Coco Ichibanya with Matt Apodaca and Heather Anne Campbell

Summary

Doughboys Ep. "Coco Ichibanya" with Matt Apodaca & Heather Anne Campbell (Get Played)

Release Date: May 21, 2026
Podcast Theme: Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger, comedians, review chain restaurants with guests, argue about food, and riff on everything.

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Episode Overview

This week, hosts Mike "Spoonman" Mitchell and Nick "Tiger" Wiger welcome their friends and co-hosts from the video game podcast Get Played – Matt Apodaca and Heather Anne Campbell – for a wide-ranging and extremely funny episode. The central focus is their review of Coco Ichibanya, the global Japanese curry house chain, but the conversation covers a hilarious Japan trip recap, mental and physical health chats, Japanese fast food revelations, movie and video game talk, and much more.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Health, Medication, & Openness (14:10–26:40)

• Wiger & Mitchell share updates about their experiences using new GLP-1 medications (e.g., Wegovy), which are commonly associated with weight loss but increasingly discussed for mental health and addictive behaviors.
  • Wiger reports a surprising, positive impact on OCD, compulsive behavior, and a general “muting” of negative thoughts.
  • Quote (B, 16:49): “It’s really strange – the background noise of worrying and self-hatred…has just kind of been muted a little bit. I can concentrate more on the present moment.”
• Heather Anne Campbell openly discusses post-cancer medication, the impact on metabolism/joints, and takes the time to call out Twitter/online toxicity around medication.
  • Heather: “It’s been such that this is the first moment I've said it publicly because I’m scared of being interrogated online about choices I made privately with my doctor... but I was like, ah, fuck it. I’m gonna die someday, who cares? I’ll just say it too.” (24:19)
• The group shares a supportive and vulnerable moment encouraging openness and de-stigmatizing medication.

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2. Japan Trip Recap: Food and Cultural Impressions (35:19–67:01)

• All three Get Played co-hosts went to Japan for podcast content.
• Convenience Store Food: They rave about Japanese 7-Eleven, FamilyMart, and Lawson, noting the stark contrast with U.S. equivalents.
  • Memorable Meal: Egg salad sandwich and salmon onigiri from 7-Eleven (38:18).
  • “The idea of getting an egg product or a fish product from a 7-Eleven in the United States is a fucking nightmare. But it was like... one of my favorite meals of the trip.” (C, 38:39)
• Coffee scene: Shout-out to “Glitch Coffee” with its bean selection and unique fermentation flavors (47:05).
• Buffet buff: The hotel breakfast buffets in Kyoto & Tokyo were next-level – “The best breakfast buffet I’ve ever had in my life. Until... the second hotel. [They] didn’t even have a tray of eggs. Every scrambled egg was made to order.” (B, 46:51)
• Cultural infrastructure: Extended riff on how Japan’s infrastructure, public transit, clean bathrooms, and food accessibility make life better than American cities (64:49).

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3. Coco Ichibanya: History, Menu, and Review (84:47–128:15)

• Background:
  • Founded 1978, >1,000 locations Japan, 200 worldwide (~11 US).
  • Japanese curry: Not imported directly from India, but via a bland British adaptation, it became a home-cooking staple post-WWII (92:03, Heather gives a brief history).
• How They Order: The group nearly always gets 'vegetable curry with chicken cutlet' – praised for its reliability and customization.
• Spice Level: Infamously convoluted system: “Mild, regular, then 1–10... There used to be a 15 and a 20!” (B, 96:23)
  • Mitchell: Opts for a 3/10 and finds it pretty spicy (97:35)
  • Heather: Has braved the now-rare level 15, has a survivor sticker.
• Delivery Execution:
  • “It traveled really well! All the components were great.”
  • Praise for the special travel containers that keep curry and crispy cutlet separate.
• Garlic Cheese Naan: Special acclaim for this unusual but delicious curry side (103:42).

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4. Japanese Curry Deep-Dive (93:32)

• Heather explains: Japanese curry is a “British colonial adaptation” that became a beloved staple due to military logistics and post-war home cooking. Each navy ship had its own unique curry recipe.
  • “When you come home from the war, it becomes like... the home-cooked, standard meal.”

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5. Food and Chain Restaurants in Japan vs US (63:25–68:53)

• American Chains in Japan: McDonald's mentioned for current Gundam promotions, striking differences in menu and quality (70:32).
• Infrastructure & Quality of Life: American public amenities (transit, bathrooms, food) are far behind Japan; Japan's urban happiness attributed to basic needs being met, affordable good food, and walkability.

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6. Miscellaneous Riffs & Stand-Out Moments

• Memorable Quotes:
  • “You could take coffee to your room.” (Kyoto hotel breakfast sign) – analyzed for nuance and mischievousness. (46:50)
  • Wiger after taking Japanese: “Any level of Japanese comprehension and effort there, especially from a guy who looks like me, they are, like, over the moon about.” (111:26)
• Porno store adventure: Nick describes a 4-story adult store in Japan – with specifics on the wildest finds and cultural observations (108:10 onward).
• Grogu beef: Group gets deep into the canonical weirdness of Baby Yoda’s age (74:23–77:41). Heather’s take: “If he’s 50 and he’s a baby, how was Yoda a Master at 100? The math is all fucked up.”
• Frank Check Game: Panel plays a guessing game involving video game food screenshots (“food in video games” trivia). Heather dominates.

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7. Final Thoughts and Fork Scores for Coco Ichibanya (121:37–128:15)

All five panelists rave about Coco Ichibanya’s Japanese curry, especially the chicken cutlet with veggies.
Key Points:

• “Every time we get it, it’s as good as today. Never off.” (C, 125:57)
• “It makes me nostalgic for a childhood I didn’t have…It occupies the same sensory experience as a comfort food.” (E, 125:08)
• “I loved it. We eat a lot of bullshit on this show…this was fantastic.” (A/Mitchell, 98:44)
• “Reliable, consistent curry experience to us here in LA with more than one location. Five forks for me as well.” (E, 125:47)

Verdict:
🟊🟊🟊🟊🟊
Unanimous Five Forks! Platinum Plate Club for Coco Ichibanya.

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Timestamps of Notable Segments

• Intro/Riffing: 05:30 – Bizarre Reddit pizza anecdote, Rocky movies, Japanese curry cold-open
• Health & Medication Talk: 14:10–26:40
• Japan Food, Travel, Infrastructure: 35:19–67:01
• Coco Ichibanya Review Proper: 84:47–128:15
• Japanese Curry Deep-Dive: 92:03–94:53
• Frank Check (Video Game Food Quiz): 135:41–147:50

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Notable Quotes

• Heather: “This is the first moment I’ve said it publicly because I’m scared of being interrogated online… but I was like, ah, fuck it. I’m gonna die someday. Who cares?” (24:19)
• Nick: “It’s the closest thing to … a wonder drug. … I don’t know what the fuck this thing is doing, but everything seems positive. I’m sure in five years my eyes will fall out of my head, but for now, I’m enjoying the ride.” (19:19)
• Heather on Japanese curry's origin: “Curry did not come to Japan via India. It came via Britain… that’s why Japanese curry is so specifically different from Indian curry.” (E, 92:03)
• Matt: “Every time we get it, it’s no less than as good as we had it today. It’s always really, really great.” (C, 125:57)
• Mitchell: “I loved it. … Five Forks.” (A, 128:14)

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Episode Tone & Style

Classic Doughboys chaos: goofing, heartfelt moments, R-rated riffs, detailed food talk, genuine affection between hosts/guests. Panel is breezy, brash, and richly knowledgable on Japanese food, games, and travel, moving seamlessly between riffing, deep cultural analysis, and very silly bits.

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Useful For

• Fans looking for deep, honest foodie reviews AND comic chemistry.
• Anyone curious about Japanese food culture, especially chain dining.
• Listeners looking for candid talk about GLP-1 medications/mental health.
• Video game fans (Get Played’s presence ensures lots of game content).
• Travel/expat types – insightful Japan vs US life comparisons.

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Summary

A vintage Doughboys episode: equal parts earnest food geekery, wild tangents, and deep-fried comedy. The universal group verdict: Coco Ichibanya is an outstanding, reliable chain for Japanese curry – don’t sleep on it if you have one near you. If you want to armchair-travel to Japan, laugh at increasingly deranged riffs, and still get expert food recommendations, this episode delivers.

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Platinum Plate Club Inductee: Coco Ichibanya
All Five Forks
(see segments starting at 121:37 for official scores and closing thoughts)

Transcript

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Wolfgang Puck, a chef and restaurateur from Beverly Hills via Austria, popularized a multicultural cross pollination cooking style commonly known as fusion. By the 90s, Puck was a full on celebrity with TV shows and microwavable meals and fusion cuisine had become a mainstream movement. But while the trendy fine dining scene had marketed melding food from different continents as a cutting edge innovation, the practice that happened organically since the oceans were traversed by trade. One example, now popular worldwide Korean fried chicken, originated when American servicemen introduced the dish to their South Korean counterparts during and after the Korean War. American fried chicken itself created when enslaved West Africans enhanced the seasoning of the Scottish dish they prepared in colonial kitchens. Another east west fusion comfort food emerged from a foreign military presence. Japanese curry. Colonialism had introduced Indian style curry to the British palate. And in the late 19th century the British Royal Navy brought their extra mild version of the dish to Japan. The Japanese varietal, most commonly chicken or pork katsu curry served with rice, became a new national dish. And in 1978, Masayoshi and Naoko Munegetsu opened their own curry shop. With a name that literally translates as here number one. Today the largest curry chain in the world, including a dozen North American locations, it feels inevitable that Japanese curry will soon join ramen and sushi as a commonplace American indulgence. Thanks, Wolfgang. This week on Doughboys Curry House. Cocoichi banya. Cocoichi banya. Cocoichi banya. Go with the dodo. Boys do no boys. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Tiger Weiger, along with my co host, the Nintendo adult cuz he repeats the same eight bits. The spoon man, Mike Mitchell. That's clever. That's well crafted.

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Yeah, I just don't want to hear it.

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I guess Dylan W. Said that's the same eight bits.

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I do more than eight bits.

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I think you could have gone with 16 bits, even 64 bits and still

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been on came for Nintendo. And 64 is not too bad comparatively.

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Yeah, I mean you got a repertoire. You got a, you got a, a, a. You'll get your bag if you will.

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Oh hell yeah. It's all about the bag in the swirl.

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Yeah,

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I. It's just a similar thing of some guy on Our Reddit posted went to Secret Pizza. I don't know if anyone saw this. So there's. I went to Secret Pizza because we have talked about it on the podcast, and I think Secret Pizza is very, very good.

[B]

Where are the kids at? It's like, it's a different pizza place.

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That's.

[A]

No. What he said, I guess wasn't worse than that, but was still pretty bad. He was like, I went to Sacred Pizza. And he was like, I talked to the guy and he said. I said, I got like, the recommendation on a. On a podcast. And then he said as he was leaving, he heard the guy say, like, oh, yeah. One of the hosts, like, talks us up. And he's like, I listen to the podcast, but it's not funny. I was like, why did you include this in your anecdot? I don't want to hear this. I like Secret Pizza.

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Pizza guy says that.

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Yes, that's what he said.

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That place.

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And then Reddit posted the post.

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And then Reddit posted the post, and.

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So you're saying that's worse than an alleged basement of children?

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No, I don't think that that's worse than pizza.

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We've been to Comet Ping Pong. You can't find them kids anywhere, so trust me, they're not there. Trust me. I was looking.

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Is there a bomb?

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What's going on?

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Hold on. Something.

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There was like a hissing sound from the corner.

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We were talking too much about.

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It's fixed. It's fixed.

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We were talking too much about Comet Ping Pong.

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We woke up a rattler. You got snakes and head gum. You know, coyotes, too.

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In the content minds.

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Oh, gotta be careful down there.

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I feel out of control.

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What would be. What would be. What would the snake equivalent in the content minds? That's what. You know what I mean? What's a rattlesnake equivalent in the content minds?

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I feel like some sort of a. A rock creature. Like a Rocky from.

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From.

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From a Project Hail Mary.

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We can't talk about him. We can't talk about him.

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Okay, we won't talk about him.

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I'll start crying.

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Here's something that you'll be surprised by. I don't know how I felt overall about Project Hail Mary as. I mean, I had a fine time, but I do like Rocky. I liked Rocky.

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I like Rocky. Rocky's good.

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Angela, I was not that Rocky.

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Okay, Sorry.

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I mean, I do love that Rocky as well, but I like. I was giving Grogu shit the other day.

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Is her name Angela?

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Her name's Adrian.

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Adrian Maybe, but he might have been

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talking to a lady named in the bus.

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I need that buzz back.

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Or he got punched so many times he forgot the.

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The.

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A name of his.

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I would assume this is Later Rocky. Yeah, Later Rocky.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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This is like old Rocky. Like forgetting. Oh, wait, is she. Is Adrian dead?

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Yeah, she's dead.

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She's dead.

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Yeah.

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They wrote. They wrote. They pulled a stew on Adrian.

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Yeah, Adrian died off camera.

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Have you watched Rocky recently?

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The first one.

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Fucking meandering nonsense.

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The first one is. Oh, really?

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Yeah, it's. You're. You watch it and you're just like. I guess this is just the next scene that happens. It's often very unmotivated.

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They have a. Isn't there. There's a date. And then you forget the date is on Thanksgiving.

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Yeah.

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Who goes on a date on Thanksgiving Day?

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Oh, I remember that. I do now. What are you talking about? But does. Isn't he like. Isn't he saying, like, no, it's Thanksgiving. Does he do anything like that? It's Thanksgiving.

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But I'm fucking stupid.

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I wrote the movie.

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Now, hold on a second. He is. The character is supposed to be stupid. He is supposed to be kind of a dumb guy.

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I know you probably spending the holiday with your family, but what if I took you out instead? Idiot. I'll kick his.

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Rocky versus Rocky would be fun because one is Rock made up.

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Yeah, that's a great pitch.

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Thank you.

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You know, and they're doing crossover IP more and more these days.

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Get that little flying squirrel in the mix too.

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There you go.

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Throw them in.

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Why not Rocky and Bullwinkle? There was no email from Dylan.

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W. He doesn't need the buzz at all.

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No, he doesn't need it. And no, I don't want him to fight either. He's too.

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No, I meant you. You don't need the buzz. Oh, the buzzing noise.

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Oh, the buzz. Okay. I'm doing. You think what I'm doing is good?

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Well, yes, but I'm enjoying it.

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We're having fun. Everyone's having fun. Except for Heather, as per usual.

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Is that how it goes on the show? Is that what we're pretty.

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Yeah. Usually what happens is it's me and Nick versus Heather.

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Yep.

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I guess you could say me and Matt are kind of the Mitch of Get play.

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Yeah, but you should take that.

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I'm sorry.

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We should take that as a compliment. That it. Is it to be you to be

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as disruptive as you are by yourself.

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Also, I have to be the Nick.

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Sorry. You're already Nick on This show.

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Yeah.

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Yeah. I mean, I wonder if you. If you were on. Well, we'll find out today, I guess, how you'll feel about Nick by the end of the episode.

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There was no email I announced right now.

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I'll tell you, I'm starting off pretty low.

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There's no email from Dylan W. About the Nintendo Adult, but there was an alt from Emily C. That I wanted to read Mitch because they were at the San Jose live show on the 30th we recently did. Okay, let me read this. Also, video game themed. Squint the Blacksmith from Stardew Valley. That one's just for me and Emma.

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Hell, yeah.

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This roast is in honor of the upcoming update to Stardew Valley, which makes Clint romanceable. Clint is a kind of Mitch coded blacksmith.

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So he's. He's a big guy.

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He's a big guy who's an incel. My hot doctor husband who doesn't listen to the show said this roast was fine. Oh, not fire. Fine. Thanks for the laughs. Emily C. Roasted birdfuck.com. mitch, we're going. We were just in San Jose on the 30th. In April, we were. But in May, we're going on the road to the South. That's right. And the 27th, we're going to be Rally North Carolina. The 28th will be in Charlotte, North Carolina. And the 29th, we will be in Hotlanta, Georgia. Two shows there. Tickets. Are the Late show still available?

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Me, Em, and Amelia have our plane tickets. You do not have one yet.

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I got to figure that out. Actually, I meant to ask a question at work in terms of, like, if I could get on the same flight because they'd be missing all day. Well, we'll figure it out. I'll get clarity tomorrow.

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Okay. All right.

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I'll get clarity tomorrow. By the time this episode's out, I will have my ticket. I'm going to the show. And you know who else is going to the show? Carl Tart. That's right. Our guest, Carl Tart for all four shows in the South Mississippi zone, joining us in Carolina and Georgia.

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He's got a tall order to carry us through four shows.

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Oh, guy.

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Yeah.

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He's a tall, tall guy.

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Taller for a tall guy. Rocky's bad, huh? I got. I got to rewatch Rocky. I don't know if it's bad.

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Oh, I didn't know which Rocky you were talking about.

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Rocky's good.

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Rocky is. Rocky's good.

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Rocky the movie is befuddling.

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Is befuddling. Okay.

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Yeah. I mean, you can be like, oh, wow, this guy wrote this movie. In apparently 24 hours, it wins Oscars. It is inspiring. But also it's just like, scenes just happen. It's like, I mean, I haven't seen it recently enough, but it's like, I'm going to go to a pet shop. Like, what's in here? Is it crazy? Pets? All right, I'm gonna go for a run.

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There's a bunny.

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What?

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There is a bunny at one point, right? Like, isn't is any hold.

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Or maybe he's got a turtle. I don't remember.

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Yeah, like, if Brian Fellows wrote a

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movie just like, what is this from snl?

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Yeah, I would watch that.

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It sounds like I would watch Brian Fennell Fellows movie, too. Wait, why did you say. Why did you go into the Rocky with Adrian impression? What caused you to do that?

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If I even could tell you, I have no idea. It's gone now.

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Did it have something to do with

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Pizzagate you were talking about? Project Hail Mary came up somehow.

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Oh, right.

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Yeah. I think it's your fault.

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It's because we were talking about little guys, right?

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We were talking about something.

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Oh, that's what it was.

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We threw out other Rockies. We drag out Rocky from Ness. No, that's what it was. It was Rocky from Hail Mary. And then you did the. The not Adrian bit. You did Angela. And then you were taught. You're talking about the different Rocky, but that was the joke you were making.

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Yeah. Yes.

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And then you also brought in Rocky from Rocky and Bullwinkle.

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Yes.

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Got it.

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And we were talking. We. We. You and I went to Comet Ping Pong. That was.

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We did go to Comic Ping Pong,

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which maybe one of our. Maybe we shouldn't have gone. We made it. We made it a Patreon episode. Right.

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We made a Patreon episode. And we also, when we talked about it in front of the D.C. crowd, they clearly were like. Like, why did you do that?

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Yeah.

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We did not get any sort of reaction from there.

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Do you ever get the desired reaction from the live audience crowd?

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That's a great question. We're gonna find out on May 27th in rally, May 28th in Charlotte and May 29th in Atlanta. Two shows. Tickets for the Late show still available with Carl tart [e-mail] live.

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We gotta get some of that Joker gas going through the building to get people to laugh.

[B]

That'd be fun. Or maybe we could also do kind of like a, you know, Inglourious bastard sort of thing.

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Now we're talking your image projected onto

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smok laughing Mitch, I have something to share and I, I'm. I'm doing it in part because you, you're, you're very open about your health. I try to be open about my health as much as possible and basically. Well, this is going to sound like a grimmer setup than it is, but basically everyone who is going to be at my funeral is in this room, so. Oh my God. Nelly's a maybe.

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I hope that you're about to reveal that you got taller or something taller. It's.

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It's strange to have a corpse at your.

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I started a few weeks ago. I got a prescription for oral Wegovy. Now here's the thing. Like, I know that I don't have. I understand. I know that body dysphoria is something I'm dealing with and I know I don't have like a. I'm technically overweight enough for, to qualify for the threshold. But that's not the purpose of this.

[A]

I would say you're quite chunky.

[B]

I'm chunky.

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Hunky.

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I'd like to say.

[A]

I was just joking. I don't really think you're chunky.

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It was just funny because you said it in the nicest way you could.

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No, it was nice. It was like, it was like my mom asking where the husky section was.

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Isn't it also good for like OCD in general?

[C]

Yes.

