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Nick Wiger
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Nick Wiger
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Mike Mitchell
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Nick Wiger
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Mike Mitchell
All right.
Nick Wiger
I'll get a hotel that has beds, right? My sister wants a nice bathroom. Wigs. When we're on the road, you want a nice quiet spot. I want some quiet.
Mike Mitchell
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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
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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.
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Alyssa Limperis
I thought I was Beck Bennett.
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
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Rochelle (Ranch)
No, all good.
Nick Wiger
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Rochelle (Ranch)
Thanks buddy. Yeah.
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Alyssa Limperis
It's just all, it's like, oh, do I need to go to like a,
Mike Mitchell
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Nick Wiger
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Alyssa Limperis
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Mike Mitchell
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Mike Mitchell
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Nick Wiger
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Emma
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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 us@feedbackbird.com 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 merch@kinshipgoods.com doughboys and to get the doughboys double our weekly bonus episodes, subscribe@patreon.com 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
Steve O.
Alyssa Limperis
It's a strong chance that were it not for Jackass, that I would be
Mike Mitchell
in clown makeup right this minute. Chris Ponus, that shot of your butt just cruising up.
Nick Wiger
I'm like, yeah, I got that on tv.
Mike Mitchell
God bless us. Dave England.
Nick Wiger
Yeah.
Mike Mitchell
When you come in and you're being
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
And some of the crew that's been with us from the beginning. I had to share a room with this guy. I left a nice surprise in the toilet for him every time. Apparently, he hates to flush subscribe to Jackass, the podcast on Spotify and Apple Podcast, Pocket Cast or wherever the hell you get podcasts.
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
Sterling K. Brown and I'm Chris Sullivan, and we host the podcast that Was Us now on Headgum.
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
Are we gonna laugh a lot.
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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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.
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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Alyssa Limperis can be seen in "Cell" at The Broadwater for Hollywood Fringe Fest. For details (and vegan cake inspiration), follow @alyssalimperis.