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SPEAKER_01 (00:03):
Welcome everyone, coming to you directly from the
luxurious OLR Studios, this isTempleton.
Where is Las Vegas?
This is Sweet Baby Jay.
Can I see what you just saidwritten on paper?
This is Melina.
It is the biggest spider I'veever seen in my life.
This is Grizz.
After this, I'm going to get offhere and I'm going to dragon
them balls.
This is the Arrogant Yeti.

(00:25):
At least I know 2 plus 2 is 5.
And this is the FMJ Podcast.
Ready to rock?

SPEAKER_00 (00:40):
I wanna rock! Rock!

UNKNOWN (00:42):
Rock!

SPEAKER_00 (00:43):
I want

SPEAKER_01 (00:44):
to rock! See, I was right there.
Right there.
Your brother was not.
It's okay.
Alright, everybody ready?
Ready.
Yeah.
Alright.
Welcome back to anotherbeautiful episode of the FMJ
Podcast where we make all yourwildest fantasies come true.
I'm just kidding, we don't dothat! Unless...

(01:06):
You slowly...
Kiss Yeti's pinky with yourtongue.
Tongue kiss it.
That's disturbing in so manyways.
But the tongue part isimportant.
It is.
It has to be very wet.

(01:26):
It has to be moist.
That's right.
I said it.
Moist.
Because at least one personhates that word.
It's going to be a little bit ofan interesting episode.
We are missing two of ourpeople.
40%.
That's right.
So we're missing a few people.
But that's okay.
We will get through it.
I promise.
We'll still have a greatepisode.

(01:47):
But as of right now, let's goaround the room and check
people's pulses.
Let's start with, well, flip acoin, guys.
Who wants to start?
Let's go.
Yeti.
Yeti.
Okay.
My pulse is looking at about300.

(02:08):
Jesus Christ.
300?
Yeah.
That's a lot.
Did you just bowl a perfectgame?
I think you did.
Strike! What's up?
What's up, Templeton?

(02:28):
Do you want to be an onlysibling?
Because we're pretty close.
I mean, maybe.
But, hey, listen.
Everybody congratulate Yeti onthe perfect game of bowling.
He bowled the perfect

SPEAKER_00 (02:41):
game.
Thank you.
Perfect score of 300.
Thank you.
I

SPEAKER_01 (02:44):
appreciate that.
So with your perfect bowlingscore, how are you doing?
How's everything going?
It's been a while.
It's been a very long time.
So I kind of started to earn mygrown man outfit, I guess you'd
call it.
When you go out there Or is itthe dad outfit Oh for cutting

(03:07):
the lawn Yeah I'm trying to I'veearned the socks Because I've
started The new balance is 2.4Nope I don't have the new
balances yet Just the socksBecause I cut the grass and I
realized My front yard was justbecoming Completely overran with
weeds I've treated it twicetoday I've treated it the third

(03:32):
time trying to get the weeds offand I can tell you this after
the three treatments that I'vedone it looks so much better
just like if you're driving byit looks great but if you get
out of the car and you walk upto the front door you're going
to see a lot of bare spotsbecause it's where all the weeds
were and all the fucking randomshit and there's a lot so

(03:55):
There's a couple more spots Ididn't feel comfortable throwing
grass seed down yet.
So I did one more treat today.
I'm going to keep that on forabout a week.
And then I'll start seeding itand see what happens.
Very nice.
Very nice.
Well, it sounds like you'regetting a little bit of a green
thumb.
I feel like I am.

(04:15):
I definitely feel like I am.
And so neighbors and my...
neighbors around me are wavingat me.
So I feel like I'm, I'm slowlygaining the dad outfit.
That's fair.
So are the, are the new balanceswhite or yellow or green?
I don't have them yet.
Like I said, like, like I said,I'm earning, I'm earning my, I'm

(04:38):
earning my stripes as one wouldsay.
Okay.
So right now, all I've got isthe socks.
So next is shoes.
Or no, I'm going to do shorts,shirt, and then the shoes will
be the final.
I feel like the new balances arethe crown.
What about the Panama hat?
Oh, yeah.
The who?
The what hat?
Panama hat.
Yeah, the Panama hat.
Panama hat.
What?

(04:58):
Hold on.
You know, like the little hat.
The little visor.
You know, I have a little Panamahat.
They don't wear those.
Yeah, they do.
Sometimes.
Yes, they do.
Sometimes they do.
Dad outfit, cutting grass.
Let's see what it looks like.
I thought it was just shirt.
You gotta get jorts, though.
You gotta do jorts.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(05:19):
Jankos.
You have to do jorts.
There's no ifs, ands, or butsabout it.
Once you get your dad outfitalmost completed, get the jorts.
John Cena look.
And the new balances.
You can't see me.
You can't see me.
Exactly.
So they do have a hat on.
They do have a hat.

(05:40):
Ooh, they got the visors too.
See, I'm looking something likethis.
Yep.
There it is.
There it is.
The socks.
The crew socks.
Yeah.
My boy.
So I'm working on it.
I'm working on it.
We'll get there.
You're on your way.
You're on your way.
All right.
Well, that's a perfect example.
Like, Follow us on this journeyThat's right That's right That

(06:06):
would actually be really amazingI should have done that Help me
earn my dad stripes And saidlike look this is my lawn And
you guys as a As I don't knowwhat would you call them As the
folks can tell me When I can getmy socks My pants or my shorts,

(06:31):
my shirt, and then the shoesfinally.
Not just when, but what?
Yeah.
That would have been awesome.
I should have done that.
It's never too late.
Missed opportunity.
No, it is because I've alreadytreated it.
But I also articulated it.
Not just when, but what?
Yeah.

(06:51):
That is true.
Still, it's never too late.
You can always come...
You can always come out and say,hey, I'm starting my journey and
I haven't been totally knightedbecause I don't have my new
balances, but I'm working towardit.
Like you're a Pokemon trainer.
You're training for those newbalances.
I'm going to be the very best.

(07:12):
I do my, I do my, I cut my grassand stuff and like sweat pant or
like jeans, a long sleeve shirt,black shoes, and like everything
that is a complete opposite.
And then they tell me when I canupgrade.
Perfect.
Exactly.
Right.
Beautiful.
So now, now it's time to startfocusing on tick tock.

(07:34):
Cause then you can start makingall those tick tock videos.
Hey, tick tock.
This is, this is your boy Yetifrom your favorite.
From your favorite podcast, andI'm trying to erd my dad
stripes.

SPEAKER_00 (07:48):
You can't tell

SPEAKER_01 (07:49):
me.
That would not be

SPEAKER_00 (07:52):
a hit.
That would be

SPEAKER_01 (07:53):
hilarious, bro.
For sure.
Hashtag relatable.
For sure.
That would be so funny.
Oh, you got to start thisjourney, man.
You got to let them all knowthat you are on the move for
your dad stripes to get the newbalances.
you gotta level up gotta levelup oh lord alright well while

(08:14):
Yeti is working his way towarddadhood and being the best lawn
care service for himself everand to be fair I'm sorry to be
fair I'm actually really proudof myself because the lawn
really looked like shit to befair it really did like it

(08:35):
would, when it was time to cutit, like sections of it would be
tall because a lot of it waslike the four leaf clovers, crab
grass.
And like, it's, I'm telling you,I'm going to have, I'm going to
have a lawn.
Now I'm not touching thebackyard.
Cause I got dogs back there.
I ain't messing with the back.
The back can be whatever it is.
That's fair.
So, all right, my bad.

(08:56):
Continue.
All right.
I get you.
Yeah.
So anyway, Templeton.
What's up?
What's your pulse look like?
75 over 80.
Huh?
That's kind of...
Still blood pressure?
Really low, though.
I mean, I could die, but Iwon't.

(09:20):
I hope not.
We don't want that to happen.
So, how's things going?
How are things?
It's been a while.
Haven't spoken in a minute.
Yeah, I mean, I've had a lot ofpersonal stuff going on.
But...
I'm alright.
I can't really complain.

SPEAKER_00 (09:40):
Okay.

SPEAKER_01 (09:40):
Any new games, movies, anything that you've
been checking out?
I mean, like, the ADHD and theother shit is still a thing, so
I play, like, normal games thathelp.
With your ADHD?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.

(10:02):
Attention to detail is nothing Ican do right now.
That's fair.
That's fair.
So I just play, like, random-assgames.
I can, like, set it and forgetit.
Okay.
Nothing wrong with that.
Sometimes you do have to turnyour brain off and just enjoy a
game or, you know, whatever.
Because, like, you and Yeti andall those guys, like, you're my

(10:28):
favorite people to game with.

SPEAKER_00 (10:29):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (10:31):
But I don't want to, like, I don't want to play your
shit.

SPEAKER_00 (10:36):
That's fair.
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (10:37):
That's fair.
So I'd rather just like set itand forget it.
Yeah.
Right.
Like I said, just kind of shutyour brain off and enjoy the
game you're playing.
I get it.
Exactly.
Well, that's good.
You know, as long as you're notdoing bad, that's the important
part.
I will say, I will say, I havereally been focusing on getting

(10:59):
Death Stranding done for to getprepared for Death Stranding 2
which I think comes out a littlelater this year and I am 154
hours in this game and I'm stillnot done I'm still not done I'm
still not done for DeathStranding there's a lot that you

(11:19):
gotta do I know I'm coming veryvery close to the end I know
that but it's still it's theidea that you're just a courier
and you have like every time youstop by a hub you always got a
new delivery to make.
And it's just, I'm just tryingto, you know, I'm being an
overachiever in this game.
I think that's what it mostlycomes down to.

(11:40):
But now that I've got the ziplines in my back pocket and I
can set those up and just flythrough all these areas, it
makes it so much easier.
It's freaking great.
So hopefully I get done withthat.
And then I can get into RoboCopbecause I know Yeti, you bought
that.
And you asked me if I tried itout.
I have not yet.

