Dinner Talk And Catching Up

Speaker 1 0:00

Hey everybody, welcome back to Set and Centered. I'm RJ. And I'm Mark. Uh how's it going, Mark? It's going good. How are you doing, my friend? I'm doing well. I had a very delicious sandwich for dinner, which was way better than my dinner yesterday.

Speaker 0:16

Oh, yeah. We had pork chops and uh baked potatoes. It was a lot better than dinner yesterday.

The No-Spoiler Chimp Crazy Pitch

Speaker 1 0:21

Yeah, we're gonna talk about that a little later because oh my god. But first things first, did you guys watch watch uh Chimp Crazy?

Speaker 0:28

No, we didn't. We ended up watching a different one. And in fact, I forgot about it. I'll I'll make myself a note right now. Oh my gosh. Yep.

A Rodeo Movie We Actually Liked

Speaker 1 0:36

Is this where we get into you don't have a pen thing again? I'm not I'm on my phone, damn it. Do you have a pen? No. Nope. Don't even have a piece of paper. Oh, did I still I guess I stole your stenopad? Um, yeah, chimp crazy. And I gotta tell, you know, anybody listening, uh watch watch this show. It's called Chimp Crazy. Just watch this fucking show. I mean, like I told you, Mark, I'll tell people, don't don't worry about it. Don't watch the trailer, don't read the description, don't go. Like, what is this about? Just watch it. It's four episodes. It's a mini-series, it's four episodes, and it's just Banana Town. So, and I can't, I just I I don't want to say anything about it because part of why it's great is and crazy is the twists and stuff. Ugh, all right. Okay, I got it written down. Cool. Yeah. What movie did you watch tonight?

Speaker 1:44

I don't know.

Speaker 1 1:45

You it was an hour ago.

Speaker 1:47

I know it was it was a uh about a little girl that uh became part of uh rodeo. Oh shit. She was riding bulls. No, she was doing the um the uh parade stuff, the drill stuff when they first come in holding the flags and stuff like that with the tricks and stuff. And she long story short, she was looking for her daddy because she didn't know who her daddy was.

Speaker 1 2:15

Oh, she was looking for her daddy, yeah.

Speaker 2:17

I said and he was uh he was a rodeo writer, I guess. You know, so yeah, it was really good. It was uh it was uh something different for us compared to what I usually watch. Yeah, um YouTube. Was it a sad movie? What's that?

Speaker 1 2:35

Was it sad? Was it yeah, it was there was never mind.

Speaker 2:38

I don't know why I'm at you don't even know what the fuck movie's called, so I don't remember what the fuck movies are called unless it's like Star Wars.

Speaker 1 2:45

Well, yeah, but I'm just saying, like it's kind of pointless to ask anything about it because if you said yes, it was funny, it was dramatic, it was the best film I've seen in my whole life. Like, and what was it called? You're like, I don't fucking know. Great.

Speaker 3:01

All I know is it was it was a good fucking movie. Oh, you did like it. Yeah, I did like it. It was good. Did Christina like it? Yes, she really did. Yeah, did she pick it? No, I actually did. I wanted something a little bit mellower and stuff, even better.

Speaker 1 3:16

Yeah, you you sought this movie out. I don't know what it's called. Nope. What was it on? TV. No, you don't have TV. You had the the Netflix or I think it was on Prime.

Speaker 3:30

Okay. I I will uh get back to you at a later episode.

Speaker 1 3:35

No, first of all, you probably won't. Nope. Um let me ask my guy. Sometimes he thinking what's the name of the prime movie Little Girl or Rodeo Daddy thingy. There's probably a million of them. Cowgirls and angels. That's it. Boom. There you go. See, and I was on the verge of firing my guy. I was telling you earlier. I'm like, I may have found a better guy. Oh, it has uh what's his face in it? James Cromwell. Yes. Is it was that did that turn out to be her? That can't be her dad.

Speaker 4:07

No, that that was uh he knew her grandpa that had passed away.

Speaker 1 4:13

He so this is just a guy who knew her grand. Wait, was she looking for her dad or grandpa?

Speaker 4:18

Her her dad. She her grandpa had passed away. She'd uh the mom got pregnant by the dad and the dad, and then the she had never known her dad. So okay. Yep. Oh my gosh.

