Lunch Academy Ep 001 - So What Does Your Mom Think You Do?

All right, we're galore live now, so welcome, everyone. I'm not live. Welcome, everyone, to lunch. Academy Episode 001 My name is Sam and I have Sade with you here, my lovely co host. And we're also live on Facebook, so the very first one. So Launch Academy is meant to be the offside banter taking a deeper look into our everyday lives. That is the crazy world of startups. Of course, we all work at Launch Academy, Vancouver's leading startup hub. How are you doing there?

Doing great.

I'm actually doing terrible. I have an awful cold and. And she didn't believe me when I said when we turned the lights on that it'd be really, really hot. And now she has regrets.

We're learning also, this is my first time ever recording myself on anything, so I'm nervous of how I sound.

So say hi to Sade's parents. They're gonna be seeing this. She is tagged on Facebook. So just a couple of notes just to start us off. If you're not following us already on Facebook, make sure you give us a. Like there. Facebook ignited. I think Launch. I'm sorry, Launch Academy ignited. I butchered that one. Yeah, I just did some more marketing for Facebook as if they need more. You can follow us on Twitter at Launch Underscore Academy for all sorts of startup goodies. What's our Instagram handle?

Our Instagram handle is just Launch Academy.

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I think it's been almost eight months, which is crazy. It doesn't feel like that.

It's flown by a little bit. Right? For sure.

It's crazy how in eight months, I already feel like I kind of know everybody. And yesterday at the birthday party, it was nice to see everyone's faces and be like, wow, I know most people here.

It's always good coming from our community manager that she knows the people at Launch Academy. That's fair enough. So, I mean, like, you got to hear a couple of testimonials, a couple of people that were here. We got to meet Jason from battlefly, shout out to Jason, who was our. Who was our very, very first member. Did any of those stories. Like, you're like, wow, all this stuff kind of happened.

What do you mean?

Well, to tell everybody on air the story of Jason. When we first started Launch Academy, so Launch Academy started on April 1st in 2012. And if you're smart enough with dates back then, April 1st was actually a Saturday and we were working out of the Eastside Games space. So On Saturday, the Battle 5 co founders just hopped in because they said, hey, we're joining Launch Academy. And they hopped into and sat down at a desk because we told them they could sit wherever there was space. And he worked out of there for two days. And for two days nobody asked who this young Asian dude was that was just sitting in their offices. And when Ray and Alex and all those other guys showed up and wondered like, what. What are you doing here? Like, oh, I've been here for two days. You guys said it started on the 1st of April, so I came in the 1st of April. So he was here before everybody else was here. And that's kind of just the weird world of startups that we live in. But I mean, like, for you, where did you work before you worked at Launch Academy?

So before I worked at Launch Academy, I worked at a consulting firm and it did give me a little bit of an intro into the tech industry because they focused on doing shred and grants for companies. And I mean, shred really applies to a lot of tech because it is research, development. So I did work hand in hand in that and I worked in biz dev. So it was definitely a big change when I came to Launch Academy and what I knew of tech back then and what I know of tech now of now. Terms of what it feels like to be in the tech industry is like night and day. I'm like, very pleasantly surprised.

Did you get asked the what's your favorite app on the first day?

Yes, that was one of my interview questions.

What is your favorite app?

At that time, Ray asked me what my top three apps that I use the most on my phone. And I think I said the weather forecast. I think it was Google calendars and. And WhatsApp.

Pretty, pretty plain.

I know. He was like, why the weather? And I'm like, I'm just checking when it's okay.

So what was the Weather today was it? What did the forecast say today?

Cloudy all day with a chance of sun around 5pm PM it might clear up at 5pm and then the sun will set and it'd be gone. It's going to be pretty hot though.

I feel like I have your weather forecast. That's pretty, like that's pretty token.

Check it every morning. I also check it every hour to see if it's not raining.

It wasn't raining when I came in, by the way.

Oh, good, cool.

