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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hey, Ali, Hey, I wanted to talk to John Jay
about his uh Texas roadhouse story. So, okay, I was
a roadie Texas roadhouse for two and a half years
while I was in nursing school, So I kind of
wanted to just talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What happened that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So yeah, So every Texas orderhouse and boy is called
a roadie. It's great. I love the company.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
They're super awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Shout out to the Gilbert location off Power in the
two O two. James is the owner there. He's great.
Lindsay's couple, his managers, they're awesome. If you ever want
to go to a good roadhouse, go to that one.
They're always busy. Always get on the waitlist. Every single
roadhouse will be like waitlist of like hour and a half,
two hours. Always get on the wait list if you
want to beat the Also, it's really weird because I've
(00:52):
been to other roadhouses too where they're like, oh, yeah,
you can go pick your steak, this, that and the
other thing too. You can do that at every single roadhouse.
Some of them have people who come in and cut
the steaks pre like before shift starts, especially like the
one I worked at, because we were such a high
volume roadhouse, but you still can pick your steak. I'm wondering, though,
(01:14):
what time you went in. Did you go in like
right when they opened, at like three or four, or
did you go in like late at night at like
eight or so, or did you tell them it was
your first time there? Because a lot of times if
you if you tell them it's your first time there,
or you go in when it's early enough, they will
like say, oh, hey, well you can come over here
and you can pick your own steak, and they will
they'll do all of that stuff because you don't necessarily
(01:36):
know that that stuff that you can do.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I went to the one in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It was eight o'clock at night, and I didn't say
it was my first time here, but I think I
looked it like I walked it like, oh now. The
one I went to the other day was the one
over in Scottsdale by the White Castle, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That was I was at that one, and that's.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The one where they didn't they didn't, and it was
I think I went there for like a late lunch,
so they were right. They had to be like one
or two or something like that, and I just got
right in. I mean I put my name on the list,
but there was nobody there.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, and it might have been because too you were
like from like you probably looked like you weren't from
there and you've never been, so maybe they were.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Kind of like, hmm, I was the only one. I
was the only one in Georgia not in Camo. I
also had sleeves on my shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You probably should have packed appropriately then and took a
pair of like water boots or something, or the picking
poles so they know you belonged.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So you know.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But yeah, so that's sometimes the thing. But even the servers,
like at the roadhouses, the servers don't necessarily always see you,
unless it's like in the beginning of the shift whenever
they're filling tables because they're helping the girls up front
seat the tables, and so a lot of times, like
the servers will ask you to like, hey, there's a
stake counter if you want to go check it out,
you know, that type of thing. But when it's during
(02:53):
like call of high volume, they literally are get you in,
get you sack, get you going because you're hungry waiting
so long.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It was great, server was great. Everything was great. The
food was amazing, the bread was amazing, the state was amazing.
The side and then I said, oh, I didn't see
the green beans in those server goes.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Let me bring you out a sample tray of sides.
That's the best.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Plata I love getting.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Potatoes were some of the best massed potatoes I ever had,
Like they were right up the ice clear bleako. Next
time Thanksgiving, we got to go somewhere with mas potatoes.
We come here and get the mac potatoes.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
And now now I'm craving Texas Roadhouse so good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Over the weekend, I went to the peppercorn sauce at all.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't know, I know, I tried a lot of
stuff to try.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The peppercorn sauce. Next time.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Sorry, no, no, you're totally good.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I want to try the peppercorn sauce too. I was
just gonna say how I went to this coffee bar
shop area this week in like central Phoenix, and I
got this espresso martini and the bartender made this like
whipped cream, but it literally tasted like the butter of
the for the bread at Texas Roadout. I literally was
it was so gross. It was like sticking my finger
in my martini.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And I'm like, get this this sauce.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It was like so good.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It was so good but literally.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Tasted like the butter.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, and you can you can always like get rolls
to go home to John Jay. Like my customers. Yes,
I'd be like, you have to take them to Blake.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Don't be mean, no, no, just they're too good. Like
I were, like, each role is two hundred and eighty
three calories. I had four of them.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
That's so real.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
When I wasn't called to give them some.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Our coach when I played D one, our coach wouldn't
let us get the bread when we were out a
very toxic environment over there. She wouldn't let us get
the Texas Roadhouse bread. So we would always ask the
server to in our to go boxes to sneak in
the bread and we would just eat them in.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The back of the bus. Just discovering this place. It's
like when you figured out the Amazon was a place
that delivered.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Like last year we went to Costco Greens.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Tj Ali said, I didn't know that they're individually owned.
