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Episode 155: A 5-year-old should never deliver your food & The 24 $ Burger. · Chucks Cantina

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This is Chuck's canteena podcast where anything and everything is up for discussion. And
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now here's your barman, Chuck O'Donnell. Hey, how are you? I
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am a little grouded? Are you? We're just going to you're drinking anything?
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I'm drinking some V eight uh V eight yeah, okay, okay,
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the good one. This is the good one. And everyone's going to think
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of the sugary ship, but not the sugar ship. It's the one that's
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like the actual juice, but it's the strawberry banana and it is amazing.
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Okay, it's my favorite. They have at You're so very ill, say
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you and that's Chef's guss okay, and allegedly from you know, I actually
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I read some scholarly articles because I didn't trust the internet, like just googling
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is VA healthy? You know, supposedly this, this specific shoot of VA
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Juices is actually good for you. Now you don't need to say it outright,
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but is this actually the v A brand or is this a different company?
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H it's the og Okay, so it's I get you. I just
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want to make sure it's like yeah, because like anytime you see like tomato,
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it's like it's like, what is it? And I'm having bubbly cherry
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flavor? It's like, what do you call it? What's the thing everyone
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uses? Like Kleenex? You know, everyone goes okay the Kleenex. It's
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a tissue, you know, because you know, but respect Kleenex because like,
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come on, dude, they easily got to have in the if not
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the at least in the top five most word of mouth marketing ever. Well,
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I don't think you could fire the marketing director who came up with that.
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I don't think even the marketing director is probably around anymore, and it's
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probably just gone down the line of their kids and it's like, oh they
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doing that, Oh, where's where's it? It's like it's like, you
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know, any person ever goes into clean next meeting, where's the marketing department?
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Fired? You're out of here. We don't need it. We don't
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need a marketing department or Kleenex, like like McDonald's like, hey, we
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don't need a marketing a property, you know, you know what we need?
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Wait, what does make that majority of McDonald's commercials anyway? Happy meals?
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Otherwise you get the occasional like you know, hey, come try a
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quick yeah or literally yeah, it's back. McRib the mcrim is back.
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It's like a ten second ad and they're gonna make millions, Oh dude,
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and really like we gonna get the side the way Truck Scantina, thank you
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at trucks Nanteina Gmail, truck Katina. But literally my wife and I my
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wife, we were talking about this last night. We went to the gym
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and then like the generateds, we didn't go to McDonald's. We were talking
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about McDonald's and we went down. The reason being and I want to get
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you this is not gonna lie. I had a couple of things I want
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to talk to you about. But for usual, whenever you come on,
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fuck it because it's just always good times because we you know, I mean,
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you know, the first like ten twenty episodes. I not wrote a
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script. I wrote bullet points and just don't know if you go back and
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listen, like said, you always should always listen to your own stuff.
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I'm I'm the first guy to say that, And sometimes I'm like, Okay,
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that's pretty good. The other times I'm like, oh why, like
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because I get tell it's like, oh, good conversations coming kind of like
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how I'm trying to get away, like I'm kind of going from me,
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but I'm not like oh and then we go something else. Anyway, we're
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talking about this last night, So so you get on marketing. Okay,
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the gym that Kaylyn and I go to this is like a chain. It
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is a chain. Actually, I think it's Allly Fitness where all of these
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we I mean you didn't see. Yeah, anyway, hopefully kind of like
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how like when you talk to your phone like al a sudden artises maybe hopefully
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that entices them to maybe reach out to Chucks Cantina at gmail dot com right
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across the street from Elifit is not even when you walk outside, the first
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thing you see Burger kinge smart like you know, hey, that Burger king
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has broken? So many people do don't even think about that? Yeah,
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dude, how many I hears saying I'm guilty even too? Like one two
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th I was like super like, oh I got I haven't evenything any some
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protein or I was going to burgny like a good like a couple of chicken
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sandwiches and burgers. Anyway, Yeah, oh god, how many? How
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many? How many? Has that one broken? Too many? We'll get
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to the other the Burger kinge dilemma here in a minute, but to stick
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on the fast the all fast food track. We were going down the pipeline
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her night of like what food joints did you live off as a kid,
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And there's a reason that goes we'll get together part in a minute. The
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reason we're talking about that is like we're trying to see, like how much
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has it changed since fro when we were a kid to now, because when
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I was a kid, and she'll and she says, like, you know,
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the thing that we her and I would always get, which is kind
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of funny, is now we're married. Was the Burger King chicken sandwich.
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Before the chicken sandwich fores happened in the last couple of years. The Burger
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King chicken sandwich, the original chicken sandwich, to me, was the most
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elite sandwich out And I didn't mean of all of them, like the we're
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heard I without like a rabbit hole time about the bread. The bread on
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the original chicken chicken sandwich for Burger King, where it's that lawn poppy seed
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bun, feels like it's buttered, feels like it's fresh out of the oven.
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When it's probably been in a plastic bag for five months. It was
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just it's just always so good. And then I just remember, and I'm
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not gonna lie to you. I remember, I don't know if it's been
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around for a long time. And then I'm leve nine here. I remember
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it was like two thousand, Between two thousand and two thousand and three,
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time is when the McChicken really came into light because they started having commercials for
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it. And I'll never forget the first mind of mc chicken was literally my
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dad got us two mc chicken sandwiches because you know, we're big boys.
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I was a big boy then so a big guy now shocker, and I
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still forget, like we eat the chicken sandwich and my dad was like,
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it's not burgercane and I ate it. I'm like and I literally said to
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my dad, I'm gonna be at these rest of my life in lower ball.
