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May 5, 2025 • 28 mins
Jack and Nikki take a look at a new policy being implemented at some fast food restaurants that has employees outraged, disucss the wisdom of handing your DNA over to strangers and hear you out as you make arguments for and against eating food off the floor.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
If you're listening to the Jack and Nikki Show podcast
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ten on one O two WVAQ.

Speaker 2 (00:17):
Okay, fast food workers are upset, you guys. Let's find
out why.

Speaker 1 (00:21):
You got fired?

Speaker 3 (00:22):
Why?

Speaker 1 (00:22):
Oh well, it's no wonder they finally caught you doing
that in here working harder, hardly working?

Speaker 4 (00:28):
Am I?

Speaker 1 (00:28):
I thought you were working? I'm working here. Are you're
gonna get me fired?

Speaker 3 (00:31):
Are you kidding?

Speaker 5 (00:32):
I'm working.

Speaker 2 (00:33):
I regret offending my coworkers.

Speaker 1 (00:35):
Oh, expecting to work. I can.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
There's a new rule at some fast food restaurants, and
workers are outraged. Studio lines are open eight eight eight
seven seven seven sixty six forty. You can call us.
You can text us at that number. You can also
text us at three five sixty five one. I'm gonna
toss this out to fast food workers and people who

(00:58):
love them.

Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yes, all right, so.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Here's what's going on. Employees are upset over this new
policy requiring fast food workers to give their phones to
managers before using the bathroom.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
That is ridiculous.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
Many believe the policy is excessive. Yes, And we have
some reactions from some of these fast food managers and
they're saying that they're doing this to quote promote focus,
but some say goes too far and the crew members
who violate these rules could be disciplined or even fired

(01:34):
from their jobs.

Speaker 4 (01:35):
Who do the managers have to turn their phones over
to customers?

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yeah, yeah, that's how it works. So if you're eating
at a fast food restaurant and some manager comes over
and says, hey, can you hold my phone for about
ten minutes, you know he's going to go mix stool. Yeah,
and what you say is, hey, make sure you wash
your hands before you come back out here. Yeah, and
he'll say, why don't really handle the food directly? Still

(01:59):
wash your Okay, you're in the back, you got a
food handler's card, let's keep it clean. And then it
goes on like that, yeah, for another ten minutes. Okay.
So people are basically trying to figure what is the
point in this, and some are taking a stab at
it that maybe it's because people are just camped out
in there and they're on their phone. So you know,

(02:22):
we all look, I want to get too graphic here,
but you know, we a lot of the games well,
or watch videos or you know, send emails or text
or something. When you're doing your dirty, sinful business. It's
a way to pass the time and distract yourself from
the horrible things that are happening. And they're saying that
you take the phone away, you know, it's more of

(02:42):
a quick in and out and then you get back
to your job. So that's that's one theory. And then
another theory is trying to cut back on selfies, people
going into the bathroom and taking photos of themselves and
sending those out.

Speaker 6 (03:00):
So if the concern is making it a quick you know,
in and out get back to work, yeah, then anybody
should have to turn in their phone if they're going
out for a cigarette break as well, if they're taking
a smoke break or a vape break or whatever. It is, true,
then you're not out there scrolling on your phone. Yep,
you're just out there, you you know, take your smoke

(03:20):
break and you go back in immediately.

Speaker 2 (03:22):
That's right.

Speaker 4 (03:23):
I think it should go both ways.

Speaker 2 (03:24):
I think that's a fair point. We have texts coming in,
Nikki Drake, would you like to do the honors?

Speaker 4 (03:30):
Sure? Okay, clocked in, No phone clocked out? Who cares?

Speaker 2 (03:35):
So what? Who cares?

Speaker 1 (03:36):
So what?

Speaker 4 (03:37):
Who cares? Okay, yeah that makes sense.

Speaker 2 (03:39):
Well sure, yeah, if you're not on the clock, it's
none of their business, right yeah right, So are they
suggesting then clock out when you go to the bathroom?

Speaker 4 (03:47):
I guess I don't know.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
Yeah, but I guess the problem there, though, is if
it's in the middle of the workday and you have responsibilities,
you're there for a reason, right, and you're off the
clock because you're in the bathroom taking selfies.

