Big Mama's & Papa's Pizzeria with Zach Cherry

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Speaker 5 I'd be safe and warm if I was in LA, California Dreamin' on such a winter's day.

Speaker 5 Released in December 1965, California Dreamin' was the biggest hit of vocal quartet The Mamas and the Papas, consisting of married couple John and Michelle Phillips, male vocal lead Denny Doherty, and breakout contralto Cass Elliott, better known as Mama Cass, a nickname from which she later tried to distance herself.

Speaker 5 Debuting contemporaneously with the folk rock schism depicted in James Mangold's recent biopic A Complete Unknown, the Foresome embraced both genres and recorded a slew of enduring hits, accumulating six top ten singles before Infighting ended their tenure after just three years.

Speaker 5 Michelle Phillips and Denny Doherty had an affair, and after its exposure, Doherty and the cuckholded John Phillips collaborated to write a song about it.

Speaker 3 Weird.

Speaker 5 The illicit liaison was exacerbated by Cass Elliott's crush on Doherty. Cass allegedly told Paramour Michelle in response, quote, I don't get it.
You could have any man you want.

Speaker 5 Why would you take mine?

Speaker 5 Subsequently, John Phillips was cucked again, this time by Birds member Gene Clark, which almost makes you wonder if he was maybe into it.

Speaker 5 This led to Michelle's replacement in the group, though they'd quickly reconcile and reform the Corps IV.

Speaker 5 But after Cass Elliott had a breakout hit with her solo Mamas and the Papas song, Dream a Little Dream of Me, she formally departed the group to launch her own career.

Speaker 5 Sadly, that was cut short by her death from heart failure.

Speaker 5 an incident falsely attributed to asphyxiation on a ham sandwich, a cruel fabrication based on her body type that persists as an urban legend 40 years after her passing.

Speaker 5 But despite all the drama and the tragedy, the band's catalog continued to receive heavy airplay over the decades, and in 1997, the Mamas and the Papas were nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the very same year that brothers Aro and Alan Agacanyon opened a Los Angeles-based pizza parlor with an almost identical name, though they claim no direct inspiration.

Speaker 5 The pizzeria would become a favorite of Angelino's, famed for its record-setting gigantic pies and receiving an estimated $10 million in free advertising when host Ellen DeGeneres distributed its slices to celebrities during the 2014 Oscars.

Speaker 5 Today, with 17 locations in LA County and growing, like its near-namesake Hall of Fame vocal ensemble, the Armenian-Italian-American joint has become inextricably linked with the city and state.

Speaker 5 And at a time when natural disaster has devastated L.A.

Speaker 5 neighborhoods across class lines, a tragedy exacerbated by private sector greed and public sector incompetence, we're all California dreaming on such a winter's day of a better future, or maybe just the comfort of a nice slice of pizza.

Speaker 5 This week on Dough Boys, Big Mamas and Papa's Pizzeria.

Speaker 5 Welcome to Dough Boys, Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host,

Speaker 5 Doze Ferachu,

Speaker 5 the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell.

Speaker 3 Does Ferat Chu or Dozferat 2?

Speaker 5 Does Ferat Chu.

Speaker 3 It was Chu? It was Chu.

Speaker 5 Doze Ferat Chu.

Speaker 3 I think you said Doze Ferrat 2.

Speaker 5 No, I didn't. Did I?

Speaker 3 I plussed it up. Does Ferrat Chu.

Speaker 5 Chew. Does Ferat Chu.

Speaker 3 Does Ferrat Chu. You didn't plus it up.
I read what was in the roast.

Speaker 3 I plussed it up. Does Ferrat Chu.

Speaker 5 I'll show it to our guests. It says it's right there.
Does Ferat Chu.

Speaker 6 I see Doze Feratu.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 5 If you don't like that, how about Ghost for Apu?

Speaker 5 Love you guys. And shout out to my friend Matt for introducing me to the pod.
Hope you guys have a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 I thought that was a Simpsons reference. I thought he was saying, like, I like

Speaker 3 that's my favorite character. Oh, yeah, same.
Ghost for Apu.

Speaker 3 I was like, is that what they were trying to say?

Speaker 5 Oh, no, it was, I think it's Ghost for Apu.

Speaker 6 You have such Simpsons brain, you're unable to read

Speaker 3 anything on it.

Speaker 3 You know what? You know who my favorite character is? Who's that? Homer.

Speaker 5 What are you being all high and mighty about that?

Speaker 5 You're taking an ethical stance.

Speaker 3 Homer. Homer's my favorite.

Speaker 5 I actually like Bart Simpson, but two each his own.

Speaker 3 Homer and Bart together. We've talked about that.
Yeah, great duo. It's a great duo.

Speaker 5 Dumb guy and his dumb kid. It's funny.

Speaker 6 I'm a fan of Lisa, of course.

Speaker 3 Oh, my. Here we go.

Speaker 3 That's the writer's love of Lisa.

Speaker 3 What were you going to say? We were going to say something about Doz Ferratu.

Speaker 6 I was going to ask, was it Doe's like takes snaps, or is it Doe, like Dough Boys?

Speaker 5 It's spelled out as D-O-U-G-H-S. So Doe's like the Dough Boys.

Speaker 3 I think we just plussed up this fucking roast again.

Speaker 5 Furra and then Farah, F-E-R-A, like Feral, but without the L. And then Chew is written out as C-H-R-O-L-E-L-O-L-E-E-E-C-R.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 I like

Speaker 3 it. I haven't seen Nosferatu yet, but I saw Brutalist yesterday.
I haven't haven't seen Nosferatu yet. I haven't seen Nosferatu.
I didn't see Brutalist yesterday. I saw it Wednesday.
Okay.

Speaker 3 As of this recording. Oh, yes.
It took one Brutalist viewing for L.A. to be in an apocalypse, basically, in the city.

Speaker 3 One runtime of Brutalist. I came out of the theater and L.A.
was

Speaker 3 the L.A. itself was on fire.

Speaker 5 So

Speaker 5 for some context, this is our first record of 2025. We have released some episodes that we record in 2024.
This is the first one we're actually recording in the new year.

Speaker 5 We are going to talk about the apocalyptic fires, which are happening right now as of this recording. We'll talk about those with our guest.
We're in a this is fine.

Speaker 5 We're in a this is fine sort of situation, much like the famous meme.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Mike, if you could make us like that meme for a second, that would be pretty cool. Maybe we can do that.
I could take care of that. All right, perfect.

Speaker 3 I guess we maybe just stand still for a second.

Speaker 5 Well, it's like the thing is, it's like one, it's just the dog. So maybe it should just be you.

Speaker 3 Okay, the dog. This is fine.
Okay, good. That's probably pretty good.

Speaker 5 A bad. Do you want to actually do our guest? Do you want to do an alt just in case we want to use you and sure?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I should say this is fine. Yeah,

Speaker 3 this is fine.

Speaker 6 This is fine.

Speaker 3 That's pretty good. Pretty good

Speaker 3 as a pro. Fuck.

Speaker 3 Am I going to now, I have to watch, this is like watching like a TV show and seeing the guy who got a role I auditioned for?

Speaker 3 Am I going to look at the video and it's going to be Zach is going to be the one that gets the treatment?

Speaker 5 We'll see the final. We'll let the director choose who he wants to use.

Speaker 5 We have options. So, you know, whatever alt he wants to pull.

Speaker 3 It would be fun to make us dog-like if you do it. I mean, whatever.
You can do whatever you want. It's been a very, it's been a very tense.

Speaker 5 If you do that, then Jemmy should be a person.

Speaker 3 Absolutely. Absolutely.

Speaker 3 Can you make me die? He's now covering his head because he has, we just gave him so much work to do in a week where he may have to abandon his home.

Speaker 3 But a very tense week here, Wages. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Just for audio listeners,

Speaker 5 our supervised video producer, Casey Donahue, is not here today. Mike Dorkman, our video editor, is over there.
I run the video feed

Speaker 5 along with Emma and Amelia, who are in studio.

Speaker 3 We get a full house today. We do.
We do.

Speaker 3 I think it will be a cathartic day. I think a very nerve-wracking

Speaker 3 couple days.

Speaker 5 And we have a lot to say. I don't want to talk forever before we get to our guests.
So I think we should just like, if we have one thing we want to say, we each can say one thing.

Speaker 5 And maybe yours was the this is fine thing. If that, if that's what you want to go.

Speaker 3 That's what I get.

Speaker 3 Well, no if you have something else that's fine but you can also say like maybe i'll start with like i'm sorry to everyone who's lost their homes instead of me doing a meme i i i i my my thing that i will say is that yeah our heart goes out to everyone who has lost their homes friends 100 friends and their family our

Speaker 5 family of our friends we know we know people i feel like everyone in la knows someone who has lost everything it's funny people who have guested on the show have lost their homes it's very

Speaker 3 tragic a lot of our listeners are dealing with that as well and it's uh it's funny and we're here to support in any way that we can uh i guess today is by making an unfunny podcast is the way we're supporting.

Speaker 3 Yeah, right. We will we'll do anything that we can to help people here.
It's it sucks. It's bad.

Speaker 5 We'll offer like, you know, we can offer assistance to people by linking you to the discount code you can use for a free Uber ride.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 5 I think it's Wildfire 25 or whatever.

Speaker 3 Also, if you buy one bird fuck sticker, you get the second one free. I think we're going to talk about Kin Shu.
We'll run that. If we get shot there out.

Speaker 3 no,

Speaker 3 it's horrible, and we want to try to bring some maleview to it, but it is bad.

Speaker 3 Can I give you some credit real quick?

Speaker 5 Yeah, usually, because we weren't sure if we were going to do this record. And part of why we're doing this record is because our guest is in town and we'd scheduled it anyway.

Speaker 5 We decided why the fuck not.

Speaker 5 But I was kind of like, I don't know. It feels weird to get in the studio, have everyone come in studio or whatever.
Headgum shut down.

Speaker 5 Big surprise there.

Speaker 5 No change from normal operations. No one's at headgum.

Speaker 5 But anyway, I was like,

Speaker 3 I was like. I told the Oba hungster

Speaker 3 they're volunteer firefighters

Speaker 3 just ripping their shirts off.

Speaker 5 Anyway, the

Speaker 3 firefighters thought I was a volunteer firefighter, but I was just wearing my CPAP mask as I walked off.

Speaker 3 What's going on up here? Are you coming in to help? No, no, what's happening? I woke up from my, it's noon and I just woke up.

Speaker 5 The, the, um,

Speaker 5 we were like, ah, should we, should we record? It feels weird right now. And then you were basically, you were just like, hey, Starbucks is open.
And I was just sort of like, yeah, you know what?

Speaker 5 Like,

Speaker 5 it's the same thing we experienced during the pandemic. People who have like actual jobs that actually contribute something to the economy are like still going to work.
You were fucking McDonald's.

Speaker 5 You aren't like, your boss isn't like, hey,

Speaker 5 take whatever time you need. It's fine.
We'll be here, you know, whenever you're ready. Like, there's none of that.
It's just like you have to go back and go to your fucking job. So

Speaker 5 as a food podcast, we're just sort of like, hey, the restaurant we're reviewing is open today.

Speaker 3 so i guess we could it's fine for us to record there's a bunch of people in there working and uh that's that that to me wages when when uh when i was home i told you this i on the weekend i had ordered uh oh becca in the the dose cord was my uh my secret santa and i ordered her cat coasters yeah and i was like button cat butt coasters yes they're so they got cat butt it's like cats showing their buttholes and i was like those are cute i want them i got back here on saturday i ordered them for myself.

Speaker 3 All of the world starts falling apart. And I was like, I need to cancel these cat butt coasters.
I can't have someone deliver me cat butt coasters during, you know, the city being on fire. Right.

Speaker 3 I could not cancel them. They came on, I believe on Thursday.
And I was like, because like by Tuesday or Wednesday, I was trying to be like, I need to cancel this.

Speaker 5 This is coming out like maybe a week or two after the fact. So like, but this is in

Speaker 5 context for for where the week was, like Tuesday, we started to get an inkling that something was going amiss. Wednesday and Thursday, the whole city's up in flames.

Speaker 3 Yes. And so, and so I was like, I can't have this guy be delivering cat butt coasters and Vaseline, which is a weird comma, but it was for my, it was for my CPAP.
Right.

Speaker 3 It wasn't for anything nefarious.

Speaker 3 And I.

Speaker 5 So what, are you like a volunteer firefighter?

Speaker 3 Or what do you need this for?

Speaker 3 In a way, kind of.

Speaker 3 And so I said to the guy, I was like, hey, man, I'm so sorry. I was trying to cancel this order.
This is true. I was like, I went out.
When he came.

Speaker 3 Luckily, I just caught him and I was like, I try to cancel this order. This is embarrassing.

Speaker 3 And he's like, oh, it's fine, man. It's just smoky outside.
He was very, he was very like up on it.

Speaker 3 He was like, but he's like, but he's like, the only fucked up thing is like, they're trying to make us still deliver up into the fucking hills. And that's so fucked up and so horrible.

Speaker 5 Into mandatory evacuation.

Speaker 3 Into evacuation zones. And I'm like, that's so fucking fucked up.
And I was, so thank you to every, you know, delivery driver, mail person,

Speaker 3 news anchor,

Speaker 3 reporter who, reporters who were there on the scene, every, every, and firefighters, of course, too, and first responders. That's a, that's where my head's at.

Speaker 3 But every person who, who's, uh, who's doing their nine to five throughout all this, too, is, is who I want to thank. That's well said, Mitch.
Yeah. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Yeah. It's, it's been, it's, it's one of those things where it's like

Speaker 5 you kind of,

Speaker 5 it's nice.

Speaker 5 The nice thing about living in a city with other people going through the same things is like there's just that sense of community.

Speaker 5 And so like you'll, you know, I was getting a, every fucking transaction feels absurd right now. I was getting a breakfast burrito, I was like, this is an insane thing to be doing.

Speaker 3 Well, thank you. The fast food worker, people exactly, because people still need to eat.

Speaker 5 No, but I was, I was like, like, eating a breakfast burrito, and just like everyone there is like talking about to and just strangers are talking to each other about like you know what they're going through or whatever.

Speaker 5 And it is kind of nice to have that sense of community as grim as things are.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, I agreed. Yeah.
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Oh, Emma, hit him with a drop.

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Thanks, Finky.

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Speaker 3 I was, yeah, that's good. That was a good drop for today.

Speaker 5 Drops at birdfuck.com. Our guest returning to the show.
Very happy to have him in studio for the first time from Fallout and Severance, season two, now streaming on Apple TV Plus. Zach Cherry is here.

Speaker 6 Hi, Zach. Hi, Emma.
Hit it.

Speaker 3 Oh, hell yeah.

Speaker 6 On the day no boys drop.

Speaker 6 All the fans gather round and listen with wide wonder at the the last they are found.

Speaker 6 But I'm here to stand up and make one thing known.

Speaker 3 And that's cause today

Speaker 3 I've got a bone.

Speaker 3 I've got a bone.

Speaker 3 I've got a bone.

Speaker 3 A bubble bubble bone to pick.

Speaker 3 Bubba bubba bone to pick.

Speaker 3 Bone bum bone bone to pick.

Speaker 3 I've got a bone. That's it.
Wow.

Speaker 3 Okay,

Speaker 3 so we have a new segment called I've Got a Bone to Pick.

Speaker 6 Okay, great. Wow.
Boys don't know about this,

Speaker 6 but as a listener of this show who occasionally comes on, there are sometimes things that you say that I feel I must address.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 6 And rather than abuse my text privileges, which we'll get to,

Speaker 6 I just wrote down a list of them and we can kind of hang out and cover them here. So I'm just going to go through

Speaker 6 some of my things. And for new listeners, this can be, consider this a treasure map.
So you can go back and find these moments and we can talk about it.

Speaker 6 Okay, we'll start really easy.

Speaker 6 The Last Jedi is good.

Speaker 6 It's maybe the only good Star Wars movie.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. Wow.

Speaker 6 It's maybe the only good movie.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God. All right.
Now, I know.

Speaker 6 Cigarettes are not back.

Speaker 3 Shut the fuck up about cigarettes being back. Cigarettes are, it's bad.
And this week, look.

Speaker 5 Yeah, no, it's a bad week for cigarettes.

Speaker 3 It's a bad week for cigarettes. There are more not backs.
Cigar's taking some L's right now. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Baldur's Gate is good.

Speaker 6 Hell yeah. Mitch, you should play it.
What else are you doing?

Speaker 3 I want to play it.

Speaker 5 I kind of feel like.

Speaker 3 You know who's having a bad week this week? Who's that? Frankenstein. Frankenstein got to be just losing his shit right now.
Fire bad. Scared of fire.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 3 Should we get an edit point in?

Speaker 6 You know who else is probably having a bad week? Who's that? Osmosis Jones.

Speaker 3 Osmosis Jones can't be.

Speaker 6 He has to filter all the way down.

Speaker 3 That is

Speaker 3 You know who else?

Speaker 3 Beavis.

Speaker 3 You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 Well, I mean, I think Beavis is maybe in Japanese.

Speaker 3 Oh, God damn it. I shouldn't have started this run of things.
I apologize.

Speaker 5 Beavis is like a pyromaniac. That's his whole thing.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah. But I'm saying he probably was probably sullen.

Speaker 5 Here he's kind of like, no, that's not what I meant.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Yes, yes. And he might have had a few door knocks this week.

Speaker 5 That might have been an issue. That is, obviously.
Like, hey, Beavis, you like what's happening? Huh? This is is what you've wrought.

Speaker 3 But we can all agree, Frankenstein, who lives in Hollywood. Yeah.

Speaker 3 He's an actor. He lives here.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, the famous actor Frankenstein can't be too happy about all the fires.

Speaker 3 He's not having a good movie.

Speaker 6 He plays himself in

Speaker 3 that movie.

Speaker 5 Yeah, whatever that movie is.

Speaker 3 Good.

Speaker 6 Okay, I also wanted to mention, sorry, just to continue. Mitch, now you've told a few stories where you imply that jacking off squirts out kidney stones.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 6 Now, I actually did some research on this. Okay.

Speaker 6 Regular masturbation seems to help them pass.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 6 But you tell it as if it's like when Bugs Bunny eats a corn on the cob and spits it into a spittoon, as if you're like jacking off and they're like going like, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.

Speaker 6 I don't think that's how it works.

Speaker 3 If you masturbate, it can help pass a kidney stone easier. This is the, it is, if you're, if it's, if you're passing it, but it doesn't like squirt them out on the spot.
It doesn't,

Speaker 3 it, it won't.

Speaker 3 It won't do that. No.

Speaker 5 Didn't you have a kidney stone fairly recently? Not to embarrass you. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Did you jack off? Yep.

Speaker 3 It's the night before I left. Yeah.

Speaker 3 It was the night before I left to go back to Massachusetts. And

Speaker 3 I had to pack and get ready to go. And I had to pass a kidney stone.

Speaker 3 And I went into the shower and I

Speaker 3 and I jacked it out.

Speaker 5 You're also like, you're about to go back home for a couple weeks.

Speaker 3 You got to get all your loads out of your stuff. It's true.

Speaker 3 I barely did that.

Speaker 5 I just need to jack off at home.

Speaker 3 And also, can I just can I be honest with you? I went into the bathroom and I jacked off and it went into a spatoon. It did come out.
It shot out into a spittoon.

Speaker 3 And it ricocheted around and went right back in and out.

Speaker 3 Back down.

Speaker 3 Uh-oh. Now I have to get back.

Speaker 3 I got it passing again.

Speaker 3 So that one you're wrong on. Okay, well, agree to disagree.
Okay.

Speaker 6 At one point, you guys both mentioned that when you get to a certain age, you just have gunk in your dick.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 6 I'm not that much younger than you.

Speaker 3 But you'll see.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you'll see.

Speaker 6 The gunk hasn't arrived at my door.

Speaker 3 The gunk will arrive.

Speaker 3 The Hawk Tua girl was not a preschool teacher.

Speaker 3 At one point, it was reported as such on the pod.

Speaker 5 Part of the issue with that is, I think, because

Speaker 5 I learned what Hawk Tua was on this podcast. And I think we were recording it such in the immediate aftermath of the actual, of the virality that no one had any actual info on who this woman was.

Speaker 3 Can I get a sound?

Speaker 5 And then that episode, because we were banking everything, came out like four months later.

