Denny's 5 with Eva Anderson

Summary

Doughboys Podcast: "Denny's 5 with Eva Anderson"

Original Air Date: April 30, 2026

Hosts: Mike Mitchell (“Spoonman”), Nick Wiger (“Tiger Weiger”)
Guest: Eva Anderson (writer, performer; co-creator of “Margo’s Got Money Troubles”)

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Episode Overview

In this episode, Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger are joined by returning favorite Eva Anderson to review Denny’s limited-time Masters of the Universe tie-in menu—an elaborate promotional effort syncing with the new He-Man movie. The trio revisits past Denny’s experiences, discusses nostalgia for chain restaurant menus, and takes a hard look at both the food and tie-in’s lack of creativity. Between chain restaurant tangents, show business war stories, and meandering talk about stains, strip clubs, and animal food theft, the hosts deliver their signature mix of food critique, jokes, and gentle existential cynicism—culminating in a rare total pan of the menu.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Denny’s Pop Culture Menu Legacy & the Masters of the Universe Tie-In

• Recalling tie-ins like The Hobbit and Beetlejuice, the team sets high (if quirky) expectations for how chain restaurants use movies as inspiration.
• He-Man Menu Items: Battle Burger, Eternia’s Premium Breakfast Slam, Grayskull’s Epic Crackle Cakes, Skeletor’s Dark Shake Averse, plus a Slam Appetizer Platter.
• Nostalgia for previous menus (e.g., The Hobbit) is strong; the hosts find this one uninspired and lacking in “theming.”

“The only one that has any effort put into both theming and title is Skeletor’s Dark Shake Averse, which was my favorite.” —Mike Mitchell (90:13)

2. Pre-Review Banter and Personal Updates

• Introductions & Jokes: The usual Doughboys banter includes riffs on CPAP (sleep apnea) machines, spill stories, “stain shirts,” and pet anecdotes.
• Discussion about media projects (Eva’s new show and Hideo Kojima’s social media excitement for it).
• Extended riffing on past misunderstandings of satire and internet irony.

3. Travel, Nostalgia, and Chain Restaurant Tourism

• Stories about Vegas, Niagara Falls, and cross-border Canadian chain dining (shoutout to The Keg, “haunted Keg,” and local diners).
• Memories of previous Doughboys live shows and milestones—including “Chili’s, too” at the Vegas airport and planned future trips.

4. Menu Critique: The “Review”

Slam Appetizer Platter

• The group experiences ordering confusion, ending up with sausage biscuit nuggets instead of the desired chicken fried steak bites.
• Worst item: Biscuit and gravy bites, described as “a gusher of savory paste—truly disgusting.”
• Wings and mozzarella sticks are barely passable; “Chili’s planks” receive fond but off-topic praise.

He-Man Battle Burger

• Attempt at “macho” protein overload flops: “Gnarly, nasty, bad state-fair food; the pulled beef is repulsive.” (82:03)
• Fries—“oil reservoirs” and “wrong shape.”

Eternia’s Premium Breakfast Slam & Grayskull’s Epic Crackle Cakes

• Slam: Pancakes with mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate sauce. Kids’ “slumber party food”—poor theming.
• Crackle Cakes: Silver dollar pancakes with vanilla cream sauce and popping candy. Ruins the meal: “It got on my burger, which I had to spit out. It was so repulsive.” —Eva Anderson (87:39)

Skeletor’s Dark Shake “Averse”

• Unintentionally the “highlight,” described as a Jamba Juice blueberry smoothie with purple coloring. Some praise for at least matching Skeletor’s color, but disappointment it’s not more decadent.
• General consensus: “This is a Jamba Juice smoothie, not a He-Man shake.”

5. Cultural and Generational Chain Restaurant Commentary

• Musings on the decline in tie-in creativity and overall food quality.
• Jokes about strip club food, chain dining in Canada, and recurring themes of “bad vibes” at once-great chains.
• Tangents on kid/teen drinking stories, pet mishaps, and famous dirty or weird presidential anecdotes.

“What happened to this country? We used to be a damn country. These meals used to mean something.” —Mitch Stevenson (96:42)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Denny's Lack of Effort:

  “It’s so stupid… imagine if this was a Star Wars menu and it was a pancake with a scoop of ice cream and they called it ‘Endor Slam.’ That’s the level of thought that went into this.”
  —Mike Mitchell (104:18)

• On the “Crackle Cakes” Catastrophe:

  “It looked like cum. And it ruined everything on the plate.”
  —Eva Anderson (87:39)

• On Chain Restaurant Cynicism:

  “This was actually one of the worst outings in for Doughboys. I’d say top 15 bad outings… in 10 years, we’ve eaten in some wretched places.”
  —Mitch Stevenson (93:13)

• Summing Up the Experience:

  “Zero forks. It’s awful, awful food. What happened here?”
  —Mitch Stevenson (99:16)

• The Mood, as Denny’s Decline Becomes a National Metaphor:

  “The Denny’s are closing. And they're bad. And they're closing while this guy’s in office…”
  —Running refrain (96:46–98:06)

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Timestamps for Important Segments

| Timestamp | Segment/Summary | |-----------|------------------------------------------------------------| | 01:25 | Dolph Lundgren/He-Man digression, setup for menu | | 19:16 | Eva Anderson intro; Kojima’s tweet about her show | | 21:58 | Vegas food/bar stories | | 39:51 | Canadian chain restaurants & Denny’s nostalgia | | 54:09 | Denny’s tie-in menu legacy, “hobbit menu” memories | | 72:16 | Begin review of Denny’s Masters of the Universe menu | | 73:07 | Ordering disaster/appetizer sampler analysis | | 81:47 | Main menu items critiqued (Battle Burger, Crackle Cakes) | | 89:08 | Skeletor’s Dark Shake Averse discussed | | 95:03 | Final review/fork ratings—group “zero-fork” verdict | | 99:09 | Existential chain restaurant lament | | 107:24 | Segment: “Cake it Off”—mystery cake quiz/pound cake answer | | 110:49 | Listener feedback: Animal food theft stories | | 117:24 | Eva plugs “Margo’s Got Money Troubles,” outros |

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Final Ratings & Closing Arguments

• Eva Anderson:

  “The company was great. I'm giving it half a fork.” (95:32)

• Mitch Stevenson:

  “Zero forks. It was awful, awful food. What happened here?” (99:16)

• Mike Mitchell:

  “One fork. The shake was OK. Broken plate club. Shame on you, Denny’s.” (105:29)

Consensus: This menu is one of Doughboys’ least favorite chain restaurant experiences ever—ill-conceived, thematically lazy, badly executed food earning near-unanimous scorn.

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Tone & Style

In classic Doughboys style: conversational, goofy, self-deprecating, with irreverent pop culture references. Eva’s delightfully dry wit matches the hosts’ tendency toward over-sharing and meandering anecdotes, all filtered through affectionate but exasperated chain restaurant fandom.

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For Listeners: Why Listen to This Episode?

• It’s a broad, funny takedown of bad corporate synergy between fast food and film IP.
• Heavy on stories and character, it’s also a primer on how pop culture, nostalgia, and food intersect—and where it all can go wrong.
• “Zero-fork” episodes are rare and emblematic in Doughboys lore; this is a cathartic, mutual venting session laced with genuine food culture insight and palpable disappointment.

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Want to know why America’s chain restaurant tie-in menus have lost the magic? Start here—just maybe not with the Crackle Cakes.

Transcript

[Nick Wiger]

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[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Few have won the genetic lottery like Hans Lundgren, with a height of 6 foot 5, a reported IQ of 160 and fashion model good looks. But the hulking Swede put in the work to take advantage of his gifts, graduating at the top of his class in chemical engineering and becoming a black belt in karate while achieving his Master's degree at the University of Sydney. Lundgren, working a side hustle as a bouncer, provided security for the disco queen herself, Grace Jones, which led to a four year romantic relationship contemporaneous with Lundgren pursuing his PhD at MIT from which he was soon MIA to chase work as an actor. At Jones's encouragement and the acting opportunities too quickly rocketed Lundgren to the top of his field and in his second role as Rocky Balboa's computer trained Soviet nemesis Ivan Drago in Rocky iv, Lundgren took on the stage name of Dolph. His next theatrical film went from playing cartoonish villain to literal cartoon character as he man in the the live action Masters of the Universe opposite a pre friends Courtney Cox and a memorable Billy Barty as Gwildor. But while Lundgren continued a decades long career in the movie business, the Masters of the Universe franchise wouldn't see another feature film for nearly 40 years. In fact, Lundgren would reprise Drago and Creed II eight years before Nicholas Galitzine took over as he man in a new Masters of the Universe movie. Unfortunately, the fandom is skeptical of the new MCU coded take, which includes the evil Skeletor retconned by director Travis Knight into, quote, the embodiment of toxic masculinity. The skull faced antagonist is portrayed by Jared leto, who in 2025 was accused by nine women of sexual misconduct. But one thing the 2026 reboot of the toy turned children's animated series turned live action film has over, the 1987 original is a tie in menu with a chain restaurant founded in one doughboy's hometown of Lakewood, California. But will this culinary interpretation of the muscly sword and spaceship franchise meet or exceed the chain's previous Beetlejuice or Hobbit menus? This week on Doughboys, by the power of Grayskull, I have the pancakes as we return once again to Denny's for the Masters of the Universe menu. Go with the dodo boys. Double the dodo Bo. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Tiger Weiger along with my co host, the Umami Tsunami or the Umami Tsunami, the spoon man, Mike Mitchell.

[Mitch Stevenson]

So you can. The person couldn't decide if they wanted to make fun of me for being a fat guy or for being for being a mama's boy.

[Mike Mitchell]

And they ended up doing both. So they.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, no, I saw.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hi Doughboys. Guess what?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Here's from here on out, if you do a roast, I don't like it. I'm going to kill your ass. It's a new side of Mitch, the CPAP killer.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, why are you called the cpap?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I feel like that will be my murderer's name because you've just got it

[Mike Mitchell]

on while you're killing. Going to get out of breath. Hi, Doughboys. I started listening to the pod from the beginning of the public feed.

[Mitch Stevenson]

CPAP doesn't help you. It doesn't help me with. I don't wear it on the treadmill.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know how it works.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes, you do.

[Nick Wiger]

What would happen if you did though?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, what would happen?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Would you get very, very fast?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think you probably would get very really fast.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It doesn't work like Spider's mask in Avatar Fire and Ash.

[Mitch Stevenson]

No, it does not work like. It does not work like Spider's mask. It doesn't work like Immortan Joe. Yeah, Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

And so you don't have to worry about it. Like, running out of battery.

[Mitch Stevenson]

No. You know, I took it off last night because Wally has. I told you he needs a catsy pap. He has little snores. And I took it off last night and I was like. I was like. I was like, pretend. I was not pretending, but I was like. I was like, oh, like, I wonder how he'll react to this. Did not like it immediately. I didn't put it on.

[Nick Wiger]

You put it on his face.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I didn't put it on his face. I was like. I was like. I took it off my face to be. Because he always is interested by it. And then, like I said, it's just like. And he hated it. And he ran away immediately.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm on the treadmill here.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wally is always interested in going on the treadmill. I don't allow him on it because he can get sucked under.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can you get a little kitty treadmill? Can you get a manual one?

[Mitch Stevenson]

He needs it. He does need it. It would be fun to have him go on one and have a little piece of fish or whatever that he chases.

[Nick Wiger]

Like it's hanging from the bottom of the treadmill.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think it would be. I think so.

[Nick Wiger]

Like a bone. Like probably a fish bone.

[Mitch Stevenson]

A fish bone? Yeah, something like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Someone ate the fish. Fish skeleton looking at Daddy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I didn't eat the fish from the cat treadmill.

[Nick Wiger]

Take the. At the bone and then you dangle it on the cat treadmill.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He. He is. He's a little. He's a little chubby. Yeah, he's. He's double the weight of Irma. He's twice the sizes of.

[Mike Mitchell]

Of Irma and their brother and sister from the same litter.

[Mitch Stevenson]

They are.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

So he's. He's. He's a big boy anyways, the CPAP killer. I. It. I'm not going to fall asleep while trying to murder the guy. I just meant that that's, like my calling card.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right, right. But I just. Usually the calling card is something like the Zodiac Killer, like, called himself the Zodiac and, like, had, like, a little, you know, insignia.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I guess I could, like, kill a person. CPAP mask on them when I leave.

[Mike Mitchell]

That would make you the CPAP killer.

[Nick Wiger]

Has anybody ever done, like, a. Like a CPAP that pumps something else, like carbon dioxide into your lungs?

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's pretty good.

[Nick Wiger]

You have a CPAP to, like. Like a tailpipe of a car.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's. That's really good. I kill other CPAP guys. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a. I don't want to kill

[Mitch Stevenson]

the other guys hereditary.

[Nick Wiger]

Not hereditary. Midsummer.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That it kind of is. It is. It is kind of the beginning of that is what it would look like.

[Mike Mitchell]

I feel like it's a law and order where somebody's murdering fat guys dying in their sleep, and it's me.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm, like, killing all, like, the fat actors of the world.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right, right, right.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay. I like that. That's the CPAP killer. I hook up their CPAPs to, like,

[Mike Mitchell]

whatever open on Paul Walter Hauser's funeral. You're there consoling his wife, but it's all a wrestling gimmick. And he comes out of the coffee.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He got a coffee and tombstones me, man.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's so cool that he wrestles. Hi, doughboys. I started listening to POD from the beginning of the public feed sometime last summer, putting me currently in May of 2024. I think it will be really funny if I encounter this roast months from now when I catch up to your current episodes. Thanks for abusing your minds and bodies for our amusement and making my chores go by faster. Shout out to Zhang and Ben for getting me into this very silly show. Apologies of that song saying, however you say your name, don't tell me you heard this. If you hear this before I catch up, see ivan roasted birdfuck.com. we've had a few of these where people are listening. Entire back catalog. There's somewhere in like 2023. And they're like, I think I'll send it a roast. And then when I catch up to the present or maybe I'll hear my roast. So it's been happened.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm happy for you.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're happy for you.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And beware the CPAP killer.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right? And don't look for episode 400.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That one's hidden. You know what? I got chocolate on my sleeve.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, boy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This is chocolate. What the does that mean? You think you. Both of you think that I wiped my ass with my sleeve?

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it's just as probable that it's chocolate. I don't doubt you for one minute, Mitch.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I. There's got to be a good name for something like this. But do you have a piece of clothing that you always stain? This is mine.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let's see.

[Nick Wiger]

I have a T shirt that every time I wear it, I spill my coffee on myself within an hour of leaving.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This is what I'm. This is this hoodie, which I like fabletics wise with one of our bloodics. But it. I always. I'm always spilling stuff. I always get. I always end up spilling every time I wear it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

What happens?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like, this isn't. This isn't it. But it's like, like, like the stain magnet or whatever. I'm just trying to think of what you could call it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Why is it not that I like the stain magnet?

[Nick Wiger]

I don't feel.

[Mike Mitchell]

I feel like it should be clothing oriented.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Stain shirt.

[Mike Mitchell]

Stain. Stain shirt.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Called the stain shirt.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This is my stain shirt. Yeah, it is my stain shirt.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. No, I know what you mean.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And then.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then you get enough stains on it where you're just like, well, I guess this will just be my stain shirt.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And we're gonna do something because we're sloppy.

[Nick Wiger]

If I get like a dress that is a solid color, I'll get like a oil stain on it, like, within a day, which is like one that never comes off. Yeah, just like. It's just like. And then because it's solid color, there's just like a splotch on it that's dark and it's like the thing's ruined.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's the word. I hate that store. The oil stains are the one that went from cooking.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I had a. I'm back at a writing job. I had a disastrous spill. Thankfully, no one was in the room except for Cole, who works with me. And then Catherine, who works just outside of the room, is at a different desk. But my yeti, I had just filled it up to capacity.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Michael Cole. Are you in wrestling now?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not Michael Cole.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right.

