Macrodosing: Arian Foster and PFT Commenter - Fast Food ft. Henry Lockwood

Episode Date: February 1, 2022

On today's episode of Macrodosing the crew is in full force, with special guest Henry Lockwood, to talk about the fast food empire Taco Bell. Hear everything from the first tasting of Baja Blast to the ins and outs of owning a franchise. Also, Big T announces his WOAT list of fast food items and does a Sprite test for the ages. Coley even gives his most wild take in potential show history. All of this and more on the show.You can find every episode of this show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or YouTube. Prime Members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. For more, visit barstool.link/macrodosing

Hey, macrodosing listeners. You can find us every Tuesday and Thursday on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or YouTube. Prime members can listen ad-free on Amazon Music. Who has, oh, the last ball? Yeah. I know, Philly needs to get on that. They have it illegal age. Yeah, that's, they stole that.

Yeah. That's the rightful property of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. I mean, once again, guess who gave it away? Mike Evans. Mike Evans, is he? Yep. You think he's a CIA average? No, is he, you know.

an agent of the team to give away property? Why would the team want him doing that? Exactly. He's not acting in the team's best interest, so he's not an agent of the team. Thus, the ball is still the team's property. What? The box, opening night next year,

they should have Mike Evans escorted out in handcuffs. Just right out of the field. What Billy just said is big Michael Scott, like, well, it was on company property with company property. So double jeopardy. Roger Goodell should shoot Mike Evans in the head Execution style on the logo

What's up, Aaron? You're muted. Can't hear you. Happy birthday, dog. Thank you, Aaron. Trash, though, on a Monday, guy. That shit sucks. Trash day to have a birthday.

Really trash to have a birthday after you turn 30. There's no real point to it anymore. I don't disagree man I got a lot of I hear that a lot man a lot of motherfuckers are 30s be like me and I'm washed the mold

like you as you I feel great but weren't you wash like as an NFL player once you turn 30 physically I'm unable to do the things that I was at a high level with the highest of levels

but like mentally I was a piece of shit I was horrible like I was nowhere near the human I was today like I'm way up them way happier fuck that shit you could have that shit getting in car wrecks every week fuck it i love happy birthday though man i'll make this about me thank you maybe i can maybe i will continue to grow mentally

i wouldn't hold my breath for it maybe i will uh maybe i'll watch ready player one eventually that will i think that's why you i think that's why you think that's why you think that's why you think that's why you think that's why you think that's why you've grown so much in the last seven years whatever is because you watch ready player one once and you're like that really that changed my life not just that one Avatar Matrix Inception Those three movies man

It's great great great movies Hank you like Ready Player 1 Yeah really good movie Oh Hank the haters in the building Hank the hater No I'm not PFT fucking sold me down the river I sound like I'm I'm an

I'm an objective man I'll give you a chance to All right so imagine you know You play in the NFL Aaron You know how it is I can imagine that There's there's there's things you say when you're talking about the team publicly

and then maybe you're in a one-on-one meeting with one of your coaches and you're like, yo, like, our defense has to step up or like this guy's got to step up. You wouldn't say that publicly. And if the coach said, like, Ariens said our defense needs to step up, you would look bad. FFT, I was in the studio and PFT was like, literally, I wasn't even asking him a question.

He hit a deep sigh. He goes, we really got to make these microdosing shorter. And I was like, oh, I was like, How long have they been going? First of all, that's cap because I would never call it. Let the man. Let the man. Let the man. Let the man. Don't whatever to fuck it. But let the man finish. He's like, we got to make these short. I was like, how long are they going? And he was like, you know, they've been going like they're supposed to be shorter. They've been going over an hour, hour and a half sometimes. And I said not saying what I suggested he should do. But I said me personally as a podcast listener, I am more inclined to listen to the shorter ones because I have a 30 minute commute. So like that I like, that I like, if I see 30 minutes, I'm like, I'll listen to this. If I see an hour, hour 15, I'm like, eh, that might be too long.

Let's not stretch it out. So that was the only thing I said. I didn't say you should make them shorter or like PFT. Listen, we got to talk, man. Tell your people to make these episodes shorter. And somehow I went on Twitter the next day and I was just getting destroyed by the dosians. Yes, it's really not that serious. Thank you for coming on.

Yes, thank you, Hank. Now, thank you for having me. To be fair. Happy to clear there. When I talked about this on last week's show, I think it was more in just a light of I would enjoy knowing what most people thought if there were more hanks out there. I don't know how many hanks we have listening to our pod. There are.

There's only one. But I was curious. I was like, do more people want shorter nanodosings for their commutes? I don't know because our regular episodes are three and a half hours long sometimes. So I don't know if maybe there's a market out there for somebody that wants to macro dose, but not at the macro level. Just dose. It's a marathon. It's a marathon podcast.

I don't know if we're good sprinters. You know what I'm saying? Yeah. Listen, I think it was a misunderstanding. I'm Hank the lover, not Hank the hater. I'm a docian. I'm here to talk to the people. Yeah, it's true. I like it. I appreciate you clear in the air, pimp. So, Hank's here to talk with us about his experiences with the fast food industry and specific sectors. I love it. I love fast food today. I love Billy keeping us on track, right off the night. I was insane. I can dig jump the girl. I can all start, man. I'm introduced. We're trying to introduce Hank. We got shit that. Rihanna had a baby, bro. What is you doing? We got to introduce that. You're not having to have a baby.

You know, but we can hop into. No, embrace debate. I think having, once you get pregnant, you have a baby, right? That's true. Well, well, well, well, you're getting into some dangerous territory here. Let's expound on that. Expound on that for me. How long do they have to be in the stomach?

If you're pregnant, one could say, I have a baby. It's what month can you start calling it out of it? Yeah, that's a good question. Yeah, big team back at you. The moment of conception that shit is ugly Probably because it can be an ugly baby So Okay

But the fetus itself is like You gotta agree to that It looks like a shrimp cocktail Yeah Yeah I mean It's just ain't a shrimp is cute What a cute little shrimp

This ugly baby debate Okay what is your definition of ugly Looking bad Real quick Mad white folks in my damn Send me pictures of their babies And instead of replying to all of them I'm just going to tell you all of them are ugly.

I'm just going to let you know right now. All your babies are ugly. Like it is what I like it's not like it's not a biased thing right. It's not your babies or your white babies. My babies. When my babies came out, I was like, yo,

this got to change fat. And it did. And then that they're cute. You know what I'm saying? And now they look like humans. But when they was infants, their mom got mad at me. For sure.

Because I was like, yo, that, that, that ain't it. I've seen Billy's baby pictures. He's, I would show that thing right back in.

I'm going to keep you the buck, Billy. I'm keeping it a buck, dog. I don't have like this objective metric as to why or what makes a baby ugly. It's just when I look at it, there's a visceral reaction that's like babies don't look good. They're not appealing. So they're disgusting. It's gross.

They look like little wet thumbs. And thumbs look ugly. Have you guys ever seen a baby mouse? No. Yeah. It's probably ugly too. Yeah, they're disgusting. They look like little worms.

Can they see? No. Like, look up, like, you used to feed them to, like, snakes and stuff. Frogs, eat them, too. So, like, a lot of people use them for fishing. They're pretty disgusting. Anyway. So, we got a little bit of cleanup to do over the weekend here.

Thank you guys for all coming to my birthday on Friday. It was very cool to see all of you. Was not invited. Was not invited. I invited the entire, the entire crew in the group chat. Oh, you're muted, so I didn't get, sorry. Yeah, invited everybody, everyone came out. We all had a great time together.

Syke, nobody came out. Damn. No one. Not a single soul. If I was in New York, I'd have came through. I know you would have. Do you want to actually go out tonight for your birthday? No.

So, yeah. I mean, it's Monday. Nobody wants to celebrate it on a Monday. Okay, because the rest of the week will be ruined. I was going to say the last time I remember, and I'm sure it's happened since, but the last time I remember my birthday on a Monday was, 9-10, 2001. So bad things happen when your birthday's on a Monday.

That's all I'm trying to say. Uh-oh. Is your birthday, your birthday's 9-10? No, I'm just saying that week didn't, 9-10 was fine. Yeah. It was everything that happened after. So you're telling me that the Washington football team is going to choose a really shitty name on Wednesday.

Definitely. That's what this is all lining up for. Oh, you should have a reveal show. Well, they are. They're doing on Good Morning America. You should crash it. Not them. Oh, I should.

Yeah. I can tell you what the name's going to be right now. The Commandors or what it would be? Yeah. Yeah, Commanders. It's going to be commanders. Commodores. Yeah, they got the like domain or whatever.

That would be, hey. That would be, the Commodores. That would be crap. Got the theme song popping already, man. What you mean? No, he would be a Commodores fan. That makes sense.

Tennessee hater. That checks out. Easy like Sunday. Oh, wait, who are the, who are the, who are the Commodores? Vandy. Oh, I didn't even. even know. I was talking about the music group in the 70s. Like the most disrespectful thing you could say about Vandy is like he didn't even, he played against him four times, didn't

even know what their team name was. Oh, they got a V on their helmet and I didn't research their school history. Yeah. And they say anchor down, don't they? Yeah. It's actually, they don't say anything. Every time you play there, there's nobody there. Aaron, what's the University of Florida? What are that? They're the gators. And the reason why I know that for show is because every week that every time we play was the gator week we would literally serve gator alligator and giv's hall which is where we ate and got and got our and got our weekly indentured serve uh server two meal or the day but that's big t's right like the fact that you didn't even know that vanderbilt was the commodores no that's bad started all the vanderbilt

listeners out there there aren't any don't worry about it yeah andy my claim to fame is uh we had more honor roll students than them 05 they beat us we have more honor roll students than them but isn't that a sliding scale where like making the honor roll at the university of Tennessee is like no no no no you just show you wear shoes and they put you on that's fake news paper classes this is this is I never had bro if I ever had paper classes that it made my day but I did not have I had there was a couple professors where they were like harder on me because I played football and I was like bro just throw me me a C. I don't care. Tell me a C. But like, they was like, it was on my bumper, man.

Shout out to my Spanish teacher for not taking me to the dean because she called me cheating, though. That was very nice of her. So what else we want to clean up from this weekend here? We got, the birthday party again was epic, just insane, crazy stuff. We'll have to keep that all offline. I don't want too many people finding out about it. Honestly, though, what really happened was I went out for margaritas in Mexican food and queso. I had three margaritas. I had like two or three beers and then everybody was like, so you want to go out? And I was just like, no. Like I've had, I'm full and I've had three margaritas. I'd just like to go home and sit down on the couch, maybe get a little bit high. And that's that I officially, this was my first washed

birthday where I would just rather stay home, be quiet, fall asleep. Do you think that's why people didn't want to come? Yeah. Yeah, probably Billy. Except Billy really wanted to come. Billy kept texting me, asking me if I could change my birthday to a Thursday. Well, just change the dinner. Yeah, just dinner.

I was going to say we did a Twitter spaces on Thursday, I think it was. And it was really good. Arien hopped in. There were three things that were really funny from it. Arrian met Danny Lopior for the first time. He had no idea that Danny was the guy who did the Let Me Suck Them Tiddy's Baby And it was so far

I had been a fan of that meme for years Did anybody record when he said it? I don't know No one sent it But it's so funny He did the riff of it And Aryan couldn't stop laughing It was I made him do it three times

And then Ramon Foster came on Friend of Aryan And he told some stories that were pretty surprising, including the fact that Aaron's been in a group chat with his whole recruiting class, and he doesn't, he still doesn't care about UT. He said you're the only one that doesn't care about UT? Well, I'm the only one that don't, like, beat off to, like, school pride. It's not, it's not my thing. Like, I don't have anything to get. I think that's the

misconception is, right? When you're, like, anti-system, you get, it's, it's synonymous with, like, anti-established, establishment, right? So it's like, I don't fuck with the NCAA and a lot of what they do so they're like oh you don't like tennessee and the people you met there like there's nothing to do with it like there's nuance in these debates you did say that you could beat him in golf though so i think we're going to have to do that oh he knows he knows that he's asked but yo for those that don't know this is the this is the guy let me suck your titties baby oh no bro he was a fan of that shit for years he was one of the people all the time One of the people when there was like, you know, obviously a lot of people used to come in the old office, like celebrities and shit.

I remember when I saw him like doing, I think he was like Chaps and Kate show. I was like, oh my God, like freaked out. Like went like she dab them up and shit. Yeah. So funny. And that was like a vine, I think, wasn't it? Yeah, I think so. He was a vine star.

Top, top vine. I miss vines. I really do. Vine was one of the best things online. Vine was like as fun as TikTok, but felt a lot less predatory. Yes. It felt a lot more organic too, like a lot more natural. Whereas TikTok, everybody on there, I feel like.

like they're trying to game some sort of system or an algorithm. Vine, it has, you know, the image of a vine, natural, like a plant. TikTok is like machine, like steampunk almost. You had to be funny on Vine because you had six seconds. So I, so I like, I do a lot of TikToks. I'm going to let him get away with that. I'd rather just keep going. That shit was bad.

What? No, I loved it. I'm going to stand up for Billy on this. Binds grow out of that. And I'm a lot of steampunk. Binds your green TikTok's like mechanical. Yeah. Okay.

So the steampunk part was a little over the line. But I actually see what he was going for. I chose to overlook that steam. No, Billy, just abort the steampunk part of it. But was that shit in your notes? Like you wrote down analogy buying versus TikTok. No, I feel like this. Okay.

I get it. Are you a steampunk guy? Do you like steampunk? I don't know. What is steam punk? We got to do an episode. Are you anti-steampunk? It's weird.

I am. I might be. I don't know what it is. Oh, Billy. Billy. It's like one of the guys from daft punk started a different group called it Steamp. Is that what it is? Is that what it is?

I know death. No, Steam punk is like, it's very difficult to. Have you ever seen the movie Wild Wild West? Will Smith? Yeah. Great soundtrack. Yeah. I just, I mean, you know the guy that drives?

I have an addendum to that. You know the guy that drives the giant metal spiders and like he decided to make big metal spiders for some reason, that guy's really steampunk. Just imagine a lot of technology. It's because you don't have legs and they have a lot of legs. Powerful steam. Yeah, just people that are really into old school, like turn to the century 18, 1900s technology where they like ride in blimps and have goggles and all sorts of that weird shit.

People that are really into that culture. Have you ever seen the Golden Compass? Uh-uh. That was a weird book. So, hold on it. It's a whole bunch of people who are like, love the Industrial Revolution. Not exactly. No, that's, more or less.

Yes, that's pretty close. It's kind of like a thing. And they're on TikTok or are they on Vine? It's a cosplay thing. They're not even related to it. He was saying TikTok is steam pump, which. Like the vibe, the aesthetic. Okay, what Billy was going for, I'm going to explain Billy's point that he was about to make because he was so close.

He would say like, the Vine is natural. It's organic. People that are on Vine, you're creating something funny because you want to create something funny. TikTok, the word TikTok implies like a clock, like gears, like cogs fitting together in a machine that's, you know, going for a man's purpose or some sort of overall grand scheme design. Okay, so you're saying TikTok was more organic. The content was more for let's have a good time. I'm sorry, Vine was like more organic.

The content was like, let's have a good time. TikTok is like more curated and everybody trying to go viral. Yeah. So I made an objectively funny TikTok. I rescind. Hold on. Hold on. This is for you, fan. I rescind my bad take. I understand what you're saying. I apologize. That was, that was, that was, it was an analogy that it was okay. It's a big moment. Big moment in this podcast. Yeah, you know, we like, we like to do that here. But it's interesting. So on TikTok, I posted objectively funny one that like makes people, like, if you saw it, you chuckle. It's funny. And then I also posted one that sort of was totally not funny and just suited to the algorithm. And it just. way outperformed the objectively funny one

and the one that should have been seen more so I don't really understand it's all your Billy's grievances against TikTok yeah I agreeances against TikTok it just doesn't make it doesn't sponsor like good art it encourages copy yeah it encourages you know like the dances that people do and then they go

more viral than the first person yeah it does encourage just straight up theft and it's just repetitive but hey they're chasing the dopamine receptors I think that they should shut down the internet Like two days a week. That's Ready Player 1.

