The Nateland Podcast - 27: #27 | Breakfast
Episode Date: August 5, 2026This week, Dusty re-lives some childhood memories in Opelika, Aaron plays golf on one of the most prestigious courses in America, and Breakfast brings gifts from the fans. And speaking of breakfast, ...the guys learn about the history of breakfast, how it got the label as the most important meal of the day, and debate which restaurant chains serve the best breakfastSquare: square.com/go/nateGet up to $200 off Square hardware when you sign up at square.com/go/nate! #squarepod #adCozy Earth: https://cozyearth.comGo to https://cozyearth.com and use my code PUBLICFIGURES for up to 20% off!Superpower: Superpower.com Head to Superpower.com and use code NATE at checkout for $20 off your membership. Get 100+ biomarkers tested every year, plus a personalized health plan and on-demand care team. Detect early signs of 1,000+ conditions. #superpowerpod #adHelix: helixsleep.com/nateGo to helixsleep.com/nate for their Labor Day Early Access from August 3rd to August 13th for 20% off sitewide. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout, so they know we sent you! Helixsleep.com/nate.
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Ladies and gentlemen, welcome into another edition of the Public Figures podcast,
brought to you by the Nate Land Entertainment Company.
We're excited to be here today.
We're recording live at the public figure studio right here in Nashville, Tennessee,
Music City, Comedy City, I'll call it.
I'm alongside my good friends, Brian Bates.
Hello.
And Dusty Slay.
All right.
Three Nashville-based professional stand-up comedians,
chewing the fat, shooting the breeze, having a good time hanging out, talking nonsense.
We're excited you've come along today.
today. Let's get into it. Man, I was gone last week. I missed you guys. We missed you too.
Yeah. We missed you too. Yeah. Thank you. We did. I can't tell me either of you're serious,
but I appreciate it. I felt weird to be gone. What were you doing? I'd be back. I had a crazy
weekend, man. I was all over. I had a gig in Pebble Beach, California, Monterey Beach.
I had a corporate gig.
I don't know if you've ever felt like this.
It was a first for me.
I did a corporate gig, and I was like, I think I'm the best comedian in the world for this gig.
Wow.
It was for, I never had this feeling.
Can we guess what it's for?
I'm going to guess it was some sort of Catholic thing.
It was a Notre Dame event.
Okay.
It was the Aera Parcigian Fund.
It was called the Parcigian Classic.
Aera Parcigian, you might know him from Rudy.
He's the legendary coach at the beginning of the movie.
Okay.
I thought this was a different language you were saying.
Araparsijian.
Yeah.
It does sound a little bit like I'm throwing Latin out here.
But Araparsijian's granddaughters have a rare disease called Neiman Pick.
So he set up this foundation to raise money for rare disease research.
So this is a Notre Dame event with rare disease stuff.
I'm so glad I didn't make any jokes.
No, no, no.
I was hoping, yeah, it's fine.
But I was just sitting in the back.
That's incredible.
This might be the perfect fit for you.
I had the Notre Dame stuff.
And then I got like 15 minutes now on just the rare disease stuff.
So I was like, this is perfect.
So we got to play golf at Pebble Beach and Spyglass.
And then we had the gig Sunday.
Who's we?
This is the coolest part of it for me is I got to bring three friends from Notre Dame.
They gave us free foursums to play golf at these legendary golf courses.
So my friends from college came.
We hung out all weekend, play golf.
But the reason I couldn't make the podcast Monday, I had to immediately drive.
I left the stage, drove to San Francisco, caught a red eye to Orlando, had a gig at Disney World.
Wow.
On Monday.
So I went from Pebble Beach to Disney World.
Wow.
In the span of 24 hours.
So it was pretty crazy weekend.
But I'm glad y'all held it down without me.
And they were saying that this golf course is pretty good, huh?
It's, it might be the most.
most iconic golf course in America?
I'd say Augusta.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I guess so.
But yeah, top three.
Yeah, for sure.
What makes a golf course good?
Well, this one, it's interesting, there are two golf courses, Dusty, and they say, they go,
the one that's less famous, it's actually a better golf course.
Okay.
But they go Pebble Beach.
Kind of like with us.
You're the spyglass of this podcast.
I didn't say any names here.
Yeah.
I'm just saying.
But Pebble Beach is right on the water.
it's just it's unbelievable looking you're hitting it up cliffs and the beach is uh pebbles
pebbles no no it's a regular beach i was expecting that too i thought there'd at least larger
grains of sand i thought it looked like gravel out yeah no it was just regular like you're
walking on the old burger king playground out there but what was cool our caddy you guys remember that
i do remember i remember that sure you remember when burger king first came around i bet you remember
he's burger prints.
I do not.
I do not.
Our caddy all weekend is a big fan of us.
Oh.
Knew all of us.
Wow.
It's a big comedy fan.
He was dropping names.
I was like,
oh my gosh,
that's crazy.
That's why?
I walked up and he goes,
signature dish.
Wow.
I was like,
this is crazy, dude.
And then you're like home food,
and he's like,
well, dude,
you can't really eat food on Pebble Beach.
The seagulls will get in there and get it.
Wow.
They say if you get food,
you got to put it under your seat.
because the seagulls will climb into the golf cart and grab food and fly away.
Wow.
They'll steal your wallet, your keys, everything.
It's pretty wild.
How'd you play?
I played terrible.
Yeah.
We were the only group that didn't submit our scores to the tournament.
Oh, it was a tournament.
Yeah, it was a tournament.
Oh, I see.
I have a buddy who's pretty good.
He played really well.
I was just hanging out.
I told the caddy.
I was like, dude, I'm not looking for a ball.
Yeah.
I'm out here to just play.
And he seemed a little grateful.
He's like, dude, so many groups, they take it so seriously.
It's not fun for me, but we're just hanging out.
But maybe that's what he was telling me to get a tip.
But that's amazing.
It was a really cool, really cool experience.
Did you get some great pitchers for it?
I did get some great, I'm still waiting on it, but they had a professional photographer
out there.
Yeah, it was awesome.
Well, we missed you.
Thanks, man.
I got something that I knew you wouldn't like the golf talk, so I got something I
thought you, I think you would like.
The way you said it, we missed you.
This means moving along.
No, no, we did.
So it's probably no surprise.
you this time of year, I get lit up
by mosquitoes. Oh, yeah. Right?
Yeah. Now, I know
you don't like using
bugs spread. Yeah.
That's just something I got
that I think does feel like it's funny. You don't like
using bug spray. No, I never do, and I got
bit three times yesterday on my face.
Oh, yeah. Yeah. I want to show you something
I found. I had never seen this before. I apologize
if this is a common item. I could not believe they're real.
These are...
Oh, yeah.
Fake dragonflies.
Yeah.
Have you seen these?
I actually have one.
Do you really?
Yeah, but I love this.
You can put them on your hat.
Wow.
And the day I didn't wear a hat.
Yeah.
Can I have yours?
Yeah, I got you a couple.
I love this.
Put a couple on there.
You know what?
I had some of these and I never knew you could put it on your hat and my kids broke them.
So this is, I appreciate this.
Yeah, I got a whole pack of them.
If you're listening, they're metal, rock.
with fake dragonflies at the end.
I love a dragonfly.
A bit like a scarecrow for a bug.
Where'd you get these?
Don't worry about it.
Oh, okay.
Yeah, I acquired them.
I love it.
This is great.
Now, I will say, you look a little ridiculous,
clipping them onto your hats,
but you're not going to damage your skin spraying dangerous chemicals.
I love this.
Yeah, so how about it?
I can't wait.
Yeah, I might take them off for the rest of the podcast,
but you get the idea.
Yeah, I might add something.
I just, this is so crazy.
I had never seen this before.
Yeah.
Do you put them in like your garden or something like that?
Well, that was the idea.
But this was years ago when I got them.
And then I, like I say, my kids broke them and I never revisited it.
But mosquitoes are so bad at my house.
You got scare them away.
I got raspberry plants and I'm out there trying to pick raspberries and I'm getting eaten alive.
I was letting tree frogs go last night.
And my daughter was out there with me and she goes, I'm getting bit up.
I'm going in.
I'm building the garden at my house.
Are you?
Connor Larson's helping me.
All right.
He put together a whole plan.
We're going to build it together.
Connor loves to put together a plan.
I know.
He loves a plan.
Yeah, he'll put together.
I love to not read it.
Yeah, he'll put together a plan quick.
He goes, I wrote an algorithm for it.
I was just hoping you do it.
Yeah.
Thank you.
But anyway, what did you guys get into?
Where are you growing?
What are you going to grow?
Vegetables, mostly vegetables.
vegetables.
Why didn't think it was meat?
They are growing meat now, though, in a lab, though.
But no fruit.
Okay, you're right.
No fruit.
No fruit. But I was going to guess vegetables.
And no cosmetic stuff.
We're not really interested in that.
So tomatoes, cucumbers, peas, eggplant, stuff like that.
And what motivated you to do this?
Well, olive, our daughter eats vegetables like crazy.
She can't have sweets.
So this is like, we're a vegetable house now.
That's awesome.
And she loves them.
So Connor's been bringing up.
over fresh vegetables from his house and she's devouring them. So we're like, we should grow these
ourselves. That's great. Yeah, yeah. So you should get some, uh, some herbs too, though, like
oregano and thyme and, uh, rosemary. Those are my favorites. Yeah. And lavender smells really good.
Okay. But I love to put a little rosemary, thyme, oregano and anything I cook. That sounds good.
Why don't you put together a plan for me? Okay. And then, I'll tell Connor.
Okay. You should enter yours in the Wilson County Fair. What is that? Oh, really? Yeah.
They have like competitions for the best.
That's for like big honking ones, right?
Not necessarily the biggest ones, just the best looking.
Like the cutest tomato?
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
It doesn't have to be the biggest one.
You want some pumpkins?
I got so many pumpkins and squash.
I don't know why I grow this stuff.
Yeah.
I got a bunch.
I went over to Connors places.
Watermelons are taken over out there.
I know.
I got one watermelon.
I didn't know.
You got like 15 watermelons will grow.
Its footprint in the ground is like this big.
And 15 watermelons will come.
Yeah, it's insane.
Yeah, that's crazy.
God, the world's wild.
Well, Conner's having a really great year with gardening, and I'm having a really bad year with it.
But Connor, you know.
Your career is going on.
I think this is out there publicly, so I'm going to say it.
But Connor, you know, is having a baby.
That's right.
So I look for next year's gardening from Connor to not be as good.
Yeah.
Connor was on the Nate Land podcast once.
It was when I was out sick.
Yeah.
I wish he had never really been on because we talk about him every week, and I wish it was just this person.
He should just join full time. We always talk about it, no one ever sees.
Yeah. He's like, what's the, who used to be Felix in the old days, right? Yeah. Yeah.
He used to talk about Felix every day. I'd never even met him.
No one's seen Felix still, right? As far as the podcast listeners got.
Did we not show him at the Zanes finale? He might have made an appearance at the live one. He kind of waved, but you didn't get a good look at him. So we don't know if he exists.
I mean, I know Felix. Yeah. Do you?
Felix sleep.
I, you know, maybe it's a stand-in.
Maybe I know a stand-in.
Yeah, that was funny.
Yeah, it was good.
Let's just, let's give them what a difference.
Yeah, exactly.
I mean, I really miss it on for dinner.
Let's just, let's just take a moment to let Brian, let you laugh at home.
You guys can't keep up.
Get out of the kitchen.
Take that Felix sleep, sleep quiz.
What did you guys, what have he been up to?
Brian, you just got back this morning.
I did.
I did.
I, I, I, I, the shirt you're wearing.
Is this a go-fund me?
started for someone.
I'm very proud of this shirt, Dusty.
Somebody make that for you?
Yeah, a fan of the pause.
I don't know if it wasn't, but...
Yeah, a guy who hates me made this.
Brian Schnep.
Oh, nice.
He made this.
He wore it to the show, not this one.
I wanted to look like it.
And sit on the very front row right in front of me.
And I acknowledged him, and he got to.
up and showed it, and then he gave me one. Oh, that's awesome. After the show, if you're listening,
it's my driver's license photo. But the way that it's... The joke I have from my special
worried. Yeah, which is a very good special. Available now on YouTube. Yes.
It's ironed on, and it's like there's some creases in there. So it makes you look much worse,
the way it's like creased and folded. I don't think those are creases. I think that's the water
marks that they put over a picture on a driver's license. Yeah, they took that off the
screenshot. That forehead has got some stuff going on. No, I think that's just like the scan lines of it.
