Speaker 1: Hey, everybody, welcome to hold up with dul Say Sloan
Speaker 1: and Josh Johnson. That's us, by the way, I know,
Speaker 1: I was saying it like it was to other people
Speaker 1: that we were going to interview and talk to, But
Speaker 1: it's us. I don't know why I say my name
Speaker 1: like I've forgotten my name before I say my name.
Speaker 1: But we are here to discuss a really important topic today,
Speaker 1: something that's weighed on our hearts and our minds for
Speaker 1: basically our entire lives. And we we had no idea
Speaker 1: that the other didn't feel the same way. Honestly, this
Speaker 1: is one of those things where it's best that we
Speaker 1: became good friends before we found this out about each other,
Speaker 1: or else one would have judged the other pretty harshly.
Speaker 1: We probably would have judged each other. Today's topic is, uh,
Speaker 1: diners versus waffle Houses. Okay, so this is waffle Houses
Speaker 1: of the world taken on the diners of the world. Well, well,
Speaker 1: well it's the waffle houses of America. Mm hmm. Because
Speaker 1: I don't believe waffle House is a international company. I
Speaker 1: feel like if it is, we would have heard about it.
Speaker 1: I feel like, yes, because waffle House only operates like,
Speaker 1: the closest waffle house to hear is in Pennsylvania. And
Speaker 1: me and you know, my friend Ben ben Bergman chopped
Speaker 1: Big Bergman. Me and ben Bergman have contemplated, uh, renting
Speaker 1: a car to go. I think it's like a Scranton,
Speaker 1: Pennsylvania waffle house. Yeah, the closest one, one of the best,
Speaker 1: one of the best outings you could probably have is
Speaker 1: hitting the six Flags on the way and then going
Speaker 1: to a waffle house. That sounds like an incredible weekend. Well,
Speaker 1: you know you have to do the waff house after
Speaker 1: six Flags. Yeah, yeah, you don't wanna. Yeah, you want
Speaker 1: to lose your waffle house. Yeah, you don't want to
Speaker 1: have a biological refund on all of your waffle house.
Speaker 1: I'll tell you right now, though, the thing that would
Speaker 1: make that trip better besides six Flags and then a
Speaker 1: waff house is a six Flags and any dinner along
Speaker 1: the way, because waffle house it doesn't stack up. Okay,
Speaker 1: what to to an American institution of dinerism. Okay, all right, listen, listen.
Speaker 1: This is how you know you have life funked up. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna tell you this. This is the reason you
Speaker 1: don't drink okay, And I think you've only had like
Speaker 1: one drink in your life, right, No, I never drank.
Speaker 1: So you've never had alcohol in your American Christian life,
Speaker 1: not one sip. You didn't have a rogue untt you know,
Speaker 1: irresponsible uncle, I mean my uncle is irresponsible. But the
Speaker 1: drake interesting. So the missing ingredient of waffle House is alcohol.
Speaker 1: So for a long time, when you first start going
Speaker 1: to waffle House, usually if you didn't go as a kid,
Speaker 1: you went in college. You start going to w like
Speaker 1: you've been out late with your friends. There's nothing, there's
Speaker 1: nothing else open, so you go to Wilf House. It
Speaker 1: was a lot of food, it was super affordable, and
Speaker 1: you were drunk, okay or a little tipsy. So a
Speaker 1: lot of it is like if you are trying, if
Speaker 1: you have been out drinking and you are trying to
Speaker 1: ensure that you do not have a biological refund on
Speaker 1: all the alcohol that you purchased, Wiffle House is a
Speaker 1: sure fire away to make sure that you not do that.
Speaker 1: Because all the times I've been out late and been
Speaker 1: drinking and seeing people very drunk in a Wilf House,
Speaker 1: it is very rare that I have seen somebody have
Speaker 1: a biological ref one because all that waffle house just
Speaker 1: soaks up all the liquor. See what I'm slaying, that's
Speaker 1: why you eat carbs like that after you drink. That's wrong.
Speaker 1: People are drunk. They want French fries, they want potatoes,
Speaker 1: they want stuff like that because it's just your body
Speaker 1: is like, bitch, I need help. Okay, you know it's so.
Speaker 1: But they're out here. They're saving they're saving the children.
Speaker 1: That's what they're doing. They're helping people. He would help
Speaker 1: me and then help me understand, right because in my
Speaker 1: in my experience, just from the outside looking in. Like
Speaker 1: I said, I've never drank before, so I'm not I'm
Speaker 1: not gonna act like I know what you're talking about
Speaker 1: and what I'm talking about. You know what you're talking about.
Speaker 1: I know what I'm talking about. And I've just noticed
Speaker 1: that in life, when someone has to be drunk for
Speaker 1: something is probably not as good as they think it is.
Speaker 1: Oh no, no, no, no, no, I'm not talking about
Speaker 1: I've never been to a diner and been like this
Speaker 1: food is amazing. There's a lot of times. Hold on,
Speaker 1: I know me finished, hold on, I remember my mom
Speaker 1: asked me to go to waffle House and it was
Speaker 1: like a Sunday morning, and I was like, are we
Speaker 1: gonna get drunk? First? What are we doing? And then
Speaker 1: I was able to have out waffle house without having
Speaker 1: it be three in the morning and nothing is else
Speaker 1: is open or not being a little tips McGhee and
Speaker 1: I had waffle House, and I was like, Oh, this
Speaker 1: is actually good even without the alcohol. Alcohol does give
Speaker 1: you a little like a little bit of a you know,
Speaker 1: It's like it's just a little you know, it's just
Speaker 1: a little a little kiss from a rose when you know,
Speaker 1: when you're a little inebriated and you're in a waffle house.
Speaker 1: And also it's like the ambiance of a waffle house.
