Dunkin' 3 with Alyssa Limperis

Summary

Doughboys: "Dunkin' 3" with Alyssa Limperis (June 11, 2026)

Overview

In this lively, chaotic, and New England-inflected episode, comedians Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger—the Doughboys—are joined by actor and comedian Alyssa Limperis for a deep dive into the beloved chain Dunkin' (formerly Dunkin' Donuts). The hosts and their guest swap chain restaurant experiences, regional food memories, and take a measured, nostalgic look at Dunkin’s changing quality. Along the way, Mitchell recounts a genuinely unnerving alleged ghost encounter, sparking tangents about the paranormal, New England culture, and personal histories. The result is an episode full of jokes, regional pride, horror, comfort, and—naturally—a comprehensive review of Dunkin’s menu.

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Main Theme

A Celebration (and Mourning) of Dunkin’s Iconic Role in New England and Beyond
The episode is a reunion with Dunkin' (third time reviewed on the show), exploring its centrality in New England identity, the bittersweet effects of corporate expansion, and what happens when a “taste of home” becomes mass-produced and, perhaps, a little less magical.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Ghost Story & Paranormal Digression

Timestamps: 09:57–16:15, 53:50–56:59, 157:03-end

• Mitchell’s Ghost Experience: Mike describes seeing a shadowy female figure in his living room after falling asleep on the couch, emphasizing that it felt different from his past sleep paralysis episodes. The ghost's actions were compared to a "glitching NPC."
  • "I saw a ghost." (10:00, Mike Mitchell)
  • "She was seated in a chair that’s not in my apartment..." (10:42, Mike Mitchell)
• Creeped out cohosts; much discussion about believing in ghosts, sleep paralysis, and rituals for warding off spirits.
• Headgum producer Rochelle ("Ranch"), who hosts a paranormal podcast, gives practical tips—“always be polite; firmly ask a spirit to leave if you want them gone.”
• Running joke (panic?) about the ghost following various members of the group home; recurring references for the rest of the episode (“I’ll go see a movie just in case it follows me”).

2. New England Upbringing & Foodways

Timestamps: 22:17–34:36, 48:00–53:34

• Guest Alyssa’s Origins:
  • Alyssa’s from Seekonk, MA (“spelled phonetically!”), family deep in New England roots.
  • Fond New England food memories: Friendly’s quesadillas, Newport Creamery Awful Awfuls, hot wieners (“delightful!”), Greek food at home.
  • Clam cakes and stuffies; introduces the “savory donut” concept.
• Regional Pride & Chain Preferences:
  • Discussion of difference between New England and West Coast cuisines, both in availability and local reputation.
  • Talk of beaches, lakes (Lake Winnipesaukee), brain amoebas vs. ghosts tangents.
  • Dunkin' positioned as both culinary comfort and regional badge of honor.

3. Doughboys' and Alyssa's New England Fandom

Timestamps: 53:00–63:00

• Greek-American Upbringing: Alyssa shares vegan adaptations of Greek comfort food (with product shout-out for “Daring” plant-based chicken).
• The Importance of Greek Pizza and Sub Shops: Distinction between various Mediterranean foods; the idea of “Greek pizza” as New England’s style.

4. Chain Restaurant Quality in the Era of Private Equity

Timestamps: 93:55–96:18, review section

• In-depth discussion on how Dunkin', Wendy’s, and others have declined in quality under private equity ownership (“it’s all shipped in now, not made in-house—the magic is gone”).
• Notable quote: “Can you care about something that big? Once you hit a certain level of scale, is a drop in quality inevitable?” (147:05, Alyssa Limperis)

5. Menu Rundown & Review

Timestamps: 115:19–124:37, 129:42–131:34

• Orders:
  • Alyssa (vegan): Hash browns, iced coffee with almond milk, avocado toast, strawberry/vanilla bean culada, munchkins.
  • Mitchell: Wake-up wrap, hot coffee, fruit punch donut, chocolate frosted donut, bagel minis.
  • Wiger: Went “ham;” bagels, breakfast sandwiches, refreshers, donuts, etc.
• Donuts:
  • Mitchell and Alyssa’s verdict: “In terms of national chains, Dunkin’ donuts are always decent—not $7 LA donuts, but accessible, nostalgic.”
  • Noted inconsistency in freshness depending on location/day.
• Savories:
  • Rave reviews for wake-up wrap, hash browns (“piping hot; a safe food!”), and avocado toast as a vegan-friendly chain innovation.
  • Sourdough breakfast sandwich (“so fake, so disappointing”) is much less loved.
• Drinks:
  • Dunkin’s diner-style, “bad but comforting” black coffee celebrated.
  • Iced drinks—especially when nearly melted and in a styrofoam ring—are considered the “quintessential Dunkin’ experience.”

6. Nostalgia, Consistency, and Changing Tastes

Timestamps: 113:09–114:43, 136:18–137:02

• Core thesis: Dunkin’s power comes from both nostalgia (“a bite of memory”) and its almost magical consistency, especially for East Coasters relocated to LA.
• Lingering sadness about the shift to central kitchens for donuts (“not the same as when they were handmade in store”).

7. Fork Scores & Closing Thoughts

Timestamps: 143:25–153:20

• Wiger: 5 forks. “It’s Quincy's pride; not as good as it once was, but has a magic that transcends its corporate shortcomings.”
• Alyssa: 5 forks. “It’s New England in a cup, it’s the taste of home—nostalgia balanced with comfort.”
• Mitchell: 4 forks. “No deep East Coast nostalgia, but as a chain breakfast operation, it’s consistently good—deserves its Golden Plate Club status.”
• Consensus: Dunkin’ retains both its mystique and essential-ness—even as quality is slipping in the era of national mega-chains.
• “We’re going to make you an honorary Bostonian!” (Nick to Mitchell, 153:20)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On the Ghost:
  • "She was seated in a chair that’s not in my apartment, a wood chair. Hair, bangs, red robe with white underneath... (pause) Could be a woman. Could be a girl. Hell yeah." (10:42, Mike Mitchell)
  • "You sound so chill about being haunted." (17:02, Alyssa Limperis)
  • "If anyone’s going to be followed here other than me, it’s Mitch!" (15:45, Mitchell, about the ghost curse)
• On New England:
  • “No one in New England says Dunkin’ Donuts the way everyone else does—‘Dunky’ is its own word.” (05:29, Alyssa Limperis)
  • "Sea conk. I eat it.” (25:19, Alyssa, about her hometown Seekonk)
• On Dunkin’s Decline:
  • “Can you care about something that big? Once you hit a certain level of scale, is this inevitable?” (147:05, Alyssa)
  • “It used to be time to make the donuts—now it’s just a machine.” (114:30, Nick)
• On Chain Coffee:
  • “I love diner coffee. I love Dunkin coffee. There’s a comfort in the amount and the taste.” (75:00, Alyssa Limperis)
  • “Some chains, like Carl’s Junior, serve coffee that tastes like hot water and crystals.” (85:07, Mitchell)
• On Three Drinks and Millennial Women:
  • “Millennial ladies love three drinks. That’s what makes this coded for millennial ladies: they love three drinks.” (87:06, Nick)
• On Consistency as Comfort:
  • “I love that I can be so far from home, but still have the exact same taste of coffee.” (113:45, Alyssa Limperis)
• Classic Doughboys Bickering:
  • “Don't you do your Italian stuff at me.” (87:39, Mitchell)
  • “I’m not going to threaten you with ghosts.” “You already have, multiple times!” (53:29, Alyssa Limperis & Nick Wiger)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• Ghost Story & Paranormal Tangent: 09:57–16:15, 53:50–56:59, 157:03–162:47
• Alyssa Introduction & New England Stories: 22:17–34:36
• Dunkin’ Menu Rundown: 115:19–124:37, 129:42–131:34
• Greek Food, Vegan Talk: 48:00–53:34
• Chain Decline Under Private Equity: 93:55–96:18, 143:56–144:20, 146:13–147:06
• Doughboys Fork Scores & Review: 143:25–153:20

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Tone & Style

• Warm, chaotic, and affectionate, mixing comedic bickering, regional in-jokes, and sincere talk about home, nostalgia, and the meaning of food rituals.
• Frequent asides, interruptions, and “bit-on-bit” style, in classic Doughboys form. Alyssa proves a perfect foil: dry, quick, and as food-obsessed as the hosts.

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Final Takeaways

• Dunkin’—imperfect, but vital. Even as private equity and standardization have dulled its “edge,” for New Englanders and transplants alike its coffee, breakfast sandwiches, and donuts are a vital comfort.
• Regional memories still count: Local chains, Greek pizza, and Friendly’s live on as “bites of memory” that still matter, even as national chains march on.
• Ghosts and nostalgia—as much a part of the Doughboys DNA as food arguments and chain reviews.

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Guest Plug

Alyssa Limperis can be seen in "Cell" at The Broadwater for Hollywood Fringe Fest. For details (and vegan cake inspiration), follow @alyssalimperis.

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For listeners: If you like chain restaurant talk, regional food love, and lots of ghostly, goofy energy, this XL episode is a must-listen.

Transcript

[Nick Wiger]

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[Nick Wiger]

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You should know it was very cold. It was a very cold set. It was freezing. It was sub zero. This was actor Ben Affleck describing his experience filming the now infamous shower scene in David Fincher's 2014 film Gone Girl. While audiences were gripped by the Gillian Flynn adaptation of her own novel that basically boils down to Women Are Liars, the discourse in the aftermath was overwhelmingly about Ben Affleck's beautiful hog, which, while only visible, flaccid and in profile, was still amply chubbed. Jennifer Garner, his then wife, even gloated on Ellen about how the cinematic Dick display necessitated a wide angle lens. And while Affleck modestly referenced the chilly temperature that may have shrunken his meaty piece, he has insisted the appendage is really his, despite unsourced allegations on the Blank Check podcast that that bad boy was cgi. Either way, Fincher has a history of exhibiting his actor's equipment in the best possible light. In the 1995 film Seven featuring Kevin Spacey as Get this, a Creep, the heavyset gluttony victim, whose corpse appeared nude, was gifted with a prosthetic penis, described as large and shapely. Gone Girl and Affleck's turn as Hog Guy reflected a modern resurgence for the Bostonian thespian, cementing him as a true A lister. And in 2023, he leveraged his hometown connection to endorse a Quincy founded donut chain that's a New England institution. The spots now number a dozen a date and outside of the fictional Duncan Chino commercial with Al Pacino, have become the contemporary campaign most associated with the now national breakfast and coffee shop. But while Affleck himself today thrives both in film and in commercials, the central mystery of Gone Girl remains. Was that hog really his? To quote the title sequence of the X Files, I want to believe this week on Doughboys, we return once again to Duncan. Go with the doe dough doh boys. Double the doe doughboys. Welcome to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants. I'm Tiger Weiger along with my co host, Donkey Kong the spoon man, Mike Mitchell.

[Nick Wiger]

That's what I don't mind.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dunkin Donuts plus Donkey Kong. Quincy Video Games. It's Mitch all over. He could replace Diddy Kong in any upcoming game. Just give him a Celtics hat and a flannel Duncan Chino power ups make him way way bigger. Etc.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, that kind of went in a. Yeah, this one.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was very libelous direction.

[Nick Wiger]

Libelous?

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, I mean I. I guess like it's just. It's saying some just make him way way bigger. It just kind of feels like a little bit of a. I guess you are just a bigger guy in general.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hey, hey, hey, hey. Watch what you say about my Boston friends here. You call my friend big? You call my friend Big at the

[Nick Wiger]

beginning of the podcast, by the way. It's in way way bigger. It wasn't. It wasn't even that bad question Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

Says Mum. And Pop. And Popcorn. Why wouldn't he call the video game Donkey Backup today? Yeah, says mom. And Popcorn. Why wouldn't he call the video game Dunky? Donkey Kong? What are the rules of this linguistic anomaly? Someone asked Matsukas how it works. Thank you all for the best podcast and thank you to Mitch for being such a good sport. I really hope you swap over to Weiger Roast when Mike finally gets sick of this. And hey, switch to calling Mike there. I cannot love you all more. Especially the Deus Spoon Burger Nation brigade for life at grip grand roasted birdfuck.com thanks. Grip grand.

[Nick Wiger]

Grip Grand. I see you next time I throw a barrel at your ass.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

We do have. We do have a guest today who would you said in a minute. Who's. Who's also from New England who maybe can.

[Nick Wiger]

Who also doesn't say Donkey Kong.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Donkey Kong.

[Mike Mitchell]

Donkey Kong. But Hot dog Popcorn.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hot dog Popcorn, Mom.

[Mike Mitchell]

Those all feel familiar.

[Nick Wiger]

I do. I peop. I mean I. I was gonna say. I don't say that, but people have seen me do it over and over and over again. I sometimes will say mom occasionally.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right? I go on Mom.

[Nick Wiger]

I say mom though, a lot.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mom.

[Alyssa Limperis]

See, that's high class. That's some. That's some London you got going on, Mom.

[Nick Wiger]

It's New England.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So there we go.

[Nick Wiger]

It's not my fault that we. Hey, Plymouth Rock landed on me.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Guess what? My mom lives in Plymouth. Guess what? How about that?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

My ex lives in Plymouth.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hell yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Who says that? Is that. Is that. Is that? Is that? Is that.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's.

[Nick Wiger]

It's. What's his name? Who Says Malcolm X. Oh, Malcolm. Malcolm X said, oh, it's Denzel Washington as Malcolm X. Plymouth. Oh, all right, so I shouldn't. I shouldn't. I shouldn't co. Opt.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, probably. No, and I probably shouldn't say Plymouth

[Nick Wiger]

on me when I do that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So hard. I jumped.

[Mike Mitchell]

Civil rights lyrics. Civil rights leaders of.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, he. He actually did say the 20th century.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I believe it's a real quote.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, so it's not. It is actual Malcolm X. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't think it's a Spike Lee invention. I could be wrong.

[Nick Wiger]

I tip my cap to Malcolm X. I think he was. I think he was good.

[Mike Mitchell]

I read his autobiography as a kid. My parents had it. I just picked it up off the shelf and read it. It was really like wild, Wild life.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. But he had a time when his. Some of his friends were sex workers and he would team up with them to. To rob the Johns.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Isn't that wild?

[Nick Wiger]

In the future, I'll talk about how some of my friends used to be podcasters when I'm a revolutionary.

[Mike Mitchell]

Of course, if I, If I remember it correctly, there was one old guy who had like an adult baby fetish. It was kind of crazy, this book that was like, written in the 60s that has, like, is going into this thing that I think of as more of an Internet. And he's like, this old guy had his dope baby fetish. And so they basically were like, well,

[Nick Wiger]

hold on a second. Well, all right, we'll.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll dip him, we'll tie him up, and then we'll. We'll like rob his nice house. And what's he gonna do about it? He's gonna, like, you know. But then it was really interesting to see is how he progressed from that to, you know, the man. He became an interesting figure.

[Alyssa Limperis]

See, that's some. That's some LA stuff. We were. We were reading the Berenstein Bears. Yes, we were.

[Nick Wiger]

And we don't know the way they spelled it. That's. Nobody does the Mandela effect.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Exactly.

[Nick Wiger]

The revolution. The revolution.

[Mike Mitchell]

Another great leader.

[Nick Wiger]

Another good leader. I said good. Another great. I said, I didn't know why I downgraded another great leader.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's good.

[Nick Wiger]

He's good. The revolution will not be televised. Is that. Who's that? Malcolm X?

[Mike Mitchell]

Or is that the revolution will.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, wait, the revolution will be televised.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I think it will not be. I think it will not be. But I don't know the context of that quote. I don't remember that one.

[Nick Wiger]

The revolution will not be podcasted. That's my.

[Mike Mitchell]

Very good, Mitch.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I have.

[Emma]

Scott Heron said that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Gil.

[Nick Wiger]

Scott.

[Emma]

Gil Scott.

[Nick Wiger]

Heroin.

[Emma]

Heron or heron. I don't know.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, here's the thing, Gil, like you said before, a fish thing. Heron, also a thing that eats fish.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow, that's really interesting.

[Nick Wiger]

So there's a lot going on in that name.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Something to think about.

[Mike Mitchell]

Scott could be the name of a. Of a boat captain.

[Nick Wiger]

It could you name a bird Scott,

[Mike Mitchell]

or you could name a bird Scott,

[Nick Wiger]

or you can name a fish Scott.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Right. It's a fish.

[Mike Mitchell]

It could be.

[Nick Wiger]

What I'm saying.

[Mike Mitchell]

A bird and a fish with the same name, and Scott is the commonality.

[Nick Wiger]

That's why that's true.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's happening, Mitch? I have. I have news. I have a story. I was. I was waiting to tell you on the podcast.

[Nick Wiger]

What the hell?

[Mike Mitchell]

Last night, I saw a ghost.

[Nick Wiger]

Get the fuck out of here.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did. So I was. I was in. So I fell asleep on my couch. I got home very late, and it was one of those things where I just. Like, I was on my couch. I kind of fell asleep. And the way my couch is positioned in our place, it's.

[Nick Wiger]

Can I. Can I just quickly say. Yeah, force. Ghosts of Jeffrey Epst

[Mike Mitchell]

just nods at me, sagely, carrying on his legacy. So I'm lying on my back. I, like, kind of collapse on the couch. I'm lying on my back, and then I kind of wake up, and it's the very early morning, but it's still dark outside. The sun has not risen yet.

[Nick Wiger]

That's why I got set up. Asking if I believed in.

[Mike Mitchell]

Directly opposite from me is the front door. Well, no, it's not slimer.

[Nick Wiger]

Mitch.

[Mike Mitchell]

What it is, is seated in a chair that's not in my apartment, a wood chair is a female figure of some kind. Could be a. Be a woman. Could be a girl. Hell, yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hell, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Hell, yeah. Jesus Christ.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's. She's got, like, a. Like, it's. And it's really, like, it's because you. I have sleep paralysis. I'm not having sleep paralysis right now. I'm fully awake. I can move. I can breathe normally. I can tell I'm in my place. I'm not in a dream version of my place. She. It is a. She is. She's a woman of some sort, possibly a girl who has, like, a hair, like, bangs and like, kind of like a bob haircut.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I want to say if it's a girl, I want to take back the head. The high five. I gave seconds.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. What age is this.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hold on, let me continue.

[Nick Wiger]

Was Jeffrey Epstein? Maybe was there.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was hard to tell because her face was completely in shadow. And she was sort of like this. She had red. She had, like, red robes with, like a white. Like, you know, like white robes underneath it. It was just some sort of flowing garment. Possibly it was pants, but I felt like robes to me. And it went all the way to the floor. And she was just, like, looking at me like this. Like kind of a Kubrick stare. But if the face was completely in shadow now. So I'm. I'm looking at this for a little bit and I'm just kind of engaged, but with this figure. And I'm like, trying to suss out if they are. They are threatening or whatever. And I sort of get this feeling that they are, like, trying to keep me from leaving, but not that I'm in any sort of danger. So I just. What I just sort of do is I'm, like, lying on the couch. I just sort of swing my legs over and I try to just sort of like, maneuver like, you know, just kind of get gently get up and like, gingerly sort of walk out of the room, out of the living room into the bathroom. As I'm doing this, once I get up, the figure does this.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Shut the fuck up.

[Nick Wiger]

The figure's a.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

The figure is goofy, like an NPC in a game.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, walks up, walks up and then just starts, like, walking into the corner.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, I hate this so much.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then. And wasn't like, like walking into the corner, but was just kind of like gyrating in place. That's kind of spasming.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Like a glitch almost.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, kind of like a glitch. So I went to the. I went to the restroom. I urinated. I washed my hands. I really did. It's part of the anecdote.

[Nick Wiger]

Wash your eyes. What the hell's going on here? You came back ghost before me.

[Mike Mitchell]

I came back and there was nothing there. But it was. It was really racist. It was the most vivid akin to a paranormal encounter I've ever had. And it was just last night.

[Nick Wiger]

Isn't that wild?

[Mike Mitchell]

In my own domicile.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Did you fall back asleep? Were you?

[Mike Mitchell]

Slept like a fucking baby. Woke up rock hard.

[Nick Wiger]

Was that ghost like? You ever see that one scene from Ghostbusters?

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, are you a woman or a girl? Let's clarify that first.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait.

[Nick Wiger]

Dan Aykroyd gets sucked off by a ghost at one point. His belt.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I think maybe this wag has something following him around. Because the other day when Mike Was editing, He said in the live edit, not in the ISO cams, but in the live edit. There was, like, something floating above W's head, and then it just disappeared. I asked him to clip it for me. He hasn't sent it yet. I'm hoping he's gonna send it by the end of the episode.

[Nick Wiger]

What'd you do?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not. Got the. It follows.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I was like, wait a second. What's following you?

[Mike Mitchell]

And get followed.

[Emma]

I have a theory.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Emma]

I think that maybe was a version of sleep paralysis.

[Mike Mitchell]

You think so? I mean, I think it's probably most plausible or something like that. But the thing is, like, you were paralyzed. No, I've experienced sleep paralysis many times before that. What that is is, like, I cannot move. I'm. I'm rigid. And then the figures I see are looming figures that are entirely in shadow.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It's hard to breathe.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's hard to breathe. And they're, like, right over. Usually, like, right over.

[Nick Wiger]

Why you tell me this? I'm scared now.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Just don't sleep over a wife's house, which you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. You're not gonna. Don't worry about that.

[Nick Wiger]

I've wanted to not admit.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Have you looked up new houses? Like, are you thinking of moving immediately?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I'm hoping to see her again. It didn't seem threatened.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

He's got, like, presents for her now.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait. I'm so scared of ghosts. That's terrifying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rachelle, one of the headgun producers here Ranch, has a paranormal podcast and is versed in this sort of stuff and gave me some guidance on what to do if I feel threatened by the ghost. Like, some things I can say that will just sort of, like, be gentle and hopefully try to ward it away. So if I feel like it has to come to that, I'll do that. But also, it was probably just a weird dream or whatever. Just some. Some sort of elucidation.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Do you live in an old house?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, no.

[Nick Wiger]

That's the crazier thing to me, because that's what I was thinking of, Emiya, is that you don't live in an old house.

[Mike Mitchell]

There is a little girl who died in this house. Like, a couple.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay. She.

[Mike Mitchell]

She hung herself on a chair.

[Alyssa Limperis]

She was wearing a robe.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Well, I'm scared.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. Red robes.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was like, red and white robes.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That sounds like the Handmaid's Tail robes.

[Mike Mitchell]

It wasn't Handmaid's Tail, but I get what you said. It was that sort of color.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And you're kind of not fake. You're Kind of like, boy, your sleep paralysis is you. You do see images in your sleep a lot.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, and I. When I sleep, I. I recognize sleep paralysis. And I know that's not like a paranormal thing. This felt completely different. And also, I will say that, like, I'm not someone who's like a big, like, ghost believer. I'm just sort of reporting what I observed. I'm just kind of agnostic about these sorts of things.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Please don't bring her on tour.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, because that's the thing. Yeah, they. They kind of. I'm nervous even talking about them. Like, I think she could. She could stick to me.

[Mike Mitchell]

If anyone's gonna be at followed here other than me, it's gonna be Mitch. So don't say that way.

[Nick Wiger]

What the fuck are you doing?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Keep it.

[Nick Wiger]

You get. It's you. It's not me.

[Mike Mitchell]

Spirit, keep it following me. It's fine.

[Nick Wiger]

I've already dealt with. I've already dealt with this sort of thing. I can't deal with it. I mean, I just lost my mind at one point. And it seems like maybe. I don't know if my co host has lost his too or. Who knows what's going on?

[Mike Mitchell]

Who knows what's going on.

[Nick Wiger]

But I'm a paranormal believer now. I'm scared as hell.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, no, me too.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I can't watch any movie or anything that has anything to do with paranormal activity because then I will. I will, you know, convince myself that it's. It's.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Emma]

It's.

[Nick Wiger]

Because I watched New England.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I watched. What's it called?

[Nick Wiger]

The. The.

[Alyssa Limperis]

The Haunting of. Of what's like, the classic one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hunting of Hill House.

[Nick Wiger]

What.

[Mike Mitchell]

What was that fucking house?

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, it's. I'm not thinking of hunting. It's like the. The big one. What's kind of the big one?

[Emma]

The exorcism.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. I went to the theaters to watch the Exorcism of Emily Rose. And just like the whole time was like this. And.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I've said this on the pod before, but I saw the. I saw Ring. The ring?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

In college of the ring. The ring, I think. Is it ring or.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's no ring. Whoa.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, that is.

[Mike Mitchell]

Terrorist is doing the hair. Very scary.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm scared now. I don't like this. I don't. I'm sorry for you.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's all right.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm sorry for you too. But you seem really kind of chill about it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm just like. I. Like I was. I was just sussing it out of just like, you know, it's kind of like almost like, hey, there's a. There's a mountain lion there. What's going to happen? Okay. I don't actually feel like I'm in any imminent danger, you know, so I'm not gonna do anything to provoke it. I'm just gonna try to remove myself from the situation. That's kind of where my head was at. But I certainly recognized that it was fully conscious and I could move like I was fully conscious. So it was really strange.

[Nick Wiger]

Damn.

[Emma]

And she was goofy. She was doing a little goofy walking.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, I didn't. If I acted it out in a goofy way, I did not mean that. What it more meant was like a little spastic. Like, it's kind of like. Sorry if that's an ableist word.

[Nick Wiger]

There's the terrifying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it was just kind of like. Kind of like moving, you know, fast.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was weird. Unnaturally.

[Nick Wiger]

We gotta see if Micah has this clip, because I have.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I asked him for it. He hasn't answered me yet, but I'll let you know.

[Mike Mitchell]

You think the ghost got him? Hope you're okay, Mike.

[Nick Wiger]

Dogs. Dogs are good for stuff like that. I'm happy I'm sitting next to Jeff.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, I think that's good. I think that's good.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

They say cats are good for stuff like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cats are good for stuff like that.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Emma]

Wally.

