S1E24: Po-TAY-Toes!

Potatoes are supposed to be a safe topic. Then we start ranking fries and suddenly we’re arguing about crinkle cuts, the McDonald’s “eat them while they’re hot” rule, and why a fry only makes sense next to the sandwich it was born to ride with. From Culver’s fan-girling to waffle fry skepticism, we get weirdly specific about salt levels, crisp edges, and what makes a side dish actually worth ordering. If you love fast food fries, comfort food debates, and unfiltered opinions, you’re in the right place.
The potato universe gets bigger fast: tater tots at restaurants, air fryer reality checks, and the home-cooking truth that the best method is the one you’ll do on a Tuesday night. We crown mashed potatoes as top-tier comfort food, then immediately start upgrading them with goat cheese, leftover potato cakes, smashed potatoes that take forever, and twice-baked potatoes that demand you “throw some cheese on that.” It gets even more ridiculous with pierogi lasagna, gnocchi praise, house-made chips with French onion dip, baked potato soup, and yes, mashed potato pizza.

And because we can’t stay on the rails, we detour into regional food language, a rant about AI music versus human emotion in performance, and a “celebrity as a potato type” game that turns into a full personality test. We also drop a passionate Project Hail Mary movie recommendation for anyone who still believes in the theater experience.

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Transcript

SPEAKER_02 0:14

Before we begin today's episode, we would like to share a quick disclaimer. The views, opinions, and statements expressed by the hosts and guests on this podcast are their own personal views and are provided in their own capacity. All content is editorial, opinion-based, and intended for entertainment purposes only. Listener discretion is advised. I don't think that made it into the cut.

SPEAKER_06 0:46

No, but it made you laugh. That's it doesn't whatever I do doesn't have to make into the cut. It's just you laughing at what I hit you with.

SPEAKER_02 0:53

Okay, maybe it's always nice to hear those sounds blaring in your ear.

SPEAKER_06 0:58

Isn't it just? Okay, let me see if this makes the cut.

SPEAKER_00 1:01

Hockey birthday to you. Hockey birthday to you. Hockey birthday, dear Angel. Hockey birthday to you.

SPEAKER_02 1:22

I don't think I it's been very rare that I've ever heard you use my actual, like, real government name.

SPEAKER_06 1:29

Yeah, well, I didn't. Tony Danza did. Tony.

unknown 1:33

Tony Danza.

SPEAKER_06 1:35

That was that was my very bad Tony Danza. That's the only time I would use your government name is if I do my bad Tony Danza. And I go, Oh shit.

SPEAKER_02 1:47

That was good. Thank you.

SPEAKER_06 1:49

You were very welcome.

SPEAKER_02 1:51

Yeah, another year around the sun.

unknown 1:54

Woo!

SPEAKER_06 1:55

Also, you can you can you can semi-thank you can semi-thank Lauren for uh for that. Uh because I felt horrible that I haven't gotten or done or like actually done like anything or gotten anything for you for your birthday. And so I was like, oh my god, what do I gotta do? So I was like, oh, I do this one. And I was just like, okay, I think this thing is like I thought it would be funny. I thought it would be funny if I um all seriousness, just like went to like chat GPT and I asked her to give me like the most insane, like heartfelt, like gut-wrenching like monologue about a close friend and like it's their birthday, blah blah blah, and also that kind of bun shit, right? To like read right there at the beginning, so then now it completely throws you off and you start fucking bawling your eyes out. And then now we have to record. And Laura was just like, why would you that? I was like, because it'd be funny.

SPEAKER_01 2:48

She goes, No, it's not. I was just like, You don't think that's funny? She goes, No, that's so fucked up. That's why it works for Angie. Like, that's funny.

SPEAKER_06 2:59

And Laura was just, she didn't like, she definitely like she didn't like say it or like threaten me in any kind of way, but she just there was just that she I felt the I don't want to say disturbance in the force, but there was an there was a an the force was not settled. It was not calm seas in the force. And so I was just like, don't do that, because if we go, it's and there was like this morning, or it was like later the night, or like this morning, Laura was just like, I mean you could, because but remember, and she can just cut that out. I was like, fair enough.

SPEAKER_10 3:35

Yeah, true.

SPEAKER_06 3:36

She was like, she can't just cut it out.

SPEAKER_10 3:39

Thanks, Laura.

SPEAKER_06 3:41

But yeah, no, so with that one, I was like, alright, fine, I'll do that one. And I would I literally decided that I was gonna do that on the walk back.

SPEAKER_02 3:47

See women supporting women, that's what it's all about.

SPEAKER_06 3:52

Yeah. But all seriousness, you probably would have found that like kind of funny because you would have tried something like that to throw me off. I know you would have done something like that to throw me off.

SPEAKER_02 4:01

Yeah, well, you know, shit. Maddie already made me cry. She sent me a really nice message.

SPEAKER_06 4:06

It's your daughter, she's supposed to.

Starting The Potato Debate

SPEAKER_02 4:08

Yeah. I was like, well, now I'm crying. I hadn't been crying all day, and now I'm crying. But no, it's good. So last week we talked about sandwiches.

SPEAKER_04 4:26

Sands.

SPEAKER_02 4:27

And then if if you all listen to the whole episode, um yeah, we started going on a tangent about potatoes. Potatoes. So we're just gonna continue the conversation. That's what we're doing today. Welcome to the Silly Goose Society.

SPEAKER_01 4:47

You almost did it there. I did it. Like, welcome to that silly goose. I was like, ah! I caught it. Fucking caught it.

SPEAKER_02 4:58

Yeah, it's oh god, I think it's like turned into something like almost like a Pavlovian thing. Like you're just automatically programmed now that you think about that. Yeah. And if this doesn't get scrubbed out, you you might. I'm the one this time with the lawn stuff in the background. So hopefully it gets screw you. Yeah, yeah. Karma. Karma's a bitch.

SPEAKER_03 5:24

Yep. Then you marry one. Not that's life. Never mind.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

So yeah, potatoes. I think we started talking about like crinkle cut fries. Which are the superior fry if you're like at like a like a restaurant, you know, like or at home. Crinkle cuts are like the superior. I do like a shoestring too.

SPEAKER_06 5:49

It really it really, really depend. It's just like different different meals at different at different you know, at different meals at different times of the day, or different types of restaurants. Like if I'm going to like a nice, like if Lauren and I are going out for our anniversary, we're going to a nice dinner. If we go to the steakhouse, Zo, the burger probably fucking I'm not eating a fucking burger on my fucking anniversary. You know what I mean? Like, but that's just me.

Best Fast Food Fries Arguments

SPEAKER_02 6:16

Yeah. Sorry, I had to mute because like the the lawn mowers like really close. And I was like, I was hearing it. I was hearing it. Um yeah, yeah. I think it just it just really depends on the meal and the occasion and all of that. So let's start with like fast food fries. Are we on the same page as who has the best fast food French fry? Uh maybe.

SPEAKER_06 6:51

I think we've talked about it before, but then also I've I've said this before to one of my friends, and he thinks I'm fucking insane for it. I feel every fast food place, their fries pair perfectly with their with what they have. You know what I mean? So like a McDonald's fry is not gonna taste as good with a Burger King burger, and vice versa.

SPEAKER_02 7:15

No, I'd literally, I'd literally have gone to like Wendy's to get their spicy chicken sandwich and then right over to McDonald's to get their fries.

SPEAKER_04 7:26

I can respect that.

SPEAKER_02 7:27

I just I think McDonald's has the best French fry. They have the French fry uh until they're like the rest of their food, but like the French fries.

SPEAKER_06 7:42

Once their fries get to room temp, they become horse.

SPEAKER_02 7:44

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 7:45

Yeah, they they're absolute horseshit. You have to eat them while they are still warm. Yes, still warm. Yes, as soon as there's no temperature difference between like outside of your mouth, and as soon as if there's nothing, you just taste and feel nope, they're shit. Get them out of here.

SPEAKER_02 7:58

No, I I would agree with that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:00

Also the same with Wendy's, because Wendy's, when they're so crispy, it once they start to they get like that soggy and get them out of here. So with that, culverse, without a doubt, is the best fast food French fry I've had. Because they're the crinkle cuts. They're the perfect crinkly cuts. They the amount of salt that goes on to them is like the perfect. It's like anywhere else is one more grain of salt and it's too salty. When I tell you they were right on the fucking line of like salted and salty.

