The Morning Dump 06-04-24

Episode Transcript

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Somebody text in Lindsay about the frozenyogurt controversy and they said, the frozen
yogurt at Brams is good. Iagree, I've never had it. Oh
yeah, twist. Their ice creamis good, but the twist that they
do there is is pretty superior.I think, maybe better than ice cream,

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because I like my problem with likecherry Berry is it's really ice crystally.
Oh yeah, I wouldn't like that. Yeah, and Broms isn't like
that at all. It's like it'sreally creamy and like it isn't you don't
taste the icicles. Okay, soI think I just think it's yeah,
it shouldn't be icicle. That tome means it's freezer burn, right,

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sure, I could see that.Yeah, we're talking about Somebody texted and
said the Broms frozen yogurt's really good. Oh, ice cream all day,
ever day. I don't think I'veever had their frozen It's yeah, that's
what Lindsay said. It's pretty good. Okay. They also texted or somebody
else did anyway, and they weretalking about these stuff you get at the
buffet, you know, the youknow, chocolate vanilla or the least swirl

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whatever. I think that's all right. Yeah, but again, it's been
a long time since you know,I've gotten But is it really all right?
Or is it just because it's thereand that's what's available. It works,
it works well when it comes toa buffet. Just think think of
the GC. They've got more thanjust your frozen yogurt machine. I mean,
they've got cakes and cookies and thiestor is it soft serve because there's

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a difference, it should be softserved. I did. I don't know.
I don't know, to be honestwith you, I don't know what
the difference is. I guess one'syogurt and it's frozen. What is the
difference, dairy queen, Yeah,that's soft served, soft serf Okay ice
cream made with milk, Okay froyo is made with yogurt yogurt, right,
I guess, I guess. Idon't know. Then, I don't

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know. That's the difference. There'smilk and yogurt. Right. But but
the I don't think the lactos claimwas yours. I've never heard that before.
But that's why people do no,no, no, no, people
do frozen yogur becase it's suposed tobe quote unquote healthier. Okay, because

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okay, okay, I guess Inever really paid attention to which is which
what's what's in Wendy's frosty then that'sthat's soft surf, soft serve Okay,
the McDonald's that's soft surf, right. And when I was working on Carls
Junior, okay, yeah, becausethey have the pouch of stuff we pour

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in, you know, and thenit gets world. Okay, I guess
that makes sense to the honest withyou. I don't know if I've ever
had frozen yogurt before, then,Okay, I don't think I have,
unless it is like like a cherryberrythat's cherry may then okay, that I
have, then I have had itdefinitely before. But can't you tell the
difference between frozen yogurt and soft serrve? You know, put him side by

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side blind taste tests? Can youtell the difference? I don't think he
can, that is me. Yeah, I don't know. I've said before,
I don't have enough confidence in myblind taste test to be able to
tell the difference between those two.Yeah. Yeah, And we've proven it
before, Lindsay and I know what'sup when, at least when it comes
to yeah, you know your mayYeah, But I don't think I could
be able to tell the difference betweenfrozen yogurt or soft serve. Maybe I

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would. Maybe there's a taste difference, maybe not so much texture, but
maybe there's a taste difference. Idon't know. Yeah, I mean,
I would like to think you wouldtaste ice cream and go superior. Right,
of course, ice cream is superior, I would think, but there's
also a difference between regular ice creamand soft serve ice cream. All right,

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this may be a tough one foryou, so you may have to
be submissive with your answers. Ilike being a sub every now and again.
Waffle fries, oh god, orshoe string fries, that's tough.