I figured there was. It was like a corporate thing.
There's no way that you can individually own nor when.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I first started, we had one. We had one owner
and we like he retired, so he basically sold all
of his like stock share would do another.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh no, don't do that. That's not for you. You move.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, Honestly, if you did a Texas road King Creek,
you would do work Queen Creek.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Sit down there what we did buy at Texas Roadhouse.
I could just go eat there. That's going to be right.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Would love it if you bought a Texas roadhouse, John Jay,
that would make my life.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Ali, thank you so much for call.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It in you roady, no problem, right, Well what he
got for.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Three things we need know.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
The Pew Research Center asked a bunch of people around
the world about the best age to hit some big
milestones in life, and it made me think of you, Peyton,
because you're twenty six right now. And apparently all the
Americans in this on average people said the United States
put twenty six and a half is the best age
to get married.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Got to get after a woman broke You're twenty seven
in a few months.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Right, I'm basically twenty I was twenty six and a
half in February.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Just past twenty seven was apparently the best time to
come a parent twenty almost twenty nine was the best
time to buy a house, and sixty two was basically
the best year to retire.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
So the pressure is definitely not on after that, No,
because I think the best time to get married is
when you and your partner are actually ready.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's me personally. I don't think you're ever ready to
have kids. That just happens and you just got to deal.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
With it and then you adjust. Yeah, So apparently receding
hairlines are suddenly sexy. I've never seen white Lotus, but
apparently on white Lotus, there is a character named Walter
Goggins that fans are claiming he makes the receding hairline hot.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He's the actor.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
It is the phenomenon that even has a name. They're
calling it the Walter Goggins effect. So experts are so
funny because they're like, yeah, it's more about his riz.
It's more about his charisma, you know what I mean,
the way he carries.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Him talking about yeah he needs to let it go.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He look, he's one hell of an actor. Man. Oh yeah, everything.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
This is a woman who went viral because and I'm
wondering what you guys are doing in the situation. She's
a little torn of what to do her Her ex
boyfriend has asked her to reimburse over twenty five thousand
dollars because he contributed to household expenses in a home
she owned. Throughout their seven year relationship. He put money
towards her house. The woman said that when she first
(07:15):
started dating and he was in debt, she only charged
she paid less than eight hundred dollars a month towards
expenses and rent.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And she's like, that's basically it, So.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Why do I need to pay back anything? So I'm like,
he would have had to pay rent anywhere he went
and wouldn't get reimbursed from doing it to his landlord's house.
So I'm like, probably not going to work there, but
just bizarre.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
And I mean you're paying for things for the comfort
of your home as well as your girlfriend. Like, no,
that money's gone.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, don't be like that.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Don't be better.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Yes, sorry dude, just yeah, goodbye counter losses or whatever.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And that's three
Speaker 6 (07:47):
Things you need to know
Hey, Ali, Hey, I wanted to talk to John Jay
about his uh Texas roadhouse story. So, okay, I was
a roadie Texas roadhouse for two and a half years
while I was in nursing school, So I kind of
wanted to just talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
What happened that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
So yeah, So every Texas orderhouse and boy is called
a roadie. It's great. I love the company.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
They're super awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Shout out to the Gilbert location off Power in the
two O two. James is the owner there. He's great.
