Today is a new start for us! We taste and talk these warm and soft, savory and sweet plucking cakes as we are visited by Ronald Reagan and Keanu Reeves and Gary. Then, we become aghast at the lack of integrity and wonder what could go wrong as we get stoked for stoats. Note: Though Hungary is mentioned multiple times, at no point do M & M remember that Producer Abby grew up there and may have some insight to share...
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Speaker 1 0:00
Hi. I'm Matthew.
Molly 0:05
And I'm Molly and
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:05
this is spilled milk, the show where we cook something delicious. Eat it all and you can't have and
Molly 0:10
today we are talking about pull apart. breads or Taran share breads
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:16
or monkey bread, which is a subset of those. And I'm so glad we are because we just yeah, we just really had a Oh, I was gonna say like once in a lifetime experience now just the opposite. It's the it's the beginning of a new adventure. Yeah, and
Molly 0:30
you can do it anytime you want.
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:32
That's where you can do it anytime you want. You know, you like to you'd like to write books where like you have like a you know, a life changing moment and then sort of explore the the fallout and aftermath of that.
Molly 0:43
Yeah, you wonder why why I don't have a new book in the works. It's because I've been I've been really enjoying having a boring life. Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 0:52
but that that'll change today, when when you took a mouthful of the thing we're talking about today. Yeah, that's right. So what is this stuff? Should we do Memory Lane first? First, I
Molly 1:03
think we should thank listener Jess, we should for suggesting this episode. So thanks, listener, Jeff. Okay,
Matthew Amster-Burton 1:10
I want to try and define this first. So like a pull apart or Terran chair is a sweet or savory big dish made for multiple pieces of dough that are smushed together and baked and then designed to be served whole and torn apart by hand at the table.
Molly 1:25
And the best known version is monkey bread.
Matthew Amster-Burton 1:27
And that's the thing we just ate I made I made to pull apart Aeron chairs. One savory one sweet and this is what we've eaten for lunch. I went above and beyond you
Molly 1:35
did. You did. And this was my first time so I guess here's my memory lane. You know, I think that I had heard about monkey bread in particular. But I and it always sounded really good to me, but I have never eaten this stuff till today.
Matthew Amster-Burton 1:52
Yep, same here. I had heard about tearing chairs and pull aparts from I think they should call them Terran chairs on Great British Bake Off. And sometimes they'll have like a signature Terran chair challenge. And apparently this is must be a bigger thing in England than in the US. Or at least the big thing on the Great British Bake Off. Yeah, but although like then when I went to pillsbury.com There are lots and lots of monkey bread and pull apart recipes.
Molly 2:14
Interesting. I wonder if this is something that people do for holidays like on Christmas morning? My daughter likes it when I make cinnamon rolls. I feel like I should maybe now be making monkey bars.
Matthew Amster-Burton 2:26
Oh yeah. That it's so easy. Okay, well, we're
Molly 2:29
gonna get there we're gonna get there. So monkey bread I understand has an interesting history. Matthew. Okay,
Matthew Amster-Burton 2:34
so monkey bread is let's let's talk about what I made monkey bread wise today and then and then get into the history just so I'm not talking about a thing and people who who aren't like monkey aware. Yeah. may not know what I'm talking what we're talking about. So took a couple of tubes of, of Pillsbury grands bisque.
Molly 2:52
No, I love that. This recipe starts with a couple of
Matthew Amster-Burton 2:55
servers, a couple of tubes. Like how the what the internet is made of. I popped those puppies open. As usual. One of them popped fine. And the other one I had to like go like stabbing with with a steak knife to try and get the tube open. We did an episode I'd like to Yeah, because
Molly 3:10
there was there was a quite some time when we had ads from Pillsbury and they sent us
Matthew Amster-Burton 3:17
so many crescent rolls. My family
Molly 3:21
was eating crescent rolls for months. It
Matthew Amster-Burton 3:26
was it was a lot. It was a lot of crescent rolls. Yeah. Okay, so like finally, I guess like that experience was wiped from my memory because when you mentioned it, I hadn't thought about it a long time and I was I didn't have that for sauna fear. When I when I bought the the Grands biscuits, you cut the biscuits in quarters, you shake them in a bag with cinnamon sugar, like a Ziploc bag, which is so fun. Okay, and they get like very evenly coated with cinnamon sugar, you toss them into a greased bundt pan, okay, and then you with optional nuts or dried fruit didn't use any of those. And then stir together a lot of brown sugar and melted butter, like a stick and a half of butter and a cup of brown sugar. Pour that over the top and bake it for 40 minutes and then turn it out.
