Lying about Iran, Quentin Tarantino, and soda etiquette!- h1

Guys, welcome in a Tuesday on TGS. No, Dave Dover. We'll want some more. Dave will be back

next week. Still down in Jupiter, having a good old time watching the Cardinals hanging

out with his buddies. He and Michael Kelly, apparently the dynamic duo seems like he's

having fun. He's not even. I know he's not even texting. Yeah, he must be having fun because

he sent us the picture yesterday. And that's pretty much been it, right? Yeah, pretty much.

And that tells you two things. You're having fun. And then when you're not having fun, you're tired.

Because there's a lot. Look, it's a lot when even when you're vacationing and visiting down there.

First of all, he hasn't he doesn't play much golf and playing a full round of golf is definitely

going to be tiresome. It's going to wear you out a little bit. But just know that the fun is

happening. Dave's having a good vacation. He and his buddy Michael Kelly are hanging out watching

ball games. I'm guessing they're probably at the game today. And those lucky jerks tomorrow night

get to go see the Dominican and Venezuela and the world baseball classic. And that will be

that's a party. Now, if you guys haven't seen it, right, you've seen baseball in Japan. Yeah.

How would you describe the atmosphere at the game you went to in Japan compared to what you see here?

They just have a lot more like crowd activities. And it's just it's very active the whole time.

That's exactly what it is when it comes to a lot of the Caribbean countries. They they just

it's just the it's the tradition that way, just like it is in Japan. And we're a little more

buttoned up in the big leagues, but we're starting to loosen up. But it's it's something that you know,

you and especially you know, it's down in Miami. So you're going to have a lot of people in from

those countries, but it'll also live in South Florida. It's going to be a crazy crowd. I'm very

jealous of Dave getting to go to that jealous of all of it. But like that's the thing I'm most

jealous of because I've done the other things, you know, been to spring training, seen the games.

It's great. It's a lot of fun. But I have not been to the WBC in an atmosphere like that. So I'm

very jealous. He's got one up on me. It's going to be fun. Some day I'm going to have to try to correct

that maybe three years down the road at the next WBC. So obviously normal business without Dave,

except it's without Dave. He'll be here on Monday, but we'll talk to Brad Young today.

Buddy Alex Rich from down the hall is going to pop in. Tom Ackerman's going to join us from

Jupiter again, Dave Murray later on. So we're all over the place as usual and plenty of stuff to do.

And in fact, I would say guys probably more fun than not fun. Yeah. But I think we probably just

do what we normally do. The Dave Glover Show tradition and get the not fun out of the way,

just like eating your vegetables first at dinner so you can enjoy your steak and dessert.

Because obviously the news from around is what it's going to be when you're talking about a war,

right? Wars are going to be disruptive. They're going to be awful for the people that are directly

impacted by them. And they also have the impact back home that we talked a bit about yesterday

with oil prices. And we got caught again yesterday, not we, you know, the administration got caught

again yesterday being in between, you know, in one part of the day, the message is we've destroyed

their military. They have no Air Force, their navies at the bottom of the sea. And then later in the day,

it's they better not do anything to disrupt the oil going through those the straight of hormones.

Like, well, if you wiped out their military, how are they doing anything? Which is it? Yeah.

And this, you know, the lack of consistent communication we have, you know, you guys know the story

about the Tomahawk missile that hit near a school, obviously destroyed the school. And it's,

if it's a Tomahawk missile, it's ours. Right. Iran doesn't have Tomahawk missiles. They're,

they're only produced by one company and they are exclusive to us. With some exceptions,

like England, UK has them, Australia, I think the Netherlands, like our allies, right? Our allies

have bought them, but they're not there. They're not firing anything off. We're there. And Iran

is there. And Iran doesn't have Tomahawks. And yet, you know, the president's out there saying,

it was them. It wasn't us. It was them. But he doesn't know. And even when he was pressed on it,

he was asked a simple question, well, why are you the only person in your administration saying this?

