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right, the surprise, complete fun package. What is it? We don't even know? As a great man on this very show once said, this could all be yours, every inch of it. Kevin, my boy. Ruh, Let's get the throg out of the throat and word one. No, it's the it's the sickness from earlier in the week. Yeah, a great start. It's I'm okay when I'm at my low tones here, but when I go hi, I try to sing some maybe him in a song. Maybe that's why there's a perception that the energy is low this week.
It's illness. Yeah, if that's what you make fun of for low energy, No, I I the voice when I try to sing I was trying to sing assignment and it was just once you go high, we lose it. I don't know lingering, you do you girl? Yeah, I'll pick up the slack and bring the base. Yeah. No, the energy, all the energy is coming today, Guys. I'm freaking f out. I'm not the stuff. Look out, It's Friday. What's your favorite hot dog? What's the best hot ike you've ever read? Give me a Chicago dog?
You know, I like those, the pickles and the relis it's Friday, the energy, not what we're doing. Is it not Friday yet? Anyway? Friday. I was looking at the world map. The good news is two am in Hawaii. You need to look at a world calendar. If you no, well yeah time yeah, old time zone map eleven. So I think it's what's this zone central? Not our zone? Who Hawaii? No, Hawaii, it's two am. So what's what's two hours west of Hawaii? And where's the cutoff where it just clicks over and starts again?
Anyone like Australia right now it's early. Like Indonesia, it's eight pm on Friday. That sucks. That weird. I mean, think about it when you travel to the west coast on a fast ass plane. You're literally going back in time. Yeah, in New Zealand. It's one am wait Saturday, Yeah, mind says one am Saturday in New Zealand and it's two am Friday in Hawaii. To just go east and then go to the future exactly. But as we all learned and maybe we'll learn again when season four
of it starts next Sunday, night time is a flat circle? Is that next Sunday? Yes? And I gotta tell you not real thrilled about it because I'm not a big Jody Foster fan. How can you not be a Jody Foster fan we're talking about True Detective season four because you don't like women in position of power. She was, I mean, I think it's a voice we'd like to welcome, Jody Foster flock segment. Unpromoted or not.
Yeah, and unpracticed in the mirror too. But I think she shou get a little tad mouth, a wrong No, there's you're you're you're in the neighborhood, you're shifting near She was a big curls problems we all can't help exactly, only silence and lambs. And maybe she was affecting her voice for that role. Yeah, I think she was. And what's her other iconic roles? Contact? Contact? Driver? Contact is awesome? Is she a
text driver? You're a fun fact. I've never seen taxi driver, never will, very young in it. I heard you in December and a movie came up and you said you'd never seen it. I was shocked to hear it. Yeah, I can't remember. I mean tons, I know, but it's weird, you know, with the little age gap we got, but there's like a massive one. I'm like, you're like, never seen
that? Or Fathers. I'm not team Godfather, good Fellas. There's good Feathers, Good No Boogie Knights, you know, there's quite a few you've never seen. I've also never been to an olive garden, a red Lobster, or a Denny's. All right, so these are none of those.
These are big holes. I don't know if there's other big name places that I haven't been an og I would have thought an only boy like you would look up at the stars at night and dream of going to the big city that's like an hour away, that's not a big city, and here just got an olive garden. Yeah, none, I mean it never happened. I don't know what restaurants. Have you been to one of them? So
number forty two never had dreams of unlimited breadstiaks lying in bed. So I got no problem with Olive Garden. It kind of I mean, I don't seek it out, but you know what, it was weird last year at some point I was just so randomly was I don't even know why, but I went, I got a pickup order from Olive Garden and I got the tour of Italy. Yeah you did, you know why? Because it slaps Olive Garden go hard, dude. Okay, good, I'm glad here say that. I was expecting you to. I'm like, it's great. It's
a little cutleasagna and some pettacini alfredo and whatever. I mean, it's I wasn't blown away. As far as the national national chain casual Bestros, I think that that went an out Back probably way up there. I mean Outback was until they changed their menu in two thousand and six. I am a many year employee of out Back Steakhouse, and yeah, you're right, I remember it being better, and now you go in there and it's like being a cheesecake factory. Like the menu's huge. I don't even know what we're
looking at here? What are we doing out back? You just feel like luxury time. It really was. That was I mean to me birthday in your twenties, you thought that was a steakhouse du jure because it was better than Yeah it was. It was better than what like, did you say sizzler? No, like it just was it was good. Yeah, it was better than any other affordable steak Yeah, it was good. We would like this is like a weird thing. Like sometimes like after watching a little
football on Sunday, randomly it'be like three o'clock. My dad was like, let's go out back and we just get in the car and we'd go to four Worth w It's like an hour and a half away, you know for a quick Sunday dinner. You know, yeah there like five and you eat and you're home by nine. If you do it right, eight or nine.
