SCRAMBLE: New York mayor Mamdani will open up 5 city owned grocery stores, this should end well.............

Summary

Garage Logic Weekly Scramble

Episode: SCRAMBLE: New York mayor Mamdani will open up 5 city owned grocery stores, this should end well...
Date: July 28, 2026
Hosts: Chris Reivers & Mike Fratelloni

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Episode Overview

This episode of the Garage Logic Weekly Scramble dives into current headlines through the lens of everyday “Logic” and skepticism. The central theme is the controversial announcement by New York City mayor Mamdani to open five city-owned, government-run grocery stores with prices set 30% below retail—a move the hosts argue is a misguided, “communist” experiment in public sector retail that's sure to fail. The conversation veers into larger themes of economics, public policy, and political party dynamics, then lightens up with a passionate rundown of iconic Twin Cities restaurants.

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Key Discussion Points

1. Government-Run Grocery Stores in NYC

• Summary of Policy

  • Mayor Mamdani announced the opening of five city-owned grocery stores.
  • Staples like produce, meat, seafood, bread, milk, and cheese will be priced 30% below average retail, fixed monthly for price stability ([02:25]).

• Host Reactions

  • Both hosts react with sarcasm and deep skepticism, framing the idea as another failed government intrusion into the free market.
  • Chris: “What could possibly go wrong?” ([02:16])
  • Mike: “It works every time they’ve ever been tried. It really works.” ([02:18])
  • They predict this will undercut family groceries, drive private businesses out, and worsen “food desert” issues ([05:09]).

• Economic Critique

  • Mike (business/retail background): Essentials are already “loss leaders” for private stores (i.e., sold at no profit or loss to attract customers).
  • “They are going to lose so much money... It’s a government funded, it’s going to be a piece of shit store. Just like every time they try one...” —Mike ([07:02])
  • Previous similar attempts in Seattle, Florida, Kansas City referenced as failures ([07:11]).

• On Variable Pricing & Food Stamps

  • Mike notes the hypocrisy in the mayor’s critique of “surveillance pricing”: “I don’t get food stamps. Thank God. I pay more than the person with food stamps. They pay technically nothing for the food. That’s variable pricing right there. He’s such a dipshit. It’s unbelievable.” ([07:13])

• Personal Attacks & Rhetoric

  • Hosts refer to Mamdani with strong language, calling him a “smarmy commie,” “dangerous communist," "know nothing non working loser,” and liken his delivery to Obama’s speaking style ([08:21]).

2. Political Fallout: Doxxing and Taxation

• NYC’s “Pied-à-terre” Tax Database

  • NYC Department of Finance published a searchable database of unoccupied properties over $1M, including personal info ([09:32]).
  • Chris: “It’s a reckless and foolish move, especially considering there are potentially thousands of properties ... that do not qualify.”
  • Mike suggests class action lawsuits, labeling the move an attack on privacy and a populist stunt ([11:26]).

• Larger Political Concerns

  • Hosts lament the increasing acceptance of such policies (“That percentage of people is growing by the day...” —Chris, [12:32]).
  • Mike: “At some point, us Democrats... are gonna wake up and say this DSA communist bullshit... We cannot have them in our party anymore.” ([12:41])
  • Fear of Democrat Party collapse if far-left DSA influence persists.

3. Party Identity Crisis & Bernie Sanders Blame

• Critique of DSA & Bernie Sanders
  • Discussion of Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), calls to expunge their influence from the Democratic Party.
  • Mike: “If we don’t wake up and kick these people out... Democrats are gone.” ([13:28])
  • Cites Bernie Sanders as the root: “Dumb old fat commie who took his wife on their honeymoon to the USSR. Who takes their wife on their honeymoon to Russia.” ([16:07])
  • Contradictions about socialism and personal wealth called out.

4. Lightening the Mood: Twin Cities’ Iconic Restaurant Rundown

• Star Tribune “45 Most Influential Restaurants” List

  • Chris transitions to a more cheerful topic: reciting and reminiscing about the region’s top restaurants ([18:07]).

  • Mike provides colorful commentary (often personal memories, ownership connections, or critiques) for each.

  • Notable discussions:

    • Al’s Breakfast: “It’s gotta be the number one go-to breakfast joint.” —Chris ([18:48])
    • Cafe Latte & Billy’s: Anecdotes on changing cityscape and nostalgia ([23:41])
    • Mancini’s: “Best people in the world in the restaurant business... study how restaurants should do it.” —Mike ([28:00])
    • Mickey’s Diner: “Two times in a row, ate at Mickey’s, got a little greasy... and my wife said, ‘Let’s go have some babies.’” —Mike ([29:40])

  • Mike’s glaring omission: House of Wong—he estimates he’s eaten there 2,860 times over his lifetime ([36:17])

    “One of the hardest working families I’ve ever seen, the Wongs... Ate there today. I grew up in Falcon Heights, Rivers... Every year of my life, my family’s gone there roughly once a week for lunch or dinner.” —Mike ([35:24]-[36:47])

5. Notable Quotes and Memorable Moments

• On government stores:

  • “They are going to lose so much money. Reverse, because what you can’t do is on your staples, your staples are already loss leaders at stores… It’s already the thing that has no margin.” —Mike ([06:21])

• On DSA/party identity:

  • “Democrats like me and you and some of us that fall somewhat in the Democratic side, if we don’t wake up and kick these people out of this party, Democrats are gone.” —Mike ([12:41])

• On food and nostalgia:

  • “I ate with my grandma there. I had like my 45th birthday party there... The waitresses are just old school adult waitresses that know how to do it, right.” —Mike on House of Wong ([37:33])

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [02:25] – Mayor Mamdani’s grocery store announcement (audio clip)
• [04:46] – Deep retail analysis and predicted outcomes
• [07:13] – Variable pricing, food stamps, and host reactions
• [09:32] – “Pied-à-terre” tax and property owner database controversy
• [12:31] – Host reflections on party base and policy backlash
• [16:07] – Party critique and the “Bernie Sanders” argument
• [18:07] – Transition to iconic restaurant list and food talk
• [35:24]-[36:47] – Mike’s passionate ode to House of Wong

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Overall Tone and Language

• Tone: Irreverent, sarcastic, heated, and nostalgic with rapid-fire banter between the hosts. The mood alternates sharply between anger at political news and joy over local food landmarks.
• Language: Colorful, explicit at times, heavily laced with humor and hyperbole, especially in critiques of political figures or policy.

