January 16, 2023 • 49 mins
Today is a deep dive about all things breakfast! Is breakfast the most important meal of the day? We explore that and so much more with special guest @shaunakg!
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Bill Worley. I'm an Atlanta based filmmaker. I'm comedian, and
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I could do breakfast for lunch, dinner, you know, breakfast
honestly anytime anywhere. I love it, Holidays, all of my
days please. I'm Mark Kendall. I'm an Atlanta based comedian
and when it comes to breakfast, I think I make
some pretty solid potatoes. So yeah, today is the deep
dive episode about breakfast, the most important meal of the day.
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Question Mark uh and if that's not enough, we're joined
by the hilarious stand up comedian also the co creator
of the Fantastic Comedy web series I'll take it. It's
none other than Shaanik Got Candy. All let's give it
up for all right, Yeah, thanks, we are we are
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so excited you're here. And oh yeah yeah, well it's
great to have you. And something we do for all
of our guests and we don't expect these in return,
is we want to give are you your flowers? So
that's just giving you some compliments up here at the top.
And Shannick, you are one of my favorite comedians I've
ever seen. I love watching you perform. I've had the
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joy of watching you at multiple uh stand up shows
around town. You just are so funny. You bring so
much energy. You're banter with the audience is always so hilarious.
I was sitting here, brains, I was trying to think.
I was like, well, I just have cried laughing so
many times. There was like a Warrior version of you.
(02:15):
You called out a guy that was a Warrio version
of you in this show all the time, and it
was the most hilarious, charming insult that you laid on
this man and we all laughed, including him. Anyway, it's
just a pleasure having you here, man, so that it
is not the flowers. Flowers will continue, sh Um. There's
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so many highlights of you know, seeing you perform so
many times where you've cracked me up so many times.
I think one of my favorite memories, honestly, Shanic is Um,
you were doing comedy at a tavern. I walked in
and it was at a It was a tavern in Atlanta,
and I walked in and I can't remember if you
were already in the set or not, but it was
one of those shows where it was just like it
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was just a show in a restaurant tavern, so people
were not aware that there was comedy. People were like
strewn about this restaurant and you were standing on a chair.
I don't know if you remember this show, but you
were you were standing on a chair to get people
to see you. I don't know if you remember this, man,
I don't know if you remember this, but you were
just like I do remember the crowd work, just like CrowdWork,
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just just ripping. It was just think because you were
just corect That was one of the last shows we
did before COVID started, and it was at this restaurant
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at like eleven o'clock at night by this guy who's
not very good at running shows, and he was like,
you're headlining, buddy, and I was like okay, and then
I get care and no one in the restaurant knows
there's good about to be comedy. Everyone hates everyone that
goes up. And then he's like, you can do thirty
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at the end. Are you sure they're gonna close it down?
And so he was like, no, we have to do
the show for me to keep for me to be
able to do it again next month, and I was like, so,
I just got on a chair and I started to
try to get people to do a kiss, him trying
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to get couples to kiss, and no one kissed. And
then a homeless woman walked in and then she was
like I know him. He taught me how to dance
in high school. And I was like, hell, yeah, dude,
and then she said it's my birthday. And then I
tried to get the bar to sting happy birthday, and
then they kicked her off and then they were like
all right, you're doing gosh, I just remember it was
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just like, truly, it was just some of the best
improv I've seen, you know what I mean, Like because
we're just we're just ripping with people and it was
only like I mean, the circumstances were very silly, but
it's just like beyond that, it was just like so
compelling to watch. So it's just like I don't think
about that. Um so yeah, man, yeah is it funny.
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I feel like the more you do shows like the
shows that I remember now are those just ship show shows?
Those are the ones that s to get where just
everything is gone wrong, and that's when that's when I'm
very engaged for sure. I think when you know someone
to be a good comedian, you expect them to do
well in a show that's good. You know, like if
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if we were at like a Great packt that theater,
I would expect Mark to krush and he would. But
I would be more interested to see a comedian I
like in like a dires Jewish that is a little
more interesting to me. Batman's gonna win a bank robbery,
but I would like to see him in like the
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Cave with where there's like a million joker robots or whatever,
you know. I want to see the weird situation. Well,
thanks guys. Coming from you, it means a lot. I
respect both you and which you guys. Thank you, flowers,
No flowers can't. We can't reciprocate. So y'all, in case
you forgot, this episode is about breakfast, and so we're
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going to kick things off with some ridiculous news nibbles.
So these are some headlines we found from you know,
throughout the years that are centered around breakfast in some way,
and I'm really excited to share this. First one is
a feel good story and the headline is a couple
places McDonald's drive through order and then they're handed a
bag of cash instead. So the article starts out was saying, honey,
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you're not gonna believe this, And that was what Greg
Terry told his wife Stacy when he opened a bag
after returning home from a recent trip to the McDonald's
drive through in Hermitage, Tennessee. Uh. And they thought they
were getting a breakfast order, but instead they showed up
and there were thousands of dollars in cash wrapped in
clear plastic bags. So this was a bank deposit that
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had been placed in a paper bag and mistakenly given
to the Terrys by McDonald's drive through employee, and so
when the couple realized what it was, they decided to
return it. So there's a quote, uh from what I'm
saying the second that, Uh, there was a quote from
Stacy saying the second that Greg said it was their deposit.
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And my first response was let's get in the truck
and take it back. Uh. And so that's what she
told Tennessee's News Channel five. And there is no other
way to have it. I couldn't live with myself. And
so both McDonald's UH and the employee were grateful for
the Terry's honesty obviously, or really, Stacy, was that your
first response? That was your first response when you've got
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a bag full of cash money was instantly, let's take it,
like you don't hesitate, like you gotta give it fifteen seconds,
test to go to a hundred thousand or whatever. It
was grand that's a car, you know, I mean, that's yes. Yeah,
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I can't believe she didn't hesitate for a second. She
got and she was like, I've seen too many episodes
of the Sopranos. We take this word toast. Well. The
article goes on to say the Terrys were not given
a reward except for a great story to tell. So
you know stories are worth thousands of dollars, right, guys.
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So and you can tell Greg. Greg the husband was
kind of piste. They didn't keep it because of the
last quote is he said this will never ever happen
again in her lifetime. And I feel like that's what
he was telling Stacy the minute. Stacy was like, let's
take it back. But Stacy, this is never going to
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happen again. Yeah, I can't believe she didn't take it.
Do you have taken the money? Shouting no, I don't know.
I think I have seen too many episodes of the Granos.
I think I would be scared that someone's gonna come
looking for it. And if that happens, I'm gonna squeal.
I have no um. I'll writ anyone out. I don't care.
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But it's you that took it. So you're gonna are
you gonna ride out yourself? You're gonna write out you
know you're right. I'll just get I don't have no conviction.
And Mark, it was Mark handle don't work you find
him on this podcast? We would you have taken it?
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You know, man, I don't think I would have. I'm
sitting here tucking talking a tough game, but I you know,
because I think also if it was in deposite slips,
I probably really would have realized what it was. And
I'm already missing a finger. And to your point, like
someone yeah, yeah, someone shows up with some clippers. That man. Well,
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this next story kind of talks a little bit about it,
to be honest. So uh, this next speaking of losing
a bet. Uh. This next story is about a fantasy
football bet. Uh that a man lost and his waffle
house server actually became the real winner. So Michael Carsley says,
it's possible to have too much of a good thing,
and in his case, it was waffle house waffles. Because
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he's in a fantasy football league. He finished last place,
and the person who finished last place had to spend
twenty four hours at the Shamble restaurant eating waffles. Parsley lost,
so he decided to make his trip interesting and he
live streamed the whole thing on social media. Said, I'm
sure you guys have better stuff to do than watch
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me shoved waffles in my mouth, but thanks um for
every waffle he would consume. That would knock off an
hour of the twenty four hours he had to stay there.
Um and his server who was you know, I guess
maybe he knocked enough hours to only be there for
one person's shift, I soon from the story. But unbeknownst
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to his server as he was doing this uh live stream,
it was also a fundraiser for his server, so that
uh they could get a really nice tip. And he
said it was all worth it when the look on
his server's face when he handed over the receipt. So
all around it was a spectacular thing. This is a
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quote from him. The punishment itself was torture, but the
outcome of everything was well worth it. And in case
you're wondering, he said, all those waffles added up to
five thousand, six D and fifty two calories, not including
butter or syrup, which I mean that's gonna up out
a lot, Yeah, almost double it. Yeah, I'd say he's easy.
At ten k was the most just out of curiosity.
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How many? How many waffles do you think you could
eat in a wolf house in a twenty four hour period? Uh? Probably,
I have no idea, probably like in a for our period.
I don't know. I'm not. I'm not getting past like four.
They're they're great, but after like four, four or five,
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they're going to be the same. Right, What about what
about you guys? If I if I was forced to
eat them, you know, I over a twenty four hour period,
I'd like to say I could at least do like
a Baker's dozen, you know, like a solid. I was
gonna say, I could probably push myself to do one
every other hour if I like mentally push myself in
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that way. But then again, it's not like you're gonna
stay it for twenty four hours straight. So so maybe
like eight, i'd say, I'll say eight. I'd be like,
I would feel confident about eight. It's only one way
to find out, guys. The second half of this podcast
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memorial what is the but about your Finger? It's a yeah.
