The Nateland Podcast - 272: #272 Restaurants featuring Derrick Stroup

Episode Date: October 1, 2025

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As always, Dusty Slay. Okay. Aaron Weber. What's that in there? Oh, my bad. Aaron Weber. Honest mistake. Honest mistake.

And sitting in with us today, our good friend, Derek Stroop. Hey, how are y'all doing? Wonderful. This is a real Alabama heavy podcast today. Yeah, it is. In Vanderbilt plays Alabama this weekend. Yeah. And I think Alabama is going to bring the heat so hard for the loss last year

that it's going to crush the Vanderbilt spirit this year. College Game Day is going to be there. Yeah. Yeah. That's big time, man. Yes. I never thought there'd be a Vanderbilt team good enough to be on the road and college game day wants to come.

You know what I mean? Yeah. I got to think they hired Nick Saban back just for training for this game. Just to be a consultant or something? Just be like, get it. We got to beat Vanderbilt. Yeah. Well, he helped Vandy last year, if you remember, some bulletin board material.

he said everywhere in the SEC is hard to play except at Vanderbilt and then that next week's which was true at the time yeah I was going to say still not yeah I don't know a fax bulletin board you know I think there's probably yeah yeah in previous years it wouldn't have mattered Vanderbilt would not been able to do anything yeah for sure yep for sure well welcome Derek yeah excited to be here Nateland news here's here Nate just got through wrapping up three sold out shows at Madison Square Garden. Unbelievable. They looked incredible. This week he's in Rochester, Cleveland, and Louisville.

So check out the tour vlogs on Nate Land's YouTube channel. Nate Land presents the showcase, season three. Tune in to Nate Land's YouTube channel for the premiere of Sean O'Brien, one of the co-host of the consumers. Oh, all right. Yeah, I hosted that one here. He did great. His showcase is set premiere this Friday night, October 3rd. Yeah.

We're filming Ryan Hamilton's Netflix special. weekend. Two shows on October 4th at the Neptune Theater in Seattle. You're helping film? Well, this is we're talking about Nate Land. Okay. Yeah, we're all part of Nate Land. You could be a best boy. That sounds like one of your names. The best boy. I don't even know what that's coming from. I like the term best boy. I don't even know what that means. You know what I'm talking about? On a film set, there's a guy that's

the best boy. I don't know. You don't know what I'm talking about? I think that's just what they told you, Aaron, when you were there. No, no, no, no. You're the best boy. It's called the best boy. And I think he's like holding, it's a position on a film or television production crew. They assist the gaffer. It says not a literal best boy.

Yeah. It could be a girl or a bad boy. Yeah. Okay. Anyway, Ryan's doing two shows this Saturday. It's the Neptune Theater in Seattle. Very few tickets left. So get those tickets while you can.

Or if you want to do something on this side of the country, go to Birmingham, Alabama, the lyric theater. Whoa. This Saturday for our guy, Derek Stroop, he's filming his Netflix special this weekend. Yeah, Friday and Saturday, three shows. Friday and Saturday. Awesome. It's exciting.

Yeah, I'm big time. Yeah, I am. Is it consider it a hometown show or not really, I guess, but it's a home state show? I actually corrected. Somebody else said a hometown show earlier, and I go, you know, I don't know why it's a home state show. But Huntsville boy But proud to do it in Birmingham Great City

Just excited to shoot a special in the heart of Dixie It's going to be a lot of fun Yeah Yeah and they're not taping a Netflix special In Harvest No where would they do that at No it would have not in harvest I couldn't think of

I couldn't maybe the VFW We could get it you know cleaned up a little bit Yeah it'd have to be in Huntsville The lyric theater is beautiful Yeah it is really nice I feel really lucky perfect-sized venue, not too big, not too small.

It'll be a lot of fun. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It'll be fun. Well, that's awesome. What time of your show Saturday? Saturday, 5 p.m., 8 p.m., and then on Friday, it's 7 p.m. Gotcha. All right.

Well, you're going to be sad after Vanderbilt beats Alabama folks, so come see Derek. Chew yourself up. No, that's going to be over at halftime. And Auburn's got a buy week. So there's a little, you know, there was some strategy to this. I know what I'm doing. I couldn't pick a Saturday where both teams were playing. Right.

I'm not that funny. I don't know how it would go, but we got one of the teams off that weekend. And Auburn needs a rest anyways. So, yeah, I'm so excited. Well, October 10th, I'm in Brunswick, Ohio, October 11th, Willoughby, Ohio. October 30th, Rochester, New York, comedy at the Carlson. I love hearing Brian's dates because I always learn about cities I've never heard of. That's the run.

He's sick of that. We've made that joke for a while. I'm so sorry. I did not know that. I didn't know that they made that joke. You didn't, Derek? You didn't? No, I did.

I've heard of Brunswick, Georgia. That's where Brunswick Stu comes from, which I love, and I just made recently. That's, I believe that's true. Feels true to me. You get that. But, uh, that's, anyways. I don't know what that means. Oh, it's a zinger.

I do get it. And I don't know what that means. It was a zinger. There's some people at home that are trying to gather themselves. Well, Brunswick and Will be, they're suburbs. Suburb is a Cleveland. I just don't even, I just don't believe that they invented stew. A Brunswick stew, which is like barbecue stew.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't believe they did, though. No, and that's fine. I believe it seems like the type of city that just take credit. Yeah, I mean, it would be, I mean, if, you know, there was a, I don't know, They're Brunswick, Georgia, and Brunswick Stu was created in the South. I think there's some dots we could connect, but I haven't Googled it. Let me say it.

I'm not going to, because I'm enjoying this conversation. Yeah, look it up. See where it's from. We should see where's Brunswick Stu from. Well, he has luck. I noticed that in this, the conversation has been had a million times, but I noticed that this weekend. There was a very fun argument being had, and immediately somebody looked it up. Yeah, don't look at it.

And I want to go, let it simple. for a little bit. Aaron Weber would say that. I've heard you let it simmer on here a few times until somebody Google something. But I mean, I have thought about this too. Let it simmer like a stew. Like a Brunswick stew. Yeah, if you will.

Well, before we brought Google into the picture, I will say as a loud, aggressive human, I won more arguments. Because I'm going to wear you down. Because people are like, you're waking up the neighbors. Yeah. Eventually people would just, in 95, if I believed it more than you, I would just wear you down, you down, where you down. Yeah, but your wins are, they're TKOs, do.

Yeah. And the cops are getting called. I was told. Like, it sounds like it's just one guy arguing, but it's keeping me up. There's another person. Yeah. Springfield, Missouri, there's a steak and shake there that I was told was the original steak and shake in America.

And do you know how many people I told that to? Every time I went back to Springfield, Missouri, I go, do you want to go to the original steak and shake? That's the kind of tourism that I like. Yeah. Let's go check it out. Looked it up finally. Not even close to the first one.

Somebody lied to me and I stuck with it. Sometimes the lie is more fun than the truth. It is. I told John that Central Park was 60 miles long. Yeah. How long's Manhattan? Yeah, yeah. Well, he believed it for a minute.

He circled back 15 minutes later and he goes, I think Manhattan's not 60. But I believe that it felt, it seems like, it seems like it'd be 60 miles. Yeah. I go, they got their whole town. They got their own cops in there. There's like a whole world inside of there. Right.

Yeah. It ends in Philadelphia. Yeah. You look it up. It's like two miles. Yeah. Central Park? Yeah.

It's not that big. I don't think it's even two miles. Yeah, it might not be. Might be one point seven. Well, let's look it up. Well, yeah. And I'd like to find out where Brunswick Stewart came from. Central Park is 2.5 miles long.

0.5 miles wide. Oh, I've just seen the width. Brunswick, Georgia was named after the stew. Okay. What if they just love the stew? They're like, you know what we'll call our city, Brunswick? Okay.

I mean, that could be, that could be. Wow. Okay, guys. The exact origin of Brunswick stew, which I want to say, for the record, I'd never heard of before this conversation. Oh, come on. Come on.

Come on. That's ridiculous. That's ridiculous. The exact origin of Brunswick stew is a point of friendly debate between Brunswick County, Virginia and the city of Brunswick, Georgia. Each state has its own traditional

style. Wow. So you got Virginia, Brunswick. I'm going to go ahead and side with Georgia, though. Yeah, okay. All right, you're coming back around. Well, yeah. I mean, does this not make sense? I mean, Brunswick's not like a common word. It's not like somebody, like, you would think that.

Well, there's Brunswick County. I think New Brunswick, New Jersey, Stress Factory. Brunswick, Ohio? A lot of Brunswick October 10th I'm saying that And they're all locations It makes me think there was a man named

Brunswick And he invented the stew And all these cities named themselves after Mr. Brunswick And here's the thing We look it up And Dusty Still spins it a little bit here

We're adding a little extra sauce to it here Yeah Maybe you know It was a German man Werner von Brunswick And he Warner Von Brunswick and he Warner Von

Yeah I mean, they did the Von Braun Center in Birmingham, and then they went, we should do a little stew, too. He's, you know, pretty smart, man. That's in Huntsville. Oh, yeah, that's in Huntsville. I can't believe I got that. I said Birmingham. There is a plaque.

You not be mad at me. B.JCC and Birmingham. I apologize. There's a plaque on an old iron pot in Brunswick, Georgia, that says the first Brunswick stew was made here on July 2nd, 1898. In that pot? Not in that pot. No, it's just a monument. Okay.

Yeah. That would be way more interesting. You've got to get some Brunswick's too. Seriously, it's lights up. I can guarantee I've had it. I've just never called it that. Would you call it? Just supper.

He's like, this is some good pulled pork soup, man. This is good. Yeah, they were fancy. Pulled pork soup. Yeah. With a little side of ambrosia. Yeah.

Y'all want to pitch any dates coming up? Yeah, I want to talk about this weekend. Atlanta, Georgia. I'm going to talk about Atlanta, Georgia. I'm going to be at the Helium Comedy Club. I've never been there. It's an Alpharetta. I got one show, October 5th, this Sunday, in Atlanta, Georgia.

So I hope you guys can come out and make it out there. I'm really excited to be back in Atlanta. I'll be in Hartford, Connecticut. The shows aren't sold out, but I've decided I don't want to sell any more tickets. It's the right amount of people. That's what I want. That's what I tell myself to. Don't buy any more tickets.

I'm just telling you I'm going to be there, but if you don't have your tickets, don't even get them, because I like where the numbers are at. What was the city you said where you get smaller every time you're there? Syracuse. Okay, and you're trying to whittle it down. Eventually, it'll be the people that just really care. Yeah, my true fans have already bought tickets to the show. So don't try to get in now.

Okay. That's a great plug. Encourging people not to buy tickets. All right. let's get it this weekend this should be quick for me I was home I went to a one-year-old's birthday party

and it was not fun you're talking about my daughter's birthday I'll have turned one this weekend oh yeah that's exciting I turned one man I went to that birthday party too yeah

yeah I couldn't find Dusty I'm looking for him and I kind of go up the steps and I hear someone say so that's why I think the NFL is rigged and I knew where he was. He was holding court. Yeah.

What about you? Where were you this weekend? I was in Des Moines, Friday and Saturday. Wonderful weekend. A bunch of people came out. And then on yesterday, Sunday, I was in Paducah, Kentucky for the Kentucky Comedy Festival. Sold out. A lot of fun. I had a great weekend. Mike James was with you, right?

Mike James opened, just smashed him, man. He's so funny. He's great. Yeah. So it was a fun weekend, you know. Des Moines, touch and go for me. So this was a good visit in there. It was good.

Good. You're at the Funny Bone? Yeah. I was at the Funny Bone. Hartford, Funny Bone is where I'll be. I don't want you to get any tickets, but just specifically,

I will be there. Yeah. You reminded me. You said Funny Bone. Right, right. Just make sure that you know that I'm at the funny. If you want to come by, don't come to the show.

