I like how they went through that entire talk about bad restaurant experiences without even the slightest hint towards the classic Disc Only topic of restaurant violence.
I remember the Jon/Stephen Steak 'n Shake story!! It was during Four Swords Adventure recordings, and I remember this because that vlog on Stephen's channel is one of my favorites of all time. "That was Jon's first experience at a Steak 'n Shake!" "...and hopefully my last..." Ditto to not wanting to be an inconvenience at a restaurant though oh my God. Grew up so picky but as an adult I just don't want to be a problem.
This whole episode is just bring back stuff from the past and every time i hear outback stake/stab house, i get reminded that I need to make a Sims 4 version of Outback Stabhouse…
Everytime I see Disk only pop up in my subscription feed I always think "Well damn, it really has been another month, hasn't it?" Time goes by fast. Excited to give it a listen! Love that this podcast is still going despite its absolutely bonkers reason for coming into existence. It's always a fun listen!
I am also a picky eater who feels bad about sending back orders, but remember that if the reason you asked was because you were allergic, it could have killed you - and the same mistake might kill the next person who IS if you don't point it out then.
The only time I had Steak 'n' Shake was in Atlanta, Georgia, and I don't know how the food was, because I could barely eat any of it. I'd been on a 13-hour drive beforehand with little sleep, and I had a huge fucking migraine.
gosh all these wrong order stories are just reminding me of the time i ordered groceries through instacart and instead of my groceries, the delivery guy just drops off a birthday cake and a bouquet of flowers. i felt so bad for whoever's birthday it was......
1:00 Closer to Stephen, I handwash the spoons and bowls/plates I use for feeding my cats every night, but I use a separate sponge for that from my other and leave them to air dry (spoons get their own space on the dish rack) rather than use a towel for them. Otherwise if I did as Tom does and throw things into the dishwasher (which our family has only used after big gatherings, and even then we still do washing by hand to if the gatherings aren’t that big), I’d probably go through almost as many spoons does and wouldn’t have nearly enough bowls/plates for them. 2:10 Also like Jerod, I use exclusively tablespoons for eating at home when spoons are needed. We have teaspoons, but only a handful of them that are smaller than your average teaspoon get used for our cats. Even if it’s been washed, I would never use those tiny teaspoons for anything but my cats. Those things are not going into any human mouths or food. That is exclusively the cats’ spoons. OK Tom, geez. Sorry I missed the memo. Let me just gather up every sock I’ve worn at least once, especially the ones with small holes in them, and toss them all out. I’m sure my wallet will thank me for feeling lighter by the end of the day. 3:20 I am hesitant to get rid of old clothes. Like they have to be completely worn and torn before I think about getting rid of them. I still have my T-shirts from high school that I still wear casually. 4:53 Growing up I do remember having to clean out lint from between my toes. I think it’s just a sock quality thing or something to do with how they’re cleaned in the laundry because the socks I wear these days don’t have that issue. 8:40 Scrape and lick (tongue noises). And then I go wash my hands afterwards because I only do what Dracula does after I’ve finished eating, so at that point I’m cleaning myself up anyways. May as well get the most possible out of my meal. If I had to wipe something on my pants after eating, no alternative, then it’s gotta be dry or a powder. Something that can be brushed/patted off. 9:30 Two, always. Thumb and index. No more, no less. I gotta pick them up one at a time. Maybe two if they’re shaped just right and I can manage to pinch them together. This goes for any food that doesn’t require utensils or a full grip for stability, mind. Chips, fries, pieces of Kit Kat/Hershey’s/modern Crunch, etc. 11:23 And this is why I said Scrape and Lick. It doesn’t sound much better, I know, but it at least has been established by Dracula and it accurately describes what I do too. Scrape on a tooth, lick off the the tooth and whatever is left on the finger. 12:00 You just did. 14:40 I don’t use chopsticks for chips, not even the ones served at Chinese restaurants (are you supposed to?). That seems excessive for finger food. 15:30 My family cuts bags open and seals them with clips if they’re Family Sized or anything significantly larger than your 1.5 oz bag. They would never cut a Pringles tube. Just slide the chips along, grab, and then slide them back in. 16:24 Suddenly Jon doesn’t seem so sane/mature to Jerod. 18:35 No dishwasher normally, but I wash between one to three times a day depending on the meal and if there was cooking involved. At the very least I’m washing the cat stuff. 