Speaker 1 4:34

Why why didn't we even bought that? I don't know. Why the hell? I know. Why didn't I just drop it when I said let's drop it? Your mind doesn't work that way. It does not. It doesn't.

Speaker 4:44

I've gotta know, I've gotta know.

Speaker 1 4:47

Speaking of getting to know, I'll tell you this. So you talk about your YouTube wormholes, yes. And I I don't I really don't get that. Like I'm and maybe it's because I don't use YouTube that much, and like the algorithm doesn't know you know the right things to suggest to me or whatever. Because like when I watch a video on YouTube, and I was like, oh you know, playing in Next in five seconds, right? So I'm like, no, that sounds stupid, I don't want to watch that. But you you probably have so many millions of hours logged in there that it's like at least they gotcha.

Speaker 5:18

Yeah, yeah. I well after Christina goes to bed at night, that's what I do is I sit there and watch the YouTubes.

Speaker 1 5:25

Yeah, yeah. Um, but anyway, um I I guess I went down the closest thing to a wormhole that I I could go down on YouTube last night. Um there's this thing, I can't remember what it's called. Um is it like open swing dance competition? I think open swing dance. It well not open swing dance, but like swing dance open competitions. There's a thing called the Asian West Coast swing swing open I watched, um, and it was just a video of uh two you know two people dancing. Right. And uh I'll tell you why. There's two reasons why this turned into a rabbit hole. One the guy dancer was really sexy. I should have known. Well, it was I mean, not you know, not my type, but like, you know, the dancing, I'm like, dang. Because you know, talented dance is very fucking really nice to watch. Right. Um, and so a couple videos with him dancing on it, you know, and then I'm like, what in the actual hell is this anyway? Because it was like a dance competition, but at the beginning of each video, it was like they would draw names out of a hat.

Speaker 6:39

Yeah, freestyle.

Speaker 1 6:41

Uh what?

Speaker 6:42

They they they call it a freestyle, so they draw the name of the man and then the name of the woman, and then they get to pick one of like two or three songs to dance to. Oh, you're not actually you're not actually right about that.

Why Hasn’t The Macarena Returned

Speaker 1 6:55

Um I am on the ones I watch. Well, it's this is different. This is different in an even cooler way because um yeah, and it's not man and woman in this one, it's leader and follower or whatever. You can sign up to be a leader or a follower, and yeah, so the the pairings are random, which you hit on that, but in this one, so are the songs. Okay, they don't know what song they're gonna dance to until it starts playing. Oh, okay. It's wild. And like most of the songs, too, are not like it's not like you know, toxic by Britney Spears, or it's it's usually a DJ mix or a mix, you know, it's not the original song in most of the cases, and so you know, the tempo, the beat, everything is something that they've never heard before, and they just immediately fucking start dancing. Isn't that isn't that trippy that they can do that? Yeah, and uh and with somebody that that they don't know about necessarily even, and it was just wild. And so, and plus that dude, like he, you know, I was kind of joking, like his moves were really really awesome, like to watch, uh, not from a horny perspective. I'm like, man, he's really fucking talented. Um, so I just was watching, I watched like 50 of these fucking videos. Holy shit, that's good for you. Uh well, no, it's not good, but it's a lot for me, I'll say that. But yeah, it's I mean, if you I'm telling you, just anybody listening, it's it's so weird, but like look it up. Uh, there's different comp whole different competitions, what they call them, like whatever. But Asian, I think it's Asian West Coast Open. Huh. Look that up. That's one of them. It's I guess one of the biggest ones in Singapore. Uh yeah, should have known we were overseas. Yeah, well, most of them were, like, but also they had some in Stockholm and like, yeah, just everywhere. But uh let me tell you how I got there. I'm waiting in the first place. I was uh I was listening to one of my podcasts or whatever last night after we got back from uh Palestine. Uh-huh. Uh I dropped you off, went blah blah got settled in. I was listening to my show, one of my shows, and I guess it wasn't a very good one because I just started thinking about other stuff. And uh I I thought to myself, why hasn't anybody brought the Macarena back? Oh shit. And then I thought to myself, that's a really good question. Don't you think? Yeah, because they bring everything back, they re reboot it, you know, all the time. Yep. And that was big. I mean, you couldn't get away from that damn thing back in the day. Uh but why hasn't anybody brought the Macarena back? And so in the first step to answer this question, I'm like, well, maybe they have, and I just don't know because I don't want G2. No, they really haven't. But this uh this is how I got on on this dance conference this uh Asian West Coast open what if then because and this guy is one of the videos was um you know again rant random pairing between the two, this guy and some other girl, and it was like a dance hip hop, whatever DJ mix Macarina. And so I'm watching this, I'm like, first of all, what the hell is this thing that I'm watching right now? Right, they're not doing the Macarena, but they're doing stuff that has a little Macarini in it, they're doing to the song Macarena, and also why did they draw a name out of the hat? Right, and also why they why so there's all these questions that I'm trying to answer whilst looking at the dump truck on this guy, and I'm like so that's what I got on that. Oh, and I don't know, but I wanted to ask you because you're more clued into the the stuff, the social you're chronically online, right? Uh did they bring the Macarena back?

