Welcome to the show that turns obscure recipes into awesome conversations, Cookbook Obscura! This week, the gang welcomes Darryl Charles to help crack the Mystery of the Mystery Corn Pudding. In this one, we wonder why anyone would call this a pudding and learn about Darryl's secret alias.
Darryl Charles is a comedian whose debut album "Black Gentrifier" debuted at #3 on the iTunes Comedy charts and is currently streaming on your favorite places to do that. He's been seen on The Travel Channel, ComedyCentral.com, and Houwser and Tushy commercials. He does stand-up across the country and has opened for some of your favorite performers, including Pheobe Robinson, Janelle James, Tommy Davidson, Dave Attell, Patrice O'Neal and Dick Gregory. He performs, teaches, and coaches improv comedy and has been a member of ComedySportz Philadelphia since 2011. He is a sketch comedy writer and performer, doing most of that work with the sketch group The Layoff Kids, who were featured performers on Funny or Die. He's also the co-host of DTF: The Darryl and Timaree Funhour, the greatest sex-ed/comedy/gameshow in the known universe.
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Welcome to the show that turns obscure recipes into awesome conversations, Cookbook Obscura! This week, the gang welcomes Darryl Charles to help crack the Mystery of the Mystery Corn Pudding. In this one, we wonder why anyone would call this a pudding and learn about Darryl's secret alias.
Darryl Charles is a comedian whose debut album "Black Gentrifier" debuted at #3 on the iTunes Comedy charts and is currently streaming on your favorite places to do that. He's been seen on The Travel Channel, ComedyCentral.com, and Houwser and Tushy commercials. He does stand-up across the country and has opened for some of your favorite performers, including Pheobe Robinson, Janelle James, Tommy Davidson, Dave Attell, Patrice O'Neal and Dick Gregory. He performs, teaches, and coaches improv comedy and has been a member of ComedySportz Philadelphia since 2011. He is a sketch comedy writer and performer, doing most of that work with the sketch group The Layoff Kids, who were featured performers on Funny or Die. He's also the co-host of DTF: The Darryl and Timaree Funhour, the greatest sex-ed/comedy/gameshow in the known universe.
Want more weird recipes in your life? Don’t forget to hit that subscribe button and share this show with your friends. Wanna see what we’re eating? Then check out our YouTube channel for the complete video of this episode and our Insta for the recipe and behind-the-scenes clips.
And now... Let's eat!
Show Links:
Darryl Charles Website
Darryl Charles Instagram
DTF Podcast
Happy Kwanzaa Mad Libs: World's Greatest Word Game
All About Havana Syndrome
Grab the recipes on our Instagram
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The Cookbook Obscura Podcast
Season 01
Episode 03
Darryl Charles and the Mystery of the Mystery Corn Pudding
[MUSIC INTRO PLAYS]
Shannon DeVido
Welcome to the show that turns obscure recipes into awesome conversations, Cookbook Obscura! Do you like unidentifiable cheese, learning about grammar and pseudonyms? Then oh man are you in for a treat! This week, the kitchen staff welcomes Darryl Charles. Darryl is a comedian, podcaster, writer, lover and all around great human. Hey, want more weird recipes in your life? Don't forget to hit that subscribe button and share this show with your friends! Want to see what we're eating? Uhhh, okay, then check out our YouTube channel for the complete video of this episode, as well as our Instagram for the recipe and behind the scenes clips. And now let's eat!
Ralph Andracchio
Hey, did anybody look outside today? Because the sun is angry and red and I'm coughing. It's the apocalypse.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah. It’s…yeah, we smell like we've all been at a bonfire for the past three weeks.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Aubrie Williams
It’s pretty…we just smell like the bad parts of s'mores.
Ralph Andracchio
I'm glad we could fit in one more episode before the world explodes.
Aubrie Williams
And this does feel like a last meal honestly, so…like a torturous one.
Ralph Andracchio
If somebody was on death row and really was into sadomasochism, they would order this. I want to torture myself before I die.
Aubrie Williams
Um, I would be so impressed if someone like on death row, pulled out all of these ingredients and put them together in the perfect order that Carolyn Keene did.
[laughing]
Shannon DeVido
There is some serial killer out there who did that.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, and they might have written this book, too, uh, just based off some of the recipes.
Shannon DeVido
Is she a serial killer? Is that what she has been trying to tell us by writing all these Nancy Drew books and this frickin’ menu or, like, recipe book she was trying to just tell us she's a serial killer. We solved the mystery. The podcast is over.
Aubrie Williams
We've deciphered a true crime. We’re now a true crime podcast.
Ralph Andracchio
If you put…if you take all the first letters of all her books and line them up it spells out I'm a serial killer.
Aubrie Williams
It has the coordinates for like dead bodies.
[LAUGHTER]
Ralph Andracchio
Oh, man. She's hiding behind Nancy Drew.
Aubrie Williams
We don't want to we don't want to you know, uh, negate what…what Carol…what wonderful work Carolyn Keene did.
Ralph Andracchio
I'm sure if anybody from the estate of Carolyn Keene is listening, we really do love her. She's amazing. Her books are wonderful. We kid because we care.
Aubrie Williams
But based on these recipes, it could be true.
Ralph Andracchio
It could be true though.
Aubrie Williams
We're not.
Ralph Andracchio
You never really can 100% know somebody else.
Aubrie Williams
Not in these…yeah, and especially like back in the day like she was writing mystery books under a pen name, too. Carolyn Keene was her pen name. Um, I'll put it in the show notes what her actual name is, I always forget.
Ralph Andracchio
Do you want to reveal that information so soon? Do you want to keep people guessing? Like there’s not Google.
Aubrie Williams
I mean, people can Google it at any time. But yeah, maybe big reveal for those who haven't Googled, last episode.
Ralph Andracchio
Um, hey, you know who I'd like to include in our conversation?
Aubrie Williams
Who, Ralph?
Ralph Andracchio
Our guest for the evening! If you don't know who it is already, big fan. Friend of the show, huge stand up here in Philadelphia. Also, performs teaches and coaches improv comedy at Comedy Sports here in Philadelphia. Another comedy sports person! We're going through their whole roster. We'll have everybody in Comedy Sports on at some point. He does sketch comedy as well. He is in the sketch group the Layoff Kids, uh, who, oh! They performed on Funny or Die. That's something that I have not done. And he's also one of the hosts of DTF: The Darryl and Timaree Fun Hour here in the city, a wonderful, fun comedy education game show. Romp, show for the ages. It's amazing. I'm a big fan of the show. I'm a big fan of Timaree who we've had on and I'm a big fan of our guest tonight. Please welcome Darryl Charles to the show!
Aubrie Williams
Darryl Charles!
Darryl Charles
Yay!
