Would you like fries with that? (10-21-2024--Hour2)

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[00:00:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So Donald Trump, trying to trick everybody, lying to us, pretending that he actually works at McDonald's. My God, has this man no shame? He, uh, yeah, outrage ensued. Donald Trump goes to a McDonald's in Pennsylvania and works for about a half a year.

[00:00:59] [SPEAKER_01]: For about a half an hour, you know, slinging fries and, uh, running the drive-thru and, um, outrage ensues. Right? This kind of thing we have never seen before. Except I think, well, no, wait a minute. Well, me being a student of history, I now recall, I think it was, it was either Mussolini or Hitler. I don't remember. Uh, it was, it was Hitler who rolled burritos at a Taco Bell

[00:01:32] [SPEAKER_01]: in a last-ditch campaign tactic, if I remember correctly. So it has been done before, right? So of course Trump would mimic Hitler. Um, this is, yeah. This is a normal thing.

[00:01:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I've been following politics for 30 years, 30 years. And I seem to recall, like, every single politician going to some kind of restaurant or, remember, remember Mel Watts?

[00:02:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Mel Watts, who was not a fan of the free-flowing discussions, he was a congressman from the, the, like, ridiculously gerrymandered 12th district, if I remember correctly.

[00:02:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Or maybe it was the 9th. Was that Sue Myrick? I think Sue was the 9th. Anyway, Mel Watts district ran from Charlotte to Greensboro.

[00:02:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And at some points it was literally as wide as the interstate. They, they, I mean, you want to talk, and this is why all of these Democrats,

[00:02:47] [SPEAKER_01]: especially my good friend Ray, Governor Cooper, he was in charge of the map drawing when they made those maps.

[00:02:55] [SPEAKER_01]: And so to hear him talk about gerrymandering, it's like, dude, I don't believe you. Okay? I just, I don't believe you.

[00:03:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Now everything's a threat to democracy. And I understand you've got slogans to regurgitate and all of that,

[00:03:11] [SPEAKER_01]: but you literally drew a map that made a district for Mel Watts that ran along the interstate in order to gerrymander it

[00:03:22] [SPEAKER_01]: and to keep as many Democrat seats as possible.

[00:03:27] [SPEAKER_01]: The problem was the demographics and the political dispositions of the voting public changes.

[00:03:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Unfortunately, for Democrats in North Carolina, they, they changed away from the Democrats.

[00:03:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And so despite all of the gerrymandering, they could not hold on to power.

[00:03:50] [SPEAKER_01]: But this kind of thing was done all the time. Mel Watts used to go every, every two years.

[00:03:56] [SPEAKER_01]: I feel like it was every two years. Maybe he did it more often, but I know he did it during the election cycle.

[00:04:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He would go work a job for a couple hours for earned media, which is basically just free coverage that you get for, you know, doing something.

[00:04:13] [SPEAKER_01]: You go out and you create some kind of an event, media come and cover you, and you don't have to pay for the time on the local newscast.

[00:04:21] [SPEAKER_01]: And Mel Watts would go, he called it something like, you know, work a day in your shoes or something like that.

[00:04:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And he would go and work at some job to show, you know, everybody that I'm for the little guy, you know, and then he would, you know, go back to wearing his tailored suits and whatever.

[00:04:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So look, I'm not knocking the guy for wearing tailored suits.

[00:04:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I'm not knocking tailored suits.

[00:04:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I want, if you want to wear those suits, you go right ahead.

[00:04:55] [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't matter to me.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:04:56] [SPEAKER_01]: But it was all, look, these kinds of things, for example, State Fair, anybody?

[00:05:04] [SPEAKER_01]: State Fair, right?

[00:05:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody goes to the State Fair.

[00:05:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, the politicians, right?

[00:05:09] [SPEAKER_01]: All the politicians go to the State Fair and they go and they meet with people and they eat various crazy foods, right?

[00:05:15] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what they do.

[00:05:16] [SPEAKER_01]: That's always what they do.

[00:05:18] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what they've always done.

[00:05:19] [SPEAKER_01]: There are like drawings inside of caves showing this behavior.

[00:05:24] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay?

[00:05:25] [SPEAKER_01]: We know this.

[00:05:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, by the way, we're going to be at the Mallard Creek Barbecue on Thursday.