Molly 4:14
So I arrived and Matthew had already baked it and turned it out. It looked so impressive. It looked like sort of a ring shaped stone wall.
Matthew Amster-Burton 4:23
Yeah, does it look it's like cobbled up. Yeah, if you saw like if you saw this, like in like Southwestern England, but like 1000 times the size, it would be like a really impressive ancient monument. That's right. But like teenagers would come would come at night and like pull pieces off and eat. This
Molly 4:39
would be the ultimate thing to eat when stoned. Yeah. Because you can just keep picking at it. Oh, yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 4:47
I'm really having a hard time sitting here like knowing it's behind me and I could get up and grab at it.
Molly 4:54
It is a profound sensory experience as well. I mean You did a beautiful job coating it. So there's not even the pieces that are not exposed or that were not exposed to the surface of the pan still have wonderful cinnamon sugar flavor.
Matthew Amster-Burton 5:12
Over like all of these fairly small biscuit quarters. Yes.
Molly 5:17
But then I shown you my biscuit for the ones that are that that got butter and sugar poured directly onto them. It is one of the most overwhelmingly pleasurable eating sensation. It's
Matthew Amster-Burton 5:33
like you can like butter. How would you like too much butter, but it's not, too Yeah, it's
Molly 5:39
like fused with that brown sugar flavor. And it's warm and soft. Yeah. So good.
Matthew Amster-Burton 5:48
Is that do you think that's what it's like, if you're a nursing baby? Maybe?
Molly 5:52
Yeah, maybe. I mean, it's just like this. I don't usually like warm baked goods. So I don't really love a warm chocolate chip cookie. I find it too rich. Yeah. And yet there is something about the pure butter sugar flavor of this and the warmth of it. That was a really sexual experience.
Matthew Amster-Burton 6:12
Yeah, it really really. I yeah, I recommend this to everyone.
Molly 6:16
No, it was really a special way to start our taping today. Yeah, I can't I can't wait to have more. Yes. Okay. So where does this stuff come from? Why is it called Monkey Bread?
Matthew Amster-Burton 6:25
Okay, so monkey bread has a first of all, this category of food Wikipedia claims is also called plucking cakes. I like which is really fun. I like that there's a lot of wild stuff on the Wikipedia monkey bread page. I did a little bit of research to see like what I could confirm or deny but like we're just gonna go through like the three wildest things said about monkey bread. And we'll forget like the other 10 Wild Things do you if I told you like about how when I was a kid, my dad named all of the wild things and where the wild things are? No, and like wrote the names in the book.
Molly 7:01
Oh really? So different creatures. Yes, there
Matthew Amster-Burton 7:04
was baulk snack. schlock goober BG har good. That might have been all of them.
Molly 7:11
So some of these sound vaguely Yiddish sure the other ones sound like family names from my like Irish English side of the Fijian Bihar good. Now we have a hardwood
Matthew Amster-Burton 7:22
or what yeah, that's that's basically all harlots. Were the hardwoods family and friendly monsters. They were when you went to visit them, did you say? Did they say? We we? We love you so much.
Molly 7:36
We love you. So yeah, there we go.
Matthew Amster-Burton 7:38
Okay, so first of all, let's, let's invite Mr. Endermologie. Onto the call. Mr. Etymology
Molly 7:44
Are you there?
Matthew Amster-Burton 7:51
Quoting from Wikipedia, quote, The Origin of the term monkey bread is unknown. Some food historian suggests that it comes from the pastry being a finger food and those eating it pick apart the bread with their hands as a monkey bite I. This This sounds probably correct. Others suggest that it comes from the pastries resemblance to the monkey puzzle tree.
Molly 8:09
I'm sorry, it's the monkey puzzle tree. What we also sometimes call a monkey tree. Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 8:13
like the one with like, sort of sort of pointy like, like,
Molly 8:16
are the branches kind of branch down like a monkey's tail.
