Boonta Vista - EPISODE 385: I Will Million Dollar Baby Myself At 9:45

Episode Date: March 2, 2025

Lucy, Theo, Andrew, and Ben bring you: An entire episode of keenly insightful observations and predictions in the Grocerant space as it pertains to Millennials and Gen Z. *** Outro: Burn Out Blues - Washed Out *** Support our show and get exclusive bonus episodes by subscribing on Patreon: www.patreon.com/BoontaVista *** Email the show at [e-mail]! Call in and leave us a question or a message on 1800-317-515 to be answered on the show! *** Twitter: twitter.com/boontavista Website: boontavista.com Twitch: twitch.tv/boontavista

Music Hello and welcome to Bunda Vista episode 385. I'm Theo and I'm one of three beautiful daughters of a kind and trusting farmer. I live in a big bedroom that shares a big wall with the barn next door with only a hole in the wall to peek through. A little bit about me. I'm 36. I'm beautiful. I'm a VP of marketing dynamics at Palantir.

I believe that Rome was the greatest civilization to ever exist and collapse due to Marxism. And my stupid womb yearns for babies. I'm here with my younger, even sexier sister, Ben. Ben, you're a stockbroker at Himmler Hitler Diarrhea, but you used to do procurement for Jeffrey Epstein. Your favorite hobby is collecting scorched fingernails from the Hiroshima bombing, but most of all, you want to be F-Preg. Hello, Ben. I wish a true Manga patriot would come and cream pie me over and over and over again with their delicious unvaccinated cum. Thank you for participating, Ben. I'm happy to be here. Do you know how many intros you've done that are in the format of

like beautiful daughters of a farmer? Like three at this point. Three or participating, but. I'm happy to be here. Do you know how many intros you've done that are in the format of like beautiful daughters of a farmer? Like three at this point. It's three or four. Yeah. It's like Zelda. It's the same tale told over and over again. Yes.

Re re retold for the context of whatever. And finally it's Andrew, the sexiest sister of all. Andrew has a popular, long running true crime podcast. and would also like to be impregnated. How are you, Andrew? I'm good, but my womb is getting thirsty. We're going to get basted, you know? For the future of mankind, not just for selfish reasons. Yes, yes, yes.

I'm as altruistically motivated as the rest of you. Now, I know daddy's told us not to kind of hush down. Listen, though, daddy warned us that there might be a man staying with us tonight in the bar. Under no circumstances are we to become pregnant up the clunge from him, no matter how hard he tries and he will try. But what is this? Who is speaking through the hole to us?

Is that Lucy Musk? Hello Lucy, is that you? Jesus Christ. Oh, and you're for Cund. At this point I was, can I just say like the cream pie stuff instead? I don't want to do this one. Let me do the cream pies. Can I ask for the cream pies?

So you want it like a baster to kind of pop through the hole, not his weird, possibly messed up penis. Oh my dick don't work. I don't have a penis. You wouldn't believe it. It's not anything else. It's just kind of a void down there. Yeah. So you guys seen, you heard about this, uh, this Elon, uh, must fellow. He's a cream pie.

Yeah. He's been IVFing though. Like he's just IVFing a bunch of ladies. A bunch of ladies. Yeah. That he, that he works with or whatever. They're like, yeah, I believe in the 14 words or whatever that is. He like meets them on a plane and he's's like hey, can I IVF you?

Yeah, would you like to tell anybody about this? I'll give you a horse like they like the breeding stuff But without the sex which seems to me like the more fun part of being readable. Yeah, I've got two kids Tell you what I'd rather be Having some sex. Me and Elna were talking about this. And if you're listening to this because your old dad has died. He didn't mean that. He would rather be having some sex than you being alive.

Me and Elna were just talking about this in the car on the way to Costco while one of my kids sat in the back and I guess tried to ignore the conversation. Oh, the cream pie? Jesus. Do you remember when we used to cream pie every day? I was saying that like the whole, because like yesterday in the news there were like another several children of Elon Musk's unveiled. They keep coming. And my understanding is that all of them or the vast majority of them since however long ago have all been just like IVF with like

Sex selection and attempted Gattaca kind of stuff involved So like From from the ladies perspective Thank You, Edra. Yes These perspective if somebody said to you, hey, I'm the richest guy on the planet Do you want to just like carry a baby to term for me and you don't have to have sex with me? you don't even look at me look at me you don't have to have sex with me and I guess the theory is that like your material needs and those of your baby will be taken care of for the rest of your life

Probably they won't. Probably. But they won't be. Don't look into my history. I guess I'm saying that's probably what you think when you go into it. Yeah, that's probably the goal, right? Yeah, and then he's like, peace. Bye. Unless he wants the baby and then he's like, I'll have that one. Yeah.

Yeah, I'll take that one with me today. Picking from his lineup of babies? Yeah, from his like tactics RPG style roster today. Picking from his lineup of babies? Yeah, from his like tactics RPG style roster of babies that he can take with him into battle. What's the guy that swishes wine around his mouth or whatever? What's the guy that chooses wine? A sommelier? A sommelier.

He's got a baby sommelier. What goes well with meeting the president? What goes well with destroying America's healthcare? Hey, a sommelier, they help you choose stuff to go with a menu. It's time for Looks Like Menu's Back on the Menu. Looks like menu, back on the menu, boys! Final. The flight menu back on the menu boys final so like impregnation by Elon Musk only gets nine minutes, but You got a lot of positive feedback from the furcon list including a lot of feedback for people say hey I'm going to that one. Yeah, a lot of people saying they were going to that one. You know, no one

Came in there was like the stuff you said about the fucking suck isn't true. I can't believe it. They didn't say that. Nobody denied. Yeah. Which either means they're choosing to not be an annoying podcast listener or- Which we respect. Yeah, thank you so much. I think a furry on average is going to be more online and more understanding of those

kinds of interactions. Yeah, that is true, isn't it? Yeah. Or it's just real. Or it's real. Eight o'clock. I think it's real. I also appreciate that our furry fans just like they cop it with good humor. Yes. You know, they hear us making fun of furries and they say, that's not about me.

