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

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No, Donald.

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Well, do it.

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Whoa, I love that echo.

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Donald, you still haven't returned my weed whacker.

Carl, don't you embarrass me like this, please?

What's everyone yelling about?

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I'd be safe and warm if I was in LA.

California Dreamin' on such a winter's day.

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.

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.

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

Weird.

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.

Why would you take mine?

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

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

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.

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

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 Aga Canyon opened a Los Angeles-based pizza parlor with an almost identical name, though they claim no direct inspiration.

inspiration.

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.

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.

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

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.

This week on Doughboys, Big Mamas and Papa's Pizzeria.

Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants.

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

Doze Ferat Chu,

the Spoon Man, Mike Mitchell.

Does Ferrat Chu or Doz Ferat 2?

Doze Ferrat Chu.

It was Chu?

It was Chu.

Doze Ferat Chu.

I think you said Doze Ferrat 2.

No, I didn't.

Did I?

I plussed it up.

Does Ferrat Chu.

Chew.

Does Ferat Chu.

Does Ferat You didn't plus it up.

I read what was in the roast.

I plussed it up.

Doze for Rachu.

I'll show it to our guests.

It says it's right there.

Does for Achu.

I see Doze for Atu.

Yes.

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

Love you guys, and shout out to my friend Matt for introducing me to the pod.

Hope you guys have a lot of fun.

I thought that was a Simpsons reference.

I thought he was saying like I like

that's my favorite character.

Oh, yeah, same.

Ghost for Apu.

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

Oh, no.

It was, I think it's goes for a poo.

You have such Simpson's brain, you're unable to read

anything on it.

You know what?

My favorite, you know who my favorite character is?

Who's that?

Homer.

What are you being all high and mighty about that?

You're taking an ethical stance.

Homer.

Homer's my favorite.

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

Homer and Bart together.

We've talked about that.

Yeah, great duo.

It's a great duo.

Dumb guy and a dumb kid.

It's funny.

I'm a fan of Lisa, of course.

Oh, my God.

Here we go.

That's the writer's love of Lisa.

What were we going to say?

We were going to say something about Dozferatu.

I was going to ask: was it Doe's like

takes snaps or is it Doe like Dough Boys?

It's spelled out as D-O-U-G-H-S.

So Doe's like the Dough Boys.

I think we just plussed up this fucking roast again.

Furra, and then Farah, F-E-R-A, like Feral, but without the L.

And then Chu is written out as C-H.

R-Old.

E-R-O-L-E quarters.

Okay.

it.

I like it.

I haven't seen Nosferatu yet, but I saw Brutalist

yesterday.

I haven't seen Nosferatu yet.

I haven't seen Nosferatu.

I didn't see Brutalist yesterday.

I saw it Wednesday.

Okay.

As of this recording.

Oh, yes.

It took one Brutalist viewing for LA to be in an apocalypse, basically, in the city.

One runtime of Brutalist.

I came out of the theater and LA was

the LA itself was on fire.

So,

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.

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.

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

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.

I guess we maybe just stand still for a second.

Well, it's like the thing is, it's like one, it's just the dog.

So maybe it should just be you.

Okay.

This is fine.

Okay, good.

That's probably that's pretty good uh a bad you want to actually did our guest do you want to do an alt just in case we want to use you and

yeah i should say this is fine yeah

this is fine this is fine that's pretty good pretty good

as a pro

am i gonna now i had to watch this is like watching like a tv show and seeing the guy who got a role i had this before am i gonna am i gonna look at the video and it's gonna be zach is gonna be the one that gets the treatment we'll see the final we'll let the director choose who he wants to use.

We have options.

So, you know, whatever all he wants to pull.

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...

If you say that, then Jemmy should be a person.

Absolutely.

Absolutely.

Can you make me?

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.

But a very tense week here, Wags.

Yeah.

Just for our audio listeners,

our supervised video producer, Casey Donahue, is not here today.

Mike Dorkman, our video editor, is over there.

We run the video feed

along with Emma and Amelia, who are in studio.

We get a full house today.

We do.

We do.

I think it will be a cathartic day.

I think a very nerve-wracking

couple days.

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.

And maybe yours was the this is fine thing.

If that, if that's what you want to go with.

That's what I get?

Well, no, if you have something else, that's fine.

But you can also say, like, I'm not going to be able to do that.

Well, maybe I'll start with, like, I'm sorry to everyone who's lost their homes instead of me doing a meme.

My thing that I will say is that our heart goes out to everyone who has lost their homes, friends.

100%.

Friends and their

family of our friends.

We know people.

I feel like everyone in LA knows someone who has lost everything.

It's fine.

People who have guested on the show have lost their homes.

It's very

tragic.

A A lot of our listeners are dealing with that as well.

And it's funny.

And we're here to support in any way that we can.

I guess today was by making an unfunny podcast is the way we're supporting.

Yeah, right.

We will do anything that we can to help people here.

It sucks.

It's bad.

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 rag.

So

I think it's Wildfire25 or whatever.

Also, if you buy one bird fuck sticker, you get the second one free.

I think we're gonna talk about Kinshua.

If we get shot there out,

no,

it's horrible, and we want to try to bring some

levity to it, but it is bad.

Can I give you some credit real quick?

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 scheduled it anyway, and we decided why the fuck not.

But I was like, 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.

Big surprise there.

Real change from normal operations.

No one's at headgum.

But anyway, I was like,

I was like.

I told the old hungster they're

volunteer firefighters, just ripping their shirts off.

Anyway, the

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

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.

The, the, um,

we were like, ah, should we, should we record?

It feels weird right now.

And then you were basically, you, you were just like, hey, Starbucks is open.

And I was sort of like, yeah, you know what?

Like,

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 at a fucking McDonald's.

You aren't like, your boss isn't like, hey, take all, whatever, 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 I, as a food podcast, we're, we're just sort of like, hey, the restaurant we're reviewing is open today.

So I guess we can, it's fine for us to record.

There's a bunch of people in there working.

And that's that, that to me, Wags, when, when, uh, when I was home, I told you this.

I, on the weekend, I had ordered

Becca in the dose cord was my secret Santa.

And I ordered her cat coasters.

Yeah.

And I was like, butt coaster.

Cat butt coasters.

Yes.

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.

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.

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 cancel this.

This is coming out like maybe a week or two after the fact.

So, like, but this is in

context 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.

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.

It wasn't for anything nefarious.

Uh-huh.

And I.

So, what are you like a volunteer firefighter or what do you need this for?

In a way, kind of.

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.

Luckily, I just caught him and I was like, I tried to cancel this order.

This is embarrassing.

And he's like, Oh, it's fine, man.

It's just smoky outside.

He was very, he was very like up on it.

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 into mandatory evacuation 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,

news anchor,

reporter who, reporters who were there on the scene, every, every, and firefighters, of course, too, and first responders.

That's, uh, that's where my head's at.

But every person who, who's, uh, who's doing their nine to five through throughout all this, too, is, is who I want to thank.

That's well said, Mitch.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's, it's been, it's, it's one of those things where it's like

you kind of, it's nice.

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.

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.

People are going to be able to do that.

Well, thank you.

The fast food worker people were doing.

Exactly.

People still need to eat.

No, but I was like eating a breakfast burrito and just like everyone there is like talking about it.

And just strangers are talking to each other about like, you know, what they're going through or whatever.

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

So.

Yeah, I agreed.

Yeah.

Anyways, we should introduce our guests, like you said.

Well, we got a fucking drop to play.

Oh, Emma, hit him with a drop.

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Yes, one of the drop-off runners-up.

I believe that's a Finky, correct?

Yes, yeah, you're right, Wags.

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Wow.

Thanks, Finky.

Thanks, Finky.

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Our guest returning to the show.

Very happy to have him in the studio for the first time from Fallout and Severance, season two, now streaming on Apple TV Plus.

Zach Cherry is here.

Hi, Zach.

Hi, Emma.

Hit it.

Oh, hell yeah.

On the day no boys drop,

all the fans gather round and listen with wide wonder at the last they have found.

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

And that's cause today

I've got a bone.

I've got a bone.

I've got a bone.

I've I've got a bone.

That's it.

Wow.

Okay, so we have a new segment called I've Got a Bone to Pick.

Okay, great.

Wow.

Boys don't know about this,

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

Wow.

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

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

some of my things.

And for new listeners, this can be considered this a treasure map.

So you can go back and find these moments and we can talk about it.

Okay, we'll start really easy.

The Last Jedi is good.

It's maybe the only good Star Wars movie.

Oh my god.

Wow.

It's maybe the only good movie.

Oh my God.

All right.

Now I know.

Cigarettes are not back.

Shut the fuck up about cigarettes being back.

Cigarettes are bad.

And this week, look.

Look, yeah, no, it's a bad week for cigarettes.

It's

taking some L's right now.

Yeah, yeah.

Uh Baldur's Gate is good.

Hell yeah.

Mitch, you should play it.

What else are you doing?

I want to play it.

I kind of feel like

can I just say

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 bad.

All right.

Should we get an edit point in?

You know who else is probably having a bad week?

Who's that?

Osmosis Jones.

Osmosis Jones can't be.

He has to filter all the

time.

I don't agree with that.

You know who else?

Beavis.

You know what I mean?

Well, I mean, I think Beavis is maybe.

No,

God damn it.

I shouldn't have started this run of things.

I apologize.

Beavis is like a pyromaniac.

That's his whole thing.

Yeah, yeah.

But I'm saying, he's probably sullen.

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

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yes, yes.

And he might have had a few door door knocks this week.

That might have been an issue.

That is kind of like, hey, Beavis, you like what's happening?

Huh?

This is what you've wrought.

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

Yeah.

He is a, he's a, he's an actor.

He lives here.

Yeah.

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

He's very, he's not having a good one.

He plays himself in that

movie.

Yeah, I can't, whatever that movie is.

Good.

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.

Yes.

Now, I actually did some research on this.

Okay.

Regular masturbation seems to help them pass.

Yes.

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.

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

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,

it, it won't.

It won't do that.

No.

Didn't you have it?

Didn't you have a kidney stone fairly recently?

I don't know.

I mean, not to embarrass you, yeah.

And did you?

Did you jack off?

Yeah.

It's the night before I left.

Yeah.

It was the night before I left to go back to Massachusetts and

I had to pack and get ready to go and I had I had to pass a kidney stone and I went into the shower and I uh and I jacked it out.

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

You got to get all your loads out of your system.

I barely did that.

I just need to jack off at home.

And also,

can I be honest with you?

I went into the bathroom and I jacked off and went into a spittoon.

It did come out.

It shot out into a spittoon.

And it ricocheted around and went right back into my bathroom.

Right back down.

Uh-oh, now I'm going to pass it back.

I got to pass it again.

So that one you're wrong on.

Okay, well, agree to disagree.

Okay.

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

yeah i'm not i'm not that much younger than you but you'll see yeah you'll see the gunk hasn't arrived at my door so the gunk will arrive uh the hawtua girl was not a preschool teacher

at one point it was reported as such on this pod i think part of the issue with that is i think because i you you i learned what hoctua 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.

Can I get a song?

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

Absolutely.

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.

I'm sorry, Jemi.

I'll get you a bone later.

She's had a rough week, Wise.

Yeah, that's true.

She's really worried about her friend Frankenstein.

Jemmy's friends with Frankenstein?

Yeah, I don't know.

It's via Frankenwin.

She's friends with Frankenwini and Frankenstein.

That makes like this.

Frankenstein owns Frankenwin.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Of course, yeah.

Okay, then I did want to talk about when you got mad.

You got mad that I texted you about.

So, for the listeners, I texted Wiger about a minions-based tweet.

Yeah.

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.

Mitch is being an actor.

Okay.

And both of you are everything else.

Okay.

So

I parsed my

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

So going forward,

you will always be included.

Thank you.

That's what I want.

That's the safest course act.

We can still have our own private text chains, but everything else, if you talk to him,

I have to know if you talk to him.

