- Hi, I'm Scott.
- You ready?
- And I'm Mark.
(laughs)
- I'm drunk already and I didn't even drink.
- Yeah, what are you doing?
- From the basement of a pretty normal office
building in New York City, it's Shoot Your Shot,
Thrillist's boozy trivia game show,
with your host Wil Fulton
and special guest--
- Mark and Scott from Really, Dough?
- Cheers and remember to tip your bartender.
(drums)
- What's up, everybody?
Welcome to Shoot Your Shot.
I'm your host Wil Fulton my guests today, Mark Iacono,
you might know him as the owner and chef at Lucali's Pizza,
legendary. Scott Wiener, perhaps the world's most preeminent
pizza scholar in the world.
- Yeah, love pizza, love it.
- World's biggest pizza box collection.
- That's true. - Is that still true?
- Still true. - You still hold that record?
- Yes.
- Is it in the Guinness books?
- It is in the Guinness books.
- Are you next to the really, really tall one?
- No, different page.
- You might know them best,
if you're watching on Thrillist YouTube as the hosts
of Really Dough?
So, how are you guys today?
- Amazing.
- Doing great.
- When was the last time you guys took a bunch of shots?
(exhales)
- Never.
- I think I stopped drinking 15 years ago.
- Did you?
- Yeah.
- This is going to be a rough day.
- So, you guys don't really drink
and you're on a show that's exclusively about drinking.
- But I'm going to drink today.
- You are?
- Yes.
- We made this drink for you by the way, it's called
The Cool Beans.
It's a riff on the Manhattan special,
which I heard that you like a lot.
- Look at this.
- Do you know how this game works?
- Kind of.
- Okay, ask you a bunch of questions,
you can work as a team, if you answer right,
I have to take a shot.
You guys get the answer wrong, you have to take a shot,
it's as simple as that.
- Let's do it.
- All right, so we're going to talk about Italy.
Italy has three active volcanoes,
which of the following is not?
A, Mount Vesuvius,
B, Stromboli,
C, Mount Etna,
D, Monte Albano?
- So, is Stromboli active?
- I don't know.
- Vesuvius is active.
- How do you know that?
- I mean, 'cause it is, Mount Vesuvius erupted in 1944,
was the last big eruption.
- I say Stromboli.
- No, the answer is D.
- Dude, I thought we were talking
about this, whatever happened?
- Come on, let's drink, straight up, cheers.
You were gonna say Stromboli so--
- No I was talking it out, I was doing team
work with you, you're watching Jeopardy by yourself
in an arm chair.
- I like your thought process, I like your running
and gunning to give me an answer so.
(laughs)
(glasses clink)
- Have you guys both been to Italy?
- Yeah, a bunch of times.
- How do you think the pizza in Italy compares
to the pizza in America?
- The pizza in Italy is awesome, you gotta go now.
- Really?
- You told me you didn't like it.
- That's not true, I love it.
- You said you were not a fan.
No, he didn't say he didn't like it,
he said he preferred his New York Style pizza over--
- Yeah, people feel that way though.
- That's different, a preference is different.
I like a slice of pizza that I can eat standing up
and a Neapolitan pizza, specifically Neapolitan pizza,
it's kind of like a sit down situation.
Love the taste of it but the act of eating it,
I like a New York.
- Question number two, what percentage of Americans
eat pizza once per week?
A, 43 percent,
B, 21 percent,
C, 49 percent,
or D, 99.9 percent of Americans eat pizza once a week?
- 29, my final answer. - It's one of the 40 ones,
oh so this is how this works?
I'm trying to work it out.
(laughing)
- You got it wrong.
- Come on, drink. - Wait, wait, hold on.
Okay, I will but from now on,
can we have a discussion first?
- Yes, wait what was the answer?
- The answer is A, 43, you were close though.
- No, he was wrong in that part.
- How often do you guys eat pizza?
- Everyday.
- Everyday?
- Twice a week.
- We are going to move you
away from asking you questions.
- Taste Budz.
- We call this game Taste Budz with a 'z' because
you guys are friends.
- Best friends.
(piano music)
- We are going to blind fold you guys.
- I love blindfolds.
