November 1, 2022 • 40 mins
Today in the Food Court with Richard Blais we have a case of two cereals. Comedian and writer, Ashley Ray, is truly passionate about hot cereals of all kinds while her friend and fellow comedian/writer, Babs Gray, is equally passionate about a simple bowl of cold cereal. It's instant oats vs marshmallow stars, it's congee vs corn flakes and it's all going down TODAY in the Food Court.
Hopefully Ashley drops some recipes because I am dying for some carrot cake oatmeal now that I know it exists. Now I'm off to eat my yearly bowl of Count Chocula - Happy Halloween y'all!
*Rated Explicit because of mentions of weed*
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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Creamy, creamy, crunchy food Court, food Court, food Court with St. Blaze?
Are you in food Court? Court with Blaz? Welcome to
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food Court a production of I Heart Radio. Okay, listen,
I am Richard Blaze and this is my courtroom. Welcome.
I'm the host and the judge, which is kind of
like being an actor who can also sing, or a
chef who's also mid handicapped caller or something like that,
and joining us in the court. Today, we have two
women who are already friends, who co host a live
comedy show in Los Angeles called High Gear Comedy. First,
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we have someone known as much for her impeccable television
show recomm Dation's asked for her love of weed. It's
Ashley Ray. Hey, Ashley, what is going on? I'm so
glad to be here. And yes, TV and weed that
those are the things I love. They can't they work.
It's like tomatoes and basis. Yeah, it just works. And
I love how you said Basil to like. Your improv
comedy skills are impeccable. I didn't have to say anything,
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you just picked up yes, and we finally, you have
to teach me all this stuff. You have to teach
me all of this stuff. Yeah, yeah, Babs and I
we teach a class. You teach a class. We don't. Okay,
you should, you should growing up against Ashley. We have
a comedian, podcaster and writer who's podcast, Brittany's Graham, kicked
off the international Free Brittany movement. It's Babs Gray. Hello, Hi,
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happy to be here. Yeah, no one knows that you're
not actually here, but we will. I think we need
to reveal it because you don't know. There might be
some videos on Instagram stories. Babs joining us from your
own studio, which is part of your contract. From what
I understand, you have your own Yes, yes, yes, I
only accept billings from my own studio. So sorry, there
it is that works. Actually, you did join us, not
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that that's going to affect any sort of decision from
the judge. You did. You you got here, you braved traffic,
You made it happen so much l A traffic, you know.
But I'm not gonna brag if anything. I think being
a here and person will probably work against me. You
think so, Oh my gosh, I hope that's not the case.
That's not true, because she got the hype up time
in the car to like go over her points and
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I've just been here stewing, you know, so I don't know.
I think she's just been listening to music because I've
been tracking the Twitter. Yeah. No, yeah, it's just literally
just this morning, I watched the Sex Pistles TV show
and then I remembered music was good. You know, I
forget because I watched TV, and it's hard to listen
to music when you watch TV as your job, and
so then I sometimes I'll just listen. I'm like, oh
my gosh, this music is so great. I actually totally
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feel that, right though. I'll go weeks without really listening
to music, and then I'm like podcasts, yeah, past, and
then you finally you put something on and you're like,
oh my god, I see white people cared about like
David Bowie. Wow, this is this is wonderful. Now I
just willed nod my head. But you seem like you
get really into the lyrics. Now I tracking you today,
but like you're like really dissecting lyrics. I've always been
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a lyric person. I guess I was a writer. I
wasn't much of a musician, so I was always like
the lyrics, that's where the real music is at look
at that. I love it now, BABS producer Crystal tells
me that your bio includes big hair, big heart, big mouth,
and I gotta ask, you're stealing my bit a little bit.
You can't see it because I got the hat on.
But the hair is big and controversial. The mouth is
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obviously big as well, and some people say I have
a big heart, which one is the biggest? Who's got
the biggest hair? Though? Oh I think I do. I've
just cut my headphone. Yeah you win that one. No, no,
I don't think we can even debate that one. Yeah,
I gotta go, Babs, And I feel like this is
even full volume, that's what it is. No, this is
like tamp down. Okay, So then I have a question
for you, just because like this is potentially embarrassing for me.
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But then, do you have a specific product that you
like to turn to for high volume? Well, I don't
need I actually try to get less volume because it's
like two um, so I'm the other way. I just
give gosh, like, yeah, that's how it's just like too much.
I'm trying to like calm it down. It's a there's
just one called to do. It's a moose. That's really great.
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I would have like that sounds it doesn't it it's
fancy like mine's big sexy cvs. They just say what
you want to look like. It only comes in like
a sixty four like and it gets confiscated on every flight,
and it's always very embarrassing for me, Like, don't they're
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confiscating that in your checked luggage. No, I'm trying to
carry it on. Oh, we'll come on. You don't want
to lose your big sexy I mean, you want to
get your value out of that entire bottle. Try and
hide it in your hair next time. That's all right.
Listen for the case that you've brought a tale of
two cereals to the food court, and we're gonna get
into that in a second, but we're gonna get to
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know each other a little bit better, Ashley. Know, for
your TV REX, what shows right now are your absolut
lute must, your favorites right now, my absolute must. Right now,
we got Hacks, which just premiered about two weeks ago
for its second season. It's on HBO Max. It's so
funny that Bravance, this like aging comedian who she's like
my icon she's my my like Don Draper, She's everything
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I want to be as I grow up. Oh, I
love it. Okay, So then that's is that relatively new
or I've seen that? Yeah, premiered last year. Yeah, season
two jeans smart. It's it's just so funny and incredibly
sharp sharp still And then see I didn't com prepared
with TV REX because I was so focused on the
serial argument and I like, what TV do I even watch? Actually? Also,
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when you think about this season of ninety Day yeah,
reality TV wise, this season of ninety Day Fiance, which
I cover for Vulture if you want to know my
weekly thoughts, is so incredible and good. They have people
this season who truly hate each other, but somehow are
just like in this horrible electric dance of awfulness every episode.
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And it's like this season they found men who are
like I don't just want to bring this woman to
America and waste her time. I want to like, like
like mentally manipulate her. It's like a new level of
gas lighting this season that I don't think I've ever
seen on reality TV before. Oh wow, that's I mean,
that's saying a lot. Yeah, and producer Crystal by the
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way big fan of the show. But All is a nightmare.
But All is such a It's a show I've never watched.
But I'll just if you don't know the concept, cause
a lot of people think it's like a reality show, like, oh,
what do these people have ninety days to get married?
But there's an American law that says, if you marry
someone from another country, you have a k one visa
that last ninety days, and if they don't get married
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in that period, they have to go back home. So
it's basically these couples. Some of them are just like,
we've only ever met online, and some are like, oh,
we've been dating for years and then finally they get
this visa. Oh my gosh, Okay, it's wonderful. You gotta
watch me. And now here's a tough one. Which shows
have gotten canceled that you think are like the most
tragic of the cancel Absolutely, I'm gonna go with the
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Big Leap. It was on Fox. It was an incredible show.
I think it's going to become a cult one hit.
Wonder Fox just didn't promote it. They didn't know what
to do with this amazing satire vehicle of like a
Hopeful Optimistic Dance show. I actually am so mad at
Fox for canceling that show. I refused to talk about
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other Fox shows, even if I like them. I just
because they canceled the Big Leap. I have just been
personally boycotting Fox. Um, it's tough. It's tough because they
have great shows, they have wonderful show and I hate
to bring this back to the court, Ashley, but I
have a show, I mean yeah, and you're gonna have
to mention it because I won't. And I mean, I'm
just saying I really would like you to at least
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not boycott Next Level Chef. Can we Yeah? Yeah, I
mean Next Level Chef. I mean I will not take
it into my verdict today, Ashley, because I am a
judge with integrity. Next Level Chef, Bob's Burgers some things
you can't say no to, that is true. But the
Big it was just it was so beautiful, it made
me sob Piper Parabow is in it, and they canceled it.
It made no sense. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. One
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of one of my absolute ultimate goals is to just
get a small cameo on Bob's Burgers. I'm just gonna
throw that out there. Happen. That's what I'm saying, Like
I have the Fox relationship. That's why I'm doing this.
By the way, thank you, because that's my new thing.
Like sometimes just say it out loud, that's gonna happen.
But that's happening, I hope. So oh yeah the burger, Yeah,
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I love it. I mean, so Bob comes on as
a as a competitor. I mean, I mean maybe, yeah,
they can make that work with holograms and stuff. These days,
we're so as it has to happen. Okay, now listen,
this is for both of you. Babs. You go first here.
