The Nateland Podcast - 27: #27 | Breakfast

Episode Date: August 5, 2026

This 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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Starting point is 00:01:14 Sign up and get 10% off at BetterHelp.com slash public figures. That's BetterHELP.com slash public figures. 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.
Starting point is 00:01:54 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,
Starting point is 00:02:24 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.
Starting point is 00:02:50 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.
Starting point is 00:03:09 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.
Starting point is 00:03:32 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.
Starting point is 00:03:46 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.
Starting point is 00:04:09 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.
Starting point is 00:04:27 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.
Starting point is 00:04:42 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.
Starting point is 00:05:00 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
Starting point is 00:05:35 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.
Starting point is 00:05:46 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.
Starting point is 00:05:53 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.
Starting point is 00:06:01 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.
Starting point is 00:06:14 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.
Starting point is 00:06:24 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.
Starting point is 00:06:38 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.
Starting point is 00:06:51 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?
Starting point is 00:07:08 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
Starting point is 00:07:24 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.
Starting point is 00:07:38 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.
Starting point is 00:07:52 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.
Starting point is 00:08:06 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.
Starting point is 00:08:18 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.
Starting point is 00:08:30 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.
Starting point is 00:08:47 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?
Starting point is 00:09:07 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.
Starting point is 00:09:16 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?
Starting point is 00:09:30 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.
Starting point is 00:09:43 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.
Starting point is 00:10:01 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.
Starting point is 00:10:27 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?
Starting point is 00:10:44 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.
Starting point is 00:10:54 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.
Starting point is 00:11:10 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.
Starting point is 00:11:30 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.
Starting point is 00:12:00 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.
Starting point is 00:12:12 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.
Starting point is 00:12:28 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...
Starting point is 00:12:46 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.
Starting point is 00:13:02 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...
Starting point is 00:13:43 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
Starting point is 00:14:07 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.
Starting point is 00:14:24 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.
Starting point is 00:14:35 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.
Starting point is 00:14:50 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.
Starting point is 00:15:05 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.
Starting point is 00:15:20 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?
Starting point is 00:15:33 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.
Starting point is 00:15:44 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.
Starting point is 00:15:55 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.
Starting point is 00:16:07 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.
Starting point is 00:16:23 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.
Starting point is 00:16:39 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.
Starting point is 00:16:51 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.
Starting point is 00:17:03 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.
Starting point is 00:17:15 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.
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Starting point is 00:19:52 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.
Starting point is 00:20:10 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.
Starting point is 00:20:19 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.
Starting point is 00:20:32 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,
Starting point is 00:20:40 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.
Starting point is 00:20:52 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.
Starting point is 00:21:07 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.
Starting point is 00:21:42 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
Starting point is 00:22:21 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.
Starting point is 00:22:56 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.
Starting point is 00:23:16 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.
Starting point is 00:23:54 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.
Starting point is 00:24:17 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.
Starting point is 00:24:39 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.
Starting point is 00:24:50 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.
Starting point is 00:25:04 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.
Starting point is 00:25:17 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?
Starting point is 00:25:41 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.
Starting point is 00:25:59 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.
Starting point is 00:26:48 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.
Starting point is 00:27:06 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,
Starting point is 00:27:30 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.
Starting point is 00:28:12 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
Starting point is 00:28:50 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
Starting point is 00:29:07 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?
Starting point is 00:29:21 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.
Starting point is 00:29:44 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.
Starting point is 00:30:13 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.
Starting point is 00:30:31 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.
Starting point is 00:30:42 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.
Starting point is 00:30:55 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.
Starting point is 00:31:14 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.
Starting point is 00:31:25 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.
Starting point is 00:31:38 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.
Starting point is 00:31:48 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.
Starting point is 00:31:59 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?
Starting point is 00:32:13 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.
Starting point is 00:32:24 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.
Starting point is 00:32:49 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.
Starting point is 00:33:04 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.
Starting point is 00:33:32 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.
Starting point is 00:33:54 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.
Starting point is 00:34:07 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.
Starting point is 00:34:15 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.
Starting point is 00:34:43 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.
Starting point is 00:34:58 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.
Starting point is 00:35:33 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.
Starting point is 00:35:54 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
Starting point is 00:36:40 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.
Starting point is 00:37:31 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.
Starting point is 00:38:05 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.
