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Messin' Around Mondays: Explosions, Aliens, and Cookout Trays
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The boys learn about a returning Taco Bell item, discuss aliens and their favorite alien movies, and build the greatest Cookout trays of all time.
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Podcast Introduction and New Segment Announcement
00:00:12
Speaker
Welcome to the Next Guy Up podcast. We have an incredible show for you today. Welcome to Messing Around, Mondays where we like to mess around. We have some really fun topics for you playing today.
00:00:24
Speaker
And today we are going to start a brand new segment here just in the second beginning of our pod called the cycle where each of the the squad members here are going to bring Something we saw in the news this week something that was interesting to us and we're gonna bring it and kind of show and tell about it and
00:00:45
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and share with the class. And that's where we're starting off
Trivia Segment Introduction
00:00:49
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today. We have some trivia we're going to be doing. We have another pretty incredible draft, I think, that you're going to love coming up at the very end. And that's where we're headed.
Microphone Mishap and Resolution
00:01:01
Speaker
I think the number one topic before we dive into the cycle is Zach Nurm figuring out how to use his mic, everybody. Guys, it's a miracle. A true Christmas miracle, indeed. It turns out, all along, I've been... I have these nice new mics for the pod. Some Yeti Blue mics, shout out, sponsorship. Gave it to us for free. Just kidding, we bought them.
00:01:24
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And I think I have been accidentally connecting to the microphone on my headphones instead. And so here we are with the first audio that probably sounds decent out of my mic so far. This explains so much. We don't know what we're doing.
00:01:42
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It's fine. It's fine. And Zilly and Zach have the same mic, of course, and they do not sound the same at all. And we were wondering why the quality was so much different. Every episode, right before we hit record, we're just like, Zach, we just can't hear you. It's so quiet. Well, it turns out his Beats microphone on his headphones isn't the same quality as these mics that we bought.
Discussion on UPS Strike Avoidance and Job Sentiment
00:02:07
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So hopefully you tell a difference in my microphone quality today. Should sound a little bit better, hopefully.
00:02:14
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So that was about three minutes ago, right before we started this pod today, that we found that out. So big things are happening here on the pod. Big things. Still no layoffs, I might add. Still no layoffs. Still not a single, put that, write that down. We need one of those counters like, you know, they have in like factories or that Dwight has in the office. Days without accidents. Without nonsense, that's us.
00:02:43
Speaker
We're at like, we have one of those 14 days with no layoffs. Oh yeah. Tinsley also works at UPS. So he had a big week this week with the, um, with us not striking no strike. I was kind of, I was kind of looking forward to, I don't know if this was going to be in the cycle for anybody, but I was, I was kind of hoping we were going to strike just it'd been fun days off.
00:03:26
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But he did get a nice pay boost out of it hopefully over the next couple years at least
00:03:32
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Yep. Nope. Starts, starts on Tuesday. So I guess I can care about my job now because they pay us. All right. All right. Put that in the record book. Somebody tweet the UPS. He cares about his job now that he makes more money.
Mason's Oppenheimer Movie Experience
00:03:47
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Well, so the way the cycle is going to work, uh, we're each going to go around and we don't know what each other has picked yet. Uh, but we're going to share some, uh, just anything out of the media, out of the news that we saw this week that we thought was interesting. Um, and just we'll talk about it for a little bit. So, uh, who wants to go first? Ten's Mason. Mason wants to go for raising his hand if you can't see, uh, I'm ready to go.
00:04:10
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So, you want to know how dedicated I am to the pod. How dedicated, Mason? I spent three hours of extensive research, and what I mean by extensive research, Words with Mason, I mean sitting through a movie for three hours. And that would, the movie that I'm talking about is not Barbie, but Oppenheimer. Wow. Oh boy. What a sacrifice, Mason. It really was.
00:04:38
Speaker
That was a long three hours. I can't remember the last time that I sat through a movie that was more than three hours than the greatest movie of all time in game. So let me go ahead and share. There will be no spoilers for this movie because it's still a week out. So I will not get any spoilers. Is there any violence?
00:05:00
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I literally sat through the whole movie excited for explosions because if anybody knows your boy, I'm all about the explosions, the action.
00:05:14
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And you want to guess how many explosions, well, I said no spoilers. I'll give one spoiler. Fast forward 30 seconds if you don't want to hear it. Hit the fast forward 30 second button and five, four, three, two, one. Okay. There was one explosion everybody. I sat through three hours of a movie for one explosion. But it was like the explosion. It was the explosion, but it was one explosion.
00:05:40
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Like the biggest one. So going into going into the movie, the reason why I wanted to watch it was because of the explosion, of course, and then the cast, which I would like to give out real quick. Celia Murphy, Florence Pugh, Robert Downey, Junior, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Josh Peck. Wow. There's several others, but that's pretty. Yeah, that's a pretty good cast right there. Solid. So.
00:06:08
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I do want to get into the fact that if you were interested in history, a plot and a lot of talking, this is your movie. I'll just go ahead and say that I'm not the biggest history buff. And a lot of this, probably 70% of this movie went over my head. I looked over at my jail and my wife and was like,
00:06:37
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I don't understand half of this. Also subtitles have ruined me because I am like, what did they say? Can I hit the rewind button? And some of it is like mumbling and soft talking. And I'm like, what I don't even, or really big words that I'm like, I don't know what that was. And it kind of went over my head.