That's about somebody else. That's about the bad ones. I think that's really nice. Yeah. We appreciate you. This is from Steven Johnson, Grosso Art Guru at Tacoma WA, sorry, Tacoma Washington based food service solutions. My nemesis.

Everyone's nemesis, I think. The grocerant guru. I urge you, the listener, if you're driving right now, pick up your phone, get it in your hands, DuckDuckGo, images search, Stephen Johnson, grocerant guru, and just sort of breathe this man in. Yeah, you need to see him. I think it's important.

When you caught the tone of a Groserant guru piece, and you think to yourself, who is this piece of shit so presumptuously speaking to the beautiful Groserant businesses of America, as though he has the magic bullet for everything? Who's the smartest man in the world? And then you look at him, say, yeah, yeah, uh-huh. Checks out.

Yep. You're looking to go, ah, the guy who thinks he's better than every person who runs a gross around. Yes. Uh, this is his analysis of, uh, Gen Z and millennial eating habits in 2025. Here we go. In 2025, Gen Z born between 1997 and 2012 and millennials born between 1991 and 1996 continue to reshape the food industry, setting new standards

for convenience, transparency, and personalization in dining, driving food channel migration and ongoing churn. This is the guy who thought that there would be a lot of good gross around opportunities for Apple's Vision Pro. Yeah, yes. And Fooders as well. Shame I didn't come about. No. I love that when...

Sorry, what was the last part? I can't have to read the whole sentence because it's a bit run on. We got an hour to kill. Gen Z and Millennials continue to reshape the food industry, Uh, I kind of have to read the whole sentence because it's a bit run on. Gen Z and millennials continue to reshape the food industry setting new standards for convenience, transparency and personalization in dining, driving food channel migration and ongoing churn. Yeah. I'm always driving ongoing churn. You should see my toilet.

Yep. Yeah. Cause you have diarrhea often. The food channel migration from your ass to the toilet. This is what people come here for. With a growing preference for snacking over structured meals, an affinity for fast and frictionless food experiences, and a penchant for digital engagement with brands, their behaviors are influencing menu innovation, marketing strategies, and restaurant operations

across all segments from fast food to fine dining. I got to say, he's got me. He's nailed me. Yes. I'm a millennial. I love all those things. You don't really like a structured meal. You love snacks.

I love snacking. I love digital engagement with brands. Yes. You like a fast and frictionless food experience? Who wants a frictionful food experience? Yeah. Lucy likes those plates with the separation between the areas so the food doesn't touch each other.

I have grown out of that. Thank you. Not all my foods have to be one color now. This is such a good heading. So for this section it is food consumption trends by day part. Day part, like the time of day? Why did you say that? Why did you say day part?

He's written day part as one word. As we all know, breakfast is the meal of the first day part. Lunch is the meal of the middle day part. There's such a freakish way to describe that. But what of the midnightnight Gourmand? Oh, that's covered. Don't you worry. All right, so let's start with...

Apparently, day part as a word specifically relates to broadcast television. Oh. It's like a marketing word? Is this a marketing word that he's trying to use? In broadcast programming, day parting is the practice of dividing the broadcast day into several parts in which a different time of radio programming or television show appropriate for that time period is aired. You could just say meal, kind of thing.

Yeah. That's what that ask or sayzy movie was about. This guy's going to be talking about what meal is. The day partied. You're going to be the comedian of the week, Ben. No, I don't think I am. That kind of thing. You haven't got it on board, have you?

I, it's, it might be, it might be somewhere back near the start. Oh, it's the second on the list. It's right there. It could happen to anyone. Oh, it's on the- It should happen to you is what I'm saying. Well, we'll see. Uh, let's start with breakfast.

Gen Z and millennials prioritize speed and portability in the morning. Shut up. Shut up. Breakfast on the go is the norm, with 72% of younger consumers saying they prefer handheld options such as breakfast sandwiches, protein packed smoothies, or overnight oats. Sorry, he doesn't actually specify in the first sentence that it's about food. Otherwise we just- we just prioritize speed, speed of portability. Gotta go fast. I'm so fast I bet you can't put me on the bench.

Bet you can't pick me up. I do like food I can eat with my hands. It's true. That is true. Tom Walker's flirty Einstein. Yeah, you were bringing back a deep cut character. You were bringing back a very deep cut character. Yeah. You love flirty Einstein so much. I've never heard you so tickled. It's your favourite. I've never heard you laugh so much. You were making crazy eyes at Tom Waller's. There was a bunch of people who got in touch as well that's like, I love it when Theo just loses his mind. And you can really tell from the recording that

I am barely conscious. I'm like, blacking out like a pilot. Legs shaking, eyes rolling into the back of your head. More Flirty Einstein. That's right, but Tom won't stop. He just keeps doing Flirty Einstein. Even though you can't stand it. Stop it.

Tom. No, no more Flirty Einstein, but don't stop. Coffee and energy drinks remain dominant with cold brew and functional beverages, e.g. adaptogen-infused lattes growing in popularity. Sorry, adaptogen? Adaptogen. I Googled this like a week ago and it's completely gone out of my mind what it was. I feel like this is when, this happened to us where we did the trends thing as well,

where they were like the collagen infused pillows and stuff. Yeah, it's some kind of bullshit like that. What is it? This is a thing that exists only in quote unquote trends and not in real life. Right? This is like a- Maybe in Sydney. Maybe in Sydney.

Oh, maybe in Sydney they're doing this freak shit. Well, okay. So I do know some people that are doing this sort of stuff. It's like herbs and roots and mushrooms and shit. Uh huh. Okay. Yeah. Oh, okay.

Like a mushroom coffee. I know a lot of people taking mushroom pills. Not like, they're not microdosing like magic mushrooms. They're just doing, eating lots of mushroom concentrate. Okay. Because once you get to a certain age, you feel like surely feeling like this must mean that there is something wrong with you. Yeah, but also I'm not past, there is another step that I need to take, where it's like I am accepting that there is a relationship

between what I put into my body and then how my body reacts. And maybe if I put in mushrooms, my body will become perfect. Well, I mean, I think, I think as a, as a kind of chain coffee drinker, I have to accept that my body does not enjoy coffee being poured into it like five times a day. But you do. And you are sort of the boss of your body. And I'm in charge here. That's right. You're the king of your body.