So I kind of want to segue that and kind of to get to the main topic that I wanted to discuss today and I kind of call this segment what does your mother think you do? Because I mean I have some stories about what my parents and my grandparents think I do. But let's start with you. You know, you've been here for six months now. You know, your, your parents, they're, they're not local, they're from abroad. So they really don't get like a day to day of whatever the heck. You know, you're, you're the community manager at launchcoming. What does that like, what do you, what do you, what do you actually. Well, we'll start with this. What do you think they think you do? And then what do you actually do? Okay.

Well, yeah, there's first for sure. I do understand that pain of having to explain something to your parents who A have a big obviously generation gap between you and B, to add on to that, there's the whole cultural gap with my parents. Right. They, they live out of Costa Rica and they're originally French. So there's explaining to them in French what I do that is usually explained in English was already pretty hard.

Okay, what, what are startups in French and Spanish.

That's tough. Okay, so startup in Spanish just, there's no startup name. It just says empresas que comien san. It's like the early stage startups but in French. I don't even think there's a word for startups. Can we Google it?

I guess we could. I mean like as you were talking, I was thinking about, because I have a Chinese background, I have no idea what the word startups is in any other language other than English.

I think this might be the only.

It's kind of like one of those made up words that we just made up and like Americanized along the way like meh or dough.

Yeah, it's like even Google Translate is having a hard time.

Well, it's established. We need to make. Let's start up yeah.

And even the word incubator too is like, when I say incubator in French, it literally means like an incubator.

Like, like stuff with an egg.

Yeah. So it's a whole mess. So me trying to explain to my parents what I do is like, mostly I'm like decoding. But at the end I think they pretty much, I think they.

So when your mom or your dad is out with their friends, like, oh, what's Sade up to? What's Sade doing? What do you think they say?

They say she works in technology. That's what they say. And my mom actually came to visit Launch Academy when she was walking by and she came and did a walkthrough and she saw our setup here. And I think that now she thinks I work for Google because she was like, your office looks like what Google would look like in their office. I'm like, yeah, just go with that. Say I work for Google.

Has she seen that, that movie, the Internship?

Yeah, I think that's where she gets it from.

But we don't have like the funky.

Hats and she just saw like the beanbags and she was like, yeah, my daughter works for Google. Yeah.

Because that's the funny thing is I've spent my whole career in tech, but the major, major issue is I'm not a coder, I'm not a developer. And I think pretty soon you'll find similar issues is either people look at you and there might not be a healthy amount of respect for non coders in the startup world, but also outside the startup world, everybody thinks you're a coder. Like my, this is, this is literally what my grandma thinks is every time I see her, she'll hand me her phone and be like, get me the photos from the Internet. I'm like, what photos? I'm like, from the Internet. You work there, get the photos. And I'm like, I don't work the Internet. And then she's like, but you do stuff on computers all day. You work on the computers. I'm like, I work on a computer. I don't work. I don't build computers.

I don't fix computers.

I just press buttons and make sassy jokes on the Twitters. And that's my role. Right.

It's a wrong assumption. Everybody now assumes that I'm techie because I work at a tech incubator. No, I'm still not techie.

Do you get people asking you to fix their printer because you work at a tech incubator? I get that a lot.

I get the whole like, oh, here, Shade, you work at a tech incubator, right? Look at this, look at this line of code. I'm like, is this the Matrix? I don't know what this is, but.