Aubrie Williams
Hello!
Darryl Charles
Hi.
Ralph Andracchio
Hi!
Darryl Charles
Hello. Hi. Yeah, she's probably a killer.
Shannon DeVido
Right??
Aubrie Williams
Right??
Darryl Charles
It's like Murder She Wrote.
Ralph Andracchio
Did she end up…did Jessica Fletcher end up being a killer?
Darryl Charles
No, but that's like an internet…it's like the Pixar Theory there's…
Aubrie Williams
Fan theory.
Darryl Charles
like a whole thing about…yeah, it’s a fan theory where like she has been at the center of how many deaths? Like, she can't not have killed someone…like no one is around that much death without being a murderer is the, the play that theory plays out.
Ralph Andracchio
In Cabot Cove.
Darryl Charles
Right.
Shannon DeVido
I mean, she did put people in pies.
Darryl Charles
Yes. It’s true.
Shannon DeVido
I'm sorry, that was a very deep Sweeney Todd reference and..
Ralph Andracchio
Ohhhh.
Darryl Charles
No, I got it.
Shannon DeVido
It’s fine, it’s fine. We can cut it out after.
Darryl Charles
No, I got it. Cause when she died, uh, that…I saw clips because then everybody was like posting, that was like her first movie. No. Was it Gaslighting? Who was? Anyway.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, I think it was, Gaslighting was her first movie. I don’t know why I know that about Angela Lansbury, but I’m pretty sure that was it.
Darryl Charles
Yeah. And it's funny because then you see her young and you're like, oh, wow, she's like, moderately attractive. And then it's like, wait a minute, Darryl, she's been moderately attractive, you're just an ageist. It’s like mmmm…she's been old as long as I've been alive.
Aubrie Williams
I mean, society, movie magic. You know, it's all…it's all confusing.
Darryl Charles
I would’ve took a sip out of Mrs. cups or Mrs. Potts or whatever. I would’ve definitely took a sip.
Aubrie Williams
Hey, yeah, super hot that Mrs. Potts.
Darryl Charles
The tea is scalding.
Aubrie Williams
Temperature wise.
Ralph Andracchio
Mrs. Cups. Fanfiction writes itself.
[LAUGHTER]
Aubrie Williams
I can't wait to read your Disney fanfiction. Your Disney erotic fanfiction. Mrs. Cups.
Darryl Charles
Yes. Oh man. Here's a complete side note but uh speaking of DTF: Darryl and Timaree Fun Hour, which is having its 10th anniversary on June 24 at Frankie Bradley's, uh, we just covered an article where someone figured out that AI like, you know, AI is running through the internet and stealing everything. And uh no one will tell you exactly what it has looked at. But someone was like I know they've been in this very specific Reddit group because it brought up a sex term that's only used in like, erotica. It's called knotting and it has to do with like, like kind of a sub culture of furry culture where the you know, there's like alphas and betas and thetas and all this stuff in it and uh when when two people mate for life, the penis swells and knots inside of the receptacle, and so they're tied for life. And so someone was like, you know, hey, AI helped me with this thing and set up a scenario and then it filled in with that stuff and it was like, oh, yeah, there are like 100 people who know this and AI does? Yeah.
Ralph Andracchio
Actually when I was when I was like 10 or 11 years old, so I was in like middle school, my best friend Dominic Pappatiera, he scared me for life because he's told me that. He said, you can't, when sex with a girl when you grow up, you get stuck together like your penis will get stuck inside the woman and then you'll never…and it scared me and then that's why I'm gay.
[LAUGHTER]
Darryl Charles
Mmmm. Mmmm.
Ralph Andracchio
So, yep.
Aubrie Williams
I think you made the right choice.
Ralph Andracchio
I did make the right choice. Women are terrifying and I don't
want my penis stuck inside somebody else forever.
Darryl Charles
I've called vaginas traps for years.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
Aubrie Williams
I mean, just logistically, it's hard to like maneuver the world when you're like…
Darryl Charles
It’s like the monster from Nope.
Ralph Andracchio
Oh, yeah.
Aubrie Williams
I haven’t seen it yet.
Darryl Charles
Oh.
Ralph Andracchio
Well.
Shannon DeVido
Well, it's a man who got stuck inside a woman
[LAUGHTER]
Darryl Charles
Yep, that’s what it’s about!
[LAUGHTER]
Darryl Charles
Her vagina said nope, and uh…
Aubrie Williams
Now I know how it ends, perfect. I never have to watch it, uh.
Shannon DeVido
It’s a metaphor for becoming gay.
[LAUGHTER]
Darryl Charles
Very much so.
Ralph Andracchio
There ya go!
Aubrie Williams
Wow. Perfect.
Ralph Andracchio
The secrets out. The LGBTQ secret's out. Yep.
Darryl Charles
They’re in everything!
Shannon DeVido
Happy Pride!
Aubrie Williams
Happy Pride, Happy Pride!
Darryl Charles
Yay! Happy Pride!
Ralph Andracchio
Happy Pride, everybody! That’s how you turn it.
Aubrie Williams
Wow, what…what a what an entrance, guys.
Darryl Charles
I’m sorry, this is a thing that happens with me. Yeah, right. Like, it's my fault. Most conversations I'm in turn into some weird sex subculture thing.
Aubrie Williams
It's perfect. We love it.
Darryl Charles
And also murder. Ummm, you know. It’s the end of the world, we got to get it all out.
Ralph Andracchio
Nobody actually dies and Nancy Drew books right?
Aubrie Williams
I re-read up to like 16 now and no one has actually died in the book, like none of them are, it's always like someone has passed away or was old and about to, like no one was actually murdered.
Ralph Andracchio
As far as we know.
Aubrie Williams
As far as we know.
Ralph Andracchio
Right.
Darryl Charles
That’s why the books are beloved.
Aubrie Williams
The real Mr. Charles, whoever their names are.
Ralph Andracchio
Oh. Oh. You almost slipped gave some info away.
Darryl Charles
Is it like…yeah, I wonder like having a pseudonym like I should have gotten one. Like, it seems like everybody who has these things. It's like, yeah, I'm not gonna be associated with this nonsense.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah. It's kind of…cause you can get away...that's another thing that points us towards that direction.
Darryl Charles
Being a murderer, right?
Aubrie Williams
You can get away with a lot if it's not your real name.
Darryl Charles
Oh, wait, I have a pseudonym. Oh, wait, I have a pseudonym. It's just a funny way now of humble bragging but I have now written three Mad Libs books under a pseudonym.
Ralph Andracchio
What?
Aubrie Williams
Is this real?
Darryl Charles
Yeah, um.
Aubrie Williams
What? Darryl.
Darryl Charles
Wait.
