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Return of Buffets · Chuck Douglas

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  Speaker 1: W'y six thirty eight, Chuck Douglas in for the Power Hour,
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  Speaker 1: because I think those people would. So here's the story,
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, I don't know that this is good.
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  Speaker 1: COVID was blamed to a large degree for the disappearance
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  Speaker 1: of all the buffet restaurants. We used to have the
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  Speaker 1: Golden Corral, we had the Hometown Buffet, we had the
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  Speaker 1: CC's Pizza, we had the the we had the last
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  Speaker 1: Ponderos in America, I believe down there on South High Street,
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  Speaker 1: which is still still that's a great buffet. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: just for the fried chicken alone. I really enjoy that
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  Speaker 1: when those few occasions.
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  Speaker 2: When I go.
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  Speaker 1: The thing of it is they're talking about now apparently
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  Speaker 1: a surge in buffet restaurants again, I know, and COVID.
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  Speaker 1: You know, people didn't want to breathe on your, sneeze
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  Speaker 1: on you. They were wearing masks and wrapping theirselves in
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  Speaker 1: bubble wrap and nobody wanted to touch anything.
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  Speaker 2: And yeah, I thought it was silly.
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  Speaker 1: However, five years later, I don't know that I'm a
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  Speaker 1: fan of of share because there's some dirty people out there, man,
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  Speaker 1: And I don't know that I want to be buffet
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  Speaker 1: dining with a lot of my fellow humans out there.
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  Speaker 1: I'm okay, the human thing is an assumption, but I
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  Speaker 1: don't know that I would be comfortable and see the
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  Speaker 1: ones that are showing the signs have come back right now?
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  Speaker 1: Are two of them. I like Golden Corral and Cecie's Pizza.
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  Speaker 1: There's one called mister Gotties Pizza, which I've never heard of.
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  Speaker 1: It's partly attributed to the value seeking consumer. Buffets, of course,
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  Speaker 1: with their wide variety and fixed price, which can be high,
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  Speaker 1: by the way some buffets, you know, thirty nine to
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  Speaker 1: ninety five or whatever, so you make sure you go
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  Speaker 1: in there and start with the meat. I loved CC's pizza,
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  Speaker 1: enjoyed it. Used to go to the one that was
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  Speaker 1: over in Hilliard all the time. In fact, one I
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  Speaker 1: was in there, I had the family. I had the
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  Speaker 1: whole family in there, and we're digesting, you know, all
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  Speaker 1: the pizza. And just as I put a piece of well,
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  Speaker 1: some couple of guys come out and table, Hey, aren't
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  Speaker 1: you Chuck Douglas. I'm like, this is not the right
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  Speaker 1: time for this, But I just don't know the way
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  Speaker 1: the world is today. New bug found every other day,
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  Speaker 1: it seems something else that'll kill us. I'm not sure
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  Speaker 1: that I'll be a fan if they come back and
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  Speaker 1: they reopen. Are you a buffet guys act? Do you
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  Speaker 1: like them? Have you liked them in the past? Would
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  Speaker 1: you be in favor of going to them if they
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  Speaker 1: came back.
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  Speaker 3: I love Der Dutchman over there in plain the city,
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  Speaker 3: but that's the only one. For some reason, I trust
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  Speaker 3: the idea that there's food just setting there and I
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  Speaker 3: could come in at two o'clock in the afternoon and
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  Speaker 3: somebody else could have walked before me and touched it
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  Speaker 3: or sneezed on it or did anything.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and there's crazy people out there. And you know
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  Speaker 1: the woman that was peeing on the groceries last week.
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  Speaker 3: Right right, it's not it. Maybe that's a bit of irrational.
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  Speaker 3: It's not interrrational fear, but I overthink it. I've always
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  Speaker 3: been iffy, weary about food. I like CC's pizza a lot,
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  Speaker 3: but I'd be like every time I would go there,
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  Speaker 3: I'm like, did somebody do something?
