All Fantasy Everything - City Nicknames (w/ Baron Vaughn, David Gborie, and Sean Jordan)
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This is a HeadGum Podcast.
This is all fantasy everything.
The podcast that fantasy drafts anything and everything from the world of pop culture.
On today's episode, we're drafting city nicknames with the very funny comedian, actor, director,
a man who does it all, Baron Vaughn.
I'm your host, Ian Carmel, and joining me as
always are my friends and comedians, Sean Jordan and David Borey. Let's get into it.
Welcome to another brand new episode of All Fantasy Everything,
the podcast that's recording at 8 a.m.
Yeah, dude. It's a hard out for a location scout.
Uh-huh.
Hey, I'm fancy.
You already said it, I'm fancy.
I can't believe Sean is scouting locations today.
That's crazy.
Yeah, man.
Baron, I don't know what you have to do, but Sean is filming a motion picture.
I'm shooting a sequel to DRS's Gangstoline video.
I wrote a sequel song to Gangstoline.
What is it?
What's the song?
What's it about?
Yeah.
Gangsta Hell.
It's about heaven.
This one's about hell.
This one's about hell?
We don't all go to heaven. Maybe just call it the currently untitled
Sean Jordan project. No, Gangsta Hell.
Put it on you as it comes.
Sean Jordan's Gangsta Hell.
Oh, that sounds
so whack. Yeah, it's pretty bad.
It is. It's because it is.
Yeah, it is. It is.
It's probably Sean Jordan on Twitter, Sean Cougar Mel Jordan on Instagram.
Sean Gangsta leaning into our hearts and minds.
Where can people see you performing?
So I'll be at the Comedy Corner Underground in Minneapolis August 18th to 19th with Zach Disconi.
So if you don't want to come see me, come see Zach.
He's going to be a grossly underpaid feature act.
And the more of you that show up, the more I can try to remedy that.
It's nice to tell him.
So please come out to that.
I'm thrilled.
And also, today, tickets go on sale for my album recording that I'm doing October 29th at Mississippi Studios in Portland, Oregon.
So those tickets go on sale today.
I imagine those are going to go fairly quickly.
So you're going to want to jump on those, Portland, Oregon. A city with
several nicknames, none of which I will mention right now.
No, not quite yet. We're not going to talk about it.
But those two things. Laura's going to direct it. My wife's
directing it. It's going to be a whole thing.
And I'm excited about it. So,
come. Baron, you can talk whenever, by
the way. Sorry. Yeah, you don't have to wait for my
nonsense. Oh, I know. I'm just waiting for whenever.
You know, I'm waiting
to expect. I love it. Get in where you fit in. I'm happy to see all of you, you know know. I'm just waiting for whenever. You know, I'm waiting to get in where you put in.
I'm happy to see all of you, you know, and I'm you know, we're on a Zoom for the listeners.
Yeah. So sometimes it's a little sensory overload to see like the the video going from you to Sean to David and doing all this crazy.
Well, you've also got David's gallery wall in the background, which is sensory overload in and of
itself. Sean and David both have galleries
in the background right now
with the exact same, nope, nope,
different frames, but I can dig it.
I can dig it. Different frames, same picture.
We both got this Waiting to Exhale
or this Set It Off
cartoon at the same store, actually.
Oh, really?
Yeah, it was a side of the road. He also sold
rugs. He's a guy. That's where
Sean came up with Gangsta Hell.
Oh, yeah, that makes total sense.
Set it off is the opposite side of the coin of waiting to
exhale, I feel like. Exactly, exactly.
Listen, if we get up at 8 in the morning, we're gonna
get 8 in the morning references like Gangsta
Lean. And Pam Tillis.
And Pam Tillis.
You should call it waiting to set it off
that's the collaboration
the man with the great ideas is David Borey
coolguyjokes87 on Instagram
where can people see you David?
you can go to coolguyjokes87 on Instagram
I have a tour that I'm announcing
I just
am waiting on somebody with the flyer
but I can tell you the dates or the places right now
and you can get excited.
Birmingham, Alabama, Asheville, North Carolina,
Nashville, Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chattanooga, Tennessee,
Raleigh, North Carolina, Austin, Texas,
Denver, Colorado, Indianapolis, Indiana,
Columbus, Ohio, Morgantown, West Virginia,
Springfield, Missouri, St. Louis, Missouri, New York, New York, Worcester, Mass, Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
I am coming for you.
All those dates will be up shortly.
It's a big one because we have to get the hour ready because I'm shooting in November.
This man is performing everywhere in Tennessee.
Yeah.
I'm a Tennessee guy now.
Shout out to Brad Sativa.
You know,
it finally happened.
Wait,
you're not going to Sioux Falls,
Tennessee.
Are you,
you're going to Sioux Falls,
North Dakota,
actually.
David,
David,
David,
don't do it to me,
man.
Oh yeah.
You're going to meet everybody. I i'm gonna send them all of that
is happening before november yeah the last date of that is october 28th goodness my birthday wow
last day it's on my birthday you know your whole tour is centered around john's life yeah it's the
sean's it's the sean's birthday tour actually yeah uh, it's actually the bring David a plate tour, which is, you know, I'll talk about that when the flyer comes out.
But bring David a plate dot com.
If I'm coming to your city, send me a picture of a plate you made.
And if yours is the best one, me and my feature will eat it.
And then I'll show it on my Instagram and you'll get free tickets.
Who's your feature?
Brian Sullivan.
Very funny young man out of Colorado.
I just worked with him in Denver.
He just opened for Ian.
He's in Vegas, right?
In Vegas.
Yeah, very funny.
He's coming with me,
and we're driving all over this gosh darn country.
He's wonderful.
Yeah, it's going to be a good time.
Baron Vaughn is here.
Baron Vaughn Black on Twitter.
That's Black with a Q. Bar Vaughn. Bar Vaughn. Oh, it ison vaughn is here hey baron vaughn black on twitter that's black with a q
barvon oh it is it's an optical illusion my head has always filled in your entire name there
my i know one of those things barvon v-a-r-v-o-n b-l-a-q on twitter on instagram
in austin scouting locations right now because the man is a triple threat.
Quadruple threat.
Quintuple threat?
How many threats are you?
Sex.
How many guns do I need?
I'm not going to call you a sex threat.
No, sept.
Sept.
Septuple threat.
Yes.
Is sept?
Sept is seven.
Sex is six.
Yeah.
Is that how it works?
It's in the months, baby.
September, October, November, December.
Even though it's not the,
don't correspond to what month they are.
December is December.
12 is Dec, right?
Because they added in those two months.
Dec is 10.
Dec is 10.
Nov is nine.
Like a Dec again?
So it should be Do, Dec, December.
Do, Dec, December.
You're right.
Yeah, but it's not.
I get it.
It's because they added in July and August, right?
Yeah, something about someone, some
Roman died. Well, that's politics,
dude. They had to work in July and
August. Julius Caesar and Augustus,
dude. That's politics. I don't mean to get
political on this show, but
whoever's in the White House, you're not taking
my July and August.
Who is in the White House? Over my dead body.
Some sleeping, guys asleep, man. Wake them up and lower the APR. Just do it the White House now? Over my dead body. Some sleeping,
the guy's asleep, man.
Wake him up and lower the APR.
Just do it already,
you know,
and the gas prices.
Man, we're a far right podcast,
buddy, just so you're,
just so you know.
I was not expecting that.
I know you know us,
you know us in real life and we don't really,
you know, we're not like,
but the podcast is very,
We're almost left again.
We're so far right
that we're almost back to the left.
It's a,
it's an odd situation.
Well, you got to get those, you got to get those listens.
Yeah.
Where can people see you, frequent your wares, whatever they may be?
Oh, my goodness.
I'm just in the house with the kids.
If you drive by, wave.
I will not come outside.
Tell me about it.
No, I, yeah, just'm i've got a couple things
going on that i can't remember off the top of my head nothing that's super sophisticated uh
or special but you know i am also contemplating the great quit oh talk about it yeah are you really
we've all been there i i'm doing a little stand-up here
and there and one of the reasons i moved to atlanta was to be in a place where you know just
a different scene you know a different group of people and just kind of you know but like
you know and some of it might just be like i've been burnt out for a little bit and i'm over
overthinking it but there's a part of me that feels like maybe I'm done. You know what I mean? Like, but I think that all of us kind of get to
that point at some point, but I I've been doing it like this, this is July. Right. So I started
July of 2001. I remember because it was before nine 11. Yeah. Right. Speaking of seven 11,
it was before nine 11. It was seven 11. It was two less. Yeah of 7-11, it was before 9-11. It was 7-11. It was two less.
Yeah, actually it was, it was like July. Today's, today's July 11th. I don't know if that matters,
but like, yeah, it was July and the summer of, and I was in Boston and that's when I started
doing standup. So it's been like 22 years that I've been, I've been doing it, which sounds crazy.
And it's something I always dreamed of getting to, of being somebody who had been doing it which sounds crazy and it's something i always dreamed of getting to of being somebody
who had been doing stand-up for at least 20 years yeah so i achieved my dream is it time to wake up
that's the question man well got it oh man there's a lot of conspiracy sprinkled in there i like to
think you completed stand-up and you're not quitting you just want you just completed it
i completed it you finished the marathon. Most people quit.
Yeah.
That's like, it's like pro sports, right?
Like, yeah, most people quit or they like go a long time without doing it and come back
and hate trans people.
But like for the most part, it feels like people just end up quitting anyways.
But before I quit, you can see me in Portland, Oregon at the kickstand.
There we go.
Kickstand.
Clinton Street Theater.
Kickstand comedy.
There you go.
It's at the Clinton Street Theater?
Yeah.
July 22nd.
I believe it's at the Clinton Street.
That's right.
Thank you, Sean.
That is where I began comedy.
I began comedy at the Clinton Street Theater.
That was the first place that you went up?
The very first I ever performed stand-up and then I did a bunch of improv shows.
Yeah.
They never let me on that show.
So whatever.
Keep it pushing.