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Takeaway

For Garage Logic listeners, this episode artfully blends sharp skepticism of government intervention—especially in the economy—with heartfelt local flavor, humor, and nostalgia. The hosts see NYC’s grocery experiment as another “doomed-from-the-start” left-wing overreach and use the topic to sound alarms about the drift of the Democratic Party. The show’s latter half is a love letter to the resilient spirit of neighborhood restaurants and the tradition of eating together—serving to both rage and reminisce in the classic style of Garage Logic’s “gumption county” world view.

Transcript

[Narrator/Announcer]

As technology becomes more complex, cyber reality dominates the culture, and AI becomes an endless, anxious discussion. Simple, old human storytelling becomes all the more precious. And that's what you'll find on the Mishki Podcast. In the end, we're all just people. Folks with our brilliance and our absurdities and stories about people. Well, they never get old. The Mishke Podcast. Wherever you get your podcasts,

[Mike Fratelloni]

This is the weekly Scramble. A place where we chat about life over a cold one or two. It's time to belly up to the pod with Mike Fratelloni and your host, Chris Reivers.

[Chris Reivers]

That's right, it's time for the weekly Scramble podcast. My name is Chris Reivers. With me as always, his name is Mike Fratelloni. Hello, Michael.

[Mike Fratelloni]

How you doing, Reavers?

[Chris Reivers]

I'm doing well. And I really am gonna tell you, I'm trying really hard to find more engaging stories. And not necessarily wacky stories, but fun stories. But it's really hard to not dive into the GL world of exposing just what a cesspool of crap we're forced to deal with on a daily basis. And I wasn't gonna bring this up, but I have to bring this up

[Mike Fratelloni]

because you're gonna go right for that type of story.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, because it's just so absurd.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

The fact.

[Chris Reivers]

And the crowd of people that believe in this nonsense is growing by the day. And I don't think people truly understand the magnitude that decisions like this are gonna have on the rest of us.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay.

[Chris Reivers]

Because even though I didn't vote for this, this is somehow gonna affect me. It's played out here in Minnesota. It's played out in a lot of other places closer to the country's tallest buildings. And your guy really took the cake the other day because, Michael, I don't know if you know this, because the answer, the key to solving the world's problems, the key to relieve all of the troubles for the residents of the city of New York is what? Government run grocery stores.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Absolutely.

[Chris Reivers]

What could possibly go wrong?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I mean, it works every time they've ever been tried. It really works.

[Chris Reivers]

Let's play your guy, moron. Zamdani.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

We know that for many New Yorkers, 30% at the grocery store means something very different. Since 2019, food prices have soared at grocery stores around the country by roughly 30%. In fact, talk to shoppers around the city and you'll often hear the same frustration. Wages have not kept up. Making matters even worse, some corporations have built out technology that allows for something called surveillance pricing, collecting personal data to charge Some people more than others for the same carton of eggs, for the same gallon of milk. All of this leaves too many New Yorkers feeling like groceries are out of reach. And that is frankly unacceptable. Which is why city government is stepping in to make people's lives more affordable. Today I am proud to announce a collection of essential staples that will be predictably 30% cheaper at all 5 of our city run grocery stores. This core set of goods will include all fresh produce, meat and seafood, along with 20 other essential items like cheese, milk and bread. Here's how it will work. Once a month, our five city run grocery stores will set prices for this core set of goods at 30% below typical retail prices. No exceptions, no gimmicks. The savings will last for the entire month. That means no weekly fluctuations nor sticker shock at the checkout line. Not for our seniors living on fixed incomes, nor for the parents who rely on a regular supply of apple slices to keep toddler tantrums at bay. Now

[Chris Reivers]

can we all see Got bananas,

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

this incredible example of produce in my hand. Now you will see these plantains here. So for anyone wondering how much these beautiful plantains might cost, you can use this QR code or head to Grocery NYC to access our policy report. I'm going to demonstrate exactly what that means. Ladies and gentlemen, the QR code does work. And see this here. There you can learn more about our city owned grocery store program, including the 30% discount.

[Chris Reivers]

May I ask you a question? You, I believe have spent some time working in retail.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I've done retail, yeah. Still do.

[Chris Reivers]

Your family has spent decades working in retail. Literally half a century when, when the mayor of a large city, I'd say probably the biggest city on the most important city, when he comes out and says we're gonna open a store run by the government.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Whoa.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Nice.

[Chris Reivers]

And the products within that store are gonna be 30% under market value. Meaning, let's say Fratelloni's grocery store in New York City. A wonderful family owned operation that's been around for four generations. And here comes the mom Donnie. Grocery store across the street. Hey. The Fratellonis are selling eggs at $3.99 a carton. We're gonna sell it at $3.15 a carton. I'm trying to think percentages in my $30.20 last. Okay, what's gonna happen is you're gonna drive out all of the market market valued stores and you are gonna have an even bigger food desert than you already have.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's very possible. Unless he thinks in his ultra, ultra arrogance that these will be so popular and so loved that it's okay if they drive out standard non government owned stores because they'll just put another government owned store. It's such a weird thought that he thinks that. And they're gonna have a third party running these grocery stores, right?