Speaker 10:51

No, I mean I don't know, but I imagine right now there's two things going through people's heads. Uh-huh. One is they're going, hey Macarena. And the other one is like they went to Palestine, it's in Texas, people. Palestine Texas.

Speaker 1 11:05

Yeah, I think it's mostly the based on how that song works. I think maybe they were wondering about Palestine for a second until and then it's just like for anybody who was you know old enough to even remember because I was pretty young when it came out. Anybody who was just old enough to remember anything knows exactly what I what happened when I said, you know? I'm watching some of course I watched a couple videos of like the actual mucker. Yeah. Do you remember the music video, like the original one? Yeah. It was so funny. Yeah. Because you have these, I guess it was a girl band, I don't know, and they're singing five girls, and then it cuts to these two, like not old, but older. Sort of pretty old dudes singing by themselves at one microphone. They look like they're dressed like like your your old uncle who's you know uh used car salesman, and he's pretty good at it. So he wears suits, not great suits, and then he just has his buddy, you know, and they're always together. You can tell it's not a gay thing, but it's always like you know, Uncle Sal and his buddy Clive. And they're just like, hey, you want to sing this song? Sure, why not? Because it's they're so because that's the thing, these girls are dancing to shit, and these two are just so casual, you know. You remember there's just like and they're just kind of like shaking their shoulders and singing that. Yeah, it's like they it's almost like they were walking through the shoot for the music video. Oh, pretty much. Like, hey, you guys want to sing a song? Yeah, we got we got five minutes. Yeah. Let's make a one-hit wonder. Yeah. That would have been well uh mid-90s, I think. Right? Yeah. It's gotta be right around there, yeah. So I'll say uh my mom's not gonna be happy that I say this, but um the Macarena was danced to at her wedding with Mike. Oh sh. There's footage. Oh, footage that I haven't seen in a long time, but that I'm I'm thinking now. I mean, dig that up. Yes, yes, definitely needs to be brought up. Yeah, and seen, and maybe even published. Oh, yeah. Maybe we I mean we got a YouTube channel. Uh-huh. We have ways of getting this stuff out there, you know what I'm saying? Yeah. And I just I vi I I I don't know if I've ever seen the video. I do remember the the ceremony. I remember how old I was when they got married, but I was not a tiny little kid. Wait, how old are you about um maybe 12? I don't know. 12, 13, let's call it that. Okay. And so, you know, I remember the wedding, I remember the reception. And I do remember them dancing. Um To the Macarena. I can't hear you. I know, I I'm petting Finley. Yeah. And I'll say this, I'll say this actually, now that I'm thinking back on it, one thing that I think is great here, why we definitely need to get the footage, is I distinctly remember watching people do the Macarena.

Speaker 14:19

Oh damn.

Speaker 1 14:20

As in I wasn't in it. The Macarina. So and there's a chance that I'm remembering the footage of it and I wasn't. But I can't wait to see this. God. It was uh I know. I'm making it, I'm writing it down. This is a this is a podcast mission. You know what? Maybe this is what brings back the Macarena. So you have a pen and paper? Oh my god. I'm sorry. I'm sorry, that's so inconsiderate of me. All I have is a Finley. Um I'm sliding a pen under the screen for you. Oh, I got it. The butt. Yeah, that one. That one, yeah. There you go, you got a pen? Yeah.

Speaker 15:07

Cool. I'll write on my hand. It's okay.

unknown 15:10

Oh, Jesus.

