this this this this is mythical new year new you except you’re still dealing with the same old hangover I’m drunk right now for legal purposes she’s not I’m drunk this is a hot dog as a sandwich yeah that’s right [Music] [Music] Welcome to our podcast the hot dog is a sandwich the show we break down the world’s biggest food debates I’m your host Josh here and I’m your host Nicole anaiety and to be clear Nicole you are no I’m not but I’m so good at faking it do you have to fake being drunk no no no no I don’t know I never have to fake it she wants to see you but I’m good at it you are really bad at faking sober when you are drunk I know that for a fact talking back to the streamies oh stop I was completely there you were like a human bobble head doll like you were like thank you those are so cute have you heard the expression like the boxer is out on his feet meaning he is physically unconscious but still somehow in a fight stand conscious you were very respectfully drunk we were merry-making yes and for all of our listeners under 21 alcohol is sin and you should never do it and if you do decide to partake once you’re 21 do it responsibly Maggie does that cover the basis it covers it all right sounds good uh Nicole it’s a new year you know I don’t know about you I’m somebody who on New Year’s I like to celebrate with my friends that’s nice maybe have one or two glasses I it’s what it’s my anniversary New Year’s is my anniversary do you want to make this whole podcast about your anniversary happy anniversary David I love you I know you’re listening which anniversary is your favorite of Nicole and David’s mine’s third mine’s your third anniversary this is one of three yes yeah it makes sense uh but we’re talking about hangover Foods right now because you’re waking up on New Year’s Day you’re all hungover you’re probably gonna be dealing with this problem for a while you know how do you cure it Nicole what’s your go to okay like actual food or no food that I need to help me be alive well because those that’s a big question right everybody talks about the greasy food thing with hangovers no but you don’t do that my favorite the one I have to do I have to do this I wake up in the middle of the night tonight a soda it’s either a cooker Sprite I drink 45 of it I put it back I wash out my mouth with water go back to bed I wake up at like eight a Saltine cracker and then like a glass of Pedialyte and that’s my ink over here so I’m not dead but my favorite hangover food breakfast burrito that sounds like the last meal of a serial killer 45 of a Coca-Cola a salted cracker it’s a Pedialyte it’s I need how often do you actually do that in real life no BS in no I don’t always have I don’t always have Pedialyte at home yeah but I have Gatorade it’s the same thing so I do that the the waking up in the middle of the night for a soft drink every single time every single time but um the saltine and yeah you just gotta eat Bland Foods yeah you think like you don’t want the spicy food you don’t want to be excited I will be if I do that I will be sick yeah yeah but like either like a dry toast with a side of honey so like my stomach doesn’t get too upset or like or like a Saltine cracker or like some sort of like rigid dry bread with like a liquid that will add Danish Rye yeah or like a liquid that will add sustenance to my life though that’s my hangover cure but when it comes to hangover Foods whenever I’m like I’m over that hump of like initial like grogginess and like wanting to die um definitely breakfast burritos so you’re talking about like the difference between quality of life care and palliative care right palliative is that is that very palliative care is it like actually yeah someone may give you a Google palliative care I think that means like to actually cure something I suppose which is like I’m trying to make you happy and what you have is incurable palliative care optimize no no palliative care is quality of life okay never mind anyways you’re talking about palliative care when it comes to like um burritos right yeah so that’s something that makes you happy hangovers make you sad but let me tell you let me tell you what my breakfast burrito is it’s It Go on it’s it’s it’s like healthy like my favorite breakfast burrito when I’m hungover is an egg white spinach no yeah yeah yeah I almost sipped my diet Red Bull and it is 4 P.M and I’m drinking a diet I almost [ ] took it when you said egg white I like like I need a healthy egg white sorry spinach maybe a little bit of like low-fat mozzarella cheddar salt pepper this bums me out so much I’m so mad I am so mad sorry no no I have to do it sustenance life so I don’t die the quality of life so you can live happily it’s like a dog with hip dysplasia and Leukemia you just over feed it until it eats itself to death that’s how I am with hangover no no when I if I eat something that’s greasy and potato Laden I’m just full of like cholesteroly yolks like I will get worse my day will be worse because I will be the the alcohol gets soaked up by the grease that’s not true for me I will be I will double down and be worse yeah I need something that’ll keep me light bright on my tiptoes and that is a healthy breakfast burrito is that for it because not all hangovers are the same so is that for every hangover that you kind of have the same like the severity same I have the same craving each time but I don’t necessarily we always have access to a breakfast burrito that makes sense I found that I have three levels of Hangover oh wow okay so science doesn’t actually know what a hangover is there’s a lot