It was fantasy football bet and as opposed to the
waffle House waffles, it was a cliff. You had to
cut off someone, you know, the loser of that season
had to cut off a piece of yeah cartel. No,
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I haven't. I don't know that I've talked about on
the podcast. You know, I don't know. I don't like
to share the true story. But one day I will.
One day I will share the story shot and if
you ever come back, it'll be that day. All right,
I'm excited, alright. So, uh, last story for this segment
is a heron a bard a bird. That bird heron
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becomes an NYC icon after being pictured devouring a rat
for breakfast in Central Park. So this is from The Independent,
and so a photographer was able to capture the incredible
moment of a great blue heron devouring the freshly caught
New York City rat in a New York City Central
Park pond one morning. And the image shows the magnificent
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bird bending into the still green water with its breakfast,
which was a very unfortunate rat, still in one piece,
paused dangling helplessly outside the heron's beak. And uh, you
managed to cash this wild moment of nature and New Yorkers,
you know, have there's been a surge of rats since
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the pandemic, and so the bird got a lot of
love for taking taking out one of the rats. And actually,
you know, we have a lot of special guests, you know,
come through the studio, some that you wouldn't even think
would be able to make it, but we are in
luck because that very heron that swallowed that rat is
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with us here today and so we're so excited to
get the talk to them. So, uh, it's great to
meet you. It's great to meet you. Yeah, what the
fuck is up? Whoa? Yeah, you're definitely from New York. Yeah,
water rage baby, go Mad's go jets. What the fun
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is up? So? So, what what's your name? Parent? Uh?
Very great, Blue, I'm and I'm Irish by by trade,
by trade. So what do you want? What do you birth? By? Birthday?
My fair enough, but culturally I'm Irish. Yeah. Yeah, this
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is great, big press week for me. Well that's kind
of what I wanted to talk about. I mean it's
just like you. You you ate a radic, got caught
on camera. A lot of people have been applauding you.
Can you kind of like walk a smoothie event of
what happened. I mean, you're out there, you're on a
pond in Central Park, living your life. How do you
come across a rat? I'm like, walk us through that?
So I was pretty hello. I was down at this thing.
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My buddy Ricky was stowing and sent to a park,
and the whole night I was trying to hook up
with this girl. Uh sorry, she's not a girl, she's
a picture and she was she was being pretty flighty
get but she was leading me on. I was going
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from three to three, branch to branch, kind of talked
to this girl, and uh, finally she came out with
the news she's married. And I was like, listen, babe,
I'm not trying to get into no love triangle. Okay,
I've been in too many of those. I'm an old
man now. And uh I I tied a few more
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on with my cousin Ricky, and it was time for
me to go, and uh, you know, I was just like,
I gotta get something to my sister. I'm gonna be
up for work tomorrow. And uh then I saw a
rat and I took a bite. He was pretty juicy,
and I had the whole thing. And that's when he
got got. I didn't even find out. A little went
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viral and I was like a day later, I had
a whole day to be hungover at working ship. What's
your job? I work at j C. Penney working the
sweat is the public? Yeah, thank you so much for
coming on. And yeah, which the j C. Penney down
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which one times square times Square got it, got it. Yeah,
we'll be sure to busy you soon. Thanks so much
for coming by. We're gonna take a quick break to
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ridiculous news. All right, y'all. So we're gonna come hinue
are deep dive into breakfast, And so we figured it'd
be nice to talk a little bit about the history
of breakfast. How did breakfast become the meal that we
know it is today in pop culture? And so here's
an article from Price Inonics that are wonderful researcher case
he found called how breakfast Became a Thing? And I
just wanted to read part of that real quick, uh,
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And it starts with you've probably heard that breakfast is
the most important meal of the day. What you may
not know is the origin of this ode to breakfast
is a nineteen marketing campaign launched by grape nuts manufacturer
General Foods to sell more cereal and During the campaign,
which marketers called eat a good breakfast, do a better job,
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grocery stores handed out pamphlets that promoted the importance of
breakfast while radio advertisements announced that nutrition experts say breakfast
is the most important meal of the day, as like
these were key to the rise of cereal and uh yeah,
and so that was kind of like how a modern
era of breakfast began. I did not know that. I
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thought it was. I thought that was and we'd get
to this a little later, I think. But I always
thought that that was just good science, you know. And
it's just a damn marketing campaign like Diamonds Are Forever
or Santa Claus. You know. Yeah, that's a little disappointing.
I feel like the more you look into anything, you've
been told all roads lead to it was a marketing
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campaign by someone, you know. Yeah, right, that's crazy. Yeah,
the the in the day our whole lives search is
decided by McDonald's. Yeah, General Mills, And I love cereals.
I think cereal is up there is one of my
favorite foods. So, you know, do I actually like it
or if I just conditioned and programmed, what's your I
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love frosted many wheats. But if if I'm really I oh,
I know, right, I love that was your first answer.
That's my first I know I knew I could, But
if I'm treating myself sent him in toast crunts if
I'm cheating myself that, but my my go to is
frosted many If I have to sleep over on your couch,
I wake up and you're like, hey, guy, you give
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me frosted mini weeds. Frosted mini weeds. Your other options
are gonna be like like basically all the version of
cheerios or um are you mad at me? What is that?
Frosted mini weeds or Aldie cheerios? Oh boy, what about you? Shot?
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What's your favorite cereal? I loved Coca puffs. I love crave.
You guys have read Crave What? No, I don't think
crave is great. It's terrible for you, but it's so good.
It's Crave with a K. It's really good. Well you
mark what I'm just playing. I like some honey nut
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cheer Cheerios special K with the strawberries is also a
fun one as well. Yeah, those are those are some
of my faves. But y'all, you know, we've been talking
about our favorite cereals and the modern era of breakfast.
But historians, and this is also from the same article,
historians tend to agree the breakfast became a daily first
thing in the morning institution. Once workers moved to cities
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and became employees who worked set schedules. So in Europe, uh,
you know, the first began in the sixteen hundreds, and
breakfast achieved near ubiquity during the Industrial Revolution. With people
going off to a full day's work, Breakfast became more
of a thing that makes sense, I think when you
get yeah, like the masses of workers doing one thing
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at the same time. Breakfast becomes one of those things.
You know. It's interesting. Yeah, Like I mean, I feel
weird if I don't eat it. I usually do a
shake now for breakfast, but that just means I'm hungry
for lunch earlier. Yeah, it's it's it's legit. Like I
said in the Interest, it's my favorite meal of the day.
I love or I just love like the staples at breakfast,
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you know, like the toast and the cereal and the
frost and many weats and the big three baby, the toast,
the cereal, and the frost. It's a lot of carbs.
What if you guys, can build the ideal breakfast in
front of you with all you have no limitations, what
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are you going with? Son? Like that's a great question. Um,
you know, I'll take some eggs and bacon. You know,
I love that. You know, eggs and bacon are great.
Also love some breakfast potatoes and you know, hey, how
about some cheese furns. Let's have that joined the party.
I love a bagel biggles. Yeah, yeah, like just a
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plain bat on your back with bagels on it. I do. Um,
set me a bagel with cream cheese locks and some
pickled canons. That with a smoothie is like the perfect yeah. Yeah, yeah.
But I love a big American spread too, with like, um,
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shredded potatoes, cheese, grapes, eggs, nice, nice big sour dough, toast, avocado. Yeah.
Breakfast brito also great. Yeah, right, breakfast tacos, like I like, uh,
what is it? Egg in a baskets? Basically just you know,
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standard piece of like square wheat bread and cut a
little hole out and then you put a egg in
it and have it kind of over easy and then
you know, cut into it's running. It's chewy. It's just
a delicious easy yeah. Speaking of eggs and breakfast, if
you're looking for some of the earliest stories of eggs
according to Bible, scholar John A. Rice. They described Mary
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of Nazareth preparing eggs for breakfast attended by Jesus. So
it goes back to Bible times at least, if not beforehand.
Nice like Shanko, I said, good enough for Jesus, good
enough for me. I always say that. I always say
that Bill was with me when we when I bought
my first car, said that Bill was with me last
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night when I was shopping for jeans. Yeah, a lot
of times. I'm just saying it. Speaking of ancient times,
you know, in ancient Egypt, peasants actually had beer for breakfast.