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They're both so damn good for me. It's shoe string all day. I'm
with you on that one all day. Yeah, waffles are fine. I
won't kick them away. They're they'reThey're a lot. Though. When it
comes to fries, it's like steakfries. I don't like steak fries because
they're too girzy for me. Itdepends on what I'm eating too. If

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I'm having barbecue. I want steakfries. I want something that'll hold the
sauce, all right, see,and I don't. It's just too much
thing. It's like to or potatowedges is another one. Yeah, some
people go get crazy over a potatowedges if they're done right, like if
they're too hard in the middle,like not cooked really well, well,
who would like anything that's not cooked? Well no, I know, I
realize that, but I mean they'rejust they gotta be perfect. Yeah,

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I'm surprised with shoe string for Ugimpee because they would cool down the fastest,
that is true. But when youeat your fries first, you don't
have that problem. Yeah, right, So like think of think of like
smash fries from smash Burgers. Thoseare a shoe string potato. Yeah right,
delicious and yes, absolutely so becausethey're so good because they're thin like
that. You eat those things firstand then then you can get down to

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your burger, chicken, whatever you'reeating for sure, run on. Okay,
So, frozen yogurt is easier forpeople with lactose intolerance to digest than
ice cream because of the fermentation processreduces the amount of lactose there. We
go okay, but I've had tolook it up. I've never heard people
that are lactose want froyo. I'vealways been under the impression it was like

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a healthy alternative to ice cream.That was the big cell that you leave
jazz or size and you go toyour TC be why which stands for it's
today's best TC? Or to whatthis country's best yogurt? So close?
Yeah, that country's best, country'sbest yogurt? Yeah, yeah, we

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need a name. We can't goanything about the country's best yogurt. Shit
works for me long. We can'tput it on a sign. Just call
it tcby then gon. It feelslike a lazy way to name something.
I wonder how many are still inbusiness? Oh well, I want to
say, if I want to takea guess, maybe four. If that,
I don't think any of them are. I think they all went out

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of business, didn't they? No? Really no, this says nineteen eighty
one they opened their first one,and I was hoping they would just give
me a list here, but theyjust I can zoom in's, they said,
put in a put in an address, all right? So wow.

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They first opened in nineteen eighty onein little Rock, Arkansas. Thirty years
later, we're swirling in three hundredand fifty plus locations nationwide. Very fantastic,
Dallas, Okay, two in Fayetteville, Okay, one in hold On

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Los Choctaw, Arkansas, Okay,and one in Little Rock. That's their
closest to US. So Arkansas stillgot the market on TCB wise. Yeah,
I'm not gonna drive an hour anda half two hours away for yogurt.
Yeah, just being honest with you, I made that mistake with the
Venus Nitchell, and you know,I'm just like, I'm good. I'm

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good. Yeah. This gmo free, protein rich, gluten free, dairy
free diets. That's what they recommendTCBYO. They're super fro yo three grams
of five or four grams of proteingood so, calcium D one hundred and
twenty calories, low in fat.Okay, no good. I'm glad to

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see that they're still around there.How many did you count up? Six?
I was close? I said four, right, So yeah, I
don't think there's a lot of themaround anymore. Yeah, I didn't.
They have franchising opportunities. You wantto open one? I think I'm good.
I think I'm good. Yeah,I've known people that have opened franchises

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and it is not an easy thing. No, it's not this. He
might have a little bit more luckbecause of the people reminisce about it.
That's true. Yeah, yeah,but how long? How far will nostalgia
get you? Though? That's true? He is you know what I'm saying.
You know, we we open oneup because oh, we haven't had

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one in a long time, andthen they're like, oh, yeah,
that's okay. Or I remember whyI don't go there anymore, Like every
now and again, I'll get acan of spam, and then I remember
why I don't eat spam. Youknow what I'm saying. Right, This
is on their franchise page one ninetyAmericans regularly consume frozen desserts. That's fair.
I believe that. Yeah, i'dagree with that. Yeah, I

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just picked up some ice cream whenI got groceries the other day. Okay,
seventy nine percent of the US populationprefers frozen yogurt before ice cream.
I don't believe that. I don'tbelieve that either. I think ice cream
is way more popular. I couldbe wrong, but I could be wrong,
But I don't think there's a reallybig frozen yogurt section in the grocery
store, and there's a pretty massiveice cream section. Right. Why how

