Hi. I'm Vanessa Beyor and this is my brother Jonah. We're two siblings who love to talk about our childhood and nostalgia and how it shaped us into the people we are today, who are pretty white and nerdy, if I do say so myself. Welcome to how did we get weird? So, Jonah, I know that we're both absolutely thrilled, so excited about our guest today. We're here in the studio in person with him and couldn't be more jazzed about it. And something that I think he might not know about me is that when I was in college, I was in an all female sketch comedy and musical parody troupe called Bloomers, and we did quite a bit of song parody, and so I wanted to I think, once we introduce him, I'm gonna go through a couple of these songs parody used for him and just get his his take. And how long ago did you working? I'm calling this two thousand to two thousand four. Okay, so, but let's get right into it, right, yes, yeah, okay, Well, our guest today is honestly a legend. He's sold millions of albums and is one of only four artists with top forty hits for four consecutive decades since the nineteen eighties. He's also the co writer and subject of the new biographical parody film Weird the Al Yankovic Story, which is currently streaming on the Roku channel. Let's give it up for our first ever in person podcast guest Weird Al yank of It so much for being here, honor. You named your whole podcast after thank you for my play. Yeah. Yeah, We're so excited that you're here. And it's what a delight. What a dream? Yeah? Oh wow, okay dreamed this moment. Well, um, this is our actually our second Brother Sister project that we had you come as our guest on because we did our Sound Advice Sound Advice y Yeah, yeah, that was a web series. Yeah, that was all ago and you're so great. That's when we first met and we've gotten to hang since and what a dream. Yeah. Well, as I said in this intro, I have a couple song periodies. I just wanted to run by you really quickly from my days in college and I just wanted to just get your just quick takes on them, and I'm going to do them in order of my time in college, so they might get progressively better, or as I got older and was doing more writing, or they might just kind of chronological. So we'll see if we'll see if I run out at any point. Okay, this one is to the tune of Survivor by Destiny's Child, and it's called Survivor. That could be confusing for people, but all right, I'll go with it. I'm just gonna go through. Okay, it's it's about the dining halls at my college. Okay, because like that exactly exactly. Okay, Okay, so it goes. Now that the dining halls are out of my life, I'm so much better. They thought that i'd be weak without them, but I'm stronger. Thought that i'd be starved without them, but I'm fuller. My nutrition would be bad without them. I eat healthier. I thought I wouldn't grow without them, Now I'm taller. I thought I would be dragging without them, Now I'm livelier. Thought I would be stressed, so funny to look you in the eyebar, would be stressed. Okay, it's almost done without them, but I'm chilling. I thought I couldn't cook for myself, but I'm grilling. I'm a survivor. I don't need dining. Sick of that crap. I'm gonna eat better. I'm a survivor. I'm gonna make it. I will survive, keep out of dining. Wow. Strong, that was strong. I give that five stars. I almost say out how many? But okay, okay, so we're not gonna say what the what the rating system is? Okay, I think that's what I think. That's a thank Yeah, okay, I'm gonna move on to anything with food. You know, I'm gonna give a thumb. Okay, great, great, great, great. Well. This next one is come Out and Play from by the Offspring, which was this song was about gang violence, but I did it about laundry. So I'm gonna say you probably came up with the same idea I did. But you probably did. But you and this is actually from the viewpoint of one character telling another character how to do laundry, okay, which maybe wasn't your concept. That actually was Okay. I think you probably think, oh my god, Okay, you like the latest fashion, but now you're in a squeeze the kids and it's laundry in a dorm. Okay, do you like the latest fashion. But now you're in a squeeze. The kids are filling up their fold out hampers doing laundry with the greatest divise. It looks like the kids are having such fun, but you look like a mess because your colors all run. Because the bright colors and the white don't mix. You got to back it up, back it up, back it up. Hey man, you're talking back to me out your mouth. You've got to keep them separated. Hey man, you're listening to me. Take that out. You gotta keep him separated. Hey, he don't ask me why. If you put the two together, you'll be wearing ty die. Hey, it's laundry day, almost really tell go go to YouTube this. There's got I never recorded it, but I used to do that live on stage. Keep them separated, it's laundry day. Yes, wow, yeah, check it's It's gotta be online somewhere, I'm sure. I just want to see if I wrote this. It was a whole offspring medley, and I just wanted, well, okay, I'll check this another time. Yeah, I wrote this with them. I want to give Arianna Jackson and sma venk it. We all wrote it together, and I guess we were. That's so crazy. Wow, I almost feel like we should stop there, but I'm not going to. I have one. I'll do one more. I'm going to do a food another food one. God, Okay, I have to do this food one. Okay, So this one is from j Lo I did. We did a whole j Lo food medley that I think I wrote completely by myself, so I don't know that it anyway, So it was too. Um I'm real, I'm the j Lo I'm Real remix with jar Rule and it's and it's called okay, so it's two I'm Real. But instead, um, I did I'm Bread. I did not do that, Okay, Okay, so it goes. Um, I'm gonna skip the beginning part. So it goes because I'm bread, rolls, croissants, rice and grain scones, muffins, I'm bred, panay fed, Cheenie bow ties, Riega Tony, I'm bred white. Are we pumper nickel rye hollow too? I'm bred and you can't go on without me? Um, I guess that's kind of you. Know. What I love about that is your your anthropomorphosizing. Yeah, bread and you become bread. You are a metaphor. It was. We did all the food groups, so there was also well you you kind of asked for an al to hear more so. I mean, I, out of all the food songs that I've done in my life, and I've done quite a few, I've never been named food. So this is what I like. This one is for. This one's for fruits and vegetables. Just really quick, think I'm gonna make you fat. I don't think you're gonna spend a lot. You won't even if you're broke. We hardly cost a thing. If you want your vitam mens get me if you're in cash and I'm almost free even if so it's just about like veggies and fruit. A good message for the youth of America. Yeah, and by the way, again, I know you weren't asking for this, but at the end of it, it's too waiting for tonight and all the food groups come out and they say, like a baseball team, act as one. I don't know why I'm doing this all for you, so embarrassing, but anyway, it's just like it ends with you have to eat right, oh. If you want to be healthy and strong, remember to eat right, oh. An unbalanced diet is wrong. You have to eat right. I like your positive message. I mean, these are all good, good health tips. Well, it's funny because we used to mostly have them be part of like narrative stories, but then this one was just it was just kind of a p s A. You're right, A lot of my songs are but people being obsessive about things, and you're You're just like putting light and love into the world so much. I think for our listeners, I'm really putting putting strain into their ears because they probably want to hear about you and stuff, and I'm making them listen to mine. So thank you for putting a positive I was curious, like, do you have a lot of songs that you perform kind of on tour that you haven't necessarily recorded. Um, not so much lately, But I