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Episode 133 - Who Orders a Salad at Chili's?
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MIke has become an "uppity-white-person"😒
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Introduction and Weekend Recap
00:00:00
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Live from New York, it's... Oh, we got to do the intro music. God damn it. I always forget. We could have just not done it.
00:00:12
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If you hadn't mentioned it, I probably wouldn't have started it. No, I just forget. I get excited. Yeah.
00:00:30
Speaker
All right. Good morning, good afternoon, and good night to um to all our listeners. i'm i I'm not here. I'll be honest. I'm very low energy. I am recovering from a um a bachelor party this this past weekend. i'm I'm not going to lie to you. That sounded like an NPR intro.
00:00:50
Speaker
Did that not sound like that? Not I was going to say like a... like a I don't know why I was thinking this, but it's like if you're you're like in an EA sports game or something like that and you're in the intro menu getting ready to pick whatever you're going to do.
00:01:06
Speaker
No? Nobody else? No. I don't know. Vic's too ah dazed right now to connect. We may have to hold this podcast on, Austin.
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um
Skiing Adventures and Challenges
00:01:17
Speaker
have Yeah, you you guys might have to. can make it happen. i'm just I'm just shot. The the weekend was crazy. a lot of lot of fun things happening. What'd you do? Did you you go do anything good? where Were you at a ski lodge or something?
00:01:30
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yeah no so We were upstate New York. um Basically, ah my friend who's getting married has like ah his uncle owns a cabin up there. so We all kind of went there for the weekend.
00:01:42
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One day, um they went and went out and skied. ah and i I was going to try my hardest to actually ski with them.
00:01:56
Speaker
um But I learned last week that I don't think I'm built for skiing. Why not? How did you come to this conclusion? So I went to Southington Mountain. i got ah I got a lesson.
00:02:07
Speaker
Oh, that's right. you get it from that yeah kid from high school? No, no. didn't not Not that guy. so Me and my brother, like I dragged my brother along with me.
00:02:20
Speaker
We showed up like 30 minutes late to this lesson. It was supposed to be a group lesson at 10 a.m. We showed up at 10. um Didn't know how any of it worked. I just saw a building that said training center, so I just walked there.
00:02:33
Speaker
And they were like, no, you have to like go back to the beginning, get your ticket, get your rentals, and then come here. And the whole process took like 20 minutes. The worst part of it was the boots.
00:02:46
Speaker
I know if you guys have like ever skied or snowboarded. They hurt. They fucking hurt. Yeah, do they, huh? After you've been skiing, too, yeah it hurts. It builds up on your shins and your ankles.
00:02:59
Speaker
Yeah, my my legs are still sore from last week. um So we get into like the rental thing. They give us like they gave us boots.
00:03:10
Speaker
And we get these things on and I'm like, all right, I don't know if this like is right. like first First of all, I put my foot in there incorrectly. I didn't get my heel all the way down.
00:03:21
Speaker
And then the guy came over and like, click the shoes in. And so basically not only was I like a couple inches off the ground because of the boots, but I was on my, like I was basically walking in high heels in the boots.
00:03:33
Speaker
Ooh. Wait, i was like how how does that happen? How do you, your foot didn't go home the way down. Yeah. so I could have said something. I'm just too passive when it comes to these things. But he, I put my foot in and then he started doing the straps and i was like, oh, my foot's not all the way in, but fuck it. Like, I'll just, I'll just roll with it.
00:03:53
Speaker
Jesus. okay And I, me and my brother start walking out. He also did the same thing. And then like, we got halfway across the, like The rental and the training center in this at mass um Mount Southington are on the opposite sides of each other.
00:04:09
Speaker
we got about halfway where the first lift is. And I was like, okay, I can't do this. I had to sit down, restrap the boots. And like obviously, I'm a bigger guy,
00:04:20
Speaker
but ah Asians and Filipinos specifically, I think, are genetically predisposed to having bigger calves. I don't know if that's like a truth. but like That's a thing? There is like there is like a joke that I've seen on the internet. It's like, yeah, Asians have bigger calves. Did we Google this to confirm?
00:04:37
Speaker
Yeah. let's Let's Google it so I don't seem like I'm talking to my ass. I'm the one to Google this, not Mike. I never heard of this. I just i just didn't know if we fact-checked this research. Yeah.
00:04:48
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um
00:04:51
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Let's see.
00:04:54
Speaker
Yeah. So it says, why do Asians build calves muscles easily? um It's something about having higher... Have a higher proportion of T type 1 muscle fibers, which are more suited to endurance and can make calves appear more defined.
00:05:11
Speaker
Okay. So you just got some... You got some... Buff calves. Yeah, I got some buff calves. Okay. and I can take that. That is not good for ski boots. no No, it's not.
00:05:22
Speaker
It's really, really bad for ski boots. And so, like, the plastic, like, the tongue of the shoe was basically like a plastic, like, you know, almost U-shape, and it was digging in.
00:05:36
Speaker
it It didn't have any give to like flatten out. It was, it was literally just in the, like the semicircle and was digging into like me and my brother's calves. oo So we did is we basically got them as we loosened everything and then got them as tight as we possibly could.
00:05:54
Speaker
And we walk over to the guy like or we walk over to the training center. um We're like, hey, we're late for our lesson. It was supposed to be 10 o'clock. I know it's 1030. Like, are we just like shot? Like, you know, like what could we do here? And he's like, OK, like you guys will basically like a private lesson.
00:06:12
Speaker
Oh, good which was nice. private lesson ah Yeah. It was just me and my brother. So it was me and my brother. And then the, the instructor, he was a really cool guy. Like he was an older, older fellow, probably retired from his like job, but like just doing this for fun.
00:06:26
Speaker
Older fellow. Yeah. Probably. He was the al upper sixties for sure. Like mid to upper sixties. Oh, he earned that fellow. Okay. Yeah. And so, um you know, he showed us the basics, um,
00:06:40
Speaker
It's fucking tough. Like really like movements I have never done before. And then he was like, okay, like we did it in like the small little like training area that was like almost like a little valley. Right. It's just like a, a small, small hill, just little, little like half pipe almost.
00:06:59
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Um, honestly, half pipe is being like very generous. Like this thing was just like a molehill. Um, but basically it was like good to like learn how to like go up and down, like walk up a hill with skis,
00:07:11
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And then he took us up on the ah the magic carpet lift, which is like one of those like ah basically like those airport belts where you stand and you move with the skis. And so we started going down
Reflecting on Skiing Decisions
00:07:23
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like like a bigger hill, like halfway up, like one of the halfway up, one of the smaller like sides of the mountain that they have there.
00:07:32
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And I felt like I was learning everything pretty all right. And then, um you know, we had done like We had done like four or five runs, and then my brother was like, hey, i think I'm going to stop here.
00:07:45
Speaker
i can't feel like three of my toes because the boots are so tight. Oh, my God. Yeah. Yeah, so I wasn't going to say anything, but I was also kind of experiencing the same problem where I couldn't feel a couple of my toes, but I'm like, you know what?
00:08:02
Speaker
I'm going power through. dude Right, we learned that lesson earlier. Victor's not going to say anything even if his boots don't fit, so of course he's not feeling his toes. He's just going to be like, ah whatever. If you're not feeling three toes, you have to say something. it's like great okay I could feel them. They were just a little numb.
