyone can buzz in.

Mitch.

You can go because I don't know.

Fusilli?

Fusilli is correct.

Fusilli, Jerry.

Oh, I love it.

Classic Seinfeld.

Bonus points.

Name a second one.

Anyone can buzz in.

Fuck.

What is the one I'm thinking of?

I don't know.

Mitch.

No, it's not.

It's not it.

Tortellini.

It's not Tortelli.

Not Tortellini.

Fuck.

Oh, what the fuck is it called?

I'm so pissed off.

I say

I only know two of these.

Two others I've never heard of.

Amelia, have you heard of all of these?

Not all of them, but some.

Okay.

Wait, which one's that?

I can see it in my mind.

I just don't know the name of it.

I know the first three that I listed.

You know, the third one, Mitch.

I've never heard of that.

She's Italian.

I know.

Noodle.

Can we give him noodle?

No.

What?

No.

No, Okay.

The other option, MJJ, you want to wait your guess?

The other ones are Rotini.

Rotini.

Jamelli, which I don't know Jamelli.

I just looked it up.

I think you'd know it if you saw it.

Okay, I don't know by name.

Tritole and Cavatapi.

I do know Cavatapi.

I'm going to have to make Demi some Jamelli.

What's the score?

That's cute.

That's cute.

What's the score?

MJ1, Stephanie 3, Mitch 3, but I'm including the true or false one.

Yeah, I'd still want to take it.

Yes, I keep just placing it.

Okay, great.

We have one more and a possible tiebreaker.

Next one, from Russia with Buzz, Monkey Wrench, and Jerry's Jubilee are all flavors from this company's Two Twisted series.

Wait, what?

From Russia with Buzz, Monkey Wrench, and Jerry's Jubilee are all flavors from this company's.

Ben and Jerry's?

It is Ben and Jerry's, I'm doing the point.

Bonus question.

As part of the Two Twisted series, this cookie dough and brownie hybrid went on to be a staple flavor of Ben and Jerry's.

I know it.

Sorry.

No?

I kind of want to go into sudden death.

Did you know it?

No.

Oh, you know it.

Do I know it?

You know the answer to this one.

I don't think I know the answer to it.

I don't want to read the question.

As part of the two twisted series, this cookie dough and brownie hybrid went on to be a staple of Ben and Jerry's.

I will do it if no one knows it.

Do it.

Yeah, do it.

Half-baked.

Mitch it is correct.

And I believe that means you win.

Wow.

Slop quiz, twisted trivia.

Thank you.

I wanted it too much and got embarrassed at the end.

Well, if we take away that true, false, we could do the tiebreaker.

All right, let's do the tiebreaker.

The tiebreaker is.

The true or false shouldn't count.

The tiebreaker is about twisted metal.

The first twisted metal video game was developed for PlayStation by Sony Interactive Studios America and single track in what year?

This is a tough one to pick the specific year.

I'm going to guess.

I have a guess, and I was going to be wrong.

Mitch?

Oh, do you want to guess?

You can guess first.

You want me to guess first?

1994?

No, it's not 94.

Damn it.

Well, you're, you know, I mean, this is this is the PlayStation 1 era.

You're right in there.

I know the answer.

I know you know the answer.

I'm trying to get you to tell me the answer with your eyeballs.

90.

What'd you guess?

I guess 94.

I think it's 95.

It is 95, which means Stephanie wins.

There you go.

Can't say that true false line.

Just like a restaurant by your feedback.

Let's look at your feedback.

So, Mitch, this was the thing for this month.

You said we should get twisted questions.

And I said that was a bad idea.

That's right.

And I was right.

Yes.

Because most of the questions were utterly depraved.

I did not pick one of those.

No.

But I did pick one that actually, I think, is

listeners are gross.

I'm like,

can you give us one?

I can pull.

Or like, I didn't want to put it in your head.

What was one of them?

No, I mean, I said this before the show, but I did Stavros' podcast, and I was like afraid on the podcast.

I said pussy, and I was afraid even, I was like, pussy, and I was afraid to say it.

And our listeners are fucking disgusting.

It doesn't matter what you.

I'm not doing something on that show grosser than what our listeners email.

Yeah, they're fucking disgusting.

Why do I care at all?

I'm not, I shouldn't be afraid of this stuff.

