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Speaker 1: This is as impressive of a stretch I can remember,

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Speaker 2: Let's talk undefeated to Padres with Kyle Glazer, your superstar

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Speaker 2: and of course you're enjoying watching a little Padres ball

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Speaker 2: the field, let's get to the money moves. Jackson Merrill

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Speaker 2: signs this big nine year contract extension could turn into ten.

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Speaker 2: What did you think when you saw this?

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Speaker 1: It wasn't a huge surprise. The Padres had approached Jackson

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Speaker 1: to this year. There was a sense that this was

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Speaker 1: a matter of when. Nine years, one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 1: five million dollars, As you mentioned, it can become ten

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Speaker 1: And again it was really just a matter of when

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Speaker 3: Is this showing us how much one hundred and thirty

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Speaker 4: I get it.

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Speaker 3: Jackson Merrill could have been minus Paul Schemes, he could

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Speaker 3: have been Rookie of the Year last year. But all

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Speaker 3: They're talking about possibly trading Dylan ceases ten million dollars, Like,

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Speaker 3: does this show us what one hundred and thirty five

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Speaker 1: Not necessarily, the Potters have a lot of money coming

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Speaker 5: Kyle, was great seeing you on Saturday. I really really

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Speaker 5: Before I did the game, appreciate it. And second of all,

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Speaker 5: have you read all the books on the shelf behind you,

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Speaker 5: because I just don't know how you keep up with

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Speaker 1: This is actually I'm down San Diego, hanging out at

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Speaker 1: as you guys have seen, there's plenty of books on

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Speaker 5: Okay, all right, and then I'll and then let me

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Speaker 5: ask you this. Listen, Jackson Merrill deserves every since he

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Speaker 5: got He also told me it was very nice to meet.

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Speaker 5: He actually said he was honored to meet me on Saturday.

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Speaker 5: So listen, he should have got two hundred and fifty

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Speaker 5: watch this team, this guy hits forth for the team. Okay,

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Speaker 5: he's gotten I mean, how many big hits did he

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Speaker 5: this was a no brainer. This was a we're gonna

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Speaker 5: and the Padres have done this with cronin Worth and

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Speaker 5: see a downside to this at all from either side exactly.

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Speaker 1: When you look at the number of players who have

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Speaker 1: the success Jackson Merril has, it's a very very short list.

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Speaker 1: It's Mike Trout, It's Juan Soto, It's Julio Rodriguez, it'z

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Speaker 1: The company Jackson Merril is in already with what he's

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Speaker 1: he could still be a free agent at thirty and

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Speaker 3: What kind of projection do you see for Jackson Maryland

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Speaker 3: Because you see a twenty year old and you're like, okay,

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Speaker 3: he can do this, acunya did this and his second year,

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Speaker 1: Well, consider the fact that he already hit twenty four

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Speaker 4: Again.

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Speaker 1: It's still early. You don't want to go crazy over

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Speaker 4: FA foutou, Kyle.

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Speaker 5: Who's gonna lose first? The Padres are the Dodgers.

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Speaker 1: I gotta say, the way both teams are playing right now,

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Speaker 1: But the thing that's been really impressed about the Padres

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Speaker 5: Wow, I mean they're still in bases like crazy, which

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Speaker 5: has been unbelievable. The question is is with Michael King.

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Speaker 1: If he continues to pitch like he did last night,

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Speaker 1: The biggest issue with Louise Campasano, dating back to when

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Speaker 2: Kyle, let's finish with this. Tell everyone why they should

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Speaker 1: Absolutely, we've got a lot of great stuff. We have

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Speaker 2: Nah, that's just a roll with a bad screen name.

