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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Ben and Skin Show ninety one point one the Eagle.
Let's give away those Ranger tickets. We have a four
pack for the August twenty seventh game. We were just
talking about a media fight. There was two guys in
the local sports media arguing on Twitter. We were just
talking about it. Name one of those guys. If you
can name one of those guys, leave it on the
talkback feature on the iHeart app with your name, your
(00:20):
phone number, your email address. Be the first person to
do it, and you are going to win the tickets
to go see the Rangers August twenty seventh. It's a
four pack. So again, who were the two guys that
were in that media fight? We were just talking about
it before that song there, and if you know and
you're the first, you're gonna win those tickets. But right
now it's time for this. Are you excited? He Gets
(00:46):
Day featuring veteran news anchor Kat's fun tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Actually no, no, no kt today, but I'm going to
be stepping in for Weekday today.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Who Christina fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Let's go Okay, So I want to take us back
to twenty twenty three, only two years ago. We had
a big chain coming to town. I'm talking about Portillos now.
I will say this. I know when I first went
to Chicago, Portillos was like the first thing everyone said,
You've got to go to Portillo's. You got to stop
there and get a hot dog whatever. I remember going.
(01:20):
I remember not getting a hot dog. I think I
got like a beef sandwich was, which is what else
they're known for.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And it's good.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was really good. Yeah, I loved it, and so
I remember everyone being very excited about Portillos coming to
the Metroplex. They opened up in the Colony first in
early twenty twenty three, and they killed it. And this
reminded me of In and Out opening. You mentioned that
skin like the line was wrapped around the building. You
(01:46):
couldn't go there. I remember telling myself, like, I guess
I'll just wait a month or two before I finally go. Anyway,
we're talking about Portillos when they first opened in the Colony,
and they averaged forty eight thousand dollars in sales per
day in that first month. God, so business mind, You're like,
all right, cool, we're doing pretty damn good. They decide
(02:08):
to keep opening them.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's one point four million dollars of revenue in the
first month.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's insane, absolutely insane. Go I do that math, right, Yeah,
it sounds good to make. Yeah, yeah, sure, And it was.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And I saw those lines that were incredible, and like,
I wanted to go there. I love hot dogs, and
I heard all the buzz about it. So and in
the hot dog the first thing on like the belief
the name.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think it says hot dogs, hamburgers, dogs, beef and burgers.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You're leading off with hot dogs. Yeah, And I was like, okay,
but it's strange.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It was right there off one twenty one, so you
would see those lines you're talking about. It was the
lines were always too big for me to even stop there.
And it was set up like uh, you know Chick
fil a double sided, huge lines and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, they decided to open some more locations because of
this success, like hell yeah, let's keep going. They opened
another one in Allen later that year. They opened up
a whole lot more as well, Dent and Fort Worth, Grapevine, Mansfield,
Arlington a lot. And now they're saying they're gonna pull
(03:12):
back a little bit. Oh, they're not doing so hot.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now are they gonna close locations or just stop opening.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't see any closings just yeah, good, but they
definitely so the guy, the owner, he said, we will
not be pushing the gas in North Texas. They've actually
lowered their expectations from about like half of what they were.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah. So I the one in Allen is five minutes
from the crib, and I like Portillo's. I have never
once experienced a line there, wow, not once, like usually
it may be a couple cars in line. We go there.
I like it. You know, those kinds of sandwiches that
are you know, dipped and whatever. I like them fresh.
(03:53):
So we'll go and sit in the the lobby, you know,
actually the dine in and eat there. We've probably done
that four or five times. And you know, and I go,
there's three or four tables.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Wow. So it's not packed.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's not even close, not like a food truck. But
there's a smaller one somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
When it was getting ready to open, we were talking
about that on the air and me and my wife
are so excited, and I would force her to go
on the air and talk about where the Portillo's food
truck was because they had that first, so there was
a bunch of buzz, but they're just not the demand
to sustain. I mean, I would say, like over on
the other side of the highway, there's an in and
out over there, in and out. It's way busier than
(04:32):
Portillo's when I drive by, and it's not even really
close in and out. It's been in the match plates
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Interesting. Well, maybe it was a miscalculation, maybe they tried
to go too big. Yeah, fantastic reporting there, Christina. I
just thought that was significantly better than what we're usually
used to, the type of reporting we usually get. I
don't remember a single report we've ever had before today.
All Right, where are you gonna take us? Neck skin?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay, this broke out on Reddit and the Morning News
has been talking about it. D Magazine has been talking
about it quite a bit. But do you think that
your city has no culture? We'll talk about it next
Ben and Skin Show ninety one point one the Eagle.