(12:01):
Again, I want to focus ongetting Death Stranding done
because I don't want to do thisagain and get as far as I am and
just totally forget the game.
And then also, we got Doomcoming out Thursday.
The new Doom, the Dark Ages.
I can't wait for that.
Not the original NES.

(12:22):
No.
That game sucked ass.
Yeah.
It's really hard.
It truly is.
It really is hard.
That's all that comes out.
It didn't suck.
Well, okay.
It didn't suck in terms of thegame.
It was just fucking hard asfuck.
And in turn, made it suck.

(12:43):
You died for no reason.
Right.
To be fair, I don't think I madeit past the second or third
level in that one ever.
I'm with you, Yeti.
I honestly don't know how far Imade it in that one.
He's like, I beat it, but no bigdeal.
Right, he's like, don't tell himI beat it.
Shut up.
Shut up.
Shut up.
No, I'm just kidding.

(13:04):
No, I do know that it took me awhile to get through Terminator
2.
I did wind up beating that oneafter a very, very long time,
though.
But that one was very fuckingdifficult.
If I'm not mistaken, withTerminator 2, I always got up to
the...
Was it when you were beingchased by the semi?
Yes, by the T-1000 and the semi.
And you're turning aroundlike...

(13:24):
Yeah, dead.
I didn't know what to aim at.
I would just fucking die.
I guess as long as we're goingto flex about NES games, I
definitely 1,000% multiple timesbeat Ninja Turtles underwater
level.
Really?
The second level.

(13:45):
Okay, so...
I got to agree.
In the beginning, hard as fuck.
Still, in my opinion, one of thehardest levels ever to come
across NES.
But it is manageable, and youcan beat it.
It is.
The thing is, the bombs arealways in the exact same place.

(14:05):
Yes, they never change.
As long as you figure out how tonavigate the electrocution
things, and you know where thebombs are, it takes you a couple
times to figure it out.
It's hard, but not impossiblehard.
Right.
See, my problem is once I gotzipped, it would ping-pong me

(14:27):
around because I would go intopanic mode and I would just get
frustrated.
And I'd be like, fuck it.
It's like electric seaweed.
Yes.
NES is notoriously hard, but itnever randomizes its stuff.
Right.
So you just have to learn wherestuff is.

(14:50):
Yeah, got to put in the time,effort, all that kind of stuff.
All right.
Well, I'm glad everybody's doinggood.
We got some good stuff going on.
Who's ready for someentertainment news?
Let's hear it.
Never, ever, ever not.
Well, I don't know if y'allheard, but GTA 6 got a release
date.
Yep.

(15:10):
And

SPEAKER_00 (15:10):
then it got pushed back again.
Rockstar.

SPEAKER_01 (15:15):
Yeah, they're rock stars, aren't they?
So how are we feeling aboutthat?
Do we think that the hype forGTA 6 is just going to fall flat
on its face here in a littlebit?
I don't think so.
I don't see how I couldn't.
I'm on the opposite board.
I don't see how it could not.
We're talking about 15, 16years.

(15:37):
It's been a long time.
That's a long time.
And even tech.
Not just, like, video game.
Like, that's a fucking longgoddamn time.
Yes, it is.
Yes, it is.
It is.
Like, we're, like, three or fourgenerations past, like, what

(15:59):
tech and video games were whenGTA V came out.
Mm-hmm.
So, it better be a fucking,like, groundbreaking game.
Well, I mean, have you seen thetrailer?
I have not.
Yeti, have you seen the trailer?
I've seen bits and pieces of it.

(16:19):
I've been kind of busy the pastfew days.
Because it just got releasedWednesday, didn't it?
Yeah, it wasn't too long ago.
But the graphics on that shit,and they said that they pulled
all of that footage from thebase PS5.
And it's a mix of in-game andcutscene footage.
video.

(16:41):
But that shit looks fuckingcrazy.
And everybody's already sayingthat it's going to be a Gooner
game because one of the maincharacters, her name's Lucia,
and like...
She got a fat ass! And I wasjust like, oh my god.
And everybody's like, Gunnergame.
You gotta dunk it on.
Oh, she do.

(17:02):
Seriously, go check out thattrailer if you haven't seen it.
Check out the GTA 6 trailer andyou will see exactly what I'm
talking about.
Because the graphics are soreal.
Like, the graphics themselves.
This is gonna be a problem.
I swear to god.
And I'm just like, for me...
Do I think the hype is going todie down?
I think, especially with thempushing, pushing it back.

(17:23):
I think you might get a fewpeople.
You might turn a few people offwith that because they've been
waiting for so fucking long.
You know what I mean?
And then you finally, right.
You finally get that releasedate.
And then they're like, Oh, bythe way, uh, may next year.

SPEAKER_00 (17:37):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (17:38):
Big booty.
May next year.
Motherfucker.
You just said it was this year.
Yeah, see, just Yeti's facetells me he's already seen the
donk on her.
No, I'm 20 seconds into it, andat first, I thought it was a
fucking ad.
Yeah.
The graphics in that shit isfucking ridiculous.

(17:58):
Okay, so this is why I say Idon't think the hype's going to
die down, okay?
Because you hear all the time,we've even said it on this
podcast, where they rush games.
They just want to make money.
That's all they're here for.
GTA 5 was something special.
It could be argued that it'sprobably one of the greatest RPG

(18:19):
games, if not one of thegreatest games ever made.
I'll give you that.
Okay.
I want to agree with you anddisagree with you at the same
time.
Hold on, hold on, hold on.
So when they started making thisnumber six, they knew where the
bar was set with five games.

(18:39):
They know they had to exceedthat and create a new bar.
So by them taking their time onone hand, I get it.
I'm going to make sure this gameis polished.
I'm going to make sure that whenthe consumer hits play, they are
in this world for the nextmultiple years to come.

(19:02):
Because that's what their goalis For sure 100% Because if they
release something That's notpolished And it's just a fucking
turd They're going to catch somuch Heat So much negativity
They're going to make sure thatthis thing Is superior to any

(19:25):
game we've played I guarantee itI have a question for you though
Yes You're not You're not wrong.
I agree with you.
But how does that explainBethesda?
Who?
Bethesda.
Bethesda.

(19:46):
Like every single Elder Scrollsor Fortnite.
Not Fortnite.
Far Cry.
Yes.
No, not Far Cry.
Fallout! Oh, yeah, Fallout,Fallout, Fallout, Fallout.
Elder Scrolls and they arealways, every single goddamn

(20:07):
time, like, broken.

SPEAKER_00 (20:11):
It

SPEAKER_01 (20:11):
takes, like, update after update after update
before, like, the game is, like,functionable.
Okay, but what are the time gapsbetween the games?
I mean, the last Fallout 4 cameout the same year as...
gta5 all right hold on let's seehere so we're talking about 12

(20:33):
years game history and that wasthat the last was that the last
uh fallout for the main storylike it was not they had fallout
that's what i thought yeah whichis not terrible it's like hold
on i'm gonna back up when itcame out it was fucking terrible
But they've done update afterupdate after update after

(20:56):
update.
It's a fun game.
But eventually, because it's sostory-based, you run out of
stuff to do.
That's fair.
Okay.
So, okay.
What's up?
I'm looking at the releasetimeline, okay?
This is just Fallout.

(21:17):
Fallout 1, 97.
Fallout 2, 98.
Fallout 3, 2008, so there's a10-year gap there.
New Vegas, two years in 2010.
And then Fallout 4 was 15.
So seven years after three, butfive years after New Vegas.
76 was three years after Fallout4.

(21:38):
And obviously Fallout 5's TBA.
Also, please understand thatFallout had two different...
developers or whatever.
They did.
I see that now.
And then it became...
Help me out, Jay.

(22:00):
It was Interplay, Black Isle,Bethesda, Obsidian.
Yeah, Obsidian and thenBethesda.
Okay.
Bethesda is the most currentdeveloper.
But like...
They are notorious for releasinggreat games, but broken and

(22:24):
incomplete games.
I mean, to be fair, Cyberpunkkind of fell to the same fate.
When it first came out, it was ahuge buggy mess and nobody
wanted to play it.
And then they had to patch it,basically fix the entire game
through patches.
And once they did that,everybody said, oh, this game's

(22:44):
fucking phenomenal.
So, I mean, is it possible thatRockstar could fuck it up,
fumble a little bit, but stillpick up their own fumble.
Maybe recover that.
Maybe.
I don't know.

(23:04):
But I would hope, especiallythis big of a gap, that they
have been hard at work in thelab.
and have looked at everything.
You're not going to catcheverything, right?
I'm not expecting perfection,but I would hope...
A decade.
You spent so much time trying tocatch as many of these things,

(23:25):
and money, trying to catch asmany of these bugs as possible,
that you better not have a pieceof shit, have a turd, when it
finally comes out.
You know what I'm saying?
So many people will lose faithin you.
It's not even funny.
How the fuck are you going tospend that much time on this
game?
Promise this game over and overagain just to give us this

(23:46):
bullshit?
And it's probably going to costus$100 just to get it?
Yeah, 100%.
For the base, it's going to be$100.
Are you fucking nuts?
And beyond that, GTA is a...
PS, like a PlayStation, likethey build their whole platform

(24:10):
on like one of those games.
Right.
So for, if that game sucks, thathurts the entire platform.
Sure.
The fuck does.
Sure.
The fuck does.
And especially now with Xboxdoing their thing, talking
about, you know, the nextconsole and all that shit.
I know we talked about it.
I don't want to, you know, divetoo deep into that, but

(24:30):
especially with all that goingon, it's like, I don't know.
I'm just like...
I've never been a huge fan ofGrand Theft Auto because I'm a
huge believer that sometimes asandbox game can be too much.
I don't disagree.
You definitely gotta play it insmall doses and listen to me

(24:52):
talking about this shit when I'mplaying Death Stranding.
You got 160 hours in it.
Yeah, 160 hours in the bitch,but...
I absolutely get where Jay iscoming from like I don't
particularly like just likerandom GTA games like right

(25:18):
we're on this team with thesepeople I've never met before but
I that's the same reason like Ilove Call of Duty That is how
all of us became a group ofpeople.
But I don't like playing withrandom people.

