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Media. Pork.

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Chicken, beef, lamb,

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Goat. These. Are

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the five most popular meets in the world

0:22

in descending order. For. Most

0:24

Americans, the meat of the umbrella fearing

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ruminant is a rare sight on the

0:29

dinner table. What? Worldwide, it's

0:31

a staple of hello Caribbean and

0:33

Latin cuisine, among countless other cultures.

0:36

And. In the mid twentieth century. Astute.

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Goat dish originating in Mexico's Holly's Go

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Province Bb a Day Tivo anglicised as

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Barrier made it's way north of the

0:45

border. Barrier. Has been consumed

0:47

in Mexican American immigrant communities for decades and

0:50

a a barrier day race is more common

0:52

than day tivo made with the meat of

0:54

cut chewers instead of can chewers. Since.

0:57

The Twenty Tens barrier has become a

1:00

trendy dish among American foodies. The tender

1:02

meat served in tortillas ron plates and

1:04

paired with the rich mommy consummate on

1:06

the side for dip in. And.

1:09

As it's popularity became inescapable, chain

1:11

restaurant smelled not savory stew but

1:14

the chemical paper cent of the

1:16

almighty dollar. Scrambling. To proffer

1:18

their own watered down but budget

1:20

friendly interpretations. In. November

1:22

of Twenty Twenty Three, a Mexican American

1:25

chain founded near the San Bernardino Mountains.

1:27

His House of The Taco. Introduced.

1:29

It's own beery, a line complete

1:31

with sidecar of consummate. One.

1:34

Could note the just five years ago

1:36

the same chain debuted with fanfare. It's

1:38

beyond line as the fast food industry

1:41

seems set on phasing out animal products

1:43

for plant based proteins. But.

1:45

Americans responded to beyond and impossible

1:47

versions of burgers, chicken fingers, and

1:50

tacos by saying fuck you more

1:52

meat. as these plant based semi

1:54

lack rooms fell off of menus. And.

1:56

Into oblivion. Now.

1:59

as the beef right of Birria enters

2:01

the American mainstream via fast food, will

2:03

any American chain restaurant be daring enough

2:05

to offer Birria made authentically with

2:07

goat meat? To sight the

2:10

goat's stablemate, the noble horse, one

2:12

would have to assume, nay. This

2:17

week on Doughboys, we return, once

2:19

again, to Del Taco. Welcome

2:38

to Doughboys, the podcast about chain restaurants.

2:40

I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host,

2:43

Benedict ComforSnacks, the

2:46

spoon man, Mike Mitchell. So it's

2:48

a Cumber Batch. Cumber

2:50

Batch ComforSnacks. Benedict ComforSnacks.

2:52

Is that meant to be like

2:54

cum-cum? My point,

2:56

I'll read from the submit. Hey, I'll

2:58

ComforSnacks. My point here is that Benedict

3:01

ComforBatch and Mitch are both actors, but

3:03

while one plays Doctor Strange, the other,

3:05

when presented with snacks, comes.

3:08

Love the pod. Tom from New

3:10

York. Pretty wild. So it is. It's

3:12

C-U-M. It is. It's

3:14

C-U-M. It's spelled C-U-M. All

3:17

right. Well, again, welcome to our new Jeopardy listeners. Welcome. Those

3:19

of you who discovered the pod, feel

3:21

the Jeopardy clue. People exclusively

3:24

over the age of 65. Hello?

3:27

I watched Doughboys. I watched the

3:30

Doughboys. Watched the Doughboys. This old

3:32

fool. He could be watching

3:34

the Doughboys. Oh, you can't. I know, but

3:36

this old fool calls, when

3:38

he talks about pockets, he's all, watch that. Yeah,

3:40

you know he was trying to do it on

3:42

his TV. Yeah, yeah. He was saying it into

3:44

his record. I want to watch Mark Maron. I

3:46

want to change the channel to Ben Shapiro. I

3:48

like Shapiro. But then you can watch

3:50

Mark. You can watch Mark Maron, too. Everyone's

3:53

got video now. That's the new frontier of podcasting.

4:00

It's it's it's great having video is great. It's

4:02

great to see us look like shit and Keep

4:05

looking like shit as the year goes

4:07

on. Yeah, and look more and more

4:09

like shit Yeah, gradually degrade over time

4:12

as our bodies suffer the consequences of

4:14

our choices Happy

4:16

two-year Mitch happy two-year. I thought we started recording

4:18

again back in the studio this week We released

4:20

a few episodes that were cornered in 2023, but

4:22

we were caught up to the present This is

4:25

a main feed episode for 2024 that is being

4:27

recorded in January of 2024 So

4:29

here we are why can't say this? Yeah,

4:31

we were on Jeopardy. That's right I

4:33

work on Jeopardy which was very nice and

4:35

I think a lot of it I mean it can't it it

4:38

all came from you on those picket lines I like

4:41

I mean a lot of connections with the

4:43

Jeopardy staff over there the lovely people Shot

4:45

to Michelle and Jim and Billy

4:47

and Marcus and the whole crew everyone is out

4:50

there picketing lovely people I watched it with my

4:52

mom and sister Mm-hmm as it

4:54

was on live at the dinner table where we used

4:56

to watch with my dad and everything It was very

4:58

emotional was a very moment. So thanks for that.

5:00

Why hey, you know what? I didn't

5:02

ask for it, but it was lovely that they did

5:05

it a lot of writers showrunners They watched you know,

5:07

they listen to this show. Yeah, and that's

5:09

a very nice gesture. Here's a new one Give

5:11

this guy a writing job. That's what I say. Well, I'm

5:14

not I'm not looking but that's very nice You to say

5:16

Mitch get a bet get him back in a room Get

5:19

in there. What's your room? I'm the fucking doughboy

5:21

studio Full of

5:23

Del Taco and ready to talk for two hours Yeah,

5:26

that's very nice. Mitch. It's a lovely gesture. It's a nice thing

5:28

to say I just say there's a lot of you know, there's

5:30

a lot of I know there's a lot of

5:33

movers and shakers who listen to the show Yeah,

5:37

why is it a room I'm content with how things are

5:40

going in a room I need you to get out of

5:42

here I need to get in a fucking room for God's

5:44

sake recording it like nights. You want me recording on a

5:46

weekend? Yes, you are you kidding me? Do you want to

5:48

be recording at night? That sounds fucking cool as hell Doughboys

5:52

nights You want to deal with

5:54

me spin off I was I had a 12-hour day

5:56

and then I got a grumpily hop on a zoom

5:58

Call and you gotta deal with that wiger That's

6:00

what you want. Yeah, same difference You'll

6:03

be mad no matter what we should also talk about

6:05

with this with this new year We got a new

6:07

studio layout which we talked about on the double But

6:09

we're all we're repositioned we did a big dramatic thing

6:11

where we switch sides sides have been switched back because

6:13

you have a new Chair and a half over there.

6:15

Yeah, and I'm over here with the with

6:17

our guests You have a

6:20

new chair in the habit makes it sound like

6:22

they got me a chair in the half I

6:24

was oh it was called a chair and a

6:26

half. That's what I heard Yeah, which we found

6:28

you're not occupying the entire chair There's a couple

6:30

pillows there in the couple of pillows now pillow

6:32

I look like half a chair actually that I

6:34

would say is left over The

6:40

perfect Jimmy I'm thinking about taking up half a

6:42

chair and a half so I take up 75%

6:44

chair I

6:46

guess so I

6:49

take up a chair in a quarter. I guess

6:51

yeah, I'm not a percent chair. I think you're

6:53

like about a hundred percent chair There's like like

6:55

like we were saying about a half chair left.

6:57

This is complicated for me Mitch is touching some

6:59

pillows that are next to them. There's there. We

7:01

got Barbie pink pillows here, but I would I

7:04

I want Jimmy to come up

7:06

here. We'll move the pillows. We can

7:08

make room for Jimmy Yeah, if

7:10

Jimmy hops on to that if Jimmy hops on

7:12

the chair next to Mitch, I will stop listening

7:14

to the Casey

7:19

I Know

7:23

I know they should

7:25

I'm not in boycotting dough boys until they

7:27

take Jimmy to the pound We

7:34

have a dog in a studio We're

7:36

happy everyone's boot is better when

7:38

I was uh, I gotta tell you story. Yeah,

7:40

well, I got to go How to hope to

7:42

spoon nation happy new year spoon

7:44

nation. I did I

7:46

did a sound bath when I was

7:48

in Quincy Wow, and I went with

7:50

my sister and it was funny They were like like

7:53

just like think like, you know, like think what you

7:55

want for the new year and I

7:57

was laying there And I

7:59

like fell asleep for a moment. And

8:02

when I came to, you know what my thought

8:04

was, is that I want to

8:06

be the new Freddie. You'd

8:10

be a great Freddie. I've never thought of this before. I

8:12

hate when people are like, I want that. Like, I'm

8:15

not saying as an actor, I don't really mean

8:17

it, but like, for whatever reason, during the sound

8:19

bath, I was like, I came to, I was

8:21

like, I should be the new Freddie. Right. Which

8:24

I mean, like, no one is, Robert England's the only

8:26

one who's good at it. So it's like a mistake,

8:28

but I want to, what are you going to

8:31

say? I was just saying, be the first Freddie who falls asleep on the

8:33

job. That

8:40

was my deep realization. Wow. You'd be great.

8:43

Because that's what they need someone with a comedy

8:45

job. I don't want the role and I won't get

8:47

it, but in Robert English, you just still have the

8:49

role. Yeah. He's great. They should make new Freddies. Why

8:52

aren't they playing their new nightmares? Why not? Keep them

8:54

going. They're fun. And hey, make another

8:56

new nightmare. That's a great movie. That's what I'm

8:58

saying. Make, oh, make a new new nightmare. Yeah.

9:00

Okay. That makes sense. New nightmare too. Two

9:03

nightmare. My other, my other

9:05

topic of conversation, it's very

9:07

different. But it was

9:09

a thing I was thinking of how many

9:11

generations, if you had a time travel machine, how

9:14

many generations separated would you have to be to, uh,

9:16

uh, how do

9:18

I put this delicately? Uh, how

9:21

many generations separated from you? Would someone have

9:23

to be in your family to, to, uh,

9:25

fuck them? I really, when

9:27

you said how to say this delicately, I

9:29

thought that was exactly where you were going.

9:32

And I was right. Um,

9:34

I think you're, I mean, I

9:37

think it probably, it does make me sad

9:39

to think of like, like

9:41

my grandma's grandma, she like knew my, you

9:43

know what I mean? So that to me

9:46

is maybe like the, the, you know, like

9:48

it has to be beyond my grandma's grandma.

9:50

I think like four generations, you're probably safe.

9:52

Okay. Back or forth, basically. I mean, time

9:54

travel. So you go, okay. Okay. I

9:56

don't know why you'd want to do this. Yeah. Yeah. Something

10:00

about being at home with your mom just maybe?

10:03

Maybe make a video? Okay,

10:05

but if this, if like she was like my great grandma

10:07

it'd be okay, right? Jesus Christ.

10:12

I mean, travel, look, let's be real

10:14

here. Traveling around, and it was like,

10:17

you know, you went back in time as your great aunt, and you guys

10:19

headed off or something, you know? I feel like I met my great aunt. I

10:23

mean, I did too. Yeah, yeah. So

10:27

a young version of a relative you've already like known in your

10:29

life. I mean like, I'm not saying I'd want you. I'm just

10:31

saying if you hit it off, or if you didn't know him,

10:34

you know what I mean? Oh,

10:36

this makes people uncomfortable. Let's bark to this.

10:39

Yeah, why are you thinking about this? I don't

10:41

know. I think it

10:43

might have been another sound path revelation. Also,

10:50

it's time machine. You gotta remember the time machine

10:52

thing. Because we talked back to the future. Yeah, I

10:54

remember the time machine thing. I already almost went for it within

10:56

one generation. Right, with his mom. But he also, he

10:58

kind of put the kibosh on that when he figured

11:01

out what was going on. Yeah, but he also kind

11:03

of seemed into it. It was very strange. I was

11:05

looking good. Yeah, I know.

11:07

Yeah, but that's disgusting. I know. When

11:09

you realize it's his mom. Yeah, but

11:13

I don't know. I just wonder. I was just

11:15

thinking about time in general, I guess. If we

11:17

have any geneticists who are like in our Discord

11:19

server and want to like weigh in with the

11:21

biological ramifications, I mean how? Because I've heard things

11:24

about like, you know, there are even some... That

11:26

would be, and I think that is a good

11:28

use of the geneticists who listen to show time.

11:30

Yeah, 100%. Yeah. Stop

11:33

working on that cancer cure and try

11:35

to figure out where in Mitch's family tree he can fuck

11:37

a relative. There

11:40

are laws about that too, like cousins and stuff. Right,

11:43

there are. Someone's figured it out. There are laws.

11:46

And I think there's, I think when you,

11:48

you know, even with people who are your

11:50

age, who are related to you, if it's

11:52

like enough removed of a cousin, it's like

11:54

the genetic chances of any sort of, you

11:56

know... Because the reason this is

11:58

litigated is because there's chances. of some sort

12:00

of genetic issue with your offspring, I think

12:03

those are really, and also probably

12:05

just some general taboos, like that's icky. Yeah,

12:07

sure, yeah, I'd say it's a little icky.

