April 22, 2021 • 29 mins
Mike is joined by the hardest working guy in podcasting Robb from the Out of the Blank podcast to Wack Bracket off Fast Food! Let's get it on!
Taco Bell vs. Arby's
Chick-fil-A vs. Wendy's
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Taco Bell vs. Arby's
Chick-fil-A vs. Wendy's
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Welcome to Whack Brackets the podcast andhas a six pack or maybe two or
maybe three. It really depends onthe time of week that you check my
refrigerator. I'm your host, Mike, and my guest today is a podcaster
that God knows how many episodes theguy has. I think he's over seven
hundred, possibly eight hundred. Agreat conversationalist that loves to have great conversations
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with a bunch of great people.I think he's talked to more people than
the average Amazon sales representative. Andwho I would like to introduce today is
Rob from the Out of the Blankpodcast? How are you doing today?
Rob? Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be on here because
I love getting into a little funand different topics and shnanigans. That's you
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can check us out on other podcastplatforms as well. I will not wear
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don't really have anything written for there. I have like two things written,
and then the rest of this shit'soff the cuff. So hopefully, hopefully
we'll just keep bucking around from hereon out. But why don't you tell
the people? I kind of explaineda little bit what you do over on
out of the Blank, but Ithink it would be better coming out of
your pie hole. So why don'tyou tell my guests here what out of
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the blank is all about? Itis just conversations with people, never knowing
where it goes. I call ita low grade Joe Rogan. That's basically
you know, I don't talk aboutDMT, I don't go super into cars
or anything. It's really whatever topicmy guests feels like they want to talk
about just taking an hour to chatwith each other. Sometimes they go longer.
You know, we're all much moresimilar than we like to think,
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and you know, you never knowwhat you might learn. It's like,
I don't read history books, soyou're basically a history book talking me and
tell me from your perspective and stuff. Pretty awesome. But before we go
on with said whack bracketing, I'mgoing to tell people what I do over
here at the Whack Brackets podcast.If you have not checked me out before,
I'm asking the burning questions that younever knew you wanted answered until we
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answered them. We bring on podcastersand friends of the show, such as
my friend Rob here, and wewill bracket off similar contestants using irrelevant,
ever changing questions. If you're readyto go, Rob, I am ready
to start said whack bracketing. Let'skick it. Okay, today we are
going to bracket off fast foods.And we have several fast food restaurants here
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and we're going to ask this questionfor the first two of them, the
first two being Taco Bell versus Arby's. If you ate one of these twice
daily, which would lead you ona quicker road to three hundred pounds Taco
Bell or Arby's, what do youthink? Oh dude, it's got to
be the Arby's man, because you'reshipping out most of the Taco Bell once
you eat it. You know,Arby's is the one that's like you eat
one of those things, you canfeel it clawed up in your veins,
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like you don't want to have plans. You eat Arbies. I used to
go do like trips up to Baltimore, about three hours away from my live
So every time we're on the road, my dad was like, we gotta
stop at Burger King, we gottastop at whatever. We stopped at Arbies
one time. I've never been ina food comba faster Like I had Thanksgiving
already at my grandparents, Like thatwas the pretty snack to the Thanksgiving meal
we were gonna have. Like Iwas already passed out, like rubbing my
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chest opening up like the you know, the pants up a little bit,
like, ah, so you're goingto Arbies. I don't know which one
I want to go with. Iwas actually surprised. Now you are a
health officionado for those that are unaware, Rob here has not eaten fast food
in what nine years? Nine years? Yeah, that's amazing as well as
he's in pretty good shape, muchbetter than myself and probably about in the
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podcasters out there. But I wassurprised, Rob, and you can school
me if I'm wrong. I dida quick look at the nutritional values of
the Arbies and the Taco bells,and I didn't worry about actual nutritional value.
I was just looking at calories andI was surprised to see a lot
of the Arby's stuff was not ascalorie heavy as I expected. I expected,
like the beef and cheddar to bepretty high in calories, and I
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think it was under five hundred calories, which was a shock to me.
Yeah, well, if you lookat a lot of their meats and stuff
there, it's like dark fosd ham. It's a lot would consists of Arby's
menu, which is like I thinkper container or per serving that you're getting
is like eighty something calories, butit's like seven grams of protein. But
you can get away with folding thatthing like Arbies does. Like I think,
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like sandwiches have actually shrunk from whenI was a kid, and I
don't think it's a size comparison thing, but I started noticing that they used
to be able to fold their meattwice and then kind of put it on
the sandwich. Now they're folding itlike four to eight times, where they're
getting like little mini sliders. Andthat's the whole reason I didn't like White
Castle. I didn't like In andOut Burgers because their burgers were too small.
You know, when you get ameal, you should be able to
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get one of that item and itshould fill you up. You know,
nowadays people are getting one, two, and three. I don't think that's
just weight reasons or because people aremore hungry. I think gets an issue
with the foods not being normal size, is being shrunk down so they can
get away with giving you less fortiny people with tiny hands. But Arbi's
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yeah, the amount of meat onthese sandwiches does seem to have dissipated.
Taco Bell on the other hand,Interestingly, and I've noticed this because I'm
still a Taco bell smith to thisday, I eat it probably more than
I should. A lot of thetimes you can get relatively low calorie options.
Not that I always look at calories, but I do want to at
least look a little bit. Butwhere Taco Bell nails you particularly is on
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the rice. Their rice is crazyhigh in calories, and even the flower
tortillas have a lot of calories inthem. Now, admittedly, there's other
things that go into gaining weight.You could probably talk for extended periods of
time, but I'm speaking from avery layman's term here. I do know
that either one of these is goingto get you fat if you ate it.
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Twice a day as far as gettingthe three hundred pounds you said,
Arbies, but Taco Bell does havenotably more options to change things up as
well as being a man that lovesthe actual Taco Bell sauce of Diablo sauce
and the fire sauce. I couldliterally put that on anything and gut through
it. So I think the arbisI would probably be eventually get sick of
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the real high fatty things and probablyjust try to gravitate as when they add
cheese to it. They got acheese sauce that just like you dip it
like straight, like you're dipping inand just cheese whiz or whatever. Oh
yeah, it's disgusting. But justfor the sake of argument, you've chose
Arby, So I'm going to chooseTaco Bell. And this means that we
have a face off here, AndI think what we were talking about is
we're going to have to agree onthis. What was our question as far
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as who we're gonna let go tothe next round? Was it dealing with
customers better? I don't recall.It could be dealing with customers better,
could be having a better social mediapresence, or where would you feel comfortable
with going if you're gonna do ittwice a day, like what I want
to be comfortable when you're eating ittoo. We have an Arby's in our
town, and then we have aTaco About in town. If you're gonna
ask me which one do I want? I really those are my twoth probably
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favorites, but I'm gonna end upchoosing Taco Bell because Mexican food is just
something I can eat every single dayand not get bored with it. But
Arbies, if you look at whatcalories are, it really depends on the
concept of what you're putting into yourbody. If you're putting in a bunch
of rice and stuff, those aresimple carbohydrates. Those are just going to
turn into energies. They're going toturn into things, so you can just
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burn that off. But if you'reputting in meats, there's fat in there,
which is gonna get you fatter.Obviously, more calories increases in weight.
You could build a better fit dietdoing Taco Bell three hundred than if
you're doing Arbi's three hundred. Thatone's gonna make you get the meat,
sweats and ship where you're gonna begrowing mold under your thirdnest. Do here?
