California Fish Grill with Gil Ozeri

Summary

Doughboys: California Fish Grill with Gil Ozeri (May 7, 2026)

A Detailed Episode Summary

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Episode Overview

This week, comedians Mike Mitchell and Nick "Wiger" Weiger are joined by their friend, the hilarious Gil Ozeri, to review the California-based seafood chain restaurant California Fish Grill. The episode blends classic Doughboys food analysis with trademark digressions—movie talk, personal anecdotes, Gatorade opinions, and a running theme of bodily function humor—all delivered with the laid-back, irreverent tone fans expect.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. California Fish Grill Background

(03:52–04:33, 66:11–67:55)

• Wiger gives a detailed, satirical monologue on the state of the seafood industry—factory farming, aquaculture woes, and California Fish Grill's position as a sustainable alternative.
• The chain was founded in 1998 in Gardena, CA, and has expanded to over 50 locations in CA, Nevada, and Arizona, focusing on sustainable seafood.
• Both wild-caught and farmed fish are sourced responsibly, with efforts to make customers (especially health-conscious "affluent liberals") feel good about themselves.
• The chain’s recent expansion in Los Angeles coincided with urban development projects, often appearing at the bottom of new condo buildings.
• Price point praised: “Lobster roll for 13 bucks…for a lobster roll, you will not find one in New England for 13 bucks. Even as skimpy as that one, it wasn’t bad.” (67:25, Mitchell)

2. First Impressions: Love-Hate with California Fish Grill

(68:33–69:21)

• Gil Ozeri articulates his "love-hate" for the chain: he likes the healthiness, affordability, and speed, but finds it unexciting:

  "I'm never excited to eat California Fish Grill… I'm always like, 'Oh, I'm eating fish and zucchini and like tilapia'" (69:09, Ozeri)

• The name is “so just… California Fish Grill—there’s nothing to it.”
• Mitchell agrees: “It does seem like one of those new fake restaurants that you’re like, what is California Fish Grill?” (69:21, Mitchell)

3. Regional Childhood Food Memories & Fast Food Erosion

(25:32–28:48)

• Gil reminisces about growing up in Queens, NY, eating at Blimpie’s, McDonald’s, and especially Pastrami King for birthdays.
• Taco Bell is a recurring favorite for everyone—Ozeri’s order: “cheesy gordita crunch, Crunchwrap Supreme… hard taco supreme.” (27:30)
• Discussion about the downward trend in quality of fast food and kids’ meal toys (“Everything’s getting shittier. The McDonald’s toys are bad.” (30:23, Mitchell)).

4. Parenting, Nostalgia & Fast Food Today

(28:48–31:39)

• Ozeri discusses parenting and balancing his children’s exposure to fast food—Happy Meals still have appeal for kids but the toys are "awful."
• Ozeri’s personal (and notably odd) favorite McDonald’s order:

  “I do filet of fish, but I do it in barbecue sauce… I dip it in mounds of barbecue sauce.” (31:59, Ozeri)

5. Voice Acting Talk & Gil’s Animated Show (Kevin)

(19:02–22:53)

• Gil stars as the human lead in Prime’s new animated series "Kevin," acting alongside a wild cast (John Waters, Amy Sedaris, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Schwartzman).
• Chat about the fatigue and technique of voice-over acting; Gil keeps his vocal cords "lubed" with tea and honey.
• Mitchell and Weiger appear as minor characters on the show.

6. Regional Chain Quality & Glendale “Rule”

(39:04–40:31)

• Mitchell describes the "Glendale test":

  “All fast food is better in Glendale… There just are, like, people that take better care of them up in Glendale.” (39:41, Mitchell)

• Positive shout-outs for local Glendale Armenian and Persian restaurants (Rafi’s, Mini Kebab).

7. California Fish Grill: Ordering & Menu Highlights

(73:29–81:13)

• Main orders: Gil & Mitchell had the tilapia plate; Weiger had the wild rockfish plate; sides included street corn, rice, house salad with vinaigrette, asparagus, brussels sprouts, and sweet potato fries.
• Sides flexibility and freshness are praised; sweet potato fries noted for decency even in takeout.
• Discussion of sauces (garlic butter, Cajun, seasoned olive oil).
• “The garlic butter is the best one…but it is very garlicky.” (75:00, Mitchell)
• The lobster roll is “fine,” but not great—good value for LA, but not New England-caliber (88:06).
• Coconut shrimp gets strong notes for being a “Penthouse food”—even a basic rendition is enjoyable.

8. Food/Chain Segment: Sides, Clam Chowder & Quality Variability

(81:13–87:30)

• Favorite sides: Gil loves the street corn ("I love the corn." 81:19), brussels sprouts are a “fan favorite,” beans get a thumbs up.
• Mitchell describes getting food poisoning from other chains, but says he’s never gotten truly sick from C.F.G., just occasional subpar meals.
• Clam chowder was underwhelming:

  “It tasted like a KFC gravy… It’s not a great clam chowder. Very low on the list, I would say.” (102:56, Mitchell)

9. Final Thoughts & Fork Ratings

(106:23–110:15)

• Gil Ozeri: Calls it utilitarian—healthy and affordable, but ultimately, “not exciting.”

  "If you're looking for something exciting, this is not the place… I get it regularly and I don’t like it."
  Scores: Initially 2.5, then changes to 1.5 forks out of 5.

• Mike Mitchell: “For what it’s trying to do… I’m going to squeak it in at four forks… At its best I think it is four Forks.”
  4 forks
• Nick Weiger: “I’m a boring guy…This is on the higher-end usage rate of chain restaurants that we cover… I think I’m in the hand holding club with my co-host. Four forks.”
  4 forks
• Consensus: Polarized, but ultimately the hosts give it qualified praise—solid for what it aims to be, if not thrilling. Does not enter the "Golden Plate Club" (which requires all hosts to give 4+ forks).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On California Fish Grill’s vibe:

  “Never excited to eat California Fish Grill… I'm never, like, ooh, I get to have this" —Gil Ozeri (69:09)

• On the trend in chain food quality:

  “Everything is shittier” —Mitchell (58:39, Gil agrees)

• Mitchell’s food shame:

  “I ran and quickly ate a hot dog [in the bathroom during a date]…I so surely smelled like a hot dog after I came back” (48:58)

• On the coconut shrimp debate:

  “Just say you wanted the shrimp, you fat f*ck!” (98:39, Mitchell)

• Gil’s McDonald's confession:

  “I’m disgusting. I'm always telling my wife to look away [when I dip my filet-o-fish in barbecue sauce].” (32:09)

• Gil’s childhood honesty:

  “I used to eat my own shit out of my diaper.”
  (51:04, Ozeri—met with morbid laughter and follow-up anecdotes from others)

• Doughboys meta-commentary:

  "Am I the person you've talked to the most in your life now?" —Mitchell, on his decade talking weekly with Weiger (100:30)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• 00:24–03:52: Cold open & satirical history of fish farming and CFG
• 19:02–22:53: Animated show "Kevin" discussion, voice-acting stories
• 31:59: Gil’s gross but beloved McDonald’s filet-o-fish order (BBQ sauce)
• 39:04–40:31: “Glendale test” & local food
• 66:11–67:55: Introduction of California Fish Grill as restaurant of the week
• 68:33–69:21: Gil explains his love-hate for California Fish Grill
• 73:29–81:13: Review of specific orders and menu highlights
• 88:06: Lobster roll disappointment
• 94:15–96:09: Fish taco trend in LA, chain taco reviews
• 106:23–110:09: Final thoughts and fork rating
• 111:10–115:10: 'Drank or Stank' segment — Gatorade Mashup taste test

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Tone & Language

• Loose, comedic conversation, tangential and self-referential.
• The group riffs off each other frequently, with affectionate teasing, running gags (e.g., the “eating shit” anecdotes), and meta-podcast jokes.
• Ozeri in particular is self-deprecating and warm; the hosts’ dynamic is boisterous but familiar.

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Conclusion / Takeaway

California Fish Grill emerges from this episode as a dependable, healthy, mid-level chain—not a destination, but a solid choice for an affordable, conscious seafood meal. Key takeaways include nostalgia about declining fast food quality, the hosts' idiosyncratic eating habits, and a persistent irreverence toward both the subject and themselves. The segment closes with high praise for Gil Ozeri’s appearance and his animated series "Kevin," plus a lively, slightly contentious, but ultimately affectionate group review.

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For newcomers:
The episode is a supreme example of Doughboys’ blend of food criticism, comedy, and group therapy—anchored by the chains themselves, but just as much about the personalities and digressions along the way.

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Useful Links

• California Fish Grill
• Kevin (Prime Video)
• Doughboys Live Tour Info

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Notable Quotes Index

• "I'm never excited to eat California Fish Grill… I'm just eating fish and zucchini…” —Gil Ozeri (69:09)
• “For what it's trying to do… I'm going to squeak it in at four forks.” —Mike Mitchell (108:16)
• “I'm a boring guy. And every time I get it, I'm like, you know what? This is going to be fine.” —Nick Weiger (109:17)
• "I used to eat my own shit out of my diaper." —Gil Ozeri (51:04)
• "Everything is shittier." —Mike Mitchell & Gil Ozeri (58:39)

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End of Summary

Transcript

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Wigs. We're back on the road for one final summer stretch.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wow. And let me say I'm developing a draw, y', all, because we're going to the South.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right, Wigs.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, you are too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Me too.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

How about that, partner? We're going to be for the first time, going to North Carolina and Georgia. That's right. May 27th, we'll be at the Rally Improv in Raleigh, North Carolina. May 28th will be the Comedy Zone in Charlotte, North Carolina. And May 29th, two shows at the City Winery in Atlanta, Georgia. Tickets for the second show still available with special guest.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm going to say it. Carl Tart.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's right. Mississippi's own Carl Tart will be joining us for this trip south of the Mason Dixon line, where we'll be visiting Rally Charlotte and Atlanta in three nights.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love it, Wigs.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

How fun is that going to be?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's going to be a blast. And we're not going to be on tour again until November, so you better come out.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a good point, Mitch. This will be the last time you could catch the Doughboys live on the road until later this year. Pretty late this year.

[Mike Mitchell]

So come out.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So come on out. We'll see you there. Rally Charlotte, Atlanta, May 27th through 29th. [e-mail] live.

[Mike Mitchell]

And if we room together, maybe I'll go south of the Mason. Mason Dixon Line.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Don't tempt me with a good time, partner. Factory farming, the mechanized food production system that brutalizes livestock and devastates ecosystems, has justifiably been criticized as a great shame of our time. But the industrialization of the food supply has naturally also extended to our waterways, a practice officially known as aquaculture and colloquially known as fish farming. With the growth of the global human population leading to an ever increasing hunger for seafood, the stagnant wild caught fish industry is unable to keep up with demand. And while some more holistic approaches foster a polyculture that mitigates waste while sourcing fish, shellfish and algae, in synergy this is naturally more expensive. And so many more aquafarms consist of indoor tanks jam packed to the literal gills with fish who live out their lives in darkness, stored, surrounded by their own excrement. And considering how the vast majority of farm seafood consumed in the US is harvested in foreign countries that are often even less regulated than our fuck it do whatever domestic industry, most seafood sold is of dubious quality, raised in foul conditions. But some food service establishments, more aware of the problem than the general public, are opting out of industrialized aquaculture in favor of more sustainable methods. And one pioneer is a Golden State fast casual fish restaurant founded in 1998 in the Japanese American enclave of Gardena. The seafood eatery, or seatery, quickly found fandom with health conscious SoCal locals, or SoCals eager to get their omega 3 fatty acids, and today has over 50 locations in its eponymous home state, plus neighboring Nevada and Arizona. And the seafood it serves, both wild, caught and farmed, is all from certified sustainable sources enumerated on its website. Meaning this affordable, healthy chain is also one that makes its customers feel a smug sense of self satisfaction. Which for the affluent liberals who flock there, is the greatest feeling of all. This week on Doughboys California Fish Grill, Go is the doh doh boys.

[Mike Mitchell]

Double doh boys.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Nick Tiger Weiger along with my co host, the Straight of Hormel the spoon man, Mike Mitchell the cheese. Right as Hormel. I think of it more as chili, but I think they have chili.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what it is. I thought, I thought Hormel was a cheese.

[Dave Ferguson]

I think they also have like meat products.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Didn't we do Straight of Hormel? Didn't we like just say that on the Martin Starr episode?

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah, maybe.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think we might have. Well, either way, I'm not saying Robert is mencia ing the Doughboys, but definitely is on the same page.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think that we can't say men see it any. Right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Is that the wrong one?

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean I think he's. Now you think of him more of as a Robin Hood because he was stealing jokes from bad, bad guys.

[Dave Ferguson]

Hi all.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I just recently discovered this podcast and it's already brought me so much joy. Thanks for all that you do. Looking forward to a lot more laughs. That's nice and sincere. Cheese. Cheers, Robert. I said cheese. Got cheese in the brain. Cheers, Robert.

[Dave Ferguson]

Signing all my emails.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cheese.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Pretty good roasted. Birdfuck.com Mitch. We saw Michael Nicholas.

[Mike Mitchell]

Guess what I saw last night.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Antoine Fuqua made a beautiful film. Were you a Michael Jackson fan at all ever?

[Gil Azaria]

I was, yeah. I have to say I was ignored

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

me definitely just asking her.

[Mike Mitchell]

Guess I got deep into character.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And you say it again.

[Dave Ferguson]

How did you get so deep in the character?

[Mike Mitchell]

Antoine Fuqua made a beautiful film. Every detail of my life was up there on the screen. Every moment of it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I thought my lawyer was portrayed in a very flattering way. Very accurately too.

[Gil Azaria]

Prince. Right?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He does mention it. There is a point where he's like, if I. I have to be listening because otherwise God will give this song to Prince.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was. That's a good. That's a good moment.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's. It's an insane movie.

[Gil Azaria]

No.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

In some ways indefensible.

[Dave Ferguson]

No.

[Mike Mitchell]

No stone unturned. Every detail of my life is in there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You were. Michael Jackson had a tough childhood.

[Mike Mitchell]

I met Bubbles.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Very talented.

[Mike Mitchell]

My hair caught on fire.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Hair caught on fire. And he's nice to everyone.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

At the end.

[Mike Mitchell]

The end of the story. The story continue. What does it end?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It ends with a marvel. Like an MCU tag. Like his story continues with like a bunch of stars.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know what I wanted? I wanted.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Or his story will continue.

[Mike Mitchell]

Look, we'll say this. Well, there is rumors that this isn't

[Gil Azaria]

him up right

[Mike Mitchell]

there. There's it wasn't he one of the people whose rumors that he's still alive was him and like Tupac is another one.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah. I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's dead.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I can't imagine Michael Jackson still alive.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was saying that I wanted. On the Thriller video, I wanted John Landis to pick up a little rainbow haired baby that was screaming. A little baby Max Landis for like a. Just for a moment.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Shake baby Max Landis.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not shake him, but just like emotion. You were doing Baby Max. He's just taking care like I thought it would be.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Max. Nice little Easter egg.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, that's Max Landis.

[Mike Mitchell]

Baby. Rashida Jones would have been fun to see. It would have been fun.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That would have been fun.

[Gil Azaria]

There are all sorts of options before. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Baby came. Yeah, it's, it is that, that even the thriller sequence is like. And again, I, I, I'm saying again, I'm saying for the first time now, but we've been saying it all. The, the music, the, the guy is phenomenal. Jafar Jackson.

[Mike Mitchell]

Jafar Jackson is so good. It's, it's, it is.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And his dancing is incredible.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's, he's, he's, he's related to Michael. So there is that, like, weird, like, un. Is it uncanny. Uncanny valley, like, thing of like this seems like the MO. It takes it away from like a VH1 thing because it's the most like Michael I've ever seen anyone be. Like, like, it really feels like you're watching. It is a magic trick.

[Gil Azaria]

I've seen Corey Feldman do them.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have not seen that.

[Gil Azaria]

I mean, that's like identical. Can I ask what the, like, like, if there was no, like, what's the all is lost moment in the.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is a very funny thing with

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

the movie on fire, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

His hair catching on fire is kind of the commercial moment. I, that it is. I want to say it's like a great. I'll say this, that, that Bohemian Rhapsody. Watching that movie, it seemed like it was made by aliens. I think that movie was so bad.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Bohemian Rhapsody is.

[Mike Mitchell]

And everyone was like, this is as bad as Bohemian Rhapsody. I'm like, Antoine Fuka is a better direct. He's a good director.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The music sequences are. I mean, Antoine Fuqua is how to shoot a music video. The music sequences are awesome. And, and the, the if in the sense of, of it being like 10 Michael Jackson videos being projected in a movie theater with Dolby Atmos is like, from that part of it, it's a triumph.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And I.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're not. Look, we're maybe saying we like.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We're maybe saying we had. We like the movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are we. Are we condoning?

[Gil Azaria]

No, we are also condoning what Michael Jackson did.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are we walking away saying he's innocent? Are we. I'm walking away more thinking that he fucked his mom than, Than anyone else. There was, There is a, There is a strong.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

His best friend is his mom.

[Mike Mitchell]

His best friend is his mom.

[Gil Azaria]

Now I want to see.

[Dave Ferguson]

I trust you able to recognize that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Like another.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Like another. Okay. Very close with his mom.

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I was saying that the movie should have been made like 50 years from now because every detail of the movie. There was nothing. I didn't learn a mo. Like, there was nothing that I learned from the movie.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, I know all of it.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's no.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, I didn't. I didn't know. I didn't know I rescued Bubbles from an evil lab who was being experimented on. I didn't know that.

[Gil Azaria]

Is that true?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And he says that.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what he says at the.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He also says that. He also.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the way, it's a moment where the rest of the family's like, okay. Like, it's like no one thought this was weird.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And then he brokers a gang truce between the Crips and the Bloods.

