The Nateland Podcast - 273: #273 Connecticut

Episode Date: October 8, 2025

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Okay, hello folks, and hey bear. This is Dusty Slay, and I'm going to be leading the charge of the Nateland podcast today. Reluctantly. I'm pumped to do it. I'm pumped to be here. I'm pumped to be. I just know that sometimes people hate when I run it. And, but you know what?

There's more people that love it when I do, I think. But I'm Dusty Slay. I'm your host of the Nateland podcast, and I'm here with my co-host, Aaron Weber and Brian, Breakfast Bates. Okay. You know, there's a place in the west side off Charlotte Avenue called Big Bad Breakfast. You should get them to sponsor you somehow. We ate there recently for the first time.

Did you? Mm-hmm. You know, it used to be called some non, couldn't even pronounce the name of the place. It was like, they were trying to be like French or something. I don't know. And it was like, and then they were rude when you go in. And I'm like, this is not going to last. And it didn't.

And Big Bad Breakfast came in. It couldn't have been like the more opposite, like, name. And it's been there for years. Hey, guys, I'm Brian Bates with Big Bad Breakfast. Yeah. Yeah. You could do the commercial, the TV spot. That'd be great.

I think that's a franchise. Is it? Oh. Yeah. Okay. I think it's a chain. Well, more likely for them to sponsor you then. They get more money behind it.

Did you hear where the Cracker Barrow marketing, they fired the marketing people? Oh, they did. Oh, I just got pictures with all them. Dang. I didn't have, I don't have pictures. It had nothing to do with the logo. It was all about the TV ad. I don't have pictures with a lot of marketing people of corporations.

So that's too bad. Oh, that's good. Well, you know, I saw a thing. And I don't know. Who knows? It was a TikTok video of a guy talking about that used to work at Caracabra. And he talked about some of the changes that had gone on in the kitchen, making the food quality go down. And I think that's what happens to places all the time.

The more you franchise out, the more you make yourself bigger, the easier it is for you to cut corners here and there and forget what made it. There's a song by the white stripes called Little Room, and I always like it because it's talking about that. He says, when you're in your little room and you're working on something good, but if it's really good, you're going to need a bigger room. And when you're in your bigger room, you might not know what to do. You might have to think of how you got started sitting in your little room, right? You always got to remember where it all started from. Otherwise, you get, you know, things get out of control. And you go, what was I doing?

Do you know what I mean? Yes. It's a great song. It is understandable. Very sure. Business, though, that grows. there's going to be some growing pains. They say in business, if you're not growing, you're dying.

I say if you're growing too much, you're dying. Grow a little bit. Well, I'm right on track. Yeah. Yeah. Controlled growth is a thing. Grow a little bit. Controlled growth. Yeah.

I used to reply to every email sent to the Nate Land podcast, but now there's so many. I can't. I just can't, especially when some people email every week. Yeah. This is what I always tell people that email. I go, I read everyone, and I do. And I always appreciate that people email me stuff. But it is too hard to email back every time.

Speaking of, we got a new email address. Can I share that now? I'll share it again later, but it is mail, M-A-I-L-E. But since I'm running the podcast, I'll be prompting you guys went to pitch emails. Okay. Just kidding. It's mail.

at Natelandpodcast.com. Okay. Mail M-A-L-E. I already made that joke, but you were talking over me. Well, I was just piggybacking off your joke. Oh, okay. M-A-I-L at Natelandpodcast.com.

So, if you got comments or questions, send it to that. Sounds great. I'll mention a few more times. Thank you. Well, thank you, Brian. Well, you're welcome, Dusty. What I like to do when running a podcast,

to keep it, you know, very concise and make sure we're hitting all our points at the right times. That's why now we're going to get into the Nateland News. All right. Nate Land Presents the Showcase, Season 3 continues to deliver. This Friday, October 10th, tune in to Nateland YouTube channel for the premiere of John Novasad. A very funny comedian from Colorado, and John is a friend of mine. and John is very funny. He used to go by Hippie Man.

He doesn't anymore, apparently. Very funny, though. John Nova said, one of my favorites. So do listen to that. I didn't see the set, but I know John is a very funny guy. I believe I hosted that show, and I remember him having a really, really good set. He's so funny.

I love John. He's a guy you hear about, you know, when you go out to Denver, they're like there's a guy out here who's super funny. Yeah. I was excited to see him. The first year I did, I believe it was the first year, I did the Laughing Skull Festival. I think he won. Oh, okay.

Yeah. Yeah, he crushes. Crushes. I've had a lot of fun hanging out with him over the years. But do check it out. Also excited. I'm also. I'm also.

It doesn't say I'm, but it just says also. But I want you to know that I'm excited to announce that Nate Land will be producing Brad Upton's next special on January 25th, two shows at The Den in Chicago. All right. If you're in the area, go grab ticks for that. That's how it's worded. But I say, no matter where you're at, go get some tickets. If you live in Alaska, go ahead and buy tickets to that Chicago show.

Get some tickets and then come see Brad. And then figure it out. Figure out how you get that. Brad's very funny too. Brad is awesome. Brad and John both have dry bar specials. And Brad, I think, is. If he's not the top dry bar, he's second.

Yeah, yeah. I mean, our very own... Leanne Morgan. Well, Leanne Morgan, but I feel like... Jeff Allen. I feel like Leanne Morgan probably had the dry... And then other things have brought people there. But I think Jeff Allen is probably top dry bar.

Probably, yeah. Has Jeff done the podcast before? Our very on Nashville's own... There you go. Jeff Allen. Yeah, okay. I would say, Brad, Upton's the top. That's what I would give. Brad upton may be the top. Jeff's done like four of them. I think him and Jeff are neck and neck, though. And both very funny. I love them both. And this says, this is no longer Nate Land News. This is now Nate News. But I want you to personalize this section, too. Make it about I.

Okay. The Big Dumb Eyes Tour. Well, it's hard to because of the way it's worded. Nate just wrapped up a handful of sold out shows in Rochester, Cleveland, and Louisville this weekend. If you're curious about what these weekends look like, check out the tour vlogs that come out every week on the Nateland YouTube channel. There was no place really to personalize it there. I wanted you to kind of make it your own. Well, it's hard. I just look for places to put in I and I'm and we're. There was no opportunity there. But I can tell you. I believe you, because if there was, you'd find a way. I'll find a way. If I can put myself into it, I will. You can make it about you. Yeah. I mean, guys, if that's not what we're all doing, what are we doing? Sometimes people will act

like that. Oh, he's interrupting. I go, guys, do you not know what podcast are? These are all platforms for us to go, come see my show. Me, me, me, me, me, me. This is what we're doing. We don't. We don't know. We You don't, you know, this is all of a sade of for the listeners. It's for us. Come on, guys. I mean, I'm in Wilmington on the, on next weekend. I'm in Wilmington and Richmond. This explains my ticket sales.

You want to come see. Yeah, I mean, I'm in rich, you know, I'm in Richmond, you know, this is just a little dusty news. And, uh, I'm in Richmond on October 17th, uh, Richmond on October 18th, Wilmington, October 17th. That's going to be great. Those are going to be great shows. Next stop for Nate, though, is in Lincoln, Nebraska. Oklahoma City doesn't say what state. I'm thinking Oklahoma. Dallas, Texas. Doesn't say what state? It doesn't say. It just says Dallas, but you got to think we're talking Texas here. And then Tulsa, Oklahoma. So that's where you'll find him. And as this says, a slew, not everybody, I don't know if everybody knows what a slew is. It sounds like the past tense of your name. It does.

Yeah, Dusty Slay Slew. But this is about Nate. A slew of dates have been announced for 2026. Get out there and see a show. Any of ours, we're all professional comedians here, as I've said many times before. People don't like it when I say that. Why not? Sometimes I read a lot of comments.

People get upset. They go, Dusty always says we're all professional comics. I don't know why he keeps saying it. Well, I want you guys to know. We all do this for a little. living. We don't have other jobs. We may have a joke about how we ubered to the show or whatever, you know, we drove Uber to the show, but it's not true. It was when I told it years ago. But it's not true now, though. Yeah, I don't say I do it now, though. Yeah. I say I used to.

I'm just letting people know we don't, we're not, if you go watch an old video of Brian. Yeah. He's not driving Uber now. Now I have an Uber driver. Take me to the shows. That's right. Yeah. That's right. Where were you guys at this weekend? I was out with Nate in the cities you just mentioned, Rochester, Cleveland, and Louisville. Was this Rochester, New York, or Minnesota? New York. Rochester, New York.

Great shows. It's just, I'm blown away every time I go out with Nate, just how big these shows are and just how many people come out. He sold out these huge arenas. Cleveland, we did two shows. Wow. It's just amazing. It was a great time. Yeah, it was just a lot of fun. Just hung out.

I was trying to think what we did. Play some basketball. I guarded Chase. So I like to guard Nate because I like to shut him down, which I always do. Did you shut down Chase? Well, Chase doesn't play too hard, so I kind of like that too. Oh, okay. He kind of just lingers around.

It doesn't run much. That seems like the worst part of the, of the, of the, Nate tour is, it seems like you guys do a lot of activities. Yeah. And I'm not into that. You don't like to have fun on the road? No, no. I don't, generally, I don't like to have fun at all.

We know. Yeah. Yeah. Tends to rub off on other people, huh? We're not a, like, an into fun kind of family, me and my family. Oh, you guys have fun. You know, we have fun in our own way, but it's not, yeah, it's not the way to. You don't go and do.

something fun. Yeah, it's not the other, not the ways that other people have fun. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. You go move rocks and stuff like that. Yeah. That's fun to us. Yeah. But to other people, they'd be like, oh, this is work. Do you gamify it at all? Do you go, who can get the most rocks in the wheelbarrow? And then you try to, no. No, you just do it. Yeah, we just do it. Okay. I go, this needs to be done, guys. Do you want to make a game out of it? You can. Yeah, but I'm not playing. I go, but if you want ice cream. Help me move some rocks. Okay. Then they come in like, oh, you're too late. Yeah. Exactly. You get it. All right. This episode is brought to you by IQ Bar, our exclusive snack sponsor. IQ bar is the better for you plant protein based snack made with brain boosting nutrients to refuel, nourish, and satisfy hunger without that darn sugar crash.

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to have you guys ever have uh any attacks where this guy has to jump in no but i mean there's 20 000 people you ever seen this guy in action is what i'm saying no i've never no it happened this weekend is there is there any guarantee that he can do it i believe he can, if something happens, I have total faith that this guy will get it done. I think it's the kind of guy he's looking for it. Yeah. You know what I mean? Well, you got to think all security guys are looking for it. I think he's a lot of them are retired military, I think, and they're like, I'm just trying to get some action. Yeah. I think he's great because you can tell he could handle the job, but he does not, he's not one of those guys is just

grabbing people unnecessarily. But it sounds like he was roughing you up. Well, the basketball court. On the basketball court. Yeah, that seems unnecessary. No. If you see Brian play, you know, it's a little necessary.

This guy is just so well built that just going up for rebound, if I touch his body, I'm going to go bouncing. Wow. I don't even think he was that aggressive toward me. He's just built like a rock.

Anyway. Okay. We got a good time. We played, I'm going to keep going. We played Nate invented a volleyball game. Okay. Where we didn't have nets.

So we put three whiteboards. in a row. Oh, okay. So you can't see the other team. You just see the ball coming over. That's kind of fun. And if that's not crazy enough, then the next game he said,

let's play with two balls where each team serves at the same time, which just got ridiculous. Is Nick Novicki playing with you? Yeah. He's playing volleyball? Yeah, and basketball. Okay.

