“First of all, I'm a good person. Okay? So you know for fact that I pick sweet potato. Because ain't no way on God's blue marble that I'mma act like that I am going to be eating something that people carve faces to.” - Dulcé Sloan
“I've never had a bad pumpkin pie, mainly because they've been store bought. But I have had some homemade pumpkin pies that were good.” - Josh Johnson
It’s Summer vs. Winter this week on Hold Up with Daily Show correspondent Dulcé Sloan and writer Josh Johnson. #DailyShow #HoldUp #Podcast
Hello, friends, and dul Say Sloan, corresponding for the Daily Show. Before we get into today's episode, we want to know what do you want to hear us argue about on this podcast. Drop a comment on any hold up clip you see on the Daily Show's Instagram, Facebook, TikTok or YouTube pages, or tweet us using the hashtag hashtag hold up. Let us know. Hey, I'm Josh Johnson running for The Daily Show, and this is hold Up. I'm here with my co host. Today's topic is sweet potato pie versus pumpkin pie. And tell the people. Let them know. First of all, I'm a good person. Okay, so you know for a fact that I picked sweet Savor because it ain't no way on God's blue marble that I'm gonna act like that. I Am going to be eating something that for car and faces too. Okay. The only time anybody messes with that vegetable, with that squash, Okay, with that ground dwelling vine climbing orange vegetables from November to do something people ain't thinking about pumpkin the rest of the year. It's like, oh, pumpkin spice. Pumpkin spice is not made for pumpkins. It's just nutmeg, it's and made other stuff. It's just the season that we put on pumpkin. And also we call it pumpkin spice. But I've had a pumpkin pie, and pumpkin spices ain't in that pie. The spices ain't good. And don't act like, oh, they're equal to each other. Oh you know that, we can't. You can't even tell. You can tell. Look at who's at that party, look at who's at this kid together. Okay, whatever the majority is, that's what that pie is. That's what that pie is. I'll just say. I'll just say and and and so my mother is allergic to pumpkin, right, and so we gotta sweep potato pipe from the store one time, I guess this was in Atlanta, and the pumpkin wasn't selling. They had snucked the pumpkin into the sweet potato because my mother was eating it. This is and my tongue itches, my throat itches. I was like, wait, what she said, what's the agreeing? She's like, wait, we cooked everything else. And then she was like, what's the agreedients on that pot? Because you started trying to figure out what it was, and these bastard, don't snuck pumpkin into this good Christian sweet potato pie. So that lets you know that they're trying to hide pumpkin. They try. This is the cheese, you know this is they're trying to put the broccoli in. Okay, just because you put cheese, you put put cheese on the broccoli. Okay, that's what this is. Stop making that face and making I'm making that face because even in the example you're using, broccoli is still a good thing. Broccoli is delicious. What I'm saying is that, but a lot of peop don't like broccoli. People in Brussels Brows, like my big in college, she doesn't like broccoli because she says it's like licking the afro. I don't agree with that. I love broccoli. Also, I have an afro. Um. Yeah, that's a genuinely and say thing to me, Like I I kind of understand what she's trying to say. But no, listen, I was eighteen at the time. It sounded crazy. Then I'm thirty nine. It still sounds nuts. M But you know that's Aaron Kennedy. Okay. I was not here for it. So all I'm saying is that pumpkin is so disliked, it so understold that they had to slide it and sneak it in as a filler in a sweeper telling the pie. Because if pumpkin was so good on its own, it wouldn't have had to slide it in there and try to kill my mama. Listen, they should not have snuck in pumpkin into a pie that was not supposed to be pumpkin. I'm with you on that also, especially because people have allergies. What I will say, how many times have you been at a dinner. Have you been somewhere and you look at the table, and like you said, you you said, look at the people, you'll know the type of pie. But I'm saying, let's keep it on the pie for a second. Let's keep it on the actual color and hue of the pie. Okay, I look at a pie that could be sweet potato or it could be pumpkin. You can't tell me you know with a certainty which type of pie it is. You know, these pies are very close, they're barely they're barely barely edging each other out with homemade You can see the spices right which store bought you're still on a sweepen Tata pie, you can usually see the spice. You'll see a little bit of the spice, right, But store pot pies is very hard to distinguish between the two because they do end up being similar colors. But sweepen sat the pies usually darker. But because of the spices, they're are more nutrients in a sweet potato and sweet potatoes then there are in pumpkins. Now, some people try to say that there