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all right hello good morning and welcome to a tuesday edition of tbtl summer games edition that is my name is luke burbank right over there my friend andrew walsh good morning

good morning i'm already i can't help it i'm already thinking about the banana peppers that

will be on my subway sandwich later today now see we made a solemn pact that we were going to not get caught up in the time frame weirdness of recording shows in advance but if you remember when we left off yesterday andrew and i were both about to order sandwiches and today we're still about to order sandwiches because four seconds has elapsed for us since we wrapped up yesterday's latin quiz edition right i want to make sure people don't think that you're just you've fallen into a hole and you're just eating subway sandwiches for every meal of your life well

Well, no, I mean, not to put you on the spot, but I felt like I was maintaining the timeline good there because we said at the end of yesterday's show, boy, once we do the subway quiz tomorrow, I know we'll be running out to get sandwiches. So I was still referring to the sandwich today, which we hadn't gotten.

Oh, I missed that part. And also, I'm incapable of keeping all of the timing straight because, of course, the Summer Games, this is our chance to have a little bit of vacation time and enjoy the beautiful summertime, I don't know, life by putting some of these shows on tape. But it also involves us recording a lot of them kind of right in a row. and like in fact I've been very worried I guess the listeners Andrew know more than I do about this but I have trotted out a new patented hit joke for the summer games which is asking people to like and rate us on iTunes which no longer exists right and that was that's why that's so hilarious but of course I invented that while we were doing summer games there's still plenty of regular TBTL that will need to be recorded for us in the next few weeks and I'm wondering if I will slip into my patented hilarious joke. In other words, if I'll basically incept a joke into the regular show from some taped programs that will have been yet to air.

Well, I have a top here, and if I spin this top and it never stops, it means that we're recording the TBTL Summer Games. Do you get that? Do you get that joke?

Oh, I have no idea what that means.

You mentioned incepting, and I was wondering, have you seen the movie Inception?

I have.

It's a device. Did not care for the ending. Did it end? I think it's still going. I'm sorry. I'm not a huge. Is that Nolan? Is that Christopher Nolan? I'm not a huge Christopher Nolan fan. Bubble's not a fan either, as you can tell. But don't you remember there was a, like, it was about, like, are you dreaming or are you not dreaming? How can we tell? And there was a top, like a toy top that you would spin. And if it just kept spinning forever, I think it meant you were dreaming. Are you squeezing the cat? What's that noise?

No, I was just picking her up. Oh. She just likes to tell me that she doesn't like being picked up sometimes.

I wonder if she's going to be really loud. Like, it sounds like she just squeaks, and that's nice. But I do wonder if, like, you know, when Theo, the older he got, he was never a noisy cat until he got old, and then he would just, like, yowl all the time, especially around food time. You know what the weird thing is, Luke? I don't think we've talked about this. Bananas never made many peeps at all around food time because Theo was yelling, like, starting in, like, an hour before food time. Theo had it covered. Yeah, and now that he's gone, and this happened almost immediately, Luke, Bananas took over. Like, Bananas yells and gets really hyperactive and yells before dinner time. Now, she's not as loud as Theo, so it hasn't been as much of a disruption. And also, the older he got, he just did it kind of all the time. But, like, it's really funny how Bananas is like, well, it's up to me now to get these humans' attention to get the food. Isn't that funny?

yeah now the thing with bubbles is she just has there's just constantly food in her dish but i don't know if that's maybe i'm doing it wrong because you you feed professor at and i know that becca feeds holly you know in the morning and at night like maybe i'm doing it wrong by just

having food out for her she just seems so she seems healthy i mean it's just as long as she doesn't get a gut you know like that's the thing like for us it's just for health like bananas is so um as was theo even more so um she's so food motivated that it's just like we we were out of

town for just a quick overnight um a few months ago um and or not a few months ago it was early july but um we uh put out the gravity feeder full of dry food usually we give her cans of food um and the second i pulled that thing out she just i mean before we even hit the road she just started gobbling it down i thought she was gonna be sick like i can't trust her with an unlimited supply

of food yeah um i will tell you on the subject of um catitude bubbles is getting in certain ways like i when she was a really little kitten i was very happy that she was so docile in the cat carrier and i would just take her places and stuff and she would usually just kind of maybe meow like once or twice but then just kind of go to sleep or just chill out now she's starting to when she's in the cat care she's not like fighting me or anything like when i put her in there but she'll definitely meow for a longer duration like she's figured out she has a voice and that it annoys me and that she can use it yeah to get what she wants so that's kind of a little bit of a she's still on the spectrum of like you know some cats you've got to like basically like you've got to rendition them to get them to go to the vet and like trying to get them into the cat carriers is completely impossible you got to wear those big like i don't know like you're an iron worker kind of leather gloves that go up to your bicep she is not that way but she is not as chill in the carrier as she used to except when i'm literally carrying her in the carrier like i can put her in that thing and just walk around town with her in it and she doesn't make a peep but when we get in the car and i put her on the passenger seat and she's in the carrier she's not stoked yeah yeah