That's the plot of Ready Player 1? No, it's the end. I mean, you definitely fucking spoiled it, but God damn. Just watch the movie. Everything we talked about the goddamn podcast is related to that fucking movies. How did I-st the fucking movie? How did I spoil Ready Player 1 by saying they should shut down the internet twice a week? The movie, Bo.

You should have a weekend from the internet. Yeah, we agree. I think it's-so do they. It's like Tuesday and Saturday they shut it down something like those. bad days. Two consecutive days. I would change that to Tuesday and Thursday. A weekend.

A weekend of internet. Maybe it was Tuesday and Thursday. That's tough though because a lot of people's jobs are on the internet. Literally this whole company. Yeah, but I mean, you guys, I think it's a good idea. I was thinking about like, like, you know, blue collar workers. Like, you know what I mean? Like people like work out in food service industry, shit like that.

Seriously, though, shut down the internet. Speaking of food service industry. Fuck their jobs. Give us a break. Just give everybody's brains a break from the internet and have them live in reality for two days instead of being in some online weird dimension. Okay, let's talk about fast food.

Yeah. I mean, honestly, we live in quite this society where I can finish work and get home at about 2 a.m., 3 a.m. But Rihanna pregnant, though. Okay, so who's the baby daddy? Rihanna has a baby. A.S.A.S.a. Rocky.

You sure? It's not that, that, uh, Whoa. What? What? Are they dating? Oh. Yeah.

Yeah. They took pregnancy. There were any pictures together with her baby bomb. Oh, I have no idea. The last thing I heard about Rihanna, she was dating like an oil chic. No, they've been dating. You know, I don't like how that whole shit was framed. I don't know if you anybody else's big, basically, who the baby dead.

Yeah. Let's say like, let's say like princess, like one of the, one of the queen, princess, one of them people. One of them people. Like, if they was pregnant, would you be like, who the baby dead? Or would you be like, who's the father of the child? Yeah. I noticed that stuff from Billy, too. He was like, who's the dad?

And then he was like, are they dating, though? Well, I, the last thing I've heard about Rihanna was she was dating that oil sheet guy. Okay. So I thought he was the dad. Okay. Who to baby date? I did see the pictures of the Aseparaki, though. They look very happy.

Rihanna can do no wrong in my eye. So everything is very attractive child. Yeah. Of course. I don't know. comes out of Rihanna, of course. That is that will be a non-ugly baby, I promise. Right.

Is A-Sap Rocky a good-looking guy? A-Sap. Doesn't matter. Rihanna has all the genes necessary to make it non-Ugible. He's objectively one of the hottest people in Hollywood right now. Roy Hibbert, but yes. He's in Hollywood? He's in Hollywood?

Yeah. He's singer. Wait, so you could make the argument that Donald Trump is the reason why this baby is being born, right? He got A-Sap out of prison. Get home ASAP. As-Sap. All-time funny tweet. As-Sep, AS-A.

It was like things were looking a little rocky, but we're good. Get home, A-Sap, A-Sap. Did anybody say Rocky? Yeah, I was like, yeah. Hey, hey, that's a great tweet. It was top five. It was a top-five Trump tweet. That's a great tweet.

You got to give the flowers when they do. That's a great tweet, man. Solid tweet. You know, now that was one of the best weeks of his presidency, I think. Now that we're removed from it, are we, you know, he did a lot of funny shit. I don't think anybody. Of course he did. Nobody's ever debated that he's a,

funny person he became a serious candidate because he was so funny though like nobody took him seriously but he was so funny and so entertaining that the media gave him billions of dollars worth of marketing billion i uh i was watching a compilation of him just owning other republicans in that huge debate and what website were you on where you're looking up it was i don't trump compilation it was on twitter it was like ramp hall going like grandpa was like this guy uses terrible language and he assaults people ad hominin with terrible vulgar language that Trump just goes

Rand Paul I've never attacks you personally but there would be a lot of content or he said there'd be a lot of material if I did yeah he's I can't do it service someone was like how come you're always say mean things about women he's like I don't say mean things about women

except for that fat load Rosie O'Donnell that was just about to say that was the first thing he said in the first Republican debate because Because that was like, that was like, right August of like 15, because all my friends were watching it before we went to college. And they, the first question was like, Mr. Trump, you've been attacked for saying a lot of mean things about women. It goes, just Rosie O'Donnell. And that was the first thing he said in any debate.

But then that one time, wait, go ahead, go ahead, go ahead. He was on the stage with Hillary Clinton one time and they hit him with like, you know, you said the grabber by the pussy stuff. And he just goes, yeah, well, ISIS. And he just totally redirects the question to ISIS and how he's going to defeat ISIS. Anyway, wild times. Wild times in this country, for sure. One of my favorite...

We absolutely deserved him. We deserved him. One of my favorite Twitter threads ever. I've never seen a thin person drinking Diet Coke. The more Diet Coke, Diet Pepsi, et cetera, you drink, the more weight you gain. Diet Coke tweet had a monster response. Damn it, I wish this stuff worked.

And then he said, the Coca-Cola company is not happy with me. That's okay. I'll still keep drinking that garbage. That's hilarious, though. Yeah. So has Rihanna, does Rihanna have any other children? No. She pops up in rumors like every six months that she's pregnant.

This is the first time it appears to be true. Huh. But she got a whole bump and a day thing. Yeah. And I usually don't do celebrity guys. But this is my So like when we do like Hall passes with significant others

This is my hall pass Like I love her Like she is everything to me She's like she is the most gorgeous woman in the world to me To me Bad girl Love her She is sims

She's very attractive I'm super Rihanna Simp All day You sip high for Rianna? All day That's that's it But nobody else No I mean I wouldn't say I'm a simp

But I definitely would Would throw her up there I always liked like She's super and also like in the paparazzi picture, she's just always like holding a blunt. Wherever she is. That adds next to like two points.

Yeah. He was at Coachella on her bodyguard's shoulders, ashing in the blunt onto his bald head. Like, what a life. Yeah. For that guy, not even her. For that, what a, like. That ain't even the most pimps shit I've ever seen, though.

That's what Errin wants, like in a relationship. He just wants Rihanna to ride on his back. No, you can't ash on my back. She could definitely ride on my back. You can't ask on my face. Not on my face. I think that's a little disrespectful. Like, we're going to have to have a conversation about that.

But the craziest that I've seen, like, the most wildly disrespect of shit. There's a picture of Eddie Murphy eating steak off a woman's back overseeing, I think it's Paris. Yeah. Holy shit. Is he using like a knife to cut the steak on her back? Yes. Was there a plate?

It's the most, no, the steak is on her back, G. You've never seen much. It's the most wildly disrespectful thing I've ever seen, misogynistic. all that but it's fucking hilarious i actually think that wasn't eddie murphy but like a model shoot oh really i could be wrong i thought i was edie murphy yeah so it's pretty sure it's i'm pretty sure no no fake photo edie murphy eating fries off a model i'm pretty sure it's actually depicts unknown subjects i think it was like two models and one guy just looked like edie murphy yeah he just looked like any murphy yeah well it's his back i always assumed there's

eddie murphy because i was told but i never yeah i never fact-checked that yes you know the internet man it's crazy you got to always fact chat everything yep that um that certainly does look like them the source is gentleman instagram yeah so that sounds legit published in 2007 that's the first time it appears because if that was like an old photo like that'd be in the public conscious like way early or for sure I'm gonna choose to okay it's still Eddie Murphy yeah I think I will too I will too it's not Eddie Murphy but that shit is crazy dog and

Rihanna's still pregnant Absolutely Does that make you like Rihanna? You think they're going to have a normal name Or like a crazy ass like rapper celebrity name It's definitely going to be wow It's going to be wild I mean it's got to be

What if I don't even know what ASAP Rockies actual name is Asap It's not Rockin Was he named Kardashian? Oh yeah you see I have no idea This is when I get lost in this

Rock Kim Kendall His name's Rak Kim Yeah, Rakim Mives. That's fire. It's got to be our name then. What a name. Rock Kim Rihanna.

Rockin and Robin. Something with an R. Let's do it. Robert. I'm going to go with. Rikishi. Definitely not going to be Bible. Randall.

It's going to be Roberto. I don't know. It's going to be some wild, like, ethereal, fucking spiritually connected Seventh house of Saturn type shit Pondy play Rayquan Rayquan I don't think they're going to go with

the Wu-Tang Riza Riza and just name the baby Rizza Or the Rizza No last name No last name Just Rizzo

Could you call a baby just like The Rizza No last name? We fire Like the Hague My brother's name My brother They couldn't

They couldn't decide On my brother's name For two weeks Two weeks He did not have a name They just were going back and forth. So, like, he left the hospital, no name. And so they called him Egbert.

It was some character off the Flintstone. So for the first two weeks of life, he's called him Egbert. So he used to call him Egbert when he was little. I firmly believe that every old person, everyone's grandparents in America have an animal that they just decided not to name. And they just call it, like, the white cat. Yeah, my grandpa had a goose. Just called a goose? Yeah, there was just goose that would come to his backyard and he'd hang out with the goose.

Yeah. It's just the goose. The goose is back. Yeah. Oh, the goose is back. then you go sit outside and like do old people stuff with the goose uh before we get just like sitting and staring and just chilling with the goose before we get to the fast food thing coli can you explain to me what what the goots meme is so the first tweet i saw it and i can't

tell if it was real or not someone said they fed um an algorithm like every meme that they had seen on Twitter and that's what it's spit back out. Just a fat goose spelled Goots. They have boots on? Whether or not that's true, the image just makes me laugh every time and it fits well with my personal brand. So it stays. Yeah, I like it. I enjoy it.

Did the goose have boots on? But before we jump into fast food, Bird Dogs. Bird Dogs is back. You know Bird Dogs. They're my favorite company. I'm a shorts guy. If it's even remotely warm outside, I'm wearing shorts. There's two seasons. There's short season, then there's soup season when short season is around.

I'm always wearing bird dogs. It's the best pair of shorts I've ever worn in my life. I'm not even exaggerating when I say that these shorts will change your life. They change my life. Now all I have to wear from the waist down is bird dogs. It's perfect. It's got built-in underwear, so you don't have to worry about mixing and match in your boxers and your shorts. You don't have to worry about doing all that laundry.

The underwear is right there in your shorts. It's very, very comfortable. Arian, I think they sent you some bird dogs yet. Have you unpacked them? Oh, yeah, man. They're great, man. I got the bird dogs and I love them. They're sick to work out in, too.

They wrote this ad copy in here. I didn't want to say it, but it is in the ad copy. They said, would Billy have been a better quarterback if he was wearing bird dogs? I don't know. It's possible. I guess we'll never know. I was too busy rocking a little lemon. If I was rocking bird dogs, I would have been way better.

That's right. And now, guess what? Bird dogs just stole Lulu Lemon's best designer, and now they're making all their stuff better than Lulu Lemon. Exactly. Taking it to the next level. They also wanted me to ask if Aaron would have scored more touchdowns wearing bird dogs. I don't think so.

He scored a decent amount of touchdowns, probably more than anybody in this room. But bird dogs, no joke, they will change your life. These shorts are incredible. I need to get some more bird dogs to the show. trip. I love wearing them. They also make joggers now too, which is outstanding. I'll be bringing plenty of bird dogs on the road with me. Go to birddogs.com in a promo code dose and they will give you a free bird dogs.com promo code dose and boom, you get a free bird dog's beanie with your pair of bird dogs. Stay warm, stay comfortable this winter in your bird dogs. All right, fast food. Fast food, we

love it. I had fast food for lunch today, actually. I had Chick-fil-A. It's quickly become my go-to fast food restaurant. I feel like it's healthier than other fast foods. I'm probably very wrong about that, but it is bulking season. So Billy's got me eating a lot of fried chicken for the gains. I like to think that Chick-fil-A is more of like, you know when they started making ice cream? That was just bare minimum ingredients. Like there wasn't that many additives. It was just like egg, milk. Oh, you're talking about just in general. I thought you were saying Chick-fil-A started making ice cream. No, but I feel like Chick-fil-A has more basic ingredients and not as much fillers. Yeah. Ice-dream?

It's ice dream there. Yeah, it's just chicken. It's breading. It's pickles. Yeah, it's like a bun. It's what it's got in. It's exactly what you think. Yeah.

It's very good, very good fast food. I don't think of it as fast food, mostly just because I'm an idiot. But I mean, we've hit the pinnacle of society. Last night at 3 a.m. I ordered McDonald's Monday morning, 3am on a Monday morning when no one should be working. And people and I was like, I'm going to order some McDonald's. So I research the fast food industry. Order a ton of McDonald's, brought to my door,

tips very well. And I was like, wow. Like that, like, that's crazy. Very well. Like, like more than DoorDash, like the recommended one? Well, it was 3 a.m. I just kind of wanted to see if, you know, what's very well?

Sometimes you do it to see if you can. So it was $20 and I gave seven. Oh, love that. Love that. Can I see your account, Billy? Yeah, this is Billy's face where he's caught in a lie. Why? Why, why you?

This is Billy's face when he's in a lie right now. Look. You added the detail. No one asked you how he had. Well, because I don't want to seem like an asshole like I'm ordering McDonald's at 3 a.m. Even though it's a service they offered, but for some reason I feel like an asshole for ordering McDonald's that late. Now, wait, I don't, I don't know where you're at where you're apologizing for ordering McDonald's. But it's just so awesome.

Sometimes you do something because you can. That's true. And I wanted to eat McDonald's why I researched McDonald's. And it was three. Anyway, it was fun. it was like just like it's amazing Researcher. Exactly. It's amazing how far as a society we've progressed

where you can get food to your door at 3 a.m. in the morning on a Monday. Okay, so McDonald's. Oh, shit. Uh-oh. Oh, oh. Did you just order McDonald's? I just accidentally ordered more chick-fil-A. I was trying to check my order. I'll eat it for you.

No, I guess I've got extra chick-fil-A coming. Nice. I'm actually down. $60 with a chick-fil-a that I've ordered today. Dude, I've always been obsessed with secret menus. How much you tip it? That's why I was trying to look up So I could show Billy I was trying to look up and see

How much did I tip the Chick-fil-A person today? And I accidentally smashed the reorder button Fire Damn it Okay well I guess I've just got some extra Chick-fil-A coming No one's mad about that right

I'll eat it But We all ate fast food We all eat a ton of fast food Fast food changed America Fast food Is America Can we say that

It's the first place that really did fast food. Did we invent fast food? Actually, no, we did not. Fast food originated, the concept of the idea of producing something fast directed towards people who are working long hours and don't have the time or ability to cook for themselves, like people working in a city, developed mainly in ancient Rome. But the first coin fast food was actually fish and chips in England. So really the oldest fast food.

food you could say that's continually been used is french fries the english called french fries chips were french fries actually invented in france i think they were actually invented by i think that's one of those things that uh uh benjamin franklin stole so says that he invented them benjamin franklin says he invented french fries yeah actually i could see it he's he looked like a big french fry guy yeah he's one of those guys he like went to france when he was ambassador to france well so he stole it then he well i don't even think they're French. Potatoes are from South America.

We didn't have them before Columbus went over. Well, the Western world, the Europe didn't have potatoes before Christopher Columbus brought them back. It said Thomas Jefferson. Thomas Jefferson was the one that took credit for the... I think I probably mixed it up. I knew it was whoever was over in France a lot. They both did.

They both went over there and banged whores. Yeah. That was kind of amazing. Chips. Imagine how horny you'd have to be if you were Thomas Jefferson or Ben Franklin, where you'd have to get on a boat and then live on a boat for, like, probably three months go across the ocean just to fuck yeah honestly like that's i mean i feel like there was no established uh sex worker industry in america so they had to go to france

i think these guys just couldn't they have been to establish it yeah they should know about that man uh you're saying people won't fucking for money or material games well i don't think there's that mean i don't think that's ever not been the case but i don't think there's actually was that many women in America at that earlier times you know what I'm saying because you know how they talk about the West like California during the gold rush was it was like nine to one men to women because more men would go to America I don't know enough yeah I don't know enough about the ratio yeah there's a it was a serious sausage fest up until about like 1900 there were no chicks in America yeah it's all dudes they should have had an app for it so they could check before

Yeah, exactly. No, because you see it today. Most migrants are young men. So I'm reading that the French and the Belgians have an ongoing dispute about where the fries were invented. And the Belgians are like, this is classic France imperialism trying to like dominate the culinary, being a hegemonic culinary exporter of their own pride. So it probably originated.