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much do you think it costs toget a franchise? E? Oh?
How much do you have to have? Oh? What do you think,
lendsy? I think you have tohave a minimum of two hundred and fifty
thousand dollars. Okay, I wasthinking sizeably less ten thousands the number that
pops into my head. But I'mgoing to multiply that times Tennessee, you

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need at least one hundred thousand dollars. Uh, this says you. The
franchise fee just a fee, thirtyfive thousand. That's just a that's just
what it costs, just just toget a fee. That's just for them
to like give you, like thelicensee. No, that's just the fee,

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like a processing fee, right rightright? They charge you thirty five
and then a total investment of sevenhundred thousand dollars. Good lord, depending
on some factors, of course,right, of course, seven hundred and
thirty five thousand dollars. I lovelooking up this type of thing, like
how much is a franchise? Andhow soon? I wonder how quick you

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would recoup that money, right,oh man, Right, And if you're
selling your yogurt at you know,two dollars, we'll just say minimum two
dollars. You got to sling alot of yogurt to make up seven hundred
and thirty five thousand dollars. Youhave to have employee, uh huh.
You gotta pay all your utilities.Yeah, you gotta have a building.

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I'm sure there's rent that goes inwith that. Even if you're just doing
a booth at the local flea market, you know, there's still the costs
that go with that. Captain D's, what do you think the costs are
to open a Captain D's. Iwould assume I'm probably about the same thing.

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I think it might be a littlecheaper though, but with that being
said, I would say I'd sayabout three hundred thousand. Then you know
minimum cash required minimum is three hundredand fifty thousand. Okay, franchise f
you have thirty five thousand. Yougotta have a net worth of a million
dollars and a total investment could beanywhere from seven hundred to one point one
for some mediocre seafood. Yeah,is that one and a loss? That

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is still open? Or they shutthat thing down a long time. I
gotta be honest. I know it'son the access roads. Yeah, I
have to go to the library today, so I'll take a gander. Let
me know. Not that I wantto stop buying or anything, but I
know there's one on Admiral Right Memorial, and then another one if the one

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in Nawassa is still open. That'sthe only other two captain disease that I
can think of. I would muchrather have Long John's same, you know,
amen, even though I can feelmy arteries and hear them say fuck
you every time I eat there.Yeah, with those crenchy things at the
slor today, Girl, I don'tknow, but God, I love it

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so much. I love Long JohnSo that is my biggest guilty pleasure.
Yeah. When I lived over offOn on the east side, twenty first
and Garnett, they have that oneover there, the Long John and A
and W boy, I would freakwith that some bitch all the time.
Their fish tacos were good. I'dget an order of fried clams to go
with. I have always gotten thesame thing, two pieces of chicken and

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three pieces of fish. And theirchicken tastes like the fish. Yeah,
okay, okay, a daylight donutsokay, donut shop, huh yeah,
okay okay to open up a daylightdonut shop. You know, since we're
in the hundreds of thousands of dollarsrange, I feel like, yeah,

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exactly, because overhead would be less. I feel like, so two hundred
thousand, I almost say one hundredand fifty. I know some folks that
you know, own one, butI never asked them how much it start.
Minimum cash required one hundred thousand dollars. Nice, okay, total in
no fee, really total investment rangetwo hundred thousand not bad? Well,

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it ain't bad. Yeah, thisseems doable. That seems achievable. I
could go to the bank and belike, hey, I want one hundred
thousand dollars to start a donut shop, and you're done by noon every day,
and you're done by nice, butyou have to wake up at midnight.
My daughter recently started working at adonut shop and oh yeah, yeah,
she went out there in Alasa andwhich one. I couldn't tell you,
to be honest, there's a lotof them. I think it's the

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daylight over there by the Arby's.Maybe I may be wrong, but not
less. She's like, she likesit, and she likes the schedule.
She's like, I get why youyou know, you like your schedule so
much. I get up early,I go into work, and I'm off
early, and I got the restof the day to do whatever the hell
I want, and I get allthe donuts nice. Okay. So I