[Mike Mitchell]

I knew you didn't know that. That's a big. That's a big part of the weights to pick is great. Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Is that how Beat it came to me?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's. That's Beat It. Yeah. They do it in, like, the Very bad. It is a jukebox. You said it was as a jukebox musical. A jukebox musical. And it is from that aspect. And if you. If you don't.

[Gil Azaria]

You like Jersey Boys, you'll love them.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's.

[Dave Ferguson]

It's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I like the. I was watching and I was like. I was like, man, content wise. I. I just. There's. This is so. This is just so. I'm trying to think of a word other than indivincible, which I already. Which I already use. I like. Like, like it obscures the truth. So far, it's basically like myth. It's. It's content wise. Like, there's. There's no excuse for what it is.

[Gil Azaria]

It's like a hero in the film.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He's just. He's just a hero with basically. With no flaws.

[Mike Mitchell]

But, I mean, they didn't get to the. His story does continue. I don't know. We don't know what happened.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And the movie pointedly ends in 1988, so it doesn't have to address at least when anything was public.

[Mike Mitchell]

Pre Simpsons. Pre free. Williamson. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Weird to think about.

[Gil Azaria]

Wow, that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That when Michael Jackson's up there doing bad at the. The ultimate, you know, the climax of the movie. It's pre Simpsons.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's pre Simpsons.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Maybe Tracy Ullman shorts are airing.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think the almond shorts are.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Maybe seen some of the Omen shorts?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Someday I hope that becomes a full series. I'd like to debut my music video behind an episode.

[Gil Azaria]

I'd like to sing Happy Birthday, Lisa.

[Mike Mitchell]

When I picked Kalpakis up, I was playing Lisa, it's your Birthday. Happy birthday. When he got in the car, I was playing.

[Gil Azaria]

You're blasting it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Great one.

[Gil Azaria]

I love that trick. Every time I pick up a friend, it's like anything blasting some stupid song. It's such a good one. Happy Birthday Lisa is a perfect one.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was. He, He. He enjoyed it. Was it. It was one of those things where he got in the car, he just started talking, and I had to be like, hey, like, listen to the song.

[Gil Azaria]

Acknowledge that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Doing a bit.

[Gil Azaria]

Have you guys been to Hurst Castle?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I have as a kid.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

So they like, also there. They like propagandize, basically, Hurst and he's just like a God. And everyone in the museum has to be like, oh, he was a great guy. And it's just like. No, he was.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He had polar bears.

[Gil Azaria]

Like cages with polar bears.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, just. Just. Just like Hearst the. There's no. It's a very long movie. And if you like. If. I understand if you don't want to listen to Michael Jackson music anymore. Of course. But I mean, I still do. I still listen to Michael Jackson music. Is that okay?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I love Michael Jackson. I loved him so much as a kid. I. I like. I just love his music. And you, you just like you're watching this movie. From that standpoint, I had an absolute blast.

[Mike Mitchell]

You separate the art from the artist is what you're saying.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Like, here's the thing. It's just like.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I've told you that with Epstein, I. I separate the finance from the finance.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He was. He was inarguably a great financier.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. He just really want to come to my Woody Allen film festival. So good.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He's so. It's like the movie is. The movie is bad and, you know, kind of. Kind of reprehensible, but it's the most fun I had in a movie theater this year, if I'm being honest.

[Mike Mitchell]

Look, songs are good, the songs are

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

good, the dancing is good.

[Mike Mitchell]

A tough, you know, a tough watch for a lot of people. We were discussing whether we get in trouble for saying we love liked Michael. And I guess it's for you guys.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We're gonna find out. We'll put a poll.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are. Are the doughboys in trouble? Are you like us? Are we in trouble?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

If we're in trouble, vote in that poll and yeah, yeah, let us know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, we.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Because that's probably the only way you would let us.

[Mike Mitchell]

We went for a friend's birthday. We won't mention whose birthday it was,

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

but it was for a.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a screening to go see it as a Joke. So. Which also was a good thing when theater.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Tito Jackson.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. M C.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm sure the people who were there to. Who, like, loved Michael were happy that there were people who were there laughing ironically when, like, when Mike Myers showed up, which is a great scene.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Mike Myers is in the movie.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, Mike Myers is in it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mike Myers is in it. And it is pretty great, honestly.

[Gil Azaria]

Who does he play?

[Mike Mitchell]

He plays.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He plays a CBS executive who helps Michael Jackson's music videos get played on mtv.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is very. Whatever it is, I don't think you ever have to see it. No, I think my mom would. My mom saw Song Sung Blue four times.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

She loved Song Song Blue. And she. When she got to la, when she was in LA in February, she was like, we gotta watch. My sister and I and her watched it and she loves songs on Blue. And I'm like, I don't know how she feels about Michael Jackson music, but Put Jimmy to sleep. But I don't know how she feels about Michael Jackson music. But that's the exact kind of movie my mom loves, which is like, there's. There's. You're just watching music happen. There is. You're just watching music on screen and she. That makes her happy.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like songs on Blue. Good movie. But I mean, I think it was kind of a fun movie.

[Gil Azaria]

Good.

[Mike Mitchell]

So much. I mean, a million. Like, there's. There's not a lot going on in Michael. It just is like seeing the Thriller video. I was. I did have a big smile on my face.

[Gil Azaria]

I know.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's. It's well done. I hope Mrs. Mitchell sees my movie because I made my music for everyone.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is truly a line from the movie.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, really? Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Maybe I'll take her to see Michael. We'll see what happens.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This week's drop by pure coincidence, because it's Griller.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, Hit him with a drop. They're going to do that now. Most likely.

[Dave Ferguson]

Here it goes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mom, are you still here? Mom, are you still here? What if I want to say come?

[Amelia Marino]

Hey.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Mrs. Mitchell is popping into the frame.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yell like hell at her, man.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Hey. Mrs. Mitchell is popping into the frame. And Mrs. Mitchell is popping into the Frame. And Mrs. Mitchell is popping into the Frame. Mrs. Mitchell is popping into the frame.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like hell at her, man.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What if I want to say come? Wow.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I was grooving in my chair like I was watching Michael.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, you were grooving. We were watching Michael.

[Amelia Marino]

All right.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're cheering at the scene where he meets the kids in the toy Store. There is a weird scene. There's. If you. If you watch it. If you're watching the movie, you're like. There's, like, so much sadness and weirdness in this movie. If you're reading between the lines or whatever. There is, like, a lot. And there was stuff about it. There was stuff about the case. I think it got taken out at the last minute. But there was a whole scene where he meets a bunch of children in a toy store.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And he goes. He goes to hot. See kids in hospitals. Like, make a wish kids and burn victims. Multiple times.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

So they mentioned Michael and mentioned kids, but they never.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

They never have any sort of association. He's just there being kind to children,

[Gil Azaria]

constantly seeing kids throughout the whole movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's that one line. You should talk. Remember you said that you thought this was going to.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, early on, there's a line. I think. I think someone else had this observation, too. And. And like, early on, there's a line where Barry Gordy says to young Michael Jackson. He's like. He's like, michael, how old are you? He's like. He's like, I'm eight. And he's like. Or no, I'm sorry, I'm 10. I was like, no, you're eight. But that's a lie. Michael, in this business, you can say just about anything. Like, it's just like, oh, okay. Like. Like. Like you can.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This will be about how people make stuff up. And this will be used in some egregious way.

[Gil Azaria]

It is very fault.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

And then.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And then it never resurfaces.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Weird.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. No stone. No stone unturned. Every detail of my life is up there on screen. Hey, y'.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

All.

[Mike Mitchell]

I sent in a drop and also my resume in case it helps with getting the drop played or just like, if you guys want to reach out or anything about any jobs you saw on. Indeed. From the Thrill Hunter. Hey, no. I mean, we're. No, you're. I don't. I mean, I don't think there's any jobs. You could come and work at Headgum. There's no one here.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You'd be the sole employee of Headgum. We saw. Well, they. We got here and just the intern. Ryan was just.

[Mike Mitchell]

The intern was here. Also, if you can fix an AC unit, we. There is a job we don't have.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Our AC is not working right now. We're fucking baking in here under these

[Mike Mitchell]

hot lights for a guest that we have to introduce. Wags, one of the funniest people in the world. Also one of the funniest people that should already been on the podcast. It's long overdue. Yes. Just saying that. But we're very happy to have them.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Dropsirdfuck.com Our guest stars in the new animated series Kevin, now streaming on Prime. Gillow's area is here. Hi, Gil. Hi.

[Gil Azaria]

Thank you for having me.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, my gosh. Thanks so much for being here. Congrats on Kevin.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's. Everything's falling apart.

[Gil Azaria]

Thank you so much.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So it's an animal show. There's talking animals. But you're a guy.

[Gil Azaria]

I'm a guy who runs a pet rescue.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right.

[Gil Azaria]

So basically there's mostly cats and dogs and also a rat dressed like a dog. And yeah, I run the pet rescue.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Are there any animals your character interacts with or in the show at large that are like.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like Casey, by the way. Right. Who plays the rat.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay. All right. I thought so, but I never. I never knew.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, there's a lot. The cast in. This is great. Mitch, you're in.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm in there. Yeah. And why you're in there?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm in one episode.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. With you.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But the. Which was a lot of fun. I think I play an ant.

[Mike Mitchell]

You do play an answer.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Is that episode out?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. And you're funny.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, they're all out.

[Mike Mitchell]

And Gil is so funny on the show. Gil is hilarious. Wow.

[Gil Azaria]

No, it's a crazy cast. Crazy cast. John Waters and Amy Sedaris, Whoopi Goldberg, Jason Schwartzman, Wild Aubrey.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yep.

[Gil Azaria]

Hilarious.

[Mike Mitchell]

Apart is hilarious. Jason is the titular Kevin in the show.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was going to say this, that I'm sure you had the same experience, because it was. I was back in Massachusetts during COVID when we did the pilot presentation.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. And it was so.

[Gil Azaria]

From my closet. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

So long ago. And then I remember, like, now even almost two years ago or whatever, when. When Joe was like, hey, remember that thing?

[Gil Azaria]

Like, it's happening two years later?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it's happening.

[Gil Azaria]

Because they said, like, no, I think at first.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Or they passed and then they're like, no, actually, we want to do it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Everything takes forever. And Gil, as you know, as well, it seems to take even longer with animation.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Just like so many. Yeah, whatever.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. It takes forever just to animate. Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, And Joe. Yeah, we. Friend of the pod. Joe Wang.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Joe Wenger.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. So funny. And it's great.

[Gil Azaria]

The best.

[Mike Mitchell]

The best.

[Gil Azaria]

Sweetest.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So I. When I did the. The. The voiceover for this show, which I never do, I Was. I was prepared for. But also surprised by how fatiguing it is.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Do you have a way, like, you keep your. Maybe that was just me and maybe my.

[Gil Azaria]

No, I put all myself into it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Do you, like. Do you have a way.

[Mike Mitchell]

Joe told me that you felt you fell asleep and you kind of just like, rolled up on the carpet and fell asleep in the booth. Is that true?

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, I got.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I got really tired. I took a little nap. I was like, Mario Spaghetti. Then I woke up the. Did you. Do you have.

[Mike Mitchell]

Doing acting, too? You can't. You can't. You can't get into a booth for 10 minutes?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, I was saying. I was saying. I was saying this in a way

[Mike Mitchell]

where it's a testament to Joe.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm impressed by actors. That's what I'm saying. Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Finally. By these. By this craft. And I was curious if you have a way to, like, keep your own pipes lubed when you're doing it. Like, do you have a. Do you have a. Do you have a beverage you go

[Gil Azaria]

to usually, like, tea and co. I need something hot. Yeah. Because I do have a. A character. I played this, like, goose on the show, too, who's like. Like, got, like, a voice down there, and that really hurts my voice. And when I was. When I wrote on Big Mouth, I was. Would watch Nick Kroll and he would do, like, a zillion voices, and they were all, like, gravelly. Not all of them, but a lot of them. And he.

[Mike Mitchell]

The goose is very funny, by the way.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, thank you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Gil Azaria]

And watch what he did, too, and be like, okay, that's how you take care of your throat, kind of. Right? Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

What you got sucking down, honey?

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you do to keep your throat lubed like you said?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I mean, I just had water. I just had water. But I like looking back, I do wish I had a hot beverage.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's funny because if you watch the show, you are. You're being very wiggery. Like, you. I think you do a great job. It's a great performance. But I'm saying you're not, like, you're not pitching up or. You know what I'm saying? You're. You kind of are.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, I'm like, what, am I going to do a voice? Hey, I'm this guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Now,

[Gil Azaria]

what do you call that guy?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm Mr. Snark. I'm snarky about everything.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mr. Snark's pretty good.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, Mr. Snark's pretty great.

[Mike Mitchell]

What about. Remember this Guy. Remember that? You did?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

We had a guy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This guy. Forget about this guy. This guy never had a name.

[Mike Mitchell]

But also. What is this thing about jacking off or something?

[Dave Ferguson]

He liked watching breastfeeding. Mom.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He liked watching breastfeeding.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what it was.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I went to a mommy.

[Gil Azaria]

YouTube.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He like, you know, you can. Anyone can buy a tick to a Mommy and me screening.

[Mike Mitchell]

Some women, sometimes the actions is in the theater instead of up on the screen.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah,

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

that was fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

You've had a few voices over there. This guy and this Mr. Snark.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

You had a. You had a hoodie character with your hoodie where you put the strings up and you were Mr. Mr. Hooty.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What the hell was that?

[Dave Ferguson]

I don't know. Do you know what I'm talking about?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

When did that happen?

[Mike Mitchell]

When you were wearing your watch. I don't even remember this one.

[Amelia Marino]

That's around the time I started working here. This was an old one. Ye. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I had like a handlebar mustache.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mr. Hoodie.

[Dave Ferguson]

With your orange hoodie.

[Amelia Marino]

It was like a handlebar mustache guy.

[Dave Ferguson]

And you were like, I'm Mr. Hoodie or something.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Sounds pretty good.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it sounds great, actually. Can I be honest with you? That one actually sounds awful.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Do you have any. Go to voices. You do. I mean, obviously do a great Boston guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I mean, I don't. I don't.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I feel like you're Mitch a lot.

[Mike Mitchell]

I am Mitch a lot. That's what I get. Like. And then also when I am like, I don't know if this ever happens to you, but you're like, I try a new one. I'm like, they're like, do something different here. I'm like, oh, I'm going to do it, like this way or whatever.

[Gil Azaria]

They're always like, bring it back.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. Like. Or I. Or like, I'm like. I listen to it when. If it gets into something, I'm like, it just sounds like me.

[Gil Azaria]

Sounds like me.

[Mike Mitchell]

It just sounds like me again. Yeah, yeah, that's. There's a.

[Dave Ferguson]

There's.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's a few. I don't know if I. I don't think I have any original. Doing an original. I'm no Hank is area. I don't have an original. Oh, we look, it's so hot that we have a sliding door open, and then we just heard some sort of bang. So we're hoping that Emma please scream.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Let us know if there's a shirtless Caltech graduate out there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Emma.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Emma.

[Amelia Marino]

I'll just be. I'LL stand guard.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay, great.

[Dave Ferguson]

I don't know. I think there's maybe just something outside. I think we're okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

They also. This is Headgum being headgum. They. Gil, we were talking about this before we started.

[Amelia Marino]

They.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

They scheduled painters to arrive at the same time we're doing our episode, and they have not shown up.

[Gil Azaria]

Night painters.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, night painters.

[Mike Mitchell]

Night painters. That. It's. It's. I mean, just in its intense outdoor.

[Dave Ferguson]

It's for outdoor painting, too, which I think you do during the day. But what do I know? I'm not a painter.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So you're from Queens. I am from New York City, one of the five boroughs.

[Gil Azaria]

Of course.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We've got Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, the Bronx, and then don't forget Staten Island.

[Gil Azaria]

Don't forget it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Where you're, like, growing up. What were you like?

[Dave Ferguson]

Your.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Your New York City eats. Because we've gotten this question, oh, wow. What's the quintessential NYC bike?

[Gil Azaria]

Blimpy's.

[Mike Mitchell]

Blimpy's.

[Gil Azaria]

No. Blimpy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, I know. Blimpy's.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay. Yeah. It was like the subway back then. I also loved McDonald's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Sure.

[Gil Azaria]

And there was a place on Queens Boulevard called the Pastrami King, which I fucking love. I had my first. I had, like, a bunch of birthdays there, but I remember my first birthday. I was like, mom, I want it at the Pastrami King.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Gil Azaria]

Or my fifth birthday. It was my first one that I got to choose. I didn't know what was happening when I was one, obviously.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Were you like, what is it? What is this place? Specialty. I mean, pastrami, obviously.

[Gil Azaria]

Pastrami. It was just like a, you know, pastrami on rye.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Pastrami on a roll.

[Gil Azaria]

Pastrami on rye. It was like. It was sort of like Katz's. It was like a deli. It was probably like, now it's. It's not. I don't think it's around anymore. But when I went there, it was like everything to me that. I love that it was probably some shithole. I don't. I mean, I. Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, honestly, with the quality. Quality has gone down. I bet you was probably decent enough that everyone was like a. It's a sub shop. I feel like in the. In the 80s, you know, a sub shop was.

[Gil Azaria]

Blimpy's was great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. And I. It's all. It's all gone downhill since. We haven't done blimpies in forever.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, no, we've never done blimpies.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh. We've never done it at All.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's not out here. I think this one is in Arizona. I think it's still around.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I've been to Blimpy's.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

But what's the other one we've done?

[Amelia Marino]

Where.

