Speaker 1: It's staff story time. One more thing.
Speaker 2: I'm strong and getty.
Speaker 1: One more thing his staff demeaning term. After I said it,
Speaker 1: I thought, is that demeaning now, Michael Katie, nobody's offended
Speaker 1: by stato. I'm glad to hear that first Katie's story.
Speaker 1: You mentioned on the radio show you you did a
Speaker 1: Bang bang for the first time. I learned that first
Speaker 1: from the Louis c k TV show. I'd never heard
Speaker 1: of it in my life. He's got one episode where
Speaker 1: Louis c k is fat and him won one of
Speaker 1: his fat friends. They do it for real. They go
Speaker 1: to like real restaurants, you go back to back different
Speaker 1: kinds of meals, and they standing that you want to
Speaker 1: do a bang bang Ah Man, I don't know if
Speaker 1: I'm in the mood. Come on, all right, but what's
Speaker 1: it gonna be? And then they go back and forth
Speaker 1: and they go like steak restaurant, Italian place or something.
Speaker 1: I don't understand that.
Speaker 3: I couldn't do it physically, but he should try it on.
Speaker 1: It's it's pretty funny.
Speaker 3: I don't want to.
Speaker 1: There's something I don't know what there is it that
Speaker 1: I find entertaining about it. I've only done it. Did
Speaker 1: it once by accident out of politeness. My brother I
Speaker 1: did Gladys. Gladys is glass is not on the stick.
Speaker 1: She's got senioritis. Because we're almost on vacation. This is
Speaker 1: when I had cancer, actually, but my brother and I,
Speaker 1: after I got done with a chemo, we went made
Speaker 1: a pizza and then found out on the way home
Speaker 1: that my wife had made a big dinner because my
Speaker 1: brother was in town, like a big, home cooked fantastic meal.
Speaker 1: He can't say sorry, I already ate to that, so
Speaker 1: we ate again. We did a bang bang, but I
Speaker 1: have done like Black Bear Diner in an eehop or
Speaker 1: something like that.
Speaker 3: I don't understand the impetus are hungry, No, no, no,
Speaker 3: the whole point is you're not hungry anymore, but you
Speaker 3: do it anyway.
Speaker 1: Yeah, wow, anyway, so Katie it bang bang, what's yours?
Speaker 3: Yeah.
Speaker 4: So, my husband, Drew and I were out running errands
Speaker 4: and we drove by a McDonald's and I looked at him.
Speaker 4: I was like, dude, I have wanted McDonald's for so long,
Speaker 4: for so long.
Speaker 2: He's like, all right, well, let's get our stuff done
Speaker 2: and we can go by.
Speaker 1: I was like, okay.
Speaker 4: So we're the drive through to McDonald's and straight ahead
Speaker 4: of us as a Domino's, and I was like, ooh,
Speaker 4: pizza sounds good, and he goes, well, you're McDonald.
Speaker 3: The drive through the McDonald's eye bowling other restaurants. I
Speaker 3: am in the drive through.
Speaker 1: It's like a guy staring at the bridesmaids as he
Speaker 1: walks down the aisle with his new wife.
Speaker 3: I gotta keep that one in mind.
Speaker 4: Yeah, So we order way too much McDonald's. And while
Speaker 4: I'm in the car on the way back to the
Speaker 4: house from McDonald's, I am on the Dominoes app ordering
Speaker 4: s pizza. So we had our McDonald's, got home and
Speaker 4: like ten minutes later, the doorbell rang and there was
Speaker 4: way too much Dominoes delivered at the house.
Speaker 2: So we did a bang bang.
Speaker 4: I had a double quarter pounder and a handpan barbecue chicken.
Speaker 1: Pizza in the same hour. Fantastic. That is a bang
Speaker 1: squared right now, having not eaten McDonald's in a long time.
Speaker 1: How did it strike you? Oh, it's so good it
Speaker 1: is when you're eating.
Speaker 3: I don't know, I don't know, I just I just
Speaker 3: respect how you initiated the second one, Well, the first
Speaker 3: one was still in process.
Speaker 2: I don't waste time, Joe.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, being efficient man.
Speaker 4: And the and the coke, just the diet coke hits
Speaker 4: different at McDonald's for some reason.
Speaker 1: It was I don't drink pop. But everybody tells me
Speaker 1: that that that a McDonald's diet soda is just better
Speaker 1: than anywhere else, That they get the right fizz to
Speaker 1: syrup ratio or something in a way that other people don't. Probably, yeah,
Speaker 1: they probably haven't dialed in better than any of it.
