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McDonald's Backpedals & Danny is a Plumber
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In this episode, we discuss how Danny is now a gas plumber, apparently, as well as McDonald's doing some damage control. Enjoy!
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Introduction & Host Catch-up
00:00:04
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Yeah, welcome to the show, it's mildly frustrating We got three hosts here, keep the vibes elevated Two brothers and a buddy, yeah, we're navigating Through daily grind, it keeps our patience deflating Inflation's on the rise, man, the price is just a joke Traffic jams, tech fails, it's enough to make choke Relationships, the weather drops that make you broke Sit back, relax, listen in, let's provoke Mildly frustrating, we're here to vent and shout
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00:01:24
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Welcome to the mildly frustrating podcast the podcast for all things you guys to mildly frustrating I'm here again with ah Danny and Nick. How you guys been this past that two weeks? I guess since it's two weeks two weeks since we were at least the last one. Mm-hmm pretty chill Hopefully a little more chilled nowadays with your AC unit. and Oh Heck yeah Wait, has it hasn't been two weeks? ah Yeah. Yes, this week is two weeks Really? Yeah. What do I feel like we did it last week? What happened last week? We did mildly hot sores. It's been two weeks for this specific podcast. I gotcha. Wrong. Wrong. well Wrong. um yeah it just Hey, you my hand on the off the table, so it took me a second. um
Danny's Restaurant Challenges
00:02:11
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yeah How things been, guys? You guys good? Yeah. You just chilling?
00:02:19
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I hear Danny has a little bit more frustrating tales as I do. So I think you you both got your own levels of frustration. Everything's good. Yeah. Plug in. I remember ah you didn't hear the snake, but Danny was a playing plumber today. No, yeah. I haven't heard that that death story were you plumbing. It worked. It works. That's a great first start. It's gas. You don't play with gas in a restaurant filled with fire. Fair enough. Yeah, so we ordered... I come into work the other day and now our kitchen manager says, hey, our fryer caught fire yesterday. It's leaking oil a little bit into the bottom. I was like, yeah, I know it's leaking oil. And he says,
00:03:10
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But we kept using it. It was just a little bit. I didn't think there was going to be a problem. But last night it caught like a little fire underneath, which is in a restaurant. That's a disaster. Yeah. So I call today and the guy says, Oh, we can bring you one out today and we'll swap out your old one for the new one. So, okay. Yeah. Awesome. He's like, how much and how many thousands? Two. Oh, that's actually not too bad. Um, so he swaps out. They come, they bring the new fryer. They say you gotta clean, the if we're gonna take the old one, you gotta clean it out so it doesn't get oil all over our vans and whatnot. So we clean out the old fryer, they come, they drop off the new fryer, and we roll out the old fryer. And he goes, all right, is there anything else you need? I was like, uh, somebody to hook it up.
00:04:04
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because we've gotten equipment from them before and they come, they hook it up, they plug it in, they make sure it works. They make, then they make you sign saying it works when it was, uh, putting it space and then they leave. So I was like, is nobody going to hook this up? And they were like, no, we don't mess with gas, but that's the legal thing. We can't unhook your gas and plug it back in. You have to have a plumber come out. I was like, that would have been nice. We're open. Like we need, yeah we need this piece of equipment to work tonight or else we have to close. We can't do anything. So he's like, well, let me call my boss and cause they didn't tell me any of this. So he calls his boss, his boss calls me and he goes, Oh, I thought you knew you had to have a plumber come out. I said, but plumbers aren't on call. I can't just hit up the plumbing company and say, Hey, I need you to come to my restaurant in 30 minutes and it'll take you 20 minutes and then you can go home. It doesn't work like that.
00:05:02
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No, it's also 500 bucks to have them come now to you for 30 minutes. That's the price of So I had to do it myself and I'm never hooked up. I've never unhooked gas and re-hooked gas and and it was probably didn't go well the first time. Yeah. You know, I did the soap water test and there were definitely bubbles coming out. So that's not good. So I had to cut off the gas again and go to Home Depot. which leaves all of our stuff off in the kitchen for like an hour. And then, uh, what's that? That's also lost business. Yeah. Our kitchen manager is really good. So he was able to, to Nagel.
00:05:50
Speaker
his and do his thing. Yeah. Yeah. He was able to makeshift it for the hour I was gone and then it took me like 25 minutes to hook it up. Um, but I was like disgusting and covered in grease and my hooking and hook and then trying to get all the pilot lights lit and not blow yourself up and kill everybody when you get terrifying. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, all right, I think I'm good. I think I got it. Go ahead and light it. He was like, I'm not lighting that. like Why? It's like, cause you hooked up the gas. I'm not lighting that. He was like, you light it. I'll cook on it. You light it.
00:06:30
Speaker
So it was a, it was a disaster, but it doesn't smell like gas in there. Uh, yeah, gas, it's cause they're natural gas ovens and whatnot. It doesn't, didn't smell, everything worked. Took a while, but. You pay all that money for something, a piece of equipment to be delivered and swapped out and they rolled it in and rolled the old one out. It's the, uh, their version of on cookie clean, the rest of the dishes. I guess that because you were a GM, you might've known. It's not a GM thing to do. Well, if it's legal, well I meant like you might know that they're not allowed to do it. But you pay for the service. It's the service says.
00:07:11
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deliver, put in place, make sure equipment works correctly because you can get a faulty piece of equipment. You pay for the service for all of their product management. It's 250 bucks for them to put it in its place and make sure it works. It's an extra 250, which we paid. But for this, they usually wait around for the plumber to hook it up and then they start it up. I wonder if you can give 50 bucks off since they didn't see if the stuff worked, you know, they're, they're missing part of their, uh, their agreement here. Unless they come back and I'll call. It was, they were closed. I'll call and talk to them tomorrow inspection. Make sure you did a good job. Yeah. That's true. They can come out and be like,
00:07:55
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Just check it out and make sure it works. Well, they won't. They would call a plumber. If I say, come make sure the gas is hooked up, they're going to go, no, call a plumber and make sure the gas is hooked up properly. Yeah, they don't do stuff like that. So it's a little nerve wracking. Yeah. All those people sitting around. I probably call it tomorrow. Oh, I'm not. I said I'm about to hook up. I went ahead and told all the bartenders and servers I'm about to hook up the gas, turn on all the stoves, and I'm walking out. Good luck for the rest of the night. I won't be here. Yeah, call the company that delivered it and they'll come in. Yeah. I told whoever's closing starts to smell
Outdoor Dining Dilemmas
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weird. Open the doors and close. Tell everybody to open the doors and close and tell everybody to get out. Yeah. Leave the doors open and tell nobody to come in. ah Yeah, literally open it because we have the garage doors, open the garage doors and tell everybody they have to close out and leave.
00:08:55
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Lame. But I haven't heard a word. Must have worked. That means the equipment's working too. Yeah, I hope so. It's the new equipment. Put that on my resume. Gas plumber. Freelance gas plumber. Yeah. I mean, that's like a $500 job. That's cool. So it all worked out, I guess we'll see tomorrow how, how it ends up. Yeah. I mean, you can never know something could happen overnight when nobody's in there and only the pilots are lit and they all light themselves on fire and the whole place goes down the flames. But the, the bummer of it is it's we're under apartments.
00:09:31
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So we're the bottom floor apartment buildings. Yeah, you're going to jail. I'll probably go to jail. Yeah. If something bad happens. Yeah. No bueno. You honestly probably should go and check it out. Hey, are you guys good? Yeah, I'd i'd call a plumber. So the owner was in there and she, I couldn't figure out what attachments to put on what, what to do. So she was like, Oh, give me the instruction manual. And she opened the first page and she goes, call a plumber. I was like, no, I'm going to figure it out.
00:10:06
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Yeah, I'd call the plumbers to have one, you know, give it all the ones I think we're okay. No, I have the most complainy staff. It's 2024. Everybody just complains. So if there was a hint of a scent in that place, they'd be blowing my phone up. Maybe there's no maybe they'll blow my phone up, but there's a fly in there. There's flies flying around. Can we close? What's your responsibility to keep that from happening? Flies? Yeah, if you're doing your job, there wouldn't be flies. We have two giant garage doors that are open. It's practically outside. but this is Yeah, it doesn't work like that. ah Customers complain about that. They'll sit on the patio and be like a full beer and be like a fruit fly. Fluent my beer. Can I get a new beer? No.
