Buca di Beppo 2 with Chloe Radcliffe

Summary

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Doughboys – Buca di Beppo 2 with Chloe Radcliffe (June 25, 2026)

Episode Overview

This episode of Doughboys sees hosts Mike Mitchell ("The Spoonman") and Nick "Tiger" Weiger joined by comedian and actor Chloe Radcliffe, along with producer Amelia Marino ("Meals"). The crew revisits Italian-American chain Buca di Beppo—sampling a wide range of takeout dishes and reflecting on the chain’s unique ambiance, the mediocrity of its food, and the existential state of American chain dining. Alongside the food review, the episode is rich with trademark Doughboys digressions: food-related tangents, self-deprecating humor, nostalgia, spirited debates, and deep-dives into both karaoke preferences and the politics of aging.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Buca di Beppo History & Current Form

• Origins & Ownership
  • Founded in 1993 by Phil Roberts (not Italian), who envisioned it as "intentionally in bad taste, but good-natured bad taste."
  • Previously owned by Planet Hollywood's Robert Earl; now owned by Main Street Capital (private equity).
  • Locations have dwindled from 110 pre-pandemic to just 40 (01:07:00).
• Recent Trends
  • Pandemic forced a pivot to "ghost kitchen" operations—serving as prep sites for branded delivery foods (e.g., MrBeast Burger).
  • These changes, the hosts argue, hollowed out the experience and further degraded food quality.

"The brand continues to hemorrhage locations... They’ve even come for our fettuccine." – Nick Weiger (05:53)

2. The Importance of Ambiance at Buca di Beppo

• Distinctive Decor
  • Panel agrees the chain’s charm was always more about its maximalist, kitschy, faux-Italian ambiance than cuisine.
• Lost in Delivery
  • Eating takeout strips away the only redeeming aspect, leaving diners with just “family style” food in cardboard boxes (102:40).

"It is arguably not about the food at all. It's all about the look. It's all about the ambience." – Chloe Radcliffe (102:35)

3. The Food: Buca di Beppo Takeout Review

General Takeaways

• Disappointing Food Across the Board
  • Multiple “family style” mains and sides were sampled: chicken parmesan, eggplant parmesan, shrimp fra diavolo, spicy chicken rigatoni, lasagna, salads, bread, mac & cheese, appetizers.
  • Lasagna and meatball received the faintest praise (“best of a bad lot”).
  • Much of the food traveled poorly and was described as flavorless, greasy, and texturally unappealing.
• Bread & Appetizer Debacle
  • Bread hard and bland; mozzarella triangles processed; calamari "cardboard-like"; eggplant parmesan “egregious.”
  • Mac & cheese (from the kids’ menu) arrived as penne, not macaroni, and was widely derided.

"Eggplant parm—we had from Buca di Beppo was egregious, was astonishing. It was wet bread. It was utterly flavorless, and it was, like, inedible." – Nick Weiger (114:26)

Standouts (for Better or Worse)

• Lasagna: A tentative “winner,” “good, not great.”
• Meatball: "Decent," softball-sized, and actually finished by the group.
• Spicy Chicken Rigatoni: Advertised as "spicy" but universally described as bland marinara with red pepper flakes.
• Shrimp Fra Diavolo: Left "a lot to be desired."
• Garlic Bread: Hot bread placed atop wet salad led to unappetizing, soggy results in takeout.

4. Italian Food in America: Raves, Rants, and Philosophies

• Chloe expresses that American Italian is rarely excellent—“easy to make decent at home,” but seldom delivers high highs at restaurants. Holds Italian food in Italy in a separate, more revered category (73:48).
• The crew compares Italian food’s “ground floor” quality (always somewhat enjoyable but rarely transcendent) versus cuisines with higher peaks.

"A lot of it is in the six to eight range, but I rarely hit a nine or ten with Italian food." – Chloe Radcliffe (91:48)

5. Karaoke, Minneapolis Eats, and Personal Anecdotes

• Karaoke Faves: After discussing signature karaoke songs, Chloe reveals her go-to show-off song is "Valerie" (Amy Winehouse); Nick prefers Elvis; Mitch leans Smashing Pumpkins and Counting Crows (81:46+).
• Minneapolis Food Talk: Chloe—raised pescetarian by “hippie-dippy” parents—describes her late introduction to red meat and the legendary Juicy Lucy burger. She gives a loving shout-out to the Minnesota State Fair's dairy barn, butter statuary, and the tradition of chest freezers for butter heads (42:14+).
• New York “Dumpster Diving”: Chloe talks about scavenging bagels and produce from sidewalk trash bags, outlining her food waste philosophy and techniques (117:28+).

6. Personal Reflections on Body, Self-Doubt, Food Anxiety

• Binge Eating & Crafty on Set: Chloe vulnerably shares her history with binge eating, how it affects her on-set habits, and recounts a mortifying encounter with Soderbergh and Michael Cera over a “dog food bowl” of snacks on a shoot (63:33+).
• Actor Neuroses: Mitch and Nick debate who is the most neurotic actor on set, with stories from past projects (33:00).

7. Segues Into Silliness (Notable Doughboys Style Discourse)

• Jacking Off "Regular Style": Extended, TMI but very on-brand riffing (18:07).
• The “Content Mines” & “Mining for Content": Recurring joke about the Donkey Kong-like toil of churning out episodes—see also, "cave-ins" as podcast cancellations, "the canary in the coal mine" as bad ticket sales (10:34+).
• Oscar Wilde References: Chloe and the crew run through increasingly less relevant Oscar Wilde quotes, sparking parodies and layered jokes (15:16+).
• Italian Stereotype Bits: Ongoing playful ribbing about “Baloney Soprano,” “Buca di Pepto,” and more.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments (with Timestamps)

• On Buca di Beppo’s appeal:
  • "It's all about the look. It's all about the ambience. It is arguably not about the food." – Chloe Radcliffe (102:35)
• On the food’s quality:
  • "Eggplant parm...was egregious, was astonishing. It was wet bread. It was utterly flavorless, and it was, like, inedible." – Nick Weiger (114:26)
• On American Italian cuisine:
  • "A lot of it is in the six to eight range, but I rarely hit a nine or ten with Italian food." – Chloe Radcliffe (91:48)
• On food waste and dumpster diving:
  • "Never pay for a bagel in New York. Just open a bag." – Chloe Radcliffe (117:52)
• Oscar Wilde riffing:
  • "Every Oscar Wilde quote is like, ‘if the sky is a lady, the man is the sea.’ They’re all opposite. That wasn’t a funny reference anyway." – Chloe Radcliffe (09:25)
• Mitch on delivery:
  • "If we went, if the three of us went together, it would have been more fun. We would had a great time." (137:49)
• Wiger on eating Italian:
  • "If I just had, like, the lasagna and Caesar salad at the airport, I'd have been like, 'I guess this is—okay, that was like approximating a meal.'" (141:00)
• On poor value:
  • "I can’t believe…the expectation is that I would pay money for this, to put this into my mouth and then, you know, digest it and shit it out. It was fucking truly bad." – Nick Weiger (141:06)

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Food Review & Ratings

| Host/Guest | Score (Forks) | Summary | |----------------|---------------|--------------------------------------------------------------| | Chloe Radcliffe| 2.0 | "Flavorless...spooning oil into your mouth. Mild pleasant moments, but not enough to even respond to." (135:05)| | Mike Mitchell | 1.5 | "I like Italian food...but there was a lot of unacceptable stuff going on in there, and I don’t like it." (140:16)| | Nick Weiger | 0.75 | "There was stuff so egregious...so insulting to Italian cuisine...that I was just like, I can't believe...I would pay money for this." (144:04)|

Lasagna and the meatball were faintly praised; eggplant parmesan and mac & cheese were especially reviled. Most dishes described as bland, greasy, or texturally unpleasant.

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Timestamps for Major Segments

• Intro, Ambiance & Buca History: 05:53–15:00
• Oscar Wilde Roasts/Irish Bits: 08:02–10:00
• Masturbation Riff: 18:06–21:29
• Chloe at Target Corporate: 22:01–29:03
• Minnesota Eats & State Fair: 42:04–45:17
• Movie Snacks & Popcorn vs. Nachos: 55:04–60:28
• Movie Favorites/Karaoke Discussion: 48:17–85:10
• Soderbergh / Michael Cera Set Story: 63:09–68:38
• Dumpster Diving/Bagel Stories: 117:28–122:49
• Takeout Food Review (entrees, apps, bread): 102:34–116:08
• Final Fork Scores & Closing Arguments: 132:17–144:04
• “The Price is Ripe” Fruit Pricing Game: 144:15–156:04

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Tone & Takeaways

The tone is classic Doughboys: irreverent, self-satirizing, tangential, with constant self-effacement and playful ribbing. Chloe seamlessly matches the hosts’ energy, offering both pithy critiques and personal anecdotes, and winning the closing game segment. Mitch and Nick’s chemistry remains intact—anchored by good-natured arguments and food-based nostalgia.

Bottom Line:
Buca di Beppo’s food, especially via delivery, is universally panned (“egregious,” “bland,” “wet bread”). The only thing missed from dining in-person is the chain’s unique, tongue-in-cheek visual overload. Both the chain and this episode serve as a reflection on the current plight of mid-tier sit-down American restaurants: increasingly unremarkable food, nostalgia as a last stand, and private equity’s continued “hollowing out.”

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Guest Plug

Chloe Radcliffe

• On tour: Seattle, Portland, Atlanta, New York.
• Solo show "Cheat" at Joe’s Pub (NYC) August 19th, 20th.
• Instagram: @ChloeBadcliffe

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Notable Running Jokes

• "Content Mines": Mining for podcast content as if for gold, risking “cave-ins” (bad episodes).
• "Oscar Wilde Quotes": Devolving Oscar Wilde references for comedic effect.
• “Regular style” as euphemism.
• “The Missile” as a new bit for Nick Weiger’s heat-seeking taste.
• “Family style wine” Dad joke recursion.
• Self-deprecation: “Takeout Doughboys doesn’t travel well—when you’re here, it’s better.”

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For chain restaurant lovers and comedy fans alike, the verdict is clear: skip Buca di Beppo takeout, but don’t miss this banter-packed episode of Doughboys.

Transcript

[Chloe Radcliffe]

This is a Headgun Podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

Want to watch this episode? Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to YouTube.com doughboysmedia at long

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Baloney Soprano.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hello Doughboys, dough crew and guests. Sorry, it's very bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thanks for making Soprano a fat racist guy. Yes, you gotta add baloney onto it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You can't just call Italian.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's the biggest insult. Hey, you're fat, you're racist, you're Italian. No, no fucking way.

[Amelia Marino]

You do not call me that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Trust me, the Italians really let us down today. I'm just gonna say that up top.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow. We'll get into it. Thanks for making. Sorry, it's very bad. Thanks for making bad days good and the good days greater from tree.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, thank you, tree.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Thanks, Tree. Note this roast was also submitted by Matt S. Aaron J. Zack R. And Amber L. So this whole binge of people were sending in Baloney Soprano.

[Meals]

Yes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Dog piling over each other like zombies in World War Z to get this

[Mike Mitchell]

roast in this is like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's like, I'm glad we used it roasted.

[Mike Mitchell]

Birdfuck.com writers rooms turning into like one or two people and now roasts or seven people.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Roast. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And they're all white writers.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They.

[Meals]

I'm.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm assuming. Yes, they're all.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Anybody watch Kevin Hart?

[Mike Mitchell]

I watch Kevin Hart. Hey, if you. If you want to write a roast about me, let me see some Irish, right? I want to see a Irish writer in your room.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You know, speaking of. Speaking of Irish Irish roasts. Emelia, you have Irish heritage and you have a bespoke roast of your own for Mitch.

[Meals]

Oh, that's right. You brought in for today buca di pepto.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Buca di pepto is pretty good.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's pretty good. Honestly.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Is it better than Bologna? Soprano?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. I'll give it to Amelia. I'm going to give it to Amelia. I mean, I didn't want to judge

[Amelia Marino]

which one because she's part Italian. I mean, part Irish.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That part of that part Irish part. There is some representation there. Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The Henry Hill, the half Italian, half Irish.

[Meals]

That's me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Can live in both worlds.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was trying to think of something baloney Soprano would say. I couldn't. All I could think of was gaba ghoul, which he doesn't really say.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We forgot we didn't tell our guests that. Our guests can Guinness ghoul. Guinness ghoul is good.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's for the Irish.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wise. I want some. If you're writing my roast, I want it to be Oscar Wilde, James Jones. These are the type of guys I want writing my roast.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oscar Wilde wasn't Irish.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, he wasn't.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think he was English.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But he was a witch. But he was gay.

[Mike Mitchell]

I hate those.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I hate those games. James Joyce was.

[Meals]

Oscar Wilde is Irish.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oscar Wilde is Irish.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There you go.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wow. Every Oscar Wilde quote you're telling.

[Mike Mitchell]

What the fuck?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You're trying to take my gay writer from me? Every Oscar Wilde quote. I only know this because my British boyfriend went down a very deep rabbit hole of Oscar Wilde quot recently. And every Oscar Wilde quote is like, if the sky is a lady, the man is the sea, everything. It's just like two things. They're all opposite. This is. That wasn't a funny reference anyway.

[Meals]

That was good.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I like hearing it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I actually also thought what he wrote was good that you just said there. I like that. If a man. If the lady is the sea and the man is the land. Is that what it was?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Something like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's pretty good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Some genius thing. Yeah, maybe I've. I've fucked it up in my. In my panic about not having a good enough Oscar Wilde reference.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Emma's coming over to adjust the windscreen here. Just also, so know the headgum microphone with doughboys.

[Mike Mitchell]

You don't need to have a good reference or really even a good joke or even honestly a joke at all.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You don't need any host leads. You don't need to be funny or interesting.

[Amelia Marino]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thank you.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

To succeed in podcasting, apparently we.

[Mike Mitchell]

We. We particularly this week, are going to be. We've been in the content minds this week, wise, like we say.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Is that the little train that goes down into the mine?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, I think. I think the little cart. Right, right. It's kind of like the Donkey Kong minecart where we're taking it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I struck an Instagram reel. That sort of. This is the thing we do here. Ooh, a tweet.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This bad boy's gonna go viral. World prospectors.

[Mike Mitchell]

And we were saying cave ins or cancellations? We were trying to figure out.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, we get cave ins.

[Mike Mitchell]

A rattlesnake is. Your pilot. Didn't get picked up.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And the canary in the coal mine is.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Let's see, that's Amelia and Emma not laughing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The canary in the coal mine. Another canary in the coal mine is when you. When you're playing the same size venue and you're selling fewer tickets.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes. That is a real boy. It's close to home.

[Mike Mitchell]

The canary in the cold mine is. Here's the canary in the coal mine. That was a bad audience. That's. That was. That was a bad audience. They were really tired.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That was a workout.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We had a work.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We had.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We had a fight.

[Mike Mitchell]

We had to work for that one. How many times we woke them up?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think we woke them by the end.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, by the end. It was.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, they were smilers. They were having. You know what they were. They're used to, like, listening in their cars. So they, like, are not used to just being part of an audience. Yeah, they're watching Netflix. Exactly right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They think they don't have to react.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think that I hear. I think from you a lot afterwards. It's like. It took him a minute. It took him. It's like. Yeah, yeah, it took him a minute. Basically, like. Like 89 minutes until the end of the show.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Took them the amount of time before our guest came out and saved both of us just floundering up there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bullets the entire time. Doing. Not the literal version.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes. No.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like to do.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, Shooting bullets.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, we'll see. We'll be a surprise. What show it happens at. Mitch, go on.

[Mike Mitchell]

I make a joke that he's a. You know, he's that one of those

[Chloe Radcliffe]

types, like a school shooter. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. We kind of get that vibe.

[Amelia Marino]

I get it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Not fighting it. Yeah. I wouldn't do it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's what a school shooter would say.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You got Me there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Emma. Let's hit him with a drop. That's what you're looking for. The eating fires we were eating through the fire Never stopped the eating fires we were eating through the fire Never stopped the eating fires we were eating through the fire Never stopped the eating fires we were eating through the fire in the lost bus the lost bus in the lost bus the wasp in the lost bus.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Does your mom have Brit box?

[Mike Mitchell]

She wants Brit box. I'm gonna give a. I'm gonna get a Brit box.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Get a Brit box.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Little Libby Watson in there. Is that the.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sounded like. But we were eating through. Eating through the virus. Sounded like something sort of.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No. Eating fires. Remember the eating fires. Eating through the fires.

[Amelia Marino]

I heard virus at first, too, and then I was like, oh, he's saying fires. Eating fires.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't like the. The. The. The hanta. The hantavirus. You're saying he has Hentai virus? He likes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, he likes your quip last episode.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, I can do it two in a row.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You can do it again.

[Mike Mitchell]

I can't do it twice.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, you can't. Absolutely.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You still have it. You're not contagious yet.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's true.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hi, Doe fam. I heard you guys repeating lost bus in Brit box. So. So much it got stuck in my head, so I want to return the favor with a little bit of funk. Thanks for all the laughs and good times. Robot Z from the Dose Score.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Robots too afraid to post. Don't be afraid to post. Get up in there, you little coward. Say something in there.

[Amelia Marino]

Welcoming community.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, you know what?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What's the name again?

[Mike Mitchell]

We haven't been in there in a minute. We got to get back in the dose cord. The doors cord is coming back.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Well, yeah, Dose cord is coming back. What's. What's. What was. What was the user'?

[Mike Mitchell]

Get in there and tell them about your fucking experience. Robot Z.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Robot Z. To quote Oscar Wilde, be yourself. Everyone else has already taken.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think that's a pretty good quip.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Pretty good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's a great. It's a great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Putting it down.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Here we go.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you Irish?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

A tiny. The tiniest, tiniest bit. Not enough to count it. Enough. Enough to count it as an American. Now that I go over to the UK and Ireland a lot. They're all like, you fucking Americans. All think that you're Irish. Yeah. You're none of you.

[Mike Mitchell]

I guess you got an Irish friend. So it's fine that you say this stuff about me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

All right, so I'm just on page one. I'M going to jump ahead to page seven. Let's see what we got over here.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

A little deeper in the. Oscar Wilde drops it. Bird Fuck dot com. Let's see. Okay, here's one. I am sick to death of cleverness. Everybody is clever nowadays. I guess that's not really.

[Meals]

That's not.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, go for it.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's. That's not bad. Too honest. I mean it's not. It's not his best work.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes. Why should just introduce our guest, a stand up and actor from.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. As she tries to find. As she's trying to. To. To spit in the face of Oscar Wilde. She's trying to find his worst.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We're told to have her a stand up and actor from the Tonight Show. Command Z. And is this thing on? Chloe Radcliffe is here.

[Amelia Marino]

Hi, Chloe.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Hello. Let me read you an Oscar Wilde quote here. Here we go. This is a. This is sort of a good one. It takes great. What are we.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What are you doing? Wait. Choose the middle of something.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Is that you or is that me?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's me.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, but when. When was the last. We started so many threads. Who was the last person you were related to to have been born in Ireland?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Good question.

[Mike Mitchell]

Probably one of my grandparents.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Probably.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. I think my. Was my grandma born there? I don't know.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Did she have an Irish accent?