that's kind of a bummer because i i mean it's not the worst thing in the world but when you told me that she's like just pretty chill in her carrier i was very jealous of that not that um you know not that our cat's like well Theo when he was young and dangerous it was really hard to get him in the the crate but uh but you know he just always seemed very unhappy in there and you know we never took him on super long drives in the carrier um but it just bummed me out because he seemed so nervous and insecure in there so I was very happy that you had a cat who's just like

taking it all in stride I have to tell you on the subject of the cat which is let's be honest really the primary subject that i bring to the the radio show or i should say the podcast anymore as you and i are sitting here uh in my case standing right because i kind of alternate between sitting and standing well when we do the show normally i'm standing but when we're doing summer games because sometimes it'll be you know we'll be into like two three hours of recording after we've already done a regular show i will sometimes sit but in this very moment i'm standing I'm talking to you, we're talking cats, and I just turn around, and I will send you a picture, Andrew. The cat has just leapt up onto my tall-ass chair, and is just sitting there, basically ready to host the show. Oh, nice. Okay, great. She is ready to go. All right, good. I'll take that.

Your ears were burning.

Shake things up a little bit. Okay, we should take a break here, because I am so excited about this Subway menu quiz, even though I would say my knowledge of Subway is fairly limited. For many years of my life, I just got the chicken sub, and now I just get the veggie sub. So it's not like I haven't sampled lots of sauces and potions and this and that related to the Subway Sandwich Empire. I don't even think I'm going to do well at it. I just want to talk about food because I'm hungry.

I just realized that Mike gave this quiz a great name. Menu, I hardly chew you. That is pretty good. I'm going to make that the show title. Point for Mike.

Yeah, Mike's already winning. All right, so quick break and then back with the Subway quiz here on the Summer Games. All right, let's get into it, yeah, with this Subway menu quiz. Are you going to administer this to me? I am.

I am the one who administers. This is how it works, according to Mike. Here are seven fast food menu items with their descriptions. Your job, your job, Luke, is to determine if each one of these is a real, potentially discontinued but real item or something that mike made up entirely okay i think we should also add a tertiary thing about whether or not you would eat the sandwich i like well assume and we have to assume yeah yeah assuming i eat yeah exactly okay cool take

the vegetarianism or whatever it is i am flexitarianism off of the uh list here for this

here's the first one okay you ready shake them up fries shake them up fries this is a real sandwich from subway new from oh i'm sorry these aren't all these aren't all subways it was just subway inspired i see so new from burger king it's a bag of french fries pour in as much cheese flavoring as you like and give it a shake extra cheese for just 25 cents more shake them up fries is this something that was offered at any point at burger king i am gonna say yes that seems like a thing they would have done i Thank you. will tell you, Luke, that you are correct and very much loved. It's real. It was launched by Burger King in 2002 and discontinued shortly thereafter. That obviously doesn't sound good to me. Here's the thing that I'm questioning. A bag of french fries, pour in as much cheese flavoring as you like. Do you see that as dust or liquid? Exactly. And would you

eat it? Well, I mean, I would eat it if you gave me a fork and a Table to sit at but then you're just talking about Basically poutine it's poutine right Yeah which I could get into but I Mean not as A like I'm in the car I'm on the Go situation Like that just sounds like an absolute Disaster if it's liquid cheese and then If it's powdery cheese if it's cheese dust I'm Not really into that either here let me see if I can

Find out here something new shaken at burger king introducing shake them up fries just dump in your fries add as much cheesy flavor as you want it's a powder luke and eat sold separately only at burger king rocket power is did you hear that okay because it was really

weird it only came in one ear for me so i don't know how how well you could hear that but um yeah so that uh that is like a powder flavoring like it's literally flavor blasted only you get a blast at yourself.

I could see I'm watching the commercial myself and I think they were trying to sell this as like a fun activity for young people. Because they've got a bunch of kids. I mean, and they're shaking their fries up so much that it almost I mean, it's actually structurally unsafe for the people that are in that particular burger. It's very dangerous.