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Speaker 2: So joining us on behalf of Levy, the hospitality partner

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Speaker 2: of the Chicago Cubs is Levy Chef and Senior vice

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Speaker 2: president of culinary Ron krivsk and Chef ron is what

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Speaker 2: we can call him. He's gonna tell us about the

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Speaker 2: Wrigley Feel so, Chef Ron, great to have you on

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Speaker 6: First week of the season, It's going great. We've had

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Speaker 5: Chef cheff Ron, First of all, I mean Scott's talking

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Speaker 6: We went and we did the We we had such

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Speaker 6: a brand new celebration milkshake twenty years of your World

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Speaker 4: I think you might.

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Speaker 5: Are you Polish because you know Polish Slovak? Yeah, so yep, yeah,

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Speaker 5: So I need to get on that taste testing career

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Speaker 5: here and I was a fellow polar Yeah.

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Speaker 6: And you know we'll start actually in right in in September,

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Speaker 6: right right near the end of the season, and uh,

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Speaker 6: we'll get rolling for next year or so. I'll keep

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Speaker 6: you on speed dial and you know, have you come

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Speaker 6: into Chicago and we can have you work on some

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Speaker 6: stuff with us.

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Speaker 2: Chef Ron, what's your favorite dish? I mean, if you

443
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Speaker 2: want to run through like app and or you know

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Speaker 2: more of your entree style than your dessert.

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Speaker 1: Style, go for it.

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Speaker 2: But whether whether it's now all time something you came

447
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Speaker 2: up with, or it's something to just sell hot all

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Speaker 2: the time at the ball.

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Speaker 6: Play, yeah, I mean, you know with baseball, you know

450
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Speaker 6: you want to keep it. You know, we try to

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Speaker 6: keep it handheld so guests can go to their seat

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Speaker 6: and enjoy it. We don't like to fork a knife

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Speaker 6: too much. And you know, kind of being in Chicago

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Speaker 6: and being with Levy for so long, you know, I

455
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Speaker 6: kind of did an homage to where we began in

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Speaker 6: seventy eight at a delicatessen, and we're serving some really

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Speaker 6: phenomenal dB kaplan sandwiches throughout. You know, the area is

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Speaker 6: definitely at Socks and over at Wrigley, we're gonna run

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Speaker 6: some specials and it's just, you know, it just brings

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Speaker 6: you home because who doesn't want.

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Speaker 4: A great Ruben sandwich?

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Speaker 6: You know, at a ballpark you can always get the

463
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Speaker 6: Maxwell Street polish or the Chicago Dog. But to be

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Speaker 6: able to do a Ruben and then you know, do

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Speaker 6: a great turkey sandwich, and you know, the one that

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Speaker 6: I'm excited about. We're doing short rib sandwiches at Wrigley

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Speaker 6: that we're going to be able to you know, serve

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Speaker 6: you know, with some sauteed braccolini, and it's it's just

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Speaker 6: going to be, you know, fantastic.

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Speaker 2: We're getting some fan questions too, So let's start with Billy.

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Speaker 2: He said, what's the most challenging meal that you guys

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Speaker 2: have put together? Maybe something that was in the works

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Speaker 2: for a while. And if you can add to this,

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Speaker 2: how long does it take to get from idea to

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Speaker 2: actually implementing something new at the ballpark?

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Speaker 6: We you know, there's there's things that we work on

477
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Speaker 6: for a year, you know, for just to really fine

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Speaker 6: tune it, because you have to make sure the quality

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Speaker 6: is there for the guest, and some things will hold

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Speaker 6: well and some things won't. And if you don't have

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Speaker 6: the cooking capability to be able to cook right in

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Speaker 6: front of the guest or ala minute, as we say,

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Speaker 6: and it's tough. So we have to make sure that

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Speaker 6: it holds well and it's going to carry over and

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Speaker 6: the quality is going to be there for the guest.

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Speaker 2: Okay, anything else new that that we should know about?

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Speaker 2: I know it is getting hungry. We got fifteen minutes

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Speaker 2: after the show. Anything else new that we should know about?

