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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Watch this, I'm gonna combine El Diablo and Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Okay, no, no, no. So I'm reading about this guy right,
and his.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Mom loves Mexican food, loves Mexican food, but is not
good with the language.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
So his mom's name is Debbie. He describes her as
a relatively sheltered woman in her sixties, rarely leaves like.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
She's not a big traveler. She's not worldly at all.
She's a pretty very simple, sweet little old lady.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The other thing you need to know about Debbie is
she's not a real adventurous eater. For example, like sometimes
ranch is a little spicy to her.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Ranch Ranch.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Okay, Yeah, she's no Brady bounds.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The So it's you know, she again, she's a very
simple lady. She's a very simple lady. But y'all tell
you what she loves, Mexican food. Loves Mexican food. M So,
the guy goes on to say, Debbie has a particular
fondness for Mexican food. A few times a month, the
(01:21):
two of them will go out to dinner, and ninety
percent of the time it's Mexican food. Now, things that
bothered the sun, Okay, she says tortilla to rhyme with
manila tortilla tortilla?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Do we know anybody that does that?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
But Christen does it on purpose. It sounds like his mother.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Does it is just thinking that's that's what I'm gonna
say it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
She pronounces chipotle to rhyme with bottle chapoto.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
A lot of people struggle with that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Lot of people will give you chipolte.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What is Kristen saying? Who does that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Your mom says Chipotle? Okay, I get chipolte? Where you
just flip the words very very mother in law centric
show for me today.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To Molly rhymes with pale to mail.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
But she just doesn't know.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
But is she not unwilling to listen to the correct
pronunciation At some point it's on her.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You can't just say I'm ignorant, Yeah, you're you not caring?
Is offensive anyway?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The sun finds it mortifying, and it's a feeling that's
been building for a while. It all came to a
head now they were out having uh last weekend. They
went out for dinner. Debbie tried to order her favorite
Molay sauce, which is kind of like a chocolatey sauce.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Us right, molay.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know how you spell MOLAYMLI did.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You hear christ?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What did she?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
How do you spell it?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
She couldn't think of the name, so she tried explaining
to the waiter what she meant. You know, it's a
small animal like a groundhog.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Kristen's dying in there, right.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But she couldn't think of mole. She went with, oh,
you know ferret sauce, mm hmm. He has now decided
he will no longer take his mother to a non
American restaurant unless she makes a genuine effort to pronounce
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things correctly. Yes, and he definitely will no longer take
her to a Mexican restaurant at all.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
But Mexicans are favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It is she has an extreme fondness for Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Because we had a discussion a while back about words
people mispronounce on purpose because they get a kick out
of it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Right, I really don't think she's doing on a purpose now.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I don't either. I just think that that's.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
She seems like a sweet older woman.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'll take a tortilla, yes, I will have Do you
have any Chipotle?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
But listen, you can make mistakes time and time again,
though it becomes disrespectful. I like, there's no such thing
as failing if you learn something from it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
You know that idea. So if you walk into a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That failed to learn, is learning to fail that.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Failing to plan whatever.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
But there are plenty of restaurants that have and I'm
not just saying Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, there's plenty of Italian restaurants where if you see
a word, you're like, oh.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Oh, exactly, pick the cuisine.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
There's a French, you can name any country, Elliott, there's
gonna be dishes, not American. I bet there's stuff on
American menus that people struggle with.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, Chipotle, But instead.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Of saying where, it's like not done to be rude,
but it becomes rude.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh so you you you actually you you think this
guy is right. I'm never gonna take my mom unless
she puts in a genuine effort.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
So few days before Mother's Day, I hate to see this,
this relationship fractured, but I get it, like I get's annoyed.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, the frustration overwhelming reaction. So what your mom's ignorant?