You know that happened many times. Go get to filet at out back or a ribi even you'll be happy, ye fake, Well, I guess I don't I don't know if it's how much it's I went last year and it was awesome, Okay, I didn't order a steak because I had a bad steak experience. What'd you get? Two or three times ago, I'd get some form of just chicken. I got chicken breast with palace springs chicken. Yeah, there's a nice chicken breast with the honey mustard sauce and bacon
and halted cheese. And I asked for a side of blooming onion sauce. Yeah, Oh my god, hit the spot. Oh it's really good. You want to see piranhas lose their head. Go into college town an outback steakhouse kitchen. When a bloomin onion it's like turned or misfired or whatever, and they put it on the little tray. We'll just attack it looks like a radio sales department in a break room exactly on Pizza Wednesday, the one day. But then once you befriend like the head chef or the head cook
or grill cook whatever out of my way bread. When they like you, they think you're funny, you will have a little bag you're waiting for you every day when you leave. Then you go home and your three roommates who are huddled around a gigantic bong and you walk in with an outback bag full of some steak and blue and onion and Ausie cheese fries, and god forbid, I score a chocolate thunder from down under attack mode. Yeah, oh so good. If you're a college kid, Yeah, work at a restaurant.
A bar is good too, But work at a restaurant, Oh God, you'll eat free and you'll get fat, and you'll have cash on you. Well, okay, not anymore, I guess. But back in the day, you would have a shoe box full of cash to pay your rent, and your rent share was like sixty three dollars, and there'd be one guy that would be a sign to go to seven to eleven to get the two or three money orders because they would only issue money orders in like two
hundred dollars increments. You'd pay your rent with, you know, God, I swear to God. I lived with like four other dudes in a two bedroom apartment in our rent was three hundred and eighty dollars a month. Now
we're all paying like fifty eight bucks. But everybody would like be scrambling at the end of the month to come up with the cash, and then one guy would have to go to sev and well, the money orders only come in two hundred dollars increments, so you have to get three money orders, one two hundred, one two hundred, and then one for you know whatever eighty three bucks is, like for eighty three or something like that. And that's how you paid your rent with a money order. Crazy do my weirdest
landlord story with living Flagstaff, Arizona. I was in college at Northern Arizona University eleven East Pine Avenue, and our landlord was a guy named sat Sansar Best and he, you know, he had a big turbine. Friendly dude, liked him, but he was kind of up in ours a little bit, you know, like you'd show up a little un analyst and kind of take a look at things. But he was nice and what was his role the house that we lived in, and he owned a handful of properties.
I know that because we had to write the address and like right number eleven, like we had to write the number of the property he owned. It was awesome, you have a nice career, go off the flag Staff, buy some property and just rented out to college kids. Revolving door. Anyway, we lived in that house on nine to eleven. That's the house I
was in. I woke up and when nine to eleven happened, and sat Soun's our best was again very sweet, but like very much part of our existence, more than we probably would have chosen to have a landlord be. And after nine to eleven he disappeared. What are you saying that he was on the plane. No, no, I don't understand. Well, I get I don't. He disappeared from our lives and we kept sending the check and we never really heard from him again. And then there was a debate.