of misinformation out there people think that I hang around dehydration Oh I thought it’s your body reacting to poison oh that’s what it is yeah sure a million alcohol is just poison right yeah your body reacts but absolutely a lot of people think that it’s dehydration that’s where these liquid IV things come in um radiolite is replacing electrolytes that are lost do you mean like the ones where they come to your house and they put an IV in your arm is that what a liquid is I think a liquid IV is a product that you drink that’s like anti-hangover we bought that for me you’re just talking about an actual IV that people I know people that go to Vegas they get like an IV party bus Which to me is weird 2022 is wild it really is 2023 is going to be just as wild though but no like dehydration doesn’t account for certain things like photosensitivity right that people experience with hangovers I feel that I draw all the blinds really I just get into a cave you know and so a lot of scientists think that is the formation of ethanol not ethanol but that is like it’s an aldehyde that is a byproduct of your body breaking down alcohol and they’re like yeah that just poisons you from the inside out and it disrupts your body’s hormones from functioning I like to take that view on it so for me I have three different severities of hangovers right okay there’s the first one which is like maybe uh you went out to dinner on a Thursday Friday was a light day at work and so you know you went out and had like two additional cocktails after dinner and then went home and then you got a little bit of a hangover but it’s like you’re still functional so for that type I get a big old black coffee and a big old green juice so you get hungover from those two extra cocktails yeah I mean if you if you’re a total if you have a total it’s not like deeply hungover but you definitely don’t wake up as fresh as you would if you were sober right okay and so it’s that kind of like five to six drink range I’m also large um and it depends on the type of alcohol that you have you know sure it’s like the mod the mild hangover is it’s like coffee in a green juice and I’m straight right but all those liquids don’t make your tummy go slosh slosh no my tummy slosh sloshes all the time the gold constantly I drink so many why have you ever like at the moment when you’re walking and then you hear it go slow dude I will like roll my belly around and I can hear liquids flashing around in it like 90 of the time I’ll see if I can do it right now hold on yeah yeah I know I can definitely feel it but you know like whenever you move around it’s like it’s like yeah but I love that because to me that caffeine is is giving me the energy I need to be a functional human being okay the green juice is giving me I don’t know whatever the stuff that Gwyneth Paltrow runs off of coop yeah yeah that’s like what it’s giving me it’s giving me all the nutrients the minerals collagen I don’t know what they put in there but that’s my favorite thing I go spend like 17 as a form of self Penance okay with the green juice and the coffee and that’s right and then I go about my day the second form is like you know you went out you didn’t go like a hard hard but you went out with friends and you you maybe left the bar at like 12 30 you know and you wake up pretty hungover it should be a weekend hopefully and then that for me is prime breakfast burrito time in that way you just get a bunch of you know it’s the palliative care method right it’s getting something that is really enjoyable inside you put some hot sauce on it it makes it feel awake still drink a bunch of coffee and then there’s like begging for death hangover I only have those now I never have that I never have mild to moderate hangover but also I don’t know if I should say this on the podcast I’ll say it well but I I drink to get drunk I don’t like just like have like a cocktail or like a glass of wine for like fun yeah that’s called binge drinking disorder eye disorder yeah like it’s there’s a disorder yeah it’s not normal just like only binge drink I found this out too really shut up so it’s better for me to drink a little bit throughout the throughout the I’m not a doctor yet I have plans on becoming a doctor well I did recently because I always when I I say always tell doctors I went to a doctor for the first time in 10 years a couple weeks ago um and they asked me about how much I drank and I was like oh like really only once a week and they’re like how many drinks do you have when you do that and I say I’d rather not answer that question they said I’m a doctor I’m not a cop and I was like okay and then I you know gave her the real number which is yeah it’s double digits plus I’m like I don’t know I’m out there to have fun I don’t I just say zero to the doctor I say zero for everything why are you lying to your doctor what do you mean it’s not important there’s no point they don’t like the doctor doesn’t charge you more they don’t like chastise you they’re trying to it’s not important for the doctors to know of course it’s important for the doctors know that’s what the doctor’s job is Josh are you like lying about your family’s health no no no I’m very honest about that but not about the things that you are doing to contribute to that exactly yes I didn’t know you had to actually tell them that you don’t have to it’s not like perjuring yourself in front of Congress but like if you are going to a doctor to be healthy you should be honest with them about what you and tell them like okay I have like five drinks on a Wednesday yes you’re a