The autopilot order. Now, informal, the strong urge felt at the ordering kiosk or drive-through

that takes over the entire body and mind and results in a person ordering a Big Mac without even

having to think. Related phrases. Looks like I've ordered a Big Mac again. The Autopilot Order

at McDonald's. Serve from 11am, subject to availability. Hey guys, welcome to this quick take episode. We're so excited to have you here with us.

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Hello, everyone. This is Paul here with another quick take episode. So excited to be talking to you guys again.

And before we jump in, just wanted to say thank you to all of you out there for helping support the show financially.

It definitely means a lot to us. What I wanted to talk about here today is maybe what I'm going to title something like video game memory lane or something like that.

I just wanted to talk about one of my earliest memories about gaming.

So I don't think I've told this story before, but I do know that I have talked on the show

about how we did not own any video game systems growing up. My parents just believed pretty strongly

that we shouldn't own it in the home. I was free to play games at my friend's houses, but they

thought that if we owned video game consoles, that I would become addicted to it and spend too much

time playing. However, even though we did not own any consoles,

our family was very early to buy a family PC. And I remember growing up, most of my friends did not

have a computer. Out of my friend group, I think I was actually the first to have one in their

home. And this is way back in the day. I remember that

we had a 33 megahertz processor. This was a 386, you know, very slow computers way back in the day.

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