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  Speaker 1: I know, it's just I don't trust my fellow man.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I'm kind of kind of leery. Unless you
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  Speaker 1: know new for cautions are put in place, maybe they'll
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  Speaker 1: come back bigger and better and say, you know, now.
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  Speaker 2: We protect the food this way, that way away.
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  Speaker 1: I'll listen to the sales pitch, but I'm just curious
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  Speaker 1: that you guys, if the buffets were to make a
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  Speaker 1: comeback and we started having them all over the place
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  Speaker 1: again the way it was, you know, ten to fifteen
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  Speaker 1: years ago. Are you a buffet fan? Is that something
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  Speaker 1: you'd be looking forward to or you kind of long
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  Speaker 1: the same line as I am that it is just
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  Speaker 1: it is too risque in twenty twenty five to become
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  Speaker 1: a big fan of the buffet dining A two one
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  Speaker 1: nine eight eighty six eight two one WTV And Dontee's
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  Speaker 1: been hanging on for a while with the thought on
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  Speaker 1: this all right, buffet dondee, what do you think?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? Actually, well that's one of the reasons why call
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  Speaker 4: and you ain't talk them since Joe Biden put on
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  Speaker 4: the radio. But if I could, if I didn't answer
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  Speaker 4: your first about ten X kids, you don't understand why
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  Speaker 4: how job and family services is certain things. If I
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  Speaker 4: can just get two seconds on that, go ahead, I understand.
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  Speaker 4: Remember I got an almost twenty three year old son
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  Speaker 4: union and an almost thirteen y girl daughter. Those kids,
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  Speaker 4: all kids, those young folks today are not taught what
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  Speaker 4: we were taught. They don't know how to fell out
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  Speaker 4: of resume did they weren't talk to self out of
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  Speaker 4: resumes what they were talked to go to a program
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  Speaker 4: making t answer these questions and bote. They won't taught
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  Speaker 4: the things we were taught. And that's part of the
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  Speaker 4: reason why I understand that program I do.
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  Speaker 1: Well, do you understand? Why do you understand why it
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  Speaker 1: eliminates everybody else?
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  Speaker 5: Though?
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  Speaker 2: Why should it be specifically and under.
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  Speaker 4: But do you understand we had the same hold on there?
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  Speaker 5: But why house?
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  Speaker 4: Oh you can hear me?
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  Speaker 1: Well, yeah, when I hear you, I just assume there's
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  Speaker 1: going to be sirens nearby.
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  Speaker 4: Well, his buddy will be falling behind me and a
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  Speaker 4: second trust me, Okay, I understand it. But we had
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  Speaker 4: the same thing back in the eighties. Can you say
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  Speaker 4: the sixty five and over from AARB. We just didn't
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  Speaker 4: realize what it was doing because we were keen interest.
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  Speaker 4: Now that now that you and I in the sixty club,
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  Speaker 4: you realize what AARB was doing. Back in the eighties
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  Speaker 4: and nineties, they were advocating for senior citizens.
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  Speaker 1: Well that that's fine, though, that's a private organization, that's
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  Speaker 1: not a government agency saying we're going to help people
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  Speaker 1: find jobs as long as they're not old.
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  Speaker 4: They made that government agency do certain things for seniors.
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  Speaker 4: But that's not the reason why I caught. I can
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  Speaker 4: thank you.
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  Speaker 1: I you gonna spend fifteen minutes telling me all the
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  Speaker 1: reasons you didn't call.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you call it?
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  Speaker 4: I know you're gonna get it off here, and I
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  Speaker 4: know there's an other people behind you. You are a
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  Speaker 4: wonderful talker, and I haven't talked to you out about
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  Speaker 4: I need your advice, mind, man. I don't know if
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  Speaker 4: you got the video of the trash on somebody on
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  Speaker 4: private property of an apartment complex in my neighborhood to
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  Speaker 4: sit out there down near month.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I saw that, Okay, I don't.