[00:05:33] [SPEAKER_01]: There's another one, right?

[00:05:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Do the politicians show up because that's where the pork is or do, no, it's where the voters are.

[00:05:44] [SPEAKER_01]: If you've never been to the Mallard Creek Barbecue for years, since COVID, they haven't done the sit-down dining and all of that outside.

[00:05:52] [SPEAKER_01]: So they, you know, set out, you know, picnic tables and all that stuff.

[00:05:55] [SPEAKER_01]: But now they're bringing it back for this one.

[00:05:57] [SPEAKER_01]: It's on Thursday.

[00:05:58] [SPEAKER_01]: And so whenever you've got this many people and this much barbecue, the politicians are coming.

[00:06:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And you've got the media there.

[00:06:06] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's just, it's the perfect storm.

[00:06:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And so the Mallard Creek Barbecue just leaned into it.

[00:06:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And so you would have this whole area where all the politicians would stand because they knew that while you're waiting in line, they could come up and talk with you and try to get your vote.

[00:06:25] [SPEAKER_01]: So then some people were like, I don't want to talk to the politicians.

[00:06:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So Mallard Creek Barbecue started making different lanes.

[00:06:31] [SPEAKER_01]: So you could, like, you could go and you can walk down the lane.

[00:06:37] [SPEAKER_01]: And while you're waiting, you could talk to the different politicians.

[00:06:40] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they had another lane that was like the quiet car on the train.

[00:06:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, you're not allowed to talk.

[00:06:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Politicians were not allowed to be near the people on that lane.

[00:06:49] [SPEAKER_01]: So that's coming back.

[00:06:51] [SPEAKER_01]: It's on Thursday.

[00:06:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I'll be broadcasting live from the Mallard Creek Barbecue as well.

[00:06:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And probably, if history is any indication, purchasing several tubs of the barbecue.

[00:07:04] [SPEAKER_01]: So Donald Trump goes to McDonald's.

[00:07:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Here's the headline from the Washington Post.

[00:07:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Trump serves McDonald's fries to supporters in stage managed campaign stop.

[00:07:20] [SPEAKER_01]: No, it's stage managed.

[00:07:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Wait a minute.

[00:07:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Are you saying these things aren't just completely impromptu?

[00:07:29] [SPEAKER_01]: Are you saying that there was some level of coordination involved with shutting down a McDonald's for a few hours while a former president who has been, you know, targeted for assassination on two different occasions, like that they might need to secure that that facility.

[00:07:45] [SPEAKER_01]: So they shut it down and.

[00:07:48] [SPEAKER_01]: Stage managed.

[00:07:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Man, it sounds actually here.

[00:07:51] [SPEAKER_01]: I should give you one of these.

[00:07:53] [SPEAKER_01]: How dare he.

[00:07:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Stage.

[00:08:00] [SPEAKER_01]: He should have just gone into a random McDonald's someplace.

[00:08:04] [SPEAKER_01]: Demanded to sling fries and work the drive through without any experience.

[00:08:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what he should have done.

[00:08:13] [SPEAKER_01]: You guys do even hear yourselves.

[00:08:15] [SPEAKER_01]: Seriously.

[00:08:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Of course, it's a stage managed event.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Think.

[00:08:20] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:08:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Do you remember when Kamala Harris went to what was it?

[00:08:26] [SPEAKER_01]: The Priamonte Brothers sandwich shop in Pittsburgh a couple of weeks ago.

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember that?

[00:08:30] [SPEAKER_01]: No, of course you don't.

[00:08:32] [SPEAKER_01]: But she did.

[00:08:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And you know what they did?

[00:08:34] [SPEAKER_01]: They stage managed that appearance.

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Except there they kicked all of the customers out first.

[00:08:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Everybody that was in there eating their sandwich.

[00:08:42] [SPEAKER_01]: They were all told to leave.

[00:08:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they bust in a bunch of fake customers, stuffed them in there.

[00:08:47] [SPEAKER_01]: And then she walked around and talked with the fake customers as if they were real customers.

[00:08:51] [SPEAKER_01]: See, stage management.

[00:08:53] [SPEAKER_01]: This is standard operating procedure for politicians.