And then finally, I just wanted to share an update on my wife's journey with Doughboys, which is

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

Right.

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

I was like, she was like,

you can't come because you're not going to be there.

But she likes the show so much now that she's inventing ways to get mad at me.

She's very welcome to come to the studio.

You will end up, like Jemmy, asleep in a chair, most likely.

No one, it's not fun to be here for this.

I tried to tell her that.

Yes.

Anyway, that's the new segment.

I've Got a Bone.

I loved it.

I thought that was great.

Look, speaking of, we should talk to our staff a little bit for a second, too.

Yeah, sure.

well, look, we did.

We should so I've never called you our staff before.

Gross.

I hated it.

Sorry, I didn't like it at all.

The dais?

What did you

call it?

Yeah, the dais.

Our staff, 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.

I didn't like it.

Our team.

The Doughboys team.

The Doughboys team.

The team who, along with us, make the show happen.

Mike and Emma, y'all were driving back.

And so you had the crazy experience of you were traversing the country via an automobile when like the crazy winds and the fires hit.

You were like coming into LA.

We were.

What was that like?

It was weird.

Yeah.

I mean, we were, we heard that there was, when we go, like when I Google maps our route, it was like the Eaton fire might affect your route.

And I was like, oh, that's kind of crazy.

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.

Yeah.

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.

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

The exponential growth of these things is unreal.

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?

Yeah.

There was a, like Emma said, there was about five lived.

trucks, which I've never seen like back to back to back.

And then just a row row of them, like I would say, at least 50 trucks just lined the side of the highway, just going right past Pasadena.

It was unreal.

It was like a scene out of a movie.

It was weird.

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

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

this was also 16 hours into our drive.

Yeah.

Dude,

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

So that's part of the problem.

We have to be here today.

Yeah.

Yeah, that's crazy.

Yeah, it was very crazy.

Yeah.

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.

I have this screenshot that I'll share to put in the video.

The air quality index said $4.50.

And smoke them if you got them.

$450.

So $420 plus $30.

Yeah.

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

So $450 is zero.

Yes, and $4.50 hazardous.

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

It was getting through the cracks.

And also, we should say now.

The windows were a Christmas gift from Nick and I.

Yeah, I'm sorry.

We kind of went with the budget option.

We kind of put put the budget option.

There was like smoke proof and non-smoke.

The non-smoke proof were like $30 less.

Well, we got the extra smoke.

They were really, they were really, they were on sale.

We're sorry.

Yeah, we're sorry.

Who's that beep?

Jesus Christ.

I thought that was an emergency already.

That was me.

Sorry.

No.

Okay, all right.

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.

They've been like, evacuate now.

And then you'll get like one 10 minutes later.

It's like, sorry, ignore.

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's, it was really fucking just one of those movies.

You grabbed every apple.

Yeah.

I didn't get any alerts.

I don't live here.

I live in New York.

Yeah.

But I didn't get any alerts.

Wow.

I don't know if they don't know.

They don't know on

whatever.

But yeah, I was, I was not getting anything.

You had your, your, you had a premiere that was canceled for uh, which was a huge bummer, but you know,

but that's the reason you came out here, right, was for that.

Yeah, Severin Season 2, you had a premiere, you had a bunch of press, and all this kind of went by the wayside.

You ended up getting out of town yourself a little bit.

That's perfect.

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

But no one officially told me to.

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

That's the worst luck.

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

And

all my stuff was getting canceled after that as well.

Oh my gosh.

Because people were just like stunned or whatever.

So I don't know if you can come back.

I might not be able to.

You don't want to know my theories about why this all happened?

Why?

Do you?

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

That's why the Hollywood sign almost burns.

It's bad karma.

It's bad karma.

We need to accept them back.

Chickens coming home to roost over spacey.

I thought you were going to say it was from the slap.

Like a butterfly.

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

I mean,

your windows weren't tight.

So I took the cats and I went to

Cats Plural.

Cats Plural.

We haven't really talked about this.

Refresh everyone's member.

We talked about this cat.

This was a cat that was found during the Head Gum Christmas party.

Yeah.

And you've been fostering it for now.

Yes.

Yeah.

So anyway, I took the cat's plural to Joshua Tree

for a few days.

That's great.

That's great.

Where was his cat found?

On Sunset Mourner.

Yeah, outside.

Such a dangerous spot for.

It was in a wheel well of a car.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And you saved the day.

You saved the cat's life.

She's a cutie.

She's a cutie.

She sleeps on my chest every night.

Come on.

It's really,

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?

Too good.

Dear God, you freak.

Go to grab the good stuff when you evacuate.

Yeah, when I evacuate it, this is the hat that I grabbed.

Family photo in the hat.

I also like that from Spencer's gifts.

We were out there and we got some kinship merch.

It's very nice of kinship to share with us.

And I just am remembering a few minutes ago when Amelia is 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.

So, I mean, it's a great hat.

It's a good hat.

It's a great choice.

Well, we're glad all you're all.

We're glad our team is safe.

Yeah, 100%.

Casey and Anya are also safe wherever they are.

Their homes are also safe.

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

it was going to burn down.

And people be like, Mitch's stairs are going to burn for a long time.

Kind of annoying.

Any stare mention when you're afraid that your place is going to burn down

was a little bit annoying.

And I told you that they were like, Mitch is fine, but Weiger, I'm worried about Weiger.

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.

I'm not full of people.

I shouldn't get mad at this.

Everyone was very supportive.

Overall, people have been very, very good.

The Reddit, which is good now.

There was a big list.

Yeah, the Reddit is good now.

This is a 2025 thing.

There was a big list of them

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

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

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

You'd be okay.

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

For me specifically, I'm lucky with the, you know, the fires that are more in Altadena and in the Palisades and stuff, that didn't affect me.

But a lot of our friends and their families have been affected by it.

It's horrible.

Yeah.

Horrible situation.

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.

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

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.

You know, so yeah.

Wednesday night when a lot of, I was very, there was this tense six hours on Wednesday night where a lot of people got out of town 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

Mel Gibson's moonshadows.

Moonshadows fire.

His house went down.

He lost his house and he lost the karaoke bar where he was arrested

for drunkenly using a bunch of racial slurs.

Look,

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

Yeah, but

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

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 to to go.

And I'm happy about the moment I chose to do it.

And I'm happy about every video.

I loved it.

I think it was

perfect.

It was good.

Weiger told us that we needed, it's a new year, new bits.

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?

Oh, I didn't.

We got an owl bear.

Yeah, this is the animal companions from camp.

We did clock the dog sleeping.

We've got the sleeping, yeah.

Yeah.

Is that the dog that you have?

Or is that, isn't there like a sleeping wolf you can do a quest?

Mike just uses the hammer to not be on your shirt.

No, this is this is the camp dog.

I'm forgetting it.

It's not Scraps.

I forget.

It's Scratch, right?

Scratch is the dog.

This is Scratch and then the Owl Bear.

Those are both the animal companions you can get.

Yeah.

I love it.

Oh, God.

Between this and Bellatro, or whatever the fuck you're talking about.

Oh, we're getting to Bellatro.

Yeah, let's get into it.

Do you play Bellatro?

Yeah, Amelia's been binging it.

Oh, God damn it.

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

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

So we'd have to talk about it.

Hold on a second.

No, you said, you said, should we keep this in this chat or should I do a side chat?

And I said, side chat.

I do not want to hear about Bellatro.

I need to.

Give me in the Bellatro chat.

Okay, we'll buy it.

We'll do a Bellatro chat with

Amelia and Zach and me.

And I'm not mad.

I want in.

And then once I want in, I'll buy the game.

I want in.

I want to see it.

I think I might have 100%ed Bellatro.

That's wild.

Can you do that?

Yeah, you can get all the achievements.

You can unlock everything.

I spent an insane amount of hours doing it.

How many hours are you thinking of?

A lot.

A lot.

I have to.

I'll give the ballpark estimate.

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

Yeah.

I mean, it was it 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.

And are you playing on a phone, Steam Deck?

What do you use?

On my Switch.

On your Switch.

Okay, yeah.

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

Yeah, it's on everything.

Oh, man.

It's over.

It's an incredible design.

I had to get rid of it.

I'm not playing it.

I don't want to play it.

Probably the best game.

The only other game that competes is Walder's Game.

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

They're really time-consuming.

They're

make unreasonable demands on your time.

But Palatro, you can play for 10 minutes at a time.

It's true.

You can just do a short run.

Switch 2 is coming out this year and

Knock on Wood that everything here

doesn't get worse.

And that is going to be the thing that I am putting time into this year is is the new mario galaxy or whatever comes out with it that's what i

we'll see we'll see what it actually launches with because i could see it launching with an underwhelming lineup really yeah i mean like i don't i think it's gonna launch with a new metroid that's what i metroid prime forward that's a long long rumored in development for a while you know we'll see if it if anything actually surfaces with it are you embarrassed at all that we're like like nearly mid-40s and talking about this stuff or no i'm wearing a balder's gate three shirt

what do you think i don't know i just i wrestle with it sometimes.

No, who cares?

Like, even when I was younger, the idea of being into Mario when I was 50 seemed crazy.

And I'm like, am I just going to like Mario when I'm 50?

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

I rescued the princess.

Do you have a wife?

No.

Speaking of video games, I really, you know,

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 hey you're great in fallout what it what a fun show and what a great adaptation of the of the ip hey yeah it was cool

to video game shows hell yeah

hey there you go 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 like walking around and it was kind of surreal

how the sets really did feel like the vaults yeah sure i was like whoa they they did a good job and that aesthetic is around

the massachusetts one Or is that the...

No.

Or maybe.

I think

in Boston.

Yeah.

You can go to Quincy in that.

You can go to Quincy and Fallout - there's like a thing that happens in Quincy in Fallout 4, I think.

You can go to Fenway and stuff, too, is in the game.

Is there like a little Mitch in there?

There might be a little mutant Mitch somewhere.

That'd be cool.

I would love it.

A great show.

Follow it's a great show.

A lot of fun.

Yeah, it was fun.

I enjoyed it.

You were playing.

So Larry and Makeba made

Baldur'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 Original Sin 2.

Mitch, you're going to love this.

It's basically Baldur's Gate 3.

It's very similar.

I'm also laughing that there's an insane thing that's happened, and I don't even know if you're going to 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 talk about it.

I did it on the live show.

Oh.

Look, here's the thing.

People have been saying, like, I went the bit in the live show,

and people are like, hey, Weiger, is it real?

Is it real?

You know, whatever.

Yeah.

One of the doughboys ever half committed to a bit.

Yeah, it's real.

I told you, I'm Tiger now.

And is that, does that

relate to Baldur's game?

No.

Mitch just noticed it.

I noticed it peeking out of.

I noticed it peeking out of.

I see.

Yes.

He got the tattoo.

He got a tattoo.

Sorry.

I've been calling you Weiger all day.

Yeah, no, it's Wiger's fine.

Sorry, Tiger.

Do I have to call you Tiger?

Call me whatever you want.

That's what Mary Jane calls Spider-Man.

It feels weird.

She calls him Tiger?

Doesn't she?

Oh, like, hey, Tiger.

I think I am the Spider-Man to your MJ.

You love cats.

I'm kind of the biggest cat at all.

Shout out to Daniel Werder at Boartooth Tattoo, who hooked me up with this.

Very happy with it.

He's got the tattoo.

That's insane.

It's

it is a surprise to you.

Yes.

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.

Amelia sent a screenshot of a tagged image from a tattoo shop and said, We got tagged in this wax.

Is this your thigh?

And I was like, This is real.

And you got, you did it.

Yeah, I'm tiger now.

I love it.

Okay, so

but Divinity Original Sin 2.

Yes, I'm loving it.

It's like it's also available on Switch.

Yeah, I played it.

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,

I think I could wrap my head around it.

It is more confusing and it is harder.

Like, I'm playing it on tactician mode because I played Baldur's Gate.

And for the first,

like,

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.

But now you can't stop me.