(25:38):
Yo, she does got a badonkadonk.

SPEAKER_00 (25:40):
I told you! She got ass!

SPEAKER_01 (25:43):
I'm on the bed scene.
She

SPEAKER_00 (25:45):
caked

SPEAKER_01 (25:46):
up! Send me a link.
I want some booty.
Templeton's like, wait, hold up!Just go to YouTube and do GTA
trailer.
Baby, she got ass on her.
I can go to YouTube and put inGTA booty and come on, help.
I hope she's at the strip club.
Just send it, goddammit.
Just put in the GTA 6 releasetrailer and I promise you,

(26:08):
you'll find it.
It's blown up everywhere.
But anyway, my point is...
I'm a very introverted person.
I don't really like interactingwith people I don't know.
So, Jay, Yeti, Melina, and so onand so forth.

(26:38):
Those are the people that I wantto

SPEAKER_00 (26:41):
get.

SPEAKER_01 (26:42):
If you guys don't want to play a game online, that
I don't want to play a gameonline.
See, I didn't quite understandGrand Theft Auto Online.
Like, I mean, I get it.
I get why.
But, really?
Like, I just feel like that's agame that...
No, no, no.
I mean, there are also a lot ofgriefers on that server.

(27:05):
Mm-hmm.
They kill you just becausethey're, like, 70 levels ahead,
and they can't.
Right.
Right.
And that makes it zero fun.
Yeah, exactly.
But here's my thing.
We have a year to go.
Say we get this year, right?

(27:25):
And Rockstar's like, hey, justkidding.
We're going to push it backagain.
Ha ha ha ha ha.
But I promise you're going toget it.
Do you think people are going tobe like, you know what?
Fuck this game.
So I will say there willprobably come a time where
people get annoyed.
Like, when is enough?
You know, when is it enough?
When's enough enough?

UNKNOWN (27:45):
But...

SPEAKER_01 (27:45):
The problem is they keep giving you these little
tidbits and that trailer, thatlittle two minute trailer.
Yeah.
That's that satisfied a need.
If you're a grand theft autofan, you're like, Ooh, Ooh, it's
right there.
Like it's there.
Granted.
I know they said, you know, theykeep pushing it back, pushing it
back, pushing it back.
But yeah, As long as they keepgiving you little breadcrumbs,

(28:06):
you're not going to go anywhere.
Because you know, and in theback of your mind, it goes to
what we literally just talkedabout, is they're making sure
it's a polished game.
So if I get a little breadcrumband just push back a month or
two, okay, it's fine, it's fine,it's fine, because it's going to
be the best game ever made.
That's the thought process, inmy opinion.
I mean, you're not wrong, butyou're only right if you're a

(28:29):
roster or a GTA fan.
Right, right, right.
If you're just a casual gamer,you don't care.
Right, you don't care.
I was going to say you don'tcare because personally, and
this is the hot take, I preferSaints Row.
Oh, here we go.
Listen, I can't disagree.
Here we go.
how are you getting like thesepissed off an entire community

(28:51):
17 year old kids who don't knowshit about gaming oh no like yes
it's like these trailers andshit yo Saints Row 1 was off the
chain here we go you just pissedoff an entire community I'm just
saying it was off the chain youcreated a gang and you were like

(29:13):
you wore purple like you can'tget better than that okay I
don't think me or anybody like Idon't think Jay or anybody else
disagrees with you I disagreeall we're saying is like how are
we gonna like put GTA on blastand then like say oh this ain't

(29:37):
true it's like fucking like toptier I enjoyed them both.
I didn't say Saints Row was toptier.
In terms of which one was trulybetter, GTA was truly better.
But for my likes and what Iprefer to do, I preferred Saints
Row.
I don't disagree with you.
They got goofy.

(29:58):
They did.
They did.
100%.
Like, after...
Get out of hell.
Like, what the fuck was that?
Yeah.
Was that three?
I don't know.
And then one became like analien game.
Like, you were in space andshit.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Fucking Saints Row.
What a treat that fucking was.
Like, really?
Fucking really?

(30:22):
You had to be there.
I joined the military in, like,97.
And not too long after that,like, we had, like, access to,
like, arcades and stuff.
The two biggest games we playedwere Area 51.

(30:45):
That was good.
That was a good one.
Yeah, yeah.
That was a fucking great game.
And, um, Cruisin' World.
What?
Cruising World.
I've never heard of that.
Was that a racing game?
Yes, it was.
I think so, yeah.
Yeah, no, like, you guys,Cruising USA.

(31:05):
Cruising USA, yeah, and thenCruising World.
Same people.
Yep.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, yeah.
And just, like, different maps.
Oh, I do remember.
Okay.
I remember the N64.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The good old N64.
We're in the same age group.
If you guys didn't even remotelyknow that game, and we were

(31:28):
twins.
But those were the games weplayed every day.
That's fair.
Like I said, I was never a bigfan of GTA, so I didn't really
roll over into Saints Row atall.
But I am happy for GTA fans.
Um, they, they threw him alittle, they threw him a little,

(31:50):
like Yeti said, a little tidbit,a little breadcrumb.
Uh, and, and Rockstar's like,follow us.
I promise we will take you tothe promised land.
So Rockstar, you better fuckingdeliver or you are going to have
a lot of angry people comingyour way.
So, um, but like the whole, thewhole point of this show is like

(32:10):
retro gaming, correct?
Jane?
Um, what do you mean?
Like this episode or?
Yes.
It's RetroGrestron.
Yeah, we're going to talk.
We're talking about.
We'll get into food.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, we'll get into food.
Yeti is correct.
I'm sorry.
Yeah, we'll get into food in alittle bit.
But, I mean, they sort ofconnect because old people do

(32:31):
old people's shit.
That's true.
That's very true.
Old people's shit.
So, anyway, Rockstar, don't letus down or let them down.
Will I be playing GTA 6?
I don't know.
Probably not.
You will.
Maybe.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
I'll probably have 15 othergames in my backlog that I want

(32:53):
to get through.
Anyway, we don't have Melina.
So we don't have anything toread on Reddit.
But we do have Yeti here.
Oh boy.
That can literally do Redditroulette.
So Yeti, if you could do us afavor.

(33:15):
and pull up your Reddit app, andwe'll do a quick round of Reddit
roulette, have a quickdiscussion about some kind of
asshole somewhere.
I'm sure we have one floatingaround, right?
Everybody's got an asshole!Please be slow, because I know,
like, that fabric is, like,super fragile and can crack or

(33:39):
whatever.
Yeah, yeah.
We can't hear you.
Your lips are moving.
Ah, fuck off.
I did see that.
I could read his lips on thatone.
He said, fuck off.
He will be back.
He is returning immediately.
There it is.
One through five, Jay.
Oh, me?
This time?

(34:00):
Let's do 3.7.
Okay.
One.
Two.
Three.
Four.
Let's see a point seven.
Seven.
Oh, it's a picture.
It's a damn picture.
Cheater.
It's an ad.

(34:21):
So it's an ad.
So if I could just pull it upjust a little bit, we're going
to go with that one.
Hey, am I the asshole?
For annoying my girlfriend afterI had to help at her sister's
wedding.
Okay.
Let's dive in.
Oh, this is so fucking long.

(34:46):
That's okay.
Our luggage and then drive anhour and a half to the nearest
Walmart for groceries.
After the long drive, I wasfeeling carsick, but didn't want

(35:08):
to seem unhelpful.
In front of her family while inthe car, Jay's sister rang for
me that they would need my helpcooking a dish, specifically
corn salad.
They didn't really ask.
I felt more being told what todo.
The next day, the wedding day,Wei woke us up at 6 a.m., urging
us to start early.
I made the corn salad asplanned, but before I knew it, I
was cooking several other dishesas well.

(35:30):
It was the wedding day, and Ididn't want to make a scene, so
I went along with it.
We started cooking at 7 a.m.
The ceremony was concluded at4.30.
Jay and I took a break around3.30 to quickly get ready,
rushing through hair and makeup.
Once the ceremony concluded andthe bride and groom left for
pictures, we were pushed backinto the kitchen to finish up
things.
Wow.
It was around 5.30 p.m., and thedinner set 6.30 p.m.

(35:51):
Everyone began asking when foodwould be served.
The kitchen was cramped, hardlylarger than the closet, because
Jay's sister, Sarah, didn't wantto take many pictures.
Everything concluded early,leading to even more pressures
for us to serve dinner promptly.
The floor was wet while...
frosting cupcakes someone bumpedinto me and got frosting on my
dress I went in the bathroom toclean up and Jay followed me
because she could tell I wasupset I expressed my frustration

(36:14):
and she apologized saying shedidn't think we'd be doing this
much work she assured me we werealmost done and we could finish
quicker if we all helped once Ifinished the desserts and
finally got to sit down it wasalmost 9 p.m.
and I discovered there was nofood left and I hadn't eaten all
day and I've been on my feetsince 7 a.m.
feeling pretty miserable afterabout 30 minutes of rest Ray
called us to help clean and Ijust said okay I need to use the

(36:35):
restroom First and then lockmyself in a stall.
If I had my own way home, Iwould have left long before the
day had already been tense asJay had a fight with her mom
unrelated and it was in a badmood.
All I want to do is go home andI'm home trying to contact me,
but all I want to do is leftalone.
I feel mistreated and miserable.
And I thought I was a guest, nota worker.
Jay has called me an asshole forignoring her saying it was just,

(36:58):
I was just to help myself.
saying it was just to help hersister.
However, I was never asked tohelp cater the wedding.
I was asked to attend.
So do you think I'm the assholefor being upset by having to
help her sister?
To be fair, I don't think she'san asshole.