Where would you feel more comfortable goingtwice a day if I have to
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gain to three hundred pounds, ahMan, I would choose probably, I
think I would too. Arbies kindof concerns me a little bit experience,
but I as well, I wouldgo with Taco Bell. So I have
a deep connection with Taco Bell.When I was a kid, It's for
me and my dad would always goon and place you baha blast, you
know, before they started to sellthem in cans and stuff. But look
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at the audience, Like if youlook at the audience at Arby's, they're
all kind of like overweight people withlike really like those Apple shirts or whatever
the hank you know, the regularwhite gray whatever shirts that they wear,
just like something you get from Walmartfor five dollars, But they never go
all the way down. There's alwaysthe midriff, like the guy from the
Citizens, the comic book guy alwayskind of like a little bit wider of
a dude wearing like a trucker outfit, blue jeans, you know, red
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back, snap back or something likethat. But then you walk into a
Taco Bell and it's like want tobe vegans and then anybody that would resemble
a Karen. They don't have atoy kid either, Like they don't have
anything like a happy meal or anytype of thing. They just have a
little spinner on the front of thedesk where you put in a quarter and
you can spin it and try andmake it land on something to get like
a free taco or some shit.Yeah, well that's because Taco Bell makes
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people happy. You don't need thetoy to make people happy when you open
up a bag and you get delicioustaco Bell goodness. That, my friends,
category a mixed match. Imagine ifyou had to pick tooth chains to
mix together. I picked Taco Belland five guys, because instead of giving
you a bag of fries, theygive you a bag of fucking tacos like
an animal. I like that honestyto it. Well, they've they've got
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those five five tacos in a pack. Now they still give you. I
want it all shoved in a fuckingbag like I'm an animal, toss it
at me. You just want toeat it out of a trough. I
like being abused when I get toa fast food place. So what you
want to do is you want tomix your s and m fantasies with your
fast foods. You can have likefive leather clad guys that whip you with
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fries. Me with fries, I'dbe like, whip me with cole Slaw
or something awful like that, whereit's like sticky. You don't want it
on you. Like you ever hada bad incident with a Coleslaw. Ye,
surprisingly, if you look up alot of fights that happened at Taco
Bell, they're over Coleslaw mixed withKFC. People are coming in to get
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cole Slaw, but they have todo the Taco Bell employees like you're not
just seeing two different size of thething. So they're like all people would
just come in and we had awe had a call sau shortage for like
a six months or something like that, and people would just come in ask
you for a co saw and getpissed off. And they'd have to talk
these people down by adding other thingsto their order. So instead of like
you want a giant thing of colesaw, well, I'm going to give
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you these tacos for free instead,and they'd be like okay, and it
calms them enough to get out ofthe building where they can lock the doors.
I've heard like five accounts of thatalready. I'm like, Jesus,
Well, now that we've talked aboutthe great ghost Law shortage of twenty seventeen,
we're gonna move on to the nextwag bracket. The Taco Bell employees
did not appease my pain for mybeloved ghost Law. But in this wag
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bracket, we are going to letpreviously Taco Bell go through, but we
are going to pit off Wendy's againstChick fil A. And this is probably
based solely on exactly the same peopleI always see managing these establishments. But
of these two establishments, whose managerwould more likely win a game of one
on one basketball all man? Andthat's a tough one. It depends because
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my Wendy's, there's a certain groupof people that work there. I'd have
to say Chick fil A. Man, I don't know, just the posture.
My ex girlfriend worked at Chick filA, and like she always used
to talk about everybody that worked therewas like college kid moving on to like
doing sports scholarships or doing something withvolleyball or something like that. I'm like,
I'm like, yeah, yeah,they keep a tight ship. Over
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there too, and they got secretmenu item, So I'm down with that.
Yeah, I don't disagree with that, just from what I've seen managerial
wise, as far as the Chickfil A, sometimes it's usually a middle
aged guy, but like you said, if he's come up through the ranks,
a lot of times it is youngerpeople working there, and they do
seem to be in relatively fit comparedto other fast food restaurants. And I
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could see one of them raising throughthe ranks and maybe he went to college
and came back and got his managerialand now he's his sports scholarship at his
hoity toity college didn't work out,and now he's slinging Chick fil A patties
and managing fast food drive lines.Soon. I just I've been to Wendy's
one time. I got a soda. I didn't get any food. My
buddy got like those ham and biscuitwhatever burgers that they have, but they
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didn't give a shit. The peopleweren't hot there. It's like every time
I roll up to a Starbucks orevery time I roll up to a Chick
fil A, they're always hot whereI'm like, damn it, I was
not expecting this, and I juststart talking and they're like, sir,
it's gonna be eight to seventy five, and they're like, my pleasure.
I'm like, no, you'll getyour pleasure later. I don't know what
it is. They're just maybe it'sthe uniform. And like, I had
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somebody say it to me, like, you know, you said the same
thing about the Starbucks. We livein a beach town, so just keep
that in mind. So usually whenyou get kids my age that are working
at a Starbucks or something, they'repretty hot because they're close to the beach.
It's that type of town. Andmy buddy's like, you said that
at the Starbucks too. He's like, you got a thing with a woman
in a uniform. And I'm like, I don't fucking know, man,
but I like it when they gotthe headset on there too. It makes
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them twice as hot. And I'mlike, yo, you got a kink
that I don't think you know aboutjust yet. And I'm like, what
does it evolve into? Something likeit's at the next level. Yeah,
this is like a Pokemon that evolvesfrom a Starbucks employee to next thing.
You know, you're going to bein jail and with a police officer,
you're like, give me the femalepolice officer to give me the street.
I did break up with my Xafter she quit Chick fil A, but
I wasn't even eating the shift play, so it wasn't I wasn't using her
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for any food. It doesn't matter. It's not the food for you,
dude. Damn. As far asWindy's, I'll talk about Wendy's here quickly
and it won't take long because everyWindy's manager I've seen, and I could,
I'm sure there's others, but itis usually a middle age or even
a little higher than middle age.I'm talking at least mid forties, usually
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fifty, late early sixty year old, probably up to the butt late fifties.
Women. Women seem to manage Wendy'sconstantly. It's like they have to
be motherly to keep all the rascallionsin line, because, yeah, Wendy's
is a place, at least fromwhat I've seen. The employees that I've
seen in Wendy's, they're just kids, kids being kids, but they're coming
in for quick job and they needto get a job, and then they're
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usually going soon for some reason likeyou said it is a thing, particularly
with Chick fil A and Starbucks.It feels like, oh, well,
I got lucky enough to get ajob here. Maybe I don't know,
maybe the pay is higher. MaybeI don't know, if you have any
idea they have to be doing,Like I think secretly Chick fil A's running
some type of like conspiracy cult typething, Like we all know that they
have certain strong religious views that theykind of side them. They don't really
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like the gay community as much.You're not open on Sunday, it's the
one day you want. And I'mlike, they gotta be doing something with
their employees to keep him in suchline. Like even my ex wouldn't talk
about what they would do at Chickfil A. And I'm like, is
it that wound up? Like reallylike they got it ingrained in your head,
Like what are the benefits to that? Maybe they have really good benefits
or something. Yeah, I'm sureyou've heard of him, but do you
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know much about Dave Ramsey. Isthat Gordon Ramsey's like brother or something.