12:09

Right, because why shouldn't you be able to

12:11

have sex with a blood relative if you're

12:13

using contraception, if that's the concern? Like, that's

12:15

the other thing. So that just becomes like

12:17

a taboo to take back. The guy's making

12:19

good points, everybody. If you're both consenting adults,

12:22

I know there's potentially a power dynamic there, so that

12:24

could be unhealthy, but I'm just saying, that could be,

12:26

if it's not purely... I feel like

12:28

we're really gonna get out of the bar of medicine. It's

12:31

not purely about preventing some

12:34

sort of genetic malady. Yeah,

12:36

what is this genetic, like abomination gonna come, you

12:39

know what I mean? It sounds very scary. Yeah,

12:42

I think they're worried about like a, I

12:46

was gonna spoil a movie, I won't do it. There's a recent

12:48

movie where this is like a thing,

12:50

a recent horror movie, yeah. What,

12:52

can you say that, can we believe it? Can you say the name of

12:54

it? Yeah, I'll create more work for Emma.

12:58

The movie's... Oh,

13:01

yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. All

13:04

right, you should play your job, because we got a lot of

13:06

show to get to, and we got a great cast. Anyways, welcome

13:08

to the Jeopardy Listers, and here we go, Emma, let's hit them

13:10

with a little drop. I

13:13

like all of them. 15,

13:17

I'm gonna use the old video gift, but we'll arrange to

13:19

dip in the buttery gourd gift. 15,

13:23

I'm gonna use the old video gift, but we'll arrange to

13:26

dip in the buttery gourd gift, and

13:28

I like all of them. I

13:30

love that. I kinda like that, Jim. Like the gym.

13:34

That's a little, little

13:36

Caesars dip hop. Here's

13:39

the email. Hey, DK

13:41

and the rest of you, this

13:43

is a short drop I came up with while holding

13:45

Laundrie Listening to Little Caesars 2 with

13:48

Marissa Pinson and David Nier. Wow. I

13:50

know the strike is over, but wanted to say Twisted

13:52

Metal was good, hey, Spoon Nation, I love it. Nice

13:54

considering Charlie. Mitch, I watched all of Twisted Metal, and

13:56

I've been able to say it here on the podcast.

13:58

I watched the entire show. Thank you. It

14:00

was a really fun show. You're a good man. It was

14:02

a good show. It's coming back,

14:04

baby. It's coming back. Great news. It was

14:07

another season, yeah. Mitchell Curse is over. I usually

14:09

end shows when I go out on them. Yeah,

14:12

it's gonna be fun. I

14:15

don't know where we're gonna go this year, but... Like

14:18

where you're gonna film it. Yeah, but it

14:20

should be fun. Well, we'll figure it out. Mitchell,

14:23

we should shout out that there's a

14:25

new email address for drops and there's

14:27

a new email address for roasts. So

14:31

from now on, if you wanna send a roast, you wanna

14:33

send a drop, send them into these

14:35

new addresses or they won't be seen.

14:37

They won't be seen. They won't be seen.

14:39

Roasts at birdfuck.com and

14:42

drops at birdfuck.com. So

14:45

remember those email addresses, add them to your contacts

14:47

if you wanna send in roasts or drops. We

14:50

know that you use birdfuck.com on a daily

14:53

basis. Right. We're already going there

14:55

to log in. Like let's make it a

14:57

one-stop shop for submitting show content. The Everything

14:59

website. It's the Everything website. It's still happening

15:01

on birdfuck. They're going there

15:03

to get Doughboys merch,

15:05

link to Doughboys merch. I

15:08

mean, they're going there mostly to watch videos of birdfuck,

15:10

which we haven't really done a good job with yet.

15:13

There's some gifs, yeah. There are a few gifs. Right.

15:15

We're gonna figure out a way to

15:17

upload birdfuck videos to where this website

15:21

costs us thousands and thousands of dollars. To

15:23

its natural home. I thought that much. Roasts

15:26

at birdfuck.com, drops at birdfuck.com. Hey, a great

15:28

guest. Yes. We start off a new year

15:30

of rewards from twitch.tv slash Libtron. Libby Watson

15:32

is back. Hi Libby. Hello. Thanks

15:35

so much for making time for us. Thank you for having me. Libby

15:38

we are in the two year, are you a

15:40

two years resolutions person? It's not even a thing

15:42

across the pond. I don't know how worldwide that

15:44

is. Yeah, is two years resolution a thing across

15:46

the pond? No, we call them

15:48

Lou years resolutions. And

15:51

they're all about piss. I

15:54

won't, I won't we myself this year.

15:56

No, I don't. I never bother. I make

15:58

one of us. No, I

16:01

never bought that. I

16:06

ain't pissed in this year. There's some guy over

16:08

there. Not a single piss from me this year.

16:11

I know my accent's horrible, but I was trying. No.

16:18

So you're just kind of like, I'm just going to keep

16:20

things going. I'm not really going to make any sort of

16:22

like this big line of demarcation. This new year, it is

16:24

a new me. I'm going to try some different things. Yeah.

16:28

I feel like all the time I'm saying, oh,

16:30

I'm going to stop eating Del Taco. I'm

16:33

like, I'm going to stop doing stuff that

16:35

sucks and is bad. And then I never stop.

16:37

So what is different about January 1st? You

16:40

know, it makes sense. And I just know I'll get sad when

16:42

I like immediately fail.

16:44

That's the

16:46

pit of despair you fall into with the

16:48

New Year's resolution, is that you're like, you

16:51

set yourself up for disappointing yourself. And it's

16:53

like, I think it can be a little

16:55

bit of self-sabotage, because also there's a tendency

16:57

to hold yourself to an unrealistic standard.

16:59

Yeah. And there's no fucking way

17:01

I can maintain this for an entire year or whatever stretch

17:03

of time I commit to. Right. And

17:05

it's just like, I'm going to turn 34 this year. I

17:07

must have learned at this point. If it's

17:09

never worked before, it's not going to work this time.

17:12

Right. Yeah. I

17:14

mean, I don't do

17:16

it anymore. Right. I don't know

17:18

if I ever really tried to do it ever. Did you ever,

17:20

were you ever a resolution man? I've done it before. I mean,

17:22

like I've said on the podcast, like I'm going to lose weight

17:24

this year, but you know, whatever. It's hard.

17:28

It's hard to do. Yeah. Like

17:31

I always say, like I'm going to change things this year.

17:33

It's like more of my mindset, but I feel like going

17:35

into the new year, that's always your mindset. Yeah.

17:38

This is the third thing is around a little bit. I've done it before

17:40

and it just, it never really works out, but I will say that I

17:42

am in the midst of, and it'll be almost over by the end of

17:45

this episode. You want to get up. Jimmy really wants to get up

17:47

on the big chair and a half. Yeah. Alright,

17:49

Mitch has repositioned the pillows. Don't pull that shit

17:51

with me, Jimmy. Creative space. He is being very

17:54

hesitant. Head is clocking back and

17:56

forth, looking back at mommy, looking for

17:58

approval. I

18:02

was like, you've done this a thousand times. Oh,

18:04

there she goes. Yeah. Wow.

18:07

Oh, that's so nice. Wow. I

18:09

told you, these pillows are a menace. We got to get them out

18:11

of here. It's

18:15

ridiculous. Very cute. She

18:17

loves you. Yeah, she really likes

18:19

Mitch. Yeah, we get along pretty well. Yeah.

18:22

That's pretty nice. A little more tentative towards

18:24

Wyger, but that's all right. That's

18:28

the sort of thing of when animals know there's an earthquake in

18:30

the main. It's kind of

18:32

a similar thing with you. She kind of

18:34

barks at me like I'm with a T800. You

18:40

mentioned your cat. Can we get some cat updates? Yeah, she's

18:42

doing great. Oh, T800. Oh, my God.

18:45

Oh, my God. I think he's doing well.

18:47

Are you okay after that? I'm doing great. You're

18:49

okay? I loved it. Yeah. I'm

18:52

doing great. Oh, my God. I

18:54

think he's doing well. Are you okay after that? I'm

18:56

doing great. You're okay? Yeah,

18:59

she's doing great. She's

19:01

going to be 10 this year. Wow.

19:04

That's a big milestone. Yeah, it's a big birthday.

19:07

Well, you know, I'm returning eight in a

19:09

few months. Yeah. Eight years

19:11

old. I mean, she's not really showing any

19:13

signs of age. She's like a little more reluctant to jump

19:15

on her shelves with cat shelves for her, which

19:18

she did love. And now I don't know if

19:20

she's doing that thing where she just

19:22

forgets that something exists. And like even if you

19:24

put her on it, she treats it like it's

19:26

a black hole and she can't touch it.

19:29

So I don't know if it's that or it's that her little joints are getting a little

19:32

old. Oh, sure. So what happened? Well,

19:34

she's doing great. The plus side with

19:36

cats is that they have

19:38

nice long life. Yeah, true. That's

19:40

the plus with cats. Nine of them. And

19:42

we should mention that it is tuxedo junction

19:44

in this neck of the woods. You all

19:46

got tuxedo cats. Yeah. Very

19:49

similar little kitties. I'm only going to return an eight. I

19:52

can't believe it. Wow. That's wild because

19:54

I remember when you got that. I know. It

19:56

wasn't even like the show hadn't just started. No, we

19:58

Had done Doughboys for a while. While yeah and

20:00

you Got there was like it. There's

20:03

like an archery as on the add

20:05

that.the episodes organ hear about you adopting

20:07

while in arm while thinking about what

20:09

you gonna do for it that ten

20:11

year anniversary or guy not man ten

20:13

years close up shop. Is

20:16

that close? What year are we are Now

20:19

you're nine and the next year I Syria?

20:21

no way. And fifteen to twenty five. Jesus

20:23

Christ. I know areas are New Years of

20:25

my turn around, but. Life's

20:28

work bad, bad world.

20:33

Ten. Years or down by the and will

20:35

be unhappy. Bad. Oh

20:37

what of Florida exactly? Outlets

20:40

that let's let's talk a little bit about

20:42

it a little more but degree because a

20:44

you know a lizard ten years overseas some

20:46

people have. Yeah, we've. Had

20:48

some listeners about whether the whole way god

20:50

bless the listen through it twice can be was

20:52

an entire back catalogue. Yeah, multiple times. Unhinged,

20:56

His P: there's wizards you been with us of

20:58

whole way. I. Think so, man.

21:01

He. Said oh yeah it and among them

21:03

Casey. What the hell. Out

21:05

of my friends on what is. A

21:09

Ah ah ah ah ah

21:11

I boobs were Rob Lowe

21:13

Rosenthal. Other, but

21:15

I'm let's let I'd I want to ask

21:17

all the more about it because you have

21:20

you have a did you know. I.

21:22

Remember encountering your post in the wild back

21:24

before I knew you personally of ah your

21:26

your cat looking at a pizza and it

21:29

says that will keep the water or which

21:31

is a mean that if illegal had some

21:33

a it's own legacy but I'm sure it's

21:35

like what foods and own pickler what people

21:37

foods does dig be Glom onto how. Am

21:39

I mean she likes meats and like

21:41

very specifically I feel like if i

21:43

get food from designed to or sidewalk

21:45

grill oh yeah thing about that she

21:48

goes crazy for and i will sometimes

21:50

feel how little course in my back

21:52

Wow rates through the the dining room

21:54

table and just in a i'm into

21:56

the chairs and be like. You.

21:58

know she really thought the ones that So those

22:00

spread as well. Did I suggest sidewalk growth or is

22:03

that something you found on your own? I probably heard

22:05

about, I probably heard you say on the podcast. Okay,

22:07

sidewalk growth is good. And then strangely went myself and

22:09

it's really fucking good. Yeah, two great

22:12

Mediterranean options in LA. Alright,

22:16

let's, sidewalk growth seems so much more healthy than

22:18

Zanku even though I'm not sure

22:20

how, probably. It's because you can

22:23

order vegetables there. Yeah. I

22:25

think you can say, can you put some

22:27

vegetables in mine please? And they will, which is

22:30

really helpful. You don't actually have to eat them,

22:32

but you just kind of have to tell yourself,

22:34

like, yeah, I got them and then they weren't

22:36

as good as the meat. So I ate the

22:38

meat instead. Zanku has, yeah, it's a zero. I mean,

22:40

I guess you can get to, if you want, you

22:42

can get to Bui or something, right? In

22:45

my head, vegetables is separate from

22:48

like a lettuce and tomato salad or something.

22:50

Sure, yeah. No, you're right. That's

22:52

not really vegetable. Right, right, right. Yeah,

22:55

it's more for texture. Let's talk a little bit. Let's

22:57

talk a little bit because you were just in the

22:59

mountains. Is that correct? Yes, I came back this morning.

23:01

You came back this morning from the mountains. What was

23:03

your mountaineering experience? Well, I

23:06

went to an Airbnb to try and write. It's

23:08

very pretentious. Okay. You know, like, oh, if I'm

23:10

in the mountains, somehow ideas

23:12

will come and let me tell you, no they don't.

23:14

It doesn't matter if you're in the mountains. It doesn't

23:17

work. But yeah, no,

23:19

it's gorgeous. I'm very mountain-pilled. You

23:21

tried to shining yourself. Yes. You

23:25

can't shine in yourself. Well,

23:27

I'm just saying, but that's the whole thing behind

23:29

the motivation. Yes. Is that he's

23:31

secluding himself. You're actually over the world. Speaking of which,

23:34

you can actually go up to the mountains for like

23:36

a Doughboy's retreat. I think that would be... I'm like,

23:38

designing your ass real quick. I

23:40

think that would be more like the Simpsons episode, Mountain of

23:42

Madness. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. I

23:44

think he goes, writing my corpse down to safety.