But if you want to come by, that's where I'll be. All right. Again, a weird plug, but I don't even know what you're doing. You want to get in the show. these comments? Yes, do it. Let's get into it, man.

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What about threads? You don't take any reviews from, you don't take any comments from threads? care about threads have y'all down y'all on threads yeah i haven't got involved i just read the sentence until i can't anymore i guess i'm not going to know what they care about yeah that's funny uh dene rushing my new favorite member of the nateland team is the squeaky door yeah we got a lot of comments about that i don't get that what door that door that door right there is that door squeak yeah you open that door trist but it's good for hallowing so i don't everyone's saying Oh, somebody puts

some WD40 on that door because that was there it is right there at the end. Oh, yeah. It was squeaking a lot. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Oh, now we're talking.

I love it. Yeah, you do get a little WD40 on that. Like, I was at, I know this is a comedy club where we're at, but this is not a comedy club entrance way to the showroom. But I've done clubs where the door are coming into the showroom is squeaky. And it's like, you got a, you got to work on that.

That's a quick fix. I know it's obvious, but I'm blown away by how well WD40 works. It's so good. It works on everything. Like right away. I follow this guy in TikTok that's just like some redneck in his backyard and pretty much every little tip. Every little tip involves WD40.

Yeah. He's like, I put it on the window sill. It'll stop bugs. You put it on your own elbow. Your elbow's hurting. You spray a little WD40 on there? I've seen people do that. Yeah.

There's a King of the Hill episode, I think, and I can't remember exactly what he's doing, but he can't get the WD40 open or something and he uses a little smaller can of WD40. That is an all-time moment on that show. So that's such a great way to show how wonderful the product is. Yeah, yeah. Well, thank you, Dene.

Chummy, Baronez? Baronez. Chummy. I don't think you need a last name if your first name's Chummy. Baronez. Remember him from Pondstar. Yeah. Yeah. Aaron's take on flag football is so wrong. The main part of the game is the same. With wiffleball,

hitting is totally a different game than in baseball. Okay. I've thought about it. I think I need to re-articulate my point, which is that while flag football and regular football are fundamentally the same sport. My question was whether it's a one-to-one translation. If we were to start a professional flag football league, would it necessarily the best 11 players in flag football be NFL players? I would say there's probably some people out there who are excellent at flag football, but couldn't play in the NFL. Well, that's what I was saying. That's what I'm, that was the whole point of what I was saying. Everybody got caught up in that I use gymnast as the example and couldn't let it go.

But I was saying, like, quick, agile people that would get run over and real football could be very good at flag football. Absolutely. Right. I said gymnast and I feel like you guys couldn't let that go. I don't know if a gymnast would be good. And I go, well, I just- Simone Biles out there.

I bet she would be good. Yeah, she could be good. Yeah. Her husband's an NFL player. Yeah. Is it? For the Packers, I think. What's his name?

I thought it was the- Mr. Biles. I thought it was the Bears. I don't know. Bo Wallbrook Dusty's fooshback comment made me literally cry laughing

That's why Dusty is the absolute Best comedian on the planet Oh, come on And the greatest move This podcast ever made In bringing him on Boy, that went to space quick That's what I'm talking about, Beau

My goodness Love Dusty's riff That's why he's the greatest human being To ever be on planet Earth Whoa If you guys could get with it Geez Don't drink that Kool-Lay Dusty

You know what's up, Bo's got another brick in that wall. Bo knows. Bo knows. He always knows. Stepped on a good joke that I just had. What'd you have? Another brick in the wall? Yeah.

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I'm glad you brought it up because people in the comments would go, oh, another genius joke. Yeah, no, they're 100%. My favorite part of the show was when Brian's joke disappears in conversation. I'm doing you guys a favor. I always want to go, I always want to comment and go, nah, we heard it.

Yeah, yeah. We're piggybacking and making it a little better. Hey, Dusty, leave breakfast alone. That's pretty good, right? No, see, that's even better. Thank you. Yeah. I didn't even want you here, dude.

Nate Land made us bring you here to promote your show. We've promoted it, you can leave. Do you remember Stoop Kid from Hey, Arnold? Did you ever get called Strupe Kid? No, no. I think you might be a little older than me. Yeah, yeah. So I think you missed that.

Have you heard of Stoop Kid? I haven't. I remember Hey Arnold, but I don't remember that. I got from, what's the Old Will Ferrell movie, Old Will Ferrell movie, old school. Strupa Luke, grab your green hat. That'll do it. From Snoop a loop in the movie. Oh, let me just stretch of it.

Yeah. There's a character in Hey Arnold called Stoop Kid, who just sits on a stoop and he's like a bully and he just yells at kid on the stoop and then they realize he's afraid to leave a stoop and so they all stop bullying him they go stoop kids afraid to leave stoop and then he finally comes off to stoop at the end and he like hangs out and everybody likes him no it just becomes a bully that can chase him yeah see that's this is the 90s there's no moral redemption to any of these characters i wish he finally came off the stoop and then beat the kids up that's what he did yeah that's what i like yeah uh

Sooner Guy, 44. During Dusty's ad reads, he tries so hard to top Aaron, he ends up sounding like a cross between erotic novel and shamwow. Well, listen. Well, that is true. Listen, Sooner, guy. I got my own style. I'm not trying to top Aaron.

In fact, I believe if you actually listen to the podcast, I always compliment Aaron on how good of an ad reader he is. So I'm not trying to top him. And maybe I'm going for erotic novel and shamlock. I mean, I got my own style here, buddy. Sooner, the guy who names himself to after college football, like you, don't, don't come at me. Erotic novel. 50 shades of sleigh.

Sooner than what. 50 shades of sleigh. Yeah, exactly. It's like, I like doing that sooner guy. I mean, you know, try to get creative with your own name. You know, use your own name. Well, at least you took it well. Don't be anonymous.

It did feel a little trollish. Yeah, I'm with you. I'm with it. I don't try to be, like, I don't like it when people are anonymous. Yeah, yeah. Let me come at you, public figure guy. The shame wow guy never really branched out, huh? Did he have other products?

I think he died. Because Billy, no, Billy Mays died. Okay. And I think the sham wow guy ran into some legal trouble. Okay. which I'll let the audience at home Google yourselves. I don't feel like getting into it on the podcast. But I don't know if he's dead or not,

but I think he's dead to a lot of people. Yeah. Because of that. That cloth he had, though, was really good. It was. What I'm saying is Billy Mays never was the orange clean guy. He had a variety of products. Shamwow, he just pigeonholed himself into the shamwow towel.

Well, when you really nail a thing. Yeah. But I feel like Billy Mays did that for a lot. orange clean oxy clean and then what's the thing where you can like plug a hole in a boat

a different guy but also a great product yeah but that infomercial almost got I didn't even need the product I go this is crazy where he splits a boat in half yeah yeah what is that stuff

some tape yeah yeah what is that I can't remember what but that one almost got me I go that looks good the tape was guerrilla tape nah no no

something infomercial tape boat half flex tape that's phil swift who looks a little bit like a Billy Mays mixed with John Taffer you know

yeah he does wow you know them all yeah well I used to want to be this if I always thought if I could find a product to be this passionate about I feel like I could do this Derek you could 100%

oh absolutely I mean I would pay money just to see your merch pitch on stuff oh yeah I mean if I really believe in something i'm i'm head first man and i believe in flexiel he's going down the he's headed down the river that's unbelievable it really is yeah he does yeah i could see you both doing this no and sooner guy believes in you he says he's like just he's coming back for him he's so into you that he's like oh you want to you want to talk about ad reads you should watch this aaron Weber guy.

I bet he was number 44 for Oklahoma. I doubt it. Yeah, I doubt it too. I bet he was born in 44. Should have been boomer guy. Exactly. Cody Huffsteadler. My favorite part of the podcast is listening for the subtle humor that goes unnoticed.

I'm sure it's me. The best unacknowledged joke of this episode was Aaron's comment about the climate pledge arena being called the Trash Burnine Arena in the 7. made me spit out my coffee. Well, that is funny. It was a great joke, but I didn't know that it was an unacknowledged joke. I heard it. I remembered.

I appreciated it. Well, people like to say that. I think that's people's way of saying I liked the joke. Okay. Like, there's some moment on a podcast recently where I literally clipped it and posted it on Instagram, and the comment was, that deserved more. And I go, what more could I have done with it? Yeah.

But you mean from us, right? I don't, I mean, I think it was the black and mild tour bit. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Where we're dying, laughing in the clip. Yeah, I got too much. And then I, yeah, yeah. That deserved more.

I go, what, what do you want to, what more could I, do you want me to give him a standing ovation at the table? Yeah. Could you all please puke? Like, I want you to like it somebody. You go, ah, I'm never, uh, yeah, that's crazy. Riz.

Dusty's right. Yeah. All right. Next is... Yeah. That's enough for me. There's a clear difference between a halftime show and Dusty set. Football fans usually don't want halftime shows to begin with.

Exactly. Comedy fans want comedy. One is forcing more of what people don't want just to make more money. The other is giving more of what people do want because they paid money. One show takes from you, the other gives to you. That's right. I mean, the Riz gets it. It's like, of course.

It's like halftime shows are, it's a 15 minute half just so everybody can take a little break. The teams can rest. They can regroup. They can re-plan. Super Bowl, they give you a 30-minute halftime show that no one wants. We haven't liked it in years. There was one a couple years ago where it was Snoop and Dre and Eminem and 50 Cent. That one was cool.

That's the only good one we've had in 10 years. I like the traditional, I like the band coming. out. I like when the band comes out in the middle, they make formations, do this. I like the traditional halftime show. Marching band. Do they ever do that at the Super Bowl? They should. I don't think so, but they should. They should take one of the best bands in the country, whoever it might be. I mean, Ohio State, unbelievable. They can do all kinds of designs in the field. I went to Jacksonville State, marching Southerners. We, I mean, everybody would stay around at halftime to watch them because they were so good. And you also know that these are a bunch of people who've put in a ton of time, have

committed to their instruments and now they get this 15 minutes to have somebody stare at them while they're eating a hot dog makes me want to do it when somebody's out there with glitter on their face singing a song that I can stream online I really don't care this is what I think bring a pool out there have them live use flex tape to make a boat I love it roll it around the pool now that's fun that's what I'm talking about yeah yeah yeah I'm a contest how fast two people put together a flex tape boat. That's the best I've heard. Here's the story I've heard. I don't know if it's true.

That's entertainment. That is entertainment. But I've shared it on this podcast. The halftime show at Super Bowl used to be nothing. Maybe it was March or not a big deal. One year in Living Color did a live show during the halftime of the Super Bowl on a different network, on their network. And so many people turned over to watch that it affected the Super Bowl ratings the next year,

they're like, we got to do something in halftime to come. keep people. So they, I think they had Michael Jackson or somebody. And then ever since that it's been a big deal. Well, yeah, it's like Michael Jackson. That's a great half-time show. But we got no Michael Jackson now. Yeah, yeah. That's a good point. Michael Jackson would be a great, a great watch. You bring out James Brown. I'm in. Yeah. I mean, something like that. Yeah. Or even like, what if we did something like the Blue Man? I mean, I think that'd be even I'm into that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've seen the Blue Man Group live there, unbelievable. Come on. Me too. Me too. Now you got Blue Pan.

the field for the second half? Come on. Yeah. Who cares? Yeah. Yeah. But I think, I think the controversy and the discussion about it is part of the sales pitch. Like, if you put X in there for a halftime show, everyone's going to be talking about it. Halftime American gladiators. Oh, man. Just bring it back all of a sudden. That would be, yeah. Don't tell anyone. Don't tell anyone. Yeah. Yeah, I would be in. What if Bad Bunny did it to our show and then you did the halftime show? Like, y'all switch. I don't really know what Bad Bunny does. I thought Bad Bunny was a woman, and then everybody was like, he was in...