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Everyone wants to know where are you from? Where are
you from, and what are your like food, your early food,
Not to get too serious, but your early food. What
were you what were you eating at home? I okay,
So I was born in California, but I was raised
in Salt Lake City, which, if you don't know, not
a great food place. So I feel like I didn't
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taste actual food until I moved back to California because like,
salt Lake is literally known for green jello funeral potatoes,
which are potatoes with corn flakes on top. So not
a lot of flavor. We're looking at, not a lot
of fry sauce. What do you call someone from Utah
Utah Uton? We have some Utah's in my family, my
extended family, and I have had funeral potatoes and they
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are delicious. They can be very good. Yeah, they're just
cheesy potatoes, like creamy cheese che potato with corn flakes.
Like I am here, I'm here great. I'm from the Midwest,
so I love a casserole like dish. So you're just
here for the cheese and yeah, I'm like, it's great.
Can't go wrong now, green jello. By the way, Producer Crystal,
I think this is a topic green versus red Chello.
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Oh yeah, that's a good call. Let's weigh in on
it right now, speed round Actually red red, Okay, that's
I'm going to have to say green, just to be
true to my roots. Oh yeah, because I'm sorry. That's
I can't believe that. I think that was the yes
end part there too, because you don't clearly believe that
green jellatter you. No, I don't, it's not think it's okay,
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we all know that. I don't. I can't even think
of what taste it is, but red. I could actually
picture tasting it. It's kind of like a sometimes it's
a limes. It's like a yeah, it's like a weird
I feel like an actually fresh lime flavored jello would
actually be pretty good. It should be, but I don't
know if it is. And then what flavor is red?
Oh it's I want to say straw. Yeah, you want
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to say cherry, but I don't know what it is. Okay, Actually,
what about you? For being from the Midwest, I'd say
pretty similar. Upbringing it was a lot of like tunic
cast rolls. I loved my mom's tunic cast role. So
I grew up kind of like in Rockford, ill and Way,
which is ninety miles outside of Chicago, and it has
its own weird cuisine, Like it's a mixture of Swedish
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and Italian people. So like this weird cuisine developed where
there's like this Italian place, Maria's, that like was known
for some of the Swedish food they made, or we
would go to like the this like really famous Swedish
restaurant and they made you know, Italian and Swedish meatballs. Yeah, well, yeah,
I love that. First of all, I love these mashups too,
and and you'd find when you travel that there's so
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much more commonalities within commonalities a word. But like Swedish meatballs.
It works with Italian food. I'm pretty sure it's so good. Yeah.
And then my mom came from the South, so she,
you know, was always cooking at home. She loved the
fry fish and stuff. Oh yeah, it was all I
feel like. It was a lot of just like down
home cooking. Oh I love it. Now the fried fish
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Friday in the Midwest, Are you frying herring? Because if
you have this like Swedish influence, like I mean, I
did data Swedish boy who like his family would always
make pickled herring every time I came over and they
would just like heap it on my plate and I
would just try to get it down. I hated it.
But no, we did catfish. Yeah, I understand that. Again,
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as someone who's Scandinavian and Swedish, I still the herring.
It's it's under the two. I did love Lincoln berries.
That was great, same wonderful and Swedish pancake. I prefer
Swedish pancake to any other pancake out there. So I
was gonna say, like, I got the gavel over here,
but but that was you gave me. Yeah, sorry, al right,
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first of all, hot topics already here. I think we
got to three more episodes right past this, Babs, you
ostensibly freed Brittany, which is absolutely incredible and like, oh
my gosh, like what an honor to have you even
virtually in the room. And also it makes me feel
like especially lazy about how I spent my pandemic trying
to become a golfer. I do like to give people
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for the Yeah, I'm like, what'd you do learn how
to make sour dough? Well? I freed an international superstar. Yeah,
although I mean making it's a good sour though. I
mean I'm just yeah, I mean it's not really impressed
by some of those sour though. I saw. I was
gonna say that was my favorite part. I've said. It's
like how everyone wasn't gluten free anymore. Yeah, it just disappeared.
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That's it. So what is the follow How do you
follow that up? Like? Who's next to freeze? There? Who
who's next to you? I think? Yeah, debating food on podcast,
That's what I'm following. No, I don't know. I mean
it was. It was wild, you know, took over my life,
and I'm incredibly happy with it actually resulted in you know,
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her getting free. So yeah, Now, I mean, we're still
helping work with lawmakers on conservatorship laws and stuff like
that in California, but personally I'm moving on and kind
of starting to investigate other stuff. So I would love
to go to sushi with her or something. Food Court
will go on the road to break down some sort
of sushi debate with you and all of us. We're
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all going, I bet she has great sushi opinions. I don't. Okay,
let's I mean, let's let's let's let's play this game.
I mean, Brittany's sushi order is, oh boy, I think
very basic. I'm going basically California right, going absolutely California roll,
and like one that's like slightly like spicy or exist
like a rainbow roll. She's like, oh, this sounds fun.
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You know this sound's fun. I was gonna, yeah, I
was gonna say her her out there choices even more basic,
like a spicy tuna roll, like just's like it's a
spicy more basic yeah. Like She's like, it's but it's
a spicy tune of y'all that's too spicy sometimes, Like
I feel like that's okay, fair, fair enough. I said,
you know what, I'm gonna go rogue and say I
think that there's there's because she's got this Louisiana right
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like back, I think there's like a crispy shrimp, extra
spicy serracha. Just I'm just I don't know that that's where.
That's just what I want. Someday you're gonna you're gonna
figure it out, you're gonna meet her, and I can't
wait for that to happen. There it is, okay, listen
back to the business here, Ashley, tell us a about
the case that you've brought in one sentence or so,
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it is a matter near and dear to my heart.
And it is hot cereal versus cold cereal. Yeah, just
let everyone sit on that hot Cereal verse cold cereal,
literal hot taps. I feel it's a comparison people are
afraid to even talk about. I feel like we we
run from this conversation, we run from this debate. Even
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as a judge. And again I'm biased here, but like
I kind of like healed back a little bit, like
like this one is This one is as serious is
against In the food court, Berhabs, you have a different opinion,
which is Cold Cereal rules Hot Cereal Jewels taste. I
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guess I did not state I am team Hot Cereal.
I I believe the diversity, the range of flavor options
makes Hot Cereal the clear winner. Okay, listen, I'm already.
I don't want to have to gabol in. But where
you can tell that our competitors are eager to get
into the bates before we get into the arguments. Here
in my courtroom, I like to have what most courtrooms do,
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and that is a quick trivia round, a quick trivia
A lot of these in Brittany's court. Yes, yes, there
always comes the first round trivia trivia. Here we go,
trivia around. Here's how it's gonna work. The winner of
the trivia round gets to decide the order that you
present your arguments. But also, trivia is fun unless you lose. Actually,
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you are here in studio. I've gone with purple. Okay,
let's see what what did you see? What the sound is? Oh?
The clown car? I like that Purple. The clown car.
Now Babs and you get to choose whatever sound you
want to make, you could be verbal. I'm gonna say
Hong Kong that I love sounds like her so i
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ha ha or something. Yes, and again there it is
the Hong Kong verse, the actual, actual clown car sound effect.
You can hear this should I try one? It doesn't work?
All right? Oh my god, that's too much like that
of buzz That reminds me of the game Operation, is it? Yeah? Oh?
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I kind of like that. Okay, you're gonna go? Are
you gonna go with the buzzer? That took too long?
It's too slow. First of all, a strategist, the verbal
can be a quicker way to make a noise than
you act. She's got a physical you know. Yeah, Okay,
here we go. Question one everyone, what percentage of Americans
start their day with serial A B see seventy two?
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Pent Hu That is gonna be Ashley. I believe got
in first. Crystal threw up her hands. You were supposed
to be the One thing I can't decide is who
makes this sound first? It was a tie. Yeah, well listen,
I meant to each other right here. And like I said,
I'm a judge with integrity, But Ashley is a studio.
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I mean, okay, now, I feel like that's is so confident.
I'm gonna go with a forty Okay, A was and
that answer is absolutely correct Ashley Ray coming in forty nine,
Nearly half of Americans eat cereal for breakfast, so this
is clearly a topic that people have opinions on. Okay,
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here we go, question two now with Ashley up one
zero on Apollo eleven astronauts eight to cereal made into
cubes so that it could be eaten without milk. What
cereal has been an outer space hint? It's made by Kelloggs.