I'm going to guess in Belgium. And then France was like, yeah, we invented this. and then Belgium kind of shut up about it for the next 200 years. I mean, it was definitely one of the original civilizations in South America meet the Aztecs or the Incas who actually cultivated the potatoes originally who invented some sort of fried potato. So let's talk about French fries because French fries, I think more than anything else, are responsible for the growth of fast food in the United States.

I think that across the board, French fries are, that is the kernel of what's important to fast food here in this country. Now, Coley's looking at me like I've got five heads. No, like, have you, has I, have you seen the founder? I have not. Said about McDonald's? Great movie. Yeah, the founder is about McDonald's and how it truly spread.

I think, and maybe this is perhaps where we should start off. I feel like McDonald's, as the company is really the push for fast food in America. Agreed. Yeah. That's crazy is that the actual McDonald's got fucked over. They sure did. But the thing that really. popped McDonald's off was shakes huh so shakes shakes were like the the start that was like the

igniter yeah like they like burgers and fries everyone was doing but the thing that uh ray crock was right yeah ray crock when he went to the original macdonalds he had like a new shake machine that just made it quicker and it was like an instant powder type thing And that's when, like, he got in with McDonald's and then eventually just stole it from them and turned it into a property of land buying business more so than a fast food government. Squeeze out, big squeeze out. So, Hank, can you, I saw you saying that you'd seen that movie The Founder. What do you know about the foundation of McDonald's fast food? I mean, everything I know is basically from that movie.

Two brothers obviously started it on good, good intentions. they loved to cook they had like a restaurant or two and i think it was the classic what happens i don't know how much you guys know about in and out but in and out uh the people that owned in and out the i think it was the the guy that started it and his two sons or whatever that were kind of next up they all died in a private plane crash and it just left their daughter who's in charge of everything and they've tried to like franchise it and build it out and she's like no we're gonna keep it you know local if we can't get the ingredients in like a day or two they have to be fresh so if we franchise it and move it nationwide, we're going to lose quality.

And the McDonald's story is similar, except the McDonald's brothers ended up getting squeezed out. They signed a bad deal. And then like what Coley said, Ray, whoever, just started buying up properties and using the McDonald's name. And then just, like, they weren't worried about quality as much as they were just worried about mass, mass producing. Yeah.

The squeeze out happened because he was buying land under like the McDonald's corporation name that he had trademarked. He came up with a separate company, also called McDonald's, that was buying land. And even still to this day, every McDonald's you see does not, like the restaurant does not own the land that sits on it, rents the land from McDonald's. They've a very interesting revenue system in that ways. They're different than other fast food franchises in that the franchise doesn't own the land. They pay rent to McDonald's.

And it's like different than a Burger King, KFC or a Young brand affiliate. it. But interestingly, I think they own like the third most land in America. Yeah. They're trying to make a reet, which is like a real estate investment trust, but they think it would damage their whole. Like they could make a reet, which is a very complex, like basically a large land trust. But McDonald's wasn't the first widespread fast food restaurant. The first people to do it in America and make it widespread and weren't as successful, but was actually White Castle. White Castle, they they had. Talk Kansas. Yeah. they'd had the mass-produced burger

before McDonald's did. They were franchised and widespread the tiny little burgers. Yeah, I could probably eat. Embrace debate, how many burgers you think you eat from White Castle? I think I could take down to order. Do you want to order some right now?

They don't have them in New York. Oh, yeah, they don't. You know, I've got $30,000 of Chick-fil-Aco. I know they have one in New York. I remember, I know I drive past, there's one in the Bronx I drive past all the time. I know there's one in Jersey. Yeah.

Anyway, so McDonald's just brought their, secret a bunch of secret menu items back and i'm actually ordering one right now damn what is that what is a they have a land air and sea which is a chick avatar avatar yeah exactly wait let me find and if people pointed out calling chicken air feels like a pretty big liberty that's what i was like pick it out and it was $15 yeah i'm i'm getting one right now i actually let's just have a fast food bananza in Do chickens fly? Do you give me some nugs? Yeah.

No fries. Thanks. Yeah, it's a great episode. Surf plus turf, which is a chick filet, is a filet a fish on a burger, double. And then there's a crunchy double, which is a double burger with chicken nuggets in it. Which is not what it's called. They've appropriated, they have changed the actual name of that meal. Does, I mean, what's the, the McGangbang was a.

That's the McGangangue. Is that what the, I thought the, it was a McChicken. I thought, yeah. Correct. Yeah. I thought it was a chicken, a burger. It was a, it was a McDougal with a McDouble with a McChicken put in it. By the way, what's your guys' favorite secret menu items?

Because I have- This is all Billy wants to talk about. Well, the people need to know they're out there. Like, do you know that you can get a caserito at Chipotle? Yeah. I mean, what is it? What is it caserito? They take a cassidia.

They make a cassidia. And then they use it as the wrapping for a baroque. Rito. Didn't know that. It's wild. You couldn't, you couldn't order a straight cassidia from, like a cassidia was a secret Taco Bell item up until like, I'm sure Henry knows the date better than I do, but it was like an off menu item that you had to like ask for.

Yeah, and they did that with, uh, it was their Baja sauce. Like they, they used to have Baja shalupas. They discontinue the Baja shalupas and nothing on the menu had Baja sauce, but you could order a shalupa. And add Baja sauce. I love how Hank pronounces chalupa. Chalupa. Chalupa.

I like it. No, it's better. It makes it seem like you know something I don't know about the... Sounds scrumptious. Yeah, it does. Hank, what kind of sauce? My favorite off-menu's item is... It's the...

I don't think you're better at In-N-Out, but you can get it protein-staffes or you can get the burger. It's like in the lettuce rat. Yes. No carbs. I think In-N-N-Haw has a good amount of secret, like, secret menu items. They do. So does the whole menu's secret. Yeah.

Yeah. Really, because the menu is my favorite burger. Cheeseburger, double cheeseburger. Fries. Yeah. It's about it. We know we do good and we're going to do it good. Let's go back to pre-fast food times before there was fast food.

What did people do for lunch? Diner's. It actually has a lot to do with the agricultural and urban revolution. Let's go, Billy Fax. I mean, back on the, what humans. let's start there let's let's start with long time ago humans called out of the ocean humans used to spend all day looking for food hunter gatherers yep and then we figured out we could farm food so they spent all day cultivating and those coincided with meals that everyone would stop work and make food you could see the remnants of this in society such as siesta's in uh Mediterranean um Mediterranean uh Mediterranean countries like they take it literal naps because they work a great idea by the way. They take

huge time off for lunch to actually make the food and then they take siestas and then they start working again a little in the night. I don't even know how it works but places totally closed down at lunchtime. Seriously closed down. The first time I went to Paris I was blown

away by the fact that you couldn't do anything between the hours of about 1230 and 3.30. Because people actually had to make food. People just people just close their their offices they leave work they go do whatever for three hours then they come back later it's actually i just realized that that might be the the busiest thing that i've ever said is starting a sentence with the first time i went to paris yeah can we just

strike that from the record entirely no the light flex i said it first that was joe borough being like of course my diamonds a real fuckface you know rich i am well it's like ben you know if you do it like is with ben franklin vibes you know yeah no i was just over there to bang horse. Yeah. You're just like, Paris doesn't have to be bougie. You can go there with Ben Franklin type, you know. Yeah. No, Big T. I've been there twice. So it's really not that. Love that. That's the only, yeah, I'm barely able to say the first time I went to Paris. You love the robbery and stabbing so much the first time you had to go back. Is that what happens over there? Oh yeah. Is that what your timeline's telling you? Their murder, their murder, the crime, like Europe usually

didn't have that much crime, but recently they're getting like as much crime as some cities in the U.S. And they're all freaking out about it, but it's really like... Did you say Europe didn't used to have a crime? Yes. No, it's like their crime rates were much lower, like 30 years ago. I thought I heard Europe didn't used to have crime. I was speaking... I'm going to...

Might have been my band. I'm going to guess... No, it wasn't. He said that. I'm going to guess where Big T was going with the narrative. Because I don't know what he was implying, but it definitely sounded like it's something that he's read about when he asked me... I wasn't implying anything.

If there were like murders or stabbings or anything, well, I was in Paris. Because Paris, it... You have a New York. city. No, I was going to say, I live in the worst city in the world. It felt it felt pretty safe. London has a lot. Yeah, London is way worse. It's the crime. When Europeans complain about crime, it's like they had like a perfect situation. Now there's like a little bit of crime. They're like, oh my God. Like there's actual, you know, it's, it's not that bad. All right. Um, anyways, people used to take three hour lunches. The East have ciestas because

they were, they were farmers and they would plan out these meals. So the fish and chips. So basically a lot of when people realized that would be a lot more effective if they started a business to cook people food who had to work the idea of the hourly wage kind of made this sort of practice of taking a long time to make lunch obsolete because you're losing time and money that you could be you know making wages so during the industrial revolution in england you had factory workers who couldn't really go back home spend all this time cooking because the productivity would be totally down so fish chipies as they called it, became really revolutionary because you had a product that could be easily produced for the masses near fishing villages.

It's England revolutionized this. They would fry up all the fish and a big fry, fry up all the chips and be able to serve it very fast and easily to all the workers in England during the Industrial Revolution. This was one of the first times that this fast service sort of occurred. They say that there's a pub. It's a construct of capitalism. It's totally a contract of capitalism. Tommy Field, home of the first British fried chip.

Workers of the world, get with me. Stop eating food. That's what they want you to do. So there's actually a really cool pub that claims to be the home of fast food and in Tommy Field. And, you know, they claim it. It's probably a good place to have a beer once in a while. Yeah. I would agree.

So it was fast food was created because they wanted a way. the way that you started frame it I thought you were saying people wanted to get back to work faster but it sounds like the boss where the bosses were like we're losing three hours a day let's keep these guys close

let's just give them let's just fry some shit up it turns out that fried fish is delicious and that's what people want to eat anyways yeah so this whole there is why do they call fries chips did we get into that do we I mean I think they just don't want to say French because the British hate the

French so much. I'm dead serious. We tried, we, we tried that too with freedom fries, didn't we yeah. Yeah. It worked. It absolutely did. It did not work. We convinced, yeah, no, they said, no, we won the war in Iraq despite, despite France. That was a wild time to be around. I know I talked about it probably once every like three episodes, but basically if you didn't want to start a war against a country that had no business being attacked by us, if you thought, hey, maybe that's a bad idea for the next 20 years to have people go overseas and die there, people were like, you're un-American. And that was like a major, major thing. People were like, oh, this guy is unpatriotic because he doesn't want to start a war. And it's like, well, no, I think that there's

just a little bit more to it than that. And so the French voted against invading Iraq at the UN. And then so the response from from Congress was to just change the name of anything French to freedom so they were selling freedom fries in the cafeteria they were freedom kissing the lobbyists they were doing all sorts of all sorts of stupid shit um now this idea of uh the idea of street food though and street vendors selling food actually that dates back to um rome but the idea of having an establishment brick and mortar that serves food fast is uh english so so uh so uh I guess a big game changer was the drive-thru, right? Yeah.

So when everyone started getting automobiles in post-world, the post-World War II economic boom, everyone in America got cars, everyone was also driving farther to places of work and couldn't go home to eat and couldn't have to find respective places to keep their productivity high, also maybe feed their family. The drive-thru was a perfect way, which the whole idea of it was people would coming back from work would pick up food for their family on the way home. Am I making it up or was the drive-thru implemented to keep the riff-raff off?

Because it wasn't drive-thru at first. It was you pull up and then someone roller-skated your milkshake and burger out to you. And then it became like, actually, we don't want you greasers here. You do-op bands. Get the fuck out. There's a barbershop quartet coming and scaring away all the customers. Yeah. I mean, everything I think of, like, when I think of fast food, I very much think of like the old, like, mint, shark fined cars, like a bunch of people smoking cigarettes waiting for someone to perfectly roller skate out a large chocolate malt.

And you drink a glass on, like, the hood of your car. There was no paper. Like, it was very much, like, I'm pretty sure there was, like, the things are like the, like, the, the west side story is breaking out in our parking lot every day we need to get these people in and out a lot faster switch blades it sounds nice yeah switch yeah homes combs that were also knives they did what they'd keep the guys with switch blades out of their house i heard that at sonic if you're one of the are they waitresses there is that what you call them the food runners car hops car hops yeah and sonic you get paid more if you're on roller skates yeah you do they still do they still they still

do that it's rare it's rare sighting now you know what My mom's was, I was going to say, I was going to have my mom. Well, yeah, it's going to be on a 10th. But my mom was watching Greece the other day. And I remember being like a classic movie, right? Yeah. That might have the worst ending to any movie of all time that I never really paid attention to, a thousand adult.

The fucking car flies. I know. And they just fucking go. It's trash. It was like a cool movie about the times or whatever. They fell in love, whatever. A bunch of car flies. three-year-olds in high school.

This is a random man. Why did car flu? This shit was weird. Well, it implies that there's magic in the land of Greece. Yesterday we were watching the football games, and then Glennie was talking about Joe Burrow and how cool he was. And Glennie Balls goes, Joe Burrow is so cool. He's like John Travolta.

He's like Danny Zucco, right? Yeah. And we're like, yeah. Okay, Glennie, I get. That's a nice throwback. But I'm with you. Yeah. Is today's youth know about, like, Travolta?

My mom, I doubt it. My mom made me watch all those movies back when Netflix was actually delivered. Oh, yeah. Every time we name somebody in this park. Yeah. And he's his own pilot, too, so that could get dicey. Hey, John Travolta hire some security or some shit, man. Just stay inside.

Stay inside for a good month. You guys taken out. Well, the John White. We took out John Madden. Oh, man. I don't put him on. PFT has been compromised for a while. No, I said Betty White.

I said Betty White and John Madden in the same sentence. Young golf. You did, but I'm putting that on people. I'm putting that on people magazine. We weren't high stepping person. Yeah, yeah, that's true. That's true. With John Madden, I was just saying, like, I hope he's okay.

Can we get eyes on him? And then we all talked about how we hadn't seen John Madden forever. And then I brought that up on part of my take to Hank and Big Cat one time. And they were like, why are you trying to kill John Madden? I was like, I'm not. I'm just concerned for him. I hope he's okay. You know what should be really illegal?

Drive-through liquor stores. Like, how does that ever become legal? Because they're awesome. Why should that be illegal? Well, think about it. You're driving. I've thought about it. What's the difference between getting it at a drive-thor and walking into a store?

You can go in the store, get your liquor, bring it in your car, take it to your place of residence. I know. Do you think that everybody walking into, like a liquor store. They shouldn't serve open cups. I agree. Yeah. Well, that's in New Orleans. The way that they do it is they'll serve you a drive-through daquery. But if you leave the very top of the straw paper on, it's technically not an open container. That, I feel like that's asking for trouble. It is asking for a little bit of trouble. Yeah. But if, but if, but I get a fifth and

I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, and I, it's cool. Like, just don't open it. G. Now, to Collie's point earlier, I think there's a difference between drive-in and drive-through because the drive-thru is actually a lot later than we think so the first McDonald's drive-thru is in 1975 which is way past the 1950s era yeah yeah really that's the first drive-thru McDonald's ever the first drive-thru ever was Kirby's pig stand

of course well actually that's where the that's drive-in car hops delivered meals I'm gonna look that up Kirby's pig stand yeah it sounds like it was on It's in Dallas. I thought a drive-in was like a movie theater, like where you go watch the movie and they put the speaker on the window. Yeah, but I think also, I think it's both. Drive-in diners. So who invented the drive-thru, though?

I guess Kirby's pig stand. I thought that was a drive-in. It was America's first drive-in. Now, what's first drive-through? Yeah. Because that's what really changed the game when people didn't have to get out of their cars. Definitely. And interact with anybody.

Just talking to a metal box. Yeah. And then your food goes. comes out. Hillcrest State Bank, Dallas, Texas installed the first drive-through banking system in America. It was constructed in the 1920s. A lot of stuff happening in Dallas.

Hmm. What's going on? Kennedy assassination. Kirby's Pigsman. Oh, Kirby's best that was in Dallas? Yeah. Reds giant Hamburg in Springfield, Missouri was the first drive-thru. Huh. Reds is a good name for a burger joint.