Speaker 3 Literally, absolutely. Yeah.
Can I just tell you that your segment is so insensitive? You start saying, I got a bone, and Jemmy was very excited about it. And then you're just picking bones.

Speaker 6 I'm sorry, Jemi. I'll get you a bone later.

Speaker 3 She's had a rough week, Wages. Yeah, that's true.

Speaker 3 She's really worried about her friend Frankenstein.

Speaker 3 Jemi's friends with Frankenstein? Yeah, I don't know. It's via Franken.

Speaker 3 She's friends with Frankenwini and then Frankenstein. That makes like the difference.
Frankenstein owns Frankenwin. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Of course, yeah.

Speaker 6 Okay, then I did want to talk about when you got mad. You got mad that I texted you about.

Speaker 6 So, for the listeners, I texted Weiger about a minions-based tweet

Speaker 6 because minions are his turf. Yes.
Then Mitch got mad that I was texting just Wiger. But to clarify to you, in my mind, you each have jurisdictions.
Wigger's his minions. Sure.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 Mitch is being an actor.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 6 And both of you are everything else.

Speaker 3 Okay. So

Speaker 6 I parsed my

Speaker 6 things, but then I was told very clearly by Weiger, please include Mitch on these because it's fun to make him angry.

Speaker 6 So going forward,

Speaker 6 you will always be included.

Speaker 3 Thank you. That's what I want.

Speaker 5 That's the safest course act.

Speaker 3 We can still have our own private text chains, but everything else. If you talk to him,

Speaker 3 I have to know if you talk to him.

Speaker 6 And then finally, I just wanted to share an update on my wife's journey with Doughboys, which is, uh-oh.

Speaker 6 She started out hating the show so much that Weiger made her so angry that she like essentially had to go to the doctor.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 6 Which is true. Now she likes the show so much that she couldn't join me on this trip.
And she was getting mad at me about hypothetically.

Speaker 6 She was like, I bet if I even I could come, you wouldn't even let me come to the recording.

Speaker 3 I was like, I was like,

Speaker 6 you can't come because you're not going to be there. But she was, she likes the show so much now that she's inventing ways to get mad at me.

Speaker 3 She's very welcome to come to the studio. You will end up like Jemmy asleep in a chair, most likely.
Yeah. No one, it's not fun to be here for

Speaker 3 I tried to tell her that, but yes.

Speaker 6 Anyway, that's the new segment. I've Got a Bone.

Speaker 3 I loved it. I thought that was great.

Speaker 3 I uh

Speaker 3 look, speaking of, we should talk to our staff a little bit for a second, too. Yeah, sure.
Uh, because, because, because,

Speaker 5 well, look, wait, we did, we should, so I've never called you our staff before.

Speaker 3 Gross. I hated it.
Sorry. I didn't like it at all.

Speaker 3 The dais? What did it? Let's go back to the dais. Yeah, the dais.
Our staff?

Speaker 5 The producer's desk, I think, is the official sort of name for this territory. But yeah, we can say our staff.
It's fine.

Speaker 3 I didn't like it. Our team.

Speaker 5 The Dough Boys team. The Dough Boys team.
The team who, along with us, make the show happen.

Speaker 5 Mike and Emma, y'all were driving back. And so you had the crazy experience of you were traversing the country via

Speaker 5 automobile when like the crazy winds and the fires hit. You were like coming into LA.

Speaker 3 We were.

Speaker 5 What was that like?

Speaker 3 It was weird. Yeah.

Speaker 7 I mean, we were, we heard that there was when we go, like when I Google maps our route, it was like the eaten fire might affect your route. And I was like, oh, that's kind of crazy.

Speaker 7 But that was like, it says it's open, so we'll be fine. But yeah, there was a bunch of flipped tankers because of the wind.
And then the fire was like right on the mountain. It was very apocalyptic.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 7 And that was terrifying, heartbreaking to see. And the fire at that point, I think, was like a thousand acres.
And it's now like 15,000 acres.

Speaker 7 So it's crazy to think that it's like 15 times what we saw in that moment.

Speaker 5 The exponential growth of these things is static.

Speaker 3 It's unreal.

Speaker 5 But Mike, you were saying like as you're driving in, you were seeing just like the carnage from the wind on the highway, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah. There was a, like Emma said, there was about five libbed trucks, which I've never seen like back to back to back.
And then

Speaker 3 just a row of them, like I would say at least 50 trucks just lined the side of the highway just going going right past Pasadena. It was unreal.
It was like a scene out of a movie. It was weird.

Speaker 7 It's weird to see the trucks like lined up definitely to like, they're like tucked behind walls to like protect themselves from the wind, waiting for the wind to die down while the mountain is literally burning right behind them.

Speaker 7 It's like drive in the wind or wait with the fire were like their options in that moment, which is like

Speaker 3 this was also

Speaker 3 16 hours into our drive. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 5 you're rushing back to make it to the studio because we ordered you to.

Speaker 3 So that's part of the whole thing. We're supposed to be here today.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's crazy. Yeah, it was very crazy.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 And Amelia, you were like, you got out of the city for a few days, but you've like, like, the air is like horrible where you live. That's part of the issue, right? Or at least in your apartment.

Speaker 8 I have this screenshot that I'll share to put in the video. The air quality index said 450.

Speaker 3 Smoke them if you got them. 450.

Speaker 3 So 420 plus 30? Yeah.

Speaker 7 They say you shouldn't go outside with 100 or more.

Speaker 3 So 450 hazards.

Speaker 3 450 hazardous.

Speaker 8 Despite my best efforts, I could not prevent the smoke from getting through my windows because I have some old windows.

Speaker 9 It was getting through the cracks.

Speaker 3 So.

Speaker 3 And also, we should say now

Speaker 3 the windows were a Christmas gift from Nick and I.

Speaker 3 Yeah, sorry. We kind of went with the budget option.
We kind of went with the budget option.

Speaker 3 There was like smoke proof and non-smoke. The non-smoke proof were like $30 less.
When we got the extra smoke,

Speaker 5 they were really, they were really, they were on sale. We're sorry.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we're sorry. Who's that beep? Jesus Christ.
I thought that was an emergency.

Speaker 7 That was me.

Speaker 3 Sorry. No.
Okay, all right.

Speaker 5 I wasn't in a grocery store because you get these emergency alerts. And the fucking, the way this has been run has been such a debacle that you've gotten alerts in error.

Speaker 5 They've been like, evacuate now. And then you'll get like one 10 minutes later.
I was like, sorry, ignore.

Speaker 5 But I was in the grocery store when every phone went off and everyone got like an evacuation notice. And I was like, oh, shit.
Like it was really fucking just one of those moments.

Speaker 3 You grabbed every apple. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I didn't get any alerts.

Speaker 6 I don't live here.

Speaker 3 I live in New York. Yeah.

Speaker 6 But I didn't get any alerts. Wow.
I don't know if they don't know.

Speaker 6 They don't know on. I don't care about that.

Speaker 3 I don't care or whatever.

Speaker 6 But yeah, I was not getting anything.

Speaker 3 You had your,

Speaker 3 you had a premiere that was canceled,

Speaker 3 which was a huge bummer. But, you know,

Speaker 3 that's the reason you came out here, right? Was for that in some ways.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Severin Season 2, you you had it, you had a premiere, you had a bunch of press, and all this kind of got went by the wayside. You ended up getting out of town yourself a little bit.

Speaker 6 I went to Palm Springs to avoid the fires and smoke, and yeah.

Speaker 6 But no one officially told me to.

Speaker 3 How bad of luck is it that you come out here and everything that you had schedule here is canceled except for Doughboys?

Speaker 3 That's the worst luck.

Speaker 6 What's funny is the last time I came out here, sort of just for fun on my own, was literally election night 2016.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 6 all my stuff was getting canceled after that as well.

Speaker 3 Oh, my God.

Speaker 6 Because people were just like stunned or whatever.

Speaker 3 So I don't know if you can come back. I might not be able to.

Speaker 3 You don't want to know my theories about why this all happened? Why? Do you?

Speaker 3 It's because we haven't accepted Kevin Spacey back into Hollywood.

Speaker 6 That's why the Hollywood sign almost burns.

Speaker 3 It's bad karma. It's bad karma.
We need to accept them back.

Speaker 5 Chickens coming home to roost over Spacey. I thought you were going to say it was from the slap.

Speaker 3 Like a butterfly wife.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Will Smith slapped Chris Rock, and the whole city's on fire three years later.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 your windows weren't tight.

Speaker 8 So I took the cats and I went to

Speaker 8 Cats Plural.

Speaker 3 Cats Plural. We haven't really talked about this.

Speaker 5 Refresh everyone's memory. We talked about this cat.
This was a cat that was found during the Head Gum Christmas party.

Speaker 5 And you've been fostering it for now. Yes.
Yeah.

Speaker 8 So anyway, I took the Cats Plural to Joshua Tree

Speaker 8 for a few days.

Speaker 6 That's great. That's great.
Where was his cat found?

Speaker 3 On Sunset Floor. Yeah, outside.

Speaker 3 Such a dangerous spot for...

Speaker 3 It was in a way wheel well of a car. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And you saved the day.
You saved the cat's life. She's a cutie.
Yeah, she's a cute. She's a cutie.

Speaker 8 She sleeps on my chest every night.

Speaker 3 Come on.

Speaker 5 It's really,

Speaker 5 I just want to say for our audio listeners, you're missing out on Amelia recounting this harrowing experience and talking about her cats while wearing a hat that says, who ate all the pussy?

Speaker 3 Too good.

Speaker 3 Dear God, you freak.

Speaker 3 Go to grab the good stuff when you evacuate. Yeah, but I have back.

Speaker 3 This is the hat that I grabbed.

Speaker 5 Family photo and the hat.

Speaker 3 I also like hat from Spencer's gifts. We were out there and we got some kinship merch.
It was very nice of kinship to share and share with us.

Speaker 3 And I just am remembering a few minutes ago when Amelia is like, like, I don't want that t-shirt. I got enough stuff at my house and is wearing a who ate all the pussy hat.

Speaker 3 So, I mean, it's a great hat. It's a good choice.

Speaker 3 Well, we're glad you're all

Speaker 3 our team is safe. Yeah, 100%.

Speaker 7 Casey and Anya are also safe wherever they are. Their homes are also safe.

Speaker 3 It was great. Look, a lot of people online have been reaching out and been very nice.
And I complained about some other people, too, that were. It was nice to be so nervous in my house, worried that

Speaker 3 it was going to burn down. And people be like mitch's stairs are gonna burn for a long time kind of annoying

Speaker 3 any stare mention when you're afraid that your your your place is gonna burn down yeah was a little bit annoying and i told you that they were like mitch is fine but wiger i'm worried about wigger i was like why you don't know where we live what the fuck are you talking about sorry i shouldn't be mad i shouldn't get mad

Speaker 3 i shouldn't get mad at those every there everyone was very supportive overall people have been very very reddit which is good now there was a big list yeah the reddish good now this is a 2025 thing there was a big list of them

Speaker 3 having updates about where people were, and the dose scored was very concerned.

Speaker 3 All of our listeners reached out and were very were very kind about our situation, which was nice.

Speaker 6 They were worried that Weiger's processors were going to overheat.

Speaker 3 Believing you'd be okay.

Speaker 3 It was a tense, the Wednesday night and Thursday were tense because of the Hollywood fire.

Speaker 3 For me specifically, I'm lucky with the fires that are more in Altadena and the Palisades and stuff, that didn't affect me. But a lot of our friends and their families have been affected by it.

Speaker 3 It's horrible. Yeah.
Horrible situation.

Speaker 5 We're fortunately in an okay area as far as fire danger at the moment. We are a little closer to, we're on the west side.

Speaker 5 We're closer to the Palisades fire, which is the horrible one, but like, you know, have avoided the catastrophic loss that a lot of people have suffered.

Speaker 5 It's just terrible air like Amelia's been breathing in. But it's, you know, it's like for our, from our standpoint, it's been a thing that's been manageable.

Speaker 3 You know, so yeah.

Speaker 3 Wednesday night when a lot of I was very there was this tense six hours on Wednesday night with a lot of people got out of town when uh when the Hollywood hills were on fire, yeah, and it was so sad because a lot of businesses were talking about the Magic Castle almost went up on in flames, and then like uh Mel Gibson's moonshadows

Speaker 3 fire, uh-huh,

Speaker 5 his house went down, he lost his house and he lost uh the karaoke bar where he was arrested

Speaker 3 for drunkenly using a bunch of racial slurs.

Speaker 3 Look,

Speaker 3 even even the ghouls, I'll feel bad for. Frankenstein, Mel Gibson.

Speaker 3 Yeah, but

Speaker 3 it's a bad situation, but let's not be funny for an hour and a half.

Speaker 6 And I do just want to say the bit, I've Got a Bone, I wrote that during the fires, and it was sandwiched tonally perfectly in this conversation. And that is how I planned it.

Speaker 3 And I'm happy about the moment I chose to do it, and I'm happy about every video.

Speaker 3 I loved it.

Speaker 3 I think it was

Speaker 3 perfect. It was good.
Weiger told us that we needed, it's a new year, new bits.

Speaker 5 Yeah, we'll get to that in a second. I do want to say, like, you mentioned Baldur's Gate 3.
Did you clock my shirt at all?

Speaker 6 Oh, I didn't. We got an owl bear.

Speaker 5 Yeah, this is like animal companions from camp.

Speaker 7 We did clock the dog sleeping.

Speaker 6 We've got the sleeping, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 Is that the dog that you have, or is that, isn't there like a sleeping wolf you can do a quest?

Speaker 3 Mike just fixed the camera to not be on your shirt.

Speaker 5 No, this is the camp dog. I'm forgetting, it's not scratch.
I forget. It's scratch, right?

Speaker 3 Scratch is the dog.

Speaker 5 This is scratch and then the owl bear. Those are both the animal companions you can get.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 I love it. Oh, God.
Between this and Bellatro or whatever the fuck you're talking about.

Speaker 3 We'll get to Bellatro.

Speaker 6 Yeah, let's get into it.

Speaker 3 Do you play Bellatro? Yeah, Amelia's been binging it. Oh, God damn it.

Speaker 8 And Mitch gets mad when we talk about it on the group chat.

Speaker 5 But if we were talking about side chat, he'd also get mad.

Speaker 3 So we'd have to talk about it. Hold on a second.

Speaker 3 No, you said, you said, should we keep this in this chat or should i do a side chat and i said side chat don't i do not want to hear about bilatro i need to give me in the bilatro chat okay we'll need to buy it we'll do a bilatro chat with uh with uh amelia and uh zach and me

Speaker 3 i want in and then

Speaker 3 i'll buy the game i want in i want to see it i think i might have 100%ed belatro that's wild can you do that yeah you can't you can get all the achievements you can unlock everything i spent an insane amount of hours hours doing it.

Speaker 8 How many hours you sink into?

Speaker 3 A lot. A lot.
I have to. I did give a ballpark estimate.

Speaker 5 I'm guessing it has to be in the dozens to get all that stuff.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I mean, for a long time, it was just the thing I would do when I didn't have anything else to do. I would just plug away at Bellatro.

Speaker 5 And are you playing on a phone, Steam Deck?

Speaker 6 What do you use? On my Switch. On your Switch.

Speaker 3 Okay, yeah.

Speaker 9 Oh, I didn't know you could do it on the Switch.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's on everything.

Speaker 3 Oh, man.

Speaker 7 It's over.

Speaker 5 It's an incredible design.

Speaker 3 I had to get rid of it because it's stupid.

Speaker 3 I'm not playing it. I don't want to play it.

Speaker 6 It's probably the best game. The only other game that competes is Walder's Game 3.

Speaker 3 Games are too, they're too much time now.

Speaker 5 They're really time-consuming.

Speaker 3 They're too much time.

Speaker 5 They make unreasonable demands on your time.

Speaker 6 But Pilatro, you can play for 10 minutes at a time.

Speaker 5 It's true. You can just do a short run.

Speaker 3 Switch 2 is coming out this year, and

Speaker 3 knock on wood that everything here

Speaker 3 doesn't get worse. And that is going to be the thing that I am putting time into this year is the new Mario Galaxy or whatever comes out with it.
That's what I...

Speaker 5 We'll see. We'll see what it actually launches with because I could see it launching with an underwhelming lineup.

Speaker 3 Really? Yeah, I mean, I don't know. I think it's going to launch with a new Metroid.
That's what I'm doing.

Speaker 5 I'm Metroid Prime 4. That's a long, long rumored in development for a while.
You know, we'll see if anything actually surfaces with it.

Speaker 3 Are you embarrassed at all that we're

Speaker 3 nearly mid-40s and talking about this stuff?

Speaker 5 No, I'm wearing a Baldur's Gate 3 shirt.

Speaker 3 What do you think? I don't know. I just, I wrestle with it sometimes.

Speaker 3 No, who cares? Like,

Speaker 3 even when I was younger, the idea of like being into Mario when I was 50 50 seemed crazy. And I'm like, am I just going to like Mario when I'm 50 or 10?

Speaker 5 Yeah, you'll be an old man talking about Mario.

Speaker 5 I rescued the princess.

Speaker 3 Do you have a wife? No.

Speaker 5 Speaking of video games, I really, you know,

Speaker 5 Severance, obviously, very much in the Zeitgeist. Great show.
A lot of people are, Amelie was saying she's watched and re-watched it. The new season is out.
But I really enjoyed Fallout.

Speaker 5 You're great in Fallout. What a fun show.
And what a great adaptation of the IP. Hey.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was cool. Talk lip to video game shows.
Hell yeah. Hell yeah.
Hey, there you go.

Speaker 6 I actually didn't really play it before I was in it. Yeah.
And then after I did it, I downloaded Fallout 4 and started walking around.

Speaker 6 And it was kind of surreal how the sets really did feel like the vaults.

Speaker 3 Yeah, sure.

Speaker 6 I was like, whoa, they did a good job.

Speaker 3 And that aesthetic is around

Speaker 3 the Massachusetts one, or is that the no, or maybe I think

Speaker 3 Boston? Yeah.

Speaker 3 yeah you can go to quincy in that in uh you can go to quincy and the and follow up there's like a thing that happens in quincy in followout four i think you can like go to fenway and stuff too is in the game yeah is there like a little mitch in there there might be a little mutant mitch somewhere that'd be cool

Speaker 5 i would love it uh a great show follow it's a great show a lot of fun yeah it was fun i enjoyed you're playing uh so uh larry and make made uh uh balder's gate 3 before that they made the divinity original sin games you've been playing divinity original sin 2 yes i have been playing divinity

Speaker 6 uh mitch you're gonna love this it's basically balder's gate 3

Speaker 3 it's very simple i'm i'm also laughing that there's an insane thing that's happened and i don't even know if you're gonna talk about it this episode what what are you talking about oh i know what you're talking about don't spoil it oh i did well i did talk about it we should i did on the live show oh

Speaker 5 look here's the thing if people people have been people have been saying like i went a bit in the live show

Speaker 5 and people are like hey weiger is it real? Is it real?

Speaker 3 You know, whatever. Yeah.

Speaker 5 One of the doughboys ever half committed to a bit.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it's real.

Speaker 5 I told you, I'm Tiger now.

Speaker 6 And is that, does that

Speaker 6 relate to Baldur's game?

Speaker 3 No, Mitch just noticed it.

Speaker 3 I noticed it peeking out of, I noticed it peeking out of.

Speaker 6 I see, yes.

Speaker 3 He got the tattoo. He got a tattoo.

Speaker 6 Yeah. Sorry, I've been calling you Weiger all day.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I know. Weiger's fine.

Speaker 3 Sorry, Tiger.

Speaker 3 Do I have to call you Tiger?

Speaker 5 Call me whatever you want.

Speaker 3 That's what Mary Jane calls Spider-Man. It feels weird.

Speaker 6 She calls him Tiger?

Speaker 3 Doesn't she? Oh, like, hey, Tiger.

Speaker 3 I think I am the Spider-Man Diarrhea, MJ.

Speaker 3 You look cats. I'm kind of the biggest cat at all.

Speaker 5 Shout out to Daniel Werder at Boar Tooth Tattoo, who hooked me up with this. Very happy with it.

Speaker 3 He's got the tattoo. That's insane.

Speaker 3 Tiger. I love it.
Tiger. Wait,

Speaker 6 is it a surprise to you?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 3 Very much so. I mean, there was, I'm not giving anything away, but there was a live show reveal, and then there was another second reveal to me.