Would you eat it with the powder now that you know? Is this something that you would maybe try once but never really go back to? I mean,

get me after a few adult beverages and i'd eat just about anything sure right but it's not it wouldn't be if i were going to burger king it wouldn't be at the top of my list of things that i would order now would you

eat it because it is not liquid cheese well i would eat it because i add the cheese myself and i just wouldn't add it so i would just have a bag of fries that i paid extra money for i see um what do you get at burger king when you go to burger i'm glad you asked because burger king is my fast food place of choice and i will get because you know everybody just calm down but i am a big man and i like big burgers so i get a double whopper no cheese although burger king is the one place where cheese isn't assumed by the way you have to ask for cheese if you want but just to be clear i always say no cheese uh i get a double whopper and then i'll get like the pickles and i think ketchup and mustard on there i if they have any kind of special sauce or mayonnaise i ask for them to keep it off um but here's what i do luke i also get as a side instead of fries i get the onion rings right and then i ask for a thing of barbecue sauce and then i add the i like my burgers very condimenty and so condimenty so i add um barbecue sauce to the burger and then i will lay one or two of those onion rings on the sandwich so it's wow you're That's a real aftermarket. That's a real mod you're running on that whole burger situation. I don't know why I said Tex-Mex. I didn't mean that, but it's like kind of a Texas barbecue burger or something when I get done with it. Wow.

That is not where I expected this to go.

Yeah.

So you're like, you're throwing onion rings on there. You're doing your own thing with the sauce.

Yeah. I'm rolling up my sleeve.

I'm seeing a pattern, though, because you were explaining your Subway order the other day. And I think Veeves and I both were, you mentioned Veeves was like, huh, that's not a typical combination. It's like honey mustard, but with spinach and other things. And again, no shade. But I think you might have, see, you describe yourself as having a fairly restrictive palate or kind of a list of things you will and won't eat. But it's not like you're eating boring stuff. You're just eating your own. You're just dancing to the beat of your own drum.

Yeah, that's certainly true. I mean, I think the word you're looking for is taste. I have a lot of it and it's good yeah

let's see well of course I do like that Burger King has the impossible Whopper but the problem is I actually don't like the Whopper is how do I explain this I will I would rather order two junior Whoppers and eat them than one Whopper if that

makes sense and I'm getting a double Whopper I like it meaty I like

well what it is for me is I like too like when I used to um you know eat uh regular hamburgers like there's nothing I like more than a Dick's drive-in cheeseburger and part of what I like about it is it's how kind of compact it is how it's like a little hockey puck of deliciousness and like so when I used to go to Burger King and get regular stuff on the menu I would get the Whopper Junior but I might get like two of them because I just like the size of the Whopper Junior the big Whopper itself first of all a real disaster those things are speaking of structural integrity those things tend to fall apart in my experience and again it's like i don't know why it's like i will eat the same amount in fact

Maybe more than I would have, maybe two Junior Whoppers is more than one Whopper, but I just, I like the size.

Yeah, and I'm, you know, we've had this conversation, too, we're different on hot dogs, too. Like, I like a big, beefy burger, hot dog, I should say, without a lot of bun. I think too much bun ruins it, where I feel like you're the opposite.

You think that too much meat ruins it? Well, I have, I'm very persnickety about that, because I also don't want too much bun. Like, I don't want a giant loaf of bread, but I don't want it to be, I don't want a hot dog that's roughly the, width of like a eugenio suarez's bat right right like the part where he's holding his hands like the you know the the handle of the bat i don't want a hot dog that is really really thick um because i don't want to dwell on it too much what's going on the other thing that i get at burger king which is weird is i like their cheese sticks well i've never not liked anyone's cheese sticks anywhere burger king does cheese sticks oh no idea yeah and by the way they're not good like you know i will pretty much it is a given that if i go somewhere and they have cheese sticks on the menu i'm ordering it and about 80 of the time they're they're lousy and i still eat all of them like i have a very i have an extremely open and non-judgmental relationship with the idea of cheese sticks um bring them out i don't care i'll eat them they probably will be bad i'll dunk them in some marinara and i'm good but it's not common i think we've talked about this before

because when Vives and I order a pizza, it's kind of common for us now to get pizza and hot wings, which I know you're not into hot wings for various reasons, including the fact that you don't eat meat, but even when you did. I didn't like them when I ate meat. Yeah, they're messy. You don't like to really think about the fact that you're eating meat off of a bone. I think you're kind of against that. But we'll do that. But also, sometimes if we don't get the wings, we'll get cheese sticks. Like a pizza and cheese sticks is a very common order for delivery for us, but not you, huh?

i would i listen i'm not saying there's any rhyme or reason to this but for some reason that seems like you're really just dominating the cheese space yeah you are unnecessarily the same thing it's just deconstructed in a different way that's kind of that's the thing although you know what i am a total sucker for is that highly synthetic pizza hut stuffed crust pizza no right yeah i love that shit and that there's another i think it's like papa john's Somebody else has bitten their rhyme and is cheesing up their crust. And basically, if you order that, you've almost gotten like cheese sticks and your pizza ordered. But that's what I like to do when I go to Burger King. I get me the Impossible Whopper. Who do you think has the best fries, by the way, of the big three? And the big three, in my mind, are McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's.