No, that would be a lotcooler. Now. Dave Ramsey is some
quote unquote financial guru that gives verybasic advice he's based outside of my hometown
here and go check him out whenwe're done with this podcast. But yeah,
he is very Christian oriented to thepoint you can't say anything bad.
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He actually fired an employee recently becausetheir husband was criticizing a party they had
during COVID. So the husband criticizedit privately to a friend and they fired
the woman who they just recently promoted. And they tried to pay twenty thousand
dollars hush money just to go away, and she wouldn't do it. She's
like, Okay, fire me,but I'm not taking your twenty thousand dollars.
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I want to talk about it.Dave Ramsey is very cult like and
also very Christian. And again Iknow as I think I mentioned this as
a podcast i'll be releasing this weekactually, and this podcast will probably come
out in a month. But someof the best people I know are very
religious. But some of the wackiestpeople I've ever met are very religious.
It depends on the idol you follow, et cetera. And I won't get
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too deep into religion or politics,but I think you're onto something with some
kind of cult like maybe extreme.Maybe I've it's like Disney World, like
people talk about like you can't loseyour stage president or character presence or something
like that. That's the same thingwith Chip Filet. It's got that weird
kind of like you're gonna do thisexactly, don't step out of line,
or you're gone. And it's likethat type of you're gone, like where
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the dude's putting his thumb across hisneck type gone and shit, and I'm
like makes sense. I mean,look, if you cook up a nice
bacon, egg and cheese, I'llbe more than happy the hail Satan for
one day, Like okay, likeyou gotta have that pool to it,
though, man, it can't justcome at me with your side game or
some shit like that. Like Iwant to be seeing an extra curt I'm
not even a fan of the curlyfries, to be honest with you,
of the fries I partake in,which are not manny. I'm more of
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a curly fry fan than the street. I'm not a waffle fry fan and
fry dude, like one one lookslike one fourth of a potato. I
want to be able to like ifI try and eat it quick like the
recent don't like McDonald's fries is becausethey're like you're shove fifty in your mouth
and they're literally grabbing the sides ofyour mouth like screaming help no, like
trying to get you to slow downeating them. But like, if you
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got a thick cut fry and youdon't shoot that ship, you're dead.
Bro. It's like eating at asteakhouse, like you're fucking half of it's
getting stuck in your throat and theother half still in your mouth. Yeah,
you like a little bit of adventure. What your dream is is to
be laying in bed and have aChick fil a female shoving fries down your
throat. Eat the waffle fries asfast as you can't you Like, I
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honestly be happier if she was justlike making a milkshake, but she was
rubbing the milkshake all over herself andI was tied up just watching. I
don't even want I don't like foodin the bedroom. I don't want anything
touching me like that because I thinkit's a messy thing and I have OCD,
so I would lose my shit.But tying me up and then me
freaking out because this girl's covered ina mess like that would be like probably
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torture. If you want extra napkins, fuck yeah, please just clean yourself
off, Just clean it off.You got enough napkins, It's like,
just use one of them. Stopgetting the damn Chick fil a packets.
And then you got one person thatcomes in with that Polynesian sauce. It's
like the kid at lunch that ordersat school whatever with the Cloverland Dairy is
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the best milk you ever find.Everyone gets chocolate or normal milk, but
then one kid gets fucking strawberry.It ruins your goddamn day. You're like,
damn it. I can smell itover here. It smells like curdled
ass. Yeah, strawberry milk.There's not much more disgusting in life.
There was a flavor of Quick usedto be banana Quick. It was even
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more disgusting than strawberry. Just forthe record, I have a bad experience
with Quick or a Quick. Yeahyou should. Nobody has a good experience
with Quick. Everybody thinks it's goodwhen you're a kid, it's not.
We bought it one night to tryand feel fancy in my house, like
my grandma got it for me andI didn't do it right, and no
one showed me how to do it. So I put the powder in and
I forgot to shake it up andstir it up and everything. So I
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got a mouthful of powder like acinnamon challenge, and that just ruined it
for me. Man. But regardlessof that, I think we are going
to let Chick fil A advance tothe final round against Taco Bell. Final
question? Which of these two restaurantsis more likely to sponsor a nickel Back
tour? Oh? Yeah, youknow it's gonna be Taco Bell nickel Back
on us. Man, She Chickfil A wouldn't sponsor unless it was like
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a Christian rock like they would sponsorSkillet because Skill it's a Christian rock band,
surprisingly, but they would Skill ChristianCrazy. They're guys are very religious.
Um so is the singer for skidRow, who I'm named after,
by the way, Sebastian Bach.Yeah, my middle name is Sebastian.
He's friends with my parents. There'sa picture. There's a picture of me
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sitting in the back of a vanwith Um. This sounds really rapey,
um, but I'm sitting in theback of the van with one of those
like little McDonald's games that used toget out of the little happy meals and
he's playing Mario with me. He'slike beating it for me, and like
because he knew, he knows myparents. They used to do concerts and
stuff together. Really, my parentslike he's he's he's our good friend.
I'm like, I have fucking seenhim since I was like a little kid,
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Like, where's it's off living hisown life? You know, when
you get older, you don't reallyconnect to people. But there's plenty of
videos and stuff, and they probablygot his number somewhere. I'm like,
all right, well don't I cangoogle him probably now and now that I'm
intro because I don't even know howto spell my middle name, so I've
never done it. I swear toyou, I've never spelled my middle name
before. I've only done my firstand last. I'll do the initial right,
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it's too long. I didn't needit. I used to get in
trouble all the time. My teacherwas like, spell your first name,
last name, write it down onehundred times. And I'm like, it
would be even worse if you toldme to do my middle name, and
she goes, I want you todo first, middle, and last.
I'm like, jokes on you.I don't know how to spell my middle
name. I could take a shotin the dark, but every time I've
done it, they're like, whydon't you put bash in there? It
doesn't make sense. It's not howyou spell Sebastian. And I'm like,
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fuck it. If I want toknow what the crab's name is from whatever
Little Mermaid, then I'll worry.But I'm not worried right now. I
don't use my middle name at all. It's pretty pretty rotten. It's a
very rednecky, very seventies middle namethat I'm not. No, I wish
it were Clint. It's a lotdoper live and so. But no,
I'm not gonna tell you it's amystery. But Nickelback, you take good
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taco bell? Yes, okay.I don't really have a good argument either
way. Like we said with Chickfil A, we know theyre pretty religious.
Nickelback not religious, not good either, But how does by people give
Maybe that's the bracket we need tofight. How do you not like Nickelback?
They're really good, They're actually that'sthe thing. I'm not gonna shot
on Nickelback as a band here.I'll say I don't like that style of
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music at all. That's a stylein a genre I don't dig at all.
And that's not just Nickelback. Asfar as that genre and that style,
they're actually a fine band if you'reinto that kind of music. They're
good. The musicianship is good,the songs are catchy. I don't have
a problem with them. I justdon't like that type of music. It's
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very cookie cutter, very much feelslike it was processed and a plant to
be exactly what it is. Butyes, I agree with you that Nickelback.
I won't say they're underrated because it'snot true. Those guys have made
a ship. I don't think ChickFlay was a sponsor them though. And
they're talking about being in a hottub of cocaine. You know, we
all just don't want them be bigrock. You know. I don't think
that's a little bit too too muchfor us. You're already talking about you're
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staying up past nine thirty. That'spretty late for us. You know,
Taco Bells, we don't give ashit, man. We're smoking dope.