Lindsay's couple, his managers, they're awesome. If you ever want
to go to a good roadhouse, go to that one.
They're always busy. Always get on the waitlist. Every single
roadhouse will be like waitlist of like hour and a half,
two hours. Always get on the wait list if you
want to beat the Also, it's really weird because I've
(00:52):
been to other roadhouses too where they're like, oh, yeah,
you can go pick your steak, this, that and the
other thing too. You can do that at every single roadhouse.
Some of them have people who come in and cut
the steaks pre like before shift starts, especially like the
one I worked at, because we were such a high
volume roadhouse, but you still can pick your steak. I'm wondering, though,
(01:14):
what time you went in. Did you go in like
right when they opened, at like three or four, or
did you go in like late at night at like
eight or so, or did you tell them it was
your first time there? Because a lot of times if
you if you tell them it's your first time there,
or you go in when it's early enough, they will
like say, oh, hey, well you can come over here
and you can pick your own steak, and they will
they'll do all of that stuff because you don't necessarily
(01:36):
know that that stuff that you can do.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
I went to the one in Georgia.
Speaker 4 (01:41):
It was eight o'clock at night, and I didn't say
it was my first time here, but I think I
looked it like I walked it like, oh now. The
one I went to the other day was the one
over in Scottsdale by the White Castle, you know.
Speaker 2 (01:53):
That was I was at that one, and that's.
Speaker 4 (01:54):
The one where they didn't they didn't, and it was
I think I went there for like a late lunch,
so they were right. They had to be like one
or two or something like that, and I just got
right in. I mean I put my name on the list,
but there was nobody there.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
Yeah, and it might have been because too you were
like from like you probably looked like you weren't from
there and you've never been, so maybe they were.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Kind of like, hmm, I was the only one. I
was the only one in Georgia not in Camo. I
also had sleeves on my shirt.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
You probably should have packed appropriately then and took a
pair of like water boots or something, or the picking
poles so they know you belonged.
Speaker 1 (02:31):
So you know.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
But yeah, so that's sometimes the thing. But even the servers,
like at the roadhouses, the servers don't necessarily always see you,
unless it's like in the beginning of the shift whenever
they're filling tables because they're helping the girls up front
seat the tables, and so a lot of times, like
the servers will ask you to like, hey, there's a
stake counter if you want to go check it out,
you know, that type of thing. But when it's during
(02:53):
like call of high volume, they literally are get you in,
get you sack, get you going because you're hungry waiting
so long.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
It was great, server was great. Everything was great. The
food was amazing, the bread was amazing, the state was amazing.
The side and then I said, oh, I didn't see
the green beans in those server goes.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Let me bring you out a sample tray of sides.
That's the best.
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Plata I love getting.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Potatoes were some of the best massed potatoes I ever had,
Like they were right up the ice clear bleako. Next
time Thanksgiving, we got to go somewhere with mas potatoes.
We come here and get the mac potatoes.
Speaker 5 (03:24):
And now now I'm craving Texas Roadhouse so good.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Over the weekend, I went to the peppercorn sauce at all.
Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't know, I know, I tried a lot of
stuff to try.
Speaker 1 (03:34):
The peppercorn sauce. Next time.
Speaker 3 (03:35):
Sorry, no, no, you're totally good.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
I want to try the peppercorn sauce too. I was
just gonna say how I went to this coffee bar
shop area this week in like central Phoenix, and I
got this espresso martini and the bartender made this like
whipped cream, but it literally tasted like the butter of
the for the bread at Texas Roadout. I literally was
it was so gross. It was like sticking my finger
in my martini.
Speaker 2 (03:56):
And I'm like, get this this sauce.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
It was like so good.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It was so good but literally.
Speaker 2 (04:01):
Tasted like the butter.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, and you can you can always like get rolls
to go home to John Jay. Like my customers. Yes,
I'd be like, you have to take them to Blake.
