Men At Work Podcast - We Meet A Teenage Prodigy, Learn WILD Food Truck Rules, & the NFL Destroys Journalism | MAW 64

Episode Date: August 11, 2025

We've got a delicious one at the Port Richmond Pierogi Festival where we meet a teenage prodigy, the WILD rules of running a food truck, and the NFL destroys journalism after buying a portion of ESPN + more!0:00 - Our Producer Fights, NFL Destroys Sports Journalism, & Kyle Calls out a Criminal!14:35 - A Teenage Business Prodigy!34:15 - The Wild Rules of Running a Food Truck51:00 - He's Selling the Ice Cream of the Future! 1:02:52 - Passport Specialist Explains the Future of Travel!Thank you to Melissa at https://www.statestreetevents.org/ for having us! Check out their other events coming up! About Us: The Men At Work Podcast asks one question: What do you do for a living? After that the conversation flows from there. We've talked to substitute teachers, Bangladeshi t-shirt moguls, a real estate broker tight with LeBron James, and the Governor of Literal Pennsylvania. And we'll record anywhere. Random sidewalks during an eclipse, a furry convention, and more! Whether we like it or not, our jobs are most of our lives - might as well yap about it. If you want us to come to your event email us at: [e-mail] APPLE: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/men-at-work-podcast/id1373108039SPOTIFY: https://open.spotify.com/show/4XcFWt0I6gFvMotqDp5bsZ?si=2273debc08e5485dIf you want more bonus content check out Office Hours a weekly workplace advice show on Patreon that subscribers submit their questions to and we answer them: https://www.patreon.com/menatworkpod*If you subscribe to the Patreon consider subscribing on a desktop or website or an android device, NOT THROUGH iOS (Apple) APP. Apple takes 30% of every month you're subscribed (yea they suck). Follow Us:The Pod: https://www.tiktok.com/@menatpodcasthttps://www.instagram.com/menatpod/Follow Matt: https://www.tiktok.com/@mattpeoplescomedyhttps://www.instagram.com/mattpeoplescomedy/Follow Kyle:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kylepagancb/TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@kylepagancbFollow Vito: https://www.instagram.com/vito_visuals/?hl=en

All right, welcome back to another episode of Men at Work. I'm Kyle Pagan, as always, joined by Matt Peoples, and we are at the Port Richmond Parogi Festival. Yes, if you're not familiar, you're watching from somewhere else. Port Richmond, one of the greatest neighborhoods in Philadelphia, and now we have a Parogi Festival, which is perfect because tons of Polish, tons of Irish Catholic, tons of just wasps in the, in the Port Richmond section. and there's nothing better.

Say what you want about the Polacks. Haven't contributed much of society, kind of a surrenderer in a way, but they gave us parogis, and that's all you can ask for. That's a great point. When you think of Poland, what do you think of? Everyone talked about, like,

as soon as Hitler invades Poland, we're over. And it's like, is everybody ever talking about Poland fighting back? Yeah, dude. Don't even worry about it, dude. It's going to be an absolute blowout. Poland doesn't got it at him. Poland's white flag before they even, they're like, oh, my God, there's thoughts of him coming?

I can't do this. Oh my God, that's horrifying. Living next to your neighbor, and at any moment you're like, this guy's going to break it at my fucking house. I can't do anything about it. Honestly, I am Polish, and that's kind of how I live my life.

Poland, get a gun, dude. Jesus Christ. Dude, the Nazis marched into Poland, and Poland had like three big sticks. They're like, that's what? All right. Okay, who cares?

What are you mad at it? It's Port Richmond. You want to get beat up again? Some guy did what? Vito's mad at the guy walked through the shot. For those of those of those don't know, Vito almost got beat up, and this is the best thing about poor Richmond, is Vito tried to, Vito parked in a spot, a spot that is open to anybody.

Nobody else's not. Anyone can happen. But some guy apparently thought it was his spot. Well, guess what he told Vito? You know, I could check you if I really wanted to. Yeah, dude, it's like they just see Vito, and they know it's just a junkyard dog in that body, and they're just like, I got to take this guy down a peg. That's what it is, dude.

Vito is anti-Polent. Vito is the exact opposite of Poland as a country. Vito's like, I might go down, but I swear to God you're going to feel me before I go down, dude. He's Japan. He's one of those guys where you. He's going to lose a lot of fights, but he's going to keep you busy. 100%. He's going down with the ship. Vito bites when he fights. I can just see it inside of him, dude. Fighting dirty. A little eye gouging. Get the nuts a little bit, squeeze them and twist. Yeah, I doubt. As two guys who have never been in fights, I don't know. Can you grab balls during a fight? You can do whatever you want when you can't fight. Yeah, I think that's right. Yeah.

That's a great point. You're more liberated when you're a pussy because you can just do whatever you can to stay alive. If I ever get in a fight, my fight strategy is one shot to the face. Whatever happens after that is probably not going to be good. Yeah, I wish I could do. If you can't stun him with the first shot to the chin,

it's over. He just can haul off on you. Yeah, I can't. I mean, but you have the height. You got the length. You can keep these guys at an arm's length for a little while. I have a little bit of it, not to the extent that you do. If a guy gets in my space, I'm done for him.

Oh, so you've got to keep him in arms length. You've got a long. You got a long wind span. You're the same way, though, too? Like, you got some, and you got some, like, forearms on those. Like, I, like, he could, he could, he could just hit me, and I'll, I'll, my, my, my form will crack. No, dude. You're much stronger, because you're stronger in the heart, all right?

I keep it in my shoulders, you keep it in your heart. Am I pulling? You're not pulling, but you're Uzbekistan. Okay. Why don't you push that card up a little bit? I didn't realize he was going to happen to this. Push the card up a little bit. Oh, you're fine.

Don't even worry about it. We're in a public space. Do something cool. Do something cool. Do something cool. from the YouTube. Help us out, you know. Take your titties out.

That's the kind of stuff we joke around on the podcast, man. He literally just turned it the same way. What are you doing? Vito, you know I could check you for that. Yeah, dude, I can check you for that. Ah. If that trips an old lady and we get sued. He is, I'm telling you, dude.

He is the anti-Polent. He bullies us, dude. Vito, the past year, Vito's gotten stronger and stronger against us. He's Russian. He's, like, because he's just, yeah, because he's the anti-Poling. Yeah, because he's always just like, he's a powder keg waiting to just find his next country. Vito is 100% Russia. It's the greatest one because during World War II, I think, who was the guy in charge?

Stalin told his people, if you guys retreat, I'll fucking kill you myself. Go die out there. And that's Vito, dude. If we got into fight and Vito saw his retreat, he would never come back. He'd probably kill us. He probably run us over with his car that he legally parked in someone's spot. A hundred percent. He got checked by.

We would immediately give it that spot. Got vodka flowing through him. Yeah, the vodka brain. vodka brain and meth do the russians the russians they'll get enough credit for how much meth they were doing too by the way that wasn't just a exclusively nazi thing however yeah however however uh speaking of meth uh what the hell happened in the nflis i we're recording right now on what's it uh august 9th the all i saw was there's a bunch of dudes like huddled around and didn't play the last 12 minutes of a quarter what happened oh yeah oh yeah uh i think

a guy on the lions got his bell rung a little bit and they had to take them out uh in an ambulance. Is that right? Yeah, and then they, yeah, then they, it was weird, because then they ran one more play, kneeled the ball, 12 minutes ago in the fourth quarter, then they all just huddled around and did like kind of like a prayer circle at midfield. Yeah, that's, uh, I want to talk about this very carefully. I don't know, because you, you had all the time in the world to pray while the guy was literally laying on the turf. Yeah, it stopped the game. The game stopped for a while. I just don't know why, like, if, if the players felt that way, just tell them to stop the game. Yeah, like, why are we still watching? Why are we still watching?

Are we doing three season? It's fourth quarter. Some dude's brain just got literally rattled around his head. Like, none of this matters at this point. I mean, it did make any sense to keep it going. And then I saw a bunch of TikToks today that's like, thank God, prayers back in this country. And it's like, how do people find that angle from something like that? Where did prayer go?

It never left, dude. He's been above us the entire time. You could always close your eyes and look at the ground and talk to yourself. You could always do that. You could always kneel to the Mecca. You could always kneel to Mecca. Dude, what direction is Matt? We're actually doing this podcast

in the direction of Macca right now. We are. Ahala, mohalla. It's crazy. That felt like I said something real. What do you think, though? Like, as a guy just watching, watching ball. I mean, you watch the birds.

Yeah. Like, does that, like, does that make you think that, like, football's on the way out? No, I don't think it's on the way out, but I do hate the conversation that starts surrounding when things like that happen. Like, last year or two years ago when DeMar Hamlin got fucking railed at his heart stopped. That was a regular season game, too, and they canceled that. Cancel the breezes and game? You got to cancel the preseason game.