[Mike Mitchell]

Who was it? Maddie got the screw in a sandwich.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's Togo.

[Mike Mitchell]

I always think about that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a west coast chain.

[Mike Mitchell]

Togo. So you got the screw in a sandwich at Togos, Right.

[Gil Azaria]

We had Sizzler. We had Wendy's. I love Taco Bell. That's, like, my favorite.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What do you still.

[Gil Azaria]

I do my number one.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What's your. What's your Go to Taco Bell menu item?

[Gil Azaria]

Like the. I like the gordita. Gordita double shell, cheesy gordita crunch. Yes, Cheesy gordita Crunch. I like the Crunchwrap Supreme.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

There you go.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, yeah. Those are my. Like. And then I'll always do, like, a hard taco supreme.

[Mike Mitchell]

Also, we were saying, I said at one point that Taco Bell is my favorite restaurant, and I.

[Gil Azaria]

Restaurant, period.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I mean, it's. It's up there. I do. I do love it. I. I haven't gotten it as much recently, but I don't think they were trying to cut back on stuff Taco Bell was. And we were mad at them. But then overall, with fast food, I think they've actually kind of stayed up there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think so.

[Mike Mitchell]

Because Wendy's has gotten so shitty about this before. There was a lot of places that gotten so shitty. And I don't. I don't know what Blimpy status is

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

even within Yum brands. The last time we had kfc, I had a good KFC experience. But even within Yum brands itself, Taco Bell is definitely in the best position of kfc. Taco Bell, kfc, Pizza Hut, and of course, the habit, which is now part of that family.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I mean, all those, like. I feel like all those are decaying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Pizza Hut is, like, egregious.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

So bad.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. But every time I still eat taco, I just had it, like a week ago. It still hits me right as I'm eating it, and I'm going like Dr. Pepper, too. So it's just like, it's hitting every sense. It's perfect.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So you talk about growing up as. As a. And. And the fast food you enjoyed, like, as a parent yourself now, are you, like, how conscious of. You are of. Of getting your, like, treating your kids to fast food or, like, protecting them from fast food?

[Gil Azaria]

That's a good question. Once in A while.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Once in a while.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. So, like, if we're taking a road trip or something, we'll do it and.

[Mike Mitchell]

But it's a love for McDonald's still there. From children to children. Still.

[Gil Azaria]

Absolutely. Happy Meal. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

That kind of makes me happy.

[Gil Azaria]

I mean, and the toys. I mean, the toys are still. They're not. They're awful. You know, they're just, like, plastic.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So much shittier.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, we were. We were at the McDonald's. We. We were in the McDonald's headquarters, and we saw. We. We saw the Happy Meal.

[Gil Azaria]

You guys were, like, invited.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Oh, yeah. It's complicated. Am I not even supposed to talk about this anymore?

[Dave Ferguson]

I think you can talk about it. I think it's fine.

[Gil Azaria]

You guys getting sued.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a complicated thing.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We maybe weren't supposed to be.

[Mike Mitchell]

Maybe we weren't supposed to be.

[Gil Azaria]

Is this, like, a Michael situation?

[Mike Mitchell]

I was looking at toys in the. In the McDonald's headquarter. My name is Michael. But it was. It's a very complicated story as.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

As two childless adults, us being like. Like, the toys have gotten shittier. I mean, it's true.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is true. You saw them over the years, and they.

[Gil Azaria]

They are. Yeah, they're. They're worse.

[Mike Mitchell]

We've talked about this, too, but it's like. Well, like, the cups from the 80s and 90s, like those glass cups that Burger King McDonald's would have, and they're so. They're so cool and like, nothing like that ever like that. That.

[Gil Azaria]

That everything is shittier.

[Mike Mitchell]

It feels like everything is shittier. Yeah. And the McDonald's toys are bad. There's some every so often that will cut one that will come out every so often that looks good, like. And then Griffin will send it to us or some shit. Like. Like, sorry, Griffin. But one of our dork friends will send us a McDonald's toy, and we'll be like, yeah, that looks kind of cool.

[Gil Azaria]

And they still get excited by it because it's, like, colorful and it's a toy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

And we usually get it with, like.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you talking about Griffin?

[Gil Azaria]

It comes with also, like, a pack of apples that's impossible to open.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Gil Azaria]

I don't know if you've tried. You have to, like. And then you pop it, and it, like, it basically causes an earthquake. Just.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wow, I've had those. I've had those apples, I think because of Doughboys. But. But he's friend. He. I. I guess you got to give kids. You got to give the kids the apples. But, yeah, it's there's also, like, dip. There's like, a little dipping sauce with them.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

But that's the fun of the Happy Meals. Also having French fries.

[Gil Azaria]

They're just have. Is the nuggets quality changed? Do you guys know about that?

[Mike Mitchell]

I think nuggets have been pretty consistent.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

They feel like they're fairly stable.

[Mike Mitchell]

McDonald's last night.

[Gil Azaria]

I feel like they're different from when I was a kid.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Interesting. I won't. I mean, I can. Don't dispute your. Your experience that they are shittier because, like, again, like, everything's gotten a little bit shitty. But to me, they kind of taste like a memory.

[Gil Azaria]

The same. Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But also, I was always more of a burger than a nug guy. Like, I'll get McNuggets, but I'm a burger at McDonald's. Double cheeseburger, double cheese.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, that's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's my good. In fact, I got that earlier this week.

[Mike Mitchell]

And why. Guess what? You inspired me because I got it last night. Yeah. After. After.

[Gil Azaria]

Michael, I've got a weird fucking order at McDonald's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Go for it.

[Gil Azaria]

I do. You get. This is so disgusting. I do filet of fish, but I do it in barbecue sauce.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay, interesting.

[Mike Mitchell]

That is interesting. I'm not going to.

[Gil Azaria]

I'm disgusting. I'm always, like, telling my wife to just look away, and then I'm just like, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Do you get the tartar sauce as well?

[Gil Azaria]

I do, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay, so tartar sauce and barbecue sauce.

[Gil Azaria]

And barbecue sauce.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you add barbecue sauce or do you just get on the side?

[Gil Azaria]

I dip it in, like, mounds of barbecue sauce.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's not that. That's not. That's not that crazy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Amelia, you always roll the dice on fish. Would you try that?

[Amelia Marino]

I would try it. I'm not a big barbecue sauce fan.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, that's true. You said this before, but you do like the filet o fish.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, I like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is what I. After Michael, last night, right, I went up to Dave Ferguson. I told him that he was the Joe Jackson of the birthday boys. And then. Did he beat you guys close to it? You worked with him.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then he was. He was laughing, but then also seemed. And then he was making a joke about how my beard caught on fire from, like, nacho cheese and then made me think about cheese. And then I got it, and I was like, I want a double cheeseburger. Something clicked in my head where I was like, I want. And I think it's because you had one earlier in the week.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I did.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I went And I also wanted an orange soda really bad. So I went and got a double cheeseburger and orange soda from.

[Dave Ferguson]

From.

[Mike Mitchell]

From McDonald's.

[Gil Azaria]

Did it satiate you? Did it hit the craving?

[Mike Mitchell]

It scratched the itch. And now I guess I'm on an orange soda kit because I got a little. A sun kiss to your wife's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm drinking a. A rare late night. I shouldn't say late night. It's like dinner time but like, you know, late in the day. Coke Zero is a Coke. Cherry Coke Zero instead of a coffee. But I'm like, I'm partly, you know, I'm a little. You also worked a full day, so. But I'm just like a little, little sleepy.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You know, just get a little bit caffeine lift. Can you do like. Because you're also doing coke heavy.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Can you. You can do caffeine this late?

[Gil Azaria]

I assume I can. Yeah. I usually drink coffee pretty late into the day.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wow.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. And I don't also, I don't drink alcohol, so like my. I'm used to sort of having a Coke when I go out at night, I guess.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right.

[Gil Azaria]

Go to a bar or something like that or a party. I'll have a Coke.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

When I'm. I mean like. And some teetotalers I know don't like the, the, the n. A beers. But like when I'm. When I'm not drinking, I will find myself doing the non alcoholic beer now, which they've gotten pretty good.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Heineken 0 is good.

[Mike Mitchell]

My dad's strictly glasses man. No one. No, no one knows since you're drinking a mixed drink nowadays, they feel like

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

enough people don't drink where. Like, at least in, in all of our circles. No one's like pressuring you. Right. Oh, I mean, you are sometimes.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

You call me a nerd.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was trying to.

[Gil Azaria]

I'm allergic. I'm allergic to.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you really? Oh my God.

[Gil Azaria]

So I will actually get sick when I'll drink it and like my, my throat closes up and actually get sick for like a couple weeks after when did. Sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you figure this out? Like high school, college? Like what happened?

[Gil Azaria]

I can tell you the, the year 2007, I stopped drinking because it started just. I just started getting so sick every time I drank.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

And then.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that's why.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

That is a. That's a bad. That's a. I mean, it's. Honestly, in a way, it's kind of great to be.

[Gil Azaria]

It's great. I mean, it's. It's I also. I don't. I have no vices. Like, I can't smoke weed because it started to make me paranoid. And so everything is just sort of like, all I have is fudgeing Coca Cola now.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love Coca Cola.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm trying to get back into reefer. Mitch, you don't. You don't smoke.

[Mike Mitchell]

I noticed. Why? I know. I used to. I used to smoke and I. Same with you. It was like, either it was like I was smoking every day and things would be cloudy every day, or I would smoke occasionally and then be paranoid. I was like, I don't like. I don't like either of these feelings.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

I saw you. I was.

[Gil Azaria]

You're back in it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm back in it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I hated it because we were in Orlando and I was sick and I was like, in. In the pool with you, and I was like, I'm gonna go in. It's, like, late. And then you're like, I'm gonna smoke weed with the kids. You were acting like Michael. You were craz.

[Gil Azaria]

Keep coming back to Mike. How are you? Like it. Are you well?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So here's the thing. Because I had a really bad experience with an edible, and I honestly, like, like, I was getting very, very anxious from. From marijuana for a period that I just, like. I have not had it for, like, two years.

[Gil Azaria]

Because of the edibles.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Because the edibles. But also because I just, like, generally stopped having good experiences. But then I. I was like, they were. They were token up back at the Airbnb. I was like, I'll take a hit or two. Why not? And then you know what? I had a great time.

[Dave Ferguson]

That's great.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And it didn't make me anxious. So maybe.

[Gil Azaria]

Maybe it's just time.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Could be the time could also be the consumption method. I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was a guy being like, hey, you should get. Everyone should get. I did one night, I was like, you guys should. We gotta go to bed soon. We're going to Epic Universe tomorrow. And you didn't listen to me and you were hurting.

[Amelia Marino]

The next morning, I was a little bit hungover. The next day, I was in dad mode.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It worked out fine.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

I hated it.

[Gil Azaria]

You're being like Dave.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was. I. I did. I took. I was. I was the Joe Jackson of the group that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't like that. You're usually. You're usually that guy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm usually the Joe, but this time I was the Michael. Go smoke weed with the kids.

[Mike Mitchell]

Children. It's fun to do his voice still

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

joined Applehead Remember he'd call kids Applehead?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Or they'd call him Applehead. It's weird.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, there was. There. There wasn't enough of that in the movie because the security guard calls him, like, laughing. What does he call him?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He calls him Joker.

[Mike Mitchell]

Joker?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, it's kind of like a Secret Service name. I kind of like.

[Gil Azaria]

Like that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, that's fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. There wasn't enough of that stuff, though, in there.

[Gil Azaria]

There.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

There wasn't even a moment of like, hey, he's kind of weird, right?

[Dave Ferguson]

This.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This man's a little bit eccentric. We can. We can perhaps acknowledge that.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think we should just bring Jafar Jackson back as Michael and just have him be Michael.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Just. He's just Michael from now on. He hasn't been canceled. Michael's back.

[Mike Mitchell]

Javar didn't do anything wrong.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

If he went on tour as Michael Jackson, I think he'd sell out arena.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, 100%.

[Gil Azaria]

They should. That's how they should mark it as, like, good. Michael. Michael without the problem.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So you move.

[Gil Azaria]

You.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You're you. You do the classic.

[Dave Ferguson]

You.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You grow up in. In New York, You. You live in New York City for a time. You come to LA as an adult. When you get to la, were there any, like, foods that maybe were on your radar but you weren't having as frequently? And then you're. You're having. The LA version is like, oh, I'm into this now. For me, my answer is Persian food. Because I was like, there wasn't food. Yeah, I'm from LA county, but where I grew up, there wasn't good Persian food. But in la, there's like, fantastic.

[Gil Azaria]

Well, I'm in Glendale now, and I love Armenian food. I mean, specifically. I don't know if you've been to Rafi's, have you guys?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, I haven't Rafi's.

[Gil Azaria]

Holy shit. So good. And it's, like, filled with, like, great Armenian restaurants. So we have it all the time. I would also say dim sum. I really started. I go to this place called NBC Seafood.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, yeah, I know NBC.

[Gil Azaria]

So I take my kids there all the time and they love it. And it's like, I was in New York, I just never. But here I'm just like. I love going for dim sum. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Glendale is. I was at the Americana last night. Oh, you were Michael.

[Gil Azaria]

And what's that? What's Michael?

[Mike Mitchell]

And I've said this to Nick.

[Gil Azaria]

It's a movie about the nice guy, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Yeah, it's a good Michael. I don't know if you heard about it. But I was saying to Nick, like we talked about this in the podcast. Yeah. There's a Glendale test for me with fast food where every. All fast food is better in Glendale. It's it in Glendale.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Really?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's the truth. I've said this before.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

There's the Glendale we go to. That's always hitting. Is that the IHOP Glendale?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, that's the Glendale that, like, all soda is better at a. Out of a fountain.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Amelia Marino]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, why.

[Gil Azaria]

Why do you think it is better in Glendale?

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't. I just like. I think that some. There's some locations like in. In the, like the Burger King and. And LA is just kind of like trashy. And then the one in Glendale, like, I think it's maybe like independently owned and operated. And I think that there just are, like, people that take better care of them up in Glendale. I don't know what the deal is.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think there may be slightly less volume and. And, you know, because they're. They're in less dense areas, they have like a larger footprint for the dining room.

[Gil Azaria]

They can pay more attention.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, exactly.

[Mike Mitchell]

Nicer. Which I think always just does help, though.

[Gil Azaria]

It does help.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Have you been to Mini Kebab?

[Gil Azaria]

No, I think Doordash. I think you'll.

[Mike Mitchell]

You'll love it. It's so, so, so good. Yeah. It's one of my favorites.

[Gil Azaria]

You'll check it out? I'll check it out, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

A lot of good Glendale is what a great little. A great city. I love it up there, man.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I wish I could remember the. The place I went with. With our friend Payment Benz. He took me to a. To a great Persian spot up there or Armenian spot, I can't remember, but it was like. It was. It was fantastic. Food. Food in Glendale.

[Gil Azaria]

It's also this place. I went there. I'm gonna get it up. Shabu Shabu. Do you know that place?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

It's basically. You cook your own soup.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Or in. I don't know. It was great too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Also, by the way, there's one other place you can visit in Glendale, and that is Michael and Joe Jackson's grave. They are buried. They're buried in.

[Gil Azaria]

Now you're forced.

[Mike Mitchell]

I feel like that's not true. This is true. They really are. They're buried in Forest Lawn. In the Forest Lawn in Glendale. They're buried there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Whoa.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Yeah, it's true.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Don't pay tribute to me. Leave some flowers. I love flowers. Leave a.

[Mike Mitchell]

Children,

[Gil Azaria]

Even from down there. He's still

[Mike Mitchell]

down there in the door.

[Gil Azaria]

Buried him next to his. They buried him next to Joe only.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I think they were. I think they're in a little. What is it?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What's the house plot?

[Mike Mitchell]

What's the house?

[Gil Azaria]

Mausoleum.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mausoleum. I think they have. I think they have like a. They're in a private m. Like, I think you can't actually see his grave. You can just see the house where his.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. Little Michael. Liam Thriller playing a little tiny little club.

[Mike Mitchell]

Him and Joe. And then I believe there's one other brother who has passed away. Sorry, I didn't mean to break that news to you. The one other. One other brother has passed, and then there was another brother that died, I think, in, like, child. Like, when it was like, that's in. Not childbirth, but the same day it was born a twin.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

One of the Jackson fives had a twin.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, that's wild.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Well, let's just say I did some deep diving after the movie last night.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, because there's. It's one of those. It's like the. The wrestling movie, Mitch, where. Oh, man. What the hell was that called?

[Mike Mitchell]

The one that. What's his name?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Iron Claw.

[Mike Mitchell]

Iron Claw.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Iron Claw. And there's like, who is it that's in it?

[Mike Mitchell]

Efron.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Efron's in it.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And there's. There's.

[Mike Mitchell]

Everyone got, like, very jacked.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

There's one brother missing from that. That's in. In reality. And Janet Jackson is not in the Michael movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

Stranger.

[Gil Azaria]

Did she say.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, I'm guessing.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Because they would have wanted to include her.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's not a producer on it or anything like that. The fan. Like, a bunch of people from the family produced it, but they're in the iron cloud. There's. Did you see it? The story is about, like, a guy and, like, he has so many brothers that die. And then you're watching a movie like, this seems insane, but the truth is, is that they cut one of the brothers dying out of the movie because it seemed it was.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It was an additional brother who also died.

[Mike Mitchell]

It seemed like a joke.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Watching the movie, you're already like, this is like. This seems too crazy. But I. I was saying to you, like, they should have just kept that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, I think so.

[Gil Azaria]

It was a real story. Ever accused of murder? How did they die?

