#559 - Release The Mosquitos

Summary

The Basement Yard - Episode #559: Release The Mosquitos

Date: June 15, 2026
Hosts: Joe Santagato, Frank Alvarez
Producer/Guest: Ant Prisco
Studio: Santagato Studios

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Episode Overview

In this lively episode, the Basement Yard gang is back together and in full form. Joe, Frank, and Ant share major tour announcements, reminisce about live show mishaps, riff on everything from toothbrush colors to circus oddities, and unravel the wild headline about Google releasing millions of mosquitoes for disease control. The show is packed with tangents, debates about nugs and condiments, signature playful insults, and some unexpectedly thoughtful moments on health, nostalgia, and what it really means to be "seasoned."

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Tour Mishaps & The Big Announcement

[01:20-14:24]

• The trio addresses last week's accidental early reveal of their live tour dates (a mistake, as Greg pointed out), and officially re-announces the “first batch” of tour stops for 2026-2027.
• Details about the ticket presale for fans, code (“basement”), and guidance on how to navigate the different sales windows.
• The new live show is promised to be totally unique, with each city getting "an experience you will not get at any other show—even during the same tour." (Frank, 14:31)
• Memorable Quote:
  • Frank: “We as a unit, accept criticism. And when we're wrong...I will ride with him. I will die with him. Bad boys for life.” [06:47]
• Besties are reassured that more dates may be added, and presale usually sells out quickly.
• Tour Dates Highlight (see detailed list below at [08:13-10:54]).

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2. All About Nugs, Sauce, and Snack Choices

[32:42-41:10]

• Ant starts a passionate debate about the best and worst shaped chicken nuggets, followed by everyone’s personal nugs ranking.
• A quick descent into the best fast-food nuggets:
  • Joe: “Burger King.” [37:30]
  • Frank: “McDonald’s are legendary for a reason. Consistent flavor, consistent crunch.” [38:58]
  • Ant: Likes McDonald’s, with a nod to Burger King’s value.
• The team debates sauces and condiments, with heartfelt disagreement over sweet & sour sauce’s place in the McDonald's hierarchy.
• Signature Riff:
  • Frank (on ketchup dispensers): “Bring back condiment dispensers...Oh, dude, bring back condiment dispensers. I know people don't eat in those places anymore because they have my baseball games, do they, bro?” [41:45]

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3. Relish, Beets, and The Cult of Sandwich Toppings

[43:25-52:39]

• Joe professes new love for sweet relish on hot dogs; Frank is firmly pro-sauerkraut, anti-sweet pickles.
• Extended food tangent—brioche buns, sliders, pretzel rolls, and the underrated glory of Hawaiian rolls.
• Frank credits Becca for turning him onto foods like beets and figs.
  • “She has made some of the best beets. Like, she did like, roasted beets in balsamic and feta cheese once.” [51:21]
• Rhapsody on the power of balsamic glaze and mozzarella combos.

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4. "Release The Mosquitos": The Google Debacle

[56:36-66:11]

• Ant introduces the surreal news item: Google is releasing 32 million genetically modified/sterile mosquitoes in California and Florida to combat vector-borne diseases (West Nile, Zika, malaria).
• The group speculates with characteristic incredulity about logistics (storage…transport…jar?), implications, and the “Debug Program.”
• Memorable Exchange:
  • Joe: “Google is apparently planning to...release 30 million mosquitoes in California and Florida to combat a disease of some kind.” [57:08]
  • Frank: “Google. Google. How do you. Very famously, not in the mosquito, insects or bugs or animal business.” [57:39]
• They riff on what the program should be called (“Project Suck Em,” “Cousin Skeeto,” “Let the Bedbugs Bite”) vs. the actual blandly named "Debug Program."
• Some real curiosity and mild skepticism about how well these programs work, with Ant noting: "They've done this like 4000 times...do they work? They keep doing it." [61:17]
• The boys humorously discuss whether they'll see more, fewer, or just different types of mosquito bites.

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5. Toys, Tricks & Tangents: Childhood Nostalgia

[64:36-66:11]

• Joe and Frank take a nostalgia trip about spinning toys, from salad spinners to Beyblades and fairy flyers—Joe: “Yo, spinning shit is fire, dude. Now I think about it, one of America's greatest pastimes, spinning tops. Yo-yos.” [64:36]
• Ant tells an unlikely story about "flying" with a big jacket in the wind during recess, which the others mercilessly roast.

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6. Random Riffs, Classic Bits, and Running Jokes

Throughout

• Multiple “deez nuts” gags, failed setups, and playful baiting.
• Sly Cooper video game reference confusion.
• The difference between staffs, canes, and mages.
• Frank’s claim (jokingly) about "dogged out" being a slogan for future tours.
• A callback to Ant’s viral "hand in mouth" video and "knuckle mouth" banter.
• Banter about slapping mosquitoes, and playground supervision in tough neighborhood schools.

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Joe (on dentures): "Take all my teeth out when you circumcise me and I'll never know any...if I could have the option of like, yo, just take all my teeth and let me get new dentures every two years, like a new lease on the car." [05:05]
• Frank (on live shows): "We have been sitting and brainstorming trying to make sure that we give you guys a wholly unique brand new show that is an experience that you will not get at any other show." [14:31]
• On Google’s Mosquito Army:
  • Frank: “Google…very famously, not in the mosquito, insects or bugs or animal business.” [57:39]
• Frank (about balsamic): "Balsamic also just pairs so well with a mozzarella...when it's like a syrupy drizzly glaze." [51:59]
• Joe (spinning nostalgia): “Yo, spinning shit is fire, dude. Now I think about it, one of America's greatest pastimes: spinning tops. Yo-yos.” [64:36]

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Tour Dates Rundown

[08:13-10:54, Recap at 75:26]

• 2026:
  • Sep 10: Durham, NC
  • Sep 12: Charlotte, NC
  • Sep 24: Minneapolis, MN
  • Sep 26: Indianapolis, IN
  • Oct 2: Charleston, SC
  • Oct 3: Atlanta, GA
  • Oct 16: Bethlehem, PA
  • Nov 7: Buffalo, NY
  • Dec 5: Baltimore, MD
  • Dec 10: Austin, TX
  • Dec 11: Dallas, TX
  • Dec 13: Houston, TX
• 2027:
  • Jan 15: Newark, NJ
  • Feb 5: Red Bank, NJ
  • Feb 23/24: Vancouver, CAN
  • Feb 26: Los Angeles, CA
  • Mar 12: Chicago, IL
    Presale: Jun 17, noon ET, Code: BASEMENT | www.thebasementyard.com

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Fun Segments & Tangents (Timestamps)

• [03:19] Toothbrush color debate
• [04:49] Baby skulls and teeth: permanent vs. milk teeth
• [15:05] “Seasoned” joke, chimichurri as a vibe
• [23:00] Who gets a staff or cane? Staffs in pop culture
• [36:09] Chicken nugget "popcorn chicken" vs. nugget debate
• [41:07] “Slap-activated” ketchup dispensers & condiment nostalgia
• [44:07] “Relish queefs”—food gone wild
• [49:14] The cult of avocado toast and healthy eating shamed
• [50:05] The power of pickled red onions & jalapeños
• [52:03] Balsamic: “when it’s like a syrup...I hate when it gets on my hands…”
• [65:00] Spinning toys—FROM salad spinner to lethal fairy dolls

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Overall Tone & Vibe

Freewheeling, hilarious, and honest. The group riffs and roasts each other (and themselves) constantly, never staying on one topic for long—but always circling back to give fans what they want: inside jokes, absurd hypotheticals, and a window into the real friendship dynamic that has defined the Basement Yard.

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For Listeners Who Missed the Episode:

• The main story is the Basement Yard 2026-2027 tour—dates, debacles, enthusiasm, and clear instructions on how to get tickets.
• Sidetracks abound: from toothbrush politics, to why sliders rule, to why Google’s Debug mosquito army both fascinates and unsettles them.
• There’s legit friendship and affection behind all the bits. Lots of running gags, callouts to fans, and the familiar "sorry Greg" apology for production chaos.
• Food, weird science, and just a bit of nostalgia tie everything up. And, as always, there are more questions than answers.

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For direct show links, presale info, and more, visit:
thebasementyard.com
Presale code: BASEMENT (June 17, 12pm ET)

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Transcript

[Ant Prisco]

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[Frank Alvarez]

Welcome back to the basement.

[Joe Sanigato]

Welcome back to the basement yard.

[Frank Alvarez]

Glad to be here, Joe. Thanks.

[Joe Sanigato]

I didn't introduce you yet. We got Frank Alvarez on the show today.

[Frank Alvarez]

Well, back up, let me do it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Like, welcome back to the basement yard. We got Frank Alvarez on the show today.

[Frank Alvarez]

Hey, glad to be here. Really appreciate it.

[Joe Sanigato]

And we got Ann Prisco over there too, in his nicest shite.

[Frank Alvarez]

Nice. Really nice shirt.

[Joe Sanigato]

I actually do like. That's a nice shirt.

[Frank Alvarez]

What kind of material is that?

[Ant Prisco]

I think it's knit.

[Frank Alvarez]

Take it off.

[Joe Sanigato]

If I come over there and I rub it, it. Am I going to get high?

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm on it. It's a weird way to say that's like a humping thing.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm not going to. I'm not going to hump you this.

[Ant Prisco]

I think you might. You might enjoy yourself a little.

[Frank Alvarez]

Can I see?

[Joe Sanigato]

See what?

[Frank Alvarez]

The shirt.

[Ant Prisco]

I'm not getting up.

[Joe Sanigato]

How you doing today, Frank?

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm doing well. I really appreciate you inviting me here. Excited for what we got to unfold today and boy, let's get right into it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Frank, it says you're working on a new project.

[Frank Alvarez]

I am, I am, I am, I am. I am working on a new project. Yeah. So according to. We fucked this. Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

So do you remember last week and I said on the podcast that, like,

[Frank Alvarez]

Greg said, don't fuck it up?

[Joe Sanigato]

It says, don't fuck this up in bold and underlined at the top of this. And this is.

[Frank Alvarez]

These are the tour dates. Guess what?

[Joe Sanigato]

We did fucked it up. We weren't supposed to put it. We weren't supposed to say it then. We're supposed to say it today. So we're doing it again.

[Frank Alvarez]

Joey walked in today and. Well, was this why you said you were gonna be a little late? Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

Okay, because I was on the phone and you were. Greg called me and he goes, why are the tour dates out? And I said, what?

[Ant Prisco]

It's like. What do you mean they're out?

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, Yeah. I wasn't even thinking. I don't even know how this happened, to be honest with you, but I mean, Listen, he walked.

[Frank Alvarez]

Joey walked in and he goes, that's on me, guys. Yeah. And he's like. I'm like, what? What happened?

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

And Ant didn't tell me because you're gatekeeping information for me.

[Ant Prisco]

I don't know what wants to be said if I'm told something.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, obviously he knows.

[Frank Alvarez]

Imagine if it has to do with the basement yard. I should know. No. But yes. So last week on our last weekly episode, which was Episode, who knows? It's a number.

[Joe Sanigato]

I have it.