[Nick Wiger]

Normal.

[Mike Mitchell]

They'll ward them away.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. It's always good when you're in your house by yourself and the cats both look at something and you're like, oh, cool.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

She does that sometimes. Is that she'll just, like, sit up and stare into a corner, like, all at attention. And I'm like, what the. Are you seeing who's here?

[Alyssa Limperis]

That.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was the thing. There's so. There's that, like, when she went, she, like, was just, like, locked in on the corner. But it was kind of a. You know, as akin to. Is like the end of. To reference other horror movie, Blair Witch Project. You know how that. There's like. The guy's just kind of standing in

[Nick Wiger]

the corner, like, terrible.

[Emma]

I want to see a ghost.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So good. So follow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Go that way.

[Nick Wiger]

Stay away from.

[Mike Mitchell]

Stay with me or go to Amelia.

[Nick Wiger]

The Massachusetts people got pretty quiet.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Massachusetts is pretty. I mean.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, we got.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We know that.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We don't with them.

[Nick Wiger]

We know the deal.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Anyway, Mitch, I want to share that with you on the pod because I know you have a reaction to it.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I don't like it. Yeah, I don't like it. But, you know, it will Everything will be fine.

[Mike Mitchell]

Everything will be fine.

[Nick Wiger]

I have some leftover holy water. I did. I did throw so much of it on around my house. Yeah, maybe I have sage left. Whatever. I'll get some new stuff.

[Mike Mitchell]

You have some more of that Amazon Basics holy water you ordered?

[Nick Wiger]

I do.

[Mike Mitchell]

It worked.

[Nick Wiger]

You might need some yourself.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Did you order holy water on Amazon.com?

[Nick Wiger]

i did. Look, I've talked about it all before. I want a little cr. I got sick with COVID And then. And then I had. You knew about this. Where I had like a vertigo and all this other stuff going on. And then I. I thought my house was haunted.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

But now Wise is also.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't think. Yeah, it sounds like. It's not that crazy. Sounds like you were just.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Maybe you passed it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, true.

[Nick Wiger]

Me, Possibly. No. I don't know. I don't think so.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm happy to accept that burden if that's what happened.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, thank you, Wise. Keep it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're going to be pals. She'll be my slimer soon. Just unexplained. We're friends now. The sequel.

[Nick Wiger]

Did you. You should check that Ted Sarandos comedy picture and see if she's in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

She might be in there.

[Nick Wiger]

She might be one.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think she's in between Bill Simmons and Dave Chappelle.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, she had the funny walk. I mean, it was a funny walk.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was too. It was a pretty funny walk.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm scared. I don't like that you told me. I wish you never told me. That is my. That's my truth.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, I'm sorry.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I agree.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I thought we were gonna just talk about some munchkins and stuff. And all of a sudden now we're not worried about being haunted.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll get there. But I apologize. Did not realize our guest was also gonna be spooked.

[Nick Wiger]

Honestly, Hentavirus is less scary.

[Mike Mitchell]

Henta virus?

[Nick Wiger]

Is that what it's called?

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, I couldn't agree more.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Couldn't agree more.

[Nick Wiger]

Hentai virus?

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what you were looking for? Yeah. Gotten some of those. Gotta be careful what zip files you open.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Wait.

[Nick Wiger]

It's hantavirus.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that hantavirus?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, is it haunted? I thought it was.

[Nick Wiger]

It sounds like haunted virus, which.

[Mike Mitchell]

It sounds like haunted virus.

[Nick Wiger]

It does?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Emma]

I thought it rhymes with Santa Hantavirus.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hantavirus? Like Fanta.

[Emma]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think that's your New York accent. That's your mom telling you about it. You can't afford the hantavirus.

[Nick Wiger]

My mom called today and in the she had me on speaker in the background. I heard the news talking about like, more like hantaviruses. Like it was like. And I was like, this feels. I don't like the sound of this. Although I would honestly. Another. Another pandemic is better than me than what's happening to you.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I couldn't agree more.

[Nick Wiger]

I couldn't agree more to. Too scary.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yep.

[Nick Wiger]

Too scary.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mentioned you had a drop to play.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm going to hit him with a drop. Who got some election results. Trump has just won the state of Carl's Jr. Carl's Jr. I'm going to have to give it to Carl's Jr. And I know say hot dog. Weird. Everyone points it out. Hot dog. Hot dog. A short but sweet one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Very good.

[Nick Wiger]

What up? Chat Count Drop. That's it. What up? Chat Count Dropula.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thanks. Count Drop. You to the point.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, to the point. That's good. We like that with drops.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dropshirdfuck.com.

[Nick Wiger]

that's a drop.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's a drop.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sick.

[Nick Wiger]

Was it cool you changed the whole tone of the show for me.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll, we, we'll mix it up.

[Nick Wiger]

We're.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're going to change things. We're going to change things right now because we're going to introduce our guest.

[Nick Wiger]

My heart is racing.

[Mike Mitchell]

An actor and comedian from Hacks in Americ. Dad, Alyssa L. Is here. Hi, Alyssa.

[Nick Wiger]

I've had a lot of drinks.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Hello.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Happy to be here.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thanks so much for making time for us. We. We. This episode is releasing as scheduled. Well, we'll see if it, if it stays that way. But as scheduled, the day after your birthday, June 10th. So happy early birthday now. Happy belated birthday upon your birthday.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Thank you so much. Is there anything better than the day after your birthday, too? The pressure of the birthday's done. You're starting a brand new year. You've just kind of been filled with love. You've had your cake. You feel like the pressure of what should I do for my birthday is done. And now you're just looking at your fresh year ahead.

[Mike Mitchell]

If it's a milestone age, you maybe made peace with that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You've made peace with that.

[Mike Mitchell]

You crossed, you know, here we go.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Totally.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right? Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So right now, when you're listening to this, I'm having a great day.

[Nick Wiger]

That birthday cake is digested. It's going into the toilet at this point.

[Mike Mitchell]

Totally.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yep.

[Mike Mitchell]

So as, as was alluded to before we formally introduced you, you are also from New England.

[Nick Wiger]

Before you decide to scare the wits out of us,

[Mike Mitchell]

the Boston what's What's

[Nick Wiger]

up with the dolls over there?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Some haunted dolls showed up here.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Something different. Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Some haunted dolls are at Head Gum Studios. I. I don't know what those have

[Alyssa Limperis]

to do with anything. Not good. This is not good.

[Nick Wiger]

Not good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

This is not good. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then Ryan, our intern, was like, they're nice, and said he's going to take him home.

[Nick Wiger]

Dear God.

[Alyssa Limperis]

He also tried a munchkin for the first time.

[Nick Wiger]

He did. I know. And then he was like, donut holes. And we're like, yeah, they're munchkin.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Then he apologized to me for saying I looked like Swed, which I guess hasn't come out yet.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

No, it's out.

[Nick Wiger]

It is out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, so where are you from, specifically?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, so I'm from Seekonk, Massachusetts. Do you know where that is from?

[Nick Wiger]

Massachusetts? Yes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, so it's like, very.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Well, yeah. Their conch is a. Is a. Is a.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait, guess how it's spelled. So Massachusetts. Guess how sea conch is spelled.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm gonna guess S, E, A.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

C, O, N. C, H. What if

[Alyssa Limperis]

I told you both parts of that were wrong?

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I believe this.

[Alyssa Limperis]

E, E, K, O, N, K. I love that. Is that nice?

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, that's phonetic.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's just totally.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. I like to think it probably started as sea, and then they were like, nah, forget that. We're just doing ccon. Yeah, yeah. But. But it's right near Rhode island, so I kind of grew up on the. On the border of Rhode island and Massachusetts.

[Nick Wiger]

Southern. Southern Mass.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, Southern Mass. Kid.

[Mike Mitchell]

Where is Rhode island in relation to New Hampshire? I'm just trying to geolocate myself.

[Nick Wiger]

What the hell?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It's like you have to go through Massachusetts and through Boston to get to Rhode Island.

[Mike Mitchell]

Got it, got it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So Rhode island, then you're going to Connecticut, then New York.

[Mike Mitchell]

Got it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

What do you.

[Mike Mitchell]

What are you.

[Nick Wiger]

What are you trying to get out of me?

[Emma]

I want you to look at your phone.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you text? What happened?

[Emma]

I didn't want to draw attention to it. I wrote for a. Mitch.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, you wrote a.

[Mike Mitchell]

You wrote a joke for a mix.

[Nick Wiger]

Hey, you know what I got to say?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

When I see conk, I eat it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Isn't it see conk? Yeah, you change the sea conk. Okay, I didn't say when I see.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That's a good punch.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I said, when I see conch, I eat. Oh, you see?

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, now I say what I see. That's what I thought. Well, that sounds like Amelia Jones when

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I see I suck it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Right. Suck it would be better. But now we've changed so many elements that it maybe does not resemble town anymore.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

This is where we're not at the Roast of Kevin Hart right now. When I see conch, I eat it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Have you ever had conch?

[Mike Mitchell]

I've had conch.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I thought it was a shell.

[Nick Wiger]

It's. It's conch is actually it. It is in a shell.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a shell, but there's like a meat in there.

[Nick Wiger]

You've had. I'm surprised because it's a. It's a. It's a Key West. I mean, it's like Florida thing. Right. I've had it everywhere.

[Mike Mitchell]

I actually remember it was on a family vacation. We went snorkeling.

[Nick Wiger]

I remember where.

[Mike Mitchell]

What biome we were in. But yes, there was conch. And it was like one of those things where, like, we were on the boat and then the. Some of the. The boat workers, like, dove off the side and, like, went down and got conch and then brought it up and then, like, scraped out fresh conch. And then they. They had like a. They made, like, a sauce and like, mixed it up with it, and we just got a little bit of cold.

[Nick Wiger]

So you ate some raw conch and,

[Mike Mitchell]

you know, it's good. I was like 8 years old, but I was like, I like this.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Because it's usually conch fritters. Right? That's like a big thing. Yeah, I think it's a conch fritters. I mean, I don't think. I think you can have it any way you want to, but are clam

[Alyssa Limperis]

cakes something that are existent? Like, do you know what a clam cake is?

[Mike Mitchell]

I do, Via Mitch.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Because that's basically just a donut with clams in it, which if.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah. Wait, stuffed. Stuffed clams are stuffies. As you Stuffies. Yeah, yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But those are different. Right. I'm talking about like a clam cake. Like, you're on the beach and you get a clam cake. No, it's not a crab cake. No, no, no.

[Nick Wiger]

Sure. I feel like I've had some version.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Literally a donut, but then it has, like, chunks.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Popular in Rhode Island.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, maybe. I don't know. What?

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, it's like a donut, but then you eat it and it's kind of savory and has chunks of clam in it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow, that sounds good.

[Nick Wiger]

That's really.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It's chopped clams flour and some eggs, milk, and a little bit of clam juice. And it's deep fried until golden brown.

[Nick Wiger]

Emelia always gambles on fish. This seems right up your alley.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That's pretty good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Emma]

Sea conch.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I eat.

[Nick Wiger]

It worked so well when she delivered it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Why didn't you say it for yourself?

[Nick Wiger]

She writes jokes for me.

[Emma]

It's like being a Mitch's ghostwriter.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Get out. Get out.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Get out of here.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, man. I can't help but think now. I'm just too. I'm too scared for you. We're not.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

We don't.

[Mike Mitchell]

We don't need to talk about it. No, no.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It could be time. It could be. So I think this could be time

[Nick Wiger]

to get a pet or just get down on all fours and bark at her next time she's there.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can do that. So, okay, so you're from. You're from Sea Kong.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

You. You're near Rhode Island.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're spent. This is basically like your whole youth is spent in New England.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Totally. And beyond. Like, because my parents also grew up. My mom grew up in Rhode Island. My dad grew up in Lowell.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So it was like. Whole family lived in these regions. So I did not really go far. Right. Yeah. Everything of mine was within these states.

[Mike Mitchell]

So you're vegan now. But like, what. Like when you were. When you were growing up, what were. What were you like? Your favorite New England bites.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I would say, mom's here. She's like, what do we want? What do you want to do today? I go, let's go to Friendliest. You get a quesadilla at Friendly. I loved the quesadilla at Friendly's so much that I had them, and I would just get a cheese quesadilla and I made them tell us the recipe so my mom could make it. And she would always try to make it, and it never. It never quite was as good as the one at Friendly's. Some fries, a little bit of a ice cream sundae, caramel sauce.

[Nick Wiger]

Friendly's Wax has had it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have had Friendly's.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What'd you get?

[Mike Mitchell]

We got a fribble.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes, right.

[Mike Mitchell]

We got a Sunday. I bet we can look it up. It's on the Doughboys Wiki, what we got. But that was on a tour show.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Nice.

[Nick Wiger]

You were kind of mean to it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was in a. I was in a sour mood.

[Nick Wiger]

It's true.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then we. Because we had to. We went to. We. We.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We. We got a sour mood at Friendlies. I mean, the the ice cream has a smiley face on it.

[Nick Wiger]

Let me tell. And we also got that Sunday for him. We got him the smile. That smiley face Sunday does.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Do you have a heart? Do you have a beating heart in.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You did get a chicken quesadilla.

[Mike Mitchell]

I did get a chicken quesadilla.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Waffle fries, chicken quesadilla and onion rings.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, so we got the savory side as well.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah, we got a burger, salad, and the friendly cone head sundae.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Good order. Good order. Do you have a favorite place you've been to on. In that region that you. I mean, did you guys go to Newport Creamery?

[Mike Mitchell]

We've not been in Newport Creamery.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's a good one to go to off the Awful.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Awful.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, I'm in.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's like a nice milkshake. And then I don't know if this is a regional thing too, but my godfather owns this place called Eats and there's. They sell hot wieners. So is that a hot wieners, where it's like hot dogs and then with. With like meat and onions on top.

[Mike Mitchell]

I fucking love the sound of that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

So that's delightful.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That would probably be my big thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that in Rhode island or is that in.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, well, that's in Sea Conc.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's a sea conch.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's a sea conch.

[Nick Wiger]

But.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But it's also a Rhode island thing. Like, it's. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is Sea Conch adjacent to the. To the bay?

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, that's.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, it's not.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah, that's what's. I mean, it's certainly close. You know, you're. You're close enough to water, but no, it's not like a beach town.

[Mike Mitchell]

Quincy, where Mitch is from, is. Has some lovely beaches.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, you're.

[Emma]

You know.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, it has some beaches. How about that?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. I don't know. Like, I'm not excited to swim in.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I mean, you wouldn't swim in. I wouldn't swim like a lot of the beaches off of Long Beach. I wouldn't swim in. There's some. But I mean, like, it's, you know, it's just nice to be near water.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Definitely.

[Nick Wiger]

You go to an task at beach to swim if that's nearby. Yeah, but. Yeah. How far is he gone from, like starting the route down the Cape?

[Alyssa Limperis]

So growing up, it was like we never went to the Cape because my parents were obsessed with how much traffic there was to the Cape. And then I found out it was like. Like an hour and a half away when I was an Adult. I'm like, that's so close. But they were obsessed with it being like, so far because of the traffic. So we never went. But now my mom basically lives there.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, no way.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. After all that, we.

[Nick Wiger]

We had a place down Sandwich. Growing up Sandwich. Sandwich, Mass.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But then I grew up going to Lake Winbasaukee in New Hampshire.

[Nick Wiger]

Now I also, because of. Because of Vermondi Wigs Ramadi had a place up there. And so I would. I went to like, we maybe had crossover up in Lake Winnipesaukee. We maybe were at the same time.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Maybe.

[Nick Wiger]

It's possible.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wow. Yeah. No, I love Win. That's a nice. I think I choose lake over beach in the Grand.

[Nick Wiger]

I do think I choose I lake less scary.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Lake less scary.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, man. I don't know.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Calmer.

[Mike Mitchell]

Brain amoebas are terrifying to me. I don't want a brain amoeba.

[Nick Wiger]

It's not going to happen in Lake Winnipesaukee, my man.

[Mike Mitchell]

You don't think so? There's no amoebas there.

[Alyssa Limperis]

See, I don't even know what this is. And I'm nervous.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Way too much gasoline in the water.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, it's also just.

[Nick Wiger]

It's like a huge. Isn't it like lake when a psaki is like huge, gigantic. And I think. I think. I think those things happen in, like, smaller bodies of water, don't they?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like. Well, yeah. I don't know. I mean, it's like microbes can be in there. The brain amoeba thing. And I think it's extremely rare, obviously, but it's like they'll like, enter through your nose while you're underwater and they'll burrow into your brain and then just take over, you know, like a parasite.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Gasoline and sunscreen and like dirty diapers. You're fine.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I'm not saying it's a dirty lake. It's just like everybody goes there for the summer, so everyone's in the water all the time. Summer.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is there is a place where people, like, flash their titties or I'm sure

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

on parts of it. Absolutely. I'm sure there's been some titties flashed.

[Mike Mitchell]

Remember about like Lake Havasu? Like, that was like. That was like. That was what kids would say is like in Arizona is like, you go there like girl. Like, ladies will pull up their bikini tops or whatever as like. And never got no.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

We go there for boy Scouts and we'd always be on the lookout.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, of course.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then. But that. But I associate like, like, lakes with, like, partying and like, sort of like, you know, you're parking the boat. You're Exactly.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You're. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And for. I associate with, like, the beach fronts, the. The oceans with just chilling, which is like. It's just different vibes. But also, like, I grew up in Long beach, so we're going to the beach all the time. We're like. That was like, hold on.

[Nick Wiger]

Now she's also by the beach. Well, you're close enough to.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, I'm. Yeah, close to, like, Narragansett.

[Nick Wiger]

I just. I just searched Brain Amoeba. Lake Winnipesau.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, great.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, no. Oh, no. Yeah, I'm actually back on Ghosts. I would go ghost. It's now over Brain Amoeba. Mitch, don't do it to me. You look scared.

[Nick Wiger]

No specific active cases or warnings have been issued specifically for Lake Winnipesaukee recently.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, that recently hurts.

[Mike Mitchell]

Are you reading the AI summary?

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Go a step deeper than the AI

[Nick Wiger]

Bacterial alerts for New England lakes and rivers. So I guess that. I guess I'm going to. All right, you know, I'm going to do. Has there ever been a brain eating amoebia recently?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Makes me think there has.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

We're gonna find out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, here we go.

[Nick Wiger]

I would still choose amoeba over.

[Mike Mitchell]

Over ghost.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What happens with amoeba? Would we lose brain fully just a little bit.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a death sentence.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, I'd go ghost.

[Mike Mitchell]

Brain's getting liquid.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

In the years of 1962 and 2022, there were no cases of brain amoebas anywhere in the state of New Hampshire.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hey.

[Nick Wiger]

There you go.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

So I think you're okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Look at that.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I think maybe this just hasn't been updated since 2022.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that where that lake is in New Hampshire?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes, in New Hampshire. Okay.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

This is the. The.

[Mike Mitchell]

See, growing up in California, where the state is so sprawling and an hour and a half drive is, like. Might be your commute.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Right.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

The.

[Mike Mitchell]

The New England. The hyper clustered New England geography always with me. It was just like. It's like we just go, like 20 minutes away. We're in a different state.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Exactly.

[Mike Mitchell]

And that could just be, like, where we get dinner.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I hiked across Rhode island with my dad, so Rhode island is like. It's 72 miles.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Very. It's very. It's very small. How long?

[Mike Mitchell]

I hiked it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We split it up. So I think it was like four. We did four separate hikes, but it's like, you could. Could technically probably do that in a couple days.

[Mike Mitchell]

Were you camping? Were you.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We weren't. We had like a whole process where we would drop. We'd like drop both of our cars here, get in one car, come here, hike from this point to that point, drive back.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's fun.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But it's really small. So everyone in Rhode island, you know, knows each other. It's very small.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'd like to hike across something.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Seems like a blast because you can

[Nick Wiger]

do it on, you know, you and your new friend go hike anywhere away from him.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Are you like, are you a walker?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm a big walker.

[Mike Mitchell]

So the great LA walk. I don't know if you're. This is a thing you're aware of. This happens every, this happens every year. I've done it two years.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Tell me everything.

[Mike Mitchell]

Their buddy Alan McLeod, molasses boy who's got the Walking about podcast and it's a walk from.

[Nick Wiger]

Didn't he like come in jeans or something last night? Was. Didn't something weird happen or wait something happened? Did someone have to buy clothes?

[Mike Mitchell]

That was, that was, that was. I think, yeah, I think that was last time or that was. It might have been this previous year. But yeah, Allen's. Allen was doing some, some making some content for his podcast and is like oh, my SD card is full. So we went into a best. Like found a Best Buy and like me and Gabrison Eva Anderson are waiting for like a half hour while just shopping for the best.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Some DVDs and he comes out and

[Mike Mitchell]

is like I bought the wrong one. Yeah, God bless him.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But, but okay, so the great, the

[Mike Mitchell]

great walk, it's basically like a, like a. Essentially a half marathon length walk from downtown LA. Starts in. I think it start. Started in not MacArthur Park.

[Nick Wiger]

Which one? What did you buy? I bought one milliby. You can, you can only record like one picture on it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think.

[Nick Wiger]

Did he do.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it's one of those things where maybe he needed like a micro SD card. He bought a regular SD card or vice versa. He just bought something that wasn't compatible with his equipment.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Anyway, micro SD cards are very common by the way, just so people. It's a very common thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

So we start. You start somewhere in downtown LA and then you just go towards the coast. The first year I did it was from USC to UCLA, the two college campuses and they want the USC's in downtown. UCLA's started college campus. The second year it was from. It was from downtown all the way to Santa Monica. So it's like, you get to go all the way to the beach.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And are you ever crossing highways? Like, is it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're just walking on sidewalks. Okay, so there are some stretches where you're like, not. Not fording a freeway. There's a route, but there are things where you're just like, oh, this is just a heavily traffic street. And you know what? This stretch, not particularly hospitable to pedestrian traffic, but it's great. If you're a walker, you should do it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I would love to do it. Okay, that sounds funny. I love to walk. I was a runner, but now I just. Now I just walk.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, you were a runner?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I was a runner.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you. Was this an injury thing that got you out of it? Was it. Was it age? Because for me, I recently did a half marathon with my dad and my brother.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No way.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I mean, like, I don't run regularly unless I'm training for something. Because it's just such so much wear and tear in your body.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, Yeah. I. Yeah, I was like a sprinter, and then I tore my sprinter.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, what? What. What's. What, What. What distances?

[Alyssa Limperis]

1, 2, 3, 4.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Those are very different races.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, they're different races, but they're all kind of the same, which is. Honestly, you're just going full out on all of them. Just that you're, you know, you're just kind of going full out.

[Nick Wiger]

Sounds like you don't believe her.

[Mike Mitchell]

The 400. The 400 seems like the. The. The toughest.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's brutal. That's the worst one. But again, yeah, once. Yeah, one. Yeah, once. I was like, I just have to go as fast as I can that whole time.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch, you know the what?

[Nick Wiger]

The 400 is the 400 meter, you piece of.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

What the. Are you asking?

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you know what the race is?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. One, two, three, four.

[Mike Mitchell]

Perfect. No, four. In terms of distance, it's a. It's a.

[Nick Wiger]

Do I know how long 400 meters is?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a full lap around the track at a full sprint.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, Yeah, I get it.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's tough. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

It's hard.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I. I'm not saying it's easy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Except I think I could do it pretty fast.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I would.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So I, you know, I thought I was so fast. I was so, like, whatever. And then I saw that someone just broke the world record for a marathon.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And they were basic. This guy was basically for the whole marathon doing, like, not that far off from my pace for the 400.

[Nick Wiger]

Whoa.

[Mike Mitchell]

He finished under two hours. Finished a Marathon absolutely crazy. And so basically it was like 4 minute 34 second miles for it for 26 miles in a row. It's unbelievable.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Time was 59 seconds. For the 400 seconds that's, he was doing what, like 63. What, what was his to, what was his final time? He said per mile.

[Nick Wiger]

4.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it was like 4:34. I forget when.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So then literally he's doing. Yeah, like, that's, it's so crazy. That's basically full on Sprint.

[Nick Wiger]

That's, that's, that is insane.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I have 59 minutes and 30 seconds.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh my God, that is so crazy. That's so, that's awesome.

[Nick Wiger]

I'll admit. I couldn't do that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, come on, man.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You could.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You could. Come on, don't sell yourself short.

[Nick Wiger]

You know, I don't think I've broken 10 minutes on a mile. You know, this, that I skipped. We, you could skip. You couldn't skip gym, but you skipped him. And at the end of the year you had to make up your gyms. And then our, our gym teacher was like, so, like you're done with classes your senior year?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

So you're done with class your senior year and so you got to make up all these gyms that you like skipped because we just like didn't go or we would like one, you know, we'd left school. We skip, we're skipping school.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, okay. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

And he was like, I'll let, I'll cross off the rest of your gyms. You don't have to do anymore if you guys can do a mile like in under 10 minutes. And it was me and Micus and Shankton and they like finished their, they finished and then it was me and they were like, it was very, I mean it was, it, it was, it was very embarrassing. But like Changton was behind me, like pushing me, trying to like make me get under 10 minutes, which I think, I think I did. And it might have been like, it might have been even 12 minutes for me. Who knows how long it was? But I haven't broken 10 minutes on a mile on a long time. I, I, I'm not trying to do that anymore.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm a person your age.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't, I don't. When I was a boy.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're trying to impress.

[Nick Wiger]

Sometimes I have dreams of being a young. I've said this before. Being a young boy and running fast again. I think that that's, that's cute.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's adorable.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, maybe when you're, when I'm Dead or something I can do. I can.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You know, it would make you run fast.

[Nick Wiger]

Stop putting this on me. It's on him or Amelia, whoever wants it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not only one of us.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I can't believe this. It makes me feel like. There you are. Proof you're. You're fucking with.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not fucking with you. I. I told you on the podcast intentionally because I knew you'd get a. I would get a reaction out of you. But this hap. This seriously happened to me last night and I've been thinking about it all day.