Yeah. You want to go to Reds and get them. malt underrated bro red robin has underrated burgers yeah they do now i and their lemonade is popping too very bad fries though i agree that that's why they make them unlimited they're trash yeah we'll give you as many of these dog shit fries as you want well let's in and out in and house fries are bad too man well i feel like i'd be doing uh our dear friend tyler a grave disservice if we didn't talk about our fries good or not i see his point i think they're extremely overrated.

I love fries. There's a high variance. There's fries in general. Oh, who? That's a horrible take. Who don't think fries are doing? Pry's up with Tyler. I, I, I'm more bad fries and good fries.

You know Tyler. Oh. Trill Withers. Yeah. I got it. I got it in my phone is that. I don't even have a phone as tight. I think I do too, honestly.

But I go around the room. Top three fries. Okay I'll start I'll start I get some time to There's a correct answer There is a correct answer

All right So I'm gonna start I'm gonna start No yeah yeah yeah Yeah but we gotta go You gotta deal with something No we don't feel This is a very straightforward question

No because you don't wait till I raise it And then everyone should be like You don't need to Neuro this down at all Your top three fries Top three fries Top three fry I'm gonna I'm gonna kick it off

I'm gonna go and it's crazy but it's man and motherfuckers hit McDonald's fries you just that's not crazy let's finish listen top three basketball players

you're not going to see it coming Michael George I'm just saying no one thinks that's crazy okay okay well I'm glad we're on the same place but the clear one okay be on my team

I'm saying be on my team bit man we are I'm gonna tag you in I'm gonna tag you in I'm gonna tag you in folk McDonald's right Then I'm going to go with Chick-fil-A. Okay.

And then I'm going to go with five guys. So I was going to ask, does five guys count? Yes. Because I don't consider five guys fast food. It counts. It's fast casual. It's cash. Which is killed fast food's biggest market share has been damaged by fast casual foods.

What time I'm I explain? Why is not five guys? I mean, there's no drive-through. You usually go eat inside. Like, it's, it's definitely on the fast food side of dining, but it's like, like a half step up. Yeah. Yeah. Fast casual.

Like Chipotle's fast casual. But let's just say all burnt like, like, yeah, like typical. Yeah. I mean, they serve burgers and fries. This counts. This counts. Yeah. I'd say five guys definitely counts.

Arian is absolutely right. McDonald's is number one. That's not a surprise. Like my, all right, what are your, my favorite types of macaroni? Number one, and cheese. There'll be some controversy. yes McDonald's number one easily easily number one you know I'm gonna keep it a buck I didn't know it was consensus like that it is I actually I didn't know I get McDonald's fries but I don't think

they're too sterile for me no you know you know what I'm saying you're going to the wrong McDonald's that that that that that adjective is interesting for yeah because they just they don't seem real like I like my fries with some skin on them I think Wendy's fries that's what I was going to say skin on the fries there's no skin on the fries oh oh literal Wendy's. Yeah, those I, they have them on the chick flies in the game. Are you, they're not, they're not the worst. I mean, it's up there, though.

Yeah. Wendy's entire. I was saying it's up there with the worst is just be as mediocre as possible. So people pretend like they're better than they are. Wendy's is the most zero war. No wins above replacement as fast food chain in the history of the world. But they deliver quagin fast food. They deliver quagging.

Do you know, I'm, yeah, I'm changing. I'm changing my Popeyes pick for, I mean, so I'm changing my, um, Chick-fil-A. My Chick-fil-A pick for Popeye because the curly fried Jones are good, yeah. I think we need, when we're talking about Wendy's, we need to have the discussion about how, yeah, Wendy's hasn't done that much great stuff. But the things that they have nailed, they have fucking destroyed. Spicy nuggets. So the spicy nuggets, the Frosty, yeah, the Wendy's Frosty is top tier. And then.

I like their burger. They made burgers cracking them. They made the spicy chicken sandwich. Yes. We would not have chicken fries to the point that we do today. We do not. Popeyes. Popeyes is better, yes, but Wendy's was the first.

But there's as a sauce, though. It's just the regular chicken sandwich. What was the first, Colin? What was the first called? The first, I'm glad you asked, Arient, is the king. Burger King's spicy chicken sandwich well pre-dates. Burger King's. Well, three days.

Now it is. I'm talking about the original. But Burger King, they dropped off. That's not true either. Burger King is so dropped off. I would never go to a Burger King. It's so weird because I used to have Burger King all the time. And I remember their burgers being juicy.

I've been the one in Oregon, Texas, Cali. Like, everywhere I've been, this shit is dry. I don't know what's going on. They're run down. When they jumped into the great chicken sandwich war of 2019, which they came out in 2020, I do think they came out on top. They came out the last.

And what I've been told was there was high variance from King to King. But if you got a good chicken sandwich from the King in 2020, I do think they made the best of all. Let me tell you something. I consider myself an expert on chicken sandwiches. The Chikin is a quality product. Now, now it's no, it's no Chick-fil-A sandwich. Let's not get it twisted, but it's a quality product.

Now, I have this tweet sitting in the job. because I got Chick-fil-A Saturday, I think. I truly believe this is my whole eye. They don't make one product better than anything on the McDonald's menu. Not a thing. Chick-fil-A? Are you serious? Hang on. Hang on, hang on, hang on.

Not a thing. Their sandwiches is okay. Their sandwiches are okay. I was, I was at a chicken, I would say the chicken sandwich. You said the chicken set, the chick-flake chicken sandwiches. I don't think they make one thing. Worse than the McDonald's. That's, that's a hot.

They don't make a chicken. Like, nah, I had a chicken sandwich this weekend because I got my kids off. That shit was the worst, actually. That stuff. At McDonald's? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

McDonald's is, I mean, the thing is you know, when you're going to McDonald's, like, you know that the fries, you know that the fries, you know that the fries are going to, you know, kind of, you don't really, like, you can't really tell it's potato in there, you know. Like, you can tell you're getting, like, I disagree with your take on McDonald's fries. McDonald's fries are great. They're too clean for Billy. They're too clean cup. Wait, wait, wait. I don't want.

I don't want to I don't want to McDonald's fries birthday there's no potato in the McDonald's Friday I do not want Coley to get away with what he said though

I think we need to discuss this I'm going to tweet it tomorrow along with this episode the internet will be I've heard some things on this show that one may be the craziest I'm pre-ratioing you for your tweet tomorrow

like chick-flay because the chick-fil-a spicy chicken sandwich takes a big steaming dump on the McDonald's chicken sandwich if you if they're not even the same It's not even the same animal. Yes.

It's not even the same. I agree. McDonald's is the king. Chick-fil-A's a place. This is bad. This is bad. This is so bad. If you said Popeye's, like, Chick-Flead doesn't do anything that Pop-I's done.

It's way better than Chick-fil-A. Oh, she's great. That's not even close. That's not even-stop. I feel like that's a cultural thing, for show. But that's not even controversial. That's not even controversial. That is controversial.

Pop-I's. I've never seen Big C's. Spicey chicken sandwich, bro, Papa spicy chicken sandwich is light years ahead of Jerry. Look, look, I wanted, I wanted to go to, so when that Popeye's chicken sandwich came out,

I literally, I wasn't supposed to leave campus because we had, like, this was in college, because we had, like, I think it was. The pandemic is coronavirus. No, no, no, it came out in. That was before that. It was 19. It came over November of 19, and we were supposed to,

I literally snuck off campus to try it. And I was like, oh, man, I can't wait. Like, I drove literally an hour. So why could you leave campus? Because, like, we weren't supposed to be traveling. It was in season. So I snuck off campus. You're not allowed to leave campus during football season?

There was, it's complicated. Anyway, so I drove an hour. I was so excited to try the new Popeye's chicken sandwich. I was a big fan of the Wendy's. The Wendy's, it was a gulag. It was the Wendy's chicken sandwich, chick flayed chicken sandwich. I want to see if Popeyes, because you want to know that, like, just have another outlet if you show up and there's a Popeye's, you're like, oh, I can get a good sandwich there.

went there got the sandwich I was so disappointed and I spent like two hours on the bath on the toilet after it was like nobody cares

nobody cares it was probably is way better it was so the grease was like it was too greasy I get it like I said it was too greasy

I get it you like when I took a bite into it I was a fell inside you have I don't say I went to I went to McDonald's to get a frosty or milk shake

and it was just so much sugar I couldn't know no no it wasn't even good like I like a greasy meal okay the sandwich was wet okay so the final ruling is that chick flay makes a hell of a spicy chicken sandwich and you can debate whether or not

Popeye's chicken sandwich is better than Chick-fil-A Popeye's fried chicken is very very good objectively speaking their spicy fried chicken is delicious their sides are very good the biscuits are hard as hockey pucks and we still love them. But I don't think that you can,

I can't look at you and take you seriously, Coley, if you say the McDonald's McChicken that costs 99. I never said the McChicken. You said Chick-fil-A does nothing better than anything on the McDonald's menu. Correct. The spicy chicken sandwich from Chick-fil-A takes a big steam shit.

Well, hold on. If we're talking about McDonald's, we have to include all of McDonald's. But chicken select. Nothing. The chicken select dumps on. Those don't exist anymore. For sure.

But McDonald's has done chicken better than chick-fil-A. You said the way you framed it was the worst thing on the McDonald's menu is better than the best thing. You know how dominoes isn't really pizza, but like you'll order dominoes when you want dominoes. You know what I'm saying? Yeah, but I'm disagreeing with what you're about to say. I don't, wait, wait, are you saying dominoes isn't pizza? Like, for example. It's domino's its own thing.

Yeah, you'll order dominoes late at night and you'll eat it. like if you want pizza you'll go like well i'm from new york so there's good pizza places i'll like go get pizza like be from a like a non-chain place yes so you're not not being from the east coast though like the first time i went to new york i like it fucked my pizza experience up because now i don't order any fast food chain pizzas like i always go to like the mom and pops or like you're like i look i look for italian names sounding you know what i'm saying like the pizza like pizza hot all that shit is absolutely dog shit after you go to New York I feel that way

with McDonald's like I don't think I think it's a fair comparison I just disagree with it like if I want like something with a little more quality chick flay has that quality like when you bite in you can see the individual muscle striations of the chicken let's get into it when I bite into it when I bite into a McDonald's chicken sandwich

Chick-fil-A chickens have more quick twitch muscles no but like it's an actual The right of chicken, like, look, no, they're more aggressive. They're more high motor guys. Yeah, no, it's not even about. You're sterile. They've been sterilized. No, but like the chicken, you know it's chicken.

Like, you could imagine someone cooked like making into that. Like McDonald's is a little too factory for me. Like the chicken is blended when you bite in. You, it looks like like, like, but I'm fine with that. I'm okay with that. Like if I want to. I don't have chicken wise. I don't know.

Yeah. But the fries, like, like, well, the fries. Well, the fries. I don't know if like. You can't, there's not a critical mass of potato in the fries to me. And I know, we're talking about McDonald's. They're cut differently. I mean, you're talking waffle versus shoesterm.

Okay. I'm going to bring it back real quick because I don't think we're going to get, no one's going to change anybody's mind debating this. Let's talk more about. We needed that. We appreciate you. Yeah. Let's talk more about the history of fast food in this country.

Because for a while, it was just, you know, like what Coley was saying earlier, you got your milkshakes, your mules, your fries, your burgers, your cheeseburgers, but then a mighty competitor appeared in the midst. The bell. The bell got wrong. Taco Bell. And I think we all have a special place for her heart for Taco Bell. I love Taco Bell.

It was, it's something different, completely different. If you want fast food, Taco Bell stands head and shoulders above. I'd say 90%. Like sometimes you do want that Big Mac, which is delicious. Sometimes you want some, like a chick-fil-a-a-chicken sandwich. But if you want to just go ham on Taco Bell and eat like seven tacos or you get a cheesy gordita crunch, there's nothing like it. You can't compete with Taco Bell.

And Hank is a bit of a Taco Bell insider. So that's really the reason why I want him on the show today to talk about his experience with the Bell, his family's experience with the Bell, and just give us a little bit of background. We're going to take a quick trip to the Bell with Hank. But before we do, this podcast is brought to you by Helix Sleep. Helix Sleep is a great, great company. I love this mattress. I had some back issues.

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and you get two free pillows. Yeah, I'll give you a little background because obviously it's been joked about. I told Dave and Dave kind of, you know, took it and ran with it and misrepresented it. And it's kind of interesting story to what we were saying earlier of the evolution of fast food and it going nationwide. But quickly,

when my dad was growing up, my grandfather and his business partner owned like a handful of movie theaters, like in their hometown and I think one on the Cape. And that's kind of what they did. And like, you know, an entourage or any movie you see the, they say like, you know, in the movie business, you have to have connections. It's not about like what you have. It's who you know, blah, blah, blah. So after 25 years, my grandfather's business partner essentially like had connections.

He had this opportunity to produce a movie with Kevin Spacey. And he was like, all right, I'm going to take my half. I'm going to get out and I'm going to fund. I'm going to like try and fund this movie or whatever. And ironically enough, the movie, like you wouldn't notice it. I don't want to blow up his spot or anything to say the name. But whatever the budget was, it grossed like 20% less. Like not it wasn't a it wasn't a flop.

It wasn't like wasn't the best movie. It wasn't the worst movie. It was a very, I don't even know the name of it. I can tell you off the air, but. Okay. But my grandfather says like he basically like he invested all his money and it didn't do super well. So like my this his business partner still kind of has to actively work and like he took a shot kind of missed. My grandfather obviously wasn't going to stay in the movie business.

My dad and my family was living in California at the time where there was a lot. of Taco Bells. Taco Bells were everywhere. And that was like one factor. And so basically him and his other partner invested in Taco Bells and built some up. There was only like three in New England. So he was just very early kind of saw, saw the future of like there's Taco Bells everywhere in California and the West Coast and stuff. They're going to be everywhere in the East Coast eventually. He kind of had that vision. And then he's basically retired. My dad moved back to Massachusetts and he like runs you know runs the day to day that's a of the of the operation it's a very smart business practice to just take what cool people are doing and then introduce it to the rest

of the country be like here's what california's doing they're going to do it here eventually and nine times out of ten they'll probably be right like that's how uh how cores light really got spread across the country you could only get it in the rockies or on the west coast and then people would go out to like vacation in los angeles or Colorado and they'd be like wow this stuff is and Coors Light, I can't believe it. So then when they go home, they'd be like, oh, this beer is not as good as the Coors Light that we drink when we're on vacation.

So they developed, like, the taste for Coors Light and the desire for it because they couldn't have it. And then once it did get introduced, it just blew up. So that's kind of cool that your grandfather was kind of the Johnny Apple seed of Taco Bells. Yeah, they call them the Guacamogal. This day you speak up. No, I don't know.

There's like some, you know, like pictures and shit. like in this house. The Guacamogel. The McDonald's franchisees, these owners who he competes with common, oh, it's the guacamole. Yeah, so as your family became Taco Bell magnates, is that the right word? Taco Bell warlords of the Northeast, you got introduced to a lot of products. And there's one story that Hank tells that I laugh at every single time about my favorite

product that Taco Bell offers, if you want to give a little bit of background into how how instrumental you were in market development. Yeah. So, and I was I was, you know, I was a bit of a troubled youth. I was getting in trouble out. I was getting grounded and like, it'd be like, oh, you're grinding for the weekend. So like instead of like being at home, you have to like go with your dad and just like trail him and like just like, I would just sit in his car

and stuff while he'd travel around and do all the work. And it's like he's the one, the man lives, breeze and dies Taco Bell. He knows all of the weights to all of the items. Like he could, if you gave him a wrapped up item, he would be able to tell you like, this is too heavy or like this is too light. It's just, the amount of knowledge.

which he has for Taco Bell is insane. But I was like, because you want it standard, right? Every time that's part of like the allure, I think of a lot of fast food chain restaurants is if you go somewhere you can get something and it looks and it feels and it tastes the same as it does it at any other place that you can go to.