Speaker 6 (03:57):
Mm hmm.

Speaker 2 (03:58):
Well you know, now you're not being very forductive and
they need you out there working and you're not.

Speaker 6 (04:02):
Yeah, I like this text. Give them an old slash
fake phone. You need a decoy phone.

Speaker 2 (04:11):
Oh okay, these are employees, not toddlers. Okay, so I
don't I don't know that a fake phone that only
calls big Bird is going to work there?

Speaker 6 (04:22):
Yeah right, I just go go get a cheap burner
phone and hand that over to the manager and then
keep your real phone on you.

Speaker 2 (04:30):
Well, yes, I guess technically you could start packing two phones. Yeah,
the two phone system. Okay, I'm sorry when they when
you said give them a fake phone, Yeah, I was thinking. Okay,
you know, I wasn't thinking of the manager fake phone.
I think give the employee the fake phone. That's why crossing. Okay,

(04:54):
all right, that makes sense. Okay, all right, here's the text.

Speaker 6 (04:57):
People at my work will say they have to use
the restroom but really just don't want to work, so
they go and scroll on their phone for half an
hour on the clock.

Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah.

Speaker 4 (05:05):
Yeah, I'm sure that does happen.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
It absolutely happens. And it's like you said earlier, people
do the same thing. We're on a smoke break.

Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yes, that's what.

Speaker 2 (05:13):
Yes, I see people in the parking lot who you know, they're.

Speaker 4 (05:19):
They're making phone calls, they're scrolling.

Speaker 6 (05:22):
They's spacetime happening, that's right, all during their smoke break
where they're technically still on the clock.

Speaker 2 (05:27):
Yeah. Yeah, they are in flavor country mm hm, as
evidenced by the cigarette in their mouth and smoke boiling
out of every orifice of their body. But they're also
on their phone. Yeah, and you could make the argument
that without the phone, that smoke break would be about
five minutes and then they'd be back to work. Yeah,
this is the argument you're making.

Speaker 4 (05:46):
That's the argument I'm making.

Speaker 2 (05:47):
Okay, then anything else.

Speaker 6 (05:49):
Yeah, there's some other arguments that happened. Phones are literally
people's wallets. They got your Google pay, your.

Speaker 2 (05:55):
Apple pay, your fecal matter.

Speaker 6 (05:58):
I mean, yes, that's that's true though, So I wouldn't
want to hand that over.

Speaker 2 (06:04):
Yeah, I wouldn't either. I mean, obviously I have a
lock screen on my phone, as all reasonable people do. Yes,
but I still don't want people You're locking around my.

Speaker 6 (06:14):
Phone pretty solid because I've tried to like break into
it to try to make it do to take a
picture of whoever's trying to break into your phone thing.

Speaker 4 (06:20):
Yeah, and I couldn't get it to work.

Speaker 2 (06:22):
I know that you did. Yeah, I walked out of
here a long time and forgot my phone. Nick he
was immediately trying to break into it. Anyway. So just
to wrap this up, here's my solution to this. And
I think this is a simple, obvious solution. Give employees
a time limit and on how long they can take

(06:44):
their bathroom breaks, and then let them figure out how
to manage their time. Yeah, okay, so if you say,
all right, you know ten minutes is a reasonable time
for a bathroom break, I think so, okay, you can
basically accomplish whatever you need to accomplish in there in
ten minutes. I'm not going to ask any questions about.

Speaker 4 (06:58):
What you're up to. What you're up to it.

Speaker 2 (07:00):
Let's say your official policy is you got ten minutes,
and you have this many bathroom breaks per day, and
then if they get distracted by their phone and they
come back from the bathroom a half an hour later,
well write them up. And if they do it multiple times,
then they're gone. Yeah, but let them figure out how
to manage their own lives and their own time within

(07:21):
your guidelines. Taking their phones away is basically you interjecting
and trying to manage it for them, because even though
they're old enough to be employed, you don't think they
can manage their time.

Speaker 4 (07:35):
Yeah, they're not. So they're not elementary school students, right,
So listen.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Ten minutes. You can take the phone in there if
you want. You can take a coloring book in you
can go in with a big bag of blocks, you
can put put a train set together in there. Whatever
you want to do, but have it done within ten minutes.