23:47

I'm pretty mad if he's done that. Yeah,

23:51

so maybe not the most productive trip, but did you have a good

23:54

time? I love it up there. This is an Airbnb that I've been

23:56

to a couple of times that I really like, and it's

23:58

just far enough away from... stuff that

24:00

I'm not tempted to go, you know,

24:02

elsewhere. Right. But yeah,

24:04

no, it's really nice. And I'm

24:06

very enamored of how tall the

24:08

mountains are here. You've got some

24:11

really big mountains in America. We do. We're

24:13

very proud of it. Yeah, yeah. It's

24:15

pretty cool. No big deal. You

24:17

know, whatever. It's a bunch of them. Yeah, yeah. Kind

24:20

of a deal. Science doesn't matter that much. McKinley's

24:22

pretty tall, I guess. But,

24:25

you know, in Britain, like, the tallest mountain

24:27

I think is, I don't know, it's like 3,000

24:29

feet or something, which is pathetic. Right. I

24:32

mean, that's nothing. There was like an

24:34

art installation where someone in the UK chopped

24:36

off the peak of a mountain and took

24:38

it to a museum. And it was like,

24:40

this is the very top of the mountain. The mountain is

24:42

now like three inches shorter. And like, that was his whole,

24:44

like, I don't know what he was saying with it. Was

24:46

this snow, basically? No, it was like rock. It

24:49

was like a little nub of the mountain. Oh, really? Yeah,

24:51

it cut off the highest point. He cut the nub off? Okay.

24:54

He cut the nub off the nub off. He cut the nub off. He

24:56

cut the nub off? He nubbed it. Yeah,

24:59

he just, no, it's like a small little thing, but

25:01

it was some controversy because everyone was bad. Because it's

25:03

really weird and bad to do. Yeah, you can get

25:05

around to circumcising about the mountain. You're a mountain. Fucking

25:07

weird. Yeah, the movie

25:09

I remember, I don't know if you've ever seen it, but

25:12

like the man who went up a hill or the man

25:14

who went up a mountain and came down a hill or

25:16

vice versa, the man who went up a hill and

25:18

came down a mountain, and it was about like a

25:20

guy who measured a hill in the UK. And then

25:22

it turned out it was just at the threshold of

25:24

being a mountain and he like became some hero. Or

25:26

it's the opposite of that and everyone got mad at

25:28

him because he said this mountain that was their claim

25:30

to fame was actually technically a hill. Is it documentary?

25:33

No, it's like a movie. It's like some

25:35

weird twee British like dramedy. It seems like it

25:38

almost doesn't matter which way around it was because

25:40

you remember him anyway. Yeah,

25:42

it's true. Why is it? Are you

25:44

a mountain guy? I

25:47

spend some time in the mountains, but I don't really like the high

25:49

altitude. It makes me think he was pop. Yeah, that is tough. I

25:51

did. And it complicates cooking.

25:53

Yeah, that's true. I've never tried to bake it out. Yeah,

25:55

you can't get delivery, I guess you're right. What do you mean? Making

26:00

it's different if you do it at altitude. Guy

26:03

number three of durations. Yeah, exactly

26:05

as as the egg science. Is different.

26:07

I'm willing Waters Different. Yeah.

26:10

Yeah no it's it's strange banana altitude thing

26:12

is crazy I when you ask me to

26:14

come on the so I was hiking. Store

26:17

be peaked in them in the sand Gabriel's

26:19

and now that one is like six thousand

26:22

feet or something and I was really fucking

26:24

feeling it like that either. And that's not

26:26

even like all the is ten thousand or

26:28

something row and I was like. I

26:31

was like not exactly dizzy, but I was

26:33

like oh my brain feals. flint brain's not

26:35

working as a good syrup and I did

26:37

it. but it was not. Maybe I should.

26:40

Have. Sent around at some point, but. I didn't

26:42

die, so I guess not. Go

26:45

in modern deck throughout so

26:47

at altitude concerts can. Can

26:50

mess up your brain on nothing.

26:52

Look into. it was just

26:54

my at the height of my house is the

26:56

cause of artillery man. And

26:59

his girlfriend is a a pacifist thing.

27:02

Or let's start Mexican food a little bit.

27:05

I imagine the Mexican food in the Uk

27:07

is is nothing particularly notable. Know a site

27:09

of the the town I grew up in a thing.

27:11

Got a Mexican restaurant? I'm Blake on their

27:14

five years ago some out at before. Move

27:16

on? Yeah. Are we

27:18

gonna talk about Hungry Jacks? Yet we

27:20

absolutely are going to die by. A we

27:22

could talk about an average Axes was make

27:24

sure yeah off Israeli. No wonder you visited

27:26

the Australian version of Burger King. Why are

27:28

you Jax? Which I am erroneous. Li said

27:30

on the podcast is because of some sort

27:32

of. You. Know like it, it's. To

27:35

not disgrace the the royal family or whatever for

27:37

yeah I'm and people like no you idiot as

27:39

soon as someone else yeah I did. Someone else

27:41

says that it would a little like I was

27:43

saying. He added there's another Burger King that are

27:45

just in Australia so they can get. Were able

27:47

to think that. analysis like ours is

27:49

a part of like the you know the or

27:51

the the british empire and like it they still

27:53

like kind of the he didn't even have a

27:56

king than we had a queen so who would

27:58

have been confusing was yeah but are No, sorry.

28:01

Accidentally swearing allegiance to the Burger King. I

28:03

heard President Andrew changed things. He

28:06

was really pissed off. How's he

28:08

doing? He's doing okay. He's

28:12

fine. I saw him last week. So

28:15

you went to Hungry Jackson, Australia.

28:18

Yeah, it was fucking great. It

28:20

was great. Wow. Was it better than

28:22

US Burger King? Well, that's a really

28:24

interesting question because I have been of

28:27

the opinion that BK is

28:29

very, very expensive. I think it's good. It

28:32

is very location dependent. And

28:34

I think that explains why some people say either

28:36

they haven't had it in 10 years or the

28:39

one that they go to is bad. So

28:41

I understand it's also expensive. I feel like

28:44

Burger King. We

28:46

went like we... That's what in general was just...

28:48

It's gotten crazy. Yeah, yeah. Like,

28:50

like I went with my husband and we got like a normal

28:52

amount of food and it was like, all right, that'll be $34

28:54

or something. And I'm like, okay, what are you fucking talking about?

28:58

Burger King, what are you doing? But yeah,

29:00

I thought it was very good. We

29:03

were in Australia to attend

29:05

our friend's wedding, Tom and

29:07

Demi, and Stefan,

29:09

who, you know, was there as well. And

29:12

he was obviously very adamant that we had

29:15

to go to Hungry Jacks because it's

29:17

a fast food thing. They watch all those

29:19

awful fast food guys. We don't need

29:21

to say their names, but they're out there. And

29:24

so it was like a very important part of the trip that we all

29:26

get to go to Hungry Jacks. And yeah, it

29:28

was really good. I had like a chicken sandwich and it was

29:30

great. You know what they had on the menu that I didn't

29:32

get to try? Was sticky toffee pudding.

29:35

Whoa. Wow. A

29:37

fast food version of that. I know. That's

29:39

intriguing. Yeah, I'm really upset that I didn't get it. Was

29:42

the chicken sandwich at all distinct from the chicken

29:44

sandwich that you know from American

29:46

Burger King? No, but they do call it

29:48

a chicken burger. I like that. Anything

29:51

that's in a burger bun is a burger there.

29:53

Isn't that fucked? That is kind of fucked. I hate

29:55

it. But it's also kind of fucked. Yeah, no,

29:57

I hate it. Is it long? No, it's

29:59

like the It's a normal chicken sandwich, not the

30:01

long chicken sandwich, just a regular chicken sandwich. But

30:04

it's a chicken burger. And I grew up with

30:06

that, you know, nomenclature or whatever, like

30:08

I grew up calling that chicken burger, and now

30:10

that I live here, I'm like, that's disgusting. That

30:13

doesn't make sense. It sounds like a burger with

30:15

a ground chicken patty. That's what it sounds like

30:17

to American ears. Right, which is gnarly. We always

30:19

do gnarly. The long boy,

30:21

if it doesn't have the long boy, you

30:25

gotta have the long boy. I love that long boy. You gotta have

30:27

the long boy. It's fun that it's long. I

30:29

think it's the last one he ate. Yeah,

30:32

that's the problem. What kind of plastic bag again? You

30:34

told me. I think it was like

30:36

a packaging bag. Yeah, that's not horrible.

30:38

Yeah, I mean he was like pulling a plastic

30:41

bag out. It's not ideal. What if it was like a CVS bag?

30:43

That would be worse. That would be worse. If it's

30:46

a bag from like, not from food service. What's the

30:48

worst bag to find in your burger? Good

30:50

part of a garbage bag, part of a

30:52

diaper bag. Yeah, if it's a diaper

30:54

bag on it, I think I would. What

30:57

do you say, what bag? It's a blue plastic

30:59

bag. Oh man, dog food bag would be bad.

31:01

Yeah, that's the one. Yeah.

31:06

I told you this, but on Christmas Eve, I always

31:08

get a whopper. Oh, that's such

31:11

a nice tradition. Yeah, just by myself after

31:13

shopping. I usually go and get myself a whopper.

31:15

Oh, I love that. The food

31:17

treat that you get when you're doing stressful Christmas

31:19

shopping, that is very clutch. It's

31:21

Christmas Eve always, I get it. I don't tell

31:23

my mom. She

31:26

would get mad at me for doing it. Surely she's gonna

31:28

hear this. She's

31:30

gonna hear it. And this is the podcast.

31:33

Though she does creep my Instagram, I found out,

31:35

but she does look at my Instagram sometimes. Does

31:38

she comment on it to you, or do you

31:40

notice her liking it or commenting on your Instagram?

31:42

No, she comments on it to me. So I'm

31:44

like, oh, she has some sort of lurker account

31:46

or something. That's

31:48

okay. I think

31:51

it's okay for mom to look, yeah. I

31:53

mean, yeah, it's fine if she looks at it. It's

31:55

nothing, nothing. Does she judge what you're doing on Instagram?

31:57

I mean, probably, yes. I just don't

31:59

like her. On there cuz I haven't been on Instagram

32:01

for a while. What are you posting on there? Sounds

32:07

good body positive. Yeah,

32:09

she's critical I'm

32:13

gonna look at my stuff. I don't you're snooping around

32:15

I know I know the feeling my mom was sometimes

32:17

like send me tweets of mine. I'm like no that's

32:19

that's not Like you know,

32:21

but it's not you know, I mean, you know

32:23

even like having a cool mom It's still just

32:25

like oh, no, I can't say, you know,

32:28

I did something Embarrassing. Yeah. Yeah.

32:30

Yeah. I like it. I don't

32:33

like it once you listen to the podcast I don't

32:35

think she does too often my parents sometimes listen to

32:37

the podcast. They certainly do they text you and I

32:39

about it Sure. Yeah, what's up? Mr. Mrs. Weiger? How

32:41

you doing? You have a group chat We

32:43

we do kind of a semi-informal group chat.

32:46

I mean I have it with his parents

32:48

without him I don't know what

32:50

to get. There's so many options. What am

32:52

I supposed to

32:55

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36:38

the chain we're reviewing this week. We're reviewing it

36:40

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36:43

reviewed it in 2019 with

36:46

Chef Kevin and Yousong. Remember when they launched their pod?

36:50

That was the last time we visited Del Taco, it feels so

36:52

long ago. At that

36:54

particular review it was kicked out of the Golden

36:56

Plate Club because of Mitch. Mitch gave it 3

36:58

1⁄2 forks. It's on the

37:00

outside looking in. Will it get back today? We're going to find out.

37:03

Del Taco was founded in 1964 in Yermo, California. I

37:06

gave it 3 1⁄2 forks? I

37:08

was probably mad at you. It

37:13

was founded in 1964 in Yermo, California

37:15

as Casa Del Taco. They

37:17

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37:21

It's just Del Taco now, which doesn't make any

37:23

sense as a stand-alone phrase. I like Casa Del

37:25

Taco. I like Casa Del Taco better. I

37:28

was going to ask you if you've been to that

37:30

location. Because it's on the way to Vegas. I've

37:33

been to one of the

37:35

original ones. It's

37:38

got a plaque and it's got better service.

37:41

I think it's in Barstow. I

37:44

don't know if that's the same one as the Yermo original. That

37:46

might be the last free-standing original Del Taco. The

37:50

reason I remember it is that when I was going

37:52

out to Vegas to write

37:54

about TwitchCon, I had it saved on the map. I

37:57

was like, is there anything I can do

37:59

between LA and Yermo? in Vegas turns out the

38:01

answer is not really. But I'd saved

38:03

it on my map and then later Lou

38:05

and I were in the cart, my husband and I were in the

38:07

car and like I was I don't know typing in something and it

38:10

you know how when you save locations on Google Maps

38:12

it kind of serves you those first so I was

38:14

like typing in something on Google Maps and it said

38:16

the original Del Taco saved and he was like why

38:19

do you have the original Del Taco saved in

38:21

your Google Map? But yeah I didn't I didn't get

38:23

to stop so maybe I'll make the trip out. No

38:25

we've been to that one. There are a couple big

38:27

restaurants on the road too isn't there like a big

38:29

Greek place? Yeah yeah yeah. There's the Mad Greek, Mad

38:31

Greek is great. That's good. A lot of fun. Yeah.