[Mike Mitchell]

How they all died in, like, weird crazy, like, like the bottom of the staircase. Yeah. There was no, like, I think in

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

a combination like drugs, traffic accident, you know, it's just all. All a bunch of tragic things.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah, it was. Yeah. There was no mysteries, I don't think. But. But there were. There were multiple. And then you're like, this is. This seems like too much. But then you were like, if it was already this crazy, they should have just included the other brother that died as well.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I agree with that take.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not that I'm rooting to show, but

[Gil Azaria]

his family is just like, what about us?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Like, you left us out.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's also funny to be like, nick and I died for Nick and I to be like, they should have showed that other Death in Iron Clown for Michael Booty. Like, we like it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Anything more. Bubbles is my note.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bubbles is pretty. Bubbles is pretty good. Bubbles is pretty good in the movie. I don't know where Bubbles is now. I'm gonna look up.

[Gil Azaria]

I don't know if you guys saw that Mulaney sketch with Langston Kerman that

[Mike Mitchell]

was going around playing.

[Gil Azaria]

Bubbles was so funny.

[Dave Ferguson]

Wasn't Bubbles in the, like, Chimp Crazy documentary at the same. There's, like, a sanctuary where the. The lady who had the chimps in the documentary, her chimps were taken from her and put in the sanctuary. And I think Bubbles is in that same sanctuary.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Sanctuary, wow.

[Dave Ferguson]

It's like, in the middle of nowhere gym sanctuary.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Restful Retirement.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

And that's in Glendale, too, right?

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. In the. Michael.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bubbles. Michael Jackson's former pet chimpanzee is alive.

[Gil Azaria]

Whoa.

[Mike Mitchell]

And he has a podcast. He's living at the center for Great Apes in Florida. Born in 1983. He's a. He's a year younger than I am. Wow.

[Gil Azaria]

Great Apes.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's that?

[Gil Azaria]

I kind of want to go there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know it seems cool.

[Dave Ferguson]

He's.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's 43. We're the same age. He's 43 years old. The chimpanzees has resided at the sanctuary since 2005, the year I graduated college.

[Gil Azaria]

Holy shit. It's destined. You gotta meet him.

[Mike Mitchell]

We have a very similar trajectory.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. I heard he saw Michael last night. The Americana.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's crazy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What's the name of the sanctuary he's at?

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it was the Great Ape. It is, yeah. Center for Great Apes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It sounds like Professor X's School for Music.

[Gil Azaria]

I know. It sounds like some, like, J.K. rowling book or something.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

[Mike Mitchell]

Harambe's there. Still alive.

[Gil Azaria]

All the famous guys.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Coco's there.

[Gil Azaria]

Coco's Amy from fucking Congo. Amy likes Michael. Amy likes Michael.

[Mike Mitchell]

Innocent.

[Gil Azaria]

Innocent. Innocent. Don't mention it in movie.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Of course Ed is there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Ed Is there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He's got to be there.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're talking about the movie where I took my first date ever.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yes, I was

[Gil Azaria]

your first movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

Or it's Dunston checks in. This is the issue, because they both came out like three months apart. And I don't know which one.

[Gil Azaria]

It was a. You just know a monkey was there.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a monkey. And so it's Matt LeBlanc. Is the. Ed. Is Ed, right?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's the one where we use a pitcher.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he's a pitcher, right. Baseball playing Ed, right?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think that's Ed, Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And Dunstan checks in. Is, is hotel.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He works at a hotel.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hotel, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

But they do play baseball in that movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

They do. That was my first.

[Gil Azaria]

And Ed stays in a fucking motel too. So I don't know my first one. My first movie date movie was Encino Man.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wow, I remember Encino Man.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Brendan Fraser.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, Brendan Fraser.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And oh, fuck.

[Mike Mitchell]

Also that's pretty horny that he meets the cave lady at the end. Yeah, it's a good date movie.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Pauly Shore wheezing with the Juice.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wheezing with the juice, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wait, who's. Is there's, is there one other guy in that?

[Dave Ferguson]

Sean Aston.

[Gil Azaria]

Sean Aston.

[Mike Mitchell]

And Brendan Fraser, of course. And Sean Aston.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, I was gonna say Stephen Baldwin, but I think Stephen Baldwin's in like Biodome or something, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. A few years, A couple years later. Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Do you remember your first?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I, I took a girl to a Jackie Chan movie. A girl I, I, I really liked. And then actually we went to a few movies. Boy, it might actually been. It might have been the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Eraser first.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, wow. We saw even Vanessa Williams, right?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, we saw, we saw Eraser, where there's a, there's some, some gators. Yes. Who eat a guy we, we said

[Mike Mitchell]

she saw after the date. She signed up for the eraser procedure.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We saw Eraser and then the Jackie Chan movie Super Cop in some way.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Do you Emma me remember first date movie?

[Dave Ferguson]

I don't remember my first one.

[Amelia Marino]

I think mine was that Ricky Gervais movie, the Invention of Lying.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Got it. Good choice. Really?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

I don't remember the first movie I went to on a date, but I do remember going on a first date to see the Revenant, which is not a good first date movie. Just watching Leo get brutalized for like

[Mike Mitchell]

Emma, that is crazy because on this podcast I. Wait, wait, which movie was it?

[Dave Ferguson]

The Revenant where Leo gets eaten by the.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, nevermind.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But you Went. You took a first date to the Scorsese movie?

[Mike Mitchell]

A first date to silence.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yes.

[Dave Ferguson]

Similarly, not a good first date. Move.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not a good first date.

[Gil Azaria]

Very romantic, though.

[Mike Mitchell]

It wasn't a first date. It just was a date.

[Gil Azaria]

A date.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I hadn't eaten. And we talked about this on podcast, but the movie actually is silent. And my stomach was rumbling and I ran. I was like, I got to go to the bathroom and I ran and quickly ate a hot dog.

[Gil Azaria]

And wait, what number date is it?

[Mike Mitchell]

I, like, had known her for a while, and then. And.

[Gil Azaria]

And he came back wreaking like a.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, that was. That's what we were saying. It's like I so surely smelled like a hot do after I came back. And also just like, I just wanted the bat. Like, the bathroom smelled like hot dogs. Like to just lie or whatever. I. I don't know what I. Grosser than you. I know, Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

A needless lie because I think you said, like, like, I'm gonna get. I'm gonna get a hot dog. You want anything? You know, like, yeah, she would have been fine.

[Gil Azaria]

She might have been like. If you were like, I'm hungry. She might have been like, what the. How dare you?

[Mike Mitchell]

I think I just. More. The weirdest thing of all was just that I hit. I just never said anything about it. I think I just, like, sat there smelling like a hot dog, and she never did. This is at the arc light that you.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Shame speed. Ate it. And like, in the lobby too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, I was quick.

[Dave Ferguson]

The lobby staff is like, is this guy okay?

[Mike Mitchell]

And also speeding because I also don't want her to think I'm taking a. There was like, so much going on that was like.

[Amelia Marino]

She probably thought the hot dog smell was emanating from your breath.

[Dave Ferguson]

Oh, cool.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Thanks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, cool.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Like, he ate shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Fuck are you talking about?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I know this freak. He probably went in the bathroom, took a shit, and then ate it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I could hear his stomach rumbling. He probably went in there, took a shit, and then ate.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's either I have to take a shit or I'm hungry. Let's just tick both boxes.

[Gil Azaria]

I can't pay attention to this fucking movie anymore. This guy ate his own shit.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm of course gonna continue this date.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, continue.

[Dave Ferguson]

I feel like movies are weird first date movies in general. Cause you don't actually talk to the person.

[Gil Azaria]

You don't talk to them.

[Mike Mitchell]

You just sit next to them. Oh, no, this wasn't a first. Well, the first with Kelly when my. My middle school girlfriend.

[Dave Ferguson]

But when you're in, like middle school or high school. It's like the only option.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. You don't have or it's like ice cream.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah. They're like sitting in a corner.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right, Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think you would notice if someone. If you think you would be able to tell if someone to the bathroom and ate 100%.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

What if they had mouthwash or something too?

[Gil Azaria]

Well, okay, let's go through this.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What is the scenario?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I'm saying the scenario where you're at a movie theater on a date and then someone leaves and they eat.

[Gil Azaria]

This is a game show we're talking about, right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You have to.

[Gil Azaria]

Can you go eat shit and not have your date realize that you've eaten shit? Oh, this is a very off. Off the detour story. But I did as a kid, I used to eat my own shit out of my diaper.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Gil Azaria]

Let's stay on this thing for a second.

[Dave Ferguson]

How did your parents know? Could they smell it on your breath or.

[Gil Azaria]

They would have to. My dad would have to pick it out with a toothpick, like out of my teeth all the time. Because I would always just, like, see my diaper and be like, yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

Oh.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

As you were being changed, I would

[Gil Azaria]

rip off the diaper.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, you'd rip it off and then just eat out of it.

[Gil Azaria]

Just eat out of my fucking diaper.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's wild.

[Gil Azaria]

That's the kind of guy I am.

[Amelia Marino]

I used to smear mine on the walls.

[Gil Azaria]

You did?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, you freak.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, there's something about shit, right?

[Amelia Marino]

Something about it.

[Dave Ferguson]

My nephew likes to take his off and put it on his head like. Like a hat.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, my God. Oh, really pissing it or just.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah, he'll take his. Middle of the night. Once they had like a ring camera in his nursery and, like, found the video. He, like, took it off and he put it on his head. And then he was walking around his room like, so proud of himself.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's insane.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's like kind of a fun party

[Mike Mitchell]

animal move to take your diaper off when you're at a party on your head.

[Gil Azaria]

I guess you're talking about being an adult and eating it, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, I was talking about being an adult and eating it. You were, you were, you were. You were a baby.

[Gil Azaria]

I was a baby. Yeah, but you go in. But still, I wouldn't justify it, you know, I was a disgusting baby. But you, you went. You would say, going into a diaper. How would you. Going into a bathroom? I mean, during a movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Gil Azaria]

You eat shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Someone you're on a date with someone. I was saying, would you be able to tell? And you saying, yes, of course you would be able to tell.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And you can sell.

[Dave Ferguson]

If somebody like, ran out.

[Gil Azaria]

Are you washing your mouth out?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's the big question. Are you washing your mouth out?

[Dave Ferguson]

Because if you went and like, snuck a drink, like a boozy drink or something, you can smell that on someone's breath usually. And I'm assuming shit, which is stinkier than alcohol. Same effect.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah. If you like a chili dog, you can smell the chili on someone's breath. So would be a similar principle.

[Mike Mitchell]

My question is like, has this scenario ever happened?

[Gil Azaria]

Absolutely.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Someone secretly ate eating.

[Dave Ferguson]

Did you do this at Michael last night? Is that what you're asking?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I've never. I've never touched.

[Gil Azaria]

Was the hot dog a piece of.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, that did not happen.

[Amelia Marino]

I could smell three layers of someone's breath at any point. You could try to cover it up, and there's no use trying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you think that you feel like

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

we got a segment here? If you breath detective.

[Mike Mitchell]

So if you smelled shit like that, do you think the breath would smell?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Breathalyzer.

[Mike Mitchell]

How quick would you go to, like, this person ate shit? Do you think you would go there quickly?

[Amelia Marino]

I would assume it was something else.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then you think that you would be able to. You would.

[Amelia Marino]

And then I think I would. I would try to evaluate from there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think I could do it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The breath Ameliazer.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, that's good.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay. Okay.

[Dave Ferguson]

There was a regular at my old bar when I was a bartender who would come in all the time. He was an. A crazy old man. And he would ask all of the servers and bartenders if he could smell their breath. When he would come in, he would be like, come here, let me smell your breath. And then he would tell us, like, what we had for breakfast. He'd be like, don't eat onions next time you work. I don't want to smell that. And I'd be like, what the is

[Gil Azaria]

Sounds like a little kink.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah. Was it just women? He sounds a little like this guy.

[Dave Ferguson]

No, he was apple.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sounds like Easter. Hey, let me get a whiff.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Hey, let me smell that breath.

[Gil Azaria]

There was a Disgusting. There was a guy. This is. Was slightly off, but the topic, but the Emily, my wife in growing up in Michigan, there was a guy who would go into movie theaters called the Hair Sucker. And he would sit behind women with ponytails and suck on their ponytail. Isn't that crazy?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's disgusting. That's horror movie.

[Gil Azaria]

That's horror movies.

[Mike Mitchell]

It might have been a woman. We don't know.

[Dave Ferguson]

You, like, touch your hair after being in the movie and it's like kind of wet.

[Mike Mitchell]

Was it. Did they catch him?

[Gil Azaria]

They never caught me.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Now

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

that behavior sounds depraved. I looked it up because I was trying to remember which movie it was. I told the story before that Natalie and I, who've now been together combined dating and married for. For two decades.

[Gil Azaria]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Congrats wise about that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We went to see a. On a first date. I took her to the wrong movie theater because I. I fucked up. And like, I was like, oh, shit. The movie I wanted to see. I can't remember what it was I was gonna take you to is not playing here.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's the.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We end up seeing a Neil abute movie called Possession that we both hated. So it actually worked great.

[Gil Azaria]

1986, that one.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, this one's from. From the early yachts.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Early 2000s. And so we. We saw this movie and then we both hated it. And then afterwards we talked the movie together. It's like, hey, that ended up being a thing to bond over. It was nice.

[Gil Azaria]

That's cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

And you were trying to take her to the jackoff movie, always referenced.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I was trying to take her to autofocus. Autofocus? The Paul Straighter Jack off movie in the tiki theater. It was a special event.

[Gil Azaria]

I thought I could go sneak out a little eating, you know, while we were doing. But no, I wasn't lucky.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Why'd he take me to this Jack off movie? At least he's not eating his own

[Mike Mitchell]

autofocus at the tiki theater. And a hot dog. That's the worst date I've ever heard. That's up there. That's gotta be up there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That would. That sounds pretty terrible. What are you. Okay, so as someone who's. Who's written on a lot of. A lot of shows, you're in the writers room. Are there any snacks you hope to see or snacks you request?

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, that's a good question. I love a baby bell cheese.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, that's fun.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

That's fun.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, I don't think about that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a good option.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, I like it because it's fun and it's tasty.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

For anyone who doesn't know the baby bell cheese.

[Gil Azaria]

Can you.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Can you describe it?

[Gil Azaria]

It's like a little round disc, I guess, and it's wrapped in wax, so you get to unwrap it, play with the wax, and eat the cheese.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You get to do like a little pac Man.

[Gil Azaria]

Which is fun. Yeah, you get to. Yeah. You get to play. I love peanut butter. Snacking on peanut butter. There's something new in our writer's room that I've never had before. Which is called mung beans. Have you guys had mung beans?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, yeah.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Mung beans.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But I didn't. Not in snack form.

[Gil Azaria]

They're, like, in a little pack. And they're so salty and really good. But I also am kind of embarrassed to, like, eat mung beans.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Are they, like, dried? Like, in a moment. Yeah. Okay.

[Dave Ferguson]

Huh.

[Mike Mitchell]

I never liked seaweed paper. We talked about this before. Like this little seaweed snacker paper. I don't like.

[Gil Azaria]

You don't like the taste?

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't like. I don't. I don't. I don't.

[Gil Azaria]

Are you a sushi guy?

[Mike Mitchell]

I do like sushi, but I need. I think I need the rice and the fish. I don't think I like seaweed just on its own.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It needs context. I think I'm kind of with you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Some of those. Some of those. Some of those. Like, really, I. I can't tell if this is what that is. But some of those really healthy snacks. I do hate. You hate some of those Trader Joe's. Like ultra healthy snacks. I'm not.

[Gil Azaria]

What do you. What's your go to? Oh.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Mitch is reaching into his hoodie pocket. Harry Bo Gold bears. Which he had it tucked away in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did have them tucked.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

How long have they been there?

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you need to know about. That's. Look, once you go through a thing like I did with silence, you're always prepared.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right?

[Gil Azaria]

What's your go to? Too?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So I. I tried to do healthy snacks for a while.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Now I just want cheese it. Pack of cheese it.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

And.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And you. Mini packs of cheese. It's like, come on now. This is exactly one serving. That's what I'm looking for. At some. At some point in the day, I treat myself to this. I also usually bring a banana from home if there's nothing there. So.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. I like a cutie.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

A little orange in the middle of the day.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can you guess how many. Guess how many gummy bears are in this package.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm gonna say seven.

[Gil Azaria]

I'm gonna say a. Yeah, seven too.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Guesses.

[Amelia Marino]

Six.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Six.

[Dave Ferguson]

That was me. Mine. I'll go eight.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're all over.

[Dave Ferguson]

We're four.

[Mike Mitchell]

Five.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Five gummy bears.

[Mike Mitchell]

Gummy bears. That's right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's kind of a ripoff.

[Gil Azaria]

Crazy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Five gummy bears in the past.

[Gil Azaria]

Everything's getting shittier.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Everything's getting shittier.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And that probably costs $8 now.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I'm sure. I mean, the package itself, it's all

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

just the ratchet effect of, like, how much worse can we make everything? And how much more expensive can we make it?

[Gil Azaria]

Just gradually and so you don't notice, too. It's like the frog in the fucking pot.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Which I use for everything. I love talking about that frog.

[Mike Mitchell]

That delicious frog.

[Gil Azaria]

Delicious frog eating him up.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, hold on.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, I remember.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Gil, you're in New York. I forgot where we ate today. Gil, you're a New York guy.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

What does seafood mean to you? I'm a Massachusetts guy. I love seafood. We have a. Where the fuck are you from? New York.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah. New York. Seafood freak.

[Gil Azaria]

Seafood freak.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What's the name of the city you're from?

[Amelia Marino]

It's a town. Pearl River. It's in a Rock County. It's like.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, I know. Rockland County.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yes.

[Gil Azaria]

Rockland County. Yeah. Yeah. I had friends who lived in. Who lived in Rock. I was there all the time.

