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January 5, 2023 33 mins

Welcome to the first weekly roundup episode of 2023! Woohoo! We are joined by special guest Lenise Lyons to talk about recent headlines that caught our eye. We're talking about Taylor Swift's super rich cat, an important tip to keep in mind for your new year's resolutions, the magic of The Cheesecake Factory, and much more!Follow Lenise on IG @luhneez and check out our comedy videos @markkendallcomedy

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where we take some of the weirdest stories in the
news and dive a little deeper. As always, we might
have guests pop along the way. I'm Mark Kendall. I'm
an Lanta based comedian and I'm excited about playing some
new goals for the year. My amazing co host Bill
is the way today, but you're joined by the phenomenal
Lunise Lines. Lunis is a hilarious improviser, actor, and stand
up comedian and they perform all over Atlanta and you

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can follow her on Instagram at Lenise. That's lu H
and e Z. Welcome back to the podcast again. Leanis
so happy to have you here. So happy to be here, Mark,
Happy New Year. Yes, absolutely, and we're gonna do the
second we always do when we have a guest called
giving them their flowers. Uh. And uh, it's where I
give you a compliment, Uh, say something nice about you

(01:22):
can't return it. And today this one's easy. Recently have
a birthday, So happy birthday. Thank you so much for
being here. The world is so much better with the
inn I'm here. I'm glad you're here for another year.
Thank you, Mark, thank you glad to be here. Yeah.
So we're gonna hop into our ridiculous news nibbles. Uh.
These are some quick ridiculous headlines that caught are I recently.

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And this first one is from TV Insider by Martin
Holmes and the headline is Kevin Hart comments on Andy
Cohen and Anderson Keeper's sober New Year's Eve show. So
to catch you all up real quick. Uh, this year's
New Year's Eve telecast on CNN may have been a
little different from past years because uh In November of

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CNN chairman and CEO Chris Licht announced the network would
be scaling back beyond their drinking, meaning correspondence and anchors
were required to stay sober during the New Year's broadcast. Now,
if you've seen previous broadcasts, the opposite was sometimes happening.
Uh So this came after a controversial moment during the
broadcast when Cohen referred to Ryan Seacrest and the New

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Year's Rock and Eve crew as a quote group of losers.
So for this year's event, or rather for New Year's
Eve event, Cohen and Cooper couldn't drink alcohol until after midnight,
according to The Hollywood Reporter. So throughout the telecast that
had different guests that were calling or be there and
kind of make jokes at their expense. One of those

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people was, of course Kevin Hart. Uh and they were
poking fun at that and they even took a solidarity
shot with them. Was saying, I'm gonna do what you can.
The comedian said, I'm gonna take a shot because you
guys have been hoodwinked. I can't believe you. I can't
believe seeing them telling you guys not to go and
cut loose in such a good, true fashion. That's perfect TV.
And so that was ingest. But yeah, so what what

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did you think about, uh seeing the story? Yeah, I
remember hearing about this earlier this year that they didn't
want them to drink, and I kind of thought it
was just a joke to get you interested because and
it's in Cooper gets tore up Don Lemonton Don. I
was gonna say, I think it is my favorite. You know,

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he is obliterating. He's not even where he's supposed to
be in the booth. I'm on the street. I mean,
I'm on the float. I'm on the float. Hey, I'm
back holding I'm back home. Oh wait, I'm I'm in
chucking cheese. How do I get I'm in the NBA
playing part guard. It's like, wow, Don lemmon, you can

(03:56):
go anywhere. Yeah, don letmon chill back up here, put
your gloves on. Donald. Yeah, so seeing this, uh, I don't.
I guess they still could have a good time, and
I guess just to teach America that you can. He
saw bro New Year's Eve, Um, but I guess think

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it's got a little too rowdy. I did you remember
when Steve Harvey and Rob Bronkowski were together? That sounds
like an amazing parents that a movie. It wasn't a
New Year's but Rob Brokowski like spiked a lego head
like something like really cool that was due He's like

(04:43):
just busted it too a d pieces in front of
Steve Harvey and it was like what happened? And I
can tell if Rob Brodkowski was drunk or was this
was like something they made up to do, But um,
I can feel like it could a fit maybe a
couple of people that don't know what dona emit and
it's a Cooper get down for New Year's AGOA well,