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just looked the cheapest franchises to buy. Oh, that'll be fun. Let's
go to the bottom, you know, let's start okay in the food world.
Okay, in the food world numberthree a taco bell. Okay,
twenty five thousand to forty five thousandfranchise fee, that's definitely doable. Initial

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investment five hundred and seventy five thousandto three point three million, just depending.
Okay, Well, I don't havethat royalty. You don't need that
much money. Oh, che,I can explain royalty fee of five points
five percent. Okay, that whichthey take off five point five percent of
your profit of what you make,just to say, okay, because you're
using their name. Yeah, okay, duncan franchise fee of forty to ninety

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Total initial investment is five point fivetwo six to one point seven eight okay,
royalty fe of five point nine percent. Okay, and McDonald's franchise fees
forty five thousand, and that cancost anywhere between four hundred and fifty to
two point three million dollars initial royaltyfee of four percent of growth of gross
Oh I misspoke here, Taco Bell'sfive point five percent period end of story,

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where royalty fee of the others wereof gross sales. Gotcha. So
we're taking five point five right offthe top, whether you like it or
not. Yeah, but even then, I guess that's not I mean,
it's not that bad. It couldbe worse. Yeah, it could be
a lot worse. Yeah. Soyou you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna get
a loan for that money. Yeah, you're gonna get a loan for that
one point seven Yeah you would know, you would. It would be the

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worst move ever to use your owncash. Oh yeah, for sure.
Uh so, or your savings oranything like that. You want to you
want to get a loan, andthe bank depending on your background, credit
history. Right, they love handingout small business loans. Oh yeah,
because they know they get their moneyback real quick. Yeah. Remember this
is people have a misconception about banks. The bank isn't like they're not cautious,

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right, we're like, I don'tknow if I call, Like,
that's how bad your credit has tobe. If they're not giving you a
loan. They want you to misspayments, right, they want you to
be late. That's how they makethe money, all the interests and stuff
like that. Yes, they well, and at the minimum level, let's
say they figured that out. Atthe minimum level, they want interest on
the loan, right, so theywant to be making loans. They have

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quotas of loans too. The goalisn't to have less loans every month,
right, more loans, loan more. Yeah, because they have to make
interest and they have to have ayear over year growth. Yeah, so
they are in that business. Well, those seem achievable. Now that's just
for the food sector. Yeah,what else is there? Okay, I'm
glad you ask. I'm glad toask. Give me what category you want?

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I got automotive, I got coffee, cleaning. A let's go with
cleaning. You like cleaning products.Let's say you want to just starting an
any I would never open someone's cleaningbusiness, not once. Let there's a
couple here, Service Pro, KitchenGuard, Kim Dry okay, uh Scoop

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Brothers, which is a leading petwaste removal company. Nice. Yeah,
all right, here we go cleanyour shit so you don't have to one
hundred thousand dollars. Franchise fees sixtythat's not McDonald's was forty by the way,
right, networth required two fifty andtotal investment range is about two hundred

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thousand dollars. Okay. What aboutone of those? Is it called handyman
where it's like the mobile handyman sortof repairs I'll repair. Yeah, let's
see. That would be handyman,a guy who drives around and gives hand
jobs. Home services Okay, yeah, that's going to be home services right

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right, yeah yeah, lawn doctor, house doctors, handyman. Okay,
House doctors, handyman franchise. Herewe go. This is fifty thousand dollars
minimum cash required. Okay. Totalinvestment range one hundred and forty seven royalty
six percent. The misleading thing aboutthis is they're just giving you a binder.