[Nick Wiger]

This is like the time you told us some guy had a 10 inch dick.

[Mike Mitchell]

What? What are you talking about?

[Nick Wiger]

You told me a certain guy had a 10 inch hog.

[Mike Mitchell]

What? A guy we know is why. When was this?

[Emma]

This is in Seattle.

[Mike Mitchell]

We played a prank. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. That was a prank. Now you remember. That was a prank. That was a prank. But this, this is not that. And we all. We all teamed up on that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We.

[Mike Mitchell]

We. We ahead of time conspired. And then we all converged on your hotel room. We're like, we have to tell you this.

[Nick Wiger]

And they were like, this guy that we all might know, he's like. Like, it turns out he has like a tennis chicken.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was like, what?

[Nick Wiger]

And I was like, there's no way.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was fun.

[Nick Wiger]

I said I was going to kill myself.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

When we told him he. We were pranking him, he told us he felt relief, as if he had just found out a loved one was free of cancer.

[Nick Wiger]

And I have had a loved one who has had cancer. I know how it would go.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then likely it follows curse. We tried to pass it on to Susser, but he never bit. He just was. Never took the bait.

[Nick Wiger]

Here's the thing is. Well, you never really have. Yeah, he's never really tried to. But now he's got to listen to. Because he sometimes will listen to episodes. He's going to. He's gonna listen. He's gonna listen to this one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

The dodiac lets him listen.

[Mike Mitchell]

The dodiac will let him listen to this one.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, God. We gotta end Munch Madness for sake.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll figure it out. So, okay, so you're.

[Nick Wiger]

You're running.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're running 100 meters. 200, 300, 400. 1, 2, 3, 4.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yep.

[Mike Mitchell]

What? Like, is this a. I assume you're a teenager for this strat?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is. Does this go into college?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, so you're. You're running college.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I was all American.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're all American home.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Come on.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's Unbelievable.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I know. But then it was a. Yeah, I did it very intensely. I didn't really drink in high school. My teammates, we were very, like, intense about it. And then I went to college, and then I. After my freshman year, I started doing improv.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, where'd you go to school?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I went to Middlebury in Vermont.

[Mike Mitchell]

You went to Middlebury in Vermont?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I was going up the. Up the coast.

[Mike Mitchell]

So you were all American in college at one time?

[Alyssa Limperis]

High school. In high school.

[Mike Mitchell]

In high school. Okay, what distance?

[Alyssa Limperis]

In the 400, but four by four.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my God.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And honestly, I was really held up. Up by, like, I was fast, but I had teammates who were way faster, so I think I was. I. I would not have been all American on my own still.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, that's not. That's a. I loved it.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It was a. It was.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Did you at all through college or you just.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, I did it literally my freshman year. And then I. I was just. I mean, I was just a big rule follower. So I was just like, rules, structure. And then once I went to college and realized, like, oh, I don't really have to do this, like, this is bad news.

[Nick Wiger]

You guys are going to start bonding. He loves rules.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love rules.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, same. And so. But then once I went to college, it was kind of nice to be like, oh, but I don't have to do this. And then what do I actually like? And then that's when I started doing improv and I was like, oh, I. Like, I. I don't dread. Like, I would pray for rain, you know what I mean? And then I just always wanted. I would be like, I hope I break my ankle, you know, because I didn't want to run.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's. That's fascinating when you're good at something but you don't want to be doing it, which is a very, like, kid brain sort of thing.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Totally. And I don't even think I was.

[Nick Wiger]

If you. I would have Jeff Gilloolied you. If you'd hired. I would have. I would have broken your ankles. Yeah, Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I. Tanya would have kind of got. Is that the guy who did it?

[Nick Wiger]

It is played by Paul Walter Hauser, I believe in the. Is that who he plays? Jeff Gillooly?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I got that audition. I didn't. I did. I never read for it. So there we go.

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you mean?

[Alyssa Limperis]

You were just like, no, I don't. I don't.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I thought the. I thought that. I think that movie sucks.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, man. PWH is gonna hit you for. With A Swanton bomb.

[Nick Wiger]

That's all right. There's other. There's stuff I've done that sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Go boys.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know. You're right.

[Alyssa Limperis]

This episode, total snooze.

[Mike Mitchell]

What is your. Okay? Because what I remember about that. And I was not running competitively, but I was running avidly when I was like that age. And, you know, consistently doing half marathons and marathons.

[Alyssa Limperis]

In high school?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, in college. In College. Early 20s. And well, I just remember my body was just a furnace. Like it was just burning calories. I could not eat enough. And imagine you like, especially competing at a high level. You were just like.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Like, could.

[Mike Mitchell]

Would you just eat whatever?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, especially cuz sprinting is really a lot.

[Nick Wiger]

What the is Jimmy looking at? She just got up and started looking.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know, I'm realizing that, like last night we were recording, she was staring really intently at me. She was. She was like staring like right in my eyes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Look at what she's doing right now. I mean, that is a.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That's what. This is what she does at home. And I'm like, what the do you see?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, but she was staring at me. And that was before I went home.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Cute. Maybe something's following you around.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's wild.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Maybe you should keep Jimmy with you for a few days.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh my God.

[Nick Wiger]

She's coming home with me. Girl.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Army of dogs and cats.

[Nick Wiger]

Hell yeah. How 100%. I would. Cats are good like that too. Yeah, cats ward off bad stuff.

[Mike Mitchell]

So. So. So what is your. You're fine sprinting?

[Alyssa Limperis]

We. It was a lot of lifting. Lifting.

[Mike Mitchell]

A lot of lifting.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So when you're lifting that much. Yeah, I don't even. I did not think about food. I did not think about. I was just like, yeah, eat whatever I can.

[Nick Wiger]

Are you more Jeff Galuly, by the way?

[Mike Mitchell]

I just wanted to make sure it was Jeff.

[Nick Wiger]

It was Jeff.

[Mike Mitchell]

You got it correct.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

I would agree.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I just knew. I just. I feel like I. I never knew his name. I was just like, oh, it's just.

[Nick Wiger]

I would have cried. It's like, you know the answer to everything.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I just know. I know. I know. You happen to know it was Jeff Gillooly. I do know that detail.

[Nick Wiger]

I.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Is he in love with her or was he just kind of a hired?

[Nick Wiger]

Probably in a way that the big guy's always in love with her.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think the other guy, like, I. Because, like, it was like the. The boyfriend hired Jeff Gillooly, right?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Yeah. Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I think that was more just like a hired goo.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, okay. Okay, okay, okay.

[Nick Wiger]

They really put the blame on Jeff Galuly and I, Tanya, like the guy who's dead. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, you can't. Here's the thing. You can't defame someone who's dead.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So maybe they. Maybe he got the. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I learned that on a writing job. They were like.

[Nick Wiger]

I learned that by seeing Michael just recently.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. If you ever want to like make something up about somebody that. That is not legally actionable or just like insult somebody's not legally actionable, go after a dead person.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Impossible to defame the dead.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's really dark.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's dark.

[Mike Mitchell]

But it's good to know.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And you wonder why the ghosts are coming his way. She's like, you offended my. My father.

[Mike Mitchell]

When you are in the adult, it's G's daughter's daughter. Hey, he was a gun. He did what he had to do

[Nick Wiger]

to feed the family.

[Mike Mitchell]

Madison Galilee. She's also a ghost now.

[Nick Wiger]

Sad.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a real bummer.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

So. So what, what are your. When you're eating indulgent food like, like, like, what is this? And you know, before the year, when you're vegan. What are, what are you going for?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, so again. And, and you know, I. So high school. I'm eating whatever. I'm eating everything and anything. I'm a big pasta family. Big pasta dinners. I'm having spaghetti and meatballs. We're having chicken, cup of. I'm Greek, so a lot of Greek food in the house.

[Nick Wiger]

We almost reviewed a Greek restaurant.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's right. We almost did Nick the Greek.

[Nick Wiger]

Nick the Greek.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think it's great.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's an endorsement of Nick the Greek. We had a great time. We went there with our buddy Becky Feldman.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think Nick the Greek is fabulous. And I also think that we are in a Greek desert here. So I think there's also. It's a. There's also just not a lot of options. So if I feel like affordable Greek food, that's kind of the spot to go to. There used to be Papa Christos, which was the best papa.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Right?

[Alyssa Limperis]

It closed.

[Mike Mitchell]

It closed.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It closed.

[Nick Wiger]

I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, they, they had to put those. Put some five story condos with a sweet green and a yoga works on the ground level.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Exactly.

[Mike Mitchell]

Everywhere else in la, Papa Cristo said

[Nick Wiger]

that they were going to like open some sort of thing. It just has never happened.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's never happened.

[Mike Mitchell]

Papa Cristo was so fun, so funny.

[Alyssa Limperis]

He was always there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It was so nice.

[Nick Wiger]

Ja Rule did a commercial for Right. Is that who it was? Didn't really.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right.

[Nick Wiger]

I think it's Jaru.

[Mike Mitchell]

That sounds right.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think there was something like that. I don't know if that was like a bit or what we got.

[Nick Wiger]

I got a couple of good. Well, Mediterranean, not Greek specifically, because look.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, like Mediterranean. I mean, I don't mind it, but it's like if craving like home cooked feeling of Greek. But again, now I've just gotten into cooking Greek food, which has been a real good thing.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes. That's been there.

[Nick Wiger]

There's a place next to the, the Los Villas 3 called. There was a place called El Greco Cafe and I love it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, it's no longer, it's no longer there.

[Nick Wiger]

But you got Sidewalk Grill, which is Mediterranean. And then you got.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's, there's. I mean there's fantasy.

[Alyssa Limperis]

There's like great high level restaurants. But if, if you're not trying to, if you're just like, I want one, you know, Also Nick the Greek always has a buy one, get one. I'm. I think they always have a buy one, get one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Love that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That is nice. You see that on the Postmates app.

[Mike Mitchell]

See a Bogo.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You see a bogo. Yeah, whatever.

[Nick Wiger]

Maybe I gotta start doing Nick the Greek for dinner.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's a good dinner.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Have you, what do you think about spits? Have you compared spits?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I like Spitz, but again, I just feel like there's a very specific thing about Greek food, like lemon potatoes. I'm like, I. They're like spitz is great, but. Great, great. But if I'm feeling for real Greek.

[Nick Wiger]

You want some lemon drop soup?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I want some lemon drop soup. Although that has eggs in it, so. But again, because I'm vegan, that helps me now, so I try to make all the recipes I grew up with vegan.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, there you go.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

So as you alluded to, I mean, there's great Mediterranean food, there's great Persian food, there's great Armenian food in, in la. But. But Greek food. That's interesting to hear that. It's kind of like, you know, not really present. I only think, I think of places like Astro Burger, which are like a burger restaurant that's Greek owned.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Definitely. Yeah, totally. Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Have you been to that Greek place that's on a. What's that little nice street where they. Larmont.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, I've been there. That's good too. Again, I would maybe put that as a little higher.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Higher price point quality.

[Nick Wiger]

When they like the cheese. I got A question for you.

[Emma]

How.

[Nick Wiger]

How are vegans doing on feta?

[Alyssa Limperis]

On feta, there's great vegan feta. Great vegan feta. I, we are in a wonderful era right now where I basically want for nothing. I can have. I make chicken kapamal, which is a dish I grew up eating. Every Monday you'd swear you were eating chicken.

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you make it with?

[Alyssa Limperis]

You'd swear you were eating chicken. I gotta think of the brand. Okay. Green bag. And it's just like chicken breast. Vegan.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is a plant based chicken.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And it's, it's like, it's unbelievable. And this feels new to me. Maybe they've been around, but is it daring? Daring.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's unbelievable. Good point. Thank you. It's unbelievable. So, yeah, I can still kind of make everything.

[Mike Mitchell]

So you. So like, like that's maybe a thing where you're almost just kidding. I imagine that the chicken, I'm not too familiar with this, but it's like a shredded sort of like, you know, poached or boiled sort of chicken. And so like it's almost like texture, protein, more so than you're actually like, like, like you can cover it up a little bit with all the, with all the sauce, with the soup.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Exactly. And then the smell, it's like, yeah, lots of lemon, lots of tomato, lots of cinnamon, salt, pepper, onion.

[Mike Mitchell]

That sounds delightful.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah, it's really nice. And yeah, it's just, it's because I live here. My whole family lives on the east coast, so I don't have any family here. So if I ever feel like, oh, I want to feel that home cooked feeling, it's nice to have that smell in my house.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is there any Greek dish, as someone who's been vegan for a decade that you miss or that you have not been able to recreate in vegan form?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think just a classic gyro. Like growing up, going to Greek festivals every summer, just having like a big gyro with the, with the what? From the, what's it called?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

The.

[Nick Wiger]

The spit.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, from the spit. That's. You can't really replicate that.

[Nick Wiger]

W. This is, this is New England that we're talking about. You got, you got a lot of Greek pizza.

[Mike Mitchell]

You condescending to me for what's.

[Nick Wiger]

You don't live there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know, but I've been there.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I also let you a little something about where we're from.

[Emma]

Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

There's Greek pizza and sub shot.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sub shots.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I'm aware of this. We talk about.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You couldn't Understand. Understand that. You couldn't get it, man. It's Greek. And there's pizza.

[Nick Wiger]

It's just Greek pizza is a style of pizza.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, I've gotten Greek pizza with you in New England.

[Nick Wiger]

I believe that.

[Mike Mitchell]

And also we've. We went to. Remember when we went to Santarpios, which had the.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I thought you were gonna say Santoro's, which was my place. Shout out if you still exist. Santoro's. Greek pizza. God, it was good.

[Mike Mitchell]

Santorio's, which had like, you know, had skewers. It had like.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. So in addition to the pizza, and it was like, delightful.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, some calzones.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, but that was. Santabio's is not like the. There's.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's not Greek pizza.

[Nick Wiger]

But it was like, I gotta take Nick's pizza next time you're home.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, Nick's pizza is.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's your neighborhood one.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's great.

[Mike Mitchell]

My name is Nick.

[Nick Wiger]

His name.

[Mike Mitchell]

His name is Nick the Nick the Greek, too.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm like the Greek. That's nice.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm Estonian, but I like saying I like the Nick the Greek.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Come on.

[Nick Wiger]

Pissed.

[Mike Mitchell]

It follows.

[Nick Wiger]

Mitch. No, take it back.

[Mike Mitchell]

Please take it back. Come to me. Come into me like an exorcist. Okay, great.

[Nick Wiger]

Nick the cool.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not gonna threaten you with ghosts.

[Nick Wiger]

You already have.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Multiple times.

[Nick Wiger]

Multiple times. You know what would happen to me if I had that experience? I wouldn't be here tonight.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, I know. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think you'd have a heart attack.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I probably would die.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Also, the fact that we were in there eating food for an hour and you didn't say anything, I would not be able to. I'd be telling everyone.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, so as soon as thing he

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

said when I woke up.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, When I. I told Amelia and Emma and the first thing. When I woke up this morning, I. I texted Relle in our. In our group chat for get played by other podcast because got another podcast. I do have another.

[Nick Wiger]

Does have another podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

But anyway, so hold on.

[Nick Wiger]

Do it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I didn't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hold on.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't worry, don't worry.

[Mike Mitchell]

I just included as a.

[Nick Wiger]

You don't have to do that one. Don't worry.

[Mike Mitchell]

Because I know Relle likes the paranormal and I gave her a full rundown of everything that happened.

[Nick Wiger]

What is Relle's breakdown of this?

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, Relle was like kind of like a little bit like. Oh, mouth a gape.

[Nick Wiger]

I think this is really vivid, genuinely, like for the world. This is like the. This is like the most confirmation that Ghosts exist. Is you seeing one. Is Weiger specifically being like, I saw a spirit. That to me is like the closest thing to like, proof of ghosts existing in my mind.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And now. Why do you say that?

[Nick Wiger]

Because he's not a guy who would ever care. And I mean, like, unless he's seeing things, he also is a crazy, crazy man. So there is. But. But it's possible I'm seeing things.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, that's the most plausible explanation. My Get Play co host, one of. One of my hosts, Heather, has a story. I know has a ghost story.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Where?

[Nick Wiger]

Japan. Together.

[Mike Mitchell]

She and. She and the woman she was dating at the time were in her old apartment and they both saw the same ghost at the same time. So like, that's like a really crazy. And she's a. She's a skeptic too.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, that's. Wait, you live with someone?

[Mike Mitchell]

I do, yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Did you call them in? Did you have a temptation to call them in to be like.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, because I. Like, she was asle in the. Like, I fell asleep on the couch and she was asleep in the. The bed. And so like, I was like, tell her about it. I haven't told her yet because, like, she was just getting ready for work this morning. I didn't want to, like, still there. I'll give her the story tonight. She's not going to be. No one's gonna. She's not gonna be haunted. She's gonna be fine. You think I should have warned her?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Probably.

[Mike Mitchell]

Your mouth is a gape. Your jaw has been dropped.

[Emma]

Well, I will say, because Weiger has sleep paralysis, that makes me think. Think the ghost is not real.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Right.

[Emma]

And because I think people with sleep paralysis have, like, higher chance tendencies to see. You have to see like apparitions like that or aliens even.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, right.

[Nick Wiger]

When I. When I had sleep paralysis, I could. I only had it once. Ever. And I thought there was a spider crawling on my wall, and I could have sworn that I was a tarantula climbing down my wall, and I could have sworn that I was away.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But you're saying it did feel very different?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I. I've. I've had sleep paralysis before and. And you know, a number of times. It used to be a fairly, unfortunately, fairly regular occurrence for me.

[Nick Wiger]

Me.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I like that. You know, Like, I like, again, I just can't. Can't really breathe. Don't feel like I can respirate. Even though you can. Phys. Body completely rigid. Like, cannot even move if my. If I'm like, face down on the pillow, like I can't even like.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, that's so scary.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is really scary. And it's genuinely. That's a.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's.

[Mike Mitchell]

That in of itself is terrifying. And then when I've seen presences there, they've. They've looked very different. They've been all in shadow. So this. This is a little bit more. More humanal.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay. How long you lived in this place?

[Mike Mitchell]

Five years.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Four years. Interesting.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't like it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. It's fine.

[Nick Wiger]

I came in here with such a jovial, upbeat attitude, and now I'm scared.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're fine.

[Nick Wiger]

No, not. I'm scared.

[Mike Mitchell]

So what's your.

[Nick Wiger]

I used to. I used to. I. I rode crew in college.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, nice.

[Nick Wiger]

So I know this. I. I was. I wasn't an all American. I was. I was American.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, you're real American.

[Nick Wiger]

I was a real American.

[Emma]

Hulk.

[Nick Wiger]

A lot of the morals of Hulk Hogan, I. I instilled.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, Right, right.

[Nick Wiger]

I. I get too full to. For instance, that's Hulk.

[Mike Mitchell]

I had so much sushi, I didn't know this was gonna happen. In. Sex tape.

[Nick Wiger]

He had sex tape. He got too full to fuck.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

He was.

[Mike Mitchell]

He was like.

[Alyssa Limperis]

They kept recording.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Because he, like, fucked his buddy's wife.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh.

[Nick Wiger]

Which his buddy knew.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bob of the Love Sponge was like, my. This is the whole, like, thing down Gawker. And then they released the tape and on the tape he said the N word and it destroyed his career.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. That's how. That's how Hogan got. This is like how he, like. And I auditioned for Bubba the Love Sponge in a movie called Killing Gawker where Ben Affleck was going to be Hulk Hogan.

[Mike Mitchell]

What a pairing that would have been.

[Nick Wiger]

Me and Affleck would have been great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Great.

[Alyssa Limperis]

By the way, you listen to the new Noah Khan?

[Nick Wiger]

No.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Are you. Have you the new Noah? Oh, it's a great album. It's just sort of a New England to the veins. It's really, really nice.

[Mike Mitchell]

What? Tell me, Noah Kahn. Tell me.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, Noah K A H A N. Kahn. He's just great. And his music is just very. About growing up on the East Coast.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is it. What is it like folky? Is it like Rocky? Okay.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Folk. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow, that's cool.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

The. In my.

[Nick Wiger]

I mentioned the same way as Star Trek.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is like wrath of On.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. For Nick the Greek geek.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mentioned this. I'm not. You're fine. I'm not going to do it. You mention.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't you. You can't do it. It's not yours to do you Piece of.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch is looking at Ailia, who's sending it back, gesturing the curse at him.

[Nick Wiger]

Back at you.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, I'll take it. I'll take. Just get. Send direct to me. Here we go. Oh, no. Whoops.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hey, when I see a. I eat it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You mentioned Ben Affleck and we've talked about this.

[Nick Wiger]

Speaking of, in my intro, Gone Girl.

[Mike Mitchell]

In my intro, I do talk about gone girl.

[Nick Wiger]

Reflection. Gone girl.

[Mike Mitchell]

Girl. So here's the thing. Our buddies on the Blank Check podcast had circulated this. Some. Some intel that they had that that was a CG hog, that it's not his real hog. In Gone Girl, Affleck swears it's real. And Jennifer Garner, who he was dating at that. Or like married to at the time, said like, like something like, oh, like, I hope they got a wide angle lens. Talking about his hog because he's got a big.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I mean, that makes sense.

[Mike Mitchell]

He had a big boy.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, I think that would make sense. Sense for him. And it's caused him nothing. But, you know, it's. It's. Yeah, right.

[Nick Wiger]

That's a very funny thing for. Also for her to be like, I hope they got a w. That's a very funny thing to be like, it's

[Mike Mitchell]

a nice thing for your partner to say.

[Nick Wiger]

Huge dick. I mean, it's just a funny thing to say.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's what you want to hear.

[Emma]

She's bragging about it on Ellen.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And Ellen.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

That's weird. That's kind of weird.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure.

[Nick Wiger]

If I went on a podcast, I was like, my girlfriend's got the tastiest in town.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, that's a little different.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Her was the subject of news articles.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, exactly. Sure.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Right, right, right.

[Nick Wiger]

All right. Okay. So I guess that is different in a way.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, but, but I, I like the, the I, I get what you're saying. I, I think it'd be a little weird if you said it out of nowhere, but it was like someone was asking you about it just now. Yeah, like just now.

[Nick Wiger]

Luckily, I don't have a girlfriend. Oh, I know. You know, I know that you now know some lady, some random lady that. Who knows what her status is. Was it a girl or a young.

[Mike Mitchell]

Was it a. I'm not sure. It. It was. It was a diminutive figure again, faced completely in shadow.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Kind of hunched over in Kubrick, staring right at me. But. But it couldn't see the eyes and like Bunsen, honey, do just, just like, just like featureless. And that makes it.

[Nick Wiger]

That relieves me. That you say it's like Bunsen, honey.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, I was just being in terms of the absence of eyes, but, like, the whole face was terrifying. No, it was. Should I draw it?

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, I don't think so.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, I don't think we have to be drawing it. I think we can kind of.

[Nick Wiger]

And if you do draw it, I never. Show me it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, I agree.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I never want to see that. I don't even like that we're taking out a pad of paper over there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not.

[Nick Wiger]

Amelia, I'm gonna kill you.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't have to draw it now. We get a podcast to do draw

[Nick Wiger]

and show that free. I rode crew in college.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Right, right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, right. Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

And so, yeah, Rogs knows this, and I guess Emma knows it too. Amelia. Yeah, you might know it too.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I have no idea.

[Nick Wiger]

Put your kind of. This is just for you. I rode crew in college, but I also had the. When you're working out. Out in your. Like, we would. I would row for, like, three or four hours every single day. I'd say at least three hours. Like, we go down at 3, and then, like, we'd be done at 6 or. It was insane. But, like, you don't even think about what you're eating and just. You're burning so many calories.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I truly need this. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Are you more. I can only imagine if I actually ate well during that time, too, it would be. I would have.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sure.

[Nick Wiger]

I would have been in good shape.

[Mike Mitchell]

Because you threw out some ice cream parlors earlier. But then you also were, like, talking some. Some Greek delicacies, obviously. Like, are you more of, like, sweet tooth or a savory flavor?

[Nick Wiger]

How do you feel about spanakopita?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Love it. Love it.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, check this out.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Yeah, I love it.

[Nick Wiger]

You love a gyro. You used to love a gyro.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, but I'll still get a gyro just with no meat.

[Mike Mitchell]

What do you do? Like a falafel?

[Nick Wiger]

What do you.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't mind falafel, but again, it's not as Greek, so I would probably just have pita, some vegan tzatziki, some lettuce, tomato, onions, wrapped out of.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, interesting. Just might just lose the meat.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, why not lose the meat? Popping.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I have an idea. Rank Greek mush, hummus, tzatziki, caramosalata.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You guys know about that?

[Nick Wiger]

No eggs.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Greek. I mean, fish eggs.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, wow, okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Baba ganoush. It's really so Greek, but I love it.

[Nick Wiger]

It's not really too Greek.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, not too Greek.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Or maybe it is, but it wasn't in my.

[Nick Wiger]

So, all right, how about rank the Mediterranean mushes. I guess that is so. Baba ganous. Hummus. Tzatziki. Tzatziki over the years has really.

[Alyssa Limperis]

All right, we're try this together.

[Nick Wiger]

And how about tzatziki?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Tzatziki.

[Nick Wiger]

Tzatziki.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Worse. Worse than we started. Just go back to the way you were saying it.

[Nick Wiger]

Also, I gotta tell you one, that's. That kind of has rocketed up my. My power. Power rankings. Tahini.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, I love tahini. I love tahini.

[Nick Wiger]

Who knew they couldn't make those little. Those little seeds into such a delicious sauce.

[Mike Mitchell]

Delightful. But would you classify tahini as a mush or is that more of a sauce? It's okay if it's a mush.

[Nick Wiger]

Mushes and sauces.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, we're ranking them.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

What are we missing?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, I know what we're missing. I know what we're missing. I'm forgetting the name of it, but it's like just the potato garlic. Yeah, it's just. It's a potato garlic spread.