You're thinking of Bad Baby, the girl from the Dr. Phil. Well, I just don't think about... Catch me outside, how about that? Well, yeah. That's a bad baby. That's a better halftime show. Give me her saying that for 30 minutes. And people trying to catch her outside.

What I just said. If you don't know what he does, then how can you criticize him for being a bad halftime? I just bet it is. we've got social media we'd have run into him yeah yeah yeah a guy named himself bunny if you're gonna be bad bunny yeah but name yourself like a rabbit well there's a language barrier too where he's from a jackalo maybe a mean hair yeah mean hair that's better nick ventura i'm a little league coach and let and i let the kids and parents know at the beginning of the year that i will not be handing out of the year that i will not be handing

out participation trophies if the league gives them to everyone. I believe it creates a sense of entitlement in kids and teaches them that mediocrity is sufficient. Dusty is once again the voice of reason on my favorite podcasts. I like that. And I like that Nick saves that money from buying those trophies and spends it on himself. I like that. Yeah. That's not what Nick's doing based on this comment.

It sounds like he's getting a box of trophies to give to the kids and he's just not giving it to him. That sounds like, it sounds like he's stealing all the trophies for himself. I like to think Nick goes home, shoots the trophies. Yeah. Target practice. I'd like to think that he shows them to the kids, doesn't give him to them. Yeah. Shows up and goes, I could pass each one of these out to you and make you all delusional.

Or we could improve and I can say things like Blake, you've got slow feet, shortstop's not for you. Yeah. How do y'all want to do this? I like at the beginning, Nick lets him know, hey, we're not going to be winning no trophies. What our argument was. I'm not that good of a coach. Our argument street was that this idea of like participation trophy culture being this pervasive, destructive thing.

It's like I remember baseball teams growing up, there were seasons where everyone would get a trophy. But we were never taught that this trophy means that you've achieved something. It's almost like if the adults are attaching valid. you to these trophies, then the kids can be misled. But if they get it with the understanding that this is just a memento for the season, this is just something to remember the season by, it's not a sign that you've achieved something out of the ordinary. It's a trophy to let you know that your parents paid $50 to say.

I like that because I do, you know, you got your trophy from the Pirates in 1997. I'm like, man, me and my best friend Jeremy were on that team. That's all it is. Yeah, yeah. I get that perspective. But I also kind of agree with Dusty and, like, it'll make you, you know, it makes the kids a little soft if everybody thinks. You do have to explain that because I think that that, like, I played upward basketball, which is like Christian League basketball. I got to be.

Upward. Probably. Ten feet. And that's, oh, oh, okay. Upward. Oh, okay. I was like, give it up for God. Yeah.

Yeah. But, I mean, I'm the only person I've ever heard. I got kicked off the team because they said I was too intense. I cared about winning too much. And I couldn't finish the last three games. Oh, sure. Yeah, yeah. So I think that they're, and I don't think that's the right approach.

What were some of the things you did that led them to? I have an idea, yeah. Yeah, well, just I was too vocal, too loud. You know, like somebody, ball would bounce off their foot. I'd be like, hey, focus, we got to go, you know. You were like assistant coach. Oh, oh, for sure. And, I mean, just smacking, like, blocking shots and then, you know, yelling in their face.

You didn't go to that church. Yeah, I did. I did. First Baptist Huntsville. My grandparents were deacons. But I was way, you know, I was just, but I remember not even being mad. I just remember being like, good. I'm glad I'm not part of that if nobody cares. Right. You know, I'm taking a charge and my coach is telling me to calm down. You know. You were like six? No, I was 13. Oh, okay. Yeah, yeah. But anyways, I think that, I think that. Christianity needs more people like that. Well, I shouldn't have kicked you off. They should have gave you a trophy. Yeah. Yeah. And I mean, you know, leadership trophy. Thank you. That's what I, I mean, I've also felt there's been times where we've all gotten trophies at the end of like a Little League season and I had the same trophy as everybody else. And I thought, I was the best player on the team and I've got the same trophy as this kid who we could not. Hold on. Peeing between the fences. Well, did that teach you that mediocrity is sufficient? Or did you say in your head, well, I know that this trophy doesn't mean everything? I would like to think that I had deeper thoughts than I don't remember having any. That's what we're saying. Yeah. I mean, I feel. I feel. like that I just thought that I wasn't being rewarded for being the best player on the team, you know?

I remember when... Does that sound off? But if you got that trophy, did you go, well, I mean, I don't even need to win the championship now because I got this trophy? No, no, no, I would still want to win the championship. That's what I'm saying. Yeah, I would still want to win the championship. That's what...

I think Nick's onto something. I think is what we're awesome. I'm not disagreeing with you. I was going to ask, when we do those arena shows with Nate, I get to walk out with you on stage and wave the same audience. Are you like, I was much better than he was? No, no, no. I don't think that.

I mean, I would like to think 40-year-old... He thinks he cared more about the show. Yeah, yeah. I think 40-year-old Derek and 9-year-old Derek have a better grasp of how things work. Nine-year-old Derek did think that, I mean, this kid can't tie his shoes. That trip will put us in the playoffs that I hit. Kind of odd that we get the same amount of pizza, but I'll roll with it. Yeah.

You know? Yeah. This is going to be hard. We're talking about competitive stuff. This is going to be tough for you to probably understand. But it is, it is, you know, a weird world. you know what all right uh luke palmer but i do want to say though especially the last sentence here i really want to let everybody know i once again the voice of reason on my favorite

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and my personal favorite odd sport, the RFA League, which stands for Roofball Federation of America. you have to look up roofball, it's incredible. I went down a bit of a roofball rabbit hole fairly recently. Also, the car jitzy videos are hilarious. Do you know what that is? It's like, imagine... I can tell you. When I heard that, I was like,

Luke needs to get out more. No, no, this is great. The car jitsu, they put two guys buckled up in a car, and then they just have to fight each other, in a car. So they're just like one person's in the driver's seat, one guy's in the passenger seat like right here and have to fight

and they have to pin each other just in a call yeah I mean I stand by what I said about Luke I mean yeah you should probably touch the grass Luke so it's like wrestling

not not fighting Luke I mean I guess so Luke needs a girlfriend I think you can punch but you can't really punch when you're in a car it's hard to really

I don't think you punch in jujitsu do you just kind of grapple around this guy's got black eyes coming into it well it's just you know nah I mean you go to ESPNA at the Ocho

I'm not mad at Luke but I am a shame that you guys are so on board with all these things oh I left out the part Luke said that you're his favorite what do you mean why are you not on board with him

oh Luke said I was his favorite yeah okay well Luke you're the best Thomas Chandler professional gaming or e-sports usually involves being part of a team that is sponsored

and competes in tournaments for prize money. Streaming often doesn't require someone to be good at games at all. Some streamers have a following because of how bad they are at games. These people thrive off of fan interaction or entertainment rather than just their gameplay. I think that's more directed at Nate, who was not a fan of e-sports, but it's a big deal. Yeah, I'm okay with it. I've never been that against gaming. I like game. I don't play now as an adult, but I like it. I'm not against it. And I'm not against Luke either. I just like the idea

that we read the comments and then we shame everyone. Yeah, right. Yeah. I'll try it with the next guy. Are you a gamer? I am not. No. I mean, yeah, I played it some in my 20s and I think, you know, when I was in college, the college football era

there, I loved that, but I was never too, too crazy about it. I played outside a lot. Yeah. Yeah. Me too. Logan Mays Kids today have no idea How good they have it With their own personalized sports equipment

I was playing youth sports in the 90s And got head lice As a third grader Because of our communal softball helmets After getting rid of the lice I went straight back to communal helmets Because my parents would rather risk Bringing lice back into our home

That's spending the money on a personal helmet I gotta think that's a pretty I mean I grew up in a trailer park And I had my own equipment I guess I was shearing a helmet I didn't have my own helmet. I don't know any guys that had their own helmet. It was like he had two in the dugout, and he just traded them.

Yeah, yeah, I agree. I had my own bat. Glove. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. What's crazy is one year I can remember Justin Webster in Little League, he got hot with my bat. So he would go up. You remember the copperhead worth bats? Oh, of course.

They had the copperhead skin. They were pretty. Come on, come on, man. You couldn't feel the ball when you hit it. I'll never forget. Justin got hot one season. I didn't hit a home run all year. He hit like seven.

I would strike out, and he'd go knock one out with my bat. His dad tried to buy it off of us, and my dad was like, just sell it to him. You can't hit with it, son. I go, no, man, this is crazy. I don't think it's the bad. I'm starting to believe it's not the bad at all. You start to, you know, when you can't find answers, you start to cling to superstitions like that. It's usually the Indian and not the arrow.

You're right. You're right. That was Derek saying that. No. That's a great expression. Indian shot arrows. I've never heard that. I don't know what we can.

I just, that was Derek. I've never heard that expression. I love that expression. At 45, Derek Strupp. I'm sure, you know, there's some Indian out there mad that I said that. I don't know. I don't know. I think the term Indian is, doesn't have anything to do with the country of India.

I think it means something like the people of God or something like that. And that the country of, I don't even think the country of India was named. to India when Columbus came to America. So it's like it's, it is a different term that's been made to be a bad thing. But I don't think that the American Indian. So you're saying the story that they, that we're told that he came here, thought that he was in India, called him Indian. That's not true. I don't think so.

Are you going to, are you going to timestamp him? Good point. Good point. That was dusty sleigh at 46. It means people have got. So Columbus got here and goes, Greetings, people of God. Well. And then it was all smooth sailing.

Yeah, but I mean, you know, there's some controversy about whether we even believe that Columbus, you know, I mean, there's some debate about that whole thing anyway. But I know one thing for sure is in 1492. Yeah, that's when he sailed the ocean blue. I'm reading a book called 1493 right now. Okay. And by reading a book, I mean, I've started one and probably won't finish it. By the guy, his last book was called 1492, and then this one's 1493. I can't wait for 1494.

Ah, that'll be good. That's a good one, guys. It can only get better. Yeah. Brady, I attended a Winnipeg, golden eyes baseball game against the Chicago. Gold eyes. Gold eyes baseball game against the Chicago dogs and saw a third basement for Chicago, Dusty Shrew. Love that.

What? I cannot believe they. You play baseball and Winnipeg. I bet that 30 minutes is fun. Oh, dusty strupe. Come on. That is fantastic. He's from Overland Park, Kansas.

Okay. All right. Third baseman and shortstop. He's got range this kid. 6-2-205. I like that build. He sounds more like a Derek Stroop type. He got that Stroop last name.

Yeah, he got his Instagram right here. But is he having a good time, no? Yeah. Does he yell when he gets a hit? That's what I want to know. He's waving there. He's throwing up a little wave. Here's our guy.

That looks like you in Church League basketball. Yeah. That guy's jacked. Look at him. He's got a good swing. I mean, look at this. Dusty Street. I don't think he looks like either, y'all.

It's a little bit more like me. That's wild. Dusty Strew. Dusty Strew. Yeah. Come on the pod, Dusty. Yeah. Take military places.

Christy King. In Biloxi, Mississippi, on Beach Boulevard, there are at least five waffle houses within maybe four miles. You can literally see another waffle house from a waffle house. Beautiful. I put that in because... I figured you had to put that in for some reason, because that really came out of nowhere. Yeah, it did. You sent this in a few weeks ago when we were talking about Waffle House and debating Waffle House Hustle House.

Today, our topic is restaurants. I put that in because we experienced this firsthand. Yes. You remember this? I do. I do. In the same city. Yeah. On that road, that was pretty much, that was the street. Yeah, there was a big confusion. I do wish Nate was here for this because he could not believe it.

There was so many waffle houses. Nate said to go to this one. I chose the one, unfortunately, that was the furthest away. But right there in Biloxi, there is a ton of waffle houses in like a mile. Yeah, we stopped the wrong one, didn't we did? Well, Biloxi gets it because they know that you're gambling, you're losing money, but you still want a quality breakfast. at a, you know, at a good price. And I think that town makes most of their money after midnight. Yeah. You know, and so Waffle House makes a lot of sense.