Speaker 1 (07:53):
The Jack and Nikki Show one two WVAQ.

Speaker 2 (07:58):
It's awkward, it's lie, it's deception, it's testing your DNA
and finding out terrible things. So I just mentioned that.
Twenty three and me, the genetic testing company has filed
for bankruptcy and they're trying to reorganize and move their

(08:18):
assets around, so on and so forth, and their stock
is now below one dollar. And there was a time
when this was all a rage twenty three in me.
Did you do anything like that? Now?

Speaker 4 (08:29):
Did it?

Speaker 2 (08:30):
Do you know anybody who had any genetic tests any DNA?

Speaker 4 (08:33):
My sister did it for health reasons.

Speaker 6 (08:36):
Yeah, my cousin did it, I think, and I think
they both used twenty three and me.

Speaker 4 (08:41):
Oh yeah, yeah, okay, so but yeah, so they did it.

Speaker 2 (08:44):
Did they find out anything that they didn't know as
far as no, I don't.

Speaker 4 (08:48):
Think so, okay, not that I recall.

Speaker 2 (08:51):
Okay, yeah, I know some people who did this. Yeah,
and then spent time tracking who they're related to, into
what degree and all of that stuff.

Speaker 6 (09:03):
And yeah, we found an extra couple cousins in Greece
that we didn't know about, but that was about it.

Speaker 4 (09:07):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah. Yeah. Well here's the story of a woman who
slept with her half brother. Yeah that's right. Yeah. Yeah.
This woman and then went on the internet and told
everybody about it. That's the kind of thing I think
I'd probably just keep to myself.

Speaker 4 (09:22):
Goodness.

Speaker 2 (09:23):
Her name is Victoria Hill. She's from Connecticut, and she
found out that her mom's fertility doctor is her actual
father because instead of I guess, using the dad's seed,
he used his own. Oh gosh, which apparently a lot.
How many times have you heard these stories about these

(09:43):
fertility doctors who are using their own Yeah? Righttting, isn't
that weird? But that keeps happening and it is unfortunate seed.
And she did and so so she as a result
of this, found out that her ex boyfriend is her

(10:04):
half brother.

Speaker 4 (10:06):
Because of the fertility doctor.

Speaker 2 (10:07):
Yeah, who was also yeah, his dad.

Speaker 4 (10:11):
Because oh my god, let's.

Speaker 2 (10:14):
Have her explain it in awkward and hilarious fashion.

Speaker 7 (10:17):
I kept getting an email from a woman who I
later found out was my half sister saying, you know,
there's some information here, let us know if you need
or want to know more. And I, you know, kind
of thought it was like a twenty three and meters
kind of gimmick trying to get me to purchase the
next plan up. But as she continued to push, she said,
you know, did your mother go to Yelle Fertility Treatment

(10:39):
Clinic to get help for fertility. And so when she
had said that, it got my attention because I did
know that much. I knew that my parents had struggled
with fertility and went out to Yale to get help,
and so she had my attention. And then she gave
me the rest of the information was that this doctor,
my mother's fertility doctor, was in fact my biological thought.

Speaker 2 (10:57):
Wowow, oh, my gosh, oh oh. And again, I mean,
you could just keep it to yourself. I mean, why
I tell everyone why.

Speaker 4 (11:11):
That's a giant lawsuit.

Speaker 2 (11:14):
It is. But you know, at the same time, you
can't really correct what's happened now, right, No, Okay, this
is a long shot. The studio lines are open. If
you did any type of genetic testing and discovered anything interesting,
anything that you weren't aware of, maybe maybe gained some

(11:35):
people in the family, maybe lost some people in the family. Right, Yeah,
But it is interesting though how often this kind of
thing happens. It happens way too often. Basically, it's terrifying
because the reality you're living in, the people in the
relationships that you think you have, it's entirely possible you're
not even related to these people at Let's get back

(11:57):
to the awkward DNA test talk. Twenty three and Me bankrupts.
Somebody just texted in and said, I've seen concerns about
the twenty three and ME bankruptcy that if another company
were to buy their assets, theoretically they would also get
the DNA profiles of everyone that has ever submitted a sample.