And he said something along the lines of, well, I, I still don't know enough about it. Well,

then why are you talking? I mean, we could make this so much easier. Just get the answers and then

tell us rather than feeling this need to go back and forth. I don't know, man. I obviously,

everything involving this type of military action sucks, right? It sucks for the families of all

the people that are serving now overseas. And for that, I see it. It's got a suck for families

that don't have people stationed there yet because you know, they might go. So it sucks for them.

Obviously, it sucks for any civilians that get caught in the way that aren't even a part of the

fight. And it sucks for all of us because we pay the price at the gas pump. We pay the price

in other ways. And we are the third on that list, right? I mean, my gas prices is nowhere near

as important as the lives of human beings. And obviously, from our view, the lives of our airmen

and soldiers and sailors and all of that. But we can't even get on the same page with how we're

going to communicate it because like six months ago, the story was we absolutely obliterated

Iran's nuclear capabilities. And now it's we had to go fast because they were going to do it.

Well, wait a minute. If you obliterated those six months ago,

this is the back and forth that drives me nuts. I know how you guys feel about it, but there's

a lot of disagreement on individual things, but this inconsistency, this I'm going to thump my

chest and brag because we kicked their ass and we took them down. And then it turns out you didn't.

And then yesterday, it's the same kind of thing we're like in the morning, like we have destroyed

all of their navy. We have destroyed their air force, but they better not try to disrupt oil.

If you've destroyed those things, how are they going to do that?

Yeah, I mean, we're just at this really unfortunate point in when it comes to our country,

where it's like, you just can't trust anything anyone says. And you definitely can assume that

these things are being said and done in good faith because then you will end up just even more

frustrated. I am just at the point where I just assume I'm I'm being lied to and I'm being

misled. And I really don't like being like that, but whenever you're receiving contradictory

information on a daily basis on the same day about the same subject and people will say things

and then reporters are like, well, yesterday you said this and they're like, no, I didn't.

Well, we have you on tape. Like we literally have a video of you saying it and it's not like

some sort of AI deep fake, like you said it, but you can just deny it. And then there's just so

much happening. I was listening to Chris and Amy, I guess it was yesterday morning. And Amy was

talking about there's just so much happening that it's you just lose track of what's going on.

And I do find that to be intentional. Oh, yeah. It's just basically waterboard us with as much

information and false information information you can't trust. Hey, look over there. Look over

there. Look over there. It's impossible to nail things down and really get to the root of what's

going on on any individual issue because we're being bombarded constantly with lies and deception.

It seems about to, it seems a good way to sum it up. And it's just

the baffling part is the people that missed the contradiction. So be like,

that's not really a contradiction. Well, yeah, it is. If you're saying they're decimated,

then they can't stop you from transporting oil. And we, you know, it turns out here's the

reality of what we see from intelligent sources, military sources is that the idea of just simply

escorting the oil tankers through the straight of our moves is not as simple as you think it is.

So yes, in terms of in theory, it's a great idea, right? Because warships won't attack your

warships for fear of being sunk like that idea. But what we're not thinking of is the unconventional

stuff. What I what I saw in the in the right up was the Republican guard is probably going to be

going more in a stealth slash guerrilla mode. So it's going to be laying minds through the

straight of our moves. It's going to be suicide boats ramming into things. It's going to be,

it's going to be unconventional, which makes it difficult for a warship to deal with. And not

that we don't have counters for all of those things, but it just complicates the issue, right?

It's not as simple as follow behind these 10 oil tankers and nobody will mess with them.

It's just not that simple. And it's also a lot more oil tankers than you think on a day-to-day

basis. And this idea that we always come up with these solutions that seem so simple. But then in

terms of executing them, they're not simple. They're very complicated. And I know that the people

that are that are the actual military commanders, they know these things, right? They're not the ones

that are throwing these things out there to the public. But now we're talking, you know, you got one

of the biggest oil producers in the world saying that if this continues, if there's a choke in

that area, if it continues, that it could be catastrophic for the world economy.