This is where people get angry at me. And by the way, best fries, my favorite overall would be waffle fries from Chick-fil-A, which are amazing. Which we now know how to spell. Right. We did earlier. I've already forgotten. People don't like me saying this. People think that I'm loud wrong about this, but I actually go, even though I don't get them because I get the onion rings, if I were to choose my fries, I would choose Burger King fries because they're almost like those battered fries now. They redid their fries like, what, a decade ago or something? Oh, right.

They've got more texture on them.

Yeah, and I think a lot of people really don't like that. It's funny. It's like those would be my favorite fries, except I don't get them because I'm an onion ring boy.

Huh. I would say for me, it's actually probably Wendy's because I think Wendy's does a thing where they they kind of leave the skin on a little bit now. Like it's a little bit more of like that kind of rustic, almost like, you know what I'm talking about?

Yeah, I know. I mean, those are usually not my favorite. There's a bar near me that only serves very few items, and one of them is fries along with a burger or chicken fingers. And so I was having a conversation with Camaro Kev about that the other day because we were there. And they are the kind that are somewhat rustic-y with a little bit of brown skin on the ends or wherever, which usually I don't like that. But you can do it right. And weirdly, this is like, oh, man, we have only done one question of this quiz. And certainly I like the stiffness of those almost battered fries of Burger King. But on the other hand, if you're going to do those fries that are a little bit more rough cut like that, I almost want them to be soggy. I want them to be very soft. Uh-huh. Like Dick's Drive. And what do you think of the fries at Dick's Drive? I don't know if I've had them. Because Dick's, you can't modify your order. So I never go to Dick's. Oh, my gosh. They won't serve you a burger without cheese, right? Or they won't serve without mayonnaise. I think they've changed that policy now. Oh, okay. maybe but either way they're they're the son of that family is just gross to serve if talk

rate i have no need to deal with that any wow i didn't realize i didn't realize that uh you had a hard and fast rule i mean that's probably a good point well i mean listen i'm not that high

on my morals if i loved it i'm sure i'd get it but it's like i never went because i know i couldn't customize my burger and i didn't like what they were serving um and then and what is that

Thank you.

That's not Ari. Whoever the heir to that fortune is. Right, the Spadey family. Yeah, terrible, terrible human being, that son. And so I don't know if he's connected to the business at all, but I want nothing to do with it.

Oh, got it. Okay. Well, moving right along, what's the next food question? The Grill Buddy.

It's an all-beef burger patty topped with mayo, mustard, ketchup, pickles, tomatoes, and a jumbo hot dog sliced lengthwise, piled high. on a fresh toasted bun available only at rallies slash checkers depending on where you are. Now is rallies one of those places that messed around with weird stuff like

Jack in the Box? I don't think I've ever been to a rallies but I do feel like rallies and checkers are as Mike indicates I think they're the same place but they just call them rallies in some places and checkers and others. I don't think I've ever been to one. I've seen them countless times on the side of road but i've never been to one um i am going to say this is not a thing and i'm really hoping it's not a thing because it sounds very awful to me let me ask you a question what is the companion

because hardy's is like that too is it hardy's and carl's carl's jr those are the same okay gotcha yes um luke burbank the answer to this question um the grill buddy is it real is it fake you said it's fake and my friend you are right that is absolutely fake but mike says to be honest some fast food chain somewhere must have done this before under a different name i just wasn't able to find it okay i'm going to move on here to number three onion nuggets the original plant-based chicken nugget alternative these dollops of diced onions are breaded and deep fried oh that does not sound bad and uh to give them a meat-like texture okay that sounds bad exclusively at mcdonald's breath mint not included at first at first this was sounding like a you know just a different shape of an onion ring or a bloom and onion yeah yeah but the idea of it trying to be a meat like texture sounds awful to me but do you think it's really something that

mcdonald's played around with or not i am thinking they did not i think mike made this up um although i would absolutely eat a bloom and onion style like what if you took the petals as it were of a bloom and onion and you just had them loose in a bag i would eat that from mcdonald's i would as delicious i'm up for anything on that menu that is not meat based so that i can mess with it um but it sounds like if this were a real thing they made a real error in trying to create the appearance or the texture or taste of it being meat like that would have been where that seems like but i think this was made up because i feel like i would have heard about