Aubrie Williams
Can we buy these?
Ralph Andracchio
I'm talking to a Mad Libs author. I'm so excited.
Darryl Charles
This is the this is the Happy Kwanzaa Mad Libs. It’s the first one I wrote.
Aubrie Williams
This is amazing.
Shannon DeVido
This is greatest thing I’ve ever seen.
Darryl Charles
Yeah, but it's under a pseudonym. Uh, David Tierra. But that's me, baby.
Ralph Andracchio
That’s amazing.
Darryl Charles
But yeah, and there are two coming out soon so Kwanzaa, and then it's one about the solar system and one about burps.
Shannon DeVido
Oh my God.
Ralph Andracchio
Man.
Aubrie Williams
Wait, did you say burps?
Darryl Charles
Yes.
Aubrie Williams
Great, great. I was like did you say birds or burps?
Darryl Charles
Oh man, the birds would have been easier.
Aubrie Williams
There’s still time, David Tiara. There’s still time.
Darryl Charles
That’s true.
Shannon DeVido
Wait, can I ask a question though? Why did you not want to write under your name? Because that seems like the coolest thing ever.
Darryl Charles
Because it's for ten year old boys and, you know, like the books are for kids. And there's no reason that they should look up my comedy.
Shannon DeVido
Sure sure sure. Alright, great. Yep. Nope. That was that was the right answer and I didn’t mean to ask that question.
[LAUGHTER]
Darryl Charles
No, I mean but it was a thing of like, you know I thought about it and was like oh, should I and then they were like, do you want to and I was like, ah, yeah, why not?
Ralph Andracchio
Are we going to be like the new Oprah, like people just come on and reveal big stuff to us?
Darryl Charles
Right? I'm so excited. I have a couch over here I can jump on.
Aubrie Williams
It is a mystery show, so like the mystery is revealed. In some of them, not all of them.
Darryl Charles
Hi, I’m David Tierra!
Aubrie Williams
That's his voice too, that’s totally his voice. It’s like David S. Pumpkins.
Darryl Charles
Yeah.
[LAUGHTER]
Darryl Charles
Can I get an adjective?
[LAUGHTER]
Aubrie Williams
Well, going back to burps I think it's time to get into this recipe.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah, I really want to taste this and see how terrible it is.
Aubrie Williams
I can smell it from here, although it's not that far from my face. Um, so today, we're… we're deep diving into some mystery corn pudding. This recipe requires three eggs, one 16 ounce canned cream corn, three quarters cup of milk, one tablespoon Worcestershire sauce, one tablespoon of sugar, one tablespoon flour, one tablespoon minced onion, one tablespoon chopped parsley, and six cheese flavored crackers, unspecified.
Darryl Charles
The fact that everything was a teaspoon. I was like, aww y'all playing. Y'all playing in my face. A teaspoon of everything? They were just what do we have in the house? That's what happened.
Aubrie Williams
It does seem like a very lazy because every other recipe is different measurements of things, but this one's like straight across the board like, the milk, the milk is the only other thing and the six cheese flavored crackers like.
Darryl Charles
And I couldn't find cheese flavored crackers so I got white cheddar jalapeno Kettle cooked chips.
Ralph Andracchio
Oh.
Darryl Charles
So I put a little spice on top of my so I can't wait to dig in to this blob of stuff.
Ralph Andracchio
I just used goldfish.
Aubrie Williams
Ooooh.
Darryl Charles
Ooooh.
Ralph Andracchio
Cheddar, cheddar cheese goldfish, the little baby ones so they're tiny. And on the side it says a serving size is 89 pieces.
Darryl Charles
Wow.
Shannon DeVido
That's what I'm talking about.
Ralph Andracchio
Only 140 calories. So if you're watching your weight and you want to stuff your face with fish…
Darryl Charles
There you go.
Ralph Andracchio
Goldfish.
Darryl Charles
All you pescatarians out there…
Aubrie Williams
Oh yeah.
Ralph Andracchio
It counts.
Darryl Charles
Cheat code.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, that's the easy way to do it. Ralph, how many goldfish did you use? Because I used cheese-itz and I used like 20 of them.
Ralph Andracchio
I think I use the serving so 89 pieces. I smushed them in my hand.
Aubrie Williams
89 goldfish!
Ralph Andracchio
No, like a small handful and I smushed them up on top, so…
Darryl Charles
Oh man if I, I would have just laid each goldfish down.
Ralph Andracchio
I was thinking about that.
Darryl Charles
Not to, but across the top of that thing.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Aubrie Williams
That would’ve been visually stunning, a sea of goldfish…a sea of cream with goldfish, with a school of Pepperidge Farm goldfish.
Darryl Charles
The goop that smiles back!
Aubrie Williams
Gwyneth Paltrow, do you want it? Do you want it? Alright, should we dig in? I have, like, some of my pieces have more cracker crust and some have zero.
Darryl Charles
I am increasingly disheartened by the amount of liquid that this thing is just seeping into the plate.
Ralph Andracchio
Mine just is at the bottom of the pan, just a little pancake. Yeah.
Shannon DeVido
Ralph made his in the toaster oven.
Ralph Andracchio
I did because we're still, we still don't have a kitchen yet. We're still renovating so toaster oven, and I split it in half. So this is a half a recipe.
Shannon DeVido
But still 89 goldfish.
Ralph Andracchio
Because Dan's like stop wasting food, and I’m like alright, fine!
Darryl Charles
How’d you half an egg?
Ralph Andracchio
Uh, oh I put in two eggs. I couldn't, yeah, I couldn't figure out how to actually half an egg. So.
Aubrie Williams
Good question, Darryl. Um, this is very I got sweet cream corn. Isn’t it all cream corn sweet though?
Darryl Charles
I would hate savory cream corn. That sounds terrible.
Aubrie Williams
So I got a bite of tuna fish. So, for the listeners…okay, I need to…wait I need to dabble this in cheese sauce.
Darryl Charles
Oh. That’s right.
Aubrie Williams
So there's a variation, I made cheese sauce. Oh no. It dripped on my floor. Here we go. This is this is live television guys. Um, I tried this earlier and it tasted like straight flower. So there's a variation in here that calls for you mixing in tuna fish and then you just making a cheese sauce out of cheese milk, flour and butter.
Darryl Charles
But they do not tell you what type of cheese. It just says grated cheese.
Aubrie Williams
I used cheddar, uh, which is currently all over my office chair right now. Let me get up. This is gonna be a fun clean up. Um, they don't tell you how to put it on here too. So I just got a little…
Darryl Charles
Dolloping?
Aubrie Williams
Viewers. Viewers, I just got a dollop. It’s like a Hollandaise, it’s like.