Matthew Amster-Burton 8:21
There's no way this is the correct this does not look at all like that. It doesn't look like that. You'd even if it did that people have come up with the name from that. I
Molly 8:29
mean, it might look like the bark of that tree. But still, it also looks like the bark of a tree.
Matthew Amster-Burton 8:35
Yeah, no, it's not that. It's almost certainly that like, you know, you feel like a monkey when you're pulling it apart. Right. Okay, next monkey breads possible origin in Hungary.
Molly 8:45
Is this a myth we're debunking? No, I
Matthew Amster-Burton 8:47
think this is real. Oh, so this seems to be mostly defensible, quote, what most people know as monkey bread today in the United States is actually the Hungarian desert a Roni Calusa golden dumpling dating back to the 1880s. In Hungarian literature. Hungarian immigrants brought the dish with them when they immigrated to America and began introducing it into the country's food landscape, when Hungarian and Hungarian Jewish bakeries began selling it in the mid 20th century. So okay, continuing the quote in 1972. A cookbook published by Betty Crocker include a recipe for erotica Lusco, which they refer to as Hungarian coffee cake, as it became more popular in America erotica. Lusco came to be confused with monkey bread in which the balls of dough are not dipped in cinnamon and sugar but only in butter way monkey. So
Molly 9:33
they're saying monkey bread was only butter not Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 9:37
and sugar lame here which seems unlikely to me. Okay. Monkey Bread soon became the more common name for this Hungarian Jewish dessert. So it seems like absolutely correct that that Iranian Calusa is is a Hungarian plucking cake. That is basically what we what we are calling monkey bread not made not made with pill Pillsbury refriger Don't necessarily but the same idea. The part I'm not buying is that monkey bread didn't used to contain cinnamon because like everyone likes cinnamon right?
Molly 10:09
Well, I mean, Cinnamon has been used for a very, very long time. Yeah. I mean, I think the 60s throughout Europe and beyond so, but I
Matthew Amster-Burton 10:21
it does seem that monkey bread descends from this Hungarian pastry. Okay. Oh, also one Hungarian food blogger, translated Irani. Calusa as a quote golden nuggets or glorified noodles. I love the phrase glorified dude.
Molly 10:36
Noodle Mac Matthew, what's this about Ronald Reagan? Oh janky bread.
Matthew Amster-Burton 10:41
I've saved the best for last year. I'm going to try and get through this. During the 1980s Nancy Reagan popularized serving monkey bread during Christmas by baking a staple of the Reagan White House Christmas, Mrs. Reagan acquire the recipe from her fellow actress sasu Pitts. According to food historian Gill marks she arranged for monkey bread to be served to President Reagan on the night before his testimony before Congress for the Iran Contra hearings. As legend goes, Ronald Reagan said quote Mommy, I may go to prison, but I'll always remember this monkey bread. Wow. Okay, so I think maybe I was vaguely aware that Ronald Reagan called Nancy Reagan mommy, but I still don't like it.
Molly 11:24
Oh, wait, this is this is a thing. Or Yeah. More than just like, if Ash is talking to June and says like, can you go get mama?
Matthew Amster-Burton 11:33
Uh, no, I think I mean, this was in the 80s. Reagan was
Molly 11:39
right. Mommy, right. Oh, I need everything about that. Number
Matthew Amster-Burton 11:43
two. Unfortunately, he didn't go to prison. Number three, this definitely didn't happen. But it is a great story.
Molly 11:50
Like kind of reminds me of like a last meal. Kind of? Yeah, no, I wish Yeah. Okay, so this stuff is always made with enriched dough monkey. Yes. Okay.