Speaker 1: Also the waffle house has I'm sorry to interrupt, but
Speaker 1: ambiance is way too sophisticated of a word to a
Speaker 1: waffle house. Listen, I'm be honest, too conphisticated a words
Speaker 1: used for Danny, Like That's what I'm talking about, because
Speaker 1: it's like, also there's diners, but it's like, is Denny's
Speaker 1: a diner or the restaurant but dinner or the restaurant
Speaker 1: but a waffle house, Nigga, It's a waffle house, so like,
Speaker 1: you know what you're dealing with. So this is just
Speaker 1: just for the listener, just just to make sure we've
Speaker 1: caught everyone up to speed. It seems clear that you
Speaker 1: are on the side of waffle house. I'm on the
Speaker 1: side of dinner, and we're both coming at this thing
Speaker 1: with maybe an eight out of ten. Like, I don't
Speaker 1: really see our position shifting or changing, but I do
Speaker 1: plan to help you a log and understanding why waffle
Speaker 1: house is uh is that where it's at all? Right?
Speaker 1: First of all, you mentioned ambiance, um ambiance, the ambiance
Speaker 1: of fists, the aubiance of chokes, the aubiance of of
Speaker 1: someone that might be let your food burn only because
Speaker 1: they are currently engaged in a fist fight. Listen, I've
Speaker 1: never had burned food from wilfile House because I mean,
Speaker 1: sometimes you're hat but because I get my hashbrown scattered,
Speaker 1: smooth and covered, so sometimes it will be a little
Speaker 1: crispier on the ages than I wanted to be. But like, honestly,
Speaker 1: I can't. I don't know how often I've had burned
Speaker 1: food from a restaurant period. I'm not I'm not talking
Speaker 1: about charge to an absolute Chris I'm saying it would
Speaker 1: have been perfect had somebody not jumped the counter. Listen,
Speaker 1: I haven't seen have I seen a fight in a
Speaker 1: wiffe House? Yes? Was it with the employees. I've never
Speaker 1: seen a Wilfa house fight with the employees. I know
Speaker 1: what happens. We all know what happens. But um, you
Speaker 1: know we all have the same internet, right, But I've
Speaker 1: never seen I've never seen it. Also, what we could
Speaker 1: always credit the Waffa house or waffle house employees more
Speaker 1: convicted felons m than anyone has ever seen. If there's
Speaker 1: a man, first of all, if the dude on the
Speaker 1: grill don't look like he served at least five years,
Speaker 1: I don't want him cooking ship for me. Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: because that that comes with its own level of experience,
Speaker 1: Like now he's working with real ingredients and not prison ingredients.
Speaker 1: I understand what you're saying, but let me let me
Speaker 1: kick it to you why I think the diners are
Speaker 1: just far superior. Go ahead, because I'm bougie. Okay. Look,
Speaker 1: all I'm saying is when someone tells me that they're
Speaker 1: about to give me steak, I just wanted to be steak.
Speaker 1: You know, when I get steak at a diner, I
Speaker 1: know that that's steak. When I get steak at a
Speaker 1: waffle house, that's burger. That's just burger. No waffle house
Speaker 1: one has steaks too. Why are you ordering a steak
Speaker 1: at a diner or a waffle house in the first place.
Speaker 1: You have set yourself up for failure. This is why
Speaker 1: this is my issue with That's on you. You wanted
Speaker 1: a high quality steak from somewhere whose menu is thick
Speaker 1: like an encyclopedia. This is my issue with diners, and
Speaker 1: this has always been my issue with diners. Wilfile house,
Speaker 1: it's breakfast and then like burger ship right like I
Speaker 1: know there's a high turnover. The ship is coming out
Speaker 1: the door. Their menu, it's been laminated. I see the pictures.
Speaker 1: I flip it over. I see the pictures. Understand dinner menus,
Speaker 1: chapter books, chapter books, Old Testament, New Testament. Do you
Speaker 1: mean to tell me that you have a turkey dinner,
Speaker 1: a lobster florentine or whatever, but also disco fries. What
Speaker 1: the fund is happening in here? I don't know. It
Speaker 1: is the middle of July. It is the middle of July.
Speaker 1: Who who is coming in here? And ordering turkey dressed
Speaker 1: in cranberry juice, I mean cranberry sauce. Who is ordering
Speaker 1: turkey with all the fixings in the middle of July.
Speaker 1: There's so many things on those menus. There's calamari, but
Speaker 1: then there's also chicken tenders like all of like it's
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, there's like chicken kiev, but then it's
Speaker 1: onion rinks. So it's like, I know that there's stuff
Speaker 1: in here that has just been sitting in your freezer
Speaker 1: because people aren't ordering somebody somebody who order a meat
Speaker 1: low sandwich and a Greek salad in the same day.
Speaker 1: How long does that meat been the freezer? How long
Speaker 1: has the lobster been in the freezer? Turkey dinner? How
Speaker 1: long does that turkey ben? The fun I have questions
Speaker 1: and concerns. First of all, how dare you slammed or
Speaker 1: the name of diners by assuming that stuff is sitting there?
Speaker 1: Any good diner has the kitchen and has the freezer.
Speaker 1: That's like a Narnia. All right, there's just amazing stuff
Speaker 1: back there, amount of space. And I'll tell you right now,
Speaker 1: what you think is the beast, I think is the beauty?
Speaker 1: All right? So When I see that chapter book laid
Speaker 1: out in front of me, I'm like, wow, I really
Speaker 1: have options in life. I could I could try something
Speaker 1: and get something that I already like as a backup.