Ralph Andracchio
And the thing that's missing from the cookbook is they don't tell you what it's supposed to look like at the end. You just guess. I guess it's done?
Aubrie Williams
Yeah. Okay, so this weirdly isn't…I don't feel so grossed out by this because the tu…I didn't put a lot of tuna, cause, uh, so it's not overwhelming and the cream corn really masks anything.
Darryl Charles
Yeah. I mean, it’s, I've had corn pudding before. This is not that, but uh, it's way more like a quiche.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
It's like too much eggs.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
But like it's not the worst, had to add in the sugar.
Aubrie Williams
It’s not, I’m still eating it.
Darryl Charles
I should have eaten like a sensible dinner so I would be like I'm not hungry, but I'm actually hungry. So here we go.
Ralph Andracchio
This is not bad.
Aubrie Williams
So every one of these I don't eat dinner and then I eat whatever we’re making for my full dinner.
Darryl Charles
Oh my God.
Aubrie Williams
So I'm the real serial killer here is the big reveal.
Shannon DeVido
Carolyn Keene’s real name is Aubrie Williams.
Aubrie Williams
I've written I've written one MadLib, a serial killer MadLib. This actually isn't that bad.
Darryl Charles
I wouldn't want it.
Aubrie Williams
It's not great.
Darryl Charles
Right. I wouldn't want this. I wouldn't ask for it.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
If it were at a party, it would go untouched by me. If someone was like you have to try the corn pudding, I would figure out a way to steer the conversation away from that request. But, all that being said, not bad.
Aubrie Williams
How are your potato chips? Are you getting a kick? Are you getting a nice little…
Darryl Charles
No. I should have put more like I think I should have put like a layer. But
with six crack…like the number six. That's not a lot.
Aubrie Williams
It’s not a lot for a medium casserole dish.
Darryl Charles
It’s like in a medium casserole pan you spread the bread crumbs of six crack…like six? You could have done it by like a quarter cup or a...Six. So I took six potato chips. put them in a Ziploc bag, and used a roller to crush him. And then I sprinkled it and said this is ridiculous! So then I added like another seven, but the problem is I was counting and really, you just don't count. Put the chips on.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah should have poured that whole bag in there. Would have been good. Would have been better.
Darryl Charles
I’m weirdly, I weirdly like corn. Um, not with what I do with it. But like since I've been little I was always like a fan of corn. So the taste of this isn't so repulsive but the texture is bad.
Aubrie Williams
Have you liked cream corn as a kid because I know like a lot of kids do not like cream corn, yeah.
Darryl Charles
I never had cream corn as a kid. No, I mean I had corn out of cans but like it was whole kernel corn.
Aubrie Williams
My family, yeah, we would bust out a can of creamed corn every once and again so I've had it but it's not like
Darryl Charles
It was a special day. It's cream corn day.
Aubrie Williams
No I don't, like maybe they ran out of regular cream corn my mom's like
Darryl Charles
It’s what we got
Aubrie Williams
Well this is what you get
Darryl Charles
Yeah, it’s like, my mom made us eat liver. I can't remember. She had us on a schedule because she was like you need iron. And so we would have liver like I don't know maybe like two or three times a year for a while. And um I was never a finicky eater. I would eat it and just move on. But, you know. I just remember all of the cartoons that I would watch all the kids would be like ewwww liver and so I would just think about that while I ate the liver.
Aubrie Williams
Oh no.
Ralph Andracchio
I don't think I've ever had liver. What what is it? Like? Could you compare it to like a more prevalent food?
Darryl Charles
Um, it's it's meaty. It's like having like a steak except way it's like mushier. So it's not like fiberous in the same way. But it's been a very long time since I've had it. Yeah, I never. My mom has said like I was notoriously not a picky eater, but I also could just substitute any meal with a bowl of cornflakes.
Ralph Andracchio
That's true.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
And we had many an argument about Darryl you need vitamins and cornflakes doesn’t provide that and I was like, hold on a second. There's vitamin D in the milk. There is riboflavin and minute traces of iron and cornflakes. So. And she was like right
Aubrie Williams
Two percent iron or whatever.
Darryl Charles
Right. It’s part of a balanced breakfast.
Aubrie Williams
You could have also you could have thrown some fruit in the bowl although
Darryl Charles
A banana every once in a while. Now I uh put oatmeal in like just raw oatmeal, instead of I used to do like trail mix or not trail mix. Granola. Now I just throw a little oatmeal in there so I will fall asleep like I'm an infant.
Ralph Andracchio
When I was when I was in grade school my mom would just feed me Instant Breakfast for breakfast in the morning.
Darryl Charles
Your gonna love it in an instant baby.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah. And if you're if you're not familiar, instant breakfast it's just it's like a milkshake but you just pour the mix into a glass and you add milk and then you start and it's like here you go. Here's breakfast. And that's probably why my bones are all curvy right now. Because that’s all I ate for breakfast, all through grade school was instant breakfast. That's it.
Darryl Charles
Yeah, I remember having that for a little while. I was a um I was a latchkey kid starting in like the fourth grade so like but mornings were oatmeal packets. I had those and I’d microwave up some oatmeal. And then when I got home it was Chef Boyardee, baby. And listen the way I felt proud of myself for being able to turn on a stove and heat up some terrible tasting spaghetti and meatballs. Yeah, those are those are big days for Darryl Charles.
Aubrie Williams
That’s impressive for a kid like if that house is still there you know.
Darryl Charles
Right I mean, but I do remember like my mom being like listen this is like turn it on and that's it you hear me. Like she put the fear of God in me. So um it was like you turn it on you cook it and you turn it off. Don't play around with the stove. It was like that. So.
Ralph Andracchio
No.
Darryl Charles
No she isn’t.
Aubrie Williams
She’s not wrong though.
Ralph Andracchio
I was forbidden I was a latchkey kid too. I was forbidden from using the stove any in any way shape or form you don't look at it we don't have a stove if I’m not here it doesn't exist you don't look at it. You don't touch it. You don't think about it. There's there's there's cereal in there. Eat that.
Darryl Charles
Were you threatened to not answer the door?
Ralph Andracchio
Oh, yeah, don't don't answer the door. Turn the lights out we’re not here.
Darryl Charles
If anybody knocks you turn everything off and you stay quiet. If somebody finds you, they will take you from me. That's what that's what my mom said. I could laugh now. But yeah, no, she was like they will take you. Anyone who's coming here will take you so don't answer the door. And I was like, Yeah, I got it. Cool. We watching cartoons in here uh
Aubrie Williams
That's terrifying. Like I wouldn’t have survived that as a kid. Like
Darryl Charles
It wasn’t panicky uh well yeah I mean you’re you’re a child you take everything in. You’re a sponge. That makes sense. Sure.