[00:09:02] [SPEAKER_01]: But the Washington Post wants you to know that he only briefly manned the Fry Station.

[00:09:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Which I know to call it the Fry Station.

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER_01]: Because I worked the Fry Station.

[00:09:16] [SPEAKER_01]: In fact, we called them boards.

[00:09:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Burger board.

[00:09:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Specialty board.

[00:09:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Whopper board.

[00:09:29] [SPEAKER_01]: See, because I worked at Burger King.

[00:09:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Which is superior to the McDonald's.

[00:09:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, I'm not trying to create a whole mayo is the best condiment kind of an argument here.

[00:09:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Although it is.

[00:09:41] [SPEAKER_01]: But, yeah, Burger King is flame broiled.

[00:09:46] [SPEAKER_01]: And that's just superior to me.

[00:09:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And it is actually flame broiled.

[00:09:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I can personally tell you that they are in fact cooked on an open flame.

[00:09:57] [SPEAKER_01]: They don't just add what I heard somebody say.

[00:10:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, they just add some sort of air freshener or something that smells like Whoppers being cooked or something into the smoke that comes out of the fast food restaurant.

[00:10:09] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they don't really do that.

[00:10:11] [SPEAKER_01]: Look, I can tell you they really do that.

[00:10:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And if they have some sort of a scent of the cooking hamburgers, well, I would like to purchase that, please.

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[00:11:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes.

[00:11:27] [SPEAKER_01]: I worked at Burger King.

[00:11:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I was an employee of the month at Burger King at the age of 16 or 17, something like that.

[00:11:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And I had only worked there for like two or three months before I achieved really the height of performance.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know.

[00:11:50] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they put my name on a plaque.

[00:11:52] [SPEAKER_01]: I wonder if it's still there.

[00:11:53] [SPEAKER_01]: I always forget to go back and check if I'm ever around the burger.

[00:11:58] [SPEAKER_01]: I need to get...

[00:11:59] [SPEAKER_01]: I got family still up there.

[00:12:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I need to have one of them just go into that Burger King.

[00:12:03] [SPEAKER_01]: And because it's the one...

[00:12:05] [SPEAKER_01]: It was in Bayshore, Long Island.

[00:12:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello.

[00:12:13] [SPEAKER_01]: And it was at the end of the road.

[00:12:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So it was on Montauk Highway, which runs from New York City all the way to Montauk Point,

[00:12:20] [SPEAKER_01]: all the way across the whole Long Island, right?

[00:12:25] [SPEAKER_01]: And there was a road that went from Montauk Highway perpendicular.

[00:12:28] [SPEAKER_01]: So it was an intersection.

[00:12:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And the Burger King was sort of right there.

[00:12:31] [SPEAKER_01]: And when you go down that other...

[00:12:33] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget what the road is.

[00:12:34] [SPEAKER_01]: It may be like Fire Island Drive or something like that.

[00:12:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't remember the name of it.

[00:12:38] [SPEAKER_01]: But when you go down that road, it takes you to the ferry to go to Fire Island.

[00:12:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Which I don't know if you're aware of the reputation of Fire Island or not.

[00:12:48] [SPEAKER_01]: But it was a very big...

[00:12:50] [SPEAKER_01]: And probably still is...

[00:12:51] [SPEAKER_01]: A party spot for the LGBTQ plus 2IASL community.

[00:12:59] [SPEAKER_01]: And...

[00:13:00] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, back then, there was just...

[00:13:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I think there was just L's, G's, and B's at that time.

[00:13:09] But...

[00:13:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, anyway.

[00:13:11] [SPEAKER_01]: So during the summertime, when the ferry was running lots of trips,

[00:13:14] [SPEAKER_01]: like people would come...

[00:13:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And they'd come up the road and they would stop and get something to eat.

[00:13:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And so there were some very colorful, unique outfits.

[00:13:23] [SPEAKER_01]: My favorite was the guy with the knee-high black socks, sandals, a Speedo, and a leather jacket.

[00:13:33] [SPEAKER_01]: That was...

[00:13:34] [SPEAKER_01]: I did not know what I was looking at as a 16-year-old.

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Working at a Burger King.

[00:13:42] [SPEAKER_01]: But I worked all of the stations.

[00:13:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I did drive-through.

