This is a headgum podcast.

Want to watch this episode?

Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to YouTube.com slash doughboys media.

One of the things I've been promising to do, and I'm the only guy that can do it,

is have a reckoning for all this COVID stuff because

government power was abused. These were the words of Florida Governor Ron DeSantis amid his

23 bid for the GOP presidential nomination. Later, Trump would call him Meatball Ron and beat him by a million

percentage points. But the Sunshine State Chief Executive's COVID-19 critique was a full reversal from

where it stood just two years earlier, as Florida, with its famously high senior population, was particularly vulnerable to the novel coronavirus.

And while the state resisted the lockdowns mandated elsewhere in the country, DeSantis was personally at the vanguard vaccine distribution, even doing a press event alongside a World War II veteran as he received

his COVID shot live on Fox and Friends. And to distribute vaccines rapidly in the sprawling

suburban state, the DeSantis administration turned to the pharmacies of Florida's largest grocery chain.

Founded in 1930 in Winter Haven by a man known as Mr. George, with its name borrowed from a soon-to-shutter movie theater chain, the grocer has come to dominate the southeast region of the country, and developed a fierce fandom for its fully customizable made-to-order sub-sambuages. Omnipresent in the gator state, the stores were often the closest landmark for vulnerable populations who would be vaxed en masse.

While 60 Minutes would report an expose on the grocery store Governor Alliances pay to play,

politicians of both parties rejected that story.

Of course, Republican voters would come to reject vaccines and also democracy itself, and so DeSantis opportunistically pivoted to the anti-vax, anti-Fauchy stance now openly made policy by the nation's health secretary.

But whatever your stance on vaccines or whether seed oils cause autism, if you live in Florida, you live near one of these grocery stores, and their subs are basically a staple of your diet.

This week on Do Boys, Publix, Poolside.

Go! Welcome to Do-Boys the Do-N-O-N-O-Boys.

Welcome to Do-Boys, the podcast about chain restaurants.

I'm Tiger Weiger, along with my co-host.

Former Orlando Magic Star Anfurny, not Hardaway. The The spoon man, Mike Mitchell. Wags, I'm Mahalo Mitch today. You're Mahalo Mitch today. How about that? Mahalo, my good man. Mahalo to you as well. Wow. We're down here and it's the dough boys. Hold on. I had it written down. It's the dope. We'll take this. Hold on. Yeah, we'll reset this. Yeah, we'll reset this. All right. All right. Let's clap. Wags, it's dough boy spring break. Potty till the sun goes down. Potty till the sun goes down. Or there's some alts here. Gabers, you want to take an alt? Sure. Potty in here. Oh. Oh, sorry. You want me to read them?

...