(12:17):
Twenty three and Me had strict usage policies on how
they would use the DNA samples, but that wouldn't necessarily
be applicable to someone who just buys the assets. Yeah.
I was always a little bit leery about sending my
DNA off to a bunch of strangers in some company
and going here, yeah, do whatever you want with this. Yeah,

(12:41):
it just didn't seem like a good idea. And the
people around me were all spitting in cups and pulling
out their hair and putting it in the mail, and
I went not for me, and they said you're crazy,
And I said, you just mailed your spit to a stranger,
and you're telling me I'm the crazy one, right, yes, Yeah.
Then they spit in my face with.

Speaker 4 (13:03):
The and then they mailed that spit out which, by.

Speaker 2 (13:05):
The way, that's how most conversations with me.

Speaker 4 (13:07):
And yeah, I didn't want to mail my spit to
a stranger.

Speaker 6 (13:11):
I did have to, though, for medical testing, unfortunately, but
I think that's different than sending it off just for
you know, to find out if I have any famous relatives.

Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, trying to figure who your dad is speaking. Which
let's go to your calls now on the studio line
and your stories of emotional damage. Emotion you were on
the Jack and Niki show, what you got.

Speaker 3 (13:34):
This is just going off. Was like the whole biological
family thing. Yeah, So my mom died when I was two,
and she told this man that he was my dad.
So he raised me with his mother and I called
his mom mom because she was all.

Speaker 6 (13:47):
I had, is mom.

Speaker 3 (13:49):
Well, she died when I turned eighteen. Met my biological brother.
Turns out he's not my dad. So then I went
to find my biological dad and he said he wasn't
my dad, but this other guy was my dad. Because
then I met this other guy, and this other guy
told was had this picture of me, and he said
he carried it around his whole life. Whatever. Well, I

(14:10):
got a DNA test with the other guy and turns
out he was my dad. So this guy was just
carrying around a picture and me thinking that was his forever.
They thought I was on some tree farm, I guess.

Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh god, oh god, Wait, So which one was it?

Speaker 5 (14:25):
One?

Speaker 6 (14:25):
Two?

Speaker 4 (14:26):
One or two? Which one was the dad? The first
guy that raised you or the second guy?

Speaker 3 (14:30):
No, the guy who raised me said that he didn't
want to know if I was or not. And I
knew because like I'm wand hair, he's black hair, he's
blue eyes, I'm hazel like nothing was the same, and
like the guy who he's actually like in prison now.
But the guy who I suspected was my dad, the
second guy, and I only ever met him. Right when

(14:52):
I found out about my dad, I went to my grandma.
She's like eighty, and it was actually my mom's mom
who I wasn't allowed to seek. Wow, he told me
his name, and now I know why I wasn't allowed
to see them, probably because they didn't want like me
to find out that he wasn't my dad.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
Good lord, but I am so lost. Did you the
guy who turned out to be your father? Was he
a fertility doctor? Might any chance?

Speaker 5 (15:18):
No?

Speaker 2 (15:18):
No? Okay, well that's good, all right, well, thank you
for that call. We appreciate it.

Speaker 3 (15:24):
Noble bye.

Speaker 2 (15:27):
Okay, that was very convoluted, wasn't it was? I was
having a hard time following that. Actually I placed a
call right before the show this morning, and I'm getting
the results here now. Oh yeah, yeah, there's my doctor's
on hold. I need to just squeeze in a quick
call here before we uh moving, Well, I'm going to
find out right now, doctor, go ahead, what was the

(15:48):
news you had for me?

Speaker 1 (15:49):
You are not?

Speaker 2 (15:52):
Oh thank god, Nikki. If you're a longtime listener of
this show, and well, somehow I find that very hard
to believe. But if you are, you know that we
are known for hitting the hard topics on this program. Yes,
we don't shy away from the difficult subjects, and we're

(16:13):
going to give you a perfect example of that right now.
It's going to make some people uncomfortable, it's going to
cause some problems. Some people will be angry, but we're
going to talk about eating food that you've dropped on
the floor. That's right, it's very important. It's timely. As
if ripped from today's headlines, studio lines are open eight
eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty you can

(16:34):
call us. You can text us at that number. You
can also text us at three five sixty five to one.
As we talk about the six second rule, Okay, now,
the five second rule. I think we've all heard about this. Yeah,
you drop food. A lot of people think as long
as you pick it up with five seconds, it's okay.