Aubrie Williams
I feel like child Aubrie would have panicked. I would have been like
Shannon DeVido
Oh well I I'm panicking now. I'm thinking about someone maybe coming to my door and I’m like well better not answer it I am very small. I am very easy to put in a trunk.
Darryl Charles
Well it was New York City so it'd probably be like a book bag and then like be taken on the train. Nobody really had cars.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah, I grew up in the country. So it was like if I if I if somebody got me, that's it. You're never gonna find me. There's no witnesses. There's nobody around.
Darryl Charles
Mmmm.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah.
Ralph Andracchio
I'm surprised I wasn't kidnapped. I was I was a cute little kid. I was. Yeah, somebody should’ve snatched me up when they had the chance because now it's all
Darryl Charles
You’re taken.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah I'm taking and yeah damaged goods.
Darryl Charles
Oh.
Ralph Andracchio
As my well my penis has not gotten stuck in anything. So that's good. Circling back yeah.
Darryl Charles
Not with that attitude.
Ralph Andracchio
Not with that not
Darryl Charles
Oof.
Aubrie Williams
Uh Shan what are you eating tonight? I should we should
Shannon DeVido
Oh thank you so much for asking. I did not cook this. This segment is called Shannon is the worst cook of all time
Kristin Finger (prerecorded)
Crack smash crack smash crack smash worst cook in the world she can’t even make an egg it’s Shannon.
Shannon DeVido
Um I did not cook this one because I didn't want to and two um I uh so I was trying to think of a meal that I tried to cook that was similar to this and the first the only thing I could think of was when I tried to cook Kraft macaroni and cheese in college. And um I uh didn't have a you know, we had dorms and so I had a microwave and uh there's a way to do that. And so I got SpongeBob macaroni and cheese like an adult and I put the macaroni into a little jar and put a little bit of water in it and I put it in the microwave for 20 minutes. I walked around my dorm saying hi to people hey guys and they were like what are you doing and I was like you know waiting for my mac and cheese and they were like OK. So I got back to my room with like ten minutes ago and was like hmmm that’s a weird smell and so I open the microwave to check it out and it was a literal brick. And I tried take it out of the Tupperware. It did not come out. And I was determined to eat it because I was like well I made it and it's Spongebob and so I put my fork in broke my fork in half and I am not a strong person. So that's how strong this macaroni was. So I'm not allowed to make things.
Darryl Charles
Ah. Hmmm.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
Yeah. Sure.
Aubrie Williams
It tracks it tracks.
Darryl Charles
Similar story for Darryl. I was making popcorn and I don't know what struck me I was a teenager I think. I don't know what struck it was like you know, put it in there for anywhere between three and six minutes. I hit six and then I went back to my room to watch TV and completely forgot until it smelled like burnt popcorn. I was like what is that? Oh no. And then I ran. And when I opened up the thing smoke like wafted out like the whole living room was smoky. The the the um popcorn was like black brick, like in the middle of the bag. Yeah. And there was like a stain in the microwave. And then when my mom saw it, she was just like, you got to clean that stain off. That’s all I care about just clean it until it's gone. I don't I don't care. I don't even want to know what happened. Just I mean, it was hard for her to not know what happened. It smelled like burnt popcorn in the entire apartment.
Shannon DeVido
And it does for weeks. I mean I know this from I’ve
Aubrie Williams
Yeah.
Shannon DeVido
I've done it clear obviously. This is that segment. And so, you like your house, genuinely smells like it for weeks. It's like when your dog get sprayed with a skunk. It's like you think that every time you leave the house, you actually are burnt popcorn.
Darryl Charles
Yeah, it’s
Shannon DeVido
Like you're like, oh do I smell weird people are like ummm, well
Darryl Charles
Nah you’re good. Ah, look at the time.
Aubrie Williams
Um, yeah, it’s just like what's happening outside right now we all
Darryl Charles
Canada is out here burning they popcorn
Ralph Andracchio
If you’re gonna burn something, do it now.
Darryl Charles
That's what started the forest fire.
Shannon DeVido
Yeah, someone in Nova Scotia burnt their popcorn and that’s the smell that’s wafting.
Aubrie Williams
A bunch of Jiffy Pop. Jiffy Pop gone wrong, a bunch of Orville Redenbacher. What do they use up there? What's their preferred popcorn?
Darryl Charles
Horton’s
Ralph Andracchio
Tim Horton’s
Aubrie Williams
Timmy Ho’s. Yeah. Timmy Ho’s.
Ralph Andracchio
That’s one thing I miss is the Jiffy Pop in the little tray with the handle that you just like
Shannon DeVido
Uh.
Ralph Andracchio
Constantly. Uh, I love that. Do they still make that?
Aubrie Williams
They still they do because my mom gave me one recently and I was like I'm gonna set this house on fire like guaranteed like there's a small margin for error in that one. And it was a lot of it was burned they tell you like a certain time and then it gets too intense and like the thing like pops up. You’d probably be better at it than I was so I would give it a shot.
Darryl Charles
The times that, actually, when we were young my mom would do like you know put the oil in the pan and then just do popcorn that way. But then she got an air popper and our lives changed.
Aubrie Williams
Oh, like one of the old school popcorn like yeah.
Darryl Charles
Mmhmm. We got one in the house now actually.
Aubrie Williams
We have the
Darryl Charles
Mmhmm.
Aubrie Williams
That's amazing.
Darryl Charles
Yes. And now it has a little butter dish that you put on top. And then it melts and I put like salt and sugar in there to like make my own little kettle corn.
Aubrie Williams
What. You and Lori are living the life.
Ralph Andracchio
It’s all that MadLib money.
Aubrie Williams
That's
Darryl Charles
Yes. I worked very hard to know what an adverb is, and you know, these are the spoils.
Shannon DeVido
What is it?
Darryl Charles
The life I chose. It's a word that describes the verb.
Shannon DeVido
Give an example.
Darryl Charles
So like quickly.
Shannon DeVido
Is it always the -ly words?
Darryl Charles
And so like running.
Aubrie Williams
A lot of them end in
Darryl Charles
That's a good yeah that's a good clue that it's an adverb is the ly words but like far.
Ralph Andracchio
See?
Shannon DeVido
The more you know.
Darryl Charles
The more you know.
Ralph Andracchio
I’m still eating this slop.
Darryl Charles
I know, I have a fork full and it's just like
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, I keep taking bites but then I get
Darryl Charles
Ay ay ay
Aubrie Williams
a chunk of tuna every now and again. I'm like, don’t do it, don’t do it.
Darryl Charles
You know, when they when I saw that thing with the tuna I was like, you’re fuckin with…like, like, it's obvious she's, she's like, was going through. It was like the third revisions and she was like, You know what? I'm doing this for me. Put some tuna fish in there. Hahahaha.