Speaker 3: Yeah, when you're just feeding your regular coke right.
Speaker 4: When you haven't had it in months, it was Yeah,
Speaker 4: it was a moment to remember.
Speaker 2: Not I'm not ashamed.
Speaker 1: Oh this is a dumb question that only I will enjoy.
Speaker 1: But what did you eat at McDonald's. I had a
Speaker 1: quarter pound with cheese. That's a good sandwich right there.
Speaker 2: And the fries were fresh.
Speaker 1: Oh, McDonald's fries freshly made. And I'm wanting met today.
Speaker 2: You're gonna have McDonald's after show? Aren't you.
Speaker 1: Friends with some odd people?
Speaker 3: What's the matter with you people?
Speaker 1: Okay, now McDonald's another another staff story. What do you got? Michael?
Speaker 1: All Right?
Speaker 2: Well, I'm really proud of myself. I saved up one
Speaker 2: thousand dollars that was started last year to do charity
Speaker 2: work for the holiday season this year, so I bought it. Yeah,
Speaker 2: it was my wife and I. We bought a bunch
Speaker 2: of toys and gave some stuff to some elderly people
Speaker 2: and for the military. So we did a bunch of stuff.
Speaker 2: But when we went toys shopping.
Speaker 1: And this is this isn't community service that you were
Speaker 1: forced to do by.
Speaker 2: Mistake or no. Okay, that's surprising, I know, but no.
Speaker 2: And uh, the thing that was so surprising though, is
Speaker 2: we went shopping for toys and I couldn't believe how
Speaker 2: many crappy, cheap toys there are now. I don't know
Speaker 2: if it's I've gotten old or have toys always been
Speaker 2: this bad?
Speaker 3: Oh?
Speaker 1: No, of course the first one is true. The second
Speaker 1: one is not true. No, No, toys, just like washing machines,
Speaker 1: used to be solid made, but now stuff is crap.
Speaker 1: So what I'm always complaining about cheap Chinese crab, I
Speaker 1: mean it's worthless. So many toys you buy are worthless?
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I think there's a sweet spot because when
Speaker 3: we were kids, like Tonka trucks were built in Detroit
Speaker 3: by like the same people who made real trucks, and
Speaker 3: you'd buy one of those trucks and you'd leave it
Speaker 3: out in the rain four hundred and seventy five consecutive
Speaker 3: nights and it.
Speaker 1: Would still just be great.
Speaker 3: And future civilizations would find the Tonka trucks of the
Speaker 3: seventies and now you know, if your kid plays with
Speaker 3: it for two and a half hours, fifty to fifty
Speaker 3: the thing doesn't break. I would argue that there's a
Speaker 3: sweet spot in between there, although you know, if you
Speaker 3: get the super well made American toys of the past,
Speaker 3: your grandkids.
Speaker 1: End up with Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, my kids were
Speaker 1: playing with some of my metal toys. He's forty five
Speaker 1: years after I was using the fifty years after I
Speaker 1: use them.
Speaker 3: Yeah, we actually have now they're on display, they're not
Speaker 3: being used. But a couple of toys that Judy's dad
Speaker 3: had that man, he grew up. Gosh, you grew up
Speaker 3: the Depression and.
Speaker 1: Just after what were the toys then, Like the hoop
Speaker 1: was like a.
Speaker 3: Top that you'd press on and its been around like
Speaker 3: play a song and stuff like that. There you go, yeah,
Speaker 3: stick in a hoop.
Speaker 2: No, But I remember growing up with Lincoln logs. They
Speaker 2: were made with real wood, sure building houses and tinker toys.
Speaker 2: And yeah, I don't know. I guess I've just I'm old. Now,
Speaker 2: that's all it comes down to.
Speaker 3: But the experiment has been done times fifty million. Do
Speaker 3: people want cheap crap or they do? They want more
Speaker 3: expensive quality, and cheap crap wins that fight a lot.
Speaker 1: I don't know why I was telling my son. I
Speaker 1: was trying to explain to my son the other day,
Speaker 1: how with many many things, what were we purchasing. It's
Speaker 1: cheaper to buy the good one. It's cheaper to buy
Speaker 1: the good one because you're gonna end up buying three
Speaker 1: of the crappy ones.
Speaker 4: Yeah, in the long run, yes, is it just the
Speaker 4: thrill of acquisition, the thrill of getting something.
Speaker 3: You can do that more and by the time you
Speaker 3: know it's cheap. Crappiness is in evidence at the high
Speaker 3: from getting this kind of worn off.