[Amelia Marino]

Really?

[Dave Ferguson]

Of course.

[Gil Azaria]

Nyack. Yeah. What's this? High school in Rockland County? Something north.

[Amelia Marino]

Clarktown north.

[Gil Azaria]

Clarkstown North. Yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

My dad was a bus driver.

[Gil Azaria]

That was Scorpion.

[Amelia Marino]

No, he was a bus driver for Clarkstown North.

[Mike Mitchell]

Scorpion? Really?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Scorpion drove a bus?

[Amelia Marino]

A school bus driver.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did not know that.

[Dave Ferguson]

Kept those kids.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This is some new lore.

[Amelia Marino]

His kids were terrified of him.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Amelia's dad is named Scorpion. Wow.

[Gil Azaria]

Really?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Emma, you're.

[Dave Ferguson]

You're.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You're from New Hampshire, of course. And then you. You spend a lot of time in Maine these days, where your family has a home. So you.

[Mike Mitchell]

You have.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You have access to fantastic seafood.

[Dave Ferguson]

I love seafood. I don't like lobster, So I. They take. They won't let me have my main card, but I love all other seafood.

[Gil Azaria]

I love seafood, too.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right. So, all right, everyone. Everyone here loves seafood.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We all love seafood.

[Mike Mitchell]

In fact, Amelia likes it so much that she was taking SC from people's meals and taking it home for. At the end of the day, I

[Dave Ferguson]

feel like Emelia and I are opposites, though, in a way. Like, you'll roll the dice on fish. I'm so picky about fish. Like, very rarely do I order it. Even today, looking at the menu, I was like, do I just want a chicken bowl? And then I was like, no, the fish is the thing. Do the fish. And I'm glad I did. It was delicious. But I'm, like, nervous about it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

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[Amelia Marino]

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[Nick Tiger Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Dave Ferguson]

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[Gil Azaria]

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[Dave Ferguson]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I thought I was Beck Bennett.

[Gil Azaria]

No, no, no, no.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

It's all.

[Gil Azaria]

You're Kyle Mooney.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sorry about that. Exactly.

[Dave Ferguson]

No, all good.

[Gil Azaria]

All good.

[Amelia Marino]

Thanks, buddy. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Tiger Weiger]

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[Gil Azaria]

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[Amelia Marino]

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[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, it's like, oh, do I need

[Gil Azaria]

to go to like a.

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Do I need another type of website

[Gil Azaria]

to like, find the right pictures or

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

like another type of website to upload?

[Mike Mitchell]

You know, it's all in one place.

[Gil Azaria]

The video or the audio or like, no, I want it makes it easy. Make it easy on me, please.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, let's come up with a domain right now.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Let's see.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We all love fish.

[Mike Mitchell]

Gil, you have a love hate relationship with this place.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

You said beforehand and I kind of agree with you now. I did introduce the Doughboys crew to California Fish Grill. I loved it. I was eating it a lot when I, I, I'm on a GLP1 and when I was first taking it, I, this is like one of the places I ate a lot and it was kind of helpful to be like, I'm having like so within the last, like maybe a year ago. And I had tried it a little bit before that maybe, but they are, they are recent in general. They, they like always pop up when they're putting in new like condos. They're at like the bottom of a condo or something on kind of unfortunately. But I mean, like, it's interesting because

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

they're not that recent. Not, not to cut you off. They, they, they were founded in 1998, so they've been around for a while. They were in, they were in Gardena.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was wrong.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, but, but you are right that like handles. They are, they have recently expanded with gusto to Los Angeles.

[Gil Azaria]

They've gotten popular.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yes, they were, they were in the excerpt of Gardena, where my parents had their first home in Gardena, California. And then they, they, you know, they expanded locally. And I, I will say they're, there's about 50 locations now. Now I like that this place is like not super expensive. You know what I mean? Like a place that could be, but

[Mike Mitchell]

like lobster roll for 13 bucks. I know that 13 is a pricey for sandwich, but for a lobster roll,

[Dave Ferguson]

you will not find one in New

[Mike Mitchell]

England for 13 bucks. You never even, even as skimpy as that one. And this is, is, I would say a shitty one, but it wasn't bad.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think this is like kind of like, you know, not a meat in threes place, but that sort of concept. It's mostly, I think people get their, their fish and their sides.

[Gil Azaria]

Like you get, you get a, you get a chipotle.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's like chip Chipotle.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And, but it's like better quality than that. It's like decent quality. And then you go there. If you, you ever dine in when I'm not sure if anyone done like, you know, there'll be guys in a like work at an auto body shop who are there on their lunch break. Cuz it's like an affordable, healthy lunch. So.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then there's guys like us working in the content mines.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right, right.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's a tik tock in those hills.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I love that it does have sustainably sourced seafood, primarily fish inside its place, like I said. But yes, they do have lobster rolls, fish and chips, shrimp tacos, poke, all the favorites.

[Gil Azaria]

I could tell you what I love, what I don't like about it. I love that it's healthy. I love that it's not expensive. I love that it's easy and quick in especially when I get it delivered. And also, yeah, sure, it's ethically, you know, whatever, but like I'm never excited to eat California Fish Grill.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I agree.

[Gil Azaria]

You know what I'm saying? First of all, the name is just so just California Fish Grill. There's nothing to it. But I'm never like if I'm eating any other fast food or any other chain restaurant, I'm like, ooh, I get to have this.

[Amelia Marino]

This.

[Gil Azaria]

I'm always like titillated California Fish Girl. I'm like, oh, I'm eating fish and zucchini and like tilapia.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm like, it's not a treat.

[Gil Azaria]

It's not.

[Mike Mitchell]

It does seem like a fake. It feels like one of those new fake restaurants that you're like, what is California Fish Girl? Just feels like where it's like Henry's Cheesesteaks. This isn't a real place that I'm going.

[Gil Azaria]

The name of the thing that you're doing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. And, and, and, and I, that's why I was like I didn't to want to get it at first and then the first time I got it I was like, this place is really, really good and it's healthy. But I do think that the quality here can, I think usually it's pretty good.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then if you get a bad California Fish Grill.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, but that's like fish. If you get A bad piece of fish. You're.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, it's local. This is a local specific thing. But. But it also does not benefit from the association. They're different brands with California Chicken Cab.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, that's right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Which is another, like, place I'll get. But I'm not excited about.

[Gil Azaria]

No, it's another. Another three name. Exactly, like, not exciting place.

[Mike Mitchell]

Also another place too, where you're like, you can get it. Be like, this is pretty good. And then you get the bad. Like there is sometimes when you get a bad quality version, you're like, I'm eating trash.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, this one sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Do you like. Do you like. For me, though, I'm. I'm more excited than chipotle or. Or not Chipotle than. Which we mentioned earlier. I'm more excited than like, sweet green. Like sweet green to me is like grain, you know?

[Gil Azaria]

No, it's. That's really bad. Right? I feel like that's like any, like, salad. Like tender greens, too. I'm just like, tender greens was.

[Mike Mitchell]

We've talked about this before, but that was like. And I'm sure you remember was like such a go to lunch spot for writers room. And I do think the quality of it was good. And then they expanded and then the quality got pretty bad. But I still. I liked tender greens way more than I like sweet green. I think both of them have had

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

a rocky few years at my job. We did get tender greens for lunch a couple weeks ago and. Or maybe it was. It might have been last season. And I. Yeah, I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know where you're going with this.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And two of us, me and another writer got. Both got salmon and we both got, like, really bad diarrhea and food poisoning.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I remember, I. This was the reveal happened to the same week, right? It happened to me the same week. And I. And I. And I, we bleeped it on the podcast because we were trying to be nice.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, do we have to bleep it? Is that a liable? Allegedly. There's no proven connection.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like tender greens.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Could be coinc.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I'm rooting for them to be.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm rooting for Dender greens.

[Gil Azaria]

That happened twice to me at Jones on third. Oh, wow. We got catered Thanksgiving one year at. You guys know John Gemberling? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. So at his house, he ordered catering from Jones on third. Like, a bunch of people vomited. Oh, my God. And then the next year, someone else got it. Catering from Jones on third. And also people got food poisoning.

[Mike Mitchell]

Joan, you. What are you doing?

[Gil Azaria]

I feel like it was like, maybe it's just like, the holidays or something

[Dave Ferguson]

like that where they use a catering kitchen or something.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. Or like, they had. They force. My head went to, like, they force, like, the people to work because they're so, like, understaffed during Thanksgiving. And, like, they have to.

[Dave Ferguson]

Or they take on too many orders and they don't have a place to keep them all the right time.

[Gil Azaria]

So they're like, oh, you're six still. Come in.

[Amelia Marino]

You know what I think it is? I think the chef might have been eaten.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's probably it. Kind of oozing out of his pores. Yeah. Breathing on the food for sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is Joan a real person? Is. She is.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think there is a Joan.

[Gil Azaria]

I should have called her.

[Amelia Marino]

She.

[Gil Azaria]

I've seen her before. I've met her.

[Dave Ferguson]

Oh.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh. Oh, really? Oh, God, I'm sorry.

[Gil Azaria]

No, we've dated.

[Mike Mitchell]

Does she eat? Did you.

[Gil Azaria]

She does eat.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

We went to see Air America, and she shat.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Amelia. We're having Gill on the podcast, and you had an observation.

[Amelia Marino]

California fish Gill.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, that's not where it started. Remember, you said it's perfect because fish have gills.

[Amelia Marino]

Oh, yeah. And fish have gills.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

Right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And then you. And then you went to California fish, Gill.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So I think that's worth noting.

[Gil Azaria]

I feel like it's definitely worth. That's probably why I have such a deep connection to it. Anything that sounds like my name, I'm like, wow, this is.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is huge for me.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, Huge for us. I say us because I like to include it. It's like family, you know?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So both of you got the tilapia plates, and I got a wild rockfish plate.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did not know you ordered that. We both separately ordered tilapia plate. It was a cool five, too, on top.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, that was really cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

And you got. You went rockfish, which is the one I was looking at, but I was. Went to lop.

[Gil Azaria]

How was your rockfish?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I like my rockfish quite a bit. Emelia, you also had something on this.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The song is Rock Lobster, not rock Fish, but I think it works. Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

Rock Rockfish.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, I got to see. I went to see the B52s at the Bowl. Oh, wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, man, that's cool.

[Gil Azaria]

So dope.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was great.

[Gil Azaria]

And Devo was there, too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Gil Azaria]

It was great.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What a night.

[Mike Mitchell]

I had a little child Crush on the 2 be B52 ladies.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. From the. From Love Shack. From the Love Shack.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

How great is Fred Schneider?

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, my God. It Was great. Although he is more tired now.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I can imagine.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right, Time for bed. Not. I don't know why I decided to be impression Ivina. That was a very good.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So, okay. Garlic sauce. Because this is part of the charm of this place. You get to choose whatever your sauce is. Garlic sauce. You got half Cajun, half garlic butter, Mitch. Which is a go to for me too. But a lot of times I just

[Mike Mitchell]

get full Cajun because honestly, I think they just give you two dipping. If you get it on the side, they just give you two dipping sauces.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right. And.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, you can split it. I didn't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is. It is. I mean, the garlic butter is the better. Is the best one, I think, of all of them.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But it is, it is very garlicky.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And so I get the lingering sort of garlic feeling sometimes. I got something I never get, which is the seasoned olive oil, which is another option for my wild rock dish.

[Gil Azaria]

I like it quite bit.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

A bit.

[Gil Azaria]

You did? Yeah. I couldn't taste the difference between that and no seasoning.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It does, it does seem just kind of tastes like olive oil. I agree with you. Like, I, I'm not sure how seasoned it is.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay. Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But I don't know. I, I got the job done.

[Gil Azaria]

It was, it was tasty.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Cajun is very. Well, the garlic butter also is pretty strong flavor.

[Dave Ferguson]

It is.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I, I, I do, I like that garlic.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You definitely taste that Cajun. Kind of feels like you're, you're down in the bayou, Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

It does seem like you're down the bayou. Wait, are you trying to, Are you trying to make me. Let me tell you this. If you were at a movie theater and you and you had to eat a log of shit, that garlic butter would cover it up. It would cover it up. Yeah, you would. I don't think anyone would be the

[Gil Azaria]

wiser unless you can, like, smell three layers down.

[Amelia Marino]

I don't think you can stump the buff here.

[Dave Ferguson]

I feel like someone's gonna have to eat shit so that she can prove this.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you related? Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Someone's gonna have to eat shit. You're right.

[Dave Ferguson]

Now someone's gonna have to eat shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, drop, you're related to the guy who asked to smell people's breath in Emma's bar.

[Amelia Marino]

I feel like you do that, though.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Do you really?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah, it's a party trick I can do.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And you, you say what they, they.

[Gil Azaria]

What they ate.

[Amelia Marino]

What they ate for breakfast?

[Gil Azaria]

No, breakfast specifically.

[Amelia Marino]

Oh, yeah. Just like the last meal that you.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The last meal they Had.

[Dave Ferguson]

I got.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Because I was going to say, like. It's like I've had two meals since breakfast. If you could. And some snacks. If you could tell my breakfast, that'd be impressive.

[Mike Mitchell]

Get over here and sniff his breath.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I don't want you to sniff my breath.

[Dave Ferguson]

You're also.

[Amelia Marino]

Yogurt. Yogurt.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I do not. You. You're guessing. You're guessing wildly.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sniff his breath.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I don't want you to sniff my breath.

[Dave Ferguson]

He's also using.

[Mike Mitchell]

As your boss, I demand you sniff his breath. Breath. You've got to do it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Denver omelette.

[Dave Ferguson]

A log of shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

If you weren't. If you didn't eat yogurt. A great guess, Amelia. Now, the guess would be cottage cheese or a banana or oatmeal.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Banana.

[Mike Mitchell]

A banana.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah, I see. I assume with the oatmeal or the yogurt. Bananas in there somewhere.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bananas. That's your breakfast?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I just had a banana. Yeah, I wasn't very hungry.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Amelia Marino]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

A cup of black coffee and I just get good sleep when I get.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I almost feel like half breakfast this morning. If this is. If you're making us guess what it is, like a banana. I just say.

[Gil Azaria]

When he walked in, I could. I. I smelled banana. I was like, jesus, someone ate a banana for.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you get what I'm saying?

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

If you're. If you had just a banana. If you had a banana, a yogurt, I'd be like, okay, that's your breakfast.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I don't think. I don't think you can say, because

[Mike Mitchell]

I think this almost goes to snack territory is what I'm saying. It's not meal, your am snack, but

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think the first thing I had in the morning still is breakfast. Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

You're breaking the fast.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, okay, okay.

[Gil Azaria]

But I get what you're saying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. This is a piece of fruit.

[Amelia Marino]

I will say. Wigs. I had the same exact breakfast as you.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wow.

[Amelia Marino]

Coffee and a banana.

[Dave Ferguson]

Wow. That was two shrimp tacos.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hell, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

At 6pm At 6pm Jesus Christ.

[Dave Ferguson]

I had a coffee. Does that count? I also. I didn't. I also did not. It took me forever to fall asleep last night, so I slept in this morning because I, like, didn't want to be exhausted.

[Gil Azaria]

Did you go to, like, a restaurant or they were in your fridge or something?

[Dave Ferguson]

What? Oh, no, it was what I had here.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, it's right here. Oh, really? That was your breakfast?

[Dave Ferguson]

That was the first food I ate.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're looking at me thinking that this is my first meal. I. I actually also had a banana.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wow.

[Gil Azaria]

Whoa.

[Mike Mitchell]

But also had a Dave's Killer Bread everything bagel with. With chive cream cheese.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, that's fun.

[Amelia Marino]

I knew it.

[Dave Ferguson]

I knew it. Everything bagel. You could definitely smell it.

[Gil Azaria]

You'll never guess what I had.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

How are you?

[Amelia Marino]

Grits.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, my God. I had yogurt with passion fruit. We went to the farmer's market this week.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, man, he's loving that.

[Gil Azaria]

Have you ever had passion fruit with a little bit of peanut butter?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No.

[Gil Azaria]

You gotta try it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sad news for him.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I've developed a peanut allergy in middle age.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, you did?

[Mike Mitchell]

Peanut allergies.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But I do like passion fruit and I do like peanut butter. I can see how those work together.

[Gil Azaria]

Put honey on it then. If you can't put peanut butter.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that sounds good.

[Gil Azaria]

It's really good.

[Mike Mitchell]

I will very almond butter in there instead. You could do that, couldn't you? Or butter. Oh, you can't.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, almond butter. Yeah, you do almond butter.

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you think? I said regular butter.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I thought you said lemon butter. It's like lemon butter. Not a replacement for peanut butter.

[Gil Azaria]

You're always talking about lemon butter.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, don't put no actual butter. I'm saying, like a peanut alternative butter.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But, Mitch, you're in my Gert chat. You're in our Gert chat.

[Mike Mitchell]

We are in a Gert chat, and

[Gil Azaria]

it's a good chat.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's our yogurt chat we have with our friends. I got Anastasia and so three people

[Mike Mitchell]

eating breakfast and me just being like, it looks good. I'm never eating breakfast. I'm, I, I, I posted the least. I do try to eat yogurt.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You do?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And you'll sometimes post a pic of, like, an Italian sub or something.

[Dave Ferguson]

I'll start sending you pictures of my yogurt bowls and you can send them as your own.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right.

[Gil Azaria]

I love pictures of your yogurt.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

When we have yogurt or oatmeal is also valid, we'll send it to each other and just say like, oh, that looks good. But I, I very often will have some berries and then like some, some, you know, full fat Greek yogurt on top of that. And then I'll just kind of Peter north it with some hon find like, like just the little drizzle. The little drizzle of honey is, is a delight.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

Peter north doesn't do little drizzles, does he?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a great point.