SPEAKER_09 8:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 8:38

They are perfect. And I'm telling you, they have that perfect crisp outside to them, but it's like just potato-y, pillowy, delicious goodness on the oh my god, culver's front twice. Culver's everything. They're the best fast food joint.

SPEAKER_02 8:50

I I've I've never been to a culverse, so girl, November, we're going. Yeah, like November, yeah. Yeah, I have to go to go to Culver's. And I honestly, after uh seeing the breakfast this morning at uh Breakfast at Tiffany's, I'm like, and thinking in my head, I'm gonna have breakfast there.

SPEAKER_06 9:10

It's so good. It really is. It's really, really good. And everyone thinks I'm joking. It's like, no, this place is literally called breakfast at Tiffany's. Like, it's literally what it's called. But anyway, yeah, the uh the food is so man, those waffle sliders. So I thought I was like, oh, I get to choose like which one. The lady's like, no, you get one of each of those. So they're you know, like you have like the you know, they're like four like mini waffles. Yeah, whatever the hell it is, and each one is like like the different topics. I was like, fuck yeah, girl, fuck me up with these things, man. They're so goddamn good. I ain't had a bad meal there yet.

SPEAKER_02 9:41

Yeah, that's good. I like finding like little gems like that, you know? Yeah, they're local, yeah. Yeah, yeah. But anyway, fries, potatoes. Um I will say if if I okay, here's my ranking top three. McDonald's, Taco Bell fries.

SPEAKER_07 10:07

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:09

And then I do really like the Chick-fil-A waffle fries. I know that, you know, there's like a whole thing, but I do like their waffle fries.

SPEAKER_06 10:21

See, their waffle fries, I can either take it, I can either take nor take nor leave. A waffle fries like it's like it's gotta be seasoned really good and like all this other kind of however, because other than that, it's just a large I see those as like a chip more than like a fry. Yeah. So like okay, so uh where the hell was it? We went to fuck, we went to dinner just excuse me, uh just last night and Lauren got the appetizer. Yeah, it was like loaded fries or whatever, and it's waffle fries, so it's like a it's almost like nachos, but instead of chips, it was waffle fries. Because there's a lot of surface area to put shit in with the holes and the whatever, it's like stuff can get on them. They are perfect for that. Um there was a bar back home, Orange Alehouse. They suck. The owner sucks. He's a piece of shit. But for like a for like just like a bullshit bar, like it was really good. It's your typical bar food stuff, but it was really freaking. They tasted like Arby fries or like curly fries, like the seasoned ones. You know, they have like that brownish kind of orange to them, but the fucking delicious and really crispy like that. Same thing. They had loaded ones, fuck me in there, were so good. Um but yeah, like a waffle fry, like it just same with curly fries. Oh, curly fries is the best. Oh, but the ones, yes, because those are fucking seasoned. Like actually, it's the seasoning. Yeah, just the seasoning and how they're seasoned and how they're flavored.

SPEAKER_02 11:40

Just there is no I think curly fries, like they're uh like okay, like if I'm if I'm going to Arby's, yeah, I the curly fries, yeah, it's the way to go. But I do think they're like difficult to eat.

SPEAKER_00 11:56

They're overrated.

SPEAKER_02 11:58

Yeah, yeah. I don't get excited about curly fries.

SPEAKER_04 12:02

No, I really don't.

SPEAKER_06 12:03

It's just like the old French fries, steak fries, like those big thick fucking like wedges. I love me some good steak fries.

SPEAKER_02 12:09

Like the KFC potato wedges.

SPEAKER_06 12:12

Oh, yeah, them motherfuckers. Same thing. They were seasoned and they were like just a quarter to potato. I love so much potato.

SPEAKER_02 12:20

What do you call those? Because around here they call them, I've heard them uh like potato wedge fries or jojo fries.

SPEAKER_06 12:28

I've heard of Jojo fries. We don't call them Jojo fries, we call them wedges. I've always heard of those called um wedges.

SPEAKER_02 12:34

Yeah. Yeah, that was an interesting, like it's it's interesting. Like you can be in the same state, but then like where I am now, it's it's very much like north. It is it is not like necessarily southern. You know, I don't consider this part, you could lop this part of the state off and give it to Pennsylvania and you'd never miss a beat. Um, so like when I moved up here, like that like the every Jojo fries. I'm like, what the fuck is a Jojo fry? You know, or what are Jojo's? And it because I just Jojo rabbit. Yeah. Like, you know, what? Um then I saw them, and we're like, oh, they're they're wedges. And you know, it's just weird, like uh just little, little tiny cultural differences in the same state.

Regional Food Names And Sprinkles

SPEAKER_06 13:28

Yeah, and I know I'm probably gonna get shit for this from some people. It's just I love how like some people will get like so like pissed at you just for like calling something something different. Like, you know, it's okay. So you're like what like if there's that cultural thing that like people don't know, and you say, so like I think my favorite ones with that one is my friend Erin, she went to school in I think in Jersey. It was either Jersey or Pennsylvania, where the fuck it was. Doesn't matter. Well they don't have package stores down there.

SPEAKER_02 13:58

Have what?

SPEAKER_06 13:59

Exactly. See you in West Virginia, they don't have package stores.

SPEAKER_02 14:02

What the hell's a package store?

SPEAKER_06 14:04

The liquor store. The alcohol store. Out here they're calling the party stores or liquor stores, whatever the hell it is. I I do not know why, but in Connecticut, in New England, wherever the hell, they're called package stores. You go, you're just like, I'm making a packy. You need anything? The fuck's a packy? I'm going to get alcohol. Why didn't you say that? I fucking did. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 14:22

Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_06 14:23

It was just really funny because like she's the only one from Connecticut, so she was just like, hey, I'm running the package stores. Does anyone need anything? And then her friends were just like, We gotta mail something?

SPEAKER_01 14:32

So I don't think it's like UPS selling. I gotta get wine. She goes, like, wait, what? UPS sells wine? She goes, What are you talking about? She goes, you got a package like a box. She goes, no, like alcohol. What the f making a package? Goes like, no.

SPEAKER_06 14:45

So apparently that's just a New England thing. It's like in Connecticut, it's the package store. Or in the city.

SPEAKER_02 14:50

The rest of the continental United States thinks that's weird.

SPEAKER_06 14:54

Well, yeah, but you know, same, same thing. But I will, there's another one that's like, I swear to God, good friend of mine, an ex-girlfriend of mine, very good friend of mine. Apparently, in the fucking armpit of the armpit, meaning the armpit of New Jersey, um, where her family's from as well as apparently what you put on top of like a Sunday on top of your ice cream, the little rainbow guys, apparently those are Jimmy's.

SPEAKER_02 15:17

Oh man, there's such a contra like uh Jimmy's, um, what the fuck do the British call them?

SPEAKER_06 15:26

Um nuts and bolts, probably.

SPEAKER_02 15:28

It's uh hundred is it like hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands or something like that.

SPEAKER_06 15:35

Think of something the most ridiculous that could never mean what you mean it is, and that's what the British call it.

SPEAKER_02 15:39

Yeah, like what do you want on, you know, give me some h I'm pretty sure it's like hundreds of that hundreds and thousands or something like that. It's something like weird, like with an with a number.

SPEAKER_06 15:50

Well, yeah, because they're all sixes and sevens over there, so like even that, oh, the person's crazy.

SPEAKER_01 15:56

Oh, they're all sixes and sevens. What the fuck does that mean? What's wrong with you? It's what you fucking lost in the 1700s.

SPEAKER_02 16:07

Christmas Yeah, yeah. Um yeah, so like sprinkles.

SPEAKER_06 16:15

Um I'm trying to think of some of the other like phrases that they're like the little baby bb ones, those are called shots. You know, the little kind of like ball ones that go on like anginettes and shit like that one. I'll allow you to call those Jimmies, but I want sprinkles. You mean jimmies? No, I mean fucking sprinkles, you slackjaw Neanderthal. Fucking sprinkles. I love how we're talking about sprinkles now with the potato episode.

SPEAKER_02 16:39

Uh right. Oh, I just looked it up. It's hundred hundreds and thousands. Hundreds and thousands. What the fuck? Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 16:49

Okay, that's it. We just gotta alright, we're gonna get a hold of Chris. He's gonna be back on another episode, and we're just gonna come up with stuff and what it's called there and what it's called here.