Get over it?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well you okay, maybe maybe in that of judging her.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You help her.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
He should her every time, he should order for her
every time.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, not a order for her, but no, but maybe
maybe When she says I'll have a tortilla, he says
out loud, Mom, you mean tortilla is tortilla?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Right? No, but do it in front of the waitress.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
When she says to mail mom, it's tomaly, do it
in front of her, right, embarrass her. When the pit
girls were right outside the door, somebody said, somebody said,
by the way, you're the ignorant one.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Okay, when the pick girls are outside the door, and
Kristen would always give them first shot at the food
and bring them in here. And some of those girls
have left the company or left the market. Some have
moved to other desks. Right, Casey and Haley, I've always.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh, Jen's just gone. She got fired. But well, she
was never a pit girl.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
She was she had no hair on her buttoles pit
pit boss, and he got her teddyway.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
But occasionally, if it was Mexican, Kristin would say it
her way.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Christen knows what she's doing, she knows it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
She's saying tortilla to be funny.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
She knows it's not gelopinos.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Right, But the first or second time she did it
with them, you could tell their reaction was like.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Oh my god, Christen's so dumb.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Because not everyone knows she's kidding. Now, you won't do
that if you're at a restaurant, you're not gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You don't do that. You don't say do.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Do you have gelopinos that you wouldn't do? You did
one time?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Were you drunk? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
How did you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Where am I going? Line one? I would be mortified.
I would be.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Listen if you're this guy with with your mom, do
we still.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Reference from time to time when somebody ordered the oh
have the sound mall samon stupid.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
From guy Chipolte drives me mad?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That is why do an honest question? Why do people
struggle with that so much? It's not spelled that way?
And listen, my mother in law is just as guilty.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
No, I told you.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I have to stop down and like think about it
every time I say.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It, right, my Chipotle, it's easy, right, yeah, but Diane's
gotta go.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
With chip yeah, pot.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
With Steve's strategies.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Oh ch sing it, sing it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Or like Marilyn Monroe, I'll have a bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And put some chipolte sauce on there. But that one
that triggers a lot of people. That does trigger a
lot of people.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Gabe, Right's coming from a Rodriguez, So that is the
last name there.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Listen, let her be.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
The only way you pronounce it right is if you
put the Hispanic accent.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
On, which sounds like I'm mocking.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
And I'd rather non Hispanics not make a fool of
themselves by putting the accent on.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
At no point to gay write my name in that message.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'll have the that would sound ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
What's like you men? You mentioned who was in the
studio at NBC this morning with.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
And she gave you that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh of course she did it gives yeah, yeah, because
I I can't. I can't say my name any other way.
It would be like every time I said my name,
I went with the Hebrew Eli.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
But it's just funny when she's sitting right next to
Julianna Valencia.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, who's also could be like that, I say my
name regularly.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Don't describe it that.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
She's proud of her rightfully so and rightfully so. Also
does she do some work over at Telemundo?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
They all do.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
They don't all do.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, what's the Elliott? Careful here? Who's the guy? Who's
the guys?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Definitely not Joseph Mauricio. Mauricio, he knows stuff at at channel.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't know what channel tells my TV doesn't get it.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
That's the one channel your body doesn't get So they
all don't.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Sounds like, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Where am I going?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Lying?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Two?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Elliott is this mean?
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
What can I do for you? So?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
First of all, Diane, great to have you. Back to
the other two, let's be honest. Let's be honest. So
my elderly mother, God bless her soul, we're at my
favorite Chinese restaurant nor in Virginia. I'm not going to
say the name, very well known restaurant, and she very
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loudly as relieving the restaurant. Now I go there off
and the people know me. You know this restaurant is good, Peter.
Because there's so many Chinese people here, I should have heard.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Okay, two things. Two things.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Number one common refrain. That is a common refrain. If
you see a lot of Chinese people eating out a
Chinese restaurant, you're like, score, absolutely absolutely so, like and
listen mind Elliott.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
At the end of her life, she had no volume control.
There was like the inner com.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All right, very good, very good, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yes, She'll writes BS.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Many restaurants have description pages with the pronunciations for what.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I have never seen wait for what? For the anything
you want to order?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Formali, I haven't seen that where maybe Michelle will write,
I have no, no, but is that like she goes
to one Mexican restaurant and they have the pronunciation?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
She said many.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
No, wrong, You've been to quite a few restaurants, yes,
and I for any cuisine, not just Mexican.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Are you ever seen that? Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh yeah, I've the only place that I've ever seen
it for and I'm being honest, it's French.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
And they had it for every item.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Well they didn't have it for escargo, but yeah, like
any kind of how would you pronounce a Christian?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Ask her guy?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, No, but like for for dishes and stuff, especially
like some of them you can't understand, like you don't
even know what you're eating. I've seen it in French restaurants,
but I've never seen it. I've never seen it in
a in a Mexican restaurant at.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
All, just had a lady order a chee chee manga
instead of a chimmy chonga. I laughed so hard inside.
