Cracker Barrel Logo Uproar

Brawl on a Carnival cruise; Cracker Barrel’s new logo controversy; Transgender episode of Family Feud and more merriment than I can possibly handle

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Greetings and welcome to the broadcast, and hopefully this episode
will be a lot more understandable than the last two episodes.
For some reason, there was a strange technical snafoo in
which when we recorded those two episodes, they sounded fine initially,

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but when they were put out on the platforms, it
is difficult to understand what I'm saying. It sounds low
and volume and kind of muffled, almost as if I'm
speaking from a barrel at the bottom of a tunnel somewhere,
which is usually how I feel most days anyways. But again,
hopefully this going forward, the technical problems, whatever they were,

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we have solved and things will sound a lot better.
As far as the audio quality, I can't say much
about my talents, but you know whatever, enough of that rambling.
Let me move on. Let us go out to sea
where recently on a Carnival cruise ship there was quite

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a melee that had erupted among some of the passengers
in one of the dining areas. It is said that
the fracass had occurred because of some sort of dispute
over chicken tenders. The subsequent brawl got out of hand
relatively quickly, and it was difficult for even the security

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officers of the ship to get things back under control.
This had all taken place aboard the Carnival Sunshine around
two am I believe it was last Monday. Eventually order
was returned to the chaos such as it was. But

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this is a type of story that really both irks
me and makes me laugh, because if the story is
correct and this brawl started over chicken tenders, it's like, really,
you gotta be kidning. You're all gonna act like a
bunch of deranged gorillas and heat over chicken tenders and
start a fight. Oh my God. And the entire time

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I'm reading this article about this situation, the theme song
from The Love Boat kept going through my head. Now Here,
here's my take on this. If I were the captain
of that vessel, what I would do is I would
take the people directly involved with this brawl. I would

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give them all life jackets, and I would throw them overboard. Yep.
I would chuck them right over the rail from the
top deck, right out into the ocean. And then I
would take a fifty five gallon drum of chicken tenders
and dump out in the water with them. Because you know,
what if if you can't manage to behave on board
my ship, then guess what, You're getting tossed off the

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ship literally goodbye. Hope you enjoy your swim back home,
because that's how you're getting there. You're not going on
board this ship. So allow me to further analyze the
dichotomy of this crack of shit that we had here
in that it would seem like today most anybody can

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book a cruise, and this is how you're getting riff
raft like this who start fights because they're on board
these ships. There was a time years ago where going
on a cruise was a very expensive proposition and only
a very few people could actually afford to do it.
In fact, the average age of most people on cruises

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was relatively up there in years. In fact, to mention
the aforementioned love boat, the actual ship, the Pacific Princess,
was much different in real life than it was on
that TV show. On a TV shows a bunch of
young people getting romantic, getting laid, having a good time.

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In reality, most of the people who say at that
time on like Princess cruises were average age forty to
fifty because they're the only ones who would really afford
to go on a cruise, and there was distinction in class.
There wasn't a lot of scumbag riff raff on board
to start trouble. In fact, the Princess cruises used to

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I don't know if they still do or not, but
you used to have a policy where if you were
in the dining room for dinner, if you were a guy,
you had to wear a jacket and I believe a
tie as well. So there was a certain decorum that
went with the with the dining experience on board a
cruise ship. Also, let's consider the fact that cruise ships
years ago were not that big. At most, if you

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had eleven hundred people on a cruise, that was the maximum.
Usually the averagetween five hundred and seven hundred passengers per ship.
Now these mega ships, there's like five thousand people crammed
on board, like a bunch of rats in a cage,
although the rats in the cage were probably better behaved
than some of these scumbag passengers. And this is the

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end result. You get all these people on board this ship,
and I guess this was the last night of the
cruise too, so they're all drinking it up, probably drugging
it up too, if you only know, and by two
am when there's some sort of problem with the fucking
chicken tenders, everything goes berserk. Really, that's ridiculous. Come on,

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get real. If you're starting a fight like this or
a food that's pretty goddamn pathetic and ridiculous. Some of
these people really need to grow the fuck up and
get over themselves. It's a cruise. It's supposed to be
enjoyable for everybody. W y don't you go someplace else
and settle your petty differences. Try that out for size.

