James Lileks' The Diner: Diner Hut
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🗓️ 15 November 2025
⏱️ 24 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The I'm going to order. |
| 0:54.4 | It's only a matter of time now to see exactly how disappointed I'm going to be. |
| 0:59.0 | Hi, folks, James Lillick's here, not at the diner, not at my custom to place at the long boomerang pattern for myca counter on an old highway 23. |
| 1:09.7 | No, no, the diner's still closed. They're still doing repairs. It gets worse. |
| 1:15.6 | There's the broken gas main a while ago, which they had to shut the place down. And now it seems there's |
| 1:20.1 | a structural integrity issue when it comes to the foundation. Apparently, 40, 50, 60, 70 years |
| 1:26.5 | a dump in the oil and grease out the back, tended to make the earth spongier than it ought to be. |
| 1:34.0 | And so there's been some settling issues. |
| 1:37.1 | Now, it doesn't mean that they can't, you know, jack it up in some point here, throw some sand and bricks under there. |
| 1:43.6 | I don't know, there's things that they can do, but there's talk even of moving it, of moving the diner. |
| 1:48.8 | I can't even imagine having a different view out of the window. |
| 1:52.5 | I just, I can't wrap my brain around it. |
| 1:55.7 | But until they reopen, I have been going to different places that are all 13 and a half miles from wherever I happen to be at the moment. |
| 2:03.1 | And today I'm at, well, the answer to where I'm at may surprise you, to which you say, no, not at all. |
| 2:11.5 | It's probably in the title of the podcast. I'm at Pizza Hut. |
| 2:17.8 | Mm-hmm. |
| 2:22.6 | And once again, I have to ask myself why they named it what they did. |
| 2:27.4 | When you think of pizza, you think of Italy, you think of New York, maybe you think of Chicago, you think of places, you think of some guy with a classic Italian mustache and |
| 2:31.6 | the little chef's hat, whatever, making the, you know, the finger gestures, |
| 2:34.8 | some Italian little cliche out of a Super Mario game. |
| 2:38.8 | But you don't think of a hunt. |
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