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They are going to lose so much money. Reverse because what you can't do is on your staples, your staples are already lost leaders at stores, grocery stores that sell milk. It's in the back of the grocery store because it's a loss leader, meaning they don't make anything on it. So they need you to go all the way through the store and pick

[Chris Reivers]

up a couple other items and pick

[Mike Fratelloni]

up stuff that has some margin. So it's already the thing that has no margin. All of the stables have no margin because they're competitive already. So they're going to be 30% under cost, meaning under their cost to buy that product. So they're just going to go out of business faster and faster and faster. But they're not actually in business. Reverse. They don't have to make a profit.

[Chris Reivers]

That's just true.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And they won't. It's a government funded, it's going to be a piece of shit store. Just like every time they try one, whether it was a Seattle, they did one in Florida.

[Chris Reivers]

Every time they try one, Kansas City.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The worst part about this reverse is I believe we have things called food deserts. I 100% believe that. When in north Minneapolis when you had a great target and the target says we can't do it here anymore, we're not making any money, it's not worth it, the police aren't coming. We can't do it. Right. And when they can't do it and when they can't make it, the place that's arguably one of the lowest cost providers, Walmart, when they can't do it, no one's going to be able to do it better than them. Surely not some doofus run grocery store by some commie that's going to put it in there. One thing that I thought was really interesting how he bitched that on occasion grocery stores would have variable pricing so some people would pay more for certain things. What do you think is happening now with food stamps? I don't get food stamps. Thank God. I don't have to have food stamps. Stamps. I pay more than the person with food stamps. They pay technically nothing for the food. That's variable pricing right there. He's such a dipshit. It's unbelievable. It's almost not funny. Because he is just a commie. That's all he is is a good looking smarmy commie. That's all he is.

[Chris Reivers]

And listen to his cadence. Do you know what it reminds me of? The way he talks like this. Oh yeah, he sounds just like Obama.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, it is.

[Chris Reivers]

Remember how it would speed up to make you think of this and then.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And he's got a little smirk on him. But what he is is a dangerous, dangerous communist.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

He's too stupid to understand what he's doing. He's a know nothing non working loser. He's never done any of this on his own. None of it on his own. I get that there's an argument for grocery stores and food deserts. Those people are getting screwed when you have to buy food from a little bodega. It's way more expensive than getting it from Walmart. Trust me, if Walmart could make money in Harle, they would have Walmart's every two feet.

[Chris Reivers]

They would do it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They would absolutely do it. But Walmart says, oh, we probably don't want to mess with this. Not meaning the Harlem problem, probably the problems with getting permitting in New York and they don't want to do it.

[Chris Reivers]

He also might be in some really, really big hot water.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, what, What?

[Chris Reivers]

What could be in addition to that, he basically said hold my beer.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

But wait, there's more.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay, good.

[Chris Reivers]

This article published in the New York Post. I really didn't think I was gonna bring him up, but your rant just reminded me of another story that I saw this morning.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What a dangerous fool is he?

[Chris Reivers]

Mamdani's administration a searchable database of Big Apple properties that could fall under the state's new tier tax. It's called Pied A T E R E tax, effectively doxxing thousands of wealthy New Yorkers, the city's department. This is un freaking believable that he did this and the fact that he has the gall to do this. The city's Department of Finance uploaded the comprehensive list which purports to cover all unoccupied non primary residences in the five boroughs worth north of $1 million, including the full names and addresses of every property owner. It's a reckless. My goodness gracious. It's a reckless and foolish move, especially considering there are potentially thousands of properties on this list that do not qualify as second homes or whose owners will successfully dispute their inclusion, Council Minority Leader David Car, whose own home appears on the list, told the New York Post on Monday. The move follows A widely panned Twitter post by the mayor in which he put wealthy residents on notice to, quote, check your mailbox when you're back in the five boroughs because you've got mail. A warning that notification letters were on their way. The best city in the world deserves the best parks, libraries and schools in the world. That's only possible when we all pay our fair share. Mom.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Donnie, I'm so sick of hearing that. I'm so sick of hearing pay our fair share. The simple fact is half the United States doesn't pay anything. So they don't pay their fair share. They pay absolutely nothing. Half of the people in the United States do not pay taxes.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That is not their fair share. That's not how this works. He is. That is all public information, Right. That list that he posted, that's all public information. You and I could go on. I mean, we're assuming it's their second home, right?

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And they must have maybe, maybe some data that's not public. I would set up a class action lawsuit with all those people, and I would sue the state of New York and the city of New York if I could. If you can do this for $7 trillion, and I'd say you just put us in deep peril and you were not accurate. You cannot do that and make him say, crap, they're not going to win $7 trillion. But they're going to win something, right? They're going to fight me on this. And I would name him specific in this case, and I'm sure you can't even do that. I won't even care. I would sue him. And then I'd sue his family for being so st when they were raising him. Honest to God, I would sue every single person if I could in that city.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, this all coincides with his threat to raise property taxes by nearly 10% back in February unless he was allowed to tax the rich to cover a $12 billion budget gap that was later revised down to $6 billion. Here's the thing. You heard the applause in the background of this. There are people who are all for this.

[Mike Fratelloni]

A huge percentage of people.

[Chris Reivers]

And that percentage of people is growing

[Mike Fratelloni]

by the day, 100%.

[Chris Reivers]

I don't think the vast majority of people understand the consequences of this kind of stuff.

