Doughboys - Nick the Greek with Becky Feldman
Episode Date: January 18, 2024Becky Feldman (@beckles212, Too Stupid to Live) joins the 'boys to discuss fantasy romance novels, The Whale, and Nothing Bundt Cakes before a review of Nick the Greek. Plus, a new edition of... The Wiger Challenge.Watch this episode at youtube.com/doughboysmediaGet ad-free episodes at patreon.com/doughboysGet Doughboys merch at doughboys.kinshipgoods.comAdvertise on Doughboys via Gumball.fmSources for this week's intro:https://nintendo.fandom.com/wiki/List_of_Kongs_in_the_Donkey_Kong_serieshttps://www.nrn.com/regional-chains/meet-nick-greek-restaurant-making-name-itself-californiahttps://www.qsrmagazine.com/growth/largest-jack-box-franchisee-acquires-nick-greek/https://www.nickthegreek.com/new-pageSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.
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In 1981, the nascent video game industry was forever altered by a new arcade cabinet from
Nintendo, a company then best known as a Hanifuda card manufacturer.
Directed by Legend of Zelda creator Shigeru Miyamoto, and produced by the father of the
Game Boy, Gunpei Yokoi, Donkey Kong was a sensation, introducing the world to its titular
ape antagonist and the player surrogate, a moustacheo and red overalls, then known as Jumpman,
and today known as Mario.
Unfortunately, the coin-op triumph of Donkey Kong
was not reflected in its home versions,
often shoddy ports due to inferior console hardware,
or at sequels, the less successful Donkey Kong Jr.
and the baffling Donkey Kong 3,
a crude shooter in which the player assumes control
of Stanley the exterminator.
And while Mario would become a jump-up superstar
in his own franchise,
the Donkey Kong IP would be relatively unexplored after its breakout launch.
Until the early 1990s, when Nintendo entrusted the character to UK developer Rare.
The end result, 1994's Donkey Kong Country for the Super Nintendo, was a charming and tough as nails platformers within stunning 3D rendered characters and an inspired soundtrack by David Wise. The rare reboot breathed new life into the Donkey Kong canon,
reimagining the barrel-tossing lady kidnapper as a necktie-wearing jungle defender,
and significantly expanding the Kong family.
New characters included nimble ball cap wearing monkey ditty Kong,
surfer dude war profiteer funky Kong, sexy sultry simian candy Kong,
and testy whitebeard cranky-kong,
widely speculated to be the original DK.
Two super NES sequels added to the Kong count by introducing Dixie Kong, Kitty Kong, Swinky
Kong, and Cranky's wife, Rinkley Kong.
When Rare's final Donkey Kong game, Donkey Kong 64 debuted in 1999, the Kong count swelled
even further to add, Chunky Kong, Lanky Kong, and Tiny Kong.
Wrinkly Kong grimly appeared as a ghost in the new entry without explanation.
Apparently killed off camera after the events of Donkey Kong Country 3.
And when it comes to franchises with individuals sharing the same name distinguished by descriptor,
you can also include a Greek American concept founded in 2012 in Northern California.
Cousins Nick, Nick, and Nick, aka Baby Nick, Big Nick, and Little Nick, collaborated
on the idea after Baby Nick returned from Greece with a hunger for authentic euros. The
eatery grew to over 50 locations in under a decade, and in 2022, the fast-growing chain
was bought by Yada of Enterprises, a franchising company that oversees 600 jack-in-the-box and
TGI Friday's locations. As for this triforce of cousins all having the same name,
by tradition, they were all named for their grandfather Nick
and labeled to separate them.
Perhaps lending more credence to the cranky Kong
was the original Donkey Kong theory.
This week on Doe Boys, Nick the Greek. So is the Doodle-O-Hos!
Doodle-O-Hos! Welcome to Do-Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants.
I'm Nick Weiger, along with my co-host, Salvador Delelly, the spoon man, my Mitchell.
Salvador Delly, that's pretty good.
That's it. That is the roast. I love you, Mitch, from Brandon. How about that?
I like my sandwich like the the turkeys like coming out the side and coming down.
Yeah. Can you imagine the horror of a melted sandwich?
Yeah, can you imagine the horror of a melted sandwich?
They're much melt pretty good. Hey, yeah, yeah
Melta Salvador Salvador is deli is seems like a kind of a pretty good restaurant That's a good. I'm surprised there is there might be a food truck that Salvador deli somewhere
Where was Salvador Dali from is he Spain he's Spanish, yeah?
Google it. What do you doing with that information?
I was gonna Google it later.
That's all.
Okay.
Salvador Delly, Spain.
You want me to look it up now?
I think you should.
You want me to look up Salvador Delly or Delly?
Salvador Delly.
You want me to look up Salvador Delly?
Well, I guess we should find out if he's from Spain.
Okay.
I'm straight.
I'm pretty sure he's from Spain.
Yes, he was a Spanish surrealist artist.
Salvador Di.
Deli.
Restress.
Did you mean Salvador Deli?
Yeah, that's gonna be the issue.
Okay.
The Salvador Deli.
Yeah, see, that's the thing.
It's such a right there sort of pond
that you'd imagine someone would have already capitalized on it.
Where is the Salvador Deli?
I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it again.
Okay.
Salvador Deli.
Shit, it went away.
It was like a, it was a recommendation.
Salvador Deli Spain is still,
even if I'm ignoring Salvador Deli,
it's still driving me towards Salvador Deli.
I think because Spain is in there.
All right, Salvador Deli, here we go.
If I just do Salvador Deli. This is Facebook. Yeah, I mean, there's in there. All right, Salvador Daly, here we go. If I just do Salvador Daly.
This is Facebook.
Yeah, I mean, there's an L Salvador Daly,
but that's a different thing.
Daly L Salvador.
So these are maybe about Salvador and restaurants.
And that's a different thing than a pun
on Salvador Daly's name.
Is it Daly?
Everyone says Daly, but there's an accent over the eye.
Is it Dali?
Salvador Dali?
You're asking me?
I don't know.
I'm gonna solve this for you.
What's it?
Salvador Dali has a painting.
I'm gonna call him Salvador Dali now.
A painting called The Great Masterbater.
Shit.
I know what size is like it would be fun to be like,
that's you or me, but like, we're not
that good at it.
This guy's probably good, I'm guessing, right?
I would have to be.
Have a painting named after him.
I got so much shit for saying I jacked off into the shower.
You got shit for that?
I mean, you know, like online, like, dragged off into the dry shower.
But what were people doing?
How are they criticizing?
They were like,
because they were like a dry shower that's insane.
I'm like, well, I turn on the,
I try to, I like clean it up.
It's not like I just like, you know what I mean?
I'm not like I just like,
like I don't chew it in there and leave it.
And they also, there was also talk of,
they were like, they actually, it's funny that they don't chew it in there and leave it. And they also, there was also talk of their like,
they were like, they actually,
it's funny that they don't think they talk about,
I'm not even gonna say, actually,
you know what, 2024, no come talk.
Oh, wow.
Have we, this is the thing.
We already have a few 2024 episodes in the can,
some have already been released.
I don't know if we've already talked about come
on those episodes, so we might have already gone fast it. I doubt it. No come in 2024
I think no come in 2024. That's the way people are gonna react
Am I having deja vu or did we make this deal with ourselves once before?
I think we probably did I don't think that we did something so we're like we're not saying this this year
And then we immediately did it the little proofs
Someone was like like the come talk doesn't bother about even this episode, they talked too much about Com.
They were like, too mad about our ComToc.
Stop reading these comments.
I know.
Not helping you.
I know.
What if this is someone's episode one?
I think that's the word factor of like,
10 food podcasts to start off the new year.
It's like, oh, I'll check this thing out.
That's there for those who are making a note of a pledge.
Yeah, that's there for them.
You're, look, your parents isn't this a podcast.
My mom is listened before.
Yeah, we don't, I mean, I guess that's where shameless,
I guess, is probably the issue.
I just saw your mom, by the way.
She came by to drop you off.
I gave her a big hug.
He was a crazy thing.
As I was happening.
Yeah.
My mom was taking my car and I rolled up the passenger side window,
closed the window on my fingers.
Yes.
I've never done that before, fucking hurt.
You all right?
I think so.
You ever, that's one of those injuries where you're like,
you didn't realize it could be an injury, right?
Yeah.
I've maybe said before, and this is a place
our guest knows well, but the old UCB theater,
the backstage, one of the doors,
one of the stage doors, like I turned the knob on it.
This was during a show, and as it was closing,
somehow the skin on the palm of my hand got caught in the turning
mechanism.
Oh my God.
And it like, as it closed, like just ripped open, like an inch and a half seam of skin that
just immediately started gushing blood.
And this was an old show called Sketch.
I probably still goes on, it's called SketchCram, where it's like an hour long sketch show.
And so I did the rest of the show, like holding a paper towel to absorb the bleeding from my hand.
Yeah, isn't that crazy?
But I was like, how can you injure yourself this way?
Who thinks that the flesh of their hand
can get caught in a door knob?
But it happened to me.
I got a question for you,
who is the door seller pinhead?
He's like something he'd like.
I was messing around with a lament configuration backstage
so that might have been partly on me.
I mean, our guest will remember,
I gotta do the drop.
Yeah, do the drop.
Just put a nation,
but our guest will remember how often this guy had
the lament configuration backstage.
He was always messing around with that thing.
Emma hit him with a drop.
Pecan.
With stress on the first syllable.
Pecan. It's stress on the second syllable. Pecan. Yeah. With stress in the first syllable. Pecan.
I don't know.
It's stress in the second syllable.
Pecan.
It's a piss festival.
Wait, wait, isn't it?
A couple more options.
Pecan.
Pecan.
Pecan.
Strategic.
Pecan.
Pecan.
Pecan.
What's the topic?
Nope.
Pecan.
King. Do I make you only
I like the more is it went on honestly. Yeah, I can't agree on me. I
Drop King and Mitch I spend too much time on this drop
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Please enjoy it, regardless of whether or not
it's played on the show Josh, Burger Brigade,
plus Canadian Cremesman.
Wow, thanks Josh.
Burger Brigade, fuck off.
Anyway, it's a kind of embarrassing
when you hear this old show a little bit in his bad.
But then you know what, we're making the new shows
and they're bad.
Yeah. So, in a way, it's nice. It is you know what, we're making the new shows and they're bad. Yeah.
So in a way, it's nice. It is nice, Mitch.
Rolled doll, we were talking about him before the show started. And we were just saying
that Augustus glimp, gloop, didn't really do anything wrong. And I just thought that,
I mean, like I, people have probably already come to this, right? Like I, like people
have already come to this conclusion.
Yeah, I think a lot of what happened in Willie Wonka and the chocolate factory or the
source Charlie and the chocolate factory has been relidigated at this point. But yeah,
he certainly probably went a little too far. Yeah, old Wonka. Are you ready for new? Are you
ready for young Wonka? Well, it's seen young Wonka by the 10th episode is out. Well, yeah,
you, yeah, first day you and I have got to go in the midnight screening.
out. Well, yeah, you, yeah, first day you and I have got to go ahead and get a midnight screening. Augustus glup is just a little glup of a nut. That will that be in the movie
we're going to find out. I'm not, I'm not, I'm saying I'm not saying the other. You think
that you think that we can talk about a jacket. But we can't, it just can't say.
It's a little three-letter word.
You can think that the end of the movie is like a little,
it's like the gloop of a cuss.
Yeah, it's a gloop.
That's a mid-credits sequence.
It's the low, like going into the egg.
Just a load in the dry shower,
close, close push in on it. Our guest today very excited to
have her back. Becky Feldman. Becky, thank you for being here. Thank you for tolerating all that.
Oh my god. I came here to talk about. Come. Becky, no, I'm so bummed that today. Well, you didn't give
it up. We only we gave it up. That's God. Okay. We can't engage. We can't engage. We can't engage.
Becky, we're recording this in 2023,
but this is coming out in 2024.
And I'm curious, are you someone who is a two years
resolutions?
Do you make new years resolutions?
Do you ever, and specifically does it ever involve food?
Oh, you know what?
I make new years resolutions,
and it doesn't usually involve food.
It's usually like like remember to vacuum.
Like it's like dumb stuff.
Like not like mini, like not self improvement,
but like, oh, when you leave turn off the AC, you know,
like stuff that I should know, you know,
that I like that.
I like that those are achievable.
Look, yeah, low key resolutions.
