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Summary

The Nateland Podcast

Episode 273: Connecticut
Host: Dusty Slay (guest hosting)
Co-hosts: Aaron Weber & Brian “Breakfast” Bates
Date: October 8, 2025

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Episode Overview

This week’s episode of The Nateland Podcast dives into the state of Connecticut: its food, history, weird trivia, and the hosts’ personal stories and opinions about touring there. Host duties are ably handled by Dusty Slay, with Nate Bargatze notably absent. The hosts share stand-up tour recaps, riff on regional chain restaurants, the quirks of traveling comedians, and tackle a slew of listener comments before going all-in on Connecticut facts and cultural tidbits.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Podcast Housekeeping & Tour Updates

[00:41–09:56]

• Dusty Slay hosts and jokes about how polarizing his style is compared to Nate.
• Tour Recaps:
  • Brian joined Nate in Rochester, Cleveland, and Louisville playing huge sold-out shows. Notably, Nate’s escalating tour size leaves Brian in awe.
  • Dusty played Hartford, Connecticut’s Funny Bone, bought a Super Nintendo & N64, and had “great shows.”
  • Aaron was in Atlanta, performed in the Outer Banks for a dog charity (“Stand up for Strays”), and battled epic traffic on the way home.
• All hosts squeeze in their upcoming show plugs, sharing light banter about the art (and necessity) of not-so-subtle self-promotion as a comedian.

“These are all platforms for us to go, come see my show. Me, me, me, me, me, me. This is what we’re doing. …This is all up a facade of—for the listeners. It’s for us. Come on, guys.”
— Dusty [08:33]

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2. The Comedy Life: Travel, Security, and On-the-Road Antics

[11:02–18:34]

• Brian highlights Nate’s massive shows, sharing backstage stories of pick-up basketball and a weird Nate-invented volleyball game with whiteboards as nets.
• Discussion veers into personal definitions of “fun”, family dynamics, and Dusty’s “work-ethic-as-family-fun” philosophy (“moving rocks” for ice cream).
• The crew jokes about security on big tours and their trust (or lack thereof) in bodyguards (“All security guys are looking for it—retired military, just trying to get some action.”).
• Offbeat games (two-ball, blind volleyball) and inclusive rule changes for cast and crew are highlighted.
• Nick Novicki’s basketball prowess gets a mention, with custom “rebound rules” to level the playing field.

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3. Classic Nateland Banter: Technology, Travel Woes, & Product Reviews

[20:04–27:08]

• GPS & navigation app gripes: Aaron complains about Waze (especially Nate’s custom Waze voice during a stressful traffic jam—“Hey, take a left at the next roundabout. You’re doing good, buddy.”).
• Nostalgia for buying classic game consoles while on the road.
• Musings on who drives or takes Ubers now that they’re “all professional comedians.”
• Lighthearted mocking of each other’s promo tactics.

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4. Listener Comments & Community Interaction

[28:50–44:18]

• Dedicated fan mail & new podcast email address promoted (“[e-mail]”).
• Highlights:
  • Greasing vs. tipping debate—when is it a secret “grease payment,” when is it just tip?
  • Confirmation from a real extradition agent about inmates flying commercial and sitting in the back (“You all have more than likely been on a plane while an extradition is taking place.”).
  • Discussions about flying, airline etiquette, and pre-boarders—especially grievances with bathroom lineups and the silent code of the handicap stall.
  • Personal pet peeves, restaurant music volume, and “controlled growth” in company chains like Cracker Barrel and Whataburger.
  • Running gags about “Breakfast” as Brian’s nickname and Aaron’s “good laugher” reputation.
  • Playful jabs about who pokes the most fun at whom (e.g., “Aaron’s fat” jokes: addressed and defused with good humor).

“We all have our thing. …I don’t think Aaron is a fat guy. …You’re not old. You know what I mean? It’s like, c’mon guys.”
— Brian [61:39]

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5. State Spotlight: Connecticut

[64:16–117:14]

Fun Facts/History

• Capital is Hartford; other big cities: Bridgeport (biggest), New Haven, Stamford.
• Connecticut’s two capitals history (Hartford and New Haven for 170 years).
• Population: 3.7 million; 4th most densely populated state; 3rd smallest in area.
• Connecticut’s perceived wealth (Greenwich) vs. rougher city reality (Bridgeport’s problems, as attested by both Brian & Dusty).
• The state is named after the Connecticut River, which comes from an indigenous word meaning "long tidal river" (not “by the river” as initially guessed).

Culinary & Pop Culture

• Pizza: New Haven style pizza (coal-fired, thin crust)—reputed to be among the world’s best. Pepe’s and Sally’s are noted as flagship spots; Dave Portnoy (Barstool) has famously ranked them high.
• Bagels/Pastrami: Northeast’s dominance in bagel sandwiches and pastrami; Dusty laments dietary restrictions preventing indulgence.
• Hamburger: The (contested) birthplace of the hamburger at Louis’ Lunch in New Haven (est. 1895)—served on toast, not a bun.
• Famous restaurants/brands: Original Subway (Bridgeport, 1965 as Pete’s Super Submarine Sandwiches); first hamburger, and first telephone directory (New Haven).
  • Recent transition: Subway sold to private equity—hosts predict food quality decline.

Oddball & Notable Connecticut Trivia

• Only one U.S. President born in Connecticut: George W. Bush (New Haven), despite family’s Texas ties.
• Famous people: Seth MacFarlane (Family Guy), John Mayer, Michael Bolton, Meg Ryan.
• Weird nicknames: The Nutmeg State (because of the “wooden nutmeg” scam tradition).
• “Nutmeg” soccer move: hosts discover that passing the ball through someone’s legs is called a “nutmeg.”
• Professional NHL team: Hartford Whalers (now the Carolina Hurricanes)
• Sports dominance: UConn Women’s basketball (Geno Auriemma) possibly the single most dominant sports program in history.

Unique/Grim Story

• Carlina White kidnapping: 1987 abduction from a Harlem hospital, raised in Bridgeport, CT, reunited with birth parents in 2011. Made into a Lifetime movie (“Abducted: The Carlina White Story”)—the hosts are both fascinated and saddened by the tale.

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6. Super Bowl Halftime Shows & Cultural Tangents

[52:12–57:45]

• Dusty’s conspiracy theory amusement: Many watch NFL halftime shows just to analyze possible “satanic rituals or symbolism.”
• Discussed famous acts (Katy Perry, Madonna, The Who, Shania Twain, country music underrepresentation).
• Dusty proposes alternative, family-friendly halftime programming.

“We all think the halftime is satanic and full of rituals… We like to go in there and try to find it and pick it out and show it to other people.”
— Dusty [53:07]

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• Self-aware open:
  “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.” [00:54]
• On franchise growth:
  “They say in business, if you're not growing, you're dying. I say, if you’re growing too much, you’re dying.” — Dusty [03:30]
• Comedic meta awareness:
  “These are all platforms for us to go, come see my show… This is all a facade for the listeners. It’s for us.” — Dusty [08:33]
• On air-travel humility:
  “Even when you fly over, like, the Grand Canyon or something, you don’t take a peek? …I’m over it.” — Dusty [35:25]
• Classic ball-busting:
  “[To Brian] Maybe if he was less of a good sport and more good at sports, he wouldn’t have—” — Dusty, after listener calls out fat jokes [59:42]
• On City Reputations:
  “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.” — Brian [67:13]
• Dusty’s style recap:
  “I'm just trying to slip it in.” [26:02]
• On bathroom etiquette:
  “We’re out here, guys. Wrap it up in there. This is not a time to—[be on your phone]” — Dusty [40:54]
• Listener shout-out:
  “Breakfast is the strongest of the names. …Because I'm the best meal of the day.” — Dusty [61:01]
• On Connecticut’s confusing spelling:
  “Is Connecticut the most annoying state to spell? …That C gets you.” — Brian [65:48]

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Timestamps for Important Segments

• [00:41] — Official start: Dusty takes over as host
• [05:06] — Nateland news (tour, showcases, new emails, Dry Bar specials)
• [09:07] — Tour announcements and show promo banter
• [11:02] — Tour stories: arenas, sports, and invented games
• [17:46] — Aaron’s Atlanta gig and navigation/road trip horror stories
• [23:24] — Dusty’s Hartford trip and classic video game shopping
• [28:50] — Listener comments begin
• [40:25] — Bathroom etiquette, airline travel, and music in bathrooms
• [44:18] — Restaurant reservation strategy and endless buffets’ impact on staff
• [53:07] — Super Bowl halftime “satanic rituals” theory, halftime history
• [64:16] — Connecticut state topic begins in-depth
• [71:03] — New Haven pizza discussion, Dave Portnoy mention
• [82:18] — Birthplace of Subway and the hamburger
• [95:07] — Submarine invention, telephone book history
• [103:44] — Speed limits & highway etiquette
• [108:34] — Carlina White kidnapping and reunion story
• [113:02] — The Conjuring, Annabelle doll, Matt Rife buying the “occult museum”
• [115:22] — Hartford Whalers/pro sports in Connecticut
• [116:44] — UConn women’s basketball dominance
• [120:00+] — Famous Connecticut natives, show plugs, and closing banter

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Tone and Style

• Conversational, meandering, filled with “inside baseball” comedy industry chat.
• Self-aware meta commentary on the podcast format and their own branding.
• Genuine listener interaction: reading real comments, poking fun, and direct responses.
• Gentle ribbing between hosts, quick detours into personal stories, quirky complaints, and laughter throughout.

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Final Thought

This episode is a classic example of the Nateland formula: personal stories, running jokes, local color, occasional deep dives (the Connecticut state trivia block is one of the most comprehensive yet), and unapologetic self-promo—delivered in a tone equal parts sarcastic, warm, and slightly anarchic. Even as they poke fun at each other and their audience, the camaraderie is clear, and both Connecticut natives and outsiders will leave knowing a little more about the Constitution State—and a lot more about what life’s really like for comics on the road.

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Transcript

[A]

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Okay. Hello, folks. And hey, Bear.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

This is Dusty Slay and I'm gonna be leading the charge of the Nateland podcast today.

[B]

Reluctantly.

[A]

I'm pumped. No, I'm pumped to do it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Pumped to be here. 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.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

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.

[C]

We ate there recently for the first time.

[A]

Did you. 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. Yeah, and then they were rude when you go in and I'm like, this is not gonna 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.

[B]

Hey, guys, I'm Brian Bates with Big Bad Breakfast.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

You could do the commercial, the TV spot. That'd be great.

[C]

I think that's a franchise.

[A]

Is it?

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Links a chain.

[A]

Well, more likely for them to sponsor you. Then they got more money.

[C]

Did you hear where the Cracker Barrel marketing. They fired the marketing people.

[B]

Oh, they did?

[A]

Oh, I just got pictures with all them.

[B]

Dang.

[A]

I didn't have. I don't have.

[C]

It had nothing to do with the logo. All about the TV ad.

[A]

I don't have pictures with a lot of marketing people of corporations, so that's too bad.

[C]

Oh, that's good.

[A]

Well, you know, I. I saw a thing and. And I don't know, who knows, but it was a. It was a TikTok video of a guy talking about that used to work at Cracker Barrel. And he talked about some of the changes that had gone. 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 gonna 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?

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Great song.

[C]

It is understandable. Business, though, that grows. There's going to be some growing pains.

[A]

They say customer service 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.

[C]

Well, I'm right on track.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Controlled growth is a thing.

[A]

Grow a little.

[B]

Controlled growth.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I used to reply to every email sent to the Nateland podcast, but now there's so many.

[A]

I can't.

[C]

I just can't. Especially when some people email every week.

[A]

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.

[C]

Speaking of, we got a new email address. Can I share that now? I'll share it again later. But yeah, it is mail. M A I L, not M A.

[A]

L E. But since I'm running the podcast for, I'll be prompting you guys when to pitch emails.

[B]

Okay?

[C]

It's [e-mail] okay.

[A]

Male M A L E. I may.

[C]

Already made that joke, but you were talking over me.

[A]

Well, I was just piggybacking off your joke.