this if it was a real thing and luke burbank you sir are very wrong it should be ashamed of yourself this was something going back to the 1970s so that actually makes more sense now it's not one of these new whiz bang flavor blasted things this was one of those things that you would see like you go over to your aunt's house and she has some weird cookbook that's like you know like i have that hot dog cookbook and it's like 70 different ways to make hot dog casserole like people were

doing weird things in the 70s i am looking at a photo onion nuggets try our onion nuggets actually they look kind of good in the picture again i would i would yeah they do i would eat this happily can you bring this back mcdonald's i would try that yeah it doesn't look bad at all

it doesn't would you dip this would you dip this in like a thousand island or something like that they call the special sauce absolutely oh now i'm looking at all these other things oh wait i shouldn't be looking at we shouldn't be looking at other now that led to some other interesting things okay i was only looking at onion nuggets that was all i did how about tim beebs tim bits It's a collaboration between Justin Bieber and Tim Hortons. Wow. Bieber was Canadian, too, or is Canadian, right? These limited edition donut holes come in three flavors, chocolate, white fudge, sour cream, chocolate chip, and birthday cake waffle. Oh, I listed that in a weird way. Chocolate, white fudge, sour cream, chocolate chip, and birthday cake waffle. Tim Biebs, Timbits, real or fake?

Wow. All I can say is wow. I know Timbits are a big deal in Canada. People love their Timbits. And Justin Bieber is from Canada. Now, at this point, I think Justin Bieber would be far too big of a star to Dane to endorse a donut. But was there a time relatively early in his career where he was being discovered but was not yet, you know, he wasn't, he didn't have like F.U. money. F.U. Tim Horton money. We've had, well, I think it's made up. I think it's made up. I think Mike is having a go, but I think it's a fun idea, but I think false.

Burbank, you are not only wrong, but somehow you've lost points on that, too. You're doubly wrong because not only was this a real thing, it was a real thing this year. These donut holes were available for a short while in early 2000. 2022 or 2022 as the young people say and now they are back question mark along with a timbrew variety of tim horton's coffee how are they missing out on having timberland endorse these right good question you have to be canadian or just just in timberlake who sometimes works with timberland oh yeah there's a lot of people they could go to beyond just but are they i was talking about this becca and i were talking about this the other day like it is

it is impossible to predict who is going to have durability as a pop star when they're coming out the gate right like i you know i i think of justin bieber as being a generally positive uh force in the world and i i like hear his songs on tiktok and he seems like a talented person i'm not i did not come here to drag justin bieber but how it like when he was you know first having a couple hit songs i just would have never expected that he would become a like star for 20 years where when he releases a song it goes to number one on the charts still to this day yeah that's

especially because he was in you know like you said a force for good i mean for a while he was a real jerk right a real a-hole and everything but he was one of those terrible 20s but he was one of those you know he was a child um star who never knew anything but fame from early on and had parents who pushed him in and so like in a certain way like kind of veves and i were talking about this not all that long ago and after these messages with um um lindsey lohan um that it's wow you got her on the show that's a get yeah no we had her on the show to talk about bieber no but no just like talking about like how she went through some things too where she sounded like she was a real awful person but also was sort of the victim and kind of the product of of this fame that was thrown at her at a young age absolutely and that milkaholic lindsey wasn't over milkah what Do you know that she sued over that commercial? No. That commercial you just played was one of those E-Trade ones, I think, or something. There was two babies talking to each other. It might not have been E-Trade. But because the milkaholic, she claimed that one of the – Yeah. And now that's coming back to me.

Yeah. I mean, the thing with the Biebs is he was – I feel like he was relatively self-made. He played music. He put the videos on YouTube. he got hooked up with a guy i think named scooter brawn who's a manager and uh and and just basically the scooter brawn really converted just justin bieber his parents were divorced he lived in canada i think he was like you know just a kid who liked music and and the start was some youtube videos and then he was kind of became a thing in canada then he played some malls but that's why it's like his dad swooped in later yeah i think his dad i think his things got weird with his dad At some point and I don't know all the details Of that but it was like Again I think he's a talented person but it's Just I just When there's a new singer that comes along and they have A hit song I have absolutely No ability to predict if we'll still be talking About them in 20 years in terms of them Making relevant music Or if they'll just be somebody who had a hit song And they're just kind of out there You know maybe touring the casino circuit Playing their hit song or something And Justin Bieber has just continued To be a very very popular star for all these years.

Meanwhile, you bought season tickets in perpetuity for the Spin Doctors, and that didn't work out quite as well.

Do you know that Little Miss Can't Be Wrong song by the Spin Doctors, that guy wrote about his stepmom that he hated? No, I didn't know that. Do you remember the lyrics to that song?

Well, no. I know the chorus, or I guess Little Miss Can't Be Wrong.

It's very like, it's pretty withering, actually. Anyway, just that's a fun fact.