[B]

So this is why I was going to bring it up because there's a bunch of off label uses for, for these GLP1 drugs that I've been reading a lot about and you know, talk to my, my doctor about this. Of course insurance isn't covering this because why would insurance cover something that health insurance covers? Something that helps improves your physical and mental well being. But some of the off label uses include obsessive thoughts, compulsions, addictive behavior. Because we know as well as like, as well as me eating a lot of shitty food, which I do that, that is like something of addiction compulsion in and of itself. But I also like when I, once I start drinking. Y' all have been with me on the road. I, I don't stop. I like keep it going. And it's really interesting that has made my alcohol use a little bit more like I've never thought I have like a drinking problem, but I am someone who will overindulge when I don't mean to. And now like last night I had a glass and a half of wine. I'm just like, I'm done. Which is very out of character for me. But it's like, hey, that's a nice corrective course for, you know, my behavior. And I really admire how open you've been about it. Mitch. I think it's like really, it's really kind. We had the, the guy who wrote in last week who said you decided to share because you'd been deciding to share. And I just think that's really, really admirable and impressive and it's also a part of why I decided to investigate this for myself. I don't know. It's really interesting on the. I don't know how you've. As someone who also lives with ocd, I'm not sure if you've dealt with any of this much, but it's like kind of almost just turned down the volume on my rumination for sure. Yeah.

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And.

[B]

Which is really strange that like the background noise of, you know, just worrying and self hatred and you know, like depression about the past mistakes, like all that stuff has just kind of been muted a little bit and I can concentrate a little more on the present moment. I'm just start.

[A]

Because I did not know. This is old news to me.

[B]

It was, it was a couple weeks ago and I'm on a low dosage so I, I wanted to have a few. I wanted to see if I was going to stick with it before I went public with any sort of declaration. Now like this is a thing that is clearly. It feels like it's working for me, so I'm going to keep it going.

[A]

So I think that people, when people are, are, you know, speak ill of these things. I think it is kind of anti science and anti, you know, medication and it's weird to me that people are, I mean they've been around for a lot longer than people know because the people with diabetes have used some form of these drugs for, you know, like close to 20 years now. You know what I mean? It's not like a crazy. And I. Look, it doesn't solve everything for me, but I think there's weeks where I'm like, man, I feel so much more. I feel so much better, like mentally. And I think things are more clear than I did before I started, which you knew I was having a really, really rough time. So I think that there's a lot of benefits that they're still figuring out from these drugs. I was just talking to my, my barber today about it. I went to. I got a haircut, looking sharp again.

[B]

He got the lineup too on the beard.

[A]

I got a lineup on the Beard.

[B]

He.

[A]

So I. Well, no one knows who my barber is, but he started. I was, I was. I was saying Sweeney Todd.

[D]

Right?

[A]

It is Sweeney Todd, which. So every time I get out of there just a lot with my head attached, I'm happy about it.

[B]

But the butcher of Fleet street should probably be eating fewer people. So it's good that he's on this drug.

[A]

Yeah, I wish. The drug. He lays off the food and also lays off cutting my. I wanted it more trimmed up. He kind of.

[C]

I'll make it nice and trimmed for you.

[B]

What did you want trimmed at the top?

[A]

Do you ever go to get a haircut and you're like, they just didn't cut my hair enough. Do you ever get that?

[B]

They look good?

[A]

Okay, all right.

[B]

It's a good length for you. I think you're a little self conscious because of your hairline, but I think it's a good length for you.

[A]

Well, I wasn't thinking about that now.

[C]

You're looking great.

[A]

Oh, thank you. That's very. Well, why is you looking.

[B]

Heather was mentioning your skin is glowing.

[A]

That's very. Yes. And I think. I think. Well, there's so many benefits. I was saying from these drugs. I'm not trying to say, like, if you think, if you have, you know, some ailments that, that you know can be treated by these drugs, I always think it's worth it to try.

[B]

So, yeah, it's worth investigating. I mean, like, like we were. We shared a thing in the group chat of like, knowing people that have dealt with chronic migraine that just like, it's weirdly worked for people with migraines as well. It's such a. Such a strange. It's, it's. It's like a. It's such a. The effect it's had on my overall health has been like the closest thing analog you can think of is when I'd have really bad asthma and, you know, mostly as a kid, but sometimes as an adult and I'd get in prescription steroids and just like the transformative feeling of like, oh, my God, I get these steroids. It's like a fucking wonder drug. I don't know what the fuck this thing is doing to me exactly, but everything seems positive. So much so that I'm sure in five years my eyes are going to fall out of my head. But for now, I'm enjoying the ride.

[A]

There'll be some new medication that can get him back in there, I'm sure.

[E]

Forks. You know, Nick, in all the times that you've talked about tying one off. I'm kind of bummed that back in when I was drinking, that we weren't drinking buddies.

[B]

Well, you know what? It was because I lived on the other side of town, I drove, I don't drink and drive, so I'd just be like, come on. No, that's, I'll leave that to Mitch

[A]

Coward over there.

[B]

No, I would come sometimes, like have like a beer or two after. But I'm not gonna stay in like close down birds after a UCB show, as fun as that would be.

[E]

Right, right.

[A]

Yeah. So, no, at the same. Look, I, I've, I, I, I've noticed that you can imbibe on some trips, if you catch my drift. He likes to, he likes his, he likes.

[B]

You like to, hey, we like to party.

[A]

We all like to party.

[C]

Catch my, if you catch my drift. There was nothing to catch, my man. We got you.

[B]

I said it earlier.

[A]

I mean, by the way, I've never, in my experience, it's, that's never, I've never seen a problem that you have with it. But I know that, but I know you like to have some drinks and I know that these drugs also, they for people who have some addiction issues. They've been very helpful.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And again, these are off label uses. And, and so it's just I'm technically prescribed it because of my weight problem, which is, I guess, weight problem, whatever. Like, like, like I shouldn't characterize it like that because I'm, I'm in wherever the BMI chart is, which is totally arbitrary in terms of, you know, body weight to height ratio enough to qualify for it. But it's, yeah, it's, it's less about that for me.

[A]

Have you, how have you been with, have you felt nauseous at all or like what's, what's been your reaction to it so far? Obviously the benefit sounds great.

[B]

Yeah. The weirdest thing I've had is hotter loads.

[A]

That would, that would, that could do it physically.

[B]

Yeah, just like, just like hot, just like hot lava.

[A]

You put a Kleenex on it, the Kleenex just lights up on fire.

[B]

It's like an alien just burning through the table.

[C]

It spurts out like a blaster shot in the dark floor. It's fucking red.

[A]

Speed of loads. Kurt Loder, 81 today.

[C]

Hey, happy birthday.

[B]

81 years young.

[C]

To Kurt.

[B]

Kurt Loader.

[C]

He got that, that's his last name because his family invented jacking off. Yeah, I think so.

[B]

It's just like how, you know if you were barrel maker, you get Last name Cooper. Yeah, I think the. No, I answer. To answer your question, your honest question, seriously, I. The one thing I've experienced is like, acid reflux has been, like, on the up. Experience more of that. And that's been really weird. Even when I'm, like, not eating that, I'm just like, oh, I'm just getting acid reflux out of nowhere. So I got. I can figure out the gerd.

[A]

I honestly think that you're with the job you have, which. Which, I mean, I wouldn't classify doughboys as a job, I guess, but as one of the jobs you have, right. With doughboys, being on something like that might not be that bad of a thing. We always feel like we have to eat more and more food and it's, like, good to be like, oh, I can't physically do that. You know what I mean?

[B]

And also, I don't want to. It's not like, oh, there's. I want to eat this. I just like, all right, I'm done. Which is just, again, just very weird for someone who's had a very bad relationship with food and alcohol for, you know, my entire adult life.

[A]

We both have that clean the plate sort of thing. Oh, yeah, Both of us. Yeah. Yeah.

[E]

I'm on my fifth month of a glp.

[A]

Oh, my God, that rules.

[E]

Yeah, I was prescribed it because the medication I'm on. Post cancer. Yeah, my, My type of cancer was hormonal based, so in order to treat and prevent any future recurrence of that cancer, they had to kill every hormone in my body. Like, no more hormones of any kind. And the side effect of that is extreme metabolism changes. And also your joints all function on hormones. Like, the reason your joints have liquid in them is hormonal. So GLPs treat both of those problems. They treat metabolism changes. They also treat joint problems. So I was put on a GLP as a counterweight to the cancer meds. So I think when people are talking about, like, when you see, like, people tweeting about it or something, they're so. They're, they're, they're, they're so. They haven't contextualized literally anything, and they're toxic about it. And it's, and it's, it's been such that this is the first moment I've said it publicly because I'm scared of being interrogated online about choices that I made privately with my doctor, et cetera, et cetera. But I, you know, it was inspiring hearing you guys talk about it. And I was like, ah, fuck it. I'M gonna die someday. Who cares? I'll just say it too.

[C]

And I'm obviously not on one, but it sounds like you guys are having a great time. I love it.

[D]

That's very.

[B]

That's very brave of you to share.

[A]

Yeah, that's brave. Yeah, it's the same.

[E]

You guys said those words.

[B]

You said me and you were not brave. You're all being brave. No, we're not.

[A]

Also, you are brave.

[B]

You are br.

[A]

What you went through, that's that you are brave.

[E]

Also not brave.

[A]

It's. It is. It is.

[B]

You also characterized me getting a vong tattoo as brave, so I said it was heroic.

[C]

Yeah, see, that's.

[E]

That's different.

[A]

I think it's horny.

[B]

It's definitely horny.

[C]

Horny.

[A]

Yeah. Well, I, I, I, I, I, I love that. That's great news for I. Are you. Are you taking wags? Are you on the pill or are you on the pill?

[B]

I'm on the pill. Oral.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Oh, great. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

I'm on the needle. The regular needle.

[A]

The same. Yeah, I. Me too, because that's wild.

[E]

Couple of first. The first two times or three times you do it, you're like, this is insane that I'm allowed to do this.

[A]

It's crazy.

[E]

Like, you're just allowed to do it in your house is nuts.

[A]

I. I feel the same way.

[E]

And nobody. There's no video or any. They just send it to you, and they're just like, put it in. And you're like, the needle.

[A]

Someone I know is on it. And they. And they had. I had to. They came over and they. They walked me through it, basically. Of, like, it doesn't. It does not give you a lot of information at all.

[E]

Less instructions on a needle sent to your house than on, like, a COVID test.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

Like, the COVID test has, like, photos. And, like, the needle is just, like, in a loose bag.

[A]

Yes.

[E]

With, like, a little vial of stuff, and it's just like, go for it.

[A]

Yeah. And. Yeah. Little swabs. And I was like, am I supposed to swab my skin? It's like, no, you're not even supposed to swab your skin. You're supposed to swab the. I mean, I don't think it matters, but there's, like, so much stuff that I just had. No. I had no idea about. But there's so many benefits. I mean, like, this. This is the thing is, like, we're lucky to. To be alive when they're. I mean, not lucky in the way that A lot of this medication should be free for everyone.

[B]

Sure.

[A]

Especially Heather. For you, that medication should be free,

[C]

but come on, you gotta pay more.

[E]

That's fine with me.

[A]

But I love it. Wags, I'm happy for you.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Thank you for saying that.

[A]

That's great.

[B]

Yeah, it's great to have the candid discussion with my friends about it.

[A]

And you look good. You do. You look good.

[B]

Okay, that's what I was fishing for.

[C]

No, you. I feel like you. In the last year or so, the thirst comments have gone up. Oh, 100%. I would agree with that. People are like, why is this looking good?

[B]

Wow. Okay. I did lose a bunch of weight.

[A]

The get.

[C]

I've noticed it in the get. Yeah. They're not afraid to tell you who's looking.

[A]

Doughboys. Right there is thirst comments, but I think it is about being just actual thirst.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Like, I want water. I want.

[A]

I need. I'm hungry.

[B]

Bring back surge.

[D]

The second you cut your hair short, the people online went nuts.

[B]

It's honestly gotten out of hand.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay, well, just. You can block people.

[D]

We. We have. We block. We've blocked people from the. From some things. Yeah, I've been block.

[A]

Hey, you want to. Want to hear people go real silent? How about the thirst comments for me?

[B]

People love Mitch. People love Mitch.

[D]

They.

[A]

Silence.

[D]

It's more, will Mitch come? My wife.

[B]

And the answer is yes.

[A]

Yeah, the answer is yes.

[C]

That's what the sort of second leg of the tour is this year, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Just mail us your house keys, we'll

[C]

be on our way.

[A]

Be nervously calling Carl, I need help.

[C]

Carl.

[A]

We're gonna have fun on this tour.

[B]

We're gonna have a blast.

[A]

Yeah. We're gonna have a good time.

[C]

You guys get to hang out with Carl. What. What's better than that?

[A]

I mean, not much.

[C]

Yeah, he's the best.

[A]

Yeah, we're gonna be in it. We're gonna be in an Airbnb. We're gonna be in an Airbnb for a couple days. I mean, this is a night. It's been sorted.

[B]

We don't need to get into logistics, but Amelia hasn't.

[A]

Well, we have one. It's happening. But she's never seen. She's never seen Gremlins, so we gotta. We gotta check Gremlins off the list on this. On this tour.

[E]

Oh, apparently the assembly cut of Gremlins just was leaked or premiered.

[A]

Premiered. Yeah.

[E]

Two and a half hours long.

[A]

It's like a full. Almost a full extra hour of Gremlins footage.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Let's find that shit on Plex or

[A]

wherever the fuck I mean. Yeah, I think Joe Dante like, like

[E]

they did DHS copy or something.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, he did. And he did like a Q and A and stuff about it just this last week in la.

[B]

Alright, we get it. We got officially get our guests.

[A]

Okay, I'm gonna hit him with the drop. Sorry, I forgot.

[C]

Wow.

[D]

I forgot where we were. Okay, here comes the drop.

[A]

Challengers approach.

[B]

Everyone is here. Mario Gabriel, Yoshi, Mike Anthony Zadaro, Nangle.

[A]

Two raccoons having sex.

[B]

Carl Dark Mario, Uncle Daniel, Tony Soprano,

[A]

Little Mac, Big Mac Attack, Snacker Wack Armin and Jack and Bug.

[B]

Here's Luigi saying, I'm a star. I'm a star.

[C]

I'm a big bright shining star.

[A]

Hey, our old, our old buddy Mark Wahlberg at the end of Boogie Nights, which he's now disowned. Yeah, the. His best movie.

[B]

Well, I think it's actually second now with Paul Walter Hauser, condom salesman, movie Balls.

[A]

That's your number one.

[B]

My number one is Balls of Fury

[A]

or whatever the fuck we were trying to.

[C]

It's impossible to know what it's called. And I think I might never know actually.

[A]

Balls out or balls up.

[C]

I think it's Balls out.

[B]

I think it's Balls and Cock starring two very Christian men.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[D]

It's Balls Up.

[C]

Balls up.

[B]

Got it.

[A]

Well, we may never know. We may never. It might be balls up, but we may never know.

[C]

Balls up. God bless.

[B]

God bless.

[A]

A great I, I. This just made me think of McGonagall's Pub in Boss in Dorchester. McGonagall's Pub. LD loved it. I went there with my buddy Colin. Maxi, you gotta go. It's a great. They, they, they have a spice bag which is like curry fries, basically. Oh, that's cool. And it's. And I remembered it because it's not far away from where Mark Wahlberg beat that man.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

That's how I remembered the whole thing.

[C]

And you sort of have like you, you have.

[A]

You saved your Google Maps. I got the city to put a plaque there.

[B]

I would love to bring some of those spice fries to at least on Al Gaib. So get some to go.

[A]

Jesus.

[C]

Hell yeah.

[A]

Oh, I gotta read the email. That's what I have to do. Also, as I'm doing that, one of our guests had a very funny thing about talking about me being RoboCop or coming back as a RoboCop too. We'll get into it, all right. We'll get into it. All right.

[C]

Bring that Back.

[A]

I just said it was too funny. It was very funny. Here's a 28 second Nintendo inspired drop. Thanks for all the laughs, Matt Portner. Thanks, Matt.

[B]

Wow. Thanks, Matt.

[E]

Thanks, Matt.

[B]

And you know that drop included me saying, everyone is here. And everyone is here indeed. Our guest today, my co hosts from our video game podcast, Get Played, Matt Apodaca. Heather Ann. Wow.

[C]

Are you okay?

[E]

What? Why?

[B]

What an entrance.

[C]

I felt like you were looking at me, like you were about to say something specifically to me.

[E]

No, I thought you were gonna say hello, everyone.

[C]

Oh, no, I should have said that. I don't know what the rules are.

[A]

You can do your thing. Do your thing.

[C]

Hello, everyone.

[E]

Hello, everyone. I don't think crazy, but no, I'm fine.

[C]

Okay.

[E]

Do I look distressed?

[C]

No, you look great.

[E]

I'm distressed.

[B]

No, no, no, no, you look great. You look super fashionable as always. You're wearing your Zeon Forces sweatshir. No, everyone looks great. We all look great.

[A]

What's the state of the pod? How are you guys doing? Because on our side. Not doing too good over here.

[E]

Well, no, is that true?

[A]

We're, We're. We're. We're in. We're in a. We're in a tough stretch of.

[B]

We're in a rut.

[A]

I mean, you guys must be in a similar thing of what we're banking. We're banking quite a bit.

[B]

We're banking some extra episodes.

[E]

Oh, I see. Yeah, we have. We did do like a big, chunky, like quadruple. No, penta. Pentaple.

[C]

We did five.

[E]

We did five in a row last week. Yeah, and it was. That was. That was a bit of a too many.

[A]

So you did seven pods last with. With Doughboys?

[B]

I'm doing five this week.

[A]

Jesus.

[B]

Three Doughboys episodes. Two get played.

[D]

Eight last week. So we did two live shows and a video episode.

[C]

We don't, we don't typically bank too far ahead, though, because, like, I feel like sometimes we're like, oh, like, the video game stuff is more current than food more often than not. So we're like, we'll record usually for the next week release. But like, I like having them. I like having some in the chamber.

[B]

We can bank some.

[A]

We.

[B]

It's easier for us to bank for our Patreon. But our, but our, our tensions are

[A]

high over Doughboys verse.

[B]

It's.

[D]

They're.

[B]

They're high over here. And I think part of it is that we're trying to, you know, we're trying to make it go. Make it all work by ourselves here. With all the Headgum staff on vacation.

[A]

That is true.

[B]

Or I shouldn't say on vacation. They are working. They are on a working trip.

[D]

They're working in clubs in Miami.

[B]

Their corporate retreat to Miami.

[C]

They're mid trust fall right now. You have to give them the dessert.

[E]

Only one of them is not an actor.

[B]

We were hoping Relle Chen Ranch, our producer, could join us for this record. So it could be the true podcast crossover. Unfortunately, she has been taken. She is part of the. Being forced to be part of this Miami retreat.

[C]

Black bagged by some head gum hog.

[A]

Does Wahlberg have the. He has the hog, right? The.

[D]

The.

[B]

He has the prosthetic hog.

[A]

He has the prosthetic.

[B]

Oh, you mean like he's. Does he still have it?

[A]

Yeah, I think. I. I don't know. He's turned his back on the movie,

[C]

so he should get rid of it. If he doesn't respect his work, he should get rid of it. I agree with that.

[A]

Give it to us. Give it to us.

[C]

Yeah, give it to us.

[A]

Give it to us.

[C]

Put it in the tableau.

[D]

YouTube would probably take that down.

[A]

The Headgums in the world of paint. Speaking of Mark Wahlberg, they're in the pain and gain land. They're down there and they're having.

[B]

They're hopefully having a good, you know, team building exercise over there in Miami. My understanding, you know, we're still recording here, but I. I hope they enjoy their much deserved break. My understanding, Mitch, is the breakdown is that Doughboys is paying for the hotel rooms and Get Played is playing. Paying for the bottle service. So that's nice. Yeah, it's like adopt a highway. Whichever our own section of it that we're. We're contributing.

[A]

I hope they got bottle service.

[C]

What if. What if we all went in on a highway? That could be kind of fun.

[A]

That was pretty fun. The Doughboys get played stretch of highway.

[C]

I forgot that he could do it. We should do it.

[B]

That should really be highway.

[A]

I' it would also be funny to buy in Miami.

[C]

Like call. How fast can we get it up while we're over there?