We're making burrito supremes and it's twoo'clock in the morning and I just lost
the fucking finger, and you're like, all right, yeah, I'm gonna
have to agree with you here thatI think your cocaine reference actually is very
good because you could Taco Bell couldprobably repurpose that and change it from cocaine
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to fire sauce. Yeah, youcould. You imagine the guys in Nickelback
setting in a pool of fire sauceand singing about Gordita's talking about advertisements.
That's proud of placement there. Soyeah, I think that works a lot
better. There's not a lot Polynesiansauce doesn't roll off the tongue quite as
nice. And again, I thinkyou're one hundred percent right that Chick fil
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A would feel as if you werebastardizing their product if you were to say
something like, what do you meana pool of Polynesian sauce? The Polynesian
sauce is supposed to be perfect.That's the other thing. Taco Bell is
meant to be a sloppy Yes,you just get it. You shove it
down because you're drunk most of thetime you're eating taco though it's there for
a purpose. It serves its exactpurpose. Now, if you're out listening
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to tickle Back at two in themorning, we have it. We have
a different argument. But hopefully you'relistening to something cooler. But again,
I'm not going to trash and saynickel Back. I'll listen to that at
two o'clock in the morning. God, I'll see that's that's a conversation.
Look at this fotograph. I'm like, I hear you. I'm looking into
a bean burrito as we speak.What do you see in that bean burrito?
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Lies and deceit. It's funny becauseall right, if you look at
like how there are polaroid pictures oflike maybe some of your family or some
of your friends at like these oldschool like shake shack style places, which
one would be more comfortable in apolaroid to see. If you saw your
dad slopping down on a fucking taco, you would look at him like he
was a party animal, just likeme. Or if you see a meat
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in check fields, say you're like, that's my dad, A respectful man,
the pocket protector guy I know todaythat has raised me, not this
fucking party wild just chick fil asmore elegant when you walk in it's got
like this whole like it. Itseems like you have to keep up a
facade or an act. I cango to Taco Bell High and not have
to be like insanely freaking out besidesall the kids that are staring at you
with chicken in their hands. Yeah, Taco Bell is one of those places
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that the odds are relatively high thatwhen you go up to order your food,
assuming you don't drive through, evenif you do drive through, but
if you go up and actually orderit at the counter and you're completely blazed,
the guy there's gonna be like,can I get some of that?
Or he'd be like, if youneed another hookup, here's my number.
So you know you're not gonna getthat at Chick fil a. It might
be like, if you're at Chickfil A High, they're gonna be like,
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here's a card to my church.Maybe you should think about attending someday
when we're closed, or just walkup, big man, can I get
a number three of being burrito withlike baha blast medium? And he's like,
yeah, man, you've ordered thesame thing three fucking times already.
Look back at your table. Youlook back and there's the same order three
times. Oh man, I'm toasted. Yeah, I guess I better start
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eating those Baha blasts. They're gonnadrink themselves. Do you want to come
over and half one with me?That Taco Bell be the restaurant they employed,
be like, I'll take my breakearly. You got three Baha blasts
over there. You're setting over thereeating with the Taco Bell employee. They're
bitch it at him for taking timeoff and as restaurant and be like,
I'll be buying and they won't evenfire him. They'll be like, yeah,
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it's it's a shit job. Man, Go go enjoy your bob blast
the Taco Bell. There's a shot. The bathrooms are probably out. Chick
fil A's like they got that shitlocked, Like you gotta make sure they're
like yeah, oh yeah, ourbathrooms are nice and clean and make sure
we sanitize them every five minutes.And then you have someone walk around at
That's what I don't like either,Like I like to run down places.
I'm okay with that if the bathroomsout or something like that, I'm used
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to it. But like Chick filA, nothing compared to their milkshakes.
Man, a Taco Bell, thatbaha blast. The pool of that thing
is like when they turn into aslushy, You're like, bro, fuck,
what the fuck probably doing? Whywere we doing? So? Yeah,
I think And as much as Igiven Taco Bell shit recently, as
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anyone knows, they've removed some ofmy favorite menus from some of my favorite
items from the menu recently, includingthe seven layer burrito and the Mexican Pizza.
So rest in peace, guys.But I think sadly or happily,
I think we're going to agree thatthey are going to sponsor the Nickelback Tour
before Chick fil A. So winnerof this fast food whack Brackett Taco Bell,
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and I would like to thank myguest, a guy who, again,
if you're interesting and you have interestingshit to talk about, reach out
to this guy on the social mediaplatforms and he might have you on.
If you don't have anything interesting totalk about, he'll come up with interesting
shit. Just don't be there onthis show and be a stick in the
mud. But as long as you'vegot cool shit to talk about and you're
a decent person, Rob will makeyou sound good. As long as again,
(26:53):
don't just like reach out because you'rejust some dude. You'd be like,
dude, Rob, talk to me. You gotta come with some fire.
But yeah, other than that,go check out Rob at out of
the Blank. And before I go, I'm going to let Rob tell you
how to reach him on the socialmedia platforms. Just google out of the
Blank and I'm probably the first result. Hopefully there's another person that's stealing my
(27:15):
identity, but it's been known tohappen. There's been a charge with my
credit card for five hundred I thinkit was five hundred dollars for like a
fifty five inch TV or something onthere. I'm like, I did not
show you that, but thank youbank for calling me and being on top
of that shit. That's a oneday one. But yeah, just google
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me, man. I really justappreciate you giving me the time and let
me be on the podcast. Thisis fun. It's always a fun time
talking to you. I'm glad youreached out a couple of months ago.
I guess it's been I've been meaningto get you on here, and I
apologize it's taken a while, buthere we are. This will probably release
some gut saying late March. We'llsee, we'll see how it goes.
I've got, actually right now,a backlog of about seventeen episodes I've got
(27:56):
to release. I'm trying to releasethem to a week to catch up,
so I'll slide you in there somewhere. But when that said again, as
far as reaching me, I amat whack Brackets on all the social media
platforms, I can be reached at, Get blazed, at Taco Bell,
at wack brackets dot com, youcan reach me there. You can also
reach me at Nickelback's my favorite bandat wack brackets dot com. I will
(28:18):
get that. I will get anythingat whack brackets dot com. As you
can tell no joke, try me, I'll get it, I promise.
And as far as maybe, ifyou're feeling generous or frisky, feel free
to write me a decent review.On Apple podcasts, I've had fifteen for
about three months now, I coulduse a new one. Makes me happy.
It gives me all the warm tinglesand all my funny places. And
(28:40):
if you don't feel like doing that, you want to do something a little
less ambitious than just subscribe to mypodcast. It gets me a download,
makes me look better to my podcastnetwork. Over at spreaker Prime. So
again, thank you, Rob,and we will get out of here and
I'll let you take us out,so see everybody soon. Say something Rob
on the way out. Hello,What am I doing? Are we doing?
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The I just started picturing and advertisingfor you. Just laying on a
bed tied up with like somebody shuckingjust those Chick fil a fries at you,
just shucking them like just constantly toshower over you. Nickelback just sings
and drinks a shamrock shake.
