Why The Midwest Is Overrated

Episode 73 May 06, 2026 00:24:41
Why The Midwest Is Overrated
Twitty In The City
Why The Midwest Is Overrated

May 06 2026 | 00:24:41

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In episode 73 of Twitty in the City, Twitty and THC dive into a hilarious and brutally honest debate about why the Midwest might be the most overrated region in America. They break down whether the Midwest actually has anything to offer besides Kansas City barbecue, brutal winters, flat roads, corn, and gas stations that close way too early. From bland food and small-town isolation to a lack of real “vacation energy,” they compare Midwest living to the East Coast, West Coast, South, and everything in between.

If you’re from the Midwest, this one might hurt a little… but you’re definitely going to want to jump in the comments.

00:00 Welcome To Twitty In The City

00:40 Midwest Food Debate

02:27 Sports Teams Comparison

03:42 Midwest Weather and Scenery

11:02 Why Nobody Vacations There

12:15 Corn Talk Roast

13:52 Fixing Tiny Towns

18:37 Food Diversity And Flavor

22:23 Challenge Midwest Comments

23:53 Sign Off

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[00:00:02] Speaker A: 20 in the city. [00:00:03] Speaker B: Aloha. [00:00:05] Speaker A: It's going to happen quick. THC, what is hit the. Like, hit the subscribe. We going for the 15k on subscribers before we give out the full merch set. We're talking hoodie, short sleeve, long sleeve hat, maybe a koozie. [00:00:19] Speaker B: I don't know. [00:00:20] Speaker A: I got to talk to you. [00:00:21] Speaker B: I can't wait for it. [00:00:22] Speaker A: I hope we get one before we give it to the people. [00:00:26] Speaker B: We probably won't. [00:00:26] Speaker A: We won't. [00:00:27] Speaker B: We're not going to get one. [00:00:27] Speaker A: So you might be the first to be rocking some 20 in the city of poor. [00:00:30] Speaker B: We do. [00:00:31] Speaker A: I know. It's cool, though. Welcome to Twitter in the city. Appreciate the likes and the subscribe. The new faces, similar faces, familiar faces, we love y'. All. I gotta get straight to it with THC here, my co host. I just. The Midwest ain't got nothing good. [00:00:48] Speaker B: What do you mean? Like, nothing good? As far as. [00:00:51] Speaker A: Pick a category, pick a lane. There's. There's. I'll start with the basics. [00:00:55] Speaker B: Okay. [00:00:56] Speaker A: Food. [00:00:57] Speaker B: Okay. [00:00:58] Speaker A: Oh, I'm an East coast guy. You a West Coast? [00:01:01] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:01:02] Speaker A: I want seafood. I'm going my side of your side. [00:01:04] Speaker B: Either one. Either one. Blue crab on the East Coast, Dungeness crab on the West. [00:01:08] Speaker A: I ain't going in the Midwest. So I can get some food from what, the Mississippi River? No, thank you. Down in the South. Okay. What, the Gulf? The Gulf of Mexico? No, thank you. I'm not. No, that's a little pond. [00:01:19] Speaker B: No, that's more south, though. That's not right. That's. [00:01:21] Speaker A: Yeah, but I'll. I'll give the Midwest the South. Because I feel like that's all they got, the actual Midwest. [00:01:26] Speaker B: You think they ain't gonna survive unless the south is on team? Okay. [00:01:30] Speaker A: They got you still sticking with food. Barbecue. That's really the South. Yeah, but I'll give it to you in the Midwest, you ain't got no other food. [00:01:39] Speaker B: I mean, the only thing they do have is Kansas City. Kansas City has good barbecue. [00:01:43] Speaker A: That's. That's one. That's one state out of 12 that's carrying the team, you know, and there's [00:01:48] Speaker B: probably gonna be some people out there that's mad. But then, like, if they really. If they really look at it right, like, tell me, tell me, tell me what I'm eating in Colorado. Tell me what I mean in Wyoming. [00:01:58] Speaker A: South Dakota. [00:01:59] Speaker B: Yeah, that I can't get nowhere else. [00:02:02] Speaker A: Exactly. [00:02:02] Speaker B: No, nothing. [00:02:03] Speaker A: So food. I'm sorry, you're done. Like, okay, you got barbecue, but that's one state. See on the coast you can