Kelloggs cereal. Alright, that's gonna be Babs. Corn flakes. Corn
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flakes is right as well. I was gonna say frosted flakes,
which we would have needed. We would you wouldn't You
would have had to re answer anyway. So corn flakes
is correct. And for some more in depth personal trivia, producer,
Crystal's grandma at a bowl of corn flakes for breakfast
every single morning for twenty years over two. That is
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kind of amazing. Who's recently they hold up? They're very good. Yeah,
it's good, good stuff. That's like some more in Buffett
stuff who likes like was like a McDonald's hamburger and
a diet coke like every day. And yeah, the guy
who made it, he was like Kella. He was like
a serious, like business guy. Seventh Day of Venice, like
you know, made people work hard. It was like corn
flakes is all you need to live. He was like,
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that's all the body needs. And that's clearly all the astronauts.
They didn't even need milk. Yeah, my sister didn't like
milk growing up, so she would eat cereal with orange
juice and it was a nightmare. Who's that's where is
She's got to get on the podcast? Yeah, I don't
know what that was about, but it wasn't a fan
I can't I know. I can't even Yeah, I'm a
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creative chef. I can't even figure that one out. I
don't know. All right, here we go questions three, and
this is we're all tied up at one one here,
no Shenanigans needed question three for the win and the
right to determine who will present their arguments. First. Question
three in Quaker Oats of all companies helped finance a movie.
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It was a creative move at the time, so they
would have rights to the products in the film. Wow,
that is product placement, like to the degree. Right there?
What movie was it? Hints one? I love how this
one has multiple hints, Crystal. One product featured was Everlasting
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gob Stoppers. That was Ashley, Willy Wonka and the Factory.
The answer is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The
hints was an obvious one, and that the only way
I would there. There it is, there it is and wait,
but they didn't. So wait did they produce that movie
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because there was no I don't remember any oatmeal. Yeah,
they helped finance the movie from what I understand, and
Crystal does in depth research Crystal coming in from the
drive through window. They runs and lay based on the movie.
So oh oh, I like that, and Launce created for
the movie. I mean that makes total sense product placement wise,
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doesn't it. That's genius. Banana laughy taffy one of my
favorite flavors of all time. I like it too. I
like it too. I like It's not that the whole
production booth thumbs down banana flavored stuff. I just can't
do it. This is listening. I only like banana flavored
laffy taffy only. Do you like fresh banana? I can
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not often, but I like, but you prefer synthetic banana.
I'm like no, Like, if I'm making a smoothie, I
won't real banana fair enough, that's true, But I really
love the flavor of synthetic banana. There's a couple I
like synthetic lemons. I can't think of any other situation
where I'm engaging with synthetic banana, Like I can't think
of many things I'm eating Babs. You were totally disgusted
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by it, Like so you're not like it's one of
those fake Like I like other fake flavors. I like
grape flavoring, you know, I like lemon flavoring like lemon,
I like lemon heads. Lemon can be good. Yeah yeah,
I'm just saying my kids cannot stand, like we we
go get the shave ice or something like that, like
I love the I love banana. They're like, oh yeah, yeah,
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which is also like how can they judge they're getting
cotton candy and bubblegum as flavors for shave ice. I'm
just gonna say, next time I'm watching, next time I'm
watching you judge food I'm gonna remember I like banana flavor,
artificial banana flavor stuff. Oh my gosh, what about circus peanuts?
Do you remember they can? Oh? Yeah, I hate those.
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I have to clear. I have to clear. I have
to clear the mechanism here. Okay, So that means that Ashley,
you have one our trivia around two points to one,
and you get the big decision here? Did side who
presents their argument first? So what are you thinking? Who
goes first? I would love for my co host to
go first. There you go? Okay, so perhaps you were
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going to present first. But before that, let's take a
quick break back to food court. We have the case
of hot Cereal verse cold Cereal, and we're about to
get into the arguments. The way this works that each
of you will have three minutes to state your case,
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and during this three minutes you need to lay out
your case and not focus on your opponent or their case.
Use the first three minutes to passionately make your case.
Does that make sense? Yes? Yes, I can't promise I
won't talk a little bit of but I'll try. Don't worry,
because I will give you another turn to just go
nuts against each other and say all the stuff you
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want to say about their case in the rebuttal? Does
that work for everyone? Okay, so here we go, Babs,
you were gonna be first. Crystal is gonna start the
stopwatch here. You'll have three minutes and I will ding
the bell when you're three minutes are up. So Babs,
your first case for why cold cereal rules starts now. Okay, well,
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I just want to say that I think, starting off,
when you think of cereal, what do you think of
That's right, You think of cold cereal, You think of cheerios,
you think frosted flakes, you think of raisin brand. Your
your brain is not going to hot cereal because it's
so far away from the thing that you actually want
to consume that you're not even considering it. First off,
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when someone says the word cereal, and I just want
you to think of like the process of pouring yourself
a bowl of cereal on a Saturday morning. Maybe you're young,
maybe you've got cartoons on, and you know you have
the whole process that pouring into the bowl, got the
splash of milk, the crunchiness, it sogs up a little bit,
so you get that milk in every single bite. Then
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you have milk left over at the end that you
can either add cereal two or you can drink it
straight from the bowl. It's an entire ritual, you know
what I mean. And there's so much variety, Like you
don't have to do anything. I'll ease do is port
into a bowl and you could have any flavor you want.
We can do healthy or unhealthy. Yeah, there's both in
this range. Okay, you can do fruity or chocolate e
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honey out cheerios or plain cheerios. I mean, there's Reese's cereal,
for God's sake. We've got granola cookie, crisp frostam Anywa's
Raising brand, fruit loops, Cocoa crispies, fruity pebbles, and of
course we cannot forget the cereal that is so delicious.
You will cut yourself, you will harm yourself, tear up
the top of your mouth for it. And that is oh, captain,
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my captain, Captain crunch. I mean, how do you even
you know? So that's all I just want you to
sit there and think to yourself about when you walk
down that aisle, all the arrays of of cold cereal
in front of you, the variety, the breadth of of
bounty that it is offering to you to make your
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morning's bet a better place. Thank you, Babs coming in
hots for cold cereal. Oh my gosh, that's got a
lot of amazing points. You rattled off a bunch right
there and invoking our childhood in the nostalgia of watching cartoons.
I don't know, Babs, if you've seen an episode of
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Top Chef, maybe a season that I won where I
made Captain crunchius cream. Don't know if that you know
went into your process, but that will not be something
I factor into this. Although I want Captain Crunch's hat.
I'm just gonna say that right now. It's an amazing hat.
I always wanted the Is he a captain though to
me he's an admiral. I think that's an animal's hat.
But we'll have to go back and look at lots
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of variety, healthy, unhealthy. I don't know the colors, so
many points, the even getting into a little bit of
the a s m R. Of the poor, of the breakfast,
the ritual of the morning breakfast. Lots of things there.
But we're about to hear the case for hot Cereal.
Hot Cereal Ashley, You're three minutes to talk about why
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you love hot cereal and why we all should starts
now ding ding Hey, okay, hey, hey ding ding. It's
the breakfast club. You think of a diverse group of
friends all coming together to get to know each other,
much like hot cereal, something that across the world features
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so much diversity, from congi to muse le two rice
to oatmeal, all variations of hot cereal breakfast people around
the world can enjoy. There's something about cooking hot cereal
that warms the house. It creates a hearth within the home,
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within any home, and that's across class bound injuries. It
doesn't matter if you're a college student with just a
microwave and a pack of that stuff with the weird
maples powder and the oats and just water too. You know,
an aficionando like myself who can make something like say,
you know, a carrocake oatmeal, you know, or something even
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healthier with with a Greek yogurt involved, or an overnight
oat which would still I think count it not cereal
because I eat up my overnight oats, so I'm putting
it in there. It will be allowed. That will be
allowed as evidence in this court. Okay, thank you, thank you. Also,
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when we look at the class issue, look at how
much more you can do with a small amount of
cream of wheat, musely oatmeal. All you need is like
one cup, one cup, and you're feeding like four people.
Not to mention the longevity. Okay, you make a big
thing a oatmeal, put it in the refrigerator. Guess what
you got oatmeal for them sorrow? Okay, you got oatmeal
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for tomorrow. You're not doing that with your cereal. You're
not letting that soggy cereals sit out. Also that oatmeal
hot cereals. They aren't getting soggy on you. Okay, they
are not getting soggy. You know it. Also, I believe
forces you to learn a skill. Do you know how
many man children I've met who can only make a
cold bowl of cereal? I am impressed. If they can
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pull out a pan, boil a milk. Oh and if
they use a milk base instead of water, that's a
skill you can learn and and you know, charm people with.