[Ant Prisco]

I have it. 558.

[Frank Alvarez]

558. Good time.

[Joe Sanigato]

Are you drinking a cocktail?

[Ant Prisco]

No.

[Joe Sanigato]

What is that?

[Ant Prisco]

Red Bull vodka.

[Frank Alvarez]

It is a cocktail.

[Joe Sanigato]

You do have a clubbing shirt on right now.

[Frank Alvarez]

You definitely don't have a clubbing hat, though.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, that's a Mickey Mouse hat.

[Frank Alvarez]

That is a Mickey Mouse hat. That says network.

[Joe Sanigato]

Can I ask a question? New York hat. How much Mickey Mouse merch do you have over there?

[Frank Alvarez]

Over, under. Let's go by hats. Over, under. Two.

[Joe Sanigato]

Forget about hats. I want overall pieces of clothing.

[Ant Prisco]

Like four.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, a lot.

[Ant Prisco]

A lot.

[Frank Alvarez]

I've seen way more than a lot. A lot of pieces of clothing.

[Ant Prisco]

Six. Six.

[Frank Alvarez]

Overall went from two to six.

[Ant Prisco]

I said four. Six, seven, maybe seven.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, my God.

[Frank Alvarez]

This wrong. Can we, just to be safe, in case you're forgetting. Can we make it an even 8?

[Ant Prisco]

Sure, why not? Just in case.

[Joe Sanigato]

What color is your toothbrush?

[Frank Alvarez]

White and navy blue.

[Joe Sanigato]

What about you?

[Ant Prisco]

Red and white.

[Joe Sanigato]

Okay. I'm realizing now that I had no reason to ask that. I got Matt curious for some reason. It just, like, lit up in my head. And then I, like, asked you, and I was like, oh, I got nothing. And then I went, there.

[Frank Alvarez]

You were hoping that in our responses there was something to jump off.

[Ant Prisco]

I was just, well, what color is yours? Let's finish it.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's black.

[Frank Alvarez]

What? What an incredible, groundbreaking contribution to this show. First of all, that was a racist

[Joe Sanigato]

look on your face. It's a black toothbrush.

[Frank Alvarez]

Big deal.

[Ant Prisco]

Is that not weird?

[Frank Alvarez]

No. If anything, you thinking it's weird is very weird and racist.

[Joe Sanigato]

Why is it? Yeah, you're.

[Frank Alvarez]

You're racist.

[Ant Prisco]

What color are the bristles?

[Joe Sanigato]

White.

[Frank Alvarez]

They can coexist and I know how much you hate that.

[Ant Prisco]

Is that weird to have a black tooth?

[Frank Alvarez]

They're working together to get the job done. That's a very normal thing.

[Joe Sanigato]

Why do you think? Because it's like white toothpaste and it looks like shit.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's just a way.

[Ant Prisco]

I've never seen a black toothbrush.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's Like a. It's like a zip.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, a zippy zip.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, oh, you got. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Oh, you got.

[Joe Sanigato]

You got the manual going. Do you have an odd. Do you have a buzz?

[Frank Alvarez]

I got a electric toothbrush. I got a quip. I use that.

[Joe Sanigato]

Okay. And you have. You got old school Go.

[Ant Prisco]

I got old school. I transitioned to. I'm gonna do the one that you bite down completely and goes, right,

[Frank Alvarez]

brother, just get new teeth at that point if you need to do that.

[Ant Prisco]

Dentures, maybe.

[Joe Sanigato]

Having dentures is not terrible.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yes, it is terrible. But if you like, bro, look at

[Joe Sanigato]

yo take all my teeth out when you circumcise me and I'll never know any.

[Ant Prisco]

Any.

[Joe Sanigato]

Like when I'm.

[Frank Alvarez]

What I'm saying is like, hold on, hold on.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, you hold on. When. When you're a baby and you get circumcised, you're like, oh, I don't even know. But like, I'm circumcised. But if I could have the option of like, yo, just take all my teeth and let me get new dentures every. Every two years. Like a. Like a new lease on a car and you got perfect teeth.

[Ant Prisco]

You know babies aren't born with teeth.

[Joe Sanigato]

I know. That's the problem.

[Frank Alvarez]

Technically they are.

[Ant Prisco]

All right?

[Frank Alvarez]

Technically they are. Technically they are.

[Joe Sanigato]

You know. Do teeth grow in your face?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah. Dude, have you ever seen the X ray of someone with like, no teeth? Pull it up, it's going to make Joey squirm.

[Ant Prisco]

It's so cool.

[Joe Sanigato]

An X ray, like not an X ray.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's like a picture of a skull and it shows you what it looks like. Don't look at the tv, look at me. I was going to ask you a question, but now I. I don't remember.

[Joe Sanigato]

We're talking about teethless skeletons right now.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, dude, the idea. I don't think you realize how much of your face is structured around the fact that you have teeth. If you lose that, then you look like a. Just a toothless loser.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, but I'll. I'll have teeth. What the fucking ass is that? Baby skulls have so many teeth. Milk teeth and permanent teeth. That's it.

[Frank Alvarez]

That's what a baby's face is, if that's real. Also absolutely heartbreaking that they have a baby skull.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, I'm assuming.

[Ant Prisco]

No, it's like a model. Okay, I've seen. It's like this, cuz you lose the teeth and then they grow. Like there's a lot of tea dudes

[Joe Sanigato]

looking like a fucking predator.

[Frank Alvarez]

I think I saw Something that, like, Japan has just, like, tried out an experimental drug where they can just, like, regrow teeth now. Sick.

[Joe Sanigato]

You just, like, anywhere you want. Like, I get a tooth in my. No, Joey. But I don't know.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, there are people that, like, were like, you know, like, in the womb. If they were a twin and they resorb their twin, they'll find, like, a mass sometimes on people that has, like, hair and teeth in it and stuff like that.

[Joe Sanigato]

Hell yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

No. But yes.

[Ant Prisco]

So.

[Frank Alvarez]

So our mistake. We are a unit here.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

We as a unit, accept criticism. And when we're wrong. No, we will. I will ride with him. I will die with him. Bad boys for life.

[Joe Sanigato]

Okay, that's a literally count. 15 seconds. We're going to shut him up for 15 seconds for that.

[Ant Prisco]

I'll lower it. I'll lower it.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'll never do it.

[Ant Prisco]

I'll never do it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Bad, bad boys for life. We're going back on tour. Tickets are coming when this comes out. Two days. Okay.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, oh, oh, oh. Okay. Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

When it comes out to the public, another 10 seconds.

[Frank Alvarez]

Listen, I'll shut up.

[Joe Sanigato]

Wednesday, June 17th at noon Eastern. Okay. 12:00pm Eastern through June 18th midnight. That. That is the pre sale. The tickets will be available for general sale after that. We'll explain the difference between those two things that, like, later on. But right now, all you need to know is Wednesday, June 17th at noon Eastern. Okay? That is when you can get tickets. Tickets will now be on sale for all the dates that we have so far. There are more dates coming, but these are the dates that we have so far from September to March. And the pre sale code is basement. As always, all of our codes are like, basically basement. So if you go to the basementyard.com you put in that code basement. You can get tickets on June 17th at 12pm Noon Eastern. All right, Frank, where are we starting?

[Frank Alvarez]

Well, we're starting first in September 10, 2026, in Durham, North Carolina.

[Joe Sanigato]

Durham, North Carolina.

[Frank Alvarez]

And then right after that, September 12, 2026, Charlotte, North Carolina. After that, a couple days later, we're gonna be going up to the central part of our country. Going to Minneapolis, Minnesota on September 24th. And then a quick, quick little stop over in Indianapolis, Indiana on September 26th. Okay, so do you want me to still do this? I can do October.

[Joe Sanigato]

October 2nd, we'll be in Charleston, South

[Frank Alvarez]

Carolina, Carolina,

[Joe Sanigato]

spilling it out of your mind. Then October 3rd will be in Atlanta, Georgia.

[Ant Prisco]

Peace up.

[Joe Sanigato]

A town down.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh,

[Joe Sanigato]

Right. And then October 16th will be in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Where is that? No, Idea.

[Frank Alvarez]

Joey. Joey said that if atl, if the Atlanta show sells out, he's gonna get me the. A diamond chain that I can throw around like Usher and catch it.

[Joe Sanigato]

That would be fire.

[Frank Alvarez]

That would buy me the chain.

[Joe Sanigato]

November 7th, we're going to Buffalo, New York. Okay. November 7th, I'm expecting there to be snow and I expect both of us to jump through a giant table. Bill's Mafia.

[Frank Alvarez]

No one's can't confirm nor deny that we might Bill's Mafia it up there, but. December 5, 2026, Baltimore, Maryland. December 10, 2026, Austin, Texas. December 11, 2026, Dallas, Texas. December 13, 2026, Houston, Texas.

[Joe Sanigato]

And then that'll be all the shows for 2026. And then in 2027, we're back at it. January 15th will be in New York. New Newark, New Jersey. And then February 5th will be in Red Bank, New Jersey.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't know why I said like I was Mumford and Sons and his son.

[Joe Sanigato]

February 23rd and February 24th, we're doing two shows in Vancouver, which will be a lot of fun. That is the. By the way, my birthday is the 25th, so these are going to be like birthday shows. Birthday the 26th, we will be in LA, so we'll be in Los Angeles in February 26th. And then we're. Our last show that we have booked Right now is March 12th in Chicago at the Chicago theater. But yeah, these are the shows that we have so far. There'll be more coming. There may be a little break after that, but we're going to be booking more shows. So maybe at some point during this year there'll be more shows. If you're like, hey, you're not coming to Boston or something, or whatever, but I don't know, maybe. We don't know. We can't guarantee.

[Frank Alvarez]

May we also take a moment seriously to extend our sincere apologies to Greg. We. We did fuck this up and we're sorry. We know that you asked. I think of all the things you asked of us, the easiest one of them was just not to fuck it up.

[Joe Sanigato]

To be fair.

[Frank Alvarez]

To be fair, we did fuck it up.

[Joe Sanigato]

He printed.

[Frank Alvarez]

He did print. He did. And he told us when we. When we filmed something the day before, like tomorrow, Tomorrow on the episode.

[Joe Sanigato]

Right?

[Frank Alvarez]

So, like, he did. He did. But also he's. He's got a lot going on. He's got a lot of plates spinning and it could be a lot more difficult for him than it is for other people. So we apologize. Greg, let this be the first and last Time we apologize to you.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, don't promise that.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't even want to.

[Frank Alvarez]

I will never apologize again. Even if I shoot Joe in the back of the head.

[Ant Prisco]

Interesting.

[Joe Sanigato]

Write that down. Yeah, let's get some. Let's get that on tape.

[Frank Alvarez]

But we're really excited. And just to reiterate, this is the first batch of shows. So if you're seeing something and you're seeing like, oh, besties, are you. When are you gonna come to, you know, Albuquerque? We don't know. We don't know. But what is available is what we have and what we know is what's available. If you want to wait, that's on you. I'm not going to tell you what to do, but we have seen in the past you guys are incredibly supportive and sometimes they go quick. We'll just tell you that you might want to get in on the pre sale with the code basement. Not cap sensitive. It could be uppercase, lowercase. You could spell it like Joey used to spell things on MySpace and aim

[Ant Prisco]

back in the day.