Okay. I don't think he's folded up like an accordion. Those are just...
I'm saying, you're wearing a picture of your own face and you look better than the picture is what I'm saying to you.
I thought you of all people would be all on board with it. I mean, I love it.
Wear your own merch everywhere. Yeah, I support it. But I'm just saying... Dusty and Dave Chappelle.
It's like you're wearing your own before picture.
It does look like that.
That's funny.
Yeah.
But I was at
Before you got those bamboo sheets.
I was at Funny Farm.
I don't even know what that means.
We have gotten to that ad read, yeah.
Yeah. Oh, okay.
Funny Farm Comedy Club in Goshen, Indiana.
Great club.
The Mitchells run it so nice.
They did a great job and had a lot of fun.
A lot of folks came out.
And then I was at Helium.
Can I ask you real quick before you move on to
Helium?
Yeah.
Funny Farm, spelled pH.
Mm-hmm.
Is it like pharmacy themed?
I don't, a lot of drugs there.
Because there are like the loony bin.
I didn't even realize it until you're there.
The loony bin means like insane asylum.
They lean into the theme a little bit.
They got t-shirts that say I was lobotomized at.
And everybody works there's crazy.
Yeah.
But Funny Farm.
I didn't know if it was like a play on pharmacy.
I don't think so.
It's in an old warehouse.
You don't have to wear like a lab coat when you perform or something.
No, it's a good question.
They pay you in pills.
All the drinks are in beakers, something like that.
That's a good question.
I don't know the answer because it is P-H-A-R-M.
But anyway, had a great time.
It's funny spelled with an F.
No, it's just P-A-H.
It is.
Yeah, yeah, it's regular funny.
It's a good question.
Yeah.
All right, I'm sorry.
Go ahead.
Sorry.
I know I've been interrupting you a lot, and people have started to know this.
Yeah.
Yeah, what was her name?
I forget.
Kathy?
I made a video about her, though.
Oh, really?
Yeah.
Then last night I was at Helium Comedy Club in Indianapolis.
Lots of folks came out.
Oh, I got some gifts for you guys.
I got some gifts.
Oh, do you really?
Are these from you or these from other people?
These are definitely from other people?
Okay.
All right.
Let's see.
Dusty, this is for you.
Oh, look at that.
That's from Nick Elizondo.
Hey, I'm running low.
I appreciate that.
Nick Elizondo.
If you're listening, a couple of cigars.
Yeah, I appreciate that.
I'm running low out here.
And this is for you, Aaron.
This is from Jamie Cady and Tulsa Marie.
Oh, yeah.
Debra.
I don't know.
Sorry, about that last night.
It's a Michigan State T-shirt.
Nice.
How about that?
I haven't talked trash about Michigan State in a while.
I think I'll get back on it.
Also a Home Depot gift card for me.
It's a large, which adds a little insult to injury.
Sorry.
What's that?
Yeah, Dessie opened his card.
Oh, you didn't want me to?
That's okay.
No, it's fine.
Let's all just take a moment of science while you read.
Yeah.
All right.
So, and then this morning I did Bob and Tom.
All right.
How about that, man.
Bob and Tom, you know, if you...
Thank you, Nick.
If you grew up, well, I'm just going to say here, but really much of the U.S.
Yeah.
No Bob and Tom.
Big time.
For me, it was Bob and Tom.
You remember Rick and Bubba in Alabama?
Yeah, look at this car.
I thought there was a love letter to me.
It says, thank you.
Look at that.
It would be a weird way to start a love letter.
Yeah, Rick and Bubba and John Boy and Billy.
John Boy and Billy.
I used to listen to a lot.
Yeah, but Bob and Tom.
I've gotten to do John Boy and Billy and Bob and Tom, which, but John Boy and Billy specifically for me was fun because I grew up with them.
But yeah, you did Bob and Tom?
Yeah, I should have gave you those after the show.
No, this is so nice. Thank you, Nick.
This is awesome.
Yeah.
It's a really nice card.
I appreciate it.
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Yeah, so I did Bob A-Tom this morning, which was fun.
I find it to be a very chaotic show.
I like doing it, but they have about 10 people in the room.
And it is, and they're all very funny.
It's hard to get in.
We've got like seven people in this room.
Does this feel less chaotic to you?
But I mean, it is a big round table.
Yeah, that's true.
All have microphones and everybody's funny.
And it's hard to jump in.
Even as a professional comic, I'm like a slow setup guy.
Yeah, your crock pot comedy.
Yeah.
Takes me a while to heat up.
Yeah.
Thank you.
Thank you, Abby.
Thank you, Abby.
Yeah, they're really good at setting you up for your jokes.
So good.
that I didn't catch one.
So they,
I have this joke in my special where,
uh,
I went to do morning radio on St.
Louis.
We went through the McDonald's drive-thru and I didn't round up for charity.
That's the joke.
I won't,
the whole thing.
And they said,
let's talk about that.
Like the producer told me beforehand.
And then,
uh,
Tom said,
so do you like doing morning radio?
That was set up.
And I didn't catch it.
And I'm like,
not particularly.
And everybody laughed at that.
I will say that's a tough setup.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah. That's keeping it pretty vague.
That's quite a reach.
But that's good and that it doesn't seem obvious.
Yeah.
But if you're not ready for it, I get that.
But if you don't, if you've not seen that joke, it's available on Worried, which is on YouTube right now.
That's right. Yeah. That's right. So that's what I was doing.
The first time I ever did radio is at a radio station here in Nashville, I was so nervous.
I didn't know how it worked. I didn't really listen to radio. I wasn't familiar with the show. I had no idea.
I did it with Andrew Dorfman, one of the owners of Zanis.
And I, at the time, I had this joke where I would say, you know, my comedy, I want people from everyone to like my comedy.
I just want people from all backgrounds, all religions to just come together and worship Jesus Christ.
That was the joke I would say.
I agree with it.
Just a misdirect, right?
And so he's like, that joke will be funny.
So Andrews talking, and he cues me up, he goes, and actually Aaron has a lot of jokes about a, he talks a little bit about religion, huh?
the most obvious setup ever. And I go, yeah, man. He gives me this look like,
what are you doing? That was the most obvious thing in the world. I just didn't catch it.
So it could be harder in the moment than it looks sometimes. Yeah. Yeah, that one wasn't that hard,
but yes, mine was. I thought you're going to say he stepped on your punchline a little bit too much.
No, he basically handed it to me and said, please say this. This is what's happening to me. I've done a
a bunch of radio. Like we, we, we have the Alan Rommelfinger who gets us a lot of radio. And I've done
so much. And I think I have not updated my setups with Alan in a while. So he's still like
years down the road is still sending them the same setups. And I keep forgetting to get him new ones.
Yeah. So they'll do a setup. And I know what it is, but I don't want to do the joke. So I just try
to do something different. You just redirect. Yeah. Well, the Opry still has
my bio from 2017.
Oh, yeah.
This guy's on the road with John Christ.
I was like, no, I'm not.
Your headshot in the operas, you sitting on the Nateland set.
I just got it changed.
They were using an old still from a video for years.
Anyway, Bright and Dusty, where were you at this weekend?
This weekend, I went to Opelika, Alabama.
What's there?
And, well, that's my hometown.
I went to O-Town ice cream.
That's my friend there, Angela, Chris and
Angela. Did you do a show there one time? Yeah, I did. They were in a different location, but I did,
they're at the old Bubba's Medicine Shop now. Yeah. But they- I made the poster for that show.
Oh yeah. That's why I remember it. Yeah, yeah, I did. And it was great. Me and Evan and Jordan Jensen.
That's right. We were in Florida the night before and got, or the day before I got really sunburned.
So we were all crispy. But, but yeah, I did a show. I actually did a show at 8 a.m.
for the faculty of my high school.
Wow.
I did the Opelika Performing Arts Center.
Wow.
And, you know, it went about as well as you would expect an 8 a.m. show to go.
But I had a ton of fun because it actually went good, but it's like, it's 8 a.m.
I mean.
Can I ask you how many of these teachers did you know or how many were still around from when you were in high school or is it a new bunch?
Not a single one.
Really?
They act, the guy who I was talking to, he said, I checked to see if there were any of your teachers.
And he said, your last teacher, Mr. Conway, who was my art teacher and my favorite, retired last year.
Wow.
And there were people that I went to high school with that now work at the school.
Oh, that's okay.
So that was fun.
Yeah.
It was a good time.
I had a great time.
Not a school day, though?
It's summer, right?
Like a teacher.
So it was like in service days with teachers?
It's the first day they're all back.
The faculty is back.
So they're about to gear up for school.
So this was kind of, normally they said they have like some motivational speaker.
And this time it was me.
And I told them to all quit and go get in their cars.
The exact opposite.
They got a little too motivated last year.
Yeah.
Yeah.
I said, just quit.
Go get in your cars.
Nobody's learning.
Just get out of here.
They really like that.
I also told them I had never pooped at the high school before when I went there.
Wow.
And they really enjoyed that.
They thought that was really funny.
But then I said, but I never pooped when I went here.
But I went ahead and took care of that this morning.
I'm trying to catch up.
Was that by design or it just never happened to happen?
No, I was terrified to poop at school.
I would be in pain all day to avoid doing that.
Because he thought you'd get beat up in there?
I just thought I'd be made fun of and for pooping, yeah.
It was a fear that I had.
Do you do it in a weird way or something?
No, no.
And I'll tell you, I don't have that fear now.
Okay.
I'll go anywhere anytime.
But in high school, it was like, yeah, it just didn't.
And maybe it came from, you know, like, there was a school I went to.
I don't remember which one it was.
Maybe like elementary school that they had removed all the stalls from the, so there was just toilet.
in there. Oh, that's like a prison. And I remember going in there one time, and there was a guy that I knew
on the toilet, and I went ahead and used the urinal with him sitting there. And him saying how
embarrassing it was. And I just went ahead and peed. Wait, they took out the doors, took out the
whole stall. The stalls. There was no stalls, just toilets. It might have been a temporary thing.
Well, it was probably they had some kind of kid got beat up in there or something, and they had to take it down for safety reasons.
I got punched in the stall when I was in high school.
I was peeing in the stall and a guy tapped me on the show and punched me in the face.
You said, hey, bud, go to the urinal.
He's like, I'm waiting in line.
You know, the guy's the guy to rather poop so at least you can see it coming.
Yeah, I know.
I know.
Face them head off.
I know, exactly.
But it was great.
I had a lot of fun.
I had a good.
I didn't take my face.
family with me. I had a, and I spent a couple of days in Opelika. I had a good time. Not,
not because my family wasn't there, but kind of, because I was just free to move about.
Of course. And I bounced around the city a bit, talking to people. And my mom's house,
there's been some, you know, some stuff going on there. A guy got arrested in the driveway.
And so I'm, oh, the tradition continues. Yeah. But I'm, I'm like doing some, I'm getting some
work done at my mom's house. So I was at the end of the driveway and I was taking some before pictures
and I look over and there's a cop like sitting in, uh, in like some other driveway. Like he's in there.
And I'm like, oh, this guy's scoping out the house. Right. Right. So I drove over there.
I was like, I'm about to talk to this guy because I go, I don't want them thinking I'm affiliated
I don't want them tag in my truck. Yeah. And he ended up knowing me from comedy. Oh, that's awesome.
And we talked for a little while. And then he was also the school resource.
officer. Wow. So he was there the next day. So either that's true or he is following me.
He's already got you with a flock camera. Yeah, probably. But it was great. I saw our friend Stephen Bass.
We hung out a little bit. Do you see Claiborne Cox? I did not. I'd never met Claiborne.
Oh, you haven't? No. I hung out with my friends. Top comic in the Auburn, Opelock area.
Of all time. He's Auburn. I would say so. Claiborne's Auburn.
but I'm still the best of that area
now Claiborne's very funny
but you know I'm still funnier but I
he is very funny
yeah Clayburn's great
Claverin had the joke
I mean I'm funnier but he is very funny
he told his teacher Alabama got 49th in education
his teacher goes man I wonder who got 40 tenth
that's a good joke
little jokes like that
I wrote that for him but that's a good joke
No, you just asked on that sincerely.
Yeah, that was me he was talking about.
Now, did you go the Nashville Sounds game?
I did go.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Why did you ask?
Well, I just thought he might have, he doesn't strike me as a kind of guy.
We all went together when you put it, but does he just either strike me the kind of guy just go on his own?
Well, you know what?
My wife really liked that.
And she had, her brother was in town who lives in China.
And so we've not seen him in a long time.