Yeah. I knew he played basketball, volleyball feels like. Why would you think he couldn't play? Well, I think everybody knows what I'm talking about. He was great, wasn't he? He, like, know. Why could he not hold his own, do you think? Why would you, why would you say he could hold

his own? What would prompt you to say that? Well, he has vision problems. That's mostly what I'm talking about because I know he's got poor eyesight. Well, in basketball, it's, he has a rule where on a rebound, the ball has to hit the four one time before you can grab it. Oh, okay. And that's a great rule because it really evens the playing field. But it's too much advantage to their, I was playing against him, and you just instinctively, if the ball comes off, you're going to try to catch it. Yeah, it sounds like it's rigged for him if it's off the ground. Now he has the advantage. And you probably can't bend down far enough as low as he is to get a rebound. Well, the ball bounces. Off the bounce. I'm saying he's down there by it.

Yeah, yeah. So. All right. Where were you at this weekend? Well, you guys are, I like the That's how my dad ends a phone call. Once he hears what he wants to hear, he goes, all right, bye-bye. He goes, Nate invented a volleyball game. And then he invented a, you know, he chose a different thing for the net. No, don't disrespect Nate ball. There's two balls involved. Yeah.

There's a whole different thing. Yeah. All right. How'd you guys keep score? Very difficult. Every five minutes, you ask Nate who you think is winning. what about you aaron where were you at i was in atlanta georg i had a couple things i had a corporate gig in the outer banks of north carolina uh j flake with me we're it's stand up for

strays we're trying to help stray dogs you know if they didn't if they didn't breed and sell dogs there would be you would not have to do this well i i don't know i don't think they're in favor of this either i think we're just trying to help animals that are on the street it's a good organization is a good group of people and did that gig, nightmare to get to, went by Kitty Hawk. I wanted to see the Kitty Hawk Memorial. Do you know that was on the beach? You told me last week. The first flight was on the beach. I don't know that. Doesn't change the way you think about it? Yeah, but I don't think I believe that first flight narrative. The Wright brothers, you don't think they did the first flight? No, I don't think so. What do you think

happen? I don't really have a theory on what happened. I'm just not. I don't buy it. But you agree that we're flying now. Yes. So there was a first flight at some point. At some point, yeah. Just not. I don't believe it was, yeah, these guys. He thinks Columbus was like, oh, look at these people of God.

I was corrected on that in the comments. And then I dug a little deeper. And I don't, I still don't believe the Columbus narrative, but there is no evidence of Indian meaning that people of God. I will admit. it when I'm wrong. That came later. You just have to prove that I'm wrong.

You know what I mean? Yeah. So you were Kitty Hawk. Kitty Hawk came back and then we were in Atlanta, Georgia last night at the helium with Mike James. It was a great show at the new helium. Oh, how was that? Alferetto.

It was unbelievable. I never been. I'd love to go. It was great, dude. Yeah. But you don't say the Zanies. That's a good point. The, yeah, you might say the Zanies in Chicago.

Mm-hmm. But he said at the helium. at helium sounds i don't know sounds like i'm missing something it does say the the helium comedy club do you say at funny bone or at the funny bone i think the title is the funny bone i don't think i don't think these in the maybe okay i think you're right maybe helium is the helium comedy club it might be well either way it was a fantastic show thank you to everybody you say eagles or the go ahead sorry it's just eagles thank you to everybody you came out the great show the the drive back one of the toughest drives of my comedy career.

I drove there and back, you know, it's four hours. You're driving to Atlanta. You got to drive through Chattanooga, which is sneaky, one of the worst cities to drive through. It's bad traffic. It's off. No matter what time of day, it's awful. Yeah.

So it was like four and a half hours to get down there. We did the show. We left. I didn't get home till 3 a.m. last night. Jeez. 7 p.m. show. We were on the road by 9, and I didn't get back until 3. And you gained an hour.

You picked up an hour coming back. I know. We're taking these back roads and traffic just stopped flashing lights and we sat there for about an hour waiting for traffic to move. We're like everyone's out of their car walking around and then we didn't have cell phone service. So you're like, I don't know, should we just turn around and just shoot from the hip and try to find an alternate route? And finally, after an hour, we were like, yeah, dude, we're going to be here all night. If somebody died up there or something, like they're shutting the road down. but still clean it up.

That's what I always say. I'm like, it's unfortunate that a bad wreck has happened, but let's try to open up the road here. Yeah, I agree. I would have liked something to that happened. Yeah, let's try to open it up.

We saw a tow truck go up there and we were like, all right, I think we're in the clear. And then it was another 40 minutes before we left. We turned around. We found an alternate route, but it added like an hour and a half. And then we get to Chattanooga.

Traffic stopped again. And Chattanooga was like, and then Mike James just fell asleep in the car. So I don't have anyone to do that. to talk to. So the worst part of that, that whole thing, the first stop. The show was that the show was, of course, awful, is that I didn't have service, but Mike had Waze up on his phone. Yeah. And we were trying to just work off that with no internet. But he had Nate's voice on waste. So I'm like getting so annoyed trying to find other turns. And Nate just keeps going, hey, take a left at the next roundabout. You know, you're doing good, buddy. I was getting so annoyed with him. that's funny we finally got back out to the interstate but it was a heck of a time i'd never been a fan of ways like that like google i feel like and i don't know i've not used ways in a long time but one time i had a situation because what i'll do sometimes on google if i'm encountering traffic like

that they may not give me an alternate route but i'll zoom in on it and i'll find roads and i'll work myself around but i couldn't do that with ways it didn't feel like ways had it now again this was years ago it could be better now but it didn't feel like ways had it mapped out quite as good as google google owns ways so it's the same is the same data okay it wasn't back then it might have been owned by then i think they got acquired by him uh at some point but anyway thank you to everybody came out it was a was a long trip back but it was worth it because the show was good and i'm gonna be in huntsville alabama this weekend coming out to levity live the next weekend i'm going to be in dusty sleighs old stomping grounds charleston south carolina at wits end

comedy club i haven't been to the new location i'm super excited i never did wits end but charleston's the best yeah it's a great town gosh it's the best so many great places we get to go doing comedy it's what a what a life we live i was in uh hartford connecticut at the hartford funny bone and i had a great time uh was really fun did anybody else come to buy tickets or were you happy with I was happy with the turnout. Yeah, I mean, Zach Townsend was there with me. You were encouraging people not to buy tickets. Yeah, I said, don't do it.

I got all the people that I want here. And we had a, we had nice three shows and, uh, no, they were great shows. And, uh, yeah, so I was very happy. Great. I bought a, uh, Super Nintendo and a Nintendo 64 at the mall. Oh, really? At the mall. I went into the mall.

That's where the funny bone is. I know, but what store sells? It was just some gaming stores. They got these gaming stores where you can go and get. And it was like, and if they, they might have been running a thing to get you, make you think of scarcity, but they had one Nintendo 64 and one Super Nintendo. No, they're tough to, they're in demand. And that's why I was like, oh, man, I bought them both.

I go, let's go. And I got Mario Kart for 64 and I got Golden Eye for 64. And then I got Super Mario Brothers for Super Nintendo. All right. I'm looking for Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball. Yeah, you can get that. And then I want, you know, Smash Brothers for 64.

You can get these on eBay. They have, like, just, like, bootleg copies of them. They're super cheap. I like McKay's bookstore, though. That's where I want to go check it out. McKay's is the selection of N64 games is going to be, it's going to disappoint you. Well, I like a lot of people like you going in there and buying up all the good stuff. Well, I'll go in there and see what they got.

And then if nothing else, I'll pick up some DVDs that I'll. don't need. All right. Are you going to mention where you're going to be? I didn't mention, but I'll will. I slipped mine in. I already slipped that. Oh, you did?

Okay. Well, I'll slip mine in. I mean, I'm like, you know, you got to be slick like, like, I don't know, some kind of sneaky animal. A fox. Yeah. That's why, that's how I like to do it. I've been, I do, you know, I do a lot of podcasts and I always try to slip things in that

I'm trying to promote along the way. You slip things in the least, because this is how you do. the Nateland News. All right, here's some Nate News. All right, a little bit of dusty news. All right. This is the Nate Land, blah, blah, blah. You read all the headers on stuff. How was that? That's not sneaky. Dusty News wasn't on this sheet of paper. Do you see Dusty News? I know, but you made it a point. All right, for the next 30 seconds, we'll be doing Dusty News. Well, yeah, you slip. You slip it in because you want people to take in that information. But you're acting like you pulled the wool over our eyes and you...

I'm not trying to trick you. I think you're trying to trick us. Just trying to slip it in. Okay. trying to grease. Yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I'm no Damon Wayans over here. Junior. Yeah. Yeah, I didn't even get to that.

Hey, whatever you got to do, get ahead. Yep. I will be back in Cleveland this weekend or Cleveland area. All right. Brunswick and Willoughby. All right. Greater Cleveland. Greater Cleveland.

That's a good way to put it this Friday, Saturday. October 30th. Rochester, New York. Now, this one, if you're going to buy tickets, do me a favor and go ahead and buy them or this show might go away. So, buy some tickets because not many people are right now. Where are you going to be at in Rochester? Comedy at the Carlson.

Yeah, go buy some tickets. I know the people at Comedy at the Carlson. They're nice people. Go buy some tickets. Support Brian. Not for Brian, but the, support out. Yeah, no, the kitchen. The kitchen staff is awesome.

Well, you know Brian's show is going to be great. Of course. Yeah, of course. Yeah. Well, there'd be a nice. about the situation because there ain't a lot of tickets been sold so far

so help me out there and then November 7th going to Canada for the first time in my life Oh You have a passport? Yeah, I have a passport Where are you going?

I'm doing a church Lake Point Church in Leamington, Ontario and it's so funny because I'm like, wow Canada I got booked there I'm like, I wonder where I'll fly to like the North Pole

you fly to Detroit and go south. You literally find it to Detroit and then go southeast. Yeah. So anyway. But I've never been to Canada, so I'm excited to be there. It'll be great. The first time I did Santa up in Canada, I was so worried. I was like, what in my act?

I'm going through my whole act. I'm like, what are they? Are they going to know what a bathroom is or do I need to say water closet? And then I got there and they're like, oh, they're all smarter than me about everything. You don't need to change anything. I wouldn't give them that much credit. Well, I don't really. But the Canadians are great.

Yeah, yeah, yeah. But I wouldn't. I'm not going to go so far. Any American reference they're going to get. Except for Marlboros. I had some Marlboro jokes about it. They don't have Marlboros. What do they call them?

I don't know. They have different. I don't think they have Marlboro. Because I had Marlboros Miles jokes and they didn't get it. Huh. Could have just be an outdated reference in general. But. Baby.

but this uh but you know on you ever see a canadian pack of cigarettes yes they like really want you to know what that's doing to your body they got a picture of uh you know some rotted gums they got a picture of a black lung yeah that's because they don't have the tobacco lobby like we do in america okay you guys want to get into some comments eighty five dollars a pack yeah yeah let's get into some comments i don't know where these comments come from because this is not our normal thing, but they come from YouTube, Twitter, Instagram, Instagram, and the new email, which is. The new email, now's a good time to get this in.

Let's slip that in. It is, mail at natelandpodcast.com. There you go. M-A-I-L. Yes, yes, yes. All right. Our first comment is coming from someone named Corey Bragg. Aaron was on a heater this episode.

All right. Having Dusty locked up laughing about Damon Wayans, greasing him was hilarious. Yeah, well, they're just, Damon Wayans, greasing him was hilarious. And then he follows up with calling Stroop, useless rain man, and gets him laughing hysterically. Funny stuff. Great episode. Thank you, Corey. It's nice to, you know, for people to just let me spread my wings and fly every now of them.