go to several states to get good quality stuff. Yes, sure. Pizza, that is a Northeast coast thing. But you can get some good pizza all up and down the coast. [00:02:19] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:02:19] Speaker A: When it comes to the Midwest, come to barbecue. If it's outside of Kansas City, garbage, trash, scrap it, it's done. [00:02:27] Speaker B: Yep. [00:02:28] Speaker A: I'll change it up for some people. Cause they're like, all you got is food. Let's just talk about sports. I'll keep it. That's it. [00:02:36] Speaker B: Ah, that's it. [00:02:38] Speaker A: Cleveland. Who would you have? Jim Brown. [00:02:40] Speaker B: Ooh, that's it. And that's all I ever hear too. That's it. Anytime they ever talk about the Browns, they always bring up. Oh, back in the, back in the days, Jim Brown was this. And it was like, dude, when was Jim Brown played before I was even watching football. [00:02:49] Speaker A: And you notice they're also, they're very spread. You got a bunch over here by Cleveland and Minnesota. [00:02:55] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:56] Speaker A: Then you got a bunch. You don't even got a bunch. You just got Denver. [00:02:59] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:02:59] Speaker A: Like. And really Denver. Can you really call them Midwest? I think they're Mountain West. But we'll give it to you because you ain't got nothing else in the [00:03:07] Speaker B: actual Midwest that puts the Broncos, everybody up in that same category. Yeah. [00:03:11] Speaker A: Then after that little bunch, you go south. Then you hit your Kansas City and then the state of Texas. That's got three or four, three teams. [00:03:19] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:19] Speaker A: You go to the coast, it's all up and down teams, championships, all Americans, first team. [00:03:25] Speaker B: If you're on the east coast, you got the Yankees to the Giants to. [00:03:28] Speaker A: You can go south. Oh yeah, you can hit the atl, you can hit the Floridas. [00:03:32] Speaker B: Oh yeah. [00:03:32] Speaker A: Midwest, your teams are so just spread out. You gotta like reach to go get em. [00:03:38] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:03:39] Speaker A: So that's, that's sports. But I'll go a little deeper. Let's just talk about living. Who wants to live in just brutal coldness and say with a straight face, if you're out there in the Midwest that you enjoy it. [00:03:53] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah, yeah. [00:03:55] Speaker A: You can't, you can't be like, well, we get all four seasons and you like, no, you can't say that's all four seasons. That is just hell to pay. [00:04:02] Speaker B: Well, I mean some of those states, they get like that. I mean you can say four seasons. Some of them get winter twice a year. Twice a year. Right. End of one year, beginning of the next year. And it's like, it's like non stop. Like I've seen Some states, like Montana, like, I remember a while ago when Idaho went through that and we went through like, winter started in like November and didn't until like May. [00:04:24] Speaker A: Right, but that happens like once every couple of years here. [00:04:29] Speaker B: Yes. [00:04:29] Speaker A: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I'm talking here. But there. Oh, that's, that's, that's, that's normal. [00:04:33] Speaker B: Yeah, that's normal. [00:04:34] Speaker A: And then they actually put it on the calendar and that's like, oh, that's a real winter. Nobody wants that. [00:04:39] Speaker B: When you can make a calendar the year before and actually have that. It's snowing in the calendar already. Printed. [00:04:45] Speaker A: Oh, printed. [00:04:46] Speaker B: And it's accurate. [00:04:47] Speaker A: Locked and loaded. [00:04:48] Speaker B: Yep. [00:04:48] Speaker A: But yeah, your, your weather is just. It's just harsh. There is no transition. That's what I always say in the Midwest. When I lived there for a few years, you really didn't get a spring or a fall. You got like a day. [00:05:00] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:05:01] Speaker A: Of that, of that one transition, it's either hot