Starting point is 00:38:29 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.
Starting point is 00:38:51 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?
Starting point is 00:39:17 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?
Starting point is 00:39:48 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.
Starting point is 00:40:14 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.
Starting point is 00:40:28 That is cool. If you've listened to this podcast for any amount of the time, of time. You know I like my sleep, but I tend to be a hot sleeper. All right, that is true. I don't know how that made it into the copy. And they say the best sleep happens when you're cooler at night. I like to keep the room real cool. I like a cool sleep. Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's why I've been sleeping on cozy earth bamboo sheets. I get why people talk about their sheets now. These things are made from bamboo so they naturally wick away heat and moisture. Oh my gosh. So they can help you sleep several degrees cooler. That's worth it right there. They're also in cool.
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Starting point is 00:41:19 I want to leave them at home for my wife to use. But maybe I could sneak them more. You get a couple of sets. Yeah. Now when I get home and I have my cozy sheets, I already know I'm going to get improved sleep because of how much cooler I. I can stay all night. The best part about these sheets, no risk.
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Starting point is 00:42:05 If you get a post-purched survey, be sure to mention you heard about cozy earth right here. How about that? Brian, you want to start off with some comments? Yeah, start off from comments. 45 minutes in. Sure. Oh, if you don't mind.
Starting point is 00:42:18 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.
Starting point is 00:42:37 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?
Starting point is 00:42:49 I bet there's a ground. Okay. Okay. Comments come from Twitter, Instagram, YouTube, Apple Podcast reviews, and mail at naitlandpodcast.com. Thank you so much for everybody who wrote in. And here are Brian's favorites. Brent Bell. We really enjoyed the podcast this week.
Starting point is 00:43:08 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.
Starting point is 00:43:27 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.
Starting point is 00:43:47 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.
Starting point is 00:44:06 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.
Starting point is 00:44:18 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.
Starting point is 00:44:32 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
Starting point is 00:44:49 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.
Starting point is 00:45:06 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.
Starting point is 00:45:26 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.
Starting point is 00:45:49 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.
Starting point is 00:46:03 He did. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Greg Stone. Is that the comedian, maybe?
Starting point is 00:46:11 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
Starting point is 00:46:27 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?
Starting point is 00:46:49 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.
Starting point is 00:47:20 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.
Starting point is 00:47:36 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.
Starting point is 00:47:48 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.
Starting point is 00:48:12 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.
Starting point is 00:48:27 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.
Starting point is 00:48:37 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.
Starting point is 00:48:49 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.
Starting point is 00:49:00 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.
Starting point is 00:49:15 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?
Starting point is 00:49:34 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.
Starting point is 00:49:45 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
Starting point is 00:50:15 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,
Starting point is 00:50:34 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.
Starting point is 00:50:45 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.
Starting point is 00:51:02 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.
Starting point is 00:51:15 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.
Starting point is 00:51:43 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.
Starting point is 00:52:22 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.
Starting point is 00:52:36 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.
Starting point is 00:52:52 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,
Starting point is 00:53:02 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.
Starting point is 00:53:12 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.
Starting point is 00:53:27 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.
Starting point is 00:53:44 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.
Starting point is 00:54:03 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.
Starting point is 00:54:26 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.
Starting point is 00:54:51 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.
Starting point is 00:55:09 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.
Starting point is 00:55:30 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,
Starting point is 00:55:56 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.
Starting point is 00:56:16 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.
Starting point is 00:56:29 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.
Starting point is 00:56:44 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.
Starting point is 00:57:01 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.
Starting point is 00:57:13 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.
Starting point is 00:57:30 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.
Starting point is 00:57:56 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.
Starting point is 00:58:13 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.
Starting point is 00:58:30 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.
Starting point is 00:58:45 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?
Starting point is 00:58:55 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.
Starting point is 00:59:04 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.
Starting point is 00:59:19 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.
Starting point is 00:59:33 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.
Starting point is 00:59:45 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.
Starting point is 01:00:03 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.
Starting point is 01:00:22 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.
Starting point is 01:00:37 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?
Starting point is 01:01:02 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.
Starting point is 01:01:19 Yeah. It's the best. I'm wearing makeup. Yeah. Are you? Yeah. Right now. Yeah.
Starting point is 01:01:25 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.
Starting point is 01:01:47 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.
Starting point is 01:02:03 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.