00:06:56
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So I did talk about, I brought up Barbie just to be funny, but I did want to talk about the fact that there is kind of like a comparison of who won. So they both came out on the same weekend, which was July 21st. The duo collected 235.5 million in that single weekend, the first weekend, representing the fourth highest selling box office opening in history. Does anybody know who won that weekend? Oh, it's gotta be Barbie. Barbie won by a lot.
00:07:27
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Barbie won with $115 million in the first three days and Oppenheimer had $82.4 million in its debut. However,
00:07:36
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I'm all about the stats here. Oppenheimer has surpassed Barbie in the first nine days. So now Oppenheimer is caught back up, but if you're wanting to compare the first weekend, that would be Barbie won that. So if anybody's seen it, look up on YouTube where they combine the two trailers together. It's pretty funny stuff. You really need to go check it out. Just type in like two, like Barbie Oppenheimer trailer combined or something. I'm sure you'll.
00:08:05
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Barbara Nimer. Yes, it would be correct. So that concludes because I didn't want to give too much spoilers So I'm kind of keeping it sweet short and to the point way to think about the people I will I will say if you're different about going and watching this movie, I will say Mason famously is Like action movie mania. I mean he drafted He drafted Avengers endgame and infinity war back-to-back as the top two summer blockbusters Don't let this
00:08:35
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If you're a person who enjoys dialogue in a movie, likes talking at least a little bit, this might be for you still. I will say that they had a lot of flashbacks and a lot of time jumping, but they had a black and white scene and then a regular scene.
00:08:52
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My biggest pet peeve is when I'm like, okay, was this in the past? Is it like they're jumping around way too much and I can't even keep up with it. So they did do a good job separating. What if this is part of the multiverse with Robert Downey Jr. showing him back up? Like what if that's like an Iron Man variant showing up in Oppenheimer?
00:09:14
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Earth 8000. You're thinking about that, Mason? It's a big deal right there. Yeah, but that concludes my cycle. Great work, Mason.
00:09:28
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Great work. Way to sacrifice for the team and go see the movie. Number one movie in America. 2.3 out of 10, everybody. What? Who said that? That's better than what you gave Dr. Strange, I think. I gave it a negative 1,000. There's a lot of action in that movie. All right, 10-3 we got.
Return of Taco Bell's Beefy Crunch Burrito
00:09:50
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So I, and this is a throwback to our first Messing Around Monday, our great sponsors over at the Taco Bell. If you're an avid Taco Bell fan, like I claim to be, then you know about the Beefy Crunch Burrito and what it means to you. When this thing came out in 2010,
00:10:11
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for a dollar, mind you. I mean, it changed lives. You could get like four of them. You got the spicy Fritos, ground beef, nacho cheese. It comes with sour cream in it, which I obviously take out because I'm not a sour cream guy. If I even think it's on there, I'm gonna send it back. It's just not gonna happen.
00:10:31
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I've been there when he has sent it back. I tell them sometimes in the drive through that I'm allergic to sour cream just to make sure they do not put it on. I hate that stuff, dude. I hate it. It will not eat. It will not eat whatever burrito, taco, nothing. So.
00:10:47
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brings us to fast-forward from 2010 it had a year where it was on the menu before they took it off had a lot of backlash Well Taco Bell ran a survey about eight eight months nine months ago and asked the fans to vote What item would you like to bring back? I don't it was the cool ranch Dorito the crunchy Dorito shell or the beefy crunch burrito I
00:11:12
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And I'll tell you what, the Beefy Crunch burrito ran away with it and it was announced that they will be returning it to stores come August 1st. We're back, baby. So we are back like we never left. There's no way on earth that that is still a dollar. No way. No way. Wow. Imagine the sales. I'm going to go. Let's all give a price.
00:11:37
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I think it comes in at $2.00. $2.00 sounds right. $2.45. I'm saying $2.00. They have their dollar value. They can use pre-fire though. I bet it shows up. It is. It has the Beefy Melt Burrito on there for $2.00. See, that's what they try to change it to, where they brought this item, the Beefy Crunch Burrito, five years ago.
00:11:59
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And it's the same thing except for the fact that the Fritos that are in it are not spicy. They're just like red chips and so they're not as good obviously because it's just plain old chips inside of a burrito. So the 68,000 fans that have signed up for the Facebook group
00:12:19
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beefy crunch burrito movement are are excited. They are pumped up. They have now I've been in this Facebook group since then because I when you're dumbing in high school, you just joined them Facebook groups, right? That's kind of like a kind of it's you know, I've helped because these people they call.
00:12:39
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Yeah, I mean they've got they have pictures of guys with tattoos of the burrito on them They they have dedicated fans that anytime Taco Bell post anything on social media All they comment is bring back the beefy crunch. I mean it is an ordeal. So Wow come August 1st it has finally returned and I cannot wait to go hit up some Taco Bell on my way home that night and
00:13:05
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If any listener gets a Beefy Crunch tattoo with the Next Guy Up logo on it, we will retweet you. Yeah, we're raising $10. I'll give you a free t-shirt. I'll give you a Next Guy Up podcast t-shirt. There you go. I'll send you the ultimate exclusive gambling pic that I won't post anywhere else. It's just Trevor Lawrence MVP.
00:13:35
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It's a secret. All right. That's, that's, that's mine.
UFO Congressional Hearing and Skepticism
00:13:47
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Thank you. Thank you. I'm very excited. I didn't know that as this educational. That's bigger news than Oppenheimer. I'm going to be honest. My opinion sure is. Well, my news could be the greatest news that the human race has ever received.
00:14:02
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Guys, if you're driving right now, I'd suggest pulling over. Make sure you're in a big park. This is a big deal. What is going on? This week, Congress held a hearing about UFOs. This is a real thing that happened.