Right. And a lot of the stuff you guys were saying earlier where like Billy had a bad experience at Popeyes, it's obviously like the individual restaurants. Like if they're not run well, the food's not going to be good. But if they're run well and they kind of have good operations and stuff, there should be a quality that is met,

a standard. if that's go ahead go ahead go back to pop eyes dog and try that again right like i'm sure there's a pop eyes that you know that like that it's hard to say that when people get one story about one sandwich when it's like you never really know who's making that food like what's going on in that kitchen whatever and i feel like pop eyes specifically has a pretty high variance from yes restaurant to restaurant yeah for sure um so i was a kid me and my brother were like upstairs and we got like you know got the call down it was like hey like come down here obviously thought we were in trouble like thought they were going to sit us down at the kitchen table and be like what the fuck like

what happened blah blah trying to get my story straight even though i didn't even do anything wrong yeah and he like sits us down he was dead serious my dad's like not that serious of a guy he was like dead serious like sit down like goes to the fridge there was this big silver just thermos and it had like do not drink like do not touch he like walks it out to us puts it on the table and he's like pours it he's like drink it and then he comes back with like a survey like a three page survey and we're like filling it out and that was this was three years before it came out but it was Baja Blast

he had the early he was like trying to get you know the early feedback. Did they change the formula at all? I don't think so. I mean it was it was really fucking good. But they might have changed it like Hank what if you you know you filled out the survey

and you're like oh the the aftertaste is a little bit too sweet they went back and they reformulated it like you might have helped develop Baja blast. I very well could have. There's also now did sorry no I just gonna say it's interesting you see it now I've always been interested in this because like my dad would tell me it's like Baja blast was a Taco Bell exclusive like they you know developed it created it and it was exclusive and then once the success happened like I think you know there was a lot of infighting with like Pepsi and stuff where they're like we want to get this in all the stores and do all the stuff that you see now like I think that took a long time of like Mountain Dew realizing like whoops we probably should have fucking not giving you guys exclusive rights to Baja blast and like Over the course of the years, I think they've fought it and gotten the way it is now.

But that was always something that I was always be interested in. But again, that's, that kind of goes back to the scarcity thing where because you could only get it at Taco Bell, you looked forward to getting it every time he went to Taco Bell. Damn, it's the most refreshing thing in the world. You know what's last. And now they have Baja Blast hard seltzer, which. Yeah. Yeah, it's on. This is going to be hell of the summer boys.

You know what's really cool about Ike's kind of. find it interesting what companies own other companies. So Yum Brands, which owns Taco Bell, is owned by Pepsi. So it's just like a little fun. Like,

it's cool. Like Disney owns ESPN. Yeah, Pepsi. It's Taco Bell, KFC and Pizza Hut. Well, Billy, when you break it down,

well, when you break it down, Billy, your fiscally conservative self should start to realize that the free market of free market capitalism is just an illusion.

Because Every single brand that you see is owned by some parent company. I think it's like a handful of companies like like seven companies. Yeah, that own the entire world. And that's why free market capitalism is a sham. It's it's you get it. I don't want to get into that. Anti-trust enforcement probably needs to be taking a little more serious in this country.

Who's enforcing it? The people, those companies have all the money. Yeah. They're paying off politicians. Maybe if we get that. I mean, isn't there a serious lobbying by certain members of Congress to make it illegal for individual congress people and people in government to own a private stock yeah i think they're not going to get through it's never because it's never going to pass because everyone who

has to vote on it is owns private stock yeah it's being for a hundred percent yeah and so you need it this is what i mean that that's why fans of bernie was saying what it's like you know you need to get money out of politics i'll tell you what pelosi's voting on that bill yeah i mean of course we we agree big big big t arian democrats ain't shit we're which hearing Dan Crenshaw the Navy SEAL with the iPatch be like literally saying you had to do that what it's a distinguishing feature it is all right all right all right well everyone recognizes him from that sort of if you don't know Dan Crenshaw he's he's the Navy SEAL with an iPatch who serves in Congress what I do wrong yeah if you had an eye patch with that would you want that to be your

distinguishing factor that people recognize you by Well, I mean, it would be pretty... You're not wrong, brother. Brother, you're not wrong. I'll just say it was funny. I mean, I'm just trying to describe for people who think he's a very right wing. I'm nitpicking. Go ahead.

But he's a very far right figure and everyone thinks he's, you know, but even he said, he was like, yeah, like, why would anyone want to be in government if they can't own private stuff? He was like, it was kind of, you know, a slip of the tongue where he basically said, like, no one would be in politics. Yeah, that's why we're here. So the quiet part loud. Yeah. Hank's going to run out real quick and then it's going to come back in a little bit Am I right?

Yeah, I'll be back in like two months. Okay. Hank, when you come back, I have some hard-hitting questions. And if you could bring in the Chick-fil-A that I accidentally order in your way, that's you. I think you're, I think the chicken thing, uh, chicken nuggets are out there too, Hank. Okay, so, uh, what up, Big T?

Camper, Camper got that right in your phone. What up, what up, huh? So, yeah. Talk about, I wanted to touch on this. Well, I wanted to touch on it. Maybe I'm jumping the gun here, but I wanted to talk about the consequences of fast food. Should we wait? Let's wait for just a little bit on that.

Just a little bit. Billy wants to jump into it too. Like I said. I got a question, though, because you talked about the Young Brands. There was a building in my hometown growing up that was the McTacow Hut. It was a McDonald's, a Taco Bell, and a pizza hut together. Now, McDonald's is not affiliated with those other two restaurants. But somehow, there was actually a.

Tacco Hut. I don't know how that happened. It might have been its own restaurant because if you think about it, McTaco Hut, you can like name a restaurant McTacow. No, Billy, I'm not an idiot. It was the McDonald's. It's like a combination pizza Hut taco bell. Yeah, I'm at McDonald's on it. I'm at the Taco Bell. I'm at the combination pizza. How do you know that? Because that's a, that's a good band. Oh, I guess that is something that you might listen to. Yeah. It's, uh, my guess would be, like I was saying earlier, McDonald's just owns that land. And so they permitted Taco Boers. Yeah, I would imagine

a lot of young brands are built on McDonald's land. Huh. But actually, let me look at this. They can lease it to whoever they want. They're not going to sell it to you. They'll lease it to you. Yeah, I love the McTacow Hut. It was a magical place to go. Where was it? Do you have

did you have A&Ws down by you? Yeah, I had a couple. Okay. I wasn't sure if that was a Northeast thing or not. That was the first franchise beverage so like back in the day when they had those soda like you'd go to the drug store for soda like they that was a and w was the first to send their brand to those different places all across america okay i'm glad that excuse me i'm glad that you brought up the soda aspect because we have a taste test that we're going to do what do you guys think is the best spright the best fast

food sprite across the board McDonald's five oh five guys five guys five guys in that ain't close. And I'll tell you why. Oh, five guys has the machine that you can splice it any way you want to, right? Say you want to put a little grape in there. Say you want to put a little vanilla in there. Say you want to put a little whatever. Ooh, boy, you can just do whatever. You can make a Thanos or sprites. Arium people are going to get mad at you for that, but I am a Coke freestyle defender as well. I love Coca-Cola out of the freestyle machine.

Well, you step-doll. Because you're little, if you like cherry Coke, if you like strawberry, if you like, whatever. So me and my kids have this thing We call it a Sprepper And so we time we go to a restaurant You know we order half Dr. Pepper Half Dr. Pepper half Sprite And we just mix and mince it however we want it

It's just bomb man So there actually is some science behind that The McDonald's machines In those Coca-Cola freestyle machines Carbonate their beverages In a certain way that you couldn't get It's like your neighborhood bar Or other places that have the fountains

So Big T, I'm going to need you to cover your eyes Because what we have done here Is we have purchased sprites From Popeyes Taco Bell Five guys Chick-fil-A What else, my dog? McDonald's?

To make this a Yeah, McDonald's To make this a random blind test We're going to have to eliminate that paper straw Yeah, I know which one has the paper straw Yeah, so let me go get that's what I'm saying Close your eyes We have to put them in cups

It's a paper straw PFT Yeah, he can he can feel the paper in his mouth. Okay. And we're going to have to hold it for him so he doesn't know. Also, it's been sitting there for like an hour, so I bet it's like dissolved. God don't have cups. We'll definitely have cups. Just take the, am I the only one doing this? There ain't a real scientist in the building. Just take the lids off. It should be, it should be blind. Hey, I minored in stats. We're going to take the, we're going to do a simple randomized study. We're going to take the lids off and he's going to sip them. And big T is going to tell us which is the best.

We have water to cleanse his palate in between. You know what I'm saying. You need to control. Okay, there we got water. All right. So I'm going to go over and feed Big T. So Big T, close your eyes. No peeking. All right. Hey, can we, uh, hey, whoever knocked the camera, can you knock it back over there? I don't want to see that shit. Let's go. Yeah. Let's blindfold. Bang. Bang. Wait. Good half big T. Thank you. And actually is a fired a little hat, though. So, uh, this is really great podcasting.

I'm going to, I'm going to narrate it. We subscribe to the YouTube. All right, Big T's taking the cup Taking a drink His pinky was the last thing on the cup It's good sip Oh, take a second step He's got a little signs He's got 10 more of these to do

That's not a bad sprite Good spray Okay I put that put that down It looked like a good sip Give me a little hit of water That's in front of you Probably should have got a smaller water

So that was number one The other horrible That was number one This is number one What would you give a rating We'd go 1 to 10 That was a That was a 6-2 sprite

6-2 So I'm gonna grab the water from It's gonna grab the water from him Jesus Christ I'm heavy man I have a gallon though I'm right Here goes cup number

Number two Very tenuous grasp on that spray Two Cup number two Cup number two Okay What's smaller is it I got a little

Got a little ice there Got some ice Don't hold that against the score Please we're just doing taste I'm going to tell you something. Oh, that's number one. So here's the thing. I'm going to be completely honest because I feel that in the name of research,

we need to be honest, I know what cup this is because I saw it before. This one is not as good as the first one. Really? Yeah. That's interesting. Can you tell that you? This is your third sip of that cup, though. I'm just, I'm making sure because this should be the best one.

got you well we I think we also have to factor in did we just I'm gonna tell you something I'm gonna tell you something no spice there there's no kick no kick give it ready that's a that's a that's a 4-9

oh damn that's what I would have said was number one too and I think Big T would have agreed yeah no for sure absolutely well did it taste water down yes yes that is but it but there was no there was no kick no but what's funny is big T actually

mixed up two of the cups he's oh now this could be the cup that I thought was that yeah that's

exactly interesting no it was the other one it was the other one stop stop guessing cups and drink

the Sprite damn I knew this was a this is a although this is technically already oh this is bad that would have been

a tough tough look that's bad that's like a two seven oh do you like Sprite yeah I love Sprite

okay technically I don't I can't say what I want to say. Oh, Billy hi. Do you even like Spray? You left the cat on this. A bunch of assholes.

To be fair in the name of science, because people are listening. What he just drank was not Sprite. What? Yeah. It was Sierra Mist. Oh, well, that's fucking why. Wow. You should have revealed that afterwards.

What a fucking, why does you do that? I did do it afterwards. No, after the whole thing. The whole point was, we're just a little bit. The whole point was we're drinking sprites here. Where's my mic? So you're right. There you go.

What the fuck, bro? Okay. All right. Hey, shout out to you for keeping your eyes closed, though. He's doing a great job. This is better. Okay. So that's four.

Yeah, what I give the first one? Six, two. You gave it a six two. Okay. So this is. Oh, that sip was bad, though. Oh, no. go ahead and take it take it take another sip just a bad word yeah the more you go the

worst this gets that's that's i've never had that experience with a drink not once no it's it's extreme uh it's the ice meld is it a floater is it was it was it was it was it a floater i mean he that first sip he was thinking like six five oh yeah this is a five three okay well that's that's high that's still second place second somebody somebody somebody somebody somebody writing these numbers. I'm ready done. Okay, I was like, God, because I lost count, okay. Yeah, give me, give me one more swag of water. I feel like the, I feel like the palette should have been something a little, well, let me,

we're doing a good. I, you got to give me one direction. I can't, okay. Okay. Is the cap on or off? Off. It's, it's off. It's off. No cap. No cap. Okay. All right, is this number four? This is the last one. This is five. I'm going to tell you something, just by feel, this feels like a winner. I can just, I can just, you know the ice, that's why. No, it is, it is. You know the ice.

Well, the ice factors in. I didn't. Ice absolutely matters. I actually, I don't, I don't have a guess this to wear this one. This is right there with the 6-2, I think. See, the thing is, we're not testing all these at the top of their game. That's true. They've been saved for a while.

But, like, I can only do them as I was presented. No, this is a low budget science experiment. They fucked it up. They should have had it cups. They should have been fresh out the womb. Listen, we have a very long history of fucking up fast food taste test. I think this is a six, seven. I think this is the winner.

Wow. That's the highest. All right. All right. Is that the last one? Your winner was. Oh, well, that's for sure. I mean, that, yeah.

Yeah, she might. So I'm going to keep sipping on this. So Big T, you actually, the one that you thought was McDonald's was actually Taco Bell. Was it really? I have something to say about that. Well, no. No, because Coley said. No, the 27 was Sierra missed.

Yeah. No, I was trying to throw it off because I would have ruined the experiment if you knew the cups. Can you raise the camera, please? Yeah, but I was honest because that should have been the best one and it was not good. All right. So Big T loves Chick-fil-A. Chick-fil-A.

So the ranking goes, Cup number five was Chick-fil-A. He gave it a 6.7. Cup number one was five guys. He gave a 6.2. Five guys. Cup number four was Popeyes,

which he gave a 5.3. Cup number two was McDonald's. He gave it 4.9. And then cup number three, which was Taco Bell, he gave it 2.7, which we're now hearing his Sierra Mist. It is Sierra Mist.

I wanted to see how you rank it. And I would say raise all those by two points if they were fresh out of the machine. Okay. So that that Sierra Miss was a nice little plot twist in there. Well that's the Pepsi. That's the Pepsi Co. Yeah, I wanted I wanted to get Sprite, but they

only had Sierra Miss and I figured Taco Bell, Hank and it would be a plot twist. Perfect. Now Hank. Yes. From a franchisee owner perspective. Yes. Well, okay. As someone who's in close in proximity to the owner, how did he, what was the vibe like in what was around either 2011

or 2006 when all the when controversy hits Taco Bell the beef isn't real the claims that the beef isn't real the claims that the GMO corn used in a lot of the wraps and tortillas

was not for human consumption when all these you know hit what how much background how much do would a franchisee owner know about these things how do they react to the news. Are they also angry? Do they feel duped that their supplier and corporate has been giving them product that they're complaining about? How much does it fall on the individual

franchisees and how do they sort of deal with that controversy? I don't think it falls on the individual franchisees. I think they do know like my dad. I mean, my dad's a very calm guy in general. So even if he was upset, I probably wouldn't have known. But he, they, you know, they do a lot of like meetings and stuff. I think there's a general probably like, this is kind of what's happening. tell the franchisees what's going on and maybe like what you know what what our stance is going to be how we're going to go about it my dad like you know it was very just he's a numbers guy he's going over spreadsheets he's looking at each store like how it's doing i'm sure there was like a drop off month the month but even uh a lot of that is just hysteria like you know covid they they were having

some of their best business during covid like they're doing more business during covid than before when people are like oh you know the fast food industry is going to die um so i think a lot of lot of that it's just like a news headliner it's a headline grabbed to be like taco bell serves dog food when i'm sure there was some people that stopped going but a majority of people you know you guys heard that you're still going whatever it is it's delicious right yeah remember burger king uh had the horse meat allegations yeah ikea had that too in their meatballs so the what they but the ikea i love how that shit causes outrage though that should be killing well in sweden animals yeah e coli yeah jipole yeah yeah

The IKEA one, it's not that they lied. It was just that there's the sweet, I think it was in Sweden. They eat horse. And they, it's like in France they do it too. Yeah. But that was a good gotcha question though, Billy. Like that's, we brought Hank on so that Billy could ambush him with the dog. That was the ambush.