Starting point is 01:02:19 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.
Starting point is 01:02:29 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.
Starting point is 01:02:50 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.
Starting point is 01:03:03 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.
Starting point is 01:03:14 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.
Starting point is 01:03:36 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.
Starting point is 01:03:52 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.
Starting point is 01:04:04 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.
Starting point is 01:04:17 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.
Starting point is 01:04:44 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.
Starting point is 01:05:05 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?
Starting point is 01:05:18 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?
Starting point is 01:05:28 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.
Starting point is 01:05:40 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?
Starting point is 01:06:11 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.
Starting point is 01:06:21 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.
Starting point is 01:06:37 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.
Starting point is 01:07:02 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.
Starting point is 01:07:20 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.
Starting point is 01:07:37 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.
Starting point is 01:07:54 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.
Starting point is 01:08:09 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. They just say, see you next year. But this is the reason I love, Superpower. Superpower sends a licensed professional to your home. Or you can visit a nearby lab. It's one simple blood draw with over 100 biomarkers, your annual physical checks 10 to 15. So you're going to see a difference. Once you get your result, Superpower's actual health plan.
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Starting point is 01:09:34 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...
Starting point is 01:09:49 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.
Starting point is 01:10:03 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?
Starting point is 01:10:24 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.
Starting point is 01:10:50 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,
Starting point is 01:11:16 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
Starting point is 01:11:27 eggs on top. Nice. Make like a little grit bowl. Grit bowl. Love that. Yeah. Now, when I was a kid,
Starting point is 01:11:34 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,
Starting point is 01:11:50 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.
Starting point is 01:12:21 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.
Starting point is 01:12:35 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.
Starting point is 01:12:58 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.
Starting point is 01:13:12 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.
Starting point is 01:13:41 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.
Starting point is 01:13:56 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.
Starting point is 01:14:12 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.
Starting point is 01:14:31 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.
Starting point is 01:15:13 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.
Starting point is 01:15:38 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.
Starting point is 01:16:00 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,
Starting point is 01:16:25 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?
Starting point is 01:16:43 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.
Starting point is 01:17:04 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.
Starting point is 01:17:27 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.
Starting point is 01:18:05 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.
Starting point is 01:18:33 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.
Starting point is 01:19:03 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.
Starting point is 01:19:20 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.
Starting point is 01:19:36 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?
Starting point is 01:20:02 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.
Starting point is 01:20:24 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.
Starting point is 01:20:49 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.
Starting point is 01:21:07 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.
Starting point is 01:21:27 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.
Starting point is 01:22:09 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.
Starting point is 01:22:40 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.
Starting point is 01:23:04 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.
Starting point is 01:23:37 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.
Starting point is 01:23:49 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?
Starting point is 01:24:28 Yeah, puffery. Puffery, yeah. Manipulation. That's one way to word. You know, getting older is not all fun. When you're young, you'll sleep on a couch, a floor, a pile of jackets in the backseat of a car. It doesn't matter.
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Starting point is 01:26:01 That's Helixleep.com slash Nate for 20% off sitewide from August 3rd to the 13th. This is for the Labor Day Early Access sale. Make sure you enter our show name after checkout so that. they know we sent you. Helixleep.com slash named. 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.
Starting point is 01:26:30 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,
Starting point is 01:26:40 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.
Starting point is 01:27:08 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.
Starting point is 01:27:41 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.
Starting point is 01:28:01 What was it going? Wheatina. Whitina. Whitina. Will Wheaton. Oh, wheatina. All natural hot breakfast cereal. This looks like garbage, dude.
Starting point is 01:28:14 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.
Starting point is 01:28:30 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.
Starting point is 01:28:49 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.
Starting point is 01:29:03 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.
Starting point is 01:29:24 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.
Starting point is 01:29:54 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.
Starting point is 01:30:04 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.
Starting point is 01:30:27 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,
Starting point is 01:30:48 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.
Starting point is 01:31:24 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.
Starting point is 01:31:59 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?
Starting point is 01:32:17 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.
Starting point is 01:32:41 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.
Starting point is 01:32:59 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,
Starting point is 01:33:40 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.
Starting point is 01:33:52 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.
Starting point is 01:34:05 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
Starting point is 01:34:18 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.
Starting point is 01:35:04 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.
Starting point is 01:35:27 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.
Starting point is 01:35:56 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.
