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I'm the Great America. Of course, Dick Williams is an icon in Cincinnati,

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and he ran the Cincinnati Reds for
many years. And when I talked

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to Tony Bender and and others,
he tells me that Dick Williams is a

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foundation of what's happening now with the
Cincinnati Reds because of the changing in the

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franchise to the younger players. And
also it was reported a few weeks back

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that Dick Williams is the CEO and
chairman of the board now is Skyline Chili.

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Talk about two iconic brands, the
Reds, Skyline Chili and Dick Williams.

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Welcome again to the Bill Cunningham Show. And first of all, I

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give you full credit for what's happening
with the Reds right now. Does someone

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else receive a little bit of credit
or not? You're starting me out with

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a softball, man. We got
such a good team over there running the

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Reds. Nick Carl, Sam Gross
and Jeff Croppy, Rob Colf and Brad

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Metter. Those guys. I love
them. They're doing a great job.

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They're keeping it going. I was
I was glad to be a part of

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bringing in a lot of these young
guys. But that was my brain trust

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and I'm having so much fun watching
them, watching them play now, So

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thanks for asking. I've come a
long way since you put your legal talents

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to work freeing a young man from
the system of justice when I was a

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teenager and I ran on that field
after the Reds beat the Pirates to go

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to the World Series in nineteen ninety, think about my career trajectory. If

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you had not intervened on my behalf
and put your legal talents to work to

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make sure I didn't get you could
still be locked up, correct, You

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could have still be locked up fifty
years later. You know. Back then

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and Cincinnatis, they didn't take stuff
like that lightly. No, I mean,

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Marge could have thrown the book at
me. It's amazing that the kid

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running on the field, may I
say, acting like a goofball later on

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would be the general manager of the
Reds. What were the odds of that

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kid becoming the gem of the Reds. Well, I'm thinking zero, no,

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not listen, zero even even less
than you know. I never got

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arrested the skyline, but I sure
spend as much time in skylines as I

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did at Riverfront Stadium and to be
able to be a part of both organizations

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later in life. That's got to
defy from serious odds. Well, what

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are the odds of this weekend?
They're off today, but Friday study and

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Sunday. This is a preview of
the world series, Houston, Cuccinnati.

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Is that possible? Absolutely? A
puff. I'm gonna I'm gonna call Dusty

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and getting his head a little bit, you know, please gotta we gotta

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rattle his cage. Send a statement
this weekend, please, because at this

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point I'd like to think you still
own a piece of the Reds. I

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think wouldn't it be wouldn't it be
good? Maybe the end pick up?

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Maybe imagine maybe maybe a Scherzer or
pick up some stud starting pitcher if they're

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if they're close to the top,
We're just tell me we're not going to

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be selling. We're gonna be buying
in about five weeks. We are are

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still as a family, very invested
in the Reds and as a good partner.

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I'm not going to comment on strategic
moves. I'm gonna believe I'm gonna

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put my faith in Nick Sam and
the boys to do the right thing.

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Um, But how exciting that we're
that we're talking about it, that we're

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right here. We gotta get we
gotta get past Dusty this weekend. By

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the way, did you get you
got your Skyline order? Yes, it's

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all going. By the way,
I don't have any left. Joe Frederick

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brought it in about an hour or
two ago, and guess what, it's

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gone. So I don't know what
to spent twenty four so I'm not sure

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how many he brought in, but
it's started. Well he was give one

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away and eight the other one,
so there was there was nothing left.

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But uh, let's say you're a
better you're a better interviewer. On a

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full stomach, you can get a
little gratchy when you're you're not yet so

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I have been fed at this point. But you're trying to be nice to

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me. Let's put the reds of
the side. What is it? You're

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still a relatively young man. Sky
Line is iconic, and even when I'm

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in Naples, Florida, there's one
little skyline Onty on forty one Tammammi trail

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that I ever now that I like
devil little Skyline. Well, why did

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you choose Skyline to run instead of
something in investment, banking or insurance,

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something like why skyline showing. Well, you know, our family has been

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here for generations and we love the
same thing as a lot of the native

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Cincinnatian's love. And Reds and Skyline
are right there at the top. And

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you know, this is just an
exciting business. We think there's a lot

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of room for growth. It's a
very traditional business. It's you know,

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they found the recipe that works both
for their food and in the stores for

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the experience, and we want to
make sure to make it available to as

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many people as we can, and
that's the goal we you know, we're

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opening a bunch of stores this summer, more than we have and in a

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while down in Kentucky we opened one
up in Dayton. We're going to be

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open on a disney World at Orlando, just outside of Disney World. We're

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coming to the airport later this fall. So you know, the demand is

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there for new restaurants and we're trying
to make it happen. And you know,

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my eyes suggest a burrito. I'm
thinking about beans, I'm thinking about

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chili, I'm thinking about onions,
I'm thinking about other accruitments. What about

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a burrito like a breakfast burrito.
If we thought about a breakfast burrito kind

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of like a Taco bell kind of
a deal. Well, it is amazing

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that you asked that without being cheat
up, because I sampled a Skyline breakfast

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burrito less than twenty four hours ago. And the reason I did that is

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because we're going to CVG, and
if you're at CVG, you got to

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be open for breakfast. And if
you're open for breakfast, you know there's

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people that are craving their Skyline.
So we're gonna have We're gonna have items,

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a bunch of items with chili it'll
be fun to sample, and some

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items without chili if you're not in
the mood for Skyline at that early hour.