That's all I gotta say. And in passion debate is
brewing right here. I was not expecting to dip our
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toes into the savory hot cereal world. Yeah, my mind
is blown right now. CONGI. I mean it opened grits, Polentza,
whatever you're talking about. Are they hot cereals? That is
something this jo was not prepared to you. I'm getting
goose bumps eloquently presented, and I am I a little
offended by the man child thing. I know I can
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make hot cereal. I'm not because I'm a man who
was caught out of fish and I'll eat for a lifetime.
Isn't at the saying something like that as cereal, box
of cereal? That's just like I give a mat. Wow.
I was not expecting to get that deep with the
hot cereal cold cereal debate? Is overnight oates hot cereal?
I heat up my overnight oats. I hated cold. That's
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how into hot cereal am that? I hate cold overnight oats.
As you said it, there was that moment where you're like,
am I I but personally I draw that because I
put I get it, I buy it from a store.
I'm taking it home, putting it into the microwave. Cong
Grits blenty savory hot Cereal for dinner. Yes, I'm here
for it. Time to get into the rebuttals. Babs. You
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are up right now with two minutes to let Ashley
know why overnight oats might not be hot cereal. Your
two minute robottal of Babs starts now, all right, I
mean we yeah, overnight oes. That's a cold cereal. I'm
taking it somewhere with me. I'm not warming up. It's
an on the go thing that's just beyond this discussion. Also, okay,
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so actually saying, you know, oatmeal doesn't get soggy, yeah,
because it is soggy. That's all it is. It's pure
sog you know what. It's also known as gruel. Hot
cereal is gruel everyone. It is the stuff that they
give to prisoners in books. It's the stuff that Dickenzie
and children asked for because it's literally the only food
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available to anyone. That's what hot cereal is. I just
want you to think about that, that gray that gray
water sopping around a little pile of oats. That's what
we're discussing here, versus the joy of cold cereal. I mean,
where's the joy in this? Hot cereal actually's talking about
how you learn a skill, how much you have to
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work for it. I don't want that with my cereal.
I want to just pour it into the bowl and
have a good time, you know. And what's up with
your branding? Like your best your best mascot is a Quaker.
We've got Leprickns. Baby, We've got bees and bunnies over here.
We're having a party. Meanwhile, it's just the Quaker oats guy,
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you know, lording over the other, the other hot cereals.
I just I gotta say, you're defending gruel at the
end of the day. This one got off off track
pretty quick. Quakers versus Lepricns a very valid. I mean,
it's something that Judge is going to have to consider.
Is texture is soggy with no texture contrast, is hot
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cereal just soggy? Alright, Actually, you have two minutes now
to let Babs know whyte cold cereal? Yeah, alright, your
two minutes starts now. Actually, just to point out if
the benefit or pro of cold cereal is that it's
so quick an easy to make, how can you say
overnight cereal is cold cereal when literally in the name
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it has to sit overnight. That's not easy to go.
That's literally something where you have to mix flavors textures.
You have to let it sit overnight. You have to
decide is it gonna be a little lemon some vanilla.
You really have to think in terms of hot cereal
in order for it to be good. You're not just
putting milk and oats and a thing and a Mazon
jar and putting it in your fridge and then eating
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it the next day. Absolutely not. It is a hot
cereal anyway when it comes to texture. Yet again, I
think it's sad my opponent here is limiting herself to
such a Western worldview of what hot cereal can be.
To to be stuck in such a British I would
say mind frame of Dickensie and porridge and gruel is
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limiting itself to to the world of diversity of hot cereal.
To to say that that beautiful breakfast grit doesn't have
that wonderful text her to to mix it with a
peach if you like a sweet grit, or a shrimp
if you like a hot grit, that is also within
the hot cereal family, My friend, The world of textures
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is alive and bright there, you know, when we look
outside of of this American point of view, which I
think is common amongst cold cereal people, because I will
say the cereal aisle is predominantly like an American thing.
Those ovary sugary cereals that are so fun with their
lepre cons that are banned in other countries because they
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cause childhood diabetes, where as hot cereals so healthy. You
add texture, you can add raisins, carrots, so many different
things to get what you would like a musely cream
of wheat. There we go. Okay, wait, something to make
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it better. Adding reasons are amazing, Babs, you will have
a moment for one last comments. This judge has to
gavel you out all right, there it is. You have
heard the cases for hot and cold cereal and that
at this point it's going to have to take me
a long time to sort of figure this one out.
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I don't know about as long as this commercial will
be we'll be right back. Good throw down. Oh it's not.
Nothing's more fun than taking something too seriously. Okay, we
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are back, and I think I've made up my mind.
But before I give my verdict, do either of you
have a final word to potentially sway my opinion. This
is your last chance, Babs. Anything you'd like to say,
I mean, I said it a little bit before. All
I have to say is that my my opponents offered
raisins as a way to improve her food. And that's
I rest my case. I'm not a fan of sun
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dried grapes. As she also said, raisins and carrots the
craziest cake. Like what like, there's so many these you
put in on meal? Again? Okay, I listen, Ashley. Anything
you got to say here? Yeah, And I would like
to end on a personal note. In high school, as
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a child, a friend and I started a club. It
was actually called the Breakfast Club, and we would come
into school earlies at seven am, and we convinced the
school to buy hot cereal supplies for us. And every
morning we'd come in and we try a new hot
cereal recipe and then we'd make like a giant bowl
of it, and other students would come, some who wanted
breakfast in the mornings, who didn't eat at home, and
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they could have some of our hot cereal that we
learned to make in the breakfast club. And that's just
one of the many ways hot cereal can bring people together.
Because what you want to show up to a cereal
party and people are like, here's a bull of soggy cereal.
Here's some what milk leftover. Milk cereal is gross, by
the way. It's gross. It's just got like it's listening out.
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Milk that's not okay, and oatmeal that's different. It can
sit out and it brings coming through at the end
and the final final moments there letting us know that
hot cereal can basically save the world. It can bring
us together. It's about community, and I have had a
lot to think about right here. This chord has taken
into account the fact that Ashley's making carrot cake oatmeal
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ready for competition. By the way, regardless of I don't
know what's going to happen here, but I mean that
is next level part of the post. Hot cereal is
all about community. Cold cereals about you know, maybe I
don't know, eaten by yourself in a basement. I don't know.
Texture verse saggy. That is something that I've had to
really really weigh here. Is it convenience versus cooking? That's
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another part of this equation. Yeah, I mean porridge and
gruel versus marshmallow hearts, which might be the title, which
might be might be the title of this episode, Healthy
versus Unhealthy. The case of hot cereal cold cereal was
a close one, but this court we'll weigh in favor.
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Come on, sorry, this is my sorry, this is my
TV judge moment. We're panning to the contestants. We're looking around.
This court weighs in favor of cold cereals. Yes, I
will say that there's I was not expecting this to
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be as close, Ashley. I mean, the whole community, global
aspect of this, the education, the fact that you're cooking
really made this a close call. But at the end
of the day, I want marshmallow hart cold. Come on,
I want crunchy things and soggy You want to know
my favorite serial raisin brand crunch. That being said, listen, actually,
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this court advises you to compete eat on a cooking
show because you are making carrot cake oatmeal and you're
bringing the world together. I make a coconut chocolate oatmeal.
This is what I'm saying. Yeah, you're just competing in
the wrong show, Ashley. That's all I'm saying. You're ready
to cook where I mean making the hot cereal is
gonna win and just pouring some you know, frosted flakes
or lucky charms or whatever, but it is. It is
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lepre cons over Quakers. At the end of the day, everyone,
thank you so much for joining us at food Court.
I was your judge. Richard Blaze. You can find Ashley
talking about TV shows on her podcast TV I Say
with Ashley Ray and her writing on shows like Alabama
Jackson and in Vulture, The New York Times, and on
Twitter at the Ashley Ray Yes with two Ease. You
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can find Babs on her podcast Lady to Lady and
Toxic The Brittney Spears Story. Her comedy album If I
Did It is out now and you can check her
out on Twitter at Babs Gray. If you're in Los Angeles,
you can catch their monthly comedy showcase High Dear Comedy
at the Airliner and listen everyone, I know what do?
What do you think about this audience? What's your favorite
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I hope we can be we can be friends. Yeah. Yeah,
it was a close fight and a good argument. It
really was, you know,
Creamy, creamy, crunchy food Court, food Court, food Court with St. Blaze?
Are you in food Court? Court with Blaz? Welcome to
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food Court a production of I Heart Radio. Okay, listen,
I am Richard Blaze and this is my courtroom. Welcome.