Uh so you know some people might have mixed feelings
about donning a pint for breakfast. Clearly this is a
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British article, but the ancient Egyptian laborers saw it as
an essential part of their day before leaving work in
the fields. Poor Egyptians would eat a breakfast a beer,
bread and onions. Wow right, yeah, And I don't know
that I could like beer. Just makes me man. Too
much beer, I just get tired. I don't think a
breakfast beer not not about it. Well they were, they said,
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Egyptian laborers. Those are the people building the pyramids. I
can see wanting a beer before I go do terrible
labor like that build a tomb for a king I
don't even vote for Yeah, he said that. Let me
say that way, you probably could use more than one,
you know, Yeah, honestly, I'm throwing back six. I mean, fine,
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where am I going? Well, y'all, here's another fact about
eggs for you. So, China has the highest consumption of
eggs in the world. So when you think of the world,
breakfast yet another thing we're losing. Well. This is from
backs dot net and um and so it says when
you think of the word breakfast, eggs maybe one of
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the first things that come to mind. And based on
a study, China ranked the highest and egg consumption out
of one for other countries. On average, a Chinese resident
would eat twenty two point nine km's worth of eggs
per year. Wow, it's a lot. Geez um, what's your
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what would you guys say, how many? Um or what
is your preferred methods? Because there's a great question. I
like a scrambled eggs cheese. That's me too. That's me too,
like a little bit runny, Yeah, scrambled egg man. We
gotta get some scrambled eggs cheese sometime, yes too, Yeah,
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I'm scrambled with cheese is the best. Yeah, we're over easy,
right yeah, like a little bit of runniness is always
and cheese and eggs just goes together, like you know,
peanut butter and chocolate. It's just one of those two
things that makes us super well. Um. And I also
it's like this, the fact that when I first saw
this China fact, I was like, oh yeah, because I
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have way more people. But know it's a fifth. That's
fifty pounds of eggs a year, and that is a lot, right,
And they seem to be healthy. You know. I feel
like eggs have a lot of cholesterols, so my doctor
tells me my cholesterol side. But they seem healthy. They're
fine over there. You can see a Chinese person. They
seem healthy so overly positive, terrible stereotypes. Yeah, they're always healthy.
(27:32):
They're all healthy out here. That's so funny. No, I
I feel like most like regular Chinese food is good
for you or healthy or it looks healthy. I don't know. Um.
I love that eggs is on there like staples. That's good. Yeah,
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you know, speaking of Cyril, I know we talked a
lot about Shaunock's favorite cereal frost the many weeks. But
you know, Morocco eats the most cereal in the world
based on a right study of a a hundred fifty hundreds
to Morocco is the highest consumption of cereal, with two
hundred and fifty four ms of cereal concerned by each
person each year, which is five hundred and fifty nine
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pounds cereal per person per year. And as cereal being
one of my favorite foods, I guess I gotta go
to Morocco like you do. Have to. Man, we're getting
our asca. Man, first China with the eggs, then Marco
with the cereal. What happened to us America? First? You
know Americle section. You know these next couple of things. Well,
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one area where America is leading something is the largest
the largest serving of pancakes. So this is the Guinness
PEG world record. So the largest serving pancakes is thirteen
thousand and it was achieved by HIV Incorporated in the
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US in Blue Springs, Missouri, USA, on the June. Yeah,
a lot of a lot of sercans of pancakes. But
there are a couple other world records from around the
world that are also pretty pretty wild. So the most
people eating breakfast in bed is five hundred seventy four
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and that was achieved by Cappy in Johannesburg, South Africa
ont of March. And then uh one final breakfast world
record for y'all is um. The largest full breakfast attendants
involved fifty one thousand seven participants and was organized by
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Van Tigarrette Lisa Odyssey in Turkey, h and that was
on June one. The few one thousand people eating breakfast together. Apparently,
I feel like we could I feel like we could
beat that in America. Come on, America, you get more
people than that. And Mercedes Been Stadium in Atlanta, like like,
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let's let's do it. That's one that can we get.
Let's be exceptional again. Come on, that would be the
funniest way to have a super spread eating mediocre sausage
at Mercedes Bits. And then the Falcons lose in the
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fourth quarter. Man, the Falcons are playing while we're eating breakfast.
That's so funny. That's how they get people to leave.
I'm just kidding. I love I love goal Falcons. So
this um this last thing for this segment that that
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was interesting. Casey are amazing. Researcher brought up some stuff
about is breakfast really the most important meal of the day,
And there's actually widespread disagreement over whether breakfast is actually
the top meal. Because of the rising popularity and fasting diets,
there have been concerns about the sugar content of cereal,
the foods industry, the food industry's involvement in probe breakfast research.
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You know, I guess they're tipping the scales of the scientists. Um.
And there's even one claim from an academic that breakfast
is quote dangerous. So what is it really like? Is
breakfast a necessary starts of the day or is it
a marketing ploy by cereal companies. A review of ten
studies looking into the relationship between breakfast and weight management
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concluded that there's quote limited evidence supporting or refuting the
argument that breakfast influences weight or food intake, and more
evidence is required. So we don't know. We don't know. Yeah,
reasonable evidence that breakfast does improve concentration, but again they've
said there needs to be more research. Um, so we
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don't know, y'all. You know, if if if your heart
so desires get you, that gets some O. J. Gives
you some pancakes with apple sauce. You know, but if
you if you want to skip it, just what you
might live longer anyway. I'm I usually skip. I'm usually
I usually drink water and coffee in the morning. I
(32:16):
go number two and um immediately makes me go number two,
and then I usually just eat lunch. I like breakfast.
I just never. I'm usually waking up five minutes before
I have to do anything, um and my first thing
of the day. And so that limits your breakfast potential.
(32:39):
You know, do you guys have it every day? You
said you do shakes? Yeah, I do it like a
protein shake with some super food powder. Umty grams of
protein within thirty minutes of waking up. That was baby,
That's tight. That's Tim Ferris. You know. The train goes
from jumping on our podcast next, Thanks Tim Ferris. That's
(33:01):
the road shot, and then you're on your way to
the top. You're on your way. I'm so excited. I
think I do breakfast most days, but not every day.
Um so, so it'll like depend and then sometimes yeah,
I think it depends. Like if I wake up early,
if I have an early start, I'm gonna do some breakfast.
But if I'm getting like a later start, might be like,
(33:22):
and let me wait until lunchtime. What do you usually eggs?
That's normally what I'll do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, eggs, if
I got some if I got some bread around, we'll
get some toast in there as well. You know, have
fun time. Oh that's sound amazing. Well, uh, this all
is making me hungry. Let's just go to wall files
real quick while we hear from our sponsors. Yea, we
(33:44):
will be right back with more ridiculous news after this
short break. Yeah yeah, yeah, ye don't confuse iculous news
all right, y'all, So we'll we're back and we're going
to kick things off with a game with our amazing guest,
(34:04):
shawnik uh So shnic. This game is called which Meal? Wow,
that was insane Wilson in Chess games. So basically the
way that it works is Bill and I were gonna
be throwing different foods at you, and you're gonna tell
(34:24):
us if it's for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or perhaps something
else entirely cool, am my going off his opinion or
these facts? This game in this world, your opinion is fact.
So it's just like you're deciding this one. You know, yeah, exactly,
take a swig, Take a swig, gonna drink. Get ready,
(34:45):
it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty intense. Rapid fire,
rapid fire. Here we go, Here we go. Alright, orange juice, breakfast,
blt sandwich, lunch, that's a lunch, Lomon pepper, wet chicken, dude, breakfast,
didn't know, that's a lunchry dinner, you know, you know, twinkies, Yes,
(35:12):
breakfast if you're a bus driver, packet of mayo, Yeah, lunch,
lay mignon, lunch, salmon. Oh, there's a few types of salmon.
Everything nice chicken Ala King, who chicken for the king? Breakfast?
(35:37):
Really King, breakfast, grapes, breakfast, that's a good one. Crushed
graham crackers, what something entirely different. I'm gonna go with
the fourth category. Yeah, like what if what what thing
would you eat? Crush graham crackers? At crackers? I don't know.
(35:58):
If I was like in a waiting him at the hospital.
I don't see any other reason to do that, because
it the d MB or something. Breakfast sandwich, No, no, no,
it's in the name, dude. Thank you so much, Shannick
(36:22):
for participating in the first in which sorry time that perfectly.
That was incredible. Thank you so much for let me
to participate. And if you're a listener, please take that advice.
If you heard something on that list that you were
(36:43):
doing eighty and incorrect time, fix it please. Yeah, that's
why we got Shaunick here. He's an expert on the topic.
And I think American culture will never be the same.
A couple of other dessert stories for you all. One
is again we're going back to waffle house because we
love waffle house there in in the South and in Atlanta.
(37:06):
If you don't have offileuse where you are, it's delicious.
I hope you can stop by one when you're in
the Southeast. Um. And this is about a customer who
jumped behind the counter to help out. This is such
an interesting story. Uh the uh. Late one Saturday night,
Ethan cris Bo had just left a friend's birthday party
in Birmingham, Alabama, walked into a waffle house around midnight
(37:29):
to grab a bite, but there was only a single
employee work in the restaurant, and he described the cook's
face as a wash and bewilderment at finding that he
was by himself managing the night shift, because there was
thirty people there, which is a packed out waffle house,
and just one guy fending off the incoming crowd of
(37:49):
hungry heavily. I mean your midnight, your waffle house. You've
had a couple, you know, breakfast Egyptian drinks at least.