doctor what are you afraid of what if my mom says you are a grown woman why would the doctor tell your mom there’s patient doctor confidentiality my mom go to a different doctor no I have history there we’re not gonna my medical files are old they’re like written in stone okay they’re not gonna send it over to the next jabroni you still see your pediatrician and you’re afraid that they’ll catch you for underage drinking at 29. under aged not underage doctor hecamat you’re wonderful she’s a nice lady and I like her she always checks my my heartbeat and stuff she goes you’re okay Dr lyashevsky said I gotta stop drinking soon okay well I learned something new today um but no I like never have but also like I don’t know like when I drink it’s just like I don’t I don’t like I don’t drink to have fun like oh a cocktail here I might do that now and then but like it’s like I’m going out to have a good time man I feel that you know and we’re still young enough to worry we can enjoy our lives and we do it safely and responsibly of course we do it now I always have tracked my iPhone never drive drunk ever it’s the worst thing you can do very unsafe yeah and I love Uber I feel fancy or get or have it has a designate have a designated driver a DD who’s your DD I don’t have any friends that don’t drink um it just becomes tough to hang out yeah because you know that’s like what we do for fun oh so you guys just like rent a party bus no we Uber like normal people in before Ubers which we had a lot of friends for a second we have the rented party buses but no I use ride shares or cabs you know hail a cab that’s a fun when is the last time you hail the cab in Los Angeles California uh never I lied I lied I used to before Uber we would call we would call a taxi all you kids listening out there before Uber he had to call like 1-800 taxi and you’d be like can you be there in 10 minutes and be like no no no without fifty dollars and then you haggle with them when they get there yeah yeah and then their card machines always broken yeah cash only yeah and you’re like okay yeah I guess [Music] ah has grocery shopping become a time-consuming chore for anyone else besides me oh my God yes between the drives and the lines and the parking and everything else I am over it well then let me tell you about Misfits Market do tell with Misfits Market grocery shopping is easy quick and fun thanks to their affordable online platform take it from us yeah we’ve been using it to get veggies for our next mythical creations and Not only was it super tasty but it was super affordable as well yeah by cutting out the middleman and working directly with farmers and producers you can get up to 40 off grocery store prices plus Misfits Market rescues produce and groceries that might otherwise have gone to waste they rescue what’s funny looking or doesn’t meet the strict aesthetic standards of traditional grocery stores or what simply excess so visit get.misfitsmarket.com hot dog50 to get 50 off your first two orders when you use code hot dog 50 by February 28 2023 terms and conditions apply that’s promo code hot dog50 for 50 off your first first two orders up to a 25 value in each box [Music] what’s your favorite favorite like death hangover food sorry I interrupted you um this is this is bad and this is not a lifestyle that I endorse I’ve started being a hair of the dog guy I start being a hair of the dog oh does it work for you uh it’s not so much that it works for me it’s that I have no other options sometimes so if the death thing overcomes last time this happened it was at a wedding I mean we’ve straight closed out a bar at two in the morning we’re partying until three on that really fun time um and then wake up the next morning with three hours sleep kind of wake up in that panic attack mode yeah you know and like everything was just painful and it was terrible and so we immediately went to the sports bar and just started drinking like peach nectar mimosas that’s wild and you felt better uh yes well you’re really just punting the problem down the road right you’re like oh later me can deal with this because the the alcohol right now is gonna numb what’s going on um and then later you deal with it on the plane back to LA I was in Oakland at the time yeah nice uh yeah shout out Kevin in Paris is letting fun time he threw a heck of a party um but point is point is hair the dog and then the ultimate hangover food we’re like 20 minutes in the podcast finally getting to my answer welcome to a hot dog is a sandwich the show that’s always on track oh [ ] oh yeah right plus like whenever I’m like feeling a little a little ill like tubby girl’s ill that’s what a hangover is to me I I reach for that comfort food and Pho I mean you get all of the delicious star anise and cinnamon uh and that like charred onion and Ginger from the broth that feels life-affirming it feels life-bringing yet you know the meat just a lot of starch to kind of soak up and quell whatever was going on in your tummy sure fresh herbs too or a great digestive totally you know you’re putting a ton of fresh mint basil yeah you know uh all the green onion on there um to me Pho is the ultimate hangover food electrolytes it’s the same thing as Gatorade it’s tons you’re drinking a giant bowl of Gatorade and chicken soup all in one and it tastes better hmm I love Gatorade though sometimes I’m a little Gatorade really helps you out I had I had one of my more favorite more favorite most one of my mostest favorites extra most bestest pepperoni pizza yeah yeah hangover meals was at Valentina Tex-Mex barbecue the fatty