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maybe they you know, they did a sober year this year,
and maybe what they do is they find a way
to introduce it back into folks that want to participate
in that, and then folks that don't want to of
course shouldn't feel pressured, but it's like maybe there's a
way to you know, like a happy meeting and you
know right, um maybe they put part of the broadcast

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on HBO. Yeah, yeah, like from There's No Drinking Turn
the Midnight you gotta move over to like pay per view.
Asian you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, for sure, Um,
who does that? I think someone does that, but I'm not.
I'm assure right now. I don't know what I thought

(05:51):
I just went, but something. I mean, there's an audience
for both. Um, certainly you don't want to make anyone
feel uncomfortable, but you know you don't have to watch
the whole thing. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I want to see
Anderson Cooper louse. We're gonna move on to our next headline.
This comes from the Good News Network by Andy Corblely,

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and the headline is new evidence unearthed by podcasters freeze
two men longthly imprisoned for twenty five years. So two
men were wrongfully imprisoned for more than two decades, and
they were recently able to spend Christmas with their families
after a podcast in nonprofit advanced evidence of their innocence.
So Darrelly Clark and Kane Joshua Story were just teenagers

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when they stood trial for a murder of their fifteen
year old friend that died from gunshots at a party
in ninety six. Uh Clark had all the charges against
him dropped after a motion for a new trial was
held on his behalf by attorneys from the Georgia Innocence Project,
and I gotta give a quick shout out to the
Georgia Innocence Project. Actually, UM, back in the winter of

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was fortunate enough to participate as a fellow at the
Emery Arts and Social Justice UM Fellowship at Emery and
it's a great program and UM during my time there,
I got to meet some of the people from the
Georgia Innocence Project because it was a part of the
our project that we were doing. And the Georgia Innocence
Project works on helping people that have been wrongfully convicted,

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getting them out of jail as well as getting them
back into society. And in states like Georgia in particular,
there are laws that do not give people a lot
of support who have been wrongfully convicted and helping them, uh,
you know, get back into society, get back into life,
you know. And it's it's a real shame and it's
it's crazy how much it happens, you know, and how

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people serve a lot of time for things that they
did not do. So quit you know who shout out
to Georgia Innocence Project and for the great work that
they do. Clarke was quoted in a statement saying, you
never think something like that is going to happen to you.
Never what I have thought that I would spend more
than half my life in prison, especially for something I
didn't do. I'm just glad that truth finally came to

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light after twenty five years. I'm so thankful for Georgia
Innocence Project improved podcast or what they did about them,
I would still be in prison. Susan Simpson and just
sent the davia's hosts a podcast called Proof and they
began interviewing the states two key witnesses. But the case, UM,
well that's yeah, that's amazing. UM. And I know that

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that that Georgia Innocence Projects promises a ton of cases, certainly, UM,
a lot of states that with the big prison prison systems,
there are a lot of folks that like proclaim proclaiming
or innocence since you know the beginning. But if they
don't have the resources, unfortunately, they spent a lot of
time in a place where they don't deserve to be. UM.

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And these two guys were very young having to experience that,
so they have very much so kudo sending them for
for taking on a project like that and then getting
them like dexonerted. That's amazing. Absolutely absolutely. Uh. This next
article wildheadline. It's from the News by Joel Caffey and

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the headline is Taylor Swift's cat It's worth ninety seven
million dollars And no, we're not kidding. The headline sales,
so it's wild. It's a love. So the article goes
on to say, according to the Pet Rich List, Taylor
Swift's beloved cat, Olivia Benson, is worth a whopping ninety
seven million dollars, making her the third riches pet in
the world, not number one, the third riches pet in

(09:25):
the world. So the breakdown explains with the whopping ninety
seven million dollar network, Olivia's found success outside of the
world of Instagram influence. The Scottish fold earned her fortune
starring alongside her owner in several music videos, has crapped
her own merchandise line sold on Swift's website back at eighteen,
and has had cameos and many big budget ads, including

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for the likes of Diet Coke and ned Sneakers, and
It's true Swift speed line makes a cameo in her
Like Space music video, which currently has over three billion
views on YouTube. Wow, that's a lot of views. And
she also starred in an A T and t Ad
alongside her singer songwriter mom and Olivia Benson is named

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after the iconic Law and Order SPU character of the
same ninety seven billion dollars million, nine million million dollars
that's still still like crazy about see you processing? Yeah,
so how does how does what is um that? How