[Joe Sanigato]

Used to do it too. Wednesday, June 17th at noon. Okay, 12pm That's a good day Eastern

[Frank Alvarez]

because then right after they can on 3pm watch the Santa Gota Studios video, which I'm. It's. It's available.

[Joe Sanigato]

That is true. You could have your tickets on Wednesday,

[Frank Alvarez]

June 17 at noon, streamlining this stuff for you guys.

[Joe Sanigato]

And then at 3 o' clock you're

[Frank Alvarez]

so that week you're getting Monday weekly episode. Wednesday you're getting the tickets and the San Diegos and then Friday you get exclusive Patreon episode. If you're a tier two on [e-mail] the basement yard.

[Joe Sanigato]

So there's a lot going on there. So yes, the basement yard.com and here just to for so people know, the presale is for us. That's where we sold a lot of our tickets. So the only difference between this is that this one you need a code for. The code is basement. So the tickets will be first available to anyone who has that code, our fans. So that is the code is basement. Wednesday, June 17 at noon, put in the code. Boom, you could access tickets general on sale is whatever's left from that, which at that point you won't need a code anymore. And that is basically June 19th. So June 18th at midnight it will switch from presale to general sale. So by the time the 19th comes around, you could just go onto the site and buy tickets without having a code. I don't know why they do this. I don't know why. It's the setup.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's an industry thing that we. We're not high on the totem pole to understand this stuff. We don't get it. And even if they told us, we don't care.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't want to know information.

[Frank Alvarez]

And again, we're sorry, Greg. So go check it out. Thebasementyeard.com by the time this is up, hopefully, I imagine that the website will be fully updated and, you know, crisp and clean and polished.

[Ant Prisco]

We're excited.

[Joe Sanigato]

And they'll see the. The photo shoot we did.

[Frank Alvarez]

And also. Oh, yeah, that's a big part of it, too. Also. Brand new show.

[Joe Sanigato]

Brand new show.

[Frank Alvarez]

Brand new show. We are. We have been sitting and brainstorming trying to make sure that we give you guys a wholly unique brand new show that is an experience that you will not get at any other show, even during the same tour. So, like, each show is gonna be unique.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

So, yeah, we're trying to sell it. What? Also, we're sorry, Greg.

[Joe Sanigato]

So that's gonna.

[Ant Prisco]

Yep.

[Joe Sanigato]

The show that we have put together now is like, also very different than the other shows that we've done. I think it's gonna be way more fun. It's more interactive.

[Frank Alvarez]

We're also better.

[Joe Sanigato]

We're better. Cause we're better on stage now.

[Frank Alvarez]

We're seasoned vets. We're.

[Joe Sanigato]

Well, we're seasoned.

[Frank Alvarez]

How would you want to be seasoned? Give me your three seasons that you want seasonings you want on you.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm doing a thing here, Frank.

[Frank Alvarez]

Sorry. Okay. Forgive me for asking a podcast question

[Joe Sanigato]

we're doing with Chimichurri, by the way.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, but that's a collection of seasonings.

[Ant Prisco]

Summer.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's a sauce.

[Joe Sanigato]

Summer. That's a.

[Frank Alvarez]

You're going the. The. Don't point at him. I'm not allowing you to laugh at him like that.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm not even.

[Frank Alvarez]

Do you want me to defend you?

[Ant Prisco]

No.

[Joe Sanigato]

For what did I do?

[Frank Alvarez]

Nothing.

[Joe Sanigato]

Exactly.

[Frank Alvarez]

That's the point. He just victimized you on your own show.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Remember, you could fire him.

[Joe Sanigato]

I could fire him. Or we could force him to buy tickets. On Wednesday, June 17 at 12pm Eastern,

[Frank Alvarez]

Ant said he's going to buy buy

[Joe Sanigato]

at the base of our.com presale code

[Frank Alvarez]

basement and said he's going to buy and give away a whole show of tickets.

[Joe Sanigato]

Imagine.

[Ant Prisco]

What does someone get if they go to every single show?

[Joe Sanigato]

What does someone get?

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah, let's say someone does it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Restraining order thing. We actually met some people after shows and they had come to a lot. I think one said seven.

[Frank Alvarez]

Whoa.

[Joe Sanigato]

I was like, whoa, that's a lot of shows.

[Frank Alvarez]

The one. The one person that I specifically remember was, she came to the very first show and we spoke during. And she's like, I'm from Alabama. And she came to another show and she was like, oh, I. I came to the new. The.

[Joe Sanigato]

The.

[Frank Alvarez]

The Montclair show with my husband and I'm back here. But we've since gotten divorced.

[Joe Sanigato]

Divorced?

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Like, holy. You know, we wish them well. But it. All signs seem to have pointed to it not going well.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, it went absolutely not well.

[Frank Alvarez]

Well, to the point of it just like them not being.

[Joe Sanigato]

I think it was Atlanta.

[Frank Alvarez]

I believe it was Atlanta.

[Ant Prisco]

And so I could write it down. What website do they go to?

[Joe Sanigato]

Thebakesmaniard.com.

[Frank Alvarez]

i said it first.

[Joe Sanigato]

You said it in tandem.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yes. So Ant said he's gonna give away a bunch of tickets. Also, what does a person get? What are the parameters on what they get? If they go to every single show, which. Don't. Guys, please. We're obviously joking around because.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, don't do that.

[Frank Alvarez]

What I was setting up was, technically, I'll be going to every single show. So I would get whatever that you would say would be for them.

[Joe Sanigato]

A knuckle sandwich.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, put it in my knuckle mouth.

[Joe Sanigato]

Well, I don't know how to even interpret that, to be honest with you. I meant sandwich in my knuckle mouth.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not, like, sucking on fingers. Like, liar. Like. Like to call my mouth my knuckle mouth.

[Joe Sanigato]

What?

[Frank Alvarez]

I just want to say that you're

[Joe Sanigato]

not sucking on fingers.

[Frank Alvarez]

Not really.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, you do suck on your fingers. I've seen you eat a bag of chips.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't think. I don't think that counts. Unless it's the whole finger. If you get a little, like a. So then you suck fingers, because I know you do this dip.

[Joe Sanigato]

Why do I do that?

[Frank Alvarez]

You'll taste something.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's a pure guess. I don't do that. I don't suck on my fingers.

[Frank Alvarez]

Honestly, I was taking a shot in the dark there.

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah, you go down a few knuckles.

[Frank Alvarez]

Whoa. Few knuckles?

[Ant Prisco]

Is this a knuckle?

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, I don't know what that is.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't know. I thought it would be a joint.

[Ant Prisco]

That's boring.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's a first. Knuckle.

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah. Mini knuckle.

[Frank Alvarez]

So you think I'm going to at least. I mean, I can, but I'm not, I swear.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, there was a very viral Video of you shoving your whole hand in your mouth and not gagging.

[Frank Alvarez]

I was very surprised at the.

[Ant Prisco]

You know that was like eight knuckles.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, you were down there.

[Frank Alvarez]

I think I was 2.

[Joe Sanigato]

You were in your sarcophagus. You were in your esophagus.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I think I was, yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, do you think there's anyone who could like, ooh. Actually touch, like.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't think they can go that low. I mean, there are people.

[Joe Sanigato]

Not their own hand.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, it doesn't matter. At a certain point, the hand is not going to fit past your cheek.

[Ant Prisco]

Wait.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

So when someone does a sword swallow,

[Frank Alvarez]

where does the sword go there, brother?

[Joe Sanigato]

Into the stomach.

[Frank Alvarez]

Have you ever seen someone do. Or the nail in their nose.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't like that.

[Frank Alvarez]

That one sucks.

[Joe Sanigato]

But where does a sword go? It's a sword.

[Frank Alvarez]

I think it just goes down. But it doesn't do. Like, it's like dulled or something. And they can like, you can't cut your assava g. I mean, that's why I said dulled.

[Joe Sanigato]

I know, but like, ow.

[Frank Alvarez]

I imagine it's a trick and it's impressive because of the.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, you think it's like, fake?

[Frank Alvarez]

No, I think a trick is. It can still be a trick if it's real. Like, it's just like a party trick. Like, oh, watch what I could do.

[Joe Sanigato]

Can you imagine you're at a party and all sudden someone's like, yo, look at this. And then they're eat a sword. I'd be like, the are you doing?

[Frank Alvarez]

I would be more confused as to why they brought or have a sword with them.

[Ant Prisco]

Well, to swallow it. Come on.

[Frank Alvarez]

If you could swallow swords, are you bringing a little like, retractable sword? Like a full ass sword?

[Joe Sanigato]

If I could swallow swords, I better be in the circus because why else would I be doing that? Like, I'm just gonna, like.

[Frank Alvarez]

Of all the circus, like, skills, is that the one you would want to do?

[Joe Sanigato]

I'll be honest with you. I don't really with the circus. Like, I'm like, I just don't, I don't think that it's cool.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's not right. I get what you're saying.

[Joe Sanigato]

I just mean, like, it's like, I, I.

[Frank Alvarez]

Outside of the, outside of the animal

[Joe Sanigato]

rights issues, but yeah, outside of that. Like, I don't like it. Like, I'm like, what is entertaining about this?

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, I don't get it. You, you've openly spoken about your love of magic and tricks, but there's not

[Joe Sanigato]

a lot of that Going on people like almost dying the whole time. I don't like it.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean. Yeah, I. I'm not arguing here. I'm not a big fan of the circus either. I feel like that was so like 50s and 60s when there were people in wagons across country.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah. And I don't like the music. It's kind of scary. And like there's like trapeze people and it's like they're doing flips and landing on a book. I'm like, what?

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, on a book.

[Ant Prisco]

I don't know.

[Frank Alvarez]

I just, I mean like I. I for some reason immediately go back to Dumbo and I just think of like the lion T with a stool. Bro. If I'm a lion and I see a stool in my face, I'm breaking it and I'm straight for the jugular on this.

[Joe Sanigato]

I will say if it's a real thing where someone got a. A elephant to balance on a ball, that's nuts.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't think that's real.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, we saw it in like a cartoon or something. I don't know if that's real or not.

[Ant Prisco]

I think it is.

[Frank Alvarez]

I can't.

[Joe Sanigato]

Crazy.

[Frank Alvarez]

I loved how they'd be like, we, we're the circus. It's an incredible feats. And they'd be like, here's a woman with a beard. Like, yeah, cool, dude. If I. If I paid to see that, I' so angry.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah. It's like, yo, the circus is in town. What kind of tricks?

[Frank Alvarez]

And it's like, watch this. Look. Twins.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, right?

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh my God.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's a guy with one eye. Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

What? What?

[Joe Sanigato]

What kind of entertainment is this?

[Frank Alvarez]

So low brow. Because they would just find. They'd be like oddities and it'd be like a woman who knows math and be like, grow up.

[Joe Sanigato]

Also the ringleader who's this predator.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

What is this?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I mean, I think.

[Joe Sanigato]

What is your job even?