[00:13:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I did the cash...

[00:13:45] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, I got removed.

[00:13:46] [SPEAKER_01]: I was actually removed from the cashier counter.

[00:13:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Because I challenged a couple that were regulars.

[00:13:58] [SPEAKER_01]: That I believe they were regularly scamming us out of money.

[00:14:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they were.

[00:14:04] [SPEAKER_01]: All right, so here's the story real quick.

[00:14:08] [SPEAKER_01]: When I worked at the Burger King, I was like 16 or 17 years old.

[00:14:12] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget.

[00:14:15] [SPEAKER_01]: And having worked on the Whopper board, this is what they call it,

[00:14:18] [SPEAKER_01]: where you make the Whoppers and they make all of the food, you know,

[00:14:22] [SPEAKER_01]: when it comes in, when the orders come in.

[00:14:24] [SPEAKER_01]: So you make them real fast.

[00:14:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And there was always a couple that would come in and I knew their order.

[00:14:32] [SPEAKER_01]: I knew who they were because I knew their order.

[00:14:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And their order, I still remember to this day,

[00:14:38] [SPEAKER_01]: it was four, because there was two of them.

[00:14:42] [SPEAKER_01]: They would each get two double Whoppers with cheese,

[00:14:47] [SPEAKER_01]: add bacon, heavy all.

[00:14:51] [SPEAKER_01]: What does that mean?

[00:14:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, double Whopper with cheese, obviously.

[00:14:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Add bacon.

[00:14:56] [SPEAKER_01]: So it's a bacon double Whopper with cheese,

[00:14:59] [SPEAKER_01]: which is two or four, I guess it's four patties maybe?

[00:15:03] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget.

[00:15:05] [SPEAKER_01]: And then the heavy all is an extra serving of all of the condiments.

[00:15:10] [SPEAKER_01]: So instead of like two tomatoes, you get three.

[00:15:12] [SPEAKER_01]: It's like 50%, I think is what it was.

[00:15:15] [SPEAKER_01]: So heavy all means you got 50% more of all of the toppings.

[00:15:20] [SPEAKER_01]: They would order two per person.

[00:15:23] [SPEAKER_01]: So there was a couple of them.

[00:15:24] [SPEAKER_01]: So there were four of these Whoppers and I would get the order when it came in every single Friday night.

[00:15:31] [SPEAKER_01]: So I knew who they were because here's the thing.

[00:15:36] [SPEAKER_01]: They would make the order and then about 10 or 15 minutes after I would make this order and shove it out,

[00:15:43] [SPEAKER_01]: I would have to make another two.

[00:15:47] [SPEAKER_01]: About 15 minutes after I made the four, I'd have to make another two.

[00:15:52] [SPEAKER_01]: And then I would have to make another two about another 15 minutes after that.

[00:15:58] [SPEAKER_01]: So by the end of their presence in the restaurant, I was making eight of these things, which puts you behind because you can't.

[00:16:08] [SPEAKER_01]: I mean, that's I mean, that is an intensive burger to build.

[00:16:12] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, and so they would.

[00:16:14] [SPEAKER_01]: But they would come back up and return the burger every single Friday night.

[00:16:19] [SPEAKER_01]: They would both come up and bring bring back their burgers after they'd eaten half of them.

[00:16:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And they say it's cold.

[00:16:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And so the manager, customers always write the manager would just say, make two more.

[00:16:33] [SPEAKER_01]: They would eat that one.

[00:16:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Then they would proceed to eat half of their second original burger.

[00:16:39] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:16:40] [SPEAKER_01]: They would bring that back up and say, now this one's cold.

[00:16:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And they would get another two to replace their two that they just turned in.

[00:16:47] [SPEAKER_01]: So they were getting three double whoppers with cheese for the price of two.

[00:16:54] [SPEAKER_01]: They were very large.

[00:16:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Yes, they were very large people.

[00:16:59] [SPEAKER_01]: So.

[00:17:02] [SPEAKER_01]: This got frustrating for me because I knew what they were doing.

[00:17:06] [SPEAKER_01]: The scam was obvious after the second time it happened, like the second week it happened.

[00:17:11] [SPEAKER_01]: The scam to me was very obvious and I didn't I don't like that.