No, but it's interesting because Taco Bell, I mean, they, the GMO corn thing is interesting because basically, I don't know, not sure how exactly, but it's crazy how some genetically modified organisms cannot be. be verified for human consumption like for example like i think it was justified for feed corn for cattle but it's still corn in itself and no one nothing bad happened after people consuming it i'll tell you what was a much bigger controversy in the locker household as as a youth from a talk about perspective we might to do some research because i i don't know exactly what the facts are but they used to have the chihuahua was the mascot that we were in all the commercials yeah and my dad would always be to have like stuffed animals and like little you know chihuahua things around the house. I was a little kid. I liked my little chihuahua stuffed animals. And then I believe

either like the people who own the chihuahua or something sued Taco Bell. Like the Chihuahua, there was a lawsuit that went on. And so like Taco Bell was like we're not doing the Chihuahua anymore. Like they're suing us and I, Billy might have to look at and fill it in. But that I was when I was a kid, I was like, what's up with Chihuahua? No more Chihuahua. My dad's like, no more Chihuahua. Like it's over. So you, yeah, the Chihuahua was the official mascot that you're a kid or Taco Bell. Chihuahua. It was a smash hit from coast to coast. Right. And then all of a sudden went away because it was it the owner of the Chihuahua that was like, hey, you need to pay my dog more money? Like held out.

Yeah. So as the original two guys who pitched the concept of the Chihuahua sued because the revenue increased, but they weren't getting paid more. Yeah. I'd have to pay people for the IP, man. They lost the rule. But they were pitching the idea. They weren't pitching the IP. that is that is that is the idea dude they lost a 42 million dollar ruling that's crazy no but it's like it's just like go ahead like they were getting paid to pitch ideas definitely no I get it oh yeah well that's uh trash on our owner part like if they it's same shit with McDonald's right so McDonald's um that but up up up that jingle was created by push of tea and they paid him outright $500,000, right? Now that jingle is worth way more now,

but they originally paid him what they paid him, which is, in my opinion, is bullshit. I think you should always incentivize your workers that come up with artistic marketing revenue, uh, garnishing ideas. You should, you should pay them their fair wage and McDonald's. Like these corporations are greedy as fuck.

Oh, yeah. That's why I can't stand these big corporations. As I'm saying, like they might have been correct contractually, but like morally I think it's empty. Yeah, like talk about probably could have been like, we're just going to pay you guys some more money and keep the Chihuahua, but they were like, we'd rather just... Well, for...

Or just give the option to incentivizing the contract that you signed. If this takes off, you can get X amount of percentage. The way that it works with the jingles is you can either do the work for hire or you can do it and license your song. And most companies now have the upper hand where they can say, no, you're going to do this work for hire. So by the terms of the contract, we're paying you X amount of money to deliver X product to us, at which point it becomes...

property and RIP that we get to use go for. I didn't know that Push-A-P-T made the Bada-B-B-B-B-B-A. Yeah, I'm loving it. There's a much longer version of the song that was the original commercial, and then they condensed it to that. I would, like, I agree with Arian on most anti-corporation things. I feel like that was a pretty fair. 500K for Bada-B-B-B-Bah, that feels pretty good.

Yeah, but they're using commercials for years and years and years. That was the contract. Right. I sort of say contractually, but contractually they're correct. But what I'm saying is once the market value of your product increases, so should your pay. And it should increase exponentially with the growth of that product. I would just, I would love to know, I would love to know like if that actually drove anyone to buy more than they normally did. You know what I mean?

Do you know, do you know the, the jingle? sure i knew macdonalds before though there's psychology behind marketing so it's literally why like what i'm i'm saying so macdonald spends i think just under two billion dollars years on marketing right like two billion dollars a year right this shit works billboards work jingles work all that shit works so while there might not be a scientific way to quantify it if if if you're if whatever revenue you're spending on getting your ads on those programs like you should be divving up portions because of Who made those ads, the director, the actors in, and they call that that as shit. Sure.

I don't disagree with that. I just, I'm genuinely curious, like, how much revenue did that specifically drive? And I don't know that. Yeah. I could quantify that. Well, happy ending. I'm sure there's a way. Happy ending to the Taco Bell story.

When they decided that the Chihuahua wasn't increasing revenue any more than it did, they had a drop in revenue. They decided to abandon the Chihuahua in 2000. The Chihuahua ended up getting many roles in Hollywood after. So he had a very, a huge career after that. He was in legally blonde and also he's talking about, man. That's right. He wasn't legally

blonde. But he looks like every Chihuahua ever. Well, this was a spec. Come on. Give the chihuahua. It's worth and talent. These other chihuahuas didn't act in commercials with Godzilla. Yeah. This just a whole line of toys. Yes.

Yeah, Staddy trying to give me to like dogs, man. I don't give a fuck about dog. This chihuahua. Chihuahua is hardly. Yeah, no. How much did, how much money do the chihuahua? I see that's why zero yeah but he got humans exploding workers that's not new uh but but anyway interesting who came up with the entire concept behind the live moss lifestyle i don't know so that i mean that's where it's like obviously like my dad like i don't and i don't i was a kid i would just be like oh like how's like but he again like i said lives breeze and dies

taco bell and he would find out about these things ahead of time and like you know i'd be like oh what's what's coming on the menu and he'd be like oh in 12 12 months we're going to do like a like actually cheesy Gordy to crunch and some of these other random ones but the live moss one he like came on was like live moss is is it going to be the new saying and he would just say it over and over and over and over and over and over and over like he was I think mentally getting himself into the live moss lifestyle mindset yeah can I think any like he's not he's involved in that like that's like marketing stuff I'm involved in the live my mindset can I ask you where you stand on live moss versus think outside the bun

because I feel like they had it perfect and they got rid of it for no reason. I personally like live moss. Oh, I think outside the butt. It's so perfect. Where's the neat? I don't know. You're just not,

you're just not living moss. Yeah, sounds like. Wait, wait. Big T's living menos. Did everyone hear what Hank just said? What? He said Taco Bell's not buns.

And I was like, yeah, that was the whole point of the same. You think outside the bun. Right. But this, but then it's like, it's like what Aaron is saying where it's like subliminal, like everything's subliminal. and like whatever. If you hear bun, you think

bun and then you want to go get something with a bun. I don't hate live moss. I just, I think I thought they had it. That's because you don't live moss. Yeah. That's simple. We don't want you to love live moss.

I would actually be bad for the live moss community. Okay. I mean, that was a bit much. I am living moss. You know what? Hey, Hank the hater real quick. I got a question, man.

I thought we moved off. I told we moved on. Never, fan. I hope it catches on too. But did you, did you ever hear any blowback? um from the mexican community about taco bell and appropriation or anything anything of that like

just being on the inside not i mean not me personally i i again like i don't really i i didn't know i didn't have anyone coming up to me but like i'm maybe my dad no sure i'm i'm talking about like the overall like because you kind of on the inside of the entire thing just just kind of like any dealings he had to deal with or something like that i don't think so i mean it's it's it's started like it's uh an omit's like any italian food it's like any any any any type of cultural food, I don't think they, I don't understand why, like, there would be blowback from Mexicans about Taco Bell. It's fast food. It's not like there's. No, I just, I just, I'm not, I'm just, I'm, my, my mother's Mexican, right? So, like, I'm half. I absolutely

love Taco Bell. I don't know. It don't taste shit like real Mexican food, but I just, it hits the spot, fam. It is what it is. Right. And that, and, but that's the same with McDonald's doesn't taste as good as, you know, a real burger and stuff like that. It's like fast food is, is, is inherent. Apparently, like, shitty fast food that they make. I mean, they fries do, though. Right. I mean, one thing I love about fast food, it really has fed huge populations of people and, like, brought sustenance to people who were start.

Like, if you look at McDonald's in the Soviet, in the post-Sovian Union, they put their first McDonald's in Moscow in 1990. It's the most popular restaurant in the city because the idea of having an abundance of food, we take it for granted and, you know, we're dealing with the downside. which Aaron's going to get to later with the obesity epidemic. But like these people who are starving, you know, Ukraine was having famines and there's famines going on right now in the world. But like the idea of famine was much a much larger aspect of people's lives that we don't

even consider. Like even in the 1990s, you had people who had lived through various famines in the Soviet Union in around the world. McDonald's fast food, they came in and introduced this idea of. you know, having a ton of food and people, like we take that for granted how that was such a huge impact on people's lives. Like in China, KFC is all across China nowadays. And, you know, the idea of having ample of food and affordable food that you could feed your whole family and, you know, splurge on is so novel to some parts of the world. And it's crazy how like, yes,

these corporations are huge. They're bad. You know, they're feeding us, you know, bad quality products. But, like, for a lot of people, it, like, they celebrated totally in this idea of, you know, like, think about it. McDonald's is the most popular restaurant in Moscow. It also gave you something really cool to do when you skip school. Yeah. Like, let's just go to Taco Bell and hang out. Let's go to, let's go grab a slurpy at seven. Like, fast food revolution.

I don't know what kids used to do and they would skip school if there wasn't a fast food place around. Just like go hang out in the park maybe. Smoke cigarettes. probably smoke cigarettes. Yeah, but Billy, you're a fitness guy. I'm actually surprised that's your take and you said Aaron's going to bring it up too. But the...

Yeah, that's a really bad take in mind. The pictures, just the pictures of like the sizing, serving sizes from like the 60s, 70s, 80s, 90s to what it is now. Like, that's, don't you think that's done more harm than good? Right. But for example,

before sort of the, let's like, like using drug references, but the food has been kind of cut with other stuff. in a lot of fast food restaurants but like back when they were just trying to mass produce when all fast food was sort of just you know eggs just the bare basics and not really you know not too much synthetic stuff like you know the golden ages of fast food like for example kFC the colonel who isn't actually a colonel he wants the reba he's a kentucky colonel he's a kentucky

colonel not an actual colonel no he didn't serve i don't think well you know you know you know you know that story right Billy's acting like it's a big shock that somebody mentioned on this podcast would steal valor Yeah He's a Kentucky colonel Like you are a private first class

In the military Exactly Okay Well no colonel is like a A distinction That the state of Kentucky gives out Right I just thought that he was also An actual colonel

No That's fucked All right anyway Sorry But yeah no Is it unhealthy But the thing is like I can eat a ton of fast food

But it's more of like It has its role Well, it's the people that eat it every single day. Also, supersized me was a fraud. That guy is a fraud. Mortgage Spurlock, huge fraud. But, yeah, he canceled himself. Yeah, what did he cancel himself for?

Do you like jerk off on a video or something? No, that was, that was, uh, Connie, that was Connie 2012, I think. Got it. Classic mix up. What did the Spurlock guy do? He's, I think he came out and was just like I was not, I didn't behave well with women. harassment admissions. He's like, hey, I'm, I'm an asshole.

Just, I want to get ahead of this one. Yeah, everyone was like, all right. Yeah, he got, all right. So, yeah, the thing about supersized me was if you eat anything that is moderately unhealthy for you and exclusively eat that thing, you're going to get unhealthy. I'm not shocked. I also wouldn't be surprised if he fake that experiment because I have my doubts that eating McDonald's every single day. will make your liver shut down and, like, make you almost die after only 30 days. It also wasn't, it wasn't very well conducted.

Like, he also, like, put in parameters that were odd to me. Like, if they ask you to supersize it, you have to supersize it. Like, why was that a thing? You know what I mean? Like, I don't understand that. But I guess I kind of get it. But there was a dude that did another one that was kind of debunked that did the same thing and remained relatively fine.

but the abundance of, I think moderation is always key and also how much you eat. Like if you're eating a whole bunch of shit, like it's always going to be bad for you, right? Oh, do we want to get into the bad part of yet? Yeah, sure. A fast food, right? So fast food in general, like Billy's take,

which actually was surprising is, like, that is a, would you say Billy that was a net good? Or a net bad? I mean, the whole system was probably inevitable, but the idea that like feeding large populations of people easily and cheaply, like this is like one of the largest arguments of like why capitalism as a whole is a net benefit. Because even though yes, maybe the, you know, there are negative externalities, but feeding whole populations instead of having them starve and die of famine and, you know,

yes, like the socialist. like the communist system in a lot of former Soviet countries like people were like you'd have Russian diplomats coming to America and walking into a supermarket and seeing like the variety like how you could buy tons of food and they're like we're not going to win this war I mean just in Oreos in general that it's it's enough to convince anybody that our system is the best if you just take them to a grocery store and you're like hey we've got nine kinds of Oreos in stock at any given time and guess what they all change so in two months

come back we'll have nine different kinds of Oreos completely separate from the nine that we have right now and they'd be like fuck it capitalism let's do it yeah Oreos is the key McDonald's actually played a huge role in the cold war did it well I do know

that no two countries that have McDonald's and them have ever fought a war against each other that's probably not right now that that sort of when NATO bombed Serbia in the 90s that's when that ended NATO's not a country

NATO doesn't have McDonald's maybe they do does NATO have They probably have McDonald's But then when Ukraine When Crimea That also negated it There's like several

But are there We don't know Are there McDonalds is in Crimea Yes Are you sure They all closed Are you sure They closed?

Yeah That's been debunk My favorite McDonald's is the one That's in Kurdistan The Mad Donald Have you you guys seen the picture that one yeah it's great it's a knockoff macdonald's capital m lowercase

a capital d lowercase oh n a l madonnael and it's their version of mcdonald's probably sprung up because as we remember we discussed this like six months ago on the show saddam hussein applied to become a franchisee of mcdonalds in iraq and mcdonalds denied them they said no we're not going to let you start your own mcdonalds we don't think that you You don't fit our mission statement here at McDonald's, Saddam Hussein. So unfortunately, you're going to have to make your own. They came up with Madonel. Probably a good call by now.

Good call. Shout out to them. A good call. I just think it's very funny to picture the guy like reviewing applications. Saddam Hussein. That would be funny as shit. But the reason why I feel like as a net negative is because of the adverse effects of what fast food is done. heart disease is the number one killer in america right it's like 600 and some thousand people

die a year a heart disease i think it's like 36 every 36 seconds somebody dies of heart disease or with heart disease erin well when you talk about cold morbidities and stuff when you when you give or take this is this is this is the cdc stats and says how heart disease is kill them for And so the bigger issue I see is that not only is it the number one killer and fast food is directly correlated with that, but the underlying, like, so there's a bunch of science behind us that says that fast food has addictive properties to it that can be as addictive as drugs, as some drugs, like the neurochemistry involved in fast food. and so when you're when you're when you're constantly feeding people poison and this is the really bad part when you're constantly feeding people poison and then you're feeding poor people poison and there are abundantly more of these fast food restaurants in poor areas what you're doing is you're setting up for it's a recipe for failure so yeah you're feeding more people but

you're also leading them to a slow demise you're walking them to their gravesites and so I think that these corporations have a bigger responsibility to make their food more quality. Like we have, and it's directly correlates to who we are as a country. Like, it's profit over people. Like, yeah, people buy it. It is what it is. But it's because it's what we prioritize. We prioritize money. We don't prioritize people. And if we did, our entire diet would change and our entire landscape would change, but we don't. And so people are going to buy what's cheap and what's ready and what's available. This is why there's food. deserts in a lot of neighborhoods in America, where the only access they have is bad food.

And even if they did have access to good food, they don't have the time nor the resources to prepare it. Just like you said, it's like if then, because I remember when I went vegan, the biggest problem I had when I was vegan is preparation. And so if I wanted to go out to eat, if I wanted to, I had to bring my own food no matter where I went, right? And so it's culturally inconvenient to have healthy food prepared. And so we need a more consorted effort.

And fast food is the antithesis of where we want to go health-wise in America. So, yeah, I mean, that makes sense. I'm just wondering, like, when you went vegan and you would take things out, you'd have to prepare them yourselves. What's from stopping a vegan fast food restaurant? there isn't there's nothing stopping it other than over than high profits right and so you can have you can have fast food restaurants that are healthy absolutely but it it won't turn as high as a profit as a McDonald's it just won't but listen it's it's it's just there's so many different

variables involved but there's I agree that there's absolutely a market for it but it's just the the major corporations will will drown them out every single time so the studies that say that like fast food is as addictive as drugs isn't it aren't they saying like they put so much sodium and fat into it that of course it's going to taste good and so they hit receptor so like where do you where do you draw the line like oh this tastes too good we need to regulate what we're talking about more personally yeah or just as a collective well as a collective because you're right people are it is being a net negative I think, in a lot of people's lives where it's driving them to an early grave.