Well, I'm not sure how that was, again, none of that was communicated. None of that is acknowledged

in any of the things. And is it, is, is what we're doing so necessary that all of these other

risks go? If that's the case, you got to prove your case, right? I think we can all, if you're a

grown person, you can listen to logic and reason. You can say, hey, yeah, we know that's the price of

doing this, but it's necessary now. And here's x, y, and z, y, it's necessary. And we don't get that

kind of thing. And look, we don't, we don't get that kind of direct disclosure very much. And I'd say

going back 30 years, at least, I mean, I don't remember anything before that because I just was either

too young or just not engaged in it. But starting in my, in my 20s, paying attention, it's been

similar. You know, there's always the flexion and deception. And you know, my earliest memory of it

was the whole Clinton wag the dog thing, right? When the Lewinsky things going on, ooh, look at this,

we're going to go over here and we're going to shoot some rockets. Like that stuff has been going

on for a long time. But it's also like important for all of us to understand, we should all understand

the consequences for us when an administration of any sort decides to pursue something of this

magnitude without bringing Congress into it. Not saying you can't do it legally, that's not the point.

The point is we should all be able to understand what it's going to mean and then have the

justification that this is worth it. Right? I mean, like as a simple example, we found, we figured

out who attacked us on 9-11. We knew that we needed to take out that leadership. There was a plan to

do that. It didn't go smoothly and perfectly, but it was pretty understandable what we needed to do

and why we needed to do it. And we didn't do it the right way. I think we made a lot of mistakes

along the way, including being sidetracked into a rock. So that's not a defense of the whole thing.

But we understood this is the purpose. These are the people that attacked us. This is what we're

going to do. We're going to get justice. And in this case, saying these are bad guys isn't just

by itself enough of a justification for something of this magnitude.

Well, and then you ask questions like, okay, so how much longer do you think this is going to

continue? And then we get completely contradictory. Right. It's almost over. It's almost over.

It could go on for a while. So which one is it? Oh, it's both. That is something that was

actually said. I know it's absolutely nuts. And that's why I have to then look at the situation

and say, okay, bringing clarity to the American people is by no means a priority. In fact,

it feels like the priority is just to confuse us and further knock us off the balance. So then

you can continue to move however you like. And we just have a harder and harder time holding

the situation accountable. I mean, again, I think most of us, and I'm not even dividing between

who voted for who, because I think even a lot of people that voted for the current administration

can see through a lot of the contradictions and things along those lines. When it comes down

to our time to actually do things about it at the elections, we don't mean. Well, I mean, we can,

we can yell, we can investigate. I mean, and again, it takes, it takes our representatives,

our other elected representatives to assert their own power in in their own branch of government

to do this. But unfortunately, it's become too much of a team sport and not enough of, hey,

you know what, the people really need the people really need the truth. They need the answers.

They need to know what's going on and we need to be representing them and not representing our

party before we represent our constituents. Well, here's the thing. When Donald Trump was elected

in November of 2024, the one comfort that I had in the situation, because I did not want him

to become president again, the one comfort I had was, well, he says no new wars. At least he's

not a war hawk. He's not going to be out there looking for trouble. That has not been the case

at all. And I have to believe there are plenty of people who voted for the president because he said

there would be no new wars under his administration who are extremely disappointed and frustrated

with the way things have actually played. Yeah, I mean, we've talked about the podcast

universe where they kind of went on, came on board in 2024. In part because of that.

And MTG is one of the people that's kind of a leading critic of, you know, that idea that hey,

we wanted no wars. We didn't want international intervention. We wanted and we wanted release of

the Epstein files and we wanted the swamp drained and you hear all these promises and in a campaign,

you're told what you want to hear. I mean, it's a unique to this administration, but you're told

what you want to hear and then what happens after the fact isn't quite what was promised during the

campaign season.

All right. It's on a Tuesday. Dave will be back next week. The rest of the crew were all here

throughout the week and three of us with our various guests will see you through to next week.

