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Halloween Candy and Chain Restaurants
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Welcome back! This week, after the normal Rigmarole (autumn and fruit, street names, and fire department stuff); Ron wants to know what were the worst Halloween candies; Chris takes us through some 90’s restaurant chains. As always please like, subscribe, and share with your friends. Come join the discussions on the Discord Channel (https://discord.gg/TbxA7gcUky) and follow us on Twitter, @cltruitt22. Thanks and take care!
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Transcript
Welcome and Vaccine Experiences
00:00:07
cltruitt22
Welcome back to another episode of the Mythic Drive podcast. I'm Chris, and Ron is being taken over by nanobots.
00:00:11
The headless Ron
And I'm Ron. Yeah. Get my flu and COVID jot.
00:00:23
The headless Ron
yeah
00:00:23
cltruitt22
Did COVID hurt worse?
00:00:24
The headless Ron
No, no.
00:00:28
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:00:28
The headless Ron
I couldn't even tell you which one was which. That's how little it hurt.
00:00:30
cltruitt22
Yeah, my, yeah. Flu, not so much. COVID, my arm was sore.
00:00:37
The headless Ron
Yeah, the pharmacist was very kind.
00:00:38
cltruitt22
so
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The headless Ron
She didn't just jab at me.
00:00:40
cltruitt22
Hmm. Hmm.
00:00:42
The headless Ron
I remember getting it at work one year. And I don't remember who gave it to us. It was like a nurse or something.
00:00:49
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:00:49
The headless Ron
And she was just like, BAM, from like 12 feet away. I was like, Holy Christ. I think you struck my ribs.
00:00:55
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:00:59
cltruitt22
Wait, wait, wait, they're not supposed to go in your chest.
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The headless Ron
I know. I think she stuck it through my arm into my ribs. That's how hard she hit it.
00:01:04
cltruitt22
Oh, gosh. Yeah.
00:01:06
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:01:07
cltruitt22
Well, I also had somebody who's vertically challenged give me mine, so...
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The headless Ron
It's a problem.
00:01:12
cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
Even when sitting your shoulders above her.
00:01:13
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yes. And I was standing.
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The headless Ron
Oh, well this devil can't read you.
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cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:01:21
The headless Ron
No, that was good.
00:01:23
cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
Perfectly fine.
00:01:25
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:01:26
The headless Ron
I'm looking forward to my two days off from work because I'll be a little sick.
00:01:29
cltruitt22
yeah o Yeah.
00:01:32
The headless Ron
Not the last one, but I think the one before that knocked me on my ass.
00:01:33
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:01:36
cltruitt22
Yeah, there was that one booster. It was just like boom.
00:01:40
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:01:41
cltruitt22
But again, I'd rather feel cruddy for 23, 24 hours than a week.
00:01:46
The headless Ron
hundred percent 100%. 100%.
Autumn Appreciation
00:01:49
cltruitt22
Yeah, so especially now where we're having some nice crisp autumnal air finally.
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The headless Ron
Really.
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The headless Ron
Finally, like it's finally officially hoodie weather.
00:01:56
cltruitt22
And then tomorrow it's going to be 75.
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The headless Ron
That's fine.
00:02:01
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:02:01
The headless Ron
You know, so I wake up in the morning, I go for my little walk and it's, you know, cool out and then warm up out today.
00:02:05
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:02:09
cltruitt22
Yeah. I mean, I left for work this morning and it or yesterday and it was 39. Great.
00:02:15
The headless Ron
yeah It was like 38 when I went to work the other day. It was awesome. It's my favorite time of year. Objectively the best season this fall.
00:02:26
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:29
The headless Ron
Because you pretty much get everything, right? You get it's a nice warm days.
00:02:31
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:02:34
The headless Ron
You get the leaves are changing. You get the smell of decay in your news. And then you, uh, you know, you might get snow one day randomly.
00:02:43
cltruitt22
Yeah. yeah
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The headless Ron
That'll be 80 degrees.
00:02:47
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah, there's pumpkin spice.
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The headless Ron
It's pumpkin spice everywhere.
00:02:53
cltruitt22
You can you can go to your local market and get an apple for a couple dollars or you can pay $80 to hand pick your own.
00:03:05
The headless Ron
But it is also apple season, which is the best of all fruits.
00:03:07
cltruitt22
It is. I mean, this is actually the time of year when you should eat apples.
00:03:13
The headless Ron
Yeah, and I eat apples constantly.
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cltruitt22
yeah
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The headless Ron
Actually, I got to go tomorrow and get more apples. I think we ran, we went through like 36 apples since I can buy for vacation.
00:03:27
The headless Ron
Cause an apple a day keeps the horses away.
00:03:31
cltruitt22
yeah to Yeah.
Pawpaw Fruit Enthusiasm
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cltruitt22
Well, and we also found out that this is Paul Paul season.
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The headless Ron
Yeah, it's Paw Paw season, the official fruit of the Mythic Drive podcast.
00:03:39
cltruitt22
I haven't seen any though.
00:03:44
The headless Ron
I was talking about Pop Paws with somebody the other day. Oh, yeah. So I was in Lewis at a brewery slash distillery called Pirate Dog.
00:03:52
cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
I'm gonna get this wrong.
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cltruitt22
Paul Paul dogs.
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The headless Ron
No, it was like Dog Pirate Beer Company.
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cltruitt22
Dog pirate beer coming.
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The headless Ron
It'd be Pirate Dog. It was a Pirate Dog Beer Company. I can't remember.
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cltruitt22
Okay.
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The headless Ron
Very nice people.
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cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
And they had a beach plum rum.
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cltruitt22
Hmm.
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The headless Ron
And I was talking to a lady and I was like, I think that's really interesting cause like I've lived in Delaware my entire life and I hadn't heard of beach plums until like three years ago.
00:04:21
cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
It's always, now it's a thing everywhere. And I said, you should probably try to find paw paws because that's like Delaware's native fruit.
00:04:28
cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
And she had never heard of a paw paw. I said, well, they're really hard to find and they don't really grow wild anymore.
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cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
So.
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cltruitt22
There's probably like some person out there that's got like a grove of them that's just like chuckling to them themselves.
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The headless Ron
as I just eaten their pawpaw jelly.
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cltruitt22
Listen into their zoom.
00:04:46
The headless Ron
but There it is. A lot early.
00:04:49
cltruitt22
ah Yeah. Yeah, I can't remember. I think I said something about it around my family and my aunt was like, oh, yeah, well, yeah, Paul Paul's are everywhere. You know, just show me the Paul Paul's.
00:05:01
The headless Ron
Right. Bring out the pawpaw.
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cltruitt22
Yeah.
Pickle Vats and Traditions
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The headless Ron
But I will say the beach palm rum was delicious.
00:05:08
cltruitt22
That's good.
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The headless Ron
So yeah.
00:05:11
cltruitt22
I will say ah you'll be sad to hear I for work had to go through Sharptown to get to Seaford because it was on that side of it and going through Sharptown, they have torn down all but one pickle fat.
00:05:26
The headless Ron
Oh no, where will all the people swim?
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cltruitt22
There's um there's only one fat sitting out there by the building looking lonely.
00:05:32
The headless Ron
very well Where will the children swim on their way to get the pies from off Annie Mae's window sill?
00:05:39
cltruitt22
Well, they can still swim in the river.
00:05:42
The headless Ron
Oh, no, no, no.
00:05:43
cltruitt22
The death river.
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The headless Ron
that thought yeah Those kids need to swim in the in and the pickle vats, as their elders have done.
00:05:52
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah, some places had baptism, sweet. Yeah. In Sharptown, you got baptized in the pickle vat.
00:05:58
The headless Ron
Son, you've reached the age where we throw you into the pickle vat to see if you sink or swim.
00:06:03
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yeah.
00:06:04
The headless Ron
The good news is pickle solution is a little solenic, so you probably probably float. too
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cltruitt22
yeah I mean, that's how you, we did things out. That's how they keep the population under 800.
00:06:14
The headless Ron
Right. Well, you got to can't add a fourth street.
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cltruitt22
Yeah.
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cltruitt22
There is a fourth street.
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The headless Ron
Oh, there's no second street.
00:06:26
cltruitt22
Probably not. Oh my God. I saw this weird thing. And it was talking about, was it second street is like the most popular street in cities.
00:06:35
The headless Ron
yes because yeah because most cities don't call their first street first street first street is usually the main street or something some other name you know like water street we also have a division street that's 12 different streets yeah it's it's not as bad as division
00:06:36
cltruitt22
It's like second then main then first. Ah. Right. They call it Main Street. Hmm. Yeah. It's almost very, we've got a Main Street and a First Street.
00:07:01
cltruitt22
Well, so is Main Street.
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cltruitt22
No, no.
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The headless Ron
Yeah, Division Street has a cross street of Division Street.
00:07:08
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:07:11
cltruitt22
Yes. Yeah. And at one point, if you want to stay on Division Street, you actually have to turn on to another street to turn back on to Division Street.
00:07:13
The headless Ron
Salisbury is...
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The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:07:22
The headless Ron
Salisbury is the only town I've ever been to that have legitimately been dispatched to a call with a cross street of the same street.
00:07:32
The headless Ron
Where are we going?
00:07:32
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:07:33
The headless Ron
We're going to Marquis at the cross street of Marquis.
00:07:35
cltruitt22
Yes.
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The headless Ron
That doesn't make any sense to me.
00:07:37
cltruitt22
Yeah. Well, what's the one off of the one off of Pemberton, it's upland. There's upland court off of upland drive prior to upland Terrace or something.
00:07:47
The headless Ron
Yep, yep, yep.
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cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
Well, they just ran out.
00:07:49
cltruitt22
So remember, I got that cross street with it. It gave me those three. I was like, Central, do you have one without upland in it? Because I need to know where I'm going.
00:07:54
The headless Ron
Right. Yeah. My brain is three o'clock in the morning. My brain doesn't work that good.
00:08:00
cltruitt22
Mm hmm.
00:08:00
The headless Ron
You got to give yourself better.
00:08:01
cltruitt22
These whippersnappers now he pull out their phones.
00:08:04
The headless Ron
Yeah, I know.
00:08:05
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh, my gosh, we should do that through back day. All you can use is the ADC map.
00:08:10
The headless Ron
I think we'd like to get to the calls.
00:08:12
cltruitt22
May the gods be in your favor.
00:08:15
The headless Ron
I, uh, I had to get over, this is one of the things I had to get over when I became an officer. Like the idea of these kids need to know the streets because they have their phones out in a GPS map quicker than I can even think of where the street is.
00:08:28
cltruitt22
Oh yeah.
00:08:32
The headless Ron
I mean, they, they literally, the call gets dispatched, they hit details, they go to the GPS and they know where the calls going and I'm going.
00:08:32
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:08:40
cltruitt22
Yep.
00:08:41
The headless Ron
What was the call for? And they're like, all right, just get in the car, old man, we'll go, Jesus Christ.
00:08:47
cltruitt22
Come on, pop up, put your boots on and let's go.
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The headless Ron
But we used to have to know where everything was, we just had to know, you know?
00:08:51
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And if you didn't shame.
00:08:56
The headless Ron
Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, shame.
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cltruitt22
Damn.
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The headless Ron
And none of the streets make sense, because I come from a town with grid ah systems, and there's no grid system in Salisbury, it makes no sense.