Matthew Amster-Burton 12:01
Monkey Bread specifically is always a pile of dough baked in a cake pan, usually a tube pan or a bundt. Pan. Okay, but then like pull apart and tear in chairs in general, like are often like the other thing that I made like a bunch of dough balls baked in a single layer or like some dough twists that are like fused together in the center. Well,
Molly 12:21
I've seen people for instance, make cinnamon rolls on Easter, for instance, and make them like on a sheet pan and squish them up together in the shape of like a lamb or, or a cross or a cross, I suppose. Like, does that count as pull apart? Yeah, I
Matthew Amster-Burton 12:39
was wondering this because like usually cinnamon rolls are stuck together. And you might I think it's kind of like on the line for me because usually you're not like pulling one out yourself by hand that sometimes you are no
Molly 12:53
but that's not like an integral part of the eating process of a cinnamon roll. Yes. Whereas a pull apart or monkey bread. It seems like you're not going to walk into a bakery and just get a little lump of monkey bread like yeah, no, can it be in a communal setting like tearing it off? We should
Matthew Amster-Burton 13:11
start like the monkey lump food truck where people where you just kind of you like you pay less for like how many lumps you want to pull off? Just everyone? Everyone takes their hands into it. Okay, this reminds me why for the show, Laurie asked Which celebrity living or dead would you most like to eat monkey bread with and keep in mind that they are going to be putting their hands into the food that you're going to? Okay.
Molly 13:34
Oh, God.
Matthew Amster-Burton 13:36
So I came up with like, it was like what celebrities are like, famous for washing their hands. Lady Macbeth, Pontius Pilate, and I had one other and I can't remember. Oh,
Molly 13:47
you know, I but I'm gonna go with somebody who like I wouldn't mind like getting it up in their dirt. Okay, yeah, I'm gonna go with Keanu Reeves smart. Yeah, he I mean like, he looks really scruffy maybe on showered, but I'm okay with it.
Matthew Amster-Burton 14:03
You might you might like drop a few beard hairs.
Molly 14:06
It's the I don't think I really want that. But I'm here for it.
Matthew Amster-Burton 14:11
And also like, I think he would like to express like his genuine delight with Yeah, sweet, buttery goo. I
Molly 14:17
think he would just like get down in it with me. And I think that'd be really fun.
Matthew Amster-Burton 14:22
Is it still a pull apart? If you don't use your hands? You just like use your face?
Molly 14:25
Yeah, okay. Yeah, cuz you're pulling it apart with you. Yeah, exactly.
Matthew Amster-Burton 14:35
We talk about the other thing that I made. Yeah, so the other one is a savory postcard. It was from a delish.com Christmas baking magazine from 2023 that I got for wife has her Lori's Christmas stocking last year. It is the pull apart Christmas tree from Lauren Miyashiro. I used Safeway refrigerated pizza dough to make this recipe. You start with some stringy cheese and you cut it into little stringy cheese lumps. Then you roll out some p To do pretty thin and you ball it up around the string cheese lumps, you take those dough balls, and you arrange them into the shape of a Christmas tree, which I did sort of and you brush them with an egg wash you bake them and then you top with parmesan cheese or butter and red pepper flakes. Yeah, it was really good. It was really good. Yeah, really
Molly 15:18
good. I think that you know, it pushes the garlic not buttons while also having this like surprise of cheese and so
Matthew Amster-Burton 15:27
does is like it's a surprise cheese ball. I do think like string cheese because it's such a dry cheese. Because it's designed for string and by hand like it's a little too chewy. I wanted I wanted to choose to be a little runnier
Molly 15:42
Yeah, I think it would be better if you just like cubed up some Yeah, some good. Okay, I probably will make this again. It would be a fantastic thing for any sort of like holiday get together.
Matthew Amster-Burton 15:54
Ya know, like Arbor Day especially.
Molly 15:56
Yeah, absolutely. I bet you could maybe make a monkey puzzle tree shape. Oh, out of the dough balls. And
Matthew Amster-Burton 16:05
then yeah, then I would then I could go to Wikipedia and say like, I confirmed this monkey puzzle tree.
Molly 16:11
And then what if you use the monkey bread as the trunk of the tree? We'll figure this out.
Matthew Amster-Burton 16:20
Oh, I know. I think we did. Yeah. And so the trunk is this is this like buttery Gulag? That's right. And then the Gulag? Yes.
Molly 16:31
I did. Kind of Gulag to be like
Matthew Amster-Burton 16:33
a gulag. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. No monkey bread. Like it turns your mouth into a binary Gulag.
Molly 16:42
It's the most delicious kind of Gulag almost as good as goulash.
Matthew Amster-Burton 16:48
Yes. Almost. Have you ever made made a Hungarian goulash?