Welcome to Whack Brackets the podcast andhas a six pack or maybe two or
maybe three. It really depends onthe time of week that you check my
refrigerator. I'm your host, Mike, and my guest today is a podcaster
that God knows how many episodes theguy has. I think he's over seven
hundred, possibly eight hundred. Agreat conversationalist that loves to have great conversations
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with a bunch of great people.I think he's talked to more people than
the average Amazon sales representative. Andwho I would like to introduce today is
Rob from the Out of the Blankpodcast? How are you doing today?
Rob? Thank you for having me. I'm excited to be on here because
I love getting into a little funand different topics and shnanigans. That's you
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can find only on Whack Brackets.Located anywhere you can find a podcast,
specifically Apple, Yes, Apple,Apple tends to be our jam. You
can check us out on other podcastplatforms as well. I will not wear
you out with those platforms because there'sabout ninety nine thousand of them and Apple
still gets about seventy five percent ofmy listen. So check us out on
Apple. Give us right did Isay it like you wrote it? I
(01:07):
don't really have anything written for there. I have like two things written,
and then the rest of this shit'soff the cuff. So hopefully, hopefully
we'll just keep bucking around from hereon out. But why don't you tell
the people? I kind of explaineda little bit what you do over on
out of the Blank, but Ithink it would be better coming out of
your pie hole. So why don'tyou tell my guests here what out of
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the blank is all about? Itis just conversations with people, never knowing
where it goes. I call ita low grade Joe Rogan. That's basically
you know, I don't talk aboutDMT, I don't go super into cars
or anything. It's really whatever topicmy guests feels like they want to talk
about just taking an hour to chatwith each other. Sometimes they go longer.
You know, we're all much moresimilar than we like to think,
(01:49):
and you know, you never knowwhat you might learn. It's like,
I don't read history books, soyou're basically a history book talking me and
tell me from your perspective and stuff. Pretty awesome. But before we go
on with said whack bracketing, I'mgoing to tell people what I do over
here at the Whack Brackets podcast.If you have not checked me out before,
I'm asking the burning questions that younever knew you wanted answered until we
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answered them. We bring on podcastersand friends of the show, such as
my friend Rob here, and wewill bracket off similar contestants using irrelevant,
ever changing questions. If you're readyto go, Rob, I am ready
to start said whack bracketing. Let'skick it. Okay, today we are
going to bracket off fast foods.And we have several fast food restaurants here
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and we're going to ask this questionfor the first two of them, the
first two being Taco Bell versus Arby's. If you ate one of these twice
daily, which would lead you ona quicker road to three hundred pounds Taco
Bell or Arby's, what do youthink? Oh dude, it's got to
be the Arby's man, because you'reshipping out most of the Taco Bell once
you eat it. You know,Arby's is the one that's like you eat
one of those things, you canfeel it clawed up in your veins,
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like you don't want to have plans. You eat Arbies. I used to
go do like trips up to Baltimore, about three hours away from my live
So every time we're on the road, my dad was like, we gotta
stop at Burger King, we gottastop at whatever. We stopped at Arbies
one time. I've never been ina food comba faster Like I had Thanksgiving
already at my grandparents, Like thatwas the pretty snack to the Thanksgiving meal
we were gonna have. Like Iwas already passed out, like rubbing my
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chest opening up like the you know, the pants up a little bit,
like, ah, so you're goingto Arbies. I don't know which one
I want to go with. Iwas actually surprised. Now you are a
health officionado for those that are unaware, Rob here has not eaten fast food
in what nine years? Nine years? Yeah, that's amazing as well as
he's in pretty good shape, muchbetter than myself and probably about in the
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podcasters out there. But I wassurprised, Rob, and you can school
me if I'm wrong. I dida quick look at the nutritional values of
the Arbies and the Taco bells,and I didn't worry about actual nutritional value.
I was just looking at calories andI was surprised to see a lot
of the Arby's stuff was not ascalorie heavy as I expected. I expected,
like the beef and cheddar to bepretty high in calories, and I
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think it was under five hundred calories, which was a shock to me.
Yeah, well, if you lookat a lot of their meats and stuff
there, it's like dark fosd ham. It's a lot would consists of Arby's
menu, which is like I thinkper container or per serving that you're getting
is like eighty something calories, butit's like seven grams of protein. But
you can get away with folding thatthing like Arbies does. Like I think,
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like sandwiches have actually shrunk from whenI was a kid, and I
don't think it's a size comparison thing, but I started noticing that they used
to be able to fold their meattwice and then kind of put it on
the sandwich. Now they're folding itlike four to eight times, where they're
getting like little mini sliders. Andthat's the whole reason I didn't like White
Castle. I didn't like In andOut Burgers because their burgers were too small.
You know, when you get ameal, you should be able to
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get one of that item and itshould fill you up. You know,
nowadays people are getting one, two, and three. I don't think that's
just weight reasons or because people aremore hungry. I think gets an issue
with the foods not being normal size, is being shrunk down so they can
get away with giving you less fortiny people with tiny hands. But Arbi's
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yeah, the amount of meat onthese sandwiches does seem to have dissipated.
Taco Bell on the other hand,Interestingly, and I've noticed this because I'm
still a Taco bell smith to thisday, I eat it probably more than
I should. A lot of thetimes you can get relatively low calorie options.
Not that I always look at calories, but I do want to at
least look a little bit. Butwhere Taco Bell nails you particularly is on
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the rice. Their rice is crazyhigh in calories, and even the flower
tortillas have a lot of calories inthem. Now, admittedly, there's other
things that go into gaining weight.You could probably talk for extended periods of
time, but I'm speaking from avery layman's term here. I do know
that either one of these is goingto get you fat if you ate it.
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Twice a day as far as gettingthe three hundred pounds you said,
Arbies, but Taco Bell does havenotably more options to change things up as
well as being a man that lovesthe actual Taco Bell sauce of Diablo sauce
and the fire sauce. I couldliterally put that on anything and gut through
it. So I think the arbisI would probably be eventually get sick of
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the real high fatty things and probablyjust try to gravitate as when they add
cheese to it. They got acheese sauce that just like you dip it
like straight, like you're dipping inand just cheese whiz or whatever. Oh
yeah, it's disgusting. But justfor the sake of argument, you've chose
Arby, So I'm going to chooseTaco Bell. And this means that we
have a face off here, AndI think what we were talking about is
we're going to have to agree onthis. What was our question as far
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as who we're gonna let go tothe next round? Was it dealing with
customers better? I don't recall.It could be dealing with customers better,
could be having a better social mediapresence, or where would you feel comfortable
with going if you're gonna do ittwice a day, like what I want
to be comfortable when you're eating ittoo. We have an Arby's in our
town, and then we have aTaco About in town. If you're gonna
ask me which one do I want? I really those are my twoth probably
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favorites, but I'm gonna end upchoosing Taco Bell because Mexican food is just
something I can eat every single dayand not get bored with it. But
Arbies, if you look at whatcalories are, it really depends on the
concept of what you're putting into yourbody. If you're putting in a bunch
of rice and stuff, those aresimple carbohydrates. Those are just going to
turn into energies. They're going toturn into things, so you can just
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burn that off. But if you'reputting in meats, there's fat in there,
which is gonna get you fatter.Obviously, more calories increases in weight.
You could build a better fit dietdoing Taco Bell three hundred than if
you're doing Arbi's three hundred. Thatone's gonna make you get the meat,
sweats and ship where you're gonna begrowing mold under your thirdnest. Do here?