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  Speaker 4: Know who else to complain to. My friend. I know
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  Speaker 4: in your private job you are a real estate agent.
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  Speaker 4: I know that if you could help me with any information.
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  Speaker 4: I've seen rats that look like dogs crossing the street.
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  Speaker 4: I don't know who that's planning to the City of
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  Speaker 4: Ghana only.
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  Speaker 2: The only thing you've got.
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  Speaker 1: It depends on where they are what jurisdiction they're and
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  Speaker 1: it could have a gay Hanna zip code, but still
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  Speaker 1: be in the city of Columbus. If it's in Columbus,
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  Speaker 1: code enforcement's not going to be able to do anything
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  Speaker 1: on private property. Health Department of Health can because it
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  Speaker 1: is a health hazard, especially if there are rats running
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  Speaker 1: around out there. So that would be my route, Department
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  Speaker 1: of Health and just continue the three one one calls.
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  Speaker 1: Get all your neighbors to call as well. Hopefully some
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  Speaker 1: of the residents are calling.
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  Speaker 4: It all right, yeah, my neighbors are My neighbors are
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  Speaker 4: already doing it. My neighbors are hot because the children
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  Speaker 4: of Graha there's scoo buses run up and down the
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  Speaker 4: street about thirty times a day. And I don't want
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  Speaker 4: one maybe small little baby bitten viral.
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  Speaker 2: At Yeah, I.
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  Speaker 4: Don't want that.
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  Speaker 1: I get all over the Department of Health because when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to trash and vermin, they're they're your best
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  Speaker 1: friend's Code enforcement because it's on private property can't touch them. Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 1: I got to run, Dottie. I appreciate the call. Eight
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  Speaker 1: two one nine and eight six eight two one WTV
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  Speaker 1: and is my number, Brian, You're on six ten double
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  Speaker 1: UTVN Hey.
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  Speaker 5: Chuck, just got a quick buffet story. My queens, who
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  Speaker 5: likes to cook, didn't want to cook for Easters. So
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  Speaker 5: we ended up at Golden Corral in Grove City and
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  Speaker 5: it was pretty good, early enough that it wasn't busy.
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  Speaker 4: Uh.
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  Speaker 5: They even had ribs on the breakfast beffact.
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  Speaker 1: I have been there I think twice since they reopened
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  Speaker 1: at and I have to say both times, both times
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  Speaker 1: food and service, we were pretty dog gone good. The
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  Speaker 1: people around me, Yeah, that's a different matter. Yeah, there's
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  Speaker 1: some people where you just you meet them, you look
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  Speaker 1: at them, you see them, you hear them, and you
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  Speaker 1: can't help. But you just hear banjos Man, you know,
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  Speaker 1: and it's those were all the people that were there
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  Speaker 1: that night, was the banjo people. And then being being
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  Speaker 1: a dad and a grandpa. You know, I'm cheap, That's
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  Speaker 1: in my blood.
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  Speaker 2: You can't.
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  Speaker 1: I get upset when I see somebody have their child
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  Speaker 1: at the table and that child gets up and leaves, like,
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  Speaker 1: you know, four thousand dollars worth of chicken and steak
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  Speaker 1: that they never even touched.
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  Speaker 2: Why did you take that?
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  Speaker 1: And I exactly, And then I'm getting a fighting and
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  Speaker 1: nothing ends well, yeah, exactly, news.
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  Speaker 2: There you go.
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  Speaker 1: And so so did they open for breakfast just for
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  Speaker 1: Easter or they opened for breakfast all the time.
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  Speaker 5: Actually, from what I understand, on the weekends they opened
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  Speaker 5: at seven thirty for breakfast.
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  Speaker 2: Oh well that's nice.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we're you a fan of the c C's Pizza.
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  Speaker 5: I had never been to C's Pizza, to be honest
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  Speaker 5: with you.
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  Speaker 2: I really they had.