(37:18):
I agree.
Because here's the thing.
Her one little sentence righthere, I was invited to be a
guest.
Right.
Not to work I understand helpingAnd doing like a little thing
here and there But even then Youjust What somebody would have

(37:38):
charged A thousand dollars to doYou just got that work for free
Free labor You guys Got marriednot too long ago Right 5-6 years
ago That shit's expensive my guyAnd it's only gotten worse Yep
right so anybody that is likepart of the ceremony like

(38:03):
there's a

SPEAKER_00 (38:04):
cost

SPEAKER_01 (38:07):
yeah I'm gonna have to agree that I don't think
she's the asshole for beingupset about it because like you
said she got invited to be aguest not to be a worker again I
understand, you know, hey, we'rea little if if maybe she pulled
her to the side with a littlesidebar at that time and said,

(38:28):
hey, listen, we're a littlewe're a little short.
Can you help with just a coupleof things?
I promise it won't be.
Absolutely.
Have that discussion instead ofjust like roping people into the
shit.
Right.
And that's what it sounded likeshe was doing.
That's honestly what it soundslike she was doing.
It was like, OK, well, you'rehere.
You're my friend.
Come on, let's do this.
Bingo.
And it's not even you're myfriend.

(38:49):
You're dating my sister.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
You're dating my sister.
I don't really...
Either way you take it, I don'treally see how it changes
anything.
No, it doesn't.
You're taking advantage of aperson that is there to support
you.
Right.
Plain and simple.
If someone's there working fromsunup to sundown, that's free
labor in my book.

(39:10):
Yeah, it is.
And she has every right...
To finally...
Okay, Jay, we just got done frombeing out of town.
Yep.
Okay?
Yep.
When we got home the next day, Iwanted to be left alone.
Oh, hell yeah.
Emily came in.
She knew I wasn't feeling...
She knew she could just tell Iwas tired, and she left me

(39:32):
alone.
Yep.
That's all I wanted.
I wanted to be left alone.
I didn't want to be bothered.
No, no.
It's not that I didn't want totalk to her and tell her how the
trip was.
I was just exhausted.
Yeah, you were tired.
I mean, I'm divorced now, butI've been married before.
That entire day sucks.

SPEAKER_00 (39:51):
Yes.

SPEAKER_01 (39:52):
You are getting connected and attached to the
person that you love a lot, buteverything else sucks.
100%.
You have to...
I understand you get it, Eddie.

(40:13):
Because you've been there.
In a lot of ways, it reallyisn't about you or your person
that you're marrying.
People want you to be at aspecific place at a specific
time.
They want you to be happy.
They want you to take pictures.

(40:33):
They want you to be here.
They want you to be there.
And really, all the time, thewhole time that's happening, You
just want to be with yourperson.
Right.
And make it about you, buteverybody else wants it to be
about them.
It sucks.

(40:53):
I will tell you this.
This is the last thing I'm goingto say about it.
Speaking from getting themarried perspective, I guess you
say, being the people that gotmarried, I know a lot of people
want the big, flashy...
wedding and i get it you knowit's it's fairytale everybody
wants to see that i will tellyou this from just my experience

(41:17):
when that day's there it's ablur

SPEAKER_00 (41:20):
yeah everything happens really fast

SPEAKER_01 (41:23):
it's a fucking blur i could not tell you the
conversations i had it duringduring because i had two days i
had the actual wedding and thenwe had the reception yeah Right?
Because it was two completelydifferent days that we had that.
And the reception, I'm tellingyou, the reception was a fucking
blur, bro.
Like, yes, before it happened,we wanted to make sure

(41:45):
everything was lined up.
Emily was stressed because shewanted this to be this and that
to be that.
And I don't blame her.
I get it.
Everybody wants that.
But when the smoke settles, it'sreally just you two.
Yeah.
That's it.
I mean, homie, I was at yourwedding as an invited guest.
which I am happy about andthankful for.

(42:09):
You guys weren't not at minebecause I didn't know you at
that point.
But my point is from those twodifferent perspectives, I don't
think the guests at the weddingappreciate how much effort the

(42:32):
bride and groom put in into thatevent right so they don't they
don't okay i don't want to saythey don't appreciate it they
don't know and they don'trealize it i'll say that because
they're just there as a guestbecause i've gone to many
weddings and many receptions andi'm like i'm just here for the
alcohol right

SPEAKER_00 (42:52):
you know like

SPEAKER_01 (42:54):
yeah right like i mean essentially that's what it
is i'm here for a good timewhatever else happens happens
yep like When the smoke settles,that's all that matters.
People just want to go somewhereand have fun.
Have a good time.
They're not going to judge youon what your dress looks like.
And if they do, they're not yourfriends.
For the guests, it's a party.

(43:14):
Right.
For the bride and groom, it's alifetime.
We want you guys to finish theceremony.
We want you guys to start yourparty.
And then we want to get the fuckaway from all of you.
Right.
Right.
All right.
Everybody got to go home at 930.

(43:36):
Right.
Exactly.
We want to go to bed.
We want to go to sleep.
Come on.
Chop, chop.
Got to go.
We want to do anything exceptfor look at your faces.
Right.
We love all of you guys.
We're like happy we're here, butfuck, we're tired.
It's been like a 73 hour day.

(43:56):
Yeah, it's a long...
It's a long day for the two thatare, like, the two main ones
involved, and that's...
Yeah, exactly, like...
And then, like...
I've known you guys for a longtime, like, and you've been
involved in or associated with,like, a lot of, like, weddings.

(44:22):
So you know where I'm comingfrom.

SPEAKER_00 (44:24):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (44:25):
Like, you love...
your person that you're marriedto, you'll have the people that
are there watching you getmarried to the person that you
love and to...
Sorry.
But all you want to do is go tosleep.
Yeah, because it's a lot.

(44:47):
It's been like seven days.
It's a lot, and a lot ofpreparation and all that kind of
shit.
But...
yeah i think i'm just likegiving it to our listeners that
have not been like married yetright like it's it's awesome be
prepared but it's notnecessarily fun yeah do like do
like our man scar said and beprepared for anything and

(45:10):
everything that can happen onthat day uh but no i think the
consensus we have here is notthe asshole i think i think uh I
think she kind of got a littleused there.
That's okay.
You can be mad.
It's okay to be mad.
I'd be upset, too, if somebodywas like, I'm there to have a

(45:31):
good time, and she's just like,work, work, work.
I'd be like, we're going tofight.
Jay's right.
I agree with Jay.
I would just say in almost allpersonal disagreements, You have
to be like, I do not like this,and this is why.

(45:54):
I do not like this, Sam, I am.
And this is what I would prefer.
Yeah.
You can't just get pissed and,like, the person with you has no
idea why or how or whatever.
Yeah, and I'm sure.
There has to be a solution.
I'm sure she probably made itclear to them.

(46:17):
But then again, I don't know.
I mean, if she didn'tcommunicate that to her.
Yeah, if she didn't communicatethat, she probably should.
I'm not judging.
Right.

SPEAKER_00 (46:27):
I'm just saying.
She probably should let themknow, though.

SPEAKER_01 (46:30):
If your SO does or says something you don't like.
I mean, your feelings are yourfeelings.
Right.
That's fine.
But you have to explain to themwhy you feel the way you feel
and what you expect from themgoing forward.

(46:51):
Yeah, and that's...
And then you can move forward aslike a couple of people.
Right, and that's probably whatshould happen.
I don't know if they have ornot.
I hope they do.
Nobody likes a falling out,especially after a wedding.
But other than that, yeah, Ithink the consensus is not an
asshole, so...
Don't worry about that, lady.
Just agree.

(47:12):
Just, you know, do your best toreach out and say, hey, you
know.
This is how I felt about it.
And there you go.
Deal with it.
Yeah.
So anyway, with that being said.
I think this would be a goodtime to mention.
I think she needed some calm,cool energy, right?
Like in that point in time, likeI think it sounded like.

(47:35):
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Alright.
With that being said, What arewe talking about today, fellas?

(49:49):
Your face.
Yes.
But, we are also talking aboutretro restaurants! What do I
mean by that?
Wait, no, you gotta do it right.
Perfect.
Perfect.
Retro restaurants! And what do Imean by that?
Well, I fell down a rabbit holeabout a month ago, and...

(50:15):
The stuff I came across, it wasabsolutely freaking...
It was mind-blowing, to say theleast.
To see, number one, the cost ofthings has gone way the fuck up.
I'll never understand that.
And then seeing how restaurantsand shit were in places that I

(50:37):
didn't really realize...
Oops, that's my phone falling.
They were in places that Ididn't really realize.
And they tried just abouteverything.
They experimented with so muchshit back in the 80s, 90s era.
And I'm just like, do theyexperiment nowadays?
Sure.
But I don't think it's asgrandiose and as often as they

(51:01):
should.
At least for me.
Because some of the stuff Ifound was absolutely...
Crazy.
I didn't know some of thesethings did it, but what I want
to start us off with is the factthat back in, like, let's just
go circa 2006, right?

(51:23):
There's these coupons, excuseme, for Taco Bell.
I found them.
I was surfing Facebook and Icame across this page.
I don't remember what it'scalled.
I'll get the name while we'retalking about it.
Just to give them their props.
They have all the old schoolretro restaurants and all that

(51:44):
kind of stuff.
They bring up a bunch of olderrestaurants.
Taco Bell circa 2006 had couponsto where you can get 10 crunchy
or soft seasoned beef tacos for$6.99.
10

SPEAKER_00 (51:59):
tacos for under 10 bucks

SPEAKER_01 (52:04):
yeah that's crazy that's fucking ridiculous you
can't do that nowadays no youcan't you just can't at all you
can't nope so

SPEAKER_00 (52:15):
you're right

SPEAKER_01 (52:18):
you can't no because you brought up Taco Bell and
obviously Taco Bell is my numberone restaurant.
Right.
It's your go-to.
So when you said we were goingto be talking about this, I went
to Taco Bell, and I went in 1996because I feel like the 90s was
just that era.
Oh, yeah.