Molly 16:51
I haven't, but I think I would love it. Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 16:53
I think I did years ago and I don't know why I haven't again, like you put so much paprika in it's like the paprika is a vegetable. We should do that.
Molly 17:01
Okay, we should. We should do a goulash episode, but I feel like we need to get like
Matthew Amster-Burton 17:05
a Hungarian person. We should get a Hungarian person. You know, I I know someone who I met at Greenbrier who wrote a Hungarian baking book. I don't remember her name, but I bet I bet we could get her for this. You got to work those Greenbrier contact God org those Greenbrier contacts. Yeah, maybe we can get Sara Moulton.
Molly 17:25
Gosh, I wonder which Greenbriar contacts I should lean on. Let's see. Christopher MEARSHEIMER. Yeah, yeah, that'd be fun.
Matthew Amster-Burton 17:32
You're gonna say, Well, I wonder why Greenbrier contacts I would most like to split a tear and share with
Molly 17:38
no, I'm not really thinking of that. I
Matthew Amster-Burton 17:40
did notice a couple things at the store. I didn't get it because I couldn't find it. And also, I wanted to make the classic Pillsbury monkey bread recipe. But there was like a monkey bread tube kit. That was like specifically monkey bread branded and came with some sort of came with goo. So it didn't come with like everything you need. I think it came with everything you need. Okay. But I think I think probably like melting a stick of butter is the way to go. And there was like a stick of butter there. Yeah, like, I guess that's not surprised,
Molly 18:09
I believe. And I had a gulag in my mouth.
Matthew Amster-Burton 18:13
And then there was also when I was at Safeway this morning buying the pizza dough, there was like some sort of pizza calzones type of thing called a Terran share. I took a picture of it. I'm going to pause to show Molly this picture that you can't see, but maybe maybe we'll post it somewhere on our website. So I didn't get this because it wasn't very appealing. And I wasn't even sure what it is. But it's like pizza Terran share ha it
Molly 18:34
looks like a like a ring shades. Yeah, pizza like yeah, like it cows own. That's the made no ring pan.
Matthew Amster-Burton 18:41
Yeah, so interesting. I don't know who probably probably fine yeah, I'm
Molly 18:45
sure it's fine. What could go wrong?
Matthew Amster-Burton 18:47
What could go wrong?
Molly 18:49
Matthew, is there anything else that I should know about? The Terran share world?
Matthew Amster-Burton 18:54
Yes. So the Terran share world seems to be organized around an axis bounded by two particular websites. Wow.
Molly 19:05
Trying to picture this
Matthew Amster-Burton 19:08
Imagine only this seems challenging. So imagine like a barbell okay. And like Atlas like Charles Atlas, or like, like, like, you know, Arnold, or is holding it up. Yep. And on one and is the pillsbury.com website, which has so many pull apart and monkey bread recipes. And on the other end is the Great British Bake Off site, which has a whole section devoted to Taran shares that have been on the show.
Molly 19:36
And can I ask a question about the ladder? Please? Either like a lot of fiddly Terran shares. Oh, yeah, like how many different like let's do a northern Italian tear and share using porcinis balsamic
Matthew Amster-Burton 19:49
and that sounds pretty good.
Molly 19:53
But I imagine that there's a lot of a lot going on and yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 19:57
so there was kind of a range because like when I first was first looking for Like what recipe do I want to make I first for like a second alighted on pre O'Shea's smoky jalapeno bread, which is kind of a star shaped Terran share. And it sounds delicious but it has like 27 ingredients like you make us buy you make a spice blend and you like make the dough from scratch and like I want someone to make this for me for sure. But probably not going to make to
Molly 20:23
what degree do the recipes from bakeoff work like have you made many at home?