- Oh god. - Yeah, stuff's about
to get freaky.
We are going to bring out one slice of New York pizza
and one slice of chain pizza.
- Love it.
- See if you guys can actually tell the difference.
- Love it.
- I hate this.
- I was built for this.
Don't peak, stop looking toward me.
Yours looks kind
of cool actually, Mark. - Stop it.
- The first one, cut this right down the middle.
- Oh, yeah.
- That's a New York slice.
- It's chain pizza.
- No, it's not.
- I'm just kidding.
If it's a New York slice, it's not that great, next one.
- Oh wait, we've got to eat another one?
- Yeah, eat another one.
- This is hard, this is our turnaround
just because I think the second one is the chain pizza.
- Yes, absolutely.
- He can't hear us right now because we're whispering.
- Yes, since you have a blindfold
on, I can't hear you, that's how it works.
- The first one was the New York slice.
- Okay.
- You ready, do you agree?
- I agree.
- Can I wear the blindfold
the whole time on my head?
- Sure, yeah, it's from Japan.
- I mean that doesn't change
how much I want to wear it. - I'm just telling you
so you know it.
- But it definitely makes me feel pretty cool.
Yeah, does it look cool?
I need your approval.
- You need to take a shot.
- I like it.
- Dude, we did a great job,
should we do our secret handshake?
- I want to talk to you about Lucali,
you said you found it accidentally?
- Yes.
- Elaborate.
- I just went out for a cup of coffee one day.
I bumped into Rosemarie who is the landlord of the space.
- Okay.
- And she told me she was renting it out.
She used to have a candy store there
that was family owned for about 60 years
but every time I would go to the store
it was open sporadically and I was like,
"Whoa what's going on with the store?
"You know every time I go there it's closed."
She goes, "Oh, we are not going to keep doing it anymore."
You know, I was a little upset it was the candy shop
that I grew up in
and as I was walking out, a light bulb went off.
She had mentioned that she's going to be showing it
to some restaurant group and I was like, well, listen,
if things don't work out let me know, I think I would be
interested in the space.
- Did you know that you wanted to turn it into
a pizzeria or did you not know what you
were going to use it for? - No, I was actually thinking
of keeping the candy store there.
- Right.
- But then once I heard the rent
then I was like, that's not happening.
I just wanted to keep it going,
it was a neighborhood institution.
- That's cool. The president of which country
notably claimed that pizza with pineapple should be illegal?
- D!
- No, no, no, it's Iceland.
- He said D.
- Dude.
- No, he said D.
It was not a joke, he said D. - You didn't even
give the answers.
- I know, that's why it was so wild, you could
have been right but you were wrong.
- It's Iceland.
- It was C, that was C.
It was Iceland.
- Yay.
- Cheers, good job.
- What, I went for the five
and you went for the-- - Then stop doing that, bro,
that freaks me out.
- Good job.
- What's it like working on Really Dough?
Traveling the country, eating weird pizza?
- Oh my god, it's amazing.
- Yeah, great.
- We get to go and eat weird pizzas,
I get to see him squirm, some of my two favorite things.
(dramatic music)
- Oh, what are you doing,
are you violating the entire slice?
- That is dessert.
- It's a fun show.
- No, it is.
- It's really fun because we meet
all these characters at all these places.
Pizza people are total characters.
- Yeah, I think that's what I enjoy most about it.
- Shuck.
- Not chuck.
- I say chuck.
- Well we chuck 'em after we shuck 'em.
- (beep) them.
- Especially this last season,
getting out of the city.
- Yes, yeah first two seasons was terrible,
just me and Scott.
(laughs)
- It really was just hanging out at his place.
- This is called...
- Truth or Dare or Shot.
- This segment is a classic game of truth or dare,
but if you refuse to spill your guts or do something weird
you have to take a shot, it's as easy as that.
If you complete the truth or dare, I have to take a shot.
- I think I got it.
- Do you get it?
- Have you never played truth or dare?
- No, I've never played that game.
- Oh, so we can make up the rules.
- I mean, it's just one rule,
you either do it or don't.
- Yeah, but he won't know.
- Truth.
- You'll do truth?
Oh, okay, fine.
What's the most annoying thing about Scott?