00:11:04
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Why would I give you a new beer? You're sitting outside. That's not my territory. That's open air. No, you can't have a new beer. We give you free napkins for a reason. I think a lot of places still would. Yeah. Five years ago. Yeah, I don't know. Not anymore. Not when beer tripled in price and people figured out you can get a free beer. If you, if you have, you know, four, six left in your beer and yeah, and that fruit fly flies in, you get a free beer. Well, yeah, that if it's almost empty or like, you know, take the fly out. No, like like a human. No, i'm I mean, I'm not drinking that at that point.
00:11:46
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If it's like I just call us if I drink more than a quarter of it I wouldn't Like even think about saying anything if it's like, you know, I took a sip and but you chose to sit outside Yeah, ah but you used to I mean the end they could say no, but I think a lot of places would be like, yeah That's I mean, it's not the customers fault either technique. I mean, yes, it is. They chose to sit outside. Yeah. Yeah, you have seating outside That's like bringing your dog and going my dog ate my food Well, what if they were forced to sit outside cuz the inside was full
00:12:17
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You're not, you can be, wait. There is no force to sit outside. I know, I get what you're saying, but you can say it both ways. But like I said, that's the same thing as bringing your dog and then the dog eating the food off your table and going, my dog ate the food, can I get a new burger? No, you chose to bring your dog. I respect that for sure. But different than the fruit fly. I didn't think about myself, because if I went to a restaurant, no, I think I've picked him out. When you can, I wouldn't. Why? Because they just have germs on them. You're a germ. I mean, at that point, why don't you just drink around it? She's also got protein, so you should just drink it and pay the protein. Add some protein. Add some protein. But then and only then can we add some protein. Can we add some protein? Then we'll take this banana and add some protein. It's like a half a banana and add some protein.
00:13:14
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Yeah, I don't, I don't, it's great. I see both sides of that. Yeah, me too. I didn't until I started talking about it and I realized I sounded like a tool. You get it. That's the, you were the business minded side of it. Yeah. I mean, but it makes sense though. You, it's kind of like a judgment call because you can tell when some people are really trying to get it and when it's mostly an accident. Yeah, but you if back to that is if you feel like you're the person that's going to complain that a bug is flying around you, then you shouldn't sit outside. If you're not the person that picks the fly out of your drink, you shouldn't sit outside. You know what I mean? like I would but say things like, I hate when flies so are flying around me, I want to sit inside.
00:14:04
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But that that's exactly why if I sit outside napkin over the drink or if it if there's something like windy, I'll put my hand over it. Yeah, good you can make the argument that since you have seating out there that it's still your problem. Technically, you've been inside the restaurant. It's not. It depends which customer you ask. Yeah, that's true. That's true. So we're below apartments and. You know the dryer vents when people do their laundry. Oh, Jesus. It does. If it's windy, it's all on our awnings and it'll blow around and people will be like, there's.
00:14:42
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Lindt flying around and I'm like, you chose to sit underneath apartment buildings. I don't know. I can't go up there and put screens on them. That's a fire hazard. I would say in that regard, there might be a, not necessari necessarily a requirement, but an expectation. I would think from customers that you would have some like the netting guard that people have on the patios or something like that. You mean like a drop down to stop that? Yeah, something like, oh yeah, like a we're not allowed to. Well, that's a that's a good point. Like what if something fell out of one of the apartments and like landed on somebody's plate? Would you like? Well, I mean, I've been I've been to I know you're not a bar, but I've been to a few bars that have that. No, it's they're not it's not open on top. It's like it's covered. It's cement covered. We're like one of the apartments. It's just a giant apartment.
00:15:36
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You know what I mean? We're like, innocent. Okay. So it's, yeah, okay. So in that regard, probably given the facilities that you're in, you're not allowed to do. No, we're not allowed to. Okay. yeah That would and make things pretty hard. Yeah. As far as coming in. Yeah, it's hard. That'd be funny sitting like outside eating your food and like a wet pair of AirPods come flying at you. Yeah. There's nothing I could do. I got hit by a chopstick. Well, we've got, Um, three tables on the outside of our front door. And we only use those for people that are just drinking. Well, I mean, there's those tables is, I mean, that's, that's, that's a wild West. It is. Like you go to any, uh, like fro, like a sweet frog or whatever, when you go to their outside tables, yeah you can't do nothing if if they, if that flies in here. So we, we don't serve out there.
00:16:31
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We have signs on them that say this is a no service table. You are welcome to sit here and drink if you want. No food out here. There's no food service. You can't order food and sit out here. yeah It's just for drinking. you guys you You're welcome to sit. yeah um And like there's people walk. That changes the stakes. We've had people come in and be like, we're eating food. The reason why we went to this is because people would come in in the past and be like, we're eating our lunch. and you're one of the people that live in the buildings, dog just came in the grass right in front of us and took a dump. This is disgusting because it's it's an apartment complex.
00:17:12
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And people walk their dogs right there and there's grass and then there's flowers. So people are eating and like a dog will come right next to him and just piss on the plants right next to him. And the people will just keep walking. And so we stopped serving food out there and people get mad and they'll be like, why don't you serve out there? You're all full. These tables are empty and we'll be like, cause there's a dog that will walk by you eventually and pee on the table. pee on the bushes right in front of you, take a dump in the grass right next to you, and that's disgusting. And we've had complaints about that and we're just not doing it. Nah, I think it's fine.
00:17:47
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But I mean, I kind of ah understand the concept that you're going for as well. I've seen like that concept go mostly in like resort-ish areas and like near beaches and and the mountains and stuff. So, I mean, that's a good solid concept. I honestly probably just don't think that many city folk probably understand that, which is why they're having like a, what is this? Well, it's New York City. There's not a dog walking by and taking a dump and peeing on the bushes. It's a person walking by, yeah like taking a dump and peeing on the bushes. And everybody just goes, Oh no, we're good. yeah complain to think about that He should have known better. i mean yeah
00:18:26
Speaker
Shouldn't have sat out there. Shouldn't have been standing there. That's my whole point. I didn't. Shouldn't have sat out there. People come be like, I want a refund. A dog just peed on the bushes. Now it smells like pee. I can't finish my food. That's disgusting. So imagine like New York, a homeless guy walks by and just puts his hand in your ketchup. like Can I get a new ketchup? right No, you sat outside. It'd honestly be kind of hilarious if you owned that kind of culture and when they ask you about that kind of stuff, just be like, hey, I'm just trying to get a New York set up. It's just instead of a guy, it's a dog. Yeah, I paid that guy to come and take a dump over there. Yeah.
00:19:02
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but That guy works here. That's the chef. That guy made your food. Yeah. He walked around to see how it was. When you gotta go, you gotta to go. Would you want me to wait till I got back? yeah um But that's interesting. Yeah, I could see that being tricky. But yeah, all in all, at least you got your your No. fryers set up. Yeah. We'll see if you have a restaurant tomorrow. Yeah. Should be all right. I'm pretty good. I could figure it out. Yeah. Well, would you start messing with that kind of stuff? It only takes one time. Yeah. Yeah. I thought I had it.
00:19:50
Speaker
Yeah, I'm confident enough in myself to know that I wouldn't walk away if it wasn't done correctly. That's a positive and negative, sorry. And I'll bring flowers to the funeral. Yeah. But I was sure. It's not funny. If I thought there was a problem, I wouldn't have left. I had one martini and I hooked up the gas. Yeah. That's a Justin Timberlake joke. Things that calm me down. I don't know that. Oh, that's what he said about his DWI the other night. I had one martini and I followed my friend's home. Oh. Which is what I said to Jesse. Like, why was he even driving? Yeah, what are you doing? What world was he driving a car? Cool car to drive. I didn't like. But why? Yeah. Why? I guess we're funsies. Just dangerous. Yeah, but to have funsies sober. Well, if he only had one drink, then that's, you know. He didn't have
Celebrity Encounters & Concert Stories
00:20:42
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one drink. Probably not.