So she wanted to put something together.
like that again. And so we got the, you know, we got the box and invited some friends.
It's a real American experience. It is really good. We did opt for ordering the food,
which is a mistake. Oh, really? Very expensive for the food. You probably don't eat any of it either.
Yeah, I mean, I had a burger. I mean, the food was good, but very expensive. Yeah.
And they really get you with the food. That's right. But I had a good time. I had a great time.
I have a hard time watching baseball. I'm going to be honest with it. It is a pretty low action sport.
most of the time.
Minor league baseball.
Yeah.
I bet if I sat next to you at a professional game and you let me talk your ear off,
there'd be a lot more going on than you realize.
Yeah.
But you don't want me to do that.
No, but no, I don't mind.
We went to the Milwaukee Brewers game together one time.
It's a quick turnaround.
We didn't stay long, but that was very much.
We stayed for a fair bit.
Yeah.
We stayed for like eight innings.
But yeah, that was fun.
How did you know I went to that?
I have my sources.
Okay.
My little birds.
Okay.
I will.
There was two first pitches thrown out, which is you can't have two first.
One of them's got to be the second.
But I booed them.
Why?
Because they weren't Brian?
Yeah.
Who was it?
Some kid?
I just go, boo.
Some kid from Vanderbilt Children's Hospital.
Well, you know, I told you, when I did it, I was the second one.
Yeah.
The game that before got rained out.
So they had that person come and throw out the first pitch at my game, which kind of makes sense.
It's tough.
Have you been to a Braves game this year?
I went this weekend.
I know.
I'm just trying to set you up.
Yeah.
TMZ over here.
Yeah.
I got to know what you guys are up to.
Yeah, I went to the game.
Yeah.
It was great.
Got this hat.
One of the most ridiculous hats I've ever owned.
Like a Homer Simpson hat.
It's an ice cream cone hat.
Oh, okay.
was a waffle.
Or maybe it's a waffle kind of.
Waffle cone.
Okay.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
What did you think was on top of the wall?
With a kind of a Neapolitan ice cream on the top, but like a blue vanilla.
I don't know what the blue is.
Blueberry.
Looks like chocolate and strawberry and then some kind of blue.
The Braves won, 62?
The Braves did win.
The Braves, I'm hoping they make a move today.
Trade deadline.
Yeah, the right out of time.
They sure are.
Anyway.
I just check and I said my prescription's ready.
Oh.
Oh, can I, uh, I should have sent you.
these pictures.
This is pretty excited.
Is it on your Instagram?
No, I haven't.
This is the first that it's being publicly shared.
You want to air-trop them to me?
I'm going to try to right now.
Okay.
Brian Stahl.
I have a question for you.
Sure.
What is your, it's for both of you.
What's your least favorite and favorite month of the year?
My favorite, probably October.
I love the weather.
I love the leaves.
And I love college footballs in full swing.
There's just a good energy everywhere.
You know, light jacket weather.
I like light jacket weather, man.
That's, I don't know, just the whole,
the warmth of it.
Well, I'm sweating pretty bad in this.
Okay.
But the warmth of octa, like the, not temperature-wise,
but like the energy.
Yeah.
I love it.
Yeah.
November. My birthday's in November, but it's a little, I don't know, it's starting to get wintry.
I like the real fall. What about you?
And I want to hear you too, Dusty. For me, it's exactly the same.
October's my favorite month. Almost the exact same reason you said. The weather is getting, it's not too cold. It's getting good.
College football, football in general is in full swing and baseball's postseason.
That's true. Yeah, it's the most exciting time for baseball.
Yeah. NFL's gone. Yeah, man.
That's good stuff.
I like July because it's a real wet heat.
And I hate January because it feels like a bleak month.
July is my least favorite month of the year for the – it's so hot.
Yeah.
In sports, it's boring.
That's true.
Pretty soon it's going to be only Savannah bananas on TV.
Isn't that crazy?
I like just –
After a baseball lockout, it's just going to be –
Ronald Acuna is going to be doing backflips running a first.
Right.
long days.
You love it.
I love it.
That's my favorite.
Sweeting.
You like sweating.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's probably one of my least favorite things.
I love it.
All right.
I want to tell you this.
This is so, a little backstory.
When I moved from Opelika in 2003, I sold the trailer that I lived in.
Now, the trailer I lived in is the trailer I grew up in.
And then I sold it to a guy.
And then later, when I came back to visit, I went over there to look at it and it had been moved.
So it was gone.
Now, the trailer park is still there, even though all the trailers are gone.
What?
The Moores lot.
Yeah, and it's over.
Yeah, it's just, yeah, it's just Moors now.
Well, it's nothing.
It's just an overgrown.
So I was in the grocery store, Kroger.
And this lady came up to me and started talking to me.
And she ended up being the mom of the guy who bought the.
trailer for me. Now, I knew her, but it had been a long time since I seen her. Yeah. And I was like,
yeah, I'd love, and we talked for a long time. And I go, yeah, I'd love to find that trailer.
And she goes, I think I know where it's at. So she told me the trailer park that it was in.
So I picked up a buddy of mine, Jimmy, and we went over there. And because I didn't want to go there
by myself. I thought it might be a little sketchy. And it was. And the cops are already watching
you. Yeah. Yeah. And Jimmy, I got arrested with one time. So, so. So.
Matter of fact, the last time we were in a car together, we got arrested.
We were in a police car.
So we fixed that.
And so we rode over there.
And I found the trailer.
And this is the trailer right here.
So I got two shots of it.
And you can see, I got another shot of the side.
It doesn't matter.
It looks like a trailer.
But, you know, they're religious people.
I was going to say they left your sign up.
But we had.
And your pineapple.
We had, you know, we didn't have the window units back then. We had, we had central heat and air. So I assume they let, yeah. So I assume they let their unit blow up. But, uh, um, I didn't know trailers could, but you can, you can see their number on the side. We don't know where it's at. So I think it's okay that we're showing the number. You see that on the side. Yeah. And then if you go back to the other picture, you can see that lot eight more trailer, the eight is still painted on the side. Oh, yeah. From, from, from, I mean, it was like that when you were a kid. Yeah. So I knocked on the guy.
his door and he didn't answer and so I left a note and then the note he and I left my phone number in
there and then he responded to me the next day and I sent you that screenshot too and I don't know if we
need to show it yet but I just want to say this is what he said he goes so you say you grew up in
this trailer who owned it then so I give this guy a very long rundown of the history that I know about
this trailer, okay? And then I sold it to a guy. I'm sure Robert doesn't mind that I'm sharing
his first and last name here. And then Robert sold it to some people and then they sold it to him,
I think. And then the fine, so, I mean, this is the most detail you could possibly get. I mean, it's
just ridiculous that I know this much about the trailer. And then his follow up was, you got the
wrong trailer, pal. Me and my wife stay here. And we got to.
from someone else. Sorry, but you got the wrong trailer. And it's like, I go, I just said to him,
I go, listen, if you don't want to show me around, that's fine. I get it if you don't want
a strange guy looking around in your house. But it's the right trailer. I said, the eight is
still painted on the side, and that's not your address. Yeah, you haven't painted the trailer
40 years, bud. And then I sent him a video of my stand-ups talking about Lot 8 Moore's
trailer park. So I had to watch that?
This poor guy.
That's why he's like, it's not yours, bud.
He never, uh...
He just stopped responding to you at a certain point.
He never did let me look at it, but I sent him another message this morning.
I don't, maybe I shouldn't share this, but I think this is funny.
I said, uh, I said, uh, you know, I said, if you ever decide to sell the trailer,
let me know, I'd love to, you know, I don't know if I'll buy it, but I would be interested in
getting it just for that.
And then, um, so I'm going to read this.
If you guys think this is inappropriate, oh, we can take it off.
He said, I have no problem with you all seeing it.
It's my wife acting crazy.
But give me a few days.
And I promise you, I'll let you see it because she'll be going to detox.
So just give me a few more days.
And I'll contact you.
That's awesome.
I mean, it's bad for her, but she gets to help.
You're both oversharing so much.
I know.
I just wanted the guy to let me look around him.
Yeah, of course. I spent a lot of time in that trailer. You got the wrong trailer, pal.
You got the wrong trailer. How many years has it been?
Well, it's been 23 since I moved away.
And they bring back a lot of memories just from outside?
It did, yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
Do you have the little deck out there in the front? Like these people have?
Well, we did have a deck, but not like that one.
So they painted it green.
That's a new one because ours was bigger than that, but not.
not, it didn't have the roof. We had just a large platform with no rails. Just like a table.
Yeah. I mean, it was pretty big, but it was, yeah, just a flat. I got some pictures of it.
That's cool, man. Yeah. How crazy was that when you recognized it when you tracked it down?
So crazy. Because I was like, I was like, I'm pretty sure that's it. And then I saw the eight and I go, oh, yeah, definitely it.
Yeah. That's so cool, man. Because, you know, you can see the brown trim. The brown trim, the brown
is on the other side too, but not on this side because we went through Hurricane Opel and trees
fell on the trailer.
Opel took a tree out in our yard.
Yeah.
So a couple fell on this trailer.
So we had to replace, you know, the sides.
And I don't think they could find the brown trim to match.
But there's still a dent on the back size.
And that's what I saw first.
I go, I know that dent.
Wow.
Yeah.
Yeah.
That's so cool, man.
That is cool.
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Brian, you want to start off with some comments?
Yeah, start off from comments.
45 minutes in.
Sure.
Oh, if you don't mind.
I'll read them, I guess.
Do you mind if I read one comment that I saw that's not on this list?
I don't mind, and I hope this becomes a regular segment.
You read one comment that really ticks you off,
and then we get into the fun ones.
Well, I don't know if you know.
Last week we talked a lot about grounding.
And it really upset people.
Okay.
Because Greg told me that he's into grounding now.
He's about that age.
And Lee is also into grounding.
Of course.
Okay.
Is this in here?
Won't you save it for some of the other grounding?
I bet there's a ground.
Okay.
Okay.
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Brent Bell.
We really enjoyed the podcast this week.
Aaron was missed, but the guests filled in nicely.
It was a different dynamic having someone agree with Dusty so often.
Oh, geez.
Yeah, that was a Lee, huh?
Brian was really out of place last week.
Yeah.
Yes.
It's almost like we had a representative on the show this week to back Dusty up like we would want to if we were there.
Yeah.
So that's what Lee did, huh?
He just enabled you.
Well, Lee, well, not only did Lee enable me, but he, you know, I know all the general ideas.
I don't bother myself with the details.
Just in general?
This is philosophy of life.
Like I go, no, I got the idea.
I don't, but Lee had the details.
He gets into the nitty gritty.
Yeah, yeah.
That sounds like a recipe for disaster on this podcast.
Well, thank you, Brent.
Well, I'm back.
So enough of that, enough of the fun.
Bruce Damon.
Bruce Damon.
How much do you think he has to hear about Matt Damon?
A lot?
Yeah, I was thinking about...
There's Johnny Damon.
Yeah, that's who I was thinking about.
Matt Damon, he's the Damon.
Yeah.
Especially now at The Odyssey out, he's probably getting asked about it all the time.
Matt Damon's in the Odyssey?
He's Odysseus.
Oh, cool.
Yeah.
I saw a lot of...
where Tom Holland
Hold on Bruce, we get to you. Tom Holland.
I saw the new Spider-Man movie
this weekend. Do you like it? Yeah. I want to see it.
He has the top four
opening weekend
I think movies ever.
And
the Odyssey's not even one of them.
That's crazy. It's crazy how much better
Spider-Man is doing than the Odyssey.
It's going to hit a billion, like, soon.
Yeah. Two Spider-Man's
and two Avengers. Yeah, that's not.
Some people were taking a screenshot of
Hulk saying he looked like
Jeffrey Epstein in this.
He does a little bit. Yeah.
I can see it's in the
what do you call the part of your face between your nose and your mouth?
I don't know. I call it a mustache, but when you don't know.
No, but the mustache is the hair. Yeah.
What's it called? I don't know.
That looks like his.
Yeah. Doesn't it? You know what I'm talking about?
Bruce Damon.
I feel with Aaron not on the show.
show, Dusty is given free rein to espouse whatever crazy theory he finds out there.
Aaron is the voice of common sense on the show.
Thanks.
I appreciate that.
I think he's saying I'm a bit of a wet blanket sometimes.
I think so.
But I think if you just run around unchecked out here, it's going to be a problem.
Yeah, I mean, I think it was, you know, because.
Me and Brian got a reel you in a little bit every down.