[Mike Mitchell]

We talked about this before. Peter south was what we decided I

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

was Peter south of the alt was Mike Mitchell.

[Mike Mitchell]

Didn't we say that Peter south had, like, a tiny dick?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Peter south had a small dick and shot small loads.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right. So I kind of Peter south it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did we have a. Like a reverse Dolly Parton, too, at one point? We did. We.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That was a reverse Dolly Parton.

[Dave Ferguson]

What's a regular Dolly Parton?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What the hell is it?

[Mike Mitchell]

Big titties? And we were. We said we had another. We had another version for Dolly Parton. But you remember I told you that at Dollywood that the roller coaster, it goes into her boobs? And you believed me?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, I believed it. I was like, that sounds kitschy.

[Gil Azaria]

I believed you, and you just said it too.

[Dave Ferguson]

I'm honestly upset at. Dude.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it doesn't. It doesn't happen. There's no boob coaster. I lied.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Everyone's fish. We were enjoying our fish.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Mine was good.

[Dave Ferguson]

That was great. It was better than I expected, honestly.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Let's. Let's talk sides because. Gil, you got. I. I have here that. You got the street corn and the white rice. How was that treating you?

[Gil Azaria]

I like the corn.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Is your corn a go to.

[Gil Azaria]

It is, but, you know, I. I order it a lot, so I mix it up. But I do love the corn. Corn. I like the corn.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wait, so corn is like. Like, you mix it up, but you mentioned, like, zucchini earlier.

[Gil Azaria]

I'll go, yeah, I'll do all their sides, right? Yeah, I'll mix it up so I don't get sick of it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I actually will do the same thing here because they have some salad. I always try to get at least one green, so they'll have, like, some salads or, you know, you can get, like, a house salad or I think they have a mini Caesar salad. They have em.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I both got the house salad with balsamic vinaigrette.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And then you can also get, like, asparagus or Brussels sprouts. There's a few different options.

[Mike Mitchell]

Some asparagus today.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I got the. I got the asparagus today.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let's smell that piss.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a different segment.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

The.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The asparagus was as.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, I. You not only have to smell the

[Mike Mitchell]

breath, you have to. You also have to smell the. You also.

[Amelia Marino]

I have a story about that, but we could. We could talk about the food and stuff.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wait, no, no. Let's tell your piss story.

[Amelia Marino]

All right. Well, I went to eat at this restaurant that had an outdoor patio, and it smelled horrible outside. And we were. It was a birthday dinner party, and we were like, what is the source of the smell? And then I realized there were grates on the floor for, like, drainage, and we were smelling urine every time the toilets were flushing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Amelia Marino]

So I was like. I was like. I was like, I need to test this hypothesis. I ate asparagus that day. Earlier that day, and I took a piss.

[Gil Azaria]

Whoa. This is like, Sherlock Holmesy.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes. Sherlock piss, sure.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Like piss.

[Amelia Marino]

I was like, I'm gonna flush the toilet after I piss. I'm gonna come out, and if it smells like my asparagus piss, then we know what the source is. So that's what came out.

[Mike Mitchell]

I, by the way, so disgusting. I know.

[Amelia Marino]

And it smelled like asparagus. So I was right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's disgusting.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Your own, by the way, asparagus piss doesn't smell like asparagus.

[Amelia Marino]

Asparagus piss.

[Mike Mitchell]

It has that.

[Amelia Marino]

It has that smell.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Yeah, yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

You know, I know it's asparagus.

[Amelia Marino]

I don't eat asparagus anymore.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And that was going to the whole patio.

[Amelia Marino]

Whole patio.

[Mike Mitchell]

You don't eat asparagus anymore. You gross yourself out from pissing and smelling it through the grate.

[Amelia Marino]

Just in general, I just find it so, like, revolting, the smell of asparagus piss that I avoid it.

[Dave Ferguson]

I kind of get that, honestly.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it is pretty gross.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I will sometimes get alarmed by the beets. Red piss.

[Dave Ferguson]

Okay. We had beets for dinner last night, and Mike this morning was like, was your piss red? And I was like, no, my piss has never been red after beats. Does this just not happen?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, that doesn't happen to me. My. My.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's a dude thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, mine doesn't turn. My piss doesn't turn red.

[Gil Azaria]

I used to have this. I tell this joke that I used to have, like, corn from my piss, asparagus piss, and pineapple come, and I would make a ceviche. Add beats to that.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah,

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

my asparagus was. My asparagus was very. Was very flavorful. Usually I'll get. I get rice there. They have good rice.

[Gil Azaria]

They do have good rice.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did see an Instagram video of yours where you go into the toilet.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Grab a shit.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yes. Yeah. If you had asparagus, you could probably go piss in the AC and we can see if it's working.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm not gonna piss in the air conditioner. My limits.

[Amelia Marino]

The.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The. I. I also got sweet potato fries, which is, you know, of course, they're not going to travel great, but their sweet potato fries were decent.

[Dave Ferguson]

Their takeout containers for the fries were interesting. Too, because they had little slits in the side they weren't fully closed in, which I feel.

[Amelia Marino]

Oh,

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

they have, like a spy. A spicy aioli that it comes with, and it's genuinely spicy, which I like because I'm a bit of a heat seeker. Like, I was like, oh, this has some. Some real burn to it. You know them?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Mitch, how are your sides?

[Mike Mitchell]

I got the. The Brussels sprouts, which is like one of their. A. Like a fan favorite side charge might be.

[Gil Azaria]

Charge.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was at one point. I don't know if it still is, but this. The.

[Amelia Marino]

The.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sorry. The Brussels sprouts. Brussels sprouts.

[Amelia Marino]

No up charge. I don't.

[Mike Mitchell]

No up charge. I think it used to be an upcharge at one point, but they're. Have you had those before? They're good.

[Gil Azaria]

They're good.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're good. They do a good job with them.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Is that.

[Gil Azaria]

There's other beans.

[Mike Mitchell]

Beans I haven't had.

[Gil Azaria]

Their beans are actually good.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Beans are solid.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was auditioning for something. Like. Like, I was auditioning for something, and I ate California fish girl. I was taking a shot, and it was like one of the. It was like a callback thing, and I was nervous, and I barfed up those beans.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, my God.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I talked about. Because I buffered up Jersey Mike's, but I also barfed up California fish. Wow. Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

From nervousness.

[Mike Mitchell]

From nervousness, everybody.

[Gil Azaria]

Will that happen during, like, auditions where you. It'll come out this way instead of that way?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, it was actually. I. I like to throw up, but then with the shot. I like it. It made me. It up. My gag reflex.

[Gil Azaria]

I didn't.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I didn't put. When you said shot, you meant the GLP one shot. You didn't mean, like, you took a shot for courage before?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, no, no, no. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just. Just the GLP one shot.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Was this in person?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no. I didn't barf beans onto, like, whatever. The casting director.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So you were like, on. You were like on Zoom or something like that?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I was on Zoom.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. You know. You know, I. I remember I barfed in the shower, and there was just, like, Jersey mics in my shower.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I do remember you barfing in the shower.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah. And I never. I. Look, the.

[Gil Azaria]

The. The.

[Mike Mitchell]

It got. We got gross in here. I'm sorry. We got. We. We. We. We got dirty and we apologize.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We're sorry for.

[Dave Ferguson]

Getting in your shower is gross compared to the other things you do in your shower.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Great point, Emma.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Shut up. I could have given you a real test at that rest. What's that smell?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Are the Brussels sprouts? Is it like a balsamic glaze? I apologize. You already said yes. Okay. So it's kind of a standard preparation.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's good. They're very. It's a good. It's a good sign. I'll say this. This is the same thing. If you get a bad version of it. It's very. They'll be too greasy or, like, kind of too much oil in them. Yeah. And the same with the fish. Like, there's been like, one or two times where I've gotten a California fish grow. I'm like, this is. Is, like, almost close to inedible.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then other times I've gotten around, like, this is, like, for a healthy meal is like, one of my favorite things to. To have delivered. Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

And you feel like, not like, after you eat it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. And that's why, like, I will. I even. Even having like, an occasional, like, one or, you know, one out of 10 or, you know, one out Of 20, even probably more realistically bad meals there. I still will never give that place up.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah. It's like.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's, like, bad, but, like, not like I'm going to have diarrhea. Like, I've never gotten sick from this place. No, no, no, no, no, no. So knock on wood. So. So let's talk lobster roll, Mitch, because you got one of those. I took one bite of that bad boy. What do you think of it? Not great.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, like, it was fine if for third. Like, we were saying it was $13

[Dave Ferguson]

and it was Connecticut style.

[Mike Mitchell]

And it was Connecticut style. You didn't know about the.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The.

[Mike Mitchell]

You were asking the difference between new New England style is mayo and cold. And sometimes in a. In a warm. Sometimes in a grill. Warm grilled ball on cold style. That's how I. That's the way I like it the most. But then Connecticut style is the.

[Gil Azaria]

The butter.

[Mike Mitchell]

The hot butter.

[Dave Ferguson]

Usually hot lobster with hot butter on it. Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's the. What's the main style? There's a main style one, too. And it's weird.

[Gil Azaria]

It's like, I think the. That we were talking about.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah, Yeah. I think they take the lobster. They take the green stuff. No, in Maine, it's always. Well, the way my family makes it is always a little bit of mayo and celery, and they make, like, a salad out of it, basically, that in toasted buns. So that's the way we've always done it. I don't know what the main style.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm looking it up right. I'm looking it up right now because

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

New England is inclusive of Connecticut, so it's. It's a little confusing.

[Dave Ferguson]

Some people would argue. No, but it is definitely inclusive of Maine. So New England style is maybe mainstyle. Well, people argue about Connecticut because they say it's like split. Half New York, half New England.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Got it.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is funny because Connecticut, Maine does

[Dave Ferguson]

not claim it, but, like, the tri state area tries to not claim it also. So I'm not really sure where it lands.

[Gil Azaria]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

What are the different types of lobster rolls? I'm looking wise.

[Dave Ferguson]

Lobster roll features cold, but that is just New England celery. Yeah. I think the main style is the New England style. I think they're the same thing.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Dave Ferguson]

I think they're just two names for the same thing.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think it should be main style and Connecticut style. Two states.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah, two states.

[Mike Mitchell]

You. You trying to take it away from New England.

[Dave Ferguson]

The lobsters.

[Mike Mitchell]

California piece of. You decide that it's just fucking main. What's that?

[Dave Ferguson]

They don't pull lobsters out of the water in Boston or Connecticut.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's. They. They. There's some lobsters from.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

In Boston legal down there now.

[Dave Ferguson]

They're like all the laws.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, back in the day, it wasn't illegal.

[Gil Azaria]

What about, like, finding Nemo? The lobsters were from Boston.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a great point. It's a really good point.

[Gil Azaria]

Thank you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, Emma. All right. Main style, cold with mayo and Connecticut. So they're not saying New England style. They are just saying Maine style, New

[Dave Ferguson]

England style, main style. I think they're the same thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

I thought.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I thought it was fine. I think that.

[Gil Azaria]

I think the.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The lobster roll is there because they're like.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was. It was. Yeah. For a lobster, it was pretty bad.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It feels obligatory though, right?

[Gil Azaria]

It's like.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Like we have to have one. And the same way they have fish and chips, it's like, we have to do this. This is. People expect it. I will say I think their fish tacos are decent. I'm curious what. What y' all thought. Cuz I got a battered fish taco and you also got a. A. A bread. Someone just walked by.

[Amelia Marino]

It's Tony.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Tony, are you here?

[Dave Ferguson]

Here? Sorry, we leave.

[Amelia Marino]

Sorry.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We were recording with the door open. Oh, no, no, you're fine. You're fine.

[Dave Ferguson]

So we were just. We're keeping the door open. Sorry.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

By the way, Tony, one of the other. Other engineers here. Who. Other Producers here works on some other. Hi, Tony. I met you before you.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

I had not.

[Gil Azaria]

Hi, Gil.

[Dave Ferguson]

This is Gil.

[Gil Azaria]

Nice to meet you.

[Mike Mitchell]

How's everybody?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Tall, tall Tony doesn't eat baloney.

[Gil Azaria]

You're.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You're a vegan. That's true.

[Mike Mitchell]

I bet there's some pretty good sil. Crumbs of that.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah, Tony.

[Mike Mitchell]

Tony does. Does any. Has anyone said that to you or did he make this up to remember? Is this.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's a mnemonic device I made up that I think freaked you out. So I apologize.

[Dave Ferguson]

Look, it just.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I get like really bad flashbacks to eating baloney.

[Gil Azaria]

I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, that or Tony baloney in general.

[Dave Ferguson]

There's.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's Tony, there's toe.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Toe.

[Gil Azaria]

Knee.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That would point at the toe. Oh, that's a tough one.

[Gil Azaria]

That's actually a good one.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Actually it's pretty good.

[Mike Mitchell]

So look, I won't own interrupt any longer. Very happy to see you all. Tony to warn you. You got some payback. Cuz you, you were freaked out by Nick a little bit, but you just freaked us out because we had the door open. We heard banging and when you walk. When you said I just saw a guy walk by, I was terrified that

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

there's someone in the building and you're wearing a beanie like you're a burglar.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I haven't told you why I'm here yet.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I hope you steal some of headgum stuff.

[Dave Ferguson]

They deserve

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

is hot.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's hot in the room. It's gotten hot.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's gotten hot.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Which is which. As everyone knows, the hotter it gets, the better it's better for comedy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, right.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. That's what you want. That's the number one rule.

[Mike Mitchell]

Del Close is number. If you read the book.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

His number one rule at the end is turn up the heat. Turn up the heat, Turn down the ac.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Are you ever a sauna guy? You ever do that?

[Gil Azaria]

I do, yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

I like saunas.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Have you ever. Because I, I, this is just making me think of like, of a guy. Like there was. I was at my gym, I used to go to. We'd go, I'd go in the sauna as a steam room and there was one guy who'd be there who I'd see semi regularly. He was like. Tried to be funny in there.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh no.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Jesus Christ. We just want to sit quietly, you know, we don't even want to. I don't want to converse at any level.

[Mike Mitchell]

Doing bits in there. Or was it like. What was, what was h. What was Happening.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I told this before that he went in and was like, was like, oh, it's like a sauna in here. Oh, that's a dad right there. That's. Yeah, that's fun. Is like, oh, you know that one is like, yeah, that where I was.

[Gil Azaria]

He like, I'll throw some salmon on the stones. You guys know that one?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fun.

[Gil Azaria]

That's fun.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That is fun. Anyway, reached. I, I was like, oh yeah, I heard that on Seinfeld. He's like, oh yeah, Kramer.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And then he goes to. It's messed up. What happened to him? He's defending Michael Richards.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know what? I gotta visit the sauna.

[Gil Azaria]

What happened to him?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'll make him laugh.

[Gil Azaria]

Terrible thing he went through. My Lord.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But anytime I, anytime I'd see him. I'd like 10 seconds.

[Gil Azaria]

He directed the Michael movie, right?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He directed Michael movie.

[Gil Azaria]

What happened to Mike?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I'll make him laugh in the sauna. Take my towel off. Are we, we're closing the door. Is there?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The door is closing.

[Dave Ferguson]

The studio's about to be used and he's got it set up. So I don't want to like make him. Well, I'll turn the fans on.

[Mike Mitchell]

As you know, it's sauna time for us. Anyways, there's a chord.

[Dave Ferguson]

Starting at 8pm Conover's doing a monologue.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, Conover's doing a monologue.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, Tony's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Tony's going to be here all night.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that why, is that why the painters and everyone was coming over were they were, they were going to fix the, the archways for Adam's hair?

[Dave Ferguson]

Cuz they just changed all the doors. Yeah, they had to fix the door. The archways. Now they have to.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

His, his as buffant damaged the ceiling so they have to repaint it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Repaint it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Just kind of was scraping the top of it. The surface. Surface of it. I, I thought the, I, I thought the, the, the fish taco, the batter fish taco is just totally decent. There's a lot of places you get a good fish taco in la, obviously. But it's like, it's like if I want a fish taco, I want something different than a fish plate.

[Mike Mitchell]

This craze. The actually, honestly. Well, you were, you were. I was going to say I, I, I feel like that the fish taco craze was maybe before the big burger craze. I was wondering if it was even before you got here because it was like, yeah, the, the fish taco and it was the best fish tacos in Encinita was. Was one of the sp spots.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah. That fish tacos have always been out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, of course.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But.

[Mike Mitchell]

But you remember, like, when there was like, like all, like Best Fish Taco was like a big.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I do remember in the early aughts when it became like, oh, this place has the best fish t. Like there's place calling itself Best Fish Taco as their claim to fame. But like all these, like, oh, you got to go to this spot. You go to this spot. And a lot of people were like, just discovering this. This.

[Mike Mitchell]

The breaded fish taco and Wahoo's always existed. There was always places in LA that I went to before.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, Rubio's.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rubio's. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I was. We. When we. Me and my dad and my brother ran that half mar marathon, our hotel was right by the original Rubio's location.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you hit it up or.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, I thought about it and I was like, no, I should have gone.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I should have gone.

[Gil Azaria]

Is it really good?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I like Rubio's.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Gil Azaria]

No, no.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Ruby is very solid if you like fish tacos.

[Mike Mitchell]

In 2005, when I first moved here, like, Wahoos felt like just. You know what? Baja Fresh also felt like a big deal.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Baja Fresh used to have a good fish taco.