It was so bad. But it was a little old
lady who probably didn't know.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
She doesn't know on purpose.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Do you think this nice old woman went with chee chee?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
No, we had a would laugh in the back.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But I'll tell you, I'm like, I'm afraid to order
chicken dishes if it doesn't say chicken, because I know that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
No, I know what I say sound like saying.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's not what it sounds like. And I know it's
not polo. But when I say it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Po yo, like I'm ordering a poe boy poyo. But
I can't. I know, I don't say it right, is
he cajun?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So I will say, like, if it's like poo enchiladas,
I'll just say I'll have the chicken enchilada because I'm
but the gabe would say better that than.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Burrio burrio Candace rights. I have a relative who always
says enchilado drives This is still Candace drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Line four, Hi Elliot in the morning, Hello, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
This is Amy? Hi guys.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh, thank you Amy.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
I've been listening for years.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
When I had to call in on this one, I
went out of chick real quick. I went out with
my son one time and I ordered the Oswego chicken,
which is the ostiago, but no, did not, and his
eyes were like whatever. But the second time we went
to a Greek restaurant and I ordered the sankipedia was
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the I don't even.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Know how to say it.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
Yeah, And they were laughing it was. He had a
girlfriend with her and they were laughing at me so
hard that I was embarrassed. When we left there, we
ran in like a shopping center and we went to
the store across the way, and because he embarrassed me
so bad, I jumped on one of those little mobility cards.
We started riding around the store.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
And saying, well.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Second, but I do crap like that all the time.
Into my family. We love to jungle on each other
about it.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
A good deal, good deal, I appreciate it, Thank you man,
thank you line. Yes, go ahead, you got the phone
hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Nice.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Sometimes have you got a little bit of an accent?
Is that's just to do the old point at the menu,
not even drop.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh yeah, you know what been there, been there before? Absolutely, Hey,
how is this dish? This one looks good. No description,
it's just the name. But yeah, no, that's a biggie anyway, Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Go ahead, tok okay, work through this one.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
There are three parts before you get to the payoff,
extremely enunciated with an accent and a finger motion. Whenever
we go to haibachi, my mom will ask the waiter
for chopsticks? How is she asking for those chopsticks?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Chopsticks? And she's like like cutting with her finger.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
That's the accent part.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I don't know, Like I don't even know, like chops for.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I'm sorry, you know it's good. There's so many Chinese.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Here, the DM nine out of ten times the waiters America.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But I don't know, like if you, like, if you
told me, it was like like like like thank you
like that and deliberate, But what are you saying for
chops over sticks?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But chopsticks is like that's that's English? What is what?
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What she what is she saying?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Top deck?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Like I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I knew.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Where am I going? Kristen Line eight, Hi Ellie in.
Speaker 10 (17:48):
The morning, Hey, Elliott. One time, one of the one
of the younger my friends us to take us the
Chinese food after church every Sunday, and my mom asked
a question about something on the menu, and and the
woman was clearly a Chinese immigrants, repeated a few things
back to her, and my mom looked at her stone
face and said, Okay, I will have the beef with vegetables.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I get it, though, you know, you know what I mean.
She's just repeating back when she was told.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
We never repeated our business there. My mom would again,
by the.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Way, you take your mom to a Thai restaurant and
struggle with that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That's rough. Thai food. Ty food's rough, thank you, sir.
Ti food can be rough.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
That's why I always get pat time. Yeah, do you think?
And this listener is trying to be a smart ass
about chopsticks. They mentioned you and door dash and how
it's become very easy for you to not have to
say anything, but have the apps actually dumb people down
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when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh so because you don't have to order anything?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah yeah, a single person, even if you were calling
in an order, at least you had to interface. Have
we seen it get worse because of the technology.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I mean, I don't know, but it definitely hasn't helped m.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Well you personally, do you think that you've gotten worse?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
No, so you're just the same.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah. Now, I will say this.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Sometimes, if you call a non American food restaurant and
you have to order because they're not online, and you
do have to place an order.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That could be rough, that could be rough best. That's
what Rodriguez said.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
No, yes, no, say no.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He said, try your best, Like if it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Comes out tortilla, it comes out tortilla, but don't go oh.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
He said, let them be. Yeah, he didn't say try.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
He was like, go ahead, and you're better off saying
geloppino than oh haalepeno.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
What was what was the dish here? Wait?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
It just came up because Diane said she's never had it.