(52:38):
For me, I think that's whenhumans peaked, but whatever.
That's another podcast.
So I was scrolling through menuitems and stuff of that nature,
and their menu's pretty much thesame.
Mm-hmm.
Except for prices And obviouslythe new items that have come out
So like for example A number 5back then in 96 Nacho Bel Grande

(53:01):
meal That came with a TacoSupreme So you got a drink A
hard Taco Supreme And a NachoBel Grande That combo was$4.19
On the regular On the regularNow You can't even get a Nachos

(53:21):
Bel Grande by itself for$4.19.
If I'm not mistaken, I thinkit's$5.89 to get a Nachos Bel
Grande.
To verify, I'm opening up myTaco Bell app right now.
It's funny you say that becausewhat set me off the most was I

(53:46):
came across the Gordita Crunch.
from a long, long time ago, fromthe 90s.
It was 69 cents back then.
69 cents for one Gordita Crunch.
You want to know how much aGordita Crunch costs right now?
Please tell me.
It's like$4.
$5.29.
What the fuck?
That's insane.

(54:09):
A Nacho Belgrano.
That's with the app.
Right.
Nacho Belgrano...
Templeton, you were right.
It's more than$5.89.
It's$6.99.
That's crazy.
Put that

SPEAKER_00 (54:22):
in perspective,

SPEAKER_01 (54:23):
one combo back then, you're almost paying for two
full combos right now for justone item, the nacho.
And the biggest kicker is I knowfor a fact that they were made
with ingredients that are notincluded on today's price.
Yep.
So like green onions, you shouldbe able to get green onions.

(54:47):
You should be able to get blackolives on your nachos from Taco
Bell.
You no longer get those.
They don't have that anymore.
Nope, not anymore.
And I think it was cheese andbeef.
I mean, for the most part, andbeans.
Yeah, cheese, meat, beans,tomatoes, and sour cream.

(55:08):
That's literally it.
That's what you get.
ridiculous.
Now, you can add other things toit, but it's going to cost you
an arm and a leg.
You can add seasoned rice.
You can add the chicken.
You can add steak.
You can add some sauces.
You can really add whatever theyhave on their menu as long as
they have it.
The crazy thing is we've allmade white peel tacos.

SPEAKER_00 (55:30):
Right.

SPEAKER_01 (55:32):
We brown up the beef, add the seasoning and
whatever else And make like themeat But it is not Taco Bell No
No it's not Even if you buy theTaco Bell seasoning It still
doesn't It's not the same And Ithink they do that shit on

(55:55):
purpose They're not going torelease the exact formula
Because if you could Then youwould never go to the fast food
joint No you're losing You'relosing customers at that point
Fact But yeah They could chargelike a quarter, like 25 cents
for every taco or burrito andstill make eight insane profits.

(56:20):
I know.
I mean, I've always said ifMcDonald's were to ever just
bring back their dollar menu,they'd win.
They'd win over everyrestaurant.
Anybody would win.
If any fast food restaurantwould be like, you know what?
For six months, we're going todo a throwback You can call it

(56:42):
an 80s You can call it the 90s Idon't care what you call it Just
give us and give us the pricesKick back the prices to what
they were In that time frame Andwatch you destroy You will have
lines on lines On lines on linesAnd you're going to make a
profit You're going to make aprofit For sure I understand the

(57:05):
cost of stuff does go up Iunderstand that But I'm telling
you If you put this inperspective, the amount of food
waste that a fast foodrestaurant gets rid of because
it's just sitting there.
It's just sitting there.
If you come up with this fuckingthrowback shit and you've got
lines on lines on lines, guesswhat you're never going to do?

(57:25):
Throw away shit.
You're not going to have a lotof waste.
The thing is, the price ofmaking your shit is going to go
up, but Taco Bell, McDonald's,Wendy's, Arby's, Burger King,
there's no advertising news.
No! Absolutely there's not.

(57:49):
I'm telling you.
If McDonald's is like, hey, wegot 99% cheeseburgers, the
biggest problem they're going tohave is a car blocks around
the...
A car...
Like a row of cars around theblock.
Right, like a huge line.

(58:10):
Yeah, they're going to have ahuge backup in their drive-thru.
This is wild.
I'm looking at McDonald's now.
Okay, so let's not get too crazyright now.
Excuse me.
Let's not get too crazy.
Because trust me, I know.
I dove down.
Again, I crawled down thatrabbit hole and it's fucking
nuts.
Okay, one thing and I'm done.

(58:30):
One thing and I'm done.
The number one, which is the BigMac meal.
$2.99.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
It's very different now.
Let me read this to you backin...
I'm fucking done.
I'm fucking done.
They had a menu from Subway.
August of 1996, they have a menufrom Subway.

(58:52):
You know how much footlongs wereback then?
Tell me.
A BLT footlong would cost you$3.49.
Yeah.
Remember the...
I hate to say this, but rememberJared?
$5...
$5 footlongs.
Yeah, there you go, just to putthat all into perspective.

(59:13):
But they also had seafood andcrab and seafood and lobster.
Does anybody remember that fromSubway?
No.
I do.
I do.
Really?
Yeah.
Okay, so I have a follow-upquestion.
Did you ever try it?
I did not.
I wouldn't trust it.

(59:34):
Yeah, I'd be afraid.
I'd be afraid, 100%.
Not on a fucking subway.
Are you kidding me?
That's asinine.
For sure.
That's crazy work.
But no, like, so obviously, justwanted to give a couple of
examples how prices havechanged.
But there's also something elsethat caught my attention, how
there were restaurants in placesthat I...

(59:55):
had no idea about.
So everybody knew what everybodyknows, right?
Like, Target, right?
Had a little restaurant, alittle cafe, a little small
thing.
Kmart had a little place to getsome food.
Did anybody know that Walgreenshad a restaurant?
I never knew that.

(01:00:16):
I mean, I did not know thatpersonally, but I did know that,
like, drugstores.
Yes.
They have soda fountains andsandwich shops and stuff like
that.
Beyond prescribing aspirin andstuff, that was her thing.

(01:00:39):
Yeah, I had no idea.
I had zero clue.
But Walgreens, they had a menufrom a Walgreens restaurant in
1980, and they said manydrugstores and dime stores back
in the day had lunch, and itwas, by the way, this is called
Greasy News on Facebook, so ifyou, free plug, they're not
paying me for this.

(01:00:59):
Go find them on Facebook, andI'm telling you, it is nostalgia
on Facebook, and it's great.
But they said that they starteddisappearing in the mid-80s when
fast, semi-casual chains startedto peak.
But Walgreens had a menu, and Iguess that the staple back then,
because they were easy to makeand there wasn't a lot of
overhead as far as making it,but a lot of places like

(01:01:21):
Walgreens would sell melts.
Apparently, melts were a hugefucking thing.
So, ask me how much a patty meltwith fries would cost you at
Walgreens in 1980.
In 80?
Probably like$1.10.
$1.99.
Wow.

(01:01:42):
Okay, so I have a question.

SPEAKER_00 (01:01:43):
For a melting fries.

SPEAKER_01 (01:01:46):
Was the restaurant inside the pharmacy or was it,
because I just looked it up, orwas it a separate entity?
I mean, as far as I know,Walgreens was one.
Yeah, it was like inside.
As far as I know, it was insidebecause I did speak to the
parents about this because Iwanted to get their take on it
because I was just like readingstuff off.
I wonder if they remember thiskind of stuff.

(01:02:08):
And dad actually said heremembers when his dad would get
home.
And when they would go out for,like, the weekend or whatever
and do their shopping, it was awhole thing.
Because they'd go to theWalgreens or whatever, or
whatever they had, and they'dhave the restaurant right there.
The restaurant in Walgreens.
They'd get something to eat andthen continue shopping, and it'd

(01:02:31):
be a whole spectacle.
Like, shopping was a whole thingback in the day, because you
could shop

SPEAKER_00 (01:02:36):
and

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:36):
eat while you were there.
So it was like...

SPEAKER_00 (01:02:39):
You'd get home late.

SPEAKER_01 (01:02:41):
I mean, I remember, like, Imean, this is, again, 90s we're
talking, when Walmarts hadMcDonald's in them.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
I was never, like, I mean,because we grew up in, like, in
the same, like, class, but not,like, the same neighborhoods.
So, like, I grew up in adifferent neighborhood than you

(01:03:04):
guys did.
Mm-hmm.
So, like, our thing was, like,Value City.

SPEAKER_00 (01:03:09):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:03:10):
And Walgreens and stuff like that.
There was no furniture place orwhatever.
Right.
I got you.
There was a Value City friend.

(01:03:35):
Same company, but operated bydifferent

SPEAKER_00 (01:03:38):
people.
Mm-hmm.
So,

SPEAKER_01 (01:03:41):
like, it was different.
I don't know how to explain itany harder than that.
I gotcha.
But it's just crazy to thinkabout that a lot of these
places, like Kmart, again, weknew Kmart had their little
restaurant cafeteria area, butthey have this little
advertisement from June of 1988.

(01:04:01):
And you could get a turkey clubwith coffee or a large soft
drink for$2.99.
That was on Monday.
That's...
I mean, and during that time,that was...
That was significant, but notterrible.
Right.
It wasn't awful.
Tuesday, they had a hot beefsandwich with coffee or a large

(01:04:23):
soft drink for$2.99.
Wednesday, they had athird-pound bacon cheeseburger,
French fries and coffee or alarge soft drink for$2.99.
Thursday, they had a hot turkeysandwich with coffee or a large
soft drink for$2.99.
Everything was$2.99.
And then Friday, they had afamily burger combo with a
coffee or large soft drink,$2.99.
And then, I guess, availableevery day, 4 to 8, they had

(01:04:47):
batter-fried fish dinner for$2.99.
Like, what?
What?
I mean, I think that really,like, sort of, like,
establishes...
Maybe from the beginning oftime, like, they can, but they
won't.
Here's

SPEAKER_00 (01:05:09):
a

SPEAKER_01 (01:05:13):
question.
Why do you think they went awayfrom that?
Went away from the restaurantsand cafeterias inside these
places?
Well, okay.
So I have the answer for it.
Go ahead.
No, this is legitimate.
So the reason why it's...
I kind of started with the wholeWalmart and...