00:20:44
Speaker
His eyes were. yeah He had one actual glass and read. Well, I guess the breathalyzer and he wouldn't blow a breathalyzer. He didn't do it. He denied it. well that was and doesn't mean Yeah. And if he failed all the tests and then wouldn't take the. Breathalyzer. Now we can't drive anyway.
00:21:11
Speaker
i and jimmy pen I saw a meme today. that justin heard It was Justin saying, when can I have my license back? And somebody put, it's going to be me. That's so great. I was part of the concert. There was a girl at the front. um Like in one of the front rows and he like went over, he was just pointing, you know, he was doing crowd work. Who's talking to a couple people and then he um got to this ah girl ah she was um She was an older ish girl. She was like probably like 40 and She had a shirt that says it's gonna be May and he's like, I know who you are
00:21:50
Speaker
And everybody was laughing. He's like, if for all of you don't know, he's like, there's a certain time of year that comes around that I've used to be really frustrating, but now I've gotten, I've learned to embrace it. He's like, this is the girl who created the it's going to be made meme. Is it really? Yeah. Oh, that's so cool. What a great meme. Yeah. So I send it to people every April. It's so great. It says like roses are red. Yeah. Something else. Mm hmm. Yeah, I see it every year. You get to pull it. um But yeah, that was that was great. I was like, oh, that's funny that she's actually here. You probably yeah got her at the tickets. She probably has like some tickets. She probably has a ticket to every time he comes around. Yeah. Yeah. That's awesome. Yeah, it was cool. Good concert. But I know we're going up and down for you tuning how things been there.
00:22:46
Speaker
Um, that's all right. You know, but things are are good on my end, but a lot of the executives were in town this week, so a lot of high-wounded people.
00:23:03
Speaker
Tightly wound. Yeah. Yeah. Got you. and Yeah. what
Workplace Stress & Security Concerns
00:23:09
Speaker
does How does that change your like art? Do you just have to be like on alert to where if they're watching you? Well, not necessarily because none of them really know how to work the cameras, but oh the it's mostly just the fact that they'll like come at you with the weird stuff and try to make you do extra stuff that isn't really part of anything that you do just because they want to look good. Like a foot massage? Sure. Yeah, totally.
00:23:39
Speaker
But no, the like, I don't, I mean, I honestly don't mind it to a certain extent, but they had me laminating for about five hours one day. And I was like, why am I laminating? Yeah. I was like, why am I, I can't even pay attention to the cameras because I'm looking at this thing. Yeah. They're confusing you. Luckily nothing happened, but yeah. I was like, okay, which we also did actually start a new receptionist um earlier this week, but or was it late? It might've been late last week. I know it was before the executive started coming over, so I think it was late last week. Oh, so she was there. Yeah. So brand new- She was watching cameras.
00:24:23
Speaker
Well, no, so she was brand new there and they had her go through classes and just how to learn how to do stuff. yeah So she was learning while doing all that. And I, of course, also had a teacher, you know, some of the things that she would have to do as far as like badges and trying to get people scanned in and. our welcome process, phone process, all that kind of stuff. Um, so there's a bunch of, of who also this week was just a little bit more, uh,
00:24:56
Speaker
A little bit more stressful than usual. Of course, um, my, I asked my boss if, uh, she put in that PTO for the day that I had that last week. And she was like, ah a little words Oh, I'm glad I asked. Cause, uh, yeah, I wanted to make sure that's what's in this week. Thank you. Yes. Yes. and yes quite Did you also ask why you were laminating?
00:25:23
Speaker
No, I didn't get something you can do about that if they ask you to. Yeah. So they had me laminating. Um, they had me like just doing a lot more up in it. Like they, we, we all agreed once an hour is, is fine. Like I was honestly kind of pushing the envelope of a little bit too much because I mean, not too much happens. But I, I walked the the area once an hour, you know, just to make sure. and Yeah, that's pretty, that's a lot. So they, yeah. So they had me walk maybe two, two, three times an hour this time. And I was like, why? it's hot Every, every 10 to 15 minutes.
00:26:08
Speaker
Yeah. yeahs And it takes about five minutes to to walk the perimeter. So I was just, you know, doing extra. Which I mean, I don't mind the extra exercise, I guess. Well, that's just ah kind of just a bad use of time. Well, I mean, you could be using that time to laminate. Doesn't matter. I was just going to say that. Fair enough. Well, that's lame. So, I mean, it's just, you know, extra stuff. And of course the, uh, people were just like asking extra things and kind of like Hawkeye and me for whatever reason. Cause I want to, and ah di but's never go to get me and she's a gold mine. Yeah. So.
00:26:57
Speaker
Yeah it's a poor use of time but yeah you can't especially when it's your like bosses bosses when they ask you to do stuff especially for a company like that where they really don't. It's a like call center type environment where they really it's low stakes your employees they're very replaceable at least that's how they view everybody. Yeah. Well, that's actually where I was going to get to. Yeah. Um, so, which we've apparently been going into attrition mode. Cause remember how I was saying how busy we were with getting so many people. Yeah. Yeah. No, we're, no we're we're down to the bare minimum again. Yeah. Like cause they, they're just taking out people. Right. Like, okay, cool. So that they just do it based on the band.
00:27:41
Speaker
Yeah, but that being said, there's just a lot of people have to ah walk out and there's a few that don't want to go for whatever reason. i worked I'd be happy to leave, but you're only happy to leave. but I mean, it depends on how you've been treated and if you have any money. Well, that being said, if they, if they fire me, it's not going to be for a good number of reasons. I can't take unemployment. So, cause I go in, I do my job. I'm not going to screw up this mess. I'm doing everything about the book. So yeah, if I get fired, it's going to, I'm getting, a lot people to I don't mind walking out of a stress free environment and I'm taking that money and moving elsewhere.
00:28:24
Speaker
A lot of people, it hurts their pride. You don't want to, nobody wants to be fired. and ah Fair enough. But it just depends. Like it, there's a depend there. There's a difference though. If I'm being fired because they just need to let go people, that's, that's nothing on me. That means that they can't afford me. I can go elsewhere. Yeah. No, you're not wrong. That's just how that is. And I spent, well, yeah, but. Yeah. That being said, that's why I just know I'm not going to be fired and why I'm so nonchalant about it. But that being said, the people that I have dealt with some of them not too keen on leaving. So a little bit more difficult to do it than some wishes made the job a little bit more. What kind of weapons do you get?
00:29:14
Speaker
Uhm, my fists. your cando stak they They haven't given me anything. I've thought about that too. I was curious if like I could equip myself or if they would have to issue me stuff. andd have to If I could equip myself, I'd get myself a nice little belt. I think as soon as you equip yourself, it becomes a ah you problem. Yeah. Get this guy out of here. Yeah. Company be like, we didn't give him that. Well, from one of the other people like security guards with, ah you know, conceals, we can they get paid more. So they're sought after more with stuff.
00:29:57
Speaker
Yeah. Tell them that. Just give me a gun because then you can pay me more. Well, they would give you, you know, that's what I'm saying is I think you have to you to equip yourself. I don't think they actually quit. Well, unless you're an officer, then I think no they all equip you you. It's not bring your own gun to work. Well, gee, it So there's also probably a difference between a company and a private like, ah um yeah, even a contractor. But and that but that's if it's a company, the company has to issue it.
00:30:30
Speaker
Unless it's like I'm a freelance, uh, like sick, like you come hire me as your, your personal security guard, like just me. They did. But if you go to, you know, they they didn't hire a company or anything, I don't know. Yeah. If you go to like, you know, protect your family, Inc. That's a, those are company issues. I'm honestly curious and I'm interested. So I'm kind of probably look that up and come back with you later. But and that's, uh, that's interesting to to think about. Yeah, it's like a work from home jobs. You have to have good internet. You need to have good security jobs. What kind of guns you working in with? What are we talking? and They need to be at least 32 caliber. 32. What kind of guns are you working with? conna yeah Yeah, you have to come in with a a mounted gun to come in with a Humvee.
00:31:27
Speaker
um yeah that's that's funny um well so are they gone the the higher the heart it's i know at least one they confirmed one guy because they gave me her badge one has been confirmed dead yeah how was this thing so it's possible let's buy candlestick to the heart but it's also friday So there's always a possibility that they'll write this week out, but they won't be next week. So I'm at least one day away. If not today, ah tomorrow i'll be ready um will I'll be the last day. So, yeah, we'll find out. I'm going to show up in a suit and
Hockey Gear & Safety
00:32:11
Speaker
be like, here to talk about your security guard. Yeah. We have a real problem with this guy. All the, we recently had some things laminated and they were not done appropriately.