00:14:20
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There was an actual congressional hearing this week about not actually UFOs. They call it something different now. They call them UAF. No, UAP. Sorry. Unidentified aerial phenomenon. And there was a whistleblower.
00:14:36
Speaker
His name is David Grush. I regret to inform you, I listened to multiple podcasts today and did a lot of research about this. David Grush was in the Air Force and one of his roles was to kind of investigating some of these anomalies. So upon some investigation, well, that was, he spent his whole career doing that. He's like retired now and he came out to whistle as a whistleblower, which is just someone who's trying to expose something happening like the government.
00:15:02
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He said the government is hiding stuff from everybody, including Congress possibly. He was like the military and parts of the government are hiding stuff that we know is true. He said they have this whole thing that takes these unidentified aerial phenomenons and gathers evidence about them. He said there have been wrecks where we found
00:15:25
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things that have crashed and he even said that they found non-human matter on some of these planes or on some of these aircrafts that have crashed like stuff that's not human but it's like biology of sorts and he is coming so this has kind of started this big thing this week if you are unfamiliar um no one really knows what's happening but congress legitimately sat in a hearing this week where people just talked about aliens and UFOs for the entire time
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and the more info we get about it it seems like
00:16:00
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The chances are increasing probably that something like this is true. We don't know what they are. A lot of the stuff he was talking about was like our, our planes are picking up weird stuff that we can't explain. Like that literally our technology cannot create the signals that these things are putting out like that we're receiving it. So either it's like ultra advanced tech from like another country or like Chinese tech or something, or it's tech that is not of the earth yet.
00:16:29
Speaker
This is real stuff. Real stuff. You guys heard about any of this? Yeah, I've heard about some of it and it's pretty interesting. I know that essentially they passed a law where if you want to be a whistleblower and not go to jail, you have to go to Congress to do it. That's why he did this.
00:16:49
Speaker
And essentially they ruled it like, well, we can't prove what he's saying isn't true or is true type thing. So I saw a fun conspiracy theory where it was like, yeah, it was very convenient that he's doing this today the same day that Joe Biden's son is going to the Supreme Court or hearing or something about all his,
00:17:15
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I don't know. I just saw it on Twitter. This is not a political podcast. I'm not saying one way or the other if he was doing drugs in the White House, but that was what he was apparently in trouble for.
00:17:32
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It was a convenience thing. Apparently the conspiracy theorists said that, oh, well, this is going on at the same time. Could it be aliens are real? I don't know. My guess is, is there time, there are time travelers, humans, time traveling back to see us. That's my guess in the future. Yep. Wow. I think you meant to say the multiverse. It could be, they could be multiversal creatures for sure. Uh, that's a great, great idea, Mason.
00:18:01
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There's a lot of videos out there though that are pretty like hmm. You're like those could be photoshopped or fake
00:18:08
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But for real. See, that's my thing about it is is we can we can get a crystal clear video of anything on Earth, anything that's going on except for when it comes to aliens. And then all of a sudden, everyone's iPhone and everyone's camera reverts back to 2006 like flip phones. Yeah. Like all of a sudden, everything. And maybe that's because they're aliens and they have technology to make our phones mess up when we try to record them. I don't know. But
00:18:38
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It's just convenient that anytime you try to they try to release these videos. It's always like the most terrible quality ever That uh That will transition to my top five alien movies of all time starting right now. Wait mason number five This is part of my trivia I was gonna do in a second
00:19:01
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Oh dang. We'll get there. Um, I reinstacked it. We'll go ahead. Well, I will say, uh, I was on a run the other night. I run occasionally, not very fast, but I go for runs around the neighborhood and stuff. And I went up to this house and I saw like blinking lights in the sky and it was late. It was like 11 o'clock and I was for a second. I was like, Hmm.
00:19:23
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It's like not moving around very much. She's kind of staying there. It's not a plane for sure It turns out it was definitely a drone that someone in the neighborhood was flying and like watching me run. It was very creepy It was like it was pretty high up in the air, but it was legitimately like following me kind of I was I was nervous Zach is so famous from the podcast now
00:19:47
Speaker
Think that's Disney trying to catch us since we said they sponsored us and they don't they probably didn't like that I could be some of our fake sponsors coming after us It's a good It was weird so that was I think
00:20:08
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You know, how often does that happen though? That's that was one of the things I said was a lot of times It's like drones like really sophisticated drones that are out there maybe run by other countries or everybody That's what it's not UFOs. It's just crazy stuff It's definitely interesting a lot of fun rabbit holes you can go down when it comes to the UFO so I think before we get to our trivia we do need to we I think we need to have an official pod position on the aliens and
00:20:36
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Uh, I think the world needs this. What does the next podcast think about the aliens coming to earth? Um, so what do we think? I think I'm going to stand on the grounds of, uh, I'm a friend. I am a friend to the aliens. If they want a friend, if they need some gambling picks, um, just a guy to hang out with and watch the game, get some Buffalo wings.
00:21:06
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I'm their guy. I don't want aliens. I don't want no smoke with aliens. None. I pictured in my mind just now of your generic alien sitting on the couch with Tinsley with a Trevor Lawrence jersey on rooting for the Jags. Eating buffalo wings. So our official position is we want the aliens to hang out with us. We are friends to all alien species that may end up on Earth someday.
00:21:37
Speaker
I'll help them set up a DraftKings account right now, and we'll do some gambling together. We will invite them to be on the pod with us. Special guest to aliens. Special guest. Matter of fact, we'll hold down a spot. First guest on the pod will be aliens. Well, it's an open seat ready for them. Anytime they want on. Doesn't matter how bad their takes are, how bad they're... We want them on here.