Speaker 7 So Amelia sent a screenshot of a tagged image from a tattoo shop and said, we got tagged in this wax.

Speaker 9 Is this your thigh?

Speaker 3 And I was like, this is a real

Speaker 3 thing. And you did it.
I'm Tiger now.

Speaker 3 I love it.

Speaker 5 Okay, so

Speaker 5 but Divinity Original Sin 2.

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 6 I'm loving it. It's like, it's also available on Switch.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I played about 10 hours of it and I bounced off of it. I found it just like really dense and I found the combat system kind of inscrutable.
But having played through Baldur's Gate 3 now twice,

Speaker 5 I think I could wrap my head around it.

Speaker 6 It is more confusing and it is harder.

Speaker 6 I'm playing it on tactician mode because I played Baldur's Gate and for the first

Speaker 3 like

Speaker 6 You know basically the whole first act I couldn't win almost any fight I had to like dance around and get experience doing other things until I could like figure out the combat.

Speaker 6 But now you can't stop me.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 5 What's your player character?

Speaker 3 Some little elf.

Speaker 5 I pick like that.

Speaker 5 There isn't like the extent. My memory is that there's not like the customizable character.
There's like a number, a few prefab characters you pick.

Speaker 6 Well, no, you can't. Mine is custom.
Oh, okay. But I'm just like some little elf.

Speaker 3 Got it.

Speaker 6 Who like stabs people and stuff.

Speaker 3 That's fun.

Speaker 3 What is this game called?

Speaker 3 Divinity original sin 2 and i'm playing the definitive edition wow yeah it's like baller's gate 3 basically yeah yeah all right i'm not gonna play it probably jesus christ uh let's talk about food a little bit so this guy's proud

Speaker 5 we'll side chat about it we'll talk about in the blotro chat uh the

Speaker 5 you you've adjusted your diet a little bit in the new year you're no do you think we're trying to help you man

Speaker 3 Do you think you sling more webs than Spider-Man? I was going to ask that a long time ago.

Speaker 3 Who do you think?

Speaker 5 Who do you think Morse shoots out more white stuff?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Like a daily, on like a daily average. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 The bank robber's helicopter gets shot, caught in a web.

Speaker 3 Ah, Weiger.

Speaker 6 And when you run out, do you have to go into a lab and make more?

Speaker 3 Mike's flag fell off. Oh, boy.

Speaker 5 Things are falling apart.

Speaker 5 okay, you're, and I don't know when this happened exactly, but you were vegan when we've had you on the show previously. You're no longer strictly vegan.

Speaker 3 Correct.

Speaker 5 When did you, are you kind of loosely vegetarian?

Speaker 6 When did this happen? I'm fully vegetarian and I still eat often vegan. I like at home, we mostly eat vegan.
There's a lot of vegan restaurants that my wife and I love.

Speaker 6 But honestly, Pete, the pull of pizza is too strong.

Speaker 3 Yeah. You know?

Speaker 3 I

Speaker 3 1,000%.

Speaker 3 Yeah. And look,

Speaker 3 we wouldn't have been able to do the spot we did today if you were still. Oh, do they have any vegan options? They maybe do.
They do have a vegan. Yeah, they have a couple of vegan.

Speaker 3 There's so much stuff at this, which may be, it might be an Ungapachka

Speaker 3 menu, possibly.

Speaker 5 That could be part of the verdict. I will say that.
And Mitch, I don't know if you've made any dietary adjustments for the new year. My thing that I've been doing is

Speaker 5 for the new year.

Speaker 3 My fat guy meds are held up because of the damn Santa Ana wins. Oh, man.
Yeah. I mean, this is the least worrisome thing of everything that's happened.
But

Speaker 3 fucking Santa. Fuck, it's fucking Santa Ana.

Speaker 3 We talked about this. Wind and fire.
I hate the worst, the wackest elements that there are. I'm very upset with the.

Speaker 3 How do you rank the elements? Water is number one. Way of water, yeah.
Yeah, water. I'd say water.
I really love water. Yeah.
Water is

Speaker 3 water's up there. Water is good.

Speaker 3 I'd go heart.

Speaker 3 Heart's really good.

Speaker 5 Heart's really big. Cause right, what are the bad things?

Speaker 3 So specifically, I think only knowing being the captain planet universe. But it counts.
I guess it does count.

Speaker 5 I think air has to be up there if we're separating it from wind.

Speaker 3 That's true.

Speaker 5 Because you also kind of need that.

Speaker 3 But it's not separated from wind. It is air is wind.

Speaker 5 Well, then I got to still rank wind high because without air, we can't breathe.

Speaker 6 Well, and without fire, we'd be pretty cold. That's true.

Speaker 3 So I guess fire's got it.

Speaker 3 Okay, so wind and fire are the ones I said are the two wackiest elements are now number ones. Okay.

Speaker 3 What about Earth? Earth is nice. Earth's good.
Earth and water. Those are my two favorites.

Speaker 6 Top five for me for sure is Earth, Quinn, Fire, Water, Heart.

Speaker 5 Yeah, in some order.

Speaker 3 We're all in there. Yeah, I agree with that.

Speaker 5 My big thing I'm doing for the new year is, and

Speaker 5 this will get into our pizza when we talk

Speaker 5 a little bit.

Speaker 5 For about two years, I haven't eaten any pork. And my two things,

Speaker 5 I don't eat pork and I don't eat cephalopods. Otherwise, I'm just kind of generally eating meat as it comes.

Speaker 5 And what what I've kind of decided is that, like,

Speaker 3 all right.

Speaker 5 It's

Speaker 3 what do they call that?

Speaker 6 Veal. Yeah, that's like super veal.

Speaker 3 Fucking grabbing it.

Speaker 3 Take a fat thing as it's coming.

Speaker 3 Take a bite of a bull's leg as it's coming.

Speaker 3 Suffering.

Speaker 3 How much does that cost? It's going to be expensive, right?

Speaker 5 I've like,

Speaker 5 I've kind of just reached a point where it's like, I don't think this is serving me. And what I, what I've, and, and I've also kind of gotten to the point of like, is me.

Speaker 3 I honestly genuinely forget all I can think of is you eating food when it's coming. All right, never mind.
Let's go. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, was it beef? Was it

Speaker 3 pork?

Speaker 5 Yeah, I haven't eaten pork or you know, octopus squids for a couple of years. And I just was like, I don't think this is really serving me.

Speaker 5 And also the point where I'm like, if I'm ordering a cobbl salad, no bacon, or I'm just checking if there's pork base in the ramen before I order it.

Speaker 5 Like, like, how much is that really helping those sort of marginal sort of things?

Speaker 5 And I was like, is there a way I could do this just to make this less of a pain in the ass for myself and allow me to have these indulgences on occasion while also just eating less meat in general?

Speaker 5 What I've kind of landed on is I'm just eating a vegetarian at home. So like, you know, that's where I eat most of my meals.
And that's when I cook at home, I'm just eating vegetarian.

Speaker 5 Cram and the dose scored pitched, no meat shall I heat. I think that's pretty good.
So that's been kind of my thing. And so if we have an

Speaker 5 incident like today where we are, where there's pepperoni pizza, instead of stressing out over it or picking pepperoni cups off of a slice, I'd just be like, I'll just fucking eat it and it's fine.

Speaker 5 I'm mitigating it by not eating meat at home.

Speaker 3 Which I did for you when I had COVID. That's true.
And

Speaker 3 I didn't give it to you.

Speaker 3 Weirdly, remember, I picked it, and you still didn't. I know, I didn't get it.
You didn't get it from me.

Speaker 5 Me and Carl shared a pizza with you, and neither of us got COVID.

Speaker 3 That's wild.

Speaker 3 I said this on Gabriel's podcast, but I'm taking Zepp bound.

Speaker 5 People should should listen to that episode. It's great.
The high and mighty episode you're on.

Speaker 3 It always does a great job. I mean,

Speaker 5 it's called Being Fat, but it's you and Gabris talking about, and you're very, very candid about it. And I think there's a lot of great detail you go into there.

Speaker 5 So people should listen to that episode.

Speaker 3 So my appetite is, it is changing. Like I am, I told you this.
I say this on the episode, but I've never in my life ordered a mini from Jersey Mike's. Yeah.
And that's what I get now, which is weird.

Speaker 3 And I am just full more. We also,

Speaker 3 we started a fat guy text chain. You're not on it.
Yeah. We decided we're, we're talking about whether we should let you on.
You are, you're fat enough.

Speaker 5 It's, it's fine. I don't need to be on the fat guy text chain.
I was a little bitter about it, but it's fine.

Speaker 3 I mean, technically, I think you do weigh enough. We can let you on.

Speaker 6 My stance was we can let you on, but you don't get a full vote.

Speaker 3 You can be in there. Which I do kind of agree with that.

Speaker 6 You know, if there's ever a decision that needs to be made,

Speaker 6 you know, you kind of have a little bit less of a.

Speaker 5 Yeah. I'm like the representative from DC.

Speaker 3 It's just like, okay, i'm just kind of there yeah yeah we can you can you can come in there but yeah yeah you're you know you're not like a full it's like you know like in good fellows where he's like you couldn't like you can't be made if you were like part irish or something yeah right right right you can never use the same thing you can never get made uh

Speaker 3 but we'll let you we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll we'll let you in there but but but i think more so just my My appetite has changed a little bit, which will, and I'm going to try to eat healthier.

Speaker 3 You know, that's, that's, I'm going to, I'm getting myself, uh, I'm going to get a, uh, my plan is to get a rice cooker, which I know you can just make rice, but I've heard a lot of people rave about this specific rice cooker, which I have written down.

Speaker 3 What's that? Like an Instant Pot? There's a specific rice cooker that people are like, it makes the best rice. And I get it.
I forget the name of it.

Speaker 6 It makes it way easier. Then you don't have to monitor it.
You just

Speaker 3 put a cup of rice in and then

Speaker 3 it makes great brown rice. They said too.
It's very fluffy. And I'm going to do that and get a, I get a new, uh, what's it called? Uh, air fryer because my old air fryer got recalled.
Oh, man.

Speaker 3 And a Kosari. It got recalled and it could start a fire, I guess,

Speaker 3 if you use it. That's a horrible.
I just realized it didn't.

Speaker 3 I edited out me saying it can cause a start of fire. I mean, that is why it was a fire.
But it was why it was recalled. I don't know why I got so scared there for a second.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 was your air fryer? It was not my air fryer that started the thing. It was not your air fryer that started.
No, it was not my air fryer.

Speaker 3 I did not. This is not, but whatever.
I just got very nervous because I said it can start a fire. It can start a fire.
And I'm going to get a new air fryer and just do grilled.

Speaker 3 I think a lot of grilled chicken and rice. That's what I'm going to try to do for the.

Speaker 5 I just point out the people should listen to the episode. But also, like, I think you're...

Speaker 5 It was just not just one spoke. I think you're very brave for just being open about this and for sharing it.

Speaker 5 Because I think we know a lot of people who are choosing to be private, and that's their choice. But I know that you sharing and you being open about it has helped a lot of our listeners.

Speaker 3 I've heard about people who've heard the High and Mighty podcast and have had a positive response to it and then a lot of our friends have reached out to us privately and you know i think after this year where i was thought i was dying or wanted to die yeah i was like i don't care you know what i mean like what it who cares what people say about you know what i mean like uh people are going to be mean about stuff people are mean about the fires you know people are assholes always

Speaker 3 who cares i like you know what i mean what can you do you just don't listen to it and yeah maybe someone will make a crack about your cpus overheating and it's fine just

Speaker 3 move on with your life that was good that was good

Speaker 3 I love both of you.

Speaker 3 I love both of you. I love you.

Speaker 5 All right, we got to get to new bits.

Speaker 3 This is an issue. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 We got to talk about big mamas and big papas, but uh, but I, I, I want to talk about some new bits for 2025.

Speaker 5 And Mitch, I think this segues into something that I had, just as a baseline, I could just sort of say, like, the idea of the kind of thing we're talking about. Sure.

Speaker 5 So here's a new bit I thought we could.

Speaker 3 Well, there is a bit. There's, I got a bone is a new, is a, is a new bit.
Can we use that?

Speaker 6 Yeah, you can use that.

Speaker 3 Okay, okay, great.

Speaker 6 Any guest is welcome.

Speaker 7 Yeah, I was going to to say, I feel like that's the guests have to use that, though.

Speaker 3 They got a bone to pick with y'all. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Here's one I got.

Speaker 5 You know, these celebrities these days, they're all going on Ozempic. I don't know if you saw this.
It's just right after.

Speaker 3 Right after you said I was. Well, yeah, it was a segue.

Speaker 3 I actually saw,

Speaker 5 you see, this is the whales on Ozempic.

Speaker 3 I heard the whales on Ozempic. Is that the sequel? Yeah, he's like,

Speaker 3 oh, I was like, is there more to it than that? He's floating, man.

Speaker 3 He's up there.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 6 they made him change his name to the dolphin.

Speaker 3 Yeah, he's the dolphin now.

Speaker 3 Whale dropped so much weight. He's the dolphin.
He's the dolphin, yeah. Whale has dropped so much.
The whale has dropped so much.

Speaker 5 The whale has dropped so much weight.

Speaker 5 He's the dolphin.

Speaker 3 That's a lot of weight.

Speaker 3 He's not even the manatee or something. No, he's really slimmed down.
Oh, my God.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he looks great.

Speaker 3 He looked good before. But he still has the power to float.
He can still float. Yeah.
He can float even higher now. Wow.

Speaker 5 He's going to be worried of the ozone layer.

Speaker 3 He's going to burn up up there. Isn't it sad with Ozempic that there will be no more of the whales?

Speaker 3 We won't have any more.

Speaker 3 I think that's the main thing people are worried about.

Speaker 6 That's why it's such a fraught

Speaker 6 conversation. People are like, the whale was so good.

Speaker 3 Man. Look what they took from you.

Speaker 3 I genuinely, if there was...

Speaker 3 If there was The Whale 2 and then Colin Ozempic, I would 1,000% go and see that movie.

Speaker 5 Starts with him jacking off and eating the meatball sub, and then Hong Chow comes in.

Speaker 3 Gives him an ejection.

Speaker 6 It's a smaller meatball sub.

Speaker 3 Yeah, just a smaller meatball sub.

Speaker 6 I'd watch that. I didn't watch the first whale, but I'd see the second.

Speaker 3 You haven't seen the first whale? I feel like I've heard it described enough on this podcast. Yeah.
That's fair. That I have a full picture of what it is.
It's really good. Yeah, it's good.

Speaker 3 I don't really... You told me, you know, like you gave us homework to, you know,

Speaker 3 to

Speaker 5 well then they don't want to be as fully all as fully formed as the whale on ozempec but like you know my thing is is

Speaker 3 uh

Speaker 3 someone who works for us yeah fish that's right uh he's our discord mods he's a discord mod I don't think he watches the show anymore or listens to

Speaker 3 the show notes anymore I think that we should do fish pop quizzes I think we should call fish and quiz him on past episodes. I think that's a good idea, yeah.
To see if he still watches the show.

Speaker 3 Fish pop quiz I guess is what it is is the segment that I'm pitching is that a play on something fish pop quiz you're saying it very fluidly as if it's like a riff on something it's not a riff on anything

Speaker 3 help me out here like a well

Speaker 3 fish food or fish pop fish pop

Speaker 3 pop fish that's great

Speaker 3 And we just test fish and see if he watches or listens to the show anymore. Yeah.
I like that. I think that's great.
I think that's a lot of fun. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I mean, he doesn't.

Speaker 5 He He doesn't. No, but that's part of the fun of it.
Just hearing it. Like, we'll say, like, what do you think this was? And then hear him try to formulate what

Speaker 3 he thought it could have been. Hey, we brought up the big green man himself, Frankenstein.
Maybe Dracula's out this year. Frankenstein's in.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Dracula could be out this year and Frankenstein could be in.

Speaker 3 That's a total, it's a strong possibility.

Speaker 6 In the year of Nosferatio.

Speaker 3 Yeah. See, there's, it's too popular now.
I think, I think Frankenstein.

Speaker 6 But yeah, maybe you Zig when everyone else is out. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Dracula out, Frankenstein in. Could be, yeah.
Let's see. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Uh, Zach, did you have one? Yeah, I've.

Speaker 6 I one is, I think, you know, you have a few go-to impressions. Yeah.
Bill Clinton is a regular presence on this.

Speaker 3 That's 100%.

Speaker 6 I think one of you has to develop a Jimmy Carter impression.

Speaker 5 Yeah, your time is right.

Speaker 3 Give it a go.

Speaker 5 See what you got. Well, he's like, he's kind of a southern guy, right?

Speaker 3 Yeah, you could do him more recently.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 3 goat starter

Speaker 3 at the time of this recording he was uh basically buried a couple days ago i believe

Speaker 5 um i think that guy he was kind of a southern man right he was kind of doing a caught off hand me that hammer over there yeah like i'm gonna build a habitat for humanity

Speaker 3 yeah hand me the hammer

Speaker 3 Something like that.

Speaker 3 Hand me the hammer. I'm pretty good, too.
Pretty good, yeah.

Speaker 6 I just think he would be a good president, you know. Yeah, right, yeah.
Balance out.

Speaker 5 Well, because also like a wholesome sort of president. He's not like a horny president.
He's not like a corrupt president. He's all a humble peanut farmer.
Exactly.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 5 Exactly. My wife and I have been married for 80 years.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.
That's all right.

Speaker 5 That's pretty good.

Speaker 3 There's something there.

Speaker 5 I need an angle on it.

Speaker 3 10-year anniversary live show in Quincy. That's not really a bit, but

Speaker 3 I'm pitching that we should do a 10-year anniversary show in Quincy. It should be out here.

Speaker 6 If we do the anniversary show, meet in the middle, do it in Ohio.

Speaker 5 I would do it in Omaha, Nebraska. We got to go to Omaha.

Speaker 3 We have talked about doing a Nebraska show for a long time.

Speaker 7 We just drove through Nebraska, and let me tell you, it smells like cow shit there.

Speaker 3 Hey, that's our whole place. Honestly, probably better with our listeners.
That's what I'm saying. It's perfect for us.
Smells like cow shit in here, too, honestly.

Speaker 3 Amelia, are you happy that you came back from safety and a relaxing vacation? Yeah, this is great. We told you not to come.
We told you not to go.

Speaker 8 I want to be here.

Speaker 3 This is for you.

Speaker 3 God bless you.

Speaker 3 I think we could do a two-part 10-year anniversary show, one in Quincy, one in L.A. We'll talk about it.
We'll figure it out.

Speaker 5 Because I also feel like there's...

Speaker 9 We're doing Quincy Weiger here in L.A.

Speaker 3 That's funny. Hey, that works.

Speaker 5 It is the 10th year of the podcast, as Susser mentioned in the year-end wrap-up in 2024. We got to figure out exactly what to do when we reach that.

Speaker 5 I kind of almost feel like we should make that be a, that that episode should be a studio episode, but also it could be, maybe it's a live show out here.

Speaker 3 I don't fucking know. I think it's like the Disney thing of celebrating it throughout the whole year.
Sure, yeah.

Speaker 3 We should see, we should set like a segment of, oh, how you've grown. Maybe we highlight a listener what's happened in the last 10 years.
Oh, how they've grown.

Speaker 5 That's fun.

Speaker 3 Does it sound creepy, but what's wrong?

Speaker 6 No, I just don't even know where you'd begin.

Speaker 3 I don't even know where you'd begin to.

Speaker 6 I guess, yeah, check, have someone.

Speaker 3 Maybe it's physically. Maybe people have gotten bigger in 10 years, you know, like something.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 It sounds like you're describing a child. It sounds like you're talking about like a child who started listening when they were like, like 12 and now they're 22.

Speaker 3 If they're out there, that's perfect for the segment. Yes.

Speaker 5 Yeah, if we have a child, someone who started listening as a child and now they are an adult, we'd love to hear from you.

Speaker 3 Yeah, we'd love to hear from the former child, now adult. Well, we're all former child, now adults.
If you've had any like behavioral issues that have maybe been linked to that,

Speaker 3 it would be good to know. And oh, how you've grown.
You know what I'm saying? Something that says, like, oh, 10 years. You know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 All right, here's one. Nasferatu was mentioned.
I had this one. This is, this, I think, is a pretty, pretty straightforward one.

Speaker 5 Nasferhaktua.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah, that's great.