[Frank Alvarez]

I think it is like literally like they're just like the, the smoking, like cigarette smoking, like evil little fuck. You know, they got like twirly, twirly mustaches and like a staff, brother.

[Joe Sanigato]

You're not a mage. You're not a mate. You'll never be a mage.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not off the staff though, to be.

[Joe Sanigato]

Would you.

[Frank Alvarez]

You also would. You would.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, I would not. But a cane.

[Frank Alvarez]

Name. Name one character in any form of magic or movies or TV that has a staff that's like, I don't like that.

[Joe Sanigato]

The old guy from Jurassic Park. You don't love that. I. What Do I? I would. What is he?

[Frank Alvarez]

He's a billionaire that opened a park that has.

[Joe Sanigato]

Dude, he almost took the halls out because of that.

[Frank Alvarez]

He didn't do that. That wasn't his fault. Well, you started it. I mean, but it has the little mosquito in the amber on the end.

[Joe Sanigato]

That's cool.

[Frank Alvarez]

That's cool. As I have a cane. It has a duck head on the top.

[Joe Sanigato]

What's it for?

[Frank Alvarez]

It was gifted to me, and I had. When I had, like, issues with walking, as you know, I had actually used it. But it's cool. And you're gonna tell me that if you got a duck head, it's got a duck head on it.

[Joe Sanigato]

What does that symbolize?

[Frank Alvarez]

It was gifted to me. I don't think there was. I think it was the only one they were able to find. The.

[Joe Sanigato]

The only cane they could find had

[Frank Alvarez]

a duck head on it.

[Ant Prisco]

Mallard.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah.

[Ant Prisco]

Nice.

[Frank Alvarez]

You would love a cane and you love a staff, dude.

[Joe Sanigato]

Not at this age.

[Frank Alvarez]

You absolutely would.

[Joe Sanigato]

Not. At the same.

[Frank Alvarez]

Bro, look at every. Like Gandalf Moses.

[Joe Sanigato]

He's a mage. Moses. Moses.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

He did have one.

[Frank Alvarez]

He's like, part in the sea and

[Joe Sanigato]

like that shepherds have that big ass with a hook. What's the point of that? Is that to, like, yank sheep by the neck or something?

[Frank Alvarez]

Or if they're, like, bombing on stage, you know what I'm saying? Like, are just not going well for them.

[Ant Prisco]

Sly Cooper.

[Frank Alvarez]

Sly Cooper's a good one. He doesn't know who that is. There's literally no chance.

[Joe Sanigato]

More anime.

[Ant Prisco]

Not everything is anime with you guys.

[Frank Alvarez]

With you, it's. With him guys, it is. With me, it's video games. That's how you know it is.

[Joe Sanigato]

That is adjacent to anime to me.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, it's unfair.

[Frank Alvarez]

I. I do

[Ant Prisco]

to raccoon that he's like a thief. It's a raccoon that steals things.

[Frank Alvarez]

He's a good guy.

[Ant Prisco]

He's not that good.

[Frank Alvarez]

He looks cool as shit, too, though.

[Ant Prisco]

Dude, you never seen Sly Cooper? You've definitely.

[Frank Alvarez]

You know Sly Cooper? He knows Sly coop. He played PlayStation 2. He knows Sly Cooper.

[Ant Prisco]

You know Sly Cooper? Sly Cooper.

[Joe Sanigato]

Frank, I have no idea.

[Ant Prisco]

You don't know Sly.

[Frank Alvarez]

Shut the front fucking door.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, there was a different, like, raccoon, I think, that I was thinking of.

[Frank Alvarez]

I've never seen this person look up characters staffs and. Or canes and tell me that some like, we got to go through these.

[Ant Prisco]

That's gonna be tough.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, how do you not know Sly Cooper? Are you thinking Blinks the Time Cat.

[Joe Sanigato]

Who the is that?

[Frank Alvarez]

You don't know who that is? Blinks the Time Cat. Oh, Gandalf. That's a good one. You know, he's got stuff that's got Gambit. Really good one.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, you don't like Gambit? It's fine. Is that the gun with the cards? Yeah, yeah. I mean, Gambit. Yeah, we're phoning it in with Gambit.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, you're not.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yo, it's Gambit.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's like Rafiki.

[Ant Prisco]

Rafiki from Lion King?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

Dude, that's so different.

[Frank Alvarez]

The Monkey King from the Forgot. I don't even know. Lord said. Lord said. You know, Lord said he's not British, but maybe he was British. He was the, like. It was like the. The Power Rangers bad guy that looked like a skinned human that had, like, metal. Like, a metal suit on, but it was, like, skinny.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, I missed that.

[Ant Prisco]

I would have loved pictures. How do they not have pictures on the side?

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't know who's number one, though. You're blue balling us here.

[Ant Prisco]

Of course. You know Donatello.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, my God. Donatello. Aang's a little hang is all right.

[Joe Sanigato]

You know, I mean, I just, you know, if you.

[Frank Alvarez]

If you had a staff or a cane, what do you want on the top of it?

[Joe Sanigato]

A ball.

[Frank Alvarez]

But, like, you can. It can be anything.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, I would really like it if it looked like a storm. Like, I'm a big fan of, like, when orbs look like there's a storm in it. Like an active.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, so like, it'd be clear glass, and on the inside it's like a cloud with thunderbolt.

[Ant Prisco]

So, like, lightning staff.

[Frank Alvarez]

Okay, I'm cool with that. I'm cool with that. That would be fun.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yo, if I could be. I would like to be Storm. I think.

[Frank Alvarez]

I think Lightning school dude being Storm would be awesome.

[Ant Prisco]

Well, it's weather. So you could control.

[Joe Sanigato]

What, like, I'm not hot enough to be Storm man?

[Ant Prisco]

No, she's the hottest one.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, I don't like. Unfortunately, no storms the best.

[Frank Alvarez]

You don't get to insult.

[Joe Sanigato]

He looks.

[Ant Prisco]

I didn't. I do.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, he does that.

[Frank Alvarez]

I do. You're not allowed to say if he wants to be Storm. And he says I'm not hot enough. Your literal job.

[Ant Prisco]

It's a lie. Talk about Hal. Are we talking about Halle Berry right now?

[Joe Sanigato]

Not only are we talking about Halle Berry, we're talking about, like, drawings of very hot women. Is there any men?

[Frank Alvarez]

Storm Drawing Storm. Aurora Monroe has been consistently one character throughout the Entire run of. Well, I'm sure the fucking X Men people are gonna come for me and be like, actually, but to my understanding, it is one person also a little bit of a reason why you wouldn't be able to be African Queen Storm.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, I mean, yeah. I mean, I mean, look, I can't.

[Ant Prisco]

He doesn't have long enough hair.

[Frank Alvarez]

There's some other things too. You know, Skin Joe is. I would love if, if I had a cane or a staff and it had. Remember that thing that used to have in your house that was like the like magnet and you put your hands on it and the like pink lightning bolt would like touch your hands?

[Joe Sanigato]

Yes.

[Frank Alvarez]

What was that?

[Joe Sanigato]

I have no idea.

[Frank Alvarez]

But like if you had a cane. That was one of those.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, see, that's cool. That's cool.

[Joe Sanigato]

I need it to be moving in electric.

[Frank Alvarez]

Do I know cool

[Joe Sanigato]

when it.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I just gave you a really cool thing and you're supposed to say yes. Yeah. More concretely, let's try this again. Do I know? Yeah, there we go. That's what I'm looking for.

[Joe Sanigato]

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[Frank Alvarez]

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[Joe Sanigato]

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[Frank Alvarez]

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[Joe Sanigato]

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[Frank Alvarez]

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[Ant Prisco]

I have a question. You hungry, Frankie?

[Frank Alvarez]

I. I gotta go get hungry. Frankie. I don't like how you specified me. I'm sorry. I'm joking.

[Ant Prisco]

It's just because I'm looking at you.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Honestly, Always hungry. So you'll never get a no out of me.

[Ant Prisco]

You enjoy chicken nuggets?

[Frank Alvarez]

Boy, do I. Dude.

[Ant Prisco]

If you see a plate of chicken nuggets, you have a favorite.

[Frank Alvarez]

Are they dino shaped?

[Ant Prisco]

No, they're this shaped. Here we go. Out of. If you see a plate of chicken nuggets here, which one do you think would be the best? Which one are you picking?

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, I have an answer. Easy.

[Ant Prisco]

I haven't. I think. What about the worst one? Let's go worst first.

[Frank Alvarez]

Worst first.

[Ant Prisco]

I think it's. Easy. Easy. We disagreed on these kind of things before. I think we all agree here.

[Joe Sanigato]

Okay.

[Frank Alvarez]

Honestly. Well, easily.

[Joe Sanigato]

Easily.

[Ant Prisco]

Okay. Okay.

[Frank Alvarez]

My worst one.

[Ant Prisco]

Worse.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I'm gonna say. I'm gonna say E. No, dude, no.

[Joe Sanigato]

I was gonna say G. The fuck is that?

[Frank Alvarez]

It's not even a nugget. It's a fucking circle. It's not a number. It's a letter. I was gonna say not a nugget. I was gonna say either E or P because P looks like it hasn't been cooked.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, P looks like.

[Frank Alvarez]

What about C? It looks raw. I mean, C doesn't look.

[Joe Sanigato]

That might be a lighting.

[Frank Alvarez]

That is definitely a lighting issue. It's a lighting issue, but it's a good size.

[Joe Sanigato]

Look at G. What the hell is this?

[Frank Alvarez]

I think we could. With conf. We could argue. I think E, G, C, P are bad. G is not that bad to me.

[Ant Prisco]

G's getting golden.

[Frank Alvarez]

G is not that bad to me.

[Joe Sanigato]

You're not thinking about the shapes.

[Frank Alvarez]

The shapes absolutely matter.

[Joe Sanigato]

Okay, let's go to the best one. There's A unanimous best one here.

[Frank Alvarez]

If we're going unanimous, I will say

[Joe Sanigato]

the best chicken nugget on this board.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, no.

[Joe Sanigato]

Is O.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's big.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's the shape of a nugget. And it's got that brown. It's gonna be crunchy.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's gonna be hot inside O. Am I crazy for thinking that it might be a. Yay.

[Joe Sanigato]

That's horrible.

[Frank Alvarez]

Why is that horrible? Dude, it's deformed. No, it's not deformed. I mean, that's what you want out of a chicken nugget. It's supposed to. It's goop that's been breaded and dunked.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, I don't like that.

[Frank Alvarez]

D. D's good. D is F. D. It's too small.

[Ant Prisco]

No, it's not too small.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's not too small. It has a good hook to. F is better than D. I'm gonna fucking F your D if you don't shut up and listen to me about A.

[Joe Sanigato]

Listen. M is good, too.

[Ant Prisco]

I was. M would be strong. Number two.

[Frank Alvarez]

M is a good one. M is good. M is good.

[Joe Sanigato]

O, though, bro. What's wrong with O?

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, it's good. I'm not saying it's the unanimous best. You're sitting here and you're putting your. You're planting your fucking staff in the ground and saying that it's O. I

[Ant Prisco]

think there are top five here. And me and you picked like, one and, like, two and three. Frankie didn't even. Frankie picked, like, five.