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All these years later, anytime we've been out to you, laders,
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we've had a few libations, if you will. My go to orders always
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two mc chickens in a French fried But what for you was like your go
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to as a kid, and what did you should have her? Now?
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Because for me, it was always burgking when I as a kid. But
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now it's like because the problem and here's the thing the problem for me,
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they come back and the other thing I was gonna talk about the problem with
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Burgricane. I mean, this is definitely not give him the email tchuck scanteen
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Toby dot com, wink. It's it's just so hit or miss for me,
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man, like as I don't know what it is, but it's just
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either it's really good or it's like I want my money back bad. But
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yeah, well I'm trying. I'm trying to think because like I don't really
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think I got a whole lot of fast food as a kid, uh unless
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we were on like a road trip. I mean, well, so here's
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the thing, because like with a family of six, like you know,
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oh yeah, I didn't think about that. I was just thinking, like
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my parents always did it on road trips, because like, how how else
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are you gonna fucking feed four kids and you and your spouse. There's like
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quickly and efficiently on a road trip, Like it's fast food. So I
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think because we did so many like road trips and driving, that we were
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doing that enough that we never really had fast food outside of that, except
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when I was very little, like before preschool, before kindergarten. Actually when
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we lived here in Virginia. Funny enough, we did go to Chick fil
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A often. What well, yeah, because it was it was back when
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they first I think. I mean, I don't they're from the They're from
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the Atlanta region. Because's saying they were never in the Midwest like the last
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years. Yeah, yeah, they they were East Coast primarily, and then
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they realized their potential and smartly moved out to the Midwest. And now they're
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taking over the Midwest. They're taking out the world. I mean, on
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on just a food level. I love the food, right. But so
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back to the story, though, I really don't have a whole lot of
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memories outside of that. Like uh, I mean obviously it was me and
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my little sisters, like two preschoolers. My mom would just go to Chick
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fil A to hang out with her friends and then the kids could play in
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the play area. So like yeah, McDonald's. Yeah, but I do
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have I have some like when I was very little, little I think BK
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was was my favorite. Like I have this this feeling I've never been a
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big art just guy like I mean, I'll eat it and I have enjoyed
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it a lot in the past, just nowadays it's just not for me.
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No, and I would I would second that. But like, I mean,
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I just I remember back when I was a kid, like you said,
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like for some reason, like everyone I knew, Burger King was always
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like the go to. I like, it might be nostalgia, it might
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just be false memory, but I truly believe old BK, like way back
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then before they first tried to change the menu, right, I do think
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it slapped like and again it could be false memory. I think I recall
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like the like the seared meat tastes feel back when they used to do on
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the griddle. Yep. I well, I don't know. I don't know
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if these are false memories or that. No, no, no not,
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because here's the thing, and I was like, this was gonna bring it
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out. If you're a nineties kid, Okay, I don't typically consider myself
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a nineties kid. But where were you born ninety six? So quick,
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quick, this is quick. I didn't think. I watched and got involved
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with a lot of like nineties things. I learned the nineties through my two
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older sisters. Like I was living in like quote unquote modern and like I
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got the exposure of nineties because of them, like okay, because they watched
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a lot of nineties shows, you know, like did all the nineties trends.
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So like I think it's a weird exposure for me. Okay, I'm
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just gonna say this though, if you're a nineties kid, I feel like
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most kids for the nineties enjoyed Burgricane. And here's the thing, it's been
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now almost I'm gonna say at least twenty years, if not twenty, it's
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near twenty. And hearing my both sets of my parents because both of the
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divorce, both sides going oh Birking's out the same sense they changed the menu
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all those years ago, they changed the oil, and it's like, okay,
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by now this is like it's not even like oh this is new.
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It's like, then why do we keep going like this is established now that
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it's been the same wave like this, because I'll never forget. It's gonna
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sound so stupid despite all the concussions I've had and thankfully listen, thankfully not
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out what like I said, I don't have I really don't have any meth
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I remember quite a lot of my life. I really do, and I'm
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thankful for that. But the spite of I'll never forget the first time I
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ever heard my mother or father say that. I can't say the exact month,
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but I could tell you it was around nineteen. I want to say
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ninety nine or two thousand, because I don't know if you ever remember this
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movie called Wild Wild West and they came out of them and it was not
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You're not gonna find it any like of the greatest movies of all timesless I'll
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say that, but they had the they had the toy line for Burgricane did
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and I'll never forget. Fuck dude, Yeah, got about the toys.
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I'm saying, I'll never forget it. My mom got me whatever. Whatever
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they consider a happy meal, like, I guess a kid's meal is what
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they call it for them, because I think I think heavy maals Lily McDonald's
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trademark. God, the everyone's getting plugs today. Yeah. I was trying
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not to say no, no, no, but no, but literally,
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you've been the klassical saying arches, but literally, I'll never get those.
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The first time I heard her go oh, I heard they change all these
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fries and they suck and like, I mean, you're I'm like five or
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six, I don't know, but I'm like, yeah, oh, I
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it taste a little bit different. I'm just like whatever. But like I
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literally been hearing that phrase since Wild Wild West, just in my and again,
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I remember that because like literally, because my dad, he loves Burricane.
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He loves He's like whenever time, it's like a tradition him and I
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had, whenever him and I would go on a trip. Uh, because
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you know, my dad really doesn't he never really flew that much. Whenever
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we would, we'd always do road trips. Whenever we would drive somewhere,
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it was always, hey, let's if we're gonna stop somewhere a quick bite.