used to do that. I used to because a lot of songs either didn't get approved or I thought they were funny. For like one verse, it's like there's some some concepts which are like, Okay, you get to the punchline and that's pretty much it. You can't really build on it too. Yeah, So I would do a lot of those, uh in concert In fact, they did what I used to call the Fabulous Food medally because they did a lot of songs about food that would only like be funny for like two lines like oh here she comes, boy, she like that process to me, Here she comes, She's a spam eater. Done and nowhere else to go from there. I think when I was in Bloomers, we would like do that except would keep the song going. Um, but that's incredible. Now, did you ever because like I feel, I know there's they're very different, but like we would have stuff on SNL where we would like write the whole thing. For example, my friend Jeremy and I once wrote this whole Mick Cafe parody and then we found out that McDonald's was a sponsor of SNL or something, and we had like the whole thing ready to shoot, and then we couldn't do Did you ever have stuff where you basically completed it and then we're told and you don't have to tell us what it is because maybe but I'll tell you anything, thank you out um that that I try not to do that because I had some bad experiences early on, because you know, even though what I write is like goofy, I I do spend a lot of time on him, and I'll spend like a week or two like writing a dumb song, So I don't I don't like to waste time and energy. Uh and and there's been there were a couple of times when I write a whole song and the artists be like, yeah, I don't think so. So, so it became my policy to only come up with an idea like the high concept, and then have my manager to talk to their peeps and make sure that and then I'd go through it. Yeah, yeah, totally, totally. Well, thank you for listening to my songs. It's really incredible that we both had a similar idea, same idea and um wow wow, yeah that for some reason, I don't know, I think that the offspring. I don't remember if the offspring turned it down or if if I just decided it wasn't like album worthy. But I finally did a pretty fly for a rabbi that was my other right, Yeah, yeah, you know once. Um, Jonah has always been doing cool kind of punk things, and he used to work on Warped tour and stuff. And one time we were on warp tour, I was visiting you and Offspring was performing there, and I said, do you like, do you think I should tell them about the Offspring medley we did in Bloomers And we thought about doing it, Yeah, and I never did it. And I wonder what if they didn't like that would changed? Who knows what would have happened butterfly flopping its wings. Don't don't know what kind of effect I was gonna have years from now. I mean, if I know that, you know, you can't remember this for fact, But if they weren't that into you parenting them, I don't know if they would have had a better attitude with me. They're probably having an off day. You probably would have caught them. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly when they're at a like hot music festival in the middle of the I was curious, like, I know, actually some of the guys who were in your film who played the punk band, like Jonah and Jeremy, and I was curious, like, were you, you know, because that scene was so big and kind of California and that were involved in that out Did you very like see Black Flag or any of these bands kind of when you were coming up in the eighties or anything like that. Not a lot a little bit. I mean, um, I I never saw Black Flag live. I I didn't hang out at the what was the club that used to I'll play at um like gosh on Santa Monica. I shot a video there, but I don't think I actually saw a show there. But like you know, the germs and the adolescents and all those people would be playing there, and I saw I saw a few, not like punk shows really, but I saw like the go Goes at the Whiskey and their eighties and Oino Boingo like early on and stuff like that. I didn't get out that much. Yeah. Yeah, well it seems like that new wave and that punk scene were really kind of connected at that at that time. Yeah, that's really interesting. Well, al we Um, we asked you to bring in a topic today as we always do, and the thing that you came up with, which we were really excited about two things Quisp Cereal and mini Cereal boxes. So let's start with Quisp. Why did you want to talk about? Quiz Ques was maybe my favorite you know when I was a kid. Um, I like the character and the commercials A kid, very cool, kind of nerdies space guy, and I just thought it tasted good and you know it was it was a Quaker Oats product, which means it was basically the same stuff as all their other cereal I I have I don't know if it's true enough. I have this concept that everything they put out is the same thing but in different shapes, like it's basically Captain Crunch but shaped like little bowls. And first and Quake was like the competing thing. They had a whole campaign where like, do you like Quisp like Quake? And yes, well I'm a nerd not a jock, so of course I like Quisp. You know. Well that's that's what we were doing some research on it. And they both came out Quisp and and Quake came out in and they were the same exact cereal except one was shaped like saucers uh and the other was shaped like a letter key yeah yeah yeah and you and it seems like, um, Quisp was a lot more successful and they eventually got rid of Quake. Yeah. I think they had like a some kind of fan vote where you would I don't know, it wouldn't be online obviously, but they had some kind of thing where they had people vote, you know, we're gonna lose one of these products and which one you want to lose? People were like, we hate quake, quit to die? You know a good quip? I mean, and Quis had better mouth feel like, who accusing your gross? Yeah? Were you eating quis? Like breakfast? Are we snacking on it during the day or dinner? What was you? It was mostly breakfast? I guess it was like that was sort of like the almost every single morning was like, uh, cereal and milk for for breakfast. Okay. I wasn't like, you know, I wasn't like a bacon eggs guy or even pancakes, so like cereal milk was like every morning. Yeah, yeah, and it was it was your favorite cereal. Well, we have a gift for you. Actually, Christmas been called the first Internet cereal because it's still available but you mostly can only find it on the internet. No way. So we did some hunting online, oh my goodness, and we got a box QUI gu and it's it's not like it's not like from like a nostalgic store. It's like it's safe to eat. You can find it on Amazon and you can also find it. I guess they sell it at some grocery stores, but they're just very few and far between. So yeah, so we got you a box of Quip that is so cool. Thank you guys. Since you're gifting me with us, I'll tell you one quick story about Quisp and gifts. I got married in two thousand one and still happily married, but my friend from college, Joe Early, for his wedding gift to us, he gave us two boxes of Quisp, which I thought was cool, and to this day my wife hates him. You just don't mess with a bride's wedding gift. He did not find it funny. She was like, he became persona on grot, like that's really funny. Well, it's like yeah, if I yeah, I would want maybe you know, a box or two of Quip and then a real gift. It sort of feels like to do it sort of feels like I think the thing was like the first box was the gag gets from the second boxes the real right right right? Double cereal feels like a bigger um. Now, were there any other cereals that you were really into growing up that you can recall? And did you did you have like sugar cereal in your house? Yeah? I mean it was yeah, all the all the sugared stuff anything that was like super bad for you. I love. Yeah. In fact, yeah, I remember. Yeah, if we had corn flakes, we