[Nick Wiger]

With water.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Filled to capacity with water. Set it down immediately. Knocked it over, and it fucking emptied largely onto my. My. My neighbor's workstation.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, no.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was fucking horrible. I was so fucking mortified. And then Catherine told me why, you're fired.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I would love it. You spill so much, you get yourself fired.

[Mike Mitchell]

Catherine told me what she heard from where she was sitting, she couldn't see. It was.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Fuck.

[Mike Mitchell]

What a disaster.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Jesus Christ.

[Nick Wiger]

Did it. No computers, though.

[Mike Mitchell]

No computers, actually. Everything was fine.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. A notebook. Jackson sits next to me. A notebook. Got their notebook got wet. But it was easily cleaned up. Did not stain any pages. It was actually fine. It was. Crisis averted. But for a moment I was like, I can't believe I fucking created this swamp on the table. It's fucking horrible. And I haven't had a spill yet. I had not spill all of last season, and this season, I'm in week two, and then I have a fucking nightmare spill.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The original cell of Rick and Morty got wiped out. The show just doesn't have them in it anymore or whatever job he works at.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right. Hey, Mitch, speaking of us.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We can cut that out.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't care. Whatever. Mitch, speaking of. Of speaking of working, we'll be working tonight up in San Jose at the San Jose Improv with our Betsy Sadaro. So if you're a Doughboys fan and you are in the Bay Area, if you're in San Jose in particular, come out and see the show. San Jose improv [e-mail] live. We'll see.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You got me so bummed out that we had work later tonight. And then it still got me sad that we have work next week. I mean, we do have work later. We do. Well, we just have one more episode.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That sucks. But still, that's. That's okay. I know what I know. The surprise work is the work that scares me. You shouldn't. I feel like you should maybe get a sip.

[Mike Mitchell]

A what?

[Mitch Stevenson]

A sip version of your yeti. They do have tops where you can sip it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't like the sips.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I just want to dump it down my throat.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I like that.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I like. Can I be honest with him though? I know you don't like the sips, but you spill quite a bit. I don't know. I. I love you.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's nice of you to say, Mitch. I love you too.

[Nick Wiger]

Do you ever just like pour it down your. Just down your face like a bear. That's how I spill out my spill. Just like my water. Just drink as much as you can. Just like it pours down your mouth.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is kind of fun, especially like. Like during a workout or something like that. But Mitch, this is the issue. The lid was completely off.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I hate you demonstrating it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. So that's.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And then bam.

[Mike Mitchell]

And knock the motherfucker over.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I just don't know. I didn't realize that you have like kind of a spill proof top to that.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, it's pretty good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There's a little. There's a little nipple, but you're not.

[Nick Wiger]

You had screwed it. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's more than one little nipple over here. Nice and tight

[Mitch Stevenson]

so you can drink weed.

[Nick Wiger]

Six little nipples over there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, it's true.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, make it eight. Oh, I don't have little. I don't have little ones. Let's be real.

[Mike Mitchell]

Someone's gotta suck on these things. Jimmy,

[Mitch Stevenson]

We should. We should sell Jimmy's dog milk on the. We sell that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can we milk? Jimmy?

[Nick Wiger]

We can try. She's been fixed so her spade. So I'm not sure if she can still make milk. But I'm happy to find out.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'll tug on those things for a while, see what happens.

[Nick Wiger]

Jimmy bites the first person she's ever been.

[Mitch Stevenson]

She's never bit anybody.

[Nick Wiger]

No. She tried to bite a toddler that I was playing with once, but I think she was just getting super jealous and confused.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Good girl.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, if Jimmy Milk doesn't work out, we'll figure out a white substance from a doughboy we can sell on ginger goods.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, we'll milk the whole. You could just make her wear, like, a pouch. Yeah. Yeah. Just on top of her teeth. Yeah. And you could still milk her. It just should be a little suit she's wearing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Too good for the straw, but. But not. You're just fine with the nipple. It seems like you can. But what about. What about is. Aren't there sums that you can like. Aren't there some that, like, isn't like a sucking straw?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I have a sucking straw one. I just don't like. It's not as fun. It's not as good to drink out of. It's like. That doesn't feel as hydrating. I. I do you. I do have that top for. For when I'm, like, on my bike because it's, like, good for bike riding.

[Mitch Stevenson]

But I do think be like, you might be one of the top spillers in the world. I like just, like, your jaw size. I would say so. Right. He's up there.

[Nick Wiger]

Should we call Guinness and see if they have a way of measuring this? I mean, top spillers.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We.

[Mike Mitchell]

He.

[Nick Wiger]

You.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You. We have documented. I wonder. I won't make anyone do this, but I wonder if you could document how many spills you've had just from listening to Adobo.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Just on the show. And then there are other spills that are related that are like the unspillable.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We got. Do you know this? We got sent an unspillable cup and Weiger spilled it as soon as we got it.

[Mike Mitchell]

This was. This was at Palmerston. This was at the. In the old. When recording in your apartment, someone sent

[Mitch Stevenson]

us a thing that's like. It's an unspillable cup. You put it and it's like. Uses magnets and you put it down on a table and you can't spill it.

[Nick Wiger]

And I were literally throwing things at it to try to knock it over.

[Mike Mitchell]

And we could not do it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And we came in and he spilled it in immediately.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

We were like, this is unspillable. And he was like, watch this.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And it wasn't even intentional. You did it accidentally.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did it accidentally. You know what? That company's bankrupt now.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. I don't know what it was.

[Mike Mitchell]

I miss you.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Get a job.

[Nick Wiger]

All right.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm gonna hit him with a drop. You take a big pill for Clement. No big deal anymore.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait. Really?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Do you want to know how I know this?

[Mike Mitchell]

You've been hanging out with koalas.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I've taken the pill before. It's all good. I've said this on the podcast.

[Nick Wiger]

There you go.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Should I not have told the story? But yes. I took a big old chlamydia pill. Why did I tell the story?

[Mike Mitchell]

You can cut it out. You want to cut it out?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I don't know. I just. Should I. I have no idea.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was bad.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You take a pill. Who gives a shit? I fucked. Deal with it. I. Fuck.

[Mike Mitchell]

Big honker.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Thank you.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm happy for you, buddy. Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow. A lot of things have been said

[Mitch Stevenson]

on this show and I. It's embarrassing. It is embarrassing. Just hearing. I. I shouldn't. I didn't have to tell that story.

[Mike Mitchell]

I guess. I think it's fine. People get deal with STIs. It's a reality of being an adult. I thought it was a total.

[Nick Wiger]

Not.

[Mike Mitchell]

Maybe it was a thing that you found personally embarrassing. Man. It's totally. Doesn't make you look bad at all.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

If you didn't take the pill, your nose could fall off.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Is that true?

[Nick Wiger]

And then they'd have to do that medieval thing where they attach your flap of your bicep to your face so it grows into a new nose.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I have fucking bicep nose on the Nick.

[Nick Wiger]

The show. The Nick Soderbergh Show.

[Mike Mitchell]

Does that work?

[Nick Wiger]

The lady on the show gets. Gets a weird nose from it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

But you have to walk around for like a month or so with your bicep attached to your face.

[Mike Mitchell]

That seems really uncomfortable.

[Nick Wiger]

I think it is. Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

All I gotta say is time to go in for an STD check. I don't.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know. I think it might be the other one. Not chlamydia that makes your nose fall off. But syphilis.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, syphilis.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah. Because that was the.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I had sex. Was the pill.

[Mike Mitchell]

The masked King.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I took that pill and I said no more of this. I'm not for dealing with this stuff anymore.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was not syphilis. That was lep. That was leprosy. I'm realizing there was a leper king.

[Nick Wiger]

There's a leper king.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

We could get lepers.

[Mike Mitchell]

Ed Norton plays him in Kingdom of Heaven.

[Nick Wiger]

Maybe we'll get back because of the. No medicine anymore.

[Mike Mitchell]

It'd be fun if leprosy came back.

[Nick Wiger]

Get leper colonies going.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I saw Kingdom of Heaven with Gabrius.

[Mike Mitchell]

How about that? The.

[Mitch Stevenson]

What's the theater? Is it the Egyptian theater?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That turned to like a ne. Is it a Netflix theater now or something?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it's like. It's also like the cinema tech. So it shows old movies.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They show. There was like the. The. The director's cut, and it was like, very long. It was great.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, cool.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Hello, Doughboys. I'm a new fan of the pod. I've heard about Doughboys for years, but I just got to it and, oh, boy, what I've been missing. I've already listened to a bunch of the older episodes of some of my favorite guests, and I'm slowly learning all of the Doughboys lore, such as somebody being a bit of a heat seeker and diarrhea breaks. I love the drop, so I want to make one with one of my favorite moments on the pod. Love everyone in the studio. Mircha.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. Thanks, Mircha.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Dropsirdfuck.com it's basically the Romanian version of Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Mircha.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mircha.

[Nick Wiger]

Mircha.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, wait, no, I said it wrong. Still. Mircha.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mircha.

[Nick Wiger]

Mircha.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thanks, Mircha.

[Nick Wiger]

Mircha. Mircha.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Mircha.

[Nick Wiger]

Mircha.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Mircha.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mircha.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Mircha.

[Mike Mitchell]

They included phonetic pronunciation.

[Nick Wiger]

That's nice.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thank you. Thank you so much. What a quality drop. And what a guest.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The first ever Doughboys guest pronunciation. I got it wrong.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's all right. The first ever Doughboys guest returned to the show. Her new show, Margo's Got Money Troubles, is now streaming on Apple tv. Eva Anderson is back. Hi, Eva.

[Nick Wiger]

Hey, guys. I'm so happy to be back.

[Mike Mitchell]

Such a treat to have you.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, always a treat to be here. So thank you for having me.

[Mike Mitchell]

Again, congratulations on Margot's Got Money Trouble. So we gotta talk about this. Hideo Kojima posted about your show. Yeah, Kojima was watching your show?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, he was like, I'm preparing to watch the show. And he posted every single poster that exists so far of the show, like, back to back. I mean, obviously part of it is that, you know, Elle Fanning is on. Is a star of Marcus at Money Troubles. She's also plays Tomorrow and Death Stranding 2 on the beach. So that's probably one of the reasons. But still, I want to know, you know, what do you say about it?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

He hasn't responded yet. He hasn't done a follow up. I don't think he usually does. He just says he's watching things. Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sometimes he says watching things always scary.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Because he. The thing with Kojima is, is when he watches something and he. If he likes it. Well, sometimes he doesn't say anything at all.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, yeah, he. He posted this before he'd watched it.

[Nick Wiger]

Right, Right. He was.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He's preparing to watch it, but sometimes he writes, I just watched this movie. And then, you know, if when he does that, he did not like the movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

So it'll be like, I just watched Wonder Woman 1984.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

End of tweet.

[Mitch Stevenson]

End of.

[Nick Wiger]

Otherwise he would say he likes it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, because I just listened to Doughboys podcast. End of tweet.

[Mike Mitchell]

But he was like, effusive about like Mars Express, which is an awesome animated movie, but just like. And his post was like, this is an incredible work of cyberpunk fiction or whatever. It's like, that's fun. You know, it's. It's great. He does sometimes rave about things, but he also. Sometimes he just engages with a lot of media.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. He just watches. Always watching something. And he likes a lot of music, obviously. And he has a lot of director friends. They all end up in death stranding.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's true. I went to. I went to Kojima Productions and. And did you get scanned? No, I did not get scanned.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, man.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

What? He's lying.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He's lying.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, he did get scanned.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Scanner broke down. Scanning your bottom half.

[Mike Mitchell]

The offices are amazing. And Kojima himself is just an like, so cool.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Ran by that you're gonna end up

[Nick Wiger]

some character who's like. It'll be like your body, but your voice will be like, welcome. I don't understand, like some really.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Welcome to the flesh fair.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're going.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I would love it if you were in a coach. That would be. That would be. I mean, that would be a dream come true.

[Nick Wiger]

I love it too.

[Mike Mitchell]

It'd be incredible. It's not happening. You, you, you. So you were in Vegas for part of the production of, of this show and you're. You're going back to Vegas.

[Nick Wiger]

The Vegas episode actually will have aired on if this is the 30th, which I was told it was. It aired on Wednesday. So if you watched Margo's Got Money Troubles, you did see our, our Vegas episode, which has the wonderful John Daly, the great John Daly playing a comedy magician. And also we recreated, in a way, my favorite bar, the double down where you drink ass juice out of little ceramic toilets. And we filmed an Oscar steakhouse, which is named after the former Las Vegas mayor, who was a mob lawyer.

[Mike Mitchell]

Very cool.

[Nick Wiger]

And gives speeches there sometimes about being a mob lawyer. He defended the mob. He didn't put them in jail. And so it was very fun. And so. But I'm going back there this weekend. Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's awesome.

[Nick Wiger]

And my goal is, as I mentioned a little earlier, is that. Right when this. Right. The weekend before we recorded this, there was this article in the Atlantic about the head of the FBI, Cash Patel, that he gets drunk every single weekend at a place called the Poodle room in Las Vegas, which is a private club, But I may have found a way into it. So I want to go to see if I can get in the poodle Room. And if I don't see Kash Patel getting wasted there, at least I'll know the environment in which he gets wasted. So my goal for this trip is to infiltrate the Poodle Room.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like your odds. As someone who once texted me, just tried to get into the Epstein ranch, and security stopped me.

[Nick Wiger]

I didn't try to get in. He was already dead at that point. I found the Neptune Ranch because you could just. It's on Google Maps, right? And then I went up to the gate, and it was just like, you know, middle desert in the middle of nowhere, there's a gate. There's no one there. I, like, look over the gate and kind of see some buildings. I take my phone, and I go like this. And an alarm goes off. As soon as my phone, like, is like this.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, man.

[Mike Mitchell]

As soon as you're holding it over the fence.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. An alarm went off. Like, someone hit a button. Wow. So then I was like, all right. And then I took my picture, I

[Mike Mitchell]

got back in my car, and I drove away wild.

[Nick Wiger]

And that was where I didn't know that I had a name, one letter off of somebody from the extended Epstein universe. Because, like, a month after that, some Epstein thing happened, and because there's a woman named Eva Anderson with two S's, who was his former girlfriend and went on the Lily express a bunch of times. A bunch of qanon people came for me on Twitter, and they're like, bitch, you were on the. Admitted you were on the Lita express. And they posted my photo and stuff. Like, jesus, you went to the island? And then.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, they posted your photo?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, my actual headshot and stuff. I found a whole. Like, there's a whole chain about it. And then the one Person my favorite was like, how do we know this is her? And then somebody said, isn't her father an admitted warlock? Which. Because my dad was a magician. He was an admitted warlock.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

And then I. I got into the thread and I was like, guys, you got the wrong Eva Anderson. They're like, yeah, we figured that out.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're mad at you.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You can't be mad at you for tell.

[Nick Wiger]

I was like, take it down. Maybe they were like. But they were like, no. And so anyway. But every site, like, every once in a while, if he bubbles up in the news less so lately, I'll get like 12 death threats on Instagram from strangers. And then I go private for like two days. And then. And then I delete them. And then when I come back, everyone's forgotten.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Perfect world.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Which is like, blitz. They're just like, who's on this list? So it's just like, strangers. So anyway. But I did not know that when I went to the Jupiter Ranch just to take a picture and the alarm went off. Wow.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Leave people on the list alone.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right? People had their reasons for being on the list.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Any of us. The. The guy who created the Blue Man Group has his reasons for being on the list.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I didn't know he was on there. That's good. A lot of magic. There is a lot of magic crossover.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I wonder. I guess he was a fan of. He was a fan.