SPEAKER_01 16:56

So we just have to have a whole food episode with just everything and just laugh at the fucking tomfoolery.

SPEAKER_06 17:05

Now don't get me wrong, I forget. There was some there was one one comedian had a bit, like, yeah, there's some things here in the US that they're just called, yeah, no, you're right, that's wrong, it's fucked up. We that's yeah, are bad. But about 90% of them is like, what the fuck tomfoolery is do you call that?

Tater Tots And Home Frying

SPEAKER_02 17:24

I know it's wild, but yeah. Anyway, back to potatoes.

SPEAKER_01 17:30

Back to potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 17:32

Um, I was gonna say, hang on. Oh my god.

SPEAKER_06 17:40

Bless, bless it.

SPEAKER_02 17:41

I think my voice just seized up. Um, what I get really excited about and when I go to a restaurant, and if I'm like, you know, it's like lunch or you know, you're getting sandwiches or something that it'll go with, I get really excited when they're tater tots as a choice.

SPEAKER_06 18:02

I do I'll pick, I'm picky with tater tots. I'm not I'm not a tater tot kind of guy.

SPEAKER_02 18:07

I I've really, I've really just like, I don't know. I get I get excited about tater tots. I don't know that I've ever had a bad tater tot.

SPEAKER_06 18:16

I've had a couple.

SPEAKER_04 18:23

I just you know it just yeah.

SPEAKER_06 18:26

Some of them, like it's just I'll say this. There's uh what there are uh once again, there's a bar what is it with bars in Connecticut? Jesus Christ. There's um Barcade in Connecticut, they all their food they make in-house, and they make in-house tots. I don't know why, those are the best fucking tater tots I've ever thought. That's what Buffalo ones, where it's literally just task-made tater. It's tater tots that they'd shape like Tetris pieces. So one that was kind of cool. Um but then they would just drench them in a really good, like buttery buffalo space, like not just hot sauce, like an actual, like like a buttery, thick, like orange kind of oh mama. They're oh they're good. Oh, they can't.

SPEAKER_10 19:02

That sounds good.

SPEAKER_06 19:02

Yeah, the place was the shit, man. Anywho. Um yeah, tots, um, kind of whatever.

SPEAKER_02 19:09

Uh yeah, no, it's just now when you have fries at home, um, do you do you deep fry them or put them in the oven?

SPEAKER_06 19:21

Oh, we just put them in the oven or the air. Yeah, we don't got time for that shit. Now, if we're gonna do like a party or like an event, like if we're really going to maybe we'll break out the fryer.

SPEAKER_09 19:29

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 19:29

But I just that's a lot of work. That's a lot of cleanup. It is. Let me just bake these bitches, throw them in an air fryer real quick. God bless the air fryer. Or some fucking jackass you means in the bridge. You mean the tabletop confection oven? Get fucked. I mean an air fryer, okay? How about that?

SPEAKER_02 19:47

Yeah, one of these days I'm gonna have to try an air fryer. I got one like years ago when they were just like first coming out.

SPEAKER_09 19:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 19:56

And it made like all the food tasted like technology. It just had it was not good.

SPEAKER_01 20:09

What's wrong? Oh, the hard drives overcooked. Like, what the fuck?

SPEAKER_02 20:12

Like, it did a good job of like cooking the food, but like everything had like this weird fucking like metallic taste to. I don't know. I just didn't like it.

SPEAKER_06 20:22

I could I could see that. Sometimes with like new appliances like that, yeah. There's like the I don't know what the fuck it is. You know, it's gotta get used a little bit. You know, sometimes it has like that smell, like that new appliance, new something smell. Yeah, not necessarily like burning, but it's just there's a sm to it.

SPEAKER_09 20:37

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:38

I think it's kind of like that. Maybe there's a little residue of some sort in it. It could have been that. I don't know.

SPEAKER_09 20:42

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 20:43

Um, I will recommend this one. Shout out to the ninja speedy. We got that a couple years ago for Lauren's birthday, and it's like an everything. I love it. It's like a slow cooker, it's an actual cooker, it has a hydrator, it's flag, uh, air fryer. It's it's a it's a everything.

SPEAKER_10 20:59

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 21:00

You can do all and you can literally put the. Ninja has some good stuff. They motherfuck them ninjas is cooking up in that mother. That's for sure. But you can literally put everything in it. I'm sorry, you can put like the rice or the starch like in the bottom, right? So you can literally put, yeah, so like rice and water and whatever in the bottom. It comes with like a little trait you put on top. You could put like seasoned, fuck whatever. You could put the meat on top of that and set it and forget it, like that fucking rotisserie chicken thing from however long ago. It's literally so like, okay, cool. So the veg is on this level and the rice is on this level, and the meat is on this level, and the whole meal is cooked in like 20 minutes front to back from this freaking thing.

SPEAKER_02 21:30

Oh wow.

SPEAKER_06 21:31

It's the shit, man. It's so good.

SPEAKER_02 21:35

Maybe I'd have to check that out. Anyway, yeah, potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 21:39

Okay, let's just let's just call it how we see it. Let's just fucking call it how we see it. We we're all in agreement that mashed is the soup the most superior form of potato. Yeah, but now not every potato is for every event. Like I said, I don't necessarily want mashed potatoes with my cheeseburger. I definitely I want fries with that potato.

SPEAKER_02 21:57

Got a good creamy mashed potato. Potatoes, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 22:02

Oh yeah. I'm telling you, man, do that one. So you got yeah, your butter, your cream, your whatever the fuck else, other stuff you're gonna make in marriage and mashed potatoes, you're gonna throw that shit to another level. Put some goat cheese in that motherfucker. There's some goat cheese in that bitch. Oh my god, do it.

SPEAKER_02 22:16

Have you ever made um potato cakes with like your leftover potatoes, bashed potatoes?

SPEAKER_06 22:22

Like um oh yeah, yeah. You're kind of like are you like pan-fry them or like crisp them up a little bit like that one?

SPEAKER_02 22:27

Yeah, you put like onions in them and some other shit, and then you just pan-fry and them, make like cool cakes. Oh so good.

SPEAKER_06 22:35

Okay, another one that I think is so, so fucking good, but then I realized like how much like time it goes into making them, and I just don't have time for that shit anymore. Smashed potatoes. Mmm. You take like the baby potatoes and you kind of like bake them a little bit, then you take like a glass or a jar or something like that, you kind of press them down and smash them, and then you flip them, and you so you're cooking them like three times. Yeah. So they take they take like a fucking hour, like an hour and 20 minutes to make, but they're so goddamn good.

SPEAKER_02 23:01

Now we I'll do um, I'll do like a twice-baked potato. Oh yeah. So you like you kind of almost like parboil them and then you put them in the pan with like a metric fuck ton of um butter. And I like to put um like I put you know, some season, I'll I will season when I do them, I like to season them and then hit them um with a little parmesan cheese.

SPEAKER_09 23:36

So good.

SPEAKER_06 23:36

You gotta have cheese. If you're if you're if I'm taking the time to bake a potato twice, I'm taking the time to put some bucking cheese on that bitch.

SPEAKER_10 23:42

Yeah.

Pierogi Lasagna And Fancy Potatoes

SPEAKER_06 23:43

Throw some cheese on that bitch. Hell yeah. Yeah. You just you just you absolutely buck and have to. Okay, so I don't know if this yeah, this counts as a counts as potatoes because it's has yeah, it's what this is filled with. I don't know if this is an actual thing or if my mother-in-law just had some type of uh epiphany andor quadruple bypass when she thought of this. Once, maybe twice in my life. We've had dinner, and she has made Kirogi lasagna. What that's what she's that's what she's-I don't know if this is an actual dish or this is just something she has thought up of.

SPEAKER_02 24:28

That sounds amazing.

SPEAKER_06 24:30

Um I swear to god, this is what it gets. So it's just like a regular old think of like a lasagna, but then also think of a pierogi.

SPEAKER_09 24:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 24:40

So it's I forget how the layering goes, but it's layered between pasta pasta noodles, like lasagna noodles. Yeah, I was gonna say, does she use like is it layered with like pierogies or like is it it's pasta, it's mashed potatoes, it's uh like cooked up onions, you know, like cooked onions.