Yeah, because Greg was playing it cool.
And I think, so I think Brian was really out of place.
They were being nice guests.
Yeah.
Well, Greg started it by saying he's got into grounding.
But I think he opened up a can of worms.
He did.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Greg Stone.
Is that the comedian, maybe?
You know Greg Stone?
I don't know.
I do.
I'm glad Brian is there taking up for those of us who aren't into witchcraft.
Thank you, Greg.
There we go.
That's what I like.
Yeah, I think somehow people have talked, feel like walking on the ground with
your bare feet is somehow paganism or witchcraft.
Yeah, what it is.
I mean, God told Moses to take his shoes off.
Jesus wore sandals.
But probably made of wood of some sort, so he probably was grounding.
So if you wear wooden shoes, you're grounding?
Or leather, yeah.
Really?
Yeah, I mean, because it's still, like, it's the rubber souls that are separating us out here.
That's why we're not getting.
Separated us from what?
from, you know, being grounded. We're electrical beings and we need to touch, you know,
the earth sometimes to get some of that out of it. We'll get too charged. Right. No, I actually agree
with that. I think we need to do it a lot more. So when God, so Moses, you're on holy ground,
it's the same as you walking around barefooted behind Dollar General. I'm just saying it's not
witchcraft. Okay.
You don't ground behind Dollar General. I'll tell you that. You're going to get a rusty hook.
You're done shopping at Dollar General.
You need to get out of there real quick.
Yeah.
You're going to get a rusty hook or some glass.
Now, you want to share your comment now?
Surringe or something.
Yeah, I do.
Okay.
All right.
I think you guys will appreciate this comment, actually.
Okay.
But just, this is from Whiskey Moon KS.
Okay.
It sounds like a U fan.
Yeah.
Been watching from the beginning.
And this is the first time I've thought Dusty was crazy.
What?
Still love you, but you lost me with the grounding nonsense.
I love that this guy is like, this guy, he goes,
Dussie doesn't think space is real.
That's okay.
But walking barefooted on the earth, what a maniac.
Well, that is true.
That's a funny line to draw in the sand there.
Yeah, you don't believe in maps, but you want to walk barefooted?
I think people really like shoes.
I think that's what it boils down to.
I think so.
Yeah.
Coffee got me jacked up.
Yeah, I'm pretty sure.
I'm fired up.
Terry.
Just Terry.
Yep, just Terry.
Just Terry.
I think of Miss Terry, Nick Saban's wife.
Yeah.
He always calls her Miss Terry.
I really like that.
Old Southern couples that call he,
the guy will call his wife Miss.
Yeah.
I don't see a lot of that.
The guy in Duck Dynasty
will call his wife Miss Kay.
Oh, yeah.
Miss Hanna?
Do you ever do that?
No.
You make her call you Mr. Dusty.
She calls me,
I like Leanne Morgan called her husband Chuck Morgan.
That makes me laugh too.
I'm going to start doing that.
My dad calls his wife Mama.
That's old school Southern right there.
I told you my great-grandfather, everybody called Big Daddy.
Oh, yeah.
He big guy?
Yeah.
He was just the oldest.
Yeah.
Terry, I want to suggest everyone in this podcast wear really cool hats like Dusty.
It will boost views.
Bad day to not wear a hat.
Well, sorry, Terry.
Dusty is hatless for the first time, maybe ever on this podcast?
On this podcast, Nate Land, I did one hatless episode.
How did it feel?
It felt good because we were wearing head.
We were wearing the overhead headphones back then.
Right.
It's too much to wear headphones over a cool hat.
You're skying.
Yeah.
Yeah, I'm letting the sun touch the way.
That's right.
Yeah.
Exactly.
You don't want to block it.
Avery Simica.
Avery J.
Semeca. Greg Warren said our national anthem has a second verse. It's great and too few know about it. I had
no idea. Let me look that up. Do you all know that? I didn't know it. And I want to say,
have you seen that video circulating about there's three women singing the national anthem at some
youth sporting event? It wasn't the youth sporting event. It was the inaugural or the first ever game
of the women's professional baseball league.
Okay.
Okay.
We actually talked about it this morning on Bob and Tom.
Oh, did you?
They had a long discussion about Star-Spangled Banner.
And because of last week, and the week before, Dusty singing it,
I knew a little bit about, you know, I knew some stuff.
I like to think they watch this podcast and they go,
you think that was bad.
Mm-hmm.
Who those ladies?
Yeah.
Yeah, you think that was bad.
Yeah.
We'll get on it.
Yeah.
I've never seen these lyrics of the second verse.
Did y'all go through it last week?
No.
On the shore, dimly seen through the midst of the deep,
where the foes haughty host in dread silence reposes.
But, I mean, it's a little more.
Yeah, it seems like there's no idea what they're talking about.
Several more verses here.
I mean, it's a long song.
Two, three, four, four verses.
Yeah.
Amazing Grace.
I'll sing this one at the end of this.
Okay, we'll go through all four verses.
Yeah.
Michael Stoop Waffle McFlurrie.
Have you had the stoop waffle McFlurry?
I think he's on your head.
I think I'm looking at it right now.
That's amazing.
Yeah, it's really good.
As an Alabamian, I'll say the white sauce is largely a myth.
Only some places do it, and it's really only on chicken.
Really, I'm more of a fan of the Carolina-style vinegar-based.
sauce. Also, full moon stinks. As far as an Alabama-based chain goes, Moes and saws are much better.
I do like Moes. I think there's one of those in Auburn. Yeah, Moes is good. Yeah, I like Moes.
I went to Chucks, though, this week. I had two barbecue chicken sandwiches, and I sat in Chucks for about
two hours talking to people. People kept coming in. Either I knew them from my life or they knew me from
comedy and I hung out in there.
You're like Norm from Cheers.
Just sitting at Chuck.
Guy named Grant Fettner.
I went to high school with him.
We played a soccer together and he was wearing his UPS uniform and we sat in there for
about two hours.
And it was a lot of fun.
Oh, that's nice.
And Chuck asks you to leave.
Yeah.
Do you believe...
Disturbing the customers.
Do you believe that white sauce is largely a myth?
To be honest with you, I don't even know what people are talking about when they say that.
Yeah.
We're not as plugged into the.
meat culture as a Michael Stoop Waffle McFurray.
Well, we talked about a little bit last week,
and we talked about it on the meats episode, Greg,
the Alabama white sauce.
I thought that was a big thing down there.
It's big,
but it doesn't run your life.
You know what I mean?
Like,
we don't wake up every day thinking about hot chicken here.
Yeah.
I like,
yeah,
I mean,
I like a regular,
I like a barbecue sauce with a little spice to it.
I do like that.
I think white sauce started in Decatur.
Okay.
So maybe it's Northern Alabama.
Northern Alabama thing.
Where it snows a little more.
Brian Hickox.
I think it's Byron.
It sure is.
I was thinking of Brian Cox from Succession.
Yep.
Last week we talked about who's the most famous of all our names.
We didn't do Aaron.
Well, you're probably top 10, Brian.
I did see.
I'll talk about that.
Aaron, I'm got to be top 25.
5.D.S.
Yeah.
Byron Hickox.
I'm not sure of Brian.
was trying to do innate impression, but it would have been great if he had looked up the
pronunciations of the wonders of the world.
Well, that is true, but, Byron, I've done over 300 of these episodes and a little busy
each week, so I just got to kind of throw it together.
But this is the thing, Byron.
Anjul Falls?
It's, um, the pyramid of Giza is, you know, I don't, you know, I don't know much of
anything about these so-called wonders of the world, but, uh, it's so-called.
Even I know that.
All right.
Well, that's beautiful, does he.
These so-called wonders.
My favorite part of Moneyball is when he takes up for his friend, you know, when someone attacks him.
I would say this, though, somebody, I saw like a teacher comment.
Like, even my second graders know it's pronounced Giza.
And to my defense, I think in second grade, I probably knew that.
There's a lot of stuff I've forgotten.
That's true.
I used to know all the dinosaurs.
There was a time I could tell you all the state capitals.
Right.
But I just forget some stuff.
Yeah, you had to push that to the side to make room for adult things.
Yeah.
So I haven't thought about these pyramids in a while.
And, you know, from now on, I would like to refer to it as the pyramid of Giza.
Okay.
I'd like it to be that.
When you go, you know about the pyramid of Giza?
Sure, you know the one in Memphis.
Do you know the one in Giza?
Now, I love.
Here's another thing I forgot.
Someone wrote in and answered it.
Dusty last week's like, why did they even build the Parthadon?
It was built.
Well, I know there's, you know, I know there's an official reason, but I'm saying.
You made the original one or the one in Nashville.
Yeah, but go ahead with it.
I think it's built in 1897.
Okay.
Because Nashville is called the Athens of the South because of all of our colleges.
So it was to honor the one in Athens, Greece.
So in the late 1800s, when they were building with a horse and buggy, they go,
let's do the exact replica of the Parthenon, because people have been calling us the Athens of the South.
And inside, let's put the largest indoor statue in the country.
And I think that's a little crazy.
So what do you think really have?
I don't know.
Aliens?
I think it was already here when we found it.
Oh, and we built the city around it.
Yeah.
That makes sense.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Who knows?
Yeah.
Who knows? Who knows? Who knows why the original one is all torn down and ruined?
I think the natural one.
This one is the original.
The one that was their attempt to build one.
Yeah.
They were trying to build one.
And then they stopped about halfway and they go, let's just say it fell.
Yep.
You're going to love the Odyssey.
Yeah.
I think that statue came much later.
You think?
I don't know that for sure, but I feel like it was built much later.
You ever see the doors to that thing?
You can walk.
They did a comedy show there not long ago.
Oh, yeah?
They did a don't tell show in front of the statue of Athena.
Oh, wow.
Yeah, inside.
That's scary.
Every time I'm in there, I've been too many times, but every time I'm in there, I don't feel good.
What are you going in there to do?
Just check it out.
I just like to take people.
Just scope it out.
Yeah.
Be like, look.
Witchcraft.
It is. It is. I don't, you know, I pray when I go in.
You wear shoes in there?
I do wear shoes in there. I'm not.
You're not trying to connect with thick rubber souls. I double up.
People go, man, you got tall.
You got two pairs of socks on, don't you?
Lauren Marksbury.
The Coliseum becomes much more impressive when you realize it had a retractable roof
and it used to be able to be flooded to recreate naval battles.
And to top it all off, it could reportedly empty its 50,000 spectators in under 10 minutes.
That's pretty amazing.
Yeah.
Yeah, I mean, it is amazing.
That is the coolest thing.
They would fill it up with water and put boats out there.
Yeah, I remember them talking about that when I was younger and I thought that was really cool.
I don't know that...
Before your eyes were open.
Well, yeah, I don't know that there's any...
You know, I don't know there's any way that they could really, you know, prove that that was actually going on.
Well, you got to look up the way Rome worked with all the aqueducts.
They had a really advanced irrigation system through the whole city.
And you can tell by the ruins, you can tell what they had built.
They built it to be able to do that.
So it's pretty awesome.
Yeah.
It is awesome.
I mean, if that's true, that's amazing.
Yeah.
I mean, that'd be so cool.
I think we should do that.
That's why it's one of the so-called wonders of the world.
Before we tear down Nissan Stadium, let's fill it with water and let's do a naval battle.
We're going to have another Nashville flood.
You can just dump it right out into the Cumberland.
That's true.
Just put a little hose.
Yeah.
That's a great idea.
Let it run into the river.
It's doing naval battle.
Which one do you want to reenact?
I say, let's do a new one.
Okay.
You know?
I get those redneck, those redneck boat tours.
Just have a couple of those guys out there.
Yeah.
It's an actual naval battle.
Yeah.
I mean, let's really fight.
Right.
Yeah.
Would you get a ticket to that?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
You'd be in there.
You know, get people that have done, that are on death row to do it.
Okay.
And if you, the winner gets free.
Not free, but the death penalty is off the time.
No, free.
Oh, wow.
So the stakes are high.
Yeah, you walk out that day.
Whoever is the most proficient killer gets to be free in society.
Wow.
That's good.
Yeah.
And we kill the people that are not as good at killing.
Yeah.
All right.
I like that.
I think that's a good idea.
Brenda Rogers.
This next comment comes from Brenda Rogers.
Brian, your special was awesome.
By the way, I really liked your jacket.
Thank you, Brenda.
Well, here's a little tidbit.
It was actually Nate's jacket.
Was it really?
I was wearing Nate's jacket and Nate's shoes.
Although they're mine now.