You are part of your body. Yeah. You are your body, I do. You matter. And I'm in charge here. That's right. You're the king of your body. You are part of your body. Yeah. Yeah. You are your body, I think. Your body, no, your brain is just a way for your body to know itself. Oh. Isn't that beautiful? When does that start happening?

Probably after we finish recording, if the family's still out of the house. Restaurants catering to this demographic are implementing AI driven order customization and app based pre-ordering the streamline service. Don't AI anticipate. My food order. My food. Yeah. Keep that fucking AI shit out of my life. I love this, this stuff because there has been obvious.

I think honestly, like advertising is possibly one of the most immediately, um, uh, like, like you can use AI and machine learning and that sort of thing to make money from it. Right. You push stuff, people click on it, you get money. So there's been a huge amount of money poured into this and it sucks. Google has no idea what I want. And they have all of my data. They gave me a free Gmail account, one gigabyte. I only had a hundred megs with Hotmail in like 2001 or whatever it was. And you go,

what a deal. I certainly won't be making some sort of Faustian bargain here. And they've taken all of my data for your entire adult life for like 25 years. And they are using that data to sell me the guitar picks that I just bought. Yeah. I love that. Hey, I have them. They're right. Yeah. I already bought those. How do you not know that I bought these? These are not consumable items. I just keep using using these until they are all stuffed inside my acoustic guitar by my beautiful sons. I don't need any more. Yeah, I'm already mad enough at like I went I went through the McDonald's drive-thru

which I do not regularly do and I went through the McDonald's drive-thru, which I do not regularly do, and I went through the other day and was like, I'm already angry enough at what the menu is like at the drive-thru now where it's like big screens and you pull up and everything's kind of... It's pitch black and the screens are brighter than the surface of the sun. But also the menu items are all kind of separated out and they're not sort of grouped in any way other than like here's a promotional thing and the varieties of that promotional thing you get. You gotta know what you want. You gotta use the app. But half of the shit isn't there and then you gotta like wait for a bit.

You gotta wait for a bit for the screen to change to see like some more of the menu. Are you pulling up to McDonald's drive through not knowing what you're Yeah. Let's, let's explore this a little more. I've got something special that I might, I might want to go off. What do you mean there's something special at McDonald's? Sometimes they've got the McSpicy, you know, and I'm like, oh, maybe they're getting a McSpicy.

If you haven't heard about what's at McDonald's by now, I don't know how to educate you. They're doing new things at McDonald's and it varies from country to country. What are you getting at McDonald's there? I'm getting six nuggets and chips with ketchup. I'm taking that nugget packet, I'm breaking it, I'm opening it in half. Three nuggets on either side of it, pouring ketchup individually onto, not pouring, squeezing out of the packet, individually onto each nugget. And then I'm eating each nugget individually, one by one. I ate the chips first, by the way, before they go stale. It's a shame the diagnosis is so expensive.

It's like hundreds of dollars. It's more than a thousand dollars. The greens want to make it part of Medicaid. Yeah. That might be changed by my wife. Let's just do dentistry first, like just get teeth covered because we can sort of tell based on anecdotes they tell about nuggets. You can tell what?

You can kind of just tell. You can just sort of, sometimes you just get that feeling, you know? Lunch! The traditional lunch hour. Hold on, hold on. Can we do a quick breakfast whip around? We're all millennials. Yeah. What, quick breakfast whip around? We're all millennials. Yeah. What, our breakfast habits are?

Yeah. I don't. You just don't? When does the day part of eating start? I find that I will fall over and I will pang my head on a stool. I will million dollar baby myself at 9.45. What's for breakfast? At 9.45. For breakfast is a pot of oats cooked on the stove top. That's adorable. Like over the fire?

You're like wearing your little bonnet while you're doing it? We're wearing your bonnet? We have induction now. Are you putting some like honey and cinnamon in there or something? I put honey on. I cook some oats and then I put honey on. On the boats and then I put honey on. On the stove, all right. Okay.

Andrew. I'm usually leaning in one of two directions. It's either, either I'm like, you know what? I could be healthy. And I'm eating a bowl of like, the high fiber kind of special K. That's not as good. I like that. You're a special K man.

Yeah. I'm a beautiful lady and I deserve all the best. Yeah. Well you care for your bowels and also you've got folate for your blood loss. Although see, this is the thing Theo, you say care for your bowels, but like half the time it's like a bowl of high fiber special K and the other half of the time it's something like the other day where I had like leftover carnitas and had like a, yeah, yin and yang had like a carnitas and lots of pickles and a bunch of cheese toasted sandwich light and dark must both exist. Yes.

Yes. You got to just listen to what your body is telling you. Sometimes it's true. It's the most important thing. It's high fiber cereal or it's a hot sandwich of some kind. I don't think my body has ever asked me to eat carnitas in the morning. Well, it's there.

The leftovers are there and it's not gonna keep, you know? Yeah. Yeah, my mind is not ready for that form of texture until seven o'clock at night. Oh man, there's some pineapple in there too. That was good stuff. Hell yeah, brother. Lucy? Some of that homemade bread from LA.

Oh, I'm just, I'm just drinking black coffee, three to four cups until 11 a.m. and then eating one piece of toast and then wondering why my stomach always hurts. And I feel insane every day. Yeah. I like to sort of just not think about food until I get to maybe like eight or nine o'clock at night. That's too much to think about. At night.

That's very unhealthy. That's very unhealthy. Oh, it's the European diet. It's the French diet. I think. I don't know. Maybe. Could be.

It's probably the Polish diet, maybe. Never been there. You work all day. Not enough cigarettes, probably. You have a massive stew. You've got to have some breakfast that promotes that digestion. You gotta keep everything moving around, brother. That's what the coffee's for.

The system works. I think the coffee is the most important part of all of this, that we have substituted being like healthy and eating real food for drinking like five or six cups of coffee a day so that we can produce. So that we can, no, not, we can, we can be productive. In a kind of, in, you know, so you're talking about the diarrhea, you know, it's technically a drug.

Yeah. And they're like using it to control us. The world. Yeah. And it's legal because it's useful. You know what? They're using it to make my hands shaky. It's very important that Theo's hands are shaky by 1130.