[Mike Mitchell]

Admitted warlocks, but not your warlock father, who is a lovely man.

[Nick Wiger]

My dad is not in the Epstein files. What you're saying. And he's not.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I saw your. I've said this a million times before, but I saw your dad and you. And you do a show at the Magic Castle, and it was a fantastic show. It was such a great show.

[Mike Mitchell]

One of the real legends of Matt.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, yeah. What a night. It was a great night. I just recently. You know how there's those videos like, mom, what you. Like in the 90s?

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, yeah. Where they stare kind of like. And then they show them in the 90s.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I did that and I said, dad, what were you like in 2021? And Amelia helped me with this.

[Nick Wiger]

This was. I saw this and I laughed out loud.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It was January 6th.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And a lot of people. What did you say? You were sad that. What was. You said, what's.

[Nick Wiger]

You can't do satire anymore.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Satire's dead. That's what you said.

[Nick Wiger]

Think he's real or really like that? And the other half are maga guys that like. Like this.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's pretty Good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I gotta.

[Mike Mitchell]

I will say, welcome to the pod. I gotta join the Patreon.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Welcome back to the pod. I got a lot of. I did get a lot of followers that looked like me joining that were following me. And then I got a lot of people being like, your son's fucking ashamed of you. And I was like, I don't have a son. I mean, I did. I was DMing, Peter, do they mean.

[Mike Mitchell]

Amelia,

[Nick Wiger]

you're a little boy over here. Your son's is just going right to. Your son's ashamed of you not knowing anything about somebody. But, like, you throw enough darts at the wall.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, right.

[Nick Wiger]

You're gonna hit somebody with a son who's like, oh, no, he is. And then, like, all the son be like, I'm just owning you for being ashamed of me.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I did. I was. I was just. Just for a minute, this is what I told him. I was like, I. I need to edit it and say that. Like, I don't like Trump, but I. So I lied on Instagram. So I was like. I was. I was. I was DMing people that were like, being like, they should be ashamed. I was like, by the way, I'm like a Democrat, and this is just satire. And I'm sorry. Like. Like. And then I was like, there's too many people already getting confused. So I just put an edit in

[Mike Mitchell]

the thing that was. That was. That was so much of my. We used to talk about people. Not. Like, people have not never understood satire, the Internet. And that's the thing you realize is like, oh, this is. There's just a seg. People who do not understand irony or subtext. They have no idea that, like, you would ever say something that should not be 100 interpreted at face value. And I've known that since I was making, you know, early days of Twitter for me, but also since I was making Funny or Die videos, a lot of them bad topical videos that were just, like, you know, made to turn them out. But, like, if you did, you had any sort of angle that was remotely satirical, people would just, like, completely not get it. There would be a segment of people commenting on it like it was a completely legitimate. And then there would be other people who were commenting on it like it was legitimate doing bits, and then those people would interact. And so that would be a whole. It's a whole nexus of. It's quite a scene out there. A lot of people are out of their fucking minds.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, the Internet's good.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Internet is good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm checking right now to see if there's anything.

[Nick Wiger]

I laughed and I understood what you were doing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I feel like a lot of people should have. You were depressed by it. That it was.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The first comment is average Celtics fans.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's pretty. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

I like that one.

[Mike Mitchell]

A heart from the Doughboys account.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay. Well, I don't get it. Corny much with the question mark, which I don't.

[Nick Wiger]

Corny much.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I would say it's corny.

[Nick Wiger]

Did he not watch to the end?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I don't. I can't tell. Or maybe because of my update saying that. Like, I did say that. Like I'm not a MAGA person.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, sure.

[Nick Wiger]

Also because you said, dad. What you like. That's why they're talking about the sun.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Because it said dad.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think your only move when you're in that sort of situation is just to double down. Like, hey, for anyone unclear about this. I love Trump. I was at January 6th.

[Nick Wiger]

Thanks. Just to be clear, this is.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, I should have done that instead. Some. Another person. Just a few comments later. Average Boston Celtics fan and then added someone. And the person he added replies. The person that. That he added replied me. So I feel like those are two MAGA guys that are. Maybe. Anyways. Yeah, I. I got. I got myself in trouble. You know what? It's better to just not.

[Mike Mitchell]

Never push.

[Nick Wiger]

Never post makes jokes. Never make anything.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, never. Yeah, don't do anything.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't do anything.

[Mike Mitchell]

So we were talking about magicians in the Epstein files. There are many, but one who is surprisingly not in there. And good for him. Criss angel comes out clean.

[Nick Wiger]

He's coming out clean, man. Kapliff is still open. Somehow they've downsized as we talked about to one of the outdoor refrigerator units.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Nick Wiger]

I know. Some people might be going there on Tuesday, so I'll get a report about. But you know, Libby Watson went. Oh, wow, former guest of yours.

[Mike Mitchell]

I gotta talk to Libby.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, she on the live stream people donated enough money to a charity so she had to drive to Kaplip and eat there. And this was like a month ago.

[Mike Mitchell]

Remind us what Chris. What. What Kablip stands for Because Chris Angels.

[Nick Wiger]

Breakfast, lunch and pizza.

[Mike Mitchell]

The big three.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Breakfast, lunch and pizza. Yes, I do kind of like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like to do.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yep. It is. It's not. It's good. It's kind of. It's kind of good.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's. It's. It's not good that it was that it is like an hour outside of Vegas and then took over hour 15 and then took over like A beloved local diner, Right?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Sugars.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Sugars diner.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Hour and 15. That's right.

[Nick Wiger]

And it says 45 minutes on the website because they're lying.

[Mitch Stevenson]

They.

[Nick Wiger]

They actually have, like, a fake map. They're just, like. They just wrote 45 minutes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Insane.

[Mitch Stevenson]

So it's not that far. So it's not too far from la.

[Nick Wiger]

No, it's still. It's the wrong direction. So you drive to Vegas and you drive. Then you keep driving in a different direction for an hour and 15 minutes.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I mean, I think we have to do this at some point.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll do Kablip at some point.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I will say that one of my favorite. One of my favorite things was just to flying to Vegas and not leaving the airport.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Going to Chili's, too.

[Nick Wiger]

That was one of the best days of my life.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It was a fun. That was a fun day.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that episode 200 to episode 300? That was. I mean, because you joined us for a bunch of milestone episodes.

[Nick Wiger]

So fun. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Such a hoot.

[Nick Wiger]

We could do. And I think we talked about this last time, but we did Bad Vegas, Heart Attack Grill, Kablip. Like, what else? We could just. We could do, like, five crazy, horrible restaurants.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That is a great.

[Nick Wiger]

So much Guy Fieri there. So many Guy Fieri options.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's also so many. Like, every chain restaurant from everywhere in the country has a location there. Yeah. Like in. Like. Like in Orlando.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We talked about just, like, going to Orlando for a month and getting a year's worth of episodes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right.

[Nick Wiger]

Amazing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Which maybe we will. Maybe we'll do in the future.

[Nick Wiger]

You guys should go to Niagara Falls.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I would love that.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've never been. Have you been?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I've been.

[Nick Wiger]

No, I've never been, but my brother Dash went for a wedding and he loves. Kept sending me photos. He's the best. But he kept sending me photos from, like, horrible wax museums he was at. They also have, like, every weird chain restaurant. It was great. Was he on the Canadian side? He was on the American side. Oh, hell, yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. I've been to that side. Oh, yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I just heard from Dash the other day. He had seen Napa Boy Boys. Oh, yeah? Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

He told me he messaged you after he saw it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Love, Dash.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, man. We both love Napa Boys, guys. Napa Boys is so funny.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's now on vod, people, if they haven't seen it, check it out.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, yeah, good point. I should have done that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Emma, Amelia, have you been to Niagara Falls?

[Nick Wiger]

I've been to Buffalo.

[Mike Mitchell]

We've been To Buffalo.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, Buffalo side.

[Nick Wiger]

Buffalo side. That's the side I have been to.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, does that count? I don't.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Let me tell you, as someone who's been to both sides, the Canada side is way better.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, the Canada side, you see the falls. The American side, you're like kind of above the falls. So there's a lot of stuff you can see, but it's not as, like, cool to look at, I think, as the Canadian side. To be clear, I've never been to the falls. I've just been to Buffalo. There you go. I went to the falls in America. I have a picture somewhere of me holding Jemmy up so she could see them over the fence.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have seen that photo. I'm remembering now. That's very cute.

[Mitch Stevenson]

So you and I are the only two who have been to the falls?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Yeah. We talked about going from Toronto.

[Mike Mitchell]

We were like, oh, we'll drive down

[Nick Wiger]

to the falls, but it didn't work out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Where does buffalo in relation to the falls? How far away?

[Nick Wiger]

It's right there. It's there.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like right there.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

The American side, it's like right outside of Buffalo.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Did you feel pressure to eat wings? Yes. Did you? I went to a Buffalo Wild Wings. Amelia. What the fuck?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Amelia.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not even from Buffalo.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. I didn't know that. It's like when I went to Paris and I went to like a Le Pomp.

[Mike Mitchell]

What is it?

[Mitch Stevenson]

It a. Wait, is this real?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I lay on their toes. I was like, I just want a Croat and I'll go back to the airport. And I went to.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You went to Buffalo for Buffalo Wild Wings in Paris for Leand Ton? Yeah. What. When was. When was this that you were there? It was. This is a long time ago. Oh, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

It's like, like 10 plus years ago. Right?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Did you. You were in Ithaca?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. That's. That's the first time I went to. That's when I went. I went with Chankton and me and Chankton went to the falls and we looked at the falls together. Because it is like a little bit of a drive out from Buffalo, right?

[Nick Wiger]

It's like a 20 or 30 minute drive, I think. And then.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

It's like it's a park. It's a national park or something. So it's like you have to drive into a park and find parking and then like go. But we walked all over. It was pretty. It was pretty neat.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fine.

[Nick Wiger]

It's like just crawling with tourists.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Byob, bring your Own barrel.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can you go over. Can you go over in a barrel? Like.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I thought you would like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

I do. I did like it. In fact, I was going to ask a barrel a question, which is like. Like, you know, of course we're thinking about the, you know, the Hobbit movies and the second Hobbit movie, which did have a Denny's tie in menu, which we'll talk about.

[Mitch Stevenson]

People have. People have died. Died was what I was going to say. And some have survived, but it seems like it very much like you get fucked up really bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like a Harrison Ford fugitive kind of jump of like you.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You're.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're 50. 50 on if it's like an evil Knievel move.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wait, he doesn't say I don't care there, does he?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he does.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, he does. Okay. I've never seen it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't kill my wife. I don't care. I can't believe.

[Nick Wiger]

I can't believe watched it this weekend.

[Mike Mitchell]

The.

[Nick Wiger]

So good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This is the one movie I haven't seen that you've all seen.

[Mike Mitchell]

Shocking blind.

[Nick Wiger]

We got to watch that next. Next tour. Yeah, we'll put the Fugitive.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, especially when Gabris is there. Gabriel Slows the Fugitive.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, yeah, I know. I think I maybe just. I think I've in the past, I maybe just always lied and said, I seen it. You know, there's a movie where you're just like, yeah, I've seen it too.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I've seen it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

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

[Nick Wiger]

I've watched Seinfeld.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then there's also the movie you lie about not having seen.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, yeah, Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I never, never seen the reboot of Lolita. What's that?

[Mitch Stevenson]

What is that? What is that? A Melania documentary? No, I never seen that.

[Nick Wiger]

Did you? You. You watched Jeremy Irons Lolita?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I didn't actually.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay. Okay, good.

[Mike Mitchell]

But ahead of the brain.

[Nick Wiger]

I never would do that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Maybe I'm lying. I heard that one was Dominique Swain, I think is the female lead.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it's the Adrienne Lyon one. Right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Adrian Lyon. Yeah. Dominique Swain.

[Mitch Stevenson]

What a name.

[Mike Mitchell]

Great name.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It just rolls off the tongue. My mom's sister and I went while I was filming Twisted Metal season two, but we went to the. There's a place. There's a Canadian chain restaurant called the Keg.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Which we didn't do, but it was an option for us to do it up in Toronto.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a candidate.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And there's one. Right. Because on the. On The Canadian side of the border, there's a bunch. There's casinos and. And. And then, like, one of the casinos has a keg, and you like. We ate lunch there and you can just like, see. It was a great view of the. Of the falls. You would like the keg. There's also a haunted.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like the keg.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There's a haunted keg. And you would like the haunted keg in Toronto.

[Nick Wiger]

Haunted keg. The haunted keg is still the keg, but it's just haunted.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's like. It's the keg, but it's like an old. It's an old building that the keg is in and it's haunted.

[Nick Wiger]

Is it called the haunted keg on the sign?

[Mitch Stevenson]

They all call. They don't. On the sign. It's not the haunted keg. But everyone. Everyone I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, but that makes me less excited.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Look, everyone in Toronto calls it the haunted Keg.

[Mike Mitchell]

I believe you, but I'm just saying, like, the fact that it's like a nickname and not an official canonical name, because I think they should lean into it and just call it the Haunted Cage.

[Nick Wiger]

The Haunted Keg.

[Mike Mitchell]

And this is the one that has, like, kind of a Dracula theme or whatever the fuck.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wait, wait, what? There's. Oh, oh, you were saying? I was gonna say there is no Dracula theme.

[Mike Mitchell]

Just re. Skin it and make this one like, hey, is the one spooky one. It's like when Knott's Berry Farm becomes not Scary Farm. It's like, this is the. This is the one.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It is the scary. When you're in there, you can feel the. You can feel the vibes.

[Nick Wiger]

I believe you.

[Mike Mitchell]

So just make it part of the brand.

[Nick Wiger]

Did you ever. So you're working in Toronto on twisted metal?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, Yeah, I was up in Toronto.

[Nick Wiger]

And you could get to. Because you could get to Niagara Falls. How. Like, how long did it take?

[Mitch Stevenson]

It took. It did. It is like a little further. It's a little further. It's like. Like an hour and a half, maybe two. I mean, depending on. But it's not that bad. Why were you thinking of doing it?

[Mike Mitchell]

And Axel gave you a ride, right?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, I was. I was on Axel's show.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's awesome.

[Nick Wiger]

And they have casinos there. Is that, like, the one place with casinos?

[Mitch Stevenson]

It is. I think it is one of the. I think it probably is one of the big places with the casinos nearby.

[Mike Mitchell]

I also.

[Nick Wiger]

For a long time before gambling was easier in the States, a lot of people would cross over in Buffalo to go to the Canadian side for the gambling.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Are you going to be up in that area?

[Nick Wiger]

No, I was just thinking it would be interesting if you're working in Toronto to like on the weekend go to the casinos and then wait for someone you work with to show up and film them and blackmail them. Because that's probably where they, you know, if there's no other casinos close by. Yeah, they'll show up.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It is probably. We went there. We went to the. The Gretzky Vineyard. This is like right before. Like we were there and I got a sweatshirt and it was like the day that he like went. He did like a MAGA thing or something. I had no idea.

[Mike Mitchell]

And he's talking to his friends like no one got the joke.

[Mitch Stevenson]

But it is a cool. It almost feels like a little like resort town. Like the one on that side.

[Nick Wiger]

It almost feels like a. I mean I've only heard stories, but. But the Canadian side, I haven't been, but Mike's been. But it sounds like it's kind of like a theme park. Almost like it feels like it's so kitschy and that kind of vibe. Yeah, it sounds like the America side's a little junky and the Canadian side's nice.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

That seems consistent with everything.

[Nick Wiger]

But you could still like, you could put a tracker on someone's car if you know that they. So then you know which, like when they're going.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's a. You know where it was. It's when you drive. Oh my God. What's the place where we went? Where the. The. The hometown. What's the shitty donut place got mad at us for. Where. Where was it originally? Where did it originate, that town?