had like the whole like restaurant style thing of sugar buyers. I have part of sugar on the corner. Unless it was already the sugared what do they cut the frosted Yeah, exactly exactly. But if it was regular corn flakes, how do you eat that without sugar? Right exactly? Yeah, Yeah, that's incredible. Yeah, we weren't really interested in this Quisp cereal because I don't think it seems like it's they've discontinued it and then brought it back. And I think when we were growing up it was discontinued during that time, but it really does seem like it was. So it was I guess they made the character before they made the cereal. Is that what they did? Yeah, it was like they do the movie poster before they figure out what the movie is. Yeah, and it was Hannah barbera artists made this. J Ward Yeah, did it like Georgia the Jungle and Dudley do right Rocking Bullwinkle Yeah? Yeah, yeah, yeah, I loved him. So Jay Ward and Bill Scott. Right, Yeah, Bill Scott did the voice of George of the Jungle. He came into the studio because I I did a cover version of the George of the Jungle theme song, and Bill Scott actually came in and did the big Tarzan yell thing in the studio. Was like, just like I remembered it as a kid. That's incredible. What are the cartoons were you sort into when you were at that age? Oh? Go, gosh, all them? Jay Ward was big. I mean I watched all the old like Warner Brothers cartoons, the Bugs, Bunny and Daffy Duck and all that kind of stuff, and uh it was sort of I mean, you know, my childhood was past the golden age of animation, but I mean I got to watch all the old cartoons and enjoy them for the first time. Yeah. Yeah. And when your daughter was a kid, do you remember were there any cartoons you liked watching with her? Like, were there any things that you were like, wow, this is really remember watching like um when she was like really young. It's just really kind of soothing things like Baby Einstein and and Wonder Pets and uh like all those you know, we're trying to like just set in front of the TV. But but there are some some ones that she always the one that the peep did you see that the Big World of Peep? For the theme song would come on and she as a toddler, she would get up and start walking around the house. She got really really into it is super cute. It's interesting because we've noticed a lot of um like Muppet Babies was one of the cartoons we watched a lot when we were kids, and a lot of those cartoons, like a lot of TV shows, they brought them back and there's just like a lot more slick looking now, like they're just like almost more realistic or something like three D three D. Yeah, yeah, just yeah, that isn't quite you know, yeah, if you if you remember your your characters in two D, I don't think the three D is necessarily better. Yeah, yeah, I was actually and I was just remember the story. I was just in Australia and I went to the zoo and I got to see a Tasmanian devil and I asked my friend Lucy, who's Australian, I said, I've never seen one of these before. Did they actually spin? Said? She said, Now, I remember when last time was in Australia, as I was in Tasmania. Yeah, I went, I want around all these tourisky places. I thought they have to be like licensing the Tasmanian Devil, like yeah, crazy, They don't. They don't really don't. And by the way, the other thing I found to be so disappointing is real Tasmanian devils don't look so much like the loony tunes Tasmanian Devil and right, and it's sort of it feels like um, and you could be like, unless you saw those animals in real life as an adult or something, you could be lied to your whole life. Like I would have thought Tasmanian devil's can't stand on real little legs and they spin around and they're like really scruffy. Then I see it as me meaning devil and it's taking a nap, and I'm like, I'm like, get some grit, you know. Like I just felt very exactly didn't talk to us at all. Uh, And yeah, I just just felt they did say they're very dangerous because they're they're um jaws are for their size, they have like incredibly strong jaws, Like their jaws are stronger than a lion or a tiger or something. But I also thought, but do they spin and they don't? That could be your next podcast, like will it spin? Yeah, well it spin? But anyways, disappointing. What what are you gonna do? Let me let me throw on I don't know for off the subject, but let me say one more thing about Quisp. Yes, it was one time I was on the road and I'm pretty sure a Cedar Rapids, Iowa. And after the show, I went outside and the whole city smelled like Captain Crunch, like Quisp like that, and that was It turns out that's where Quaker Oats had their manufacturing that it's like the biggest cereal manufacturing plant in the world, and apparently at certain times of the day in Cedar Rapids, the whole place smells like like Captain Crunch. This would be my dream. Cereal is my favorite food. It's like I can't buy it because I'll eat. I can eat an entire box in like under thirty minutes. Um, not that, not that the time matters, not that we're eating. But I love cereal so much and that's such a good cereal too, they were saying. They were saying this article it is essentially Captain Crunch, like it's the same. So I can see why as a kid you thought all serious were the same, because I think quisp and and Quake and Captain Crunch are all the same. Captain Crunch does not have a great mouth field. I remember I would tear up my mouth. It's like it's hard. You used to like it. I feel like Jonah, but I didn't like it either. And I also, you know what other cereal was kind of like? That was the short lived Reese's Peanut Butter up cereal was those same puffs that kind of cut up your mouth. Yeah, yeah, I liked Oops All Sugar that was. How did you feel about like marshmallows and cereal? You're referring to Lucky Charms in a major way, um, a major way. As a kid, I loved him. I liked the different shapes and the colors. And I don't think I've had Lucky Charms for several decades a kid. Yeah great, they're so good. I can say as somebod who has had them pretty recently, they're so good. And I got to tell you about the craziest thing that I think we discovered while we were doing this podcast because I was doing research on something, uh, probably Lucky Charms and my favorite sugar cereals and probably cereals of all time are Lucky Charms and cinnamon toast Crunch, And they did a mashup of them in the last couple of years, and I was only able to get six boxes. I think I got like the last six. They mix them together, which yeah, you could say, oh, well, couldn't you just put two boxes together and do the same thing, But it's not the same because think about the bottom of either of those boxes. It's like all sugar and like leftover stuff, Like it would just get so messy. I mean, yeah, there's a way to do it, okay, but like it's it's so fun to get a box that's those two things together. And I got, Um, I got six boxes of it. I gave some out when we were it was like I was finishing filming my show, and I gave some out to like some of the crew as gifts that I thought would appreciate it. I didn't give it to anyone who I thought would just like, I think it was a joke because it was kind of to your friend's point. I mean, if they were really crazy about Quisp and gave it to you as a wedding gift. You know. Now I'm kind of coming around to that because I really was like if you don't, if you guys think I'm kidding, like I'm not. Anyways, I had, you know, maybe kept two to three boxes from myself out of six, but I made my cousin keep one at her house because I was like, I just I know that I'll eat, like I have to have one that I don't eat immediately that I can just sort of know in my heart that like at some point I'm going to eat this. Although yeah, I was just thinking how long will it last? You know before you know, food has a shelf life. But it was truly to me, it was like it was probably one of my dreams come true