Steak 'n Shake 10 with Evan Susser

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4.8 • 5.1K Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 125 minutes

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Evan Susser (@evansusser) joins the 'boys to talk highlights from 2025, going unplugged, and NY eats before a review of Steak n' Shake. Plus another edition of Snack or Wack.

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Sources for this week's intro:

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/satoshi-nakamoto.asp

https://bitcoinwiki.org/wiki/satoshi

https://www.qsrmagazine.com/uncategorized/sardar-biglari-we-michelangeloed-steak-n-shake/

https://fortune.com/2025/09/18/sardar-biglari-war-against-cracker-barrel/

https://www.webpronews.com/steak-n-shake-sales-surge-15-with-bitcoin-adoption-and-health-push/

https://www.restaurantbusinessonline.com/financing/beef-tallow-bitcoin-apparently-helped-steak-n-shake-sales

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0:00.0	This is a headgum podcast.
0:05.4	Want to watch this episode?
0:07.1	Check it out on our YouTube channel by going to YouTube.com slash doughboys media.
0:12.7	The wait is over.
0:14.8	Dive into Audubol's most anticipated collection, the best of 2025,
0:19.8	featuring top audiobooks, podcasts, and originals across all genres.
0:25.0	Our editors have carefully curated this year's must-listens, from brilliant hidden gems to the
0:31.3	busiest new releases. Every title in this collection has earned its spot. This is your go-to for the absolute best in 2025 audio entertainment.
0:41.0	Whether you love thrillers, romance, or nonfiction, your next favorite listen awaits.
0:46.1	Discover why there's more to imagine when you listen at audible.com slash best of the year.
0:55.1	Satoshi Nakamoto, along with Banksy, Satoshi is one of the towering pseudonymous figures of our era
1:00.9	who have yet to be officially identified. But contrary to Banksy's artistic criticisms of
1:06.0	capitalism, to varying degrees of success, Satoshi Nakamoto's legacy is exacerbating it. Back in 2008, they
1:12.6	created Bitcoin. This cryptocurrency of limited utility, unless you're paying for drugs or sex,
1:17.9	and hey, that's cool, became a symbol of a strain of tech libertarianism that is now fully taken
1:22.3	over the discourse in centers of power. And opportunistically ingratiating himself to disciples
1:27.4	of Satoshi, the name also
1:29.0	is the label for a single unit of Bitcoin, is the very non-sudonymous Sardar Beglari, who took
1:34.3	control of a stayed nearly century-old Midwest Burger chain in 2008. While Bagelari saw initial success
1:40.7	in improving per-location sales, his his bottom line-minded decisions to vastly simplify
1:45.4	the chain's famously extensive menu and replace table service with kiosk ordering alienated loyal
1:50.7	patrons, and his quixotic expansion nationwide and then globally failed to attract new ones.
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