[Joe Sanigato]

Would you pick?

[Frank Alvarez]

I said A I thought was quite

[Ant Prisco]

A is the weakest.

[Frank Alvarez]

It is such an ergonomic design that's a perfect, like, dunk and curve with it up. And it holds. It will maintain the sauce better than if the sauce was running off. O and what did you say? J. J could suck it.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, you said.

[Ant Prisco]

I almost said Jay. I said D, which you complimented me on.

[Frank Alvarez]

D is a good one. I'm not gonna sit here and say it's bad. I don't like D. I do think A. It just. It feels like it has more of the breaded texture. It looks like there are clumps of breading on D. It's inconsistent. At least O. And O has, like, the wavy breading, too. You know what I'm talking about? That's good.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's me. It's a meaty bitch. That's what you want.

[Ant Prisco]

I think D will have a crunch every bite.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, but. But you're eat meat at a certain point. You can just have crunch. Yeah, he's Right. You have too much crunch.

[Joe Sanigato]

But like, shit, like E and L and G, like, these are.

[Ant Prisco]

These are.

[Joe Sanigato]

This is. Now this is popcorn chicken. It's not even a chicken nugget.

[Ant Prisco]

Also, what's wrong with your oven? Like, these are two different batches of chicken nuggets. Yeah. I agree with how poorly these are cooked.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm into F. F is not bad. F is not bad. I think fat.

[Joe Sanigato]

Full diaper.

[Frank Alvarez]

F is not bad. Honestly. I also don't hate G. I'm not into it. I don't hate it.

[Joe Sanigato]

I would, like, leave it. I would eat it when I was, like, fucking pissed.

[Frank Alvarez]

M is also pretty solid.

[Ant Prisco]

M is solid.

[Frank Alvarez]

M is a solid one.

[Ant Prisco]

If I was making two plates, I would give my brothers, like, B, C, H, E. I'd throw them a J, because you got to give them one good one and then P, you know, give them all the bad ones.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'll be honest with you. I'm eating the whole plate of these bastards in record time.

[Joe Sanigato]

I think I is, like, underrated.

[Frank Alvarez]

I is a good one. I is a good one. You're getting more of a consistent. Let me ask you guys this question as we are continuing to parse through this. Best fast fry nuggets.

[Ant Prisco]

What? What did you say? You said fry.

[Frank Alvarez]

Best fat. Sorry. Best fast food nuggets.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh. Oh, Burger King.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, no. Oh, words. Oh, my God. I don't. I don't.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't dislike Burger King.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't know the answer.

[Ant Prisco]

I think Burger King. You could get 10 of them for a dollar 49.

[Frank Alvarez]

Well, I mean, those can't be good. I mean, I was gonna say, if we're going price. I mean, everyone here is going to sit. Everyone that listens to this is gonna scream fucking chick fil A through this.

[Joe Sanigato]

I've never had it.

[Frank Alvarez]

I've had chick fil A dude, so aggressively. Okay. And they hate the gays. Don't like that.

[Joe Sanigato]

They don't. With the gay.

[Frank Alvarez]

Nah, dude.

[Joe Sanigato]

They don't get down with the gayness.

[Frank Alvarez]

They're not down with the gayness. Down with the sickness. But.

[Joe Sanigato]

Whoa. So you say it's a sickness?

[Frank Alvarez]

No, the song. No, don't do that.

[Joe Sanigato]

Don't do that.

[Frank Alvarez]

Don't do that. Don't do that.

[Joe Sanigato]

The song, right as we're going on.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, no, it's not. It's the cure. Gay is the cure. It helps us all.

[Joe Sanigato]

The band is the cure.

[Ant Prisco]

I would say if he's talking about the chicken fries from Burger King, that's probably the best.

[Joe Sanigato]

Those are good.

[Frank Alvarez]

I think those are all right, actually. I know, I know. And everyone is going to say, like, have you guys even seen the videos of how chicken nuggets are made? The Chicken McNuggets from McDonald's are legendary for a reason. You're getting a consistent flavor, a consistent crunch. I mean,

[Joe Sanigato]

what's your favorite? What's yours?

[Ant Prisco]

It's probably McDonald's. They're good.

[Joe Sanigato]

They're fine. I actually enjoy, like, nuggets that come out of my freezer like, bagged, brother.

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm. If it's a Dino nugget, I'm like, that's an incredible nugget, bro.

[Joe Sanigato]

Also, I just want to say this. I. I've only ever tasted this at McDonald's, but the sweet and sour sauce. The green top at McDonald's gaped me and poured in. That shit is delicious. It is a great. It's a great sauce. It's not even sour. It's just sweet.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'll be honest with you. First of all, it was so hard to see where you were going there.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Not even top five sauces that McDonald's has.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, Frankie, do they even have five?

[Frank Alvarez]

The best sauce that they have without a dizzy bard is the barbecue.

[Joe Sanigato]

The barbecue is good.

[Frank Alvarez]

Then their buffalo. That's crazy.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, it ain't better than the sweetness, huh, bro?

[Frank Alvarez]

Sweet and sour is one of the worst sauces.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm gonna come over there and strangle you.

[Frank Alvarez]

Do it. I had it.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's not.

[Frank Alvarez]

I. I can tell you there is

[Joe Sanigato]

bad sweet and sour sauce. Like, some places have a sweet and sour sauce. I'm like, the hell is that? But the one at McDonald's is mad good.

[Ant Prisco]

This rage bait. He's rage baiting.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not rage baiting. I'm dead serious. If they sold bottles of the McDonald's barbecue sauce, I might bathe in it. That shit is incredible.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's not. It is a good bar.

[Frank Alvarez]

And I know. I know everyone's screaming as, guys, it's not real. Like, fucking, who cares?

[Joe Sanigato]

We're at McDonald's.

[Frank Alvarez]

We're all dying. We're all dying, dude.

[Ant Prisco]

I do.

[Frank Alvarez]

I. Sweet and sour sauce is so low tier for me.

[Joe Sanigato]

That's crazy.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's so low tier.

[Joe Sanigato]

You want to. You don't know. I mean, I probably said this before, but you know what's just overrated. Like, crazy and not even near my top five, Ranch.

[Frank Alvarez]

I like ranch, but it's fine.

[Joe Sanigato]

People go crazy. I keep a little ranch.

[Frank Alvarez]

Watch this. You hear me drinking a cup of ranch? No, I don't think it's that have any personality? Let me guess.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't.

[Frank Alvarez]

Don't talk to me for my coffee.

[Joe Sanigato]

Also, we'll say this also about Mickey D's. When you get ketchup out of the little paper cup, it just tastes better. Like the one that's like, paper.

[Frank Alvarez]

I like when I have to, like, dispense it. Like, I'm an old timey guy at a water well, you know? It's like, yeah, I don't know.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, yours is like. You definitely need some WD40 on yours.

[Frank Alvarez]

You know what I'm talking?

[Joe Sanigato]

Like, I know.

[Frank Alvarez]

And it's like, fucking like.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, I love that.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, dude, bring back condiment dispensers. I know people don't eat in those places anymore because they have my baseball

[Joe Sanigato]

games, do they, bro? I also hate that. Honestly, like, when you go to Yankee Stadium, you're like getting a hot dog and they're like, oh, yeah. Then the fucking.

[Frank Alvarez]

The catch ups two gates down you. What do you mean?

[Ant Prisco]

Put it on. Put it on.

[Frank Alvarez]

Now can I have sauerkraut?

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Go to the communal bin outside the bathroom, brother. That's where it is. Fuck.

[Joe Sanigato]

And then you get over to the fucking ketchup and it's a murder scene. Because people are like, yeah, fucking shit.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, I'll be honest. I'm one of those people.

[Joe Sanigato]

Are you slapping it down?

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm hitting that. If you're gonna give me, like, slap activated condiments.

[Joe Sanigato]

They're not slap activated.

[Frank Alvarez]

They're slap. They're slap activated. And I love doing them hard enough so it makes like a crater. A ketchup in the. In the thing.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, but then it farts everywhere. All over your head.

[Frank Alvarez]

A little stinky ketchup on me is not gonna fucking ruin the day.

[Joe Sanigato]

Ketchup is great.

[Frank Alvarez]

Bring back the greatest ketchup invention that has ever existed.

[Joe Sanigato]

Disgusting.

[Frank Alvarez]

You guessed it. It was the green and purple Easy squirt ketchup from the early 2000s.

[Joe Sanigato]

It's honestly nasty.

[Frank Alvarez]

Honestly the best.

[Joe Sanigato]

Not good.

[Frank Alvarez]

And I know your gimmick is that you hated it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Well, I just think that it's like a. If I'm looking it down at a burger and there's like green or purple all over it, I'm like, the fuck is this?

[Frank Alvarez]

And you're not gonna eat it.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, I'd give it a go, but I'd rather it be the color I'm expecting.

[Frank Alvarez]

And you think the color that you're expecting is red?

[Joe Sanigato]

Like a tomato?

[Frank Alvarez]

I guess so. He's Right. I mean, the green one was like dill pickle flavor. The purple was. Was it flavor?

[Joe Sanigato]

I thought it was just ketchup.

[Frank Alvarez]

I think they had one that was like a dill pickle. Pickle flavored one. Do we do our annual Google it check in? Because we do this, what, a couple times a year.

[Joe Sanigato]

You know what I'm. You know what I'm really in in lately?

[Frank Alvarez]

Relish.

[Joe Sanigato]

Sweet relish.

[Frank Alvarez]

Grow up.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't even know what it is, actually. No, what is relish?

[Frank Alvarez]

It's like sweet chopped up pickles.

[Joe Sanigato]

Good.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't like sweet pickles, dude. You know how I'm a. I am a gutter slut for sauerkraut, dude.

[Joe Sanigato]

Have you ever. Have you ever had relish? Like the. The bottle?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I don't like it, bro.

[Joe Sanigato]

The relish comes out of the bottle

[Frank Alvarez]

farting like it's a stinky because it's spitty. Farty condiments.

[Joe Sanigato]

There's no way to get this on your ketchup without it fucking farting all over it.

[Frank Alvarez]

And like, when it's filled, because, like, when you have, like, empty ketchup and you do the last couple, like, fart. Yeah, but like, relish consistently queefing on.

[Joe Sanigato]

I. When we went to the Yankee game recently, I got a. I got a hot dog and I put ketchup, and I was like, oh, they got relish. Let me put some relish. And it was just queefing. It's like, yeah, it is like, all right.

[Frank Alvarez]

But it's good. And a little goes a long way. It's a spitty bastard.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, I just. I've never been a guy for like. I just don't like the taste of sweet pickles.

[Joe Sanigato]

Just try a little bit. A little bit goes a long way with a queef. With a relish.

[Frank Alvarez]

Not quite. What?

[Ant Prisco]

With relish? With relish.

[Joe Sanigato]

Relish.

[Ant Prisco]

What?

[Joe Sanigato]

A little goes a long way with a queef. No, with relish, you get a little bit pep.

[Frank Alvarez]

Pep. Pep.

[Joe Sanigato]

Pep. I'm all right.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm okay.