And by the way, as of Thursday, we're only two weeks from opening day. Yay.

And this Thursday, we will have a little bit of a late start because we've got the Cardinals game.

I think at 12.5 or 12.10 in the afternoon on Thursday. So we'll be getting a little bit of a late

start here on DGS. Just just and as I can't even go through Twitter for a couple of minutes without

seeing stuff about all of this and I promise we're moving on from all of this in just a little bit.

But I think it's important to note problems like the one I saw today where one reporter was quoting

the energy secretary Chris Wright as saying, Hey, the US Navy escorted an oil tanker through the

straight of our moves. And then another reporter is saying from Fox News, Jennifer Griffin from Fox

News said, this is not true. I am told from a well-placed military source, no US military assets

have escorted any oil tankers through the straight of our moves. Yet despite energy secretary Chris

Wright's claimed to the contrary. Why? Why is the energy secretary just making crap up?

I really don't know. I don't understand the reasoning behind it. Could you all maybe get on

the same page? And I get it. The problem, the problem, a lot of the problem is it's a reaction to

public reaction, right? Oh, oil prices are up. And then it's like, okay, what can we say to calm

this down? Well, even if what you're saying to calm this down isn't real, I guess you feel like

that's still going to work. How long do you think it's going to last before we find out it ain't real?

In this case, it was a matter of minutes. I mean, I want to say, let's see if I can find the tag.

Oh, no, yeah, it was like a matter of 15 minutes in time. And that's just for those two tweets,

there could have been others that were doing it. And we're just continuing with this silliness

of one person in the administration saying something and another one saying something else

and then people who are have actual sources in the military being like, no,

none of this is happening. What are they talking about?

Rachel, do you want to play your audio? Yeah, I've found this video. This is actually back from

January. It says during his run for president, Donald J. Trump repeatedly said he wouldn't start

any new wars. Here's a montage from his first 50 campaign stops. So this starts in April of 2023.

So he already has a say that, oh, he's going to start a walk because they said I had that

personality to start a war. They remember that. Oh, we can't vote for him. He's going to start a

war. No, I used my personality that we didn't have to have wars. I was the first president in decades

who started no new wars, who started no new wars and no new wars. No new wars.

We don't need the wars far in lands, countries you've never heard of, countries that don't even

want us there. I was the first president in decades who started no new wars. I was the first

president in decades who started no new wars. We will expel the war mongers from our government.

You know, we never got into a war with me. I have a great record. We had peace. We had prosperity.

We had no wars. We had no wars that started no wars. We didn't have a war. We will expel the

war mongers from our government. We will expel the war mongers. It's got for like another minute

of all of that at least. And again, the point is not that in the real world where we do speak with

nuance and we understand situations can change. But when it's promise after promise after promise,

oh, we're going to release the Epstein files and we're going to do this and we're going to do that.

And then as soon as it's time to do that, I mean, I'm still waiting for the replacement for

Obamacare that was supposed to happen day one of his first administration. And when you make

nonstop bold, braggadocia statements about how great you're going to be and what you're going to do.

And then you don't do it. You're going to get heat for it. And I would like to think that anybody

who voted for him for those reasons would be like, yeah, I'm not really happy about this because I

actually wanted him to do this differently.

Hi, TGS on a Tuesday. Dave will be back next Monday and I'm sure we'll get some more

tales from the road. They really should have done this like a buddy documentary. You know,

Dave and Michael Kelly can make a good buddy film out of this. I bet. What do you think guys?

Do you think it'd be more like what's the what's the movie in wine country where there's a guy

the two guys drive sideways? I never watched hate. I hate those kind of movies. I do like

GM only, but I didn't like that. But then there's a there because it that or is it the hangover?

It sideways. Yeah.

And hangover isn't like that. That's not like a like a trip movie.

It is a bit of a road trip movie. They're going to Vegas. They're driving the cars.

Yeah, a little bit of that wolf pack, baby. They're already in Vegas when the movie happens.