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It was always Burgricane, and it was always like, hey, because
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we can either have their breakfast food or we can have a whapper chicken sandwich
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because it's always available on the menu, and it's like a tables all this
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time. I just never I'll never get I've been hearing my dad say that
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since then. I've been hearing my mom say that since then. I'm just
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like, hen, we move past this. But again, like I mean,
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god, God knows how much shit has changed, the fast food you
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know, uh, ingredients or god knows what else, you know, cheaper,
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quicker, less real like and more and still more expensive for the consumer.
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Yeah, Like it's it's sad to say there's that mean that's gone around
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for a couple of years now, Like you know, like you have three
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dollars in your pocket, what are you getting from the value menie McDonald's And
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it's like you look at those things, it's like one of those things is
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not just like four bucks. So I I just saw it today. It
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was a short on YouTube. Yeah, don't ask me why I get the
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fun things. But apparently the internet is up in arms because someone shared a
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twenty four dollars and some change receipt for a five guys order of I know
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what you're talking about. Yeah, I'm just like that's such little so for
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for the audience, it was like a normal cheeseburger, small fries, small
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drink with total and tip or tax no tip. It came out to like
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twenty four dollars and some change. And I don't know, all right,
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I will say I think five guys is actually good food. I will say
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that I have not been disappointed. I have never been disappointed only until I
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get the bill. Oh yeah, that's to be honest, Like, especially
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back when I made a lot less money, like I rarely went to five
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guys. It was like a special treat to go to five guys because I
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was like most of the time I couldn't rationally spending that extra money for you
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know, just a burger. But literally it's like it's like what it's like
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twelve dollars for like a double burger cheese. It's just like, no,
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I think that was the stingle, dude. That's the thing. Like and
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truthfully, because like when we got it at your wedding, like I'm pretty
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sure, I'm pretty sure I only got a single, like just a single
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burger, nothing, nothing else, and it came out to like thirteen or
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fourteen bucks. Oh my god. It like I'm pretty sure that's just a
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single because we were there for Target. Oh my god, oh god,
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that was actually really good though. No, but that's see, that's the
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problem. And it's like okay, or for example, and again I'm not
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gonna say this is legit because again, all I mean, I don't tamper
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with my like I mean, I'm afraid to be there have been a couple
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of things I've kind of only for like between the beginning event of like the
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podcast, just for like intro outro purposes. But like there was a guy
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who went on uh I think I think he was on TikTok and he did
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a thing where he went he did multiple chipotles, He went to multiple chipotles,
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ordered to go, and then he did well hold on and then he
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did multiple takeout orders via Uber or like one of these, like you know,
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and was he gonna fucking pluck it? I got I'm clearing that media
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training drew all these all these uh he took all these right share apps,
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he did all these ride share apps and be like, hey, like what
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same exact order from all these places, and like the food quality or quantity
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rather was significantly less. It's just the food service on the takeout, on
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the take outside, on the takeout or on the food service. No so
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in terms of how much food he got for ordering in or ordering through a
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right share. When he ordered in, he got a lot of food.
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When he ordered right share, he got signfically less food. And like it's
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no secret they up charged a ship out of that because obviously the right shair
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is I make some cash off it. Yeah, but it's just like and
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it just sucks. It's just like where we like because memor on, I'm
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I like, you know, right chairs now, I'm just now I'm just
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watching myself from saying shit. I like right share as much as the next
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guy. But I'm also also at times I'm just like, you know what,
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like I'd rather go watch them make my food because then if if you
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wait forty five minutes and then that Chick fil A shows Chicken sandwich place shows
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up and for some reason, just hypothetically, you got a chicken sandwich,
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fries and a shake and for some odd reason they forget to put a cherry
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on it, You're just it just ruins the mood. Man, I'm not
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gonna lie. I think I've become a little a little luxurious with my food
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apps. For disclosure, I have I have removed it from my phone and
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I haven't used it in like four months, so there you go. Yeah,
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I'm four months clean. Well anyway, full disclosure, I just put
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the Chick fil A up on my phone. Oh dude, I perched fell
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that for the year. Anyway. Oh god, I stopped pretty quickly ordering
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from anywhere that I knew was more than like twenty minutes out like right,
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like, and I'm not talking like twenty minute if I drive there, I'm
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talking twenty minute delivery service people, right, Because like I was having too
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many cases where like I'd order something and it'd be like a forty five fifty
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five minute drive, right, and then it would get to me and to
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be half cold, half warm, half soggy, half you know. Well,
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and the problem is it's like it's it's and I get it from the
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ride share side. If you make too many issues, they're be like,
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Okay, there's nothing more we can do for you, Sorr. It's like,
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well, like I paid for this. It's not it's like, well,
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we can't give you money because we've given you refunds already on other things
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in the past. You just go down the rabble like reading like people's experience
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of ride shares. And here's the thing I hate. I hate to say
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this too. It is an object kind of like where you lived, because
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like, okay, if you live in a shitty area like Liza, it's
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probably gonna a shitty food certain I'm just you know, I'm just throwing like,
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well you will find you will find those random hole in the walls that
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are fantastic. But that that also goes like with some of the things that
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are like people are touching your food something, which is unfortunately. That's why
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like like here's the right right you right away get brownie points for me if
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you're one of these restaurants that like whenever someone like picks up your right your
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food that you order through white shirt app and you like tape the box,
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yes, like right away, right away, you got brownie points to me
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if that shit comes and the bags open. I'm like, I have used
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that as my deciding factor two times, like where I was torn between two
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places literally equally balanced, and I knew that one did that and one didn't,
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and I was like, fuck it. Yep, playing it safe today.