together cereal pure. So I don't I'd like to try not do not mix cereals together. I guess I don't. I mean that that's to me, like like buying the jar with the peanut, butter and jelly in the same jar. Just I guess it's okay, but it just seems weird to me. Yeah, I mean, I to me, it's like I a dream scenario would be to mix them together and add frosted miniweats and maybe even some Chris Picks, which I also really love. So what other cereals did you say that you liked? You liked a yes, oh boy, I'm trying to think back now. Um, yeah, just anything that would be like really horrible for you. Um, you know, my my I liked Raisin Brand. But here's the thing. My mom um, who was like super protective, Yeah, would not buy Raisin Brand because she didn't feel like the raisins were properly washed. Yeah, so she would like buy Brand Cereal and buy Raisins and then like triple wash the raisins and like kind of make her own version of Raisin BRANDO. Yeah, that's cool, and we're gonna take a quick break. Well, I was saying this was a good segue into like those we were going to also talk about mini cereal boxes, because that was a really incredible way to get to try some new cereals that you maybe wouldn't have bought otherwise. And uh and also come and also eat some of your old favorites. Yeah. I didn't google this. I didn't want I wanted to come here ignorant, but didn't even make those anymore, because I don't still make them. But wow, has there been a real transformation, because you remember you used to buy them and they had I don't know that most people use them, but they had perforations in the miniboxes so you could pour the milk right into Pensibly you could literally eat right out of the box like some cycle paths. The issue was there was so little cereal and the still they still make them, They're so small and the bag so you basically would have to like peel the box along the perforations to open it. But then you have to get that bag open, and I don't I think you just have to open it however you can. And then the bag is supposed to be the thing that keeps the milk from there's a bag inside. Yeah, there's a bag inside. I mean at that point, invest in a bowl. I don't know that I've ever eaten out of the actual box. Yeah, I don't know. Did you ever eat other box? I don't. Maybe once in my life took to sue how the other half lives, But it was certainly nothing that I made a hab out out of. It just seemed ridiculous to me. The other thing is I think those cereals are really made for little kids, because those cereal boxes are really made for little kids, because there is just like I was saying, there's so little cereal in them. It's truly like six or seven bites. Yeah, it's a real it's an airline portion. It's an airline portion exactly. But I'm going to go to we have the current flavors that are in there, so they still make isn't now? Is that all the same manufacturers that literally just like any old it's basically Kellogg who makes them. But the first ones were like the very very old school ones. They looked like this, Yeah, so it was. It was fruit loops frosted like cocoa, Crispy Special K frosted rice pepp I don't really remember rice Crispies, and sugar corn Popsy, which they took sugar out of the title. Yeah they used to yeah sugar um. Yeah, you know, And I remember I loved most of those, like all those cereals, the can you guess the last one I would eat the one I would like wait till the very end because it was like my least favorite kid, uh special K Yeah, because you know it was like some my healthy Yeah, and now nowadays that would be the first one I would go to. But I love Special K. But like as a kid, like why I always tried to eat Special K too, Like I feel like, as like an adolescent, I'd be like, this is a healthy thing for me to eat, but I'd eat like almost the entire box because it's really a light cereal Jonah, have you ever had special Yeah? Not very filling. And remember they they tried to do those, like the commercials would have like a diet where you could like have Special K for every meal or something or like instead of your first two meals, like have for breakfast Special K and for lunch Special K. But it was it was such a bad idea because it was like if you had one bowl of Special K, you have to have another, like you couldn't. The reason that that was a diet is because there's like no food. Yeah yeah, but but they still make them. They still make a strawberries and blueberries and there's like, yeah, there's like a chocolate special that has I tried that. I don't dig that quite so much. I just I just can't imagine they're they're any good. But yeah, they're a red berries guy. Yeah, oh yeah, red berries. I don't mind. But the new ones have frosted flakes, Pops, special cake Crispis, fruit loops, corn Flakes, Rice Crispies, frosted miniweats Raisin brand, and well this one also has a second frosted miniweats. Yeah, all great. I like the cereals that turn your milk different color, like you know, cocoa crispies. Obviously you got brown milk. Fruit Loops was like a rainbow in your mouth. Yeah, that was fun. Yeah, have you heard it all about the instables. I just want to say this transition was like now you can buy like bowls of cereal. Have you seen that at the grocery story? Like you can buy like a plastic bowl of cereal. Okay, so that's that's kind of old news. But what Jonah found is really kind of revolutionary. Just came out into so just last year. Um. It has like basically milk powder in it, you add water. It's like a plastic ball. And it took them until to figure this out. They have some kind of proprietary way of getting it to turn into milk very fast. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, so it's like you know, you used to have those little cardboard boxes. Then now they have those cups, but you can still get the cardboard boxes. But now they have these new cups that you don't even need milk. You can just put water in there. It's like one of the Ramen cups where but the water. They had to like figure out a way to get the milk powder to turn into milk really quickly. It wasn't turning into milk quickly, powdered milk. It's taken too long. I guess it was taken too long. Yeah, yeah, it seems I can tell. I can see what it would take them so long, because it feels like really kind of a task to get that to turn into milk when it's got all the cereal kind of in the way of the you want instant gratification, you want to eat cereal, you don't want to that's why you're preparing something else. You haven't tried this, I guess now, could it be otherwise they'd just be selling powdered milk on the stores like that was just like that for a long time, exactly exactly. Yeah, but it's it's sort of, um, it's a pretty good idea. I feel like that, you know now, because I've had times when I've like bought cereal and then I don't have milk, and then I go, I guess I'll still eat it. But what if you have milk, you don't have cereal? Don't? Yeah? I mean cereal to me, is really my go to snack? What would you say your go to? Yeah? Oh maybe chips on hummus? Yeah? Yeah? Yeah? What about as a kid? As a kid, oh gosh, what did I just sweets? Like whatever? My mom jar cookies, whatever happen to be around the house. You had such a cool mom. She was because like we had to have like yeah, we had kind of healthier stuff. We get that stuff once a hip. But then they were like all these foods like Kudos where they were kind of like candy bars marketed as like healthy. We could get that kind of stuff, Okay, did you Yeah? I don't think. Yeah. Isn't it a funny name for like a kid lunch? Congratulations, have some candy. It's just such a weird. We never really questioned it, but it would be like kudos And for you, my friend, well, what's it like for you? Like I guess as a parent, like you know, with the way you were raised, your snacks, Like do you try to to not give that to you or like what's what's your editor towards food? I guess. I mean my