[Mike Mitchell]

But her. All their parents. Ireland.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So great grandparents at least. Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

This is. I'm just saying this is what people in the UK and Ireland think of Americans. That's fair. Americans are always like, no, we're Irish.

[Mike Mitchell]

Look, trust me. I. In Boston, you go into an Irish bar and they. They don't like American Irish people. They just don't like you. Emilia's left.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, we walked. We've walked the producer already.

[Mike Mitchell]

She got a box of Kleenex.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

She's still.

[Amelia Marino]

A little spellback here.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay, here is a perfect Oscar Wilde quote that I is in. In what I was talking about. In old days, books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays, books are written by the public and read by nobody.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And honestly, it's a great quote. And it got wired.

[Mike Mitchell]

Now that's my favorite. That's my favorite quote now.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And. And can we hear the one that it knocked out of the top place?

[Mike Mitchell]

To be or not to be.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That is the question.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Be honest. It was. Dump them out.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I can't keep looking at these. I'll keep. I'll read Oscar Wilde quotes all day.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I can't believe how many pages there are.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So many.

[Mike Mitchell]

Amelia. I Just got to say right off the top, you now having a bunch of used Kleenex in the fucking trash bin after the doughboys have been in the studio? It just. It's just suspicious.

[Amelia Marino]

It's the Kleenex you're worried about, not the 200 pounds of Buca di beppo that's in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, no, no, you're not. I don't think you're getting what I'm saying.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, I get what I'm saying.

[Meals]

They came into the napkins and then threw them away.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But at least they used it. At least they used Kleenexes.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Actually, it might be an upgrade for us.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They just assume that means that you were just jerking off. Regular style. You weren't doing anything. Into anything creepy.

[Mike Mitchell]

My favorite way to do it. Regular style?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Are you a conventional guy?

[Mike Mitchell]

Who, me?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I stand up and jack off like any man.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Standing up is regular style.

[Mike Mitchell]

Regular style for me now is probably. Well, this is too.

[Amelia Marino]

I don't care.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay. All right,

[Chloe Radcliffe]

we're on the topic. If I do make your ancestors proud,

[Mike Mitchell]

Oscar Wilde is smiling in hell. Irish need not apply to heaven wise. That's a part of it. Oh, boy. For me, yes. He knows this. I. If I'm gonna do that sort of thing, I go to the shower and I. And I stand up and I get it done. I like standing up and doing it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No Kleenex is necessary.

[Mike Mitchell]

No Kleenex is. There is still some. I mean, look, there is. There's some stuff that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Why don't you just hop right in the shower afterwards?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Didn't you say. Didn't you just say in the shower?

[Mike Mitchell]

Sometimes in the shower, but sometimes I do just go. Just do it to a dry shower.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You're standing outside the shower. You step into the shower.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm standing outside the shower.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's no longer regular style. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

But also, like laying on your back like a little baby and jacking off.

[Amelia Marino]

Those are the only options. Standing up and laying on your back.

[Mike Mitchell]

Laying on your. I mean, it kind of is. What's.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What's going to be seated? What's wrong with seating? Sitting? No, what's wrong with sitting? I'm just saying that's an option, I guess.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, so you're like, at your computer chair and you're doing it, I guess, if you want.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Or on your car, on your couch. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Or in a theater.

[Mike Mitchell]

But then.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Are you on a train?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

On a train, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're always kind of like laying back or laying down. Right. Like you're trying to what?

[Amelia Marino]

Recline?

[Mike Mitchell]

You're trying to recline a little bit. No, I mean trying to lean forward. That was good. We got to give him credit for when he goes there.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is. This is from

[Amelia Marino]

the self talk way.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, yes. That's what I was. That's what I was referring to.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But this is Oscar Wilde, my page. Finish your thought. I'm sorry.

[Mike Mitchell]

I guess maybe if you're like very well endowed, you're like, can just sit straight up and I guess you know what I mean. I don't know. Like, I don't. I'm a chubby guy and I'm not. I'm not packing heat, as the kids say.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So what they say.

[Meals]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You think any woman has ever seen a dick that is long enough erect for the man to sit straight, shoulders straight, and just tilt his chin down?

[Mike Mitchell]

There's probably been one that exists. No, but even, even, even. I think that's like. I think like laying on your back or laying down or being at that

[Chloe Radcliffe]

point, I guess the weight is so heavy that he has to lay down.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, right. Yeah, Just for like ease.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, I think a lot of men are. Are like laying back. You know what I'm saying? Like, I think that there's.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I can't believe we have a first time guess and this is how we're starting.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is what I didn't.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then she said, go on. She said, go on.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wow. Classic misogyny. Blaming the woman for. He talks about jerking off. And then he goes, she. She was fine with it. She didn't say no, I'm not saying

[Mike Mitchell]

no Time out here. I respect women. I want to hear what they think about these things.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch feels like a cave in.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is a fucking cave in.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, let's get me out of here.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wise.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Send the fucking Oscar Wilde. Young people nowadays, imagine that money is everything. I guess it is kind of evergreen. Okay, this one. This one is bad. This is from the final page of Oscar Wilde quotes. Love is easily killed. Oh, how easily love is killed. Good. You think that's good?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's just when he was so sad. Everything else is sort of. He's like, has a little feather quill and he's like tweely writing all of these. And that's just like my fucking socks. Existence is suffering.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We had to talk about this because you told us this bit of information before we started the episode. So we learned you worked at Target Corporate in Minneapolis. Your specific role was soda business analyst.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So what did that mean in practice?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, Tell us what that meant in practice.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So you're putting in the same amount of work here as far as I see.

[Mike Mitchell]

I agree. Also, by the way, he plans everything out. He heard this right before the show.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, but I added in.

[Mike Mitchell]

What the fuck you typed in your phone?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hey, I'm listening. And I'm picking up on things.

[Mike Mitchell]

It might be interesting. You typed that into your iPad?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Moments before you show, I made a note to, like, mention Target.

[Mike Mitchell]

I make notes in here too.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I know you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Let's hear some of your notes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Make fun of the Ted Sarando's Netflix thing.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay?

[Mike Mitchell]

There's nothing. There's no more thought than that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Great.

[Mike Mitchell]

What else do we got here? Hold on. I'll look up some notes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, great. These are for this episode or these just general doughboys notes?

[Meals]

Mitch, there is something that you wanted to show a book.

[Mike Mitchell]

Our friend Jack Schram wrote a book, Solid Wiggles. It's available now. It's. And why Jack is. It's. It's. It's a. It's. It's. It's basically how you can make some. Some fancy jello.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes. Jack's. Jack's businesses. I forget what. What term he uses because jello is a brand. Jelly shots. They're like. They're gelatin shots and they're artisan.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Get a lot of that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And so this book is. Is how to make some of these, like, craft cocktails in. In gel form.

[Mike Mitchell]

But he's always been nice to the show, but nice to us. Brought us some. Some. Some alcoholic.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I want some of this. I know that thing. Spicy mezcal. Passion fruit margarita I'd love.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you. Are you. Are you. Where are you based out of right now? Are you in New York or are you New York?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm here for a week. You can get some of these to me.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's. He's actually in New York. He'll probably hook you up.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There you go.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He knows our mutual friend Mike Hanford, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No. There you go. Go through hand man.

[Mike Mitchell]

Go through the hand man.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'll go through the hand man there. The organization of Target supply chain management, I believe, has changed since I was there. I haven't been there for 10 years, but at the time there was a business analyst for every category in the store. There was like a lampshades business analyst, and there was a CD business analyst right within grocery. Then I was in the snacks, beverages, pets and candy division. I trained in. In snacks on the cookie cracker desk. I interned. I interned in pets. But my best friend on the internship was in the candy department. And so I never had a single cavity until I interned there. And then I ate York peppermint patties for breakfast. And then I had three cavities at the end of 10 weeks. Anyway.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But soda. So I then was placed, you would

[Mike Mitchell]

think with the mint and, like, the peppermint, it would help.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's why I didn't brush my teeth, because I was like, my breath smells so good. I don't need to brush my teeth.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the way, here, I do have a. I just found a note.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, great. What does it say? Weger has hentai virus. Okay, so you used that one. So that was useful.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Today's episode and last episode.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I'm gonna count this as twice on today's episode.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bonus points. I get to use it twice. I prepare.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I know.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you think that's like. That's like when you wash the mining tools off and then you re. You know, like when you wash the pickaxe and then you.

[Mike Mitchell]

You gotta use it the next day.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Pick again.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. Come on. We repeat all the time on this podcast.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You gotta. Wait.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So you're.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So you're on the. So you're going through all these things? Pets is part of this?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, yeah. Weirdly, pets is like, lumped in there and.

[Mike Mitchell]

And.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And you end up being dispatched ultimately to Soda.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So then I got placed in Soda. And Soda is the only category in all of Target. And I think this is true in most of these, like, kind of big box stores. Soda is the only category that's 100% direct to store delivered by the vendors. So this is your.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, I love it. I'm riveted.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay, good. Basically, he is.

[Mike Mitchell]

This. He is excited.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Good, good. Yeah, you can. You. You and Jimmy can go to sleep, basically.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have questions.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Any big box store has their own distribution network, but for anything that's like super heavy or super high turnover or super perishable or some other weird element, they will just have a specialized vendor deliver it. So, like, bread is super perishable. So bread vendors do direct to store deliver. The term is dsd. Milk.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dsd.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, dsd.

[Mike Mitchell]

He likes shit like that. I'm surprised he didn't repeat it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Direct to store delivery.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Direct to store delivery. But every other category is a mix. So there are like, there are other business analysts who have a lot of DSD production and dse. You don't order, the vendor brings in, the vendor comes into each store and goes like, all right, we Went through this much bread. We need this much bread. Great. But the bread business analyst has some direct to store delivery stuff and then some packaged stuff that they have to order themselves. That's what most business analysts do. They order all the product and like decide and set up like algorithms to be like this many things of laundry detergent, whatever to that store. I was the only 100% DSD business analyst. So I did no ordering. I basically was hired for a job that everybody else was doing that I did not have to do one goddamn lick of for the entire two years that I was in the seat. And my friends hated me for it. And I would have been bad at that part, but it meant that I would like travel to stores. I somehow weirdly became the node. I would like go into the back room of a store and have the national Coke team and the local Coke bottler that's delivering to that store and the head of that store and the lower level person at that store who has to deal with the Coke bottler and then me and then somebody from the national team on store, like the Target headquarters stores person all together in a back room. And I was the person who I think cared the least. And so I became the like head negotiator. I be, I as like a 23 year old, be like, whose problem?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Who's.

[Meals]

Who?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What's the problem in this store back room right now? And then I would like be the diplomat and be like, can you give them more space for this palette? Can you like deliver more on time, all that kind of shit.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's wild.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Anyway, it's not very funny, but.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, I love it. No, I'm fascinated by it. Wait, so you had you, you, you oversaw like if a new soda was coming out, if like a new Pepsi

[Chloe Radcliffe]

variety, somebody else would choose that? I was not in touch. I was not in charge of.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Got it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But then like when it was being rolled out, I would be the one who would be like, okay, there's gonna be a front of store display for that new flavor and we're. And we have to like roll this front of store display out to all 1100 super targets. But it's not gonna be in the P Fresh, which is a smaller layout.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Whatever. Is that coming from your own judgment or is this like, hey, we have some, some agreement with Sprite where cranberry Sprite is going to get like a, you know, a standee.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

More the agree. Uh, 60. 40.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

60, 40.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay, 60 them, 40 us.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Was there a news, Was there a soda? Like when you got like, you're in the soda department. And was there a soda you discovered or became a fan of, like, the York Peppermint Patties through the course of your job? We were like, like, this soda is actually. I mean, the Cactus cooler now.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know what's funny, Zevia? The, like, stevia soda.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We were always like, that's the fucking virgin, loser, lame ass, dipshit soda that only nerds drink. And now I love it so much, and I drink it all the time. And I'm annoyed at myself that I

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

didn't get into it earlier.

[Mike Mitchell]

Personally, I never liked it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Interesting. Yeah, I like the. I like their ginger ale a lot. And then they have some weird. They have some, like, ginger root beer. You're like, the fuck's going on here? I like their cream soda.

[Mike Mitchell]

Does DSD stand for something else, too? I've been trying. Is there. Is that a dirty term?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It sticks like a dad.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's dick sucking dad.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's dsl.

[Meals]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, you're thinking of dick sucking lips.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's what I'm thinking.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That fell out of favor pretty quick.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I think I'm thinking of dick sucking dad. Did you ever. How annoying is. And did you. And I guess this should go first, but did you ever run into the target lady?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wait, you mean Kristen Wiig?

[Mike Mitchell]

The target lady. Oh, oh, Kristen Wiig. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm sorry. I'm like, I'm really stepping on this fun riff by being. And now, just to clarify, is the joke here that you are. I think I'm too young for the target lady to really.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, all right, then you're married.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch is trying to understand. Trying to understand. Mitch's cryptic riff is like a very commonplace thing in the show. So you're not alone there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Target lady. I don't consider target lady old school. But also, if you don't. Whatever. I just now I felt.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't even look at target lady.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm like, this riff has really imploded for you.

[Mike Mitchell]

This really imploded.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

When you said target Lauder Lady. Target lady, I didn't know who you were talking about. Honestly, I was like, are you guys. You mean the Kohl's lady?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, this is why I was like. I was like, who is the target lady?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And then I was also, because I sale that lady.

[Mike Mitchell]

She worked for you guys at one point.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't remember those spots.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wait, is this real?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, she's. It's Kristen wig. And that's. Are you guys around the same age, I'm guessing. Are. Are you. I don't want to ask.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We don't need to dox anyone's age.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't want to dox your age, but I was trying to figure out that's my age.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Guess what? Guess what.

[Amelia Marino]

I actually.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

This is fun. Do this for 100 real. I will not be offended. I promise. I will rake you over the coals. Don't worry. But I, I, as a person will not be hurt. I guess. Honestly, I would love to know your guess.

[Mike Mitchell]

My guess? Can I. All right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

100. Honest. 100. Honest.

[Mike Mitchell]

30.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's your honest guess?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

100. Honest.

[Mike Mitchell]

31.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I was going to say 31, so.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wow, this is making my fucking day. I'm 35.

[Amelia Marino]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, all right. So I got. I'm coming back at you. You should know the fucking target lady. You gotta know the target lady.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I was trying to do the math for him because you said you were 23 when you're working at Target. But then I guess you also said there was a 10 year gap. You live in New York for 10 years, so. Yeah, I probably could have reverse engineered that. You were in that third.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's funny because you were both fucking math majors, which I found out.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Did you make a note of it?

[Mike Mitchell]

I did not. I did not make.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You just remembered it. No.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's not a ton of notes in here. Let's see here. Target lady. It couldn't. It's. If I'm not asked to do stuff, it can't be because I'm not talented enough or funny enough or a good enough actor. It has to be that there's other stuff going on. You know what I'm saying? For me, for. That's the way I look. That when things aren't working out, it has to be because of some other,

[Chloe Radcliffe]

like, forces are working against.

[Mike Mitchell]

Forces are working against me. It's just, it's. It couldn't be the talent or the. That side of it. Certainly.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Do you.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm. This is a joke. I. I know that I'm not that good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, no, no, you're very. No, you're very. You're very good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Everyone loves you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But I. But, but do you. Do you get down on yourself at all?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, constantly. 24. Seven.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That good. Okay. I'm. I was.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Where are we going with this? Chloe?

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you think that I was a person who's very high on my own supply?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I couldn't tell. No, because you hadn't read like that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Mitch, you Read like someone who I

[Mike Mitchell]

came off as confident.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

This is great. Our buddy.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Our buddy.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm going to say it. No, he didn't. That's why I was so shocked. I was like, wow, you really. You really pulled a fast on me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Our buddy Sean Disston, who worked with Mitch on Twisted Metal in seasons one and two, characterized you as the most neurotic, neurotic actor he's ever worked with. Because you're always like, you are. No, no, because. Because you're. Because you're like. You. You have. You have so much self doubt. It's like an overabundance of Mitch being like, oh, I should have done this. I should have done that. Was that okay? I probably did bad. I sucked. And then you're. You're great in everything. You're a very good actor.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're a good man. Thank you. That's kind of you to say. I wasn't digging for that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, I knew you were just neurotic, distant.

[Mike Mitchell]

Get out there. More neurotic actors on that set.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He may have been a little hyperbolic.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You know, he was me. He was saying, as a compliment, he was saying, like, you're always good and you're always worried about how you came across.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right. I just talked about an actor who's more neurotic than me. We're back.

[Amelia Marino]

We can cover these edits cleaner than

[Mike Mitchell]

I know, but that's fun. It's fun to say that. Who knows who it was? It could be anybody.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The target. The target lady appeared.

[Mike Mitchell]

The target lady. Very neurotic, by the way. The target lady.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I didn't know this was an SNL character. I thought it was in someone who endorsed Target. No, this is a Kristen Wiig character in snl.

[Mike Mitchell]

You didn't know the target lady?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, I'm not. I'm not familiar with this era. December, he ain't too young. December 2005. Versus.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was talking about how much he loved the Bumblebees from SNL back in the day. Versus season one. This. That is a whole. That's an old.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

2005 to 2010 is kind of the era when Target lady was reigning on snl. Had a bunch of recurring appearances and then was when. When Wig came back to do the monologue. Did it in a. In a monologue as well. And the 40th anniversary special. So I don't know if it was ever in a Target ad, but. But anyway, it wasn't a target. Yeah. So also.

[Mike Mitchell]

So anyways, did you meet her?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, Well, I think with I think the dates did not overlap with. With Chloe. I think that's like. We figured out the timeline.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm very young. I was not born then.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, you weren't born

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

when Target lady was at Target. Chloe was not yet working at Target Corporate.

[Mike Mitchell]

Got it, got it, got it, got it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

God, I. I ride the high of 30 or 31. Oh, I'm gonna. I'm gonna.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a double. We were locked in. We were hand holding.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I was thinking 31 before Mitch said 30. And I was like, well, now I'm the guy who. I went higher than Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

I will say I thought 31, but in my head, I said 30 because I thought 30 was just nicer.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, you know, whatever.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Any being any age is. No, no, no, you're right. No, it's not true.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, it's not. The older we get, the less valuable we are.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It sucks. That's bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We're all decaying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is there an age you look forward to now?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Why?

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that you. Is there, like, one like. That would be fun to tell. Because when you're younger.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, Every birthday now is like a.69 is funny.

[Mike Mitchell]

My dad died at 69. Super funny.

[Amelia Marino]

Good job.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You think he's gonna come at you? He gives a prank.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Oh, my God. Dad, you did this for 15 years. He'd be 84. He'd be old as. He would be old as.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Right?

[Mike Mitchell]

An old man. Wait. Now turn it on. You guess me and Weger's age.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Great.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You don't have to be nice. You can be honest.

[Mike Mitchell]

60.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. Almost 84. I'm gonna do 43 and 44.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You're younger.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch is younger. I am 45.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I am 43.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So one of us was 43. You got one number.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Correct.

[Mike Mitchell]

You got one number.

[Amelia Marino]

You were really close to that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm pretty close.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You did a good job.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm pretty close.

[Meals]

Thank you.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I like that you undershot it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

How does that feel?

[Mike Mitchell]

Wasn't thrilled, but I can take it. I can take it. How old do you think Jimmy is?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Jimmy? Two one.