00:22:02
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All right. I like it. I like it. I like it. We welcome them to Earth. Maybe not that. So, can we get to your next segment? Mason did step on it a little bit. Mason. Part of our trivia today.
Alien Movie Trivia Showdown
00:22:22
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Well, so in light of this UFO kind of news happening this week, also Secret Invasion just wrapped up.
00:22:31
Speaker
It's a tough look for the Marvel Cinematic Universe and all of their TV shows. It was tough. It was a tough watch. I mean, it wasn't bad. There were some high points. I don't know if either of you guys watched it all the way through yet.
00:22:47
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I mean, it was fine. No sign. The finale was meh. I mean, Samuel L. Jackson in a role is pretty cool. It had some other pretty big time actors in it. Well, that was fun, but tough. It's a tough look a little bit.
00:23:04
Speaker
So that show obviously features aliens prominently as well. So in light of those things, our trivia today, and this is going to be Mason versus Tinsley. And Mason has an advantage at this point because he somehow guessed this. I'm going to go back and forth between the two of them.
00:23:22
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and they are going to have to name as many alien featured movies or television properties as possible in a row until one of them can't think of any. I will tell you, there are jillions of them. I mean, obviously, I've had some time to think and I've been looking some up and stuff just so I was ready. There's a lot, a lot of them.
00:23:45
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and so just to just to put things on level playing full with Mason the the the Marvel Cinematic Universe has about 12 of them so Any movie that features aliens whatsoever is on the board for pics horror movies funny movies Superhero movies out doesn't matter As long as there's an alien in it You're good. We're good. All right. Okay, Mason is gonna go first
00:24:12
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Do we get like strikes or anything? Can we have one strike? What's a strike like? You can't think of one. It doesn't have an alien in it. If we list one and we're like, Oh shoot, it doesn't have an alien. Then we get one more chance. Okay. One more time. Mason's first. Well, I'm going to go with obvious since he brought up invasion and I'm going to do captain Marvel. Captain Marvel. Lots of aliens.
00:24:42
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Men in black one. Dang it. All right. He's going to beat me. That was quick. Men in black two. All right. Signs, signs. Oh, that's another callback. Yes, sir. He loves that movie. Top five. Top five. All right. I'm also giving myself some time. Jimmy Neutron, the movie.
00:25:13
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It really does have aliens in it. All right, I'm gonna give it to you. Coneheads. Is that a movie? I don't even know. I'm never gonna see that. It's like a 90s movie. It's like a 90s movie at first. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Independence Day. That's a good one, Mason. Good one. Independence Day 2. Dang it. What?
00:25:43
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Uh got him monsters versus aliens a good one mason Great pick It's a cartoon movie. It is cowboys versus aliens. Got him. Oh my gosh That movie was not good hot take Yeah, I believe I think so Does he have more bad movies than good movies? No That is a serious question. It's not for now. Okay
00:26:15
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Yeah, quick giving yourself time Name an alien movie. I don't never saw it, but it was a cartoon another one home Home hmm. Look it up I'd like to check the board. All right. I'm looking again. I
00:26:34
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Home while you while you do that. I think I will answer Okay, Jim Parsons Rihanna in home an Alien on the run from his own people makes friends with the girl. Yep checks out. I winning it years ago Okay, go ahead We're gonna go with Mark I'm trying to go the name of it. It's called Mars attacks
00:27:05
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It's moving. It's in the 90s as well. They're really gross looking aliens. Yeah. I'm looking it up. All right. Well, we got to keep it going. Same vein of like 90s. There's definitely 90s. I've seen it. Yeah. Jack Nicholson. Glenn Close. Yeah. Interesting. It's funny. Give it a watch. I just came up with this one. It's a comedy. Paul.
00:27:33
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It's like, uh, he eats a bird. The alien does. I seem to have Seth Rogen. Um, to think of a series of about nine movies that all prominently feature aliens in a sense. Okay. Sorry. You sound seem to be struggling. All right. No, we're doing great. Star Wars episode one.
00:28:01
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Dang it. Wait, they're uh, they're in all of them, right? No, they're not. It's actually star wars episode two Okay, all right, we thought the star wars star wars done All right. Well, let me go ahead and answer one time. Let's just say he's going through all this Let's just say he did star wars i'll be going the avengers. Okay the avengers movie Um transformers, yeah, that's a good one
00:28:30
Speaker
That was a good one. So many aliens. The Day the Earth Stood Still. Steel, still? The Day the Earth Stood Still. Is that an alien movie? I'm grasping at this point. Well, while you're looking that up, I'm going to go with Arrival. That's a very good movie. I was going to honorable mention that if no one picked it. Arrival, very good.
00:28:57
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Very good movie. Did I get it right? Yeah. You're right. All right. Dang it. I think I watched that with my brother. Shout out Mathias. Avatar. Shout out Mathias. Avatar. Are we calling them aliens? I think aliens. This is your pass, Mason. You need one more. All right. Those are more animals, other creatures. OK, so that was my pass. I don't think I called them aliens.
00:29:29
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So I get to go again. Yep. Um. Teen Titans. Teen Titans? Are there aliens in there? Did I have them? Is that them? Well, you said TV shows too, right? OK. Sure. All right. Falling Skies. Got him. I'm going to lose. Falling Skies. Good show. It's got a little rocky towards the end there, but they couldn't lay in the plane. Don't forget it.