So, you know, I stayed with them for a while when the ice storm hit.
And we were all getting ready to leave for the cruise.
And it was like the night before.
And I'm like, oh, man, I was going to get some shoes before the cruise.
I got to run to, I was going to go to some store before they close.
and they were like, we got all these extra shoes
and all this extra clothes.
And we're just trying to, you know,
we're going to give them to Goodwill or whatever.
Just go pick out whatever you want.
So Ruth got into it and she picked out all these.
I'm like,
I'm never going to wear any of this.
You know,
you see how Nate dresses because while...
Clothes from not around here.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly.
And then when it got time to start getting dressed for the special
and they were looking at different backdrops
how it look. That's what they picked out.
The Nate's jacket
and Nate's shoes, which I thought was very funny.
It feels like a classic. I forgot my wallet moment.
You go, oh, I meant to get some shoes.
You might cover in this for me real quick?
I'll get you back, man.
You might just create my whole new wardrobe?
Well, that's very nice of Brenda to write in about it.
Yeah, and it is best you ever looked on that special.
Well, thank you.
Now, you did look good.
It's also at your best.
You're doing your thing.
Yeah.
It's the best.
I'm wearing makeup.
Yeah.
Are you?
Yeah.
Right now.
Yeah.
I always wear makeup.
Are you wearing makeup in that?
That picture I do shirt right there.
Dan Harris.
I cannot figure out why most of you are allowing bates to fail up.
I haven't felt like I've been more guilt tripped into watching something since the Black Panther movie.
But at least that thing got going at some point.
Jeez, Louise.
This is my favorite comment.
Well, first of all, I like the Black Panther movie.
Yeah, first of all, Dan, did you like the jacket?
Wow, Dan.
Here's what I would say to that, Dan.
Okay.
I've been failing up all my life.
And it's working great with my wife, with my career.
Do you want Brian to fail down?
I mean, let the man fail up.
My plan is just to keep failing up the rest of my life and then, you know.
Which way do you want us to fail out here, Dan?
Come on, Dan.
I would have fell up.
Fill up.
Dan Harris.
So.
Got guilt tripped into watching the Black Panther movie.
What a loser.
Black Panther, the first one was really good.
I never saw it.
I never saw it, too.
The first one was really good.
I like superhero movies.
Did you get guilt tripped into watching it?
No, I loved it.
Yeah.
I watched it again recently.
I love those superhero movies.
Now, I'm interested in seeing Spider-Man, but almost any that come out now, I feel
like I'm doing it out of some nostalgia.
I go, I remember when they were good.
So you're getting guilt trip too.
Yeah, now, almost.
Not guilt trip, but like...
Well, you know, they're building up for another Avengers into this year.
Yeah, Doomsday.
I feel like it's going to be a lot down.
Can't wait.
Well, thank you, Dan.
I appreciate it.
Yeah, thanks for watching, Dan Harris.
Yeah, I appreciate you, Dan.
Sounds like real good dude.
Laces out, Dan.
Remember that?
Except from...
Ace Venture.
Yeah.
Pride Rock 92.
This is a comment from February 4th of this year.
Oh, I thought that was all part of their name.
No, this is an old comment.
And the comment is, I give this pod about six months.
Having said that, I would love an Aaron-led pod with his friends.
Stop hanging out with these old heads, professionally at least.
This is from our first episode.
I like this.
Well, professionally.
I wish I'd have seen this at the time.
I would have set something up.
He's like, you can be friends with them off the record,
but not in front of people.
Stop associate with these old heads.
You're a 92 kid.
I'm a 91 kid, so I'm actually a little older than Pride Rock.
Yeah.
Well, you saw on the first episode, let's put a pen in this and we'll check.
So I'm just doing a follow-up.
Is this six months?
Is that what this is now?
Yeah.
Okay.
We'll do another six.
I'll see.
Hopefully, y'all pick it up between now and then, and then I'll re-evaluate things.
But I appreciate it.
Thank you, Pride Rock, 92.
Six months. All right, we did it.
We did it, man.
We've already exceeded expectation there.
Last comment that we're going to read today, Brian's favorite of the week.
Monica Ramirez.
I had the pleasure of visiting Nashville, and I finally went to my very first Waffle House.
As Dusty has mentioned, you really need the full Waffle House experience.
The manager was loudly yelling at the cook.
It was pretty amazing.
My friend was a bit upset, but I was thrilled.
This was exactly the kind of excitement I wanted for my first Waffle House experience.
Yeah, I love that.
I like, you know, I've been to a Waffle House before where people are out front smoking.
Yeah.
And there's no one inside.
And when you go in, it means they have to stop smoking and go back to work.
That's my favorite.
They're not happy.
Well, they're all a little annoyed that you're in there.
Yeah.
I like that.
Well, I like this comment because today's topic is breakfast.
Oh.
Oh, you finally get your own episode.
That's right.
And the meal, right?
Are you going to sprinkle some of you in?
We'll do a little both.
All right.
But so I was born in a small town.
Do you eat breakfast, Brian?
I do.
Okay.
Every day?
Yep.
Same meal or do you mix it up?
I like how you put this on me.
I was about to nail you guys with some questions.
No, no, no.
You got out in the show today, buddy.
You got out in front of it.
Okay.
I do pretty much the same meal.
Before I was married, I,
would sometimes skip breakfast or because I would, I was kind of, I would sleep late.
That's what Dan Harris is wanting to do.
I just realized now every verb with breakfast on the end, it's going to be some reference to me, skip
breakfast.
But now that I'm married, and obviously I'm up earlier, stuff like that, I eat breakfast.
Would you consider it a healthy breakfast or is it?
It's, no, but it's healthier than when I was a kid.
I eat cereal.
Okay.
Sugary cereal?
What's a cereal?
Yeah.
I love cereal.
The easy joke here, raisin brand or something like that.
But I think you life cereal?
I do a little life.
Life is great.
It's a good in between sweet, but it's relatively healthy.
And then some that you would have made.
I do fiber worn.
Almond milk?
For obvious reasons.
Almond milk?
I've done some almond milk before.
I've kind of gotten off that.
I need to get back to it.
What kind of milk do you use?
2%. 2%? Were you a 2% family growing up? Yep. Yep. Isn't that crazy? I think you stick with whatever you use growing up. What kind of milk did y'all use?
Well, we were 2% growing up too, but I'm an almond milk. I don't drink milk now. I just do milk with cereal or maybe a smoothie, and we do almond milk.
Okay.
I will buy raw milk when I can find it, and that's what I'm into.
Oh, yeah. Well, the wrong person to ask. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, I've changed a lot of things.
We were 2%.
I don't know.
We never voted as a family.
Yeah.
But that's just what we were.
And now I think of that as the default milks.
I do too.
Can I tell you guys the thing I heard about 2% milk?
Yeah, yeah.
I think we already know, Dusty.
Well, it's not good for you.
What they say about milks is you really want to drink whole milk or skin milk
because the whole milk is kind of like how it comes.
Right.
And then the skin milk is the fat taken out of it.
With 1% or 2% they take all the food.
fat out and then re-put a percentage of fat back into the milk.
Yes, sir.
Love that.
So that's kind of gross.
Now, do your kids drink milk?
Daughter drinks milk every day.
Now, she takes whole milk, vitamin D, whatever.
That's what Eleanor drinks whole milk.
Aaron, can I ask you a question?
No.
Dusty, can I ask you a question?
Any time.
You ever leave your doctor's office and feel like you got nothing from it?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, every time.
Yeah, you too, right?
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I've never felt like I got something at the doctor.
They usually just tell me to drink more water. No real answers are game plan.
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Pepsi?
No, no.
Just like their dad did.
We do orange juice.
You know, try to get some good orange juice and water.
And, you know, we don't really have a lot of milk in the house.
So they don't do that.
But we eat cheese and...
So you get in your calcium.
Yeah, we'll get calcium in some kind of way.
What do you guys...
What do you guys do for breakfast?
I usually don't eat breakfast.
I love breakfast food.
It's my favorite family of foods.
Yeah, me too.
I love it.
I love eggs, hash brown, sausage, bacon.
I love pancakes and waffles.
It's my favorite.
If I could pick one family of foods to eat for every meal, that's what I would do.
I think most people would.
As far as eating it in the breakfast time, I try not to.
And then you just save it for later?
Then I play ketchup later.
Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
I like to start the day with a little fruit.
I like to have a little fruit, just whatever we got, maybe some grapes, some cherries,
some honeydew melon, and then have some water, some black coffee.
coffee. And then I might, if my wife makes oatmeal, might have a little oatmeal with some fruit in there.
I might have a little cereal. I like peanut butter panda puff. You ever had those? I like those.
Oh, I love the alliteration. Yeah. What is that? Well, it's supposed to be an organic version of like,
you know, what is that? Captain Crunch peanut butter. Okay. Peanut butter panda puffs.
Peanut butter panda puffs. And then I la, or sweetened wheatfuls or something. It's like a frosted
like an organic frost of manyweets.
I like those.
I like to crush them up,
make like a,
you know,
a real kind of soggy.
Because they snort it.
Yeah.
And then,
and then,
or like,
sometimes I'll do,
I'll make grits and then put
eggs on top.
Nice.
Make like a little grit bowl.
Grit bowl.
Love that.
Yeah.
Now,
when I was a kid,
maybe a little yogurt.
Sometimes.
It's a big breakfast.
Not,
not every day to something.
Yeah.
It's all healthy. When I was a kid, I would either eat sugary cereal or if it wasn't sugary,
I would put sugar on my cereal. Somebody recently had a joke. It might have been John Heffron,
and he talked about how you'd finish it, and then you'd take your spoon and scrape the sugar
at the bottle. Just milky sugar. It's all it is. And I used to do that. So I don't do that now.
I like that with Rice Krispies. Did it with Rice Krispies? Yeah. Checks, plain checks.
Anything like that that wasn't sweet. Yep. I mean, a full spoonful of sugar.
We used sometimes my mom, when I was a kid, my mom would fry bacon, and then we would eat corn flakes and bacon.
Have the bacon on the side, take a little bite, a little bite of corn flakes.
It's very good.
Oh, that's good.
But you said it like you were putting it in the cereal.
Yeah.
No, we wouldn't put it in there.
You just kind of have it on the side, take a little bite, eat it together.
You know what I've never liked?
I've never even tried, but it's off-putting to me.
People that put fruit in the cereal?
I don't like that.
Strawberries and bananas.
You do a little bit of that?
I like a little fruit in my yogurt, but not.
Especially the cereals I'm eating, you know, you don't throw a little slice of banana in with cinnamon toast crunch.
It's not even, it doesn't even make sense.
I do like yogurt, do a little yogurt, put some granola in there, and then some chia seeds, some flax seeds, maybe some hemp seeds.
You put a little peanut butter in it.
A little fruit.
My wife will do peanut butter and oatmeal.
She likes that.
Love that.
Yeah.
See, I'm getting excited just talking about.
It's also my favorite meal to go out and eat.
Mm-hmm. Well, all right.
I love a diner breakfast. It's my favorite.
Diner's are great. I'm going to ask you, though, if you chain restaurants, you got an option, Waffle House, Cracker Barrel, IHop Denny's. Which one are you going?
Waffle House, not even close. And I've hit the trifecta in one weekend before I did it in Cocoa Beach, Florida.
Mm-hmm.
I went to all three in consecutive nights.
Well, I mean four. I threw in Cracker Barrel, too.
Oh, Cracker Barrel. I'll put Cracker Barrel second. Waffle House, Cracker Barrel, I hop Denny's.
That's my ranking.
IHOP is going to always be last for me.
IHop used to be great, I think, but it really fell off.
But yeah, I would go Waffle House over any of those.
But you like Huddell House over Waffle House.
Yeah, I mean, you didn't list that.
But, yeah, I love a huddle house.
I just remember that.
When I go there, I don't even really like breakfast.
I like to get the paddy melt.
I did IHop and Denny's this weekend.
What did you think?
And I was a nice Denny's.
Most Denny's nowadays are like in a truck stop connected to, you know.
Yes.
But this was a really nice dinnies.
And yeah, it was good.
I do Waffle House all the time on the road.
I did not this weekend.
But what's your go-to order at Waffle House?
I get the Waffle.
I get the Hatch Brown Bowl, sausage and bacon, and a waffle on the side.
I used to be an All-Star Breakfast guy.
So let me try the Hatch Brown Bowl.
I haven't had anything else since.
And I want to push back a little bit on this comment for Monica Ramirez.
I think it is fun to get what you would call the full Waffle House experience.