Where would you feel more comfortable goingtwice a day if I have to
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gain to three hundred pounds, ahMan, I would choose probably, I
think I would too. Arbies kindof concerns me a little bit experience,
but I as well, I wouldgo with Taco Bell. So I have
a deep connection with Taco Bell.When I was a kid, It's for
me and my dad would always goon and place you baha blast, you
know, before they started to sellthem in cans and stuff. But look
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at the audience, Like if youlook at the audience at Arby's, they're
all kind of like overweight people withlike really like those Apple shirts or whatever
the hank you know, the regularwhite gray whatever shirts that they wear,
just like something you get from Walmartfor five dollars, But they never go
all the way down. There's alwaysthe midriff, like the guy from the
Citizens, the comic book guy alwayskind of like a little bit wider of
a dude wearing like a trucker outfit, blue jeans, you know, red
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back, snap back or something likethat. But then you walk into a
Taco Bell and it's like want tobe vegans and then anybody that would resemble
a Karen. They don't have atoy kid either, Like they don't have
anything like a happy meal or anytype of thing. They just have a
little spinner on the front of thedesk where you put in a quarter and
you can spin it and try andmake it land on something to get like
a free taco or some shit.Yeah, well that's because Taco Bell makes
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people happy. You don't need thetoy to make people happy when you open
up a bag and you get delicioustaco Bell goodness. That, my friends,
category a mixed match. Imagine ifyou had to pick tooth chains to
mix together. I picked Taco Belland five guys, because instead of giving
you a bag of fries, theygive you a bag of fucking tacos like
an animal. I like that honestyto it. Well, they've they've got
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those five five tacos in a pack. Now they still give you. I
want it all shoved in a fuckingbag like I'm an animal, toss it
at me. You just want toeat it out of a trough. I
like being abused when I get toa fast food place. So what you
want to do is you want tomix your s and m fantasies with your
fast foods. You can have likefive leather clad guys that whip you with
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fries. Me with fries, I'dbe like, whip me with cole Slaw
or something awful like that, whereit's like sticky. You don't want it
on you. Like you ever hada bad incident with a Coleslaw. Ye,
surprisingly, if you look up alot of fights that happened at Taco
Bell, they're over Coleslaw mixed withKFC. People are coming in to get
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cole Slaw, but they have todo the Taco Bell employees like you're not
just seeing two different size of thething. So they're like all people would
just come in and we had awe had a call sau shortage for like
a six months or something like that, and people would just come in ask
you for a co saw and getpissed off. And they'd have to talk
these people down by adding other thingsto their order. So instead of like
you want a giant thing of colesaw, well, I'm going to give
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you these tacos for free instead,and they'd be like okay, and it
calms them enough to get out ofthe building where they can lock the doors.
I've heard like five accounts of thatalready. I'm like, Jesus,
Well, now that we've talked aboutthe great ghost Law shortage of twenty seventeen,
we're gonna move on to the nextwag bracket. The Taco Bell employees
did not appease my pain for mybeloved ghost Law. But in this wag
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bracket, we are going to letpreviously Taco Bell go through, but we
are going to pit off Wendy's againstChick fil A. And this is probably
based solely on exactly the same peopleI always see managing these establishments. But
of these two establishments, whose managerwould more likely win a game of one
on one basketball all man? Andthat's a tough one. It depends because
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my Wendy's, there's a certain groupof people that work there. I'd have
to say Chick fil A. Man, I don't know, just the posture.
My ex girlfriend worked at Chick filA, and like she always used
to talk about everybody that worked therewas like college kid moving on to like
doing sports scholarships or doing something withvolleyball or something like that. I'm like,
I'm like, yeah, yeah,they keep a tight ship. Over
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there too, and they got secretmenu item, So I'm down with that.
Yeah, I don't disagree with that, just from what I've seen managerial
wise, as far as the Chickfil A, sometimes it's usually a middle
aged guy, but like you said, if he's come up through the ranks,
a lot of times it is youngerpeople working there, and they do
seem to be in relatively fit comparedto other fast food restaurants. And I
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could see one of them raising throughthe ranks and maybe he went to college
and came back and got his managerialand now he's his sports scholarship at his
hoity toity college didn't work out,and now he's slinging Chick fil A patties
and managing fast food drive lines.Soon. I just I've been to Wendy's
one time. I got a soda. I didn't get any food. My
buddy got like those ham and biscuitwhatever burgers that they have, but they
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didn't give a shit. The peopleweren't hot there. It's like every time
I roll up to a Starbucks orevery time I roll up to a Chick
fil A, they're always hot whereI'm like, damn it, I was
not expecting this, and I juststart talking and they're like, sir,
it's gonna be eight to seventy five, and they're like, my pleasure.
I'm like, no, you'll getyour pleasure later. I don't know what
it is. They're just maybe it'sthe uniform. And like, I had
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somebody say it to me, like, you know, you said the same
thing about the Starbucks. We livein a beach town, so just keep
that in mind. So usually whenyou get kids my age that are working
at a Starbucks or something, they'repretty hot because they're close to the beach.
It's that type of town. Andmy buddy's like, you said that
at the Starbucks too. He's like, you got a thing with a woman
in a uniform. And I'm like, I don't fucking know, man,
but I like it when they gotthe headset on there too. It makes
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them twice as hot. And I'mlike, yo, you got a kink
that I don't think you know aboutjust yet. And I'm like, what
does it evolve into? Something likeit's at the next level. Yeah,
this is like a Pokemon that evolvesfrom a Starbucks employee to next thing.
You know, you're going to bein jail and with a police officer,
you're like, give me the femalepolice officer to give me the street.
I did break up with my Xafter she quit Chick fil A, but
I wasn't even eating the shift play, so it wasn't I wasn't using her
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for any food. It doesn't matter. It's not the food for you,
dude. Damn. As far asWindy's, I'll talk about Wendy's here quickly
and it won't take long because everyWindy's manager I've seen, and I could,
I'm sure there's others, but itis usually a middle age or even
a little higher than middle age.I'm talking at least mid forties, usually
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fifty, late early sixty year old, probably up to the butt late fifties.
Women. Women seem to manage Wendy'sconstantly. It's like they have to
be motherly to keep all the rascallionsin line, because, yeah, Wendy's
is a place, at least fromwhat I've seen. The employees that I've
seen in Wendy's, they're just kids, kids being kids, but they're coming
in for quick job and they needto get a job, and then they're
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usually going soon for some reason likeyou said it is a thing, particularly
with Chick fil A and Starbucks.It feels like, oh, well,
I got lucky enough to get ajob here. Maybe I don't know,
maybe the pay is higher. MaybeI don't know, if you have any
idea they have to be doing,Like I think secretly Chick fil A's running
some type of like conspiracy cult typething, Like we all know that they
have certain strong religious views that theykind of side them. They don't really
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like the gay community as much.You're not open on Sunday, it's the
one day you want. And I'mlike, they gotta be doing something with
their employees to keep him in suchline. Like even my ex wouldn't talk
about what they would do at Chickfil A. And I'm like, is
it that wound up? Like reallylike they got it ingrained in your head,
Like what are the benefits to that? Maybe they have really good benefits
or something. Yeah, I'm sureyou've heard of him, but do you
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know much about Dave Ramsey. Isthat Gordon Ramsey's like brother or something.