and it's just cold. [00:05:05] Speaker B: And I'm, and I'm gonna say, and I'm gonna say this, man, like, I like my solidarity. I like my peace and quiet. I do. I really do. But out there, when you drive through, like, Nebraska, you feel like you the [00:05:18] Speaker A: only one on the planet that's too quiet. [00:05:20] Speaker B: It's way too quiet. But like, oh, there's peace and tranquility out here. Yeah. But there's a limit to that. [00:05:26] Speaker A: Well, and it's, ugh, let's go. Way of living. Let's go. Scenery. You just said it. If I want serenity, I want like some mountains, some hills. [00:05:38] Speaker B: Yes. [00:05:39] Speaker A: A little change in my green to brown to white. Cause it's. You're going to a mountain, it's just flat. You just. Was that grass? What's that? Oh, that's grass. What's that? That's cow and grass. [00:05:54] Speaker B: And the cities that you stopped in. Like, when I did my trip towards North Dakota and I was doing North Dakota's, all the Dakotas and Montana's. When I was making that trip, I'm like, you guys, there has to be some kind of civilization thing there. You guys, it has to be something. [00:06:10] Speaker A: What is that? Even this sort of thing? You just asking for something? [00:06:15] Speaker B: Something. I'm asking for like a gas station that doesn't close at 6:00'. Clock. And I mean like closed clothes. Like, you can't. Nothing. You couldn't buy oil, you couldn't buy nothing. Like, there's not even a Walmart. Civilization. Something that says, there's this, this is civilization here. It's not just a bunch of houses and then everybody leaves and goes in at 6 o' clock at night. [00:06:35] Speaker A: Like I mean I need something, something. [00:06:37] Speaker B: A Target, a Walmart. [00:06:39] Speaker A: I think you want better just, you could at least have a Dollar General. Something something Dollar General. Pretty simple, simple, simple. [00:06:48] Speaker B: Just there it is. But even if they had a Dollar General would probably close at 3:30. [00:06:54] Speaker A: That where you started in. Close at 6:00pm 6:00pm there ain't no [00:06:58] Speaker B: way 6:00pm weekday, weekday. I was there on Friday. Who closes at 6 on Friday? Anybody? Nobody. Nobody. [00:07:08] Speaker A: They do. [00:07:08] Speaker B: Nobody. That's it. Would I. When I got booked for that show, when the booker had asked me how my show went, my days up there, I said hey. I told him, I said listen, you gonna have to let the comedians know when you book this again when they drive out this way, that they should bring a cooler with food. Because at a certain point, yeah, you can't go to a grocery store, you can't go to a gas station. Six o'. Clock, everything was, everything was on lock. [00:07:31] Speaker A: I, I'm considering being done with dinner. [00:07:35] Speaker B: Never. I have never had my Uber eats or, or my dad or my Door Dash app laugh at me. I have never had that happen until I was in that city because nothing was open. Oh, it came back like, you know how when you hit it and it say oops when it has that big oops right there on the thing, it said oops every single time I was hitting it. Cuz like I was like maybe tacos, maybe pizza, maybe this, maybe chicken. [00:07:57] Speaker A: It just oops, oops, oops, oops. The oops is. That's a low. [00:08:02] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:08:02] Speaker A: When you're getting the oops and doordash and uber east clan, they can go anywhere, bro. [00:08:07] Speaker B: I' ma tell you, when I was in, when I was in this little town, beautiful town, beautiful city. Like it was, it was nice, it was set up, had a nice little lake there, stuff like that. But it was like if I wanted a burger, the closest place I could go to get one was Canada. [00:08:21] Speaker A: No. [00:08:21] Speaker B: Yes. No, that was, I was 20 miles north. All I had to do was go 20 miles north. I was in Canada. If I wanted to go 50 miles south to the nearest. [00:08:31] Speaker A: That's the nearest city. [00:08:32] Speaker B: Nearest city was 50 miles south. [00:08:34] Speaker A: No, you doing 100, you're doing 100 [00:08:36] Speaker B: miles round trip for a burger that [00:08:38] Speaker A: might