[Mike Fratelloni]

At some point in time, us Democrats, because I'm sometimes a Democrat, are gonna wake up and say this DSA communist bullshit. This. I can't. I don't wanna swear. Reverse. I'm getting so mad. I know you are, but this DSA Bullcrap is we cannot have them in our Democrat party anymore. They have to. Because what the DSA stands for, no public ownerships of corporations, no public home ownership, no jails, no ice, you know, a myriad, no billionaires, a myriad of things that are just not true. And if Democrats like me and you and some of us that fall somewhat in the Democratic side, if we don't wake up and kick these people out of this party, Democrats are gone. Democrats will be gone. Democrats are already out of money.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

The Democrat Party is out of money. They have no money for elections. Literally none. Like Republicans have 400 million. Democrats have almost nothing right now. And they're letting this party be fractured with DSA candidates. If they just said you can't use our resources, you can't use our money, you can't use our mailing list. Good luck to you, you purple haired nutcase. Good luck. Good luck trying to be a candidate for anything. You would get zero votes if we didn't have the money behind us.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

Need a cocktail? We can get you a cocktail.

[Chris Reivers]

The BlackBerry lemonade, dude, is so freaking good this time of year.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What was the new one? You said you were saying there's a new one.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, they also have the old fashioned, that's really good. But the mango. The mango.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's what you're talking about.

[Chris Reivers]

That one is.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Because then it sounds like you're getting

[Chris Reivers]

your fruits and vegetables 100% and once the city owns the grocery store then you're going to get a lot of fruit and vegetables for 30% less.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Reverse.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Mike Fratelloni]

I feel like I'm getting punched in the swimsuit area.

[Chris Reivers]

All right, well, do me a favor. Yeah, you said something about you just sparked a memory here. Look up Rahm Emanuel right now. Because you were mentioning how there has to be a separation within the individual party. Because the other thing that I don't think the DSA crowd understands is you are basically handing over the middle of the road voter to vote red because

[Mike Fratelloni]

you're giving them no choice. But we might just not vote.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, or you're just losing that vote. That's a better statement.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Rahm is definitely against this. He doesn't know why we're letting the DSA take over. Take over? What are we doing?

[Chris Reivers]

And this is. Would you say that this all started with Bernie Sanders? Oh, yeah, because that's right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Dumb old fat commie who took his wife on their honeymoon to the ussr. Who takes their wife on their honeymoon to Russia.

[Chris Reivers]

How about China like Governor Walz did?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I just don't get it. I just don't get it. He's an old loser commie. That's all he is. He hasn't had a job. He is the joke of the town who just kept running and getting higher and higher because no one wanted to do it. He's an old commie that. Oh, by the way, if he truly believed, if he truly believed, he'd give up his second and third house. He give up his millions of dollars he's got from writing a book.

[Chris Reivers]

Is that different for me though?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Then, yeah, he's a total hypocrite commie. When he said the nice things about bread lines is at the end of the line there's bread or. Or you go to any cub foods in the Twin cities and get 8,000 loaves of bread any single second of the day. Absolutely fresh. And you're not standing in a line like some beaten up Russian commie. What a piece of crap that guy is. Honest to God, we can't not have him in Congress. Right? But he. Why is he in the United States? Why be here if you want communism, go to Russia, go to Cuba, go to Venezuela, go to North Korea. That's what they have there. That's what they have there. Why do we let this turd of a loser He's a complete and utter loser. Why do we let him in Congress? I don't get it. He's a senator. There's not many of them. Why would we let that complete turd of a loser in? I don't get it. Our downfall of our country if we don't do something.

[Chris Reivers]

I truly didn't want to get you that work done.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I feel like punching something and I.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, you know what? I have the perfect story then to calm me down. Because when I saw this story this morning surface at the start, and trust me, this is coming from the Star Tribune, who I've had a lot of complaints with over the last couple of days. However, I thought that this story. Cause you love going out to eat.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's all I do.

[Chris Reivers]

You love it. And I know you are very well versed on all of the different plates, which I am not, unfortunately.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I know what fork used to use. You worked your way in, right?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Worked your way in. Salad fork.

[Chris Reivers]

How about this story from the Star Tribune [e-mail] 45 restaurants that helped shape Twin Cities dining. And a lot of these on this list I have had the chance to take in. But some of them I have not. So I need your. In fact, there's one specifically that I've heard about recently and I want to get your opinion on it. But number one, and it's listed in alphabetical order. Okay, so this isn't like 45 to 1.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sure, sure.

[Chris Reivers]

But this spot will always have a special place in my heart. Al's Breakfast.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Al's Breakfast.

[Chris Reivers]

You can't. I mean, Al's Breakfast is easily. It's gotta be what? The number one go to breakfast joint. What do you mean?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, you sit there and someone stands behind you till you're done eating.

[Chris Reivers]

It's a little cramped.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You gotta hustle in there.

[Chris Reivers]

Since 1950, Al's been helping Minneapolis wake up with tangy buttermilk pancakes with blueberries and walnuts, as well as legendary hash browns, hearty scrambles, and eggs Benedict topped with scratch made lemony hollandaise. I freaking love Al's Breakfast.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's not very big. If you want to go there, be prepared to stand behind somebody because you sit at the little bench, right, the little bar.

[Chris Reivers]

If you go there on a weekend, good luck to you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, you just gotta wait till someone gets up and moves. Then you sit down real quick.

[Chris Reivers]

All right, Alma? Never heard of it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, that's a great one. That is a beautiful restaurant. James Beard award winning chef. He happens to be A friend of mine, and he owns Brassa.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. So that is a great, great.

[Narrator/Announcer]

And they.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's such a good restaurant that they actually built a little boutique hotel on it.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So you can go there if you wanted a special night with the lady. Get a room at the hotel. Get a beautiful dinner at Alma.

[Chris Reivers]

Anchor fish and chips.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, yeah. Anchor fish and chips. Yeah, been there, done that.