But a customer finished his meal, asked for an apron,
and stepped behind the counter to wash dishes. Uh, cris
Bo said, it was a smooth transition. He just busted
his butt and helped out. It turns out he didn't
work at the restaurant, nor did he work at any
(38:12):
walfle house anywhere. Another woman dressing wearing a dress and
heels also stepped up. She walked behind the counter, got
a coffee pot, helped start serving people. At first I
thought it was out of necessity, like she just wanted coffee,
Crispo said, But then she was helping other people, So
what what's going on? What's going on? Right? Is this
(38:37):
just cris Bo, the man of the article, said, I've
never seen anything like this ever happened, nor will I again,
probably as when I guess handed him a bag full
of McDonald's cash and I can only assume he then
ran away, but it was it was. He says it
was one of his most memorable experiences. So, I mean,
I guess my question for you all is like, if
(38:58):
you're at and what what a waff how waff hoe
wa hoo at the midnight and you see the one
person stressing out behind the counter, you jumping up to help?
I think I genuinely would, Yeah, Mark, you know, I respect.
I don't know. I guess I would get self conscious. Lie,
I think I would just slow you down. I think
(39:20):
I'll just slow them down if I but if I
could be given clear instructions, I would help, Like if
there was a way was like, hey, we just need
you to like scramble these eggs. I do that. Yeah.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that in the case
of washing dishes or something, if especiap I was a
little tipsy, I would that would be a fun exciting
thing for me. I think, right, yeah, you're in there,
(39:43):
you're part of them, You're in the fight, you're in
the war, you're in the battle. Yeah, I would be excited.
I think I think it would be fun. Yeah, let's
go find like a stretched out I was employed force
our force, our help. We all we're gonna go back
to the end, taking as we're gonna go back to
McDonald's one more time with another McDonald's story, very different
(40:06):
from the story we talked about earlier. So this headline
is McDonald's Robert demands chicken nuggets, has to accept breakfast
food because it was still too early. So there's a
man that's been jailed for robbing a McDonald's in England
and making off not only was some cash but also food.
Unfortunately for him, not only did he get caught, but
(40:27):
he also wasn't even able to get the meal he
was hoping for at the time of the robbery. So,
according to reports, Rudy Batten claimed to have a gun
and demanded money from the register and forced the manager
to give him access to the store safe. On his
way out, Batton reportedly demanded some of the fast Foods
franchise famous chicken nuggets. Unfortunately for him, it was still
(40:50):
too early in the day and the restaurant was only
serving items on the breakfast menu, and apparently he was
unwilling to wait for some nuggets to be cooked, so
Batton made off with a double sausage McMuffin instead, and
a reportedly bat and stole more than six from the restaurant. Uh.
He was reportedly identified by CCTV cameras and he turned
(41:11):
himself in to the authorities later that day. It was
from kiss dot com is where we found the story. Yeah, right,
I mean, not even a gun can get your breakfast. Uh,
you know past the time. That's that's the moral of
that story. I think it's like I'm arguing, Yeah, that's
(41:32):
how strict they are about There are times the training
is that you put your life on the line. You
say it does not matter. As McDonald's employee, that's the
first and last lesson. If it's not you're eating lead,
he's not getting lunch. No way. That sucks. Imagine having
(41:56):
being pushed to the point in your life where you're
robbing a place. You go to rob a place and
you're like, at least let me get some nuggets and
they don't even have the small thing you're looking for.
In life goes two ways. Do you do you then
change your life around or do you just go deeper
and darker into that hole? Is this a superhero origin story?
(42:20):
He like puts the gun down and he's like, what
am I even doing? Fills out o employee for start
working there. Yeah, well, y'all, that's crazy. We got one
final headline for today and I didn't want to go
into the story in depth. I just thought it was
an interesting headline about breakfast, you know. Uh So the
(42:43):
headline is from the takeout dot com and it's Taco
Bell Breakfast Thrives even though no one gives a shit
about its coffee, and the article just kind of gives
shade I guess the Taco Bell coffee, which I mean
like we could. I was just like, what an interesting outline,
And I just wanted to share that with you all
because it made me smile. Um, well, who is If
(43:06):
you're judging Taco Bell coffee, what is wrong with you?
They're never set out to make a good cup of coffee.
They added it because they knew people would want it
with their Fiesta Taco breakfast thing. Yeah, Taco Bell is
the best, dude. I'm a big Taco little fan or
(43:27):
even talking about man, I like it, but I always
feel like I pay the price. I just yeah, if
I'm eating too many tacos, it's gonna be a bad
Next twelve to twenty four hours. I never have the
beef there. I always do chicken or beans, and it's
never bit me in the mean. The button is Uh,
(43:48):
what about Mick the Great Blue Heron? Do you think
he's the kind of guy that eats at at Taco Bell? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
I think he's on his way here. And give me
a second. He's gonna you guys wanna ask him? Yeah,
let's check it in with Nick. Okay, but what do
(44:11):
you what do you guys want Mick? We we just
were wrapping up this episode. We just wanted to get
your thoughts on, you know, the best breakfast food and
if you'd ever have coffee at the Taco Bell. I'm
off the coffee because the doctor said I got a
high blood pressure thing going on, and I just, you know,
his breath is such a such a joy. I just
(44:34):
want to avoid seeing him at all. Course, so off
the coffee. I'm doing macho latte. Now you have this
macho latte. Grond know what is that macho latte? The
right macha latte. It's like a green thing. And uh,
you look like such a dog and you didn't it.
You're like, look at me and my little my little
(44:56):
green juice. But it's not it's a macho latte and
it's like this Japanese drink. It's energy and the g
Japanese style is what I would say it is. It's
a good it's a good drink. I'm drinking that now.
No coffee. Best breakfast, Jesus Christ. I mean, I'm for
(45:17):
freaking queens. I mean, you can't go wrong with a bacon,
egg of cheese on a little onion roll or a
bagel or something. But my preferred breakfast is when I
grew up beating as a kid, which is a rat
like pizza crusted some went throughout. Okay, so that that
(45:41):
time you ate the rat wasn't the first time you
ate the rat. Turns out now I've been reading Rat
since I was a schoolboy. I didn't know that you
were such a big fans. I don't know you went
to school. Honestly, no fans. I just didn't know. I
don't know. M A, Oh my goodness. Yeah, the dartment.
(46:03):
That's great. We gave it all up to it for
J C. Penny respect. You following your dreams. That's really cool.
Yeah yeah, And that's a pretty cool sweater. I mean,
I gotta say you're supporting that, like, I mean, it's
it looks good. Yeah, I do for j C. Betty
in the sweater department of folding sweaters now and we
(46:27):
certainly will and we appreciate you visiting us, not once
but twice on the episode. Is great talking to both times.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna get out of here.
This building is pretty you know what's interesting. The reason
we keep doing episodes we have not been able to
figure out a way a way out, so we're kind
of trying to figure that out. All right, all right,
I'll get on Google Maps, all right, see you guys.
(46:48):
Thanks Mack, Yeah, it's I'm glad that he came back
to drop that. Well. That brings us to our final
segment of the day, at the Spring of Inspiring Inspirations,
where we leave everyone with a quote to ponder Um
and Mark, you pulled a go on so in in
in spirit, in the spirit of the breakfast topics we've
(47:11):
been discussing today. This quote is from Alfred A. Montepart
and it says, expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Mm hmmm. I like that. Uh yeah, And Shohn, it
was so great having you on the episode. Um, could
you let folks know the best way to follow you,
(47:33):
keep in touch with you and support the work that
you're doing. Yeah, you can find my Instagram handle or
my TikTok handle which is the same shaunik G, s
H A U and A K G. And I'll just
be where I'm at. I'm dealing stand up and then
any other video projects that are working I'm working on
we'll be posted there as well. Awesome, Thank you so much, Yes,
(47:56):
so yeah, wonderful having you on. Man, Just good to
see your face. So great to see you guys. This
is so much fun and and you know, thank you
so much for listening. You' all have a lot of
options out there for podcasts. It means the world that
you choose us with amazing guests like Shaanik and Mick
the Great Blue Heron. I don't see how you can
go anywhere else, um, but genuinely thank you for being Yeah,
(48:18):
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You can email us at Ridiculous News at iHeartMedia dot
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(48:46):
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Ridiculous News is a production of I Heart Radio and
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crazy topics. To dig in to Jews you would napsune me.
And to ridiculous News, we gets us their views are
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The course that she was lasting before a brand up
(00:20):
beat journalism, the strange and the usual stories, and well
we gave them. When it's all about ridiculous news. Everywhere
we told about ridiculous News over here. Hey, everyone, welcome
to Ridiculous News, not your average news show. We cover
stuff you didn't realize was news from the wild and funny,
to the deep and hidden to the absolutely ridiculous. I'm
Bill Worley. I'm an Atlanta based filmmaker. I'm comedian, and
(00:42):
I could do breakfast for lunch, dinner, you know, breakfast
honestly anytime anywhere. I love it, Holidays, all of my
days please. I'm Mark Kendall. I'm an Atlanta based comedian
and when it comes to breakfast, I think I make
some pretty solid potatoes. So yeah, today is the deep
dive episode about breakfast, the most important meal of the day.