are less there's less sugar and pumpkin pies versusweet potatoes. But I really feel like they have to go down to just the recipe because I don't. Of course it's gonna be less sugar and a pumpkin pie. A sweet potato is sweet. And also if you're sitting up typing in what is a healthier pie? Um, yes, if you are at the pie section of the grocery store and go to google which is the healthier pie, just take a step back and realize it's all pie. It's all pie. So even if you grabbed an apple, you're getting some sugar, you're getting you're getting some pastry, you're getting some very buttery base. Listen, that's why people on Keto. I did not know the people on Keto and stuff can't even have fruit. So what is that? Because one of my friends just started Keto and said that he can't have fruit, and what why is that? I think Keto is just Atkins, It's just South Beach. It's just one of those things. First of all, when I started doing my first nutrition is back inen, like, you know, I just working hard to keep my neck. As you see, I have one. You thought that girl was gonna lose her neck in a panty dropper in a pandemic and a Panasonic in a panorama and a Popeye's na bitch, any who's so? Yeah? You know I put on my wearing my max, my chin chillers. We all know this is very so just because you bring a mink doesn't mean you're right. Okay, don't don't do this thing now in future episodes where try to dress up and then flex as if you don't have to make your points and stuff, because because that's so disrespectful to show up not give me any warning, right, so already you don't say anything. You do, just let me show up at a regular shirt. But that you're like, I'm gonna bring a mink. This feels like what somebody invite you to a party and don't tell you as horrible because then you show up to make and then you start talking down to me about my choices and just feels like a set up. Listen, first of all, this is from toward. This is not a make. This is very flammable. Okay, this is very flammable. This is what the kids call the foe for all. Right. I have I've I've acquired real only because I was bullied into it. Okay, this is just because because of the lights and the equipment in this room, you have to keep it chilly in here, otherwise I'd be buttass naked by the end of this podcast every time we do it. M So, no, I will judge you in anything, nigger. I'll judge you in a wife feat. Okay, I will judge you in somebody else's T shirt. So don't think to me coming out here. Oh you didn't even and it's on the slip on the sleeves. Don't come on, baby, Just because I'm wearing my pacho don't mean that I'm not here for the judgeifying and critification. I'm always here for the judge offying and the critification. You know that I mean about me, Joshua. Okay, that's why we are such friends. Could you try to act like that you ain't here for the judge offying in the critification, but you know you are here for the judge of fling in the critification. Yeah. But I'm saying, don't rest on your laurels, all right, because I've seen it before. Sometimes it happens with rappings. I don't even know who she is. Sometimes, Oh my got, You're like, you're like true, you're like truly a menas uh So I would college with your name Laurel all the time. All right? What do you mean there? There will be rappers who really come through that first few albums and then they really get their money up, and then they start wearing well and the music suffers. All right? Are you trying to say that my points are suffering because I was chilly? I'm saying they could in the future, all right. If we get okay, that means that the next time we do this, I'm gonna have to wear my fox, my crystal fox poncho, and dunk on you the whole time. Why would you make me do that? Why not let me sit out here in my faue Furt and whatever fabric this is. This is from Torrid. Okay, this was also free. They said this to me, and I'm very excited about it. But don't think. Don't think I'm very happy for you. Listen, I've don't a Skims bra. I don't even know what it's doing, but my titties aren't. I haven't gone song for the winner. We're in here. I got three hooks on the broad. Last time I three hooks on the bra was a Clinton administration. What I'm saying is just because your friend is out here wearing free, moderately priced clothing. Okay, this shirt also from tore It also free. Shout out to tour it. That's what I'm saying, is just because your girl is trying to be wharm in my studio. Okay. Does not mean that I cannot be making valid points. I'm not saying. It doesn't mean that you're not making valid points. I'm specifically saying, you know, just make sure you always come through with the with the insane energy. You know, the girl, I'm drinking out of a soup cup that I punched the whole in for a straw. So don't act like honestly, it's the best way for me to keep up with my water or intake. Oh yeah, yeah, because you know exactly the size of the cup. And yeah, I'm with you. It was just fun. I don't know why I like it. I like