[C]

Oh, okay. M A I L natelandpodcast.com so if you got comments or questions, send it to. That sounds great. I'll mention a few more times. Thank you.

[A]

Well, thank you, Brian.

[C]

Well, you're welcome, Dusty.

[A]

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. Yeah. At the right times. That's why now we're gonna get into the Nateland news.

[C]

All right.

[A]

Nateland Newton Nateland presents the showcase. Season three 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. I. He used to go by hippie man. He doesn't anymore, apparently. Very funny, though. John Nova. Sad. One of my favorites. So do listen to that. I didn't see the set, but I know John. Very funny guy.

[B]

I believe I hosted that show, and I remember him having a really, really good set. So I'm excited.

[A]

I love John.

[B]

He's a guy you hear about. You know, when you go to Denver, they're like, there's a guy out here who's super funny. And I was excited to see him.

[A]

The first year, I. I believe it was the first year I did the Laughing Skull Festival. I think he won.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

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 excited. 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.

[C]

All right.

[A]

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.

[B]

If you live in Alaska, go ahead.

[A]

And buy tickets and then come see.

[B]

Brad and then figure it out. Figure out how you get.

[A]

Brad's very funny too.

[C]

Brad is awesome.

[A]

Brad and John both have dry bar specials, and Brad, I think, is. If he's not the top dry bar, he's second.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah.

[A]

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

[B]

Probably. Yeah. Has Jeff done the podcast before?

[A]

Our very own Nashville's own.

[B]

There you go.

[A]

Jeff Allen. Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I would say Brad Upton's the. The top. That's what I would guess.

[A]

Brad Upton may be the top.

[C]

Jeff's done, like, four of them.

[A]

I think him and Jeff are neck and neck, though, and both very funny. I love them both. And this says. This is. This is no longer Nateland news. This is now Nate news.

[B]

But I want you to personalize this section too. Make it about I.

[A]

Okay. The big Dumb Eyes tour. Well, it's hard to. Because the way it's worded. Nate just wrapped up a handful of Sold out shows in Roch, 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.

[B]

I wanted you to kind of make it your own.

[A]

Well, it's hard. I just look for price places to put in. I. And I'm. And we're. There was no opportunity there. But I could tell you, I believe.

[C]

You, because if there was, you'd find a way.

[A]

I'll find a way. If I can put myself into it, I will.

[B]

You can make it about you.

[A]

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 podcasts 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, you know, this is all up a facade 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.

[C]

This explains my ticket sales.

[A]

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 I'm in Richmond on October 17th. Richmond on October 18th. Wilmington, October 17th. It'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, and 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. You'll find him. And as this says, a slew. Not everybody. I don't know if everybody knows what a slew is.

[B]

It sounds like the past tense of your name.

[A]

It does, yeah.

[B]

Dusty Slay, Slew.

[A]

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. People. 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 I keep saying it. Well, I want you guys to know we all do this for a living.

[C]

Yep.

[A]

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.

[C]

Well, it was when I told it years ago, but it's not.

[A]

It's not true now, though.

[C]

Yeah, I don't say I do it now, though.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

I say I used to.

[A]

I'm just letting people know. We don't. We're not. If you go watch an old video of Brian, he's not driving Uber now.

[C]

Now I have a Uber driver. Take me to the shows.

[B]

That's right.

[A]

Yeah, that's right. Where were you guys at this weekend?

[C]

I was out with Nate in the cities you just mentioned. Rochester, Cleveland, and Louisville.

[A]

Was this Rochester, New York or Minnesota?

[C]

It doesn't say 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, trying to think what we did. Play some basketball. I guarded Chase, so they. I like to guard Nate because I like to shut him down.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Which I always do.

[A]

Did you shut down Chase?

[C]

Well, Chase doesn't play too hard, so I kind of like that too. He kind of just lingers around, doesn't run much.

[A]

But, I mean, it seems like the worst part of the. Of the Nate tour is. Seems like you guys do a lot of activities. Yeah, and I'm not into that.

[B]

You don't like to have fun on the road?

[A]

No, no, I don't. Generally, I don't like to have fun at all.

[C]

We know.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[B]

Tends to rub off on other people.

[A]

We're not a. Like an into fun kind of family, man. My family.

[B]

Oh, you guys have fun.

[A]

No, we have fun in our own way. But it's not. Yeah, it's not the.

[B]

You don't go and do something.

[A]

It's not the other. Not the ways that other people have fun.

[B]

Okay. Yeah, yeah. Sports.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You go move rocks and.

[A]

Yeah, stuff like that. Yeah, that's fun to us.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

But to other people, they'd be like, oh, this is work.

[B]

Do you gamify it at all? Do you go, who can get the most rocks in the wheelbarrow? And then you try. Now you just do it.

[A]

Yeah, we just do it.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

I go. This needs to be done, guys. You want to make a game out of it? You can.

[B]

Yeah, but I'M not playing.

[A]

I go, but if you want ice cream, help me move some rocks.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Then they come in, you're like, oh, you're too late.

[A]

Yeah, exactly.

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[C]

Anyway, the show. Yeah, basketball Nate, security guy plays with a Scott and he's like a rock. And he's just like.

[A]

All right, the doors entered the chat.

[C]

So, you know, he's just like checking me into the wall and stuff. So I'm like, let me just get over here.

[B]

And he plays pretty intense.

[A]

Yeah, he's a security guy, huh? Things are getting pretty intense out there then.

[B]

Yeah, he's been out with Nate for a while. He's just, he's just a body type.

[A]

You guys ever have any attacks where this guy has to jump in?

[B]

No, But, I mean, there's 20, 000 people.

[A]

Have you ever seen this guy in action is what I'm saying?

[B]

No, I've never.

[C]

No, it happened this weekend.

[A]

Is there any guarantee that he can do it?

[B]

I believe he can. If something happens, I have total faith that this guy will get it done. I. I think it's the kind of guy he's looking for.

[A]

Yeah, you know? Well, you got to think all security guys are looking for it.

[C]

I think a lot of them are.

[A]

Retired military, I think, and they're like, I'm just trying to get some action.

[C]

Yeah, I think he's great because you can tell he, he could handle the job, but he does Not. He's not one of those guys that's just grabbing people unnecessarily.

[A]

It sounds like he was roughing you up.

[C]

Well, the basketball.

[B]

The basketball court.

[A]

Yeah. That seems unnecessary now.

[B]

If you see Brian play, you know, it's a little necessary.

[C]

This guy so well built that just going up a rebound, if I touch his body, I'm gonna go bouncing. Wow. I don't even think he was that aggressive toward me. He's just built like a rock. Anyway, okay. We had a good time. We played. I'm gonna keep going. We played. Nate invented a volleyball game.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Where we didn't have nets, so we put three whiteboards in a row.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

So you can't see the other team. You just see the ball coming over.

[B]

That's kind of fun.

[C]

And if that's not crazy enough, then he's. The next game. He said, let's play with two balls where each team serves at the same time, which just got ridiculous.

[B]

But Nick Novicki playing with you?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

He's playing volleyball.

[C]

Yeah. And basketball.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Yeah, Yeah.

[B]

I knew he played basketball. Volleyball.

[A]

Why would you think he couldn't play?

[B]

Well, I think everybody knows what I'm talking about.

[C]

He was great, wasn't he?

[A]

He, like, you know, why could he not hold his own, you think? Why would you. Why would you say he could hold his own? What would prompt you to say that?

[B]

Well, he has vision problems. That's mostly what I'm talking about because I know he's got poor eyesight.

[C]

Well, in basketball, it's. He has a rule where the. On a rebound, the ball has to hit the floor one time before you can grab.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

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, the ball comes off, you're going to try to catch it.

[A]

Yeah. It sounds like it's rigged for him if it's off the ground. Now he has the advantage.

[B]

And you probably can't bend down far enough as low as he is to get a rebound.

[C]

Well, the ball bounces off the bounce. Yeah.

[B]

I'm saying he's down there by it.

[C]

Yeah. Yeah. So.

[A]

All right, all right. Where were you at this weekend? Well, you guys are. I like that.

[B]

That's how my dad ends a phone call. Listen, Brian, once he hears what he wants to hear, he goes, all right, bye. Bye.

[A]

He goes, nate invented a volleyball game. And then I. He invented a. He, you know, he chose a different thing for the Net.

[B]

No, don't disrespect Nate Ball.

[C]

There's two balls involved.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

This is a whole different thing.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All right.

[A]

How'd you guys keep score?

[C]

Very difficult.

[B]

Every five minutes, you ask Nate who you think is winning.

[A]

What about you, Aaron? Where were you at?

[B]

I was in Atlanta, Georgia. I had a couple things. I had a. A corporate gig in the outer bank, so. North Carol, Carolina. I took J. Flake with me. We're. It's stand up for strays. We're trying to help stray dogs.

[A]

Gosh, you know, if they didn't. If they didn't breed and sell dogs, there would be no, you would not have to do this.

[B]

Well, I. I don't know. I don't think they're in favor of this either. I think they're just trying to help animals that are on the street. It's a good organization. It was a good group of people went and did that gig. Nightmare to get to. Went by Kitty Hawk. I wanted to see the. The Kitty Hawk Memorial. Do you know that was on the beach? You told me last week the first flight is on. Was on the beach. I don't know that. Doesn't that change the way you.

[A]

Yeah, but I don't think I believe that first flight narrative.

[B]

The Wright brothers. You don't think they did the first flight?

[A]

No, I don't think so.

[B]

What do you think happened?

[A]

I don't really have a theory on what happened. I'm just not. I don't.

[B]

But you agree that we're flying now?

[A]

Yes.

[B]

So there was a first flight at some point.

[A]

At some point, yeah.

[B]

Just not.

[A]

I don't believe it was. Yeah. These guys.

[C]

And he thinks Columbus was like, oh, I was people of God.

[A]

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. God. So I will admit when I'm wrong.

[C]

That came later.

[A]

I just have to prove that I'm wrong. You know what I mean?

[C]

Yeah. So you were Kitty Hawk.

[B]

Kitty Hawk came back. And then we were in Atlanta, Georgia last night at the helium with Mike James at the new helium.

[A]

Oh, how was that, Alpharetto?

[B]

It was unbelievable.

[A]

I've never been. I'd love to.

[B]

It was great.

[C]

Dude.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

You don't say the zaniest.

[B]

That's a good point. The heat. Yeah.

[A]

You might say the Zany's in Chicago.

[C]

But he said at the Helium.

[B]

Oh, at Helium. Sounds. I don't know. It sounds like I'm missing something.

[A]

Yeah, it does say the He. The Helium Comedy Club.

[B]

Do you say at Funny Bone or at the Funny Bone, you would say.

[C]

I think the title is the Funny Bone.

[B]

I don't think. I don't think these in the.

[A]

Maybe.

[C]

Okay. I think you're right.

[A]

Maybe Helium is the Helium Comedy Club.

[B]

It might be. Well, either way, it was a fantastic show. Thank you to everybody.

[C]

Eagles are the.

[B]

Sorry, it's just Eagles. Thank you to everybody who came out. Great show. The. The drive back was 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.

[A]

It's bad traffic.

[B]

It's off no matter what time of day. It's awful.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

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 3am last night.

[A]

Jeez.

[B]

700Pm show. We were on the road by 9, and I didn't get back till 3.

[A]

You gained an hour. You picked up an hour coming back. I know.

[B]

We're. We took 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 gonna be here all night. Somebody died up there or something. Like, they're shutting the road down, but.

[A]

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.

[B]

Yeah, I agree. I would have liked something to that.

[A]

Yeah, let's try to open it.

[B]

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. Before we left. We turn around. We found an alternate route, but it. But it added like, an hour and a half. And then we get to Chattanooga. Traffic stopped again in Chattanooga. Was like. And then Mike James just fell asleep in the car. So I don't have anyone to talk to. So the worst part of that, that whole thing, the first stop the show, was that the show is, of course, awful, is that I didn't have service, but Mike had Waze up on his phone.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And we were trying to just work off that with no Internet, but he had Nate's voice on way, 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.

[C]

That's funny.