I think that draws into kind of this bigger topic. I think in the startup world and even in the business world, there's a lot of podcasts, there's a lot of information out there about the founders and the co founders. And obviously if you're in incubators and you know that, that industry a little bit deeper you can talk, you talk about those people too. There really isn't much light about what about the people surrounding those founders and surrounding those, those startups. Like, what do you think it'd be like to be the spouse of a co founder or the parents of, you know, a tech founder when you're like, you know, they might in my situation, right? Like, my parents immigrated from Hong Kong. They, they came and they, they worked themselves up through the, the glorious Canadian work society ecosystem. My dad started as like a dishwasher and then now he's doing insurance. And there's this long convoluted story there, but, you know, they busted their butt and in. I don't know if it's just Chinese culture, maybe, maybe Costa Rican culture too. Like, they were really working towards, you know, making sure that I get through college and I get in college and I get. Not so much that they wanted me to be a millionaire billionaire or something like that, but they wanted stability. And then I show up and I work for like the most, you know. Yeah, unstable, unstable industry, comma, period, whatever. And, and so, like, I think that that can be tough for a lot of people. That, and, and you know, you having been here now for six months, like, you get to see some companies have come through and they're still trying to make it through whatever the next step is. They're trying to, in startup turns, increase their Runway. But we've also seen some leave, right? Like you, you've been here long enough now that you've noticed some startups, you just stop hearing about them. It's, it's a scary thing. Like, so, you know, with, like, why I'm kind of pushing this topic a little bit is because you're not in it too deep yet.

Yeah.

Like what, what can you pick up from these people who, who, you know, they have families, they have cousins, they have wives and husbands and kids and whatever. What can you learn from that? Like, in terms of, like, how, what. Their sacrifices and how, how, how, you know, I Mean, we. We both have salary jobs, so it's a little bit different for us. Like, what would you pick up from that?

I think, like, the, the immense sense of confidence that you require to take that leap.

Yeah.

That's what I've been truly shocked about and I honestly admire and I hope that one day I can believe in myself to that extent to risk a lot and not like, not only risk things that affect me, but that affect my family and my spouse and all that. That level of confidence is incredible. And hearing people talk about what they do and what brings them confidence and why they think they'll succeed is. Is pretty inspiring. Like, just the other day I met for coffee with one of our members because I wanted to learn more about how to deal with money. And he's really good at that. His startup is unrelated to that, but he was doing me a favor as a friend, so I was sitting in eventually talking about money. We loop back to me asking him question of, like, how he dealt with funding his startup, because he funded most of it and he was telling me, so he took all the money out of his pension plan because he started his pension plan when he was really, really young. And that was one of his suggestions to me is just start saving now, as young as you can possibly be.

Even though he took his out.

Yeah. And so he spent his 20s. Like he said, I spent my 20s living as if I was still in university. So he's like, hustled his 20s to save as much money and put as much money in his pension plan so he'd have, like, a cushion. And then he took that entire cushion and put it into a startup that he still doesn't know if it's going to pay him back. I'm like, wow. And then he said that very confidently, with no, like, no even hint in body language of, like, anxiety. I was like. Because, like, I feel like if I told that my, my voice would start shaking. Like.

Yeah, yeah.

You would see signs of, like, weakness in there.

My. My last couple years might be rough.

Yeah.

Where do you think that confidence comes from?

Oh, that's a tough question. Honestly, I don't know. I don't know where they get it from, because some of these founders aren't even specialists in what they do.

Yeah.

They just have an idea that they think they could make it better. So the confidence may not always come from being a specialist. If it does, that's nice because you know what, you're doing really well. But I, I think that they put out confidence, but there must be Some like, I feel like maybe they go to bed every night being like, what the hell?

They have, they have these Hype Jam playlists on their Spotify. They probably don't have the Spotify premium. They just dig through the ads because they need that last 15 bucks for AWS space. Yeah, no, it's, it's, it's definitely crazy and I think that's, that's part of the inspiration. What keeps me frankly here is just seeing some of the risks these people take and you know, outside looking in, sometimes you would call them stupid risks. Right. But just having, I think it goes back to that kind of that very old saying and it's very cliche is it is about that journey. Right?

Yeah.