Yeah.
And tangible improvements in your life.
Yeah, that's great. Carry over are the things that like you carry over for like, Those are achievable. Look, yeah. Look, he resolutions. And tangible improvements in your life. Yeah.
That's gonna carry over.
Are the things that like you carry over for like,
like from then on out, you've fixed the problem or?
I do vacuum more.
I do get a new vacuum and I think that had something to do.
I got the cordless vacuum and I think that helps.
So that helped, but so I am a vacuumer.
So I'm perfect as my point.
Because I'm perfect.
Did you go with the Dyson?
What cordless vacuum do you get?
The shark?
Is there a shark?
Yeah, yeah.
Okay, yeah, yeah, I got that one.
I actually, I got it as a Hanukkah present.
Wow.
My brother and sister-in-law, it was very nice of them.
That's very exciting.
That's very exciting.
That's a good present.
That's a great present.
They knew I had wanted it because they wanted to get a new,
oh, this is the best story you're ever gonna hear.
Actually, it's not, this is the worst story.
I kept asking them for their old vacuum,
and they just got me a new one, which was very nice,
because I, oh my God, because my brother cut his finger
like the way you cut your hand on one of the mandolin
or whatever it's called.
Oh my God.
He cut, I'm sorry, Judge, if you'll,
he cut his thumb off and I get this like panic call
and they're like, can you watch, like, I'm arcade
because we have to go to the emergency room
because he cut like the top of his thumb up
and this is like, this was Christmas Eve.
This was all because they were making Christmas Eve dinner.
Yeah.
And so we had like this like giant thumb for the longest time
and so I, you know, came to the rescue because you know, great. And, and had this giant thumb for the longest time. And so I came to the rescue because, you know, great.
And as a thank you, they got me a shark vacuum.
So I would shut up about asking them for their old vacuum.
That's nice.
It was really nice, yeah.
Here's what I find with,
and this could just be the model cordless vacuum I have.
It has a little less suction power than the plugged in one.
And that's a little bit of a step.
I found the same thing with like,
because for a while I was using a cordless razor.
And they eventually just switched to like,
and this is like the beard trimmer.
You know, I'm clean shaven now,
but you know, I want to have a little bit of scruff.
I went to the, I just switched to the plug-in model
because it's a little more horsepower.
But yours is still getting the job done.
It's good.
I mean, my apartment is the size of this corner.
Like it's very small.
I don't need, like, it takes me five.
And I couldn't even, like, I couldn't even vacuum my apartment for five minutes.
That's how long it takes.
So, yeah, it gets the job done.
I still kept my plug-in vacuum, because, you know, in just in case I make a real big mess.
Yeah.
Right.
No, it's nice to have that we do the option.
Did your brother get that mandolin
from Captain Corelli?
Yeah, and guess what?
It was a re-gift because he got it from Pinhead.
Did you look up Captain Corelli's mandolin on your phone?
Is that what you're doing while she was telling that it's all right?
Okay.
And it is a mandolin, right?
Like, I, it's called a mandolin.
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It's a weird neighbor movie, but if you call it captain crossover, it's pretty good
Well, I captain quarters captain's quarters. Yeah, that's pretty good. All the captains are converging
Yeah, that's a fun succumb you get that and you could throw in like you know
Capcom card. Yeah throwing Sully why not?
Just a random dance captain, you know, who's 13, that would be fine.
Did Epstein fly the little Oli?
He's a captain, yeah, I think he's a captain.
He's in it, he's in it.
Yeah, oh, me, he's in it.
I couldn't even think of like other,
besides like, I was like,
you know, just like captain America.
You know, captain America.
There's plenty of captain.
There's a lot of captain.
Let's talk about.
Let's talk about this bigger now.
I, I should track. I don't see it. Just about this bigger now. I'd shentrocks.
Oh, that's it.
Just Captain's bigger now.
I think Captain America really, like,
captains are kind of big again, right?
Like, for a while there.
But yeah, I mean.
Well, Captain Cronch, Ellie's like one of the big ones for a while.
Captain Cronch.
Captain Cronch's a big, well, that's the thing
for the longest time.
It was like a nautical thing.
It was like a sea captain.
That was the big captain A-hab.
That was like, oh, those are your big captains, you know?
And then you start to get like,
then the Starfleet captains, that's his own thing.
Now it becomes more of a science fiction thing.
And then obviously Captain America makes it a,
you know, whole superhero thing.
So.
You read Moby Dick this year, didn't you?
No, I didn't, I haven't read it.
That was the thing I meant to do.
Yeah, a lot of our friends have read Moby Dick.
I know, it's like, why is there no reading it?
Like, I, it's my goal to never read it.
Yeah.
I love that goal for you.
I think it's great.
That's a great new year's goal.
That's where you want to do it.
I want you like, live the rest of my life
having never read it.
Actually, not reading it.
I think it's very possible for you to do that.
I, it's a great question.
I mean, I, someone sent a segment,
our friend Max Mayer sent Wagner and I,
a segment of it the other day.
And it was like, that segment was beautiful.
I was like, oh, it was like a great little,
this is, this, this, but a lot of it, isn't it like,
about like whale, blubber, and shit,
like, isn't it like a,
I think it's really well written.
I mean, I think a good way to characterize it is,
and the amazing book, Moby Dick,
by the author Herman Melville. The author recounts his story of being at sea.
In the first part of his book, the author, calling himself Ishmael, is in a small seaside town
he is sharing a bed with a man named Quikwegg. And I felt sad it's of all the boring chapters
that were only descriptions of whales because I knew that the author was just trying to save
us from his own sad story just for a little while You're hogging at me false sub let's write booby dick ass say I'm your daughter
Well now I want to read it
What was he jacking up well, oh, it's when he's having a heart attack. He's having a heart attack
Jacking off causes the heart jack enough cause a heart attack. He's having a heart attack. Jack and off cause the heart attack. Jack and off cause a heart attack. He needs the poem.
That's the best part.
That's the best part of the heart attack.
Yeah, me, I'm so glad to have you.
He thinks he's dying and so he wants someone to read
his daughter's essay because it's the most beautiful thing
he's ever read.
It is, we've talked about this,
but the essay is bad.
It's not bad, but it's not a great essay.
Yeah.
But it is like, I understand that, you know,
from a storytelling standpoint,
it's supposed to be like,
it's important to him because it's from someone he cares about.
You know, I understand that much.
That's what we get at that, but we also know it sucks.
I don't think the movie is good.
I do not like the, did you see the whale?
I did not know.
I don't think you need to see the whale.
Okay, I would read, I would read Moby Dick
before you see the whale.
I would read Moby Dick
before you see the whale.
I'm never gonna, well, okay.
I mean, when I first came out that I'm like,
hi, I'm a romance, I used to pretend that,
I read real books, not romance novels.
So I was like, we'd always like,
so when I finally became proud of it,
I was like, no, 50 shades of gray is just as important
to the cultural zeitgeist as Moby Dick.
And so I'm therefore I'm never gonna read Moby Dick.
And I was just like angry about that for a really long time.
And now everyone's reading Moby Dick.
And so now I'm like, well, should I read it?
Like it's crossing my mind, but I made this promise to like my
24 year old self that I would never read it.
And so it's really it's really hard being in my brain, right?
Well, you know my vote.
Don't read.
Come on.
What are you doing?
Yeah.
What is, what is, what are we doing here?
Well, wait, I also just quickly to clarify, is Moby Dick, does Moby Dick end with a big guy
floating into the air or is that the whale?
That's the whale.
Okay.
The whale is the one where, yeah.
Okay.
He ascends to heaven.
And the protagonist
in Movedic does he eat meatballs and jack off to to Pornor or not? That's no, that's
you're thinking again to the way. Okay. That's the way. Yeah. What is okay. So, so, you know,
we've, I guess it on your, your wonderful podcast about romance novels and I know that's
it's something you're a fan of. Do you, is there anything going on in romance novels in 2023?
Like, are you someone who keeps up with the current releases?
I try to keep up with the current trends.
What's crazy is that it is like the world of romance novels
is very like vast and bigger than you think
and there's always in fighting and there's book talk
and all this stuff.
So I am barely able to like scratch the surface
of what's going on. I know what I like, and lately's book talk and all this stuff. So I am barely able to scratch the surface of what's going on.
I know what I, and lately, the latest thing is like,
well, it's not, it's actually kind of old,
but is romance is where the,
if it's a straight romance, the male,
main character is not human.
So it's an alien, if it's a sentar,
you've got orcs, so I haven't read a role.
Well, no, I haven't read for myself read a romance novel without an orc or a...
I don't know what human sex is.
Yeah.
I don't know what it is.
So is if you're reading one of these books, is it the romance novel cover, but there's
a minute tour doing the embraces on that? Yeah, yeah, and it's like, there's really
isn't orc one. Oh, there's a bunch of orc ones. And it's really like, it's really, and I mean,
this in a great way, disgusting. Yeah, because like the way these authors work, it's very fascinating, but speaking of cum.
Orc cum is very delicious. Like it's like it's like it can feed you in this world and there's like a few books. This is a convention like kind of of the genre. I've read two books so far where
it was a convention that the giz of mystical beings is helpful along the lines of like breast milk
or whatever.
Wow.
You give her a life.
Yes. So there is a good series.
I just started, it's like called like Morning Glory Mocking Farm.
And of...
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I never rooted for two people to get together in my life.
But anyway, it's like a very like sweet romance. it's like a centa, like in this world,
centarges is like very potent, very powerful
and pharmaceutical companies need centarges
to like make pills to like cure all the disease.
Got it.
This is like the whale serum in or the the,
the, the, the, the,
talcoon syndrome,
yeah.
Five serum, not syndrome from a way, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, these organ novels, you're written by my exes. They're all written by my exes.
I think they're semi-autobiographical.
That's what I'm saying.
Oh, you all wrote about dating an orc after dating me?
Because they probably feel bad
because the orcs are the heroes in these books.
Oh, that's pretty good.
They're okay.
So this is a centaur farm.
I'm sorry, I can't get off.
Yeah. So in this world, centaur farm. I'm sorry, I can't get off. Okay.
Yeah.
So, in this world, the main character of the female, she gets this job working at, like,
she wants to go into medicine or whatever.
So, she gets a job working at this factory where her job is to just jerk off minotars all
day.
That's insane.
It's so good.
For people not watching the live, he wagers, he just pulled up his resume. He's up there and...
So it becomes like, she's like jerking,
so there's like a regular,
there's like the factory or whatever.
They have like the regulars,
these, these, these minotors who come in,
and they're like, I'm donating, you know,
getting some money or whatever.
She falls in love with like one of her regulars.
And but like, you know, but she money, whatever. She falls in love with like one of her regulars.
And but like, you know, but she meets him
like by jerking him up.
And he, they just like, like gallons and gallons
of really beneficial, um,
and are like, you know, medical creatures.
They know.
And it's the cutest love story I've ever read.
Like it was like, it was like, I don't know, I can't even describe it, But, and it's the cutest love story I've ever read.
It was like, I can't even describe it,
but it was like a very cute love story,
but she just happens to be jerking him off the whole time
and he's gizzling everywhere.
But it's also like, there's a meet cute,
and they talk about their lives.
For audio listeners, just the figure
with which Becky is acting out the jerk off
mannerism and also proportionally correct, I think, to a centaur.
I mean, it was really well, right?
Yeah, it was good, right?
Yeah.
Because, you know, first in this world, like, you know, they do have machines, but eventually
it's like, sometimes you just need a personal touch.
Yeah, right.
And so then the woman comes in and I mean again, like they talk about curse,
ball, like it's just, but like at the same time they're like, oh yeah, I grew up in like a small town
and did it, I grew up in a small town too, you know what I mean?
Yeah.
And it's,
So it sounds, it's, because it's kind of like, hey, this is supposed to be like a clinical procedure,
but it is like inherently sexual and so we can't help kind of developing feelings for each other.
Exactly.
And someone is a centaur or a minotaur or, you know, a not human.
And they just, it's like fluid kink.
Like, people are like really insurgis people, like male organisms just gizzing a lot and
the gizz being delicious.
Look.
If I, if you found out that's like centaur nut, like cured ailments, I'm not suspicious. Look, if you find out that's like Centaur nut,
like cured ailments, I'd fucking be taking it down,
wouldn't you?
I think you're in Centaur's ov right now.
I mean, that to me, that's the funnier thing
is that your nine to five is like clocking
and someone jacks you off.