Speaker 4 (16:55):
Yes, that's what I'm used to.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, but now they've added an additional set second to
give people more time to get to the ground and
pick up their food.

Speaker 4 (17:05):
Is it because we're just slower to.

Speaker 2 (17:06):
Move or people slowing down, you know, aging, weight issues,
mobility problems, So you got to have that extra second. Yeah,
So they actually conducted a survey. They went out and
they ask people, Okay, if we do six seconds, now,
you eat the food off the floor. I don't know

(17:28):
why they're so dedicated to getting people to eat things
that have been on the ground.

Speaker 4 (17:32):
By trying to cut down on food waste.

Speaker 2 (17:33):
I guess yeah, they're trying, yes, to get people to okay,
if we add additional seconds, how about you know a
year from now would be okay, the ten second rule, right,
the twenty second role, and then eventually we just give
up and go you know what, screw it. Anything you
find on the ground, just to.

Speaker 4 (17:46):
Eat it, Just eat it.

Speaker 2 (17:47):
Okay. So what they found is that a lot of
people are willing to do this. Seventy three percent of
people say they would eat food they dropped on the
floor as long as they pick it up within six seconds. Okay.
And this is interesting because if you change it to
five seconds, that drops to forty five percent of people,

(18:14):
which I guess makes no sense if you think about it,
because that's an extra second for added contamination. But maybe
they're not looking at it from a contamination standpoint, they're
looking at it from a mobility standpoint. Yeah, how much
extra time they have to get in there? Okay? Sure,
And as you mentioned, a lot of people say that

(18:36):
they will eat food because they don't want it to
go to waste.

Speaker 6 (18:40):
Okay, Okay, I kind of get that.

Speaker 2 (18:43):
I absolutely get that. That's that's been my argument. And
then the other thing I'll toss in here that is
my argument is that thirty five percent of people say
they'll do it because they trust their immune system keep
them healthy. And your immune system is a lot like
your muscles, it's a lot like your mind.

Speaker 1 (18:58):
Yeah, you have to use it.

Speaker 4 (19:00):
I got to exercise it.

Speaker 2 (19:01):
You got to use it for it to work.

Speaker 1 (19:02):
Yep.

Speaker 4 (19:02):
That's why Jack cops in my face every morning.

Speaker 2 (19:04):
That's exactly right. Yeah, you take your glasses off and
wipe them down, get the spittle off. Yep. Yeah, part
of mine lung over there on your glasses. But you've
never been healthier. Okay. So here's the thing. Obviously I
will eat things that I've dropped. I will too, yes,
depending on what those things are. You know, if I'm

(19:24):
eating popcorn, I dropped piece of popcorn, I'm gonna pick
it up and eat it. If I'm eating a plate
of spaghetti and I dropped that, probably not gonna pick
that up and eat Okay. So it depends on things
like that. But I do I do count on my
immune system to work. And also it's been mentioned a
few times on this show. I grew up pretty poor,
so wasting food is really hard for me to do.

Speaker 4 (19:48):
I was always told to rinse it off. Yes, just
rinse it off, fine, blow on it, blow on it off,
one of them both because they don't find fine.

Speaker 1 (19:57):
Yeah right.

Speaker 6 (19:58):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (19:58):
So if I drop something, I I'm probably going to
pick it up and eat it.

Speaker 1 (20:03):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (20:03):
Yeah, Okay, that's also your policy. Then it is okay
pretty much in the same place.

Speaker 4 (20:09):
The like outside the place of spaghetti, like the single
wrapped American.

Speaker 2 (20:14):
Cheese slices in shag carpet.

Speaker 4 (20:17):
They can't do that.

Speaker 6 (20:17):
You can't set off Like that's like Plato, like it's
stuck in there. You cannot salvage that that cheese. Right.