Guys are fighting for their jobs right now. The guy's trying to be a backup long snapper right now. We got to get them some reps. Well, they got to occupy all the people who bought tickets. So they should have done the Parogi Fest last night. There's nobody in the... I was looking at shots in the stadium. There was nobody in the damn state.

It was a fourth quarter of a preseason game. Yeah, that's a great point. That's got to be the worst way to get knocked cold, dude. Have you heard about ESPN in NFL? And what? NFL just bought a 10% stake in ESPN. People are saying journalism's dead. NFL just bought a 10% stake in journalism.

In ESPN. It's actually journalism, too. They just won a 10% stake in some journalism. That's how dumb guy reads that conversation. Dude, the reporters are going absolute. They're spazzing on the internet right now. They're like, Dan, death of journalism. Oh, because they're saying they're going to be, oh, they're going to be too hot.

Yeah, they're hitting them with the Stephen Colbert. Dude, ESPN was never unbiased towards the NFL. No. Fox Sports, CBS, NBC, who all pay the NFL billions and billions of dollars are all being told by different executives or guys at the NFL offices where it's like, hey, maybe not report that? Yeah, true, true. And people were just like, you were just like, journalism's dead. It's like, what are you talking about? Journalism's been dead. Yeah. It's been over. I mean, every, every, and this is my grander point about, like, a lot of like local reporters. And look, I get it,

get your bag, report on stuff, talk about important shit, but you're all kind of just writing the same article over and over again. Joellen Beatt's knee is as aching and he can't play tonight. Another guy says, Joellen Beets knee is hurting. He can't play tonight. Joel and Beets knee is totally not ready to play. I was on Twitter and NBA Central. Big fan of NBA Central. They do a good job over there. Try not to get sent out. Do you ever get sent out? I get sentelt pretty often.

Getting sent out. There's nothing worse than getting sent out and sending to your boy or sending to your group chat. And he's just like, dude, you got sentelt. They inform you, yeah. But this was an NBA Central one. And they aggregated this report that Joel L.M.B., people around the league were worried about Joel L.M.B.'s knee.

They got a report. Yeah, dude. No shit. Yeah. I'm worried about fucking knee. Help me, dude. I'm worried about his knee for literally two years, three years now. That is the dumbest report of all time.

Oh, my God, dude. It's the worst. It's like, we got to get the NFL season. I'm talking about the Delco pisser. Delco pisser. Oh, God, rest his soul, he's going, huh? Yeah, he's gone. But there's copycats now.

And all the great stuff, copycats. Zodiac Killer, Jack the Ripper, but you never know the names of the copycats because the original is always the best. It's always the one that's the most calculated. You like to know the victims, but you also deep down in your heart,

you'd like to know who the suspects are. That's the reason why the school shooters always get the, always get the, uh, that's true. I mean, I don't think it's right. So the Delco pisser is a school shooter. I mean, he's shooting on a school, right? He's shooting on Delco's high schools all over the place. He's pissing on all the Delco's high schools. And then you're publicly like being like, let me see the shaft.

I want to see the shaft. I had an out loud by myself, Ayo, reading you right. Yo! Someone called me Unk in the comments. I was like, God damn it. By the way, when I read that, this is the way my brain works. You're not kind of like this. I was like, how do you know it's not a woman?

Women can do the same job that men can do. Oh, yeah. Delco Pisser, it's a big, it's a big burly broad. Yeah? Going around there, shooting out, dude, shooting out, quick, solid street. Could be. Yeah. Well, Pissar is through, flew too close to the sun because he's gone.

It's gone to you. I put him away. You can't be on places. How does that become a thing, dude? I think it was a water bottle. Yeah, I don't know. That's what I caught for shaft. True.

Okay. That's why I caught for shaft. I'm back. I'm back with you. I'm right back with you. You have to. Yeah, like, it's just. And people are saying journalism is dead

That's me being like I want shaft You're the man, you're on the streets You're finding out what's happening What's happening? Who's being on what? Yeah, before I give you your credit I mean When I first saw the Doco Pister

I was like, balls on this fucking kid Yeah I don't agree with it But I don't also not agree with it Is it good for the community Is it bad for the community? Who am I to judge? Did I laugh at it?

That's for God Did I think it was original And a great idea? I did But you know what? Before I can just promote him to my followers. Sure. I had to do my

journalistic integrity. You're just vetting them out. Is it shaft or is it a poland spring in your hand? Is it shaft? Is it a shaft or click? Comment down below, guys. It's a shaft or clit. How many times did you poke a hole in a water bottle at like a camp and just like, I did it all the time? That would have been a great idea. I had an average SATs.

If you have an average SAT scores out there, that's what you did. That's what you do, dude. You get a fucking 1560 on the SATs and you go squirt out of a water bottle. Oh there, Copernicus. What's that? 1560. Is that not bad or is that good huge well we did a three part we did a three part i'm pretty sure i got 1150

on uh on uh give us five i did too i got 1190 i think it's like 1150 yeah wow how about that that's why we do this podcast yeah we're both smart enough to be like i think we can do it but also both dumb enough to be like this is never going to work oh speaking of your college um i was heading down to the shore and uh i had to make a quick exit to uh get some gas with the wawa on the syclerville yo yeah yeah glass pro glass bro yeah yeah uh Interesting area, Rowan University. Yeah. Interesting area.

Let's hear it. Not much. Yeah. A couple bus depots. Big, a huge bus depot. Wonderful bus depot. You don't need all the fanfare in college. I don't know, actually, to be totally honest with you.

I don't know what happened. Greg Abbott, stop sending them up here. Just kidding, Greg. A lot of hectares in my business classes. No, no. But it's just funny. I mean, first thing I did get off the exit, huge bus depot. just unloaded an entire caravan.

You could have been that close. You were a Glassboro or Jason. If you would have been on campus, I'll take you there one time. You know, we'll do an episode. If you're, one of our listeners that went to Rowan, comment down below or give us some fine feedback. How about Rowan reaches out to one of their most esteemed alumni and get us on campus? True. We got to get a hold of, uh, I have nobody went there.

That's good. Me? Oh, yeah. Reach out to me. I'll see if I could make the most popular guy. It's everyone in Glasgow. I got to be at least top 38. There's nobody.

Not like a, like a professor that, like, founded some linguistics, some stupid that, like, no one cares about, but they, like... Joey Diaz went there for two semesters? No way. That's big time. That's pretty cool. Back in Glassboro State, Joey Diaz, one of the... I think that's got to be by a landslide, the most famous alumni.

Yeah. Joey Dia, a cocksucker. We're at Glassboro, what the fucking Bus Depot cocksucker? What there? I mean, listen, dude, Temple doesn't have the greatest... You know, we have a lot, but we don't have the greatest in the... In the coming years. A lot of ours have been, unfortunately...

canceled or have done some pretty unceremonious things. Like who? Who's your big guys? Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby. Bill Cosby used to talk at every single graduation, every single year. Really? Every single year.

That's got to be kind of ironic that like he's talking to graduation and people are starting to fall asleep while he's talking. It's like, yeah, it's kind of his thing. It kind of puts people to sleep in a variety of it. The cup is called the Temple University. I mean, he was doing it. I think I was in school when it all went down, when all his shit went down. Is that right?

So I would have seen him. I think he did the year before I graduated, and that was the last one. Did you feel any guilt? Like you're kind of associated with that? No. It's not my fault. He didn't learn it there. It's got, well, you're the one who's saying.

It was the powers that be, dude. It was the powers in Hollywood that told him these bad and nefarious things. Kyle, if he spoke at every graduation, you have some obligation to get on that stage. But not in my graduation. What was he out to? Jail prison? Yeah. And then Ted Bundy went there.

Jesus Christ, dude. Yeah, he went to grad school. Never finished, though, so I don't know if we can really count him. And then, you know, Diplil was a grad student. He had a couple of, a couple of tough times. allegations and stuff that aren't too nice, but he's got a great PR. He just did a 5K out in FDR Park, but yeah, I mean,

listen, don't meet your heroes. I can't, Ted Bundy. It's a drug your ass. Or kill you. Ted Bundy went to grad school? Went to grad school, yeah. He popped around. He popped around. They never tell you the good parts about these guys. All you hear is bad, bad, bad. You never hear about Ted Bundy going to get a

master's in sociology, trying to better himself, better the workforce. They think one of his first victims was in Mannyunk. Is that right? They've never been able to prove it. though. That in Washington. Wow, that's got to be tough streets to run down. You killed somebody.

Killed somebody at their house at Mani Young. They're just running downhill. Or just running uphill. Trying to get out of it. Oh, that'd be terrible. And he really earned that one. Not saying it's good. It'd be awful.

Yeah, that'd be a nightmare. You want to get someone on? Let's get a friend on. Let's get a friend on. Oh, shit, Spelling Bee, dude. What's up? Did you want to come on? Hell yeah.