But is it who, like, who's to say what's too much sodium in one product? Like, oh, no, this has become addictive right now. They're taking advantage of somebody by getting them reliant on eating this type of food. Well, we regulate everything, right? And so when you have those conversations on either side of the aisle, right, it's always like one side wants to limit freedoms, the other side wants to exercise full freedom. Freedom is fucking dangerous. Like, I don't think people really want full freedom or really. understand what the fuck that even means, right? A thousand percent freedom is dangerous as shit.

You have to have regulatory practices in any community sense or else you're just going to have like anarchy. And I know some people want that, right, but I don't know, they don't understand the consequences of that. So I think there should absolutely, and there is. We regulate food all the time. But there should be, I would argue there should be more stringent regulations on what we serve to the public. If we care about the health of the public, if the government's role is to protect public health and well-being, then this should absolutely be something that's taken way more seriously than it is.

Make way less money, though. That's what they care about. Aaron doesn't believe in money. That's not true. It exists. You would have it not, though. 1,000%. There is the aspect of profit-seeking due to shareholders that has made, you know,

maximizing that as opposed to and one of those things where if you are you know going to start a restaurant it's like these kind of what you were saying earlier where it's like the lobbyist and shit these restaurants and fast food places are so big that they kind of try and squeeze out the competition or they'd rather just have a chain of fast food stores in every every restaurant because they know if it's a taco bell versus McDonald's versus Burger King they know like the percentage and like you're just kind of like you're just going for market share you're just going for like you know increased percentages by a little bit versus if If it's like a really popular whatever burger place or Mexican place,

they might like not like that at all and try and do what they can to shut that business down. It's also like this, right? So we have absolutely regulated how cigarette companies can market to the public at large, right? Thousands of it because we realize that shit kills people. This shit kills people, not faving. It absolutely, you said what?

Not vaping. Vaping absolutely kills people as well. But we regulate cigarette ads, right? We regulate all of this stuff. This is why we're so nitpicky on what we do and what we don't regulate or what we're accepted. But we should actually regulate how companies market, fast food companies market to us. Like, they should have caps, 1,000 percent because it's marketing works.

Study after study after study says marketing works. And all we do all day, every day is our inundated with all of this fast food and it's garbage. And it's shit works. And it's why America is one of the fattest nations. Marketing works. It's just propaganda. And there's propaganda is very useful.

useful sometimes and it's specifically for stone people only if I'll watch a commercial a million times and not think about it if I'm sober and then I'll smoke and then it'll be like a slow motion fire burger like and I'm like oh my god that looks so good every every time and I'm like that's that they they're going for they're taking advantage of you yeah like I'm like they got me uh-huh yeah burger kings like that when they show the they show the paddy drop down onto the grill the flames come up the wet lettuce lands on top of the paddy and like water sprays everywhere. They actually, they did this thing where they, they, um, they kind of transposed like what the real food looks like versus what the market of food looks like. And then they showed how

they get the food to look like that on the commercials. It's crazy. They literally like, they literally paint shit. They literally put, I think of one of the carbonated things, they put like some kind of gas in there. I forget what it is. Like CO2. Yeah. And they really, none of this shit is edible. They literally, right. It's like, it's like plastic. They just, they just, they just, bubble it up to make a look delicious which is fucking insane though they don't even use like the food to show the food like i remember they used mashed potatoes i want to say for like ice cream like because it looked like better ice cream on the commercial like that's insane it wouldn't melt for the shots right so i mean i do think there is an effort like for example one of the reasons

why i like wendies is that all for some reason all the wendies are like new and renovated nowadays have you guys noticed that what was the last time you saw I mean I'm I feel like I feel like big Wendy's is in your pocket this is twice I haven't been into Wendy's in years but Wendy's they like

what's their new slogan like you're trying to be like more natural I don't know that's a strategy Billy guy got by Wendy's lobbyist man Wendy's doing bad

and they're like we need to reach we need to switch it all as a matter of fact though that wasn't because they're like let's be healthy they're like but that's sort of switching up so people buy fucking their shit

Wendy's was way better when every Wendy's looks like you were in 1974 and they had the yellow cups and shit that's when Wendy's was delicious Wendy's home of fresh never frozen beef since 1969 that's what they're saying right now but like they have this new fresh I don't know but like for example

Burger King Dave Thomas when when he passed away that's when they fell off I used to love Dave he was a great rest in peace underrated fast food mascot guy because he was so unassuming you saw Dave Thomas you're like oh this guy's not trying to take advantage of me this is like your this is your uncle

but cook's a good burger. I love Dave Thomas commercials when he'd like serve you the burger right at the fast food. Do you remember when they started doing the commercials with Wendy and everyone hated her and then they disappeared off the face of the earth? Yeah. Yes. I do remember that. Wendy,

she was like in her 20s though, wasn't she? No, no, no, no. This was maybe, I don't know, nine, 10 years ago,

maybe even more recent than that. And everybody was like, man, like I just, they just didn't like her and then they got rid of them. Was that the original? She was probably in her 40s. Yeah,

that's too old. They nerfed Wendy Yeah She was riding a bike PFT broke his TV Yeah Fuck that Yeah my McDonald's

I mean It's an hour late I'm sorry I'm angry I'm so hungry I do think that Wendy's is It has its moments

It's got its time in his place But Wendy's definitely Taking a backseat recently Can't remember The last time I was in one Can't remember The last time I ordered But me and Billy

you'll have a nice little exploration here because we're going on that trip across the country we'll probably stop at a few fast food joints. I'm going to eat so much food on this trip. Fast food breakfast just kicks ass, though. I don't think that there's any fast food breakfast that I don't like. They all do such a good job. I mean, the syrup. Actually, McDonald's does next level. Yeah. I was saying McDonald's does a really good job at breakfast and one of the reasons why is because they don't do the powdered eggs. You can get the like a real egg. I mean, it's so fast food. It's so trash. It's you could get a real egg from McDonald's Brickman.

Yep. I'd just like to announce the NFT bubble has finally popped. Oh, no. What does that mean? January 31st, 452 p.m. Or just because yours aren't doing well. Yeah, my last two NFTs have not sold. Like one.

Just got the notification. Zero bids. Zero bids. Yeah. I do. Yo, yo, Billy, I'm going to keep it a buck. Those drawings fucking suck. You know what?

You know what? But it's just, it's a, it's funny how that works. to the breakfast thing I do obviously again I can give a little bit of insight on that I do remember talking to my dad about that and being like breakfast and he was like yeah it's you know we're just doing it because everyone else is doing it

not you know it wasn't like a proactive thing but then the heart wasn't in it no but now it does really well and it's like he was he even says he like he's like yeah I was wrong like I didn't think I wasn't excited about doing it it's obviously like you have to then figure out more working hours and like all that shit and he just didn't think

it was necessarily going to be worth it, but he was, you know, he was wrong and Taco Bell's breakfast is great. But that's like, I do remember that when he, I was like, Taco Bell breakfast. What the fuck? Like, even, you know, as a Taco Bell, Taco Bell son, but it was like, that's kind of a weird Taco Bell breakfast. But breakfasts are delicious. The breakfast contract is amazing. Now, speaking of Taco Bell breakfast, I don't know if you wanted to get to this now, but I have a, I have a list. I mean, they serve, Taco Bell serves synobuns like for breakfast. Yeah, no, those are elite. I do have a list that you have to ask me to put together. Do you want to do that now?

Because there's something from Taco Bell Breakfast on. Yeah. So, all right. This is a segment idea that I had for Big Tea that I'd like to be recurring, recurring segment on macro dosing because Big Tea, I've noticed just like talking, you know, having conversations with him and walking by his desk, I'll bring something up. And Big Tea loves to say that things are the WOT, which means the worst of all time. He's the Wote King.

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of all time okay so i would say i would say three of these are like gadget you know like oh like gotcha type stuff the other two are just straight like these you can go get these right now and they got your meals at fast food restaurants taco belt when they first started thing they promo yeah like they can come up with a commercial for it yes that three of these are that Two are like normal shit So Hank will obviously remember this one Taco Bo started doing breakfast They had a drink called Mountain Dew AM

Which they just poured orange juice Into Mountain Dew and it was disgusting It was awful That's valid Woted All right now I'm counting Papa Johns As fast food Even though like

That's like fast foodish pizza I think Papa Johns is the most Real pizza out of all the fast food pizzas I like Pizza Hut better But like Papa John's it's got to goaded. Papa Johns is usually like fine. The chacononi though, do y'all remember the commercials for the chakaroni? I don't remember the shakeroni. Okay, all college football season this year, we'd be in the office, you know, noon to 10 p.m. and you'd see the chakaroni commercial 13 times. So finally, I was like, you know what? I want to try a chacaroni. It was just supposed to be a gigantic pizza with like a shit ton of pepperoni on it, whatever. I order it. It gets to my apartment. I bite in. And there is just, so it looks like a pepperoni pizza on top. But then under the, the cheese is just it's not pepperoni it's just like uncooked layer

of ham just on the pizza it was disgusting gross worst pizza I've ever had in my life wote um the KFC Chester Cheetah Cheeto chicken sandwich believe it or not not good

not good Chester Cheetah it was Did you think it was gonna be good? No no but it was one of those things that Hank was talking about where they take advantage of high people correct and a high person sees a commercial. Got to try, yeah. I'm going to try that.

I had low expectations. No one. No one takes more advantage of the high community, the Taco Bell. No one. I had low expectations. It's still under your audience. Speaking of KFC, the new KFC fries. They had it so great with the potato wedges.

And then they just were like, you know what? No, their new fries suck. The potato wedges were goaded. Now they're woted. I don't like wedges. I'm not a fan of wedges, nor am I a fan of steak fries. the wedges were awesome I wouldn't say that they're awesome

they were better than their current fries I agree with you they never should want the fries route but I do think the worst fries blunder any company made it was probably like 2005 2006 Burger King switched their whole fry ideology around

and they went from like a legit 1B to McDonald's 1A to the worst in the game well that's funny you should say that Coley because rounding out my list is just the French fries at Burger King that you can go get right now. Just Burger King fries, voted. They are.

And it's a shame because they used to, everyone talks about the McDonald's bag fry, what a treat the bag fry is. You thought you were on food. The onion ring. You reach into your bag. There's always a couple in there. Burger King used to have, again,

a very competent fry that could match up. And they had an extra bonus, which was the bag onion ring that McDonald's simply could not compete with. But they fucked up their fries. no one, no one cares. So I distinctly remember Burger King switching their fries in the late 90s because they used to be trash early mid-90s, Burger King fries awful. Change their fries, late 90s, early 2000s, awesome fries, great fries, and then they changed

them again. Correct. I don't know why. Maybe they were bored. Who knows? But they had objectively a great fry and they turned their back on it. My theory with the King is kind of like what we were saying with Taco Bell when they first started breakfast when McDonald's got them to come fight them in the breakfast realm

i know people who really like burger king's breakfast but they completely lost their way McDonald's got like they they they brought burger king down to their level and then just thumped them burger king lost their way in the late tooth it was it was after they were selling those simpson's watches shortly after that is when burger king fell off the face of the planet and it makes me sad very sad very 17 i used to work i worked at uh taco bow for one summer when I was a junior in high school. It was like I did the draft through window after 10 o'clock. It was like I would put on a comedy show.

People, everyone would be pulling up high and like you never expect that, you know, the person to bring your order to like throw a joke out there and people would just lose their mind. What was your go to? I would be like, oh, I bet you want that. And they'd be like, ah. Like, you know, just, just something like, something like, just say something back to

him, not just like, oh, what else do you want? Like give them a little, sure you want to make a three? And they'd be like, oh, no. Did you ever like work the draft through and you're talking to the mic and you're like, can you speak up? Can you speak up? Can you speak up? Until they just like start screaming at the top of their lungs.

Like, yeah, I heard you first time. Yeah, I would fuck around. I have some fun. Yeah. After 10 to 12, it's like no one's coming in in their right mind. Yeah. There was some really fucked up that happened in Austin back in like 2009, 2010. They had a police sting operation called Operation Would You Like Fries with that?

Where their police officers would just hang out next to the drive-through of Wodeburgers. at like 3 o'clock in the morning, four o'clock in the morning and then just arrest people that were driving through. It was fucked up. Fucking bums. Fucking bum.

Lazy. It was entrapment. I don't know what entrapment is, but it's definitely entrapment. That's it. I got pulled over one side of it was fucking poli. Like I merged late, granted, but I merged late.

And this dude is standing in the road just pulling people over, right? Just massively pulling people over. He's like, he's like, do you know why I pulled you over? I was like, no, it's like you, you merge late. I said, because you block in traffic, you fucking dummy. Like, what's you talking about?

Like, we got traffic because y'all was pulling the niggas over, bro. I was pissing. Like, it's just, yo, abolish, whatever. Just keep the police out of the drive-thru. Is that too much to ask? There are very few places that I feel like they should not have right to go on. That's definitely one of them. We got anything else we want to talk about for fast food?

Or we want to do some voicemails? Wait, Billy's got to talk to people out there. Oh, go, go, right. Let me empty the clip with this. Here we go, rapid fire. The grand finale. So at Cineabon, their baking sheets are scented. So they just put them into the oven while they're not even cooking cinnamon buns.

And that's why the smell. I knew. I knew that something was up there. It smells too good. And they intentionally, when they buy places in malls, they want to get it like centralized so that they can get the smell out to people that are walking. They don't want to be in the food court. they want to be like in their own area.

McDonald's just to work at, my sister worked at Cinebin growing up and I can't go, I can't eat there anymore because like we, she used to bring home loads of that shit every day and I fucked it up as a kid and it just turns my stomach now. It's amazing you weren't like an offensive lineman if you were constantly eating Cinevon.

I mean, I wasn't eating 30 a day. I was active. I was active out there. You know what I didn't have, we didn't have no video game system. So I was in them streets. Ronald McDonald's.

is the second most recognizable character after Santa for children. What about Mickey Mouse? Ronald. Wow. Because he's in foreign countries. McDonald's probably know him more than Jesus too, huh? Yeah. Definitely.

He said fictional, Aryan. McDonald's is the largest distributor of toys. I heard the words. To work in McDonald's, there's a lower acceptance rate than Harvard. Hang on. Harvard, Harvard has... I'm calling capital. Now, I guess, now hang on.

I guess I could see. But it's not because they're like exclusive. It's just because of like more people apply for jobs and McDonald's than apply to Harvard. Right. So in 2011, Harvard's acceptance rate was 7%. McDonald's was 6.2%. There's no way that's true.

It's a technicality. It makes sense because there's each McDonald's probably has, how many jobs would you say probably 25? Yeah, 25 or so. And then the amount of applications they get probably very high and they don't have an opening unless one of those people leaves are fired. This counts overseas too. The job of working at McDonald's

is much highly coveted, is more coveted in places like China, Europe because they have I mean, better wages, yeah, relative to the other jobs around there. That's the other thing. In and out, in and out But like what I said earlier, they refuse to franchise. Like, they're the most respectable fast food. And they also, like, pay their employees, like, better than a lot of jobs do. Yeah.

Like, you can get a degree in college and in and out. Like, you can work it in and out and make, like, six figures. Just, like, working. Is that real, like six figures? Yeah. Damn. I don't know about that, but they got the best burger in my opinion. It's true.

Yeah, Avery, what's up? Every was best. I was going to say if you had one choice of, like, a fast food item, you could have for the rest of your life. just one, what would you pick? 20 seconds each to pick. Crunch her up. I mean, it's... Really?

It's the most balanced of every... Like, I don't think I'd get sick of it ever. Hell no. I'm thinking about... What is your palate? I don't want to disrespect your palette player. I'm thinking about saying the famous bowl. People don't respect the KFC famous bowl

enough, in my opinion. It's a good pick. It's like, I'm going to eat this for the rest of my life Or just like, if I could just have it for free If you want fast food Only meal for the rest of your life If you want fat, wait, only if you want fast food Yeah, whenever you want fast food

Whenever you want fast food This is the only thing that you can get I mean, my, y'all know mine Chick-fil-A Chick-fil-A sandwich spicy I feel like you have to go classic If it's the only thing you're Ah, but I love

You know what, yes, yes, spicy Spicy sandwich I would also go Crunch rap's a good choice too I'm going to in and out In an out burger I think I would Sometimes you just don't feel like a burger though

No like when we're in LA for I'll be I'll probably be getting in and out at night Maybe get an extra one maybe like snacked out in the morning Oh Culvers Has anyone who had Culver's here? Just want to shout out Culver's one of my Definitely go to my favorite

Fast food stuff out there Jack in the Box. Jack in the Box is He's kind of trash, I think. I've never, I'm never actually had it. It's not. They love, they love 99th and tacos, dog. Them shit's like. They just put a slice of American cheese on them.