I would say 99% of the time you're in there.
It's completely normal. Everybody's nice. There's no fights. Nobody's yelling at each other.
Yeah, a lot of weird tattoos. It's got a grunge to it. You know, these are working, blue-collar, gritty people. And that's what makes it nice. But it's not always chaotic in there. I'm excited for you that you got to see that.
Yeah, they're on some kind of prison work release program. Yeah, I think people think they're going to go there and there's always going to be something wild that happens. But most of the time, it's just a nice. It is true.
super casual good environment.
Yeah, they're yelling their order.
So sometimes he can almost give you a feeling that people are yelling.
They're just doing their job.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
But speaking of Denny's one time, I was in Vegas and I was going to L.A., so whatever that road is.
But I looked up at Denny's just on the path.
And we pulled up, the Denny's was inside a casino.
So this casino was way away from Vegas.
And then it's early in the day.
me and my buddy, Evan Burke, we're getting some breakfast.
And, you know, you walk through this casino full of smoke, but no one really gambling yet.
So it's just all these people at the tables excited that we walked in.
Ripping cigarettes?
Yeah.
And we walked all the way through the casino to the Denny's, had our food, and then left.
And not a nice Denny's.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
Do you guys, is there a restaurant that people don't normally think of as breakfast that you secretly
You know, they have great breakfast.
No, not that I can think of.
Do you have one in mind?
Hardies is, I love a Hardy's biscuit.
I think Hardys might be more known for its breakfast than anything else.
You know?
Back when I did eat pork, I would go to Hardys and I would get a bacon, egg, and cheese biscuit,
or maybe a loaded omit biscuit.
Oh, yeah.
And then I would also get biscuits and gravy, and then I would eat the biscuits and gravy,
and then the rest of the gravy, I would put on the loaded omit biscuit.
And then I would eat that.
And I got pretty fat.
Yeah, that sounds awesome.
Can I share a little history of breakfast?
Yeah, I'd love it.
I've never thought about what the word means, but it means you're breaking a fast.
Yeah, it's right there in the word.
Yeah, but you kind of thought about that.
If we pronounced it, breakfast.
I bet you'd think you'd have noticed it.
I did know that because I talk about fasting a lot, and I heard that because you're sleeping throughout the night, so you're kind of fasting.
Yeah, it makes sense.
I just never thought about it.
Yeah.
So the ancient Romans, they kind of started it.
They had a morning meal called I and Tacalom or something like that.
Usually bread, cheese, and leftovers.
I've had some breakfasts like that.
I love bread and cheese.
But then the Middle Ages rolled around and the Catholic Church got involved.
Yes, sir.
And Thomas Aquinas and the Catholic Church viewed eating before midday Mass or morning
prayers is a sign of weakness or gluttony. That's true. It is a sign of weakness. I do it,
but. So it was generally reserved only for children, the sick, or traveling monks. So our long period,
breakfast was out. Yeah. It's changed over the years, but it used to be you're supposed to
fast for 24 hours before you receive communion at Mass. And then that time has shrunken down.
Very few people do it. People are leaving the church. And they're like, all right.
We got to fix this.
Well, my mom told me growing up, this is pre-Vatican, too.
It was very common for people to just pass out at mass all the time because they've been fasting for 24 hours.
And the preacher was like, I'm really hitting it today.
He's like, and I'm killing it.
Yeah.
Then the Renaissance talks came along and people started getting into breakfast again.
Waffles were first introduced in North America by pilgrims who'd lived in the Netherlands, introduced in 1620.
1620.
Are you more a waffle or?
pancake person. Isn't it the same thing?
Am I crazy? Or is it the same thing? It's just shaped differently?
I don't know. But I don't really eat either, but I would prefer pancakes.
So you just like you don't like the texture of a waffle? Yeah. It's like a same thing?
Like a pancake's soft and a waffle is almost like it's, you know, you kind of fry it around,
so it kind of makes it a little tougher. But you can get it, you don't have to get it well done.
You can get it a little soft like a pancake. Yeah. That's how I like it.
I like them both so much.
Are they different?
I don't know, but in my mind, they're different.
They look different.
They're shaped differently.
They've got a different texture too.
My sister used to, like, blend up oatmeal, and she would make oatmeal pancakes.
Oh, that sounds good.
A little healthier for you.
Pancakes and waffles differ primarily in composition, cooking method, and texture.
So they got the same ingredients.
Okay.
So I like them both.
The 1900s rolled around.
Breakfast started kind of happening, like,
what we think of today.
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg introduced a cereal in 1878.
He purposely made it very bland because he thought it would tone down young people's
sinful nature.
Yes.
So he thought that would help, you know.
He didn't know we were going to add a spoonful of sugar right on top of those cornflakes.
Superior, yeah.
How were people waking up back then?
I imagine when people are waking up, that's going to change everything, right?
I mean, pre-alarm clock, was it everybody's waiting on a cockadoodle do?
Is that really how the world worked?
Probably back then they had the wind-up clock.
But I mean, even before that, how are people waking up?
I just think when the sun comes up.
Yeah, I think before the alarm clock.
So there are no blackout curtains, back.
People didn't have to work nine to fives, I think.
You just could live on a farm and you weren't, you know, strapped by property.
taxes and income taxes and you just could live off the land.
Yeah.
And you would die at 30 from diarrhea.
That's, well, that's what they want to tell you.
Well, that's what they want to tell you.
I don't believe it, but I think probably everybody's lives were much better.
But the emotional manipulation of movies.
Yeah, that's the main problem.
It has made us think that everybody was dying back then.
But, hey.
In the 1920s, good to be back, boys.
The Beach.
Lee would be agreeing with me.
I'm sure he would.
Yeah.
The Beach Nut Packing.
Beech Nut Packing Company wanted to sell more bacon.
So they Howard the father hired the father of public relations, Edward Bernays.
He got a prominent doctor to agree that a heavier breakfast was healthier and convinced
5,000 other doctors to sign a petition agreeing with the statement.
That's interesting.
That's really.
interesting. What a brilliant marketing maneuver. So they were lying to us? Of course.
American bacon sales skyrocketed. Wow. That's interesting. And then the famous phrase,
breakfast is the most important meal of the day. It did not originate from a medical
breakthrough. It was coined in 1917 as a marketing campaign in Good Health magazine edited by
Dr. John Harvey Kellogg to help sell his newly invented breakfast cereal. Love that. It's crazy that
we know that and we believe anything that they tell us.
I don't know if that's true, but I think you should be skeptical of stuff.
But I never thought breakfast is the most important meal of the day was some kind of medical claim.
I always thought it just meant like, hey, it's good to get the day started with a good meal.
Did you think that was a medical claim?
Well, I mean, just the claim in general, it's not that it has to be a medical claim,
but it was so popular that everybody believed that it was the most important meal of the day.
Well, how is that any different than Honda going? We got the best cars in the world.
Well, they convinced 500 doctors to...
5,000.
5,000 doctors to be like, hey, a breakfast is really healthy.
We get 5,000 mechanics to agree that Honda's the best car. Is that not the same thing?
Well, I don't think people trust mechanics the way they trust doctors.
Well, you probably do.
Yeah, I trust them about as equal.
I trust neither.
Yeah.
I was thinking about brunch.
We're supposed to, I mean, doctors, I mean, the way they're pitched, and I'm sure there are some good ones.
The way doctors are pitched is there.
It's quite a concession.
They're just these good-hearted people all just trying to help us and make us feel, make us feel better and be healthier.
And this right there, even back then, they were able to convince five.
How many doctors were there even back then?
And they're like 5,000 of them were like, yeah, yeah, yeah, we'll go along with this.
Well, who knows what the exact claim is?
There probably is dependent on how you word it, some kind of medical legitimacy to that claim.
Yes.
So I don't know specifically how it's worded.
And then they took it and made it seem like.
Does he.
Can I get an example?
Half truth.
Yeah, well, okay.
That's how you lie to people without lying to them.
You give them a half truth.
That might be, like, when I worked in TV news, we would have different suite months where the Nielsen ratings would come out.
Every station could make some run some promo claiming number one station for something, because you can find...
How to lie with statistics.
You know, you can find something that you're number one at and say it in a way that's not a lie, but, you know, political ads do that.
I mean, movies.
such movies, the number one summer comedy or, you know, and you're like, oh, that sounds good,
but there wasn't any other, I don't know, you know what I mean?
Yeah, puffery.
Puffery, yeah.
Manipulation.
That's one way to word.
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But I was thinking about brunch.
Isn't brunch really just people who didn't get up in time to eat breakfast?
I think it's an excuse.
Does anybody eat breakfast and then go eat brunch?
I think it's an excuse to get the drinking going.
It 100% is.
Yeah.
Bottomless mimosas.
Yeah.
I mean, that's what I would do.
Yeah,
I would be a Saturday night.
I would drink and be so hungover that I would miss.
breakfast, but you go to the bar around 11, have some mimosas, go to Jeans Hofbrow in Charleston,
and my buddy would, he would do a pitcher of mimosa, he would do this much champagne.
It's about a foot high.
And then, and then this much orange juice.
Of course.
And, you know, and then we would drink those until two and then switch to liquor.
Now, would you eat lunch after that, too?
Yeah, you just keep eating it all day.
It all blurs together.
Hang out all day. Nighttime comes around. You're watching Sunday night football.
Oh, yeah.
Coolers heavy. And you're like, I got to get to work tomorrow.
Brunch was first proposed in 1895 by British writer Guy Berenger, who published an essay titled Brunch, a plea to suggest a cheerful, wider and social late morning meal for Saturday night partiers.
I like that.
Oh, yeah. That's what I just said. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.
The oldest cereal.
People from my church would drive by and I'd be out front smoking cigarettes.
And I'd go, oh, sorry.
Oldest cereals that are still in existence.
Wheatina.
I don't know that one.
18 subpoena.
What was it going?
Wheatina.
Whitina.
Whitina.
Will Wheaton.
Oh, wheatina.
All natural hot breakfast cereal.
This looks like garbage, dude.
It looks like pig slop.
Yeah.
25% more fiber, though.
Toasted wheat cereal.
I'm not a big hot cereal guy.
Hot cereals.
No, I mean, oatmeal is, some people will call that hot cereal.
Yeah, but I like.
That was a question on the cruise.
Remember that?
We did our podcast on the cruise.
One of the comments was, is cereal, is oatmeal a cereal?
We all said no.
Yeah, I don't think.
To me, it's not a cereal.
When I go, if I go, you want some cereal, oatmeal's never an option.
Yeah.
But it's a hot cereal, right?
I guess depending on what cereal is.
Yeah, I guess by definition.
Shred wheat, been in 1893.
Grape nuts.
It's kind of crazy.
They're still around.
Yeah, when did they get good?
When does the good cereal start to happen?
Post-World War II boom?
Ninety-eight.
Yeah, probably.
What does sugar smacks?
come into play. When you guys get eggs, they're so good. How do you have them cooked? Eggs?
Yeah. Scramble. I'm a scrambled guy. Scramble them up. I, you know, I like to mix it up.
Sometimes I'll do scrambled. Sometimes it's a last minute decision. I'll think I'm going to do a fried
egg, drop it in the pan, and then go, you know what? Scramble it up. But if you were at a restaurant,
what would you ask for? Probably over easy. Over. Because you're going to go, I eat the whole shell.
Now, this is, this is why, though, because I feel like they could slip, if you, if you're
do scramble, they could slip in powdered eggs on you.
But if you do a real egg, I think it's a little harder.
So I had eggs this morning in the hotel, you know, the breakfast.
Continental breakfast.
Yeah.
So those were probably powdered eggs?
Probably so.
They were good.
What is that all about?
What's continental mean?
I don't think it is continental breakfast.
I think it's complimentary breakfast.
I think continental is something else.
But they do call it continental breakfast.
I think we call it that, but I don't think that's the...
I think everybody's calling it that.
Yeah, I think so, too.
I've never heard it called a comp breakfast.
The term originated in 19th century Britain to describe the lighter food eaten on the European mainland
compared to a heavy cooked English breakfast.
So I want an English breakfast.
Yeah, so a continental breakfast means we ain't got much of nothing.
Yeah, this is just all the nonsense.
Yeah.
But that's why I think hotels have complimentary breakfast.
I think it's what they call it, like on their...
Ryan, they're calling it a continental breakfast.
breakfast. I couldn't disagree with you more about this. Well, I think that right there,
what are talking about? I just, you know, they may say it's complimentary, but, you know,
for a long time at least, it was called continental breakfast. Okay. You know,
have you been thinking they're saying complimentary this whole time or what? They do say
complimentary. Yeah, because it's free. Yeah. But it's a continental breakfast. Right.