(10:28):
do you transfer that value into like dollars? I don't know,
but I imagine. Honestly, what came to my mind was
the Disney animated film Arista Cats. How they're really rich
cats and the Butler's like, no way, these cats are
gonna get paid and not me. So I almost kind
of wonder, is there someone in Taylor Swift circle where

(10:49):
it's like the cats word ninety seven millions, no no, no, no,
no no, this is what he's coming to me? Yeah,
uh uh, And that's she's Olivia. This is the third
richest cat in history and that's according to pet Rich Lists.
Is where that figure came from. Kind of makes you

(11:10):
wonder what it's number two? Yeah, I wonder if they're
gunning for their like believing business is like I'm gonna
channel some law and order and put charges on this
other two cats that animals that are in my way,
right right? Yeah? Did this list come out? She gathered
her team and it's like, what is this number three?
Number three? I tell you all to get me on

(11:31):
the list. There's no list that I'm not at the top.
And we're like, they're like, what's on? What's sorry, it's
not gonna cut it, Get out there, get me the
number one, me on out, you know. We're yeah, yeah,
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Let these lines. We can move on to Our next
headline for today is from CNBC by Natasha Pinion, and
the headline is Harvard expert on the worst thing about
New Year's Resolutions and how to beat it? Uh colon

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a profound loss of energy, So Harvard expert Lisallais. Research
is driven by a truly shock and statistic when doctors
informed heart patients will die without changing in great habits.
Only one and seven more successfully change their ways. In
ladies eyes, the worst thing about New Year's resolutions isn't
the fact that we quote failed to fulfill them. The tragedy,

(12:38):
she says, is that all too often we criticize ourselves
when we come up short, despite decades of research proving
just how resistant to change we are. Uh, she was honest,
saying it's like people drink the kool aid and think,
if I really intend to make the goal happen, and
I can't, I'm a loser. There's something wrong with me,
she says. I think it's just a down loss of

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human energy. So much of that has to do with
the fact that people don't recognize and sufficiently respect that
these are powerful forces of play that are operating at
an unconscious level that make it hard for us to change.
She continues, There's nothing shameful about that. So I thought
that was a really interesting thing to keep in mind
as we go into this new year, as we perhaps

(13:22):
start with resolutions or have a resolution not to have resolutions,
you know what I mean. Like, however, I thought that
was just like a great thing to keep in mind
of what I interpreted as being kinder to yourself. Yeah,
I don't know the last time I made resolutions, especially
ones that like require uh that I said something that

(13:42):
I might not really know how to reach. Um, But
they like keeping it lighter, like be kind of to yourself,
make more time for you, um, certain things things that
you enjoy, because I think that's changing, Like those habits
that uh she's talking about in the article that you know,
those some things you can't change. You don't know why.
It might be some underlying thing. So maybe just like

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being like give yourself a chance every day and um,
start with a positive thought, you know, thank the people
around you, and then you know, you unlock something that
might help you, you know, and your other goals, but
no putting them something hard, like I'm gonna save two
dollars this year. I'm gonna save one dollar for every day,
day to two dollars, day three, three dollars. You know,

(14:27):
I like to keep it Like, how about you? Did
you make any New Year's resolutions? I'm making them. I
haven't made them yet. Like there's a book I read
not too long ago called Atomic Habits, and I liked
it a lot. It was about just making good habits,
breaking ones that you don't want to have anymore. And
then the book it talks about how goals can be useful,
but what I took away from it was like, even

(14:49):
more important than goals are just like what are the
things that you're doing every day? Like what are you
focused on every day? What kind of habits are you
making day to day? And focusing more on that. Goals
can be something that maybe help you with that direction.
But once you have a goal, it's like, all right,
that might be fantastic and exciting, but then what are
the small steps day to day that you'd want to do?

(15:11):
Because I've definitely been there were I'll make a list
of goals and like year after year, I'm like, there's
this goal I have. I really want to do it,
but I haven't done anything towards it. And sometimes in
my case anyway, a lot of times it's like I'll
have that goal, but I haven't like filled in what
leads up to it, you know. So it's just like, oh,
I I really like to eat a sandwich. Was like, well,

(15:31):
that's great. Are you gonna make a sandwich yourself? I'm
gonna go drive someplace by a standard, you know, Like
was it going to be like a sandwich isn't necessarily
just gonna appear in the scenario. Yeah. I really like
this art that the just kind of brings it down
to a level where you feel like you can achieve
something and um and not put it make it so

(15:52):
rigorous like this, something that depends on you doing something else. Um.
We know at this time of year, we're bombarded with
hit it to the gym. Just one sense you have
been here. Just make that change. No, yeah, travel more.