00:32:21
Speaker
Oh yeah. And, uh, I guess since ah our last podcast, uh, Danny didn't see it, but it's here a little bit. oh yeah Nice little hockey bruiser. Yeah. Yeah. Hit me with the puck. From what? No, they, they just slapped a puck at me and I took it with the defense. You weren't like being a slithery little snake. No. You weren't wearing elbow pads. I don't have elbow pads. Would you wear them? I should probably get them. yeah I and um honestly didn't think about it. I don't have ah elbow pads or a mask, but I've noticed that notice i probably should have a mask too. Yeah. Like a cage. Yeah. Well, I don't want to care. I'll probably get a visor. Are you allowed to play with the fishbowl?
00:33:10
Speaker
Well, you're allowed the fish bowl. Gotcha. Yeah. Oh, I have to figure they force you to. Oh, fish bowl is like a hybrid. I've heard that it can, um, I thought mostly it's required it nowadays.
00:33:27
Speaker
I think they, yeah. Yeah. Well, at least they require, they're now, they require a cage or a, so plexy they They did not care that I did not have one then. and Oh nice, right on. That's what I thought it was. Yeah, I played with just a half visor. Well, he honestly, I don't know. They might just not have noticed or cared or I don't know. Yeah. To be fairly honest with you. but You don't have, do you have shoulder pads? Yeah, I got everything except for elbow pads, which I recently
00:34:02
Speaker
That's funny. I did the exact opposite. I don't play with shoulder pads. I only play with elbow pads. Really? Yeah, because when you fall... I get hit in the chest and the back way more. Yeah, it stinks. I don't care about that. But when you fall and you hit your elbows, it sucks.
00:34:19
Speaker
the i've I can take that. I don't know. i've I've hit my elbows a few times. That doesn't bother me too much. I hate it. like this this didn't Everything goes numb. Like, i I got hit with the puck. And I knew I got hit with the puck, but I was just like, Hey, whatever. I kept playing. And then I think a day before I showed Dylan, I just want to notice. I was like, Oh, there's, there's actually a big bruise here. They must've hit me pretty hard. Yeah. I mean, like these parts, they don't really have too much feeling in them as far as like, whatever. Yeah. Maybe you've just fallen a lot.
00:34:56
Speaker
They're like, I mean, falling falling in fights. Yeah. I mean, I do a lot of extreme sports. ah yeah You catch a stick to the, to the funny bone or a popcorn fall and you're, you go numb for 10 minutes. I learned that by not wearing either. And I was like, Oh, I'm wearing elbow pads every, every time I play. My shins would look a mess too. Cause I didn't have shin pads either. All I, all I played for the longest time was just ah gloves and a helmet. That's all I had in a stick.
00:35:32
Speaker
do Do you have a knee path now? Yeah. So just the elbow pads is literally all you're missing. Elbow pads in the fishbowl. Yeah, but I mean they're honestly they're huh you have gloves. Yeah, he's got winter gloves You have to have gloves mittens in order to play i did actually start out with but They were leather gloves we know they were driving fingerless gloves
00:36:04
Speaker
Oh, lord. I got hit in the knuckles once and that was not good. But yeah, I got some nice ones. Oh, nice. That was pretty sweet. The I splurged out on the gloves and I went low low budget on the stick the shoulder pads the legs the lambs I got for free the ah right one is actually kind of busted but um It works perfectly fine. I honestly don't feel anything in them. Are those in your room? Yeah What does your room smell like? He he was just talking about that actually really good
00:36:43
Speaker
actually No. Yeah, you don't really smell it in his room. So what I do is I have a setup where I paint them, I clean them every week. How? um I have disinfectant wires. In the river? dis No, I have a disinfectant wires, disinfectant spray now. But I would just put them in the tub and I just wash them with soap. Shower with them on. oh
00:37:14
Speaker
He rollerblades home in the rain.
00:37:18
Speaker
He takes a bath, a soaking tub yeah with his equipment on. You could probably ride to the pool and just roll in. Just jump in the pool. The funny thing is, I just smell my gloves and they smell like the pool. They smell like what? They don't smell like chlorine, but they just smell like a nice little mist fresh. Oh, that's that's what I have. Hockey equipment made my car stink on the drive home horribly. Oh, no. Like I could actually breathe in my gloves like they they smell good. All right. Yeah. He was just talking about that last week. He was saying how he started using the wipes and like completely killed the smell on him. Yeah, that's cool. I keep them clean, but they would have a little bit of smell, but it would keep them at bay. Like you could wear them and yeah. Yeah, they're the worst regimen.
00:38:11
Speaker
Great. And I keep really good tabs on my skates because those were the most expensive pieces. What kind of skates got? I got the hazardous X nines. I don't know what that is. What brand is that? True. Huh? True. No, true. Like what? Yeah, brand. Yeah, true. Oh, yeah. I didn't say anything. Never seen them. OK. I hate you. Yeah, I've never seen true. At least I don't think I have. I think that. Yeah. All right. Look what you did. Do you have a net? It's going to go in the garage.
00:38:53
Speaker
to keep popping up and stuff. They came out with essentially, uh, like the pro skates, but not at a pro skate price. And instead of paying over a thousand dollars, I paid the 700, but for skates. Yeah. But they're going to be $700 for skates. Yeah. They're gonna, they're going to be my lifetime skates.
00:39:19
Speaker
What's the next topic? No, but that that was the only thing I started on. This is the thing I actually spent money on. He wanted to get a ah pair that he was going to be happy with forever. Yeah, but they have interchangeable blades and stuff. So if the blades break or anything like that, I'll just change. I think all skates have that, right? Yes, unless they're not really. I mean, you'd have to change the whole little bottom like. This one, you just snap this off and you just take the plate out. Yeah. I've never seen ones that it was different. Really? Yeah. Apparently from what I gather, all the skates within the past five years have been the only ones that have had that anything earlier. I haven't really had those. I bought mine. How long ago did we buy skates Danny? 35 years ago. Yeah.
00:40:13
Speaker
But that being so tes again, these are going to be my lifetime skates. So that's the only thing I, uh, spurs on everything else is pretty much a discount. Um, they gave me the, uh, yeah. What the hell are you thinking? He wanted skates. I don't have many nice things here. I want what? Well, maybe two. I got the prices go up. I mean, that's what I was looking at. We have bowers, right? I'm glad I got them early then, if that's the case. Yeah, I have, I have bower vapors and... Mmm. Wow, I didn't like the vapor brand. I, my stick is vapor. My gloves are vapor. My stick is vapor. Well, okay. I heard that this, the vapor one was good. I heard that a lot that the vapor two sucks. I think I have the ones.
00:41:10
Speaker
Yeah. Oh, no, no, no, no. I'm talking about the Hyperlite. Sorry. I'm thinking about the Hyperlites. Oh, I don't have Hyperlites. The Hyperlite one was good. The Hyperlite two sticks. It was way too fragile. You're talking about the skates? No, the sticks. Oh, I'm talking about the skates. Yeah, they're like 400, 500. My skates were like 350, somewhere around there. Yeah, they're all pretty expensive. I mean, they're banged up pretty bad. The juniors are 330. From going from the house skates that I was using from the ice house. I bet to those bad boys Night and day. That's not anything I wanted to do I could do I hope so for that price to you. Okay, that's a Interesting topic. Yeah, I'd be pretty frustrated if I was you with the Elbow issue. It doesn't look very good know one that one was a little Feisty, yeah, maybe next week if we do video you could show it but right now I just have to take her for it doesn't look great. I
00:42:10
Speaker
feisty now does it maybe did you notice rub some dirt in that yeah and cold steak you got steak it's a cold steak yeah colder eyes um did you notice it like when you were laying down or something that if you tried to sit up no and like i could touch it yeah that's fine really feel it i don't know why i just don't feel it interesting yeah
00:42:42
Speaker
Like it and like it. Oh, by the way, I did need to put that on ah ten easy installing payments of twenty four ninety nine. and Yeah, she got you on me. Yeah, there was a. um Thank you for the update, guys, but there's um one subject I did want to get to. We've been on here for a while now. It went quick. That's what happens when people start. and fun Yeah, we just kind of start hanging out and talking about what's going on. yeah It's hard to stay on topic with. I'm trying to entice Danny to play some hockey with me. Dude, I would love to play hockey.