00:08:20
Speaker
You know? If we were, if we, okay, hold on. If we were in a situation where you were like on a date and it's like a ski date and things are going really well and you're like but I can't feel three of my toes.
00:08:31
Speaker
I could understand then where it's like, I'm going hold off. But dude, if you're in a, you got to just say something gotta be like, hold on These don't feel right. Yeah. I mean, he had known because when, when he walked up to us,
00:08:45
Speaker
He saw how loose the boots were like around our calves, and he goes, Hey, guys, I'm gonna be real with you. The two most important straps on that boot are on like they're like the two upper ones, and it seems like you guys have them incredibly loose.
00:09:00
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And we're like, Hey, man, our calves are just big. like this is This is all we can get out of it. And he's like, Okay, well... Let's see how this goes. Shame on them too for not telling you stop. But I'm sure if you went back and you got those boots changed out, you would have used up all of your time.
00:09:16
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Yeah, exactly. So we're like, let's just, we're we're going to roll with it. um And so I had done all like the smaller stuff. Like I won't say well, but I was like able to complete it.
00:09:28
Speaker
So he's like, all right, let's try going up the big hill. So we, we went up on a lift to um like a green trail And he was like, okay, like, let's see how you do here.
00:09:38
Speaker
You know, maybe if you do a couple runs on here, like you might be ready to go, um, you know, for your trip next week. And was like, okay, cool. And so he was like, what I want you to do is go down the mountains, like almost like in like an S where, you know, you're just doing turns. You're not going down, you know, and you're not bombing the hill. You're just going lightly down, just making some S's and making sure you're, learn you know, you know how to turn and stuff like stuff like that. Right. They make you use the whole hill, right? Yeah, exactly. He's like, use the whole hill, go all the way down.
00:10:11
Speaker
And so, What I figured out that day is that I'm incredibly left leg dominant and I can turn right really well. You can't turn left.
00:10:23
Speaker
Because i use your you use your left leg to turn right. I cannot turn left at all. yeah Yeah. like i I don't know. he I can do it, but I'm doing it with my left leg, which is wrong and probably will lead to like injury.
00:10:39
Speaker
For sure. could You could hurt your knee. Yeah, exactly. But he was like, like every time he was like, I want you to turn right or turn left or whatever, like go down here, like weave a little bit.
00:10:51
Speaker
And he was like, just turn left a little bit. Like not even like, not even a wide turn. I would start going and then I would start like realizing that I can't turn the way that he wants me to.
00:11:02
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And so I was so worried about like,
00:11:09
Speaker
Cause we were so far up on the hill. I was like, okay, well I don't want to just bomb this whole hill without his approval. Like, because for some reason I would just feel like I'm doing it wrong. And it's like so long to get up here that like, if I went all the way back down, we'd have to come all the way back up. So I kept just bailing out of the skis.
00:11:26
Speaker
Anytime he was like, yeah, you need to turn left. I would just basically ditch and like fall over purposely to make sure I wasn't going all the way down the hill.
00:11:37
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And then like, I just, I was telling him, I was like, yeah, like, I don't know. just, I don't feel like I could turn left. And we got like all the way down. we got about like midway down. He's like, all right, well, you've done well enough to this point.
00:11:49
Speaker
Just go all the way down the hill and, you know, sent it was really fun. I was like, damn, I could see why people like this. Like skiing is a pretty enjoyable, enjoyable sport. But I got to the bottom and I kind of realized I was like, yeah, like,
00:12:04
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I don't think I could do this next week. Like i have not learned enough today.
Debating Connecticut's Reputation
00:12:11
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i am not going to come back during the week to do like practice runs.
00:12:16
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I probably won't. And then I got into the car on the drive up um with Nick and he was like looking at into skiing like too. And he was like, yeah, I realized he's like, I looked it up hundred mountain is like one of the worst possible mountains in the area for beginners because it's incredibly steep and incredibly slick.
00:12:37
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So I was like, all right, well, yeah. so i was like, all right, well, good call on not doing that. And we, I mean, when we got to the mountain, like I looked at it, everything looked fucking crazy.
00:12:48
Speaker
Wait, okay, so you still went? I still went to the mountain. Oh, you just checked it out? Yeah. um And even that lasted like an hour or two because everyone was skiing but me and Nick. And so we were like, oh, we'll wait for the guys. We'll hang out, maybe grab a beer with them like when they take a break.
00:13:05
Speaker
And we sat there for like an hour and we're like, you know what? This shit kind of sucks. We should just go back to the cabin and chill there. Damn. Wait, hold on. So...
00:13:17
Speaker
I guess that makes sense, right? If you're not comfortable on the mountain, there're you're definitely not going to be comfortable when there's other people. Yeah. But... that that was i was like, I just don't want to hold them up.
00:13:28
Speaker
like Yeah, I get that. what they're going to want like They're all experienced skiers. They're probably going to want to... Yeah, they're going to spend a few hours. Yeah. And so i was like, I don't want to hold them up. I don't want to force these guys to take green trails with us or something like that. You know what i mean? Like just not worth And not only that, it would have been like 300 bucks because not only would I had to have rented their skis, but I would have had to like my instructor was basically like you have to go to an actual store. Like you can't just get regular like boot rentals from
00:14:03
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like ah the ski resort because they're going to be like generic. They're not going to be able to, if he's like, if these don't fit you, their boots won't fit you. Like you have to go to an actual store and find wide boots or something like that. all Right. I feel like that's not true. i feel like that's such a scam.
00:14:19
Speaker
You definitely could have fit into those boots. i don't know, man. A couple sizes bigger and you wear some big socks. Like, dude, he wears two different shoe sizes because he fucked up his, uh, that, that, yeah. So, I mean, I don't, I don't know. I mean, I'm, He self-injured himself. He wears two different shoe sizes. What makes you think it's going to get into ski boots? It'll be all right. Yeah, I mean. Regular shoes.
00:14:39
Speaker
My left foot is a 10 and a half. My right foot's an 11. Yeah, there you go. going have to wear four pairs of socks on one of those things. That is still one of the most ridiculous things I've ever heard. you need to fix that shit, dude. Holy crap.
00:14:52
Speaker
And and then then this dude's like, let me just do one of the most, like, one of the sports that's the most demanding of your feet and ankles. Yeah. I neglected my ankle for years. let me try the most egregious ankle sport in my life. it'll snap it back into place.
00:15:07
Speaker
right you know I've always thought, I was like, man, if I re-break it, maybe it will fix everything. wow you know Maybe should have went down that Hunter Mountain or something. who Who wanted to go to that mountain too?
00:15:20
Speaker
Um... Who said it was just the closest mountain. Oh, I see. yes they like they weren't They weren't mad at us for not skiing or anything like that. they were just like, this is what we're going to do one of these days. like It'd be cool if you can join us, but if not, like no big deal. We still have the whole weekend. so That's cool. That's cool.
00:15:39
Speaker
but Yeah. um But after experiencing you know upstate New York for a couple of days, i think you're right, Mike. I think we do need to split New York up into two different states. Thank you. You know what? It's so different.
00:15:52
Speaker
It's shitty. It sucks. i I've seen New York as fucking awful. I've seen New York be nice. Some of it is nice. Listen, it's nice. Hunter Mountain, beautiful. The area we were on, the lake that we were on, really nice.