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Boys. But as you said, though, like it was forty five
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minutes. But sometimes like and then sometimes you just don't want to get out
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of the office chair. Sometimes you just want to get the child couch.
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Sometimes you're like, you know what I didn't I need to help defend democracy.
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Just think about forty five minutes. By the time I'm done, we'll
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be good to go. And you know it's like also really shitty that.
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I don't know why, but like that I got a cough now that reminded
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me of like one of the first times I ever used the apps. My
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my little sister and I we got real, real, real grooded whether with
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a couple more reels thrown in there? How many how many o's and t's,
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Like like we pre planned the ship because we knew we were gonna be
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too too grooded. Okay, it was a rainy Saturday afternoon and we had
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nothing to do, so that kind of level that a way. Anyway,
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Uh so we knew we wanted we wanted to feast, right because you know,
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yeah, you wanted to feast. So so we pulled our money and
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uh we got a massive order from five guys or a five some really overpriced
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burger joint. But I don't want to like bash them. A burger joint
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that has good their food over it's really good. It's just it's not worth
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that much. Yeah, and and so like the restaurant was about like twenty
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minutes like if I drove there distance. Yeah, so like we knew it
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would be a while, and we kind of figured like we just you know,
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keep grooting. So so we we grooted for the like fifty five fucking
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minute delivery time, right, Like we we knew that the burgers were going
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to be cold, so like we we heat it up the oven already,
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so like we knew we were just gonna throw them in there, like like
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you know, we we we were expecting it. You despite how, despite
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despite you being on Planet X, you were prepared well. Like I said,
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we had a pre plan this ship to two Bachelor Degrees to figure this
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out. You're welcome, mom, and dad was gonna say congratulations. But
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what we were worried about was we ordered shakes. Oh no, yeah,
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yeah, yeah, So so we had cleared we no, no, we
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had cleared space out of the freezer. So we knew we were gonna grab
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them and instantly put them in the freezer like wet towels, ready to wrap
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around it, you know all that shit right wrap around right, yep.
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We're tracking this thing. We're tracking this thing, you know what. We're
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watching it because we grewed it, you know. And obviously that fifty five
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minutes felt like fifty five hours for us. Yeah yeah, yeah, you
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know how it works. And it gets down to seven fucking minutes, right,
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seven fucking minutes. He's coming at our street six minutes. We're losing
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our goddamn mine. It's fucking here, boys, it's fucking here. Then
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your order has been dropped. Oh the fucker decided. Nah, this order
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snow pretty good. I've been driving with this for a while. I'm pretty
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hungry. Boys. These are a couple of nice burgers, and hey,
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these shakes haven't melted yet, oh man, And just dipped with our order.
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Oh we got we got it refunded. But the matter that the pride
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and the time was, man, dude, that that that time, that
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fifty five minutes was hell. It was. It was a hard time at
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that moment, oh man. And that that burger, that meal, that
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shake, Jesus, that was gonna be salvation. See. And that's that's
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the thing going back out, like it's always a gamble whenever you do any
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type of I mean, that's what anything like. You know, if you
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buy some from Amazons, a gamble's gonna make it a one piece. You
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don't know that it's a gamble if you buy something like I'm because we're trying
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to avoid sponsors or not, we're trying to not try to avoid sponsors.
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Excuse me. We're trying to avoid saying names. You would like sponsorss very
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much, but because there's a certain I won't say who. If you're in
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the United States, you know who I'm talking about. There's a certain shipping
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company that where if you see all of a sudden that it says your item
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is being shipped by this place, you automatically go, you don't go,
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where is it that you don't you know, you go, fuck, it
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is not gonna I can hear? Is it in one piece? Oh?
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Really? I have had that experience. Here's a hint for some people.
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It's very popular on another continent. That's all I want to say about that
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anyway. But it's like it just sucks, like because because it's just ship
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like that, and then it's you know, and I'm not gonna go to
25:15
the hole like, oh well, twenty dollars an hour for doing flipping burgers,
25:18
but just like what the fuck? You know what I mean, Like
25:19
that's the ship. That's just because because because now here's the thing too,
25:22
it's like the guy probably got like a nasty message from Uber why did you
25:26
cancel this order? Why did you cancel this What happened? Because I'm not
25:30
actually a true story, and I'm gonna say it's around. I don't know
25:33
for a fact if this is true, but this is an actual experience that
25:37
happened. It's gonna be a good one. I mean, it's not good.
25:40
I felt terrible for the ride share driver. I'll say that. So
25:42
my wife loves a certain subplace that Drew and I, well, Hi about
25:48
this. She loves a certain subplace that is a major competitor to a subplace
25:52
that Drew and I text about every two days. See what you're putting down.
26:00
I'm learning so I'll never forget my wife. She was coming home,
26:06
I believe from workers saw ball. She's coming from something. I'm like,
26:07
hey, you know what a long day. I'll surprise her. I'll get
26:11
her her sandwich from this place, and I'm ordering and kind of like you
26:15
okay, I see it coming down. And full disclosure, I was being
26:19
lazy as shit. This sandwich place. I could have literally I could have
26:23
been there and back in twenty five minutes. It's about a fifteen minute walk.