[B]

Speaking of trips, we got to talk about. We. We have not talked about this on Doughboys. We talked about it quite a bit on. Over on Get Played.

[C]

Yes.

[B]

But we all went to Japan for the podcast for our. For Get Played. This is the thing Mitch encouraged me to do. So, you know, I was. I was headed to do it.

[A]

And he was part of the reason I was also mad at him. I had told Nick. I was like, we should go to Japan for doughboys. I said this, like, years ago.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And he was like. He was in. His response was like, take your own vacation, buddy. It was kind of like what his response was.

[B]

Reasonable thing to say.

[A]

And I was like. I was like, okay, but I think it would be fun to do something like that. I've been worried about you this week. I. I just. I was gonna bring this up. I was. We were texting with Griffin and David, and I wrote, weiger hates my ass lately. That's what I wrote. And I said, it's not my fault we started a business together, which is also true. And then. And then Griffin. Griffin said the podcast story, which is also. And then wise. You very nicely said, I love you, buddy. And. And you're. And. And. And then you did give a glimpse into. You're. You're leaving the house at 8 and you're getting home at 11. That's a long.

[B]

That's what my day was yesterday. It was a bit of a. Bit of a.

[A]

Those long days.

[B]

I love an odyssey.

[A]

I love you too. Even though I do hate you a lot of the time. And this is kind of a situation where I did hate him. I wanted to go to Japan.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And I. And then I don't think we would

[C]

have been mad if you came too. We would have loved to have you.

[A]

I mean, I would have. Well, I could have come. I could have come. What the fuck are you talking about? I'll strangle.

[B]

I don't. I don't think. I don't think Universal would have paid for your travel and accommodations, but, you know, you probably could have gone.

[A]

Yeah, we could have paid. Doughboys could have paid. The way.

[B]

Yeah, we'll talk about it.

[D]

You guys kind of snuggled.

[B]

I will say, having been there. We could have snuggled having been there.

[C]

One of our rooms had two beds.

[B]

It's true. Our room was big enough for two. Having been there. Mitch, I will. I will say, and, you know, it's the thing I like to say the least, you were right. If we. We could go to Japan and we could get some good Doughboys related content out of it. My whole thing is that is the travel. I was always like, well, we can't do a live show there. We're not gonna draw. But what we could do is I think I can handle the flight again,

[C]

but I think it should get tranked just in case.

[B]

Yeah, I'm fine to get tranked, but there's the chain restaurants there alone. There's a lot to talk about, and I guess we could Talk about our experience, because we went to. Heather, you took us to 7 11.

[C]

Ooh.

[A]

Which in Japan, from what I've understood, is that it's like. Like a completely different experience. And they. And they're well regarded.

[B]

I could eat lunch five days a week at 7:11 in Japan.

[E]

Yeah. Both 7:11 and Family Mart and Lawson are all like a. A triumvirate of fantastic convenience stores. And it's not. It's not like we hear it's like seven. If you're eating at 7:11, it's the last choice you want to make or the drunkest one. And there it's like, you know, it would be convenient is if I stopped somewhere in between this location and the next and got a decent piece of food. Like, that's convenient.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's. That is what it should.

[E]

Yep.

[A]

Be.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

The much touted egg salad sandwich. And I had one from Family Mart as well, which was also good. But the one from 711 was an absolute knockout. I was like. I was like. I had high expectations for it. And I was like, I can't believe how fucking good this. We waited on the Shinkansen.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And I was. I was on the time of my life.

[C]

We got that. And then we also got salmon onigiri.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And just the idea of. The idea of getting an egg product or a fish product from a 711 in the United States is a fucking nightmare.

[B]

It's a dice roll.

[C]

But it was like. It was one of my favorite meals of the gym.

[B]

It was wonderful.

[E]

Yeah. You also got, like, a fresh fruit smoothie.

[C]

Oh, yeah, I got a fresh fruit smoothie.

[A]

Oh, wait, I think I saw it. Was that the video that you did? Was there like a. Was there a machine?

[C]

There was a machine. And, like, you, like, it's.

[B]

That was me.

[C]

What's that?

[B]

That was me. I made your smoothie.

[C]

Oh. Oh.

[A]

Oh, yeah. That's what I was saying.

[C]

I, like, handed it to, like, this, like, robot that, like, mixed it for me. That was. Wait a minute.

[A]

And he was like, RoboCop, but he had. But his dick was still flesh.

[B]

You should get back to that riff.

[C]

Oh, yeah, good. It was a good riff. Yeah.

[B]

Wait, how do we get to that?

[A]

How do we get.

[B]

Robin.

[C]

We were talking about it before.

[A]

Oh, I was. We were saying Stu came back as, like, a RoboCop.

[B]

Stu came back as a RoboCop. And then I think it was. Was it Heather who was like, when only your dick is flesh.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Steel from head to toe. Full human penis hanging out at all

[A]

which I was saying would just be some sort of embarrassment that they're putting me through.

[C]

Some sort of ritual insult to injury, like, you're already a Robocop.

[B]

We have the 9 inch robot dick right here. We can attach it. It even has more nerve endings. I give him gluten. That one.

[C]

The smoothie was. Stop looking.

[E]

You are under arrest.

[B]

Stop looking at me.

[C]

There was a smoothie that I wanted to get, though, that I wasn't able to track down popular flavor. It was like pineapple and spinach. Because I feel like on a trip like that, you can find yourself in a green vegetable deficit.

[B]

That was the food there was universally spectacular, but it was oddly hard to find vegetables at times.

[C]

And so I was, like, hoping for that one, but I just got like a strawberry banana one. And it was like, one of the better smoothies I've ever had. It was great.

[A]

That's wild. I, I, I, I just want to say this. Two things. One, I said, I did say to you, if you don't go to Japan, I will be the most mad at you. That's what I said to you. Like, if you don't take this opportunity, I'll be really mad at you, as I hope you guys would be. Also have been mad at me.

[C]

We were, we were actually, we were really nice to him.

[B]

They were too nice.

[C]

Yeah, we were like, we basically were like, hey, like, I think this would be cool. We think you would like it if you came. But if you don't want to come, that's totally, totally fine with us. But you guys have traveled a lot together. Not internationally, of course we have. This was, this was, this is your first group. This was our first group outing, our first travel together. I would say.

[E]

We've only had, like, dinner out, like, four times.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. We don't, we do the show and we, we have fun doing the show. Then we, you know, have our meals

[B]

in between the show when we go friends. And we're friends.

[A]

Yeah, of course.

[C]

But traveling with people is.

[A]

I'm sorry, this sounded pretty pathetic when you said it. And we're friends and they kind of ignored you.

[B]

That's why they're doing the show with me.

[E]

Right?

[C]

They're friends. I remembered he paid me to agree, so I had to say yes.

[B]

But I, Amelia told me they're my

[C]

friends, so that's actually not okay. But, like, yeah, that was our first time traveling together and we spent every day and every hour together, basically, like

[A]

eight hours jumping in the deep end of traveling with Wise.

[B]

Yeah. Almost every Meal together.

[C]

Almost every meal together. But I felt like at the end of it, we were. You were saying this too. It felt strange not to be with each other afterward. We had such a nice time. It was. It was wonderful.

[B]

Wonderful, harmonious experience.

[E]

Super weird not literally being around them all the time, which also was in itself a weird feeling because, like, I'm very comfortable being alone.

[B]

Me too.

[E]

So to feel a vacuum felt, like, unusual.

[A]

Sure. Yeah. You didn't have to say, me too.

[C]

We understood because going into it, too, I was kind of like, oh, you know, there might need to be, like, I might need to see if there's things I might want to go do if, like, if everybody needs, like, their own downtime. But we.

[B]

All right.

[A]

We were getting updates on the Doughboys text, and Wags was being very, very active. And also almost to the point that it did, like. I mean, Susser and I were making fun of you on a side text. Yeah. Because. Because Weiger was like. Was like, mitch, you would hate it. There's no trash. You have to. You have to travel your trash. And also you have to be very punctual here. And then Susser was like, wagar, the world traveler. Now he's making fun of you on another text, which I agree with him.

[B]

You added, you would hate it. Now. I was just saying that, like. Like, these are. These are culture shocks.

[A]

There was some say. You said something like, mitch, it would be tough for you. Or something like the punctual thing would be.

[C]

You think Mitch is just throwing trash everywhere?

[B]

No, I don't think the trash thing was. The trash thing was not what they're

[A]

referring to, which Shankton did. Back up. I was talking Japan with Shankton, who. He loves Japan and his wife is half Japanese, I believe. Believe. But he was just like, there is. He's like, there's a weird thing. And I was like, no, trash. He's like, yeah, there's no. There really is, like, no place to throw away trash. And he's like, you just have a backpack or whatever, and you keep, you know, whatever you. Whatever garbage you have, you take with you and you throw away.

[C]

At the end of the day, you're walking around like a trash can Santa Claus.

[B]

I'm holding up my Uniqlo bag, which I got in Japan because my other bag, my bagu broke. The. The strap broke. You were with me when that happened. Happened. And devastating. But having this bad boy, I just like, would stick a little. Little plastic baggie in here, and then any trash would just go. It was like the fucking easiest solve in the world.

[C]

The thing that becomes difficult is cups, though. Like, if you buy like the smoothie. I was carrying around that empty cup for a long time.

[B]

And the other thing is they don't have. Because I'm a refillable water bottle guy. I got my YETI right here. And it's not like easy to fill up a water bottle.

[E]

Apparently, though, that's my shortcoming because at the convenience stores there is water stations.

[B]

Wait, really?

[E]

Yeah, that was, that was deficit, not

[B]

a country deficit, not your responsibility to solve that.

[C]

If you can go to Japan with Heather Ann Campbell, you should take the opportunity.

[A]

I was going to say you were probably a great. It sounded like you were nailing everything.

[E]

I really, I, I, I go frequently. I'll, that's my first of three trips this year that I'll be going.

[A]

Oh my God.

[E]

To Japan. And yeah, I mean, I, I, I really love it there. If the shit hits the fan here, like, for real, I've thought, I mean they've, they've, they've made it a lot harder for foreign workers to stay in the country recently. As you know, the entire world sort of lurches to the right, but there are opportunities still and I don't know, it seems like backup plan number two.

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

I'm going first, Japan second.

[A]

I think sadly, I'm going down with the ship too. Not, not just out of pure laziness.

[C]

Ye.

[E]

I guess, sir, there's plenty of boats.

[A]

There's plenty of boats.

[C]

I haven't packed my stuff.

[A]

I'm good.

[E]

There's lifeboats, four and a half.

[A]

The band's pretty good. Would you, you, you're a guy who would go down on the Titanic.

[B]

I'm enlisted.

[A]

You go down on.

[B]

Sign up for the, the water war. Here we go.

[E]

You're. Wait, you're going downstairs on the Titanic.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So we were in Japan and speaking of having Heather as a guide, you know, we ended up at, they put us up in great accommodations in Kyoto in Tokyo. We stayed at a hotel. And this is a place that I won't dox. But the breakfast buffet at the Kyoto hotel was like the best breakfast buffet I ever had in my life. Until we went to that second hotel we were staying in Tokyo and the second one, like, first off, it was just like the level of quality of food. They didn't even have a tray of eggs. Every egg, even scrambled eggs were made fresh, were made to order. But the thing that we really fixated on is there was a coffee maker. There's A coffee machine that was self serve and they had mugs that you could have to stay, but they also had a bunch of to go cups. And there was a sign that was like the kindest sign any of us ever seen. You could take coffee to your room.

[E]

That's what the sign said.

[B]

You could take coffee to your room.

[C]

You could take coffee to your room.

[A]

That is a very nice sound.

[C]

We loved it because we also couldn't figure out the tone with which it was being said because you kind of like you could take coffee to your room.

[A]

Yeah. Is it, is it a challenge or is it, is it, is it a warning? Just kind of.

[C]

You could take coffee to your room but kind of like don't do it maybe.

[E]

Yeah, well, because, yeah, if it's, if it's. Can you can take coffee to your room, then it's like it's okay.

[A]

Yes. Right.

[E]

But could is mischief.

[B]

Right?

[E]

You could take coffee around.

[B]

Think about it, huh? Wanna have a little fun?

[C]

I did do it one time.

[B]

Yeah, I know you did it. I'm glad you did.

[C]

It was nice, but I kind of felt like I was being a little bit bad.

[B]

Well, that's what the sign is for.

[A]

Yeah. Was there any repercussions from taking your coffee to the room?

[C]

Yeah, there were armed agents in my room that tased me immediately.

[B]

Speaking of coffee, we also, you also took us to a coffee house and that was like an incredible pour we had there. I did spend, but it was fine.

[E]

Yeah, I brought them the glitch coffee. I'll always shout it out. Glitch has, when you walk in, has about 20 different coffee beans in these sort of like smelling carafes. And you choose your coffee beans based on the kind of roasting or fermentation you want the beans to have. And so you'll pick up some and they'll be like, this one is fermented with strawberries and mangoes. And you're like, what the fuck does that mean? It's coffee. And you lift up the sort of decanter and it smells like a strawberry milkshake. And you're like, okay, but that doesn't translate to the coffee, does it? And then you have a cup of coffee with no flavoring in it. No, you know, cold foam bullshit. Just a cup of coffee and it tastes like a strawberry milkshake.

[A]

That's wild.

[E]

And you're like, this is, this is a very unusual experience.

[D]

Yes.

[E]

They had a flight of coffee. They had three cups.

[C]

Yes, I got two. I got two because I knew three was Going to be two. I thought three was going to be too many. But we also didn't realize they were full sized cups. We thought they'd be flight sized cups, like maybe like shot glasses of coffee or something.

[A]

But they're just three full.

[C]

Three full cups. And if you. Yeah, Nick mentioned it, but can you believe it? He spilled one of them.

[A]

How much spillage happened on the entire trip? Was that it, was that the only

[C]

spill or, you know, for how long we were with him? It wasn't that much, but I would say that the spill spills that did happen were pretty.

[E]

There was a bar we went to on our final night there that had a sign on the wall that said, if you spill your drink, you buy shots for everyone in the bar.

[A]

Oh, man.

[E]

And it was like the three of us just lasered to that sign.

[C]

Nick's sweating. We have to get out of here.

[B]

In an act of hubris, I had Matt take my picture next to the sign. Like, get a load of this. We go to another bar, which we had a great time at. We ended up hanging out there. It was the three of us. Us, it was just a bunch of Japanese locals. We were chopping it up with them. They were, they were having a blast. They loved us. And then the, the bartender who's slash owner, whose name I, I can't pull right now.

[C]

Masako.

[B]

Masako Basako ruled. But we were just having a great time. It reached a point where I was like, we're having so much fun. We're just like listening to. Oh, this is a place that was called Adam Hartmother.

[A]

Oh, right.

[B]

Yeah. It's named after a Pink Floyd album. Yeah, I, I, I was just like, let me buy shots for the bar. And it was like, like, okay, yeah, yeah, I, I do that, that. But as I'm doing that, I gesture and I take. And my own beer I have in front of me, I knock over and not only empty, but shatter. It was humiliating because I'd made it through the whole trip and I'd had.

[A]

So you did the thing that you would have had to do in the

[B]

other bar, but I did that in advance. And then I, like, I, I just ended up shattering a glass and spilling everywhere. And it was the sort of thing where I was like apologizing so much. I was like, like suing myself

[D]

to

[B]

the point where they were like, it's okay.

[C]

Masaka very sweetly said, I do this all the time. And we have to believe her because she drank an entire bottle of wine herself while we were there.

[B]

She Ruled. I loved her.

[C]

She was awesome. She was really, really great.

[A]

Now, did you. With Jack Black and Chris Pratt, did you tell them that you had met before when you interviewed them or.

[B]

No, they were so this was such a whirlwind sort of thing where I was like, we have basically 30 seconds of interaction before we start, like, before we just start filming. And so I don't like some. The best use of time seemed to be more like, here's what our show is as opposed to, like, hey, you might remember when you did Tomorrow War. My. My co host, Mike Mitchell was in it with you and then having kind of like, oh, yeah, yeah, I remember. I remember, you know, like having him lie about remembering that interview.

[A]

I think it's a perfect use of your time.

[B]

Might have been. I don't know. I made a comment call. I thought the. That part of the show went well.

[C]

Yeah, they were everybody. The stars are just like us. They were.

[B]

Stars are just like.

[C]

They were being very nice and they, you know, they seemed to. They were very polite about their time on the show.

[B]

Everybody was very nice.

[A]

I haven't. I haven't seen Super Mario Galaxy movie yet. I am. I would just. I go to movies mostly alone now, so I feel like. Like a peak children's movie when it comes out. I don't like to just go in there solo or I go very late.

[C]

Do you prefer to go alone? Phone.

[A]

I mean, I. I like to go with friends sometimes.

[C]

If you feel like you want a buddy, I'll go with you.

[A]

That's very sweet because I. Because it is. I think. I always think it's a tougher one to also be like, hey, you want to go see a movie? You want to see the Super Mario Galaxy movie? And it's either people who have.

[C]

I'm your guy. I'll go.

[A]

All right, great. Because it's people who you either either have children or other guys like movies like. What are you talking about?

[C]

I saw every Sonic movie. First screening, opening day, and it was me and a bunch of dad and their children. Basically. I'm into it.

[E]

Sonic was my final film at Arclight.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

Before it closes February 2020. And I saw it and then I went to New York to visit my then girlfriend, now wife. And yeah, it was my final ticket stub at the Arclight Theater, Sonic the Hedgehog.

[A]

I mean, if you like plug the thing back in, it would probably still say Sonic or like the sign probably will still say. There's probably. Probably promotional in there. Which, by the way, we've said it on here before, but whoever, Whoever's the next mayor or whatever. Like, they need people. Someone should run on just opening the Arc Light.

[C]

Yeah, that's who I'll vote for.

[A]

I mean, look, I'll care about other stuff, too. And it's not the worst, most important issue, of course, but I'm saying, like,

[C]

it's in the top three, probably.

[A]

I'm thinking of, like, the progressive people who will already have. Yes, mostly good ideas. I'm just also saying, saying, hey, I'm gonna reopen the arclight.

[C]

Just say it, Ethan.

[A]

Just say it. Just do it. Reopen the damn Arc. Or I guess the Cinerama Dome arclight is dead.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The brand is dead, but they, but the theater, the historic theater is there, and it's just sitting vacant.

[A]

Movie. This is movie town.

[B]

Look, look, we. It is movie town, but also, like, we're in just an economy and also in a. A metropolitan area where real estate is at a premium. And so, like, for any property to be vacant for a long stretch, which ends up happening because they just decide it's more profitable to have no one live there.

[A]

It's. Because it's also a historical landmark. The dome is a historical landmark.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

So what they try to do is have it fall into disrepair, and then when the dome collapses, they'll be like, it's. This is a knockdown. And now we get all of this area right, and we can build even more condos, and we don't have to care about the Arc Light dome.

[B]

That's.

[A]

They're waiting for it to just fall apart. It's up.

[B]

The owners of the center, the dome posted they're.

[E]

They're having a public hearing on May

[A]

12 about what to do with it,

[D]

so you should go.

[B]

Oh, wow.

[E]

What to do with.

[C]

It's a theater. I'm busy.

[E]

Movies on it.

[B]

See movies.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

I'm sad that there's no. I, I, I would love.

[E]

I sent it to you on Tik Tok.

[A]

Okay, let's go.

[C]

You got to check your Tik Tok messages. That's where the good stuff.

[B]

Are you on TikTok?

[A]

Yeah, I am on Tik Tok.

[B]

Wow. What do you do on there?

[A]

There's some TikTok exclusive content I make with Amelia.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow. Okay.

[A]

The video of me saying, dad, what were you, like, in the 2000 and tens or whatever? And then it's the. It's January 6th. That was a. Amelia helped me make that.

[D]

We're the common super maga on Tick Tock.

[A]

Yes. I've been getting A lot of Maga followers.

[B]

That's great.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

That's awesome.

[B]

They're in charge.

[A]

So much put in the thing. Well, there was also, like, people being like, burning hell, dude. And I then. So I. I like at first, but then I was like, I don't like Donald Trump, and this is just. Just a joke. Like, I put that up and that. I don't know if it's hell. And then also that makes it less funny. And then that brought you to say what you said. What is dead?

[D]

Satire's dead.

[A]

Oh, satire's dead.

[B]

Yeah, it's been dead, baby.

[A]

That's true.

