So can I get you gentlemen something more to drink or maybe something to nibble on, some pizza shooters, shrimp poppers or extreme fajitas? Just coffee. Okay. Live from Joe's Mom's Basement, it's the Stacking Benjamin Show. BOWH BOWS

BOR! The Stacking Benjamin Show.

I'm Joe's mom's neighbor, Doug, and have you ever wondered about the food you eat?

Today, we're diving into restaurants and the changing of a whole industry with today's guest food industry writer Cory Mintz.

Plus, one IRA rule is a changing while another is staying the same.

What's going on in Washington?

We'll focus our headline on a rare SB look at Congress.

Of course, that's not all.

I'll also mozy on down to my trivia stand for some hiking-related trivia, and we'll

throw out the Haven Lifeline to a lucky listener.

And now, two guys who are ready to take a hike into the second half of this week, it's Joe

and OJJJJ-J-J-J-J-J-G.

Hey, Stackers, and welcome to the official beginning of the second half your week.

I am Joe Salsi-C-Hi, Average Joe Money on Twitter.

And what a show we've got for you today.

Corey Mince, as you so eloquently told told us is on his way down to the basement.

His new book is going to give you a little bit of the creepy crawlies about what's going

on in the restaurant industry right now.

It's called The Next Supper, The End of Restaurants is We Knew Them and What Comes After?

And if you, you remember OG when Tony Bourdain had his book Kitchen Confidential

and there was the chapter, Eat Before You Read This?

I never read that book, but it sounds like something he would write.

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