Here's a question we're not like, again, I'm vindicated by this.

I said, we shouldn't do this.

But you're like, let's try it.

We're not answering this question.

Adam writes, would you rather be fucked by a horse and no one know or not be fucked by a horse and everyone thinks you were?

I think this is a great question.

Thanks, Adam.

I saw that come in, and I literally was like, we maybe shouldn't do this.

Wait, wait, wait.

Can you repeat the question?

We're not going to answer this.

This is great.

Would you rather be fucked by a horse and no one know or not be fucked by a horse and everyone thinks you were?

Oh, that's funny.

I mean, it's pretty straightforward for me.

But we're not answering this one.

Today's actual email, the one we got.

We're not going to answer it?

No, we're not going to answer it.

The twisted email we got that actually is quite good.

Can I take a combo of both?

I get fucked by a horse and everyone knows it.

You just want the Mr.

Hands outcome?

Today's email is from Jay Enright.

Jay writes, hello, Dofam.

I was wondering about your process when acting in or adapting a project based on a video game that didn't necessarily have a ton of lore to draw from do you lean more on the writing to flesh out the characters do you have the freedom to sort of make the characters your own uh thanks been listening ever since your appearance on uh how did this get made back in the day wow that's nice

um

you guys can handle this way more than me i mean i yeah i mean that's like that's that's kind of the challenge of adapting twisted metal which i think people like it think of as so iconic and and and you know know so much about uh like

or have some general ideas about, but maybe like the lore is not as deeply entrenched into even people who really like the game.

So it's like it's it's it's both a challenge, but also like kind of like a benefit, right?

Cause you get to have some fun with it.

Oh, totally.

I mean,

you do a great job.

You and the writers did a great job with that in the series for real.

First of all, we have an amazing group of writers, many of which you know and are friends with.

And I think like for me, coming at adapting something like this, we are totally freed that we do not have to stick to like

a story that people are expecting, which is great.

I think like what I really wanted to adapt is the feeling of playing the game.

I love the game.

Yeah.

I grew up playing the game.

So I really wanted to capture like how fucking fun it is to play that game, how like irreverent it is and how fun it is to like play with your friends and get that like one missile off at the last moment and blow up your friend and drive through the car.

Like it's just such a fucking fun game.

And just wanted to capture that feeling in everything, not just the action, but with the comedy, with the moments.

And then

ultimately, like, when you're playing that game, it starts with you picking a character, you, and you are playing that character all the way through, and like you kind of learn about that character and their backstory, and like what they're wishing for.

And because everyone has a wish, you ultimately, they all have a drive, they have a reason for why they like want to win.

And like, even though, and in the in our show, you have to care about every character, you have to care about Quiet and Stu, I guess.

And

I think like that's super important in our show to like care about every single character, even the bad guys, to like really want to love them and understand them.

And I think there's an amazing moment in the show with

where you're just like, oh my God, I can't believe I'm rooting for these guys.

And I'm like, but I want John and Quiet to win.

Like, what is going to why?

Like, you're torn there.

And I think that's what's so great about the show is there's so much heart in our show because you care about everyone, despite the fact that they're all going to blow each other up and you never know like how far these characters are going to go.

And because it's a tournament, they're not all going to survive.

So I think it's really tricky to adapt that.

And I think ultimately the end goal of our show at the end of the day is we just want you guys to have fun watching it.

It's like a really fun show.

And I think that's what, at least for my part, is to adapt that, like to adapt just the fun and make you laugh, make you love these characters, make you maybe tear up at an unexpected thing.

Last season, you teared up at a a car blowing up.

This season, we're gonna get you with a different thing, I hope.

So, I think that's ultimately what I'm trying to do.

You wouldn't like write a character dying just because the actor maybe had fishy-smelling clothes,

right?

Main reason to write someone off a series, I would think.

No, you know, what's great is that we're not done with posts just yet, so

but yeah, I don't know.

I hope that answers my part of it, but I don't know about you guys.

Sorry, you guys.

I can't, I can't.

I'll let you answer last because you'll have a better answer than me.

I, I, I came when I, when I auditioned for this show,

I did a tape first with Mookie.

I read with Mookie and then Mookie Bets?

No.

Incredible.

You swing a bat.

Swinging his bat as he was reading the lines to me.