There we go, we tried Cracker Barrel. Nobody walked in until 5 p.m. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. So anyway, this week we're talking about restaurants. We've done episode of restaurants. Yeah, I'm looking at Google Maps pulled up, and I'm looking at the Waffle House locations as Biloxi.

This has got to be what he's talking about right here, right? I mean, this is, there's maybe two blocks. in between these. They're right. If you travel along this road, what is this road? 90. That's what we were on. We were on.

Yeah, you're going to hit about nine different Waffle houses before you get to Alabama. She said Beach Boulevard. Beach Boulevard. Yeah, man. Pretty wild. Yeah, it was crazy. Yeah, Baloxi gets it.

You know, I went to Biloxi recently. I loved it. I loved it. Yeah, we had a great show. It's a fun little town down there. Everybody's abandoning Vegas now. There's lots of videos on it. There's lots of people that

talk about it. I say stop going. Go to Biloxi. They priced everybody out, right? Yeah, go to Biloxi. Have a good time. We did, we went down to the water in Biloxi, and it's not exactly what you think. I would stay in town. No, don't go in the, that's where the Mississippi River dumps out into the ocean. Don't go in the water. It was tough. Yeah. Yeah. That looks a little nicer than where you were. Yeah, I was, there was like a random dock and a guy had a pile of Cadillac converters, no fishing poles, just, yeah. He was just fishing those out of the water, probably. You ever gone magnet fishing?

I've always wanted to. It looks so much fun. I bought a magnet. Have you gone fishing with? No, but I bought one. I like that. Yeah. You got to find a good bridge.

It's exactly what it sounds like. You get a really powerful magnet on a string and you throw it in the water and you see what it grabs. Yeah. Oh, okay. People get all kinds of stuff. Yeah. People get like a weapon that was discarded after.

a crime and that the report at the police or like a bicycle or jewelry or then you get accused of the crime yeah it's like a lot of trouble well that's best case scenario you get a gun you're gonna but it looks like we should all do it sometime right i got a magnet i bought it off ticot i love that i'll get one too we'll do it we've done episode of restaurants before but it's been a long time ago and there's a lot's happens it must have been one of the first ones we did i think I think it was one of the first ones when Dusty joined us. Oh, okay. Because you guys have both worked.

Have you worked at a restaurant? I have not. Oh, yeah, I've worked in one food established, a dairy king in Piedmont, Alabama. Dairy King. Dairy King and Dusty, you'd have loved it, buddy. Yeah. Yeah, it was, it was, it was, it was, uh, just, they just start a dairy queen without all the nonsense. That's exactly right.

No, it was a dairy king, and we made our burgers, we patted them by hand. I love that. Whoa. Yeah, we were, we dipped the, the, if you got, like, fried chicken, we put it in the flour, and then we fried it on our own. I love that. Very, very... That's what we did at Jim Bob's. Yeah, man.

It was... We battered our own chicken. Yeah, man. Dairy King, I mean, I got fired after maybe two months. It did not last very long. I got into it with the customer. More of the aggression. There was a guy.

There was like a guy who was like a lumberman and he worked up on it. And I sold him. We had some chili that we sold seasonally. Sure. And he went all the way up the mountain and I didn't give him a spoon. And he came back down. And he was like... enough to upset me. Yeah, yeah. And he was

visible, I mean, he was shaking, holding a chili. He goes, I've been up on that mountain for 12 hours. He goes, I come down here to buy chili and you don't give me a spoon. He goes, you'll me drink it out of the cup? And I go, I've done that. It's not the worst. And he's just lost his mind, man. And, you know,

I got fired not long after that, but Dairy King was where it was great, man. It was great. All right. Yeah. I remember what time I was with Henry Cho on the road, and we were at Waffle House, during COVID, We get in there in the Waffle House is to go only. And that was the first moment I was like, this thing might be serious.

Yeah, yeah. And Henry's like, we'll just get food to go. We'll just take it back to our hotel room and eat. So you got a chair in a hotel room? No, no, we're different rooms. Okay. So I take my food back. I opened the bag, no silverware or anything in it.

And I was like, I guess I'm just getting after it in here. Yeah. Grits? No, no gritty. It was a waffle. All-Star Special with a, yeah. So I ate an All-Star Special just with my hands. And it was not the kind of hotel where you.

you go, let me go to the lobby and ask for something? Yeah. It was like a motel. It was not good. All right, the bacon, the waffle, I could see that. Eggs, that's a little dicey. Yeah, it wasn't pretty. That's the point.

But I'm doing it alone. Was it scrambled eggs or fried? Crampled. Scramble's easy. A fried egg is tough. Fried egg would be. And then did you have hash brown or grits? Yeah.

Hash browns, I think. Yeah. The point is it wasn't, it wasn't a pretty sight, but I'm alone to my hotel room. I'll get after it neat with my hands, right? And then I scarf down the meal. And then Henry texts me, hey, I just got silverware. for us and i said don't judge me but i'm good actually i don't need it he was like wow that is hilarious salads are so tough without anything to eat them with they're there they're

i know that's not something y'all thought that i would have that experience with i get salads and there's no silverware it's that's a tough that's where a wedge comes in handy a wedge salad You can just dip that in the dressing and eat that like that. That would be easier. Yeah. Sometimes I like to make, you get a little romaine lettuce and you make a little boat and then you can put things in and eat that. I've done that. I like that, too.

It's almost like a lettuce wrap that you get and you have the stuff in the middle. That's a great little vessel. You're right, does it? Like ants on a log, that kind of thing? Yeah. Okay. Ants, but more like ants in a boat. Ants in a boat.

Ants in a boat held together by flex tape Yeah What's your take on Cracker Barrel? I'm a big fan of Cracker Barrel I mean I'm glad that they didn't change the logo And they went back the other way But everybody's acting

They're making some crazy stand That ain't the Cracker Barrow on it I'm glad that they were like Oh sorry we were trying to do something And I think they made a lot of choices recently That really just upset me Yeah Well the quality of food is going down

Like, they haven't made a smart marketing move in probably five years. Yeah. The TV commercial. That is hysterical. No, no, can we... That's where I was going at. Aaron jumped on it. That is...

I have probably never been more jealous of another comedian in my life than watching Dusty on a Cracker Barrel. I see Nate, he's at Madison Square. I go, that's probably pretty fun. I see Dusty on Cracker Barrel. I go, who's his management? I mean, yeah. That's just something to think about when you're filming your special.

If you're going to talk about a restaurant, say positive things. Yeah, I mean, of course. I've brought up Waffle House several times. They don't care. Waffle House doesn't care because Waffle House doesn't need advertisements. Yeah, yeah. They don't care. They built a brand that we will continue to support.

But Cracker Barrel does need advertising. I mean, clearly there's billboards everywhere. They hired, you know, me to do their commercials. And supposedly, the campfire meal that you promote, it's way more expensive than they said it was going to be. It's hard to get. I mean, it's a big fiasco. Yeah. Oh, God.

Yeah, it's too bad, man. It's too bad. It makes you look bad, really. That this Dairy King picture here, I mean, I like that the American flag's in the picture, but it's too bad. The only picture is blocked a little bit. Man, Dairy King was unbelievable. This is the Dairy King. This is a Dairy King in Nashville.

I was about to say this is not what we had. Yeah. That looks way more advanced. This is like a nice meeting three. Yeah. Yeah. Have you been to this place? Is that in Charlotte?

I mean, how many dairy kings in Nashville are there? There's something on Charlotte that I thought was a dairy king. Okay. Well, they don't even have the address on this website. So they're struggling. Dusty, you'd love that.

Yeah. You think if they don't have their address, they're struggling? To me, it's a little bit of a flex. I think so, too. You'll bump in this. You'll find us if you can find it. You'll sniff it out, man. All right.

So let me ask you all this. They're about to open some... What's the point of the website, then? Word of mouth. Word of mouth only. But if word of mouth only, then why do you have a website? I got a phone number on there. You bought a domain name.

They went to GoDaddy. And everybody tells us we need a website. So we got one. Okay, we got it now. We don't, you can't even see the sign on the website. There's a website. You're like, what is the worst website? The dairy what?

It'll be the Daird Kang for all we know. Harry King. Yeah. They're about to open some in-and-out burgers here. Oh, yeah. The first one, Leibn's almost ready. There's a few of them. Mount Juliet.

Mount Julia, I think it's going to get one. Murphy's Burl. It's going to get one. I wish that they would shut down a water burger and bring that to Hermitage. I like it. Why not both? They make each other. Waterburger is in Hermitage.

I know it's gone. You don't have to go there. I don't. Then why do you care if it's there? Because it would just be better for the whole neighborhood. Yeah, like it's bringing in the riffraff at this point. Yeah. All right, here's my question.

Yeah. For this argument, I assume you enjoy these places. Okay. Do you like it that all these franchises that used to only be one part of the country are now branching out everywhere? Or is there something kind of nice novelty like, oh, I'm out in California. It's going in an out burger. You want I mean? Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.

I mean, I like regional foods. I mean, some of them I'm glad that they're coming in. But I've heard. them talk about this on consumers. I like regional like food products more. Like I I would like to think that I could only get these chips here or these chips there. But like if Culvers was only in Wisconsin, that'd break my heart. Because that place is lights out. Share the love a little bit. But I do understand how, you know, when you go somewhere and you can only get it there, it does. Makes you feel special. It does. You know, like bronze is not everywhere.

Right. Here's the thing. It's globalism, guys. New World Order. It's coming at you. Here it comes. The four of us are very lucky. that we get to travel the country and do that kind of stuff. Yeah. The average person doesn't get to go to California two or three times a year and get in and out. You know what I mean? So it's nice that it's here. Now people can, people can have it. Where it's kind of a fun thing for us. Well, we're out there. We'll grab in and out. You know, not to kill the mood in here. I just feel like someone's more nostalgia than even the food's good. And that might kill the nostalgia if you can get anywhere.

But I think ultimately, what a burger moving here, in and out moving here. I think it's all good for McDonald's. I think McDonald's is going to start to get the respect that it deserves because once the novelty McDonald's is once the novelty of these other places goes away once people go oh and out's not a special thing anymore people start to go well the McDonald's truly is the greatest if if you could only get a Big Mac in Boise, Idaho everybody would go when you're in Boise you got to go get a big Mac yeah yes. This is you're going to be your audition tape for the McDonald's I mean, if you could only get Chick-fil-A in Atlanta, it would be the same way. Exactly.

Exactly. And I've made this argument on the podcast before. But I think McDonald's is so ubiquitous. They're everywhere that they don't get the respect that they deserve. Whereas, dude, if there was one McDonald's in L.A., Dusty, you would go. The Big Mac out there is unbelievable. You got to try. If there was one, you're right.

I may go, and I go, this is really good. but if they were won, it would be better. But because they franchise out, it diminishes their product. How does it diminish the product? Chick-fil-A is not as good as it used to be. I think they've branched out so much that it's not the same. They're the slowest expanding chain. They may be slowly expanding, but they're still expanding.

I would say Dairy King is part of the slowest expansion. Because they don't put their adjuncts on the webinar. I just think it happens. The more these companies grow, the more they find ways to cut corners on, ingredients and it just is not as good. And I think that will happen to all that. I think that's what happened to Waterburger. People from Texas will, will try to kill you if you say Waterburger's bad. But then the people will, then other people will admit, well, they sold it to a company out of Chicago and then it started to go downhill. And then now they're expanding everywhere. It's not

as good. Yeah, I think some of that. I do miss when things, I mean, this is, you know, like, oh, Charlie's, growing up, that was a very popular. restaurant that we would go to to treat ourselves as a family. It was and all their dressings were homemade. Everything. Free pie Tuesdays. Like Nate's one of his best friends and his, it takes on Travis. Travis Moore, I think. His father was a buyer for O. Charlie's back in. That's right. He was telling me about how everything was homemade and how everything was not processed and yada y'all. And that's, and I wish we would go back, even if it was more expensive, like Cracker Barrel, what I was going to say earlier, the product of the food is down.

than what it used to be. I've gotten the grilled chicken there for probably over a decade. Their grilled chicken tenders are unbelievable. Get honey mustard on the side. The chicken has changed. It is not the same chicken that it used to be. So I think it's more of like a, you know, on a ground level. Like they've, everybody's taking these shortcuts to get more product in for a cheaper price.