I feel so weighted down by the other people at this table, usually. that when I get a green light to just be myself, I mean, you'll see what happens. Well, Aaron's a great comic. I've always said that. Professional comedian. He's a professional comedian and very funny. Well, thank you. Brian gets all the credit on this podcast for all the jokes. I mean, everybody's like, oh, Brian's a genius. And, uh, but, uh, you know, Aaron's very funny too. Well, thanks, man.

And a nice guy. All right. Let's move on. It's getting uncomfortable. Thank you. Usually the compliment Aaron gets his, what a great laugh. yeah yeah good laugh or too it's nice to cause a style look at this shirt that's a nice shirt thanks dude jc penny oh can i give a shout to my shirt yeah that's a good shirt too this is the batesland this is from blake and mandy east they say they were we're big fans of breakfast and all the guys on the podcast never miss an episode thanks for coming to brook haven i was in brook haven mississippi a few weeks

ago and she brought me this a great shirt thank you thank you so it says batesland hello folks oh yeah if you're listening i appreciate them bringing me a shirt last time I was in Mississippi. Okay, next up. They don't make V-necks, so we couldn't help you out. Christian, another great one by Aaron. It's starting to feel patronizing. Good job, Aaron. Look like you got a few yucks in on the podcast. Okay, Christian Larson, greasing or grease payments are payments used to expedite or upgrade an upcoming request or paying to cut in line to be seated. Since Aaron had worked all weekend and hosted, that would be considered tipping and not a greasing. I understand it was a tip.

My understanding was greasing meant to like secretly hand somebody cash. like you're going in for a handshake and there's a you know a bill in the hand that's what i thought the motivation doesn't really matter it's just the act of it yeah exactly that's what i thought yeah he didn't i think greasing's before tipping's after that's i think that's that's what christian that's how a gentleman would do yeah that's what christian larsie tippin yeah we're having a good time drew with no last name i'm an extra That's why he can't put the last name. Oh, yeah.

It sounds like he is a real important job. I'm an extradition agent, and yes, Aaron is spot on. We do transport inmates on commercial flights. It is always done discreetly with the restraints covered and the agents in plain clothes so that it doesn't cause a disruption. Only the flight crew and airport authorities are aware. We board first and sit in the very back row. This is very common, and you all have more.

than likely been on a plane while an extradition is taking place. I was thinking about this this weekend. On a Southwest fight, you're like, dude, anybody on here could be a criminal being transported, you know. Well, I appreciate that they sit in the back, though. I would argue that's why I know that I have a phone with one, because I'm usually in the back southwest sitting in the middle seat. So unless he's there and the inmates here and their arms are locked across me, I don't think I have. I'm joking, but besides all the, I'm joking, but besides all the pre, no, I'm joking.

Because I would think you would be A-List preferred by now. I'm A-List, but not A-List preferred, but there was a time where I said, they prefer you not be, they prefer me not even fly, but I keep coming back. That'd be great, Southless gave me A-List preferred with another airline. Yeah. Hey, we prefer you head over to Delta. So would I. But I forgot, I had another point, but I can't remember now.

Oh, yeah, all the pre-borders. I mean, all the people in wheelchairs and stuff on Southwest, they get on with this inmate and it's already half full because of all the people. This is what I hate. Like, people, like sometimes. Finally, something Dusty hates, let's hear it. The people that pre-bored, sometimes they'll be in wheelchairs, right? And then they sit at the aisle seat.

And it's like, now I've got to make this old lady. get up. Well, don't sit on the same row. I actually never do, but other people have to make her get up. Okay. So you hate it on behalf of other people. Yeah. Okay. That's very principled to yeah. Because I don't like a window seat. I'm an aisle guy myself. You don't look out the window? No. I do if the windows open sometimes, but I've seen it. It's pretty amazing how quickly we've become jaded to that. You got to think, 99.99.99% of people, never got to see that view in the history of the world. And now we get to see it pretty much every weekend and you're like, shut it.

I don't need to see it. Well, absolutely. I mean, that's 100%. But, you know, I didn't fly until I was 26, probably my first time. And then, you know, in my mid-30s, I started to fly all the time. And now I've been flying, you know, every weekend to every other weekend for the last eight years. And I'm like, yeah.

I'm over it. Yeah, yeah. Even when you fly over like the Grand Canyon or something, you know, You don't take a peek up and check it, the Rockies. Sometimes if I'm going out west about halfway through, I can peep out the window and go, whoa, this is pretty cool. Or if I'm flying into New York City, I'll still take a look at the city. It's neat.

Yeah. But for the most part, I'm like, it all looks the same. Shut that window. But even like, you know, you're above cloud sometimes and you look out and you go, that's pretty cool. Yeah, it's awesome. But it doesn't take. I don't need to stare out at it. I choose a window seat.

And the biggest reason is because if I want to, sleep, that's the best way I can sleep is leaning against the wall. I can't hardly do it unless I have something to lean against. But there is part of the reason is because I still get excitement looking out the window. Yeah, it's crazy. Just the world down below us and, I mean, Dusty's dead inside, but some of us still enjoy life. I wish I could travel by train. Well, you could. If there were a really efficient way to travel by train, I'd like to do that. You need a Greyhound bus. That's the next best thing. I want to train.

Have you ever taken the Music City Star? Is that from, like, from Hermitage to downtown? Yeah, I mean, starts in Lebanon, but then stops in Hermitage. I've never taken it. It could be a good start. Yeah. Take it to the podcast. I'm pretty much guarantee he's never doing that.

I'm never doing it either. Okay. Stephanie Lee. I was on a flight one time, and they were asking people to give up seats because another crew needed a ride back. I only knew this because I was standing. by the desk when the other crew asked them to make an announcement. It ended with two volunteers, but the airline ended up bumping, parentheses, forcing

three more off the flight to accommodate room for the other crew. Well, that's ridiculous. And that would get an email from me. I imagine they gave them some type of flight credit or something, right? You would hope. Yeah. I don't exactly know why Stephanie sent that in, but I just, do appreciate it.

Well, because last week we talked about, well, how they, Stephanie, I don't know why you're bothering us with this, but don't do it again, but we've read it now, so we might as well address it. But do us a favor, never watch this podcast again. Last week, we talked about how, you know, sometimes you get off or you hear it at the gate, like, we'll give you this amount of money. Yeah, okay. Beat it, Stephanie.

Yeah, it was germane to the last week's episode. Okay. Okay. No, I appreciate it. But yeah, I was like, okay. All right. Well, what about the one before that? Did you remember that one? I did remember that. Okay. But mainly because he referenced that Aaron was spot on. And so I was like, all right, Aaron must have brought this up at some point. So you don't really remember it. No, I do remember. Use context clues. Guys, can I chime in here for a second? Yes. Chime understands that every dollar counts. That's why when you set up direct deposit through Chime, he had excellent. to fee-free features like free overdraft coverage, getting paid up to two days early with direct deposit and more. Finances can be such a headache. With overdraft fees, missing payments, mispayments, or just wishing you could save more, learn more at chime.com slash Nate.

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I've always felt this way, and this is no disrespect. But, you know, we all have to wait for the bathroom sometimes, right? So it's like, you know, if a person that's handicapped has to wait for a second, then it's like, yeah, well, we all have to wait sometimes. What I am against is people sitting on the toilet in public on their cell phones. I want to go, hey, we're out here, guys. Wrap it up in there. This is not a time to-

I disagree. I think once you're in there, it's yours for as long as you want to be in there. Oh, no, you got to keep it moving. It should be like a... How do you recommend they enforce that? I don't know, but... Like at the car wash. If you want to stay in there, you've got to put more money in. Okay. Get some extra time.

This is an idea. There should be a switch on the door that you could go, and if there's a wait, you could go and flip the switch to let people know that there is someone waiting. and then you'd go ahead and wrap up you because it's like if I'm in there and I don't know anybody's waiting I'm like yeah I'm killing some time in here it's not a big deal but if I know someone's waiting now I can go ahead

and wrap up. So you can put a switch in or if you're staying out there you can just go well yeah but this but at the airport for instance there'll be a line of dudes waiting always in Nashville the Nashville airport there's always a line of dudes waiting to poop

and I hate standing in that line because now you know I got a poop too and I don't need you knowing that I need to poop. Dusty sleigh. Yeah, I just, I got to do it, and I want to get in there. But I feel like sometimes no one will knock. So we're all lining up, and the people inside may not know people are waiting because no one's knocked. But you don't want to be knocking for a third time.

Just put your shoes a little bit under the door. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They should put a ring doorbell outside of every stall so you can just see who's out. I think the switch thing is not about. bad idea. I do agree with you, though, about the music in the bathrooms. It should be illegal to not have music. And the music, quite frankly, should be loud. Not like hurting your ears loud, but nobody needs to be talking in there anyway. It's the only place where the music should be loud. Yes. Yeah. All these restaurants now, the music is blasting. And you're like,

why is it dead quiet in the bathroom? I know. Restaurants are like a dance club in this Applebee. Restaurants are ruining themselves. Everywhere you go, they're ruining themselves. We should do a restaurant episode Except what a burger Keep going Terry Nagel When I make a reservation for dinner I always say we have one more person

If we have five people I say we have six So we have enough room at the table And then you go Oh Bobby didn't show up again Oh so Terry's a liar You think it's a good idea though don't you I don't like it

No? No No People are working in the restaurant They're trying to set up a table for it. If you have four people and you go, I have five, they probably have to pull another table up. It's going to be a different size table. Yeah.

And then you get in there and you go, oh, sorry, they didn't show. And the restaurant should go, get out. These restaurants are ruining themselves. They should be kicking people out. Get out, Terry. Take Stephanie Lee with you. No, but I don't like this from Terry. Now, I like Terry.

I respect the strategy, Terry. Even if it's a little, you know, little bushley. league. I respect the strategy. Like, how big are Terry Nagel's friends? I was about to say. There's probably one in the group that could count for two. Maybe. Maybe that's it. If that's the case, Terry, I'm sorry, I've said these steps. That's where you go.

Look, reservation for six. It'll only be five, but you'll see what I'm talking about. And then when you get there, the host looks at you and goes, Terry, good looking out, bud. Table for seven? May have to grease this chair, huh?

Come on, guys. Okay, the next comment's coming from Lauren Grossman. Gross, man. She's heard that before. You guarantee you. Oh, every day. I worked. Especially at where she worked.

I worked at Olive Garden when they first rolled out the never-ending pasta deal. There were three guys that came in on their lunch every single day, ate a truly insane amount of pasta and never-tending pasta. and never tipped. I still have nightmares about it. Yeah, that's not good. You can guarantee any restaurant you go to, if there's an endless, a never-ending, an all-you-can-eat option,

it is affecting the employees negatively. Yeah, I'm sure. Because the people who, for the most part, they come in for all you can eat are going to be the worst tippers. I used to work at Westerns. Why do you think that is? Yeah, why is that?

Because they're like, I'm about to get my money's worth. I mean, I know that. I've had that mentality before. Yeah. You know, where I go to a buffet, I'm like, I got to eat three plates because I paid $10 for this. Yeah, 10 bucks. I got to stuff myself until I have to take a nap in the car. Yeah, you're eating food you don't even want to eat.

And then, you know, I feel, one time I had some, these are some in-laws. When I was waiting tables at Western Citizens, these were people sort of related to me through marriage. they came in and one of the guys was like my cousin basically he's around my age and the other people were his parents and he left early and when he left he put a five dollar bill on the table right as my tip and i didn't want to take it until the rest of the family left of course because i don't want to be rude about it but i thought oh great because at western sales on a five dollar tip's really good sure so i thought well great he's left five dollars they're going to leave more i'm going to have a great tip Not only did they not leave more, but they took the five and left three.