(16:15):
We're gonna get your travel groups together. That requires me
to make a purchase. I want to start from just
up here. Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I like how
you know, as you were alluding to Lenise, I like
how the article goes on to say, uh, the ladies
saying that change isn't impossible, you know. So she pointed

(16:38):
out that these resolutions can be good, especially if there's
something that's easy to stick with. Um. The article kind
of talks about how it gets tricky when there's something
else going on that might be preventing you from accomplishing
a goal that you're maybe not aware with, whether it's
like an underlying belief system or just something subconscious. So

(16:59):
lady says, if you've multiple times to change the same
behavior and you have yet to see it stick. That's
a telltale sign that there's something else going on behind
the scenes, and so sometimes might have to dig deeper
into what. I like that the article references drinking the
kool A because I can't tell you the last time
I had a glass? Cool? Ag? Do we have to

(17:22):
change that? Same about kool Ai because I don't know.
I mean, this is the brand is just so strong
in my mind because it's just like the kool A
man busting through the wall. I don't know, right, I
I just mailed kool Ai just now, just from Let's tark. Yeah.
I was thinking about fruit Push too, which is funny.
They have more than one flavor, so why were we

(17:43):
both thinking about the same one the same and the
thing is too cool? Man has only ever read He's
never not fruit punch flavor, right, He's never that mystery flavor, right,
write the mystery flavor which is probably just fru push,
which is probably fruit punch. Yeah man at Brandon, Yeah yeah, Well,

(18:03):
speaking of a brand that's maybe not doing too good
is Elon Musk. So this headline is from Bloomberg by
Brian Chapatta and the headline is Elon Musk becomes first
person ever to lose two hundred billion dollars. So article
was honestly. Elon Musk was the second person ember to
amass a personal fortune more than two hundred billion dollars,

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reaching that threshold in January, one months after Jeff Bezos,
the Tesla Incorporated Chief executive officer, has now achieved a
first of his own, becoming the only person in history
to a race two hundred billion dollars from their net worth.
The decline in Tesla shares has been so steep the
shares fill six and Musk has sold so much this

(18:49):
year to help cover his Twitter purchase that they're no
longer as big as asset. That's according to Bloomberg's Wealth Mix.
How much to zero zero billions? You think Jeff Bezos
called him he love baby, seeing him some roasts? I

(19:18):
would that's an amount of money like that. I wouldn't.
I can't even see it. That's that's um to losing
two hundred billion dollars of net worth from whatever their
net worth is. It was probably still in the billions.

(19:38):
Like I need it. I don't feel sad. I'm just
more confounded about like he had that much. Yeah, it
just feels like, I mean, watching from the outside, it
feels like he's just playing with it. You know, he's
still like unimaginally, unimaginatively rich, you know, so it's just

(19:58):
like it's just played people at this point. It's just
played money. You know. It's not even real, right, right
for an average American or anyone, like play money is
like still like, but it's not really play money. I
still have to do something with this, and just thinking
about even myself now when I look at my credit scoring,

(20:21):
like I am man, I have negative wealth, student loans, mortgage,
and all my other responsibilities from whatever, I can't two
hundred billion. Absolutely, yeah, that's real. I mean it's just like,
for sure, I agree, I agree there should be a
punishment for losing that much money. You know. It's just

(20:44):
like listen, listen, and we were just giving the self away,
you know what I'm saying to like get your girl. Yeah,
but he bought. So this came between him buying having
to leverage his own assets to purchase Uh. Twitter, Man,

(21:06):
they got down with that one. I really just really
blame those owners of Twitter, like they're like, let's if
you want to what's the number that we all walk away?
And it was like, because you know, he's gonna he's
gonna have to fire everybody to even keep it afloat
um and he's just doing a terrible job with it.