Wow.

What's your player character?

Some little elf.

You pick like that.

There isn't like the extent.

My memory is that there's not like the customizable character.

There's like a number of a few prefab characters you pick.

Well, no, you can't.

Mine is custom.

Oh, okay.

But I'm just like some little little elf.

Got it.

Who like stabs people and stuff.

That's fun.

What is this game called?

Divinity Original Sin 2.

And I'm playing the Definitive Edition.

Wow.

Yeah.

It's like Baller's Gate 3, basically.

Yeah.

I'm not going to play it, probably.

Jesus Christ.

Let's talk about food a little bit.

So this guy's fucking proud.

We'll side chat about it.

We'll talk about the Blotro chat.

You've adjusted your diet a little bit in the new year.

We're trying to help you, man.

Do you think you sling more webs than Spider-Man?

I was going to ask that a long time ago.

Who do you think?

Who do you think?

Who do you think Moore shoots out more white stuff?

Yeah.

Don't more white stuff.

You were Spider-Man.

On like a, on an on a, like a daily, on like a, like a daily average.

Yeah, yeah.

Yeah.

The guy, the bank robber's helicopter gets shot, caught in a web.

Ah, Weiger.

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

Mike's like go off.

Oh boy, ones are falling apart.

Uh, the

okay, you're 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, correct.

When did you are you kind of loosely vegetarian?

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.

Um, but honestly, Pete, this the pull of pizza is too too strong.

Yeah.

You know?

I

1,000% get it.

Yeah.

And look,

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 options.

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

menu, possibly.

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 great.

My thing

for the new year.

My uh my fat guy meds are held up because of the

damn Santa and winds.

Oh, man.

Yeah.

I mean, this is the least

worrisome thing of everything that's happened, but

fucking Santa.

Fuck it's fucking Santa Ana.

We talked about this.

Wind and fire.

I hate the worst, the whackest elements that there are.

I'm very upset with the

how do you rank the elements?

Water is number one.

Way of water, yeah.

Yeah, water.

I'd say water love water.

Yeah.

Water is way.

Water's up there.

Water is good.

I'd go heart.

Heart's really big.

Heart's really big because, right, what are the other things?

So specifically, I think only an element being the captain planet universe.

But it counts.

I guess it does count.

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

That's cool.

Because you also kind of need that.

But it's not separated from wind.

It is.

Air is wind.

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

Well, without fire, we'd be pretty cold.

That's true.

So I guess fire's got it.

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

Okay.

What about Earth?

Earth is nice.

Earth's good.

Earth and water.

Those are my two favorites.

Top five for me for sure is Earth, Wind, Fire, Water, Heart.

Yeah, in some order.

They're all in there.

Yeah, I agree with that.

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

this will get into our pizza when we talk

a little bit.

For about two years, I haven't eaten any pork.

And my two things,

I I don't eat pork and I don't eat cephalopods.

Otherwise, I'm just kind of generally eating meat as it comes.

Um, and what I've kind of decided is that, like,

all right,

it's um

what do they call

what do they call that?

Veal, yeah, that's like super veal

as it's coming.

Take a bite of a bull's leg as it's coming,

suffering walk you expensive.

How much does that cost?

It's going to be expensive, right?

I've like,

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.

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.

What was it?

Was it beef?

Oh, not eating pork.

Yeah, I haven't eaten pork or, you know, octopus squids for a couple of years.

And, and, and I just was like, like, I don't think this is really serving me.

And also the point where I'm like, if I'm ordering a Cobb salad, no bacon, or I'm just checking if there's pork base in the ramen before I order it, like, how much is that really helping those sort of marginal sort of things?

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?

What I've kind of landed on is I'm just eating

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.

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 incident, incidence,

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.

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

Which I did for you when I had COVID.

That's true.

And

I didn't give it to you.

Weirdly, remember, I pictured, and I used it.

I know, I didn't get it.

You didn't get it for me.

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

That's wild.

I said this on Gabris' podcast, but I'm taking Zepp bound.

People should listen to that episode.

It's great.

The high and mighty episode.

Yeah, you're on.

You always does a great job.

I mean, it's called Being Fat, but it's you and Gabris talking about that.

And you're very, very candid about it.

And I think there's a lot of great detail you go into there.

So people should listen to that episode.

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 is weird.

And I am just full more.

We also, we started a, we started a fat guy text chain.

You're not on it.

Yeah.

We've decided we're, we're talking about whether we should let you on.

You are, you're fat enough.

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.

We, we can, I mean, technically, I think you are, you do weigh enough.

We can let you on.

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

You can be in there.

Which I do kind of agree with that.

You know, if there's ever a decision that needs to be made, right?

You know, you kind of have a little bit less of a

I'm like the representative from DC.

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 Goodfellas where he's like, you couldn't, like, you couldn't be made if you were like part Irish or something.

Yeah, right, right, right.

You can never, it's the same thing.

You can never get made.

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.

You know, that's, that's, uh, 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.

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.

It makes it way easier.

Then you don't have to monitor it.

You just

put a cup of rice in and then

it makes great brown rice.

They said, too, it's very fluffy.

And I'm going to do that and get it.

I get a new,

what's it called?

Air fryer, because my old air fryer got recalled.

Oh, man.

And a Kosari.

It's got recalled, and it could start a fire, I guess, if

you use it.

That's a horrible thing.

I just realized it didn't.

I edited out me saying it can cause a start of fire.

I mean, that is why it was recorded.

But it was why it was recalled.

I don't know why I got so scared there for a second.

But

was your air fryer?

It was not my air fryer that started the thing.

It was not your air fryer.

No, it was not my air fryer.

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.

I think a lot of grilled chicken and rice.

That's what I'm going to try to do for the.

I just point out the people should listen to the episode.

But also, like, I think you're.

It was just not just one spoke.

I think you're very brave for just being open about this.

Thank you for sharing it.

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.

I've already 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 thought I was dying or wanted to die, I was like, I don't care.

You know what I mean?

Like,

who cares what people say?

You know what I mean?

Like,

people are going to be mean about stuff.

People are mean about the fires.

You know, people are assholes always.

Who cares?

Like, you know what I mean?

What can you do?

You just don't listen to it.

Yeah, maybe someone will make a crack about your CPUs overheating, and it's fine.

Just move on with your life.

That was good.

That was good.

I love both of you.

I love both of you.

I love you.

All right, we got to get to new bits.

This is an issue.

Oh, yeah.

We got to talk about big mamas and big papas, but

I want to talk about some new bits for 2025.

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.

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

Well, there is a bit.

I got a bone is a new, is a, is a new bit.

Can we use that?

Yeah, you can use that.

Okay, okay, great.

Any guest is welcome.

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

They got a bone to pick with y'all.

Yeah.

Here's, here's one I, here's one I got.

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

right after you said I was.

Well, yeah, it was a segue.

I actually saw,

you see, this is the whales on Ozempic.

I heard the whales on Ozempic.

Is that that the sequel?

Yeah, he's like,

is there more to it than that?

He's floating, man.

He's up there.

And

they made him change his name to the dolphin.

Yeah, he's the dolphin now.

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 weight.

The whale has dropped so much weight.

He's the dolphin.

That's a lot of.

He's not even the manatee or something.

No, he's really slimmed down.

Oh, my God.

Yeah, he looks great.

I mean,

but he still has the power to float.

He can still float.

Yeah.

Okay.

He can float even higher now.

Wow.

He's got to be worry of the ozone layer.

He's going to burn up up there.

Isn't it sad with Ozempic that there'll be no more of the whales?

We won't have any more.

That's the main thing people are worried about.

That's why it's such a fraught, you know, conversation.

People are like, the whale was so good.

Man, look what they took from it.

I genuinely, if there was,

if there was, if it, there was the whale two and then colon ozempic i would a thousand percent go and see that movie starts with him jacking off eating the meatball sub and then hong chow comes in but it's an integral smaller meatball sub yeah the smaller meatball sub

i'd watch that i i didn't watch the first whale but i'd see the second you haven't seen the first whale i feel like i've heard it described enough um 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 um

I don't really.

You told me, you know, like you gave us homework to, you know,

to the first

one to be as fully, all as fully formed as the whale on Ozempec.

But like, you know.

My thing is, is

someone who works for us, Fish.

That's right.

One of our Discord mods.

He's a Discord mod.

I don't think he watches the show anymore.

Or listens to the show now.

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.

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.

Help me out here.

Like

fish food or

pop fish.

Pop

fish.

Pop fish.

That's great.

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.

I mean, he doesn't.

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 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.

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

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

In the year of Nosferachi.

See, it's too popular now.

I think Frankenstein.

But yeah, maybe you Zig when everyone else is there.

Yeah.

Dracula out, Frankenstein in.

Could be, yeah.

Let's see.

Yeah.

Zach, did you have one?

Yeah.

One is, I think, you know, you have a few go-to impressions.

Yeah.

Bill Clinton is a regular presence on the show.

Yeah, 100%.

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

Yeah, your time is right.

Give it a go.

See what you got.

Well, he's like, he's kind of a southern guy, right?

Yeah, but you could do him more recently.

Oh.

Ghost Carter.

At the time of this recording, he was basically buried a couple days ago, I believe.

I think

he was kind of a southern man, right?

He was kind of Jim McCarta.

Hand me that hammer over there.

Yeah, like I'm going to build a habitat for humanity.

Yeah.

Hand me the hammer.

Something like that.

Hand me the hammer.

I'm pretty good, too.

Pretty good, yeah.

I just think he would be a good president.

You know,

balance out.

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 my humble peanut farmer.

Exactly.

All right.

Exactly.

My wife and I have been married for 80 years.

Yeah.

Yeah.

That's all right.

That's pretty good.

There's something there.

I need an angle on it.

10-year anniversary live show in Quincy.

That's not really a bit, but

I'm pitching that we should do a 10-year anniversary show in Quincy.

It should be out here.

If we do the anniversary show, meet in the middle.

Do it in Ohio.

I would do it in Omaha, Nebraska.

We got to go to Omaha.

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

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

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.

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 come.

But I want to be here.

This is for God bless you.

God bless you.

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.

Cause I also feel like there's

funny.

Hey, that works.

We got it.

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.

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

I don't fucking know.

I think it's like the Disney thing of celebrating it throughout the whole year.

Sure, yeah.

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.

That's fun.

Does it sound creepy?

But what's wrong?

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

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

I guess, yeah, check, have someone.

Maybe it's physically, maybe people who've gotten bigger in 10 years.

You know, like something.

I don't know.

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.

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

Yes.

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.

Yeah, we'd love to hear from the former child, now adult.

We're all former child, now adults.

If you've had any like behavioral issues that have maybe been linked to that,

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.

All right, here's one.

Nasferatu was mentioned.

I had this one.

This is, this, I think, is a pretty, pretty straightforward one.

Nasferhaktua.

Oh, yeah, that's good.

So I don't know.

Has everyone seen Nasferatu?

Anyone else seen it?

Okay, so there's a voice in Nasferatu.

So this will really, this might only make sense if

you've seen the movie.

But there's the Nasferatu guy is a voice.

And uh spit on that neck.

That's what he's oh, that's good, or uh, spit blood on that thing, that's good.

That's really good, yeah, because he's more

is more guttural.

I am Nusferatu, woman,

you will come to me on the third night, and I will hawk to her and spit on that neck.

So, like, yeah, something like that.

Is that Jimmy Carter?

Yeah,

I'm just thinking of

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

Bringing a lot of relief to people with your Nas Feratua.

I like the, I like that gives me an idea.

Yeah.

Of

Nas Nas for Haktua.

And, you know, Nas in Fast and Furious is the gas that makes cars go fast.

So So I don't know.

Maybe she's in a fast car.

I like that a lot.

That is good.

Or like Vin Diesel pushes a button and then she spits on

the gears.

Yeah, when you're in the car, you need someone to spit.

You have a.

Yeah.

Just because we said it's more of a Frankenstein year than

Franken, Franken Hoch

Franken Hoch Tua.