[00:17:14] [SPEAKER_01]: OK, I have a very low tolerance for that kind of stuff.

[00:17:17] [SPEAKER_01]: And so eventually I get put up onto the cashier station.

[00:17:24] [SPEAKER_01]: And it was my last night as a cashier.

[00:17:27] [SPEAKER_01]: It may have been my first or second.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_01]: I forget.

[00:17:29] [SPEAKER_01]: And I am at the cashier and this couple comes up and.

[00:17:36] [SPEAKER_01]: They ordered the two double whoppers with cheese plus bacon heavy oil.

[00:17:44] [SPEAKER_01]: And.

[00:17:45] [SPEAKER_01]: I knew exactly who they were.

[00:17:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And so they order it.

[00:17:50] [SPEAKER_01]: I put it in.

[00:17:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Give it to them.

[00:17:53] [SPEAKER_01]: They go to their seats.

[00:17:55] [SPEAKER_01]: They eat half the whoppers.

[00:17:56] [SPEAKER_01]: They come back up.

[00:17:58] [SPEAKER_01]: They claim it's cold.

[00:17:59] [SPEAKER_01]: So I walk over and I pick up the thermostat.

[00:18:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Or a thermometer.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Sorry.

[00:18:05] [SPEAKER_01]: Not the thermostat.

[00:18:06] [SPEAKER_01]: That would be weird.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Therm.

[00:18:07] [SPEAKER_01]: I pick up a thermometer and I walk it back over and I jam that thermometer right into their burger.

[00:18:12] [SPEAKER_01]: And it registers at like 160 something degrees.

[00:18:16] [SPEAKER_01]: It's completely fine.

[00:18:17] [SPEAKER_01]: It's hot.

[00:18:19] [SPEAKER_01]: It's not cold.

[00:18:22] [SPEAKER_01]: I said this is not a hot.

[00:18:23] [SPEAKER_01]: This is not a cold whopper.

[00:18:24] [SPEAKER_01]: These this whopper is to temperature.

[00:18:27] [SPEAKER_01]: And they said we want to talk to your manager.

[00:18:30] [SPEAKER_01]: I said I bet you do.

[00:18:31] [SPEAKER_01]: So.

[00:18:34] [SPEAKER_01]: And so they they they called the manager over.

[00:18:38] [SPEAKER_01]: The manager gave them the freaking burgers and then took me off of the cashier station,

[00:18:43] [SPEAKER_01]: which was fine, which was fine, because I shined best on specialty board, which is where

[00:18:48] [SPEAKER_01]: you make all of the chicken sandwiches and stuff.

[00:18:51] [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah.

[00:18:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Tony, welcome to the program.

[00:18:53] [SPEAKER_01]: Hello, Tony.

[00:18:54] [SPEAKER_00]: Pete, how are you?

[00:18:55] [SPEAKER_00]: Hey.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been listening to you.

[00:18:56] [SPEAKER_00]: I've been down here in South Carolina.

[00:18:58] [SPEAKER_00]: I hadn't realized you're originally from Long Island.

[00:19:00] [SPEAKER_00]: Yes, sir.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I am as well.

[00:19:01] [SPEAKER_00]: I could not tell.

[00:19:02] [SPEAKER_00]: I lived in Islip for over 20 years before I moved down here.

[00:19:05] [SPEAKER_01]: So maybe you know the answer to this, Tony.

[00:19:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Me being from West Islip, you're from Islip.

[00:19:12] [SPEAKER_01]: There's an East Islip.

[00:19:14] [SPEAKER_01]: Why is there no North or South Islip?

[00:19:18] [SPEAKER_00]: I don't know, because there is a Central Islip as well.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_01]: Correct.

[00:19:21] [SPEAKER_01]: There's a there's an Islip.

[00:19:23] [SPEAKER_00]: And West Islip isn't even next to Islip.

[00:19:25] [SPEAKER_00]: You had Bayshore squeezed in between us.

[00:19:26] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:19:27] [SPEAKER_01]: You got a town that's not even an Islip in the township of Islip.

[00:19:32] [SPEAKER_01]: We're actually a hamlet, I think is what they called us.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: But, yeah.

[00:19:35] [SPEAKER_01]: So, like, you've got another town that's between us and East Islip.