Speaker 5 So I don't know. Has everyone seen Nasferatu? Anyone else in it? I've never seen it, yeah.
Okay, so there's a voice in Nasferatu. So this will really, this might only make sense if

Speaker 5 you've seen the movie, but there's the Nasferatu guy is a voice.

Speaker 3 And spit on that neck.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's good. Or

Speaker 6 spit blood on that thing.

Speaker 3 That's good. That's really good.

Speaker 5 Yeah, because he's more. He is more guttural than I am Nusferatu, woman.

Speaker 5 You will come to me on the third night, and I will hock to her and spit on that neck.

Speaker 3 So, yeah, something like that. Is that Jimmy Carter?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm just thinking of

Speaker 3 people so afraid of these fires listening listening to this episode and being relieved hearing your Nas Feratua

Speaker 3 bringing a lot of relief to people with your Nas Feratua.

Speaker 3 I like it.

Speaker 6 I like that gives me an idea. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Of

Speaker 6 Nasfer Haktua.

Speaker 3 And, you know, Nas in Fast and Furious is the gas that makes cars go fast. So I don't know.
Maybe she's in a fast car.

Speaker 3 I like that a lot. That is good.
Or like Vin Diesel pushes a button and then she spits on

Speaker 3 the gears. Yeah, when you're in the car, you need someone to spit.
You have a,

Speaker 3 yeah.

Speaker 3 Um,

Speaker 3 uh,

Speaker 3 just because we said it's more of a Frankenstein ear than uh

Speaker 3 Franken, Franken, Hoch,

Speaker 3 Franken Hoch Tua, Frank Tua, Frank Tua, Frank Tua, yeah.

Speaker 5 I'm trying to think what the angle would be.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 6 I mean, it looks maybe Hoctua's monster.

Speaker 3 Hoctua's monster.

Speaker 3 She hasn't updated her podcast. She's gone missing since she did the Bitcoin scam.

Speaker 5 Yeah, she did the meme coin rug pull at scam and then basically fled the coop.

Speaker 3 You guys could do that. That is true.
That's true.

Speaker 5 A meme coin rug pull could be like a nice way for us to make a lot of money really quick. Especially if we say

Speaker 3 what's that? Doe coin.

Speaker 5 We do coin and we say like it's it's like for disaster relief. So we have an extra layer of people being like thinking we're being, you know, very.

Speaker 3 Sounds Sounds pretty perfect.

Speaker 6 Something to consider.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 Then we get the fuck out of there, move to Abu Dhabi.

Speaker 3 We move in with Kevin Spacey and Tel Aviv.

Speaker 5 I had one. This is this is just Zach because you're here.
This could just be a fun thing we could say on the show.

Speaker 5 When we talk about cherry Coke, if we say we call it a Zach Coke, it's like kind of like a nice little nod to our guests.

Speaker 3 Yeah, that's kind of mine.

Speaker 5 I was drinking a Zach. You just say it like casually, casually, like as the movie's got a Zach Coke.

Speaker 3 Well, you could say Zach Cherry Coke.

Speaker 5 Zach Cherry Coke. You know what? Zach Cherry Coke might be bad.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Zach Cherry Coke. That's an answer.

Speaker 3 That's an honor. Okay, great.

Speaker 6 That's an honor. Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 I like that a lot, too. Okay.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Here's, wait, here's the, the, I don't know if anyone has any others, but I have one more.

Speaker 5 So last year we had a lot of fun with like Elvis Harkinen, which was based off of Austin Butler, who plays both Fade Ralph of Harkinen and Dune, and then Elvis and Elvis, the Buzzler movie.

Speaker 5 Obviously, now we have another Dune star who's in a biopic, Timothy Chalamay,

Speaker 5 is playing. You know, he's Paul Atreid, he's Muadib

Speaker 5 in a Dune, but he's also Bob Dylan in a complete unknown. So there's a natural opportunity for Muaddee Dylan.

Speaker 3 Muab Dylan?

Speaker 5 Muad Dylan, yeah. Maybe Muad Dylan is the better

Speaker 5 portmanteau.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Muad Dylan. Do you have any examples of how this would go?

Speaker 5 I want to save some of this. I do have one, but I want to save it for when Casey Dunahue is back because I know Casey's a big Dune head.

Speaker 5 But just a taste, taste, like if you were like,

Speaker 3 How does it feel

Speaker 5 to be stuck on Dune

Speaker 5 wearing a still suit

Speaker 3 like a shy-halude? Wow.

Speaker 3 Can I say to you that you've made me

Speaker 3 uncomfortable in the past, and I don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable than you

Speaker 3 going into. I don't know what

Speaker 3 Dylan. I i don't know

Speaker 6 what i mean you don't know i'm very clear that's

Speaker 3 i just don't know what you think bob dylan's deal is i'm very confused that you went like this for bob dylan you made a face that i don't understand that might have been more from the muad muad muad oh it was that was yeah a little from calling a little from call of okay all right yeah yeah yeah what do you what how would you do a dylan he sounds like this but they're doing good i wouldn't say they want to do this

Speaker 3 i don't know

Speaker 3 my head is shaking i'd probably do Bob Wonka.

Speaker 3 I like that. Bob Wonka is good.

Speaker 6 Hey, man.

Speaker 6 Do you want some candy?

Speaker 3 Oh, that's good.

Speaker 3 Single Bob Dylan song.

Speaker 6 Is he the one who does, hey, man, take a walk in the wilds?

Speaker 3 No, he's not. Who's that? That is

Speaker 3 Lou Reed, yeah. Yeah, I would do Lou Wonka.

Speaker 6 Hey, man.

Speaker 6 But he still sounds like Bob Dylan.

Speaker 3 Here comes the story of the fizzy lifting drink. That would be Bob Gillen.
Yeah, I mean, it's not good. No one likes it, but that is.

Speaker 3 I have a segment pick. Okay, great.

Speaker 3 If you have to go to the bathroom, you go, bathroom breakdown. And then you leave.
And then the guests who stay here break down the episode

Speaker 3 when the other person's in the bathroom. So we don't stop rolling.
It turns into content.

Speaker 5 But are you saying, like, if you have to go to the bathroom, you leave, I stay here, or do I also leave?

Speaker 3 No, no, just the person who has to go to the bathroom, the person who has to piss and or shit or come leaves and goes to the bathroom. You guys break down.

Speaker 6 You have to be honest about which you're going to be.

Speaker 3 When you come back, you have to admit which one you're going to do.

Speaker 7 On average, how often do you leave to go to the bathroom, but you're just coming?

Speaker 3 Let's go. Should we? Non-zero.

Speaker 5 Because I think you have a better sense of what this is. So let's, we'll audition it real quick, and I'll just, I'll just, I'll, I'll be.

Speaker 3 I have to go to the bathroom. You do? Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 Okay. So you want to try it out?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah.
Okay, great. Bathroom breakdown.

Speaker 5 All right, Mitch is going to step away real quick.

Speaker 6 Is there a theme song maybe that can go in?

Speaker 3 Yeah, We'll work on it. Okay, great.

Speaker 5 Jemmy is very interested in where Mitch is going. Amelia's closing the door.
How do you think the episode is going so far?

Speaker 6 I'm having a lot of fun.

Speaker 3 I'm having a lot of fun too.

Speaker 6 I still am still thinking about

Speaker 6 the bone-to-pick segment and how I dropped it in the middle of the wildfire.

Speaker 3 No, that wasn't your fault.

Speaker 5 That was our fault. And also, I think it was great.
I think it was a nice little moment of energy and a moment of levity.

Speaker 6 Yeah, other than that, though, it's been, I'd say, aces.

Speaker 5 Does your wife

Speaker 5 want to remain anonymous, or would she want to shout out on the episode?

Speaker 6 That I don't know. Okay.
I don't know.

Speaker 5 Well,

Speaker 5 I'll say shout out to Zach's partner. Thank you very much for listening.

Speaker 6 Yeah, she's watching. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 We've sent you to the hospital twice.

Speaker 3 No, only once. Only once.
Okay.

Speaker 6 And it wasn't the hospital. It was just, she got really mad.
She got so mad she had to go to the doctor.

Speaker 7 Didn't she also test positive for COVID once while you were recording with us?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I was on the recording with you and she did get COVID.

Speaker 3 So hopefully you're okay.

Speaker 3 call me

Speaker 5 do you have like okay

Speaker 5 you you're someone who works a lot as you know you're traveling for for uh to act and and the the way this work this profession works now you're in different cities all the time you go to a new city which is at the bathroom right now yeah like are you

Speaker 6 how conscious of you are like of like figuring out the bathroom situation in your local environment like are you like like i need like my hotel is going to get the job done or do you also like i need to know like a like a six block radius i'm i'm not shy there's a lot of you guys are worried about how the bathroom sounds here there's a lot of bathroom uh stress i'm not i'm not worried about any of my bathroom situations you're you're probably i'm loud and proud in the toilet yeah you're probably also correctly like aware that like no one's really paying attention to what you're doing in there but i'll talk to you while i'm in there if you want will you really yeah but you talked about bathroom stuff

Speaker 5 were we not supposed to no that was just you were we talked about the episode but we transitioned to bathrooms okay all right all right that's fair i was asking zach when he's on the the road and he goes to a new city, like, how does he figure out the bathroom situation?

Speaker 5 Because I know that's, that's a big thing for either of us.

Speaker 6 I'll, I'll, I'll shit anywhere or piss anywhere.

Speaker 3 Yeah, same.

Speaker 5 I, I, uh, wait, Mitch, what did you do in there?

Speaker 3 I came. Okay.
Um,

Speaker 3 I, so.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you can do that without a shower, maybe.

Speaker 3 There's a drain in there. Um, in the middle of the floor.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It works.
Um,

Speaker 3 I, uh, I was, this was an issue last night. I went with Paul Russ and I got ye rustic last night.
We got some wings. How fun.
And I thought I had an emergency bathroom situation. And

Speaker 3 that was one of the spots where I could not, I wouldn't be able to use the bathroom.

Speaker 3 It just is too, it would be like people will be knocking on the door almost immediately, I feel like.

Speaker 6 Oh, I have a great bathroom story to tell. Oh, that's serious.
And you can use this technique. Okay, great.

Speaker 6 On a recent road trip, I was at a gas station and there was a bathroom that was, there was a huge line outside of it.

Speaker 6 And inside, you heard moaning, like full-on moaning, like something was going on in there.

Speaker 3 Ooh.

Speaker 6 But it's just one person.

Speaker 3 Ooh.

Speaker 3 Sounds like what missed just happened.

Speaker 6 But then this man came out. Yeah.
And we all watched him walk to the cat, the cash register, and say, hey, just so you guys know, I cleaned up in there. I left it spotless.

Speaker 6 So whatever happened in there, if there's anything amiss, it was not me.

Speaker 3 And we were all like,

Speaker 3 what? You're overplaying your hand, buddy. Like,

Speaker 6 no one would have have brought it up, but he was very adamant that he was like, I cleaned when I left, you could have eaten off that floor.

Speaker 6 But if something is in there, it happened after I left.

Speaker 3 And then he was also moaning.

Speaker 6 No one's been in there. And then he just got in his car and left.

Speaker 3 That's insane.

Speaker 5 This is a situation, to quote Mitch, of Methink doth protest.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you did.

Speaker 5 That's like the kid at my music camp who was like, just so you know, I didn't sperm in my sleeping bag.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 If you say I didn't.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 First off, probably no one would even notice your sleeping bag was wet. But now we all think that.
And now we're all going to be telling that story 30 years later.

Speaker 6 So try that next time.

Speaker 3 Man,

Speaker 3 to be doing whatever that man was doing there, I could not.

Speaker 6 I think it was coming out

Speaker 3 all three. Yeah.

Speaker 5 that's rough yeah do you so you talk about somebody you're not bashful in the bathroom but the for me like the thing the the red line for me is if like a custodian is in there cleaning up I'm just like I'm not I can't go I like I had that happen the other day I was like going into the and there's there's these very nice public restrooms um in Culver City and and I went in there and it was one of the things I went in there and like the janitors working is like oh sorry and I popped out and uh the guy and then the guy's like no no you're fine come on in like he's trying to wave me in and I've got to go like, you know,

Speaker 5 I got to floor it. Like, I got to make a mess in there.

Speaker 3 And I got to make a mess in there. I can't do it.

Speaker 5 I just can't do it with this guy here who's like working.

Speaker 6 He's like, the go-ahead, I'll go for it.

Speaker 5 I just went in there, I like washed my hands, and then I left. And I just like, I was like, I can't do this in front of this guy.

Speaker 5 It'd be too, I know he doesn't care. Like, that's he probably encounters that all the time.

Speaker 3 Maybe even, he maybe even would like it.

Speaker 6 He might have gone home that day and been like, I was so close.

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Speaker 5 All right, we got to talk about Big Mamas and Big Papa's Pizzeria. This is an LA-based pizza chain, kind of appropriate considering we're, you know, 100%.

Speaker 3 100%.

Speaker 5 This is a city institution that I would say is somewhat beloved. I feel like

Speaker 5 when I got out here originally, it opened in 1997.

Speaker 5 It was kind of like a, like, oh yeah, this is kind of one of the LA spots. This is one of one of the pizza spots that like will always be solid, will always be there for you.

Speaker 3 I don't know if it's ever been considered good, quote unquote.

Speaker 5 It's not by like, hey, this is like the, this is the place to go to where you want to like impress somebody from out of town.

Speaker 5 But if like, if you live here and you just want a good pie, it's like a very solid spot.

Speaker 3 Back in the back, especially back in like UCB days or whatever, it would be like, hey, we ordered like five big mamas and papas pizzas and they would be decently cheap and

Speaker 3 reasonably priced,

Speaker 5 available for the working class and also like a step above kind of the big national chains.

Speaker 5 It was founded in 97, as I mentioned, by brothers Aro and Alan Agakian, Agakanian. It has an Armenian influence to their pizza menu, and it's not the only LA area pizzeria that is like this.

Speaker 5 It is also the Guinness World Record holder for the largest deliverable pizza,

Speaker 5 the Giant Sicilian, which is four and a half feet by four and a half feet or one meter, 37 centimeters squared. It's a big boy.

Speaker 5 They have a special giant coffin-sized container on the top of their delivery vehicles just for this huge pizza.

Speaker 6 Which is how I even heard of this place. I would see the cars driving around with a special rack on top.
And I was like, what's going on with this?

Speaker 3 Yes, it is.

Speaker 3 It was a gimmick. It was a very big, I feel like it was, they still exist.

Speaker 6 So we saw one today.

Speaker 5 We did. We saw one of the delivery cars with the giant.

Speaker 3 When I finally go, it's probably how my body's going to be transported out of my house.

Speaker 5 They also now have the world's biggest pizza slice, the Big Papa's slice, which we will get to.

Speaker 3 Which maybe we got today.

Speaker 5 Beyond that,

Speaker 5 its claim to fame is that Elenda Jennis gave out Big Mamas and Big Papa's pizza slices to celebrities when she was hosting the 2014 Oscars.

Speaker 6 I didn't know that. Yeah.

Speaker 3 That's such a nice movie. Isn't that nice? Yeah.

Speaker 5 She's nice. She's famously, famously nice.
I was thinking about that. Imagine being the poor PA who had to take care of Ellen's pizza order.

Speaker 3 You better get it right, you little fuck. I'm sorry.

Speaker 3 Don't look at me.

Speaker 3 She gave away. Oh, that's what she gave out at the...

Speaker 5 At the Oscars, yes. Yes.
There was like a bit, right? Like she gave out pizza.

Speaker 3 Didn't she do a self-she did a selfie?

Speaker 5 That's what people remember, but there was a pizza thing she did, too.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 6 So it was almost involved in the greatest selfie ever.

Speaker 3 Almost, yeah. Yeah, it was almost, it was almost involved in the greatest.

Speaker 6 Aren't a couple of your guys in that?

Speaker 3 I believe Spacey's in there.

Speaker 3 A few of our guys got in the picture. There's some overlap with that photo in the Doughboys guests of previous years.

Speaker 5 There's 17.

Speaker 3 What year was that? Was that 2014, I think?

Speaker 5 2014. 17 locations in L.A.
LA County.

Speaker 5 So, Zach, you're not from LA. No.
This is an L.A. institution, something of an L.A.
institution. This was a place that you pitched.
Why big mamas and big tapas?

Speaker 3 Well, I,

Speaker 6 you know, I spend the time in L.A. occasionally.
Sure.

Speaker 6 And like I said, I've seen the cars driving around.

Speaker 6 And

Speaker 6 I was trying to think of like, what's something we could do. As a vegetarian, pizza is often a great option.
There's a lot of things you can do.

Speaker 3 And then I remember that big slice. The big slice.
And I thought, I got to try this thing. The big slice was.

Speaker 6 Because there's what other context am I going to get the big slice? Because I don't live here. So like,

Speaker 3 we were chanting big slice in the text chain. Yeah.
Yeah. We just started writing big slice, big slice.

Speaker 3 I did pull a little bit of a psychological maneuver on YouTube where I pitched it before Mitch, I think, woke up.

Speaker 3 And so

Speaker 3 Weiger and I were talking about it.

Speaker 6 And then before Mitch could even weigh in, I said, come on, Mitch, back me up.

Speaker 3 Weiger's trying to stop me from being allowed to try the big slice.

Speaker 3 And then Weiger was like, what the fuck? No, I like the idea. And then I do think my first, I think my first text to

Speaker 3 in response was big slice.

Speaker 5 Weiger wasn't trying to kill the big slice.

Speaker 6 I had to be sure. Yeah, no,

Speaker 3 the well, look, let's be clear. I'll probably get a little bit of a kid.
No, I'm never going to kill the big slice.

Speaker 3 I am the big slice.

Speaker 3 Hey, new bit. Big slice.

Speaker 3 I like that.

Speaker 5 Yeah, because you have Mr. Slice, but how is the big slice different?

Speaker 3 Is it like just like

Speaker 3 my viewpoint on some stuff? You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 Let's check in with Mr. Slice with the big slice.

Speaker 3 I think the fire started because we didn't accept Kevin Spacey back in Hollywood.

Speaker 3 Like a thing like that, basically. Yeah, that's yeah.
All right, I like that. Yeah, kind of like your two cents.
Yeah.

Speaker 5 So we went in person to the Glendale location. The Glendale location is not the original, but on the website, they brag about its larger square footage.

Speaker 5 They were saying, like, this is the model of the new mamas and big papas dine-in experience. So we're like, you know what? That's actually probably a good one to visit to see what that's like.

Speaker 5 They do have a bar there. They do have like alcohol service.

Speaker 3 Look, the Glendale test never fails. The Glendale is just the nicer, the locations are nicer up in Glendale.

Speaker 6 And that ended up, the size of the inside did end up being important and relevant to it.

Speaker 5 It was, absolutely.

Speaker 3 100%.

Speaker 5 One thing I will say that I like about this, you know,

Speaker 5 especially someone who's not drinking right now, I'm...

Speaker 3 Julie's deciding to go back to Palm Switzerland.

Speaker 7 She just texted me bathroom break.

Speaker 3 Bathroom breakdown?

Speaker 5 So how do you think the episode's going so far?

Speaker 6 I've been pretty stellar since the last breakdown.

Speaker 3 Okay, great. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 What did you guys talk about when I was gone? Can you say?

Speaker 6 Talked about taking shits.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 5 It actually was a lot of bathroom talk. Yeah.

Speaker 3 You know what? I can't eat corn anymore, I found out.

Speaker 6 This is a different twist on the bathroom breakdown. You're breaking down your bathroom.

Speaker 3 I can't do corn.

Speaker 7 I feel like you've been speculating on this for like two years now, so you've confirmed.

Speaker 3 I think I'm

Speaker 3 confirmed corn is a...

Speaker 3 I don't think I can digest it. Just agitates the guts.
Pubcorn in. I mean, like, if I eat a small pupcorn, I think I'm okay.
But if I get bigger sizes

Speaker 3 or corn nibble, you know, I can't do it.

Speaker 5 You get an ear of corn that's off the table.

Speaker 3 I don't know if I can do it. I think it hurts my stomach too much.
I know. It bums me out.
I love corn. What about a tortilla?

Speaker 3 I'm I'm a flower tortilla guy more than corn tortilla.

Speaker 7 Maybe because the corn doesn't agree with the tom.

Speaker 3 Could be. I think that's what it is.
It's sad. Sad to me.

