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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Breast breast is coming back, and that would be chee cheese,
breast breast, breast, breast prestesces. Well, where did that come from?
Like some some movie in the eighties, I think started
with the breasts the breast.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Yeah, I say breasticles.
Speaker 1 (00:20):
I like breasticles, breast yep, Zach likes breasticles clearly, Nope, yep. Yeah,
So chee cheese is coming back. And I thought when
I first saw this, I was like, Man, this better
not be because how many fake articles do you see as
you're looking on social media constantly to the point where
(00:41):
you're just every time something like I'm reserving Mike sitement,
I'm gonna wait. But uh, they closed. I didn't know
the whole story, the backstory there. Did you know that
they closed for hepatitis Oh see, I.
Speaker 2 (00:54):
Think one location, but they shut down the whole chain
because of that one location.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
Six hundred and fifty people four dead, sickened, about six
hundred and fifty people four died from it, and a
slew of course lawsuits against the restaurant chain. And yeah,
they said this was the this is the largest hepatitis
A outbreak in US history, one of the largest.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And I still don't know how that happens in a
restaurant setting. I don't.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
I mean the hepe.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, somebody contaminated touched food or how that. I have
no idea how it's spread that way.
Speaker 1 (01:35):
I don't either. I mean, clearly it was food. Had
to be food related.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Let's see, that's what you get when you fry your
ice cream.
Speaker 1 (01:45):
I guess, yeah, pain areas in the abdomen joints. I'm
looking at the symptoms of hepe. Nausea, vomiting, diar, rear uh, fatigue, fever,
loss of appetite also common, dark urine itching, itching, weight loss,
yellow skin, and eyes. Those are also common symptoms of hepe.
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But yeah, four people died from this.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
I woke up several mornings in the eighties I could
have had that just saying, man, this is those symptoms.
Oh yeah, I remember that night.
Speaker 1 (02:22):
They I mean it does present. It could be how
many different things when you start having GI disturbances, gastro
intestinal you start having that stuff, It could be a
whole bunch of different things. But I also did not know.
It was founded by Marno McDermott, former Green Bay Packers
player Max McGee. That was in nineteen seventy five they
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founded Chi Chi.
Speaker 2 (02:44):
I did not know that.
Speaker 1 (02:45):
I didn't either.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
I didn't either.
Speaker 1 (02:47):
They once had more than two hundred locations. I had
my first Chimmy Changa there. Deep Fried burrito Burrito, Man,
was that good.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
Celebrity restaurants used to be kind of a thing. The
ponder We've got one Ponderosa left here on the south
side of Columbus. No kidding, I didn't realize this. Ch
and Banana Bonanzas. Yeah, those were the same company, and
those were started by a company that one of the
partners was the guy Dan Blocker that played Hoss Cartwright
on Bonanza, and their house on Bonanza was called Ponderosa.
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So Bananza and Ponderosa were their restaurants.
Speaker 1 (03:19):
Makes total sense.
Speaker 2 (03:20):
Yeah, yeah, nobody does that anymore. Is there any celebrity
restaurants except for like celebrity chefs?
Speaker 1 (03:26):
M Yeah, no, like you think of Gordon ramsay for
Hell's Kitchen. But yeah, no, yeah, I'm sure they exist.
We all like Wallburg's.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well there you go.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
You know, you got which is who? Their food is
really good?
Speaker 2 (03:44):
Never had it. I wish they would open one outside
of the casino here so I could try it, because
I'm not going to drive to the casino to go
to a Wallburgers.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
I have not been to that one in the casino.
The one that I had it was a food truck
once upon a time at a car dealership on West
Broad and uh, his his dealership, which is over there right,
it's on West Broad, I.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Think, yeah, three nine West Broad is that?
Speaker 1 (04:07):
Yeah? So they had the food truck there once upon
a time and I was there this is gosh, man,
a couple of years ago, and went over there and
they they there's video somewhere of me in there cooking.
They let me start manning the but I cooked some
of the wall Burgers while I was in there.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's fantastic, really good. You didn't bring me one? I
did not, Thanks, I did not. I will need it.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
I will if I go into Hollywood there over in
your beloved West Side. Man, you're around the corner just going.
You ain't got a gamble with.