00:43:24
Speaker
I really, it' so I've been wanting to play with Dylan, Jimmy, or you for the longest time, or all three. That'd be amazing. Yeah, but I'm not coming all the way out there to play hockey. Well, yeah. Well, I'm going to come all the way over there to play hockey, so it'll be fine. and So moving it on from the kind of just general updates, I did want to address the topic from last time with the McDonald's topic.
Sauce Pricing Debate
00:43:47
Speaker
Oh, I'm frustrated that you would add that. Oh, sorry. All right, cool. So yeah, we can 90 cents freaking 90 cents for this for the sauce. So there's there's some updates there. No.
00:44:01
Speaker
um So the McDonald's sauces, they have reduced their prices. Already? Yeah, that didn't. So I was just like the other day, I was like last weekend, I was just sitting in bed. I was like, let me just check. It's because I'm curious if anything's changed. Probably not. But I'll look. And the prices are now down to 30 cents per 30 cents. That's more reasonable. Way reasonable. Yeah, that's a third. Mm hmm. Um, but also, so that's a good thing, but also, uh, as an update is I was wrong last time. Um, you don't get free sauces with meals. Uh, you get free sauces with nuggets, nuggets only. That's it. That's what I thought you meant. No, I meant like with any meal. That's why did you get? Yeah. Well, why would you get a sauce with any burger and fries? cause You're getting fries. No, that's for ketchup.
00:45:00
Speaker
yeah what if you Now you're just getting ridiculous. Well, if you want some money mustard with that though, I honestly like my fries with some, uh, with some, uh, as you did on your 30 cents. Yeah. For 30 cents. So there are two things I know about this. You don't need specialty sauces with your fries unless you want to pay for them.
00:45:23
Speaker
Tell you what I want, what I really, really want. And the only dish in America that should be served with a sauce for free. Can anybody guess? Chicken nuggets? No. Uh, nuggets. Yes. Okay. Two. Close. It's almost the same thing. Other than chicken nuggets. Egg rolls?
00:45:53
Speaker
Frick, you're out. but right so Oh man. Chicken wings. Every human has the right to ranch or blue cheese with their chicken wings. Fair enough. The same version with chicken nuggets. Everybody that orders chicken nuggets has the right to whatever sauce they want to dip them in. Yeah, those are just boneless chicken wings. Yeah. That's what I mean. Same line. For fries? No. Fries? That's a specialty sauce for fries. You're supposed to eat your fries with nothing on them. Ketchup is free because it's ketchup. And that's every American's right to ketchup with your french fries. That's a fact. and Just like wings, blue cheese or ranch, it should be free. Ketchup with fries, blue cheese or ranch with wings.
00:46:50
Speaker
Nothing else. If anything says honey, you should be charged for it. Anything for your fries should be charged for, except ketchup. Ketchup is a stereotype. It comes with it. Stereotype is probably the wrong word. Ketchup is a generic dipping sauce for fries. That is a right. I mean, it's not necessarily the wrong word, but it's not the best word. Yeah. Yeah. But that's a given. Ketchup should be free. If you want to dip your fries in sweet and sour or honey mustard or barbecue, you should be charged. That's a specialty sauce. It's a specialty sauce. I don't know if I'd go as far as specialty. They're not homemade. Well, they're expensive to make. Honey mustard is expensive to make. Honey is expensive. I don't even know if there's honey in honey mustard.
00:47:43
Speaker
So what do you say about places with their own specialty sauces? Cause I mean, that's gotta be a bunch of the sauces that you don't want for free in there, right? Or is it just the free sauces that you're thinking about that's in there? Like mustard may start from the beginning. Yeah, I didn't get understanding. ah You know, a lot of places i have specialty sauce, but it's usually the same amount of, you know, or a variation of the same sauce, right? The house sauce, quote unquote, that orangey gooey stuff that everybody loves. Um, you know, um ah I don't, know I don't know if you're saying what restaurants have that. you're asking but Bad daddies has it. 55 has it. What any, any place has cookout has their own, their own specialty sauce. Are you asking if you should be charged for that? Well, I'm just saying, what's your stance on it? Since you're talking about, you know, people shouldn't have specialty sauces. Well, that is ah of course a specialty sauce. Would you charge for your house specialty sauce or just give them ketchup?
00:48:42
Speaker
Yes. Really? Yes. ah I was just curious because I haven't been charged for specialty sauce before. us Unless you get nuggets. Or chicken meat. Well, I mean, I got my tater tots with my burger. I'd put that sauce on the same level as everything else. A house sauce? Yeah. What if your house sauce is expensive? I mean, I'd put it on the same level as it's not like a, it should be a gift that it's free. Yeah. Well, but the thing is, is whenever I buy something, it's usually says, uh, with the side of our house sauce. And that's usually the big zing as to why you would get that, uh, menu item is because it's your house. I guess. Yeah. And it comes with the house sauce. Well, yeah. well Well, stuff says that it's it's implied that it's in the price as well. Yeah, that it's included. Yeah.
00:49:27
Speaker
But if you get a burger and fries and you say, Hey, let me get a side of your house sauce. You should be charged for the side. I mean, I would recharge for our house sauce. We charge for everything. i say How much do you charge? 50 cents, but we make it. It's expensive. And we make it fresh this night. It doesn't come in a package. oh It wasn't being last year. Yeah, that's that would be my expectation. Anything you make in-house, i I'd be fine with you charging. I know. I'm messing around, but this was a big conversation to them. No, I mean, both arguments aren't wrong or right. It's just a trace objective. I'm sure there's somebody somewhere that that has the same argument as I do, but means it.
00:50:05
Speaker
I think it's I fight for you. I think especially nowadays, it's unrealistic to to be like. You're not allowed. You you're shouldn't be allowed to include sauces with fries. You shouldn't, you know, and or a burger. You shouldn't. I saw someone now. It's more. It's more of a thing. Except if you get a meal, you should be allowed to get a soft ketchup. If you go out for a burger and fries, you should be allowed ketchup. You should pay for anything extra. Why would it be free if it's extra? If you have to say, can I please have honey mustard? You should be charged. Because that's the way it's always been. Not anymore. Not when we talked about that last time. Not when labor doubled. Not when the price of the container doubled.
00:50:59
Speaker
The shipping doubled, everything doubled. So now in 2024, you have to charge for these or else you lose money and that's not an option.
00:51:11
Speaker
yeah I think that they're just, they need to go to jail. Did you know you could get a bag of ice at McDonald's? For real? but yeah Frozen water, how much?
00:51:26
Speaker
<unk> and Probably cheaper than the size. Probably not. But I mean, if you order a water, a McDonald's is free. If you order a frozen water, now you pay for it. If you can order a bag of ice, you probably pay for it. Oh, I mean, that's next is if you want ice in your drink, you need to pay. Yeah. You know what the cost of electricity is to, to chill that ice. Hey, can I get ice in there that's actually get there? They do that in other countries. Yeah. where Nick, you know that water's a fine. I used to work at those and I'm sorry. Can you please, and they do that it's like countries you don't get ice in your drinks.
00:52:08
Speaker
Uh, but like what kind of countries are we talking? Like Asian countries, like, well, mostly yeah. Asian countries and the least. We, we, the thing is, is warm water is actually healthier for you. It's healthier for you than cold water. Yeah. They prefer to just do it that way. Yeah, that's fine. But do they charge you to have ice? I'm not sure. I just know you don't get ice unless you ask for it. Well, in some areas you don't want their ice and it's not possible to have their ice without diarrhea.
00:52:40
Speaker
No, it's just a it's just a day. in the day It's a well-known institution. His diary as well. He's diarying. They get the ah USA import ice for twenty two ninety five rubies from McDonald's. Rupees. It's a rupees rupees. Yes. That was one octave off.