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Speaker 2: Or I love the way that you threw out the

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Speaker 2: numbers too. I mean I'd love to know more about that. Sometimes,

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Speaker 2: whether it's from the past or or now you know

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Speaker 2: you said, hey, we sold you know, four hundred milkshakes.

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Speaker 2: I always like to know, you know, hey, we can

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Speaker 2: look generally at the capacity of a ballpark and how

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Speaker 2: many people are hitting up a certain night.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, there's I mean, you know, we we know, we've

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Speaker 6: got a whole analytics team, you know, just like you

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Speaker 6: know the clubhouse that looks at you know, food sales,

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Speaker 6: beverage sales, and you know how long it takes guests

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Speaker 6: to get through lines. And you know, we we really

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Speaker 6: like to look and celebrate. You know, it's America's pastime.

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Speaker 6: And you know, to me, Opening Day has always been

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Speaker 6: you know, the kids are getting ready to get out

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Speaker 6: of school and you know, as we as we say,

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Speaker 6: the kids can play, and you know, I just love baseball,

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Speaker 6: and you know, we look at it to make sure

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Speaker 6: that you know, we have enough food for everybody.

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Speaker 4: Like we used to at Wrigley.

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Speaker 6: Have gourmet hot dogs and they were different styles every

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Speaker 6: every homestand and you know people kind of got tired

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Speaker 6: of that and they kind of went away. But you know,

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Speaker 6: we look at neighborhoods and we try to cook neighborhoods.

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Speaker 6: The Heburito is a great one, and you know, looking

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Speaker 6: at doing pills and tacos over at White Sox. I mean,

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Speaker 6: just some great, great food that you know, the neighborhoods

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Speaker 6: you know have and we just bring it to the

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Speaker 6: ballpark because everyone's aware of it.

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Speaker 5: Ron, what was your number one selling dish last year

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Speaker 5: and why was it? The campfire milkshake?

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Speaker 6: I think the campfire milkshake. I mean it was a

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Speaker 6: media frenzy for sure. The chef that came up with it,

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Speaker 6: he called me and he goes, hey, I'm thinking about

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Speaker 6: doing a peanut butter chocolate or s'mores. And I said, well,

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Speaker 6: I personally don't like peanut butter that much, ate enough

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Speaker 6: of it as a kid.

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Speaker 4: I'm like, let's do a s'mores.

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Speaker 6: And you know, I sometimes it's just you know, throw

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Speaker 6: throwing the dart at the wall and figuring it out.

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Speaker 6: I mean, I never thought that we'd have you know,

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Speaker 6: legs on that. And then even with this new one,

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Speaker 6: we've got a great brand for the twenty five of

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Speaker 6: how long the socks have been in the you know,

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Speaker 6: the league, and you know again, you know, twenty years

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Speaker 6: of the World Series. So I mean I think it's great.

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Speaker 6: You know, you just never know, you just never know

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Speaker 6: what it's what it's gonna be. And you know, for

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Speaker 6: us to dip you know, five hundred milkshake lasses the

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Speaker 6: night before a game, I mean, it's it takes time run.

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Speaker 5: Do you have a rivalry because you're a Regley Do

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Speaker 5: you have a rivalry with the guy at Kamiski at

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Speaker 5: you know, on the south side. Is there like a

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Speaker 5: north south rivalry or somewhere else, maybe like a cub

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Speaker 5: cardinal rivalry among chefs, like who can make the better milkshake?

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Speaker 6: Well, we do, we do. We're broken up. I'm lucky

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Speaker 6: enough to work for both, so for both Socks and Cubs. So,

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Speaker 6: but definitely the chefs that are that are in unit.

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Speaker 6: You know, from you know, Wrigley to Socks to Dodgers

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Speaker 6: to Nationals to the Oreos to Arizona Diamondbacks. There's competition

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Speaker 6: all the time. Who comes up with the best ideas?

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Speaker 6: And you know, so we we do that a lot.

