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Shipley Do-Nuts with Jon Gabrus (LIVE)

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Fast Food, Healthfitness, Mike Mitchell, Snacks, Chains, Restaurants, Comedy, Ucb, Arts, Spoonman, Doughboys, Fastfood, Nick Wiger, Food

4.85.1K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2018

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

On the second stop of their Texas tour, Mitch and Wiger are again joined by Jon Gabrus (Comedy Bang! Bang!, Raised by TV) for a raucous discussion of local sweet treat/kolache chain Shipley Do-Nuts. Recorded live at The Secret Group in Houston.

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0:00.0

This movie is full of movies out there.

0:21.0

Enterior Noir plays Doc too much.

0:23.0

Lowly plays.

0:30.0

June 1st, National Donut Day

0:33.0

While it may sound like a trifling fake observance such as National Corn Dog Day, World

0:37.6

emoji day or talk like a pirate day, this holiday named for a round pastry and fact originated

0:42.2

as a tribute to Salvation Army volunteer women who played a support role for US troops

0:46.6

during World War I.

0:48.6

Known as Donut Girls or Donut Lassies are most enduringly as Donut Dollies.

0:52.9

These female patriots prepared and distributed baked goods, coffee and other rations for the

0:56.2

American military presence in France, filling the GI tracks of GI's and boosting their

1:00.8

morale.

1:02.6

The Rabbid War Time Consumption of Donuts by US Military Personnel is even thought by

1:05.9

some to be why American soldiers came to be referred to as Doe Boys.

1:13.6

The conclusion of the Great War of 1918 set up a decade of Western economic boom, known

1:17.8

as the Rorying 20s, though the greed of the ruling class made the sustained growth unsustainable,

1:22.3

in the Wall Street crash of 1929 ushered in the prolonged misery of the Great Depression.

1:26.8

In 1936, just as President Franklin Delano Roosevelt's new deal of tightened banking

1:30.2

regulations and vast expansion of government-make-work programs finally pulled America out of the pits

1:34.2

of financial despair, a Houston man named Lawrence perfected his gourmet Donut recipe, and began

1:39.2

selling his pastry's wholesale for just five cents a dozen.

1:42.9

Serving his product warm was essential, as the founder said, quote, when they bite into

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