Speaker 1: Anyway, they were at the dollar store the other day
Speaker 1: and they sell kitchen items there and they're all just
Speaker 1: so crappy. And Henry said, weren't you looking for tongs
Speaker 1: the other day? You couldn't find the tongues? And I
Speaker 1: needed tongues and for like flipping bacon or whatever, and
Speaker 1: they sell them. They're their dollar and I mean they
Speaker 1: are just so crappy. I bent them just trying to
Speaker 1: demonstrate using them.
Speaker 3: Just crap.
Speaker 1: Why do we even allow that stuff to come into
Speaker 1: the country.
Speaker 3: You probably should wash your hands because a Chinese lead
Speaker 3: and rat poison.
Speaker 1: Right right, right, all right, right, So if we're going
Speaker 1: to craft a fantastic bang bang, I would like to
Speaker 1: do a really high quality bang bang sometimes like a
Speaker 1: like a Morton's in a really good Italian restaurant or
Speaker 1: something like that. I don't know which older I would
Speaker 1: vomit all over.
Speaker 3: But I will put aside my objectors status. Jeez, what's
Speaker 3: the matter with you?
Speaker 1: The feeling horrible afterwards is kind of the.
Speaker 3: But I am seriously mystified, and I've done some perverse
Speaker 3: and indefensible things in my life.
Speaker 2: Did you feel bad, Katie after you ate all that?
Speaker 1: I did not feel great. She's a lot younger than
Speaker 1: us too, Michael. That helps wasn't wasn't great. But I
Speaker 1: didn't feel like I.
Speaker 3: Was going to die, you know.
Speaker 1: Cool for you?
Speaker 3: You know, I feel like I would have to do
Speaker 3: a big breakfast followed by a lunch thing, and I
Speaker 3: had just eliminated the interim period, so it would have
Speaker 3: that progression of tastes from like an omelet and some
Speaker 3: bay can do. Here's a big hamburg.
Speaker 1: Okay, I'm letting bacon. You could do it, be hard
Speaker 1: to do pancakes need anything afterwards? Yeah, i'mlet bacon and
Speaker 1: then a yeah, yeah, then a steak or something.
Speaker 3: I could do that there if not had a stack
Speaker 3: of pancakes with syrup in probably fifteen years, really yeah,
Speaker 3: just because I'm trying to minimize carbs and sugar and
Speaker 3: stuff like that.
Speaker 1: And actually, and I know you remember how it is
Speaker 1: because it's freaking good. Oh I know, but I would
Speaker 1: have it forty eight hours.
Speaker 3: It's a delicious, a horrendous insulin crash though, But I
Speaker 3: want to really really badly. I gotta go get some
Speaker 3: blueberry pancakes with syrup.
Speaker 1: Nothing will make you tired like eating pancakes. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just your feet are made of lead. It's just
Speaker 1: your head gets heavy. You can't keep it up by yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: Who said that was a morning food?
Speaker 2: Yeah that's right.
Speaker 3: Maybe if you're eight years old, you bounce away from
Speaker 3: the breakfast table.
Speaker 1: But not now. When I eat pancakes, my head's like
Speaker 1: a baby, like something needs to hold it up. Wow wow.
Speaker 3: I guess I'll just stick with my sensible proteins.
Speaker 2: Oooh no, I'm ashamed to admit this, but you know
Speaker 2: how I was able to save this money up for
Speaker 2: the holiday giving. I quit going to the vending machine,
Speaker 2: and I took all that money. I just put it aside.
Speaker 1: And good for you.
Speaker 2: Yeah, but it shows how much money I was wasting ridiculously.
Speaker 3: Grand in the vending machine.
Speaker 1: Michael.
Speaker 2: I know it's not funny at all. It's really really bad.
Speaker 3: Wow wow. I was about to salute his humanity and generosity,
Speaker 3: and Katie goes with mocking him.
Speaker 2: Wow. I mean that's that's impressive.
Speaker 1: Well, you think about it, you know, I do think
Speaker 1: about it. I thought about it every time I saw
Speaker 1: you at the vending machine for the past hour, many
Speaker 1: years we worked together. I think you could buy a
Speaker 1: box a case of those enth the price if you want.
Speaker 2: You should have stoped me years ago.
Speaker 1: Jack, none yet none of my business.
Speaker 3: Well you've reformed yourself and given to those less fortunate, Michael,
Speaker 3: God bless you. It's Christmas miracle.
Speaker 1: Or lessons or something or other.
Speaker 3: He's like a much less compelling Ebonezer Scrooge character. He's learned,
Speaker 3: he's reformed, just without the ghosts and the nice job.
Speaker 2: Michael, thank you. Well, I guess that's it.