[Nick Wiger]

That's about like Zog.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Zog is nice.

[Nick Wiger]

What is. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, zog is nice.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. I know it from Trader Joe's. Trader Joe's. Zog.

[Nick Wiger]

Zog.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's the only one I've had. Scordado. That's it. Very good.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I don't. I can't. But here's the thing, is that I loved hummus forever, but then, like, hummus is almost.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's almost boring now because we've had it so much.

[Nick Wiger]

It's almost boring because we've had it so much. And then also you get like a lot of boring hummus. But when you get a good hummus, forget about it. Oh, shit. What about fucking like a. Like a feta spread? You know what I'm saying?

[Mike Mitchell]

Like the feta. That's really good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Spread is nice.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. What do you like? Whipped. A whipped feta.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Forget about it.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Tabouli. Only like, it's like Lebanese.

[Emma]

It's Lebanese.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And I would. I would put that more as like almost a salad, I think. Is that crazy?

[Mike Mitchell]

I do like it.

[Nick Wiger]

But it does. It does come. It does. Like it is here. It's always. It's always. It's always with the.

[Emma]

With the.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah. Here's a question. What is the Greek mamma mia? Because for mamma mia. Italian slang. What is the Greek version of mamma mia? You know what I'm saying?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, oh. Oh, you're not talking about the movie. You mean, like. Right, that's what.

[Nick Wiger]

No. Yes. No, I'm not talking about the movie Mama Me. I'm saying, like, the, the, the Italian.

[Alyssa Limperis]

A couple folks in Hollywood.

[Nick Wiger]

The Italian term. Mamma mia. Is there a Greek term? I mean, opa. I guess it's got to be opa.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Opa.

[Nick Wiger]

Opa.

[Mike Mitchell]

Opa's pretty good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Opa.

[Nick Wiger]

Is there is, is there no Greek expression for like, oh, my God, you

[Mike Mitchell]

know what I'm saying?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Probably there is, my child. I feel my mom would say all the time.

[Nick Wiger]

So you can speak, you can, you can, you can speak a little Greek.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Greek.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, okay. That's impressive.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay. O the.

[Nick Wiger]

That's, that's damn good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's, it's, it's. If you were Greek, you would like, very, the, the drop off would be very quick. It's very impressive. And then it's a very quick drop off of. Once someone starts talking fast. I go, yeah, yeah, that's.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, leave the student

[Alyssa Limperis]

the.

[Nick Wiger]

To call ice on me. I had no idea that you were, that you could see. Just Irish, you know, All Irish for, For me. So no, no, no fun. Like, no grandma speaking another language.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, yeah, so I, you know, I, I, I grew up with my grandparents living in my house.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, wow. That's fun.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes, Very nice. Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Every, like my Italian friends, I'd, like, go and visit their grandparents and they'd be like, you know, you know, like, I don't know what that I shouldn't have tried to do.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I call ice on you. That was perfect.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, my God, man. If they had to come in and be like, mitch got deported to Ireland. It would be good. I mean, it would be, I mean, fuck, fuck.

[Mike Mitchell]

Probably your life would be better.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, no, that's what I'm saying. It would be. It would be good. It's not good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No.

[Nick Wiger]

God. You get what I'm saying? Fuck ice. That's what I'm trying to say.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch was defending ice.

[Nick Wiger]

I was not defending ice.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Deported to Ireland.

[Mike Mitchell]

I oppose ice, but we should get Mitch deported just to teach him a lesson. Shut up.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, shut the fuck up.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Up.

[Nick Wiger]

You know what? I just threw it at our listeners.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Whoa.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wow. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch put the ghost on me and then it sucked me off.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Kind of nice. I'm anti ghost, but it was kind of nice.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you. So, okay, so we're talking, we're talking Greek mushes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sure. Oh, right, right, right.

[Nick Wiger]

We didn't rank them yet.

[Mike Mitchell]

We didn't rank them yet. But I mean, like, do you.

[Nick Wiger]

What happens when Ackroyd, when that, Never mind. When he busts in that scenario, what happens to the. You know what I'm saying?

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, does it. I think it just goes. I think the ghost disappears and it just kind of.

[Nick Wiger]

So it just goes all over.

[Mike Mitchell]

Goes all over him and he's like, did that even really happen?

[Nick Wiger]

Sure. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, Fair enough.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, that's my assumption.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Why are you taking notes? Oh, yeah. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

So, So I, I mean, like, for me. No, you're fine. For me, like the. I, I do have a, A lot of appreciation. It's grown over time for baba ganoush. I think baba ganoush is delightful.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Nice Baba ganoush. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm curious where you stand on something spicy. Hummus, which I know is a little bit, you know, so. Because it's not quite authentic, but it's still fun.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love spice. I love spicy everything. And I feel like even authentic dishes from, like, my yaya or my mom. I'm always adding some heat, so I think it's okay to just give a little variety to it because you gotta have a little heat.

[Mike Mitchell]

You sound like me. Like, I'm a bit of a heat seeker.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Same.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You a Szechuan guy?

[Mike Mitchell]

I do like Szechuan. Although the numbing pepper sometimes gives me anxiety.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You like it?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think you have to come around to it. I think you do get past the point where it's like a little shocking in the beginning, but then once you, it get. Get past the point. I, I, I don't. There's nothing to be scared of.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right?

[Alyssa Limperis]

You should be scared of what you got going on.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, I was gonna say seeing a spirit from the netherworld, Szechuan peppers got. The Szechuan peppers make you more anxious than seeing a.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes, it's the least of your worries.

[Mike Mitchell]

I do like the Mapo tofu.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's really Sichuan impression.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's s. One impression is great.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's the best. That's the best. Yeah, I'm so, I'm, I'm hooked. Basically, anytime I come back to la, that's the first thing I order.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that's. That's the thing. Like, it's just like, I can't do

[Nick Wiger]

my szwan impression anymore. We already said you just text.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you just text that?

[Alyssa Limperis]

You didn't even have to because I

[Emma]

was, I was doing it.

[Nick Wiger]

I believe, I believe. I, I believe. I believe. Gabri had said that on stage one

[Alyssa Limperis]

time to get Credit that to Gabri.

[Nick Wiger]

But I think that I. I had thought of that before, too. We've all thought. We've all. We're all.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I've never thought of it.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, well.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So how about that? How about. How good am I? I had never thought of that.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah,

[Nick Wiger]

that. That freaks you out more than the numbing spice.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait, but what was your question before this? You like mush? And then you said, oh, spicy hummus.

[Mike Mitchell]

Spicy hummus.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. I'm like, no, I like it. I think it's okay. Yeah. I think we must adapt. We adapt or die. We got to have a little spice.

[Mike Mitchell]

What. What? What say you, Mitch? What's your favorite mush?

[Alyssa Limperis]

You lit up on the spicy feta.

[Nick Wiger]

I did, But I think, honestly.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Tzatziki.

[Nick Wiger]

Tzatziki.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it's more of a za. I think they give it more of a Z first, but it's also got that

[Nick Wiger]

tzatziki.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But then you're also missing, I think, another Z. So tzatziki come back.

[Nick Wiger]

Tzatziki.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, tzatziki, tzatziki, Tzatiki.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's nice.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

I think tzatziki is my.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's nice.

[Nick Wiger]

Favorite.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's root away.

[Nick Wiger]

It's got. It's really come up there. It's. I really.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's really yummy.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think Trader Joe's has a great one as well. They have a nice vegan tzatziki. Yep. Yeah, it's.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, it's vegan there.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, they have a vegan one and a regular one. No, because it's usually yogurt. Yeah. I love it. It's so refreshing. It's light.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's nice.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm a bit of a heat seeker as well.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You are? Do you like Szechuan or are you talking about. Is this a.

[Nick Wiger]

No. I am a bit of a heat seeker. This is. It's his catch. Catchphrase.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's my thing, I say. But it also applies to Mitch. Yes. Mitch, like. Mitch also likes spicy in. In as much anymore. You don't need as much.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm staying from spicy.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And is that for health reasons or

[Nick Wiger]

for, like, my stomach is gonna, like. It's killing me. Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

I feel like we're universally kind of heat seekers here. Emelia, I feel like, is the. The most like me in terms of. Of intensity. But. But heat as well.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Some spice. Why not? I mean, it depends on what I'm doing for the rest of the day.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's fair. And the next day, sometimes Now, Ben

[Nick Wiger]

Affleck also in the movie Phantoms.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the way, Mitch, I'm glad you added that. Ben Affleck was also in the movie Phantoms. We had to return to that from 20 minutes ago to add another of his credits from IMDb.

[Alyssa Limperis]

He's 10% here, and 90% is just in his head thinking of ghosts. And what Was this movie?

[Nick Wiger]

1,000% Phantoms.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's like that. That didn't even come from Ben Affleck.

[Mike Mitchell]

He was just going through what do

[Alyssa Limperis]

I know about ghosts. And he was like, oh, Ben Affleck's in Phantom. Hey. Whoa. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Matt Damon and Casey Affleck did a movie in Quincy, Massachusetts, which I auditioned for multiple times and I didn't get. It was called. What the was it called?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I don't know.

[Nick Wiger]

It's one of those. The Instigators.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it was an Apple TV movie that no one saw.

[Nick Wiger]

No one saw Paul Walter House. Forgot it. That's real.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's true. You got your role.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wow. You're losing to him a lot.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, I lost the Quincy role. That's tough.

[Mike Mitchell]

The character was. Was named Mitch, too. Right?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You're right. It's called the Instigator.

[Mike Mitchell]

This described as a. As a. A dumb guy with a small penis. Why is that in the stage direction?

[Nick Wiger]

Look, there's, there's, there's. When you get auditions, you get a lot of embarrassing stuff. But a dumb guy with a small penis, I've never. At least I've never got an audition. That said, with the small penis, you're just like, oh, all right. I guess I'll act like I have a small dick in this too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Method acts. Shut the up.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

All right?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Take it back from the audience. Send it back and back to you.

[Nick Wiger]

She wants it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Where do you stand on. On coffee? Because we're talking coffee today.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You gotta have your java.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, gotta have my java. But I also am pretty agnostic, so I like a. Really? If I'm having, like a latte or an. Or a cortado, I like a nice coffee shop. But I'm having black coffee. I prefer bad. I prefer a diner. I prefer to go to a diner and just, like, fill up on black.

[Nick Wiger]

I love diner coffee.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love diner coffee.

[Nick Wiger]

Bickford's restaurant in peace. Do you ever have Big Birds?

[Emma]

Of course.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Great Breakfast spa.

[Nick Wiger]

My mom worked at a Bigfords.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Really? Oh, fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did she bring home leftovers or not?

[Nick Wiger]

When I was. Not when I was. She was a. Was she a teacher by the time I was Born, I think. Yes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

Her. My. My mom and dad met while they were teachers.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Nice.

[Nick Wiger]

My mom an English teacher, my dad a history teacher. A very. I think a very easy teacher from what I understood. And then he went to law school in his 30s and became. And became a lawyer. And my mom was a teacher at my high school school.

[Alyssa Limperis]

My mom was a teacher at. At Seon. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

My dad. My dad taught chemistry at community college. And then my. My mom was a nurse, so, you know, the noble professions all around.

[Alyssa Limperis]

My dad sold sheet metal.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay. How about that?

[Nick Wiger]

That's cool as hell.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. Someone. I was talking to it. Talking to someone about this the other day that I just remember being a kid, and he would do, like, cold calls. And so anytime I was in the car, there was just a binder, and I was just, like, reading numbers for a binder. And then he'd just make cold calls and just have people basically hang up on him all the time. So when everyone's like, oh, wow. I'm like, yeah, this is. This business is nothing. My dad was just used to, you know, getting told all the time.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah. You got to get used to the rejection.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's that Bear?

[Nick Wiger]

When you get it. When you get. When you audition for a role that says a dummy with a small dick and don't get it. It's pretty tough.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. And you were like, hey, at least maybe they didn't think I had a small dick. No, no, it was a dummy.

[Nick Wiger]

No, no, it was too small.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was the note from the casting director.

[Nick Wiger]

Dick too small. Sorry. Unbelie believable.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you. What isn't there? Like, what wasn't that f. Because I've seen it years ago. Barry Levinson's first movie. I think it. It's. It's like Richard, dress.

[Nick Wiger]

I can't remember.

[Mike Mitchell]

The other car. The other actor is. Who are. I think they're sheet metal salesmen.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, are they?

[Mike Mitchell]

I gotta watch. Is it Richard drus and Danny DeVito?

[Alyssa Limperis]

That.

[Mike Mitchell]

That can't. That can't be right.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

They're in Baltimore. I can't remember what the duo is. Yeah, I can't. Also can't pull the title. I can't recall things anymore. I'm just dumbito.

[Emma]

Men.

[Mike Mitchell]

Ten men. Yes, yes, yes. I want to say pushing tin, but it was not pushing 10. 10 men.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Nice.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's a fun movie. That's great.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Who gets cuckolded? I won't say who.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, okay. Tune in.

[Mike Mitchell]

You got our Watch the movie.

[Nick Wiger]

You got our listeners attention all watching it tonight.

[Mike Mitchell]

I agree with you on diner coffee. Like for me, like, and I love like an independent diner. Unfortunately, there's, there's fewer and fewer out here now.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Especially out here.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I do like, like a deli coffee. Like, sit down. Deli coffee is great. But I will, I will say chain wise, I like a Denny's coffee, but I like the IHOP coffee where you get a little carafe where they set it down and you can, you can, you can pour your own. That to me is like the ideal. Just like black basic coffee.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Couldn't agree more.

[Nick Wiger]

Diner coffee is my favorite. But I gotta say, I kind of love Duncan coffee.

[Mike Mitchell]

I also love Duncan coffee.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think Duncan falls in the same category for me where it's like I can drink as like it's what, 5pm right now, 6pm I'm like, this will not do anything to me. There's, there's a comfort in the like the amount, which is how I feel about diner coffee. You can just kind of drink a lot of. It's pretty watered down. It's pretty. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

We had a phone call today because you. I think I. This came together late.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sure.

[Nick Wiger]

This episode came together late.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, he could be completely transparent. We didn't know we'd have the studio today until like last night.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then we're gonna, we wanted to get Alyssa in anyway and Mitch was like, I can just, just see if she'd be available last minute. And it all worked out.

[Nick Wiger]

It worked out great.

[Mike Mitchell]

You and you had something that was going to make you unavailable for this, that got cancelled. That made this possible. How about that?

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

You were hanging out with Krystalia. He got canceled.

[Alyssa Limperis]

The timing couldn't have been more perfect. I mean, really. Yeah. It's just all kismet, you know, that's. That is God. That is God. That's. Our dad's just shining down on us.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sending us a little sign. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was, I, I, oh boy, I would be delicate how I tell this anecdote. I.

[Nick Wiger]

There someone, another fucking ghost story or some shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Someone who got canceled. Canceled. I had plans with. I'd never met them in person, but I knew them through social media and they, they had been like, wanted to like, meet me. And then he died and it was just like, never happened. No. We were supposed to get dinner and it was him and his partner. And then me and my wife were gonna go to a restaurant together in la. And the day we were supposed to have that double date. That person got canceled. It happened that day day. And I was like, like Galaine Maswell

[Nick Wiger]

and you and that ghost spirit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, yeah. So we're, we're there and so I like, like, like I'm not not there. I'm like, I'm like, well, I just will not do anything here. And I'm assume I'm not going to follow up with this person. I'll just never hear from them again. That person dms me that day and says like, hey, hey. I'm not sure if you're following anything, but I'm still down to, to hang out if you like. And I'm just like, what the. There's no way I just ghosted this person. There's no way I'm going to do this. What are you talking about? I mean it probably would have been an insane experience, but it's like what, what the is what. What? People are crazy.

[Nick Wiger]

You what that person

[Alyssa Limperis]

again? Mike's brain is. It's all just laser focused right now.

[Nick Wiger]

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Run your business smarter with Square. Get started today. All right, we're back. Alyssa has put on the sweater.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm back on the sweater. The, the heat to AC ratio in here, it's, you know, it's sometimes not good.

[Nick Wiger]

No, you can just say it's, it's good.

[Emma]

It's good.

[Nick Wiger]

Areas of coldness.

[Mike Mitchell]

There may, there may have been an edit where I disclosed who the individual was.

[Nick Wiger]

Actually, you didn't even say.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's, it was nothing. It was nothing. Interesting.

[Nick Wiger]

It was not me. To be clear, I, I was trying out my San impression. I got in trouble. I, I, it was, it was not me.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, not you.

[Nick Wiger]

It was not me.

[Mike Mitchell]

I would have said it was you.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, of course you would have said.

[Alyssa Limperis]

The amount of times you're saying it's not me is very making me think

[Nick Wiger]

it was not me. It was not not me.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch got cancelled, so I ghosted him for dinner. But I continue to a podcast with him for six more years.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I could, I could also see you Doing that by not tonight. Using it as an excuse to not hang out with me, basically. Look, Duncan, we gotta get all that to say coffee.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You go back to coffee. Yeah, Duncan's got a great cup of coffee. I, I love a Duncan ice. Do you know why, too? It doesn't hurt. You feel like sometimes a cold brew, I'm like, it hurts you. You have to be ready. Ready for it.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I'm generally a hot coffee guy, but I do, I, you know, I'll With a cold coffee on occasion.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And that's what I love about you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Yeah. You know, I live in both worlds.

[Alyssa Limperis]

He lives in both worlds.

[Nick Wiger]

You know, I love that about you.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love that you're a hot coffee guy. But you sometimes say, I'll do it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'll do cool. Why not?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love that.

[Mike Mitchell]

But, But I promise, I, I like, I chug. I chug cold coffee and hot coffee I will sip. So even on a hot day, I'll usually opt for something for a warmer beverage. I will say this. Not all fast food coffee is good. Like, talking about trashy coffee, like, like, like, some of it is like, equivalent to diner coffee. And I put, you know, Dunkin Donuts coffee and, and, and McDonald's coffee in that same bucket. I like McDonald's coffee. But you get like, a cup of coffee from like, Carl's Jr. You know, Hardee's. It's like, this coffee sucks. It's like watery and flavorless. I can tell this was made from, like, crystals. Like, this isn't even, like, you know, this is, this is like Folgers crystals. This isn't even like a, like a brewed coffee. This is terrible. Terrible. And so there are, there are times when I'm like, I don't even want this version. I'd rather, I don't even like Starbucks. I'd rather have Starbucks than what I could get from like, than a cup of Burger King coffee.

[Alyssa Limperis]

See, I'll say this. I would, I would rather have, like, gas station coffee.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I like gas station.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay. I like gas station. I've never had it. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah. So. So you're saying these places, they've got something. Because I don't think I've ever probably had it. Now that I think about it, outside of McDonald's, I don't know if I've had Burger King.

[Mike Mitchell]

I, I think at some of these

[Nick Wiger]

places, McDonald's coffee is good.

[Mike Mitchell]

McDonald's coffee, they're brewing coffee. It seems 7:11 coffee is good. They're brewing coffee. Love the McDonald's biscuits.

[Nick Wiger]

This is. This is very millennial. Or no. Oh, sorry. Is. Is Millennial. Millennial Lady Coded.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Can I take that again?

[Nick Wiger]

Millennial Lady Coded wigs. This is a little Millennial Lady Coded. I'm leaving all those in WYGs.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm doing something that's a little Millennial lady coded right now. Now, that alien, you're kind of looking aw. That I. And that I have three drinks here. Millennial Ladies.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right. Millennial Ladies love the three drinks. We learned this at one of our live shows.

[Nick Wiger]

It's. It's this. It hasn't been released yet, but we learned in San Jose that the Millennial Ladies. What makes this coded for Millennial Ladies is that they love three drinks.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I have to say, and I don't remember the name of it, I had the best taco of my life in San Jose from a talk taco truck. Are you guys going back at some point?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, no, this was kind of a one. I mean, we had a lovely time. Is a great crowd. We had. We had a. It was a one off.

[Nick Wiger]

Can I also say this? The hotel, we said it was haunted.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was haunted.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you think the ghost followed me

[Nick Wiger]

from that hotel here? You a fucking Italian piece of shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm realizing I'm looking at. I'm looking.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't you do your Italian stuff at me.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm looking at where the. The corner of that chair meets the wall. And I'm realizing I can do a better job of what this ghost was doing once they stood up on Mitch's side of the room.

[Nick Wiger]

Is.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is that. Would that be on camera?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It can be.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

We can move the GoPro easily.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, hold on. So do you want me to. Do you want me to do that? I can recreate this. Okay. All right. So it was like, again, like. Like, ghost is like this staring. Stood up, kind of walked over.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't want to watch, Mike. Don't watch. Don't watch. No, no, no. Whoa.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That's spooky.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So coffee.

[Mike Mitchell]

The good part about it where, like, a cat where, like, a cabinet and what, like, met the wall? And so it was like. There was a little, like. Like, weird corner, but it was in

[Nick Wiger]

the corner of the room.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Maybe whatever was in that spot before your apartment building was built there, someone, like, died in it, and she was

[Mike Mitchell]

trying to walk into the other room.

[Emma]

I looked up your address during this record.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Emma]

A man.

[Mike Mitchell]

Someone who lives there is on the sex offender list.

[Emma]

A man died in a parking lot near your house. So I don't know if that's related.

[Mike Mitchell]

That seems a little bit. Disappoint. Distant.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

My man died in a parking lot. Parking lot.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Send me the clip if we want to see it. I see it. Do you see it?

[Emma]

Yes.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Do you see it? Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

I hate this on screen.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It's on. Yeah, I. It's on my laptop. Okay, guys, to turn this. I'm going to turn this around. I'll put it in. I'll put it in the YouTube video.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Remember how I. I said that the day after my birthday was my favorite day?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's turned into my least favorite.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You see it disappear as the video goes on. You ready?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Oh, that's it. Oh, it's like right there.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It's like. It's like. I don't know, it looks like someone put their finger on the lens for a second.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Like the light beam thing. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Let's see. Show it again.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Do you see it?

[Nick Wiger]

Show it again.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

So it's on it wagger now. And now it's off. It's kind of. It's like hard to see, but it wasn't in the ISO cams. It was only in the live edit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Who's the. Who's the guest there? Is that so. So that was the moment at which perhaps this apparition glommed on to me Maybe.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Started writing me like a. Like I was carrying it around a. Carrying a baby.

[Nick Wiger]

Baby Yoda.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like a baby Yoda. Started writing me like a Grogu.

[Nick Wiger]

I really got mad because I. I was at the Grove last night seeing Mortal Kombat 2.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's your. What's your review?

[Nick Wiger]

Fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

I heard it was fun. I still haven't seen it.

[Nick Wiger]

A fun. A fun dumb, maybe bad movie, but

[Mike Mitchell]

that's what you want sometimes.

[Nick Wiger]

Is Carl. Carl Urban is the man. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Carl Urban.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Is he from the. He's from the boys. Right, Right? Yes. Yeah. That show sucks.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Did you go out for that one? But lose to what, sister?

[Nick Wiger]

No, no, no. Paul. PWH has nothing to do with the boy sucking. There's other reasons. I. Yeah, maybe it's loaded. Show sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Boys. Boys sucking. Sounds like the doughboys on stage in San Jose. Thank God Betsy Sadaro was there.

[Nick Wiger]

We were. No we. That.

[Mike Mitchell]

We.

[Nick Wiger]

We turned it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I turned it around.

[Nick Wiger]

I went out there with. I was try. I was throwing everything. I was throwing spaghetti at the wall, trying to make anything stick. You were. I think you were in your initial phase of being haunted.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know what's going on.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You got that really Fun bit about the millennial woman drinking.

[Nick Wiger]

I got this. I got this. Really?

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's really fun.

[Nick Wiger]

This is this. This blockbuster bit I have here, but I have three different. I got three different drinks here today.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right.

[Nick Wiger]

Three different gentle. You. You order. Ordered Amelia up really bad and also played possum. Play possum. You weren't responding with your order.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was working all day, so I

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

was like, to be fair, he told us last night. He's like, I will not be available during the day.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

So we knew. We knew.

[Nick Wiger]

I answered in a reasonable amount of time.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And I was kind of trying to get us to a different restaurant.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I was like, guessing what your orders would be in case you never answered. I bet we can guess what order from Duncan.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, Amelia totally guessed. I did my order and did a good job.

[Nick Wiger]

I want ham on my. Or. I went. I went wild. But I was. We were. I was on a walk with Commissioner Susser, who was let out by the dodiac. And, And. And I was talking to you because you weren't sure if we should do a different. And that, like, you were like, oh, should I do Duncan or should you do something else? And I was like, Duncan's great. It's going to be fine.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm vegan. So, you know, I thought, well, I can't eat everything on the menu. It's actually a problem.

[Nick Wiger]

And then I was like, I'm with Commissioner Susser. And you were like, kind of like, who the is Commissioner Susser?

[Mike Mitchell]

Answer.

[Nick Wiger]

I kind of tried to explain it to you, but it doesn't even make sense anyways. And.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And the way you guys described it and you had, like, a lot more words I didn't understand. And then it was like, that's better to just kind of.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it's better to not. You never have to know. And then. And then I saw your text and I had to, like, we had to stop the walk. We had to stop it down. But I did go ham. But this. This drink was an accidental order. But. But. But I.

[Mike Mitchell]

This.

[Nick Wiger]

That is the. It's like a lot of latte. A. A mocha deluxe. What is this?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Caramel cream signature latte.

[Nick Wiger]

That's what it is. Caramel cream signature latte. I want it hot. You accidentally got a cold, so I got two. I got both versions of it. Oh, you know what? They taste very different, the cold. And the hot one tastes very different.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Which one would you do you prefer?

[Nick Wiger]

I prefer the cold one.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm usually see how errors can sometimes really be a beautiful Thing.

[Nick Wiger]

It's true. Don't do it again. But it's true.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Don't ever.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't you do that shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch Duncan, as you know, was founded in Quincy, Massachusetts, in 1950.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, my God.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Hey.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, you. You give me a. That is.