The Illuminati needs your hands to be shaky for part of their sick plan. MI12 wants me to be on my phone playing Bellaccio because I drank too much coffee. MI12. MI12? Is that a combination of. MI12. MI12? Is that a combination of the majestic 12 and MI5? That's the most secret British spy agency there is. Lunch. The traditional lunch hour is fading as younger consumers opt for

mini meals throughout the day. Like girl lunch, I guess. A little like a handful of almonds. Isn't this the healthier way to be? Or like what Dr. Evil would eat. I think that's what they tell you to do. They always tell you to do this. Like have like seven almonds and two bits of celery like 80 times a day instead of having

lunch. I think that's what the advice is. That is just so, such a psycho way to live to me. I need my meal portion when I eat it to be massive. Oh no, I hate that. I need like 12 meals a day. Just like 12. See?

This has got you fucking nailed. Yeah. You're going the wrong way then. 12 science is micro eating. A micro dosing cashews whole day. Micro dosing lunch. Lucy is the median millennial. I am, it's great.

Ben, aren't you supposed to eat like a king in the morning? Yes, breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper. Dinner like a piece of shit. That's beautiful. That's something that Seth from, oh yeah dude, has been saying like once an episode for 1,000 episodes for the podcast.

And Ben instead is choosing to forego breakfast. Yeah. Not like a king. I'm on the Python diet. Slowly digesting through the night. It's not a pun. I just only eat one very big meal infrequently. Okay.

Yes. And then you go sleep on your sun rock. I eat breakfast like a dog, lunch like a moron, a dinner like a Mamma Mia Italian boy. Bolognese is what I'm saying. Meal bundling, mix and match offerings and build your own bowl concepts have become increasingly popular at fast casual trades like Chipotle and Carver. Millennials love bowls. They love bowls.

No, that's true. They do. Don't they? You've got your acai bowl. Yes. Yeah. You've got your burrito bowl. Poke bowl. How much of a fucking difference is it making your life not having the

tortilla? Have the fucking tortilla. Have the- That's not, just eat the tortilla. Yeah. It's like, you try to trick your braider to be like, oh, now all of these ingredients are a salad. It's still a fucking burrito dog. And if you don't like the gluten, that's why they made corn tortillas

see They thought of it all way back way back then before they even knew about the gluten stuff, you know Thank you. Mesoamerica Salad kids protein stack boxes and global flavors such as Korean barbecue tacos and Mediterranean grain bowls. Ah flavors from somewhere on the globe. Yes. That's right. Drive sales at both food service and retail grab and go sections.

That is true. Did these flavors make it to us from the Silk Road? Korean barbecue tacos. Marco Polo has arrived with his new Korean barbecue tacos. Korean barbecue tacos. Dinner convenience is king. The demand for ready to eat and heat and eat options has skyrocketed with restaurant branded meal kits and family bundles gaining traction. Takeaway Bolognese. Yeah, it's normal.

It's him, a little paper ball. It's crazy how polarizing the takeaway Bolognese is. So many people are like, why do you guys find this funny? What's weird about that? And a bunch of other people are just screaming like rain man because it's so wrong. It's an odd thing to do.

It's odd. It's just odd. It's fine. It's okay, but it's odd. It's like an odd odd. It's just odd. It's fine. It's okay, but it's odd. It's like an odd choice. It's like flying a kite at night. Yeah. It's like not technically weird. Although there's less wind at night, generally. There's less wind at night. It's like probably weird.

Delivery and drive-through orders now account for nearly 60% of Gen Z and millennial dinner transactions. It's depressing. You guys might have noticed that there's like, like 5,000 unregistered scooters driven by people that only just got their license, delivering food for no money at all hours of the day. Because you've got a single burrito delivered to your house for like $2. We kind of have sort of created an underclass of service workers that are just sort of like, they're not permanent employment and they're not paid properly. Did I make this up or does Uber also have like a car loan program that they

own for like neatly? Don't tell me that. Yeah, no, that sounds correct. Dovetailing their two businesses together. That's okay. Every day a new hell. They will help you finance your car. That's so fucked up.

But now you can get a lukewarm burrito for like 10 extra dollars than it would have cost you at the shop. So who's to say if it's bad? Millennials love that. Oh man, this is so fucked. You've got options. You can sign up to drive even if you don't have a car right now. In the meantime, we'll give you access to hire and leasing deals through our assistant company, PartnerPoint.

That's absolutely fucking psychotic. Yeah. I mean, it used to be that you would go, like you would arrive at Domino's, you know, say you're 19 years old, 18 years old. And you're in the car. You're high as fuck. And you're already... You got a CD wallet with a hundred hand labeled CDs ready to go. That's right. Is it going to be the Perfect Element Part 1? Is it going to be Deadwing? Is it going to be... It's probably going to be Deadwing, if I'm being honest here. Yeah. Imagine how cool you would look to people that are waiting out

front for their pizza to arrive. And you've got the opening riff of like dead wing blasting out of your windows. Or like the solo that like kicks in at like seven minutes from Adrian Ballou from, um, from King Crimson. And they're like, shit. That's the coolest Domino's delivery driver I've ever seen in my life. That solo is truly avant-garde that I'm hearing. Um, but it doesn't have to be your car. It could be the Domino's car that they have because they know that they need to have a

car for people to drive around. You can't just be like, oh, by the way, you can pay us to drive this car for us and we make all the money. They got their own car. Yeah. And then you will die in a ditch like a dog. And don't yell at us about this. Don't get mad.

If you ordered delivery, that's completely fine. Like I don't care about it, but it's not good behavior. If you've got circumstances, it's perfectly fine. If you don't have circumstances, fuck you. And you can decide what your circumstances are. Yeah. But I don't, I think I'm so happy for you if you have circumstances. I mean, I'm sorry that happened to you.

Yeah, sorry that happened to you, but enjoy your burrito. The circumstances are good. Man, I, we, I got some dominoes the other day. I know that there's a boycott of some kind that I broke. I apologize for that. But it's right there. People are getting paid. You know, whatever.