a big cup. Yeah, but also the structure of the lid, you can really like pinch the top right. And so because I have had like this very fancy color changing like those really like fancy cups that they have, like the double insulated, I had one for my birthday. Would change colors and you put like something ice cold in it, and then one day I want to reach for it, fell out of my fridge exploded. The fifteen bucks. This came with one tan soup and it's strong as hell. So yeah, it's very strong. I can hear the ice from here. Yo. My mom like I was like, I think a year or two to do and stand up candle in the open mics, and usually to make you change if you have a glass glass, they make you change your plastic cup. But they let my mom keep her glass because it's my mom. And the comic went up and he was bombing bombing, and my mom was like twirling, just sitting there doing this and this guy goes, am, I getting heckled by ice, and my mother goes, yes, yes you are. I don't remember who that comic is because I don't think I faw him again after that. I mean it's not a few more times, but yes, he got heckled by ice. He was doing that. That's either the origin story of the next biggest comic in America or someone who just started doing hedge found work because they were like, this isn't for me. You know what, Well, Brian, what happened? I went back and got my masters because I got heckled by frozen water. This is not the profession I need to be in. But yeah, yeah, anytime it's quiet enough that just the elements, or at play bro, ice on glass, whatever, it's cold enough that you can just hear wind outside. I want to get back to this topic at hand, because this this is like the State of the Union address, Okay, And I understand, and I also understand the history of why of why sweet potato is a staple. I'm not disrespecting sweepertatil Pie. It's the ancestors, Joshua. I'm just saying I'm saying for me, it is a forty nine to at. I love both of these pies. Give pumpkin pie a fifty one, but I will steal your shoes, still your new medical shoes, and saying that it's slightly it's just out for me. Tell me how, Tell me how? Tell me think? I think that some of the sweet potato pies I've had a specially the ones that were homemade before, have had just not the right texture because just like pumpkin sweet potato, if it's too if it's too like soupy, if it's too you know what I mean, If it's too loose, ones going in you barely have a pie. You've got like a bunch of thick, thickened up soup and crust. Okay, you're putting sweepotator pie it across. And it's not like a batter, because the batter is a batter, and a batter we know will hold to a spoon. It's like you're talking to someone. One year I made between Thanksgiving and Christmas, I made thirty sweep with Tata bars. Oh you told me about this, Yeah, And my mother was selling them, and I supposed to give me the money or some of the money, and then I never didn't get any of the money. She said. At one point I had an allowance, but I never saw it. My mother bought me a hand mixer because I used to make like cakes and stuff, and my mom would sell them at work and then the money would somehow, you just get reinvested in the cakes. Right, So I was never paid for my labor. But you know, I'm a black child. So when was said make the cakes, I made the cakes, right. And so I make cakes for the house or cakes for the friends, you know, aunties and stuff like that. And so I was making sweet potato pies and I was just mash. I was, you know, you cook them up. I'm mashing straight sweet potatoes. I didn't like the mash wheat like the you know, like a sweep like a potato masher got the big holes in it. So it wasn't doing the work that it needed to do to get down to protect the consistency that I needed. I just had a little white plastic cup and I'm just mushion and mushion and mushion. I mean this before we had an electric mixer, so I just had two forks and a strong erro bow. Okay out here breaking these pies, doubt and they were delicious. Okay I made but yeah, probably between like thirty thirty five pies between Christmas and Thanksgiving. And I was like, I still have to go to school. I was like mamma's child like, but she said, well, I'm I'm stilling the mat work. I was like, and I was one. I was like, mommy sawd out of pie. She said yeah. I said, oh, how much did you make of selling the pride? She's like, what do you mean, Mommy and my allowns, Oh, we gotta make more pies. Okay, I'm not gonna that's an early lesson and which was wild because like I had like other businesses and she I was like, I don't know what it was. I think eventually she gave me like a couple of bucks and you have like thirty five dollars. But I'm just like I've a dollar a pie. And she's like, you know, Christmas, which is not actual reason. That's what does a black parents really gave you great reasoning on stuff before. I will say this is what happened to me to explain so that you see where I'm coming from. Yeah, because I have much nostalgia. I've got flavor. This