One of the misdemeanors about finding or being, finding a startup, finding, founding, starting a company is like, you know, entrepreneurs are in this to make it rich. And you know, while when we look at Forbes and we look at times like clearly we see some, you know, self made people there and you know, kudos to them. I really think it's the entrepreneur in the startup world is full of people who just, who can't get that out of their head. Right. Because I look at a lot of startup founders in here and I see a group of very, very talented people. In fact, I remember one of the founders a couple years ago, he was in launch academy for about a year or so and him and his partner were making games, they were making platformers and, and maybe the games weren't selling as well as they did. And so eventually it came to a point where they needed to go get jobs and, and you know, having been unemployed a couple times myself, like I know how, how like cruel that whole process is, right? Yeah, it's a full time job to get a job. And then, and so when they were doing that and you know, we'd been working out of the space for about a year, you know, I felt bad for them knowing that they're gonna have to go and get regular Joe jobs and not gonna, not gonna build games on their own. The guy comes to me the next day and he's like, oh yeah, I got a job, I'm go one day, one day. So that, that speaks to like the kind of talent and honestly like, like you were saying with your buddy, if, if it was just about the money and, and that payoff, you know, you could be doing like kind of like the slow and steady. Yeah, get a job, put some of your money in your savings and with the skill set that a lot of these People have, like, it's, it's, it's not that difficult to be. I guess. I guess technically we're already 1% of the world, but, like, real. Yeah, like I said, I really think there's more to it. And like, my encouragement to anybody, like, thinking of starting a startup is, have you actually tried other things? Is, Is there something that can give you, give you job satisfaction or passion or all those other words that you throw there? Like, I would say the last thing I would do is start a startup is because I can't, I cannot do anything else, right? Like, this is what I'm gonna do and that's it. I can't work for someone. I can't. I can't be a bank teller.

But that's you speaking without, like, having some amazing idea in your mind that's nagging you all the time, right? I feel like any rational person would be like, okay, me, I feel like I'm on the same boat as you and I feel bad saying that working for a tech incubator, but I don't have anything in my mind that would be worth risking everything. And to be honest, yeah, it would be. The last thing I do is start my own company and not even just a startup. Like, I come from a family full of the serial entrepreneurs, but they never kind of. Not in the tech side. They just always kind of created their own companies and side hustles and made it work. And so they've always been their own bosses. And so I grew up around that, but now, like, getting into the workforce, I'm like, I don't want to be my own boss, I don't think ever, like, ever. So I feel like most people probably feel that way and they like the stability and security until they get this idea and they're like, I have to do it, I have to do it. And they go against everything to do that.

But I think this is a long, convoluted way of saying kudos to those that are making the risk, that are grinding it out every day. And, you know, at Launch Camera, we're here to support you and hopefully kind of be the stepping stone to your dreams. So speaking of all the ideas and startups, we're gonna play a game. So the team back at Launch Academy helped me with this game and, and this game is called Startup or Made Up. So I have a list in my hand. I'm going to give you 15 seconds each to decide if this is a real startup that's out there in the world. You're not allowed to use your phone or it's something that we made up.

Okay.

Okay. So are the rules clear? So I'm going to start the timer after I read it. Kopi's in the background. Copi's my dog. He apparently wants to play also, so he'll have his input in on this. So are you ready for your first startup or made up?

Yes.

All right, we're gonna go. So this startup, the name is Waldo. You know, like, where's Waldo? And it's an app that helps you find your friends in a crowd.

Hmm. I'm gonna go with Startup.

You think it's real? Yeah, an app that finds your friends in a crowd.

Cool. So I'm gonna reset that with the whole festival industry. I feel like that would be very useful.

So it is incorrect. Waldo is a real startup, but it is not an app that helps find your friends in a crowd. So you're. Somebody's gonna gotta Google what Waldo does. So shout out to Waldo. Okay, next one. This one is called Lunch Badger. Badger, like the animal one word. Compose, manage, optimize, and monetize on your APIs and microservices all within a serverless, multi cloud microservices platform. Easily gain actionable insights in real time with Lunch Badger. So if. If this was made up, this is. This is. This is some good, good technical jargon to throw in.