They made change. They made change off their kid. Wow. Yeah. Wow. That's how people are getting treated at all you can eat places. That's dirtbag behavior, for sure. Yeah, I never cared for them.

Gross. Okay. Yeah. That's a grossman if I've ever seen it. Okay. Chase, Keo. I feel like it would be pronounced like that. Keo.

Yeah. Okay. Everyone deserves a. number one championship trophy. Let's start over. Everyone deserves a number one. Chase Keogh. Everyone deserves a number one championship trophy after dealing with a season of parents yelling at the officials and losing their minds embarrassing everyone. A heroic act of patience and calm during parental hostility is worth celebrating. I agree. Well, sure. But are the parents yelling?

Are you saying give the umpires a trophy? No, I think the kids. Are the kids getting yelled at too? I think they're just dealing with their parents yelling at them, yelling at the coaches, yelling at the umpires. They're dealing with a lot of adults embarrassing themselves around them. Like, all right, since we've established before, there's 10 years between all of us, right? Mm-hmm. When I was growing up, I distinctly remember that there was one dad of the whole league, the whole rec league,

guess we would call it 10 teams or something, who would lose it. Oh, I thought you're saying, only one of the kids had a dad. No, no. I was like, this is a crazy league. Yeah, yeah. There was one dad that would lose it. And just had a reputation for being. Yeah, but everybody else was cool.

I don't remember parents really losing it out there. But I think the point is it's gotten way worse since even we were kids. But 10 years later. I had a little bit of that. I knew a few parents that were crazy. My T-ball coach got forcibly removed from the league when I was five or six. And I imagine when you were, they weren't doing it at all. People were probably very nice.

Well, they were wearing suits to the games back then. I mean, the hats. Yeah, top hats. Yeah, I mean, we continue to become a less respectful place to live at all times. Was it an integrated league? 11 and you couldn't tell. Dusty was 26 when he first flew. when I met my first black person.

No, I think it was about the same. There was, you know, maybe more than one, but it wasn't like an epidemic like it is now. Yeah, yeah, for me either. It was one. I don't want to say his name because I... Because he listens. Yeah, he may.

He may. But I remember the one dad and I was like, oh. You remember his son? Yeah, well, that's what I mean. He was embarrassed by it? I think so. Was he a bit of a hot head, too? I imagine.

This is his last thing, Stroop? No, close, but no. No, not close, actually. Yeah. Okay. Andrew Lover. You think that's right? Lover.

Lave. Lave. Oh, Andrew Lave is actually like the father of Satanism. Oh, okay. Anton Lave. I'm sorry. Lover, then. Yeah, yeah.

Anton Lavee. Look him up, learn about him, and don't do what he's telling you to do. Okay. Breakfast asking Dusty, did you have crackers or barrels in your? house and Dusty responding, we had a whole house full of crackers going over everyone else's head was classic. Thank you, Andrew. I spit out my coffee laughing and then was upset. No one else at the table heard. I'll be seeing you in Elkhart, Dusty. Well, thank you, Andrew. I appreciate it. I mean, listen, I have a lot of highbrow humor that is missed by so many people. It is a

Truly a shame, in general, what people are missing out here. I can see that. I'll just speak for me. I heard it. I don't like to entertain racial humor like that. I don't like to debase myself. You know what I mean? I didn't catch it.

That's pretty funny. I've never said a racial joke on this podcast. So I felt the same way. Would you say you had a lot of barrels around your house? No, yeah. Okay. A barrel chested crackers. Thank you, Andrew.

What is that? What is that? A barrel chested crackers. That's a good way. Big bad breakfast. Brent B. Okey here. We have Broms, which can be compared to Culvers, except Brahms will only open restaurants within a certain distance from their farms in Oklahoma.

All the ingredients are local. They make their own milk, buy local wheat and beef, et cetera. Most Brahms also have a grocery store in them so you can buy their milk, butter, cheese and other products. It's a beautiful thing. Brahms is great. I don't know if you've been to one. I had no idea. Why am I just finding out about Brahms down? You driven by them a lot. Many times. I had no idea that was going on.

I've had, I bought their milk before, Brahms milk. Thank you, Brent. I mean, my goodness, I had no idea, Brent B, what was going on. People agree with you about Chick-fil-A and Waterburger and how they've changed. Yeah. There's a lot of dusties out there. Too many. I'm going to be honest with you guys. The things I'm saying makes sense. And the moment you get on board, your lives will be enhanced. You start.

You live in denial of the truth I'm speaking out here. You guys live in denial of it. Wake up, everybody. But I'm happy, thank you, Brent. I'm happy to learn. I'd like to think that Brent's last name is Brahms, Brent Brahms. And he went ahead and he's like, let me go ahead and drop some knowledge on you. It's probably not true.

He just wants to sell his company. Yeah. Do you think this is Josiah or Josiah? Josiah. Okay. Well, you never know. Josiah Day. Dusty says no one wants to watch the halftime show. Meanwhile, the 11 most watch videos on the NFL YouTube's channels are all halftime shows.

More people watch that than any game highlights. Let me fill you in on something, Josiah. Let me feel you in on a little part of the world that you might not be familiar with. there's a percentage of us people out here. We all think that the halftime is satanic and full of rituals. Maybe the performer themselves is not doing it, but we think it's full of rituals and symbolism. And we like to go in there and try to find it and pick it out and show it to other people.

You're saying a lot of those views are from people analyzing the video? Absolutely. Okay, yeah. We're in there, we're watching it, we're going. Whether we're reading too much into it or not, not we probably are. But we like to go in there. We go, nope, no, she flashed the devil horns.

Ah, no, it's a red dress. That's something. You're drawing circles on it like John Madden. Yeah, I mean, we like to get in there. Now, here's a girl. But you're right, though, on another hand, if someone's a Katie Perry fan, but not a football fan, they're going to go, oh, let's see what Katie Perry did. There's also sports as great as sports are.

It's not, it's not rewatchable. You don't want to go back. There are very few games you're going to go back and re-watch the game because you're watching the game live and see if you can go back and re-watch these halftime shows and it's the same.

I'm on a mission now. I'm not going to reveal what it is. I got a new mission. It hit me today about the halftime show. I'm not going to reveal it. You're going to do your own? I'm going to tease it.

I mean, it was pretty obvious to me last week. You don't like these recent acts because you don't know who they are. The last one you said you liked was Eminem and Snoop Dog, because that's the last. last one you know who they were you're just an old man that's get off my long i think that one was okay that was the last but i to be honest i don't know that i've liked any of them but i think you said

this last week what was the last concert you enjoyed uh i saw oh i forgot who i saw but i saw them at the rhyme and it was my friend evan burke's favorite band and it was uh i don't know i can't remember their name but it was great what if um all right let me say this though i think you said this last week that the halftime show basically started because mad tv did something at half time right yeah in living color in living color yeah they did something at half time i'm like so the super bowl was like we got to steal those views we can't have retain them we can't have other people capitalizing on what we're doing so i think we got to take it back we got to take the population we got to take the hour back. And do what? I think everyone should do their own half-time show. Every station?

And now just everybody. Just as many people, it's not about getting our own views, it's about taking it from the NFL. Okay. Until the NFL does something more family-friendly. Okay. Uh-huh. Because I think the family and people gather together for the Super Bowl, I think you should give us a more family-friendly halftime show. Yeah. Yeah, I get that. You can also just choose as a family to turn the channel and watch something else, right? That's what I'm suggesting. Let's create that entertainment.

What would it be? Uh-huh. You could just go outside for 20 minutes. Well, I'm for not watching the Super Bowl at all. But I'm saying I think that's a harder push. Yeah. But for 15 minutes, 30 minutes, what else would it be? Yeah, you know, I think I'm guessing before the Super Bowl halftime show,

your thing. They just did highlights and analysis in the studio. Like a normal halftime. Yeah, in the studio. For 15 minutes. That's what they should do. I don't know if the halftime was always longer or not. I say make the halftime shorter. Let's don't even do a half time. Treat it like a quarter. Yeah, yeah.

Commercial break. That's it. Yeah. I just think, though, it's like, you know, they've had, not all of them. To be honest, the last couple that I've seen have been less ritual-like you know but there's some early on ones that were like the Katie Perry one was pretty wild

Madonna had a pretty wild one and I'm like no thank you no thank you let's get a little Jesse Daniels well yeah Jesse Daniels should do the half-down show when's the last time we had a good country music one I doubt we ever have

I mean no there was one with Garth Trish, the Judds took part of one. Half-time show? Yeah, one of the first ones. I didn't know that.

Yeah, it's like, country music's very popular, but, you know, it would just be Morgan Wallen. It would be Morgan Wallen. He's the only one I could think of that would do it. Yeah, I'm going back in time. 2020, 2019, Maroon 5,

Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Katie Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Madonna, the Black IPs, The Who, 2010 is one of the best bands of all time. Yeah. You don't like The Who? 15 years ago. 15 years ago. Yeah.

So the Who's good. Yeah. I mean, I like them, but I mean. Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty. Look at this stretch. It was, well, this is after the famous Janet Jackson thing. They go, let's go hard the other way. Yeah.

Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen. Gosh, that's hard hitting. Yeah. Yeah, but, but, you know, so when's it? Yeah, so that, that shows even as far back as you've gone. There's been Shania Twain. Shania Twain did it in 2003. Yeah, so.

There you go. And Shania Twain's barely country. She's about the only one I could think of. I think one of the first ones, though. Was the Judds? I think so. A couple of people in the Judds. Because somebody said something, they sang this song, Love can build a bridge.

And they thought it would be a good, yeah. 1994, Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Trit, the Judds. That's Tanya, though, by the way. Oh, Tanya. Oh, Tanya. Tanya. In Atlanta. Yeah, so look at that. Almost over 30 years ago since we've had.

It's the last time country was good. Oh, yeah. That's a, yeah. All right, here we go. Josh Stringer, last comment. Is it Josh or Yash? I think this is a pretty strong Josh here. You never know, though.

There is a Yashua kind of thing. great episode but this was heavy on breakfast making weight slash food jokes about Aaron we listen Josh we talk to Brian about it off camera all the time we go stop hammering Aaron about his weight he won't listen all right here we go I'm keeping going with the comment I've listened to almost every episode maybe time to get some new material I felt for Aaron this time he even seemed to get tired of it, but was a good sport, as always. Wow. Thank you, Josh.

I don't remember. Maybe if he was less of a good sport and more good at sports, he wouldn't have to wait. That's good. That's pretty good. That's good. It's good. It's good to see you get one in. I want to issue a public apology to you. Okay, I'd love to hear it. That was it. Like Dwight Shrewt.

I state my regret. Yes. Listen, guys, I talk to Brian all the time I go. You're just you're pretty mean to people on the podcast. It's very funny. Well, first, I only remember, I made the paper towel joke. Yeah, it was funny. That's the only thing I remember even saying in.

But I do find it very funny that Josh says, maybe time for some new material. It seems to get tired. But then he calls me breakfast. Yeah, that's funny. Yeah, talk about running a joke into the ground. Yeah, the oldest joke in the history of the process. I don't mind breakfast, but the point is that we all have a little theme here.

Well, breakfast is the strongest of the names. I'm pushing for. this. Brian Breakfast Podcast. They call me breakfast because I'm the best meal of the day. You're pushing for him to get his own podcast and off this one? No, no. It's his slogan. That's his slogan.