[Amelia Marino]

Maybe. I love that. Thank you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

She's. She's young. She could work as a child actor. She could.

[Amelia Marino]

She's got a forever puppy face.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

I've had her.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

She could work barely legal, you know?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, fairly.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's like eight. Maybe.

[Amelia Marino]

Maybe. I've had her for five years. They said she was four, but I don't think they were right about that. But, yeah, she anywhere between five and nine.

[Mike Mitchell]

What were we going to ask. I'm sorry.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Is there an age that you're excited to turn?

[Mike Mitchell]

69 is still up there. That we. You're my. The. I just very much want to. I guess 70. I want to outlive my father. That's not even true. I don't care if I outlive my dad.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's probably true.

[Amelia Marino]

Probably.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Probably.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I guess I would not

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

want to be honest about that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What did he die of?

[Mike Mitchell]

Pancreatic cancer. Tough one.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. Really bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not. Not a good one.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

43. I guess, like, 50 will be fun to turn it. Right. Right. But it's just depressing, right?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No. Every birthday now is like the reaper. I think writing another line on the chalkboard. It's.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think if you can take the 50 is fun attitude, that's awesome.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think it's good. Yeah. But I mean.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And a lot of people have. Have lives. Like, you really enjoy that decade of their lives. So whatever. I'm not. I'm. I'm just accepting aging because what else the else can you do, you know?

[Mike Mitchell]

But it does the late Molly Shannon's character from SNL that says, I'm 50. Do you remember that?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, God. I'm the only one who watched that show. I guess I stopped.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I basically stopped watching as a teenager. So I'm like. All of these. These sketches I'm just not really super familiar with. Unless it was something like Lazy Sunday that just broke out of the SNL ecosystem.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Lazy Sunday.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It was the. Andy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Damn, you are not watching snl.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Andy Samberg, Chris Parnell. Rap about the Chronicles of Narnia. And it was like kind of the

[Mike Mitchell]

Chronic what Cools of Narc.

[Amelia Marino]

Remember?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like Chronic what Cools of Narnia?

[Mike Mitchell]

And then everyone in the world made bad versions of that. Actually. It was kind of the beginning of the end of comedy. And not their faults. But I'm saying every.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, it's. It's the proliferation of the Internet.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, that's more.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Internet was just happening at that time, too, which was.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, I think the Internet has been a net negative on the.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, definitely.

[Mike Mitchell]

I agree.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Certainly for my life.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like we can spiral it all down to Amelia. Like, now Amelia's here.

[Meals]

Why is this my fault?

[Mike Mitchell]

I was just trying to.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He's more saying you're the end result.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm saying you're the end result.

[Meals]

Wait, this is a pretty good result. Again,

[Mike Mitchell]

shit review videos. That's. Amelia does shit review videos.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Ooh. Of your own shits.

[Meals]

No, that would be Cool shit I find on the sidewalk.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't think you should review your own shits.

[Meals]

I'm not gonna do that. They'd all get tens.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think also there will be people who, like, like seeing your shit, which is nuts. You don't wanna open yourself up to that segment of the audience.

[Amelia Marino]

Emelia loves every shit she. She takes.

[Meals]

That. It's. No, that is not true.

[Amelia Marino]

But they all get tens.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I do always feel better after one.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, it's true.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

My mood is bad if I have to poop. And I haven't.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, nightmare. Absolute nightmare.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And then. What the shit?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I did realize at a certain point.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know. I know. I don't always feel good after going to the bathroom. That is pretty. I don't.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Well, sometimes you can have an unpleasant bm. But I kind of. I started realizing at some point in my 30s that, like, whether or not I have a good day is kind of a binary attached to whether or not I had a good bowel move.

[Amelia Marino]

Movement.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

If I had a good, like, good. At some point, I was like. That day was fine, you know?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

If I didn't. If I didn't. Or at a bad. Or I felt like I had to and couldn't. Or you couldn't stop. I was like this. I'm pissed off. You know what I mean?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But if it normal. I'm feeling good. That's a. That's a baseline day.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm like an electric car. Is that the gas tank is never empty. Oh, I guess what a hybrid car. It's just the gas tank always feels like it's high.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Interesting.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you know what I'm saying? It always feels like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, there's.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, it always feels. I have. Yes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

When you say once or twice a month.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You got to clear out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. You clear it out.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The only time you're empty is right before colonoscopy.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I guess what I'm getting, like, the reason it took me a second to track is because gas also means intestinal gas. But that's not what you mean. You're comparing gas. You're petrol to.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, petrol to.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I always feel. I never feel like completely.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's what he runs on.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, it is kind of. It is kind of what I run on. It is Duncan and Buka, too. That's the other. The. The. I run on. Duncan.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Duncan. Duncan and Boo.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So you were in Minneapolis. Were there any. Any Minneapolis or I. Growing up as spending most of your childhood in Minnesota. Youth in Minnesota was. Were there any like, local eats.

[Mike Mitchell]

Juicy Lucy's.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It doesn't have to be Juicy Lucy, but. But is there anything in particular.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What a great question. That I should have been prepared for.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, you're fine.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you have. You had a Juicy Lucy?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yes. Yeah, now I have. I didn't eat red meat until I was 29 and I. And I had moved to New York at that point. I went my whole life. No hamburger, no steak, nothing. Never.

[Mike Mitchell]

And you said your mom was a little hippie.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Dippy parents are both hippies. They were both vegetarian until then. When my mom got pregnant with me, she started craving turkey. So they went back to poultry and fish, but, like, no red meat in the house. So I didn't grow up with any, like, affinity for Juicy Lucy's. Now I've, like, gone back and had them. Yeah. What's the local? There were like.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's two places that, like, claim to have made the juice and something. A number. It's a number in the bar. It's something. Right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The I'm.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is there.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yes.

[Meals]

10.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

A 1099 bar.

[Amelia Marino]

No, the Five Eight Club.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The Five Eight Club.

[Mike Mitchell]

We knew there was a number in there.

[Amelia Marino]

Matt's. You're right. Matt's bar and the Five Eight Club.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. So I've had one at Matt's.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

10. 1099 is a tax form you get if you're a freelancer.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

1099.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's a good idea. Bring your 1099. Get a free drink.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you get it from us? No. You do? No, no, no.

[Amelia Marino]

I don't think either of us do. For Doughboys Media. No.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the way, if the. If the Internet resulted with Amelia, I then. I love the Internet. Just so I was trying to get. I was just trying to make fun of you for two seconds. You got offended.

[Meals]

I didn't actually get. I got fake offended.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, I hate it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I just didn't understand the joke.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it was a bad. It's a bad joke, too.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

On top of it, I feel like the Minnesota State Fair is the, like,

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

core of Minnesota eating.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's the like. Like the most incredible corn you'll ever have. The most incredible milk you'll ever have. You just go to the dairy Barn and it's like milk that was just milked that day. I mean, it's like crazy ice cream from that kind of milk. Like funnel cakes. The pie contest. I mean, it is like you're, like,

[Mike Mitchell]

seeing the cow that you're drinking the milk.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You're seeing the cow. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like smiling the Cow kind of likes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The cow's gonna have some more. You like? No. Yeah. There's like, Princess K of the Milky Way, which is a beauty contest for girls who either grew up on a dairy farm or have worked on a dairy farm. And then the top 12 of the Princess K and the Milky Way get their heads carved in butter. And so you, like, go like. A friend of mine was in top 12.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And we go. And there's a room that's probably, like, this big. And it's a rotating refrigerator that's all Plexiglas walls. And the girl and a giant slab of butter and then a butter carver are sitting in this freezer. And the contestant has to wear, like, a zip up snowmobiling suit, basically. Cause it's so cold in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is good as hell.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And then she gets her head carved in butter. And then those are, like, displayed for the fair. And then you take them home. And the tradition is that the next summer you have a pig roast to use the butter.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wow.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love it. Oh, so the next summer. So you keep the butter for a year?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. Cause it's in September. It's like Labor Day weekend, basically, is

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

when the summer starts.

[Mike Mitchell]

Damn. So you gotta hold onto that big head of.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I already put that big head of butter.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Everybody in Minnesota has a chest freezer, y'.

[Mike Mitchell]

All. Oh, sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Y' all have a basement freezer for your meat. And then you got a pop fridge in the kitchen. And then you got a beer fridge in the garage.

[Mike Mitchell]

Got it. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

There's all multiple cooling elements.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is interesting because my future wife,

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm gonna get her head carved in butter. I'm gonna, like, give that to her as a gift on the wedding or something. I think that would be nice.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Many people in the Midwest say pop, but you're working in the soda division, and you're in Minneapolis.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I had to learn. I said pop, and then I. Now I say soda. Because I worked in the. In the.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Train yourself out of it. That's wild.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it's dangerous actually doing that. I might leave my wife for my new butter wife if I did that. Fall in love with butter wife and leave my old life.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Mistake her. No, no, no. That's not her. You're making out with pressing your face in. If I'm cooking and I got butter on my hands, I'll just put it straight in my face.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You can do that?

[Mike Mitchell]

Really?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And then recently my boyfriend started to be like, you smell like a croissant. And I. But not in A good way. And I had to stop putting what's wrong with.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, there's something wrong with it. I know.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I thought it was great, but.

[Mike Mitchell]

Nothing wrong with smell like a croissant. There's much worse things to smell like

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

that butter might be responsible for your youthful glow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Thank you. Thank you. See?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know what?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And this thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know. You know what I'm doing at the end of the day today? I'm gonna go home, I'm gonna rub some butter on my face, and maybe my body wags.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There you go.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, why not? If it were. If the youthful glow works, maybe jack

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

off with some of it into the shower.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hey. And then some of it gets in my mouth. I meant the butter.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

To be clear, we.

[Mike Mitchell]

We have a.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We have a mutual friend in Ryan Perez the great Ryan movie man.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The great Ryan Perez.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You met him when you were great movie man.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's. That's what I'm calling great movie man. Yeah, Pres is what you disagree?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He's a movie man. Has a great movie podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

He does.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm gonna need a movie with Ann Reman. Yeah, it's a. It's a. He's a. He's a. A fascinating man to talk to about film. And when he agrees with your opinions or when. Even better, when he voices something and. And it's what you thought about it, then you're like, oh, man, I feel. I feel smart as.

[Mike Mitchell]

But on the other side, when you. When you say, oh, I like this, and he said I didn't care for it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, I thought sucked, too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I'm a. Yeah, I'm a idiot.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. What you're thinking, it's like when the kid at school, it' same sort of thing. Like, like, like, like, oh, this grape soda is good. Oh, grape soda is nasty. Yeah, I hate this stuff, you know, like, like you're just trying to impress him. Yeah. Yeah. But he.

[Meals]

He.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He's the best.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, he's the best. And I did not know. I knew kind of nothing about movies when we first met. And then I, like a year later, sort of accidentally sold a movie off a verbal pitch without meaning to, like, kind of not realizing what was going on. Had to learn how to write a movie and. And now have become sort of a movie guy. Was never a movie guy. I had never, like, had never seen any. Had seen Zoolander 50 times because I had the VHS. Had seen, you know, like, sure, that was Tommy Boy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And Apollo 13. And those are sort of my solid ones.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have no qualms of this, I am, I think good lineup. I.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Not a bad lineup.

[Mike Mitchell]

We've talked about this before where people were like, name your letterbox top four or whatever. And it's always just like, shut the fuck.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like. Like I would more likely say Tommy Boy than I. Than I.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know, Tommy Boy was in. I have done. I have been letterbox top Ford.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I. Oh, I gotta watch it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I said. And I look like a doofus because I know so little about movies that I. They literally said, this is cut out of the video. But they said, do you know what letterboxd is? And I said, no, I'm on a red carpet.

[Mike Mitchell]

Target lady.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

At least. And I said, zoolander. Dumb and Dumber Tommy Boy. And then I said Ella Enchanted, which. Which is the Anne Hathaway one. That's not what I meant. I meant ever after with Drew Barrymore. That is in my top four. Yeah, but that's like how little I know about movies that I just also. I was just like nervous and felt under pressure.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I feel like so many people are trying to say, like, Cassavetes and everything like that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

People are trying to. Yeah, people are trying to impress. Yeah, exactly.

[Mike Mitchell]

All the like. Like. Which, by the way, are good. I'm not. I. I like that films we like. We. It's fun to like. It's fun to like the pulpy dumb.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I. I said, does Tommy Boy hold up? And like, the one of that was like. Because it was a compilation one. I wasn't. I wasn't.

[Mike Mitchell]

Boy holds up.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I love.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And everybody was like, tommy Boy definitely holds up. Tiny. But that was like the. One of the. The biggest, you know. Comment.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Frauds.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. I love Tom. Tommy Boy. That meant. That movie meant a lot to me as well. It's up there. Why? What would. Can I ask you what your top four would be?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

M&MS. And the dash. It really ups the resale value.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I can't remember because I have thin candy coating. I do have a top four on my letterboxd account. Do you have that?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Want me to look it up?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, look it up.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't have my top four in my letterboxd top four.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. That was like one of the first things I did. I was like, oh, this is fun. I think I got a couple anime in there. I got it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I gotta look at what mine is right now. It's probably not.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think First Reformed is in there right now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Maybe look back. What's in there?

[Meals]

Princess Mononoke.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love it. Wise. Great choice.

[Meals]

Star Wars.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. Good movie.

[Meals]

First Reformed and look back.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm not trying to impress anyone.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, Star Wars?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That was a good movie. Mine, I mean, the first one.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Just put Star wars in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I guess I don't have my. I guess I don't have a top four.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You know who else has Star wars in their top four? Zack Snyder. Mitch.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wow.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We love Snyder, Snyder, and Weger.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Are you Schneider heads?

[Mike Mitchell]

We're Schneider. Love the Snyderverse, L.A. confidential, sender, housemaid, and Marty supreme, which seems like the four. The four last movies I've logged. I feel like that's not my top four. But is that what people are seeing for my top four? One of them is a movie I'm in.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, I think you have to, like, top four is a separate thing. You, like, go to your account. It says what your top four is. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What would be your top four?

[Mike Mitchell]

Top four of all time? Oh, my God.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is.

[Mike Mitchell]

See, I mean, Goodfellows would be one of them. This is the hardest thing in the world. No. Well, now you're a movie person now, and things have changed, but is that still your top four?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, totally. I'm very bad at picking favorites, and I'm bad at, like, Instant Recall, but so it is like, what are the things that I know that. I mean, it is truly dumb. And Dumber is, I think, number one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And then we're pre. Then it is like, whatever.

[Mike Mitchell]

However it falls into place.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. However it falls from there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think I really do love south park, the movie. And I love Goodfellas.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There's two. Yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, I think I said Gattaca as one of my other top four.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I fucking love Gattaca.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love Gattaca. And I just did a podcast, like, talking about movies, and Gattaca was. Gattaca was like, one of the movies where I went to a movie theater my freshman year with this guy who, like, I just became friends with, and there was no other movie. I was like. Like, we could go see Gattaca. And then it was one of those movies that I saw just on a whim, and it was like, oh, a movie that looks, like, kind of, like, fancy and, like, not my style can be good. Like, I was shocked, but that it was, like, such a good find that I knew nothing about. It was like. It was like, oh, you should try more stuff.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Movies. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, it's. It's. If you're. If you're wondering if Gattaca holds up, I Rewatched Gattaga last year. And it absolutely.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

All that to say is, now I feel like I know enough about movies. I'm not. I'm not. I, like, can't rattle them off.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, sure. Of course.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Two of yours. I'm like, I've never heard of them. But I now can have what I think is, like, a cogent opinion about a movie that I just saw and have now been able to talk with Ryan about movies.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I'm like, you train with him. I killed Bill.

[Amelia Marino]

I am doing it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. The student has not yet become the master.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You mentioned Zoolander. Did Prez ever tell you his Terence Malik Zoolander story? He met Terrence. So we used to work at Both. Worked at Funny or Die at the same time. We were on a lot, and this. This was the lot where the studio lot where Terrence Malik, the reclusive director, was doing sound for one of his movies, maybe Knight of Cups. And so we just see Terrence Malik, like, walking around be like. Like, oh, that's Terrence Malik. He's right there. And one day, Perez and Bug Main just go up to him and just talk to him and. And they introduce themselves, and he's just like, hi, I'm Terry Malik. He's just, like, so friendly. But he mentions that Prez is like, I work at Funny or Die. And he's like, oh, that's Will's company. Right. Meaning Will Ferrell. Oh, I love that Zoolander. I hope they make a Zoolander, too. So there you go.

[Amelia Marino]

That's amazing.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's so good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I wonder if we watched Zoolander too. I wonder if. I probably did. I'm sure.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I wonder. I wonder what he thought about it. He was certainly.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It was good guy who made the Thin Red Line, really funny.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's one of the, like, stuff that, like, which people will be mad at me because I. I will on movies a lot in here that, like. But it's fun to like junk.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I like junk. Yeah. You can like anything.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, also, like, Starship Troopers up there, too.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Good movies.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Totally. And, like, stuff that's not even junk, I guess. Right. Well, that's the thing is, like, I don't think Zoolander is junk. Zoolander, too, is maybe junk.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think. I think with the way people look at them, like, it's like, like, like

[Chloe Radcliffe]

people cast it aside. But what they. What they're not. They're not delineating. There's, like, broad and commercial in an artistic and successful way.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And then there is broad and commercial. That is junk.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. And Jackass Boys are artists themselves.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's true of the Jackass movies. Are you. As someone who's a fairly recent convert to cinema, do you have favorite movie snacks? Like, are you someone who goes to the theater and you're like. Like, Like, I gotta have my popcorn, or are you someone you're sitting on the couch, you're like, I like some pretzels.

[Mike Mitchell]

I just said you can't fuck up movie pins, but this you can fuck.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

The doughboys don't do us wrong.

[Meals]

That's.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch is speaking only for himself.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I mean, look, I fucking love Giant. Too big. Bigger than you can imagine. Thing of popcorn.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. Guess what? One of us is a popcorn skeptic.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm a bit of a popcorn skeptic. I'm more of a nachos guy. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

A nachos in a movie theater. In a dark movie theater where you're gonna spill hot plastic cheese all over yourself.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And I'm a terrible spiller, and I do it all the time. And you know what? I'm still loving them.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wow, that's. That's impressive. Yeah. I was never really a nachos person growing up. I grew up in a hippie household, so it's like, we never had that kind of cheese, you know, so that. And it wasn't. It didn't happen to be a. Like, we never had it. So I want it. It happened to be a.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, the nachos I had the most were tostitos with Mexican cheese shredded, like, crumbled, and then put in them, baked or put in the microwave.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, we would have that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's fine.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I had that a lot. I. I had oven nachos. But I also would like. I get every kind of nacho at Taco Bell. Nachos.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was having kind of like white trash knots.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Every white trash now says I also have Mexican nachos. And. And I'd also like the ballpark. Nachos with the nacho cheese. I like that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think I thought that the nacho machine in a movie theater was for show.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't think I have ever seen anybody walking around with a.

[Mike Mitchell]

This guy's nacho mad. He loves nacho.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Watch me at the theater. I'll have a. Probably have some.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Now this. Is it possible that this is a Southern California thing? I could be. But I think I like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm kind of unique among moviegoers and not liking popcorn. I think some people still fancy popcorn out there.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you not like That I think

[Mike Mitchell]

it's like, I, not, not popcorn to nachos is. What are we saying, 90 to 10? Like, it's going to be way more, of course.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But I'm saying, like, I'm saying, like, in the Midwest, nobody eats nachos in a movie theater.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I certainly think nachos sound off.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Sound off. I was about to say in the comments.