No, it was Mookie Blakelock,

who our good buddy, and then Wise.

And then when I did the callback, it was in your hotel room in Nashville.

That's what it was.

I got texts from Alexis Lauder, who I worked on Tomorrow War with.

and she said, congrats.

And I was like, what are you talking about?

And I didn't know that I had the part, but I then found out that I was the only one reading for Stu, which I didn't know, which was very exciting.

Which, by the way, secretly, I wrote the part for you.

Like, I

imagined someone like you to be.

Even the writers from you could ask Sean Distant.

Like, I very much was like always imagining someone like you.

Because honestly, quite frankly, because of listening to this podcast, you're such an everyman, which is great.

And you're an underdog.

And that's what I wanted Stu to be.

That's very kind.

Because I very much imagined Stu and Mike to be in season one uh rest in peace to be like the rosenkrans and gildenstern of the world yeah so anyway taj who's great i love taj we're hopefully gonna get tajing at some point um but uh he he lives in he's in alabama i love taj uh great guy we've had a great lot of fun on season one with taj um i uh i looked at the character online and i and it was and then you did tell me like you i want you to be yourself basically is what you said but i did research mike and stew and i was watching like their stories.

I don't know if you watched the Twisted Metal endings.

I watched a bunch of endings, and I was trying to like, and Stu is just kind of a dumb man.

And so I was like, okay.

And so then I was done with my research.

I was like, okay, I'm done.

I did it.

Okay, Amelia.

I went narr on the roll.

That is true.

But no, we were just watching the, we're like, oh my God, he's brilliant.

No, I had a blast.

And then I was so excited when I saw that you were in the show.

And then when I went and I did, it wasn't till New Orleans in my first Wardrobe fitting that I saw, you know, like Samoa Joe on the wall and stuff like that.

And like all these people that were involved with it.

And it was, it was, it was great.

But I, but I, I did some research in it, but you, you, you wrote it in a way that felt like me and it was easy to do.

And I had such a blast playing the character for two seasons.

And I mean, I know when you were younger, you also played the games.

Of course.

Yeah.

I knew the games pretty well.

So that was like, I mean, and it's always a dream to be a video game.

I mean, for me, it is.

It rules.

Yeah.

But Stephanie, you, I'm sure you did.

And yours isn't Quiet is original, right?

Yeah.

Yeah.

She's original.

So I wasn't burdened with any of the sort of like, well, it has to be like the game feeling because it wasn't, that character's not in the game.

She serves as like a,

I don't know, um.

a foil for John and another version of John having a similar experience.

I go think first season, I was like, John's like the Hamlet, and quiets like the Ophelia.

And I was like, what am I talking about?

I'm talking about Chase Maria now.

What am I doing?

But like, similarly, they have very similar journeys, I think.

Which, by the way, in the first season, there's two full episodes of you just acting without speaking, which I think you do such a great job with.

I just enjoy.

I loved it.

It was some of my most favorite stuff because I was like, well, first of all, all, I was really nervous in the very beginning because I didn't know Anthony.

I just knew him that he was this big star.

You know, he's gone to Juilliard.

He's worked with all these people.

He's like, you know, handpicked to be in these very like iconic films and have these roles and stuff.

So I was like really nervous to work with him.

And so it was a huge.

load off of me that I didn't have any lines to memorize.

So I was just like reacting off people.

But I did research the game.

I never played the game.

I sat around and watched people play the games.

But it is really what MJ said.

I think that, and that second season, especially, I really feel captures the energy of like dicking around with your friends, you know?

And like, I think the first season captures it too.

But because we had the chance, I mean, the thing, the hard thing about television is like, you need time to grow it.

You really do need time to grow it.

And like,

it's such a fast-paced environment and world that, like, we are consuming media so quickly and wanting everything now, now, now, now, now.

And, like, the problem with that is that, like, if you don't get a second season to like allow your cast to like continue to get to know each other, even just like the vibe that we had on some of the episodes where we all got to be together, those tournament episodes where we're all around each other.

It was so fun to connect with everybody and be like a real ensemble together on set and like and see these characters really brought to life.

I mean, like, iconic characters characters that are are in the games that are look exactly like they do in the games or like a almost like a better version of themselves brought to life by these really really really funny actors i mean

i think richard is a good example of like oh yeah i mean what he brings to that character to to grim is so weird and funny and cool and scary and like a little bit sexy and like just like very i just very

yeah i'm just like really excited for people to see it.