00:30:00
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I think I'm out. I have no more. If anybody in the audience is listening, you're probably like shouting out other movies. We kind of clumped all the Avengers movies together, all the Star Wars movies together, because we could have really lengthened that one out. Really? Yeah. Okay. No more. You good? You done? I'm done. Dan, you got any other ones off top of your head? I'm going to give some honorable mentions.
00:30:25
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No, I don't have to have my head. So there is literally a movie called Alien, actually multiple of them. About an alien that kills people. Predator, I think you could also throw in the alien category. Maybe it came out last year. Nope. By Jordan Peele. That's prominently by aliens. The Tomorrow War. Amazon Prime, very good. A Quiet Place.
00:30:52
Speaker
Cloverfield yeah, that's about aliens for sure Arrival was a good pick I Like the men in black pick as well. I mean, there's I started looking up. I'll tell you man. There's a lot of alien movies District 9 pretty good the mist Oh The mist All-time movie right there Lilo in stitch
00:31:17
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My hearted a little bit. Yeah less death in that one Let's see Godzilla we call him Godzilla Not guys what's the what's the other one that fights Godzilla though King Kong. Oh wait. Yeah Godzilla is not an alien I
00:31:44
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A dinosaur? He just got affected by regular energy, I thought. Interesting. All right. Well, that's that. Great work, Tins. You're kind of killing the picks there. That was better than I would have done. Two in a row, baby. I've won two trivia games in a row. I am hot.
00:32:08
Speaker
Well, you have an opportunity for a third trivia in a row. Oh, no. Is that good? You have anything else? I'll go ahead. That's great. I think we take over the aliens. All right. Awesome. My trivia. Part two. Our next guest. Nailing.
Quote Guessing Game with Famous Pauls
00:32:26
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Part two of the trivia is a who said it trivia. I'm going to give a quote. This could be any quote. It does not have to be.
00:32:34
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from like a movie or TV series, it can be from a song, it just could just be in history. It could be whatever was said by whoever. So the quote is, no, no, no, there's no other options. There's no do overs. Was it by a Paul Rudd? B Paul McCartney? C Paul Revere? I think I know this.
00:33:02
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I think I do too. I think it's Paul Rudd. I think it's Paul Rudd in Avengers Endgame. As Ant-Man. Yeah. You would be correct. I will do a bunch of them that is not from Endgame. Yep. Yep. Right before the time. I've watched the movie Endgame. Yep. So then my follow up question is who is Paul Revere? He's the British are coming guy.
00:33:31
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That's all I know. That is all I know. He's on a horse. Yeah. He was just letting everybody know.
00:33:39
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Oh, yeah. Yeah. The British were coming. Oh, I thought you had more. He's like a guy. I don't know his. I mean, he fought for the American Revolution. Told him by the British were coming. So that's his that's a history lesson with Mason. That was free, by the way. Wow. You didn't have to pay for that. Wow. Incredible stuff. And that and the reason why I was able to get give that to you for free is because that question was sponsored by ramen noodles. Shout out ramen noodles. No do overs.
00:34:11
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Nope And that concludes my trivia segment sponsored by ramen noodles.
Cookout Tray Draft and Preferences
00:34:16
Speaker
All right, that's great Oh, we're gonna wrap up today, uh over the last segment we have What I think is going to be um an incredible draft today Uh, we will always do drafts But uh, we had some fire ones on the on the plate and being summertime being the summer season. Uh, we decided to go With the draft today that's close to all of our hearts
00:34:39
Speaker
And that is going to be the ultimate cookout tray draft. Tinsley actually used to work at cookout. He has a little bit of advantage. I sure did. Well, maybe. Wait a little bit. He knows the menu inside it out. And he always talks about how we used to try and get people to upgrade orders and add bacon and stuff for extra money. So it works every time. But today, we are drafting a tray.
00:35:07
Speaker
that consist of, and as we all know, a tray consists of an entree, two side items, and then a drink or a milkshake with an upcharge. For the sake of our draft today, Cookout kind of has some classic drink options that we're going to be drafting later, and so we wanted to make those separate, so we're going to do one drink and one shake.
00:35:30
Speaker
So we have five total things for drafting. You can draft those items in any order you want. So if you want to go milkshake first, you can do that. You want to go side first because you won't have one that you want to get. Do it. That is legal. But by the end of it, you have to have one entree, two sides, a drink and a milkshake option. Are we good?
00:35:51
Speaker
I don't know if so. All right. I have my number generator over here, and we are going to see who is going first. Tens pick a number one to three. Let's go to all right, Mason. I'll go with number one, number three. So let's see what we got. First off is going to be Mason with number one. Second, it's going to be
00:36:24
Speaker
Wait a minute. Oh, number two. Is that 10s? Yeah. Okay. 10s is number two. And then I'm coming in last on the turn. Big bang. Ready? We're ready to go. All right. Let's cook out some draft comments. Let's do it. All right. So this might be a reach, but it's not going to be here when it gets back to me.
00:36:47
Speaker
And there's several good options for like your entree, and there's tons for the side items, but I feel like there's some better side items than anything else. And that is going to be, and some people don't know about this, but it's Cajun fries. Not just normal fries, but Cajun fries. You have to go with Cajun fries. And that is my number one pick, just because there's no way. If anybody knows Mason Trentel, co-host of the Next Guy podcast,
00:37:16
Speaker
Uh, you know, if you know who I am as a person, a human being, you know, I love French fries and I would be a disgrace to my name. It is part of my, by the way, got some blood. I literally think I trained my body to just consume as much fries as possible. And my blood, blood work comes back clean and top notch. So years in the making. Look at him. He spent years toning his body as many fries as possible.