Speaker 1: So am I gonna get, uh, you know, a pasta
Speaker 1: with a burger? Maybe I'm crazy like that. I can
Speaker 1: get wild like that because I could get wild like
Speaker 1: that because I'm a dieter right now, I'm not limited
Speaker 1: to the to the cheese. You're gonna get a grilled
Speaker 1: cheese and a chicken alfredo, you fucking child. I'm I'm
Speaker 1: gonna get a grilled cheese. I'm gonna get spaghetti. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna go ahead and no grill cheese against spaghetti. And
Speaker 1: you know what, you know what, just the top of
Speaker 1: it all, just because I can. Because this, this is
Speaker 1: what options in life do for you, you know, because
Speaker 1: when you go to a diner, you're your own little
Speaker 1: Elon Musk, your own little Jeff bezos. They're going to space.
Speaker 1: I'm out here having orange juice chocolate bill with the
Speaker 1: Monta Crystal sandwich, a set of front said a mont
Speaker 1: A Crystal sand And that's okay. And that's how you
Speaker 1: have a biological refund is chocolate milk orange shoe and
Speaker 1: I'm money crystal. Okay. Also this is there is another
Speaker 1: metric that I want to bring up because you you
Speaker 1: already brought up a point for waffle House that they
Speaker 1: employ a lot of X cons, they're leading employers or
Speaker 1: X cons and everything I will I will offer up
Speaker 1: to you. A lot of diners out there have some
Speaker 1: of the best cooks in the world that just are
Speaker 1: struggling right now. Right so, there are some cooks at
Speaker 1: diners that should be in some of those Michelin star restaurants.
Speaker 1: But you know what, they fell off a little bit.
Speaker 1: You know, maybe they maybe they burned the wrong person's steak,
Speaker 1: maybe they got into it with a supervisor and so
Speaker 1: then they regulated to only work at diners after that. Okay,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying I think the quality because you see
Speaker 1: the menu that takes skill to be able to do
Speaker 1: all that menu that meniters that take skill. That means no,
Speaker 1: it doesn't take a top of skill. Tell me something
Speaker 1: on the diner menia gives me that I need skill
Speaker 1: for Okay, at I know, but it's a it's a
Speaker 1: do you really think that they are in the back
Speaker 1: of a diner making a stock from lobster shells and
Speaker 1: meet and then adding a cream and doing all of this.
Speaker 1: It's it's still a restaurant that mass produces food you
Speaker 1: buy it from. Have you worked in a restaurant before?
Speaker 1: I have worked at a restaurant, and I can I
Speaker 1: can tell you right now that the best restaurants put love, time, care,
Speaker 1: attention and into every dish. And so what I go
Speaker 1: to it. But if I'm but if I'm getting a
Speaker 1: lobster bisk, that's five. You did not put love and
Speaker 1: care into this lobster bisk. You opened a can. Don't
Speaker 1: first of all, don't don't act like I'm not judging
Speaker 1: the amount of love. What I'm saying is there could
Speaker 1: be plenty of love, but what there was not was
Speaker 1: prep work and care and time involved. You can't there's
Speaker 1: too much stuff on the menu. This is a high
Speaker 1: volume situation because if you don't use a lobster bisk
Speaker 1: out of a can, so you don't sell that lobster bisk,
Speaker 1: it's easier to throw away a can of soup that's old.
Speaker 1: Then two every day create this stock because this is
Speaker 1: the thing. There are so many things on a diner
Speaker 1: menu that if you have anything with a short shelf life,
Speaker 1: you're throwing away a lot of ship. You're throwing away
Speaker 1: a lot of inventory. Yeah, you're not selling all of these.
Speaker 1: You have seven different soups. Lobster business are flying off
Speaker 1: the shelf. So why would you make that fresh every day?
Speaker 1: You can't. It makes no sense. You'll be throwing that
Speaker 1: soup out every day. So you have to have something
Speaker 1: in the back that comes in a small enough can
Speaker 1: to where this one dude that ordered lobster bisks in
Speaker 1: the past two days, he is going to get all
Speaker 1: the love and care that comes from a can opener
Speaker 1: and heating up to something up on themself. Even if
Speaker 1: you think, because we don't know, we can't verify. Even
Speaker 1: if you think that all the lobster bisk and all
Speaker 1: the diners is canned, I'll tell you right now. To
Speaker 1: be able to go from type of food to type
Speaker 1: of food that also takes skill. All right, you're coming
Speaker 1: at me with a piping hot, delicious veggi field casadilla,
Speaker 1: Andrew coming at me with some chicken alfredo that's just
Speaker 1: cooked a perfection. I would love I would love to
Speaker 1: see wallfly House trying to pull off both of those
Speaker 1: things because waffly House knows their lane. They have figured
Speaker 1: out what they are doing. They have figured out what
Speaker 1: they're doing. No. No, I'm talking about as a company,
Speaker 1: not as individual not as individual stores, because I have
Speaker 1: been an example waffle houses. I'm just like, I was
Speaker 1: giving pure chaos on a plate, and I've been in
Speaker 1: some WiFi houses. I was like, oh, somebody wiped down
Speaker 1: the edge of somebody gave me some presentation of that.
Speaker 1: You see what I'm saying. Every experience is different, but
Speaker 1: every diner is different. But every diner, to me, every
Speaker 1: diner menu feels like pure chaos. It's like there's too
Speaker 1: many there's too many things on this menu. How was
Speaker 1: all this food in your kitchen once you and why
Speaker 1: would you want less good? Why are you talking about
Speaker 1: me that I'm trying to get the saying right where
Speaker 1: it's like, oh, it's like a master of none situation. Okay, okay,
Speaker 1: so how's it? Semn other phrase goes, it's a jack
Speaker 1: of all trades, master of none. Right, So if you're
Speaker 1: in here making egg rolls, right, you're making egg rolls
Speaker 1: and and Thanksgiving dinner and pasta in case it is
Speaker 1: and dry nachos because the nachos are always dry. Always try,
Speaker 1: always draw the number of times that I have been
Speaker 1: just given just a just the sands of time nacho.