00:16:04
Speaker
It's just a change of pace. It's very different. 100%. I can't imagine – and I can't imagine living up there. Well, but you're not living in the right areas. You go to Saratoga Springs or go up Lake George.
00:16:23
Speaker
yeah like george Yeah, it's up there. yeah yeah Those are cool areas. yeah but But I agree with you. The majority of it, like nah, you can't. like there's There's not much that's going on. right But the areas that are, it's nice. It is a very different area.
00:16:37
Speaker
Change of pace, though. Just two states. What are we talking The area we were in um we went to like this bar and I was like, this has to be like probably not the only bar in town, but it's probably the nicest bar in town.
00:16:51
Speaker
I was like, this is really sad if this is the nicest bar in town. It's different, man. I'm telling you, it's those people cherish that bar. in Okay. Damn right. And, uh, you, you wait in the winter, they're probably driving their, uh, snowmobile over there instead of their car.
00:17:06
Speaker
I wait till you start seeing that. Um, but But you went to a place that's kind of sort of pre-populated upstate. Imagine the places that aren't much populated, that people just live in those areas and deal with it. That's why I said we got to slice it in half. We got to give the city to the city and keep upstate separate because it's two different entities.
00:17:26
Speaker
No, we give the city to New Jersey. And then we keep the rest of the state of New York. We're going to rename it Hoboken City instead of New York City. City. Listen to yourselves right now.
00:17:40
Speaker
oh I don't know. These two things are different. We got separate them That sounds real. That sounds real questionable right there, guys. yeah Can you be racist when it comes to states?
00:17:55
Speaker
yeah Yes. i think you I'm not going to answer that question. Just the states themselves, though, not like the people in it, like the landscape and the... Well, I'll tell you this. I think people are racist towards Connecticut, and I don't think Connecticut's the worst state in New England.
00:18:13
Speaker
oh Racist towards Connecticut how? Yeah want hear this Like everybody talks about Connecticut being the worst state in New England And I don't think that's racist towards Connecticut They are shit talking Connecticut that's fair We should reframe this statist I just used the term because Austin was using the term But I don't think Connecticut is the worst state in New England as perceived by others in New England And I've actually I've actually like done a little research to prove that we're not as bad as new England seems to be.
00:18:50
Speaker
You know, okay. I'm actually interested to hear what, what your, your reasoning is because i feel like there's a valid case for why Connecticut is one of the worst.
00:19:03
Speaker
And I'm from Connecticut. Austin's a hater. Well, I mean, you're the one that's wearing the Whalers jersey. Listen, we'll never be Rhode Island, and that's that's all you need to know. We will never be Rhode Island, nor will we ever be Massachusetts.
00:19:18
Speaker
um Listen, we all know Massachusetts is going to be the superior one out of New England, solely based off of Boston, right? Like, we know this. Like, Massachusetts is going to be, like, in the in the hierarchy of states.
00:19:33
Speaker
of new England. We all know Massachusetts is going to be number one. You have Boston, you have the population in Boston and all that, that entails it. So like, we're not looking to be number one, but what I'm saying is we're not number six.
00:19:46
Speaker
Okay. We're not. No. When I said, when, when I said we're not Rhode Island, I meant that in a derogatory way towards Rhode Island. No, no. I understand that. Yeah. Oh, no. it's It's a good thing for us.
00:19:57
Speaker
you I feel like Connecticut is the state with no identity. like What are you talking about? We have pizza. We have basketball. So that's what... Okay. So this is what I've gathered out of out of my thing. So number one, pizza capital of the world.
00:20:12
Speaker
Okay. That's fair. That's that's fair. That's acknowledged. Number two, number two, um with the exception of Boston, and we know this, so take Boston out of this.
00:20:25
Speaker
What... what What states in New England have massive arenas that celebrities, musicians, comedians go to?
00:20:38
Speaker
Okay. Have you ever heard of a comedian going to a massive arena in New Hampshire? Vermont? They go they go to ones in New York. New York is not part of New England. You don't consider New York part of New England?
00:20:51
Speaker
it's Nobody he considers New York part of New England. New York's not. New England is the six states. Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island. That is the original New England.
00:21:04
Speaker
Oh, okay. all right well it changes things so take Take New York out here because it's technically not involved. and We all know Boston's going to be the number one of the cities.
00:21:17
Speaker
but You got Pizza Capital the World. You got Connecticut having three major arenas that musicians, celebrities, comedians go to for performances.
00:21:30
Speaker
I've never heard somebody, you know, have you ever heard, ah I don't know, let's say, for example, s Sabrina Carpenter. Is she going to Maine? she doing a performance out in Vermont? We've never heard of it.
00:21:41
Speaker
So we got three massive arenas that people are going to. We all know Boston STD Garden and all that stuff. So, okay, take that out. I never hear anybody going to Providence, Rhode Island, Burlington, Vermont.
00:21:54
Speaker
Okay. Number three, what is the second busiest airport in New England? Now we know number one is Logan, obviously. What is the second busiest airport by traffic in New England?
00:22:10
Speaker
Yeah, Bradley. Sure. Bradley. Done. so by this So this is a popular, not saying popular, but this is a popular destination or at least throughway, a very big throughway for people to go through.
00:22:23
Speaker
Okay. When's the last time you heard somebody say like, oh, I had to fly through Robert Green Airport in Providence, Rhode Island, you know saying, to get to my destination or that was where you were landing to get to your final stop?
00:22:36
Speaker
Now, okay and another one is is food. I mean, we talked about Pizza Capital the World, but there's other... we We talk about this, that we're spoiled in the sense of like the authenticity of the different types of cozweens we have in Connecticut.
00:22:54
Speaker
Cozweens. Cozweens. Cozweens. cu You never heard of cozweens? Sorry, I had to say it wrong. no No, you said it wrong. but it' You said cozweens. Cozweens.
00:23:05
Speaker
Fucking put it in the dictionary right now. I know, right? okay like We know that Rhode Island has more superior um seafood. I think we could all agree with that.
00:23:16
Speaker
Maine has more superior lobster. We all agree with that. A Panera Bread lobster roll in New Hampshire, Panera Bread, pretty superior. Jesus Christ, don't throw that in there. I'm not saying that we have...
00:23:29
Speaker
the greatest out of the seafood, but still not bad. But we're pretty lucky the authenticity we have of cuisine here in Connecticut compared to what you could get out of New Hampshire, Vermont. So, okay. My counterpoint to that is Connecticut, if Connecticut wasn't I think that the only reason that Connecticut is as popular as it is is because it is close to a major city like New York.
00:23:56
Speaker
If you take Connecticut and you move it two positions up away from New York, there's nothing to me that's special about Connecticut that that would make people want to go to it. Like at least in Vermont and Maine, you have, you know, skiing areas and and you have all of that winter wonderland type stuff that you can go to.
00:24:18
Speaker
It's close to, you know, closer to Canada and Niagara Falls, all that stuff. There's good hiking, right? a lot of people take trips there. Cool.
00:24:29
Speaker
Connecticut doesn't, to me, doesn't have any of that like natural attraction. Yeah. Now, actually, the only exception that I'll say to that is they do have the casinos. And those are relatively popular, right? They're voted best in the country.
00:24:43
Speaker
Are they really? Yeah. Mohegan and Foxwoods are pretty consistently voted like up there, if not the best. That's fair. Because they have they have a lot of good talent that goes there, too, to play concerts and everything like that.