It wasn't that show.
It was a different show.
But they never let you on a subsequent show.
But just so we're clear, they never did let you on that show.
They did never let you on a subsequent show.
Great Hawaiian food right across the street from that place.
Beautiful little area.
It's a nice little pocket, dude.
I'm going to come chill.
I'm excited.
Good to know.
Portland, go see Baron Vaughn. You're not going to have a bad I'm excited. Good to know. Portland, go see Baron Vaughn.
You're not going to have a bad time.
You're going to have the opposite of that.
Make it so I don't quit.
Keep them in the game.
This is on you now.
It's on you now, Portland.
Keep them in the game.
Or if I keep going.
We're losing Damian Lillard, but we're gaining a Baron Vaughn.
Fill that hole in your hearts.
My name is Ian Carmel
at Ian Carmel on Twitter, at Ian Carmel
on Instagram, at Ian Carmel on TikTok,
at Ian Carmel. I'm not going to keep doing
the Jewish app thing. I decided. I'm drawing a line
in the sand. The bit
is over. Things change,
man. It's over. That bit is over.
You can find me
on Presbyterian TikTok. I'm just
starting. over you can find me on presbyterian tiktok i'm just starting um what i've been posted outfit i
put i posted my first outfit video on tiktok i'm getting fully into it and maybe this is the reason
why we should all quit is stand up stand up and just social media and everything. You have to do stuff to sell tickets, man.
You have to do so much stuff now.
What's an outfit video?
Yeah, I'm with Sean.
I posted like, somebody hit me up on TikTok
because they like the way I dress.
And I was like, well, they're like,
will you start posting videos of that?
So I posted that and then it like went well.
Like it got, it's like got like 25,000 views
of just me being like, here's the shirt.
Here's like one of the shirts I wear.
And I pair it with these shorts.
Yeah, be careful.
There's going to be a lot of people
out there copying you.
Or as they're also known,
Carmelians.
Carmelians.
Oh, yeah.
There you go.
You can't quit.
You can't quit.
Where are you going?
No.
It's going to find you.
You can't hide.
Uh-uh.
I remember a tweet off
back in the day
with you and someone else at a white
owl social club.
And you said that,
um,
you said something about iron man.
You're like,
yeah,
it's not as strong suit.
I'll remember that for the rest of my life.
That was Peter Serafinowicz.
And that was his joke.
I thought it was yours.
Look at me.
I'll remember for the rest of my life.
I remember that.
I remember that joke.
It was like a one liner off that we, that we did. Yeah. That was back in the, back at a Bridgetown. I'll remember it for the rest of my life. I remember that joke. It was like a one-liner off that we
did. Yeah, that was back in
Bridgetown. I remember that. Yeah, that's right.
Sorry to stop traffic with that and then be wrong.
So anyway, keep going.
I think we attribute that joke to Peter
Serafinowicz. He's not on the podcast right now. He's probably
in England. Yeah.
If you want that to be your joke, show up, bro.
Speaking of being all British, there's this Drake song with this British rapper on it.
Not to expect.
Oh, okay, okay, okay.
It is.
I really like British rap, but sometimes they're just so British.
And when they're sounding tough, it's gigs.
It's the song KMT.
Oh, gigs, okay. I's gigs. It's the song KMT. Oh, gigs.
I've tried.
It's insane.
They're always going down to the chippy and they have bare knives.
I don't like it.
He's got this line on there where he's, it's like, he's like, it's this menacing beat.
And he's just like, you already know I'm in love with them breasts.
Looking all perky.
And I can't.
It's so silly. Looking all perky. It's so silly.
Looking all perky.
Come on, man. And then later on in the song,
he's like, Batman.
It's just not...
That's hilarious.
Maybe it's tough if you're British, but
every time I listen to it, it cracks me up
every single time.
Speaking of your boy Drake, I picked up
You got the poetry book!
Oh! It is
so bad. Titles ruin everything.
I heard it was so bad. Oh my god!
He's joining the ranks of Jim
Morrison. That's fantastic. Not
even. If Jim
Morrison is just like a dude who writes on
bathroom stalls, they're literally
all Instagram captions.
This is what I've heard about it. He released
a hard copy book of Instagram
captions. That's how you copyright those captions.
Bro, it's not even,
if you can see, not even every
page has something on it.
It's like not even a
front backer. Not even
just Instagram, just some pages don't have
anything. Oh my God, what a scheme.
Two of those pages just had one tiny little sentence in the middle of the page.
I mean, I didn't pay for it.
Shout out to iHeartRadio.
But still, they're all one tiny sentences.
They're all one tiny sentences.
Your taste in men isn't exactly Michelin star.
That's not a poem.
No, it isn't.
That's it?
That's it.
That's more of a haiku.
It's like a small haikuiku tell me something I don't know
like your motives
ooh
man when people think
they're smart
swimming in regret is not cardio
I'm not gonna give any more spoilers
he's just negging the reader
that's just
yeah
much like all his music is.
Swimming in regret is not cardio.
I didn't know I was getting a new tattoo today, but here I am.
He needs some people in his life who are going to tell him the truth.
I think something needs to happen to him.
He probably just wants a bestseller.
He probably just wants that book to show up on a bestseller list, which it will because he's Drake.
It will.
And he's got a lot of fans.
Oh, yeah, a lot of people are going to buy that book,
and then he'll show up on the New York Times top ten,
and he'll be like, did it.
Look at all perky.
Look at all perky.
Look at all perky.
Look at all perky.
It might show up in at least the poetry New York Times top ten.
Is that its own?
There's ten poetry books out right now?
There probably is a list.
He's like, how can I game the system and make sure I'm a New York Times bestseller?
He was looking at young adult.
He was like, no, that's not it.
Poetry.
That's what I want.
Science fiction.
A Drake YA novel?
That could really.
Give me a Drake YA novel.
I feel like he's going through a lot of the
problems that a boy going
through puberty is also going through.
Yeah.
I want him solving mysteries.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Look at old Perky.
Look at old Perky. This comes out this Thursday?
You can see Ian in Toronto.
Tonight? Yeah.
And I won't be pronouncing the second T the way I know you like it.
Not like Sean.
And that's why you should come to me.
I'll be in Toronto.
Oh, they don't say the second T Toronto.
No, I'll be in Toronto at the comedy bar.
Danforth tonight, tomorrow and Saturday.
I schemed this these shows because I'm traveling up there for a different kind of work
be assassinating someone okay so I figured so I'm doing these shows at night as well so come
see me Toronto it's been a minute I can't wait to see you comedy by Dan Forth and then I've also
got some other dates coming together I don't have exact the ticket links aren't out yet, so I can't really announce them, but I'll be in Austin, Texas.
I'll be
other places as well.
I love how
inconclusive all of our announcements
except for David. David doesn't
have a flyer, but he has every date
down. He knows what's going on. We're all like,
I don't know. I'll be talking. I'll be
on a soapbox. Don't put me in your
disorganized boat. I'm Minneapolis, August
18th and 19th, and then a special October
29th. You had your
time. Look at me. I got it twice, bro.
I'm going to be in Austin.
I will be in Vancouver, BC.
I'm hitting Canada,
baby. I'm coming. Go up there.
Are you coming? Maybe.
It's close. It ain't hard.
You're missing the middle of Canada.
You got to go to Edmonton.
You got to go to Calgary.
Oh, Wistroth.
Winnipeg.
You got to Winnipeg.
You're going to be Wig and Pegging everybody who shows up.
Winnipeg, that's a lot of shows.
It's like two shows a night starting on, like, Tuesday.
Oh, goodness.
That used to be, like, Zany's in Chicago,ago which was like yeah first time i did that was like
tuesday through sunday and after doing three shows on a saturday and i'd be like why would i do a
sunday show that's sunday you are hurt you're walking with a hurt leg you're just trying to
limp through the set your lips are dry give me the light at 35 tonight i'll lay
you're doing 50.
When do you want the lay?
And you're like,
it's 35 to be safe.
I did that on Sunday.
I did that on Sunday.
I did that on Sunday show
in Vegas.
I was like,
go ahead and give it to me.
Because Lunel was coming up next too.
Brother.
Oh, Lunel.
Brother,
let me tell you about Vegas.
You Sunday show,
you did the early show
because Lunel's the late show.
Let me tell you a story
about Lunel missing her plane
you having to do her late show
in Vegas on Christmas
where they didn't tell her crowd
she wasn't going to be there
until they got to the venue
on Christmas
they did you dirty
it was
and then let me tell you about a club manager
who somehow has seen you bomb all week.
This is maybe a little too inside baseball now, man.
Now I want to hear it.
Oh, come on.
Well, it was just like the guy had seen me bomb all week.
It was me and Steve A.J.
And then, like, it's Lunel's Sunday night and it's a black show.
And out of nowhere, he does this with his hand.
And he's like, you know, if you've been holding anything back lunel's crowd
just let it go i'm like the fuck are you talking to me about bro he's like you know just let it all
hang yo what the fuck is this girls tonight and it's like oh you thought i wasn't doing a show
for black people and i just had a gear that i was hiding this whole fucking week of Christmas when I was bombing every goddamn
show. I mean, there were definitely
parts of my act I left out when
I walked out and saw certain portions of the crowd.
Well, they don't want you. They want
Lunell bad. They don't give a fuck.
That Sunday crowd, I can't imagine performing
in there. Can you imagine if they sent me out and
they were expecting Lunell?
And they got Juno instead of Lunell?
What are we doing?
I don't know the rules on that one. they were expecting. They got and they got Juno instead of Lunel. What are we doing?
I don't know the rules on that. Can I say it? I would have lost them 35
seconds earlier. You can say Junel. I would
love to be Junel.
It depends, Ian, because as my
good friend Victor Barnado said, sometimes
you get crazy white boy credit.
If you go up there in front of a white, all black
audience and you're white, they'll give you
a benefit for a doubt for just a second.
Like, oh, look at this crazy white boy.
And they'll probably.
And he's here.
Sometimes you get that for a little bit.