And that's, that's affected everything. Yeah. I get some common sense. Yeah. Here we go. Get fired up, Dusty. I mean, dang. But anyway.

You want me to just agree with you for two hours? No, no, but I like there to be some, you know, some balance. I'm trying to get a little, I'm trying to ping pong our way through. And ganging up on me. Oh, come on. I don't see what you have a problem with Waterburger in Hermitage. You just want a different restaurant there? Yeah, it's not good.

What used to be there, Burger King? It was Applebee's, I think. Oh, yeah. There's plenty of space. They can add up with your favorite cheeseburger from a fast food restaurant place, just in general. Just favorite cheeseburger. If I had all of them in front of me

And I can only grab one Of course you'd have them all in front of you I'll say that because Nate would have said I'm not eating them in a long time Yeah But I used to like the double cheeseburger from Burger King Double Cheeseburger from Burger King That was a really good burger back in the

It was gray and then they expanded Yeah Okay I hear you Now Burger King Here's the thing with Burger King I got to make this stay I tell people this Burger King is a bad business

And an incredible product If you find a Burger King that cares about what's going on on. Their food's some of the best out there. It's just hard to find a Burger King these days with a customer service numbers not scratched off on the drive-th Burger King, Second Avenue, Opelika used to be the best. That's right. It was the best. It's touching, you got to find Burger Kings and airports seem to be better because the volume of people coming through. But yeah, so if you had every burger in front of you, which one would you choose? I would say the Fresno burger

from Hardee's. Oh, okay. That's a great. It's a great. It's a great burger. It is. I remember. I was about to bring that up. I remember the Fresno. I didn't,

I still didn't get it. And they got friscoe ham and cheese as well. All the, the friscoe series, if you will, is a real ban. Anything with sour. Sleeper pick here,

friscoe melt from steak and shake. Holy. I know of the best sandwiches you can get through a drive-thru. Yeah. She got one was Springfield, Missouri. First one. And I'll give, I'll give the correct answer here.

It's the Dave's double. And there's no, The Dave's double from Wendy's. Okay. Is unbele- Still good? You just like a corner. Oh, man.

I love a corner. Hey, go into Wendy's and find me a freezer. There's not any because it's- digging around the kitchen. How do they do the frosties? You what? How do they do the frosties? It's in a machine.

Everything's powder. Yeah, yeah, yeah. With the ice creams. Oh, geez. All right. You ever see the movie Founder with Michael Gaten? Yeah. The original plan that they had for McDonald's

was to use, fresh ingredients. And then, you know, Ray Kroc came in and he's cutting corners and made it a successful business. Made it a super successful business. The most successful restaurant ever. But ruined, ruined the ingredients and the product. And now it's serving our country and our country's dying all the time. But rascal scooter sales are through the roof. Yeah. It's all big scooters. Yeah. Yeah. A country's like the most unhealthy. We're dying. We're on medication. You ever use one of those that were like a Walmart? Oh, no, I have not.

I'm trying to fight against it, not lean into it. Mm-hmm. Yeah. I meant for like an injury or something. I went for like an injury or something. Oh, oh, well, thanks for clarifying. Yeah, I'm sorry if I'm blushing. You ever thought about using one of those, Derek, to get you around, buddy?

That's the neatest thing I've ever heard. And that's coming for me on this podcast. Yeah, thank you. Yeah, I take one over to get my hydroxy cut. I had a buddy in college that used hydroxica. It did not. It did not work. It does not work.

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Bojangles used to have a good bacon egg and cheese biscuit. Do you like any places anymore Has everything gone off the face of the earth? Listen, I don't eat these things. What's good? What's good right now? Have you tried Culvers? If I had to... I don't eat these things now, but I had to go to a restaurant.

There's a good huddle house in McMinville. All right, the huddle house is good, yeah. I thought you would say... Oh, there is a good huddle house in McMill. I thought you'd said that. It's because they haven't expanded enough to make the food bed. Well, Tammy's. Tamys is good.

But, yeah, I mean, I'm just saying. You don't like any chains? No. Western Sisland? Well, Western Sisland's barely a chain these days. I mean, there's. like a few laughed. You ever been to Western Sizzling?

Are you kidding me? He was conceived in one. Have I ever been to a birthday? Yeah. Yeah. Western Sisland's great. I just, I want Dusty to eat Culver's. I think it'll change. Culver's, I feel like I've been to a Culver's, but

maybe I'll have to revisit. It's a fresh burger. It's a fresh burger. They got, you can get some cheese curds. The cheese curds, everything is just, it just doesn't, it feels a lot more homemade than a lot of other places. And it has the, I don't know how to scribe. but like the niceness and the energy of a Chick-fil-A.

Yeah, yeah, with like a Midwestern twist. Yeah, yeah. This is a burger place I currently like, Shake-Shack. I like those burgers. Shake-Shack. Those are good. Yeah, they are good. I get them at the airport, but they're good.

I lived across the street from one in Denver, so I got a little burned out. Yeah, I mean, I can see the neon sign from where I am. Five guys is good. Five guys is, like, I didn't know if we consider it fast food. I don't consider it fast food. I don't either. Okay, well, that's my favorite burger. That's my favorite burger.

It's good. Yeah, any, all burgers should come wrapped in aluminum full. $54. Yeah, I don't care. I like it. Make it 60, so we got a round number. I don't care. ML Rose here in Nashville, very good burger.

Yeah, it is. Good shout out. That is a good burger. Yeah. My daughter's favorite place, ML Rose. Yeah. She'll go eat the whole burger. She won't, she barely eat stuff we go out.

ML Rose, she eats the whole burger. Is there winning her image? Mount Julie. Yeah. Oh, at Providence. I saw yesterday. We stopped at Buffalo Wild Wings yesterday. Oh, really?

Mel Julia before we came to your house. Feed-ups is great. And, man, the Titans, not to bring it down. Used to be my whole life, sports bars, everybody would be, nobody, I don't even think they had the game on. Yeah. It's a good thing they're building that new stadium. Yeah. Sounds like it's right on time.

Also, thank you for all the support Titans. Thank you for everything you've done for us. Absolute tragedy what's on the field out there every week. But we love what you guys. But we're on the Jumbotron, so that's something. That is cool. No, it is cool. Yeah.

And they send me swag. They do. I appreciate that. Yeah. I do appreciate it. It's great. There are no huddle houses in Nashville. That's a shame.

There are no, currently no Texas roadhouses. Oh, that is a way bigger shame. Texas Roan House? They're building one in Antioch. The closest one that I could find was in Hill House. We've got all Longhorn Steakhouses out here. There's no Texas road out. You know, I took Zach Townsend to his first huddle house.

We went to Hazard, Kentucky. We had a huddle house. And then the next day, we went to another huddle house. Oh, man. Two back to back. I bet he thought, what a weekend with Dusty. Well, Dusty really rolled out the red carpet, huh? Listen, I don't paint any illusions out here.

I don't paint any illusions out here. People know what they're getting. No, I took my opener this past weekend. and very funny guy, Jim Flanagan. We went to Texas Roadhouse. I'm a huge fan of Texas Roadhouse. Probably maybe my favorite restaurant to go through. I think consistency, atmosphere.

I mean, if I can eat peanuts, get a decent meal. Listen to Alan Jackson. It is a good spot. It was one I stopped. Right outside of Birmingham, there's a city, fairly big city. I forget the name of it. Hoover. No, no, no, no.

Further outside. Montgomery. Tuscaloosa. December. Atlanta. Clay chalk. Vestavia. Hayden, Warrior.

Harvest. Harvest. Coleman. Nah, none of those, but it's... Decatur. Anyway, I went to a Texas Roadhouse there. Very good. Yeah, it's so good.

In the last, we got to the bottom of it. You guys kept going, so I was like, well, keep going. I'm not... Selma. Let's figure it. And the price for what you're getting is great. Yeah. The yeast rolls with the brown...

The appetized. I mean, the atmosphere was... fun like it was like it was crazy it was pumping people were coming in waitress comes up watermelon crawls playing yeah i love alabama i'm from alabama but sometimes you're driving through you go through a town you stop somewhere and the morale is not good oh you're you're right you're right yeah it's like y'all can i mean we can get some gambling in this state and help some people you know sorry guys you might if we all just take a break and read the about section of this dairy king website real quick yeah let's just all read through it together

is a podcast. It is an empty page. Dairy King, about Dairy King. They go, you know what it is. Who built my website, built theirs. This is making me like it more. I can guarantee you they make their ranch in their own kitchen. Yeah. I guarantee you. It's a little runny because it's real.

Yeah. Let me ask these you three Alabama guys, Dreamland, Dreamland, Dreamland, yeah. Dreamland, dreamland, yeah. Dreamland, dreamland's great. I've never been. It's a Birmingham place, right? It is a, it is a, I mean, my, my favorite barbecue is going to definitely be in the Madison County area. I'm going to go, and even Morgan County, Big Bob Gibson, Lawlers, Greenbrier,

barbecue is probably my favorite. But anyways, yeah. I took Hannah, who's from Canada, to Dreamland one time. First real barbecue experience, I think, for her. And the guy, as he leaves the table from taking out order, goes, you want some bread and sauce? And then we were like, yeah. And then they just brought over barbecue sauce and white bread. I love that. I love that. I mean, we ate it. Yeah, of course.

That was the move. But it is funny. Like, she lived in Toronto for 10 years, like the best restaurants. Yeah. You know, in the world. And then, like, we're eating white bread and barbecue sauce. Yeah. It's delicious.

I've never had a meal that wasn't good. If there's a paper towel roll on the table, You bring your own, don't you? No, I'm good. No, I'm good. Yeah. I've got a handkerchief. Bring my own paper towel roll.

It's like a nice restaurant. Yeah. Coming in, paper towel roll, bottle of ranch. Well, Dreamland. Dreamland's a good one. If they have it already, they're opening a Tim Horton's in Hermitage. It's there. It's in Donaldson. Donaldson.

Yeah, it's there. And that's a Canadian. Yeah. A Yankee Starbucks. Everything's coming here. Yeah. I'm getting everything. Does Hannah like it?

Yeah. It's not. The Tim Hortons in America is never the same. It's different. They don't have the sour cream glazed Timbitts. That's where it's out. Don't talk about America, buddy. I'm just saying.

This is where it's going to go back to Canada. But as far as Tim Hortons, it's not the same here. Okay. it's better you might know the top chain based on locations in the world

Subway Subway sandwich The amount Most locations Most... Oh, subway for sure Yeah It's number four

Okay Is it an American company? Let's follow Can I ask a few questions We're going to do it right now Is it an American company restaurant? No Okay, then I'm out

I don't know any Yeah, it's Pandexpress Whatever the Chinese subway is. You're close. I never even heard of this. Mixu ice cream and tea in China.

45,000 locations. Forty- 45,000. Can you imagine if one of these guys knew the answer to that? No. It recently passed McDonald's is the most.

I think Subway may be the most in the United States. I think it's not even close in the U.S. I think you're right about that. McDonald's worldwide has been the leader for a long time, but this place recently passed.

What's it called? What's it called? Mix, M-I-X-U-E? Ice cream and tea. I looked at it after opening one in New York City, the first one in America. Is it like boba tea, that kind of stuff? Sounds disgusting. Yeah. I'm sure it's not sweet tea. I can't wait till there's 45,000 water burgers. Yeah. Just everywhere. You have to drive by.