[B]

We finally got back up to the interstate, but it was a heck of a time.

[A]

I've never been a fan of Waze 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 Waze. It didn't feel like Waze had it. Now, again, this was years ago. It could be better now. But it feel. It didn't feel like Waze had it mapped out quite as good as Google.

[B]

Google owns Waze. So it's the same, is it? Same data.

[A]

Okay. It wasn't back then. It might have been owned by them.

[B]

I think they got acquired by him at some point. But anyway, thank you to everybody who came out. It was. It 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 gonna be in Dusty Sleigh's old stomping grounds, Charleston, South Carolina, at Wits End Comedy Club. I haven't been to the new location. I'm super excited.

[A]

I never did Wit's End, but Charleston's the best.

[B]

Yeah, it's a great town.

[A]

Gosh, it's the best.

[B]

So many great places we get to go doing comedy. It's a life we live.

[A]

I was in Hartford, Connecticut, at the Hartford Funny Bone, and I had a great time. It was really fun.

[B]

Did anybody else come to buy tickets or were you happy with.

[A]

I was happy with the turnout. Yeah. I mean, Zach, you were encouraging people.

[B]

Not to buy tickets.

[A]

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. No, they were great shows. And. Yeah. So I was very happy.

[C]

Great.

[A]

I bought a Super Nintendo and a Nintendo 64 at the mall.

[B]

Oh, really?

[A]

I went into the mall. That's where the funny bone is.

[C]

I know, but what store sells.

[A]

It was just some game.

[B]

They got these gaming stores where you can go and get.

[A]

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.

[B]

No, they're tough to. They're in demand.

[A]

And that's why I was like, oh, man, I bought them both. I go, let's go. And I got Mario Kart. There you go for 64. And I got Goldeneye for 64. And then I got Super Mario Brothers for Super Nintendo. All right, I'm looking for Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball.

[B]

Yeah, you can get that.

[A]

And then I want, you know, Smash Brothers for 64.

[B]

You can get these on ebay. They have, like. Yeah, just like, bootleg copies of them that are super cheap.

[A]

I like McKay's bookstore, though. That's where I want to go. Check it out.

[B]

McKay's is the. The selection of N64 games is going to be. It's going to disappoint you.

[A]

Well, I like a lot of people.

[B]

Like you going in there and buying up all the goods.

[A]

Well, I'll go in there and see what they got, and then if nothing else, I'll pick up some DVDs that I don't need.

[C]

All right, Are you going to mention where you're going to be? I didn't mention, but I will.

[A]

I slipped mine in. I already slipped.

[C]

Oh, you did?

[A]

Okay, well, I'll slip mine in mine. And I mean, I'm like, you know, you got to be slick, like. Like, I don't know, some kind of sneaky animal and 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.

[B]

You. 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.

[A]

How was that? That's not sneaky. Dusty news wasn't on this sheet of paper. Do you see Dusty news?

[B]

I know, but you made it a point. All right, for the next 30 seconds, we'll be doing Dusty News.

[A]

Well, yeah, you slip. You slip it in because you want people to take in that information, but.

[B]

You'Re acting like you pulled the wool over our eyes. And you.

[A]

I'm not trying to trick you.

[B]

I think you're trying to trick us.

[A]

Just trying to slip it in.

[B]

Okay. Try to grease it.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah. Well, I. I mean, I'm no Damon Wayans over here, Junior. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. I didn't even get the dad.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Hey, whatever you gotta do to get ahead.

[B]

Yep.

[C]

I will be in. Back in Cleveland this weekend or Cleveland area. All right. Brunswick and Willoughby.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Greater Cleveland.

[C]

Greater Cleveland. That's a good way to put it. This Friday, Saturday, October 30th, Rochester, New York. Now, this one. If you. If you're gonna buy tickets, do me a favor and go ahead and buy them or this show might go away. Yeah. So buy some tickets, because not many people are. Right.

[A]

Where are you gonna be?

[C]

At Comedy at the Carlson.

[A]

Yeah, go buy some tickets. I know the people at Comedy at the Carlson. They're nice people. Go buy some tickets. Support Brian.

[B]

Not for Brian, but the.

[C]

Support out.

[B]

Yeah, no, the. The kitchen. The kitchen staff.

[A]

Well, you know, Brian's show is going to be great.

[B]

Of course. Yeah, of course.

[C]

Yeah. Well, they're being 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.

[B]

Oh, you have a passport.

[C]

Yeah, I have a passport.

[A]

Where are you going?

[C]

I'm doing a church. Lake Point Church in Leamington, Ontario.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

And it's so funny because I'm like, wow, Canada. I got booked there. I'm like, whenever I fly to, like, the North Pole, you find Detroit and go south. You literally find Detroit and then go southeast.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So anyway. But I've never been to Canada, so I'm excited to be there.

[B]

It'll be great. The first time I did stand up in Canada, I was so worried. I was like, wow, what. In my act, I'm going through my whole act. Like, what are they. Are they going to know what a bathroom is? Or do I need to say water closet like I was. And then I got there, they're like, oh, they're all smarter than me about everything. Like, you don't need to change.

[A]

I wouldn't give them that much credit, but.

[B]

Well, I don't really.

[A]

But. But the Canadians are great.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I wouldn't. I. I'm not going to go.

[B]

So any American reference, they're going to.

[A]

Get, except for Marboros, they. I had some Marboro jokes, but they don't have Marboros.

[B]

What do they Call them.

[A]

I don't know. They have different. I don't think they have Marlboros, though, because I had Marlboro's Miles jokes and they didn't get it.

[C]

Huh.

[A]

Could just be an outdated reference in general, but, baby. But this. But you know, on. You ever see a Canadian pack of cigarettes?

[B]

Yes.

[A]

They, like, really want you to know what that's doing to your body.

[B]

They got a picture of, you know, some rotted gums. They got a picture of a black lung.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's because they don't have the tobacco lobby like we do in America.

[A]

Okay, you guys want to get into the comments?

[B]

85 a pack. Yeah.

[A]

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 email. Now is a good time to get this in. All right, slip that in.

[C]

It is [e-mail].

[B]

There you go.

[A]

M A I L. 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 with. Yeah, 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.

[B]

Thank you, Corey. It's nice to, you know, for people to just let me spread my wings and fly every now and then. 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.

[A]

Well, Aaron's a great comic. I've always said that.

[B]

Professional comedian.

[A]

He's a professional comedian and very funny.

[C]

Well, thank you.

[A]

Brian gets all the credit on this podcast for the. For the. All the jokes. I mean, everybody's like, oh, Brian more and. But, you know, Aaron's very funny, too.

[B]

Well, thanks, man.

[A]

And a nice guy.

[B]

All right, let's move on.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

Getting uncomfortable. Thank you.

[C]

Usually the compliment Aaron gets is, what a great laugh.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Good laugher, too.

[B]

It's nice to cause a style.

[A]

Look at this shirt. That's a. That's a nice shirt.

[B]

Thanks, dude. JCPenney.

[C]

Oh, can I give a shout out to my shirt?

[A]

Yeah, That's a good shirt, too.

[C]

This is the Bates Land. This is from Blake and Mandy East. They say they were big fans of Breakfast and all the guys on the podcast never miss an episode. Thanks for Coming to Brookhaven. I was in Brookhaven, Mississippi, a few weeks ago when she brought me these.

[B]

A great shirt.

[C]

Thank you. Thank you.

[B]

So it says Bates Land. Hello, folks.

[C]

Oh, yeah.

[A]

If you're listening, I appreciate them bringing me a shirt last time I was in Mississippi. Okay, next up.

[B]

Leo. We don't make V neck, so we couldn't help you.

[A]

Christian. Another great one by Aaron.

[B]

Starting to feel patronizing. Good job, Aaron. Look like you got a few yucks in on the podcast.

[A]

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.

[B]

I understand it was a tip. My understanding was greasing meant to, like, secretly hand somebody cash.

[C]

Like.

[B]

Like you're going in for a handshake and there's, you know, a bill in the hand. That's what I thought. Grease.

[C]

The motivation doesn't really matter. It's just the act of it.

[B]

Yeah, exactly. That's what I thought.

[C]

Yeah, he didn't.

[A]

I think greasing's before tippings, after.

[B]

That's.

[A]

I think that's. That's what Christian.

[B]

That's how a gentleman would do it.

[A]

Yeah, that's what Christian. Okay. We're having a good time, Drew, with no last name. I'm an extradition agent.

[B]

That's why. That's why I can't put the last name.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

It sounds like he has a real important job.

[A]

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.

[B]

I was thinking about this. This weekend, when you first on a Southwest fight, you're like, dude, anybody on here could be a criminal.

[A]

Oh, yeah.

[B]

Being transported, you know?

[A]

Well, I. I appreciate that. They said in the back, though.

[C]

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 inmate's here and their arms are locked across me, I don't think I have. Besides all the. I'm joking, but besides all the pre. Pre. No, I. I'M joking because I would.

[A]

Think you would be a list preferred by now.

[C]

I'm a list? Yeah, but not a list preferred. But there was a time where I.

[A]

They prefer you not me.

[C]

They prefer me not even fly, but I keep coming back. That'd be great if Southwest gave me a list preferred with another airline. 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 there's already. It's already half full. Because all the people.

[A]

This is what I hate. Like, people. Like, sometimes.

[C]

Finally, something Dusty hates. Let's hear it.

[A]

The people that pre board, sometimes they'll be in wheelchairs, right? And then they sit at the aisle seat. It's like, now I gotta make this old lady get up.

[B]

Well, don't sit on the same row.

[A]

I actually never do, but other people have to make her get up.

[B]

Okay, so you hate it on behalf of other people.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay. That's very principled.

[A]

Yeah. Because I don't like a window seat. I'm an aisle guy myself.

[B]

You don't look out the window now.

[A]

I do if the windows open sometimes, But I've seen it.

[B]

It's pretty amazing how quickly we've become jaded to that. You got to think, not me. 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, shot it. I don't.

[A]

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.

[B]

Even when you fly over, like, the Grand Canyon or something, you don't take.

[A]

A peek out the Rockies. Sometimes if I'm going out west, about halfway through, I could 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.

[B]

It's neat.

[A]

Yeah. But for the most part, I'm like, it all looks the same.

[B]

Shut that window.

[A]

But even, like, you know, you're above clouds 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.

[C]

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.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[C]

The wall. I can't hardly do it unless I have a something to lean against. But there is part of the reason is because I still get excitement looking out the window.

[B]

It's crazy.

[C]

Just the world down below us and I mean, Dusty's dead inside, but some of us still enjoy life.

[A]

I wish I could travel by train.

[C]

Well, you could.

[A]

I think there were in a really efficient way to travel by train. I'd like to do that.

[B]

You need a Greyhound bus. That's the next best thing.

[A]

No, I want. I'd like train.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Have you ever taken the Music City Star?

[A]

Is that for like from Hermitage to downtown?

[C]

Yeah, I mean, starts in Lebanon, but then stops in her.

[A]

I've never take taking it.

[C]

It could be a good start.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Take it to the podcast.

[B]

I pretty much guarantee he's never doing that. No, I'm never doing it either.

[A]

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. 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.

[B]

I imagine they gave him some type of flight credit.

[A]

I'm sure you would hope.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

I don't exactly know why Stephanie sent that in, but I do appreciate it.

[C]

Well, because last week we talked about, well, how they. Stephanie, I don't know why you're bothering.

[A]

Us with this, but, I mean.

[C]

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 offer. You hear it at the gate, like, we'll give you this amount of money.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[C]

Beat it, Stephanie.

[B]

Yeah, it was germaine to the last week's episode.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

No, I appreciate it, but, yeah, I was like, okay, all right, well, what.

[C]

About the one before that? Did you remember that one?

[A]

I did remember that.

[C]

Okay.

[A]

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.

[C]

So you don't really Remember it.

[A]

You just. I do remember.

[C]

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Apply it out of network ATMs.

[A]

Bank ranking and number of ATMs. According to US News and World Report, 2023 Chime checking account required. Adam Depriest the depri.