And usually, it's like a teenager on one of those electric bicycles, because we live just down the bottom of a hill from a domino. So they zip down in like 45 seconds. It's so fucking fast. It's unbelievable. And then the last time I came, it was like a teenager in the biggest fucking

ute I've ever seen in my life. They could like barely fit in our driveway. I was like, what's going on? I was very stoned at the time and it was very confusing, but it was fucking enormous. And the guy was dying. You shouldn't deliver a Domino's in like a ram truck. That's Where did the car thing you do? It can't be his surely, but the dominoes wouldn't buy like a Dodge Ram What the fuck you guys ever had a positive experience?

interacting with like a Ford Raptor Like they let me merge or something Kind of deal or like I'd like to drive in a straight line without being undertaken at like 400 miles per hour at a school zone. Everyone who owns those cars is a bad person. Is psycho, yeah. Is a psycho tab.

And if you've got circumstances. If you've got circumstances. I'm not sure what your circumstances are unless you just, someone gave you the car. Maybe you're a neurodivergent. Maybe you're a neurodivergent and you need to have. And you've got to have a big car. You have to have the biggest worst fucking car that's sold in Australia because it's

your special interest. It's safer in that. Yeah, big truck. I need the feeling of three tons of metal, like, audibly creaking on its suspension as I take a corner. Yes. It's 70 kilometers an hour in suburbia. Yeah, exactly.

I've got to feel like the bad guy from the Brave Little Toaster, otherwise I start freaking out. It's suburbia. Yeah. I feel like the bad guy from the Brave Little Toaster. Otherwise I start freaking out. It's my comfort character. It's actually triggering to me if I can see a toddler. So I prefer not to. Get them both out of my field of vision right down there. QR code enabled menus, TikTok inspired LTOs. That's limited time offers.

And fuck, what a grim combination of words. Digital loyalty programs keep these consumers engaged with restaurant brands. Are you guys being digitally loyal right now? Yeah. Man. I think this is probably the regular segment that makes me feel the worst. More than the ripping report.

Because death is a natural part of life. Yeah. And so is shooting yourself with a Colt 45 because you were spinning the cylinder while waiting to pick up your kids. That's just natural curiosity. This on the other hand, this feels like this constant sort of- This is demonic. Every time we check in with it, you're hearing about these new developments and just kind of divorcing us further and further from like the concept of food and meals. From what, like the basic transaction of someone cooks a lovely meal and you give them some money and you say, thank you very much for this meal.

I'm going to enjoy this. We're now like 20 steps of abstraction above that, that we're a TikTok inspired limited time office. And I'm not digitally loyal. I want the Soylent green because at least I know what that's made out of. And I know why they're making people into food. Yeah, because it makes sense. I hate this idea that it's like we're loyal because of the digital loyalty programs. You make us get apps like

Consent to apps has been manufactured A while ago I was going through it trying to find local places I could order from that weren't using like uber or door I could order from that weren't using like Uber or door or door dash Yeah for a while menu log they used to they don't anymore Fuck! Don't anymore? Yeah I used to get menu log for that reason

Too expensive because they paid them too much These days these days I use I use door dash to because at least according to them I hope it's true a hundred% of the tips go to the driver and so I offset my guilt by just Doing a cuz you can order a thing and then because like I've also never ever got fucking cash on me anymore. I Would love to hit somebody with like ten bucks and say hey There's a lobster let this let this augment your miserably low pay from these people. Um, but I've just never ever got cash on me.

Whereas with door dash, I can order a thing. I can tip them before the food has come to my house. Yeah. They can tell you that like, I'm cool. Go. This guy's not a piece of shit. I'm not like one of those guys doing it based on quality of service. I'm just giving it to you because you deserve it.

That's why I'm doing it upfront. Cause I'm doing like one of those guys doing it based on quality of service. I'm just giving it to you because you deserve it. That's why I'm doing it upfront. Cause I'm doing it upfront. Everybody deserves to make enough money. I'll tell you what, as a, as an ex delivery driver and Andrew, as a person who I know has weed, try giving your delivery driver some weed and they will go, thank you for the drugs. My life sucks ass. I'm going to go and do these drugs right now.

What if some guy gave you like one nug of the radiest bushweed you've ever seen in your life? Why don't you just do that? Well, probably they were all on fucking leafly or alternatively or whatever. So they're probably getting that like good 40% THC government weed. I think these days, if you gave someone a nug of ratty bush weed, it's spit in your face. It's slap it out of your head. I'm not drawing ratty bush weed. Yeah. Um, but I draw the line. I do use DoorDash as, as like the only,

for getting delivery from places that are only getting delivery drivers to do it, which is the overwhelming majority of all them, except for like fucking Pizza Hut, you know? I draw the line though, at getting anything delivered from a place that is inside a shopping center, that bums me the fuck out. Yeah, that feels fucked up making them go in there.

Yeah, because sometimes you're in a shopping center and you're in the food court and there's like people in there waiting and picking stuff up from the places in the food court. And I just feel like that's a bridge too far. From going like, go to the restaurant and bring me my thing to like go to the mall and park in the car park and walk inside and go to a whole other place. That's not worth anyone's time. Yeah, if you just want to order DoorDash, think about your driver's convenience. Getting a char time delivered to you I get a little dash think about your drivers convenience getting a chart

I'm delivered to you should get you sent to prison. Oh Yeah, yeah. Oh my god, if you ever getting like a single beverage delivered to your house, fuck you unless you got circumstances And then I'm so glad you there's a way to get your beverage. Yeah, I feel like as Millennials we should be way for you to get your beverage. Yeah. I feel like as millennials, we should be like, we love nostalgia and we love paying money for nostalgia and what's more nostalgic than going, Hey, do you want to go to the shops? Go to the mall.

You remember that mall? What's your friends? And we'll get something to drink. We'll look, we'll flip through a couple of, we'll go to JJ's and then we'll go to KFC and get a Zyga box. Yeah. We'll go to J-Car, we'll flick through the PlayStation games. We'll go to the newsagent and see if we can see any TNA through the plastic wrapper of a porno man.