He did. Me too. Then McDonald's, Starbucks, and then Subway. Okay. So then America's good. Starbucks, I don't you hardly think of as a... I don't think of it either. It's a restaurant. What's your favorite, what's your favorite, like, barbecue place around here? Probably Martins. Yeah, I think that's the right choice. I like Edleys.

I'm an Edley's guy. I mean, I like it all, too. There's room for both. Yeah, but I'm just saying, you ask what were your favorite. This guy's trying to add more. But you're saying, like, you're a different kind of guy than us because you remember. Well, he didn't eat pork, but he's... But Edleys has a good brisket and a good chicken.

Yeah. Waffle House has a new feature. Just added DoorDash this month. Oh, wow. You can now get all night delivery via DoorDash. Nothing like order. some eggs that you could have whipped up at home anyway. I don't know if I agree

with that as like a in principle. I don't. Really? Yeah. I feel like so much of I love Waffle House, but I feel like so much of it is the going there and being there. Absolutely. That's so that's such an important part of the experience that it's like, yeah,

I think if you get at DoorDash, it just becomes food. Does that make sense? Well, and also, I think it's pretty powerful. Yeah, that was. Yeah. We should let that. We should let that's it for a second. Yeah, that deserved more. It did. I can't wait until sooner 44 brings it up. I'll tell you this. One of the great things about Waffle House is you can watch them cook your food, and I think that's important for several reasons. We're taking that

away. Yeah. I like the idea that I can watch this gentleman. I'm just going to sit here, and I'm not like watching him like a hawk, but we know the situation. I'm right behind you. You're cooking my eggs. There's some comfort in that. Of course. I really, DoorDash, I don't like that I don't have an eye on the staff, you know, I would like to take a peek at what they're doing. I'm not a fan of the DoorDash stuff anyway, because you're like, you know, when a pizza delivery company, you know, at least you were like, it's in somebody else's car, but they're an employee of the company. Yeah. I don't know. I just don't like the idea of, like, somebody pick it up my food.

But I like now, they have these seals on the packages and stuff. Yeah, they all take me. Oh, okay. I've noticed that too. I like that. So you know if it's been opened or anything like that. Do y'all ever think that like when you order DoorDash, they don't make it with the same amount of care or effort they do if you're standing

at the counter? Because sometimes like I'll never order DoorDash Taco Bell again. And I know that sounds like a terrible idea in general. But it always shows up like they know that there's no accountability. I mean, I get the wildest most, I mean, I've gotten soft tacos with no meat in it. And what are you going to do? Leave a three-star review. Oh, that's got them rattled back in the kitchen.

Yeah. You're going to call in like a psychopath and go, I got a taco. No, no. You just go, wow, I ordered Taco Bell from DoorDash, and this is what I deserve. Yeah. You know? Yeah. Do you care?

Totally. I mean, you don't care? Like, anyways, I don't know. No, I care. I agree with you. No, you don't care. I'm trying to direct the show. You don't have to care.

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I'm right there with him. Okay. All right. It's for sure Georgia and then it's Florida. Fort Walton Beach has the best Waffle House in America. You don't have to Google it. It's a fact.

I don't know if you could Google that. The answer is Georgia and it's not even close. So if you said Florida's close, you look like a dumb dumb right now. Almost a fourth. Brian hit me with the ok-a-doke right there. Almost a fourth of all waltzes. houses in Georgia. I thought it would be

close, like I thought would they be one, but I thought Alabama and South Carolina, Tennessee would be right in there, but it's not even close. How many huddle houses are in Georgia? I didn't look that up. I don't know. Because, see, that's got to play a role. Why? Well, the headquarters is in Georgia, so they probably

don't allow huddle house out there. You think there would be fewer huddle houses in Georgia? There are 62 huddle houses in Georgia. That's the most of any state in the country. It's not even close. Alabama is 39. Yeah, I'm not trying to restart the whole debate, but I mean, Huddle House to me is like, like, you know,

the off-brand Waffle House. That's how I've always thought about it. There's nothing wrong with an off-brand. There's nothing wrong with it. No. Well, you know, I don't want to keep this expression going, but the patty melt at Huddle House is the best there is, and it's not even close.

All right. Well, now I will try it now that you said that. I love a patty melt. I mean, it doesn't look, it looks good. It looks good. It changed the patty melt to where they put like, I don't know, I forget what it was that they had, well, it was bacon. I mean, you guys might be into that, but I'm like, don't just go, you don't just throw bacon on everything. Patty Mout has its own flavors and bacon's not one of them.

Don't just throw bacon on everything is hard for me to back. Yeah. I know. I mean, yeah, yeah, I get that. I mean, you're going to live longer than me, but I'm, I'll be smiling eating that sandwich. But, you know, there are other flavors. Yeah, I just feel like that huddle house is full of Waffle House employees that couldn't finish training. They go, I don't mean anything by this, Mary, your efforts there.

We like your attitude, but you're a huddle house. They've all been in jail. Look, every, here's, no question. Here's, at the end, everybody in a huddle house has a story. Yeah, right. They should say that in a commercial. And that's what I like. You should be the spokesperson.

I like, dude, if I've become the huddle house guy, I would change my tune. so quickly. I've such a sellout. I've never liked Waffle House. It's all about the Huddell House. Yeah. This country's built on underdogs, dude. Even just think about the name, Huddl.

You come together. Yeah. Let's huddle up, guys. Huddled up around the table. You're not just eating waffles, you're coming together. That's a good point. You're starting to turn me a little bit. Huddle up, boys.

All right, it's making it a little tougher. Okay. Yeah. Which state has the most cracker barrels? Tennessee. I like that guess immediately. my second one would be Kentucky. I'm guessing Georgia as well.

You three are all wrong. But what's the right answer? Florida. A lot of old people in Florida. Yeah, good point. I bet the Cracker Barrel on Naples is lights out. I mean, I bet it is fire. They have five common items found in every Cracker Barrow location.

Okay. There's a warehouse. house in Lebanon that has stores of this stuff. What do you mean found? Yeah, yeah. Like that people leave? No, if I said found, I meant. Things at the table for you?

No, like in the decor of the restaurant. There's five things that, not counting like the rocking chairs you buy, stuff like that. A mounted deer. Yes. Old person in a frame. A cotton gin. Deerhead's correct. Cotton gin.

No. A tractor? Benjo A fiddle Bear skin rug The game That's got to care Yeah

I guess that's not on here But yes The peg game It's not on there Then it doesn't count That peg game That peg game is how I found out That I was in

I'm in ignoramus Don't just say yes To Derek Because he's intimidated Thank you That makes it even worse I got something on here There's like

He goes Well yeah It's not on the list It counts It counts It counts I'll leave back Yeah Derek

You're right, you're right. There's 6,000 different ways to do that thing. Well, what are the five? All right, here they are. Deerhead, horseshoes hung above all front door exteriors. Wow. Stowing good luck on everyone who enters. Rocking chairs.

I think that's just something they sell. I said that. If Derek said it, you would have said, yeah. That works, that works. A cook stove. Okay. Using some stores as a display, the gift shop. An ox yoke above the front door is they are nailed above barn doors in the south.

Okay. And a traffic light always placed above the vestibule to light the way to the restroom. I've never seen. There's also old people in a picture frame and everyone. There is for sure. I mean, there's no. But. And the...

This idea that oxyoke is above doors in the south, what part of the south? And where are the oxes? What are they talking about? We didn't have an ox yoke at our place. No. Did you have a cracker or a barrel? Like, that's the whole house full of crackers. I mean, there's not a checkerboard.

The cloth checkerboard that's in front of the fireplace is one of the best spots in the whole joint. The yoke is frequently used metaphorically in the Bible. First in Genesis regarding Esau. Yeso. Yeah, my yoke is light. Esau. Esau. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me.

Jesus says my yoke is light. There you go. Yeah, that's the word in the Matthews Gospel. That's right. How about that? Maybe you should have one of your house. Yeah. Well, I think they're just using it as an expression.

They don't really. Yeah. They're saying, take this oxyoke, put it on your wall. Cracker barrel takes its name from the barrels filled with soda crackers that used to populate country stores back in the late 19th century. Folks, we gather around them to chat and catch up or even play a game of checkers or chess. I don't think they're playing chess, but. Yeah, you're right.

Well, I don't know. People, I do think people back in the day had a little more intellectualism. And probably were playing a little chess. You know what they say about Cracker Barrow? What a sticker than water, but nothing brings the family together like gravy. That's a good joke. Did you write that? Yeah, I did write.

Well, I don't know. Me and Connor and Zack got together and wrote jokes. I don't know which one of us came up with that. It would have been really cool to be a part of that. Yeah. Just two of my best friends. It's wild. You're at Huddle House brainstorming for Cracker Barrel.

Yeah. What's something about crack? Cities with the worst tippers in the U.S. I mean, don't make us guess. All right. That's fair. Thank you. Worst tippers, San Francisco and Seattle.

Wow. Those would not have been my guesses. Best tipper, New Orleans. Oh, that makes sense. Yeah, you get a couple hand grenades in you. You'll throw a $10 bill. Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I guarantee it. Yeah. You get, yeah, people stop you and have you do tricks on the streets. Yeah. And then they go, it's $20 for the trick, but we also work for tips. Yeah. I just realized I left some of my notes at home, guys.

I'm going to stretch a little bit here. Yeah. Just pretend like I'm interesting. Parent Company for Hardee's and Carl Jr.'s, headquartered here in Franklin, Tennessee. Shoney's is headquarter here in Nashville. Cracker barrels here. Ruby Tuesdays. Oh, man, Ruby Tuesdays back in the day was unreal.

Salad bar? Yeah. Couldn't beat it. Yeah. All right. I'm going off my notes from the last time. I remember they said the best day of the week to go to a restaurant is Tuesday because that's the least busy. Yeah.

Yep. And I think it's the least busy day in retail as well. Okay. You guys jump in to servers or anything. It said the dirtiest item on the table was the salt and pepper shakers. Makes sense. Yeah, probably so. I don't remember ever cleaning one of those when I waited.

Well, we did when I worked it around. I mean, we had to clean them. I mean, that was part of nightly duties. Oh, I didn't do any. But, yeah, I mean, I would say that probably gets skipped a lot. Yeah, I don't know. I would say the ketchup bottle in a lot of restaurants is going to be your grossest thing. That's probably true.

Because people, you know, a lot of, they'll marry the ketchup. So you'll have two half bottles and then you marry one into the other and then you either throw it away or you refill it. But then there's stuff. at the bottom that got married. And you don't know what got married yesterday. So the next day, that bottle may get married again. And then eventually you open the ketchup one day and it kind of pops because it's been fermenting inside.

Yeah. Yeah. And yeah. So I would say the ketchup is the grossest thing. Let me ask you this, fellas. If you walk in a public bathroom and there's four stalls, each one of them, farther away from you. All right, there's four stalls.

The last one is a handicap stall. It's bigger. Wide open bathroom. Which one, which stall do you think? I like to go to the second one. Yeah. Okay.

You don't go handicapped in the back. I like to go the Tuesday of stalls. I feel like the second one gets looked over the most often. I would probably say that too, although I think I remember the first one they say gets looked over the most because people generally want to get further away. They statistically, the cleanest stall. is the first one.

Yeah. Oh, wow. Because when people need to get real work done in there, they go, I want as much privacy as possible, right? So they get a far away from the door as they can, which makes sense to me. But the question is, maybe you want a little privacy too. So cleanliness might not be the only thing you're worried about.

The handicapped stalls a tough situation. Because if a handicapped person doesn't need it the whole time you're in there, no harm, no foul. But if you're in there and a handicapped person needs to use the restroom, you're a terrible person. Right, right. And so it's really like, you know, the times that I have used it, I've kind of been like, Derek, you're going to have to be ready to hop up at any moment here. Because if you see wheels under that door, it's over. You know, you're just going to have to come out.

