Comic Jamie Loftus’s Hot Dog Summer

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4.6 • 3.8K Ratings

🗓️ 22 May 2023

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Comedian and podcaster Jamie Loftus set out on a cross-country road trip to try to figure out: Why do hot dogs have such a hold on American culture? And why does she continue to find them so damn delicious? Over the course of her Hot Dog Summer, she tried all kinds of regional American dogs, from a bacon-wrapped Sonoran dog in Tucson, to a bologna-wrapped dog in Baltimore, to one that involved SpaghettiOs.

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0:00.0	This episode contains explicit language and mature subject matter.
0:05.3	Jamie, I feel like we have to start off just talking hot dogs.
0:12.4	Yes, please.
0:13.4	Can you describe to me your ideal hot dog?
0:17.2	Yes, I grew up a boiled dog girl, boiled with just a raw bun slapped open.
0:26.6	And that is not how I will be raising my child.
0:31.5	No disrespect.
0:32.5	I think there's no wrong way to eat a hot dog, but it's I my I can't do without a grilled
0:37.5	hot dog.
0:38.5	That's always going to be the best for me now.
0:40.5	What do you like about the barbecue grilled hot dog above other options?
0:46.7	For me, it has the best snap.
0:49.5	It's so it's so like carnal sounding, but you're like, you know how your teeth are just
0:54.2	chopping through this dead animal or a great vegan substitute for a dead animal.
0:59.9	And it's it's a cathartic feeling the first bite.
1:03.0	I'm an all beef girl, but I'm flexible there.
1:06.2	The bun I'm very inflexible on.
1:08.6	If it's not toasted, I walk.
1:10.2	I'm not interested.
1:12.8	So the hot dogs that you prefer today, though, are the furthest possible departure from
1:17.4	the ones that you grew up with?
1:19.2	Yes.
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