I'm the host and the judge, which is kind of
like being an actor who can also sing, or a
chef who's also mid handicapped caller or something like that,
and joining us in the court. Today, we have two
women who are already friends, who co host a live
comedy show in Los Angeles called High Gear Comedy. First,
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we have someone known as much for her impeccable television
show recomm Dation's asked for her love of weed. It's
Ashley Ray. Hey, Ashley, what is going on? I'm so
glad to be here. And yes, TV and weed that
those are the things I love. They can't they work.
It's like tomatoes and basis. Yeah, it just works. And
I love how you said Basil to like. Your improv
comedy skills are impeccable. I didn't have to say anything,
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you just picked up yes, and we finally, you have
to teach me all this stuff. You have to teach
me all of this stuff. Yeah, yeah, Babs and I
we teach a class. You teach a class. We don't. Okay,
you should, you should growing up against Ashley. We have
a comedian, podcaster and writer who's podcast, Brittany's Graham, kicked
off the international Free Brittany movement. It's Babs Gray. Hello, Hi,
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happy to be here. Yeah, no one knows that you're
not actually here, but we will. I think we need
to reveal it because you don't know. There might be
some videos on Instagram stories. Babs joining us from your
own studio, which is part of your contract. From what
I understand, you have your own Yes, yes, yes, I
only accept billings from my own studio. So sorry, there
it is that works. Actually, you did join us, not
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that that's going to affect any sort of decision from
the judge. You did. You you got here, you braved traffic,
You made it happen so much l A traffic, you know.
But I'm not gonna brag if anything. I think being
a here and person will probably work against me. You
think so, Oh my gosh, I hope that's not the case.
That's not true, because she got the hype up time
in the car to like go over her points and
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I've just been here stewing, you know, so I don't know.
I think she's just been listening to music because I've
been tracking the Twitter. Yeah. No, yeah, it's just literally
just this morning, I watched the Sex Pistles TV show
and then I remembered music was good. You know, I
forget because I watched TV, and it's hard to listen
to music when you watch TV as your job, and
so then I sometimes I'll just listen. I'm like, oh
my gosh, this music is so great. I actually totally
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feel that, right though. I'll go weeks without really listening
to music, and then I'm like podcasts, yeah, past, and
then you finally you put something on and you're like,
oh my god, I see white people cared about like
David Bowie. Wow, this is this is wonderful. Now I
just willed nod my head. But you seem like you
get really into the lyrics. Now I tracking you today,
but like you're like really dissecting lyrics. I've always been
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a lyric person. I guess I was a writer. I
wasn't much of a musician, so I was always like
the lyrics, that's where the real music is at look
at that. I love it now, BABS producer Crystal tells
me that your bio includes big hair, big heart, big mouth,
and I gotta ask, you're stealing my bit a little bit.
You can't see it because I got the hat on.
But the hair is big and controversial. The mouth is
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obviously big as well, and some people say I have
a big heart, which one is the biggest? Who's got
the biggest hair? Though? Oh I think I do. I've
just cut my headphone. Yeah you win that one. No, no,
I don't think we can even debate that one. Yeah,
I gotta go, Babs, And I feel like this is
even full volume, that's what it is. No, this is
like tamp down. Okay, So then I have a question
for you, just because like this is potentially embarrassing for me.
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But then, do you have a specific product that you
like to turn to for high volume? Well, I don't
need I actually try to get less volume because it's
like two um, so I'm the other way. I just
give gosh, like, yeah, that's how it's just like too much.
I'm trying to like calm it down. It's a there's
just one called to do. It's a moose. That's really great.
(04:13):
I would have like that sounds it doesn't it it's
fancy like mine's big sexy cvs. They just say what
you want to look like. It only comes in like
a sixty four like and it gets confiscated on every flight,
and it's always very embarrassing for me, Like, don't they're
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confiscating that in your checked luggage. No, I'm trying to
carry it on. Oh, we'll come on. You don't want
to lose your big sexy I mean, you want to
get your value out of that entire bottle. Try and
hide it in your hair next time. That's all right.
Listen for the case that you've brought a tale of
two cereals to the food court, and we're gonna get
into that in a second, but we're gonna get to
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know each other a little bit better, Ashley. Know, for
your TV REX, what shows right now are your absolut
lute must, your favorites right now, my absolute must. Right now,
we got Hacks, which just premiered about two weeks ago
for its second season. It's on HBO Max. It's so
funny that Bravance, this like aging comedian who she's like
my icon she's my my like Don Draper, She's everything
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I want to be as I grow up. Oh, I
love it. Okay, So then that's is that relatively new
or I've seen that? Yeah, premiered last year. Yeah, season
two jeans smart. It's it's just so funny and incredibly
sharp sharp still And then see I didn't com prepared
with TV REX because I was so focused on the
serial argument and I like, what TV do I even watch? Actually? Also,
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when you think about this season of ninety Day yeah,
reality TV wise, this season of ninety Day Fiance, which
I cover for Vulture if you want to know my
weekly thoughts, is so incredible and good. They have people
this season who truly hate each other, but somehow are
just like in this horrible electric dance of awfulness every episode.
(06:03):
And it's like this season they found men who are
like I don't just want to bring this woman to
America and waste her time. I want to like, like
like mentally manipulate her. It's like a new level of
gas lighting this season that I don't think I've ever
seen on reality TV before. Oh wow, that's I mean,
that's saying a lot. Yeah, and producer Crystal by the
(06:23):
way big fan of the show. But All is a nightmare.
But All is such a It's a show I've never watched.
But I'll just if you don't know the concept, cause
a lot of people think it's like a reality show, like, oh,
what do these people have ninety days to get married?
But there's an American law that says, if you marry
someone from another country, you have a k one visa
that last ninety days, and if they don't get married
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in that period, they have to go back home. So
it's basically these couples. Some of them are just like,
we've only ever met online, and some are like, oh,
we've been dating for years and then finally they get
this visa. Oh my gosh, Okay, it's wonderful. You gotta
watch me. And now here's a tough one. Which shows
have gotten canceled that you think are like the most
tragic of the cancel Absolutely, I'm gonna go with the
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Big Leap. It was on Fox. It was an incredible show.
I think it's going to become a cult one hit.
Wonder Fox just didn't promote it. They didn't know what
to do with this amazing satire vehicle of like a
Hopeful Optimistic Dance show. I actually am so mad at
Fox for canceling that show. I refused to talk about
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other Fox shows, even if I like them. I just
because they canceled the Big Leap. I have just been
personally boycotting Fox. Um, it's tough. It's tough because they
have great shows, they have wonderful show and I hate
to bring this back to the court, Ashley, but I
have a show, I mean yeah, and you're gonna have
to mention it because I won't. And I mean, I'm
just saying I really would like you to at least
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not boycott Next Level Chef. Can we Yeah? Yeah, I
mean Next Level Chef. I mean I will not take
it into my verdict today, Ashley, because I am a
judge with integrity. Next Level Chef, Bob's Burgers some things
you can't say no to, that is true. But the
Big it was just it was so beautiful, it made
me sob Piper Parabow is in it, and they canceled it.
It made no sense. Okay, fair enough, fair enough. One
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of one of my absolute ultimate goals is to just
get a small cameo on Bob's Burgers. I'm just gonna
throw that out there. Happen. That's what I'm saying, Like
I have the Fox relationship. That's why I'm doing this.
By the way, thank you, because that's my new thing.
Like sometimes just say it out loud, that's gonna happen.
But that's happening, I hope. So oh yeah the burger, Yeah,
(08:31):
I love it. I mean, so Bob comes on as
a as a competitor. I mean, I mean maybe, yeah,
they can make that work with holograms and stuff. These days,
we're so as it has to happen. Okay, now listen,
this is for both of you. Babs. You go first here.
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Everyone wants to know where are you from? Where are
you from, and what are your like food, your early food,
Not to get too serious, but your early food. What
were you what were you eating at home? I okay,
So I was born in California, but I was raised
in Salt Lake City, which, if you don't know, not
a great food place. So I feel like I didn't
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taste actual food until I moved back to California because like,
salt Lake is literally known for green jello funeral potatoes,
which are potatoes with corn flakes on top. So not
a lot of flavor. We're looking at, not a lot
of fry sauce. What do you call someone from Utah
Utah Uton? We have some Utah's in my family, my
extended family, and I have had funeral potatoes and they
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are delicious. They can be very good. Yeah, they're just
cheesy potatoes, like creamy cheese che potato with corn flakes.
Like I am here, I'm here great. I'm from the Midwest,
so I love a casserole like dish. So you're just
here for the cheese and yeah, I'm like, it's great.
Can't go wrong now, green jello. By the way, Producer Crystal,
I think this is a topic green versus red Chello.