daughter, we we tried to, um, we we didn't like forbid her from doing anything. We kind of you know, my I'm vegetarian, My wife is, you know, mostly vegetarian. Uh and and our daughter is is not vegetarian, but not because we said you can't eat meat, because she's she's had you know, she's had burgers, she's had everything a kid would eat in her life, and she kind of made the decision on her own. Um. But yeah, we we always gave her healthy options and now she eats healthier than any of us. She she she shames us for our bad eating house. Yeah, I mean, I guess also because you know, not becoming a vegetarian like in modern day you have, it's like it's so much more, there's so many more options and stuff, and like you like, I don't know, I feel like they figured out like a lot of stuff that I was vegetarian for a while, like in the in the nineties and early two thousands, and I feel like I would eat like a lot of cheese and a lot of bagarritos from Taco Bell and think I was really healthy. Yeah. I I try to be vegan, but I love cheese and ice cream too much. And it's you know, it's a lot easier these days because there's so many more options, especially while we live in California. But yeah, but I remember like being on the road and the and the eighties and uh, and some people didn't even know what a vegetarian was. We feel about State Fair and they the cook would come out and say, okay, who's the vegetarian. Well, here's your chicken. That's so crazy. And a lot of like you know, truck stops we stop out in the middle of the night and some somewhere, you know, in the country, and there were a lot of options on the menu, like do I want the toast or the apple sauce let me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's really crazy. I'm sure it was really hard being on the road, being doing a lot of like van tours in the early days, or I mean the very the very first tour we did. Yeah, it was like a van and I wasn't even twenty five years old yet, so I couldn't get insurance, so like I was not allowed to drive the van. How of doing that? Even buses for a long time. Yeah, yeah, we're living the high life. Yeah, that's a lot more comfortable. What were the main snacks in the buses? Do you remember? It's whatever was backstay we'd be under the bus. So again a lot of a lot of chips and salsa and hummus and uh, just whatever happened to be around left or re piazza all the time. Now, if this is if you don't want to share this, you don't have to, but waiting for you when you go intour, now you probab, I get a rider. I'll share mine first so you can know what mine, what's on mine? Mine? I have? I always have tomus because I got acid reflux. Okay, I asked for veggies and dip, you know, because classic snack. Sometimes I asked for like a variety of sandwiches. I love, like a turkey or tuna sandwich. And I'm trying to think what else sometimes I asked for like, oh, I always ask so this is really revealing of me. I always asked for a jar of almond butter because almond butter is so expensive, and I think I can take it, and then I can and then I have almond butter. I think those are my main things. Those are my main things. I asked, I wish you'd prepping on this, because I would have brought the list and read the whole thing. But yeah, it's it's like you know, um, And what I learned to do in this last tour was to come up with two or three different ones so that my tour manager could like stagger them, so I don't like wind up with like a million things. Smart, Yeah, because because I would come home from a tour and I'm I'm a horror and I think the same thing, and you take everything with you home from a tour and like, honey, here's five thousand kind bars here. You know what I want to add that. That's the thing I've started adding to my rider because guess what else is expensive healthy bars? You know what I've added to my rider is um elemental bars. Have you ever had those? You should try this. They're very expensive though you have to keep them refrigeration. They can only be out for a week and then you have to keep them refrigeration if you're not going to eat them. Immediately put them to the end of the tour. But yeah, sorry, go ahead, go ahead. You're saying you buried them up. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's like what else the stables are the guacamole, salsa, and hummus, and then the chips and then yeah, you know we we we used to have like you know, fresh vegetables on the riders that nobody wanted those right right right. They don't get eaten very clearly. It's good in concept and principle, like, oh, we'll be healthy this tour whatever it does a lot of times when I would do like stand up shows like colleges or something, I would tell the students I would say like because I couldn't take a lot of the stuff on the plane, I'd be like, you should take these. These chips are really expensive, or like you should take these, and they'd be like okay, And then I'd be like in the in the moment, I think I was being really nice, and then in retrospect, I was like, do they think, like have they lost all respect for me? Because they're like, why why is she so weird about this stuff? Also, like I take waters like I especially when I was younger, but I'm acting like I don't still do it, but like it's like, you know, you don't want to let water bottles go to waste or like especially coconut water that's so expensive. Recently on a podcast said you actually took a remote control home from I was doing it. I was understuding a touring company with Second City. We were staying at a hotel, and I had like this recyclable bag that I was like taking. I had taken all these snacks back to my room that no one had eaten, and water bottles and stuff, and I just threw everything in my bag. And then um, I got home and I was changing everything out and the remote control of the TV and my hotel room, and I was going to call them, but like I didn't know. First of all, my thought was a lot of times in hotels, any remote will do for any TV, you know what I mean. So it's not like, you know, because I've had to call up to a hotel and say I can't find the remote, they bring a new remote. So and also I just I do actually feel bad. It's like something that I I love to take free things, but I don't like to steal it was it would probably be more trouble for them if you yeah, and also just so embarrassing to feel like, I don't know how this ended up in my suitcase, but I got your remote. So yeah. It was really uh kind of a low point and a point at which you would think maybe I would kind of change my behavior up, but I didn't. I still to this day like, I'll probably take both these with a lot of I don't do this anymore because I now literally live on my bus on the road because I don't like checking into hotels. I'd rather just like you know, sleep in and then work. Oh the buses moving. But I used to be back when we checked in hotels. Uh, if there was a spare soap, I would save that, and at the end of the tour, I would literally have like a hundred bars of soap and I would use that at home. And that's how we knew it was time to go back on the road, as if I ran out of soap. That's so it's so satisfying to be able to bring things from your work. I asked for, as I told you, elemental bars in my in my trailer for the show, and they got me two boxes of them. I'm telling you guys, that's gonna be like fifty bucks minimum. Okay. I had them in my fridge and I was like, I actually had a similar thought where I like, when I finally ran out of them, I thought like, how am I going to get more like just going to Whole fits and just buying stuff. It's and you use the soap you must have. Your skin must not my skin get so allergic with different like real scented soaps and stuff. But it's probably more sunset of now I mean back back, you know, in nostalgic. Remember this this dinal So Hope from Virginia. Yeah, my god. When like when you're on tour, like, are you before you're going on stage, do