00:24:54
Speaker
So that piece makes sense to me. But as far as like like um like food and things to do, I feel like a lot of that is like down towards the border part of the state.
00:25:08
Speaker
Well, yeah, the tail two ends. Right, exactly. And because a lot of those people are there because they didn't want to live in the city, and so they want they live just over the border in Connecticut.
00:25:20
Speaker
So, okay, so now let me ask you as as a counter to the counter, right? So, right, Connecticut's smacked out of the middle of two major cities. You got Boston on the on one, and you got New York on the other.
00:25:31
Speaker
And if we're not offering... anything um spectacular compared to other states, then why are why aren't right like why aren't musicians skipping Connecticut and going to Maine or Vermont and New Hampshire? like There has to be a reason.
00:25:48
Speaker
like They have to be making money here. There has to be some sort of draw that they're consistently coming to Connecticut, doing performances, you know, having three major arenas. Okay. Why, you know, that's what I'm saying. Like, why aren't they not doing them in Vermont, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, you know, like, um, people are coming from those States to Connecticut to see these things because, well, ah you know, they're coming to, you know, if they're closer to Boston, they'll go to Boston first. We know this, but people are driving, um,
00:26:17
Speaker
or coming from distances to Connecticut for these kind of things. Don't forget. And I just realized that now, you know, not going brag. Let me show it. But we used to have a pro sports team. You know what i saying? Keywords used to. Yeah. Used to. Yeah. it doesn't doesn't exist anymore. doesn't exist anymore.
00:26:32
Speaker
yeah You know, it's just hard for me to get my mind past the fact that people are coming into that area because it's convenient to get to other popular locations. Right. like People are coming into Bradley International, because not because they're coming to visit Connecticut.
00:26:45
Speaker
Nobody from across the seas are coming to visit Connecticut. we don't know that we have an Ivy League school. We have an Ivy League school. People, believe it or not, I'm not saying they're flocking the masses.
00:26:58
Speaker
What I'm saying is, believe it or not, people are coming. here for a reason overseas for something, whether it's education. but Yeah, but statistically that that that cannot be the case because, yeah, we have Yale, right?
00:27:10
Speaker
then you go over to Boston, you've got over 160 colleges there. Yeah, so we know Boston, we're going to New York, you've got other prestigious places there. Take Boston out of the equation. We know Boston's going to be number one every time. You get what I'm saying, right? Like to me, Connecticut is a through way. Connecticut is a, let's use this to live here because we don't want to live in the city or let's, let's establish things here because, you know, ah it's a good through way to the other states that are more popular in the area rather than, you know, Connecticut. We do have the pizza.
00:27:39
Speaker
That's really cool. But as far as, you know, Sports teams go like, ah you know, we have basketball, but then we adopt things from other states, right? We adopt teams that we like, we adopt whatever, right? the That we like pop culture wise from other states. It just seems to me that they we're like stuck in the middle, you know?
00:28:00
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Is that weird take? ah I didn't know you were ah such a staunch defender of Connecticut, Mike. I'll be honest. I know. Same. Listen, I love that. the state's great. i'm ah you know i don't I don't really plan on moving from it. but All I'm saying is not it's not as bad as what everybody makes No, no. you' I agree with you. Mike mike has like evolved into this... like I don't know. I don't know how to describe it, but he's fit this profile now. He's he's defending Connecticut. He's posting on Facebook groups about local businesses. He's wearing Whalers jerseys. Like, what's happening?
00:28:36
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Yeah. Let me tell you. No, I'm just saying, I'm sure there are states in the Midwest that you know are in the same boat as us. They're just a they're just a point, a contention point, a little ground to something else.
00:28:50
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Connecticut will still be so far superior to any Midwest state. 100%. Have you seen the pizza out there? Jesus Christ. Yeah. It's all relative. Yeah. I'm just saying, as... as If we made a list of the six states best to worst in New England, we are not number six.
00:29:11
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We're probably number five. Yeah, we're probably number five. No. What's your basis? What's your basis off that? You put a survey out right now of who people you know how people rank this the New England states.
00:29:24
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Guarantee you Connecticut is not in the top half. If you asked people outside of Connecticut, obviously. But then um that matters. yeah but That's what I'm saying. You're biased. Yeah, but and what I'm saying is if you asked everybody outside of Connecticut, what's the number one state in England, they're going to say their state. I'll tell you this right now. I just Googled it. try An article done by Trillist.com.
00:29:48
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Very reputable source. Very reputable, verified source. This was published on September 10th, 2015. Weird time. Power ranking. Weird time. Where do you guess Connecticut would be in the New England power ranking right here from 2015? Start from the top. No, start from the...
00:30:06
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no start for the Did it start from the bottom or start from the top? Oh, you want me to start from the bottom? want you to start from the bottom because I'm afraid. afraid. What's the number six? i was being generous by saying four. Now hearing that, I'm thinking five. All right. Number one, New Hampshire.
00:30:22
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What? The Texas of New England. Okay. There you go Yeah. I think that's a little bit bold. but Yeah, maybe. but Number two, Massachusetts. Mm-hmm.
00:30:33
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Number three, Maine. Ooh. Okay. Number four, Rhode Island.
00:30:41
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Mike, you want to take a little guess where where Connecticut ends up here? Hit me with it baby. Number five, Vermont. Ooh.
00:30:53
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And at number six, but do they anys do they talk about yeah Connecticut is a rich white woman sipping a martini and silently judging all the other states. If each of the 50 states were at a bar, what are they doing what are they drinking?
00:31:08
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Honestly, that pretty much sums it up. Other than to say Connecticut is the worst, the worst in all caps, by the way. Sure. New Haven has its charm. A little place you might've heard of called Yale has been called an outdoor museum of architecture.
00:31:23
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But as far as city life goes, it leaves a lot to be desired. Amen. What we got? Harvard? Stanford? Okay. Hold on. Hold on. I do have a bone to pick because I think, I think, listen, I agree here.
00:31:34
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Um, But this person said New Haven Pizza is not as good as Detroit's. What? i'm writing ah I'm writing a strongly worded email to the trillis.com.
00:31:49
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I have to say, i went i went and like ah like a couple months ago and got Detroit-style pizza in the city. Delicious. But nowhere near... Yeah. Yeah. You know, we're near as good as as New Haven pizza. But what I'm saying is this is the reason why. Right. The perception of Connecticut is wrong. It's not wrong, right? there is more to the state than a bunch of white people who live off the coast and have a boat.
00:32:12
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yeah That's what I'm trying to tell you is that the perception of the state is wrong, which means that the opinion is wrong. Mike, I'm going to ask you this right now, and I want you to answer honestly. When we were growing up in elementary school, high school, you know you know middle school, how many like the percentage of minorities in our – We're not talking about minorities. We're not in that category right now.
00:32:33
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Their review was that it's the old white lady. That's true. like I mean, honestly, Mike. i mean What's what's the short's the race population in Connecticut? um I'm at this point curious.
00:32:47
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I would say it's definitely more than the upper three New England states, if I had to guess. The demographic breakdown? like because Because what this is alluding to is is white by a million.
00:33:02
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I think it's not that egregious. I think it's a lot closer than you think. when it goes I think it's a lot more mixed than people realize. they think it's a lot more integrated.