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And like I said, if I'm the captain, those assholes
are all getting tossed overboard bon voyage. We're moving right along.
It would seem that the Cracker Barrel restaurant chain recently
changed their logo and they got rid of Uncle Herschel. Now,

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for those of you who do not know, Uncle Herschel
is that older dude who's sitting and leaning on a
wooden barrel. The image was part of their logo for
quite some time. Well, apparently they've decided to get rid
of Uncle Herschel and send him packing. At least on

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the logo, they're stating that Uncle Herschel will still be
visible as part of the signage inside the restaurant locations,
but the logo, the main logo itself, is going to
be without the Good Uncle. Apparently this has caused some
problems because Cracker Barrel's stock has plunged something like one

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hundred million dollars since their announcement of the logo change.
In fact, even some conservatives are upset. Of course, what
aren't conservatives upset about these days? Seems like everything the
way the wind blows upsets those people. But even the

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conservatives of Upper and Arms over the loss of Uncle
Herschel in the logo. Now, I really don't understand all
the all the bruha ha over this, because, quite honestly,
I always found the Uncle Herschel image to be rather
disturbing and kind of creepy to me. It looks like

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something of a vision from an LSD hallucination, and quite honestly,
the the way that he is, the good Uncle is
sitting there leaning against the barrel with his legs crossed
and kind of that smirk on his face, it looks

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to me like he's trying to sell me something that
I don't want to buy. And now don get me wrong.
I like Cracker Barrel. I eat there on a fairly
regular basis. I love their pancakes. Their pancakes are absolutely
fantastic and scrumptious. Now, granted, the service at Cracker Barrel
can at times be slow, but you know, life isn't perfect.

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You can't have it all. That's how it goes sometimes.
And as far as the logo change is concerned, I
think some people really need to calm down. It's not
like it's the end of the world. They are stating
that Cracker Barrel will still remain the same, although I
understand they're also doing some remodeling on the inside of
the restaurants. If you've ever been in a Cracker Barrel,

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the walls and the ceilings in some cases are festooned
with antiques and old time items and collectibles. There's like
washboards and old tools and farm implements hanging up, and
there's like photographs of people from the olden days when

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people didn't smile at all, And you gotta wonder to yourself,
who in hell are these people anyways in this portrait?
And why are they on the wall above the table
where I'm eating my pancakes? You know, if they get
rid of that stuff, I wouldn't complain either. So but
I'm still gonna go to Cracker Barrel. I mean, the
logo change is not gonna ruin my life or you know,

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blow up my world. It would take a lot more
than that to ruin my afternoon. And I think you
can see where I'm going with this. Don't don't stop
going to Cracker Barrel because of the logo change. They
have stayed in. Uncle Herschel will still be there in
the background, like on the menus or whatever. So he's
gonna be, you know, there, just saying if they want

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to do something, maybe they can modernize Uncle Herschel and
have him get a wardrobe change. Perhaps they could put
him in leggings and a tank top, which is what
I wear on any given day. In fact, that's what
I'm wearing right now. But also let me let me
add here, folks, that this is how corporate, the corporate
world runs. It's all about change, it's all about updating,

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it's all about spending a fortune on new signs because
for some reason, because the tax purposes, they probably have
to spend the money. So they're gonna do it. And
we just had to learn to live with that because
they're not drastically changing. It's not like they're going to
all Vietnamese food or something, so it's it's not a problem.
I mean, some of you would probably like to see

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them go to all Vietnamese food, but I don't think
that would go with the theme overall. I'm not, you know,
a culinary expert, but I'm just throwing my opinion there.
So I've rambled enough about Uncle Herschel and Cracker Barrel,
so I'm gonna move on right now. But anyways, you
get you get the gist of what I'm driving at. Okay,
all right, just say just saying. But while on the