Brian, Breakfast Podcasts? Did I say Podcasts? I'm at Bates. Sorry. Ah, it hurts the pitch when you mess the words. Sure does. Now, I'm kind of like it. Well, thank you, John. I think your heart's in the right place, Josh. Brian's breakfast podcast. It's just in the morning. it's all in good fun man it's all in good fun

wake up to breakfast Josh I bet you're a fatty too alright he probably is though a fatty I'm joking I'm joking that's why it's sticked out to him yeah sticked

look I've said more than once I do not think Aaron is a fat guy a big guy it's a running joke we have but I don't think that I don't feel that way

I don't think Dusty is I mean you don't have to think it it's it's not a matter of opinion. No, I never do either. It is just like a, like, I'm not crazy. He's not fat.

You're not old. You know what I mean? It's like, come on, guys. Aaron, I saw Aaron reply with that in a comment once. He was defending us. Somebody was kind of doing this. And Aaron was like, yeah, dude, I'm fat. Dusty's weird.

Nate's dumb. Brian's old. just we all have our thing i'm like well just leave us out of it how about that i'm saying what i think i was saying that that everybody takes their fair share of of stuff i think i take more than my fair share over the years from us on the podcast well at least when nates here oh when nates here it's a whole different situation yeah yeah that's out of our control don't bring us into it because we're on a podcast with this guy i don't even know who that guy is yeah just let him do he shows up and I go you do whatever you want yeah uh it's all in good fun

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Yeah, because we actually don't know the topic, I don't think. No, he texted us about it already. And he complained about it. Oh, okay. No, no, no, no. He liked it, right? Because he picked it for him. I did pick it for him, but he still complained about it.

But anyway. I'm joking. Kind of. The topic is Connecticut. Oh, everyone's favorite state. Of Connecticut. The show me state. Yeah, that's right.

I meant to look up how many states we've done. People still email and say, when are you going to do whatever their state they live? We're going to get to them all eventually, unless Nate cancels this podcast. When we started doing it, I think the thinking was we're going to do all 50 in a row. That was five years ago. Five years ago. This is the first one we've done in months, but we're doing one today. The state of Connecticut.

Where I just was. I was just in Hartford. And Zach Townsend, our friend, is from Manchester, Connecticut. They didn't know that. That's where the comedy club is, yeah. I thought he was from Florida. He moved to Florida after that, but yeah. Yeah.

Wow. Okay. Well, I was about to say, I don't know anybody from Connecticut, but Zach Townsend. Yeah. Kevin Ealing grew up there. Okay. Tell us a little about the state. What's the guy going on?

All right. Do you guys know the capital of Connecticut? Hartford. Correct. I don't think I could have told you that with much confidence. What else would you have thought it was? Connecticut City. Bridgeport. Bridgeport. I might I said Bridgeport. I probably would get it's hard for, but I wouldn't have been confident. Is Connecticut the most annoying state to spell? Yep. I'd say so. I'd say so. Because that C, it's connected. Mississippi and Tennessee are tough because you got like these, you're like, is there two Ss? Is there two? We probably have a little regional bias because.

Because I grew up learning how to spell those. M-I-S-S, you know, M-I, Crooked Letter, Cricket Letter, I, Cricket Letter, I, Humpback, Humpback, Ah, yeah. And there's none of that for Connecticut. Yeah, I Googled toughest state to spell, and it said Connecticut and Massachusetts. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Let's see, get you. Connecticut.

Yeah, connect, I cut. Right? Yeah, yeah, I guess so. Yeah. Is that it? Connect, I cut. Yeah. Oh, that's great. That's probably how it's supposed to be spelled. You connect it? I'll cut it. Connect. Dot. Yeah.

You met. You meant, you're supposed to say it. Oh, how are you supposed to pronounce it? Yeah. So Hartford's the Capitol. They had two state capitals for about 170 years. They just, and it wasn't any feud, they chose it. They're like, it'd be easier if we had two places, we could go. It seems like it'd be infinitely more complicated to do everything. It eventually got that way. But from 1701 to 1874, they had two. Hartford. in New Haven. The largest cities in Connecticut, the top four, all pretty close. Number one, Bridgeport. Bridgeport, the biggest. Interesting. Bridgeport's probably the city in Connecticut.

I've spent the most time in. And, yeah, I think it's fair to say Bridgeport has its problems. I did the stress factory there. I had a fun time at the club. I'm not a huge fan of the city. It's a tough city. Yeah. There was somebody got shot right outside the club

and the first time I was there. And then the only time I've had a full-blown fist fight with people in the audience was in Bridgeport. You weren't involved in there. No, that did sound like I jumped off the stage. It was within a minute of me being on stage, two tables just started going at it. I just stood there and watched it.

And right after they left, somebody yelled, Welcome to Bridgeport. Yeah. I got a big laugh. It is scary. There's a lot of self-awareness there. Because I drove in and I thought it looked pretty good. I was Uber and in, and I asked my Uber driver.

I go, what's the city like? And I just walk around, he goes, it's not a great city. I wouldn't just walk around. But welcome. Yeah, yeah. Have a good stay. I've been to, I didn't, first I thought, I don't even think I've been in Connecticut. But I just want to say, I did Uber a little bit outside of downtown.

Just not completely trash that. I did Uber a little bit out of downtown. I went to Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or something. and it was a very nice part of town. So it's not all, but downtown was pretty scatch. I'm a little surprised to hear that because in my head I envision Connecticut is rich, wealthy people, and I would have thought all the cities were pretty safe. Because that's how the brochure looks.

Yeah. You think what's the city, Greenwich, Connecticut? It's like with the wealthiest county or the wealthiest city in America. You think it's going to be all that. Yeah. It's very little of that, at least where I'm getting to perform. I did, I went to Connecticut for first time, probably two years ago. I did Fairfield Comedy Circle and it was a very quick trip, but flew into White Plains, New York, and then drove to Fairfield.

Very nice drive there. That's a, that was a nice part of Connecticut. It's kind of sandwich in between, well, a lot of big cities, but certainly close to New York City. So Bridgeport's biggest, 150,000. Yeah, we drove, when I flew into New York City and I did some stuff and then me and my friend Dara, The last time I was in Hartford, we drove from New York City to Hartford. And it's like, you go through so many cities. You're just like in a, like these are all, like it feels like these cities are all lost because they're right outside of New York City.

But any one of these cities, if you put them in Alabama and Mississippi in, you know, South Carolina could easily be the largest city. You got a bridgeport down here. Yeah, it could be the largest city in the state. but that's smaller than I thought 150,000 is the biggest city how big is the state overall it must be one of the smaller states size wise

area wise it's the third smallest and I'm not saying these things by population I'm saying by building size sure sure okay 3.67 million is the population yeah it's the fourth most densely populated state all right so they put some people in there

there's just not one city that's super big they pack them in Stanford right behind it, 135,000. Stanford, Connecticut. I know I'm from the office. Stanford branch. Yep. New Haven, right behind,

I mean, basically the same, 135,000. And then Hartford's 120,000. Okay. Yeah. So there's four right there. And New Haven's Yale is there, right? Is that where Yale is?

I think so. It's in Connecticut. I didn't know which city it was. New Haven. That's where, what's the city? It's supposed to have the best pizza in the world. Yep. That's New Haven.

Okay, New Haven. I got that on here. My bad. I mean to make... See if I can find that. It's all right. Let's just start with what I know first. Yeah.

Yeah. New Haven style pizza, thin-crusted, coal-fired Neapolitan. Neapolitan. Pizza style of pizza, which is common in around New Haven, locally known as a Pisa. A Pisa. Oh, that makes more sense. A Pisa. No.

It originated in 1925 at the freight pepe, pizzeria, Napolitina. Now served it You got some Italian in you, Brian? I can hear it. Served in many other pizza restaurants. He italicized it. It's a good bit. Yeah, it's a good bit.

Look it up. You know, I had a good Ruben. The last time I went, I'm on a weird diet right now. I'm not eating a lot of things. But the last time I was in Hartford, I went to like a corn or a pastrami bagel

at this place. God, it was so good. Bagel sandwich. Yeah, I really missed it this time. Yeah, they do bagel stuff pretty good in that part of the country. The Northeast, they really do pastrami well. That's what they say. They say the water, something with the water.

Gosh, they really get it. And I hate that I wasn't able to participate this time around. You could have. I know, I'm just trying to keep it together. But gosh, I love a pastrami, man. Why do you know, why is the pizza so good there? What is it? It's just like one spot open.

up and then it created a lot of competition in the area. It's just weird that if you do nothing about this and you ask some random American, where do you think the best pizzas, they probably say New York City or whatever, right? Not New Haven, Connecticut, but that's kind of known as the best pizza in the world. I did not know this until about two years ago. Ruth went up there on a work trip and her boss was like, oh, Dave Portnay, is that how you say his name? Portnoy. I don't know.

Portnoy, yeah. Portnoy, sorry. That's okay. He's the guy from Barstool Sports. Yeah, he does. We don't mind that you pronounce his name wrong. No, I know. It's just funny how hard you hit it.

Dave Portnoy. Yeah. Portnoy. He does the pizza reviews. Yeah, I did not know that. But her boss was like, he ranked this place number one, so we got to go. So that's one of first. I'd never heard of it.

What was her review? Ruth grew up in Connecticut. Oh, okay. She, but she didn't, she didn't know about. to style a pizza, though. I'm going to just stop you there, though. At the beginning of this, you said, I don't know anyone from Connecticut. And now you're saying your own wife is from here. Okay, that's a fair point. It's a fair point, Dusty. Um, yeah, you're right. I guess I met, she spent a few years

of her childhood there that's not where she claims okay okay okay she was there for like five or six years we'll accept it

okay but you're that's a fair point I'm from Connecticut the state is named after the Connecticut River longest river in New England and that was named after

that's an Indian word Native American word which means of God does it no no no i think it means like by the river okay it's a river named by the river yeah or something like that i don't think they named the river by the river that doesn't make it what would that what would the river be then how can the river be by the river a river can't be by the river that's just two rivers yeah okay the state is named after the connecticut river

Okay. The name of the river is in turn derived from the anglicized spelling of Quinecticut. It's a word for long tidal river. Okay. Long titled, okay. Yeah. By the river. Wait, it's, the term is long titled river? Long title river. But that still seems to same. Oh, title, not T-I-T-L-E. Oh, okay. T-I-D-A-L. I'm like, that's still, it's the same thing. Yeah, okay. What's that ocean call? It's called next to the ocean. Go ahead, Dustin.

I dropped it. All right. I dropped the threat. It's also called the netmeg state. Because there's a legend about its early inhabitants being shrewd merchants who sold wooden nutmegs as a scam. It's the unofficial, but wildly recognized moniker. I didn't know what a nutmeg was. I figured you used it daily.

I don't know, I don't know, Nutmeg. Really? I mean, I've heard the turn. You grew your own. It's just like a spice some type. But what's its benefits? Taste good. Digestive.

Is it? I don't know. Everything claims to help digestion, but I can tell you. Not everything does. The Nutmeg, commonly used as food spices, have been traditionally employed for their psychoactive and aphrodisiac effects. Yeah, that's why I'm not.

Though clinical evidence is lacking. High doses can cause serious toxic effects, including acute psychosis, with risks heightened during pregnancy and psychiatric conditions. So get into it. Get into the nutmeg. Yeah, I'm never. I'm more of a turmeric guy. I'm a salt and pepper man myself.

Yeah, my bad. I like cloves. I get into cloves, but cloves and tea a lot of times. It has a distinctive, pungent fragrance and a warm, slightly sweet taste is used to flavor many kinds of baked goods, confections, puddings, potatoes, meat, sausages, and vegetables, and beverages such as eggnog. Never been into eggnog. Really? Yeah. Even in your drinking days?