(01:04):
Question Mark uh and if that's not enough, we're joined
by the hilarious stand up comedian also the co creator
of the Fantastic Comedy web series I'll take it. It's
none other than Shaanik Got Candy. All let's give it
up for all right, Yeah, thanks, we are we are
(01:31):
so excited you're here. And oh yeah yeah, well it's
great to have you. And something we do for all
of our guests and we don't expect these in return,
is we want to give are you your flowers? So
that's just giving you some compliments up here at the top.
And Shannick, you are one of my favorite comedians I've
ever seen. I love watching you perform. I've had the
(01:53):
joy of watching you at multiple uh stand up shows
around town. You just are so funny. You bring so
much energy. You're banter with the audience is always so hilarious.
I was sitting here, brains, I was trying to think.
I was like, well, I just have cried laughing so
many times. There was like a Warrior version of you.
(02:15):
You called out a guy that was a Warrio version
of you in this show all the time, and it
was the most hilarious, charming insult that you laid on
this man and we all laughed, including him. Anyway, it's
just a pleasure having you here, man, so that it
is not the flowers. Flowers will continue, sh Um. There's
(02:39):
so many highlights of you know, seeing you perform so
many times where you've cracked me up so many times.
I think one of my favorite memories, honestly, Shanic is Um,
you were doing comedy at a tavern. I walked in
and it was at a It was a tavern in Atlanta,
and I walked in and I can't remember if you
were already in the set or not, but it was
one of those shows where it was just like it
(03:00):
was just a show in a restaurant tavern, so people
were not aware that there was comedy. People were like
strewn about this restaurant and you were standing on a chair.
I don't know if you remember this show, but you
were you were standing on a chair to get people
to see you. I don't know if you remember this, man,
I don't know if you remember this, but you were
just like I do remember the crowd work, just like CrowdWork,
(03:24):
just just ripping. It was just think because you were
just corect That was one of the last shows we
did before COVID started, and it was at this restaurant
(03:45):
at like eleven o'clock at night by this guy who's
not very good at running shows, and he was like,
you're headlining, buddy, and I was like okay, and then
I get care and no one in the restaurant knows
there's good about to be comedy. Everyone hates everyone that
goes up. And then he's like, you can do thirty
(04:05):
at the end. Are you sure they're gonna close it down?
And so he was like, no, we have to do
the show for me to keep for me to be
able to do it again next month, and I was like, so,
I just got on a chair and I started to
try to get people to do a kiss, him trying
(04:29):
to get couples to kiss, and no one kissed. And
then a homeless woman walked in and then she was
like I know him. He taught me how to dance
in high school. And I was like, hell, yeah, dude,
and then she said it's my birthday. And then I
tried to get the bar to sting happy birthday, and
then they kicked her off and then they were like
all right, you're doing gosh, I just remember it was
(04:51):
just like, truly, it was just some of the best
improv I've seen, you know what I mean, Like because
we're just we're just ripping with people and it was
only like I mean, the circumstances were very silly, but
it's just like beyond that, it was just like so
compelling to watch. So it's just like I don't think
about that. Um so yeah, man, yeah is it funny.
(05:13):
I feel like the more you do shows like the
shows that I remember now are those just ship show shows?
Those are the ones that s to get where just
everything is gone wrong, and that's when that's when I'm
very engaged for sure. I think when you know someone
to be a good comedian, you expect them to do
well in a show that's good. You know, like if
(05:35):
if we were at like a Great packt that theater,
I would expect Mark to krush and he would. But
I would be more interested to see a comedian I
like in like a dires Jewish that is a little
more interesting to me. Batman's gonna win a bank robbery,
but I would like to see him in like the
(05:58):
Cave with where there's like a million joker robots or whatever,
you know. I want to see the weird situation. Well,
thanks guys. Coming from you, it means a lot. I
respect both you and which you guys. Thank you, flowers,
No flowers can't. We can't reciprocate. So y'all, in case
you forgot, this episode is about breakfast, and so we're
(06:19):
going to kick things off with some ridiculous news nibbles.
So these are some headlines we found from you know,
throughout the years that are centered around breakfast in some way,
and I'm really excited to share this. First one is
a feel good story and the headline is a couple
places McDonald's drive through order and then they're handed a
bag of cash instead. So the article starts out was saying, honey,
(06:41):
you're not gonna believe this, And that was what Greg
Terry told his wife Stacy when he opened a bag
after returning home from a recent trip to the McDonald's
drive through in Hermitage, Tennessee. Uh. And they thought they
were getting a breakfast order, but instead they showed up
and there were thousands of dollars in cash wrapped in
clear plastic bags. So this was a bank deposit that
(07:02):
had been placed in a paper bag and mistakenly given
to the Terrys by McDonald's drive through employee, and so
when the couple realized what it was, they decided to
return it. So there's a quote, uh from what I'm
saying the second that, Uh, there was a quote from
Stacy saying the second that Greg said it was their deposit.
(07:26):
And my first response was let's get in the truck
and take it back. Uh. And so that's what she
told Tennessee's News Channel five. And there is no other
way to have it. I couldn't live with myself. And
so both McDonald's UH and the employee were grateful for
the Terry's honesty obviously, or really, Stacy, was that your
first response? That was your first response when you've got
(07:48):
a bag full of cash money was instantly, let's take it,
like you don't hesitate, like you gotta give it fifteen seconds,
test to go to a hundred thousand or whatever. It
was grand that's a car, you know, I mean, that's yes. Yeah,
(08:08):
I can't believe she didn't hesitate for a second. She
got and she was like, I've seen too many episodes
of the Sopranos. We take this word toast. Well. The
article goes on to say the Terrys were not given
a reward except for a great story to tell. So
you know stories are worth thousands of dollars, right, guys.
(08:32):
So and you can tell Greg. Greg the husband was
kind of piste. They didn't keep it because of the
last quote is he said this will never ever happen
again in her lifetime. And I feel like that's what
he was telling Stacy the minute. Stacy was like, let's
take it back. But Stacy, this is never going to
(08:53):
happen again. Yeah, I can't believe she didn't take it.
Do you have taken the money? Shouting no, I don't know.
I think I have seen too many episodes of the Granos.
I think I would be scared that someone's gonna come
looking for it. And if that happens, I'm gonna squeal.
I have no um. I'll writ anyone out. I don't care.
(09:17):
But it's you that took it. So you're gonna are
you gonna ride out yourself? You're gonna write out you
know you're right. I'll just get I don't have no conviction.
And Mark, it was Mark handle don't work you find
him on this podcast? We would you have taken it?
(09:39):
You know, man, I don't think I would have. I'm
sitting here tucking talking a tough game, but I you know,
because I think also if it was in deposite slips,
I probably really would have realized what it was. And
I'm already missing a finger. And to your point, like
someone yeah, yeah, someone shows up with some clippers. That man. Well,
(10:00):
this next story kind of talks a little bit about it,
to be honest. So uh, this next speaking of losing
a bet. Uh. This next story is about a fantasy
football bet. Uh that a man lost and his waffle
house server actually became the real winner. So Michael Carsley says,
it's possible to have too much of a good thing,
and in his case, it was waffle house waffles. Because
(10:22):
he's in a fantasy football league. He finished last place,
and the person who finished last place had to spend
twenty four hours at the Shamble restaurant eating waffles. Parsley lost,
so he decided to make his trip interesting and he
live streamed the whole thing on social media. Said, I'm
sure you guys have better stuff to do than watch
(10:42):
me shoved waffles in my mouth, but thanks um for
every waffle he would consume. That would knock off an
hour of the twenty four hours he had to stay there.
Um and his server who was you know, I guess
maybe he knocked enough hours to only be there for
one person's shift, I soon from the story. But unbeknownst
(11:03):
to his server as he was doing this uh live stream,
it was also a fundraiser for his server, so that
uh they could get a really nice tip. And he
said it was all worth it when the look on
his server's face when he handed over the receipt. So
all around it was a spectacular thing. This is a
(11:24):
quote from him. The punishment itself was torture, but the
outcome of everything was well worth it. And in case
you're wondering, he said, all those waffles added up to
five thousand, six D and fifty two calories, not including
butter or syrup, which I mean that's gonna up out
a lot, Yeah, almost double it. Yeah, I'd say he's easy.
At ten k was the most just out of curiosity.
(11:46):
How many? How many waffles do you think you could
eat in a wolf house in a twenty four hour period? Uh? Probably,
I have no idea, probably like in a for our period.
I don't know. I'm not. I'm not getting past like four.
They're they're great, but after like four, four or five,
(12:08):
they're going to be the same. Right, What about what
about you guys? If I if I was forced to
eat them, you know, I over a twenty four hour period,
I'd like to say I could at least do like
a Baker's dozen, you know, like a solid. I was
gonna say, I could probably push myself to do one
every other hour if I like mentally push myself in
(12:30):
that way. But then again, it's not like you're gonna
stay it for twenty four hours straight. So so maybe
like eight, i'd say, I'll say eight. I'd be like,
I would feel confident about eight. It's only one way
to find out, guys. The second half of this podcast
(12:51):
memorial what is the but about your Finger? It's a yeah.