Next time it comes on the radio, We'll all know here I'm going to give you another one of these Please do this is the extra most Bestest Italian sausage Pizza it's a spin on Little Caesars Sausage pie the extra Most bestest best pizza It boasts a whopping 80% More sausage and 25% More cheese hot and ready No order ahead necessary Hmm And is that purportedly from Little Caesars I'm guessing that this is Yes something that was supposedly from Little Caesars I am

gonna say that is made up you are gonna i don't know though it seems like because little caesars actually has a pretty good um advertising agency like they've done some fun ads over the years that are kind of quirky and out there and um i could see them doing there's such a bad name for the pizza what's it supposedly called the extra most bestest italian sausage pizza huh if it was If it was, like, Domino's or Pizza Hut, I would say made up. But Little Caesars is quirky enough. I'm going to say it's real.

You're going to say it's real, my friend. You are correct. It also comes in cheese and pepperoni varieties, and it's still available at many Little Caesars locations. Well, now I can't decide which absolutely terrible thing I'm going to eat for dinner. I know. I'm still thinking about my Whopper. I'm thinking about a Whopper.

Now, what? This is.

is a little personal, so you don't have to answer this, but how does dinner work with you and Veeves? Like, let's say we're recording a show in the afternoon, and you get a hankering for a whopper. Do you check in about that kind of thing? Can you go rogue? Can you just go get whatever you want? Or how does that whole thing work? Well, it's rare that

we are recording in the afternoon, so usually it's like we get done with the show, and then I'll have lunch. Gotcha. And all this summer, I've been really good, actually. I mean, I've been making a salad for lunch. I kind of like it. It's like my little routine. I turn on the radio, I listen to the Stacey Joe roast show on uh what is it a bump and Stacey on um 710 and they're like my little lunch friends and I make myself a salad and then I eat it and I play Wordle I'm very into my routines as you know and then so then I'll sit there and listen to the show and play Wordle um and then uh maybe I'll have like maybe a little half of a sandwich after that but um been eating the salad really enjoy it and then um and then for dinner usually I'm gonna say at least once a week usually i'll make dinner for us i would say or sometimes genevieve makes dinner usually i'll make dinners now that it's summertime i'll usually grill and make a salad or something but usually at least once a week we'll make a dinner together um uh and then after that but we do a lot of like eating leftovers and just grazing and stuff like that yeah we don't have like very formal i don't have any formal strictures around that it wouldn't be so you wouldn't be like um

violating anybody's trust if you, like, let's say, just went and got your Whopper tonight after you were done?

Well, I mean, the funny thing is, like, right now it's all I can think about, but the chance of me actually getting a Whopper for dinner, like, I can't remember the last time I had fast food for dinner. If anything, it may be a quick lunch. So the chance of me actually acting on this is kind of low, but there is a chance, I mean, if Genevieve's here, I would say, hey, I'm running to Burger King, do you want anything? And she would probably say yes.

For some bizarre reason now, a Little Caesars pizza, which is just absolutely the bottom of the barrel sounds good to me i used to love i mean there was no pizza i didn't love as a kid yeah but i think because little caesar's was so cheap yeah that was the pizza that we came in contact with uh most frequently there's something special about it too

you know like you get a pizza and it comes in a box or whatever but like the little caesar's it was always the you know the pizza pizza thing the fact that you're getting two pizzas always like you know that that was obviously very appealing to us but then it always came in a bag right wasn't

it like the two pieces they were slipped into a greasy like a giant and then grease soaked bag

which so smart it was your window to weight gain exactly and like i don't know why that but just like these little things that company do companies do to make theirs stand out a little bit and make it different like i don't think i've had that since i was a kid but it does like it fills me

with a good feeling thinking about it and i'm looking at it now and i feel like i'm looking at the website and all their pizzas are round now and I feel like that's a missed opportunity or they've lost something they've lost part of their humanity because it was a rectangle when we were kids right I don't

remember that being I don't remember did I just maybe they had one that was like maybe if you got the extra large one or something for parties I have this memory

of a giant rectangle of little Caesars and just thinking that was the coolest thing ever but it looks like most of their stuff i wonder if i'm in a little caesar's desert i've never tried to order i'm in a pizza hut desert me too which stinks um because sometimes i just feel like i just feel like some real crapola pizza um hey a little caesar's scratches that itch i have a couple