I just picture you dress up as Santa and drink eggnog and walk through the streets of Charleston. Yeah, me too. Oh, because you don't like anything, Christmas. Well, no, when I was drinking, I was in. to Christmas. Yeah. It was fun, right? Yeah.

But I, yeah, I gave up fun a long time ago. But I, I, I, no, I was always, you know, I was always into a bourbon. Okay. No matter the holiday. I also learned that Nutmeg is a soccer term. If you kick the ball through the opponent's legs and then, which I've seen, and then you come around and still keep moving the ball, that's kind of nutmeg. Huh.

Is it really? That's what I read. Is that right? Whoa. I've never heard that in my life. Yeah, me neither. I can't tell you what the real netmeg was till today. Let's be honest.

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in Connecticut. You guys will never guess it. George Bush. Bestie? Mitt Romney. George Bush Jr., W. Mitt Romney. Incorrect. George W. Bush,

that's Texas. That's... No, you're right. Okay. I was going to say, I know he went to Yale. Yes, you're correct. And the family's from Connecticut, right? Skull and bones, I say, I said.

It's just funny, you associate that family so much with Texas. Totally. But he was born in New Haven. He's got the accent and everything, yeah. Dad attended Yale at the time. So, yeah, you're exactly right, Aaron. Look at the big brain. Where's Mitt Romney born?

Michigan? His dad was governor of Michigan. I think you're right. Okay. Everybody associates him with Utah, but I think he was born in Michigan. And he was governor of Massachusetts. These guys move around. They move around.

They go, where can I take over next? Yeah. And they go there. Yeah. And they do it. They get in there and they go, where can I infect a city? Oh, yeah. There was one Connecticut senator that was the vice presidential candidate.

Al Gore. What's his face? Lieberman? He does have a face. Lieberman? Man, this guy's on. Joe Lieberman. Al Gore's running mate.

Okay. So you're both right. Yeah. Yeah. And Gore's a Tennessee guy, right? Yeah. So it's Tennessee, Connecticut. Mm-hmm.

He was the first president, first candidate on a presidential ticket of a Jewish faith. All right. Yep. Yeah. Now, I would just assume they'd have way more because they're one of the first states, right? Yeah. And I feel like they had such a role in like the Revolutionary War, Lexington and Concord, all of that, Connecticut. And they've never had it.

They've had one president. And it was a southern. Yeah, I'm not even associated with that. That's crazy. Was Virginia had like 10? Yeah, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Ohio's had the most, I think. But man, Connecticut needs to step it up.

I know. I think Virginia maybe has the most. Ohio, they call the, I don't know, the den of presidents or something. Didn't we do an Ohio episode? We did. We did a Virginia episode, too. I think they both have a lot. Now let's get more interesting stuff.

The Subway sandwich started in Connecticut. All right, now we're back. Now we're back. What's your guys? I mean, I'm sure you don't go to Subway now. But when you went, did you ever go to Subway? Yeah, I used to tear up some Subway. What was your guys go-to Subway? It changed for me at various times. For a while, I was a pretty boring turkey, cheese, lettuce, tomato. I love the sandwich. I think it tastes very good. And that actually is what I would get now if I went. or the parmesan oregano bread. That's what they used to have. Very good.

But a meatball sub was crushing it back in the day. Yeah. Yeah. People always trashed Subway and they go, the food's not good. And I'm like, that's kind of on you. Yeah.

You're the one making it. You know, you put whatever you want on it. It sounds like a you problem. But if all the ingredients are bad, you're out of all the ingredients bad? Because I make a pretty good one. There's a subway in LaFette, Alabama.

That's still pretty good. Why would that one be good? It is. Why would the LaFette Alabama Subway be good? and the rest of them are. Because they care about it. You don't think they care at the back of the gas station by my house? Well, you're in the hospital with Olive.

There's a sub, there's in the food court of Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. There's a Taco Bell slash Pizza Hut and a subway. And I ate at that subway so many times, dude. It was good, right? And it was pretty good. It was pretty good. And this is not even when she was in the hospital. Yeah, now I just go back to eat.

This was years. They walked in for the first time. He's like, guys, there's Taco Bell over here, Subway here. I would not recommend that Steve. He works in that. That vending machines always, it's not stopped usually, yeah. So it's, yeah, it was founded by Fred DeLuca. The original was called Pete's Super Submarine Sandwiches in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

After several name changes, it was renamed Subway in 1972. So these cities were, like Bridgeport was really great at one point, is what I'm gather still honestly still great yeah I thought yeah can't wait to work the club yeah love it out there well I love the stress factors yeah but I think yeah I think a lot of you know the economies change yeah cities change well that's what you know like when I pulled into Bridgeport that's why I was like I was looking at the buildings and I was like this looks like a cool place and I wanted to walk around and explore They make all the bridges here.

And my Uber driver was just like, it's not, I don't recommend you do that. Okay. But you're pretty anti-Big City anyway. Yeah, I feel unsafe everywhere. Yeah. I text him something from the train in Chicago a couple weeks ago. He's like, you're on the train in Chicago? Yeah, I was freaked out.

We're going to a White Sox game. Is everybody in White Sox Jersey? That train is sweet. It takes you right to the stadium. Yeah. Yeah, I was freaked out. All right, Dusty, I think you're like this. So Subway was owned for six decades by the family who founded it.

In 2024, they were bought by a private equity group, work capital. Oh, geez. You know what that means? Just they're buying up the world that food's going to go downhill. Well, yeah, of course. Yeah, Subway was great until 2024. But, yeah, I mean, I would say, you know, they say the fifth, I don't know if this is true, but people say this, that 50% of all second generation,

businesses fail. And then on third generation, another 50%. Okay. So like majority of them, like, you know, somebody starts it and then it doesn't last into the next. So to get to six is pretty great. But yeah, I would say by the six. Well, six decades, not six generations. That's probably three generations. Yeah. So that by the third, they already forgot what made Subway great in the first place. And they go. So let's see if we can't have the most businesses in the most restaurants in the world. They're already there by that point by the time that they sold, right? It's like not even close they have the most now.

But I think, didn't they pivot as a company? Because I don't remember them as a young child. I don't remember them positioning themselves as a healthy alternative to anything. It was come get a delicious sandwich, right? That was the whole point of it. And then supersized me and all of that. there was a culture shift where we started to look down on those things. And Subway was like, there's an itch.

Boom. I remember I went to a subway with my mom when I was a kid and you could smell that bread and I hated it. Really? I was like, whoa, this is that the one in the Fet? No, this one was in Auburn, I think. Oh, wow. And I hated it.

And then later I started to go to Subway and I started to really appreciate that smell. Yeah. Then that smell kind of went away. It was just the employee smoking weed. Yeah. Yeah. Where's that skunk smell? Yeah.

Could be. This year, this is a big move. They switch from Coca-Cola to Pepsi. It's not a 10-year deal of Pepsi? Subway did? Yep. Wow. I don't know about LaFette.

That's a big move. I'll tell you this. People told me that it's all about the diet. Because I, I mean, people will hate this. Coke and Pepsi? I can't tell a different. Okay. They taste the same to me.

But they say diet Pepsi and Diet Coke is where it gets vastly different. In favor of which one? Everybody loves Diet Coke. Yeah, Diet Coke. Nobody wants Diet Pepsi. This has always been a very pro diet Pepsi podcast. Nate, for whatever reason, is really into Pepsi products. I mean, look, it's Diet Pepsi on the road, right?

That's all it is. I was complaining to Chase last night on the bus. Do we not have anything on here, not diet? I didn't know. It's crazy. I honestly did not know anyone preferred diet Pepsi. Nobody really does except Nate. I didn't know anyone did.

Yeah. It's all fresca. It's no Sprite. They do all the weird stuff. But I don't do any of the diet drinks, but if I'm going to drink it like a Coke or Pepsi doesn't have any, it doesn't affect me at all. I can easily go Pepsi.

The first hamburger restaurant was in Connecticut. first hamburger. Lewis's lunch, a hamburger restaurant. I can't believe there's any, I don't know how they would even know this. Let me get to it. Okay.

It's in New Haven. They claim to you the first restaurant to serve hamburgers, and it was open as a small lunch wagon, 1895. A lunch wagon? Mm-hmm. Okay. One of the first places to serve steak sandwiches. And according to Lewis's lunch,

it was created in 1900. A customer came up hurried requesting a lunch to go. and the customer exclaimed, Louis, I'm in a rush, slap a meat puck between two planks and step on it. He placed his own blend of ground steak trimmings between two slices of toast and the first hamburger was served.

Now, there's some people that dispute this. There's a few places that claim they have the first hamburger. And this food editor said, well, what makes a hamburger? He argues that there's got to be a bun to be considered a hamburger. So if it's between two pieces of toast, That's a patty melt.

Well, I think it's more about the meat, right? It's hamburger meat. So you think 22, like just pieces of bread is fine? I think that, yeah, I think that's a burger. I think it tastes good, but it's a patty melt. But what is a patty melt? It's a hamburger in between. Yeah, it's hamburger.

Hamburger meat in between two pieces of white bread. Yeah, it's just a hamburger with bread. But I would say it's ground beef. We're conditioned to call it hamburger meat, but it will be ground beef in between two pieces. I mean, we're getting... What about hamburger helper? Also in Connecticut? Is that a burger?

Well, we're getting, you know, obviously we're getting technical about it. But I would say a patty melt... As we're prone to do on this podcast. But I would say a patty melt is bread, hamburger's a bun. If it's on, like, let's say it's on a sub roll, that'd be sort of a cheese steak of sort. Not a Philly cheese steak, but a Philly cheese steak of swords. so hamburger helpers is that place still around yeah so they claim to be the first ever hamburger why was it called a hamburger isn't hamburg a city in germany uh yes that's a good question i don't

know and and hamburger helper my my grandmother would make a dish called like goulash yeah sure it would be kind of noodles and meat and stuff like that and then there's also another dish like that i think but you know so i think hamburger helper just capitalized on an old man a goulash in a while that sounds good yeah my grandmother didn't make a lot of things but she did make a goulash she made a good afghan the term hamburger originally derives from hamburg the second largest city in germany however a specific connection between the dish and the city is the topic of debates so many of these things as we research stuff on the podcast it'll just go dude nobody knows Yeah.

Nobody knows anything out of here. Because you got to think that, you know, when they started to grind to meat like that, they would probably be like they would kill an animal and then you would have these leftover pieces and they would go, let's grind it up. Right. And they would find different ways to cook it. Would you mind seeing if Lewis's lunch has a website? Lewis's Lunch and Connect That Cut.

Louis is it Lewis's lunch or Louis's lunch? Oh, maybe it's Louis. It's a burger restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut. It's got a real German feel about the building. Yeah, what do you, it's, yeah, it does, man. And it's got these old school style pub tables. I like to look at this place. I'm in support of this place.

It's a fun hang. I'd like to go eat there. It is, it has been serving, Louis lunch has been serving a classic hamburger sandwich, hamburger sandwich to customers from across the United States. If you're from another country, don't bother coming. Family owned and not, I added that part. family owned and operated we are currently run by the fourth generation and are one of the oldest family run businesses in the country let's take a natland trip to there

eat a burger that sounds good during the eclipse our restaurant prides a stealth on to take truth no let's take a trip and go eat a burger all right recognized by the library of congress as the birthplace of the hamburger sandwich i haven't eaten much today so i'm like particularly like Let's go there right now. Sounds good, doesn't it? I get into it, yeah. Yeah, I agree. Yeah, this place looks awesome.