[C]

Dead and loving it.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Have you ever said Dracula dead and loving it? I'll put it on the list. I'm sure it holds up great.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We were talking about this. The new scary movie, Doofy is just back. Doofy is back.

[A]

Yeah, but you don't want Doofy there.

[B]

I do, but I'm just also like,

[A]

oh, right, right, right, right. Doofy. Yes, of course.

[B]

All the things that have aged poorly in the scary movie franchise.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Doofy is maybe not someone who, I guess just like, whatever, anything goes to Trump's second term. So here we go. You can have Doofy.

[A]

I'm not supporting a lot of what's going on in the scary movie, the new scary movie, but God knows I'm going to be there day one. I am very excited to see this, even if it's a piece of shit.

[C]

Look, they dropped a preview with Kenan as Michael. I'm seated. I'm going.

[A]

We were saying that the bit about this is a bit. The bit is that Keenan moonwalks backwards and falls down the stairs. And we were like, this is a bit that you could have done 40 years ago.

[C]

It's so crazy. I have to see what's going on with it.

[A]

When did he first moonwalk? Was it before or after 19? What was it, like, 1990 or something? Yeah, the 80s. Yeah, 1980s.

[E]

It was Billy Jean, wasn't it?

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And it was. It was. It was. Oh, yes, that's right. Because it was stage. It was the 50th. We know this because we saw Michael.

[B]

Saw Michael.

[A]

It was the 50th anniversary of Motown where he did that on stage. Right on stage. And so that. So whenever that was in the 80s, that's. That's how long ago that was. And this is this bit. That's all there was to it. There was nothing else to the bed.

[C]

It was just to tie it into the new release. They're like, look, this is how current we're doing it. But that's, I mean that's. It is. It's insane.

[A]

Sherry o' Terry's character is getting the substance. It looks very.

[B]

I mean some of this stuff is going to be funny.

[A]

It's gonna be fun. It's gonna be fun.

[B]

He's gonna make me laugh. I'm just surprised he's just in it.

[A]

Yeah, of course.

[C]

Say, look, I'm gonna laugh at some of the bad stuff.

[A]

We're going, we're gonna go to the movie.

[B]

I'm gonna see the new scary.

[A]

Just like we saw Michael. We're not proud of going to either of these movies.

[B]

I see films, I see stuff.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

What do you want from me?

[A]

What is. Are you gonna see the resurrection of the Christ?

[B]

Yeah, of course I'll see that.

[C]

They're playing it at my church, so I'm already gonna see it.

[B]

Can we adopt a stretch of highway where Mel Gibson got arrested?

[C]

Yes, absolutely. That's the one.

[E]

I saw an interview snippet on Twitter or whatever that was him describing how it's like an ultra violent battle between devils and angels. And I was like, like what? Like, like the whole thing with the first one was we're going to take the Bible story and like really be like, this is it. This is exactly what happens in the Bible. But we're actually going to see it. And then you're at the end, you're like, I feel like I'm going to puke forever. This time he's just going to make up like a part of the Bible, like because that's not in the Bible.

[A]

Yeah. There's no firsthand account of going down to hell with him.

[C]

Yeah, stop.

[E]

Like watching Christ fight devils is not part of it.

[C]

Jesus is the doom God.

[A]

Which does sound kind of cool in a way. It sounds kind of cool.

[E]

Like he's gonna have a sword, like some holy sword and he's gonna behead a devil.

[A]

That's fucking cool.

[C]

Yeah, but what you're saying this like it's bad. I was a problem.

[E]

No, I'm just astonished that it's probably going to happen and it's to be three and a half hours long.

[C]

He's going to call the devil, sugar tits.

[B]

Better than some of

[A]

moon shadows. That's stretch where moon shadows us. That's will that highway. Yeah.

[B]

We also went to some. Wait, Moon shadows burned down during the fires, didn't it? What a bummer. We went to. We went to a sushi place. Heather, just. Again, speaking of your view like curating this trip for us. This is a sushi place that you'd been to previously. It's a, oh, you've never been.

[E]

I've never been there.

[B]

There's an omakase place we went to for lunch. And it's the kind of thing of like, I, I, I, I think you characterized it as like, you expect a certain duration when you're at omakase. This was like two full hours of just eating. It was crazy.

[E]

It was really, really intense. It was, was it sushi show Saito?

[B]

Yeah, that sounds right.

[E]

Yes. And it was, yeah, it was just a lunch. You know, you look for. We, we didn't have much of a window of time to really find restaurants because it, like, all happened. Made this reservation for our lunch. I tapped out at what I thought was three pieces of food before the end.

[B]

Like, I was like, it seemed like the end.

[E]

Yeah, I was like, we have to be winding down. I cannot physically eat any more fish. I, I'm so sorry. I was humiliated. Like, I didn't want to reject the chef. I, you know, that's totally embarrassing thing to have to do. But I tapped out. Out. And they did at least 13 more courses.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[E]

And I was like, oh, I'm so happy. I, I would have died if I had, like, kept pushing each round to like, oh, this will be the last piece. This will be the last piece. But you, you, at the end, they, they brought out extra fish and they're like, you know, we also have these beautiful pieces of fish. If you want to add any, any sushi. And you're like, I'm done. I'm so, I'm so full. And Nick was like, I'm so full, but I'll have like three or four more.

[C]

I was saying we were kind of like when Homer goes to hell and gets fed a bunch of donuts. We were, we were so full, but we were so happy.

[B]

It was awesome. And they, like, they were like, they loved us. And it was, it was a six seat counter, so, like, we were taking up half the restaurant the other. And then there was a, there was a couple from China who was sitting there and there was just the five of us, us dining. And so, like, it was just like there was many chefs as there were diners, and, and the, the quality of fish was just absolutely, I mean, I, I said to them, I said, this is the best sushi I've ever had in my life.

[A]

Yeah, we got to get you back there on the GLP1, so you won't you won't be able to pull that again. Your fanny pack won't break from all the wrappers you stuff in there.

[B]

I remember.

[A]

Or whatever the happened,

[C]

you tried to fill it with more sushi. It became heavy. I remember I asked the guy, like, the head chef there, who was awesome, how are you? So, because he brought us ice creams too, there was a dessert course, and I said I wanted to try one of the sorbets because I was like, I don't think dairy with how full I am would be a good idea, because I also had to. I had to stop at one point and go outside and stretch my back. I was in physical pain from how

[B]

full I was, basically.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[C]

Because the chairs were really nice, but not very comfortable. And then so I picked one of the sorbets. And then he brought me all three sorbets. And I was. And I ate them. They were really, really good. But they were so good that I asked the guy, how are you so good at so many things? And he gave, like, a incredible answer, which was just like, oh, I just do a little bit every day, which I loved. I loved that so much. And then I said, I'm not good at anything. And he laughed at me.

[E]

The.

[B]

That was so, like, the extra fish came after dessert, right? Am I correct about that?

[C]

It was sort of a tandem course where it was like, you can get dessert, but. But he's like, I got some more fish if you guys want some more fish too.

[B]

He brought out like nine different fish.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And then this was after, again, we did like 20 courses. It was fucking insane.

[C]

And he had it. And like, there was like, there must have been like a little fridge or some sort of cold drawer under the counter, but he had like a box that the fish was, like, loose in that. Then the fish, the box goes in the fridge. And for some reason, I was captivated by this box. I was like, I gotta know more about what's going on with this box.

[A]

Yeah, the fish box box. Really cool.

[C]

Yeah, that's really cool.

[B]

And earlier we talked about the. The bar we went to in Golden Gai, which is this. This district of Japan, which is, you know, very, very tightly packed. A bunch of bars that are, again, like, you know, oftentimes like six seat capacity.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

Very small, but there's like hundreds of them.

[E]

Yeah. Used to be a pretty neat district. Now is, you know, post Instagram, just overrun with tourists. It's like a totally different experience. And I was, like, shocked because it's been many years since I went to the Golden Gaia last. And the change was enormous. Like the change throughout Japan since I went. I went for the first time 21 years ago. And it's just like the Internet has terraformed the entire country. It's so wild.

[B]

It was really like, yeah, we kind of got the Bourbon street experience, Matt and I did. But I. Yeah, it used to be. And my alpha brother, Nate Weger was saying the same thing that it used to be, it used to be different,

[A]

but that was a bummer.

[B]

Yeah. But we went to this other bar earlier, Heather.

[E]

It's weird because the same problem doesn't seem to be happening here.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It's like the Internet.

[E]

I don't know why people aren't like going to like, Indianapolis and like, and like really being like, oh, this is the place.

[B]

Right.

[E]

Strange.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And we could.

[E]

And I have nothing against Indianapolis. I'm a Midwest girl. I like the Midwest.

[A]

And it seems like our country has the wealth. It seems like it should be able to do similar things. It's a beautiful country when you break it down.

[B]

Pacers.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

I'd go see the Pacers.

[A]

I would be fun to see the Pacers. But I'm just saying it seems like, I don't know, it seems like Japan has a lot going on.

[B]

You're in Japan and you're like, oh, America fucking sucks. I know America sucks, but it's just like really just just crystallized. It's clarified. And just like the lack of public infrastructure, the fact that that services are getting worse while over there everything is not just functional but like nice. Like you go to subway stations that don't smell like piss. This. And then also like the trains are like showing up consistently. Go where you need to go.

[C]

Well, the first.

[A]

No, on the sidewalk. What are you going to do for a living?

[B]

That's so true, Amelia. This will get you here, though.

[A]

The toilet, endless fish.

[B]

The toilets, the endless fish. The toilets are incredible. Every toilet is a toto. It was, it was just like, like I, I felt like I had a chariot everywhere I want. I was like, this is unbelievable. Just like, like the worst bathroom I went to in Japan was like the nicest bathroom I would have. I would have been to. At the nicest restaurant in la. There's one restaurant.

[A]

Every toilet, Every toilet is a total seem. Doctor of promise or something.

[B]

It really does.

[A]

It's, it's, it's, it's great.

[B]

We could do that here. We could have high speed rail here. We're just choosing not to do it.

[E]

I also want to shout out because it's, you know, I talk about it a lot on. On Get Played, you know, Holland also. Same thing. Like the.

[D]

The.

[E]

The. The public bathrooms aren't as notably incredible, but you go there and you're like, wait, the world could be nice. You know, like. Like the trains function, that. The trams function. Also, unlike Japan, there is an enormous bike infrastructure. And you're just like, oh, right, you could just invent a world where you biked everywhere. Like, in the 70s, that wasn't the case in Amsterdam. They were like, hey, this city is becoming a city of cars. Fuck this. And they literally tore up streets that had parking lots of them and made them into canals. So it's. It's a. It's a question, I think, of, yes, density, but also political will. And it's. It's a shame that there's no place. Like, if. If. If Chicago did this, if Chicago was like, fuck it, we're going to become the Euro Japanese city of America. Not only would they get so much influx of tourist money, because then people would go there to be like, oh, I've gone to Chicago. It's so beautiful. And it is. It is incredibly beautiful in Chicago. But if it also built up the infrastructure the way that they already have, you know, the L there, they've already got all of the makings of it. All they have to do is, is somebody's got to step in, like, you know, Chicago mom, Don Mamdani, and be like, we're gonna make it. We're gonna make it cool here.

[B]

Yeah, it's.

[A]

It's Chicago Mom. Donnie was one of my SNL audition characters.

[B]

Really, really great character.

[E]

The.

[C]

The.

[D]

So, like.

[B]

But here we. We. And I mentioned this before. It's the. The approximation of a walkable neighborhood is like a Caruso property. It's like going to the Grove in the Americana. These outdoor malls that are very nice, but it's like you're driving to this place and spending $20 on parking so that you can just have a spot. You can walk around for a little bit and. And shop and like, eat, like, eat in an outdoor cafe. That could just be everyday life.

[A]

Can you imagine a bunch of happy Chicagoans if that they would. What. What a difference it would be.

[C]

That was something that we noticed that Heather pointed out to me when we were walking around. She was like, look at everybody while we're walking around.

[A]

Everyone's happy as hell.

[C]

Everyone's happy. It was, like, crazy. And I was just kind of, like, thinking about it. And then after a while, I was like, oh, I think it's because everybody's basic human needs are being met. Like, good food is not expensive. Like, even, like the. Like. Is an egg salad sandwich the healthiest food for you? No, but it's also not poison. And it was like, $3. It wasn't very expensive at all. So you could get, like, an affordable good meal for a good price and then just go about your day and feel happy and great. It was one. And everybody was so helpful everywhere we went.

[A]

Yeah, I could say that. Imagine a bunch of happy Bostonians too. I'm not just picking on Chicago, but like a. Like a. It would be funny to see a city transform like that. It's annoying. It's annoying. You're right. That it is that thing of, like, oh, we can do that and we just don't do it and LA should do it. I mean, whatever, but it sucks.

[B]

Heather's correct to diagnose political will because it's just like everything has been crushed by capital and just. Just like no one. No one is making money off of making public.

[A]

In the 20 years I lived in LA, the city has got worse in many, many ways. Like, we're saying there's an empty. There's a big, you know, empty structure where the arc light used to be. It's just more and more stuff like that.

[B]

The one positive I can say ride the D. They. They did the D line pretty good. Expanded west. So you can take that. That new. A new underground subway from downtown all the way to, you know, a little.

[A]

I know this is coming from me, who we talk about cum and. Or whatever. Time for a public shirt. Ride the D a little too. I thought it was. I'm clenching my pearls a little bit here.

[B]

They already had. So this is a thing that. That they. The LA MTA had is that they'd been like. All the different lines are named, are letters. They used to be the colors. Now they're letters. So like, they had like, ride the A shirts for the A train. Ride the. Ride the E for the E line.

[A]

Okay. All right. There's a pattern.

[B]

The D expands and they come out with, like, ride the D. And it's like, of course they snatch one of those up on day one. They snatch up a couple of them. I'm wearing that some bitch. But it's like, this is about the train. This is not some double entendre. You're the one making it weird.

[D]

I saw a lady at Echo park wearing one of those shirts the other day. She was walking her kids and her dog so what about.

[E]

What about the ones that say suck the D?

[A]

Yeah, we see you wearing that shirt a lot.

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But should we just move doughboys over to Spencer? Can we go to Spencer gifts.com?

[B]

i think that would be great. I think that's a. That's a good destination for us. Was it. Was there anything else we met for food wise from our Japanese experience?

[C]

I mean all the food was just.

[B]

Is also good.

[C]

Miles better than anything we have ever eaten here.

[B]

I guess the McDonald's we can touch on real quick. This is another fast food thing.

[E]

Can I just say please again? I have another trip to Japan coming up right now and I don't think it's still gonna be there when I return. Right now they're doing a Gundam collaboration in. In McDonald's at Japan. I sent you guys images of the bags. The fucking bags look gorgeous. They're doing like three special chicken sandwiches based on the heroes of the original 1970s Gundam show. I. God damn it. God fucking damn it. We got the K pop demon hunters meal here. It didn't come with the card.

[C]

It didn't come with the card.

[E]

It didn't. It like. It was a. The box was a huge box with barely anything in it.

[B]

Right?

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

It's an enormous footprint of a box with just like the wreckage of french fries in one corner and like tossed chicken nuggets in the other corner.

[C]

You shook the box when you got it though.

[E]

Well. Cause it was like, oh my God, what a big box. It must be full of stuff. Empty.

[B]

It's like a child's coffin where they didn't recover all the body. It's just like. There's just like one arm in there, part of a head.

[A]

I don't even want to know what scenario this is or why you went there first.

[C]

That's like something that would be on a things you shouldn't say a day calendar.

[B]

The kid was probably in an Iranian school.

[E]

No, no, I don't like it.

[B]

I don't like it either.

[E]

It's fucking terrible.

[A]

That's what he's making a political. You're making a political point, Yera. We all knew you were. I just had to say that out loud out of fe. Yeah, horrible. I mean, hey, once again highlighting how our country is.

[B]

That's where properties is. We're fucking spending money on our own military and funding the idf. It's fucking Sick.

[C]

We just have to get this ballroom done. Yeah, yeah, the ballroom's done.

[A]

Are you talking about the Headgun Ballroom?

[C]

Oh, yeah. The Head Gun Ballroom is nowhere near completed.

[B]

Actually, the Head Gun Ballroom is an important priority for security's sake, so.

[C]

Because where are we going to have the Head Gun Ball?

[B]

Right.

[E]

Why.

[D]

Why would you.

[E]

God damn it. Why. Why would you build a bunker at the place that everybody's going to try and, like, build the bunker off site?

[A]

That's a great call.

[E]

Why would you advertise that there's going to be a bunker there? The bunker is garbage. They're not.

[C]

It's funny that the bunker is. It is kind of funny. The bunker there.

[E]

The evac is going to be so fast. Yeah, the bunker is like a big. It's. It's a fake bullseye. I wonder if it's even going to have anything in it, because they're not going to be able to put anybody in there.

[C]

He'll probably bury his relatives under it or something.

[A]

It is in, like, White House down. The bunker would be under the. Under the white. But, like, for, you know, for people. Think of the normal. It shouldn't be. It shouldn't be there.

[B]

I understand in, like, the sense of like, oh, shit, the nukes are flying right now. Get to the fucking bunker. Like, I understand that contingency. But yes, as just like a thing of like. Like, yeah, we're building the biggest, most glorious bunker. Bunker ever. Like, why are we advertising this?

[C]

I agree.

[E]

Because it keeps people from talking about the Epstein files.

[B]

True, Amelia. That's a great point.

[A]

I am. You got it, by the way.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

She deserves that. We got. We got the Mandalorian and Grogu meal yesterday, and Wygs was very unimpressed with the box and everything it came in.

[B]

I. I'm glad they made. They put some effort. This was last week's episode.

[A]

And also we all hate.

[B]

We did with our. With our buddy Joe Wenger.

[C]

We don't all hate.

[B]

We don't all hate Grogu.

[C]

No.

[B]

This is a. Mitch. Mitch is on an island here. Mitch is the only one who dislikes.

[A]

Cares about Grogu.

[E]

I. I don't like Grou.

[A]

Wow. Oh, my God, Heather, you just praised the heavens. I did.

[E]

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

[D]

You don't think he's cute at all?

[E]

No, it's not about cute for me. It's canonical problems. Because if he's 50. If he's 50 years old.

[A]

This is. This is. I have an issue I have this.

[D]

I just said buddy's cute.

[E]

This issue is he's 50 years old and he's a baby. And Yoda.

[C]

So is Ned.

[A]

That's what I'm supposed to say.

[B]

He gets tripping over each other to

[A]

fucking dunk on me.

[E]

It just implies, like, everything it implies about the life cycle of the species is very bizarre. And also doesn't leave the right kind of space for when Yoda could have been a Jedi Master at the height of the Old Republic. Like, it's. It. It. The math is all fucked up because baby Yoda is 50.

[A]

Yes.

[E]

Like, if baby Yoda was 10, then I'd be like, okay, yeah, it's okay.

[B]

It's all in service of the reveal and the pilot. What that I think is a good reveal is like, his target is 50 years old. He gets to the 50 year old target, it's a baby. It's like, oh, it's a baby Yoda. They have it. I. But yes, you are correct, because the canonical implications.

[A]

So good for that one moment.

[B]

It's a good moment. But canonical implications are. There's domino effect effect there. Yeah. You could have the same effect if he was 20, right?

[E]

Yeah.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Also, does baby. We said this yesterday. Does baby Yoda. Does Grogu wear a diaper?

[B]

Does Grogu wear.

[A]

Or is he just. Is it nothing under that robe?

[C]

Does he have gray pubes?

[A]

That's a great question.

[B]

Well, I think as a baby, he would not have any pubes. Well, yeah, but it's a different species, so I don't know. Do we have any clarity here? Can we look at Wikipedia and how canonically how old Yoda is in Return of the Jedi or Empire Strikes Back?

[A]

And also, you might. You might as well Google if Grogu has pubes or not.

[B]

That would be. That'd be helpful too. Maybe we get two laptops over there.

[E]

Like, I believe this episode airs after the movie has come out. So we'll have this answer. But maybe the film ends with baby Yoda turning to Dinja Djarin and being like, train I must. And you're just like, oh, they have no adolescence. Like, maybe that's like the life cycle they're going to.

[B]

He leaves. Yeah, it's like he's like a butterfly immersion from Chrysalis. He's like. He has a caterpillar and then he has like, kind of like a very quick larval stick stage. Larval pupil stage.

