Forks Up For Good News

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
All right.

Speaker 2 (00:00):
So yesterday Chelsea and I went for her six week
follow up appointment after her having surgery for ovarian cancer
and things went great.

Speaker 1 (00:12):
It was awesome.

Speaker 3 (00:13):
I was so happy when I saw that you had
posted that.

Speaker 1 (00:15):
Yeah, it was good.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
We went in and she sat down and had a
conversation with It was a physician's assistant to the doctor
that did the surgery, and everything was good. She got
the okay to like start doing a little bit more,
which was nice because I think she's right now at
a point where she's about ready to kill me. She

(00:36):
wants to do like and it's not because anything I'm
doing I actually feel like I'm okay.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
It's just that she just wants to kill something.

Speaker 3 (00:42):
She well, she just wants to get out of the house.

Speaker 4 (00:44):
Yeah, she wants to be able to get a little
bit of her life back. She wanted to kill you
before the start, pretty much, honest. But we went I
went to Michigan Medicine. I love those guys.

Speaker 2 (00:53):
They do such a great job of making you feel,
you know, like you are in the best hands, and
I believe that you are when you go there. And
then after we got everything done, which is so funny
because she had to get like a like a pelvic exam,
which you women.

Speaker 1 (01:09):
Man, I gotta tell you how a lot of you.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
It was never fun.

Speaker 1 (01:12):
And she had to go to the bathroom too.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Like that was the other thing too, Like She's like,
I got to go to the bathroom, but I get
this exam.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
I don't know like I could. I was sitting there the.

Speaker 2 (01:19):
Whole time, having to go to the bathroom too, And
I'm thinking to myself, how do you go to the
bathroom and get this examination done without?

Speaker 3 (01:26):
And sometimes they want you to have a full bladder. Yeah,
like depending on what if she's having like an ultrasound
or you know whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:32):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
So after she got it done, got the good news,
she went to the bathroom impeede, and then I said
to her, I go, we're going out celebrating. So we
ended up going out to eat and getting a thirty
dollars sandwich at Zingerman's.

Speaker 3 (01:45):
Good.

Speaker 2 (01:45):
Can I be honest with you, man, those sandwiches are expensive,
Yeah they are.

Speaker 1 (01:51):
They're so good.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
Well, it's funny because I never get a chance to
really go to Zingerman's that much because I don't live
in you know, in and around ann Arber. It's like
a forty five minutes to an hour commute, but it
is so good and the place is so good, like
and they got like the the meat place there where
you can buy meats. But I always like to go
to like the dessert place. They got a dessert place

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that's there. It's really good. Do you guys? Are you
guys like our family? Whenever you get any kind of
news and it's good news, we all go eat.

Speaker 1 (02:22):
Like is that something that you do? You ever do
that in your family?

Speaker 2 (02:25):
Like, like it feels like whenever you have like a
good like when I used to get a good grade
at school or I have like a good report, we
always would go to the Sizzler buffet afterwards. And it
would always be that it was either the Sizzler Buffet
or what was the other No, no, not Old Country,
it was the other steak place Sizzler, And I don't

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know if it was, but we used to go to
the pond Rosa. That was always a good one.

Speaker 4 (02:56):
Yeah, I mean anytime to your point, I don't know
what it is is, but feasts are associated with celebrations. Yeah,
And whether it's graduating high school or getting a good
grade or whatever it is. When you celebrate. There's typically
food involve Yeah, I.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
Love it for me.

Speaker 3 (03:15):
Drinks like it's always like let's have a glass windage
you younger though, it was always ice cream, really ice cream.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Oh see full Annie, we're fat people. We don't we
don't go just we go for ice cream and we
go for yeah, like we like we always end up.
We always had the restaurants that were the restaurants like
for the kids they did good in school, it was
always either buy our house, was a place called the Lodge.
We would go to the Lodge for for nachos and
stuff like that, or Red Robin.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
That was always the thing.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
But when I was a kid, it was always you'd
go to like Shannon mentioned, Friendlies was kind of like
the place we had a Friendlies that we would go to.

Speaker 1 (03:58):
That or big Boy, you go to.

Speaker 3 (03:59):
Bob and you're still around.

Speaker 2 (04:03):
And the best was I always remember my dad would
let us get milkshakes and stuff and that was kind
of like our thing, like we would just go and
get like big old burgers and milkshakes.

Speaker 4 (04:13):
Just say, a new spot is Olive Garden. I'm like, dog,
I'm so tired. Oh my god. He gets like a
big thing so he gets like macaronia things, he get broccoli.

Speaker 3 (04:24):
The way they do their kids meals is so good
because they let them pick.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
You know, does he like does he like the bread sticks?
And well, he destroys the brainsticks.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
They're so good.