Or those like the weird like motorbike magazines where sometimes there's topless ladies in there. Oh, and pig hunting ones? No, they're too gross. Or if you're a girl, you can rip open the cosmopolitan sealed section where it tells you that like you need to put a bunch of ice cubes in your mouth when you're sucking a guy's dick or something. Try touching his nipples. Start with 400 grain sandpaper. Work your way down to a detailed sandpaper. By the time you get to the 200 grit, he'll be feeling the sweet relief. It will feel like velvet. The sealed section in those jelly magazines was a bit of a trap

because sometimes you're learning like cool sex tips and then the rest was just like, I have the worst discharge of my life. What's going on with this? Learn a lot about this color. What's going on with this? Yes, start washing Late night and snacking. This is the final day part late night and snacking now, that's where I Really shine. I I honestly I am like, this is again, this is trying to assign behavior to ages,

which is just a part of human nature. My dad is the biggest enjoyer of snacking in the entire planet. He is a midnight gourmand. He will wake up at any time in the day to enjoy like seven stuffed olives from the fridge to go back to bed. I'm not a, I'm not a part of snack culture at all. Like we just don't keep snacks in the house.

Like we don't. That's healthy. Like sometimes you go around to like a friend's house and they'd be like, Hey, let's open a packet of chips. And I'm like, you have a packet of chips. Just sitting there ready to go that you didn't immediately eat on the day that you purchased it? That's crazy.

I've got a friend who has like four to five different packets of Pringles in his cupboard at all times. Yeah, that's kind of insane. Which is like that's someone, how like someone in a TV show, how their pantry will be stacked. Yeah. It's very strange.

Yeah. Got any chips for the big game? Yeah. Yeah. And he gets one out of the cupboard and flings it at him. I got several dips. Which kind of dip would you like? Come over and pick a chip, pick a dip.

The big game's about to start. The rise of fourth meal culture driven by flexible work schedules and entertainment consumption has led to increased spending on snacks and late night food options. Flexible work schedules? You are describing hell. You mean gig work? You mean the fact that everyone's fucked? We've fucked everyone?

Stop trying to describe this like it's fun. You can drive the Uber at whatever time of the day you like. Steven Johnson, I am going to cut off your hands. Steven, no hands Johnson, the grocer on Guru. That's what they'll be calling you. I've heard that people in my age, demographic prefer meals that you don't need your hands to eat. Drinkables.

The rise of drinkables. The rise of straw-based dillus. Because he's got no fucking teeth left. 45% of Gen Zers say they eat a snack in place of a traditional meal at least three times per week. That sounds grim again. Grim. No money. Three times a week. That sounds grim again. Grim. No money.

That's not that often. Is that about being flexible or is that more of like I can't afford all my full meals. Or I have no time. I have depression. Shit just fucking sucks. How about 14 times a week when you have depression? Yeah.

Eat two olives instead of dinner. Fast food and ghost kitchen brands leverage gamified app experiences, subscription-based rewards and influencer collaborations to drive sales in this space. Yeah, but they shouldn't. Make a value judgment. They shouldn't. Knock that shit off. What's a ghost kitchen brand? Oh, that's when, that's your Mr. Beast burger, but obviously there isn't Mr. Beast burger kitchens all through the world. So you pay these white label kitchens or places that would normally be making their own, uh, burgers or whatever to also do your stuff on the site. So like places that will, they'll do a regular day service, they'll close for the night and then someone will pay to come in and use the kitchen.

So like Theo, you know, I think it's called like Flamin' Gala now, but it used to be Beetle Bar, you know, that bar up on, uh, across from the barracks. Oh yeah. Giant Volkswagen Beetle statue on top of it. That place is, I don't know if they're still doing it for a while. There are a ghost kitchen for like eight different places, four of which were just differently named fried chicken places that were all like top rooster or like sick bird or winner, winner chicken dinner, shit like that, where it was like

these little like Australian isms, but it was all the same place. Like ghost writing, but ghost kitchen. I got it. I get it now. They also, they'll just do multiple of them because they want to take up as many places on the apps as possible. Yeah. It's just, they're all just like choices fanning out on the app and then fanning

back in to like four places to their, like to their restaurants so that they can be, yeah, ordered from, um, that to me is more sick than Area 51 or whatever. This makes less sense to me than taking apart aliens in a bunker somewhere in the Nevada desert. Yes. I think they're also inadvertently creating the kinds of eateries that, um, Gordon Ramsay would go to in Kitchen Nightmares. Mm-hmm. Where...

Oh, when he has a kitchen nightmare? When he shows up at a place and they go, here's the menu, and he, like, unfolds it and it's like three double-sided A3 pages. Yes. Yeah. He's like, Jesus fucking Christ. And, and he's like, well, surely you can't be doing any of this well. Yeah. You know?

And I think that's what the ghost kitchen thing creates too, is that you say, Hey, we're a kitchen who's also cooking like four or five restaurants worth of things. Yeah, absolutely. I think one of the most important things I learned when I was 30, when I kind of graduated to my thirties and they go like, here's your information pack of all of the stuff that makes life worth living. And you know, you don't have to be in your twenties anymore. One of the things is the shorter the menu, the better the restaurant.

That's a hundred percent true. Like Gordon is kind of a fuckwit, but like, that's true. Like Gordon is kind of a fuckwit, but like that's true. He's, his rice recipe is completely correct. And he knows that the shorter the menu, the better the food is that you're going to every time he looked at a really long menu and said, suck my cunt. This is proper mental. Yeah. He was right.

He was correct. It was proper. That's right. Yeah. How restaurants can win Gen Z and millennials cooking on that one. That's right. Yeah. How restaurants can win Gen Z and millennials. Step number one, speed and convenience. Mobile first strategies, AI powered drive-throughs and loyalty driven rewards programs are key.

No, they're not. They're not. Stop it. How about a tasty lunch? No, wrong. I'm suggesting you make a lunch that's really tasty and And then I go, fuck, that was a good lunch. And then I go back there. The best takeaway experience I've had in like the last five years.

So I was ordering Bolognese to take away and I drove down there. They saw you and they went, it's Bolognese boy. This was like order number two. So I hadn't worked out how long it had taken yet. So I showed up a bit early, parked, came in. I was just sort of standing around in the, uh, trying to figure out what to do with your hands, et cetera. Absolutely.