But how is it pronounced?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Oh that's right, Claire.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It was like, I'm just gonna drop the last syllable
that do you remember?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Where that was?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I do Baltaggio Brothers And it was what were we doing?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It was we we hosted a dinner before with before
was it gaff again? Was that Aerosmith?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I don't know It was one of the dinners we
hosted there before. We took a bunch of winners to
a show and we were ordering a bunch of stuff,
and Clear goes, oh, I'll let's get.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
An order of calamuve.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
What.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I don't even know what that is? What I remember?
I had to go ask Vaughan what is calammu?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Probably means calamaro.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That was horrible. I don't even know how you get there?
Oh the move? Who are you?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Is? She talking like a soprano?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
She's from upstate New York. She's from Rochester.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
No, but what's her family?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Though?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I'm sorry, did you have a guest Chris? You blurted
something out.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Immediately but then made a face.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Did you second guess yourself?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
She's not Spanish? She speaks Spanish? Yeah, so do I
the Dorothy Claire wasn't Spanish.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Mark writes where I live, the people are so country.
The local Mexican restaurant just putting numbers on everything.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'll have coutourse line seven. Hi, Elliot in the morning,
gotta moo.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'll never forget this. This is thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I'm at a ski school with a bunch of Mexican.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Kids, and I ordered the quassadilla, and I just they
thought I was the biggest idiot in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Anytime I see a case of Diana Menu, I'll never
forget I'm thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was seven years old at the time.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Right, Well, you may as well be Kristen all right,
very good, very good.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Thank you. Knows what she's doing.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
They won't do it out in public except for that
one time, and she'd been drinking
Watch this, I'm gonna combine El Diablo and Mother's Day.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
Okay, no, no, no. So I'm reading about this guy right,
and his.
Speaker 3 (00:11):
Mom loves Mexican food, loves Mexican food, but is not
good with the language.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
So his mom's name is Debbie. He describes her as
a relatively sheltered woman in her sixties, rarely leaves like.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
She's not a big traveler. She's not worldly at all.
She's a pretty very simple, sweet little old lady.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
The other thing you need to know about Debbie is
she's not a real adventurous eater. For example, like sometimes
ranch is a little spicy to her.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Ranch Ranch.
Speaker 5 (00:56):
Okay, Yeah, she's no Brady bounds.
Speaker 1 (00:58):
The So it's you know, she again, she's a very
simple lady. She's a very simple lady. But y'all tell
you what she loves, Mexican food. Loves Mexican food. M So,
the guy goes on to say, Debbie has a particular
fondness for Mexican food. A few times a month, the
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two of them will go out to dinner, and ninety
percent of the time it's Mexican food. Now, things that
bothered the sun, Okay, she says tortilla to rhyme with
manila tortilla tortilla?
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Do we know anybody that does that?
Speaker 5 (01:41):
But Christen does it on purpose. It sounds like his mother.
Speaker 6 (01:45):
Does it is just thinking that's that's what I'm gonna
say it.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Right.
Speaker 1 (01:52):
She pronounces chipotle to rhyme with bottle chapoto.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
A lot of people struggle with that.
Speaker 2 (02:00):
Lot of people will give you chipolte.
Speaker 5 (02:01):
What is Kristen saying? Who does that?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Your mom says Chipotle? Okay, I get chipolte? Where you
just flip the words very very mother in law centric
show for me today.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
To Molly rhymes with pale to mail.
Speaker 5 (02:26):
But she just doesn't know.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
But is she not unwilling to listen to the correct
pronunciation At some point it's on her.
Speaker 5 (02:34):
You can't just say I'm ignorant, Yeah, you're you not caring?
Is offensive anyway?
Speaker 1 (02:39):
The sun finds it mortifying, and it's a feeling that's
been building for a while. It all came to a
head now they were out having uh last weekend. They
went out for dinner. Debbie tried to order her favorite
Molay sauce, which is kind of like a chocolatey sauce.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
Us right, molay.
Speaker 1 (03:03):
You know how you spell MOLAYMLI did.
Speaker 5 (03:07):
You hear christ?
Speaker 2 (03:08):
What did she?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
How do you spell it?