SPEAKER_09 25:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 25:01

Butter. So like whatever you would fill a pierogi with. Oh your pierogies are filled with like, you know, like so there's the onion and cheese, or there's the chai vanista or whatever. So yeah, think of it so it's like noodles, potato, onions, butter, noodles, potatoes, onions, but like just all just fucking.

SPEAKER_02 25:16

Oh my god. Oh yeah. Oh yeah. That is like do you do you immediately go into like a carb coma?

SPEAKER_06 25:25

I'm pretty sure it's like I said, I think we've had it twice out of the all the time. It sounds so good. Out of the years that Lauren and I have been together, I think we've had it twice. So I think I've actually died twice in my life because it's just oh yeah. You just see the butter just kind of floating around and oh yeah, baby, let's go. It's so good. Oh my god, it's so good.

SPEAKER_02 25:50

Yeah, I'd say that counts as a potato. I mean, it's a potatoed with mashed potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 25:56

So yeah. It's a potato dish. Oh my god, it's it's so fucking good. It is so goddamn good.

SPEAKER_02 26:02

Have you seen? I've always wanted to try, but it it it looks, I've seen people make them, and I every time I see like a reel or a TikTok and somebody's making these, like I lock in. It's so labor intensive, but it's like they um like you you have to square the potato and then you cut them into like small little squares, and then somehow like I think they like layer them and then compress them, and then it's like layered again, and then oh like um I don't know what they're called.

SPEAKER_03 26:39

No, give me a second.

SPEAKER_06 26:40

I know this, I know this one comfy. Maybe no, because I never okay. So it's I don't know. If I'm thinking of it, it's the second John Wick movie, the fucking asshole that he kills at the end. He's getting like the duck fat, he's eating those types of potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 26:57

Maybe, yeah, yeah. I was thinking like Lauren would absolutely know what the hell I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_06 27:02

Yeah, yeah. Give me some. I'm literally looking it up right now.

SPEAKER_02 27:05

It looks like it takes like two days to do these fucking potatoes. But like the end, like when they're like eating them or they break them open and you hear that crunch, and it just everything looks like this crispy. It looks like all the layers look crispy, but it's also like soft, and it looks buttery and golden. It just oh looks so good.

SPEAKER_03 27:35

I think that's what I really don't know what the hell it's called, but I'm literally like I'm looking at it.

SPEAKER_02 27:40

Like you have to like pat them dry, you have to get all the moisture out of them, and then you do some other shit, and then you take that and you do some more stuff to it, and then like it's just it is a whole process.

SPEAKER_06 27:53

Yeah, no, fuck that noise.

SPEAKER_02 27:55

Uh just but like I want somebody to do the process and let me have them. I don't know that I want to do the process.

Gnocchi Love And House Chips

SPEAKER_06 28:03

Yeah, no, there's a lot of shit like that, which is like absolutely not. Like, same with um like uh another absolute banger that everyone seems to forget about that is uh, you know, that's what is um Christ potato, there it is. Um gnocchi. Oh yeah. Oh my fucking which is insane because um we have you know the same thing. I've been to a place one time where for those of you who don't know what gnocchi is, it's a pasta with potato in it. So you literally get the stuff to make you know, the pasta, you get the egg and the flour, or whatever it is, and you literally you know you cook it to potatoes and you rice potatoes into it. So it's just potato smart. When done right, it's it's a really stupid, shady cliche thing to say, but I'm telling you, it's like eating fucking clouds. They are so light, they're so fluffy. Oh my god. And when do you and I prefer them you know, typically you can cook them like a regular pasta, you just boil them up and cook them out that way too much. But I love it when you kind of like you half-ass boil them or you leave them that way, and you kind of like um you like pan-fry them a little bit. So you get like a little oil going in, like so that's how you're cooking up there, so they get that crisp to them on one side, and then whatever type of like um just like a really good like Sarah Marzano, like lead sauce, or like an oil, like like a like a garlic butter or whatever the hell kind of shit. So something like that. That's like my favorite way to eat gnocchi. Dude, I just ate breakfast and I'm like, I'm getting so hungry again.

SPEAKER_02 29:40

There was a when we when I worked when I worked for the state, we would have these conferences down at this um resort in West Virginia, and this place had and this is what they called them. It was you could order, it was called frips and dip. And so it was like they were they were kind of like I guess you would call them like a homemade chip. They were thicker than a potato chip, but they were like deep fried and like they were like mostly crispy every now and then you'd get like you know, some some you know, kind of softness to them. They were so good. And then they would make this homemade um French onion dip. Oh, Jesus.

SPEAKER_03 30:30

Hell yeah. Hell yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 30:34

I've never made homemade chips, but I'd like to. I don't know why. I don't know. It's the only place that I've ever seen that like they call them frips. I don't know why they called them frips, if that was just assholes. Yeah, it was like a high flutant resort.

SPEAKER_06 30:50

Almost a lot of the a lot of the breweries and bars out here, they have um, they have like house made chips for the taste of the fries or whatever. Like I think I've had more housemade chips in this state than like anywhere else where I've seen them. Uh and they're they're so they're so fucking good. I if that's what you it's like, oh is house made chips or house made chips. I don't fucking care. Get rid of can I get less of my entree and you can give me more chips? Right. Give me half a sandwich and give me more chips. They're so good. Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 31:19

I think we've made them, I think like we've actually made them ourselves like once or twice, but oh god, my my work spouse David, shout out to David, um, and I we we would get fucking soused at these events. We would get like so blitzed. And uh, and then if we always ended up at the there was like this just little bar that was open late in the in the resort, and we'd always end up there with frips and dip. And I actually, oh god, I don't know if I should say this. Um cut it out. Like the little the little dip bowls that that I can't tell you how many times like we brought them back to our rooms. Like you could take because you were staying there, and you know, I have so many of those, like I I have them, like I kept them.

SPEAKER_04 32:10

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_06 32:12

It happens.

SPEAKER_02 32:14

Yes. So Stonewall, sorry. I have inadvertently or very much on purpose, maybe, I don't know, ended up with some of your um dip bowls.

SPEAKER_04 32:25

Listen, just cut it out, they'll never know. Just cut it out, and then I don't have to fucking I mean I ain't gonna fucking tell them, that's for sure.

SPEAKER_06 32:38

Fucking narc. Get the hell out of here.

Mashed Potato Pizza And Leftover Wreaths

SPEAKER_01 32:40

Yeah. Uh oh, here's one for ya mashed potato pizza.

SPEAKER_02 32:48

Ne what? Never had it.

SPEAKER_06 32:50

Oh, okay. Yep. That's that's uh well no. If you ever come to Canada Kate, we'll have to do that one because I ain't no pizza out here. I don't think I've seen a mashed potato pizza.

SPEAKER_02 33:02

No, okay.

SPEAKER_06 33:03

So you take so the you replace sauce with mashed potato.

SPEAKER_02 33:09

Okay. And then you put pepperoni and shit on it?

SPEAKER_06 33:12

I guess if you want, but a lot of places it's just there's always like a loaded potato pizza. So like you take the sauce off, and let's say you know, the mashed potato is the uh the sauce we'll say, and then on top of it, they'll put like bacon and cheese and like sour cream if you want. So think of like whatever you would have on a loaded potato. Oh, okay.

SPEAKER_08 33:30

Just kind of like smeared out on top of pizza crust.

SPEAKER_06 33:33

Other places, like there's a place in downtown New Haven, it's literally just mashed potatoes on top of pizza. So like the same thing, they take the sauce off. It's a white pizza, but it's just mashed potatoes on top of pizza crust. You have to tell them everything else you want to put on it.

SPEAKER_02 33:46

You know what would be good like to do that, but it's like Thanksgiving. It's like a Thanksgiving pizza. Mashed potatoes, some gravy, some turkey, some cranberry sauce.

SPEAKER_06 34:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 34:02

That would be that would be a good pizza.