Frank Tua.

Frank Tua.

Frank Tua, yeah.

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

Yeah.

I mean, it looks maybe Hawk Tua's monster.

Hawk Tua's monster.

She hasn't updated her podcast.

She's gone missing since she did the Bitcoin scam.

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

You guys could do that.

That is true.

That's true.

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,

what's that?

Doe coin.

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 uh sounds pretty perfect

something to consider yeah then we get the fuck out of there move to abu dhabi

we move in with kevin spacey

um

i i i had one this is this is just zach because you're here i this could just be a fun thing we could say on the show 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.

Yeah, that's a good thing.

I was drinking a Zach.

You just say it casually, like as the movie's got a Zach Coke.

Well, you could say Zach Cherry Coke.

Zach Cherry Coke.

You know what?

Zach Cherry Coke might be bad.

Yeah, Zach Cherry Coke.

That's a bad.

That's an honor.

Okay, great.

That's an honor.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I like that a lot, too.

Okay.

Yeah.

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

Uh, 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 Buzz Larry movie.

Obviously, now we have another Dune star who's in a biopic, Timothy Chalamay, is playing.

You know, he's Paul Atreid, he's Muadib

in Dune, but he's also Bob Dylan in a complete unknown.

So there's a natural opportunity for Muadib Dylan.

Bob Dylan?

Muad Dylan, yeah.

Maybe Muad Dylan is the better

portmanteau.

Yeah, Muad Dylan.

Do you have any examples of how this would go?

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.

But just a taste, like if you were like,

How does it feel

to be stuck on Dune?

Wearing a still suit

like a Shyhalude.

Can I say to you that you've made me

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

going into.

I don't know what

Bob Dylan.

I don't know

Dylan.

I mean, you don't know.

I'm very clear.

That's Muab Dylan.

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 Dylan.

Oh, that was a little bit.

Low from Columbia.

Okay, all right.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

How would you do a Dylan?

He sounds like this, but he's

I wouldn't say

this.

Me, Dylan,

my head is shaking.

I'd probably do Bob Wonka.

That's, I like that.

Bob Wonka is good.

Hey, man,

do you want some candy?

Oh, that's good.

I don't know a single Bob Dylan song.

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

No, he's not.

Who's that?

That is

Lou Reed, yeah.

Okay, I would do Lou Wonka.

Hey, man.

But he still sounds like Bob Dylan.

Here comes the story of the fizzy lifting drink.

That would be Bob.

I mean, it's not good.

No one likes it, but that is.

I have it.

I have a segment pick.

Okay, great.

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

when the other person's in the bathroom.

So we don't stop rolling.

It turns into content.

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

No, no, I 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.

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

When you come back, you have to admit which one you're going to be.

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

Let's, should we?

Non-zero.

Because I think you have a better sense of what this is.

So let's, we'll, we'll audition it real quick and I'll just, I'll just, I'll, I'll be.

I have to go to the bathroom.

You do?

Yeah.

Okay.

So you want to try it out?

Yeah.

Yeah.

Okay, great.

Bathroom breakdown.

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

Is there a theme song maybe that can go in?

Yeah, we'll work on it.

Okay, great.

Jemmy is very interested in where Mitch is going.

Amelia's closing the door.

How do you think the episode's going so far?

I'm having a lot of fun.

I'm having a lot of fun, too.

I still am still thinking about

the bone-to-pick segment, how I dropped it in the middle of the wildfire.

No, that wasn't your fault.

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.

Yeah.

Other than that, though, it's been, I'd say, aces.

Does your wife

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

That I don't know.

Okay.

I don't know.

Well, I'll say, I'll say shout out to Zach's partner.

Thank you very much for listening.

Yeah, she's watching.

I'm sorry.

We've sent you to the hospital twice.

No, only once.

Only once.

Okay.

And it wasn't the hospital.

It was just, she got really mad.

She got so mad she had to go to the doctor.

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

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

So hopefully you're okay.

Call me.

Do you have like, okay,

you're someone who works a lot as, you know, you're traveling

to act and the way this work, this profession works now, you're in different cities all the time.

You go to a new city, bitches at the bathroom right now.

Like, are you

how conscious of you are like, of like figuring out the bathroom situation in your local environment?

Like, are you 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 what you talked about bathroom stuff

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 road and he goes to a new city, like, how does he figure out the bathroom situation?

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

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

Yeah, same.

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

I came.

Okay.

Um,

I, so

you can do that without a shower present.

There's a drain in there.

Um,

in the middle of the floor, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that works.

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

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

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

Oh, I have a great bathroom story to tell.

Oh, that's serious.

And you can use this technique.

Okay, great.

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

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

But it's just one person.

Ooh.

Sounds like what mischief happened.

But then this man came out 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.

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

And we were all like,

what?

You're over to play in your hand, buddy.

Like, yeah, no one would 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.

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

And then he was also moaning.

No one's been in there.

And then he just got in his car and left.

That's insane.

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

the we that that's like the kid that way, yeah, you did.

That's like the kid at my at my music camp who was like, Just so you know, I didn't sperm in my sleeping bag, okay?

Yeah, it's like, well, if you say, I didn't sperm,

yeah,

first off, probably would 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

on a podcast, yeah.

So, try that next time,

man.

Uh, the the to be uh doing whatever that man was doing in there, I could not.

I think it was coming out

all three.

Yeah.

That's rough.

So you talk about somebody who you're not bashful in the bathroom, but for me, like the thing,

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.

Like, I had that happen the other day.

I was like going into the, and there's, there's these very nice public restrooms in Culver City.

And I went in there.

And it was one of the things I went in there and like the janitors worker is like, oh, sorry.

And I popped out.

And 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,

I got to floor it.

Like, I got to make a mess in there.

And I.

You got to make a mess in there?

I can't do it.

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

If I get the go-ahead, I'll go for it.

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.

It'd be too, I know he doesn't care.

Like, that's, he probably encounters that all the time.

Maybe even, he, maybe even would like it.

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

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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%.

This is a city institution that I would say is somewhat beloved.

I feel like

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

It was kind of like a, like, oh yeah, this is kind of one of the LA spots.

This is one of the kind of one of the pizza spots that will always be solid, will always be there for you.

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

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

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

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, and, you know,

reasonably priced, available, like, like, you know, available for the working class and also like a step above kind of the big national chains.

Um, it is, uh, it was founded in 97, as I I mentioned, by brothers Aro and Alan.

Agakanian.

It has an Armenian influence to their pizza menu, and it's not the only LA area pizzeria that is like this.

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

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.

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

Which is how I even heard of this place.

I would see the cars driving around with a special rack on top.

Yeah.

And I was like, what's going on with this?

Yes.

It is.

It was a gimmick.

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

So we saw one today.

We did.

We saw one of the delivery cars with the giant.

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

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

Which maybe we got today.

Beyond that,

its claim to fame is that Elenda Generes gave out Big Mamas and Big Papas pizza slices to celebrities when she was hosting the 2014 Oscars.

I didn't know that.

Yeah.

That's such a nice movie.

Isn't that nice?

Yeah.

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.

You better get it right, you little fuck.

I'm sorry.

Don't look at me.

she gave away, oh, oh, that's what she gave out at the at the Oscars, yeah.

Yes, there was like a bit, right?

Like, she gave out pizza,

didn't she do a self-she did a selfie?

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

Oh, wow, so it it was almost involved in the greatest selfie ever, almost, yeah, yeah.

It was almost, it was almost involved in that.

Weren't a couple of your guys in that,

I believe Spacey's in there.

A few of our guys got in the picture.

There's some overlap with that photo in in the Doughboys guests of previous years.

There's 17.

What year was that?

Was that 2014, I think?

2014.

17 locations in L.A.

County.

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 papas?

Well, I,

you know, I spend the time in L.A.

occasionally.

Sure.

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

And

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 a lot of things you can do and then i remember that big slice the big slice and i thought i gotta try this thing the big slice was because there's what other context am i gonna get the big slice because i don't live here so like yeah we were chanting big slice in the text chain yeah Yeah, we just started writing big slice, big slice.

I did pull a little bit of a psychological maneuver on two where i pitched it before mitch i think woke up um and so

weiger and i were talking about it and then before mitch could even weigh in i said come on mitch back me up wigger's trying to stop me from being allowed to try the big slice

and then and then wiggle was like what the fuck no i like the idea and then i do think my first i think my first text to

in response was big slice.

Weiger wasn't trying to kill the big slice.

I had to be sure.

Yeah.

No,

the

point is.

No, I'm never going to kill the big slice.

I am the big slice.

Hey, new bit.

Big slice.

I like that.

Yeah, because you have Mr.

Slice, but how is the big slice different?

Is it like just like

my viewpoint on some stuff?

You know what I mean?

Let's check in with Mr.

Slice with the big slice.

I think the fire started because we didn't accept Kevin Spacey back in calling it.

Like a thing like that, basically yeah that's yeah all right i like that yeah all right all right kind of like your two cents yeah 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 they were saying like this is the model of the new big mamas and big papas dine-in experience so we're like you know what that's actually a probably a good one to visit to see what that's like they do have a bar there they do have like alcohol service look the glendale test never fails the glendale is just the nicer the the the locations are nicer up in glendale and that ended up this the size of the inside did end up being important and relevant.

It was, absolutely.

100%.

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

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

Julie's decided to go back to Palm Street.

She just texted me bathroom break.

Bathroom break.

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

I've been pretty stellar since the last breakdown.

Okay, great.

Yeah.

Yeah.

What did you guys talk about when I was gone?

Can you say?

Talked about taking shits.

Yeah.

It actually was a lot of bathroom talk.

Yeah.

You know what?

I can't eat corn anymore, I found out.

This is a different twist on the bathroom breakdown.

You're breaking down your bathroom.

I can't do corn.

No.

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

I think I'm confirmed.

Firm confirmed corn is a...

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 or

corn nibbling, you know, I can't do it.

You get an ear of corn that's off the table?

i don't know i can do it i think it hurts my stomach too much but i know it bummes me i love corn what about a tortilla

i go i i'm a flower tortilla guy more than corn tortilla you know maybe because the corn doesn't agree with the tongue that could be i think that's what it is it's sad sad to me they have so one of the things they have at the glendale location is they have a little uh like fridge of artisan pops which is really fun and they have a bunch of them yeah you got one of them right there zach

I got the

speaking of Fallout, I got a Fallout Nuka-Cola.

They had one of those varietals, and it was a mango, or no, it was not mango.

It was a peach.

No, it was a mango peach, right?

I think that's what it was.

It was really, really tasty.

I really enjoyed it.

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

sweet.

It tasted very

blue.

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 really taste like chili it was fine but it was honestly pretty nondescript the flavor 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 i think we had we probably spent a good chunk of of cash in there for the day.

You know what I mean?

We ordered an astonishing amount of food.

Yes.

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

And she kind of tried to be like, I mean, I get it.

Sometimes I order too much food, too.

But we ordered, at the end of the day, we had two full large pizzas that we brought back here, which our team, I think, ate.

Did you guys have a bite of any of these?

We didn't have any yet.

Oh, no, anyway.

I didn't know there was pizza.

Oh, I'm going to get it.

We did a bad job.

Amelia, did you have any pizza?

No, I just took a piss.

Okay.

Well, we weren't asking.

We weren't asking.

We didn't mean right now.

We meant in general.

You know what?

She is supposed to say what she did.

When you come back from

the bathroom breakdown, you are supposed to say what you did.

And she did.

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

No girl, though.

Yeah.

Here's the question: Do we have to come in at all?

That's up to Amelia.

You can watch.

Fuck.

Yeah, you have to sit back here.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It sounded so good to not have to come in and do that.

We'd have to be here.

Okay.

But I'm down for a role reversal.

I'm down for us to sit over at the desktop.

You're going to work the fucking.

You're going to edit and live.

Oh, man.

I can figure that out.

No, you can't.

I absolutely can.

No, you can't.