[Mike Mitchell]

They'll sound off and they will be angry. There's going to be people eating nachos all the time. I'm doing it right now. Wrong.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The I, I, I, I, I mean, we can get the New England take. It seems like we are. We're already kind of getting that from Mitch. But, like, I feel like nachos are omnipresent in Southern California because there's so much Mexico.

[Mike Mitchell]

I worked in the movie theater and I exchanged out the nacho cheese bag. And that baby was fucking hot because.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Big plastic bag that I was putting in the fucking thing. And I was burning your, burning your hands.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Did he give you gloves?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, probably.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know what's fun? You got these.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it's kind of.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you ever get calluses from the nacho burns?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, from the nacho burns. I was 18 years old. It was the calls from the nacho burns. I, I will just be dumb and hold it. I mean, that, that job was, it was a fun job, but it was the year before I went to college and I was like, barely in there, but there's a hot cheese.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

This is barely in there. You mean barely, barely in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, you're in the movie theater,

[Chloe Radcliffe]

but are you present?

[Mike Mitchell]

I wasn't present, and I was barely in there in general.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch is often barely in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've had a lot going on. You saw a ghost the other day. That's a, that's a lot going on.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We need to get back into the ghost.

[Mike Mitchell]

The ghost.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you think, do you think the ghost has seen you jerk off?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's a great question.

[Mike Mitchell]

Definitely.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, this, this incident, which I recalled on last week's episode, happened in a common space. Happened in our living room. That's not a place I jack off.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You're just outside of the shower.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You know, enough distance to challenge yourself. But I'm shooting that wad straight into the drain. Like a normal guy. I'm jacking off normal style.

[Mike Mitchell]

How much distance are we talking? Are you outside the apartment?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Trying to bank shot from the hallway? But no, I'm also, like, also just getting older. I was like, I'm not much of a Jerking off guy. What am I gonna. What am I gonna do? I'm jack off.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What am I gonna do? I'm go to the movie theater. I'm gonna get a thing of nachos. I'm off into the nachos.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Cut a hole in the nachos.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That is funny. Cut a hole in the nachos and have a. So that your girlfriend can stick her entire hand in nachos. Jesus Christ. She pulls out, her hand, is covered in nacho cheese. I just wanted my handful of nachos. I didn't want your dick.

[Mike Mitchell]

His. His dick. His dick isn't even in the chip section. It's in the hot nacho sauce. Just waiting. She's even noticing. She's just dipping into it, not noticing. I ain't.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Not just us.

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I, I, I, I disagree with you. I mean, like, I guess as you

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

get older, sketch comedy is a young man's game.

[Mike Mitchell]

Jacking off and sketch comedy young.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, I really keep waiting for you to pivot back to movie theaters.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sorry, sorry.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, I don't care. I don't. I don't care. I just keep. You were like. Earlier you were like. And now we're talking about jacking off, and I wasn't.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. No, no.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I kept being like, great, perfect. We keep finding these. I. I'll talk about it forever. I have a fucking. It's all I ever talk about. I. All I ever do is tell dick jokes.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll get back. We're going to get back to the snacks.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay?

[Mike Mitchell]

He told a story about this ghost the other day, and I. Me and Ranch both did not. I did not have, like, a pleasant night at my house last night at Gums.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Rochelle Chen Ranch, the nickname our producer forget played is a. I now feel

[Mike Mitchell]

much better that a day has been removed from it. And I have gone home and been in my house for a night.

[Meals]

She.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

She slept with a light on. I've not had another encounter with the ghost since that incident, so we'll see.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's been 24 hours.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Well, you don't need a docs that we're recording these episodes on consecutive days. They're coming out a week apart.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're in the content mines, dude. We've been here all. I don't forget what the sun looks like. We're in the.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Strike a vein. You got to stay in that vein.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's 100%. That's right.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's true.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You don't let that go.

[Mike Mitchell]

I we so far, there's nothing. There's nothing in them Hills. There's nothing in them doughboys. Hills.

[Meals]

I'm.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love popcorn, so I will always. It makes. It hurts my stomach more than maybe anything else in the world now. Yeah. I don't do well because of the.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Because of the drug.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, not because of. Not because of the GLP1, but because of it just. I think as I've gotten older, it just is. Whether it's the butter or the. Or the popcorn itself, it's just like it will. I will the next day or the next couple days. I'll maybe be in trouble.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's a heavy snack.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a heavy snack. I know. I don't know what it is. I don't know what happened. I hate it. I don't hate that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's crazy, because I feel like it's the lightest snack possible. I think that's second to, like rice cakes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Boy. I don't know. I think slathering in butter. And I think also it's just like butter. I'm not sure how fibrous it is.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I never kind of fibrous.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I never put butter on.

[Mike Mitchell]

And corn itself will hurt my stomach too. So I'm like, oh, I don't do well with corn.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It seems like in general, maybe I should digest famously.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. But.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But interesting.

[Mike Mitchell]

A big. A big popcorn and a Coca Cola for me. Are.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm happy.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. I love a big soda. I'm always getting a big soda. Like a big honking soda.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And. And cutting a hole in the bottom of it. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You got reach in there and then you gotta be real careful about getting it real fast.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Mitchell]

You want to drink. And she reached into the soda.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Let me get a handful of soda real quick.

[Mike Mitchell]

Whoa. Soggy ice cube.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, soggy ice cube.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You're wet. Cold. Dick.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's so small.

[Mike Mitchell]

You put a French baguette in your.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So you. You work with some. No. Speaking of movies, you. You've worked with some.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like, like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And I know one was a series. But like, you worked with some huge movie directors. I mean, Bradley Cooper and also Steven Soderbergh on Command Z. It's. I just like, can't. I'm such a Soderberg fan. I can't imagine. It must have been so cool to work with.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He is a. He is a weird, weird genius.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've said it before, but Soderberg, one of my favorite directors. One of my favorite meal combos. Soderber and a bur.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You have said that before.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But you know What? Put that one down in the notes so you can use that again.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, because he doesn't need to. He's got that up here.

[Mike Mitchell]

That one's off the top of my head. That's like. Yeah, yeah. That's like. That's. That's one of my famous bits that I go. I can go right back to.

[Amelia Marino]

I'll.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay, here's a food. Here's a Soderbergh and food thing. So I. I am a. I have struggled with binge eating for my whole life. And I know that I don't look like a person who has struggled with binge eating, but it's like very much a. Like a defining factor in my life.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And so crafty is the. She doesn't want to hear it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I also shouldn't have said sure. I don't know why I responded with sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Love it. So crafty. Like any. Crafty is my. Like, it is. It is my kryptonite. I cuz it's there and it's free. And my whole. I think it probably comes from like food insecurity when I was a kid. And then it like has just metastasized into like, if it is there, I must eat it. Like it was. I like had to move back away from the table to be like, just stop eating. You're done for. For the bucas. Right. Anyway.

[Mike Mitchell]

Which was easy for some of us also.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not to tee it up too much, but. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And. And for me, that's the thing is that I'm like, like I'm not. Quality does not have an impact whatsoever. I will eat worse dog because it is there.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And so crafty drives me insane in a great way and. No, in a terrible way. But in. But I. But I. I really have fun with it. And for the Soderberg thing, whoever was in charge of Crafty had gone to Trader Joe's and had gotten all of the like, weirdest, wackiest Trader Joe's snacks. And I got a, like a cereal bowl of multiple. I had like put little segments of various snacks into this paper cereal bowl. And I was trying to leave. I think it was just the end of the day. And we were shooting in Soderbergh's office. He like, I think he's since sold it, but at the time he owned two floors of an old office building in tribeca.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And he had turned one of the floors into the set that we shot on. And the other floor was. Was for production. And so it's like this old, old, old building and These tiny, narrow little stairwells. And I. Some. I was. I had to leave down this narrow little stairwell. And Soderbergh and Michael Cera and a PA are standing on this narrow, tiny, tiny little landing. And I had to like inch by them. And then I was just trying to go down the stairs. And with my back to them, Soderbergh goes, what do you got there? And I froze. And I said, I turned and out loud, I said. She slowly turns to reveal her dog food bowl, which I think is a really funny line.

[Mike Mitchell]

That is a funny line.

[Amelia Marino]

I like it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Thank you.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Makes me laugh.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The PA can't do anything if nobody else is doing anything, right? The PA is standing there frozen. Michael Cera, nice guy. I don't know if he just wasn't there in the moment or if he wasn't there.

[Mike Mitchell]

He gave me nothing.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He gave me absolutely fucking nothing. And Soderbergh has an incredible sense of humor, but almost never laughs. Like has a twinkle in his eye, but never, never, never makes a sound. And so I just said that to absolute dead silence. Michael Cera, Steven Soderbergh and a scared 20 year old staring at me. And then they were. Nobody was reacting. And so then I just took the time to walk them through each one of the snacks that was in the cereal bowl. And then everyone sort of went, okay, okay. And I just turned and walked down the stairs and like, ate it in shame, I guess.

[Mike Mitchell]

Was Michael in the movie with you?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

In the.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

In the series? Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, series. Sorry.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. When I. When I want to sound fancy in an entertainment industry meeting, I call it a miniseries.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There you go.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

If I'm being real, it was a very expensive web series.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know how, you know how crew calls a movie a show? Like, what show they call. You notice that?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

They call movies shows.

[Amelia Marino]

Shows.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. He was in the show with me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Iatsi guy. So maneuver like.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. I'm like, cup of. It's a movie.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't know. I like it. It's like, work Teamster, get back in line.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Go pick up that electrical that I can't pick up.

[Mike Mitchell]

We have our lunch breakdown. I'm going to go to the front of the line, which they allow actors to do. And I. Not only do they allow actors to do it, but they often are like, go to the front. You have to get your food. And I hate it more than anything because you like. Yeah, it's all crew guys waiting. You're like, oh, good, okay. I get to get in front of this person. And it's It's. But anyways, M. Michael S. Was on the show. Michael. I love Michael. Great guy. The great guy. I saw him the last time I was in New York.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is. We walk. We're walking by, and Michael Sierra recognizes Mitch and says, that's awesome.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he's great. And. But he gave. He gave you nothing.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He gave me absolutely nothing.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's rough stuff.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And then for the rest of the shoot, anytime Soderbergh and I were at Crafty together, he would be like, you need a. You need. You got enough there. I was like, me. And I think at one point he was like, you want a to go bag? And I just, like, grabbed one of the big garbage bags that's taped to the wall, and I was like, I think I got one. It was a very fun bit, but I was like, you're here with me. You're right. Crafting with me the same times that

[Mike Mitchell]

one moment you had had right there is what I deal with every single day on Doughboys. Basically.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

Weiger staring at me. I look over here, these two are just staring at me.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You delivering an A plus plus line.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Me saying. Me saying, like, hey, it was, hey, did you ever meet the target lady? I look over here. There's no one.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Are you. Are you referring to a character created by Kristen Wiig? Is this what you are implying in this joke construction?

[Mike Mitchell]

Dead eyes behind the counter over there.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They're on the clock.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know, I know, I know. They're on the clock.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That means they should be laughing.

[Mike Mitchell]

I agree.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Thank you, Amelia. That's a. That knowing that the Soderbergh has a good sense of humor and doesn't laugh. Mitch is great for you to know when you do your.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's what I'm doing back here.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

When you do your Soderbergh line for him.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, when he doesn't laugh at the sober. Oh, no. I. I think that I could brag. Break them.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You think you'd break him with soda?

[Mike Mitchell]

He's known to be a guy who doesn't laugh. I think I could break him with Soderbergh.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Hey, one of my favorite meal combos.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Do you think. Do you let him put it together on his own? Like, do you say. Like, do you just point at. Do you. Or do you say his name. You Soderbergh? Oh, one of my favorite meal combos.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's also funny for me to be like, oh, your name's Soderbergh. Like, I don't know who the this guy is.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Imagine you're meeting him for the first time, he's like, I'm Steven. That's Steven Soderbergh.

[Mike Mitchell]

Steven Soderbergh. Hey, I love you. And I also. You're my favorite meal combo. I don't think it's ever going to work. I don't think it will work. I don't think it's going to happen.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Does me. Does he have to do the calculus or are you going to help walk? Hold his hand with it like soda.

[Mike Mitchell]

Soderberg must have thought at some point that his name is like Soda and Burger. He has to have thought about this.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You think as a kid maybe he was like, soda, burger, soda burg.

[Amelia Marino]

Cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, I have to. I have two cool things. He must have thought about this.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You can.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can figure this out for us some at some point.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you want me to text him?

[Mike Mitchell]

You should text him. You should text.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I gotta. I.

[Mike Mitchell]

You somehow get fired from this show.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Removed.

[Mike Mitchell]

Digitally removed.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They're gonna Kevin Spacey you and all the money in the world.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're gonna put Kevin Spacey into your role.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's not bad. That's not bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Who did take over? Who did they digitally zoom in for?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They. They replaced him with an actor. Oh, Very well known older actor whose name I can't pull.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Well known. Yeah, they'll know. They. We can look it up.

[Mike Mitchell]

But he's a. Amelia's searching Spacey data bank.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He got the replacement. Got nominated for an Oscar. Which is kind of insane to get a supporting actor, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Just for like an appearance where it's like all like.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it was an old. It was that. Yeah, I know who it is too. And I can't remember.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Well, don't call him the old.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, he's good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He's good. He's very good.

[Mike Mitchell]

God, why can't I. Whatever this is. This is the issue.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We'll look it up. All the money in the world. Look at who the. The actor was. Okay, so we got. We got to talk. Buca de beppo. Where are you with Italian food? Is that like one of your favorite foods?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I just had the most acidic burp, I think.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, I. I hate those feelings.

[Mike Mitchell]

Plummer.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Christopher Plummer. That's who it is. Great.

[Mike Mitchell]

His last name. A lot is like a profession.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes, right.

[Amelia Marino]

Say that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Plumber.

[Mike Mitchell]

And also like a food in a way.

[Amelia Marino]

Plum.

[Mike Mitchell]

Plums are food.

[Amelia Marino]

They definitely call.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Plumbers are food. Plumbers.

[Amelia Marino]

Plumbers. Yeah, you're right.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

I don't.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wait, I thought she was backing up there. She was being a Fucking wise ass.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They should.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is also a food based name in a way. Christopher Plummer.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

How about. How about Christopher Plummer? Hey, you have something in common with my favorite video game hero, Mario. Also a plumber.

[Mike Mitchell]

Who's that? Maybe. Maybe he'll pull a Target lady on me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't know. He might love Mario. He might pull a, a Terry Malik and tell you like, oh, I love Mario. He's an Italian.

[Mike Mitchell]

Christopher Plummer must have thought about how

[Chloe Radcliffe]

his plums are taking the segue. I was, I set that right up for you. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, what do you think of it? Like, should I.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, what does Christopher Plummer think?

[Mike Mitchell]

He must have thought at some point how his name, like, he must have been like, Plum.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Plum is in his name. I'm sure that's the thing. That's the same he had.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's all I'm saying. But wait, what were you trying to segue me back to? We'll get back on it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Right?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Just Italian. I'd asked about Italian food.

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you think of Italian food? What do you think of Italian people?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Go Italian people Dumb.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're one for one so far.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Great Italian food. Here's. Here's what I think of Italian food. I like making Italian food because it feels like you can actually make like pretty good Italian food at your own house. Like if you figure out the pasta, water starch, whatever, whatever. I don't know that I have ever had Italian food at a restaurant. And I've had like really excellent Italian food at a restaurant. I don't know that I've ever had excellent Italian food that I think is excellent beyond the first bite or two and that I remember.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I know that that is a really. I think, I think if anybody is pissed off if. But this is at a restaurant. I bet if I went to somebody's house, like, also I should say this does not apply to the Italian food that I've had in Italy. Italian food I've had in Italy is like a different, I'm thinking different category. Different category. Yeah. Yeah. I'm thinking of like fancy restaurants in New York.

[Mike Mitchell]

Where have you been in. Not restaurants, but where. Which. What parts of Italy have you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You visited Rome, Florence, Venice, Venice, Tuscany, Cinque Terre.

[Mike Mitchell]

Those. The first three. I, I went to Rome, Venice and, and, And Florence.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I've never been.

[Mike Mitchell]

You would.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You think I'd like Italy? You think I'd like the boot? You think I would?

[Meals]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, you think so?

[Meals]

Yeah, he'd love it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Why is that? Because it's you like.

[Mike Mitchell]

You like history transit.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, I do like history.

[Meals]

I think you just like place places.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I like places.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You are walkable.

[Mike Mitchell]

I really been hypnotized by this man.

[Meals]

He likes things whenever we travel.

[Mike Mitchell]

Whenever we travel. No, that's not true.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Sometimes I'm very sour.

[Mike Mitchell]

You have not toured with us long enough. You have. You don't like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Italy is one of the most placey places, though.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Meals]

Yeah. It's the place spiciest place.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It really feels like a place.

[Mike Mitchell]

But would you. Would he like, like, would he like the UK more than he would like Italy? I don't know.

[Meals]

I think he would like Italy better.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What I would like about the UK is because, you know, I'm always talking to strangers. So, like, you know, like me, I. Again, I. I mentioned this or. But me, me speaking like just enough Japanese I got to chop it up with a bunch of people when I visited Japan and that was like, really fun. So, like, I. What I like about the UK is I don't speak any Italian, so I'd kind of be at a loss in terms of just starting up a conversation with a random guy.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Any romance language languages?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No. I went, I'm Spanish. Spanish. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Then you're fine. Spanish and Italian are the exact same thing pronounced differently.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow. Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They are so similar. They're much more similar. So, like, I studied French for a while and then I went to Italy for three weeks when I was, whatever, 16, and then came back, couldn't keep taking French. I was. I'm such a. I didn't have sex in high school. I came back. I couldn't keep taking French because it conflicted with Roger.

[Mike Mitchell]

Leave a message.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Me honor band.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, you were right to do

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

it, but I just want to know

[Mike Mitchell]

why you looked at me.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know, I guess it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did not have sex in high school either. And it was a few more years after that as well, until it finally went down. You went to Italy? You were in Italy?

[Amelia Marino]

Basically.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I couldn't take. I couldn't keep taking French because it conflicted with honor band. And I had been first year clarinet for two years in a row and I wasn't going to give that up.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is insane.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is wild.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is insane.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We were both math majors. We both played woodwinds.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Great.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I play. I started on clarinet. I was first chair clarinet for a time, but I transitioned to double reads. I started playing bassoon. I also played saxophone. I played saxophone, the jazz band. But I was like. I became a very, very accomplished high school bassoonist. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's very cool. That's awesome.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But your first chair clarinet, that's amazing. Thank you. What kind of read did you use?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I was. I think I was a three and a half Van Doren.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So which I use.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The Van Dorens and Van Doens are sort of a half step higher than other reads.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, three and three and a half is pretty stiff read.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Three and a half Van Doren is like a four. Anything else?