It was fantasy football bet and as opposed to the
waffle House waffles, it was a cliff. You had to
cut off someone, you know, the loser of that season
had to cut off a piece of yeah cartel. No,
(13:18):
I haven't. I don't know that I've talked about on
the podcast. You know, I don't know. I don't like
to share the true story. But one day I will.
One day I will share the story shot and if
you ever come back, it'll be that day. All right,
I'm excited, alright. So, uh, last story for this segment
is a heron a bard a bird. That bird heron
(13:39):
becomes an NYC icon after being pictured devouring a rat
for breakfast in Central Park. So this is from The Independent,
and so a photographer was able to capture the incredible
moment of a great blue heron devouring the freshly caught
New York City rat in a New York City Central
Park pond one morning. And the image shows the magnificent
(14:02):
bird bending into the still green water with its breakfast,
which was a very unfortunate rat, still in one piece,
paused dangling helplessly outside the heron's beak. And uh, you
managed to cash this wild moment of nature and New Yorkers,
you know, have there's been a surge of rats since
(14:23):
the pandemic, and so the bird got a lot of
love for taking taking out one of the rats. And actually,
you know, we have a lot of special guests, you know,
come through the studio, some that you wouldn't even think
would be able to make it, but we are in
luck because that very heron that swallowed that rat is
(14:47):
with us here today and so we're so excited to
get the talk to them. So, uh, it's great to
meet you. It's great to meet you. Yeah, what the
fuck is up? Whoa? Yeah, you're definitely from New York. Yeah,
water rage baby, go Mad's go jets. What the fun
(15:08):
is up? So? So, what what's your name? Parent? Uh?
Very great, Blue, I'm and I'm Irish by by trade,
by trade. So what do you want? What do you birth? By? Birthday?
My fair enough, but culturally I'm Irish. Yeah. Yeah, this
(15:35):
is great, big press week for me. Well that's kind
of what I wanted to talk about. I mean it's
just like you. You you ate a radic, got caught
on camera. A lot of people have been applauding you.
Can you kind of like walk a smoothie event of
what happened. I mean, you're out there, you're on a
pond in Central Park, living your life. How do you
come across a rat? I'm like, walk us through that?
So I was pretty hello. I was down at this thing.
(16:00):
My buddy Ricky was stowing and sent to a park,
and the whole night I was trying to hook up
with this girl. Uh sorry, she's not a girl, she's
a picture and she was she was being pretty flighty
get but she was leading me on. I was going
(16:26):
from three to three, branch to branch, kind of talked
to this girl, and uh, finally she came out with
the news she's married. And I was like, listen, babe,
I'm not trying to get into no love triangle. Okay,
I've been in too many of those. I'm an old
man now. And uh I I tied a few more
(16:52):
on with my cousin Ricky, and it was time for
me to go, and uh, you know, I was just like,
I gotta get something to my sister. I'm gonna be
up for work tomorrow. And uh then I saw a
rat and I took a bite. He was pretty juicy,
and I had the whole thing. And that's when he
got got. I didn't even find out. A little went
(17:13):
viral and I was like a day later, I had
a whole day to be hungover at working ship. What's
your job? I work at j C. Penney working the
sweat is the public? Yeah, thank you so much for
coming on. And yeah, which the j C. Penney down
(17:34):
which one times square times Square got it, got it. Yeah,
we'll be sure to busy you soon. Thanks so much
for coming by. We're gonna take a quick break to
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ridiculous news. All right, y'all. So we're gonna come hinue
are deep dive into breakfast, And so we figured it'd
be nice to talk a little bit about the history
of breakfast. How did breakfast become the meal that we
know it is today in pop culture? And so here's
an article from Price Inonics that are wonderful researcher case
he found called how breakfast Became a Thing? And I
just wanted to read part of that real quick, uh,
(18:19):
And it starts with you've probably heard that breakfast is
the most important meal of the day. What you may
not know is the origin of this ode to breakfast
is a nineteen marketing campaign launched by grape nuts manufacturer
General Foods to sell more cereal and During the campaign,
which marketers called eat a good breakfast, do a better job,
(18:43):
grocery stores handed out pamphlets that promoted the importance of
breakfast while radio advertisements announced that nutrition experts say breakfast
is the most important meal of the day, as like
these were key to the rise of cereal and uh yeah,
and so that was kind of like how a modern
era of breakfast began. I did not know that. I
(19:04):
thought it was. I thought that was and we'd get
to this a little later, I think. But I always
thought that that was just good science, you know. And
it's just a damn marketing campaign like Diamonds Are Forever
or Santa Claus. You know. Yeah, that's a little disappointing.
I feel like the more you look into anything, you've
been told all roads lead to it was a marketing
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campaign by someone, you know. Yeah, right, that's crazy. Yeah,
the the in the day our whole lives search is
decided by McDonald's. Yeah, General Mills, And I love cereals.
I think cereal is up there is one of my
favorite foods. So, you know, do I actually like it
or if I just conditioned and programmed, what's your I
(19:56):
love frosted many wheats. But if if I'm really I oh,
I know, right, I love that was your first answer.
That's my first I know I knew I could, But
if I'm treating myself sent him in toast crunts if
I'm cheating myself that, but my my go to is
frosted many If I have to sleep over on your couch,
I wake up and you're like, hey, guy, you give
(20:18):
me frosted mini weeds. Frosted mini weeds. Your other options
are gonna be like like basically all the version of
cheerios or um are you mad at me? What is that?
Frosted mini weeds or Aldie cheerios? Oh boy, what about you? Shot?
(20:39):
What's your favorite cereal? I loved Coca puffs. I love crave.
You guys have read Crave What? No, I don't think
crave is great. It's terrible for you, but it's so good.
It's Crave with a K. It's really good. Well you
mark what I'm just playing. I like some honey nut
(21:02):
cheer Cheerios special K with the strawberries is also a
fun one as well. Yeah, those are those are some
of my faves. But y'all, you know, we've been talking
about our favorite cereals and the modern era of breakfast.
But historians, and this is also from the same article,
historians tend to agree the breakfast became a daily first
thing in the morning institution. Once workers moved to cities
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and became employees who worked set schedules. So in Europe, uh,
you know, the first began in the sixteen hundreds, and
breakfast achieved near ubiquity during the Industrial Revolution. With people
going off to a full day's work, Breakfast became more
of a thing that makes sense, I think when you
get yeah, like the masses of workers doing one thing
(21:47):
at the same time. Breakfast becomes one of those things.
You know. It's interesting. Yeah, Like I mean, I feel
weird if I don't eat it. I usually do a
shake now for breakfast, but that just means I'm hungry
for lunch earlier. Yeah, it's it's it's legit. Like I
said in the Interest, it's my favorite meal of the day.
I love or I just love like the staples at breakfast,
(22:08):
you know, like the toast and the cereal and the
frost and many weats and the big three baby, the toast,
the cereal, and the frost. It's a lot of carbs.
What if you guys, can build the ideal breakfast in
front of you with all you have no limitations, what
(22:32):
are you going with? Son? Like that's a great question. Um,
you know, I'll take some eggs and bacon. You know,
I love that. You know, eggs and bacon are great.
Also love some breakfast potatoes and you know, hey, how
about some cheese furns. Let's have that joined the party.
I love a bagel biggles. Yeah, yeah, like just a
(22:53):
plain bat on your back with bagels on it. I do. Um,
set me a bagel with cream cheese locks and some
pickled canons. That with a smoothie is like the perfect yeah. Yeah, yeah.
But I love a big American spread too, with like, um,
(23:14):
shredded potatoes, cheese, grapes, eggs, nice, nice big sour dough, toast, avocado. Yeah.
Breakfast brito also great. Yeah, right, breakfast tacos, like I like, uh,
what is it? Egg in a baskets? Basically just you know,
(23:37):
standard piece of like square wheat bread and cut a
little hole out and then you put a egg in
it and have it kind of over easy and then
you know, cut into it's running. It's chewy. It's just
a delicious easy yeah. Speaking of eggs and breakfast, if
you're looking for some of the earliest stories of eggs
according to Bible, scholar John A. Rice. They described Mary
(24:01):
of Nazareth preparing eggs for breakfast attended by Jesus. So
it goes back to Bible times at least, if not beforehand.
Nice like Shanko, I said, good enough for Jesus, good
enough for me. I always say that. I always say
that Bill was with me when we when I bought
my first car, said that Bill was with me last
(24:25):
night when I was shopping for jeans. Yeah, a lot
of times. I'm just saying it. Speaking of ancient times,
you know, in ancient Egypt, peasants actually had beer for breakfast.