Yeah, dude. This guy did a spelling bee with me. No shit. Yeah, you got pretty far. You got pretty far in the Spelling Bee. Yeah, I know. Yeah. Nelson Aguilar killed me.

Yeah, Nelson Aguilar killed a lot of people. A lot of people's parlays and a lot of people's bets when he was playing for the Eagles. Clipped that Nelson Aguilar killed a lot of people. What's your name? I'm Ryan Hull. And what do you do for a living? Landscaping. Landscaping, yeah.

Dude, you have the voice for a landscape. You're the baritone. It means a lot. Yeah. What kind of landscaping we don't? Mostly lawns, but now I'm looking to branch into more the landscape aside. I've picked up. This year, I've done a lot of mulch jobs.

Yeah? Yeah. And then eventually try and get into the more hard-skirts. Yeah, you ever, uh, hardscaping? Yeah. What's hardscaping? Oh, like, patios and stuff, like concrete. So you're trying to get in a little bit of the, uh, the concrete, the, okay.

You ever do any ruinscaping? Yeah. No, no, never, damn. How old are you? 19. Two gone for ruinscape. You have, that's funny, because, like, you have the demeanor of like a 35-year-old. Thank you.

Landscaper. I don't know if that's a compliment. It is, 100%. You're doing the trades. You're doing the blue collar work. It's, it's going to age you. Yeah? You ever want to like, you know, it's, it's, it's, you're 19 right now.

You're, uh, you're young. You know, you got your entire life ahead of you, though. Yeah. But one day, you want to be management, right? Huh? You want to be management one day, right? Yeah, well, so I'm working for this one dude right now. And then he's moving down south, so I'm taking over his business.

Nice. He's moving down south, like, uh, beginning the next year. Yeah. So what is like, what, what usually goes into those kind of like contrast kind of deals being like, hey I'm going to give you my 40 lawns and like do you have to pay him for his lawns or we haven't fully discussed it yet yeah but let's discuss it now yeah let's here give us your pitch you're trying to get you're trying to take the business from us I got 40 lawns I got five guys underneath me how much for it he's a family friend and I've been working for him for

him for like five years right now and so it's always been taught the way we talked about it was just I would take it over so I don't really think like I'll I'll have to buy like a truck or two most of them. Okay. Other than that, like, I'm not going to be paying him for the lawns for the work and all. He's just going to pretty much hand me that. Got it. All right, cool. So you got to buy a truck. Yeah. What kind of truck we're talking? We have a couple of F-250s. F-250s. Okay. Those run for what? 35,000 MSRP? Got to be. I don't even know what MSRP means. Yeah, that's what I was saying. I'm kind of curious myself. So being the big dogs on the site, you're working outside, you work with your hands. What's the music situation? Like, what do you listen to while you're out there?

I'm a country guy. Is it strictly country for the most part? For the most part, yeah. A little Morgan Wallen? Yeah, Morgan Wallen. I've been getting in the older country now, 90s, you know. No shit. Yeah, George Street. Yeah, George Street. I went to his concert.

Awesome. Yeah. Yeah. Damn. George Strait still doing concerts. I didn't know that he did. Looks like Ozzy Osbourne up there. He's not doing like big giant tours, but I'll do a couple shows.

Okay. Now, with the country on site, the Morgan Wallin thing. I'm always curious about what the old heads think about Morgan Wallin on the job site. Like, you're listening to the country. They hear the twang when he sings, but then they hear bass. Are the dudes, cool with that? They like it. Yeah. Really now? Yeah. I don't know. Are you listening on the D-Walt? Are we listening in our, in our headphones? Oh, my AirPods, yeah. Okay, so you can, you're your own DJ.

Yeah. Got it. I have a great time. Yeah. Yeah, I'll do like a little mini-concert for my customers. Yeah. You get my concert for your customers. Yeah, I got my wee-wacker. I'll use that as my microphone. No, I have a great time. Damn, dude. You got to make fun out of it. I like that. How many, how many guys work with you? So we usually run a three-man crew, like for our bigger ones, because I'm just in Mayfair. So we have all, like, the smaller of our homes and all. So those, we'll just do two men, one mows, one weed wax, quick and easy. And then we have some bigger ones once we get, like, further out to the greater northeast, and then we'll do three men for that. Okay.

And are you always on the weed whacker? Nah. Well, no, we alternate a little bit. Okay. Depends. What do you prefer? What's your weapon of choice? Uh, wee wacker, probably.

Yeah. Weed Wacken's fun. As a guy who started weed whacking at 11 years old with a guy around the neighborhood. And I had about 15, 20 lawns when I was like 12, 13. Weed whacking 11 years old. I was landscaping, man. That was an OSHA violation waiting to happen. I was inside whacking something else, dude.

There you go. Wacking his own weed. You know what I'm talking about? Yeah. So the guys you work with, are they on the books? Oh, I'm not. But you know what I mean by On the Books? Yeah.

Like the government books? Yeah. All right. Two of them are. Has ice come through yet? No, no. Have you guys had to deal with that shit? No, we don't got any Mexicans.

Oh, okay. So I take over. I'm getting as many as I can. You're going to be a new ice, yeah, that's pretty nice. Maybe in, when's the next election, 2028? 2028, yeah. You might have waited a couple of years to get all your guys. Where do you get them?

Go to a gas station like 6 a.m., I guess. Is it really? I don't know. You got to learn the truth of the trade. You're 19 years old. You're going to build your empire. You're running the show. Yeah.

You're right. Yeah. I don't know, dude. I don't know if, I don't know if, uh, the Mexicans are the way to go right now. Yeah, right now it's not looking too off. I know. You might, you got, uh, you got a, you got a minute to do, like, uh, walk around here and get a pole off. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. 100% dude, dude, that'd be nice. They work hard. They don't ask questions. They're scared. Yeah, but the first time of adversity, they'll just wave the white flag and run off the job.

True. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Man. Landscaping. Yes, sir. So year 19, you're coming fresh off high school. How much was chat, GPT, a part of you getting through high school? Yeah. Is it big now, huh? Yeah. Yeah, huge. Huge. So if you just, you get like homework, you take it home, you just hit ChatGPT forever. Pretty much, yeah. And the teachers know this?

Like, how do they try to come back? I mean, they know, but like, I mean, as long as, like, you're not having Chad GPT, write your essay, you'll be all right. Like, they'll look, like, there's certain things, they can just, you can, you'll do your, you'll submit your assignment or whatever. Yeah. They could just copy and paste that, put that in chat GPT. Turn it in. And then there were some, there were some teachers that would care about. Others are like, yeah, like, this just happens.

Sure, sure. Do you do math on ChatGBTGPT? Uh, but there's, I don't know. What was your big one? Like, what, what did you get through? Like, what course was, like, ChatGPT Central? Anything Science. Yeah, anything science.

That's what I do, too, dude. It's horseshit. There's no reason to know science anymore. No. Yeah. Chat TPT has made that totally irrelevant. I mean, so when you started high school, I guess ChatTBTBT just kind of started getting popular. Yeah, I started, well, I started 2020.

What you started using is what I'm asking? Well, we started 2020. So we had like a hybrid thing going. Yeah. I was in school, Mondays, Wednesdays, and then at home the rest of the week. Yeah. And so I would just be at home, like, they'd be asking us questions, and I would just be looking everything up and giving them the answer right back. That's all the time.

It was easy. It was a priest. Do you think your generation is going to be one of the dumbest generations of all time? Probably I already feel as though I am. Really? I don't know, dude. You've got a business empire. You already think about meeting the Mexicans and employing the Mexicans. I mean, you've got some strategy.

We got some street smarts. We got it pretty easy, though. Yeah? We all did. Don't let them tell you got it easy. We all had it easy. Yeah, did we had the internet. We had, what was ours?

Like flash cards? It was like a Quizlet or something like that? Yeah, Quislet. Yeah, we'd Quizlet when it was like just in. Any time I actually had to learn something, I would use Quizlet. Yeah, that's nice. So you think college is ever in the cards, or is it kind of just blue collar for the rest of your life? Probably blue collar.

Like, I never, I don't know, I wasn't a big school guy. Yeah. I couldn't. I've never been able to focus it still for however long. Yeah. I just like working hard. What your parents do for a living? My dad's a bus driver.

Sweet. My dad was? And my mom's a teacher. Okay. All right. So your mom's got to be pissed about the ChatGBT's stuff. She found out you're doing it. First grade.

Oh, true. Yeah, dude. And those fucking four-year-olds are fucking on Chat GPT. They're going to start using it. Playing with blocks. Chat GPT. What sound does that fucking cow make? Yeah, dude.

E-I-E-I. Oh. Dan, dude. Damn. So Bus driver and a teacher, did your dad ever drive your mom to work? occasionally in the bus first student because he's at a private company now oh sweet so he's got like his company has a contract with the school district

so he does like school trips he has his own school run uh abington friends yeah so he does that monday to friday and then he'll pick up charters and all yeah like on the weekends i've always i've always sympathized with bus drivers because like you're getting hired to transport kids from one place to another hit the roots, have a good timing. But then you also have to be the most disciplinarian that they get the entire day. I think teachers kind of get off kind of easy. You always act like a dickhead when you're on the bus.