[Chris Reivers]

Bar La Grasse. Mashed. These are all in.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Well, no, that was Brassa, not Bar La Grassa.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I'm sorry, Different thing.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Bar Grass is absolutely fantastic. That's in the. The Loop.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. Black Walnut Bakery.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Not been there.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, how about Broder's Italiana Restaurant and Bar? I've been there. This one is 50th Street, Minneapolis. There's also a location at Penn Avenue in Minneapolis.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Don't know that one. I'm sure I should.

[Chris Reivers]

But really quick. Quick aside, I was in an Italian mood the other day. I was gonna stop and grab some to go. Cause I was working here late. So I thought, you know what? It's been a minute. I wanna go to Casetas. I love Casetas.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Love it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Love it.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

What in the sweet hell is going on with your city?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, the roads are a little dorked up.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. So again, this was probably 6:30, quarter to 7. I think it was Thursday night. So I thought, you know what? Perfect. There's not gonna be that much traffic. There wasn't anything going on at the X, to my knowledge. I thought, that's a perfect opportunity. So I thought, I'll just go in park. Park in West 7th. And I'll run in, grab what I want. Cause I was dying for either chicken parm or veal parm or something. I just wanted something. It had nothing to do with me watching sopranos clips on YouTube. It had nothing to do. So I try to go in. Oh, 7th street is basically blocked off. Like a crime scene.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You can't turn to go into their parking lot.

[Chris Reivers]

So then I try to go around the block and come back, and the parking lot was packed. I thought, all right, getting back on the freeway, I can't do it.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, it's usually pretty good. Their parking lot can get busy. But now with the rooftop open. Have you never been to Louie's upstairs?

[Chris Reivers]

No, I have not.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Louie's is a whole different level than just Cassettas is fantastic. My kids go there, they get their noodles. They go into the little Italian market. Stunningly beautiful. Excellent.

[Chris Reivers]

Love it. Yes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Upstairs is another level up. Really beautiful bar. Beautiful outside. My kids and I Just went there to eat the other day. My daughter's like, it's just so nice out here. So nice. And then we looked down at all the construction where no one could get anywhere on the block. And I thought. And it was kind of funny because remember when I said that West 7th from.

[Chris Reivers]

Should be a drinking zone.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Should be a drinking zone where you can just walk around. And my girls and their boyfriends were like, absolutely. That should, that would be great. This would be packed solid with people just walking around. They're not all of the drinks, so I assume they just conceptually mean that.

[Chris Reivers]

So the girls brought their boyfriend. So I'm assuming the men picked up the tab for you.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, yeah. You know, someday. Someday. Actually, I'm not really ever worried. They never have to pick up the tab.

[Chris Reivers]

But you love doing that.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, I'm not gonna let some kid.

[Chris Reivers]

Girls, I'm just. Uncle Chris is just giving you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's funny that you say that because I dated somebody when I was very young and her and her dad and I went out to eat and he let me pick up the tab. And I was like 18 years old.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh man.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I even knew that was wrong. I was like, no, dude, you don't let some 18 year old pick up the tab. But then from that point on, I kind of owned him. Like in my mind I did one of these, like, eh, I'm ahead of you, right? I mean, it was really weird, but in my mind, not that I was.

[Chris Reivers]

You one upped him a little bit.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, in my mind I was like, no, you owe me now, sir. So I'm gonna do whatever I want with your pretty daughter.

[Chris Reivers]

This one I have heard.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sorry, I didn't mean it that way.

[Chris Reivers]

I'm trying to. Okay, this one I've heard good things about. I have yet to frequent it, but. The buttered tin.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, the buttered tin, yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Have you.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Remind me where that is.

[Chris Reivers]

So there's two locations. There's one in Minneapolis on Marshall Street. There's also one in Plymouth, I believe it's right next to the new Coburns up in Plymouth on Marshall. By the way, Coburn's. You gotta call me. Cause I love Coburn's.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I do.

[Chris Reivers]

Like since 2018.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is it a bakery?

[Chris Reivers]

The full menu table takes on dinner classics and gives them a boost with higher brow ingredients and a touch of seasonal freshness with. Excuse me, three locations. St. Paul Northeast and the new Coburn's outpost in Plymouth.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, you know what? I think I might. Oh, no, I don't know, I don't think I've been there.

[Chris Reivers]

Cafe Latte.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Cafe Latte. You gotta love Grand Avenue. And they're. Did you see across the street from Cafe Latte? That's on grand in Victoria. They just ripped down Billy's. No, the building that was Billy's. The times that people had at Billy's. And it became a couple other things after the family that owned Billy's sold. Became a couple other things. It was called the Gathering. The last time it was anything that was open and they just ripped it down. And now they're gonna build a multi story rental on top with retail on the bottom. And I hope they open up the original Billy's again. And I hope at 10 o' clock on a Saturday night there's all sudden 2000 college kids from St Thomas running around Billy's. Cause that was so much fun back in the day.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The last 10 years it's been kind of a dreadful thing. But Billy's is great.

[Chris Reivers]

Cecil, that's one of the best places.

[Mike Fratelloni]

If you've never been to Cecil's Jewish Deli in Highland. If you've never been there. Kula staff. Interesting staff because they. A lot of regulars there. Great, fantastic food and just. It's an iconic place. I'm gonna use that. Can you.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, we're okay. We're okay. Chim Barrazzo, Central Avenue Northeast Minneapolis. Not familiar. Convention Grill in Edina. We just spent a couple minutes on them Cassettas. Of course. A go to the Gidio. Who can complain about the Ginios? El Burrito Mercado. Absolutely. I love El Burrito Mercado. I don't know this one. Fika Cafe.

[Mike Fratelloni]

No.

[Chris Reivers]

Have you heard?

[Mike Fratelloni]

No. That sounds.

[Chris Reivers]

It's a Swedish. It's American. Swedish Cafe.