Speaker 1: There's a thousand things on your menu, so it's like, oh,
Speaker 1: there's spanta, coprata and chili. What the hell is going
Speaker 1: on in here? So jack of all trades. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I cannot wait. I cannot wait. Two people hear you say,
Speaker 1: dip the spin and a coprata in the chili. You
Speaker 1: are a wild man. I love you. But that was
Speaker 1: a phrase. That was a wild phrase, dipped the spare
Speaker 1: of cope in the chili. Oh, the Lord can't bless
Speaker 1: you living like that. So it sounds like that sounds
Speaker 1: like a move from a poor child who just got money,
Speaker 1: like just just got out here. Oh man, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you this. I met a guy at a bar. We
Speaker 1: went to the waffle house because I was the only
Speaker 1: that was open, and we were just sitting there talking.
Speaker 1: We were at this we were I guess it was
Speaker 1: a date or hanging out or whatever. We were at
Speaker 1: this waffle house for so long. We ate twice. H
Speaker 1: You saw people change ships. Oh there was a ship change.
Speaker 1: There was definitely a ship change. We were in there
Speaker 1: talking for like probably like seven hours, just hanging out.
Speaker 1: Like the sun came up. I was like, well, we
Speaker 1: might as well have breakfast now we're in this bitch.
Speaker 1: So oh it's like but that was another great thing
Speaker 1: about a wiffle house. Wiff House is never gonna kick
Speaker 1: you out unless you're acting a fool. If they're not
Speaker 1: super busy, a wilf House will let you be there
Speaker 1: as long as you want. Okay, you could order a
Speaker 1: coffee in the waffle house, as long as you're not
Speaker 1: taking up a whole booth, wilf Houles will let you
Speaker 1: have that coffee and being there until the return of
Speaker 1: our Lord and savor Jesus Christ. Waff House does not care. Okay,
Speaker 1: you're in here, You're in here. Yes, people will fight,
Speaker 1: but I've also seen bar fights. Okay, we've all been
Speaker 1: in a place. People fighting a Walmart, people fighting the CDs,
Speaker 1: people fighting doctor's offices, people fight everywhere, people fighting the
Speaker 1: street train. So I don't know why waffle House is
Speaker 1: getting all of the slack. Don't do that. Don't do that.
Speaker 1: That's because you love Wilfa House too much. Because it's
Speaker 1: not like it's not a love thing. It's like you
Speaker 1: came with the loving attitude of like a mob. That's like, look,
Speaker 1: everybody fights sometimes, and there's fighting. There's fighting overseas. They're
Speaker 1: fighting at a war right now, they're like they fighting bars.
Speaker 1: If I don't understand why my baby fighting means he
Speaker 1: gotta be suspended because you you came with this thing
Speaker 1: of like outer stars singing about waffle House. But waffle
Speaker 1: House versus regular dieters has more fights per capita, all right,
Speaker 1: there are more punch thrown. I don't want what you
Speaker 1: want facts and statistics. You're not gonna come in here
Speaker 1: and act like I mean if we're if we're putting
Speaker 1: the Dennis of the world and the eye Hops of
Speaker 1: the world, asking if we're doing that. I'm just saying,
Speaker 1: when we talk about virality, there are more viral videos
Speaker 1: of some ask wepons and some waffle Houses than there
Speaker 1: are at the eye hops. I'm not saying doesn't happen.
Speaker 1: I'm saying that the Dnies and the eye Hops and
Speaker 1: the places that have But you have to understand that
Speaker 1: like eye hops close close, so when you're so when
Speaker 1: you're dealing with a business that is open during the
Speaker 1: drunk people time, You're going to have more altercations just
Speaker 1: because you're open during the drunk people time. You're open
Speaker 1: during fight time, you're open during shoot up, the club time.
Speaker 1: Now because the eye hops that are open late. If
Speaker 1: you take eye hops that close at ten or nine
Speaker 1: in a twenty four hour hot, I've seen plenty of
Speaker 1: altercations in a twenty four hour eye hot. And any
Speaker 1: time a minute twenty four hour eye hop, it's because
Speaker 1: the line at wolf House was too long. If I'm
Speaker 1: in a Denny's, it's because listen, we all enjoy a
Speaker 1: moon is over my hammy, Okay, shout out to Denny's.
Speaker 1: All right, I'll enjoy a love of egg, you know,
Speaker 1: an egg and cheese and ham sandwich. Delicious. But if
Speaker 1: you're if you're a twenty four hour restaurant, you're gonna
Speaker 1: deal with nonsense. You just are using people acting full
Speaker 1: on the twenty four hour diner we've all seen. But yeah,
Speaker 1: don't let's not. Let's not act like you're going to
Speaker 1: just get more riff raff because your business model. It's
Speaker 1: riff raff time. Okay, But I think that there's something
Speaker 1: to be said this is also where the diners, the
Speaker 1: spectrum of diner that that we're in right now, it
Speaker 1: just it outclasses waffle house because some diners do close
Speaker 1: at a late hour, some of them close at once,
Speaker 1: some of them close it too, and that's just a
Speaker 1: little period of closing. Just that little period closing saves
Speaker 1: you so much because now there's time to come back
Speaker 1: in and meal p the staff gets to rest. There's
Speaker 1: no one am to seven a m. Shift. I know
Speaker 1: that I'm getting the best and brightest of that time
Speaker 1: period when that shift starts, like no, you're getting a shift,
Speaker 1: that's it. If your shift is one am, unia shift
Speaker 1: is one am. If your shift is from twelve to twelve,
Speaker 1: your shift is from twelve to twelve. Some of the
Speaker 1: worst service I've had is in a restaurant that's empty
Speaker 1: in the middle of the afternoon. And if the restaurant
Speaker 1: at four pm is the worst service I get every time.