is a family recipe. But I've all said others people say the pies like list like people in my family can cook, right, So if you're coming from an experience where people were making homemade pies that were either too wet or too dry, or they're not doing what they need to be doing, they're not doing what the kids say, giving what they need to give. I understand that you would have these instances were like I'm an a particularly fan of this because oh press experience, like I to this day can't eat a running egg because they made us paranoid or raw food. Yeah, yeah, that's true. So like first of all, just the salmonilla and eggs. It's like for you know, because was not for black people. We did That's why we had steaks well done and stuff like that, but that comes from a history of us being sold the worst quality meat. So if you didn't have it cooked all the way, you'd get sick. Right. So I'm just now learning to get that this was out of a necessity and not because of this, Like that's why we see and stuff because we didn't have the best quality meat. Also, that's just genetic, so you can understand that you've had experience where you're like, so for me, hey, that that's exactly it. It's like in life, I have had great homemade Sweepertato pies. I've had good store bought Sweepertaio pies. But I've also had bad Sweepertaio pies so far in my life. Even though it doesn't quite it doesn't quite out edge the best Sweepertato pie I've ever had. I've never had a bad pumpkin pie, mainly because they've been store bought, but have some homemade pumpkin pies that were good. Okay, so you had more homemade Sweepertata pies. You have something pumpkin pies? Yes? And okayd you it hit wrong a few too many times. You want to talk about running egg. Yeah, if you cut into a pie like that and there's any type of liquid and it gives up, I can't say. The thing that always confused me about Sweepertata pies is that when you make a sweepstada piecase are like a blender or something, there are strings in it. It's a fibrous vegetable. I've never understood a lot of time when you have the pie. Where did the strings go? I guess they just cook out or well, I think they just really get as close to dissolving as they can. I know. But that is the thing that I always confused me as a weak girl and as a girl and adult lady. Um. Also, I think I'm confused about pumpkin pie because I've just never enjoyed the flavor of sawdust. So I guess I just can't what wow, No, no, no, no, no, no, no, what? No? What you know exactly what you did? You would be looking up like that if you didn't know what you did. A real one is like what you did? What? God? No? No, no, no, It's fine, it's fine. What does it? Because the thing is, it's like, I feel like the spices you put in a pumpkin I can tell you I've had a pumpkin spice beverage and had to slice the pumpkin pie, and it doesn't seem like any of the spices that were in a pumpkin spice beverage, or even the spices that you're smelling a pumpkin spice candle don't end up in a pumpkin pie. So where do these spices get put not always, not always, so some of them do. Some of them have like a special you know, whether it's topped with a little bit of whipped cream and then some pumpkin spice on that cream, or whether they hoped the entire pie with the spice of spice to be mixed in. No, it is, it is, it is. You're not wrong. I'm just telling you where the spice goes. Sometimes, because I felt like that was the question. It was now what I can't listen. What I really wish we could debate, which I don't think we'll ever have enough people to do, is super tato pie versus a bean pie. That I yeah, I don't know if we'll ever really get there, because first of all, I'd have to eat both in the same week er day to really like fresh refresh the Palett's memory. And then we'd also have to really go in on second, are you gonna get facts? What the hell was that sail? That's the door for my apartment? Oh? I was like, Josh, and fact is over there anything doing real business? Uh? You know, maybe one day, maybe, maybe in the future, if we're blessed. The last time I sent the facts and I was trying to send in my time sheet to work. So I work for a tip agency. You have to eatch your time sheet signed. And then they were just every Friday. They were just for somebody who would round up everybody's time sheets and then we have to get them sign and then facts them, and I just every time going. We have the internet, we have an email, you know, what are we doing this or something like well, it don't fact them, just scan them into one fire And I'm like, why, Yeah, everybody knows I logged into a system to fucking be here. Why am I facting anybody? The facts machine was also kind of cool when you think about it, because it was just like technology when it was at the top. Yeah, yeah, like we had, like we used to be able to get a printer facts scanner. You would have a fact machine at your house. And I was like, I don't know why we need this, but we're gonna need it, and when we do need