So the handicapped stall to me is the most, it is the most comfortable, but you're really playing with fire a little bit. I wouldn't have picked the first one. I never picked the first one because you would assume. But I will not forget that statistic as a avid traveler. I blew up a handicap bathroom stall one time. And then as I was coming out, a handicapped guy was coming in in a wheelchair. And I, you know, I didn't hold him up. And we all experience it.

But I just felt bad knowing that he's in a wheelchair. And now I've just blown it out. He's going to spend a little extra time in there getting out of the chair onto the toilet. You look at him. your day's getting worse, brother. That's not the worst thing ever than having you, buddy. Yeah. Yeah, man.

As three former servers here, what's the most annoying question that you guys always got from like a table? What's good? I didn't mind that. I hate it. That's just friendly conversation.

What do you want them to ask? Nothing? Preferably, but... Yeah. But just what's good? Well, then you can be a tablet at that point. But what's good? Maybe like, hey, what's something that you recommend?

What's something that you really like? That's the same question. But just the idea, they close the menu, what's good? Yeah, I like to, we like to think it's all good. God forbid you have a human moment at a restaurant with a serving. Not when I'm working. Yeah. Now, all right, go ahead.

That's all I wanted out of that. You keep going. I didn't say, Dairy King, it's over the counter. There was no like coming to your table. But as somebody that orders food pretty regularly, I do like to ask, like, between, well, I'll give them two things. I'll go, what do you like between these two things? Sometimes three.

The only awkward problem is, though, is I'll go against them. Like, I'll ask for the advice. They'll go, without a doubt, it, it's this. And I'll go, yeah, I'm going to go this way with it. I'm going to go right here. And then you can kind of see him being like, well, I'm glad you asked that. That made it a lot of sense. Yeah.

Well, yeah, this is what people do? They'll go, what do you recommend the catfish or the tilapia? And you go, the tilapia is really good. They go, oh, I'll have the strength. shrimp. You might have been serving me. That sounds like a conversation. Yeah.

Yeah. Did you have something on your menu that you would just tell people was not good if somebody asked about it? Yeah. For a little while at Hyman's we were doing steak. Yeah. And we had so many problems with it that I would just go, listen. I'm just going to tell you.

Yeah. It's not been going well. Yeah. How strong are your teeth? Yeah. Yeah, I mean, we are a seafood restaurant. Stick with the seafood. What do you guys think about calories on menus?

Does it affect you at all? No, I like to keep scoring most of what I do. Yeah, I like to know. I don't mind. Now I look at calories more than I ever have in my life. So I don't hate it. I wish, you know what I wish? I wish they would do caffeine content like they do calories on menus when I'm at coffee shop.

I should know if there's 180 milligrams in this latte because it's going to affect the next person I talk to. You should always get decaf. Yeah, I know, I should. No, I mean, I found out the blonde espresso from Starbucks has like 150 milligram. You cannot send Derek Stroop out into the world, 150 milligram. What does a Red Bull have? I don't know. Not 150, I don't think.

But, you know, the problem that I found out, I like a light roast because I don't want the dark roast. I agree. Roast is stronger than the darkroast. It's a rocket ship. Yeah, and it's too much. Now I've enjoyed the coffee more, but I mean, you know, here I am, you know, barely hanging on. So the smallest-sized Red Bull, like the main one. But when you think of a Red Bull can, that's 8.4 ounce, 80 milligrams of coffee.

So 120 is pretty high, man. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, I keep my caffeine content. I keep it like in check because I don't want to kill my tolerance. I said 80 milligrams of coffee. Yeah. We knew what you were saying.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, you're all right. You'll bounce back quick. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, don't let it beat you up, buddy. I found my notes. I said salt and pepper shaker is the dirtiest. It's actually the menu. Oh, I would wipe down the menus.

We had to wipe down menus, too. Well, now it's probably, I haven't waited tables since the QR code revolution. I imagine there's a lot more of that, and we won't see physical menus except it really nice places. I still like a menu. If I go to a place and they want me to look at a QR code, I'm like, I want to leave. I do it. I do it every. I always say, me and my wife always, is there a physical copy we can get? And sometimes they'll act like it's like a crazy. I'm like, can we please get a menu? I don't like it either. Yeah. I don't love it either. Yeah. And plus during COVID, I had like a, just a dinosaur-aged Android. And so I spent all of COVID just guessing, you know. I mean, there was no menus. I just, you know.

You were doing that. Well, it's good. Yeah. Yeah. reservation isn't necessarily a guarantee on any given night restaurants calculate their average no show percentage and overbook the restaurant by that much hoping it will even out so you might show up it's already booked interesting i don't understand how flights do that i mean they're constantly announcing if you give up your flight we'll give you this much do they just overbook and hope to figure it out i don't know how that happens either i was sitting at the gate a long time ago I was going out to Edmonton, long flight, and they were like, we are offering $800 if somebody wants to give up the seat. And I was like, man, they're pretty close to I would take this. Yeah. It canceled the gig.

It got up to like $1,900, $1,000. Oh, that's a lot. I've heard of, I've heard up like $1,500. 1900's a lot. Maybe, you know, maybe sometimes they have a flight and then the plane that they were going to use for whatever reason, they had to switch planes. And now they're on a plane with less seats. Or there's like a fugitive on board that they're transporting.

It could be. They do that sometimes, right? Don't they take fugitives on commercial air flight sometimes? I was just going along with it. Do they really? I thought they would do that. Like people running through law, they got caught? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. That is. Or maybe they're not caught. They're just an actual fugitive and they book a couple of seats because they don't want to. I mean, do they fly? If I commit a crime in New York City and I run away to California. Yeah.

And they need to bring me back to New York to await trial. Yeah. Are they flying me private back there? I think they should do on a train. No, they should book you on a train. No phone, no entertainment. You just stare at the window. I don't get a Sudoku or something.

Nothing. No, I like a train a lot. That's nice. Yeah. Yeah, no entertainment. And I was watching Shawshank Redemption show. You guys ever seen that? Yes, sir.

And at the end, we're going to, Freeman's on that bus. That's unbelievable. And the windows open and he's got his arm out. I'm like, I would do that. Yeah. Like, I don't think I'd even look at my phone for two minutes. It looks so enjoyable.

He's also been in prison for a long time. That's what I'm saying. But even I right now would enjoy that so much, I think. I find I'm so excited. I can barely sit still to hold a thought in my head. That's really good. I think it's the excitement only a free man can feel. a free man at the start of a long journey

whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope to see, I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope. Wow.

Wow. That's all right. That is, that is unbelievable. That's very good. It's fine. I forgot some of my set during a show last night. And you just rehearse. that flawlessly. I've seen it. I hope I never try a Morgan Freeman because sooner

44 would be so upset about. Ten Things Restaurants host wish you didn't stop doing. One, don't take it out on the hosts. That's kind of obvious. Two, don't act impatient. Don't offer cash to get a seat quicker. I bet that's not one. Yeah. I bet that's not one. Yeah, greasing people? Yeah. I would love to have been greased. I bet a host. to go. You give me 20 bucks? Yeah, I'll get you in there. Did you ever get greased at the... I never really hosted. I never... I never... I wasn't a host for very long.

Damon Williams Jr. greased me after a weekend. That's nice. That sounds pretty crazy out of the content. How was your weekend with R. Kelly? Hey, hey, yeah, let's back up a few... Let's back up a little bit. Holy smokes. He greased me a hundred bucks.

Yeah. Where was this? This was that Zanis. And I hosted for him. I hosted. I hosted. Yeah. Y'all can get your mind.

Oh, sure. Family show. Whatever you say. We're talking about greasing. I thought you meant you were hosted a restaurant. No, no, no. I hosted the shows. And at the end of the weekend, he shook my hand.

He had $100 bill at his hand. And I had never seen that before. And I would die for him to this day because of that. You remember how that feels at first somebody like a, you're young. Dusty's still laughing. I will say I didn't know the term greasing until I've heard Aaron say it before in my life. Is that not how it's used? I thought I'm using it, right?

Well, I use it like that now, too. I would never. Yeah, I say it like that too. Nobody knows what I'm talking about when I say it. Should I have slipped me money? Yeah, anything. Hooked me up. Yeah, y'all are crazy.

Hold on. Have I been using this wrong? grease in the palms you know is what you do it at a if you like to a host like I greased in 20 bucks I don't think

I don't know I don't think I understand why that was funny but I don't think I used it wrong in the in the moment yeah cash given to somebody

oh there you go here's some more things that hosts wish you'd stop doing being on the phone while you that's yeah everybody wishes you would stop doing that don't try to seat yourself

Derek I feel like you've done all these seat myself is crazy know how many people are in your party well they would stop you wish you would stop knowing how many people are no they're saying you need to know okay I thought there's a list of things we should stop doing yeah well you're right

I mean what does that entail you go oh how many want to do 34 oh six yeah yeah yeah there's people going up there going i don't know just get a table ready could be me yeah could be 30 people yeah just do your job yeah but what about question is that as host if if the showed up and that the whole party was there would you let them sit some places won't let you sit no i wouldn't care i wasn't at a high volume not at hymonds i wouldn't like a place like that this is what happened happens. They come and they sit down and they go, oh, we don't want to order until our friend

arrives. And then their friends messing around. Yeah, yeah. He's, and then it's like, now you're holding up. Yeah. Yeah, you're just holding up the whole flow. And then the friend gets started and goes, oh, just have a coffee. And you're like, well, we waited for you. Yeah. That is, that is exactly how they go. Speaking of coffee, in most restaurants after 8 p.m. or so, the coffee is decaf because no one wants to clean two different coffee pots. Some people that I would work with, it was decaf all day because they would just go, I'm not making two types of coffee.

Everybody's getting decaf. When I worked at the country club, and I had probably told this story before, but when I would do catering for weddings and stuff, and I would hand out coffee, they got so chaotic and it was just so stressful in the kitchen that everything was caffeinated. And we just lied. And we had a pot that said decalf. Wow. And we gave everybody caffeinated coffee.

Oh, yeah, I wanted them to be. It was just too hard. No, it was too hard to keep track of what's what. So it's just like everybody's getting regular coffee. Yeah, that's why you go decaf, because that way people with heart conditions or whatever don't have heart attacks. Yeah, yeah, step it up, you know what I mean? Yeah, I mean, yeah. Yeah, don't put your life life in the hands of a server who's been, you know.

I can't, I can't say. Go ahead, Dusty Fisher's your thought. Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's all right. Uh, watch out for the specials. A lot of restaurants. The special is whatever they need to sell before it goes bad. Is that true? When I worked, the special was the soup we needed to get rid of. That was the special. Soup of the day. But it could be also delicious, though. I would say a special. It might be, you know, like we would have, you know, say they ordered a lot of salmon and there was a lot of salmon on hand. They would make a dish that involved salmon. It might be like, you need to push the salmon, but the special would be delicious. Let me ask you this. Restaurant closes at 9 o'clock. What is the latest acceptable time you can arrive there? Party of four to eat dinner.

Seven o'clock. Great question. I would say 8.15. I would say it depends on how you are, right? If you come in 10 minutes to close and you go, you know what you want to order, you eat in a timely manner, and you tip well, nobody's going to be mad at you. Maybe somebody will.

Ten minutes to close is tough. I don't get a to go order, you mean? No, I mean, even if you sit there, it's like, if you sit there past clothes or go. Just sit there and eat. If you order, the food comes out, you eat, you can be out of there in 20 minutes. It depends on, like, the restaurant. If it's like a small, like, spot, I'll walk in.