Matthew Amster-Burton 20:30
I am not the person to ask the person to ask is Cylons W sister in law, the show Wendy, who makes the technical every week from every season of bakeoff as it comes out, what's the technical tactical is the one in the middle where they have to follow a vague recipe exactly. And then Paul Hollywood comes in is just very judgy about the results. Okay, I'm trying to remember any like particular technicals of the past, it's usually it's not, it's sometimes it's something like very intensely fiddly, but more often, it's something that's like, not particularly like, like kind of a basic thing that they aren't really given any instructions for. Okay, one time they made like, like basically like mallomars which which are called wagon wheels in the UK. And so they had to like sort of figure out how to make this this classic cookie that you usually buy and so some of them were fine and some of them like the chocolate wasn't tempered or the marshmallow was running or whatever. Okay, but those are like those are the recipes that are probably more tested the when they do the recipes for like the winning show signature or whatever, like I think probably not a lot of testing has gone into making those home baking recipes.
Molly 21:39
You know, it's interesting or I should say it was extremely disappointing at one year June and I when June was really into bake offs sort of spin off that was called masterclass oh sure to remember that it was with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry Jr. Yes, yes watched all of them all of them. She and I especially enjoyed the one on gingerbread houses. Oh, okay. Did you see that? I think so. Where they took like I watched crash masterclass one crushed hard candies like yellow one boiled sweets and boiled sweets that's right and crushed them up and made them into like stained glass windows for the gingerbread house. Incredibles so cool anyway, I
Matthew Amster-Burton 22:20
can I can top that. I use actual stained glass for my
Molly 22:25
work we we got the recipe off the website and then we made it and I am here to tell you even like doing it all by weight, which should technically have worked even across you know, the Atlantic Ocean. It was an absolute disaster. Like a gingerbread the
Matthew Amster-Burton 22:45
wall. Like no, the walls had no structural integrity. The sweet boiled sweets didn't melt. There
Molly 22:52
was an insane amount of butter in the dough so that the dough had no integrity like it almost couldn't hold together. It was bizarre when there was too much leavening it puffed up a lot. It weird. I was like What?
Matthew Amster-Burton 23:06
No, like without structural integrity like we've got nothing.
Molly 23:10
That's right lights. Exactly right.
Matthew Amster-Burton 23:12
I think if this show is about one thing, it's about integrity. That's right.
Molly 23:16
That's right. Um, speaking of which, Matthew I hear we've got some mail
Matthew Amster-Burton 23:21
we do from a from a listener of integrity listener Margaret.
Hi, Molly. Matthew. I have some of the toast da cookies not the box as I bought them while traveling and bought left brought leftovers home in a baggie. I bought them five weeks ago, so they're not irresistible. They taste like sweet toast Keep up the good work best Margaret. Oh, girl scout Girl Scout. Budget girls crowds. A Girl Scout cookie that's supposed to taste like french toast and is in the shape of little toasts and we thought it was cute but couldn't find any Yeah. Or maybe I saw them I decided not to get them because I thought they wouldn't be very good. And listener Margaret can confirm
Molly 24:05
Okay, do you remember back when we had the cute animal you should know you cute animals you need to know Oh cute animals you need to know
so Matthew, at the time that we're recording this I recently went on a camping trip with June's Elementary School cloud to to Dungeness Spit. That's right. That's right. The the longest naturally occurring sandspit in the US if not the world. Yeah.
Matthew Amster-Burton 24:36
Yep. Yep. I knew that like you'd like I didn't know that because you told me like four days ago.
Molly 24:40
That's right. The first night we were out there, the kids had to, like stand up and give a little report on some research they had done about plants or animals or like geologic features in the area that we were counting. And one of the kids did the short tailed weasel aka stoked. Oh, I was so pumped to maybe see a stone out there because we once had stoats on the show, at least we told ya
Matthew Amster-Burton 25:10
know, like I'm always pumped. First out.
Molly 25:13
I was stoked.
Matthew Amster-Burton 25:17
stoked for stoats. Anyway, but our new our new T shirt, Abby, is it too late to design a new teacher? Anyway, pledge drive this fall called the stoked first out.
Molly 25:26
Anyway, I didn't see one. But I thought of you. And I thought of our old segment. Cute and forgotten. For now. Even
Matthew Amster-Burton 25:34
we've been featured stoats we totally featured No Yeah, no, I believe you. So like, what were some of the other did anyone choose a geological feature? Well,
Molly 25:42
somebody talked about how the spirit itself formed. Oh, wow. Somebody talked about raccoons. Somebody talked about some sort of chipmunk, Townsend's chipmunk or something like that. And I gotta say, By this point, I was so tired. I could hardly keep my eyes open. It was like 9pm on a camping trip with 24 children a day and I like good night as
Matthew Amster-Burton 26:03
soon as you fell asleep. You were you were swarmed in the night by stoats, raccoons and ship. That's right. And it was so cute. Okay, so speaking of wildlife, I have a now but wow.