Speaker 1: But this is I will say, it's let's and let's
Speaker 1: not act like that waffle house. It is not contributing
Speaker 1: to the community at large. Because have you all on
Speaker 1: have you heard of the waffle house Hurricane index, I've
Speaker 1: heard of the waffle house hurricane index. You can tell
Speaker 1: it for the people, for the people that don't know.
Speaker 1: But I'm already with you. Okay. Let me let me,
Speaker 1: let me give the folks the full Google bull definition
Speaker 1: straight from your Wikipedia page. Okay. The wilfile House Index
Speaker 1: is an informal metric named after the waffle House restaurant
Speaker 1: chain to determine the effect of a storm and the
Speaker 1: likely scale of assistance required for disaster recovery. It was
Speaker 1: coined by former administrator Craig few Gate of the Federal
Speaker 1: Emergency Management Agency a k A. FEMA. The metric is
Speaker 1: unofficially used by FEMA to inform disaster response. So the
Speaker 1: index is based on wilfile House's reputation for having good
Speaker 1: disaster preparedness, staying open during extreme weather, or reopening quickly afterwards. Now,
Speaker 1: if you get there and now this is the quote
Speaker 1: from Craig few Gates, former head of the Federal Emergency
Speaker 1: Management Agency a k A FEMA, if you get there
Speaker 1: and the wilfile House is closed, question mark, that's really bad,
Speaker 1: is what the man is quoted as saying. Now, there
Speaker 1: are levels to this ship. Green full menu restaurant has
Speaker 1: power and damage is limited or no doubt or don't
Speaker 1: damage at all. Yellow limited menu, no power or only
Speaker 1: power from a generator or food supplies. Maybe low red
Speaker 1: The restaurant is closed indicates severe damage or severe flooding. Now,
Speaker 1: if you can tell me of any other restaurant, store, business,
Speaker 1: or food chain that is being used by a federal
Speaker 1: preparedness agency, I will be glad to hear it. Go ahead,
Speaker 1: go ahead. All that you have proven just now is
Speaker 1: that FEMA is in shambles. Shut the hell up because
Speaker 1: the hell awful house, you know that's not doing well.
Speaker 1: It's an inf Now, listen informal it Basically it's like, okay,
Speaker 1: this is a colloquial kind of It's like, you know
Speaker 1: how like all the birds fly away before a tsunami comes? Yea, yeah,
Speaker 1: No one's looking to birds. There was an earthquake, a
Speaker 1: tsunami is coming. But if these birds fly to coop,
Speaker 1: that's your indicator. You see what I'm saying. If you
Speaker 1: tell me waffle house is closed because the weather is
Speaker 1: so bad, I'm gonna go, oh ship, we got to
Speaker 1: get the hell up out of here. Already boarded up
Speaker 1: my windows, batting down the hatches. Right. But if but
Speaker 1: if I see on the news that the waffle house
Speaker 1: is closed. I'm fleeing the city. I've already put my
Speaker 1: boards up, I've already done all my stuff. But if
Speaker 1: waffle house is closed, and like, damn, this storm is
Speaker 1: batter than I thought it was. This is worse than
Speaker 1: this is worse than I thought it was. If anything,
Speaker 1: this is an indication of waffle houses stay too open.
Speaker 1: That's not that that doesn't make any sense. It makes
Speaker 1: total sense. A place should open and close in a
Speaker 1: way that isn't such an indicator. It would be like
Speaker 1: it would be like saying, um, oh, I know, I
Speaker 1: know this. Uh, this guy right this this uh, this
Speaker 1: gentleman who does a lot of drugs. We are usually
Speaker 1: is not is not concerned about anything in life. So
Speaker 1: then if he gets concerned, you know, it's bad. It's
Speaker 1: like yeah, But also his level of concern doesn't doesn't
Speaker 1: really pique my interest because he's dealing with a whole
Speaker 1: bunch of other stuff over there. I understand saying that
Speaker 1: waffle House is a drug addict. No, I'm not saying
Speaker 1: waffle House is a drug act I'm saying that it
Speaker 1: shouldn't take a hurricane to break through normal procedure. I
Speaker 1: think that maybe what do you think should have what?
Speaker 1: What do you you don't think it should be? You
Speaker 1: don't think any restaurant should be open twenty four hours?
Speaker 1: Not not. I'm not saying any and every I'm just
Speaker 1: saying for the sake of just when I go to
Speaker 1: a waffle house, for the sake of everyone there, I
Speaker 1: think it would be best at this place closed for
Speaker 1: four hours. I don't know, like like I happened. I
Speaker 1: have been to one where when we walked in and like,
Speaker 1: we're closed, and we went your waffle house, yeah, and
Speaker 1: she's are out there. I just don't know about No.
Speaker 1: I think they just decided they were done. Like that's
Speaker 1: the other thing. It's like they just just anything. They
Speaker 1: just decided they needed a break. Because she's like, um,
Speaker 1: we're closed, and I was like, your waffle house and
Speaker 1: she was like, but the reason they were closed because
Speaker 1: they had just gotten robbed. So then we had to go
Speaker 1: go to waff house across the street. Now the reason, no,
Speaker 1: don't do that. So you know the twenty four McDonald's,
Speaker 1: you know after a certain time you can't go inside.
Speaker 1: It's because people were robbing twenty McDonald's. So that's why
Speaker 1: you can't go inside. The reason that certain Popeyes and
Speaker 1: certain neighborhoods have the check cash in place class because
Speaker 1: that's what you know what kind of neighborhood Like. If
Speaker 1: you're not sure what kind of neighborhood you're in, going
Speaker 1: to a fast food restaurant, especially a Popeye's, like a
Speaker 1: church's Chicken, a church's Chicken should already tell you what
Speaker 1: neighborhood you're in it. But if you're confused, go inside
Speaker 1: said churches chicken. If there is check cash in place class,
Speaker 1: you know where you are. And just for people who
Speaker 1: don't know, the check cashing place glass is not just
Speaker 1: a type of bulletproof ish glass. It's also glass that
Speaker 1: has a little compartment in it so that you can
Speaker 1: put your money in and then turn it, and then
Speaker 1: they can put your product in and then turn it.