[Joe Sanigato]

As I'm getting older, I'm adding more things to my hot dog.

[Frank Alvarez]

I know. And I guess sauerkraut's right around.

[Ant Prisco]

I know.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, I don't know why you don't start with sauerkraut. I'm okay with it. As long as you're in the. In the game.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm in the game.

[Frank Alvarez]

You're in the game. You're. You're fully dogged out.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

And I'm cool with it. You dog. How you like, maybe that will be the next year, the five years of dog sucking season for 2027. It'll be dog, get dogged out. How you like. Dog it your way, however you like it, get dogged by it. It's a work in progress.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, we're definitely gonna workshop that a little bit.

[Frank Alvarez]

Chop it a little bit.

[Joe Sanigato]

Well, you know what I had recently this past weekend? A brioche bun hot dog. Not a hot dog, a hamburger. Where the brioche bun.

[Frank Alvarez]

Hell yeah, bro.

[Joe Sanigato]

I love them, but my God, it's like eating a fucking loaf of bread.

[Frank Alvarez]

I will say this, and it has not happened yet. I am cautiously optimistic about a pretzel bun on a burger because I love pretzels.

[Joe Sanigato]

A pretzel bun that's got the flakes on the top.

[Frank Alvarez]

Dude, I am so in on salt on a bun. Hawaiian.

[Joe Sanigato]

What are those called?

[Frank Alvarez]

The Hawaiian rolls.

[Joe Sanigato]

Why are they Hawaiian? What are they?

[Frank Alvarez]

I think it's just a branding thing. I don't know. But, dude, dude, we made some dinners with those. What you do is you cut the bottom half, put them in a pan.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Then you put, like, raw, like, meat on top, and then the top, like, cheese, and then the thing on. And then you cook it in the oven like it's a fucking burger. And it comes out. It'll.

[Joe Sanigato]

Hawaiian buns are great.

[Frank Alvarez]

I. Yeah, I'm kind of on board when people make, like, pulled pork sandwiches on them.

[Joe Sanigato]

Don't even piss me off. God, I love them. Oh, okay.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't know if.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, my God, your sliders are great. You don't like sliding?

[Frank Alvarez]

I like sliding. I. I think that the thing that sliders is, like, sometimes I just want a whole burger.

[Joe Sanigato]

That's why you eat three.

[Frank Alvarez]

I. I could eat 12 sliders off. Fucking rip.

[Joe Sanigato]

Dude, bro, no one's stopping you.

[Frank Alvarez]

I feel like I'd be a piece of shit if I did that, though. Just give me two of my own burgers instead of 12 communal sliders.

[Joe Sanigato]

I like a slider, I guess. Oh, I would like a burger flight. We just talked about flights.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, can you imagine?

[Joe Sanigato]

Like, bison burger, ham, cheeseburger, hamburger. I'm out on hamburgers, by the way.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I don't.

[Joe Sanigato]

Almost a burger.

[Frank Alvarez]

It just. I mean, you're right there. You were upstaged by your cooler cousin

[Joe Sanigato]

who has cheese on him and, like, just. Just put it on.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I guess I don't understand the whole idea of hamburgers. Like, you're just. Just go. Just go. I understand people. Like, I'm lactose, bro. So am I. Take some diarrhea. Be a man about it. Or lady or a nice woman. Be a man. Your pants.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, be a man or a nice woman and your pants with. With diarrhea, with the lactose. Who cares? It's one sheet of cheese.

[Frank Alvarez]

You know, you know where I'm starting to come around?

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, you're changing stuff.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not changing, but like, I'm seeing more of an appreciation for it in my older years. Breakfast burgers with just like an egg on the. Just throw an egg on it and it's a burger. Because realistically. I know, I know, I know. You should start the day with like a healthier thing to like jump start your system. And like, it shouldn't be as heavy, but like, if I like an over easy egg and grits, what's the difference between having it and then throwing it on top of a cheeseburger?

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, you make a fair point. I also don't think that the laws of health should apply if you're visiting a city.

[Frank Alvarez]

The health only matters when you're in your eating in your home. That's definitely doesn't matter at any sporting event. No, it absolutely does not matter. On vacation.

[Joe Sanigato]

No way. If I'm not in this, in the state that I live in, I'm fine.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

Also if it's. If it's a brunch.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I think we know that. Well, you can find normal. The confines of your healthy lifestyle are within the confines of your home.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Going out to eat, for the most part, I think you're pretty health conscious when you go out to eat. Like, we'll be at a restaurant, you'll be like, let me get the grilled chicken. This fucking guy. Oh, I love him to death. I'm gonna call him out.

[Ant Prisco]

Me.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, Mikey, I love him so much.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

And the dude is absolutely shredded like a bag of mozzarella.

[Joe Sanigato]

He really is.

[Frank Alvarez]

But like, anywhere we go. Ooh, I'll get the avocado toast, brother.

[Joe Sanigato]

And listen, if you're gonna order the avocado toast or the avocado toast.

[Frank Alvarez]

Ooh, I'll get the falafel wrap, please.

[Joe Sanigato]

Mikey, wait. I've had good falafel.

[Frank Alvarez]

I know, I'm not arguing. I know falafel is good. I don't like. Please, man, for once get a cheeseburger.

[Joe Sanigato]

I just don't like how he sells the avocado toast. Oh, that looks good.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's the same every.

[Joe Sanigato]

Why?

[Frank Alvarez]

Because they put pickled red onion, which I'm a fan of on it. And some micro greens, yo. Oh, my God, Mikey.

[Joe Sanigato]

Low key, low key. Pickled red onions.

[Frank Alvarez]

So, so clutch, dude. What the. So good, dude. So good. You know, it's gonna just absolutely bend you over and spit directly straight through your asshole out your mouth. Pickled jalapenos. Oh, I do like those pickled jalapenos.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Are going to light a Christmas tree on fire and take the presents like the Grinch. You know what I'm saying?

[Joe Sanigato]

I do anything pickled.

[Frank Alvarez]

I went to a farmer's market in Asbury Park.

[Joe Sanigato]

No pickled eggs.

[Ant Prisco]

Pickled eggs.

[Frank Alvarez]

Pickled eggs.

[Joe Sanigato]

Pickled things are disgusting.

[Frank Alvarez]

Pickled beets, too. Love pickled, pickled beets.

[Joe Sanigato]

Now we're pretending.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, we're not. Pickled beets are good.

[Joe Sanigato]

That's like eating a wet shirt. That's what eating, like, pickled beets is like eating a red shirt, like, out of the laundry.

[Frank Alvarez]

Why? It's so funny to me. It's gross.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't like, like, beets are like.

[Frank Alvarez]

I could see what you're saying. It'd be like chewing on a freshly tie dyed T shirt. And I also.

[Joe Sanigato]

I also like, every time I eat a beet, I'm like, I was expecting this to be different.

[Frank Alvarez]

I was on your side. And then Becca has turned me around on beets. She turned me out on beets, which.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, you like beets?

[Frank Alvarez]

I love beets now, dude.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, I can.

[Frank Alvarez]

I love beets. She has made some of the best beats. Like, she did like, roasted beets in balsamic and feta cheese once.

[Joe Sanigato]

Balsamic make anything taste good.

[Frank Alvarez]

I had a balsamic marinated steak for the first time the other day. Oh, fuck it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Balsamic is so good. What is that?

[Frank Alvarez]

Grapes.

[Joe Sanigato]

Nice.

[Frank Alvarez]

It is grapes. Balsamic is fantastic, but I don't understand how. It's grapes. But it's grapes.

[Joe Sanigato]

But it's grapes.

[Frank Alvarez]

Don't ask me what balsamic is. But it's. But it's grapes.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, it's good. I fucking love that shit. Balsamic also just pairs so well with a mozzarella.

[Frank Alvarez]

When it's thick and it's like a drizzle.

[Joe Sanigato]

When it's like a syrup.

[Frank Alvarez]

When it's like a syrupy drizzly glaze.

[Joe Sanigato]

I hate when it gets on my hands and that pisses me off.

[Frank Alvarez]

Can you tell we're hungry?

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, my God.

[Frank Alvarez]

Can you tell?

[Joe Sanigato]

A fucking sticky balsamic.

[Frank Alvarez]

A sticky like fig balsamic?

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, fig. Frank, don't make.

[Frank Alvarez]

I know how you feel on figs.

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

I gotta bro the other morning. Listen. Wow. You tucking it in.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm fixing my boner.

[Frank Alvarez]

Cause you got a fig boner.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Okay.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't like figs.

[Frank Alvarez]

I like figs. Becca turned me out on figs. She's opened my life to so much, a lot of it food related.

[Joe Sanigato]

Figs also, you said turned me out on.

[Frank Alvarez]

I know. That's. That's obviously.

[Ant Prisco]

Got it.

[Frank Alvarez]

That's a joke.

[Joe Sanigato]

I didn't know if you were doing it as a joke or doing it because of. Incorrect.

[Frank Alvarez]

It was a joke. I. It was fully a purposeful joke for. Purposeful joke. Because it's grapes.

[Joe Sanigato]

Because it's grapes.

[Frank Alvarez]

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[Joe Sanigato]

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[Frank Alvarez]

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[Joe Sanigato]

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[Ant Prisco]

Google?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, let's talk about Google.

[Joe Sanigato]

Let's talk about Google.

[Frank Alvarez]

Let's talk about Google. Let's get after search engines. Let's, let's.

[Ant Prisco]

Turkey.

[Frank Alvarez]

Hey, Google, what's up?

[Joe Sanigato]

No, Google is.

[Frank Alvarez]

Apparently their offices are cool.

[Joe Sanigato]

Dude, to fucking Google, they better be cool.

[Frank Alvarez]

Are they?

[Joe Sanigato]

I better be able to take a slide to my office or something.

[Frank Alvarez]

Dude, if there's, if I'm a Google employee, I'm like, being like, please give me, like, a fucking arcade machine in my office or something.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm sure they have that Google.

[Frank Alvarez]

They can do whatever the hell they want. They can Google it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah. Google is apparently planning to. Or they're trying to get this thing passed where they're allowed to release 30 million mosquitoes in California and Florida to combat a disease of some kind.

[Frank Alvarez]

With mosquitoes?

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, with like, they were gonna, like. This is just hitting me as I'm saying this. Google has 30 million mosquitoes. Wait, how do you have a mosquito?

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah.

[Frank Alvarez]

Wait, wait a sec.

[Joe Sanigato]

30 million?

[Frank Alvarez]

Google. Google. How do you. Very famously, not in the mosquito, insects or bugs or animal business.

[Joe Sanigato]

Where are you keeping these 30 million mosquitoes?

[Frank Alvarez]

If I'm. If Google is doing anything, I want them to be like, we're releasing a search engine that an update will just show you pictures of puppies. Yeah, like, only pictures of puppies. No, you could type in anything you want. It could be, like, you know, potholes in western Tennessee, and it'll just be pictures of puppies.

[Ant Prisco]

They're releasing them in two teams. 16 million going to California. 16 million going to Florida.

[Joe Sanigato]

What are they combating?

[Ant Prisco]

I'm trying to find that.

