In the late 1940s, a struggling young man ran a hot dog stand in San Bernardino, California — and watched the line across the street wrap around a small Mexican café that was outselling him every single day. He didn't feel envy. He felt curiosity. That one habit of mind would turn Glen Bell into the founder of Taco Bell and reshape the way an entire country eats. This episode of the MR. HANSoN Podcast tells the Glen Bell story straight: a poor Depression kid and Marine Corps cook who didn't invent the taco, but studied it — learning from Mexican-American cooks like the family at the Mitla Cafe — and then engineered it for scale. The pre-fried shell. The trainable kitchen. The irresistible price. The franchise machine that put tacos in towns that had never seen the real thing. And the honest trade-off underneath the empire: the simplification and Ame ...