That's when you act the worst every day. Always. The two hours before school, two hours after school, and then some guy that just got hired to drive has got to be like, Timmy, sit down, dude. Your parents aren't getting back together. Just sit down. Stop screaming.

I never took the bus. Just trips. No? I lived like five blocks over from my grade school. He walked to school. Yeah. Walker School's great. I never done that.

I was a walker school guy. Then I went to Roman, so I would take the L down. That's crazy to me. You guys, 14, 15-year-olds taking the subway to school is nothing. Oh, yeah, I got a good story about that. Go ahead. Six in the morning, I ended up fighting a homeless, dude. Did you win?

Yeah, yeah. I liked that. How did that happen? Give us the background. Yeah. So I got on at, what's it called? The first stop, what's it called? Summerton?

No, like. Mark and Frank? No, that's what it's called. I forget. Bridge and Pratt. Okay. So I got on there. So the train would just be sitting there. So I walk on. It's like six in the morning.

And there's this one dude. I walk on. It smells like shit. And I like made a face. And this dude, and I walked the other end of the car. And so this homeless guy, he follows me down there. I sit down. I'm just going about my day.

Yeah. And listen to the country. Huh? Listen to the country on your headphones. Yeah, for sure. George Strait, Blair. Yep. And then so he grabs me by the neck.

What? Yeah, I'm just sitting there. He grabs me by the neck. And he goes, he goes, don't ever look at me like that again or something. Why, because the guy shit himself? You're not allowed to look the wrong way at him? Oh, my God. And so, so I don't know.

I don't think I was having a good morning. So I just stand up and I just start teeing off on them. Nice. And so we're just throwing each other all around the train car. Did you get a whiff of them while you're fighting them? Yeah, no. There was too much adrenaline. That's true.

So we end up. I don't know how this happened, but we ended up, I was standing on the seat, and I had him in like a headlock right here, and so I'm just dangling him, and he's just ripping body shots off me. How are his punches? Oh, they hurt. Oh, so he's got, all right? No, he got me good.

I was fine for while it was happening. I wasn't feeling it because I was just holding them. And then I got off the train. I called my mom, because my mom would drop me off at the L, and I called her to pick me up, and then I was like, holy fuck, I felt it. broke my hand, too. No shit. I was just punching them in the back of the head.

Yeah. But I was just dangling them. And then somebody, like, we probably went for at least a minute or two. And then people finally jumped in. They were all just watching us. Yeah. And the moral story here is fun septa. Fun septa for the love of God.

That's a septic commercial if I've ever seen one, Fun SEPTA. And you're what? 14, 15, while is this happening? I was, I think I was, I think it was my sophomore year. Dan, dude, you would have, you would have beat the piss out of them because when we were growing up, We had this thing called bumfights.com. Yeah, true. We just watch Bums fight on the internet all the time.

It's up. You might be on there, dude. They might have mistaken you for a bum. I got to check it out. Did he even the Raybin, mediglasses there? I always wondered if there was a video of it. It's true. That's true.

So did you win? You think you came out with a W? Oh, 100%. Yeah. It really only hit me in the body when I was, when I had him in the headlock. It's true. A lot of many body shots, unless you're fucking like Manny Packia or Floyd Mayweather are going to end one. Well, he won in the long run because you walked into school that day and everyone's like,

smell like shit. Yeah, dude. We wish you the best of luck on your landscaping duty. Yes, man. Appreciate it. Are you nervous about anything? Like, learning the tricks of the trade? You're really 19. I don't want to be like that old guy. Yeah, a little bit. Like, when it's fully mine, like I have to run everything. Like, I'm a little bit nervous, but I think I'll be able to handle it. All right.

You seem like, dude. Yeah, we're excited for. Thank you. Yeah. Thank you for coming on, brother. Cheers, brother. Yeah, it's been real, fellas. Yeah, man. Man, oh, that'd be 14 in fighting a homeless guy on a train. Yeah, man, they just... Some guys have it all, you know?

again how the fuck do you guys live like this dude just i grew in the suburbs just moved to the not even in pa you there's too much trauma in pa come to jersey start over again change your name join ice whatever you gotta do for christ's sake imagine fighting a homeless guy than having freaking english class first period like how do you go about your day i have no that's what i'm saying dude these people did in the philly area it's a different breed of human being i don't know how you guys do that i would take off school for the next three my rabbit died and I took off school for three days. What?

RIP, love you, dude, yeah, my rabbit died. And, you know, we woke down there in the morning. My rabbit was just sitting there, rigumortes, stiff as hell. And my mom's like, do you guys want to take today? I know this is a lot. And I was sad, so I was like, yeah, of course. So then the next day, the entire day goes by, and my dad's getting ready for work,

expecting to take me and my sister into school. And my mom's like, do you guys want to take one more day? And my dad's like, what the fuck? And at this point, I could have cared less. I barely even remembered having a rabbit. And I was like, yeah, still. pretty bent out of shape. I think I'll just take one more day. You game the system.

Well, then it was, that was a Wednesday, Thursday, and then by Friday, it's like, it's the point of going on a Friday, you know? You've got a five-day weekend out of your rabbit dying. Dude, shout out Lovey, dude. We miss you and think about you every day. We're going to dedicate this episode of Lovie at the end. This wants to Lovie. Rest of peace, Lovie. In the arms of an angel.

Oh, God. I hope there's a feeder in the sky for you there, Lovie. If you're up there, dude, hop around. Do a twist. By the way, you've seen the rabbits, the AI rabbits? Not until I saw the Sam Altman interview. I thought those rabbits were real. Yeah, me too. Until the woman was like, hey, can I ask you about the AI and these rabbits that everybody thought were real? Which is kind of dumb on my part because there were a lot of rabbits.

Like, there's no, I've never seen more than like three rabbits together. Yeah, but it fits like what you know about rabbits. You're like, I guess they travel in packs. True. And the video was greeny enough to be like, all right, this is just an old ring camera. video or something like that yeah dude it got me too i can't believe how bad this is going to get but it's i'll be honest with you man i i've been on chat gbt so much over the last like month and a half it helps me with like thinking of ideas yeah i'll just throw something in in and like

usually their ideas are pretty corny um but it helps you like build off of them yeah or like hey what's trending you know like before we came on the podcast i was like what's trending you know in the u.s and stuff or something like that and it just gives you it it it does stuff for good it's just the billionaires are just not going to the billionaires are going to know every thought that we ever had like the internet was started for good and then it was just like how do we exploit this baby

it's always the damn billionaires man when did the internet become a commercial everything in life just if it lives long enough it just becomes a commercial yeah you go on the internet now it's like it's the greatest and I'm not exaggerating to me it's the greatest invention in the history of any living sentient being in the universe

and we were like it blows my mind how someone invented it I don't I still don't understand how it works. Yeah. Who thought of WWW and was like, you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to invent a totally different world. Yeah. Because you see like the Metaverse, Metaverse, VR?

Yeah. Stock it from the back, VR. The internet is like a totally different world was invented. But then they took a totally different world and they made it a huge commercial. Yeah. At all times you're being sold stuff. At all times you're being told you need to buy something. At all times you're being told there's a sale.

Yeah. There's only 13 of these left. So buy it now. You want to get in on the sale. They were talking about how the tech bubble, the new one is going to be the AI bubble. Yeah. They're saying like the AI is like way too overexposed right now. It's getting way too many choices.

You hear about Zuck? No, what's up with Zuck? It's like offering dudes billions of dollars to come work at META to build AI. And dudes are telling them like, oh, I saw that kid. No, I'm not working with you. You're an absolute nightmare to hang out with. Could you imagine hanging out with that guy? Zuck?

What do you talk about? Because going back to like the internet thing, like you think of like your billionaires back in the day. Bill Gates, eh, not the greatest guy, as we've learned over the last couple of years. Yeah. But like a dorky guy who would dance dorky on a stage, Steve Palmer, a guy who would sweat through his freaking dress

shirt giving a speech to the Microsoft employees. Yeah. Like those were our billion years. Even Bezos was just some ugly dude who was like losing his hair and like running a bookstore. And now like we've got Zuck wearing gold chains and like the corner man of a UFC fight. Yeah. We've got Bezos like literally

jacked his shit, bald, looks like a super villain. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You got Altman. You got the fucking guy from Palantir who's like, I don't really know if the human race should be around in 20 years. He paused when they asked that question. Is the human race important?

He's like, ah. It's like, these billionaires are the worst hangs of all time. They were the worst hangs back then, too. But they're like trying to be cool guys. That's a great point. You weren't scared of them back of the day because you're like, oh, they're dorks. They're benevolent dorks. They'd never hurt us.