[Mike Mitchell]

Baja Fresh and then. And Wahoo's like that. That felt like a big. Both of them felt like big deals

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

when I first moved here.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then a few years later, this is one Best Fish Tacos and a couple other places. But now that craze is kind of seemed to die a little bit. It subsided, and now you can get one at California Fish Grill. And it's. It is fine. I would say it's fine. Fine is a good way to describe it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I feel like it's a pretty standard, like, thing you'll see on a chain restaurant menu or like a gastro pub. Now it's kind of like you're just going to see fish tacos.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, fish tacos, exactly.

[Mike Mitchell]

People get mad because we know they've been around for. But specifically that style of. What you mean? Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What did you think of your. Your. Your shrimp taco?

[Amelia Marino]

I got the same one as.

[Dave Ferguson]

I loved it. They were great little, like, crispy fried shrimp. There's four of them in each taco. It was like, I got two tacos. Perfect little meal.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

Perfect breakfast.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You're satisfied with yours? Wow. We also got the coconut shrimp. Mitch. This was a thing that you added to the order.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I was like, this is one of my favorite. I Love. I love the coconut. Coconut. Look, you. I'll say this when I put in

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

my order, we should also say, Mitch, coconut shrimp is a Penthouse food. This is the thing we establish.

[Gil Azaria]

I actually Penthouse the magazine.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Penthouse, the magazine. No, this is a thing we established with Gabris is that Penthouse is something that's got a high floor. So, like, Like, Like a base level coconut shrimp is going to be pretty good.

[Gil Azaria]

Pretty good. Yep.

[Mike Mitchell]

I order the fish. I order. I order the coconut shrimp. And I put my order in. Yeah. Nick then writes in his order a bunch of.

[Gil Azaria]

And then.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right. Also maybe double up the coconut shrimp order so we can all try. I said, yeah, order one if you want it. This is my response.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's only two shrimp in an order.

[Mike Mitchell]

So it's like if it comes with two shrimp. So if you want Gil and Table to try it, you probably need an additional two. I plan on eating it as a part of my meal. I texted Susser. I saw. I texted Susser and I said to Susser, I said, make sure you get

[Gil Azaria]

me my own coconut shrimp.

[Mike Mitchell]

I said. I said to Susser also did pointedly

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

didn't join for the meal. We usually does.

[Dave Ferguson]

Well, he's still with the dodiac.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, he's with the dod.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Of course he's with the dodiac. So that would prevent him from how.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's on dodiac jury duty. Today is from what I understood. I. I texted where I put in quotes. Also, maybe double up the coconut shrimp order so we can all try. And I wrote piggy Mitch, not thinking of everyone else.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I knew there were only two in an order.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're bullshit.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I knew there were only two in an order.

[Mike Mitchell]

It felt fucking like I was being a pig.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I knew that. I didn't think you were being a pig. It wasn't passive aggressive. I think you're in a pig. I'm going to call you a fucking pig.

[Mike Mitchell]

It seemed a little like. It seemed a little. It seemed a little passive aggressive.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

How did De interpret this?

[Dave Ferguson]

I didn't think of it anyway, except the fact there are two in an order and five people in the room. So everybody wants shrimp. You need three orders. That's what I thought it was. That's what I thought.

[Mike Mitchell]

Just say you wanted the shrimp, you fat.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You got your own order of coconut shrimp.

[Amelia Marino]

I got my own order of coconut shrimp.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wait, so there were eight coconut shrimp total?

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. And they almost all got eaten.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

But also, I just said this to you. Listen to me. Order your own coconut shrimp, you fat. Don't put it on me. It's not my fault that I wanted it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I did order my own coconut shrimp. That's what I was saying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I know. You were afraid to. And I had. I had the balls. I think you had the balls do it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I thought, where was the fear from? I ordered it myself.

[Dave Ferguson]

You both ordered it. And I thought Wagger was saying, if other people are going to want to try it, we should add more because I'm going to eat it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I should have responded with, hey, if, like, maybe we should double up on the asparagus in case other people want it. That's the type of.

[Dave Ferguson]

No.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It just seemed that would have crossed the line. Mitch. I'd been offended if you'd done that. No, I mean, who gives? Yeah. Like, yeah, if we want to get another asparagus, who gives a.

[Mike Mitchell]

For the suer then said that he was going to say it to the text crew. I said, don't do that. It's going to. It's going to get Nick mad.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm not mad. We're fine. I don't think it was a big deal. I don't know why you thought it was a big deal.

[Dave Ferguson]

I don't even think I read what you're talking about, to be honest.

[Amelia Marino]

None of this registered to me as weird until now.

[Gil Azaria]

I'm just like a bystander here. But I feel like you guys should never, ever talk to each other.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's actually probably the truth. 10 years.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, Gemberling was mentioned earlier. That was making me think. Remember we had Gemberling on for, I think, a Little Caesars episode, and we had a fight on that episode because I was picking up the Little Caesars order that you placed via phone, and then I had trouble getting it because there were two Little Caesars on the same.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, it sounds like you fucked up bad.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But also you put the order under Mario, which is an added complication.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's funny.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It was funny.

[Dave Ferguson]

So you're at the wrong little scene,

[Mike Mitchell]

just going, mario, that's funny. I was funny back then.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I agree. It's funny.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know what's happened. Am I the person you've talked to the most in your life now? It's a possibility.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I've talked to my wife more than you.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right. I was going to say your wife. Maybe. I thought maybe she was first or second.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a maybe. That's rough.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's the answer?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Is it possible I've talked to you more than my wife? I can't. I don't think that's Possible.

[Gil Azaria]

Do you consider Nick's wife a person that's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think I talked. I've talked to Nate Weger more than you over the course of my life.

[Mike Mitchell]

Nate. W. Okay. All right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I've talked to my parents more than you over the course of my life.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And some childhood friends. I, I, I think one getting close. One childhood friend in particular, my buddy Brandon, who sometimes listens to pod. Hey there, Brandon, if you're listening. He, I, I talk to him a lot because I like, I still talk to him. And then we talked as kids.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm going to apologize. It's getting hot in here. I'm getting agitated.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It is getting hot in here.

[Dave Ferguson]

Hot really quickly.

[Mike Mitchell]

It did it. It heated up so fast. It's awesome.

[Amelia Marino]

Awful.

[Mike Mitchell]

This sucks.

[Dave Ferguson]

When he's done setting up and closes

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

the door, I'll open it Is crazy.

[Gil Azaria]

Needs cold.

[Mike Mitchell]

Comedy does.

[Gil Azaria]

And fights need heat.

[Mike Mitchell]

Fights need heat.

[Gil Azaria]

Jerry Springer. They return the heat up.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Would they really?

[Gil Azaria]

I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I believed it. I believe like the Dolly Parton thing, it's crazy. What a hot box has turned into just with the door closed.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I didn't realize how much work the door was doing.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was just making fun of you. I was trying to have fun. But it's fine.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It worked. We're having fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sometimes you make comments. Sometimes you do a little, you know. Sometimes you make some comments like that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yo, you're having fun, right?

[Gil Azaria]

I'm having the best time.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We're all having fun. Everyone's having fun here.

[Dave Ferguson]

I'm having a blast.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, I do have to go to the bathroom to eat a little piece of shit.

[Dave Ferguson]

But

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

we can take a break.

[Mike Mitchell]

Go, go, go.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Anytime.

[Gil Azaria]

No, I'm.

[Mike Mitchell]

He was just joking. You're too gullible.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That was a joke. I believed it too.

[Amelia Marino]

I thought it was real.

[Dave Ferguson]

I wasn't.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is. This is a. This is a mess. Everyone is falling.

[Dave Ferguson]

I thought Gil needs to go to the bathroom. We can open the door for. Yeah, the heat.

[Gil Azaria]

It's the heat.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I thought you. I thought you gonna go piss. But then the shit eating was a joke on top of that. Yeah, but no, you don't have to at all. How about that?

[Mike Mitchell]

Let's get. Let's talk about. Let's get to the fork, right?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Clam chowder. What do you think of clam chowder? Fuck it.

[Amelia Marino]

The clam chowder was good. I'm something of a sides queen. I got all sides. I got the clam chowder, the coconut shrimp and a side taco. All delicious. Clam chowder consistency of gravy.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what we. I gotta. I try to. A scoop of it. I still a little thin, actually. It was a little gelatin. It just tasted like gravy. It really didn't.

[Amelia Marino]

Like.

[Dave Ferguson]

Amelia described it as thin and gelatinous at the same time.

[Mike Mitchell]

The way it looked was thin and gelatinous. I would say that it wasn't like super. There was no. It's. I didn't get any potatoes in my one taste of it. Did you?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No potatoes?

[Mike Mitchell]

No. I don't even know there was potatoes in there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's weird. Weird choice.

[Mike Mitchell]

We said. We were saying that it tasted like a KFC gravy.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I don't know. That's like, already not great. Well, yeah. Yes. Yeah. I mean, it was good. It was bad, but it was good.

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's. It's not. It's very low on the list of clam, I would say. What would you give it like a C minus food?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

For me, Clam cheddar Is a penthouse food to you?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Dave Ferguson]

For you. I do think penthouse items are personal.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Because I think. I think it's some really wretched clam chowder.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know what it looks like? It looks like a combo between New England clam chowder and like. Is it Connecticut clam chowder? That's the clear one.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Rhode Island, I think Rhode Island.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I like the Rhode island chowder. Yeah. Are you a chowder guy?

[Gil Azaria]

I do like chowder. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What's your go to style? New England.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay. Yeah. Because there is a Manhattan, but there is Manhattan too. Yeah. No, I'm from Queens, so. I hate Manhattan.

[Mike Mitchell]

Man.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

One's tomato based, right. I just know that kind of weird tomato base.

[Gil Azaria]

It's like a thin, really thin soupy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I don't get it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I. I don't know how secretive is, but I'm in a chowder club and you've been.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I got invited. I was.

[Gil Azaria]

What does that mean?

[Mike Mitchell]

We eat chowder and we all have. We. We all have spoons with our names written on.

[Gil Azaria]

How often do you meet?

[Dave Ferguson]

Does yours say spoon man? Please say yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mine says Mitch on it.

[Dave Ferguson]

Damn it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know. It's cool, though.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I. I think we.

[Mike Mitchell]

We meet like every couple months. I'd say, oh, wow. It's a few months.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Something of a secret society. But you have a special guest that you get that gets invited. I was the special guest for one. One meal and disappointed everyone.

[Gil Azaria]

What was. Why did you disappoint everyone?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think they were, like, hoping that would be like Aziz or something.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Someone more famous. Someone actually famous.

[Mike Mitchell]

We. We. It's not just a famous.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, we had fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

We had a lot of fun.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Great crew there. I'm friends with.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We're friends with everybody.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. Me and Michael and Jeffrey.

[Gil Azaria]

The gang.

[Mike Mitchell]

The gang. The gang. I knock. I can't say too much more. I feel like maybe I've already said too much.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I like the tease. Its exact.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fun. Okay,

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[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay, let's get to our final thoughts on California Fish Grill. So. So, Gil, this is how it. It's how it works. In the podcast, we'll each go around, give our closing argument, if you will. We can talk about this, this experience and our previous experiences and use that to come to a fork score from zero to five.

[Gil Azaria]

Gotcha.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So zero to five forks. Your thoughts, your score? We'll start with you.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, okay. I will say, I don't know how it's. I'll just. I will say that if you want a decent meat meal that's, you know, inexpensive, but you. That's kind of healthy, go with this. But if you're looking for something exciting, this is not the place. And I'm gonna go. It's. Out of how many? Five.

[Mike Mitchell]

Five.

[Gil Azaria]

Five. I'm gonna go right down the middle. Two and a half.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Two and a half forks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. Two and A half.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Four.

[Gil Azaria]

Is that a lot? I can't tell.

[Mike Mitchell]

Actually.

[Gil Azaria]

No, I would say what would a great rush. What would.

[Mike Mitchell]

I guess if you five forks is

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

like the five forks is of course

[Mike Mitchell]

the four and above is Golden Plate Club for us. Which is. Which is like a level of like, if you're in the Golden Plate.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay, then I. I want to change my answer. Okay, I'll give it. I'll give it one and a half.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Dave Ferguson]

I thought you were g. A lot,

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

but you get it regularly.

[Gil Azaria]

I get it regularly and I don't like it. Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

I get that side. For me. I was like, when I first tried it, I was like, is this like a five forker? Like, I was like, is this like the top. Top of. And then I've gotten bad versions of it. I still do really like it. And, and we, we try to judge it on what is. Is it. Is it succeeding at what it's trying to do? Yes. And.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And how is California Grit Fish Grill at succeeding at the concept of being California Fish Grill?

[Gil Azaria]

I see.

[Mike Mitchell]

I would say today mine was like a three and a quarter meal. But I will say, first of all, I like that it. California Fish Gill is cool.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That is cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

We should. We do have to admit that that is cool. Amelia, you are right. Never mind. You weren't paying attention. But, but I. For what it's trying to do, be a healthy place like that. Yes. One in ten times it can be bad. I am also, like, not excited to get it, but it is succeeding what I was trying to do. So I'm going to go. I'm going to squeak it in at Four Forks. I know. So that's high. I know I'm going high, but that is. That's where my heart is for it. I don't know if it deserves that, but I think at its best, I think it is four Forks.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, Mitch, here. Here's what I would say. And, and I think that's well argued. And I agree that as far as the thesis of this podcast goes, California Fish Grill succeeds at the promise of the premise.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You get what you're. You're expecting.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's grilled fish.

[Gil Azaria]

That's grilled from California.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

From California.

[Amelia Marino]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I like that it's a local place. I like that they have at least some effort at being ecologically minded.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And I like that. Here's the thing. You are correct. It is a boring spot.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm never, like, excited to get it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're a boring guy, though.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm a boring guy. And every time I get it, I'm, I'm like, you know what? This is going to be fine. Like I, I, I, like, like, you

[Mike Mitchell]

mean like life or, or the meal?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, not life.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, okay.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Never say that about life. No, the meal's gonna be fine. The meal's gonna be fine. And sometimes I have something that's like, hey, this is really good. And that's kind of my experience with the dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun, dun rockfish plate. I thought, I thought it was surprisingly good. I did not got the rockfish before. I was like, maybe this will be a go to for me. This is pretty flavorful. And I don't know, I mean, like, I, I think I'm in the hand holding club with my co host. I think I'm gonna say four forks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This is one of the few places that we cover on this pod. I shouldn't say few places. I eat these fucking places all the time. But this is a place that I consistently go to. This is on the higher end, the higher usage rate of chain restaurants that we cover on the podcast. And they're, they're chains. I don't need.

[Gil Azaria]

You know what, hearing your guys's arguments, I'm going to go down to a one.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Does not make the Golden Plate Club, but a good outing from California Fish Grill. It's time for a segment.

[Mike Mitchell]

I will say that it is one of the places that we order when in the office. Like four meals. Yeah, yeah. Which is, that's something very serviceable.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's serviceable.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's also like, I don't really like Chipotle either, but I'll get a chipotle bowl.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Because why the hell.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, I'd rather have this than Chipotle.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fair. I get that.

[Dave Ferguson]

It's a good maintenance.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the way, thank God we're doing a drinker. A cold dranker stank in the. Instead of the dry chips in this sauna room. It's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, we auto bowled from chips.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thank God.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

To this Gatorade mashup. So hold on a second.

[Mike Mitchell]

Now let me shake it. I just, I was making fun of your shake. You went. This is how you shake. You went like this.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Mitch doesn't trust Amelia's shake. She just inverted it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Why don't you shake it like that?

[Amelia Marino]

I want it to spill.

[Dave Ferguson]

Are you supposed to shake it?

[Amelia Marino]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, I don't even know if you are. Well, this is a Gatorade mashup. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We've got a drink. We're going to Decide if you pour it down your throat, it's drank or stank. And we've got this Gatorade mashup. This is a. A Gatorade lemon, lime, orange combo. Two iconic flavors in one. I'm not quite sure how this works, but we're going to get into it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you a Gatorade fan?

[Gil Azaria]

I do. I used to think it tasted like sweat, but now I kind of like that taste. I've grown accustomed.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is like I had. I had a thing for my red.

[Gil Azaria]

Red is my favorite.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I like blue.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm a blue guy. Red is good.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like strawberry Gatorade quite a bit. The fierce strawberry.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I actually like the orange quite a bit, too. Yeah, fierce is good.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Amelia has portioned out these. This Gatorade mashup.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cheers, my friends.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Cheers, bud.

[Gil Azaria]

To Michael.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

To Michael.

[Mike Mitchell]

To Michael. Here we go.

[Gil Azaria]

Pretty good.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, it's. It's pretty good, but it's like, almost.

[Gil Azaria]

It doesn't have a lot of taste.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's the thing. It weirdly, like, they neutralize each other to some degree.

[Mike Mitchell]

They do kind of neutralize each other.

[Dave Ferguson]

Cooler.

[Mike Mitchell]

I kind of does taste like ecto cooler. I loved ecto cooler.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Ecto cooler was the. For. For our younger listeners. I think it's maybe around now, but it was high C. Green. High C with slimer was on it from Ghostbusters. That was a lot of fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you mind if I take a sip from the actual. I don't give a. I wonder if I would be able to. I told Amelia that that I. There's a lot of YouTube videos of people who like, guess guessing. Drake drinks.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You think you can do it?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm pretty good at it. And I'm just tasting this. I'm like, I wonder if I would know that this was half lemon lime, half arm. Like, it's you kind of.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This is a Wyker challenge.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is a wider challenge. I don't know if I'd be able. I'd be like, I know this is Gatorade, but I don't know if I'd be able to tell what. And actually, even the taste of it would make me think it's not Gatorade, because it kind of.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Leads you off the trail.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I would guess like, Powerade lime or something.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Because I just, like, it was not Gator. Not quite Gatorade. But then obviously this is not that. Yeah. I don't know. It's kind of a.

