Hank and John grow up going to Rax restaurants (childhood)
story · status: told 2×, last update 2024 · last event: update (2024-04-09)
Hank and John grew up going to Rax restaurants as a treat, splitting its soft cookies; they recalled it in 2020 and in 2024 went back to Rax together, where John ordered his childhood sandwich, the Big Boy.
About: Rax Restaurants, Wendy's
| date | event | what | video |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020-10-08 | told | Hank recalls that he and John grew up going to Rax on days they had been good, when Wendy's wasn't good enough, to split a soft, gooey cookie. | The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain 00:00:00 |
| 2020-10-09 (happened 1985) | retold | John recalls the Rax of their childhood and the Rax Guy, whose conspiracy signs, seen at seven and eight (1985), shaped his particular obsessive fear that others were aliens in human costumes, though they did not cause his OCD; information feeds shape us. → refers to The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain | The Rax Guy 00:00:29 |
| 2024-04-09 | update | John says they got four sandwiches: his childhood Rax order, the Big Boy (a big roast beef), and three for Hank: a roast beef, a beef and cheddar, and a hoagie-like roast beef with lettuce, tomato and mayonnaise. | Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX 00:02:16 |
What is said about it
13 statements, by date (the events above are the turns of the thread; these are the details).
- 2020-10-08 · The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain — Hank says Rax, a roast beef place like Arby's, was in constant identity crisis, and its advertising mostly argued it wasn't like the other major fast food chains. — 00:00:00
- 2020-10-08 · The Commercial that Killed a Fast Food Chain — Hank: Many Rax ads excluded demographics to appeal to a core audience, then pushed back against it, such as promising it was good for adults and for kids who act like adults. (playful) — 00:00:29
- 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John: Only about five Rax restaurants are left in America, but many of the buildings remain, and John can tell when a restaurant used to be a Rax. (hedged) — 00:00:52
- 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John: Former Rax buildings remind John of a favorite Onion headline about telling that a local bank used to be a Pizza Hut. (playful) — 00:00:52
- 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John: Growing up in 1980s Orlando, from their Rax's greenhouse the brothers could see the house of the 'Rax Guy', whose fence signs called the government tyranny and pushed conspiracy theories about lizard people. — 00:01:21
- 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John: Even though John knew lizard people didn't run the government, the Rax Guy's worldview still affected him. — 00:01:50
- 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John's first remembered obsessive experience was the worry that no one else on Earth was a real person like him, but aliens in human costumes; it tortured him for years as a kid. — 00:02:20
- 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John: The Rax Guy didn't cause John's OCD, which he would have had anyway, but he shaped the particular worry that took over John's life at seven and eight. — 00:02:49
- 2020-10-09 · The Rax Guy — John's point: information feeds shape us, his as a kid going to Rax in 1985 and his today; what you do with your attention is, in the end, what you do with your life. — 00:02:49
- 2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — John thought the standard roast beef sandwich was the best. — 00:02:53
- 2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — John says he went into Rax with low expectations and they were exceeded. — 00:02:53
- 2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — both: Though they drove past about five fast-food restaurants, including an Arby's, to get there, the Rax was not not busy: people were going, with a line of cars at the drive-thru. — 00:02:53
- 2024-04-09 · Hank and John Reunited WITH RAX — both: Asked who picks the music, they say they play none, only singing Rax parodies, because they rarely get to hang out in person and are just chatting. — 00:03:22