Speaker 1: And that that also stops hands from having to exchange,
Speaker 1: you know, because then with with with hands exchange, it
Speaker 1: means they have easy access to you, which means they
Speaker 1: could bring in use a weapon, right, so they can
Speaker 1: slide a gun underneath, they can grab you by your hand. Um,
Speaker 1: but I can't tell you the food you get at
Speaker 1: a Popeye's or churches, Chicken with check cash and place class.
Speaker 1: It's never as good as the as the experience of
Speaker 1: having to It never matches up. Did you realize, Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: it feels like the robberies that took place. There were
Speaker 1: four refunds jevy like like like the chicken that I've had, Now,
Speaker 1: give me my money back, give me my money back.
Speaker 1: And I don't want all of the money. I want
Speaker 1: Maya eleven sixty two. That's all I want. When my
Speaker 1: Homeboys was like, how can you do diners versus waffle house?
Speaker 1: Waffle House is a diner, and I was like, but
Speaker 1: you know that waffle house is waffle house. Like let's
Speaker 1: stop playing with it, like, let's call space. Yeah, it's
Speaker 1: it's essentially like calling when people or like actually, dolphins
Speaker 1: are mammals. It's like yeah, but like the square rectangle thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because if I had the choice between a diner and
Speaker 1: a wiff House, I'm going dinner. Every time I'm going
Speaker 1: Wilf House, I'm going wilf House because it's like, I
Speaker 1: know when I go to the wiff House the time
Speaker 1: I get two things. Okay, when I go to a diner, no, no, no, no,
Speaker 1: what's your wiff House order? What's my waff House? Or
Speaker 1: I guess I get the all star thing, the all
Speaker 1: star breast. Yeah, yeah, the thing that's is at the
Speaker 1: top of the menu. I think, okay, this is okay.
Speaker 1: So what we've established here is you are not a
Speaker 1: person who goes to wilf House. How do you get
Speaker 1: your ash Browns? I get them flat? I don't. I
Speaker 1: don't know what the listen. Listen, listen. You have not
Speaker 1: been to enough wilfile houses. You didn't your hash brown
Speaker 1: order down houses. I get my Hashbrowns on the way
Speaker 1: they come. I don't. I don't ask them to be extra.
Speaker 1: You don't get your hashbrowns customized? No, because because here's
Speaker 1: the thing, the hash browns that you get at a diner.
Speaker 1: You can just go crispy, or you can go hey,
Speaker 1: can you you know, put a little gravy on whatever.
Speaker 1: The I don't know what people do. I'm just I
Speaker 1: put a hot sauce in a little syrup on mine,
Speaker 1: on your hashbrowns. Just a just a smeach pepper, Yeah,
Speaker 1: hot sauce and just a little shoot, just little just
Speaker 1: a whisper, just a little you know, just petals in
Speaker 1: the wind of just a little bit of syrup just
Speaker 1: because like the whole milk just be like sometimes it's
Speaker 1: too salty. But scottard smothered. Actually I get scottered smot
Speaker 1: to cover the scotters were covered and peppered. I mean,
Speaker 1: if you really got to cover up your hashbrowns like that,
Speaker 1: you didn't do them, right, ma'am, ma'am, ma'am. Do you
Speaker 1: know what any of these Do you know what any
Speaker 1: of these words mean that I just said scattered? So
Speaker 1: when you get waffle House hashbrowns, they'll come, they'll put
Speaker 1: them in the ring so they'll be like formed, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I get mine scattered, so because for me, when they're
Speaker 1: in the little ring, they're not all crisp because they're not.
Speaker 1: So I like mine scattered, so it's crisp beer because
Speaker 1: it's like a more surface area. Scattered, Uh, smothered is
Speaker 1: with grilled onions, covered as with cheese. Peppered is chalapineos. Right.
Speaker 1: You can also get it capped, which is mushrooms us
Speaker 1: like shot what it sounds like. You can get them
Speaker 1: shot capped. Why they call him capped because it's mushrooms.
Speaker 1: Just say with mushrooms. Listen, it's a whole little cute
Speaker 1: little thing. I'm trying to remember what it one when
Speaker 1: you put add gravy to it. What's it called. Maybe
Speaker 1: maybe I'm just being biased, but I feel like when
Speaker 1: I go to a diner, I go to dinner specifically
Speaker 1: for breakfast food, you know. So that's why I compared
Speaker 1: to a waffle house in my mind, because the same
Speaker 1: way that I go to waffle house, I get that
Speaker 1: all star. I go to a diner and I get,
Speaker 1: you know, two eggs scrambled with cheese, bacon crispy, and
Speaker 1: I get um hash browns and then some toast if
Speaker 1: they have it, and I'm and I'm easy, I'll get
Speaker 1: some at waff house. But it's not it's not the same.
Speaker 1: It's not it's not like I don't know how I
Speaker 1: describe this in a way that that won't maybe sum
Speaker 1: it all up. The way that it's done at a
Speaker 1: waffle house, to me is is a bit too familiar,
Speaker 1: if that makes sense. So familiar. Yeah, so when I
Speaker 1: go to you feel like you could cook it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: when I when I get my order all breakfast food
Speaker 1: you can cook. Yeah, but there's something you can you
Speaker 1: know you can cook at I know you can make
Speaker 1: your own eggs. We are not talking about. This is
Speaker 1: not French cuisine. This is not a soup to your Okay,
Speaker 1: this is not a fine no fine dining experience which
Speaker 1: diners have. By the way, let me say something. Is
Speaker 1: there a Michelin star restaurant that's only doing breakfast? I
Speaker 1: mean nothing, I'm aware exactly because it's eggs. It's eggs.