38:33

Yeah. And then there's also. Physics Road. What's that? Physics

38:36

Road. Physics Road, yeah that's the landmark. That was something

38:38

I was gonna do but I decided just to. Is

38:40

it a ghost town? Well

38:43

yes there so there is a ghost town I think Calico

38:45

Ghost Town is on the way out there but that one

38:47

I understand is kind of like a touristy ghost town. Yeah

38:49

I've been to that one with the Boy Scouts. Yeah

38:52

see if you go in the Boy Scouts it's not a

38:54

real ghost town. We went we went to Calico Ghost Town

38:56

with the Boy Scouts. The thing I remember because it's like

38:58

very touristy and there's an ice cream parlor thing and

39:01

it was the first time I ever like

39:03

as a boy saw a like man pick

39:05

up on a woman and like

39:07

the woman was scooping ice cream and

39:10

the man was like uh was like uh can I get

39:12

can I get some of these flavors and she's like yeah

39:14

sure what do you want? She's like he goes I like

39:16

taste your flavors. What

39:20

a star. Yeah. I was like that's really it made

39:22

me uncomfortable at the time and then looking back I

39:25

said that was a vile thing to say to a

39:27

stranger. The more you unpack it the worse

39:29

it is. Yeah yeah. Sorry to

39:31

be so blue but it's sort of like he's saying I

39:33

want to taste the various flavors of your pussy you know.

39:35

It's like I want to I want to pick out the

39:37

tasting notes of your pussy. She's right. Yeah all

39:39

right. I was like oh black pepper you know.

39:48

What a weirdo. Yeah uh

39:50

anyway we it is very

39:52

touristy it's not particularly scarier ghosty are they

39:54

married now? Yeah they are yeah. What

39:57

a happy ending. And

40:00

then we went so like by the

40:03

other the other tourist designation tourist destination

40:05

I get there is the world's tallest

40:07

thermometer, which is in what

40:09

it was that town Baker, California Yeah, yeah,

40:12

but but now Lee and actually you can pull

40:14

that off with like a four-foot thermometer. It's not that

40:16

impressive It's like four stories tall. It kind of looks

40:18

like shit and it also is like LED Like

40:21

well, this doesn't even count. It's got like fill up

40:23

with mercury to be like a thermometer Yeah

40:28

So yeah But but the mad Greek is good and that

40:30

actually when Natalie and I got married we eloped in Vegas

40:32

And then we hit up the mad Greek on the way

40:34

home, which was not I wish I'd stop there But

40:36

like in my head I was like, oh, I'll just get

40:38

to Vegas and I'll eat that terrible decision And also by

40:41

the time I got there I needed to piss so badly

40:43

I have never needed to piss that much in

40:45

my life and I was like it was and

40:48

you get made the New Year's resolution Yeah No,

40:54

and it's like I had to go to twitchcon

40:56

to pick up my badge It was a fucking

40:58

nightmare that Vegas Convention Center is awful. It was

41:00

just traffic everywhere And just

41:02

like twitch people crawling all

41:04

over the place and then I you know, I decided I

41:06

can't park I'm gonna have to go to my hotel and

41:08

I was like sitting in the car doing this and I

41:11

was saying Couple of

41:13

times sorry. I was saying out loud to myself

41:15

in the car like a completely alone. I'm not

41:17

gonna piss myself I'm not gonna be I'm not

41:19

gonna You know what? It worked. I

41:22

didn't piss myself Wow. Good for you.

41:24

Yeah, I those scenarios are always

41:26

very tough the word it's always

41:28

the other one for me not piss, but

41:31

I'm I

41:40

do get I come perilously

41:42

close to both it depends on

41:44

the scenario. I'm very hydrated No

41:47

pissing and shitting. Oh, I Get

41:50

very I'm like very hydrated and that puts myself

41:52

in situations where like oh, man I should not

41:54

have drink I had that whole bottle of water

41:56

Yeah, and it's an hour later and I

41:58

still haven't found a toilet But

42:00

but yeah, the the weather one is worse. They're

42:02

both bad Do you do you have you sometimes

42:04

have like I gotta go to the bathroom now,

42:06

right? Yeah Okay,

42:09

yeah, I think that's human the last

42:11

time we went to Vegas a lot I think this

42:13

is this is the last time I went in Just

42:17

in general it was no, I think I maybe won a time

42:19

or two, but it was with you. Okay. We

42:21

were in a big van That's right. You

42:24

got cars. I got very motion sick in the

42:26

party van. Yeah, and then it broke down in

42:28

the desert That's right. And we're gone and were

42:30

you who which card because some cops took some

42:32

of us Yeah, I don't remember which cops picked

42:34

us up on the road. It was a whole

42:36

little experience was a nightmare And I was driving

42:38

like 120 miles for yeah Yeah,

42:42

right. What is it the 15 or whatever people

42:45

drive crazy? Yes Yeah, and then you flew back

42:47

early I believe I did it cuz I was

42:49

like I could I is like I can't take

42:51

the party Bus back this is for

42:53

a bachelor party weekend And I was like I can't take

42:56

it's the only time I've ever done anything like that I

42:58

was like I can't take this party bus back. I'm gonna

43:00

puke. I'm gonna puke my fucking guts out I get so

43:02

dizzy on the highway. Yeah, is

43:04

that during Doughboys? It maybe was who know? No,

43:06

this was happened during Doughboys cuz we went to

43:08

Jimmy Buffett's Margarita. Oh my god. We did we

43:10

did a side mission there And then we also

43:12

met so we've told all we've told us Every

43:18

story we've told has been told previously Distracted

43:25

by Jimmy Stories

43:30

The well in the pound So

43:34

the Yeah,

43:37

we did we went to Margaritaville That was that was the

43:39

other thing we did there and then we also met a

43:41

Pee Wee Herman and we met a Mario Because

43:44

they just have to perform is there like Hollywood Boulevard.

43:46

Those guys are great. Yeah, what is your opinion on

43:48

Vegas? It's what

43:50

kind of awful. It's kind of yeah, it's

43:53

kind of awful, but I do have fun I mean,

43:55

I like all the food. I don't

43:58

really care all that much for gambling but

44:00

it is kind of fun to just sort of

44:02

like sit at a table or sit at a

44:04

machine especially if you get like a partner who's

44:07

into it and just like gamble like no no

44:09

you're losing money and just sort of spend money

44:11

that way it's kind of fun but

44:13

yeah I don't know I overall like Vegas it's it

44:15

should not exist like it's awful it's

44:18

an awful place I do like it was you can

44:20

still smoke inside I know I like things like that

44:22

heart a little bit like you can be in a

44:24

pig and shit a little bit and I like that

44:26

it's also like it feels a little bit like it's

44:29

it's even and it's

44:31

hard to say but it's like everyone's kind

44:33

of in the same sort of pool it feels like

44:35

you're like home with a lot of people exactly coming

44:37

with a lot of people you wouldn't otherwise I like

44:39

that aspect of it I like the pools I'm a

44:41

big I probably like it less than you I'm sure

44:44

you don't like Vegas thing cuz I would have thought

44:46

it cuz you're kind of a party guy I'm a party guy

44:48

it's true but also at

44:50

the same time I am NOT a party guy I

44:52

mean that's it's the two sides of me I like

44:54

to party but then my crowd I don't

44:56

like you know I don't like a big crowd very

44:58

hot it's very hot like the heat I don't like

45:00

a pool party yeah I kind of party guy big

45:02

pool guys never you don't like a pool party I

45:05

don't like a pool party but you don't have to

45:07

go to a pool party like they're chill pools yeah

45:09

and it's like filled with piss they're just drinking and

45:11

pissing in the pool they're filled with this

45:15

yeah okay

45:19

so right now I going under the water canning

45:21

balling into the fucking just people have

45:23

you ever have you ever been to one of those parties

45:25

before I know I wouldn't go our

45:27

buddy everybody Mike Carlson from podcast the ride

45:30

loves the Vegas pool party it's insane loves

45:32

the douchey pool party sounds like hell to

45:34

me true true hell it really does it

45:36

sounds miserable but you know he's an advocate

45:38

for it yeah Carson's tall maybe that's how

45:40

it gets away with it I feel like

45:43

like I feel like you would get like

45:45

bully you're tall I know but

45:47

I'm big too I don't like I don't

45:50

like having my shirt off in the pool party yeah this

45:52

goes back ever since I've been alive right

45:54

that's also that I mean I feel the

45:56

same sort of discomfort but it will also

45:58

say in Vegas it's like Absolutely

46:01

every body type is just like people

46:03

is represented something to worry about. Okay,

46:05

so we were in we went to Del Taco We're

46:08

going for the third time. I should

46:10

shout out dick Noggles who splintered off of

46:12

Del Taco to open Noggles in 1970

46:15

and then Noggles was Reincorporated back

46:18

in the Del Taco There's

46:23

no one with the username dick Noggles feel free

46:25

to claim it cuz that's a good one there

46:28

for the taking Yeah, no dick Noggles was like

46:30

was one of the partners in the original Del

46:32

Taco franchise I think it now before someone gets

46:34

it Yeah,

46:40

and then and then he but he named the

46:42

chain after himself just as Glenn Bell named Taco

46:44

Bell after himself named it Noggles And the Noggles

46:46

was basically just doing Del Tacos thing But

46:49

now all former Noggles are now Del

46:51

Tacos. So part of the reason we're

46:53

going to this to Del Taco We're doing this revisit.

46:55

It's great right now. They're doing a birria promotion and

46:58

it's one of those things I would say where fast

47:01

food restaurants always a little bit behind food

47:03

trends But this is not as much of

47:05

a gulf as it generally is like they're

47:07

also like chains that have like Are

47:10

just now coming out with Sriracha or like

47:12

Nashville hot? It's like this is this this

47:14

shit was so five years ago to ten

47:16

years ago And you're just now introducing your

47:18

menu items and I used to know Noggles

47:21

No, it's NAU Oh,

47:24

yeah, that sucks. I thought it was gonna

47:26

be an OGG LES. No, it's not like

47:28

goggles with an end That's what I was

47:31

thinking. Well, guess what? Mine's Nick. Mine's wait.

47:33

It's dick. Noggles, right? Dick. Noggles I'm

47:36

gonna be dick. Noggles. Why is it breaking

47:38

my brain? Dick.

47:40

Noggles. I'm gonna be dawg. I'm

47:42

gonna be dick. Noggles. Dick. Noggles. Go that way dick.

47:45

Noggles. You gotta spell it right It's just

47:47

gonna be confusing. I'm gonna be dick. Noggles.

47:49

NOGG LES. It's fun I see with my

47:52

accent I would pronounce those two things slightly

47:54

differently because not like the way I

47:56

thought it was Yeah, Noggles, but then the way you say

47:58

it would be like Noggles to me Oh

48:01

Norgals look like dick Norgals.

48:04

That's a different guy Dick

48:06

Norgals dick Norgals could I

48:09

feel I could have some success dick Noggles. I feel

48:11

like Norgals could be a senator dick

48:13

Noggles Has to have

48:16

a fast food restaurant Resigns in

48:18

disgrace. Yeah Okay,

48:22

so we're going to an election year this year, huh, that's

48:24

true Mitch let's talk about that Are

48:28

This this will be the third.

48:30

I can't wait for you to declare Biden

48:32

winning the presidency Can

48:38

happen again, I'm looking forward to which

48:40

state you invent when you're Presidential

48:49

yeah, cuz we were around in 2016 2020

48:52

this will be 24. Yeah, that's crazy. There's

48:54

no light for the first time

48:56

on my vote Democrat this year This

49:02

would be my first year voting Wow Congrats,

49:05

how exciting did you vote in the any prime are

49:07

we voted any primaries yet? No, no because I

49:10

only became a citizen last year Oh, wow. Yeah, this

49:12

would be first one your first vote. You gotta

49:14

vote for the big man I Think

49:18

I'll write in something fun. Maybe I'll write in dick Noggles.

49:20

There you go Those

49:24

wins it this the guy from our discord wins

49:29

That is like a dough of fucking

49:31

slouch ding dough boys fan would end

49:33

up being president by accident So

49:37

we went to I went twice I went

49:39

once to get the beer e a promotion And

49:42

I and then we also had a

49:44

lunch just before recording and I or

49:46

I did that as an exercise I

49:48

ordered solely from the vegetarian vegan menu.

49:50

So I had to get experiences ordering

49:54

Eating Del Taco. We talked about this while we were

49:56

eating. Yeah people give Taco Bell

49:59

the rumbly's The big

50:01

joke is like, God, the bell is going to make you shit your

50:03

pants or whatever. Right. Del

50:05

Taco does give me the rumblies. I love it. There's

50:07

nothing wrong with it, but I do... It

50:10

does give me the rumblies. Del Taco is always

50:12

a case of the rumblies, for all wags. Yeah.

50:15

I like it, but I know what it's going to do to my body.

50:18

Yeah. And it's just a thing you got to deal

50:20

with when you go there. It's usually for me, it's the next

50:22

day. But I'm like, and

50:24

I don't even get it. Keep it posted. I

50:27

will let it... I'll give everyone an

50:29

update tomorrow. The post from at Dick

50:31

Noggles. But

50:35

it is a thing where I don't

50:37

really even understand it because it seems like the

50:39

food... It feels like more

50:41

fresh ingredients than taco. I love taco bell. I

50:43

mean, it's all kind of... I guess there's lettuce

50:45

at Taco Bell. We talked about this before. No,

50:48

there's lettuce at fucking Del Taco, but it is...

