Nasir and Matt talk about the story out of Texas that Mexican restaurants were reportedly attempting to ban Trump supporters from eating at their restaurants.
Full Podcast Transcript
NASIR: Welcome to our podcast where we cover business in the news and add our legal twist to that business news.
My name is Nasir Pasha.
MATT: And I’m Matt Staub.
NASIR: Today, we’re talking politics.
MATT: I wanted to bring up one thing first. I don’t know if you do this one purpose but I think this is the third March we’ve done the podcast. I think all three years we’ve recorded on the same time when Dayton is playing.
NASIR: Dayton’s playing right now?
MATT: In about five minutes they’re starting up.
NASIR: Oh, okay. Well, I’ll pull that up, too. San Diego State didn’t make it this year which is a pretty big deal.
MATT: No, they didn’t. Long story short, they had some bad losses at the beginning of the year. They lost their conference tournament the final so they lost the automatic bid and so they were on the bubble. I’m not going to say they should have made it but there might have been one or two teams. There’s definitely at least one, maybe two teams that made it that San Diego State should have made ahead of but that’s kind of how it works.
NASIR: I mean, I heard they should have won the championship. They were favored in that game, right?
MATT: Oh, yeah, their conference is terrible so they should have but, yeah, your Dayton Flyers are…
NASIR: Dayton Flyers, all my high school buddies are not surprised that I have no idea.
Well, anyway, let’s talk something I could actually discuss – not sports but politics.
MATT: Yeah, this is an interesting one. You realize this was a fake thing that happened, right?
NASIR: Yeah, not to talk actual politics but I was kind of hoping it was real but, okay, fine.
MATT: When you first told me about it, I assumed it was real then I started looking into it and realized it was fake after I read a couple of stories.
NASIR: Yeah.
MATT: But I think this was in the San Antonio area, is that right? Or was it all spread out through Texas?
NASIR: I feel like it was just in the area because it was one person that was doing it but I’m sure it may have happened in other places but these are the two stories that we picked up.
MATT: Basically, what was happening is someone was going around, putting up these signs at Mexican restaurants and I’ll read this one because it’s kind of humorous at the end. “We stand with our fellow Mexican restaurants and their efforts against hateful speech. We will also no longer be serving people who display support for the views of the presidential candidate, Donald Trump. You can’t have your taco and eat it, too. Standing together.” And then, the logo of this restaurant…
NASIR: Taco Cabana.
MATT: Yeah, and there was another one, not the exact same sign but a similar thing at another Mexican café, Mama Margie’s. Somebody I guess was going around, putting these signs up. Before the story kind of broke, people thought that these Mexican restaurants had band together and were going to outright disallow anyone who was a Trump supporter to eat at their fine establishments.
NASIR: There was a lot of confusion because some people were saying that, no, some employee did it or whatever. But this Mama Margery’s in San Antonio, apparently, they had some video footage of someone else coming in from the parking lot, putting the flyer up, and taking a picture. In a Twitter response on their company account was like, “The message was not approved by Mama Margery’s.” By the way, it doesn’t sound like a great Mexican restaurant but okay.
MATT: It’s Margie, I think.
NASIR: Is it Margie? Oh, well, maybe that’s why.
MATT: I don’t know if that makes it better.
NASIR: Oh, yeah, but it says, “I’m in the business of tacos, not politics, which is way yummier!” which is a fine response.
Yeah, it was fake, but then it really begs the question of can you do that? I mean,