We're like, what if we just skipped our check this month, like we haven't heard from the dude was again part of our thing. And I don't know if he was just I have no idea, but that what happened. Wow, so as tough as that was for, you know, innocent people who were Muslim. You know, he might have ran away. No, yeah, he might have. We had another dude who owned a euro shop and flagstaff. Oh my god, I'll get his name in a second. I think he's Moroccan anyway, but he he closed his shop and left
town because of people harassing him post nine to eleven. And this dude was the sweetest guy. I've looked him up recently because he was a marathon runner and he's competed in some significant marathon so I always kind of just tracked his career because I really loved the dude. He just and he called me Tom the entire time, Tom every time. No, like we were one of
his first customers. We're like, this effing guy for like four dollars and fifty cents will give you the biggest year, like bigger than my laptop, will be the biggest, most delicious euro ever. And we were one of the first customers. He loved us, and he just called me Tom from day one. So my roommates and I would go in and they would call me Tom, and he'd be like Tom, it's Mike Space Tom. Who ooh, any man? That one hurt ay, Oh god, somebody I
can't think of his name. That was a little pick and pop right there, come on, shooters gonna shoot. Oh he's cold. They're sending him to the bench. That was a heat check DATCHA Driss was his name. Not that that matter to you, it does, you know, And I even trying to get you to move on from what did he call you, Tom, no idea he's white. I introduced myself to him and Mike, I don't know, I have no idea, but he called me Tom, and then I didn't have the heart to correct him. Then we kind of
just made it a bit. But love the dude. But yeah, he got harassed by a bunch of people shortly after nine to eleven and left the country. Oh left, no, left the area, left flag staff, left Arizona. I don't, I don't, I don't know. That's why I do try to look him up. I don't know. If I ever if he ever runs in the Dallas Marathon, I would pop Big Tom would pop in out of nowhere and stand on the corner make a sign for the great dotcha driss. Anyway, it was. It was bad for those folks
back then, Oh god, it really was. And when you've got you know, propaganda filtering down from your government, and and it could have been a lot worse. Well, I think it could have been a lot worse for the people that lived here, that were of that of that descent, that faith. A Recian trip to the World War Two Museum, it's just another reminder of how much worse it could have been. For people that live
here who just happen to look a certain way. Yeah, when an event like that pops off, Jesus, it turns normal men into monsters, normal men, and we're just normal men, just Dennis and men. So we were talking about some food and there's some big news of the world of food. Did you hear about this? No, it's not chicken. We were
talking about Outback and Olive Garden that they're delicious. There was a time in the eighties where like you had all of these I don't know what you call them, like casual dining restaurants that but they were also casual fast casual were there chained restaurants but they're meant to look like neighborhood places, but they're all over America. Chili's, Bennigan's. Yeah. TGI Fridays, we just learned it on Tuesday thirty six. TGI Fridays are closing over twelve states that are
considered unperforming locations. Oh oh, so apparently they were low rated TGA Fridays and got shut down by that is that's interesting. And I have a friend locally is high up with TGI Fridays. Does he work at the North Arlington one the Rest in Peace, and he doesn't work at any particular one, hence why I sort of high up. Okay, yeah, Texas has four each that are closing, and you said North Arlington's one of them. Yeah,
off Collins, Okay, lay the Ranger games. But that said, when the last time you guys set foot only in an airport, geez, you're right. Yeah, and the airport restaurants are wild. They make more money than like any standalones. I think, don't they give it just because of the prices, at least here at our airport. Yeah, I would have to. Yeah, because our reports huge. I mean, yeah, said try to get us. There's always a wait for pretty much any place
you got to in the airport. I mean unless you're flying super late at night paper in the morning. What other TJA Fridays is packed at nine to fifteen am. Yeah, and you're like, I'm traveling, I guess I will have some Mozarelli sticks. Wait, no, bad decision. Well they have a plastic cab, yeah, yeah, exactly. That's the thing is they have a bar timer. Yeah, I know, exactly right, and it's mostly Boots sales. But I think these restaurants jockey hard for positions in
busy airports. And I can't remember the store, but some significant store at DFW it's their highest performing like branch in the state or something like that. I also wonder when you have these chains that go into you know, airport terminals, if the airports charge an exorbitant amount of rent, yes, you know, like disproportionate to what they would at a you know, like for
the size of it. Oh my god, I've got to I mean, doesn't that kind of warrant or justify they're they're like an old timer which huts Chili's, but like whatever their their house burger is is probably going to be two or three dollars more than you would pay at the one over in Mesquite. Right, I've never been to that one in a Mesquite or the one that used to be on Skillman in six thirty five? Is that still there? I don't know. That's the first time I ever started a That's the
first time I ever got hammered at a bar on liquor? Was that a TGI Fridays? Is that right? How old? Yeah? Uh? Nineteen okay, so illegal? Yeah, completely Because I worked with a guy named Barry who was a pizza driver, like twenty six years old, in a career alcoholic and he goes, you want to go out drinking? I go, yeah, sure, you go. Where do you want to go? And he goes, let's go to Fridays because I know the bartender there.