[00:19:41] [SPEAKER_01]: It doesn't make any sense.

[00:19:42] [SPEAKER_01]: And Central is like...

[00:19:43] [SPEAKER_00]: Were you at the Burger King on Udall Road?

[00:19:45] [SPEAKER_01]: No.

[00:19:46] [SPEAKER_00]: Or the one on Pentaquit Avenue on Montauk Highway?

[00:19:49] [SPEAKER_01]: On Montauk Highway in Bayshore.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Okay.

[00:19:52] [SPEAKER_01]: Right there in downtown Bayshore.

[00:19:54] [SPEAKER_00]: I think there was one on Pentaquit Avenue that was there.

[00:19:56] [SPEAKER_00]: That was, again, a gateway to the ferries there.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: To the ferry, yeah.

[00:20:00] [SPEAKER_00]: My former employer, we had a very good relationship with that community you mentioned earlier.

[00:20:04] [SPEAKER_00]: They used to go to Cherry Grove in Far Island.

[00:20:06] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, there you go.

[00:20:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah, right on.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:20:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, welcome to the South, Tony.

[00:20:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Welcome to the land of freedom.

[00:20:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Good to hear from you.

[00:20:15] [SPEAKER_01]: What was there?

[00:20:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we used to be able at the end, because Burger King counts all...

[00:20:20] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, they did back then.

[00:20:21] [SPEAKER_01]: They count all their waste.

[00:20:22] [SPEAKER_01]: So, this way, they know they can control and contain their food costs.

[00:20:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And so, every, like, two or three hours, whatever, they would...

[00:20:32] [SPEAKER_01]: They had a little waste bucket, and you would throw the...

[00:20:35] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, wrapped up burgers that didn't get sold, because, like, you always had to keep a certain...

[00:20:39] [SPEAKER_01]: If you were very busy, you had a level system.

[00:20:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, a DEF CON one through five...

[00:20:44] [SPEAKER_01]: They had a board up there, and they would, like, have you at one or five or whatever.

[00:20:48] [SPEAKER_01]: And that would dictate how many burgers you need to have under the heat lamp ready to go.

[00:20:54] [SPEAKER_01]: So, nothing was ever in there more than 15 minutes.

[00:20:56] [SPEAKER_01]: And they would mark it on the wrappers.

[00:20:58] [SPEAKER_01]: So, nothing was ever sitting there for longer than 15 minutes.

[00:21:02] [SPEAKER_01]: And so, at the end of the 15 minutes, the expediters, they'd walk around, and they would look at the wrappers.

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And if you...

[00:21:10] [SPEAKER_01]: If it was, you know, there for longer than 15 minutes, they would chuck it in this little bin.

[00:21:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you'd have to count up all of those at the end of the night to...

[00:21:19] [SPEAKER_01]: So, they could zero out and see how much they're wasting.

[00:21:22] [SPEAKER_01]: Interesting.

[00:21:23] [SPEAKER_01]: Well, when I was closing up, if there was leftover food in that bin, I always said, give it to the homeless shelter.

[00:21:32] [SPEAKER_01]: But they wouldn't do that.

[00:21:33] [SPEAKER_01]: They were not allowed to do that because GovCo.

[00:21:36] [SPEAKER_01]: And it's amazing how I became a libertarian.

[00:21:38] [SPEAKER_01]: And so, I said, well...

[00:21:40] [SPEAKER_01]: They said, well, you could take it home.

[00:21:41] [SPEAKER_01]: So, I would take home a sandwich.

[00:21:43] [SPEAKER_01]: Eh, chicken sandwich.

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Right?

[00:21:44] [SPEAKER_01]: But then some guy...

[00:21:46] [SPEAKER_01]: Brian was his name.

[00:21:53] [SPEAKER_01]: A couple of Whopper patties about two minutes before close.

[00:21:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Even though there were no Whopper orders.

[00:22:01] [SPEAKER_01]: And, yeah.

[00:22:02] [SPEAKER_01]: So, he found a way.

[00:22:04] [SPEAKER_01]: So, he was gaming the system.

[00:22:05] [SPEAKER_01]: He was sending the Whoppers down.

[00:22:07] [SPEAKER_01]: Then they wouldn't get sold.

[00:22:08] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he would waste them.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: Quote, unquote.