(21:26):
I don't I don't use Twitter so much, but it's
good to use a good appu like for quick information
and like quick links to to news articles and uh,
but I don't even know what kind of world is
over there now. It's always been kind of sketchy, but like,
just this one purchase took it down that far. Is

(21:48):
a remarkable testament about like why we can still eat
avocado toast and not feel bad about it. Two hundred
billion dollars. I'm gonna eat all the avocado toasts too. Yeah. Yeah.
We will be right back with more ridiculous news after
this short break. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, don't here it confused,

(22:14):
you an do ridiculous news all right, y'all. So we're back,
drawn by amazing NS lines, uh, were moving into our
final segment, and you know, at least I saw this
article from Vox by Alex of Bad Santos and the
headline just pulled me in. It was the cheesecake factory
knows what you want. And it was just this article

(22:36):
bat the Cheesecake Factory, and I'm like, I just gotta
talk about this. So the article starts out by saying,
the Cheesecake Factory menu is over twenty pages long and
contains two items. And when I read that, I was like,
I always thought it was twice that you like, it

(22:56):
feels like fifty pages and the spiral spring binder. I'm like,
is this it feels like a like a college course
that I'm taking, you know, sometimes they give you a
spiral reader to go along with the course. Is like, well,
this is like, you know, American history, you know, survey course.

(23:17):
You start reading the menu when you come in the door.
It's on the walls. Yeah, seventeen. Yeah, that's amazing. Yeah.
I'm just like and it's just so long, so extensive.

(23:38):
It's just it just keeps going, you know. It's like, oh,
here's the pages with all the brothers, here's the pages
with all the pasta. Don't forget the cheesecake, uh you know, yeah,
and God bless the the waitress and the waiter that
has uh so much. Just like, just tell me what's
the what you recommend? I don't because or someone's like,

(24:01):
so should I get the Chilean sea bass or should
I get this like mac and cheese with barbecue pork?
Like I don't with they shared nothing in common, you know. Like,
I'm gonna tell you the truth. I've tried sixteen items
on and that was fifteen of those with the various cheesecakes. Okay,

(24:27):
the other item was bottomed water. So look, I'll give
you some time. I'll be bad. Yeah, they always hit
you there. Oh I've had that too. Oh yeah, I
had the cheesecake. It's a factory. So I just saw

(24:48):
this article had some interesting insights in fact, so, year
after years, since nineteen seventy eight, the cheesecake factory has
succeeded in abundance. I agree that tens of thousands of
diners pile in to it's two hundred eleven North American locations.
And while it has captured hearts by fulfilling the promise
of cheesecake and the guarantee of something for everyone, how
do they do it? The rhyme and reason behind the

(25:11):
restaurants decor is that cheesecake factories are meant to evoke
wealth and extravagance and What better exemplifies American opulence than
the unrestrained acquisition of things already deemed splendid from everywhere
but home. All these touches are markers of luxury features
and silhouettes borrowed from the places that rich people see

(25:33):
on their rich vacations. Smashing them all together should, if
aesthetic functioned like arithmetic, create the most classiest place in history.
And there's a quote that says, our goal was to
give guests a sense they were getting a lot of
valuable money. We wanted to give the place a feeling
of a high end restaurant and have the guests surprised

(25:55):
by the relatively inexpensive pricing. And that's a quote from McCormick,
who's Cheesecake Factories former VP of design for over thirteen years.
But if you ask people what it is exactly what
they love about the cheesecake factory beyond seemingly universal guard
for the brown bread, the results are a little more mixed.
The article calls on to say, according to an extremely

(26:19):
unofficial poll among cheesecake factory enthusiasts, So it has a
couple of quotes that I thought were entertainment. Uh, this
this one says, I thought it was the pinnacle of
a nice restaurant in high school. One person told me
a fun treat that wasn't too fancy, said another. Not
that price compared to most nice restaurants, said a third. Uh.

(26:40):
This other quote says, I mean the Cheesecake Factory is
the Michelin three Stars of chain restaurants. And that was
from Pastry Chip and Food Network star Zachie Young. But
what are your thoughts on the Cheesecake Factory, Lenny's. I
just when I think about the Cheesecake Factory, I just
get a smile on my face, and so I just
kind of wanted to know what you thought. I'm with

(27:00):
h the person that is just um noted as another
person which has to be uh Alex's Alex about about
Santos's co workers. Like like when I was younger, I
was like, yes, after prob, we're gonna go to the

(27:20):
Cheesecake Fame, like it was one of those places like
it was as a child was out of Ruth Chris.
I'm mostly mostly so, but I did not know that
there were two hundred fifty items on that menu. Um. Yeah, right,
being inside one, it is definitely a like, oh, there
isn't affront to your senses and like just overload of

(27:43):
oh is that a steamboatus? Do it? People? Dot? Oh?
Fish tank? Oh lot, Like it's it is a lot
to take into. I agree with that sentiment. But honestly,
if I've only been maybe three times in my life,
and I did never order the cheesecake, it was always
some kind of post so I have a similar experience.