Speaker 5 They have, so one of the things they have at the Glendale location is they have a little

Speaker 5 fridge of artisan pops, which is really fun. And they have a bunch of them.
Yeah, you got one of them right there, Zach.

Speaker 5 I got the,

Speaker 5 speaking of Fallout, I got a Fallout Nuca-Cola. They had one of those varietals, and they had, it was a, a mango, or no, it was not mango.
It was a peach. No, it was a mango peach, right?

Speaker 5 I think that's what it was. It was really, really tasty.
I really enjoyed it.

Speaker 3 Peach mango flavor. Peach mango.
Thank you, Emma. I got myself a Malibu soda in honor of the Malibu itself.
And it was a pina colada soda. It was very

Speaker 3 sweet. It tasted very

Speaker 3 blue.

Speaker 6 And I got a hatch green chili flavored soda, which was the smell of it was horrible. It smelled like you opened up a can of green chilies.
And how did it taste? It really tastes like chili.

Speaker 6 It was fine, but it was honestly pretty nondescript, the flavor.

Speaker 3 It was pretty generic. They were very nice to us at the end of the day.
They were like, go ahead and take us soda because I think we had, we probably spent a good chunk of

Speaker 3 cash in there for the day. You know what I mean?

Speaker 6 Like, we ordered an astonishing amount of food.

Speaker 3 We did, yes.

Speaker 5 This is after the woman who was bringing us our food, who was very nice, but she said, you ordered a lot of pizza

Speaker 6 and she and she she kind of tried to be like i mean i get it sometimes i order too much food too

Speaker 3 but we ordered at the end of the day we had two full large pizzas that we brought back here which which uh our team i think ate did you guys have a bite of any of them we didn't have any yet oh no anything about it but i didn't know there was pizza i'm gonna get it we did a bad job amelia did you have any pizza no i just uh took a piss okay Well, we weren't asking, we weren't asking.

Speaker 3 We didn't mean right now. We meant in general.

Speaker 3 You know what? She is supposed to say what she did. When you come back from

Speaker 3 the bathroom breakdown, you are supposed to say what you did. And she did.

Speaker 6 I actually, one of my ideas for New Bay is that Amelia should host one episode.

Speaker 3 We would. Oh, girl, though.
Yeah. Here's the question: do we have to come in at all?

Speaker 6 That's up to Amelia.

Speaker 9 You can watch. Fuck.

Speaker 7 Yeah, you have to sit back here. Yeah.

Speaker 3 yeah, it sounded so good to not have to come in and do that. We'd have to be here, okay.

Speaker 5 But I'm down for a role reversal. I'm down for us to sit over at the desktop.

Speaker 3 You're gonna work the fucking, you're gonna edit and live. Oh, man, I can figure that out.
No, you can't. I absolutely can't.
No, you can't.

Speaker 5 I used to be a professional video editor.

Speaker 3 What are you talking about? Oh, shut the fuck up. What did you edit? I did fucking all my funnier die videos.

Speaker 5 I did a bunch of funnier die videos.

Speaker 3 I voted die on so many of those things. They suck.

Speaker 5 You sent my videos to Crypt. I said,

Speaker 3 fucking sent your videos right to the Crypt.

Speaker 3 Fucking cryptkeeper down there got him.

Speaker 3 This sucks. That's it down there.

Speaker 5 Doesn't even have a pun.

Speaker 3 He's just like, it's bad.

Speaker 3 The cryptkeeper was, was the cryptkeeper involved with funnier die at all? Was he in charge of the crypt?

Speaker 5 I don't think the crypt keeper was explicitly tied to the crypt. No, the funnier die crypt where all the videos that died would be sent.
Okay.

Speaker 5 No, I know, I know Premiere, I know Final Cut, I know After Effects. I could figure out a live edit.

Speaker 3 I was trying to think of some a bad funnier die video that you did, but I couldn't really think of any funnier die video you did besides the big ones, which everyone loves. Yeah.
Okay.

Speaker 3 There's a few bad ones that you did. Well, I made a bunch of them.
Okay. Yeah.

Speaker 3 There was none that were in the crypt at all.

Speaker 5 No, I didn't really get to the crypt. You had to be really, like, it had to like be overwhelmingly die to get to the crypt.

Speaker 3 They just took away the crypt at one point, didn't they? Because it was like too mean to send a thing to the crypt.

Speaker 5 Well, yeah, because then if a celebrity would do like, hey, I'm going to go do, you know, I'm going to give up my

Speaker 5 Ian Zering is like, hey, I'm going to go do a Funnier Die video. And then people are like, this sucks.
And then he'd be like, well, why did I do that for no money? And he'd be upset. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So they were like, oh, I guess we're going to get rid of Ian Zering's Pepsi Santa or whatever. Yeah, exactly right.
You know what I have noticed? A lot of thin, there was a thin Santa this year.

Speaker 3 I don't like the movement towards thin Santa. Are you talking about in Red Juan?

Speaker 3 Well, that too. But then also, there's like,

Speaker 3 yes, that is, that is, I mean,

Speaker 3 I don't like JK

Speaker 3 Simmons.

Speaker 5 J.K.

Speaker 3 Simmons. Tomorrow War veteran.

Speaker 3 I don't like his. Thank you for your service.
Thank you for your service, J.K. Simmons.

Speaker 3 I don't like his Jack Santa, but then there was also a commercial with a Buff Santa. What is this?

Speaker 5 Isn't he, isn't the, the Buff Santa, though, kind of like, he's kind of got a, he's kind of a thick boy, right?

Speaker 3 Am I thinking about John Tanta? I mean, like, he's a big guy, but he's like, he's like, he's in shape. I don't like it.

Speaker 7 Are you talking about the John Travolta Santa commercial?

Speaker 3 No, I don't like that either. He's too, he's too, he's too in shape, too.
I don't like it. Santa is, Santa is not lying like 30% of my work every year.

Speaker 3 I don't like it moving away from big guys. True.
I don't like it.

Speaker 6 That's true. There aren't many roles for us.

Speaker 3 No, there's not.

Speaker 3 You can't have Santa.

Speaker 6 Santa, Grimace.

Speaker 3 Who else do we have? That's kind of

Speaker 3 it. Jabba.
Jabba. Grimace.

Speaker 6 And they're making fucking skinny Jabba.

Speaker 3 Yeah, Jabba's skinny now. Jabba's skinny now.
Yes.

Speaker 5 He's fucking jacked. Yes.

Speaker 3 Oh, is Epic?

Speaker 3 Jabba one on Oz Epic. The bear is going to be Jabba, right? Isn't he doing Jabba?

Speaker 5 The bear is doing Jabba's son.

Speaker 6 Same difference. I guess.

Speaker 5 Right? Isn't that? Isn't that on one of those? Is it like he's doing Zorba the Hut or something, right?

Speaker 3 On one of the Hutts. Depo Ozempic.

Speaker 5 See, this is the thing I didn't know that there was a.

Speaker 3 That was good. That sucks.
That was so much. That was good.
Oh, God. The fire should take over a fucking headgun.
We suck.

Speaker 5 I thought Hutts only spoke Hutties,

Speaker 5 but I guess there are some of the Star Wars, some of the animated canon, there is

Speaker 5 there are Hutts who are speaking a basic, which is the equivalent of English, the universal lingua of Prussia.

Speaker 3 There is, there is in Star Wars. There is, there's like one hut that's like, eh, I know that.
I am a hut.

Speaker 5 Yeah, and he, I believe that the bear is playing that guy.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's right.

Speaker 6 And is that character a big fella?

Speaker 7 Jubba the hut's son, Rod of the Hut.

Speaker 3 Rod of the Hutt.

Speaker 5 That's who it is. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah, and he's like... The huts are thin.
Yeah, the huts are thin. The huts are hunks.

Speaker 3 The huts are a hunk. The hut is a hunk.

Speaker 7 Mitch says he's doing the voice, so maybe the character will still be big.

Speaker 3 But the hut is

Speaker 6 even worse.

Speaker 3 The hut is a hunk. Yeah, the hut's a hunk.
That's fucking bullshit.

Speaker 5 That's what they're doing now.

Speaker 3 How about the big Sicilian? Who plays the big Sicilian?

Speaker 5 Zach Efron.

Speaker 3 Zach Efron is the big Sicilian?

Speaker 3 They cast him as the world's largest pizza.

Speaker 6 First, Mitch can't do the voice of Apu or Cleveland, and now he fucking can't do.

Speaker 3 I'm wrong.

Speaker 3 Man, if they make the Big Bamas and Big Papas movie and it's not a big guy, I'm going to be upset.

Speaker 5 So we got to talk about, by the way, there is a Big Mama and there's a Big Papa as part of their signage.

Speaker 3 We were all surprised to see that it was way more horny than we ever thought it was.

Speaker 6 Right. What do you say?

Speaker 6 There was some horniness going on.

Speaker 5 There's a double entendre that you pointed out involving the big slice.

Speaker 6 So they have two big slices. One is the big papa slice, which is like so big.
It's like, it's like five feet tall, basically. It's huge.

Speaker 6 Then they have the big mama slice, which is just like a big slice of pizza. But they have multiple posters with the two of them holding up each slice.

Speaker 6 And Big Papa says, my slice is much bigger than yours.

Speaker 3 And they have a little bit of a... A little twinkle.

Speaker 5 And Big Mama is like into it. Yeah.

Speaker 6 She's like, yeah, it is. She's like, it is.
It's a lot bigger.

Speaker 3 Yeah, which is bizarre. Cause why is she happy for his slice being bigger?

Speaker 5 He's a fucking size queen.

Speaker 3 He gets to go home.

Speaker 3 What do you think? And then his ass is in the box.

Speaker 5 That's true. His ass is in the box.
His ass is in the box.

Speaker 3 When you're taking off the big papa slices, it's revealed that it's his ass is in the back of the box.

Speaker 6 So you've been sort of eating his ass.

Speaker 3 Straight off his ass. Yes.
It's very bizarre.

Speaker 5 It's a little disorienting, and I don't know exactly what they're going for, but I think that's part of the fun. So

Speaker 5 we got a heart-shaped pizza. Yeah.
Well, that's one of the things they offer.

Speaker 3 And I asked them because we were like trying to figure out what pizza to get and we looked up and it was, there was a heart-shaped pizza. I was like, let's get the heart-shaped pizza.

Speaker 3 And I said to the guy, I was like, is this more of a pain in the ass to make? And he was like,

Speaker 3 and I was like, it seems like it is. It seems like it is, but

Speaker 5 he was like down to do it.

Speaker 3 He was, they were great. They were so down to do it.
They were great. Yeah.

Speaker 5 So they, so we got it, we got a heart-shaped pizza, which is basically the equivalent of a large pizza and in the heart form factor. We got it with a California crust, which has like an array.

Speaker 5 It has like some garlic and some basil on the crust.

Speaker 5 And then

Speaker 5 we got half cheese and then half pepperoni and onion.

Speaker 3 Yeah, red onion, which had been my favorite.

Speaker 5 I would have liked white onion more on a pizza. Yeah.
Red onion is, although I like red onion quite a bit.

Speaker 3 White onion doesn't go on a pizza. It just doesn't.
I don't think so.

Speaker 5 All that said, I think that was a, those are good slices. I was pretty happy with that pie.

Speaker 3 I was pretty happy with it too. There's something in it that

Speaker 3 I think that overall I was very happy with our meal in many ways, but like there was something about it that is just bland in a way. Like, I don't know if it's the sauce.

Speaker 5 Oh, no, it could have used,

Speaker 5 if there was like a jar of, you know, oregano and like a jar of parmesan, I would have just like just shaken that some bitch, you know, like gotten it on there because like it could have used some seasoning.

Speaker 5 It does kind of have like a plain character to it. It might just be that the sauce is not particularly seasoned.
I think that it is the sauce.

Speaker 3 I think it's a burning.

Speaker 6 There's something that they do, which I liked, is they bring you little cups of jalapenos.

Speaker 3 I do love the jalapenos.

Speaker 6 I love the pizza, which is not something I've encountered before.

Speaker 3 I added a little kick.

Speaker 6 I liked the texture of that pizza. It was nice and crisp.

Speaker 5 I liked that one. Yeah, nice texture, nice crust.
I did like the seasoning on the crust. I did throw those jalapenos on that.
I worked especially well on the cheese. And I'm a bit of a heat seeker.
So

Speaker 5 I did like having that extra bit of it.

Speaker 3 It came in the form of your favorite element on top of all of that. That's right.

Speaker 3 I thought that was a decent pie. And that was the most normal one we got.

Speaker 5 We also got the so well, some wings. Yeah, we got some wings.
And we just got the regular Buffalo wings. Zacky didn't have any of these.
You know, some drums, some flats. They were super nice.

Speaker 5 They gave us, we ordered six. They're like, here's nine.
They give us a few extra wings. Yeah.
We did it. We did finish those.
That was like, we, we

Speaker 5 got to order wings.

Speaker 3 You were eyeing my last wing. I saw it.
You said it. I thought you were full.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 5 Well, I, you had it.

Speaker 3 You got to have it. I, I took a

Speaker 6 nine.

Speaker 6 Who got five?

Speaker 3 You got five. Wait, I got five.
Yeah, you got five. You were looking for a six, you fucking sick fuck.
I thought I got four. No, you got five.
Wow.

Speaker 3 I had five.

Speaker 3 I wasn't going to eat it, but I took my injector out and I took some Zeppon for me.

Speaker 3 I was like, now I'm hungry again. I ate a wing.
It's like a reverse bait. You need to clinically know if being around Wagner affects the

Speaker 5 wings were solid. They just absolutely got the job done.

Speaker 3 Smelled good. Yeah.

Speaker 3 And it was very Trump-like.

Speaker 3 The follow-up was not.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 I can only be like Trump when I'm not thinking about it, when my true self is showing.

Speaker 5 We also got the egg gondola pizza. Now, this is a, this is their, you know, I mentioned it's, it's got, it's an Armenian, I believe it's an Armenian ownership.

Speaker 5 There is a, there's a Georgian dish called a kachapuri, which is this sort of thing, which is a, you know, like it's kind of like an open-faced calzone with an egg cracked in the middle of it, like kind of like an over-medium sort of egg.

Speaker 3 We love the kachapuri.

Speaker 3 I gotta work on it.

Speaker 5 Did you say those kachapuri were Georgian?

Speaker 3 Like me, Jimmy Carter?

Speaker 5 Not that Georgia, Jimmy Carter.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 5 Okay, so we got that.

Speaker 3 You're not trying. I don't know.

Speaker 5 Egg gondola pizza.

Speaker 3 Hey, thumbs up.

Speaker 3 Bill Clinton. Bill Clinton offering a tepid approval.

Speaker 6 I do want to have a president that can be mine. Yeah.
It can't be Trump.

Speaker 3 No. So

Speaker 6 we'll think about it, but I'd love to have one who I can do.

Speaker 5 Well, from the TV era, which I think are

Speaker 5 the impressions that people are aware of.

Speaker 3 George H.W.

Speaker 5 You got George H.W. Bush.
You got George W. Bush.
You got Obama. You got Clinton.
Clinton has been acclaimed. He was going to break your Trump.
You don't want to talk about it.

Speaker 6 Garfield, the one who got stuck in the tub?

Speaker 3 That was Taft.

Speaker 3 Taft. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Garfield got assassinated and died horribly.

Speaker 6 Maybe I'll do Garfield.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Ow, ow.

Speaker 3 Oh, too soon.

Speaker 5 We got the veggie egg gondola pizza, mozzarella, feta, butter, eggs, red onions, vine tomatoes, green bell peppers, and mushrooms. And as I mentioned, they just crack an egg into it.
Quite tasty.

Speaker 5 I like this dish. Really good.
Yeah, it's really yummy.

Speaker 3 It was, it was, you know what? It was the bite of the night.

Speaker 5 I think that was my favorite thing I had there in restaurant. Yeah.
Really, really nice.

Speaker 6 The egg at it. I thought there was butter, but now that you say butter, I'm going, there was butter.

Speaker 3 Butter is better.

Speaker 3 I think the butter butter helps with the, I think the butter helps quite a bit. That was, that was a tasty little, tasty little number wise.

Speaker 5 Over the producer's desk, how do we feel about a runny egg on top of something? Because I know it got kind of overplayed for a time, but in this context, that worked really well.

Speaker 3 I love it.

Speaker 7 That actually was a restaurant I used to work at after college, Salty Pig in Boston. That was like one of the things they did.

Speaker 7 You could add an egg to your pizza and put it right in the middle, and people would just like smash it and put it all over.

Speaker 3 That's fun. That's delish.

Speaker 8 I think next to cleaning your ears, opening a runny egg is the best non-sexual

Speaker 3 experience you ever have. Next to cleaning your ears using a q-tip or something.
Precisely.

Speaker 7 That's like the best non-sexual feeling.

Speaker 3 Yeah, right there.

Speaker 5 Cleaning your ears does feel really nice. I get what you're saying.
Mike, do you like an egg on top of something?

Speaker 3 Are you saying on pizza? Or on top of anything? Anything. I mean, I love it on a burger.
Yeah, yeah. But pizza, no.

Speaker 6 Do you want it on the burger? Do you like it runny or yeah?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah,

Speaker 3 I want a splash.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I'm with you.

Speaker 5 Baker Filmmaker on YouTube, do you like doing a, as a baker, you ever make yourself a pizza crust? You ever make anything that's kind of like a calzone?

Speaker 3 Yeah, I've actually made both pizza and calzone. Wow.
Yeah, I love making a pizza. I'm not very good at it because I have such a high standard for pizza, I think.

Speaker 3 But I can't, it doesn't stop me from trying.

Speaker 5 You know, also has a high standard for pizza. Mr.
Slice, who we go to now with the big slice.

Speaker 3 uh i think that the fire started because hollywood didn't

Speaker 3 except kevin spacey back

Speaker 6 so it's always

Speaker 3 it's not always

Speaker 3 it's not always a different thought

Speaker 3 A lot of the time it can be the same thought.

Speaker 5 What's on your mind right now? Yeah, we want you to be honest.

Speaker 5 We also got...

Speaker 3 I was just texting Amelia that I was going to ask to turn the air on more.

Speaker 7 I was gonna say, it feels warm in here.

Speaker 7 I'll go adjusting. I had to say, when we

Speaker 7 uploaded the pictures of your meal before you guys got here, and I was looking at them, and when that we pulled up a picture of that, Amelia went, Wow, that looks like a pocket pussy.

Speaker 3 Jesus Christ,

Speaker 3 something that

Speaker 8 I did not have sexual relations with that.

Speaker 3 Uh, what's it called again? Gondoli,

Speaker 3 you freak. We should have demanded that you stayed up in Palm Springs.

Speaker 3 That does not look like a pocket pussy, first of all.

Speaker 3 That does. Oh, my God.

Speaker 6 It depends on the model.

Speaker 7 In the picture, it doesn't look very big, I gotta say.

Speaker 3 It's pretty fucking sizable.

Speaker 6 It was pretty big.

Speaker 3 It's pretty damn big.

Speaker 3 It's too big.

Speaker 6 When you buy pocket pussies, you get the extra.

Speaker 6 You go extra small.

Speaker 3 So, of course, it doesn't look, you know.

Speaker 3 It's the only thing that that I.

Speaker 6 You go extra small and then you have to like put it in the dryer to screen.

Speaker 5 At the adult bookstore, excuse me, sir.

Speaker 3 Do you have any toddler fit pocket pussies?

Speaker 3 It's the only thing I wear that's the X the other way.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 You wear it around.

Speaker 3 That's not what they're for.

Speaker 3 Mom, leave it in the dryer. I'm trying to make it smaller.
I don't.

Speaker 3 I've never fucked a pocket pussy before. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I've never fucked, I've never fucked any, I've never fucked anything that's not, I've never fucked a thing. Sure.
I've never fucked a thing. Like, I'm not, I'm saying, I know you fucked an apple.

Speaker 3 That's why I said the apple thing earlier.

Speaker 3 But I like you, I've never fucked. I don't think I've ever fucked a thing, you know, besides a sock.
I don't think I've ever fucked a thing. Sure.
Sure, besides, besides a sock.

Speaker 3 Every man has

Speaker 3 every man has fucked a sock before.

Speaker 3 Mike is shaking his head no, but most men have fucked a sock.

Speaker 6 You, you, it sounds like you fucked your shower.