No, that would be a lotcooler. Now. Dave Ramsey is some
quote unquote financial guru that gives verybasic advice he's based outside of my hometown
here and go check him out whenwe're done with this podcast. But yeah,
he is very Christian oriented to thepoint you can't say anything bad.
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He actually fired an employee recently becausetheir husband was criticizing a party they had
during COVID. So the husband criticizedit privately to a friend and they fired
the woman who they just recently promoted. And they tried to pay twenty thousand
dollars hush money just to go away, and she wouldn't do it. She's
like, Okay, fire me,but I'm not taking your twenty thousand dollars.
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I want to talk about it.Dave Ramsey is very cult like and
also very Christian. And again Iknow as I think I mentioned this as
a podcast i'll be releasing this weekactually, and this podcast will probably come
out in a month. But someof the best people I know are very
religious. But some of the wackiestpeople I've ever met are very religious.
It depends on the idol you follow, et cetera. And I won't get
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too deep into religion or politics,but I think you're onto something with some
kind of cult like maybe extreme.Maybe I've it's like Disney World, like
people talk about like you can't loseyour stage president or character presence or something
like that. That's the same thingwith Chip Filet. It's got that weird
kind of like you're gonna do thisexactly, don't step out of line,
or you're gone. And it's likethat type of you're gone, like where
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the dude's putting his thumb across hisneck type gone and shit, and I'm
like makes sense. I mean,look, if you cook up a nice
bacon, egg and cheese, I'llbe more than happy the hail Satan for
one day, Like okay, likeyou gotta have that pool to it,
though, man, it can't justcome at me with your side game or
some shit like that. Like Iwant to be seeing an extra curt I'm
not even a fan of the curlyfries, to be honest with you,
of the fries I partake in,which are not manny. I'm more of
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a curly fry fan than the street. I'm not a waffle fry fan and
fry dude, like one one lookslike one fourth of a potato. I
want to be able to like ifI try and eat it quick like the
recent don't like McDonald's fries is becausethey're like you're shove fifty in your mouth
and they're literally grabbing the sides ofyour mouth like screaming help no, like
trying to get you to slow downeating them. But like, if you
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got a thick cut fry and youdon't shoot that ship, you're dead.
Bro. It's like eating at asteakhouse, like you're fucking half of it's
getting stuck in your throat and theother half still in your mouth. Yeah,
you like a little bit of adventure. What your dream is is to
be laying in bed and have aChick fil a female shoving fries down your
throat. Eat the waffle fries asfast as you can't you Like, I
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honestly be happier if she was justlike making a milkshake, but she was
rubbing the milkshake all over herself andI was tied up just watching. I
don't even want I don't like foodin the bedroom. I don't want anything
touching me like that because I thinkit's a messy thing and I have OCD,
so I would lose my shit.But tying me up and then me
freaking out because this girl's covered ina mess like that would be like probably
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torture. If you want extra napkins, fuck yeah, please just clean yourself
off, Just clean it off.You got enough napkins, It's like,
just use one of them. Stopgetting the damn Chick fil a packets.
And then you got one person thatcomes in with that Polynesian sauce. It's
like the kid at lunch that ordersat school whatever with the Cloverland Dairy is
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the best milk you ever find.Everyone gets chocolate or normal milk, but
then one kid gets fucking strawberry.It ruins your goddamn day. You're like,
damn it. I can smell itover here. It smells like curdled
ass. Yeah, strawberry milk.There's not much more disgusting in life.
There was a flavor of Quick usedto be banana Quick. It was even
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more disgusting than strawberry. Just forthe record, I have a bad experience
with Quick or a Quick. Yeahyou should. Nobody has a good experience
with Quick. Everybody thinks it's goodwhen you're a kid, it's not.
We bought it one night to tryand feel fancy in my house, like
my grandma got it for me andI didn't do it right, and no
one showed me how to do it. So I put the powder in and
I forgot to shake it up andstir it up and everything. So I
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got a mouthful of powder like acinnamon challenge, and that just ruined it
for me. Man. But regardlessof that, I think we are going
to let Chick fil A advance tothe final round against Taco Bell. Final
question? Which of these two restaurantsis more likely to sponsor a nickel Back
tour? Oh? Yeah, youknow it's gonna be Taco Bell nickel Back
on us. Man, She Chickfil A wouldn't sponsor unless it was like
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a Christian rock like they would sponsorSkillet because Skill it's a Christian rock band,
surprisingly, but they would Skill ChristianCrazy. They're guys are very religious.
Um so is the singer for skidRow, who I'm named after,
by the way, Sebastian Bach.Yeah, my middle name is Sebastian.
He's friends with my parents. There'sa picture. There's a picture of me
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sitting in the back of a vanwith Um. This sounds really rapey,
um, but I'm sitting in theback of the van with one of those
like little McDonald's games that used toget out of the little happy meals and
he's playing Mario with me. He'slike beating it for me, and like
because he knew, he knows myparents. They used to do concerts and
stuff together. Really, my parentslike he's he's he's our good friend.
I'm like, I have fucking seenhim since I was like a little kid,
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Like, where's it's off living hisown life? You know, when
you get older, you don't reallyconnect to people. But there's plenty of
videos and stuff, and they probablygot his number somewhere. I'm like,
all right, well don't I cangoogle him probably now and now that I'm
intro because I don't even know howto spell my middle name, so I've
never done it. I swear toyou, I've never spelled my middle name
before. I've only done my firstand last. I'll do the initial right,
(20:11):
it's too long. I didn't needit. I used to get in
trouble all the time. My teacherwas like, spell your first name,
last name, write it down onehundred times. And I'm like, it
would be even worse if you toldme to do my middle name, and
she goes, I want you todo first, middle, and last.
I'm like, jokes on you.I don't know how to spell my middle
name. I could take a shotin the dark, but every time I've
done it, they're like, whydon't you put bash in there? It
doesn't make sense. It's not howyou spell Sebastian. And I'm like,
(20:32):
fuck it. If I want toknow what the crab's name is from whatever
Little Mermaid, then I'll worry.But I'm not worried right now. I
don't use my middle name at all. It's pretty pretty rotten. It's a
very rednecky, very seventies middle namethat I'm not. No, I wish
it were Clint. It's a lotdoper live and so. But no,
I'm not gonna tell you it's amystery. But Nickelback, you take good
(20:52):
taco bell? Yes, okay.I don't really have a good argument either
way. Like we said with Chickfil A, we know theyre pretty religious.
Nickelback not religious, not good either, But how does by people give
Maybe that's the bracket we need tofight. How do you not like Nickelback?
They're really good, They're actually that'sthe thing. I'm not gonna shot
on Nickelback as a band here.I'll say I don't like that style of
(21:15):
music at all. That's a stylein a genre I don't dig at all.
And that's not just Nickelback. Asfar as that genre and that style,
they're actually a fine band if you'reinto that kind of music. They're
good. The musicianship is good,the songs are catchy. I don't have
a problem with them. I justdon't like that type of music. It's
(21:37):
very cookie cutter, very much feelslike it was processed and a plant to
be exactly what it is. Butyes, I agree with you that Nickelback.
I won't say they're underrated because it'snot true. Those guys have made
a ship. I don't think ChickFlay was a sponsor them though. And
they're talking about being in a hottub of cocaine. You know, we
all just don't want them be bigrock. You know. I don't think
that's a little bit too too muchfor us. You're already talking about you're
(22:00):
staying up past nine thirty. That'spretty late for us. You know,
Taco Bells, we don't give ashit, man. We're smoking dope.