be closed because it's after six. [00:08:40] Speaker B: Yes, that's what's even crazier. You don't know. You don't even know when to leave the City to go get something to eat. [00:08:46] Speaker A: That's sad, bro. But I mean, the Midwest, you just, you're just too spread out. Yeah, like I. When I'm driving. Yes. I love scenic routes. You go to the west coast, it's the one on one. You go on the east coast, it's, oh, shoot, my family's going to kill me if I don't remember this. I95 almost got in trouble because on [00:09:05] Speaker B: the west coast it's a five or [00:09:06] Speaker A: so one on one. It's the. It's. It is. It's I195. Because nine one means north and south. [00:09:12] Speaker B: Gotcha. [00:09:13] Speaker A: So you take that. But you at least are stopping in towns that got a gas station and at least a Taco Bell, a Del Taco something. A Hardee's, what we call it. But it could be a Carl's Jr. [00:09:26] Speaker B: But I was looking for like the gas station that might have the restaurant in the gas station. I was looking for something like that. [00:09:32] Speaker A: Nope, because that would make sense. You know, it's like this is a smaller town, so it's going to do a two for one. You stop here, we're going to have Mickey D's right up in the gas station. It's going to have one line. We might have at least half the menu, something. But you even got that Midwest. Like, you're so. You just. So. It's almost like you're like that lost puppy. You just don't, you don't know what you're trying to do. [00:09:52] Speaker B: I feel like that those like, like the Midwest towns in the Midwest states, I think they're just more like, just so you know, the halfway point of when you go into each coast, you just go, okay, you know what? We halfway there. [00:10:04] Speaker A: So this must. This. [00:10:05] Speaker B: That's. But that's all it is. It's a reference point. Who, who's. I don't know, man. [00:10:09] Speaker A: Like, it's also very. The line is drawn. Like it's hard. It's hard to miss when you're not in the Midwest. Because I drove. I've driven from east coast to here to Idaho. [00:10:22] Speaker B: Oh, yeah. [00:10:23] Speaker A: And I was on the east coast and I'm like, man, Appalachian Mountains. We good. [00:10:26] Speaker B: I see that. [00:10:27] Speaker A: And then just. You came over a hill. And then my GPS said for 540 miles straight and it was flat with no turns. Not dog. I was at least hoping to see like a silo or like an old abandoned, like. [00:10:47] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:10:47] Speaker A: Fencing for cows or something. A wheelbarrow, nothing. Just straight road, grass. You look left you look right. Grass just. Just too. [00:11:00] Speaker B: I mean, I just flat. [00:11:01] Speaker A: Too quiet. [00:11:01] Speaker B: I mean, why. I know, I know there's going to be some people in the comments right now that they from this state. Are you probably from the Midwest? And you're going to be like, man, I don't know why y' all hating on us so much. [00:11:10] Speaker A: You got to realize that it ain't good, too. [00:11:13] Speaker B: It's just. [00:11:15] Speaker A: You can't see with a straight face. It tells your body this is the life you want to be. [00:11:19] Speaker B: I. I just. I look at it, you know, and I'm like, if. If. Is there ever been. Like, I've driven through coast to coast, I've gone coast to coast, I've. I've went through those states and it's like, there's never been something that grabbed me and said, you know what? [00:11:36] Speaker A: I could see myself here. [00:11:37] Speaker B: This is where I want to be. This is it right here. Like, never, like, nothing. Like, nothing whatsoever. Like, I mean, it ain't got nothing. It ain't got nothing to do with the. The teams or the food. And I'm like, I mean, yeah, no, it definitely does. It definitely does. No, it does. It does. Because there's. There's like. I mean, how many people do you know, right, that'll sit there and they'd be like, yo, you taking some vacation? Yeah. Where you going? We going to Nebraska. Like, what? Nobody says that. [00:12:06] Speaker A: Nobody. [00:12:06] Speaker B: Nobody says that. But how many people say, hey, I'm taking