Speaker 1 15:12

Um here. I'm an eady bitch. I'm sliding a pad of paper. It's not a big, it's not a big one, but fucking post-it note. No, a stack of post-it notes. Okay. This is true. It's a whole pad.

Speaker 15:29

Maybe I'll draw the stick figure so when you flip through it, they move. You should if you can. I can't.

Speaker 1 15:35

Um, well, what color post-its are they though? Uh I would say they're like a white or no, they're slate. But well, it's fun though, right? Sure. Like it's different. Yeah. I don't know if you notice. I I don't have any canary yellow post-its. I've never noticed that. You haven't? Look, like I've got red ones. I've got white ones. I don't have I don't use the the pastel yellow. Huh. Yeah. Because I'm a transsetter. Hero. Oh, what? Transsetter. Oh, okay. I thought you were I thought it was somehow. What'd you think I said? Trans? No. Not a trans or whatever that is. Trans. Transitter? Trans. Transsexual. Well, you were in the navy. Yes, I was in the navy. Six years in the navy, according to the footage that we or whatever clips we have. Alright. You know what? I think our odds are pretty. Well, I don't want to jinx the whole project, but I think we have a pretty good shot at bringing back the Marcarina because we brought back the Brontosaurus. Right. That was pretty easy, really. That was. Um, in a way, I think I don't know if we ever actually just settled a decided, but I think we did bring back Pluto, kind of. I we at least started into it. Yes. Yeah, we got we made some headway there. Yes, we did. So that's this is exciting. This could be a whole new era.

Speaker 17:06

So what has set and center done for you? Oh, they brought back Pluto, the Macarena. Rhonosaurus.

Palestine, Texas And A Fake Sponsor

Speaker 1 17:15

Look, it's a public service. You're welcome. Yes. Uh you know, send us a tip or something. Just a tip. Our patch it tune. Platoon, Plantune? What's that website that people have? Uh pistachio. Throws you, oh, it hit me on it. Starts with a P. Some of the you know, the vlog group podcast people that you can give them. Do you have any idea what I'm talking about? No, because I don't listen to podcasts. No, it's more a YouTube thing, though, I think. Um, Patreon. There you go. Yeah. That I don't even know what that is, but pistachio. I don't know. Pontiac. Pontiac. Hit us up on the Pontiac. Uh hey. Yep. Uh I was gonna say that's something else we could bring back now. The what the Pontiac Vierro? No, just Pontiacs. Yeah. I was like, nah. I think we're better without them. Yeah. Uh so we went to Palestine. Oh, we went to Palestine. Almost jumped the gun. Uh it's kind of exciting. Uh we got a little something different today, huh? Yeah. We have our first sponsor. Um, which is like oh, I'm not supposed to say that. It's supposed to be like I'd like to take a moment to talk to you. Oh, I'm not gonna do it like I'm joking. No, but seriously. This episode of Set and Center is brought to you in part by Chicken Express, founded in 1988 in Bemburg, Texas. Chicken Express, freshness at the heart of every bite. Each piece of their chicken, always fresh and never frozen, takes a flavor-filled journey, meticulously marinated in a secret recipe batter, masterfully cooked to golden perfection. The result, a hot, juicy burst of flavor that's uniquely Texan, uniquely Chicken Express. Become a part of their family. Which is not an actual ad. I just made it up on the fly reading their website right now. Okay, but the re but the reason why? Oh, yeah, here we go. Because well, I'm gonna sort of back into what I want to do. Don't you always yes too easy to do. It's more of no okay. I won't I'm gonna sort of back into the like what I want to talk about, which you know we don't want to talk about because you were there yesterday. Yeah. But the the reason I said thing out chicken express is chicken express is amazing. Yes, it is. And when they say a hot, juicy birth of flavor, man, good. And it's this is we're still talking about chicken express over there. Okay. Okay. It's chicken. Yeah, but uh I have a new appreciation for chicken express, always loved it, super awesome. I don't know if it's just a Texas thing, but it it it is a very Texas thing in that you know it's where they start and all this stuff. Oh, so good. And I'll tell you why I say that. Because we went to Palestine yesterday, Mark. Yes. To we had to race up there um to get to the post office where they close, right? So we could send the uh thing to like well, you can talk, we can talk about it now because this will post after that, right?