Meats thing I do get the fat does not soak up the alcohol does it that’s amazing it’s a lie the Fat’s gonna make you feel worse but it tastes really nice yeah yeah I believe that when I went to valentina’s Tex-Mex barbecue it was at the time they were brick and mortar now but it’s just a trailer and a Chevron station all hung over at a friend’s bachelor party in Austin and we went we all just got like two gigantic Gatorades and then a ton of like brisket uh breakfast tacos some of the some of the best brisket I’ve ever had in my life handmade flour tortillas queso guac every kind of salsa you could imagine and just every single bite just washed down with just desperate chugs of Gatorade and it was absolutely beautiful what flavor was it I get that blue Nicole I got one Fierce melon which is orange color okay okay okay I like Fierce melon and then cool blue okay and that’s a good that’s a good combo I like how orange and blue makes brown do you are there any like because there’s a lot of traditional hangover Foods around the world what if I told you that I have an article uh on my laptop that uh Mr Josh here wrote in 2014 yeah titled 15 spicy hangover cures from around the world this was shout out to Danica Lowe at the time editor of epicurious.com she was the first person to ever pay me to write an article I made 75 a blog post wow but this article she hits me up at the end of the month and goes hey we need spicy food content and uh we’re restructuring our budget so I like I can just give you like a thousand dollars to write like two pieces that’s incredible Danica that thousand dollars meant a lot to me in college thanks Danica and anyways that’s how I wrote this 15 spicy hangover cures around the world yeah so I’m very well versed in uh sopa levanta uh levanta los Muertos yeah so a soup that raises the dead never had that but the most common one especially in Southern California is menudo oh menudo is the best hangover food I I’ve I the last time I had it was in Reno Nevada uh a great place to have a hangover and we went everybody got breakfast burritos and I saw they had menudo and so I got a bowl of menudo I got a bacon breakfast burrito and I dipped the burrito in the menudo God dang I love menudo underrated people don’t people don’t talk about menudo enough so for people who don’t know menudo it is a tripe which so not the book tripe that it’s called or honeycomb I don’t think there’s honeycomb in it too is there it depends where you go you’re right you’re right some places have Honeycombs some don’t you’re right yeah yeah the book tripe is the kind in Far That kind of has Frills that fall off the honeycomb tripe is the type that’s striated like honeycomb but it’s tripe that’s boiled in just a deeply Rich chili broth you put like uh either lemon or lime and or not cilantro oregano on the top of it and some dried chiliar ball sometimes and it is it’s gnarly like it’s deeply spicy and fatty and tripe I happen to love tripe and it’s 10 it tends to be cooked quite tenderly but it still has a nice pleasant chew to it but like that’s an aggressive food to eat uh for a hangover what’s the difference between posole and menudo posole is more chill right I mean pozole is a just a whole whole different dish that’s cooked with like a pork uh typically shank maybe I think I would prefer posole and it’s got the hominy in it it’s got the alkalized corn yeah I think I think now that I’m thinking back to it pozole probably works better with my GI tract than menudo but I do love a bowl of like funky menudo I do love it very very much well there’s there’s a new hangover contender in town though no a new one Superior oh no no okay so so so there are a couple uh birria spots called palakura okay do you know a hangover in Spanish I don’t know if it’s standardized Spanish or like a Mexican slang it’s a Cruda which means raw like you’re just feeling you’re just right you woke up and you’re just rubbed down to the bone okay uh and there’s a couple spots called birya palacruda and I’ve had like birya um which for people that don’t know is spicy shredded meat soup uh with a consomme or like the broth a lot of times it’s made with goat traditionally in Jalisco but a lot of spots are doing it with beef now which I believe is like a Tijuana thing but also kind of a very La thing um that’s a really nice time especially with the cheese you get like a quesadilla or a case of Taco in it oh yeah and it’s just stained with red grease cut with lime doesn’t do it for you you can’t do the fatty foods I don’t know what it is fatty foods when I’m hungover make me absolutely die but I can’t function the next the next few hours okay I was gonna I was gonna bring up something about my hangover my hangover uh variability some days if the hangover is below a certain threshold it’s like today will still be functional and I can salvage it that’s where the green juices come in um when we got back from the Streamys I told you I ate like it was like midnight I ate a Cobb salad that I found in my fridge and had a quart of water because I was like next day is work yeah I think Streamys for having it on a Sunday and having an after party till midnight ugh but I was like you know so grateful the next day it’s not only salvageable it’s like necessary as my boss you have to know that was I I shouldn’t have come into work that day we were networking George I shouldn’t have entered the building to work I was so bad we were networking at the airport I was a ghost I was a shell of myself I’ve never been like that before actually I have but like never on a Sunday it was wild so