00:37:47
Speaker
and it not affect me in a negative way whatsoever. I'd be a disgrace to my name if I did not choose Cajun fries, number one pick.
00:37:57
Speaker
Wow. Well, here we go. So he's just, he's leaving it wide open. There's something, I think there might be something, there might be something wrong with a draft and first overall so far because it just, you get, you do something wrong. There's no way it's going to be there when it gets back to me. Cajun fries. Yeah. So I'm going to go big double burger tray with cheese, bacon, mustard and pickles.
00:38:34
Speaker
The Big Double Burger is what sells literal hotcakes. Every time. You can't keep them on the grill. People buy them so fast. So yeah, it's a Big Double Burger tray. Put whatever you'd like on it, but I'm pretty simple as I, just like cheese, bacon, mustard, and let's roll. Let's roll. So I'm gonna gladly take that and run. Dang. I think I messed up. Dang it, Mason.
00:38:53
Speaker
I'm sorry that I wanted it as a as a former employee cookout
00:39:01
Speaker
You got that first pick remorse, right? All right. Well, uh, that was obvious number one, overall pick. I think, um, shot at Mason, uh, blowing it. Um, uh, so now here at number three, I think when I go to cookout,
00:39:19
Speaker
I have a hard time imagining myself ordering anything other than a burger, and so I think I'm going to have to. It's not as good as the big double, but it's the second best item on the menu here. We're going with just the regular quarter pound burger as my draft pick. Put some cheese on it, whatever else you want. I don't care. That's my pick.
00:39:42
Speaker
Not as good as the Big Double, obviously. Big Double tray just rolls off the tongue. It's there. But that's my pick. Great burger. Honestly, here's my hot take for the pod today. I think Cookout has some of the best fast food burgers you could buy.
00:39:59
Speaker
Fun fact about cookouts fast food burgers is they have their own processing butchers in North Carolina. They have their own cow farms and so it is fresh. You have three days to cook it up or you have to throw it away. So they are very strict about their hamburgers. You get a meat truck delivery every day of the week. They bring you hamburgers every day.
00:40:26
Speaker
You guys didn't know that when you're eating material on the pod today. You did not. You did not. I got your behind the scenes of cookout. So just know that when you're eating that cookout burger, it is fresh. It is never frozen. Wow.
00:40:40
Speaker
And I'm and that was free because of our sponsor North Carolina farms of cookout So I'm taking the regular quarter pound burger my second pick I will be taking the chicken quesadilla My second side item fries are always first but second side I don't always shake in quesadilla and so so on the board taking it
00:41:06
Speaker
Easy. Easy. I mean, that's you're building a grade A plus tray right there. But I'm going to have to go with what I feel like is the most slept on side item at cookout. And these are exclusive. This company only makes these for cookout. And that'd be the hush puppies. Wow. Those hush puppies dip them in some some cookout sauce. We are cooking cooking. Those are really good. They're sleeping on them, everybody.
00:41:36
Speaker
You're sleeping on them everybody because you can only buy them at cookout That's it and you get 12 of them for a buck if you get them not in your tray. I Mean come on. We're gonna see an uptick in hush puppy consumption around America They're like wow, we're selling a lot of hush puppies, huh? It's cuz tins whistle blower I Am I'm a cookout whistle blower, but it's all good things
00:41:59
Speaker
I have nothing bad to say about cookout other than just if you work there, you work a lot. Does he have to get in front of Congress now?
00:42:08
Speaker
Oh, they don't want me in front of Congress. I'm a liability. I have a liability to the country. Talk about it. Trevor Lawrence stats. Guys. All right. MVP. Let's run. Okay. But why are you here? Okay. So my second pick is going to be the Cajun chicken.
00:42:35
Speaker
I had to go with the sandwich here. The sandwich, the grilled- Yeah, Cajun chicken sandwich. It's good. It's good. It is a good item, especially if you throw some cheese on it. I think it's got Texas Pete sauce, is that correct? Yep. So you grill it, you toss it Texas Pete and the same Cajun seasoning as the fries. Mason's really, he's trying to upset his stomach today with the Cajun fries, the Cajun sandwich.
00:42:56
Speaker
Well, that takes me to my third pick, the Cajun Chicken Wrap. Oh my gosh. Somebody get this guy some milk. It's a theme. All Cajun. Do they sell milk there? Because if so, that would be my drink of choice. A Cajun milkshake. Yeah.
00:43:15
Speaker
So that is my second third big cajun chicken sandwich in a chicken wrap the wraps The the wraps are slept on because the chicken tenders and then they've got all kinds of different variations of the wraps But the cajun wrap is the best one for sure They have ranch and honey mustard, right? Is there any other ones? Yeah, and then you can do a cajun ranch wrap
00:43:38
Speaker
What I've gone my whole life without knowing this yeah, dude, it's on there. I'm gonna try that now You can add bacon to them if you want All right, there's no it's literally the thing about cookout is there's no there's no end of the things you can try
00:43:54
Speaker
Also, you haven't lived till you've had cookout past midnight because- Oh, yeah. ... the intents have done that before. It does taste better the later it gets to the- It's the spa taste, that's true. Yes, for sure. All right. Now, I could go and finish my tray and get my second side item, but there's a lot of heavy hitters left laying around.