Then when they start trying to be sexy, that's when you're like, oh, no. They have their own desires and thoughts. They don't want us to live any more. Yeah, I'm a little scared We can't have any more sexy billionaires I need like a classic fat ugly billionaire To get, join the ranks, save us And Elon was kind of in that area

Where he was like before all this shit that happened Over the last couple of years He was kind of in that area where it was just like You know, he's a little out of shape, little frumpy Yeah, has a funny accent But he got away with it for too long Yeah, he did Because he had subtle, he had subtle improvements

That hair too It's when they change the hair That's what it is When they get hair when they get jacked You know the planet's fuck Yeah We're done for it Imagine, like, if you had all the money in the world.

You know, like, if someone came and was, like, here's $60 million to do this podcast. Yeah. Like, once you get, like, better hair, once you get, like, kind of more jacked, like, you know you don't give a fuck about all this stuff. Well, this is how I'm trying to, like, and let me work this out. We might have to edit, because I think this is a fair point. But, like, when you start to see them get hair, getting better shape, try to dress cool, you start to, beforehand, you just saw them as, like, these, they're dorks. They don't even care about stuff I care about. They're much smarter than that.

beat this guy up? Well, it's not even that, but you think about, like, because they're so smart, they don't care about their physical appearance like I do. I'm dumb. That's why I care about my physical appearance, how people see me. So when you see them acting like, yeah, I'm just a dork from fucking, whatever, San Francisco, it makes you feel better. Now that we're starting to see them desire to become hot, you realize, oh, no, they have the same desires and intense that I want, and I know I'm a dumb, bad person, but they're smart and they're in total control. I don't want to see my thoughts actualized through them because I know I'm an idiot. You can't have it all.

You can't have it. And you're starting to find out that these people that are these geniuses that you thought levitated above you are kind of just like you. And they just control the entire planet. Scary. They might have snuck their way into something, a little relationship building. Like people are saying that Bezos is financing Cindy Sweeney's entire career now. What?

Because he invested in her lingerie brand and stuff. And they think down low he's investing, he's basically like her sugar daddy. He is the sugar daddy. He really is. I'll just spend, babe, I'll send you a million dollars a month. Don't even, you don't have to kiss me, you don't have to hug me. I just want to take care of your sweet. It's crazy.

God, I don't like that. Stop with the big titty women, Bezos. You already got one. You don't need any more. No more big titty women, dude. Let's get another one on. Oh, my God. Look at these.

Oh, my goodness. Oh, my goodness. You guys are spoiling us. That's too cool, man. It's official. All right. French fries from the sputty buddy fry factory. How long, how long has the business been open?

So we're about two years now. Nice. Our truck says established in 2018. That's actually when we met. We were established in a relationship. Very nice. Very nice. Right.

It's right during COVID. Oh, this is a, this is a relationship relationship. Oh, yeah. We're a husband and wife's team. Wow. How's that? How beautiful is that? All right.

Well, let's go to you first. You want the real story? You ever just wake up? You ever just wake up and be like, I don't fucking feel like selling fries with you today. Never. Oh, good for you. Honestly, I wouldn't trade it for the world. I love that.

I wouldn't. I love that. How do you guys keep it? and every day. How do you guys keep that relationship that it doesn't get, you know, little... It's a lot of deep breaths. Yeah. Yeah.

Practicing, you know, some yoga techniques, little, you know, woo-saw every day. There you go. There you go. All right. How about you? I just do what my wife tells me. Okay, there you got this. A happy wife is a happy life.

That's a good smart man. Happy wife is a happy employee or a co-worker. Yeah, definitely. Nice move. When did you guys, when did you start the business in 2018? So what did you do before, sorry? So I was a social worker. She was a teacher.

We met during COVID, so we were home because we were telecommuting. And when COVID kind of ended, they wanted us to go back to work. And we were like, no, you know, because we were so used to being with each other. So we said, you know, screw this. Let's start something. Let's do something on our own. So how did you land on fries? How did that become, like, the big inspiration?

20 years ago, I thought, what does everybody love to eat? Yeah, French fries. And just never got around to doing it. And if it would have been me, it would have been cups with a little seasoning. and that's it. Sure. She took French fries and brought him to the next level. So you're the chef.

You're the chef of the operation. So what separates these bad boys from like a general fry? Well, not only do we do regular fries. We do sweet potato fries, but we do s'mores, pizza, chicken and waffle, Mike's hot honey. We do a Franks bread hot. We do fry scrimed sundaes. Number one, three cheese, bacon, ranch fries.

We've actually introduced something really, really cool, like our funnel fries. Funnel fry. Oh, it's a funnel cake. Yeah. So it's a funnel cake. in the shape of a french fry. So we're doing birthday cake. We're doing pineapple upside down funnel fries.

We're doing a turtle pecan. We've got all sorts of really cool things. They will always, always, always, you know, open to suggestions. If you dream it, we will make it. Within reason. How the margins. Pretty good. Yeah.

Pretty good. But the cost of everything, as you know, has gone up. So most people don't realize the cost that goes into a food truck, the gas, the Propine, the staffing, the fact that we pay three different insurances. Dan, three different insurances. What are the insurance is on? So we've got a general liability. Okay, then we've got to pay, you know, our auto insurance.

And then we've got to take care obviously of our employees, you know, which is, you know, super important. You know, so a lot of people don't factor that into the cost, you know, when they think about us, you know, and, you know, many people think, oh, French fries are cheap. You know what? They used to be. You know, but now when we're going at $65 a box, because we only use. choose the best, you know.

$65. Correct. So we are not skinping. How much you sell these for? So these are actually $12. Okay. So everything is pretty reasonable. This comes with two sauces.

We've got seasonings. You know, but obviously we've got like the fun stuff, like the s'mores. I would say right now, our garlic barn chicken and waffles, that's it. That's coming in for a win. Sounds bad. Okay. That's one of the best hours? Definitely.

Nice. How does the entire setup? So you buy the truck. I've always been curious about the food truck. We made the truck. We built that truck. So, yeah, explain that to me. How does that?

Yes, we did. Wow. So the truck's name is Daisy. Sure. She was a plumber's truck. She was all gray, aluminum. Yeah. We named her Daisy after the elephant from water for elephants.

Sure. The movie. And we got to work and we put a kitchen in her. We bought all the equipment. We put up walls, ceilings, everything you could imagine to make a full kitchen inside of a truck. You mind if we asked how much you spent on it? I would say $75,000. range but that truck had it been done professionally from you know yeah

manufacturer would have been about 150,000 okay so we've had some major major hiccups over the last two years like how last year our motor blue okay now this year our transmission blue not only once but twice the day we got it back from the mechanic it went again so like we were we were sold you know a transmission that wasn't very good yeah and then we had to have a re-diagnosed and then again an issue because they forgot to put the tour converter in the crate so waiting another week so we were down all of June we lost 30 events so right now we're kind of playing catch up but you know for us we're you know pretty much booked for the rest of

the year and we're booking for 2026 of course we have a couple openings here and there what have you learned since becoming an entrepreneur I would probably say that it's not as easy as you may think it's going to be. It's not just all fries and smores. And you have to be tenacious. That's it. Perseverent. Because if you're not, you're not going to make it. Right. And expect the unexpected is basically what I've learned.

One day your transmission blows and there goes the fries. Right. And here's the thing. Like you've got to be able to pivot. You know, that's a big one. You know, can't you know, sweat the small stuff either. Yeah, just be able to, you know, deal with it and kind of like move on. Yeah. Let me ask you before we let

you guys run. Sorry. I'll get you up for there. You guys are obviously. experts and fries. It's a big debate amongst the common folk. Top three fast food fries. Oh, okay. Yeah. McDonald's. You guys know, dude. We're trying to get real. For me, I just had them yesterday. Big Mac and large fries. Love McDonald's. We actually used the same potato that McDonald's uses, the Burbank, Russet potato. The only difference between us and them is they put an aphid chemical on them, and they put them in a warehouse for two weeks. They have to off gas. And you can't go in there unless you have a biohazard suit on.

You would literally die if you walk into that warehouse before it off gases. Listen, you've got a sacrifice for the things you love. Yeah, I'm going in that warehouse. But to be fair, they're very safe once they're off gas. They're still safe and they won't have bugs on. Just got to be patient. That's all. Ours doesn't go through quite the same process, but it's an ours is a much bigger, thicker fry with a nice coating on it.

It's nice and crunchy even when they cool off. Oh, yeah. Yeah, so I would say like my favorite fried, it's probably different than most. I'm from Brooklyn. So I'm going to tell you, I am a big Nathan's French Fry fan. Underrated. Really? Definitely underrated.

Yeah, David's. And there's ZigZag. There's ZigZag. So it would be McDonald's, Nathan's, and probably after that, I would probably go Wendy's. See, I'm a Burger King Frye guy. Really? I love. I think they've kind of gone downhill since I was a kid.