You can lose it quickly.
You can lose.
I would take that crazy white boy credit and I would promptly fumble the bag.
And you just got to start out with like, look at me.
What am I doing here?
It's crazy.
I got into coma one time.
I got into coma one time i got into coma one time and
then the dude told me he's like after the show he's like you got to go out the back door
you wouldn't let me leave through the crowd oh i thought he tried to have butt sex with you
yeah hey man sorry i'm gonna you're gonna pay me we're gathering here today not only to talk
about sean taking the back door but also also, to Fantasy Draft,
nicknames for cities.
Oh, yeah. Toronto, please come see me.
Comedy Bar, Dan Forth. Can't wait to see you.
U.S. cities, correct?
No. Are we just doing U.S. cities? I didn't think it was just U.S. cities.
It better not be U.S. cities because I know some cities that are not U.S.ers.
I thought it was just U.S. cities.
It's U.S. cities in the text.
When you guys listen to this
podcast, just know these colors don't
run. I live for you, America.
Come out and see me because
I got all our towns on this list.
I can play that game. I can do U.S.
I can just do U.S. cities.
No, we can do World War.
I only have one U.S. city
on my list, so. Damn!
That's original. 503.
You're a fucking drafter with pitbull
over here. The way we determine the order of this draft
is through a rollicking game of rock, paper, scissors.
Play between the three of you, and we
throw on shoot. Here we go.
Rock, paper, scissors,
shoot. Wow.
We gotta play it again. Rock,
paper, scissors, shoot.
Ah, Barron wins!
Unnatural. It's an unnatural victory. A paper against two scissors, but he Ah, Barron wins. It's an unnatural victory.
A paper against two scissors, but he is
the last man standing
with his papers.
It is incumbent upon you to determine
the order of today's draft, but before
you do that, I will remind you it is a serpentine
draft. And what is that? That's a great
question, Sean. Now, I feel this
bit slipping away, too, but maybe not
just today, but I feel like,
I feel like sometime soon this may also be retired,
but it is not this day.
I'm painting my deck,
which don't ever paint your own deck.
Hire somebody to paint your deck.
Unless you're a painter.
I digress.
It's like painting your deck.
You paint all the way right to left.
Make sure that there's no little blank spots of the brown.
You cover up all with all the gray that you're painting.
And then you get to the left,
you go down a little bit, go all the way to the you go down a little bit go all the way to the right, down a little bit
all the way to the left, almost exactly
what a serpentine draft is
there it is, couldn't be any clearer
basically what it means Baron is if you pick fourth
in the first round, you pick first in the second round
and it keeps flipping like that throughout the podcast
it's like that if you want I guess
fourth in the first round, first in the second round
so you get back to it
so it doubles back like that if you want, I guess. Fourth in the first round, first in the second round. Yes, sir.
Okay.
With that in mind, what is the order of today's draft?
And when you say the order, you're saying that I get to
pick which of you or which of us?
You can pick the whole draft.
You just pick the order.
Okay, I think it's going to go
David, Sean,
Ian.
Me first. Oh, Ian. Me first.
Oh, you're waiting.
Baron, David, me, Ian.
Hot corner.
All right. Fantastic.
I don't know the tone of this draft,
if you're joking or not yet.
We're going to say.
Baron Vaughn, you have the first pick
in the city nicknames,
US or otherwise, all fantasy, everything draft. And we will get to the first pick in the city nicknames, US or otherwise, All Fantasy Everything draft.
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All Fantasy Everything draft.
What is that first pick going to be?
Well, Ian, you were
just there.
It is my hometown.
I'm talking about Las Vegas,
aka Sin City.
Yeah.
And the reason I like this is because
it almost sounds like you're saying Cincinnati
yeah
a place that is literally the opposite
of Cincinnati
they're doing
different sins in Cincinnati
very different
like for example chili on spaghetti
that could be one of them right there
oh shit he said it chili on spaghetti I'm sure it's of them right there. Oh, shit. He said it.
Chili on spaghetti.
I'm sure it's delicious.
I would eat it.
Zach Toscani, a friend of ours, is a huge proponent of it,
but I don't like that.
I don't like seeing chili on spaghetti.
But I don't like that.
But I don't like it.
Put chili on anything.
I also like Las Vegas.
I have mixed feelings.
I think that mixed feelings is the only way that you can truly feel about Las Vegas.
And that's part of what Vegas wants you to feel.
Mixed feelings would be a great name for a cocktail bar.
Really?
Yeah, right on the nose.
Yeah, it's like off the strip, though.
Where are you hanging out tonight?
I'm going to be at mixed feelings on Fremont.
I lost everything at the roulette table.
I got to head to Mixed Feelings.
Yeah, I got to work
some shit out.
She called me and said
she wants to talk.
I got to hit Mixed Feelings.
I'm going to go get my thoughts
together at Mixed Feelings.
I just bought this book
of Drake poetry.
I got to head to Mixed Feelings.
Drake.
Baron, how you doing?
Baron, how do you feel about Las Vegas?
You're from, you're a Las Vegas native.
Yeah, Vegas is a weird place, you know, and I was there at a strange time.
And, you know, it's a very different city than what it was when I grew up there.
I moved there, I want to say like 88, 89, something like that, right?
Yeah.
And Las Vegas kind of went through a growth spurt.
That's how I knew back in 2008-ish, 2007, 2008, I knew we were headed for a recession.
Because when I would go to Vegas, there were all these buildings that weren't finished.
And I had never seen... It's always construction, but they always finish it.
And it seemed like there was construction. It just like the skeletons of buildings you know just like
the steel beams and stuff like that and i was like hmm something's going on i could feel the
tourist was going down tourism was going down and then you know about a year after i noticed this in
vegas is when i was hearing we're officially in a recession i was like haha i see what happened
but something i've been thinking about yeah las vegas will let you know man las vegas as goes the economy goes vegas or whatever
however that expression goes but uh because vegas is like when i was there they tried to make it a
family-friendly town like it was before it was before they had the whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas slogan, which was, like, at the end of that.
But before that, they had built what is now called, I think it's called the Grand Slam.
I don't know what it's called, like the Adventure Dome.
It's like a big pink dome at the Circus Circus Hotel Casino.
Oh, yeah.
And it is an indoor amusement park.
They built that when I was, like uh in middle school maybe elementary school
mgm grand opened and it had a theme park so vegas was trying to become a place of theme parks
but a big reason i think is because when i moved there um so did a giant cloud of 11 year olds
that was not the vegas the infrastructure of las vegas suddenly had a bunch of school-year-olds that was not the Vegas, the infrastructure of Las Vegas, suddenly
had a bunch of school-age children
descend on it, and they did not have
enough schools. So I ended up
going to something called a
sixth-grade center.
Which is,
imagine a high school, but it's only
sixth-graders.
That sounds like Lord of the Flies.
That's chaos. That's my worst nightmare.
They did that for a little bit
because they just didn't have this.
I don't know if they built
a bunch of schools
in the meantime,
but it was like
by the time I was in sixth grade,
because I want to say
I moved there,
I was like in third grade,
but suddenly it was like
there were too many kids.
They were building
a lot of housing,
but they forgot to build roads.
So it was like...
That sounds wretched.
Vegas is crazy.
Any trip to Vegas includes the feeling
at least three or four times,
like, people shouldn't live here.
Absolutely.
You know what I mean?
You're, like, aware of it.
You become aware in a moment.
Like, it's usually when you walk outside
and it feels like you just opened the oven,
where you're like,
people aren't meant to be right here.
The heat is also insane.
It's a desert.
That dome they built is insane, too. not like that yeah that's the end of all this it's beautiful but it's fuck that's a place where
people go to do drugs and you're supposed to be like on mushrooms and then see like a gigantic
perfect looking eye poking out of the desert yeah what is it like an edm sphere it's well it's you too is gonna open
it you too is gonna be the first band to play there really that eye that eye it doesn't look
like an eye for real it can it can look like anything that's real i saw that on instagram
that's real that's real that real eye it's real giant dome that is a projector building basically
i didn't know that that's so cool they made it
look like a basketball i love it because it does feel like the part of the i was talking about this
with baron before the podcast it feels like the future that we were like the the world was promised
yeah 50 years ago i get you like it's like and then fine cars are next and it's all about to
happen right it's all about to happen like oh shit they got buildings that can happen. Like, oh shit, they got buildings that can look like anything.
You know what I mean? They can make it look like a giant boob
out there if they want it. They're in the AVN Awards.
They can do anything with it. They probably
will do that. Holy crap. They probably will.
If they're hilarious, they will. I think that sounds great.
They're hilarious. They're just making a giant tit
out there in the desert. That's what I think. It's gonna be
the tit of the desert, which will be a new nickname
for next time we draft this. You're saying pics, dude.
Damn it, boy. Time for your first pic. the tit of the desert, which will be a new nickname. You're saying picks, dude. David Boyd, time for your first pick.
Tit of the desert.
I had to take it.
It was the first one that popped in my head.
It's amazing.
I think it fits the city perfectly.
I'm taking New Orleans, the Big East.
Ah, damn it.
I mean, come on.
What a good.
If there was ever a nickname I heard and drew me to a city,
it was the Big Easy.
It just sounds wide open, man.
It's wide open.
But also like slow paced, which is what I like.
Sounds like it might not be in this country, which I also enjoy.
Yeah.
New Orleans might not be in this country.
It feels like depending on the time of year,
where you are, who you're hanging out with,
it's like barely there.
Still never been.
Never been.
Still.
It's wild to me.
Shocking.
Yeah, I know.
That is insane.
Maybe it just knows I can't go.
Maybe New Orleans knows deep down, like,
Sean can't handle this.
I mean, when you go there.
It's just not letting me go.
If you don't have your regulator on, it's not easy.
You re-ripped my regulator off like five years ago, I think.
I don't know where it went.
I would be worried about you because you don't have to stop.
I've gone to New Orleans.
I've had trips with people where they just didn't,
just from when we landed to when we left.