[Mike Mitchell]

You guys were. I make sense. You guys were not in high school. All this reed talk and the math talk. I didn't have sex because I just am unpleasant.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Here's the thing about reads. So it goes from one to five. It's like the fork score. So the number five read is the stiffest. Now Charlie Parker, who's a. Was a legendary jazz saxophonist. Alto saxophonist who died very, very young. Young was a. Was a drug addict. He like died at 36. We're guessing ages earlier. The coroner guessed he was like 65.

[Amelia Marino]

Really?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Because his body was that just ruined by. By drug use. But he was a. It was incredible. He played on a number five read. And this is in. This is in the book about him, Bird that got adapted in the Clint Eastwood movie. And it's like a number five read is so stiff that a lot of people can't even play on it. Like I couldn't even make a sound on a number five. But he was just like. Like.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There's just natural to me. It's just how like funny.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It makes much more precise sound.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Makes much more precise sound. So that the more like three and a half. I would usually do like a three. And. And the thing that was a pain in the ass with double reads is you kind of at a certain point have to get into reed making, which is a little bit of like woodcraft that I was like not. I'm not necessarily as into this like my bassoon teacher having like me and some other bassoon kids over there like doing a day long read making workshop. And I'm just like, what are you talking. What are you talking about?

[Mike Mitchell]

Your bassoon teacher invited you over to whittle stuff together. It seems strange.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You think she was grooming us? We were having a good time.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's what, that's what they all say.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

She said I was special.

[Mike Mitchell]

How long?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

She said I was very handsome.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No love. Lovely woman.

[Mike Mitchell]

How long does a read last?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It. I mean like a double read. You play it double read. I. You could stretch out for a while because there are like like expensive and like, again, cumbersome. To.

[Mike Mitchell]

To give me ballpark, what would you say, like, a couple months?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

A couple months?

[Meals]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You can get a couple months. A single reads are a little bit more disposable, and the single reads also break more easily. I was breaking reads all the time.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So I was. I was swapping those bad boys.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're playing that bad boy too hard at the end.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I was.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, okay. Yeah, that sucks.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And you can still play it when it's chipped or cracked, but you can. You can, like, feel it. Be less precise.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was. I played saxophone. I was told to quit by the. The music teacher. This is true.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What?

[Mike Mitchell]

Mr. Galli told me to quit.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

How long?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wait, was it Mr. Galli or was another guy? I think it was another guy.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So. You fucking Italian.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know. Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, Mr. Galli sounds like an Italian ghost.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Mr. G.

[Mike Mitchell]

I played for probably, like two months or something.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It was very short period, so.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Not really the same thing. So what kind of. What did you have a sort or what kind of clarity have.

[Mike Mitchell]

Ooh, over here. I was trying to think of something. That's good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's good.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's good. That was good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I played. I played my mom's wood. It was an old wood.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Horn from the. That she played in the 60s, I guess.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wood horn, though.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Must have get a nice sound out of that bad boy.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's a good clarinet. And the reason. My music teacher, when we tested in fourth grade, she was like, please play drums. We do not have anybody in your grade. I remember her saying this to me. We don't have anybody in your grade who has a good sense of rhythm, and you have a good sense of rhythm. And we need somebody to be in percussion. And I was like, nope, I want to play clarinet just like my mom. And I could have been the sexy drum girl. And I really. I regret that to this day.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

My nephew plays drums. He's a great jazz drummer. He's cool as hell. But it's like. It's. That's the sort of thing, like, you find out as you get older that drummers are always in demand. It's like. Like every band is, like, looking for

[Chloe Radcliffe]

a drummer, and it's the hottest thing.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's awesome.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's really a bummer that I've missed that.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's some dork drummers, too, though. Don't worry. There's. There's. I'm saying it's not a Garrett. It's not. It's not like it's the Coolest thing in the world. There's some dorky drummers.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

How dare you?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's lashing out.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's my.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

My mom. They're not all hot. They're not all sexy.

[Mike Mitchell]

My mom and dad would not allow loud. Loud. Like they would not let me. I wanted to play drums and like, no, like, we're not gonna have that in our house. And I was like, okay, you have

[Chloe Radcliffe]

a good sense of rhythm.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I was trying to see if I did. I was like, I can keep a beat. I feel like I'm a singer. I can sing.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wax knows this.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You are a good singer. You have a lovely voice.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you like karaoke?

[Mike Mitchell]

I like Carolyn Carry. I like karaoke a lot. That's what I was trying to say.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Take it couple a again.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like karaoke a lot.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We can use that retake.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's that?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you go to karaoke songs?

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you want me to list them off? Yeah, they're in my notes app.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wait, they're in the notes app? I have a notes app.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I. I have a. I have a karaoke notes. I. I don't karaoke song notes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't. But I have like some songs in my head. I mean, I used to.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I can't.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I can't really do it as much anymore since because of Maga, but I used to do the Lee Greenwood's God Bless the usa, which was I. We had to learn that by heart and Boy Scout. So I just go up and belt that one out. And usually the bar would. Would enjoy, but nowadays it feels too. Too loaded. Yeah, I. I usually do Elvis and I'll do like Teddy Bear. I'll do Viva Las Vegas. Burning Love is a little challenging, but sometimes I'll stretch and do that one. So. Yeah, that's usually what I up for.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's nice.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I'll. I'll sit. I'll sing portions of each song and you can guess what they are.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Time is never time at all Tonight, Tonight. Smashing Pumpkins.

[Mike Mitchell]

Smashing Pumpkins.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's been a long December and there's reason to believe those.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, they're not really good. They're not in any order.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And then beats Beach Shazam. I wasn't getting these.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's that?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I said you should be on Beach Shazam. I wasn't getting these.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah. You should be on Beach Shazam.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You thought about going on Beach Shazam?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't know what it's. Beach Shazam.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think it's a game. I don't know if it still exists. It was a game show at a certain point where they.

[Mike Mitchell]

You.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You see how quickly you can guess a song.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I. I don't know if that is still around.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Either way, I have no idea.

[Mike Mitchell]

Drops of Jupiter. I. Brandi, you're a fine girl.

[Meals]

That's my karaoke song too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Looks like we have to do a duet of it at some point on the road.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, it's good. We told the story before, but we were doing karaoke, or we were at a bar that had karaoke in Seattle. Amelia goes up there and starts doing your song. Which song was it?

[Meals]

It was four Non Blondes. What's up?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

She's doing Four Non blondes. What's up? And it's one of those things where they have visualizations on a big. A big projector behind. Behind the singer. The visualizations on Amelia's is just softcore pornography. And me and Mitch and Jordan Morris are all just like, what the is going on up there? She just got porno up there.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And you don't know?

[Meals]

No, they asked for my. They asked for my permission beforehand. They were like, look, there are two versions of the video because it's the most popular karaoke song. So they have a video ready for it. They're like, we have two versions there. There's.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is it really the most popular karaoke song?

[Meals]

I mean, I don't know, but it's

[Amelia Marino]

pretty popular enough that it has two videos.

[Meals]

Yeah, we got the version with the. Without the naked ladies, and we got the version with the naked ladies. And I was like, we're gonna do

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

naked ladies, but from our standpoint, we're just singing. We're just watching her sing, thinking she's oblivious to what's being displayed behind her. And at a certain point, a woman who's not in our group goes up to Amelia just to tell her, like. Like, you know, what's on the screen behind you?

[Meals]

You.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And then you're like, yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

And was like, yeah, I asked for it, of course.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, right?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I sang that in Colombia at a. And they knew three. They knew, like three. English speaking song.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes. The nation of Colombia.

[Mike Mitchell]

The nation of Columbia.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Colombia.

[Mike Mitchell]

Colombia. Colombia. And. And Frailbot signed me up for Nor for Non blondes and put my name as El Grande Gringo.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

How about that?

[Mike Mitchell]

And then I sang it. And then the bar. The guys at the bar were like, el Grande Gringo. They were saying it a bunch, but it was a. It was a very fun memory, a great character. Karaoke song. What's. What are. What I'll Say, like, the ones that I sing more so are like, only living boy in New York and Sister golden Hair and stuff like that. But what are your.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

What are your go tos?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

If I want to show off, it's Valerie by Amy Winehouse.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay. If I want to Amy Winehouse.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I can't. I'm. I can't really, you know, I can't compete with Amy Winehouse, but I can make the song sound good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Or if I want to unite the room, it's Lips of an angel by Hinder.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's a good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But recently I've been trying to get into Eye to eye by Tevin Campbell, the Goofy movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's an incredible song. Let's see. As good as I once was, Toby Keith, this Kiss, Faith Hill. I'm really. I got my mindset on you, George Harrison.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, I love that one.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Torn. Natalie Imbruglia. It's great. Let's see. Oh, Just a Girl by no Doubt. Is a.

[Amelia Marino]

Is a.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Really. Is a. That's a. If I'm mad. Oh, it's great.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm realizing, like, I. She's gone.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's gone. Christian.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What I really want to do sometimes is when somebody is called Christian jazz.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Post marriage to the country. Wait.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah. Well, I mean, I don't know if it's post, but, like. Yeah. Around the same time.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Maybe around the same time. Damn.

[Amelia Marino]

Or maybe that's why they sell out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sold out.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm realizing what I want to do. And they never do it. Karaoke, but I should just do it at some point. Is like a Disney princess song.

[Amelia Marino]

Oh, you should totally do that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Like part of your world. I love that song. Emma, did you have. I know you only did do karaoke if you're trash, but do you have any karaoke go tos?

[Amelia Marino]

I couldn't tell you a karaoke song I've sung in, like, 10 years. I mostly find karaoke cringy. Although I really enjoyed watching you guys do it. So maybe I'm turning around on this as I get older, but, yeah, most of the time I just, like, watch other people do it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I never liked karaoke until I moved to New York. And then kind of overnight, I loved karaoke. Maybe I don't know what the twist was.

[Amelia Marino]

Maybe I've grown out of my.

[Meals]

To be crazy is to be free.

[Mike Mitchell]

That sounds like an Oscar Wild scare.

[Meals]

Yes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The hottest song for a woman to nail is Let me love you by Mario.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, okay. I like that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. And it is I have a low voice and it is in my register and it is like, it's very good.

[Mike Mitchell]

I got one.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I've, like, watched a man fall in love with me while I was singing. It's fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's fun to see it happening.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Jev. Hottest song for Amanda sing Unwritten by Natasha Med.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I have one on here and I think it's a great segue.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Go for it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Scenes from an Italian restaurant.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow. How about that?

[Amelia Marino]

It's good.

[Mike Mitchell]

Pretty good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So what about when the moon hits your eye like a big pizza pie?

[Meals]

What's that like?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Dad at karaoke is fun.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That is fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've. I've said this before, but the Italian song we. I remember we were in a. Like an Italian bar after. Was with. Oh, I think it's after Doughboy. Were you there?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What? I don't know. What? Give us more details.

[Meals]

Dominic the donkey.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, not Dominic. It sounds like that though. It's like, oh, Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What was this?

[Mike Mitchell]

Like Mulavetza. And then he does sing and then he's like, second stanza. You know what I'm talking about? This is, I think around a Doughboy show. You maybe went home. I don't remember this. And like all the Italian people in the bar started, like, clapping and singing the song together. But that sounds like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm glad I went home.

[Mike Mitchell]

You made the right thing.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm surprised you stayed.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, it's true.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I want to say the best sandwich I've ever had in my entire. Maybe the best meal I've ever had in my entire life was a sandwich that I ate in Rome from a grocery store that like, it was just like we were trying to get away from touristy restaurants and we just wandered into this grocery store and we went to the back and there was a little deli counter. It was me and my mom and the guy, he didn't speak English and I had like cobbled together a little bit of Italian at that point from French and Spanish and whatever. And we just like went down the row and pointed and it was just like bread and turkey and sun dried tomatoes and like, I mean, it was. And we sat on a curb and ate it and it was the best. It's like the best thing I've ever eaten.

[Mike Mitchell]

You've. You also lived out there for.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

For.

[Mike Mitchell]

You were living out there for a few weeks for school or.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, my mom and I. Oh, okay. Only child, single mom. We would spend a month in a different country in Europe every. Every four years. And we would like live in. We would Stay in like convents because they're cheaper than hostels.

[Mike Mitchell]

Got it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And we weren't partying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So we could come back before 9pm when the curfew was or whatever.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You can stay in a convent.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Some of them run like hostels functionally.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Amelia Marino]

It's like the Franciscan monks have similar things. There's a monastery in Kennebunk, Maine, of all places, where very cheap or free. Sometimes you can just go stay there.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's wild. Are they, are they female?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm guessing it's very quiet.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't think so. No, I don't think so.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was picturing you there, living there with St. I thought I pictured an Amanda Knox situation or something.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

She. She killed someone.

[Mike Mitchell]

She killed.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

She killed someone?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Did she?

[Mike Mitchell]

Or did well.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Or was that she did kill someone? Actually, we don't. I think she was like maybe wrongly accused and now we're like part of the know what?

[Mike Mitchell]

The doughboys take the stance that Amanda Knox is guilty. That's the, the doughboys that we're going out on a limb and saying she did it. Mj, we're not sure about Amanda Knox guilty ass charge.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch shouldn't joke that Amanda Knox was guilty because actually what she went through is a media circus. And he complains about how they treated Richard Jewel and he's acting differently when it's a woman. So I think that's kind of misogynistic of Mitch to do that.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not joking. I'm serious. I'm joking.

[Amelia Marino]

You.

[Mike Mitchell]

Michael Jackson is bad too.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That mean that was a joke?

[Mike Mitchell]

Who knows? Who knows? Who knows where we stand?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Where are you on Italian food? Wait, we already asked this. Here's where are you on Italian food?

[Mike Mitchell]

I love Italian food. I mean, it was my number one food forever. Being a New England person, I feel like Italian food is way way up.

[Amelia Marino]

Italian and creepy Greek kind of merged together.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

A little bit Mediterranean.

[Amelia Marino]

The place is also made spaghetti and meatballs and yeah, but greeting.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I really, I just, I think that Italian food gets sameier faster, a thousand percent than Greek food.

[Mike Mitchell]

Your, your critiques of it are not wrong. I, I, I 100 agree with you. But also when you get some really good Italian food, I'm like, I am enjoying this more than like, I love this more than I love. I think I also pizza is my favorite food. So already that launches it up the list.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Also, in Italy, I had the best pizza I've ever had. Squash blossom pizza.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah. Do you remember where from?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

A little like a Lunch counter. Because we, we would travel with no money and so we wouldn't go, we never went to restaurants. We never sat down. We just would be like, we would walk into functionally, a bodega.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Or, yeah. Or our grocery store.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Or grocery store.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. The, for me, Italian food. And, and you know, this is, that, this is not anything new to the conversation, but I'll say it anyway, which is like, it's, it's very high, high size. Like the, the best dishes are like, they're like, that's, that's delightful. But yeah, I'm kind of with you. It's like I'm not like the, the, I don't even know if Italian food is in my top 10, like, kind of regional cuisines. You know, Like, I'm kind of going down the list of, of what I like. I don't know. I tend to, to go more towards like, you know, Mexican food, a bunch of different Asian cuisines. You know, I, I feel like I like just a, just American food. Like American classics are pretty high up there for me. So, so yeah, I don't know. I, I, I, but I'd like the, I like pizza, I like pasta.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What do you want from me?

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, it's just so easy to like pizza and pasta. They're, they're the best.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think, I think my critique of Italian food is actually kind of that there isn't that it's not high highs.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, interesting.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think that's, I think that's exactly my issue with American food. With American Italian food is really what I'm responding to. Again, not, not Italy Italian food that completely separate, but American Italian food. I think it's like, it's easy to get or like a lot of it is in the like 6 to 8 range, but I rarely hit a 9 or a 10 with Italian food.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's a ground floor food. It's a ground, it's a ground floor food. There's a low seal.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I had you guys. I could have just kept my big fat mouth.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, no, I love it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like going to Osteria Mozart. Like when I first went to Osteria Mozart, I was like, this is like the best. Like, I'm like loving this meal. Like, have you ever been Osteria?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No. Where is it?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's, it's, it's where what? It's Melrose and it's in la. It's on Melrose and Western and La Brea. Yeah, Melrose and La Brea.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Let's get hyper specific about LA geography. I Actually am wondering if I have.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Is it right across from the Paramount lot?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not far from the map.

[Amelia Marino]

It's not far from.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm wondering if I have. I. If I actually have.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are we getting too specific?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I just love discussions like this. They're just for people who live in one part of la.

[Amelia Marino]

It's three restaurants in one, though. It's like a pizza place. There's like a fancier sit down restaurant.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. They're owned by the same boat, but. O O Pizza. Pizzeria Moza.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yes, I have been here.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, I've been here.

[Mike Mitchell]

Pizzeria Moza is on the one side of it, and then Osteria Moza and then Chisbaka is on the other side.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You're not gonna, You're. It's not gonna knock your socks out. Especially with all the Italian food you have in New York. But I mean, it's like, you know, it's. The place is good.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Totally. And that's exactly.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a. At one point it was a sock knocker.

[Amelia Marino]

They used to have a Michelin star, didn't they?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

A sock knocker.

[Mike Mitchell]

What used to be a sock. Sock knocker? It was.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You go in that place, your socks are on the floor.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They've been knocked. Hey, you've been knocked.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what I'm saying.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yes, socks have been knocked.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sock knocker.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You've been knocking my wife. That sounds like a piece of.

[Mike Mitchell]

Take your DSD there and he's gonna have a blast.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, give me one of them breadsticks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dad sucking dad. I'm dick sucking dad. What do you want from me?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Hey, put your hand in this bowl of spaghetti. Why am I holding that on my lap?

[Mike Mitchell]

You don't need that ass, you dick sucking dad. Don't try to get me to jack you off.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You're right. I'll put my own face in my

[Mike Mitchell]

thing of spaghetti and all I gotta

[Chloe Radcliffe]

do is poke my chin down.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Now you're cheering. Your dad's sucking himself off at dinner at the table.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's my dad and it's my birthday.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Buka Di Beppo was founded in 1993 by Phil Roberts, surprisingly recent Rhett chain. 40 locations across the US I thought

[Mike Mitchell]

it was 30 or 40 years old.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It closed.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, it is job on them for market.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, you said 2003.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

1993.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, okay, so it is. Sorry, I thought you said 2003.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It closed about a quarter of its locations during the pandemic. And also a big part of their pandemic issue was it primarily became a coast kit. Kitchen was previously a subsidiary of Planet Hollywood under the stewardship of Robert Earl. Robert Earl's big thing was taking a bunch of Buka Bevels and also Bertucci's, the regional New England chain, and then retrofitting them to be like to sell like Mr. Beast Burger and Guy Fieri's Flavortown and like Mariah Carey's cookies and Tyga Bites, which we had on the podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

And who would have known it was just a dumb trend that wouldn't work at all?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Phil Roberts.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's all it was. Yeah. I mean, and then like that also just like ruins these restaurants too. Like with Bertucci where you went, the one we went to, that's where you got like Tiger Bites. And they were preparing stuff in there. I Guess because there wasn't enough traffic. Like. Right. In some ways they're saying like these are helpful for these restaurants.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Cuz they're. They had these huge empty dining rooms. And so they at least found a way to use these kitchens. But the problem is they all use it for like this really cheap, disposable, trendy food that, that didn't have staying power. Like you were saying then.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The problem is the Internet.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Problem is the Internet.