Right. When I was a kid, you give me a Whopper and you give me a Burger King Fry. It just tastes so differently. And then I would say Chick-fil-A is got to be up there. Oh, yeah, you definitely. You know what? Let's scratch. Let's scratch.

But they've also changed their recipe. Wendy's changed the recipe, too. You know what's fantastic? We've got waffle fries, but not only regular waffle fries, we've got sweet potato waffle fries. Oh, my God. Sweet potato ral fries are fantastic. Sweet potato steak fries, sweet potato raffle fries, some of the best fries in the business.

Yeah, we're definitely leveling it up. But, you know, all of our fries are fantastic with ice cream. Good. I like it. That is good because it's like the Wendy's model where you would get a frosty and then you dip your fries. The fries. You know what? You know that.

It's a Brooklyn thing. But I've leveled it up. What inspired us on the fries cream. Sunday. Right. So we do a regular and a sweet. Now it's a great setup.

Anyway, you guys just, if people, I'm guessing if there's a festival in the Delaware Valley, Sputty Buddies will be there. Absolutely.

We try to do, we are books six to nine months in advance, but we're all over the place. Philly, Bugs, a hundred and, you know,

we'll go. Now we've got a brand new truck essentially so that, you know, increases the distance that we could travel. Yeah. Before the truck was kind of

on the rocks, we didn't want to go too, too far. Right, right. I mean, she's a 1985 Chevy Grumman, you know, basically with a brand new under the hood. Yeah. I love that. How's a food truck game?

Any robberies? Any, you know, anybody. That was a yes. I saw that. You know what? I got to tell you something. You know, when our transmission blew, like, we had to have a lot of help from our friends just covering gigs, you know, and maneuvering. We have the best food truck community ever.

Nice. You know what? I'm very fortunate. We do. We really work. Now you, though, got something. We do. I wouldn't quite call it a rivalry.

Yeah. No. But what I would say is if anybody who's thrown an event, don't put us next to another truck that has French rice. Okay. Yeah, that's fair. Just to be fair. Okay. That's right.

It happens all the time. Hey, McDonald's and Wendy's don't buy, don't buy land next to each other. Exactly. I like that. I love it. I love it. I love it. We all, we all help each other.

Nothing ever dirty? Nothing ever dirty? Nothing. Not us. Honestly, not us. Honestly, there's no reason for it. We're good at what we do. they're good at what they do. I like that. It's best if we all kind of rocker roll.

Yeah, we kind of need to stick together. You know, we're trying to unionize, so to speak, so that we can get group life insurance, policies, and things like that. Really? Yeah. How would you go about that if you don't mind it? I think it's interesting. So, you know, we would need a petition first also. A nice group of truckers, yeah, their family, and then, you know, approach the insurance companies so that we could get a group, you know, policy for health insurance. It's not only the, if you don't, you're paying through the roof, you know, $2,000 plus a month.

That's a lot of money for one person. That's crazy. That's crazy. That's crazy. It's crazy. And it's not only the health insurance. We need to unionize because, you know, every city, borough state requires different certifications.

So we're paying every time we go. A lot of people don't realize we have to get a health certificate. We have to get a fire certificate. Yeah. You know, so it's adding $150 and $200. And then there's the fee for being here. Right. Can you offer what a, what, like, a,

A break-even would be typically, or like a ballpark it? A break-even to come out for one day, an event like this, probably about $750. Yeah. Okay. To break-even. So we got to sell that for us before we start generating. Yeah, 100%. But an event like of this size, you can make anywhere from $2,500 to $5,000 probably.

Oh, I know, somewhere in that range. But then again, if it rains a little bit, you can come home with $400. True. True. How's, one more before you guys get out of here. How's Pennsylvania is a food truck? Fantastic. They are.

Food truck friendly? Absolutely, especially Bucks County. They're very welcome to us. Bucks and Montgomery are pretty heavy into it. Any areas around here, any states that you guys ran to that you're like, eh, not the most food truck? Well, Jersey's a little bit tough with their permitting, you know, very, very difficult. They require extra equipment on the truck. We've got everything we need so we have no reason, you know, not to go ahead and get, you know, permitted everywhere.

It's just an extra step every single time. It's filling out 10, 15 pages of work, right, drawing diagrams, you know, having us inspected. You know, so there's a yearly certification that we all have. But if this is on top of it, every time that we go somewhere, it's something in addition. Ain't nobody got time for that. Some counties are easier than others, you know. Like, we built the truck with that in mind. So instead of having one sink, we have four.

Now we can go to any county. Right. Other counties require four. They got a sink limit? It's nice. It requires one. So it's nice. And we have a $12,000 fire suppression system as well.

Okay. So we're basically covered, you know, with everything you should possibly need. Why some counties one sink in some county? Do they ever tell you guys? Does it ever make sense to you? It's a commissary laws. What is it? Their wash rinse, sanitize, three sinks,

and then they can't wash sinks separate. Yeah, that makes sense. And some, you know, they know that you're not going to be washing this is on the truck. You're going to do that when you get back to your commissary. I'm kind of like in the mind frame now if you want it. Let's do it. It's just not worth it. Is there any, like, they just passed hunting on Sundays in Pennsylvania,

which is crazy to think. about. Is there any old school laws that were made like decades ago that you guys just like this one's just gripped me by the balls right now? The only one I know of and it's not somewhere we go would be New York City. What do they do? And they require you to move your truck 15 feet every hour. Which is like ridiculous. Yeah, imagine picking up that generator. Yeah. And nobody really does it. Yeah. Okay. If they come and badger you then you kind of got to move it. Yeah, sure. The old canal street. We can sell as long as no one's coming down and taking our shit from us. Someone's going to, Ellen I doesn't come down.

Right now, like I have to say, like, we're loving life. We're living in the dream. It's really, really, really hard. We're extremely sleep deprived. And we work 18 hours a day sometimes. But guess what? I wouldn't change it for the world. I love that.

Listen, if you're at a festival and you see Spuddy Buddies and you don't buy from them, you're an enemy of the podcast forever. We're a pro Spuddy Buddy podcast. We are. The day we die. Thank you guys. You're great. Thanks so much.

We're lucky with everything. Sputty buddies and they've brought over some They brought over some sauces too Dill pickle, a little Chipotle action I think a little barbecue action A little apple barbecue I think But they're all freaking really good If you ever disparage our boys

Our good friends Sputty Buddies We're coming to your house with a fry In hand and a knife in the other Honestly if you listen to that pod And you hear and you understand everything Those people have to go through Just to fucking put Just to fucking put that thing together

It's unbelievable Two trannies blowing? Crazy! Oh my god dude What is this fucking uh Crazy This is a warp tour That's crazy You better go

You better to support the Sputty Buddies Fries is a perfect thing to Yeah we're fry kids We're also such fat little bitches too As soon as they brought food in front of us Without even agreeing that we'd eat it on the podcast We decided this is happening Probably halfway through the bucket

I don't give it a hoop Are you a fry guy? I am now No I've always been more of a meat kind of base type of guy I've always liked the fries an accessory I've never sought out fries alone Yeah But if there's a good fry

a good fry. True. And the funny thing is about fries, it's kind of like burgers and steak in my mind, it's meat, I guess in general, is like you know when there's a bad fry. Like a bad fry stands out, I think, more than, is that right? Does a bad fry stand out more than a good fry? I think that's right. A bad fry tastes like it's not food anymore. And a good fry tastes like it is one of the best things you've had. So yeah, I think that range is pretty fair. Do you ever try to, like, like, leftover fries are the worst? Fries in the, in the leftovers, they never hold up. They never hold up. The secret to a good fry, and this is a former fat kid secret, when

you order fries from like a pizza place or you're ordering somewhere where you're going to pick it up, make sure they put those fuckers in a brown bag. Don't let them put it in the styrofoam with the sandwich. Drew. The styrofoam ruins the fry. Yes. It's got to be the brown bag. 100%. Do you have a, not like a fast foodie fry, but like a fry that like your your top three fries, like your, like a waffle or a steak or a shoe string or like a regular McDonald's-y kind of fry, like a... I hate to say it, dude. I'm coming out of the closet right now.

I'm a curly fry guy. Well, that's not the wrong with that. Arby's one, two, and three every day of the week. Chick-fil-A, that's a fine fry. Yeah. McDonald's, shove it up your own ass. Maybe you're even your vagina, too. Oh, really?

Oh, yeah. McDonald's, you can go to right to hell. Give me an Arby's fry. I have frozen Arby's fries in my freezer as we speak. I'm convinced Arby's would not be around anymore. because they don't sell any roast beef, they just sell curly fries. Dude, I think you're exactly right. But their bottom line has to be curly fries.

The Arby's rotita buff, though, is so nice. A nice beef and cheddar with some curly fries? No. Oh, my God. I've eaten at Arby's one time. I'll never do it again. Kyle, you just dropped the kids off at their moms. She's got them for their weekend.