Speaker 2 (04:39):
It, I know, but it's just get a park in
the ed to walk through the casino, and just said,
can't they open something with a window or just drive through?
Speaker 1 (04:47):
And it's not very far. Once you go in the casino,
it's off the casino floor. Do it, man, it's not
a big deal. It's a festive atmosphere.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Dottye was on something last week. I forget what it was.
It was associated with the end of Blue Bloods and
he was talking about they were doing another restaurant of
some sort, but I can't remember what it was. Yeah,
I don't know. So, yeah, Wallburgers too, Wallburgers, Wall Dogs
mm hm oh where they're doing like, yeah, hot dogs
and chili dogs instead. I don't know what. I just
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remember he said they had something new coming.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Yeah, anyway, Chee Cheese is going to be back, do
you happen to know? I was looking at this article
and maybe it's on here. I just didn't see it.
But where are they going.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
To be open? They have not said yet where their
locations will be or what their menu items will be.
But I have to assume if you're going to come
back and and you know, bank on the Chee Cheese
name and reputation and so forth, the menu is going
to have to be pretty much the same as it
used to be. Otherwise, why call it che cheese minus
the hepe? Well, yeah, you don't want that. You can
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get that as a side item. But you don't want
that on the menu.
Speaker 1 (05:54):
I've refried beans and hepe.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Why didn't they go right the first time? The beans
have to refry them.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Yeah, clearly just frying them was not adequate enough. No,
you had to one more time.
Speaker 2 (06:07):
Are they fried? I've never had refried beans's tasted fried.
Speaker 1 (06:11):
They're just they're just pento beans, like kind of mushy,
but they're fantastic.
Speaker 2 (06:15):
They're like a pinto paste with some cheese on top.
Speaker 1 (06:18):
Exactly. Yes, have you have you had, Senor Antonios. I
talked about that on that and I'm they don't pay me.
I'm not getting anything for that.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
I promise we go harder, you get a check out
of it.
Speaker 1 (06:31):
I'm just saying, well, I just it's so busy all
the time, Like it looks like almost all the tables
are always occupied. I don't know, does a place like
that want to You got to line out the door,
and then you got people that the regulars. Now they're
mad because they show up and it's like, why do
you have to advertise? Now I can't even get in
here anymore.
Speaker 2 (06:49):
Well, that's why they started a new locations Antonio.
Speaker 1 (06:54):
Senor Antonio. Anyway, their refried beans are of the best,
and also they're man that it's just I don't know
from top to bottom everything on that.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Is you're getting a little sweat on your forehead right now,
just thinking about the place.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
Stop that so good man, they're fajetas if you.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
Can the sweat in this room. It's serious. No, it's cold,
yes it is, you know it's My coat is still on.
Speaker 1 (07:17):
What happened? Man? Elliott? Mike Elliott from Columbus Morning News.
He's the one who was in here last.
Speaker 2 (07:22):
Is he controlling the temperature in this room?
Speaker 1 (07:24):
Because it's I think so it's over there, it's I
swear man.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
I kept my jacket on and I went. I went
down the hall during the news break to the Palicial
men's facilities here at the iHeart google Plex. And and
there's a mirror on the wall, big mirror on the wall.
And why didn't you tell me what I looked like?
Speaker 1 (07:40):
What's wrong?
Speaker 2 (07:41):
You look like I should be teaching high school English?
Speaker 1 (07:43):
What is you do look that way today?
Speaker 2 (07:45):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
Hey, look that's a good thing. You look fantastic, You're nice.
Look at me. I look homeless, So look at you.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
You know, it's just I'm not used to that. Look,
I just all I was thinking today was warm. I
wasn't thinking about what it looked like or anything else.
And then I will I'm like, yeah, you could be
teaching class. No, you look good, well, thank you want
to buy me a drink? You look good? Not that good,
jans Margarita.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, yes, yes, Columbus City
Council going to vote on creating the Weed Fund, of
course collect marijuana tax revenue. Now you've made no bones
about the fact that you're like, not excited about the
in a wreck weed being legal. Nope, you are not
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excited about it.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Also not excited about the city finding a new way
to milk them another cow to bring in money. Look,
if you're going to do that, you your overriding Second
Amendment shall not be infringed by limiting what kind of
magazines I can have. Now, you want to find a
way to tax something that can't even have a damn
bank account because it's illegal at the federal level. So
if you're going to override the constitution, override federal marijuana
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law and allow these businesses to conduct business like businesses,
I'm not I don't use weed, don't like we don't
like the smell of it. But if you're going to
collect taxes from them, let them conduct business and have
a bank account and write checks like any other company.