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Here's how you metaphor, this ishow this works. There's no brick
and mortar. No, you stillgot to hire people. You probably got
to buy software, right right.Yeah, that's what's the little misleading is
that's not like, that's not theout the door price. No, that's
the one that grabs you. Yeah. Well yeah, well he I could

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do that. I can own ahandyman service. Yeah. I wanted to
see a coffee one, because coffeeis massive business. Man. Yeah,
there's a lot of them, popit up all over the place, massive
business. Was it the Brew seventysix or some shit like that. I've
seen all of those pop up lately. God damn, what's the place down

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here at the end of the street. Yeah, they're everywhere, the little
Blue place, the Dutch Brothers,Yeah, they're everything. Dude, crazy
how many they've and they make.It seems like hand over fist when it
comes to coffee. I don't thinkthat it would cost that much to make
the coffee, but when they chargeyou six seven eight bucks for a large
glass, you're like, God,you you must be raking in some profits.

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All right. So this is adonut envy. This is the fastest
growing food truck business in the worldwith eighty four point six percent margins,
one hundred percent mobile interactive donut foodtruck. That's profitable and for to operate
minimum cash required one hundred thousand franchisefee fifty nine five hundred. So think

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about the from the owners of thefranchise standpoint. That means anytime they sell
a franchise, they get fifty ninethousand period plus whatever the percentage of profits
are. Right. So a seeingof stuff like that that makes me say,
well, shit, I could getan old bread van and a deep
fryer, right, if I canhave my own mobile donut shop, how

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hard would that be? And thenyou don't have to spend the money,
You don't have to invest the moneyor whatever, just for their name and
maybe their ingredients. You know,that's just my thought anyway. Yeah,
So one hundred thousand dollars cash squirdfive fifty nine thousand, five hundred for
franchise fee, net worth of twopoint fifty total investment range can be on
the upper en two hundred and fiftythree. The royalty is a flat weekly

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structure, starting a one hundred andtwenty five dollars per week every week,
and then you have to put twohundred monthly into advertising. Okay, you
have to advertise, whether you likeit or not. Ain't as some bull.
I mean, yeah, you wantto be successful. True, got
to advertise specifically radio right advertising doeswork health and beauty okay, like mary

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kay, stuff like that, likeblow blow dry bar, a blow drive
bar. Yeah, here's this one'scalled dry bar. I've heard this brand
before. So this is uh,it's a place to go in and get
your hair done in forty five minutes. They basically just style your hair.
Is that right, lindsay? Okay? And that is a two hundred and

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fifty thousand dollars minimum cash required,fifty thousand franchise fee, and you total
investment range can be five hundred ninetysix to one point one. Wow.
Yeah, because you got to buydo it. Got a real estate and
you got to do a build outright right, and then you got to
hire people on top of that,and they give financing assistance. Yeah,
fook that. Man. If you'regoing to open a food truck, as

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you implied with like, I'll justget think what are you opening? That's
a good question. See. Ithink taco trucks are great, but I
think the the area is bombarded oversaturatedwith but they're always busy. You know,
you would get you would have customers, but you're gonna have to be
better than them in order to keepit alive. How you're gonna beat them

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out, you know, fucking theirtacos. Barbecue sounds good, right,
like a barbecue truck. I thinkI've seen like a grilled cheese truck before
as well, which I think wouldbe all right. That seems to be
fairly you know, cheap, Ithink, because you're just buying bread and
different kinds of cheeses. Throw somefucking bacon on there or something like that,

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you know, some shaved ham orwhatever. So or you could do
like a something you don't see around. It's like high end foods, right,
high end food food truck, Likewe're serving you fucking swordfish and shit.
Oh you see what I'm saying.It'd be hard to keep it fresh
though, I mean, mab yougotta sell it because that is expensive,

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right, Well, where else canyou go and get gourmet, high end
foods, you know, at afood truck on your lunch break, you
know, downtown whatever, Right,But I think you've got it to me.
You've got to think of something thatis, you know, lunch dinner
after bar got you got right,you're n niching down too small, right

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right, So, like think aboutwhen at the pump. If you're gonna
put a food truck outside the pump, what are you putting in it?
Right? Right right? I'm thinkingof the grilled cheese, then something quick
and easy. It soaks up everything. You can have it at any point
in time. You can have differentversions of it. Like I said,
maybe some bacon on your grilled cheese. Maybe throw a fried egg on your
grilled cheese, Barbecue one day barbecue, exact spam, exactly, Viana sausages.