I mean, that's what Vegas is where it's like,
man, I got a plane needs to get me out of here.
Yeah, New Orleans and Vegas have that energy where people go there to kind of act
wild.
I used to be like that in New Orleans.
And then I filmed a comedy special and took a bunch of acid and hit Bourbon
Street.
And then I never,
it was so much,
it was so visceral.
I never did that again.
I don't care.
I've been back before.
I just didn't know.
I mean,
like to the old,
to the old wares or whatever. There's different ways. There's, it's like, like there been back before. I just didn't. No, I mean, like, to the old. It cured me of, like. To the old wares or whatever.
There's different ways.
It's like there's different.
Vegas, they say there's different ways to do Vegas.
I don't really believe that.
I, like, don't really know anyone who just goes for the small weekend.
I mean, you could live there and have a job.
Yeah.
Or go to.
You could have an 11-year-old.
But there's different ways to visit, like, New Orleans.
But even those are extreme.
There's no like if
you're not getting hammered every night you are eating an incredible amount of cream-based dishes
so you're getting it either way in the heat that's how crazy that's how crazy that town is
they're like come to the hottest town for all your dairy and you're like yeah i like to get
too fit what the fuck are we doing over here the air feels like cream and that like it's 90% humidity.
Here, have a shrimp and dairy-based dish.
Yeah, it's 105 degrees and I'm eating a stew?
Dude, it's wild.
That's how you know that place is crazy.
I love it.
But yeah, I love it.
The Big Easy.
It's just fun.
Big Easy.
It's just such a fun name.
Had to take it.
Yeah.
I wonder where that name comes from, the Big Easy. It's just such a fun name. I had to take it. Yeah. I wonder where that name comes from, the Big Easy.
Constitution.
It's the way that they suggest that you have a big easy life when you're in that.
I'm just making shit up.
I bet it's close to that.
Just be big and easy, man.
Have fun.
Layback.
Enjoy it.
Oh, in the 1900s, there was a dance hall in New Orleans called the Big Easy,
but the nickname did not become famous
until the early 1970s.
Really?
When the newspapers started calling it there
because of the easygoing way of life
compared to New York City.
And a lot of New Yorkers I've been hearing
have been moving to New Orleans left and right.
Have they?
They got to control that.
They need to make, like...
That's the last thing we need down there.
We can't have too much New York energy in New Orleans.
Well, they call New York the big heart.
So
I don't want to get out of there.
Where the fuck is my at the face?
I ordered at the face fucking 45 minutes ago.
I've been sitting here.
What are you going to what are you fucking screwing me?
You fucking screwing me?
I see this other guy coming five minutes after me. He's already got his gumbo. What the fuck are you fucking screwing me you fucking screwing me i see this other guy coming five
minutes after me he's already got his gumbo what the fuck are you doing to me that's a that's a
pretty good gandolfini yeah thank you my entire life is a pretty good gandolfini that's fine
sean jordan it's time for your first pick well we're gonna touch on the aforementioned new york
it's one of the most fitting nicknames to me
it's the city that never sleeps ah yes yeah i i didn't fully realize that until this most recent
time we were there in december and uh at 4 30 in the morning i think david and i were on the street
and it looked like it was five o'clock in the winter after like a nick game or something i mean it was crazy yeah
we got a sanguine nobody looked like it was everybody looked like it was just the afternoon
like early evening and i it was crazy to me and i was just like where were you at 4 a.m in new york
where it was active like that outside of that snl party it was oh wow okay yeah we were i mean
not everybody was at that part I'm just
saying it was like the whole nobody from the party they were all still inside we were outside waiting
for a cab and there were just people everywhere yeah like they had just gotten off work or they
were going to work they didn't look tore up or anything just people moving smiling texting at
4 30 in the morning It was shocking to me.
And it's just like, it's like that way.
Like, man, I need to go home and like,
make sure there's no lights.
Because if I see lights, I know there's real life going on.
Yeah.
Not like in any other city at 4.30 in the morning.
It looks like 4.30.
Anyway, so it's just so fitting.
Is it like, there's always people doing shit, man.
Wild.
It's kind of unnerving.
It's a shift change city too, where it's like different groups of people up you know what i mean like you can it's one of
those places where you will walk by somebody who's up at 4 a.m for a very different reason
yeah yeah you know like you're drunk staggering back to your hotel and there's like a goldman
zack's executive who's awake at 4 a.m. Because Tokyo turns
on. Well, he has to work out now
because Tokyo wakes up at 5. You know what I mean?
It's like that kind of thing. That's what I was talking to David
about. I was like, we need to get back to the hotel before the
sun comes up because I am starting
to feel like I'm supposed to be awake
right now because everybody's putting that
out. I'm not supposed to
be up. I was supposed to be in bed hours ago.
Stuff getting tossed off the back of trucks.
It feels like a musical's about to start about how busy New York is
that energy is there
you can get caught up in it
and it will keep you up
if you are not careful
I will say even if you think a musical
is about to start in New York
don't start snapping and going
they don't like it
I like it, that was fun
that was David and I were trying to start a do-op group
out on the wet street corner
they've been calling it that since Sinatra too
so this is like pre-technology
this has been a city that doesn't sleep
take a nap New York, go ahead, it's fine
one of those fucking 4am
bar closed cities, man.
I know people
should have the option, but I
should not be given that option.
No, I don't. No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
No, I have it.
I need to remove that option from my
options. And when
the bar closes, you just go to a lounge.
Different rules. Yeah. yeah yeah the bars in
london close at like 10 like the pub i hated that though that's insane that's an insane decision
every what do we do it's midnight what are we doing i'm not in my country then you have to go
to like a then you have to go to a drinking club and but you have to know where that shit is i know
and then yeah you gotta know bro i don't know any bros time for my first pick you know some bros
yeah i'm going to take i'm going to take to me just this nickname is the is the personification
of putting too much dip on your chip making making a promise you can't keep but i love the energy
behind it.
I'm taking Reno, Nevada, the biggest little city in the world.
It's such a good nickname, dude.
How dare you?
The dumbest.
The dumbest. How dare you?
How dare you?
I've been to Reno a few times.
It's not the biggest little city in the world.
As a Reno apologist, I love it.
Are you a Reno apologist?
I like Reno better than Vegas.
What are you talking about?
Let's play some $5 craps, baby.
He likes that little town feel.
I've always had a great time there.
I like that sometimes it snows.
I don't know.
I like Reno. It's like reno i it's weird
i know it's weird i used to have a couple gigs there so i'd be in reno every you know four or
five months for a couple years and reno's always been good to me man i dated a woman who was from
carson city nevada so i spent some time in that area yeah hans burgers from reno yeah yeah i don't It is. Yeah. Hans Berger's from Reno.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I don't love it.
I get it.
Listen, I get it, man.
Man, if I was the mayor of the city and somebody was like,
I don't love it, that'd be the most twist of the dagger you could do to me.
That would be the more accurate.
Right now, the big sign says Reno, the biggest little city in the world. What it should say is Reno, dot, dot, dot.
I don't love it.
That's honest.
Shout out if you're in Reno.
You're dope.
How long has it been biggest little city in the world?
Yeah, when did that start?
I've also never been to Reno.
Reno's just always been one of those places.
Damn, you never been there?
No, because it seems like it's, I was like, you know, Nevada's a huge state.
Right.
So I'd be like, where is it? Two hours away?
Oh, no, no, no, no, no.
It's the full northern part of the state.
Two long, hot hours.
Yeah, yeah.
See, it was only like two, three, maybe three, four hours from San Francisco.
So it's like perfect road gig distance.
That's it?
I didn't know that.
Reno got the nickname when a local businessman started promoting it in the summer of 1910,
when the heavyweight prize fighting championship between Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries brought
thousands of spectators to town.
Those are two different dudes now.
I would have gone to that.
Yeah.
Yeah, those are two different dudes.
Two white dudes.
Imagine Jack Johnson in current day, Jack Johnson and Jim Jeffries fighting.
I'd go to that too.
And if it was in Reno, I'd go to that.
A lot of cat paws on that one.
I'd find someone to have one of on that one they have a banana pancake special
yeah I'd go do that
Tahoe
there's something about the Reno
Tahoe had like a certain
kind of cool like a ritzy
reputation
you sounded when you just said Tahoe for the first
time you just said it twice first time you said it
you go Tah said Tahoe for the first time, you just said it twice. First time you said it, you go, Tahoe.
Tahoe.
Tahoe.
Welcome to Lake Tahoe.
You sounded rich and from there.
Like Tahoe was like Sinatra performing Lakeside.
You know what I mean?
And then Reno's next door.
And it's like fishing a quarter out of an ashtray.
Tahoe definitely does have the classier vibe.
Another place I've never been.
Really?
If you live in Vegas, you're disinvited
from all those places.
Oh, interesting.
They mail a mailer to you and say, don't come.
Don't come to Tahoe. Don't come to Torino.
Vegas is fine with me. I'll just stay at my
6th grade temple or whatever.
Center.
The center for for sixth grade technologies
sixth grade technology you know like paper football construction yeah that's right
touching boobs and stuff i'm going to take my second pick now okay and i'm going to tell i
mean i have to do it i'm taking the rose Rose city. I'm taking Portland, Oregon. Sure. That's good.
The Rose city.
Do you feel like that's a great nickname?
I love it.
I think Portland is blessed with a litany of great nicknames.
There's a lot of nicknames.
There's a lot of nicknames.
And I love, I think like what I love about the Rose city nickname,
I do like it as its own, but nobody's saying like,
I'm going to the Rose City for the weekend, the way
people will say. I'm hitting the city
up or I'm going down to the Big Easy.
The way Portland
has embraced that nickname
and we have the Rose
Festival. You know what I mean?
We have the Rose Parade.
There's the Rose Princess.
You know what I mean? We have all this stuff.