[Frank Alvarez]

I heard it's like a disease that is being spread via mosquito bites. And the idea is that they're basically sending out mosquitoes whose fish don't swim. You catch my drift?

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, jizz.

[Frank Alvarez]

Less ones, like, they are just, like. They are just no jizzies.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh. I honestly thought it was more sinister than that.

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, you thought? Oh, well, I mean, it's Google, so you never know.

[Joe Sanigato]

I thought they were like, we're gonna inject these things and they're essential.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah.

[Ant Prisco]

Google.

[Frank Alvarez]

Why do you have 32 million?

[Joe Sanigato]

Where do you keep 32 million mosquitoes?

[Frank Alvarez]

Where do you.

[Joe Sanigato]

How do you even get a mosquito?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, we're just gonna open the door to our basement and like, what, you

[Joe Sanigato]

leave a bunch of fruit out?

[Frank Alvarez]

And also, how are you transporting 32 million mosquitoes? And what is.

[Joe Sanigato]

Why you get them in a jar?

[Frank Alvarez]

What does 32 million mosquitoes look like?

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, it's probably, like, dark, like a.

[Frank Alvarez]

Like the completely, like.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't know, like, if you had them in a jar. Oh, maybe they just, like, have, like, a farm and they had mosquitoes and they let the mate.

[Frank Alvarez]

How do they be. How do they get them to have their nuts not work? Because I saw that it's like the guys, they're sending them out there and they got no nuts, and then like, can we confirm?

[Ant Prisco]

I'm Trying. I'm trying.

[Frank Alvarez]

And then like the idea, I saw this, the idea is that like they're going to mate with the females and the eggs are going to be basically like they're not going to work.

[Joe Sanigato]

Shoot blanks.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, they're going to shoot blanks because they got no nut.

[Ant Prisco]

They don't individually chop off every mosquito nut. What they do is infect them with a specific virus that makes them sterile.

[Frank Alvarez]

More virus.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, wow.

[Ant Prisco]

And they're combating.

[Frank Alvarez]

What's the, what's the virus? It's called being a fucking. I got it. Just leave me alone. Give me a sec. Being a incel.

[Joe Sanigato]

All right.

[Ant Prisco]

The. To make them sterile, you're saying it's called. All right, we'll try wall bachia.

[Frank Alvarez]

Nope.

[Joe Sanigato]

No. Dude, that's a Baltic country.

[Ant Prisco]

Shit,

[Frank Alvarez]

I thought that immediate. I thought he was doing a gotcha.

[Ant Prisco]

No, that's why I said. But the virus they're fighting, I couldn't find it because it's fighting them all essentially. Like West Nile, the Zika malaria, it's trying to get rid of a bunch.

[Joe Sanigato]

So kind of cool.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean that is good.

[Joe Sanigato]

Wait, wouldn't we get more mosquito bites though?

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, yes, but you're getting fine mosquito bites. You're not getting the ones that are going to be like harmful to you and or your unborn child.

[Ant Prisco]

They specifically asked that question. They knew someone wearing a hat would.

[Frank Alvarez]

Do they say anything about the sleeveless shirt?

[Ant Prisco]

It's all the same. They were building a character. They're building character. These don't bite.

[Frank Alvarez]

So they're biteless ball less mosquitoes that are just roaming around and they even for like grandpa's for this. So they got dicks, but they got no balls and they got no mouth.

[Joe Sanigato]

Are you even listening?

[Ant Prisco]

Honestly, I'm on board now because I feel like once a year you always hear we're releasing a hundred thousand mosquitoes or a million.

[Frank Alvarez]

I've never in my life heard that.

[Ant Prisco]

It's like they've done this like 4000 times work. They keep doing it. I don't think so.

[Joe Sanigato]

Maybe it's like one of those.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't. I never ever heard. Never heard them do. No.

[Ant Prisco]

Well, well, maybe they're getting better at it. They're called the good bugs.

[Joe Sanigato]

Wait, why are they doing it in Florida and California and not New York?

[Frank Alvarez]

And why does Google have a surplus of fucking limpless dickless jizz less mouthless fucking mosquitoes?

[Joe Sanigato]

That's a fair question.

[Frank Alvarez]

Dude, you're Google. Just let us look up stuff on your websites.

[Joe Sanigato]

They have access to too much information. So that's how they're able to.

[Frank Alvarez]

Like, they're, like, bored. Like, they're like, you know, like, Jeff Bezos now likes to race cars. Like, that's what they're doing now.

[Joe Sanigato]

He's racing cars.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't know. I'm Frankie Munich.

[Joe Sanigato]

You mixed up Frankie Muniz and Jeff Bezos. Completely different planets.

[Frank Alvarez]

I mean, two cultural icons.

[Ant Prisco]

What do you think this program's called?

[Frank Alvarez]

Project Suck Em.

[Ant Prisco]

Got it.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't know.

[Frank Alvarez]

Project Let the Bedbugs Bite?

[Ant Prisco]

Got it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Buzz.

[Frank Alvarez]

Project Cousin Skeeto.

[Ant Prisco]

It's just called the Debug Pro Program. Okay.

[Joe Sanigato]

I will say all three of those are better than that.

[Frank Alvarez]

Running by Frankie Muniz. See if he's on board.

[Joe Sanigato]

Cousin Mosquito.

[Ant Prisco]

That's pretty much what's going on.

[Joe Sanigato]

All right. I mean, yeah, no, that's weird to have all those. But I used to have a fruit fly problem.

[Frank Alvarez]

Everyone has had a fruit fry problem at one point.

[Joe Sanigato]

Explain this to me about fruit flies, because every single time they just.

[Frank Alvarez]

They're there.

[Joe Sanigato]

Do they? Are they born out of.

[Frank Alvarez]

I think. I think.

[Joe Sanigato]

I think legitimately, like, I think that because I'm like, my entire apartment is sealed, and if I leave food, like, in the trash or whatever, like, they'll

[Frank Alvarez]

just appear in the trash. So to my understanding, which could be proven quite possibly to be not real or not a lot, I. I believe that food does come sometimes, like, organic specifically, too, because they don't spray them with pesticides to prevent stuff like that. Like, there might be eggs. There might be some eggs and larvae in there. So you might be munching, munching and crunching on some bugs before you even know it?

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm sure we are. Have you ever seen a video on Tick Tock of someone washing fruit and they show the water afterwards? I'm like, jesus.

[Frank Alvarez]

Love it, love it, love it, love it.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, but they, like, really do a deep clean.

[Frank Alvarez]

I do sometimes. It really depends on my mood. I do. Sometimes with berries, I have, like, that, like, like, thing that you, like, press down and it spins it.

[Joe Sanigato]

I love that thing.

[Frank Alvarez]

I do, too.

[Joe Sanigato]

The salad washer.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yes, dude, I get that thing. I swear to God, I have convinced myself I'm this, this close to splitting the atom with bro.

[Joe Sanigato]

Legitimately, when I'm doing this thing, I'm like, oh, my God.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm like, I'm. I'm pushing on that thing and it's like, yeah, the.

[Joe Sanigato]

The romaine lettuce in this thing is pulling five GS yes, it really up against the wall. Like, yo, we're dry.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's that thing at all, like Six Flags and all the amusement parks where like the walls go fast and. And then the kids like try to like turn upside down and they get yelled at by like the 14 year old that's operating the ride. Shouldn't happen.

[Joe Sanigato]

I'm convinced that if I do it hard enough, it'll just like take flight.

[Frank Alvarez]

I am too. I swear to God. I just love to feel that power that I have made something like that. Like I'm fucking spinning it and it's like, oh. And I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yo, spinning shit is fire, dude. Now I think about it, one of

[Frank Alvarez]

America's greatest pastimes, spinning tops. Yo, yos.

[Joe Sanigato]

You like tops?

[Frank Alvarez]

Dude, tops are like, bro.

[Joe Sanigato]

I remember the first time I got my hands on a dreidel. I was like, you. I don't know what any of those stuff means on it.

[Frank Alvarez]

I love when they would do like those toys that were like, they like. You put them on top of a stick and you pull a fucking string and they fly in the air.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yo, I almost killed my sister with

[Frank Alvarez]

one of those ones because, like, smacked her in the face.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah. Because it's like, it was like a little fairy. And then like when she spins, her thing opens. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And she like, I fucking ripped this thing like a beyblade and I hit her in the eye.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yo, those things are serious. They can really hurt somebody. Video of it going into the fire. God, it's so good.

[Ant Prisco]

The dad got it for her, his daughter, as a gift. They spin it and it just slowly flies into the fireplace.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, ours, we were just like, rip.

[Joe Sanigato]

As hard as we could, dude.

[Frank Alvarez]

Like, I. I'm not kidding. In that moment, anytime I've ever used one of those child to a current adult, I am the strongest person on the planet. I am pulling that thing with such force and ferocity that it is immeasurable by any societal or scientific standard that we have.

[Joe Sanigato]

That was a long sentence.

[Ant Prisco]

Big sentence.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, big sentence. You'll be fine. You'll be fine.

[Joe Sanigato]

I used to love those, though.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I. I'm not fully on board with project, you know, project Debug. I. I have more questions than I like, I hope it can be good and beneficial for people, but we'll fuck this up.

[Joe Sanigato]

I just don't. I. I do feel like mosquitoes like me.

[Ant Prisco]

Everyone likes you.

[Joe Sanigato]

But I think that mosquitoes think I like, I have a certain kind of blood.

[Frank Alvarez]

They could smell you. They can go, ooh, he's sweet and sleeveless.

[Joe Sanigato]

And then let's go suck his blood.

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah. If you're showing that much skin, they got more to bite.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, selfishly. Selfishly. I don't hate being bitten by mosquitoes. Because you think they like you. Becca's got really nice nails.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh.

[Frank Alvarez]

And I, I like, make it like, I make her, like, I convince her and I don't. It doesn't work. I like to think it works, like, but like, she's like, helping me medically. Like, I'm having a medical emergency. I need you to scratch this mosquito bite.

[Joe Sanigato]

A medical emergency. It's a mosquito bite. That's interesting. Do you ever sit in a place and like, you're like, yo, I'm getting lit up by mosquitoes. And then other people are like, really? I'm good. I'm like, I'm just better than you.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, we, we had this conversation several years back.

[Joe Sanigato]

I love that.

[Ant Prisco]

Right?

[Joe Sanigato]

I actually, I don't love it.

[Frank Alvarez]

I also love just like, smacking things. Like, where else do you get to smack something unapologetically? You can just a butt.

[Joe Sanigato]

Well, unapologetically is crazy.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, unapologetically slapping.

[Joe Sanigato]

That's insane.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, sorry. Here, babe.

[Joe Sanigato]

Sort as I'd like. Yeah, I like.

[Frank Alvarez]

You can't slap anywhere anymore.

[Joe Sanigato]

Where would you. Oh, well, what are you talking about?

[Frank Alvarez]

Oh, I'm not talking about. I'm talking about mosquitoes.

[Joe Sanigato]

What did you just do, bro? I thought you were doing that. Oh, shit. Oh, you can.

[Frank Alvarez]

I can also do that.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, can you? You can't do that. No.

[Frank Alvarez]

These are things you've learned about me.