a vacation to New York or I'm going to Cali, or I'm going to the. I'm going to the coast? Yeah, but who says that? Nobody says that. Nobody stops somebody and be like, hey, man, this weekend, Corn Huskers, bruh, we going all the way to the corn. Nobody. Nobody. [00:12:27] Speaker A: I can't deny it, bro. But also, the Midwest has. It's. It's a disadvantage, too, because there's some people that's going to be like, we got lakes, we got mountains. [00:12:37] Speaker B: I hate to tell you. [00:12:38] Speaker A: I hate. No, I hate to tell you because I've been in Iowa and I've been in Nebraska. Those. Those aren't mountains. Those are hills. And there's a difference. Just. Just because it's got some white on the top. That is not a mountain, dog. That is big ass hill. It is not a mountain. [00:12:57] Speaker B: They see a speed bump with snow on the top, they're like, look at that mountain. That mountain covered in snow. [00:13:02] Speaker A: I was like, that. That ain't it, dogs. You know, And I feel bad because I don't want to be that person where it's like you. It's like, oh, yeah, you see these mountains and it's like that, hey, mountains. I can see over that. I shouldn't be able to see over a mountain. [00:13:14] Speaker B: You just. [00:13:15] Speaker A: I shouldn't be able to go 30 minutes that way and be like, oh, [00:13:19] Speaker B: yeah, I can see the other side of that thing. It's just a hill that's up high of a sea above elegant sea level. [00:13:25] Speaker A: Yeah. I'm sorry, you know, you say you got lakes. Yeah, I shouldn't be able to see on the other side of that lake. [00:13:33] Speaker B: I'm just, I'm just. I shouldn't be able to. [00:13:36] Speaker A: I shouldn't be like, hey, yo, Tac. [00:13:38] Speaker B: Hey, I should be able to talk to you from the other side. [00:13:41] Speaker A: I can't call that a lake. [00:13:42] Speaker B: Look over there. McKay, look over that lake. Yeah, that's not a lake, it's a pond. [00:13:46] Speaker A: I feel bad because it's like, man, you really think that that's a lake, but it's. And that's a mountain. It ain't. [00:13:52] Speaker B: I. I don't. [00:13:53] Speaker A: I just. [00:13:53] Speaker B: I think that, that Midwest, like, I honestly, like, I think if we had more people moving out towards the Midwest, that would like, shorten up the populations. I think a lot of places would get a lot more. Less people. Like, I mean, there's a lot of places out there that people can live in in the Midwest. Like, there's a lot there is. [00:14:10] Speaker A: I also feel like some of these small towns need to, like, get over the ego and combine so you can be a legit city. [00:14:18] Speaker B: Yeah, yeah. [00:14:19] Speaker A: You know, I'm population 400 and I'm population 3, but we ain't got no gas station that stays over till 6pm Combine yourself and then we can do it. [00:14:27] Speaker B: Yeah, we can do it. [00:14:28] Speaker A: Yeah. [00:14:29] Speaker B: Get big, bro. And that's the thing, though, that some of those cities are like, you know, you hit that one city and there's like, population is like 40, and then the next city is like 300 miles away. [00:14:38] Speaker A: Yes. [00:14:39] Speaker B: So it's like, how do you put those two cities together then? You got it. [00:14:42] Speaker A: That's why I say meet in the middle. [00:14:43] Speaker B: You got to make a 300 mile city. [00:14:45] Speaker A: Or I mean, the one that's 40, you might have to just go to 300 because there ain't that many of y'. [00:14:50] Speaker B: All. [00:14:51] Speaker A: Shut that gas station down and tell [00:14:55] Speaker B: me, could you see the town Me, where they all just sitting there like, look, y', all, there's only 30 y'. [00:14:59] Speaker A: All right. [00:14:59] Speaker B: There's 800 of us. Come over here. [00:15:01] Speaker A: Now. The move is gonna be way quicker. We can get y' all moving a day and a half. [00:15:05] Speaker B: Y' all got a blockbuster. Because we do come over. [00:15:10] Speaker A: But you just. I think. I also think about this, too. For as much slack there is about traffic on the coast, we know how to drive. Yeah, you like to go from the coast to the Midwest to drive. [00:15:26] Speaker B: Everybody's