typically on that day would you would you try and be active on a day like that with a bad hangover or you just shut you shut that you shut down the whole day right are you kidding me I might go to the plant nursery I do love the place is that what you do is that talk to me about your hangover activities because that’s a big one um lay down yeah horizontally I love it hours and then all of a sudden around like four o’clock I like get up and I’m like I need to be a productive member of society yeah so I go and I go to the plant nursery and I look up how’s that productive you’re looking at plants that’s productive yeah is that what you think people in society do to produce value for others maybe I’ll buy a plant mofo yeah but maybe I’ll go buy a snake plant yeah you got to do one thing though you gotta either go grocery shopping yeah I don’t do laundry oh no no no like you’re so active oh my God put your purse I think oh wow you’re so active no no it’s it’s a majority of like um I I eat a large breakfast burrito to put myself into the dirt and put myself into the ground just bury myself in the couch for like five hours I probably take a nap I wake up from that nap and I’m sweating and I’m panicking oh do you shower okay let’s talk about how like when do you shower within like the hours of like you shower post nap yeah I try to shower in the morning but sometimes you just can’t do it no no I never shower in the morning on a hangover because I think that this the breakfast burrito you need to uh hit rock bottom before you can get better sure okay that makes sense and so that’s where it’s just like a pound of coffee a pound of burrito a half gallon of hot sauce and you feel like just disgusting I don’t think the cat raised from the dead the caffeine mixing with the alcohol also makes me super sick yeah you get dizzy from it but eventually the dizziness stopped the world yeah yeah the world stopped spinning and then you but then that gives you the energy to revive yourself I don’t know it just doesn’t do it for me emotional catharsis is Big too oh yeah what’s that like you gotta watch something really sad oh I think I do I do that I do that automatically you’re feeling bad so you’re like I want to mirror this emotion oh my God I love doing that that’s your go-to sad movie on three I don’t have a go-to sad movie but I just watch whatever sad documentaries on Netflix and I’m like I make roses it’s really sad my favorites my favorite sad movie is uh I don’t think I could watch it anymore I haven’t done this in a while oh I am Sam would get me Sean Penn although I don’t think I can watch that through the same lens because it’s really just different now it’s really Sean Penn acting um disabled yeah yeah but it’s a good sad movie it’s a good sad movie 2005. oh that was a great sorry go ahead go ahead no I was gonna say pursuit of happiness but now after like Will Smith oh that’s a sad happy movie like I don’t know if I am into Will Smith like that anymore it just seems like you know kind of Will Smith come on the show um but uh Will Smith come on the show it’s just it’s just different now it’s different in 2023. no Will Smith’s a great actor he’s a great actor in Pursuit of Happiness one of the saddest scenes ever where he’s holding spoilers for Pursuit of Happiness he’s holding Jaden Smith uh and James Smith is just playing himself as Jaden Smith yeah yeah he’s holding him in the bathroom the guy’s like beating down the door and they’re crying he’s like thinking dinosaurs oh oh I have one it’s it’s a holocaust movie oh my God what is it sorry for laughing it’s uh Life is Beautiful with Roberto Benin have you ever seen it I haven’t seen it now but yeah cause I’m a list Danielle sharer you need to watch there’s you need to watch Life is Beautiful you can watch it with subtitles or you can watch the dub version it’s the same exact emotional roller coaster it is the most beautiful movie it really is the most beautiful movie and I cry like a baby in it I literally I turn in i ball up and I’m just like why and then you smile and then you cry again and then you smile again stop looking at me like that you know it’s a terrible sad movie Julia tried to make me watch this when I told her that I like sad movies when I’m hungover rent oh see oh Maggie Gaslight Maggie oh you love rent singing oh my God I’m being sad it got me in the worst emotional in that space I have ever been trying to watch a rent while hungover I just wanted I have never had the uncontrollable urge to grab the TV remote and throw it through the window did it feel like 525 000 500 2500 600 hundreds how do you measure measure hundreds in cups of coffee and breakfast burritos and Josh’s hungover you’re flat you’re pitchy tell you what [Laughter] it’s other hangovers what are other things that you have enjoyed protein bar what the heck out of here you need to know the truth you don’t get it I am I am dead I cannot my makeup is smeared because I did not take it off yeah go on she’s about to reveal a personal detail I know the look of shame in Nicole’s face and she’s about to reveal her personal detail yeah yeah yeah right what are we gonna talk about I’m gonna cry wear a certain article of clothing is yeah yeah just chucked across the room huh yeah just like walking like like one day I was and by the way Julia’s out of town I was completely alone and I just woke up butt naked I never sleep naked I always like I’m like uncomfortable on top naked on top of the covers just exposed just butt like like sheets I kicked off the sheets in the middle of the night there’s nothing I don’t even