The Rose Garden. The Big Dope Rose Garden. We have both Rose Garden. The basketball place, the Rose what i mean like we have like all this stuff the rose garden the big rose garden we have both rose garden the basketball place the rose garden and
then we have a beautiful rose garden like i love the way it is entered there's like beautiful
murals of roses like all over portland that have been there my entire life like pre murals blown
up you know what i mean they would just like paint them on walls and water towers and stuff like that. So I do like that.
It dates back to 1889 when the Portland Rose Society was founded
and promoted the planting of 20 miles of Portland streets with roses
in advance of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Centennial Exposition.
And then there was a festival of roses shortly after that.
Wait a minute.
Dean Cain and Terry Hatcher had a minute dean kane and terry hatcher
have a what and scene lois and clark yeah the lowest and clark the lowest and clark centennial
what if it was just walking across the country getting dysentery and whatnot with his chest out
developing opinions that's right that was the original was the original long-form video game, right?
Yeah.
Oregon Trail.
The original RPG video game.
You'd just be waiting to hunt.
Oh, yeah.
Remember that?
What are all these fucking words?
I just want to shoot a rabbit. What do you mean I can't carry back
600 pounds of buffalo?
I know you'd kill all these buffalo
and then 250 pounds.
What if I make several trips?
What are you talking? Let's go back. Come on. I had all tell all these Buffalo and then 250 pant. What if I make several trips? What are you talking?
Let's go back.
Come on.
I had all these kids for a reason.
Um,
so yeah,
the,
the,
uh,
the city of roses,
the Rose city,
Portland,
Oregon.
I had to take,
I had to take the big one.
Totally.
Love it.
Sean Jordan.
Totally love it.
Well,
I'm going to Los Angeles for this one.
I'm going to pick a more unconventional
nickname for Los Angeles because I've always loved this
and I always called it that when I lived there
The Dream Factory
I think it's a great nickname for a city
Do other people call it that
or are you picking one of your own nicknames?
There's no way I made that up
I didn't reason
There's no
Give yourself some credit
There's no way You're the only I don't think I There's no... Give yourself some credit. There's no way that I made that up.
I don't think I've heard of it from anybody else.
I've never heard anyone else say that.
You look it up.
There's no...
Dude.
When did you first encounter the nickname The Dream Factory?
When did you first encounter it?
I don't know.
Have you never heard that, Baron?
I think I might have, but I have to really think about it. So it's not like the first nickname that comes to mind when I think about it. I don't know. Have you never heard that, Baron? I think I might have, but I have to really think about
it. So it's not like the first nickname
that comes to mind when I think of Los Angeles.
Hey, I gotta say, I'm from Los Angeles. I've lived
here most of my life. I've never heard that before.
And also, I'm on the Wikipedia page.
Serious? And it's not on there.
Oh!
Really?
That's what he said.
I mean, that's crazy to me.
So are we now dubbing it
to Dream Factory? Is that what's happening now, Sean?
We don't have to pick it.
That's crazy to me. Can I?
Yeah, it's your nickname. Why not?
I didn't know that. There's no way. I don't believe it.
Alright, take a different one.
I'm picking
Sioux Falls next. Stinktown.
We're just Stinktown. We're just...
Stinktown?
Sioux Falls, South Dakota,
the big keep it moving.
Thank God there's a gas station here,
capital of South Dakota.
No, I can switch it.
I don't want to pick one
that I'm making up.
It makes sense. Actually, I mean, it tracks.
It makes sense that it would be a nickname for
Los Angeles. No one
in existence has ever heard that before.
So it's just... Well, yeah.
Well, shit, I'm a genius. All right. We'll
take it over to the East Coast. We will go
to Boston.
We're going to pick Beantown. It's always been a fun one
to say. Oh, okay. Beantown. It's always been a fun one to say. Oh, Beantown.
Beantown. Bean there, done that
town.
It's named after
Mr. Bean, the comedic
British actor. Rowan Atkinson.
Rowan Atkinson, of course. Funniest comedian ever
out of Boston, Mr. Bean, who just threw
beans at people.
I just think it's a fun
one to say, going to Beantown.
It's fun. Boston rules.
Rules off the tongue. It's not completely
fabricated by myself.
No, other people have called it that.
Those are all qualities
that, yeah.
My first ones, I was trying to look for
nicknames that didn't have
city in them.
Beans and brown bread were a staple
in colonial New England. At Plymouth
Colony in 1622, the local Native
Americans baked cornbread in earthen
pots and called it maize-ium.
When the pilgrims sojourned
in... This is a bad
explainer.
They were eating beans.
I always thought it was about baked beans
the candy. I thought the nickname was
The Bean Factory.
It's the bean factory.
I think you know which city
you're referencing to, and it's Sean's
back door. Don't do that.
Boston baked beans with molasses
and salt pork because they had molasses
and rum there.
Right. The Great Molasses Flood.
Yeah, the Great Molasses Flood. Wait, that's Molasses Flood. Yeah. Wait, that's real?
So we're just going to keep doing diarrhea terms?
Baked Bee,
Bee Town, the Great Molasses Flood
of 1919 in Boston, Massachusetts.
Totally. Have you guys heard
about this? Absolutely not.
That's one of those weird... Stop it!
I just made up a nickname for LA. Of course I haven't
heard of the Great molasses, but...
I started doing stand-up in Boston,
so I know about all this Boston lore.
A large storage tank filled with 2.3 million gallons of molasses
weighing approximately 13,000 tons.
13,000 tons?
Burst and the resultant wave of molasses
rushed through the streets at an estimated 35 miles an hour,
killing 21 people and injuring 150.
35 miles an hour.
I would love to hear a bunch of Boston people remark on that.
It's all sticky, kid.
You're the molasses kid.
It's also known as the Boston molassacre.
Oh, there you go.
No, it's not.
There you go.
Aaron, you can't quit.
I don't know what you're doing.
You're not helping.
Clearly I have.
Clearly I already have.
You can't hang up the gloves.
This man is finished.
The Boston Post says the wave of molasses was 50 feet high.
The Boston Post is fabricating.
And they were just talking about immigrants moving to the city.
50 feet of syrup coming down the street. boston post is what ben affleck calls
oh good god wow okay wait so this is whose pick is bean town this is sean
you you are replacing the dream factory with i bad. I didn't know I made it up. Okay.
I might make it later.
I mean, if you don't watch it, the Dream Factory can turn into the Bean Factory real quick.
Oh, yeah.
Real quick.
I've seen that happen to dozens of people.
All it takes is one whale bone with a bunch of liquor that's not on the whale bone that you add to the whale bone,
and then it'll turn the Dream Factory to the Bean Factory right quick.
David Borey, come for your second pick.
I still am going with some of the silly
ones. I was going through the list.
This is hilarious. I'm taking
Fort Worth, Texas, the Big
Juicy.
The Big Juicy?
Anyone called it that.
That's amazing. I didn't know either,
but I looked it up. It's real.
Shane's from Fort Worth. Never mentioned
it. He's real. Shane's from Fort Worth. I've never mentioned it.
He's never mentioned it.
He's never called it the Big Juicy.
It's sitting there the whole time.
He's the one I was pissed at when I saw it.
This was just on the table.
You never said it.
Did you text?
If you let him know yet.
I got to.
No, no.
I'll probably let him know after this.
It's going to be a phone call.
Where did you find that one?
What are his origins?
But then when you Google the Big Juicy, it is one of Fort Worth's nicknames.
There's also a guy named Juicy, I think.
There's a lot of weird shit behind it.
Is Shane Juicy?
I've been saying it for years.
I mean, he is Juicy, but call him the Juicy.
The Big Juice?
Why is it called the Big Juicy?
I don't know, but it's dank.
Because you've got to come get a squeeze, baby. Juicy. The Big Juice? Why is it called The Big Juicy? I don't know, but it's dank. We've said juicy enough
now where I'm doing the whole like ROADS
thing with it.
It's juicy.
Fun one to say.
The Big Juicy, huh?
Ian's, did you just find Red 2?
What happened?
I'm trying to figure out why it's called The Big Juicy.
I feel like it has
something to do with fruit no you would think that i've been to fort worth i went to fort worth one
time and hung out with shane and i had nothing there said big juicy to my eyes is it the humidity
is it that the sweat that you that comes off the people makes your lower back all juicy? The people get all juicy. Yeah, your lower back,
your pit area,
your leg pits get all juicy. I was fucking juicy in Chicago.
It was so juicy in Chicago. I was there like last week.
That's a juicy city in the summer.
Yeah, in the summer? Oh, yeah.
That hot wind coming off the lake?
Oh.
Yeah, I walked in all the
garbage up.
True that. Can you remember back when people wore suits
like all the time
I don't get it I saw I was watching
like uh I don't know
it's like a video from New York in like the
1910s yeah and everybody was
like look how well everybody's
dressed and how nobody's fat and I'm like
they're also wearing suits in
July they stink that sucks like, they're also wearing suits in July. They stink.
That sucks.
They stink.
They're wearing fucking, yeah, flannel suits in July.
Everybody stinks.
I don't know if it was flannel.
That's the thing.
It's the material.
Flannel?
It's pronounced flannel?
Yes.
Flannel.
Flannel.
I mean, I don't have to tell you guys, but obviously a huge fan of the invention of athletic
apparel.
It all seems tough before that.
Yeah. Yeah, dude. I used to play basketball in like in like work shoes it all seems like three-piece wool suits in a in hell's
kitchen no thanks i guess they could be wearing linen this is before showers let's not forget
that like yeah people didn't bathe every day it wasn't it wasn't a thing you know and you wore
like your undershirt your undergarments was what you changed every day but you wasn't a thing. You know, and you wore your undershirt, your undergarments
was what you changed every day.
But you wore the same suit
every day. You had rancid juice.
Also, you want a world with no fat
people? You don't want fat people?
Get the fuck out of town.
That's what commenters on Instagram
were saying.
Notoriously the truth
tellers.
They don't know
what they're fucking asking for. If they woke up
in a world with no fat people, shit would get grim
for them really, really quick. You think so?
Yeah, I think so. I'd like to think
so. I think so. I think fat
people are doing very, very important work
that non-fat people aren't doing in this country.