00:09:01
cltruitt22
No.
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cltruitt22
Of course not.
Navigation Then and Now
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The headless Ron
We have business 50 and regular 50. Which one's which?
00:09:15
cltruitt22
Uh, we have the 13 bypass and then 13 and then.
00:09:18
The headless Ron
yeah Yeah.
00:09:19
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:09:20
The headless Ron
Crazy.
00:09:20
cltruitt22
Well, and then the bypass that goes from 50 to 13, but doesn't actually bypass the entire city.
00:09:23
The headless Ron
Yeah. yeah if it's Yeah.
00:09:29
cltruitt22
i Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:31
The headless Ron
But these, these kids, man, ah yeah they, uh, they're on that GPS crap and, uh, you know what I realized?
00:09:33
cltruitt22
yeah
00:09:36
cltruitt22
Yeah.
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The headless Ron
They're right and I'm wrong.
00:09:40
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:09:41
The headless Ron
That's, that's the worst. That was the hardest part. but Yeah.
00:09:45
cltruitt22
yeah
00:09:46
The headless Ron
Cause I remember when we started a fire department or at least imagine if we would, we would draw the maps of neighborhoods and be like, fill in the map.
00:09:50
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:09:53
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:09:55
The headless Ron
And it's like, why would I do this anymore?
00:09:56
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:09:59
cltruitt22
It's the house that burned down five years ago. and
00:10:03
The headless Ron
The, most annoying thing that happened to me when I started working at Salisbury was when Central would be like, it's a, oh, where Jim Brown's ah hardware store was.
00:10:15
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:10:18
The headless Ron
It's good to me that Central, I've been in this town for three months and I've never heard of it before in my life.
00:10:18
cltruitt22
yeah
00:10:21
cltruitt22
Yep.
00:10:23
The headless Ron
Thank you for your information.
00:10:24
cltruitt22
Yeah. Thank you for absolutely nothing.
00:10:27
The headless Ron
Right. It was like the the concept that people would come to work in Salisbury who didn't know everything in Salisbury for the last 60 years was completely foreign to them.
00:10:28
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:10:34
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah. Oh yeah. And at night dispatch a big, uh, we'll call back and have the caller blink their lights.
00:10:42
The headless Ron
so Yeah.
00:10:44
cltruitt22
you guys like but ah Sir.
00:10:45
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:10:47
cltruitt22
Paramedics are on their way. I know you're having horrible chest pains. Can you get up and blink your lights?
00:10:52
The headless Ron
You know, I know your husband's dead on the ground, but we don't know where you're at. So if you could blink the lights, that'll help them find you.
00:10:58
cltruitt22
Well, but I also dispatch. Dispatch now, like you said, they give us this. Well, you know, the call originated somewhere in this half mile area.
00:11:10
The headless Ron
Oh yeah.
00:11:11
cltruitt22
I can get on my phone and hit Uber and they will pick me up within, you know, four feet.
00:11:18
The headless Ron
Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Well, we are using outdated technology from this, you know, 90s.
00:11:27
cltruitt22
ah eighty s
00:11:29
The headless Ron
Okay.
00:11:29
cltruitt22
80s.
00:11:32
The headless Ron
I mean, we have problems with our MDTs. We had MDTs when I was a volley at Newark, an active volley.
00:11:38
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:11:39
The headless Ron
That was 20 plus years ago at this point.
00:11:41
cltruitt22
Well, Worcester County had MDTs back then.
00:11:42
The headless Ron
And we still can't get that.
00:11:45
The headless Ron
ha
00:11:50
The headless Ron
um Sorry, I should refer to it by its proper name so the old guys don't come out. Etna, hose, hook, and ladder.
00:11:55
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:11:56
The headless Ron
They used to hate when we called it New York Fire Department. Oh man, it would drive them nuts.
00:12:01
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:12:02
The headless Ron
It's not New York Fire Department. It's not
00:12:05
cltruitt22
It's a hose hook and ladder coming.
00:12:10
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:12:13
cltruitt22
Well, I saw a gentleman yesterday just just give up.
00:12:16
The headless Ron
just It's not New
00:12:19
cltruitt22
He he he admitted defeat to the gods, the spirits, whatever. I was sitting in traffic. He was two lanes over in the left turn lane, about to go from 13 on to College Avenue. And I hear him try to reach his car, his car stalled out. So I hear a look over. He undoes his seatbelt. He reaches over.
00:12:46
cltruitt22
opens a soda, grabs a sandwich, and when the light turns, reaches his hand out and just waves people by while he's eating his sandwich. That was ah the the level of, I don't give a shit, I don't think I've ever seen.
00:13:01
The headless Ron
I don't think it's that I don't get with it. I think he just was like, yeah, I've reached the end of my tether. I can do nothing more. He's just like, I'm done.
00:13:09
cltruitt22
Yeah, at least he had a sandwich.
00:13:10
The headless Ron
know Yeah. mean The guy was prepared.
00:13:14
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
00:13:14
The headless Ron
A sandwich with a soda. What else does he need?
00:13:16
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:13:18
The headless Ron
Sometimes you just eat that sandwich and drink your soda. Then you figure out the problem.
00:13:22
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:13:24
The headless Ron
I mean, I wouldn't do it in the middle of 50, but it's cool.
00:13:28
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:13:33
The headless Ron
The good old days Back
00:13:34
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:13:38
The headless Ron
when your car right ah Hey, where's this map where's this map page in grid and then your partner would be like, well, we're missing the page so In all of my time in Salisbury
00:13:38
cltruitt22
Drawing a map.
00:13:50
cltruitt22
Yeah. Or wait, this abuts up to the Worcester map. Maybe we can look at it off of that.
00:13:59
The headless Ron
And all the time we use those map books, we never thought once to laminate the pages that mattered.
00:13:59
cltruitt22
Oh,
00:14:04
The headless Ron
Not one time did we laminate the Salisbury pages. So the pages that we used every freaking day would be such trashed.
00:14:10
cltruitt22
oh my gosh. Yeah.
00:14:14
The headless Ron
And you, and you.
00:14:14
cltruitt22
Yeah, or like opened and closed so much that like the parts at the seams were all worn out. So you're like, ah That might be a street.
00:14:24
The headless Ron
Yeah. At no point did we ever think we should laminate this.
00:14:28
cltruitt22
i don't I don't think we had the technology to laminate at that time.
00:14:36
The headless Ron
that's probably true my god yeah that's that's true that's true that would I would I would single-handedly end the system no one would know what to do he asked for lamination lamination
00:14:37
cltruitt22
she imagine he yeah Can you imagine if you took that map book upstairs and said, hey, Miss Paula, Miss Martha, these need to be laminated. it was Oh, oh, oh, dear. ah
00:14:52
cltruitt22
Mm-hmm. Yeah.
00:15:04
cltruitt22
Slam it to who does he think he is?
00:15:06
The headless Ron
how dare he let me know we just we've heard a lot about this lamination incident oh my god oh and i freaking worked for him
00:15:08
cltruitt22
Comes around to your next employee evaluation. So you know you've been doing well and everything. However, did you answer for lamination?
00:15:20
cltruitt22
You know, there is one captain who would have brought that up. ah Yeah. He still wishes me Merry Christmas.
00:15:34
The headless Ron
I'm glad. I'm glad.
00:15:38
The headless Ron
Such a- I only worked for the guy for, I don't know. Seems like eternity.
00:15:44
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Oh.
00:15:48
The headless Ron
I don't know what
Work Culture and Generational Differences
00:15:49
The headless Ron
sins I committed to get that, boy but And everybody else got moved off the shift but me, so I was still there.
00:15:53
cltruitt22
Yeah, he was he was something.
00:16:01
cltruitt22
Because he liked you.
00:16:02
The headless Ron
Oh no, we did not.
00:16:06
cltruitt22
maybe and Maybe at the time the chief saw that and i was like, well, maybe this Whismurr kid will be the one that pushes him out the door. Maybe that's why they kept you out there all that time.
00:16:17
The headless Ron
Uh, man.
00:16:19
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:16:20
The headless Ron
I think they were just changing if I was gonna go postal.
00:16:25
The headless Ron
Their minds are like, well there's a good chance Wizzmer's from like, you know, the ghetto, he's probably gonna kill him.
00:16:33
cltruitt22
Oh, gosh.
00:16:35
The headless Ron
Lucky I didn't.
00:16:36
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
00:16:40
cltruitt22
And we've had some characters.
00:16:44
The headless Ron
Uh, yeah, I feel like every fire department has their characters, right?
00:16:47
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Oh, yeah.
00:16:51
The headless Ron
And then in 25 years, they'll be like, remember that WISMR guy?
00:16:54
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:16:57
cltruitt22
Flower.
00:16:58
The headless Ron
You fly? You know, I got told the other day, I got told by people on the shift before me that they heard a lot of things about me, but then they were like, he's not as bad as people say he is.
00:17:10
cltruitt22
What? What kind of horror stories are people telling?
00:17:15
The headless Ron
I don't know. I don't know what I do.
00:17:16
cltruitt22
Huh.
00:17:17
The headless Ron
And then I was told I'm direct. And people don't like because I'm a direct.
00:17:20
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:17:22
cltruitt22
But that's you should be direct.
00:17:25
The headless Ron
hi It's as in my job title to direct things.
00:17:27
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:17:29
cltruitt22
Yeah. Well, I had somebody the other day, they're looking at older pictures and they're like, sure, you smiled. I smile.
00:17:39
The headless Ron
You also used to have hair.
00:17:39
cltruitt22
but Yeah.
00:17:43
The headless Ron
The hair.
00:17:43
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:17:44
The headless Ron
When the hair went away, the smiles went away.
00:17:46
cltruitt22
Yeah, it's a yeah it's very true.
00:17:51
The headless Ron
We used to have fun at work.
00:17:52
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:17:54
The headless Ron
Now we're of the generation to keep other people from having fun.
00:17:57
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:17:57
The headless Ron
That's our job.
00:17:59
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:18:00
The headless Ron
We're the middle managers now.
00:18:01
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:03
The headless Ron
Well, I'm not a middle manager. I'm a manager. You're upper tier.
00:18:07
cltruitt22
No, I am middle.
00:18:11
The headless Ron
fail la
00:18:13
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:18:14
The headless Ron
I don't mind if they just don't get their own car.
00:18:17
cltruitt22
Yep, I very rarely drive it.
00:18:20
The headless Ron
That's on you, so get the car.
00:18:21
cltruitt22
Yeah, I feel weird.
00:18:23
The headless Ron
I feel weird.
00:18:25
cltruitt22
I do.
00:18:26
The headless Ron
ah You know, it's fair.
00:18:27
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:18:29
The headless Ron
I'll keep waiting for them to give me my car.
00:18:31
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:18:32
The headless Ron
I'll drive that bitch.
00:18:33
cltruitt22
I mean, he takes I could do chief.
00:18:36
The headless Ron
Yeah, I'd say I'd do it.
00:18:38
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:18:39
The headless Ron
I caused the whole shit storm by that.
00:18:41
cltruitt22
Oh my gosh.
00:18:42
The headless Ron
I said, Oh, thanks. I got a new chief. Well, we were going to have to put a limit on the the distance. Oh, okay. What's the limit?
00:18:52
The headless Ron
Yeah, it's okay.