It seems like more awkward, I guess.
Put on the hard hat, have your lunch bail.
Yeah. Time to get jacked off.
It's so fascinating,
because how did this world discover that minotaur jet,
you know what I mean?
I want the backstory.
Like I just want to be in this world.
I kind of want to be in that world, too, honestly.
Just honestly, just for the benefits of the minotaur jet.
Yeah, it's nice to have a cure all.
Yeah.
That's organic. Yeah. Yeah.
That's organic.
Yeah.
Comes from nature.
So is that the only one with a nut is good or the other nuts that are?
In those orc ones that I'm pretty sure that you Googled the first ones that probably came
up the most popular ones.
Well, that's what's scary.
Because I put orc romance and then Google was like novels and books and I was like,
oh, so this is a real thing.
So like I'm imagine that one of the first authors
that came up was Finley Fen who writes like,
like my favorite book is the librarian and the orc.
Really beautiful.
I'm sorry.
Finley Fen is the first person to get the lady and the orc.
I'm gonna say 97% of that book is just this orc jizzing.
Ah.
And there's a scene where like,
and I don't know why I thought it was so sexy,
but like, he like,
like she has to go on a journey or whatever,
and her orc boyfriend jizzes in a bottle for her to like take along the road
and I'm like that's really romantic I would never think that ever in the real world and I'm like imagine yeah with me yeah okay so this is insane
orc guardian brides colon book three
Cullen book three
Faded to the orc faded. Yeah, faded to the orc
Look at this orc hunk on the Yeah, he's very very very very handsome. Yeah, I mean, I imagine that's just like a real model
They just orced up in Photoshop. Oh, yeah, I mean that's you probably I don't think that's a real orc
I mean could be there's no way yeah, yeah
That's a first topic. What?
What is it? Okay.
Lady and the lady in the orc the first book that comes up.
The orc prince trilogy. Like I said,
Ork Guardian, Brides, book three,
faded to the Ork, I was like,
what's this next Ork?
What's this next Ork book gonna be?
The next book is,
this ho got roaches in her crib.
That's not an Ork romance.
That's not an Ork romance.
I have an Ork romance. I am.
It's the fourth book that comes up with this guy with his hands on his head.
Right.
This ho got roaches in her crib.
What is it?
An urban romance.
Urban romance, or wherever.
I think it is an urban romance.
So basically the premise there is that the person you're dating is not cleanly.
An urban satire. Oh, okay. So basically the premise there is that the person you're dating is not cleanly and urban
satire.
Oh, okay.
It's on paperback 1529.
It's too much.
Okay.
Here's my question.
Should I read the description?
This is the back of the book.
Do you not care about?
No, I'm interested in all this.
Okay.
Austin Lockins 35 and a single father,
finds himself in a precarious situation.
Currently locked in up in Chicago's Cook County jail,
he knows that Fred Quisha,
the trifling mother of his only daughter
is despicable, careless, and reckless thought,
who is the antithesis of caring, loving,
black motherhood.
Wanting to see her son gain full redemption from his current situation is so long, by the way, but I'm going for it.
Dolores Watkins, better known as Miss Watkins, is also hell-bent on rescuing Austin's six-year-old daughter.
Oh my God, what the fuck?
Mitch, I think you should narrate this audiobook.
There's not much to roaches yet.
Maya from the clutches of relentless psychological emotional and physical, oh my god, this is now
making me sad, it's a funny title, the title was funny.
It's a funny title.
Yeah, that happens a lot with the whole thing.
That's the whole thing.
None of this is fun.
Right.
None of this is fun. But you got hooked from the title, which was the whole thing. None of this is fun. Right. None of this is fun.
But you got hooked from the title,
which was the whole point.
And that's all, I think that's all the author wants.
Because there's people who will write these books
and have a crazy title, a crazy premise,
but just to get people to buy it,
they don't care about.
That's the biggest example of that.
And obviously he's kind of doing satire
but it's like chuck angle.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is insane.
Fred Quisha Pierce, a native dangerous
and go Chicago could give two shits
about the welfare of her daughter.
Remission to the life is simple.
Get money, smoke good weed, and ride bomb dick.
Nothing more, nothing less.
After meeting a potential new bay for Fred Quisha
needs to make some lifestyle changes
so she can upgrade her section eight squalor living
so she says, there's no mention of cockroaches
in the damn description of the fucking book.
Yeah, I mean, I thought it was gonna be fun for us
and it wasn't fun.
I mean, I'm glad we went down this rabbit hole.
I'm glad I know it exists.
Like, I'm really glad that person finished,
like I think it's really hard to finish a book.
Right.
Writing a book, hooting it up.
I've never done it.
Me neither.
It's all like very, from the title,
I thought it would be fun.
It's all very serious stuff.
Is that what you find with the Ork stuff?
Is it like very serious outside of the premise
that it is an Ork or a minotaur getting jacked off. Not with like orc stuff.
But like there are like I just read one where actually it was a
human human romance. But um,
we done with those. No, I don't know. I still read them. But I
like I read a MLM bait like a multi level pyramid scheme kind of
like attempting to be like chuck Tingle kind of thing.
And again, like the premise was really good,
but we read the book and I was like,
oh, this person found it in.
I wanted to read like people committing fraud
and like fucking hard and I didn't get any of those.
So, is there, there's got to be,
is an orc, is, when an orc has a baby with a human,
is that an orc eye, is that with an elf?
No, that's like a different,
that's, that's, I mean, that's specifically
the Lord of the Rings canon,
but there are half orcs that just exist in like,
D and D.
Yeah.
But that's not, but,
but orc eye are not, are not half orcs.
I thought they were, I thought they were.
They were corrupted, you know, know like I think orcs fundamentally I think I believe in the Tolkien canon orcs fundamentally are corrupted elves
But or Kaya like their own thing
There's also this one Harriet Paul parper and the bad boy parrot. I can't even say this
Oh, my, is that a, is that okay? This looks like some sort of dino, man.
Oh yeah, so there is dinosaur erotic.
Yeah, yeah.
But these are like humanoid dinosaurs.
No, I'm from, I did was curious.
And read some like full on human on dinosaur erotic, because I think the thing is, is that
like when you upload to Amazon,
you can't upload beach reality.
That's against the rules.
So I think there are people who are like,
how close can we take it?
Oh, this is the step thing in porn.
Yes, exactly.
Exactly, yeah.
Oh, I'm fucking my step mom, you know?
Exactly, yeah.
We know what you really want, but you're like,
most porn now is just like.
There's a lot of, there's a lot of incest and porn.
I mean, it's kind of like a pretty big fetish.
Yeah.
I wouldn't say most, but there's a lot of it.
I'm shocked by how many,
I was just looking through how many work novels there are.
It is.
Insane.
So popular.
It's so popular.
It is fascinating.
And it's like, you know,
normal everyday people like me reading them.
I wonder why all the dope wizlers And it's like, you know, normal everyday people like me reading them.
I wonder why all the Dolbois listeners have beautiful wives. They're on the floor.
Workforce shit.
I do want to, we could talk about this all day and maybe we'll get back to it.
But I do want to talk about something relevant to this podcast.
Last time you were on the main feed, you told, you told, we were reviewing nothing-bund cakes.
Then he came on Doe Boy's Double
and you told a story that was related to nothing-bund cakes.
And I'd like you to retell that story for a main feed out.
Yes. So we reviewed nothing-bund cakes.
And so my brother and sister-in-law had a wedding party
because they got married during the pandemic.
In Palm Springs, you know, where are my parents live?
My parents had...
At least the vacuum gifters?
These are the vacuum gifters.
Yeah.
My parents had like a night before dinner for everyone.
And they got catering and the caterers for dessert
had the buntenies from nothing but cakes.
And first, because look at the tiniest ones.
Yeah.
And first I was excited, because I was like,
wow, this caterer does its research.
Like, you know, the groom's little sister was on Joe Boy.
So I was like, but then I ate it,
and I was like, because we were talking about
the frosting to you cake ratio, and it was so much better.
And I was like, should I text Mitch and Nick and like tell them like it's a Friday night?
I should be like with my family, but like do I just leave and just like text them be like
just so you know the buntingies are so much better.
It's a Friday night.
You're for sure Nick and I are just sitting there not doing it.
I want a hundred percent wish you'd ask for that for sure.
Yeah, yeah. But anyway, so I feel like if we were ever to go again,
the small ones, I think go for the small ones.
Let me tell you what would happen.
If you text us within 30 seconds,
both of us would have hearted the message and said,
wow.
That's what happened.
Is the, but this is the thing,
and this is what I find fascinating about.
It's like nothing but cake,
not the most prominent of the chains
that we've covered in the course of the podcast.
And then for you, the guests on the episode
do random stumble upon it in the event.
It was wild.
I was shocked.
Like, well, I mean, this is a coincidence.
Again, I thought that they were like,
oh, Josh is Sister Becky Feldman.
No.
I can write a romance novel about a man in a vacuum.
It's like sentient to something the right way.
I got room, I got room, I got two room, I got one upstairs and one downstairs, which
people were going,
You wild man.
And room is, you know, they're okay.
I feel like they're, you know, they're okay. I feel like they're early robots.
They're in a sense, they're the appliance
that almost creates as much work as they save for you.
I feel like that happens a lot of times, you know,
and because you gotta maintain them, whatever,
they'll get stuck in something.
And I don't necessarily even mind,
I have a room by the way, I got one at Costco,
but I don't even mind the task of just vacuuming all that much, you know,
let me tell you that when you got when you got little kiddies, why?
Sure.
And they're, you know, they're taking, they're, they're taking their shits and they're taking their choices.
And you know, who God knows what else that they're doing in there.
You gotta, you need the, you need the constant vacuum.
You need it, you need it to be going.
Is the humanoid and like, you know, demi-human,
I would say what exactly is like human
and you know like like, like demi-human relationship?
Is that always like, like, you know?
You saying humanoid over and over again
is terrifying, right?
I'm not sure.
How you characterize them however, like met a human.
It's like the metihuman, is that usually male
and the human is usually female?
Is that usually how it works?
That's the ones that I've read.
I'm sure there's some out there that are,
that are, you know, there's more diversity there,
but the ones that, yeah, I read her.
Human woman.
Like, but there could be like a human man
and like a cat lady for instance.
There could be, yeah, I'm sure that exists.
Am I interested in it and not as much?
Like the furry stuff doesn't work for you
as much as like a big burly orc,
is that kind of what it is?
Or is the perspective that it's like a human lady
is like, like I can, you can relate to that.
Yeah, sure.
I was like that the,
I guess, you know what I really like about these books
is that these like, if they're aliens
or they're like Minotars or Orcs or whatever, they live in their own kind of world and they
don't know the world that, like, we live in.
So, when they, like, encounter these women and what, they're really good listeners.
And I'm not like, something like like really like sexy along
lines of like I don't understand. We mean in your society the the the men make
all the rules that you're just like.
It's fucking beta or excuse. They're all beta, that's the thing.
It's like, everyone thinks they're monsters,
but really, for the monsters, you know what I mean?
Yeah, it's beautiful.
That is, that's beautiful.
Yeah.
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Let's talk about Nick the Greek.
Nick the Greek was founded in Northern California in 2014
by three cousins named Nick.
Baby Nick, big Nick and little Nick.
This is very Donkey Kong-esque.
Mitch, you never listened to my intros,
but that has been touched on.
Wow.
In 2022, the company was acquired by Yada of Enterprises, which is a major
franchise either of Jack in the box in TGI Friday. So like from eight years, they go from like these
three cousins founding a restaurant in northern California in the Bay Area to now, you know, part of
the Jack in the box TGI Friday's franchising family. And they currently have around 80 locations.
I don't know if I think of like quality for this. I Mitch, I agree.
With those corporate partners,
they're not ones who are known for the quality of food.
They're currently around 80 locations in California,
Nevada, Arizona, Texas, Kansas, Utah, and Missouri.
Before we get into the specific chain,
Mitch, I know you're something of a Greek freak.
You love Greek food.
I'm a Greek freak, yeah.
I'm not a Greek myself, but I love Mediterranean food.
You love Mediterranean food. Becky, where do you stand on Greek food or Mediterranean food? I love Greek food. I'm a Greek freak, yeah. I'm not a Greek myself, but I love Mediterranean food. You love Mediterranean food.
Becky, where do you stand on Greek food
or Mediterranean food?
I love Mediterranean food.