00:33:13
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People probably, they when they think of Connecticut, they they definitely think of either in New Haven or Greenwich. And second of all, new New Haven, where's the charm? That's where you get shot. i mean, they were doing K2 in the green.
00:33:24
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You know what I'm saying? There's a lot of charm in New Haven, just in certain places. No, I know. I'm not saying it but that's where that's where the drugs are going down. that's That's the part you love? Hey, man, you're starting to you're starting up bat for the other side here.
00:33:37
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ah We talking up these cities, brother. What are you trying to do here? Pizza capital of the world, number one. Yeah. New England itself is 81% white. kind crazy. Okay.
00:33:49
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He's like, that comes from ken Connecticut, baby.
00:33:58
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And what's what's the demographics of Connecticut? All right. Let me. i can I cannot believe this is what we're doing tonight. I know. I did not think this conversation would go this way.
00:34:11
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First of all, it didn't have to you know Victor was like, you guys are going to have to drive this conversation. Meanwhile, Victor was talking for like the first 20 minutes by himself. Yeah. Don't worry. where I have something for Victor later on. We're gonna we're going to mosey into it. Don't worry.
00:34:24
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right But listen, you guys could just could have said, yes, Mike, I agree and shut me up. Oh, wow. shit we see pons This is how this is supposed to go, right? We're supposed to say our opinions and then we look up and we fact check ourselves. Yeah, if we went to the Trillis.com for a fact check, Doug. You think that's really going to work out, Mike?
00:34:41
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um Yes. So CT ct is 64% white. Massachusetts is 79% white. All right. All right. So we're more diverse.
00:34:52
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Thank you. That's good.
00:34:57
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And people thinking out here we're white people riding boats off Mystic. Get the fuck out of here.
00:35:04
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I mean, it is one of the most, it is the wealthiest county in America. it is. Fairfield County you're talking about? Yeah. Yeah. Again, that's that's all because from the early 60s, all the business people who didn't want to live in the city of New York.
00:35:20
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Yeah. They all rode the trains and they got houses in Greenwich and Darien and all that. Mike, where is this coming from? Yeah. i don't I don't know what point you're trying to prove here. It seems like... well' I'm just trying to say that Connecticut is not the worst state of New England.
00:35:37
Speaker
Okay. That's the goal of this. According to Trillis.com, it is. Yeah. And they're they're a highly reputable news source. it's Highly reputable.
00:35:48
Speaker
I read my news from them every morning. Can we subscribe? Are they like a paid to news site? can i pay Can I pay for their opinion? You can subscribe. Actually, no, you can't.
00:36:01
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i went to Trillis.com and says, maintenance, be back up soon. o Yeah. so But Mike, I guarantee you, if we go out and we look at that same survey from some other website, it's going to have very similar sentiments.
00:36:17
Speaker
It's because it's written from an outside point of view that's judging us. You mean 98% of the country? Yeah. So you'd rather have the source be written from Connecticut where they're biased? Yeah, exactly. It's biased either way. If somebody writes it from inside or outside, it's still a biased opinion.
00:36:35
Speaker
Okay. Well, then why don't why don't you write it? Yeah. why don't Hold on. I think what we're talking about here is Mike should write his you know his own blog, make his own case. Yep.
00:36:46
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Right? start Start, pick up your camera, take trips around Connecticut, show it off. You seem passionate enough. If I did a TED Talk on why Connecticut is a better state than realized, would you guys come?
00:37:00
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No. Are you on Teams right now? Who's on Teams? Can you guys hear that? Yeah, we can. Whenever you get a notification, we we hear it. That's so annoying. I was hoping that you guys didn't hear that. Why are you locked in so late? Goddamn.
00:37:13
Speaker
Dude, i I got homework. I got people that are pinging me. but That's how it is, Mike. You don't realize when you're disconnected from school. I've been doing this till 2 Listen, people are banging you, it's whatever. don't care. just saying.
Dining Etiquette and Restaurant Experiences
00:37:28
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Yeah, isn't that what he said? No. Pinging.
00:37:33
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Oh, pinging. It sounded like banging. I was like, listen, dog. If people are banging you, whatever. just like Jesus Christ. It sounded like banging. All right, hold on. How do I mean that? That's fine. It's whatever. If it just pops up once a show, it doesn't doesn't really matter. Okay.
00:37:49
Speaker
At this point, it's just a trauma response every time I hear teams because it's probably Victor yelling at me that I'm going to ruin a secret or something like that. God. Usually it's nice messages. You decide to fuck that up, buddy.
00:38:01
Speaker
but mike Mike, you said you had big, like you had something to talk about. Didn't you? Yeah. but Was that it? Was that the... Well, no, that was something. But will we talk about my restaurant, my latest restaurant experience?
00:38:18
Speaker
Or do you want me to talk about the one that ah i give victor and I'll get Victor involved in? We'll talk about the restaurant. What? you what so Yeah, go go for the restaurant one. Yeah.
00:38:30
Speaker
Yeah, we're doxing a ah big chain, boys. And I'm sad to tell you. You're doxing a big chain. not Yeah, yeah, Hold on. Kick me out this. Disclamer. No, no. We're group doxing them. And um and it's no it's sad because there's going to be another rest in... I'm not going to rest in power. It's a rest in peace because they deserve it. But we're doxing Chili's.
00:38:52
Speaker
They're done. Chili's is done. What do they do to you? They put ah they left a hair in my salad. They're done. and and definitely And definitely like it was their hair because the dressing was over the hair.
00:39:05
Speaker
So the hair was in there and then they put the dressing. All right. You got so upset about people saying Connecticut are like these uppity white people. So what you say you're saying? You're getting pissed off. No, no, no, no, no. Listen, listen. No, wait a minute. Listen, listen, any front listen, listen, listen.
00:39:24
Speaker
I understand being upset. I would be a little upset with the hair in a salad. little upset. I would ask for a new salad. Am I going to disavow chilies for this? No. 100%. Why? That's some Karen shit.
00:39:38
Speaker
You're on some Karen shit. We've all worked in a kitchen before. Why is nobody wearing hair nuts? i think I think you're you're taking it a step too far. I think you are too, and I think it happens all the time. I'm not saying it doesn't happen all the time. I'm saying if you saw a hair in your salad, you're just going to pass it by like it's all good. Yeah, pulling it out and eating around. Yeah, pulling it out. and't no if my If my ski story wasn't enough to tell you that I'm a very passive person who avoids conflict – How do you think I'm reacting in this situation? And I want to let you guys know, and I think this part of you guys are going to be upset. I passed. I said no to a free skillet cookie because of the incident.
00:40:17
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You brought it up? I said I had to say something. called somebody over and you were like, i can't eat this? I had to say something. No, you make it sound like I'm an asshole where it's like, oh, look at this. i you know Listen, I'm the type of person that people should know.
00:40:30
Speaker
So I said to the lady, I said, hey, there's a hair in the salad. You know what saying? And I was like, sorry. And did she say, what do you want me to do about it? yeah And then she spit it in and told me to fucking leave. You know what saying? Oh, that would have made it better.
00:40:45
Speaker
Ew, what's the matter with you? There's a dynamic that you have to understand, right? Like you got to pick your battles. You see a hair in your salad. I'm not going to, okay. I see a hair in my salad. I'm not going to bring it up. You want to know why? Because what they have to know, dude, this is the service industry. Yeah.