00:53:06
Speaker
but but But then you get into like, if if I get a burger at McDonald's and I ask them no pickles, do they reduce the price? Like, I feel like you start getting into some antics when you're like, this thing costs money, but this thing doesn't. No. Addition, add subtraction. Don't add.
Economic Pressures in Dining
00:53:25
Speaker
Don't take away. It's the, it's a restaurant way. Restaurants are very nonprofit almost. Not anymore. No, no. If you take things off, it's not cheaper. If you add things, it's more expensive. It's very hard to make money in the industry.
00:53:43
Speaker
No, I think margins are insane. Unfortunately, they actually need to get rid of those pickles because most likely they're probably going to throw some away anyway. So they're counting on more people wanting the pickle so that we cut our own pickles. The reason for having the pickle. Yeah, we do our own pickles. That's why the pickles on our burger are so good. Yeah, because that doesn't if you're like, so if somebody orders a burger burger and they're like, How much is right at the apartments over there? Not bad, like 14, 1500 a month for like dope, like new granite. He said not bad and then said a number that was more than twice my current.
00:54:25
Speaker
Yeah, nobody has your rent. You don't even have your rent. You live with other people. Yeah, fair enough. they're Yeah, they're sick. But that's cheap when you make 60 grand a year serving tables. They're not that, they're not that cheap, are they? I don't know. Yes. At Wade Park, yeah. Brie lives upstairs. I think hers is 14. I think it might be less. I think it might be 12. It's a one bedroom, one bath, and it's pretty dope. Nice. And it's granite, it's dark wood. It looks like your, it looks like your first apartment before you moved into the two bedroom. Yeah. It's pretty sweet. Yeah. I mean, I don't, I don't know exactly what you're talking about. I never lived in a one bedroom.
00:55:08
Speaker
You didn't, 15 year olds doesn't want their job anymore. I'll i'll replace them. Are you talking about serving and bartending? Yeah. like I like, I told you a long time ago, you don't have to choose the kitchen and you can come out. Linoleum. Do you know how much our closing, you know, if you close, if you work five shifts a week, And you close three to, I like to alternate. So I do three nights closing two nights, not. And then the next week you do two nights closing three nights, not that person makes at least 60,000 like for like 29 to 30 hours a week. That's disgusting. That's not bad. It's not fair. I pulled up the apartments just cause I'm curious. The other, the cheapest. Well, also let's, let's be really, how, how good looking are they?
00:56:03
Speaker
The apartments? No. They're brand new. The the bartender. Oh, anybody. Let's get real here. Anybody. All of them. It's a tip pool. That's how you make so much money. Um, their two bedrooms start at 1975. 14 is not bad for a one-bedroom. It's not it's not off. They're really nice and you're downtown Raleigh. There's like 900 square foot one-bedroom one bath for like 900 over here. Well, yeah, you're the little over there I Know I'm just saying like it's just crazy, you know this is as forber's not bad That's a really nice apartment
00:56:45
Speaker
for that. So it boggles my mind. I don't work with the numbers you work with. Imagine if you moved to the apartments in Wade Park, worked at Bruce and made all that money and saved all that money on the Uber to not drive to work. You wouldn't even have to buy a car right away. You could just stash money away. Yeah. and Nothing. Like I would have nothing. My ceiling is up. That's what Bree does. She walks downstairs and goes to work.
00:57:15
Speaker
And if I wanted a drink, they go downstairs. That's what they all do. They go downstairs. I have like four employees that work there that live in Wade Park. They just go drink and then they take the elevator upstairs and they all have elevators. umma I'm turning on the sauce thing. I was thinking like. Because I it's come up in a couple of different subjects here lately is when you start charging for individual things where you didn't use to charge, then it starts putting scrutiny on the other stuff like, OK, so now you want to start charging me for this.
00:57:50
Speaker
Where do we go with all of the other stuff? So if we're going to start itemizing things, am I going to start like saving money on and on other things if we want to start doing this? Like if I get a burger and I ask you no bun, no pickles and no sauce on it, how much are you taking off? And then if I get one sauce, you're going to charge me extra zero. Yes, it's just it sucks. Yeah, but then your choice is to not go out. I know. But yeah, I know that.
00:58:22
Speaker
That's also not an option. Exactly. That's why you don't take money off because not not going out isn't it's not an option. Yeah, I think that's more the pressuring part. It's not because it's mostly due to them wanting to fix the margins, like as opposed to making 300, you know, just um'm throwing a number instead of making 300 percent profit every year. We only made two hundred and ninety five percent last year. So we need to fix this.
00:58:54
Speaker
Yeah, and we have to fix it to 350 because that's how we need to do this. Well, if you're if your profit. Doesn't go up a certain percentage.
00:59:06
Speaker
It's not good. and If it goes down, people lose their jobs for that. I guess that's not avoidable. That's since the beginning of time. That's not just now. You know, if your profits, you know, you expect your profits to go up. 7% every quarter or even every year. They don't have to lose their job. They just annually. They do. Cause if you went up 13%, 13%, 15%, and then the next year you went down seven, somebody made a mistake. I mean, maybe even unnecessarily. Unless there was a pandemic.
00:59:46
Speaker
Then, you know, there's nothing you can do, even if it's like inflation related. So, you know, again, say our profits are normally three hundred percent, but inflation went up and it made it two hundred and ninety percent. It's unacceptable in that they're going to fix it and make it three fifty. Yes. It's not like we need to fix it and bring it back to three hundred, you know, three or five. No, because you should have. went to I mean, maybe when you start going down, there's a problem. Yeah, but it's, it's never just like, let's fix the problem. It's, it makes things worse. Like for everybody else. For everybody. Yeah. Yeah. But no, not really. Cause it goes up every year. So it doesn't make things worse. It makes it unnecessarily worse. The ones that go down, clothes. Yeah.
01:00:38
Speaker
I mean, unnecessarily, like you could keep 300% profit every year if you wanted, because you're making that on inflation. So the percentage is always like the percentage will be more money every year. But yeah they're making changes to increase the percentage because they want the extra money. They want $100 a burger. that's that's And I only make $25 an hour. That's understandable, but you know i don't I don't like it in a lot of places where they're just like, they just decide one day, like, hey, we want to make extra money here. Mm-hmm.
01:01:11
Speaker
I mean, that's how it all started. We need to do this to offset our cost here. It's like, no, maybe that's how it started. But you could have just done this for 10 cents to offset your cost. But now you made a 30. That way you can make extra money. Capitalism. That's where I get annoyed. like well Don't don't give me that we're offsetting costs. We both we all don't know they're offsetting losses, not offsetting costs. You offset your losses to make them gains. There's no way you can you could convince me that they're not going to make way more money by setting it to 30 cents.
01:01:47
Speaker
way more money. Yes. Like, despite whatever they were losing on it. You turned your loss into a gain. That's capitalism. Yes. 100%, you turned your loss into a gain. Yes. It's not turning my loss into not a loss. It's turning me into a gain. Somebody said... raise their hands and said, let's start charging 30 cents for sauces. And they said, executive right there. yeah Wrong. and So annoying. Well, somebody said 90 and they said, cool. And then 90 backfired and they said, you're fired. Anybody have any other ideas? Somebody they said 30 and they said, we'll give you a try.
01:02:25
Speaker
You know, it's crazy enough to think it's more of a, like a, I got you. Cause now it's just like, Oh, it was 90, but now that it's 30. So now people are going to buy it. Yeah. That's the other thing that they do. Yeah. Now it's not so bad. It used to be $2. Now it's only $1. Well I did that with gas. It used to be $5. Now you're like, oh, it's only $3.56. Like what? It used to be $1.95. When it broke too, you were in mayhem. At least you have a little bit of the confidence for some things that it's regulated in some form. Like what? Like gas is semi-regulated. It is $3.50 a gallon if you're lucky.
01:03:05
Speaker
Yeah, regulated in terms of the price of oil is going up. three nineteen It's not. They're making more money. yeah's Yeah, that's true. It's the same thing. It's McDonald's. It's the same thing. It costs $77 to fill my tank today. 77. Well, you have a tank. That's nasty. Shouldn't do that. That's horrible. 350.