[Mike Mitchell]

It didn't. It isn't from Hamilton where you were shooting.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm trying to remember Hamilton.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's the more. It's not rural, but it's the. It's the. It's a little bit in the exer of. Of Toronto.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You would love weird ass Hamilton because it's Hamilton. Hamilton is like a weird like old steel town that also is kind. It has like great pizza places.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh man. So fun.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's a weird. It's a very weird strange town.

[Mike Mitchell]

And everyone up there rap talks, right?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. Everyone off there after

[Nick Wiger]

just the last thing. Like it's not illegal to gamble. But if somebody had filmed me just doing it and then showed me the photo, like the video of me, I would get so scared.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's true.

[Nick Wiger]

I could get blackmailed doing something legal if someone was like, I know that you did this, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. I would feel caught for whatever reason. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

And I probably would do whatever they wanted.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. No, that's true.

[Mitch Stevenson]

How does a donut, pastry, muffin, croissant, Timothy Horton shop?

[Mike Mitchell]

That was good.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it's really good. Very good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Alexander Hamilton. I couldn't get Timothy Horton. There was a. I didn't know his middle name. I went there with Sparky, my transpo driver.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sparky.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He was great. Have you spent a lot of time in Canada or.

[Nick Wiger]

No, no, only Vancouver.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like the Couve.

[Nick Wiger]

I like it too.

[Mike Mitchell]

I had a bad experience first time in the Couv. And then.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You did not like the Couv return.

[Mike Mitchell]

First time return to the Couv. I'm in the coup.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Here's the thing, and I think that this is actually the thing each time. Everyone was very drunk the first time we were there and then that kind of did continue, but it was better the second time.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was also things like we were up there. We were. This is when we had, you know, like, we were making less money on the tours and we were like. Like, I think we lost money on the. The first couple tours. So we're like staying in Airbnbs. Like, we were trying to do everything on a budget and then we found out.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Be clear, we still do lose money on tours sometimes. Yeah, sometimes we still do.

[Mike Mitchell]

But the. That we were up there, we were definitely on this one and we. So we were staring in Airbnbs and the. We. We then found out Airbnb is like only semi legal in Vancouver. So we had like a kind of a weird janky spot.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And then. Oh, right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you remember that one? And then. And then they also, like, we. They didn't have ride share at the time in Vancouver, there was maybe some union issues, trying to get a cab. We had to like, call the cab company and they just wouldn't show up.

[Mitch Stevenson]

But then, do you remember we actually got to a restaurant that was open late that was pretty good and I forget the name of it.

[Nick Wiger]

There's good restaurants in Vancouver. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Seems like a good. A good restaurant town. That was. But our first experience was like, everything was kind of shitty. And it was also the end of the tour and we were like, kind of.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You say, was that post company. Was that Preco.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was pre Covered. Yeah, that was like 27. That was pre Emma.

[Nick Wiger]

Pre me. I've never.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That was pre Emma.

[Nick Wiger]

Vancouver with you guys?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, we had some good eggs Benedict too. Remember on that last spot we went to together?

[Mike Mitchell]

Now was that that trip or was that the trip we did subsequently we did. We did a w. That's a great question.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, they have a hedge maze in Vancouver. Like a classic English hedge maze in the botanical garden.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's cool.

[Nick Wiger]

It's the only one in America, and you can walk through it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know what you would love, Eva, and I'm sure you know about this, but Little Canada in Toronto, I've heard about it. I would love to go fucking magical.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I've heard Little Canada is. Is. Is struggling. So go support Little Canada if you can. I hope.

[Mike Mitchell]

I hope not.

[Nick Wiger]

I go to Toronto. You're making every. In Montreal. You guys are. Have made them both sound so good.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've never been to Montreal.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I like Montreal more than I like. Like to.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, I feel like when people bring up Montreal, I'm like, are you horny?

[Nick Wiger]

Why?

[Mitch Stevenson]

No.

[Mike Mitchell]

Isn't that like, like people. Then people are like. And the strip clubs are crazy. Like, I feel like it's like a Portland thing. Like, they got so many strip clubs.

[Nick Wiger]

I think Montreal has fully nude strip clubs. That's like their thing, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Doesn't Portland as.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, maybe, but I feel like Portland's got a lot of people in New. In New England, when people turned 18, you. You could drink in Montreal. So people would go up to Canada, right? So they could drink. And then I think they have fully nude strip clubs. You can't even get.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Isn't that where super sex is? Isn't there a strip club?

[Nick Wiger]

Dancers or some of them. There's like, they have some very loose rules.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Portland has just so many strip clubs that they have. Like, this is the Ramen strip club. This is the Steak strip club.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fun.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Hey, we'd be Doughboys. That's right up Doughboys alley.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've never been to a strip club. I think that I would go to one, but for me, it's like a hygiene thing. And especially when you're combining with food. I'm just like, this feels like I don't want jizzy. Like Rame. Like, what?

[Mitch Stevenson]

There's no. There's no jizz.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's no jizz in a strip club.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There is no jizz in a strip club.

[Nick Wiger]

Supposed to be.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that's. There's not supposed to be. But people are also, like, not supposed to shit on the walls of a public restroom. But they just.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Anywhere. This chair could be covered in jizz for all you know.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's where you sit.

[Nick Wiger]

Why Jimmy has a blanket.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

People can. People can just. Anywhere. I did one time find a used condom over the edge of A trash can in a Wendy's bathroom in. In Long beach, but so people can come anywhere. You are correct. But I think you're more likely to come in.

[Mitch Stevenson]

A guy probably just saw Wendy on the logo and.

[Nick Wiger]

Where am. Where am I most likely to come, Nick?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not sure it's a good question. Maybe not comfortable trying to formulate an answer.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm just gonna say this, and this is not from experience, but some guy probably walked into Wendy's, saw the logo of Wendy's, had a spare condom in his pocket, jacked off into the condom and threw it in the trash. It's simple stuff, Nick. Yeah, I've been there once or twice. That is. That is. That's. That's horrifying. But there's no jizz in. There is no jizz in strip clubs.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I sure there is. I'm sure.

[Nick Wiger]

If you put. You should take a black light with you next time you go. Let us know.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Look, I've gotten. I got crazy drunk in Montreal, and I was with Mike Cassidy, and I peed in an elevator in Montreal. Yes. Yes. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, boy, that's rough.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I was, like, not functioning drunk, and I was, like, peeing, and he's like, that's an elevator you're peeing on. And I was like, what? And I stopped, and the doors open, and a man walked out through my piss pile.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm just. I'm not proud of this. I was a very young. I was a young man.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm telling you. The people in New England go. They go to Montreal at 18 to get drunk. They seen it all up there.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I was, like, probably 26. I was younger. I wasn't. I wasn't. I wasn't. I know I was. And. But I was, like, so disgustingly, embarrassingly drunk. And then he said, I got in the elevator and started peeing again. He's like, you can't pee in the elevator. He was, like, helping me. He was like, really? Cassie was. I am embarrassed by it. It's an embarrassing story.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sounds embarrassing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And then I was very. I was very up the. The next day. I, like. I had the. I've said this before. I shouldn't say this. This is embarrassing stuff.

[Nick Wiger]

You took a chlamydia pill.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I woke up. I woke up choking on vomit. I was, like, throwing up as I woke up. And I remember throwing up in the sink and pushing it down the sink with my hand. And then. This is not fun. And then the next day, Harris Whittles, like, saved my life. He Brought me. I couldn't move. And Harris was up there for. Just for laughs. And Harris like brought me water. And then I went to the airport and I had Dion Cole's weed pipe in my thing and the. And like I, I had to throw it away at the airport. I got really nervous.

[Mike Mitchell]

How'd you end up with Dion Cole's?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I don't know, but I just remember smoking it and that, that I got.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then he was like. And then you just kept it?

[Mitch Stevenson]

And then I just kept it.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I'm sorry.

[Mitch Stevenson]

To Dion Cole.

[Nick Wiger]

Who's Dion Cole?

[Mike Mitchell]

Dion Cole's a comedian.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he's. He was on, I mean, he used to be. It was on Conan for a time.

[Nick Wiger]

Time. You were saying. I like, he was an athlete. Like a famous athlete.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, no, no, no. He's. Well, to me, to me, comedians are like athletes. But, but it was a, it was a, it was a very messy. It was a very messy night for me. That was like one of my nest. That like, that was one of my messiest nights.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are.

[Nick Wiger]

Eva.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you someone. Because I know, I know you're someone who like loves a cocktail, likes to have a beverage, but are you someone who ever like ties one on to that degree? Because I, I've been with you, but I don't think I feel like I've ever seen you just like get absolutely hammered. I feel like you're always time.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's, that's why I'm by the way, to interrupt quickly. That's why I'm okay saying this story. Cuz you never see me drunk. I never, I never get drunk. It never happens. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

There was one night in college where I, we drank like 40s of malt liquor.

[Mike Mitchell]

Was this an Edward for hand situation or you're just drinking them for the novelty?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, there was, it was called like Super Tiger or something.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hell yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

And I like. How'd this work out? I went to the bathroom and I threw up and I was like, I made it into the toilet. I'm so proud of myself. And then I turned around and it was like there was just puke behind me all over the walls. And there was like a perfect outline of my body like it had blown back.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's beautiful.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's amazing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's like a work of art.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. And I had to clean that up.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

That was gross. No, but yeah, I definitely, I, I, I'm known to imbibe.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, sure.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm not, there's no judgment here. We've all, we've all had our Crazy nights.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I've never seen you actually. Well, actually, you know what's funny? I've seen you because I can tell when you get drunk.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, I'll get drunk and I'll get. I. I'll. I will get sleepy and. And smiley.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, that's cute.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I'm not like a. Like an angry drunk, thankfully. No, I get. I get my brother's the same fucking way. My brother turns into a. Like. Like a party animal.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And I've been drunk with your brother. I think he's a. With you. Yeah, that one.

[Nick Wiger]

Time to be angry. It would be fun to be an angry drunk. To like take your shirt off in a bar and get thrown at.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Like, try to fight somebody.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, try to fight people.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're fun to hang out with too. So you want your friend circle?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think all of our employees have seen you drunk wise. I'm pretty sure we've all experienced.

[Nick Wiger]

You guys travel together. We've seen each other drunk. I think on some. In every combination, yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Tisk.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Tisk. I don't approve.

[Nick Wiger]

What do you got? So we just all get wasted? Yeah, there's plenty.

[Mike Mitchell]

There is liquor in there. I feel like I'm just gonna fall asleep. No, I've been. I got up early and it's not

[Nick Wiger]

like we've got the good food in our stomach.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, we have some. Some real garbage in our stomachs.

[Nick Wiger]

Soak up some booze though. Maybe. No maybe.

[Mike Mitchell]

Where are you?

[Mitch Stevenson]

You're.

[Nick Wiger]

Look, Denny's feels like a middle of the night, like, drunk food spot.

[Mike Mitchell]

If you got a grand slam from Denny's, it is. And I have used that for hangovers like getting. Getting like a. Down the middle Denny's. Moons Over My Hammy. You can do all right. Right. The novel would not satisfy that.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There's Denny's near Earwolf, Rest in Peace Offices and Netflix across the street. Right. Is that a Denny's that's right near

[Mike Mitchell]

there, Denny, right there.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, there used to be two, like, right there. The Gower Gulch Denny's. Wait, there's that one. Yes, the other Denny's that was across. So there's the one at Gary Gulch, but there was another one. That was the other one that right nearby the highway. And that was. I believe Norman Lear had that specific Denny's built. So because it had a full bar and he wanted to be able to walk across the street from the studio to just drink at the Denny's.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That rule.

[Mike Mitchell]

That is cool.

[Nick Wiger]

But I know that because I did a podcast to Write about the Brady Bunch Variety Hour, which was also filmed at the Sunset Studios or whatever that was right across the street. And various, like, as the Brady Bunch variety show was falling apart, various cast members would walk across the street to the Denny's and either, like, be eating like, weird salads to try to lose weight or, like, drinking at like getting wasted.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Dear Lord.

[Nick Wiger]

And then like the dad. The Brady Bunch of dad. Dad was scared of getting caught, so he just like went to like a different bar and like another like on the other side of the studio because he kept seeing the kids at the Denny's bar. But it is a Norman Lear. The reason they were so close together is because one of them is the only Denny's in the world with a full bar.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That Denny. That Denny's. The one with the full bar is the. I think we went to for the Hobbit meal.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, right, yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, cool. It's still there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, wait, I'm not sure if I went with you to the Hob for the meal.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You didn't.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, no.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Fantastic Four meal.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hobbit Meal was pre dough boys and Fantastic Four meal.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We went and got it there and that's the one. And. And it is now gone.

[Nick Wiger]

It's gone. Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And it's sad because I did like that. I liked that Denny.

[Nick Wiger]

It had like an air of class to it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did go to. I did get the Denny's or the Denny's Hobbit menu. That was a thing we. We did both times. And unfortunately they didn't bring it back for Battle of Five Armies for some stupid reason.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I know they. They.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I. I had there was bring

[Mitch Stevenson]

back for Gollum's Search or whatever.

[Nick Wiger]

The hunt for Gollum.

[Mike Mitchell]

They should absolutely do it for the hunt for Gollum.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

But we went with like. We had a little crew of like. It was like me, Charles Ingram, Bug Maine and Ryan Perez. We went and had like a like 7am breakfast. Yeah, Denny's. And how the Hobbit menu was absolute blast.

[Nick Wiger]

They.

[Mike Mitchell]

Those were the ones they were doing. Right. And this one, they were good.

[Nick Wiger]

Good. The other one, good.

[Mike Mitchell]

This one feels a little phoned in. Yeah. Fantastic Four menu we've done. We also did the Good Fortune menu, which.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Was that Denny's or is that ihop?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, that was. That was Denny's with our buddy jf.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, it was.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it was. And then we also did the solo menu previously with Matt Myra back in the day. And then.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wait, what's the one in Glendale? I thought we went to an IHOP in Glendale.

[Mike Mitchell]

We did go to an IHOP and we had the Xbox menu there.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's what I'm thinking.

[Mike Mitchell]

We've had so many stupid menus that suck. Mostly bad.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I was just gonna say that IHOP in Glendale is by far better.

[Mike Mitchell]

Other place we go that IHOP executes at an extremely high level.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's a great ihop.

[Nick Wiger]

Really? Where in Glendale?

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's like, it's like a little north of. Of of the Americana and a little to the east.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, okay.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Northeast of the Americana.

[Nick Wiger]

Good ihop.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay. I like, I like. There's like a. Just well managed, well staffed, like firing on all cylinders ihop.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's great. We got the. We got the Good Fortune menu delivered. That's what it was.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what it was. We didn't go in person.

[Nick Wiger]

Is Keanu Reeves Good Fortune?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That is Keanu Reeves's Good Fortune movie

[Nick Wiger]

with all the watches in it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, I believe Watches watch consultant Denny's. We've reviewed a number of times, Mitch, sometimes we've reviewed the restaurant proper. We've also reviewed all of the myriad theme high end menus they have done for me. This is the one I've been least enthused by. And we should point out that does

[Mitch Stevenson]

anyone care about the he man movie? Are we?

[Mike Mitchell]

I will say as a kid, I loved the Masters of the Universe movie.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I loved it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I thought it was Dolph Lundgren. I thought it was great. That was at Frank Langella as the esceletor. Absolute fucking hoot.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There's something that's very.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I don't think it's good. But you know, and also like they had like Gwildor instead of Orko, which is just like a little fucking still pisses me off.

[Nick Wiger]

My friend Allison Bennett told me today. Cause she's reading a book about it that was one of the very first shows ever just based on a toy. Toy first.