Speaker 2 (04:33):
He destroys the break somebody somebody was telling me in
the salad too. For some reason, I like in their salads,
just like iceberg lettuce with like Italian dressing on it.
But they're for some reason, their salads in that big
plastic bowl are always so good. But somebody told me
they limit your bread sticks.

Speaker 4 (04:49):
Now you just ask for more, really, and they do
you ever get a bad look at all?

Speaker 1 (04:55):
I mean, be nice, small and keep them coming, Yeah,
and then take the extras home with you.

Speaker 2 (05:00):
Absolutely, to me, it was one of those things like
yesterday we went to Chelsea.

Speaker 1 (05:04):
Never bring to Zingerman's. I've never heard of it until
you started.

Speaker 2 (05:07):
He's never been never been to Zingerman's at all. No,
So that was the first time she had ever been
in there. So I'm in there and I'm like, you know,
I'm one of those ones where I'm like a pro.
I walk right up and they got this screen and
we're ordering the thing I'm like, Chelsea gotta get it.
And she loves pastrami, so she so I'm like, Chelse,
you got to see this thing. And she's like, just
give me a small sandwich. I'm like, we're not. We
didn't have a small appointment today. We had a big

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appointment today. You're getting a big.

Speaker 1 (05:31):
Sandwich celebration for Chelsea or you. It was my celebration too.
What's going on?

Speaker 2 (05:38):
We got a weather update here, weather updates from listeners
in the area here that are in and around Comerica Park.

Speaker 1 (05:44):
What do you got, Jennifer.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
I am not near Coo America Park.

Speaker 5 (05:49):
I'm in Clarkston and Waterford and it's been pouring.

Speaker 1 (05:52):
It is okay, I'm.

Speaker 3 (05:57):
I'm prittish.

Speaker 1 (05:57):
Sure it's raining, bitches, tr raining and commerce too.

Speaker 2 (06:03):
It's okay, okay, So well, thank you. I appreciate that
it's coming. It's coming towards downtown Detroit. We haven't had
anything outside of our Eastern Market studios, but we're hoping
that if the rain continues throughout the day.

Speaker 1 (06:18):
They just pushed the game time back a little bit.
What's up? Jay? Hey? This is Jay, first time called it.
Hey Jay, what's going on? Jay?

Speaker 6 (06:29):
I just wanted to say, it's raining pretty good in.

Speaker 2 (06:31):
South Okay, all right, so it's coming. It's uh where
are you heading to from Southgate?

Speaker 1 (06:38):
I'm headed to link your Park. Very nice, not that
not that horrible of a drive. That's actually a good drive.
Go Tigers right now, Yeah, go Tigers and line. Hey,
quick question for you.

Speaker 2 (06:51):
Where was your place that your parents would take you
to go eat and celebrate?

Speaker 6 (06:58):
We would There was a place called Lands.

Speaker 1 (07:02):
Really what kind of food was? It was just a buffet.
I love it.

Speaker 2 (07:10):
Do you remember back in the day when Pizza Hut
had a buffet?

Speaker 3 (07:14):
Stopped playing with me?

Speaker 1 (07:15):
Do you remember that?

Speaker 4 (07:16):
Yes?

Speaker 2 (07:16):
I do, right seven Pizza Hut had a buffet and
it honestly was never good tasting food, but it was
a lot of food.

Speaker 3 (07:23):
You like the younger you are, was so good. And
there was no pop as good as pizza hot pop
in those red textured cups. You know what I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (07:33):
I know what you're talking about, the red those red
there like Doctor Pepper and one of those they had
a masta choli thing that was in there, and I
tasted like the masta choli had been in there forever.
You know what It was like, it was like, do
you ever go to the mall and go to the
sbarros and the mall? I loved that food is still
sitting there right now from when I.

Speaker 3 (07:55):
Was a kid, and the slices of pizza like a
big as your head.

Speaker 1 (07:58):
What's up, Dakota? How you doing? I'm good? How are
you guys this morning? Good? What's going on?

Speaker 2 (08:05):
I am in the Saint Clair Shorts area and there's
a light drizzle, but.

Speaker 1 (08:09):
The sky does not look pretty around this area. It's coming,
it's coming here. Hey, Dakota.

Speaker 2 (08:14):
Where was your your food celebratory place that you would
go to, like if you brought home an honor roll?

Speaker 1 (08:20):
Uh in school? Where did you guys go and celebrate?

Speaker 5 (08:24):
We didn't go anywhere to celebrate. I wanted steak.