I feel like I'm just being tricked with all this. Feel like it. It's too good. This description is too complicated to be true.

So you think it's fake? Wait, can you even see through this?

No, I can't see anything.

Five seconds.

I don't know.

Four seconds.

You okay? I'm gonna say Startup Real. Yeah.

Ding, ding, ding. Yeah, it is correct. Lunch Badger is serverless, multi cloud microservices platform. Work on your pitch.

Yeah, that sounds very useful. Honestly.

Clearly we are not. Clearly we are not the customer base for.

Well, that sounds more useful, though. I want an app to find my friends in the crowd.

Okay. So the next one is Cheetah Feet, right on the heels of Lunch Badger. So it's a laptop stand with the technology used to speed up your computer processor to help you launch a task forward. So I think it's actually just like a laptop stand, but then, you know, like with the fans and you know, like when you tilt your laptop and.

Yeah, but it doesn't help your. There's no way laptop stand would make your computer faster.

So, I mean, how it works is. Yeah, it's cooling.

Okay.

It's cooling effect. So I think it's just a laptop stand with like a fancy.

Okay, what's the name again?

Cheetah Feet.

Cheetah Feet. I'm gonna say it's a startup.

Startup. Mm, no. So Claire from the launch academy team made this one up.

Yeah, but there's. That would be a good name for it.

Oh, there's your million dollar idea.

Now there's too many laptop stands out there.

Moving along, we have.

Wait, I'm 1, 2.

You're what?

You're losing.

You're losing. You're. You're 1 and 2. We have a food hunter craving something, but not sure. Through artificial intelligence, Food hunter is able to determine your cravings even before you crave it.

Not possible.

Not possible. She does. She's a startup. She's a startup community manager. Doesn't believe in the power of technology.

I can't believe you can't, can you? How could you tell? Through AI? Okay, I'm gonna say made up.

Made up. Yeah, you're right.

Yes, I know made up. You know, the day that you can predict cravings to AI, I'll be the first ones to find out.

Well, we're gonna play another game later that we're gonna figure out whether. Whether I can predict your cravings, so. Okay, so stay tuned for that. So the next one is Karhu. I don't know if I'm pronouncing it right. K A R H O O Carhu. Karhu is a revolutionary ground transportation technology ecosystem designed to address the challenge of improving mobility in our crowded and polluted urban centers.

I still don't know what they do. Is it a car app?

No, it's a ground transportation technology ecosystem.

What the hell is that? Is it a car?

This is really hard. Some of these descriptions, transportation. I think they designed something that helps with the ecosystems of cities.

Oh, I see.

That improves pollution and things like that.

Startup, Startup.

What's your score right now? Two and two. Yeah, two and two. All right, this one is correct. This one is real. So I have one more. So you're three and two right now. So it's. You're either going to win this winner or you call it a draw. Okay, so really, I don't know. This feels like too easy for, like.

What is it going to be, like Uber?

No, it's not Uber. So this one is a plus.

A plus.

Have you heard of it or have you not heard of it? No, I guess you wouldn't know. But here's what's throwing me off. The Digital Media Co. Co founded by Ashton Kutcher. Promises to deliver positive news with the hope of affecting meaningful social change. Launched in January. Very specific. The site features sections with stories on animals and adventures, among other topics. So you have Ashton Kutcher talking about animals and adventures, hence A plus.

I'm gonna say that's made up.

You think Ashton Kutcher actually bothered with with this stuff?

I don't think Ashton, no. Ashton Kusher wouldn't be doing this.

Are you sure?

I don't know. I don't know him.

How much do you know about Ashton Kutcher?

I know nothing really. I've seen them on a couple movies.

What is he well known for?

I feel like if he were to speak, he wouldn't be speaking about outdoorsy stuff. He'd be speaking about, I don't know, solving worldwide issues. I know he does a lot for that. I don't know.