[Mike Fratelloni]

F I k a.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes. F I k a cafe. Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, it's in the Swedish American Institute, I think.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So that's one of those. No one's really gonna go in there.

[Chris Reivers]

Gotcha.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm sure they have.

[Chris Reivers]

Hola Arepa.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Hola Arepa.

[Chris Reivers]

Hola Arepa.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Hola. Arepa is absolutely fantastic. Super fun place.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm kind of excited to see how many of these I've been.

[Chris Reivers]

House of Curry.

[Mike Fratelloni]

House of Curry. Is there more than one?

[Chris Reivers]

This one just says it's in Rosemont.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay. Nope. Never.

[Chris Reivers]

I have not been.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Rosemont's a long way away. For curry.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

God.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay. Joe.

[Mike Fratelloni]

For curry.

[Chris Reivers]

Joe just said I went all the way to Chaska on Saturday for a wedding.

[Mike Fratelloni]

How did he get back?

[Chris Reivers]

Jesus. I thought Joe I drive farther than that every day. Isles, Bun and Coffee.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay. Right across the street from Isles, Bun and Coffee on 28th in Hennepin. We own the shopping mall.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So some influencer went into Isles, Bun and Coffee and said, this is the best cinnamon roll I've ever had. That was basically the gist of his post from that point on. Not anymore, but for like a year and a half, there was a line of 100 people.

[Chris Reivers]

You're kidding.

[Mike Fratelloni]

No. Standing outside, using our parking lot as the parking spot. And I was like, hey, folks, this is not a community parking lot. This is the parking lot for our shopping center, not for a business across the street. Right. Because we. To make it in uptown and in the cities, parking is like. When you have parking, your business succeeds. If you don't have parking, you're out of luck.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

So we had to be really, really fighting because so many people loved it. Every time I go into that. Check that store and check that little mall that I have there, I go get a couple of cinnamon sticks. And then you say, put more frosting on, and they just, like, heap the frosting on. And then you have total and complete regret, like, four minutes later. Like, that could have been 2,000 calories for two of those.

[Chris Reivers]

But it was so good.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It was so good.

[Chris Reivers]

Who could say no to. But Jack's Cafe.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Jack's Cafe. Classic.

[Chris Reivers]

One of the absolute classic. And I love that for personal reasons. And I'll leave off the conversation for right now. Jones in the Park.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Jones in the Park. Some of the best food I've ever had.

[Chris Reivers]

Really?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Right on Snelling. Not a super. Like, when you drive by it, it just looks like nothing. And absolutely stunning food. I mean, when I say stunning food. Absolutely fantastic food.

[Chris Reivers]

How about the Kenwood?

[Mike Fratelloni]

The Kenwood's great.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is that the one right by the Mall of America?

[Chris Reivers]

This says 21st Street. Oh, that's Hazelwood in Minneapolis.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Kenwood. Yes. That's another small restaurant. It's right by the lake. I was thinking of Hazelwood. Wrong.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Restauran.

[Chris Reivers]

Kamarchuk's.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Kamarchiks. Yeah, you gotta love that.

[Chris Reivers]

The Lexington. I know you are a big fan.

[Mike Fratelloni]

One of my buddies. Guy that I know is a bartender there, Andrew couldn't be a better guy. He brings his own coffee maker to the restaurant so he can make a certain kind of coffee because he developed this coffee bean that. So he'll make a drink like a espresso martini, but he has to use his type of coffee.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, wow.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The guy is such an Elegant bartender. He and a guy named Junior. Best bartenders in the Twin Cities. In Lexington. So cool.

[Chris Reivers]

Another place that I know your family loves, the Mancini's Char House. Duh.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Best people in the world in the restaurant business. If you want to study how restaurants should do it, go see the Mancini Mancini.

[Chris Reivers]

The Mandarin Kitchen in Bloomington. I'm unfamiliar with that one. How about Manny's Tortas?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Manny's Tortas in Minneapolis?

[Chris Reivers]

Matt's Bar. Matt's Bar. I think. Aren't they the ones that invented the Juicy Lucy?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Juicy Lucy, Yeah, they're.

[Chris Reivers]

One of them.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is Manny's Tortas in. What's that called? The International Market Square? No, not International Market Square.

[Chris Reivers]

They're in Midtown Global Market.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Midtown Global Market. Yep. That's fantastic, too.

[Chris Reivers]

Matt's Bar. Mediterranean Cruise Cafe.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Oh, if you want to go see some belly dancers. Best times of your life.

[Chris Reivers]

Didn't there also used to be one in Eden Prairie? Because now this one's in Burnsville, which I have also. But didn't there also used to be one in Eden Prairie as well that I don't think is there anymore?

[Mike Fratelloni]

So I had a birthday maybe. I don't know. I had a birthday not that long ago. Well, long ago. This was five years ago or something. And I said, let's go to Mediterranean Cruise at Cafe. I love the food. I love the belly dancer. I think it's really, really fun. Plus, it's a neat place. So I go in there, and I was like, I see, like, a couple of my buddies there.

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And I said, what the hell are they doing here? And then I realized that it was, like, three of my good friends. I was like, did they go out to eat without me? Like, I was kind of picked a

[Chris Reivers]

bunch of jerks, right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

And then Nicole, my wife, says, it's a surprise party they're here for. And I was like, oh. Oh. I had no concept that they would come to eat with me.

[Chris Reivers]

Sure.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I assumed that they were like, I was almost mad. Like, those pricks. They're out without me. It happens to me. My birthday and they're out, and they never thought I'd run into them at the Mediterranean Cruise Cafe. So they came and joined us, which made way more sense.

[Chris Reivers]

That's awesome. Let's rifle through a few more Meritage.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Fantastic downtown St. Paul. Best oysters in town.