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subject of restaurants, let me touch upon this recent story
that came out concerning Chick and you know, I'm not
really a huge fan of Chick fil A because of
their Christian philosophies that they seem to try to throw
upon us. But anyways, the restaurant chain recently announced a

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new age policy that states that diners seventeen or under
must be accompanied by someone over the age of twenty
one or they run the risk of being asked to
leave the restaurant. Surprisingly, a lot of people are up
in arms about this new policy, stating that it punishes

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good kids, it's unfair, and YadA, YadA, YadA YadA. It
would seem that Chick fil A has initiated this policy
because of incidents with bad kids who were disruptive in
the past, and now they're trying to eliminate that issue.
But however, there are still people out there who are

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griping about the policy. Well, let me tell you something.
Back in the day, back when I was a kid,
that was pretty much standard procedure. If you were under
a certain age, like sixteen or seventeen, you could not
be in a lot of places unless you had an
adult with you. This happened to me on more than

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one occasion. One particular instance, I was in this department
store in the Boston area. It was known as Stone's
Department Store, and I was by myself. I was like
fifteen at the time, and I had money. I was
gonna go. They had quite a selection of model kits,
model airplane and stuff like that, and it was one

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that I wanted to buy. So my dad dumped me
off there and I went in and I was gonna
buy this model kit. When all of a sudden, the
store of security guard comes up to me and asks
where my parents are, and I told him that my
parents were not with me at that moment, and that's
when he told me that I had to leave this
stre despite the fact I had money in hand and

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I was ready to make a purchase, I was told
to go to the front door and go out. There
was another time when I was like thirteen, thirteen fourteen,
I was asked to leave a woolworth of five and
ten under the same circumstances. You know, this angry woman
comes up to me who works there. She asked me

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where my parents are, and I think my mom was
waiting for me out in the car, and I said, well,
they're not with me right now, and she told me
I had to leave. In fact, I think she even
threatened the police if I remember correctly, if I did
not leave at that moment. So why do we now
have this mentality where kids can just basically go anywhere

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or do anything they want unsupervised. And I know I've
harped in this point before, and I'm gonna harp on
it again because this comes down to lazy, ineffective parenting
where the parents just don't want to be bothered, throw
some money at the kids and send them on their

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way to go out and do whatever it is they
want to do. Well, that really doesn't work. And while
I really don't agree with a lot of Chick fil
A's philosophies, I do say that I have to agree
with them on this point because they're doing the right thing. Obviously,
there's been problems in their different locations with unsupervised miners

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who are causing problems or getting into trouble, and they
have that right to place age restrictions on people. All
you have to do is go online to like Instagram,
and you see all these videos of kids out of
control doing whatever they damn well please and causing a
ruckus in public places and nobody's doing a dancing to

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stop them. So I would go as far as the
say it wouldn't be a bad idea for most public
places enacted age restrictions on who can go in unsupervised,
and well, yeah, you're punishing the good kids who do
behave when they go out on their own. But unfortunately,
especially with the state of the world nowadays, somebody's gonna

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make the decision to say, hey, you know what, your
kids can't run a mucket anymore, all right, They can't
go out and do whatever they damn we'll please and
cause the disturbance to the rest of us who really
don't appreciate it, nor do we want. You gave birth
to the filthy brat bastards. Now either you handle it
or somebody else is going to do it for you.
You know, I get it. Mommy and Daddy want to

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send the kids out while they stay at home and
have a good time and fucking make another brat yet
to put upon the world. But no, no, no, it
doesn't work that way. Maybe you should accompany your kid
next time, or have a responsible older person who can
do it for you. Just an idea, So moving right along.