Let's give away those Ranger tickets. We have a four
pack for the August twenty seventh game. We were just
talking about a media fight. There was two guys in
the local sports media arguing on Twitter. We were just
talking about it. Name one of those guys. If you
can name one of those guys, leave it on the
talkback feature on the iHeart app with your name, your
(00:20):
phone number, your email address. Be the first person to
do it, and you are going to win the tickets
to go see the Rangers August twenty seventh. It's a
four pack. So again, who were the two guys that
were in that media fight? We were just talking about
it before that song there, and if you know and
you're the first, you're gonna win those tickets. But right
now it's time for this. Are you excited? He Gets
(00:46):
Day featuring veteran news anchor Kat's fun tweets.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Actually no, no, no kt today, but I'm going to
be stepping in for Weekday today.
Speaker 1 (00:56):
Who Christina fun tweets.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
It's amazing.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Let's go Okay, So I want to take us back
to twenty twenty three, only two years ago. We had
a big chain coming to town. I'm talking about Portillos now.
I will say this. I know when I first went
to Chicago, Portillos was like the first thing everyone said,
You've got to go to Portillo's. You got to stop
there and get a hot dog whatever. I remember going.
(01:20):
I remember not getting a hot dog. I think I
got like a beef sandwich was, which is what else
they're known for.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
And it's good.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
It was really good. Yeah, I loved it, and so
I remember everyone being very excited about Portillos coming to
the Metroplex. They opened up in the Colony first in
early twenty twenty three, and they killed it. And this
reminded me of In and Out opening. You mentioned that
skin like the line was wrapped around the building. You
(01:46):
couldn't go there. I remember telling myself, like, I guess
I'll just wait a month or two before I finally go. Anyway,
we're talking about Portillos when they first opened in the Colony,
and they averaged forty eight thousand dollars in sales per
day in that first month. God, so business mind, You're like,
all right, cool, we're doing pretty damn good. They decide
(02:08):
to keep opening them.
Speaker 1 (02:09):
That's one point four million dollars of revenue in the
first month.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
It's insane, absolutely insane. Go I do that math, right, Yeah,
it sounds good to make. Yeah, yeah, sure, And it was.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
And I saw those lines that were incredible, and like,
I wanted to go there. I love hot dogs, and
I heard all the buzz about it. So and in
the hot dog the first thing on like the belief
the name.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
I think it says hot dogs, hamburgers, dogs, beef and burgers.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
You're leading off with hot dogs. Yeah, And I was like, okay,
but it's strange.
Speaker 1 (02:39):
It was right there off one twenty one, so you
would see those lines you're talking about. It was the
lines were always too big for me to even stop there.
And it was set up like uh, you know Chick
fil a double sided, huge lines and stuff like that.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
So yeah, that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Well, they decided to open some more locations because of
this success, like hell yeah, let's keep going. They opened
another one in Allen later that year. They opened up
a whole lot more as well, Dent and Fort Worth, Grapevine, Mansfield,
Arlington a lot. And now they're saying they're gonna pull
(03:12):
back a little bit. Oh, they're not doing so hot.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Now are they gonna close locations or just stop opening.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
I don't see any closings just yeah, good, but they
definitely so the guy, the owner, he said, we will
not be pushing the gas in North Texas. They've actually
lowered their expectations from about like half of what they were.
Speaker 1 (03:32):
Yeah. So I the one in Allen is five minutes
from the crib, and I like Portillo's. I have never
once experienced a line there, wow, not once, like usually
it may be a couple cars in line. We go there.
I like it. You know, those kinds of sandwiches that
are you know, dipped and whatever. I like them fresh.
(03:53):
So we'll go and sit in the the lobby, you know,
actually the dine in and eat there. We've probably done
that four or five times. And you know, and I go,
there's three or four tables.
Speaker 3 (04:04):
Wow. So it's not packed.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
It's not even close, not like a food truck. But
there's a smaller one somewhere.
Speaker 1 (04:10):
When it was getting ready to open, we were talking
about that on the air and me and my wife
are so excited, and I would force her to go
on the air and talk about where the Portillo's food
truck was because they had that first, so there was
a bunch of buzz, but they're just not the demand
to sustain. I mean, I would say, like over on
the other side of the highway, there's an in and
out over there, in and out. It's way busier than
(04:32):
Portillo's when I drive by, and it's not even really
close in and out. It's been in the match plates
for a long time.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Interesting. Well, maybe it was a miscalculation, maybe they tried
to go too big. Yeah, fantastic reporting there, Christina. I
just thought that was significantly better than what we're usually
used to, the type of reporting we usually get. I
don't remember a single report we've ever had before today.
All Right, where are you gonna take us? Neck skin?
Speaker 1 (04:54):
Okay, this broke out on Reddit and the Morning News
has been talking about it. D Magazine has been talking
about it quite a bit. But do you think that
your city has no culture? We'll talk about it next
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