[Emma]

That is.

[Mike Mitchell]

There we go.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Come on.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. Mitch and Alyssa are hugging.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's incredible. Wow.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Mike just gave me some.

[Nick Wiger]

We fucking.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I was saying. Mike just gave me more context for that clip. It was. That happened at the same moment that your phone went off unprompted during the Drew McQueenie episode.

[Mike Mitchell]

Episode.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You weren't touching it and it went off.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. That is wild.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Careful. Me get everybody. I'm saying get the holy water. Drown headgum.

[Nick Wiger]

If head gun was over, like, one of the gates of hell, I'd believe it. There's fucking flies in the wall. There's a rotting smell in here all the time.

[Mike Mitchell]

There were child dolls that just showed up.

[Nick Wiger]

Child doll.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Those just showed up.

[Emma]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't think anyone knows where they came from.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I don't like it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Anyway, it's. It was founded by Bill Rosenberg is the figure behind the VIP original. Duncan and Quincy 14, 000 locations in 39 countries. Sean Parker to weigh the donuts in 2018. It's cleaner. It's now just Dunkin. It used to be Dunkin.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't like it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't like it either.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't either. I. I'm.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it's like Jamba did the same thing. It used to be Jamba Juice. Now it's just Jamba's like.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What do you. They all watched the Social Network and saw that moment where Justin Timberlake, like. It's like, not the Facebook. Facebook. And they all kind of took it.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not simplifying the brand. It's interesting that it's Dunkin Donuts. October 2020, it was acquired by Inspire Brands, which is one of these franchise companies owned by private equity by Rourke Capital.

[Nick Wiger]

It's like we're hoping Doughboys gets bought by Inspire Brands.

[Mike Mitchell]

I would love to be bought by Rourke Capital if we're going to sell out, because we would get like a quarter billion dollars. The amount of money they spend for these things is fucking insane.

[Nick Wiger]

We drop the podcast. It would just be DoughBoys.

[Mike Mitchell]

Also in October 2020, the same year, by coincidence, the same month, by coincidence, the Doughboys reviewed Duncan with Mookie Blake Lock, which was our last time we did it. That was for Rock around the Clock Dober Fest.

[Nick Wiger]

And it remained so long ago, remaining

[Mike Mitchell]

the Golden Plate Club.

[Nick Wiger]

That's so long ago to.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, you know what it is, is the Duncan has remained a fixture because it just shows up in the tournament of champions where Susser is commissioner. You don't. You don't need to know. And then, like, we'll get you in

[Nick Wiger]

there one time, periodically check in on it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I feel like it's a place we'll just grab on the road when we're touring. You know what I mean?

[Nick Wiger]

We. We. We should. We should make this clear. We did not know each other. We met at south by Southwest.

[Mike Mitchell]

True.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We became fast friends.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes. We were there for Sender Russell Goldman's movie.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Watch It.

[Mike Mitchell]

Watch it. Which you're both in. How cool is that?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And, yeah, we just became fast friends. And then we realized both from Massachusetts, both got the dead dad comedy, and it was just off.

[Nick Wiger]

Lakers suck. We don't like the Lakers suck.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Ghosts.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, we're not friends with ghosts. Like this guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, okay. Yeah, you've got a lot of friends in common, naturally.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Exactly.

[Nick Wiger]

I didn't know how we didn't have the crossover before.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, it seems. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe too powerful.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah. We're kind of unstoppable now.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I would say. And I feel the same way about Mitch, is that you kind of have a. From just having met you today and having known you from Twitter back in the day. Day. It's like you just have a. A natural sort of charisma, approachability to you that makes it like, like, very, like, oh, I feel like I'm already friends with this.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, thank you.

[Nick Wiger]

You n. Yeah, no, I know, I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

I believe it. But all like, Mitch, you always like. Like, people always like you because you just come in, you're just like. Like, hey, whatever. Be like, hey, I like this guy.

[Nick Wiger]

It's pretty deme.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like the small dick Frankenstein.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, thank you. I appreciate it. Yes. I. I wonder if there is something about.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it might be.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Because. Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't know.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't piss us off.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, but don't piss us off.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know that. Don't piss us off. We've all seen him, Matt.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We know that.

[Nick Wiger]

Wait, did you. What did you say was your favorite local? You. Were you gonna say pizzeria? Regina's.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Regina.

[Emma]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That's love.

[Nick Wiger]

Regina and the North End. And then what would be second for you besides that? That's. That's a good question. The follow up.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Know what I was saying?

[Nick Wiger]

Tarpios. But that's a very specific local. Place.

[Mike Mitchell]

I would say, if I'm picking a chain. D'. Angelo. I love d'. Angelo. I love d'.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Angelo.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was. And that, that, like, really impressed me.

[Alyssa Limperis]

D' Angelo's growing up was a big staple in our home. And I tried to get. I was, I was on the east coast, and for, like, nostalgia sake, I wanted to get one. And I'm vegan, and so I was like, oh, can I get this? But without this. And they were like, nah, we don't do any substitutions.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, my God. D'. Angelo.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love that. They're like, no, no, no. Chefs, like, the chef knows. Yeah, the chef knows what he's doing, you know? Yeah. You want.

[Nick Wiger]

Especially with a sandwich. It's so easy to do, though.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Couldn't be easier. There's. Yeah, but that's a great sandwich.

[Nick Wiger]

They really should. On Bertucci. Bertucci has really gone down.

[Mike Mitchell]

We had a bad experience of Bertucci. And this is the thing.

[Nick Wiger]

And also you kind of on Papaginos and friendlies, you've had, you've had a rough. I know.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Did you guys get the bread sticks? Did you get the bread sticks?

[Mike Mitchell]

We did get the bread sticks.

[Nick Wiger]

We did get the bread sticks.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You didn't like the bread sticks?

[Mike Mitchell]

Papa Genos was fine.

[Nick Wiger]

You know what? I think that was the most egregious one. I think that you were. You bad. No, no, no. You were cranky. You're.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was also very cranky.

[Nick Wiger]

You were cranky as hell.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, God, I love Papa Juice. They're thin crust. That's kind of not that dissimilar to Pizzeria Regina in terms of crust and sauce.

[Nick Wiger]

And then we did a show with Hodgman and Andre. Gina Jean Gray.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right.

[Nick Wiger]

And, And Wilco.

[Mike Mitchell]

Jeff Tweety from Wilco, who I'd worked with previously when I helped prep him on At Midnight. So I, I, I saw him again. And then we did the A Lovely man. And then on Little. Which is funny.

[Nick Wiger]

It is true. I love that. He's right. He was right.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I was, I was being very cranky. I was in, I was in a. Like, we got to this. We got to Western Mass. This is part of Wilco's festival, which the name I don't remember. John Hodgman very kindly invited the Doughboys to be a part of it.

[Nick Wiger]

And beautiful, beautiful Western mass.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That part of the, that part of mass is gorgeous. That's very close to Vermont, in my opinion, energy wise.

[Mike Mitchell]

So this was a new biome for me, and my body did not react well. To it. I had some sort of, like, allergic sort of. I. I was just like. I got very sick.

[Nick Wiger]

He said, new biome for him.

[Mike Mitchell]

I. Very sick. When we went there. And then when we left, we went back to. We went back to Quincy and I was like, fine. And we had a great time.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Let's just get. Have it. Get in the house. Big words he's using again with a, you know, Berenstein Bears, the Seuss. We don't know any of these big words.

[Nick Wiger]

The big word. Let me just tell you that I want to assure you that he uses big words, but he's dumb as hell.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, good.

[Nick Wiger]

Right? Good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I feel that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Good cover.

[Emma]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, well, what about. Did you guys do Honeydew?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, we've not done.

[Nick Wiger]

We've never done Honeydew. We haven't done. There's a few. There's a few local chains that we have still not. Not covered.

[Mike Mitchell]

You know what we. We did in the last visit that had a great time at Legal Seafood?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah, my mom.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's a classy. What about Olive Garden? You guys? That isn't totally. That isn't totally regional, but that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I forget where Olive Garden originates, but it's. I mean, it's Amelia.

[Alyssa Limperis]

A nod to your culture.

[Nick Wiger]

That's true.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Orlando, Florida. Orlando, yeah. Yes. Ah, yes, of course.

[Mike Mitchell]

A lot of chain restaurants start in Florida.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Outback Steakhouses as well.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, my God. Bugaboo Creek.

[Nick Wiger]

Bugaboo Creek is. That's. That's. That's New England.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know. Bugaboo.

[Alyssa Limperis]

They have a big moose kiss and stuff. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Round. Round is also round. Round is also a local one.

[Alyssa Limperis]

99.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You've done the 99?

[Nick Wiger]

I got. I got bad news for you about the 99, too.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You didn't like that either.

[Mike Mitchell]

We had a bad experience there.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It's pretty. It's fallen.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's fallen off.

[Mike Mitchell]

What I was going to say you

[Nick Wiger]

kind of hate every.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, it seems a little bit.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm talking about places that I liked. I like d' Angelo a lot. I like. To Regina, I was four Forks for all around for these chains.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Give it the s. Give it the S. Because you're gonna, you know, you get beat up calling it d'. Angelo.

[Mike Mitchell]

I believe it is canonically d'. Angelo.

[Nick Wiger]

But if everyone calls, everyone calls.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

Linguistics is descriptive, not prescriptive. But the company name is d' Angelo

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

before they Sean park at the donuts.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, exactly. Exactly.

[Nick Wiger]

You were saying places you liked. Sorry.

[Mike Mitchell]

The same places I like d'.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Angelos.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let me say this about Legal Seafood Pizzeria. Regina. And there's other ones. What was the burger place? We go. We like go there for tasty burgers.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Great.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't know that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Tasty Burger is a newer chain, but that's fun.

[Emma]

Oh, I got to mix up with Boss Hog Island.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. How could you make that? Are you talking about Ben Affleck's from. Come on.

[Emma]

I think that's why cuz Cheng was there.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

So I was like, Quincy Crew was there.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I don't remember my memory.

[Mike Mitchell]

Shankton's one of Mitch's friends from Quincy. You don't know.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Of course it is.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Shanked. I mean, that's such an awesome Quincy name.

[Nick Wiger]

Who was up in San. Who lives up in the San Jose area. I think Jimmy did just fart.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Did you too?

[Nick Wiger]

There was a vibration on the couch, so I hope it was Jimmy farting or. It was. Oh, wait, it was my phone.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was your phone.

[Nick Wiger]

It was my phone.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Jemmy's toots are usually silent but deadly. You don't really hear them, but you do smell them.

[Alyssa Limperis]

She's so well behaved. She's just so quiet and hanging and protecting us from the ghosts 100%. Okay. So you like some of the places? I do think hot wieners are something for you to try. And clam cakes, I think is an interesting thing for you to try next time you're there because they're such regional things.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, we've been to New England so many times now to do shows that I've like, lost track of all the places we've eaten at. And I've generally had a good time. And I was going with an open mind what I was gonna say about Bertucci.

[Nick Wiger]

Can I just say.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know if we can say it.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, I can't just tease the people.

[Mike Mitchell]

It doesn't come together yet. We probably shouldn't.

[Nick Wiger]

I'll say this. My 25 year reunion is that high school reunion is that weekend. I know, I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're gonna go.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No. Not going.

[Mike Mitchell]

Maybe your date.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I mean, that's a movie. That's a movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

Have we really?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

And I.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And I was there.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I watched this happen once already, so yes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay. 25 year. Are you.

[Nick Wiger]

My high school classmates are going to be happy that the Klebold has finally found his. Harris. Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris. The Columbine shooters.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think more the Eric Harris of the group.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes. Yeah. You're saying I'm the dumb one that just got tricked into. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

And Eric Harris is kind of the code. The guy, the mastermind. I'd skip.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, look at me.

[Nick Wiger]

We're not. We're not getting you. We're not getting you involved. But wait, what were you saying? I'm sorry.

[Alyssa Limperis]

25 year union. Are you. How do you feel? Are you. Is there someone. You're like pine. You're like. You heard about the divorce?

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, no, there's nothing like. There's nothing like that. There's nothing. There is nothing like that. I am, you know, I'm like. I mean, I. I see so many of my high school friends still. So, like a lot of the people that I'll see, I'll be like, oh, I just haven't seen this person in so long or whatever. But, like, hey, look, if there's any recently divorced people. Come on, let's get a little. Let's see what happens.

[Mike Mitchell]

I feel like we're. We're.

[Nick Wiger]

We're. We're.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're. Perhaps it's been a while, and I think with our guest here from the same region, Mitch, can. Can we do like an inventory of your. Your Quincy Crow crew? I can help you out with it because you already mentioned Changton. We've already mentioned Ramondi. LD is a part of. As a deal with Ramondi. Love hanging out with them.

[Nick Wiger]

You want to say people who are in this class, specifically, who will be there?

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, up to you.

[Nick Wiger]

Just see like Dano, part of the crew.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dan. I'll love Dan.

[Nick Wiger]

Dano wasn't my. Dano was the year before me. Dan was class. Were you class of 2000 or 99?

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm 98. I'm old as.

[Nick Wiger]

You're 98. Yeah, yeah. Okay. Dano, class of 2000. Dano, me, class of 2001. Micus. We got Mikus.

[Mike Mitchell]

Love Micus, which sounds kind of Greek. Micus. And Micus is Micus's brother. Scoop.

[Nick Wiger]

Scoop. Scoop.

[Alyssa Limperis]

This sounds so fake. This is awesome. And Micus's brother Scoop. Yeah, Scoop will be there. Dano.

[Nick Wiger]

Frailbot.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Frailbot. Shankton.

[Nick Wiger]

Shankton.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Holding it down.

[Mike Mitchell]

Lindork.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Lindork's actually doing a whole time.

[Nick Wiger]

Lindork is a doctor? Yeah, Lindork is a doctor.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sorry, Dr. Lindork.

[Nick Wiger]

Dr. Lindork is married to Frot. They're. They're. The Frailbot and Lindork are married. I don't know if that's Lore. That's. I don't know if that's been.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hey, Mitch. Lindork. I thought that was his last name.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Cut it. Cut it, no, it's fine.

[Mike Mitchell]

Leave it in. Leave it in. I want people to hear what you said. Leave it in.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Got it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Leave it in.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Got it. Okay. Lindork.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wuang. Of course.

[Nick Wiger]

Wuang.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Who, who you say?

[Emma]

Adam.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Woo.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, yeah, I know Wuang. I thought they said something someone else. After Wu Tang.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wuang, what would you guys get up to? What was your kind of thing? Were you guys, were you rowing in high school?

[Nick Wiger]

No, no, no, no. Shieldsy Chewy. No.

[Alyssa Limperis]

How big is your crew?

[Emma]

Scoop two.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, scoop two. Yeah, I forgot about scoop two.

[Nick Wiger]

There is no scoop two.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Sorry.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's.

[Nick Wiger]

Now you get college friends in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

College friends are poo. There's two poobs in Wookie.

[Nick Wiger]

You're talking about my great. Yes. Yeah.

[Emma]

Foxton.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yes.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, sure. Foxen's real.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. You got to buy the rights to this friend group because there is a movie here just by the names. Wow. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

Wu Tang is, yeah, Wu Tang is a big one. There, there's, I mean like Joey O. But Joey O is also not that. You know what I mean?

[Mike Mitchell]

Joey O is a peach Lovely man. You love Joey O. Oh, Breslin. That Breslin.

[Nick Wiger]

Breslin. Breslin is my class. Nader. Nader's the same.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, Nader.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. But Nader is a different school. Ek. Yeah, a lot of people, like, there's

[Alyssa Limperis]

a lot of you. You kind of roll deep. Were you kind of like king? Were you kind of.

[Nick Wiger]

No, no, Far from me. No, far from it for me.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What about you? Are you kind of cool guy? Cool guy.

[Nick Wiger]

He's gonna say yes, but my. I'll answer for him. The answer is no.

[Mike Mitchell]

No.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But you could be.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I mean, I could kind of like this. My, my, my high school was very factionalized. It was like, like, like there was.

[Nick Wiger]

Aaron Diaz went to his high school.

[Mike Mitchell]

Cameron Diaz. Well, yeah, but Cameron Diaz went to my high school. Snoop Dogg is. It had 4000 students. Hu. Diverse stud. Was a lot of, a lot of different demographics that were not necessarily cross pollinating.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

But my, my group of friends I stay with, probably within our was, was a cool group, but I was not the cool guy in the group. I was just kind of like a goofy guy who hung out with them.

[Nick Wiger]

I had friends in my group who were cool. I mean, everybody loves Wuang, that's for sure. I, I, I still see all those people. So I'm like, I mean, I'm excited to hang out with them. We were mostly drinking. I feel like, that's kind of what the.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Drinking in high school.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Drinking in high school.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Cool, guys.

[Nick Wiger]

I was. Later on.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Come on.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah, Very cool.

[Nick Wiger]

I was drinking. We were. We were. We were.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think that's good because I was not drinking in high school, and I'll tell you when I was drinking.

[Nick Wiger]

College.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. I think that if you're not drinking in high school, you go to college

[Mike Mitchell]

and you're like, oh, that pendulum swings hard. Yeah, I'm just gonna get.

[Nick Wiger]

As someone who drank high school, I was like, college kids are. And I don't think you work as your Massachusetts person, but so many colleges are like, this person is. Can't hold their booze and is annoying to me.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I could not hold my booze. Was annoying. I just remember someone coming up to me and he. I would black out a lot in college.

[Nick Wiger]

I rode for two and a half years, so that was like my. So, like, that felt like military. I mean, I still was drinking on days that I wasn't.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But you were almost going more.

[Nick Wiger]

I was going more, yeah. Yeah, yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well. And, yeah, I still got.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, I. And then I quit and I. So two years of college is kind of more like. More college.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, I was kind of doing the. I was kind of not eating, only drinking. So I was kind of having. Yeah, I was kind of having a big.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. But I remember some guy coming up to me and being like. He was, like, British, and he was just like. You talked in a British accent to me all night. And that was basically when I was like, I gotta cut back. That was my rock bottom as a

[Mike Mitchell]

guy just going like, yeah, it was insulting, isn't it?

[Nick Wiger]

Shut up, you fucking dweeb. We fucking. We tossed your tea in the fucking ocean.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We did. Yeah, we did.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Did.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

What was California doing sitting on their asses on the West Coast?

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it was inhabited by indigenous people, of course.

[Nick Wiger]

Interesting. Pretty problematic, if you ask me.

[Mike Mitchell]

I agree. It is problematic. Hi.

[Nick Wiger]

We own your land now. Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Ws are here.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Okay. Wow, that's exciting. Oh, I. Yeah, okay.

[Nick Wiger]

I was Dunker Donuts, the original Dunkin Donuts. On the other side, Southern Ary. Dunkin Donuts, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes. Which we've been to the original Dunkin Donut.

[Nick Wiger]

I've taken you on. I've taken him on a tour all around.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not. Not remarkable.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

No, it's like.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not like. It's like, oh, wow, look at this place. This is a landmark. It just kind of looks like a normal Dunkin.

[Nick Wiger]

You could just say, oh, wow, it's the original Dunkin Donuts.

[Emma]

I was.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was like, oh, wow, it's the original Dunkin Donuts. But it's not like the sort of thing of like, oh, wow, look at this. This original location is preserved as it was back in the day. You know, know, it's, it's.

[Nick Wiger]

There is a little. They did kind of like, try to, like, put, like, little diner seats in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

I know, but it was. I wish there's a little bit more of that.

[Nick Wiger]

Sure.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Do you guys. Gun to head. You get. You going in the restaurant or you going drive through?

[Nick Wiger]

Gun to hen. We're smiling. Both of us

[Mike Mitchell]

do it.

[Nick Wiger]

H. Ryan's left.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bye, Ryan.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't put the.

[Mike Mitchell]

Don't put the curse on Ryan.

[Nick Wiger]

Why not? He's the intern. He can take it.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's young man. He doesn't need that burden.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

He is taking the dolls home.

[Nick Wiger]

You got. You got to. You got to earn your keep out here in Hollywood. You.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It'.

[Nick Wiger]

You got to go through these ritual hazings. He gets it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. So gun to head, you're happy, but you going in. You driving through.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not usually going there. I'm not usually dining in at a. Duncan, how about yourself?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm going in, but I'm not. But I'm not dining in, but I'm going.

[Nick Wiger]

You're going in. You're getting a. You're getting better food.

[Mike Mitchell]

It is fun to go in, especially if you're going to order a drink.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I like to see what I'm looking at, too. If I'm ordering the food, I want to see which. Which munchkins look fresh, which look a little dusty. You got a cuz?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, so many. I mean, speaking of drinking, so many hungover mornings, getting Dunkin Sandwiches.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Cheese.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I remember for me, bacon, egg and cheese on a croissant. And then I think I get a chocolate milk wags or a strawberry kulada.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Strawberry kulada is so good. Also, did you ever get a. What was the hot chocolate mixed with coffee? Do you guys remember what was that called?

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, I know it wasn't a Duncachino, but it was like a. But that was my favorite. No, it wasn't that. That's probably what it is, but they called it something.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I loved. I love Duncaccino. I loved when that existed. It's no longer on the menu. And I also, of course, love the

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Alpacino Duncan spot, historically known as the Duncano.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It was the Duncino Then. Okay, great. So we have a little more in common than we thought.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

You remember the Al Pacino spot from. Of course.

[Alyssa Limperis]

How could I forget? How could I forget?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's not Al anymore. It's Dunk. It's really good. A great bit.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Bacon, egg and cheese on a croissant. This is. My sister worked at Dunkin Donuts at one point. I don't know if I've ever revealed that Courtney worked.

[Mike Mitchell]

Courtney, thank you for your service.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, she worked at Dunk. She worked at Dunkin Donuts. She was the one who. She loved the bacon, egg and cheese sandwich. And then she revealed like, oh, they microwaved the eggs. And I was like, that didn't stop me. I didn't care.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, that doesn't do anything for me.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it didn't bother me at all. Yeah. But bacon, egg and cheese on croissant, either strawberry culada or nestle. A chocolate milk. Nestle quick. Chocolate milk or whatever. Nest quick.

[Alyssa Limperis]

From the. From the fridge.

[Nick Wiger]

Right from the fridge. And then a chocolate frosted donut. That was my big. Right there. You're hitting. You're hitting almost every calorie you need for the day. But, and, but, but. And also, by the way, that happened today with me. I hadn't eaten anything before I came here. I had a couple bites of mango and then what I ate. I probably won close to 2,500. I went. I went. I went ham.

[Mike Mitchell]

Did you do that on purpose? Because you knew you were getting Dunkin?

[Nick Wiger]

I knew I was getting dunking and I was just like, I'm just gonna wait.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Who care?

[Nick Wiger]

They were doing this. We're doing. We're doing so many episodes a week on the show and we're starting at 4:30.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I just worry about late last night. You sleep in. But yeah, that's. Now it's basically breakfast.

[Nick Wiger]

Damn right. I know. It started. Mortal Kombat started two started at 10pm

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a late stream.

[Nick Wiger]

And I flipped off Grogu at the Grove. There's Grove. Grogu's at the Grove. And I gave him the finger and I sent it to Amelia and she was pissed off.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't really know what that is, but Massachusetts, do you ever go to the Grove around Christmas time and get that fake snow?

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Alyssa Limperis]

As in nice experience. You're craving a little bit of snow. You go there, it's fake snow. I don't know what they're doing, but it's lovely. It's not the same, sure, but it's Better than nothing.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've encountered more fake snow than real snow in my life.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Yeah, you probably have.

[Nick Wiger]

Why is that? Remember when we. Me, you and. And. And Emma and Carl Tart in Detroit. Carl. Carl experienced snow for the first time.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

How to do a snow angel on

[Alyssa Limperis]

the lawn of our area.

[Mike Mitchell]

That was really fun.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's a nice memory.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wonderful.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yikes. And Amelia didn't get the invite.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That was before Amelia's time.

[Nick Wiger]

Amelia wasn't born yet.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Dunk and don't look a lot of great memories at Dunks over the years. Would walk there on the weekend. Okay, great. Jimmy's standing up again and staring over at W's direction.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, she's just being cute.

[Alyssa Limperis]

She's being cute.

[Mike Mitchell]

Doesn't indicate the presence of any sort of apparition.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Stretch it out.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And I don't know about you, but I also feel very like every Sunday I go to Dunkin Donuts. And it's just a way that I also feel connected to home. It's a way that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, you still do that?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I do that every Sunday.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love that.

[Nick Wiger]

What do you think of the West Coast Dunks?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think it's fine. Again, I think what I love about a chain. I'm sure you guys talk about this on here a lot is just the consistency of something. I love that I can be in a place so far from home, but I can go and basically have the exact same taste of coffee. So it's very good for me in this, like, homesick wise.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's like a. You know. And certainly the westward expansion of Dunkin happened in adulthood for me. And I. I had never had Duncan until I'd gone to. I went to New York as an adult. That was my first experience with it. I really liked my first, like, you know, again, this place that had been kind of built up by. By all these East Coasters. You kind of go in with like, I'm not necessarily chipping chip on your shoulder, but a little bit of like, all right, let's see what you got. Right and then there. And I'm like, I like this. I'm actually having a great time. It's good coffee, is a good breakfast sandwich, a decent donut. But here's the thing. As they've scaled up as they decide to blanket the country with.

[Nick Wiger]

Starting to be a little bit more cardboardy.

[Mike Mitchell]

And then also the. The thing that's a bummer is that they used to make the donuts fresh in house. You know, time to make the donuts. And now. And now what they do now, a lot of them are. It's a central kitchen where they're. They're trucking the donuts in, and it's just not the same. You're not getting the same fresh.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Now, here's a question. Do you know where the central kitchen is? Is it closer to Massachusetts? And so is there a. Is there a chance that it tastes better in Mass? It's a shorter trip.

[Mike Mitchell]

I believe they're regionally located. I think there might be some locations where they're still making the donuts in house.

[Nick Wiger]

So you were jacking them off with your hands there?