Speaker 4 (20:27):
Yeah, So like that's my other little caveat.

Speaker 2 (20:30):
I hope you write a book one day called you
Can't Salvage That Cheese by Nikki Drake. One woman struggle
with consuming dairy products that have been dropped in a
carpeted area eight eight eight seven seven seven sixty six forty.
You could call us, you could text us there three
five sixty five to one as well. What is your policy?

(20:51):
Six second roll versus five second? Does this change anything
for you? How do you determine what, if anything, you're
going to eat that's been dropped? How long will you
wait to eat food that's been dropped on the ground?
Some say six seconds. In fact, this research we have
here this morning, new research on this. By the way,

(21:12):
they keep asking people.

Speaker 6 (21:14):
Well, yeah, you got to keep up both times, you know,
evolution and all that especially with the five now six
second rule.

Speaker 2 (21:20):
They've moved it from five to six seconds. In seventy
three percent of people agree they will eat things that
have been dropped on the ground within six seconds. Okay,
So we've got your calls and your texts coming in
triple eight, triple seven, sixty six forty. You can call us,
you can text us at that number. You can text
us at three five sixty five to one, and it
is lighting up. You are on the Jack and Nikki Show.

(21:40):
What you got.

Speaker 5 (21:42):
I used to work for a restaurant, and uh, with
my Thursday certification, if you actually dropped with pizza food
on the ground, picked it back up and served it again,
you the cook could be individually fine, not even the
actual instance.

Speaker 2 (22:01):
Wow, okay, yeah, that's very interesting. Did you find that
that was a deterrent?

Speaker 5 (22:09):
Oh? Well, I mean I don't want to be fined
five grands. I mean that's a lot of money when
you're just a cook.

Speaker 2 (22:14):
Well sure, yeah, that's what I'm saying. I mean, because
the if you're the cook and the restaurant gets fined,
that's one thing. But as you're saying, if it comes
right out of your pocket, that's a whole other, isn't it.

Speaker 5 (22:26):
Yeah, cause you have to have a SERF state certification.
And then I went to the gas station wah wall
and I was working there as well as a manager,
and the same rule applied there. It's like a I
don't know if it's a national thing, but it is
called the SERF State certification.

Speaker 2 (22:44):
Okay, Well, it's good to know that there are rules
in place to keep restaurants from serving you food that
they've dropped on the floor.

Speaker 5 (22:53):
Well, I mean, you know, there's even as they at home.
You know, it depends on what poor that five second
rule applies, you know four yeah, garage floor?

Speaker 2 (23:06):
Right yeah, well again it depends on the floor and
the food. You know, like you said, popcorn on someone onleum,
no problem, play a spaghetti in a shag carpet, that's
a whole other thing.

Speaker 1 (23:17):
Yeah, probably.

Speaker 2 (23:18):
Yeah, all right, man, thanks for the call.

Speaker 5 (23:20):
I'm gonna be more worried about my carpet than the food.

Speaker 2 (23:23):
Yes, especially if it's a play of spaghetti. All right, man,
thank you, ain't no problem.

Speaker 6 (23:29):
Yeah, I am more concerned about my floor half the
time than I am the food.

Speaker 2 (23:33):
Yeah that's true.

Speaker 4 (23:35):
Yeah, yeah, it makes a good point.

Speaker 2 (23:36):
There much more expensive to clean the carpeting or replace
it than it is to just, you know, buy some
more food.

Speaker 4 (23:42):
Yeah.

Speaker 6 (23:45):
Text line here, think about all the things you walk
on with your shoes, then track all over where you
might have dropped your food.

Speaker 2 (23:52):
Yeah. Gross, Yeah, that's a.

Speaker 6 (23:54):
Problem if I drop food here at work. No, it's done,
like I'm not. Oh, no, have you picked up all No?

Speaker 2 (24:02):
I agree with that. I was just thinking about because
I think it's because there's so much foot traffic here
in the building, in so many different feet.

Speaker 4 (24:12):
Yes, right, a lot of different feet.