Speaker 3 Well, I didn't like fuck. I didn't like lay down and fuck the shower.
Yeah. I didn't fuck the hole in the shower.

Speaker 5 You're just making direct deposits.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

Speaker 5 So the veggie.

Speaker 3 It's like depositing 33 cents.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you can't do that. Where you cash a check for like 10, like, yeah, like five cents.
You can't withdraw yet. There's not enough in there.
You gotta build up the

Speaker 5 okay. So we got the, we did get the big deposit.

Speaker 3 The firefighters are like, why is there no water? And fucking gunk just shoots out. My gunk.

Speaker 3 All right, that wasn't fun. Sorry.

Speaker 3 If I was backing up the fire hydrants.

Speaker 6 I mean, there's no evidence that you weren't.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 5 The big slice. We did get the big slice.

Speaker 6 We did. We got big slice mode.

Speaker 5 We talked to the guy because it said at one point I'd read that you can only get one topping in the big slice.

Speaker 5 But then we're looking at the big slice and we're like, that has like the pictures they're using have so many toppings. So we just asked the guy.
He's like, yeah, you can get any pizza is a big slice.

Speaker 6 It seemed like he would have let us do anything. He would have let us do it.

Speaker 3 He would have been so nice. If we were like, hey, can we come back there? You'd probably have been like, yeah, sure.
He didn't care at all.

Speaker 3 He loved us. He was so nice.

Speaker 5 They were great.

Speaker 5 So we got the veggie pizza. And so this is mozzarella, mushrooms, red onions, green bell peppers, artichokes, black olives, fresh garlic, and vine tomatoes.

Speaker 5 Felt like there was enough daylight between that and some kind of the more Mediterranean take of the veggie egg gondola pizza that we got two different veggie pizza varietals.

Speaker 5 And I thought, here's what I'll say. The big slice is fucking big.
Like it's like it does not disappoint in terms of wow factor.

Speaker 6 It is a big slice. We had to put two tables together to fit the big slice on it.

Speaker 5 We not only had to put two tables together, there were two tables that we weren't sitting at. Yeah.
Because our other stuff was on, was occupying these tables.

Speaker 5 And we're like, we don't have room for this. So we, we, like, we had to get up and go to two other tables to get our.

Speaker 6 And when the guy helped us put two tables together, he also was like, you can have more tables if you want.

Speaker 3 He did offer us more tables. Like we were going to maybe have three or four tables

Speaker 3 in the place that didn't have too many tables to begin with. There was just a few tables there.

Speaker 3 Huge, look, I'm just going to say it off the bat. A little disappointing that it's just square slices cut into a big slice.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 We wanted, you and I wanted a big slice.

Speaker 5 I wanted an intact big slice.

Speaker 5 And it comes pre-cut, and I understand why they did that.

Speaker 3 Big Papa is holding up. He's holding a big slice.

Speaker 5 There's also a different sign where there's a different poster, which is

Speaker 5 a little buffoon who has fallen on his back and he's got the big slice over his torso like he can't get up.

Speaker 3 And an artist's representation of you and I in that picture. There's two doofuses.
We should have taken a picture because it's just two doofuses looking at him.

Speaker 5 Two idiots gawking at this guy.

Speaker 3 He's got a big slice on him. It is pretty close.
It is pretty close close to us.

Speaker 6 Just imagine a third guy here

Speaker 6 holding a big slice.

Speaker 3 Yeah, being covered, dying. I mean, should we eat the pizza? Help the guy?

Speaker 3 The only way to help him is to eat the pizza.

Speaker 3 I'm tough.

Speaker 3 I was slightly disappointed with the big slice in that way. And then

Speaker 3 also, this one was the one to me that felt like it needed the most seasoning. It felt like very

Speaker 3 bland vegetables on the big slice.

Speaker 5 A big shit, like again, a big shaker of oregano over the whole thing would have helped quite a bit. Or some red peppers.
Again, the jalapenos helped. The jalapenos busted up.

Speaker 3 I think that I didn't get a slice with the raw garlic on it. And I think that probably did help.
Yeah, raw garlic was nice.

Speaker 6 So here was my big slice experience. I was really excited about the big slice.

Speaker 3 Yes. That's sort of the main reason I came to Los Angeles.

Speaker 6 When it came out, I was thrilled. And I saw it laying out there on two and a half tables.
I was really excited.

Speaker 6 But the thing about the big slice is the magic disappears the second you take one of the small slices out.

Speaker 3 It stops. It's like a big slice.

Speaker 6 It's not a slice anymore. It's just a different shaped pizza.

Speaker 6 That being said, I did really like the raw garlic.

Speaker 6 You don't often get that on a pizza. You usually get like roasted garlic or whatever, but I thought that added a nice little bite and crunch to the slices that I had.

Speaker 3 Something that Nosferat Chu would not like is the garlic on this big slice. No, for sure.

Speaker 3 But I wish I had some of it because the rest of it was very, it was very blend. Now, here's what I think.
Yeah. I think you might have to come back.

Speaker 3 We might have to do Big Mama's and Pubs again and get the big pizza. Because I will say, the big pizza is maybe more fun than the big slice.

Speaker 5 The Great Sicilian, first off, again, the wow factor is there. It is a fucking huge pizza.
If you you ever see that some bitch in person, it is gigantic.

Speaker 3 Lee Rosenstein, who is producing Armin and Bugman's movie. That's right.

Speaker 3 Which I shot a day of and Monday in Malibu, came in the next morning, woke up at five, drove into Malibu, and they were like, the winds are too strong. I was like, the winds, and then

Speaker 3 everything happened.

Speaker 5 You left your air fryer plugged in in the trailer.

Speaker 3 My air fryer had nothing to do with whatever's going on.

Speaker 3 But they had to push the shoe. They were shooting this week, and I hope that

Speaker 3 they're able to to fit you know

Speaker 3 soon in the in the scope of everything else that's the little lower end of stuff, but you know like a lot of work and stuff like that It was it's it's it's sad when there's any work in California and then you know this this happens

Speaker 5 Yes, and and I know

Speaker 5 we were talking about some some other stuff that was like just about to get going in L.A. again is just about to start shooting in L.A.

Speaker 5 And then they're just like oh sorry, you know, and it's just just when work is starting to come back after the strikes. It's kind of a bummer, this natural disaster.

Speaker 3 I want to help

Speaker 3 you from the shoot and it got super windy and it it was nerve-wracking. And then I broke out in Poison Ivy on my

Speaker 3 Poison Ivy in the shoot, too. Oh, man.

Speaker 5 Which is so this is a Batman movie?

Speaker 3 I'm wearing my C-Pap as Bane.

Speaker 6 You said you've never fucked a thing?

Speaker 3 You get Poison Ivy all over this whole

Speaker 3 situation.

Speaker 3 You're implying that I fucked a bushel of poison ivy?

Speaker 3 I don't know.

Speaker 3 I do have it on my legs, and

Speaker 3 I am worried that I have it on my crotch. Yeah, that sucks.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 I feel like you'd know by now if you had it on your legs.

Speaker 3 I'm pretty sure that. Honestly, I got it really light, and I wonder if it's because

Speaker 3 I got a rub down from the.

Speaker 3 Sorry, what is this routine?

Speaker 3 They took my makeup off. Yeah.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 they rubbed off my makeup. And so I think that they used...
I already called a rub down.

Speaker 3 I got

Speaker 3 that happened. And so they used, they used,

Speaker 3 oh, God. They used alcohol.
They used alcohol rubs on my arms. Yeah.
And I think that that saved me.

Speaker 3 I think that maybe saved me. Like, I think it's just like a light case of, it's on my legs and on my arms a little bit, but it's not too, too.

Speaker 6 Can you just check and see if it on your thigh looks at all like the tiger tag?

Speaker 3 I would never get a tattoo. I don't know.

Speaker 3 I would want to scrub it off. I would never be able to do it.

Speaker 5 First of all, I think as actors, it's not the best idea professionally because, like, you know, you find yourself in, then it has to be covered up, and that's a whole thing.

Speaker 5 But, but yeah, I understand.

Speaker 5 I kind of wasn't sure if I was ever going to get one, and then I got one.

Speaker 3 You know, I kind of love it. Yeah.
I like that you did.

Speaker 6 Speaking of the Big Sicilian, by the way, on our way out, we noticed that they have an eating option where if you can finish the Big Sicilian with eight people within, was it two hours?

Speaker 3 Yes. Yeah.

Speaker 6 You get $1,000.

Speaker 3 $1,000.

Speaker 3 And I think we have to assemble a squad.

Speaker 6 We could do that.

Speaker 3 We could assemble a squad.

Speaker 7 We have a four-inch giant Sicilian pizza challenge, eight contestants, two hours, $1,000.

Speaker 6 I feel like, I honestly feel like I could do it by myself.

Speaker 3 And so. We got Gabris and

Speaker 3 maybe Wager. I don't know yet.

Speaker 5 Here's the thing. Like, I love to eat.
I am not someone with a huge appetite. I'm not a bottomless bit.

Speaker 5 I used to be more of that kind of guy, but now as I've gotten older, like I just have a smaller appetite.

Speaker 3 However, Natalie might be that.

Speaker 5 That's what I was going to say.

Speaker 5 Natalie can absolutely, you know,

Speaker 3 this is like an Ocean 11 plot point. This is great.
We're bringing Natalie.

Speaker 5 We went to this wine bar once and they had this thing that was called like the board. And it was just like a huge charcuterie board with a, like, it was like a full came with a full loaf of bread.

Speaker 5 And we're like, can we order this? And they're like, it's for six people. We're like, we'll take it.
And we had it. And we just by sheer force of will, we like finished it.

Speaker 5 We just like, we knocked the whole thing down, but she was doing most of the work. Yeah.

Speaker 6 I think you got to try it.

Speaker 3 I can't say this enough. She's so much cooler than Nick.
Yeah, we know.

Speaker 3 God, she's

Speaker 3 better than you.

Speaker 3 She could use this whole thing going on to get away from you somehow, is what I'm thinking.

Speaker 3 I don't know how she would do it, but she should do it somehow.

Speaker 6 Like in the chaos of us winning, she disappears.

Speaker 3 Is that what you mean? Oh, yeah, no. I meant everything going on in the city.
She should have been in the middle of the day.

Speaker 6 I thought you meant the pizza contest.

Speaker 3 Yeah, I guess that too.

Speaker 3 It could be Ocean's 11, where she's like, does the, and then just flees town. She makes up with $1,000.
Yeah. Starts a new life.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 The reason I brought up Rosenstein is he, for the Birthday Boys show,

Speaker 3 he bought one of these giant pizzas for us one time. And it is, it's huge.
I will say this. It is gigantic.
They have a special car that brings people.

Speaker 3 It was like a gimmick that people, I feel like 10 years ago to 15 years ago, people would buy these pizzas way more wages. Would you agree with that?

Speaker 3 You would see that special car driving around town a lot more.

Speaker 5 Well, I think it's a thing people get once, you know, or for a special occasion.

Speaker 3 I think we've actually got it for us twice. I think we did it for a party and for like the birthday boys, when we, our first day of filming or something.
Right.

Speaker 5 Or, you know, or it's for things like that. It's for like business things.
Like, it's like, it's a, it's a, I like that it exists. I like that they're fully committed to it.

Speaker 5 And I like that it actually has the Guinness World Record. It's not, they're not just like a world's largest and it's just bullshit.
It's like, no, they actually went for it.

Speaker 6 That's great. There's no, there's no real functional reason to do that instead of just ordering 10 pizzas.

Speaker 5 Exactly. In fact, you're probably beyond the gimmick is the fun.
Like you'd actually probably had a better, better, have a better pizza experience by ordering 10 different pizzas.

Speaker 3 And also you have to get rid of a gigantic box, which we took a picture with outside of, which might look like a small box. It might look like a regular box, We were saying the box is big.

Speaker 3 The box is big, but that's that you have to get rid of that box at the end of it.

Speaker 3 That being said, I, and I don't know if this is a good thing or a bad thing. I don't think it changes the,

Speaker 3 I don't think that the

Speaker 3 actual,

Speaker 3 what am I trying to say? The, the, the,

Speaker 3 god damn it. I don't think that the actual.
I don't know what you're trying to say. What are you driving at? I don't think the actual quality.
Quality.

Speaker 3 You're doing great. I couldn't think of the word quality.
I don't think the word.

Speaker 3 You're doing great.

Speaker 3 Deep breath.

Speaker 3 Do you want to take a bathroom break? Give Jemmy a little bit. No.

Speaker 7 Pat Jemmy's head. It'll reset.

Speaker 3 We'll cut out about 15 seconds of me huffing and puffing. Okay, great.
I don't think the actual... Yeah, I was a worried.

Speaker 3 Fucking little pig.

Speaker 3 We were the three little pigs today, in a way. Yeah.

Speaker 3 They were worried about the three little piggies and what we ordered. And I think we did a pretty good job.
The quality of the pizza in the big pizza doesn't change. Right.

Speaker 3 And the quality of the pizza in the big slice is kind of the same, which is a good thing and maybe a bad thing because I think the quality of the pizza is just okay. Right.

Speaker 5 I think.

Speaker 5 Having ordered the big slice, I think what you said earlier is correct. That it's fun to order the big, the great Sicilian.
That's like a fun thing.

Speaker 5 Ordering the big slice is kind of like it's fun to order it, but when you actually get it, you're kind of a little bit like, all right, you know, it doesn't quite deliver on the gimmick of it just being a big slice.

Speaker 6 We didn't try the big mama slice, which might be better because it might actually hold together as one slice.

Speaker 5 Although, when I've seen photos of that, I believe the big mama's slice is four slices that are stitched together. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 3 Look, I'm not sure, I'm not going to put them through the ringer for this, but I'm very upset.

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Speaker 5 Look, let's get to our final thoughts on Big Mamas and Big Papas. So, Zach, you know the podcast before, you know how this works.

Speaker 5 We'll each go around, give our final thoughts, and give it a score from zero to five forks. You're my guest seated to my left.

Speaker 3 Your thoughts, your forks score.

Speaker 6 I really loved the experience. The variety of sodas was great.
Yeah, they also had a ton of other things on the menu that we didn't try.

Speaker 6 They had a pizza waffle, they had a couple desserts, they had um, just a bunch of stuff.

Speaker 6 Uh, I love the art in the place, I love they have a wall that shows you the actual size of all the different pizzas you can order.

Speaker 6 So it shows you like small pizza, medium pizza, mama slice, papa slice, giant Sicilian. I love all that.

Speaker 6 The sight of the big slice coming out was

Speaker 6 one of the best moments of the decade for me.

Speaker 3 The highlight of the year and possibly the decade. Yeah.
Yeah, I think of my life. I think decade highlight for me.

Speaker 5 Yeah, in my life, sure. Yeah.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 It's top

Speaker 3 two.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 3 here's the truth.

Speaker 6 I could, like, I could say five forks and feel

Speaker 6 like I wouldn't feel like I was lying. No.
Like, I could say five five forks because you're not going to get this stuff anywhere else.

Speaker 3 Like, it's cool that it exists.

Speaker 6 It's kind of like when you see a movie that, like, it not every piece of it works, but you're just glad that it was made. Yeah.
Like, I just love this. I love the big slice.
I love the big pizza.

Speaker 6 I think it's really fun.

Speaker 3 Uh,

Speaker 6 the pizza, yeah, the pizza was pretty good. It wasn't like amazing.
Um,

Speaker 6 I did like the flavored crust on the cheese. That helped a little bit.
Yeah. So I'm going to go,

Speaker 6 you know what?

Speaker 6 I'm going to go 3.9999999999999999999999999 forks.

Speaker 5 3.9

Speaker 5 forks. So a nine repeating

Speaker 3 forks.

Speaker 3 There's a little line on top of the little line over it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I don't know what the actual,

Speaker 5 there's like a name for it, but it's like it just,

Speaker 6 because then technically

Speaker 5 infinity line.

Speaker 3 It's technically equal to four. Technically equal.

Speaker 6 So it could get into the golden plate club,

Speaker 6 but I would like to give it that slight minor distinction.

Speaker 3 Right.

Speaker 3 I like it. Look,

Speaker 3 I loved this breakdown. I was nodding along when you were just saying I was happy today.
In a very bad week, I was up there and for a good

Speaker 3 hour, I forgot all the cares in the world were gone. Why? Because

Speaker 3 I was very happy up there. I liked Ordering the Big Slice.
And you know what? It did remind me of, it reminded me of L.A.

Speaker 3 I, you know, like this is

Speaker 3 a local L.A. spot.

Speaker 3 These people were in there working during this, you know, this disaster outside.

Speaker 6 They were so kind to us. So kind to us.

Speaker 3 They told us to take extra sodas on the way out the door. They gave us a free soda.
Really nice. Which I took.

Speaker 3 We both, yeah, we both took a soda on the way out. Well, I was high and mighty.
Didn't take one.

Speaker 3 But

Speaker 5 I was going to get, like, well, I went next door to get a coffee.

Speaker 3 You got a coffee next door.

Speaker 6 You want to talk about how he snitched on you at the coffee place?

Speaker 3 Yeah, that was fucking both of you.

Speaker 5 I don't regret it.

Speaker 3 We walked in there. I was holding two pizzas.
That's true.

Speaker 3 And so I got in there to open two pizzas and I used my foot to open the door. The guy at the front counter was like, hey, can you close the door? You left the door open.

Speaker 5 He was like mad at me, though. He was like kind of like, he was kind of snippy at me.
And I was like, and I was like, I was like, I was like, all right, I'll close the door.

Speaker 5 But I was like, just so you know, it was my friend who opened the door.

Speaker 3 Yes, it was my friend.

Speaker 3 Your friend who you rat out immediately. Yeah.
We'll throw you under the bus. So he was snippy.
He was mad at you. And your reaction was to say, it was my friend.

Speaker 5 Don't get mad at me. It was him.

Speaker 3 It was that guy.

Speaker 5 He didn't even order.

Speaker 3 That guy who didn't even order a coffee.

Speaker 5 He's the one who's letting out all your AC.

Speaker 3 Who brought in.

Speaker 7 I think it was about letting the AC out or the smoky air in.

Speaker 3 Yeah, it was most likely that there was a giant fire, you know, within 10 miles.

Speaker 3 Well, you know what? You fucking ratted me out immediately. It was bullshit.

Speaker 3 I think I won the guy over, anyways.

Speaker 6 He did, he, as soon as you ratted, he did smile.

Speaker 5 Yeah, he liked that.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Fucking rats.
Rats of a fucking rats of a feather. Fucking rat together.
You're a piece of shit.

Speaker 3 You're a fucking rat, man.

Speaker 5 Reading the Koalak Family Crest.

Speaker 3 So

Speaker 3 anyway,

Speaker 3 I loved our experience there. Yeah.
Staff was fantastic.

Speaker 3 And the slices were, the food was good. I think that it is, it's a very specific thing.

Speaker 3 Like if you're at a house party or whatever, or you need a bunch of pizzas or you want to do a fun gimmick thing, or you're, because I think it is decently cheap for pizza, right?

Speaker 3 If you just get like the regular style pizza, I think it's pretty cheap. No, it's not that.

Speaker 5 Yeah, absolutely. You can spend a a lot more on pizza in LA.

Speaker 7 When you get it delivered, do they have to send two delivery people to like carry it in, or do you have to like help them? Can one person carry the box?

Speaker 3 I think when the guy delivered to us, it was one guy, and we helped him with, we helped him.

Speaker 7 It feels like if you tried to pick it up, one person is just going to flop.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, you need two people to move it onto the, it's, and it goes on top of the car. It's insane.
Yeah, it's like pretty big. Yeah, it's big, which we'll find out when we do it next.

Speaker 3 We got to review the big with the big Sicilian.

Speaker 3 For the experience for the day, I mean, look, this is the sort of, it's the sort of pizza you're not, if you're going to come to LA and eat at restaurants we've done on Doughboys that we say are really good, I don't think you have to go to Big Mamas and Papas.

Speaker 3 But that being said, if you know, it's a kid's birthday party or you're getting together with a, you're having something in your backyard and you're getting some pizzas for people to snack on, I think you can do way worse than big mamas and papas.

Speaker 3 I think that, and it's a lot of fun. And my experience today was a four-forker, I gotta say.

Speaker 6 And here's what I'll say about the quality of the pizza. Sometimes you'll have pizza that it feels like, oh, this is like cafeteria pizza or whatever.
This is a step above that.