You stop off at an Arby's, get a beef and ched with a curly fry and a diet and a Diet Coke, and you eat it alone in your car listening to Steely Dan. Arby's is the fast food for divorce dad. Divorce Dad is and Step Dad. That's who Arby is. is, dude. Arby can see his kids four times a month. He didn't start the business until he got the worst from his bitch wife who took everything. She was like, I like straight fries and it's like, no, hon, you got to curl them.

Yeah, I like steak fries. Shoestring fries is worst fry of all time. They asked him, they're like, where did you get the inspiration for the beef and cheddar? And he's like, my wife, I won't explain any more than I need to. That's got to work. That's why Arby's are in like the most rural areas of all time. They're just looking at it. So Arby can stay away from his bitch ex-wife.

He just go all over the country. The Arby's logo with the big hat is the bat signal for dads who are bad to communicate. Oh, that's good good. You want to get on? We've got another guy going on. What's your first name? Ryan. Ryan.

And Ryan, what do you do for a living? I work for mini-melt's ice cream. Mini-melts. So I got to ask. Go ahead. I know what's coming. The dipping dots. The word on the street is the dipend dots went bankrupt.

and they just changed their name to mini-meltz. That's not true whatsoever. I got bad info. I'm glad buying sat down to help. The competition, Dippin' Dots, they ended up getting sold to J&J snack foods. Got it. Mini Meltz, we've always really been a competitor for Dippin Dots, especially over the last couple of years we blew up more and more.

Yeah, you're doing great because I don't see Dippin Dots anywhere anymore. Yeah, as you should. The future of the ice cream of the past. It's the cross. Yeah, we're the future, man. What's that? It's the lacrosse of ice cream. It's a lacrosse of the future.

Okay, that's fair. Yeah, pickleball, sport of the future. Well, don't tell the Native Americans that, but I hear you. Yeah, please don't, please don't. So, mini melts, what do you do for them? So I actually travel for them. I basically, you can call equality control. I travel all over the country.

I just came from Chicago yesterday, actually. I was there for the week. Travel around, deliver the ice cream, sell the ice cream. I've even went to our production plan in Connecticut and made the ice cream before. How much, I saw you left something out there. How much are we eating the ice cream? I tried pitching them on it. They won't go for it, though.

I wish they did. You're not eating the ice cream? You're not a creamsman? You don't just dip in? I don't want to say dip. You don't just melt in. I might have misheard the question a little bit. Sorry, but no, how much ice cream do I?

You're on the road, dude? I'm taking. It's every night usually. Creaming out, dude. You have to, yeah. You got to cream out. You're part of the cream team. Listen, they're not going to like hearing us, but having a few beers back at the hotel and I'm out on the road. A few ice creams in there, you know what I mean? Why not? Who's going to tell me now? And you get a little bit of like the more like the fun-sized ones too, right? Aren't there like a smaller version? They're realistically like when you go into like Walgreens, Wawa, 7-Eleven where we usually are with the freezers.

They're all one size. When you go to a ballpark, that's where they get bigger. You get the scooped in there. But yeah, I just get the little cups and three, four of them. I'm set to get. God bless, dude. Three or four, that's a little gluttonous, but I like rear-he headset. Yeah, well, you know, you have to. He's the cream team. When it's free, or are you going to turn down free ice cream or not? That's a 1992 Olympic cream team. Now, let me ask you this.

Absolutely, all right. You're getting too powerful. That was too hot. That was too hot. Don't know. So I'm got to curious. So you travel a lot for work, and this is like a little bit separate from the general point, but ice cream, to me, I'm from New Jersey. Ice cream always seemed like one of the most telling ways to show that you have a Delco accent.

When you're out selling across the country, do they ever question you, like, yeah, ice cream calls? Like, did they ever bring up the accent at all? It's every time. Every single time. So we have one of our flavors is Rainbow, and it's a water-based ice cream. Obviously, me going out going, hey, it's water-based. They're like, what the hell is water? What is water?

I'm like water, water, or whatever you want to say. H-2-based ice cream or not. I mean, what the fuck, yeah. No, I can imagine. I've heard people that travel with the accent, they get called out for it. pretty often. And I love when I go to the South, they act like they don't have the worst accents in the world.

They have the worst acts. I totally agree. Hey, man, he got ice cream for us. Yeah. Sorry, everyone to the South. That's got to be tough, though. A Delco and a South accent. You guys might break the sound barrier

while you're having a conversation. Oh, yeah. No, that are, you should just record us arguing one day. That'll do millions on YouTube. I think that was a Civil War, dude. It's just Delco accents for a Southern. It basically is. Yeah, I mean, you set of free, cause.

Hey, we ain't going to do it. You want to go to Wawa, get hoagies and Mini Meltz, please. Come on. People don't talk about enough, but Ridley, Pennsylvania versus Jackson, Mississippi was just the Civil War. That's all it was. That's what it was. It was poor Richmond, Philadelphia, versus.

Yeah, because we're giving you one more chance, so we're sitting. Don't make us come down there. Dan, so what's the hottest region for mini melts? Where's the headquarters? The headquarters, so the production plant is, like I said, it's in a Norwich, Connecticut. That's where it's all made and then distributed all over the U.S. I guess you could say the main headquarters is in Philly. We're up in Feasterville, actually, so a little on the outskirts.

But that's where the CEO is, Dan Kilcoyne, that's where our VP is. That's where everyone is. Everyone, office-wise, we're all in Philly. So we do baseball stadiums, we do football stadiums, basketball stadiums. Anything like that. Aquarium, zoos, you can find us in a trampoline park, stuff like that. Trapoline park? Yeah.

You can go to altitude, stuff like that. We're there. Imagine the pukes. The pukes got a trampoline. after a belly full of mini melts. So funny story about that real quick. I actually, my girlfriend now, I met her as I was service in one of the vending machine. She was picking up like a random shift.

She hasn't worked there in like months. They just asked her to come back and do it real quick because someone called out. I met her there and that was the first thing she said. She said these kids jump all day, go get a couple of mini melts and then start jumping again. And it's just everywhere. It's the kangaroo song from Big Eddie. Game 7. So maybe that's about a penalty shot.

I wipe my own ass, baby. Yeah, I hear that. Yeah, of course. Damn, that's awesome. Let me ask you this. It seems like the new craze now is like dairy-free or like non-dairy-based stuff. Are you guys looking at like trying to get into that kind of market? Well, that's actually the rainbow ice that we have, the rainbow ice cream.

That's a dairy-free option. That's the water-based ice cream. We also just came out with one. 7-Eleven. You get slurpees there, the blue raspberry. We just made a 7-11 exclusive flavor Blue Raspberry ice cream. That's dairy-free too.

We're in collapse now. I won't go all the way through. It's nicely of a dairy-free option. I do feel like making it get rainbow is you're kind of trying to tell the person something when you hand it to him. You don't have to agree to this. This is not you saying it?

It's a water-based product, dude. Sorry, honey. He can't have filmed. I mean, I agree a little bit here. His tummy hurts after he has a little bit of cookies and cream. Oh, we got just a thing for him. Yeah. Here's the rainbow.

We call it Sherbert, but you know what we're really trying to say. Just be careful, Timmy. Your dress is dragging. Dude, I won't lie. When I put the mini melts in my mouth, Paul's. Okay. And not the rainbow ones. I was going to say, rainbow flavor for you, boy.

Dude, when they stick to my tongue, I freak out a little bit. Absolutely. The freezer dried. Yeah, sure. It scares the hell out of me. I'm like, I'm never going to be able to get these things off my tongue. Dude, it's almost like pop, like pop rocks kind of when they say, yeah. Yeah.

I've had kids, like, buy it as I'm stocking it, and go, it's sticking to my mouth. I'm like, just one second, but I promise you're good. Even if you got a fever, it's even better. The thing, you're perfectly fine. It's crazy. Yeah, shout out to the melts. The melts, man.

What's the five-year plan? We're going to stay in the milk game? You're going to stay in the cream game? Look, I don't know if anyone in the office knows this, but I have a kid on the way very soon. So, thanks, thank you. I appreciate it, with the girl from the trampoline park. Yeah, actually.

As long as it pays the bills, yeah. Now, I love where I work, man. They're awesome. They're so flexible with everything, especially with this news coming up. I told the one guy that I did have a kid on the way. It was immediately, hey, whatever we can do to accommodate you, as long as you stay with us.

That's all it was. No problem, you know. What are you going to name it? Well, she wants to name it Jameson, and I was like, if you want to do that, then I want Jack Daniel, you know, I mean, I mean, you know, but we have no idea. I love this.

That's the most Delco name of all times. What's my favorite liquor? Yeah. Her name is Ornitos Johnson. Ced round royal. Maybe mini melts, who knows? Yeah, dude, you should actually, you know what? Fucking mini melts, whatever.