50:51

I don't know. I don't know if it's

50:53

appreciably fresher than Taco Bell. I mean, they

50:55

talk a lot about like, hey, we slow

50:57

cook the beans and we hand shred our

51:00

cheese in-house. But it's still stuff they're getting

51:02

at, Cisco product that they're getting out of

51:04

a bag or out of a can. I

51:06

think what it is is that the thing

51:08

with Taco Bell is the stuff that they made

51:10

up. Sure. Crunchwrap Supreme

51:12

in my head is formed from a block. It

51:18

is just 3D printed. It's

51:20

not real food. And it's delicious,

51:22

but it's not real food. Whereas with Del Taco, it

51:24

feels more like, oh, this is a fast

51:26

food taco place. Yes. The

51:29

fast food versions of real things. Whereas Taco

51:32

Bell, it's like, you're going to get the fucking

51:34

cheesy nacho crunch, chalupa Supreme or whatever it

51:36

is. It's like a made up thing. This

51:38

is like a new food. And yeah, there

51:41

isn't really the same phenomenon at Del

51:43

Taco, which yes, it has more conventional items

51:46

and also has burgers and fries, which we'll

51:48

talk about and shakes. So

51:50

the beer promotion, they

51:53

have beer tacos. They have

51:55

a which are corn tortillas with beef

51:58

beer, topped with diced onions.

52:00

and chopped cilantro and served with lime

52:02

wedges and a side of consomme. They

52:04

also have a beef birria quesadilla which

52:06

comes with the consomme dip and that

52:09

one also has green sauce in addition to

52:11

the cheese and the beef birria inside a

52:13

flour tortilla and they also have a beef

52:16

birria ramen which is just like

52:18

kind of a broth it is just the consomme

52:20

broth with some beef inside of

52:22

it and the and ramen noodles like instant

52:24

ramen noodles they drop in and let's sit

52:26

for five minutes. What

52:28

do we I mean first off I'm

52:30

a big birria fan like I love like an

52:32

authentic version of it that you'll get from like

52:34

a truck or like you know a place where

52:36

it's like a house specialty like I love it

52:38

I love it with goat but I will take

52:40

it with beef I think it's

52:43

delightful I've mentioned birria area as

52:45

Zaragoza which is where where Natalie

52:47

took me in Chicago a few

52:49

times a fantastic birria you

52:51

know some of it some of my favorite meals we

52:53

were right near there we're right here one of their

52:55

new locations when we did our last show in Chicago

52:58

so so I like I go the food I love

53:00

this one of those nightmare

53:02

scenario well we didn't have time to go they have time

53:04

to go yeah we got like salads to go from a

53:06

bar oh god yeah and then

53:08

we got went to a bar and got

53:10

shitfaced and drank my lord yeah ooh horrible

53:13

no you didn't do it right did you know can't

53:16

do it right when you go I don't

53:19

know bad it's just as bad a work

53:21

trip actually bad that is that's what happens

53:23

to me in Vegas like I couldn't do any of the

53:25

Vegas shit because I was led a fucking writing article and

53:27

you know also twitch-con was

53:29

happening and so it was like it was a

53:32

fucking nightmare I didn't get everyone's like oh you'll

53:34

love the food in Vegas and I ended up

53:36

eating at halal guys my

53:39

lunch was from 7-eleven where else that

53:41

even eat I

53:43

can't even remember oh TGI Fridays in the

53:45

hotel Wow yeah it's a bit of a

53:47

monkey's paw for me because there's a boy if you're

53:49

like you're gonna tour are you gonna do comedy tours but

53:52

like your comedy partner has like

53:55

a bedtime curfew of 830 that's

53:57

kind of what it's like for

53:59

me You've usually

54:01

got someone else you can hang out with. Yeah,

54:03

that's true. You got a buddy? Yeah, yeah.

54:06

A guest we're traveling with, Emma's with us usually. I

54:08

like to stay out late. It's

54:10

true. Emma and I have, we shut down

54:12

the Tam in Boston. Wow.

54:15

Which is, you should never do. We also shut

54:17

down some bar in Atlanta doing pickleback shots, but

54:19

I don't remember who was there, what the bar

54:22

was. Wire probably left because

54:24

his shirt had caught on fire, I believe. That

54:26

was the night Wire got caught on fire. Another

54:28

story we've told on the podcast, my shirt sleeve

54:30

got on fire from a candle in a bar,

54:32

and I didn't realize it for several seconds. And

54:34

then you went home? Yeah, I went home.

54:37

I mean, I hung out for a little. You told your

54:39

mom to pick you up. We were with Deb and Alex

54:41

Fernie, right? That's

54:43

right. Yeah, and I realized my

54:45

shirt was on fire because Alex

54:47

Fernie just points and goes, hahaha.

54:49

And it was just smoke was

54:51

just rising up from my tricep. Oh, that's

54:54

so funny. All right, so here is

54:56

a berry as a dish I love. Any berry thoughts? Have

54:59

you had much berry, Olivia? Yes, I have. And in

55:01

general, I love any kind of shredded meat based

55:04

dish is really, really good. Yeah.

55:07

It's funny for me with with beer because my experience

55:10

was I had goat beer tacos at Cactus was

55:14

the first time I had them. I believe they were goat. I'm

55:16

not sure if they were or not. I think they were. This

55:18

is also a decade ago plus maybe. My

55:22

thought is is that, you know,

55:25

like we see capitalism,

55:28

you know, get its claws

55:30

in and, you know, any

55:34

sort of food is on the table. You know what I mean?

55:36

Like they're going to make a fast food version of every food.

55:38

One hundred percent. It feels like a weird thing where I'm like,

55:40

this doesn't feel like they should do this. I know exactly what

55:42

you mean. I don't know why it feels that way, but it's

55:44

one of the things that I'm like, I don't

55:46

know if this should be fast. The

55:49

fast food version of this should exist.

55:51

It is that thing of like white

55:53

America, corporate America taking something that has,

55:56

you know, like been eaten by,

55:58

you know, Mexican people for a long time. long

56:00

time saying, hey, we can make, we can make this, we can

56:02

do this, we can make it, you know, Del Marvo. Of

56:04

course. I love white corporate

56:06

America. They've come up with some of my

56:08

favorite things, these wild ideas. Gushers,

56:13

that's white corporate America.

56:15

Well, actually, they've been eating gushes

56:17

in Mexico for centuries. I

56:22

would believe it. I would believe it if it was true. I

56:26

do feel like this feels like a thing that

56:28

feels... I don't know why it feels... Yeah, I

56:30

know what you mean. Yeah. It

56:32

does feel, it just feels off for whatever reason. Well, it's that

56:34

sense of like, oh, we just discovered this. Like, hey,

56:36

did you guys just know about Berea? Yeah, yeah. But

56:39

it's capitalizing on also like American food

56:41

culture is like kind of like, that's

56:43

a new thing. That's like, oh, check

56:45

out this spot. And

56:47

because it's into the consciousness that way, that's why

56:50

they were like wanting to even mainstreamify it. I

56:52

mean, it's always gonna, that's always gonna happen with

56:54

food or whatever with any sort of thing. It

56:57

is, I guess it's maybe weird to me because

56:59

it's like there's so many like Berea places or

57:02

you can like in LA. You know what I

57:04

mean? There's like street tacos too. But the street,

57:06

that's another thing too is like when

57:09

Del Taco tries to do street tacos, I'm like,

57:11

I don't want your fucking street tacos. Give

57:14

me the Del Taco. That's what I want. And

57:17

that's the issue with these, is that

57:19

these Berea street tacos, the issue is

57:21

the corn tortillas are so bad. Like

57:24

these are like, these are these gummy preservative

57:26

laid in like out of a plastic bag

57:28

tortillas that have been sitting in a walk-in

57:30

fridge and they just have, they

57:32

just have a horrible texture to them. When

57:34

I was eating these, I just like ended up taking the meat out

57:37

of the tortillas. They weren't even like fun

57:39

to eat as tacos. I

57:41

also think the meat itself is

57:43

just like needs some more seasoning. Like

57:45

it's oddly plain. The conchimate goes a long

57:47

way, but it's just like not what I

57:49

would expect for something that to me is

57:52

always like a very richly seasoned dish. The

57:54

conchimate is decent, but it is a funny

57:56

thing with the conchimate where I'm like, this

57:59

is just proving. how little this

58:01

should be at Del Taco. It's like this

58:03

packaging with the side of Consommee. I'm like,

58:06

this sucks for people making it inside. This

58:08

isn't what you do. It

58:10

feels weird. And I'm not saying that there

58:12

should... I can't gate keep fucking Birria. You

58:15

know what I mean? Like, sure, it can

58:17

be in fast food. I don't care. But

58:20

there is that weird... There is also that

58:22

just that weird feeling. Well, no, it feels

58:25

different eating it here. Yeah, exactly. Like, you're

58:27

in LA and you have all these options

58:29

or whatever. Yeah. It doesn't feel right. For

58:31

whatever reason. Well, it's also... I mean, it's

58:33

not just like whatever if we want to

58:36

argue the ethics of it. I think it's

58:38

just more like an execution thing. Sure. It's

58:41

just like not a dish they can execute with any

58:43

sort of competency at scale at a fast

58:45

food chain. And everything

58:48

ends up feeling very processed, which is how

58:50

it is. The quesadilla I thought was better,

58:52

but because it was loaded up with cheese

58:54

and green sauce. Sure. I mean, that's

58:57

what did a lot of the work there. But I did like dipping

58:59

that quesadilla in the consomme. I thought that was a

59:01

lot of fun. Yeah. I mean, to

59:03

me, it was kind of just all the... I think it's

59:06

that sort of thing of like the

59:08

birria is just fine, like you

59:10

were saying. So I'm like... Yeah, it's fine.

59:12

I'm eating this just fine meat.

59:14

And Del Taco, their ground beef and their chicken

59:16

is decent. So why... I

59:19

wouldn't get the birria over those two ever

59:21

again. Yes. And then they also have the

59:23

birria ramen, which is like their big... Okay.

59:26

...the new set. And I think this is a

59:28

good point. It feels like they're

59:30

leaning into the Jack in the Box lane. Yeah.

59:33

Like it's like... Which is kind of like,

59:35

oh, it's a little bit of a, hey,

59:37

we're this fusion sort of, but also a

59:40

kind of stoner food. Yeah. It's

59:43

like, oh, what if we combine birria and ramen? You know,

59:45

it's like they're kind of appealing to that sort of sector

59:47

of the market place. Yes. I

59:49

have to... He'll get mad at me if I don't say that

59:51

I was Lewis's observation. Good observation, Lewis.

59:53

Well done, babe. Great observation, Lewis. Yeah.

59:58

And I feel like this one... one doesn't

1:00:00

need to exist. I was tasting this and me

1:00:02

and Allie were having some of

1:00:04

this and I

1:00:06

said to me this tastes like spaghetti-os

1:00:09

with ramen noodles. Oh. And

1:00:11

that was kind of the flavor profile I got

1:00:13

for it, got from it. I mean another thing

1:00:15

where like the broth was the best part, I

1:00:17

took the chunks of meat out but I had

1:00:19

felt no need to finish the ramen noodles. Yeah.

1:00:22

I've talked about this I think on here too but

1:00:24

when I was in New Orleans filming Twisted Metal.

1:00:27

That's right. I was like a guacamole

1:00:30

lady and that's like a New Orleans

1:00:32

mixed ramen sort of deal and it

1:00:36

was fantastic if you're ever down in the bayou.

1:00:38

Oh, down in the bayou? Maybe for season

1:00:41

two we'll get you down in the bayou.

1:00:43

Yeah, but it's just a mischief down there

1:00:45

in the bayou. Bayou

1:00:47

month. Because sometimes you go down

1:00:49

to the ramen shop and you

1:00:52

ask yourself, we ask for a

1:00:54

bowl for yourself and who's handing

1:00:56

you that bowl of ramen but

1:00:59

a gator claw. Hey,

1:01:03

he's like, are you running a ramen shop

1:01:05

out here now? She's like, well, we do

1:01:07

things a little different down here in the

1:01:09

bayou. You know

1:01:11

that ramen ain't free, it is. You end up sucking

1:01:13

off the gator. Oh,

1:01:18

your green gator comes. Gators

1:01:23

have green gum. Yeah,

1:01:25

it comes to color your skin. See?

1:01:33

Yeah, but you were down there in the bayou. Oh, yeah. Sorry,

1:01:35

I forgot. My whole

1:01:37

point is. And

1:01:41

I also, it just reminded me that

1:01:43

I thought of a Secret of the Oohs parody song.

1:01:46

What is it? I forgot it now. I'm so mad.

1:01:48

Do you remember what the- You brought up Secret of

1:01:50

the Oohs and that? Did it have Oohs in it?

1:01:52

It had Oohs in it. Hold on, I can maybe

1:01:54

think of it before the end of the episode. I'll

1:01:56

try to think on it. Oohs. Who's

1:02:00

baby do you know what that's worth? That's

1:02:02

pretty good. I mean, that's

1:02:05

just as good. It was one

1:02:07

of those things where I was like, I should write this down.

1:02:09

Yeah. But you know, a lot of

1:02:11

the stuff I write down is, you

1:02:14

know. Dewey Lewis and the Ooz. I

1:02:18

mean, it's not a parody of a song, but that could be like

1:02:20

the band. What was it? Something.

1:02:23

Was it a song from the era? It was. No,

1:02:26

no, I'm gonna figure out what the song was. I'm gonna,

1:02:28

you know, I'll write. Did you mention the turtles? I

1:02:31

mean, I was working turtles. This is a

1:02:33

shower. This is a shower. I was a

1:02:35

shower thought. Uh-huh. Got it. Like you

1:02:37

were actually taking a shower. Yeah, I was taking a

1:02:39

shower. Not standing over the drain. I was just doing what

1:02:41

you do. That's why I thought of the Ooz. Ooz.

1:02:45

Ooz. Ooz. Ooz.