slow as shit. [00:15:27] Speaker A: But that's cake. That's cake. I can handle slow. Midwest to the coast. [00:15:33] Speaker B: They're horrible. [00:15:34] Speaker A: Horrible. You about to get bullied, and we [00:15:36] Speaker B: can pick you out. Oh, we pick you out quickly. [00:15:39] Speaker A: So not only because you're so diverse. Just think everywhere is. I can go 25. And a 55 is like, no, if it's 55, you better go 65, bro. And don't. Don't have that blinker on for 45 minutes trying to get over. You better just go, stop. [00:15:53] Speaker B: Coming down the on ramp doing 30. Yeah, stop. Just stop. [00:15:56] Speaker A: So, like, yeah, coast. You know, we might have our differences, but I tell you what, if I had the options of a West coast, person could drive me or Midwest. I'm taking the west coast, you know? [00:16:05] Speaker B: You know, I think the Midwest. I think the Midwest is like, people from the Midwest, whatever, had trans. When they transferred out this way, kind of going up. Like, I think they were on their way out to the west coast and only made it as far as, like, Idaho. Because, like, some of the drivers here. Some of the drivers here do some of the stuff that they do in the Midwest. Like, they like to stare at people through their rear view mirrors. Like, they would pull in behind and stare at you. Like, why are you not looking in front of you? Yeah, like, it's time to go. It's time to go. And just because I'm behind you doesn't mean I'm being an ass. I got 900 other people behind you. Just can't see them. You're not just pissing me off. You pissing off the whole line. But that kind of attitude of take my time, take my. You know, I can. I can do what I want to do. [00:16:46] Speaker A: Midwest thing, it is 100. [00:16:48] Speaker B: Because that's. I've seen a lot of people do that where they come up, their gas pedal works when they need to get in front of you. Then once they're in front of you, all of a sudden, now it's time to do lower than the speed limit. [00:16:58] Speaker A: Midwest is all. If you are somebody that loves to be bored in isolation and just Got all the time in the world. Head on out, then. That's you. But I feel like there's some of y' all out there in the Midwest, man, that you just. What's that phrase? It's step one is always ownership. [00:17:17] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:17] Speaker A: You gotta own. You got some flaws, man. I done met some people from the Midwest I went to school that are like, man, the Midwest is where you want to be. It's like, bro. Okay, but why. [00:17:28] Speaker B: Okay, but when they said that. When people say that to you. Because I've had people say that to me, where they're like, you know what? The Midwest, you know, out there, you right in the middle, man. That's where you want to be. When I ask them why they can't give you. Yeah, they got nothing. [00:17:38] Speaker A: They're like, well, you know, it's. It's all I know. [00:17:40] Speaker B: The only thing they can do is talk about how bad it is where I live currently. [00:17:44] Speaker A: Talk about something. [00:17:45] Speaker B: They don't tell me how good it is and why I should move to some place. They just tell me how bad it is where I currently live. But they don't sit there and tell me anything that is. [00:17:55] Speaker A: Don't lie either. Anybody in the middle. That's what you do. [00:17:57] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:17:58] Speaker A: He said, they don't ever tell me what's good here. They just tell me what's happening where I'm at. [00:18:01] Speaker B: That's it. They don't sit there and tell me, oh, yeah, come to Chicago or come to Illinois or come over here to. To Nebraska, because we got this, this, and this. They just go, hey, you need to come to Nebraska. Why? Well, you know, California, they got the highest rate, you know, the highest ratings of, like, murder. And, you know, everybody been doing all this, and it's like, why? Well, what do you got? Yeah, exactly. [00:18:20] Speaker A: Ain't about what I got. It's about what. [00:18:21] Speaker B: Yeah, this is what you're trying to avoid. That's what you said. [00:18:24] Speaker A: They don't ever tell