No one's gonna do that shit. What idiot would put tuna in it? And then yeah but I like I I told Aubrie I was uh like, for like, a quarter of a second I was like, should I get something? No, no, no. Yeah.
Aubrie Williams
Bad Darryl. Bad Darryl. I just felt like because I have the cookbook, I'm kind of like I feel fully responsible for making you eat all of this. So I was like someone has to do it, like the internet probably wants to know, like, how will people react to this? Um so I did the cheese sauce and that and I have a pretty I have a pretty strong stomach. So I had a feeling but I'm curious to see over the course of this whole first season if there's anything that takes any of us out.
Darryl Charles
You never know.
Aubrie Williams
It's possible.
Shannon DeVido
I mean there's been plenty you don't like, right?
Aubrie Williams
If this isn't it though…Yeah, but they wouldn't take they wouldn't like make me physically sick. Like tuna fish and cream corn sounds like it could physically and it could still
Darryl Charles
True.
Aubrie Williams
We could be working with a ticking time bomb.
Ralph Andracchio
I do yeah I do feel something gurgling. I don’t know I don’t know what it is.
Darryl Charles
It’s uh
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, and I’m. No, I see like I see chunks of tuna. I got a real tuna heavy square.
Darryl Charles
That is something.
Ralph Andracchio
I was thinking about what I could put in this because this is almost like the beginning of a good frittata and I've made it I've made frittatas before and they're fucking excellent. If you don't know what a frittata is, it's like an Italians way of using leftover food in the morning. It's just like you throw eggs in a skillet and then meat and some vegetables and it turns into like this really delicious quiche like thing and I was like oh this is the beginning of something like that. So I was thinking instead of tuna what if I put like shredded chicken or something in it? Or like sausage.
Darryl Charles
Yeah.
Ralph Andracchio
Right that would be good.
Darryl Charles
Yeah. Any other meat.
Ralph Andracchio
Any, literally anything else.
Darryl Charles
Any other meat like like it'd be like grasshoppers, like we had to, like, you know, it’s high in protein and like, I'd be like okay, they're going for weird. But tuna you go why? Like you you angrily use one of the five W's. You know what I mean? Like you just who?
Aubrie Williams
Yeah. You're not wrong. Yeah. This book has a lot of that and it is very infuriating.
Also like the cheese like it says from one amateur to another. So right off the bat you're like, okay, this is not a good idea and you're saying right here.
Darryl Charles
Right. Right. I don’t know what I’m doing and I don't think you do either.
Aubrie Williams
And then you just say mix in tuna, undisclosed amount, all of it is an undisclosed amount. And then make this cheese sauce. What do you do with the cheese sauce? Take a shot of it. Who knows?
Darryl Charles
It gives you no instructions on what to do and the thing is they don't tell you what kind of cheese. It says grated cheese like the grating is more important than the flavor profile? I I don't think that that's the way that anything works.
Aubrie Williams
No I think in all…this is like a lumpy cheese sauce though cause it's like all flour. The flour and like yeah, let's get a good
Ralph Andracchio
Oh no.
Shannon DeVido
Oh God no.
Aubrie Williams
I’m going to ruin my computer.
Darryl Charles
I've seen that on Dr. Pimple Popper. Yeah.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
Mmhmm.
Aubrie Williams
Yum. Uh.
Darryl Charles
Oh that’s, use that for like a pus in your mouth sketch. It'll be good.
Aubrie Williams
Oh. That'll be one good thing that comes out this. We’ll we'll know how to make all bodily fluids.
Darryl Charles
Add some luster and then anyway
Aubrie Williams
Um it actually doesn’t, it tastes more like flour than…I’m smelling it.
Darryl Charles
This is better warm.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, it's cold. Yeah, cold is weird. And the cream corn. The cream corn really messes with you because like frittata I can take, eggs delightful. Cream corn is such a weird consistency and it's like too, it's too sweet. And then you put a whole tablespoon of sugar in and Worcestershire sauce. Like there's a lot.
Darryl Charles
It's a texture problem. Like if you just would have put whole kernel corn in there, you'd have had a bit of a bite, that had been a good, you know, you’d feel like you've got a good corn pop.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
But with this
Aubrie Williams
Exactly. It would feel better.
Darryl Charles
Yeah yeah, with this it’s like even though it's on a spoon, it feels like it came out of a blender.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, because the egg doesn't form like in a, it's like around the cream corn. I bet it's like so confusing to like adhere to like
Darryl Charles
Yeah, it's like oil and water.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, it’s like that it just runs off.
Darryl Charles
Nothing in this mixes.
Aubrie Williams
Except for the uh the only thing that's fully formed is the cheese crackers.
Darryl Charles
I will say I used a red onion because it was in the fridge. I didn't use a white onion. And maybe that's what's wrong with this.
Aubrie Williams
Oh, so you use actual onion. I was going to but it said minced onion so that's like a dry powder that I found at the store.
Darryl Charles
Oh see, but that would suck up some of that water maybe that's
Ralph Andracchio
Red onions red onions are a lot better for raw so like in in salads and on sandwiches and stuff and then white onions are better for cooking.
Darryl Charles
It’s a stronger…
Ralph Andracchio
Yep. So that may be there was a lot of moisture, I don't know.
Aubrie Williams
That's probably it. Yeah. That's the cool thing about this though. We all kind of interpret it in our own ways.
Darryl Charles
You know that thing about, the best thing about instructions when three people make it different ways because the instructions aren’t clear. That's what you want from it. That’s. Here’s how to make it’s like mine’s, mine has fur! It’s like Wow, how did we?
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, that's a surefire way to make this uh a a nightmare experiment. Um and we didn't even have to we didn't even have to do the work like she just, she’ll just say butter and not tell you how much a lot, she'll just say, say very specific ingredients in measurements and then there'll be like three that have no measurements.
Darryl Charles
You wait for the ancestors to tell you when to stop.
Aubrie Williams
And then like it overflows out of the oven and like floods your house. Yeah.
Darryl Charles
On hot creamed corn egg…
Shannon DeVido
Mmhmm.
Ralph Andracchio
Ugh.
Aubrie Williams
Uh a wave of hot cream corn egg.
Darryl Charles
Thankfully uh the price of eggs went down. If we’d had did this a few months ago I would have, you would’ve heard from my lawyer. I spent $38 on this damn quiche!
Aubrie Williams
That you'll never eat another piece of again cause that’s what mine's upstairs and I was like, my grandparents instilled in like you can never throw any food out which is good waste is bad. Um but some of this stuff is like so questionable. This was just hard to half so I was like, I gotta make this whole thing.
Darryl Charles
Right.
Aubrie Williams
Like, who's gonna really want creamed corn anyway?