Get him, dude.
And you mean fat with a PH,
right? Yeah. I mean pretty with the ph right yeah i mean pretty hot yeah yeah yeah
not obese i don't mean obese people
you're telling me you don't want a world with pretty hot and tempting people
yeah every time ian goes into a bar he's like there's a lot of fat people in here
it's a good place for me.
It is funny thinking like the person that did try to use it like that, like not being like, damn, that girl's fat, but being like, whoa, look at all these fat people.
But they meant pretty hot and tempting, but they just didn't say it the right way.
It had to just mean big fat asses.
And then eventually, right?
Like that turned into.
If I remember it right.
right like that turned into if i remember it right and i think i do it's as far as i remembering the time that era of phat it was only like corny people saying it like it never well that's when
it was ending okay that's fair i wasn't on because i every time i remember people saying it i always
be like this fucking weirdo but you know it probably started in a song it probably was like
some rapper said it first and then it kind of caught on that's like weirdo. But you know, it probably started in a song. It probably was like, some rapper said it first, and then it kind of caught on.
That's like, stay woke.
You know, like, it started somewhere, and then suddenly governors are trying to make it illegal.
Woke is, that woke and fuckboy, two terms I never thought were going to catch on.
I know.
They caught on so hard.
When people started saying fuckboy, it was like, whoa, what?
Because the dudes who would say fuckboy before that was like a crackin' term was always like, oh.
Yeah.
Fuckboy, that's what you guys are saying?
All right.
It also took on an entirely new definition from the one that was like, that I came to know it from, you know?
Fuckboy.
What was the original definition of
fuck i felt like fuck boy never meant like somebody who was just out there like having
sex with girls under false pretenses like it felt like fuck boy was like just like a
someone who was really good at mortal kombat right somebody was really good yeah but only with cyrax
cyrax that fuck boy just won the mortal kombat competition up in reno yeah the biggest
little city the biggest little mortal combat tournament on the west coast yeah dude
oh god do you think they do it for like man they should for everything they got this is
the biggest little walmart you're ever gonna see the biggest little 7-eleven i got the biggest
little headache i've ever had in my life. Get off my fucking ass.
That's the beauty of slang is that slang can,
just like a lot of these nicknames.
Yes, it evolves.
Am I right there?
It's true.
Seriously, straight up.
It changes with the culture.
I'm a big slang boy.
I love all you fuck boys.
I love you fuck boys.
Oh, yes, I do.
I think you guys are all juicy, and I love it.
But are we the big juicy?
That's what it's worth.
All three of you together, yeah.
You're like the big Voltron juicy.
Marin, time for your second and third picks.
Oh, my second and my third.
Okay.
My second pick, my new hometown.
Yeah, yeah. Okay. It has a couple different nicknames but my favorite one is the a just i like it classic it's clean it's clean we all know what you're
talking about it's the one a any other a you're like no it's Atlanta Atlanta is the A
it is the A and
I don't know it's also like weirdly it's a
Bay Area song I'm thinking about like
tell me when to go
old
E-40 and Keke the sneak
and he goes from the Bay to the A
and I'm like yes that's it
from the Bay to the A
that's on kryptonite
I think it's by like
no no no
oh by the purple all stars
yeah by the purple all stars
if you want me you can
find me in the
I'll be on that
I'll be on that kryptonite
I'll be on that
okay now I know it it would be funny Abbey Yonet, Kryptonite, yes. Abbey, Abbey Yonet, Abbey Yonet.
Okay, now I know it.
Now that you said that, I'm like, oh yeah.
It was the Three Doors Down song.
Would you still call me me, Kryptonite?
Yeah!
That's about Atlanta, dude.
I believe they were in Fulton County.
It's more of a Fulton County song, that one.
Oh yeah, that's the biggest thing that I'm learning
about all the different counties, you know, because there's it's not decalb it has a silent l so it's decab but it's
like fulton cob decab gwynette yeah those are like the main ones i feel like i can't remember
they're all laden with meaning right they yeah i mean like you know people are very like it's
almost like the boroughs of,
of New York where it means something to be.
It's something different to be from Queens than it is to be from Brooklyn.
You know?
So like being from Cobb County is different than being from Fulton County,
et cetera,
et cetera.
It's like a little,
it's like more white,
more suburban.
Right.
I think I know.
I only know that because they moved the,
no idea.
I know they moved the Atlanta brave stadium there and people were like, that's not real Atlanta.
What are you doing?
Oh, yeah, yeah.
Oh, you're talking about that song that girl had?
Yeah, Omaretta the Great.
No.
You know the song called It's Not Atlanta?
Yeah, she just says a lot of places.
Sorry, not sorry.
Sorry, not sorry is the name of the song.
She just says a lot of places are not Atlanta.
When it's not Atlanta and then like other places.
That's on you, it's not Atlanta. Yeah, she's just naming all the places that are not Atlanta. It's not Atlanta. And then like other places. Not only is not Atlanta.
Yeah.
She's just naming all the places that are not Atlanta,
but that's a big thing.
You know,
like the perimeter again,
I'm still getting used to the culture of how people in this city talk
about the city and think about it.
So,
but to me,
it's all the a,
you know,
and I,
that's,
that's why that's my pick.
And for my, it's an a plus. That's why that's my pick.
It's an A-plus pick.
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Yes, this next
pick, I like this
one because everyone in this city
of San Francisco
hates this nickname.
Oh!
I had a Spidey pick on my list too!
I wanted to say more.
It's Frisco.
Yeah! I hate it.
I hate it. It's so dumb.
They hate it so much dude people get so upset upset
i think that like i had i almost was slapped by a stranger on the street just by walking down
i was like oh so cool to be in frisco so i was like hey don't you ever and i was like what the
hell yeah nobody likes it and i think that that that is so funny that people hate this nickname.
So Frisco, the city of San Francisco.
The Frisco kid.
It makes me cringe.
Why don't they like it?
For me, it was because I was 23 looking for identity in my city.
It just shows you people aren't like when you say Frisco, it's for sure they're not from there.
I've never every native says San Francisco every time.
Yeah.
Or the city.
Right.
They call it a little bit, but it's mostly people just say San Francisco.
How much do you hear San Fran?
Never.
Not much either.
I hear SF from time to time.
Yeah.
Or the city.
But like, yeah.
Yeah.
Because it's all the same. San Fran sam fran is as bad as frisco i guess saying frisco is like calling it like san jules
it's like when somebody doesn't know it's like if somebody doesn't know me and they call me davy
it's too familiar fucking stop you know what i mean think about it though when was the last time
ian i've never heard you say san fran or frisco, you know, to the point it's like, no, none of you.
I mean, our limited conversations over the last few years, Baron, but everybody included, I've never heard any of you say San Fran or Frisco because, you know, it's just people.
We're not supposed to.
No, not to say it.
I don't know why we're not supposed to.
I don't think it's smooth sounding either. It's like
not that San Francisco is
it just sounds corny.
It might have been smooth for a minute like
you know 40 years ago or whatever.
Any historical context to how this thing
might have evolved?
The burger dude. The Frisco burger
from Hardee's.
Hardee's
had a Frisco burger back in the day that I always used to get.
Sourdough.
Oh, it was the sourdough that makes it.
The sourdough.
It was the sourdough bread.
The national bed of the bread of the Bay Area.
Yeah, dude.
Sourdough.
Yeah, I don't know.
I didn't know until I started going to San Francisco, you know,
because it's like, even with Portland,
like there are certain cities or certain areas that I just had no reason to ever go to. And
then suddenly I was always there. Like it was like, I was like in San Francisco all of the time
in Oakland. And I'm just like, wow, like I come here a lot now. It's a place that I know, but,
you know, it was early in my, I say my visits that i possibly dropped the word frisco
and somebody put me on the right path real quick yeah don't say that shit on the bus
they thought it was a low-class nickname for a classy city there was a uh herb cane a revered
columnist for the san francisco chron. He wrote about the city. People listened.
And he had a book called Don't Call It Frisco,
which came out in 1953.
He said that it came along after the city had grown
from the dinky West Coast outpost
into a gold rush boomtown with saloons and debauchery
and later into a city that looked more like the East Coast
and European cities that it wanted to imitate.
And Kane thought that Frisco was more of like a... so what he said was, don't call it Frisco.
It's San Francisco because it was named after St. Francis of Assisi.
And because Frisco is a nickname that reminds the city uncomfortably of the early brawling,
boisterous days of the Barbary Coast and the Cribs and sailors who were Shanghai.
And because Frisco shows disrespect for a city that
is now big and proper and respectable.
And because only tourists call it Frisco
anyway. And you don't want to be taken for a
tourist, do you?
You don't want to be taken for a tourist.
There's more to that book than that statement. I can't imagine that.
There's more to it.
What were the other hundred pages?
That could have been Drake's whole book right there.
That was Drake's whole book.
And he worked for the San Francisco Chronicle.
He worked for the San Francisco,
which was also called the Frisco Crisco back in the day.
The Frisco Crisco.
St. Frisco.
So basically the Frisco thing is like
when you grow up with a kid,
you call him Bobby.
And then you like see him 10 years later
and he's like, no, I'm Roberto.
It's Robert now.
Yeah.
I went to Dartmouth.
Lots changed. Go get Robert now. Yeah. I went to Dartmouth. Lots changed.
Go get your fucking shine kit.
David, time for your third pick.
It's funny.
I am going to take it back to the Bay.
And instead of San Francisco, I'm taking Oakland.
I just, it always felt like a good nickname.
I love the town.
Yeah, the town.
Because it's like, in the way that San Francisco is a city,
it always felt like, not necessarily adversarial,
but always felt like, all right, they got their thing.
This is our thing.
The town always feels homier.
It sounds cooler than the city.
It's just like a good nickname.
I love the town.
Yeah, the town is great. And it's not like Frisco.