00:18:53
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:18:56
The headless Ron
I don't need to come time.
00:18:58
cltruitt22
No.
00:18:59
The headless Ron
I don't need any more time.
00:19:01
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:19:03
The headless Ron
The city. giant like
00:19:03
cltruitt22
I think when I was out for a few weeks, I looked, I was like, this really didn't put a dent in my time.
00:19:11
The headless Ron
Nope. Yeah.
00:19:14
cltruitt22
Which it's a good problem to have.
00:19:17
The headless Ron
It is a good round to have, but it also, it feels annoying because like people on my shift wonder, they go to that country calling vessel, which I could have swung giving somebody the time.
00:19:23
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:19:28
The headless Ron
Take my, give my day back. I had to cut my vacation short, but then I looked at it.
00:19:30
cltruitt22
yeah
00:19:32
The headless Ron
I was like, if I cut this day short, there's no days for me to pick up to make that up.
00:19:36
cltruitt22
Right. Yeah.
00:19:37
The headless Ron
It's literally, No way for me to make this up.
00:19:41
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:19:42
The headless Ron
It's kind of good.
00:19:43
cltruitt22
Yeah, until the city does buy back.
00:19:43
The headless Ron
It's just like a... Yeah. Well, let's hope.
00:19:48
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:19:48
The headless Ron
I'll probably do it in November of 2028.
00:19:53
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah, absolutely. It'll be after we retire.
00:19:55
The headless Ron
Yeah. Right after I retired, I was like, oh, yeah you know what? That was a good idea.
00:20:01
cltruitt22
Yeah, you could cash in up to 200 hours.
00:20:02
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:20:05
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:20:07
The headless Ron
I mean, I could see like a hundred, you know, you show a lot of people to take time off, you know, but I could see like a hundred buyback, even 40 would be good.
00:20:10
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yes. Yeah.
00:20:20
cltruitt22
yeah
00:20:25
cltruitt22
Yeah. Hey, you know, you, you know, you're allowed to buy back or, you know, they can buy back so long as you maintain 180 hours or something like that.
00:20:25
The headless Ron
You know.
00:20:35
The headless Ron
Sure. Yeah.
00:20:37
cltruitt22
There's got to be a way to figure it out.
00:20:39
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:20:39
cltruitt22
People smarter than us will figure it out.
00:20:41
The headless Ron
They won't.
00:20:42
cltruitt22
I'm sure the union is all over it.
00:20:47
The headless Ron
I mean, I'll defend the union on this one. They did tell us it was impossible for like 20 years.
00:20:53
cltruitt22
yeah
00:20:54
The headless Ron
Turns out they lie a lot of things.
00:20:56
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:20:57
The headless Ron
Yeah, yeah.
00:20:58
cltruitt22
Yeah. They being the city.
00:21:00
The headless Ron
Yes, yeah. Well, it's it's it's funny how
00:21:02
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:21:06
The headless Ron
When you get a different person in HR, everything changes.
00:21:09
cltruitt22
yeah
00:21:10
The headless Ron
Cause I've been through four heads of HR now. Right.
00:21:16
cltruitt22
No.
00:21:18
The headless Ron
Well, there's the one who liked me.
00:21:18
cltruitt22
We're only on our second.
00:21:20
The headless Ron
No, at least at least three.
00:21:20
cltruitt22
Oh, wait, no, I forgot about her. Yeah. So it is it's at least three. Yeah.
00:21:25
The headless Ron
There's the one who liked me and hated you.
00:21:27
cltruitt22
Yes, God.
00:21:28
The headless Ron
Then there was genie. Right.
00:21:32
cltruitt22
Oh, my gosh.
00:21:34
The headless Ron
And there's the,
00:21:34
cltruitt22
She was like Roz from Monsters, Inc.
00:21:37
The headless Ron
Yeah, exactly. Except she hated everybody more.
00:21:41
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:21:42
The headless Ron
Yeah. And then there's the current HR head who seems to actually give a grab-a-hatter job.
00:21:48
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:21:49
The headless Ron
Which is nice.
00:21:50
cltruitt22
It is nice.
00:21:54
The headless Ron
It's nice to have an HR head who... Look, they don't have to be on my side about everything. And they can tell me I'm wrong about things. But it's nice to have them on my side a little bit.
00:22:00
cltruitt22
Yeah. Exactly. Yeah. Yeah. Look out for the people.
00:22:05
The headless Ron
You need to call her and have my retirement planning seminar with her.
00:22:10
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's true.
00:22:13
The headless Ron
That's what old people do. Talk about retirement.
00:22:15
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yep.
00:22:19
cltruitt22
Well, time for topic one.
00:22:21
The headless Ron
ah Sure. My topic is seasonal.
00:22:26
cltruitt22
Ooh.
00:22:29
The headless Ron
So we are coming up on I don't even think it's arguably.
Halloween Candy Nostalgia
00:22:34
The headless Ron
It's the best holiday of all time, right? Everybody loves Halloween.
00:22:37
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:22:38
The headless Ron
Nobody is anti-Halloween.
00:22:41
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah, I don't think people are.
00:22:41
The headless Ron
i last day Everybody wants to go trick-or-treating.
00:22:43
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:22:46
The headless Ron
Everybody wants to get candy.
00:22:47
cltruitt22
Hey.
00:22:49
The headless Ron
There's no downside. So I was thinking about when we went trick-or-treating as kids.
00:22:50
cltruitt22
Yeah, no.
00:22:54
The headless Ron
Well, you probably got like, I don't know, corn or something. I don't know what the weird crap you gave you. But what candies did you get at Halloween? That you got no other time of the year and you never ate except after Halloween.
00:23:07
cltruitt22
Ooh.
00:23:13
cltruitt22
Um...
00:23:14
The headless Ron
Give you one on Mr. Goodbar. I don't think I've ever seen a Mr. Goodbar except for Halloween.
00:23:21
cltruitt22
If it's true.
00:23:23
The headless Ron
Have you ever been to a store and saw a Mr. Goodbar?
00:23:26
cltruitt22
I don't know. I don't think they exist.
00:23:28
The headless Ron
I don't think so either.
00:23:29
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. I think they're.
00:23:31
The headless Ron
Or a Hershey's Special Dark.
00:23:33
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:23:36
The headless Ron
Have you ever seen that anywhere?
00:23:41
cltruitt22
No.
00:23:42
The headless Ron
Yeah. Halloween only candy.
00:23:45
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Those are, yeah.
00:23:48
The headless Ron
100 grand bars? I don't think I've ever seen a 100 grand bar.
00:23:51
cltruitt22
Oh, no, I've seen 100 grand bars.
00:23:53
The headless Ron
Yeah?
00:23:54
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, because that's like my wife's favorite candy bar, so I see those.
00:23:58
The headless Ron
That's her favorite candy bar?
00:23:59
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:24:00
The headless Ron
How can a person that nice be so wrong?
00:24:06
cltruitt22
What's wrong with 100 grand bar? It's Rice Krispies and Carmel.
00:24:08
The headless Ron
It's not that there's anything wrong with it.
00:24:12
The headless Ron
ah But to say it's your favorite candy bar, that seems crazy. Right?
00:24:19
cltruitt22
All right.
00:24:19
The headless Ron
There's way better candy bars.
00:24:23
The headless Ron
I mean, a score bar?
00:24:23
cltruitt22
Well, the old Butterfinger bars were good.
00:24:26
The headless Ron
I never really liked Butterfinger.
00:24:28
cltruitt22
Yeah, the new ones are horrible, though.
00:24:29
The headless Ron
It's fine. I couldn't tell you what the new one tastes like.
00:24:34
cltruitt22
Um,
00:24:35
The headless Ron
I mean, if I had to pick a favorite candy bar, it's gotta be a KitKat.
00:24:42
The headless Ron
It's gotta be.
00:24:43
cltruitt22
um I mean, Kit Kats are good.
00:24:47
The headless Ron
I mean, are you go to have a what better answer is it than KitKat?
00:24:50
cltruitt22
Um. I'm not a big candy bar person, although I do like a mounds bar.
00:24:56
The headless Ron
Oh, see, I don't like a Mounds bar, but I like a Mounds Halloween bar.
00:24:57
cltruitt22
Dark chocolate and coconut.
00:25:02
cltruitt22
The perfect size.
00:25:04
The headless Ron
They're the perfect size.
00:25:05
cltruitt22
Yeah, a mounds bar is too much.
00:25:06
The headless Ron
It's the perfect ratio of the chocolate and the coconut and the, and everything.
00:25:10
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:25:11
The headless Ron
And I, I like an almond joy too. I'm not afraid to say it.
00:25:14
cltruitt22
See, I'm not a big milk chocolate person.
00:25:18
The headless Ron
Hmm. That's fair.
00:25:20
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:25:21
The headless Ron
It's also the same with York Peppermint Patties. I only liked the little ones.
00:25:26
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah, the big ones are too much.
00:25:27
The headless Ron
Yeah, they're too bad because you get in the middle. You're like halfway through. You got this big bite of just like too much fake mint.
00:25:34
cltruitt22
Yeah, it's yeah.
00:25:36
cltruitt22
Yeah, it's cloyingly minty and just.
00:25:36
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:25:39
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:25:40
cltruitt22
Yeah. Um, gosh, try to think of what they gave out that you didn't ever saw.
00:25:49
The headless Ron
Did you ever have a psycho neighbor who gave out harmful appers?
00:25:50
cltruitt22
Um. They gave out pennies.
00:25:54
The headless Ron
No, I never had that.
00:25:56
cltruitt22
Caramel apples. Um, yes, there was one person in town who made caramel apples, apples every year.
00:26:03
The headless Ron
my grandparents neighbor gave us caramel apples and it's cool i like caramel apples what am i supposed to do without i'm walking around for an hour uh
00:26:08
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:26:16
cltruitt22
Yeah. Eat it.
00:26:20
cltruitt22
You got that on your stick.
00:26:21
The headless Ron
yeah but you're busy you got things to do did you ever get bit the honey
00:26:23
cltruitt22
yara Yeah. Yeah. Um, yes, that's what I was going to say. That's definitely one that I only got it and saw Halloween time.
00:26:35
The headless Ron
Yeah, only ever saw that at Halloween.
00:26:36
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh, and the little crappy bubble gums.
00:26:42
The headless Ron
The little crappy bowl.
00:26:43
cltruitt22
Is in the yellow wrapper with the blue ends. It it tasted like the baseball card bubble gum.
00:26:49
The headless Ron
Oh, Oh, OK.
00:26:50
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah. Three choose and it's dead.
00:26:53
The headless Ron
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:26:55
cltruitt22
Oh.
00:26:55
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:26:59
The headless Ron
Let's see. I mean, nerds are always great. If I got nerds, I was happy.
00:27:03
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:27:05
The headless Ron
Lemonheads or whatever? Ugh, not a fan. Not a fan.
00:27:08
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh, wax lips.
00:27:11
The headless Ron
Ugh, they're terrible.
00:27:13
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:27:14
The headless Ron
Terrible.
00:27:15
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:27:15
The headless Ron
So bad.
00:27:15
cltruitt22
Yeah. It's like, oh, yeah. Let me chew a candle. Nom, nom, nom, nom.
00:27:18
The headless Ron
Yeah. Mary Janes. Never saw those ever in Halloween. Those are old school, old school.