I used to be a professional video editor.

What are you talking about?

Oh, shut the fuck up.

What did you edit?

I didn't fuck out all my funnier die videos.

I did a bunch of funnier die videos.

I voted die on so many of those things.

They suck.

You sent my videos to the crypt?

Is this shit?

You fucking sent your videos right to the crypt.

Fucking cryptkeeper down there got him.

This sucks.

That's it down there.

Doesn't even have a pun.

He's just like, it's bad.

The cryptkeeper was, was the cryptkeeper involved with funnier die at all?

Was he in charge of the crypt?

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 no i know i know premiere i know final cut i know after effects i could figure out a live edit i was trying to think of some a bad funnier die video uh that you did but i couldn't really think of any funnier die video you did besides the the big ones which everyone loves yeah uh okay a few bad ones that you did well i made a bunch of them okay yeah

there was none that were in the crypt at all no i didn't really get to the crypt you had to be really like it had to like be overwhelmingly die to to get to the case.

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.

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

Ian Zeering is like, hey, I'm going to go do a funnier die video.

And then people were like, this sucks.

And then he'd be like, well, why did I do that for no money?

And he'd be upset.

Yeah.

So they were like, oh, I guess we're going to give it a try.

Iron 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.

I don't like the movement towards thin Santa.

Are you talking about it in Red Juan?

Well, that too, but then also there's like that.

Yes, that is, that is, I mean, I don't like JK

Simmons.

J.K.

Simmons.

Tomorrow War veteran.

I don't like his.

Thank you for your service.

Thank you for your service, J.K.

Simmons.

I don't like his Jack Santa.

But then there was also like a commercial with like a buff Santa.

What is this?

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?

Or am I thinking of a John Travis?

I mean, like, he's a big guy, but he's like, he's like, he's in shape.

i don't like it are you talking about the john travolta santa commercial 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

i don't like it moving away from big guys true i don't true there aren't many roles for us no there's not don't you can't have santa santa grimace

who else do we have that's kind of that's maybe pretty much it jabba jabba grimace and they're making they're making fucking skinny Jabba yeah Jabba skinny now Jabba skinny now

it's fucking jacked yes oh Zempica right isn't he doing Jabba the bear is doing Jabba's son same difference I got right isn't it isn't that on one of those is it like he's doing Zorba the hut or something right on one of the huts

empic

see this is the thing I didn't know that there was a that was good that sucks so much that was good oh god the fire should take over fucking headgum we suck i thought huts only spoked hutties but there but i guess there are some some of the the star wars uh some of the animated canon there is uh there are hutts who are speaking a basic which is the the equivalent of english the universal language lingua province there is there is in star wars there is there's like one hut that's like yeah i ain't i am a hut yeah yeah and and he i believe that the bear is playing that guy

oh that's right and is that character a big fella jubba the hut's son rod of the the Hut.

Rod of the Hut.

That's who it is, yeah.

Yeah, and he's like...

The huts are thin?

Yeah, the huts are thin.

The huts are hunks.

The huts are a hunks.

The hut is a hunk.

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

But the hut is even worse.

The hut is a hunk.

Yeah, the hut's a hunk.

That's fucking bullshit.

That's what they're doing now.

How about the big Sicilian?

Who plays the big Sicilian?

Zach Efron.

Zach Efron's the Big Sicilian?

They cast him as the world's largest pizza.

First, Mitch can't do the voice of Apu or Cleveland in your own fucking feet.

I'm trying.

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

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.

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

Right.

There was was some horniness going on.

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

So they have two big slices.

One is the big papa slice, which is like so big,

it's like five feet tall, basically.

It's huge.

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.

And Big Papa says, My slice is much bigger than yours.

And they have a little bit of a little twinkle.

They're a little bit in their eyes.

Yeah, yeah.

There's a little twinkle in their eyes.

And Big Mama, Big Mama is like into it.

Yeah.

She's like, Yeah, it is.

She's like, It is.

It's a lot bigger.

Yeah.

Yeah, which is bizarre.

Because

why is she happy for his slice being bigger?

He's a fucking size queen.

He gets to go home.

What do you think?

And then his ass is in the box.

That's true.

His ass is in the box.

His ass is in the box.

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

So you've been, you've been sort of eating his straight off his ass.

Yes.

It's very bizarre.

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

we got a heart-shaped pizza.

Yeah.

Well, that's one of the things they offer.

And I asked them because we were like trying to figure out what pizza to get, and we looked up, and there was a heart-shaped pizza.

I was like, let's get the heart-shaped pizza.

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

And he was like,

and I was like, it seems like it is.

It seems like it is, but

he was like down to do it.

They were great.

They were down to do it.

They were great.

Yeah.

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.

He suggested, yeah.

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

And then

we got half cheese and then half pepperoni and onion.

Yeah, red onion, which is my favorite.

White onion.

I would have liked white onion more on a pizza.

Yeah.

Red onion is, although I like red onion quite a bit.

Red onion doesn't go on a pizza.

It just doesn't.

I don't think so.

All that said, I think that was a, those are good slices.

I was pretty happy with that pie.

I was pretty happy with it too.

There's something in it that

I think that the 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.

Oh, no, it could have used.

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.

Cause like it could have used some seasoning.

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.

I think it's a particularly safe.

But something that they do, which I liked, is they bring you little cups of jalapenos.

I do love the jalapenos.

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

I added a little kick.

I liked the texture of that pizza.

It was nice and crisp.

I liked that.

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

I did like having that extra bit of came in the form of your favorite element on top of all of that that's right

um that i i thought it was that was a decent pie and we that was the most normal one we got we also got the so well some wings yeah we got some wings the and we just got the regular buffalo wings Zachi didn't have any of these you know some drums some flats they were super nice they gave us we ordered six they're like here's nine they give us a few extra wings yeah we did we did finish those that was like we we split that order wings you were eyeing my last wing i I saw it.

You said it.

I thought you were full.

Okay.

Well, I got you had it.

You got to have it.

I, I, took a

nine.

Who, who did the, who got five?

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.

I had five.

I wasn't gonna eat it.

I wasn't gonna eat it, but I took, I took my injector out and I took some Zeppon on me.

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 Wager affects the

wings were solid.

They just absolutely got the job done.

Smelled good.

Yeah.

And it was very Trump-like.

The follow-up was not.

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

We also got the Egg Gondola pizza.

Now, this is a, this is their, you know, I mentioned it's, it's got, uh, it's an Armenian, uh, I believe it's an Armenian ownership.

Uh, there is a, there's a Georgian dish called a kachapuri, which is this sort of thing, which is a, uh, you know, like it's kind of like a, um, an open-faced calzone with an egg cracked in the middle of it, like kind of like an, like, an over-medium sort of egg.

We love the kachapuri.

I gotta work on it.

Did you say those kachapuri were Georgian like me, Jimmy Carter?

Not that Georgia, Jimmy Carter.

Oh.

Okay, so we got that.

You're not trying.

I don't know.

Egg gondola pizza.

Hey, thumbs up.

Bill Clinton offering a tepid approval.

I do want to have a president that can be mine.

Yeah.

It can't be Trump.

No.

So

we'll think about it, but I'd love to have one who I can do.

Well, from the TV era, which I think are

the impressions that people are aware of.

George H.W.

You got George H.W.

Bush.

You got George W.

Bush.

You got Obama.

You got Clinton.

Clinton has been acclaimed.

Trump you don't want to talk about.

Garfield, the one who got stuck in the tub?

That was Taft.

Taft.

Yeah.

Garfield got assassinated and died horribly.

Maybe I'll do Garfield.

Yeah.

Ow, ow.

Oh, too soon.

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.

I like this dish.

It's really good.

Yeah, it's really yummy.

It was, it was, you know what?

It was the bite of the night.

I think that was my favorite thing I had there in restaurant.

Yeah.

Really, really nice.

The egg added.

I thought there was butter, but now that you say butter, I'm going, there was butter.

Butter is better.

I think the butter helped with the, I think the butter helps quite a bit.

That was a tasty little tasty little number wise.

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.

I love it.

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.

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.

That's fun.

That's delish.

I think next to cleaning your ears, opening a runny egg is the best non-sexual

experience you ever have.

Next to cleaning your ears using a q-tip or something.

Precisely.

That's like the best non-sexual feeling.

Yeah, right there.

Cleaning your ears does feel really nice.

I get what you're saying.

Mike, are you like an egg on top of something?

Are you saying on pizza?

Or on top of anything?

Anything?

I mean, I love it on a burger.

Yeah, yeah.

But pizza, no.

Do you want it on the burger?

Do you like it runny?

Yeah,

I want a splash.

Yeah, I'm with you.

Baker Filmmaker on YouTube, do you like doing a, as a baker, you ever make yourself a pizza crust?

Do you ever make anything that's kind of like a calzone?

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.

But I can't it doesn't stop me from trying i you know also has a high standard for pizza mr slice who we go to now with the big slice

um

uh i think that the fire started because all the dudes

except kevin spacey back

so it's always

it's not always

it's not always a different thought

a lot of the time it can be the same thought what's on your your mind right now?

Yeah, we want you to be honest.

Uh, we also got, I was just texting Amelia that I want, I was going to ask to turn the air on more.

I was going to say, it feels warm in here.

I had to say, when we, when Wager 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.

Jesus,

something that

I did not have sexual relations with that.

Uh, what's it called again?

Gondoli, that

You freak.

We should have demanded that you stayed up in Palm Springs.

That does not look like a pocket pussy.

First of all, it's gig.

It does.

Oh, my God.

It depends on the model.

In the picture, it doesn't look very big, I gotta say.

It's pretty fucking

sizable.

It was pretty big.

It's pretty damn big.

It's too big.

When you buy pocket pussies you get the extra

you go extra small so of course it doesn't look you know it's the only thing that i you go extra small and then you have to like put it in the dryer to screen

at the adult bookstore excuse me sir uh do you have any toddler fit pocket pussies

it's the only thing i wear that's the x the other way

okay you wear it around

that's not what they're for.

Mom, leave it in the dryer.

I'm trying to make it smaller.

I don't,

I've never fucked a pocket pussy before.

Yeah.

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.

That's why I said the apple thing earlier.

Right.

Um, 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 a sock.

Every man has a sock doesn't.

Every man has fucked a sock before.

Mike is shaking his head no, but most men have fucked a sock.

It sounds like you fucked your shower.

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.

You're just making direct deposits.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.

So the veggie.

It's like depositing 33 cents.

Yeah, you can't get it.

When 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 a buckle.

Okay, so we got that, we did get the bigger firefighters are like, why is there no water?

And fucking gunk just shoots out.

My gunk.

All right, that wasn't fun.

Sorry.

If I was backing up the fire hydrants,

I mean, there's no evidence that you weren't.

All right.

The big slice.

We did get the big slice.

We did.

We got big slice mode.

We talked to the guy because it said at one point I'd read that you could only get one topping in the big slice.

But then we were looking at the big slice.

We're like, that has like the pictures they're using have so many toppings.

So we just asked guys.

He's like, yeah, you can get any pizza as a big slice.

It seemed like he would have let us do anything.

He would have let us do it.

He would have been so nice.

If we were like, hey, can we come back there?

You've probably been like, yeah, sure.

He didn't care at all.

He loved us.

He was so nice.

They were great.

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.

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 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 loud factor.

It is a big slice.

We had to put two tables together to fit the big slice on it.

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 occupying these tables, and we're like, we don't have room for this.

So we had to get up and go to two other tables to get our

and when the guy helped us put two tables together, he also was like, you can have more tables if you want.

He did offer us more tables.

Like we were going to maybe have three or four tables.

In a place that didn't have too many tables to begin with, there was just a few tables there.

Huge, look, I'm just going to say it off the bat.

A little disappointing that it's just square of slices cut into a big slice.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We wanted.

You and I wanted a big slice.

I wanted an intact big slice.

And look.

And it comes pre-cut, and I understand why they did that.

Big Papa is holding up.