(28:11):
And the first time I went as a kid, I
am like, this is the height of luxury. I did not.
I just feel like a bunch of gold. I don't know.
Maybe they were like columns and spirals that I'm like,
I don't know where I am, but I feel like
I'm in a palace, you know, like some kind of palace.
And then like the menu was so long. I was

(28:32):
just like, oh my gosh. Clearly you know, they've flown
in this food from all over the world just for
me this evening, just to choose whatever it is that
I want, you know. Uh. And so it's a fun
experience getting to go, for sure, and I and I
do like the cheesecake they have, like an Oreo cheesecake.
It's like it's it's like it's so fun Um, but

(28:56):
it does look like a casino or a ship on
the inside. Yeah yeah. Will you'd be dining with the
captain to night captain cheesecake. Yeah yeah. Um. One other
little bit from the article that I thought was interesting
was it says at the Cheesecake Factory, something for everyone
doesn't just mean a hilariously exhausted menu served amid America's

(29:19):
most chagotic, high low esthetic milks. It also means homeade
combination of comfort, nostalgia, and deliciousness that can't help the work. Yeah,
they have survived, they've been around for I didn't know
they were that recent of a restaurant. I thought, uh, yeah,

(29:40):
this is always thought that happened too much on the
menu was a problem, but not for cheesecake. Not for cheesecake.
And I'm curious if we were to ask like five
random people like that have been to cheesecake or remember
the last time they went, what they got? Would be

(30:00):
surprised if each person said a different thing. Probably, Oh,
I might pull my friends and see. I'd be curious
because I mean, you mentioned the you know, the waiter
earlier that's tried sixteen things, fifteen of them being you know,
different cheesecakes. That menu is so overwhelming. I feel like
a lot of people probably just end up ordering whatever

(30:21):
their waiter says to get, you know, so because it
is like you know, yeah, I don't it's six, I
have to pay six. I'm I'm no. I think uh definitely. Uh.
I used to watch a lot of a bar rescue
bar rescue is I think rescue is it. It's a

(30:44):
reality show. It's where they come in and repair and
fix your rescue your bar. Um. I forgot what station
of colm. But John Tafferty is this world down? Uh?
Bar connoisseur that will come into your bar say you
need to take down all of this fix this Manyo
is too much stuff on it. You're overpouring for drinks.

(31:07):
And he doesn't like such an affront and like so
mean that it's like, oh god, and I can't believe
he's talking to the restauranteers like this. But he always said,
like you're there's a science too, menus in your eyes,
Like they know where your eyes fall on menu, so
they put the choices that they want you to take
in certain positions so that you know you're like, oh

(31:29):
that looks good. Like there's a lot of pictures. They
don't put a lot of words in there, or they
make it words easy to understand, so that you just
know you see decade in and creamy saucy, you know,
UM that a lot leads you to want that item.
So there's a definitely an entire science behind how we
eat and drink at the restaurants. And back to why

(31:53):
we can't keep those resolutions fooling around with two hundred
fifty items that the chiefs effective well when he's has
been so great Having you on the show today is great.
Get to talk to you about Cheesecake Factory, Taylor Swift,
super Rich Cat, and New Year's resolutions. Before we depart, though,

(32:14):
what's the best way for people to stay in touch
with you and support the things you have gone on? Uh?
Please find follow me on Instagram, UM also on Twitter
by the same name. I just did a purge on there,
but l u h in easy. Uh, that's how you
can find me and I'll be around town. That's where
I post all of the things that I get to do.

(32:34):
People I get to hang out with and do fun
stuff with. So fantastic, Thanks for having me Mark, Oh
always this is the best. So we're gonna move on
to our last segment called Spring of Inspiring Inspirations. This
is where we share an inspirational quote and things on
positive note, today's quote comes from f Scott Fitzgerald. UH,
and it is strength shows not only in the ability
to persist, but the ability to start over. I felt

(32:57):
like that was consistent of the talk surrounding New Year's
New beginnings and UH at least thank you again for
joining us, and as always, thank you the listeners for
tuning in to Ridiculous News. We know you have a
lot of choices of what to listen to, and so
we say this genuinely, thank you so much. You can
email us at Ridiculous News at I heart media dot
com and on Facebook and ig all the Ridiculous News,

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and you can check out our comedy videos at Mark
Kendall com by all. Ridiculous News is hosted by Mark

(33:38):
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