SPEAKER_06 34:05

So there was a um, there's this, there's this thing that uh my mother-in-law doesn't. I swear to God, I can always tell how much closer we are to Thanksgiving because how much I want to put my head through the wall. Because whenever we talk about having Thanksgiving, whatever we're doing, we always talk about how big of a turkey is, you know. And so I was like, oh yeah, you know, you gotta get a big enough turkey because we have all of us there. So I was like, oh, turkey. And then she always says some form of the line uh something I was like, yep, we'll have plenty of leftovers so I can make the the turkey wreath, the left, the leftover wreaths. The turkey wreaths. So I was like, and it goes, yes, Deanna, we know you do it every single year, like the day after. You know, it's like a dare start, don't get me wrong, it is very good. She found something on Facebook one time, X amount of years ago. Um, you get crescent rolls, and you kind of you, you know, you you lay out the you lay out the you know the the crescent roll dough, you lay it, you lay it out kind of like a wreath, makes like a star kind of a thing, right?

SPEAKER_09 35:06

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 35:06

And then you get all the Thanksgiving leftovers together. So you you put the turkey down, you get the mashed potatoes, the corn, whatever the hell it is, so on and so forth. And then maybe a little bit of cranberry on. I feel like cranberry, and then you just kind of bring the the tips, you know, in to kind of and it looks like a wreath, and then you bake that fucker, and then you pull it out, and then you just you know you cut the pieces off, and then that's what you eat, and it's fantastic.

SPEAKER_01 35:28

But I'm telling you, if you take a drink.

SPEAKER_02 35:30

I was gonna say, I feel a butt coming on.

SPEAKER_10 35:32

I'm just it's it's very, very good.

SPEAKER_06 35:34

But I'm just saying. As soon as Thanksgiving, as soon as they're close to Thanksgiving, start talking about Thanksgiving. If you took a drink every time my mother-in-law talked about good, I can't wait to make that wreath. She brings up making that wreath. If you take a drink, I swear to God, before Halloween, you gotta call the mortician. It's her favorite thing. It really is. I think it's like, I don't know where it ranks, and it might rank them on top of her grandkids. I'm being completely honest.

SPEAKER_02 36:04

Like it brings it, it sounds like it brings out like her golden retriever. A little bit. Kinda, but it's like, I don't know.

SPEAKER_06 36:11

Potato fucking baked potato soup, man.

SPEAKER_02 36:16

Oh damn, yes.

SPEAKER_06 36:19

Potato soup, baby.

SPEAKER_02 36:20

Yes, like when you just kinda like and and on top of that, I like a cheddar, like baked potato soup.

SPEAKER_01 36:31

With or without broccoli?

SPEAKER_02 36:33

Without broccoli. Fucking without broccoli. Put fucking broccoli in my cheddar soup. No, not as a dip. Well, you know the cycle soup?

SPEAKER_06 36:44

All serious. You know there are some psychos who put like broccoli like on their loaded potatoes?

SPEAKER_01 36:49

Yes. Like that. I was like, who the fuck? Who the fuck does that?

SPEAKER_06 36:57

I was like, oh yeah, it's like what I'll put putting putting broccoli in your fucking baked potato is like putting horseradish on a PBJ.

Wendy’s Spicy Chicken And Social Roasts

SPEAKER_02 37:07

Like do you know who has good baked potatoes? I don't know. You I people laugh at me. Wendy's has really good baked potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 37:19

Okay. Hear me up here on this one. Hear me out, hear me out, hear me out, hear me up. Listen, just take a second. Listen, listen.

SPEAKER_02 37:25

What? I don't know why I'm leaning close to the mic.

SPEAKER_06 37:29

I I don't know why I started leaning close to the mic. Just give me a minute. Listen, listen. What? What?

SPEAKER_04 37:34

It was about not a give or take a month ago.

SPEAKER_06 37:38

I don't know what the fuck it was. It was just Lona, but whatever. Lorna and I were out of Wendy's. Or something they were talking about. That's it's when I got to try the new spice chicken sandwich. Shout out to you still the fucking go at Wendy's. I motherfucking love you. Anyhow. We talked about that because I was like, dude, do they still do the baked potatoes? And like, because I know they still got the chili, because like she got the chili, and their chili's also fucking delicious. I fucking love Wendy's. Do they still have the baked potatoes? Because like I don't see them or say them because like I never got them because like I said, if I'm getting fast food, I want French fries with like my fast food sandwiches. That's just my but I love a good baked potato, and Wendy's definitely has one. But I'm just like okay, this is the reason why. You want to talk about fucking like innovators? Like Hell yeah, Wendy's. Are you gonna be a baked area you gonna give me chili at my fucking burger joint? Hell yeah. McDonald's ain't doing that shit. What are they doing? They're just giving you the same, they're just giving you a Big Mac in a different order every like decade and a half. And then they get rid of it anyway. Whenever the hell is that? So they just kind of keep it, they ain't doing much to really change the game. They just kind of follow trends and they give you comfort shit like that. Wendy's like, we're gonna do what the fuck we want, and the people are gonna like it. If they don't, guess what? We're fucking selling it anyway.

SPEAKER_02 38:46

I'm telling you, Wendy's their social media, whoever runs their social media, God bless them. I I hope that both sides of their pillows are always cold, they always have the warmest socks. Like, I want them to have the best in life because they are absolutely off the rail, hilarious.

SPEAKER_06 39:06

Anyway, one time, one time I I had a little chit-chat with Wendy's on social media.

SPEAKER_02 39:12

Did you really?

SPEAKER_06 39:13

I did. Yeah, they actually responded to one of my things. So I posted this was this was a bit of a go fuck off. Kinda. They were saying some kind of this, they were saying some kind of shit. Um, I forgot what it was. I think it was one of my um more interesting uh posts. And uh one of my friends comments it goes, sir, this is a Wendy's. And then Wendy was like, and then Wendy was more of us like, get the fuck out of here. This guy sucks. Like, I forgot what they said, but they were just like, fuck you, bud. And I was just like, I I was like, oh I think, I think I was like, oh my god, Wendy's just commenting to my shit on social media. Mom, I made it.

SPEAKER_02 39:52

You got roasted by Wendy's.

SPEAKER_06 39:54

I swear to God, they didn't even like roast me, roast me. It was it was a very light roast, it was like a blonde roast at best.

SPEAKER_08 40:01

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 40:03

I forgot what the hell I forgot what the hell it was. But yeah, one of my friends was just like, sir, this is a Wendy's, and they were like, not his name. Fuck this guy. We would never do this. Like, we have they're like, we got class, fuck this guy. It was hysterical. I loved it, and I was like, mom, I made it. Wendy's just talking to me on social media. I would I would have lost my shit when I shared the bit the other day and I tagged them. Yeah. Um, dude, if they fucking, if they if they commented, Becky, if I got even one response to them from them.

SPEAKER_02 40:34

So, listeners, go to that episode on the social medias and just tag the fuck out of Wendy's.

SPEAKER_06 40:41

Let Wendy's know that we love them and I we do love them. We will tag them in this one too. So, like, I will fight anyone to through and with my dying breath. All of the hills, all of the mountains I will die on. They have the best spicy chicken sandwich. They do. They have the best chicken sandwich. They do. Was, is, and will forever. I will take a Wendy spicy chicken sandwich over fucking Popeyes, over fucking, over Chit filet, over homemade. They're spicy chicken. And I stand by what I said because like, oh yeah, we made our sandwich juicier. Fucking how?

SPEAKER_02 41:14

Right.

SPEAKER_06 41:15

Because I'm telling you, it was already the juiciest fucking sandwich ever. God damn, I love me a Wendy's spicy chicken sandwich.

SPEAKER_02 41:22

Perfect, a perfect sandwich meal. Now to go back to sandwiches. Wendy's spicy chicken. Their baked potato with sour cream and the chives. Yeah.

SPEAKER_03 41:36

Down the fucking notch, man.

Vodka Origins And Corn Versus Potatoes

SPEAKER_02 41:38

I like their um, they have that uh what the hell is it? It's they have a uh it's like a mango lemonade or something. Oh god, their lemonades are so good. Anyway. Potatoes! Potatoes. Yeah. Well, okay, so here's the thing. Like, if we're gonna s if we're gonna go down, you know, the the the pierogi and the nokey, and you know what, you know what else is a potato food?

SPEAKER_00 42:13

Potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 42:15

Vodka.

SPEAKER_00 42:16

Well, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 42:17

Thank God for the like the potato, it's such a versatile vegetable.

SPEAKER_06 42:24

They have one other thing you can do that they have one other thing that has more versatility than potato.