(01:05:34):
McDonald's thing that's whenthey started phasing out shortly
like after they did that becausepeople were complaining remember
like the super size everyone wason this kick of you know oh
they're making us fat you knowthat's why they had to change
the word super size because theygot in this whole healthy kick
and they said well maybe we needto start taking away these

(01:05:56):
restaurants out of thesebusinesses and I think it became
a push to get that out of it andkeep it separate and everything
else that's what I think startedit and then obviously when
what's the word their leasescame up I think they just were

(01:06:16):
like we're not going to renewthem anymore or they went with a
healthier they would go with ahealthier choice but then the
healthier choice wouldn't makemuch money so because that's not
what people wanted so and thenit probably eventually slowly
dwindled away i think that'swhat i think i think it's funny
you say that because nowadayseverybody's a lot more health
conscious they're trying

SPEAKER_00 (01:06:36):
to be at least

SPEAKER_01 (01:06:37):
yes and and i i wanted to bring this up and it's
a beautiful segue but y'allremember when mcdonald's had the
milkshakers the saladmilkshakers no no hold on hold
on you see this Let's fuckinggo.
No, that's not it.
Hold on.
That's Wendy's.
That's Wendy's.
Hold on.
There's going to be a picturethat I just looked at them.

(01:06:59):
So where'd they go?
I don't know.
You, you lost them.
I just, you've gone too far, butno, like, so here's, here's my
thing because they weren't bad.
Like they, they were, they werefucking, they were actually
decent.
Like, yes, there you go.
There you go.
Yeah.
The, the garden chef and thegrilled chicken.
The grilled chicken slapped.

(01:07:21):
Fucking amazing.
Amazing.
Can you imagine if McDonald'swas like, you know what?
We're going to bring that back.
We're going to bring backMcShakers.
Here's where the issue would lieright now.
Too much plastic.
And that could be why.
Yeah.

(01:07:41):
Not when McDonald's is stillselling plastic cups.
Get the fuck out of here.
Nah, ain't happening.
No, shut up.
Are their cups plastic?
Yes.
Their cups are plastic.
I know Wendy's is.
Yeah, and McDonald's is too.
Fuck that.
Fuck that noise.

(01:08:02):
They hand you a drink in aplastic cup.
Fuck out of here.
You can bring back a McShaker.
The funny thing is...
I don't remember the exactverbiage, but McDonald's was
like, you know what?
Fuck you.
Plastic cups.
Exactly.
I think they actually said that.
They actually came out in apress release and said, you know

(01:08:23):
what?
Fuck you.
Plastic cups.
Which, at least I hope they did.
But I'm just saying, I feel likea salad McShaker could make a
comeback.
Especially nowadays.
Because it's a healthier option.
and it's fast it's quick youknow people are always on the go
I don't disagree like any caseand I'm not even really like a

(01:08:45):
solid guy but like yeah I agreeso I think part of the issue
lies also too and this is whyyou lost that's why menu items
have changed a little bit overthe years because we're going to
go back to Taco Bell remember Isaid green onions used to be on
their nachos yeah There was ahuge Huge E.coli E.coli outbreak

(01:09:13):
And after that That's whatstopped them from putting on So
you could argue that Theyprobably Went through the same
thing with the salad shakers Westill have E.coli outbreaks That
doesn't change That doesn't goaway Just because you took away
lettuce Right but a companyDoesn't want to have that bad

(01:09:36):
PR.
I don't think that's the case.
I think they're just being bums,and they don't want to bring
them back.
If you think about it, I don'teven know if I'm pretty sure
McDonald's still has salads.
They do.
But I feel like a McShaker wouldbe...

(01:09:56):
Oh my Jesus Christ.
Because, again, it's on the go,and people are always talking
about, man, I wish I could...
People are more active nowadays,so to speak, you know, as far as
like driving here and there andall that kind of shit.
We're talking about likeMcDonald's.
We're talking about Pepsi.
We're talking about Coca-Cola.
If they lose a few milliondollars a year, do you think

(01:10:18):
that really fucking matters tothem?
They probably don't even notice.
I mean, their bottom line, theywouldn't, but their bottom line
is always to make money.
They don't ever want to losethat.
Correct.
But my point is like, Oh, thismarketing campaign doesn't work.
Okay, we'll just do a new one.

(01:10:39):
It's not a big deal.

SPEAKER_00 (01:10:40):
Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 (01:10:40):
We only lost$2 million.
Fuck that.
That's an executive that weprobably didn't know.
I'm scrolling through thesepictures, and I think you're
right, Jay.
If a fast food restaurant wereto legitimately do a change-up
right now and go back, bro.
They'd win.
They'd win.
They would.

(01:11:00):
They'd win.
Hands down.
They would fucking break thebank.
They would.
They'd win.
They'd win hands down.
If Pizza Hut went back to liketheir 1980s.

SPEAKER_00 (01:11:12):
Bro, Pizza Hut.

SPEAKER_01 (01:11:13):
Every other like main Pizza Hut like pizza like
places would be fucked.
Oh, for sure.
For sure.
Domino's would be fucked.
Like it was just because it'sPizza Hut.
everybody knows that name yeahnobody out pizzas the hut god
damn it correct speaking ofpizza but pizza hut making it

(01:11:38):
great right but speaking ofpizza hut speaking of pizza
should i say um again i ibrought up earlier that back in
like the 90s they got reallyexperimental right did everybody
know that mcdonald's used tosell pizza like they tried I've
heard of them.
I did not personally experiencethem.

(01:12:00):
I mean, I didn't either, but Ido know that they tried selling
pizzas and it did not go wellfor them.
The McDonald's I used to work atin the airport still had the
oven that they used.
It was a pizza oven.
And it had like six, seven,eight different slots for that
oven because they made pizzas.
And we used that to make thepies and everything.

(01:12:22):
But it was really neat to learn.
But the reason why bring this upis because, again, they got
really experimental, and I don'tknow why they stopped being
experimental.
But back in the day, this wasonly in New York in 2010, Burger
King once had a pizza burger.

(01:12:44):
What?
It was a 9.5 inch pizza sandwichthat had Whopper beef patties,
mozzarella cheese, marinarasauce, and pesto-flavored mayo.
It was cut into six slices forsharing and came in at 2,500
calories.
It never went nationwide.
It only was sold in New York in2010.

(01:13:09):
It was very short-lived.
But they made a fucking pizzaburger.
Who does that?
I'm looking at it right now.
That's pretty crazy.
Isn't that fucking nuts?
I wonder why it didn't catch on.
Because it's a big-ass pizzaburger.
Nobody wants to eat that.
I mean, I mean, here's thething.

(01:13:29):
I mean, I do.
It was awesome.
That was a lot for that time andtime of like human existence.
Yeah, that's a lot.
Like what?
Hold on.
What came on this motherfucker?
It was burgers, mozzarellacheese, pepperoni, red pesto and
Sicilian sauce.
Yep.
So it was basically pizza on aburger.
What is Sicilian sauce like?

(01:13:50):
I don't know.
Italian splooged on it.
Hey, it's a pizza.
Me.
So gross.
So there's your Sicilian sauceright there.
There you go.
I don't know how I feel aboutthat.

(01:14:11):
Yeah, so I don't, yeah, I cansee why it failed.
Now that I'm looking at it, Isee why it failed.
It never left New York, andprobably because New Yorkers
love, yeah, they love theirpizza, so.
Right, right.
But, yeah, like, what made themstop, excuse me, stop being so

(01:14:33):
experimental, like, you know,going crazy like that?
You know, like, who...
Has anybody...
On the, like, obvious thing,like, oh, it was costing them
money, but it's McDonald's.
They can afford to lose money.
Well, I don't...
It'd have been Burger King, butI don't know.
I'm sorry.

(01:14:53):
Like, either way, like,McDonald's, Burger King, when
they use pizza, those are theplaces.
Yeah.
They'd lose a million dollars.
They didn't even fucking...
Yeah, I mean, again, to them,it's nothing.
All that is my agreeing to yourpoint, like, why did they say,

(01:15:15):
hey, this sucks?
I don't know.
I don't know why they were like,you know what?
We're never going to try thisagain.
That's my entire point.
Like, if you're a billion dollarcompany, like, you could try
something.
Like, just Get out there andthrow something out there.
You don't even notice.

(01:15:35):
Right.
But isn't that fucking nuts thatBurger King tried to do a
fucking pizza burger?
Like, what the fuck?
Yeah, that's insane.
That is crazy.
And then, of course, McDonald'swith all their different fucking
burgers that they had.
Like, does anybody remember theArch Deluxe?
I was going to bring that up.

(01:15:56):
No, what's the Arch Deluxe?
It was like a burger withlettuce and tomato.
That's all that it had.
Yeah, that's really all it had.
Really?
Yeah.
I think the Big N' Tasty kind oftook its spot.
Mm-hmm.
Yeah, I remember.
Okay, so I got a story about theBig N' Tasty.
So growing up, that was Jay'sfavorite.
I'm talking this mother...

(01:16:17):
He could order one, eat it, goto dinner...
That was for lunch.
He'd go to dinner, get it again,eat it.
He'd wake up the next day, andas soon as it turned over for
lunch, he'd go get another one,eat it, and eat it again for
dinner.
That's all he ate.
So we moved from California toKentucky, all right?

(01:16:40):
And we go to McDonald's, and Ijust remember Jay being like,
let me get a Big and Tasty meal.
Big and Tasty!