[Mike Mitchell]

It definitely the he. I would say this is a He man fan back in the day, like. And I had a lot of he man action figures. And most of those purchases came as a result of seeing a new character on the show. It was just an advertising vehicle.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. It was when they changed that law, when Reagan changed that law that you couldn't advertise to children directly. And then it was like, okay, we'll just make shows that are toys.

[Mitch Stevenson]

God bless you, Mr. Reagan.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thank you, Mr. Reagan. We were joking. We don't like Reagan.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We don't like Reagan satire.

[Nick Wiger]

Reagan sarcasm.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I. I was watching. I Was just watching a thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

The doughboys. The doughboys support Nancy Reagan. They don't realize that she was the blowjob queen of Hollywood.

[Nick Wiger]

She was the throat coat. She. She used to.

[Mike Mitchell]

Which we think is bad because we also hate sex.

[Mitch Stevenson]

How good was Nancy Reagan at? She must have been.

[Mike Mitchell]

She must have been great.

[Mitch Stevenson]

She must have been.

[Mike Mitchell]

She landed herself a president. I mean.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, that's a good point.

[Mike Mitchell]

We know, we know. We know from. From Bill. That president has a pretty high standards

[Mitch Stevenson]

when it comes to President's like getting sucked off. Yeah, that is. I guess that is. That is the one thing I know about.

[Mike Mitchell]

They love getting like all of them. Don't Trump get sucked off in the Apprentice? The movie?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, right.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's so funny that we were like, like this movie's glory. Like, like Trump's going to hate this movie and it's like movie. He gets his dick suck in a hotel with his name on it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Like, I don't think.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not make him look cooler.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I mean, he looks. He does look evil. But people. I think, I think he. I think he. I think he doesn't like it for whatever. I mean. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Do you remember when Laura Loomer was around the White House like eight months ago?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Anyway, miss those times.

[Nick Wiger]

I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hello. All these lunatics. Yeah, these. All the.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And there's so many drunks too. That's the other thing. They're all drunks.

[Mitch Stevenson]

They're all. They're all. Everyone's jumping ship. I mean, it's funny that it took this long to actually be like, actually, he's wrong, whatever. But it seems like a lot of. I'm not going to get into politics. I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

And Bill Clinton jizzes on one dress

[Mitch Stevenson]

and throw a fit and his dicks the size of a core of. Of a roll of quarters. Because I read about that once and it stuck with me.

[Nick Wiger]

Clinton.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. They said that Clinton has the dick the size of roll of a mole on it. I. I guess. Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

That was part of it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That was. Oh, God, I forgot about his mole.

[Nick Wiger]

Flaccid or erect? I don't know.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Amelia.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not thinking of a flaccid roll of quarter. So I'm thinking that thing is. That's probably stiff.

[Nick Wiger]

And then Stormy Daniels said that Trump's dick looks like the mushroom from Mario.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, right.

[Nick Wiger]

Like toad.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, he has a toad dick.

[Nick Wiger]

That's what she said.

[Mike Mitchell]

Big head.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, she said it was just short with a big head. Egg dick.

[Mike Mitchell]

Egg dick is Epstein.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, he Has a weird egg in the middle of the dick.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that another thing? These guys all have weird dicks. Is that a big part of it? I have to enter the circle.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There's plenty of people with weird dicks. Don't make it all weirdos and fre.

[Nick Wiger]

Isn't it some of the, like, weird, like, implants and stuff gone wrong?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, sure.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, that. Elon Musk supposedly has an implant gone

[Nick Wiger]

wrong and maybe Epstein, too. Yeah, that's funny.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know why people get the implant.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I mean, now that I didn't know there was an option for an implant.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can get an implant. You can get an enlargement egg dick.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Here I come. Scramble up a couple fucking egg dicks right there, Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

As we were leaving the Denny's, there was a. There's a signage on the wall. No signage. There was a. There was a. A poster. A vintage poster of a Danny's Donut. So you're like. Like what? Denny's used to be called Danny's, which is the thing we've talked about on

[Mitch Stevenson]

the show, which proves that. I never listened to your intro or just didn't pay attention on the show.

[Mike Mitchell]

Danny's was founded in Lakewood, California, my hometown. That's right, yeah. Tomorrow City Today.

[Nick Wiger]

Is there an original Danny. Danny's there that.

[Mike Mitchell]

That Denny's is no longer standing. But there. There were a couple of Denny's. Lakewood.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I. And I said to you. I said, you're from Lakewood? And you said, yeah, I'm from Lakewood. I was like, I. I know you're from Lakewood.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know, but you forget things.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, but I don't know that you're from Lakewood and not really from. You're not really from Long Beach.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know. I said, I'm open about that. You. You say you're from Boston, but you're also from Quincy. You know, it's like. It's like people don't know what language.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's actually not true. I try to say I'm from Quincy.

[Mike Mitchell]

You say you're from Quincy, but you use Boston like people.

[Mitch Stevenson]

People are so annoying. When you say, like, we're in Boston, you're like, I'm from Quincy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Like it's there. It happens so often. So you must experience the same thing. That's why you say it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I don't know. I mean, I'll be like, I'm from Long beach. And if someone knows Long Beach, I'll be like, I'm actually from Lakewood. And then I've I've actually encountered this recently. And they're like, ah, you're from Long Beach. You know, whatever.

[Nick Wiger]

Was it Snoop Dogg?

[Mike Mitchell]

It was Snoop Dogg.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Seems like he'd be more territorial. What is hoity toity? What is it called? What's your. Where are you from again?

[Mike Mitchell]

Lakewood.

[Mitch Stevenson]

What is. What is hoity toity Lakewood alike.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not hoity toity.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay. Yeah, I want to go down and visit.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, there's.

[Nick Wiger]

There's a.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's a. There's a working class side of it and there's a side with.

[Mitch Stevenson]

How have I never been to Lakewood? You've been to quincy multiple times.

[Mike Mitchell]

45 minutes. Let's get on the. Get on the 405.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Let's do it.

[Mike Mitchell]

We can see my childhood home.

[Nick Wiger]

That's a weird noise.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've seen you. I've been in your childhood home. I've slept in your childhood bed.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You slept in my sister. Oh, no. You did?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Really?

[Mike Mitchell]

I did.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He complained about it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I slept in your bed while you slept in. We were mom's bed.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I did not sleep in my mom's bed. Oh, wait. I did sleep in my mom's, but she was. Hold on a second. She wasn't there. She went to my sister's house.

[Nick Wiger]

Did you wear his CPAP machine when you slept in bed? And his clothes and his nightcap.

[Mike Mitchell]

Your room's still intact. They didn't change.

[Mitch Stevenson]

They didn't change it? No.

[Mike Mitchell]

They didn't make it into an office or something?

[Mitch Stevenson]

No. Right down to. My problematic high school mascot is still on the wall somewhere?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

What is on the walls of your room There? There's a black light in there.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's my grandma and grandpa's old bed. The bed frame of there that they used to have.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, nice.

[Mitch Stevenson]

So it's like a full size bed. It's a very.

[Mike Mitchell]

So one of your parents was conceived on the bed you would sleep on?

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's right. My mother was conceived, I guess, in that bed. Well, I don't know if she. I don't know. Yes. A different mattress. Emma and I also. Also, I'm. I'm not sure if that bed frame was the one that my mother was conceived in. You know? You know, it's funny, I've never asked

[Nick Wiger]

her, but they did in it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

My grandparents maybe had old sex. I don't know. They may. My grandparents maybe did. There was maybe some coitus in that. In that. A grandparent coitus.

[Mike Mitchell]

So someone had sex in that badge.

[Nick Wiger]

I.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There I was it wasn't happening for me when I was there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right?

[Mitch Stevenson]

There is. There is a. Now there is a framed thing of the Price is Right from a article when Bob Barker was trying goes. You see me in the article and my mom put it up.

[Nick Wiger]

Be funny if there's just. There's an. You weren't in it just framed article about the prices. Right?

[Mike Mitchell]

It is allegations false. Bob Barker says, why is this on you all?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Because I support Bob Barker.

[Nick Wiger]

What else? What else?

[Mitch Stevenson]

How bad is he? Is he really bad?

[Mike Mitchell]

I think he was just like, yeah, it was kind of. I mean, he employed a bunch of young women that he was being fucking.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Some will say that about the doughboys.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think two is a bunch.

[Nick Wiger]

Your mom said that?

[Mitch Stevenson]

She did. When I called, my mom called and she said, tell the young. What did she say? The young people, Beautiful young ladies. I said, hello.

[Mike Mitchell]

That didn't come from your actual employee. That was your employer's mom. So you cannot sue for.

[Nick Wiger]

For that.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's wise, is right.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not. It's not actionable.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And then I say, I have a lot of beautiful young ladies that I work with. My mom said, no, you don't. And everyone laughed at me. Dunk on me. And then there's a 2007 New York City Sketch Fest poster with. It's like, me and it's like the bird, not me. It's like the birthday boys and a bunch of old sketch groups from the. I should take a picture of that and send it in as well.

[Nick Wiger]

That's cool.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's a bunch of people that. That we own. Know that still work in the. In comedy.

[Mike Mitchell]

My alpha brother Nate, older than me, he was already out of the house. My parents were like, you're leaving the house at 18. Like, whether you go to college or not, you're just. You're out of the house at 18. We just think it's important. I was like, okay, great. As soon as I left the house, they moved. So my daughter's home was. Was vacant immediately.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Is your house kind of like the grudge house? Like, do people go into, like, did

[Nick Wiger]

water come down to the ceiling?

[Mike Mitchell]

There is some water from the ceiling. There is a. There is a grudge house there.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, there is a single grudge.

[Mike Mitchell]

Grudge, is there?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Did you. Wait, Mitchie, did you know about your turtle, Shredder?

[Mike Mitchell]

No. Shredder escaped.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Shredder escaped. That's right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Chip was around.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Did I know about.

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you know about. About Grudge versus Ringu?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, I've seen grudge versus Ring.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is it good?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, it's fucking awesome.

[Mike Mitchell]

I saw the trailer for it. This looks fucking awesome.

[Nick Wiger]

Is it recent?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wait, you're talking about the old Japanese movie Grudge vs. Ringu. Yeah. Yeah. Fucking rules.

[Mike Mitchell]

I never had no idea this came out.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, it's fun as hell.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Grudge fights, the rule ring. They should do more of those.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Ring. It is. It's. It is. It's. And, like, people get in the way and get just, like, destroyed.

[Nick Wiger]

Why?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's such, like, an era of. Of IP and of crossovers. We, of course, had Alien versus Predator, and we had Versus Jason. Ring versus. Why don't we make more of these people like the Versus movies? Let's have them fight each other.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I agree with that.

[Nick Wiger]

Hereditary versus. What's that? QAnon one that he made? Eddington.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Eddington versus Hereditary is great.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think the actual QAnon movie.

[Nick Wiger]

No, Eddington versus Hereditary.

[Mike Mitchell]

Eddington versus Hereditary.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Hannibal Lecter versus the CPAP killer there. They haven't done a verse in a long time. And Freddy versus Jason was a lot of. I thought it was a lot of fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Godzilla Ver has fought Kong for, in all fairness.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wait, who has Godzilla and Kong. Yes, Godzilla. I forgot about Godzilla Versus.

[Mike Mitchell]

But they had to scale up Kong.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's not as fun either. I feel like.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Freddy versus Jason was. I was surprised that they didn't do more because they were going to do ash from the Evil Dead versus Freddy versus Jason.

[Nick Wiger]

That's fun.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, that's fun. It never happened. Who are you rooting for? Are you rooting Freddy or Jason?

[Nick Wiger]

Freddy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I was. Same here.

[Mike Mitchell]

Freddy's funnier. So I probably would go, Freddy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

People always are like, how can you root for Freddy? He is. You know, he was. He messed with children, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure, yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. But, like, he's a bad. He's the bad guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's the bad guy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He's a bad guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're both bad guys.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I went to bookcon last weekend in New York, and there was a table there where there was a guy. There's a sign that said that this guy had played Jason in Friday the 13th Part 2. He was sitting at the table, and then he was giving away these books that he'd written about a cool detective, where he was the guy on the book cover who was the detective. And that was what he was doing at bookcon. He was just like, take my.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Was it called Huge Detective? Cause he's like a huge. He's like a huge man.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, not anymore. I mean, he's kind of. And then people looked him up. Cause I posted about him, and they're like. Like, he. He barely was Jason.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, okay. He was one of those guys.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. Were you. Were. Were you Alien versus Who were you? Who do you like more, Alien or Predator? I'm. I like Alien more than Predator, I think.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I like the Alien franchise more than the Predator franchise, but I think the Predator, it's just like the Predator's got more stuff. I kind of rooting for guy.

[Nick Wiger]

The guy with more stuff, like, physical stuff, like guns.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I got.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like that he's got, like. Like, weapons.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And I got one Ghost face from Scream versus Ghost Face from Scary Movie Movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fun.

[Nick Wiger]

It's.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like someone versus the spoof version of themselves. Yeah, I think that's fun.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Paul. Russ sent me the new Scary Movie poster, which is the ghost face dressed up as Michael Jackson for Michael.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, that's funny.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's funny.

[Mike Mitchell]

Everyone can enjoy that.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes. Sorry about that. Exactly. No, all good. All good.

[Nick Wiger]

Thanks, buddy. Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mitch Stevenson]

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It's just all. It's like, oh, do I need to go to, like, do I need another type of website to, like, find the right pictures or to like, another type of website to upload?

[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Nick Wiger]

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

[Mike Mitchell]

I wonder if it exists.

[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mitch Stevenson]

Hell, sounds easy. Anybody could do it.

[Mike Mitchell]

We went to. We went to Denny's for the Masters of the Universe menu. I'll read off all of the items that are part of the menu and then we can talk about them. And we can also talk about the appetizer sampler platter we got, which was. It was the Slam Appetizer Platter.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

The He Man Battle Burger, the Eternia's Premium Breakfast Slam, the Junior Grayskull's Epic Crackle Cakes, and Skeletor's Dark Shake Verse.

[Nick Wiger]

That's the funniest name.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dark Shake Verse is good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

They were all. Honestly, it was when we were ordering two. I felt like the guy wasn't understanding what I was saying. So I actually did have to say the names of all these embarrassing people.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, You.

[Nick Wiger]

You asked for two of the special shakes. It's like half and half. And you're like, no, I need to go get a man. You'll be like, Skeletor's dark shaker. Two of those. So

[Mike Mitchell]

let's start with the appetizer sampler. There was a little bit of confusion here, because.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Can I just quickly interrupt and show you the scary movie?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And it says, prepare to he. And then touching fans everywhere. June 5th. Oh, boy.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay. Yeah, June 5th. That's soon.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And we're gonna go on the record here to say we believe MJ is innocent on the podcast.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes. Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

And that's not satire.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Are you gonna see the Michael movie, by the way? I feel like it's.

[Nick Wiger]

Is it two parts?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, maybe.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is there ultimately gonna be two parts?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Is this gonna be. I think it was supposed to be two parts.

[Nick Wiger]

I think it's one part.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Maybe it just is gonna be a one part.

[Mike Mitchell]

How would they do part two without addressing the allegations? Cause I know when this one stops at the 90s.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And also, it's getting horrible reviews, which makes me feel like it may never see a part 2 or it might

[Mike Mitchell]

make a billion dollars. People love Michael Jackson.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I went to Michael Jackson's funeral because I won the lottery for the free ticket to his funeral.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And I. Wow. I know so much about you, and I know that you've been. You were at, like, this. Weren't you, at the, like, the estate sale?

[Mike Mitchell]

I went to the estate sale with Ryan Perez.