We're making burrito supremes and it's twoo'clock in the morning and I just lost
the fucking finger, and you're like, all right, yeah, I'm gonna
have to agree with you here thatI think your cocaine reference actually is very
good because you could Taco Bell couldprobably repurpose that and change it from cocaine
(22:25):
to fire sauce. Yeah, youcould. You imagine the guys in Nickelback
setting in a pool of fire sauceand singing about Gordita's talking about advertisements.
That's proud of placement there. Soyeah, I think that works a lot
better. There's not a lot Polynesiansauce doesn't roll off the tongue quite as
nice. And again, I thinkyou're one hundred percent right that Chick fil
(22:47):
A would feel as if you werebastardizing their product if you were to say
something like, what do you meana pool of Polynesian sauce? The Polynesian
sauce is supposed to be perfect.That's the other thing. Taco Bell is
meant to be a sloppy Yes,you just get it. You shove it
down because you're drunk most of thetime you're eating taco though it's there for
a purpose. It serves its exactpurpose. Now, if you're out listening
(23:10):
to tickle Back at two in themorning, we have it. We have
a different argument. But hopefully you'relistening to something cooler. But again,
I'm not going to trash and saynickel Back. I'll listen to that at
two o'clock in the morning. God, I'll see that's that's a conversation.
Look at this fotograph. I'm like, I hear you. I'm looking into
a bean burrito as we speak.What do you see in that bean burrito?
(23:33):
Lies and deceit. It's funny becauseall right, if you look at
like how there are polaroid pictures oflike maybe some of your family or some
of your friends at like these oldschool like shake shack style places, which
one would be more comfortable in apolaroid to see. If you saw your
dad slopping down on a fucking taco, you would look at him like he
was a party animal, just likeme. Or if you see a meat
(23:55):
in check fields, say you're like, that's my dad, A respectful man,
the pocket protector guy I know todaythat has raised me, not this
fucking party wild just chick fil asmore elegant when you walk in it's got
like this whole like it. Itseems like you have to keep up a
facade or an act. I cango to Taco Bell High and not have
to be like insanely freaking out besidesall the kids that are staring at you
with chicken in their hands. Yeah, Taco Bell is one of those places
(24:18):
that the odds are relatively high thatwhen you go up to order your food,
assuming you don't drive through, evenif you do drive through, but
if you go up and actually orderit at the counter and you're completely blazed,
the guy there's gonna be like,can I get some of that?
Or he'd be like, if youneed another hookup, here's my number.
So you know you're not gonna getthat at Chick fil a. It might
be like, if you're at Chickfil A High, they're gonna be like,
(24:41):
here's a card to my church.Maybe you should think about attending someday
when we're closed, or just walkup, big man, can I get
a number three of being burrito withlike baha blast medium? And he's like,
yeah, man, you've ordered thesame thing three fucking times already.
Look back at your table. Youlook back and there's the same order three
times. Oh man, I'm toasted. Yeah, I guess I better start
(25:04):
eating those Baha blasts. They're gonnadrink themselves. Do you want to come
over and half one with me?That Taco Bell be the restaurant they employed,
be like, I'll take my breakearly. You got three Baha blasts
over there. You're setting over thereeating with the Taco Bell employee. They're
bitch it at him for taking timeoff and as restaurant and be like,
I'll be buying and they won't evenfire him. They'll be like, yeah,
(25:25):
it's it's a shit job. Man, Go go enjoy your bob blast
the Taco Bell. There's a shot. The bathrooms are probably out. Chick
fil A's like they got that shitlocked, Like you gotta make sure they're
like yeah, oh yeah, ourbathrooms are nice and clean and make sure
we sanitize them every five minutes.And then you have someone walk around at
That's what I don't like either,Like I like to run down places.
I'm okay with that if the bathroomsout or something like that, I'm used
(25:45):
to it. But like Chick filA, nothing compared to their milkshakes.
Man, a Taco Bell, thatbaha blast. The pool of that thing
is like when they turn into aslushy, You're like, bro, fuck,
what the fuck probably doing? Whywere we doing? So? Yeah,
I think And as much as Igiven Taco Bell shit recently, as
(26:07):
anyone knows, they've removed some ofmy favorite menus from some of my favorite
items from the menu recently, includingthe seven layer burrito and the Mexican Pizza.
So rest in peace, guys.But I think sadly or happily,
I think we're going to agree thatthey are going to sponsor the Nickelback Tour
before Chick fil A. So winnerof this fast food whack Brackett Taco Bell,
(26:30):
and I would like to thank myguest, a guy who, again,
if you're interesting and you have interestingshit to talk about, reach out
to this guy on the social mediaplatforms and he might have you on.
If you don't have anything interesting totalk about, he'll come up with interesting
shit. Just don't be there onthis show and be a stick in the
mud. But as long as you'vegot cool shit to talk about and you're
a decent person, Rob will makeyou sound good. As long as again,
(26:53):
don't just like reach out because you'rejust some dude. You'd be like,
dude, Rob, talk to me. You gotta come with some fire.
But yeah, other than that,go check out Rob at out of
the Blank. And before I go, I'm going to let Rob tell you
how to reach him on the socialmedia platforms. Just google out of the
Blank and I'm probably the first result. Hopefully there's another person that's stealing my
(27:15):
identity, but it's been known tohappen. There's been a charge with my
credit card for five hundred I thinkit was five hundred dollars for like a
fifty five inch TV or something onthere. I'm like, I did not
show you that, but thank youbank for calling me and being on top
of that shit. That's a oneday one. But yeah, just google
(27:36):
me, man. I really justappreciate you giving me the time and let
me be on the podcast. Thisis fun. It's always a fun time
talking to you. I'm glad youreached out a couple of months ago.
I guess it's been I've been meaningto get you on here, and I
apologize it's taken a while, buthere we are. This will probably release
some gut saying late March. We'llsee, we'll see how it goes.
I've got, actually right now,a backlog of about seventeen episodes I've got
(27:56):
to release. I'm trying to releasethem to a week to catch up,
so I'll slide you in there somewhere. But when that said again, as
far as reaching me, I amat whack Brackets on all the social media
platforms, I can be reached at, Get blazed, at Taco Bell,
at wack brackets dot com, youcan reach me there. You can also
reach me at Nickelback's my favorite bandat wack brackets dot com. I will
(28:18):
get that. I will get anythingat whack brackets dot com. As you
can tell no joke, try me, I'll get it, I promise.
And as far as maybe, ifyou're feeling generous or frisky, feel free
to write me a decent review.On Apple podcasts, I've had fifteen for
about three months now, I coulduse a new one. Makes me happy.
It gives me all the warm tinglesand all my funny places. And
(28:40):
if you don't feel like doing that, you want to do something a little
less ambitious than just subscribe to mypodcast. It gets me a download,
makes me look better to my podcastnetwork. Over at spreaker Prime. So
again, thank you, Rob,and we will get out of here and
I'll let you take us out,so see everybody soon. Say something Rob
on the way out. Hello,What am I doing? Are we doing?
(29:03):
The I just started picturing and advertisingfor you. Just laying on a
bed tied up with like somebody shuckingjust those Chick fil a fries at you,
just shucking them like just constantly toshower over you. Nickelback just sings
and drinks a shamrock shake.
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