Ralph Andracchio
Literally nobody.
Darryl Charles
I just put in a new uh garbage disposal and it’s test time, baby.
Aubrie Williams
This will, yeah, this will be the true...
Darryl Charles
It’s the true test. I was gonna throw like a lime in there and see what happened. But nope we'll start with corn pudding.
Ralph Andracchio
Uh speaking speaking of tests, it may be a good time for some questions.
Aubrie Williams
Oh yeah. Let's do it.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah?
Shannon DeVido
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
Questions.
Shannon DeVido
It's called the World Famous Cookbook Obscura Questionnaire. Hit it Darryl.
Darryl Charles
Dun dun dun dundundun dun dun dun dundundun dun dun dun dundundun dun dun dun dundundun…that's just um the first baseline when you play the Dead President soundtrack. I don't remember the name of the song but the uh it’s a good little baseline you might as well.
Shannon DeVido
I like it.
Ralph Andracchio
Alright. First question. It's a good one. What is your favorite unsolved mystery?
Darryl Charles
Okay, so I was thinking about this. I have one that did pop up in my head that's a good one, but I found a better one.
Ralph Andracchio
I hope it's not DB Cooper.
Darryl Charles
It was DB Cooper was the one that was that was in my head to do.
It was in my head to do but then when I looked it up, there was a better one. And it was hold on let me find it. It was uh oh, come on. Ah, yes. Uh in December 2016 a CIA officer checked into the American Embassies health office in Havana, suffering from nausea headaches and dizziness. Days later, two more CIA officers had the same thing. By late 2018, 26 Americans and 13 Canadians fell victim to like nosebleeds vertigo and focusing issues. And all of them said some weird sound got played around them. So it, yeah, and so they're the you know, everybody's blaming the the um the Cubans but the Cubans are like we have no idea what you're talking about. But then it also happened somewhere else. But yeah it’s like they had concussion like symptoms, but they found no evidence of one but uh yeah so the brown noise. Uh it wasn't the brown noise it was a different noise but it made uh everybody's head hurt. And they're like, is this some new type of warfare? Who knows.
Aubrie Williams
That is so scary, I don’t…
Ralph Andracchio
It was the mystery corn pudding.
Darryl Charles
Yes. That's what they didn't ask those people. Did you have mystery corn pudding? Yeah, I did. Ah, see?
Ralph Andracchio
No, I heard about this one. Yeah, they and they just on the news I think within the last couple of months they cleared Russia or something too because they were like maybe Russia did it? And nope.
Darryl Charles
Yeah and it’s like they all heard a strange noise in their homes or their hotel rooms.
Aubrie Williams
Have they described the noise, has anyone been like, like when someone describes like a jackhammer or something?
Darryl Charles
One person said it was high pitched, another described a beam of sound pointed into their rooms, someone and some insisted that the noise more closely resembled marbles rolling along the floor. So who knows what it is? It's it’s like the it's like IT. It becomes the sound that you hate that you're most afraid of and um and yeah, so yeah. And it gave everybody the head wavies.
Ralph Andracchio
Did they did they recover? Did the people recover? Are they still sick?
Darryl Charles
Ummm. No, it doesn't say so on this thing. But I mean, I, it didn't say if someone would have died they would have put it so I assume everybody got better. But apparently doctors at UPenn examine some of the people and they were like we have no idea what happened. Oh, recordings of the sounds from some of the victims added to the confusion. Two scientists who studied recordings believe they captured the sound of lovelorn male crickets. Um, one of the scientists Alexander Stubbs of the University of California Berkeley, said the insects are incredibly loud. Yeah. But they're but still they don't know they don't think that, yes, it's very loud but it shouldn’t make people sick.
Ralph Andracchio
Right.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, that's, there are plenty of loud noises that don't make people's noses bleed. That’s like the craziest part of it. But I did like the reveal of the lovelorn crickets because like that makes it so much funnier.
Darryl Charles
All animal noises are just lovelorn. It's all, the reason why we make any kind of noise is for our genitals so. Alright, unless you’re taking care of children, when they get quiet, go find them because they're being quiet because they're trying to kill themselves.
Ralph Andracchio
Right.
Darryl Charles
They’re doing something very dangerous, and so they quiet down.
Shannon DeVido
They're cooking on the stove.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah, or something they’re abso…yeah, or they're not supposed to be doing too.
Darryl Charles
As long as they stay away from hotels in Cuba apparently. Oh, yeah. It happened in China. That was it. Yeah. It happened in China in 2018.
Shannon DeVido
Oh no, that sounds about right. Alright, uh question number two. Uh, I’m really great at segues. Uh question number two. What is your favorite family recipe or dish that your family has always made?
Darryl Charles
Um, I'd say like a curry goat or oxtail, but I'll go, you know what, yeah, oxtail. Let's do that.
Ralph Andracchio
Mmmmm.
Darryl Charles
Good on oxtail. My goodness. Just. It’s I would daresay it's better than bacon.
Ralph Andracchio
Wow.
Darryl Charles
I would dare say.
Shannon DeVido
Does it have the same consistency?
Darryl Charles
No it doesn’t have the same consistency. The thing is, but it's delicious for the same reason. Oxtail is like the tail of a bull or cow or whatever. And um it's just very, very fatty. And so it's usually a tough meat so it's always stewed. So it's like fall off the bone consistency but like just dripping in oil, and delicious.
Ralph Andracchio
Mmmmm.
Darryl Charles
Mmmmm. Yeah.
Aubrie Williams
I've had it once in ravioli.
Darryl Charles
Wow.
Aubrie Williams
And it was very good.
Darryl Charles
Yeah, we just have it like over rice. Yeah. Cause then you can appreciate the goop, the oil. Yeah but oh man yeah oxtail is pretty pretty effing good. Find a Caribbean restaurant and order it, uh you will I have not steered you wrong.
Ralph Andracchio
Oh yeah, no, no no.
Aubrie Williams
Cool.
Ralph Andracchio
Family outing. We’ll go out and get some oxtail.
Darryl Charles
And tell them you want some corn pudding on the side. They’ll kick you out. But you know.
Ralph Andracchio
Get out. Don't ever come back. Um what does, is there a food that you would never tell anybody that you eat? Do you have like a guilty pleasure?
Darryl Charles
No. Um, yeah, I’m dead inside so I'm pretty open about what I eat. But I will say I people shouldn’t know how much candy I eat.
Ralph Andracchio
Ahhhh.
Darryl Charles
I eat can…it's bad. It's pretty bad. My wife has taken pictures of me and she'll be like look at yourself uh surrounded by candy wrappers. This is this is who you are. So uh yeah. That’s…
Ralph Andracchio
So candy.
Darryl Charles
Yeah, candy.