00:44:18
Speaker
So I'm going to skip that, because there's one drink. There's one drink when you go to a cookout that you can think of. And I know I'm sniping this from Zach right now. And that is the cheer wine. The cheer wine, baby. Oh, my goodness. There's something different about cheer wine. Getting a huge cup of it. That beautiful cherry taste. Oh, brings you to summertime. So I'm going to be taking
00:44:45
Speaker
Cheer wine right here. I'd love to know what kind of a contract they have where they they can You wonder why you don't see cheer wine more places. There's a like a Exclusive class for talking like why are they the only ones that have it in the machines? I Don't know if I know but it's weird. Yeah, but you can't buy it like there's no other restaurant that not even like the machines like the coke machines like the big ones and
00:45:13
Speaker
I think it's another thing where they're based out of North Carolina, cookouts, that's where they're from too. So they probably have some kind of exclusive deal with them. Interesting. Interesting. Well, that really puts a damper on some things for me.
00:45:37
Speaker
All right, I think I'm doing this. I am going to go with my second side item. I'm going to do the... Yeah, I'm doing it. I'm going to do the white cheddar cheese bites. Great item. Who doesn't love white cheddar cheese bites? It's like one of those things where it's pretty hard to mess up. It's like you're literally frying cheese.
00:46:04
Speaker
It's like cheese sticks. I mean, you know, they have fried cheese curds. It's all kind of there. It's hard to mess up. It's always. So that's my other side item. And then I think for drink. I am going to have to go with the. Can I take a float in my drink option?
00:46:32
Speaker
What, uh, then I would have taken a cheer wine float. I mean, it's technically in the drink category. It's not an upcharge. I was looking at the menu. It's technically in the drink category. I don't know what we want to do. Okay. I'm not going to pick a cheer wine float. I'm going to pick a Coke float.
00:46:51
Speaker
Coke float. All right. Um, not as good. So I'm still gonna, I'll still seed my cheer wine. The cheer wine pick the tins. Uh, even though I would normally go with a cheer line float there. Um, I would pick a T, but I'm not a big T guy. I feel like I wouldn't be being true to myself. I could have picked the huge T, but I don't really like T and so I feel weird about it. You know, uh, I want to, I want to be, I can't pander my picks here. I'm going to be true to myself. So those are my two picks.
00:47:23
Speaker
Well, I was hoping the cheese bites were gonna get back to me right there So I'm not going to take another side because I feel like they're all kind of they're all level from here out I'm gonna go ahead and tap into the milkshake market. Mm-hmm and There's so many there's not one you can really go wrong with but I'm gonna go with the classic Oreo cheesecake milkshake right here
00:47:49
Speaker
The fun fact about Cookout is they use real Oreos that you chop up. And it is a slice of Philadelphia cheesecake that is being blended up with your ice cream. These are real ingredients for real people like me. For real big ice cream guys like me that like cheesecake and Oreos and ice cream, you can't go wrong. This part is really turning into a Cookout ad, huh? Yeah.
00:48:17
Speaker
I might have to go to cook out tonight because now I am making myself kind of hungry and that Oreo cheesecake milkshake just sounds like what I need right now. I need it. In about a week you'll get to go to Beefy Crunch and go Taco Bell after, get a Beefy Crunch. Oh, what a combo. Both of those in one day tens.
00:48:43
Speaker
Don't threaten me for a good time because I'll do it. I'll do it. You know I will.
00:48:49
Speaker
I'm waiting for the picture. They'll send it. They'll send a picture of him with cookout and Taco Bell put on the Instagram They'll be so glorious. Yeah, it might be tonight Somebody we might find out who knows keep an eye out for the picture of his Taco Bell combo on our next guy up podcast social media pages Last pics
00:49:15
Speaker
I'm just going to go ahead and say it. This is my favorite milkshake and I'm just ecstatic that it's still on the board and that is going to be the orange push-up milkshake. It's got to be broken hearted. I had the orange push-up like with the Flintstones on it I think and Scooby-Doo. I'm trying to think of all the other characters. But anyways, Flintstones was the orange push-up pop.
00:49:42
Speaker
from like when I was a kid and when that milkshake came out, I really don't get it. I'll branch out every once in a while, but that is the go-to. That's it. That's the best one for sure. That's what I wanted. You kind of sniped it from me. That's my favorite milkshake without a doubt. Yep. It's the best. And then 10s, do they have Dr. Pepper?
00:50:04
Speaker
Yes. Every fast food restaurant has Dr. Pepper. I don't know what deal Dr. Pepper has, but you can sell Pepsi or Coke, but no matter what, Dr. Pepper has a contract with us. That was a serious question because they're like, oh, we have just Pepsi products. And I'm like, oh, okay. And they're like, but also Dr. Pepper, I'm like, what? How does that work? I don't know. They're their own thing.
00:50:27
Speaker
Let me order it like I would on if I was actually at cookout. Can I get a Dr Pepper with my tray, please? And then they would say yes. And then can I get an orange pushup milkshake as well? Yep. OK, that'd be eleven ninety five. Go to the next go to the second window. All right, those are my two picks. All right, good picks, Mason.
00:50:49
Speaker
All right, good picks, good picks. So I need a side to finish me up. And I'm going to take this one's a little out of the box. People don't realize you can do this as a side, but I'm going to get a hot dog. I'm going to get a hot dog because I'm a big guy who likes to eat that hamburger. That hamburger is not enough to fill me up on its own. So I'm going to get a hot dog was a little chilly, probably some mustard, but that's just me. That's my preference.
00:51:20
Speaker
Great pick. Thank you. You got the hot dog hamburger combo. Nothing speaks more American than a hamburger combo. That's what you can say about a guy like me is that we used to live in a country that I loved and I still do. I still hold those values. Cookouts still lives in that country.