00:27:25
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:27:28
cltruitt22
Did you I mean, just straight up candy corn?
00:27:31
The headless Ron
I candy corn so bad.
00:27:33
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:27:34
The headless Ron
fave you gave me candy corn we are we're fighting we's a feudin we is a feudin what does that mean does it taste like turkey oh what the
00:27:38
cltruitt22
or fight Yeah. ah and what Do you see now they've got candy corn that's like Thanksgiving flavor? There's one that tastes like turkey, one that tastes like coffee, one that tastes like ah stuffing, one that tastes like green bean casserole. Yeah.
00:28:00
cltruitt22
Yeah, and it's something like that. And there's ah like caramel apple for like an apple pie, but the caramel apple and the turkey one are like almost the same color.
00:28:09
The headless Ron
Aww.
00:28:10
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's horrible.
00:28:12
The headless Ron
That's, yeah.
00:28:13
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah. Yeah, I say we were shopping, I don't know, like a week ago more. It was like, oh, we should get a thing of the not the candy corn, but a little candy pumpkins. They're the same thing.
00:28:24
cltruitt22
I was like, what the hell is wrong with you?
00:28:26
The headless Ron
Yeah, why would you do that to yourself?
00:28:27
cltruitt22
Oh, I think do you need to throw something at someone? Because that's all that's good for. Are we on a wax shortage? Yeah.
00:28:38
The headless Ron
ah You know, like baby Ruth bars. I don't think I've ever had a baby Ruth bar that was the full size.
00:28:43
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:28:44
The headless Ron
I can't remember what I'm trying to think what it was. There was like a Mr. Good bar, but with reasons.
00:28:49
cltruitt22
Oh, that doesn't sound fun at all.
00:28:52
The headless Ron
I was good.
00:28:54
cltruitt22
No, no, no, no.
00:28:58
cltruitt22
It's like the people that give away the little box of raisins.
00:29:01
The headless Ron
Yeah, you're a terrible person.
00:29:02
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:29:03
The headless Ron
Yeah, you're.
00:29:04
cltruitt22
Yeah. How about the ah little packs of neko wafers?
00:29:09
The headless Ron
I mean, got them.
00:29:10
cltruitt22
The little chalk dust disk.
00:29:12
The headless Ron
It was chunky bars that had peanut and raisin.
00:29:15
cltruitt22
Oh, that doesn't sound good.
00:29:15
The headless Ron
Yeah. Remember those? What?
00:29:19
cltruitt22
No, I don't like I'm not a big raisin person, especially not in a contained.
00:29:22
The headless Ron
That gives you a little.
00:29:26
cltruitt22
Oh, God.
00:29:30
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:29:31
The headless Ron
I thought.
00:29:31
cltruitt22
There's nothing worse than you get a piece of candy and you think it's like, you know, just a piece of chocolate or whatever. And as a chocolate covered reason.
00:29:39
The headless Ron
My grandparents, the house, two doors, that's how old.
00:29:41
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:29:43
The headless Ron
They're like, this is crazy that I can remember this. he he was He was a dentist, two doors down from my grandparents' house, because we always took a trip to the other neighborhood.
00:29:49
cltruitt22
yeah
00:29:50
The headless Ron
And because it was a ritzy neighborhood, he gave away floss and toothpaste and toothbrushes.
00:29:55
cltruitt22
What? Oh, I bet his house got toilet paper to hell.
00:29:59
The headless Ron
I mean, you just gotta to know you're coming for that kind of pain, right?
00:30:03
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:30:04
The headless Ron
You deserve everything that happens to you.
00:30:06
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yeah, because you would think the dentist would want to give away the most sugary things to get the kids have horrible teeth, so they'd have to come to him.
00:30:15
The headless Ron
That's fair, too.
00:30:16
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's like if a cardiologist did it, you'd give out bacon.
00:30:23
The headless Ron
A Clark bar? Yeah, I don't think I've had a Clark bar, except for the little size.
00:30:26
cltruitt22
No.
00:30:30
cltruitt22
Clark bars.
00:30:31
The headless Ron
I would say I've never had a, ah was it a Crunch bar?
00:30:35
cltruitt22
The zag nut.
00:30:37
The headless Ron
I've never had a full size Crunch bar.
00:30:37
cltruitt22
Really?
00:30:38
The headless Ron
I've only ever had the little ones.
00:30:39
cltruitt22
Oh, I have had a full size crunch bar, and honestly, the smaller ones are better.
00:30:43
The headless Ron
Yeah, I i like.
00:30:44
cltruitt22
Yeah. I think the fun size candies are better.
00:30:49
The headless Ron
Yeah, like a Milky Way bar is not as good as a fun sized Milky Way.
00:30:53
cltruitt22
Oh, I think it's just way too much.
00:30:55
The headless Ron
It's way too much nugget.
00:30:57
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah. What's it, three musketeers? Oh, a whole three musketeer bar?
00:31:01
The headless Ron
Yeah, I don't.
00:31:03
cltruitt22
That's just oh.
00:31:04
The headless Ron
It's also terrible, right? Like it's just a bad Milky Way.
00:31:07
cltruitt22
so
00:31:09
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:31:12
The headless Ron
Uh,
00:31:12
cltruitt22
And they're both bad Snickers bars.
00:31:16
The headless Ron
Ah, man, I think I disagree with you.
00:31:18
cltruitt22
Really, I'd rather have a Snickers.
00:31:18
The headless Ron
I'm not a huge nigger. Just have a payday then.
00:31:21
cltruitt22
The salty crunch of the peanut.
00:31:25
cltruitt22
You see. Oh, no, that just looks like you ate a bunch of peanuts and took a dump.
00:31:32
The headless Ron
That's fair.
00:31:34
cltruitt22
Oh.
00:31:38
cltruitt22
um
00:31:39
The headless Ron
the Here's the 10 worst Halloween candies. Let's see what we got here. Lemonheads. Oh, I remember those crappy things.
00:31:45
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:31:47
The headless Ron
Taffy. Anything Taffy. Taffy's terrible. I don't understand Taffy.
00:31:51
cltruitt22
Oh, especially like the saltwater taffy or like the ah the real taffy.
00:31:53
The headless Ron
yeah
00:31:55
cltruitt22
that No, you people who like that don't have taste buds.
00:31:56
The headless Ron
It's terrible and it's bad for your teeth. Like you always feel you're going to lose a filling.
00:32:02
cltruitt22
Yeah. and yeah yeah and i am Oh, yeah.
00:32:03
The headless Ron
Terrible.
00:32:06
The headless Ron
Man, atomic fireballs. You know, as a kid, I liked them. I don't think I would hate them now.
00:32:11
cltruitt22
No, I still like an atomic fireball.
00:32:14
The headless Ron
Oh, dots.
00:32:15
cltruitt22
That's what atomic fireballs are how I quit smoking.
00:32:19
The headless Ron
It's an interesting...
00:32:22
cltruitt22
I switch to them.
00:32:22
The headless Ron
I do sort of remember that.
00:32:23
cltruitt22
Every time I reach for a cigarette, I grab an atomic fireball instead.
00:32:26
The headless Ron
Just to punish yourself.
00:32:28
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
00:32:30
The headless Ron
Dots.
00:32:30
cltruitt22
Dot. Oh, yeah.
00:32:31
The headless Ron
Dots are terrible. The little jelly part.
00:32:33
cltruitt22
Well, they're not even jelly. Yeah, they're rock hard.
00:32:35
The headless Ron
yeah yeah Hot mollies. Not a fan. Oh, double bubbles.
00:32:46
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, double bubble.
00:32:48
The headless Ron
And of course, this one, neck and wafers, because boy, they're bad. Neck and wafers are awful.
00:32:52
cltruitt22
Yeah, because there was always that one, it was like clove or something. yeah It's like, oh, yeah, I'm eating this one and OK, this one's chocolate.
00:32:58
The headless Ron
so were they You the worst candy?
00:33:01
cltruitt22
That one's kind of strawberry ish. Oh, this one, you know, this is clove. That's an interesting flavor.
00:33:11
The headless Ron
I'm going to tell you, I'm going to make this declarative statement. and
00:33:14
cltruitt22
Black licorice.
00:33:14
The headless Ron
that everyone seems to love, but is terrible. A Reese's fucking peanut butter cup. I don't know what's wrong with you people. The chocolate is bad. Peanut butter sucks. It's terrible.
00:33:29
cltruitt22
Have you had a Reese's thin?
00:33:31
The headless Ron
No.
00:33:32
cltruitt22
They're good.
00:33:33
The headless Ron
Is it still got the crappy peanut butter?
00:33:33
cltruitt22
A Reese's Reese's dark thin. It's just a tiny little layer of that peanut butter in the middle.
00:33:41
The headless Ron
terrible terrible it tastes like i i don't i don't think like you don't get to taste the chocolate you taste death i don't know what does that flavor is and even yeah yeah so one i
00:33:41
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, yeah, that.
00:33:48
cltruitt22
Yeah. but Well, I will say that people that like the Reese's pumpkins and all that, that's that's way too much peanut butter. or peanut, whatever it is.
00:34:01
cltruitt22
not Yeah, it's not peanut butter. It's peanut fluff.
00:34:06
cltruitt22
I just got an ugly look. Yeah, re-seed pumpkins are horrible.
00:34:13
The headless Ron
but Any Reese's there's not a single Reese's candy that I like bam. I'm gonna say that At all.
00:34:16
cltruitt22
Yeah,
00:34:19
cltruitt22
yeah
00:34:20
The headless Ron
I don't like the Reese's. I just I don't like peanut butter But why would you want to just make everything taste like peanut butter?
00:34:23
cltruitt22
yeah that's a thing. You don't like peanut butter. That's like i black licorice.
00:34:35
The headless Ron
Because that's all that pieces they just taste I would have so many of those left in my bag as a kid I'd be like here take these crap candies
00:34:36
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:34:40
cltruitt22
Yeah. Now, when you got home, did your parents tax you?
00:34:46
The headless Ron
God, no.
00:34:47
cltruitt22
Really?
00:34:48
The headless Ron
I carried a knife. What are you talking about?
00:34:51
cltruitt22
I can't deny you.
00:34:55
The headless Ron
No, because they didn't have to because they knew I wouldn't eat any of the Reese's crap.
00:34:58
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:35:00
The headless Ron
And I didn't really.
00:35:03
The headless Ron
I was such an odd, well, shock. I was an odd child. As an odd adult, I was as shocked as an odd child. I really didn't like really love candy as a kid.
00:35:14
The headless Ron
I just liked going to your treating.
00:35:14
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:35:17
The headless Ron
So the candy would just sit there and rot. So it wasn't the problem.
00:35:20
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's why my kids were.
00:35:22
The headless Ron
Like I love score bars. You gave me a score bar or a heath.
00:35:24
cltruitt22
Scorebars, what the hell is a scorebar?
00:35:27
The headless Ron
What do you mean? What the hell is this? It's one of the greatest candies ever invented.
00:35:31
cltruitt22
Scorebar.
00:35:32
The headless Ron
It's dark chocolate and toffee.
00:35:34
cltruitt22
Oh, toffee is awful.
00:35:36
The headless Ron
What are you crazy?
00:35:38
cltruitt22
Yeah, i yeah, toffee is just disgusting.