- Hopefully it's not that laugh.
- That laugh, yeah.
- No, I've never done that laugh.
- What were you going to say
before he did that little thing?
- It's like everything.
(laughs)
Final answer, everything.
- Come on.
- You opted to actually tell the truth so now it's on me,
you played and you won, it's fun.
(laughing)
- Well, you didn't do it.
- I'm gonna take a dare.
- You're going to take the dare?
- We have to.
- The dare is, you have to make an air pizza
to completion right now in the studio while we play this game.
- That's easy. - Does someone have a timer?
How much time do you need?
- I should have said dare. - Where is my dough ball?
- It's around here, how much time do you need
to make a pizza?
- Give me 45 seconds.
(happy music)
I'm dumping in the flour, I'm coating it all,
I'm pressing out some of the gases, I'm not going
to do it Mark style because I know how to make real pizza.
- Roll that out.
- I'm taking some flour and putting it on the bottom.
I'm not rolling it out,
I know how to make real pizza, come on.
I'm gonna push it out a little bit, oh, it feels nice
this is good dough, who made this?
I'm going to pass it off a little bit from hand to hand,
then I'm gonna like over my knuckles a little bit.
Gonna get my peels over here,
I'm going to put a little bit of flour
on there, lay it on there, bring it over.
Mark, can you pass me the sauce?
Fast! I only got 10 seconds, put it in the center.
I'm going to pull it out there.
A little bit, throw it back there.
Some cheese all on the outside,
I'm gonna make sure it all works fine, put a little
bit of olive oil on top of it, take it out.
Can you open the door for me of the oven, please?
It's my home oven, not your oven.
I'm gonna slide it in there, can you close it, please?
Keep the heat, I'm going to put that there
and now we wait, what do we talk about?
- What do you guys think happens when we die?
- Everything, it all starts.
(laughing)
- What kind of answer is that?
- Don't worry, you're gonna find out eventually.
- I told you he was annoying.
- Yeah, you did, all right pizza is ready.
- Oh, sweet.
- Peel, open it up.
- No, dude, your hands are burning.
- I got pizza fingers.
- You did it, I guess that was an air pizza.
I heard that you are surprisingly kind of a SpongeBob
fan, is that true?
- Squarepants, yeah.
- Where's your kid?
- Yeah.
- I have a SpongeBob question for you,
it's an easy one.
So this is just for him.
What is the name of Plankton's restaurant? The little guy.
- C, no.
(laughing)
- Dude, oh my god.
- No, it's right, he got it right.
- Oh, for real?
- Yeah.
- That's not fair.
- Yay, no he got it right.
Good job.
- I'm impressed but I'm still not pleased.
- Have you ever seen his soft side come out?
- Mark's soft side?
- Yeah.
- Yeah, I kind of softened up with you a little.
- When? - At the end of the season.
- Yeah, well when you cried?
- Is that true?
- Oh, no.
- But that's okay, you can do that around me,
that's what friends do, we cry together.
- Yeah, it's the 21st century, men can cry.
- Next question.
- Okay, Colorado mountain pie, big pies, honey kiss,
doughy crust, little toppings,
originated at what legendary Colorado pizzeria?
A, Beau Po's,
B, Beau Mo's,
C, Beau Jo's,
or D, Beau Derek's.
- Hold on, make a bet.
- If I get it right, you drink.
- Two.
- If I get it wrong, I drink.
- Two, this is a double or nothing round.
- Okay, I don't wanna do this but fine.
- C.
- Well, yes.
- Yeah, you're right.
- It was C, it was Beau Jo's.
- You drink two half shots.
- No.
- No, you drink that one and then two half shots.
- You have to drink two shots.
- It's delicious.
- Why did you decide to dedicate your life to pizza?
- Pizza is so good and everybody loves it
and it's just the ultimate thing
that brings people together.
It's not divisive and the only divisive thing
is if you disagree with somebody else's pizza love
but at the end of that argument you can still both embrace,
a warm embrace of pizza love.
- Have you ever met someone so obsessed with pizza?
- No.
- Really?
- It concerns me.
(laughing)
- It concerns me.
Speaking of concern, this is the BFF test.
- The BFF test.