[Chris Reivers]

Mickey's Diner.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Mickey's Diner. Two times. Two times. Real quick story about Mickey's Diner. We ate there two times and then instantly went to the St. Joe's Hospital and had babies. So two times in a row, ate at Mickey's, got a little greasy, right? And my wife said, huh, let's go have some babies.

[Chris Reivers]

Time to go.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Two times.

[Chris Reivers]

And we were kind of planning that nice Monte Carlo.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Monte Carlo, okay. I have stories about this. Denise Jarvis owns Monte Carlo. If you want to feel what restaurants used to feel like in the 50s and 40s and 60s when it was elegant and done right, the Monte Carlo is the place.

[Chris Reivers]

Let's do this. Let's talk about our friends at North. Well, we'll come back to this list in just a second because I love this restaurant.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I love this bin.

[Chris Reivers]

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[Narrator/Announcer]

All right.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm excited. This is fun for me.

[Chris Reivers]

I think I remember you talking about this place, Moscow on the Hill.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Moscow on the Hill, owned by a guy named Eugene.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

It used to be called Quail on the Hill. It was a French restaurant. All right, it's on Selby and. Well, Selby. Selby and Naina right around. And it is Russian food. In fact, when the war started, a lot of people were protesting them. And they're like, where were Ukrainian? Like, where are Ukrainian? Please don't protest us. Right, right. And they were.

[Chris Reivers]

Don't let the facts get in the way.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Don't let the facts get in the way. And really, really great restaurant. What's kind of funny about that is you go out in town in St. Paul on a Tuesday night, everything's empty. But you know what's not? Moscow on the Hill. They're busy every day, and it's cool they have horseradish vodka that they own. They own this company, referent, and it's horseradish vodka. You put it in the fridge and you take a shot of it, and it's vodka with horseradish.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, my.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Delicioso. As Dora would say.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Absolutely fantastic.

[Chris Reivers]

Murray's. For three generations, Murray's has been one of the best spots in downtown Minneapolis. Of course, Nightingale. I'm unfamiliar. What's Nightingale?

[Mike Fratelloni]

Remind me where it is. I've not been there.

[Chris Reivers]

Lindale Avenue. Lyndale Avenue South. In Minneapolis, it's a Lindale Avenue South.

[Mike Fratelloni]

What number? What address?

[Chris Reivers]

2551.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay. I should know that I have that.

[Chris Reivers]

Small plates.

[Narrator/Announcer]

East.

[Chris Reivers]

And a cocktail lounge.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay. It sounds like something I'd like. Haven't been there.

[Chris Reivers]

Rose Street. Is it patisserie? Is that how you.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Patisserie?

[Chris Reivers]

Patisserie.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Patisserie.

[Chris Reivers]

Snelling Avenue in St. Paul. 46 and Rose.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Okay, that is a really elegant, really elegant bakery, Roasterie, patisserie. They did do something that was a little different. Like four years after Covid, everyone was still wearing a mask inside there. And I was like, okay, you don't need to do that anymore, right? You can move on with the mask wearing. But in Mendota Heights, there was Inoni, right? There was a restaurant called Ioannoni and that they closed. And I think the people who own that bakery, Rose Street Bakery, are opening in Mendota Heights, which is way bigger, right? Way bigger. So that is a really, really cool feature coming to Mendota Heights.

[Chris Reivers]

Pizzeria Lola.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Pizzeria Lola.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah. Xerxes in Minneapolis. Okay. Boy, I'm gonna have a tough time with this one. Ruam mitt.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Thai ram mit.

[Chris Reivers]

Thai ramit Thai. Lao cuisine.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yep, that's good.

[Chris Reivers]

Wabacha and St. Paul. Yeah, yeah. Sea salt. I mean, come on.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sea salt. That's so cool.

[Chris Reivers]

I mean, it's. The thing I love about sea salt is it's Royce's favorite restaurant.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Really?

[Chris Reivers]

So really? Oh, God. He loves sea salt. So we would go have like a quote unquote lunch meeting there a couple times a year, right. And he would always buy and I just. Because we would always pick a day.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Not.

[Chris Reivers]

Not quite as warm as right now, but it was always one of those first spring, take his shirts off, 75 degree days, and we would just go hang. It was always awesome.

[Mike Fratelloni]

My daughter, I had a two year old daughter at the time, and she ate an entire plate of mussels. And she was in the diaper wearing phase. And I just turned to my Wife. And I said, please, please, God. Hopefully this muscle system doesn't go all through her system and just revert right out of the diaper.

[Chris Reivers]

Spoon and stable.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Spoon and stable.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Gavin.

[Chris Reivers]

Gavin Casen.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That guy knows what he's doing. He can. He can run a restaurant.

[Chris Reivers]

Yes, he can.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Every restaurant that he owns or is part of in there should be on this list.

[Chris Reivers]

Yep. Let me scroll down here. W.A. frost and Company.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Love it. John Rupp Building. Own that forever. One of the most stunning patio of any patio in any town in Minnesota.

[Chris Reivers]

Wiseacre Eatery.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Wiseacre.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yep.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, scrolling down here. Excuse me. Walk in the park.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know where that is.

[Chris Reivers]

St. Louis Park. I'm unfamiliar with this.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I don't know that one either.

[Chris Reivers]

Alongside mother.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

Oh, wow.

[Chris Reivers]

Look at this Asian menu. Thai, Vietnam, China, Japan and beyond. Oh, boy. I bet that's.

[Mike Fratelloni]

That's Asian inspired. Oh, man, it's all of the Asians. No Korean in the.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, unless I missed it. I don't. At least it doesn't list it on this.

[Mike Fratelloni]

They're not mentioning my favorite restaurant.