[Mike Mitchell]

It certainly is.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Phil Roberts not Italian. So it's like how the founders of Outback Steakhouse had never been to Australia. But he wanted the restaurant's depiction to be, quote, intentionally in bad taste, but good natured bad taste, which I think it kind of is if you're in that interior.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, which is funny that it's non Italian guy is like, I want to attention intentionally in bad taste. And Emil is like, I loved it

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

when I went in there.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Here's the thing.

[Meals]

I mean it makes sense. The food itself makes sense now knowing he's not an Italian guy.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Right. But you love that when you went to a Buca de Bapo in person, you had a great time because of the decor. About tacky.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was.

[Meals]

I love the tackiness. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's all about the look. It's all about the ambience. It is arguably not about the food.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It absolutely is not. As we learned from today's experience when we. Because for practical reasons, for pragmatic reasons, we had to get Buca de Beppo to go. But we figured like, hey, let's see what that to go experience is like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Let's see what it's like if you really want to eat way too much chicken parm, but you can't go into bukas, right?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

And the answer is it's worse.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's really bad. It's not. It's not fun at all.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Answer is we've sort of sucked out the only attractive thing about the restaurant.

[Mike Mitchell]

Amelia, toss him that bread.

[Meals]

Oh yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So we got, we might get hurt.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We got some bread from Buca de Beppo.

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I say this to Amelia a lot during episodes. I say toss me that bread. And we just, just snack on bread.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This bad boy is a brick. This is a. Yeah, here.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh my God.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's hard as. I mean, yeah, it's. It's really.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can I pull out soft pieces and give it to Jenny?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, of course.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Can I eat some of it?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, definitely.

[Amelia Marino]

I didn't know I had to give you permission to eat bread, but you can absolutely eat It.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But this is kind of a microcosm for what the chain experience.

[Amelia Marino]

Like that's how you know it's good bread. The dog won't even eat it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Just super rock hard and flavorless bread.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's not very good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

I want a bread that gets me rock hard. Not that tastes rock hard.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Exactly. There's a kind of a hole in

[Chloe Radcliffe]

the middle of your bread. Now

[Mike Mitchell]

this is. I mean is. There's the soft bits in this. This is like what I'm pulling out. There's not much that's soft.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There's very. And. And it tastes. It tastes real bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh yeah, it's bad. Tastes bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So after filing chapter 11 bankruptcy, I'm gonna say it's kind of fine actually.

[Mike Mitchell]

Really?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It sort of tastes like saltines were bread.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's whatever.

[Mike Mitchell]

It tastes just like dough. Yeah. Which I guess is like that's not nothing.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And it tastes kind of like boys.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Taste. Tastes kind of like boys.

[Mike Mitchell]

It does. You just jumped on that pretty quick.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Did anybody.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's what you're saying. I thought. I thought. I thought they were. I didn't understand what was going on.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I was doing a dough and I was boys. The girls got it.

[Amelia Marino]

Girls got it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The boys got it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bargain knows what boys taste like is what he immediately jumped in.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I guess I will say I've been making a lot of dick jokes. A lot of jokes. It is not on you for not.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, no, no, no. I. I appreciated it. Sold to. After it filed for bankruptcy, it was sold to private equity.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That sucks.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Main. Main Street Capital now owns this buca de batted from Robert Earl who's trying to hollow it out too to Main Street Capital who of course is also trying to hollow it out.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I guess if private equity is going to buy anything, I guess buy Bukit.

[Mike Mitchell]

And why as we were saying this next door. This is a bad neighborhood. Because next door neighbors with the Toothsome Chocolate. Chocolate emporium.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yes. Which we went to in person with our buddy Mark Rennie and that it to me is the current low water mark for food on the podcast. It's really bad toothsome.

[Mike Mitchell]

The whole thing. It's supposed to be like Willy Wonka's chocolate part.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's like a. If they were. It's like a public domain Willy Wonka. Basically. It's like they're a royalty free Willy Wonka. But it also has this weird steampunk theming for no reason. And it also sucks. The food is absolutely not.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm looking at the definition of toothsome definition. Agreeable. Attractive, sexually attractive. A toothsome blonde.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay way.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Or of palatable flavor and pleasing texture. Delicious, crisp toothsome fried chicken.

[Mike Mitchell]

There was nothing going on in there that would fit any of that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You can describe something as toothsomely.

[Mike Mitchell]

Toothsomely. I would say. I would say toothsomely. I would say twosome Chocolate factory is not toothsomely. Yeah, not too. It's hard to say that toothsomely.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Toothsomely, but bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

So the point is bad, bad, bad neighborhood. Look, the citywalk is the citywalk seen better days.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Universal CityWalk is where this particular bua deepo is. But it didn't really matter locationally because we're getting buka delivery. You like that? I like that. Here's what we got. Chicken parmesan spice. Because they. Their family style Buka deo Buka delivery.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, buka delivery. Yeah, got it. No, I do get it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I mean, more this bread.

[Mike Mitchell]

It seems like you actually like the bread maybe more than the meal.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's one of the better things at buka Deepo. I will say we got chicken parmesan. We got spicy chicken, rigatoni, eggplant parmesan, shrimp fra diavolo, lasagna, and a buca trio platter. We'll get to that. Actually, we'll maybe go back to the apps. Prosciutto stuffed chicken, and chicken marsala. We're kind of the mains that we got. Oh, and we also got Mac and cheese, which was a. On their kids menu.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Pathetic.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Let me start there. Mac and cheese. First off, it was not macaroni. Italian restaurant does not have macaroni. It was penne. They used penne. And it tasted like. It was horrible.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It was so bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm gonna say this too, right off the bat. Wait, did you mention that we got lasagna?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Did I not get the lasagna? Yeah, we got lasagna.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah. This was the most complicated food order we. I've. We've ever had to give. This is the issue is that everything comes in, like, for a family style, three to four people. So when we were like, listing off things that we liked or whatever it. You have to get. It's like $45 and it serves three to four people. Now.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch is. Mitch is saying the most complicated order we've ever done. We. Everyone who is on team Doughboys has witnessed Mitch using someone else's phone to taking a full 40 minutes to order a pizza. So, like, you were like. You are someone who's had.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was a fucking hero.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That You've had some challenges.

[Mike Mitchell]

You fucking and smoking dope in the pool.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hold on. You've had some challenging food orders that you've put together is what I'm saying. And so for you to say this is the most challenging one is really something.

[Mike Mitchell]

Amelia and I had more than one call about it. We had multiple calls about the fucking order.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Because we were trying to get stuff that everyone wanted to taste. But then there's. There's now a thing called buka, for one. So that's like the way where you can get like an entree and salad and.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Hey, are you. Do you not have a girlfriend or co workers who you can hang out with, but you still want to eat at the most family style restaurant you can imagine?

[Mike Mitchell]

My answer is yes to both of those questions. Oh, I have co workers, but I don't want to hang out with them, so. But this, it is a very. It is a sad. It does seem like a buka, for one. Does seem very sad. But it's like this was the thing. It was like $13 for a portion of the. This. That was still big. They were all. They were all pretty big. So we did a bunch of buka for ones for all of these which came with salad, either Caesar salad or mixed green salad. And we kind of swapped up which one was which. I don't know which one. I don't. You didn't try any greens or salad? Greens?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I. I missed. I. By the time I got to the, like, chopped antipasti salad, I was full and I was like, I think I. I looked at it. It was lettuce and banana peppers.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And tomatoes.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was more just the, the dress, the dressing was okay, I'll say that much.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I had some of the garlic or. I'm sorry, garlic bread. I. I did have garlic bread, but I. I had some of this, the Caesar salad. This, which comes with a. Came with garlic bread. It's fine. I mean, like, whatever. It's like a replacement level Caesar salad. It was one of the better things I had because it was like romaine lettuce and. And Caesar dressing.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But inoffensive.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, inoffensive.

[Mike Mitchell]

Here's the other thing, too, is that we all want a garlic bread. And then the other thing was, is that you could get garlic bread in the buka, for one, and you could upgrade to mozzarella garlic bread, which we did it for a lot of them, if not almost all of them. And we were like, okay, we're just going to get like a big thing of it. But it was in the thing with

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

the salad, which was boxing each individual one. So they had hot. Hot bread on top of wet salad greens, which is a bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're not opposed to hot and wet. Yeah,

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

to eat hot salad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure. But it was. That combo was not. It didn't help things off. It felt like the. Yeah, it was bad. It was bad. The bread seemed like it just got cold and the salad seemed like it probably warmed up.

[Amelia Marino]

It was.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Bad combo.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Rough stuff.

[Mike Mitchell]

R. Aw. Awful.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But I. I will say proof of

[Chloe Radcliffe]

entropy, you know, proof of that. That everything just becomes. No, no, no. It's the opposite of entropy. Yeah, you're. Yeah. You're not going to be the one who knows this.

[Meals]

Proof of.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Look at me for virgin stuff.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What is that? Every. Everything. Everything meets in the middle, right?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, we. Homeostasis.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Homeostasis. How you knew. On the tip of your tongue.

[Mike Mitchell]

You look. You look at him for words and you look at me. Just say, I'm a virgin.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So you didn't for a while and you ate smarty pants.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So I'll just say this. I was glad to have greens and I was also glad to have some broccoli, which I requested. Italian broccoli Romano. It was bad broccoli, but it was just nice to have some vegetables bowls versus everything that was so oily. Oily as Covered with parmesan cheese. But it was fine. Among the food. Among the. The mains, I think the winner was the. I guess the prosciutto stuffed chicken.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't love it that much. I didn't like it as much as you guys.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, what.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What did you like? Lasagna was.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Lasagna was good.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is probably the winner. I think any of the pastas, like, I thought like the. The rigatoni with chicken was fine.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I thought those were kind of flavorful, flavorless.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I didn't like the regular.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a little flavorless, but I was still. That was a plus. I mean, like everything else was. It just was not.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It was not actively bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That was like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I. I loved the meatball.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I like the meatball.

[Mike Mitchell]

Meatball wasn't bad. And it also was. Seemed pretty tough. So I was like, this is not going to be good. But it was a decent meatball.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It was a softball sized meatball. We all shared and it was one of the only things that actually all of it got eaten.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah, that's true.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The.

[Mike Mitchell]

The became close on the lasagna.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Here's the thing about the spicy chicken rigging, Tony. I'm A bit of a heat seeker. And what this was is a missile, if you will. I'm a bit of a. Oh, I like that. Oh, a missile.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't like. I don't like him calling himself the missile.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I gave it to him. Yeah, yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

New bit of cannon here.

[Mike Mitchell]

The missile.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm the missile.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The missile.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Anyway, I can.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I. I can recognize when I have created a monster.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So I'll put the missile in my notes app. The. The. Where was I going with this?

[Mike Mitchell]

You're a heat seeker. It wasn't spicy.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It wasn't particularly spicy, but also, it's like going for an Arabiata. And what it was, was like, this is just marinara sauce. And I just see you just dump some. Some red pepper on top of it. It's just like.

[Mike Mitchell]

You sound like the good. The end of Goodfellas, right? At the end.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, I wanted. I wanted noodles with ketchup. I got egg noodles with ketchup. Exactly. No, it was. It was pretty disappointing. I also found, like, among the proteins, the chicken in that. That was. Was pretty bad. The chicken parmesan, that was okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

The chicken parmesan, I thought was okay. Not your best. Honestly, if I just tried that, I think I would have been like, whatever, three and three forks or something. But. But it was. It was a little tough, too.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, yeah. I. I think I. I'm a tough sell on a breaded chicken cutlet, and I know that. That somehow that has just never done it for me. Chicken schnitzel, it's gonna. It's an uphill battle for me. There's no. There's no breaded chicken cutlet that's really going to do it for me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What about a. What about a fried chicken sandwich?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I like a fried chicken sandwich, but to me, very different than the hammered. The hammered chicken.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What about.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can't. You can't get a good chicken parmesan as much anymore. That's My issue is like, yeah, sure, this is the truth. I know I sound like an old man, but I'm saying back in the day, I used to be able to get a good chicken parm. I can't get a good fucking chicken parm anymore.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Niels, you make a chicken parm or your family make a chicken parm?

[Meals]

Oh, my family make a. Made the best chicken parm.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow. Do you know the recipe?

[Mike Mitchell]

They don't make it anymore. Or they do.

[Meals]

No, they do. I. I can get us a recipe.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But is that something. Do you whip up an Italian dish like that in your own Home. Is that a thing you do?

[Meals]

I'll make eggplant parm myself. That's kind of like my signature dish, the eggplant parm.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'd like to try your version because the eggplant parm we had from Buca di Beppo was egregious, was astonishing. It was. It was wet bread. It was utterly flavorless, and it was, like, inedible. It was disgusting.

[Amelia Marino]

It was wet bread. You could not get a knife.

[Meals]

It was toug. Couldn't cut through it because it was so tough.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You sort of wonder why they call eggplants nightshades. And then you eat that and you're like, I understand the vibe of why you would call this thing a nightshade.

[Mike Mitchell]

100%. Yes, it was. It was. That was. That was fucking awful.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, it was really bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I didn't try the shrimp. How was the shrimp?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The shrimp diavolo.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I thought left a lot to be desired.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. And then you were. There was also spicy shrimp.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The version of the shrimp that I did like was the little fried. Yeah, fried shrimp and fried banana pepper peppers. I was really into that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, Yeah, I saw that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is, again, I'm a bit of a seeker. I'm something of a heat seeker. I'm the missile. And the spicy shrimp did have these. Yes. You. You zeroed in on the breaded banana peppers, which is not kind of a novelty. Oh, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I've never had fried breaded bananas. I've had fried pickles. Yeah. And that feels like the closest thing

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I was like, this is working for me. All that. That you guys.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Well, you want the fry, and then the little bite does zing, right?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The zing is great.

[Mike Mitchell]

You have had them before because we have had those at Buga de Beppo.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, so then I've had these before, and I wasn't remembering the specific dish. The fried. Fried mozzarella was fine. They were like little triangles.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's not for me. It's really, really tough for me.

[Mike Mitchell]

A little football paper, football style mozzarella.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They were. They were sort of triangles.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It was like. Yes, that was the shape, but it was like. It was like a string cheese texture. String cheese stick texture, rather than like. Like, here is some mozzarella.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, it's really. It's really shitty mozzarella.

[Mike Mitchell]

There is no. There is no man like that making it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I guess just my bar is so low for mozzarella sticks because to me, it's like such a bar food that I'm just like, these are serviceable. And I dip them in some more marinara, and this gets the job done, I guess.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And what job is that?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't know, being sustenance, having some texture and a little bit of cheese. I didn't try the calamari, but how, how was that? Awful.

[Mike Mitchell]

One of the.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Also was pretty tough.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was so bad.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, that was bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was so bad.

[Meals]

Rough stuff.

[Mike Mitchell]

You, you.

[Meals]

It was, it was like, it was almost like I, I couldn't even bite into it. It was like. It was chewy, chewy and cardboard.

[Mike Mitchell]

You gamble on seafood and you would. You, you, you tossed that. Yeah, yeah, she busted.

[Meals]

Lost.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it was bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Speaking of stuff that was bad, or at least confusing, the chicken marsal, which had like, hey, you know what, Christopher? Plum. Or might have appreciated this because it tasted like it was in fruit juice.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Plum sauce?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, plum sauce.

[Mike Mitchell]

This was a little confusing because I, I just spit out. You guys, this is a little. None got on you. Don't worry. Maybe it did. It did.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'll take it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thank you. I just eat it again.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

None goes to waste.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like, I think it was. I would think it was piece of dough from when we were eating the

[Chloe Radcliffe]

bread, by the way, but I, I, I. Dumpster diving. Grocery store dumpsters for groceries.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God. Wait, still?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What's your technique for that?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, you got to know the right grocery stores, and when they put out the. Right. When you, they, they all got their nights where they put out the good stuff.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Some of them don't, like, lock their dumpsters, too. They don't want you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Not in New York.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

New York.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The best thing is the garbage is right on the sidewalk.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, so there you go. So you can just open up one of those.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Just open up a bag. Oh, my God, the gorgeous produce that's in there. Never pay for a bagel in New York. Just open a bag.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I imagine you're not trying to, like, leave a mess.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Avoid salmonella. Yeah, no, no, no, no, no, no. It's, it's. You sort of. It's on honor code so that people don't get mad at dumpster divers.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, I remember. I, I, I, I, I. When I was in New York, I went to that one bagel place, and I was, like, there towards the end of the night, and they just gave me a gigantic bag of bagels, which I guess that is a normal thing. And to me, I was like, I'm not sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I mean, I don't know, but. But like, outside any bagel place, there's always a garbage Bag. And you can feel it from. Can frequently see it, like, through the black Pl. It's just like. Right? It's just full of.

[Mike Mitchell]

Full of bagels. Yeah. No, and it's funny because, like, that bag of bagels she gave me, like, I ate one of them and I was like, this is still fresh and also better than almost every bagel I can get in la.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

But.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But anyway. All that to say, spit on me all you want. I. I have very low standards for being grossed out.

[Mike Mitchell]

I will not now actively spit on you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I will. When I. When I. I get carried away, there will be spit flying that way.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch, you don't have. You don't have permission to spit on me. But if you. If you unintentionally spit on me, it's okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm just saying, like. But I don't want you to, like, like, spit on me. That would feel spiteful.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You ever been, like, by.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No. No, I've never. Not. Not like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And not in a. Not like, like a. A. A random person, like. Or something like that. No, I've never had that happen.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's not good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I can't imagine. Yeah, it sounds. It seems disgusting and unhygienic.

[Mike Mitchell]

I gotta find.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm a hygiene guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have. I have been spit on because I would. When I was, like, fighting with people, when, like, like friends even. And like that I got spit on. Gross.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Like. Like. Like that. Like, intention.

[Mike Mitchell]

I got to it on, as they say.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You got to it on that thing?

[Mike Mitchell]

Not on that. And unfortunately, not that that thing is like, my face or my head. Then that. Then, yes, I. There was a little bit of a. A hold up here, because when we were ordering, I said, we should get. Maybe she get chicken marsala. And then Amelia said, but that's not an Italian dish. And so I was like, okay. And I just didn't say anything because I was like, I'm pretty sure this is an Italian dish. But anyways.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Why don't you explain your Italian heritage? But. But yes.

[Meals]

I kind of. I wasn't reading it properly. I missed the R. I thought it was, like, chicken masala, like the Indian dish.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Chicken tikka marsala.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They were serving this at Buca di Bapo.

[Meals]

Yeah. I was surprised. I was like, we should almost get that just to see what the Indian food's like there.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

But you also didn't know what chicken marsala was.

[Meals]

I guess I just didn't. I mean, I know that dish, but I guess I just never heard it said Aloud.

[Mike Mitchell]

Explain your ass Italian.

[Meals]

I have no explanation. Sometimes you just have blind spots in life.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's true.

[Meals]

And I just never came across the name of that, like, I know that dish with the mushrooms.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What did you think of that dish? This version of that dish with the mushrooms?

[Meals]

I didn't try it because. Because it was. It was covered in oil.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It sucked. It was disgusting.