Yeah, I love it.
So it's just...
It's also that sort of thing.
I'm like, as a person,
we use a lot of takeout.
It is like the one that you're like,
oh, if I get like a salmon,
like a salmon kebab.
Yeah.
And like some Greek salad or something.
That's a healthy dinner, you know what I mean?
100%. You know, carbs, we get carbs and dinner, you know what I mean? 100%.
You know, carbs, we get carbs and like, you know,
I don't know, like there's some sauces
that aren't good of course,
especially at this place that we want.
If you're like pouring on like,
you know, whatever, garlic sauce and some of the other stuff,
I know that that's not good for you,
but for the rest of the day.
Metatrain diets, it's been,
you know, it's been lauded for decades, right?
At this point, the Mediterranean diet.
Yeah, my doctor says I should do it.
Is that true?
Yeah, she always write every year.
I mean, she always like, are you doing the Mediterranean diet?
And like, yeah, I'm going to the side.
Whoever you know, I mean,
which is the funny thing here.
I mean, especially at Nick the Greeks, it's like,
fries come in like every sandwich.
Right. So it's not, you know, it's, no, yeah.
No, this is not, I mean, you can do a healthy
ish Mediterranean meal here and I tried that
with one of my visits, but that's not like the focus
of this, of this place.
So I went twice.
I did get for dinner last night.
I picked up from the Marine Adele,
Del Rey location, ordered on the app.
The app is kind of crap, but you can tip, which is nice.
And, you know, going to the restaurant, it feels like a new chain.
It's got a snazzy interior, fun branding.
There's a little Greek guy with a mustache that's everywhere.
It's a fun little mascot.
I don't know if that's supposed to be the Nick the Greek himself, but...
I would guess yes, right?
Yeah, probably.
I don't know.
Which Nick, there's three Nick's.
Well, this is the thing, they're all named
after their grandpa Nick.
Oh, okay, so that's the Nick got it.
Okay, that's sweet, yeah.
But what I got last night was a Euro plate,
which is the, you know, it's instead of the PETA,
just got the plate with a chicken Euro meat
and the I sub the Greek salad.
I will say that I'll talk about the food in a second,
but I will say that I love that the packaging is in cardboard.
It's not super wasteful.
A lot of times from one of these places,
you feel like you're just getting so much
like single use plastic.
And I like that that's not the case.
I think that's too it's credit.
But let's get into what we had today.
Well, I'll get into, I put my order in around two, 30 last night. And I, I see your order.
Yeah. And I'm a, I'm a, by the way, the only person who acted this good the night
hours of the doughboys team. Uh, you ordered fucking feda fries. Is that what it was? My order. So
here's my original order. Okay. Chicken suvlaki pita. So I wanna get a different chicken meat
versus the chicken euro I got previously.
Greek fries and I may be mispronounced in this.
Luca Mades.
So I had, I asked for those three options.
Now there's something on the menu called Nixfra.
Nixfra.
There's a separate menu item called Nixfries,
which I opted not to get.
And you were in sense that I did not order
that name.
How do you not use names, Nick? My name is Nick. But so I assumed you were gonna get it. To be honest, which I opted not to get. And you were in sense that they did not order any fries. How do you know his name's Nick? My name is Nick.
But I assumed you were going to get it.
To be honest, like I walked in.
Because it's interesting because they offer
a protein on those fries.
And I was like, oh, okay, someone will get the Nick will
definitely get the Nick fries.
Wow.
I mean, that's what I thought too.
When we were discussing what to do for the restaurant,
you said about how about Nick the Greeks?
My name's Nick.
That was your response to it.
So then you don't get the Nick fries.
I think when I was looking at the fries, I was like, well, I don't need extra protein on
my fries.
But.
And I think you made a good move.
You went falafel.
I did throw falafel on there.
And I think that that was, and I, you know what, I got to give him credit.
A lot of the times falafel very dry, dry guy. Yeah. I thought this one was kind of nice and had some moisteness to it
in a good way. I have a, okay, kind of a two, two part question here. One, is this an existing joke?
And if it's not, is this like a good joke that I should say?
Well, I was here. Uh, wait, what are Flauffle, exactly?
Zero.
Wait, what are full awful exactly?
It's like chick cheese. It's like chick cheese, I say.
Like, oh, I had to met up much of those Greek chickpea
fritters.
I fall awful.
I wait, wait too many Greek chickpea fritters.
I feel awful.
Is using feel awful like falafel?
Yeah.
No.
Okay.
It's from joke books.
It's like,
When like a Greek person first came to America.
Okay.
Feel awful with falafel.
Yeah.
You fool.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Should be phrased more of like a question
and answer classic joke structure.
Does that help it?
I think you should just give up on the joke.
So it is an existing joke and it's not worth pursuing.
I think it's, I don't, how do you feel about this?
My first thought was like, oh, what a fun dad joke.
And I didn't realize that falafel,
but yeah, of course falafel,
falafel would have been the chapter one
in the Greek, toilet humor.
Oh,
I keep thinking about it.
There's something there.
There's something there.
So try it out of the get up on stage
at the comedy store, see what happens.
I drank way too much centaur come.
I fall awful.
Fuck.
Now that I like. That I get.
This is the worst set ever done here.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
We got it.
Okay.
All right.
So I just make it sure.
The.
Uh oh.
Uh oh.
Uh let's talk through what everyone got.
I got the chicken soup, a lot of you, soup, a lot of you,
pita. I got the nix fries, which is feta garlic, spicy yogurt,
choice protein, full awful.
That was what I went with and green onions and the lukamades,
which are Greek bignets with nuts and house made syrup.
I think that was, that looked interesting, Nick.
I did two pitas, which was a little overkill.
Luckily, we'll get into this.
We had some backup.
Yes.
Sasser came over.
Sasser shouted.
Which he's done plenty of times before.
He did, he did text.
Hmm, maybe I'll join too.
He wrote that and you can never tell if he's being serious
or not.
But he was very much serious.
He got himself a free lunch and didn't seem to be happy.
I think that's also like, anytime he comes after saying
he's gonna like come, he doesn't, every time he arrives,
every time he arrives after, you know, are you saying,
wait, COME also off the table.
Oh, okay.
We can't say any, I'm not saying the word.
Anytime you arrive, I just realized,
and I just said, Sintor, come like a little bit ago.
So I'm dumb done.
You're dumb.
I think arrive as a jacket though.
I'm gonna arrive.
Toxies thing.
Love your journey. I love gonna arrive. Toxies thing. Love your journey.
I love the stable.
You can never tell when Suss is, you know, you can never tell what's up with him.
You just never know what's gonna happen.
He's a little mischievous and a little mysterious.
He is a little, he's a little puck.
I guess you could say.
I got the hummus and pita to share.
I got the Greek salad to share. And then
I got the beef lamb pita and the chicken euro. Yeah, pita. I mean, this is chicken euro.
Yeah. I never had nicks nicked the Greeks. And then we may be getting into a taxonomical
thing here because I think there's like the euros is the meat and like like and and
the the but sometimes a euro sandwich is just called a euro.
Yes.
It's just a but, but, you know, they call it a euro peanut.
You can go into a place and order a euro
and get a sandwich.
It would be a sandwich, yes.
It's just as a shorthand for it,
but I think if you're being pedantic about it,
it's like that just refers to the meat itself.
Everyone says it's a hot dog sandwich,
it's a euro sandwich. If there's a year old sandwich.
If you ordered a sandwich and you got a year old,
you wouldn't be happy, right?
That to me is the, not wouldn't be happy,
but you'd be surprised.
So it was like, hey, I'm getting sandwiches, you want one.
And then they're probably back a year old.
You'd be a little bit, you might not be upset,
but you'd be a little bit, this wasn't what I expected.
That to me is the, that's the question.
That's the question.
It's like, it's a year old, then it's a year old.
But yes, a chicken year old to me means it's a PETA, same one.
And I've never had this place before.
I think that it was, isn't there a local LA place that's a, Nick,
or like a Papa Christos?
There's Papa Christos, yeah, that's kind of a local institution.
Yeah, but that's like a single locationup Christos? There's pop-up Christos, yeah, that's kind of a local institution.
Yeah, but that's like a single location.
Okay, yeah.
And that's a fun restaurant.
That's the one I've always wanted to go to pop-up Christos.
I bet it's fun.
Nick the Greek, I didn't know too much,
and then also I was like,
do I know Nick the Greek?
This is the place that I've heard of before,
then also we brought out Jimmy the Greek,
and I'm like,
that's right,
am I just thinking of Jimmy the Greek?
You might have been,
Jimmy the Greek was for people who don't know
for our younger audiences.
He was a guy who was a fixture of sports television
in the 80s.
And maybe in the early 90s, but he was like,
one of the original, there's so much gambling content
in sports television now and sports media now,
but he was like one of the original people
who was talking about betting on football games.
Which you told him that he was also a problematic dude.
Got super canceled.
Yeah.
I didn't really know anything about Jimmy the Greek.
I just always knew it as like a joke.
Like, talk to Jimmy, you know what I mean?
Oh yeah, no, he was like parodyed on the Simpsons.
Yeah.
Like, that's the Lisa sports gambling episode
is a bunch of Jimmy the Greek characters.
So I didn't know exactly what I was expecting here.
I like Mediterranean through like Greek food.
But I didn't know what, like whether,
I like it was that weird thing where I was like,
do I have reverence for this place or am I,
or am I supposed to like this place?
I have no idea, I was kind of confused by it.
And then look, it traveled quite a bit,
but we'll get into our thoughts about it.
I thought that that lamb and beef veero was pretty tasty.
Sus wolfed his down pretty quickly.
You notice when he wolfed his down and asked for a drink,
I think he was joking.
What's he joking?
I'm pretty sure he was joking.
I didn't, I'd not clock that.
I'm gonna ask him.
I'm pretty sure he was joking.
A polite choker?
I guess.
Does anyone hear anything? Sus was like, drink. Yeah. And I was like,
oh, that's funny. And I noticed he wasn't really talking. And then he drank the drink.
I think he was choking. That's wild of true.
Yeah. He came in to the to our office here. He wolfed down a pita choke to drink a drink
and then left basically. May have just been a little bit like kind of like,
you know, like your throat's tight or something like that.
Not like he was actually asphyxiate.
I think that that's what, yeah, I think that's kind of what it was.
Becky, what did you get?
I got the lamb beef pita.
I ate some of the banyay and some of the pita chips,
or like the pita and hummus.
I, I, I thought it was good.
Like I will sit down much like Susser.
Yeah.
My, it was so good,
but it did get a little soggy towards the end.
Yeah, there was some travel issue too for sure.
Yeah, but I did enjoy the taste.
I thought the taste was good.
It was a good chewy pita too.
Is the resolution of these books like an orc human wedding or is it like it's not like a beauty in the beast thing where you turn human right because that's not the fantasy. Not the fantasy. You
stay your same species. Got it. Yeah and like you like sometimes you'll live in like orc mountain
or like sometimes you'll move into like the fantasy town with the dirt. You know, it's like, yeah. Is there any, do any of them pull the shrek where the
lady becomes an ork or ork like? Oh, the reverse meeting. Oh, did you say be in the
beast? Yes, I'm sorry. What were you doing? I texted Sos asking if he was joking. Okay.
When Amelia got you a drink or you kind of choked,
that's what I've asked him.
We'll see what he responds.
But yeah, is there any of the Shrek
where the lady becomes ork like?
Um, no, everyone remains like who they are, you know,
and it's like a really good message.
Right.
You don't need to change.
Yeah, sure.
For sure.
Kind of fun though.
Yeah.
I think I, so, okay. I thought my PETA, here's the first thing.
I have a question too.
Does orc, like, this miniature breast milk
or does orc breast milk do anything to?
I don't think there are females in those species.
That's why they mate with human females to like,
cause you know, yeah.
They're like mules, they're all male.
Yeah, cause some of them are in societies where they're like,
well, what are we gonna do?
We can't pro-create, we lost all the female or whatever.
They're gonna be gone, yeah.
Mules are all males, huh?
Yeah.
They're all male and they're all sterile.
They're, wow.
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The, with a meal I got today was decidedly not healthy at all.
Like that pita comes with fries inside
and a mustard sauce that is really like,
that's fucking heavily sauce.
It's like really, really a goopy sandwich,
a very wet meal.
But it does not, it seems quite caloric.
I would not be, you know,
surprised if this was a 1500 calorie PETA.