No, in the beginning, they're at their homes and they're talking about going there and then they

all pick each other up and drive together. It's a road trip. There is a car. They did get in the car.

You're right. The father-in-law was like, yeah, I trust you, buddy. You could take my

fancy car. He's got you there. I completely forgot about the first four and a half minutes.

It's a little more than that, but you're right. It's not the majority of the movie.

Uh, Ray 20 Rays is that? Yeah, I want to talk about Quentin Tarantino.

So, uh, disclaimer, I really like Quentin Tarantino's films. I can separate those films from

what we're about to talk about. No. So Rosanna Arquette is an actress. She was in Pulp Fiction.

But she recently was talking about Quentin Tarantino on like a podcast or something and she

basically said like, look, uh, Pulp Fiction is iconic. It's a great film on a lot of levels,

but personally, I am over the use of the N word. I hate it. I just cannot stand that Tarantino

has been given a hall pass. It's not art. It's just racist and creepy.

Uh, so that, you know, that's her feeling on the matter in his, is she talking about his regular

day-to-day language like on set or is he talking about his scripts? I think she's talking about the

fact that he kind of uses any opportunity he can to say that word. I get you. Uh, whether it's

him, whether it's the characters in the films that he makes, he, he likes throwing that word around,

which is a little odd for a white director to do. I mean, I think it's the kind of thing you

should expect criticism if you're doing that all the time. And if I'm not mistaken in Pulp Fiction,

his character is using that word a lot. Oh, no, yeah. Again, this is like a self-insert of him.

Yeah. I mean, it's he, there was, it's no one's decision, but Quentin Tarantino's

for that character to use the word as much as he did. So she comes out and she says it picks up

a couple of headlines the other day. It's to be expected. You know, it's like a juicy thing to

say about someone you've worked within the past. Um, Quentin Tarantino, though, comes out and

instead of like addressing what makes him make those decisions or defending the choice artistically,

this is what he comes out and says. He says, Rosanna, I hope the publicity you're getting from

132 different media outlets writing your name and printing your picture was worth disrespecting

me and a film. I remember quite clearly you were thrilled to be a part of. But after I gave you

a job and he took the money to trash it for what I suspect is very cynical reasons shows a decided

lack of class no less honor. And I just find that very funny because it's like, okay, so you're not

really disagreeing with her opinion at all. You're not defending your choice to use the word

repeatedly and maybe saying like, uh, yeah, maybe it is weird. Let me think about this and you're

not coming out and saying like, I would do it again. I'll do it 45 more times. You're instead

making this about like, well, you took the money so you should never criticize me. Well, it's been

like 25 years since that movie came out maybe longer. I don't know. I'm guessing she didn't get

paid that much for the role she had either. Well, yeah, that's the thing. Like she's never allowed

to have the opinion because you cast her in a film that came out 30 years ago or have however long

it's been. Yeah. I don't know. It's just it's always funny to see someone like get caught up in

something like this. And then to just make what seems like the worst possible decision in addressing

it. Like in my opinion, it would have been better to just not address it. But to come out and be like,

well, you took the money so you should never criticize me. Yeah. Okay. I don't think that's doing

what you think it's doing. Yeah. All it's all it's doing is showing like how entitled you are,

you feel like since you gave her an opportunity a long time ago, she's not allowed to have an

opinion. You don't even want to like come out and defend yourself. You're only defenses. But

you shouldn't even be criticizing me in the first place. Yeah. I mean, I'm not going to put too much

into her criticism because let's be real. As you point out, it's been a long time. And I haven't

heard other people accuse him of this. And he's had a lot of famous actors with a lot of power in

his movies. Doesn't mean that it's not happening. Doesn't mean she's wrong. I'm just not going to

immediately say, oh, yeah, she's right. But at the same time, you could you could respond in a

way that includes a denial that that's that's an incorrect take. And you know, it's the characters

in the movies and all that stuff. And it's trying to be real for that for those characters. And

I mean, there are plenty of ways you can be as your way around it that include a denial as

opposed to just attacking the person, right? I mean, like if you're going to deny something,

then just deny it. Don't just go attack the accuser. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's one thing to say to

them, you have this wrong. Here's why. And it's another thing to come back and say, hey,

just shut up. Just shut up your stupid, right? Like that's that's not a defense.

