"Crock-Dough-Burn-Pho-Est 🍜🐊: Silverlake Ramen with Betsy Sodaro" is Episode 515 of Doughboys, hosted by Nick Wiger and Mike Mitchell. "Crock-Dough-Burn-Pho-Est 🍜🐊: Silverlake Ramen with Betsy Sodaro" was released on October 2, 2025.
"Tomorrow, we kick off Crock-Dough-Burn-Pho-est… with Betsy Sodaro. Shout out to Chris VanArtsdalen for the artwork!" - @doughboys.bsky.social
Synopsis[]
Betsy Sodaro (@betsysodaro, Ghosts) joins the 'boys to talk testosterone levels, horror movies, and video games before kicking off Crock-Dough-Burn-Pho-Est with a review of Silverlake Ramen. Plus, another edition of Cereal.
Nick's intro[]
NIH
Type-3 diabetes: in recent years, some in the medical community have used this term to refer to the disease that causes Alzheimer's and dementia. A 2008 paper published on the National Institutes of Health website — currently only partially functional because of a government shutdown combined with a general disassembly of the public-health sector by Illithid brain-parasite host RFK Jr. — features the quote, “insulin deficiency and insulin resistance [act] as mediators of Alzheimer’s disease-type neurodegeneration."
In layman’s terms, the same factors that lead type-2 diabetes to affect the body can also affect the brain. WebMD includes as a possible cause of type-3 diabetes and associated neural diseases, “regularly eating foods that are high in calories, sugars, and fats, while low in fiber.” Perhaps, one could speculate, the kind of diet that might be consumed by the hosts of a fast-food podcast. And perhaps this sort of brain and body punishing intake could lead one to completely forget that a particular chain restaurant was discussed on said podcast just this past year.
Nevertheless, the chain in question, named for the same LA neighborhood that contains the headquarters of a lightly-staffed podcast network, has become a major player in the hot savory liquid sector, with about two dozen locations spread across the U.S. And whether we remember it or not, with a full month of soup discussion on the table, it’s a franchise worth revisiting — as we further endanger our brain capacities by consuming more of its caloric, sugary, fatty, minimally fibrous wares.
This week on Doughboys… we begin Crock-Dough-Burn-Pho-Est 🍜🐊 2025, a soup-er sized month of bisques, broths, stews, and stocks (and crocs)... as we return, somehow for the first time since… last year I guess?... to Silverlake Ramen.
Soup Fork rating[]
Despite Nick having no recollection of said episode, the Doughboys reviewed Silverlake Ramen in June 2024 when Nick and Mitch each gave it four forks. It made the Golden Plate Club.
For Crock-Dough-Burn-Pho-Est 🍜 🐊, they rate the chain on a scale of 0-5 Soup Forks.
| guest / host | ordered | rating |
|---|---|---|
| Nick "Mr. Soup" Wiger | The Shoyu on Fire Ramen
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4.5 Soup Forks |
| Mike Mitchell | The Classic Ramen
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4.5 Soup Forks |
| Betsy Sodaro | The Shoyu Ramen
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5 Soup Forks |
Emma ordered a Soboro Bowl (4.5 soup forks) and Amelia had the Blaze Ramen (5 soup forks).
With these scores, Silverlake Ramen remains firmly in the Golden (Soup) Plate Club.
Cereal[]
Wednesday Cereals
In this segment, told one bowl at a time, the Doughboys eat some cereal.
For this episode, they try Kellogg's Wednesday Cookies & Creme Cereal and the Wednesday Howlin' Confetti Cake Cereal.
They use the Snack or Wack rating.
All enjoyed the Howlin' Confetti Cake quite a bit, but did not enjoy the Cookies & Creme one at all - though Mitch kept eating it anyway and ended up calling it a slight Snack.
| guest / host | Cookies & Creme | Howlin' Confetti Cake |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Wiger | Wack | Snack |
| Mike Mitchell | Snack | Snack |
| Betsy Sodaro | Wack | Snack |
| Emma Erdbrink | Wack | Snack |
| Amelia Marino | Wack |
Roast Spoonman[]
Flowers for Algernon
| “ | Chowders for Algernom | ” |
–Chris Actually | ||
The Feedbag[]
| “ | I was curious about your taste in extinct animals. If you could bring back one animal from extinction to be a food source, which would be the most tasty? | ” |
–Peters | ||
| guest / host | extinct animal to eat |
|---|---|
| Nick Wiger |
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| Mike Mitchell |
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| Betsy Sodaro |
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| Emma Erdbrink | dodo |
| Amelia Marino | trilobite |
Quotes[]
| “ | A male snail trail: that's when you got a little wet one down there, if you catch my drift... a little wet butthole. | ” |
–Mike Mitchell | ||
| “ | Mitch: Are you gonna meet anyone as fun as Betsy in nursing school?! Betsy: No way! Except the nurse who accidentally kills people. She's awesome, but a lot of people die on her watch. |
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–Nurses | ||
| “ | Nick: You think chili is a soup? Amelia: If you put enough water in it, yeah. |
” |
–Chili | ||
Drops and Plugs[]
| reference | notes |
|---|---|
| "Spooky Poops" | in Mitch's drop (by NoBeats) |
| Ghosts | Betsy's show |
Related Episodes[]
| Crock-Dough-Burn-Pho-Est 🍜 🐊episodes | Silverlake Ramen episodes | Betsy Sodaro episodes |
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Photos[]