SPEAKER_02 42:29

Oh wait. Yeah. I mean you can make maybe the word fuck. Maybe the word fuck. Like, you can't make can you you probably can't. I mean, maybe you can out of like alcohol, out of carrots or a root of it.

SPEAKER_06 42:44

There's there's corn liquor.

SPEAKER_02 42:47

There was but But does that count? But corn is not that versatile that you can make it. No, it's not, but no.

SPEAKER_06 42:54

Well, yeah, that's true. You can't make liquor out of other vegetables, but still.

SPEAKER_02 42:57

But like yeah, you can make it.

SPEAKER_06 43:00

Corn's that's versatile. Hold on. Corn is the all right.

SPEAKER_05 43:04

Corn might be more versatile. There's corn meal, there's corn starch, there's corn flour, there's corn syrup.

SPEAKER_06 43:11

Let's face it, those are actual, like, I think that's like well, there's also potato flour and also the kind of function.

SPEAKER_02 43:17

No, I think I think the fact that you can turn potatoes into vodka trumps everything else.

SPEAKER_06 43:22

You can turn corn into white lightning.

SPEAKER_10 43:25

Well, true.

SPEAKER_06 43:26

That's what I was like, all right. So see what I mean? Like, yeah, true. But at the same time, though, fuck corn. Because corn gives no nutrition values. It's versatile, but it does nothing for you. Potatoes. Potatoes always got you.

SPEAKER_09 43:40

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 43:41

They always fucking got you. I just think What are you more excited for at Thanksgiving? The potatoes or the corn?

SPEAKER_02 43:48

I better not see corn at a Thanksgiving meal. Well, not a whole bunch of things. I mean, unless it's a corn.

SPEAKER_06 44:01

I'm just picturing. I'm just picturing Thanksgiving at my in-laws, right? My brother-in-law's sister-in-law's right now, and there she was with the band corn. Like with us, sitting down. All those. I love the band corn. But but they just look dirty. They just look, they just look dirty. They're all fantastic human beings.

SPEAKER_02 44:23

I think they're they're and they probably smell wonderful.

SPEAKER_06 44:27

They probably do smell wonderful, but they just look dirty. So I'm just picturing them just like sitting at, like, you know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 44:37

Like and he does that, he does that weird thing that he does with his voice before he says, pass the potatoes. I can't do it, but I know you're doing it in your head. You're gonna try to do it, aren't you?

SPEAKER_07 44:54

If I can touch my breath, I will.

SPEAKER_02 45:04

Oh god. Right before he gets go.

SPEAKER_01 45:10

Oh my god, you're talking about freak on a leash with the Yeah, right there, right there, right there at the end.

SPEAKER_02 45:18

That begins with pasta potatoes.

SPEAKER_01 45:34

But you're just whipping. Oh my god. Can you please be the halftime show at my Thanksgiving this year?

SPEAKER_10 45:45

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 45:46

Oh my god.

SPEAKER_00 45:48

Oh god.

SPEAKER_06 45:52

Holy. Everyone thinks of that one. My favorite of his. Is that like scatting beatbox thing? I don't know. Jonathan Davis being a motherfucking gangster. I don't know. My favorite is still um the first like 45 seconds to the song Twist.

SPEAKER_10 46:12

Oh yeah. Oh, 100%.

SPEAKER_06 46:15

I have no fucking clue what that man is saying. I have no idea. And like I've like looked up the lyrics to it, and like the most accurate one is just like nonsensible, nonsensible noises. That's the only accurate one. I see like 34 of the websites, they like, oh, he's like talking shit about like hip hop and all sorts of other stuff. And like he's saying this, but he goes, bullshit. No, I mean maybe, but absolutely not. I really think he just kind of just made noises.

SPEAKER_02 46:41

Because that that that sec oh that section of that song is like good.

SPEAKER_06 46:48

I call that song that is the that is the full metal jacket of like new metal songs. Because like the first so everyone knows Full Metal Jacket is a pretty okay movie. The first what like half hour, 40 minutes of the movie when they're in basic is amazing, and the rest of it is it's pretty good. That song, the first like 45 or 20 seconds of that song is fucking amazing, and the rest is it's good.

SPEAKER_09 47:15

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_04 47:16

Oh, it's awesome.

AI Music Rant And Proud Parent Moment

SPEAKER_02 47:17

Anyhow, yeah. Side tangent, you probably haven't listened to it, but I speaking of, and I was a little disappointed because after I did some research on this band, it's an it's an AI metal band.

SPEAKER_06 47:34

Yeah, I saw that.

SPEAKER_02 47:35

But my god, that was good.

SPEAKER_06 47:39

Isn't that annoying? Is that really just fucking disgusting?

SPEAKER_02 47:41

It's so annoying. Like that's it's so good and it's so creative, and it sounds so real. But you know, like But it's literally just Skynet. Yeah, yeah. But man, I I did I did save I did save it to my playlist, but I and I hate myself a little bit for it because I think tangent here. Having a daughter as a musician. I have had it beat in my head that music needs to come from people.

SPEAKER_06 48:16

A million percent. Yeah, and your daughter's not just a musician. She's like go ahead, go a little bit further about the music. Do you know she's not just like she's not just on bitch with a ukulele sitting on campus, just like feelings, feelings.

SPEAKER_02 48:31

She is she is uh a violist, a violinist, she is very talented, she plays classical music. Um yeah, no, she's she's so just fucking talented in her craft. And uh, yeah, so and and and I will say this has been the most interesting experience having her come out of um undergrad, going into grad schools. I did not know that this existed in the music world. Like I hear about stuff like this happening like with sports, you know, um, people competing for for you know, a person at universities competing, throwing out amazing offers, you know, all this.

SPEAKER_06 49:22

Did she had every school that she applied war that was going on for her to go to their school?

SPEAKER_02 49:29

There was like there was just this bidding war, and um every school that she applied to accepted her immediately. Like it was not even she didn't have to wait, she didn't have to wonder, and every school except one offered her like a free ride for her for her masters, which is rare, which is very rare. So, but she accepted um Carnegie Mellon University CMU. Um, she's gonna be going there, and you know, the the package that they gave her was amazing. The opportunities that she'll have in Pittsburgh with the symphony, with everything, like Pittsburgh, you know, is a pretty pretty happening um artsy community. I don't know if a lot of people know that, but they have like they have several symphonies, they have like plays and operas and ballets, and you know, it's it's kind of a really cool little mecca for the arts. So we're really excited about that. And she have these opportunities because she's so talented. Yes, and I'm so proud of her.

SPEAKER_06 50:56

Yeah, goddamn should be.

SPEAKER_02 50:57

And it's because of that that I feel very a very certain way about AI in music, because I don't think AI, a computer, can ever emote the emotions that you can get from a person singing, a person playing an instrument. Like, and I and I've seen this with her progression, like just seeing her from the beginning from four years ago to now, like her playing, like when she plays now, she plays with feeling and emotion, and and she's moving with the music. And you know, she that's something that she had to like lean into and learn, but you can hear it in how they play, you know, and you hear that with bands, and you know, like like you know, the just think of the emotion that you get from from sleep token.

SPEAKER_07 51:59

Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_02 52:00

You know, so anyway, uh wild tangent. Sorry, we're supposed to be talking about potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 52:06

I feel like we're gonna have to do a potato to electric boogaloo just to like actually talk about potatoes and that. I feel we've talking about other stuff just as much, if not more, than potatoes in the potato episode.

SPEAKER_03 52:15

But yeah. That's my mama. Like, fuck off.

SPEAKER_02 52:21

That's it. See, this is how it goes. People, you know, I going back to that, like this is this is how our conversations go all the time. Like, yeah. Get on a call. I just want to keep your brain feels. Yeah, I'm gonna keep you on the phone for like five minutes. 45 minutes later, an hour later. Oh shit. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 52:47

Yeah. We suck.

SPEAKER_02 52:51

But hey, I don't know about that. What else are we gonna do? I wouldn't go that far. I mean, we got some redeeming qualities.

SPEAKER_01 53:00

Oh, we got yeah, we got a couple.

SPEAKER_02 53:05

We're all right.

SPEAKER_06 53:07

We could be worse. I mean, we could be RFK Jr.

SPEAKER_10 53:12

Oh god. I don't even know how to do it.