It's about sports. Oh, so that is wild. Right. So this is a podcast from the CBC. That will be it's a limited series of six episodes that will be available in full by the time you hear this. I'm currently on episode four. It's called broom gate. And it's about the sport of curling. All right. So if you care about curling, you can like fast forward because I guarantee you've already listened to this podcast. If you don't care about curling, but you have a fondness for things Canadian like me, you're gonna love this because it is full of some of the greatest Canadian accents you've ever heard. And people just saying things about curling that sound like complete nonsense. If you don't know about curling, it's also a fascinating story because the story is like, after like using kind of the same equipment for hundreds of years, all of a sudden technology hit the world of curling, and they started introducing like high tech brooms with extremely abrasive surfaces that completely changed the game and people like split into factions and like debated lecture these brooms be banned. Like that's the thing. Yes. Is this is this actually interesting? No. Is it like does this podcast make it seem like the most important thing in the world for 30 minutes at a time? Yes. I find like as as a person with generalized anxiety hearing about this thing that was like a crisis to like some group of people but was went by completely unnoticed by me is somehow very reassuring that maybe the things that I worry about all the time maybe aren't that important either. Yeah.
Molly 28:07
Matthew What's your personal curling broom?
Matthew Amster-Burton 28:10
My personal curling broom no
Molly 28:13
your your your version of something that you know just like polarizes it and absolutely changes the status quo.
Matthew Amster-Burton 28:25
Well like a thing that I worry about that like other people don't care about
Molly 28:28
or think that maybe you were up in arms about the change to your status quo?
Matthew Amster-Burton 28:32
I mean, it would have to be like some some boring thing at work that no one who doesn't work at my office would ever know about but like seemed important internally. Okay, but that I can't talk about because No, no no, don't talk about internal stuff. No, I mean, except like you know, like my spleen is spleen and along Yes, I know minus two Yeah. Or like I mean like the like the internal stuff like the what do we call the mouth Gulag that's that's is the mouth internal I don't not not from like an internal medicine perspective. Now now. Broom gate is the name of the podcast.
Molly 29:07
Well, our producer is Abby sir Catella Please
Matthew Amster-Burton 29:10
rate and review us wherever you get your podcasts and like for goodness sake people if you if you've a monkey bread if you like butter and sugar and lumps of dough and you haven't already made a monkey bread. What are you waiting for?
Molly 29:22
Make one and I gotta vouch for this one on is it the Pillsbury grands well roll
Matthew Amster-Burton 29:28
Yeah, it's great grands biscuits like it just use his two tubes of pills. Great pills Gary. You know, you know pills very famous. That's got the dough boy his name is pills Gary.
Is what the Doughboy does. This
Molly 29:47
reminds me of Ashley engage Rodriguez. Ashley Rodriguez, Seattle based food writer. She and her husband their kids thought the tooth fairy was the tooth Gary Oh, this
Matthew Amster-Burton 30:02
guy, awesome guy named Gary like, crawls into your room at night or reaches into your pillow. To Gary, Gary. Yeah, so I know I know a guy named Pillsbury can get you anything. And, like, talk to him talk to other spilled spill. Spilled Milk monkeys at everything spilled milk.reddit.com We things were going so well for like the first 26 minutes of this episode until I collapsed in a fiery ball visible from space.
Molly 30:39
I was Molly Weissenberg.
Matthew Amster-Burton 30:42
And I was lumpa dough
Wow, no, I love the butter sweats.
Molly 30:55
i Yeah. Wow. Oh my god. My mouth is like a real like, afterglow sensation. lately.
Matthew Amster-Burton 31:03
Like I want us to like, like, jump in and start eating before we record because people don't like chewing and because I don't want the food to get cold.
Molly 31:11
We had some prime content just now between the two of us. Yeah,
Matthew Amster-Burton 31:15
like you said it was like it's squirted.
Molly 31:20
It was like, we'll get there. All right.
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