00:35:38
The headless Ron
Oh my God.
00:35:42
The headless Ron
A score bar is a better heath bar.
00:35:42
cltruitt22
ah
00:35:44
cltruitt22
And Heath bars are horrible.
00:35:47
The headless Ron
Heath bars are amazing, but they're not as good scar bars.
00:35:49
cltruitt22
No. Oh, no. Oh, God.
00:35:52
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:35:53
cltruitt22
There's something about that toffee taste.
00:35:55
cltruitt22
Well, no, like I don't like toffee.
00:35:55
The headless Ron
Man, topic's great.
00:35:58
The headless Ron
I think I just like...
00:35:59
cltruitt22
I don't like malt.
00:36:00
The headless Ron
Oh, Maltesers? Ugh.
00:36:02
cltruitt22
the Oh, no.
00:36:03
The headless Ron
Whoppers? Oh, I love Whoppers. Oh, man.
00:36:06
cltruitt22
And I just found out with it within the last couple of years that milk duds aren't whoppers.
00:36:12
The headless Ron
No.
00:36:13
cltruitt22
I thought they were the same damn thing.
00:36:13
The headless Ron
Whoppers have No, milk does have caramel in them.
00:36:15
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah, I found that out. I can now eat a milk dud.
00:36:22
The headless Ron
You can also eat a Whopper because they're delicious.
00:36:24
cltruitt22
No.
00:36:24
The headless Ron
They're totally different things.
00:36:26
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:36:27
The headless Ron
Whoppers are crunchy.
00:36:28
cltruitt22
Yes, I thought milk duds were the other version of them.
00:36:33
The headless Ron
What?
00:36:34
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
00:36:35
The headless Ron
What happened to you?
00:36:37
cltruitt22
yeah A lot.
00:36:41
The headless Ron
Whoppers mixed with movie popcorn is a pretty banging treat.
00:36:46
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah, my youngest does the popcorn and M&Ms.
00:36:52
The headless Ron
Nah, I don't really mess with M&Ms.
00:36:54
cltruitt22
yeah ah yeah Does anyone really like M&Ms?
00:36:55
The headless Ron
They're just fine.
00:36:59
The headless Ron
Who really, really likes emine M&Ms, though?
00:37:00
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh, God. And the M&M minis. Yeah, no.
00:37:07
The headless Ron
Nah, that's a...
00:37:07
cltruitt22
It's like when people are like, oh, look, I made chocolate chip cookies and they made them with M&Ms animals.
00:37:10
The headless Ron
Nah, are you? Yeah, yeah, Yeah.
00:37:12
cltruitt22
They've ruined the cookie.
00:37:15
The headless Ron
They're just not great, they're just fine. It's just a hard crappy chocolate.
00:37:21
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:37:22
The headless Ron
Oh, an M&M peanut? That's pretty good.
00:37:25
cltruitt22
Yeah, but the M&M peanut butter, horrible.
00:37:29
The headless Ron
Well, it's got peanut butter in it, so that's not true because Reese's Peasies don't have chocolate.
00:37:30
cltruitt22
No, it's because it's a knockoff Reese's Pieces.
00:37:38
cltruitt22
I thought they had a little tiny bit of chocolate in the candy coating.
00:37:40
The headless Ron
No, it's a candy shooting over, candy coating over peanut butter.
00:37:42
cltruitt22
Oh, God, Reese's Pieces are amazing.
00:37:43
The headless Ron
Reese's Peasies. A terrible product.
00:37:47
The headless Ron
Terrible product.
00:37:49
cltruitt22
That's how, that's how Elliot lured etn Etn.
00:37:53
The headless Ron
Terrible movie.
00:37:57
The headless Ron
Terrible product for terrible movie. It's another candy.
00:37:58
cltruitt22
yeah
00:37:59
The headless Ron
so That's, this was my problem as a kid. I didn't get enough of the good candies. I got too much as racist pieces and bull crap peanut butter cups.
00:38:08
cltruitt22
Well, did you see Ali, a Twizzler, red licorice, but I will not eat black licorice.
00:38:10
The headless Ron
They're so terrible.
00:38:17
The headless Ron
Well, first off, calling a Twizzler red licorice is a crazy conversation. It is not. Twizzlers are, first off, Twizzlers are strawberry flavored. They're not that cherry red rope bullshit.
00:38:29
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:38:30
The headless Ron
Red rope cherry or whatever that stuff's called. That stuff's crap.
00:38:33
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:38:34
The headless Ron
Twizzlers are amazing.
00:38:35
cltruitt22
Yeah. Twisters are good.
00:38:36
The headless Ron
And Twizzlers plus Pepsi use the Twizzlers to straw.
00:38:40
cltruitt22
Oh, yep.
00:38:42
The headless Ron
That is like perfection middle school right there.
00:38:45
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. When you figured out you could do that, you thought you were a king.
00:38:50
The headless Ron
Oh my, I was a king! Walking around the fire i around my dad's firehouse with a twizzler in my mouth, sucking out a Pepsi can.
00:38:59
cltruitt22
Yep.
00:39:00
The headless Ron
It's the best day of life.
00:39:00
cltruitt22
Hmm. Yeah. But does anybody really like black licorice?
00:39:03
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:39:05
The headless Ron
Oh, there are people that like that crap, but they probably should be committed to some sort of institution.
00:39:07
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah, I mean, it's. Oh,
00:39:14
The headless Ron
I'd rather eat licorice than peanut butter though, so...
00:39:15
cltruitt22
no, I think I might eat a malt ball before I eat licorice.
00:39:18
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:39:21
The headless Ron
Well, good. Cause multiples are delicious.
00:39:23
cltruitt22
No, they're not. Oh, yeah, it's awful.
00:39:25
The headless Ron
Have you ever had a malted milkshake? Do you like what?
00:39:30
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:39:31
The headless Ron
Wow. We're slow. We're not folks. We're learning a lot here.
00:39:33
cltruitt22
Look, look, I'm sorry, I'm the one that grew up in, you know, freaking Aunt Bezier 40s and you're the one.
00:39:38
The headless Ron
The forties.
00:39:41
cltruitt22
Oh, would you go to the malt shop?
00:39:45
The headless Ron
Actually when
00:39:46
cltruitt22
After you went to your sock hop?
00:39:48
The headless Ron
When I was a kid, we had a restaurant called The Hop, which was a throwback 50s restaurant. They had, they had malted milkshakes.
00:39:55
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:39:57
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:39:58
The headless Ron
So yeah, we were making fun of you, Yokels, by having our own shop to make fun of you, Yokels. And that's where we went for delicious hamburgers and malted milkshakes. Boom.
00:40:08
cltruitt22
Yeah, we we didn't have a hamburger shop.
00:40:09
The headless Ron
Boosh.
00:40:13
The headless Ron
Okay, I guess you didn't have any restaurants.
00:40:14
cltruitt22
No, we didn't know.
00:40:16
The headless Ron
There was 14 people living. wait You just go to everybody's house and had whatever roast dinner she was making.
00:40:20
cltruitt22
That's true. Yeah, you walk in. Well, you want me to cook you that you could get a cheesesteak at the bait shop.
00:40:24
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:40:28
The headless Ron
That sounds awful.
00:40:31
cltruitt22
It was good, actually. Yeah, yeah. There you can go there. There are people at home going, these don't add together.
00:40:45
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:40:46
The headless Ron
That's crazy.
00:40:48
cltruitt22
ye Yeah. Yeah.
00:40:50
The headless Ron
Well, I'm going down and bait shop. I guess I'm going to give me some peelers and bug worms. You know, I put them peelers and bug worms on a bond called out of a cheese steak.
00:41:00
cltruitt22
No, no, no. Two very separate creatures.
00:41:06
The headless Ron
Well, I didn't know the peelers were just soft shell crabs that y'all eat. Yeah. Maniacs.
00:41:12
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah, I use peelers for bait.
00:41:16
The headless Ron
It's the same game thing. You put it on a damn sandwich, you call it a soft chocolate crab sandwich, you charge me 15 bucks for it.
00:41:21
cltruitt22
I think there's like a day or two difference in them.
00:41:28
The headless Ron
I don't know.
00:41:29
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:41:29
The headless Ron
They look exactly the same to me.
00:41:32
cltruitt22
That just spiders without the shell that live in the water.
00:41:37
The headless Ron
It's fair. I think they're more really closely related to cockroaches actually.
00:41:41
cltruitt22
Probably. oh
00:41:46
cltruitt22
um
00:41:46
The headless Ron
Well, I think we learned a lot here, folks.
00:41:47
cltruitt22
and Ooh, bottle caps.
00:41:51
The headless Ron
Terrible.
00:41:52
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah, they were awful.
00:41:52
The headless Ron
yeah what you where's You know worse than bottle caps? and I don't remember what the hell you recall.
00:41:56
cltruitt22
cant Candy cigarettes.
00:41:58
The headless Ron
Those are also terrible, but they were little Coke bottles, wax Coke bottles. Do you remember those pieces of crap?
00:42:03
cltruitt22
Oh, with the syrup in them.
00:42:05
The headless Ron
Yes.
00:42:06
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:42:06
The headless Ron
That you were, I guess, supposed to chew up. So you just chewed wax and then you got a little bit of burst of syrup. ah Those were real pieces of crap.
00:42:13
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:16
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
00:42:17
The headless Ron
That was the real, these kids won't even ever know. That's what I should try to do this year. I should go find all the worst canes and good mountains here, but this is the shit.
00:42:24
cltruitt22
Circus peanuts.
00:42:26
The headless Ron
Oh yeah. Circus peanuts.
00:42:29
cltruitt22
Is it packing peanuts? Is it a candy? Who knows?
00:42:32
The headless Ron
It's supposed to be banana flavored, but no banana you've ever tasted.
00:42:36
cltruitt22
Was it really supposed to be banana flavored?
00:42:36
The headless Ron
Oh, you don't know the secret of secrets. Yeah. Circus peanuts are the old school bananas. Like the one that's are extinct.
00:42:45
cltruitt22
Oh, I didn't.
00:42:45
The headless Ron
That's the flavor of circus peanuts.
00:42:47
cltruitt22
That would just be another reason why I don't like circus peanuts. because I don't like banana.
00:42:50
The headless Ron
Yeah. But it's a different, it doesn't take anything like bananas today because it's a different variety of banana that doesn't exist anymore.
00:42:54
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:42:59
The headless Ron
Yeah. But yeah, that's why I should give to all these kids and be like, be thankful you get any candy. Cause when I was a kid, that's what we had to live off of.
00:43:04
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:06
The headless Ron
And if you're nice to me, you get a score bar.
00:43:10
cltruitt22
ah Why do you hate these children?
00:43:12
The headless Ron
Cause score bars are awesome.
00:43:14
cltruitt22
No, they're not.
00:43:15
The headless Ron
They are awesome. They are there.
00:43:16
cltruitt22
God, why don't you just give him a zero bar?
00:43:19
The headless Ron
Oh, no, because I don't want anyone has egged, but a score bar because it's, it's, it's a nice dark chocolate with a crunchy toffee in the middle.
00:43:21
cltruitt22
God. Yeah. Yeah.
00:43:30
The headless Ron
Oh, so good. I haven't had one in 20 years and I just want one right now or.