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: He'd mark...

[00:22:10] [SPEAKER_01]: You know, keep...

[00:22:11] [SPEAKER_01]: How many tomatoes?

[00:22:12] [SPEAKER_01]: How many pickles?

[00:22:13] [SPEAKER_01]: They counted all of it.

[00:22:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And so, he would do the board.

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he would take them home.

[00:22:18] [SPEAKER_01]: And the manager caught him and said, no more.

[00:22:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to throw them away from now on.

[00:22:25] [SPEAKER_01]: Yeah.

[00:22:26] [SPEAKER_01]: That probably was, like, a defining moment in my life, too.

[00:22:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, it just burns me when people take advantage of the system and ruin it for everybody else, you know?

[00:22:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't even know why I'm talking about this.

[00:22:39] [SPEAKER_01]: I did not mean to go down this memory lane.

[00:22:42] [SPEAKER_01]: I apologize.

[00:22:44] [SPEAKER_01]: So, Donald Trump goes to McDonald's and works the Fry Station for a couple of minutes.

[00:22:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Where he's apparently intrigued by the little fry shovel.

[00:22:59] [SPEAKER_01]: Which I guess that's kind of cool if you've never worked in the back of a fast food joint.

[00:23:03] [SPEAKER_01]: Or never looked under the heating lamps and watched them do the fries, right?

[00:23:08] [SPEAKER_01]: Because they've got that little shovel.

[00:23:10] [SPEAKER_01]: And you could tell, like...

[00:23:11] [SPEAKER_01]: I think if he had had a little bit more time, he'd...

[00:23:16] [SPEAKER_01]: He'd understood how it worked.

[00:23:17] [SPEAKER_01]: Because he was trying to jam them in there.

[00:23:19] [SPEAKER_01]: You got to let the shovel do the work, Donald.

[00:23:21] [SPEAKER_01]: You just...

[00:23:23] [SPEAKER_01]: You take the fries and you scoop them up.

[00:23:25] [SPEAKER_01]: And then you just kind of shimmy them.

[00:23:27] [SPEAKER_01]: You just a little shake.

[00:23:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And it goes right in.

[00:23:30] [SPEAKER_01]: So you can just fly.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Boom.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Boom.

[00:23:32] [SPEAKER_01]: Boom.

[00:23:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And you just stack up a bunch of fries.

[00:23:34] [SPEAKER_01]: Anyway, Andrew Malcolm from redstate.com says that Joe Biden would have totally gone to McDonald's too.

[00:23:45] [SPEAKER_01]: But the ice cream machine's always broken.

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_01]: So he's...

[00:23:48] [SPEAKER_01]: He couldn't do it.

[00:23:52] Um...

[00:23:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Shadow of the Magi says...

[00:23:57] [SPEAKER_01]: This is a Pete tweet.

[00:23:58] [SPEAKER_01]: He says,

[00:23:59] [SPEAKER_01]: How dare Donald Trump go to a McDonald's to work for a half an hour when he could have just gone to a gas station and steal things like Tim Walz?

[00:24:09] [SPEAKER_01]: So did they not pay for their Doritos when they did that?

[00:24:13] [SPEAKER_01]: Which was totally not stage managed, remember?

[00:24:16] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember when Tim Walz and Doug Emhoff and who, as I understand it, did not beat anybody up or any women up at the gas station, as far as I know.

[00:24:28] [SPEAKER_01]: And Kamala Harris.

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And they were like,

[00:24:30] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, we're on the bus trip together.

[00:24:32] [SPEAKER_01]: We're so cool.

[00:24:33] [SPEAKER_01]: And then they, like, got off and were like,

[00:24:35] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, I know you love the Doritos.

[00:24:36] [SPEAKER_01]: I got your Doritos.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: Oh, my gosh.

[00:24:37] [SPEAKER_01]: You're so amazing, Tim.

[00:24:39] [SPEAKER_01]: And that stupidity.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:24:40] [SPEAKER_01]: So, yeah.

[00:24:41] [SPEAKER_01]: Like, that wasn't stage managed.

[00:24:43] [SPEAKER_01]: They just happened to be in the exact right spot to catch it all on video.

[00:24:49] [SPEAKER_01]: Two different times.