[Mike Mitchell]

There are a couple of ghosts over my shoulder.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Shoulders.

[Nick Wiger]

Fred, the donut guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

You summoned me. Now you gotta jack me off. Well, back to making donuts in hell. I did some bad stuff.

[Nick Wiger]

What a surprise, I guess.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hit a guy with my car, just kept driving. Fred. Alyssa, you got hash browns, iced coffee with almond milk, avocado toast, a culada, which you did not realize came with milk, and the milk could not be substantial substituted. Yeah, and some munchkins. Mitch, you got a. A man. You. You did. Go ham. We'll get you. Let me give. Let me give mine because I got. This is Amelia. Ordered on my behalf. I get a wake up wrap, which was just egg and cheese and a tortilla, a small hot coffee, a small hot oat latte, and a blueberry donut. But it was actually a. A punch donut, wasn't it? Fruit punch donut.

[Emma]

Well, Mitch got the punch donut, the fruit punch.

[Mike Mitchell]

Got the fruit punch donut.

[Emma]

So he asked me to substitute yours with something else.

[Mike Mitchell]

Why didn't you just get, like, if we're just gonna get a fruit punch donut and a blueberry donut, why don't we just get one of each? It doesn't matter who's attributed to.

[Emma]

That's what we did.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay, yeah, we did, but I put in an order for the fruit punch donut.

[Mike Mitchell]

But you're like, I want the fruit punch donut for myself.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, well, look, you didn't give your order. And then she's like, I'm gonna guess Wag's order, and she included my fruit punch donut. I was like, don't.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You can't get.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, but that's. Oh, good guess. You guess. One of my orders. Get the fuck out of here.

[Emma]

I thought he would want a free.

[Nick Wiger]

And then this motherfucker plays possum. This order's so big, I'm going to be late. I said, don't worry about it. I'm late all the time. Relax, you got nothing to worry about. And I said, Duncan's going to get that shit done in an instant.

[Emma]

You know what? Mitch was right.

[Nick Wiger]

I was right.

[Alyssa Limperis]

They don't waste any time.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, she texted me. He was like, I got out of here so fast and I was like, you're going to beat me there. Lo and behold, she did beat me here. Oh yeah, it's true. But Duncan is quick. They're moving quick.

[Alyssa Limperis]

They're moving fast.

[Nick Wiger]

Which is like maybe not good. Like it might, it might be. It might be this like back in the day, it maybe took a little bit longer at Duncan. It is very. It's very much. You know what I'm talking about.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a machine.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Thank you. Yeah, that's what I meant. That's what I mean.

[Mike Mitchell]

Industrial. Industrial. You know the music Sting, that would be used in cartoons of the 50s.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes, yes. Yeah, know.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, you know.

[Nick Wiger]

You know. You know my favorite part of that song is.

[Mike Mitchell]

What's that? Oh yeah, that's fun.

[Nick Wiger]

The end of it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, it is fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, it's a good song.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, you didn't do my favorite part. I thought that's why you did it.

[Mike Mitchell]

I thought you were going to take it over cuz he pointed at.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, okay. All right. Do it again.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bump, bump.

[Nick Wiger]

What the is wrong with you? You do what you're saying.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's the part. That's the part where you're supposed to do it. That Right, right. We did it.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

We did it.

[Nick Wiger]

And then, and then there's a little. And then like it starts again. It's like. You know what I'm saying? Like it goes low again. That's a. That's a.

[Mike Mitchell]

A good ass song. Who know what that song is?

[Nick Wiger]

We can play that. I bet you anything.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I bet that's got to be in public domain. It's got to be.

[Nick Wiger]

I wonder that ghost of yours is going to fucking probably used to like that. Used to dance to that song in some way. I'm sure I shouldn't even invoked her. I hate that I even talked about her.

[Alyssa Limperis]

She could have written the song.

[Mike Mitchell]

Give us a rundown. I will say you were very kind and you shared your fruit punch donut and your chocolate frosted donut. So I get to try try both. But give us, give us the rundown of everything you got.

[Nick Wiger]

Here we go. Okay, here I went. This is, this is. This is my order meal. I stopped. I stopped walking with Sus, which he was thrilled about, and I wrote down this big order how did Sus or

[Mike Mitchell]

not join us for Duncan, I was

[Nick Wiger]

confused by this too. I. I mean, I don't know.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Lets him do one activity a day.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, that's probably what. It's probably the Dodiac.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, right. It's the Dodiac. That's right. It's the Dodia.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Total Dodiac move.

[Nick Wiger]

Large Strawberry Dragon Fruit limeade refresher. Now, I'll tell you this. I usually get a strawberry Dragon fruit refresher. It comes with green tea. This is more sugar. It's limeade is in here as well. This is new.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I was going to say. Yeah. That's not something from this is new. I've never heard this is new.

[Nick Wiger]

You can just see the color here.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's.

[Nick Wiger]

It is very. It's neon pink, vibrant pink.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's funny seeing you with these drinks. It's like a millennial woman,

[Nick Wiger]

I feel. It's very millennial woman.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's giving millennial woman coded.

[Nick Wiger]

It is. It is.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Totally.

[Nick Wiger]

Usually, here's the thing. You get this big, big honker of a. Of a drink. And when it's with the green tea, not too many calories either. It's like kind of. But with the limeade, I think that throws it all the window. I then got myself a hot caramel. Caramel craze signature latte. A little too sweet, I thought. But Amelia also up really bad and got the cold one, which was better. Pretty good. And also that just has like a good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's just. It's.

[Nick Wiger]

This has a good Dunkin taste going on.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Can I tell you what? I think this is the elite time to be like this when it's almost all melted like that. And there's the dripping. This to me, is a classic. Duncan. This is kind of dripping.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. Soaks your hand when you pick.

[Emma]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You don't want to be having it when the ice is like strong.

[Nick Wiger]

On the east coast, it would be this. But it would be a Styrofoam cup would also be around it. That was.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You don't do the Styrofoam cups anymore.

[Nick Wiger]

They're gone.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I know, but that was the move. You get an iced coffee and then they put the Styrofoam cup on the outside.

[Nick Wiger]

Just wasting. Just destroying the world.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, is this single use plastic. Much better than Styrofoam. It's also very wasteful.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, we would do the double.

[Mike Mitchell]

So I guess we did a double. So I guess doubling wasteful and every.

[Nick Wiger]

Everything Stuffed bagel mini swags, which I shared with you as well. You.

[Mike Mitchell]

I Enjoyed it.

[Nick Wiger]

You never had these before. Sometimes they really knock them out of the park and then other times I eat them and I think they taste like chemicals.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That's how I feel about the hash

[Alyssa Limperis]

browns sometimes taste microwave same.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like, I like that bad boy.

[Nick Wiger]

I, I, I like the bagel stuff. If I, you know what I like about is that because sometimes you get a sandwich and you're like I kind of want a bagel bite. I want a bite of a bagel. And this gives these minis give you that wise you get to, you get to have your cake and eat it too. Not cake. But why were we talking about cake before? Oh, your birthday.

[Alyssa Limperis]

My birthday.

[Nick Wiger]

What, what cake?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Do we even talk about cake for

[Nick Wiger]

my birthday we, we talked about eating cake and shitting it into the toilet.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's right.

[Nick Wiger]

What, what, what cake are you going for on your birth. What's your ideal birthday cake?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, one of my best friends, May Wilkerson is an amazing cook and ever since I've been in la she makes me a homemade vegan cake or cupcake. Isn't that so nice? Before this it would be funfetti. It'd just be a classic fun confetti. But now May makes me cake. So I think last year she did like a vegan lemon butter cream but it was all vegan. It's incredible. So I, she takes requests but usually I say do your thing and she, she, So I, I'm hoping that after that as this comes out, I will have shit into the toilet. My best friend May's beautiful homemade coffee homemade cake.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's amazing that she'll make bespoke cake for you and it'll be a little bit of a nice surprise.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes. Isn't it just amazing? Yeah, it's really nice. I love a homemade cake though. I have no interest in a store bought cake. Store bought cupcakes. I will not eat it. I just don't. It doesn't excite me at all.

[Nick Wiger]

I love vanilla. I like vanilla cake and then the frosting can be whatever but if it's

[Alyssa Limperis]

from the store and it's that got like that, I hate it. It does nothing for me.

[Nick Wiger]

That's fair. You know what I loved? I love yellow cake with a chocolate.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But I'm talking like you just get the yellow, the, the yellow cake in the box and the chocolate frosting. That's a perfect cake to me.

[Nick Wiger]

That's a great.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's way better if you make it at home.

[Nick Wiger]

Even from a mix.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Even from a box mix.

[Nick Wiger]

Can I tell you What I've moved.

[Mike Mitchell]

There are times when I'll do this slice of store bought cake just to. I was like, I want cake.

[Nick Wiger]

And it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm just.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is low effort proposition.

[Nick Wiger]

I want a good vanilla cake with. I want like a. A good version of it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But farms has some nice like cakes. Like a German chocolate chocolate cake slice that I have found is good and a carrot cake slice. But yeah, vanilla cake is hard to find in my opinion.

[Emma]

That's good.

[Nick Wiger]

It's. It's funny because for my birthday, like that's in my. That's what. It's in my head. But now I am more of a chocolate cake guy. Just on my birthday it's different. But as I've gotten older wigs I've moved on to. I'm a ice cream cake guy.

[Mike Mitchell]

Ice cream cakes. Really?

[Alyssa Limperis]

So that's in your. Usually I think that's a younger sister. You're coming back to that.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm doing a little Benjamin Button thing.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

We were Carvel boy.

[Nick Wiger]

Carvel boy Carvel. I like Carvel. But like Carvel's. Carvel's not as big in like you know, more Brighams or whatever. Friendlies.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, friendlies. You're right.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So maybe not to mention friendlies around him. I mean, geez.

[Mike Mitchell]

Didn't have a great experience.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

More like unfriendly.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm Benjamin buttoning. I'm. I, I am, I am liking my dicks there already. But everything else is slowly getting there. The. I'm going into ice cream cake now. As I get older, I'm becoming an ice cream cake guy.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's just so high stress though. I mean it, the serving of it is just. It stresses me out more than that. You are on a timer.

[Nick Wiger]

You got to put it in the fridge. It's a process here.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Freezer.

[Nick Wiger]

You got to trust the process. You're from the freezer to the fridge.

[Mike Mitchell]

You gotta defrost it a little bit.

[Nick Wiger]

Sixers beat us.

[Mike Mitchell]

The Celtics, they got swept by the Knicks.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. And then Lakers are now out too.

[Mike Mitchell]

How did. How do this. The Celtics.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the Knicks?

[Nick Wiger]

I have no idea.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think the Celtics are going to

[Nick Wiger]

be beat the Knicks, it's just a true mess. We don't have to talk about it. I'm sad. It makes me sad.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Rebuilding year.

[Mike Mitchell]

My team. My team lost two and it got swept by the Oklahoma City Thunder. Probably gonna be the ultimate champions.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

I hope they kick the out of the Knicks. I. And I hate and I don't Even like that team. I see when.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the time this episode releases, we'll be an NBA Finals time.

[Nick Wiger]

What do you. What do you think? Pistons or Knicks? Who do you think?

[Mike Mitchell]

Or Chance. I think it's going to be that boring. I think it's going to be thunder over Knicks. I think that's going to be. It's kind of just like. Like the, you know, I. I don't think the Thunder particularly exciting team, but they just execute so meticulously. If there was going to be. Gets those whistles if someone gets. Get. If someone wins, who isn't the Thunder, I actually think it would be the Minnesota Timberwolves and it would be them upsetting the. The. We're still. They're still in the. The. It's locked up with the spurs right now. But them upsetting the spurs and then upsetting the Thunder because they're just so fearless and tenacious and then I think they'd match up pretty well with whoever the east opponent was. But I.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, I think the Celtics are going to come back.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, they'll find a way.

[Alyssa Limperis]

They'll find a way when Massachusetts.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're strong.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It ain't over. It ain't over.

[Nick Wiger]

Boston Strong, baby.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Boston Strong, baby. We're coming back.

[Nick Wiger]

I. I remember they put the. One of the Boston Bombers on. On Rolling Stone.

[Mike Mitchell]

You bring this up every time.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, yeah, I'm. We had Columbine. Now we're having the Boston Bomber.

[Nick Wiger]

Sorry, sorry. We don't have to talk about every. We don't have to talk about every

[Mike Mitchell]

Joe Car Sinai or whatever the fuck is.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, they shouldn't have put him on Rolling Stone.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah, I know.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You bet they put him on Rolling Stone.

[Nick Wiger]

They made him look hot.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was at whatever I was like, like, like who. Who gives a shit?

[Nick Wiger]

I do. Damn it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait. They put hitting the Bomber on it.

[Mike Mitchell]

They did. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Brings us up every time.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't bring this up every time. What do you mean?

[Mike Mitchell]

Every episode the bombing comes up, you bring up that they put the guy on Rolling Stone.

[Nick Wiger]

Look, Boston Strong. I'm getting back to my Boston Strong order right here, right now.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're more like Boston Long, rapid up Boston Long.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And all of a sudden we're back to Ben Affleck.

[Nick Wiger]

Come on. Boston Long, Covid. That's what I got.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, boy.

[Nick Wiger]

Seems. Seems like one of your shitty roasts. They're not yours. The people who write them for you. I got a sweet black pepper bacon sandwich on a croissant.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm with sweet and salty. I don't I don't like the combo.

[Nick Wiger]

For me, I agree with you. But I was like, I'll try this thing. And then I realized I think have had it before. I wrote in parentheses, if no croissants, I'll get it on an English muffin. We'll get back to that. Everything bagel with cream cheese. This was for me to just take home with, but they put the cream cheese on it, so I had to take bites of it. I don't know how it's going to. I don't know.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Can I also say something from looking at it?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Light cream cheese.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not enough cream cheese.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Put a lot of cream cheese. I remember it being like thick in the middle.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

That was prefer when they put it on for you or when they give you the thing.

[Nick Wiger]

No, I should, I should have, I should have been more clear with that. I said I was taking it home cheese.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You usually when you ask them to, when they put it on. I agree. But in this instance, that did look thin.

[Mike Mitchell]

At a, especially at a bagel shop. I want them to give me 100 on. But like, like at a situation, like if I'm at like an airport Duncan, and for whatever reason I'm getting a, a bagel, I'll probably get on the side and I'll ask for an extra one because I know whatever reason, because

[Alyssa Limperis]

it's a good reason because you're at a Duncan in an airport. Perfect place to get a bagel.

[Nick Wiger]

I, I agree with bagels. I don't usually eat before flight swagger, and I've got into a fight about this, but, but I don't like to eat before. I don't want to have to go to the bathroom, basically.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, yeah. Fair. That's like me with. Yeah. Drinking water.

[Nick Wiger]

I I, oh, yeah, sure, I get that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Are you thinking you're gonna have to poop that quickly after?

[Nick Wiger]

I just don't want to even have to think about it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Doesn't want to risk it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

Everything bagel with. Everything bagel with green pizza that was on there. I got the fruit punch donut, and I got a chocolate frosted donut, and I got ten munchins. Munchkins.

[Mike Mitchell]

Munchkins were fun.

[Nick Wiger]

Munchkins were forever, always fun. I mean, all of it was for everybody. So I wrote English muffin and no croissant. There was no. So Amelia sent me, croissant is unavailable. I said, did you do English? I put it, I put it in there. I don't know if you signed. She said, english is unavailable. I said, Fuck. And then she said, it's two hours before they close. She was spiraling out at this point. I was like, it's fine, don't worry about it. And then I said, did you get me the sesame seed bagel? She says, no, I forgot it. So I did a thing and I ordered.

[Emma]

I already had to order it because I wanted to be on time. So I needed it to just submit the order so that they could work on it. So then when you took. When I said, yeah, I forgot. Then I just ordered it separately for a different order.

[Nick Wiger]

But I also ordered a sandwich and I said, you can pick it up under my name. And I didn't know she did that. So I got a sourdough breakfast sandwich as well.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's nice.

[Nick Wiger]

So we got, so we got the sesame, we got the, the maple sweet bacon one on a sesame seed bagel and we got the sourdough sandwich. So way too much food.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But the sourdough sandwich, in my head I actually thought it was a sourdough bagel. Cuz you remember when they had those, those were great. But it wasn't that it was on sourdough bread.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right?

[Nick Wiger]

It was on sourdough bread. And I got to say, I don't know what I think about the sourdough bread. I die.

[Mike Mitchell]

You gave me a bite of it sucked.

[Nick Wiger]

It was, it was like so fake. Sourdough tasty.

[Mike Mitchell]

The bread was low quality and it didn't have a good toast to it. Like, why bother?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Mass produced sourdough is not actually made with sourdough starter. It's with like a sour flavoring. Doesn't have the same vibe as like a true sour dough. So that maybe is what that is.

[Nick Wiger]

You don't, you don't want a sour flavoring at it. And that's not. No. That sucks.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

So yeah. Anyways, that was not great stuff. And then the, the, the bagel, the bagel sandwich version of it was better. And I honestly couldn't taste the sweetness in the bacon. Okay, what do you think? What did you guys, you didn't try the donuts. But wise, what do you think of the donuts? Or do you want to get there eventually?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I have the donuts most Sundays, so.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think they're great. I don't think they've dipped in quality at all, those munchkins. A blueberry munchkin is my favorite chocolate second.

[Nick Wiger]

I think that they, they will, they will vary in quality just based on the day. Like, like I'm just saying, like just based on if they've been out for a while or whatever the deal is end of day. Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

In terms of national availability and, and to your point about consistency, I feel I can, I can count on the Dunkin Donuts to be fine. I like certainly like locally, I think they're. And even excluding like a place like Primo's which is like a one location, you know, artisan donuts shop. I, I would take Duncan over something that's like a little bit more gentrified. Like an upscale, like a, like a sidecar where donuts like $7 a piece. But I still like like a Randy's Donuts, which is from la. I feel like does like that kind of like donut, that sort of working class donut just a little bit better.

[Nick Wiger]

And it's.

[Mike Mitchell]

And it's made in house pressure.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Which is a little bit different. But I still don't mind it. And I like the, I like the savory side of their menu more. And like I enjoyed the blueberry donut I had from there. I thought the fruit punch donut was like a, A little bit. Had a little too much going on. But the chocolate frosted donut was, was solid. My wake up wrap was tremendous. I thought it was home.

[Nick Wiger]

Right. My sister loves to wake up wrap.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Mom loves it. She gets two. Anytime we're on that, we're on the road.

[Nick Wiger]

People usually get two of them for the breakfast.

[Mike Mitchell]

Egg, cheese and tortilla. It's all you need. It was great. If I had a little bit of hot sauce with that, it would have been in heaven.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I like it so much. I make it on my own with the just egg patty at home and I get these little mini tortillas and I. And some vegan cheese. I heat it up because I love it.

[Mike Mitchell]

How fun is that?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think it's just perfect.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You know what? It is. It's never going to hurt. Hurt your stomach. It's such a safe food.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It's always super hot.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Piping hot.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mine was hot.

[Nick Wiger]

You got, you gotta, you gotta. But I feel like you. Well, you got them there quick. You gotta move fast.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

That's all I gotta say. You gotta move fast. You gotta, you gotta swallow those things.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Hash browns and an ice mocha and a joint. Perfect day. Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's nice.

[Emma]

That's why I was rushing to get back here. Yeah. You.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You knew that wake up wrap was on borrowed time. I got.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So I got.

[Nick Wiger]

The chocolate frost was gone, by the way. We had to get a chocolate chocolate frost.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, the chocolate Chocolate one was. Yeah, it was still gone.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, oh, that's better though. You want to just.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm a classic chocolate frost with a,

[Mike Mitchell]

with a cake donut. Not like a chocolate donut.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I like.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, wait. Speaking of which. I'm sorry.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Please.

[Nick Wiger]

With ice cream cake.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You.

[Nick Wiger]

Here's the issue. So many ice cream cakes have crunchies. I actually want cake between the ice cream I want.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Is that possible?

[Nick Wiger]

It is possible. It used to be way more normal. It doesn't happen as much anymore.

[Emma]

The crunchiest, the crunch is kind of the my opinion.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love the crunchies.

[Nick Wiger]

I might come off as a bit misogynistic here, but this is some woman bullshit. Oh, women love the crunchies. Except for the one that you saw. She's great.

[Mike Mitchell]

Let me guess. All your broads got three drinks in front of you.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, three drinks and crunchies. The ladies are out of control.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's crazy because I also feel like the softness would just make like you need the hardness to separate the ice cream.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, man. I, I, you guys are being, you're just being foolish right now. You're not thinking this period. You're not too straight.

[Emma]

I think.

[Nick Wiger]

Wait, what's that?

[Emma]

You almost said we were hysterical.

[Nick Wiger]

You're being a little hysterical right now. I'm not sure. I, I don't know what's happening here, but.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Cancel.

[Mike Mitchell]

Some of you may or may not be witches.

[Nick Wiger]

We have to do some sort of

[Mike Mitchell]

test to figure out who's a witch.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't think any of you are witches.

[Emma]

Yeah, apparently if you have a, a freckle on your palm, you're a witch. Which I do have my palms.

[Alyssa Limperis]

God.

[Nick Wiger]

If I had to guess which one of you is a witch. Okay, never mind. We got three.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that's. My palms are hairy as

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I have no freckle.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow, that's good.

[Nick Wiger]

If I had a guess. If I would guess. Amelia first of, of anyone. Yeah, I, I, I don't know.

[Mike Mitchell]

Emma has witches energy.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm not there. I, I believe in witches and I am faithful. I'm, I'm happy for I have.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I am faithful.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm scared. I'm scared today.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I am faithful.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Please.

[Mike Mitchell]

So you didn't have the kulada? I didn't have the c. Volunteered up for the table.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Strawberry kulada got. Did the strawberry colada have milk? It feels like. No, it feels like that's particular to the vanilla.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Also what I was going to get today. And they were out. And I rightfully guessed that vanilla was my next best guess. But Then similarly.

[Mike Mitchell]

Right, because you got one, too.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. And I was reading the sticker that says it, and it just says. It says small, vanilla bean colada, 2 vanilla bean cool syrups, and then one milk. So I'm pretty sure this is literally just syrup and milk mixed together. It does just taste like vanilla milk.

[Emma]

No way to customize milk.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Which is why I don't understand.

[Nick Wiger]

It tastes like melted ice cream.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was. It was way too sweet, Mitch. You compared it to drinking frosting, and. And that's kind of what it felt like. I was sipping this. This some bitch, and I was like, ooh, that is a potent mix. It was like a little. Just a little. It's not a little too much. Like, a little too intense.

[Nick Wiger]

Do I guess.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, let's do it again. Let's do it again. Oh, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. It was a. It was kind of a potent mix.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, yeah. I'll see you at the Munch Down. I'll see you at Munch Madness.

[Nick Wiger]

Doughboy's Fridge Fest. You got a couple doughboys we're talking about?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Doughboys.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'll be performing at Fridge Fest.

[Nick Wiger]

Doughboys. Fridge Fest. Is this happening? It would be funny if you're. If your ghost was, like, listening to the podcast. He's like, I'm out of here.

[Mike Mitchell]

It sucks.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sucks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Amelia, your sausage, egg and cheese and everything. Bagel, hash browns, ice. Ice, latte, oat milk.

[Emma]

We're all hitting those hash browns specifically. Were hitting.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I agree.

[Emma]

Very peppery in the best way. Crispy.

[Alyssa Limperis]

They're like 99 cents, I think so.

[Emma]

Good. The ba. The bread, the bagel itself, kind of not great. And. Did we just hear something?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, but it's a person.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was Rochelle.

[Emma]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

She was, like, wearing a red and white robe. She didn't have a face. It's fine. Yeah, she just went that way. Yeah, it's all good. Yeah, yeah. Bagel. Yeah. I mean, but those hash browns are really fucking good. I get those.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's a sundae. And when they're. I agree with you. When they're piping hot, they're so good. They're so good.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

But sometimes you get one where you're like, they haven't cleaned the microwave in, like, three months.

[Nick Wiger]

There is just sometimes, like, a chemical thing going on. Like, these were too close to the top of the batch or so. I don't know what's going on thing

[Emma]

that Wags was so.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah, yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, no, there's. There's a chemical thing there, and there's a cardboard thing there in my Head and, And you can get it. Look, and I know I'm saying this about a restaurant. I love five Forks at some point, but, but still, I, I, I know this about, About Dunkin again.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's part of why. Yeah, Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I have gone to a Dunkin straight out of the airport in Boston and gotten a coffee. And it's just like, sometimes you get a coffee from them and you know it's wrong by the color when they hand it to you. Like, oh, this is not going be a good one. And I have dumped it and gotten to the Next Duncan, like, 10 minutes down the road. I gotten a different one, same order, completely different coffee.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sure.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I don't care. I'm just like, oh, we'll just go hit the next one.

[Nick Wiger]

No, that's the way it goes. So you. That, that is, that is just the way it goes with. And sometimes it's a bad one. You can just the consistency. Even though I know what you're saying of, like, you're to get the. On Gwen Stefani style on Sunday morning. You're going to get that. You're going to get that taste of home no matter what.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What's the Gwen Stefani style?

[Mike Mitchell]

She sang a song called Morning Mitch was referencing a no Doubt song.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, nice.

[Nick Wiger]

Why are you mad?

[Mike Mitchell]

I liked it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Come on, man. Come on. Oh, Jesus Christ.

[Nick Wiger]

Gwen Stefani's gotten her stuff together now. She's a, she's, you know that she's become like a. She's like a Christian lady now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, is she?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, she's with Blake Shelton, sexiest man alive.

[Nick Wiger]

She's, she's good for her. She's, like, putting up, like, she, she's getting, like, Ash Wednesday ashes and stuff.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, how about that?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Well, you should be. You might want to get yourself some ashes as well to keep. Yeah, I would take out the cross tonight.