It does look awesome. They are committed to serving a classic hamburger. That's an interesting. Yeah, you're a hamburger place. We're committed to serving hamburgers. Well, it's very honorable. They want to make sure they don't get modern with it. Okay.

Committed to serve in a classic. Okay. Did you have a go-to subway order? Or did you mix it up? It's a loaded question, dude. It's a loaded question. I'll tell you what I get. I get the, you get a six-inch Italian.

on wheat, provolone, toasted, Chipotle mayo, banana peppers, jalapinos, lettuce, salt pepper. That's a good order. Wow. With a cookie and a Diet Coke. That's a good meal right there. And I will go foot long. I don't know why I said six inch or.

I thought that would soften the blow a little bit. If I do six inch, I get chips with it. If I go foot long, then that's enough. It doesn't hold me back. What about mows? Do you ever guys ever go there? Welcome to Moes. I love Moes.

I love the burrito, the Joey Bag of Donuts. Remember that? No. You don't remember when they had those names? Joey Bag of Donuts. It sounds like a comedian. Well, it was a movie, movie references. Like, the movie and the Joe, Moes back in the day used to be full of music and movie references.

Yeah. So, one of the burritos was called Joey Bag of Donuts. We're going to need a bigger tortilla. Yeah. And stuff like, yeah. And then like the home wrecker and John. on cock toasting. I'll have what Jose's having.

Yeah, stuff like, yeah. And Joey Bag of Donuts was the go-to. New Haven sounds like the place to go. It is. They got the pizza. They got the hamburger. It's nice. They got the bushes.

They got the Bush family. Yep. Not only was the first subway there, first submarine invented there. We talked about this a little bit when Ben Sawyer was on the turtle. Remember I'm talking about the turtle, the submarine that was invented. Connecticut didn't work.

It was a one-man wooden submarine. I was supposed to go under. I thought Fort Sumter invented the first submarine, like, in Charleston. That's where the first shots were fired in the... No, but I thought they had the Hunley. Okay. I don't know. It was the first submarine.

I think of the Harley. The Hunley. Okay. I don't know, Dusty. I'm just going off what I read here. I could look at that. Yeah, I wish we had a guy that could look right up. I'm sure there's some little tweak that makes them different.

In 1995, well, that's not. No, no, no, no. The Hunley was, uh, the, I think it was the, the H.L. Hunley. Yeah. It was a submarine of the Confederate States of America played a small part of the American Civil War. Yeah, it was built in Mobile, Alabama, and then it was shipped by rail in 1863 to Charleston. Hunley, it was then called the fish boat, the fish boat. fish torpedo boat or the porpoise.

It sank in August of 1863 during a test run. Every time they ever used it, it killed everybody. Yeah. Yeah. Okay, it sank the first time, killed five people. And then they tried it again, killed eight people on the crew. Jeez. Yeah.

This thing stunk. Yeah. But that's almost 100 years later. Okay. So you're way off. All right. Yeah, but we don't know this thing. thing you're talking about

this wouldn't they guys did they live it didn't work the plan was the guy in it to go underneath the British ships

and put a bomb attached to it and it just it never worked I don't think anybody died but I don't think they killed anybody either

I think it just so at least the Hunley worked well they were able to use it I mean they never could come back up

they all died but it worked yeah yeah the first telephone book published in New Haven. Wow.

You know, I was thinking about this. You're probably too young for telephone books. I remember phone books. They were such a big part of my childhood. And they talked about how a lot of it was just instructions on how to use a phone. Nowadays, any new technology we have, we can look it up on the internet, how to use it. Or somebody else can look it up and show us how to use it. But back then, you got to have somebody tell you.

So people were getting phones and weren't knowing how to use them. The yellow pages were great. Why would you want your phone number listed? Did you have to opt out of having her number list or did you have to opt in to have you had to opt out? Okay, why would you not opt out? What was the benefit of having your number? Well, we had a bit of a more high trust society, I think, and you just people could,

you know, like you go, what's Ed's number? And then you just pull out the phone book and go, here he is. So he wanted to be friends and family that would find you. You weren't trying to have strangers, but why would you want a stranger to know your phone number? I mean, that's a great question. I had a joke about how we've changed so much. Now, you, like, get so mad if somebody tries to get your phone number. Oh, yeah.

And we published it and wanted to be right, and our address, too. But it's like we kind of do it now with social media, where we just, you can, people can just find you and message you. Back then, it just was your home phone and address. Yeah, I lived in a small town. Everybody kind of trusted each other. And did you ever do prank phone calls? Yeah, a little bit.

Yeah, I mean, it was... What'd you do? Who'd you call? Just random numbers you call? Yeah, we mainly just call and sometimes we would call and like try to just talk to the people. Like... Just a friendly conversation? But like, make it seem like we knew them.

Oh, okay. You know? Yeah, because then there's landline, right? Yeah. So there's probably multiple phones in the house. We'd all get on. So even if we're not talking, we're listening and laughing and snickering through the whole thing. Is your refrigerator running?

The first telephone directory consisted of a single piece of cardboard, listed 50 individuals, businesses, and other offices in New Haven, Connecticut that had telephones. Didn't list their numbers, just listed that these people have a telephone. And then later, they put out a pamphlet. Why was it on cardboard? I'm just like a homeless guy keeping track of it. I put it on paper back then. But maybe to make it a little bit more sturdy.

All right. Or just put it, you know, tape it to the wall or something. I don't know. There's a picture. I looked it up. There's photos of the first phone directory. I don't know. Oh, yeah, because they probably weren't even that many people to call.

But then eventually came down to, they got $391 subscribers, pay $22 a year for the service. Which sounds like a lot back in 1878. but it came with directions tips on placing calls it says pick up the receiver and tell the operator whom you want and how to talk on this gadget having a real conversation for example required

rapidly transferring the telephone between the mouth and the ear when you're not speaking you should be listening it says at one point you should begin by saying Hulow, H-U-L-O-A. That's interesting, right? What?

How do you say it? I don't know how you say it, but H-U-L-O-A. Oh. Hiloa? Helloa. Aloha. And when done talking, you should say, that is all. And then the other person should...

I still say that. And the other person should respond, okay. Wow. That was how the phone etiquette was supposed to be when it first started. Okay. And how long did that last? I don't know. I better get out of hand real quick.

But somehow it went from Huloa to hello. Hello. Wow. Is that saying hello? How do you spell it again? H-U-L-L-O-A. Before I looked that up, I want to say $22 in 1878 is about $712 today. Yeah.

So you notice it. Yeah, sure. It's not nothing. Yeah. Yeah. Holoa. It is a British

variation of hello. Okay. Okay. Well, this was... Man, look at you, you can get down a rabbit hole. I got the definition of Holoa. It says it's an alternative

alternative form of Hala. And you click on that, and then it says, see Halu and compare Hala. Ah, halla. The oldest continuously published newspaper in the U.S., the Hartford Current. It's established in 1764, and it's been going ever since. My, we, you know, just speaking of this, it says Mahala up there, which is like Hawaiian, right?

My friend that I grew up with, we moved to Charleston, and we had listened to that Nelly album. country grammar yeah we we had listened to that so much and cedric the entertainer has had all these little clips in between that were really funny skits yeah and so my friend he would when he would get off the phone he just kind of adapted some of that he'd go he would go we'll holla you know like we'll holla at you later but he would just go we'll holla and we met some people in Charleston we started hanging out and whenever joey would get off the phone with him he'd go Ohala, and they thought, they were like, what is he saying? They thought he was saying like Mahala, like he was trying to be.

Hawaiian guy. Yeah. Uh, Brian gave me a real disgusted look. Like, geez, man. I'm trying to be entertaining here. Come on. Now, I'm sorry. I was looking at something here, so I didn't hear all that story.

That's okay. That's all right. Can you tell it again? The first speed limit passed in Connecticut, 9-201. Limited motor vehicles to 12 miles per hour in cities and 15 miles per hour on country roads. This is when most people are on horse, horse and buggy horses, walking. You can't be going crazy. What do you guys think on the interstates?

What should the speed limit be? Do we have it right? 55 to maximize fuel efficiency and to keep us competitive in a global market. I think that is right. lower our dependence on foreign oil. I think 85. 85. Yeah.

Didn't they change it to 55 during the Cold War? I think we talked about that. Yeah. Or maybe, yeah, somewhere. There's some kind of fuel shortage in there, like, you got to get to 55. I was going to say maybe even World War II, but maybe it was. I think mandatory, we teach, it's mandatory driver's ed, and we teach people to stay out of the fast lane if they're not passing, that it's the passing lane to stay out of it. and then 85.

Then traffic would move along great. Just on the interstate, not everywhere. On the interstate, obviously, even on the interstate- Not their school zone. Now, obviously even on the interstate, there would be times where it needed to slow down. But when you're on a long stretch, and then like you could get a ticket

for just riding in the passing lane. I think there should be the threat of a ticket for just riding in the passing lane. Mm-hmm. So the speed limit, most interstates, It's just 70. Occasionally I'll see a 75 in some states. In Texas, I think it does get up to 85.

I think there is one stretch in Texas that it gets up to, I was going to say at least 80. Maybe it does. Parts of like Route 66, aren't there? Isn't that pretty high? I don't know. When you're just like middle of no, you're like, what are we doing? Might as well. Just go 100.

Yeah. But even you agree. I mean, it's got to be some limit. You want the government to hold us down in some ways. Well, yeah, I mean, I do support some. heavy regulation. Some regulation. Okay.

How about the behavior? Well, yeah, I mean, especially if we have to, you know, if we have to share in in some sort of health care capacity. Yeah, I mean, you should. But, you know, I'm kind of like, on one hand, I'm like, hey, let people do whatever they want to do. But if we got a, you know, if they can't pay their bill and the rest of it falls on the rest of us, then, you know, there's got to be something. My fear with 85 is most people, I think it's an understanding almost, cops will give you generally, what, 10 miles per hour over the speed limit? That's always why I've kind of...

Especially if you're passing somebody, I think you are allowed to speed up more. But if the speed limit's 70 and... You're going 80. Yeah. Or 78. Well, let's say the leeway goes away. Well, that's what I was about to say, because my fear is, is then people will be like, I can get 95 before they're going to give me a ticket. Now we get a little too crazy.

Yeah, let's say the leeway's gone now. Leeway's gone. You go 86. You're going to get a ticket. But I think the more important thing is to teach people to stay out of the passing line, and then cars can just roll out when you need to pass, path. It's like when you're driving and you want to go 70, but you're coming up on a car and you're like, I want to go ahead and get around them.

Go ahead and punch it up to 80. Get around them and then slow back down. or about when there's more than two lanes? What do you teach them to do? I think this is my own philosophy. I think still the right lane is the slow lane. But the right lane is often the exit lane for people. So sometimes, you know, but I still think we got to,

you try to stay in the right lane, but a lot of that slow traffic is going to end up in the middle lane anyway. So the far left is still the passing. Okay. But you will pass people on the right-hand side if you get the check. chance, right? If I have to, yeah. Yeah. Yeah, what's wrong with that? Well, I don't think there's anything, I don't think there's anything wrong with passing in the right hand line. I don't think you're supposed to pass it. You're not supposed to pass people on the right. But I don't,

I don't think there's anything wrong with it, in my opinion. If someone's just parked in the left lane, then. Yeah, you got to get around them, however you're going to get around them. Yeah. I prefer to flash a lights at them and honk at them until they get over, but did you just have a road rage isn't it i don't think so did i that's been months yeah yeah i guess it has been you're talking about your podcast with your family and uh that was a long time okay yeah it's been like two months um guys that was this summer i'm a different man now all right here's a kind of crazy story i don't even know if so these new parents august 1987, took their 19-day-old daughter to Harlem Hospital in New York City with a high fever.