00:41:01
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You have to know when you're making a mistake. You have to know when you're making a mistake. Mike, bro. Mike, okay. Think about it this way. Okay. So let me tell you something. Hold Hold on. Hold on. I have to ask you this question. I cannot believe you. I got to ask you before forget. can't believe Listen, if on your wedding day you found a hair in your salad, you're going to roll through that shit?
00:41:21
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Yes. Come on. That's nuts. You paid how much you money? Holy shit. You paid how? That's the fucking craziest thing. Because somebody had hair in their salad. That's going to be the fucking crazy. You spent that much money for catering. You're gonna let that s slide?
00:41:34
Speaker
Come on. That's This is the difference. There's no way. You being in the restaurant industry should know this better than anybody else. If that is what somebody is going to die on their hill about,
00:41:46
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No, but problem that's the difference is I'm not out here dying in a hill, but they have to know. They have to You're crazy, dude. You're right. You're right. Listen, telling them is not that big of a deal. I think bringing it up, whatever.
00:42:02
Speaker
Saying, yeah, i'm rested I'm never going to Chili's again because one person got a hair in my salad. I'm not going to the to that local Chili's.
00:42:12
Speaker
That's crazy. Just by the way that he just told this story, tells me that he didn't just bring it up to the waiter. yeah He was like, there was a hair in my salad.
00:42:23
Speaker
I want you to do something about it. Give me the manager. Give me the manager. And the manager goes over. like, I'm so sorry. Or she's like, I'm so sorry. And he's like, that's okay. Just do it again. he's like, can you have free cookie?
00:42:37
Speaker
And Mike was like, no, I don't want to do that. You just have to know that it happened. And then he goes back and he writes a little skating review. That's right. Right. That's right. Yeah. And then he comes on, he comes on his podcast and he shit talks it all.
00:42:50
Speaker
Yeah. Right. Cause they know that that's going to happen, but you got to know the, that you got to know the cadence. And because if somebody gives you a salad and you're like, that's the, that's the first course, right. You get your drink and you get a salad.
00:43:03
Speaker
And if you're going out there and you're complaining, there's a hair in my salad, you need to fix this right now. You know, what's to happen. Somebody who's having a bad day is gonna be like, great. When it comes time to your entree, I'm going spit right in that thing. You're fucking ridiculous. You turned this shit to something that is not going to be close. What else just clicked in my mind here?
00:43:19
Speaker
Why the fuck are you ordering a salad at Chili's? Amen. What is going What the fuck are you doing? yeah not you're getting You're not getting the three for ten? you're not getting You're not getting just the chips and salsa and the honey crisps the chicken crispers.
00:43:34
Speaker
You're getting a salad at Chili's. You deserve hair in your salad. You deserve hair in your salad. I don't think it matters whatever I order. It doesn't matter what I order. it does. It does. There's a hair. Of course, there's a hair in your salad. You're asking for an item that they don't make. They make it. It's in there.
00:43:50
Speaker
It's in there, but you don't know who the fuck's ordering a salad of chilies. Look, that's that's a valid point. I dare you. Why are we not talking about the fact that on Austin's wedding day, if he found a hair in any of his fucking food, he'd be like, not it's good Because you know how much. Knowing how much money you want to control that, Mike. Yeah. I'm not saying. And not only that, but do you know how much shit Austin has to do on his wedding day? Right.
00:44:15
Speaker
you think a little tiny hair is going to stop him from enjoying a salad and like one of the only moments of respite this man will have for that whole day? But I'm saying, oh my God, you guys, my God. You know what? Remind me, Mike, not to be around you on your wedding day or anything. Oh my God. I don't want anything to do with it.
00:44:33
Speaker
You guys are just cool with it happening. You guys are just cool with it happening. You might as well eat the fucking hair. I mean, what do you guys want to do? No, I'm going to pick the hair off and then I'm going to eat the salad. oh that's ne That's absurd. That's disgusting. Who cares?
00:44:46
Speaker
it's not this is This is also coming from the man who drank alcohol off a fucking tray at the at the Russian lady. Holy shit. Thank you for bringing that up. This is so ridiculous. was young.
00:44:59
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was young. You were a full grown adult. Yeah, your frontal lobe had developed.
00:45:04
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i was young you were a fullgrown adult Yeah. your frontal lobe had developed yeah I just, I can't believe it. This is why we're having this conversation. or Why Victor and I are so like bewildered that you're bringing this stuff up. like This is not you, Mike. What is going on? You're like in this era.
00:45:24
Speaker
Era of what? Doing the right thing? I'm becoming an uppity white person. I'm becoming an uppity white person from Connecticut that everybody knows that you already are. This is why we're sixth. This is why we are sixth in the New England Tear Rant games. We could be at least four. We're not because of people like you.
00:45:41
Speaker
That's why. We could be at least four. None of us are chill. No one is chill in this state. You are making it unchill. Yes. You could have just enjoyed your salad. Accepting hair in my salad. You could have enjoyed your dumb ass salad from Chili's.
00:45:56
Speaker
who Again, who is ordering a salad at Chili's? doesn't matter. what It does. You're talking about it like the waiter came up and spit in your mouth. like you're Just pull the hair out and eat the salad. There's nothing to like you know make a big deal over. dog.
00:46:12
Speaker
i'm not but You guys make it sound like I got up and I was like, who cooked this meal? I'm just saying. Sounds like you did. I brought it to their attention because as somebody who was in the service industry, like you all were, i would like to know.
00:46:26
Speaker
I would like to know it to be like, okay, maybe I wasn't, ah you know, but what could I do better to prevent this from happening again? I know things are inevitable. I know things are inevitable. Accidents happen. But I would want to know of the frequency of these accidents. You know it's like, but Mike, you want to know something? All right, you go ahead, Austin. I'll come back to this later. None of you go. we can just leave this to bed. No, no, no.
00:46:46
Speaker
Let's think about the practicality of this for a second. They take your advice. Yes. yeah Mike, this is so terrible. You're right. we're going to bring this back to our staff and we're going overhaul. yeah how many people, everybody would have to wear hairnets.
00:46:58
Speaker
Everybody, literally everybody. Why are we? Everybody wearing hairnets? Yeah. And beardnets? Yeah. all around you, all the servers, even the fine dining restaurants, you everybody to wear plastic bags over their heads. like you You realize that the salad goes from the the kitchen, right, where there's the chefs, and then you've got the hostess, and you've got the bus board.
00:47:21
Speaker
Why is the hostess touching the food? not even saying that anybody's touching the food. Do you know how many people walk by? like You ever walk around your place when you're cleaning up and you see like how your hairs fall all over the place? like It's in the air. like People are going to be walking by these salads because they're pre-prepared.
00:47:36
Speaker
right? And their hair is going to fall in. You have to literally bag everybody, Mike, to to fully prevent a hair from falling on your salad. That's such a hard thing to prevent from happening. I get what you're saying, and I'm not saying that it can't not happen. What I'm saying was is that it had to have happened from a chef's standpoint because it was embedded into the dressing.
00:47:58
Speaker
Okay? It's not just like it was just hanging out on top and somebody was just floating by. And how come other other industries, other than service industry, have to wear hairnets, beardnets, gloves, and this and that? But we're we're not we're not requiring that in the food industry.