[Nick Wiger]

Fascinating.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was really cool. Yeah. Because they would all. They. He had so many, like, arcade cabinets, but he'd also have, like, a statue of a child weari Charles Barkley's jersey.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

What the fuck is. And then he'd have, like, a really amazing. Like, a Disney artist would have. Would have done it, like, a commissioned oil painting of like. Like, Michael Jackson as Peter Pan with a bunch of random kids chasing him. Chasing him.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. I actually have the auction catalog from that auction, so I can. If you ever want to see those paintings again, I. I own physical. Like, in the book, you can see them.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I very much do. I didn't. I don't know if I knew that you were to the funeral.

[Nick Wiger]

It's crazy. I just. I was like. Cause it was, like, online. You could just like, put your name in, and if you won, then you got two tickets to the funeral. Oh, bonkers. To get tickets to a funeral. What? It's, like, kind of a crazy concept to have to, like, win tickets to a Funeral. It's like a raffle.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he had a Jurassic park too.

[Nick Wiger]

He had an ET standing on top of another ET cause there was like no space for all the ETs.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's. That is insane.

[Mike Mitchell]

What is? The funeral. This one was televised, right?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it was at the Staples Center.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was at the Staples Center. Okay, so you're one of the people there.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's wild.

[Nick Wiger]

It was weird.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You both have. And his brother ran out during the Michael Jackson halftime show. You both.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, he didn't run out.

[Nick Wiger]

He ran out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Scream, crash it. No, no, he was part of the halftime show.

[Mitch Stevenson]

When.

[Mike Mitchell]

When Michael Jackson did a halftime show.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Well. And he ran out into the field. That's what I meant.

[Mike Mitchell]

He was part. Yeah, he was part of the show

[Nick Wiger]

on the field as a child.

[Mitch Stevenson]

He.

[Mike Mitchell]

My dad. My. My dad. My. My brother was a little bit older.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And your dad submitted him to the Michael Jackson halftime show.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Without Nate knowing.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, they. They got some older kids. My brother was a teenager at the time to wrangle the younger kids because it was like Michael Jackson was singing Heal the World or something like that. And he had like a whole army of children cheering him on. But there's a bunch of 8 year olds, they don't know what to do on their own.

[Mitch Stevenson]

So your brother's title is Michael Jackson Child Wrangler.

[Mike Mitchell]

He was a child wrangler. So he. He'd bring the. Like, he'd have the kids like, okay, we gotta run over here. Run, run, run, run, run. Okay. Yeah, exactly.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Exactly.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. That's cute, though. I mean, that's cute. Cute of him being like, cheer, cheer, cheer.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. Also put up pre sale for tickets to me and Nick's funeral.

[Nick Wiger]

Did you see him on the broadcast?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, in my memory. I know we did not.

[Nick Wiger]

Have you gone back and looked?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I haven't.

[Nick Wiger]

I bet it's online.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm sure it is. They are all. They're all online.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, yeah. You should try to see them.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I might just watch that halftime show again just because, like. And Michael. Michael Jackson's on the Brain.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's the halftime show that changed. Halftime shows. They. That's what they. That was like the one that, like. Right. Is the one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. Is it really? It was at the pivot point.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think it was. I think that was like a huge.

[Nick Wiger]

They were just regular before that. Just like a little like up with People dance group or something.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. Marching band, sort of. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Or famously. And this has been talked about on. On podcasts. Right. Elvis prestello who was an Elvis impersonator who did magic, who was not an existing character.

[Nick Wiger]

Character.

[Mike Mitchell]

They invented him for the super bowl halftime show.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, man, that's good.

[Mike Mitchell]

And if you ever see it, it's. I mean, you love it. You should watch it.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I should watch it.

[Mike Mitchell]

We should talk about the sampler platter first. So we got the sampler platter. There was a little bit of confusion. I will take the L on this one.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, yeah, you should.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, here's the thing. I didn't realize that the chicken that was. They were chicken fried. Steak bites. You just heard steak tips.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And let me just tell you that it was no big mess up. Except for the item that you got was the worst item of the entire meal.

[Mike Mitchell]

Disgusting. It was really bad, but it sounded interesting.

[Nick Wiger]

So tell. Say what we got.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm going to make you feel even worse. Is that we had figured out the order beforehand, and Eva was actually the one who said we should get the steak bites.

[Nick Wiger]

I. I don't care.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I. I know, I know, but that. I know you don't.

[Mike Mitchell]

That does make me feel worse.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Make them feel bad about it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't realize they were making it so worse.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Eva was. I actually said wings. And then Eva's like, what about sick box? I said, that's a great idea. Nick's late, but when he gets here, we're gonna have the order all set away, including these things Eva really wants to try.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was like. Because I was coming from work. I'm just saying. I'm like, it wasn't. It wasn't.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Lately you sit down, you say, how about sausage, mini sausage, biscuit, gravy bites or whatever is what he said. And you said, they'll replace the steak bites. You did feel bad about it. Go ahead.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't realize the steak. I thought the steak bites were just steak bites. I was like, that seems kind of uninteresting. That' going to be bad meat. But knowing they were chicken fried, that would have been more interesting. I just didn't know that except.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, look, the nuggets, the nugs of vomit. Textured.

[Mike Mitchell]

They were fucking awful.

[Nick Wiger]

Biscuits and gravy. That's disgusting.

[Mike Mitchell]

Truly bad. Those are disgusting.

[Nick Wiger]

Biscuit and gravy nugget. Yeah, Basically, it's like a gusher.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was like a jalapeno popper with a biscuit and gravy inside.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You really maybe changed the course of the entire meal because that was the first thing I ate.

[Nick Wiger]

Amelia looks interested. Yeah, that sounds good.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like a donut Hole with. With meat inside, which could be good in theory, but it just in practice is really bad.

[Nick Wiger]

Honestly. Clam chowder sounds good inside of it and it, like.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Can I just say, like, that honestly sounds good. I agree with you that, like, the idea of it maybe sounds good, but they were really, really bad and execution

[Mike Mitchell]

was really low quality. Denny's, though, the wings I thought were decent. I didn't mind the wings.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The wings are okay, except I got like the red part of the wing that kind of made me a little.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, you like the wing? It looks Bone was sitting on the table the whole meal.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That was. I'm sorry. That was my bone. I apologize.

[Nick Wiger]

That was like, oh, we're just gonna puke.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I mean, I. I bit into that and I. And you were telling me that it was fine, but when I bit into it and I like, it was one of those things where I bit into it and swallowed and I was like, oh, this is like a red bone.

[Nick Wiger]

That's not like, raw.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, it wasn't. It wasn't raw. It was just like a thing of a cluster of vasculature.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it had a cluster.

[Mitch Stevenson]

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

[Mike Mitchell]

I think maybe it did not look.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Do you think they're pre cooked anyways? I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know if they're pre cooked, but they. They were like.

[Mitch Stevenson]

They were cooking cook through Susser Susser. And you were very much like, you're going to be fine. But it did look like a pretty red bone. I just don't like to see a red bone.

[Mike Mitchell]

Someone say something about a red bone, Jimmy, A.

[Nick Wiger]

She's embarrassed. Yes.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I love a bone.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank you. You woke Jimmy up for that joke.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, sorry, Jimmy.

[Nick Wiger]

Jimmy's doing a Jim Halbert at the camera.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then we have the mozzarella. They had more than mozzarella planks. That's the thing. Everyone's kind of emulating the. The Chili's approach.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Do you know what? They said they were bad. They also sucked.

[Mike Mitchell]

They also sucked. But I think they were my favorite app of the three of them.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I like the Chili's ones that were doubtful.

[Mike Mitchell]

Chili's ones are way fucking better. Oh, on a completely different level. But of this platter. Look, we had three kind of.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Do you know that the Chili's. That Chili's is a cool spot now?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, the one in the one.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, you know this already?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, because of the doughboys.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, we made it cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

The one where we went for episode one.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wait, did in the pod or no,

[Mike Mitchell]

I may have touched on it last

[Nick Wiger]

time we talked about become cooler.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's. It's become.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like the influencer.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's. It's an. Yes. So we did talk about that a little bit, but someone was just like. Someone told me that they went up there for like a Friday night. Like went up there for like when the influencers were there. It was like.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think the Gen Xers love Chili's.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Which, hey, Gen X, God bless, don't they?

[Nick Wiger]

The Gen Z, Gen Zers. You mean the young people?

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, the Gen Xers do too.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I mean the Gen Xers do, but that's you and not wrong. You and me and I guess us going there.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, the. The Gen seeers. That's what I meant.

[Nick Wiger]

Tik Tok loves the planks with the sauce.

[Mike Mitchell]

The planks are good. Chili's is way better than Denny's. I ab. Like, that's not. That's not even a fair fight. But the. The Denny's. I will say the Denny's mozzarella sticks were my favorite of the three. That's damning with faint praise.

[Nick Wiger]

I agree.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let's get to the master of the universe menu. The He Man Battle Burger. I'll read the copy. For an over the top burger featuring three proteins, a beef patty topped with pulled beef and bacon, plus barbecue sauce, lettuce, tomato, red onions and pickles. Served the side of way we cut fries. I thought this was gross. I thought it was a really bad burger.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Gnarly, nasty.

[Nick Wiger]

Bad. Bad like state fair food or theme park food.

[Mike Mitchell]

The pulled beef was. Was repulsive.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I don't know, it actually sounds good.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Is that what you're about to say?

[Nick Wiger]

Keeps making it sounds good faces. Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You're giving us skeptical faces over there.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I. It was. I did not find it over the top top.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not over the top. That's the other thing, I guess. And the idea is they call it the He Man Battle Burger. It's loaded with protein, like he man meal. Because he's a big muscly guy.

[Nick Wiger]

Strong.

[Mike Mitchell]

After eating the Battle Burger, it's so phoned in. I'm making the jack off motion as I'm saying. Cuz I'm like. It's just like he does it up by his shoulder. Well, I want it to be in frame.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You finish by over your shoulder,

[Mike Mitchell]

silhouette behind me, like Eva's puke. I just. I just thought like. Here's the thing. They have a lot of low quality product at Denny's, including the Lettuce, tomatoes. The, like, the produce on it were really like bad. And then also I don't like their wavy cut fries. They're super oily. Like they just have like oil reservoirs.

[Nick Wiger]

They're weird.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're really weird.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The fries are the best.

[Nick Wiger]

They're a wrong shape. That shouldn't. It's an abomination.

[Mike Mitchell]

They were better. They were better than the burger. Burger. But the burger was truly bad. And I, I just think like the three proteins was unkoposchka in a bad way. And the, the barbecue sauces, like, whatever.

[Nick Wiger]

I feel like there's a decent pickle on there.

[Mike Mitchell]

There was a decent pickle. I thought the burger was bad.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I. I feel like it was. It pulled pork is the other. Or it's brisket.

[Mike Mitchell]

Pulled beef.

[Mitch Stevenson]

No place does a good pull. Like. No. Like a pulled pork or whatever. At like a diner. Diner.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Or like any pulled beef at a diner. It's just not going to be good.

[Nick Wiger]

It has to be smoked.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's just. Yes. Don't. Don't attempt it. I don't know why they're attempting. That's what was the. What was the shitty diner we went to where it was like. It was like a spider's web.

[Nick Wiger]

Carrots.

[Mike Mitchell]

Carrots. Back in the day. That was a year one.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Carrots.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Horrible.

[Mike Mitchell]

They. If they like. Here's the thing. They. They have ham there. Just throw some ham on there if you want to eat. Triple protein.

[Nick Wiger]

Ew.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Hamburger.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That also sounds gross to me.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I mean, you know, it's going to be a better quality than the poor cold beef, which is just this bottom of the barrel, like fucking garbage. Like Cisco trash.

[Nick Wiger]

Cisco trash. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

We. The. The eternity is premium breakfast slam. Which is. Which is whatever. The. The slam part is the same. The eggs, hash browns and, and, and bacon or sausage. But the. This is buttermilk pancakes that are kind of Peter north with some, Some chocolate sauce. And then they've got a big scoop of mint chocolate chip ice cream on them. I don't mind it. It would not be my first choice of ice cream for an ice cream on a pancake. But I just like.

[Mitch Stevenson]

What the fuck is this steaming? What is. What the fuck is going on here?

[Mike Mitchell]

How is this tied to Eternia? How is this tied to the land of he man and Skeletor?

[Nick Wiger]

It felt like slumber party food.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It felt like little kids making a little kid.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Home alone. The middle part of home alone.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Dinner.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Maybe this I'm going to eat. Eat a. A chunk of Mint chocolate chip on a pancake in a red bone.

[Mike Mitchell]

Here's a pitch. How about the man E faces pancake and you've got three different paces on it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Why? I love that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right? So that, that ties in with the theme. You get three pancakes still, and then it's plated in an interesting way. And kids would love that. Hey, that's fun. I got an angry face. I got a happy face.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And also, doesn't, doesn't the tiger go

[Mike Mitchell]

from like a battle cat?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, but what does he refer?

[Mike Mitchell]

Cringer.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Cringer. Cringer. Like a cringer battle cat kind of side by side.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fucking great. That's so much better than what they did here. These are just all like, there's no thought put into these at the phase of conception. And then in terms of execution, they're all sloppy messes. I thought, I mean, I don't know. I didn't hate it because it has mint chocolate chip ice cream.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We get hired to do one of these menus.

[Mike Mitchell]

We would fucking crush it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We would crush it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let's get. We could even.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We've never asked for anything. I never asked. We've never asked for jobs in any way on this podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Do it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Can we please, the three of us, someplace, hire us to make your menu.

[Nick Wiger]

We'll pitch the Margo's got money troubles Denny's menu.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, my God.

[Nick Wiger]

I have some. Should we go to IHOP some ideas? Ihop.

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I know she's, she's an only fans model. All the dishes are made with only pans.

[Nick Wiger]

In the second episode, they do go to Applebee's and we use real Applebee's so we could get an Applebee's tie in.

[Mike Mitchell]

Applebee's tie in would be delightful.

[Nick Wiger]

Delightful.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I love it. And also I like wise idea of only pans.

[Nick Wiger]

Only pans.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You only cook it. You only use. You only get food that's only food

[Mike Mitchell]

that's cooked in pans.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. I love it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Nothing's in a pot. Nothing's on the grill. It's all pans. I, I, I, I don't know any other. What else is there to say on this? It was, it was pancakes with a mint chocolate chip ice cream and chocolate sauce.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I mean, my favorite thing to eat now I am thinking was the scrambled eggs. The scrambled eggs and hash browns also kind of a misfire. We got so many hash browns. We should have. I didn't realize that we were getting all hash browns. It wasn't your fault.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't realize it was not your Fault.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I didn't mean it was your fault.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, this is the thing. The epic Crackle cakes. It does not say on the menu that it comes with a side. And so we were blindsided by what side to get. And I was like, fucking. I get hash browns, crapple cakes.

[Nick Wiger]

Those.

[Mitch Stevenson]

They were.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Will you read that description? Because they ruined my entire meal.

[Mike Mitchell]

An order of the chain silver dollar pancakes topped with a vanilla cream sauce and multicolored popping candy. So it's got this again, it's Peter north with a vanilla crunch cream. But the popping candy I thought was disgusting. I fucking hated it.

[Nick Wiger]

Whatever the combination was, it got on the burger, and I took one bite of the burger, and I just. I don't. I just spit it, like, into the napkin because it was, like. It was so repulsive. And the vanilla cream ended up all over my knife, so I couldn't use my knife for anything. And it looked, like, so thick. It looked like cum.

[Mike Mitchell]

It looked very jizzy.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. And it was like. It was horrible. And that was the first thing I ate, and it ruined everything on the plate.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You were so excited. Excited for this meal.

[Nick Wiger]

No, but the crackle cakes were the worst thing on.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I despised the crackle.

[Nick Wiger]

I thought they were gonna be my favorite. I like tiny little pancakes with popping candy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It was. It was. You know what it was? The combination of it. You were talking about sleepover food. Yeah, it felt like sleepover barf. It was like all, like. It felt like all that stuff mixed into just one big barf.