it, it's gonna be great. Because my mom used to at Kinko's if so many people would come in having a fact something, if you don't know what we are talking about, that means you're probably under thirty two. Yeah, wait, Josh, I want you hey, right on the line, baby, Joshua just made it. He might even use the rotary phone before, not not not quickly, but yes, well we want to kick this to you, the listener. I'm I listened, I stayed on. Tests didn't not because you never proved all it was better. All you said was I've had bad homemade people tator pies, so pumpkin is better. Yeah, thats at what point were we supposed to come through with data? All right, say that's a week. That's a weak argument. That's a weak argument. They look almost identical. They have the same texture, all right. That is not true. The texture of a sweeper tang tooe or pulpicat pie is the same. You know how a friend in college you wouldn't eat, uh like apple or peach or anything like that because she didn't like cook fruit. It's all the sort. The same girl that said celery is just crunchy water. So so she's a real country too. I never understood, like, yeah, she was a black girl that was so country that she wore Dixie outfitter shirts. I don't know if this person is an innovator or has been left so far behind like this is this is This is someone who we either need to be researching and taking notes from, or we need to be researching and avoiding the thoughts of I can't tell you that her name was a conversation of her mom and daddy's name. So whenever you get one of them said suations, then I hope she's doing well. I hope she lived the life she wants to live, serving to God. She wants to serve um. I just was like, but apple a pumpkin. Listen. I do have a quick question, though, how do you feel about Cobbler? You know what? That's a different episode. I can't, but I can say that I think this hits home on I think because sweeoul say them pumpkin pies, because they come out when they come out, right, especially pumpkin being the one trick pony that it is, you know, getting your little jabs in whenever you can. I'm sure it feels good sitting up there with your minx. All right, No, no, no, I get it. I get it's called a fink. Thank you, Okayn, think whatever you want to call it. I see I see you there, all right, see you talking down on the pumpkins. I see you and all your hubris are humorous at all of hubrius. Possibly be wrong. The sweeper say that out here living a year round life. Okay, they are doing so much with the sweet potato. They're turning it into chips. Okay, there we are roasting them. We are making them a summertime salad situation because sweet potatoes out here doing the work that pumpkin could never do this. How about maybe pumpkin is out here once a year because it's not common, it's not cheap. Okay, it's it's a selective. It's a selective. It's a selective spice. It's a selective. Okay, you have to listen. You can't keep bringing up the spices. You can't keep bring up with spices, because pumpkin spice is not made out of pumpkin. It is made to season pumpkin. What's used to season the sweet potato, nutmeg, and other regular things that you put in a pie. So I feel like this is a moot point as far as getting spiced. We're gonna see what's in pumpkin spice, all right, pumpkin pie spice. I was on pumpkin spices and American spice mix, commonly used as a flavoring from pumpkin pie, but does not include pumpkin as ingredient. There's no pumpkin in it, so it's generally a blend of ground cinnamon, nutmeg, ginger, clothes, and sometimes allspice. Okay, now do you are you? Because basically a lot of those spices are the same ones that go in sweet potato pie. So if the spice profile is the same, then what's giving you the flavor is the actual vegetable itself, because at the end of the day, we have to remember these are vegetable pies. Yeah we picked somebody sat up and was like, okay, that vegetable. But because there's no regular potato, we're not doing this with a regular potato. M h. We're not doing this with butternut squash. We found whatever works. Rhubarb is just red celery, and I'm still not sure what we do with that. Because we're doing the same spices. That means that is the flavor of the sweet potato or the pumpkin itself, and it's delicious. I think I've made my position clear. I'm not saying one is trash and one is amazing. I'm saying that it slightly edges it out for me because of my past experiences, and now I want to hear from you, the listener. What do you think? Or do you go pumpkin? Do you go sweet Potato? All right, I'm not gonna judge you and act like you're crazy for picking either one. This isn't a situation where duels and I are diametrically opposed. I'm just saying, no, this is how I feel. I think pumpkin pie is all ful. You like both of them? Yeah, that's where we are, but I wasn't. We're not at a thing where we both think the other ones as trash, is what I'm saying. We've had much more heated debates about the thing than this one. You know, there are