00:48:15
Speaker
Why are we not requiring that? Mike, I'm going to, again, going be straight with you, man. You are out of Chili's. Yes. Thank you. If you were, if you were at, you know, five-star restaurant, right, or a three Michelin star restaurant and there's a hair in your salad, sure. So if you went to a Michelin star restaurant you found a hair in your salad, going to pass it by?
00:48:36
Speaker
No, you know, if I was also in a Michelin star restaurant i found a hair, I still wouldn't say anything. You're fucking nuts, dude. You're the craziest person I've ever met in my life. This is for the finest dining.
00:48:48
Speaker
The finest. Dude, at your wedding, you wouldn't even say if there's a hair. You're crazy, dude. Mike, again. The amount of things that I would be thinking about at my wedding, ah hair in my, and not even maybe in my salad, in somebody else's salad or whoever's salad is the last thing I care about. You're like, yo, dude, I found a hair in my salad. I'd say, okay, cool.
00:49:10
Speaker
That's it. i I'm planting a hair in Mike's salad on your wedding day. show point I want to. Just for fun. I'm eating in the limo. Okay. Okay. I'm eating it a little.
00:49:22
Speaker
Yeah, I'm going to be real with you, Mike. Anything that you told them, whenever whatever, like yesterday, whenever you went to this Chili's, they've already forgotten about. They don't care. Yeah, and I understand that, but I just thought it was it was right for them to know.
00:49:39
Speaker
Can I speak to your manager, Aspro? I can't believe. At a Chili's. With a a salad at Chili's is crazy to me. winter Yeah, that's that's a little wild. um Who gets a salad at Chili's?
00:49:52
Speaker
That's the other thing, too. I can understand if it was like a bowl of ice cream, like vanilla ice cream, and yeah like the hair is very apparent. You're talking about a salad, dude. It's like a mixture of all these different things in there. Who's going to see that fucking hair? It's so baffling to me that you guys are just okay with it.
00:50:08
Speaker
like get It's more baffling to us that you're just not okay with it. It blows my mind that you guys are just okay with it. Listen, it's not about, I'm not okay with it. I'm not happy I found a hair in my salad.
00:50:20
Speaker
I'm just saying I'm taking it out and eating my salad. Right. There's bigger things going on in my life than this little tiny hair I found in this salad. you guys are crazy. And if I want to, if I have, listen, Mike, if I have the luxury to disrupt my meal during my day to talk about a hair, then, you know, I need to, to, to reassess a little bit. Like, come on, dude. Like there are so many other things that I can be thinking about in this hair and this salad.
00:50:46
Speaker
I, I think that's baffling. I think it's baffling. i think it's probably, can't believe that you guys, I'm finding so many little things out about money. But the problem is, is you guys are like,
00:50:57
Speaker
miss i don't know the right word but you guys are missing you guys don't understand the perception you guys make it seem like that i got up from the table and i was like who cooked this meal no that that's why that's exactly what i think if you were not the truth on that socially acceptable you would do that i would not i totally we would that's not that's nuts that's nuts that you think that about me that's crazy Mike, I truly, I did not think this about you up until today. I'm just so baffled that like you're, yeah I think you found, here's what here's why think happened, right?
00:51:35
Speaker
Mike had his power trip when he had the moldy moldy pastry. Okay, I got to stop you right there. And he went on there. After power trip, it's done. I don't want to hear the rest. There's nothing here that's goingnna that's going to justify this. After power trip, was fine with it.
00:51:51
Speaker
He's like, I have the power to end a business. He's like, nobody can fuck with me. Because I ended the first one. Yeah. Because I completely ended the first one. They're doing just fine.
00:52:03
Speaker
They're doing just fine. Mike, you started a whole conspiracy theory in the town. It was the truth. It was the truth. the child You saw the photos. Now everybody in that town thinks that they're getting disinformation from their local businesses. Are we really bringing this up again?
00:52:19
Speaker
Is this what we're doing? Yes. Because it's a very, it's a similar topic and a story that you've shared. I can't believe that you're just, your you guys sit down at a restaurant and whatever it is, and you'll find a hair in your style you're just like, that's cool.
00:52:35
Speaker
No, what I can't believe is that we spent like 20 minutes you being like, no, Connecticut is not a bunch of uppity white people. And then you tell the most uppity white person story possible right after.
00:52:48
Speaker
Why is that a white people thing? what No, no, I'm just saying. I'm just saying it's not. i think It's an anagolist. You're a white person and you're playing into the uppity part. Yes, thats exactly. That's what I mean. Yes. Yeah.
00:53:00
Speaker
You guys, I don't know. Mike, Mike, I think this is the last time I express my opinion on the podcast. Go out and talk to 10 people on the street right now. Ask them what the biggest problems with their day were today and see if any of them equate to there was a hair in my salad.
00:53:20
Speaker
And I do that research and what? I do that research and what? What do we get out of it? You learn perspective. What if you guys are wrong? What if you guys are wrong and the research validates what I'm saying? if You know what, Mike? If somebody comes back, if if nine out of 10 people come back and say that whatever problems that they have going on are not as bad as what you're talking about, I'm baffled.
00:53:45
Speaker
The country has is is is in a totally different state than I thought it was. Yeah. if If you find nine out of 10 people that will tell you like, oh, yes, a hair in my salad would negatively destroy my day and make me never want to go to that restaurant again. I'm going to think worse about those nine people.
00:54:03
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Yes. I mean, then yeah. Yeah.
00:54:06
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Then we know Connecticut's a bad place. i do Exactly. I just can't believe you guys are cool with it. It's not that we're cool. We just don't make that big of a deal. We just we just ah understand the bigger picture, Mike. Yeah.
00:54:18
Speaker
And we enjoy salads. And we enjoy these salads. We enjoy a nice healthy salad. a Thousand Island dressing, couple tomatoes. But I just got shit on for ordering a salad at Chili's. No, we said enjoyed salad, not chili salad. Yeah. Yeah.
00:54:35
Speaker
How much longer we got on this episode? Jesus Christ. I think I'm done here with this one.
00:54:42
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think I'm done here with this one. Buckle up, Mike. You don't understand what I have planned for Friday. Hey.
00:54:52
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I don't know. I may have to call out sick on that one. No, no. You're going to be here. little teaser for the people listening. Yeah.
00:55:01
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and may have to call out on that one. this is like You know what I've realized that this is kind of molded into is 50% of the the episodes are us talking about things that happened recently or stuff that we went through.
00:55:14
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The other 50% is therapy for Mike. Except therapy is supposed to make me feel better, not worse, asshole.
00:55:22
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No, you have to go through the acceptance stage before you can get to the... to the You know what? maybe Maybe therapy isn't the right word. Maybe more of like a reality check. Oh, like an intervention. Yeah.
00:55:36
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What are we intervening on? we're We're just checking you, man. Yeah. We're checking you. we're We're giving you a little bit more perspective. You're checking on the fact that I thought you're checking man the fact that i thought I was doing the right thing by letting somebody know of an error. No, no, no, no, no. no no no no We are checking you on the fact that you were ready to disavow a whole restaurant for a minor inconvenience.
00:56:00
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Yes. that's That's the moral of the story here. Minor inconvenience is like though the waitress spilled my drink. think it's a pretty major inconvenience to find a hair in your salad. No, I think... So you're okay. No, hold on. I think they're on the same level. No, let me ask you this. They're the same level. don't think more upset about a single drink. If you find it now... Okay.