00:43:36
cltruitt22
yeah God. That's like my wife knows that I loathe toffee. And we were at a party, and somebody made toffee cookies. She's like, Oh, here have a cookie, shoved it in my mouth and immediately I'm overwhelmed with the toffee aroma and ah and she's like, Yeah, it's toffee and grinned.
00:43:55
The headless Ron
Do you remember the real piece of crap candies that were like caramel with like cream in the middle?
00:43:56
cltruitt22
Oh,
00:44:04
The headless Ron
They were like, yeah, but they were wrapped.
00:44:04
cltruitt22
it's like a cow tail, but bigger.
00:44:08
The headless Ron
They were, yeah, they were like individually wrapped crap candies.
00:44:10
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:44:12
The headless Ron
Oh boy.
00:44:13
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:44:13
The headless Ron
It was terrible times.
00:44:16
cltruitt22
Yeah?
00:44:16
The headless Ron
But when everybody talks about how great the eighties were, they forget all the bad things.
00:44:16
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:44:20
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:44:21
The headless Ron
Yeah, look, we had the AIDS epidemic and we had shitty, shitty Halloween candy.
00:44:22
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:44:25
cltruitt22
I don't know if I put the two on the same line.
00:44:30
The headless Ron
Well, the candy was real bad.
00:44:32
cltruitt22
I mean, it was. ah
00:44:38
cltruitt22
ah Thank God we had ecto coolers.
00:44:41
The headless Ron
Oh yeah, hey, got a nice ecto cooler flavor.
00:44:44
cltruitt22
Oh, God, what was the flavor of those green?
00:44:44
The headless Ron
like
00:44:47
The headless Ron
green just it was green and we had our crappy caprisons, which supposedly had different flavors, but they all tasted like sugar and aluminum foil.
00:44:48
cltruitt22
yeah Oh, yes. Yeah, it was all some form of fruit punch.
00:45:00
cltruitt22
Oh, God, Hawaiian punch.
00:45:02
The headless Ron
Oh, terrible.
00:45:04
cltruitt22
God.
00:45:05
The headless Ron
right I never had, ah this is how old I am. I always had the fine punch, but in the big steel can that you had to take the church key to.
00:45:12
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh yeah. kicking kicking Oh yeah.
00:45:14
The headless Ron
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And it tasted, always tasted like rust.
00:45:18
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah.
00:45:19
The headless Ron
I was wondering, we didn't get tetanus a lot as kids.
00:45:23
cltruitt22
Well, I think that's why we got tetanus boosters every like three years.
00:45:26
The headless Ron
It's probably true.
00:45:27
cltruitt22
God.
00:45:28
The headless Ron
Now we get them like every 10 years. Wonder why that is.
00:45:30
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Everybody out there listening now, it's like, I got my annual flu shot. When we were kids, it was your annual tetanus shot.
00:45:38
The headless Ron
Well, we drank in a rusty buckets of sugary fluids.
00:45:38
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:45:42
cltruitt22
Yeah. What if we used cups that were metal?
00:45:46
The headless Ron
we did yeah yeah i like when metal oxidizes in my in my water yeah say leaden's very sweet
00:45:47
cltruitt22
God, h I can taste the metal in that.
00:46:00
cltruitt22
Maybe that's why the Hawaiian punch was so sweet. Maybe it was lead in there. God. Oh, yeah. was What's in Hawaiian punch? Well, yeah two drops of actual fruit juice, water, lead.
00:46:18
The headless Ron
Yeah. Going back to our conversation from last podcast. That's what I'm saying. This is the best time to live in.
00:46:23
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:46:24
The headless Ron
Cause you don't have to live with that crap.
00:46:24
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You got a point.
00:46:28
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:46:28
cltruitt22
You got a point.
00:46:30
The headless Ron
Like the worst thing that we get in convenience with is paper straws. You don't know the struggle kids. We had to carry church keys.
00:46:34
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:46:36
The headless Ron
We had to have a church key.
00:46:36
cltruitt22
Yes. Yeah. Yeah.
00:46:38
The headless Ron
If you lost the church key in your household, you were in big trouble and everybody's church key was rusted.
00:46:40
cltruitt22
Oh my gosh. show Yes.
00:46:47
The headless Ron
Every fucking one of them.
00:46:47
cltruitt22
Yes.
00:46:48
The headless Ron
You took a rusty church key and put it into your liquid that you were about to drink.
00:46:52
cltruitt22
yeah Or into the can that you're about to pour into your you know milk to make chocolate milk.
00:46:58
The headless Ron
Yeah. Or we had to, we wanted to have orange juice.
00:47:00
cltruitt22
and
00:47:02
The headless Ron
Okay. Go get the tube of frozen shit out of the freezer and and squeeze the cardboard into the, into your pitcher and just spray water on it until it thaws.
00:47:09
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:47:12
cltruitt22
Yep. Yep. I remember my mom would be like, oh, here's a treat.
00:47:14
The headless Ron
Oh.
00:47:16
cltruitt22
You can each have one of the lids to lick.
00:47:19
The headless Ron
ah
00:47:23
The headless Ron
Yeah, that was our lemonade, our limeade, our orange juice, whatever.
00:47:24
cltruitt22
ah Yeah. Yeah. Oh, gosh. Five.
00:47:28
The headless Ron
It was all, I don't know what that was.
00:47:29
cltruitt22
ah What was that one? Five alive? Is some kind of fruit juice. Yeah.
00:47:34
The headless Ron
It was all frozen crap.
00:47:35
cltruitt22
Yes. Oh, ah yeah
00:47:38
The headless Ron
Yeah. When it, when you guys drink your drinks, it doesn't say it's not from concentrate. We're the concentrate tra generation. I mean, that's tough. It is stronger than you.
00:47:47
cltruitt22
Yeah, five alive was made with orange, lemon, grapefruit, tangerine and lime.
00:47:52
The headless Ron
That sounds very bitter.
00:47:56
cltruitt22
Well, they had to put, you know, a gallon of sugar in it.
00:47:59
The headless Ron
Well, I kept all your scurvy away too.
00:48:01
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Oh, God. And Kool-Aid, he had the little pouch.
00:48:06
The headless Ron
Oh God, the Kool-Aid.
00:48:08
cltruitt22
God, I remember my grandmother, you would think that there was a sugar famine growing up because she would make
00:48:08
The headless Ron
I hate Kool-Aid.
00:48:16
cltruitt22
like country time lemonade and put like half a teaspoon of the mix in for a gallon. But the same thing for the Kool-Aid, she would put the powder in and be it calls for a cup of sugar.
00:48:22
The headless Ron
Jew. you
00:48:27
cltruitt22
I think that's too much. And she put like a quarter cup of sugar in there. So we had this weird water down sugary purple drink.
00:48:35
The headless Ron
To be fair to your grandmother, she was right. That was too much sugar.
00:48:38
cltruitt22
but yeah She was she was, but it tasted awful.
00:48:42
The headless Ron
It tasted awful, but she was right.
00:48:45
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:48:45
The headless Ron
It was too much sugar.
00:48:46
cltruitt22
Actually, yeah, looking back, yeah, thank you, Grandma, for keeping us away from the diabetes.
00:48:50
The headless Ron
Just remember, at one point sugar was part of the food pyramid.
00:48:54
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:48:58
The headless Ron
I mean, the government said, make sure you get your daily dose of sugar kids.
00:48:58
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:49:03
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:49:05
cltruitt22
Yeah, keep your pancreas are working.
00:49:08
The headless Ron
I want the diabetes. You get the diabetes when you stop with the sugar.
00:49:11
cltruitt22
Yeah, that's what it is.
00:49:12
The headless Ron
Gotta keep it working. Yeah.
00:49:16
cltruitt22
Oh, gosh.
00:49:17
The headless Ron
I think we really saw the topic two bro ah topic one ready to go to topic two
00:49:19
cltruitt22
Yeah, sure.
The Rise and Fall of Chain Restaurants
00:49:23
cltruitt22
but It's kind of in the same vein, not all the way, but like I think in the other day, the chain restaurants like when did they really pop up and like what was the first big chain restaurant you can remember going to?
00:49:37
The headless Ron
oh besides size McDonald's in this segment
00:49:38
cltruitt22
Because I the first Yeah, I mean, yeah, yeah, not fast food, but I'm talking about like like now you get your Applebee's and stuff like that. I can't remember friendlies was a big one.
00:49:49
The headless Ron
Yeah, so, uh, friendlies. I wrote, well, it's not really around anymore. Perkins.
00:49:55
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh, no, there are still Perkins.
00:49:56
The headless Ron
There's a few Perkins still around. There's still around, but there's not as many.
00:49:58
cltruitt22
There's still a there's a Perkins in Deep Creek.
00:50:01
The headless Ron
Well, there's Perkin. I mean, there's still like Pennsylvania. There's still one in a New York.
00:50:03
cltruitt22
Yeah. And they are evidently famous for their buckwheat pancakes.
00:50:05
The headless Ron
Um, they're also famous for their amazing muffins. They have the greatest muffins in the world.
00:50:11
cltruitt22
Really?
00:50:12
The headless Ron
Get your muffins grilled and toasted and they're great.
00:50:15
cltruitt22
Grilled and toasted?
00:50:16
The headless Ron
Yeah, they're so good.
00:50:17
cltruitt22
Huh.
00:50:18
The headless Ron
I mean, it's basically a muffin that they put on the flat top grill and cover and butter. It's pretty good.
00:50:24
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:50:25
The headless Ron
Not good for you.
00:50:25
cltruitt22
but I mean, I can remember like seeing commercials for chain restaurants and never knowing what they were.
00:50:31
The headless Ron
Huh.
00:50:32
cltruitt22
Like we never had I I don't know if this to this day I've ever been to a TGI Fridays.
00:50:39
The headless Ron
Yeah. I've been to, if we have Fridays, I've been to Fridays. Uh, you know what? I would say the one I remember earliest was a cheat cheese.
00:50:48
cltruitt22
Never been to a chee cheese.
00:50:50
The headless Ron
Yeah, well they don't even exist anymore.
00:50:51
cltruitt22
Yeah. Was that the one that had the guy that like would go in and steal the sauce on the commercials?
00:50:52
The headless Ron
we
00:50:58
The headless Ron
I don't remember that. I just remember Chi-Chi's had fried ice cream.
00:51:02
cltruitt22
Oh.
00:51:03
The headless Ron
We had a Chi-Chi's by the mall. So that's why we were spoiled because we had like a famous mall.
00:51:06
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:51:09
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yep, we never have never went to a sizzler.
00:51:09
The headless Ron
So like there's all chains there.
00:51:12
The headless Ron
Chi-Chi's was like oh man we love sizzler oh my god sizzler was bonanza and sizzler were like our go-to is yeah um wow okay interesting don't think that's don't think that's how math works i don't think that's where the body human body breaks down food but okay um
00:51:20
cltruitt22
We had a bonanza. yeah We had a bonanza that you could actually pay by the pound. They had a scale when you walked in and so and you could re-weigh yourself at the end. Yeah. ah Yeah. I don't know what that says about our gluttony, but yeah, I don't know.
00:51:45
The headless Ron
I would say Chi-Chi's is the earliest I remember. And then I would say they exploded in like the 2000s. It seems like in the 2000s is when like TJ Fridays and Chili's and all that crap was everywhere.
00:52:01
The headless Ron
But, yep, you still there?