you need like a few minutes to yourself to like collect your thoughts or do you have like a ritual or there's no you know, I see in all these all these documentaries, like the bands are getting together and they have a prayer, they hold hand and any of that stuff. Um, it's not a ritual. But I do like to just be quiet before the show and sometimes I'll do my vocal warmups. But you know, I just I don't like to um, you know, I was hanging out with Donny Osmond, like last year before he invited to me to show in Vegas, and me and the band are just hanging out in his dressing room all and we're just chatting, having a good kind like up till two minutes before he goes on stage. And I realized that, like, you gotta be on stage in two minutes, don't Don't you need to like warm up to a vocal exercise. And he looked at me and said, ah, I've been warming up for sixty years. All right, now, that's incredible. You know. When I was in Bloomers. Just to bring it back to my all females get to coming in musical parody troupe um. I used to like the night before the show, I used to tell all of the I used to tell all the girls like, don't do anything in the next couple or a couple of nights before the show. I'd be like, in the next week, like don't do anything crazy, like don't try any drugs for the first time, or do any like collegiate like things like just take care of yourself and get sleep. And and I did it. I guess I was a senior and I was a director. Did already say I was director. Sorry to brag, okay, but anyways, I would do that and then I remember, I guess I did it several times and one one time I forgot to do it. How many shows did we Not that many, but anyways, one time I forgot to do it, and one of the one of the Bloomers was like, you know, we called ourselves? She was she was I was writing. She was like, Vanessa, we give that speech. And I thought it was really sweet because I thought that they were all like laughing at but I actually think they thought I was being nice. I don't know why I told that, but yeah, but it's turning a little song out of it. Don't try drugs for the first time, beautiful. Yeah, the whole thing could have been a whole could have been a whole song charity I could have. I mean, so you don't really have you just sort of do you have any kind of ritual? You just sort of yeah, it's literally just like, yeah, then the make sure that my ears are working and then I'm I'm good to go. Are you like president, because you're playing in front of these audiences, you've done it for so long? Are you sort of present when you're performing, are you thinking like, oh, this thing I want to change, or this is coming up next, I got a plan for that. Are you kind of in the moment? What's it like? I try to be in the moment. I try to enjoy where I am and what I'm doing. But it is tough because I mean, you got to be really really focused, as you know, when you're performing. Um, it't res reminds me of of a quote that I heard from a Bob Odenkirk who said, have a good show. What you said said to have fun, do a great show. Pick one because interesting and I you know, I don't believe in that, but there's some truth to that, because you kind of need to suppress your own enjoyment of something in order to bring enjoyment to other because you have super laser focused when you're doing it. Now, do you eat snacks more before a show? Because I I know for myself, I'll have like a couple of little snacks when I get to a show, but I really like to wait until the show is over and then just absolutely go insane and almost make myself sick. Yeah no, that's me. Yeah, I eat like maybe two hours before the show. Yeah, and then like and I sleep and on the road, like everything I do is terrible. I sleep into like the afternoon, then wake up and do sounds. Yeah, and then we I have basically dinner after the show like midnight, which is like the worst thing in the world. But it's so nice, though, isn't it. It feels like such a release to just go absolutely crazy. And maybe this Sorry that I talked about my acid reflex a lot, but you're like, maybe this thing will give me asid reflex. Don't care. I don't have to do a show, you know, do you have like a tech to do accordions go out of tune? Like do you have to get them tuned or not? Really they don't. They don't go out of tune really more than they already are. But we have a stage manager whose job it is to got it, you know, make sure everything's plugged in and sounding right. And if it breaks or if they're like strap breaks or something falls apart, then that person, you know, Hawkeye is he's been with us for forever amazing, Yeah, but he's yeah, I guess he's the accordion tech. Got it? Yeah? But you never do you ever get hungry on stage? I guess, like, have you ever like it? Like in between before the encore, maybe you're you're grabbing something or not really because you're singing about food A lot that could make you hungry. A should be part of my ride. And I have a bowl of serial on stage while I performing. You can just get a little package, you know, Yeah, yeah, you can make the instable water and that perfect perfect. You should add those to your writer and I will too. That's such a good thing. Well, because that's part of the article about the instables was like people are really into food portability these days, which I was, like they are, Like, I don't know. I feel like people are more than they used to be. But I am blasted. I checked everyone's working from home, but people love food portabilities. Director of Kellogg said that you have to ticket. That would be also. I gotta say that reminded me remember thermisis of food when we were kids, Like if there was a thermis of mac and cheese, that's my dream that I know, thermiss of soup. But at I feel like you could put hot mac and cheese in a thermis and I feel like I have some sense memory of it, but I have like a sense memory of like opening a thermis in there being mac and cheese in it and me being like, this is as good as life's gonna get it. That's how fune mac and cheese and a thermis. I like the cheapest mac and cheese possible. Say, do you like Velvita or Craft better for for mac and cheese? Go Craft? I know, But have you ever had Velvita? Maybe that's the issue. It's so few people actually have really had that much. We started buying it for a very short period of time. I don't know if you're when we're kids, I don't remember, but it's it's you. I think Velvita. I'm going to get a lot of feedback first saying this. I won't. We don't have that many listeners. No, just kidding by them. But I think Velvita is like technically better, like I think it's creamier, but there's something very nostalgic about the taste of Craft mac and jeese, and also Craft mac and jeese depends how you make it, Like if you just made it with milk and no butter, yeah it's kind of but if you put the butter in there, great, But with Velvita, you don't have to add any of that stuff because it actually is like you like squeeze it in. Okay, I was going to ask about that because like the craft, it's like powdered just like milk. Yeah, there's probably some scientistic craft going like we need to make this quicker quick. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Well this is insane. Just to kind of bring this all together, we were just in the lobby here. We can show to you when we leave the studio. They have Lucky terms Swissmas hot chocolate, which is a hack of powdered hot chocolate with lucky charms marshmallows in it. Crazy, it is, it is. We should try it after that. I know you probably put three of those in a thermis. That's actually that's my new dream. That's my dream ahead of mac and cheese and a thermis actually kind of both. I want because one to drink, one to eat it. Wow. Well, I guess we're going to take a commercial break and we're gonna be back with Alanvicar in our dream episode. Okay, so we're back. We're going to play a game with you now, Jonah, would you like to introduce it? Yes, this is a yes, this is a aim Jonah, whatever I miss pronounced something. I know, Vanessa's jump on him. You see, you've got it. It's fun to just kind of even though I messed up so many times in the intro, you didn't call me out once. But yeah, we're gonna play a game when we bring up nostalgia products, shows, etcetera that are making a comeback. Um, it's called noyestalgia or nostalgia. And so if you're into this, you can give it a gestalgia stal jaw, and if not, you can give it a nostalgia no no, no no no no no no no nostalgia. So it's a personal thing. Yes, yes, and we'll all kind of weigh in on these three kind of items making a yes. Okay, So the first one is mood rings. So I don't know, so I'm sure you remember mood rings. They're almost akin to a prehistoric fitbit. Um. Mood rings tracked our innermost feelings and change color. They really change color with your temperature. But it's supposed to be uh, you know you your ring would turn amber when your crush walked by, indicating you were feeling nervous, or violet when you were feeling joyful. And at ease. It's an everyday accessory, but you know, you can also mix and match it and it has some kind of like magical qualities to it. So they're now very they're now making a big comeback, uh in the in the world of fashion in three So, so what do you think about the return of the mood ring? Um, you know, I'm hate to be negative. I'm gonna go with nostalgia, okay, because I mean I was somewhat curious about mood rings. So I think I think I maybe tried one once and it said I was dead. Okay, Okay, So that's a tough that's a tough, tough stuff, and you know, it's it's sort of yeah, I don't put much stock in it. It's uh. I just thought it was, uh, somewhat amusing, but it wasn't anything that I have a real strong attachment to. Yes, Okay, Okay, So it's a nostalgia. What about for you, Jonah, Yeah, I'm kind of in the same kind of situation. Never I think that they can be visually kind of cool the colors, but I'm not really a believer about that they and really, you know, marry your emotions necessarily, Okay, Vanessa whatever. It is kind of a guest because I used to have a mood ring and I really liked it, and so for nostalgic purposes, I'm into it now. What I just realized it's it's interesting that now there's orror rings, which I don't have one, but an orror ring actually seems to do. I mean, it doesn't tell you like if your crush is walking by or anything like that, but it does track like if you're starting to get sick, or what your sleep cycle was like and stuff. So I feel that mood rings are sort of like a cheaper ORR ring that doesn't work well. The ORR rings are. My wife actually hasn't. She loves it, Yeah, because the sleep cycle thing was a big thing for it tell It tells you like when you're in R E M and when you're in deep sleep. I don't know how it does. It attracts the whole thing. And she was like, oh, look at this. This is like four thirty in the morning when you came into bed with me and I kind of walk up a little bit, you know, totally totally okay. So so for me it's a guest stalgia. But I can see why for both of you, it would be a no salgia because for me, it's sort of like mood rings are sort of like astrology you can wear, so not not into it. Okay, Okay, so I'll do this next one. Uh. This was actually just announced today, UM and someone, our friend Michael Daniel, sent this to us, and it is the return of Pizza Huts, the big New Yorker pizza. UM. And this is uh a sixteen inch New York style pizza that UM, I guess that they stopped they introduced in n and then retired it. And it's basically thirty percent larger than a large Pizza Hut pizza. UM. And it's really big, really big slices. And I think this is it comes out February first. I think it's like to coinside with like the Super Bowl or something. But what are your thoughts on the New Yorker extra large Pizza Hut pizza. I'm not going to say no to pizza like I don't. I don't have any strong, like emotional nostalgic attachment to PIZZAHU said, pizza pizza. It was what was your pizza place growing up? Um, not that this was great pizza, but I think Shaky's was okay, okay, I sort of like you like cracker crushed pizza. It was like especially for like you go to the lunch buffani Um, what else was there? I forget it? But yeah, Pizza Hull was, you know, not not my favorite. Yeah, but I like the idea of having big slices. Have you ever been to what is it? Greco's on Hollywood Boulevard. They have the world's biggest pizza pizza. I mean, I'm not kidding. It was like like this big. You couldn't you could if you brought it home. You had to like carry it on the roof of your car because it was huge. And that's pretty pretty cool. So I I, you're in the big pizza. I'm in a big piece of So that's a that's a tough call. Is there is there anything any middle ground between nostalgia nostalgia? Well, Yastia, that's are you more like think crust deep dish kind of what's here? I like them both. I like, I do like the really thin crust. Like the first time I went to Italy and I had like the Italian style super thin and I said, oh, yeah, there's and I could give you names after the podcast in some places in l A. Do it really well? Yeah? Great? Yeah, so that's gonna be a maybe nostalgia from al. Yeah, I mean I kind of. I'm not trying to copy you and everything you say, but I feel a little maybe about this too. I'm not a huge Pizza Hut fan, but I do like big slices and I like I like, and I like the thin ones because I feel like I can't eat that much pizza, but the thinner slices I can kind of. Uh So I think it's cool and has six oversized foldable slices. Yeah, a pizza folder. I have to asked that New York. Yeah, I think from living in New York, I think I am a pizza fold especially if I'm on the go, if I'm like walking down the street, I guess you gotta fold it. Yeah what, Yeah, I know, I no no judgment, no judgment if it's better than eating with the fork, so fork, Yeah, you're not, You're not a folder. I'm I try I try not to be naturally. I'm not going to compare sure. Yeah. Yeah, I don't try to make a sandwich out of it. Yeah. Yeah, it's not my favorite to eat things as I'm walking either, I like to be sitting. I heard that the most the best thing for your digestions to eat while you're running. YEAHNT burning it right off? Yah, Vanessa, what are your thoughts? I I was gonna say, I don't really fold pizza. Even when I lived in New York for several years, I didn't feel like New York or It's like I don't fold pizza when I eat it. In the same way that I don't call people by their last names. I don't feel like I'm cool enough, Like I'm not going to be like you're a hipster like your pizza, being like hey Beayar, like did you you know, hey Yank Victid you like see my cool jeans or something like that, Like I not how I talk. So your idea of being someone being really cool is calling someone by their last name yeah, and then and then also you know, and then also being wearing cool jeans and you maybe wouldn't comment on them, but you'd go, you know, That's what I'm wearing. So I don't know. But the point is I'm actually a maybe salgia, which is the first time we've ever used maybe sall. But the reason that I am is because it's just a bigger pizza, and it's sort of condescending. I feel like to be like, you're a New Yorker if you have this, like if you buy more money to get a bigger pizza. It's like, isn't that how pizza sizes works? Anyway? It says it's an Excel pizza. It's like, okay, so it's just one size. I don't know. It just feels a little bit condescending to the audience of pizza eaters. Although we had a pizza hut growing up and I really loved it because it had an awesome salad bar with bacon bits. M yeah, I do remember that. So yeah, I like to tea people guessing as to where I'm from. So I try to like mix up how I eat my pizza. So sometimes I just start from the tip and I'll like roll it up and do like a ball and the stuff the whole