Ralph Andracchio
A specific candy that you just find yourself surrounded surround by the wrappers all the time?
Darryl Charles
Jolly ranchers because they have those little wrappers. But yeah Jolly Ranchers are like the black tar heroine of candy.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah.
Darryl Charles
It’s. Mmmmm. Man.
Ralph Andracchio
That was their tagline for a hot second.
Darryl Charles
Yeah, right? Yeah.
Ralph Andracchio
And someone got fired over that one.
Darryl Charles
Their mascot was a horse, that's…
Shannon DeVido
Oh no.
Darryl Charles
Awww yeah man, a good jolly rancher, the fruit punch. Can’t go wrong. Mmmm.
Aubrie Williams
They're so good. They’re so good. I can't have them in the house because all like go through a whole…
Darryl Charles
Since the pandemic, uh, they have stopped making the all reds pack, which was my go to. I'm incredibly heartbroken uh if the people at Jolly Rancher, know this…are listening, please, for the love of everything holy. Um please keep making the all reds pack. Now they’re going to tropical and they’re like doing all this stuff and that's great. That's fine. Live your life. Come on. Cherry, watermelon, fruit punch, strawberry. You can get rid of the strawberry. That's fine, but like, come on. The all-reds, my goodness. The fun part about that is you eat them uh all night long and then when you brush your teeth, you think you have a terrible you got periodontal disease.
Aubrie Williams
We're gonna tweet this Jolly Rancher we're going to make sure they bring that back that red pack for you.
Darryl Charles
Oh yeah. I need that red pack.
Aubrie Williams
It's too expensive to just buy a bunch of bags and make one yourself
Darryl Charles
Oh of course. Yeah. And then you have to deal with the blue raspberry and that's just
Ralph Andracchio
Oh yeah, whoever came up with the blue raspberry can go to hell.
Darryl Charles
Yeah. It's not even like raspberry’s a bad flavor but yeah it's the blue. I don't I don't know what what it is about that maybe I growing up in the 90s when they figured out blue that that was the new thing.
Aubrie Williams
The slurpees, yeah. Everything. Alright, Darryl, what's your favorite food holiday that’s not Thanksgiving?
Darryl Charles
Um, you know what, I’ll say…what's my favorite food holiday that's not like…Labor Day I would probably go for um just because we always grill and then I make ribs. So if I can have ribs that's a good one. Um I have some ribs in my freezer and I’m waiting for certain politicians to die and then I'm going to um make myself some ribs. Uh, it’s some of the only solace I will get given the way that they're butchering life in my time. So, yeah.
Shannon DeVido
What if that politician goes to jail, will you also eat the ribs?
Darryl Charles
No, they have to be in the ground.
Shannon DeVido
Great.
Darryl Charles
Gotta be in the ground.
Aubrie Williams
I love that celebration though
Darryl Charles
Gotta be in the ground. You know what, I guess since indictments seem to be on their way, maybe…
Shannon DeVido
Might be fun.
Darryl Charles
Might be fun. I mean, you know, yeah probably.
Shannon DeVido
OK, great.
Darryl Charles
Probably.
Shannon DeVido
You can have them twice!
Darryl Charles
That’s what I mean, right. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah.
Ralph Andracchio
Are you uh a griller who will grill no matter what so in December when it's snowing you'll be outside grilling, or is it just a summertime thing?
Darryl Charles
Oh, uh uh any time of year and it's because we have propane. We use a propane grill.
Ralph Andracchio
Nice.
Darryl Charles
If I had to do like charcoal and all that nonsense hell no, but uh yeah propane you turn a knob and then you have fire.
Shannon DeVido
What a time to be alive.
Ralph Andracchio
What a time to be alive.
Shannon DeVido
Not for much longer! Uh, alright. Number 5. Uh alright, during a trip to the nature center on Monday, Karen collected 60 flowers. She wants to give them to five of her friends from Idaho. Before she divides the flowers up, 20 get away. Which frosted tip Mayor would get them back in Flavortown?
Darryl Charles
Guy Fieri.
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Shannon DeVido
Yay!
Darryl Charles
That’s it? OK, cool. All right. Yay. I I um I give a shout out to all my elementary school teachers and all of the closed reading assignments that I had to do. Uh. Thank you so much.
Ralph Andracchio
Uh, we only, uh, this has been fun. This has been a blast and a half.
Darryl Charles
Yes it has.
Ralph Andracchio
We only have a little sliver of time left so with that time, if the balls in your court the floor is yours. Plug whatever you would like. Where can people see you who you touch you taste you smell you?
Darryl Charles
Thank you for having me first off. And other than that, you can go to darrylcomedy.com, darrylcomedy.com. Uh D-a-r-r-y-l. If you can't spell comedy, my comedy is not for you. Uh, you still deserve rights, you should still vote but uh you're not going to have a good time with me but but if you do know how to spell comedy, you go to darrylcomedy.com and you can see me, you can see where I'll be. You can read about me. You can uh look at video and listen to audio from my debut stand-up comedy album Black Gentrifier. You can do that. And if you want to see me live, you can see me at Frankie Bradley’s on the 24th with Dr. Timaree as we do DTF: The Darryl and Timaree Fun Hour, our 10th anniversary show. Uh 10 is uh far too goddamn long uh for a show. It's gonna be a good time, we’re getting strippers. It's gonna be great. And then you cut to a few days later, uh the June 30 and July 1, I will be at headlining the Punch Line Comedy Club um in Philadelphia, and then on July 8, I'll be headlining the Port Comedy Club in Baltimore, Maryland. So I got your summer set. Uh follow me up and down the East Coast or whatever.
Aubrie Williams
That's great. You got strippers for DTF?
Darryl Charles
Yeah, well yeah we we did but it's still a call back to old shows because like when we first started, and the format wasn’t locked, we would just end the show with stripping. So uh you know, why not reach…callbacks are the way you you ingratiate yourself to audiences. Yeah, so uh come through.
Ralph Andracchio
And strippers.
Darryl Charles
Right. Well, right. Strippers who can call back.
Ralph Andracchio
Right. Alright I think we've had another successful show, folks.
Darryl Charles
We did it and I ate about 40 of my square of egg stuff.
Ralph Andracchio
I ate more than I wanted to, yeah.
Darryl Charles
I would bend it more but like there is like a pool of…
Ralph Andracchio
Yeah.
Aubrie Williams
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Here’s the cheese sauce is like very globby. I just wanted to visual we're a visual podcast too. So I want the people will to not be disappointed.
Ralph Andracchio
Alright, while we all clean up our our dishes and clean out our colons, uh, stay, this is this has been another great episode of Cookbook Obscura. We'll see you next time and please remember to eat responsibly. And goodnight everybody.