Speaker 20:18

It should, yeah. Uh unless she stays up late at night.

Choosing Lane’s Over Chicken Express

Speaker 1 20:23

She does well, I think you've kind of blown the cover here. It doesn't matter. She knows we won't talk about what it was because that's still a surprise. Mail my mom a Mother's Day gift. Yes. I don't know why. Yeah. I was afraid of giving away what it was and she'd hear, but no, no. So a gift. And I kind of was I should have done it a few days earlier, but blah blah blah. And it was like the last day I could, so we had to go all the way to Palestine to do it to make sure it got there in time. So we drove up. I'm like, you wanna go to Palestine mailbox with me? You're like, yep, yep, yep, let's do it. So we went up there and we went uh poked around a few stores, whatever. And in the same in this big parking, not parking lot, shopping center, uh, where the chicken express is, which we get that's the chicken express that we get the chickens from where we go up there. Right? Yep. That same shopping center, they had a new a new place, a new chicken fingers place. And it was I'm like, you wanna try this? Like, try a new place, and you said sure, why not? And you're fucking asshole. You ruined our whole night by saying that. Yes, I gosh. And I don't wanna like I don't want to name and shame or anything. Yes, I do. What was it called? Lanes. Lanes. Lanes, just lanes, yeah. Okay, lanes I I believe it was just yeah, I think I like there's more words.

Speaker 21:49

Lane's chicken chicken and shitty service.

Speaker 1 21:53

Oh, lanes chicken fingers. Okay. Yeah, I w I want to make sure I get the name and everything right. Uh Whereas my fake uh Chicken Express ad, um, you know what, even though Chicken Express didn't actually sponsor us, we're sponsoring them. Yes, we are. Because we're anti-sponsoring this fucking Lane's chicken Lane's Chicken Fingers Palestine. All right, I want you to walk us through it, Mark. I almost can't.

Speaker 22:18

Okay, so we'll see if we can make this not run over. Uh so I said, yeah, sure. Can I go ahead and inject a little bit? No.

Speaker 1 22:30

Can I put in a little no? No, go ahead. Can I drop a uh no no no? I just want no, I just want to add that we uh we left the ranch at like three, you know, we got done the post office close to five, you know, whatever it was all set. We hadn't eaten lunch or anything, right? Right. Poked around a couple stores, oh, picked up some orders from Walmart, like groceries. So point being that we we were a little hungry, and I think both getting just a little tired because we were a little hungry. Yep. Maybe a lot hungry. Maybe it's like we're sitting like, you want to try this this new place? And you said again, sure, why not?

Speaker 23:09

All right, there you go, take it from there, but so we pull in. Uh there's a couple people in there, we're like, okay. And so the people in front of us order, and then it took a while for them to get to us. We're like the next ones in line, and then so we finally ordered. We ordered uh two five-finger uh well, two, yeah, two orders of the five-fingered uh chicken strips or chicken tenders. Uh one was spicy, one was regular, and then we also ordered a three-fingered one for Christina to bring home to her. And what it was the meals, right? Yeah, it was the meals. So we had we're talking chicken fingers, fries, and toast. And uh we had two sides, and she had one for the the dipping sauce. They weren't sides, they were the dipping sauce.

Speaker 1 23:54

Yeah, so the whole the whole meal was chicken fingers, toasts, fries, and some sauce. Yeah, which every chicken place has their own little special sauce, right? So, of course, they had their lean sauce. Yeah, they can they can keep their lean sauce. Sorry, this is your story, please.

Speaker 24:07

Oh, it's okay. And then we got our number, we went and filled up our sodas. Another gal ordered. Uh, she sat down at the table, we sat down at the table next to her, and we're sitting there waiting, and we were waiting and waiting, and then another person came in, she ordered her stuff, went to get her soda, came back around, and left with her stuff. And the other gals there were still there, and then another guy walks in, orders his stuff, fills up his soda, comes back around the counter, they hand him his stuff, and then finally, you know, the little gal came out, the little uh cashier gal. She was I will never I will not dog her because she came out and apologized. It was taking so long.

Speaker 1 24:49

She was nice, yeah.

Speaker 24:50

Yep, and then they finally brought the other gals food out.