[Mike Mitchell]

It looked like a deep, like deep fryer. Like deep fryer oil. That's what it looked like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It did. It was so crazy, so oily, so sweet. I thought the mushrooms are okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I thought the chicken was okay. The sauce was just crazy.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Sauce was disgusting.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. The chicken was actually the best chicken. It was the most tender chicken of any meal. Unfortunately, any of the chicken of any of the. Of any of the chickens, that was the. That was like the most tender chicken that tastes the best. But the sauce was too sweet. The plumber sauce. Wise, you were. You weren't right.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The Soderberg sauce, the soda, the.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Soderberg. The Soderberg sauce.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Saucerberg.

[Mike Mitchell]

The saucerberg.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The Steven saucerberg. Those are my two favorite foods.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's me it up in front of them. Steven Saberberg, you had, wait, Court street bagels. That's where I went.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, they're great.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like, I like. I'd like to.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Court Street B. I'll take you there when they close.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah. Hell yeah. Let's get into. Let's get into a bag of garbage.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You would hate that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You would do it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You would hate opening a garbage.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I know, because I. There is a thing of like the waste not, want, not. The. That aspect of it for me would overrule the hygiene aspect because I'm just

[Chloe Radcliffe]

like, oh, I like, find a line.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I like that this thing is not being thrown away.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, it's the same thing because,

[Mike Mitchell]

you know, I don't.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I generally don't. You don't eat pork, but something like the pudo stuffed chicken.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the way, can I ask a question? When you're. When you're. I had to look up coarse pickles. But when you were. When you're. When you're. I don't want to call it dumpster diving because I felt bad.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm diving.

[Mike Mitchell]

When you're diving.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

What bagel are you looking for?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm almost never looking for bagels.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay. But what's your. What's your favorite?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

My. Oh, yeah. My favorite bagel. Honestly. Onion bagel or salt bagel?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I love salt bagels.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, they're both up there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Egg bagel.

[Mike Mitchell]

If you're diving. I feel like a salt bagel also would be more preserved or something.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And also, and also, like, it has so much salt that by the time you actually get it out of the garbage, it kind of has the perfect amount of salt.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There you go.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Because it has a little too much salt before it goes into the garbage. You got it. You got to run it through the garbage a couple of times to get enough of the salt off of it.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's insane to me that just the. They're. They're just down to throw these. Like, there's so many people.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's very sad. Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There's so much food waste in America. It's. It's the, the, the. It's a systemic issue that. But yes, the, the. As. As far as. As far as not wasting food. The pudo chicken, like, again, this is the thing. Like, I don't usually eat pork, but because it's, it's like, well, I know some of this is going to be thrown in the trash, so I have no problem eating a, a, like 1/4 portion of this.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know what? I will say?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Sorry. One quarter portion of this.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know, as someone who has real problems with wasting food, who, like, I'm. I, like this does become a near compulsion. It becomes a, like it is an over. It is overriding what I want my, my desperation to not waste food. I was really fine with all of that going in the track.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, I mean, me too.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It was pretty bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You mentioned binge eating. That's the thing I've struggled with as well. And like, I, I just will. I, I really hate wasting food. Like, I like, I like, it was kind of like it was drilled into me and I just like, I basically like any leftovers I'm taking and then I'm. I'm eating and, or, or I'm like, I'm making sure I eat everything on the plate so there's no leftovers. Or when there's like, I just. I, I. If something's in front of me, I'm going to eat all of it. And there was again, this, this was just so repulsive that I was like, I reached a certain point. I just tapped out. There's food on my plate. I was just like, I'm done.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oftentimes after I worked at the Simpsons for a period of time, which everyone knows. Yeah. But.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And, and I now.

[Mike Mitchell]

And now you. You know as well. But I, you are.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You were Homer's motion captain capture

[Mike Mitchell]

and Bart's dick for the Simpson and Bart

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

stick for the Simpson movie. Yeah. They had to enlarge it a little bit.

[Mike Mitchell]

It wasn't enough that I said I was a child's dick. They had to enlarge.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They had to enlarge it a little bit and add a little more hair.

[Mike Mitchell]

You want me over? I would. Often times I would. I was basically just like the lunch guest guy. And I would, like, oftentimes would offer. On the ride home, I'd have so many dinners, and I would give him or lunches, and I would give them to the birthday boys or whatever.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Leftover lunch.

[Mike Mitchell]

Leftover lunch. Often I would offer to unhouse people that, like, off the 101 freeway there and stuff like that. Like, I would offer them to. And I remember there was a specific time, and I forget what the chain was, but I was like, do you want this? And the guy's like, no. And I was like, with buca di beppo, this is the thing. I think any, like, anyone would turn down, like, these meal, like, rightfully so. Like, they're still human beings.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, sure, of course.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, you're hungry. Like, I wouldn't want to eat that fucking. It's like the fucking eggplant parmesan was fucking disgusting.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It was really bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, no human being should eat what that was. It fucking sucked.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know who she. People in private equity.

[Meals]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hell, yes. I agree.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I do feel some sympathy for this, the kitchen staff here, because first off, this is not a. This is a concept that figured out on the fly. Like, well, we got to find some way to make this to go during the pandemic. Pandemic. It's not. The concept is not oriented around that. So this. This food is not designed to travel well.

[Mike Mitchell]

But also, I don't blame the chefs or the aspiring chefs who work in chain restaurants.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No. But I also think they're. They're just like, they're using really cheap product and they're probably understaffed. And I also think the quality of this food, it was not just that. It was. It traveled poorly. It was just generally bottom of the barrel Italian food. And if I'd eaten this on. Off of a plate, like, hot in the restaurant, it still would have not been very.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, I would say my. My biggest problem with it was that there was sort of no taste to any of it. Like, spaghetti is not a travel food. You know, sort of at its heart.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Pasta is not meant to be put in a box and then driven 40 minutes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But it. But it's still. You can still taste Whether there was the ghost of a flavor or not,

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

forget about, there was a paucity of flavor. There was, there was just such a, such an absence.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You're gonna wake up in the middle of the night and be like, like, is that the flavor of bukit?

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[Chloe Radcliffe]

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[Amelia Marino]

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[Meals]

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[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We should get to our final thoughts on Bukit Beppo. So, Chloe, here's how this will work. We'll each go around. We'll give a. A closing argument, if you will, on this.

[Mike Mitchell]

What he saw, by the way, if I. If I at night saw, like, a big, like, Italian guy with, like, a white tank top at the end of my bed, way less scary than what he saw, a big Italian dude, I would not. That was. That. That, to me, would not be. Be as. As scary as what you saw.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Get a little Ghostbusters moment.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. From the Italian guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

From the Italian guy.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hey, you know what? These guys aren't so bad. Chloe will each go around, give a. Give a closing argument, if you will, on Buka deepo, and then give it a score. The scale is from zero to five forks like reads. So let us know where that would. That would land in your podcast to

[Mike Mitchell]

make it make sense for you. It's like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's like, reads.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Great. Yeah. Thank you so much. Yes. My closing argument is.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, but five read being the best read.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, just like the most.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The most impressive.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The most impressive.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Okay.

[Meals]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right. Does work out.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, no, it works.

[Mike Mitchell]

But can A1 read not make a beautiful tune?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's a little tougher, sure. Yeah. Tougher lift. Easier to play.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Is this. It's 0 to 5 or 1 to 5.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's. I mean, you can go, you can 0 to 5. You can use full scale, but for

[Chloe Radcliffe]

the most part it's 1 to 5.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's 1 to 5, but you can go below 1 if you, if it. If it's warranted. Negatives in the past, people have also gone. Gone above five There. There's have been some six forks and one elusive seven fork.

[Mike Mitchell]

So who gave the seven fork?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You did.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, for what?

[Mike Mitchell]

I gave the six fork. So I thought I broke that sale with seven fork for something I loved. I'm guessing.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think so.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't remember.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Okay. I'm going to say flavorless. I can't even call it like it was oily because a lot of it was just sort of spooning oil into your mouth. Uh, there were a couple things that I liked. They weren't highlights. I think calling them highlights is too generous. Um, but all of that combined. Here's. I. I'm gonna take a step back for a second. I did the Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hell yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The full month run.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And your shows get rated one to five stars. You can't go below a one one to five stars and a one star review. You at least, least have something to fight against. And you're like, at least I, I engendered a reaction in this reviewer. Right. They hated it so bad that they were willing to give it a one star. And so that because of that, a two star review is notoriously the most insulting review. Because it's just nothing. It's not. It's bad nothing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's not enough to respond to. It's not enough to make an argument about. There was some recognizable effort there. There was some, some mild pleasant moments, but it was not enough to even.

[Mike Mitchell]

So you're saying Doughboy's live and Ederbar is getting the two star?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm saying you're getting the elusive six star in Edinburgh. And I'm going to give this a two fork.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Two fork.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. I like that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Taboukas. For those same reasons.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The Edinburgh Fringe Festival. We'll be doing the Eatinberg Fridge Festival

[Mike Mitchell]

with our guest, Steven Soderbergh.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Steven Sossenberg.

[Mike Mitchell]

Fridge Fest.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Fridge Fest.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Fridge Fest. Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, you going to Fridge this year?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, we're going to Fridge.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're doing Fridge this year.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Exciting.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, my God, we're excited. I've heard crazy things about Fridge we might do Adam.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll see what happens. We'll see.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Why do you tease things like this? Tease things on the distant horizon that probably won't happen?

[Mike Mitchell]

It could happen. It's just on you. Honestly.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's not just on me. There's other logistical concerns. There's schedule concerns, turns. It's not just on me. We'll figure it out.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's mostly on you.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, you're bringing this up so if it doesn't happen, you can blame me because you're like, I wanted to go. Weiger said no. Even though it'd be something. Like, it could just. Just as easily be. You booked a role in something and you're not available.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Soderbergh movie.

[Amelia Marino]

You booked.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You booked a role in a Soderbergh movie.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He only works in the UK now, so you actually should go to Cullen to get a role in a soda.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not gonna happen. Look, some things could happen. Happen. We'll see if we can do it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Things could happen. It's not on me.

[Mike Mitchell]

Here we go. I'm. My schedule is free. As.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, for now, it's on Jimmy.

[Amelia Marino]

She's really. She's really indecisive about these things.

[Mike Mitchell]

Just keep your heart open. That's all I ask. And I'm going to keep my heart open to Booka, Deepo and Bupo.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What does buo mean?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Basement of Joe. Joe's basement.

[Mike Mitchell]

Italians, step up your game. Not just with Buka Deo, but two years in November. Step up your game and fucking don't write Trump in.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, he's going to be on the ballot. Don't worry about that.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, Sorry. Don't vote for Trump. The first third term.

[Meals]

We have established that Italians have nothing

[Chloe Radcliffe]

to do with Buca di Beppo.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. It's not an Italian chain.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Then you know what? Italians, step up your game. Take this. Take down Buca to be both. Italians definitely do love Trump.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Still, don't vote for Trump. As a separate comment.

[Mike Mitchell]

Italians love Trump. It's the truth.

[Meals]

It's true.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's true. Italians love Trump. I. I love Italian food. Italian food. Also, like, you're saying, like, it is, like, it can be very boring, but, like, it also should be easier than this. And, like, inedible eggplant Parmesan. There was, like, multiple things there. I was like, this is like, I'm so unhappy putting this in my mouth, which, yeah, is rare for this podcast. We. We are way nicer of things. I think the experience when we went probably boosted it up like a fork or so Wags. And that was. I was at two and a half forks when that happened for.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You did two and a half forks. Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I'm Going to take a whole fork off for that reason. If we went, if the three of us went together, it would have been more fun. We would had a great time.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You guys drink?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Oh, yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Imagine getting drunk at Buas.

[Mike Mitchell]

It would, we would have had fun.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Look, I've done it. It's, it is a blast. You, you get, this is the whole thing because they give you like a big cup of wine, so you get to be like, oh, your wine's family style.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're like.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Because every, like, it's like the dad, every dad tells that joke. But it is fine.

[Mike Mitchell]

The waiter laughed that much.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Here's the thing. The waiter will laugh at like, I guess you do the wine family style. And then I've also heard the waiter be like, here you go. We serve our wine family style. And then.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hold on a second. So hold on. Did you steal, are you stealing the joke from the waiter?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I said it and then I've also heard the waiter say it. And my dad said it too. And a guy said it to my dad. So like it's, it's a full circle. We've all, we've all had, we've all had fun with the women, meanwhile, are,

[Chloe Radcliffe]

are like getting their guns out of their purses and put them in their mouths as all of the men shut the fuck off about. And the wines family style. It's so like the word the wines family.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The point is we all enjoyed the joke.

[Mike Mitchell]

We all enjoyed the. I just wanted to know if it came from the Weyger family or the Di Beppo family or the waiter family

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

or the waiter family. Yeah, I think both.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, the waiters are family style here. Oh, you serve the Weiger's family style too?

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I, it's in he, we make jokes that he kills himself too.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, sure. Do a school. I guess that goes with being a school shooter.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like, oh, sure, all of a.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, shooters don't kill themselves.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They very often do.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, really?

[Mike Mitchell]

Depends.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

He's too confident.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

A lot of times there's suicide missions, like mass shootings in general are suicide missions. And now assassinations are becoming suicide.

[Mike Mitchell]

But to be clear, we make very distinct jokes between you being depressive and having a gun in your mouth and also being a, like a shooter.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

They go in different separate buckets. But there is some overlap, but you

[Mike Mitchell]

encompass both things at different times.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Multitudes.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's true. Oscar Wilde and it's. Is it Oscar Wilde?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm going to say multitudes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Containment.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like Italian food. I can be Happy with. And that's what I was happiest with, like, the chicken parm and. And, like, the. Just spaghetti with sauce. I was like, whatever. Whatever. This is, like, a two and a half thing. But there was a lot of unacceptable stuff that was going on in there, and I don't like it. I didn't like it. I. I like buca de beppo less than I like Italians. How's that sound? I'm gonna go one and a half forks.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And what are you gonna give Italians?

[Mike Mitchell]

They get, like, one and three quarter forks.

[Amelia Marino]

Wait till you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

So you like Italians more?

[Mike Mitchell]

I like Italians more, but just. Just a little bit.

[Meals]

Bit.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. Step up your gate one time.

[Mike Mitchell]

One. One. One time more. But CityWalk in a bad. I mean, everything is in a bad spot, but CityWalk's rough.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This problem is larger than just the. The CityWalk location. This is. This is a buka deeppo issue, and again, not designed for. For buka delivery. But we had a. We had a horrible experience. The food sucked. I didn't. I enjoyed very little that I ate. If I just had, like, the lasagna with some. Some Caesar salad at, like, the airport, I would have been like, I guess this is. Okay, that was, like, approximating a meal.

[Mike Mitchell]

I meant, like, I agree with you, but imagine getting the eggplant parmesan family style for three to four people.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, but, Mitch, that's the out. That's the con. That's the inverse of. What I'm saying is that there was stuff that was so egregious and. And so insulting to Italian cuisine, and also just so noxious to the palate that I. I was just like, I can't believe that the expectation is that I would pay money for this to put this into my mouth and then, you know, digest it and shit it out. It. It. It was fucking really, truly bad. And we didn't even have the. The fun of. Of going in person, which I think probably would have easily added a half fork to a full fork. Whatever. We know what the exercise is. We know. We understand. We've anticipated all the comments about us not going in person. You want a fucking episode or not? You want an episode every Thursday? Sometimes we're gonna get to go.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not so fun when he's mad at you, huh?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't like when Waiker yells at

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

me because I want them to go. I think they should put some effort into their content. We're putting effort into the content. We're in the fucking minds.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah. We're in the content mines, you fucking asshole.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Content mines, you pieces of shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can yell at them too if you'd like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

They're conscripting me. A child. They have a child laboring in the mines.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We guesstimated her age at 11 years old.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're right that it skipped all that part and it just was. You said you eat it and go

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

in the toilet and this was just at that eggplant. The eggplant parmesan could have gone straight into the shitter.

[Mike Mitchell]

We should have put it up our ass. Maybe something good would have come out

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

of our mouth, you know, I wish I'd put all this food up my ass.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, me too. If we did, maybe something good would

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

have come out of our mouth and you know, but.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But what's come out of our mouth for the last two hours? Not so good. Honestly, what's come out of our mouth pretty much at level as the bu.

[Mike Mitchell]

Food.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We.

[Mike Mitchell]

We.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We honor the food with the same quality of rifts as the food has.

[Mike Mitchell]

Look, Doughboys as a podcast is maybe worse than Buka Deo as a chain.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think that's fair. But.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But it is better when you're here.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's true. It's better when you're here.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You guys. Yeah, you guys are getting the takeout version of Doughboys and it's not. It doesn't travel well. I'm telling you that when you're in. When you're in. In eating it, it's better. He's spitting in my mouth. Yeah, not that bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Anyway, you know, and we. I talked about the Arabiata approximation. These. These spicy, you know, sauces they had. I don't know. I'm a bit of a heat seeker. I'm the missile. And I just wasn't so sorry. It wasn't on target for me and.

[Meals]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

That wasn't on target for me. We're.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We're. He's laser guided.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm. I'm a laser. I'm the laser guided missile.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Jimmy hates this. Jimmy's like she's just looking at his ghost again.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch, we've been celebrating Irish a wit Oscar Wilde. This spicy pasta was more like Oscar mild. But that was hardly my biggest issue with Buka Deepo today.

[Mike Mitchell]

Put that on the last page of Oscar wild quotes there, wags, but it's up there.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm going to give this three quarters on a fork three times.

[Meals]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Damn. Scathing wise review.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

All right, it's time for a segment. It's the Price is Ripe. Take it away, meals.

[Meals]

Hit it. Emma.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Here it comes.

[Meals]

Not live, but pre recorded in silver.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Like it's.

[Meals]

What is it? Most exciting segment. Using royalty free music that barely captures

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

the spirit of the show.

[Meals]

But this is the Price is Right. All right, let's get her.

[Mike Mitchell]

So that's why there's no din.

[Meals]

Din.

[Mike Mitchell]

Din. Is that why it was.

[Meals]

Yeah, it says royalty.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Amelia gave me a thing to toss for this, and she wrote take it away meals. That was your line you want me to say to introduce you?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, I like it.

[Mike Mitchell]

The price is ripe. Have we played this before or not?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We had to play again with Emily Yoshida.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, okay.

[Meals]

A couple years ago. All right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think we're playing each other in a game, just the two of us.

[Amelia Marino]

What?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

The two of us.

[Mike Mitchell]

Just the two of.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, I might be playing too my part. And no Ws and no W. All

[Meals]

right, let's get our contestants in here. Hit it, Emma.

[Amelia Marino]

Oh, I lost this on.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hold on a second here.

[Mike Mitchell]

What the Is you got? You, you.

[Meals]

Tiger Weiger, come on down.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, he's playing. I was wrong. So wise is playing you just.

[Amelia Marino]

Okay. Yeah, there you go.

[Meals]

All right. Chloe Radcliffe, come on down.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Where's my nickname? Well, I can't give myself a nickname.

[Meals]

Tiger did it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

How about the rad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, am I not in the cliff?

[Meals]

The rad. And then we got Mitch. Come on. Michael Mitchell, come on down.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

All right, I'm your host.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Everyone else in pretty good.

[Meals]

I'm your host. I'm gonna give you a selection of fruits.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Got it.

[Meals]

You're gonna guess the cost of that fruit. Closest to retail price without going over, wins. If you win that guess, you advance to the dough case. Dough down, where you guess if the fruit is ripe or not, which gives you the opportunity to win another point.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, got it.