[00:24:51] [SPEAKER_01]: Two takes.

[00:24:52] [SPEAKER_01]: But not stage managed, unlike Donald Trump's photo op at a McDonald's.

[00:24:58] [SPEAKER_01]: Wearing an apron, the Republican presidential nominee lifted fries out of the hot oil, shook them, salted them, and placed them into containers for service.

[00:25:05] [SPEAKER_01]: He praised the staff and the company, then popped his head out the drive-thru window and waved at a crowd that had gathered across the street.

[00:25:12] [SPEAKER_01]: He began to hand out paper bags to the cars that had been waiting in line before his arrival.

[00:25:17] [SPEAKER_01]: The restaurant was closed to the public during Trump's visit, and the motorists, whom Trump served, were screened by the U.S. Secret Service and positioned before his arrival.

[00:25:27] [SPEAKER_01]: No one ordered food.

[00:25:28] [SPEAKER_01]: Instead, the attendees received whatever Trump gave to them.

[00:25:37] [SPEAKER_01]: It's amazing.

[00:25:39] [SPEAKER_01]: That's the Washington Post.

[00:25:41] [SPEAKER_01]: NBC News.

[00:25:44] [SPEAKER_01]: During his half-hour shift Sunday, Trump traded his suit jacket for an apron and received a brief tutorial from a fry cook.

[00:25:52] [SPEAKER_01]: He then took a turn at the deep fryer himself, dropping two batches of potatoes into hot oil and waiting for them to cook.

[00:26:00] [SPEAKER_01]: Gosh, I feel like I'm there, you know?

[00:26:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Man, painting the picture here is NBC.

[00:26:04] [SPEAKER_01]: He mostly followed instructions, though he forgot to fully drain the oil from one batch and appeared to be more generous with the salt.

[00:26:18] [SPEAKER_01]: It's unreal.

[00:26:21] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, pro tip for the Democrats.

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't know if mocking Trump for working at a McDonald's is the best look.

[00:26:38] [SPEAKER_01]: I don't think people are going to see it the way you are seeing it.

[00:26:44] [SPEAKER_01]: I know orange man bad and all, but Donald Trump actually, like, he did a good job as far as photo ops go.

[00:26:54] [SPEAKER_01]: That's what these things are.

[00:26:56] [SPEAKER_01]: He did one of these already, by the way.

[00:26:58] [SPEAKER_01]: He did this at his own hotel years ago.

[00:27:02] [SPEAKER_01]: He, like, he walked around with the cleaning lady at one of his hotels, which was actually pretty funny because she's like, okay, now we're going to go clean the bathroom.

[00:27:11] [SPEAKER_01]: He was like, oh, no, no.

[00:27:12] [SPEAKER_01]: No, no.

[00:27:13] [SPEAKER_01]: You don't want to go in the bathroom.

[00:27:14] [SPEAKER_01]: And then he's like, oh, you know, I kind of like this.

[00:27:16] [SPEAKER_01]: I could do this, you know.

[00:27:18] [SPEAKER_01]: It's a way that it humanizes him.

[00:27:20] [SPEAKER_01]: And I suspect that's why people in the media and Democrats, but I repeat myself, are really upset at the way this all is being perceived.

[00:27:28] [SPEAKER_01]: They see it as a benefit.

[00:27:30] [SPEAKER_01]: And so it has to be diminished.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_01]: Right.

[00:27:33] [SPEAKER_01]: They got to they got to take their shots at him for it.

[00:27:36] [SPEAKER_01]: But the problem is, is that a lot of people have worked at McDonald's.

[00:27:43] [SPEAKER_01]: No, not Kamala Harris.

[00:27:44] [SPEAKER_01]: Like that's she's she claims she worked there, but there's no records of her working there.

[00:27:51] [SPEAKER_01]: By the way, the Harris campaign, they did a stage managed photo op.

[00:27:55] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, not just the Doritos at the gas station or the clearing out of a restaurant, packing it with fake customers and then talking with them.

[00:28:02] [SPEAKER_01]: Remember, they also did that tree planting photo op, which it was quite obvious that neither she nor her husband have ever lifted a shovel of dirt.

[00:28:09] [SPEAKER_01]: All right.

[00:28:10] [SPEAKER_01]: That'll do it for this episode.

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