It was flavorful and I will say,
contrasting the two meats versus the euro I got last night,
I do think the suvlaki,
like how it was a little bit more flavorful
and substantive than the chicken euro.
But it's, this was definitely an indulgence.
It was a mixture reminded me of Halal guys,
which we reviewed on the podcast, God, years ago.
Now, Emma was saying that was maybe the first episode
she worked on, is that possible?
I think it was one of the first in person records
at Mitch's house that I was a part of.
That's wild.
That's crazy.
That long ago.
At least it was one of the first meals I remember eating
with you guys at Palmerston.
It was, but it was like of the first meals I remember eating with you guys at Palmerston It was but it was like like sucks
What so long? I mean just so long. Oh just the time moves so quickly. Yeah, I know sucks. What are you gonna do?
The but it remind me of whole all guys in the sense that whole all guys is not is not healthy like that
Sausage that they have there is just again, just so saucy, so caloric,
and this is the same sort of experience eating this.
You get some healthy, like a sidewalk grill,
which we've had wags together,
you can get a lot of good.
Sure, we're even a place in it.
I mean, you, Zank, who if you do the right things,
you can have a pretty healthy meal.
When even talking about like a bigger chain,
like a Delphi or Delphi, actually don't know how to say it.
But I think we also reviewed that on the podcast,
but that's another place that has some
more, some lighter, you know, Mediterranean options.
So those, those, those places exist.
This place is not trying to do that.
At least it isn't trying to do that with a bulk of its menu.
Same thing with the Nix rise, which just so much of that, that spicy yogurt on the guy,
just fucking Peter North all over it, just with a falafel on top, it just so much sauce.
It's a lot of sauce.
And I thought these were good, but like...
Peter North, a jack-o-let, a jack-o-let.
Oh.
Oh.
I just try not to say the words, though.
Yeah.
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Two chili cheese fries are not an appetizing thing to look at.
I think they oftentimes look kind of gross,
but I love appetizing.
I think I thought these were good.
They're just again so fucking heavy.
I guess you could have this as a meal
if you wanted it, if you want to have a real bad day.
But it's just, as a thing to share,
I'm like, man, I don't know.
I don't know why I would need this over the regular fries
or like some rice honestly.
Yeah, it's that sort of, I mean,
like I'm not a guy who gets animal fries it in and out either.
I mean, like it's fun to try them, you know what I mean?
But I'm not a, you're actually the only one
who's kind of a chili cheese fry guy.
Oh yeah.
And to me, that's like, wow, begging me over. This is a little bit, this is kind of frustrating for us.
And maybe it's because you read so many of these romance novels and
right.
Other creatures immediately, all your now, I have different species.
I appreciate that.
Like, there's no white.
But Gemmy, uh, Gemmy's dog has come over to you.
Just look at that.
So, looking your hand,
to Nick and I kind of just stares at us.
Yeah.
Like this.
Okay, she's gonna be a little bit of a sniff now.
She's waiting.
No, no.
So, she likes you way better than she likes it.
Yeah, I'm actually like,
I'm actually like,
which is understandable.
Okay, yeah, I mean,
we have the same taste in books.
Yeah.
And mate, three of the same taste in.
Uh, so, and then, and I'll stay my thoughts on the dessert,
but, but Becky, how was your,
like, what was your reaction to your meal?
I did enjoy it, I found it tasty.
I really did eat it fast because I was hungry.
I wish I should have eaten it slower.
Not so fast, I'll tell you that much.
I feel like there are times where,
how sometimes when you eat cured meat or whatever,
it's like, oh, this is all salt.
I felt like when I got a little salty sometime.
It was a little salty, I grew that.
And we were talking about the onion, onion situation.
It was, there was a lot of raw red onions in there,
which I wasn't not expecting, but it gave me like
an aftertaste of a burger.
Yeah, for sure.
Yeah. So much red onion.
I would say that this is the weird thing about my plate,
is that I get the Greek salad instead of the fries or rice.
But the Greek salad came in its own container.
This is what I got last night.
Then there was another container with the chicken Euro meat.
And then everything else in it was just like,
there was a little bit of PETA,
and they do like a fried PETA there,
so it's a little bit heavier.
But it was like the fried PETA,
and then just a whole shitload of tomatoes and red onions.
Like so many red onions and tomatoes.
And that's the same thing with that PETA.
It was like just loaded with red onions
to the point where it's just like,
oh, my breath is gonna stink all day.
So no one is getting into.
That's, that's, that's, that's,
in fact, Emma, that's why you didn't get anything from here. Yeah, it just wasn't
feeling the onion flavor in my mouth for the rest of the day. Right.
Selling Amelia sometimes I'm okay with it, but today when she texted me this
morning, I was like, it's just not my vibe for today. Onions, isn't it?
Which which is funny because Nick and I didn't even seem to worry about that at all.
I'm like, I'm impressed. I don't like hair.
But it is a commitment.
It is a commitment.
I love onion, I mean, I love onion and garlic
to stinky things that stay with you for most of the day.
It is very oniony.
I maybe could pull back the onion a little bit,
but my other issue with the pizzas,
and I know that this is a travel issue,
kinda weak fries.
The fries themselves.
Right, I mean, how come on?
Are the fries that good?
I don't know.
There's seasoned okay.
I'm not saying they don't taste bad.
I just like, they're just like a little thin.
And I guess in a sandwich,
you don't want really thick fries.
I just like, I wasn't blown away from the...
I don't know if we need them in the PETA.
Like, I don't think they add in much textually
But you know, this is a thing where I think getting it to go. You lose it. Yeah, I wasn't when you had it in person
Well, I didn't get but I didn't get a fries. Oh, okay for that meal. So I probably should have yeah
Seems like you fucked up
I mean you didn't fuck up you went to the restaurant twice
So you're just kind of like a fucking big fat I mean, you didn't fuck up. You went to the restaurant twice.
So you're just kind of like a fucking big face. So you're just kind of like a fucking big face.
So you're just kind of like a fucking big face.
So you're just kind of like a fucking big face.
So you're just kind of like a fucking big face.
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but I don't know, it just wasn't really doing the job for me.
There's an argument that in this era of like so much,
pandemic into post pandemic, like take out is way up,
delivery is way up, people are being accustomed to like eating
meals that are prepared outside of the house, but in their own homes. People are being accustomed to like eating meals that are prepared
outside of the house, but in their own homes. And there's maybe an argument to taking that
into consideration in your concept that these things probably may have been picked up by
someone driving for door dash who's going to drop it off to someone else 20 minutes later,
and maybe that should be accounted for. Because it certainly did not, to your point,
the fries did not translate well to that experience.
But also, I just think there's maybe an argument
to just like, do we even need them in the PETA?
That said, I think the meat was pretty good,
and I think this was like a fun indulgence
if you want like a heavy Greek sandwich.
Yeah, no, I mean, I don't think the food is that bad,
you know what I mean?
I leave this place not knowing.
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but they did have a nice big whopping square
feta on there.
And it was kind of fun to,
and the taste of it was pretty good.
Yeah.
I don't, I kind of leave this experience
still kind of confused about this place a little bit.
I'm not confused about it.
I think I, I think I, you know,
I get what they're going for.
Yeah.
I think if this is a place that was near where I lived,
I probably would get it more off.
I would order it more.
100% I think this place is,
that this is a quick-to-go Greek meal
that you can have as a work lunch
or you can have as a quick bite at night.
I think that's what they're going for.
Let's talk about the desserts a little bit,
because I thought the Benyees were pretty flavorful.
I can't say that those were good.
They were good.
Yeah.
I actually thought both the desserts were pretty good.
You got the Baklava?
I tried the Baklava.
I didn't get it.
We got it because we got Nick points or whatever.
Oh, that's right.
Which is kind of like Jimmy the Greek in a way
I guess you get some there's a point system or something where you get a free dessert. I'm asking you like this is new every
Restaurant in the world does this. Oh, I'm thinking we should institute Nick points on the deal boys patreon
You get Nick points and cash them in what do you what would we give them?
You can you like Nick points and cash them in. What would we give them?
Peepics. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha Oh, Tutsi-Fod, like she said something about you, like, oh, you're Tutsi's, or whatever, and I was like,
what the fuck is he uploading fucking feet picks?
Well, you know, I had like, we have a shared photo.
You have a fresh panic here, you have a fresh party.
Just tossed it in there with my-
How's it like, can you upload the pictures of the food
and then there were toes? Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha- From here on out when I upload my Doboy's food pictures, it's just me shirtless too. I'm a fuck you think that would be that's weird right?
Is that on the same level?
Probably close.
Alright, we'll start doing it.
We'll see.
What's grosser to look at a foot or me with my shirt off, flexing.
Probably pretty equally gross.
Yeah.
Anyway, save up your neck save up your Nick points,
add in some feet picks.
I'll send some along too.
Yeah, I thought the buckle about which we got
for which they tossed in for points.
Yeah.
I thought that was pretty good too.
Like, I'm not, I wanna eat at this restaurant again.
And I'm not saying that needs a do-over,
but it is kind of one of these ones where I'm like,
it's the first time I'm eating it. I didn't know really what to expect going into it.
I knew it was Mediterranean, but like, I want to try it a couple more times before I...
Yeah, I feel the same way. I wish that I would have gotten my sauce on the side.
That honestly is a good mod. Yeah. Good thing to know for a future order of this place.
That's what I'm really into.
I'm really into that.
That's your first search.
Yeah.
Again, there's a lot of it and it really soaks in there.
Is there, and I apologize if this question is too explicit.
Do they ever talk about the centaur, like Giz is like,
you talk about his fallium and it's like medical centaur, like Giz is like, like it's, it's, it's, you talk about it as a fallium and it's like, like medical potency, but they ever talk about like how it's like,
you know, like it's like, it's temperature, it's texture, it's temperature, anything like
that.
I think they do, I think what they jerk off into is like put into like a refrigerator.
I think it's like a milkshake consistency. Like when it comes out,
I'm, this is what I imagined as I was reading.
As I was reading.
I hated his question,
and then I'm horrified that you have so many answers.
It's like soft serve thick.
I can't tell you how often I think about
orc and Minotaur Joe,
like on a regular basis.
I think they put it in a freezer afterwards.
I think it's like probably,
I'm assuming it's body temperature.
Oh sure, yeah.
So you're drinking like a milkshake.
You're like, this is like the texture of minotard juice.
Yeah, like I legit can't drink vanilla milkshakes anymore.
Because like, I think like this is what or juice is.
I like the idea of it being like 200 degrees.
Very hot, movie cool.
Yeah.
So, wait, you wanted to know quantity, too, is that right?
Do you know quantity?
Well, it sounds, no, I think you were, you communicated that already.
It seems like it's a lot.
Yeah, oh, I mean, it's like a nice style.
You got any more details on that?
Like, how much is it like a lot?
It's like that's in that.
Like, like, I'm, like, what I was picturing, I couldn't even, because again, I'm reading, so'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not.
I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I'm not. I mean, they are half horse, right? Like that is, and yeah, horses as we know,
they got hangers.
That's true.
Horses got hangers.
They do.
I can't believe this is an episode.
This is the episode where you made the no-com pledge.
If you led with that.
I'm just excited to talk about like minutes
hard and orges and like not to my therapist.
You can finally like have like a real conversation about it.
So it is like it's a, a minute or is it a bull?
Is it a horse or a bull?
Oh, you can play.
Minotors your bulls, centors are a horse, right?
Okay. Because a minotaur has the bull like head.
And then the centaur has the, like human torso and head
and then the horse body.
Okay, so I'm thinking of minotaur then.
Okay, yeah.
Yeah, wait, minotaur has the human upper half.
Yeah, human upper half horse lower.
It's like a horse.
It's like a horse, it's like a horse mermaid.
Is it like a horse dick basically?
Yeah, you have horse dick.
He's gonna have a human dick.
Well, I get my, like a little,
like a little pink human dick, horse body. Now it would be human dick. Well, I get my- What is that beam here? Like a little pink human dick, of course, buddy.
That would be so weird.
It's like the first night you're having sex with a centaur
and like-
You're like this is why I'm, like the-
I'm part of the thing.
Oh yeah, right.
Exactly, I have questions.
That's exactly what I'm saying.
Hahaha.
It also a horse dick is like hairy, right?
Doesn't have hair on it.
Is it like a dog's thing where it's like kind of like
shaved and you know emerges?
Is that the situation?