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Oh yeah, that's a good call. Let's weigh in on
it right now, speed round Actually red red, Okay, that's
I'm going to have to say green, just to be
true to my roots. Oh yeah, because I'm sorry. That's
I can't believe that. I think that was the yes
end part there too, because you don't clearly believe that
green jellatter you. No, I don't, it's not think it's okay,
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we all know that. I don't. I can't even think
of what taste it is, but red. I could actually
picture tasting it. It's kind of like a sometimes it's
a limes. It's like a yeah, it's like a weird
I feel like an actually fresh lime flavored jello would
actually be pretty good. It should be, but I don't
know if it is. And then what flavor is red?
Oh it's I want to say straw. Yeah, you want
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to say cherry, but I don't know what it is. Okay, Actually,
what about you? For being from the Midwest, I'd say
pretty similar. Upbringing it was a lot of like tunic
cast rolls. I loved my mom's tunic cast role. So
I grew up kind of like in Rockford, ill and Way,
which is ninety miles outside of Chicago, and it has
its own weird cuisine, Like it's a mixture of Swedish
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and Italian people. So like this weird cuisine developed where
there's like this Italian place, Maria's, that like was known
for some of the Swedish food they made, or we
would go to like the this like really famous Swedish
restaurant and they made you know, Italian and Swedish meatballs. Yeah, well, yeah,
I love that. First of all, I love these mashups too,
and and you'd find when you travel that there's so
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much more commonalities within commonalities a word. But like Swedish meatballs.
It works with Italian food. I'm pretty sure it's so good. Yeah.
And then my mom came from the South, so she,
you know, was always cooking at home. She loved the
fry fish and stuff. Oh yeah, it was all I
feel like. It was a lot of just like down
home cooking. Oh I love it. Now the fried fish
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Friday in the Midwest, Are you frying herring? Because if
you have this like Swedish influence, like I mean, I
did data Swedish boy who like his family would always
make pickled herring every time I came over and they
would just like heap it on my plate and I
would just try to get it down. I hated it.
But no, we did catfish. Yeah, I understand that. Again,
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as someone who's Scandinavian and Swedish, I still the herring.
It's it's under the two. I did love Lincoln berries.
That was great, same wonderful and Swedish pancake. I prefer
Swedish pancake to any other pancake out there. So I
was gonna say, like, I got the gavel over here,
but but that was you gave me. Yeah, sorry, al right,
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first of all, hot topics already here. I think we
got to three more episodes right past this, Babs, you
ostensibly freed Brittany, which is absolutely incredible and like, oh
my gosh, like what an honor to have you even
virtually in the room. And also it makes me feel
like especially lazy about how I spent my pandemic trying
to become a golfer. I do like to give people
(12:54):
for the Yeah, I'm like, what'd you do learn how
to make sour dough? Well? I freed an international superstar. Yeah,
although I mean making it's a good sour though. I
mean I'm just yeah, I mean it's not really impressed
by some of those sour though. I saw. I was
gonna say that was my favorite part. I've said. It's
like how everyone wasn't gluten free anymore. Yeah, it just disappeared.
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That's it. So what is the follow How do you
follow that up? Like? Who's next to freeze? There? Who
who's next to you? I think? Yeah, debating food on podcast,
That's what I'm following. No, I don't know. I mean
it was. It was wild, you know, took over my life,
and I'm incredibly happy with it actually resulted in you know,
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her getting free. So yeah, Now, I mean, we're still
helping work with lawmakers on conservatorship laws and stuff like
that in California, but personally I'm moving on and kind
of starting to investigate other stuff. So I would love
to go to sushi with her or something. Food Court
will go on the road to break down some sort
of sushi debate with you and all of us. We're
(13:57):
all going, I bet she has great sushi opinions. I don't. Okay,
let's I mean, let's let's let's let's play this game.
I mean, Brittany's sushi order is, oh boy, I think
very basic. I'm going basically California right, going absolutely California roll,
and like one that's like slightly like spicy or exist
like a rainbow roll. She's like, oh, this sounds fun.
(14:19):
You know this sound's fun. I was gonna, yeah, I
was gonna say her her out there choices even more basic,
like a spicy tuna roll, like just's like it's a
spicy more basic yeah. Like She's like, it's but it's
a spicy tune of y'all that's too spicy sometimes, Like
I feel like that's okay, fair, fair enough. I said,
you know what, I'm gonna go rogue and say I
think that there's there's because she's got this Louisiana right
(14:41):
like back, I think there's like a crispy shrimp, extra
spicy serracha. Just I'm just I don't know that that's where.
That's just what I want. Someday you're gonna you're gonna
figure it out, you're gonna meet her, and I can't
wait for that to happen. There it is, okay, listen
back to the business here, Ashley, tell us a about
the case that you've brought in one sentence or so,
(15:02):
it is a matter near and dear to my heart.
And it is hot cereal versus cold cereal. Yeah, just
let everyone sit on that hot Cereal verse cold cereal,
literal hot taps. I feel it's a comparison people are
afraid to even talk about. I feel like we we
run from this conversation, we run from this debate. Even
(15:23):
as a judge. And again I'm biased here, but like
I kind of like healed back a little bit, like
like this one is This one is as serious is
against In the food court, Berhabs, you have a different opinion,
which is Cold Cereal rules Hot Cereal Jewels taste. I
(15:43):
guess I did not state I am team Hot Cereal.
I I believe the diversity, the range of flavor options
makes Hot Cereal the clear winner. Okay, listen, I'm already.
I don't want to have to gabol in. But where
you can tell that our competitors are eager to get
into the bates before we get into the arguments. Here
in my courtroom, I like to have what most courtrooms do,
(16:06):
and that is a quick trivia round, a quick trivia
A lot of these in Brittany's court. Yes, yes, there
always comes the first round trivia trivia. Here we go,
trivia around. Here's how it's gonna work. The winner of
the trivia round gets to decide the order that you
present your arguments. But also, trivia is fun unless you lose. Actually,
(16:27):
you are here in studio. I've gone with purple. Okay,
let's see what what did you see? What the sound is? Oh?
The clown car? I like that Purple. The clown car.
Now Babs and you get to choose whatever sound you
want to make, you could be verbal. I'm gonna say
Hong Kong that I love sounds like her so i
(16:49):
ha ha or something. Yes, and again there it is
the Hong Kong verse, the actual, actual clown car sound effect.
You can hear this should I try one? It doesn't work?
All right? Oh my god, that's too much like that
of buzz That reminds me of the game Operation, is it? Yeah? Oh?
(17:10):
I kind of like that. Okay, you're gonna go? Are
you gonna go with the buzzer? That took too long?
It's too slow. First of all, a strategist, the verbal
can be a quicker way to make a noise than
you act. She's got a physical you know. Yeah, Okay,
here we go. Question one everyone, what percentage of Americans
start their day with serial A B see seventy two?
(17:38):
Pent Hu That is gonna be Ashley. I believe got
in first. Crystal threw up her hands. You were supposed
to be the One thing I can't decide is who
makes this sound first? It was a tie. Yeah, well listen,
I meant to each other right here. And like I said,
I'm a judge with integrity, But Ashley is a studio.
(18:00):
I mean, okay, now, I feel like that's is so confident.
I'm gonna go with a forty Okay, A was and
that answer is absolutely correct Ashley Ray coming in forty nine,
Nearly half of Americans eat cereal for breakfast, so this
is clearly a topic that people have opinions on. Okay,
(18:22):
here we go, question two now with Ashley up one
zero on Apollo eleven astronauts eight to cereal made into
cubes so that it could be eaten without milk. What
cereal has been an outer space hint? It's made by Kelloggs.
Kelloggs cereal. Alright, that's gonna be Babs. Corn flakes. Corn
(18:48):
flakes is right as well. I was gonna say frosted flakes,
which we would have needed. We would you wouldn't You
would have had to re answer anyway. So corn flakes
is correct. And for some more in depth personal trivia, producer,
Crystal's grandma at a bowl of corn flakes for breakfast
every single morning for twenty years over two. That is
(19:11):
kind of amazing. Who's recently they hold up? They're very good. Yeah,
it's good, good stuff. That's like some more in Buffett
stuff who likes like was like a McDonald's hamburger and
a diet coke like every day. And yeah, the guy
who made it, he was like Kella. He was like
a serious, like business guy. Seventh Day of Venice, like
you know, made people work hard. It was like corn
flakes is all you need to live. He was like,
(19:33):
that's all the body needs. And that's clearly all the astronauts.