[E]

He's about 900 years old.

[D]

And Empire Strikes Back.

[B]

Okay, so he's 900 years old. So if he's 50 as a baby,

[A]

but then he's very old at 900 years old.

[B]

Yeah, but he's 100. 100.

[A]

So 50 doesn't make. But he's like an old man at 900 years old.

[D]

90, then middle age is like 500, 400. 500.

[A]

Yeah. That's weird though.

[E]

It doesn't make sense. Timeline.

[B]

It doesn't quite make sense because.

[E]

Because he's a baby at 50, which means he. He's a toddler at 100.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Not necessarily, but they're the age.

[A]

Why is he also. He's a baby. Why is he jumping around so much?

[C]

The.

[B]

The likes to jump.

[C]

He shouldn't be jumping when they say baby.

[D]

Cuz he walks and stuff.

[B]

Yeah, he might be more of a.

[D]

So maybe he's more of a toddler at 50 and they're just saying baby aging might be exponential too.

[B]

He's just not verbal. Yeah, it might be exponential.

[E]

If his aging is exponential, then it's weird. And fine. But. But like, if. If this is as old as he. If he's helpless at 50 years old, then he will be.

[C]

He puts in some. He puts in some work. But I don't know if he's helpless, he.

[E]

Like, he can't be. He won't be a 10 year old at a hundred.

[C]

Right?

[A]

Yes.

[E]

Right?

[C]

Yeah, I see what you're. I know what you're saying.

[A]

Espone. She's in the pocket of big Grogu. She loves Grogu, by the way.

[E]

Yeah.

[A]

There was a video of him at the grove sneezing. That was so cute.

[B]

Who's your top green guy? Is it still Shrek? Shrek, yeah, Shrek 1. Grogu. Grogu.

[A]

It's. You're so weird to me that this cute Grogu works on you because like I said, you review human. It seems like you don't.

[E]

How are those exclusive?

[A]

I know they're not exclusive. I'm just saying it seems like the kind of saccharine cute. You. You wouldn't care about. You wouldn't care about.

[B]

Grogu works on me.

[E]

Is it.

[D]

She has a Grogu on her car.

[E]

Is it Sudeikis that punches it in the face? Yeah.

[A]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[E]

I wonder if that was his bit or if it was. If it was like scripted as such. Because it's such an insane bit.

[A]

That is an insane choice.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

My wife has not seen any of the Mandalorian. Every time we see the preview for Mandalorian and Grogu, she's like, I have to see that. I love him. I was like, there's a whole show about him. Do you want to see that? No interest at all.

[E]

There's a really interesting demographic reveal by, I think, the official Star wars account this week, which was who watches what each generation watches. And for Gen Z and the Boomers, it's Mandalorian Grogu. So earliest part of life, oldest part of life. Gen X and Millennials watch. Andor like, just in terms of like, who's literally watching the shows. And then Gen Z watches Clone Wars.

[A]

Yeah, that's a very.

[C]

Nobody watched Acolyte. Is that right?

[E]

Nobody watches Acolyte and none of them are watching the sequel. Trilog.

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Love spaghetti.

[A]

I love spaghetti as well. Yeah, well, we'll get into it. Also, by the way, wasn't it. Was it Bob Chap? Who was the guy who. Bob Chapek. But who was the guy who went to Ithaca the other Ohr. Iger. Iger. Wasn't he what he saw. I said this in the last. This last episode, but he saw Baby Yoda. He's like, there's my billion dollar creation. Like, like it is just so clearly.

[C]

That made me want to die. Hearing that.

[A]

It's the truth.

[B]

Get him out of there. I out wigur in.

[A]

That's what we say.

[B]

It's a regular, this. So Kokoichi Banya is a regular.

[A]

You know what he's going to do? He's bringing back the old Splash Mountain. That's what he's promised. Tiana's bayou adventure is out. You're going to bring it back.

[C]

Captain EO Back in that little theater, too. Speaking of closed theaters, there's nothing there right now.

[A]

Bring back the Captain EO for crying out.

[B]

It's a good show.

[A]

Hey, I gotta say this. Bring back stark raving dad. You're gonna. You're not gonna. You're not gonna put star craving dad in the. The Simpsons lineup. Who the. What the Are you doing?

[B]

Michael Jackson episode is a good episode.

[A]

Just because he talks. There's a lot of people who speak on Simpsons episodes. Sorry. Neil Campbell. Neil Campbell wrote an episode. That's the Elon Musk episode.

[B]

He.

[A]

Which he. He had no part of this. He was. It was his. It was the story he had to write. But, like, Elon Musk is in an episode, so why the f. Like, why.

[C]

I guess he did a Simpsons ring.

[B]

Can we look up if Spacey was on a Simpsons?

[A]

Is Elon as big of a pedophile as Michael? I guess is the big question, which I'm guessing probably.

[B]

I think Michael was quite a pedophile.

[E]

I think Elon famously was told he wasn't welcome.

[B]

That's true. No.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

He was trying to get in with Epstein, and they're like, let's get this weirdo out of here.

[C]

He likes it.

[E]

I don't to want much. Look at this guy.

[D]

No, it looks like. It looks like spacy has never voiced a Simpsons.

[C]

Like, he would have died.

[A]

There's got to be some skeletons. There's got to be some Simpsons voiceover actors who are. Who are.

[B]

I mean, Matt Groening was on the. On the Epstein flight log.

[E]

The Simpsons reference Glengarry Glenn Ross.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

They reference him.

[A]

Well, that's. That's fine. Did you see a movie while you're in Japan, by the way?

[B]

We did. We saw. I mean, it was the Mario Galaxy movie. Oh, you know, we should talk about this.

[A]

You see movies. You said. You said, I see movies. I see movies. I see movies. I know.

[E]

We didn't have enough days.

[A]

We didn't have enough days.

[B]

We did see the Mario Galaxy movie and that. This is the thing we can talk about. Mitch, because you were mentioning that you're a. We know that you're a movie guy. And I also know that you're popcorn and soda guy. Yes, they have. The tray they had at the Japanese movie theater was just like a masterstroke of design.

[C]

I loved it.

[E]

So, so imagine you've got your cup holder in between your seats, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[E]

But there's no place to store your popcorn when you've got your cup holder. You gotta hold your popcorn on your thing. What if you gave a tray that was a triangle, Right. And at the end of the triangle is a solid cup. You slide that into the cup holder. So now you have a popcorn holder on the end of your thing and you put your drink behind it. It's fucking awesome.

[A]

Does it swivel?

[E]

Kind of swivel on your thing?

[A]

The United States fucking sucks when you order a popcorn.

[B]

It really does they it to you. And, and if it was the US people would steal those or break them. Like it was just like it would be like it would be completely unsustainable.

[C]

I broke mine on just to let him know.

[A]

Give him a taste of America.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Right over my knee.

[A]

Have you s, have you seen Sound of Freedom?

[B]

Yeah, of course. All right.

[A]

You do see movies. Okay. All right, you've proven it. You've proven it.

[B]

What was my church? What about the theater? Kokoichi banya. Founded in January 1978. Over a thousand locations in Japan, 200 international nationally. I, I, I would say this is a, this is, this is a thing. This is a regular dinner order for get played records. Yeah. So we're, we're often getting this, we're doing our double records. We're doing an episode. We're getting a, you know, some sort of dinner very often is Coco Ichibana. And then we are recording a second episode and being very sleepy but have, but feeling great. The so much so has this become a staple of our get played records. And this is all courtesy of Heather, who is like a Coco Igbana Ivanu evangelist that we have a Coco Ichibana song. We sing to this to the Yoshi's island map theme, which is Cocoa Coco. A lot of fun.

[A]

Oh, yeah, I know that song.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I just got at the end of clicked with me.

[B]

I learned how to play that on piano and showed my piano teacher and she was like, all right.

[A]

By the way, this is as an adult, you're saying.

[B]

Yeah, yeah.

[A]

All right. Yeah. This was, this was, this was, was recently.

[B]

This is last year.

[A]

I just want people to know I

[B]

Learned it by ear. I thought that was pretty good.

[A]

We. We have some thought. The dope. The Doughboys crew has some thoughts.

[B]

The Doughboys crew has some thoughts.

[A]

We think that there's been a bit of gatekeeping here with Koko Ichibania.

[B]

Whoa, whoa, hold on. No gatekeeping. No gatekeeping.

[C]

Maybe some girl bossing.

[B]

No gatekeeping. Let me say this. Cocoichi Banya. I knew we were going to review when get played was able to get back onto Doughboys, so we're saving it for the. That review. But also, how often do we order. This is a thing we were talking about with Emma. How often do we order dinner? And it's not for content.

[A]

We sometimes order lunch or dinner, though.

[B]

Sometimes gatekeeping from you, to be clear.

[D]

Oh, yeah, we got Jersey mics during production meeting. You're right. Yeah.

[B]

Once in a while we'll get, like, Jersey mics or something.

[D]

Most of the time, the food is determined by the show.

[A]

We're mad because it's good. We. We had a good time.

[B]

You're mad.

[D]

I don't think I ever said this.

[C]

I think m. The other everybody hates grou situation.

[B]

Tell me you like grou and I'll say I'm mad. Fine.

[A]

I like grou.

[E]

I'm pissed.

[C]

She hit the table.

[A]

I believed it. Okay, that's.

[B]

Look, this place is great.

[A]

I just didn't know anything about it. It was just.

[D]

This is definitely on the list now.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Or have you have. Or have you been a Japanese curry person in the past? Are you somebody who has this?

[A]

I don't. I don't. I don't eat it too often, but I love. I. I loved it.

[B]

Yeah, I like it quite a bit. I got back into it partly because of we were having Coco gibanya, but also partly the game Persona 5. Which Persona 5, you work at a coffee and curry shop. And I was like, oh, fuck, I'm gonna have Japanese curry all the time. And I was doing it, and I was feeling great.

[C]

Two of the best hot brown things.

[B]

Two of the best hot brown things. And leads to the third best.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Hey, if you're lucky, maybe a hot load too.

[A]

I was gonna say, how is your loads are hot? Is anything. Is that stuff is nice and cool, right?

[E]

Like, when you say hot, is it like.

[B]

Oh, scalding.

[C]

Yeah, it seals it shut on exit.

[B]

My urethra is cauterized. Heather, do you want to. You've done a good job explaining this in the past. Do you mind explaining the roundabout origins of Japanese curry as a dish?

[D]

I was Just going to ask what the differences are.

[E]

Yeah. So my understanding, and I'm, you know, not Wikipedia and I'm not educated in this, is that curry did not come to Japan via India. It came via Britain. After Britain colonizes and takes over the whole fucking world, they bring curry to Japan. So British curry is bland. Right. Like they're not known for having a spicy palate. So they bring curry to Japan and curry. And the Japanese are like, oh, curry is a sweet too mild dish. And so that's why Japanese curry is so specifically different from Indian curry. However, it wasn't really popular until World War II when it was all the battleships were looking for ways to feed an enormous number of troops with a very specific vitamin that everyone was becoming deficient in on the, on the battleships and realized that curry would be a very, very easy distribution method and, and also easy to make in huge batch. So curry becomes popular in World War II. So much so that each battleship has its own specific curry recipe. So you can get like the, you know, this battleship's curry or that battleship's curry as a, as a menu item. Then it becomes sort of like when you come home from the war, it becomes like the macaroni and cheese. It's like the home cooked like stand like it's the standard meal. And that's, and that's how we get to today.

[B]

It's interesting that you like, you know, the, the, I guess the, the one plus side of colonization is that the

[A]

idea is cool what they, whatever the, whatever the Brits battleships were doing, probably

[B]

not cool, I guess, but it led to some, it's led to some very distinct foods like, like Japanese curry or like a banh mi, you know, things that came from cross cultural pollination.

[E]

One of the best burritos I've ever had was a chicken, chicken tandoori burrito. It was so good.

[B]

Yeah, so, so I mean like. But it's really interesting to hear that again. You would, you would think India is right there. India is much closer. Would it come from the subcontinent? No, it came in this, this sort of circuitous way. Yep. I, I really like Japanese curry. I think it's maybe become my favorite curry varietal. I could be wrong. I mean, I, I don't know. I like Thai curry too. I like all curries. You know, what am I doing know? I don't need to pick, pick favorites as far as curries go.

[C]

What about Tim?

[B]

Tim curry? I love Steph curry.

[E]

I love.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, they're all great.

[A]

I like Tim Curry.

[E]

Yeah, I I, I made it for my, my dad this weekend. I made, I made Japanese curry for my father this weekend. He was in town and he ate two bowls in dead silence and then turned to my mom and went, can you learn how to make this?

[B]

So we got basically our regular order here, which is vegetable curry with a chicken cutlet. There's different ways to order it here. And, and Melee was confused because she kind of had four different orders. She was balanced. She was balancing. That all ended up being the same thing. They were just phrased differently because the menu had. Just has a bunch of different options.

[D]

Yeah. Heather and Matt ordered vegetable curry. Add chicken cutlet. Mitch and Wigs ordered vegetable and chicken cutlet curry. And then, and then I did chicken curry and veggies.

[B]

Chicken cutlet curry, add veggies. Yeah. So all the, these are, they're all different ways to get to the same thing because anything that's, that's like a, they're just shortcuts to, to customizing something. It used to be on the menu, if memory serves, where it was just curry. And then you picked every component that you were adding into it, at least for delivery.

[E]

Yeah. I don't know in restaurants if that's the case, but on delivery it would be like curry. Choose your options.

[B]

So we all got the vegetable curry with chicken cutlet. Yeah. You have the menu there, which by

[E]

the way is the default here on the, on the menu.

[C]

Right.

[E]

The chicken cutlet curry with vegetables.

[B]

And the vegetables.

[A]

I was happy that I saw people order it with vegetables because I was just getting the chicken. The chicken cutlet curry. At one point I redid my order like three different times. But I, I loved that there was some, some veggies in that, in that curry. It would have felt kind of empty without, without that.

[B]

We've talked about Coco Ichibana on Get Played and their arcane system for spice levels.

[A]

Now.

[B]

I like it spicy. I'm a little bit of a heat seeker. And so their spice levels are mild, regular, and then 1 through 10. And there used to also be a 15 and a 20. It's really confusing.

[A]

You warned me about. I ordered a three.

[B]

Yeah. And I was like, I mean we

[A]

have to have the spice off. Cuz you think that I can't handle spice.

[B]

No, I, I just know that be as far as an experience for this. An introduction to Coco Ichibana. I feel like getting the regular is the way to go. I, I get the number three and it's. And so does, so does Relle Chen. So does Ranch.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And she also is someone who likes spicy. And it's plenty spicy for us. I've gotten 10 before. In fact, I got 15 when they had 15. Heather got me a sticker that says I survived level 15 at. At. Cocoichi Banya that I have on my notebook.

[E]

I think they still have 15.

[B]

It wasn't available for ordering today because I wanted to try a 20. That's the one thing I've never gone.

[E]

Why would they make the stickers if you can't get 15 and 20?

[B]

I don't know. At least maybe you're not for delivery anymore.

[D]

Yeah. Maybe you have to go in so they can warn you and make you sign something.

[C]

Sign a waiver.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

But I'm ready. I'll try the 20 at some point

[A]

that was available to us today. 10.

[B]

The hottest was the 10.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

And let me see. Haven't had the 10. I would characterize that as a potent mix.

[A]

Three was spicy enough. That three was pretty. It was pretty spicy.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

But I. I mean, like, it's. It's confusing.

[A]

I mean, like, I ate the. I ate the extra Howling at Howling Rays, and I, like, ate a lot of that. And. And I was like, it's fine. And then the thing that killed me was the next two days, I thought I was gonna die.

[B]

The indigestion is absolutely brutal from that stuff. You both got the. The spice level mild. Mitch, you got the regular. I got the level three. And then Emma, you also got the regular. And what was your spice level? Am I got a regular as well? You got a regular regular as well.

[E]

Regular also, I think, is more. More archetypical in terms of the spiciness of Japanese curry. Japanese curry often will have apple in it, like, chunks of apple cooked into it. So it is. It is a sweeter dish. But, you know, here we gotta have spice on the show, so I'm glad you got some.

[B]

And sometimes coffee, right?

[E]

Yeah. I have a recipe for one of the battleship curries, and it has coffee. Coffee brewed coffee made, like, mixed into the curry. It's really interesting.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

What did you.

[B]

I mean, what'd you think, Mitch, for this is your first experience at this place.

[A]

I loved it. I'm just gonna be honest. I loved it. I thought it was fantastic. I mean, like, we eat a lot of bullshit on this show.

[B]

We sure do.

[A]

And we had Burger King, which is back yesterday.

[B]

BK is back.

[A]

And. But, like, the difference between yesterday and today. So is I was so much happier or.

[B]

Or last week. And this week, we don't record the podcast all.

[C]

Yeah, but all that stuff we said earlier about recording a bunch in a row too, that was, we were lying.

[A]

Yeah, we're just lying. I was. I, I, by the way, I did get a number three, but with a different dish.

[B]

You got the udon, which I've never had their udon there. I had a little bit of it.

[E]

It was pretty good.

[A]

It was pretty damn good. And I, I love, and I, I love noodles as well. Heather. I was, I was, I was a big fan of the, of the udon noodles and, and the, and I was like, oh, I wonder how this will like a curry kind of like a curry soup. Which I guess it is. But I'm saying like, like eating the noodles straight from it seemed different. But I, I loved both wise and the chicken cutlet was just. It's crispy. It's, it's, it's really perfect. It's, it's great. I mean it traveled. It traveled really? And it traveled well. I mean here's the thing is like this get. It becomes a harder thing because I'm just like, I just enjoyed the meal overall. It was, all the components of it were, were great. I can't even think of a thing to complain about.

[E]

I also really admire their, their travel container.

[C]

Yes.

[D]

I was just gonna ask if you eat it in the store, is it all on one plate?

[E]

Yes, I think so.

[D]

But this travel, the way they have it separated is perfect.

[E]

I also, I purchased. So if you, if you, you know, get it postmates or whatever. Here in, in Los Angeles, there is a mystery item that was on the menu for forever. And I was like, I gotta know what the mystery item is. And I bought the mystery item which I think was like $30. And what came came was a curry thermos, a permanent curry branded Coco ichibana thermos. And you open it up on the top and there is a collapsible spoon built into the lid like a metal spoon that you flip open like a switchblade and then a steam valve release and then you open it and it keeps your curry inside. And I brought curry to work in my Cocoichi curry thermos just yesterday.

[A]

Wow.

[E]

A fucking great, great, great experience.

[B]

How cool is that? Okay, so I have, I have the menu open here, the physical menu which you know, they, they, they sent along with our order.

[C]

Let's get rid of these damn QR codes.

[B]

So the spice, they actually have a spice level guide which I, I can circulate this, but it's, it's mild regular

[A]

and then why do you sound like Seinfeld's ghost?

[C]

Let's get rid of these QR codes.

[D]

I thought it was like an rfk.

[C]

Send this to Lorne. Send it all to Lorne.

[B]

The level one is marked as times one. And then it is like kind of an exponential or logarithmic scale where it goes. I guess it's times two for level two, times four for level three, times six for level four. All the way up to level 10 is times 24. Spice. Well, if you read 24 times spicier than level one if you read the

[C]

fine print on that too. It says this is also how Grogu is ages.

[B]

And there's a bunch of toppings you can get in here and there's a bunch of different curry varietals. Like there's a bunch of different ways to order it. But I, I, I feel like the chicken cutlet for, especially for first experience is the way to go. I mean I've gotten the stewed chicken before as well, which I like sometimes I like just having like a, a different sort of texture. But, but the chicken cutlet is just so delectable and it travels so effectively.

[E]

They have children's, a children's menu item that's chicken nuggets with curry dipping sauce. And that seems amazing.

[C]

Yeah, that seems great.

[B]

They also have a bunch of omelettes omoretsu here and the I, I, we thought about getting one, but I just like, I, I don't know. I can't imagine eggs traveling well, especially sitting in a little bath.

[C]

And I got a little nervous too. I want, I thought about maybe doing the pork cutlet, which they also had because we had a great pork cutlet when we were in Japan. But I also, I get a little nervous about pork at restaurants sometimes.

[A]

Yeah, I get it.

[C]

Yeah.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

That's the thing in Japan. I was not worried about getting food poisoned.

[C]

Absolutely not yet.

[E]

I still did.