I think they're slightly different. I think continental breakfast is what that is and
complimentary breakfast is what they should serve in a hotel.
I'm not disagreeing that the two are different, but I think they're calling it Continental.
Yeah, I think so too. Yeah. I think a lot of people do call it. Yeah.
Because they're wrong. Like you guys. So, you know, we learn that two out of three people don't
know what they're talking about. I can't believe that you guys read the thing about them
5,000 doctors lying to you and you guys have still come away with your being okay with it.
No, I think here's the difference here. I hear a story about 5,000 doctors participating
in some marketing strategy hundreds of years ago.
And my next step is that my pediatrician is lying to me in 2026.
That's the disconnect.
Even in your childhood, though, they were still saying breakfast is the most important.
It's only been in the last.
But what did you think that meant when you heard that?
My point is that those doctors got together and they started this.
And then that lasted for a hundred years.
You said you heard that in your childhood growing up.
Breakfast is the most important the meal of the day.
Even on.
We all did, right?
Yeah.
But what did you think it meant when they said that?
I thought it meant that it was the, it was best to have your breakfast in the morning.
It fueled you for the day.
You thought it was a medical claim about the nutritional value of breakfast?
I don't go around thinking, is this a medical claim or not a medical claim.
I didn't think a doctor was coming to my house saying it.
But the fact that it got out there into the ether in such a way.
it made you think, and it was started by these doctors, and then it made you think, oh, we need to eat.
Started by an advertiser, doctors signed on to give it credibility.
Yeah.
It wasn't started by doctors.
I mean, however you want to phrase it.
The doctors didn't conspire to make everyone unhealthy.
I know.
It kind of sounds like they did.
No, you are arguing that they're involved, but it wasn't their strategy, the way he read it earlier.
You don't think that them agreeing to say it is the most important middle of the day is not them,
even if it's not their idea, they still compromise themselves, probably for financial gain,
to deceive you into thinking that eating this is the most important meal of the day.
When your own religion, Catholicism was like, don't do it. You're weak if you do it.
They were like, you're weak if you do it. And then the doctor goes, you better do it. It's the most important meal.
They just said, don't have breakfast on Sunday before church. That's all.
But you were saying that earlier that the Catholic Church was like having a meat,
before noon said you're weak.
Before Mass.
Right?
Yeah, I took that, though.
I don't think they would object to a Tuesday.
Oh, really?
I took that breakfast went away all together in the Middle Ages.
Maybe.
I have no idea.
Because you're weak if you're eating breakfast.
That's true.
So it says midday mass.
That's only Sunday?
I took it if they did it every day.
I don't know who's going to midday mass during the week.
Either go in the morning or you go on the weekend.
Okay.
So I don't know.
I didn't know.
Things might have been different.
They were dealing with a bubonic plague back then.
Yeah.
a lot to worry about.
I just, what I'm learning, I mean, I'm learning a lot of this here, is that I think we shouldn't
be eaten until about noon. That's what I'm gathering from this. And that we would all feel
better if that's what we did. And am I going to be able to do it? Probably not. But I'm hungry
right now. I, whenever I try to not eat, I do the best in the mornings because my stomach
hasn't woken up yet. But if you're like skip a meal, breakfast,
would be the easiest one. That'd be the easiest one for sure. Yeah.
Do you got, well, you kind of already said, do you do coffee before or after breakfast?
During, I guess. Maybe before and then another cup during. But that's the, I have the coffee first.
What about you? I like to try to get some water in me first. So it's either, I either I drink the water or I get the water from some fruit.
because I think a lot of people seem to think that eating the water,
because it's more what you call structured water,
is more, your body absorbs it more.
If you eat the water?
Yeah.
So I eat a fruit that has water in it.
So you'd rather eat a cucumber than drink a bottle of water.
Well, I love to drink water, as anybody who's ever seen this podcast can tell.
But, yeah, cucumbers are great.
I like to pick a cucumber off the vine and eat it right there.
My buddy Pat McManus had a joke.
Back in the day, he said, you know, they say cucumber's 98% water.
He said, man, that's within a reasonable margin of error.
Is this a cucumber?
It could be water.
When people say stuff like that, that's so crazy because I'm like, well, this water really is thick and green.
I know, that 2% is doing a lot.
Yeah, it is.
Yeah, I never really understood that because they say our body is mostly water.
Yeah.
And they say celery is mostly water.
And I'm like, this water is crunchy, man.
Yeah.
I do coffee after.
I feel like coffee has such a strong taste to it that it would, it kind of dilutes the taste of other food.
Oh, you're savoring your coffee.
I just down it like a shot.
Oh, when you smoke cigars, your taste is.
Yeah, I take mine with a salt lick.
Pretty gone anyway.
Yeah.
You're just eating to live.
Do you do, you a jelly or jam guy?
I call it jelly.
Yeah.
Well, there's a difference, right?
What's the difference?
There's a very crude answer to that joke that I won't say.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
There is, uh, uh, it's also preserves.
Yeah.
But what's the difference?
I don't know.
They're all very similar, but they're-jam is more got fruit chunks in it.
Uh-huh.
Whereas jelly is just like a-huh.
So jam is thick jelly.
Well, preserves is even probably more thick, right?
Okay, jelly is made from fruit juice.
while jam is made from crushed or pureed whole fruit.
It's all coming from the same thing.
I like a strawberry jam.
But if you get toast, are you putting some jelly on it?
Buttered up.
I'm a butter guy.
Well, I think that's a given, but I mean, for me it is, but do you add any jelly to it?
No.
I like both, little butter and jam.
Yeah, me too.
But I'll put some on that.
You ever do.
If it's at the table.
You ever do honey and peanut butter on that?
No, I've never done that.
You never done that?
We should all have breakfast together and just show us all our cool things we do.
Yeah.
You never done honey and peanut butter?
No, I'm not.
I never think of honey is a breakfast thing.
You can eat it anytime.
I guess.
I sent you, well, let me share this.
Yes.
The best selling cereal, anybody want to guess?
The best selling, the number one cereal, Cheerios.
It's got to be by a landslide, right?
Yeah, I was going to say honey nut Cheerios, but this makes more sense.
Just regular Cheerios.
I'm going to go Frosted Flakes.
Or what do you call them?
You probably call them.
Honey and out.
I don't know, beluga whale o's or something.
Honey and a Nett O's.
Yeah.
Trader Joe's,
uh,
honey nut o's the best.
Oh, yeah.
Coming in at,
number three,
Frosted flakes.
Oh, okay.
Number two,
Cheerios.
So do you,
hold on.
Oh.
Talk about frosted flakes.
Little irresponsible that he says,
they're great.
I feel like he's lying to me.
I do think they're great, though.
They are.
So good.
They are good.
I love frosted flakes.
They're good, crunchy, but also when they get soggy, still really good.
Yeah, and there'd always be, I don't know, like Daryl Strawberry on the box or something.
Yeah.
Or was that Wheaties?
That's Wheaties.
Yeah.
All right.
So, number one is not Cheerios.
Frosted Flakes would have people on it.
Daryl Strawberry on Frosted Flakes?
I was just named.
Sorry, well, hold on then.
If those two aren't number one, let me, give me a second here.
This is not going to be.
This is not going to be some trick that it's oatmeal or something, right?
Cheerios number two.
Okay, cinnamon toast crunch.
I'm going...
Number four.
You guys are...
I'm going to go...
Golden grams.
What could be?
Honeycombs.
No, is it...
Is it a raisin brand?
I'm going...
I'm going...
I'm going...
You're saying so many.
Checks.
Coco Krispies.
It's got to be a healthy...
Tricks.
Is it a healthy cereal?
It's got to be a healthy one.
It's not a...
Reese's puffs.
Fruity pebbles.
I don't think...
Cocoa cris.
I don't think it's because they're healthy.
You've already said it.
What did you say?
The first guess you ever had.
Oh, Honeynut Cheerios.
Honey Nut Cheerios.
Yeah.
Are you kidding me?
Honeynut Cheerios are so good.
We're into this.
Wow.
Honey Nut Net Net Cheerios.
Good for Cheerios.
If you ever in Trader Joe's, though, and they have the Honey Nut O's or whatever,
get yourself about two or three boxes.
Okay.
They come in boxes.
Well, the bag is inside the box.
Yeah.
Yeah.
But go ahead and get yourself like two or three or three.
And if you ever at the Amish store outside of Clarks, it's in Kentucky, but right outside of Clarksville, they got a bag. It's really good.
And what do they got in there? It's honeynut Cheerios, but it's called something else.
It's there. They make it? I don't know if they make it, but they endorse it. Okay. So the best free hotel breakfast chains, number one, I had this morning, Drury Hotel. They got some good breakfast.
Drury's good. Jury does have a great breakfast. Terrible name, as we've said. But a really great hotel.
Probably the worst name for a hotel.
Yeah.
You know what...
You're going to go say it, sad, in-in-sweets?
What's that hotel the way you stay at when you're at comedy off-Broadway?
Embassy Suites.
Yeah, Embassy.
That particular hotel, great breakfast.
I've never had a bad Embassy Suites experience.
Great hotel.
That's number two.
Is it really?
Yeah.
Number three, Holiday Inn Express.
Hampton Inn?
Hampton is four.
Holiday Inn Express is eight.
Really?
You guys are doing pretty good.
Is it a comfort in sweets?
Nope.
What's the one that gives you a cookie?
Oh.
Toll House.
No, what is it?
I got a joke about it.
Double tree?
Yeah.
Is that you that has the joke?
Somebody, I just heard a joke where someone said, I'd rather have the cookie than the, is that you?
Strip.
Oh, Strip.
Yeah, he's always doing my jokes.
And, no, no, we do.
Me and Strupe have a lot of overlap.
We're like from the same part of the country.
Right.
We're around the same age.
We are always doing very similar material.
But you and I have shared those same things too, but we don't.
May have him killed.
It's like Tonya Harding.
Your buddy,
your buddy done Opaika that you went to the trailer with.
Yes.
You're going to hire Bates to hit him with a mic stand.
Number three was Hyatt Place.
Hyatt.
I don't say it a ton of
Hyattes, but
I believe it.
True by Hilton.
Troop has a joke
about the
No,
we heard of money
did we?
Yeah.
I got a
double tree cookies
joke.
He's got a
lot seven
trailer park joke.
Yeah.
And then he says,
we're having a great time.
And he yells it.
Yeah.
I sent you a list
of the top.
Yes.
The top
28,
which I was hoping
they would expand
it's the 28
and not just 27.
Didn't you tell me
that get your attention
more
is an odd number.
An odd number, but that's not an odd number.
Well, I know that's...
But I'm saying if that were...
Technically an odd number.
If that were 27, statistically, you would click on it.
So it has to be a little odd number.
I just made it's...
Popular?
That means there's, I don't know, hundreds of...
Well, that's why you go, why not go to 29?
You couldn't think of a 29th.
Why did you stop at 28?
All right, so I got us to come up with number 28.
What do you think?
It's 28.
It's been mentioned...
Dusty Slay's top 28.
Songs about breakfast.
Eggs up.
Eggs up.
Breakfast.
Coming at 28, Denny's.
Denny, that is, that is, already this is a flawed.
Yeah.
Why?
Because it's too low in the list, you think?
Yeah.
I mean, Denny's is a classic breakfast spot.
This is nationwide.
Now, here's what Mashed says.
The original Grand Slam, more like a strikeout.
The two buttermilk pancakes are virtually flavorless.
The pair of sausage links are on the small side,
and the two strips of bacon tend to be limp.
and greasy.
So that's the review here.
Yeah, okay.
Well, this guy, whoever this is is obviously from a city.
And doesn't know any.
What is the best one?
Some boutique spot in New York City?
Yeah, I would know.
You're going to love the number one.
I scrolled down.
But I do think this is pretty low for Denny's.
There are a lot of Denny's.
Yes, yes.
Hard to put it at 20.
I think this is rage bait to start the list.
I think so.
27.
Timmy Ho's.
Tim Hortons.
Tim Hortons.
Should for sure be below Denny's.
I like a Timmy Horton's.
I like in Canada.
I like a sour cream glazed Timbett.
But I'm not trying to eat anything else there.
They're saying Tim Hortons has had its struggles lately.
Quality of food dropping and drinks falling and then the prices are going up.
Yeah.
But also the chain.
Hortons?
Yeah.
You know the chain was taken over by Burger King.