Speaker 1 24:54

I actually went, um, I know this is your story, but we ordered, we got our sodas, and I was like, I was like, I'm I'm I'm gonna step outside. Do you mind waiting for the order? Because I was, you know, I get a little need to burn off some nervous energy sometimes. So I went outside and just have a smoke and kind of walk around parking lot in my head. This is a thing where like before I'm even done with my smoke, probably, you're gonna come walking out the restaurant, the food, right? Right, right. This is what I thought. This is this is what I thought. So we go back in, and uh so I was probably outside for well, seven minutes, right?

Twenty-Seven Minutes For Chicken Fingers

Speaker 25:29

Uh at least seven to ten, yeah. There you go. And then there was uh watching people go through the drive-thru, pull out, go through the drive-thru, pull out, go through the drive-thru, pull out. Like I said, the other little gal that was sitting at the table by us, she got her stuff left. Um, we're still sitting and waiting. We're still sitting and waiting. More people are going through the drive-thru, more people are going through the drive-thru. Mind you, all together, three things of fries, eight chicken tenders that are regular, and five that are spicy. Twenty seven minutes later, we get our flipping food. You can say fucking food.

Speaker 1 26:07

Was it really 27 minutes?

Speaker 26:08

It was 27 minutes from the time we ordered. I looked at the receipt from the time that we ordered till the time we got our food. And granted, once again, the little gal that that uh was at the cash register when she brought out the food, she apologized to us that it took so long. So I'm good with that. Sure. I you know, but 27 minutes, and you watch people walk in after you getting your their food, yeah. It's like you are a chicken fingers and fucking French fries. Well, uh and a piece of toast. Yeah, yeah. And it's so yeah, it's like sorry, here's good.

Speaker 1 26:42

Go ahead. No, you go, man. You're no well, you're hitting them hard, man.

Speaker 26:47

Drop that shit in a fucking fryer basket, pull it up, and give us eight of one, five of the other with some fries, a piece of toast in our dipping sauces, and let us out the door. It's not like you got our sodas for us, we got our sodas. We did, yeah. And then it's like, holy shit. So then we get out in the rig, we end up talking to Rob. Fuck you, Rob. And uh Ryan tries his.

Speaker 1 27:10

Yeah, because we were actually gonna like our plan in this again. We were hungry, kind of hungry and tired. Our plan was to get it and jump in the truck, and we'd eat it on the way back. Yep. But Rob called when we got we got in the truck.

Speaker 27:23

Yeah, yeah. Yeah, so we got in the truck, Rob called, so we talked to Rob. Ryan tried his, and he's like, Oh, you need to try yours. And I'm like, Oh, and and Ryan has that look on his face, and I'm like, Shit, it's like somebody tried to serve him vegetables. And so I tried mine, it sucked. It was dry, it was terrible. I mean, the best part about it was the Dr. Pepper that I got myself. And so we, you know, we sat there and talked to Rob for a while, and then we drove back to our uh, you know, back to the ranch. Uh Ryan dropped me off uh at our place, so I brought Christina's to her and I said, I don't think this is very good, but you know, so long story short, Christina ate one chicken finger and a few fries and handed me the rest. And so I dunked this shit in the ranch jalapeno stuff they had so I could choke it down. And it's it's like sucks. Uh Christina almost went back to Palestine today just so we could get chicken express.

Speaker 1 28:21

Yeah, yeah, well, and that's part I think that's part of uh me going so hard on the chicken express here is like you know, it's the close thing I can get to doing that right now. Yeah. Because yeah, it's like you need some redemption. Um, but let's yeah, and so a funny thing too, because I think we talked to Rob for about 20 minutes, and at some point I was, you know, because we're talking to him, and then I'd say, like, oh god, this is fucking terrible. And you know, 15 minutes in he's like, Why are you still eating it? I'm hungry. I'm hungry.

Speaker 28:53

But uh don't eat the lane sauce, it's terrible. Well, it's yeah, at least to us, at least to us the lane sauce was.