You don't need an id like, let's go. I never ordered drinks, you know, couldn't get into a bar, so you just like had beer or whatever your friends. And I didn't know anything about like whiskey and Martini's and I one alcohol. I went in there with with career alcoholic berry at TGI Fridays and in nineteen eighty seven rang up a forty eight dollars tab for just myself and it was trying everything. Oh yeah, I'd like a I'd like a Manhattan, Manhattan, about a thousand of yu. My god,
that's all. These are delicious and I feel funny. Those are always high in the list of first alcoholic drink that you check out and enjoy. Yeah, get lit on the lit good. Great. I don't know. I've had a Long Island tee since I've been legal to drink, but I've had one since that night where I spent the entire night throwing up the entire next day, throwing up the worst headache that I've ever had in my in in
my short life at that point. But good god, I mean thirty or was it forty eight bucks for in nineteen eighty seven was a lot of money that would have been like one hundred dollars bar tab now and it was all all liquor. Do you know what's in a Long Island iced tea? Yeah, it's like all of it. It's tequila, vodka, rum, whiskey, gin. I believe, dude, Grand Marnier in there. If you want to splash a Coca cola, I believe pretty much. Yeah, cocaine.
It's just cocaine really typically maybe with vodka, tequila, light rum, triple secd gin and a splash of cola. Yeah, I wonder if no bourbon not in the quickest search. So you said vodka, gin, tequila, tequila, uh light, rum, triple sec gin and a swash of cola. So it's all the clears. Yeah yeah, Okay, that could make a cultural comeback. The Long Island iced tea that could spend a few months is the hot drink for no reason. Let's make that the downbeat drink
of the month. Okay, you are doing dry January food court that she has there a bunch of wooses and are doing dry January. Maybe we can get the next time we do an Alamo draft House downbeat screening, we can have a Long Island iced tea special. Okay, oh yes, three? Yeah, dude. And they're like full serve, Like each pore is a full pour from the bottle. So you're getting like four or five full shots of liquor in these things. And then they just take a strange drink.
Yeah, they take the coke. They keet the coke gun. Now, what the hell's going on in Long Island right? What the story is and what do they do out there? I don't like it. I just foun an article fifty This is from Das Morning News. It was fifty years in. Do you have to be Airport's food is a five hundred and eighty million a year business. It's crazy, man, are you serious? Five hundred
and eighties and you know they had their own a couple. I mean, there's not a ton of original restaurants, but you have like Nowitzki's, Yeah, Novitzki's, whatever you want to call it. I went to that the last time I traveled because I just happened to see. I didn't know that it was there, and I happened to see there's a big sign of Dirk,
and I was like, Okay, let's go pop in. And I mean it's it wasn't that crowded, like it's in that new terminal that not everyone is gotting to go into yet probably, So that's still that's gonna be so nice. Once that blows up. This airport about to get ridiculous. This bity is about to get ridiculous. To be honest, this year is gonna get ridiculous. There's a lot of things are gonna get ridiculous. But
here's just one quote from this article. This guy Aronza, who opens all these restaurants at the airport, estimates that he's opened Aroundza estimates he's opened one hundred and five airport restaurants in twenty eight years. The best performing of them all all time is the Chili's and Terminal see at DFW Airport. Yeah, it'll gross eight million dollars this year, I believe it. I wonder if that's because of a local familiarity slash loyalty because it was a Dallas based business
it was Chili's Man. I also wonder, Okay, so when Chile started there was one, and was it considered just a neighborhood mom and pop restaurant this is the first one, or did they have designs on being a national chain? I wonder how those things happen. I think I think they always start when you look the real genesis of them start as one because we always kind of have this affection towards our local chains. You know, we kind of embraced them, like the me Casinas of the world. You know that
there's multiple locations, but they're just Metroplex or Dallas based. At what point is somebody in Atlanta or you know, New Orleans saying, hey, we want to bring what a franchise these or bring me Casina to these other cities and then the next thing you know, you've got an out olive garden or an outback. Because they start as one. I think they do. They had the olive Garden. Is that one that was a one off? I
mean, I mean the story is probably unique for all of them. And now in the modern times, I bet there are some they're starting to become chains. I mean, that's the goal, that's the strategy from the beginnings. Yeah, but anything that we grew up eating and knowing. I mean, hell, I remember the Chili's open in Sarasota, Florida, and I'm like, this is the greatest thing ever. I think that was probably all
started as just one restaurant somewhere. It did that. It was on Greenville and like Meadow Lane or by Greenville and Royal and by Presby God, there's not much on Meadow and that place. I think that place is gone. I think it burned down or got demolished years ago. But that was the first one, and it was great, Like I've been there and used to live right by there, would go there and it had that feel. It hadn't become the the the cookie Cutter restaurant where they have all the same decorations
and same layout and same boots in every location. You went to that one and it felt like a local, the one single own, you know, restaurant. It was the Og and it felt like grimy. Maybe. Yeah. The next season one of the Office, like they didn't have their sights set on being syndicated, you know, Tish Hayward's making the show. And then by season two it starts to grow and sure enough, there's an office
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