SPEAKER_01 53:19

Fucking but talk about potatoes. We're not talking about a fucking potato. That man's fucking brain.

SPEAKER_02 53:26

Fucking potato.

Celebrities As Different Potato Types

SPEAKER_06 53:28

God. Okay, okay, listen. It which okay, you know what? What okay? Here we go. Little tangent, fun little game. Just popped into my head.

unknown 53:36

Okay.

SPEAKER_06 53:37

I don't care. Name a public figure. I don't want to say celebrity or whatever. You know, a public figure, someone in the public. And what type of potato do you think they are? What potato vibes do people do you get from certain people? Jenno?

SPEAKER_02 53:56

I'm trying to right now decide on what kind of potato Tom Hardy would be.

SPEAKER_06 54:02

I think exactly that. I feel he's like roasted potatoes. Like a rust, a rustic, a wholesome, a yeah, like a full, like a just um yeah. A lot of herbs, the perfect amount of seasoning.

SPEAKER_02 54:14

Yeah, some butter. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 54:16

Exactly. Like I said, a it's no no pun intended, but a hearty, like solid potato there. You know what I mean?

SPEAKER_02 54:23

Yeah, yeah. He's like a potato that you would have with like a good steak.

SPEAKER_06 54:29

Yeah, he's a steak potato. He's a steak potato. Yeah, he's a steak. Just like Cavel. Gavel's like a like the perfect elegant baked potato.

SPEAKER_09 54:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 54:37

That's the thing that's some elegant.

SPEAKER_09 54:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 54:40

Exactly. He is he's a man and he's hardy and he's there, but exactly. He's a bit more refined, not as rugged as Tom Hardy. So he's a classy baked potato, we'll say.

SPEAKER_02 54:48

Yeah. Here's one for you. I don't know why this name just popped in my head. What kind of potato would Zindaya be?

SPEAKER_06 54:54

What type of potato would she be?

SPEAKER_02 54:56

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 54:57

Fingerling potatoes.

SPEAKER_09 54:59

Hmm. I can see it.

SPEAKER_06 55:03

Yeah.

SPEAKER_09 55:04

Yeah. I can see it.

SPEAKER_06 55:06

I don't care how they're prepared, but she is fingerling potatoes.

SPEAKER_09 55:09

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 55:12

Yeah. And, you know, her um, you know, newly minted counterpart.

SPEAKER_00 55:18

I think he's a newly minted counterpart.

SPEAKER_02 55:21

I think he's French fries. Yeah, he's I that was exactly what I was gonna say. He's a French fry. He's French, he's French fries. He's French fries. He's and there ain't nothing wrong about that, but he's a French fry.

SPEAKER_06 55:31

French fries are the closest second of the best potato. Mashed potatoes are the best.

SPEAKER_02 55:36

So it's like who would be a mashed potato?

SPEAKER_06 55:38

Um, that is your Bob Ross, that is your Steve Irwin, that is your uh Robin Williams, that your wholesome, your comfort, that absolute the perfect energy. Anything that fits into that category is uh yeah, Steve Irwin is a hundred percent he was he was mashed potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 55:56

Yeah, yeah, a hundred percent.

SPEAKER_06 55:59

Miss Rachel, she's mashed potatoes, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 56:02

And his son is also mashed potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 56:04

Listen, his son's a fucking hot fries, I'll set it.

SPEAKER_01 56:08

I goddamn said. It felt, it felt like when Florence sent me that ad, that like underwear ad that you can't. Listen, when he did not have this on my bingo phone life.

SPEAKER_02 56:23

When he did that ad, it felt almost like illegal to look at it.

SPEAKER_03 56:29

Like it felt wrong.

SPEAKER_02 56:31

Like I saw you as a baby in your daddy's arms.

SPEAKER_01 56:36

I cannot see you. I remember the controversy of your dad feeding the croc the chicken while he fucking held you.

SPEAKER_06 56:42

I remember that. Yes, yes, I remember that. And now there you and then there you are. Wow. Yeah, wow.

SPEAKER_02 56:50

My how you have grown, sir.

SPEAKER_06 56:53

Good for him. Yeah, good for them, good for all of them. The whole goddamn thing, the whole Irwin family.

SPEAKER_02 56:59

Yeah, they're they're all mashed potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 57:01

They are, they are they are a family of mash potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 57:04

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:06

Right? Yeah, no, the same same thing with what the hell's her name from Game of Thrones. I felt so weird uh with um with Maisie Williams when Aria finally had her moment with what's his name?

SPEAKER_09 57:17

Oh yeah, yeah, that felt wrong. Yeah, it felt wrong. She was what, 10?

SPEAKER_06 57:22

Yeah, like when the show started, yeah. When she finished that, she was what? She was 18, 19 years old?

SPEAKER_09 57:27

Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:28

She was an opera with 10 fucking years. Like she could order a beer like in the US from like nope, it ain't right.

SPEAKER_09 57:34

Yeah, no, no.

SPEAKER_06 57:35

Something about it, ma'am.

SPEAKER_09 57:36

No.

SPEAKER_06 57:37

Anyhow.

SPEAKER_09 57:39

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 57:41

I don't know, I don't know why, but um, I think Anthony Mackey was a hundred percent right when he was comparing some of his co-stars, the types of food and so on and so forth. And when he said the Scarlet Johansson was sweet potatoes, he's right.

SPEAKER_02 57:54

Yeah, we didn't talk about sweet potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 57:56

It's like I don't like sweet potatoes.

SPEAKER_02 57:58

I don't like sweet potatoes either.

SPEAKER_01 58:00

I'm I'm it's not that I don't like it.

SPEAKER_06 58:02

They're not my goat, they're not my go-to.

SPEAKER_02 58:04

No, I don't like them. I don't like the sweet potato pies and the the the candied whatever fuck. No.

SPEAKER_06 58:12

Sudar rat may taste like sweet potato pie, but I wouldn't know because I'm gonna eat the stuffy fucking orange root away from me.

unknown 58:19

Keep that.

SPEAKER_06 58:21

I don't, I don't, I I honestly I don't mind them, but they're just not my they're just they're not my go-to potato.

SPEAKER_02 58:27

No.

SPEAKER_06 58:29

You know, it's just I respect Lauren loves them. Oh god, one of her favorite things to make uh whatcha? Oh god, fuck, here we go. Thanksgiving. Um he's like the sweet potato casserole, you know, with the sweet potatoes and the um the uh the brown sugar, the the cinnamon, the marshmallows.

SPEAKER_09 58:46

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 58:46

My father, oh my god, my father would commit atrocities for the loaded sweet potato at Texas Roadhouse.

SPEAKER_00 58:55

Well, God bless them.

SPEAKER_06 58:57

Oh, he loves he fucking loves them. My dad loves sweet potatoes, also.

SPEAKER_03 59:00

I just I don't not like them, they're just not, you know.

SPEAKER_02 59:05

Okay, I'm gonna say, I'm gonna say one last one. For some reason, I don't know why this popped in my head. Sebastian Stan is a pierogie.

SPEAKER_06 59:13

He's oh well, yeah, because he's Roman. Like he's Eastern European, like he is a pierogie.

SPEAKER_02 59:19

He's a pierogi.

SPEAKER_06 59:20

He is a pierogi.

SPEAKER_02 59:22

Nah, is he a is he a pierogi? Yeah, I'm getting pierogi vibes. That's what I think. I was thinking, like, okay, maybe Sebastian Stan is a pierogie, but Bucky?

SPEAKER_06 59:37

Bucky. He's he's like, he's like chili cheese fries or like poutine or something like that. He's like messy, not good for you, but you don't fucking care if you're gonna do it anyway.

SPEAKER_09 59:45

Yeah. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 59:47

Yeah, he's like chili cheese fries. He's like fair chili cheese fries.

SPEAKER_09 59:50

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 59:52

Yeah. Who is a fresh cut fry? That's one we didn't talk about.

SPEAKER_06 59:57

Who's a fresh-cut fry? Uh a fresh cut fry. I'm gonna say Robert Downey Jr., Benedict Cumberbatch. Um what's his name? Um, what the oh, the the new guy everyone's gonna go nuts for. Uh Glen Powell. Like, it's still a fry. It's still very good. Yeah. Um typically when you go there, it's more expensive, but like it's still just a French fry.