They didn't even need milk. Yeah, my sister didn't like
milk growing up, so she would eat cereal with orange
juice and it was a nightmare. Who's that's where is
She's got to get on the podcast? Yeah, I don't
know what that was about, but it wasn't a fan
I can't I know. I can't even Yeah, I'm a
(19:55):
creative chef. I can't even figure that one out. I
don't know. All right, here we go questions three, and
this is we're all tied up at one one here,
no Shenanigans needed question three for the win and the
right to determine who will present their arguments. First. Question
three in Quaker Oats of all companies helped finance a movie.
(20:16):
It was a creative move at the time, so they
would have rights to the products in the film. Wow,
that is product placement, like to the degree. Right there?
What movie was it? Hints one? I love how this
one has multiple hints, Crystal. One product featured was Everlasting
(20:37):
gob Stoppers. That was Ashley, Willy Wonka and the Factory.
The answer is Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory. The
hints was an obvious one, and that the only way
I would there. There it is, there it is and wait,
but they didn't. So wait did they produce that movie
(20:57):
because there was no I don't remember any oatmeal. Yeah,
they helped finance the movie from what I understand, and
Crystal does in depth research Crystal coming in from the
drive through window. They runs and lay based on the movie.
So oh oh, I like that, and Launce created for
the movie. I mean that makes total sense product placement wise,
(21:20):
doesn't it. That's genius. Banana laughy taffy one of my
favorite flavors of all time. I like it too. I
like it too. I like It's not that the whole
production booth thumbs down banana flavored stuff. I just can't
do it. This is listening. I only like banana flavored
laffy taffy only. Do you like fresh banana? I can
(21:42):
not often, but I like, but you prefer synthetic banana.
I'm like no, Like, if I'm making a smoothie, I
won't real banana fair enough, that's true, But I really
love the flavor of synthetic banana. There's a couple I
like synthetic lemons. I can't think of any other situation
where I'm engaging with synthetic banana, Like I can't think
of many things I'm eating Babs. You were totally disgusted
(22:04):
by it, Like so you're not like it's one of
those fake Like I like other fake flavors. I like
grape flavoring, you know, I like lemon flavoring like lemon,
I like lemon heads. Lemon can be good. Yeah yeah,
I'm just saying my kids cannot stand, like we we
go get the shave ice or something like that, like
I love the I love banana. They're like, oh yeah, yeah,
(22:27):
which is also like how can they judge they're getting
cotton candy and bubblegum as flavors for shave ice. I'm
just gonna say, next time I'm watching, next time I'm
watching you judge food I'm gonna remember I like banana flavor,
artificial banana flavor stuff. Oh my gosh, what about circus peanuts?
Do you remember they can? Oh? Yeah, I hate those.
(22:49):
I have to clear. I have to clear. I have
to clear the mechanism here. Okay, So that means that Ashley,
you have one our trivia around two points to one,
and you get the big decision here? Did side who
presents their argument first? So what are you thinking? Who
goes first? I would love for my co host to
go first. There you go? Okay, so perhaps you were
(23:09):
going to present first. But before that, let's take a
quick break back to food court. We have the case
of hot Cereal verse cold Cereal, and we're about to
get into the arguments. The way this works that each
of you will have three minutes to state your case,
(23:31):
and during this three minutes you need to lay out
your case and not focus on your opponent or their case.
Use the first three minutes to passionately make your case.
Does that make sense? Yes? Yes, I can't promise I
won't talk a little bit of but I'll try. Don't worry,
because I will give you another turn to just go
nuts against each other and say all the stuff you
(23:53):
want to say about their case in the rebuttal? Does
that work for everyone? Okay, so here we go, Babs,
you were gonna be first. Crystal is gonna start the
stopwatch here. You'll have three minutes and I will ding
the bell when you're three minutes are up. So Babs,
your first case for why cold cereal rules starts now. Okay, well,
(24:15):
I just want to say that I think, starting off,
when you think of cereal, what do you think of
That's right, You think of cold cereal, You think of cheerios,
you think frosted flakes, you think of raisin brand. Your
your brain is not going to hot cereal because it's
so far away from the thing that you actually want
to consume that you're not even considering it. First off,
(24:35):
when someone says the word cereal, and I just want
you to think of like the process of pouring yourself
a bowl of cereal on a Saturday morning. Maybe you're young,
maybe you've got cartoons on, and you know you have
the whole process that pouring into the bowl, got the
splash of milk, the crunchiness, it sogs up a little bit,
so you get that milk in every single bite. Then
(24:56):
you have milk left over at the end that you
can either add cereal two or you can drink it
straight from the bowl. It's an entire ritual, you know
what I mean. And there's so much variety, Like you
don't have to do anything. I'll ease do is port
into a bowl and you could have any flavor you want.
We can do healthy or unhealthy. Yeah, there's both in
this range. Okay, you can do fruity or chocolate e
(25:19):
honey out cheerios or plain cheerios. I mean, there's Reese's cereal,
for God's sake. We've got granola cookie, crisp frostam Anywa's
Raising brand, fruit loops, Cocoa crispies, fruity pebbles, and of
course we cannot forget the cereal that is so delicious.
You will cut yourself, you will harm yourself, tear up
the top of your mouth for it. And that is oh, captain,
(25:43):
my captain, Captain crunch. I mean, how do you even
you know? So that's all I just want you to
sit there and think to yourself about when you walk
down that aisle, all the arrays of of cold cereal
in front of you, the variety, the breadth of of
bounty that it is offering to you to make your
(26:05):
morning's bet a better place. Thank you, Babs coming in
hots for cold cereal. Oh my gosh, that's got a
lot of amazing points. You rattled off a bunch right
there and invoking our childhood in the nostalgia of watching cartoons.
I don't know, Babs, if you've seen an episode of
(26:27):
Top Chef, maybe a season that I won where I
made Captain crunchius cream. Don't know if that you know
went into your process, but that will not be something
I factor into this. Although I want Captain Crunch's hat.
I'm just gonna say that right now. It's an amazing hat.
I always wanted the Is he a captain though to
me he's an admiral. I think that's an animal's hat.
But we'll have to go back and look at lots
(26:48):
of variety, healthy, unhealthy. I don't know the colors, so
many points, the even getting into a little bit of
the a s m R. Of the poor, of the breakfast,
the ritual of the morning breakfast. Lots of things there.
But we're about to hear the case for hot Cereal.
Hot Cereal Ashley, You're three minutes to talk about why
(27:08):
you love hot cereal and why we all should starts
now ding ding Hey, okay, hey, hey ding ding. It's
the breakfast club. You think of a diverse group of
friends all coming together to get to know each other,
much like hot cereal, something that across the world features
(27:33):
so much diversity, from congi to muse le two rice
to oatmeal, all variations of hot cereal breakfast people around
the world can enjoy. There's something about cooking hot cereal
that warms the house. It creates a hearth within the home,
(27:56):
within any home, and that's across class bound injuries. It
doesn't matter if you're a college student with just a
microwave and a pack of that stuff with the weird
maples powder and the oats and just water too. You know,
an aficionando like myself who can make something like say,
you know, a carrocake oatmeal, you know, or something even
(28:18):
healthier with with a Greek yogurt involved, or an overnight
oat which would still I think count it not cereal
because I eat up my overnight oats, so I'm putting
it in there. It will be allowed. That will be
allowed as evidence in this court. Okay, thank you, thank you. Also,
(28:39):
when we look at the class issue, look at how
much more you can do with a small amount of
cream of wheat, musely oatmeal. All you need is like
one cup, one cup, and you're feeding like four people.
Not to mention the longevity. Okay, you make a big
thing a oatmeal, put it in the refrigerator. Guess what
you got oatmeal for them sorrow? Okay, you got oatmeal
(29:02):
for tomorrow. You're not doing that with your cereal. You're
not letting that soggy cereals sit out. Also that oatmeal
hot cereals. They aren't getting soggy on you. Okay, they
are not getting soggy. You know it. Also, I believe
forces you to learn a skill. Do you know how
many man children I've met who can only make a
cold bowl of cereal? I am impressed. If they can
(29:24):
pull out a pan, boil a milk. Oh and if
they use a milk base instead of water, that's a
skill you can learn and and you know, charm people with.
That's all I gotta say. And in passion debate is
brewing right here. I was not expecting to dip our
(29:46):
toes into the savory hot cereal world. Yeah, my mind
is blown right now. CONGI. I mean it opened grits, Polentza,
whatever you're talking about. Are they hot cereals? That is
something this jo was not prepared to you. I'm getting
goose bumps eloquently presented, and I am I a little
offended by the man child thing. I know I can
(30:07):
make hot cereal. I'm not because I'm a man who
was caught out of fish and I'll eat for a lifetime.
Isn't at the saying something like that as cereal, box
of cereal? That's just like I give a mat. Wow.
I was not expecting to get that deep with the
hot cereal cold cereal debate? Is overnight oates hot cereal?