I don't know. So I'll give you one last chance. An actor named Ashton talking about animals and adventures. Really? I'm just really trying to get my alliteration points in here to show my show off to my grade nine English teacher that I can do alliteration and it's called A plus. Everybody's looking at you blankly.

I'm gonna say it's made up.

So close. A plus is definitely real.

What?

Yeah, you don't spend enough time on your Facebook tweet? A plus does tons of like motivational videos and, and you know, one of those news. Not news, but like they do lots of stories and stuff.

So what you get when you live under a rock.

Are you sure you, you want to do this podcast thing?

I'm definitely not in tuned enough for this.

Cool. So thanks, thanks to Matthew, Caroline and Claire for coming up with the made up question. So if you guys have any submissions for the future, feel free to let one of us know. Moving on, like, couple of announcements we have. What do we got going on, you know, this week and coming up at Launch Academy or otherwise.

So got a few events. I had it on my phone. I have to bring it back up. Sorry, guys.

Oh, my wife is calling.

All right, so next week we've got an Intro to Ethereum event on Friday. You can sign up to any of our events on our Pika Tick account. You just look up Pica takes Launch Academy should show up.

Who's doing that event?

You know, it's led by our general manager, Cool Halak. Yeah, he has been doing these, I think every month. Once every month. Like one Intro to Blockchain and Then one Intro to Ethereum per month. Intro to Blockchain happened last week. So, yeah, Intro to Ethereum. If you want to learn the basics and all, everything Ethereum, then cool.

I was gonna. I was gonna ask a really stupid question of what is Ethereum? But then I figured I'd just find out at the vent. Right? Yeah, so I'll save that one.

I don't know how to explain it either way. So. And then the following week on April 19th, we have a AMA, ask me anything. And again, it's with Hussain. Hussain is the star of April right now. Usually we do these with other people as well.

We promise you we won't just have.

It's not all about Hussein, but yeah, if you want. If you kind of want an end into what the startup tech industry is doing and what it's like to work for a tech incubator or launch your own companies and fail. And so Hussain has gone through a lot and he has a lot to say and he definitely has a lot of cool experiences. So definitely a great AMA to go to and just ask some very specific questions you may have about the startup journey.

Yeah, yeah. And I mean, on that note, like we said, we celebrated our sixth birthday on April 1st of this year. And with that comes a couple more announcements. We announced that we're doing a partnership with Ash Moira, the godfather of Lean Canvas and he's the founder of Lean Stack as well. So we're partnering with him on our Lean Acceleration Entrepreneur program. Wow, I butchered that too. Lean Entrepreneur Acceleration Program. Short is Leap.

I think a press release got put on. I'm also butchering that.

So we're after the show we're gonna go home in front of a mirror and we're gonna practice our pronunciation. Yeah, I mean, like, English is your third language. English is my second language, so. So, you know, I think it's just a mic. Yeah.

Something wrong with.

We're nervous. That's. That's what it is, guys. We're nervous.

Yeah. Go to Beta kit. Check out the press release on.

Yeah, so. So we're really excited to work with someone of Ashmore's caliber and have him co sign on our program is just a testament to the work that the team's been doing. Also a different announcement. We are accepting our applicants for the Startup Visa program as well. So if you're listening to this and you're not in Canada and you have an amazing company, like, we want to hear from you. So. So if you're interested in that, go to launchacademy.ca startupvis and we're taking applications for the next two months for our, I guess we call it the spring cohort, but really it'll start diving in the summer. One final announcement and then some shout outs as well. It is with great sadness that we're announcing that intern Matthew's last week is next week. So Matthew's been a part of our team for over a year. So if you guys are in the office or you've worked with Matthew over the last year, be sure to give him a big hug for us. I know he loves hugs, but he's been an awesome member to the team for the last year and I think he's going back to school. Didn't we tell all these startup people to drop out of school and stuff like that? He's very counterculture there.

He's also probably the smartest person here, so maybe don't drop out.

Maybe he's making right life decisions. Any other shout outs that you want to give?

