Episode 6 - Frankie Daschund

Frankie has a singular passion, and it's not America's pastime.

Featuring Alex Kitto

Transcript

SPEAKER_00 0:00

Who are they? They'll tell us. Where are they from? Anywhere. What will they discuss? We'll find out together. Here, now, with Andy Spencer. Coming up today, we have Frankie Dashend. He is our next guest, and I am incredibly excited for this. Also, a little behind the curtain for everyone. I don't usually record these with the guest sitting right in front of me, but Frankie is sitting right across from me right now. And I gotta say, I am incredibly excited for this because Frankie is legendary. And he's just a great guy, and he loves uh baseball. I can't even tell you how much this guy loves baseball. The look he's giving me right now is saying please please continue to tell them uh tell everyone how much I love baseball. Tell everyone that baseball is my passion because I want everyone to know how much I love baseball and how important to me it is. They enjoy my favorite game. His words, my favorite game in the world baseball. Outstanding. Frankie, I am so excited to have you here today, and I hope our audience is too. Here we go, Frankie Dashand.

SPEAKER_02 1:26

Up next we have Frankie Dashand. You can correct me if I said that wrong. Uh, he sells hot dogs at Eau Claire Express Games. He studied communications and hot dog marketing at UWC. That's pretty specific. I'd like to see your class list. And you like to talk about baseball.

SPEAKER_01 1:44

Okay, well, first of all, I don't know who told you I liked baseball. I told your producer not to even bring up baseball. But yes, that's where I sell my hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 1:57

Oh. So you are a hot dog guy? Yes.

SPEAKER_01 2:01

And a sporting event. I love hot hot dogs and and selling them and seeing people eat them. I I fucking hate baseball. So I don't know who told you to bring up baseball, but it was me, it was it was on me.

SPEAKER_02 2:17

I saw Express games. I thought this guy loves loves the sport of baseball.

SPEAKER_01 2:21

Well, that's just where I sell the hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 2:23

Got it. So it it could be Mars and you would sell hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 2:27

Yes, if there were people hungry for hot dogs, I would find them on Mars and sell them. I mean, it might happen to be at a baseball game, baseball game on Mars. That sounds fun. A lot more fun than it would be on Earth, where it sucks.

SPEAKER_02 2:40

You don't catch any of the game when you're there.

SPEAKER_01 2:43

I try to keep my back towards the game.

SPEAKER_02 2:46

You are so not into baseball that you will not even turn your head towards it.

SPEAKER_01 2:50

You set your hot dogs to Well, how can I sell the hot dogs when I'm looking at the game? It's it's mostly annoying. If I if I could have the people there, but there's no baseball game going on, I would prefer that. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 3:04

Have you ever gone into the stands to sell them?

SPEAKER_01 3:07

Yes. Yes.

SPEAKER_02 3:08

And when you were I can I can imagine you going up pretty easy, but when you're coming down, those stands.

SPEAKER_01 3:14

Well, I I'll kind of turn my head to the side and and yell, hot dogs, hot dogs, get you some hot dogs. You gotta change it up every third time. That's what I learned in uh communications.

SPEAKER_02 3:29

So, yeah, okay. So I I'm completely on board. You hate baseball, you love hot dogs, and that's where the hot dogs are sold. That's a hot spot for hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 3:38

It unfortunately it is where most people buy hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 3:43

Uh hot hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 3:45

Well, you I call them hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 3:49

I mean, we're we're like marketing thing, but it's like, hey, it's gonna stay top of mind if I say hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 3:55

No, that's just how I say hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 3:59

No, it's yeah, I'm I'm I'm not gonna, I don't know.

SPEAKER_01 4:02

You know what I'm talking about.

SPEAKER_02 4:03

Yeah, I got it. Linguistically, I completely understand you're talking about hot dogs, even though you're saying hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 4:09

Well, okay, there's also another theory about that. And it's if I sell uh you a hot dog and you complain, hey, this isn't hot, you've had this in your in your vest for like hours, it's not hot anymore. I say, well, it's a hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 4:28

Yeah, it's not a hot dog that I didn't misadvertise this. When you said had it in your vest, so are how are you selling these when you go into the stand? Are you just like filling like a down vest?

SPEAKER_01 4:38

Well, it's a special vest designed to store hot dogs and my money too. I need God, don't you just love it when you when you order a hot dog and you're in your seat, you have to like pass money through like 15 people.

SPEAKER_02 4:54

Yeah, and you see the 20 goes and then the change comes back, so everybody makes a joke, like, oh my I'm told it's a good thing.

SPEAKER_01 4:59

Those people, those people are hilarious. I love that. Um sometimes sometimes I let them keep the money. I don't care. I just do it for the hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 5:08

You just do it for the experience of selling and touching processed meat.

SPEAKER_01 5:12

Well, yes, if it's a hot dog, yes. Uh no bratwurst? No, but that's cheddarwurst. Look, I I leave the other stuff to other lesser competitors. If you want a hot dog at Oak Claire Express Game, you you find me or I'll find you.

SPEAKER_02 5:29

Off season, what are you doing? What are you doing with your hot dogs when there's no no express games?

SPEAKER_01 5:34

Well, I have to find places that that allow me to either well, I have a cart, I have a vest. Um you know, I unfortunately a lot of it is baseball. I try and find baseball. Last summer I went to the uh Dominican Oh wow, all the way to the Dominican. The Dominican Republic in the winter.

SPEAKER_02 5:58

The house hot dog reception down there. Because like when I think DR, I certainly don't think hot dog hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 6:04

Right. Well, it's true. Some some people in the Dominican have a more refined taste. To me, I don't think you can beat a hot dog. Like, what's what's your hot dog order?

SPEAKER_02 6:15

Um Chicago style, all the way.