UNKNOWN (01:16:50):
Big and Tasty!

SPEAKER_01 (01:16:51):
Mom ordered.
She's like, let me get a big andtasty meal.
And literally, the girl waslike, excuse me?
The fuck is that?
What's that?
Yeah, what's that?
What is that?
What's a big and tasty?
And my mom was like, you know,the big and tasty.
Like, bitch.
Like, keep in mind, we've hadthis sandwich.
Multiple times.

(01:17:12):
Multiple times for a lengthyamount of time.
Yeah, like, it was like nonstop.
Right.
And...
we found out the hard way thatmenus were different across the
states.
Yeah, that's how I learned.
That's how I learned that noteverything's the same.
Right, right.
That's a hard lesson.

(01:17:34):
No, it is a hard lesson.
It really is.
It is.
And I mean, I don't rememberwhat he got in place of it, but
I'm pretty sure he was visiblyupset.
Oh, I'm sure I probably waslike, just give me some nuggets
because this fucking sucks.
Because they're like, whateverhe got instead of what he wanted
couldn't have been like awesome.
No, no, no.

(01:17:54):
It was literally like, you knowwhat?
At this point, I don't care whatyou get me because they don't
have my goddamn, they don't havemy goddamn big and tasty man.
You know what I'm saying?
Give me some nuggies and I'll beokay.
I don't know if y'all rememberthis.
Again, when I was speaking tothe Rents, Dad was like, do
y'all remember this burger?
And I was like, I don't rememberthis at all, but McDonald's had

(01:18:16):
something called a McDLT.
I mean, okay, I have heard ofit, but I know nothing about it.
So apparently what they did isit was it was kind of it kind of
had like the same ingredients asthe big and tasty.
Right.
Tomatoes, cheese, lettuce,onions.

(01:18:38):
And I believe it was ketchup andmustard.
But what they did, what theydid, this is what they did.
And I think this is why I feelwhen they gave it to you, it
came in a styrofoam carrier.
Right.
And they actually had the coldside and the hot side.
To where you had your bun andingredients on this side.

(01:18:59):
And then your patty and all thehot stuff over here.
So you would literally have tobuild your own sandwich.
That's weird.
Isn't that weird?
I don't like that.
Right?
I didn't come to McDonald's tomake my own fucking sandwich.
Okay.
On one hand, that is weird.

(01:19:19):
It is weird.
But on the other hand...
I'm going to say something, andyou guys are probably going to
talk shit, but I don't care.
Here we go.
I have gone through a drive-thruand ordered a Big Mac.
I don't think I went through thedrive-thru.
I think I went inside.
I was like, listen, I'm gettingit for my girlfriend, my wife.

(01:19:39):
She's not going to eat it rightnow.
So can you just put everythingon the side?
Oh, my God.
Okay.
And they're willing to do it.
They will.
They will deconstruct thesandwich and give you everything
on the side.
They will absolutely do that.
Yeah, for sure.
It's fucking weird to do it.
And like I said, that's fuckingweird to order.
It is weird.
I was making an order with our,like, a mutual girlfriend of

(01:20:04):
ours.
Like, not my girlfriend, but notlike your girlfriend.
Like, you know who she is.

SPEAKER_00 (01:20:14):
Mm-hmm.

UNKNOWN (01:20:15):
Mm-hmm.

SPEAKER_01 (01:20:15):
Either way, like...
We don't like when our tomatoesare mushy.
Okay.
That's fair.
So, like, if it's a breakfast ora dinner or whatever menu...
Mushy tomatoes are...
No.

(01:20:36):
Thank you.
It's a no-go.
Hard stop for Templeton.
Don't give me no mushy fuckingtomatoes.
So, honestly, if you think aboutit, a McDLT...
you wouldn't have a mushy tomatobecause the tomato's on the
side.
It doesn't touch the sandwichuntil you build it.
So in a way, I've seen thevision.
I get it.
Yeah, I get it.

(01:20:57):
But it's just like...
But it's terrible.
You gotta consider your audienceat that point.
Nobody came to McDonald's tobuild their own fucking
sandwich.
Nobody did that.
Not a single person.
You're probably getting one outof like...
5,000 not be willing to do this.
Yeah, they're like, oh, that'sreally cool.
Yeah, that's really cool.
Yeah, because it's really not.

(01:21:17):
Because it's a pain in the ass.
When I went out of the way toget the stuff on the side and
deconstructed, it's a fuckingpain in the ass.
It is.
Because you get like three bagsand you're just like, what the
fuck?
This is fucking stupid.
This is dumb.
This is stupid.
Just make my goddamn sandwich.
And that is all from ourperspective.
Right.
Nevermind like the person whodoesn't take the order.

(01:21:39):
Exactly.
Cause they're, or the onesmaking it.
Cause they're like, God damn it.
Just get the fucking, get theshit on the goddamn burger.
God.
But you know, you gotta, yougotta keep in mind that not
everybody's the same, but wetalked about places being
different, right?
So in 1994, you ready for this?
Y'all ready for this?
McDonald's again, being very,very, very crazy and

(01:22:03):
experimental.
McDonald's in Canada.
had something called a McChickenSupreme.
Would you like to know what wason this McChicken Supreme?

SPEAKER_00 (01:22:14):
Yes.

SPEAKER_01 (01:22:15):
Ham, tomato, mayonnaise, and processed Swiss
cheese.
What were you saying?
Nah, I'm good.
That's not bad.
That's not awful.
I'm good.
On a McChicken?
Because you said ham?
Ham, which is Canadian bacon.
Ham, tomato, mayo, and Swisscheese The tomato and the mayo

(01:22:40):
and the Swiss cheese isn't bad.
It's the ham that loses me.
It's the ham that loses me.
It's the ham.
I understand it's Canadianbacon.
It's ham, bitch.
That's what I picture in myhead.
I just picture some fucking delimeat of this little circular
ham.
Splat.
That's what I picture.
So if you think about it, whatthey use for their breakfast
sandwich is basically what theyput on that McChicken.

(01:23:03):
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, they just use that roundCanadian ham, the round bacon.
Yes.
And they threw it on there.
They're like, yeah, here you go.
No, I'm good.
Okay, so what about when theyexperiment with the fucking
tie-dye fucking burger buns andshit like that?
You talking about like BurgerKing?

(01:23:23):
Yeah, like Burger King isinfamous for fucking changing
the color of their food.
They really are.
I don't know why they do that.
Green, purple, black.
I've seen them all.
I don't know why they do that.
But here's the thing, like likeit's one thing to just change
the color of your bun rightbecause it's like you you just
add some food dye add some foodcoloring boom done finished but

(01:23:46):
but when you okay think about itright they made a fucking pizza
burger like that is innovativeas fuck right like and that's
why to a degree yes to a degreebut but for me i'm just like
that's why i was kind of hypedwhen Burger King did their
little make your Whopper thing.

(01:24:08):
Because I was like, yo, that'sdifferent because you're now
going to talk to your peoplethat, you know, you're going to
talk to your customers, right?
Your customers are going to tellyou what they're looking for,
essentially.
And I thought that was cool.
Like, were all of them, like,fucking, like, really good?
Nah.

(01:24:29):
And I will say, like, when wewent to the Coke Museum, Yeti, I
think we all learned that, youknow, just your average, normal,
everyday person, not everybodyneeds to be trying to make
flavors go together.
No, they don't.
No, they don't.
Oh, my God.

(01:24:50):
When I tell you, we made somebad choices in our Coke making.
None of us made a good one.
None of

SPEAKER_00 (01:24:58):
us.

SPEAKER_01 (01:24:59):
no none of us made one that was like you know what
i wish i could buy this at astore we all were like no oh god
and here's the thing here's thething grizz and i wish he was
here to stand up for himselfexactly he he took the time to
dissect the items and likereally think about what would
taste really good together yeshe tried he did i was picking

(01:25:21):
random shit i just thought thatmaybe maybe give it a try All my
shit was fucking dog water.
Oh yeah, because we tried eachother's because they recommended
which flavor to try when it gotto that point.
I was one of them.
They all were trash.
All of them.

(01:25:42):
It was god awful.
And I would do it again.
Yeah, I would too, not gonnalie.
But it did open my eyes that noteverybody needs to be making
these flavor combinations.
Now, with that being said,though, also because of that,
everyone's taste buds aredifferent.
This is true.
This is true.
There's some people that willthink.

(01:26:03):
Let's look at Italy, forexample.
Oh, don't even get me fuckingstarted.
I'll fight you.
Okay.
I'm sorry, Italy.
Italians or whatever.
I'll fight you.
No.
That Beverly drink.
No.
Is booty.
Absolutely not.
I don't know how.

(01:26:24):
Y'all drank it.
But it was disgusting.
I wouldn't wish that on my worstenemy.
I'm serious.
I wouldn't wish that on my worstenemy.
Because as soon as it hit mytongue, I gagged.
And Grizz kept going back forit.
He was holding people's hands tohelp him drink it with them.

(01:26:45):
He kept saying, hey guys, thisis the best one.
This is the best flavor.
I was like, can you stop lyingto fucking people?
Like, what the fuck is wrong?
to be honest though I could havesat there the whole time and
made people try it no that'sjust rude like the one girl she
took that sip and it was thefaces honestly the faces they

(01:27:06):
made as soon as it hit thetongue oh yeah there it is they
didn't know what to do they werelike should I swallow or should
I spit it out well I can't spitit out because I'm in public I
can't be a heathen and spit thison the floor everywhere like I
want to but Oh my god.
Never again.
She was so mad.
She was so mad.
She's like, I can't believe youguys made me drink this.