00:52:04
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:52:05
The headless Ron
Oh, okay.
00:52:05
cltruitt22
I was trying to figure out if Chi-Chi's... Yeah, Chi-Chi's was the guy that stole the sauce.
00:52:10
The headless Ron
oh I don't remember that, but I remember Chi-Chi's.
00:52:11
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:52:17
The headless Ron
All of the local restaurants, I think, died in the 90s. I don't know why.
00:52:27
The headless Ron
I don't have a good answer for that.
00:52:27
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I feel like now you...
00:52:33
cltruitt22
Well, I know also so I don't look for the chain restaurants, but you see more like just mom and pop kind of things.
00:52:41
The headless Ron
Well, I think we're finally starting to get away from the chain restaurants, hopefully.
00:52:44
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:52:45
The headless Ron
But at one point Salisbury was like the town of chain restaurants. That's all you guys had was chain restaurant.
00:52:49
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah. Yeah. Well, yeah. There are people be like, oh, yeah, you know, we're going to go out you for a nice you know at dinner for, you know, prom. We're going to get a red lobster.
00:53:00
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:53:00
cltruitt22
Or Olive Garden.
00:53:02
The headless Ron
Yeah. Yeah. Olive Garden. Yeah. My grandfather loved Olive Garden. He thought it was
00:53:07
cltruitt22
Kenny Rogers roasters.
00:53:08
The headless Ron
Oh my God. We had a tiny riders rusters. It was amazing. That place was great. Made Boston market look like dog food.
00:53:18
cltruitt22
We never had a Boston Market.
00:53:18
The headless Ron
which ah We had Boston market by my firehouse. Um, yeah, I want to say it was when I was in like late high school college is when they really started popping up by the 2000s, they were everywhere.
00:53:36
The headless Ron
Most of the local places. I see like Delaware is weird because we have this. Like weird culture of like neighborhood restaurants that still exists, which I really think because I like having a neighborhood restaurant.
00:53:46
cltruitt22
oh
00:53:51
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:53:52
The headless Ron
Um, but there are still the chains, but they're all by the mall.
00:53:52
cltruitt22
Yeah. that's
00:53:56
The headless Ron
Just don't go to the mall.
00:53:56
cltruitt22
That's Howard Johnson.
00:53:58
The headless Ron
We had a Howard Johnson's while I was a kid. Yeah, that's true. I forgot that was a thing, but see, that's not fair.
00:54:04
cltruitt22
Arthur Treacher's fish and chips.
00:54:04
The headless Ron
but
00:54:07
The headless Ron
Yeah, I've been to an Arthur Treacher's.
00:54:07
cltruitt22
Never never heard of it.
00:54:08
The headless Ron
They had one at the mall. Yeah. ah Captain D's.
00:54:12
cltruitt22
Chichi's.
00:54:14
The headless Ron
Yeah, baby.
00:54:15
cltruitt22
Captain D's.
00:54:17
The headless Ron
Captain D's.
00:54:18
cltruitt22
That sounds like a totally different excursion.
00:54:18
The headless Ron
Seafood restaurant.
00:54:22
The headless Ron
They had an amazing sweet tea. See, like I never got down with chilies or Fridays. or Every time I've been to a Fridays or chilies, I've been disappointed.
00:54:35
cltruitt22
Never been to a White Castle.
00:54:38
The headless Ron
Uh, we never had a White Castle. There was one at, um, Valley Forge, I think was probably the closest one to us. And I've been to it. I've been to a White Castle. It was fine.
00:54:50
The headless Ron
Just fine.
00:54:51
cltruitt22
It's fine without they make the like slider, the mini sliders with the onions cooked into them or whatever.
00:54:53
The headless Ron
That's all I can say is it's fine.
00:54:57
The headless Ron
They make little sliders, yeah, with onions.
00:55:01
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:55:01
The headless Ron
Yeah, there's fine.
00:55:02
cltruitt22
Roy Rogers.
00:55:04
The headless Ron
We had a Roy, I'd say it's nice food, but we had a Roy Rogers
00:55:06
cltruitt22
Yeah. Oh yeah, that is true. Yeah, that's true.
00:55:08
The headless Ron
on main street in New York, that place has had an amazing salad bar. Burned out though. Rest in peace.
00:55:16
cltruitt22
Flood rockers.
00:55:19
The headless Ron
I had never even heard of front Rutgers. I still have never been to one and there was one in Salisbury forever.
00:55:24
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:55:25
The headless Ron
I never went.
00:55:26
cltruitt22
Yeah. Because that was the one where you could get your, you picked out what size burger you wanted and then it had the giant fixin's bar or whatever. Yeah.
00:55:36
The headless Ron
You know what one I remember Like vividly people in my family were excited to get was Lone Star Steakhouse. Which I don't think Lone Stars exist anymore.
00:55:45
cltruitt22
Really? Yeah, there's one in Salisbury.
00:55:50
The headless Ron
Where's our Lone Star at Salisbury?
00:55:53
cltruitt22
Isn't that what it is in front of the mall?
00:55:55
The headless Ron
Oh, that's Texas Roadhouse.
00:55:57
cltruitt22
No, no, no, no, no, Texas Roadhouse is in Fruitland.
00:56:00
The headless Ron
In front of the mall.
00:56:02
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, between like Green Turtle and Olive Garden.
00:56:08
The headless Ron
No, that's Longhorn.
00:56:10
cltruitt22
Oh, OK, OK.
00:56:13
The headless Ron
A Lone Star was the place where you went in there and you get the peanuts, and you throw the peanuts on the floor.
00:56:17
cltruitt22
I'd say you can do it. Texas Roadhouse.
00:56:19
The headless Ron
Yeah, but that was the Fort Exeter that existed.
00:56:21
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:56:23
The headless Ron
This Lone Star Steakhouse still exists. But I remember like my grandparents were very excited about a Lone Star Steakhouse.
00:56:29
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:56:32
cltruitt22
Are Hooters still a things?
00:56:35
The headless Ron
Oh, yeah.
00:56:36
cltruitt22
Really?
00:56:36
The headless Ron
ah they Um, they have Hooters and then they have Hooters, but without the women. Um, I can't remember what they call it now.
00:56:48
cltruitt22
Two teas.
00:56:52
The headless Ron
Uh, no.
00:56:52
cltruitt22
Oh, they've got one in the ocean city, big peckers.
00:56:58
The headless Ron
All the Lone Stars are gone.
00:57:00
cltruitt22
Oh.
00:57:00
The headless Ron
They no longer exist.
00:57:04
The headless Ron
Uh, Hooters wings.
00:57:10
The headless Ron
But there's not a place.
00:57:12
cltruitt22
You remember when Pizza Hut was actually a dining establishment?
00:57:18
The headless Ron
Oh, my God. Yeah. Pizza Hut was like the place to go as a kid, right?
00:57:22
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah, you see that plastic cup and they had the the the pizza bar that had the kale all around it.
00:57:30
The headless Ron
Yeah.
00:57:31
cltruitt22
They were probably like the biggest users of kale in the 90s.
00:57:37
cltruitt22
Because nobody was eating it then.
00:57:37
The headless Ron
ah Do you remember when
00:57:41
The headless Ron
Do you remember when Wendy's had a salad bar?
00:57:45
cltruitt22
Yes, yeah.
00:57:50
The headless Ron
Yeah, but I got terrible food poisoning with Wendy's salad bar once.
00:57:54
cltruitt22
Really?
00:57:55
The headless Ron
Oh, you know what you know what chain restaurant I hate more than anything, and I think I've been sick at the most.
00:58:02
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
00:58:03
The headless Ron
Ruby Tuesdays.
00:58:06
cltruitt22
Yep.
00:58:06
The headless Ron
That place is just a Cauldron of food poisoning.
00:58:13
cltruitt22
ah I've never been to a planet Hollywood.
00:58:18
The headless Ron
Never been to a plant in Hollywood. I don't even know, they still exist.
00:58:20
cltruitt22
I think so.
00:58:23
cltruitt22
I have been to a, what is it? What's the rock and roll one?
00:58:32
cltruitt22
ah ah Hard Rock.
00:58:32
The headless Ron
Hard rock.
00:58:33
cltruitt22
Yeah, Hard Rock Cafe. They've got that one in Baltimore.
00:58:37
cltruitt22
Not great food.
00:58:38
The headless Ron
Yeah. No, I remember being a planet ah or seeing a planet Hollywood never went to one. I've never been to hard rock. Um,
00:58:52
The headless Ron
trying to think other famous.
00:58:54
cltruitt22
Bob's big boy.
00:58:55
The headless Ron
Oh my, we have a Boswick boy. It is. Well, there's one in Sal's. I don't know. You don't have Boswick boy. You have ah Bob Evans.
00:59:00
cltruitt22
Hmm. Yeah.
00:59:01
The headless Ron
We had a Bob. way I don't think they exist.
00:59:02
cltruitt22
Is that the same thing?
00:59:04
The headless Ron
No, I don't think they are.
00:59:06
cltruitt22
Hmm.
00:59:10
cltruitt22
Yeah, I mean, it used to be.
00:59:11
The headless Ron
um that
00:59:12
cltruitt22
I mean, that used to be the place to go. Like you would never think to like, oh, yeah, we're going to go to, you know, Geno's pizza.
00:59:17
The headless Ron
bob super like access like
00:59:22
The headless Ron
No, yeah I blame pizza places for ruining the whole thing
00:59:24
cltruitt22
yeah like Oh yeah, so and so is in town. We're going to go out to dinner tonight to the Red Lobster, get some Cheddar Bay Biscuits.
00:59:38
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:59:38
The headless Ron
Because once Domino's and little Caesars even and all that, once they pushed out the little pizza places, we all stopped caring about local food.
00:59:46
cltruitt22
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I'm here. We had a little Caesars in our roses department store.
00:59:57
The headless Ron
Huh.
00:59:59
cltruitt22
Yeah.
00:59:59
The headless Ron
I don't think I've ever seen that before.
01:00:01
cltruitt22
And it was the little Caesars where you get the it was like the long box that was like paper cover and it was the two pizzas.
01:00:08
The headless Ron
Oh yeah.
01:00:09
cltruitt22
You get a crazy bread in the middle.
01:00:13
The headless Ron
I remember, I mean, when I was a kid, my grandparents were like, we're going to get fancy if we were to get little feasers.
01:00:21
cltruitt22
yeah
01:00:22
The headless Ron
Yeah.
01:00:22
cltruitt22
Yeah, we never had a Panda Express.
01:00:26
The headless Ron
I've never been to a panic express, I don't think. I have been to a, what's the fancier one? Um,
01:00:36
cltruitt22
Panda regular?
01:00:38
The headless Ron
No!
01:00:42
The headless Ron
Fancy Chinese food chain.
01:00:50
The headless Ron
P.F.
01:00:50
cltruitt22
Sizzling walk.
01:00:51
The headless Ron
Chang's.
01:00:51
cltruitt22
P.F. Chang's. Never been. Now.
01:00:56
The headless Ron
There's not one near me.
01:00:57
cltruitt22
Now, we had a place we went to call the Great Wall of China.
01:01:03
The headless Ron
Well, yeah. Which they're all called the Great Wall.
01:01:06
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:01:07
The headless Ron
Every Chinese place around me is called the Great Wall.