00:51:41
Speaker
He eats his hot dog and hamburger with the American flag of all the values Back with beefy crunches on our insect If we're bringing it back so last pick kind of bombed orange push-up is definitely the go-to there but
00:52:05
Speaker
Hmm I could I think I could take my draft right now and pick what I want to pick I'll do the honorable mentions after I'm not gonna take my draft for that I am going to choose You know what let's go with the classic we are going to do peanut butter fudge Sounds great. Very good peanut butter. Love fudge What could go wrong there? Zero things That's the draft
00:52:36
Speaker
Do we want to run through our trace? Shoot. I want to hear the honor. I thought you had two. I thought you had two right there.
00:52:43
Speaker
No, that's it. I want to hear the honorable mention first and then we'll go through. Oh, my honorable mention. So this is going to be a hot take. I really like the seasonal eggnog milkshake at Christmas in December. It's fire. I'm a big eggnog guy, though. I know that's not a very popular decision probably. So that's why I save it for honorable mentions. I do love an eggnog milkshake.
00:53:07
Speaker
And then even though Friday is a sports podcast, I will have eggnog sales and numbers and popularity for us to see how popular eggnog is during the holidays. Zach's propping it up. Zach's propping it up in the whole Knoxville area. I'm keeping sales buying up all the eggnog. I'm not like a half gallon of eggnog at Christmas time and just drink it a little bit of time, you know, just sip on it.
00:53:31
Speaker
That's what it is. You gotta take that. It's hefty though. It's like thick. I like the season with the watermelon one. That one, that one's pretty solid and it's, it's just, they send you watermelons and you just cut them up and throw them in the ice cream. That's all it is. Wow. That's fresh. Fresh fruit right there. And then I think honorable mission wise, I think that the pulled pork is slept on too. People, you don't really ever try it, but it's, it's actually pretty solid.
00:54:01
Speaker
There you go.
Episode Wrap-up and Listener Engagement
00:54:04
Speaker
That's your draft. Do we run through picks really fast? Yeah. Yeah, since I went first, I'm going to order mine like I would at the actual window. Yeah, we should all act like we're at the window. All right. I got you. Yeah, can I get a tray with Cajun chicken as my entree? What would you like for your sides? That's a great question. I would like for my sides to be Cajun fries and a Cajun chicken wrap.
00:54:29
Speaker
Oh, that's a catering out there. Wow, what a catering guy. Nice observation. What would you like for a drink? Oh, that's a great question. I'm glad you asked. Can I get a Dr. Pepper and then for a month, can I add a milkshake and have the orange push-up milkshake?
00:54:48
Speaker
That'd be $7.95. Please go to the next window. I know. That is all I'm checking on. Definitely gone up. What is it? Like $12.95? Inflation got us. I remember we'd cook out trays for like six bucks or something. $5.99. Yeah. Man. That's when we were a country.
00:55:07
Speaker
That is when we're. Now look at us. I will, I will add that as someone who used to work there at the register, Mason is the perfect guy at the drive through that when he starts saying, um, you just call back to the cooks and you're like, this guy's gonna have a side of, um, and just
00:55:27
Speaker
Just roast him. Just so the listeners at home know that that's all the cookout person is doing while you're ordering. They're making fun of you the whole time, to the whole restaurant, to the speaker system. Now you really have to go in front of Congress. You just roasted the workers.
00:55:45
Speaker
That's what we did. It was the best. We just made fun of people the whole time. So, just so you know, if you say, um, one time at the cookout and drive through, at least the stores I worked at, the one I was the general manager of, we would roast you bad. All right. So this is me ordering my cookout tray, the superior tray, because I got a big double burger.
00:56:05
Speaker
Yeah, hi. Can I get a big double burger tray, please? I'm going to get the cheese and bacon. Go ahead and add it on there with mustard and pickles. I'm going to have a side of a hot dog with chili and mustard. And here's, I kind of forgot what my other side was.
00:56:27
Speaker
You just had two ums in there, buddy boy. What was my other side item though? Had a hot dog the quesadilla. No, that was that We stuck again apparently wasn't that great or you were to remember I said how great they were Apparently I forgot the hushpuppies good for your draft
00:56:51
Speaker
Let me get a huge cheer wine and then a Oreo cheesecake milkshake, please. That's a good, that's a good tray. It is a good tray. The hush. I forgot about the order and then everyone order was worse than mine. Oh yeah. No, I'm getting obliterated right now. They're, they're the greatest thing to ever exist and then forgot them. I deserve, I deserve it.
00:57:20
Speaker
All right, here we go. The tray, I'm going to get a, the quarter pound burger tray with cheese. I'm going to add some ketchup to that. I will take a chicken quesadilla, white cheddar cheese, white, white cheese bites. And I'm going to do a Coke float to drink. I'm going to add on a, a peanut butter fudge milkshake.
00:57:50
Speaker
Kind of hard to remember all your stuff It's not my normal order, you know, if my normal order I got down to a science I can just rattle it off Bang bang. All right. Great job to everybody
00:58:04
Speaker
All right, guys, and that is going to do it for this week's episode of The Next Guy Up podcast. I hope you enjoyed the snake draft. I feel like everyone should go to cookout tonight and send us pictures of your trays. Let us know what you ordered. Tag us. Yeah, tag us out here. That way cookout can see that we have added to their bottom line. They're going to send us some t-shirts, send us some hats.
00:58:32
Speaker
But thanks for joining us this episode. We will catch you Friday and make sure that you're following us on all of our socials on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. Until next time, we'll catch you on the flippity flop. See ya.