[B]

The priest. Who's that? That's the priest.

[A]

I've never considered a handicap stall as handicap. Only just as an ADA compliance for the establishment. Okay, I agree with Adam.

[C]

Yeah, I do too.

[A]

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.

[B]

I disagree. I think once you're in there, it's yours for as long as you want to be in there.

[A]

Oh, no, you gotta keep it moving.

[C]

It should be like a.

[B]

How do you recommend they enforce that?

[A]

I don't know.

[C]

But, like, at the car wash, if you want to stay in there longer, you gotta put more money in. Okay. Get some extra time.

[A]

This is an idea. There should be a switch on the door that you could go. And if there's a. A wait, you could go and flip the switch to let people know that there is someone waiting. And then you go ahead and wrap up here. 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.

[B]

So you can put a switch in. Or if you're staying out there, you.

[A]

Can just go, well, yeah, but this. But at the. At the airport, for instance, there'll be a line of dudes waiting always. In Nashville, the Nashville airport, there's always a lot of dudes waiting to poop.

[B]

It's pretty bad.

[A]

And I hate standing in that line because now, you know, I gotta poop, too. And I don't need you knowing that I need to poop.

[C]

That's the slay.

[A]

Yeah. I just. I got to do it, and I want to get in there. But if. 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.

[C]

Just put your shoes a little bit under the door.

[A]

So, yeah, yeah.

[B]

As you put a ring doorbell so you could just see who's.

[A]

I think the switch thing is not a bad idea.

[C]

I do agree with you, though, about the music in the bathrooms.

[B]

It should be illegal to not have music.

[C]

And the music, quite frankly, should be loud. Not like hurting your ears loud. But nobody needs to be talking in there anyway.

[B]

It's the only place where the music should be loud.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

All these restaurants, now the music is blasting, and you're like, why is it dead quiet in the bathroom? I Know restaurants like a dance club in this apple.

[A]

Restaurants are ruining themselves. Everywhere you go, they're ruining themselves.

[C]

Should do a restaurant episode.

[A]

Except we should.

[B]

Except Whataburger.

[A]

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.

[B]

And then you go, oh, Bobby didn't show up again.

[A]

Oh, so Terry's a liar.

[C]

You think it's a good idea, though, don't you?

[A]

I don't like it. No, no, don't. People are working in the restaurant. They're trying to set up a table for. If you have four people and you go, I have five. They probably have to pull another table up.

[B]

It's gonna be a different size table.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. And then you get in there and you go, oh, sorry, they didn't show. And they. The restaurant should go. Get out.

[B]

Restaurants are ruining themselves. They should be kicking people out of the room.

[C]

Get out, Terry. Take Stephanie Lee with you.

[A]

No, but I don't like this from Terry now. I like.

[B]

I respect the strategy, Terry, even if it's a little, you know, little bush league. I respect the strategy.

[A]

Like, how big are Terry Nagel's friends.

[C]

About to say there's a. Probably one in the group that could count for two.

[A]

Maybe. Maybe that's it. If that's the case, Terry, I'm sorry, I've said these.

[B]

That's where you go, look, give we reservation for six. It'll only be five, but you'll see what I'm talking about.

[A]

And then when you get there, the host looks at you and goes, terry, good looking out, bud.

[C]

Table for seven.

[A]

May have to grease this chair, huh? Come on, guys. Okay, the next comment's coming from Lauren Grossman.

[B]

Gross, man.

[A]

She's heard that before. You guarantee it?

[B]

Oh, every day I worked. Especially at where she worked.

[A]

I worked at. Yeah, 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 tipped. I still have nightmares about it.

[B]

Yeah, that's. That's. That's not good.

[A]

The. You can guarantee any restaurant you go to, if there's an. If there's a endless, a never ending, an all you can eat option, it is affecting the employees negatively.

[B]

Yeah, I'm sure.

[A]

Because the people who, for the most part, they come in for all you can eat are going to be the worst hippers. I used to work at West.

[B]

Do you think that is?

[C]

Yeah. Why is that?

[A]

Because they're like, I'm about to get my money's worth. I mean, I know that I've had that mentality before.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

You know where I go to a buffet, I'm like, I gotta eat three plates because I paid $10. I gotta stuff myself till I have to take a nap in the car.

[C]

Yeah. You're eating food you don't even want to eat.

[A]

And. And then, you know, I. I feel one time I had some. These are some in laws when I was waiting tables at Western Citizen. 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 tips really good.

[C]

Sure.

[A]

So I thought, well, Great, he's left $5. They're gonna leave more. I'm gonna have a great tip. Not only did they not leave more, but they took the five and left three.

[B]

They made change.

[A]

They made change off their kid.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

That's how people are getting treated at all. You can eat places.

[B]

That's dirt bag behavior for sure.

[A]

Yeah, I never cared for them.

[B]

Gross.

[A]

Okay. Yeah, that's a Grossman if I've ever seen it. Okay. Chase. Kyo. I feel like it would be pronounced like that. Kyo.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Everyone deserves a number one championship trophy. Let's start over. Everyone deserves a number over at the name too. Chase Q. 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 at. Are you saying give the umpires a trophy?

[C]

No, I think the kids.

[A]

Are the kids getting yelled at too?

[C]

I think they're just dealing with their parents yelling at them, yelling at the coaches, yelling at the umpires.

[B]

They're dealing with a lot of adults embarrassing themselves around them.

[A]

Like, all right, since we've established before, there's 10 years between all of us. Right. When I was growing up, I distinctly remember that there was one dad of the whole league, the whole rec league as we would call it, 10 teams or something who would lose It.

[B]

I thought you're saying only one of the kids had a dad.

[A]

No, no.

[B]

This is a crazy league.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

There was one dad that would lose.

[B]

It and just had a reputation for being.

[A]

Yeah, but everybody else was cool. I don't remember parents really losing it.

[B]

Out there, but I think the point is it's gotten way worse.

[A]

Yeah. That's why you were kids. But 10 years later, I had a.

[B]

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 5 or 6.

[A]

And I imagine when you were. They weren't doing it at all. People were probably very nice.

[B]

Well, they were wearing suits to the games back then.

[A]

I mean, the hats.

[B]

Yeah, Top hats.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, we continue to become a less respectful place to live at all times.

[B]

Was it an integrated league? 11. And you couldn't tell.

[C]

Dusty was 26 when he first flew. I was 26 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.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, for me either.

[A]

There was one. I don't want to say his name because I.

[B]

Because he listens.

[A]

Yeah, he may. He may. But I remember the one dad.

[B]

And I was like, you remember his son?

[A]

Yeah, well, that's right.

[B]

He was embarrassed by it, I think so. Was he a bit of a hothead, too, I imagine.

[C]

His last name. Stroop.

[A]

No, close. No, no, not Klaus. Acting.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Andrew Laver. You think that's right, Laver.

[B]

Lave. Lave.

[A]

Oh, Andrew Lavey is actually like the father of Satanism. Anton Lavey.

[B]

Let's go, Laver, then.

[A]

Yeah, yeah. Anton Levey. 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 ev 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.

[B]

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?

[C]

I've never said a racial joke on this podcast, so I felt the same way.

[A]

Would you say you had a lot of barrels around your house?

[B]

Barrel chested crackers.

[A]

Andrew. What is that?

[B]

Barrel chested crackers. That's a good one. Big bad breakfast.

[A]

Brent B. Okie. Here we have Brahms, which can be compared to Culver's. 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, etc. 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.

[B]

Brahms is great. I don't know if you've been to one.

[A]

I had no idea. Why am I just finding out about.

[B]

Driven by you. Driven by them many times.

[A]

I had no idea that was going on.

[B]

I've had. I bought their milk before. Brahms milk.

[A]

Thank you, Brent. I mean, my goodness. I had no idea. Brent B. What was going on?

[C]

People agree with you about Chick Fil A and Whataburger and how they've changed.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

There's a lot of Dusties out there. Too many.

[A]

I'm gonna be honest with you guys. The things I'm saying make sense. And the moment you get on board, your lives will be enhanced. You start, you live in denial.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Of. Of the truth I'm speaking out here. You guys live in denial of it.

[B]

Wake up, everybody.

[A]

But I'm happy. Thank you, Brent. But I'm happy to learn. I like to think that Brent's last name is Brahms.

[C]

Brent Brahms.

[A]

And he went ahead Brad, and he's like, let me go ahead and drop some knowledge on you.

[C]

It's probably not true. He just wants to sell his company.

[A]

Yeah. Do you think this is Josiah or Hosiah?

[B]

Josiah.

[A]

Josiah. Okay. Well, you never know. Josiah Day. Dusty says no one wants to watch the halftime show. Meanwhile, the 11 most watched videos on the NFL YouTube channels are all Halim shows. More people watch that than any game highlights. Let me fill you in on something, Josiah. Let me fill you in. Let me feel you on a little. 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. 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.

[B]

You're saying a lot of those views are from People analyzing.

[A]

Absolutely.

[C]

Okay. Yeah. Okay.

[A]

We're in there. We're watching it. We're going. Whether we're reading too much into it or not, we probably are, but we like to go in. There we go. Nope, nope. She flashed the devil horns. Ah, now it's a red dress. That's something.

[B]

You're drawing circles on it like John Madden.

[A]

Yeah, we like to get it.

[B]

Now here's a girl.

[C]

Girl.

[A]

But you're right, though. On another hand, if someone's a Katy Perry fan but not a football fan, they're gonna go, oh, let's see what Katy Perry did.

[B]

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 want to go back and re watch the game because you're watching the game live. And I said, you can go back and re watch these halftime shows. And it's the same.

[A]

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 on a new map. I'm not going to reveal.

[B]

You going to do your own.

[A]

I'm going to tease it.

[C]

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 Dogg, because that's the last one you knew they were. You're just an old man. That's get off my lawn.

[A]

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.

[B]

What was the last concert you enjoyed?

[A]

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. I don't know, can't remember their name, but it was great.

[C]

What if.

[A]

All right, let me say this, okay. I think you said this last week that the halftime show basically started because Mad TV did something at halftime, right?

[C]

Yeah. In living color.

[A]

In living color.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

They did something at halftime. I'm like, so the super bowl was like, we gotta 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 power back.

[B]

And do what?

[A]

I think everyone should do their own halftime 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.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Until the NFL does something more family friendly.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Huh?

[A]

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.

[B]

Yeah, yeah, I get that. You can also just choose as a family to turn the channel and watch something else. Right.

[A]

That's what I'm suggesting. Let's. Okay, let's create that entertainment. What would it be?

[B]

Just like, go outside for 20 minutes?

[A]

Well, I'm for not watching the super bowl at all.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

But I'm saying I think that's a harder push. Yeah, but for 15 minutes, 30 minutes. What else would it be?

[C]

Yeah. You know, I think. I'm guessing before the super bowl halftime show became a thing, they just did highlights and analysis, like a normal halftime. Yeah.

[A]

In the studio for 15 minutes. That's what they should do.

[C]

I don't know if the halftime was always longer or not.

[A]

I say make the halftime shorter. Let's don't even do a half.

[B]

Treat it like a quarter.

[C]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

Commercial break. And that's it.

[A]

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 Katy Perry one was pretty wild. Madonna had a pretty wild one. And I'm like, no, thank you. No, thank you.

[C]

Jesse Daniels.

[A]

Well, yeah, Jesse Daniels should do the halftime show. When's the last time we had a good country music one?

[C]

I doubt we ever have.

[A]

I mean, no, There was one with Garth, Trish. The Judds took part of one halftime show. Yeah. One of the first ones.

[C]

I didn't know that. Yeah.

[A]

It's like country music's very popular, but, you know, it would just be Morgan Wallen.

[C]

It would be Morgan Wallen. He's the only one I could think of that man. That would do it.

[B]

Yeah. I'm going back in time. 2020. 2019. Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake, Lady Gaga, Coldplay, Katy Perry, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Madonna, the Black Eyed peas. The WHO. 2010 is one of the best bands of all time.

[A]

Yeah. You don't like the who 15 years ago.

[B]

15 years ago.