me what they got, but they tell me what I got. [00:18:28] Speaker B: Yeah. What I got wrong. You know what I mean? You know what? You want to stay out there, Sean? It's like, why? Why? Gotta be bad. Nah. [00:18:33] Speaker A: Right. My other thing I had on there, again, because ain't nothing out there. You also got diversity, like, on the coast. Like, that's why. That's why I can have some bomb food. From Spanish to Chinese, the Mexican to Southern. Midwest is just. Just half. Yeah, it's corn meat. [00:18:53] Speaker B: Yep, yep. [00:18:54] Speaker A: Carrots. [00:18:55] Speaker B: And if it is something like spectacular seasoning, like, even yeah. If it's. If it's a restaurant that ain't nobody's seen before or something that comes in there, like some kind of barbecue, it's going to be ran by somebody that's from there. [00:19:05] Speaker A: Yes. [00:19:05] Speaker B: That's just experimenting with trying to get their sauces right. And we are their test dummies for the next two to three years before that restaurant can even get a barbecue sauce right. [00:19:16] Speaker A: Yeah. You know what? I will. I will give you this Midwest when it comes to quantity of food. [00:19:23] Speaker B: Oh, 100%. [00:19:24] Speaker A: You give it. You got that. You know how to make. Make somebody hefty. [00:19:28] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:29] Speaker A: You don't. If I'm paying 20 something dollars, I am getting 20 something dollars worth of food. Correct. That's about all I can give you. Flavor. [00:19:37] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:19:37] Speaker A: Seasoning. But if I'm ordering like a $22 steak and potatoes and corn, which is crazy. [00:19:45] Speaker B: Right? Right. Because, I mean, the Midwest is where they grow everything. Everything comes from the Midwest. Our corn or stuff. Like, everything comes from there. You would think that a place that raises and grows all of this food. [00:19:59] Speaker A: Sprinkle a little something. [00:20:00] Speaker B: Sprinkle something on it. Just a little bit. [00:20:02] Speaker A: Little. [00:20:02] Speaker B: Just some salt, some peppers. [00:20:04] Speaker A: What was that trend from a couple of years ago? [00:20:06] Speaker B: Oh, yeah, I remember that dude that was in there going like that. Yeah. [00:20:09] Speaker A: They. They need that guy in the Midwest. He'll at least sprinkle some. They need like two of them. They need two of them dudes. [00:20:15] Speaker B: Yep. That's how much seasoning is missing. Like, I ain't never bit into something out there. You ever been into something that just went this. [00:20:23] Speaker A: You know what I thought. I thought one time, because I did had that happen. Yeah. There was no seasoning on it. I thought it was undercooked. [00:20:30] Speaker B: Yeah. No. [00:20:31] Speaker A: And then my. My friend. [00:20:33] Speaker B: Oh, what was it? What was it? Was it like. It's like a. Like a steak sandwich or something? So it was that rubber meat? Yeah, that rubber meat. [00:20:39] Speaker A: I hate that. [00:20:40] Speaker B: I hate that. And I had. [00:20:41] Speaker A: I had bun, second chew. It was like, I. I'm not tasting anything. [00:20:46] Speaker B: Right. When you know, you should be like, [00:20:48] Speaker A: I'm like, I think this is undercooked. And I looked at it and I looked at my buddy and I was like, how's yours cooked? And he's just, you know, like that. And I'm like, are you tasting. He was like, oh, no, you. There ain't no seasoning on that. If you want something, you gotta ask. I said, what you mean? I gotta ask for salt and pepper at least. [00:21:04] Speaker B: Yeah. [00:21:05] Speaker A: And he's just, yeah, like, you like that? [00:21:07] Speaker B: He's like, yeah, it's fine, it's cool. [00:21:08] Speaker A: What you mean that's cool? [00:21:10] Speaker B: He got man, like, you, could you [00:21:11] Speaker A: at least let me be like, ah, that's too much salt. But there was nothing. See, Nothing. [00:21:15] Speaker B: Now. See, now what happens now what happens to that Midwestern person right there that goes, oh, I'm cool, I'm good with it. I'm good, I'm cool with it when they do that. And I'm like, yeah, come back home