And the Jack Hubees when I saw the horse stick,
a lot of it looked like it was had a horse hair on it.
Then I don't know.
I don't know exactly what's going on there.
Interesting.
Donkey's horses, because I've saw a donkey bone or one time and like
like came out and like went back in like. So that is that is that does sound dog like. Yeah.
But you saw what was the context for seeing a donkey bone? I was in Versailles.
We were like walking the grounds of Versailles. And I think there was like, I don't know, there was like a pet not a petting, but like farmland.
And my friends and I, we were, we were in college and like, we like went up to just like
look around and there was a donkey like just, we, and we were just mesmerized by his
boner because it was like out and just we, and we were just mesmerized by his boner
because it was like out and then it,
you know what I mean?
And so I will never forget, I will never forget that's all.
But like it just like emerged
and I don't remember, I don't think there was fur on it.
Or there.
Yeah.
It was like this black thing and I was like,
mrrr, mrrr.
So maybe there's like, it's like protected
unless it needs to come out for,
you know, fertilization.
Exactly.
Yeah.
We'll do a double on this.
We'll do a double.
Yeah, but I,
donkeys, I think are a different species for horse.
And, and I believe that a mule is a horse donkey hybrid.
Oh, okay.
Got it, got it, got it.
Okay, now it makes sense.
Got it.
Yeah.
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uh...
should we wrap up our thoughts on uh... on nick the greek's now that we've now
that we've discussed the dot he did yeah let's get to our four scores for
nick the greek uh... so uh... back you down the podcast before but just a
refresher we will each go around give a closing argument if you will summation
of our thoughts on this chain and then end that by giving it a score
from zero to five forks.
Do you remember offhand what you gave nothing but cakes?
They can look it up.
Oh, I probably gave it a three, or maybe,
because I enjoyed cake.
I'm gonna look it up while you and Mitch are giving your thoughts,
but your guests will begin with your thoughts,
your forks score for Nick the Greek.
I'm, I feel like I was disappointed about the sagginess of the sandwich.
It was good.
Of the Euro.
Can I give it a 2.5?
That's the worst score I've ever given anything ever.
And I'm like, I don't know.
I wasn't expecting to be messy.
I'm sorry.
I wasn't expecting my hands to be full of shit.
No, I guess.
It was just like the good shit. No, I guess I think. Ah! Ah!
Ah!
It was just like the good...
Yeah, it was very jizzy and no, it was um...
It's so funny that you saw a donkey boner in Versailles.
It was, like I don't remember anything else of that beautiful architectural dream, except
just all like the three of us just mesmerized
by like, are you staring at the boner?
Are you staring at the boner?
I'm staring at the boner.
Oh man, that's, I think when I have forks.
Yeah.
I think that's an okay score.
I'm going higher, but I look,
would Jimmy the Greek bet on Nick the Greek swags?
I guess that's a question you can ask. It's Jimmy the Greek bet on Nick the Greek swags? I guess that's a question you can ask.
It's Jimmy the Greek's lock of the week.
Is it Nick the Greek? Is it? I mean, I think that's a kind of thing you would say.
I don't remember if it's a lock of the week.
But I think that this is a sort of place that you should bet on.
I mean, as far as like, I mean, it's a hell out guy.
Like, I mean, I know that the hell out guy is his middle eastern, right?
And this is Greek food.
The same, but generally.
Sure.
I'm saying like, concept, you know.
Chicken, like, shwama, ee, you know, whatever,
euros or whatever.
And they're clearly, and I brought it up earlier
because they are both going for,
you know, they have some overlap for dishes
and they're both going for this as an indulgence.
This is a treat.
This is not like, you know, they have some overlap for dishes and they're both going for this as an indulgence. This is a treat. This is not like, you know, like a healthier, lighter option.
Yeah, I mean, like as far as like big chains
that there's not a ton of like Greek chains like this, right?
Like there aren't, just that are national.
I mean, I'll talk about that in a second,
but I do think we're starting to see more of these.
Yeah.
I don't know.
I need a revisit.
The travel, which maybe is just an issue.
I mean, some food doesn't travel well at all.
And I didn't eat it in house like you did.
But the taste factor was pretty good.
It was there and there were some stuff that the desserts
and I was like
Oh, this is like better than you'd find it like a lot of fast food places
You know, and I would bet that this place could take off I think I think I take that pick of the week. I think that it will probably will be successful
I just don't know exactly how I feel about it. Yes, I'm gonna go
Three and a quarter forks for me a quarter forks. For now.
A quarter forks.
Still good.
And I thought the taste for good.
It is very on the knee.
There's some things that I liked about something I didn't like about it.
And I want to revisit.
That's how I feel.
Are nothing but cake score.
Becky went for forks.
Mitch, you went 3.75 forks and I also went for forks. Mitch, you went 3.75 forks, and I also went for forks.
So it's just on the outside of the Golden Play Club looking in.
We had a pretty good experience in hindsight at nothing but case.
Or tasty.
They were tasty.
Mitch, you were just talking about this.
And I do think actually think we are in an era of Mediterranean fast casual ascendants.
I think we're starting to see more of these chains
start to become national start to expand.
I think we're gonna say,
I think one of these is really gonna hit.
And in the same way that like,
it hasn't happened earlier, right?
Like, like, I guess these are like so often
are local places.
I mean, like becoming a fast food chain
maybe bad for the world in some ways.
You know what I mean?
Like Emma knows this in Massachusetts.
There's so many Greek pizza and Euro shops
and you know, and then everywhere
in the North Shore too, especially.
Yeah, certainly in certain cities
and certain neighborhoods there,
you know, you can get great Greek food in America
and get great Mediterranean food.
You can get in Los Angeles a lot of places.
I think as far as like the chain version of it,
I think this is a good execution.
Now they said this place is very chainy.
That was like her part.
And I think that's absolutely true.
And look, this is a chain restaurant podcast.
This is what we do, this is kind of a new cover.
But this is a fucking chain version of this.
And I think the founders are all,
they all are true.
They went to a, what did you say? They're all my nick. They're all named Nick like me, that's my they are, they all are. I'm Nick, they went to, what did you say?
They're all my Nick.
They're all named Nick like me, that's my name.
But they are Greek, they went to like two Greece
and that inspired this concept,
but I think they're also like, you know,
a lot of what they've said about this
is that they're not trying, they're not going for authenticity,
they're going for accessibility.
And so maybe that's what makes this place.
Right, they went to Greece, is that their connection to Greece?
I mean, I think they're also of Greek heritage.
Oh, yeah.
I thought you were like,
what are these three next guys just went to fucking Greece?
They were all the musical Greece.
Yeah.
They were inspired by a trip to Greece to found the chain.
Like they went to Greece and they,
you know, the graph was wrong.
They saw the movie Greece.
Like, let's start calling ourselves Greek guys.
Nick, that was so impassioned. It's not the movie, Grace. Like, let's start calling ourselves Greek guys. Ha ha ha.
Nick, that was so impassioned and I'm almost, I feel like I was too negative of a score.
Can I change my score?
No, well, I didn't even get my score.
Oh, okay.
Also, yes, you can.
You can't.
Oh, my God.
I just was very moved by that speech.
You just gave about, like, you know,
it is a chain restaurant and I should have remembered that.
No, I think your score is fair.
I think, and honestly, it's, and we're going to be ballpark buds
because the same name of it is your score.
Mm-hmm.
In fact, I think the high man here is Susser who texted me
his fork score three and a half forks.
I saw that.
He didn't want us to see it because he didn't want us to be
influenced by his score.
He said it.
He thought it was one.
Yeah.
Would never, I would never care what he said.
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, would never I will never care. Yeah, he said
You think it would have been four forks if he hadn't choked
Too hard to chew yeah, Dr. half fork
Yeah, choking hazard
It was your fault you ate the sandwich very quick. He was very chocable
To no more in this shirt. Oh my god. You're it's not it looks fine. Oh, I've been off today I mean keeping the inner It was. She's in the war in this shirt. Oh my god. It's not. It looks fine.
Oh, I've been off today.
I mean, keeping the shirt writing up.
I should have worn this shirt.
I'm dad.
Stop.
I've already ignored my mom's tax degree.
Anyway, I think this is good quality.
I would get this again at lunch.
I don't know if I'd be a regular here,
but I think basically bitch,
to go back to what you were saying.
My experience today doesn't really change
versus my experience last night,
because yeah, I had it in different contexts,
and I had it from different locations,
and I had different menu items,
but I just think this is a three fork place.
I think this is like a straight down the middle.
Hey, you know what, this place is trying to do
a chain version of Greek dishes and it's fine.
This is completely fine.
If I worked in an office that was near Nick the Greek
and someone was like, hey, we're doing Nick the Greek
for lunch today, be like, sure, I could do Nick the Greek.
I could find something to eat.
Yeah, you know what's a bummer is that,
well I'm sure you can do this, but like what,
that, that, that beef and lamb, Pita,
I would much rather have like the chicken,
Euro, I'd much rather have like the set up of the beef and lamb,
which I'm sure you can do.
Do you mean because they have different sauces?
They have different sauces.
What I'm has a Tsitsiki, that Tsitsiki is with the red meat,
and if you get the chicken, you get the mustard sauce.
Yeah. Yeah. The mustard sauce on it was kind of meat, and if you get the chicken, you get the mustard sauce. Yeah.
The mustard sauce, it was kind of a weird,
they made accessible things.
I don't know.
I'm not quite sure what that is.
That feels a little off.
And I think it probably would have been better
with the Tsitsiki.
Yeah.
Anyway, it's not bad.
It's a test or a decent.
Three forks is a good score.
Those open days were good.
I don't know.
Yeah.
We're not being down on this place.
We're all average or slightly above average.
This was a fine experience and I wish them all
to the success and I hope that the influence of Jack
and the box does not degrade their quality
as you might expect it to.
But we'll find out.
Hey, you know what, Mitch?
That's what happened to fucking Baja fresh.
Baja fresh got bought by Wendy's
and their quality went down the tube.
So it's true.
We'll see.
All right, that was our review of Nick the Greek.
It's time for a segment.
I've got to duck out for a second
because I got a mystery drink.
And Mitch and Becky must use their senses
to define what it is.
It's another edition of the Wigher Challenge.
I'll be right back with the Wigher Challenge.
All right, Becky, while he's gone.
I hope it's just what.
What?
I hope.
No.
It's miniature jizz, I'm like, I feel fucking great. Oh, my disease is cured. You've talked about mini tours, we've talked about,
is there any sort of, so we orcs, mini tours,
is there anything else that you haven't touched on yet?
Aliens, yeah, there are aliens.
Is it usually an abduction thing?
Yes, it usually is, it's a thing that's not really a thing. Is there anything else that you haven't touched on yet? Aliens, yeah, there are aliens.
Is it usually an abduction thing?
Yes.
It usually is, like, there's a really popular series called
the Ice Planet Barbarians, and it's about these women
who are abducted by evil aliens, but they, like, fight back
on the, on the, not airplane, on the spaceship,
and they manage to escape, but they crash land
on this, like, planet with a bunch of, like, on the spaceship. And they manage to escape, but they crash land on this like planet with a bunch of like blue alien men.
And they have like horns and tails
and like they're like dicks are in the shape
of a popular sex toy.
Like, you know, it's just like everything
you've ever hoped to dream.
And they're all, and again, they're really good listeners.
It's a popular, I mean, that sounds like a huge part of it.
Is a popular sex story like the rabbit?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, like they have like the,
I don't know, a spur or something, like, yeah.
I know about, I knew about the rabbit.
Yes.
And that is, that's like, that's the go to,
I guess.
I think it's a go to a toy.
Yeah, yeah.
That's very funny that they're in a, in a,
anatomically, it's like a, it's like a vibrator from Earth. Exactly, yeah, yeah, that's very funny that they're in it in it anatomically. It's like a it's like a vibrator from Earth
Exactly. Yeah, yeah, and it's like there's you know like on there's
What not studded what is that you know what I mean like I'm ribbed the rip you know what I mean like it's like
Anything you could dream of like I felt doing an alien place like they have like flesh lights
Like the woman all have flesh
Exactly that like that's exactly what this fantasy is like okay I fell to an alien plane, I was like, they have like flesh lights. Like the woman all have flesh lights. Yeah. Exactly.
That's like exactly what this fantasy is.
It's like, okay.
Oh wow, your anatomy is exactly
from the pleasure chest that I shop at.