[A]

Yeah. So the who's good. Yeah, I mean, I like them, but.

[B]

I mean, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty. Look at this stretch. It was. Well, this is after the. The famous.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Janet Jackson thing. They go, let's go hard the other way.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Paul McCartney, Rolling Stones, Prince, Tom Petty, Bruce Springsteen.

[A]

That's hard hitting. Yeah. Yeah. But, but, but, you know. So when's it. Yeah, so that, that shows even as far back as you've gone. There's been.

[B]

Shania Twain did it in 2003.

[A]

Yes.

[B]

With no Doubt.

[A]

So there you. Shania Twain's barely.

[C]

So she's about the only one I could think of.

[A]

I think one of the first ones.

[C]

Though, was the judge.

[A]

I think so A couple of people in the juds because somebody said something. They, they sang this song love can build a Bridge and they thought it would be a good. Yeah.

[B]

1994. Clint Black, Tanya Tucker, Travis Tritt, the Judds.

[A]

It's Tanya Tucker, though, by the way.

[B]

Oh, oh, Tanya.

[A]

Tanya in Atlanta. Yeah. So look at that. Almost over 30 years ago since we've had.

[B]

It's the last time country was good, right?

[A]

That's a. Yeah. All right, here we go. Josh Stringer, last comment.

[B]

Is it Josh or Yash?

[A]

I think this is a pretty strong Josh. You never know, though. There is a Yoshua 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.

[B]

Wow. Thank you, Josh.

[A]

Maybe if he was less of a good sport and more good at sports, he wouldn't have.

[B]

That's good. That's pretty good. Now, it's good to see you get one in.

[C]

I want to issue a public apology to you.

[B]

Okay, I'd love to hear it.

[C]

That was it. Like Dwight Schrute.

[B]

I state my regret.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

Listen, guys, I talk to Brian all the time. I go, you're just, you're. You're pretty mean to people on the podcast.

[C]

It's very funny. Well, first, I only remember I made the paper towel joke.

[B]

Yeah, it was funny.

[C]

That's the only thing I remember even saying. But I thought, 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.

[B]

Yeah, that's funny.

[A]

Yeah. Talk about running a joke into the ground.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

The oldest joke, which I don't mind.

[C]

Breakfast. But the point is that we all have A little theme here.

[A]

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.

[B]

You're pushing for him to get his own podcast and off this one?

[A]

No, no, it's his slogan, okay? That's his slogan.

[C]

Ryan breakfast Podcast.

[A]

I say podcast, I'm at Bates.

[C]

It's all right.

[A]

Hurts the pitch when you mess the words.

[C]

Sure does not kind of like it.

[B]

Well, thank you, John. I think your heart's in the right place.

[A]

Ryan breakfast podcast is just in the morning.

[B]

It's. It's all in good fun, man. It's all in good fun.

[A]

Wake up to breakfast, Josh.

[C]

I bet you're a fatty, too. All right, let's go ahead.

[A]

He probably is, though.

[B]

A fatty.

[C]

Joking. I'm joking.

[A]

That's why it sticked out to him.

[C]

Yeah, stick. 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, Okay? I don't think Dusty is.

[A]

I mean, you don't have to think it. It's.

[B]

No, it's not a matter of opinion.

[C]

I think.

[A]

No, I never do either. I. 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.

[C]

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?

[B]

I'm saying what I think I was saying that. That everybody takes their fair share of. Of stuff.

[C]

I think I take more than my fair share over the years from us on the podcast. Well, at least when Nate's here.

[B]

Oh, yeah, well, when Nate's here, it's a whole different situation. Yeah, yeah.

[A]

That's out of our control.

[C]

Don't bring us into it because we're on a podcast with this guy.

[B]

You don't even know who that guy is. Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Just let him do. He shows up and I go, you do whatever you want.

[C]

Yeah, it's all in good fun.

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I can. I hate it.

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[C]

We can't even find Nate these days.

[B]

That's what I'm saying. He deleted us.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

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[C]

All right, this week. You guys excited?

[B]

I am excited, yeah.

[A]

Because we actually don't know the topic, I don't think.

[B]

No, he. He texted us about it already.

[C]

He complained about it.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

No, no, no, no. He. He liked it. Right. Because he picked it for him.

[C]

I did pick it for him, but he still complained about it. But anyway, I'm joking. Kind of. The topic is Connecticut.

[A]

Oh, everyone's favorite state of Connecticut.

[B]

The Show Me state.

[C]

Yeah, that's right. I meant to look up how many states we've done. It's. 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.

[B]

But when we started doing it, I think the thinking was we're going to do all 50 in a row. That was five years.

[C]

Five years ago. This is the first one we've done in months, but we're doing one today.

[B]

State of Connecticut, where I just was.

[A]

I was just In Hartford. And Zach Townsend, our friend, is from Manchester, Chester, Connecticut. I didn't know that that's where the comedy club is. Yeah.

[C]

I thought he was from Florida.

[B]

He moved to Florida after that, but yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

Okay. Well, I was about to say, I don't know anybody from Connecticut, but Zach Townsend.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Kevin Nealon grew up there.

[B]

Okay, tell us a little about the state. What's it got going on?

[C]

All right. Do you guys know the capital of Connecticut?

[A]

Hartford.

[C]

Correct. I don't think I could have told you that with much confidence.

[B]

What else would you have thought it was? Connecticut city?

[A]

Bridgeport.

[C]

Bridgeport. I might say Bridgeport. I probably would have guessed Hartford, but I wouldn't have been confident.

[B]

Is Connecticut the most annoying state to spell?

[C]

Yeah, I was gonna bring that up.

[B]

Too, because that C. Yeah, it's connect.

[A]

Mississippi and Tennessee are tough because you got like these. You're like, is there two S's? Is there two.

[B]

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, crooked letter, I. Crooked letter, letter I. Humpback. Humpback.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And there's none of that for Connecticut.

[C]

Yeah. I Googled toughest state to spell, and it said Connecticut and Massachusetts.

[B]

Massachusetts.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

That C gets you Connecticut.

[C]

Yeah. Connect, I cut, right?

[B]

Yeah, Yeah, I guess so.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

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.

[C]

But it's.

[A]

Yeah, he meant.

[B]

He meant it's supposed to. You're supposed to say it.

[C]

Oh, how you're supposed to pronounce it.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So Hartford's the capital. 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.

[B]

It seems like it'd be infinitely more complicated to do everything.

[C]

It eventually got that way. But from 1701 to 1874, they had two Cat. Hartford and New Haven, the largest cities in Connecticut. The top four, all pretty close. Number one, Bridgeport.

[B]

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.

[A]

I've never been to Bridgeport. Did the stress factory there. I had a fun time at the club. I'm not a huge fan of the city.

[B]

It's a. It's a tough city.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

My.

[B]

There's a. Somebody got Shot right outside the club the first time I was there and then the only time I've had a full blown fist fight with people in the audience.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

Was in Bridgeport.

[A]

You weren't involved.

[B]

That did sound like I jumped off the stage.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It was within a minute of me being on stage, the two tables just started going at it. I just stood there and watched it. And right after they, they left, somebody yelled, welcome to Bridgeport.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

A lot of self awareness there.

[A]

Because I drove in and I thought it looked pretty good. I was Ubering 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.

[B]

But welcome. Yeah, have a good stay.

[C]

I've been to. I didn't at first I thought, I don't even think I've been to Connecticut.

[A]

But I did 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 a Whole Foods or Trader Joe's or something and there was a, it was a very nice part of town. Yeah. So it's not all, but downtown was pretty sketch.

[C]

I'm a little surprised to hear that because in my head I envision Connecticut as rich, wealthy people. And I would have thought all the cities were pretty safe because that's, that's.

[B]

How the brochure looks.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

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, at least where I'm getting to perform.

[C]

I did, I went to Connecticut for the 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 sandwiched in between. Well, a lot of big cities, but certainly close to New York City. So Bridgeport's biggest. 150,000.

[A]

Yeah. We drove. When I flew into New York City and I did some stuff and then me and my friend Derek, 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, 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. Yeah, it could be the largest city.

[B]

In the state, but that's smaller than I thought. 150,000 is the biggest city. How, how big's the state overall? Is. It must be one of the smaller.

[C]

States size wise, Area wise, it's the third smallest.

[A]

Yeah, and I, and I don't. I'm not saying these things by population. I'm saying by building size.

[C]

Sure, sure.

[B]

Okay. But 3.67 million is the population.

[C]

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.

[B]

They pack them in.

[C]

Stanford right behind it, 135,000.

[B]

Stanford, Connecticut. I know him from the office. Yeah, Stanford branch.

[C]

Yep. New Haven right behind. I mean, basically the same 135, 000. And then Hartford's 120, 000.

[B]

Okay. Yeah.

[C]

So there's four right there.

[B]

And New Haven's. Yale's there. Right.

[C]

Is that where Yale is?

[B]

I think so.

[C]

It's in Connecticut. I didn't know which city it was.

[B]

New Haven, that's where. What's the city? It's supposed to have the best pizza in the world.

[C]

Yep. I got. That's New Haven.

[B]

Okay, New Haven.

[C]

Got that on here.

[B]

My bad. I mean, to make.

[C]

See if I can find.

[B]

Ahead.

[C]

Sorry.

[B]

Let's just start with what I know first.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

New Haven style pizza. Thin crusted, coal fired. Neapolitan. Neapolitan pizza style of pizza. Pizza style of pizza which is common in around New Haven, locally known as a pisa a Pisa. Oh, that makes more sense. Pisa. It originated 1925 at the freight Pepe Pizzeria Nepalatina. Now served in many Italian in you, Brian.

[B]

I can hear it.

[C]

Served in many other pizza restaurants.

[A]

He italicized it.

[B]

It's a good book. Yeah, it's a good bit. Look it up the.

[A]

You know, I had a good Reuben the last time. Last. This 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 get like a, like a corn or pastrami bagel at this place. God, it was so good.

[B]

Bagel sandwich.

[A]

Yeah, I really missed it this time.

[B]

Yeah, they do bagel stuff pretty good in that, that part.

[A]

The Northeast. They really do pastrami.

[B]

Well, that's what they say. They say the water. Something with the water.

[A]

Gosh, they really get it. And I hate that I wasn't able to participate this time around.

[B]

But you could have.

[A]

I know. I'm just trying to keep it together. But, gosh, I love a pastrami, man.

[B]

Why did. Why do you know? Why is the pizza so good there?

[C]

What?

[B]

What is it? It's just like one. One spot opened 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 pizza is? They probably say New York City or. Or whatever. Right? Not New Haven, Connecticut, but that's kind of known as the. The best pizza in the world.

[C]

I did not know this till about two years ago. Ruth went up there on a work trip and her boss was like, oh, Dave Portnet. Is that how you say his name?

[A]

Portnoy?

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

Portnoy.

[C]

Yeah, Portnoy. Sorry.

[B]

That's okay.

[C]

He's the guy from Barstool Sports.

[A]

Yeah, we don't mind that you pronounce his name wrong.

[B]

It's just funny how hard you hit it.

[C]

Dave Portnoy. Portnoy.

[B]

He does the pizza reviews.

[C]

Yeah, I did not know that. But her boss was like. He ranked this place number one, so we gotta go. So that's when I first. I never heard.

[B]

What was her review.

[C]

She. Ruth grew up. Grew up in Connecticut.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

She. But she didn't. She didn't know about this. Top pizza, though.

[A]

I'm gonna 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 there.

[C]

Okay, that's a fair point. It's a fair point, Dusty. Yeah, you're right. I guess I met. She spent a few years of her childhood there. That's not where she claims.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

She was there for, like, five or six years.

[A]

We'll accept it.

[C]

Okay, but you're. That's a fair point. I'm from Connecticut. This. 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.

[A]

Does it.

[C]

No, no, no. I think it means, like, by the river.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

It's a river named by the river.

[C]

Or something like that.

[B]

I don't think they named the river by the river. That doesn't make any sense.

[C]

Look it up.

[A]

What would the river be then? How can the river be by the river? A river can't be by the river unless there's two rivers.