[Nick Wiger]

I will. Maybe.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I, I wouldn't be making fun of that on this.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm not. I, I don't.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You got two witches in here and you got a ghost. I don't know, man.

[Nick Wiger]

It's a disaster.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're fine.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm gonna run into Wolf man on the way.

[Mike Mitchell]

He's like, oh, hey, Frankenstein.

[Nick Wiger]

In my head, I'm just like, play it cool. Gotta be Frankenstein.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Alyssa Limperis]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Alyssa Limperis]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Sorry about that.

[Nick Wiger]

Exactly.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Thanks buddy. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Alyssa Limperis]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Alyssa Limperis]

It's just all, it's like, oh, do I need to go to like a,

[Mike Mitchell]

do I need another type of website to like find the right pictures or like another type of website to upload?

[Nick Wiger]

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[Alyssa Limperis]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Emma]

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[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Let's get to our fork scores. So. So, Alyssa, here's how this will work. We'll each go around. We'll give our closing arguments on Dunkin Donuts based on this. This experience. But also, you know, you. You've eaten there a lot, so you can. You can take all that into. Into account. And then we'll end by giving it a fork score from 0 to 5 forks. It is currently in the golden plate club. It is not drip dipped below the four fork threshold. So four forks or higher puts in the gold plate club. Just for. For reference in terms of. Of. Of our metrics.

[Nick Wiger]

Alyssa, do you want me to go?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, Mitch, why don't you go first?

[Nick Wiger]

You already know my ranking. I. Look, I loved Duncan as a kid, but we've talked about this. This Wags that do your thing. We've talked about this. Wags that, like Wendy's has got bought out by. What's it called? Venture capitalists and. And over. What did you say?

[Mike Mitchell]

Private equity?

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, same. Yeah, same thing, right? Same difference.

[Mike Mitchell]

Bad rich guys.

[Nick Wiger]

Bad rich guys.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, this is. This bid is not even going anywhere, and it would pro. You probably can't even have it on. What's the Irish song that's in every. That's in every.

[Nick Wiger]

The shipping up to Boston.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, that's it. That's it. Okay. Okay.

[Nick Wiger]

You. Oh, you were trying to find shipping up to Boston as you go.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I've been going.

[Nick Wiger]

Amelia's just singing it for you.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And that's the amount of time we can do without you guys getting in trouble. There we go. Worth it. Worth it.

[Nick Wiger]

You know what? This is the truth.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What?

[Nick Wiger]

This is funny. You do that, because we had Tim Brennan on the podcast from the Drop Murphy's, and we did Sipping up Live in Boston. Live in Boston. No, we did Sipping up In Boston. That's true. He played for it and he played and he. And he. And he did play.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can't believe he got along, like, went along with it. Like, apologized afterwards. I was like, I can't. Sorry we made you do that.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Jesus.

[Nick Wiger]

I just saw Michelle walk in the background.

[Mike Mitchell]

Scared. The outell's just a person.

[Nick Wiger]

I know that person.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's not. She's not a.

[Emma]

Not a ghost.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's not a wraith. She's not a spectre. She's not a ghoulie.

[Nick Wiger]

Tim Brennan was there also. And by the way, I had Covid at this point. I currently had Covid when he was on stage.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, we were reviewing Bertucci, so there

[Alyssa Limperis]

was a lot going into the Bertucci's one.

[Mike Mitchell]

You gave it to. Oh, yeah. I never landed the plan on my. On my Bertucci's thing. Yes. You gave. You gave it to. Both Ramondi and Mike are.

[Nick Wiger]

It was Mike Covid, Mike Strain.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. How about that? The Bertigious thing is that. That I mentioned this before the podcast, but it was one of these places that was bought by Robert Earl. Speaking of bad rich guys, who is the founder of. Founder of Planet Hollywood, and then he just trying to use their kitchens for ghost kitchen concepts like Guy Fieri's Flavortown and Mr. Beast Burger. So that's partly why. Why both Bertucci's and Buca di Beppo have fallen off a cliff.

[Emma]

Oh.

[Mike Mitchell]

But go ahead, Mitch. I'm sorry I interrupted your thoughts.

[Nick Wiger]

I have. I mean, like I was saying, Wendy's, the. You know, the. You know, these.

[Mike Mitchell]

The.

[Nick Wiger]

The venture. All these venture capitalists or private equity or wherever, buying these restaurants and turning them into shit.

[Mike Mitchell]

And I think that Blackstone Capital buying Jersey Mike's.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes, Duncan, Wendy's is now like just so bad. It's just. Wendy's is just falling apart. Duncan. There was a dip in quality. I hope that someday someone buys them that cares more about them and you know, the downsides of Duncan be, you know, like a baking stuff locally.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's maybe us.

[Nick Wiger]

Maybe it could be us. Oh, man, what a pain in the ass. It would be. It would be a pain in the ass. We'd hate each other at the end of it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, let's go in on it. Let's go in on it.

[Nick Wiger]

But it would. It would be great to carry about. I like to have people really care about.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Here's the question. Can you care about something that's that big? You know what I mean? Like. Like once you hit a certain level of scale, is this inevitable.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, right.

[Nick Wiger]

It's. That's a great question. And, And. And. And Wendy's. People have turned on Wendy's, at least. Duncan, I still do love. I still think, like, yeah, some of the quality has gone down. You can have bad Duncan, but I still do love it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Come on.

[Nick Wiger]

I love it forever. I have memories of going to Duncan with my dad before work, and he put the coffee on top of the car and he drove a long time, and it was still there. Because Duncan is magical in a lot of ways to me. Wise. I. I love Dunkin Donuts. And it was better. It's not as good as it was anymore.

[Mike Mitchell]

Still.

[Nick Wiger]

It's five, four.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

It's Quincy's own. It's Quindy's. It's Quincy's Pride Wigs.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

The pride of Quincy.

[Nick Wiger]

The. The pride of Quincy.

[Mike Mitchell]

You're. You're from Quincy, Massachusetts, the home of Duncan. I'm from Lakewood, California, the home of. Of Denny's.

[Nick Wiger]

That's true. Breakfast.

[Mike Mitchell]

We both have chain restaurants in our blood.

[Nick Wiger]

We do.

[Mike Mitchell]

Alyssa, your thoughts? Your fork store.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dun, dun, dun dun Dilla. Dun dun, Dunkin Donuts.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What can I say that hasn't already been said? No. I love Duncan. I agree that potentially the. The quality is not quite where I remember it being as a kid. But I think what I love about it is much like Massachusetts, you know? You know, it's like we. Every day's not beautiful in Massachusetts. You get some tough days, you get some hard weather. It doesn't have to be perfect every time, but it's like, yeah,

[Nick Wiger]

Marky Mark. Good vibrations.

[Mike Mitchell]

Very good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Awesome. But I love it.

[Nick Wiger]

I played as much as I could of Marky Mark.

[Emma]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That kind of played longer than mine did. It felt nice. Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

And we don't know him, basically.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I love it. Even if it's not perfect, obviously. It holds a lot of nostalgia. It holds a lot of east coast to me. And I. I like the innovations for a vegan. Growing up, they didn't have hash browns or avocado toast. I like both of them. They're very solid. They taste the same every time. I. I'd get the same order again tomorrow. It's getting five forks for me.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

So you.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You.

[Nick Wiger]

I love it.

[Mike Mitchell]

You gave me a bite of your avocado toast as well. And I did like the avocado toast quite a bit. I thought the bread and the sourdoughs was really bad. But the avocado dose, I was like, this is. This is totally. If we're a chain restaurant honestly version

[Emma]

of this this is.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is much better than I expected.

[Nick Wiger]

I agree.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I agree.

[Mike Mitchell]

Emma, I know you have nostalgia for Duncan. Amelia do you have as well as. As someone who grew up in New York.

[Emma]

Yeah, I do.

[Mike Mitchell]

So. So this is. This is baked into you know your personal history for all of you. Dunkin Donuts is a bite of a memory for me. I don't have that connection. I was not exposed to Duncan.

[Nick Wiger]

You know this one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Tell story.

[Nick Wiger]

Do you not know that song?

[Mike Mitchell]

What is that you don't know it. What is it?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't know if I do either.

[Nick Wiger]

Dirty Water. That's we I just did the Father son of the Holy Spirit of Boston songs Good Vibrations ship it up to Boston and dirt you don't know dirty. That's when the Red Sox would win. They played dirty water. I don't care.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I actually don't think I even knew.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm only put on my Dodgers hat. Oh anyway the.

[Nick Wiger]

You like the Dodgers?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. Lakers are out so I gotta hop on a different bandwagon.

[Nick Wiger]

About time. They've won like two championships in the last few years.

[Mike Mitchell]

I love it. Evil Empire. It's great.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

This is.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is the thing about Duncan again I don't have that connection to it. It's. It's not a bite of a memory for me but I have enjoyed it when I've encountered it in adult life. And I will say as far as chain restaurant breakfasts go it's right up there with McDonald's as far as a go to a place that I'd want to see if I like I've like online the road maybe hungover or maybe just really sleepy. Hey I can get a cup of coffee that I'm going to like there and I can get some sort of breakfast sandwich andor sweet treat if that's what I'm craving.

[Nick Wiger]

Can I interrupt you really quick to be.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's going to be fine to good.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Saucer was like I love the food. Like I like the food there much more. I like Starbucks food but I like Starbucks coffee more. I'm like what the insane saucer. I hope the dodiac take his food dish away. Yeah. Take his food.

[Mike Mitchell]

Who did doesn't get water day.

[Nick Wiger]

I think that's fine with D coffee.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It kind of hurts you. You know it's. It's. It's. It's very violent. It's violent.

[Nick Wiger]

That's sour. Yeah it's like acidic and sour. It's nasty.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's also just like try hard like I'm in there. It's like, like, why are you trying to pretend like you're from some classy, upscale place? Dunkin Donuts is like, here you go. Everyone's walking. This a place to. It's Duncan. You know what you're getting.

[Nick Wiger]

You know, hose his ass, Dodiac. Hose him down.

[Mike Mitchell]

So where do I land? Fork wise? I did think this was a fine experience. I did not love the bagels, but I thought they got the job done. And I do believe that Duncan is a place that, due to its consistency, due to its predictability, and due to it feeling.

[Nick Wiger]

Just remember, you got two people watching this review right now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like, it fits one, three people. If we're talking about the apparitions, she's Boston lady.

[Alyssa Limperis]

It's all good. Forget about it. Oh, that's my auntie Suze.

[Mike Mitchell]

The decline is noticeable, even in my limited experience with even only going to this place for like, what, whatever, like 15 years or however long I've encountered an adult life. But I still like it and I'm still happy to see it. And for me, it's not quite a five fork restaurant, but it's a four forker and it stays in the Golden Plate Club.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank God.

[Mike Mitchell]

Where I think it belongs.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank God.

[Mike Mitchell]

W. It's a good chain. This is this place. We're celebrating a chain. What a chain is trying to do. And as far as what Dunkin Donuts is trying to do, Duncan is exceeding. Very, very succeeding. Very, very well.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm just happy you haven't gone ghost mad. And, you know, it seems like you still have your wits.

[Mike Mitchell]

I like Duncan. Like, I like.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I like.

[Mike Mitchell]

I have every reason to be biased against it. I have every reason to be like, I'm from the west coast. Like, we got. Wait, Randy's Donuts is better out here. Any random Cambodian owned donut shop is better out here than Dunk Dunkin Donuts. Even if I kind of feel that way to some degree.

[Nick Wiger]

Donuts, sure.

[Mike Mitchell]

Duncan is. Duncan is trying something else. And. And like from a breakfast stand. Sandwich standpoint, from a. From a cool drink standpoint, from both the savory and the sweet side. I think it's like a comprehensive overview of what you might want in terms of a breakfast when you're. When you're on the go. And so for that reason, yeah, I think four.

[Nick Wiger]

Four forks is the right wise. We're gonna make you an honorary Bostonian. Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, I'll put it on time.

[Alyssa Limperis]

30.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right. I got my go ahead. Okay. No, no, no way. I'M wearing that Celtics hat. That's the line I won't cross. But yeah, this one W. Now that I'll put on the Celtics hat before I put on the doughboys hat. Mark of Shane, I'll hand that back to you. Thank you very much. Lovely cap. Lovely. For our audio listeners, a pink Boston Red Sox cap. Great colorway.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Very stylish.

[Nick Wiger]

Which is, which is a. A derogatory term from Red Sox. F. I don't know if you know, like the pink cats came in and ruined everything. Did you know this?

[Alyssa Limperis]

And is that like woman? Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Honestly, kind of homophobia to some degree.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, now you're an honorary Bostonian. You do stuff like that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Now wait real quick. How are you doing on time? I. I didn't. We've gone along. I know.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I got nothing but for the, for the doughboys, for my fridge boys.

[Nick Wiger]

Fridge fest. I don't want to go home either. I know what I could wait for. I'm going to talk to Rochelle and talk about how what I should do after this to not be fudgeing. I might go see a movie and try to rub up against somebody.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hey, that was our review of Duncan. It's time for a segment. I've got some food related.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't mean that in a Kevin Spacey watching fucking Saving Private Ryan sort of way. I mean that in a fucking. Get this. Get this muck off me.

[Mike Mitchell]

I've got some food related jingles. And Mitch and Alyssa must determine which year they came out. It's another edition of Jingle all the Way spelled W. The rules of of Jingle all the Way. The closest guess without going over wins a point. So it'll be a jingle and you'll guess what year it came out at. If the closest guess without going over wins a point. So it's prices, right?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Rules.

[Mike Mitchell]

If you guess the year exactly, you get two points. That's the Arden Marine rule. If the game ends in a tie, the guest wins. That's the Mitch Kenner rule. If the second guesser can guess a movie from the first guesser's year correctly, they get a point. That's the Murder Brian rule. But you can only do that once per game. If you can also make the movie guess a food pun that doesn't have to be explained, you can get.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Look, I got to get going, but thank you guys so much.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's the Zack Cherry rule, which also can be deployed once per game. If you can name a character that an actor in the commercial played, you get a point. That's the Beck Bennett rule. You can do all that also once per game. And jeez, if Mitch and the guest hold hands and agree on a year and are correct, they both get the point because why fight? That's a Sandy Honigirl. That's also one once per game.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

And clearly, if you want to add

[Mike Mitchell]

a rule, it's up for grabs, but you don't.

[Nick Wiger]

We agree on a year. That. That the.

[Mike Mitchell]

If you both say the same, like, if you're like. Like that one feels like 1988. And. And this is like. Ah, man, I was gonna say 1988. If you hold hands and we both get a point, then you both get the point because.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, great.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hold on.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, that's fair.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm kidding.

[Nick Wiger]

That's fair. No, she's right.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm kidding. I'm messing. It's an inside joke, guys. It's an inside joke.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, today's theme is Coca Cola and Diet Coke jingles. These are, as always, compiled by the drop king, Robert Brsinga.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank you. All right, Rochelle, leave.

[Emma]

No, he's waving to a ghost.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But we need her for.

[Nick Wiger]

We need her for tips.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Can you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Can we text her real quick, see if she can pop in real quick? If she's out there, really go grab her.

[Nick Wiger]

We need her. Please. We need her.

[Mike Mitchell]

So this is the.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

We'll. We'll.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll play it. We'll play a clip.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

We'll play out the door. Maybe let her go.

[Emma]

Yeah, we'll.

[Nick Wiger]

We don't need.

[Mike Mitchell]

If she's already left.

[Nick Wiger]

Amelia's on it. She's on. She's. She's pulling out of.

[Emma]

Out of her car.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Amelia gets hit by a car, run over. She becomes the ghost.

[Mike Mitchell]

You don't know how to do. It's 8pm which means Relle has probably been here for like, 10 hours. So she can't give her to go home.

[Nick Wiger]

She's got one last duty. She's going to help me out.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Oh, she's coming.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, man. Okay. Walking back. She has been summoned. Rochelle, I'm. We're very sorry to. Mitch was quite insistent that we bring you back.

[Nick Wiger]

You brought this up to me before, and I thought that was haunted dolls. This is terrifying to me. Alyssa and I both want to know. Alyssa and I both want to know what is the best course of action for us to say?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Favorite people on the planet,

[Mike Mitchell]

who is. Who is our Get Play producer and a super producer here at. At Headgum, AKA Ranch is your nickname. Demi loves you so much. Dogs love you everywhere. And also you are someone who. Who is aware of the paranormal to some degree.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah, I've had a lot of paranormal experiences, and I am deeply afraid of

[Alyssa Limperis]

all of that stuff.

[Mike Mitchell]

And what was your reaction when I texted you this morning about my. My, you know, kind of beat by beat of what. What happened. Happened to me last night.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I just. I couldn't believe that. A skeptic. Yeah, I would say you're a skeptic, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

I think so, yeah. I'm more skeptical.

[Nick Wiger]

This is exactly how I feel, but

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm more skeptical than. Than like, oh, what? There's spookies everywhere, you know?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. It almost, like, felt just very affirming.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

I said. I said it's the closest. Yes. It's the closest thing to confirming that ghosts are real.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

And I'm very worried the proximity to you, to be honest.

[Mike Mitchell]

Really?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Me too.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, you don't want to be near me.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Exactly.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

We can leave if you brought her with you to the studio.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Exactly. She could follow the bus. Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

They follow you?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes, they can.

[Mike Mitchell]

She's chilling in my place.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

They kind of do whatever they want.

[Nick Wiger]

So what do we do? The people who are near him.

[Mike Mitchell]

You did give me some guidance in terms of if I feel threatened by this spirit. Something that I could do if I feel their presence again.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You. I think the best course of action is always to be very polite.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yes. And you can ask them very politely to leave. Leave you alone, and just taking a very firm. If there's any, like, amount of, like, oh, I actually kind of want them to stay. They will stay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, well, that's good. We don't have any of that, but

[Mike Mitchell]

if you, like, how could I. Let's. Let's say. Let's say you're talking to a spirit you want to ban. What might. What might you say? How might you formulate that?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I would probably say, hello, spirit. I appreciate that you're here, and I acknowledge that you may be lonely or lost, but I don't want you here, and I hope you respect that. That's very polite.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's very polite.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, no. I'm like, she can stay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, my gosh.

[Alyssa Limperis]

She's lonely. Oh, that's sad.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

But the thing is, a lot of spirits will come across as childlike, like. And this is where kind of demons come in to.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, no, no, no, no, no, no. Oh, my God. Why did we do this? This is worse. I feel worse. No, no, no, no, no. I'm done. I'm it out. I'm it out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Was like a young woman it was like maybe.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Maybe a child.

[Mike Mitchell]

I couldn't tell the age. It was. It was a diminutive person. I thought it was. It could have been a grown woman.

[Nick Wiger]

I couldn't tell the age.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Could have just gotten coffee. I had to come here.

[Nick Wiger]

This is a true nightmare.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

But.

[Mike Mitchell]

But I couldn't. Because I couldn't see their. Their facial features. I couldn't tell how old they were.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. So it's possible it might have taken a form that would not be threatening to you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

In order to let.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Have you.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Let them see.

[Alyssa Limperis]

To be fair, that did sound kind of threatening. This one didn't have a face.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. That was like, a little. A little spooky.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. So maybe. Maybe she's just a little lost.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think I should draw it. They don't want me to draw it. I should try to draw it.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't want to see it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I don't want to see it.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I feel like that would also be kind of manifesting it to be.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, so you don't think. You don't think I should draw? You think it's a bad idea?

[Emma]

What if I tried to.

[Mike Mitchell]

You shouldn't try to draw it. If it was to draw, I could draw.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't want it. Amelia, stop.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, my God. Oh, my God.

[Mike Mitchell]

So, so bad idea to be like. Because I almost did that this morning. I was like, let me draw a picture and then text it to you. I wouldn't you say, don't do that. I still kind of want to do it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

See, that's what I mean.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

More material connections to the spirit, which means it's harder for them to leave is, like, a thing. It's not like you want her to stay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's.

[Mike Mitchell]

I mean, I didn't mind the experience. I was just a little. Little confused, a little perturbed. But I didn't feel threatened.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Maybe not all ghosts are bad. Some of them are friendly and they're just hanging out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

Ranch. What. What is. What is your thought on, like, you're saying you don't want to be, like, around him. What is your advice to, like, say, Alyssa, I. In your. Yourself. Is there anything we should do?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Say a prayer. I would. If, God forbid, she did come with you to the studio, I think you guys could ask her nicely to not come with you.

[Nick Wiger]

On our way.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah. In case she, like, feels like she likes you guys better for some reason,

[Emma]

we should have her as a guest.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Mike, you gotta quit the pod. You gotta. I don't know, you gotta quit the pod.

[Nick Wiger]

I. I already want to

[Alyssa Limperis]

this. I'm mo. Back to Boston. I don't know. This is. Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

My question is, what do you. Did you do anything differently that might have brought her here?

[Alyssa Limperis]

What were you watching? You said you fell asleep watching tv.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, I went to work first, so I didn't come direct from home, so I went. Yeah, I fell asleep. I. I. Like, I had. I think it turned the TV off already, and it was, like, gonna get. Get up. I might have had. I might have had some, like, YouTube on or something, but I wasn't watching any. Anything substantial. I wasn't watching anything scary, so certainly. And I. I sort of, you know, kind of fell asleep, like, just leaning against the couch, and then as I was. As I was, like, just ended up lying down naturally. So. Yeah, I don't. I. There was nothing unusual because I will fall asleep on the couch sometimes. Emma, you'll do that sometimes, too.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

A couch sleeper. I sleep on my couch more than I do in my bed, I think.

[Mike Mitchell]

And if I've had sleep paralysis in the past, it's always been in my bed. I actually have not experienced it on the couch. So this. That's part of why I knew it

[Alyssa Limperis]

was so different when you woke up.

[Mike Mitchell]

She do that?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I don't know. For fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'll talk to her.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Was it you woke up naturally and then saw it, or did you wake up to the, like, feeling of.

[Mike Mitchell]

It was a combination. Like, I kind of, like, woke up and then immediately was in my field of view, like. Like. Cause, you know, like, the way I was lying, I was the. The front door is directly across from me.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Screamed, I think.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. I can't believe you didn't scream.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm not a screamer.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Do pets help with this? Like, having Jeremy in my house? Ghost will leave me alone.

[Nick Wiger]

Or.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Or cats? I don't think so. Damn it. I was really convincing myself that it helped to have Jimmy around.

[Nick Wiger]

Is it good for, like, us to go to a movie or something instead of going straight home? Is that helpful?

[Mike Mitchell]

But if I. Wait.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

If I.

[Mike Mitchell]

If I went to a different location before I came here, there's. There's a. Probably less of a chance that it followed me all the way to Head Gum, right? Or does that not how it works? It could just be. It'd just be on my back.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It could be on your back right now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Does your back hurt?

[Mike Mitchell]

No, my back feels good.

[Emma]

Can I ask what's bad about having a spirit?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Well, it depends on the spirit's intentions, I think. Or why they're here. Yeah, I Guess you just don't. You just don't know what their intentions are.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Cause sometimes people say spirits that you see are trapped between, like, life and death. They're sort of in a limbo, and they are, like, not always friendly.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Emma]

Well, how do we know it's not sleep paralysis?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that's the thing. The only reason I cause immediately that was my thought is like, oh, maybe this is sleep paralysis.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm looking at show times right now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Maybe this is a hallucination. But. But because it was so different from my normal experience of sleep paralysis, both in terms of scary movies, both in terms of my physicality. Like. Like that I had full range of motion and that it was like, not. Not in some. Again, I. I'm repeating myself. Something I said earlier in the podcast. But for Rochelle, I'm not in a space that resembles my room in some sort of dreamlike state. I'm just in our living room. I just know this space.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

It was unlike any other sleep, unlike sleep paralysis.

[Mike Mitchell]

And the. The apparition that I saw was very different.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sleep paralysis.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's been a while. It's been a couple years.

[Emma]

Maybe it manifested differently.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's possible it did. So that. That's always a possibility. I'm not ruling that out. You know, like, I'm just, like, the most plausible.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Before you went to bed.

[Mike Mitchell]

No, I didn't. I should have. Do you think that would help?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

I don't know. I was just curious.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. So it was not substance related at all. There was no, like. Yeah, no, I mean, you got up

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

and you got up and you're walking and you still saw her in the corner.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that. When I got up, she got up.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

And just sort of like. Like, walked and then, you know, like, again, sort of, as I demonstrated earlier. Position yourself in the corner.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You're in bed, babe.

[Emma]

Well, I'm wondering. And you're open about this.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Emma]

Maybe, like, when you start taking GLP1s, maybe that somehow changes your sleep. Yeah. Your brain chemistry.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's interesting. I didn't. I didn't think about that.

[Nick Wiger]

Google know anything about that?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, someone. GLP, look up GLP1.

[Nick Wiger]

Amelia. Amelia. Amelia who already.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Amelia doesn't seem scared either. You seem very brave and not scared.

[Emma]

I'm not scared.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah. So that's good.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Look up GLP1s and. And wait.

[Mike Mitchell]

The G and GOP1 stands for ghosts.

[Nick Wiger]

Why aren't there more showings of Deep Water? The shark movie.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's a scary movie.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, that's. But shark. That's Sharks.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We need like the office playing in movies.

[Mike Mitchell]

Ranch, you were leaving. You were going home. We gotta let you go. But thank you so much for popping back in.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Thank you for having me.

[Emma]

Yeah, of course.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I can't tell you how much worse you've made me feel.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, wait, wait, Rochelle. You weren't here for a cocoichi banya episode. You were. You. You'd been taken to the. The Miami retreat for head gum. Do you. What's your fork score for Coco?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Five forks.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Gotta be.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, gotta be.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Gotta be.

[Mike Mitchell]

Thank you for your service, Ranch. You're the best.

[Nick Wiger]

Thank you, Ranch. Though you did. You did scare us more.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

And respectfully ask the ghost to not come with me. You can stay here.

[Nick Wiger]

I will do that as well.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That's good. Thank you, Rich. We'll do that.