He's holding a big slice.

There's also a different sign where there's a different poster, which is

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.

And an artist's representation of you and I in that picture.

There's two doofuses.

We should have taken a picture of it because it's just two doofuses looking at him.

Two idiots gawking at this guy.

He's got a big slice on him.

It is pretty close.

It is pretty close to us.

Just imagine a third guy here

holding a big slice.

Yeah, being covered, covered, dying.

I mean, should we eat the pizza?

Help the guy.

The only way to help him is to eat the pizza.

I'm tough.

I was slightly disappointed with the big slice in that way.

And then

also, this one was the one to me that felt like it needed the most seasoning.

It felt like very like

bland vegetables on the big slice.

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.

I think that I didn't get a slice with the raw garlic on it.

And I think that probably did help.

Yeah, Yeah, raw garlic was nice.

So, here was my big slice experience.

I was really excited about the big slice.

Yes.

That's sort of the main reason I came to Los Angeles.

When it came out, I was thrilled, and I saw it laying out there on two and a half tables.

I was really excited.

But the thing about the big slice is the magic disappears the second you take one of the small slices out, it stops.

It's like a big slice, it's not a slice anymore.

It's just a different shaped pizza.

Right.

That being said, I did really like the raw garlic that 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 to the slices that i had something that nos for a chew would not like is the is the garlic on this uh big slice no for sure but uh but i i wish i had some of it because it was the rest of it was very uh it was very blended now here's what i think yeah I think you might have to come back when I have to do Big Mumbai's and Pubs again and get the big pizza.

Because I will say, the big big pizza is maybe more fun than the big slice.

The Great Sicilian, first off, again, the wow factor is there.

It is a fucking huge pizza.

If you ever see that some bitch in person, it is gigantic.

Lee Rosenstein, who is producing Armin and Bugmans movie.

That's right.

Which I shot a day of in 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

everything happened.

But we, uh, you left your air fryer plugged in in the trailer.

My air fryer had nothing to do with whatever's going on.

But they had to push.

They were shooting this week, and I hope that

they're able to fit it.

Probably resumes real soon.

In the scope of everything else.

That's the little lower end of stuff.

But a lot of work and stuff like that.

It's sad when there's any work in California and then

this happens.

Well, yes.

And I know

we were talking about some other stuff that was just about to get going in L.A.

again.

It's just about to start shooting in L.A.

And then they're just like, oh, sorry.

And it's just when work is starting to come back after the strikes, it's kind of a bummer, this natural disaster.

I want to comment everything from the shoot, and it got super windy, and it was nerve-wracking.

And then I broke out in Poison Ivy on my

Poison Ivy in the shoot, too.

Oh, man.

Which is.

Wait, so this is a Batman movie?

I'm wearing my C-Pap as Bane.

You said you've never fucked a thing?

How did you get Poison Ivy all over this whole

situation?

You're implying that I fucked a bushel of poison ivy?

I don't know.

I do have it on my legs, and I have

worried that I have it on my crotch.

Yeah, that sucks.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I feel like you'd know by now if you had it on your head.

I'm pretty sure that.

Honestly, I got it like really light, and I wonder if it's because

I got a rub down from the.

Sorry, what is this?

You're shooting?

I got a, I got a, they took my makeup off.

Yeah.

So I got a, I got a, I got a, they rubbed off my makeup.

And so I think that they used.

It's already called a rub down.

I got,

that happened.

And so they used, they used,

oh, God.

They used alcohol.

They used alcohol rubs on my arms.

Yeah.

And I think that that saved me.

I think that maybe saved.

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.

Can you just check and see if it on your thigh looks at all like the tiger tech?

I would never get a tattoo.

I don't know.

I would, I would want to scrub it off.

I would never be able to do it.

I first off, 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.

Um, but uh, but yeah, I understand.

I kind of wasn't sure if I was ever going to get one, and then I got one.

You know, I kind of love it.

Yeah, I like that you did it.

Yeah,

speaking of the big Sicilian, by the way, yeah, 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?

Yes.

Yeah.

You get $1,000.

$1,000.

And I think we have to assemble a team.

We could do that.

We could assemble a squad.

We have a four-inch giant Sicilian pizza challenge, eight contestants, two hours, $1,000.

I feel like, I honestly feel like I could do it by myself.

We got Gabris and for you and maybe Wager.

I don't know yet.

If you want it.

Here's the thing.

Like, I love to eat.

I am not someone with like a huge appetite.

I'm not a bottomless bit.

I used to be more of that kind of guy, but now as I've gotten older, like, I just have a smaller appetite.

However, Natalie might be.

That's what I was going to say.

Natalie can absolutely, you know,

this is like an Ocean's 11 plot point.

This is great.

We're bringing Natalie.

We bought, we got a, 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.

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.

We just like we knocked the whole thing down, but she was doing most of the work.

Yeah, I think you got to try it.

I can't say this enough.

She's so much cooler than Nick.

Yeah, we know.

God, she's

better than you.

She could use this whole thing going on to get away from you somehow, is what I'm thinking.

But I don't know how she would do it, but she should do it somehow.

Like in the chaos of us winning, she disappears.

Is that what you mean?

Oh, yeah, no.

I meant everything going on in the city.

She could have been aware of that.

I thought you meant the pizza contest.

Yeah, I guess that too.

It could be an ocean, it could be Oceans 11, where she's like, does the and then just flees town.

She makes up with a thousand dollars?

Yeah, starts a new life.

Yeah.

The reason I brought up Rosenstein is he, for the Birthday Boys show,

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.

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?

You would see that special car driving around town a lot more.

Well, I think it's a thing people get once, you know, or for a special occasion.

I think we did it for a party and for like the birthday voice when we our first day of filming or something.

Right.

Or, yeah, or it's for things like that.

So, 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.

And I like that it actually has the Guinness World Record.

It's not, they're not just like a thing, world's largest and it's just bullshit.

It's like, no, they actually went for it.

That's great.

There's no, there's no real functional reason to do that instead of just ordering 10 pizzas.

Exactly.

In fact, you're probably beyond the gimmick is the fun.

Like, like, you'd actually probably had a better, ever, have a better pizza experience by ordering 10 different pizzas.

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.

The box is big, but that's that, you have to get rid of that box at the end of it.

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,

I don't think that the, uh, the, the actual, what's, what am I trying to say?

The, the, the,

god damn it.

I don't think that the actual.

I don't know what you're trying trying to say what are you driving at i don't think the actual quality quality

you're doing great i couldn't think of the word quality i don't think that i i i

you're doing great

Do you want to take a bathroom break?

Give Jemmy a little bit.

No!

Pat Jemmy's head.

It'll like reset.

We'll cut out about 15 seconds of me huffing and puffing.

Okay, great.

I don't think the actual...

Yeah, I was already going to blow my house down.

Fucking little pig.

We were the three little pigs today, in a way.

Yeah.

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.

And the quality.

of the pizza in the big slice is kind of the same, like, which is a good thing and maybe a bad thing because I think the quality of the pizza is just okay, right?

I think

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.

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.

We didn't try the big mama slice, which might be better because it might actually hold together as one slice.

Although when I've seen photos of that, I believe the big mama's slice is four slices that are stitched together.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Look,

I'm not going to put them through the ringer for this, but I'm very upset.

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.

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.

Your thoughts, your forks score.

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.

They had a pizza waffle.

They had a couple desserts.

They had

just a bunch of stuff.

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.

So it shows you like small pizza, medium pizza, mama slice, papa slice, giant Sicilian.

I love all that.

The sight of the big slice coming out was

one of the best moments of the decade for me um

i really

the highlight of the year and possibly the decade yeah yeah i think maybe of my life i think decade highlight for me yeah in my life sure yeah yeah it's top

two

um

but

here's the truth i could

like i could say five forks and and feel

like i wouldn't feel like i was lying no like i could I could say five forks because you're not going to get this stuff anywhere else.

Like, it's cool that it exists.

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.

I think it's really fun.

The pizza, yeah, the pizza was pretty good.

It wasn't like amazing.

I did like the flavored crust on the cheese.

That helped a little bit.

Yeah.

So I'm going to go,

you know what?

I'm going to go 3.9999999999999999999999999 forks.

3.9

forks.

So a nine repeating

forks.

There's a little line on top of it.

The little line over it.

Yeah.

I don't know what the actual,

there's like a name for it, but it's like it just

divides.

Because then technically

infinity line.

It's technically equal to four.

Technically equal.

So So it could get into the Golden Plate Club,

but I would like to give it that slight minor distinction.

Right.

I like it.

Look,

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

hour, I forgot all the cares in the world were gone.

Why?

Because

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 la

i you know like this is a a local la spot uh these people were in there working during this uh you know this disaster outside they were so kind to us so kind to us they told us to take extra sodas on the way out the door they gave us a free soda really nice which uh i took uh

we both yeah we both took a soda on the way out wages high and mighty didn't take one.

But

I was going to get, like, well, I went next door to get a coffee.

You got a coffee next door.

You want to talk about how he snitched on you at the coffee place?

Yeah, that was fucking both of you.

I don't regret it.

We walked in there.

I was holding two pizzas.

That's true.

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.

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.

But it it's like just so you know it was my friend who opened the door yes it was my friend

your friend who you rat out immediately yeah i'll throw you under the bus so he was snippy he was mad at you and your your reaction was to say it was my friend

that don't get mad at me it was him it was that guy he didn't even order that guy who didn't even order a coffee he's the one who's letting out all your ac

who brought in i don't think it was about letting the ac out or the smoky air in yeah it was most likely that there was a giant fire you know within 10 miles.

Well, you know what?

You fucking ratted me out immediately.

It was bullshit.

I think I won the guy over, anyways.

He did, as soon as you ratted, he did smile.

Yeah, he liked that.

Yeah.

Fucking rats.

Rats of a fucking rats of a feather.

Fucking rat together.

You're a piece of shit.

You're a fucking rat, man.

Reading the Koalak Family Crest.

So

anyway,

I loved our experience there.

Yeah.

Staff was fantastic.

And the slices were, the food was good.

I think that it is, it's a very specific thing.

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 if you just get like the regular style pizza i think it's pretty cheap no it's not that yeah it's absolutely there you can spend a lot more on pizza in la 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 i think when the guy delivered to us it was one guy and we helped him with we helped feels like if you tried to pick it up one person it's just gonna like flop yeah yeah you need you need 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 uh we got to review the big with the big sicilian um

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.

But that being said, if 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.

I think that, and it's a lot of fun.

And my experience today was a four-forker, I to say.

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.

Like it's not, it's not like a, you know, school lunchroom.

It's, it is a step above that.

It's not like, you know, the best pizza you've ever had, but it is, it's pretty good to me.

Yes, I agree.

Yes, that, 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.

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.

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.

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 in addition to, you know, the like 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's 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 a bite-sized slice oh like little bite-sized i like like bagel bites like a yes yeah bagel

i love it maybe the big baby because you got 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 just so you know stop trying to pitch me as the big baby but at the restaurant also the big baby's a man that wears big baby he's an adult man i didn't know diaper fetish

but at the restaurant they have they have various characters they do the family so yeah why not utilize them with their own individual pizzas well you're good you were talking about the comparing it to aw canada where they have the burger family and but they just have the big mom and the big papa there but they have a whole like they have the iconography the whole family they get expanded to the the pizza family.

And the big baby can say something like, my diaper is saucy or something.

Yeah, that would be good.

That'd really wet your appetite.

Oh, that's, oh, something like that's good.

Yeah.

Oh, I wet my appetite.

I wet my appetite.

He's crying.

Why?

I wet my appetite.

That's good.

That's good.

I checked.

He should have a bunch of marinara in his diaper.

We just know that.

That's the thing for sure.

100% of marinara diaper.

Or if they do a dessert pizza, it could be shit.

If they do like a Nutella pizza, right?

It could be Nutella.

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?

In what context would that happen?

I don't know.

I just

don't know.

Like, they're calling the shit in the diaper marinara.