Speaker 2 (24:14):
Yeah. I mean if you really break it down and
think about it, that it doesn't make a lot of
sense because you know, let's say you you walk into
your house with your shoes on, sure, and God knows
where those feet have been, right, but you eat something
there but not here because of the number of feet
and the different things they've walked in. I guess, I

(24:35):
guess technically you could make that argument. Yeah, but I
take my shoes off when I go in my house anyway.
I don't walk in my house with my shoes on.

Speaker 6 (24:42):
I have slippers or house shoes or whatever you want
to call them.

Speaker 2 (24:45):
Yeah, as soon as we walk in the door, the
shoes come off. That's our policy. Yeah, so I'm gonna
keep eating right off my floor. Okay, what else?

Speaker 4 (24:54):
I always tell my kids five second rule.

Speaker 6 (24:57):
Then if they get close, I say ooh, almost had.

Speaker 4 (25:00):
To go to the ten second roll.

Speaker 2 (25:05):
Instead of buzzing them out. Yeah, should they Okay, we'll
give you some extra time. All right, we're honey, we're
gonna add time on the clock. Let's see if you
can get down there and get that picked up. I
believe we're going to transition out into the ridicule portion
of the segment. Nikki, would you like to go to
the textual lines textol line ridicule that's being heaped upon me?

Speaker 6 (25:29):
Yes, Jack, you mentioned earlier that if you, you know,
drop some food, you'll eat it, and well, people remember
you and your food. But Jack will eat popcorn out
of the garbage. So not the best example to go buy.
No surprise, Jack, the guy who eats popcorn from the trash.

Speaker 4 (25:51):
What was the second count for that?

Speaker 2 (25:54):
Wow? Well, the second count on that was quite a
long one. It was popcorn that I discovered in the
trash at a school. No less, this wasn't at my
own house, no public This was This was at the
Lincoln Middle School and it was popcorn that was being

(26:16):
served of course at a basketball game. Yeah, but it
was behind the counter. This was not garbage that was
like a public available to the general public. This was
back in the concession stand, behind the concessions.

Speaker 4 (26:28):
In front of the restrooms right right.

Speaker 2 (26:32):
And it was at the end of the night and
they were cleaning out the popcorn maker and they just
tossed a bunch of popcorn on top of the garbage.
I happened upon it now, So if you're going to
do second role, it was probably several minutes. But it's like, oh,
you know, it's like when you're eating snow. You know,

(26:53):
you just you kind of dust off that top layer
and then you get your hand down in there and
you make sure it's not yellow. You can kind of
do that, you know, with popcorn on top of garbage.
You know, you just kind of make sure it's not
you don't dig down and get the popcorn that's touching
the garbage.

Speaker 4 (27:07):
Huh.

Speaker 2 (27:08):
You know, there's a there's an insulating layer of popcorn,
and you just take off that top bit and you
try to do it without people seeing that and yelling
oh my god, he's a monster, and then running and
telling your wife what they saw. Right. I was not
able to do that, but the popcorn was delicious, and

(27:28):
I lived to tell the story. I mean, that was
like a year or two ago. Oh my gosh, that
was two years ago.

Speaker 4 (27:35):
Have you ever eaten popcorn out of the garbage? Since?

Speaker 2 (27:39):
No, but I would. I mean, if I'm back there
and I'm in yeah, I'm if I'm in that same
situation and they just tossed out some fresh popcorn, I
go ahead and need it.

Speaker 6 (27:46):
You know what, whoever is working the Lincoln Middle concession stand,
just bag the popcorn and hand it to him next time.

Speaker 4 (27:55):
That way he doesn't have to dive through the garbage.

Speaker 2 (27:58):
This is the argument that I made, was like, why
are you throwing this away? I'm right here, right, all right?
Is there anything else beyond ridicule?

Speaker 4 (28:08):
Ridicule?

Speaker 2 (28:09):
Just ridicule? Okay. By the way, those were multiple texts,
multiple pointed that out. And you know what's funny. Until
those texts came in, I forgot about that. I totally
forgot about it. People started texting that as like.

Speaker 6 (28:22):
You're like, oh, yes, I have done that right, yes,
well again you're such a role model for all Jack Loger.

Speaker 2 (28:30):
That's my feeling. Yeah, I agree with it.
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