And there was more money, so like things look better.

Like, there's a lot of sexy cast members.

Everyone look, everyone's looking good, funny as hell.

And also, that bonding thing you were talking about doesn't happen on a ton of shows.

And that's a testament to with you guys casting it.

But it was also the way it was written.

We were all allowed to be, I mean, in the space together, bouncing off of each other, witnessing each other's work.

And so, like, that also in turn,

you know, because comedians are fucking fucking weird.

Like we'll watch each other's work and be like, that's fucking funny.

I need to be funnier in this next scene.

Y'all push each other.

We push each other.

We push each other in a great way, right?

Like not in a yucky competitive way in this way that we're like trying to one-up each other and make each other bust up during scenes.

I remember shooting with Patty Guggenheim and Lisa Gilroy and like all of us kind of.

coordinating and collaborating and trying new stuff and like trying to push each other and make things funnier and try to make each other break.

And

it just like, yeah, I don't know.

I don't think I answered the question, but I hope you guys don't.

I don't think I did very much, though.

No, but I, but I'd love to also throw out to you, like, you have a really hard job because a lot of these characters are from the game.

So it's very easy to be like, okay, well, we're pulling this from this character.

Like, Stu is like very much like these, like Mike and Stu from the game and Stu this season are like, okay, well, they have a pre-established like character a little bit, right?

Like, we're dumb guys.

We're dumb party guys.

Well, that's the joke is that they're very much like, well, we just are dumb and we're kind of roped up into this.

And that's why I love the everyman vibe and the underdog of like, oh my God, they're here.

And I think Quiet is such a tough character because it's like, okay, they're new and mayhem this season as well.

It's like, they're new.

So how do we bring this new character in and make them feel like they're always meant to be here?

And I think you did such a great job this last season and this season, especially of

everyone feels like you fit right in, which is awesome.

Like we always talked about when you see the cast of characters, we wanted to feel like I am choosing my character in a video game.

Right.

And you always want to feel, and the way we designed your costume, Liz, and with minor thoughts from me, but very much like wanting to feel like you want to, you want to feel like you're choosing them.

Yeah, you're at it.

You want to feel like you're like clicking through.

And like,

in that way, I will say, like, the being.

knowing that this is a world that like comes from the game, right?

And like when I think about the things that I've done or like the games that I've played where

things feel real and that's that I feel like includes like goofy nerdy stuff that I that like my friends and I did when we were in high school it's like like D and D stuff or like role play or like

there's an element of like

standing and doing like when you know the camera's like on a wide shot of everybody like you can just feel like everybody's doing that right like everybody know understands the assignment to use one of those kid phrases, right?

Like everybody knows that they're supposed to kind of like lean into that a little bit.

And like there's some of the, that's sort of like the fun and the kitchen of it,

right?

Yeah, it was a blast.

I mean, it was, it was such a fun season.

And I think people are going to go crazy over it.

I hope they do.

It's on.

Right now.

It's on right now.

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Congratulations.

I would just say, like, as someone with no involvement in the show, outside of my friend is in it, and I have other friends who work on it.

It's, I've, I really went into season one with no expectations, and, and I, I, I, I just really loved it.

I thought it was so funny and, and so compelling.

Um, and you're both so great in it.

And uh, I'm very, very excited about season two.

Thank you.

Which I, which I, you know, again, like, I'm I was watching it to support my friend.

What a delight that it actually is a great show.

So people should check it out if they haven't seen it, seen it over on Peacock.

Because you've seen me in a lot of dog shit.

Let's be real.

That's true.

The Doughboys podcast.

Anything else you want to say about the show?

It's a ton of fun.

We're really proud of it.

I'm really proud of it.

We all really worked very hard to make it as much fun as possible.

And I think, you know, three episodes are out right now.

We're going to do two a week throughout the month of August and three at the end.

It's 12 episodes.

What else is there to say?

I don't know.

I love it.

I like that it's, we've got a whole month of,

just like Doughboys-wise, there's a whole month of 12 episodes.

I think literally the episodes come out every time you put out a new episode, so you'll be constantly reminded.

Perfect synergy.

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