Speaker 1 (08:28):
Mom made it all like what like a like a
farmer jack steak or what kind of steak? Whatever she
bought is what I was eating. It was.

Speaker 2 (08:38):
It was steak to you. Just give me a steak.
Fran had my favorite place? Fran, what's going on? Where
did you guys go celebrate?

Speaker 6 (08:45):
No?

Speaker 1 (08:45):
Mom, he's always taking a chete.

Speaker 6 (08:51):
Was coming back?

Speaker 3 (08:51):
I hope it does.

Speaker 6 (08:52):
I bereave about that place.

Speaker 2 (08:53):
Would you get fried ice cream?

Speaker 1 (08:57):
I just I'm not breating so much hipp and sauce.

Speaker 6 (08:59):
I couldn't move.

Speaker 2 (09:00):
The fried ice cream was so good at Chee Cheese.
I missed like a place with fried ice cream. What's up,
Ali High? It's Mojo in the morning.

Speaker 1 (09:08):
Good morning, everybody. Mojo.

Speaker 3 (09:12):
That's a Chicago thing.

Speaker 6 (09:14):
What like, just going out to celebrate literally everything, no
matter what happens in life.

Speaker 1 (09:21):
That's a Chicago thing. My family was lone Star, lone Star,
go to lunch by the way.

Speaker 2 (09:27):
I think it's an everything thing. Listen, I've been to
Detroit for you know, almost thirty years. I'm gonna tell
you something. I think we eat everywhere and we like food. Yeah,
it's an American thing. I think that's what we do.
We all feed our faces with things. Sarah, what's up, Sarah?

Speaker 4 (09:42):
Hi?

Speaker 2 (09:44):
Hi?

Speaker 1 (09:44):
What's going on?

Speaker 5 (09:47):
Did have a busy but they had chicken wig like.

Speaker 4 (09:52):
A fifty piece in the timfoil. Can't you do you remember, Sarah?

Speaker 1 (09:56):
Sarah?

Speaker 2 (09:57):
Do you remember at Ponderosa the they would have like
I don't even know what it was. Maybe it may
not have been real meat, but the stripes on top
of the steak were so perfectly square on every single.

Speaker 3 (10:10):
Pieces like a stamp. It was like stamped right on
top of the way they grilled it, the way the
girl was.

Speaker 5 (10:17):
I worked there.

Speaker 3 (10:18):
That's how I know.

Speaker 2 (10:19):
Somebody just text in and said, Mojo, it's all about
Bill Knaps.

Speaker 3 (10:24):
Okay. The chocolate cake Bill Naps was something to die for.

Speaker 1 (10:26):
That was the best.

Speaker 3 (10:27):
Do they I think you can still buy the chocolate
cake in grocery stores. So good, like Myers and Kroker.

Speaker 1 (10:33):
Kyle, what's up, Kyle? Not much, guys, We're good. What's
going on? Getting hungry? Yeah?

Speaker 6 (10:40):
Yeah. As a kid, my mommy's always take me on
half days.

Speaker 1 (10:43):
The pizza, oh that we were just talking about that.

Speaker 2 (10:47):
Do you remember the glasses that Shannon was reminiscing about
that you'd get popping?

Speaker 6 (10:53):
I do not know.

Speaker 2 (10:53):
There were the red plastic glasses and they they only
came in one size, so even if you were a kid,
you got to get a full, big, large pop.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
Oh yeah, it was great.

Speaker 3 (11:07):
Anybody who's around my age too probably remembers. Because you're
talking about pizza.

Speaker 1 (11:11):
Hut.

Speaker 3 (11:11):
They used to have this program to get you to
read called book It, and you had this like a
big pin and there were stars on the pin, and
once you read a book, your teacher could put a
star on the pin. And once you got all the
stars filled, you went to Pizza Hut. That was it,
and they gave you a personal pan piece pizza.

Speaker 1 (11:26):
That's right.

Speaker 3 (11:27):
And it was the best day off your life when
you got to go with that filled pin.

Speaker 1 (11:33):
Marie, where was your celebratory dinner?

Speaker 3 (11:37):
My mom didn't really.

Speaker 6 (11:38):
Give us a choice, but it was definitely Long John
Silvers for any birthday, any celebrace.

Speaker 3 (11:46):
Oh that was never had Long John Silvers.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Oh man, we got to please.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, not bad.

Speaker 5 (11:52):
The brand is very good.

Speaker 2 (11:54):
And they sell cheesecake Factory cheesecakes there do they?

Speaker 5 (11:56):
No way, that's good. How about Max and Rmas. You
guys remember the Sunday bathtub They're the best. Yeah, the
little bathtub that was there. You get you get to
have a Sunday at the end of it.