Speaker 1 (03:15):
She couldn't think of the name, so she tried explaining
to the waiter what she meant. You know, it's a
small animal like a groundhog.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
But I don't remember.
Speaker 5 (03:27):
Kristen's dying in there, right.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
But she couldn't think of mole. She went with, oh,
you know ferret sauce, mm hmm. He has now decided
he will no longer take his mother to a non
American restaurant unless she makes a genuine effort to pronounce
(03:54):
things correctly. Yes, and he definitely will no longer take
her to a Mexican restaurant at all.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
But Mexicans are favorite.
Speaker 1 (04:06):
It is she has an extreme fondness for Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 6 (04:11):
Because we had a discussion a while back about words
people mispronounce on purpose because they get a kick out
of it.
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Right, I really don't think she's doing on a purpose now.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
I don't either. I just think that that's.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
She seems like a sweet older woman.
Speaker 1 (04:23):
I'll take a tortilla, yes, I will have Do you
have any Chipotle?
Speaker 6 (04:33):
But listen, you can make mistakes time and time again,
though it becomes disrespectful. I like, there's no such thing
as failing if you learn something from it.
Speaker 5 (04:46):
You know that idea. So if you walk into a restaurant.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
That failed to learn, is learning to fail that.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Failing to plan whatever.
Speaker 6 (04:57):
But there are plenty of restaurants that have and I'm
not just saying Mexican restaurants.
Speaker 1 (05:01):
No, there's plenty of Italian restaurants where if you see
a word, you're like, oh.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Oh, exactly, pick the cuisine.
Speaker 6 (05:08):
There's a French, you can name any country, Elliott, there's
gonna be dishes, not American. I bet there's stuff on
American menus that people struggle with.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Yeah, Chipotle, But instead.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Of saying where, it's like not done to be rude,
but it becomes rude.
Speaker 1 (05:31):
Oh so you you you actually you you think this
guy is right. I'm never gonna take my mom unless
she puts in a genuine effort.
Speaker 6 (05:38):
So few days before Mother's Day, I hate to see this,
this relationship fractured, but I get it, like I get's annoyed.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
Yeah, the frustration overwhelming reaction. So what your mom's ignorant?
Get over it?
Speaker 1 (05:56):
Well you okay, maybe maybe in that of judging her.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You help her.
Speaker 7 (06:04):
He should her every time, he should order for her
every time.
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Well, not a order for her, but no, but maybe
maybe When she says I'll have a tortilla, he says
out loud, Mom, you mean tortilla is tortilla?
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Right? No, but do it in front of the waitress.
Speaker 1 (06:25):
When she says to mail mom, it's tomaly, do it
in front of her, right, embarrass her. When the pit
girls were right outside the door, somebody said, somebody said,
by the way, you're the ignorant one.
Speaker 6 (06:42):
Okay, when the pick girls are outside the door, and
Kristen would always give them first shot at the food
and bring them in here. And some of those girls
have left the company or left the market. Some have
moved to other desks. Right, Casey and Haley, I've always.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
Oh, Jen's just gone. She got fired. But well, she
was never a pit girl.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
She was she had no hair on her buttoles pit
pit boss, and he got her teddyway.
Speaker 6 (07:15):
But occasionally, if it was Mexican, Kristin would say it
her way.
Speaker 5 (07:21):
Christen knows what she's doing, she knows it.
Speaker 2 (07:23):
She's saying tortilla to be funny.
Speaker 5 (07:24):
She knows it's not gelopinos.
Speaker 6 (07:26):
Right, But the first or second time she did it
with them, you could tell their reaction was like.
Speaker 5 (07:32):
Oh my god, Christen's so dumb.
Speaker 6 (07:37):
Because not everyone knows she's kidding. Now, you won't do
that if you're at a restaurant, you're not gonna.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
You don't do that. You don't say do.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
Excuse me?
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Do you have gelopinos that you wouldn't do? You did
one time?
Speaker 2 (07:52):
Were you drunk? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (07:56):
How did you know that?
Speaker 2 (08:01):
Where am I going? Line one? I would be mortified.
I would be.
Speaker 7 (08:05):
Listen if you're this guy with with your mom, do
we still.
Speaker 1 (08:09):
Reference from time to time when somebody ordered the oh
have the sound mall samon stupid.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
From guy Chipolte drives me mad?