01:03:31
Speaker
If it was $2, that's almost in half. That's $40 to fill your tank. Yeah. 350. It's 350 everywhere. 360, 370. When was this? Today. Where was I? When was this? It was today. I missed one of those. It was $1.99. Yeah, that's what I mean. where those And then when it broke too, like after Katrina and everybody was like, oh. It's $3.24 here. Yeah, 349 in Cary. I mean, I work in Raleigh. Oh, don't get gas there. That's a bad idea. I don't get gas past Holly Springs. Well, I also live in the middle of nowhere. So the gas station closest to my house is also 350. And then every gas station on the way to work is 350. You drive, you know, five minutes out of your way to save you the extra money. What direction? There's one right next to my house.
01:04:27
Speaker
That's 20 minutes out of the way. It would cost me that in gas. Yeah, 55, 350. Not 55, it's 339. That's without the 3 cents off. Maybe today. I thought you said it was today. Well, today I got gas in Raleigh. Oh, yeah. you're saying But the other day in on 55, it was probably 349. Yeah. You know, fluctuate so much. Yeah. But now you're now three thirty nine's a bargain. Like you were saying, now three thirty nine. Ooh, three thirty nine. Mm hmm. That's horrible. Now you go there with 30 cent. Only 30 cents for sweet and sour. Sweet. Mm hmm. This is sweet. We should stock up. Yeah. Let's go get 10. Yeah. If you convince one million people to spend 30 cents on sweet and sour, that's a lot of money. And that's only one million people.
01:05:26
Speaker
Yeah, that's a million. We know that America's got more than that. Trying to get some. Yeah. Well, I was going to say there's probably, I mean, I don't know how
Authenticity in Chinese Cuisine
01:05:36
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many people in China order sweet and sour, Nick, like 6 billion. non switch iha Sweet and sour is just for you Americans. I get sweet, sweet and sour chicken, man. Yeah, that's just for you Americans. Yeah, that's Americanized. I know you have that there. Why did they even call that stuff Chinese food? Chinese people don't eat Chinese food. Chinese people make the Chinese food, though. Yeah, they're not eating that food. They make their own stuff. We know what you like. Yeah, they know better. We wouldn't eat their cat. Have you ever walked into the owner of the Chinese restaurant eating sesame chicken? No, it's just the rice. If I was the owner of a Chinese restaurant, I'll show you. Do you like sesame chicken? Hell yeah. Yeah, it's delicious. Well, I prefer a general challenge chicken to be fairly honest, but... Me too. But I can't get it spicy anywhere. It's never spicy. It always says spicy. You need to... Well, the thing is, is you live close to my family's restaurant, eat there. My brother is a trained chef. You do know that, right? Oh, oh, you don't... I'm thinking of Dylan's old workplace, my bad. I've never been to the restaurant that year. Uh, Dermay. Uh, Dermay. Family owns. Which one? It's the one on Harrison. Well, both of you guys should.
01:06:49
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No, it's ah off of Martin Luther King.
01:06:56
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I know when I said that, you guys were like, oh, no, it's okay. It's cool. the Huh? Where is it? Your family's place is in Cary. We have one in Cary, but they sold that one. No, no, no, no. They renamed it. Sorry, it's Bistro something now. Bistro 65? Last time I saw it, maybe? It's been a long time. It was Neo Asia, but it was next to some sort of a dealership. Yeah, I was in Cary.
01:07:32
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Yeah, I forgot what they did because I haven't been there since they changed it. I just remember driving past and I asked my dad about it and he was like, yeah, we changed the name and we're doing something different with it. And that's all he said. My dad doesn't speak too much English so I didn't. I haven't been there. I actually kind of want to go there and see what's going because I think my uncle Chris still runs the place. So how are you looking at it up Dylan? That's right. It like I'm playing balloons. totally Is that Maynard and like Harrison Avenue? Or High House. Maynard and High House. Yeah, yeah, High House, yeah. That's what it is. Where they all where there's a Wendy's there. Boy and Allie's. It was near it.
01:08:17
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Well, there's a little over there. Yeah. Yeah, there is one of these there. Yeah. But I don't know how to describe this. The like thumbnail for Neo China is a roach in somebody's food. Oh, just the one at on Maynard. Oh, joyce I guess that's why I don't know how that happens. It's like yeah this. it It's food for every restaurant. and That one is just a roach. It's so messed up. how do better that's That's quite confusing. I was curious as to which one, like if it was Neo China days, Neo Asia days. I thought yeah we we were initially Neo China. Then we wanted to expand and do Thai food and Japanese food and stuff. And that's when we did Dim Sum, which was a huge hit. Like everybody loved the place then. um Which is why I'd be confused about it. 4.4. Nice. o With a thousand reviews. um Nice. Probably crappy. That's good. They're all Nick's bots. They're either Chinese. That's really good.
01:09:22
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4.4 in carry with a thousand views I'll have to I'll have to check it out to eat That's hard to do this is done. Yeah It looks pretty um Anyway, so what's the what's yours what's new China in Durham it's got 4.2
01:09:42
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my brother, uh, started, um, and well, that one probably has a four foot two, cause that one's been open for 30 years, over 30 years. So that one's got a lot of reviews. I would imagine only 400. Oh, oh, nevermind then. Well, good. Um, but yeah, my brother started, uh, revamping it and stuff. And I got to say like him and his friend that they both graduated from Johnson was university. They're, they're doing really good ah stuff. When I ate the food, I was like, we're back in business. Cause I could tell that our food was starting to lack a little bit in the mid years, like before the pandemic, a little after the pandemic, mostly. Um, when I ate there a couple of times, I was like,
01:10:27
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The ingredients aren't that great, um but then when my brother Uh, finally got like the ownership ish title. Uh, my dad's still running the strings, but you know, you know, I guess, um, he essentially fired the kitchen staff and he hired his own, ah including his friend and stuff. And they, they're trained chefs out there. They know what they're doing. So I would encourage you to go in and, uh, check it out. ah Take a, take a snip. I don't want to go support your brother.
01:10:59
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So if you want that ah spicy General Charles, try it out. We got the spice. How do you say it? I know firsthand. General Charles? Slow it down. General Tal? That one. I can't do it. Tall? T and S at the same time. It's like your donuts. It's like a drum, you know, snare drum. I did it. Yeah. Tall. Yeah. It's all. Right on. Yeah. General chow. That's what everybody says. Yeah. Which I don't understand. There's no CH in it anywhere. Yeah. General chow's chicken. Yeah. General chow chicken.
01:11:43
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Um, do you have that? two You don't taste any spice anywhere anymore. Don't tell me and as you drink your bourbon like it's water. ah and dan Oh, me I do. I do. Where do you get spice from nowadays? I think it's just in the reaction. I think we both get the same spice verbally say it. That's not a reaction. That's you saying, I don't, there's, this is not hot. That's, that's not a reaction. It could be and because it's definitely hot, but it's enjoyable. It's definitely not hot. Not what you said. Did I? Yeah. Not Reaper hot, but like the extra hot place is an enjoyable hot. You've got the extra hot and you said, I don't think this is the extra hot.
01:12:41
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Because it's enjoyable. Extra to me means extra. That's why I said the Reaper, if the extra was extra and that was it, the Reaper should have been a step up, which should have been enjoyable. But to me, the extra hot was extra hot. Any higher and it would have not been enjoyable. I experienced that. But that's the craziest because they loved the extra hot was not hot. But then the other one was not enjoyable. Yeah, I skipped a whole step. Probably. yeah I mean, it was probably a big jump either way. Extra hot. You might not like it. Oh, I feel like you should go get the extra hot. You really won't like it. That's what they should be called. Have you had the extra hot, Dylan? that Yeah, that's what I got last time we were there. And you thought it was too much. What do you mean? You didn't get the extra hot. I did.
01:13:34
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and you thought it was too much. Too much, and what do you mean by too much? Like spice. and i I never said too much. I just said it was, it's pretty spicy. like But you enjoyed it. Yeah. That's how I am. Yeah, it hurts. It hurts, but I enjoy it. Yeah, but I enjoy it. I still i wouldn feel it. And I wouldn't get it if I didn't enjoy it. Well, that's what I mean. I still feel it. But no, you were like, this is not... Because of the word extra.