[Joe Sanigato]

And I, I know, but I, I, I don't know.

[Ant Prisco]

Frankie could do a lot of things.

[Frank Alvarez]

Damn right, baby. Watch this. Whoa.

[Joe Sanigato]

Whoa.

[Frank Alvarez]

That was cool. You want to know why I learned that? The saddest. No, no, no. I saw Tony Stark do it in one of the movies and I was like, that's pretty cool. And he would like, walk around and he'd be like. So I got like, cool with it,

[Joe Sanigato]

cuz you're Tony Stark.

[Frank Alvarez]

It's better to be fucking Tony Stark than whoever you want to be. Max Verstappen. Oh, I'm Lewis Hamilton.

[Ant Prisco]

He's getting better at naming them.

[Joe Sanigato]

He knows, too.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah, I know more than two, Joey.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, you can.

[Frank Alvarez]

I absolutely do.

[Joe Sanigato]

Name another one.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not gonna.

[Joe Sanigato]

I know.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not gonna. To prove a point. To stick it to the man. You're the man and I'm sticking it to you. Ew.

[Joe Sanigato]

You know, another One. Just name another one.

[Ant Prisco]

The.

[Joe Sanigato]

The.

[Frank Alvarez]

The. The. The.

[Joe Sanigato]

Not the the the. Maybe it is the.

[Frank Alvarez]

The.

[Joe Sanigato]

These nuts on your face.

[Ant Prisco]

Thank you. That was so rude.

[Joe Sanigato]

Just technically that was a bad one.

[Frank Alvarez]

He didn't really say anything.

[Ant Prisco]

Honestly, I loved it, though. Can you hit him?

[Frank Alvarez]

I. I feel I. I earned that one.

[Ant Prisco]

Hit him with a.

[Frank Alvarez]

God, I earned that one.

[Joe Sanigato]

Got him.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, my God. I love that. That was great. That was so creative. Stop.

[Frank Alvarez]

All right, take it easy. Take it easy.

[Ant Prisco]

It was so creative.

[Frank Alvarez]

You're the judge now. I love that. That was so great. That was so creative.

[Joe Sanigato]

Whoa, dude.

[Ant Prisco]

Clip that. Someone clip that. Give that to me.

[Joe Sanigato]

That's correct.

[Frank Alvarez]

Give that to me. Why in charge of the end also. What are you going to do with it? Give that to me.

[Joe Sanigato]

Send it to me. Blow it up. Zoom in. 10x speed, 10xp.

[Ant Prisco]

At least 50 xp.

[Joe Sanigato]

No, I was saying 10 x speed.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, I know, I know, I know other Formula 1 and Formula 2 drivers. I'm just not gonna do this.

[Joe Sanigato]

I don't even know Formula 2 drivers.

[Frank Alvarez]

Well, maybe you should fucking be a better fan of the sport, Joey.

[Joe Sanigato]

Maybe. Yeah, that could be.

[Frank Alvarez]

Living under the fucking. All you care about is the names, the big names. I care about the smaller drivers that are really trying to make a name for themselves. So as you sit there and idolize Ferrari and Lewis Hamilton, who jumped ship to play for them, to race for them, drive for them. Right?

[Joe Sanigato]

He jumped ship from.

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not. See, he tries to bait me.

[Ant Prisco]

He's a master at it.

[Frank Alvarez]

Nice try.

[Joe Sanigato]

He made a jerk off joke.

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah. Something else. Yeah, Listen. You got me these nuts. That was good. It was a while. Honestly, now that I think about it. That was kind of.

[Joe Sanigato]

It was bad.

[Frank Alvarez]

That was not cool.

[Ant Prisco]

I feel like leading you. You know, you bring a horse to water and this one drank it. You know what I mean? Like, he led you right to it, went right for it.

[Frank Alvarez]

You got to be more creative with it. I've been writing some down, but I'm. I am waiting for the right time.

[Joe Sanigato]

Why cough on these nuts when you come? Could blow my.

[Frank Alvarez]

That was such a good one. Then what was the other one I had the one. It was a. It was. Diplo was a good one. The car one that I had that last time we talked about F1 college in Connecticut. Yukon. Yukon. Yeah. Yeah. Yukon sucked.

[Joe Sanigato]

Oh, yeah, yeah.

[Ant Prisco]

Just in case he was double dipping.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, no, no, no, I'm not. Once. Once I got him has been done. You can't do all double dip on it.

[Ant Prisco]

I don't know if you were double.

[Joe Sanigato]

You can't double God at the Gotham.

[Frank Alvarez]

You can't double. Gotcha.

[Ant Prisco]

Right?

[Frank Alvarez]

It's a got him to a gotcha. Gotchas are not allowed.

[Ant Prisco]

If you taped yourself. If you tape your hand to an umbrella and go in a tornado, will you fly away?

[Frank Alvarez]

No.

[Joe Sanigato]

Bro, have you ever stood outside with an umbrella? The thing inverts immediately.

[Frank Alvarez]

If it's too such a. Honestly, such a. Like so disappointing that you can't have more fun with umbrellas.

[Joe Sanigato]

What could that mean?

[Frank Alvarez]

I'm not saying that I need to fly, but I need to get. I need to fall slower with an umbrella.

[Ant Prisco]

Oh, I agree.

[Frank Alvarez]

Like, it needs to be good to the point that like I. It does something. I. I'm with you.

[Joe Sanigato]

I think that we should be able to at least do like kind of like float jumping. At least not like flying, but like I should be able to be like, like not and land.

[Frank Alvarez]

I wonder if there is any measurable difference. I'm sure it depends on the umbrella. But like I should. I'm not saying I need to like Princess Peach on my way down. You know what I mean? Like it shouldn't be that slow. But if I. If you and I were to both jump off this desk, we should hit it different times because one of us has an umbrella. And like not like a split second. Like two, like like a third of a second.

[Ant Prisco]

Okay. Like it's pretty split second.

[Frank Alvarez]

Just something. Dude. I just want like.

[Joe Sanigato]

You know how they walk on the moon? Like anti gravity?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

We should be able to do that.

[Frank Alvarez]

I agree.

[Ant Prisco]

When I was younger, I had such a big jacket and it was super windy. I opened it and held the thing and I got some air.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, you didn't, bro.

[Joe Sanigato]

This is a made up story. No, you did a little bit of hair.

[Ant Prisco]

I did.

[Frank Alvarez]

No, you did not.

[Ant Prisco]

I jumped. I was. I was very young. I had a really big jacket. The wind was very high and I jumped and I opened my jacket. I got a little bit of air.

[Joe Sanigato]

My guy, in your head, that happened because you're little and young. No, everybody looked and stupid.

[Ant Prisco]

Everybody looked and went, whoa.

[Joe Sanigato]

Everybody. How many people were there?

[Ant Prisco]

Four. Who? My friends.

[Joe Sanigato]

No way.

[Frank Alvarez]

They all go to a different school.

[Ant Prisco]

No, it was in recess. I did it. I did that. That. You can't take that from me.

[Joe Sanigato]

My guy is the boy who flew.

[Frank Alvarez]

Unless it was documented by your school, I'm not believing it, dude.

[Ant Prisco]

A little bit of air. I got a little bit of lift. You have just a little bit of lift.

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean me jumping straight up Is

[Frank Alvarez]

also why if there is wind strong enough to blow away a small child, why are you outside at recess?

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah.

[Joe Sanigato]

What is this a hurricane?

[Frank Alvarez]

Yeah. Are you a prisoner in your own school?

[Ant Prisco]

It's not raining. Teachers want a break. It's like, send the kids out in the wind, let them fly around.

[Frank Alvarez]

They get a break regardless of if you're inside or outside.

[Ant Prisco]

No, they don't. You got to take care of all the kids in the classroom while you're eating lunch. They don't want to do that, bro.

[Frank Alvarez]

We've.

[Ant Prisco]

That's not a real.

[Frank Alvarez]

Used to go outside in a schoolyard with like open gates on both sides. And the teachers are just like.

[Joe Sanigato]

They had bouncers though.

[Frank Alvarez]

Did they?

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, they had like teachers that would stand there.

[Frank Alvarez]

I don't remember that.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, yeah, yeah. They would have them staying at the edge and be like, don't go in there, don't go out there.

[Frank Alvarez]

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Use code prime time at the door.

[Joe Sanigato]

Yeah, yeah. Guest list. Are you on? You know who?

[Frank Alvarez]

You know, I. I haven't been to a club in like. Like, I am going to a club in 15 years. Do they still do that?

[Joe Sanigato]

Like promoters tickets or something?

[Frank Alvarez]

Like being like, yo, at the door for $10 off or you get in for free. Use Code basement, which you could do

[Joe Sanigato]

if you do on June 17th at noon. June 17th. Wednesday, June 17th at noon Eastern Time. Code Basement. Go to the Basement.com and come to these shows, Frank. September 10th, we're going to Durham. September 12th, we're going to Charlotte. September 24th, Minneapolis. September 26th, Indianapolis. October 2nd, Charleston. October 3rd, Atlanta. October.

[Frank Alvarez]

October 16th, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. November. November 7th, Buffalo, New York. December 5th, Baltimore, Maryland. December 10th, Austin, Texas. 11th, Dallas, Texas. December 13th, Houston, Texas.

[Joe Sanigato]

Is that a president you're doing? Is that Bernie Sanders?

[Frank Alvarez]

January 15th, Newark, New Jersey.

[Joe Sanigato]

That does sound like Bernie Sanders.

[Frank Alvarez]

February 5th, Red Bank, New Jersey. February 23rd, Vancouver, oh, and the 24th. Yeah. February 26th, Los Angeles, California.

[Joe Sanigato]

And March 12th, Chicago, Illinois. Yeah, those are all our shows. Wednesday, June 17th at noon sharp. Thebasemeyer.com the pre sale code is basement. Go get some tickets and come see your boys.

[Frank Alvarez]

And we're sorry, Greg.

[Ant Prisco]

I'll jump through a table.

[Joe Sanigato]

Ant's gonna jump through a table.

[Frank Alvarez]

Who said you're coming to the shows?

[Joe Sanigato]

That's fair.

[Ant Prisco]

I'll buy. You can't stop me. Really?

[Joe Sanigato]

I mean, that part's true too.

[Frank Alvarez]

If you guys buy tickets quick enough, you'll stop him. It's not a motivator. I think people would want to see you there. I would like you there as well. I think it would make it a complete experience.

[Joe Sanigato]

Ooh, the basement yard experience. The basement yard.com presale code is basement. Like I said, June 17th at noon Eastern. Go get your tickets. Come see your boys. Thank you guys so much for all the support over the years. This is so awesome, and we appreciate all of this shit. Thank you so much. And Frank, where can they find you? Yeah, okay.

[Ant Prisco]

An ant and press go on Instagram

[Joe Sanigato]

and you guys can go follow me at Joe Sanigato and. Okay. Okay, Frank.

[Ant Prisco]

Yeah, Taking a picture to get my notes up there.

[Joe Sanigato]

And you guys can go follow the show at the base merge on Tick Tock and Instagram and that as well. See you guys next time.

[Frank Alvarez]

Bye. It.