Speaker 6 Like it's not, it's not like a

Speaker 6 school lunchroom.

Speaker 6 It is a step above that.

Speaker 3 It's not like

Speaker 6 the best pizza you've ever had, but it is pretty good to me.

Speaker 3 Yes, I agree.

Speaker 5 Yes, that's to your point, Mitch. This is not the pizza that you get if you're like, hey, I'm out in LA and I want to experience this culinary scene.

Speaker 5 This is the pizza you get if you live in LA, particularly if you live in the San Fernando Valley, where most of the locations are.

Speaker 5 And, you know, maybe like, hey, I had a stressful week because there's a bunch of crazy shit that's happening, you know, a bunch of shit's on fire. I just kind of want a pizza.

Speaker 5 This is a place that will not let you down. This is a place that will get the job done.
And also has some signature items that make it distinct.

Speaker 5 In addition to, you know, the, like the, the excess of the great Sicilian or the big slice, just having the egg gondola pizza, like it's just like, that feels like a thing that's, you know, that, that's unique to its character and that that you know again speak to it speaks to its heritage i gotta i gotta pitch yeah the teeny sicilian you get a really tiny small slice that's cute that's good really really small yeah that's really fun like like like a bite-sized slice oh like little bite-sized i like like bagel bites like

Speaker 3 yes yeah bagel

Speaker 3 i love it maybe the big baby because you get the big mama the big papa this is the big baby i like the big baby we did talk about you still have your diaper baby costume i will i'm not trying to become the mascot the big baby Emma.

Speaker 3 Just so you know, stop trying to pitch me as the big baby. At the restaurant.
Also, the big baby's a man that wears.

Speaker 3 He's an adult man. I didn't know diaper fetish.

Speaker 6 But at the restaurant,

Speaker 6 they have various characters of the family. So yeah, why not utilize them? with their own individual pizzas.

Speaker 3 Well, you know,

Speaker 5 you were talking about the comparing it to AMW Canada, where they have the burger family, but they just have the big mom and the big papa there, but they have a whole, like, they have the iconography of the whole family.

Speaker 5 They get expanded to the pizza family.

Speaker 3 And the the big baby can say something like, My diaper is saucy or something. Yeah, that would be good.

Speaker 5 That'd really wet your appetite.

Speaker 3 Oh, that's oh, something like that's good. Yeah.

Speaker 5 Oh, I wet my appetite.

Speaker 3 I wet my appetite.

Speaker 3 He's crying. Why? I wet my appetite.
That's good. That's good.

Speaker 3 I checked.

Speaker 3 He should have a bunch of marinara in his diaper. We just know that.
That's the thing for sure.

Speaker 5 100% of marinara diaper.

Speaker 6 Or if they do a dessert pizza, it could be shit.

Speaker 6 If they do like a Nutella pizza, right? Could be Nutella.

Speaker 3 Do you think in Italy there is like they're like, I got marinara in the diaper? You think that happens? That's got to happen once or twice, right?

Speaker 5 In what context would that happen? I don't know.

Speaker 3 I just

Speaker 3 don't know. Like, they're calling the shit in the diaper marinara.
They've got to say,

Speaker 3 accidentally got some minarina.

Speaker 5 They're making, like, mama's making the sauce and she's changing the baby with the other hand because you've got too much going on.

Speaker 3 So I got a marinara and a diaper. Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 6 Over the course of the whole history of the society?

Speaker 3 Yeah. Yeah, it's had to have happened.
Probably. Yeah.
It's had to have happened. That's all I'm saying.

Speaker 3 What's a matter of you? That's good. That's good.
This is why I fucked our neighbor.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 6 I mean, I guess now that we're diving deeper,

Speaker 6 I don't know how much they would be speaking English over there.

Speaker 3 That's true.

Speaker 3 Probably, probably that exactly when it's happened.

Speaker 5 I checked the wiki because your 3.99 fork score sounded familiar.

Speaker 5 The last time this came up, Mitch, friend of the podcast, the commissioner, Evan Susser, gave that score in December to another pizza chain, Slice House.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 5 And I was thinking back on Slice House, and we had a nice time at Slice House. We did.
This was a better time. I mean, come on.
We had a better time tonight.

Speaker 3 Well, we were with Zach instead of Susser, so that upgraded quite a bit.

Speaker 5 No, but I think that was like, this was a more fun sort of pizza experience.

Speaker 5 And I also feel like although Slice House, you know, they got the the what, respect the craft, they're ostensibly going for a higher quality of product.

Speaker 5 There's something really familiar and comforting about the offerings of big mamas and big papas. It doesn't feel as chainy.
You know what I mean?

Speaker 5 It doesn't feel as corporatized, doesn't feel as planned.

Speaker 5 And

Speaker 5 my score for big mamas.

Speaker 3 Did somebody say chaney?

Speaker 3 Oh, that's good.

Speaker 3 Oh, man. I didn't even think we could do vice presidents.

Speaker 3 Shit.

Speaker 6 I need a vice president.

Speaker 3 Yeah, you said gore. There's gore.

Speaker 5 This recent events are clear, make it clear that we're facing an inconvenient truth.

Speaker 3 Pretty good. Yeah.
That's great.

Speaker 6 Who's Garfield's vice president?

Speaker 5 Great question.

Speaker 3 No, stop. Don't do it.

Speaker 3 Stop it.

Speaker 7 Chester A. Arthur.

Speaker 3 Wow, that's a great name.

Speaker 3 Oh, man. I got to work on that.
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 5 I gave it three and a half forks, Slice House. I like this more than Slice House.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 6 My name is Chester.

Speaker 6 Okay.

Speaker 3 Go on. That's all I got so far, but that feels right.
Yeah, that's good.

Speaker 6 My name is Chester, and I ain't talking about the Chudo.

Speaker 3 I'm going to be president one day.

Speaker 6 Something like that. I loved it.

Speaker 3 I appreciate it.

Speaker 5 chester a arthur the a stands for ass and yours is grass if you give me any

Speaker 6 you better be careful i'm gonna become chester the arthur

Speaker 3 you won't like me when i'm the arthur he's like the whole colour he is like the whole yeah i like that I think we've got some good groundwork for Chester.

Speaker 5 Maybe Chester B.

Speaker 3 Arthur. I like that.

Speaker 5 And it's like

Speaker 5 my mom, Sophia, is giving me a bunch of shit.

Speaker 3 Like, he's a beta?

Speaker 5 No, well, like, I think he's like one of the golden goods.

Speaker 3 Arthur B. Arthur.

Speaker 3 Oh, yeah. Wow.

Speaker 5 Chester B. Arthur is fertile guy.
Rose. I wish she was more smart.

Speaker 3 I also like that this impression is based off of what you think Chester A. Arthur sounds like.
Blanche is a real floozie.

Speaker 5 Hey, we live next door to the Empty Nest guy.

Speaker 3 Remember that? Oh, yeah, they did live next door to the Empty Nest clan.

Speaker 5 I gave him three and a half forks for Slice House. I got to go higher for

Speaker 5 Big Mamas and Big Papas, but I don't think I can quite hit four.

Speaker 5 I think I'm going to go with three forks three times, 3.75 forks.

Speaker 5 And hey, shout out to our good friend, past guest, a beloved friend of Doe, Matt Selman, the Tyne Father, who came up with the Tyne system.

Speaker 3 We love you. We love you.
And we're thinking about you this week,

Speaker 3 which he's been dealing with the fires and everything with his home. Yeah.
But a great friend of the podcast. We love him.

Speaker 5 And hey, that was our review of Big Mamas and Big Papas.

Speaker 3 Ellie Joel Osman. I want to give, there's so many people that we know that have been affected by the fires.

Speaker 3 And we love you and we're thinking of you.

Speaker 5 Hey, it's time for a segment. I got some food-related jingles, and Mitch and Zach

Speaker 5 must determine which year they came out. It's another edition of Jingle All the Way, spelled W-H-E-Y.

Speaker 3 Wow.

Speaker 5 These are combined, of course, by the Drop King, Robert Bersinger.

Speaker 3 The rules.

Speaker 3 I have a pitch quickly.

Speaker 3 Chesty, A. Arthur.
Ooh.

Speaker 3 Hey, Mr. Garfield.

Speaker 3 It's like Chester Althe Boo has. Very boozy.
Yeah, yeah, big tissue. She got big tissue.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm going to get Jem back in here.

Speaker 7 I think she left.

Speaker 3 Jemmy!

Speaker 3 Come here, Jemmy. An episode so bad, she left.

Speaker 3 She's fine out there, man.

Speaker 3 She's back.

Speaker 3 She's still mad about I got a bone, and then there was no bone given. Oh, she's showing her butthole there.

Speaker 5 Jemmy, places. Places, Jemmy.

Speaker 3 Jemmy, we're rolling.

Speaker 3 Places, Jemmy.

Speaker 3 Get up there, girlie. Get up there.
Jemmy, Jemmy.

Speaker 5 Jemmy, take your mark.

Speaker 3 Oh, she's so excited. Look at her.

Speaker 7 Well, dad's back here today. She's a real daddy's girl.

Speaker 5 Okay, Jemmy is abandoned up.

Speaker 3 She pisses on the power strip to get the power in the studio.

Speaker 3 She literally never missed inside.

Speaker 3 She's right now on the power strip.

Speaker 5 All right, the rules of Jingle All the Way, spelled W-H-E-Y. The closest guess without going over wins a point.
If you guess the year exactly, you get two points. That's the Arden Marine rule.

Speaker 5 If the game ends in a tie, the guest wins. That's the Mitch Kenna rule.
If the second guesser can guess a movie from the first guesser's year correctly, they get a point. That's the Murder Brian rule.

Speaker 3 What happens with that? What's that rule again?

Speaker 5 If the second guesser can guess a movie from the first guesser's year correctly, they get a point, the Murder Brian rule. And that's only once per game.

Speaker 3 Yeah. Oh, only once per game.

Speaker 3 Okay, okay, okay.

Speaker 5 But like, for instance, if someone said

Speaker 5 2024

Speaker 5 and you said, like, oh, I know 2024, I'm going to guess the brutalist because I know that just came out, then you could get a point for that.

Speaker 3 Can you say the cheotelist? Like, could you make it a Doughboys theme? You can.

Speaker 5 You can as long as we know what you're going for.

Speaker 6 Do you get an extra point

Speaker 6 if you make it a food?

Speaker 5 You do get an extra point if you make it a food pun. That's the Zach Cherry rule.

Speaker 3 Wow, the Zach Cherry rule.

Speaker 3 Okay. He's going to write this down in his fucking dorky little iPad.

Speaker 6 And that is only once per game.

Speaker 5 You can only do that once per game. And of course, our most recent entry, Kate Burlant, set the record with nine points in Jingle all the way.

Speaker 3 That's true.

Speaker 5 Today's theme is Del Taco Jingles. My beloved Del Taco.

Speaker 3 Yeah,

Speaker 3 she kicked my dick in.

Speaker 7 That's hard because this doesn't.

Speaker 3 You don't have that many options.

Speaker 9 There's not as many jingles this time around.

Speaker 6 Okay, that's good to know. That means I'll use my once per game.

Speaker 3 And it got written up. That story got written up in, was it in variety?

Speaker 5 It was in vulture.

Speaker 3 It was in vulture. yeah, yeah.
Vulture, thank you for featuring

Speaker 7 double points, so you could still hit nine.

Speaker 3 You could, yeah, I won't call it fake news, it was happened fair and square.

Speaker 5 All right, let's get into it, Amelia. Can you keep score? Yes, thank you so much.
All right, first up, this one is called Hot Stuff

Speaker 11 Del Taco. You're hot stuff.

Speaker 11 Hot stuff. Del Taco makes four kinds of burritos.
Hot stuff. A soft tortilla filled with a bunch of stuff.
That guy's funny.

Speaker 11 Tell us how you want it. Hot or mild.

Speaker 11 It's

Speaker 11 The freshest taste around.

Speaker 11 At the

Speaker 11 hottest place in town.

Speaker 11 Hot stuff.

Speaker 3 Still tacos. Your burritos are high as stuff.

Speaker 3 I've never wanted a burrito more in my life than that. That looked so good.

Speaker 3 The burrito looked so good. It looked pretty good.
You know.

Speaker 5 You know it was, but there is something of like,

Speaker 5 obviously, you know, the flavor profiles would have been a little different, but there is something about the quality of fast food just used to be better. Things were not as ultra-processed.

Speaker 5 You know, that was hit.

Speaker 3 That cost 30 cents, maybe.

Speaker 6 Not even. Things got so woke.

Speaker 5 Yeah, that's what I was going to say back before things got so woke.

Speaker 3 Things got too freaking woke.

Speaker 3 The food went down the drain.

Speaker 3 They, oh, we got to include all the veggies now.

Speaker 6 Yeah, it used to be it could just be a pile of meat.

Speaker 3 Yeah, now, yeah, yeah, yeah, now, yeah.

Speaker 3 Now, yeah.

Speaker 5 It feels like you're hitting on possibly another new bit for 2025 with mafia guys complaining about food getting too low.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 When my nona made the sauce,

Speaker 3 it was.

Speaker 3 You can't even call shrimp shrimp no more.

Speaker 3 You can't even call shrimp shrimp no more.

Speaker 5 You got to call them shellfish. You don't know what you're eating.

Speaker 3 Yeah, yeah, yeah. This has legs.

Speaker 3 There's something here.

Speaker 3 What else? What else? What else? What else?

Speaker 3 But you can still call meatballs meatballs. Oh, what's the deal with that?

Speaker 6 My meatballs?

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 All right.

Speaker 5 So it's okay to get a meatball. Oh, it's say meatball,

Speaker 5 but it can't say shrimp. The problem is

Speaker 5 that's not like a thing. you can't, you can't say shrimp.

Speaker 3 You can't say shrimp. Of course you can't.
So these guys are also dumb.

Speaker 3 So this guy is dumb. This guy's an idiot.

Speaker 3 This bit is making the fires grow bigger.

Speaker 3 Someone told him you can't say shrimp.

Speaker 3 I guess the end result is that

Speaker 3 he's a dumb guy, I guess. Isn't that most characters, though, at the end of the day, they're dumb? They're just dumb as well.

Speaker 5 I guess a lot of, I mean, I guess that guy is kind of a dumb guy in general. So like you could make him even dumber.

Speaker 3 Look, we tried. I liked it.

Speaker 3 I still, I stand by woke food guy. Yeah.

Speaker 5 You can't get a hot dog anymore.

Speaker 3 So you got to call it a warm canine.

Speaker 6 This is just a guy who's like.

Speaker 3 It's really dumb. Really dumb.

Speaker 3 And just like got a thesaurus or something.

Speaker 5 All right. So that was called Hot Stuff.
That ad was hot stuff.

Speaker 5 Zach, we'll alternate who goes first.

Speaker 3 Zach, you'll start with this one. Grimmus is a D E I high.

Speaker 3 That's woke food guy. That works.
Yeah, that one works. Yeah.

Speaker 3 I don't think Grimmus is

Speaker 6 Grimmis is not even allowed to be fat anymore.

Speaker 6 He's that guy, too. Like, I agree with him about some stuff.

Speaker 6 I'm going to say 1993.

Speaker 3 1993. 1993.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I definitely know some movies from 1993, but I'm like, will I get them wrong? Yeah.

Speaker 6 You only get one.

Speaker 3 I only get one.

Speaker 3 Come on. I know a movie from 1993.
Oh.

Speaker 3 Ooh, is it 1993 or is it 1994? There are five channels. Yeah, you might have more opportunities.

Speaker 5 You don't have to go for it now.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 I'm not going to say, I was going to say Jurassic Park is a 1993 movie. I'm not using it.

Speaker 3 Emilia thinks, no.

Speaker 3 It's four.

Speaker 3 Don't help them. Don't help him.
It's a four.

Speaker 3 It was four? Okay.

Speaker 5 Well, that's not your guess anyway.

Speaker 3 Jurassic pork, I guess is what I would say.

Speaker 3 That would work.

Speaker 5 So that would be potentially an extra point.

Speaker 3 Well, is it 1993? But that is not my answer. I'm not doing that.
Okay.

Speaker 3 So the year before Jurassic Park. All right, well, I'm not doing it anyways.
I'm going to say this is 1987.

Speaker 5 1987. Um, unfortunately, you both overshot it quite a bit.
1979.

Speaker 3 Wow, yeah,

Speaker 3 Billy Corgan, favorite year.

Speaker 5 Yeah, I don't.

Speaker 6 That's before I even comprehend.

Speaker 3 Yeah, my sister's birthday. Before we were all like,

Speaker 3 yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 All right, next up,

Speaker 5 this one is called Del Taco is the place to be.

Speaker 3 I went to lunch the other day.

Speaker 3 Can't recall the name.

Speaker 3 I said over and over and over again, this lunch is going to be the same.

Speaker 3 And then all of a sudden it came to me. This commercial sucks.

Speaker 3 I like it.

Speaker 5 Very public access-y. Yeah.
It looks like really, really low budget.

Speaker 3 Yeah, what does it say at the end there? It doesn't matter.

Speaker 5 Can Can we bring that tagline up? Can we? Not the same place.

Speaker 3 I see not the same thing.

Speaker 5 Not the same place, not the same thing as their tagline. This one.

Speaker 6 I think I should get half a point for guessing what was behind the.

Speaker 3 Did you get?

Speaker 6 Yeah, I said not the same thing before.

Speaker 3 You know what? I will give Zach a half point for that, Amelia.

Speaker 5 All right, so Zach has a half point. Mitch, you'll guess first for this one.
What year, without going over, do you think Del Taco is the place to be?

Speaker 3 I think this is the Spoon Man's birth year, 1982. 1982.
That is a good guess.

Speaker 3 Jimmy.

Speaker 3 She cleaned her butthole.

Speaker 7 She's like corn cobbled her butt.

Speaker 3 Good girl.

Speaker 6 I'll go. Oh, wait.
You said 1982?

Speaker 5 It says 1982.

Speaker 3 What was the first movie you saw?

Speaker 3 I just talked about this the other day. The first, not on the podcast, but the first movie I remember seeing in theaters was, and it did not come out in 1982.
Oh, then I was The Great Outdoors.

Speaker 3 Oh, you were saying what was the first movie I saw?

Speaker 3 My birth year? I'm trying to kick you. Give me an answer.

Speaker 3 Close encounters of the food kind?

Speaker 3 I'll go

Speaker 3 84.

Speaker 6 I'll go 84.

Speaker 3 You're going 84. Is it 82? What year is it? Okay, all right.

Speaker 3 I think, hmm.

Speaker 5 Wasn't Close Encounters earlier than that?

Speaker 3 I don't know. I'm going to be right up right now.

Speaker 5 I think 82 was maybe E.T.

Speaker 3 Oh, you were. Oh, it was E.T.

Speaker 7 You were right. Jurassic Park was 93.

Speaker 3 Wow. I could have gotten two.
Close Encounters was 1977.

Speaker 6 If I was.

Speaker 3 Yeah, thanks a lot, Amelia. I trusted someone not born yet or were you just born?

Speaker 7 I wasn't born yet.

Speaker 3 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 6 That's in the past. I would say meaty if I was going to do ET.

Speaker 3 Wait, me T?

Speaker 5 Me T. Like you're meaty.
Yeah.

Speaker 3 Oh, me T. That's good.
That's good. That's good.
Fuck, that's good.

Speaker 5 Okay, so yeah, it's good.

Speaker 5 Back to the present. Zach Guest 1984.
Zach gets a point because this came out in 1985, one year later.

Speaker 3 That's fucked up.

Speaker 5 All right.

Speaker 3 Let's go to the next one.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Zach has one and a a half points. Mitch has zero.
Next up,

Speaker 5 Bang, Bang, Bango.

Speaker 3 Jesus Christ.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Yo, chicken so crispy, soft, so sweet. Del tacos, your tacos, make crispy leaf.
A crispy chicken taco for honey and mango. Del, you make my heart go.
Bang, bang, bangoo.

Speaker 6 Only one dollar for me to sleep.

Speaker 3 I'm in love with Johnny Mango, baby. Slide Slide into Del Taco for the honey mango crispy chicken taco.
Del taco's newest crispy chicken taco is just one dollar.

Speaker 5 So, a few different clues there that we can say they're visual. At the end, we have the Postmates Grubhub DoorDash Uber Eats logos.

Speaker 3 So this is huge. I didn't even notice that you should have a lot of stuff.