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But we think I can just tell
you stuff I tried yesterday, and

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I'll the other ones will be a
surprise. But there's several menu items for

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breakfast with chili, and I think
they're going to be a hit. What

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do you see Dick Williams doing?
You've charged on the field March shot.

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I almost had your arrest and pulled
off by the ankles. I was involved

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in freeing Dick Williams. And then
you run the reds. You set the

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Foundation, Della Cruise, Abbit,
whatever it might be. These new kids

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look so exciting. And now Skyline
Chili. In ten or twenty years,

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what will Dick Williams be doing.
I'm working on a merger. We're going

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to merge the Reds and Skyline.
They will throw the Bengals in there too.

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I'm sure Mike Brown will be happy. Services Sports team will provide it

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a one stop shop for everything Cincinnati
related. That's beautiful. What's your order?

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Which I always get the same thing. I always always get relatively dry

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three way, but I like to
have a sprinkling of onions, maybe every

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inch or two on top. It's
kind of a three way plus knock out

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a four way, not kind of
three way, not quite a five way.

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If I could get maybe ten to
twenty beans, I always tell him,

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give me a three way, relatively
dry, make it forty percent wet,

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make it sixty percent dry. Give
me a couple of onions an inch

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or two apart on the bed before
you put the cheese on, along with

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maybe seven or eight beans, and
I mean seven or eight beans or wave

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of for about twelve seconds. Then
give it to me. You know what

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I'm saying, that's my order.
And you know what, in most restaurants,

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I would probably get you tossed out
the door. But it's Skyline.

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They bring it. They bring it
just as you ask. Right, I'd

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call it a Dick Williams. If
I get too excited, they just they

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throw me on the floor and throw
me out the door. Yeah, basically

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George and the guys. You know, George passed away a few years ago

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there in Kenwood, but his family's
kind of involved with Charlie and John and

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I. When I walk in,
they start making the order and it's at

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my table within five minutes, and
they know what I want. That's awesome.

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Well, I drop your name when
I need to get in places,

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but I would rather you didn't drop
my name. Now you drop my name

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when you're trying to get out of
jail. That's what you did with Dick.

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We got to run. Thank you. And I'll tell you what when

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I saw this story as of this
is unbelievable that Dick Williams is now running

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Skyline. Because you're like a corporate
raider. What you do is take companies

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at the bottom and take it at
the top. But with Skyline, you're

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taking company at the top to take
it to here before. But lastly,

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how much difficulty is there was Skyline
chili going to market like Naples, Florida

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or Fort Myers because no one knows
about it. The Cincinnatians do. But

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then they have their own iconic brands
or whatever. Most regions have their own

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little niche like we have Graids and
Skyline and a little bit of freshes.

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But nonetheless, how hard is it
to break into a Tennessee when they say

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this isn't chili. Well, we're
gonna find out because we're going to travel

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into some new places. But you
know, those pockets in Florida your referenced

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have a lot to do with the
Midwesterners that travel down there. That gives

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us a good base of customers.
Orlando will be a bit of a test

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case, right because we don't have
a lot of Cincinnati las down there,

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but you've got a ton of people
coming through there, and if they if

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they gravitate towards it that I think
that gives us optimism. We'll keep unrolling.

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Here we are the middle of June. I look forward to toward the

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third to fourth week in July.
The Reds are in first place by three

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games. They're looking good. The
better the better players, some of the

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ones that TJ is gonna come back. I think Voda is going to come

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back. I don't know where you
play him. I worry, Yeah,

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how about him? He's gonna come
back. And you have to make a

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decision. And you gotta call Nick
Crawl and say, give me a stud

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starting pitcher and maybe a Rauldus Chapman, who said the other night he wants

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to finish his career in Cincinnati.
Will you acquire a stud starting pitcher and

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a Raldis Chapman at the end of
July. Don't give me this Nick,

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call Crawl Crap. I want to
know if you're gonna make the call and

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they listen to you at the Reds, will you bring in a stud starter

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and a raldus Well in your end? On the offense, I mean you're

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forgetting offense. Don't you think we
should get a starter of closer and some

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basic offense? Well, who do
you have an mind? Where do you

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play? Where do you play on
this dam second base? In the I

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mean, right now, Ella Dela
Cruise isn't hitting all of a sudden,

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he's got bad shot selection. I
don't know about him. Did you send

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La della cruise back down? Do
you send him back down to Louisville?

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What do you do? Ellie's gonna
be great, don't get you. Don't

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get misled by these small sample sizes. That's what people do. It'll we

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let these guys play. You sent
over a smaller Tony bender ate all the

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chili. There's none left, but
see there's always more. I bet there

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is. Thanks for having me,
all man, we'll catch up soon.

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My last question, what is your
what is your general food cost? Is

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it in the twenty to twenty five
or is it twenty five to thirty?

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What? How did you? How
did you get that range? Have you

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been studying the restaurant business a little? I think I know something about it?

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But do you try to get twenty
to twenty two? Isn't that the

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sweet point on food costs? Yes, that's a good range, that's what

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I thought. All right, Dick
Williams, thank you very much. We'll

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do it again. You're showing off. Now. Let me ask you this,

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if the if the Reds win the
World Series, will you charge out

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to second base and make a fool
of yourself? I've always wanted to repeat

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that stunt, and yeah, are
we going to do it? I'm only

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going to do it while you still
for practicing law. You're the only one

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that could get me out of there. Good Spring you all right? Well,

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Dick, good luck, te I
love the arc of your career and

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keep it going. Everybody great talking, God bless you. Let's continue with

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more. Can you see Dick Williams
charging second base and being thrown to the

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