Everywhere you can say the town and
people know what you're talking about sean are you just finding out there's a place other than
the movie called the town i was trying to figure out in my mind could you see it on my face i was
like how am i gonna tell these guys i don't know that oakland's nicknamed the town that's outside
of bean town that's water town i should i should have known that huh i didn't know that so like
people say san francisco like people say San Francisco's
the city and it's like if you're there
you'd be like I'm gonna go to the town that means Oakland
but if you say you're in the city that means you're in San Francisco
yeah
in the city it's like yeah
like Ian said before even people in the city
even in San Francisco people
call it the city too
a guy can read me like a book man you just saw me looking out the window
being like how am I gonna act like do I act like i knew that or do i tell my friends
that i didn't know that i was going to tell you but i'm you know i'm glad i was i was prompted
all right and that's the end of the line you got on the line to the dream factory right there yeah
god i can't believe i'm so smart and i made that up such a good nickname it's probably gonna stick
you never know.
Stranger things have happened.
So I'm just been calling it the dream factory to all these motherfuckers out in LA and they're just looking at me like, okay.
I mean, it's understandable what you mean.
It tracks.
Yeah, it's good.
I sound like I'm trying to push this nickname agenda on all these people that I'm not.
I really didn't.
I thought it was a known thing.
Whatever.
all these people that I'm not.
I really didn't.
I thought it was a known thing.
Whatever.
And my question is,
is that something that is maybe specific to Hollywood and not all of Los Angeles?
That's very fair.
Maybe.
That's a possibility.
Well, what if your dream is opening up
a donut shop in West Covina?
Then it's also the dream factory.
Yeah.
Is West Covina Los Angeles County?
I don't think it is anymore.
No, it's not.
Now you're pulling my card. Los Angeles County is not, right? Now you're pulling my card.
Los Angeles County is huge, man.
Now you're pulling my card.
Is it my turn?
All right, I have just looked it up,
and the Dream Factory is indeed a nickname of Hollywood.
Whoa!
Okay!
But it is not a nickname of Los Angeles, the city.
I'm from Los Angeles, born and raised,
and I've never heard it in my life.
I wasn't born there.
Who drafted a nickname for Los Angeles? Sean? No, I didn't mean to Angeles born and raised and I've never heard it in my life I wasn't born there who drafted a nickname for Los Angeles
no I didn't mean to say born and raised
can I just pick my next one
yeah
sorry Isaac I didn't mean to make fun of you
it's okay
it's not okay I'm a dick I'm gonna feel bad about it
I'm gonna go
I'm gonna get a package deal here
you tell me if it's okay
we'll see
Minneapolis St. Paul I'm gonna to get a package deal here. You tell me if it's okay. We'll see. Get a package deal.
Minneapolis, St. Paul.
I'm going to pick the Twin Cities.
Oh, I think so.
I think so.
Yeah.
It doesn't count as two picks. Crazy Young Thug named that.
What?
No, you see?
I almost looked out the window again and be like, what?
Did he?
It's just for one person.
That's all that matters.
Wait, wait.
Young Thug.
Yeah, Twin Cities, man.
I just, there's a lot of places that try to like adopt it too.
Like Fargo-Moorhead will call it like Twin, you know, but it's like Minneapolis, St. Paul, the Twin Cities.
What did you just say?
Fargo-Moorhead?
Fargo-Moorhead.
They're like North Dakota, Minnesota, just across the river from each other.
Nobody even knew that that was a tag team.
Well, the entire country has been torn apart by this Fargo Moorhead,
Minneapolis,
St.
Paul.
I think it's finally time we talk about it on here.
People have lost lives to the man.
That's how Trump got elected.
Fargo Moorhead is just called the nickname.
It's just called the factory.
You take the dream right out of there.
Yeah.
Yes.
Just a place to get a reasonable job.
Yeah.
You want to put doors on a Chevy?
No, the twin cities, man. I like it. I like the, it's a good, Yes, just a place to get a reasonable job. Yeah, you want to put doors on a Chevy?
No, the Twin Cities, man, I like it.
I like the, it's a good, it's an easy one to have pride in.
They don't mind the nickname.
Do people there call it the Twin Cities a lot?
I haven't been to Minneapolis.
I've only been there like two, three times. I don't want to get out of pocket here,
but I think they don't mind.
I don't think it's something where people get bummed or anything.
It's the inclusive nickname. People from
St. Paul feel... If you say Minneapolis,
then people from St. Paul might be like,
whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It's not just Minneapolis.
They do say, yeah,
you can't act like St. Paul's Minneapolis.
People do get pissed about that and vice versa.
It's like if the Sklar brothers are someone, you can't
be like, it's Jason Sklar and the other
one.
Look at Jason Sklar's. It's Keith Lucas and the other one. Both of them. Look at Jason Sklar's.
It's Keith Lucas and the other one.
You know, you can't do that.
I mean, they still got TC on like all the twins gear, right?
So it's, I feel like they've adopted it pretty well.
I would say so.
I just love it.
I love everything about Minneapolis.
I love it to pieces.
I'm always excited to just to go there.
I'm stoked.
So yeah, twin cities,
baby,
big Minneapolis love.
I do it for days.
I'm staying in the Midwest.
I'm going,
I'm going a little down to the South and I'm taking Midwest is young and
restless.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Oh yeah.
Wait,
young and reckless.
Yeah.
No,
I just like,
what am I doing?
Bringing that anyway,
go ahead.
I'm intentionally getting Kanye lyrics wrong.
I'm a sign of mutual disrespect.
Is that where you're headed?
Mutual disrespect.
I am.
I am going to the Chi.
I actually am going right down to the home of troubled man Kanye West.
I am taking Chicago.
And I am taking another city of many nicknames.
Love nicknames.
The city of big
shoulders ah i didn't even know that was one oh yeah and big shoulders big shoulders was the guy
that beat up leroy brown right that's right yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
he challenged jack johnson for the title in the biggest little city on earth yeah they didn't even
have to box they were like whose knuckles are bigger? And then that's who won.
It was just a shoulder contest.
You got to have big shoulders because the city is so windy.
You have to be able to hold yourself up against it.
And you're of thick Eastern European descent.
Big Polish shoulders.
It's from a poem by Carll sandberg from 1916 called chicago and it's in reference to
the basically to the hard-working tradesmen and physical laborers who inhabited chicago and made
it the city that it was the city of big shoulders and you kind of feel it there you speak like it
speaks to it you know what i mean it's not it's there are cosmopolitan parts of chicago but like
there's also still a
very like working class center to it.
And I like that.
Yeah.
I like Chicago because it's firmly in the Midwest.
Yeah.
Like, you know how San Francisco sort of feels like a West coast city trying to be like the
East coast.
Yeah.
Chicago just is what it is.
You know, I fucking love that.
I love Chicago.
I kind of think it's the, new york is almost its own thing
yeah like and i love portland more than anything and like new orleans again is its own thing
chicago is like the greatest american city like it's that's big it's just it's like a city you
know what i it's like a fucking city it is it's right there yeah and i mean you like the l train too yeah hour outside
of what chicago or whatever two hours you're in like green bay i mean you can get to like these
tiny little super super midwestern cities real quick yeah and just like be like oh man i am here
and then all of a sudden like you can swear you can like be in green bay and almost see chicago
we're like let's talk uh once took a train from chicago to portland it was a hell of a ride
the zephyr line it's supposed to be supposed to be like the most beautiful train ride in the
country yeah i remember being eight hours long that's what i remember i think it's longer than
that from portland to chicago no chicago to portland it's eight hours from like san francisco
to portland on train oh well it was a train ride i remember it's 8 hours from like San Francisco to Portland on train
it was a train ride
it's like 40 hours or something
anyway yeah that sounds dang
city of big shoulders we gotta keep them moving in interest of time
so I am going to
I mean so far we have kept it within
the United States
of America
may I should we keep it in the US
because I can.
No, go nuts. Do whatever you want.
Go somewhere else.
I am going to take
This is also
a fucking
like international ass city.
I am taking Budapest
and its nickname
The Pearl of the Danube.
Wow.
I thought you were going to take Bootyfest a close second. Oh. And its nickname, the Pearl of the Danube. Wow. So icy sounding.
I thought you were going to take Booty Fest a close second.
The Pearl of the Danube.
Budapest, Hungary.
The Pearl of the Danube.
It just sounds fucking.
You know, it sounds like it's from like the 1800s.
You know what I mean?
It does.
It also sounds like a good time.
I knew a bunch of Hungarians for a while, and they were a lot of fun, man.
I can see some Hungarians getting down.
They were all from Budapest.
They drank Palinka.
Good.
Shout out to David and those guys, man.
Shout out to David and them.
That's from them.
They don't get enough shine to be in them it's a beautiful city i've never been to i've
never been to it but i've seen pictures uh it looks gorgeous it's got some like the hungarian
uh parliament or whatever it's like one of the most beautiful buildings in the world
and it's right there on the danube river the pearl of the danube it sounds like somewhere
like hercules poirot would have to go solve something.
You know, like an Agatha Christie
book happens in the
Pearl of the Danube.
I just like that. It's evocative.
The Matter of the Pearl of the
Danube. Yeah, for sure.
Sean Jordan,
time for your fourth pick.
I just like the way this one sounds.
I honestly didn't know this.
I was poking around
on the World Wide Web
and I found this nickname.
That's the internet.
But I'm going to go,
I'm going to go to,
I'm going to take it to Dallas, Texas.
It's called Big D.
Big D?
It's just dank.
Being like,
where are you from?
Big D, baby.
Oh, Denver?
That's what people say.
Dallas?
No, I'm going to be like? I wish we had one that cool.
Dallas, right next to the Big Juicy.
So wait, Dallas-Fort Worth is the Big Juicy, the Big D?
I think we have a D.
It's because the juice comes out of the D.
The juice comes out of the D.
The juice comes out of the D.
The firm capital of the world.
The D shoots the juice over to Fort Worth.
I bet you Fort Worth doesn't like that.
Oh yeah, Fort Worth is dry without the D. The D shoots the juice over to Fort Worth. I bet you Fort Worth doesn't like that. Oh, yeah.
Fort Worth is dry without the D.