Speaker 5 Makes it pretty contemporary. But the thing, the boy band pastiche also feels a little bit older than that.
This is obviously shot in HD, which is a little bit of a clue of its own.

Speaker 6 But the boy band thing feels like a nostalgic boy band. Maybe it's a nostalgia thing, but then the one-dollar price tag

Speaker 6 confuses me. I'm not, I don't know Del Taco's price points, but where can you get anything for one dollar these days? Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 I mean, it does say here at the bottom, delivery prices and fees may be higher.

Speaker 3 So they're like, it's a dollar, but it's probably going to cost more. Okay.

Speaker 5 Zach, you're up first. What's your guess? What year did this come out?

Speaker 6 I'm going to keep it recent

Speaker 6 and I'm going to say

Speaker 6 2021.

Speaker 5 2021. Wow.

Speaker 5 Spoon Man, what do you think?

Speaker 3 I think

Speaker 3 that

Speaker 3 I am, oh shit.

Speaker 3 You left your air for air on again?

Speaker 3 I can't remember if the movie I was in Tomorrow War came out in 2020 or 2021.

Speaker 5 It was a pandemic movie. Unfortunately, did not get a theatrical release.
It would have been nice if we got a theater theatrical release. I can't remember what year it was.

Speaker 3 It started in 2020. Started in 2020, yeah.

Speaker 3 Mitch. Yeah.
I'm going to say. You don't have to ring in.
I'm going to say, uh,

Speaker 3 uh,

Speaker 3 are you driving food pun out of tomorrow?

Speaker 3 Tomorrow. Uh,

Speaker 3 uh, boar, boar is food, boar is meat.

Speaker 3 Sure,

Speaker 3 sure. Uh,

Speaker 3 Tamale War.

Speaker 3 Wait, I can't. Can I use his? Yeah.
Tamale War.

Speaker 5 All right, you're guessing Tamale War?

Speaker 3 Yes.

Speaker 6 If you get your own movies, you're wrong.

Speaker 3 Hold on.

Speaker 5 I got to look up what year the Tomorrow War came out.

Speaker 5 Okay, Tomale War. So, Mitch, you do get a point.
I got two.

Speaker 5 Wait, it's two points for that?

Speaker 6 Yeah, because I get one for the movie and one for the pun.

Speaker 8 Mitch takes the lead then.

Speaker 3 Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Speaker 3 Let me just make sure I got this right.

Speaker 5 Okay, you get an extra point. That's the Zachary.
Okay, so you get an extra point. So, yes.
So, you get two points there, Mitch.

Speaker 3 However,

Speaker 5 it actually doesn't get you any closer because Zach also gets two points. 2021, exactly.

Speaker 3 I didn't even guess my year yet. Yeah, but you weren't going to get it.
It doesn't matter. It's moon.

Speaker 3 2021, exactly. Wow.

Speaker 8 So, Zach has three and a half.

Speaker 7 Mitch has two. All right.

Speaker 5 It's anyone's game. Going to the next one.
The next one is called Back to Del Taco Again.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 3 Sounds like banger.

Speaker 3 The way that they flavor is everyone's favorite tangy spicy flair.

Speaker 3 Del Taco's hot stuff, I just can't get enough. So I'm back in Del Taco again.

Speaker 5 I've never saw a woman eat a whole tomato, just put it onto her tongue.

Speaker 3 like a piece of shoes. She pulled it off of her taco and ate the tomato.

Speaker 7 And they do that with pickles, but not tomatoes. That's fucking nasty.

Speaker 8 She put it on her tongue like it was a Eucharist.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 6 We might have a director who has some type of tomato fetish.

Speaker 3 It could be that.

Speaker 5 Yeah, yeah, yeah. It was just put the tomato on your tongue.

Speaker 6 Quinton, Quinton San Marzana.

Speaker 5 Back to Del Taco again. I want that song played as my coffin lowers into the earth.
That was great.

Speaker 3 Well, I can make that happen.

Speaker 3 A couple weeks from now. As you're screaming.

Speaker 3 Do I go first? I do.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Mitcher First. What year do you think this came out?

Speaker 3 It's a little bit of a Billy Corgan. I'm going to guess.
1977.

Speaker 3 So Tierio's off from 1979.

Speaker 5 Okay, Mitch guesses 1977.

Speaker 3 What's your favorite movie from 77?

Speaker 3 That is a very hard. Actually, I do have a favorite movie from 1977, and I can't tell you.
What is a taxi driver? I can't tell you.

Speaker 8 He helped you with Tamalee War. Just saying.

Speaker 6 What's your favorite movie 78?

Speaker 5 My favorite movie from 78, that's harder for me because 79 I know movies and 70 we'll start with 77 then with 78 English 78 well we already I talked about a 77 one we did yeah yeah those encounters of the third kind

Speaker 5 could be one okay

Speaker 6 that's 77 yeah sweet so I'll use that in a second okay

Speaker 6 you said 1977 1977 okay I'll give as my answer.

Speaker 3 Hmm.

Speaker 6 How old is Del Taco?

Speaker 5 Del Taco has been around, I believe, since the 60s.

Speaker 6 Okay. I'll say the summer of love, 1969.

Speaker 3 Wow. And also, there's a big, a bigger sci-fi movie that came out in 1977, which is what I would say.

Speaker 6 Okay, well, I'm going to play it safe and cheat

Speaker 6 and say

Speaker 3 close enchiladas

Speaker 3 of the third kind. Wow.
That's good.

Speaker 3 I would have said

Speaker 6 a new smoke. Yeah,

Speaker 3 a new snoke.

Speaker 3 But I would. Wait, a new snoke.

Speaker 5 Snoke is from another Star Wars movie.

Speaker 3 It's not a food pun.

Speaker 3 I guess he could eat snoke. He could eat snoke.
Smoke tastes like shit.

Speaker 3 It tastes like expired jerky. I was thrown when no one liked my 1977 Billy Corgan impression.
I liked it.

Speaker 3 1977 is my answer. 1969 is Summer of Love.
Like, what is I going to say right away? He's wrong, but he maybe didn't, he definitely didn't go over. No, he didn't go over.
But I did.

Speaker 5 Neither did you. You get a point.
1981 back to hip pop.

Speaker 3 1981.

Speaker 5 Yeah, this is the thing that you got to, I feel like

Speaker 5 that is easy to forget with these ads. They always lag behind pop culture a bit.
So it's like that, yes, that has 70s vibes in 1981, but it's like, you know, culture moved a little slower then.

Speaker 5 And it looked older than the,

Speaker 5 the, you know, like the, the, the people writing ad jingles were imitating like what were the were the popular radio songs from a couple years ago.

Speaker 3 So I'm just glad I was born a year after the fucking tomato eating fetish died down.

Speaker 3 Disgusting.

Speaker 5 So Mitch gets a point.

Speaker 6 It might have been how you got here.

Speaker 3 Oh, mom.

Speaker 3 Oh, dad.

Speaker 3 Oh.

Speaker 3 that lady in the car was my mom's age. That's crazy.

Speaker 5 Isn't that wild to think about?

Speaker 3 Yeah. I was horny for her for a second.
Now it's gone.

Speaker 5 Yeah, it's gone.

Speaker 5 So Mitch gets one point. Zach gets two points.

Speaker 8 Okay, that leaves Mitch with three and Zach with five and a half.

Speaker 6 I don't want the two. I cheated.
I'm going to earn them the hard way.

Speaker 5 Okay, so it's three, three and a half going to the final one. It's anyone's game for this final ad Del Taco combo pack.

Speaker 3 You know what? I'll take a point off too. I did not earn Tamale War.
Okay, great.

Speaker 8 Okay, so Mitch is two, Zach is three and a half.

Speaker 6 I'll take the one for Tamale War.

Speaker 3 Okay, good.

Speaker 3 So four and a half to two.

Speaker 5 So it's going to be tough for Mitch to come back, but he can.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 6 Del Taco.

Speaker 3 Del Taco Combo Pack.

Speaker 3 Here it is.

Speaker 3 White meat chicken all the ribs.

Speaker 3 Bag of chicken turn on the side.

Speaker 3 Get ready open wide.

Speaker 3 Del

Speaker 5 So here's the thing, I would say, there are some, yeah, I think it was a big chicken for the chicken tacos. It looked like a turkey.

Speaker 6 It had Thanksgiving vibes.

Speaker 5 It did have Thanksgiving vibes.

Speaker 5 It seems to have some very crude computer graphics there. Like

Speaker 3 this was a big deal at the end here. here.

Speaker 5 Yeah, the logo is kind of like the letters.

Speaker 3 There are three computers to make that graphic.

Speaker 5 But the song, weirdly, is like a

Speaker 3 yeah. There's a wigger ass-looking guy here, too.
Can you rhyme better wise a little more?

Speaker 3 Look at this guy. Hey, buddy.

Speaker 3 Look at those. Look at that eyebrow raise.
Wow, look at that. Jesus Christ.

Speaker 5 Who knows what I'm thinking, buddy.

Speaker 5 So, okay, so we've got

Speaker 5 that, but it's coexisting with, I think it's meant to be like kind of a public domain version of Jerry Lee Lewis's Great Balls of Fire.

Speaker 3 You're first. Yeah.
I'm thinking this is very, I have a time period for this. I'm not going to say it because

Speaker 3 we're getting down to the end here. What do you think? 80s.

Speaker 6 I don't know.

Speaker 6 I guess I got to say

Speaker 6 the summer of love, 1988.

Speaker 3 1988. Damn, that is literally the exact year I was going to guess.

Speaker 3 I'm going to go, I hate to do this. I hate when people do this.
Or do I go lower?

Speaker 3 No, I'm going to go 89.

Speaker 6 89.

Speaker 5 Okay. Zach goes 1988.
Mitch goes 1989.

Speaker 3 Do one of us have it exactly right?

Speaker 5 The answer is no. Okay.

Speaker 5 But neither of you went over. Fuck.
Which means that Mitch gets it. 1991 was the year.
What is our final score, Amelia? Mitch gets a point here.

Speaker 8 So Mitch with three and a half, Zach with four.

Speaker 5 Wow. Zach Cherry still takes it.

Speaker 3 It's that half point you did. That half point.

Speaker 8 Yeah, you split a half point near the end.

Speaker 3 You know what? Ty would have gone to you anyways. Yeah, that's the Mitch Kenner rule.

Speaker 5 Congratulations, Zach.

Speaker 5 Well played. And hey, just like a restaurant buyer feedback.

Speaker 3 I mean, I live here and I've had a really tough week, but you can get the win. It's fine.

Speaker 5 Yeah, Zach takes the win. So today's email comes from Jacob.

Speaker 3 Thank you.

Speaker 5 Jacob writes, My name is Jacob and I am a dog walker in Brooklyn. Wow.
I'm often listening to the episode. I'm often listening to episodes of the pod while walking all around the city.

Speaker 5 And this question occurred to me. If you, much like a dog, had to get daily walks from your partner and or mother, either for a 10-1 or for the other option.

Speaker 3 By the way, I'm not, I wouldn't be surprised if half our listeners, that does happen.

Speaker 3 They fucking put a leash on them and take them outside.

Speaker 5 Either for a 10-1 or the other option, a really long 10-1. What treat would you want to be tossed into your mouth afterward for being a good little buddy?

Speaker 5 This should be something bite-sized and should give you the feeling of a job well done just from being placed into your mouth. Thanks for all the many laughs and for keeping it.

Speaker 3 Secretly horny, email. Oh, yeah.

Speaker 5 On long days, walking dogs. And hello to my pal Joe, who listens, and my pal Gary, who doesn't.
He's a piece of shit.

Speaker 3 Love you all.

Speaker 3 Thanks, Jacob.

Speaker 5 This is Jacob. This may be a secretly horny, but it's okay.

Speaker 6 Jacob's got his lotion out listening.

Speaker 3 What, walking dogs?

Speaker 3 Jacob's listening to this from his kennel.

Speaker 7 Like a single Totino's pizza roll.

Speaker 3 Honestly,

Speaker 3 the big baby slice would be great if it existed.

Speaker 5 My problem. Here's Totino's pizza roll is a good answer.
My issue is if I'm thinking about this whole thing being put in my mouth.

Speaker 3 You're worried about the molten cheese?

Speaker 5 I'm worried about the hot cheese. Oh, my God.
But that could be an issue though. And especially if you're out,

Speaker 5 you're exerting yourself on a walk. I don't know if I want like a hot bite, you know? I'm going to say a piece of Nigiri sushi, like a nice little salmon, like right on my tongue.

Speaker 3 Yeah.

Speaker 3 That to me is just

Speaker 3 like raw fish out of nowhere to me is not as fun.

Speaker 5 Oh man, that'd be nice and refreshing. Nice piece of cold fish.
A little bit of soy sauce. Yeah.

Speaker 5 A little bit of ginger, put that bad boy in your mouth.

Speaker 3 Now this takes away the whole thing of it's like a scooby slip.

Speaker 5 Then don't have the, the, then get that out of there. It's just like, they're just going to take that piece and they're just going to put it on your tongue.
Hey, it's like it's a little bit.

Speaker 6 You'll have soy sauce because

Speaker 6 you'll give the dog a little bowl with a little, yeah, you know, so you can have a little bowl with some soy sauce in it.

Speaker 5 Or give me like a new nagi, like a freshwater eel, something that's pre-sauced. And I'll just like, okay, I'll just take that down.

Speaker 5 And also, like, you know, my mouth's big enough, I can take a whole piece of sushi down in one bite.

Speaker 3 I know about that. He's a one-percenter in a lot of ways.

Speaker 6 It's the same gene.

Speaker 3 That's a one-percenter.

Speaker 3 It's a one-percenter gene. It determines.

Speaker 5 Or like a cat. How about this? How about like a California roll or a cucumber roll?

Speaker 3 That would be a little bit more. Like a little bit of a little bit of roller.
It's your answer. I mean, sorry I gave you too much answer.
That's okay.

Speaker 6 I like that for you.

Speaker 3 Okay.

Speaker 6 I would, for me, the answer is a Hershey kiss.

Speaker 3 That's a much better answer.

Speaker 7 It's that single Reese's cup. Like one of the little mini Reese's cups.
That's kind of like a perfect cup.

Speaker 3 That is good.

Speaker 6 But the Hershey kiss, I like to let, I don't even chew. I like to just kind of let it ride.

Speaker 3 Let it cook.

Speaker 6 So I would go Hershey Kiss. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Let it cook.

Speaker 3 Is that a term? Yeah.

Speaker 7 Is that a term? There was an episode a couple months ago where you said let it cook.

Speaker 3 Oh, right.

Speaker 3 I did say I'm going to let it cook. Oh, yeah, that's right.
I forgot about that.

Speaker 3 Hmm.

Speaker 3 What is my little snack?

Speaker 8 I have an answer.

Speaker 3 Let's hear it.

Speaker 7 Dibs.

Speaker 3 Oh,

Speaker 3 ice cream. That is fun.

Speaker 5 Those are fun. Fuck, that's fun.
Those are a lot of fun.

Speaker 7 A single ice cream bite, especially if it's hot out.

Speaker 6 Sometimes they're so cold they stick to your tongue, though.

Speaker 3 Your bed. And that's a risk.
Do you ever get those better?

Speaker 5 Because they sell those at the movies. And I'm just always like, I can't imagine getting like, I like those, but I can't imagine getting those at a movie theater.

Speaker 7 Because I like to wait till the movie starts to eat my snacks. Yeah.
So I'm usually waiting through trailers. So they'd be just like melted by the time I started eating them.

Speaker 5 And also, I'm just getting chocolate everywhere.

Speaker 3 I have like a messy treat. I've done it.

Speaker 6 You've dove deep into the dibs.

Speaker 6 And

Speaker 6 the issue is you have to essentially eat them in about 35 seconds. Right.
And then you feel weird for the the first 30 minutes and then you fall asleep, basically.

Speaker 3 Pretty much what happened.

Speaker 3 I think I, oh, I got it. Oh, yes.

Speaker 3 I'm very, I, a chicken nugget.

Speaker 6 That's pretty spicy or no spicy.

Speaker 3 Look, I gave him shit about the soy sauce, so now I'm in trouble because, like, of course, like, if it was dipped in sweet and sour sauce, that's the way to do it.

Speaker 5 Yeah, you don't want a dry guy.

Speaker 3 But I think you'd have to go, if you were going dry guy, you'd probably have to do spicy nugget, right? But also a nugget without even being dunked sometimes is great. Yeah.

Speaker 5 It can be fun. It's just, it's like it's like a tendy, but I do want the dipping sauce.
I would say the dipping sauce is allowed.

Speaker 5 However, if you want a little, like, you want to do a little loophole there, then you can just like, I'll do a sauce nug.

Speaker 3 I think you can be okay there. Sure, okay.
That's fair. You do a saucy nugget.
But it has to be chicken nugget. The chicken.
Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 7 Like a popcorn chicken.

Speaker 3 That's pretty good, too. Fuck.
Yeah.

Speaker 6 It's interesting you both went savory.

Speaker 5 I think I like I'm exerting myself. I think I would want something savory.
I don't know. That makes me feel more like a, like, it puts me more in meal tears.

Speaker 3 It makes you feel more like a good boy. It makes you feel more like a good boy.
Yeah, yeah. Well, it's good because we're getting sent out to get neutered right afterwards, too.

Speaker 3 Cut off my small balls.

Speaker 3 They're small too. Yeah, the whole thing is down there.

Speaker 3 I got Zelenskied.

Speaker 3 I think.

Speaker 3 Wait, wait, wait.

Speaker 3 Wait. What?

Speaker 3 I got Zielinski. What is that? Dwayne Zielinski, Honey I Trunk to Kids.
Oh, it's all time. You're talking about the president of Ukraine.

Speaker 3 I thought you were too, but I was like, I guess it makes sense. I don't know.

Speaker 3 I didn't even know the president was Zelin. Oh, yeah, I know.
I remember that. But Dwayne Zelensky, the Honey I trunk to kids.

Speaker 3 I don't know. Yeah.

Speaker 3 Everything down there is

Speaker 5 everything has been. I'm glad you pursued that because I was just going to leave it alone.
But yeah, I did absolutely think you were thought you were making a Ukraine reference.

Speaker 6 Yeah, I didn't want to have to bring it up next time I came back on I Got a Bone.

Speaker 3 I wanted to address it now.

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I love to be here.

Speaker 3 This is truly awesome.

Speaker 6 My wife was joking. This is like a make-a-wish week for me.

Speaker 3 I'm not here. You wished for LA to burn down.

Speaker 3 Before that. Before that.

Speaker 6 Once we got here, it became like a, I don't know.

Speaker 3 Well,

Speaker 3 we love having you on the show, and we were happy that you were down to do this today.

Speaker 3 And I think it was cathartic cathartic in a way there was a tweet that was like don't make content during the stuff and that's what our dumb jobs are and I think that uh you know like uh look we're no first responders but doing this for me was uh was nice to get my mind off of stuff and uh we're thinking about everyone who's affected by the fires and why because I'm a transplant but I love this city yeah you were you were born and raised I lived in LA County my whole life

Speaker 3 and you love this place it's been a it's been a bad week and we're thinking about everyone who's uh been affected by the fires and we love you and we're just and and thank you to everyone who's uh responded that's yeah really appreciate all you yeah that just gave me you just gave me an idea for maybe a new segment um i'm glad that that speech gave you an idea for a new segment of just first responders maybe thirst responders

Speaker 5 and then it's just maybe it's like a situation and we talk about what drink you'd want in that situation really really really

Speaker 3 i'm glad that we got that out of all this okay good thirst responders

Speaker 3 you should tell the next firefighter you see about that and see how they feel i would i would i would i look i would love to talk to some firefighters after all this is done and talk to them about

Speaker 3 things like that. It would be interesting to hear how you quench your thirst after fighting a fire.
Yeah. I have some buddies back in Quincy who are firefighters, but it would be fun to talk.

Speaker 8 My friend's a firefighter. I'm going to text some thirst responders right now and see how he reacts.

Speaker 3 Okay, great.

Speaker 3 But yes, thank you. Thank you to the first responders and everyone who keeps doing their job in L.A.
and keeping us safe and keeping the city running too, Wags. That's all.
That's all I wanted to say.

Speaker 5 I appreciate you saying it. Hey, that'll do it for this episode of Dough Boys.
Until next time for the Spoon Man Mike Mitchell, I'm Tiger Wagger.

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