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It would see that a recent episode of the game
show Family Feud has caught a cause something of a controversy,
and fans of the show are said to be furious
about the episode in question, which featured a transgender team

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that was competing to raise money for sex workers. The
July thirty first episode was a celebrity version of the
show in which actress Laverne Cox led the all transgender team.
Adding to the controversy of the show was the fact

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that the contestants in question were making how should we
say some crude jokes about the subject of free bawling. However,
having said all that, let me just expound here and
say that I really don't understand the problem of a

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game show that features chicks with dicks as contestants. Why
in the world of people getting your pennies and a
wad I don't understand. I often like to say that
we've become a society of perverse Puritans, where there is

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more debauchery than you can shake a dodo at, and
yet certain things get us all in an uproar. Of course,
it does not help that the current Trump administration enforces
their gestapo intolerance of those in the transgender community. So

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this obviously is spilling out everywhere and where people get
all bet out of shape because some chicks with dicks
want to play a game show and raised some money
for sex workers. And of course, as was pointed out
in a couple of the articles that I read about
this story, that family Feud has been pushing the envelope

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for years. This is nothing really out of the norm
for that show. And what I'd like to know is
I would like you know if Richard Dawson was still alive,
I wonder what his opinion would be, honest, because he
was back when the show first came about. He was
the host for years, and those of you familiar with

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Richard Dawson, he was a regular on another game show
back in the seventies called Match Game, and Match Game
for its time was also on the fringe. A lot
of those celebrity panelists on that show really pushed the

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limits with some of the comments they made, and granted
it was all funny and it was all in good fun,
nobody really took it seriously, which, of course, at that
time in the nineteen seventies, we didn't take ourselves seriously anyways.
It's not like today where everything is so critical and
so hyper and so oh my god, we can't do
this and we can't do that. No, it was a

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completely different mentality. So Match Game would kind of fit
in just right. And with Richard Dawson having been part
of that group, I would wonder what he would have
to say about this current situation with family feud, and
I think you would just laugh it off. I think
you would find it hilarious. Really, As I say, live

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and let Live it's not the end of the world.
Let the chickswood dicks be on game shows. In fact,
I'd like to see more chickswood dicks on game shows.
It might make them more entertaining overall. You know, let
us not act so righteous when, as I pointed out earlier,
we're really quite perverse in many ways. These days. It

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is not unusual for two people to meet each other
for the first time and less than fifteen minutes later
they're naked and down looking each other as assholes. So
let's not be so hypercritical of the transgender people on
a game show trying to raise a little bit of money. Now,
maybe some of the humor that they came up with

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on this episode was crude and relatively offensive to some,
but it happens. And as far as their choice of
raising money for sex workers, some might find that questionable,
but I guess sex workers need some financial help here
and there too. It's a very difficult, complex world we
live in, okay, So let's all get over ourselves and

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let them have some fun. And what it's all about,
it some fun. It's not some disaster here. After all,
we're not talking about some deranged terrorists going around with
a nuclear device strapped to us chest looking to destroy
an entire city somewhere. Okay, so on that note, it

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is now time for me to begin winding down this
episode of the podcast. Before I go, let me, let
me leave you with this little story. If let's say
you're having a bad day and things are not going right,
everything is going wrong, let me tell you a story

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that might enlighten your mood. I'm not gonna go into
the exact details of specifics and names and all that stuff,
but there was a guy who was married and he
did not like his wife, not at all, and she
didn't really like him either. So he came up with
this plan to get away from his wife by committing

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a crime so he could go to jail for a while.
He did commit the crime, and he was tried and convicted.
He subsequently received a rather lengthy sentence that he was
ordered to serve under house arrest at home with his wife.

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So in the end, he didn't get away from her.
He got stuck with her twenty four to seven in
the house. I don't know if that is really bad
karma or just really bad luck, but he probably would
have been better off if he wound up in jail
to become Bubba's little bitch in the cell, just saying.

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And on that note, it is now time for me
to hustle on out of the door. Here. I'd like
to thank you for taking the time to listen to
this podcast. Please feel free to subscribe because it is
free to do so until next time. You all take
care now and be good and try not to be
too upset about the new cracker bar o logo. It's

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not the end of the world. The food is still
pretty good there, as I had previously mentioned, So a
ruve dircea aloha asta la vista until next time, Bye bye,