Oh, yeah, yeah.
It's an interplay of the masculine and the feminine.
It's poetic.
They called it the Dust Bowl before.
Yeah, Big D, baby.
Just where are you from?
Big D, where aren't you from?
You know?
And one thing I know is people from Dallas love to tell you about it.
My turn?
Your turn.
Is this my third or my fourth?
Fourth.
My fourth.
Okay.
I take this one because I love a city who's just like, hey, man, we are what we are.
Maybe time's going to pass us, but this is what we are right now.
I'm taking Winnemucca, Nevada, city of paved streets.
They were like, we got what we got.
Hey, fuck you, man.
All right, yeah.
The Model T's coming, and we were ready.
And sure, we don't have public schools or a granary or some type of water source,
but we goddamn got these paved
streets. Winnemucca's like, I'm comfortable.
Yeah, I'm good.
The New Deal hooked us up.
Everybody got jobs. We're all
paved streets over here.
Yeah, you should be lucky.
I know who I am.
Yeah, I love it.
I know who I am.
Yeah, I like me.
Yeah, dude. Yeah, my clothes fit. I love it. I know who I am. Yeah, I like me. Yeah, dude.
Yeah, my clothes fit.
I love it here.
My streets are paved.
I like to think somebody's just like,
we got to, dude, I want to,
I got a name for the city,
but we got to pave the roads.
And then I'll tell you what it is.
Should I visit Winnemucca?
Do you have a very specific set of things you like doing?
Or do you want to go to a really terrible casino gig?
Yeah, that's the Winamaco, right?
Yeah. Are the streets nicely paved? It better be.
You can't have any potholes in the city with that nickname.
No, you can't let that slip for us.
That's actually a lot of pressure.
The Pothole Palace.
Yeah, those streets
gotta be like... I'll go ahead.
It's time for your fourth and then your final picks
Oh, my fourth pick
I am also, I'm going across the pond
Oh, are you?
To the blight
Another city
A huge city
It came up a couple, you know
Nice and perky
It's where Ian Carmel's favorite rapper Giggs is from
Look at all perky What's a hard name,mel's favorite rapper, Giggs, is from.
Look at all perky.
What's a hard name, bruv?
Yo, Giggs, bruv.
What you be doing, bruv?
You be doing gigs? I'm doing these gigs, mate.
London, but I like the original name of London.
Londinium.
Yeah.
What?
It's called Londinium?
That's how it started?
Yes, because it was a...
That's why we won the war.
That sounds like something that would kill Spider-Man.
Oh, no.
He's got too much Londinium on him.
My webs won't work.
They're just big juicy now.
No, it was a city.
It was founded...
It was ancient Rome, and ancient Rome founded the city.
So it was originally called Londinium.
And then history happened.
History happened and they shortened it to London.
But I still like saying Londinium.
Why?
The Romans made it all the way out there.
What does Londinium?
I mean, how's that?
That's just a Roman.
That's just kind of.
It's like Latin.
Inium.
Inium they would throw at the end of stuff.
And like London, I don't know.
London might've been some local.
Who knows what, who knows?
They probably, somebody probably knows.
And now Inium has been turned to Inium.
Inium.
Inium.
All these rappers call it London city.
Is that like a common term for London?
Where they're like London city.
London town.
London town's a big one.
Gotcha. I've heard London Town. Yeah. But yeah,
Londinium. I like saying that one because it
flows. I like the way that it feels.
Dude, that's neat. I'm going to tell people
that like I thought of it. Like I knew that today.
It's going to be a fun thing I do today.
The city of Bath in England
is named after the Roman bath that they
built there. If you want to throw
a little extra on there. I like facts about a bath. Any kind of bath that they built there. If you want to throw a little extra on there.
I like,
I like facts about a bath,
any kind of bath facts,
you know,
yeah,
my book of poetry,
bath facts,
my last,
my last,
my last pick.
And this was one that I don't even know if it,
if it's called this anymore,
but at some point it's called this anymore.
But at some point it was called the jazz capital of the world.
I'm talking about Kansas City, Missouri.
Boy, how that changed.
Whoa.
That's right.
Kansas City was the jazz capital of the world?
At some point.
And now it's Salt Lake City.
And now it's...
Originally from New Orleans, right? That's where the jazz started, right? Yeah, yeah. and now it's Salt Lake City and now originally
from New Orleans right
that's where the jazz started
that's a lot of nerve
on behalf of Kansas City's part
jazz was invented in New Orleans
and they were like we're the capital of it
there were a lot of
because I want to say that Count Basie
is from Kansas City
but I can't remember off the top of my head. But again, Kansas City
was in the 30s, 20s. I want to say
Kansas City and St. Louis were places to be.
You know what I mean? And they were like, so Kansas City had a
really big jazz contingent there. People would camp out there.
They had a lot of clubs and some people would go to Kansas City to just
see all the greats. But I want to say
that Count Basie is from Kansas City,
specifically.
Kansas City seems silly
now, but it's a very important city.
I think it was partway between Dallas and Chicago.
The big D and the big
shoulder. The big D and the big shoulder.
The big belly button.
Kansas City would have been right in the middle.
David, time for your final pick.
My final pick, I just, not too much to say.
Huge, huge state.
Beautiful state.
A lot of great things for cities to be named after there.
I'm just taking one of them.
I'm taking Watertown,
South Dakota.
South Dakota's rising star.
God damn it.
Kind of insinuates that the other cities
are sinking stars. I'm not
one to say anything. Yeah, South Dakota's
rising star. It just makes sense.
It made sense. If you think of all the cities
in South Dakota,
which one would you pick to be the
rising star my money's on watertown i got it i put i got a hundred on watertown come on yeah come on
and i mean there's not really much else to say his mom brought that up last night she was looking it
up and i was like no no no no no it ain't called sue it ain't called sue rising you know what i
mean it's called by the way i just i just looked it up
and i'm totally wrong about count basie he's not from he was he's not from kansas city let's start
that rumor right now though he's yeah he's ashamed of it fantasy fact or the factory or dream factory
count bases from elizabeth colorado was originally a sawmill camp so it So on the wiki page over here. Yeah. I never claimed it was great.
Uh,
Sioux Falls,
South Dakota gateway to the planes.
Let's keep it pushing gateway to the planes entry.
You can't gain entry to the planes unless you go through beautiful scenic
Sioux Falls,
South Dakota,
and then you'll be granted the Badlands.
You'll be granted the black Hills.
You'll be granted the Rockies.
But until you go through Sioux Falls,
you shall not see any of those magical
sights. You shall not see any of those magical
Why is there a gate on the plains?
Because we're like that, dude. We're
picky.
I don't mean to be that guy. A lot of gateway
to the plain cities.
Yeah.
I thought this was the lightning round.
Shit, Barron's got a hard out two minutes ago. We should probably keep going.
Sioux Falls, gateway to the plains. Gateway to the west. I'm aware of minutes ago. We should probably keep going. St. Louis is the gateway to the plans.
Gateway to the West.
I'm aware of that.
It seems like I could go through St. Louis to hit all that stuff.
I got the internet, too.
Way to sneak a six-man in there.
Good job.
You think I need the internet to know that?
Ken Jennings invited me on Celebrity Jeopardy, though.
You think I need the internet to know that St. Louis is the gateway to the West?
I mean, if we're going by Twitter interactions, sure.
I'm going to do my final pick now. And this is one I did
not know off the top of my head.
I looked at this when I was looking up stuff.
This is the city of Bologna,
Italy. Has three
nicknames. Oscar
Meyer Wiener.
La Dota,
La Rosa, La Grasa.
Which basically means the educated, the Rosa, La Grasa Which basically means
The educated, the red, the fat
Okay
Yeah
The world's like oldest university is there
Yeah, yeah, yeah
World's oldest university
All the buildings are red
And then they just know how to fucking cook in Bologna
Which is what I've heard
They got their own sauce
They got their own sauce
It's like apparently the best food in Italy is in there.
So la dota, la rosa, la grasa.
I just love that. I like that.
Yeah, hell yeah. That's fantastic.
And a special bonus pick that didn't
get taken, Portland, Little Beirut,
which is always very funny. What?
Beirut's a party town.
We rioted so much. It was derisive.
It was when George W. Bush showed up.
He referred to Portland as Little Beirut.
Not George W.
George Herman Washington. H.W.
Someone who's been to Portland. Bold statement.
Yeah, bold statement.
That was about all we had in common with Beirut.
You can't get good hummus there now.
That was the
final pick. To recap, Baron Vaughn,
you went first. you took Sin City
the A, Frisco
Londonium and the jazz
capital of the world
David you went second you took the Big Easy
the Big Juicy, the Town
the City of Paved Streets
and Watertown South Dakota
South Dakota's Rising Star
John Jordan
you went third you took the the city that never sleeps.
Beantown, the Twin Cities, the Big D,
and one of several cities that claims to be the gateway to the plains.
Sounds like my Friday night.
I went last.
I took the biggest little city in the world, the Rose City,
the City of Big Shoulders, the Pearl of the Danube,
and La Dota, La Rosa,
La Grasa.
Bologna.
Isaac Lee, do you have a pick?
Yeah, just because I feel really bad for shutting down
Sean, I'm going to take the Dream Factory as a
nickname for Hollywood.
Hey!
There it is. Hollywood, California.
Well-known fact.
That's the man right there. Not to be confused with Hollywood, Florida. No, California. Well-known fact. That's the man right there.
Not to be confused with Hollywood, Florida.
No, no. Little-known fact.
We left some stuff on the board.
London, the big smoke.
The big smoke, dude.
Pawtucket, Rhode Island, the bucket.
Oh, that is a good one.
La Serenissima.
Also, Cedar Bluff, Alabama,
the crappy capital of the world
Really? The Fish
I got Motown for Detroit
Oh Motown
Detroit has a bunch of nicknames too
Detroit Rock City, Motown, Motor City
Milwaukee is called
Cream City which I always thought was kind of tight
Just sounds icy
I got a lot of jerseys
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