[Nick Wiger]

I had, like, a vomit something something.

[Mike Mitchell]

I also don't know what flavor the pop rocks were supposed to be the popping candy, but it tasted also like a mint flavor, and they were green, and so it kind of tasted like they'd crumbled like a peppermint over pancakes, which to me was just, like, such a gross combination.

[Nick Wiger]

Why is he man mint?

[Mike Mitchell]

What does he man have to do with, like.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I'm just trying to. To make sense of it, I guess. Cringer and Bat Cringer is green. And then Battle Cat are green.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There are green colors going on in here.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There's that green Moss guy, too. I forget his name.

[Nick Wiger]

Color is Castle Gray Skull. Is it gray?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think it is gray.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's such a stretch.

[Nick Wiger]

We do a gray pancake.

[Mike Mitchell]

There you go.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I like that pancake. I. I like that way, way more. Yeah, they were disgusting. It didn't look anything like he man. They were. The little pancakes were disgusting. The big pancake was good, but also, I'll say this. The ice cream itself was. I, like, like, kind of seemed like. Freezer burned.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it was all. It was all icy. Anyone could put ice cream on a pancake.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's true.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yes. It sucked.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. I did think the shakes that we ordered were the highlight. Mitch, I. I know you. You disagree, but we got the Skeletor's dark shake first, which we mentioned, which was strawberry ice cream and blueberries. And then it had whipped cream and some of the green popping candy on top. Popping candy, which you could avoid because it was just. It was not mixed. It was not a mix in. It was just on the whipped cream up top.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I. I thought the actual Shakespeare popping candy in the. In the shake. I was getting a shake.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, really?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. Maybe that's why I didn't like it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, man. Popping candy.

[Mike Mitchell]

We. We like. We like the shake.

[Nick Wiger]

I liked it because it felt like it actually had blueberries in it. It was like blueberries and maybe a little ice cream. It was the only thing on the menu that was like 500 calories for the whole shake. So I was like, oh, this isn't like, so loaded with thick, thick ice cream that it's like, as bad for you as a regular shake.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it just tasted like a Jamba Juice smoothie. Like, it was like.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's why I hated it. Don't give me a fucking. The he man shake is a Jamba Juice smoothie. What the fuck is happening? Well, good. You know what? That makes sense. Steaming well wise. Because Skeletor is evil and he gave me a shitty shake that tasted like a smoothie.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hold on. Skeletor is also purple like that. A big part of his colorway. I know that the shake is distinctly purple, so I think they did a good job with that. It's like Skeletor purple.

[Nick Wiger]

That's Skeletor's dark shake. Averse. Played by Jared Leto.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Played by Jared Leto.

[Nick Wiger]

And also Skeletor's dark shakers.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Also, I gotta say, this played by Nick Weiger. That's your. That's one of your alter egos.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You're a Skeletor guy. That's right.

[Nick Wiger]

You should have brought your. You should have worn your costume. For the record, I don't know if

[Mike Mitchell]

I have it anymore.

[Nick Wiger]

Should have worn it to Denny's.

[Mike Mitchell]

That would have been fun. They would have loved that.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It is like Nick was when anytime he played Skeletor, it was like Jared Leto playing any role. Nick really lost himself in the role of Skeletor.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I Stayed in character. I went method. People had to call me Skelly. Have you seen that clip? We just watched that clip. Have you seen the clip of Peter Weller on RoboCop? And it was the story of the guy, the weapons master, the guy who was, you know, in charge of like, like his arms. And so he was with RoboCop the guy. Guy playing RoboCop constantly. And Peter Weller. People should look at the video because it's like, it's amazing just to watch this guy tell this story. But Peter Weller wanted to be called Robo the whole time because he's like, I'm going to stay in character. I'm in this robot costume. Call me Robo. And they're up and they're about to shoot this stunt that involves an explosion. And he's with the weapon master and. And he says, Robo wants an Oreo. He's not going to do the shot before someone gets him an Oreo. So they have a PA fly up an Oreo to feed to Robo. Yeah, they feed it to Robo. And then he had Oreo all in his teeth. So they had to like clean it out of his teeth before they could do the show.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Also, by the way, just because you're in character doesn't mean you have to talk third person. I know. Can't RoboCop say, I want an Oreo?

[Mike Mitchell]

Robo wants an Oreo.

[Nick Wiger]

Robo wants Oreo. That's kind of cute. Maybe thought he was being cute.

[Mike Mitchell]

This was you. You.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You.

[Mike Mitchell]

Y' all are always invited to. I'm an Amelia behind the dais. Are always invited.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Skip from you guys today to.

[Mike Mitchell]

To these meals. It was a smart skip. You did not miss out on anything.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't even think I considered it. Yeah, I was like, cool, I can get to work later today. Yeah. I think bad.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think that the best items were the. The chicken fried steak nuggets we never got.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, they probably would have been better than. Than we.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You know what? We tried to order them and we were denied because you have to get them in. Yeah, because of Nick.

[Nick Wiger]

Nick. I.

[Mike Mitchell]

We could have got another platter.

[Nick Wiger]

I asked for.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wait, was it.

[Nick Wiger]

Tell me again that I. Oh, yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Eva asked for.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know. I'm sorry.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It was Eva's plan to try these nuggets. When. Before Nick got here. He was late and so when we. So when we a. We had a plan, but then Nick it up.

[Mike Mitchell]

I didn't realize. I knew that Eva picked me. I would never swap to that. I just thought it was like, it sounded like you did and then it was wrong. It was.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank you.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay. And actually, to be fair, you actually said to get the nuggets and not the wings. Yes, but you had told him so much that I felt bad for the guy at one point. That was his. It was. It was. It was W's fault.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was my fault. I said too much stuff to the A. It's fine. He was overloaded. The. The dark shake Averse was good. Everything else.

[Mitch Stevenson]

No, it wasn't. It was all bad. It was. This was. This was actually one of the worst outings in for Doughboys. For me, it's in. I'd say top. Top 15. Out bad outings for top 15. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

In 10 years, we've eaten in some wretched places. We went to. We went to Pirates dinner adventure with Eva Anderson. And that food was awful.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was so fucking completely different level.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's close. I'm saying it's top 15. Top 20. It's getting close to that. Top shitty. I was pissed. I was hungry. I didn't eat anything all day.

[Nick Wiger]

I also didn't eat anything all day

[Mitch Stevenson]

for excitement for what it was to what it. What we got.

[Nick Wiger]

The popping candy would be like pop rocks.

[Mitch Stevenson]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Well, we got to quantify this, Eva, you know. The podcast will each go around and give our final thoughts from 0 to 5 forks. A closing argument, if you will. Our guests, our first friend, our subject of this week's episode. Your thoughts on Denny's.

[Nick Wiger]

I was so excited to eat this meal. I told my husband John about it, and he said, you got everything you wanted in your life today because I got to go eat Skeletor meal with you guys and then going to an ASMR party later. That's beside the point. But it was horrible. The company was great. I'm giving it half a star.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. Half a fork.

[Nick Wiger]

Half a fork. Half a fork. Wow.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Margo's got money. Margo's got money troubles.

[Mike Mitchell]

I thought you were just pitching. Mario's got money troubles.

[Nick Wiger]

Mario's got money troubles.

[Mike Mitchell]

That sounds like a bit that could be in a scary movie.

[Nick Wiger]

You just gotta collect more coins.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have to be on OnlyFans. Oh, no, you jog Met TV.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Margo's got money troubles. Mitch got menu troubles. I, I. Margo's got money troubles. Mitchie's got menu troubles. Thank you. Thank you, everyone.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's just got a standing ovation for

[Nick Wiger]

that joke Jimmy got. Jimmy even got.

[Mitch Stevenson]

She bowed to me.

[Mike Mitchell]

She showed me her greatest form of

[Nick Wiger]

yes,

[Mitch Stevenson]

look, let us make a fucking menu. Someone out there. I, I, I know this is. This, this was not talked about beforehand. I do think that we would do a much better job than this. This. There's no theming here. Why? Because it fucking sucked. It was not fun in any way. The food was a tr. It was awful food. It was really, really bad food. What happened to this country?

[Nick Wiger]

We used to be a country.

[Mitch Stevenson]

We used to be a damn country. These meals used to mean something.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can't.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The Denny's are closing. The Denny's are closing. The Denny's are closing.

[Nick Wiger]

The Denny's are closing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's insane. What the fuck's happening?

[Mike Mitchell]

Insane. It's insane. And people don't understand satire. You can't even joke about anything anymore. People are too sensitive.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I can't put up a simple Instagram post in support of the January Sixers. What's happened here?

[Mike Mitchell]

What's going on here?

[Nick Wiger]

Disgusting.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's, it's, it's, it's, it's. It pisses me off.

[Mike Mitchell]

Everyone's mad that doughboys were saying Michael Jackson was innocent. Do we have free speech or not?

[Mitch Stevenson]

I don't know what's happened. Why? I don't know what the fuck's happening.

[Mike Mitchell]

Denny's are closing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This is. This guy, this guy we got in office. This guy. I won't even say his name. This guy. You know who he is?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, I know who he is. Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This guy. He's in office. And meanwhile the Denny Denny's are worse than they've ever been. I think that should be a signifier for this fucking country.

[Nick Wiger]

And they're closing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And they're.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Denny's are closing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The Denny's are closing. Jimmy.

[Nick Wiger]

Jimmy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Jimmy gets it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Jimmy. The Denny's are closing.

[Nick Wiger]

They're bad and they're closing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Denny's are bad and they're closing while this guy's in office.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know, it's not closing my legs. Jimmy. You slut.

[Nick Wiger]

Jimmy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Jimmy. Jimmy wouldn't touch this. She wouldn't sniff this food wise. It's. It was. It's. It's. It's.

[Mike Mitchell]

She would not.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Jimmy would not be worth it for any dog. I wouldn't. I truly. I would. I.

[Nick Wiger]

The.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The hungriest person. It's. It's just vomit food. I wouldn't give this to anyone in the world. It was so. It was all so bad. I'm not even kidding. It's awful. Awful food.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Makes you feel sick and also tasted like shit. What's happened here?

[Mike Mitchell]

What's happened here?

[Mitch Stevenson]

What? This podcast has gotten worse and worse because the world is falling apart.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. We can't. We're reaching a point where I just don't know if we can do these kinds of. Of menus anymore. Our buddy Matt Singer.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Do you do anything anymore? All of these places suck.

[Nick Wiger]

You can't do anything. Even anything.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You can't do anything. You can't do anything.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's no free speech. You can't do anything.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Just do nothing. It's maybe better. That's what we've decided as a country. To do nothing.

[Nick Wiger]

Just not do anything.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let's not do anything.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And I don't like. I personally. I want to do some stuff. So this makes me sad is what I'm saying.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like doing some stuff.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's what I'm saying.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can't do anything anymore.

[Nick Wiger]

I miss doing stuff.

[Mike Mitchell]

What do we do? Go to Denny's. They're closing.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's what I'm saying. PLAYING

[Mike Mitchell]

0 FORKS Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Mitch Stevenson]

0 yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Jimmy. Get up. Good girl.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Did I die driving you to the studio watching the Muppets? I drove while you're here. While watching the end of the Muppets on the way here.

[Nick Wiger]

That's terrible.

[Mike Mitchell]

Nick.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Please explain that. I was paying attention to the road.

[Nick Wiger]

Jimmy's moved all the way. Now she's in a new corner just hating us for clapping. He's just eating something out of the carpet. So.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch is a very safe driver. I don't like that he multitasks when he's driving, but I will admit that he has never gotten in any sort of scrape or situation.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This is worse of the worst thing you could have said. I don't watch movies on the road.

[Mike Mitchell]

Don't watch movies.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I was listening to the end of the Muppet Movie.

[Nick Wiger]

No, you can listen to the end. Yeah, that's fine.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I was watching the Road.

[Nick Wiger]

The Muppet Room. I did that, too, for a Muppets episode.

[Mike Mitchell]

While you were driving on the way here.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Listening. You were listening.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I was listening. I actually did the same thing with last week.

[Mitch Stevenson]

All right, we're all.

[Nick Wiger]

We're all confessing Muppets and drives.

[Mike Mitchell]

We all watch Muppets movies while driving. What else are we supposed to do? The Denny's are closing.

[Nick Wiger]

There's nothing to do. You can't do anything. You just drive around and watch the Muppets. The only thing left to do is watch Muppets and drive.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm gonna say this. I don't want to try the Wendy spicy chicken sandwich because they've redone it, and Wendy's is just an abomination. It's so bad now. And this I. I had hope today because, hey, we're with our.

[Nick Wiger]

Our.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Our first guest swags, who. And Eva does all the big episodes with us. Yeah, it seemed like a fun menu item.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

But I kind of feel the same about the menu now. Like I do about the movie. I don't care. Who cares? No one cares about any of this stuff anymore. Do you care about the new he? I hope it's good, but I don't care. I can't care.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm rooting for the new he, man. I'm rooting for every movie. I would love for there to be like, hey, there's a fun new he man. And the same way, like, I want the Street Fighter movie to be fun. I want Mortal Kombat 2 to be fun.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Street Fighter movie looks fun as hell.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. And it's directed by Kidau, who directs a lot of the great action on Twisted Metal, which has the best action on tv. Not anymore.

[Nick Wiger]

Fucking sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

No stud, no stream. Our buddy, Matt St. Singer.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It's the nicest episode I've ever had. And you've actually still been pretty mean to me in many ways.

[Mike Mitchell]

But our buddy Matt Singer, you know, he regularly also tastes all this food and. And. And writes about it. And I. He had not gone to get this menu as of this record, and he has nothing fun to look forward to. And I'm sure his report will be published by the time this is out, but it sucks. This is, this is a bad one. This is a rough one.

[Nick Wiger]

Tell him the opposite. Like, warn. Reverse. Warn him and see what happens. Tell him it's good.

[Mike Mitchell]

I already sent him pictures of everything, so he knows.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay, what if, what if he's like, I like. What if he ends up liking it?

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, look, that's happened before. We've been on different pages with these.

[Mitch Stevenson]

CPAP killer will get him.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, he, he's, he's had ones he didn't like that we ended up liking. So like, you know, it, it, it does happen sometimes. Boys don't like it. It's pretty bad.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I'm going to say this a lot of the times, like, and I, I think we went to a good Denny's. We pivot. Eva was at a scary Denny's. That scary. I didn't realize where it was because I searched Denny's. I didn't see.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Burbank Denny's. And then wise. You, you sent the Denny's location. We went a much, much nicer Denny's than the one we almost went to.

[Nick Wiger]

We had Denny's a nice waiter. That's why I gave it half a star.

[Mike Mitchell]

Great waiter and.

[Mitch Stevenson]

All right. I'll give half a fork for that.

[Nick Wiger]

No, zero.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay, zero forks. Sorry.

[Mike Mitchell]

I previously got the Beetlejuice Beetlejuice menu for. From there. It was well executed there and I, I think this was a good execution of these just like ill conceived menu items. These half ass menu items with like first, like, like not the, the names aren't even really puns. The only one that has any effort put into both theming and title is Skeletor's Dark Shake Averse, which was my favorite. I do like he Man a lot. I was a big he man fan. I want the new, you know, I, I want the new movie to succeed. Succeed or, or creatively. I, I, you know, I don't know. I mean things are oftentimes bad. But, but I'm gonna say the Muppet

[Mitch Stevenson]

thing we were saying. Remember you'd see a movie and there were people.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

There were people in it and you could sell. It was shot outside. That's, that's one of the things we're gonna say on this Muppet episode.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That, that this is just the same thing to me. It's the same. It's all in the insidification of every thing in the world.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Hobbit menu menu had thought put into would like, like, like, you know, like the menu items were themed to things that happened in the movie and also. Or to characters in the movie and also. They were all bespoke. They were original. Whereas here, I don't know, you're taking a bacon cheeseburger with barbecue sauce, which is an existing thing, and just adding pulled beef and calling it the he Man Burger. What the are we doing?