have like a pillow I was just starfished my legs spread a Kimbo what no butt up but like back arch I don’t know how to explain it um so we’ve all been there oh man oh man yeah just like I just I literally you can’t turn on the flame like you can’t you can’t turn the flame on you can’t turn the microwave on you’re just you’re not well yeah you gotta eat your protein bar jalapeno popper cheeseburger now what they did is they Nicole check this out so they made a cheeseburger with bacon and pastrami on it oh my God it was called oh I’m so mad that it was nice Junior no no this is a UC Santa Barbara special there was a man there was a man he was a drug addict but that didn’t Define him but I think it did give him a lot of energy to do what he did he was the original Postman drug we called him the rabbit Runner and I don’t know why but it was definitely stimulant um but what he he had a number and you would call him and be like yo get me the jalapeno popper burger from IV Deli Mart and then he would just be on his bike and he was better more efficient than Postmates professional we tipped him well dude was just the OG delivery service wow and it was just him on a bike and he was Thin wiry Man bug in it never had a shirt just permitan you know looks like a looks like a raisin out there just a tan that is just now a shirt you know what I mean oh yeah I got it got it yeah and he was awesome at his job yeah if you were hungover he was a savior another one tamale carts oh wow all right Nicole I don’t believe in angels unless a tamalero comes around my home comes around my home when I’m hungover and because you wake up you’re hungry you’re like just boys or girls angels are I don’t think they’re everything angels have a genders really well I don’t know our Angel is Gabriel because Tilda Swinton was a was it Angel Gabriel and like that is an ambiguous person so I don’t know gender of angels huh neither please he said tell me you’re a gender binary uh Christianity doesn’t believe in the gender binary either look at us uh Nicole any final words on hangovers every time you take it my Chapstick fell every time you take a drink have a cup of water yeah it doesn’t help but yeah you had water hydrate hydrate eat in between so you don’t wake up the next day like a zombie like you are a reanimated corpse just eat and drink in between so you stop looking at me like that you’re so disappointed in me right now no I’m not it’s okay it is good advice it is good advice because if you’re drinking water you’re not taking a shot drink one that’s like that’s why it works water have little canopies in between um and and just just you know enjoy your life and have a healthy breakfast burrito the bushiest thing Nicole has ever said this is it is they have some canopies in between drinks yeah when I’m slamming Bush lights on the beach Nicole I’ll just have a little I don’t know cucumber tea sandwich with caviar and creme fraiche canape can be used for anything anything could be a wet bag of spicy sweet chili Doritos is that a canopy of course it is that is your version of a canopy uh you know what’s actually good practical drinking advice but I think not a lot of people know and maybe this is the way my stupid brain works but people don’t know how to standardize what a drink is like when you say I’ve had five drinks versus six drinks whatever that doesn’t mean like if you get a margarita that’s not all as one drink right you go down to what’s that what’s that North Hollywood terrible Tejano El Tejano you go there and you get a margarita they serve it in a 16 ounce glass there’s probably four shots of liquor in there right which is four drinks which is four drinks so a drink is uh 12 ounces of four percent alcohol which is to say a light beer right a can of beer okay can a Rolling Rock Bottle Rolling Rock I drink meta cans that’s one drink a glass of 12 wine most wines between 12 and 15 a four ounce pour of that is one drink same as one can of beer a 1.5 ounce shot at 40 alcohol which is to say foolproof spirit that is one drink uh three ounces of a half proof Spirit like a liqueur say a Malibu coconut rum is one drink learn how to estimate the amount out of drinks in your head based on how much you’ve had and that way you can at least track and know your limits big brain Josh [Music] this episode is sponsored by betterhelp when you’re at your best you can do great things yeah like when you’re totally in the zone cooking up an amazing meal or feeling refreshed after crushing a workout but sometimes life gets you bogged down and you may feel overwhelmed or like you’re not showing up in the way that you want to working with a therapist can help you get closer to the best version of you because when you feel empowered you’re more prepared to take on everything life 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first one I love the sexy voices on the um voicemail not too pressy at all very sexy um I just wanted to say Josh that you are the weird neighbor like yeah you think you have weird neighbors like does she live next to you or doing unimaginable things on that porchies on that porch like what you are the unique strange neighbor yeah is this your neighbor you think everybody else is so just keep that in mind and never forget and just be proud of it where do you live love you is this person your neighbor I believe I believe the term for that is red me for Filth did she read me for Filth is that the is that the correct terminal I’ve been read I’ve been red um I must have been complaining about weird neighbors and then by telling me I am the weird neighbor