things that you like that I hate, and we've proven that you were wrong on all of those fronts. Grills are trash, all right, Grills are terrible. What Why are you going against people who are blessed? The chain is perfectly fine show the people you're blessed without having to you know, the gold entire mouth. Oh yeah, listen, m hmm, I'm listening better. There's so many ways to display that you're doing all right. Right, there's nothing. This is the best part of the grill is the fact that it's removable. Okay, it's not a permanent goal to have to say, then uncle in the eighties, all right, you know, selling crack, destroying your neighborhood, and a new leather jacket and a BMW chain is even more easily removable. I've seen I've seen grills get stuck. Listen, we were in chains for so long, Josh, wow, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on. I'll actually agree with that. I don't actually agree with that. What people who were like how that the argument against chains were just like I would never wear something that would Bobby, You're like, bro shut up. If you're broke, you're broke. Don't act like that. You don't wear a chain. That's kind of thing. That's a big They'll be all the intercob in Brooklyn talking about they had us in the chain, and now you want to buy the chain so you can wear the chain in front of the people that put us in the chains. Right, And it gives me the same energy as like, look, if you want to chain, what you're gonna have to do, what you have to lay down, what you do, you have to put it in that time. You got to put in that sweat. The chain is made of sweat, all right, Sweat poured together turns to gold because that's the grind, damn it. Yeah, I gotta make sure that I don't say anything. Yeah, yeah, just up every episode you've been really so, what sweet potato things? How can I grind to turn these sweet potatoes in the diamonds, Joshua, Tell the people, Tell the people how they can be out there using these pies. Look, let me tell you something. If you're sweet potato pie is not turning to gold, you haven't put the oven up high enough. Okay, all right. And if you can't put your oven up any higher, you need to grind until you get a better of until you get that stay of art, until you get that new new Okay. I don't, I don't. I don't understand why people are out here still asking these questions when the books already and written. I hate this guy. Just look, just grind, just work, and it'll all work out. Okay, This new josh has too much power. Oh my god, listen. I know this is a highly contentious, highly debated cultural argument and needs here United States of America, cup, But just know, stick with your people, Okay, stick with your people. If you're out here supporting sides, you know you have no business supporting. That's between you and your mama. Okay, But just know who you are, where are you coming from, and make sure you support the right side. You can your opinion. You can think what you want to thank, but you know what you're wrong. And just so you know you can, you can be with your people. You can love and support your people without going with the herd. Okay. So if you if you your life where something did you a little dirty and you love it as much as other people, that's okay too, all right, that's all right too. Okay. If you if you've been done truly dirty by a pastry and you don't really love it the way that other people love it, you don't know how that it's good. You just say, hey, I'm out here, I've had different experience, all right, I'm saying respect that maybe my experience comes to the fact that pumpkin trying to kill my mama, okay, and it's been trying to kill my mama since they one. So we just want to thank you for listening to hold up. Yeah, we're the only two tellers in the world, two tellers in the world, were the only ones talking about what needs to be talked about. Pumpkins, plantains, lasagna. Okay, we're the only ones telling people why club bangers are better than anything that's out in the streets right now. That's not what we said. That's exactly what that's that's what we're talking about. That's what we're talking about. Look at these episodes, go back, find find your way. Okay, get your scorecard together. Okay, get your hold up scorecard together, and see where you stand. Are you on the right side of history or do you agree with Josh. That's what you have to figure out. M m M. Josh, you want to wrap this up for the people. If you are looking to catch up with us on the end the socials, you can find me at Josh Johnson Comedy on Instagram, on TikTok, on YouTube, at Josh Johnson on Twitter. And if you're looking for Duels Saying, you can find me on all the social media is at duels Say Sloan d U l c E s l o A N. My name is dual Say and adult. My mother went to college and we got dates coming up what you're gonna hear at the beginning ends out of podcast. But look at listen, let's look us up, Listen to us, come see us in our city. 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