Speaker 1 (08:24):
That is why do an honest question? Why do people
struggle with that so much? It's not spelled that way?
And listen, my mother in law is just as guilty.
Speaker 6 (08:32):
No, I told you.
Speaker 7 (08:32):
I have to stop down and like think about it
every time I say.
Speaker 1 (08:35):
It, right, my Chipotle, it's easy, right, yeah, but Diane's
gotta go.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
With chip yeah, pot.
Speaker 5 (08:45):
With Steve's strategies.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Oh ch sing it, sing it.
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Or like Marilyn Monroe, I'll have a bowl.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
And put some chipolte sauce on there. But that one
that triggers a lot of people. That does trigger a
lot of people.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Gabe, Right's coming from a Rodriguez, So that is the
last name there.
Speaker 5 (09:20):
Listen, let her be.
Speaker 6 (09:23):
The only way you pronounce it right is if you
put the Hispanic accent.
Speaker 2 (09:27):
On, which sounds like I'm mocking.
Speaker 6 (09:30):
And I'd rather non Hispanics not make a fool of
themselves by putting the accent on.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
At no point to gay write my name in that message.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
I'll have the that would sound ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (09:45):
What's like you men? You mentioned who was in the
studio at NBC this morning with.
Speaker 5 (09:56):
And she gave you that.
Speaker 1 (09:57):
Oh of course she did it gives yeah, yeah, because
I I can't. I can't say my name any other way.
It would be like every time I said my name,
I went with the Hebrew Eli.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
But it's just funny when she's sitting right next to
Julianna Valencia.
Speaker 2 (10:13):
Yeah, who's also could be like that, I say my
name regularly.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
Don't describe it that.
Speaker 6 (10:24):
She's proud of her rightfully so and rightfully so. Also
does she do some work over at Telemundo?
Speaker 2 (10:35):
They all do.
Speaker 5 (10:36):
They don't all do.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
No, what's the Elliott? Careful here? Who's the guy? Who's
the guys?
Speaker 1 (10:46):
Definitely not Joseph Mauricio. Mauricio, he knows stuff at at channel.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
I don't know what channel tells my TV doesn't get it.
Speaker 6 (10:57):
That's the one channel your body doesn't get So they
all don't.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Sounds like, all right.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Where am I going?
Speaker 4 (11:09):
Lying?
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Two?
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Hi Elliott in the morning.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Elliott is this mean?
Speaker 9 (11:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 1 (11:15):
Hi?
Speaker 2 (11:15):
What can I do for you? So?
Speaker 8 (11:19):
First of all, Diane, great to have you. Back to
the other two, let's be honest. Let's be honest. So
my elderly mother, God bless her soul, we're at my
favorite Chinese restaurant nor in Virginia. I'm not going to
say the name, very well known restaurant, and she very
(11:39):
loudly as relieving the restaurant. Now I go there off
and the people know me. You know this restaurant is good, Peter.
Because there's so many Chinese people here, I should have heard.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Okay, two things. Two things.
Speaker 1 (11:58):
Number one common refrain. That is a common refrain. If
you see a lot of Chinese people eating out a
Chinese restaurant, you're like, score, absolutely absolutely so, like and
listen mind Elliott.
Speaker 8 (12:14):
At the end of her life, she had no volume control.
There was like the inner com.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
All right, very good, very good, thank you.
Speaker 5 (12:26):
Yes, She'll writes BS.
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Many restaurants have description pages with the pronunciations for what.
Speaker 5 (12:32):
I have never seen wait for what? For the anything
you want to order?
Speaker 7 (12:36):
Formali, I haven't seen that where maybe Michelle will write,
I have no, no, but is that like she goes
to one Mexican restaurant and they have the pronunciation?
Speaker 5 (12:47):
She said many.
Speaker 6 (12:48):
No, wrong, You've been to quite a few restaurants, yes,
and I for any cuisine, not just Mexican.
Speaker 5 (12:56):
Are you ever seen that? Yes?
Speaker 1 (12:57):
Oh yeah, I've the only place that I've ever seen
it for and I'm being honest, it's French.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
And they had it for every item.
Speaker 6 (13:06):
Well they didn't have it for escargo, but yeah, like
any kind of how would you pronounce a Christian?
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Ask her guy?