So yeah, I'm not a big fan of Hannah. Of course, he did that same thing. Who was the actor that

he ripped the other? I would probably say like this guy who's actually really good. And he's

played some creepy characters. And that's kind of what his thing has been. But he's really good. And

he's he's doing well. He's in big movies. He's he gets big roles. And you're sitting here talking

about how he's trash. So, you know, Gwen's not it. I'm not sure he's the most consistent thinker.

So wheels. I want to address you said like you've never heard anyone else coming at him for this.

Like I haven't heard it from like Sam Jackson to Volta. Like the people that have been the

Bruce Willis because there are a lot like his movies have a lot of big people. I'm not saying

it hasn't come out. I'm just saying I haven't heard the big people come at him. So Spike Lee,

the director of Spike Lee, this is what he had to say after Quentin Tarantino's 1997 movie

Jackie Brown. He said at the time, I have a definite problem with Quentin Tarantino's excessive

use of the N word. And let the record state, I never said he cannot use that word. I've used

that word in most of my films, but I think something is wrong with him. Okay.

Well, I think could we agree there is something wrong with him? Yeah, I mean,

like there is something wrong with with Tarantino. He's a weird guy. He is a weird guy. And a lot

of that weirdness contributes to like I said, I enjoy many of his films. I just I have had those

thoughts too while watching like Pulp fiction, for instance, I remember being weirded out and

just being like, yeah, look, I know this came out a long time ago, but this is this is quite a

choice. Yeah. At the time, it was not nearly as uncommon as it would seem now, right? Like that

movie that movie at that time did not stick out as much, not defending it in any way, shape or

form. But at that time, a lot of the music was going that way. A lot of pop culture was going

in that way. And there was a lot of debate about it. Like it wasn't just an okay, this is fine.

There was a lot of debate about it. I think now that overzealous use of it in that setting would

probably get a little bit more notice. Yeah. And I'm like completely open to Tarantino coming out

and saying something like, yeah, you know what? In 1994, I was throwing it around a lot. I wouldn't

make those choices now. But again, as you pointed out two wheels, that's now what was said.

All that is said was like, how dare you criticize me? You're not allowed to criticize me.

Because I gave you an opportunity 31 years, 32 years ago. Yeah. My goodness.

And I do, I do think, I'm not going to do this on the fly.

Because it's really hard to kind of look these things up. But I do think there have been cases where

like Sam Jackson has said, look, it's just a movie, man. It's part of the script. And I don't have

any issues with Tarantino. But the fact that the core issue of it is, all right, there's a debate

about it. There are people that don't like it. There are people that are fine with it. Okay,

that's pretty much a normal issue. But when you are presented with a criticism and your

response is shut up, you're stupid as opposed to, no, no, no, that's not what this is. This is

what is is. Make sure that well, yeah. And I tend to the way you just laid out that out was

so great wheels because I feel like if there was some sort of like secret, amazing creative decision

behind using the word over and over again, wouldn't it just be easier to say that and explain that?

But it seems like there is no reason. It seemed like just a thing that he wanted to do.

And again, like, that's that's okay. Just don't be shocked if people think it's weird.

If you're doing something that's weird, why are you like acting like it's the craziest thing

in the world for someone else to comment on the fact that it's weird? Yeah. So yeah, any who?

Yeah, the story that I'm looking at from Sam Jackson, I won't go too deep. But if he was talking

about Django Unchained and how Leonardo DiCaprio was like, I don't know if I can do this.

And it was it was both Sam Jackson and Quentin Tarantino that went to him said, no, no,

you got to do this. This is what this character is. You've got to do it. So it'll be a back and forth,

but I got to say just overall Tarantino didn't help himself.