[Nick Wiger]

The last movie there is scary looking.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, we're not seeing that. Why don't we go see hoppers?

[Emma]

Let's go see hoppers.

[Nick Wiger]

Let's go see hoppers.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We're gonna go see hoppers. Nice. I think that'll be good.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

All right.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is jingle all the way. Spelled whi.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Play jingle all the way.

[Mike Mitchell]

Today's. Hey, this will be a fun game.

[Nick Wiger]

This will be fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is like the Hoppers of segments.

[Nick Wiger]

This is the Hoppers of segments.

[Mike Mitchell]

Today's theme is Coca Cola and Diet Coke jingles. Drop King compiled these. The first one is just for the joy of it, just for the rock

[Nick Wiger]

of it, just for the roll of it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Diet Coke. Just for the look of it, just for the kick of it. The real cola taste of it. Diet Coke.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And we're guessing the year.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, we're guessing the year.

[Nick Wiger]

Why did that guy pull his pants out?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Cuz I guess he lost weight using Diet Coke.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, multiple Weird Al appearances in that.

[Nick Wiger]

Well, that's was going to be. You could. Can't you name an actor?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

You have to name a. I think you have to name someone they played later.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, if you. You'd have to name a character that an actor in the commercial played. If you can think of a character that Weird Al played in a movie, that would be what would get you a point by the Beck Bennett rule.

[Nick Wiger]

Okay.

[Mike Mitchell]

But anyway, the.

[Emma]

The.

[Mike Mitchell]

The game is. Guess what year Mitch for. Well, listen's first time playing this, I'll have you go first. What year do you think? Just before it came out.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I'm gonna go with 19. 19. 1989.

[Mike Mitchell]

1989 is your guess.

[Nick Wiger]

Yes. And I also would like to say I'm gonna. You can use this once Weird Al played Weird Al.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, you son of a.

[Nick Wiger]

In the movie Weird

[Alyssa Limperis]

counts.

[Nick Wiger]

Did he? Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Didn't Daniel Radcliffe. Oh, my God, I got it wrong.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Look how good Daniel Radcliffe is. Oh, sorry.

[Mike Mitchell]

Use up your 11 shot.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Alyssa for the whole game.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch says 1989.

[Nick Wiger]

Uhf. I. I overthought it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch says 1989.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know. Weird Allen.

[Mike Mitchell]

Uh, I think his character's name something else in Weird.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm gonna go 1982 and I'm not gonna do the other one.

[Mike Mitchell]

Alyssa is closer without going over. It's 1985. Was the year.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, much earlier than I thought.

[Mike Mitchell]

And this one features, in order, Kim K's Weird Al Yankovich, who we mentioned James Coco and Henry Thomas of ET James Coco.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

All right, next up, Coco is in

[Mike Mitchell]

Alyssa gets a point.

[Nick Wiger]

James Coco was just in a movie I saw just recently.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, next up. This is just for the taste of it. Oh, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. This is. This is El sabor de Selena.

[Emma]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I do think I have a rule I'd kind of like to pitch.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

If at any point someone's only one time during the whole game, someone stands up, they are initiating a dance off to the jingle. And then whoever wins the dance off between the two.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, my God.

[Alyssa Limperis]

A point.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is really good. This is a good rule.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

All right, here comes this.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Can't beat it.

[Mike Mitchell]

The rhythm, the one that you get from Coca Cola Classic. It's that beat that's coming your way.

[Alyssa Limperis]

My color looks a little better. Maybe quality.

[Nick Wiger]

This commercial sucks. I mean, it's not her fault. It's just this bad song.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Can't Beat it.

[Nick Wiger]

It's one of that can beat the. Like, we'll make you want to dance. We did not initially dance off. This is such a bad song.

[Mike Mitchell]

There's not very much dancing in the commercial itself, of course, is featuring Selena, which it. It start is from the title of it and from the little music video graphic that comes up top is front loaded.

[Nick Wiger]

James Coco is in Muppets Take Manhattan.

[Mike Mitchell]

How about that?

[Nick Wiger]

I knew we. I just seen a movie with a minute.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, we'll.

[Emma]

We'll.

[Mike Mitchell]

We'll toggle.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We.

[Mike Mitchell]

We. We'll switch on and off. Who goes first? Alyssa, you'll go first for this one. What year did Elor de Sal Elena come out?

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm going 1988.

[Mike Mitchell]

1988 is the guess.

[Nick Wiger]

I was gonna say the same exact thing, but I will say the same exact thing.

[Alyssa Limperis]

N. Don't we have to say at the same time, 1988.

[Mike Mitchell]

You both get one point because it came out in 1989. A year later.

[Alyssa Limperis]

That feels good, though.

[Nick Wiger]

We both got a point.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, we got a point.

[Nick Wiger]

Two points.

[Mike Mitchell]

Alyssa has two. Mitch has one. Okay, next up, just for the taste of it.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, Watching.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, so for. For the dance off. I mean, this is.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, we're both winners.

[Mike Mitchell]

No matter what happens, you're both winners, but more accurately, Alyssa is the winner. I felt like Alyssa was actually dancing admits. You were kind of like half committing, half doing a bit about dancing.

[Nick Wiger]

I did Michael Jackson for you.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I know, but I mean, it felt like you were kind of like not really in it. I. It felt like Alyssa felt fully.

[Nick Wiger]

Alyssa's won a point then.

[Mike Mitchell]

So Alyssa gets one point for that.

[Alyssa Limperis]

All right.

[Mike Mitchell]

What year did Just for the Taste of It come out?

[Nick Wiger]

Because now it's your judgment on the dance off.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, do we want the. The deist to judge the dance off? I think the de can judge a dance off.

[Nick Wiger]

Say, Alyssa, too.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, look at it.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, you're all taking Alyssa's side. Interesting.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, the women are synced up again. Yeah, Here they go. Yeah. On the rag.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, Mitch, I'm first. What?

[Alyssa Limperis]

You're first.

[Mike Mitchell]

What? We didn't really watch.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you want to see some more of this?

[Nick Wiger]

I think this is. I think this is later than we think. And I'm going to say 1999.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Nah, I'm going to go 1991.

[Mike Mitchell]

Alyssa's going to get a point. This came out in 1996. Oh, that's.

[Nick Wiger]

I hate this rule.

[Mike Mitchell]

I was closer.

[Nick Wiger]

I was closer.

[Emma]

This is sweeping. You only got a point because of the hand holding rule.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's four to one. There's still two left, though, Mitch. And remember there. There are bonus points available via the getting the year correctly. The Hard Marine rule. Guessing a movie from the first guesser's year correctly, a food point.

[Nick Wiger]

Everyone, this rule. But. And I would have told Alyssa to do it, but she's turned to a dance off. If you're closer to the year, you should get the point.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I do. I do agree. But over. I mean, we're Price is Right rules. I mean, it's kind of the Price is Right.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think you need a guest to negate the original rule. In order for that to be like, a guest would have to say, I

[Nick Wiger]

know it's too late. It's a dance off rule now.

[Mike Mitchell]

Dance off rules in there.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sorry.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, next up, when did this come out? The ad is. It's the real thing. It's a real thing. Burger Patty on the. God. Just some vintage Americana here. This restaurant. Chop suey.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, I love chop.

[Emma]

Sudden.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay, I can't tell if this is like them doing a flashback or this is the current. Okay. Wow. Am I first this time?

[Mike Mitchell]

Alyssa's first time ago.

[Alyssa Limperis]

1972. Is that crazy?

[Nick Wiger]

1972.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm gonna go the year of Jaws. 1975. Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

One of you got it on the dot, and that's Alyssa. Two points.

[Nick Wiger]

There's no more dance off.

[Mike Mitchell]

We can't do a second dance off. But the celebratory dances.

[Alyssa Limperis]

There's no here. It's just for.

[Mike Mitchell]

Just for fun.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Just for funsies.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm usually decent at this game.

[Mike Mitchell]

We have. We have one left. Mitch, I think you could still accumulate enough bonus points if you got everything right where you could tie it up.

[Emma]

One to six, right?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's one to six right now. You have to run the table.

[Nick Wiger]

Shut your mouth.

[Mike Mitchell]

And you're going first for this one.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait, and who has the one? Who has the six?

[Emma]

You have the six. Mitch has the one.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Thank you so much, Amelia. Okay, here we go.

[Mike Mitchell]

Finally. This is just for the one of it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, mean things, really.

[Nick Wiger]

It's like a Vander mole.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Think I'm half.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know if that. Wait, is it a Vanderbilt?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's definitely a pugilist drinking a Diet Coke. As a. As a. A well known pop singer is singing Mix Europe.

[Nick Wiger]

Was that Tina?

[Mike Mitchell]

Tina.

[Nick Wiger]

Or is that. Who is it?

[Mike Mitchell]

It is Whitney Houston.

[Nick Wiger]

Houston.

[Mike Mitchell]

With her hair.

[Nick Wiger]

Her hair is. Oh, all right.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch.

[Nick Wiger]

The Bodyguard.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wait, does that.

[Nick Wiger]

I forget. I forget what.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's not how it works.

[Nick Wiger]

I know. I have to say a role she played.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah. No, you have to say a. Yeah, a role that the character played in. In the Bodyguard.

[Nick Wiger]

Her character from the Bodyguard. Bodyguard.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't get a point for that.

[Emma]

If you say what her name is.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I know.

[Mike Mitchell]

You can just guess.

[Nick Wiger]

Whitney.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's a good guess, your character's name. Whitney.

[Alyssa Limperis]

But I would have guessed her character's

[Emma]

name is Susan, not Whitney.

[Mike Mitchell]

What is it?

[Emma]

It's Rachel Marin.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rachel Marin.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I wouldn't have known.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rachel Maron's a pop star, Right? It's a weird pop star name. Anyway, it. It's just for the one of it. What year did this come out, Mitch?

[Nick Wiger]

I'm gonna say that came out in. 86.

[Mike Mitchell]

Mitch says 1986.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Since Mitch has a history of going over, I will take 1985.

[Mike Mitchell]

Once again, one of you is right on the dial.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm gonna be so mad if it's 1985. 5.

[Mike Mitchell]

That individual is Mike Mitchell, making it respectable 6 to 6 to 3. In the end, the boxer was misidentified. I, I too, at first, when you saw him in the the wider shot, I thought that might be Evander. But it no in in the. Because of the baldness and the mustache. But no, it is. Is Marvelous Marvin Hagler. You see him?

[Nick Wiger]

It's not John Lithgow in that commercial, is it?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's Willard Scott is the other, the other cameo. Yeah. Whitney Houston, the weatherman and the creator of Ronald McDonald. Willard Scott and then boxer Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

[Nick Wiger]

How about 85? I should have said a movie from 85, but I would have gotten two points. I never would have.

[Alyssa Limperis]

No, 86.

[Nick Wiger]

No, no. I'd guess your year.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Oh, you guessed my year. Sorry.

[Nick Wiger]

85. A movie from 1980.

[Mike Mitchell]

1985.

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, even if I get all of this right, I'd still be one point behind. It doesn't matter.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay, give it a try.

[Nick Wiger]

1985. I should know a movie from 1985. And I'm gonna guess 1980.

[Mike Mitchell]

1985. We're looking for 1985. 5.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm gonna say Airplane 2.

[Mike Mitchell]

Airplane 2, the sequel. What year did Airplane? I feel like it came out earlier, but it could be wrong.

[Emma]

Airplane 2, the sequel came out in 1982.

[Nick Wiger]

Wow.

[Mike Mitchell]

1980.

[Nick Wiger]

Year I was born. What's a movie from 85? You got one?

[Mike Mitchell]

I was gonna guess Amadeus, but I think that's a year. It's a year off.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, right. I should have been thinking of big movies. He's not small.

[Emma]

Amadeus came out in 1984.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, I was a year off. All right. Hey, that was one of the American.

[Alyssa Limperis]

One of the family.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, vacation. You're saying National Lampoons. You were

[Mike Mitchell]

immediately just do a regular ass sheet. Ghost. That's nothing. That, that's not at all what that apparition looks like. That looks like a Pac man ghost.

[Emma]

Yeah, that's what I was basing on.

[Mike Mitchell]

Looks like Inky Blinky, Stinky or Dot. What's the other one?

[Nick Wiger]

Ash Lampoon's European Vacation. Maybe that be could came out.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Let's see.

[Nick Wiger]

I think it was. I think you got them right.

[Mike Mitchell]

All right, look, that was Jingle all the way. Thanks again to the Drop King. Just like a restaurant value feedback. Let's open up the feedback. Today's email is from Teboo.

[Nick Wiger]

Lampoon's European Vacation did come out in 1985.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. You should have guessed it, Mitch. Today's email is from Tebo, pronounced Teboo. Tebo writes. Hey, doughboys. While on a trip to Poland, I stumbled across the Doritos Mexican beef burrito, which might be my new favorite Dorito flavor. Wow, this is wild. Writes favorite. Oh, no. Writes flavor with. With a U. Okay, yeah. So this is. This is perhaps a European or Canadian listener. Have you ever stumbled on a groundbreaking flavor or favorite new item while on a trip far from home? Thanks to all of you. Groundbreaking breaking flavor. You know what? I. I think I would have to say. And the. The U is making me think of. Of. Of Canada. A. But certainly. What were those fucking cheese doodles we got up there? Those are so fucking good.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Cheesies.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hawkins cheesies were so good. Those are like the best version of a cheese of a Cheeto I've ever, ever had. And they're not available down here. And I'm sure listeners have sent them to us before, but I did not have the same reaction to them having

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

them, ordering them to. To hear after that trip. And every bag I got was stale.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah, that's the thing. I remember them being stale, but having them fresh in Canada, I was like, these are dynamite. They're like perfectly salty, perfectly cheesy. They. They are obviously still an ultra processed food, but they just somehow taste less processed than the American version. I. I loved Hawkins Cheesies. That's my. That's my first answer. Mitch. Alyssa.

[Nick Wiger]

That's. That's. That's a. That's a great one. Yes.

[Mike Mitchell]

Any. Anything. You were traveling and you were like this, you know, another one. I'll.

[Alyssa Limperis]

My. My first one, I'll say just on Canada is Tomato Lays. Just lays chips that are ketchup flavored. Incredible.

[Mike Mitchell]

So good.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And same thing where I'm like, this doesn't taste as processed. It just. It's. It's wonderful. You can kind of get ketchup flavored ones here, but it's not the same.

[Mike Mitchell]

Not the same.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Not the same.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm traveling over to Austria. Wigs.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

And I'm getting a Kaiser or K.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Sure, man.

[Mike Mitchell]

This is. This is not necessarily like a. This is like a. Just a street food you can get there.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, it's a Kaiser Krana.

[Alyssa Limperis]

What is that?

[Mike Mitchell]

Explain what that is real quick.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, I'm gonna, I'm gonna. I.

[Mike Mitchell]

By the way, it's some sort of sausage.

[Nick Wiger]

The living dead after hours Clue. A lot of. Lot of fun 1985 movies. Legend. Twigs. Legend is in there.

[Mike Mitchell]

Should you play the box Office game for 1985?

[Nick Wiger]

I mean, no. We're done now. Kaiser Krener. Kraner. Hold on. I'm going to. I'm going to tell you.

[Alyssa Limperis]

You want to vamp while you're doing this?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah. If you guys.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Okay. When I grew up, I would go to. I went. I spent some summers in Spain and I remember having a pasta carbonara pizza.

[Mike Mitchell]

Ooh, that sounds great.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And I just remember being so obsessed with it that I got it like almost every day. And then I got it my last day and I threw. I threw up. And I think my body said it's enough. That was the last time I had it. But it's unbelievable. Unbelievable.

[Nick Wiger]

Wait, what did you throw up? Sorry.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I basically ate to its death a carbonara pizza. So it was like a. A pizza that was carbonara flavor. It was incredible. But I ate it so much that my final day I threw up this.

[Nick Wiger]

You. You won't eat these anymore. But here is. This is. This is how the Kaiser Kranner is. Is. And you go there and they will. They have just a big loaf of bread basely wisely and they. You got like a. They get a drill a little hole in it. They put the Kaiser Krana. In there and they put, you know, ketchup and mustard in there with it.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sounds delightful.

[Nick Wiger]

Kaiser is a popular Austrian smoked pork and beef sausage stuffed with small chunks of. How do you say this?

[Mike Mitchell]

Amental Emmental cheese?

[Nick Wiger]

Is the R just silent? Is that what it is?

[Mike Mitchell]

There's an R in it. Where's the R go?

[Nick Wiger]

Emmentaler cheese.

[Mike Mitchell]

Oh, yeah. I don't know.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't know. Emmentale are going to develop in the late 1960s. This gooey sausage is a staple.

[Mike Mitchell]

Sounds like we're describing our producer.

[Nick Wiger]

It is true.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Hey.

[Nick Wiger]

This sausage is a staple of. How do you say Viennese?

[Mike Mitchell]

Viennese.

[Nick Wiger]

Viennese street food stall.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wow.

[Nick Wiger]

Typically grilled or fried until the cheese melts and the casing becomes crispy.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait, Vietnamese or Viet?

[Mike Mitchell]

Viennese.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Now what's that like?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Interesting.

[Mike Mitchell]

Interesting. I've never been to Europe, but I. That. That sounds interesting. I'd try. I'd. With a. What is it called? Kaiser Krona.

[Nick Wiger]

Kaiser.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So good. If they had a vegan one. That's like my perfect thing.

[Nick Wiger]

I wonder if they do. They might.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Who knows?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

It sounds so yummy to share something that's not a stack and is more of a. Of a dish. And I know this is like still like a chain thing, but in Japan. Japan. I mentioned already the egg salad sandwich from 711 was absolute fucking Knockout. It lived up to all the expectations that social media gave it. It was just. It was. I could not believe how fucking good it was. I was eating that on the Shinkansen, so. I mean, on a fucking bullet train, I haven't time my fucking life.

[Alyssa Limperis]

All right, can I say something a little crazy? I'm in Denver last weekend or this weekend, and I. We were with. The only food that was available was 7 11. We went in and there was a Japanese egg salad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And my friend said that. He was like, I've had it in Japan and this one's not that bad.

[Mike Mitchell]

Wow. Okay.

[Alyssa Limperis]

So some 7 11s in America, you might be able to get a kind of knockoff version that's not that bad.

[Emma]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

I haven't had the American simulacrum, but that might scratch the Ish. The. The box office. Top box office for 1985. Mitch, you might be able to get this.

[Nick Wiger]

Back to the. It's Back to the Future.

[Mike Mitchell]

Back to the future. But number two.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wait. Yes, we know it.

[Nick Wiger]

I know. Yes. It's Beverly Hills Cop.

[Mike Mitchell]

Beverly Hills Cop number number. I don't know what to do for number three. Number four, Rock.

[Nick Wiger]

Rocky two.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rocky four.

[Nick Wiger]

Oh, man, they really pumped him up.

[Mike Mitchell]

I don't know what the score would be.

[Nick Wiger]

I think 82 is. Is 82. The first Rockiers in the.

[Alyssa Limperis]

They just went one a year.

[Mike Mitchell]

I think it was. I think it was 1979. 19.

[Emma]

1976.

[Nick Wiger]

76.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rambo. First blood part two was number three. I. I wouldn't know what to do music wise for that.

[Nick Wiger]

You could have done that.

[Mike Mitchell]

Rocky four. And then one number. Number five, Cocoon. Ah, the very. The. The horny alien movie where the old people can get boners again.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah.

[Nick Wiger]

That always bothered me that they just like, you know, they just feel like, you know, they're just like, I can get.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like I got. I'm turgid.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah, you're like, what? You just got.

[Mike Mitchell]

I'm hard.

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

Like I'm a child watching this. What's going on?

[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

My grandpa gets boners.

[Nick Wiger]

Don't you think there should have been more like, oh, that you look youthful or something?

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, that's the thing. They have like the stuff where they're like dancing or whatever. But I think that's part of the wish fulfillment is like, hey, my dick works again. Especially the era.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Was it a comedy? Is it a comedy?

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like kind of a comedy.

[Nick Wiger]

Drama.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Drama.

[Mike Mitchell]

It's like old folks. There's the Al.

[Nick Wiger]

One of those cocoon pods.

[Mike Mitchell]

Honestly, I'd love one of those cocoon pods. Stay forever young. Some, some cocoons come in. Some like aliens come and they lay cocoons in a pool at a senior center. The seniors swim in the water and they feel the energy from these. These aliens and all of a sudden they're youthful again. It's kind of fun.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, that's nice.

[Nick Wiger]

Old. As old as. But Wilford Brimley's also in it and he was like 40.

[Mike Mitchell]

He was like 49 or something.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'm sure the actors were our age.

[Mike Mitchell]

Unfortunately, I believe people lived harder back then. If you have a question about the world of chain restaurants, you can email [e-mail] or leave us a voicemail. 830 Go to the 834 63-6844 not

[Nick Wiger]

only is the show bad, but you

[Mike Mitchell]

did three hours of our producers, Emma Herbank. Yeah, we were very long. Our associate producer is Amelia Marino. We had of a lot of ghost talk.

[Nick Wiger]

I know. This is our video Mike Dorfman episode

[Mike Mitchell]

doughboys [e-mail] doughboys and to get the doughboys double our weekly bonus episodes, [e-mail] doughboys Alyssa L. Paris what an absolute joy. Thank you so much for being here. I had so much fun.

[Nick Wiger]

We have we got to do Come back.

[Mike Mitchell]

What? What? What? What? A guest fridge fest.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I'll be here for French Fest.

[Nick Wiger]

You're going to come back for French Fest. We're. We're do. It's. You deserved an XL episode.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Wow. I'm really glad to have the XL episode. I'm glad. Even if, you know, the ghost comes with me, it would be worth it to spend some time with you boys. This was a blast.

[Nick Wiger]

I don't agree with that, but that's so fun.

[Mike Mitchell]

Is there anything you'd like to plug?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yes. Day after my birthday. That means we are on June 11. I am in a play right now called Cell that's playing at Broadwater. So come see it. We have four more shows. It's a play about a couple and it follows their 17 year relationship and it's very beautiful.

[Mike Mitchell]

And this is. Is it Cell with a C or an C? E L L C E, L L.

[Nick Wiger]

I gotta come out and see it. I wanna see it.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Yeah, you gotta come see it. It's part of the Hollywood Fringe Fest and.

[Mike Mitchell]

Yeah.

[Alyssa Limperis]

And you can follow me Lissalimp and you can find more details about it and you can see what cake May made me. Okay. I'll probably have it in my story

[Nick Wiger]

still I love it. I can't wait to see.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I hope the ghost is long gone from all of our lives by the time this comes out.

[Mike Mitchell]

Do you wanna try the thing of just like ghost? Please do not follow me.

[Nick Wiger]

I'm gonna do it in private. Cause I'm not gonna.

[Alyssa Limperis]

I think you're right. Same.

[Nick Wiger]

But good luck to you tonight.

[Mike Mitchell]

That's all I'll say. I'm gonna draw. I'm gonna draw the ghost in private.

[Nick Wiger]

You're gonna draw it in private?

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Go.

[Mike Mitchell]

Go see sell and. And. And follow Alyssa. That was. That was an absolute.

[Nick Wiger]

And sender. See sender.

[Alyssa Limperis]

Whenever we're both in sender. That's how we met. So go see sender and go get yourself a nice. A nice cup of Duncan, will you, kid? You deserve it.

[Nick Wiger]

You deserve it, kid.

[Mike Mitchell]

That'll do it for this episode of Doughboys. I. Until next time, for the spoon man, Mike Mitchell. I'm Nick Tiger. We're happy eating.

[Nick Wiger]

See ya.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville.

[Nick Wiger]

And I'm Jeff Tremaine.

[Mike Mitchell]

Welcome to Jackass the Podcast, a new show coming to.

[Rochelle (Ranch)]

Coming to.

[Nick Wiger]

That's what it is.

[Mike Mitchell]

Hello, I'm Johnny Knoxville. And I'm Jeff Tremaine. Welcome to Jackass the Podcast, a new show now on Headgum. I've learned a challenge. Jackass movie has to be really 90 minutes.

[Nick Wiger]

Every minute over is a minute too long.

[Mike Mitchell]

Apparently. There's only so much butthole you can take. We're gonna take you behind the scenes of our entire history. All the best spits, bad behavior, and even worse decisions. All of it. Sometimes we don't make the right decisions. Jeff. I've noticed that every so often with guests like Spike Jones.

[Nick Wiger]

I think let's commit to Jackass the podcast.

[Mike Mitchell]

Well, was it going to be called the Jackass Podcast?

[Alyssa Limperis]

Jackass Podcast.

[Nick Wiger]

Without you, the IQ drops significantly.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Alyssa Limperis]

It's a strong chance that were it not for Jackass, that I would be

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

I'm like, yeah, I got that on tv.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

Yeah.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

really nice, like, damn it, something bad's gonna happen to me.

[Mike Mitchell]

We, man. Jeff grabbed me from the back of the head and threw a punch.

[Nick Wiger]

The whole bar just stopped and wanted to kill me, like.

[Mike Mitchell]

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[Nick Wiger]

Our new episodes drop on June 18th.

[Mike Mitchell]

Woo.

[Nick Wiger]

Look out for new episodes in your feed every Thursday.

[Mike Mitchell]

Watch video episodes on YouTube and follow along with us on Instagram and Tik Tok at Jackass the Podcast what were we just talking about? Probably buttholes. Hi, I am Mandy Moore.

[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

Each episode we're gonna go into a

[Emma]

deep dive from our show.

[Mike Mitchell]

This Is us.

[Nick Wiger]

That's right.

[Mike Mitchell]

We're gonna go episode by episode.

[Alyssa Limperis]

We're also gonna pepper in episodes with

[Emma]

different guest stars and writers and casting directors.

[Nick Wiger]

Are we gonna cry?

[Mike Mitchell]

Yes, a little bit.

[Nick Wiger]

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[Mike Mitchell]

A whole lot.

[Nick Wiger]

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.

[Mike Mitchell]

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