[Chris Reivers]

Hold on, I'm almost. I'm at the Z. Are you ready? Zakai Deli.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, that's on Kennedy Street, Minneapolis. And that's your list, Michael.

[Guest or Additional Speaker]

That was my list.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay, where is the glaring omission?

[Mike Fratelloni]

They're missing one of the best restaurants in all of Minnesota. It's called the House of Wong on Lexington and Larpenter.

[Chris Reivers]

Okay.

[Mike Fratelloni]

The House of Wong was owned by the Wong family for many, many years. Teddy Wong. Now he has Ted Jr. And stuff. They sold it off. It became kind of an ESOP thing and they sold it to the employees. One of the hardest working families I've ever seen, the Wongs. And Teddy, up until when he was 90 something, would still make the pies in the restaurant. He was still working. World War II veteran Teddy, like, did a lot in his life. He has a very, very interesting life. I'm sure they could write a book about him. Ate there today. I grew up in Falcon Heights, Rivers. You may or may not notice it. Which is right down the road from this spot in the House of Wong. Every year of my life, my family's gone there roughly once a week for lunch or dinner. So I've gone there. I was thinking about it today when I was in the bathroom using the urinal, trying to count this up. I'm 55 years old. What's 55 times 52? I don't really know, but a lot. It's like 2,000 something. 2,600. I've been to that restaurant 2,600 times.

[Narrator/Announcer]

Wow.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Is that possible?

[Chris Reivers]

Hang on.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Sometimes I go there two or three times a week.

[Chris Reivers]

Times 52. Yeah. 2860.

[Mike Fratelloni]

2,860. I've never even come close. Probably not even McDonald's equals. Probably McDonald's actually, but the house of Wong for a sit down meal. I've never been to any other restaurant even close to that many times. Today I got the orange chicken special. Fantastic. $12.65.

[Chris Reivers]

My son loves orange chicken.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I should have brought it for him because it's way too much for one person.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, I don't want to give the wrong name, but there is a place place that we'll go to and it has the orange chicken, but it also has diced cashews in it as well. Oh, nice. It's so freaking good.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, it's so good. The one thing about Wong's and people who are listening, especially the frat packers. You've been to Wong's. You know what a value it is, right? They're too cheap. Their prices are too inexpensive. They should actually raise them up because they're just too inexpensive. I want them to last forever. If and when they close, I don't know what I'm gonna do. I have really no ties to Minnesota anymore. Right. Like, I ate with my grandma there. I had like my 45th birthday party there where I went out to eat and brought 20 people because it's like, it's where I like to eat.

[Chris Reivers]

That's cool, right?

[Mike Fratelloni]

The waitresses are just old school adult waitresses that know how to do it, right. You get, you get soup, salad, bread, an entree, and it might be 9.65. Oh, wow. You can't do that for 9.65. That should be 14.65 or 12.65. I don't want to go. You know, tell them to raise their prices. But they probably should raise their prices. It's such a good deal.

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I guess essentially, to tie all of this together, New York Mayor Moran Zamdani just announced that all city owned restaurants will take effect in 2027. That makes just as much sense.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, you might as well just as much sense. But we can't have variable pricing where some people get it for free. Wait, some people do get it for free. Doofus.

[Chris Reivers]

No.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I'm all mad again.

[Chris Reivers]

Dang it. I didn't.

[Mike Fratelloni]

We just went to my favorite thing, House of Wong, and now I'm all mad.

[Chris Reivers]

What they should do is when all that Rotting produce is in the city owned grocery stores. Just bring it to the restaurant and you can dice it up and then serve it as a salad.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Exactly you're thinking.

[Chris Reivers]

But that. That is. So if you want to check it out, it's 45 different. The 45 restaurants that help shape the Twin Cities dining. And that's on the Star Tribune's made website. I don't know if that was in the published newspaper, but it's online. It's.

[Mike Fratelloni]

I think I just went to get it, but I didn't have a password.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, you could just use mine.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You have a password?

[Narrator/Announcer]

Yeah.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Nice. Who. How do you. How do you charge that off to the Hubbards?

[Chris Reivers]

Well, I. I think. Honestly, I think there's one. No. One account I think is for all of us in this room.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You're using Royce's account or something?

[Chris Reivers]

Pretty much.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Probably. Okay, well, that was the employee account.

[Chris Reivers]

That was the one thing. When they took that away, I'm like, oh, crap. Now I don't have Royce's account anymore because they changed his profile and he doesn't even know what the password is anymore.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Did you know that I invented a new laxative reverse?

[Chris Reivers]

I did not.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah, I combined a laxative with Alphabet soup.

[Chris Reivers]

You did?

[Mike Fratelloni]

It's called Let E Rip. Hit it. Letter L, E, T, T, E, R. Okay. You like that one?

[Chris Reivers]

I do.

[Mike Fratelloni]

You know, once. You know, when was the last time you met someone named Lance?

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, it's. I mean, I've known a couple, but it's been a while.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah. In medieval times, people were named Lance a lot. Lot. People were named Lance a lot.

[Chris Reivers]

Yeah, they sure were.

[Mike Fratelloni]

This is one of my favorite shows, cuz I got super pissed.

[Chris Reivers]

Then I got happy.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Then I got to talk about food. Then I got to tell my letter RIP Yes. Apple or Alphabet soup?

[Chris Reivers]

Yes.

[Mike Fratelloni]

And laxative joke. Those are some good jokes.

[Chris Reivers]

You know how I always can judge when it's going to be a good joke is if it will make my 11 year old laugh.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Yeah.

[Chris Reivers]

Oh, then I'm going to 100% use letter ladies.

[Mike Fratelloni]

Letters A, B, C, D. Reverse. Do you have another commercial? Okay. You, sir, are the best.

[Chris Reivers]

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