All right, Sam, I got a Billy of the week for you. I'm excited about it. I got goosebumps thinking about this guy. He's an inventor. He's an innovator. You know, Steve Jobs, Elon Musk, Thomas Edison. Look, if those guys were going on a road trip, but there's only one set of keys, they would toss it to this guy. He would get to drive. And his name is Tom Ryan.

I feel like I can rule the world. I know I could be what I want to. I put my all in it like no days off. On a road, let's travel, never look you back.

Tom Ryan is basically the Leonardo da Vinci of calories. Okay. This is a guy who has invented

some of the most iconic foods in history. He invented the

McGrittle. He invented stuffed crust cheese pizza. He invented smash burger, the chain. He invented

the beef dip sandwich at Quiznos. His guy has just been inventing things in the food category,

the McFlurry. He's just been inventing things in the food category, the McFlurry. He's just

been inventing things for, you know, just decades. And he is like the godfather of food science. And so I want to tell you a little bit about this guy. Okay. I'm interested because I didn't think that some of it, like, dipping a sandwich in Aju, I didn't think that was like an invention. Well, okay, so some of these things, I'm using the word invention, a little liberally, right?

Some of them he genuinely invented, meaning like, think that was like an invention. And so, okay, so some of these things, I'm using the word invention, a little liberally, right?

Some of them he genuinely invented, meaning like nobody had done that before.

Some of it is he created that product at that company, which was not previously a product.

And so sometimes it might be like, oh, well, you know, somebody else had had the idea of,

you know, a sweet sandwich. Okay, but cool. He invented the McGrittle. It's a specific thing that he invented that made it work, and here's why. Can we start by me asking, how did you even discover this? Were you like on the McGrittle Wikipedia page? You know when you're eating something? and it's so good you're like,

I like to pay homage.

Who's the man who invented this? I'd like to put some flowers on his tombstone. That's not exactly what happened. I saw TikTok about this guy. And I was like, there's no way. One guy did all this. Okay. All right. So this guy, basically, he goes to college. and when he's at college, he has his girlfriend. The girlfriend's taking a food science class.

So she convinces him to take it. He goes there and immediately falls in love. He's like, oh, my God, I didn't even realize there's a whole science behind things like ketchup and ice cream. Like, there's literally like chemistry science, but then there's also sort of the brain science, psychology,

the tongue science of like what flavors work.

And so then he not only studies food science,

he then gets a master's in something called lipid toxicology, right?

So this guy's just studying like the science of fat.

And I would say this guy is like, you know,

I don't know what the equivalent of the Nobel Priests is, but for like obesity, what this guy deserves.

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