Lane Sauce, Tiny Tenders, Dry Bites

Speaker 1 29:01

No, it's terrible. It dude, it's it's not like one of the like I said, at least chicken places have their own little sauce. I don't think chicken express does actually, which I kind of respect. I'm like, you want some ranch? You want some gravy? Oh, they're gravy by the way, chicken express. Oh my god. Oh, but uh no, they uh it's so they have their lean sauce, and this was not a thing where like that's not really the flavor for me. No, this was bad. It was terrible, and this was so bad that kind of to jump off what you said about Christina not finishing it. So last night, kind of late at night, excuse me, um, I was I was hungry. It'd been a while since we had gotten back, and I had leftovers and the box there and opened the box, and like it's chicken fingers and toast and fries. It's like this is these are my people, right? Yeah, I first thing the sauce was so bad. My first order of business was anything that had touched the sauce. I picked out and threw away. Like it was that fucking it tasted to me like you take a because it was just like the little condiment cup, right? Right. So basically you take that, you fill it two-thirds with ketchup and the rest with pepper. Like it just tasted like cat ketchup and pepper and mostly pepper, and just gross. Yeah. And then once I cleared out all that shit, I took a bite of one of those little fucking chicken fingers. I'm like, ugh, nope, I'm out. Threw it all the way. But let me say something else about those chicken fingers. Go ahead. We got the five finger combo. Right.

Speaker 30:42

Excuse me.

Speaker 1 30:43

Uh these were if you go to a chicken finger place, they're not the size of chicken fingers that you'd expect. Chicken dicks. They were chicken thumbs. Yeah. Like they were, and I'm not joking here. Like I think most people are picturing. Um, you know, you go go to a chicken finger place. Chicken finger is gonna be, I wanna say five to six inches long. Yeah, but two, you know, they kind of got a little uh taper on them. So at their widest, maybe inch and a half, two inches wide, three quarters of an inch thick, you know. Right. But these are no joke. Two two three inches long tops. Yeah. And they were and they were kind of like round almost, right? Like you didn't have that flat flattish sort of or chunkiness that it was Yeah, it just no. Yeah, and so chewy. Oh god. And like, oh god. And I remember when I opened it, like I opened mine right before Rob called in the truck and then had a couple French fries. Um the fries when they were hot and fresh were fine, and that's the best thing I can say about them. Yeah. I remember I ate, I'm like, well, I don't buy the rest of it, but fries are pretty good. Yeah.

Speaker 32:09

Well, and for the bleeding hearts is well, they were they were probably busy, they probably didn't have enough people. Oh shit. There was like 12 people in there between the cashiers, the ones at the drive-thru, and the ones working the kitchen. There was like 12 people, and it still took us 27 minutes to get ours.

Speaker 1 32:25

I'm gonna I'm gonna uh I'm gonna say probably closer to eight. Eight to ten. Unless you counted when I was outside. I just don't want I want to be, you know, I don't want to exaggerate. There there were at least eight, right?

Speaker 32:38

At least I think there it was at least I I think at least ten okay with the ones that were walking from the kitchen, you know, from back of the freezer up with the boxes and stuff. I think there was ten.

Speaker 1 32:49

Okay. A lot of people working there. And I want to say this that I don't necessarily fault any of the people who are working there for any of this. This was clearly a manage a poorly run fucking restaurant. Correct. Because I don't know, it didn't seem like anybody was just fucking off. It just seemed like you had 12 people there, and like two of them had anything to do at any given time. Yeah, at the same time, we're like, like you said, there was one guy just like flipping a towel around for like 10 minutes behind the counter. Yeah, at the same time, we're sitting there going, what the fuck? Like, where's the food? What the hell? So God. Now, just to put this in perspective, um, we got the five-finger mail, which uh I'm kind of surprised I did because anyway, the at Chicken Express I get the four-tender combo. I think that's what you that's way too much food. That's way too much chicken tenders, right?

Speaker 33:47

For you.

Speaker 1 33:48

No, well, I mean, I can eat them all. What I'm saying is that's a four of them chicken tenders. Yep, that's that's a good old, big old handful of food.

Speaker 33:57

And a and a big thing of gravy to dunk your your chicken fingers in.

Speaker 1 34:00

Big thing of gravy. Yep. Um, and so that's four. So the box that you get from Chicken Express for the four combo, I'm gonna say roughly the same size as the box that we got from uh Lane's Chicken Fingers, Palestine, Texas. Um and that fucking chicken express box is like busting open. Yeah, jam-packed, and it's four tenders, fries, and toast. Yep. This was five five things, chicken things. I don't want to call them tenders, yeah. Fries, toast, toast that tasted like nothing, by the way. And the thing about toast is like even if you don't I don't know how you don't get it to taste like nothing because toast you don't even have to do anything to it. But by toasting it, it takes on a flavor. This had none. God so uh highly recommend do not fucking go there. And if you're tempted to go there, and I may take I may take on a project of finding all of the chain uh the lanes chicken fingers locations um and identifying the nearest chicken express and maybe launching an app. I don't know. But at least in Palestine, Texas, if you're in if you're up there and you see that fucking lanes, just keep driving.