more questions here but honestly i want to talk to you about something a pizza related um all right so genevieve was out this is going a ways back i don't know several weeks ago genevieve was out with some friends or something and so i did something i rarely do which was i ordered a weeknight pizza i don't think any of these details are necessary all i want to say is okay here's what i'm taking away genevieve has friends you are homebound i was ordering generally don't order pizza during the week none of that is important all you need to know is i wanted to order a pizza recently right a few weeks ago and i'm still trying to figure out my pizza game for delivery in this new neighborhood right like back i loved pudge brothers pizza in wall or they're in wallingford and i could get it when i was in um when i was living nearer there i don't know if they come all the way up here and if they do i worry that it would just be a little bit cold maybe by the time they did get up here i don't know how the interstate system works maybe i'm worrying for no reason but um anyway so i'm still like kind of figuring out my options around here there's something called i think soprano's pizza in lake city that i'll get uh pizza from sometimes and it's fine except that it's one of those things where the ingredients like the toppings are a little bit too buried under the cheese and for some reason that's a turnoff for me um so the other day and now i'm stalling okay no i got there uh the other day i ordered from something just using an app from a place called donato's pizza if i'm saying that correctly and i didn't know i'm just like okay sure donato's that sounds

good and so the pizza shows up and i think you know genevieve was gone as i mentioned she's hanging out with a bunch of friends and so i got a sausage on it something i wouldn't usually do because she doesn't eat pork and it it showed up and i i opened up the box and i was confused about a couple of things first of all it wasn't cut into slices it was actually cut crisscross applesauce if that makes sense it was like a bunch of little it was a round pizza but it was a bunch of little like cut into diamonds it was not like little rectangles like little slices of pizza but not your usual triangle now i'll say this it was weird but i liked that move especially for eating a pizza by myself because i eat pizza weird anyway i kind of eat it with a fork and a knife and i end up cutting it into strange shapes before i pick it up so i actually loved that the pizza itself wasn't anything to write home about it didn't look that great it tasted fine i would actually probably get it again but then i'm like it says powered by red robin you ordered yourself a red robin pizza i ordered myself a red it just looks like donato's on the app but i ordered a pizza for delivery from red robin a restaurant i've never even eaten at before that is not known for its pizza apparently it acquired this pizza company out of cincinnati ohio several years ago or something so what do you know about all you got pasquali's yes right chuck e cheese

was and i guess you could say well chuck e cheese's thing is making pizza if we're going to be generous with the term making pizza but um and so they got in trouble for setting up this pasquale's place and making it seem like you weren't ordering pizza from chucky cheese because like nobody would order chucky cheese pizza to their home right exactly this is a version of that although i guess it's you know it's just that red robin wants to play in the pizza space and so they've got this thing called donato's that they you know obviously they just figured we've got ovens pizza is not that hard to make and uh there's a lot of people that like to order pizza so why not add that to our portfolio but we're not going to call it red robin pizza because i would have never ordered a red robin pizza yeah that's right and you didn't hate it though no have you had it um i have had it here important i don't live that far from a red robin i also by the way have well put it on the list put it on the board i could maybe hit the red robin later today because they've got i've got a whole life hack it buddy on their thing because what i love about red robins they have these steak fries they're called which is not steak frites they're just very thick french fries and i love those those are a very comforting taste and flavor to me um if you didn't grow up with them they i could see not liking them because they're very like starchy but i love their fries and of course when you go to the red robin you sit in there it's unlimited fries mr mr mr mr unlimited fries and um so i get a um this tavern burger but i have them put the the veggie patty on it And it's actually really tasty And then they send like four sides of fries If you get it delivered like DoorDash or something They send a bunch of extra fries with it So I've been kind of getting into Red Robin A little bit and also I ordered a Donato's Pizza and it was I feel like there's a way for me to work this out It did not that bad No that didn't really work It did not that bad

And I'm looking at pictures here so they're all cut in this way This crisscross way which I find Honestly kind of like talking about Little Caesars and how they have their own little weird way of doing things like that stood out to me and i really enjoyed it and like i probably will get it again like did you like the way the pizza was cut

i didn't note the cutting of i mean i now i remember that you're saying i didn't i didn't have a strong thought on that part of it but you know what i thought it was good garbage pizza yeah which again sometimes you're just in the mood for you know portland is so artisanal and i could you know i could walk four blocks from my house and probably go to three different wood-fired pizza places that all make really good stuff but sometimes you just want some crapola and it

completely scratched that itch for me yeah yeah me too i really liked it and um yeah look up the pizza online if you forgot i i'm shocked that the way the pizza was cut didn't strike you because to me it was such a shocking thing because you open up a pizza box it's a regular pizza box round pizza inside there but they just decided hey listen everybody cuts their pizza into like slices like through the middle of the pizza so you have a bunch of triangles we're just gonna like we're gonna question why do we have to do it that way and i was really doesn't that mean there's a lot of pieces in the middle that have no crust though yes i love that see that's one thing i love i love and that's growing up like you have a pizza party and you get a square pizza like you were describing before you get one of those inside pieces no crust it's just flat but that's because you use a knife and fork see i don't not usually do that with pizza i disagree for this one though these were cut so small that there was nothing to cut like they were nice little

hand-sized pizzas i felt like so you picked but see that to me there's like a grease factor the crust is the handle okay god put the crust on the pizza andrew it was pizza crust not Adam and Steve, and that handle is there for a reason. So you hold it by the crust, and then you heat the pizza, and then your hand doesn't get a bunch of sauce on it. But when there's no crust, that way lies madness.