That's DGS on a Monday. David Owl, he's down in Jupiter just

doing the Jupiter Florida spring training thing, having a good time. We'll look forward to get him

back next week. We have a Cardinals game that'll be taking up the beginning of this show on

Thursday, but then we'll come on after that probably between three and three 30 on Thursday

to get things rolling. Tom Akramin is going to join us at four o'clock today. Brad Young will

join us here at the top of the hour after the two o'clock news. We also have Dave Murray later

on. So pretty much a normal Tuesday on DGS. All right. So guys, I got a question for you that

that I don't know why today hit me this way, but I did the I did the the soda fountain dance

stopped at my QT on the way to get my the my diet due. Do you guys ever think that as you're

going through that process like you put in the ice, you're filling the drink and you got to wait

like four different times to get the foam to come down so you can fill it up into it. Like I

said, they're watching it today and there's like four other people in front of me and we're all

doing the same thing. Wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, wait, I just find this

to be such a bizarre thing. Like we had this little routine, this little ritual where you like,

get your ice, get your drink. But there's no way to do it without that little extra

like waiting at the end for the foam to come down and then you're going to get that little bit more

because I know this. I'm not taking three quarters of a drink. I'm getting my monies worth

yeah, but everybody's doing it. And I know you should. I know we should. It's smart. But it's

just like, I don't know. It struck me today is being very weird. The worst part about it is that

grown up. You're just like, and this is obviously this is like a me flaw. But like when I'm up there,

I'm like reclaiming my time, right? Like this is my time just belongs to me and no one may

infringe upon it. And when I'm behind somebody, I'm like, oh my god, you're so right. It's the

same way. Nobody else does that. Nobody else does the finger in the bubbles, right? You do that?

Yeah, I'll do that. Yeah, it's that's the polite thing to do. Speed things up a little bit. No,

you're right. It does a little bit. I guess I know the answer to this question, but I'll ask it

anyway. Yes, I have a big monster. Am I the only one who, if there's a line over there, I just

go, I don't need one. No, I'm waiting. Yeah, I came in there for that reason. Like, I literally,

this is all I, all I stopped for today at Qt was this my entire mental state depends on whether

or not I can get a large. See, I, if I leave there without a soda, I just might go missing.

You guys all have a soda from time to time. Yeah. But and maybe you're watching the stream now

saying Rachel in the past few days, you've had several Qt cups. I was getting the lemon line

gatorade fountain drink, which was really nice because I am not feeling well. However, if I go in,

and I'm sorry, I'm getting a coughing fit, if I go in and I get my Coke zero with my little bit

of cherry in the big Q, I enjoy it until I get to about the bottom third. And then I just start to

feel well, it gets watery. Yeah. Yeah. And I'm like, what am I do? This is so much soda. Yeah.

Can we pet the high horse you're riding around on or is that just sharing how I feel? I'm just

sharing. No, it's if it's in our cat. Look, I'm not saying I'm right, but I am saying I'm allowed

an opinion. Got go to sleep said, bro, no fingers in the public in the bubbles in public only at

home. Oh, it doesn't matter. It's kind of it's kind of not on that one. Like I would not do that at

the fountain, but I do it. I'm not pouring it back up into the tap. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, it's

to me. It's less about that. It's just more like you're out and you're touching things than I'm

going to put that finger in the drink. Oh, that that that's fine. Yeah, I'm with you. It's not a

freak out thing, but I don't ever do it when I'm at the when I'm in line at a fast food place

or at a gas station, whatever, but I do it at home all the time. I do it because I feel the the

eyes of the other people burning into the back of my soul. Yeah, I think it got a yet it's

kind of diffused the pressure and I am I my only concern is moving as fast as possible.