[Nick Wiger]

Putting a scoop of ice cream on pancakes and girl. Grand slam.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. It's so stupid.

[Nick Wiger]

Off, off.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, imagine if this was a Star wars menu and it was. It was a pancakes with a scoop of ice cream on it and they called it the Endor Slam. Like this exact level of thought that went into this.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

What the. That has nothing to do with what we're. We're covering here.

[Nick Wiger]

Except that Endor is green.

[Mike Mitchell]

Endor is green. So at least makes some sense, you know?

[Nick Wiger]

What?

[Mitch Stevenson]

For. For a he man offering. This is a pretty. This is a wimpy outing, I'd say.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I think so.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah. You didn't have to reply.

[Nick Wiger]

It was quiet. I was more of a she ra.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, it's more of a wait.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, hold on. She ra meal.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I just don't. I'm afraid of me and w saying that and getting in trouble.

[Nick Wiger]

It's for girls. A girl would like it.

[Mike Mitchell]

But it was.

[Mitch Stevenson]

It was. It was. It was a. It was. It was a. It was a wimpy. The menu was was. I think I already said this. The menu was wi.

[Nick Wiger]

She gave you three kisses and then she laid down on your.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like he man. I like the franchise. I want the movie to be good. But as far as this Denny's tie in themed list of items goes pretty wimpy, you know? You know Margo's got money troubles.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, what the fuck?

[Mike Mitchell]

Wer's got tummy troubles. No standing o. I noticed this sucked. I will give it one fork, cuz. I thought the shake was okay. One fork. Oh yeah, but this was bad. Broken plate club. Shame on you. Shame on you, Denny. Shame on you.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Shame on you, Denny.

[Mike Mitchell]

Also the good fortune menu poleaxes. This one so much better. The solo menu, which again, like, like, like, like did it. There was way more effort put in the solo menu than this.

[Mitch Stevenson]

What are we doing? Less effort put into the movie maybe, but a lot put into the menu.

[Nick Wiger]

Recession indicator.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a recession indicator.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Agreed.

[Nick Wiger]

Recession indicator.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hey, that.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You say something when I said wimpy because you felt bad that no one was reacting. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Aww, what the fuck?

[Mitch Stevenson]

You don't have to do that. Not really?

[Nick Wiger]

Just being a pal.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, you are being a pal. We love you.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, that was our review of the Denny's Masters of the universe menu. It's time for a segment. I've got a mystery cake, and Mitch and Eva must identify it through a series of clues. Hell, it's the pie in this guy. Spin off. Cake it off. Hit it, Emma. Cuz the baker's gonna bake, bake, bake, bake, bake and my belly's gonna ache, ache, ache, ache, ache Baby, I'm just gonna cake, cake, cake, cake, cake I'll kick it off, I'll cake it off A layer's gonna lay, lay, lay, lay, lay and the fun it makes it fake, fake, fake, fake, fake Baby, I'm just gonna cake, cake, cake, cake, cake I'll kick it off, kick it off. Okay, so the clues will start off hardest.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Eva was playing drums for you. That was.

[Mike Mitchell]

I liked it. And get increasingly obvious as we progress. Eva, you're a guest. You can choose to go first or second. Also, there are three lifelines available.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can. You have the.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The.

[Mike Mitchell]

The frosting test. You have the smell test.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Best.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then you have Ask Emma or Ask Jimmy. Your choice.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, I'll go second.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, you'll go second. I know. I don't think anyone's asked Jimmy yet, but you have that option.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You're going first.

[Nick Wiger]

Second.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Second. Spark move. You're going to get it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch, your clue.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Jack Frost weeps at the thought of this cake.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Jack Frost weeps.

[Mike Mitchell]

Jack Frost weeps at the thought of this cake.

[Nick Wiger]

What? That really got Amelia. I'm pretty sure she wrote it. I forgot that I wrote that.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a good clue.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Sun cake.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch, it is not sun cake.

[Nick Wiger]

What's a sun cake?

[Mitch Stevenson]

No idea.

[Mike Mitchell]

Eva, your clue.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't feel like jacking off, jerking off, or cranking off. I feel like blanking off. Blank being a key word in this cake. I don't feel like jacking off, jerking off, or cranking off. I feel like blanking off.

[Nick Wiger]

It's good.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is good.

[Nick Wiger]

That was liger Original devil's food.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not devil's food. Cake.

[Mitch Stevenson]

No, that was a good guess.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not deviling off. Although deviling off sounds pretty good. You could use that for jacking off.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That was good. I mean, the clues have been very bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's your clue. Well, they get increasingly obvious as we progress.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm proud of the one that's coming up.

[Mike Mitchell]

This cake's original recipe was composed of equal parts flour, sugar, Butter and eggs. This ratio is a key element behind its name.

[Mitch Stevenson]

You're proud of that?

[Nick Wiger]

No, no, the next. Next one. I'm proud.

[Mike Mitchell]

The cake's original recipe was composed of equal parts. Flour, sugar, butter, and eggs. This ratio is the element behind its name.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I don't have it. I don't have it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you want to take a guess? You also remember you have life.

[Mitch Stevenson]

This ratio.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can. You can ask Emma or Jimmy.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think Emma knows it.

[Nick Wiger]

She doesn't know it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can. You get. You have the frosting test, and you have the smell test.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Actually, you know what I'm going to give. I'm going to ask Jimmy. Okay, Jimmy, what do you think it is? Uh, Shake Cake.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not Shake Cake. Good guess.

[Nick Wiger]

I want to hear Amelia's.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, the final clue. Eva. The name of this cake can be counted in cash, measured in weight, thrown as a punch.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, I know what it is.

[Mike Mitchell]

Or dialed on a phone.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I know what it is. I fucked up.

[Nick Wiger]

Very good. Pound cake.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Pounding cake.

[Mike Mitchell]

The answer is pound cake.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Pounding cake.

[Nick Wiger]

I was proud of that one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Jack Frost weeps because it has frosting for free. Pounding off. We were looking for pounding off sweets

[Mitch Stevenson]

because there's no pounding off. I finally got I up.

[Nick Wiger]

Jack Frost weeps.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And then the equal part, the ingredients, all a pound. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Pound cake.

[Nick Wiger]

You really do, Eva.

[Mike Mitchell]

You win the pound cake. And no lifelines were deployed.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

So there you go. Well, well done, guys.

[Nick Wiger]

A useless lifeline. A beautiful pound cake.

[Mike Mitchell]

That is a beautiful pound cake. And that's quite a. A compliment from yourself. Such an able, evil baker.

[Nick Wiger]

Jack Frost weeps. Guys, this is such a lovely treat.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Congratulations on winning Cake it off. Just like a restaurant.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Very. We at least gave you some good food on.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's true. Let's open up the feedback. Today's email is from Kat from Portugal. Wow, Eva, you're well traveled. You ever been to Portugal?

[Nick Wiger]

No. Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cat writes. Hi, doughboys. Emma, Amelia and Jimmy. I was listening to the McMenamin show from Portland where Wer said a hot dog would be his ideal food to eat on the move, which unlocked a core childhood memory for me. When I was maybe four or five years old, I was at one of these outdoor lobster restaurants with my family on Cape Cod. It was peak summer and very busy, so the food was taking a while to come out. My parents got me a hot dog while we were waited because I was probably being an annoying little shit. I was holding it while running around by the water when a huge seagull landed Next to me. I was so excited to see this bird that I squeezed the hot dog bun, causing the slippery dog to fly up into the air and land directly in the seagull's open beak. He swallowed the whole thing, looked me dead in the eyes and flew away. I looked at my empty bun and cried. My family mocked me for years. My question is, do you have any mildly traumatic animal based food theft incidents from your youth? As a longtime listener, first time feedbacker, I know you'll probably never get around to this one, but thanks anyway for reminding me of my lost hot dog Rip. Maybe I'll hear your response in the next five to ten years of doughboys prayer emoji smiling with teardrop emoji. Wow. How about that? Thanks to cat from Portugal for. For what? What a vivid story.

[Mitch Stevenson]

The seagull looked you in the eyes. Was that sent from.

[Mike Mitchell]

And swallowed your hot dog in the mental institution?

[Nick Wiger]

It's like a. I thought it was a pelican. Makes sense for a pelican to do a whole mouthful of hot dogs. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's a big fucking seagull.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. I do think that the seagulls on like Cape Cod, where there's all those like beach restaurants, they're pretty rabid. They're like very used to being around people and stealing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right, right.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. The aggressive, aggressive squirrels at like, I don't know, ski. Ski resorts. Yeah. Come right up to you and just take food off your.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, that's.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah, I've seen those before. I can't think of a specific traumatic food related childhood memory.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, animal theft. Specific.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Wally and Arbor don't like human food, so it's kind of sad for me. I like want them to like it because it's fun to have them be like mischievous. They. They lick butter occasionally.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's fun.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Cats will like butter.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Mitch Stevenson]

But. But they don't. They're not even that interested in that. But Zip and Buster, Zip definitely stole. Zip definitely stole some stuff over the course of the years, but I can't. I can't think anything. Do you have anything specific wags or. No.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know, I'm trying to comb the old memory banks and I can't think of an incident where our dog, family dog, Daryl the dog, Rip or Chip

[Mitch Stevenson]

the Turtle or know enough about Daryl the dog.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, see, here's the thing. Daryl was. I was very young when Daryl passed away. He was like the dog that he had that my parents had and then they had my brother and then they had me, and then the dog was like, I'M out of here. So I, I only had left after you came. Yeah, I only. I only knew him for a few years, but he was a lovely, beautiful golden retriever.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And we kept his dog treats for a long time. And then I ate one once.

[Nick Wiger]

So that's, that's a good one. That's a. That counts.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I ate. I guess I ate one of my dead dog's bones.

[Nick Wiger]

We had a really.

[Mike Mitchell]

I stole it from him, if anything.

[Nick Wiger]

We had a really stupid. A basset hound named Floyd.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cute.

[Nick Wiger]

That's cute. And one time he broke into the pantry, like where all the food was on Thanksgiving waiting to come out and there was like a tri tip and a turkey. And when they went in, they caught him. He just was eating some mustard sauce because he was just stupid.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's cute as hell.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. So he was just like licking up some weird, gross mustard.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

That was it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I. I worked on the back of a garbage truck, so there was a lot of seagulls. I was trying to think of like any, but I mean, they weren't stealing any of my food. But I. You do know this, that when Wally knocked a bottle of red wine off of the top of my fridge and he got covered in red wine and I just immediately took him into the shower with all my clothes on and showered with him to get the red wine off of him. Because I was so scared. That's the only time I get drunk. I was afraid he was going to get like. I also like, like, it was like wine on cats and it was like lethal. And I was like, I just grabbed him and I.

[Nick Wiger]

Cause grapes.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Cause grapes. Yeah. And so I just fucking went right into the shower with Wally and we just showered together in the shower.

[Nick Wiger]

That's scary.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, it was scary. So it was more traumatizing, I guess.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then you were, you were like, I can get used to this.

[Mitch Stevenson]

No, I did not continue showering with Wally in your clothes. In my clothes? No, I didn't shower my clothes. It's not a one stop shop to wash your clothes and show shower.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have had. I have had bugs land in my drinks, which I don't like that. That's, that's a bummer. Having like a mosquito like land in your. Your beverage. I was like, well, now I'm done with this juice.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Zip was a big cat and Zip would like steal a steak from you. She would like, she would like pull it with her teeth.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know what I mean?

[Mitch Stevenson]

Like when you weren't paying attention.

[Nick Wiger]

That's crazy. My dad Had a cat that once stole a whole ear of corn off the table. This was. I was a little baby, so I don't remember it. But the cat wouldn't like reached. The way he describes is he saw just a pot come up on the table and grab a hot ear of corn and like fling it backwards and then he ran away with it.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Yeah, that's good as hell.

[Nick Wiger]

Wait, your cat is a feral for food? He's a fiend. He's a fiend for ice cream and human food. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Your cat Arty, correct?

[Nick Wiger]

Yes. Yeah, he's.

[Mike Mitchell]

What does he have a favorite?

[Nick Wiger]

He. He just loves chocolate ice cream.

[Mike Mitchell]

He loves chocolate ice cream? Well, if you're eating chocolate ice cream, but if you're. If you're like, he'll. He's trying to get some.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

That's weird. Claws. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

That's crazy.

[Mike Mitchell]

That is crazy.

[Nick Wiger]

That's really cute, though.

[Mitch Stevenson]

As a revenge, I'm going to steal something from. I'm going to eat a can of cat food in front of balling armor tonight like you did to your. To Daryl the dog. You ate a bone?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it was a treat.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I've also eaten a dog bone. That's a young boy thing to do.

[Nick Wiger]

I like a dog bone.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Every kid eats a dog bone at some point.

[Nick Wiger]

Didn't eat a greenie on the show once or you threatened to.

[Mitch Stevenson]

I think I threatened too.

[Mike Mitchell]

I maybe was a teenager when I ate the. The dog bone. If you have a question about the world of chain restaurants, you can email us@feedback birdvoc.com or leave us a voicemail at 830. Go to this 830-463-6844. Our producer is Emma Erd Brink. Our associate producer, Amelia Marino. Our video editor, Mike Dorfman got [e-mail] doughboys and Emma, we got a live show in San Jose tonight.

[Nick Wiger]

Tonight in San Jose. And then at the end of. Of May, we're going to be in Raleigh, Charlotte and Atlanta. So hit us up.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're going to the south, so that'll be fun. Nor nor Cal today. The south of America. Not South America, lady.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Not South America. Jimmy's home. The South.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, we're going to the South.

[Mike Mitchell]

And to get the Doughboys double our weekly bonus episode plus our entire pre2018 back catalog. [e-mail] doughboys the doughboys double is where all of our live shows, our live tour episodes now live. So check those out as well. Eva Anderson. Margo's got Money troubles on Apple tv. Congratulations on the show. Congratulations on Hideo Kojima tweeting about it. Oh, yes, please, please.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes. It's eight episodes on Apple tv, starring Elle Fanning, Michelle Pfeiffer, Nick Offerman, Nicole Kidman, and many other. Michael Angarano, the rapper Rico Nasty. Many very fun people. Check it out. Five episodes have aired. We've got three more to go. And I've worked on it for two years. I really love it and I hope you will too.

[Mitch Stevenson]

And like you said, the great John Daly.

[Mike Mitchell]

The great John Daly.

[Nick Wiger]

The great John Daly playing a major magician named Steve Thunder.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not sure how much you wanted to say about the show before people see it, but, I mean, Nick Offerman's character, of course, for a lot of our fandom, I think will be very, very cool.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Yeah. For real.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. So check that out. Margo's got money in troubles. Congrats on the show.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank you. So cool. Thank you, friends.

[Mike Mitchell]

That'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. Until next time for the spoon. Matt Mac Mitchell.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm Tucker Weger.

[Mike Mitchell]

Happy eating.

[Mitch Stevenson]

See ya.

[Nick Wiger]

Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Sterling K. Brown. And I'm Chris Sullivan. And we host the podcast that was us now on Headgum.

[Nick Wiger]

Each episode we're gonna go into a deep dive from our show.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is us that we're gonna go episode by episode.

[Nick Wiger]

We're also gonna pepper in episodes with different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Mitch Stevenson]

Are we gonna cry? Yes, a little bit. Are we gonna laugh a lot.

[Mike Mitchell]

A whole lot.

[Mitch Stevenson]

That's what I'm hoping, man. Listen to. That was us on your favorite podcast app. Or watch full video episodes on YouTube or Spotify. New episodes every Tuesday.

[Nick Wiger]

That was a Headgum podcast.