I literally had flashbacks of me like smoking a Whole pork foreshank in a bale of hay on my college apartment balcony and my neighbors literally like calling the landlord and being like hey he’s like pumping smoke into my whole house and I’m like don’t you understand that I’m trying to recreate a northern Vietnamese dish that’s been lost to the sands of time called yakai you weirdo you’re the weird one for not thinking that this is normal Josh you had Nicole you have to because the dish literally translates to fake dog and so to cook oh God I got it the day she would have to burn the hair off of the dog by wrapping it in hey dog recipe no no I cooked it was it’s made from Pig it’s fake dog Nicole the dish is called Hey fake it’s tough the Vietnamese I know it’s very I know I learned how to say B well how do you say it I forgot okay great job uh I accept that I’m the weird neighbor and that’s why I honestly thank you for helping me become self-actualized Josh does this person live next to you ever no they’ve just probably heard me say anything no no no this person specifically said I see you on the porch or whatever I think they meant like that in the metaphysical sense like no no no this person knows you they think so they know you I do some weird stuff on the poor time I know anybody could see my porch because I’m kind of naked there a lot so you’re naked on your porch but you never sleep naked yeah I’m scared of an earthquake no I’m afraid of my cat clawing in a sensitive area you let your cat sleep in bed with you yeah that’s how you get worms I listen it’s part of my culture as a gross white person it’s just it’s what we do our animals they kiss us on the mouth they sleep in our beds I don’t know what to tell you okay next opinion hey guys Drew here I think I’m supposed to say like long time listener first time call or something along those lines Part-Time Lover full-time friend McDonald’s gets all the love and stuff with Big Macs and chicken nugs and fries and stuff but people are sleeping on the drinks like that’s where they’re really at where else can you get a one dollar Diet Coke that’s absolutely the best in the game so much better than the bottles whatever McDonald’s got the best one also their coffee milk I gotta call it coffee milk yeah there’s like no coffee three quarters milk and cream and like flavoring that stuff is handbound the best and again like a dollar so like yeah McDonald’s drinks that’s my opinion this is a good opinion I like their coffees the mccafes delicious that is okay talking about great hangover things palliative care okay get a big old milk coffee it’s so good that is a good time McDonald’s they got some of the cheapest milk coffee in the game I’d say Duncan if there’s one available to you also great milk coffees phenomenal I’ve only ever been depressed inside Dunkin Donuts and so if you have a hangover It’s Kind of Perfect what I just Dunkin Donuts make me really sad I don’t know how to explain it every Duncan I’ve ever been to has been like a sad place I’m not happy to be there either you go into Starbucks sometimes and the employees are like kind of chip or even a McDonald’s sometimes the employees I’ve never had a Dunkin Donuts employee look like anything but they would be anywhere else on Earth hey Duncan tell your tell your client what customers know tell the people that work behind the counter to smile no don’t tell them to smile give them a reason to smile I don’t think that they’re as I don’t think that they’re unreasonably not smiling I think it’s hell I think it’s hell it seems to be hell working at a Duncan what because they got a million okay imagine doing the same volume as a Starbucks but like also making omelets they make omelettes it’s all probably kind of microwaved but still in like putting out Donuts it just seems like a lot Duncan give your employees a reason to smile pay them all more um that’s my that’s my name sure pay them more but it doesn’t kill anyone to just have a smile on your face when you hand me my Boston creams they got spicy Sprite at McDonald’s oh and the sprinkles like this I think I could be mistaken on this too I believe the diet coke syrup that they use was like never updated special have you heard this yeah it’s like an OG Diet Coke say because Diet Coke will reformulate Diet Coke occasionally right I think they did it recently they removed aspartame or something or other I don’t drink it so I don’t know anything about it I love it but I think I think McDonald’s has like an original formula that is just solely made for McDonald’s I think it might be like a like an urban legend where they’re like oh for McDonald’s They specially formulate stuff but I don’t think that’s real yeah I doubt it why is there Sprite so spicy I think it’s carbonation levels in the machines right it’s so spicy when you open it it literally goes also talking about the drinks being a dollar um not to brag and I know you’ve heard this before Nicole but the person I dated in high school her father was high up in HR for Taco Bell anyways he told me that the reason they do the one dollar drinks all the time any size is because no matter what drinks are always going to be the highest margin and so they’re trying to like get people dependent on a large drink so even selling an extra large drink for a dollar as opposed to 1.49 they’re still making a crazy margin on that significantly more than any especially beef Laden product and so yeah dollar dollar big ass drink it’s it’s a great time you ever get a Big Gulp love big gulps I never or I know I can’t do a Big Gulp why not Tommy