[C]

That is true.

[B]

Well, we, we, we, we did both get food poisoning from something we ate for content.

[C]

I was doing great.

[B]

So in addition to the vegetable and, and chicken cutlet curry you also get, which is, you know, like a big thing of brown sauce and it's easier to eat with a spoon. But there's also a, you know, you get some rice, of course, and you get a, like I add spinach to my curry. You can make all these customizations as, as I was mentioning and thing we, we, you get is some naan. And so I don't know how connected this is to curry. I imagine like, like again, just feels like it's an Indian dish. So I imagine it also got imported in the same sort of indirect way. But the garlic cheese naan, which we, we generally get for our get played records, we got some of that. And then Mitch, you got some straight up garlic naan or just red plain naan?

[A]

I, I just got some garlic. The non cheese one, which I didn't need to get. After I tried the, the garlic cheese one, I was like, oh, this is this delightful.

[B]

You can dip it, you can have it dry. It's so fun.

[C]

It's really, really great.

[B]

I fucking love it.

[E]

I like that you mentioned spoons because a lot of people think, oh, it's a Japanese dish, I gotta get out the chopsticks. But no, it's eaten with a spoon. And that means that in Tokyo, the book district is also where all the curry restaurants are. Because it's the only meal where you can hold a book in one hand and eat with a spoon in the other. So that's where you get the best curry in. In Tokyo.

[B]

I gotta go to this book district Rules, dude. Yeah, I was trying to find.

[C]

Burn it down.

[B]

I was trying to find porno. Like the. Basically the whole time I was in Japan, I was trying to find porno. And then when I come across it, it was like it would either be a place that was so disgusting that I didn't want to be like purchasing anything from there, or it'd be like basically a Borders, a really nice bookstore that had like a porno section. It's just like. Well, now I feel self conscious. This place sells children's books and I'm going to get. Just bring some hentai up to the counter. So I never actually did it. They do have porno at 7:11 though.

[A]

Wait, it sells children's books and there's also porno?

[B]

Yeah, no, it'd be like a regular bookstore that also just has straight up porno. They have a porno section.

[C]

But this was like the thing we were sort of noticing about like just establishments in general is that there was not really like a divide for certain things. Like you could go to like any coffee shop and also buy a beer if you wanted to.

[B]

I'll call it basically every single restaurant.

[C]

Yeah, it was crazy.

[A]

That's fun.

[C]

Yeah, it is cool.

[A]

Yeah, that is cool.

[B]

There was also like a thing. It was like, it was like one of those things where I was at a convenience store. Konbini is, is the, the loan word. And they like, I was, I was like, I'll Buy a fucking beer. This is like my. My second day there. And there was a thing that was like, for, you know, being of age, which I think is 18 or is it a 21 year old? Whatever. Whatever it is. I started to take out my ID and she was just like, no point at the screen. And the screen was. Was just like the honor system. Yeah, I guess I am. I am over 18.

[A]

You can't use a reverse on that now. Anyways, what was I. Oh, I had heard all about him going into the four story.

[B]

The four story porno story porno store.

[C]

He was in there for three hours.

[B]

We talked about this on the episode.

[C]

Right.

[A]

It was an hour for each level. And you couldn't go to one level. Like there was one level that you did. You didn't really have to go to.

[B]

No, I went to every level.

[A]

Oh, you did go to every.

[B]

Yeah. So there's basically. This was a place that Heather had told me about. We were walking by it and like, you were curious what was on those floors. But also I did want to go in there.

[E]

Well, yeah, because there was a sign that said no women allowed. And the moment I see a sign like that, I'm like, oh, that's gotta be where the crazy shit is, like, only boys are allowed to see it. So I sent in Nick as an astronaut.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

But before you even got the ask out, there was a dust cloud of Nick.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

I asked Matt if he wanted to come with and he said yeah.

[C]

I was like, I'm. I'm fine.

[B]

So I think I told this story on doughboys before. I can't remember if this was main feed or not.

[D]

I think you told it on stage in Florida, which hasn't come out yet.

[B]

Okay, So I, I go into this, this four story porno store, and the, the bottom level is. The bottom level is like very conventional, sort of like what you'd expect. Like, you know, dirty magazines, DVDs, like some, some. Some vanilla. More vanilla sex toys. I shouldn't say vanilla. Vanilla is a flavor. But some more conventional sort of sex toys. The second floor is more oriented towards couple stuff. So you know the kind of like swings and, and like costumes, that sort of stuff.

[A]

Yeah, the third and fourth floors, classic couple stuff.

[C]

The third.

[B]

Yeah, you know what I mean? Like, you know, there's.

[D]

There's like.

[B]

There's some like BDSM stuff, but it's like all pretty con. Like again, still all pretty. Pretty conventional. And when I say couples, I mean it's. It's like man, woman, couples. It's Very, very. A very heteronormative. The. The third floor is the first men only floor. And so I'm there and I see the sign and I. I say to myself, like, oh, it's one of the men only floors. And another guy there says to me in English, that's where all the good stuff is. So we go up to the third. The third floor. You've heard this before, but you high fived him. The third floor? Yeah, high five that guy.

[E]

It turned out to be just a mirror.

[B]

Our hands stuck together.

[A]

We.

[B]

So I went up there.

[A]

Burned your hand.

[B]

The third floor is. Is like. Oops. All Fleshlights. It's just like Fleshlights for of every shape and size and a lot of them, you know, to specific Japanese porn stars or. Or idols or anime characters. They're they're all, all. Every orifice is available and they're all like, like custom fit to, you know, whatever your tastes are.

[C]

They're picking. Pixelated.

[B]

They're pixelated because that's Japanese law. In fact, your dick is pixelated when you're fucking one of them. So. And it's got some other stuff up there.

[A]

Did you see Gad buying a Qbert Fleshlight?

[B]

Gad was there, but he was buying Qbert Fleshlight, who's also crying and making a Vine.

[C]

We were trying to link up with Gad when we were there. We just couldn't make it happen.

[B]

Couldn't make it happen.

[A]

The fourth movie, by the way. I was gonna say he could have been easily.

[B]

You get to the fourth floor. And so I was like, okay, so I'm just basically, this is heightening as we go. The fourth floor is just real dolls. It's just straight up like full on fake women. And they're, they're just, you know, some of them are in cages, which is unnerving. And I'm like, are the cages. I was trying to figure out like what's not so they don't escape. It's because it's. It's so it's not a night at the museum situation. No, it's not. So they don't escape. It's.

[C]

I'm taking the night shift.

[B]

It's so guys.

[E]

That was a conscious thought you had to have. Is. Well, it's not because they are going to escape.

[B]

Ruling out that possibility, which I'm sure

[A]

you said out loud.

[B]

I said out loud. It's so guys like me don't lurch at them, I guess. Yeah, like, because, like, because, you know, it's. Or try to grab one and run off with it. It's. And so, like, I guess that's my

[A]

big question is, did wigs have someone in his middle seat on the flight home or no?

[C]

Yeah. Well, we noticed when. When Nick was leaving, believing that there was another torso, like where his back would be.

[B]

This is the other thing. It was. Yeah, it was. It was like a Predator Badlands, which I watched twice.

[C]

Once on the way there and once on the way back because I loved it.

[A]

It's a fun movie.

[C]

It's great.

[B]

They have they. But they have like, full women and then, you know, again in various. Various costumes. Various straights, states of. Straights states of dress. And I don't know why I can't say that. And then also, you know, you get like just a pelvis, just a torso, just a head had just a foot with a hole in it.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

As feet tend to have. So, like, it's. It was just like really a really unsettling experience. The other detail, which I think I. I added previously, is all of the staff on the men only floors were women.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

Which again, was like a. I guess was like meant to encourage. Either encourage good behavior and. Or let reassure guys. Like, it's cool what you're doing. Like, ladies are here, you can buy a whole woman.

[A]

And guess what? It's not cool.

[C]

It's actually against God. And you should,

[B]

I mean, jack off how you want to jack off, but I just kind of feel like if you're at the point where, like, I'm buying an $800 woman, fake woman and taking it home, I don't know, maybe go to Chili's and hang out the bar for a little bit.

[A]

I like the custom triple dipper.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

I like everyone being nice to you. Like, the customs people were like, oh, you got a friend for your flight home. Like, everyone is just being really sweet to you.

[C]

Everybody. I. Nick maybe didn't mention this. Everybody loved Nick. Everywhere we went.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

He was a star everywhere we went. Because he took some Japanese within the last year or so. Right.

[B]

Yeah, I speak. I speak enough Japanese. I speak like a. Like a first grader, basically. But any level of Japanese comprehension and effort there, especially from a guy who looks like me, they are like over the moon about. So I'm just saying like konbanwa to everybody. Good evening. And you know, and just like, like doing some. Some very basic small talk. And it was enough for people to be. To. To like, like just like, absolutely love me.

[C]

This guy was basically Harry Styles walking around over there.

[B]

They loved was fun.

[C]

It Was great. Yeah.

[B]

Had a great time.

[A]

I like that. Yeah.

[C]

I want to try being white Matt

[B]

working out pretty good.

[C]

I kind of want to give it a go, see what it's like. I want to start saying it now just in case.

[A]

I like that you liked it because I like that you feel like you maybe want to go back there. I think that's.

[B]

I absolutely go back there. Yeah, it was a great time.

[C]

I'm already thinking about when I came can go back. I would love to go back. It was awesome.

[B]

And you like again. I credit.

[C]

This is what. Well, we can't get into it.

[B]

We can't get into this. This is a whole thing.

[A]

Was it a fight?

[C]

Did I get.

[B]

No, it was not a fight.

[C]

It was. I sort of pitched. This was me pitching something as sort of like a. Like one, I've never been to the country before. Two, I know Nick is nervous about being there. So I was like, maybe if we pitch. What if we went here and it's kind of like, hey, this is kind of like a little taste of home, you know, like it's not that crazy. You're at a theme park. You're not really.

[A]

Who knows, like giving a dog a blanket.

[C]

From your thinking, it was a sort of built in safe activity. But we. Heather was like, we can't do that. There's not enough time. There's too many good things. And then by the end of the trip, it was like the. It was the easiest, best cut we could have made.

[D]

Yeah.

[B]

It was clear there was not enough time.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

We could not. We either would have had to do a half day and like sort of speed run it or like we spent a full day there and then we miss out on like a whole neighborhood.

[A]

You know, if you're there for 10 days or something, is it Disney see worth doing, you think?

[C]

Or.

[B]

Or a subsequent trip? I will say that, that. So this is the other, the other wild thing. By sheer coincidence, because this trip came together very late. It was, you know, part of a media event, part of the. The. The press tour for the. The Mario premiere. My brother, my alpha brother Nate and his family had a previously planned trip to Japan that happened to have one day of overlap with our trip. And so on the final day I was able to hang out with him and his family. Family who had a great time and walked around Harajuku, which is one of the. The shopping districts there.

[C]

They they.

[A]

Uncle Nick's going to take us to the four story sex shop.

[B]

I did tell them to go to a maid cafe which Was great. Yeah.

[C]

The maid cafe.

[B]

We had a great time in the maid cafe. We didn't talk about that.

[A]

Yeah.

[D]

Buying your nephew porn at a foreign porno shop is alpha as hell. Their first porno magazine came from Japan. Cool as hell, let me tell you.

[B]

I know my older brother. He's not gonna need his uncle to buy import. Nate. Nate. For my 18th birthday, got me Edward Penis hands on DVD.

[C]

So he's gonna get it for your nephew on 4K.

[B]

This is a classic.

[A]

When I was in. When I went to London in. In third grade, that was the f. The first international trip I ever been on. My godfather son, Neil. Kylie, you wanted to, you know, Neil Ky. Fat cat wanted a copy of Biggins. He like, that was like the whole trip. And he was like, probably in like middle school or something, but he wanted a copy of Biggins and he got it at the end of the trip. He got some. I. I don't know if it was big. It was. I think it was in Married With Children or something. Biggins. And then it. There was some sort of real version of it and he got it at the end of the trip. So, you know, it's. I think it's a great thing to do when you're in another country to buy a porno mag.

[C]

It's buy a local porno

[B]

porno in Harajuku. We. We go up and there. There's a. There's a New Zealand couple there and they. They like. We just. I talked to them in English for a little bit. They had been to Disney Sea and they were basically like. It was really disappointing.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

So I'm just like, wow. If we'd spent a day doing that. Yeah.

[A]

Some people love it, though. That's. I hear people go crazy.

[B]

I think part of what it was was just like a Disney issue where, like, their line management was really bad. Everything was overcrowded. They spent most of the day, like, waiting.

[C]

It was like kind of spring break adjacent. I don't know what it's like there for Japan, but it kind of felt like it was a big tourism time, so it could have been just overcrowded.

[E]

Yeah, it was.

[D]

It was.

[E]

It was the, like, peak blossom for the sakura trees while we were there. So it just. Everything was crazy.

[B]

It would look cool as hell, but it was awesome. There were definitely tourists swarming there, especially Westerners.

[A]

I have one last question. Did you witness a Tokyo drift at all?

[C]

There was a car on one of the nights when we were leaving Golden Gate.

[B]

Yes.

[C]

And I don't know what kind of car. It was but like a blue, you know, like drift car with the lights under it and everything sped past us. And I said out loud, well, that just made me the happiest I've been the whole time. I loved it.

[B]

It was great.

[A]

You saw Tokyo Drift.

[C]

It was great.

[B]

Or something that was going to do it.

[C]

It was gonna, yeah, it was going straight, so it wasn't really doing it. But you kind of infer if it was gonna, you know, hit a curve at some point, maybe, maybe it would drift.

[A]

This sounds like a delightful trip.

[B]

It was wonderful. It was really fun that we got some spicy teriyaki fried chicken, which is available both as an appetizer but also as a topping for the curry. So I was confused by the way, the way the menu.

[A]

You were confused. I was like, should we get some of this teriyaki spicy teriyaki chicken? And you were like, it's a topping. I was like, it's under appetizers. Like it's a topping. That's we just went.

[B]

I saw it under toppings. And that, that's why I was conf. But I, I, I was wrong. You got as an appetizer and look, I would not have a, a real reason to get this pre sauced fried chicken when I'm already getting a chicken cutlet. But having it in isolation, I was like, this is a good execution.

[A]

I thought it was. Damn. I thought, I thought the, I thought just the flavor on it was so good. Like you said, like two issues travel. One is you're not getting the fried chicken in, in the restaurant. And then two sauced fried things, as we know is just, is, is tough. But the flavor of that was fantastic.

[B]

Spicy teriyaki. I'm into that. And then you got some garlic fries, Mitch, which I'd never had.

[A]

We, yeah, we had some. I thought they were good also travel issue, but they were, they were good.

[C]

Yeah, those things will sog up. And same thing with like the chicken. I like the, the, the spicy teriyaki chicken, but yeah, not something I would necessarily elect to get because, like the cutlet, like we were saying earlier, comes so perfectly and it's crispy every single time. And I thought today's execution generally was. It's always really, really good. It was really hitting today. Great.

[B]

And as far as starch is concerned, you're going to get rice with it. And then also you get that I'd get the non over the fries any day, but I'm glad we tried it. For the purposes of this, of this podcast, there Also was a. A Thai iced tea. You got Emelia.

[D]

Delicious.

[C]

It was really, really good.

[B]

I got good taste.

[C]

Amelia generously poured me half of it or a third of it because Mitch also had some too.

[A]

I had a little bit of it, too. I was worried because it looked so much like carrot juice. I was like, this looks. This. I don't know. I mean, like, I know Thai I see is orange, but I was like, it looks.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

And then the taste was decent.

[C]

It was really, really good.

[B]

Emma, you got the chicken cutlet curry with veggies. And then Emilia, you got yours. A little bit of a different varietal with the spinach and tomato. But think this was also both of your first. Your first time with Coco ichibana and

[D]

Japanese curry in j. Oh, wow. Yeah. I've had Indian curries before and I love them. So I didn't. And I had never heard of Japanese curry. A blind spot. And I loved this. This was great.

[A]

I was very impressed.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Wow.

[D]

Absolutely. Going in my rotation.

[B]

Wow. I love it.

[C]

Do you like it immediately because it reminded you of diarrhea?

[B]

I like it because it's going to give me diarrhea.

[A]

Hopefully not too hot. Hot loads. Cool turds. That's what every.

[B]

That's what everyone wants.

[A]

That's what every dude. That's what the dudes like.

[C]

Cool turds. Can't lose.

[E]

There's a. There's a 1971 song by a musician named Kenji Endo called Curry Rice, which is just this sort of like, mournful folk song about eating curry. Curry rice. Sometimes I'll put that song on while eating curry rice. I highly recommend it.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Man, I wish we. I wish we had. And I was also sad to get the song after the fact, but it would have been nice to hear this while we were eating because I don't have too much experience with Japanese curry. I've had it a little bit, but not too often. And I've never had a. Like a. To go, I guess. What fits a doughboys restaurant. A chain kind of a chain restaurant

[C]

version of it, I would say, like, before having it as a. As a standard get plate. That was my first time ever having it too. I was, like, very thankful for Heather for introducing it to us. It has now entered the rotation in my home of like, oh, what do we want to get? I think we should get Coco Gucci Bunyan and then we'll get it. My wife doesn't sing the song and she won't let me sing the song, but what she would let me If I did it. But she also loves it. She has grown to really love it. She's like, this was a great recommendation.

[B]

It's good as fuck. And I like her how you sing the song.

[C]

Stop singing. Shut up.

[B]

Shut the fuck up.

[C]

I had,

[B]

we can do that.

[C]

I recently learned they can do that.

[B]

Oh, fuck.

[A]

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[B]

I've had the Japanese curry before. I had it, but I had not had koko ichibanya before Heather introduced it to me. But, you know, like, hurry curry of Tokyo was like a regular one that I was going to, that I still, I still will patronize. But I, I, I'm really been impressed by this place. And I guess we should. We could roll right into our final thoughts on. On Kokoichi Banya. I, I'll, I'll go ahead and start. I really like Japanese.

[A]

I'm gonna clean bat. I'm gonna, I'm gonna bat cleanup.

[B]

Yes. You're gonna be Shohei Otani here.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

By the way, they loved Matt's Dodgers hat.

[C]

There was a woman who was wearing a Dodgers hat that then we. I was like, hey, go Dodgers. She looked mad at me.

[B]

I think part of that was, it's a, it's a, it's a.

[A]

You sing the song at her.

[C]

I did. I started singing Randy Newman's I love la at her.

[B]

I think part of it is a phoneme thing because I think Dodgers doesn't necessarily sound like anything. It's. It's more like doja sue. You know, it's. And it's so she might have just genuinely been confused.

[C]

Most people were upset with me everywhere I went because I was being loud and annoying everywhere.

[A]

Yes. I mean, I feel like I would be like, like Gabrius or, or I like. Well, I'm not.

[B]

They'd love you. They'd love you. Even learn just like the smallest amount of Japanese. You're such a gregarious, likable man. They would be so happy to see.

[A]

Also they. Is it true that like big guy. They do like big guys, right? Like. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

No, they, they, they, they. I mean, they like Kaiju there.

[C]

I was gonna say the one big guy they don't like famously is Godzilla.

[A]

No, he helps. He helps. I guess he does help Godzilla. Minus one coming out and take it

[B]

out way depends on the situation. Sometimes he helps.

[D]

Yeah.

[A]

Minus one is coming out.

[E]

Minus zero.

[A]

Oh, is that what it is? Minus zero. Minus zero.

[C]

Then we're going to go plus one. It's going to go the whole other way.

[B]

Yeah. How does it work? Minus zero. That's just the same amount. It's just Godzilla.

[C]

Yeah, it's just Godzilla. It's addition by subtraction.

[B]

I'm sure the movie will explain. I really like Coco Ichibana. I look forward to it every time we order it. I love the song, the cocoichi banya song. But I, I just love the. The meal. It's just so rich and filling and nourishing. It's such a satisfying dish. We didn't have actually. I had ramen in Japan. I had tempura in Japan. I had sushi in Japan, you know, all these kind of staple dishes. Cutlet. But I didn't, didn't actually have like there is cocoichi banya you can just go to in Japan and we didn't have the opportunity to go there. I'd be curious at what their execution is on the. But I have to imagine they've.

[C]

They've seen.