Speaker 2 (04:10):
Don't be mean, no, no, just they're too good. Like
I were, like, each role is two hundred and eighty
three calories. I had four of them.
Speaker 5 (04:16):
That's so real.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
When I wasn't called to give them some.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Our coach when I played D one, our coach wouldn't
let us get the bread when we were out a
very toxic environment over there. She wouldn't let us get
the Texas Roadhouse bread. So we would always ask the
server to in our to go boxes to sneak in
the bread and we would just eat them in.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
The back of the bus. Just discovering this place. It's
like when you figured out the Amazon was a place
that delivered.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
Like last year we went to Costco Greens.
Speaker 2 (04:43):
Tj Ali said, I didn't know that they're individually owned.
I figured there was. It was like a corporate thing.
There's no way that you can individually own nor when.
Speaker 3 (04:51):
I first started, we had one. We had one owner
and we like he retired, so he basically sold all
of his like stock share would do another.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Oh no, don't do that. That's not for you. You move.
Speaker 3 (05:03):
Yeah, Honestly, if you did a Texas road King Creek,
you would do work Queen Creek.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Sit down there what we did buy at Texas Roadhouse.
I could just go eat there. That's going to be right.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Would love it if you bought a Texas roadhouse, John Jay,
that would make my life.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Ali, thank you so much for call.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
It in you roady, no problem, right, Well what he
got for.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
Three things we need know.
Speaker 6 (05:24):
The Pew Research Center asked a bunch of people around
the world about the best age to hit some big
milestones in life, and it made me think of you, Peyton,
because you're twenty six right now. And apparently all the
Americans in this on average people said the United States
put twenty six and a half is the best age
to get married.
Speaker 4 (05:43):
Got to get after a woman broke You're twenty seven
in a few months.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
Right, I'm basically twenty I was twenty six and a
half in February.
Speaker 6 (05:51):
Just past twenty seven was apparently the best time to
come a parent twenty almost twenty nine was the best
time to buy a house, and sixty two was basically
the best year to retire.
Speaker 5 (06:02):
So the pressure is definitely not on after that, No,
because I think the best time to get married is
when you and your partner are actually ready.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
That's me personally. I don't think you're ever ready to
have kids. That just happens and you just got to deal.
Speaker 6 (06:14):
With it and then you adjust. Yeah, So apparently receding
hairlines are suddenly sexy. I've never seen white Lotus, but
apparently on white Lotus, there is a character named Walter
Goggins that fans are claiming he makes the receding hairline hot.
Speaker 2 (06:28):
He's the actor.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
It is the phenomenon that even has a name. They're
calling it the Walter Goggins effect. So experts are so
funny because they're like, yeah, it's more about his riz.
It's more about his charisma, you know what I mean,
the way he carries.
Speaker 5 (06:42):
Him talking about yeah he needs to let it go.
Speaker 2 (06:47):
He look, he's one hell of an actor. Man. Oh yeah, everything.
Speaker 6 (06:52):
This is a woman who went viral because and I'm
wondering what you guys are doing in the situation. She's
a little torn of what to do her Her ex
boyfriend has asked her to reimburse over twenty five thousand
dollars because he contributed to household expenses in a home
she owned. Throughout their seven year relationship. He put money
towards her house. The woman said that when she first
(07:15):
started dating and he was in debt, she only charged
she paid less than eight hundred dollars a month towards
expenses and rent.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
And she's like, that's basically it, So.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Why do I need to pay back anything? So I'm like,
he would have had to pay rent anywhere he went
and wouldn't get reimbursed from doing it to his landlord's house.
So I'm like, probably not going to work there, but
just bizarre.
Speaker 5 (07:35):
And I mean you're paying for things for the comfort
of your home as well as your girlfriend. Like, no,
that money's gone.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Yeah, don't be like that.
Speaker 5 (07:42):
Don't be better.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Yes, sorry dude, just yeah, goodbye counter losses or whatever.
Speaker 5 (07:46):
And that's three
Speaker 6 (07:47):
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