Yep. Coley, we're song some myth to you as well growing up. Yeah, because the only one that's even in Massachusetts that I know of is like way high up north. Yeah. Like, when you live in the city or below the city, you don't go north. So it was like the commercials ran nonstop. No and stuff.

Never sold. Those two dudes talking to each other. You talk about go. those two guys but yeah they just didn't exist it was very sad have you still never been to one no I've seen them they're so but I'm never I've never actually gone the food is probably seen incredible but like just the drinks like I want somewhere New York City where you can just get any possible drink you could ever imagine cherry lime made delicious there best ocean water that sounds like you're describing one of

those co kiosks no but this is like like they make they have all sorts of drinks that you can't get at one of those you can they do have a lot of drinks but they And by the way, this is a contentious topic of a couple of months back within the company. A full Dairy Queen grill and chill, elite fast food. Oh, that's true. That's true. Very elite. Great toast at the grill and tremendous toast.

Great toast. Tremendous toast. By the way, cheese curds, when done right at the dairy grill and chill, better than fries. Well, Culvers is where you go for. Right. But you can still get it done at the Dairy Queen. The Dairy Queen. or as we called it,

we called it the full brazier when they had the full brazier growing up. I know that because I had some friends that worked at the DQ in town. They did not have to learn how to use the full brazier, but every time we'd pass another

dairy queen that had the full menu, they'd be like, oh, that's a full brazier. You need more certifications to work there. They are delicious. Not only can you get a tremendous spicy burger, great toast, but also they might have the best dessert

in the history of fast desserts. When they turn the blizzard over and it doesn't fall out, magic to me every time. Did you see that person who had worked at Dairy Queen? And then they were working at another restaurant and flipped it.

It was like, oh my God, I'm so sorry. I used to work at Dairy Queen. Yep. She's dumped it all out. Yeah, these are some good choices, though. But thinking about it more of the crunch wrap might be the way to go because it's so versatile. Exactly. It offers so much.

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Think of how you see the graphics where they build like the perfect QB where you get like Josh Allen's arm, Lamar Jackson's legs. Tom Brady's thinking ability. if you could build the worst person ever with three attributes, how would you do it? Love you guys. Arian and Maddie, stay gorgeous, and everybody else, stay handsome. Thanks. Is this with people from the show or just period?

No, I think it's just a shit. I think it was period. Yeah, Big T. Yeah, got her gun for us. Well, no, I thought that would be, like, I thought that's what he was going for. All right. You can do it from the show. No, I'll, I'll, I just, yeah, never mind.

This was a hard one because it's so widespread. Let's, let's just do, let's do personality because we start picking people's looks. That's just, it's just mean. We're not mean, girls. All, all babies. Yeah, baby, just, where's person? Looks like a baby. Yep.

Looks like a baby. Hitler's brain. Hitler's a person. Opinions on diversity and area's hands. Unreal. Stalin's economic knowledge. Say what you want about Stalin. The guy had an excellent mustache.

Yeah. So handsome devil. Very handsome guy. The young mugshot of Stalin? Hoof! Hot. I'm ready to risk it all. You know who Loki had bad facial hair?

Castro. Castro's beard was pretty, I mean, I can't speak, but it was pretty patchy. Yeah, he was just, he was a compiler. He just grew it out for a long time. Yeah. I agree. Sheikovar, I had pretty shitty facial hair as well. I would say, I don't like Prince Harry's ears.

Something about his ears just kind of tick me off. Rub me the wrong way. But isn't, isn't Charles the one with the big ears? Yeah. But Harry's ears are just, I don't pick them out of a line. I have no idea. Jeffrey Epstein's penis. hate it

hate it bad it's a bad body part yeah it is Billy you're laughing but are you going to disagree

with me I don't disagree thank you I'll do that I'm going to do baby looks Hitler's a whole mental brain

and and Jeffrey Epstein's sexual preference that's that's pretty that's pretty terrible person can't get work how about like when we throw um

Mao Zedong something like urban planning that's part of the brain I would say what about who's got bad feet worst feet of all time uh

FDR yeah FTA yeah there you go FDR's feet Shaq oh Shaq's toe well he's got huge I mean I mean, there's some redeeming qualities in having, like, size 23.

So we'll just go with his toes, then, and FDR's feet. Where? Who's got bad, bad arms? Trump had, Trump had the dinosaur arms. The dinosaur? Yeah, he would do the dinosaur arms. McCain? Bob Dole.

McCain had the worst arms. Yeah, he couldn't lift him up. He is. That's terrible. I'm not a referee. All right, good question. Let's move on the next one. What's up, Macrodocusing?

This is Alex from D.C. My question is, what movie or TV villain or antagonist do you most closely associate with in both personality and motive? Like, you think you'd be cool with them and you fully believe in what they're trying to do? And why do you, like, why do you associate with them? Love the show. Thanks, guys.

Great question. I'll go, Joker from Dark Night. Really? That's the homie. He got it, he got it figured out. Batman is fucking horrible. He's awful human being. Yeah, he's just a...

Awful. Rich guy beating up poor people. But he's fucking, yeah, he's evil. Like, his methodology is horrible. He's just egotistical. And the Joker's like, yo, you're fucking insane. Doesn't even finish the job. Doesn't kill him.

Doesn't Batman save him? Batman save innocent people though on occasion yeah but he doesn't if you know he what is innocent uh like if if the joker's trying to blow up a children's hospital I would say those kids are

the jokers you got to look at it you got to look at it in a bigger contextual picture the joker does murder innocent people for sure but in context what he's trying to do is he's trying to shake the system and get people to understand that the system is

fucked up he couldn't get like a newsletter or something he's got to go straight to blowing up hospitals you got to blow up hospital you got to threaten he knew he was going to get him out of there right he didn't nobody died in the hospital blowing up right he knew that was going to happen right he wants to shake the system he wants to break the system and show that the system of inequality is the reason why we're here he gets it joker gets it he's a little crazy but he gets it that's my dog all right anybody else i mean repeat the question just someone we relate like relate too like we want we wish they won what no like what antagonist do you relate to like you get you get it oh I get it Ivan Drago Rock I get it definitely not an antagonist

no no yeah like I was just a boxer wasn't he was actually on which side that was literally that was literally you Billy yeah you just dude he's just doing what he's told but was he but was he an antagonist though like he killed Apollo but like totally i'm gonna keep it a book i haven't even watched there's an argument that ivan drago was a victim of the soviet that's the only one worth

watching yeah four yeah i need one two three four the last two are good yeah one two three four and creed one and two are there five and six a lot really rocky five sucked and then like there's rocky balboa which also sucked which one does he well that's with the speech that's the one with the speech um I think that's five. Like when he fights Tommy, whatever. Like, he fights a kid that... I watched one one one time.

That was good. I was identified with Leo DiCaprio and catch me if you can. Yeah. Yeah. We talk about that movie a lot, like how easy it was to get away with the crimes before the internet. Yeah. So easy. He must have had an awesome life.

He's definitely still dipping back into... No, he works for the FBI. I know, but, like, you don't just give that up entirely. Well, you think he's definitely... Right now? Push the limits a little bit. Real world. I'm sure he's tried. No, because every fucking company pays him to like, yeah, but you check their books. Oh, so every company is like, hey, we're going to show you all of our security systems. Please don't do anything bad with them after being like the most prolific con man in the history of the world. No, he's probably just doing like the class like someone in his position. He's probably just trading stocks with his insider knowledge. That's probably what he's doing. That's the way easier way to make money. Probably. It's what like Nancy Pelosi does. antagonists that you identify with Jordan Belfort

Yeah I mean Wolf of Law Street baby Stodin I wouldn't say he's an antagonist though We should do a episode Depends on how you ask Julian Assange Julian Assange I'm a huge huge

fan of I don't know that's controversial Poor guy's gone totally nuts In because he's been isolated for so long I'm trying to think who else A lot of villains in movies Like are like You know

Dope Usually like in society Like for example Like the scoundrel kids getting chased by like An adult Who's like the enemy You know Yeah

Jenny from Forrest Gump I identify with her why I hated her I could not stand Jenny she loves free bird it's about it song yeah big fan I love James Bond

but a lot of his villains have a good point and he's kind of like an alcoholic sex addicts that just like kills people but a lot of his villains like what's his name Rami Malik in the most recent one I mean he had a very good reason why he wanted to kill

a lot of people because his whole family got killed by the last people guy that James Bond killed. So, I don't know. It's good for thought. Thanos? I've never seen it. I don't know. I just know he wanted to kill everybody.

Because of global warming yourself. Half of everybody. Which half? All right. He didn't choose. Let's do one more voicemail. What's up, guys? This is Matt from

San Diego, huge fan of the pod, especially Billy. Thanks, bro. Big beautiful Billy. Anyway, I just wanted to throw this question out here. If there was an invasion from an alien species that we weren't expecting, but they were like respectable alien species, and they challenged us to a 5B5 combat, hand-to-hand combat, and to tentacle combat, however they looked,

what five humans would we send out as are challengers like fighters football players athletes celebrities I don't know anybody that you guys would select you guys don't all have to do it maybe just do some Nate brainstorming but I love the pot

and yeah I think it's going to do all UFC football players can't even beat up Duran Williams yeah but UFC fighters would beat up Navy Seals they would just wrestle under the ground I think they have football players man but the thing is UFC fighters aren't trained to kill like there's guys who are trained in hand-to-hand combat I'm pretty sure they could still kill which is just they could

if they want to keep going and doing the thing that you're coming mMA that type shit but I feel like people kill all the time that aren't trained to kill I feel like there's different but we're also we're also dealing with non-humanoids we don't know what we're killing Billy's doing the I can't be the only one of things that the troops could put together a UFC dominant mixed martial I think definitely some Navy like they're trained to kill people with guns and the hands weapons. They're definitely

they're definitely above average fighters and killers. Yes, very good killers. But like UFC fighters, that's literally what they trained to do. I'm taking Kabim for sure. Yep. I think we have to include Rogan because he could fight if he wanted to, but also we can just have him like kind of throw some ideas out there

at him and just see if they get like, distracted annoyed and leave yeah because if it comes down to it and they're not they're not with it like he can fight but then he can also just kind of double as as the entertainment I mean he would interview them yeah he'd be like these aliens make some really

good points well we the one guy who has experience fighting aliens is Schwarzenegger Arnold yeah too old wash he has primar he has no experience fighting anything's let's choose fictional characters Rambo

Neil DeGrasse Tyson Rocky Rambo Jesus Rambo Jesus Santa If we're using Fixer Piccarries

Thanos The Avengers Yeah What's Batman You brought up Rambo It's like Curve my fixer

This is your fucking metric Avengers are They're too They're gonna win I don't think they're kids They do win You said fiction Billy

True I have not seen the films Don't all the Avengers get, get fucked by Thanos? Let's do his story. But then they made another movie where they're like, oh, oh, they actually do win. But at the beginning, he kills half of everybody, right? Spoiler alert.

Half, yeah. Yes. There are many of Avengers left. But they, but they wouldn't. But they, but they weren't talking about hand-to-hand combat here, right? That's it bullshit. But he didn't beat him one-on-one, bro. He had Infinity Stones where like, he literally can change reality and distort reality.

They should have gotten. It wasn't a fair one. I will say, though. He didn't shoot him a fair one. I will say, though, Arian, I think by the letter of the law, a lot of the Avengers are aliens, because they're not from this planet. True. We need humans. The Avengers? What are you talking about? Black Panther.

He's from Wakanda. He's from here. That's the Earth. Okay. That's why. I'll give you Thor. I'll give you Thor. Iron man.

He's from here. Captain America. Captain America is from here. Black Hawk. He's from here. Scarlet. Yeah, he goes. Whatever the name is.

Scarlett Johansson's character. She's from here. Hulk. Most of them are out of them here except for Thor, right? Yes. Damn. Shit. My bad.

All the ones are referring to like Captain Marvel, people like that got snapped out anyways. Are we talking about strictly hand-to-hand combat? That's my question. Yeah. I believe so. Wait, they killed off Captain Marvel? She, no. She came back.

Oh, I guess Disney is as woke as I thought after all. I actually think Indomacan Sue would be a pretty good choice I think Aaron Donald over Sue No no You want to talk about a killer instinct Yeah Iron Donald isn't as mean Sue would go the extra mile

Sue wants to kill people But he's more And Aaron will say this with Juditsu too Like the anger you gets a bad thing Like you want to stay focused Well be water my friend I see let OJ

OJ OJ's son Right Yeah that's actually who you want Yeah he's He was just telling them His fantasy football lineups What up Twitter world

What up Twitter world It's OJ Mahomes What up Twitter universe With the other What up other world All right Thank you guys for listening This was a good episode

Appreciate you stopping by So much for coming by Sorry The haters in a building Sorry for Hayden Thank you guys for having me on everybody be nice to hang on twitter tell me yeah everybody go say what's up go to taco bell stopping his stop in his mention say what's up Hank the hater no all love here buy some taco

bell support my family what was your what was your uh what did you think going into this podcast and now that we're about to finish what was different well i'm not going to lie i was kind of misled a little bit said we're going to talk about taco bell i thought i you know it's getting super specific and then they were like all right let's talk fast food and i was like whoa whoa whoa but I had a great time It was very enjoyable conversation Did we miss anything about Taco Bell? No, I don't think so

Billy, do you have any more facts You want to unload? No Okay Clips emptied All right Well thank you guys for listening We'll see you on Thursday

On nanodosing Where we'll clean up Anything that we missed on this episode How long? Oh, you know I did want to talk about? Good question You know that coffee thing Where the woman sued

McDonald's and everyone was like Blaming the woman for just like turns out like multiple people it was a class action lawsuit and like tons of people got third degree burns it was like really really bad well they had they told the restaurant specifically do not keep your coffee this hot the coffee is too hot it will injure somebody there are multiple reports of them saying the coffee is too hot this is a health issue this is a safety issue don't make the coffee this hot and they continued to do it and then the lady spilled it she got it was like very very bad burns yeah it was like horrible like like disfiguring burns but it's become something very easy to say where they're like oh a lady spilled coffee on herself and won a million bucks that's what's wrong with america yeah she was actually like fucked up by this extremely weaponized coffee that she spilled on herself and then the only example of someone finding a finger or human uh like body parts in their food wendies was this lady who chopped off her buddy's finger and put her and put it in her food and they were trying

to set up wendy's that's true that's did i tell you all my domino story It's really quick. So I thought I did it. Well, I found a tooth in my domino's son? What? I didn't say it? Okay, so anyway, all right, so we ordered Domino's and I'm eating. And all of a sudden, I bite and there's a tooth in the pizza.

I was livid, right? I called Domino's. I'm like, yo, what the fuck? Like, yo, this is what happened? They were like, oh, my God, that is insanely disgusting. I'm so sorry. We don't know what happened. Yada, yada, yada.

They refunded me. They gave me credentials. Like, I'm never eating dominoes again. Y'all are crazy. I was mad as hell. I love the fact that you got credentials. Like, you got a lanyard where you could walk into any dominoes. Oh, yeah.

They offered all of that. They offered all that. And so I found out later on that it was the cap to my, to my two. I went to the dentist like, I don't know, previously that week. And so I had all the people. I had all my people over and shit. There was like 10 people there. Like, they was all disgusted and we ordered something else.

But I couldn't, you know, I couldn't be like, you know, that was my tooth. So I just kept with the store for a good couple months before I had to come clean on this shit. Oh, man. Like the shrimp toast crunch guy. Oh, man. I don't know that one. Oh, yeah. Do we ever get?

You come at Wendell, the Baker. You better not fucking miss. And this guy missed. Did we ever get closure on that? I knew is bullshit from the first second. It took a really dark turn, so people just stopped talking about it. Yeah. Yeah.

I knew that. I texted you guys the day that happened. I was like, this is bullshit. Billy Cole Cap. Well, Arian, thank you for coming clean finally. If you work for Domino's, that's Arian's official apology. He's sorry. Okay.

We will see you guys on Thursday. Love you guys. Thank you.