Speaker 35:21

Yeah.

Speaker 1 35:22

It's gonna be the worst thing you've done that day. And there's a delicious, wonderful chicken express.

Speaker 35:27

Well, and one thing, if you want shitty food and you want it fast, go through their drive-thru.

Speaker 1 35:31

At lanes, yeah, yeah, because they were yeah.

Speaker 35:34

I mean, I d I don't think it was fast, but it was still faster than that.

Price Shock And The Final Verdict

Speaker 1 35:38

Yeah, yeah. Um well, obviously a lot faster. And the thing is that you know, some people might be like, this is this is just a yarn of two cranky old guys who are hungry and tired and it took too long, and then oh no, no, no, here's the thing. We and we were even talking about this earlier. Like, I was not even that annoyed really. I was just baffled. Right. Like, yeah, what what how can you has have this much staffing and twenty nothing, whatever. Um, and so we got the food. Like, I was looking forward, you know, my bar's going down for quality. I'm like, I'm getting more hungry, whatever. I'm like, if it's decent, I'm good. And and it was that bad, like decent. It's it's looking up at the bar decent. That's what this shit's definitely. Yeah, yeah. Uh Lane's chicken fingers. Don't go. I want to go. No, yeah. And well, it's I almost forgot about this too. Now, I know fast food is not, it's always getting more and more expensive. Um, so I didn't expect it to be like 15 bucks for all that stuff, but it was just over, I think it was almost 41. Yeah, that was that's that's always like sticker shock these days, but that's reasonable, unfortunately, these days. I'm like, that's fine. Um, and I was just refreshing my memory earlier. I pulled up the menu Chicken Express. Um, so for what we got, our two meals, it was like came out to 16 bucks for one of those meals.

Speaker 37:17

Yeah.

Speaker 1 37:17

Uh four exp four tenders at Chicken Express, which is way more food, by the way. Yeah, a lot more 12 bucks. So no shit. Yeah, it's even wildly more expensive. Oh yeah. You know that song, that sunscreen song that came out. Like, if I could offer you one piece of advice, remember that one? No, I don't. I was like, oh well, it was like this uh song I think. Well, it was when I was in high school, so late 90s, whatever. Uh Boz Lerman. Do you guys know Boz Lerman? Mm-hmm. I do. There you go. Yep. So he recorded the song. I don't know why why, but it was like sort of a monologic song where he's like uh given life advice. But he starts off, I could offer you one piece of advice, wear sunscreen. And basically, like, you know, the rest of things people, whatever. I'm gonna take a little spin on that, folks. If I could offer you one piece of advice, don't go to Lane's chicken fingers. No, don't, and wear sunscreen. Oh goodness, but you know what? Uh now that you said the thing about yeah, we should make it a we should go, we should go either there or to Lufkin soon, just just to get some chicken finger redemption.

Speaker 38:34

I I think uh yeah, Christine and I have to go to town. She needs some more stuff for her garden, so we'll we'll we'll go into uh Palestine and get a chicken express and bring it back some.

unknown 38:45

Awesome.

Speaker 38:46

Yep, it's fantastic. I'll set it on the table outside.

Speaker 1 38:48

What does that mean?

Speaker 38:50

The dogs lead. Why would you do that? Just being a smart ass, because if you set anything out on the table outside long enough, the dogs lead it.

Redemption Plans And Sign-Off

Speaker 1 38:58

Yeah, that's what it would be. Yeah, I know. I don't know why it would do that to me. Um well, uh I'm gonna do this to you. The show's over.

Speaker 39:09

Already?

Speaker 1 39:10

Yep. Damn. I know. Fueled by Lane's chicken fingers hatred. Mostly. Mostly. And the uh Asian West Coast Open. And maybe the Macarena. Stay tuned. Yeah.

Speaker 39:25

To be continued.

Speaker 1 39:26

To be continued. All right, man. Well, that's it. Uh, catch y'all later. Have a good one.