Well, you know, I have a lot of paper towels on hand at all times. Anyway, I would probably go back to it. I'm glad that you knew about this, and yeah, I got pisqualid, or whatever it's called.

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donato's pizza oh my god we sold so much pizza we sold so much food today like fast food garbage food i don't know what our audience is going to cling to just to me like i know just i know

i i am so gosh andrew ah man i am um so because we've been busy doing some things today i actually And I'm dealing with some other stuff, too, related to whatever CBS. I have not gotten my jog in today, which had been my plan to do it earlier. I didn't get around to it. And now I'm at that point when we're done recording where I could strap on my shoes, get out there, shake a leg, be healthy, order some, you know, relatively healthy type of thing with a salad for dinner, maybe Thai food. Or I could just go full goblin mode and just go, like, skip the run. order the pizza leave the cannoli uh like just go yeah just just if there were a baseball game i'd be more tempted but there isn't as we're recording this a mariners game so maybe that's the universe telling me to not go full goblin mode yeah i don't know you know it's so funny

i have whipsawed all over the place today i started the show by saying well i know i'm going to end up with uh subway today but it turns out there wasn't as much subway talk so now i don't even i can't even i can't i don't have room in my heart for subway right now now i'm really locked

Some of that Donato's pizza situation. Rachel Sizer is in Seattle, Washington, supporting the program. Thank you, Rachel. Emily Egger is in Georgetown, Texas. We had a Georgetown, Maryland. This is a Georgetown, Texas. Getting a lot of Georgetown's. Was this one also named for Costanza? I believe so. I think so. I'll look it up. This one was actually named for George Carlin. Oh, you know, I'm looking it up. You're right. Famous edgy comedian, George Carlin.

Beloved in Texas.

We want to thank also Matt Lendway and Rachel Howell of Broomfield, Colorado. Now, the way this played out, it almost looked like a law firm. Matt, Rachel, Lendway, and Howell.

Sorry, I usually try to, when there's two names like that, it shows up, interestingly, in the spreadsheet. I usually try to fix that for you. Sorry about that. No, no, this is good.

It worked fine. I'm just saying it looked like a law firm to me for a minute. But then I realized, oh, it's just Matt and Rachel in Broomfield, Colorado.

Matt and Rachel and Lendway and Howell. We'll fight for you Has this ever happened to you?

Has this ever happened to you? Troy Hughes is in Cedarburg, Wisconsin God's country Famous for the mascots sliding down the slides during the game Famous for his drunk mascots Cedarburg, Wisconsin Thanks, Troy Julie Prescott is in Chantilly, Virginia Thank you, Julie And then Jennifer Fernandez-Orande

is in montgomery village maryland that name thank you so i think jennifer was a uh 10 of the week in

the newsletter maybe a month ago or fernandez orand is a pretty yeah a unique last name so if you're if you're if that's that's familiar to you i think you're probably thinking of the same person thank you um jennifer in fact thanks to all of our donors of the day for making the show possible we wouldn't be here without you all right that is gonna do it for today's edition of the summer games what do we have on tap for tomorrow by the way well i got some bad ideas on

tap for tonight i'll tell you that much right now um tomorrow's show is interesting luke and this was submitted um months ago by jake the perfect daddy in chicago who um created a quiz was this guest on tbtl or comedy bang bang you and i he created i think a a was this a lebitard bit or a comedy bang bang bit for the winter games oh yeah you played that one and you and i um mentioned that we would barely know if this was a tbtl bit or maybe our brains are so bad so he has put together a quiz we're gonna look at these guests and were these guests on tbtl or comedy bang bang or both oh wow oh my gosh i think i should do you want me to give you the quiz because you interviewed a lot of people when i wasn't there so really should be a test of but you don't listen to comedy bang bang we'll feel well for me the goal will be to try to remember if they were on TV tell because if they were

on tbtl then by default that would be comedy bang bang so i think i can work back okay well i'll give you the quiz then that sounds great that'll be tomorrow wednesday thanks for listening everyone uh we'll see you tomorrow with more tbtl summer games until then have a great tuesday take care of yourselves go mariners and please remember no mountain too tall and good luck to all

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