Speaker 1 (13:15):
No, No, but like for for dishes and stuff, especially
like some of them you can't understand, like you don't
even know what you're eating. I've seen it in French restaurants,
but I've never seen it. I've never seen it in
a in a Mexican restaurant at.
Speaker 6 (13:29):
All, just had a lady order a chee chee manga
instead of a chimmy chonga. I laughed so hard inside.
It was so bad. But it was a little old
lady who probably didn't know.
Speaker 1 (13:42):
She doesn't know on purpose.
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Do you think this nice old woman went with chee chee?
Speaker 5 (13:48):
No, we had a would laugh in the back.
Speaker 1 (13:51):
But I'll tell you, I'm like, I'm afraid to order
chicken dishes if it doesn't say chicken, because I know that.
Speaker 2 (13:58):
No, I know what I say sound like saying.
Speaker 1 (14:02):
That's not what it sounds like. And I know it's
not polo. But when I say it.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
Po yo, like I'm ordering a poe boy poyo. But
I can't. I know, I don't say it right, is
he cajun?
Speaker 1 (14:18):
So I will say, like, if it's like poo enchiladas,
I'll just say I'll have the chicken enchilada because I'm
but the gabe would say better that than.
Speaker 6 (14:27):
Burrio burrio Candace rights. I have a relative who always
says enchilado drives This is still Candace drives me nuts.
Speaker 1 (14:45):
Line four, Hi Elliot in the morning, Hello, Yeah, Hi,
who's this?
Speaker 9 (14:52):
This is Amy? Hi guys.
Speaker 8 (14:53):
I love you guys.
Speaker 2 (14:54):
Oh, thank you Amy.
Speaker 8 (14:56):
I've been listening for years.
Speaker 9 (14:57):
When I had to call in on this one, I
went out of chick real quick. I went out with
my son one time and I ordered the Oswego chicken,
which is the ostiago, but no, did not, and his
eyes were like whatever. But the second time we went
to a Greek restaurant and I ordered the sankipedia was
(15:22):
the I don't even.
Speaker 8 (15:23):
Know how to say it.
Speaker 9 (15:25):
Yeah, And they were laughing it was. He had a
girlfriend with her and they were laughing at me so
hard that I was embarrassed. When we left there, we
ran in like a shopping center and we went to
the store across the way, and because he embarrassed me
so bad, I jumped on one of those little mobility cards.
We started riding around the store.
Speaker 8 (15:42):
And saying, well.
Speaker 9 (15:46):
Second, but I do crap like that all the time.
Into my family. We love to jungle on each other
about it.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
A good deal, good deal, I appreciate it, Thank you man,
thank you line. Yes, go ahead, you got the phone
hi Ellie in the morning.
Speaker 9 (16:04):
Nice.
Speaker 8 (16:04):
Sometimes have you got a little bit of an accent?
Is that's just to do the old point at the menu,
not even drop.
Speaker 1 (16:09):
Oh yeah, you know what been there, been there before? Absolutely, Hey,
how is this dish? This one looks good. No description,
it's just the name. But yeah, no, that's a biggie anyway, Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:22):
Go ahead, tok okay, work through this one.
Speaker 6 (16:23):
There are three parts before you get to the payoff,
extremely enunciated with an accent and a finger motion. Whenever
we go to haibachi, my mom will ask the waiter
for chopsticks? How is she asking for those chopsticks?
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Chopsticks? And she's like like cutting with her finger.
Speaker 5 (16:50):
That's the accent part.
Speaker 1 (16:53):
I don't know, Like I don't even know, like chops for.
Speaker 2 (17:02):
I'm sorry, you know it's good. There's so many Chinese.
Speaker 6 (17:08):
Here, the DM nine out of ten times the waiters America.
Speaker 1 (17:14):
But I don't know, like if you, like, if you
told me, it was like like like like thank you
like that and deliberate, But what are you saying for
chops over sticks?
Speaker 2 (17:25):
But chopsticks is like that's that's English? What is what?
Speaker 9 (17:29):
Like?
Speaker 2 (17:29):
What she what is she saying?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Top deck?
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Like I don't understand.
Speaker 5 (17:38):
I knew.
Speaker 2 (17:44):
Where am I going? Kristen Line eight, Hi Ellie in.