[B]

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 qut. It's a word for long title, river. Okay.

[C]

Long title. Okay.

[B]

Yeah. By the river.

[A]

Wait, it's. The term is long titled river.

[B]

Long title, river.

[A]

But that still seems the same title. Not T, I, T, L, E. No.

[C]

Okay. I'm like. That's still the same thing.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Okay. Okay.

[B]

What's that ocean called? It's called Next to the ocean.

[C]

Go ahead, Dusty.

[A]

I didn't. I dropped it.

[C]

All right.

[A]

I'll drop this. Right.

[C]

It's also called the Net. Net 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 widely recognized moniker. I didn't know what a nutmeg was. I figured you used it daily.

[A]

I don't. No, I don't know nutmeg.

[C]

Really?

[A]

I mean, I've heard the term.

[C]

You grew your own. It's just like a spice. Some type.

[A]

But what's its benefits?

[B]

Tastes good.

[C]

Digestive, Is it?

[B]

I don't know.

[A]

Everything claims to help digestion, but I can tell you, not everything does.

[B]

The nutmeg, commonly used as food spices have been traditionally employed for their stock. Psychoactive and aphrodisiac effects.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

That's why, 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.

[A]

Sounds good. Yeah, I've never. I'm more of a turmeric guy.

[B]

I'm a salt and pepper man myself.

[A]

I like cloves. I got. Got. I get into Club Cloves and tea a lot of times.

[B]

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.

[A]

Never been into eggnog.

[B]

Really?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Even in your. Your drinking days. I just picture you dress up a Santa and drink eggnog and walk through the streets of Charleston.

[C]

Yeah, me, too. Oh, because you.

[B]

Oh, because you. Yeah. You don't like anything Christmas?

[A]

Well, no, when I was drinking, I was into Christmas.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It's fun, right?

[A]

Yeah, but I. Yeah, I gave up fun a long time ago, but I, I now, I was always. You know, I was always into a bourbon. Okay. No matter the holiday.

[C]

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. Still keep moving the ball. That's called a nutmeg.

[B]

Huh? Is it really?

[C]

That's what I read. Is that right?

[B]

Whoa. I've never heard that in my life.

[C]

Yeah, me neither. I couldn't tell you what the real nutmeg was till today.

[A]

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[C]

Great stuff. It's awesome.

[A]

I was wearing it today. I walked on the treadmill in my Vori shorts today and I just. It feels good.

[C]

You should get out, enjoy some sun, do some grounding.

[B]

Yeah, just.

[A]

Well, you know, I did. I walked around in the yard also with the Vori on too. It looks good. It feels good. I'm, you know, I read things in a sarcastic way, but they do look good and feel good. I went to Lowe's wearing it. I don't mind being out and about in Vori. Yeah, I would never wear jogging pants out in public. I don't even want my wife to see me in jogging pants. But viori makes it look good. What I love is how versatile they are. I've worn them for early flights or when I lounge during the afternoons or even out for coffee without feeling like I was sitting in loungewear. They're lightweight, moisture wicking and have relaxed fit with four way stretch. So whether I'm running errands or just kicking back, they move with me. Fiori is an investment in your happiness for our listeners. They are offering 20 off your first purchase. And get yourself some of the most comfortable and versatile clothing on the [e-mail] Nate that's V U-O-R-I.com Nate exclusions apply. Visit the website for full terms and conditions. Not only will you receive 20 off your first purchase, but enjoy free shipping on any US orders over 75 and free returns. Go to vuori.comnate and discover the versatility of Vori clothing exclusion supply. Visit the website for full terms and and conditions.

[B]

That was solid.

[C]

All right, so there's one president that's been born in Connecticut. You guys will never guess it.

[A]

George Bush, bestie, Mitt Romney.

[B]

George Bush Jr. W. Mitt Romney.

[C]

Incorrect. George W. Bush. That's Texas. That's. No, you're right.

[B]

Okay. I know he went to Yale.

[C]

Yes, you are correct.

[B]

The family's from Connecticut. It.

[A]

Right. Skull and bones.

[C]

It's just funny you associate that family so much with Texas.

[B]

Totally.

[C]

But he was born in New Haven.

[B]

He's got the accent and everything. Yeah.

[C]

Dad attended Yale at the time, so. So, yeah, you're exactly right, Aaron. Look at the big.

[B]

Where's Mitt Romney born? Michigan. His dad was governor of Michigan.

[C]

I think you're right. Okay, so everybody associates him with Utah, but I think he was born in.

[B]

Michigan and he was governor of Massachusetts. These guys move around. They move around.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Where can I take over next? Yeah, and they go there. Yeah, they do.

[A]

They get in there and they go, where can I infect a city?

[C]

Oh, yeah, there was one. One Connecticut senator that was the vice presidential candidate, Al Gore. What's Tennessee.

[B]

What's his face?

[C]

Have a face.

[B]

Lieberman, man.

[C]

He is. This guy's on Joe Liberman. Al Gore's running mate. Okay, so you're both. Yeah, yeah. Yep.

[B]

And Gore's Tennessee guy, right?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So it's Tennessee, Connecticut.

[C]

He was the first president. First can own a presidential ticket of a Jewish faith.

[A]

All right.

[B]

Yep.

[A]

Yeah. Now who'd they lose?

[B]

I would just assume they'd have way more because they're one of the first states.

[C]

Right. Yeah.

[B]

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.

[C]

Yeah. Not even associated with that.

[B]

That's crazy.

[A]

Was.

[B]

Virginia had like 10.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Pennsylvania and Ohio. Ohio's had the most, I think. But, man, Connecticut needs to step it up.

[C]

I know. I think Virginia maybe has the most.

[B]

Ohio, they call the. The. I don't know, the. The Den of Presidents or something. Didn't we do an Ohio episode?

[C]

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.

[B]

All right, now we're back. Now we're back.

[C]

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?

[A]

Yeah, I used to tear up some sub.

[C]

What was your guys go to Subway?

[B]

It was.

[A]

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 with a Parmesan oregano bread. That's what they used to have. Very good. But a meatball sub was crushing it back in the day.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

People always trash Subway and they go, the food's not good. And I'm like, that's kind of on you.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

You're the one making it. You know, you put whatever you want on it. Sounds like a you problem, but if.

[C]

All the ingredients are bad, you're out of.

[B]

Are all the ingredients bad? Because I make a pretty good one.

[A]

There's a Subway in Lafayette, Alabama, that's still pretty good.

[C]

Near Fletcher.

[B]

Why would that one be good? It is the Fed Alabama subway be good.

[A]

It's good.

[B]

The rest of them are.

[A]

Because they care about it.

[B]

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.

[C]

Times. Dude, it was good, right?

[B]

And it was pretty good. It was pretty good.

[A]

This is not even when she was in the hospital.

[B]

Yeah. Now I just go back to.

[C]

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.

[B]

He works in that vending machine's always. It's not stock. Usually.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

So it's.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

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.

[A]

So these cities were like. Bridgeport was really great at one point is what I'm gathering.

[B]

Still. Honestly. Still great. Yeah.

[A]

I thought you had something.

[B]

Yeah. Can't wait to work at the club again.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Love it out there.

[A]

Well, I love the stress factor.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But I think.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

I think a lot of, you know, the economies change.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Cities.

[A]

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.

[B]

They make all the bridges here.

[A]

And my. My. My Uber driver was just like, it's not. He did. I don't recommend you do that.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

But you're pretty anti. Big city anyway.

[A]

Yeah. I mean, I'm sure. Unsafe everybody everywhere.

[C]

Yeah. I texted him something from the train in Chicago a couple weeks ago. He's like, you're on the train in Chicago?

[A]

Yeah, I was freaked out.

[C]

We're going to a White Sox game. Is everybody white?

[B]

So the train is sweet. It takes you right to the stadium.

[A]

Yeah, yeah, I was freaked out.

[C]

All right, Dusty, I think you'll like this. So Subway was owned for six decades by the family who founded it. In 2024, they were bought by private equity group Work Capital.

[A]

Oh, yes.

[C]

You know what that means? Just they're buying up the world. That food's going to go downhill.

[A]

Well, yeah, of course.

[B]

Yeah. Subway was great until 2024.

[A]

But yeah, I mean, I would say, you know, they say the, 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%.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

So like, majority of them like, you know, that 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.

[C]

Well, six decades, not six generations. That's probably three generations.

[A]

Yeah. So that by the third, they already forgot what made Subway great in the first place. And they go, let's see if we can't have the most businesses in the most restaurants in the world.

[B]

They're already there by that point. By the time that they, they sold. Right. Yeah, 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.

[A]

Right.

[B]

That was the whole point of it. And then Super Size Me and all of that. There's a culture shift.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Where we started to look down on those things and Subway was like, there's a niche.

[A]

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.

[B]

Really?

[A]

I was like, whoa, this.

[B]

And is that the one in the fet?

[A]

No, this one was in. This one was in Auburn.

[C]

Oh, wow.

[A]

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.

[B]

Just the employees smoking weed.

[A]

Yeah. Yeah.

[C]

Where's that skunk smell?

[A]

Yeah, could be.

[C]

This year this is a big move. They switched from Coca Cola to pepsi. Sign a 10 year deal with Subway. Did. Yep.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

I don't know about theet.

[B]

That's a Big move.

[A]

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 difference.

[B]

Okay?

[A]

They taste the same to me, but they say Diet Pepsi and Diet Coke is where it gets vastly different in.

[B]

Favor of which one.

[A]

Everybody loves Diet Coke.

[B]

Yeah. Diet Coke.

[A]

Nobody wants Diet Pepsi.

[B]

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?

[C]

That's all it is. I was complaining to Chase last night on the bus. Do we not have anything on here? Not diet?

[A]

I didn't know.

[B]

It's crazy.

[A]

I honestly did not know anyone preferred Diet Pepsi.

[B]

Nobody really does. Except Nate.

[A]

I didn't know anyone did.

[B]

Yeah, it's all Fresca. It's no Sprite. They do all the weird stuff.

[A]

But I don't. I don't do any of the diet drinks. But if I'm gonna drink it, like a Coke or Pepsi doesn't have any. It doesn't affect me at all. I can easily go Pepsi.

[B]

Mm.

[C]

The first hamburger restaurant was in Connecticut.

[B]

The first hamburger.

[C]

Lewis's lunch. Hamburger restaurant.

[A]

Believe there's any. I. I don't know how they would even know this.

[C]

Well, let me get to it.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

It's in New Haven. It's. They claim to be the first restaurant to serve hamburgers, and it was open as a small lunch wagon, 1895.

[B]

A lunch wagon, okay?

[C]

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, louie, 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 it's got to be a bun to be considered a hamburger. So if it's between two pieces of.

[A]

Toast, that's a patty melt.

[B]

Well, I think it's more about the meat. Right? It's hamburger meat.

[C]

That's what makes. So you think 22. Like, just pieces of bread is fine?

[B]

I think that. Yeah, I think that's a burger.

[A]

I think it tastes good. But it's a patty melt.

[B]

But what. What is a patty melt?

[A]

It's A. It's a hamburger in between.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Hamburger meat in between two pieces of white bread.

[B]

Yeah, it's just a hamburger with bread.

[A]

But I would say it's ground beef. We're conditioned to call it hamburger meat, but it would be ground beef.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

In between, two piece.

[B]

I mean, we're getting Hamburger Helper also in Connecticut. Is that a burger?

[C]

Well, we.

[A]

We're getting, you know, obviously we're getting technical about it, but I would say.

[B]

A patty, as we're prone to do on this podcast.

[A]

But I would say a patty melt is bread. Hamburgers, 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 ch. A cheese steak of sorts.

[B]

So Hamburger Helpers, is that place still. Still around?

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

So they claim to be the first ever hamburger. Why was it called a hamburger? Isn't Hamburg a city in Germany?

[C]

Yes, that's a good question. I don't know.

[A]

And Hamburger Helper, my. My grandmother would make a dish called like, goulash.

[B]

Yeah, sure.

[A]

Which would be kind of noodles and meat and stuff like that. And there's also another dish like that, I think, but, you know, so I think Hamburger Helper just capitalized on an old man.