21:10 Depends. If the food is missing something that I asked for, provided there wasn’t a substitute provided, I’ll ask for what was missing to be provided on the side at least. If the anything else about the order was wrong but it’s close enough to what I got otherwise, I may point it out, but I won’t make a scene. After all, maybe someone on the staff is just in need of a break and if pointing something out leads to them getting it so that others’ orders are what they ask for, then it was worth it. The only time I will ask for an exchange is if the order is completely wrong. Like it in no way resembles anything I’ve ordered (this is why I refuse to use services like DoorDash and UberEats. Even front door delivery services from pizzerias and the like. I want to verify that what I ordered is what I get, and if the last thing I want is to get a wrong order and for the delivery person to flake like what happened in a later story). If they can’t make the exchange, then at the least I want to be charged accordingly and not like how Dan got billed for all those drinks. That would definitely be the closest I get to Karen levels apart from if the service was just plain ol’ bad or sloppy like Jon’s Shake n’ Steak story. 24:35 But he won’t ask them to change the knife or remake the sandwich? That’s interesting and kind of unfortunate in Jerod’s case. 33:14 This story is about one of the worst restaurant stories I’ve heard that doesn’t involve a White Castle. I’m struggling to figure out in my mind which of the two chains is worse. 35:00 Shouldn’t the mustard and mayo been visible? To put it another way, shouldn’t the lack of ketchup have been a red flag? That lady might’ve saved the Collins family that day. Talk about customer service. 37:33 I was gonna say, was Tom drunk when he went out for McDonald’s? Or was the construction just that bad that getting to the McDonald’s entrance proper was a lot more complicated? Was there just something about the way this was set up? I’ve been to one of these gas station-McDonald’s hybrids, and the entrances to McDonald’s were pretty plain to see. 40:36 That’s what makes food taste so heavenly sometimes Jerod. You didn’t know? 42:10 But not the juiciest fart because that according to Emile is a story yet to be told on a recorded Wheel of Fortune episode. Who knows? Maybe the one(s) after Space Land is finished going up will have them. So Tim is human. I didn’t think he could feel embarrassment when it came to his farts. 48:33 Man, making Jules’s broken thumb seem tame by comparison (not that it is tame. That really sucks). But yeah, it’s the same for most things where your feet are supposed to be planted to a board. Surfing, snowboarding, skiing. It’s important to know how to fall in the right ways. You don’t want to fall in a wrong way and mess things up for yourself even more. 50:23 Bagel’s favorite toys are Nerf darts. I wonder if Jon and Reese still have Nerf dart wars. 54:52 2 was my first and the one I have the softest spot for still. I played 3 a lot more as that’s what my best friend played as he owned both and I owned none, but you never forget your first. Lot of good nights spent playing Halo 2 multiplayer with him and in the campaign. 55:44 Sure, but the dog beat me over the fence. 56:27 Josh played it and had a good time with Hal. All versions of 2.0 have Thanos’s stick Twitch censored by popular demand to InfernoPlus, the mod’s creator. In fact the only way to get Thanos now is with the Thanos GMod Tool Gun which you can only get from a D20 Grenade and not the Random Tool Gun. The odds of getting the Thanos Gun are also a lot lower than it was to get Thanos period in the previous version since there’s a lot more D20 effects now in addition to any odds modifiers that Inferno did. Good ol’ Buff Riku. 57:20 They’re also D20s in multiplayer but instead of random effects the damage value rolls between 1 and I think 200 if I remember Inferno’s videos correctly. 58:02 It still is in 2.0. In VOD safe versions it uses the chest opening jingle from OoT/MM. The 1x scope on the Flaccid Sniper Rifle’s the best part IMO. 58:52 The Crash gun works does not immediately Crash the game like Jerod made it sound. What it does is it fires a projectile that bounces off of any and all surfaces and speeds up with each bounce to the point where the game cannot keep up and forces a hard crash in response. You can “safely” use it in wide open spaces that have a skybox as the projectile can potentially fly up into the sky or into a bottomless pit and despawn. Using it indoors is certain death. In Jerod’s case, he was using it outdoors the whole time but at one point was in a rock formation when he fired it and the rocks were so close together that the projectile got stuck in there and didn’t leave before his game crashed. Also the Crash Gun is not the only way to crash the game. The Remover gun is another one as there’s a lot of objects in the game that when removed the game doesn’t know what to do, so it forces a hard crash in those cases too. 1:13:55 See I thought that was the sound he makes when he snorts coke. 1:22:15 There’s at least one more Wheel of Fortune game because Emile still hasn’t shared on TRG the Tim story that he shared on one of Josh’s streams, and he said that they talk about it at the start of one of the WoF recordings.