[B]

Scaled it up fairly effectively overseas because it's. It tastes absolutely terrific and it's really consistent. Great crispness and texture. On the curry always cooked well. Or on the cutlet rather, always cooked well. The. The curry is, you know, again, rich and delicious and I, I just like the amount of customizability. It's enough where you can add what you want but you can't really ruin your curry. Like, like, it's just if you, if you have vegetable and chicken cutlet curry is a bit baseline. You're going to have a great meal and always happy with a garlic cheese naan, but also just overall happy when I'm eating it. It's. It's great. It's so satisfying. This is an easy five forker for me.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Heather An Campbell, your thoughts, your fork score.

[E]

My wife and I also eat coco ichibana at the house all the time. Her go to order is the cheese curry, which is a very interesting, delicious dish. I love coco ichibana. I looked up just to make sure that I wasn't lying to your listeners about whether or not they wouldn't tell

[C]

you if you were.

[E]

I'm sure they would. They'd come on and get played. They tell me, but yeah. Curry was introduced to Japan in the meiji era in 1868-1912. At the time, the Indian subcontinent was under British, British colonial rule. And it is most likely that the British introduced the spice mix called curry powder to Japan. The very first known curry rice recipe in Japan was in 1872.

[B]

Wow.

[E]

I love this dish. It makes me nostalgic for a childhood I didn't have very much. It occupies. I said macaroni and cheese earlier. It occupies the same sort of sensory experience for me. It's like a comfort food. But unlike macaroni and cheese, which makes me feel like dog shit after I eat it, this is often like, I feel buoyant. I sleep better after I have a curry. I, I. And I love coco ichabana specifically because it brings a reliable, consistent curry experience to us here in LA with more than one location. So, yeah, five forks for me as well.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

I think the thing to really focus in on for me is how consistent it is, because every time we get it, it's no less than as good as we had it today.

[B]

Really.

[C]

I don't think we've ever ordered it. We were kind of like, it's kind of was kind of off tonight.

[E]

Right.

[C]

It's always really, really great. It's become a. It's become a staple for me. I look forward to when we get it. It, like, look, I love curry. It. The, the thing that I'll say about it is that, like, seeing it in like, Persona 5 or seeing it in, like, in anime or something sort of gave me that, like, oh, I bet you that, like, the way it's animated makes it look like it tastes really, really good. I can't wait to try it. And it tastes as good as it looks to me. And I just. I really, really love it. I always just look forward to eating it. So that's five forks for me as well.

[E]

Wow.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

I hope you didn't throw away my stuff that was Left over in there.

[D]

Did you?

[E]

No, I don't, I, I actually don't.

[A]

I came in.

[D]

I, she didn't. She was gone when we were.

[A]

You love to pour like half drunk drinks away.

[E]

Yeah.

[C]

You were also acting like you did do it but were pretending not to do it.

[A]

You really were.

[B]

I forgot where I was.

[A]

All right. All right. We're safe. We're safe. We're safe. Thank God. I've never had this place before. It was. And I was very, very impressed by it. Why? Do you know who it was I said earlier it sounds like an FDR quote? And I was, I was Gino, who said, a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage. You know who it was?

[E]

Who? What?

[B]

I feel like that was, Was that Eisenhower?

[A]

Nope.

[E]

But trick question. It was Hitler.

[B]

Look, can't argue with him.

[A]

It was the most vacuumous president there was.

[C]

Hoover.

[A]

Herbert Hoover.

[C]

The most vacuum.

[A]

Herbert. Herbert Hoover said it. And I, I, I think a Coco Ichiban on every corner would be. And in a, in a bullet train on every street wise, I think that would be, I mean, maybe that's a little too much.

[B]

That would be excessive.

[A]

All right, fine.

[C]

But you had me a bullet, by the way.

[E]

We got those funny those America perks up.

[A]

I, I loved this. You know, we, we rank it on how good it does and this would be a perfect score for me. Wise's gatekeeping is going to make me take away a half four. Wow. I'm with you. Five Forks.

[E]

Wow.

[D]

Five forks.

[B]

Welcome to the Platinum Love Coco. I hope any of our listeners who have not experienced this who have a Cocoichi banya nearby. A lot of locations are in California.

[A]

He's telling you listeners, check where you are close to when he told us the, the rest of the doughboys. I'm very excited to try it again.

[B]

It's delightful.

[A]

All right. That's the Yoshi. I got it wrong. Did you guys play Resident Evil 9, by the way?

[C]

I loved it, dude.

[A]

It's cool.

[C]

It's really, really cool.

[A]

Yeah, I, I, I feel like those, speaking of Japan, like, those are like a, with the Resident Evil series. Like it, like, I know that they're like, it's like a very like Japan's idea of like America. But I'm like, yes. It still has, like, it feels like a strong Japanese game. Like, I love the vibes that that game gives me. It's like, it's just interesting and does that make sense to you?

[B]

No, I, I mean, like, I love a foreign perspective on America. I love like Like a British director making an American film and just sort of like, oh, this is what you think of us. And little bit insulting, but in a deserved way.

[A]

Spoton.

[B]

Exactly. But like like Kojima who we we absolutely adore over on Get Played and and we're very fortunate enough to to meet and and tour Kojima Productions while we were there. Hideo Kojima does a lot of stuff that's about America and he's obviously a Japanese creator. But like you know, we see his perspective when they he's a character like in, in Metal Gear, Metal Gear Revengeance. Who is the who Senator Armstrong who's just a senator who loads himself up with like fucking the equivalent of steroids and just like punches things.

[C]

He's who Trump thinks he is.

[B]

He says make America great again in the game before Trump. So great.

[C]

It's unbelievable.

[E]

Grand Theft Auto is a foreign perspective on American.

[C]

Yeah, you're right.

[A]

Oh yeah. Yeah. I, I, I loved RE9. I love the Resident Evil is now the most. I think to me, outside of like Nintendo mainline games, Resident Evil 9 is like the most important video game series or Sorry. Resident Evil is the most important video game series.

[C]

I just two remake and three remake and I love four and nine was my like I'm now going through seven and then eight because I just am now obsessed with these things. You finished nine?

[A]

I finished nine. Yeah.

[C]

There's a great moment that I was like there's a moment in the game that's so gloriously stupid where Leon acquires a vehicle and does insane things with it. And I was like, I can't believe this is happening. I love, I love this.

[A]

That's that whole section there.

[C]

It rocks. It's so fun.

[A]

It's very close to an open world Resident Evil game which I don't even really want, but it was fun to play a little bit. Yeah.

[B]

I'm, I'm exhausted by the open or open world formula.

[A]

I It's also make a game. That game is like 15 or 20 hours to be. Oh my God, I love that.

[B]

Give me all that that you got. I still haven't played Pragmata, but Pragmata is apparently like a a similar length campaign. It's like that's great. I got a life to live. I got things to to do.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah. It's. I wonder if part of the reason Resident Evil because you know, obviously got the Zach Krager movie coming out as well Resident Evil is more relevant than ever is because here in America we're dealing with President Evil. We'll Be right back. Let's talk about President Trump. I was saying that's kind of the.

[E]

Don't talk to me.

[C]

Well, we.

[B]

Okay, we're back. Em. And Amelia, would you go Five forks as well? No pressure, but, like, what would be your for that?

[D]

Can I just say, don't talk to me.

[B]

We found out. No, no, you can't do that.

[D]

Five forks.

[C]

Wow.

[A]

Perfect all around.

[B]

And, Amelia, I think you owe me five dollars.

[D]

I do owe you five dollars. Wait, why?

[A]

We'll be right back. What the happened?

[C]

We had a.

[B]

We had a. We had a bet as to whether you'd like the Kokoichi Banya song. I was like, mitch is going to like it because he likes Yoshi's Island. And Amelia was like, he's going to get, get mad. And I was right.

[A]

You like, get mad.

[C]

Well, you did bring up gatekeeping right after.

[B]

So there was a little seed of resentment about the.

[A]

That was about gatekeeping the restaurant from us. That's not about the song.

[C]

I couldn't take the action because I was like, I can't start from zero again. I can't do it.

[B]

You build up enough reputation points with Mitch. I stay at that level.

[C]

I fought tooth and nail to get here.

[E]

Mitch, you like Nintendo games? Have you played Pokemon?

[C]

No.

[E]

Pocopia is in my top 25 games of all time.

[A]

Oh, my God.

[E]

I highly recommend it.

[A]

I gotta. I'm gonna buy it. It's on Switch. Switch two.

[E]

Switch two. Yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

The only thing I'll say is knowing your completionist tendencies, I kind of worry what Procopopia might do to you.

[A]

Okay, sure.

[E]

But you can complete. You can roll credits. I think you can, you can scale your completion of Pocopia.

[B]

Yeah, but I know Mitch. He's 100% guy. And so that's like, I've, I've leaned

[A]

off some of that recently because it just is. It does kill me.

[B]

I, I just. I, I, I fear you could lapse into that. Like, like those old habits could be revived with this game, but again. Again. Yeah, I do think it's, It's. You'd love it.

[A]

I'm. Look, I'm looking it up now. I'm gonna. I, I, I like the looks of it.

[E]

It's fantastic. Great aesthetic, great story, great game.

[B]

Mila, you can keep my. Keep the $5. It's fine.

[C]

No, no, I, I, I made a,

[D]

I made a promise.

[C]

I'll take it.

[B]

Yeah,

[D]

We'll buy a half a coffee and share it.

[A]

This also looks like it might be up Emma's Alley.

[D]

I was just literally gonna look.

[A]

Yes.

[D]

Is it only on Switch 2 now?

[C]

It's on Switch 2 only.

[D]

Yeah. Okay. Maybe I'll need to get a switch

[C]

to at some point as a, As

[B]

a Stardew Valley slash Animal Crossing enthusiast. Yeah, I think absolutely.

[D]

I was playing Mario Wonder this weekend, and I was thinking about your 100 completionist because I was, like, tempted to go back when I didn't, like, perfectly get every.

[B]

I always 100% do it.

[D]

And I was like this. If I actually was trying to do this, I would maybe drive myself insane.

[A]

The, the I, I. That, that's. It's funny you say that because unwonder, you know, the last level, that's like the marathon level. I was like, doing that for like, I spent like two days on it, and I was like, I'm not going to do this. I, I don't need to do this. And now I kind of. It's still it. Like, there's an itching me to still do that.

[D]

This looks so cute.

[B]

But at a certain point, because this is a thing that Nintendo has latched on to with the Mario franchise, is that, like, the final, like, challenge level will be this extremely large, long gauntlet, this prolonged sort of thing with no checkpoints that you have to make through in one go. And like, you, you did it in Odyssey, correct? You finished the Odyssey one.

[A]

Almost all of I did. Almost. I, I, I, I, I need to play the Galaxy games. Those are the two Mario games I've never played.

[B]

Oh, man, you, you'd love Galaxy.

[A]

And I heard that the ending is tough, but I did it in. I did it in 3D world. There's like a final challenge, and it's kind of. It's pretty tough. The, the odd Odyssey one is hard,

[B]

but, you know you can do them. It's just a matter of, like, how much of my life do I want to invest in this singular task?

[A]

Which I think for like, honestly, it was like three days or four days straight of trying to do it, which is annoying.

[B]

That was like me trying to beat Isshin Sword Saint in Sekiro. It took me multiple days, and then I, I finally did it.

[A]

Those the hard ones. I don't even think I'll ever, you know, I just don't think I'll ever do them now.

[B]

Sekiro and All Timer. Great game and Balers Gate.

[A]

I don't think I'll ever do Bald Baldur's Gate.

[B]

I don't know if Baldur's Gate is horny, though.

[A]

Well, I like that.

[B]

All right. You know what this is actually?

[A]

Yeah, See, we've heard everything that he said.

[C]

Yeah, I know. You can do that. You can kind of. A lot of things in that game.

[E]

A lot of things.

[C]

You can't do it.

[B]

All right, we. We got to do our segment. It's the return of Frank. Check. Hit it, Emma.

[A]

Oh, Frank.

[B]

Check with Mitchell and Wer. Frank, Check with Mitchell and Weiger. Don't know what Frankfurter's to expect. All you need to know is that the name of the segment's Frank. Check.

[A]

Another Matt, too.

[B]

Another Matt.

[C]

I just. I was watching Heather experience that. Cause, like, I listen. I listen to the show. I listen to the show every week,

[B]

and I don't think Heather's ever heard

[C]

a podcast, but, like, just watching.

[E]

Too slow.

[C]

Watching Heather just sort of take that in stride was very funny to me.

[B]

She has to spend entirely too much time with me.

[A]

You should have made a $5 bet on whether she would like that.

[B]

I mean, I would have taken. No, I don't either. Gonna like anything except Coco. So this is like we got doughboys. We got get played. Why don't we just loop in blank. Check. Without permission. This is Frank. Check. Get Frank Edition. Mitch, Heather, and Matt are given a frame from a video game involving a food item and must guess which game it's from. One point is awarded if you get the franchise correct. Two points reward if you get the exact game correct.

[A]

We.

[B]

We know how that works.

[E]

Okay.

[C]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

All right, here we go. Let's. Let's get to the first.

[A]

Do we ring in? Do we just say.

[D]

Yeah, I think.

[B]

I think. Buzzing with your name. These are compiled by. By Amelia.

[A]

Okay.

[D]

All right, here comes

[A]

Mitch.

[B]

Oh, I heard Heather.

[E]

Yoshi's story.

[B]

Yep. This is Yoshi's story. Story. Yes.

[A]

The song, the Coco.

[B]

Is this specifically Yoshi's story, or is it Yoshi's Island? Yoshi's Island.

[E]

I think it's Yoshi's store.

[D]

Oh, I deleted the names from the title so that they could see them on screen.

[E]

I have them here.

[D]

Oh, it's right there.

[C]

You had it right behind.

[B]

Because it looks like super Nintendo graphics, but it might very well be the. The Yoshi.

[A]

I was gonna say Yoshi's story, too.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Oh, then it's Yoshi Story. Then you get two points.

[E]

All right.

[C]

Wow. Wow. Heather.

[B]

All right, Heather has two.

[D]

All right, here comes the next one.

[B]

Let's see the next one.

[A]

Mitch.

[B]

I heard Mitch. GTA Grand Theft Auto is the franchise.

[A]

I mean, I guess I'm going to say GTA 5.

[B]

Mitch, you are correct. You'll get two points for that one. That's a two pointer for the spoon, man.

[E]

Nice.

[B]

All right, next up.

[A]

Is that an in N out, Matt? Oh, shit.

[C]

That's Donkey Kong country.

[B]

Yeah, this one's pretty obvious because I think Donkey Kong is maybe in it.

[C]

Yeah,

[A]

you also need a jeweler's loop to just see this one.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Some of these are like, like, the super Nintendo, like, emulator resolution they really got.

[A]

Oh, there he is.

[B]

Kong's banana. There's Donkey Kong and Diddy Kong standing next to it.

[E]

Yeah, look, I never played this game,

[D]

so it was hard for me.

[C]

You had to have known that that was Donkey Kong, though.

[A]

Was that. Can we go back to the last one? Was it an in and out? It. Was it like an in and out?

[B]

Yeah, up.

[A]

Okay. Yeah, on in and out, which I

[B]

guess is like a Simpsons reference. Oh, reactive, man.

[C]

Oh, yeah, maybe. Yeah.

[D]

Oh, it's Rusty Browns. I thought that said Pussy Browns.

[A]

Jesus.

[B]

Pussy Browns is like the kind of joke that they'd make on Grand Theft Auto, but they punch it down to Rusty Browns.

[E]

I mean, with the way that the world has changed since this. Since 5 came out, I expect 6 to just be like, it's fucking sucks, dickshack.

[C]

So the other night, I was on grubhub and I was ordering food, and I saw something that I was like, we. We live in GR. Grand Theft Auto now. Because one of the burger options and I took a screenshot of is called Smash My Meat.

[D]

Yes, I've seen this on. That comes up on, like, doordash.

[C]

And what are we doing?

[B]

We already smash my.

[A]

What are we doing?

[D]

Or something.

[B]

Yeah, we already have Egg Slut. There's another one out there now, too. That's like a horny name. What the. It called.

[C]

Oh, Jack me off Burrito Shack.

[B]

Jack me off Burrito Shack.

[C]

Chicken.

[B]

Come chicken.

[E]

There's one that's like, me chicken or something.

[C]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

That one's real. Me chicken.

[A]

You open the door.

[D]

Diet. That's like a restauran.

[A]

Wait, what is it?

[D]

It's called, like, your diet. I don't know if it's here.

[A]

That's like, oh, f. Your diet or something.

[D]

Yeah, something like that.

[B]

No, this is one of the one I'm thinking of. There's. There's one that's kind of like BDSM coded, but it's like, actually, goodness. You're just like, ah, I guess I

[A]

got to go to this place, you know? You open the door with the ride the D bullshit. Now here we are.

[B]

Ride the D is about public transit, Mitch, which you were an advocate for. You said a bullet train on every street.

[A]

That's true.

[B]

To me, that seems excessive, but Flip flopping.

[A]

You're. You're the governor. Flip flopper.

[B]

All right. We had donkeys.

[A]

Is that a specific? That has to be based on, like a specific in and out, I feel like. But whatever. We'll. We.

[B]

It's got to be the Hollywood Boulevard one. Yeah. We got the Walk of Fame in front of it.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

That's my guess.

[C]

All right.

[A]

I'm trying to think of the Hollywood one.

[E]

There's one in orange, I think.

[C]

Right.

[A]

Is the one next to Hollywood High? Like.

[B]

Yeah, I guess so.

[E]

But that's on Sunset.

[A]

That's on Sunset? Yeah, that's. Yeah.

[D]

Well, it was in.

[B]

I was thinking it's in Hollywood.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Because you can see the Hollywood sign behind it.

[A]

But I'm thinking there's gotta. There's probably one on Hollywood Boulevard too, right about. I don't know.

[D]

I think the one on Sunset's the only one in Hollywood because I used to. To live right by it. It was the only in and out when I lived in Hollywood that I could get to.

[C]

Is Rusty Brown's like an asshole thing.

[B]

I think so.

[C]

What are we doing? It's not real. I'm like Joe Lieberman now. Like, what are we doing for the next one?

[E]

Those monkeys need to wear clothes.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

All right, let's see the next one. Oh, Mitch. I heard Mitch.

[A]

Simcity.

[B]

It is not Sim City.

[E]

Heather, your nether Roller coaster tycoon.

[B]

It is Roller Coaster Tycoon. That is the franchise.

[D]

I would have said Sim City.

[E]

I'm going to go with Roller Coaster Tycoon three.

[B]

It's not three.

[C]

Ah.

[B]

It is Roller Coaster Tycoon two, but you get a single point. All right, next up.

[A]

What the.

[E]

Heather.

[B]

I heard Heather.

[E]

Red Dead Redemption 2.

[B]

You are correct. Wow.

[C]

Wow.

[B]

Exact franchise and game. You get two points. Points for that one. What are the point titles at right now?

[D]

Matt 2, Mitch 2, Heather 5.

[B]

Okay, great.

[E]

I love food and video games.

[C]

You have a lot of video game cookbooks.

[E]

I do. I have an enormous number of video game cookbooks.

[B]

That is some twosome looking stew there.

[D]

Yeah.

[C]

Kind of looks like a potent mix.

[E]

Also, it should be noted that the animation in Red Dead Redemption two, they consume the stew and it goes down in the bowl.

[D]

I love that.

[E]

Whereas most video games, they'll just like mime eating.

[A]

Yeah, that's another I've never played. Right. In Redemption 2. I bought it, but I never.

[C]

That's awesome.

[E]

Amazing.

[B]

Let's look at the next one.

[A]

What's the one that you love? The, the video game that you love?

[D]

Tears of the Kingdom or Breath of the Wild? The Zelda ones?

[A]

No. Stardew Valley. I bought my goddaughter a Stardew Valley.

[E]

Oh, how about that?

[C]

Wow.

[D]

Stardew Valley is also a fairly kid friendly game. If you're switching those. You could play it as a kid, no problem.

[A]

Yeah, she loved, she loved it. She liked it.

[C]

There won't be any cum burgers in that or anything. What the hell?

[B]

Unless you got the mods I installed. All right, let' the next one.

[A]

Mitch.

[B]

I heard Mitch.

[A]

This is. I know this. I'm gonna be so mad if I don't. Oh, this is DK Bonanza. Donkey Kong Bonanza.

[B]

This is not Donkey Kong.