That's so sad that like American men are so bad
at getting women off that.
Bormant's novels write things where like
the aliens have vibrator dips.
Right.
Hey, Wax.
Well, he's gone again.
And so a lot of the times they're abducted, brought to the different planet and then they
crash.
So of all of these genres, are there any other weird ones?
Well, there are alien ones where, um, thank you.
What the hell?
Um, the fuck?
Where aliens have like crash like earth
and they're doing like an experiment on earth
and like they're like they are dressing up as humans
but like they have like a hologram thing
and then like the woman discovers like,
oh you're really an alien like, yay.
What of all those honors,
which is your favorite?
I think right now is aliens for me.
I think it's aliens, although I do think about orcs
in just every day of my life.
Do you like science fiction or fantasy more generally?
Um.
Outside of outside of romance.
Yeah.
You know, right now it used to be science fiction,
but now I'm more in a fantasy.
Interesting.
Yeah. I know I got into a fantasy kick,
like last summer, still there.
Yeah.
What, are there any other besides aliens or X miniatures,
any other weird ones that you can think of before
you come to this barge or Goblins?
Gargoyles, there are gargoyles.
Yeah, I guess you mean that.
Yeah.
I know I'm missing something and like,
Frankenstein. I think there's a. I know I'm missing something. And like, Frankenstein.
I think there's a Frankenstein.
I think.
Gargoyles, I mean the,
the Carl Goyles cartoon show on Disney, remember that?
Oh, people were definitely horny for me.
Oh my God, first crush.
I mean, he's looking.
I mean,
so Mitch, you said what the fuck
when I handed you the beverages for the Wigercound?
Because this is a two-barreled Wigercoundling.
Wow.
You got two different beverages.
And I will say,
full fisting.
These are the same brand for whatever that,
that these are two different varieties of the same brand.
So Becky, how this works is you can use any clues
to try to figure out what these are,
whoever comes closest is going to get the victory
and will receive a full can of each of these drinks.
I should say that Mitch is currently 17, 12, and four lifetime
in the Wigher Challenge.
The Wigher Challenge.
Shout out to Vanot who maintains the Doe Boys wiki,
which I also use for our forks course.
Four ties, yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
That's a bullshit.
There's very vanilla-y smell coming off
from this shorter glass here.
Yeah.
There's a short glass, and then there's a jar.
And the jars and the short glasses that you each have have the same.
Oh man, that's.
Line up with each other.
Crazy.
There's, it's Dr. Peppery, right?
Am I, or am I selling it?
I think that there's, I think there's a little,
a little bit of, oh, I know what it is.
You know what it is. I believe so.
Okay.
Off of what Becky said, or just like off of your own brain.
Now I don't know if I know what this is.
After another set.
This one is diet.
Yeah, I agree with that one.
This is a diet soda. You're holding up your right hand with the shorter top. This would be Dr. Pepper's is diet. Yeah, I agree with that one. This is a diet soda. You're holding up your right hand.
This is the shorter time.
This is the shorter time.
Dr. Pepper's strawberry diet, strawberry, and cream.
And this could be regular strawberry and cream.
Dr. Pepper.
It also could be like a,
a,
like a Doc Browns or something.
Hmm.
But I think this is strawberry and cream doctor pepper.
How do you feel?
I definitely think it's strong.
I think it's doctor, like I just, it has a doctor pepper smell.
I smell it.
Yeah.
This I feel like might be like regular doctor pepper.
And then this is the diet vanilla.
That's interesting.
Yeah, that's what I'm tasting.
So Mitch, you say diet strawberry vanilla
in your right hand and what's your guess for the other one?
She brought up Dr. Pepper first.
So this is a, this is a tricky one.
Okay.
And I think that this is,
I think this is a flavored Dr. Pepper I don't.
But it doesn't taste exactly like strawberries and cream.
This is these two barrel wiger challenges are tough.
Is there cherry, Dr. Pepper flavor?
Mm-hmm.
It might be cherry.
Oh, you know what? I think there's cherry.
And wow. Yeah.
Is that what it was? You fucker.
And this is strawberries and cream
You want to lock in your guesses?
I mean, it seems like we're walking it feels like this is like the first time ever in the Wig or challenge where we've kind of come to the same
Yeah
conclusion my thought and I'm not locking in and yet we're gonna converse
This feels like cherry Dr. Pepper.
And this feels like the strawberry vanilla or whatever.
Yeah, strawberry cream.
Strawberry cream, yeah.
That is where my heart is leaning.
And you're saying DP heavy, like just straight up Dr. Pepper.
No, you know what?
I know, don't think it is.
I do think it's Diet, Dr. Pepper.
Diet, this is Diet, Cherry Dr. Pepper. Diet, this is Diet Cherry, Dr. Pepper.
This is Diet Strawberry and Cream, Dr. Pepper.
You think both are diet, okay.
Understandable, yeah.
That gives you another swag.
Mm.
Maybe this is diet, okay.
Yeah, I think it could be diet, yeah.
Are we locked in the same way?
It'll be a tie. It'll be a tie. Yeah, we're locked in the same. Wow. You're both making the same guesses.
Wait, but wait, let me ask a question. Is there a chance you mixed?
You put anything. Nothing has been all there's no there's no there's no no these are both straight out of the
air for the fun of it. Should we go with different answers? I mean, it's up to you.
Should we go with different answers? I mean, it's up to you.
Okay, I'll say, is there like a vanilla Pepsi,
diet Pepsi version of it maybe?
That could be this.
I mean, I could see this being Pepsi, the short glass.
Like a strawberry cream Pepsi.
Yes, there's not even a lot of Dr. Pepper tastes to it.
Yeah, just this, I just, I know the smell, like when you put your nose on a cup of
it.
Dr. I don't know why.
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lock in to Diet Cherry, Dr. Pepper and Diet cherries.
Sorry, Diet Cherry, fuck.
Diet, strawberries and cream cream Dr. Pepper. Mm-hmm diet cherry Dr. Pepper those are that's where I'm on it
Okay, I want to light lock in this as cherry regular cherry Dr. Pepper and this
I'll say that it is diet
strawberries and cream Pepsi.
Wow, on that last one, Becky,
I think I have to give it to Mitch
because they are both Dr. Pepper varietals,
as I said earlier, but they are the zeros.
Dr. Pepper, strawberries and cream.
You weren't correct, but strawberries and cream zero
and Dr. Pepper, cherry, zero. I think this is a tie, honestly, because correct, but strawberries and cream zero, and Dr. Pepper Cherry zero.
I think this is a tie honestly,
because you want to call it a tie.
You said cherry, and also you brought up
Dr. Pepper, you're a partial pepper person.
But I was very sure that this was strawberries and cream.
Yeah, I think this is a tie.
Well, they're too close.
I don't think I deserve it.
For the two of you to divide amongst yourselves.
You can have as a guest, you get first choice.
I will take, which one, and we've got,
we got these strawberries and cream doctor,
pepper zero and the cherry doctor.
I will go with cherry, what is it?
Are you okay with?
No, no, I'm fine with that.
I don't care, this is not yet.
Yes, I just feel like.
This is.
Yeah, no, it's fine.
Okay.
Wow, that was a well fought Wigher Challenge.
I never drink it.
You're good at it.
You're never drinking soda growing up.
And that's so weird.
Yeah, I wasn't a soda drinker.
I was always afraid of the fizz.
It was too ticklish.
Oh, you're afraid of it.
This wasn't like, because a lot of times,
when I know someone who hasn't didn't drink soda
as a kid, a lot of times it came from their parents
being like, soda is banned in the house.
Oh, no, my parents wanted me to drink soda.
They're like, being normal, are you a Wigor Doe?
Like, I think the zero actually did make that slightly confusing.
Yeah, right.
I think it did,
because it was, maybe points to the zero brand,
it was hard to tell that one of them was diet.
And then when you, when you were like,
are you sure that both of them, and I was like, wait.
Yeah.
Let me taste this again.
I was like, that is not full sugar.
I think those were, I think that the DP flavored zeros
are hidden.
I think those are all working really well.
Very good.
I need to have zero more.
I don't do zero, like whenever I do drink soda.
I never go for zero stuff, but now I think I'm converted.
Do you do diet?
What do you do?
I just do regular, yeah.
Those are fun now.
Yeah, I know. I think that the
cherry is the better of the two. I think the cherry is masks. Maybe the the if you're trying the two of
them. What? I think the cherry may be masks. Did you try this or no? Yeah. I've had both these. Yeah.
No, they these are I think the cherry vanilla can be or the cherries and create weight strawberries
and cream versus the cherry can be a little bit sciencey.
Cause it's a kind of flavor.
Yeah.
Yeah, this one, and it, like you can taste that the diet chemicals, and then this one,
which is obviously not a good thing.
And then this one, I think maybe the cherry masks that a little bit, or like the cherry
maybe you have also makes it taste a little more like Dr. Pepper, like where this tastes
less like Dr. Pepper. Yeah. this tastes less like Dr. Pepper.
Yeah.
But both are pretty good.
I think they're pretty nice.
Yeah.
Mitch goes to 17, 12 and five in the Wigher Challenge
and other tie.
You know what?
I tied with someone who is good.
Someone, I respect their soda tasting art.
Yeah.
What can I say?
How the hell the battle?
You're talking about me?
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I respect your soda tasting art.
You hear that mom and dad?
No you're not.
No you're not.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.
I tied with a great one.
What can I say?
It was a, that was, that was, that was,
that was, it was tricky.
I wonder if the normal person,
I mean, I guess the most normal people
could probably figure this out, right?
What are you talking about?
Like taste tests like this are, are we freaks,
I guess, is what I was trying to figure out?
I think you have, you're pretty good at the Wigger challenge.
I think you have a pretty sophisticated palette
for this sorts of thing, for the sweet sodas of the world,
and all the different beverages
that were likely to taste here.
We've talked about this before.
I couldn't support Trump.
There were some blindfolded
if someone gave me burgers from McDonald's, Wendy's,
Burger King, and-
But also for like Gatorade flavors and stuff.
Like you have a good nose for that.
But you could do that too.
If blindfolded it,
they give you all sorts of different burgers.
You could do it.
I wish for the blindfolded challenges are harder than you think. They are. But if blindfolded it, and they give you all sorts of different burgers, you could do it. And for eyes, I think.
I wish the blindfolded challenges are harder than you think.
They are, but also it's like,
if someone threw an A and W,
I'm like, okay, sure,
I don't really know A and W that well,
and that's gonna be tougher.
But if they were all,
if they were like,
you have like six burgers in there from all this spot,
I think I could, I think I could do it.
I mean, that's content.
I just gotta say,
we have a Patreon episode right there.
We got a Patreon episode right there.
As I am a Patreon subscriber,
I would like to see this episode.
You blindfold each other.
We got to stop you right there.
Unsubscribe.
Yeah, please unsubscribe.
Yeah.
Hey, that was a Wigher Challenge,
just like a restaurant value feedback.
Let's open up the feedback.
Today's email is from Mike from Philadelphia.
Mike writes, my wife and I recently had a baby
and all of our time has been dedicated
to this little gremlin.
Because of this, we had little time to cook tasty meals,
let alone eat and all.
We've come to rely on ultra quick,
no prep meals like bag salads, frozen pizzas,
tuna melts and cereal. My question is, what is your favorite lower no prep meal like bag salads, frozen pizza, tuna melts, and cereal.
My question is, what is your favorite lower no prep meal
that you can quickly throw together
when you just don't have the bandwidth
to think about planning it out?
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Check that out.
PS, this 10 pound baby produces some gnarly milk shits.
Ooh. So I shudder to imagine the nightmare Mitch's mom This 10 pound baby produces some gnarly milk shits. Cool.
So I shuttered to imagine the nightmare
Mitch's mom lives through when changing his full diaper.
She's a god.
She's a god.
She's a god.
I also think I'm just drinking milk up
bounces in the balls.
She's a god.
She's a god.
My mom does not change my diaper anymore.
I moved out here almost 20 years ago.
Yeah.
So she's not changed my diaper 20 years at least.
At least that lost.
She is out here this, you know, she's been out here for a week.
This truly a disgusting thing to read there at the end.
Really gross BS, little grandma makes you think that it's possibly some sort of
romance between oh sure
lady grandma at the end of gremlins too is quite the babe yeah we don't have clarity and whether or not mic is an orc and as romance day a a human lady and has produced a a gremlins spawn i think in
the future people should write in what species they are.