26:29
But I just was walking too. Okay, Yeah, but I was
26:30
just I was just look, I'm comfortable. I don't want to get up
26:34
I don't want to do it, so I order the sandwich. I order
26:40
my sandwich. I'm like, i'll find you. I'll like the bullet,
26:41
I'll get the sandwich from this other place whatever. Anyway, and I'm watching
26:45
like you, I'm watching. I saw I see the driver get there.
26:49
I'm like cool, and then I see the driver. Your order is now
26:52
on its way. Great, it's coming down the road passes Wisconsin Avenue passes,
27:00
you know, heading over to Water Street. I'm like, a right
27:03
here we go, it's coming, it's coming. Gets it right to the
27:07
and I mean I don't live there, Like I said, iceed to live
27:08
on Jackson Street and two streets before Jackson Street gets the Highland Avenue. Like,
27:12
okay, here it is, it's coming. You could go and I'll
27:15
never forget. I was like, you took a really weird fucking route,
27:18
which was kind of a spoiler, kind of which should have been hit in
27:21
the first place. Also, in the carter just stops and I'm sitting there
27:22
and I'm like, all right, it's a little weird and I'll keep it
27:25
my uber. Fuck. They some of them have these like they have those
27:30
like times. I was like, hey, your order will be in by
27:30
this time or whatever and then which, of course it always changes. I'll
27:34
never forget. It was like right at that point, all of a sudden,
27:37
the car starts to move, like okay, well that was weird because
27:41
like they parked right by her college and it said there for like fifteen twenty
27:45
minutes, Like all right, this is getting kind of weird because we didn't
27:48
order anything crazy. We ordered two sandwiches, and like, you know,
27:52
I live in the partment, so I buzzed them in. They would come
27:53
upstairs, and we're the apartment we lived in really the greatest, like how
28:00
I put it, like, hey, go this way for this room,
28:02
remember, so I just I would always open the door up my ro I'm
28:03
like, hey, I'm over here, and I see this person come out
28:07
of the elevator and I see the bag of food. All right, it's
28:08
here. Also, this person starts limping. I'm like, what the heck
28:15
is going on here? And I see on their other arm that's thankfully not
28:18
holding my food, they have like a little cut. I'm like, uh,
28:23
I'm thinking, like what the fuck happened? Because I'm like, okay,
28:26
like this is where and like I'm not joking when this person was like
28:29
limping to me. I mean was like like I just got shot in the
28:33
leg and I'm limping to you. It was that messed up and like here's
28:36
your food. I just go, you know, and like like like kind
28:40
of like coming. It was a three second pause. I felt like a
28:42
twenty second pasture. I'm kind of like, you're you gonna say something like
28:45
I don't want to be the one that's to say like what's going on here?
28:48
So I just go are you all right? And the person goes,
28:51
yeah, I'm fine. I'm sorry your food. I mean, I know
28:52
it's on time, but it We've been here ten I fortunately I got tea
28:56
boned. I'm like what, I'm like, you did what? Like,
29:00
yeah, I got t boned and I'm fine. The cops are at the
29:04
scene. I decided to deliver your food. I'm like what you like wait?
29:11
What like, yeah, you're just down the sho you were just down
29:12
the roads. I mean like it was like literally like a five minute walk,
29:15
but yeah, I just figure I walk here and I dropped, like
29:18
I'm like are you good? Like yeah, I'm just gonna go back to
29:21
my car, and the cops away for me, and they have they have
29:22
my information, but like I'm like okay, and then you start just slipping
29:26
back to the elevator and I'm like what what the So I was so stunned
29:34
I didn't ask like, hey you got t B on, like was it
29:37
a hint run, because like usually I there's like a cars. They're kind
29:40
of like, hey, I can't you can't leave because I'm here's my thought
29:44
too, because like I'll never forget. Because then Kennan comes home, she's
29:48
get her sandwich, She's looking at me like what the fuck's up with you?
29:51
And I explained the situation to her what the fuck is happening, and
29:53
she's like what, Like that's fucking weird. And then of course our roommate
29:57
Leah, she comes home and she works in the medical industry, and I
30:02
tell her the story and she's like that makes no sense. I'm like,
30:06
what do you mean? She goes they wouldn't have let her go if she
30:07
was that fun. I'm like that's what I said, but like I'm not
30:11
gonna lie, Like have you seen this person the way they were walking,
30:12
the cut in their arm, You're thinking or it was all a massive ploy
30:19
to get a good tip. Yeah, because I bet you did, didn't
30:25
you? I gave I gave, I gave. I gave a good tip.
30:30
Yeah exactly. It might be a goddamn genius ploy and probably five stars.
30:37
Right, and now this this, this, this is this young woman
30:40
is now driving around a walk you a fucking McLaren because she got all this
30:42
tip money from Alliver? Like, what's that job? Did you give her
30:48
five stars? I did, see, I see, I said, If
30:52
everyone does that, she's going to be a top rated driver effort by start,
30:56
I mean, she's going to get the better, better orders, right,
31:02
generally get bigger tips. Anyway, she comes up and wounded, wounded,
31:10
she drops off your massive fucking order. Let's say it's a two hundred
31:14
dollars order, right, you're already gonna tip her, you know, thirty
31:17
bucks probably right, right, unless you're an asshole? Yeah yeah, yeah,
31:21
so you hear wounded, she tells you the story, You're like,
31:25
god, damn, obviously you have some money because you're got I don't know
31:33
who's doing that right here, because who the fuck is ride sharing steaks to
31:37
your house? No, you go to restaurant, you know this is this
31:41
is a wealthy person. You're like well, fuck, this person is going
31:47
through hell and here I am eating, Like, look, look like a
31:51
jackass. You know what, let's bump that thirty dollars tip and let's triple
31:56
it or you. As soon as I get the olive, they wiped the
32:00
They wiped the fucking ketch up off their arm, their leg all of a
32:05
sudden, Oh I can walk just fine. To be clear, I'm not
32:08
saying that this is this is an actual play. I'm just saying what if,
32:12
And I think it's funny. But yeah, no, that was that
32:17
literally wash That was one of the weirdest riot shacks. The other one,
32:22
I'm not gonna lie was there was a time, literally the same apartment,
32:24
same location. I had ordered myself, Caitlin, and Leah dinner and I
32:31
think I was making drinks in the kitchen and all of a sudden, the
32:36
door knocks. Once they came up to you, yeah, like we I
32:39
think we buzzed them in, so dude, wow, that's that's a trip.
