Justin Warner with Ann and Lizzie of Mother Feather,
and today, we're gonna eat the universe.
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So today, we are going to make a Dazzler-inspired dish.
And I had to think long and hard, because, you know,
Dazzler, is a singer, a rocker, a model, all sorts of things.
But I was trying to capture Dazzler with that post-show
glow.
Maybe the rock show has gone into the wee
hours of the night.
Is it dinner, or is it breakfast?
Is it pizza?
Is it bagel?
And therefore, we will make pizza bagels.
- Both pizza and bagels. - Do both.
Why choose? Why choose?
JUSTIN: Yeah, why choose?
Yeah.
JUSTIN: Dazzler kind of came to and got this huge burst
of popularity in the '80s.
Pizza bagels, also very popular in the '80s.
LIZZIE: Mm-hmm.
That's a pretty perfect snack. JUSTIN: Right?
It really is.
JUSTIN: Dazzler charges up with the music and energy
of the club and then turns this into, like,
concussive light blasts.
I can relate.
I've never been concussed by light, but--
You never felt the sheer power of a strobe light searing
through your entire body?
Come on. Sure you have.
- In fact, I have. - Sure you have.
See?
I haven't ended up in the hospital because of it.
I'll put it that way.
OK, these are miniature bagels.
These bagels make us look gigantic.
Right?
They're Ant-Man bagels.
This is slightly creamy tomato sauce.
So let us begin by saucing these.
Would you care to do the honors?
Oh, please.
Sauce them.
Yeah.
I love being saucy.
Right?
How much sauce do we want to go for?
JUSTIN: I mean--
ANN: It's a pizza bagel. JUSTIN: Yeah.
LIZZIE: So, like, go to town.
So Dazzler's first appearance was in the '80s.
What was your origin story?
First, we spent a couple of years
just, like, getting down in New York City clubs.
JUSTIN: Right.
Like, the late--
well, I want to say the late '90s.
It was like the last few months of the '90s.
No.
Yeah, it was definitely the early 2000s.
Early aughts.
I always admired her dance moves.
But it was not--
She's never told me that.
--until we were--
it's true. I think you're a great dancer.
Thanks, Ann.
Aw.
Sorry I never said it out loud.
Thanks for staging this so that we had the opportunity.
That's what we do in Eat the Universe.
This is actually an intervention, guys.
Truth.
But now you're collaborators.
Mm-hmm.
ANN: Well, we had a band before this.
JUSTIN: I see.
And it occurred to me that Lizzie was
being extremely underutilized.
So we sort of shoved her out front.
Let's step into our power.
Yeah.
Let's add more sauce.
Just lay it on really thick.
JUSTIN: All right, so we have the disco cheese here.
That is a port wine cheese.
It's exceptionally good at melting,
which I think is an ideal cheese for pizza bagels.
ANN: Mm-hmm.
And it is really fitting.
I mean, that looks like fun and cheese just, like,
got together and moshed.
Would you like to add it?
It would be my pleasure.
These are going to match our ensemble perfectly, I think.
I know.
It's like you knew we were coming or something.
Right?
Say you had the Time Stone, and you could time-travel
to any kind of period of New York City music,
where would you go?
Early '90s.
JUSTIN: OK.
Can you imagine seeing Sonic Youth in the early '90s?
Or the '80s.
Imagine seeing Blondie and The Ramones playing at CBGB.
I mean--
LIZZIE: Like maybe-- maybe the best.
You're doing a really good job.
ANN: Really?
I think that, you know, ideally,
you definitely want the cheese-to-bagel
ratio to be one-to-one.
Oh, great.
Absolutely.
One-to-one on cheese and bagel?
I love this place.
I know.
It's like an alternate reality where anything is edible
and everything is possible.
Gosh, and everything's pink or red.
It's, like, the best.
JUSTIN: When you're touring, do you cook?
Do you go out exclusively?
Do you have, like, a weird green M&M's thing?
No, we like to check out the local fare for sure.
That's always, you know, an exciting part
of traveling anywhere.
We played the recently dearly departed Warped Tour--
JUSTIN: Oh, wow.
--a couple years ago.
And little known fact--
best catering in the business.
Outstanding.
ANN: They kept us alive for two months.
With like, the greatest food possible.
And spoiled.
Probably very spoiled, because our next tour is going to be
a total bummer after that.
I'm very compact, just saying.
You know?
Is that an offer?
Yeah, why not?
I have reasonable rates.
Here.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah.
See how helpful I could be?
You're really good at your job.
JUSTIN: Thank you very much.
We'll take you on the road, man.
All right, so I'm going to put these onto a baking sheet.
And you guessed it.
We're going to bake them.
Whoo!
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We are coming in hot, surprise surprise.
ANN: Yes!
JUSTIN: Could it get more disco?
If we add glitter.
Well, luckily--
Hey!
JUSTIN: --we have this edible glitter right here.
ANN: Wow.
So this is a plant-based product.
I'm going to regret today.
Welcome to my life.
Yeah, right?
Yeah, is, like, your whole like, yeah,
life just, like, glitterized?
You're finding glitter everywhere for days?
I find glitter on my cat all the time.
JUSTIN: Oh, look at that shimmer.
Wow.
It really pops, doesn't it?
We're going light on the glitter.
Oh, you can go as heavy as you want.
OK, but we went heavy on the cheese.
Yeah.
I think we should use as much glitter as we used cheese.
JUSTIN: OK, great.
I agree.
I'm going to do like a black-and-white cookie,
but it's going to be--
Oh my god.
Right?
It's really cute.
I mean, that's very, like--
That's a really cute pizza bagel.
--cute.
Let's say I would be the chef for your next tour.
How would you glamorize me?
It's about an internal change too.
Oh really?
Yeah.
To rise to meet your mother feather is a private thing.
It can also be a shared experience.
Well, mine was putting glitter on pizza bagels.
Hell yeah!
Oh, I'm not allowed to say that, am I?
Can I say "hell"?
MAN: "Hell yeah" is fine.
Hell yeah!
Felt good, didn't it? ANN: It did.
It did. - Shall we have a taste?
- Yeah. - All right, here we go.
You first. JUSTIN: They're warm.
Me first.
That's a pizza bagel.
Oh, that's good.
This weird disco cheese brings,
like, a little bit of funk to the equation, you know?
Mm-hmm.
I feel like we've got a bass note.
We've got a high hat.
We've got all of this, like, electricity of the glitter
itself.
Mm-hmm.
Everybody's bobbing their head as we, like, devour the pizza.
We got a little dance floor on the top.
Speaking of sparkly things--
ANN: Yeah.
--tell me about Constellation Baby.
Constellation Baby is our new album.
JUSTIN: Oh.
And, uh, it's a journey from top to bottom.
And hopefully it takes people places.
We went to the heights of elation
and the depths of misery.
So proud of it.
Yeah.
Well, this has been a wild success.
Yeah.
I almost feel like we've all gone out
and experienced a great show.
Where can fans and future fans find you?
You can find us at motherfeather.com.
Our new album, Constellation Baby,
is out via Blacklight Media Metal Blade Records.
And look deep inside your heart, and
maybe you'll find us there too.
That's all the time we've got for Eat the Universe.
We'll see you next time.
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