1:02:48

Ooz. Ooz. Ooz.

1:02:51

Ooz. I'll think of it. It's

1:02:53

something. I'll think of it. I'll

1:02:55

think of it. Dick Noggles. Noggles Ooz. Noggles

1:02:58

Ooz. What was the Ooz song? Noggles Ooz.

1:03:01

It was good, whatever it was. But the acoban

1:03:03

later, it just did remind me of

1:03:06

that again too where I'm like, oh, this

1:03:08

feels like more street food that Del Taco

1:03:10

shouldn't be serving. Yeah, 100%. I

1:03:13

mean, did you, with any other thoughts on that? Like

1:03:15

I just felt like it felt completely asynchronous for what

1:03:17

they're doing. Street food is just like a weird thing

1:03:20

for like a fast food place to try to appropriate

1:03:22

in some weird way. Like, why are you trying to-

1:03:24

It's also more expensive than the real thing. Yeah.

1:03:27

It's an issue. Why are you trying- at

1:03:31

Del Taco. But also, why are you trying to

1:03:33

sell street food? Yeah. Street food is

1:03:35

for street vendors and that's how they make their money.

1:03:37

Right. It doesn't make any sense.

1:03:39

Why you, it just doesn't make any sense to

1:03:41

me. I was pretty disappointed with the beerio overall.

1:03:43

Our lunch that we got today, and please,

1:03:46

if you have any other menu items, weigh in as well. I'm

1:03:49

just gonna speed through mine. I got the, so again,

1:03:51

they've abandoned their entire Beyond line. So

1:03:53

it's gotten pretty paltry. Yeah. Yeah.

1:03:58

The better vegetarian menu items. Oh, good, yeah. to

1:04:00

them but those are gone. The Beyond

1:04:02

Meat is all gone. So what they

1:04:04

have now is an eight layer veggie burrito, still

1:04:06

a good item, and the bean and cheese burrito,

1:04:08

which I usually get with green sauce but I

1:04:11

got it with zesty red sauce today to change

1:04:13

things up. I also got the crunchtada tostada. I'll

1:04:15

read the description here. The original crunchtada, a

1:04:18

thick wavy crunchy corn shell layered

1:04:20

with low-cooked beans made from scratch,

1:04:22

signature tangy salsa cassera, crisp

1:04:24

shredded lettuce, and fresh house grated

1:04:26

cheddar cheese. So they're making a big

1:04:28

deal about this, which is just a flat

1:04:31

corn tortilla shell with beans

1:04:33

on it. And then queso loaded fries,

1:04:35

which are crinkle cut fries, queso blanco,

1:04:37

cheddar cheese, diced tomatoes, sour cream, and

1:04:39

sliced jalabenos. Those fries were pretty fun.

1:04:43

The fries are good. I mean, I mean,

1:04:45

deli taco fries are good. They're good because they

1:04:47

get the crinkle cut fries and if they're going

1:04:49

to travel at all, like it's good to I

1:04:51

think get some goop on them because then the

1:04:53

lack of crispness becomes less of a factor. They're

1:04:56

more just sopping up Well, I think it was night

1:04:59

moves. I think it was night moves. It was night

1:05:01

ooze? I think it was nothing with ooze. That's good.

1:05:03

Or green ooze. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I think it

1:05:05

should just be night ooze. Like if you change the

1:05:07

green ooze, it gets, you know, you

1:05:10

don't want to change too many elements in a parody. Yeah.

1:05:13

That's why he needs to be in a room, you know. I

1:05:16

agree. Kind of inside. I

1:05:18

agree. And it was,

1:05:21

what did they say? It was turtle time. And it

1:05:23

was turtle time. You know what I'm saying? Well,

1:05:26

they say turtle power. I guess they say turtle

1:05:28

time. Fuck. Turtle time. It was turtle time. I

1:05:32

think it was night ooze. I'm going to keep thinking

1:05:34

on it though. I'm mad at myself to not write

1:05:36

it down. You could do closing time with turtle time.

1:05:38

That's pretty good. It's

1:05:41

turtle time. Yeah, yeah. So

1:05:45

the, the, the kids load fries are pretty fun.

1:05:47

Of course, I just thought it was like whatever. I

1:05:49

kind of, I sometimes get it as like just a 99 cent option. You

1:05:52

Know, it kind of fills out your order. You get

1:05:54

a little bit of protein and dietary fiber. It's fine.

1:05:56

I Do like both of those burritos. And in fact,

1:05:58

the brain, being in cheese. The greater the staple

1:06:01

of my Del Taco order are almost always

1:06:03

get one. I think it's a really great

1:06:05

been a bike just basic burrito and to

1:06:07

me that is one where I clearly preferred

1:06:09

this version to Taco Bell's equivalent of exist

1:06:11

a better been in she's Burrito just straight

1:06:13

up. Ah, I

1:06:15

will air and seven layer and toggle balance and whatever

1:06:17

it's a that's kind of a bush I was trying

1:06:20

to some bebop and rocksteady saying for this I couldn't

1:06:22

get there but I was trying. Are. Sort

1:06:24

of bebop and rocksteady in their. What?

1:06:26

About the isn't there a There's a. Dozen.

1:06:29

Their Motley Crue songs alike Unsteady Bob

1:06:31

or something like That, I'm and End

1:06:33

Close The Guy Was are just as

1:06:35

his heart sing the song Iraq's Dirty

1:06:37

Bomb As Christ's You know what? He

1:06:39

shouldn't be in a. Rusted

1:06:43

he bob is pretty good. Rocksteady robbed is for

1:06:45

to get a. Talker.

1:06:48

As are I guess are kind of at

1:06:50

the morgue underground You know that are you

1:06:52

can wrap your reference. Ah,

1:06:54

But now you know the the digital movies pretty

1:06:56

fun the one may have area movie I really

1:06:58

enjoyed me and the best my top ten of

1:07:00

the at my pin entire Okay I like every

1:07:02

like I think maybe new Ma'am is my doctor

1:07:05

good year for and either them for sure that

1:07:07

some some great animation a game out this year

1:07:09

I've I've got me Ma'am was it was a

1:07:11

blast ass lil I'm. I. Was very

1:07:13

sad to eat all of the barrier stuff

1:07:15

today. And your fries. Ralph, I ordered a

1:07:18

Del Taco didn't com that's the other. So

1:07:20

this is the anything of the Del Taco

1:07:22

experience. And Casey, you can recap: I'm your

1:07:24

your misadventures over there. Yes, every time you

1:07:26

get Del Taco something is going to be

1:07:29

wrong. That's just the Del Taco experience. the

1:07:31

never get your order right. God bless some

1:07:33

people working there. You know I'm sure they

1:07:35

have their own. There's the systemic issues with

1:07:37

attain that lead to this on. I'm sure

1:07:40

the I Love Point locations are understaffed are,

1:07:42

but it's he. I just expect my order

1:07:44

to be a little bit wrong. Every type

1:07:46

of you go to the Del Taco on

1:07:48

sets of Sunset Boulevard at on Friday or

1:07:50

Saturday night after. Ten. Pm. After

1:07:52

eleven Pm it is the most chaotic

1:07:54

fuckin' you can wait so long as

1:07:56

I'm aware. Analysts said, oh, I've waited

1:07:58

in line there for. Our get my

1:08:01

car isn't say yeah. It is.

1:08:03

Release it it. That's that is the most

1:08:05

chaotic. Yeah. Drive. through of

1:08:07

maybe possibly. And. The heightened

1:08:09

state of ours. Is it really bad? It's

1:08:11

raw stuff and also like I remember last

1:08:13

Imo there and. They. Open up like

1:08:16

there's like a big long. Like.

1:08:18

Storage unit at the back of it. You know I'm talking

1:08:20

about. Like a big metal storage.

1:08:22

Yeah know what your time I am similar to

1:08:24

what I got locked him when I bled for

1:08:26

bomb an arm and I I was there waiting

1:08:29

like an hour mine and then. Oh.

1:08:31

Like a lady was fighting with a

1:08:33

guy and she was like pulling bags

1:08:35

of sauce on of their like full

1:08:37

bags clear trash bags full of sauce

1:08:39

for not Marcus like just loses on

1:08:41

yea I'm a I'm sure it was

1:08:43

see it was is. A My it

1:08:45

may have been that it might have a news lot of

1:08:48

an idea whose. But.

1:08:50

It was it was it was it was

1:08:52

crazy area was is that it's always get

1:08:54

out there and I do think people are

1:08:56

so huge ass holes to the employees are

1:08:58

like i know if you're at work as

1:09:00

their lines the get unwieldy by on but

1:09:02

there's a difference for versus a place like

1:09:05

like I like a A and in distress

1:09:07

Del Taco location that has like no sense

1:09:09

of how to manage that vs like a

1:09:11

Raising Cain Sword, In and Out burger or

1:09:13

chick fillet that has a little bit more

1:09:15

of a of. A process set up

1:09:17

to deal with the with the volume on

1:09:19

as the a military operation. any in and

1:09:21

out in Southern California one hundred resist like

1:09:23

traffic cops yeah know they know. I don't

1:09:25

care. So Casey you are telling us dirt

1:09:27

while we're eating a Why You have sworn

1:09:29

off Del Taco. Ah, Yes, the

1:09:31

Del Taco used to be in the rotation

1:09:33

for me. yeah as a fast food stop.

1:09:36

Ah, but then they like. Screwed.

1:09:38

Up. My. Order a handful of times.

1:09:40

Last time I win this problem. like two

1:09:42

years ago, I haven't had no talking to

1:09:45

you. Wow, Wow. I'm. But. So as

1:09:47

like out on the app ago, pick it up

1:09:49

the kids grew up. it's in the app. Gap,

1:09:51

I go, I go. It's is like eight o'clock and

1:09:54

I go to the Del Taco. Go through the drive

1:09:56

through. The. Guy just says we're close

1:09:58

and us. I'm like I order. The

1:10:00

app here to pick up my food. They are a

1:10:02

fine and I like I go round. Here.

1:10:04

I'm sitting at the window for five minutes.

1:10:07

Because. Zoc as a bag I drive away

1:10:09

with in the bag. Nothing nothing was was

1:10:12

right. He does like. Made. Whatever

1:10:14

you wanted as a year the or i

1:10:16

don't like. And. Then since then

1:10:18

I've I've. Had. It not and I get

1:10:20

it either have understandable and also not not surprising

1:10:22

yards Doctor I get it from both sides because

1:10:25

obviously why would Casey go back there after that

1:10:27

experience Also that guy was probably working by himself

1:10:29

Yes or and it's just like it's as I

1:10:31

would have. I think the mismanaged it's it's a

1:10:33

mis manage saying it's a it's a personal favorite

1:10:36

of mine but it got some It's it's as

1:10:38

we're because it feels like there are a like

1:10:40

I don't I don't going to places like in

1:10:42

danger of going into not what is it makes

1:10:44

weird decisions like they they do weird marginal things

1:10:47

like they got they removed the spicy jack case

1:10:49

idiot which while lot of people logs is why

1:10:51

you're going to do is insane. They got rid

1:10:53

of it and it's like okay well yeah I

1:10:55

kind of get from the from a did you

1:10:57

know a nickel and dime perspective that there isn't

1:11:00

spicy jack cheese elsewhere on their menu so they're

1:11:02

like okay that's one place we could have a

1:11:04

low but a savings and but then but if

1:11:06

we're going to do that then maybe you don't

1:11:08

also need to be doing a cookie butter sake.

1:11:11

What is the saw them do it when spoken

1:11:13

to in a cookie butter sake for you Don't

1:11:15

Taco Insect Leave me alone. They leave me alone.

1:11:17

Leave us alone. They. Get they

1:11:19

get a bring back that spicy yeah Cases?

1:11:21

yeah it's that that's didn't get rid of

1:11:24

announced they got a gun or a lot

1:11:26

of stuff they keep. They keep winnowing down

1:11:28

their menu but also expanding another areas like

1:11:30

they're limited time period promotion and not speaking.

1:11:32

of the city. That said I tried to get

1:11:34

that a couple places yan know I had it and

1:11:36

it's like still on the website but then when he

1:11:38

clicks or it's gone the and it's a it's a

1:11:40

mirage doesn't get as like. I think

1:11:43

it's just not. On. Offer anymore Guys

1:11:45

I sell at check like a few

1:11:47

Delvaux. It's. It's good cause they are. They

1:11:49

are the sign it is our is like advertising and

1:11:51

I think it wasn't the app like pretty recently I

1:11:54

am. But yeah you go to a place you coward

1:11:56

or it yet. But also why are they attempting that?

1:11:58

Yeah. I'm sorry. That it

1:12:00

was cookie butter is exactly another sweet

1:12:02

milkshake. Arm any other food

1:12:05

thoughts any of anything we miss the and enters

1:12:07

your menu items yeah I got. I mean. Ah

1:12:09

I got the the ramen and I kinda

1:12:11

had similar so see I thought it was

1:12:14

fine but rather silicon. He did finish it

1:12:16

in a i'm i got a go to

1:12:18

for me is the like stuff case idiot

1:12:20

taco. I feel like if I'm getting. Fast.

1:12:23

Food from getting Del Taco. Probably.

1:12:25

Gonna go Little not young so.

1:12:28

I like that it's very big. It is Laurie

1:12:30

Sawyer. Yeah. I'm but also they

1:12:32

get a while. I went over the weekend.

1:12:35

And I got a burger and fries and that was.