01:14:02
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I'm not getting any extra, I'm just getting hot. and know The reaper was extra. Well, because I took a bite of yours and I was like, this is burning my mouth, like not like burning off, but like I feel it a ton. and you're The first time? that First time what? The first time, right? Yeah. You know, that sandwich had no spice on it whatsoever. That's what I'm saying. I tasted it and there was some spice. Remember when I was like, do you want something to drink? That was because I was really thirsty and it was hot out. That wasn't because of the spice. um Yeah, I think you're ah I was halfway through. Yeah, my, you know, if that sandwich was, you know, a seven to me. That was probably it was a four to you. Yeah, three. That was probably a three. That's that being my point is you're. Yeah, love spnesses a yeah. different I forgot about that. That first one.
01:14:53
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It almost looked like they messed up and gave me mild is what it's why I tried to me. I was like, no, it's not not my. It wasn't like, again, wasn't burning my mouth off, but I was like, this is definitely not a mild sandwich. Also, the first sandwich. And then you gave me the chili chicken. Or spicy chili pasta. Got him.
01:15:18
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Delicious. it It was good. So a lady came in today and got it and I went and like pre-bust her table and it was still full and her napkin was on top of it. It was pretty full. Yeah. And I was like, you guys done? She was like, oh yeah, we're good. And I was like, was it awful? She was like, no, I, I was like, cause it's a full bowl. and She was like, no, it's just really spicy. And I was like, was it too spicy? Like you couldn't eat it? She was like, no, it's the same every time. I know what I'm getting myself into. Yeah. She's like, I just quit a third of the way because it's so good. She's like, but I just can't keep going or I'm going to die. I was like, are you sure it wasn't too spicy? She's like, no, it was fantastic. I just can't eat more than like 10s, four pools.
01:16:02
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Mm hmm. Like, ah okay, that's that's rough. That's expensive. Yeah. What are you doing? She was like, I know what I'm getting myself into. She's like, I just want it because it tastes so good. I'm about to change that dish up. In terms of what? I'm going to take it off the menu. Oh, so if by changing, you may not have it. Yeah, I think I want to do spaghetti and meatballs. Interesting. Our meatballs are so good. I mean, I doubt it, but that's cool. And I love spaghetti and meatballs. Yeah. So it's a fantastic dish. I mean, everybody does. I'm big on spaghetti and meatballs. Oh my God. It's fantastic. It's not going to be as good as the pasta, but that's fine. It's going to be as good as the pasta. This is going to have spicy. Spicy meatball. Is it going to be a spicy meatball? Probably not. No, it'll be a basic garlicky, basil-y. Yeah.
01:17:00
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Yeah, I feel you, but we can do a spicy version. If somebody says, Hey, I want it spicy. We got you. you Come out with Frank. spicy italian No. What's that? You're like whispering. I said, I need that. I need the spicy option for spicy Thai meatballs. Oh yeah. We can, I mean, the meatballs won't be spicy, but we can, we'll make, we can make the whole dish spicy. Yeah. but Like, you know, some Cholula in it. Nick, you look like we're building the guess who person right now. see His mouth is cut. Does your person have glasses? its Is your person from China?
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01:17:42
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have No idea what you're talking about. Have you seen the videos where they play ah the modified version of guess you like a homemade version? So not the regular yes to board with all the same people but they play it where they ask questions about the people like would your people would your person go to a restaurant and order a meal that's really spicy and then complain and send it back and
01:18:08
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So they just put different scenarios. in the but Absolutely. Yeah. OK, cool. But yeah, so for the um for the nuggets, for four to six piece, ah you get one sauce. um Should be for which is also shenanigans. How much sauce are you using? Six nuggets for one. sauce One. It's a dipping sauce, not a scooping sauce. You can't you physically couldn't if you try it, I don't think. Yes, you have a nugget in and took it directly out. You wouldn't be able to do six. Yes, I disagree with that. You got well one. I don't even think you could fit the nugget in there. You're not supposed to fit the whole nugget in there. It's different part that you're biting off. It's a compliment the circle. it's It's like a circle. cool It's a compliment. It's not a main attraction.
01:19:04
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You're supposed to taste chicken or else you wouldn't go to McDonald's. How much ranch do you have on your wings? You just go to, not a lot. You would just go to, you would just get a shoe and dip shoe in sweet and sour because it would just taste like sweet and sour. Yeah. It's a compliment. You're supposed to enjoy the chicken nugget. That's why you go to McDonald's or else you can go to any store and get chicken nuggets. This ain't a five star restaurant or you get a little drizzle. No, it's real though. Or else you'd go to the grocery store and get Frozen nuggets and then go to McDonald's and get a pack of sweet and sour for 30 cents if you just want the sweet and sour I Don't know where to go with that You know what I'm getting that kind of if you just like the taste of the sweet and sour go buy yourself a pack of frozen nuggets and go buy three packs of sweet and sour from McDonald's and
01:20:01
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And it'd be way cheaper. it's And you'd get the same exact flavor. You shouldn't. and I'm not saying go on the extent of scooping, but. You're a scooper. I think. If you need more than one pack for four nuggets, you're a scooper. I disagree with that. That's crazy. Do you know how much is in it? Yes. That's like ah a really small amount. They're two ounce things. That's two. You know how much two ounces? You know how bad that two ounces is for you? Yeah, that's a very different question. There's 12 carbs in that little, and 10 grams of sugar. I don't know if something would be for you. 10 grams of sugar? That's not bad. What? Think about it. So it's one ounce. So it's one ounce. Mm-hmm. What do you mean, mm-hmm? Mm-hmm. That means two
01:21:01
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You know how many carbs that is? If you use two packages, that's like eating a whole bag of potato chips. Yes, it is. What is it? That has nothing to do with it. Yes, it does. It's not healthy. You're not supposed to. That's you might as well just drink it. You might as well eat a nugget and drink the package that's again. That's completely besides it's neither here nor there. Yeah. You should just not go to McDonald's or burgers are bad for you. They are. They're not that bad for you. They're not awful for you. The bun is bad for you. Yes, they are. I'd rather just get the sauce. ah I'll have a sweet and sour with a ah Big Mac. Yeah. It'll be $15 and would you like to leave a tip?
01:21:46
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oh ah Good Lord. Yeah, it's going to be next. I love how Starbucks still tells you it's going to ask you a question and then hit did OK. We all know what the question is. It's not going to ask you a question. It's going to ask if you want to tip me. It's going to ask you some random questions. Yeah, just one. Yeah, because there's a small survey at the end.
01:22:10
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No, you have to hit that before you pay. And we want to make your drink down. Would you like to, would you like to tip? Yeah. I'm going to need you to answer this question before I decide how to make your drink. Well, if in Walmart, can you tell literally, we'd like to know how much you tip for me. And instead of the, instead of the welcome person handing out stickers, it just hands you the, uh, thing to hand it. Yeah.
01:22:37
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I'm
01:22:39
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Yeah, it's it's stupid. It's bad. They got handheld device. That's going to be next. Yeah. Our workers, they need the extra money. Yeah. Instead of paying them. We we have to offset the cost because we lowered the price of our sauces. Yeah. You got to attempt to McDonald's worker. The the ah next automatic doors are going to have a little slot. like we If you want the automatic door to open, you got to tip it. You want to get in here? You want to buy food? Bro, that would actually make the most sense for them to greedily do that. is if You want to get food from us? you But Ticketmaster does that. That's the same thing. You'd like to buy these tickets? It's going to cost you to buy these tickets. That's the same thing. That's a tip. You have to tip Ticketmaster to buy a ticket.
01:23:33
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That's pretty ridiculous. Oh yeah, you gotta pay for the privilege. Yeah. It's disgusting. You have to pay for us to exist. Yeah, we're we're very privileged. Yeah, well I think we've been on here long enough. Oh my god. It's midnight. What are you gonna do the rest of the night? It's midnight. I told you I'd be wired. Yeah. It's bad. Do you think you'll sleep now? No. Why? I'm awake, I'm wired. I i drank an energy drink at three o'clock, that's it. I'm up till probably one. If I have an energy drink, I'm jittery for maybe an hour, but i I don't feel more awake, I just feel jittery. All right, well, ah we'll wrap it up for this time, and then we'll be back next week with Miley Hot Source, and ah hopefully everybody enjoyed. We still have that email that nobody uses, but I'll just keep putting it out there just for funsies.
01:24:33
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