I'm sorry, was that out loud?
Speaker 1 (09:10):
You are? You are spot on. Look you you take
a stance, whether you are pro weed or not pro
weed as far as recreational, your stance is one hundred
percent legit. And it doesn't really matter whether you like
weed or don't like weed. But you just nailed it.
It's like, how on a federal level is this only
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in America?
Speaker 2 (09:32):
Yep?
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Can something like this occur? How confusing from top to
bottom is it? When you go into let's say, how
many people have never purchased marijuana, especially from a business
a dispensary if you will. Maybe you did one of
those people that around our age, maybe they did back
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in high school or whatever, and they're like, you know
what I want to use it for, you know, chilling
out at night and helping me get some sleep or
whatever it is. I want to go check one of
these places out. So then they go in there and
they get the stuff. First off, their eyes are like
huge because they see how much it costs. Like so
it's pretty expensive. So then they go, wow, this is
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this is really expensive. And then they give them a
credit card and they go, yeah, no, you're not using
that to pay and they go what why and they go, well,
because we can't take credit card. We were not allowed
to do that. But we do have a cash machine
over there at ATM. Go ahead and get some cash out, which,
by the way, they hit you over the head again.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
There there is four bucks to get your own money
out of the bay, probably maybe more.
Speaker 1 (10:40):
It's probably like a casino where if you get money
out of your account in a casino, man, they really
hit you over the head. I've done that before. I'm
not done that at a dispensary. But I'm just saying
I don't know what it costs, but it's probably not cheap.
In other words, so you just now you're like, wham,
you see the price, You're like oh, and then you
go there, wam you get paid? And then you go
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why can't I can they go? And then you're going, well,
they don't have a bank, they can't put the money.
It is just a head scratcher, man. It's like, how
is this happening?
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Do they limit how much you can buy at dispensaries.
Do you know daily they do? There is a daily
buy an ounce? Oh yeah, no, oh you get that much?
Speaker 1 (11:21):
How much? Well, how much is it out?
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I see, I don't a big freezer bag.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
It's a lot, right. I'm not sure exactly what the
limit is, but I knew, I know it exists. I've
heard people talk about that, but I'm not sure exactly
what it is. But it does exist, and it's daily,
so it resets, so you you know, you can go
in every day and boom boom boom. But so why
do you ask?
Speaker 2 (11:45):
I'm just curious what an ounce of twenty twenty four
weed costs people now that it's all legal and legitimate
in so many places.
Speaker 1 (11:51):
Well, they have different strains. One of my really good
friends is I think I've told you this before. You know,
Cheech and Tromp, Yeah, each and Chong Okay, he's both
of them, this guy, And look, he makes no bones
about it. It's been part of his life for a
long time, and he is so knowledgeable in that stuff,
so he would he'd be able to whip that price
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out right now, you know, for you or whatever. But
I do know there are different strains, and so they
charged different. It's not just like, you know, here's the
weed and then they've got different you know, breath mints
or you know, purple mints is spelled m I n
t z, or they got purple purple, or they got
you know, different purple cush and they got different and
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all the different strains, so you have different strengths. So
it does, it does change.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
With I remember there was a George Carlin eight track
that I had was he said, yeah, back in my day,
we started smoking the weed man. We had we had
the Maui Wowie came out of Hawaii, he had the
we had the Colombian Gold. And then now he's playing
a gig in Ohio. Want some guy laid something on
me called Toledo window box. I'm like, Toledo window he
got grow it outside my apartment window. That's great commerce man,
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that's American commerce right there.
Speaker 1 (13:04):
Let me get that. What is it? Toledo window buet CWB.
You got some of that.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
Five dollars an ounce O, sax at it again. You
need some more water in that thing. Man.
Speaker 1 (13:17):
Zach's going crazy in the other room. I can't even
see him through the glass with all the smoke. It's crazy.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
You can't see through the glass either,