1:12:37

That. Was solid. honestly use got a

1:12:39

regular burger. Yeah, so I I

1:12:41

flew through and I. Ah,

1:12:44

The drive through i asked they have a single cheeseburger

1:12:46

and the guy didn't like seem to fully on the

1:12:48

i don't know if that's just like not something they

1:12:50

do in on yeah this is ordering single vs double

1:12:52

or whatever and it we the bugger I got was

1:12:54

like of it was like a child's. Toy Burger from

1:12:56

a Toys that It would like. Ah

1:12:59

unlike a very plastiki been and

1:13:01

like a very very very thin

1:13:03

party and then get seven seas.

1:13:05

And it was great. Cigarettes Really good because

1:13:07

a burger is a really good food. Yeah,

1:13:09

and the fries a great yeah. And

1:13:12

then I go to minister very sick today and that

1:13:14

was. That was good. I like that know

1:13:16

like the many size. As you really

1:13:18

don't need a lot of milk one one hundred

1:13:20

percent or like of the offer that I did

1:13:23

the be the specifically the Double Dell Sees burger

1:13:25

they have there is one of my more for

1:13:27

the like you know a to meet a dub

1:13:29

a better fast food burger than a lot of

1:13:32

places lot dedicated burger places is what natalie ass

1:13:34

were when we went when I went to get

1:13:36

the Del Taco for the show on yeah I

1:13:38

I do like their burgers and fries quite a

1:13:41

bit. ah bits anything else well as a benign

1:13:43

I got home would normally gobble my to go

1:13:45

into was Monday night in today's Thursday. ah I.

1:13:47

Got myself I do a little

1:13:50

Del Taco run. When I got

1:13:52

back to Bows. And

1:13:54

I ordered a crispy chicken darko which is fine with

1:13:56

I got that with ranch which is far and yeah

1:13:59

I'm into the farm. I like the

1:14:01

ah, what are they called the not a loaded

1:14:03

drillers at Taco Bell but what are the. The.

1:14:05

One dollar like chicken role? Yes, yeah. like

1:14:08

signal. Yeah, those are get those are good.

1:14:10

Ah, but the crispy chicken tacos? Decent. I.

1:14:13

Did a snack taco. Did two different

1:14:15

snack tacos. Which. Were I got

1:14:17

a soft and hard yep snapped

1:14:19

ago. Those. Are a little

1:14:21

too tiny for me. The snack tacos are

1:14:24

low. But. I'd rather get the Del Taco

1:14:26

if they're just like. Though. I that

1:14:28

bag their images kind of messes with the

1:14:30

the. The flavor in on us

1:14:32

like the components are just off. Ah and

1:14:34

then I got some a snacks case india.

1:14:37

And. Then I mean, and she's burrito

1:14:39

with green sauce. And.

1:14:43

It was gray, all the little stuff over many

1:14:46

stuff, human old and like. The flavors are good.

1:14:48

It was like good fun snacks stuff but I

1:14:50

think they are trying to do a little too

1:14:52

much. I got the real strawberry sprite as real.

1:14:55

Pieces. Of Strawberry, an app and and

1:14:57

today I got the lemonade. The Strawberry

1:14:59

Lemonade. Summer Sproul, I'd better.

1:15:01

but they're They're both like. They.

1:15:03

Just put some fruit emerge as rank. It's

1:15:06

kind of fun while it is bomb at

1:15:08

all upon a just as I just I

1:15:10

think and on I is. It feels like

1:15:12

bed that a tried and true menu and

1:15:14

things were working so I don't understand why

1:15:16

and when they've we first or told but

1:15:18

as we met someone from Del Taco and

1:15:20

they were like we have like a big

1:15:22

surprise and we talk of are lousy to

1:15:24

and it was basically that they were doing

1:15:26

like a version of It's Easy Gordy to

1:15:28

Crunch right in a while back the while

1:15:30

back and then they candidate but then. From.

1:15:33

That point forward they did try to get like

1:15:35

two. I think they decide to get a little

1:15:37

because today I like didn't have fun with. Of.

1:15:40

They forgot the Del Taco today. Yeah, so

1:15:42

for me, so than a mike. There.

1:15:44

Wasn't much that I really enjoyed all

1:15:46

the barrier stuff. As like. Whatever.

1:15:50

Now. And. I wanted to speak

1:15:52

like I was anticipating. Just.

1:15:54

Know sauce because that's happened to me that I'd

1:15:56

slightly brought my Sos-from home as a contingency and

1:15:58

they there was. There was ample sauce. Amelia saw

1:16:00

to that, but it did. It is a sort

1:16:02

of thing like you never it's you'll you'll end

1:16:05

up with no saucer Mill taco in the Not

1:16:07

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1:16:09

has just occurred to me is that that

1:16:11

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1:16:14

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1:16:16

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1:16:18

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1:16:20

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1:16:22

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1:16:24

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1:16:27

Mcdonalds? In. I. that's what they do. I'm

1:16:29

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1:16:31

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Alright, let's get to our final thoughts, our

1:18:09

fork scores for our third visit to Del

1:18:11

Taco. I'm gonna start things off. I love

1:18:13

Del Taco. I'm

1:18:16

pretty disappointed with this outing. I'm

1:18:18

really disappointed that they've, like all

1:18:20

the other chains, have completely, you

1:18:22

know, discarded their beyond slash

1:18:25

impossible line. That they've just like, we were giving

1:18:27

up on plant-based proteins. I mean, that felt like

1:18:29

it was a fun and, you

1:18:31

know, encouraging direction for fast food

1:18:33

to be going. They were possibly,

1:18:35

to some degree, fighting

1:18:39

against the, you know, ecological devastation that

1:18:41

comes with industrial beef production, but they

1:18:43

were just like, like, no, well, consumers

1:18:46

don't want it and we refused to

1:18:48

discount it at all. It's gonna cost

1:18:50

more than beef, so of course consumers

1:18:52

aren't gonna pick it. So they completely

1:18:54

get rid of that. They excise that.

1:18:56

They're still good vegetarian and vegan options

1:18:58

because it's Mexican food and that's a

1:19:01

vegetarian-friendly cuisine, but

1:19:03

it just kind of sucks. The

1:19:06

Beery, I think, completely just is a misfire. It

1:19:08

just doesn't work. Like, I don't know why

1:19:10

they're doing it and, like,

1:19:13

if they are going to do it, they better do a good version of

1:19:15

it and they're not. It's

1:19:17

five forks from me, but I... It's... It's

1:19:26

a very, like, deflated five forks.

1:19:31

Libby, your thoughts, your fork score? Yeah, I

1:19:33

mean, look, I will say I don't hate

1:19:35

the Berea stuff as much as you guys do. We've

1:19:38

had the Berea stuff before.

1:19:40

We got the tacos and the quesadilla. I

1:19:42

quite like the quesadilla because, like, when you

1:19:45

think about what is good about Berea, it's

1:19:47

like the salty,

1:19:49

beefy liquid. Yes. It's good salty, beefy liquid.

1:19:51

That is fun. I do like that. I agree. And

1:19:54

if you're not expecting much of it, it is

1:19:57

a sort of comforting thing. I... I

1:20:00

mean, I like the food I had today, you know, I

1:20:03

didn't finish any of it, but I

1:20:06

don't know if that was, you know, if that's

1:20:08

a me issue rather than a Del Taco issue.

1:20:12

You know, I came into this thinking, like,

1:20:14

you know, what am I going to give

1:20:16

Del Taco, you know, it's a place I

1:20:18

go like reasonably frequently. And

1:20:22

you know, I was like, maybe what I have will

1:20:24

change my score or whatever, but I don't think

1:20:26

it has. But for me, it is a four fork

1:20:28

restaurant. Wow, four forks. Well,

1:20:34

I do love the, we

1:20:36

didn't talk too much, we talked about the fries, you got

1:20:38

the lower fries, which do sog up a little bit, but

1:20:40

they do have great fries. They have great

1:20:42

stuff there. I do think

1:20:44

that it, like you said, it's like mismanaged,

1:20:47

maybe in the court, like maybe corporately

1:20:49

mismanaged. I don't know what the

1:20:51

issues are here, but it's a

1:20:53

lot of the times understaffed, you know what I

1:20:55

mean? They get orders wrong a lot. It's

1:20:58

a frustrating place that I do like very

1:21:00

much. I

1:21:03

think that they shouldn't have taken away some of the menu items.

1:21:06

I think they should simplify some of the crazy stuff that they

1:21:08

do. I do like that they have like a $2 and

1:21:10

under crave menu or whatever they do. It's

1:21:16

you know, that's fun, but like just

1:21:19

decide on a few things, bring back some of the

1:21:21

old classics. I don't know. Look,

1:21:24

I'm with you. I think that it is

1:21:26

four, I think I'm four forks. When I gave

1:21:28

it three and a half forks, I think I had a bad

1:21:30

experience. And I do, you

1:21:32

know what? I mean, like overall, I do

1:21:35

think that Del Taco is like close to the

1:21:37

five fork range. But

1:21:40

I got to be honest with what the review is today. Like

1:21:42

the buria stuff was fine. And then the other night I did

1:21:44

have a good time with what I had,

1:21:47

but I'm sad that I didn't get a Del

1:21:49

Taco and they forgot it. And

1:21:51

that's what I want now. I'm going to crave a Del Taco for

1:21:53

fucking... I gotta go get one. Yeah. I

1:21:56

had a Del Taco. I know. I

1:21:59

saw that. Guess get did they fuck up an

1:22:01

order they forget one of my things the the guests gets

1:22:03

I mean if there were two in The thing who's to say whether

1:22:05

it was mine. Oh, he was and I got to eat it And

1:22:10

I also did have a soft del taco that's

1:22:12

what the good yeah, I wasn't

1:22:14

clear in my ordering to Amelia So that was

1:22:16

that was on me Shout

1:22:18

out to Amelia who also pointed out that

1:22:20

are we gonna say who went to del

1:22:23

taco at like 1130 and what a nightmare

1:22:25

to go with a giant order to del

1:22:27

taco In the morning. Sorry.

1:22:30

I just you reminded me. I had that experience

1:22:32

recently where I was like, oh my god I've

1:22:34

never understood what it's like to be the dough

1:22:36

boys Yeah better and it was when I did

1:22:38

a stream over Christmas I did like different Christmas

1:22:40

dreams and I did one that was 7-eleven charcuterie

1:22:43

So I went to 7-eleven and bought a

1:22:46

bunch of different stuff to make a charcuterie board On

1:22:49

the stream and I bought I think $40

1:22:51

worth of stuff Wow 7-eleven

1:22:54

and just like you don't have like a

1:22:57

basket 7-eleven so I was just like carrying

1:22:59

this like tottering pile of

1:23:02

like horrible salami and

1:23:04

like pretzels and a lot

1:23:07

of horrible stuff and I was like Oh my god. Now

1:23:09

I know what it's like to be Nick Weiger That's

1:23:17

accurate And

1:23:20

I had the urge that I think you've mentioned before

1:23:22

which is to say this isn't really me this is

1:23:24

for a stream This is for exactly whatever but

1:23:26

that's way worse way worse to say that

1:23:28

yeah, what I'm reset Wait, how was the

1:23:31

charcuterie board though? Horrible. What a

1:23:33

bummer Yeah I would think like like is the kind of

1:23:35

I imagine part of the Your

1:23:37

mentality behind the exercise is like if we remove all

1:23:39

the packaging and we present it like a normal Board.

1:23:42

Yeah, will it still like, you know, how much of

1:23:44

that is showmanship and how much does that quality of

1:23:46

the product? Yeah, the best thing was yeah, the

1:23:48

best thing was a sliced apple Wow a

1:23:50

lot of I put like, you know Like

1:23:53

they have these little You

1:23:55

know, there's like cheese sticks that are wrapped with

1:23:57

salami. Yeah, I did some of those and They

1:24:00

were horrible. Yeah, I

1:24:03

mean some nuts, you know, that was alright,

1:24:05

but But

1:24:09

anyway one more Amelia thing she

1:24:11

pointed out that if you hold your nose and

1:24:13

say her full name Yeah, yeah,

1:24:15

Marina. It sounds like a Buria

1:24:18

burrito Be

1:24:22

Lea, Brienne And

1:24:24

it works Maria

1:24:26

burino. I just said burrito Amelia

1:24:36

Amelia Amelia Burino,

1:24:38

I'm not trying to say her name you

1:24:40

sound like saying you're saying her name. Yeah,

1:24:42

that's right It rhymes it

1:24:45

right her name Amelia. Marina rhymes

1:24:47

with Maria burrito You're

1:24:50

the wonderful mind With that My

1:24:54

name was Amelia. Marie. No, I'd never in a million years

1:24:56

have figured that out. Yeah, I Sure

1:25:00

didn't I still don't

1:25:02

know it Wow,

1:25:06

so Del Taco back in the Golden Plate

1:25:09

Club That's the end of

1:25:11

our discussion of this week's chain and

1:25:13

hey that brings us to our segment Which

1:25:15

is the end of a different road? It

1:25:18

all comes down to this We

1:25:20

launched the contest last year Mitch Wow semi-finals

1:25:22

is the first episode of dough boys double

1:25:24

on our patreon this year and

1:25:26

today as our segment is

1:25:29

the finale of ad Chad This

1:25:33

season on ad Chad 166

1:25:37

contestants submitted from around the globe

1:25:39

then they were little down to

1:25:41

ten semi-finals and now Just

1:25:43

more room. I'm doing this for my buddy

1:25:45

Keith Dickerson. I'm not here to make Especially

1:25:47

with the other I just want this so

1:25:50

bad because still boys is so good I

1:25:52

just want to prove my devotion to dough

1:25:54

boys by doing whatever they tell me to

1:25:56

do within legal box I

1:26:00

feel these ad-versions who the real ad-chat

1:26:02

is. And I'm doing it for you,

1:26:04

Keith! Yes, I'm doing it. Who will

1:26:06

be ad-chat? Red letter, yellow letter. Lighter

1:26:09

and Mitch, stick in a ditch. Lighter and Mitch,

1:26:11

stick in a ditch. Lighter and

1:26:13

Mitch, lighter, size, or a

1:26:16

lighter, surprise. Who will be

1:26:18

crowned the first ever ad-chat? Who will

1:26:20

be crowned the first ever ad-chat?