I'll do a heat check. And I mean it honestly, I'll go, hey, am I, is this, am I, am I okay? And they'll let you, they really will, if they even go, you know, hesitate, I'll go, I'm good, I'm good, don't worry about it. Sometimes I'll go, no, no, no, no big deal. And I'm in. I agree with the 815. 830 feels a little close to me. Yeah, for a party of four. Yeah, 815, maybe 820 even, 10 minutes before closed. I'm 10 years away. I'm 10 years removed from waiting tables, but I just, I'm just like, you're open until 9, right? So it's like, you're open. So if you go in there,

be respectful of the fact that you're like, all right, these people are excited about close up. But I do want to eat and you are still open. So you get the food, you eat, you leave. You don't dilly dally. You don't mess around with the menu. You get in there. You pick what you want. And I think I'd ask for it to go if I was 10 minutes till close. I'd say, listen, I'm very hungry. You can clean up around me. I don't care. But I just want to eat this. I don't want to, I just, I don't like to get to go for it. Yeah. I went to an in and out in Dallas, Texas, I believe is where we were at. And we went in there an hour before they closed. and the guy went crazy on the flat grill yelling out loud not to us he went no just come in

an hour before we close and we had already ordered we left me and my buddy we just went ahead and left because we were like i don't think that's the burger we want nah he had a breakdown he said an hour out loud out loud in and out at in and out yeah who comes in an hour before we close i think they closed it like 11 or 1 or something like yeah and you were there an hour before closing it's a fast food restaurant fast food restaurant that's pretty crazy i mean i was you know in hindsight now that i'm sharing this out loud probably a mental health situation but uh he i mean he lost it yeah i mean he lost yeah just speaking as a restaurant worker he's in and out of his mind huh come on man oh what a all that was good all we want to do is get off work and go drink that's all so it's like

you know or worse right now are you talking about when you were a restaurant yeah yes but the but the thing about it, it's like what happens is people come in at 10 minutes till close and then they hang out for an hour. That's the problem. Yeah. I think if you get in there, you go, hey, I understand you're about to close. I'm just real hungry. I'm going to order. I'll eat fast. I'll get out of here. And then tip well. Yeah. I think everybody appreciates that. I agree. Now, here's where I'm different, and I know we're talking about food. But if your store, a retail store, has five minutes until closing and I need something, your boy's in there. Yeah. And I'm moving with intention.

I'm not getting a cart. And I'm letting you know I'm doing the thing where I look, I look like I'm doing, I'm hustling for you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I'm not, it doesn't matter. Target, two minutes left. I'm grabbing what I need if the doors are unlocked and I'm going through the, and I know we're talking about food, but that's where I totally get that.

And you do that thing like I used to do in football workouts where you pump your arms to like you're walking fast. All that matters. Yeah. Oh, yeah. I want you to know, I'm not going to walk in like. It's the illusion of urgency. What a.

You know, I'm going to be like, hey, you. you know, you know, I'm very sorry, very quick, here I go. Thing I need is right there. I'm just going to grab it and pay for it. Yeah. And also with food, you don't, you maybe even ask what's something easy for you to make? Yeah, yeah. You don't, you know, you wouldn't want to order like something that takes a long time, you know.

We went to somewhere, where were you, mine on, Wisconsin. I believe we were leaving mine all at some family run breakfast place and we're about to hit the road and dusty walks in there and goes, I'm going to get an egg sandwich. He goes, can I, can you make sure that the egg is not super runny because I'm going to eat it in the car? I just want it to be like a dry sandwich, like not runny. And they go, of course, we get the sandwich back. It's soaking wet the sandwich. You remember this? Oh, yeah.

Soaking wet sandwich. Yeah. And then the guy who cooks it comes out, sees it and goes, man, it's a runny sandwich. Yeah. Dang, that's a runny egg. Yeah, he's the one. I'm like, you made this, buddy. I mean, that's an attack.

Yeah. Yeah, I mean, that was not friendly. I stood there and ate it because I'm like, I'm not eating this in the car. Yeah, it was also one of those places where I think the kid taking the order was like nine. Yeah, it was a family run spot. Here's a crazy one. I was at Waffle House with John in Kentucky. They brought out my eggs.

I looked at the scrambled eggs. It took me about five seconds. And I said, I ordered an extra egg. I go, that's two eggs. and she goes, that's two eggs? She goes, I put in for three. And I go, no, I can tell I eat scrambled eggs all the time. I go, I'm not mad.

I'm just saying. You eyeballed scrambled eggs? This is true story. And I go, this is two eggs. You know what she did? She went and got the cook, brought her over. The cook stands there, looks at my eggs, looks at me, and she goes, he's right. I forgot an egg.

Wow. Wow. I mean, when they walked away, after they walked away, I mean, John, Christ could not, he'll still send me pictures of scrambled eggs, he'll go, how many we got here? How many we got here? I know, I know two, one or two eggs is tough, but three scrambled eggs is a healthy pile, but she brought, now here's the best part. Here's the victory. She got the cook. And like, and you know she did that as a power move. She went, she wasn't even nice about it. She said, hold on. She came back and the cook told me I was right. Wow. I mean, yeah, I bet that cook

trains people to this day. Yeah. And then when they go, well, they're not going to know, it's scrambled eggs. And she goes, one. time, a guy came in here. Yeah, some sort of useless rain man came in here and called me out. Useless rain man. No, but here's the thing that I appreciate, I couldn't get over. I wanted to hug them for this. She could have lied for the home team.

It was an easy situation. Just lie. I lose. You get the eggs and the integrity to go, you know what, I forgot an egg on this order. That meant a lot to me. I mean, it could be the same reason I agree with you on a lot of these. facts I go how many he is

how many he's right he's right we got a gentleman in the dining room who's losing his mind yeah just say if I got the act yeah

and they go oh he yells it's an act it's an act it's not real do you guys have a favorite restaurant like

do you go with the family or like who like a hometown like your neighborhood I want to give a shout out to Chappies

Deli have you been to Chappies Deli before. Birmingham, Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama. I believe they have one in Auburn now. Longtime family friend of the Weber's, the Barankos own it. It's a great New York style deli. Get a good Rubin there. You get... You like Ruby? Good Rubin. I love a room. Great New York style deli. I got a good one of Virginia. My two older siblings, weighted tables there. My grandmother, they would have breakfast there every Sunday for years. Family owned, just a great spot. Chappies Deli, if you're in Alabama, go check it out.

love that shout out. Mine's Mildred's. It's, you know, harvest Tony area headed up Highway 53. It's a country buffet that's been there forever. And it's just, I mean, the most country fried chicken, banana pudding. We went there for our pregame meal in high school for football. No, we went two and eight. I'll never forget. I mean, there was a, I mean, there was a kick return where the guy just blew past me and my coach was yelling at me. He was yelling at me from the side. How much banana pudding? How much, Drew? I was over there like, hey, but Mildred's, that's a really special country buffet that I do, that I do love in Madison County.

What about you, Dustin? Well, Jim Bob's chicken fingers in Opelika. There's one in Opelika. There's one in LaGrange. Very good. They're the best chicken fingers. My dad's favorite, you know, outside of it is a pin and grill. So if you're ever on Highway 77 in between LaFed and Roanoke, Alabama, stop into the pen and grill,

if they're open. Yeah, and then call for help. They're rarely open. What about you? If you ever look up and you're halfway between Lafette. I was about to say, I can't think of a more rural area. And also, if you end the hunting, that'd be a good area. You shoot any direction, you'll hit a deer.

I bet those places are awesome. Go to the Penn & Grill. Tell them Dusty sent you. And then they go, and when they go, who goes, slay. His dad's Richard. And they go, oh, okay. Yeah, they call them Richard? Yeah.

That's the name. Nothing. What's your? Well, I'll pivot. You guys kind of all did hometown stuff. Snow White Drive-in in Lebanon. All right. All right.

Is it a drive-in theater? No, it's just you drive up, you flash your lights, they come out. Oh, that's awesome. That is really cool. You can go inside, too, but, you know, it's fun to. Well, go inside if you can flash your lights and have them bring it to you. Yeah. You know what, here in Nashville, too.

The taco place in East Nashville, Moss Tacos, Porfavor. Very good. Oh, got to try that about. Moss Tacos. Yeah. Did a comedy show there once? Did you? Yeah, Jordan Jensen and Josh Johnson.

Wow. Holy Toledo. Yeah, who's the weakly of that lineup now, huh? Career-wise. Josh Wagner's on that show, too. It was a hot show. It's a good one. They got mad at what we were saying on stage.

Cut the mic halfway through. We did half the show without a mic. microphone. Wow. But the tacos are great. Tacos are unbelievable. What did you say? It wasn't me.

I was about to say it. No. You think of that lineup? I'm the one. Jordan, I think, worked there or had a friend. It was Jordan's show. She set it up. Yeah.

Actually, the first show, the second show I ever did in comedy was me, Jordan Jensen, and Dusty. All right. They were like, less tacos, por favor. I used to be at Cobra. Less comedy. Oh, yeah. It was called Foo Bar. Fubar.

I remember that. It was across from... And there was a little room on the side. It's one of the first shows I ever did. Daniel Swinney used to run that show. It was Daniel Swinney and Kendra Coyer on that show, too. Yeah. Yeah.

Second show I ever did. That's fine. All right. All right. We did it. We did it. How about it? Thank you for coming by, Derek. Oh, that was so much fun.

Go see Derek in Birmingham. Go see them. We're going to do our promoter shows again? I love it. All right. I don't want to do it for a Derek, but I'm in Brunswick, Ohio, October 10th, still there. Willoughby, Ohio, October 11th, and Rochester, New York.

You've heard of Rochester, right? I have, yeah. That's the garbage, home with a garbage plate. You ought to get you one. And Kodak. Yeah, and Kodak. October 30th. Kodak.

Kodak. I found out that Eastman Kodak was in East Tennessee. Yeah. Sorry about that, bro. October 3rd and 4th, this weekend. Yep. Lyric Theater, Birmingham, Alabama. I'm shooting my special for Netflix.

We'd love to see y'all there. Saturdays, got a few tickets left. Friday's wide open. Bring your friends. It's going to be a lot of fun, man. Awesome. Aaron Weber here this weekend, Sunday night at the Helium Comedy Club in Atlanta, Georgia. I'm going to be there.

One show only. Come to Atlanta at the Helium Comedy Club. And the next weekend, you know, if you're at go see Derek in Alabama, swing by Huntsville, Alabama next weekend, Levity Live. I'm going to be Atlanta and Huntsville the next two weeks. Come on and see me. Okay. This weekend, I'm in Hartford, Connecticut.

at the Hartford Funny Bone, and I've decided throughout this podcast that if you do want to get some tickets, I'm okay with it. All right. I've decided, you know what, there are room for more people if you want to come there. I'm satisfied with the tickets that we've sold. Right. I like those size shows. You're not going to make the show any better by coming, but you're welcome to come. You know, I want you to be able to come if you want to come. And then next weekend, and next weekend I'm off. But the next weekend, that'd be October 17th. I'm in Wilmington, North Carolina. Oh, yeah. That's fun. And then on the 18th, I'm in Richmond, Virginia. So check those out. Check out the calendar. Hot shows coming up, guys. We're really doing it. Really doing it.

October's my favorite month of the year. Nice. I like that. December is my favorite. Really? Yeah. Big time Christmas guys. You get the house all decorated for fall yet? Yeah. I mean, you know I do. We got pillows, throws. You know, I wasn't on it like I normally am. You know, I am a new father.

So I, yeah. Oh, congratulations, buddy. Yeah, thank you. But yeah. This feels like beginning of the podcast talk about two hours in. We're like, hey, how are you doing? Biggest news of my life is at the end. Y'all have a good one.

I didn't know that, actually. I don't think. Yeah. I knew it. That's awesome, man. Didn't care to bring it up. No, that's great. I thought you went to Waffle House on Christmas. I have before, but that's not like a tradition. I did in Denver, went there and listened to, you know, Christmas and Dixie by myself.

But no, remember the Christmas, Ed's Benedict? Oh, that's right. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. For sure. Yeah. We love you. Yeah. I don't know if Nate's back next week or not, but we'll find out together. See you then. See y'all. Oh. Thank you.