- We are gonna see how well you two know
each other, if you're on the same wavelength.
- Oh, let's see you shout out this one now.
- What is Mark's biggest fear?
Don't look.
- You want a serious answer?
- I'm supposed to answer the way I think
you would answer.
- Exactly.
- Stop looking.
- I am looking at everything that's not you.
- And to be clear, you don't need a paragraph,
just, you know.
- I'm curious about this.
- This is going to get really deep.
- I hope it's a giant snake
is taking me for a ride and I'm enjoying it.
- Right, one, two, three.
- I wrote really small, I may have
to read it out loud.
- What's your greatest fear?
- Getting stuck with Scott.
- Oh and I wrote being left alone with me.
- Honestly, judges, yeah we'll take it.
- Drink, cheers, wow.
- You gotta drink three.
- No, I don't drink three.
- I heard that you had to take three.
- Question number two,
how old was Scott when he lost his virginity?
- How do you spell 'hasn't happened yet?'
(laughing)
- One apostrophe.
- I'm thinking about what he's gonna write.
- Oh.
- I wrote still a virgin. - Oh, never!
We did it.
- Ow.
- Stab wounds.
- Stab wounds?
No, you got stabbed.
I'm not gonna tell you where you got stabbed
but I'm pretty sure it wasn't--
- Question number nine,
Lucali has plenty of celebrity fans.
Here's a question about perhaps
your most famous fans.
Where did Beyonce and Jay-Z get married?
A, Jay-Z's apartment in New York,
B, the Maldives,
C, Napa Valley,
or D, the basement of Lucali?
- It was at the basement of Lucali.
- Is that your final answer?
- Final answer.
- No, no, no, wrong.
- What do you mean, I was there.
- Jay-Z's apartment.
- You weren't there, it was a secret ceremony.
You wanna see the text messages?
- Yeah.
- I'm done.
- It was a while ago.
- You give me Jay-Z's number, I'll text him
to make sure.
- That's not happening.
(glasses clink)
Drink.
- When you have a guest of note, a famous person,
do you cook a little differently?
- No.
- I mean, I don't cook differently, we've had tons,
I really only got starstruck I think twice.
Paul McCartney, oh and Alan Alda.
- Alan Alda.
- I got a little freaked out when Alan Alda walked in.
- Paul McCartney is pretty big.
- Yeah.
- He played bass in the Rolling Stones.
- Stop.
- Take a shot.
- Question number 10, what is the first line
Mark says in Really, Dough?
A, no,
B, please stop,
C, I have no idea,
or D, Help.
- So, I probably walk into the restaurant probably.
You're probably doing something.
You're probably working 'cause you work there.
- You have no idea.
- Yeah, that's you.
- You think so?
- Yeah, that's it.
- Yeah yay!
You got it right, okay.
- Good job, that's number 10, we got through it.
- That's it, we're done?
- Let's do one more, that's for you.
Cheers guys.
- Hey, have some.
- Oh, I have to drink this whole thing.
- Here, have some of mine.
- Scott, just drink.
- No, you had two shots.
- Unbelievable.
- You can pour some in there.
- Yay!
- Great, cheers.
Thanks, guys. - Cheers for friendship.
Thanks for having us.
- Thank you for inviting me. - This is my favorite bar.
No bill.
- Well actually, we have to settle up.
- What's with all the signs on the bar?
- Oh good question, we need you to sign our bar.
- Scott rocks.
- Scott and Mark love you.
- All right, there you go.
- Done, now you don't have to write anything.
- Draw something. - Draw a picture.
That's not me, there's no glasses.
- Well, that's what you look like right now to me.
- No, it's not.
- After 10 shots.
- And now Buzzed Bartending with Wil Fulton.
- And here's how to make today's drink, The Cool Beans,
designed by Garren Ferry of Brooklyn's Reclamation Bar.
Well, it's called The Cool Beans 'cause we're using coffee
and that's made from beans, do you get it?
First up, one ounce of Frangelico, half an ounce
of Fernet-Branca, point two five ounces of Kahlua
and finally two point five ounces of cold brew.
Shake thoroughly, don't spill, it's frothy.
This is The Cool Beans.
That was Shoot Your Shot,
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