1:26:25

Wow, what dumb bullshit. I mean, I

1:26:27

was there for it when we recorded

1:26:29

it. It

1:26:35

was very dumb. Alright,

1:26:39

so we have four contestants. Libby, what a ride. I

1:26:42

don't even know what to say. We

1:26:45

have four finalists. We are going to meet each of

1:26:47

them, and then we are going to see their ad.

1:26:51

Yes, I must have missed,

1:26:53

like I have missed some episodes, I feel like. I'm

1:26:56

not one of those guests who comes on

1:26:58

and is like, oh, I love the Doughboys.

1:27:00

I love when you give a spoon score

1:27:02

and whatever. I'm

1:27:04

a big Doughboys fan. But I have somehow missed

1:27:07

ad-chat, although I did know the

1:27:09

phrase, you know. It was

1:27:11

somewhere in my head. We also kind

1:27:14

of forgot about it, which is part of the issue. So

1:27:17

the timing should have been like all last year, but then

1:27:19

it fell off of our radar a little bit. So we're

1:27:21

kind of making up for it now. We're figuring it out.

1:27:24

But you know what? Perfect spot for it, the

1:27:26

slums of January. The

1:27:31

week you get the guest who will always come

1:27:33

on. Alright,

1:27:37

so we have four finalists. We are going to meet

1:27:39

each of them in sequence, and then we are going

1:27:42

to hear their reads. And for this one, they

1:27:44

all have all new copy. That's right.

1:27:47

They had one day to prepare brand new

1:27:49

copy, and we have one read from each

1:27:51

of them. Which by the way, I will

1:27:53

say this. As

1:27:55

an auditioner, I told

1:27:57

you I was like... They

1:28:00

should just get a cold read. They should just do it

1:28:02

cold and then we decide that it was nicer to have

1:28:04

them Be able to read it.

1:28:06

Yeah, we decided to be nicer to them than

1:28:08

Hollywood is too Yeah,

1:28:11

so we did give them a little bit of extra leeway

1:28:13

But it wasn't a ton of time to prepare and I

1:28:16

also just want to say fuck you to the people on

1:28:18

reddit who are like It's hard to listen to the same

1:28:20

ad copy four times. No, shut the fuck up. What are

1:28:23

we supposed to do? Fuck up. Shut the fuck up up.

1:28:25

Maybe we'll edit it down. Just shut up. It's gonna be

1:28:27

great Fine, but

1:28:30

he wanted to do something that was like a casting couch

1:28:43

All right, let's meet our first finalists Hi,

1:28:47

my name is Killian Walsh Born

1:28:49

and raised in Beverly Hills of Chicago,

1:28:51

Illinois. I am a college admissions counselor.

1:28:54

I don't really have a background in

1:28:56

voiceover It's mostly just celebrity impressions on

1:28:58

friends My

1:29:02

favorite fast food or chain restaurant right now it's

1:29:04

sitting pretty at Panda Express what's my favorite podcast?

1:29:06

Well, I'm glad you asked It's the dough boys.

1:29:08

I want to be ad Chad because I like

1:29:10

the dough boys. I want to see him thrive

1:29:13

I want to get Mitch to two staircases. It's

1:29:15

not three maybe one for Nick and Emma, too

1:29:17

This is what I want to see happen and

1:29:19

I'll do what I can to make it happen

1:29:23

Wow, wow, I don't like that. He likes the dough

1:29:25

boys That's a strike a

1:29:27

strike against any contest. Yeah, but otherwise good

1:29:29

stuff. All right, let's let's hear a good

1:29:32

guy and he has no Connection

1:29:34

to to correct. Yeah, Joe business at

1:29:36

all. Yeah, I like his energy Yeah,

1:29:39

well, let's see how it translates to

1:29:41

Killian's ad read and buy a better mic though. Could

1:29:43

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1:31:38

do see him reading. I wish he wore, I

1:31:40

can see it as the reflection of the script

1:31:42

he's reading in his glasses.

1:31:44

So I wish that he wore

1:31:46

non-reflective glasses. I think that will

1:31:48

take some points off. Emma's

1:31:51

notifying me that they don't exist, but still

1:31:53

I wish that he had figured

1:31:55

out some sort of technology to not

1:31:58

have me see the script as he read. So

1:32:01

the thing here with this read is that we couldn't see him the whole

1:32:03

time. So I was Wondering if he

1:32:05

was AI it was only there's only person of

1:32:07

the of the contestants We couldn't see you

1:32:10

mean because of the connection because on the day.

1:32:12

Yes. Yeah, but but watching here we can see

1:32:14

that It's one uninterrupted from a human man. Yeah,

1:32:16

I guess so I

1:32:18

think it's a I think it's a great read

1:32:20

despite being recorded on a Game Boy camera. I

1:32:24

Think it is it's just natural

1:32:26

pipes That's a big part of

1:32:29

it. And so I'm really impressed by how

1:32:31

clean it is But also

1:32:33

just like how much power comes

1:32:35

from behind those vocal cords. Yeah

1:32:37

conversational very yeah Yeah, like a

1:32:39

friend recommending a podcast it feels

1:32:41

both it feels both presentational but

1:32:43

also warm Libby any thoughts Yeah,

1:32:47

I mean blue Yeti obviously you can't go wrong

1:32:51

The one I have is a Samson cue to

1:32:53

you Oh, wow, that was about 60 bucks What

1:32:56

you can do is you can buy it from Best Buy and then

1:32:58

just when you're done with it return it And

1:33:01

then it's no harm. No foul Yeah,

1:33:04

I don't give a shit the guy should

1:33:06

have bought a hundred dollar mic for this doughboy Make

1:33:11

your bed Yeah,

1:33:16

what's up with that I could see the pillow

1:33:20

I don't know. What the fuck is this? We can

1:33:22

also see the headshot of Alan Tudyk on the back

1:33:25

wall. Who is that? Actually,

1:33:27

I like a lot. Yeah, who the

1:33:30

hell is that? Is it Bob Barker?

1:33:33

Maybe it's Regis. Maybe we don't we maybe we don't

1:33:35

want to see who Important

1:33:42

cuz it's the only thing on the wall.

1:33:44

Yeah. Thank you for inviting us into your

1:33:46

home Killian Great yeah,

1:33:48

great clearly a natural talent. Yeah, do you want I

1:33:50

don't want to I mean I don't want pride you

1:33:52

to do this But the do you have a natural

1:33:55

opportunity to be like a mean British judge if you

1:33:57

wanted to? You know, I don't

1:33:59

have to but I'm just saying Like it's just like that

1:34:01

exists Like a Simon

1:34:03

Cowell. Yeah, like a you know, or Gordon Ramsay,

1:34:05

you know, what a ways to play it you fucking

1:34:07

donkey. Yeah Those

1:34:17

not framed on that picture there Mary condo

1:34:20

you fucking clean up Marie

1:34:24

condo Okay, okay, did

1:34:26

you look it up no Okay,

1:34:32

cuz you're fiddling with your phone there for a second. Oh

1:34:34

really Who

1:34:39

is the person that says says goodbye to

1:34:42

stuff All right, that was

1:34:44

that was Kelly and let's meet our

1:34:46

next contestant I Go

1:34:57

by bow and I'm from New York,

1:34:59

New York. My day job is working

1:35:01

as a revenue operations consultant for myself

1:35:04

I don't have any background in voiceover

1:35:06

when I was in college I had a radio show

1:35:09

from 4 a.m. To 6 a.m My

1:35:11

favorite fast food or chain

1:35:13

restaurant is probably Chipotle. My

1:35:15

favorite podcast is Probably

1:35:19

the Doughboys I want to

1:35:22

be ad Chad because it would be really cool

1:35:25

For me personally and for my family

1:35:28

and friends to see that I was

1:35:30

doing something with my life Wow,

1:35:32

okay Like I

1:35:34

would beg to differ that I'll be cool for you or your

1:35:37

family or friend But

1:35:39

but that's bow bow all of our

1:35:41

conditions very sweet very nice people 100%

1:35:44

And all have nice pleasant voices. So I'm

1:35:47

interested. That's the key part. I think of

1:35:49

being ad chat Let's see how it

1:35:51

translates to a read Let's listen

1:35:53

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A great job. Another great job.

1:37:11

Very, very conversational. Very, like I can. Yes.

1:37:14

I can make sure. I can make sure Beau's

1:37:16

voice at the start of other podcasts. That is exactly

1:37:18

what I was going to say. Right. Like

1:37:20

I can just imagine her voice in my ears when I'm chopping

1:37:22

onions or whatever I'm doing when I'm listening to podcasts.

1:37:26

It feels soothed. Yeah. It's

1:37:28

like a calming energy. A very calming, nice voice.

1:37:31

But also conversational. Yeah. Good speed. Obviously,

1:37:33

I think Killian has more of an

1:37:35

announcer voice. It's the two styles,

1:37:38

which is kind of what the final four are.

1:37:40

There's two that are kind of more announcery and

1:37:42

two that are a little bit more conversational. But

1:37:46

both very good. I mean, right now,

1:37:48

it's those two are

1:37:50

neck and neck. I think it's an excellent read. Yeah.

1:37:53

And I also have to give points for clearly having a

1:37:55

ring light and a good microphone. That is

1:37:57

that great quality. True. Audio

1:37:59

and videos. Lies that our

1:38:01

last ad chat episode we talked

1:38:04

about how her mic wasn't great and so she

1:38:06

bought this mic for this Wow That

1:38:09

almost feels like we have to Killian

1:38:14

said fuck you and throw a blanket Bo

1:38:19

would not Bose bed isn't framed so

1:38:22

we can assume that it's probably made yeah,

1:38:24

I'm like Killian killing the last big points

1:38:26

with the bed On

1:38:29

the wall too and it looks like some paint there.

1:38:31

Maybe she's a little Yeah,

1:38:34

good framing good framing. I know

1:38:36

they were both both very

1:38:38

good. Yeah, great job by Bo great

1:38:40

job by both so far Next

1:38:42

up we have our next contestant My

1:38:45

name is Tyler Lorenz, and I'm from Los Angeles,

1:38:48

California. I work in content programming for various TV

1:38:50

networks I had a little voice training because I

1:38:52

thought it would be really fun to get into

1:38:54

I do have a little bit of like a

1:38:57

Improv sketch background I grew up in

1:38:59

Georgia and so I love Waffle House

1:39:02

My favorite podcast is probably blank check with Griffin and

1:39:04

David Well, I want to be adshad because I think

1:39:06

it's just a great honor. Can you are you kidding

1:39:08

me? I've been listening since 2018 voiceover is very fun

1:39:10

to do in the first place and there's no better

1:39:12

place to do it than In the

1:39:15

ad reads of the Doughboys podcast Tyler's

1:39:19

funny. He's a funny dude. Yes

1:39:23

He I will say, you know,

1:39:26

he has a background sketching improv those appoint deductions

1:39:28

with me. Yeah 100% But

1:39:34

I will say he gets points for

1:39:36

not listening Doughboys is his favorite podcast.

1:39:39

Yeah, I love that Real

1:39:41

alpha move another great. I

1:39:43

mean the three contestants so far just have great

1:39:46

voices Yes, and also and also

1:39:48

a pro setup for what it's worth from

1:39:50

Tyler. All right Let's let's go ahead and

1:39:52

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While. A really good reason for other

1:41:13

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1:41:15

attitude. A at at Ill Usc

1:41:18

Somewhat of a ringer I think to

1:41:20

notice like. experience in our

1:41:22

yeah. A little bit more

1:41:24

background in it, it seems like you know

1:41:26

he did didn't seem by girl. Knob.

1:41:29

It ever gets. Usually doesn't do a lot of this like he

1:41:31

was some as he does. He did do some. animation

1:41:33

voice over he told us for his friends

1:41:35

project but nothing you know i don't know

1:41:38

how much he works professionally and right but

1:41:40

i still still perhaps on the the early

1:41:42

part of his career but someone who has

1:41:44

more of of of a official background is

1:41:46

our a noisy a great thing i've scrubbed

1:41:48

a lot of noise and also gags good

1:41:50

competence he's got that spot as i say

1:41:52

he's got he's got a lot of the

1:41:54

spy does have chutzpah i would say that

1:41:56

in this is a thing with that that

1:41:58

also bowen killing did well but also making

1:42:00

the copy their own. Yeah. Like

1:42:03

just like you know that there's some set

1:42:05

text, some bullet points that you have to

1:42:07

get through but also finding ways to shape it so it

1:42:09

sounds like your own voice that sounds natural coming out of

1:42:11

your lips. When I say he's got chutzpah, I think that

1:42:14

it comes specifically from Casey who's giving me a look like

1:42:16

I shouldn't be saying a word. I

1:42:19

think specifically like parts of the

1:42:21

read where he's like, where he

1:42:24

emphasizes some stuff where the word... A little bit of this.

1:42:26

Where a little bit of this where you kind of need

1:42:28

it in the copy. Exactly. You know

1:42:30

what I mean? This copy that Casey wrote for us that