Speaker 1 (12:11):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (12:11):
I'm reminiscing a little bit with listeners right now on
text message. We're going back and forth on uh on
stuff and and celebrating food. It's funny. I got one here,
says calv My son is just like yours. Olive garden uh.
And then people would always talk about uh oh, they said,
El Charo in Fraser has the fried ice cream so good?

(12:33):
I've never uh, I've never been there before. Is it
worth me driving out there? Is there anything else good there?

Speaker 3 (12:37):
There's also one by my house.

Speaker 1 (12:38):
We should go sometimes, okay, love Old Country Buffet.

Speaker 2 (12:42):
My grandma would take us to the Old Country Buffet
or the Sweden House.

Speaker 1 (12:46):
Oh.

Speaker 3 (12:46):
The Sweden House was a down river staple. My dad
used to work there. Actually, did he really? Yeah, when
he was in high school.

Speaker 2 (12:51):
Yeah, there's nothing better. Farrell's ice cream. Somebody's on there
from Farrell's What's up?

Speaker 1 (12:55):
Just carries?

Speaker 6 (12:59):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (12:59):
Fer was the best. Which where would you where'd you live?
Where'd you grow up?

Speaker 6 (13:05):
I grew up in the mad Heights we call it
now twelve and Quiner area, And yeah, it was by
open Mall. And they would bring like the cake out
on this like stretcher and they would have like all
this music playing like it was a band, and they
would the whole restaurant would be involved if it was

(13:25):
someone's birthday. And then when you were leaving, they had
the candy room. I don't I don't know, I mean.

Speaker 1 (13:34):
Bring us back, please, this is what our life was like.

Speaker 3 (13:36):
That's so fun.

Speaker 1 (13:38):
Desserts on a stretcher.

Speaker 2 (13:41):
Hold On, do you remember this place, tiffany Where did
you guys go for your party?

Speaker 3 (13:47):
Don't even get me started. You guys know how much.

Speaker 2 (13:49):
I loved my brother Bill went from bus boy to
manager of a ben again.

Speaker 3 (13:59):
Little that green sign it was on the side of
the road got me so excited.

Speaker 4 (14:05):
I I will say it is no I knew it
was a good day when we went to McDonald's. An't
the drive through, but it was a better day when
my mom parked.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
That means we got in place. You guy, it's not
this sme.

Speaker 2 (14:18):
What happened A lot of well, now they have kiosks
and you know, stuff that you go to, like the
McDonald's by my house.

Speaker 1 (14:25):
There's like one person working there.

Speaker 3 (14:27):
And they used to be themed like there was a
fifties McDonald's. There was a rock and roll. They don't
do that anymore.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
Oh my god. Hold On seven three four says remember
Baker Square to.

Speaker 3 (14:39):
The friend silk Pie.

Speaker 1 (14:40):
I love the friend silk Pie French.

Speaker 3 (14:42):
By the way, there's the one on Eureka.

Speaker 2 (14:45):
That for something and this is you know, this is
why I'm fat, and this is why I've been fat
my whole life, because food meant this much to me.
Like the idea that this is where our family got together.
I can't remember the last time that I have like
said to the kid, let's go to you know, like
my kids were like, can we door dash?

Speaker 3 (15:04):
Can we instead.

Speaker 1 (15:07):
Door ash?

Speaker 2 (15:08):
They all wanted to have it either door dash, somebody
bring it to them. No, we're going to get the
Feral's ice cream cake on a stretcher.

Speaker 1 (15:18):
What was your place? The beef carver signing the beef
car Oh yeah.

Speaker 3 (15:22):
They still got those?

Speaker 1 (15:25):
Is it really?

Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah?

Speaker 1 (15:26):
Is that a legit one?

Speaker 3 (15:27):
Or is that just signs?

Speaker 1 (15:30):
Sign in an abandoned building?

Speaker 4 (15:31):
No?

Speaker 3 (15:31):
I see people there. I have tons of people there
all the time.

Speaker 1 (15:34):
Yeah, oh my god. These places shones? Remember?

Speaker 5 (15:39):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (15:40):
What is the other ones here? I'm trying to look
at some of these c C's Pizza. Some people are
Ruby Tuesday and a good salad bar. They did fod rockers.
Did y'all ever pull up the A W, A and
W had the floats.

Speaker 1 (15:54):
Was great and it's still around.

Speaker 2 (15:55):
But yeah, I took the Gordon Chevrolet people, Mike and
Mona and the entire staff. We went to they have
an a w right across from and we had them
make us root per floats. Spilled it all in the
near Hopefully that wasn't one you bought. Uh I guarantee
you though. They got it all nice and clean for you.
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