Uh so you know some people might have mixed feelings
about donning a pint for breakfast. Clearly this is a
(24:45):
British article, but the ancient Egyptian laborers saw it as
an essential part of their day before leaving work in
the fields. Poor Egyptians would eat a breakfast a beer,
bread and onions. Wow right, yeah, And I don't know
that I could like beer. Just makes me man. Too
much beer, I just get tired. I don't think a
breakfast beer not not about it. Well they were, they said,
(25:08):
Egyptian laborers. Those are the people building the pyramids. I
can see wanting a beer before I go do terrible
labor like that build a tomb for a king I
don't even vote for Yeah, he said that. Let me
say that way, you probably could use more than one,
you know, Yeah, honestly, I'm throwing back six. I mean, fine,
(25:29):
where am I going? Well, y'all, here's another fact about
eggs for you. So, China has the highest consumption of
eggs in the world. So when you think of the world,
breakfast yet another thing we're losing. Well. This is from
backs dot net and um and so it says when
you think of the word breakfast, eggs maybe one of
(25:52):
the first things that come to mind. And based on
a study, China ranked the highest and egg consumption out
of one for other countries. On average, a Chinese resident
would eat twenty two point nine km's worth of eggs
per year. Wow, it's a lot. Geez um, what's your
(26:13):
what would you guys say, how many? Um or what
is your preferred methods? Because there's a great question. I
like a scrambled eggs cheese. That's me too. That's me too,
like a little bit runny, Yeah, scrambled egg man. We
gotta get some scrambled eggs cheese sometime, yes too, Yeah,
(26:38):
I'm scrambled with cheese is the best. Yeah, we're over easy,
right yeah, like a little bit of runniness is always
and cheese and eggs just goes together, like you know,
peanut butter and chocolate. It's just one of those two
things that makes us super well. Um. And I also
it's like this, the fact that when I first saw
this China fact, I was like, oh yeah, because I
(27:00):
have way more people. But know it's a fifth. That's
fifty pounds of eggs a year, and that is a lot, right,
And they seem to be healthy. You know. I feel
like eggs have a lot of cholesterols, so my doctor
tells me my cholesterol side. But they seem healthy. They're
fine over there. You can see a Chinese person. They
seem healthy so overly positive, terrible stereotypes. Yeah, they're always healthy.
(27:32):
They're all healthy out here. That's so funny. No, I
I feel like most like regular Chinese food is good
for you or healthy or it looks healthy. I don't know. Um.
I love that eggs is on there like staples. That's good. Yeah,
(27:54):
you know, speaking of Cyril, I know we talked a
lot about Shaunock's favorite cereal frost the many weeks. But
you know, Morocco eats the most cereal in the world
based on a right study of a a hundred fifty hundreds
to Morocco is the highest consumption of cereal, with two
hundred and fifty four ms of cereal concerned by each
person each year, which is five hundred and fifty nine
(28:17):
pounds cereal per person per year. And as cereal being
one of my favorite foods, I guess I gotta go
to Morocco like you do. Have to. Man, we're getting
our asca. Man, first China with the eggs, then Marco
with the cereal. What happened to us America? First? You
know Americle section. You know these next couple of things. Well,
(28:41):
one area where America is leading something is the largest
the largest serving of pancakes. So this is the Guinness
PEG world record. So the largest serving pancakes is thirteen
thousand and it was achieved by HIV Incorporated in the
(29:03):
US in Blue Springs, Missouri, USA, on the June. Yeah,
a lot of a lot of sercans of pancakes. But
there are a couple other world records from around the
world that are also pretty pretty wild. So the most
people eating breakfast in bed is five hundred seventy four
(29:23):
and that was achieved by Cappy in Johannesburg, South Africa
ont of March. And then uh one final breakfast world
record for y'all is um. The largest full breakfast attendants
involved fifty one thousand seven participants and was organized by
(29:44):
Van Tigarrette Lisa Odyssey in Turkey, h and that was
on June one. The few one thousand people eating breakfast together. Apparently,
I feel like we could I feel like we could
beat that in America. Come on, America, you get more
people than that. And Mercedes Been Stadium in Atlanta, like like,
(30:05):
let's let's do it. That's one that can we get.
Let's be exceptional again. Come on, that would be the
funniest way to have a super spread eating mediocre sausage
at Mercedes Bits. And then the Falcons lose in the
(30:26):
fourth quarter. Man, the Falcons are playing while we're eating breakfast.
That's so funny. That's how they get people to leave.
I'm just kidding. I love I love goal Falcons. So
this um this last thing for this segment that that
(30:47):
was interesting. Casey are amazing. Researcher brought up some stuff
about is breakfast really the most important meal of the day,
And there's actually widespread disagreement over whether breakfast is actually
the top meal. Because of the rising popularity and fasting diets,
there have been concerns about the sugar content of cereal,
the foods industry, the food industry's involvement in probe breakfast research.
(31:10):
You know, I guess they're tipping the scales of the scientists. Um.
And there's even one claim from an academic that breakfast
is quote dangerous. So what is it really like? Is
breakfast a necessary starts of the day or is it
a marketing ploy by cereal companies. A review of ten
studies looking into the relationship between breakfast and weight management
(31:31):
concluded that there's quote limited evidence supporting or refuting the
argument that breakfast influences weight or food intake, and more
evidence is required. So we don't know. We don't know. Yeah,
reasonable evidence that breakfast does improve concentration, but again they've
said there needs to be more research. Um, so we
(31:54):
don't know, y'all. You know, if if if your heart
so desires get you, that gets some O. J. Gives
you some pancakes with apple sauce. You know, but if
you if you want to skip it, just what you
might live longer anyway. I'm I usually skip. I'm usually
I usually drink water and coffee in the morning. I
(32:16):
go number two and um immediately makes me go number two,
and then I usually just eat lunch. I like breakfast.
I just never. I'm usually waking up five minutes before
I have to do anything, um and my first thing
of the day. And so that limits your breakfast potential.
(32:39):
You know, do you guys have it every day? You
said you do shakes? Yeah, I do it like a
protein shake with some super food powder. Umty grams of
protein within thirty minutes of waking up. That was baby,
That's tight. That's Tim Ferris. You know. The train goes
from jumping on our podcast next, Thanks Tim Ferris. That's
(33:01):
the road shot, and then you're on your way to
the top. You're on your way. I'm so excited. I
think I do breakfast most days, but not every day.
Um so, so it'll like depend and then sometimes yeah,
I think it depends. Like if I wake up early,
if I have an early start, I'm gonna do some breakfast.
But if I'm getting like a later start, might be like,
(33:22):
and let me wait until lunchtime. What do you usually eggs?
That's normally what I'll do. Yeah, yeah, yeah, eggs, if
I got some if I got some bread around, we'll
get some toast in there as well. You know, have
fun time. Oh that's sound amazing. Well, uh, this all
is making me hungry. Let's just go to wall files
real quick while we hear from our sponsors. Yea, we
(33:44):
will be right back with more ridiculous news after this
short break. Yeah yeah, yeah, ye don't confuse iculous news
all right, y'all, So we'll we're back and we're going
to kick things off with a game with our amazing guest,
(34:04):
shawnik uh So shnic. This game is called which Meal? Wow,
that was insane Wilson in Chess games. So basically the
way that it works is Bill and I were gonna
be throwing different foods at you, and you're gonna tell
(34:24):
us if it's for breakfast, lunch, dinner, or perhaps something
else entirely cool, am my going off his opinion or
these facts? This game in this world, your opinion is fact.
So it's just like you're deciding this one. You know, yeah, exactly,
take a swig, Take a swig, gonna drink. Get ready,
(34:45):
it's gonna be it's gonna be pretty intense. Rapid fire,
rapid fire. Here we go, Here we go. Alright, orange juice, breakfast,
blt sandwich, lunch, that's a lunch, Lomon pepper, wet chicken, dude, breakfast,
didn't know, that's a lunchry dinner, you know, you know, twinkies, Yes,
(35:12):
breakfast if you're a bus driver, packet of mayo, Yeah, lunch,
lay mignon, lunch, salmon. Oh, there's a few types of salmon.
Everything nice chicken Ala King, who chicken for the king? Breakfast?
(35:37):
Really King, breakfast, grapes, breakfast, that's a good one. Crushed
graham crackers, what something entirely different. I'm gonna go with
the fourth category. Yeah, like what if what what thing
would you eat? Crush graham crackers? At crackers? I don't know.
(35:58):
If I was like in a waiting him at the hospital.
I don't see any other reason to do that, because
it the d MB or something. Breakfast sandwich, No, no, no,
it's in the name, dude. Thank you so much, Shannick
(36:22):
for participating in the first in which sorry time that perfectly.
That was incredible. Thank you so much for let me
to participate. And if you're a listener, please take that advice.
If you heard something on that list that you were
(36:43):
doing eighty and incorrect time, fix it please. Yeah, that's
why we got Shaunick here. He's an expert on the topic.
And I think American culture will never be the same.
A couple of other dessert stories for you all. One
is again we're going back to waffle house because we
love waffle house there in in the South and in Atlanta.
(37:06):
If you don't have offileuse where you are, it's delicious.
