My name is Will DeFries and this is a Sunday Scaries podcast, your cure for the Sunday Blues.

With reluctance, I open the app again.

I know how this will end but that doesn't really deter me from going on a path that I've

already gone down too many times.

You'd think that at this point, I'd have learned my lesson.

I'd have planned ahead, I'd have known to not bother even trying.

Tap, tap, tap.

Yep, this many people, at this time, in this part of town.

Without even pressing enter, I already know what the light at the end of this tunnel

looks like.

It's bleak, and honestly it's not very bright.

And once those results actually populate, all my concerns are solidified in a way that

it's all too familiar.

Yep, the first restaurant must have paid to be at the top result because there's no

way I'm eating there.

And then as I scroll down, I see the rest of the results.

Cheesecake Factory.

Then, a restaurant downtown that used to be popular but is now just biting its time until

it goes out of business.

Next, a red lobster.

And finally, a local yet generic chain that I could probably just walk into if I wanted

to.

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