Um, and a nice lady came up to me and said, Hey, can I help you? So I'm just waiting for a, uh, for an order for Theo. So, you know, it's probably be another 10 minutes or so. Would you like to sit at our bar? And I say, fuck yeah. I want to sit at your bar. I want to sit down at your bar and have a beer please. And then I, so I went in there and I sat down and I had a beer at the bar while I

was waiting for my Bolognese and the beer tasted good and I enjoyed drinking it at a bar in like a dark room at a restaurant. Uh, cause that's dope. You know, what's not dope is an AI powered restaurant. Ah, cause that's dope. You know what's not dope? Is an AI powered menu. That sucks shit. That's stupid. That's a stupid idea to have.

McDonald's burger costs twice as much if you don't log on to the app first. They don't need AI to ask me whether I would like a beer at a bar. I would love a beer at a bar. No. I would love a beer at a bar. There's yes. Yeah. Would I like 10 minutes of drinking a beer and staring into space and doing nothing? Oh my God. Yeah.

Yes. Yeah. Yes. I want all this attitude that all this stuff is like making our lives better and like giving us what we want. And we don't want it. We hate this. I hate this.

I hate this. I hate everything around me. Yeah. At war with the world at large. I have a problem with you. Yeah. The, cause the flip side of like everything being more convenient is that we are supposed to use it to cram more shit into our day.

And I want to cram less shit into my day. Yeah. Just generally less. I'm sick of cramming. I'm all crammed up. I'm done cramming. How about take a little time back for yourself by doing things slow. Just slow down.

Slow down. Just general advice. Yeah. Slow down a little. It's the fast paced world of today. Yes. Try slowing down. Yeah.

What De Vista says, take it easy. Hey. Hey. Hey. Get powder dry. Yeah. So you can kill Elon Musk. Kill Elon Musk.

Fucking stab him in the throat. Social media and digital marketing. Gen Z and millennials consume food with their eyes first. We're really unique in that way. Yeah. I usually start with my shirt, but I'm just kind of like a very uncoordinated person, but. Don't take behavioral kind of observations from a man in his sixties that dresses like the Riddler. Yes.

Yeah. Cause he doesn't know what's going on. Millennials take pictures of their food. To put on social media. Yeah. Oh, what filter am I going to put on this Instagram photo? Limited time collaborations, nostalgia driven reboots and TikTok viral menu hacks create buzz and drive traffic. Shut up!

No thanks, it just thinks that you hope to, and they don't, no one wants them. No one likes them. I will. Nostalgia driven reboots, I think we have all sort of admitted they do kind of work on us. They do kind of work. Grimish Shake. I got the Grimish Shake. I'll go for a throwback. Toasty tubes are back? You bring back a 70s logo for your packaging. I'm like, fuck.

Oh yeah. I mean. Yes. I think they should start making beer in those like the cans that were like the same cans we put food in when it was just like a tin of peas. Yeah, the ones that you see in like Once Upon a Time in Hollywood. Yeah. What are those cans? They must have been crazy.

You've got to rip the whole lid off? Not the beans cans? I fucking want one of those so bad. Yeah, me too. No, they're full of peaches and they're just sipping on the peach syrup. Oh, that shit tastes so good. I'm somewhat disappointed in you guys. I didn't know that you were so into nostalgia and reboots.

I think the only nostalgia thing that I will go for is Akira playing in the cinema and 5.1 sound, 7.1 if they've got a 4k on the screen, because we went to that. But I feel like that's a one thing. Okay. But what if they had an Akira meal at McDonald's? I'm not going for it. What if there was a special sauce with the Akira meal? Hey, first of all, it would have to be a slider All right, okay. Okay. I'm gonna want to hear you working out on that one because the because the

Fuck you I'm playing it. I'm not gonna lie, I just don't think I'm gonna sit down. I'm not gonna lie, I don't know how to friendship, you know? I just... It's so long. It's just coughing that's always the most upsetting part for me. I think it's the two points where you think it's stopped and then it comes back. Oh no. Christ alive. Starbucks, for example, uses TikTok trends to introduce new customizable drinks leading

to increased engagement and sales. Yeah. And the staff fucking hate it. They hate that. If someone came in and ordered something from me, because it was a TikTok menu hack that they saw, I'd kill them. So go to hell. I'd cut off their hands. Yeah, cut off their hands.

Say goodbye to your parents. Say goodbye, they scan a QR code with this. There's one guy in our Discord who kind of does a character that's like interested in the Starbucks side guys. Don't talk about him on the podcast. Don't give him fucking anything. That is the only interaction I have with this. This man needs to be studied in a fucking lab.

He's made in person, really lovely guy. Lovely guy, beautiful person. Yeah. Customizable and health conscious offerings. Personalization is a must. Chipotle's lifestyle bowls cater to keto, Whole30 and vegan consumers, while Sweetgreen's data-driven menu recommendations optimize customer satisfaction. Don't give me data-driven stuff. Yeah. I'm not data-driven menu recommendations optimize customer satisfaction. Don't give me data-driven stuff.

Yeah. I'm not data-driven, I'm a human being. That's right. I'm a man. I'm a man. I'm a grown, I'm a living person man. I'm a person. My name is Anarchy.

I'm living free on the land. Hey, do you have any of those lifestyle bowls? Yeah. I say as I enter the venue. Check out my lifestyle balls. Yes. Yeah, take that chipotle Experience driven dining dining out is more than just a meal. It's an event Yeah, I want some ladies there who are gonna yell at me really rudely? Yeah No, it's back on the Karen's diner Well, cuz I feel like Subway's eating their lunch yeah, you want to go yeah you can get it for free at subway

And it's real When They're not actors. It's real. When he spins the barrel and like flicks it closed, holds the gun up to his head and it goes click. That's sincere. He means it. There's a five in six chance of that happening. And if he does it six times, that's a 30 in six chance of it happening. Immersive dieting concepts such as interactive chef experiences and table side presentations attract millennials who seek memorable outings.