I hope you can stop by one when you're in
the Southeast. Um. And this is about a customer who
jumped behind the counter to help out. This is such
an interesting story. Uh the uh. Late one Saturday night,
Ethan cris Bo had just left a friend's birthday party
in Birmingham, Alabama, walked into a waffle house around midnight
(37:29):
to grab a bite, but there was only a single
employee work in the restaurant, and he described the cook's
face as a wash and bewilderment at finding that he
was by himself managing the night shift, because there was
thirty people there, which is a packed out waffle house,
and just one guy fending off the incoming crowd of
(37:49):
hungry heavily. I mean your midnight, your waffle house. You've
had a couple, you know, breakfast Egyptian drinks at least.
But a customer finished his meal, asked for an apron,
and stepped behind the counter to wash dishes. Uh, cris
Bo said, it was a smooth transition. He just busted
his butt and helped out. It turns out he didn't
work at the restaurant, nor did he work at any
(38:12):
walfle house anywhere. Another woman dressing wearing a dress and
heels also stepped up. She walked behind the counter, got
a coffee pot, helped start serving people. At first I
thought it was out of necessity, like she just wanted coffee,
Crispo said, But then she was helping other people, So
what what's going on? What's going on? Right? Is this
(38:37):
just cris Bo, the man of the article, said, I've
never seen anything like this ever happened, nor will I again,
probably as when I guess handed him a bag full
of McDonald's cash and I can only assume he then
ran away, but it was it was. He says it
was one of his most memorable experiences. So, I mean,
I guess my question for you all is like, if
(38:58):
you're at and what what a waff how waff hoe
wa hoo at the midnight and you see the one
person stressing out behind the counter, you jumping up to help?
I think I genuinely would, Yeah, Mark, you know, I respect.
I don't know. I guess I would get self conscious. Lie,
I think I would just slow you down. I think
(39:20):
I'll just slow them down if I but if I
could be given clear instructions, I would help, Like if
there was a way was like, hey, we just need
you to like scramble these eggs. I do that. Yeah.
But yeah, yeah, yeah, I think that in the case
of washing dishes or something, if especiap I was a
little tipsy, I would that would be a fun exciting
thing for me. I think, right, yeah, you're in there,
(39:43):
you're part of them, You're in the fight, you're in
the war, you're in the battle. Yeah, I would be excited.
I think I think it would be fun. Yeah, let's
go find like a stretched out I was employed force
our force, our help. We all we're gonna go back
to the end, taking as we're gonna go back to
McDonald's one more time with another McDonald's story, very different
(40:06):
from the story we talked about earlier. So this headline
is McDonald's Robert demands chicken nuggets, has to accept breakfast
food because it was still too early. So there's a
man that's been jailed for robbing a McDonald's in England
and making off not only was some cash but also food.
Unfortunately for him, not only did he get caught, but
(40:27):
he also wasn't even able to get the meal he
was hoping for at the time of the robbery. So,
according to reports, Rudy Batten claimed to have a gun
and demanded money from the register and forced the manager
to give him access to the store safe. On his
way out, Batton reportedly demanded some of the fast Foods
franchise famous chicken nuggets. Unfortunately for him, it was still
(40:50):
too early in the day and the restaurant was only
serving items on the breakfast menu, and apparently he was
unwilling to wait for some nuggets to be cooked, so
Batton made off with a double sausage McMuffin instead, and
a reportedly bat and stole more than six from the restaurant. Uh.
He was reportedly identified by CCTV cameras and he turned
(41:11):
himself in to the authorities later that day. It was
from kiss dot com is where we found the story. Yeah, right,
I mean, not even a gun can get your breakfast. Uh,
you know past the time. That's that's the moral of
that story. I think it's like I'm arguing, Yeah, that's
(41:32):
how strict they are about There are times the training
is that you put your life on the line. You
say it does not matter. As McDonald's employee, that's the
first and last lesson. If it's not you're eating lead,
he's not getting lunch. No way. That sucks. Imagine having
(41:56):
being pushed to the point in your life where you're
robbing a place. You go to rob a place and
you're like, at least let me get some nuggets and
they don't even have the small thing you're looking for.
In life goes two ways. Do you do you then
change your life around or do you just go deeper
and darker into that hole? Is this a superhero origin story?
(42:20):
He like puts the gun down and he's like, what
am I even doing? Fills out o employee for start
working there. Yeah, well, y'all, that's crazy. We got one
final headline for today and I didn't want to go
into the story in depth. I just thought it was
an interesting headline about breakfast, you know. Uh So the
(42:43):
headline is from the takeout dot com and it's Taco
Bell Breakfast Thrives even though no one gives a shit
about its coffee, and the article just kind of gives
shade I guess the Taco Bell coffee, which I mean
like we could. I was just like, what an interesting outline,
And I just wanted to share that with you all
because it made me smile. Um, well, who is If
(43:06):
you're judging Taco Bell coffee, what is wrong with you?
They're never set out to make a good cup of coffee.
They added it because they knew people would want it
with their Fiesta Taco breakfast thing. Yeah, Taco Bell is
the best, dude. I'm a big Taco little fan or
(43:27):
even talking about man, I like it, but I always
feel like I pay the price. I just yeah, if
I'm eating too many tacos, it's gonna be a bad
Next twelve to twenty four hours. I never have the
beef there. I always do chicken or beans, and it's
never bit me in the mean. The button is Uh,
(43:48):
what about Mick the Great Blue Heron? Do you think
he's the kind of guy that eats at at Taco Bell? Oh? Yeah, yeah,
I think he's on his way here. And give me
a second. He's gonna you guys wanna ask him? Yeah,
let's check it in with Nick. Okay, but what do
(44:11):
you what do you guys want Mick? We we just
were wrapping up this episode. We just wanted to get
your thoughts on, you know, the best breakfast food and
if you'd ever have coffee at the Taco Bell. I'm
off the coffee because the doctor said I got a
high blood pressure thing going on, and I just, you know,
his breath is such a such a joy. I just
(44:34):
want to avoid seeing him at all. Course, so off
the coffee. I'm doing macho latte. Now you have this
macho latte. Grond know what is that macho latte? The
right macha latte. It's like a green thing. And uh,
you look like such a dog and you didn't it.
You're like, look at me and my little my little
(44:56):
green juice. But it's not it's a macho latte and
it's like this Japanese drink. It's energy and the g
Japanese style is what I would say it is. It's
a good it's a good drink. I'm drinking that now.
No coffee. Best breakfast, Jesus Christ. I mean, I'm for
(45:17):
freaking queens. I mean, you can't go wrong with a bacon,
egg of cheese on a little onion roll or a
bagel or something. But my preferred breakfast is when I
grew up beating as a kid, which is a rat
like pizza crusted some went throughout. Okay, so that that
(45:41):
time you ate the rat wasn't the first time you
ate the rat. Turns out now I've been reading Rat
since I was a schoolboy. I didn't know that you
were such a big fans. I don't know you went
to school. Honestly, no fans. I just didn't know. I
don't know. M A, Oh my goodness. Yeah, the dartment.
(46:03):
That's great. We gave it all up to it for
J C. Penny respect. You following your dreams. That's really cool.
Yeah yeah, And that's a pretty cool sweater. I mean,
I gotta say you're supporting that, like, I mean, it's
it looks good. Yeah, I do for j C. Betty
in the sweater department of folding sweaters now and we
(46:27):
certainly will and we appreciate you visiting us, not once
but twice on the episode. Is great talking to both times.
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're gonna get out of here.
This building is pretty you know what's interesting. The reason
we keep doing episodes we have not been able to
figure out a way a way out, so we're kind
of trying to figure that out. All right, all right,
I'll get on Google Maps, all right, see you guys.
(46:48):
Thanks Mack, Yeah, it's I'm glad that he came back
to drop that. Well. That brings us to our final
segment of the day, at the Spring of Inspiring Inspirations,
where we leave everyone with a quote to ponder Um
and Mark, you pulled a go on so in in
in spirit, in the spirit of the breakfast topics we've
(47:11):
been discussing today. This quote is from Alfred A. Montepart
and it says, expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Mm hmmm. I like that. Uh yeah, And Shohn, it
was so great having you on the episode. Um, could
you let folks know the best way to follow you,
(47:33):
keep in touch with you and support the work that
you're doing. Yeah, you can find my Instagram handle or
my TikTok handle which is the same shaunik G, s
H A U and A K G. And I'll just
be where I'm at. I'm dealing stand up and then
any other video projects that are working I'm working on
we'll be posted there as well. Awesome, Thank you so much, Yes,
(47:56):
so yeah, wonderful having you on. Man, Just good to
see your face. So great to see you guys. This
is so much fun and and you know, thank you
so much for listening. You' all have a lot of
options out there for podcasts. It means the world that
you choose us with amazing guests like Shaanik and Mick
the Great Blue Heron. I don't see how you can
go anywhere else, um, but genuinely thank you for being Yeah,
(48:18):
and you can stay in touch with us as well.
You can email us at Ridiculous News at iHeartMedia dot
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And you can check out our comedy videos at Mark
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(48:46):
is hosted by Mark Kendall and Bill Warley. Executive producers
are Ben Boland and Noel Brown, Produced and edited by
Tarry Harrison, Research provided by Casey Willis and theme music
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