01:01:09
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:01:10
The headless Ron
Never heard of this place. The All-Star Cafe.
01:01:14
cltruitt22
No, no, never heard of that.
01:01:16
The headless Ron
Burger Chef.
01:01:18
cltruitt22
Bannigans.
01:01:18
The headless Ron
Burger Queen. We, oh man, we had a bet against. They had a Monte Cristo sandwich. It was so good.
01:01:26
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:01:26
The headless Ron
They had some of the best fries. Yeah. Chicken George.
01:01:34
cltruitt22
what Chicken George never heard of it.
01:01:34
The headless Ron
Found it in Maryland.
01:01:37
The headless Ron
Yeah. Famous in Maryland, apparently. Casa Bonito.
01:01:45
cltruitt22
Oh, that sounds fancy.
01:01:47
The headless Ron
Chichis. This is a crazy sentence. Chichis, the famous Mexican restaurant founded in Minnesota.
01:02:00
cltruitt22
oh
01:02:03
cltruitt22
ah Oh, how you hey, how you doing? Welcome to Chi-Chi's. Would you like a taco?
01:02:09
The headless Ron
ah I'm sorry, I thought that was going to be the craziest thing I was going to read. It's even crazier. The franchise left the States in 2004 but still operates in Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria, the and United Arab Emirates, and Kuwait.
01:02:23
cltruitt22
What? What?
01:02:27
The headless Ron
That is insane.
01:02:29
cltruitt22
Oh my gosh. Especially like you was I mean, those are like fancier countries.
01:02:36
The headless Ron
Right.
01:02:38
cltruitt22
Oh, my gosh.
01:02:38
The headless Ron
That's crazy.
01:02:42
cltruitt22
Oh, California Pizza Kitchen.
01:02:43
The headless Ron
The doggy diner, California based hamburger and hot dog joint.
01:02:50
The headless Ron
I've been to one. I think we, I don't know if it still exists in New York. We had one for a little while.
01:02:55
cltruitt22
I've been it's fine with the the the Cheesecake Factory.
01:02:57
The headless Ron
It's fine. Some people like it.
01:03:06
The headless Ron
Uh, Cheesecake Factory I've never been to. We've got one near me. Never been there. Wow, this one just sounds racist. Uh, The Heap Big Beef. It's got a damn teepee on it.
01:03:16
The headless Ron
That seems wrong.
01:03:16
cltruitt22
Oh my God. Yep. Yeah. I can't imagine why they went out of business.
01:03:22
The headless Ron
Howard Johnson's. Oh yeah.
01:03:24
cltruitt22
Oh, that sounds way too fancy for anybody in my neck of the woods.
01:03:26
The headless Ron
Uh-huh, Joe's. La Petite Boulangerie.
01:03:35
The headless Ron
Yeah.
01:03:38
The headless Ron
The Little Tavern based in DC, Maryland, Virginia.
01:03:41
cltruitt22
I saw something about that.
01:03:42
The headless Ron
I don't know.
01:03:42
cltruitt22
Yeah. I'd never heard of it.
01:03:46
The headless Ron
Huh. Lums. Yeah, never even there.
01:03:50
cltruitt22
lums?
01:03:51
The headless Ron
Yeah.
01:03:52
cltruitt22
Never heard of it.
01:03:55
The headless Ron
Pumpernic.
01:03:57
cltruitt22
No, you just have to end the L to it and you have a great piece of bread.
01:03:58
The headless Ron
Fast food sandwich joint from Argentina.
01:04:02
The headless Ron
But getting its name from Pumpernickel Bread, the fast food joint from Argentina was a major hit in the 70s and 80s.
01:04:07
cltruitt22
Hmm.
01:04:09
The headless Ron
Oh, it's only in Argentina.
01:04:09
cltruitt22
Hmm.
01:04:11
The headless Ron
Okay.
01:04:11
cltruitt22
Well, pump critical bread out back steakhouse.
01:04:15
The headless Ron
Oh, that's fair. Alpine steakhouse. Still a banging steakhouse.
01:04:17
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:04:18
The headless Ron
Nothing to do with Australia.
01:04:19
cltruitt22
yeah Yeah? No, not at all.
01:04:23
cltruitt22
It was probably originated in Wisconsin.
01:04:26
The headless Ron
Steak and ale. Oh my God, I didn't do this. The founder of Stake and Ale in Steak and ale.
01:04:29
cltruitt22
Steak and ale?
01:04:34
cltruitt22
This man was a genius.
01:04:37
The headless Ron
When I was a kid, that's when I was in high school, everybody took their prom date to Steak and Ale because it was a fancy price.
01:04:38
cltruitt22
um
01:04:42
cltruitt22
Really?
01:04:43
The headless Ron
Yeah, I didn't know it was a chain.
01:04:44
cltruitt22
Hmm. Huh.
01:04:46
The headless Ron
Yeah, that's crazy.
01:04:48
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:04:49
The headless Ron
Steak and Ale.
01:04:50
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:04:52
The headless Ron
Taco Viva.
01:04:54
cltruitt22
Hmm.
01:04:58
cltruitt22
You see, that was the thing, like, I can't remember where it, there was somewhere and we I saw like a friendly, so I was like, wait a second, friendlies is back home. they They can't have a friendlies here.
01:05:10
The headless Ron
Wags, which was what this is a, this another crazy statement. You know, the supermarket giant Walgreens, but have you heard of Wags, the casual dining 24 hour chain owned and operated by Walgreens back in the seventies and eighties.
01:05:21
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:05:28
cltruitt22
What?
01:05:31
The headless Ron
Yeah.
01:05:32
cltruitt22
Huh. Well, I do remember there was a diner inside of Woolworths.
01:05:34
The headless Ron
Okay.
01:05:38
The headless Ron
Yes, there was a diner inside the Woolworths. We had a Woolworths with a diner inside of it.
01:05:42
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah.
01:05:45
cltruitt22
Wow. But wags, Walgreens.
01:05:49
The headless Ron
Yeah.
01:05:50
cltruitt22
And they called it a supermarket?
01:05:50
The headless Ron
Who knew? That's what I said. That's crazy.
01:05:53
cltruitt22
It's a it's a drug store.
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The headless Ron
A drugstore. Huh.
01:05:58
cltruitt22
Wow. Yeah.
01:06:00
The headless Ron
That's a... That's a crazy world.
01:06:04
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:06:05
The headless Ron
The Chi Chi's Minnesota thing really blew my mind.
01:06:07
cltruitt22
That's yeah, that's that's craziness.
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The headless Ron
Yeah.
01:06:12
cltruitt22
Yeah, you would think like it started in like New Mexico or Arizona.
01:06:17
The headless Ron
Right, somewhere where Mexican food. It was around.
01:06:21
cltruitt22
Yeah. yeah Yeah. Wow.
01:06:28
cltruitt22
Ola Senyours, welcome to the Chi-Chis.
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The headless Ron
We're at the Chichi's, eh? and so What's the Fargo accent? We're in Minnesota.
01:06:38
cltruitt22
Oh, yeah.
01:06:41
The headless Ron
Would you like the burrito?
01:06:41
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:06:47
cltruitt22
ah
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cltruitt22
Cali day. Yeah, that's.
Chain Restaurant Weekend Plan
01:06:54
cltruitt22
Oh, this weekend, I will ah eat nowhere but chain restaurants.
01:06:56
The headless Ron
It's a nice trip down there, really.
01:07:02
cltruitt22
I'm lying, I will not do that at all.
01:07:03
The headless Ron
I'm going to I'm going to choose not to do that any of that.
01:07:07
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, no, no, good.
01:07:08
The headless Ron
but one I will still frequent an outback every once in a while.
01:07:12
cltruitt22
Yeah, every now and again, we'll go to the outback.
01:07:16
The headless Ron
Yeah.
01:07:16
cltruitt22
Yeah, because it was an outback, no rules, just right.
01:07:17
The headless Ron
Well, cause you know, it rules us right, but there's not like steak places near me. Like if you want a steak, if you want that kind of food, there's really no other option.
01:07:25
cltruitt22
Yeah.
01:07:29
cltruitt22
Yeah, well, we've got the Texas Roadhouse.
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The headless Ron
It's not like I'm, it's not like I'm not going to a logo. Yeah, but it's still another chain. It's not like I'm going to put mama's steakhouse out of business because I'm going to Outback.
01:07:35
cltruitt22
Yeah, oh, yeah, that's it.
01:07:39
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah. Yeah.
Local Italian vs Chain Restaurants
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The headless Ron
And I don't go to Olive Garden because I got real Italian places.
01:07:46
cltruitt22
See, all we've got is Joe's Lloroma. I mean, Joe's is all right, but.
01:07:52
The headless Ron
Yeah, Fratelli's?
01:07:56
The headless Ron
Yeah, it's fair.
01:07:56
cltruitt22
I'm not a big Fratelli's fan. Yeah, there's a nice place in West O'Sellows.
01:07:58
The headless Ron
It's fair.
01:08:00
cltruitt22
They're good, but they're expensive.
01:08:04
The headless Ron
We got Mama Robinos.
01:08:04
cltruitt22
I just rather make my own Italian.
01:08:07
The headless Ron
Ah, you can't make you can't make food as good as Mama.
01:08:10
cltruitt22
No, no, no, absolutely not.
01:08:14
The headless Ron
Mama Robinos, she'll make it a good food.
01:08:14
cltruitt22
That's what I said, the best Italian I've had in the past like 10 years has been that place we went to in Boston of a family Giorgio. It's amazing.
01:08:21
The headless Ron
Right? I imagine it is. Because it's probably been the same family for 900 years. so
01:08:29
cltruitt22
Yeah. I don't think there's been Boston for 900 years, but. ah
01:08:40
The headless Ron
Well, sure. pretty sure in the colonial times, there weren't a bunch of Italians were around Boston.
01:08:50
cltruitt22
Yeah, probably not.
01:08:50
The headless Ron
Boston's aren't known for the AO. That's not their thing.
01:08:56
cltruitt22
Yeah, got a bit of Google.
Farewell and 80s Candy Humour
01:09:00
The headless Ron
ah that a whole other Well, folks, I think we've reached the end of where we're going to get offensive.
01:09:07
cltruitt22
Yeah, yeah, well, I don't know mr. Oh it prompted 80s crappy candy and AIDS
01:09:19
The headless Ron
This is true.
01:09:20
cltruitt22
yeah very true They were they were but uh, yeah so We yes we did I
01:09:22
The headless Ron
Those were birth problems that existed in the 80s.
01:09:27
The headless Ron
And we solved both of them.
01:09:35
cltruitt22
Well, folks, I hope you take care of yourself. Have some ah good Halloween candy.
01:09:40
cltruitt22
And, uh, yeah. Oh, oh oh but o yeah.
01:09:40
The headless Ron
Yeah, get yourself a nice score bar.
01:09:45
The headless Ron
Score yourself a score.
01:09:49
The headless Ron
the rice itself.
01:09:50
cltruitt22
But, But, uh, it does. It does. And, uh, yeah, take all those nasty little crappy candies and your candy corn, throw it all away.
01:10:01
The headless Ron
and Take that peanut butter cup and just throw it in the trash.
01:10:04
cltruitt22
Now you take it to my house. But ah yeah, take care, folks.
01:10:10
The headless Ron
yeah folks