32:44
Oh yeah, so we buzzed them up. They come up and uh
32:47
knocking the door, and then Kathan's like, I'll get the dinner. Okay,
32:50
great, she opens the door. All of a sudden, I hear
32:54
Charlie and what and like like right where I was in the kitchen like I
33:00
did like a TV show. Just all was just laying back a little bit,
33:01
like what's up? So I can see what's in front of my beautiful
33:07
bride to be a five year old with all her food. The kid?
33:17
Yeah, they said their fucking kid. What the fuck? So of course,
33:24
nice, nice, nice, young little lad. I'll say that.
33:28
I don't land it off. I'm not my father, but nice little lad.
33:30
Hold on, let me get that. So kid runs off, I'm
33:32
not joking, ran to the elevator. So the shitless. So we're like
33:42
puzzled. Leah didn't see this, but she's like what so oh soon I
33:49
get the I get you. Here's the thing. I'm not an asshole when
33:51
it comes like again, if my food's on time, and I'm gonna tip,
33:53
if my food's sucked up, I'm gonna say something. That's how I
33:55
am. But all of a sudden you get that like like how is your
34:00
how is your right share experience with this driver today? I didn't just talk
34:05
to them, no, No, was your food delivered on time? Yeah?
34:07
So all of a sudden, and of course the three of us were
34:10
like what do we do? And I'm like, okay, look, I
34:15
got to be the adult here because here's a bottom line. The apartment we
34:19
lived in the time, I'm not gonna say it was a nice apartment.
34:22
I'm not gonna say it was the safest area. It was a safer area,
34:27
but not the safest. Was that fair? That's that's that's probably the
34:30
best way to put it. So I need put slide issue here. And
34:34
I literally wrote that, I said that. I said the person was super
34:37
I literally said the kid was very nice, super polite, hand us our
34:42
food, YadA yah yea da. But then I said and I never got
34:45
I literally wrote, and yes, you read that right, kid, they
34:47
had a child come to our door on the twelve floor of an apartment building
34:52
to drop off food. Yeah. Yeah, any any person with ill intent
34:58
could con do horrible things. And I don't know the statstuff, but came
35:01
on in Milwaukee at the time, one of the worst cities for that for
35:06
ship like that, Like, oh fuck, are you real? Yeah,
35:09
Miwaukee was like top five and like, uh what was it was like trafficking.
35:15
They were in the top ten for kidnapping and yeah, they're the top
35:20
five for trafficking for sure, but just like what the and that fortunately falls
35:23
on all canaorse, which is like what the fuck? Like what you're sending
35:25
your kids to the fucking twelve floor because and here's the thing, like like
35:30
I'm one of those guys who, especially when I live at the apartments,
35:32
I would be as a discreet as possible. Here's how you get in,
35:36
here's what you talk to. All that stuff make it easier on me.
35:38
Is like, hey, the sooner I get my food, so you get
35:39
to go do the I feel so bad because we're in like a double locked
35:45
like community. Yeah, So I started to meet them at the leasting office
35:53
store every single time, like the front front door, because I feel so
35:57
bad for them, also because I'm not in the best scevaria so right,
36:02
But I'm just I just I'll never forget. I'm like, like really because
36:06
that was my whole thing. I was like, I was like, I
36:07
mean, I've had uber like rides where all of a sudden, you know,
36:09
I'm expecting, like you know, here comes Mark and all of a
36:12
sudden, like a woman's at my door and it's like she just got a
36:15
bag of food. I'm like, oh, okay whatever, like cool beans
36:17
than shore the food. All my foods here on time and everything's correct and
36:20
there's no problem with it. Great, but I'm trying when like, all
36:22
of a sudden, I'm expect because I forget it was supposed to be like
36:24
it was supposed to be like a uh, it was supposed to be an
36:27
older woman and all of a sudden, like I just hear Charlie and I'm
36:30
like what. I not like not like what, I'm just like what,
36:34
like what's the problem. And I'm like, oh, like like this's just
36:39
weird. Yeah, because the kid goes this for Charlie. She's like and
36:46
we're like what and I'm like, yeah, he goes, okay, here
36:49
you go killing crabs the bag and the kid just fucking runs up. Fuck,
36:55
oh my god, He'll we been talking like for forty minutes about fucking
36:59
food ride shairs. So that's great, but dude, it's just it's just
37:02
ship like that. That's the same. That's like, that's like the risks
37:05
you gotta take with especially Anthony you have delivered to your house because again you
37:08
don't you don't know, like you don't know essentially the journey that it takes
37:14
you. Just hold the journey it takes when it gets to you is safe
37:15
and sound and most importantly safe because unfortunately there are assholes or because actually,
37:22
let me ask you a question, because I've had a few people I know
37:24
some people that vehemently will refuse to do this. If you have an issue
37:29
with your food, do you send it back? No? I have worked
37:32
in food industry, so like, so now let me now kind of going
37:42
back there on your whole two hundred dollars thing. I kind of I can
37:45
agree and understand if people's sense it, like Okay, like, hey,
37:49
I asked for medium where this is a little medium. Do you mind just
37:52
cooking for like an extra two minutes? I get that whatever, But yeah,
37:58
like if you're like a fucking like McDonald almost like, oh, hey,
38:00
I got mustard on my burger. I didn't want to fireworks, I
38:04
could hear that too, and it falls real. Yeah, he up.