Oh, I didn't know that.
Tim Hortons was.
Makes sense.
So they have those here now, right?
You have one in Hermitage?
Yeah.
There's one in Lebanon, I think.
You want to scroll down to like the top seven?
Yeah, I mean, they're making up stuff.
Lapeepie.
Lapeep is pretty good.
I took you to Lepeep.
Oh, Lapeepie was great.
Yeah, that's a good.
Yeah, I like that a lot.
Let's scroll down to the top seven.
I see Bob Evans there.
Hoddle House of 13.
That's ridiculous.
Yeah.
If you live in the South and enjoy a good, hearty breakfast, you probably visited Huddle
House a time or two.
first ever location Decatur, Georgia, more than five decades ago.
So this is a pretty complimentary little write-up.
They say if you prefer something sweet, you may be in for a disappointment.
Their breakfast menu features but a single waffle platter,
while pancakes are only available as a side with the MVP compilater.
Oh, no.
Unforgivable.
Yeah.
Oh, no.
All right, let's keep, what do we want to get to?
The top 10?
Eggs up.
Oh, Eggs up was number 11.
Ten is Egg Harbor Cafe.
I've never heard of it.
That's in Wisconsin.
They're calling it.
Yeah, Egg Harbor.
We've been there.
We've had the best show of our lives of Egg Harbor.
Yeah, we've been there in Egg Harbor.
Look at that.
What is that?
Some kind of crepe?
Yeah, it looks like a little folded scram.
Yeah, it's a folded crepe, I guess.
Yeah.
With the little powdered sugar on top.
It says it's eye hop for foodies.
What does it say at the bomb?
It's in Georgia and Wisconsin.
One in Wisconsin.
It actually started in Illinois.
Most of its restaurants are in Georgia, and then there's one in Wisconsin.
Yeah.
All right.
We got La Madeline.
I've never even heard of this.
Imagine if Denny's...
Imagine if Denny's underwent a makeover and decided to rebrand itself as being a French cafe.
Yeah, imagine if Denny's was a different restaurant.
I think you're right, Dusty.
He's into La Madeline.
Yeah.
Yeah, it's like, yeah, you're going to compare chains to this place that's probably got four locations.
It's founded in Dallas.
You know that reminded me of there's this great video of this chef on one of these morning shows?
I think it was European.
And he's making this pasta dish.
And the host is trying to be nice.
She takes a bite and she goes, it's almost like if instead of that, you use that, it'd be like Carbonara.
And he goes, yeah, if me mom had wheels, she'd be a bike.
He got so frustrated at it.
It's the same thing.
Imagine if Denny's changed everything about its restaurant.
Number eight, honeyberry cafe.
Never heard of this.
It says it's new to the breakfast chain world.
Oh, might as well give it number eight.
First restaurant.
Well, they paid money.
Yeah.
Chicago land area.
That's right.
Yeah.
Nearly all are in the Midwest.
A few of the middle.
Chicago land area, so not in Chicago.
Number seven, broken yolk cafe.
Okay.
I don't know this neither.
Started as a standalone restaurant in 1979.
San Diego.
It's in his 30th years.
It's a chain nationwide fame.
Adam Richmond went there.
to try the Iron Man
Omelet.
The Flying Biscuit Cafe
coming in
into number six.
I think I've been to
one of those.
It's in the south,
but not Tennessee.
Yeah,
not Tennessee.
Alabama, I think, has some.
Number five, snooze.
Snooze is a chain
with a somewhat
paradoxical name.
If you're snoozing
in the morning,
you're not likely to have time
for a breakfast,
are you?
Dude, this writing stinks.
Four.
It's probably AI.
Hash,
I'm sure it is.
Hash,
House a go-go. Have you heard of this, Brian?
No. The Midwest is dominating this list. These are all Midwestern places here.
Never heard of that. Okay, we got the top three. Number three, Perkins.
Oh, please. You're going to put Denny's at 28 and then Perkins is number three.
Have we seen unbelievable? When you scroll through, was there a Waffle House or Huddle House?
We're still going. We're still going. We passed Huddell House. I know. I remember it.
13, but Perkins. So you did see Huddle House.
Yeah, Hustle House is 13.
this hash brown options. This is, oh, please. They said the late, great, and hungry, Randy
macho man Savage was, did a celebrity endorsement for Perkins. And they said that swayed the vote.
He's been dead a long time. And he got paid, I bet. I mean, he also endorsed Slim Jims. Is that
your best meat stick? We'll pull up that list later. Top 36 meat sticks. They have
Chocolate, chocolate, chocolate chip, apple, cinnamon, and blueberry muffins.
They say they're all pretty tasty.
I'd like to see a picture of this writer.
What's his name?
What's his writer's name?
His writer's name is Maria Skinto.
Yeah, that sounds right.
Well, okay, that's number three.
Number two, on the list, after Perkins.
Number two, Cracker Barrel.
That's ridiculous.
Listen, I like Cracker Barrel.
I did a commercial for them, okay?
Yeah.
but I just,
you can't do Denny's like that.
You're still mad about Denny's being 28.
It just seems like it flaws the list.
Right.
Cracker, I mean, these, they're all pretty hand in hand.
Like, you get all these boutique places.
Yeah.
And then Cracker Barrel's number two?
My showman's on there again.
Yeah, they say some of these standouts include the eggs in a basket,
the basket being a slice of toast sourdough and the cheesy hash brown casserole.
Granted, Cracker Barrel has been struggling a bit lately since they're...
Dusty's commercial.
Advertising campaign with Dusty Slay.
Hashbrown casserole, though, at Huddle House is...
Or Cracker Barrel is where it's at.
Is that what you get?
Yeah, hash brown casserole is where it's at.
But nevertheless, we still want to order the Mama's pancake breakfast with fried apples, turkey,
sausage, and eggs.
Number one, breakfast chain, according to...
Maria.
That's got to be Waffle House.
Number one Waffle House.
Yeah.
So it made up.
It says if you're looking for a breakfast spot that'll never, ever let you down,
it'd have to be Waffle House.
It earns its place at the top of the list by providing cheap, reliable breakfast food day or night
and because it's practically a cultural institution.
This is like putting Jimmy Hendrix as number one guitarist.
Oh, you just think it's kind of a lame take at this point.
It's like, where was, what about, what about the, there's a chain,
Here in town, we have a few of them.
I can't have to give me a hit.
Well, I mean, it is a breakfast spot.
Okay.
Oh, Biscuit Love?
No, no.
Oh, that's a good one.
Loveless Cafe?
Oh, that's a good one.
It's not a chain.
Pancake Patrick.
No, no, it's a chain and it's all over and it's,
this one in Hermitage next to the AT&T store.
No, let me see.
Oh, first watch?
First watch.
First watch.
What was that at?
Yeah, but I think.
I think this is, I don't know.
Yeah, I guess that would qualify for this list.
I like a first watch.
Yeah, I love first one.
Yeah, that's great.
Well, that was a fun list.
I love how much Dusty hated it.
Yeah, made it fun.
That's good.
I'd like you to make, you should make lists like this, Dusty.
I should.
I think it'd be really funny.
You used to make videos, top country songs about this or that.
You should do comedy.
Yeah, yeah.
I should have did, though.
I don't think there's any country songs about breakfast, but, uh,
Coffee flat.
If he broadened it to...
Cigarette.
Oh, that's nice.
Start this day.
Don Williams.
Don Williams.
Got to have my pops.
Remember that?
Oh, yeah.
Aaron Paul.
Did you know that was him
in that commercial?
I didn't know that.
I love Stroops.
What about...
Breakfast sauce.
They don't taste like apples.
Apple Jacks.
We eat what we like.
What about live cereal?
Let's give it to Mikey.
He eats everything.
He likes it.
He likes it.
Yeah, he really like.
Yeah, yeah, that's a good commercial.
You know that was him.
Wow.
Dude, I got to have my pops, bro.
Gotta have my pops.
Yeah.
This looks so 90s.
Well, look at his parents.
That's why he ended up doing drugs.
So rude to him.
That's Jesse Peatman.
They look a bit like his parents in the show.
They're rude to him about the pops.
And he's like, all right, wow.
Do you, if you're a Waffle House and they yell,
scattered smother, do you know what that means?
Yeah, I know what most of them mean.
What's the other?
Do you have all of them written down there?
I have, I think it's all of them.
You have a few of them.
Scattered means spread out.
Yep.
Smothered means...
Cheese.
No, covered as cheese.
I don't know them.
What a smothered.
Onions.
Onions.
Chunked.
Chunked as pieces of ham.
Yep.
Diced.
I have no idea.
Diced onion in it?
We're already done onion.
Tomatoes.
Diced tomatoes.
Peppered.
Put pepper on it.
Halipinos.
Capped.
Mushrooms.
Yep.
Topped?
Topped is...
Did we say cheese?
Yeah, cheese was covered.
What is topped?
I don't know.
Chili?
Oh, gross.
I've never heard of somebody getting that.
And country.
It's got to be ham of some kind.
Sausage gravy.
Sausage gravy.
Wow.
That's disgusting.
That's pretty good, actually.
I don't know.
Have you ever had eggs?
I just get regular hash browns.
None of the things on it.
Yeah, do too.
I get covered.
Covered up.
Covered a lot.
You get all, what's it called?
All the Way?
What's it called?
If you get them all.
Oh, I don't know.
Suicide?
It's some kind of way.
Suicide, probably.
Have you ever had eggs that weren't yellow?
Like a little orange?
Or brown or white?
I've had egg whites.
You mean like the shell?
Yeah.
Oh, yeah.
Every day I eat the brown shell.
Yeah, the natural ones are brown.
Yeah.
It depends on the breed of the breed of.
the chicken. Oh, does it really?
Yeah. So says
5,000 doctors.
All right, we can stop there.
Yeah, that was fun, right?
That was fun. Let's go have some breakfast.
I could eat something. Yeah.
Yeah, it does make me hungry. Some of the other
countries, their breakfast
crazy to us. Japan does rice,
miso soup, grilled fish,
pickled vegetables.
Tusties like, this all sounds great.
Yeah, the English breakfast is
wild.
Yeah.
Start off my day with a bit of kidney beans.
Oh, a steaming pile of fizzing wigs.
And I don't even know of any.
Flebbywappas and flubble worms.
In Spain, they, breakfast is small.
And then people eat a larger second breakfast later in the morning.
Well, then they don't go out until like midnight.
Do you know that in Spain?
I didn't know that.
Yeah, like the dinner party on the office.
That's true.
Yeah.
Even later than that.
Yeah.
All right. That's it.
That's it.
Thank you for tuning in. That was breakfast.
We're doing lunch next week.
All right?
Lunch in 2005.
Yeah, let's just combine it to.
Let's see what lunch in 2005 was about.
What were we doing for lunch about that?
Nobody knows.
Nobody knows.
Thank you for tuning in.
I will be in Phoenix in a couple weeks.
This is Aaron Weber speaking at the Desert Ridge Improv, August 28th, 29th, and
30th. That's going to be a lot of fun coming out and see me in Phoenix. And I got a lot of tour
dates. You can check out my website, Aaron Webercom.com for the full list of dates. Dusty, what's going
on with you? Tonight, I'm doing my open mic that we've been doing here at Zanis called Let Loose.
Let Loose. Very fun. We've talked about it a lot. We have one tonight at 915. This weekend,
I'll be in Providence, Rhode Island on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday at the Comedy Connection.
Sunday I'm going to be in Halifax, Nova Scotia for the Great Outdoor Comedy Festival.
I'll be doing a show with Adam Ray as Dr. Phil and also Pauly Shore.
On Tuesday, I have a show here at Zanis.
You'll be at Dr. Phil?
Yeah.
Okay.
Tuesday, I have a show here at Zanies.
It's sold out, the 11th.
And then on the 12th, another let loose here at the Lab at Zanis.
Zanis.
Let loose.
This is Brian Bates speaking.
I think August 21st and 22nd, I'll be at Springfield Comedy Club.
That just came in.
In Springfield, Missouri.
Yeah.
It used to be Blue Room, right?
Now Springfield Comedy Club in Springfield, Missouri.
And then September 6th, I'll be at Zanis Comedy Club in Chicago.
Awesome.
All right.
How about that?
We're three professional comedians.
Come see us on the road.
Make sure you check out Brian Bates' special.
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100,000 views. Check them out. 100,000
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Make sure you tune in next week to another thrilling
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on behalf of my friends, Dusty Slay
and Brian Bates.
We wish you all a pleasant evening.
Benner yet
wait. It's longer than I thought.
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