oh boy a podcast where I can share lots of things about how weird I am! I understand Stephen’s whole suck n wipe spiel because 95% of the time I won’t even bother with a napkin. Most of the stuff I eat either isn’t that messy, blends with my pants, or blends with the other stains I have on them from cooking. If the chips have salt/grease, then I don’t care, but cheetos are typically like Tom, a two/three finger operation depending on circumstance. Look what you did, Duff, you fricked your kid’s taster up. I’m generally not too picky if they screw my order up, because it’s usually a minor thing, and it has gotten me to like things I otherwise don’t (I will only eat mayo with mustard because I think it enhances both flavors) but if it’s major enough I will send it back. Typically I’ll ask politely, but if the staff gets belligerent then I’ll start with the firm talk. Yelling at a server doesn’t accomplish anything worthwhile. I absolutely refuse to use third party delivery apps because the one time I did (when I had the rona back in the day), the pizza I ordered got to me absolutely destroyed. I got a refund for it, but from then on I always either ordered ahead for pickup or got takeout from somewhere. Jarod’s order was technically correct, the best kind of correct! Ah yes, the Steak and Shake story. Never gets old. Apparently fast food in Emile’s neck of the woods is staffed by Florida natives. ‘Tom just trying to get his Mickey Dee’s in the middle of a warzone, no biggie’ was my thought when he said ‘barbed wire’ Pretty much the only guy who can skateboard outside his teenage years and early 20s is Tony Hawk, is what I’ve accepted as fact. if you ever want to get into or back into Nerfing as a hobby, then check out Coop773. He’s very informative with his reviews as well as just fun to watch, especially when you can tell he likes the blaster.
I would absolutely be the type to send something back. I need a cheeseburger plain because, among other things, the smell of ketchup can make me sick. I don’t yell at them for it, but still…
I can sympathize with Jerod about what happened with his tailbone. I fell down a few stairs a couple months ago and banged my tailbone HARD on each one. It freaking sucked, I was sitting on ice for a couple weeks.
I've always hated sock lint. It's such an annoyance to me. It takes me extra time to rub the lint off my feet after removing my socks. Thank you Stephen Georg for voicing how I feel when my food comes out wrong. "This is my reality now." There are only two things I don't like. I'll eat them but I won't be happy about it.
20:59 If the mistake is something I can still eat, then I don’t bother. I actually discovered a new favorite drink at Starbucks once because the barista mis-heard my order and I decided to try what I was given instead of trying to correct them. The problem is that I’m a picky eater, so more often than not, someone getting my order wrong results in something I don’t like.
never go to a steak-n-shake I went to one near me with my family when I was like 8, and it took them like an hour for them to bring us our food, while people that came in after us somehow got their food first. Everything was okay, but it was the first time we ever went, and we've never gone to another one.
The thing Tom experienced when he ordered a sub and it just came with meat and condiments happened to me too. I'm not one to normally raise a fuss... but this was the exception.
When my wife and I had a baby earlier this year we only let parents and grandparents visit and it was the day after she was born because we were there the day she was born and adding that and the day of the birth we were both so very exhausted.