Speaker 10 (17:48):
The morning, Hey, Elliott. One time, one of the one
of the younger my friends us to take us the
Chinese food after church every Sunday, and my mom asked
a question about something on the menu, and and the
woman was clearly a Chinese immigrants, repeated a few things
back to her, and my mom looked at her stone
face and said, Okay, I will have the beef with vegetables.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
I get it, though, you know, you know what I mean.
She's just repeating back when she was told.
Speaker 9 (18:23):
We never repeated our business there. My mom would again,
by the.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
Way, you take your mom to a Thai restaurant and
struggle with that.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
That's rough. Thai food. Ty food's rough, thank you, sir.
Ti food can be rough.
Speaker 6 (18:39):
That's why I always get pat time. Yeah, do you think?
And this listener is trying to be a smart ass
about chopsticks. They mentioned you and door dash and how
it's become very easy for you to not have to
say anything, but have the apps actually dumb people down
(19:00):
when it comes to.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Oh so because you don't have to order anything?
Speaker 6 (19:03):
Yeah yeah, a single person, even if you were calling
in an order, at least you had to interface. Have
we seen it get worse because of the technology.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
I mean, I don't know, but it definitely hasn't helped m.
Speaker 5 (19:21):
Well you personally, do you think that you've gotten worse?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
No?
Speaker 5 (19:26):
No, so you're just the same.
Speaker 2 (19:28):
Yeah. Now, I will say this.
Speaker 1 (19:32):
Sometimes, if you call a non American food restaurant and
you have to order because they're not online, and you
do have to place an order.
Speaker 2 (19:41):
That could be rough, that could be rough best. That's
what Rodriguez said.
Speaker 5 (19:49):
No, yes, no, say no.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
He said, try your best, Like if it.
Speaker 1 (19:54):
Comes out tortilla, it comes out tortilla, but don't go oh.
Speaker 5 (20:00):
He said, let them be. Yeah, he didn't say try.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Oh that's right.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
He was like, go ahead, and you're better off saying
geloppino than oh haalepeno.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
What was what was the dish here? Wait?
Speaker 6 (20:18):
It just came up because Diane said she's never had it.
But how is it pronounced?
Speaker 5 (20:24):
Oh that's right, Claire.
Speaker 7 (20:30):
It was like, I'm just gonna drop the last syllable
that do you remember?
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Where that was?
Speaker 1 (20:36):
I do Baltaggio Brothers And it was what were we doing?
Speaker 2 (20:40):
It was we we hosted a dinner before with before
was it gaff again? Was that Aerosmith?
Speaker 1 (20:46):
I don't know It was one of the dinners we
hosted there before. We took a bunch of winners to
a show and we were ordering a bunch of stuff,
and Clear goes, oh, I'll let's get.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
An order of calamuve.
Speaker 6 (20:57):
What.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
I don't even know what that is? What I remember?
I had to go ask Vaughan what is calammu?
Speaker 5 (21:03):
Probably means calamaro.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
That was horrible. I don't even know how you get there?
Oh the move? Who are you?
Speaker 5 (21:12):
Is? She talking like a soprano?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
She's from upstate New York. She's from Rochester.
Speaker 5 (21:17):
No, but what's her family?
Speaker 6 (21:18):
Though?
Speaker 5 (21:20):
I'm sorry, did you have a guest Chris? You blurted
something out.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
Immediately but then made a face.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
Did you second guess yourself?
Speaker 2 (21:28):
She's not Spanish? She speaks Spanish? Yeah, so do I
the Dorothy Claire wasn't Spanish.
Speaker 6 (21:39):
Mark writes where I live, the people are so country.
The local Mexican restaurant just putting numbers on everything.
Speaker 1 (21:50):
I'll have coutourse line seven. Hi, Elliot in the morning,
gotta moo.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
I'll never forget this. This is thirty years ago.
Speaker 5 (21:58):
I'm at a ski school with a bunch of Mexican.
Speaker 6 (22:00):
Kids, and I ordered the quassadilla, and I just they
thought I was the biggest idiot in the world.
Speaker 1 (22:10):
Anytime I see a case of Diana Menu, I'll never
forget I'm thirty seven.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
I was seven years old at the time.
Speaker 9 (22:15):
I'll never forget it.
Speaker 2 (22:16):
Right, Well, you may as well be Kristen all right,
very good, very good.
Speaker 5 (22:19):
Thank you. Knows what she's doing.
Speaker 6 (22:21):
They won't do it out in public except for that
one time, and she'd been drinking
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