The Michael Barrie show

My friend Michael Robinson from College Station says I think the Michael Patronella you're looking for is from Brian College Station slash Caldwell, which would make sense because there's a real

pizza hut in Caldwell too. I don't think the other Pizza Hut's are not real Pizza Hut,

they're just not the Classic Pizza Hut.

And the Classic Pizza Hut just proves my point.

What's old is new again.

And it's about more than vintage.

This is a deeper point. Why do we want to go to a Pizza Hut from the 70s?

Why do we want to go to a place that when they remodel, they don't use all the fancy new stuff, why do we want to go back to the old stuff?

It's sort of like there are certain smells that remind you of Grandma's house or Grandma's

cooking or elementary school or who knows what else that you have a fond memory of and

it triggers it opens up in your memory palace a whole room that you'd

forgotten about that is a happy memory place. And why is that the case? Because of what we were just talking

about a moment ago, that people feel uncomfortable talking about religion and

politics that people feel uncomfortable talking about race that people feel

uncomfortable talking about anything and rather instead go more insular. There are consequences to this. you go to an airport today or a grocery store

although grocery stores is a little less the case because they're they're

geographic so you can you can mostly is a little less the case because they're geographic.

So you can mostly gross rate around people that share your values,

you know, rural grocery stores versus suburban grocery stores versus urban

grocery where they don't really have or but you can gross a rate people around

people that may have at least if not your zip codes similar zip codes which makes

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