Speaker 1: It's fucking eggs. Okay. If you think that you every
Speaker 1: man makes breakfast, I don't know if that's the only
Speaker 1: thing we teach all how to make as a society.
Speaker 1: But a man can make breakfast. Do you understand? It's
Speaker 1: like I because like I love, you know, one of
Speaker 1: one of our favorite things that've been having a hard
Speaker 1: time to find in New York patty sausage. I love
Speaker 1: a patty sausage. I don't know why I love about Wow. Okay, listen,
Speaker 1: hash browns and wife house scattered Okay, smothered with oven
Speaker 1: with onions, covered with cheese, chunked grilled hickory, smoke tam
Speaker 1: diced grilled tomatoes, pepper and halapenos, capped of grilled button mushrooms,
Speaker 1: topped is with birch chili country is when they got
Speaker 1: the sausage gravy on top. Or you could get all
Speaker 1: of them. You can also get it in a double,
Speaker 1: a triple, or a quadruple order. Now, I don't know
Speaker 1: who's out here getting quadruple orders and hash browns. That sounds.
Speaker 1: I've seen it, and you and we've all gone, that's
Speaker 1: too much, that's too much. A double order, Like it's
Speaker 1: like if it's been all day and I was out,
Speaker 1: Like it's not often I'll get like a double order
Speaker 1: of Hashbrows. I saw a quadruple order one time, and
Speaker 1: when that band stood up, his gun fell out of
Speaker 1: his waist band like that there was no room for
Speaker 1: the gun. There was no room for the gun anymore.
Speaker 1: So this dude, this new guy, quadruple order hashbrows eight
Speaker 1: them all and when he got up, the gun was like,
Speaker 1: it's too tight. I can't I can't be in there.
Speaker 1: I just I know there's people like listening that are
Speaker 1: just like we are so casual about talking about a gun,
Speaker 1: and it's like y'all have to remember, like I grew
Speaker 1: up in Georgia. Josh grew up in Louisiana. And we
Speaker 1: both grew up in America. So if you have an
Speaker 1: issue with what we're talking about, one, you forgot where
Speaker 1: you live. Yeah, you forgot where you live, and the
Speaker 1: sympathy for you. You forgot where the hell you live.
Speaker 1: You need to calm down. You need to talk to
Speaker 1: your congressman. Okay, talk to your congressman. Make it so
Speaker 1: that that's talking about quit that when a pistol that
Speaker 1: it's not so casual. But hey man, sometimes your guns,
Speaker 1: like you know, I gotta honestly, that lets you know
Speaker 1: the strength and the vigor of a waffle house hash Brown.
Speaker 1: If it's pushing guns out the waistban come on, bro,
Speaker 1: come on. Falling to a gun, falling to a tile
Speaker 1: floor has a very particular clatter that. Yeah, everybody got
Speaker 1: real quiet because you're like, oh, that's not okay, okay,
Speaker 1: we know, we know. Anybody just gotta go, oh sorry,
Speaker 1: my bad. Just you know. He was just like, hey,
Speaker 1: my bad. And then then he tried to put it
Speaker 1: back and it was not going easy. That gun did
Speaker 1: not want to get his waist bad anymore. No, I
Speaker 1: was going to shoot himself, Like I was like, what's
Speaker 1: one of those things where he really like hiked up
Speaker 1: his chest and everything. You're trying to make room and
Speaker 1: I started just because like he can't hold it walking out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: kid's gonna look crazy. Just this's just let's just read,
Speaker 1: let's just recap and just think about this. Okay. Usually
Speaker 1: when we have these conversations, we can have things to
Speaker 1: say about the one thing and things to say about
Speaker 1: the other thing. We have been talking about wiffle House
Speaker 1: most of the time because it's an engaging conversation, Okay,
Speaker 1: because we know that wilf House is for the people. Okay.
Speaker 1: I understand that we've let waffle House dominate most of
Speaker 1: the conversation because it shular episode. But I think that
Speaker 1: it's because I really wanted to give you the time
Speaker 1: and attention for your waffle House arguments to let you
Speaker 1: wort of like put yourself on the grill and get burned,
Speaker 1: because I think that they're not coming out quite like
Speaker 1: you think they are. Okay. I think that one of
Speaker 1: the reasons that waffle House has been confined to the
Speaker 1: parts of the country that it has been is specifically
Speaker 1: because other states are like, we see the problems and
Speaker 1: we don't want them. Okay, we see we see the issue.
Speaker 1: We see the issues. Hold on, we already have diners
Speaker 1: that are better. Don't bring that. Wow, I think that's
Speaker 1: what's happening. Wow. The disrespect. That's all hearsay I have
Speaker 1: given you that. They're not even hearsay. That's Josh say, Okay,
Speaker 1: we don't know why these other states don't have the
Speaker 1: wild House. You don't know we also No, no, no,
Speaker 1: you can't say that the reason wildfi House isn't in
Speaker 1: other states is because of how wild House has been presented.
Speaker 1: Say to people, you're the proof for that. You don't
Speaker 1: know the words of my mama. You don't know. You
Speaker 1: don't know because you don't know. Okay, But I think
Speaker 1: that's because big diner, okay, big diner, Big diner okay,
Speaker 1: is keeping out the little guy, the little guy, the
Speaker 1: legal the little mega corporation that FEMA uses to track
Speaker 1: how bad a storm is. Where you cannot use FEMA
Speaker 1: now why because you you because you were like that
Speaker 1: stores are just closed. No no no, no, you can't use
Speaker 1: the female to defend your argument when you were just
Speaker 1: shipping on FEMA for using for wilf holes being with
Speaker 1: You can't do that. Now I could do I could
Speaker 1: do both because the association is still there. That that's
Speaker 1: not no, no, no, that's not right. That's not right.