They're like, they accidentally got some marinara diamonds.

They accidentally got some marinara.

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.

So I got a marinara and a diaper.

Yeah, yeah.

Over the course of the whole history of the society?

Yeah.

Yeah, it's had to have happened.

Probably.

Yeah.

It's had to have happened.

That's all I'm saying.

What's amount of you?

That's good.

That's good.

This is why I fucked our neighbor.

Well,

I mean, I guess now that we're diving deeper,

I don't know how much they would be speaking English over there.

That's true.

Probably, probably that exactly when it's happening.

I checked the wiki because your 3.99 fork score sounded familiar.

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.

Wow.

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.

Well, we were with Zach instead of Susser, so that upgraded quite a bit.

No, but I think that was like, this was a more fun sort of pizza experience.

And I also feel like although Slice House, House, you know, they got the what, respect the craft, they're ostensibly going for a higher quality of product.

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?

It doesn't feel as corporatized.

It doesn't feel as planned.

And

my score for big mamas.

Did somebody say chainy?

Oh, that's good.

Oh, man.

I didn't even think we could do vice presidents.

Shit.

I need a vice president now.

Yeah, you said gore.

There's gore.

This recent events are clear, make it clear that we're facing an inconvenient truth.

Pretty good.

Yeah.

That's great.

Who's Garfield's vice president?

Great question.

No, stop.

Don't do it.

Stop it.

Chester A.

Arthur.

Wow, that's a great name.

Vice

Oh, man.

I got to work on that.

Yeah, that's good.

I gave it three and a half forks, Slice House.

I like this more than Slice House.

Wow.

My name is Chester.

Okay.

Go on.

That's all I got so far, but that feels right.

Yeah, that's good.

My name is Chester, and I ain't talking about the Chudo.

I'm going to be president one day.

Something like that.

I loved it.

I appreciate it.

Chester A.

Arthur.

The A stands for ass, and yours is grass if you give me any shit.

You better be careful.

I'm going to become Chester the Arthur.

Why?

You won't like me when I'm the Arthur.

He's like the Hulk.

He is like the Hulk.

Yeah, I like that.

I think we've got some good groundwork for Chester.

Maybe Chester B.

Arthur.

I like that.

And it's like

my mom, Sophia, is giving me a bunch of shit.

Like, he's a beta?

No, well, like, I think he's like one of the golden.

Oh, yeah.

Wow.

Chester B.

Arthur is fertile guy.

Rose.

I wish she was more smart.

I also like that this impression is based off of what you think Chester A.

Arthur sounds like.

Blanche is a real flooozie.

Hey, we live next door to the Empty Nest guy.

Remember that?

Oh, yeah, they did live next door to the Empty Nest Clan.

I gave him three and a half forks for Slice House.

I got to go higher for

Big Mamas and Big Papas, but I don't think I can quite hit four.

I think I'm going to go with three forks three times, 3.75 forks.

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.

We love you.

We love you.

And we're thinking about you this week,

which he's been dealing with the fires and everything with his home.

Yeah.

But a great friend of the podcast.

We love him.

And hey, that was our review of Big Mamas and Big Papas.

Ellie Joel Osman.

I want to give, there's so many people that we know that have been affected by the fires.

And we love you and we're thinking of you.

Hey, it's time for a segment.

I got some food-related jingles, and Mitch and Zach

must determine which year they came out.

It's another edition of Jingle All the Way, spelled W-H-E-Y.

Wow.

These are combined, of course, by the Drop King, Robert Bersinger.

Yes, wow.

The rules.

I have a pitch quickly.

Chesty, A.

Arthur.

Ooh.

Hey, Mr.

Garfield.

It's like Chester Arthur Boo has a little bit of a teacher.

Very boozy.

Yeah, yeah, big tissue.

She got big oozes.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I'm going to get Jem back in here.

I think she left.

Jemmy!

Come here, Jemmy.

An episode so bad, she left.

Yeah, she's fine out there.

She's mad.

She's still mad about I got a bone, and then there was no bone given.

Oh, she's showing her butthole there.

Jemmy, places.

Places, Jemmy.

Jemmy, we're rolling.

Places, Jemmy.

Get up there, girlie.

Get up there.

Jemmy, Jemmy.

Jemmy, take your mark.

Oh, she's so excited.

Look at her.

Well, dad's back here today.

She's a real daddy's girl.

Okay, Jemmy is abandoned up.

She pisses on the power strip to get the power in the studio.

She literally never missed inside.

She's right now on the power strip.

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

you get two points.

That's the Arden Marine rule.

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.

What happens with that?

What's that rule again?

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.

Yeah.

Oh, only once per game.

Okay.

Okay.

Okay.

But like, for instance, if someone said

2024

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.

But you can only get it.

Did you say the cheotelist?

Like, could you make it a Doughboys theme?

You can.

You can as long as we know what you're going for.

Do you get an extra point if you do if it, if you make it?

You do get an extra point if you make it a food pun.

That's the Zach Cherry rule.

Wow, the Zach Cherry rule.

Okay.

He's going to write this down in his fucking dorky little iPad.

And that is only once per game.

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.

That's true.

Today's theme is Del Taco Jingles.

My beloved Del Taco.

Yeah,

she kicked my dick in.

That's hard because

we don't have that many options.

There's not as many jingles this time around.

Okay, that's good to know.

That means I'll use my once per game.

And it got written up.

That story got written up in, was it in variety?

It was in vulture.

It was in vulture.

Yeah, yeah.

Vulture, thank you for featuring.

You could get double points, so you could still hit nine.

You could, yeah.

I won't call it fake news.

It was happened fair and square.

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.

Del Taco, you're hot stuff.

Hot stuff.

Del Taco makes four kinds of burritos.

Hot stuff.

A soft tortilla filled with a lot of stuff.

That guy's funny.

Tell us how you want it.

Hot or mild?

So why burn this video?

The freshest taste around.

At the

hottest place in town.

Hot stuff.

Still tacos.

Your burritos are high as stuff.

I've never wanted a burrito more in my life than that.

That looked so good.

The burrito looked so good.

It looked pretty good.

You know,

you know, it was, but there is something of like,

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.

You know, that was hit.

That cost 30 cents, maybe.

Not even.

Things got so woke.

Yeah, that's what I was going to say back before things got so woke.

Things got too freaking woke.

The food went down the drain.

They, oh, we got to include all the veggies now.

Yeah, it used to be it could just be a pile of meat.

Yeah, now, yeah, yeah, yeah, now, yeah.

Now, yeah.

It feels like you're hitting on possibly another new bit for 2025 with mafia guys complaining about food getting too low.

Yeah.

When Minona made the sauce,

it was.

You can't even call shrimp shrimp no more.

You can't even call shrimp shrimp no more

you got to call them shellfish you don't know what you're eating yeah yeah yeah this has legs there's something here

uh

what else what else what else what else

but you can still call meatballs meatballs oh what's the deal with that my meatballs yeah

all right so it's okay to get a meatball oh it's say meatball

but it can't say shrimp the problem is there's not like a that's not like a thing you can't you can't say shrimp.

You can't say shrimp, yeah.

Of course, you can't.

So these guys are also dumb.

So, this guy is dumb.

This guy's an idiot.

This bit is making the fires grow bigger.

Someone told him you can't say shrimp.

I guess the end result is that

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.

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.

Look, we tried.

I liked it.

I still, I stand by woke food guy.

Yeah.

You can't get a hot dog anymore.

So you got to call it a warm canine.

This is just a guy who's like.

It's really dumb.

Really dumb.

And just like got a thesaurus or something.

All right.

So

that was called hot stuff.

That ad was hot stuff.

Zach, we'll alternate who goes first.

Zach, you'll start with this one.

Grimus is a DEI high.

That's woke food guy.

That works.

Yeah, that one works.

Yeah.

I don't think Grimmus is

Grimmis is not even allowed to be fat anymore.

He's that guy, too.

Like, I agree with him about some stuff.

I'm going to say 1993.

1993.

Yeah.

I definitely know some movies from 1993, but I'm like, will I get them wrong?

Yeah.

You only get one.

I only get one.

Come on.

I know a movie from 1993.

Oh.

Ooh, is it 1993 or is it 1994?

There are five channels.

Yeah, you might have more opportunities.

You don't have to go for it now.

Yeah.

I'm not going to say, I was going to say Jurassic Park is a 1993 movie.

I'm not using it.

Amelia thinks no.

It's four, but don't help them.

Don't help him.

It's a four.

It was four?

Okay.

Well, that's not your guess anyway.

Jurassic pork, I guess is what I would say.

That would work.

So that would be potentially an extra point.

Well, is it 1993?

But that is not my answer.

I'm not doing that.

Okay.

So the year before Jurassic Park.

All right, well, I'm not doing it, anyways.

I'm going to say this is 1987.

1987.

Unfortunately, you both overshot it quite a bit.

1979.

Wow.

Yeah.

Billy Corgan.

Favorite year.

Yeah.

I don't.

That's before I even comprehend.

Yeah.

My sister's birthday.

Before we were all 1979.

Yeah.

Yeah.

All right.

Next up.

This one is called Del Taco is the place to be.

I went to lunch the other

This commercial sucks.

I like it.

Now, lunch isn't boring like it used to be.

Duck Taco's the place for me.

Very public access-y.

Yeah.

It looks like really, really low budget.

Yeah, what does it say at the end there?

It doesn't matter.

Can we bring that tagline up?

Can we?

Not the same place.

I see not the same thing.

Not the same place, not the same thing as their tagline this one.

I think I should get half a point for guessing what was behind the.

Did you get?

Yeah, I said not the same thing before.

You know what I mean?

We'll give Zach a half point for that, Amelia.

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?

I think this is the Spoon Man's birth year, 1982.

1982.

That is a good guess.

Jimmy.

She cleaned her butthole?

She's like corn cobbled her butt.

Good girl.

I'll go.

Oh, wait.

You said 1982?

It says 1982.

What was the first movie you saw?

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.

Oh, you were saying what's the first movie I saw?

My birth year?

I'm trying to

You're giving me an answer.

Close encounters of the food kind?

I'll go

84.

I'll go 84.

You're going 84.

Is it 82?

What year is it?

Okay, all right.

I think, hmm, wasn't Close Encounters earlier than that?

I'm going to be right up right now.

I think 82 was maybe E.T.

Oh, you were.

Oh, it was E.T.

You were right.

Jurassic Park was 93.

Wow.

I could have gotten two.

Close Encounters was 1977.

If I was.

Yeah, thanks thanks a lot, Amelia.

I trusted someone not born yet or were you just born?

I wasn't born yet.

Jesus Christ.

That's in the past.

I would say meaty if I was going to do ET.

Wait, me T?

Me T.

Like you're meaty.

Yeah.

Oh, Meat T.

That's good.

That's good.

That's good.

Fuck, that's good.

Okay, so, yeah, it's good.

Back to the present.

Zach guessed 1984.

Zach gets a point because this came out in 1985, one year later.

That's fucked up.

All right.

Let's go to the next one.

Yeah, Zach has one and a half points.

Mitch has zero.

Next up,

Bang, Bang, Bango.

Jesus Christ.

Okay.

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, bang, honey, mango.

Only one dollar for me to sleep.

I'm in love with honey mango, baby.

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.

So, this is huge.

I didn't even notice that you should have a lot of fun.

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.

But the boy band thing feels like a nostalgic boy band.

Maybe it's a nostalgia thing.

But then the $1 price tag

confuses me.

I don't know Del Taco's price points.

But where can you get anything for $1 these days?

Yeah.

Yeah.

I mean...

It does say here at the bottom, delivery prices and fees may be higher.

So they're like, it's a dollar, but it's probably going to cost more.

Okay.

Zach, you're up first.

What's your guess?

What year did this come out?

I'm going to keep it recent.

And I'm going to say

2021.

2021.

Wow.

Spoon Man, what do you think?

I think

that

I am.

Oh, shit.

You left your air for air on again?