[Gil Azaria]

Almost doesn't have enough taste.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's like a sweet water with A little bit of acid to it. It's.

[Dave Ferguson]

It's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This is really a strange thing to drink. I don't hate it.

[Mike Mitchell]

It tastes like a diet Gatorade or something. It does, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

But this is a full sugar one.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is. It is full sugar. Two iconic flavors in one. Oh, yeah. Lot of sugar. 190. No, wait. Yeah. 190 calories per container.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Almost 200 calories. And then how much sugar? Total sugar wise? Guess how much sugar you're getting in this bad boy.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm gonna guess 56 grams.

[Mike Mitchell]

48 grams.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You were okay.

[Gil Azaria]

Wow.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think this is. I like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's pretty us down. It's very hot in here.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, I like it. And, like, you know, if I was, like, on a run or something, I had this would be very refreshing.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So I'm gonna give this a mild drink. I'm not excited about it, but it gets the job done.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love. I love Gator. I think it was a thing after. After it was sports stuff and then drinking Gatorade. Gatorade. But I still do love.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, hangover, too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, Hangover.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Anytime.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's what I meant by drinking like a. Like. Like a hang. Like a hangover cure.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was telling you, had a headache when this all started. How are you feeling now?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Wise feeling okay. But it's not the Gatorade that replenished it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did the coke help?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think it was the meal. I think it was. I think it was the California fish grill. This nutritious meal. It was unexciting, but, you know, filled me up.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was saying, for me now. Now Advil, liquid gels, shower. But then the third thing, it probably helps.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, wow.

[Gil Azaria]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Third thing is probably a Coke heavy. A Coke heavy will, like, help a headache big time. Yeah. And people make fun of me for. They say that, like, that's not going to. And I'm like, it does. The sugar helps.

[Dave Ferguson]

Caffeine is huge for. Is huge for headaches. It's like a big thing for people with migraines, too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Caffeine's a big off.

[Dave Ferguson]

I feel like this cherry medicine has caffeine in it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right. I feel like this. This cherry Coke Zero is kind of help perking me up a little bit too. So might. That might also be counteract.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think this is not even in the top half of Gatorade flavors.

[Gil Azaria]

No, no.

[Mike Mitchell]

But still saying that, like, yeah, it's a drank.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I give it a drink versus drank or stank because it's Gatorade. And I like Gatorade. Gil, Gil, you have a verdict here?

[Gil Azaria]

I guess. Drank. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Drank.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Amelia Marino]

The.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The deus is not interested in trying this.

[Amelia Marino]

That's okay.

[Dave Ferguson]

Really?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's saying something. You were truly collecting pieces of fish at the end of the night and you don't want to take a sip of this?

[Dave Ferguson]

But I'm not a big Gatorade person.

[Mike Mitchell]

No.

[Dave Ferguson]

Been like, if I've been sweating a lot, I will. I had a doctor once tell me that Gatorade will actually dehydrate you unless you've been sweating a lot. And to drink Pedialyte instead. So all through college, I would like chase shots or drink Pedialyte in the morning instead. And now I'm just a liquid IV girl.

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I, I love liquid iv.

[Dave Ferguson]

That's.

[Mike Mitchell]

That is. I do a liquid IV every night. And this is not paid. This is not a sponsor.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

They are sponsor.

[Mike Mitchell]

But yes. Yeah, I do. Liquid IV is just like a restaurant.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Via your feedback. Let's open to the feedback. Today's email is from Reed. Reed writes, whenever I go to a new city, I'm looking for good eating recommendations. Anything that goes a little deeper than the top of the Bing results. My two main resources have always been spots that Anthony Bourdain visited and places you guys have gone to.

[Gil Azaria]

Wow.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Most recently, I made a pit stop at Culver's on the way. The Milwaukee airport. Good call. And the butter burger was well worth the detour. Solid root beer, too. My question to you is, where do you go for your recommendations? Also, I'm opening a new comedy club in the South Philly. Wow. We're keeping the menu simple. Mostly hot dogs. If there's any type of Frank that Frank would like to see on the menu. My name is Nicholas. Frank Wagner. Sometimes I go by Frank. I'm not going into it right now. We're not doing the bit. There's not a setup for the bit. Happens to be in the. I'm just giving context for Gil or any condiment that the spoon man would like to see dolloped out. I'm proud to say that the doughboys have left an impression between our buns. Love from Philly. We got to go back to Philly.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Been back to the city of Blur.

[Gil Azaria]

Up.

[Mike Mitchell]

Didn't mention. Hey, you want to come and play here?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

No.

[Amelia Marino]

No.

[Dave Ferguson]

And our fans will eat those with hot dogs.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know, a lot of the things that we've talked about on this podcast have been Jonathan Gold recommendations in the past. So I think that, like, a shout out to him for for instance, Saps Coffee. Saps Coffee Shop.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, Saps Coffee Shop.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That was Jonathan Gold type place here.

[Mike Mitchell]

A Thai place.

[Gil Azaria]

He has that one list of like best hunt like that I always go back to.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. And that they would like change. He would do it every year. But there was like his final one, I think still like there's. Because I think it's like 101 restaurants. It was LA Times, right?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

And do they still. Do they still do it every year? I think they maybe I think they

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

do it without him.

[Gil Azaria]

And.

[Mike Mitchell]

And there are like some from his. Even from his old list that are still on there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Stalwarts guilty of a place you go to for food recommendations.

[Gil Azaria]

My favorite is friends. I like, I like to go to. To people who have actually been to the place rather than just like find it online. Whatever about you.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So for me, thank you for asking. I you shout out Jonathan Gold. I'll shout out front of the pod. Past guest Farley Elliot very often because Mitch, you find yourself as the host of a food podcast. I don't know anything. Like I'm dumb. I'm not. I didn't like go to culinary school, you know, like I don't know what the I'm talking about.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So someone's like, hey, what are some great recommendations for this type of food in LA or whatever. I'll sometimes just like be like, here's a Farley Elliott thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Maybe taking the crown from John. I mean I think he maybe is.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He's continuing the legacy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, continuing the legacy is better than taking the crown. No, but, but Farley sounds like grave robbing.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Farley who used to work for Eater and a lot of his Eater lists are still up there, but now is at SF Gate and you know, has like a. Does great content for them and his. His food recommendations. I mean this is a guy who like knows all the restaurants.

[Mike Mitchell]

Farley who is a friend. So like so Farley, he's la.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

He's LA based.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he's LA based. But him and then other friends. Like you were saying, like I'll talk to Nick. I talked to you ask you about food quite a bit and I we're on a text chain and I'll give people Boston Rex and stuff like that.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's always fun when someone asks you for Boston Re. Then you have a bible that you respond with. It's great, it's delightful.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I never, I should like write it down instead of continually being like, what do I have to. What Are you should make like a

[Dave Ferguson]

Google list and, like, put them on there and you just send it to people.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's a good idea.

[Mike Mitchell]

I told Perez to go to Bova's.

[Dave Ferguson]

I love Bova's.

[Mike Mitchell]

I said modern, Mike's Modern. And like Bova's.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Our buddy Ryan Perez.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch was just recently in Boston.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Was just recently in Boston. And you were giving us some wrecks.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And I was going down memory lane. And me and our mutual friend Charles Ingram, also on this thread, you were talking about pizzeria regime. And we're both like, the best cheese pizza I've ever had.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, really?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, it's really yummy. Hey, we're going back in Boston. Pizzeria.

[Mike Mitchell]

Regina, do you have. Do you have New York? Do you have, like, specific New York eats that you miss? And also, like, what?

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, yeah, I used to go. There's this place called Frankie's that's now in Brooklyn that I love.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Gil Azaria]

And I loved going there with my wife, Frankie Spontino, it's called.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

There was Slice Shop.

[Gil Azaria]

It's. No, this is an Italian restaurant.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Italian restaurant.

[Gil Azaria]

And there was one in the Lower east side too, but I don't think it's there anymore. But yeah,

[Mike Mitchell]

are there.

[Gil Azaria]

I went to. I was just there. I went to Cats and Rust and Daughters. I was there with my dog, with my kids, and I was like, oh, we were like in a hotel for my sister's wedding, and we were a couple blocks away from both of those places, so we just went there.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was exactly what I was going to ask you. I was like. I was like, are there tourist places that you. Because I love going to Cats is.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

And it's funny when some people are Actually, weirdly enough, the last time I went, the pastrami I got was like one of the only times where I was like, oh, this pastrami was like the end of it and it didn't taste as good and. But normally every time I'm there, I'm like, this is the best pastrami in the world.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And I taste so, so good. It's really good.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I can't believe I wore a long sleeve, like, shirt today. I'm so up.

[Gil Azaria]

I'm doubled up here. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Layers. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

You got a. I know. It sucks.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

It's so hot. Emma still got her jacket on. I. I don't know how any of you in during that.

[Mike Mitchell]

AC brokes his fucking flies and the fucking light switch.

[Dave Ferguson]

You want to know the secret? The floor back here is not carpeted and it's concrete and I'm wearing clogs, so I keep taking my shoes off and touching the cold concrete floor.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Power move.

[Gil Azaria]

Will they get it fixed? Will they do it? Are they good at that?

[Mike Mitchell]

At some point, but probably not by the time we do the next episode.

[Gil Azaria]

Why are they so.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

They got. They got other stuff going on.

[Gil Azaria]

They got other stuff going on.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Not at the offices. Emma. Amelia, where do you go to for wrecks?

[Mike Mitchell]

That feels so much better.

[Dave Ferguson]

I know.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, that's way better with the door open.

[Dave Ferguson]

I. When Mike and I are road tripping, I usually if I know someone from the city I'm going to, I will ask them first. Always. But if we're road tripping and we're somewhere in the middle of nowhere, Reddit is honestly like the local Reddit. Like if you go to like our Atlanta or our whatever, wherever you are and just like look for food threads, you can kind of find some stuff in there. And then between that and reviews, we pick something.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, some subreddits.

[Progressive Insurance Announcer]

Right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Actually helpful. That's the local ones too.

[Amelia Marino]

Reddit's Great Meals, Friends, Google reviews. Yeah, that's pretty much it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

I do Eater as well. Where Farley used to work. Farley. When I'm not looking at Farley stuff, but Eater, I'll look at like the 28 list of restaurants.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The other people working at Eater still. Still doing great work. So.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then Infatuation I'll look at too. Infatuation's the other one. Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

And wait, wait. I guess the other half of this is.

[Mike Mitchell]

And also come to the Doughboys. We'll tell you. We'll tell you what to eat.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The other half of this is eat

[Mike Mitchell]

shit when you're hungry in the movie theater.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

If we're assembling Amelia's face, Mitch, if we're assembling a hot dog and. And Gil is someone from the. The city of hot dogs. Sorry, Chicago. I. I think you get. I would like. You feel free to weigh in as well. But like, what. What would we like to see on a hot dog if the. If some Doughboys concoction is created at the South Philly Comedy Club.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, man, that's. That's is. This is hard to come up with right now.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I will say I.

[Gil Azaria]

Something different or just like.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I don't think it has to be anything unique. I mean, I think we do. We could do some standard components.

[Mike Mitchell]

What about the Doughboys? Just ketchup hot dog. You can. That's only has a just of ketchup on it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Here's the thing. I usually don't get ketchup on my hot dogs. I don't have a problem with people doing it. But, like, if it's just ketchup, it's like, I still need some mustard.

[Mike Mitchell]

Should it be like a. A version of a ripper? You know, like, you like.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, my God. A ripper is great.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

What about the Philly Ripper? And you make it kind of like a Chicago dog.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's fun.

[Gil Azaria]

But what's on it? So steak and cheese.

[Mike Mitchell]

That moment. I mean, honestly, that does sound good. Good. But if you did. If you did a fil. If you did a ripper and then I'm trying to think of, like, Philly specific stuff, but, like, how the Chicago dog has a pickle.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, like, is there a Philly cream?

[Dave Ferguson]

Like, Philly. Philly sushi rolls have cream cheese.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cream cheese?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, I was gonna say doughboy specific. Is there a way for us to. To mash up Boston and la. Is there a way for us to deduce New England and Southern California?

[Mike Mitchell]

New England, always seafood. I mean, like. Like a.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What about.

[Dave Ferguson]

What about.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

What about Boston baked beans?

[Mike Mitchell]

A bean and frank combo is pretty.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Frank and bean combo is pretty fun.

[Dave Ferguson]

Spicy sauce. Sauce of some sort for the heat.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right, right, right. Some sort of spicy sort of. Yeah, yeah. You know? I don't know. Yeah. Some sort of. Some sort of Mexican sauce or something.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This is fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like the name the Philly Ripper just because it sounds like. Sucks on ponytails.

[Gil Azaria]

Kind of sounds like a serial killer.

[Mike Mitchell]

It sounds like a serial killer. Philly Ripper. If you had a. If you had a hot dog that you deep fried and you put cream cheese and then the fried hot dog in there.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

That's fine. That sounds good.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then maybe some crispy onion on

[Dave Ferguson]

top of and something spicy to go with the cream cheese.

[Mike Mitchell]

Something spicy to go with the cream cheese.

[Amelia Marino]

Tabasco.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Well, Tabasco. It could be Tabasco. I think there's also, like, you know, since you mentioned spicy, I'm a bit of a heat seeker. Like, I feel like some sort of, like, spicy Thai sauce might be interesting. I don't know.

[Dave Ferguson]

It's just like a chopped up jalapeno.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like that. I also. How about. Okay, cream cheese. Sorry, I got too excited about this. We're trying to end the episode. Cream cheese and the. Okay. Grilled bun.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cream cheese in there. Fried bun.

[Gil Azaria]

This is all on a plate, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

This is all. Yeah. First of all, let's. Let's set everything here. There's a Plate. There is a plate. And also there is a table.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

There is a table.

[Mike Mitchell]

There is a table.

[Dave Ferguson]

And maybe some.

[Mike Mitchell]

And you're sitting. Yeah, hopefully you're sitting. Plate, table. Under the plate.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

There's all it could be. Like, there's some. There's some standing areas where you could have like a.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure, you can eat it.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Comedy club. You know, you can eat it standing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Philadelphia cream cheese. RIP fried hot dog. Cherry pepper relish.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, that's.

[Mike Mitchell]

Whoa.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I like that, man.

[Mike Mitchell]

Crispy onions. I don't know how it would taste, but I think it's kind of fun. I think it might taste pretty good.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I'm remembering a snack we used to have as kids was cream cheese and salsa. I'm not sure if you ever did that. Oh, yeah. I didn't think my brother would make. I was like. I was like, maybe if it. Maybe cream cheese and just like pico de gallo or like a spicy pico could work.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you think? What do. What would you rather have? The cream cheese, the fried hot dog. And then of course we're going to end it with some crispy onions on there. But like, you know what I'm talking about, like the fried crispy onions. I know it's double fried, but whatever. But would you like sriracha on that instead of cherry relish or.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

No, I'm kind of feel like the sriracha is played out at this point.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

I think the cherry pepper relish or just like a. Again, just like a good quality spicy pico. Because I feel like, like pico has

[Dave Ferguson]

gotten underrated to it, which will. Yeah, fried.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yeah, that's kind of fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I would gave you something. All right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

You got some inspiration. Read. Good luck with a comedy club closes

[Mike Mitchell]

down because the fucking hot dog sucks.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We have a question comment about the world of chain restaurants. You can email [e-mail] or leave us a voicemail. 830 Go Do. That's 830-463-6844. Our producers, Emma Erd Brink. Our associate producers, Amelia Marino. Our video editor is Mike Dorfman. Kinshipgoods.com doughboys for merch and Emma. We of course have some live shows coming up at the end of this month.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yes, at the end of this month we're going to be in Raleigh and Charlotte, North Carolina. And then two shows in Atlanta. The 28th or. Sorry, no, the 27th, 28th and 29th of May.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

The early show in Atlanta is sold out. But there are tickets for the late show, so people jump on that one.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And the North Carolina is wide open. You can get tickets for both.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Gilazeri, one of the funniest people.

[Gil Azaria]

Oh, thank you so much for having me.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Such a delight.

[Mike Mitchell]

Overdue.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Please come back. Kevin is on Amazon prime again. Please plug the show and anything else you want to promote.

[Gil Azaria]

That's it. These guys are on it and watch it. It's fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it's so. It's so funny. And I mean, John Waters, like you're saying.

[Gil Azaria]

Yes, John Waters. I will also say that. Yeah. Me and Tony, Me and Anthony Atamanick's podcast in June is coming out.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Oh, yeah, look for that, right?

[Gil Azaria]

Yes. It's called Good Science.

[Dave Ferguson]

Yes.

[Gil Azaria]

And he plays rfk and I play a stand up, you know, one of these manosphere standup comedians. So if you're into making fun of those people, people, then please check it out.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Look for that in June.

[Gil Azaria]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

When Joe said it was coming back and he was like, also there's Whoopi Goldberg and John. I was like, oh, this is in such an insane cast. I remember being like in a zoom room and it was just me and John Waters and I was like, this is like such a legendary. And they're both. And he and Whoopi Goldberg and Amy Sedaris are so funny in the show. It's just such a skill is Gil is so, so like in life. Is so funny in the show.

[Gil Azaria]

Thank you.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

So rad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Jimmy is either following asleep or is cooked alive. I can't tell. She's here to burn potato. Hey, that'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time, this boom man, Mike Mitchell. I'm Tiger Weiger. Happy eating.

[Mike Mitchell]

See ya.

[Amelia Marino]

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 going to go into

[Amelia Marino]

a deep dive from our show.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

This is us.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right.

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

We're going to go episode by episode. We're also going to pepper in episodes

[Amelia Marino]

with different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are we gonna cry?

[Nick Tiger Weiger]

Yes, 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, man.

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[Mike Mitchell]

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