38:07
I hope it's fireworks. You say you're not in a safe area. No,
38:12
I don't know if we could say the other one. So, but
38:15
I also refer to the mass fireworks. Okay, so Chicago fireworks happy,
38:22
Okay, So there's the sirens, Well, at least are close. It's
38:30
right by. I can hear you, hear the sirens. I can hear
38:36
the siren Jesus here, I am just sitting in my house. We're talking
38:43
about sucking ride share props and drews like you to live. I live in
38:46
de scenario. Why do you think I said double gated earlier? Dou hell
39:00
want to sell and you know, to wild. I entertained a lot of
39:08
my friends at my apartment. A lot of the time. It's like everyone's
39:13
coming to me. I have to bust them in and out. And then
39:16
when then when you buzzt them out, you wave. Boy, Am I
39:27
wrong? Well? I we we do have a standard rule that there there
39:31
must be a text when homes, no exceptions. Oh my god. Like,
39:43
here's the thing. As we grow older, I've come accustomed to and
39:45
I always did that when I know it's like, hey, text us when
39:46
you get that. I always did that anyway, But as I as I
39:51
like like like there are literally times like a friend, like a friend like
39:52
Devion, or like a friend like or like Patrick for example, like you
39:55
know he'll come hey now, he'll stay in the hospital the week and then
39:59
you his home and he's gotta he's gotta do some drive back home. Look
40:01
at he didn drink and drive home. And there's times like you know,
40:07
again, you're driving for long hours, you just might forget something because then
40:09
I'll just send like the most and then I'll just send like the most rudest
40:13
texts like hey, motherfucker, are you fucking alone? Like or what like
40:20
actual way back, I was like, oh sorry, just like like you
40:22
gotta you gotta respond, you got it. A lot of my friends I
40:28
I they don't respond and and I don't. I don't know if it's because
40:34
they just passed out, which not from being too drunk. They would not
40:37
be driving home. A lot of that. I'm just saying, like from
40:40
tiredness because we're old, right and let's be real staying up late, dude.
40:46
I never thought I was like okay, I knew, like okay,
40:51
like was so nice, like I need to go to bed. But it's
40:53
just like like ever since and I hate this saying, it's ever since I
40:57
fucking turned goddamn thirty, Like there's been there's literally been some nights. I'm
41:00
like, don't say that, dude. It's coming right now, It's coming,
41:06
bro, Like I know you're in twenty still joy well, last motherfucker,
41:10
dude, I expect my knees to rip every time I stand up.
41:15
I expect that now. It's not even a fifty to fifty dude, I
41:23
just know what's gonna happen. No, dude, that's the thing. That's
41:25
why. And I've had obviously I've had multiple, unfortunately multiple knee surgeries.
41:31
But like I just thankfully because I take care and like obviously me being gigantic
41:37
doesn't help me. But I'm trying to change, you know, as anyone
41:38
is trying to change gigantic, Thank you Jesus. But like, dude,
41:44
yeah, it's just anytime, like I'm not saying, anytime I stand I
41:50
get a little worried. But there's been some times like I'll stand up,
41:52
but all of a sudden, I feel like we'd like a little thing.
41:53
I'm like, uh, I ask myself, is today today? Or is
42:00
this is this happening now? Are we finally? Are we at this part?
42:05
Bro? This? Uh? This like so far this year I've had
42:12
like these weird heart things and no worry everyone, I am planning to get
42:16
it checked out. Please. Yeah, But likes fuck oh because like I'm
42:25
finally like figuring out how how like I like to relax and and like actually
42:30
like achieving more relaxation, like you know, able to reflect on all that.
42:37
But like so I'm changing a lot of things, and like I'll get
42:40
these random like heart palpitations sometimes yep, and you know it could be anxiety,
42:45
like you know while but like sometimes they've been pretty bad, and it's
42:51
like, ah, is this a heart attack? Like you know, like
42:54
ten years ago, fucking two years ago. You know you're not at when
43:00
in your life you're like, huh, I should actually consider worrying about a
43:02
heart attack, you know, like you know what I mean. But I
43:08
know, I know know, I mean, like yeah, because I'll never
43:12
forget I think I can remember and and I've been kid and I like we
43:15
and I think we heard, and I like sat down, we did some
43:16
like goal plants, which I recommend everyone should do. It was like it
43:20
was like one of those things like as we talk about it, it was
43:22
just like, you know, like let's let's take over the world and ship
43:23
just like it gets you like an aspired and you just feel good about it.