SPEAKER_09 1:00:32

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:00:33

So like there's a lot of I guess it sounds I don't want to sound like that's an insult because I think Robert Downey Jr. is is a very talent. I think they're all very talented actors. But um you know what? No, I won't put Robert Downey Jr. or um Cumberbatch. Yeah, I'll call Cumberbatch yeah. Cumberbatch, Glenn Powell. Um yeah, because it's like you're promised like so much more, but like at the end of the day, it's just it's a French fry. It's not bad, but like it's not, you know, 40% more than a regular French fry. French fry.

SPEAKER_09 1:01:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:13

I'm going and and I'm gonna it I'm because he's so popular right now. Um, I'm gonna say Ryan Gosling is a tater tot.

SPEAKER_06 1:01:22

Ryan Gosling's a tater tot. It's just adorable. Tater tots are adorable. They're not everyone's favorite, but when they're your favorite, goddammit, they're your favorite. He's a tater tot.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:30

And and I think Rocky is like, he's also a tater tot. You don't know Rocky yet. I can't wait.

Project Hail Mary Movie Evangelism

SPEAKER_06 1:01:37

I cannot wait for that. I cannot wait to know this movie. Like, I can't wait to see it.

SPEAKER_02 1:01:41

I'm telling, I'm telling you, if anyone has not, if you're listening to this episode and you have not gone to see uh Project Hail Mary, I'm telling you, go and and go in the theater. Unless you have a TV, like a 90-foot TV or 90-inch TV at home that you have a whole theater experience, go go to a matinee when it's cheaper. Skip on the popcorn, whatever you gotta do to make going to see this movie affordable, you have to see this movie. It is so good. I really think, I really do think, and I can't say this passionately enough, I think this movie will go down as one of the greatest movies ever made.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:27

They're already calling for it to be nominated for every they just said it goes like, oh, because it came out, what was it, like the week before the Oscars or something like that one?

SPEAKER_09 1:02:35

Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:02:35

So like obviously it wasn't gonna make the cut to be nominated for it, but like it's gonna be a long, like people will, like you said, it will go down as history as one that like kind of changed. I've I've read a couple reports like that. People are gonna put it down as like a classic, as much as like um Willy Wonka, uh uh The Wizard of Oz, like the fact that it is it is something to be held, this this movie.

SPEAKER_02 1:02:56

It is, and it is the type of movie that makes you excited about the whole movie going experience that makes you excited about movies again. Like it really, it is so it's so good. And I mean, the book is amazing, and if you can listen to the audiobook because it's so good. But what I wanted to say about the Oscars is that the guy who voiced Rocky was never meant to be like they he was like standing in the lines, he was gonna be just the stand-in because he's the puppeteer of Rocky as well. Yeah, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:03:36

I remember seeing him.

SPEAKER_02 1:03:37

So they were gonna have like voiceover, you know, somebody else do that, but he did so good, they decided, no, you are the voice of Rocky. We're keeping this in here because you fundamentally understand Rocky like no one else, and you can really tell that in the movie. But he is now eligible to be um nominated for an Oscar.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:01

Yeah, no, and I think, and I like I said, I was seeing that when it started from here.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:05

I love that. I love that.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:06

People are expecting that like I said, it's all gonna be like it's it's gonna exactly that. It's gonna it's gonna be like the Oscar movie next year.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:15

If the cinematography doesn't win, there's something wrong. If he doesn't win for best actor, there's something wrong. The score doesn't win, there's something wrong. Like the director, the everything that they it the the it's just it's just so good.

SPEAKER_06 1:04:33

Yeah so good for 100%. Like I can't, I personally can't wait for it.

SPEAKER_02 1:04:38

I I love the fact that they went to practical effects. You know, there's not a lot of like, yeah, there's technology, but it's not like everything is computer generated, you know? Like they actually use like old school techniques in new ways to do all of the all of the things that you see. And I don't want to give it away because you know, if you if you live under a rock and you haven't seen the reels and the TikToks and the clips about the movie, there is one scene that is absolutely like if you don't get chills seeing this scene, if you don't feel emotion, I I don't know what to say that you need a therapist because you don't have any feelings, like and coming from us, that's that's fucking saying something to you. Yeah, I I low key want to see it a third time in the movie. Like, I I need the four-hour cut. You know, there's a four-hour cut to this movie. I I need to see it. I I I could watch an eight-hour version of this movie, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:05:45

Yeah, if it they're saying what's it called, uh doomsday might be four hours. They did test screening, they did like test screenings, test showings of and so on and so forth, and the runtime. So the runtime of the movie, the actual the what from when the movie starts to when the Credits roll three hours and 45 minutes.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:02

Listen, if that fucking Oppenheimer movie could be three hours, I was not that impressed with Oppenheimer. Just to I mean it was it was a good movie, but like three hours, like by two and a half hours, my ass was like, we gotta go. You know, like you've been sitting too long. That was a long ass movie to sit through. If that can be that length, then yeah, doomsday, Project Hail Mary, absolutely, go for it. Do the long version.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:36

Oh, the taters. Release the Snyder cut of Project Hail Mary.

SPEAKER_02 1:06:40

Yes. Do it now. Oh shit. Well, you know, we started this this is this is a typical silly goose episode.

SPEAKER_06 1:06:53

Boil the mash with sick of his stew, turn into vodka, drunk by noon.

Final Potato Jokes And Wrap Up

SPEAKER_02 1:06:59

What he said. Alright, do you have any last thoughts on potatoes since that's what we were supposed to be talking about? Potatoes? Potatoes? Potatoes, potatoes.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:12

Um yeah. How many potatoes does it take to kill an Irishman?

SPEAKER_10 1:07:18

None.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:19

None.

SPEAKER_10 1:07:21

That's so bad. That's a famine joke. That's a deep cut joke. Yeah.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:32

Yes, the great potato famine joke. Hey, it wasn't a Holocaust joke. That's true. I'm very proud of you. We're doing we're we're getting better.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:39

You're getting better. I don't have to cut this one.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:42

Yep. It's two weeks in a row now. No Holocaust jokes.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:46

I know. I know. Like your therapy is working.

SPEAKER_06 1:07:52

Next week I'm just gonna start the first four things in my mouth. It's just gonna be all rent. It's just absolute atrocities.

SPEAKER_02 1:07:59

Yeah, we are gonna do some uh dive into some World War II stuff. Just he's itching. Guys, like you all knew how Kyle is like itching to get into World War II.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:14

I can't help it.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:16

I know.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:17

I can't and I don't I I genuinely don't know why. You know how they say like women are like obsessed with like murder documentaries and shit, like true crime and stuff like that one.

SPEAKER_01 1:08:26

I'm telling you, it's me.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:29

But I it's just I I am women and my true crime documentaries are World War II documentaries. Yeah. I don't know why. I can't help it.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:39

I think a lot of men like feel that way.

SPEAKER_06 1:08:42

I feel like Older racist white men, yes.

SPEAKER_02 1:08:45

Not like no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no. I think it's just there's something about that period in history that appeals to men more than to women. You know, and I don't I don't know if I don't know what that is, if it's just you know, I I don't know why that is, you know. I don't know why murder documentaries appeal more to women than it does men. Like women literally find it relaxing to watch a murder documentary.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:14

Yeah, which is yeah, there's a lot of mmm.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:18

Yeah, yeah, it's interesting. Anyway, we gotta wrap this up. So uh you guys know what to do. Merch. Join the Discord. Um world yeah, share, like, do all the things. Um, no one has said the secret word yet from last week. So if you want to be a guest, you have to eventually somebody has to tell us the secret word.

SPEAKER_03 1:09:48

Which I absolutely remember what it is.

SPEAKER_02 1:09:52

Do you really? No, you don't. I know what it is. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. I ain't saying shit.

SPEAKER_06 1:09:58

No, I figure we'll say at the end of every episode when someone tells us what it is and they get on it.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:02

Okay, but you gotta say it. It's your word. Which means you have to remember it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:06

Whoa, whoa, you can't say it was my word.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:09

I say globotherm globothermonuclear war. No, that's not the secret word.

unknown 1:10:17

No.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:19

Hopscotch.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:21

That's it.

SPEAKER_01 1:10:22

That's it.

SPEAKER_07 1:10:24

Very nice.

SPEAKER_02 1:10:25

All right. Bye, everybody.