A nurse there who had suffered a series of miscarriages and was desperate for a baby, or a woman, desperate for a baby, posed as a hospital nurse, walked out of the hospital with the little girl hidden from view. The parents desperately searched for their daughter over the years. This little girl was raised by this woman in Bridgeport, Connecticut. 45 miles from New York City. This little girl grew older. She began to suspect that this woman wasn't her real mom, launched her own investigation. After contacting the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children,

she was reunited with her parents in January 2011. Wow. How old was she when she reunited with them? 2011 and happened. In 1987, it was 24. Yeah, something like that. Wow. Isn't that crazy?

That is crazy. You know, what if she meets her birth? parents and she's like yeah i'm good i just there's just not a vibe well at 24 i guess you can go back to the other lady yeah well the other lady went to jail oh yes rightfully so but i that's been your mom it's been essentially your mom for 24 years i wonder if she still has a relationship with this but did she try to get that lady arrested before she met her original parents you think like did she meet them and go okay they are better let's send her to confirm it for yeah yeah you can't just go I don't think this woman's my mom.

Can you come get her? No, I'm saying, does she go check with the original parents and see if she likes them first? Oh, that's very funny. Before she turns her other mom in? Yeah. She does like a two-week trial. Wow, what? Is there any other story?

I'd love to hear more of that girl's story. Yeah, I mean, they're made a lifetime movie about it, but I don't know. You don't have the name of the movie? What's the woman's name? Carlina. Uh, let's see here. Tyson. Yeah.

The kidnapping of Carlina White. Kalina White. Yeah. She, uh, she, kind of a crazy story. Long Wikipedia page. I recommend you read it. Is that the lady that was arrested?

This made you think it's kind of a crazy story? After what I told you before, didn't? No, I'm saying, go. I mean, I was just, I wasn't able to say anything that, that, quickly. So I'm just saying, go check it out. After being reunited with her biological parents, Carla White's attorney advised her to have them ask about the cash settlement from the hospital. Yeah, so the hospital's liable too, because you can't, you shouldn't be able to just pose as a nurse and steal a kid so they could sue the hospital and make a ton of money. They both confirmed

most of that money had been spent before they reunited with their daughter. So they sued and they got the money, spent most of it before they met their daughter, set up a, Man, it's an interesting story. I'm sure, though, but 24 years, I mean, give the, I mean, I give the parents the benefit of the doubt there. It's like, you lost your daughter, 24 years is going by. It's like, spend the money, right? Yeah, of course. Surprise any of the money was left.

Yeah. Just so sad to think about. Yeah. Wow. In May of 2011, by the following July, she became estranged from her biological parents. Wow. That's tough. whoa

okay she said she had okay there's a lot of information to distill and say on the pocket just go check it out it's a fun story I gotta think though

if that had to happen to her and they built a normal relationship that she wouldn't be estranged for them well hopefully they made up you know yeah I mean who knows who the woman was

that took her I mean maybe you know they you know she just well we do know I'm saying though you don't know about her yeah you know

you know her name but yeah i mean she was desperate for a baby and she she really was it's crazy oh this she was portrayed by kiki palmer in the lifetime film abducted that's the movie abducted the carlo the colina white story pretty crazy wow um all right so another thing Nate has to Sherry Shepherd Sorry Sherry Shepard's in the movie Yep

Roger Cross Yeah but we know Sherry Shepard Yeah She's comic Yeah So Nate wanted to watch a horror movie And

I guess He chose The Conjuring Okay Now I hate horror movies I kind of later This is the new one In theaters

No no no This is the original Okay But I haven't see any of them Because I don't like horror movies. I sure don't want something like that. So we watched it.

He had everybody turn all the lights off and everything. And I mean, it. More fun. Yeah. Chase was crying. I shut my eyes through half the movie. Anytime any scary thing was about that, I just shut my eyes. Yeah.

I didn't want to see it. I support you. I basically did. I support you. But I say all that to say, in the movie, have you seen it? There's this couple that's the paranormal. investigators. They have a little... Based on real people. Based on real people.

They have a museum. In the movie, you know, it shows Annabelle doll that's in Connecticut. That's right. All this is in Connecticut. And you know who just bought that whole thing? I do. Do you know, Dusty? Matt Rife? Yeah, Matt Rife. Just bought the Conjuring.

Bought the museum. Bought the museum in Monroe, which has the doll. Yeah, it's very sad. I hate that for him. Yeah, do you know why he bought it? I think he's just interested. just really interesting. And I think it was, maybe it was having financial troubles and he's like, oh, I can step in and save it from bankruptcy or whatever. Yeah, I guess there was a rumor that Annabelle had disappeared. And then it just popped back up. Yeah. It's a Raggedy Ann doll in real life.

But creepy looking. Yeah, he bought that. I say burn it to the ground. Now in the movie, there is a guy who comes and ask, why don't you just destroy all these? And they said, well, you destroy the vessel, but you wouldn't destroy the vessel. But you wouldn't destroy the demon, it would just go to something else. So it's almost like it's keeping it trapped here. You got to keep it in the... If you burn it, if you burn it, that just it goes up and gets in the atmosphere and then

the whole planet becomes possessed. I don't like it. I don't even like talking about it. Yeah. I'm sorry, Dusty. All right, let's talk about Dusty's top five country songs about Connecticut. Go ahead, Dusty. Well, it wasn't prompted.

And, you know, none are coming to me right offhand. I did look up some Connecticut. There's nothing that I even knew. Ben Folds has a song. Okay. Nikki Minaj has a song where she mentions Connecticut. A couple other things.

Sports is what I was going to actually get to. So they actually had a professional, NHL hockey team in Hartford, the Hartford Whalers. Oh, yeah. From 1975. That's a cool name. Yeah. And they left in 1997.

Now they're the Carolina Hurricanes. Oh, they moved to Carolina. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. moved to Raleigh, but they had a hockey team there for a couple of decades. The Greater Hartford Open is one of the top golf term. It's now called the Travelers Championship, also in Hartford.

So here's what I would, if you ask me, like, name somebody, you know, in Connecticut, other than my wife. Yeah. If I had a name of famous person that I associate, I would say Gino Army, I can't even say his last name. Yeah, yeah, the Yukon Women's Basketball Coach. Yes. UConn women's basketball is dominated.

He's been there 40 years. Maybe as dominant as any program has been in any sport ever. Maybe. Right? 12 national championships, I think. Yeah, it's like when you think of women's basketball now, you think of the Yukon women's team. It's like UCLA was at one time in basketball.

In basketball, with John Wooden. Yeah. And Sabin was kind of that, but even more dominant than Sabin was. They had a hundred and something game winning street. Yeah, it was insane. So Yukon women's, I mean, they're known as just the dominant for how, you know, women's basketball.

And the men, they won back-to-back national championships. They did, yeah. They were just. So, and there's been a couple times where they've both won it in the same year, which is wild. Best, do you want to chime in on any of that? I don't have a clue. I know, I know. I was just funny, look at your face.

Like, what are you talking about? I have no clue. You're still thinking about the Annabelle doll? No, no. I try to block that out. Okay. Not bad. My bad.

Not bad. The game is the biannual, well, I guess it's an annual game between Yale and Harvard. It's biannally, what's the word? Biannually, biannually? Is that how you say it? Spell it. Bionially. Bionnially.

Bionnially. I've never seen that word. Biannially, it is once every two years. Wow. You learn something new every day. Yeah, how about that? I buy annually, it would mean twice a year, right? but by

biennially once every two years it's the second oldest college football robbery in the country what's the oldest

one army navy no I think it's uh god I've seen this it's two little colleges uh it's up in the northeast

but okay two kind of nothing schools just so everybody doesn't come Colgate and Dartmouth or something like that

would you mind look it up yeah yeah oldest one. Yale, yeah, okay. Oh, Yale Princeton. I guess I was wrong. Yale versus Princeton. Well, yeah, it's all fake information. Who knows anyway? I was thinking it was some, somebody else. Okay. Some famous people from Connecticut. Seth MacFarlane. John McFarland. What's your favorite John Farland's from there? I was assumed Rhode Island because every, because family guy takes place in Rhode Island. I know he went to school in Rhode Island. John Mayer. He had a song I really liked. John Mayer's got. I mean, I know you. I know you. I know you. I know you. I know you. What's your favorite, John May or something? I mean, it depends. It's very fluid.

Stop this train is great. Edge of Desire is an unbelievable song. There's so many good ones, dude. One of the best songwriters, guitarist of my generation. And then he went to, I don't trust myself with loving you, I think. Yeah, it's a great song. That's a great one.

Yeah, I think that's the one. I haven't listened to it in a long time, but I think that's the one. I can put you on some John Mayer. I got a lot of good songs. Yeah. There's a lot of country stuff now. It's just become part of what he does.

Well, I liked him with the dead and company. Okay. I like that stuff. You don't like the country stuff that he does? I don't know it. The country-ish stuff? I showed it to you. You didn't like it.

Oh, okay. Okay. Yeah. Well, yeah, then. I'm just trying to jog your memory a little bit. Michael Bolton, more of my generation. Michael Bolton really took a beating for no reason, didn't he? Because office space?

The office space didn't help. I think it was already, he was already, but that didn't help. But he had a resurgence for my generation with the Lonely Island. The Jack Sparrow song. I really brought Michael Bolton back. And I think he kind of shifted things back to his cool again. All right, we could wrap up there. That's what, yeah, I mean, nothing says the podcast is over like bringing up

John Michael Bolton All right Meg Ryan Meg Ryan I'll have what she's having Yeah Yeah Okay well great

Well we've already Pitched our dates But I'm in I'd like to do it again I'm in Wilmington North Carolina October 17th And then October 18th

I'm in Richmond Virginia What are you Brian Brian Brian Bates here Brian Bates speaking. Is that what you say? This is Aaron Weber, by the way. Oh, this is Brian Bates, by the way.

Yeah. This is breakfast. Brian Breakfast Bates, by the way. Breakfast is the... Why they call you breakfast? Because it's the most important meal of the day. Best meal of the day. Oh, best meal of the day.

Okay. Big bad breakfast. This weekend, Friday, October 10th, Brunswick, Ohio, Saturday, October 11th, in Willoughby, Ohio. Then Rochester, hopefully, October 30th.

And November 7th, I'm in Leamington, Canada for the first time. That's nice, man. Yeah. You're going to enjoy Canada. This weekend, it's Aaron Weber, by the way, October 10th and 11th, Huntsville, Alabama, Levity Lye. You're going to love it. Thank you.

Will I? Have you been to Levitney Live? I haven't been to, since the full rebrand is taking effect. I haven't been to. Drinks and food are now lower the price. I heard that drinks and food have gotten a lot cheaper, and that's really exciting. Levity Live this weekend, Huntsville, Alabama, Rocket Town, Heart of Dixie. Come on out.

And then next weekend, Charleston, South Carolina, I'm going to go check out the submarine, check out the Hunley while I'm out there. I met Witt's End Comedy Club in Charleston, South Carolina next weekend, October 16th, 17th, and 18th. God bless America. Thank you for listening to the Nateland podcast. Abigail just showed up with an animal that I'm guessing Dusty is not going to like. No. What's the cat's name? I'm not going to like it either.

Her name's modesty, but we call her maud. That's maud. walking around. Be more modest. She had some pants on. All right. All right. All right.

Well, hey, thank you guys. Thanks for listening to the podcast. And listen, it's been a lot of fun. Brian Bates, Aaron Weber, Dusty Slay. We're having a good time. We love you. Hey!