Let us know if you are in the North or a Centaur.
We love to know.
Or an alien.
At the end of Gremlin two,
it's probably the lady Gremlin is with that guy.
She has a big, like she's like,
oh man.
And she loves that one guy.
Right.
And then if you remember.
Wait, is he horny or is he like,
oh, oh, at the end of it,
like he's just, at the end of it, he's kind of like,
he's like, he's kind of like,
he's kind of like, he's kind of like,
yeah, I think he's kind of just like,
well, I'm not as well, you know,
it's like clocking in at the jack-off,
or whatever.
Oh, it's just Thursday.
Yeah.
Yeah.
This is a good question.
I forgot what it was already.
The question is, you don't have any time to cook
because you've got a kid or you've got
whatever going on in your life.
And what is your no prep meal?
Like you're not ordering in, you gotta have something at home
that you gotta prep quickly.
What are your options?
That's good.
Mike is listing like bag salads, frozen pizza,
tuna melts, and cereal.
I mean, of course, frozen pizza is great.
If you, but like that almost feels like a cheat.
I'm saying, if you you have no time at all,
grilled cheese, peanut butter and jelly for me.
Sure.
Grilled cheese, or it feels more like a dinner.
I know you'll like this one.
A little quesadilla, Wags.
Here's the deal, great.
My answer was going to be just a scramble.
Because you don't even have to use the brain power
to make an omelet.
You're just like, I'm gonna heat up this pan.
I'm gonna put some. I've been using gill lately,
some clarified butter, which is just like,
I don't even have to worry about the pan getting too hot
and burning my butter, I'll just throw that in there
and it's fine.
And then I can, you know, I can cook up some eggs real quick
and then whatever you fucking wanna toss in there,
because that's like whatever you got,
some vegetables that are left over,
some, you know, whatever, some deli meats or something
or some shredded cheese,
whatever you want to throw in there,
you can just sort of mix that up.
And that's a real quick burst of protein.
Also just having bag salads,
I mean, that was mentioned there,
but like having bag salads is really handy.
I'll fucking have that all the time.
It's like, you know, whatever,
I can prep some sort of protein or something,
I'm just gonna have like a handful of,
I can salad out of the bag with dressing.
And that's a meal.
Nick, the Greek is about to sleep with the fishes
if you catch my drift.
I don't, I got a shit.
Jesus Christ.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
Should we call your mom?
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry.
I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm going to be a little bit more. I'm going to be a little bit more. I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more.
I'm going to be a little bit more. I are hanging there for a little bit more. This is great. Every time I've been in the movie before, I've been
during an episode.
Right.
You know how it is.
It's happened to you before.
It's not pretend it hasn't.
That's being a human being with a body.
Sometimes you have to go to the bathroom and it's an
opportune time.
Uh, look, it seems like that life, it just seems like hell
for a while.
And you're, you know, like you're eating and sleeping whenever you can.
Right.
I think if I was in your scenario,
like eggs are a great thing
that you can keep for a couple of weeks.
I know that, right?
You can, yeah, you can use it
to do three weeks.
You can use it to do three weeks.
I actually think that actually does bring me
to something which is that just having eggs on hand
are really handy for pleasant up whatever.
Like you got some ramen,
drop a fucking egg in your ramen
or have some hard boiled eggs that you can just sort of like
throw in there.
Cause like it's really easy to plush up some ramen
to all of a sudden it feels like a real meal.
Like you get, you toss some green onions in there,
toss in some sliced hard boiled egg, you know?
All of a sudden it's feeling a little bit more like
like an actual lunch.
I also think what we've talked about this before.
I mean besides we talk about take out a lot, but I know this is cheating. I also think what we've talked about this before. I mean, besides, we talk about takeout a lot,
but I know this is cheating.
I know it's not in your house,
but grabbing a rotisserie chicken at the supermarket
always pretty helpful.
Yeah, because the leftovers are good too.
You make chicken salad out of that,
whatever you want to do.
Yeah.
A little chicken sandwich.
Yeah.
We had a Kizmat rotisserie, my mom and I,
for dinner there.
Oh, there you go.
Made herself a little chicken sandwich the next day.
It looks good.
Uh, anyway, what do you have?
Do you have thoughts on this, Becky?
I feel like I'm there are like, I don't really cook that much when I'm just like,
it's just me in my house.
So I will do, you know, like the 90 minute, a 90 minute, 90 second rice packets and like,
a can of beans and some seasoning,
and I'll just do a quick microwave,
beans and rice in under three minutes.
It's not like, you know, fun.
But if you need something in your body,
that's, I do that.
I've definitely done, this honestly became a pandemic meal
for me with some frequency is like,
fucking just like
cooking hot dogs like in a can of beans.
Like just like put that in a pot
and it just like whatever I can heat this all up
and yeah, this is this is some protein and some fiber.
That's unallately tricky to get in that,
taking the vaccines you put it in a pot of beans and hot dogs.
It is one of those meals that just looks fucking nasty when you got, like it's just like I can't believe I'm eating this, but it's pretty great.
Stan, yeah.
Yeah, I mean, if you have a kid, you know what's funny is I was like potting with my
brother and sister when they had their baby and we got Zenkou chicken every night when
the baby was so tiny, yeah, I'm just like, I've found memories of it. Yeah, that's, I mean, honestly, just the idea of,
because frozen pizzas and stuff like that,
obviously great if you have them.
But then like burger patties, if you toss a burger patty
and then whatever bread you got in there,
you put a burger on an English muffin,
you put a burger on whatever, you know, some toast,
you're good to go.
Yeah.
And don't hesitate to ask your friends
to make a casserole, because those will last for a very long time. And there you go. Yeah. And don't hesitate to ask your friends to make a casserole because those will last for a very long time.
And there you go. Yeah.
So. Yeah, you should be getting some friends.
Yeah, your friends, yeah.
Yeah, you need friend food.
Plus, the only plus side of your dad dying,
you get all this food.
You're in.
Some of the best food I've had has been-
It's a dad joke, you mean, you get shivers.
You're gonna get it, what's that?
I think the best food I've ever had has been It's a dead joke, you've been to shivers. You're gonna get it, what's that? I sort of the best food I've ever had has been at shivers.
Like I get like kind of not excited,
but it's just like, ooh, you're ordering from famous.
Yes, like.
They give you, you get, I mean, people just flood you with food.
It's too much, but like, I feel like,
obviously the birth of a child of it's a joyous occasion
But it's quite the opposite of a right parent dying, but it's similar right?
I don't maybe maybe you don't get as much food as as when when someone passes away though
Maybe we want to give you shit. We want to help you out. Yeah
That's what I do when when someone has a baby. I like get them I try to get them something to eat you know
Yeah, like a meal train.
Care's about the fucking babies, those, those no shit.
Man, not the fuck's going on.
That's the people for the baby.
When there's a baby, the people who are losing their mind
the most are the parents.
Like the baby is fine.
The baby's just living it's life.
And so I usually make like, you know, like a huge casserole,
like tin thing of macaroni and cheese. And they can just have it for the week, you know, like a huge casserole, like tin thing of macaroni and cheese.
And they can just have it for the week, you know, put it in the oven or the microwave,
do what you want with it, have fun.
Yeah.
Good bye.
I don't know why I was so mean to that person.
There you go.
Fucking eat it.
Yeah.
I think there is something to just also like putting a little bit of work into the presentation.
Like for me, like, I'm gonna have,
okay, you know what, this meal is going to be,
it's gonna be wheat toast with peanut butter,
sliced bananas and honey.
But if I just kinda make that look kinda nice,
like I do the nice little honey drizzle,
I put that on a plate with like the square,
it's all like cut all nicely.
It kinda like feels like a proper meal.
Like that kind of also helps me for losing my mind
when I'm just eating something in a pinch.
So I would say also like if you have a second,
like yeah, maybe make it look like a meal.
Yeah, like even like smashing avocado over a piece of bread.
And then you know, like that makes it fancy.
Yeah.
New parents are gonna make it look like a meal.
They're gonna do the slop bowl.
Yeah, I know, but I'm saying like if you have a moment and you're just like,
hey, what's the first off, this isn't just about
like new parents.
This is just like talking about the general experience.
But I'm saying, like, if you're limited in time
and resources, but you can dedicate attention to something,
I don't know, I think it's fine to take like an extra few seconds
to kind of make your plate look nice.
So like, I'm not just eating pure garbage.
Like, I feel like I'm actually eating a meal, you know?
Just for the sake of sanity.
We've got my dad can't die again.
Get that pony.
He's pissed.
Look, I've already went through it.
I'm saying he's already gone.
So they're like, like, he came back and he's gone again.
I get all the shit again.
Do you want us to just come and give you dinner? Just as. Just set up a meal train. Set up
a meal train for no reason. People will sign up and give you dinner. I can't make dead
dad jokes on my, that's the benefit of having your a dead dad. That's what you get. You
get to make the dead dad. Say whatever you want. Get a nice little, you get a, you get a,
you get a, you get an edible, you get it.
So many edible arrangements.
That's what I remember the most.
It's like 17 edible arrangements on our porch.
Yeah, I feel like you were thinking of sending
the edible arrangement in that context.
Maybe like someone else probably got
the edible arrangement cover.
Yeah, you know, I don't need to be the edible arrangement guys.
Someone's on that dude.
There was truly like, yeah, there was like 15
level arrangements.
This march they were on our enclosed porch
because it was cold outside.
You know, they were fucking delicious.
That's gotta be so much of their business.
It's just delivering a big fucking decorated basket
of fruit to people
who are grieving.
If you see the edible arrangement truck coming, you better, you know, come here blessings.
Call your parents.
But in serious question, did edible arrangements just become edible or did I see a different
company?
Wow.
I could be one.
That a lot of companies are doing that.
They're doing the Sean Parker,
they're dropping part of their brand
and just making it really.
Yeah.
That might be, they might just be like,
hey, just edible arrangement sounds just specific.
I feel like I saw a commercial for it
like last night when I was watching Jeopardy,
but I could be wrong.
I could have imagined it.
Edible arrangements does feel like a modern day
like casket man or a corner or something.
Like they come to your street
you're like, oh, this kinda something's wrong, you know what I mean?
Yeah, you're like, like there's like a thing
where like an edible arrangements like truck comes to your house
and they give it to your wife and she's like,
thank you, I miss my husband so much
that's how you find out you're fucking dead.
I'm a fucking ghost.
They should have had me say that way.
And then you wipe it that way.
Come inside, I'm lonely.
Oh shit, she's sucking off that apple arrangement guy.
Oh shit, he's a fucking minotaur.
There are ghosts, there are ghosts, there is ghosts sex too.
Yeah, that's what I was forgetting.
The URL is still edible arrangements,
but no, but the brand just says edible.
You look like it.
Okay, there we go.
Wow.
Straight to the point, I guess.
Yeah.
Yeah, edible.
It's an edible food.
Really clinical name for an eatery.
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What a treat.
You guys are the best.
That's you, Becky. That's a mirror queen.
I saw your one woman show and it was fantastic.
Thank you.
Are you doing that again in 2012 or in 2012?
I want to and I want to keep everyone posted.
Yeah.
Let people know anything else you want to plug?
Yeah, I have my podcast, Two Stupid To Live.
There are at this point going to be episodes where I review an alien romance.
Alien Hanukkah romance is gonna be good.
We're excited for that one.
So insane.
I had a bl- well you know it's been years at this point but at a blast one I did your podcast.
Very very funny podcast.
You're welcome back anytime.
I love to.
Now that I know about this work or romance genre.
Oh come on.
Did I drop out or something stupid?
Everyone happens with guests, you know?
Is that what happened?
Was I supposed to be on the show?
There have been a few book-related podcasts that were supposed to, the dope boys were supposed
to guess and end up wiger-guesting.
I just wanted to say that.
Well, we were talking Roll Dollar earlier.
That's probably one of the last books I've read.
I would love to be on.
I can read a book.
You can definitely read one of these books.
They're very easy.
They're very breezy.
I'm there fucking horny.
I love this.
I probably will cause me to read it.
My mom was in my room and next to the bed was a Confederacy of Dances and I've never read it.
Yeah.
And I bought it to read it and she was like,
this book's great and she's like,
you'll never read this. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha It's probably right. Anyway. Anyway, that'll do it for this episode of Do-Boys
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Yeah.
I said Nick the Greek to the fishes.
Oh, my God.
I can't believe it.
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