Yeah, I it is a weird thing, but I don't in a lot of ways when there's a line, I feel like, okay,

well, like when I'm at the drive-through, there are people that are you serious? How does it take you

this long? How does it take you this long to make your order? And then when they get up to the

window, they get this tiny little mini bag and a drink. Like literally, they ordered nothing,

but it took them forever to get through ordering nothing. I feel that way about the drive-through a

lot. I might feel that way a little bit about being in line in the person that's like

going through the whole menu and like, what's the what's the fish sandwich like? And then

all right, what about the chicken and like, okay, it's a fast food place, man, it's going to be a

chicken sandwich or a fish sandwich or a burger. It's not going to be crazy. But at the fountain,

I never feel like I never feel like the person in front of me is going too slow. And I don't know why,

but but I because it feels like it's the normal right thing that, hey, look, you got to get those last

three shots. Yeah, because if you don't, you're not getting a full cup and I can respect that.

Okay. Okay. Question. You're just about filled up. Yeah. There are one or two people behind

you at least. Uh-huh. You're just about filled up and you hit the carbonation pocket.

We're suddenly you've got an enormous overflow of bubbles. And you know that it's going to be a

vastly inferior soda at that point because you've got a huge, that huge influx of water and carbonation

and nothing else. Are you dumping and starting over? Yes. Okay. I depends on where I am in the

filling process. Right. Like I may not dump it all, but I will get rid of all that and then try

to start over when it recess. Oh, you won't dump at all. It's just not not if I was near the end when

that happened. That happens at the beginning. In this scenario, you are near the end. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

You guys know, I went to Christian school. Yeah. There was, uh, you know, QT was just as popular

than as it is now. And there was a young man who went to the school who came in and started

witnessing one day. And he was like, I have made the decision to stop taking sips of my QT soda

and then refilling. You know, you'll go in and you'll feel a little bit closer to the top.

Well, that's that's the second part of the routine because if you get too close to the top,

the lid will close and spill exactly. And maybe you drank a little too much and you want to get

it back to where it should be. But you could also see, you know, maybe if you're in high school,

you go in and you get your soda, oh, I'll take a couple of sips and then refill and pay.

I have been guilty of that many times in the past. The Lord had, I guess, laid it on his heart that

that was stealing. Oh, and he was trying to get all of us to agree to not do that anymore either.

I mean, if you were to like pound the whole thing and refill it, that's clearly, but like a

couple of sips, come on. I don't, yeah, I don't think you can just steal a penny. Yeah, I'm just

here in victimless crime. Even if you just chucked the whole thing. The owner of QT would be like,

yeah, you get that's fine. It's not a big deal. I mean, you can do that right there in front of

the employees. They're not going to say anything. Just obviously just don't like gulp it and then go

back for more. I'll do that. I mean, even if I'll do that, I will say this. I will do that at the

restaurants where it's free refills. 100%. Of course. Sure. But that's free refills. I'm not breaking

any rules. One thing I've never been able to do is the, because this is stealing, but the deception

of asking for a water cup and then filling it up with something. Oh, yeah. And I would sometimes

be having a meal, like again, like in high school with someone doing that. And I would be like,

they're going to find out the cops are going to be here at any moment. We're all going to

Juby. Have you guys ever dine and dashed? No. No, it's stealing. Oh, yeah, me neither.

You know, the server probably had to pay for it. I know. First of all, no, I don't think that's

how it works. Second of all, uh, it might be. It was, I only did it like three or four times

in high school. Oh, yeah, I thought it made it robbed restaurants three or four times. Okay,

robbed restaurants. All right. I didn't pay for my four dollar, uh, whatever steak burger,

whatever it's taking shape. So I want to see Andrew have a conversation with the young man who

wanted to get us all the stoptaken sips. I want to see how that would go.

The different trains of logic colliding. I mean, in high school, I would have,

I don't like dumps as books or something. I would call them a nerd.

And I would then I want to take it up and steak and shake and force them to leave without

paying. Man, Andrew, you know, are you or walk in the razor's edge of going down the dark side?

Well, I mean, I knew I wasn't going, I knew I wasn't going to like do actually bad things.

I didn't feel awful about running out on steak and shake a couple of times.

All right, sugar.