thing in my mouth, and I'm like, wow, where are you from? That's really unusual? Obviously not New York, right right right? And where where would you say you are from? If you ate pizza like we keep keep them, Yeah, you'd say if you if you know you know. Okay, well, our next, our final. Yes, nostalgia is also food a food. I know. I don't know if you remember this, but this is making a comeback. I don't know if you remember Vanetta Vanilla ice cream dessert, which was basically Vitta. It was um. This article says, many of us can agree that this was the fanciest ice cream around. So it's basically a loaf of ice cream. We could show you a picture of it. It's it's a loaf of ice cream that's in these kind of like frilly layers. I'm going to show you what it looks like so you can see it. I can't see this all. Okay, it have been popular. This would have been popular. I remember it was popular in the nineties, continued in the late nineties. Okay, I'll show you what it looks like. It might ring aback and you would cut it in slices. Do you remember this at all? Wow cream exactly a meat loaf of ice cream. But it was considered like I don't even remember what the commercials were anything, but it was considered to be like very fancy. Like if I was having a dinner party, I'd go and you said, what's for dessert, I'd go, well, we have a vanetta and then I'd put it up. I was looking at me like I'm absolutely insane, and then I put it out on the table and everyone would go Okay, this is a person with class. Yeah, Like if you said have some brier, they'd go yeah, yeah, they go well yes please. By the way, when I was in Australia, could go back to that um, someone was telling me that they don't really drink um. They don't drink like drip coffee there that's considered like really crappy. So if you like had a dinner party, this is someone said this exact thing to me. If you had a dinner party and you were like, does anyone want some coffee and made drip coffee and you did that in Australia, everyone would go like, yeah, this person needs what do they do like French press of stuff? Yeah, there's this espresso like everything is sort of an espresso drinking. Probably someone could be my friend Claudie, could be any number of people who are Australian listening to this would be like I don't want she's talking about so I don't want to so I'm acting like I know what I'm talking about. But yeah, I think that just drip coffee in European countries maybe not like really a thing. Yeah, so do like Americanos were like an Americano and as I and as I, as Jonah has experienced from from this trip and staying with me, I'm most almost exclusively drink Americana not really what do you put in them? Anything? Well? I like sugar so always, yeah, what about any milks? I put whole milk in mine, which I feel like, yeah, yeah, I I you know, I try to do the vegan thing, so like I'm not just gonna say I don't never use milk, but it would be some kind of like a milk. Damia is like my favorite substitute made for macadamia. Oh my gosh. You know I've been buying the Three Trees pistachio milk. I really like that. It's pretty good. I have to say I like their almond milk too, But I will say this when I gonna. I mostly Jonah has. Jonah and Vicky have like an espresso machine. I only I just buy my Americano every day, which, according to Susie Orman, is like the worst way to spend your money. But I think I purposely have whole milk because going along, going along this theme of stealing free snacks from tour I they whole milk is free. It's like a free ad at most coffee shops, whereas if you get if you get almond milk, you gotta pay. If you get oh milk, forget about it. You know, you have you heard the whole thing with James Cromwell. No, you know James Cromwell, he uh he uh he's a big vegetarian and he was so upset over the surcharge on the milk substitutes. I could be getting the front, but I think he crazy glued his hand to the counter like a Starbucks or something, Oh my god, to protest the fact that they're charging extra for like soy milk and milk, Like why would you do that? Why the dairy industry. Yeah, that's absolutely true. Yeah, I mean it's it's made me. Uh, it's it's made me. Just get whole milk. And I'm like, you know, I think they're all, you know, relatively similar, but yeah, you're right. It's like, um, they're promoting their promoting dairy as opposed to thee and you just want to have milk right right exactly now, I'll say this, Sorry to keep piling on, but in Cereal whole milk and Cereal so good. We always had skim milk growing up, so it's kind of like it really feels like a treat. Even two percent milk, I go, I'll take it. Yeah, I gotta tell you this is gonna be I've got those box of Quip that you gifted to me. It's gonna be a real decision as to what I want kind of milk, what kind of Could be the first person to do macadamia nut milk with quisp? Could I be the it's possible, I want to do it with like powdered the milk. Yeah, I mean, anything you try, let us know what's the best. Um, But yeah, you might be the one to Yeah, macadamia, They're probably haven't been that many people that have tried that, if any, if any? Yeah, So what are your thoughts on the Vonetta Vanilla nostalgia? You know, I love ice cream, but I'm going to say purely because I've never heard of it until just now. I'm gonna say nostalgic because I've got no attached tota Okay, we should have brought a view. You should have brought a vanta. I mean probably would have been a harder thing. Not as portable as people are into portable food full circle here, but harder to keep it. I guess we could have put it in the freezer here. Probably wouldn't be that hard. I'm gonna go nostalgia on this also. No no, no, no, no, no, no, no nostalgia. I don't like fancy versions of just regular things. Just make it fancy the first time, Yes, make a fancy the first time, or just keep it, keep it what it is, just give me some more. They was it Briers or Dryers? I think it was Briers and now it's owned by Good Humor. Okay, well they should just you know, just keep the one that way. You called the other one like crappy Good Humor. Yeah, yeah, exactly exactly, not as good Dryers. Yeah, so yeah, I don't know. I don't need like a fancy ice cream stuff. Just give me a regular ConA ice cream. I mean, I like some of the fancier places now to have all these like really interesting flavors, But but I don't need a loaf of ice cream. I'll tell and I'm not going to get into the names, and if you want to have them later, i'll give it to you. But during the pandemic, I made a list of like my ten favorite ice cream places in l A, ten favorite donut places in l A, favorite chocolate chip cookie places and incredible. Yeah, and I just decided to get fat. We will ask you will follow up those names. Amazing, Vanessa, what are your thoughts. I'm it's a gestalgia for mealgia, okay, because I've had it. You had it, Yeah, I've had it. Probably I guess I was going to fancier party parties in the night, hanging with a bit of clash of people and teen friends. But I really appreciate it. I really like it. I think it's also I think it's not totally dissimilar to a Dairy Queen ice cream cake. Like it. I should have said that before I asked him. It's not as good, but sometimes you know, you don't have a day. You know, It's like it's like a fancy take on ice cream for everyone, for people who might not live near a Dairy Queen or a place like Dairy Queen. So Dair Queen and Jason so to me I'm saying yes, And I hope, you know, I hope to have you both over for a dinner party and serve a Vionetta and I think you'll change your mind. Okay, I'm I'm open to it. Can everything the dinner be like loafs of meat loaf, will have a cheese loaf to start, like a like some and all of that stuff. Nice? Yeah, I love loves loves got it? Well? Hell, this was so much fun. Thank you so much for doing this. We had the best time. 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