00:56:21
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So you're telling me if you guys found a hair in your food that you're just going to eat past it and around it and keep your mouth shut. What if you find a fly in your food? You're doing the same thing? That's different. yeah How is it different? It's still a bug. It's a minor inconvenience in your food. But guess what?
00:56:35
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I'm still going to just... No, I'm not going around that. I'll probably just say, hey, guess what? like There's a bug in here. Can you it? you would say something. So what's the difference? If if it's what's the difference? carries diseases. Hairs do not.
00:56:49
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Hairs carry diseases. They have lice. There's a chance of lice. What are you, crazy? You guys are nuts. and i don't I don't really think so. At this point, I'm just going to say, just to piss you guys off, I can't believe that on Austin's fucking wedding day, if there was a hair in the salad, he wouldn't even say anything.
00:57:04
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You spent all that money, dude Mike, there are so many things that could go wrong on a wedding day. That is one thing that I absolutely know can't be you controlled that much. um First of all, I'm not going to ask- It can't be controlled. how What do you mean it can't be controlled? It could be controlled.
00:57:23
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I'm not saying it's 100% effective. people there are so Mike, there are so many people that touch those salad bowls as it gets from the kitchen to the tables, right? And not everybody can be wearing bags over their heads. Like you're talking about the minuscule things. Oh my goodness, I don't want to be your wedding planner. Holy shit. There's so many that you can't control that you want to control there.
00:57:47
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you know i fly A fly is nobody's fault. A fly, it's going to go right for the food, whatever. Yes, i'm going to bring it up because that's a little bit more up there for me in terms of like the, oh, I can't really do that. I can't eat this salad now yeah because of the fly.
00:57:59
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But a hare, come on, dude. What are you going to get out of that? And not only that, but they tried
Podcast Reflections and Humorous Conclusion
00:58:05
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to remedy the situation. They offered a free dessert and you were no, I don't want the free dessert. I lost my appetite. You lost your appetite because of that?
00:58:14
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Come on. how could great That's you guys are... I'm sorry. no that we can't believe Literally, all right.
00:58:26
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If you had just gotten it replaced or whatever, if you gotten a new salad, that's fine. I don't... Again, i think we have differences of opinion on what constitutes us sending food back to the the kitchen or not.
00:58:39
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But you straight up didn't eat. You're like, I can't. This is too much for me. yeah That's correct. You realize that people used to like eat off the ground, right? Like they used to eat with dirt and everything like that.
00:58:54
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but Yes, I understand that. But we don't have to. Brother, you would you would not survive. You would not survive. You would not survive in other countries. I can't take your ass to the Philippines. That's crazy.
00:59:07
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ah got You got to learn to adjust, brother. you got to learn to survive and adapt. And there are going to be some people that agree with you, Mike. Yeah. Right. They're also wrong. They're also wrong.
00:59:22
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I can't believe it. thank Losing your whole appetite. yeah That's wild. You want to talk about uppity? We're getting there, buddy. We're getting there. i want to let you know that you know when we when we record, I look forward to this hour to relax and laugh.
00:59:40
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And have a moment with my friend. Every fucking week, I get the opinion that I'm wrong and that I suck. And I'm starting to feel like this is not fun anymore.
00:59:51
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All right? You know, this you know enjoy I enjoy this hour and change. I'm like, ah we get to hang out with the friends. We get to talk some shit.
01:00:02
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You know, I have some fun. And every week it's like, oh, you're stupid, Mike. Oh, you're wrong, Mike. Oh, you're going to be a fucking asshole. Oh, yeah. Maybe you almost ruined the surprise. Okay. Fuck me. You know, whatever. Hold on. Time um live out. Time out. Time out. You're overreacting. The other things. The other things.
01:00:22
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fine valid you and the surprise don't ever think yeah that would go yeah you could ever be off the hook for that yeah it was good I would be brought up for years to come the surprise was ruined we're good we're good I'm just saying and I'm starting to feel like this is this is like trial hour you know like I'm on the stand and you guys are just hammering me ah No matter what I bring up.
01:00:47
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Mike, we were doing fine. were doing fine. When were we doing fine? When were we doing fine? it's I think it's your inability to to take criticism. Oh, also so this is my fault. Yes. Of course. That's what it is. Thank you.
01:01:05
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You solved all my problems. Go with the Lord. Father said all this. Thank you. I have been rejuvenated because it's all my fault. I don't figure it out. Mike, I don't think you understand who we are. Oh, I don't understand.
01:01:18
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Oh, this is crazy. Mike, I don't think you get it. if you if you If you weren't so passionate about your side, right, about these minuscule things, we wouldn't dig in so hard. When you dig in, I dig in, brother. Like, I'm not going to be out here like, oh, yes, you're right. I'm sorry.
01:01:39
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I want to let you know that last week, Austin asked both of us, or last episode, Austin asked both of us to always be Team A. And here I am. When is it time to be Team M? That was within the context of me and like in my relationship.
01:01:56
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right its I would have the same support for you, but you got also... Also, being on Team a also means checking Austin whenever he's wrong. right That's what this is, man. Yes, I understand that Believe me, i'm not I'm not just doing this for the benefit of you, but also the benefit of the people around you.
01:02:16
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we' We're making you a better person. and making Is this the definition of gaslighting? I just want to double check. Remember last week how you guys told me I was gaslighting or victim blaming? Is this what it is?
01:02:28
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I think I'm feeling it. No, you were victim blaming. 100%. And we're not victim blaming you here. We're just telling you. you got to, you know, don't know what the word is.
01:02:41
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Resolve. i think you have to grow a little bit more resolve. He has to gain perspective. Yeah. You can't, you can't little, little hair ruin your whole lunch. Yeah. Yeah. No, I, you know what? I, I, I can understand some of, of the, the uncomfiness, but the losing the appetite, we gotta, we gotta work that one out, man.
01:03:00
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Yeah.
01:03:03
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This was, this was nice. I'm glad we could do this. I mean, I was, I had, I had a great hour. This was fun. Mike. Yeah. Mike, do you want to sign us off? i don't I don't really know what to say.
01:03:15
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I'll give you guys the floor. I'll give you guys the floor. No, no, no. End the episode. Yeah. give us like If you could provide like a little summary. Yeah. ah If there's anything I learned on this episode, it's that of the six New England states, Connecticut will be number seven always.
01:03:32
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That's right. And the the customer is always wrong. So that's... Hold on. mom I think we can go on. I think if we had more time, we could definitely go on about how customers can be wrong. Oh, no, right. Customers can be wrong. one hundred percent ah hundred percent 100%. 100%. Absolutely.
01:03:48
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i'll i'll save um I'll save something for next time when Victor feels ah a little better. I wanted to bring up a topic that that refreshed my mind a couple of days ago when I did something. And I was like, you know what?
01:04:03
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Victor and I had a good opportunity and we blew it. So... Yeah. All right. and we'll save that We'll save that for next week when we are all together as one big happy family.
01:04:15
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you know Mike's looking forward to it now. Yeah, Mike's really looking forward to it. i may have to do this one virtual next Friday, boys. i will kill you. Hold on.
01:04:26
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Hold on. Allegedly. He will allegedly kill you. In Minecraft. In Minecraft, i will kill you.
01:04:35
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Oh, God. All right, guys. Thanks for listening. See you guys next week. Peace. See then.