43:27
But I'll never forget her, And I I think I told you about
43:30
this too. Her and I did, like, uh, chiropractors, went
43:32
to chiro therapy whatever I want to call it for like what got a good
43:36
year year and a half a little little before the wedding, a little bit
43:39
after, and we took a lot from it, and like we've taken some
43:43
of that stuff. We haven't been there in a long time, but we've
43:45
taken a lot of stuff like the stretches and like the exercise and it's really
43:47
I'm not gonna I mean, for me personally, it's helped me a lot
43:51
because it was like one of those things. I didn't realize I had a
43:52
neck, I had neck issues until we started doing it, and I'm like,
43:57
oh wait, I can't do that, Like why is that? I'll
44:00
never forget, you know, essentially I'm breaking up all this, like I
44:04
don't call it like that, tish, like all this like callous if you
44:07
will, in my heck and my back and stuff like that. And all
44:09
of a sudden, like kind of like you, I started having this like
44:13
weird chesting going. I'm like, what the fuck is that? Right away?
44:15
Of course is my wife or you don't make my dad tell you?
44:19
You know, we don't go to the doctor. So it's like no,
44:22
So I went, and I'm like, hey, what's going He goes,
44:24
Hey, let's do some tests. I wanted to check your blood pressure.
44:28
Okay, you're a big guy, but hey, your blood pressure's good.
44:30
Hey what's this? Hey? You know that's pretty good too. He goes,
44:31
nothing was. And he explained to me, And I explain to like,
44:35
you know, it's probably just like nerves and stuff like that, because
44:37
like you've had all this pressure in your neck and I it's just spread it
44:38
down. I'm like really goes yeah, wow, but that's me and it
44:43
like and I and like I've had no issues now that around like sometimes it
44:45
happens. I'm like, what the fuck is this? But like like because
44:49
like my chiropractor whatever, they think that the reason like I had all these
44:52
necnsues, well, well, of course what else football? Yeah, Like
45:00
and I'm just gonna assume because like, you know, we both pretty much
45:02
grew up in the mid Midwest. Growing up that's a guy in Midwest.
45:07
And I don't know, I'll be honest, I think I ate a funck
45:09
ton. Oh fuck yeah, what did that diet consist of a lot of
45:15
meat and cheese? Like just garbish. So like you know, you're like
45:20
like I'm at the point where like I'm trying to realize, like I ate
45:24
garbage for like twenty five years, like and all that garbage is building up
45:32
in my blood. Like it's like, well, I should start eating any
45:38
more healthy. I agreed. But that's also one of those things too,
45:40
like you can't beat yourself about certain things because like certain things are just like
45:45
we could have controlled were. And then again, it's not blaming her parents
45:47
either, because like they didn't know what the hell was in some of the
45:50
ship that was we're eating back then, you know what I mean. Like
45:52
even now, like if you start buying this like I mean I don't,
46:00
I mean I didn't used to check. Oh oh god, that's all I
46:04
do now, Yeah, Like you know, at the time, I was,
46:07
oh, like, oh this is cheaper, you know. Yeah,
46:09
I'll grab that one, yep and just put it in the cart. No,
46:14
And I've taken this mantra thankfully from my wife where she's always in the
46:19
mindset like hey, look, oh wait, this is an extra dollar fifty
46:22
or two dollars more, she calls it. She goes convenience fee, and
46:25
then what happens because sure is shit. You read the back of a label
46:29
and there's just some shit there that you know you don't want. We don't
46:37
want that shit in our system. And it's just no matter what we do
46:44
or not what we do, it's just no matter that like what we try
46:46
to do with that shit sometimes ends up on the counter, ends up in
46:50
our system because we might go somewhere we don't know like what they're using to
46:52
cook our food. But no, like I agree, like since we've gotten
46:55
older and like more, especially like supersize me, those like the ones like
47:00
we know like what to have, what we should avoid, but sometimes you
47:04
just can't avoid because it's just like it's part of everyday life, you know
47:07
what I mean. Like I I never thought I was a guy that would
47:08
read the back of a bread label. I could tell you the last time
47:12
I had white bread other than at like a restaurant, I always get wheat
47:15
or multi grade. So I tried to go wheat or honey wheat. And
47:21
I know honeymoons sometimes cheap, but you know, sometimes better than going into
47:27
the way. Oh god, well, I know, even I'm here for
47:30
about an hour, and it's almost been an hour but we can get the
47:37
fuck out here, because that's not that I'm getting actually, because you know
47:38
me, me and me, I literally can't. I had drive through before
47:40
I came on the podcast with you. Text me which place so we can
47:45
know it might have involved a certain animal and a certain speed. If that
47:53
kind of narrows it down. No, I'll tell you often, yeah,
48:04
before we get out of here. You got anything you gotta want to say
48:06
plug or promote before the out No, just actually, yeah, eat healthier,
48:13
just at least sometimes the long terms. At any rate. That is
48:20
uh wait ship No, no, no, do don't tell me, don't
48:22
tell me, don't tell me. Hold on, God damn it, I
48:24
didn't say it this week. Hold on, I literally have it on my
48:28
phone in your context. Hold on, that is shag Zilla. I was
48:35
waiting for it. I'll tell you off. A friend of mine gave me
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a nickname that I will not say on the podcast in a funny way.
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Any rate I could. I can hear laughing. That is shag Zilla.
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I am here. I was going to call myself O G Patron. That's
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Patrick. I have your favorite Army host whatever they called me, Chuck.
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You can always reach us at Chuck's Cantina on your socials Chuckscantina, gmail dot
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com. Like Drew said, be healthy, make smart decisions also you know
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as uh they said in parks and rectreat yourself every once in a while and
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then, in the spirit of Drew, also watch out for the fireworks.
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Take care, God damn it.