I can't remember if the movie I was in Tomorrow War came out in 2020 or 2021.

It was a pandemic movie.

Unfortunately, I 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.

It started in 2020.

Started in 2020, yeah.

Mitch.

Yeah.

I'm going to say.

You don't have to ring in.

I'm going to say, uh,

uh,

are you driving food pun out of tomorrow?

Tomorrow.

Uh,

uh, boar, boar is food, boar is meat.

Uh,

sure,

sure, Sure.

Tamale War.

Wait, I can't.

Can I use his?

Yeah.

Tamale War.

All right, you're guessing Tamale War.

Yes.

If you get your own movies, you're wrong.

Hold on.

I got to look up what year the Tomorrow War came out.

A-list 2021.

Okay, Tamale War.

So, Mitch, you do get a point.

I get two.

Wait, it's two points for that?

Yeah, it's like one for the movie and one for the pun.

Mitch takes the lead then.

Hold on, wait, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on.

Let me just make sure I got this right.

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.

However,

it actually doesn't get you any closer because Zach also gets two points.

2021, exactly.

I didn't even guess my year yet.

Yeah, but you weren't going to get it.

It doesn't matter.

It's moon.

2021, exactly.

Wow.

So, Zach has three and a half.

Mitch has two.

All right.

It's anyone's game.

Going to the next one.

The next one is called Back to Del Taco Again.

Okay.

Sounds like banger.

The way that they flavor is everyone's favorite tangy spicy flair.

Del Taco's hot stuff, but just can't get enough.

So I'm back in Del Taco again.

She's a whole thing.

We saw a woman eat a whole tomato, just put it onto her tongue

like a piece of shoes.

She pulled it off of her taco and ate the tomatoes.

And I do that with pickles, but not tomatoes.

That's fucking nasty.

She put it on her tongue like it was a Eucharist.

Yeah.

Yeah.

We might have a director who has some type of tomato fetish.

It could be that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

It was just put the tomato on your tongue.

Quinton, Quintin San Marzana.

Back to Del Taco again.

I want that song played as my coffin lures into the earth.

That was great.

Well, I can make that happen.

A couple weeks from now.

As you're screaming.

Do I go first?

I do.

Yeah, Mitcher first.

What year do you think this came out?

It's a little bit of a Billy Corgan.

I'm going to guess 1977.

So Tierio's off from 1979.

Okay, Mitch guesses 1977.

What's your favorite movie from 77?

That is a very hard.

Actually, I do have a favorite movie from 1977, and I can't tell you.

What is it?

Taxi driver?

I can't tell you.

He helped you with Tamalee War.

Just saying.

What's your favorite movie 78?

My favorite movie from 78, that's harder for me because 79 I know movies and 70 we'll start with 77 then with 787.

Well, we already talked about a 77 one.

We did, yeah, yeah.

Does encounters of the third kind

could be one?

Okay,

that's 77.

Yeah, sweet.

So I'll use that in a second.

Okay, okay.

You said 1977.

1977.

Okay.

I'll give as my answer.

Hmm.

How old is Del Taco?

Del Taco has been around, I believe, since the 60s.

Okay, I'll say the summer of

love, 1969.

Wow.

And also, there's a big, a bigger sci-fi movie that came out in 1977, which is what I would say.

Okay, well, I'm going to play it safe and cheat

and say

say close-enchiladas

um of the third kind wow that's good

i would have said a new uh

a new smoke yeah so yeah yeah something yeah a new snoke but i i would wait a new snoke snoke is from another star wars movie it's not a food pun

i guess he could eat snoke he could eat snoke tastes like shit

tastes like expired jerky.

I was thrown when no one liked my 1977 Billy Corgan impression.

I liked it.

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.

Neither did you.

You get a point.

1981 back to Hill Pop.

1981.

Yeah, this is the thing that you got to, I feel like

that it's easy to forget with these ads.

They always lag behind pop culture a bit.

So it's like that, that, yes, that has 70s vibes in 1981, but it's like you know, culture moved a little slower then.

And it looked older than the,

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.

So I'm just glad I was born a year after the fucking tomato eating fetish died down.

Disgusting.

So Mitch gets a point.

It might have been how you got here.

Oh, mom.

Oh, dad.

Oh.

that lady in the car was my mom's age.

That's crazy.

Isn't that wild to think about?

Yeah.

I was horny for her for a second.

Now it's gone.

Yeah, it's gone.

So Mitch gets one point.

Zach gets two points.

Okay, that leaves Mitch with three and Zach with five and a half.

I don't want the two.

I cheated.

I'm going to earn them the hard way.

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.

You know what?

I'll take a point off too.

I did not earn Tamale War.

Okay, great.

Okay, so Mitch is two, Zach is three and a half.

I'll take the one for Tamale War.

Okay, good.

So four and a half to two.

So it's going to be tough for Mitch to come back, but he can.

Okay.

Del Taco.

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Here it is.

Ooh, what a thrill.

Bag of chicken tiny on the side.

Get ready, open wide.

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Your big turkey.

Come to Del Taco for our new combo pack.

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It's $2.99, only at Del Taco.

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Thanks to you.

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.

It had Thanksgiving vibes.

It did have Thanksgiving vibes.

It seems to have some very crude computer graphics there.

This was a big deal at the end here.

Seltaco.

Yeah, the logo is kind of like the letters.

There's three computers to make that graphic.

But the song, weirdly, is like a

there's a wigger ass looking guy here, too.

Can you rhyme better wise a little more?

Look at this guy.

Hey, buddy.

Look at those.

Look at that eyebrow raise.

Wow, look at that.

Jesus Christ.

Who knows what I'm thinking, buddy.

So, okay, so we've got

that, but it's coexisting with, I think it's, it's meant to be like kind of a public domain version of Jerry Lee Lewis's Great Balls of Fire.

So we're talking,

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

we're getting down to the end here.

What do you think?

80s.

I don't know.

I guess I got to say

the summer of love, 1988.

1988.

Damn, that is literally the exact year I was going to guess.

I'm going to go.

I hate to do this.

I hate when people do this.

Or do I go lower?

No, I'm going to go 89.

89.

Okay.

Zach goes 1988.

Mitch goes 1989.

Do one of us have it exactly right?

The answer is no.

Okay.

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.

So Mitch with three and a half, Zach with four.

Wow.

Zach Cherry still takes it.

It's that half point you tested.

That half point.

Yeah, you split a half point near the end.

You know what?

Ty would have gone to you anyways.

Yeah, that's the Mitch Kenner rule.

Congratulations, Zach.

Well played.

And hey, just like a restaurant buyer feedback.

I mean, I live here and I've had a really tough week, but you can get the win.

It's fine.

Yeah, Zach takes the win.

So today's email comes from Jacob.

Thank you.

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.

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.

By the way, I'm not, I wouldn't be surprised if half our listeners, that does happen.

They fucking put a leash on them and take them outside.

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?

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.

It's a secretly horny email

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.

Love you all.

Thanks, Jacob.

This is Jacob.

This may be a secretly horny, but it's okay.

Jacob's got his lotion out listening for whatever reason.

Well, walking dogs?

Jacob's listening to this from his kennel.

Like a single Totino's pizza roll.

Honestly,

the big baby slice would be great if it existed.

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.

You're worried about the molten cheese?

I'm worried about the hot cheese.

Oh my God.

But that could be an issue though.

And especially if you're outting 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.

Yeah.

That to me is just

like raw fish out of nowhere to me is not as fun.

Oh man, that'd be nice and refreshing.

Nice piece of cold fish.

A little bit of soy sauce.

Yeah.

A little bit of ginger, put that bad boy in your mouth.

Now this takes away the whole thing of it's like a scooby slip.

Then don't have the ginger, then get that out of there.

It's just 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.

You'll have soy sauce because

you'll give the dog a little bowl with a little

so you can have a little bowl with some soy sauce in it.

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.

And also, like, you know, my mouth's big enough, I can take a whole piece of sushi down in one bite.

I know about that.

He's a one-percenter in a lot of ways.

It's the same gene.

That's a one-percenter.

It's a one-percenter gene.

It determines.

Or like a cat.

How about this?

How about like a California roll or a cucumber roll?

That would be a little bit more.

Something that's like a little bit of a little bit of roll.

It's your answer.

Sorry I gave you too much answer.

That's okay.

I like that for you.

Okay.

For me, the answer is a Hershey kiss.

That's a much better answer.

It's that single Reese's cup.

Like one of the little mini Reese's cups.

That's kind of like a perfect cup.

That is good.

But the Hershey Kiss, I like to let, I don't even chew.

I like to just kind of let it ride.

Let it cook.

So I would go Hershey Kiss.

Yeah.

Let it cook.

Is that a term?

Yeah.

Is that a term?

There was an episode a couple months ago where you said let it cook.

Oh, right.

I did say I'm going to let it cook.

Oh, yeah.

That's right.

I forgot about that.

What is my little snack?

I have an answer.

Let's hear it.

Dibs.

Oh,

ice cream.

That is fun.

Those are fun.

Fuck, that's fun.

Those are a lot of fun.

A single ice cream bite, especially if it's hot out.

Sometimes they're so cold they stick to to your tongue, though.

Your bed, and that's a risk.

Do you ever get those better?

Because they sell those at the movies, and I'm just always like, I can't imagine, like, I like those, but I can't imagine getting those at a movie theater.

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.

And also, I'm just getting chocolate everywhere.

I have a messy treat.

I've done it.

You've dove deep into the dibs.

Yeah.

And

the issue is you have to essentially eat them in about 35 seconds.

Right.

And then you feel weird for the first 30 minutes and then you fall asleep basically.

I don't even know what happened.

I think I...

Oh, I got it.

Oh, yes.

I'm very, I, a chicken nugget.

That's pretty spicy or no spicy.

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.

Yeah, you don't want a dry guy.

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 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 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 i think you'd be okay there sure okay that's fair

but it has to be chicken nugget the chicken yeah yeah like a popcorn chicken that's pretty good too fuck yeah it's interesting you both want savory

i think i like i'm exerting myself i think i want would want something savory.

I don't know.

That makes me feel more like a, like, it puts me more in meal tears.

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.

Cut off my small balls.

They're small too.

Yeah, the whole thing is down there.

I got Zelenskied.

I think.

Wait, wait, wait,

wait, what?

I got Zelensky.

What is that?

Dwayne Zelensky, Honey Ice Runk to Kids.

Oh, it's all time.

You're talking about the president of Ukraine.

I thought you were too, but I was like, I guess it makes sense.

I don't know.

I didn't even know the president was Zelin.

Oh, yeah, I know.

I remember that.

But Dwayne Zelensky, the Honey I trunked to kids.

I don't know.

Yeah, everything down there is

everything's been.

I'm glad you pursued that because I was just going to leave it alone.

But yeah, I did absolutely thought you were making a Ukraine reference.

I didn't want to have to bring it up next time I came back on I Got a Bone.

I wanted to address it now.

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Tell us, feel free to plug the show and anything else you want to promote.

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Such a funny actor,

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Check out the show.

People are going to watch it anyways.

A great friend of the podcast.

It's been so nice to get to know you through you guesting on the show.

And we love that you listen to the show.

I love to be here.

This is truly awesome.

My wife was joking.

This is like a make-a-wish week for me.

I'm not here.

You wished for L.A.

to burn down.

Before that.

Before that.

Once we got here, it became like a, I don't know.

Well,

we love having you on the show, and we were happy that you were down to do this today.

And I think it was 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, you know, like, look, we're no first responders, but doing this for me was nice to get my mind off of stuff.

And 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 L.A.

County my whole life.

And you love this place.

It's been a bad week.

And we're thinking about everyone who's 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 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 i was just first responders maybe thirst responders

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

i'm glad that we got that out of all this okay great thirst responders

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

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, you know, it would be fun to talk.

My friend's a firefighter.

I'm going to text some thirst responders right now and see how he reacts.

Okay, great.

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 I wanted to say.

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 Wager.

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