You want to be a memorable outing? It's going to Elon Musk's house on whatever meme street with a car full of fucking explosives. Do you know he actually lives on meme street? Does he for real? I couldn't tell if that was a joke or not. Is that a joke or not? Did he change it? What is he live on meme Street was he just doing a gag if he really lives in that fucking house

Don't post anything about it. Don't let on that, you know, just pack the fucking car Full of shit that will explode and drive into his fucking living room In Minecraft I don't care what are they gonna do to us? I don't care. What are they going to do to us? I don't care anymore. Please don't demonetize us. They're not going to arrest us in the... they're not going to extradite us, probably. Probably.

Like, right? Yeah. And the ASIO agent that listens to this is really stuffed by this. I think he's kind of come around on it. I think he's kind of enjoying it. I think he gets it now. Yeah. And kind of cute too.

Yeah. Kind of like. Kind of sexy. Like. Yeah. What's going on? You've been sucked off by four punk casters? Who you didn't send to jail. We'd be oh so grateful. We cannot get you in jail.

And the final point on this thing that has taken the entire episode. It's been a good episode. I don't regret anything. Subscription membership models. No. Panera's Unlimited Sip Club and Taco Bell's Taco Lovers Pass exemplify how brands are turning occasional diners into repeat customers by offering value-driven subscriptions. It cannot be value. There cannot be value.

It cannot be value for you. Otherwise they wouldn't do it. Let's see. I like that we all have our like weak spots. And for you Lucy, it is the siren song of Australian Taco Bell. Australian Taco Bell. You guys don't even have one do you? How about a Taco Bell?

No, and the one in like Sydney or wherever there are, it's no good. It's not the same. They don't have any Taco Bells like within the inner city in Brisbane at all. They're like exclusively outer suburbs. Yeah, I think there's one in Melbourne that's in like a random suburb. It's like a fucking, we've got Carl's Jr. in Australia for some fucking reason, but... We do. One of them is like out near Toowoomba and one of them is at the airport and those of you are like, that's it.

That's where you can go. The one at Beanley's shutting down, I think. One of them is like out near Toowoomba and one of them is at the airport and those of you are like, that's it That's where you can go. The one at Beanley's shutting down. I think I think it got replaced by Taco Bell Honestly, the Carl's Jr burger pretty good Not bad. 10 dollar taco pass. You want something that tastes like it actually spent time on the grill? Yeah, maybe go to Carl's Jr Yeah, this podcast officially endorses Carl's Jr. Don't get the app. if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word.

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I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not sure if that's the right word. I'm not a taco at Taco Bell is like a dollar 50. It's crazy. That can't be right. Even in Australia, in Australia, a taco is $10. No, not in Australia. Not the same thing. You're telling me $10 and you get a taco a day? Yeah. A taco a day. That's, that's insane. That's include the spliced potatoes off tacos.

It's crazy. It used to be $10 taco Tuesdays, where you get one taco for $10. Yeah, that's generally what you get now. That's right, Australia. Hey, you know, Theo, do you remember when we first started hanging out, we used to go to beach burrito every Tuesday and I would try and eat as many tacos as I possibly could. Yeah.

I'd eat like 50 tacos. And then we would ask them not to take our baskets off the table so we could get as biggest stack of the taco baskets as we could. Ah, showing off, huh? Yeah. That was a really good time. Yeah. we could. Uh, show it off. Huh? Yeah. That was a really good time. Yeah. That was back when I left the house.

Yeah. We like just go on like hang out with friends just to like, there wasn't an event or an occasion, it wasn't anyone's birthday or anything. We were just like, there was no data except how many, uh, baskets we were stacking. Yeah. And like the waitresses who had started to recognise us from the fact that we weren't there once a week would be like, Oh wow, that's a lot of baskets. And occasionally we get a free beer.

Yeah. Pretty good. Anyway, that's all done for now. Yeah. That's never happening again. Imagine if you just like swung by the scratch for like a beer, just like a knockoff and we just chatted, talked about our lives and I'd say, Hey, don't worry about it.

That's on me. Hey, don't worry about it. Take that beer. That was definitely an episode somehow of the podcast. Buntavista. I had fun. I had a blast. I had a great time. I'd do this on purpose, even if the mics weren't on. Yeah. You guys shooting the shit talking about value driven meals. We do this for free. And that's why the podcast feels so good. We're doing art for art's sake. Like Ethan Hawke was talking about in our video,

you have to enjoy art for the sake of it. Yes. Fuck yeah, Ethan Hawke, you're really hot. And you'd say stuff that sounds really wise. It's like you really are Jesse from the before movies. Probably with the bad parts of his personality as well. He's like artistic. He's kind of a dreamer. Yeah, kind of fucking annoying. Like kind of really fucking annoying. Yeah. But like really hot, like annoying hot.

Yeah. You'd say stuff, you'd be like, shut up. Come over here and kiss me. Beautiful Ethan Hawke. Freemium Freemuary is over. We are blaming the gate shut. The vault door has closed. Get out your wallet.

We are spinning that big spinner. Pay up, bitch. You little pig. You little piggy. Yeah. Oh, you have to pay us. You have to give us money. Yeah.

Oh, you've got to give us money now. You're a piece of shit. Yeah, I'm stamping on you and I'm wearing big old fucking heels. Give me the money, bitch. You little... I'm going to go and lie down. ...pathetic little... ...lip dick......pitch. I'm going to lie down. You little pathetic little limp dick bitch.

That's so natural. Yeah, I've done this before. Thank you for listening. If you do want to still keep getting two episodes a week, consider signing up. A bunch of you already have, because we got you. We lured you in and you fell for our trap. But if you haven't and you'd like to consider doing it, uh, otherwise we'll see you again on the free episode.

Don't fall for any fucking marketing shit. All right. Just live your life according to your own principles. Find out about stuff from word of mouth or from trying new things just because now because a billboard told you to to or your app and app told you to don't fucking be like, oh my God, they got that guy in the commercials. I'm going there. Knock that shit off. Just slow down. Instead, take it easy because we suggested that you should do that.

Yeah, that's right. Taco Bell, Taco. That's a that's a taco every day. That's a really good deal, actually. That's crazy. That's crazy. Good value. Stay safe out there. Bye! Bye! I need some time, so I can find you To slow things down, relax and clear my head To slow them down, so I can breathe again Thanks for watching!