can’t handle it it’s just too much how much is 128 is it a gallon no I think half gallon is the highest I’ll go up too that’s crazy I once after basketball practice drank a 64 ounce Big Gulp of Diet Pepsi and deep can verify this and I just threw it up like immediately and then and then I know no no Maggie you looked up big gulp look up like Super Gulp because they have big gulp is no longer the biggest yeah and then there’s another one it’s just called like fat ass gulp that’s like 60 Double Gulp they go higher what’s a Double Gulp what is the what is the bit what is the gulp hierarchy oh my God I would say Super Gulp should be bigger than a Double Gulp though that doesn’t make any sense oh my God the psychology you think the double is smaller but you’ll still I think they call it a Double Gulp because the big gulp is 32 ounces so this is literally a double Big Gulp crazy I just learned so much about gold hierarchy I want a Big Goal next opinion hello hi all right here’s my controversial opinion according to the worldwide web I’ve heard of it Google a pot roast is defined as a piece of meat cooked slowly in a covered dish I think braised short rib is a pot roast I think Carnitas our pot roast and I I think Barbacoa pot roast I I think pot roast has only been used on like that sundae dish that your Grandma makes but I think it’s a much it’s a much wider scope than what we give credit for all right take care you want me to shut this down real quick you shut this down real quick you can go all right so we’re talking about pot roast right as a technical format for a dish which I don’t necessarily disagree with you talk about braised short ribs as being a type of pot roast I might agree with that but when we get into Carnitas and Barbacoa what he might be referring to are the Chipotle versions of what those dishes might be but Carnitas is actually defined as a whole pig cooked down in its own fat it’s effectively a form of confichore right yes if anything it’s confit it’s confit if anything but also you know Carnitas is its own dish that has stood the test of time for forever Barbacoa similarly comes from the Arawak word uh Barbara yeah which uh which is a Taino form of whole animal cookery so traditional Barbacoa it is cooked in Maguey leaves that are buried underground uh the agave plant oh cool so it’s cooked in those leaves uh and then that is a actual whole animal preparation if you want to say Barbacoa is a form of barbecue Carnitas is a form of comfy I might listen to that as far as pot roast no that is false could be could there be other forms of roast you could put under a pot roast umbrella I would take that but I don’t know that we need to have a standalone category 4 pot roast also I don’t like pot roast I like pot roast I make a good pot roast I’m gonna buy it all right I’m gonna give you the best no we’ve got one third Kahlua pause pause he said Kahlua already bad what you don’t like Kahlua no blue is at the light keep going you’ve got one third Kahlua one third Disaronno one third blue Powerade 100. Disaronno Kalua and Powerade these road is an Amaretto right yes so you got like the the almonds yeah almond chocolate and blue Powerade Mountain blueberry you monster ew and what do you shake it over ice you know what if you added a touch of heavy cream to this I might be in you have some heavy cream you make it you know it tastes like you know what this tastes like I love it no no no it tastes like chocolate covered gummy bears would you like I love them do you think you would get but I don’t want to get drunk with with that and taste in my mouth you know what I mean if you just soak some chocolate covered gummy bears in vodka you can’t soak them because they’re covered in chocolate microwave it microwave it the chocolate melts into the Vodka soak some of the gummy bears or listen so what’s going on you just done without caring no I would soak the gummy bears and then once they’re soaked I would Pat them with the towel and then I would dip them in some chocolate how did you come up with this recipe disgusting also uh also an equal so this is a Negroni format right we’re talking an equal 111 ratio yes a negoti format this is what he’s making is effectively a Negroni with substitutions what would you name this drink oh God I don’t know it’s it’s chocolate covered almonds with blue oh you go I don’t know trail mix I mean I suppose um that was literally the most horrifying cocktail that pretty bad cocktail the color of it because you’d still see something blue green algae quality from the Powerade come through the dark you don’t know that you don’t know maybe he’s given it a little shaken not stirred situation maybe he’s layering it kind of like one of those cool shots that the Tipsy Bartender does you’re gonna be like a float yeah all right you don’t know what’s going on I think the only way we can know for sure is if we make it I I do not want to go out and buy a bottle of clue and Disaronno just to do this but I might and on that note thank you for listening to a hot dog the sandwich if you want to hear more from us here in the mythical kitchen we’ve got new episodes for you every Wednesday if you want to be featured on opinions or like casseroles you can hit us up on Twitter at mythical Chef or enhance with the hashtag opinion casserole or or if you want to leave us a voicemail give us a ring and leave a quick message at 833 talk pod one and for more mythical kitchen Big Daddy check us out on YouTube where we launch new videos every week daddy [ __ ] Nicole you’re always Big Daddy no we’ll see you next time [Music]