SPEAKER_01 6:17

Okay, and what does that mean to you?

SPEAKER_02 6:19

Uh what is you okay, uh if you say Chicago style, it's clear what it is. And I'm gonna miss some of the ingredients. You got a sport pepper, you got celery salt, you got sesame bun. Yes, you got uh Vienna uh uh beef franc. Yes, and a couple slices of tomato, maybe.

SPEAKER_01 6:40

Okay, that's interesting because my in mustard. My Chicago style, we we put do all that, and then we do ketchup.

SPEAKER_02 6:48

Oh, yeah. Okay, you're I'm gonna stop you there. I'm not from Chicago, but I lived there for a while, and I I this is no joke. The first time I had a hot dog, I asked them for ketchup, and everybody was like, gather around. Let's boo this guy.

SPEAKER_01 7:02

That's a misunderstanding. That's misunderstanding. The uh hot dogs in Chicago, they originally it was just ketchup. It was a hot dog, a bun, ketchup. Then all these immigrants came in.

SPEAKER_02 7:17

Whoa, whoa, whoa. You said that with some heat, and I just want to say we are not, we don't share those kind of language on this show. We go immigrants.

SPEAKER_01 7:26

No, yeah. Try again. It's just that word evokes something. They ruined my hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 7:31

Uh immigrants ruined your hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 7:33

Well, they now when they say Chicago style, they say whatever the hell you just said.

SPEAKER_02 7:38

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 7:38

Instead of what I know to be a Chicago hot hot dog. Yeah. And I I do prefer they be hot.

SPEAKER_02 7:46

Yeah. Um, so I I I'm I'm with you all the way. Uh you you love hot dogs. You like old school hot dogs. Yes. What do you eat personally? What is your what's your dinner like? What's your lunch like? Are what are you eating hot dogs for three straight a day?

SPEAKER_01 8:01

Well, you you're coming to me at an interesting time in my life. My doctor, he says I need to cut back on the hot dogs. I mean, I get such a good deal, it actually makes sense that I do eat three hot dogs. Makes sense, economical sense. But um he says if if I have any more pickle relish, I c I could be in a hospital for the next six months.

SPEAKER_02 8:25

You could just not do pickle relish and just have a Right.

SPEAKER_01 8:28

That's what I'm doing right now. So I just I I'm missing out on that. Okay, so we're kind of in uncharted territory.

SPEAKER_02 8:38

I I went to a doctor one time in Chicago and he told me that you can have three hot dogs a year. This is not a joke. He's he said you have three hot dogs a year, any more than that, you're guaranteed cancer. I'm not kidding. He told me that.

SPEAKER_01 8:51

But I sell three hot dogs to one guy at a time.

SPEAKER_02 8:56

Yeah. I there it's not good for you. Processed meat shoved into an uh who knows what, but hopefully animal, uh, intestine.

SPEAKER_01 9:07

You're talking you don't know my hot dogs.

SPEAKER_02 9:09

Yeah, okay. Just run down what's in your hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 9:12

Well, we get them from Hormel. Okay. Those are the best dogs. And let me just tell you some people they've in the ballparks, they've taken away Hormel hot dogs. Biggest mistake of their life. Nobody likes nobody likes what you're talking about. Processed meats. So, yes, I use dogs, I use turkeys, I use the local badgers of Wisconsin, whatever. These are local meats.

SPEAKER_02 9:43

Okay, these aren't brands. You actually use dogs and badgers?

SPEAKER_01 9:48

Those go into the hut duck.

SPEAKER_02 9:50

And are you grinding do you have like a meat grinder at home?

SPEAKER_01 9:53

Are you- I leave that to Hormel.

SPEAKER_02 9:55

Wait, so Hormel now has a line of exotic Wisconsin meats.

SPEAKER_01 9:59

Well, I catch the animals, I send them to Hormel. It's very ethical.

SPEAKER_02 10:04

Yeah, very economical too. If you're doing the meat uh capturing and uh you supply, you're their meat supplier for your own hot dogs.

SPEAKER_01 10:13

For my own, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:14

You're eat eating your own supply. Um well, I am really glad you came in. I'm sorry that I asked about a sport that you have no interest in. Oh, it's fine.

SPEAKER_01 10:22

I'm glad we got off of that baseball thing.

SPEAKER_02 10:26

Yeah. Uh and I hope that you don't die from eating uh pickled relish.

SPEAKER_01 10:30

So yeah, but I I hope your producers do a better job if you have any other guests. You know, yeah.

SPEAKER_02 10:35

I'll certainly talk to Adam.

SPEAKER_01 10:37

Okay, thank you. Thanks for coming in. But but it was good to meet you and talk about the art of hot dog.

SPEAKER_02 10:43

Hotduggering. Hot hot doggering. Hut Duggering? Hut Duggus?

SPEAKER_01 10:47

Uh Hut Dugger? Well, I majored in hotdog marketing. Maybe you can call it hot dogging.

SPEAKER_02 10:53

It's called hot dogging.

SPEAKER_01 10:54

Yeah, I do I do, I love hot hot dogging.

SPEAKER_02 10:57

Well, happy hot dogging.

SPEAKER_01 10:58

Thank you.

SPEAKER_00 10:59

Well, there you have it. That was Frankie Dashand. And he has left the studio. He stood up and walked out without even looking in my direction. Just zero acknowledgement whatsoever. He was genuinely pretty PO'd about the whole baseball thing. I guess mustered on my face for getting that wrong or misinterpreting the fact that he was wearing a shirt that reads I heart baseball. And on the back, now that I've seen him leave, it says Take me out to the ball game. Well, best of luck to you out at the express game. If a foul ball should take a wild slice in your direction, best of luck.