(01:27:29):
I blamed you guys because y'allwere the ones that were hyping
up Beverly over there.
We were.
We were hyping up Beverly.
You two were like, yo, try this.
This is the best one.
I'm like, no.
It's the best one ever.
I'm standing in the back like,don't listen to them.
Do not listen to them.
But they listened anyway.
They decided to try it.
So yeah, that's why I'm kind oflike, I don't know.
I just feel like uh uh uhrestaurants need to come back to

(01:27:52):
like really trying things likethis right here right i know i
know it sounds awful to you buttaco bell released the baja
blast pie that was in that wasunveiled in late 2023 like to me
i'm like interesting Not goingto try it.
Interesting.
But I'm, you know, not for me.

(01:28:13):
I'm not going to try it.
No, not for me.
Not for me.
And here's the thing.
I love the Baja Blast.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Like if you look right overhere, I don't know if you can
see it.
Can you see the box over there?
Sponsored by Baja Blast.
You know what?
Do you see it underneath thetable?
Yes.
Yeah.
I love Baja Blast.
Absolutely love it.
Will I ever fucking get a pie ofit?

(01:28:33):
Fuck no.
So Mountain Dew, if you'relistening, Baja Blast for Yeti.
All day, every day.
All day, every day.
I support it.
Don't hesitate.
Throw him a case or two.
Yes.
And they did the Baja BlastGelato.
I know that happened as well.
I tried that.
It wasn't bad.
See?
So it's like, sometimes you dohave to go out there on a limb

(01:28:57):
and throw it against the wall,see if it sticks.
But you're definitely targetinga group of people, though.
Oh, for sure.
But like when Burger King didtheir Bacon Sundae.
You remember when they did theBacon Sundae?
We lost Templeton.
I don't know where he went.
He might be having computerissues.
But you remember the baconsundae from Burger King?
Yes.
And I tried that shit.

(01:29:19):
Yeah.
And you were like, what are youdoing?
I was like, what do you mean?
I'm trying it.
Like, if it makes sense, though,because sweet, salty, it's a
trail mix.
I get it.
I get that.
But no.
No.
Whatever, man.
We're going to have torespectively disagree on this.
That's fair.
That's fair.
But look at this, Taco Bell in1990, coming in clutch, right?

(01:29:40):
They had an everyday value menu.
59 cents for these items.
59 fucking cents.
What did they have on theeveryday value?
Soft or original tacos,tostadas, bean burritos, and
pintos and cheese.
For 59 cents.

(01:30:01):
All those were 59 cents a pop.

SPEAKER_00 (01:30:04):
Back in 1990.

SPEAKER_01 (01:30:06):
Can you imagine the damage Taco Bell would do if
they brought that back?
No, I mean, oof.
They'd be so fucking busy.
They would be so fucking busy,bro.
It'd be so hard to get into TacoBell, it wouldn't even be funny.
Facts.
Because everybody's like, oh,yo, 59 cents?
Are you kidding me?

(01:30:28):
You remember back in the dayyou'd get a whole bag full of
just straight soft tacos?
Yeah.
Yeah, and spend less than$10.
Spend less than$10.
Or spend less than$20.
Right, and you're good for likethe week.
Right.
I remember.
I remember.
Why can't we get that back?
Like, what the hell?
If Arizona Ice Tea can keeptheir prices as low as they do

(01:30:52):
for 99 cents, and the CEO saidhe won't, he'll do his best to
keep it low.
He's realistic about it.
He's like, you know, I know thatit's not going to be forever,
but as long as he can, he'skeeping his tea at 99 cents.
Here's the thing.
If he was losing money, he wouldhave raised it by now.

(01:31:13):
Hello?
Hello?
And that's the thing.
I understand the cost of stuffhas gone up.
I don't work in that field toknow what it costs i don't i
obviously buy my groceries so iknow what the groceries cost

(01:31:35):
right but when you buy in bulklike that you don't pay the same
price correct what if that stuffisn't going up and they're just
telling people it is going up sothey can increase their prices
the great question now nowyou're asking the real questions
because sometimes i'm like Isinflation real?
The answer is yes.

(01:31:55):
Short answer, yes.
Inflation is real.
So I think to a degree it is.
Yes, because I think companieshave a lot more say-so in
inflation than a lot of peoplelet on.
Yes, yes, yes.
I think companies have moresay-so in inflation as far as
what they price and all thatkind of shit than what they let

(01:32:17):
on.
Because if a CEO of a drinkcompany, a drink company, can
can keep that he said i'mkeeping my prices low so you're
telling me what i'm hearing isyou kind of have a final say in
what your shit's gonna cost imean very true i mean i'm sure
the board the directors alsohave input as well i'm sure they

(01:32:39):
do but if they're all moreleaning toward i want to get
that real big bonus all thatextra cash so i can get my yacht
or you know that extra car thati can drive around well then
they're gonna they're gonnathey're gonna say cost of
value's gone up it's got it'sgot to increase right like like
what if what if in theory thecost of living has gone up like

(01:33:03):
let's say like we're gonna usethe prices of the fast food
menus that we've talked aboutwe're gonna go back to
mcdonald's number one which wastwo dollars and ninety nine
cents In 1996.
Which is crazy.
A number one today.
Hold on, let me see here.
Let me go to my app real quick.
Jump on that app.
A number one.
Yeah, a number one today.
Cost.
I think it's like$6.

(01:33:24):
I think it's like$5.99.
If I'm not mistaken.
Order.
Let's see here.
We'll pick a restaurant.
It's done.
I think that's fucking crazy.
Oh my god.
I'm fucking wrong.
I'm wrong on my prices.
I'm wrong again.
$8 in.
$8.99 for the Big Mac.
So$10.
Almost$10.
No, no, no.

(01:33:44):
We're going to use exact.
We're going to say$8.99.
So it has gone up.
Plus tax.
We're not going to add the tax.
We're keeping it base.
Okay.
We're keeping it base.
$8.99.
And in 1996, the price was$2.99.
So you're saying in, or I'msorry, 96 a year.
So what, 30 years ago?
Yep.
Right?
30 years ago, it's gone up$6.

(01:34:04):
Yep.
What if it's not really gone up$6?
What if it's only gone up?
Like three?
Two dollars.
Bro.
And we're just getting ranked.
We're just getting ranked.
And we're just getting ranked.
So Mr.
McDonald could have his yacht.
Honestly, it's what it feelslike.
It's what it feels like.

(01:34:25):
That's insane, bro.
When you think about it, thechances of that being true...
Because you know people aregetting bonuses and shit like
that.
Where's the money coming from?
They gotta be getting a profit.
And if...
I don't know.
It's fucking crazy.
That's a fucking...
Again, it's a rabbit hole tofall down, and that's why I

(01:34:45):
wanted to bring that up.
It is.
It really is.
Because, honestly, again, Idon't want to get too far deep
into it, because that's not whatwe do here.
But if you are interested infinding out what the fuck
happened, Google it, baby.
Google it, Barbara! It's outthere.
Make sure your battery's full,because it's going to take your
battery.
It's going to be a minute.
It really is.

(01:35:06):
That's crazy.
Good chat about retrorestaurants.
I know we lost Templeton.
I'm going to assume he hadinternet issues.
So I'm going to try to wrap thisup real quick because I know
it's just down to me and you.
The two amigos.
Yeah.
And then there were two.
But that's okay.

(01:35:27):
We're going to drive this home.
Quick fun and games.
I wish everybody was here totalk about it.
If we do, I can change my voice.
Can I change?
No, no, no.
Can we save the fun and games?
Do you want to save the fun andgames?
I want to save that one becauseI want to hear.
That's why I didn't talk aboutmy other thing.
Then we will save the fun andgames.

(01:35:47):
OK, well, we'll pin that one.
OK, so I guess I guess I coulddo the fun fact and do the fun
fact.
So let me get to that realquick.
There we are.
Fun fact.
Y'all ready for this?

(01:36:08):
Well, are you ready for this?
Yes, sir, I am.
This is where I take my nap.
So there's only one.
And then there was one.
Okay, so the fun fact.
Did you know?
That sea level isn't actuallylevel?

(01:36:30):
I always just thought sea levelwas a height.
So, jumping into the deep end orpaddling in the shallows, the
average sea level isn't the sameeverywhere due to the Earth's
forces.
Mean sea level, or MSL, iswidely used as a standard

(01:36:55):
reference for the altitude oftowns, mountains, and aircraft.
That's because once the effectof tides and waves has been
averaged out, sea level dependson just two forces, the strength
of gravity and the effect of theEarth's spin.
And these depend on the distancefrom that ultimate reference
point, Earth's center.
But while their surface providesa handy reference point, the

(01:37:17):
oceans themselves are not all atthe same height above the
Earth's center.
As the strength of the forcegenerated by the Earth's spin is
strongest at the equator, theMSL bulges outward there,
putting it further from thecenter of the Earth than at the
poles.
Differences in the Earth'sdensity also affect the strength
of gravity, causing MSLvariations of as much as 100

(01:37:41):
meters.
MSL is also changing over time.
largely through global warming,causing seawater to expand and
land ice to melt.
So there you go.
Because we're on a giantspinning ball, take that, flat
earthers.
I'm sorry, I don't want to pissoff that community because
they'll be like fucking, they'llhave pitchforks.
We've pissed off a lot ofcommunities this season.

(01:38:03):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
For this episode.
Yeah, we kind of did.
We're probably going to have afew communities knocking on our
doors saying, shut the fuck up,you don't know what you're
talking about.
That's fine.
I mean, go ahead.
I already see them in thedistance with pitchforks.
Yeah.
Oh! they're coming they'recoming they're coming yeah close
the shutters they're coming forus but nah um so yeah with that

(01:38:28):
being said uh we can wrap thisup put a pretty little bow on it
because you know we've we've ranout of people and and stuff talk
about at this point in time Andhere we are.
So join us next time.
We don't have a topic idea, butit'll be a surprise.
Just get ready for it.

(01:38:50):
I'll see if I can't get a gueston here.
We'll see what we can do.
But until then, I guess sayta-ta to your fans, Yeti.
Peace out, bitches.
That's all we got.
Ta-ta! You know what I reallylike?

(01:39:11):
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I like mustard on a beet.
How?
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