[A]

Oh my God. Oh, no.

[C]

Oh my gosh. I don't.

[A]

Can I go again? Well, when no one guesses.

[B]

I, I, I think you could, but, but not for points. If, if no one else.

[A]

God damn it.

[B]

I mean, like, right? You don't get multiple tries, Multiple bites of the apple.

[E]

Heather.

[B]

Share Heather.

[E]

Mario Odyssey.

[B]

It is Super Mario Odyssey. Big bowl of stew here. That's what we're looking at.

[D]

A very different bowl of stew.

[B]

It's a really strange screenshot, this one.

[C]

No stream, no studio.

[A]

Hell yeah.

[B]

This is a Mitch. Mitch's absence from Twisted Degree. Really frustrating.

[A]

I'm so, I just, I, I, I. It's the same makers of Don probably

[C]

did 99 on this one.

[A]

Then I, I, I did 100% Donkey Kong Bonanza. And I did, but I mean I, And I also 100 Mario garbage. Yeah. Odyssey.

[B]

Do you remember the name of this biome?

[A]

No. It was like the food whatever the stupid food world was.

[B]

This is, this is a Amelia. This is suitably challenging because looking at the screenshot, it does not necessarily tell you what the game is unless you.

[A]

Amelia, will you zoom in? Or Emma, will you zoom in?

[B]

Can we big in this a little bit?

[A]

Is that Mario back there? Oh, no, it's some of the food he talks to. No, it is Mario.

[B]

Yeah, Mario is back there, but he's wearing a park.

[A]

I can't believe that I this up. I'm so mad at myself.

[E]

Pretty good.

[C]

Did you find the food area in Bonanza to be absolutely disgusting?

[A]

For some reason, I, I, I'm still chasing from the Super Nintendo Mickey Mouse game when you were jumping on Jell O. I thought that was really cool.

[E]

Castle of Illusion.

[A]

I believe so, yes. And I, and I. And I was slightly disappointed by the Donkey Kong food world.

[C]

It looked nasty to me.

[A]

And also it's like, ground, but it's food. There's a, There is some weird shit going on there.

[B]

That old game was Unga Pachka. It was overstepped.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

Let's. Let's look at the next one.

[E]

Heather. Final fantasy 15.

[B]

I knew you'd get this one. Final fantasy 15. That is correct. I was running away with it. What's the point total? 2 points for that one.

[E]

The food. So it should be known that Final Fantasy 15 had a notoriously long development cycle and many of the parts of the game had to be scrapped. It's clear to me from the food in Final Fantasy 15 that somebody at the beginning of the cycle was was told, your job is to make the food. And then they didn't talk to that guy for 10 years. Because the food in this game looks photorealistic. It is insanely detailed. I have the cookbook for it. Every dish, you're like, that looks like a real meal. And I think it's a PS4 game. So you'll zoom back out and the graphics have, they've aged a little bit, but the food looks better than any

[C]

food in any case.

[B]

Is this. Yeah, that's what I was gonna say. Is this fully modeled and lit, or is this fully modeled and lit? Wow. So it's not like Dragon's Dogma 2 where they had use actual photographs.

[E]

No, no, no. I mean, like, that comes into frame and it's, it's a game asset. It's nuts.

[B]

Yeah, it's incredibly detailed. All right, two more. See the next one? There's a big tell here. Can we, can we embiggen this one a little bit?

[E]

Heather.

[B]

I hear Heather.

[E]

Oh, this is Skyrim.

[B]

This is skyrim. Heather gets two points again.

[A]

We're getting our asses.

[B]

11 points for Heather. This is a massacre.

[E]

But if you showed me the heroes of most of these games other than Final Fantasy 15, I could not identify them. Like, I don't know the name of the guy from red Dead Redemption 2. Yeah, but I can see the food. And I'm like, oh, that's the food from that game.

[C]

Right? You know Mario's name?

[E]

Who's that?

[B]

All right, one more. Let's, let's clean this up.

[A]

Save face, Mitch.

[B]

I heard Mitch.

[A]

I, I, I just got scared and

[B]

I said, mitch, can we in this one as well?

[C]

I do know the Answer to this.

[A]

I'm gonna go Z. The breath of the wild. No, it's not. It's not. It.

[B]

It's not. It's not Breath of the Wild. Matt buzzed in this. So this is for. For our audio listeners. This is a Z. A UI element sausage.

[A]

Looks like a hog.

[B]

It says dried pork sausage. There is a hog like sausage that is peeking out of the. The box. The UI box. And then it. It says some. Some tell details about like it's infused

[E]

with copious amounts of garlic and cooked in mold. Wine.

[B]

Nice bit of flavor text.

[A]

You should.

[B]

What is it?

[A]

Matt? You should. You can beat me with this. You should beat me.

[C]

It's Baldur's Gate 3.

[B]

Matt, you are correct. And you would have got a bonus point if you'd say, said that a Baldur's Gate is incorrectly spelled with an

[C]

E. I wouldn't have known that.

[B]

Yeah, you wouldn't know that. How could you have known that? Cuz who would spell Baldur's Gate with an e? Except for Amelia realized. Yeah, no. Well, well, now you know. Lesson learned.

[A]

So you can eat in Baldur's Gate.

[B]

Yeah, there's eating in Baldur's Gate. Yeah, but it, but it's like it. It's abstracted in the sense of camp supplies. So like you get it. So you can have some. I mean, you can get drunk in the game, but it's like when you camp, you need to have enough supplies which can come in the form of. Of food and other, you know, consumables.

[D]

Does it like replenish your health and

[B]

that replenishes your health.

[A]

And this is a horny. This is intentionally horny here.

[B]

Yeah, the whole game's horny.

[A]

Yeah. Okay.

[B]

You're just sucking and you see titties and dicks and like the character creator.

[A]

Okay. Cuz that is.

[C]

Them things are swinging.

[B]

You can a squid, you can the devil.

[A]

I ain't into that.

[B]

Heather wins. Was it. What? What's the. What's the total score?

[D]

It was Mitch 2, Matt 4, Heather 11.

[B]

Well fought.

[A]

I really blew it with Mario.

[B]

Just like a restaurant value feedback. Let's open the feedback. Today's email is from Seamus or Seamus. How do you say that?

[E]

Seamus.

[B]

Seamus. S E A M U S. Seamus. Right.

[A]

This is fucking anti Irish shit you got going on right here.

[B]

I don't know what you guys think. I don't know.

[E]

I think.

[B]

Yeah. Well, Seamus, I wish you luck finding that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow and let me read your email.

[E]

God damn it.

[C]

If you can wake up from being so goddamn drunk.

[B]

My wife's family loves to have Yukur up UKer. Y E E U C H r e. I don't know what that. I don't know that. What that is.

[D]

I think that's yuker.

[B]

Eure. Do you know what that is? Some sort of card game.

[D]

Yuker. You said it, right.

[C]

Yeah.

[D]

Euchre is car. Yeah. Card game trick. A trick taking card game played in Great Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand and the United States, particularly in Michigan or upstate New York.

[A]

My wife spelled like bob. Uk Bob like.

[B]

No, it's spelled E C H R e. My family. My wife's family loves to have euchre this. This card game and. Or mahjong tournaments. Heather, I know you learned mahjong, as did Heather, our previous. One of our previous producers. Yu Song Lou is a. Is a mahjong streamer.

[A]

My mom. My mom plays mahjong every week. She has a group where she learned it and she plays it every week.

[C]

Mahjong.

[A]

Mahjong.

[B]

It's like your mom, you and. Or mahjong tournaments. During family gatherings. The card tables we use are relatively small, so there isn't room to eat a full plate of food while playing. Most of us eat finger foods and snacks while playing rather than eating full meals. Dry snacks are ideal because they don't make your cards sl tiles greasy. What are the best snacks to eat while playing video games? So you don't make the controllers greasy? Seamus, that's. This is a great question and very fitting for our panel of experts. I. I first want to say because, yes, it sounds like your family has a nice tradition having euchre and or mahjong tournaments. That sounds like. Like a fun thing to do. At my last family gathering, the family activities were beer pong and buzzball tastings. And that was not the only alcohol consumed.

[C]

My. My family can't play games with each other because we all get so mad. It's like we just can't do it.

[A]

Yeah. How are you from that family?

[B]

What do you mean, how am I from that family?

[D]

Where they were drinking a bunch.

[A]

Well, I'm saying that too, but beer. Your brother's just an album alpha and your parents love to party.

[B]

Yeah, everyone's a. Everyone's a social butterfly, but also people like, you know, love to tie one on.

[C]

You're a social butterfly too.

[B]

I guess so. But I can. I'm also fine. Like, I could be. I could take a vow of silence and be. Be good for days.

[C]

Wish you would

[E]

Foods.

[B]

It snacks to eat while playing video games. Yeah.

[E]

You're a guy.

[A]

You're a weird combo of. You don't say a lot at all. At all. And I also wish you would shut the up. So often.

[B]

Someone characterized this to me, this, me as this many years ago. And I think it's pretty good. Pretty astute. I generally act quiet until it's time to be loud, pick my spots.

[C]

I like it, but it sounded threatening for some reason.

[A]

It does.

[E]

I would say that one of my favorite things to do when playing a video game is to eat the thing that the characters are eating that rules. So, like, I do that a lot for movies, too. If you're, like, watching a movie where it's gonna be like, you know, Lord of the Rings, you get yourself a rotisserie chicken or a stew, and you, like, try and theme out your meal a little bit. So my pitch is, even though it might require some, you know, putting down the controller during cut scenes and eating what the characters are eating, it's a really pleasurable experience.

[B]

That's really fun. That sounds really immersive. I will. My answer was going to be, as far as just a snack is concerned, is just get yourself some chopsticks. Then you don't have to worry about your fingers being greasy. The other thing I love to do is I'll a fucking bag of Cheetos. And what makes your hands dirtier than Cheetos? But I'm eating them some bitches with chopsticks, so I don't have to worry about any dust getting onto my dual shock.

[D]

I do that when I'm working, too, so that I don't dirty up my keyboard or my desk with my grubby fingers.

[B]

Yeah. And also, I'm used to playing games with one hand so I can figure it out. Can't play Honey Pop with two hands.

[C]

No, you can't.

[B]

You're occupied.

[C]

I'm weirdly, like, not. I'm not like, a snacks guy. I've sort of noticed, like, I don't really keep chips.

[B]

You're team meals.

[C]

I'm team meals.

[A]

Same.

[C]

But I enjoy snacks quite a bit. Like, I don't want anybody to be like, I'm gonna find a photo of Matt with chips. Yeah, I'm sure it exists.

[B]

More like Matt's snack of Dappa. They'll be saying, yeah, he'll probably say

[C]

it, but they probably get it in one try. Probably. Somebody who says things wrong all the time myself. But I like. I love chips. I love stuff like that. I love popcorn. But I've never. I would almost go for a bag of like pre popped popcorn versus popping my own for some reason. Even though I do like the hot popcorn. But that's like my movie theater like treat. But if I'm getting like a, you know, just a store bagged popcorn, I'm pretty happy with that. I've been really into cherries right now. I've been snacking on cherries while. And playing some games. It gets a little dicey.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Cause I'll pop, I'll toss a couple in. But I'll just kind of like work the pits out on my own. And I have a little cup and I do my little. I have my little spit cup for the pits.

[B]

You'll do more than one at once?

[C]

I'll pop two or three.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Wow. I can only do one at a time. Otherwise I get confused.

[B]

Yeah, me too.

[C]

I like to live dangerously. I'm pretty. I don't know. I'm a crazy guy.

[A]

I like that. I like that. I like that you live dangerously. I do as well.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And also I'm laying down too, by

[C]

the way, while doing this.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Okay. You have a death wish.

[A]

I. I don't think you could. And screen grabs don't count, but I don't think you can find a picture of me with a bag of ships. And screen grabs don't count of cowboys. I don't think you can find a picture don't count.

[B]

So you need to have a, like

[D]

a genuine photo of you.

[B]

Genuine photo.

[C]

Like a PI photo from behind a bush.

[D]

Amelia's gonna go into her photo.

[A]

You think you can find a picture?

[D]

I mean, if anyone has one, I bet it's Amelia.

[A]

No, I don't think you can.

[B]

But you don't want it. Not a still from a video. Because that's still from a video.

[A]

Amelia. Look, I think it's this sort of thing of like, I like Heather. I will. I like. I'll eat a slice of pizza and then also game. But your hands are going to be greasy or whatever. But all the non. All the snacks that get. Don't get your finger like Bugles. So I guess you could have Bugles, but that's not that.

[C]

Well, those are going to be hard to play the game with because they're

[A]

going to be all your fingers. It's a good point. Too fun for me. I would say Mambas is like a. So something that you can put in your mouth and then you're chewing on it for a while. You know, I mean, mean like a mambo or Starburst or something.

[D]

Candy or something that you suck on

[C]

for a few minutes.

[A]

Yeah, that's good. Yeah. Say. Yeah, like a. Yeah, Skittles or Starburst. Something like that. Something along those lines.

[C]

Blur those out.

[B]

You can pull those both out of his hoodie pocket.

[A]

Something like that. But. But yeah, something that you can chew on for quite a bit. You know what I mean? Before going back to the next one,

[B]

I was just thinking, I don't do this, but I. I think this could work. Heather, talking about the. The soup thermos earlier. Get some. Some sippable thermos soup or. Or just like a little, like, slurpable bowl of, like, you know, some sort of soup that you don't eat spoon with. That's fun.

[C]

Before I think about it, I do think that, like, broth is maybe one of my favorite foods.

[B]

Broth's pretty good.

[C]

And, like, I do think, like, a thermos of, like. Like, pho. Gah. Like, broth would be heavenly to me. I would. I would love that.

[A]

Do you do. I don't like sipping soup out of a cup, though. I. Soup in a thermos, and then I'll put it in a bowl or something I put. Feel fine with, but. Well, actually, if you get the spoon, that makes all the difference in the world. Yeah, but, like, sipping it like a drink makes it, for me feel like I'm having a. A hot drink.

[B]

Oh, man. I kind of like it. I like. First off, I like a hot drink, but then also, I'm just, like, thinking of miso soup. I'm just like. I love slurping that so much.

[C]

The miso soup we had at the hotel was, like, the best. I wanted to fill my hydro flask with it and take it out with me for the day. I would have loved it.

[B]

But you didn't have permission to do that.

[C]

No, they. There was no sign indicating. Indicating that that was allowed or not.

[B]

Yes.

[A]

Also, two oranges. Come on. That's not fun.

[C]

Sounds like two terms in the White House. We'll be right back.

[A]

Don't talk to me.

[B]

I always have a tremble slip.

[A]

What did he say?

[C]

I, like, stumbled over my thing, and then he was gonna call me out, and then he stumbled over the call out. Over the call out.

[E]

Oh, boy. We're doing great.

[B]

If you have a question or comment. Oh, my God. Sorry, Jimmy. I was resting my arm on her, thinking she was a pillow.

[D]

Honestly, a great hack for dirty fingers. While playing video games, sit next to a dog, got dirty fingers, go like this Jemmy cleans them right off. Go right back to Blaine.

[B]

Uh oh. I don't just have peanut butter on my fingers.

[C]

Oh, God.

[B]

I'm playing honeypot. If you have a question or comment. The world of chain race.

[A]

Let's not let him watch Jimmy.

[E]

A blowjob from a dog and it's on tape.

[C]

Not licking the dog's gonna suck them off.

[B]

If you have a question or comment about the world of chain.

[C]

Jimmy looked at me and I felt bad.

[B]

Email [e-mail] or leave us a voicemail. 830. Go to. That's 830-463-6844. Yeah. Jimmy's been usually on the other couch, but she's been snuggled up between me and Heather on the smaller couch.

[D]

Every time Heather and I are in the same studio. Jim, Jemmy is like as close to Heather as she can possibly be.

[B]

Wow.

[D]

Last time I engineered Get Played, it was the same thing. They were. She was like, right up against you on the chair.

[E]

How about that makes up for my dog that hates me?

[B]

Our producers, Emma Brinker, associate producer Emilia Marino. Our video editor Mike Dorfman. DoughBoys [e-mail] DoughBoys and Emma, as we mentioned earlier, we got some live shows in the south coming up.

[E]

Yes.

[D]

The 27th, 8th and 9th will be in Raleigh, Charlotte, and then Atlanta. Late show available Carl Tart with with

[B]

Carl bird.comlive or doughboys podcast.com live.

[A]

We can have fun.

[B]

And you can get the Doughboys double a weekly bonus episode [e-mail] I will

[A]

a wife on this tour.

[B]

Doughboy.

[C]

It's the Mitch a Wife tour.

[B]

It's not gonna happen. Heather.

[C]

Matt.

[B]

Get Played is the podcast. It's. It's the three of us chopping it up about video games.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And it's a lot of fun.

[E]

Yeah.

[B]

I love doing it.

[C]

It's. It's great. I love. I love it. I love hanging out with you guys. You guys are my friends. It's very nice that you got to. I appreciate you having us here with your other family. Very nice. Yeah, yeah, it's great.

[A]

Thanks for having us two Family guy. A multiple family guy.

[B]

Had to have a couple family.

[E]

Seems right.

[B]

If I had a secret family, you wouldn't be shocked. Like, oh, yeah.

[E]

Okay.

[D]

We actually has like six kids.

[C]

One of them's like, like a full on adult.

[D]

He's actually been on the podcast before.

[A]

Your son is Joe Saunders.

[B]

His daughter's Amelia. Don't act so surprised.

[C]

That was something we dealt with, though, in Japan, is that we were trying to suss out what people thought the dynamic was. And the safest thing we came up with was, I'm their son.

[B]

People definitely thought Heather and I were married. And then I think they were like, well, that must be their adopted son.

[C]

Yeah. Who's, like, not that much younger than him.

[B]

Hey, you know what? It worked out great.

[C]

It worked out great.

[B]

Also, we should mention people should subscribe to get played wherever you. You listen to podcast if you, you know, especially if you like video games. We've had all sorts of great guests over the years.

[C]

That's right.

[B]

And including Mitch himself a few times. A lot of fun.

[E]

Yep.

[B]

And we also. Heather, we should mention Rick and Morty. Season nine premieres this Sunday.

[E]

Yeah. May 24th. The premiere of season nine of Rick and Morty. Please check it out. It's a great season. I'm really excited.

[B]

It's really. The season nine episodes are very, very

[C]

cool to check that out.

[B]

And that'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time for the Spoon by Mike Mitchell. I'm Tiger Weiger. Happy eating.

[A]

See ya.

[B]

And you got played.

[C]

Oh, shit. Yeah. Fuck you guys. Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville.

[A]

And I'm Jeff Tremaine.

[B]

Welcome to Jackass the Podcast, a new show.

[E]

Coming to.

[D]

Coming to.

[A]

That's what it is.

[C]

Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville. And I'm Jeff Tremaine.

[B]

Welcome to Jackass the Podcast, a new show now on Headgum.

[D]

Woohoo.

[C]

I've learned a Jackass movie has to be really 90 minutes.

[A]

Every minute over is a minute too long.

[C]

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[B]

There's only so much butthole you can take.

[C]

We're going to take you behind the

[B]

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[C]

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[A]

I think let's commit to Jackass the podcast.

[C]

What was it gonna be called? The Jackass Podcast Podcast. Without you, the IQ drops significantly.

[B]

Steve O.

[C]

There's a strong chance that were it not for Jackass, that I would be in clown makeup. Right? Right. This man, Chris Ponus.

[A]

That shot of your butt just cruising up, I'm like, yeah, I got that on tv.

[B]

God bless us, Dave England.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

When you come in and you're being

[A]

really nice, I'm like, damn it. Something bad's going to happen to me.

[B]

Wee Man. Jeff grabbed me from the back of the head and threw a punch.

[C]

The whole bar just stopped and wanted

[B]

to kill me like and some of the crew crew that's been with us from the beginning. I had to share a room with this guy. I left a nice surprise in the

[C]

toilet for him every time. Apparently he hates to flush.

[B]

Subscribe to Jackass, the podcast on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Pocket Cast, or wherever the

[C]

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[A]

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[C]

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[B]

Watch video episodes on YouTube and and follow along with us on Instagram and TikTok @JackassThePodcast.

[C]

What were we just talking about?

[B]

Probably buttholes. Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[A]

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[B]

Each episode we're going to go into a deep dive from our show.

[E]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[B]

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[A]

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[A]

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