Starting point is 01:36:13 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.
Starting point is 01:36:33 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.
Starting point is 01:36:50 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?
Starting point is 01:37:01 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?
Starting point is 01:37:21 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.
Starting point is 01:37:32 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.
Starting point is 01:37:47 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.
Starting point is 01:38:01 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,
Starting point is 01:38:10 honey nut o's the best. Oh, yeah. Coming in at, number three, Frosted flakes. Oh, okay. Number two, Cheerios.
Starting point is 01:38:18 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.
Starting point is 01:38:28 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?
Starting point is 01:38:44 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.
Starting point is 01:38:53 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...
Starting point is 01:39:07 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...
Starting point is 01:39:17 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.
Starting point is 01:39:28 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?
Starting point is 01:39:38 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.
Starting point is 01:39:48 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.
Starting point is 01:40:01 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.
Starting point is 01:40:35 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.
Starting point is 01:40:51 That's number two. Is it really? Yeah. Number three, Holiday Inn Express. Hampton Inn? Hampton is four. Holiday Inn Express is eight. Really?
Starting point is 01:41:02 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.
Starting point is 01:41:14 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.
Starting point is 01:41:28 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.
Starting point is 01:41:51 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
Starting point is 01:42:04 I believe it. True by Hilton. Troop has a joke about the No, we heard of money did we? Yeah.
Starting point is 01:42:10 I got a double tree cookies joke. He's got a lot seven trailer park joke. Yeah. And then he says,
Starting point is 01:42:17 we're having a great time. And he yells it. Yeah. I sent you a list of the top. Yes. The top 28,
Starting point is 01:42:27 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.
Starting point is 01:42:33 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?
Starting point is 01:42:46 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...
Starting point is 01:43:00 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.
Starting point is 01:43:12 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.
Starting point is 01:43:26 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?
Starting point is 01:43:45 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.
Starting point is 01:43:58 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.
Starting point is 01:44:09 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?
Starting point is 01:44:26 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.
Starting point is 01:44:35 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.
Starting point is 01:44:46 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.
Starting point is 01:45:00 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.
Starting point is 01:45:22 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.
Starting point is 01:45:33 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?
Starting point is 01:45:40 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.
Starting point is 01:45:53 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.
Starting point is 01:46:12 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.
Starting point is 01:46:36 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.
Starting point is 01:46:59 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.
Starting point is 01:47:09 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.
Starting point is 01:47:21 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
Starting point is 01:47:31 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.
Starting point is 01:47:38 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,
Starting point is 01:47:50 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?
Starting point is 01:47:58 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
Starting point is 01:48:33 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?
Starting point is 01:49:05 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?
Starting point is 01:49:24 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.
Starting point is 01:49:43 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.
Starting point is 01:50:04 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.
Starting point is 01:50:23 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.
Starting point is 01:50:41 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?
Starting point is 01:51:04 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.
Starting point is 01:51:18 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.
Starting point is 01:51:30 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.
Starting point is 01:51:40 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.
Starting point is 01:51:56 If he broadened it to... Cigarette. Oh, that's nice. Start this day. Don Williams. Don Williams. Got to have my pops. Remember that?
Starting point is 01:52:05 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.
Starting point is 01:52:11 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.
Starting point is 01:52:21 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.
Starting point is 01:52:33 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,
Starting point is 01:52:46 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.
Starting point is 01:52:59 Smothered means... Cheese. No, covered as cheese. I don't know them. What a smothered. Onions. Onions. Chunked.
Starting point is 01:53:09 Chunked as pieces of ham. Yep. Diced. I have no idea. Diced onion in it? We're already done onion. Tomatoes. Diced tomatoes.
Starting point is 01:53:19 Peppered. Put pepper on it. Halipinos. Capped. Mushrooms. Yep. Topped? Topped is...
Starting point is 01:53:28 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.
Starting point is 01:53:39 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?
Starting point is 01:53:47 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?
Starting point is 01:53:57 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?
Starting point is 01:54:10 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.
Starting point is 01:54:21 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.
Starting point is 01:54:38 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.
Starting point is 01:54:52 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.
Starting point is 01:55:11 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.
Starting point is 01:55:22 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?
Starting point is 01:55:38 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.
Starting point is 01:56:07 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.
Starting point is 01:56:37 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.
Starting point is 01:56:59 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?
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