[Meals]

All right, so we're going to start with this gold nugget Mandarin.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The price is ripe because it's fruit.

[Amelia Marino]

Ripe.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The price is ripe. It's fruit.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So we can circulate this. This Mandarin, I assume, was not bought in this state because it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It feels pretty.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What makes you say that?

[Amelia Marino]

You think Amelia left the state?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No, I mean, like, it feels a

[Amelia Marino]

little not in the state. It is. I thought you meant in the state of California.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, not in.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, no, I also thought you.

[Amelia Marino]

I was like, where did she go?

[Mike Mitchell]

It seems a little weathery of this Mandarin.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, I'm gonna.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do I get to guess?

[Meals]

I can tell you the grocery store, if that helps. Yeah, tell us the grocery store pavilions in Los Angeles.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay. And are we guessing he's still going for the bread. The total price.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I get one more snack.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Not the price per pound or the price per unit.

[Meals]

It's the price per unit. It's the price.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Cause were these sold per unit? Were these sold by weight?

[Meals]

By weight.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

These are sold by weight. Okay, so I'm guessing how much this individual one, not how they cost per pound. Generally, yes. Got it. This individual one, I'm going to guess $0.87.

[Meals]

$0.87. $1.11.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm going to go with $0.49, Bob.

[Meals]

Actual retail price is a $5. So wigs take me.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I was so close.

[Mike Mitchell]

So close. I went so under.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Does that take me to the dough case? Dough down?

[Meals]

It does.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So what am I. What am I getting? What do I do?

[Meals]

Do you think it's ripe or not?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think it's overripe.

[Meals]

That is correct.

[Amelia Marino]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, you know you ain't eating it.

[Amelia Marino]

Why?

[Meals]

Says two points.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, all right. I love it.

[Mike Mitchell]

It feels like a liquid ball.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It really does.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'll eat it.

[Amelia Marino]

Probably good to juice it.

[Mike Mitchell]

If you like diving, you should come. You should come by the. The podcast studio we got.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We've got a lot of. A lot of wasted food.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I used to to. When I wasn't putting as much time into my career, I developed a scam. You just watch what I'm doing to this friend. I saw a look of horror in your eyes. This is what it's like to be friends with me. We're friends and you can't get out of it. I set up a scam. I had a friend who would temp as an office assistant or whatever at various startups, and she would text me whenever she was ordering lunch for whatever company she was ordering for. And then I would show. And I said, I'm here to collect this food for an artist, an artist collective. And I would take, like, catering trays of Chipotle home for me and my two boy roommates.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What a.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

What a.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What a move. Feel free to rate whatever you want from the headgum kitchen. Hell yeah.

[Meals]

All right, next up.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

No one ever works here.

[Mike Mitchell]

No one's here.

[Meals]

We have a large mango.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

A large mango.

[Amelia Marino]

I love a mango.

[Meals]

And none of these are organic, by the way.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Got it.

[Meals]

This is.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This is an inorganic mango.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Go.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And is this sold by weight or by. By unit?

[Meals]

All by. By weight.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

These are all by weight unless otherwise noted.

[Meals]

Yes.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay, got it. I'm going to say. 71 cents, Bob.

[Meals]

71 cents.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm going to say 206h it probably

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

should be a little higher for a mango.

[Amelia Marino]

Is that by weight or is that by individual? I think that might be by.

[Meals]

Well, I had to weigh them.

[Amelia Marino]

Oh, you did? Okay.

[Meals]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm going $1.45. Amelia.

[Meals]

$1.45. Actual retail price is $2.49.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah, yeah.

[Meals]

Now, docase dodon, is the fruit ripe?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's overripe. It is. It is ripe, but I would say it is overripe. You can feel the softness under the skin.

[Meals]

That's correct. I would probably. I would eat that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I would happily. I would eat both of these. But you're seeing how I am.

[Meals]

It's like, on the verge of being over.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That mango is very edible.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's that there's parts of it that are perfect.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can eat that too, if you'd like.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't eat it right now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Please, go ahead.

[Meals]

Go ahead. So that's two points.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Should I eat this?

[Mike Mitchell]

We're not Chris Katan. We're not gonna tell you. You can't touch the mango.

[Amelia Marino]

Mangoes are such messy fruits to eat.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So messy.

[Amelia Marino]

I feel like I have to take a shower.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But you know what's nice? There is like a little. There's sort of like a little holding spot. You know, you can kind of get a real.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

She didn't get the target lady reference, but she'll definitely get the much earlier. You don't touch the mango Chris reference from snl.

[Meals]

There are two fruits left.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't get it.

[Meals]

Two left.

[Mike Mitchell]

Two fruits left. When did you fucking buy these? Because they all look overripe.

[Meals]

This morning. I purposely tried to find, you know,

[Mike Mitchell]

these are about to become dark because they're about to be tossed.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. You think I ate these?

[Meals]

This next one, Christopher Plummer, might like this. Okay, this is a black plum.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

A black plum. The black plum is being handed to me so I can hand it to the others. Okay, this is a.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And is this the same thing by weight?

[Meals]

Yeah. So I had to weigh them at the self checkout, and then it calculated it for from there.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So I, I, you know, I, I, I undershot the mango dumbly because I was thinking of weight per. I just for whatever reason, I was like, I was like, oh, that's how much it would be per pound. But that was dumb. And so this one, I will say, though, it's. It's not a particularly big plum, but I think plums are a little bit pricier than oranges. I'm gonna say. $one.80.

[Meals]

$1.80. Okay.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm saying 36 cents.

[Mike Mitchell]

I gotta fuck you over and say 89 cents.

[Meals]

Actual retail price is 80 cents. Chloe gets it.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I was. Let the record show that I was actually the closest on the first one. I just. I busted by just by 6 cents. But I was dramatically the closest.

[Meals]

Now doughcase, dough down.

[Mike Mitchell]

You got to guess if it's ripe or not.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

This is perfectly ripe. Ding, ding, ding.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Meals]

So Chloe has four, Weiss has two. Mitch has zero.

[Mike Mitchell]

Awesome.

[Meals]

But you have.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch is struggling with the fruit based segment. I was close.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was 9 cents.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You did pretty well. You did pretty well.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I was nine cents.

[Mike Mitchell]

Nine cents off the fucking.

[Meals]

You have one last chance.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Get on that.

[Meals]

Last but not least, we have a pair of pear. It's a Bartlet pear.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Bartlet pear. How much was this individual?

[Mike Mitchell]

What if we guessed it exactly right? Does that do anything?

[Meals]

Then you get another. You get an extra point on top.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Okay. Oh, you do. Is that a price is right rule?

[Meals]

No, that's just a Don't.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. If you do guess it exactly get $100. They get a hundred.

[Meals]

And when it's.

[Amelia Marino]

When it's the ladies, Bob Barker makes them reach in his pocket for it. When it's the men, he just hands it to them.

[Meals]

I'll make you reach into my pocket.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm not reaching into your pocket.

[Amelia Marino]

Pocket.

[Mike Mitchell]

Of course she'll.

[Amelia Marino]

You.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But she goes in the opposite direction.

[Mike Mitchell]

Obviously you have no gender rules on that. Anyone can reach in your pocket, you freak. You just want. You want people reaching your pocket.

[Meals]

All right, I'm not a horny freak, by the way. Let's just set that.

[Amelia Marino]

If you get it right on. There's $100 somewhere in the bathroom. You have to find it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I like that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And there's a camera in there too.

[Meals]

Of course.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Headgum bathroom.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's for everyone's safety. I'm going to guess that is 68 cents.

[Meals]

Wow. 68 cents.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

And I was. I already had this number. I'm gonna say 69 cents.

[Meals]

Fuck 69 cents.

[Mike Mitchell]

I gotta go home.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

In honor of Mitch's dad.

[Mike Mitchell]

You'd be so proud. I'm gonna go. I'm gonna fuck all you over. 70 cents.

[Meals]

Well, Mitchell, actual retail prices $1.55. Mitch gets that one.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wow.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Really, really devious gamesmanship there. I guess it gets reward.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was gonna guess like a dollar anyway, so I was shocked. So I would have won no matter what. You asshole.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I went. But I also will say that I had to go first all three times, which is maybe an element that actually

[Mike Mitchell]

is how it works. And price is right when you get called down first.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I know, but that's true. But I'm just also just saying, like, because we're speedrunning a whole game with the Doe case dough deck down happening per fruit as opposed to at the end of the segment. Perhaps we should just admit you don't

[Mike Mitchell]

know as much about fruit as you thought.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I don't know as much about fruit as I thought.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Thanks, Nick. You're. That's a. That's big of you. Thanks. It's shocking that anybody's still listening to this podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

This episode or just in general? Both count.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Either. I was really thinking this episode.

[Amelia Marino]

You do.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Doing great.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm having a good time of my life.

[Meals]

You think that's ripe? Yes, I think you're wrong.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think it's under.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, I think it's under ripe. Should we cut it open?

[Mike Mitchell]

We should cut it open.

[Meals]

Sure.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Take a bite.

[Amelia Marino]

I. Yeah, bite it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You take a bite because you'll eat it.

[Amelia Marino]

It's pretty crunchy for a pear.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

To me it's a little under ripe, but try it.

[Meals]

I think that's under ripe.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I shouldn't be though.

[Amelia Marino]

Pears don't use.

[Mike Mitchell]

I actually think that is ripe. I'm sorry.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Give me a bite. Give me a bite.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think that's ripe.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you think the people.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's soft enough.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Do you think the listeners like.

[Mike Mitchell]

Am I wrong?

[Amelia Marino]

They tell us that's.

[Mike Mitchell]

He wants me to have one less point than.

[Amelia Marino]

It doesn't look ripe to me. It looks too. Too, like light green.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

So no one thinks it's ripe except for the person who wants a point.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, I lost the point.

[Amelia Marino]

Good.

[Mike Mitchell]

I lose the fruit Gab. I don't give a point. You get half a point.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Mitch.

[Meals]

I'll get. You have. I'll give you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Oh, cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thanks, Nick.

[Meals]

Okay, so Mitch has one and a half points. Wigs has two. Chloe wins with four points. Congratulations. You get to take all the fruit home.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Well, well played, Chloe. Yeah, just like a restaurant. That was the prices, right? Thank you, Amelia.

[Mike Mitchell]

You get to take all that fruit home.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Just like a restaurant value feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Today's email is from Caitlin K. Caitlin writes, if you are a food item and could be eaten by anyone dead or alive live, who would you want to eat? Who would you want to eat? You are fictional characters on the table.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure, sure.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Barong from Avatar, Fire and Ash.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like that

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

alternate option. Lydia Tar.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, I'm going. Hannibal.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Being eaten by Hannibal. Be Quite.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's gonna make you. He's gonna make the best version of you, I guess. What? You're a food that though, right?

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Y.

[Mike Mitchell]

So does. Does he like the. You know who. I'll say. Maybe.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Who?

[Mike Mitchell]

Gluttony from seven. I know that's a movie that scared you.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah. Wait, you want the. The guy who got killed?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

The big guy, Gluttony?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah. It's a torture to him.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He has to. He has to eat so much buka de beppo that he.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is. It is.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's actually just one plate of Bugatti. They're feeding him spaghetti.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that's. His sides burst open from that. Oh, man. Hannibal Lecter is pretty fun.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

You know that. You know the set, the Bit of Seven lore, because that guy is shown nude. His corpse is shown nude. And David Fincher was like, oh, we're putting this guy through so much. We're like making his weight like, kind of like, you know, like what his character is all about. So he's like, give him a big dick. They give him a huge prosthetic dick, which.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love that.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's fun.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, that's great.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. You listening? Hollywood directors

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

having to get weta on Mitch just get ILM working overtime.

[Mike Mitchell]

Someone else living or dead person to eat me as a snack.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I mean, I guess I would not mind being consumed as a meal. If we're talking living people, I'm going to be killed and eaten by. Eaten for sustenance, you know. My answer is my co host, Mitch ws.

[Mike Mitchell]

I give that right back to you. You can eat me too, as well as a meal.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I'm imagining a scenario where we're on tour and we somehow get, like, shipwrecked. And so it's just the two of us.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You get like, Donner partied, we get

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Donner partied and one of us has to eat the other. I would say, Mitch, you can eat me to survive.

[Mike Mitchell]

Why, that's very kind of you. And I would. Yeah, I take you up on that.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Would you cook them?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'd probably just eat them alive.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah. I think you're too lazy. Too lazy to even kill me.

[Amelia Marino]

Me.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Who would I be eaten by, living or dead? Who really loves a meal?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Trying to think who. Who enjoys Anthony Bourdain.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Anthony Bourdain. I know. That's what I was.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I was heard the whale.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, the whale. Oh, the whale.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I want to be eaten by the whale.

[Mike Mitchell]

Me and you were meatball meatballs in the meatball sub with the whale.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

No, you Know who I want? I want Brad Pit in any movie. That's what I. I would.

[Amelia Marino]

That's good.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hey, maybe seven.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Does he eat in seven?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think he does.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

You know, he eats in every other room.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

He loves to eat. Yeah. That's his thing. Good move.

[Mike Mitchell]

I also. Tom Cruise. Could be fun to have Tom Cruise as a snack before he did a stunt or something.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I wouldn't mind if Tom Cruise ate me either. We could get. We. You know, this is. This is a. This is a Patreon episode. We'll come up with a list of who we'd let eat us. Maybe like a top 10. Yeah. Payakan, the mighty Tulkun. Eating me would be pretty, but I don't think he'd do that.

[Mike Mitchell]

We turn ourselves to krill. Yeah, he wouldn't do that. And he eats krill or something close to krill.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, us getting eaten by the whale and meatball, you and me being.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

I think the whale is the answer for the two whales, and we're going down together.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, good answers. You know,

[Amelia Marino]

stomach as he floats.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Wait, are you saying the whale? Like the Darren Aronofsky movie?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, the Brendan Fraser the whale.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Have you seen it? No, it's. It's.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, it's not at all insulting to fat people. Yeah, it's. It's a fun. It's. It's. It's. If you like to watch, like, kind of dog, like we were saying, you can enjoy bad movies.

[Meals]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's enjoyable on those terms. Like, he eats meatball subs and he jacks off and then he dies.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I think you've kind of captured the movie in this podcast episode.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And then he.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

We talked about meatballs and Jagginov a day.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

And then now we float.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

If you have a question or comment about the world of chain restaurants, you can email [e-mail] or leave us a voicemail at 830goto. That's 830-463-6844. Producer is Emma Erdbrink. Our associate producer is Meals. Amelia Marino. Our video editor is Mike Dorfman. Doughboys [e-mail] Doughboys and the Doughboys double air weekly bonus episode. [e-mail] doughboys Chloe Radcliffe. What an absolute joy. Thank you so much for making time for it.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

So much for having me.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're not walking away. You to. Got a bunch of fruit.

[Meals]

I got.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I got. I got a satsuma. I got a mango I got half

[Mike Mitchell]

a pear and a old loaf of bread.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I got an old loaf of bread that I've been sticking my finger into.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

This doesn't. This doesn't necessarily happen with a lot of guests, but we. We. Mitch and I are both meeting you for the first time today, and we've had such a. Such a. Had such a great time having a meal with you and such a great time.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Podcast this so fun.

[Amelia Marino]

And.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And you're such a. Such a funny comedian, so it's great to have you on stage.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Thank you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Happy.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Happy to be here.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Anything you love to plug.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I'm on tour. I'm in Seattle and Portland and Atlanta and New York. I'm doing. I have a solo show that's separate from the hour that I do on. On the road. Doing my solo show at Joe's Pub August 19th and 20th in New York. The show is called Cheat. I'm ChloeBadcliffe on all socials. Like my last name, Radcliffe, but bad.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, so you have a nickname? Badcliffe.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Badcliffe is good.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That's awesome.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rules.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Yeah, I think that's it.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

There you go.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thank you for. Come back.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Hell yeah.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Come back any day.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Happily. You know what? I really want to get you guys. I want to take you guys to Freddy's, but it's supposed to be too far.

[Mike Mitchell]

Freddy's.

[Amelia Marino]

The custard place.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Freddy's Custard and steak burgers.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do we do it in or no?

[Amelia Marino]

No, but it's huge in the Midwest.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

But it's huge in the Midwest.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

It's too far from there.

[Amelia Marino]

There.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

I don't think there's one in.

[Amelia Marino]

In LA proper, but there is.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

It's like an hour. It's like an hour from.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Oh, we can get. We can get. If we hour away. That's doable. We can figure that out with just some notice. We can do that.

[Amelia Marino]

All right.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We'll figure it out.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's gonna happen.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Freddy's.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

That's my pitch.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Chloe Radcliffe.

[Mike Mitchell]

Two Freddy's.

[Amelia Marino]

Bitch.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

That'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time for the spoon muffin. Mitchell, I'm Tucker Weger. Happy eating.

[Mike Mitchell]

See ya.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sterling K. Brown. And I'm Chris Sullivan. And we host the podcast that was us now on Headgum.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Each episode, we're gonna go into a deep div.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We're gonna go episode by episode. We're also gonna pepper in episodes with

[Meals]

different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are we gonna cry? Yes.

[Amelia Marino]

A little bit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are we gonna laugh a lot?

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

A whole lot.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what I'm hoping.

[Meals]

Man.

[Mike Mitchell]

Listen to that was us on your favorite podcast app. Or watch full video episodes on YouTube or Spotify. New episodes every Tuesday.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I'm Jeff Tremaine.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Welcome to Jackass the Podcast. A new to coming to.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what it is.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville. And I'm Jeff Tremaine. Welcome to Jackass the Podcast, a new show now on Headgum. I've learned a Jackass movie has to be really 90 minutes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Every minute over is a minute to.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Apparently there's only so much butthole you can take. We're going to take you behind the scenes of our entire history. All. All the best spits, bad behavior and even worse decisions. All of it. Sometimes we don't make the right decisions. Jeff. I've noticed that every Every so often with guests like Spike Jones.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think let's commit to Jackass the Podcast.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

What was it going to be called? The Jackass Podcast.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

Without you, the IQ drops significantly.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Steve O. There's a strong chance that were it not for Jackass that I would be in clown makeup up right this Chris Pontius.

[Mike Mitchell]

That shot of your butt just cruising up. I'm like, yeah, I got that on tv.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

God bless us. Dave England. Yeah, when you come in and you're

[Mike Mitchell]

being really nice, I'm like, damn it. Something bad's gonna happen to me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

We man. Jeff grabbed me from the back of the head and threw a punch.

[Mike Mitchell]

The whole bar just stopped and wanted to kill me.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

And suddenly, of the crew that's been with us from the beginning, I had to share a room with this guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

I left a nice surprise in the

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

toilet for him every time. Apparently he hates to flush. Subscribe to Jackass the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcast, Pocket Cast, or wherever the hell you get podcasts.

[Mike Mitchell]

Our new episodes drop on June 18th.

[Chloe Radcliffe]

Woo.

[Mike Mitchell]

Look out for new episodes in your feed every Thursday.

[Nick 'Tiger' Weiger]

Watch video episodes on YouTube. YouTube and follow along with us on Instagram and tick tock@jackassthepodcast. What were we just talking about? Probably buttholes.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Chloe Radcliffe]

That was a Headgum podcast.