with me. [00:21:25] Speaker A: Oh, like for like three days. [00:21:27] Speaker B: Three days. Then they come back, then they go back home and they're like, this is garbage. The hell we beat. It's the same thing. I do, like from here in Idaho. We do have some, we have some good ass Mexican restaurants. We, we do. But when I head down to Arizona. Oh, oh. [00:21:44] Speaker A: It's a difference story. It's a different monster. [00:21:48] Speaker B: I will come back here like, yeah, this is okay. [00:21:51] Speaker A: I would say as an east coast person, Arizona, that's a different. That's a different beast. [00:21:55] Speaker B: That's what I'm saying. You take somebody from the Midwest and you bring them on any other coast and you feed them. No, no, feed them the same. If they go, this is how my steak sandwich is cooked back home. Then come out here and get the steak sandwich here and then get the steak sound. I guarantee you when he go back home, he gonna be mad. [00:22:12] Speaker A: It's gonna be sad. He gonna be mad, it's gonna be sad. [00:22:14] Speaker B: He's gonna be yelling at them. This is some peppers, some salt, some. [00:22:18] Speaker A: Well, you said two of them. [00:22:19] Speaker B: Two of them. Salt. [00:22:22] Speaker A: Hey, I give you a chance, defend yourself if you're from the Midwest. [00:22:26] Speaker B: Oh, they're gonna be in here. [00:22:27] Speaker A: They probably already. They might have got rid of this. This episode might be causing some tension. [00:22:33] Speaker B: Good. They gonna, they're gonna. The only tension y' all gonna have in the Midwest is that y' all don't know what seasoning tastes like. That's it. [00:22:42] Speaker A: I can't. I ain't gonna say it. That was gonna be so messed up of me. [00:22:46] Speaker B: Go ahead. [00:22:47] Speaker A: Sure you ain't gonna say it. [00:22:48] Speaker B: This is our podcast. [00:22:49] Speaker A: We can say what. [00:22:50] Speaker B: We can say what we want. [00:22:51] Speaker A: I say the only tension you gonna have is the debate or should you turn this off or try to go somewhere, but you can't. Cause it's after six. So you stuck with us if it's after six. You can't turn us off and go somewhere else. [00:23:04] Speaker B: You gotta wait till we open up in the morning. [00:23:07] Speaker A: Get in the comments, though, if there is something about the Midwest. And I'm going to throw these two out there, other than Denver and other than Kansas City. Okay, what else? What else she got? I need. I need to know, because you got two siblings out of about 14, 15 states that's carrying the low for the Midwest. That's like two stars on the basketball, the football team. Carrying, just dragging, everybody. [00:23:31] Speaker B: Yep. [00:23:31] Speaker A: You got that one nephew in the back, like. Yeah, that's my Kansas. That's my Kansas brother right there. That's right. That's all you got. Let me know. I want to know. I want to come visit. I come find out because of the times I've been. I ain't got much. [00:23:44] Speaker B: Yep. [00:23:45] Speaker A: You got anything else? [00:23:46] Speaker B: Nope. That's it, man. I'm waiting for them. [00:23:48] Speaker A: Because I'm waiting on them. [00:23:50] Speaker B: I'm. I'm the one that's gonna be responding to these comments when y'. [00:23:52] Speaker A: All. It's true. [00:23:53] Speaker B: And if you haven't liked and subscribed, do that now. [00:23:55] Speaker A: Tac is the guy on all of our. Not all, sorry. On Twitter, in the city, on the YouTube channel. So you get the heart. You get a comment back. That is from all the other platforms. The TikToks, the snaps, the IG, the Facebook, the X, the threads. That's me tweeting the city. Don't forget, we're going for 15,000 subscribers to give away an exclusive Twitter in the City merch pack. So you're going to have the short sleeve, the long sleeve, the hoodie, the hat for all your seasons, because you need to be rocking. Twinning the City 365. That's it. Get in the comments. We appreciate y'. All. Hit the. Like, hit the subscribe. Get in them comments. Midwest, what do you have to offer? Not salt and pepper, not none of this. We out.

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