[C]

That sounds good.

[A]

Yeah. My grandmother didn't make a lot of things, but she did make a goulash.

[C]

Should be a good Afghan.

[B]

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.

[C]

Yeah, nobody knows anything out here.

[A]

Because you got to think that, you know, when they started to grind meat like that, they would probably be like, they would probably. 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.

[C]

Would you mind seeing if Lewis's Lunch has a website?

[B]

Lewis's Lunch and connect. I cut Lou. Is it Lewis's Lunch or Lou's Lunch?

[C]

Oh, maybe it's Lou.

[B]

It's a burger restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, since 1895.

[A]

It's got a real German feel about the building.

[B]

Yeah. What do you call?

[C]

It's.

[B]

Yeah, it does, man. And it's got these old school style pub tables.

[A]

I like to look, I'm in support of this place. I'd like to go eat there.

[B]

It Is it. Has been serving Louie's 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 I added that part. Family owned and operated. We are currently run by the fourth generation and are one of the oldest family run business businesses in the country.

[A]

Let's take a Nateland trip to there, eat a burger.

[C]

It sounds good.

[B]

During the eclipse. Our restaurant prides itself on today.

[C]

No.

[A]

Let'S take a trip and go eat a burger.

[C]

All right.

[B]

Recognized by the Library of Congress as the birthplace of the hamburger sandwich.

[A]

I haven't eaten much today, so I'm like, particularly like, let's go there.

[C]

Sounds good.

[A]

Doesn't get into it.

[C]

Yeah, yeah, I agree.

[B]

Yeah. This place looks awesome.

[C]

It does look awesome.

[B]

They are committed to serving a classic hamburger. That's interesting.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

You're a hamburger place. We're committed to serving hamburgers. Well, it's very honorable.

[A]

They want to make sure they don't get modern with it.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

Committed to serving a classic.

[C]

Okay. Did you have a Go to Subway order or did you mix it up?

[B]

Slow to question. Dude. It's a loaded question. I'll tell you what I get. I get the Italian. Get a 6 inch Italian on wheat, provolone, toasted, chipotle, mayo, banana peppers, jalapenos, lettuce, salt, pepper.

[C]

That's a good order.

[A]

Wow.

[B]

With a. With a cookie and a diet coat.

[C]

No chips.

[B]

A good meal right there. And I will go foot long. I don't know why I said 6 inches. I was gonna say that would soften the blow a little bit.

[C]

If I do 6 inch, I get chips with it. If I do a foot long, then that's enough.

[B]

Doesn't hold me back.

[A]

What about Moe's? Do you ever Got guys ever go there?

[B]

Welcome to Moe's.

[A]

I love Moe's. I love the burrito. The Joey bag of Donuts. Remember that?

[B]

No.

[A]

You don't remember when they had those names.

[B]

Joey Bag of Donuts. It sounds like a comedian.

[A]

Well, it was a. It was a movie. Movie references like the movie and the. The Joe. Moe's back in the day used to be full of music and movie references.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

So one of the burritos was called Joey Bagadon.

[B]

We're gonna need a bigger tortilla.

[A]

Yeah. And then stuff like. Yeah. And then like the Home Wrecker and John Cocktosten.

[B]

I'll have.

[A]

And yeah.

[B]

Jose's having.

[A]

Yeah. Stuff like. Yeah.

[B]

And.

[A]

And Joey bag of Donuts.

[C]

Was the go to New Haven. Sounds like the place to go.

[A]

It is.

[C]

They got the pizza, they got the hamburger.

[B]

It's nice.

[C]

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 Submarine. That was invented in Connecticut. Didn't work. It was a one man wooden submarine, supposed to go under.

[A]

I thought Fort Sumter invented the first submarine. Like in Charleston.

[B]

That's where the first shots were fired. In the.

[A]

No, but I thought they had the. The Hunley.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

I don't know.

[A]

Was the first submarine thinking of the Harley. The Hunley.

[C]

Okay. I don't know, Dusty. I'm just going off what I read here.

[A]

Yeah, I wish we had a guy that can look that up.

[C]

I'm sure there's some little tweak that makes them different.

[B]

In 1995. Well, that's not. No, that was way later.

[A]

Hunley was this. I think it was the H.L.

[B]

Hunley.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

It was a submarine of the Confederate States of America. Played a small part in 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 torpedo boat, or the. The Porpoise. It sank in August of 1860. Yeah, I mean, during the test run.

[A]

Every time they ever used it, it killed everybody.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

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.

[C]

Yeah, but that's almost 100 years later. Okay, so you're way off.

[B]

All right.

[A]

Yeah, but we don't know this thing you're talking about, this wouldn't. They guys. Did they live.

[C]

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. Yeah, I don't think anybody died, but I don't think they killed anybody either.

[A]

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.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

The first telephone book published in New Haven.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

You know, I was thinking about this. You're probably too young for telephone books.

[B]

I remember phone books.

[C]

There 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.

[A]

The Yellow Pages were great.

[B]

Why would you want your phone number listed? Did you have to opt out of having her number listed or did you have to optimize. Opt in to have.

[A]

You had to opt out.

[B]

Okay, why would you not opt out? What was the. The benefit of having.

[A]

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.

[B]

He wanted to be friends and family that find you. You weren't trying to have. Strange. But why would you want a stranger to know your phone number?

[C]

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.

[B]

Oh, yeah.

[C]

And we published it and wanted to be right and our address, too.

[A]

But it's like we. 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.

[C]

Yeah. I lived in a small town. Everybody kind of trusted each other.

[B]

And did you ever do prank phone calls as a kid?

[C]

A little bit, yeah.

[A]

I mean, it was.

[B]

What'd you do? Who'd you call? Just ran, like, random numbers. You call or.

[A]

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.

[B]

Oh, okay.

[A]

You know.

[C]

Yeah. Because then there's landline, right?

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

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.

[B]

Is your refrigerator running?

[C]

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.

[B]

Why was it on cardboard? Which is like a homeless guy keeping track of it? I mean, I put it on paper back then. It.

[C]

Maybe to make it a little bit more sturdy.

[B]

All right. Or just put it, you know, tape it to the wall or something.

[C]

I Don't know. There's a pit. I looked it up. There's photos of the first phone directory.

[A]

I don't know. Oh, yeah. Because there weren't. Probably weren't even that many people to call.

[C]

But then eventually came down to they got 391. Subscribers pay 20$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, hullo. H U L L O A. That's interesting, right?

[B]

What? How do you say it?

[C]

I don't know how you say it, but. H U L L O A. Oh, hello.

[A]

Hello. Helloa, Aloha.

[C]

And when done right, and when done talking, you should say, that is all. And then the other person should.

[B]

I still say that.

[C]

And the other person should respond, okay.

[B]

Wow.

[C]

That was how the phone etiquette was supposed to be when it first started.

[B]

Okay, and how long did that last?

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

I better get out of hand real quick.

[C]

Somehow it went from Huloa to hello.

[B]

Hello. Wow.

[C]

Does that say hello? Wasn't even.

[A]

How do you spell it again?

[C]

H U L L O A.

[B]

Before I look that up, I want to say $22 in 1878 is about $712 today.

[C]

Yeah. So you notice it?

[B]

Yeah, sure. It's not nothing.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. Hello.

[B]

It is. It is a British variation of hello.

[C]

Okay.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Well, this was.

[B]

Man, look at. Dude, you can get down a rabbit hole. I got the definition of haloa. It says it's an alternative form of haloa. And you click on that and then it says, see halu and compare.

[A]

Holla ahala.

[C]

The oldest continuously published newspaper in the US the Hartford Courant. It's established in 1764 and it's been going ever since.

[A]

My. We. You know, just speaking of this, it says mahala up there, which is like Hawaiian, right? My. My friend that I, 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 all. When he would get off the phone, he just kind of adapted some of that. He'd Go. He would go, well, 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 when. Whenever Joey would get off the phone with him, he'd go, oh, holla. And they thought. They were like, what is he saying? They thought he was saying, like, Mahala. Like he was trying to be Hawaiian.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Brian gave me a real disgusted look.

[C]

Geez, man. 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. Can you tell it again? First speed limit passed in Connecticut, 1901. Limited motor vehicles to 12 mph in cities and 15 mph on country road 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?

[B]

55. To maximize fuel efficiency and to keep us competitive in a global market.

[C]

I think that is right.

[B]

Lower our dependence on foreign oil.

[A]

I think 85.

[C]

85?

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Didn't they change it to 55 during the cold War?

[C]

I think we talked about that.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Or maybe. Yeah, some.

[B]

Somewhere there's some kind of fuel shortage in there. Like, you got to get to 55.

[C]

I was gonna say maybe even World.

[A]

War II, but maybe it was, I think, mandatory. We. 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.

[B]

Just on the interstate.

[A]

Not everywhere on the interstate. Obviously, even on the interstate.

[B]

School zone.

[A]

Obviously even on the interstate. There will 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 line.

[B]

Mm.

[C]

So the speed limit. Most interstates are 70. Occasionally, I'll see a 75 in some states.

[A]

In Texas, I think it does get up to 85.

[C]

I think there is one stretch in Texas that gets up to. I was going to say at least 80. Maybe it does.

[B]

Parts of, like, Route 66 aren't there. Isn't that. Isn't that pretty high?

[C]

I don't know.

[B]

When you're just, like, middle of nowhere, like, what are we doing? Might as well just go 100.

[C]

Yeah, but even you agree? I mean, you just said it's got to be some limit. You want the government to hold us down in some ways?

[A]

Well, yeah, I mean, I do support some heavy regulation. Some regulation. Okay.

[B]

Behavior.

[A]

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. 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.

[C]

My fear with 85 is most people, I think it's an understanding almost cops will give you generally like 10 miles per hour over the speed limit. That's always why I've kind of.

[B]

Especially if you're pass. If you're passing somebody, I think you are allowed to speed. Speed up more.

[C]

But if a. If the speed limit's 70 and you're going 80 or. Yeah. Or. Or 78.

[A]

Well, let's say the leeway goes away.

[C]

Well, that's what I was about to say. Because my fear is then people be like, I could get 95 before they're going to give me a ticket. Now we're getting a little too crazy.

[A]

Yeah. Let's say the leeway's gone now.

[C]

Leeway's gone. You go 86, you're going to get a ticket.

[A]

But I think the more important thing is to teach people to stay out of the passing lane. And then cars can just roll out. When you need to pass, pass. 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.

[B]

What about when there's more than two lanes? What do you teach them to do?

[A]

I think, I think this is my own philosophy. I think still the right lane is the slow lane.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But the right lane is often the exit lane for people.

[C]

Yes.

[A]

So sometimes, you know, but I still think we got it. 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.

[C]

Okay, but you will pass people on the right hand side if you get the chance, right?

[A]

If I have to, yeah.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. What's wrong with, with that?

[A]

Well, I Don't think there's anything. I don't think there's anything wrong with passing in the right hand line.

[B]

I don't think you're supposed to pass it. You're not supposed to pass people on the right.

[A]

But I don't. I don't think there's any thing wrong with it. In my opinion.

[C]

If someone's just parked in the left.

[A]

Lane, then, yeah, you got to get around them. However, you got to get around them. Yeah, I prefer to flash your lights at them and honk at them until they get over, but.

[C]

Did you just have a road rage incident?

[A]

I don't think so. Did I?

[B]

It's been months.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Yeah, I guess it has been. You talk about your podcast with your. With your family, and that was a long time ago. Okay. Yeah, it's been like two months.

[B]

Months, guys, that was the summer.

[C]

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 baby pos. 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. That this woman wasn't her real mom. Launched her own investigation after contacting the national center for Missing Exploited Children. She was reunited with her parents in January 2011.

[B]

Wow.

[A]

How old was she when she reunited with them?

[B]

2000 is 2011.

[C]

It happened in 1987.

[B]

24.

[C]

Yeah, something like that.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

Isn't that crazy?

[A]

That is crazy.

[B]

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.

[A]

Well, at 24, I guess you can go back to the other lady.