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But I think ultimately that's the mostdiverse that would work around everything.
I think. Who doesn't fucking likegrilled cheese. Yeah, I love that
idea, But I think I'm goingto do a watch in the waste food
truck. Okay, and some healthfood, yes, like offer smoothies,
salads, and soups. Smoothies aren'tgood for you, no, but they

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they can be if that's the onlything you're doing. Like, if it's
a I'm going to set up mymy food truck around the business areas during
the day for lunch or around gyms. They serve the smoothies and protein shakes
at gyms. Yeah, that's amisconception that they're healthy though, because they
usually are packed with so much fruitor sugar. Yeah, they're not helped.

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But if it's not sugar but naturalsugars that come from fruit is good.
Uh. I mean I love grilledcheese. It's an easy it's it's
easy to go into store. Youknow, five five loves of bread butter.
She's a simple overhead, not aton of prep. You can have
different kinds of cheese. They don'tall have to be craft slices. You

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know what I'm saying. Prob aloan, you know, mozzarella, something
to that effect, you know asiago. Yeah, I don't know, rattling
off cheeses, but I think it'sthe best money. Yeah. I want
to say pizza, but you'd haveto do it by the slice and you'd
have to perfect doing custom slices right, right, because making pizza sucks.

(25:30):
It's a hard it's hard where it'sa lot of overhead. Anybody could go
anywhere and get pepperoni sausage. Iat least think you would want to have
something that not everybody can get.It is good, right, you know,
but you want something different. Ifyou have a grilled cheese, truck

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or something like that, and atruck breaks down. You can easily get
a blackstone and set up and bestill operating. If you have a pizza
truck and the pizza truck breaks downand the pizza ovens in the truck,
you're fucked. You fuck grill thisall right. There's a guy on TikTok
I don't know if you've seen him, and he's he just has a blackstone
somewhere in La and he's just makingtacos. I haven't seen it, and

(26:12):
he just does it live and there'sMexican music play in the background, and
he's got a bunch of meat stackedon the thing, and people come up
and he orders tortillas and it doesn'tand you're like, fuck, yeah,
that's brilliant. Yes, in Mexico, those type of pop ups like that,
like just on the back of someguy's truck all over and needy.
One of us could do that downtownafter an event or whatever. And you're

(26:33):
just sitting there listen. Oh,I think the Health departm would have an
issue with that. Oh yes,selling food to the public they take pretty
seriously. All right, fine,we're going to Mexico, not everybody can
be uh, what's his name?Coming around? Would you like to buy
the Lady of Rose? Right?Do you like to buy some tamalas?
Most tomorrow is are damn good though? Right? Right? That person one

(26:56):
time they did a because I followedhim on Facebook and they were like,
hey, we're selling toward or tomalisAnd I was like, oh sweet,
but I forgot contact learner, Like, hey, can I get an order
of like twenty tamales? And theywere like yes, great, how do
I pick him up? We'll letyou know, right, Huh. What

(27:18):
I need you to do is Ineed you to meet me in the alley
down Yeah. And I was like, well why I need them like on
Sunday? Right, yeah, we'lllet you know. Fuck okay, shit,
never heard from him, right,It's a good thing he didn't prepay
up rount right, No, ofcourse not. But the point being is

(27:40):
if you was, you're good atthe business part, right, you would
have had a business. Yeah.Food, I'm telling you right now,
right, we're hungry eat something?All right? You guys have a fantastic
week and patio party start on Junefifteenth. First one is gonna fourteen fourteenth.

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That's gonna be at the Mercury Lounge. Excited, Yeah, let's see
you by bye.