"The Hat with Betsy Sodaro and Mano Agapion (LIVE)" is Episode 187 of Doughboys, hosted by Mike Mitchell and Nick Wiger. "The Hat with Betsy Sodaro and Mano Agapion (LIVE)" was released on January 24, 2019.
"Tomorrow..." - @doughboyspod
Synopsis[]
Betsy Sodaro and Mano Agapion, hosts of the podcast Horny 4 Horror, join the 'boys to review The Hat, a chain specializing in its pastrami-dipped sandwiches. Plus, a live edition of The Wiger Challenge.
Recorded live at the Brea Improv in Brea, CA.
Nick's intro[]
On August 5, 2003, the Fox network premiered a TV drama that would become a pop-culture sensation: The O.C.
The O.C.
Set in the torrey Orange County community of Newport Beach, California (though for production reasons actually filmed in the LA-county city of Manhattan Beach), the glossy primetime soap chronicled the romance and intrigue of too-rich-for-their-own-good teenagers in parallel with storylines featuring their oversexed parents.
The success of The O.C. led to a brief cultural fixation on the SoCal county.
In 2004, MTV debuted Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County, a documentary-style reality series that was in fact heavily produced and semi-scripted. In 2006, The Real Housewives Of Orange County launched the now genre-in-of-itself Real Housewives franchise. These shows, all centered on obscenely-rich, out-of-touch whites, led to a skewed perception of Orange County as an enclave for the super-wealthy, a county-sized Beverly Hills.
But the real O.C. also includes working- and middle-class communities, and large Latinx and Asian populations that were mostly erased from TV. And the real O.C. also includes a food culture that isn't just the stuffy, white-tablecloth restaurants and overpriced beachfront cafes frequented by Peter Gallagher and crew, but includes burgers, burritos, and bánh mìs, as well as pastrami.
In 1951, a fast-food joint opened that served a signature pastrami dipped sandwich that would become an O.C. favorite, though like the filming locations of the show The O.C., the original was actually located in L.A. county. Soon enough, there were outposts across county lines serving various combinations of pastrami and their house chili at affordable prices to eager customers. Over the decades, the demographics of Orange County have evolved from a reliably conservative area that produced President Nixon into, as of the most recent midterm election, now having an entirely Democratic Congressional Delegation.
But 75 years since its founding, this beloved local pastrami chain continues pretty much just as it was in the 1950s.
As for its name, it's as on the nose as it sounds - a nod to its logo, the traditional white cap that's adorned a chef's head for seemingly as long as restaurants have existed.
Today, with eleven local locations, this SoCal original still slings dishes with pastrami, chili, and pastrami & chili, to hungry residents across class lines of the area referred to as "The O.C."
This week on Doughboys: The Hat.
Fork rating[]
| guest / host | ordered | rating |
|---|---|---|
| Nick Wiger |
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4.5 forks |
| Mike Mitchell |
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5 forks |
| Betsy Sodaro | 4.5 forks | |
| Mano Agapion | 4 forks |
Mitch, Betsy, and Mano all shared their order.
With these scores, The Hat joins the Golden Plate Club!
The Wiger Challenge[]
Orange Crush
In the Wiger Challenge, Nick presents Mitch and the guest with a mystery beverage and they try to guess what it is. The closest guess is declared the winner.
For this episode, being a live episode in Orange County, the mystery drink was an "O.C" soda, Orange Crush.
| guest / host | guess | result |
|---|---|---|
| Mike Mitchell | Jarritos Mandarin Orange Soda Drink | winner! |
| Betsy Sodaro | weird variant of Sunny D | |
| Mano Agapion | Angry Gamer Jizz Mountain Dew |
Roast Spoonman[]
George Clooney
| “ | Gorge Clooney | ” |
–Jesse in Atlanta | ||
Quotes[]
| “ | It's a rough day, but I'd take a Wednesday over a Tuesday. | ” |
–Nick Wiger ranks the days: 1. Saturday, 2. Friday, 3. Sunday, 4. Thursday, 5. Wednesday, 6. Tuesday, 7. Monday. | ||
| “ | The doctor told me my nose is too small. | ” |
–Mike Mitchell | ||
| “ | I've got an answer, I'll probably have to hold for applause after this: AMERICAN CHOP SUEY! | ” |
–Mike Mitchell, on favorite school lunches | ||
| “ | Mitch: I feel like you'd love (the gravy), Wiger. You'd eat that shit up like ice cream. Nick: I'm a gravy fan. I do really enjoy it. |
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–The Doughboys | ||
The Feedbag[]
| “ | Tonight you ate at The Hat, and infamously, Werner Herzog ate a shoe after he lost a bet. If you had to eat an article of clothing, what would you eat and how would you prepare it? | ” |
–- | ||
| “ | What do you guys think about carne asada fries? And where are the best ones at? | ” |
–Albert | ||
| “ | Arby's had a promotion recently where at a tattoo parlor in Long Beach, they were offering free tattoos, but you had to get Arby's logos or sandwiches -- designed by an artist there, but it was all Arby's themed. So if you had to get a tattoo of a chain restaurant or fast food item, what would you get? | ” |
–Cecily | ||
Related Episodes[]
| Betsy Sodaro episodes | Mano Agapion episodes |
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Photos (via @doughboyspod)[]
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