[C]

Yeah, well, the other lady went to jail. Oh, yes, rightfully so.

[B]

But I. That's been your mom. That's been essentially your mom for 24 years. I wonder if she still has a relationship with this one.

[A]

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 see.

[B]

I think you got to confirm it first.

[A]

Yeah, yeah.

[B]

You can't just go, I don't think this Woman's my mom. Can you come get her?

[A]

No, I'm saying, does she go check with the original parents and see if she likes them first?

[B]

Oh, that's very funny.

[C]

Before she turns her.

[A]

Yeah.

[C]

Other mom in. Yeah, she does like a two week trial.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

What?

[A]

Is there any other story? I'd love to hear more of that girl's story.

[C]

Yeah, I mean, this. They made a Lifetime movie about it, but I don't know.

[A]

You don't have the name of the movie.

[B]

What's the woman's name?

[C]

Carina. Let's see here. Tyson.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

The kidnapping of Carlina White. Yeah, she.

[A]

She.

[B]

Kind of a crazy story. Long Wikipedia page. I recommend you read it.

[A]

After the lady that was arrested.

[C]

This makes you think it's kind of a crazy story after what I told you before. Didn't.

[B]

Now I'm saying go. I mean, I was just. I wasn't able to say anything that quickly.

[C]

So.

[B]

Yeah, 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. Yes. So the hospital's liable too, because you can't. You shouldn't be able to just pose as a nurse.

[C]

Right.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

And steal a kid so they could sue the hospital, 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. They met their daughter, set up a man. It's an interesting story, I'm sure, though.

[A]

But 24 years, I mean, give the. I mean, I. I give the parents the benefit of the doubt there. It's like you lost your daughter. 24 years has gone by. It's like, spend the money. Right.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

Surprise. Any of the money was left.

[C]

Yeah. Just so sad to think about.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Wow. In May of 2011, by the following July, she became estranged from her biological parents.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

That's tough.

[B]

Whoa. Okay. She said she had a. Okay. I don't. There's a lot of information to distill and there is say on the podcast. Just go check it out. So it's a fun story.

[C]

I gotta think, though, if that had to happen to her and they built a normal relationship, that she wouldn't be estranged from them.

[B]

Well, hopefully they made up, you know?

[A]

Yeah. I mean, who knows who the woman was that took her. I mean, maybe, you know, they, you know, she just.

[C]

Well, we do know.

[A]

Well, we do. I'm saying, though, you don't know about her.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

You know, you know her name.

[C]

But yeah, I mean, she was desperate for a baby and she. She really was. It's crazy.

[B]

She was portrayed by Kiki Palmer in the Lifetime film Abducted. That's the movie. Abducted. The Carlo, the Carolina White story. Pretty crazy.

[A]

Wow.

[C]

All right. So another thing Nate had us do.

[A]

Sherry Shepherd. Sorry, Sherri Shepherd's in the movie.

[C]

Yep. Roger Cross.

[B]

Yeah.

[A]

But we know Sherry Shepard. Yeah.

[C]

Yeah. So Nate wanted to watch a horror movie, and I guess he chose the Conjuring.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

Now I hate horror movies. I kind of later learned this is.

[B]

The new one in theaters.

[C]

No, no, this is the original.

[A]

Okay.

[C]

But I haven't seen any of them because I don't like horror movies. Yeah, I sure don't want something like that. So we watched it. He like had everybody turn all the lights off and everything. And I mean it.

[A]

More fun.

[C]

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.

[A]

I support you.

[C]

I basically did.

[A]

I support you.

[C]

But I say all that to say in the movie. Have you seen it? There's this couple that's the paranormal.

[B]

Yeah.

[C]

Investigators. They have a little.

[B]

Based on real people.

[C]

Based on real people. They have a museum. A little paranoid. In the movie, you know, it shows Annabelle doll. That's in Connecticut.

[B]

That's right.

[C]

All this is in Connecticut.

[B]

And you know who just bought that whole thing?

[C]

I do. Do you know, Dusty?

[A]

Matt Rife.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Matt Rife just bought that. That just bought the Conjuring. Bought the museum.

[C]

Bought the museum in Monroe, which has the doll.

[A]

It's very sad. I hate that for him.

[C]

Yeah. Do you know why he bought it?

[B]

I think he's just interested.

[C]

Just really interested.

[B]

And I think it was. Maybe it was having financial troubles and he's like, I can step in and save it from bankruptcy or whatever.

[C]

Yeah, I guess there was a rumor that the Annabelle doll had disappeared.

[B]

Just popped back up.

[C]

Yeah. It's a raggedy and all in real life, but creepy looking. Yeah. He bought.

[A]

I say burn it to the ground.

[C]

Now in the movie, there is a guy who comes and asks, why don't you just destroy all these? And they said, well, this, you 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.

[B]

You got to keep it in. If you burn it. If you burn it, that just. It goes up and gets in the atmosphere and then the whole planet becomes.

[A]

I don't like it. I don't even like talking about it.

[C]

Yeah, yeah. I'm sorry, Dusty. All right, let's talk about Dusty's top five country songs about Connecticut. Go ahead, Dusty.

[A]

Well, I wasn't prompted and you know nutter coming to me right off hand.

[C]

I did look up some connect. There's nothing I even knew. Ben Folds has a song.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Nicki 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. In Hartford. The Hartford Whalers.

[B]

Oh yeah.

[C]

From 1975.

[A]

That's a cool name.

[C]

Yeah. And they left in 1997. Now they're the Carolina Hurricanes.

[B]

Oh, they moved to Carolina.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

Okay.

[C]

Yep. 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 is now called the Travelers Championship also in Hartford. So here's what I would if you asked me like name somebody you know in Connecticut other than my wife. Yeah. If I had to name a famous person that I associate, I would say Gino Arm Army. I can't even say his last name.

[B]

Yeah, yeah. The Yukon women's basketball coach.

[C]

Yes. UConn women's basketball is dominated. He's been there 40 years, maybe as.

[B]

Dominant as any program has been in any sport ever.

[C]

Ever. Maybe. Right. 12 national championships, I think.

[B]

Yeah. It's like when you think of women's basketball now you think of the Yukon women's team.

[C]

It's like UCLA was at one time in basketball.

[B]

In basketball, John Wooden.

[C]

Yeah.

[B]

And Saban was kind of that. But even more dominant than Saban was.

[C]

At a hundred and something game winning stream.

[B]

Yeah. It was insane.

[C]

So Yukon women's, I mean they're known as just the dominant for her, you know, women's best way. And the men, they won back to back national championships.

[B]

They did. Yeah.

[C]

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?

[A]

I don't have a clue. I don't have.

[C]

I know, I know. I was just funny looking at your face like what are you talking about?

[A]

I have no clue.

[B]

You're still thinking about the Annabelle doll.

[A]

No, no, I try to block that out.

[B]

Okay, my bad.

[C]

The game is the biannual. Well, I guess it's annual game between Yale and Harvard. It's biannual by. What's the word? Biannually.

[B]

Biannually.

[C]

Is that how you say it? Spell it.

[B]

Biennially.

[C]

Biennially.

[B]

Biennially. I've never seen that word. Biennially. It is once every two years. Wow. You learn something new every day.

[C]

Yeah. How about that?

[B]

A biannually would mean twice a year. Right. But by biennially, once every two years.

[C]

It's the second oldest college football rivalry in the country.

[B]

What's the oldest one? Army? Navy?

[C]

No, I think it's. Seeing this. It's two little colleges. It's up in the northeast, but I forgot what it is.

[B]

Two kind of nothing schools, just so everybody doesn't come. Colgate and Dartmouth or something.

[C]

It's something like that. Would you mind looking at.

[B]

Yeah, the oldest one. Yale. Okay.

[C]

Oh, Yale. Princeton. I guess I was wrong.

[B]

Yale versus Princeton. Well, yeah. It's all fake information. Who knows?

[C]

Anyway, I was thinking it was some. Somebody else. Okay. Some famous people from Connecticut. Seth McFarland, John Mayer. What's your favorite?

[B]

John McFarland's from there. I always assumed Rhode island because every. Because Family Guy takes place. And in Rhode Island.

[C]

I know he went to school, had.

[A]

A song I really liked.

[B]

John Mayer's got.

[A]

I mean, I know you.

[B]

Hundreds.

[A]

I know you.

[C]

What's your favorite John Mayer song?

[B]

I mean, it depends. It's very fluid. Stop this. Stop this Train is great. Edge of Desire is an unbelievable song. There's so many good ones, dude. One of the. One of the best songwriters, guitarists of my generation.

[A]

And then he went to I don't Trust Loving you. I think.

[B]

Yeah, it's a great song.

[A]

Yeah, I think that's the one. I haven't listened to it in a long time, but I think that's the one.

[B]

I can put you on some John Mayer. I got a lot of good songs. Yeah, he does a lot of country stuff now. It's just become part of. Like what?

[A]

Well, I liked him with dad and Company.

[B]

Okay.

[A]

I like that stuff.

[B]

You don't like the country stuff that he does? I don't know, the countryish stuff. I showed it to you. You didn't like it.

[A]

Okay. Okay. Yeah. Well, yeah, then.

[B]

I'm just trying to jog your memory a little bit.

[C]

Michael Bolton, more My generation.

[A]

Michael Bolton really took a beating for no reason, didn't he?

[C]

Because Office Space.

[B]

Office Space.

[C]

I think it was already. He was already. But that. That didn't help.

[B]

But he had a resurgence for my generation with the Lonely island, the. The Jack Sparrow song. I really brought Michael back and I think he kind of.

[A]

Yeah.

[B]

Shifted things back to.

[A]

He's good all right.

[C]

We could wrap up there.

[A]

That's what. Yeah. I mean, nothing says the podcast is over like bringing up John Michael Bolton. Huh?

[C]

All right. Meg Ryan. Meg Ryan.

[A]

Okay.

[B]

She's having.

[C]

Yeah.

[A]

Yeah. Okay, well, great. Well, we've already pitched our dates, but I'm in.

[B]

I'd like to do it again.

[A]

I'm in Wilmington, North Carolina, October 17, and then October 18, I'm in Richmond, Virginia.

[B]

About you, Brian.

[C]

Brian Bates here. Brian Bates speaking. Is that what you say?

[B]

This is Aaron Weber, by the way.

[C]

Oh, this is Brian Bates, by the way. Yeah, this is Breakfast. Brian Breakfast Bates. By the way, breakfast is why they call you breakfast because it's the most important meal of the day.

[A]

Best meal of the day.

[C]

Oh, best meal of the day. Okay.

[B]

Big bad breakfast.

[C]

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.

[B]

That's nice, man. Yeah, you're gonna enjoy Canada this weekend. It's Aaron Weber, by the way. October 10th and 11th, Huntsville, Alabama, levity Lie.

[C]

You'll love it.

[B]

Thank you. Will I.

[C]

Have you been to Levity Life?

[B]

I haven't been to. Since the full rebrand has taken effect. I haven't been.

[A]

Drinks and food are now.

[B]

The drinks. 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. The Submarine. Check out the Hunley while I'm out there. Met Wits 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.

[A]

No.

[B]

What. What's the. What's the cat's name?

[C]

I'm not going to like it either.

[A]

Her name's Modesty, but we call her Mod.

[B]

That's Mod.

[C]

Walking around. Be more modest and pants on.

[A]

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, it's Ryan Seacrest for Albertsons and Safeway this fall. Take care of the little ones in the family with Baby Club Savings now through November 4, spend $25 on select Baby Club products and save $5. Shop for items like Pediasure bottles Pedialyte powder packs, Huggies baby wipes, Huggies diapers, Gerber puffs and Gerber pouches, and save $5 when you buy $25 or more on participating products. Offer ends November 4th. Restrictions apply. Offers may vary. Visit albertsons or safeway.com for more details. No one knows your business better than you, so who better to create your website than then? Well, you. Wix's website builder puts it all in your hands. Create a beautiful website just by talking with AI or choosing from thousands of templates. Customize every detail with simple drag and drop tools and get everything you need to start running business your way. Build more, think bigger and do it all yourself on wix.

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