Minnie melts Johnson. Dude, you might be that. Mini Miltz Johnson would go first round in the NBA draft. Mini Miltz Johnson is starting on tempo in 18 years. Oh, man. 4, 4.40. Yeah, dude. The ice cream man. Yeah, that'd be his nickname. Dude, you might have, I like, I see it now. A lot of the ladies like to have, like, the big announcement when they tell people on Instagram that they're having a kid. They do a fun little thing. You have an easy

built-in. We have a mini-melt on the way. Dude, it was hilarious. I walked in, so I told the owner of the company. He's a good guy, judge guy. Very generous guy. He's awesome, Dan. I walk in and tell him, and I jokingly go, hey, you know, get those mini-melt. ones he's going he and without hesitation opens his drawer he goes don't worry I got no he's not anymore baby awesome man you're set is there is there some is there some powder blue in the in the logo there is right yeah typical judge guy absolutely typical judge guy that's awesome man hey I'm happy that dipping dots is out of here and minnie melts is taken over we're done with dipping dots they ain't too far out of

here yet but we'll we'll tell you man you guys have you guys at least have at the northeast the Philadelphia area covered because I haven't seen a dip in that dip in decades getting the last time well we do listen I'm not I'm not trying to be biased here I know it worked for them but I've tried both and I'll tell you right now hours is way better we use like a higher percentage of some ingredients like butter fats way better got package it better like with the competition you got to go ask for a spoon you open our cup the spoon's right in there do your thing you know that that's so sick dude your your CEO was so high when he thought of She's like, dipping dots, but mini melts, and we're going to give him a spoon.

So high, he forgot a spoon. He's like, I'll never let this happen again. Never. He opened one cop and went, I know what it's missing. We're good. We're good. Here's our selling point. And dairy-free rainbow flavor.

That's got to be tough. When you're so high, you're eating ice cream with your bare hands. You're like, I got to make a difference. Dude, imagine the dipping dots sticking to your tongue when you're high. You're like, I'm never going to be the same. 9-1-1. It's happened again. Now, as far as the THC mini-meltz, I don't know when it's common.

Yeah, dude. You gotta expand over to Jersey. Yeah. We'll see. Hell yeah, dude. But thanks, man. Thanks for coming on. No, for a problem.

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May the Fork be with you. Love that. 10,000 people showed up here. We had one Porter Potty. We didn't even expect it. And it, Parogi Fest became a thing. It's like Woodstock for Paroogies. Like literally just became a thing.

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richmond thanks to parogi festival thanks to all of our vendors thanks to these two guys for coming out randomly we just met them and uh you guys rock you appreciate you you guys rock too we'll talk to you see it we got a special guest at the buzzer at the buzzer we were done but we were like he's like i'm a passport specialist so i was like i got a lot questions yeah do you know anything with a real id absolutely i do what's your question It sucks. It's ruining our lives. Can we just fucking just have regular IDs?

Sir, the powers that be, it would be a great idea to have everyone under one flag for ID with a special little star and a special little beer of the license. Do I think we need it? Yeah. But is it great for when you're traveling, when you, for your identification and everything? Because with that real ID, you can go through airports,

you can go through checks, you know, driver's license, everything. It's everything under one. Okay. So let's say you're out, right? And you forgot your driver's license. Or if you go to an airport, you just put out that card, you're good to go. Okay.

Do you get passports are free? No, we do not. We have to just like everyone. I know. That's why I got this. Like, it wasn't for the security. It wasn't for the salary. I'm trying to get free passports.

Exactly. God bless. Yeah, dude, 100%. What's it like in the passport game? Like, what's it like right now? Because do you ever think when you go digital with passports or now? Yes. Yes.

That's going to be the next step pretty eventually. Great. Another real fucking idea. Exactly. Exactly. It's going to be on your phone or on your. You're smart, you know, smart tablet or smart watcher, smart... Implanted in my brain.

Yeah. Microchip, whatever you say. Yeah, dude, I know how you roll. I know how you roll. Exactly, but the next step forward is to make it easier or more convenient to access. Yeah. Just like your smart wallet, just like Apple ID, all that. Yeah.

Any tips for people with passports? Because I do like that, what is it, every 10 years you got to go? Every 10 years for an adult, every five years for a child or a minor. Yeah. Which is kind of crazy because, like, I feel like I look so much different than I did. like not even a decade ago, like three years ago. Because you do. Yeah.

Yeah. So everyone says that you stop maturing. Your face starts going around in your mid-20s, early 30s, right? You're set. You're locking stone. But as a child, every five years, you go through a different losing teeth, different facial hair, growing, puberty. Yeah. It's all different things.

So we definitely need you until a certain point. Yeah. I mean, I went and got a new idea a couple weeks ago. And the lady, I don't need them to comment on my appearance at all. However, she had a free. for all. She was like, oh my God, you've gotten a lot older since your last picture. And I was like, bitch, I was 19. Let me live. Sir, sir, that's fun for us. We have to. All right. And then we get to talk to you. I had one as like, hey, so you lost a lot of weight. Good job. Yeah. There you go. There you

go. It's like, it's fun to us. Look, we're all day in and out, doing passports, talking to people, seeing people, got to be a little fun for us somehow. I haven't gotten one in a while. Are you guys as unbearable as the DMV? But you guys are usually pretty. We are actually a lot better than We have a registration system that you go on travel.state.gov to go ahead and get a reserve spot or get a number. You come in, you give us your name. Hey, we get you up to that counter. Yeah. You get me, I get you in and out.

That's go bad. Brother man. Yeah. Why do you make us all look like serial killers? Because you can't smile. Why not? Because no one can smile, all right? The person who decided the picture said, I want no one to have joy.

It's crazy. No one to have joy in your face. Yeah. You can't have joy, right? No. We have changed that. You can smile now. Your smile now?

Yes. Yeah, but you give us a weird half smile. And now I look crazier than I did before that. I got some big, I got chompers, dude. I got horse teeth. So what I do is that when I have a kid or a child or a dog, I make you laugh. So my best thing is like, all right, look at me, look at me, look at me, $100? Yeah.

Exactly. So you're thinking the DMV should be pro-tickle. You guys should be able to throw out a quick tickle to get us to laugh at the picture. Absolutely, absolutely. Quick belly tickle, keep you honest. Oochie Gucci. Uchoochoochooch something to make you smile happy. Look, we know you're going through all this bureaucracy stuff together.

get identification to travel or to have your own hopes and dreams. Yeah. Let's make it a little less unbearable as much as possible. I think that's nice. How are we doing all the processing? What are we looking at processing times right now? Two to three weeks of normal time. Expedited is about maybe a day or three.

But you have to show proof for your expedite. That's not bad, though, because I remember Standard was tough in a couple of COVID, right? Oh, wow. COVID. I'm like, all right, so hopefully 60 days. Mm-hmm. Just a thumbs up and walk away. Yeah.

You got bigger fish to fry. Yeah. Exactly. I'm like, man, people are done. I might have you heard you. That's a good excuse. You're like, I hope you're around in 60 days. Exactly.

True. Yo, you joke, but that has happened. I'm sure. I can't imagine, man. I can't imagine. Oh, my God. And it's just like, man, Mr. Smith, like, he was going to Aruba. And then you have a thought, like, so is the turkey ticket available?

Yeah, so there's a free. Is it non-refundable? Do you want to eat the cost? He was going to catch something else in Aruba. So it might have worked. Exactly. So I just might as well. What's the difference between a visa and a passport?

Okay, so a visa is something that you're coming to stay longer. A passport is just frequent travel, right? But you do have a visa in back of your passport. So if you're staying places for a long amount of time, let's say you're staying for 90 days or you have a work visa, that can be inserted in the back of your passport. Okay. Is it hard to get dual citizenship?

It is. Where would you be a dual citizen in? Just a different state. I'm not going out of the country. U.S. U.S.A., U.S.A. Wow. Ireland, dude.

I'd be a dual citizen in Ireland. Ireland? Ireland? I love it. So I was actually born in Toledo, Ohio, but my mom was Jamaican. Okay. And if you're born to a parent who was a natural in Jamaica, you automatically have citizenship. No way.

Until you have to renew it at the age of six. Yeah. Until Jamaican, Donald Trump comes in, yam, man. Exactly. Exactly. But until then, you can don't bring us out today, rude. Oh, no say Waguay, y'all. You found one to real idea.

Yeah, exactly. You're dothing about to go back to your own home, dog. But you have to renew it at the age. of six and the thing is that my mom was like that line was really long yeah and you were born in america so i'm just gonna let you i'm like mama she's like don't mama me they stripped you of your citizenship hey damn oh man i'm gonna america jama jamaica we get a real idea yeah oh i love that uh well i think we uh we're probably gonna wrap but this was a very nice man thank you for allowing me to jump on and just talk yeah thank you so much i've always wanted to do a

podcast i'm like yeah let's see you were awesome we appreciate that brother all right love you you too love your podcast you guys have a great day god bless i appreciate you brother