Speaker 1: That's not denied that the association existed. I'm just saying
Speaker 1: it means femas and shambles. But it's also tracking something
Speaker 1: that's not a little guy. It's a mega corporation. So
Speaker 1: that's me throwing out my there's there's more likely big
Speaker 1: waffle house. There is big diner. Okay. I think that
Speaker 1: all the many different types of diners for them to
Speaker 1: form a coalition of eggs, bacon and hash browns and
Speaker 1: Monte Crystal sandwiches to keep out the wuss. Waffle House
Speaker 1: has the power and a stuffed flounder and Thanksgiving dinner
Speaker 1: and your calamari and I everything I've ever had at
Speaker 1: a dinner tasted reheated. Is that here saying? Is that?
Speaker 1: Is that here saying? You know, I've worked in a
Speaker 1: restaurant before, and in a restaurant, but I I didn't
Speaker 1: know anything about you Chapters Lincoln. There's too there's too
Speaker 1: much food. Your burgers might get in heavy rotation. Your
Speaker 1: breakfast stuff is definitely your eggs are gonna constantly be going. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but legs by the way, not just a bunch of
Speaker 1: eggs juice, right, waffle house using waff house uses real X.
Speaker 1: Are we sure about that? You see the basket of
Speaker 1: eggs when they're cooking your breakfast. You see them cook.
Speaker 1: You see a basket of eggs. Do we see them using? Yes? Me,
Speaker 1: gro watch them. You've never seen them cook. I've seen
Speaker 1: them cook. They're right there. You're just being rude. Now,
Speaker 1: you know good, damn well, they'll be using them eggs.
Speaker 1: You know, good and damn well, they'll be using them
Speaker 1: eggs and eggs. Don't just sit there. You've seen them
Speaker 1: refill the basket. Okay, you've plastic eggs. How do we know?
Speaker 1: Get off my internet. Get off my internet. Get off
Speaker 1: my internet. I will not do this with you. You
Speaker 1: can see them take the egg out the basket, crack it,
Speaker 1: put it in the boiler, scrambled eggs, or put it
Speaker 1: directly on the grill where some person is going to
Speaker 1: have just the raw sunny side ash ashen. No, No,
Speaker 1: it's you know, hearsay, because you said that. I heard it. Wow, okay, no, no,
Speaker 1: no, no no, no, you had to Josh say. I had
Speaker 1: my duels say so. I will not be not we
Speaker 1: have to give it to the people. All right, now,
Speaker 1: we have to give it to the people. It's are
Speaker 1: you team? Because this is diners and so this is diners,
Speaker 1: mean like any restaurant ends in the word diner or
Speaker 1: are we including I happened Dennings? Are those diners? Personally?
Speaker 1: I find them to be diners. I know a steak
Speaker 1: and shake as a diner. Yeah. I think when we
Speaker 1: were talking about this, I don't I know, I wasn't
Speaker 1: considering the eye Hops are the Dennys. I was thinking
Speaker 1: waffle House versus your true true diners. Okay, so this
Speaker 1: is what we'll do, just to make it clear for
Speaker 1: the people as we wrap up, all right, when we
Speaker 1: go diners versus wilf House as well, I want you
Speaker 1: to keep in mind is that we're just talking about
Speaker 1: dining nurse like like not not chains. So you know,
Speaker 1: you don't have to give up your Golden Corral, your Denny's,
Speaker 1: your eye Hops or anything. We're just gonna have indeed
Speaker 1: diners versus waffle Houses an institution. Okay. Um, I will
Speaker 1: say in the end, I can give you a little
Speaker 1: bit of ground that waffle House has a level of
Speaker 1: consistency that I appreciate. It also has um a level
Speaker 1: of calm even in the chaos that I appreciate because
Speaker 1: when that dude's gun fell, it was like it was
Speaker 1: kind of nothing Like it was like we were we
Speaker 1: all star, but it was kind of nothing. Um a diner,
Speaker 1: someone would have run, yes, because I'm sure the employees
Speaker 1: were the people that cared the least that a gun
Speaker 1: just hit the floor. But I can't say the number
Speaker 1: of times I've seen a fight in a waffle house
Speaker 1: and has it's been less than tad calm down. I've
Speaker 1: never been worried like I was in Like I saw
Speaker 1: a fighting eye hop and I was like, Oh, we
Speaker 1: need to run. Yeah, they're fighting in an eye hoop.
Speaker 1: This is this is a wild situation, right. They mean
Speaker 1: it like if you're walked into somewhere and been like
Speaker 1: there's fight energy in here, Like there's just like yeah,
Speaker 1: if I walk in and I smell um, like just
Speaker 1: the room smell spilled Hennessey, I think that there's there's
Speaker 1: definitely something that's about something either already happened or something's
Speaker 1: about to happen, Like when you smell dark liquor in
Speaker 1: a room just like like and you smell it like
Speaker 1: off the floor, like not. I'm not talking about on
Speaker 1: people's breath or like pouring drinks or I'm talking about
Speaker 1: the whole room has a hint. You're like, no, we
Speaker 1: gotta go. I just want to thank everyone for listening. Um.
Speaker 1: I appreciate the points that you made, and I hope
Speaker 1: you can see where I'm coming from. The diners are
Speaker 1: far superior, and you you were not able to prove.
Speaker 1: You did not present any evidence to prove that dinosaur superior.
Speaker 1: All you did which try to bad mouth the wilf
Speaker 1: of House. You didn't give me anything to All you
Speaker 1: said was diners have a lot of options, and I
Speaker 1: order food like a child. So we're gonna hand it
Speaker 1: over to you, the listener. All right, we appreciate you.
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