I heat up my overnight oats. I hated cold. That's
(30:30):
how into hot cereal am that? I hate cold overnight oats.
As you said it, there was that moment where you're like,
am I I but personally I draw that because I
put I get it, I buy it from a store.
I'm taking it home, putting it into the microwave. Cong
Grits blenty savory hot Cereal for dinner. Yes, I'm here
for it. Time to get into the rebuttals. Babs. You
(30:52):
are up right now with two minutes to let Ashley
know why overnight oats might not be hot cereal. Your
two minute robottal of Babs starts now, all right, I
mean we yeah, overnight oes. That's a cold cereal. I'm
taking it somewhere with me. I'm not warming up. It's
an on the go thing that's just beyond this discussion. Also, okay,
(31:14):
so actually saying, you know, oatmeal doesn't get soggy, yeah,
because it is soggy. That's all it is. It's pure
sog you know what. It's also known as gruel. Hot
cereal is gruel everyone. It is the stuff that they
give to prisoners in books. It's the stuff that Dickenzie
and children asked for because it's literally the only food
(31:36):
available to anyone. That's what hot cereal is. I just
want you to think about that, that gray that gray
water sopping around a little pile of oats. That's what
we're discussing here, versus the joy of cold cereal. I mean,
where's the joy in this? Hot cereal actually's talking about
how you learn a skill, how much you have to
(31:58):
work for it. I don't want that with my cereal.
I want to just pour it into the bowl and
have a good time, you know. And what's up with
your branding? Like your best your best mascot is a Quaker.
We've got Leprickns. Baby, We've got bees and bunnies over here.
We're having a party. Meanwhile, it's just the Quaker oats guy,
(32:20):
you know, lording over the other, the other hot cereals.
I just I gotta say, you're defending gruel at the
end of the day. This one got off off track
pretty quick. Quakers versus Lepricns a very valid. I mean,
it's something that Judge is going to have to consider.
Is texture is soggy with no texture contrast, is hot
(32:44):
cereal just soggy? Alright, Actually, you have two minutes now
to let Babs know whyte cold cereal? Yeah, alright, your
two minutes starts now. Actually, just to point out if
the benefit or pro of cold cereal is that it's
so quick an easy to make, how can you say
overnight cereal is cold cereal when literally in the name
(33:05):
it has to sit overnight. That's not easy to go.
That's literally something where you have to mix flavors textures.
You have to let it sit overnight. You have to
decide is it gonna be a little lemon some vanilla.
You really have to think in terms of hot cereal
in order for it to be good. You're not just
putting milk and oats and a thing and a Mazon
jar and putting it in your fridge and then eating
(33:27):
it the next day. Absolutely not. It is a hot
cereal anyway when it comes to texture. Yet again, I
think it's sad my opponent here is limiting herself to
such a Western worldview of what hot cereal can be.
To to be stuck in such a British I would
say mind frame of Dickensie and porridge and gruel is
(33:50):
limiting itself to to the world of diversity of hot cereal.
To to say that that beautiful breakfast grit doesn't have
that wonderful text her to to mix it with a
peach if you like a sweet grit, or a shrimp
if you like a hot grit, that is also within
the hot cereal family, My friend, The world of textures
(34:11):
is alive and bright there, you know, when we look
outside of of this American point of view, which I
think is common amongst cold cereal people, because I will
say the cereal aisle is predominantly like an American thing.
Those ovary sugary cereals that are so fun with their
lepre cons that are banned in other countries because they
(34:32):
cause childhood diabetes, where as hot cereals so healthy. You
add texture, you can add raisins, carrots, so many different
things to get what you would like a musely cream
of wheat. There we go. Okay, wait, something to make
(34:53):
it better. Adding reasons are amazing, Babs, you will have
a moment for one last comments. This judge has to
gavel you out all right, there it is. You have
heard the cases for hot and cold cereal and that
at this point it's going to have to take me
a long time to sort of figure this one out.
(35:13):
I don't know about as long as this commercial will
be we'll be right back. Good throw down. Oh it's not.
Nothing's more fun than taking something too seriously. Okay, we
(35:35):
are back, and I think I've made up my mind.
But before I give my verdict, do either of you
have a final word to potentially sway my opinion. This
is your last chance, Babs. Anything you'd like to say,
I mean, I said it a little bit before. All
I have to say is that my my opponents offered
raisins as a way to improve her food. And that's
I rest my case. I'm not a fan of sun
(35:57):
dried grapes. As she also said, raisins and carrots the
craziest cake. Like what like, there's so many these you
put in on meal? Again? Okay, I listen, Ashley. Anything
you got to say here? Yeah, And I would like
to end on a personal note. In high school, as
(36:18):
a child, a friend and I started a club. It
was actually called the Breakfast Club, and we would come
into school earlies at seven am, and we convinced the
school to buy hot cereal supplies for us. And every
morning we'd come in and we try a new hot
cereal recipe and then we'd make like a giant bowl
of it, and other students would come, some who wanted
breakfast in the mornings, who didn't eat at home, and
(36:40):
they could have some of our hot cereal that we
learned to make in the breakfast club. And that's just
one of the many ways hot cereal can bring people together.
Because what you want to show up to a cereal
party and people are like, here's a bull of soggy cereal.
Here's some what milk leftover. Milk cereal is gross, by
the way. It's gross. It's just got like it's listening out.
(37:00):
Milk that's not okay, and oatmeal that's different. It can
sit out and it brings coming through at the end
and the final final moments there letting us know that
hot cereal can basically save the world. It can bring
us together. It's about community, and I have had a
lot to think about right here. This chord has taken
into account the fact that Ashley's making carrot cake oatmeal
(37:24):
ready for competition. By the way, regardless of I don't
know what's going to happen here, but I mean that
is next level part of the post. Hot cereal is
all about community. Cold cereals about you know, maybe I
don't know, eaten by yourself in a basement. I don't know.
Texture verse saggy. That is something that I've had to
really really weigh here. Is it convenience versus cooking? That's
(37:45):
another part of this equation. Yeah, I mean porridge and
gruel versus marshmallow hearts, which might be the title, which
might be might be the title of this episode, Healthy
versus Unhealthy. The case of hot cereal cold cereal was
a close one, but this court we'll weigh in favor.
(38:13):
Come on, sorry, this is my sorry, this is my
TV judge moment. We're panning to the contestants. We're looking around.
This court weighs in favor of cold cereals. Yes, I
will say that there's I was not expecting this to
(38:35):
be as close, Ashley. I mean, the whole community, global
aspect of this, the education, the fact that you're cooking
really made this a close call. But at the end
of the day, I want marshmallow hart cold. Come on,
I want crunchy things and soggy You want to know
my favorite serial raisin brand crunch. That being said, listen, actually,
(38:58):
this court advises you to compete eat on a cooking
show because you are making carrot cake oatmeal and you're
bringing the world together. I make a coconut chocolate oatmeal.
This is what I'm saying. Yeah, you're just competing in
the wrong show, Ashley. That's all I'm saying. You're ready
to cook where I mean making the hot cereal is
gonna win and just pouring some you know, frosted flakes
or lucky charms or whatever, but it is. It is
(39:21):
lepre cons over Quakers. At the end of the day, everyone,
thank you so much for joining us at food Court.
I was your judge. Richard Blaze. You can find Ashley
talking about TV shows on her podcast TV I Say
with Ashley Ray and her writing on shows like Alabama
Jackson and in Vulture, The New York Times, and on
Twitter at the Ashley Ray Yes with two Ease. You
(39:42):
can find Babs on her podcast Lady to Lady and
Toxic The Brittney Spears Story. Her comedy album If I
Did It is out now and you can check her
out on Twitter at Babs Gray. If you're in Los Angeles,
you can catch their monthly comedy showcase High Dear Comedy
at the Airliner and listen everyone, I know what do?
What do you think about this audience? What's your favorite
(40:03):
way to eat cereal? You have lots of opinions. You
let me know all the time. Well, you can let
me know on Twitter and Instagram at Richard Blaze or
on the food Court Instagram at food Court Pod. Food
Court is a production of I Heart Radio. I'm Richard Blaze.
My producer is Crystal Pamahi. Food Court was created by
Christopher Hasciotas. The rest of my food Court clerks are
Jonathan Dressler, David Wasserman and Jasmine Blaze are Amazing. Theme
(40:26):
songs by Jason ni Smith. For more podcast from My
Heart Radio, visit the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast,
or wherever you listen to your favorite shows. Thank you,
I hope we can be we can be friends. Yeah. Yeah,
it was a close fight and a good argument. It
really was, you know,
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