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Speaker 2: One more for me on this topic. Do you share

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Speaker 2: info like is there a group chat with you and

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Speaker 2: say the Dodgers chef and he's like, oh, this is

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Speaker 2: selling like crazy, And then you text back, well, everything's

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00:25:19,280 --> 00:25:21,720
Speaker 2: selling like crazy. The Dodgers are selling out every game

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Speaker 2: right now. Talking us back or sharing ideas.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, no, we're always talking business because you know, it's

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Speaker 6: what we do, and you know, we want to see

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Speaker 6: if we could take something that that's great and modify

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Speaker 6: it a little bit. That would work you know in

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Speaker 6: you know the Midwest or you know out Nationals and Baltimore,

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Speaker 6: you know, just to see last one.

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Speaker 2: Actually, So just going back to the donut for a moment,

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Speaker 2: you guys came up with the baseball donut. Are there

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Speaker 2: any ideas to keep expanding on that. The early obviously

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Speaker 2: returns seem like they've been high on fans that likes

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Speaker 2: actually take a picture with it, right, we're in a

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Speaker 2: new world like it tastes you at that part together.

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Speaker 2: But then also I've seen it online. Someone's got you know,

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Speaker 2: the donut the Instagram or whatever social app they're going for.

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Speaker 2: TikTok gets that you first, it's a pretty nice little

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Speaker 2: baseball donut. All the seams are tight. They take the

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Speaker 2: photo and then they dive in. So how much of

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Speaker 2: that goes into your thought process these days?

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Speaker 6: Well, we team up with our marketing team as well,

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Speaker 6: and you know, when we're throwing the spaghetti on the

577
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Speaker 6: wall to try to figure out that that new wow idea,

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Speaker 6: you know that, they come into play and they're like,

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Speaker 6: you know, how can it work on social Because that's

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Speaker 6: how we have to think now, you know. So it's

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Speaker 6: definitely part of it.

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Speaker 5: I'm excited to get to a park where I can

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Speaker 5: get me one of these donuts. I'm gonna have to

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Speaker 5: get like ten of them, just line them up and just.

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Speaker 3: Right.

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Speaker 5: But I gotta ask you this. And I don't know

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Speaker 5: if you're in charge of this, but Ron, I gotta

588
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Speaker 5: know this. So if you get a Chicago dog, yes,

589
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Speaker 5: the hot dog fits in the bun, But then you

590
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Speaker 5: go to La and you get a Dodger dog and

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Speaker 5: there's like three inches of stick out of the bunk.

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Speaker 5: Can we not get a Dodger dog that fits in

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Speaker 5: the bonner?

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Speaker 4: Can we get a bigger bun?

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Speaker 5: I don't the bund of dog ratio is way off

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Speaker 5: on a Dodger dog.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, we we there's definitely something that we can do

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Speaker 6: with that. The and the Dodger dog is you know,

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Speaker 6: it's if you look at it, it's the thickness. They're

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Speaker 6: a little thin where you know here in you know, Chicago,

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Speaker 6: it's more of a you know, six to one, you know,

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Speaker 6: so it's you know, a couple ounces, and that one's

603
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Speaker 6: a little a little longer. We can always go with

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Speaker 6: a foot long. We serve foot longs for a long time,

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Speaker 6: and you know we we still serve a foot long

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Speaker 6: Maxwell Street Polish at h on the South Side.

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Speaker 2: So I've got it. I've got it because we're idy

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Speaker 2: eating here. Torpedo dog.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, well we could do that. That could be something

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Speaker 6: that could be you know, in the middle, it could

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Speaker 6: be really thick.

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Speaker 2: Right, exactly right the weight distribution there. Yes, that's all

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Speaker 2: the rage right now in the first week. Well, Chefron,

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Speaker 2: this is awesome. Thank you for the insight. Really appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Thanks to Levy for helping us up this conversation, and

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Speaker 2: have a great rest of the season.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: M