Well, I think biggest shout out is just shout out to launch Academy in general for turning six and having six awesome years. Shout out to the whole team. I think everybody's ramping up for traction season, so people are hard at work. Definitely. Stay tuned for all of our speakers that we're announcing for traction. I believe we're announcing new speakers next week. And shout out to Sam for starting a cool new podcast.

So you can follow me on Twitter nsamchan. I would like to become a Twitter star and quit this job. So let me know, we can talk. My agent will call your agent. Cool. So on the topic of Lunch Academy and where this concept all started was we wanted to do something a little bit funner, a little bit very Vancouver. And of course a very heavy topic in Vancouver. One is the weather.

Thank you.

It's cloudy today. And the other one is food. And so this whole concept of this podcast was started on the concept of food. And what we decided was every week, whether we have a guest or not or guests or multiple guests, one of us would bring the other something to eat. So I could think of no better way to start off. So I brought something for Sade to eat this week. And you know, we've been sitting around for half hour now, so it might be a little bit cold. Yeah. But I promise you it's still good. We could have thought that through, but we actually had like stuff to talk about and we needed smells very good. We needed to go through the weather and that's important and stuff. So I'm gonna slide it over here.

So the way this works too is that Sam likes everything fried.

I like to eat like a child.

And I am considered the health nut of the office. So there's a couple. We're gonna go back and forth. Next time I'm gonna bring something to super healthy to eat.

I am so scared. Yeah, I think there's only going to be one episode ever. I quit.

I'm excited for this.

Every episode I'm going to quit.

I think he, he gets the losing end of this because I actually also like fried food, but I don't think he also likes healthy food.

Okay, so I went, I went to your hometown. Won't talk about where exactly you live, but this was a special in my childhood. This is a childhood food.

Okay.

This is the food of my people. So it's ridiculous because you really can't get some in downtown. But I got you some Church's Chicken. And, and the, the backstory behind this is because, like I got it this morning and, and, and shout out to Church's Chicken, by the way, because they're open 24 hours, seven days a week. And ever since they did that, I've been going to Church's Chicken a lot more.

Like, please sponsor Sam.

Please sponsor me. Like, this is not, this is not cheap, right?

Like it really adds up.

It really does. Have you, first of all, have you had churches?

Never had.

She's never had Church's Chicken. So, I mean, Costa Rican girl, went to school in Montreal never had Church's Chicken. Even my dogs had Church's Chicken. So. So here, here's the backstory behind it is because it was like, like 9 o' clock in the morning and I had to go get Church's Chicken. They made me wait like a good 20, 30 minutes because they hadn't made it yet. So I was just sitting in the car with my dog, like just hanging out waiting for this chicken. And then I got the chicken. I'm like, wait, I can't eat this. I gotta bring it to work.

So you have to sit in the beach.

So I just sit and smell the. Like we've been smelling it this whole half hour.

I'm hungry now.

So it was perfect timing. But the other question I have for you is, do you eat spicy food?

Mildly spicy.

Mildly spicy. So you're gonna enjoy this. So go ahead, go ahead, have a, have a, have a bite. I'll grab some later. You can use a fork if you're sanitary. I am not.

Alright, here we go.

Let me know what you think. Thanks. Churches but the funny thing is, so I ordered spicy, and the spicy is it has a tang that kind of burns. Well, it burns. I won't say how far, but the lady at the very end, when she finally got us the chicken was like, oh, yeah, you want the spicy sauce? I was like, no, thank you. I'm good.

This does have a little bit of a kick. It's delicious.

It kicks. So you can imagine, like, three pieces later. You're gonna need that water that we have hanging around here. So I think that's it. About both. The very first episode of Lunch Academy. We're wrapped up. We hope you like it. If you have foods you want us to try. We'll be back next Friday as well here on Facebook, but we'll also get that itunes page up and running fairly soon. So any last remarks?

Thanks, churches.

All right, we're signing off. We're going to go in and enjoy this man. Peace out.