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  Speaker 1: They had probably i'm gonna say twelve different pizzas on
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  Speaker 1: their buffet up there, and they just kept breaking them
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  Speaker 1: out of the oven as you'd take them. And there
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  Speaker 1: were a couple that were like white cheese. I think
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  Speaker 1: one of them might have been a goat cheese if
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  Speaker 1: I'm not mistaken. But they they were really, they they
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  Speaker 1: were excellent. I loved the restaurant that was just back
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  Speaker 1: in my my buffet Officionado days. I don't know if
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  Speaker 1: I would still still be that loyal to and if
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  Speaker 1: they came back or not.
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  Speaker 5: This is sure. Well wasn't there one in ge Hannah?
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  Speaker 5: I'm sorry, Pickerington.
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  Speaker 6: I think they were, but never got okay, yeah they
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  Speaker 6: never said driven past and some other commercials, but never
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  Speaker 6: actually went to the Chinese buffet as well in gross
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  Speaker 6: City and Circle.
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  Speaker 5: Bill is supposed to be really really good. We haven't
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  Speaker 5: tried yet.
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  Speaker 1: Now, we did go to a chat. Where were we
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  Speaker 1: out on South Hamilton Road? Is that where we were?
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  Speaker 1: I can't remember where we were, but oh no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: down on South High Street, down across from Walmart. There's
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  Speaker 1: a Chinese buffet down there, and that had.
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  Speaker 5: Trouve legs on it the last time we were in there.
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  Speaker 1: Yep, the queen said, you know, we ought to try that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm like, oh seriously, but I went in there. That
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  Speaker 1: place was clean as all get out, it was not
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  Speaker 1: expensive at all, good selection, hot food, and it was
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  Speaker 1: sitting almost empty.
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  Speaker 2: There weren't many people. I'm like, okay, this is my secret.
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  Speaker 2: But we got to keep them in business.
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  Speaker 5: So we keep coming back.
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  Speaker 2: There.
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  Speaker 1: You go, Brian, you take care, appreciate yourself and and
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy a little sunshine on your face before.
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  Speaker 2: It goes away. Tonight, he was well, man, thanks a
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  Speaker 2: lot eight two eight six eight two.
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  Speaker 1: I see Brian's a man after my own heart. He
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  Speaker 1: knows when to go to the buffet. That's something else
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  Speaker 1: I'm being on you. I don't like going anywhere when
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  Speaker 1: it's really crowded anywhere, restaurant, store, nothing. I used to
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  Speaker 1: really love back before COVID, when we could, you know,
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  Speaker 1: life was kind of twenty four hours. I would go
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  Speaker 1: grocery shopping at ten ten or eleven o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody's in the store. It was great. Plus, that's when
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  Speaker 2: a lot of at.
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  Speaker 1: The Kroger store in my neighborhood, at least ten o'clock
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  Speaker 1: at night is when they started like marking down all
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  Speaker 1: the meat because it was time for it to go interesting.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: He used to work at the airports forever. I would
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  Speaker 3: be at work at four am, but the myer next,
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  Speaker 3: the closest one to me, was open twenty four hours,
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  Speaker 3: so I can go shopping at two thirty.
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  Speaker 2: It was perfect. Yep, nobody was in there, man.
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  Speaker 1: And at two thirty you can like sing along to
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  Speaker 1: the music with the stalkers too, which is kind of cool.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, I.
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  Speaker 3: Mean we would sing along sometimes I bring hot dogs.
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  Speaker 2: It is great.
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  Speaker 1: Silly as it sounds, my friends, that is a piece
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  Speaker 1: of wisdom I share with you. Never ever ever get
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  Speaker 1: too old to be silly, because silly helps all right.
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  Speaker 1: Time for me to fly. I'll be back in here.
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  Speaker 1: I think maybe we'll see I'm trying my best to
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  Speaker 1: be back in here with Blazer tomorrow. I get some
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  Speaker 1: stuff to handle. If I can be here, I will be.
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  Speaker 1: If not, I'll see you at three o'clock on Monday
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  Speaker 1: on six' TEN wtvn