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It's a very like a old man Florida shirt. Yeah. I bought this just yesterday in Miami. I went to, I mean, how, yeah, I mean, it's, I went to little Havana and I went to a cigar shop, went to a, you know, the whole Cuban area. I mean, I'm totally down. I mean, I, I would go into Miami. I thought it was going to be a disaster. Yeah. And I love Cuban people now. I mean, I'm ready to learn Spanish and, uh,

Life is great. Yeah. You're dressing like them. What type of material is that? This is a hundred percent linen. Okay. It's almost translucent. A little bit. Yeah. It's very thin. I mean, I love the, I mean, the guy that sold me the shirt, very direct guy. He was like, you look like a, he goes, you're a large. I go, I'd like to see a medium because now the medium is not going to fit. Yeah.

And you're a large. Yeah. Well, I mean, I would have still liked to try the medium. Yeah. He would not let it happen. I think it's like a very relaxing. You want it to be large. You want it to be big. That's what he said. You want a little flow to it, you know? Yeah. That's the, yeah. That's like, you know, you're, that's a retired shirt. Yeah. Yeah. It's a retired. Yeah. It's like you go down, you're in Miami, you're retired, you're done. Yeah.

It's just like you wear it every day. Yeah. If I lived in Miami, I would go to a little Havana every day, have cigars, and buy a shirt like this. And I would just be- Play dominoes. Yeah. Drink coffee. I mean, I'm in. I mean, the Cuban-Americans, I mean, they're getting it. They're living the life. There was a whole domino area where I'm told you have to be at least 55 years old to get in. You're not even allowed to go in.

And I can't wait to turn 55. I mean, it's just, it was amazing. The shows were great. Not all of them. We did five. There was a couple that was, I don't know how this is going, but overall great, great shows. Yeah. Miami Rose front. Do you think it'll be nice when you get to the senior age to maybe you get a break from us? Cause we can't get into your areas. Yeah. I'm looking forward to it. Yeah.

You have a good little run of, you know. Yeah, next year is going to be big for you. You'll be just in. Give me a break. But I think. Aaron lost his headset over that. Yeah. How'd you lose your headset? Oh, they were kind of barely on. It gets hot. I like the headphones, but it gets hot when you have them on your head. They're like. Is that like the cool way of like young people they wear, you wear headphones.

You got like one shirt that doesn't look like it's half on. And you're like, oh, I didn't even care. Yeah. It's like wearing a fanny pack around the shoulder. Yeah. That kind of. Or a backpack. Just one strap. Yeah. Just giving yourself shoulder problems. Yeah. You're like, I'm cool. I don't need this backpack. Yeah. Maybe I do need it. Yeah. I'll hang on to it. Hold on loosely, but don't let go. I look, that's me in 55. I look as, that's what I, my whole golf career.

waiting for the senior tees. Oh, is that when you can do it?

Well, I mean, the senior open, I mean, I'm going to have to get, I don't think I don't, that's going to be pretty tough. You, those guys are obviously Fred couple. What I meant was when can I start hitting from the senior tees? You're close. Uh, I mean, I'll be honest with you. It wouldn't be, you should go up there now, but it's, uh, well right now I'm hitting from the women's tees. Yeah. And I'd even go, there's kids tees too. Yeah. Usually the ones out in the middle of fairway. You're like, what's this? Yeah. That's where Brian should be teeing off from. Um,

But yeah, once you get a senior tour, I think like a lot of golfers, if you get pretty good, you get a run of dominance because you move up and then you still got some young in you. And then you're just pounding the ball. It looks like you're pounding. Well, Phil Mickelson and I are the same age. Yeah, I mean, he went and played the seniors tour and just dominated.

one he just i think he played in two events one both and then just went back the seniors must love that they let him play at 51 or 52 yeah 50 oh 50 is the okay yeah and you're both lefties right brian yeah there you go we could share clubs yeah yeah similarities might end there but yeah i think uh phil i forgot my clubs could we share uh yeah that's fun uh

What, so what were we talking about first? Where we've been? Well, been to Cuba. Oh yeah, you've been to Miami. Yeah, well, yeah, I mean, it was great. I hung out with some listeners of the podcast, Alicia Smith and her husband, they brought me tacos. And then we met up in Little Havana, had a great host, Carlos Hernandez. And he was like, he's Cuban American. And it's like, I mean, I got,

The real, I got, I got filled in on the real experience. Yeah. I asked him, I mean, I did a podcast without doing a podcast with him about Cuba. I'd never, I don't know. I know nothing about Cuba. Right. And I'm like, I just, all I know is what people have told me. And I just wanted to hear all about it. And you think people would just go Cuban missile crisis.

Yeah. And then that's it. Cigars. You don't even know. Yeah, or cigar. Like, it's like, that's such a big thing to be talked about a lot. If you're from Cuba and you're like, oh, Cuban Missile Crisis? Yeah. And they're like...

Yeah, the world almost ended on y'all's beaches. Yeah, we have other stuff. Well, that's the stuff I talked about. Like, you know, the stuff, you know, I tried to find out what it's like in Cuba, like what's going on there. What do you think? Well, pretty bad. Oh, really? Yeah. I mean, like, you know, communism is not good. And, you know, he said his grandmother still lives there and has to like she has a certain list that she can go and buy from the grocery store.

Like you can't just go buy whatever you want. Like this is what you get. Yeah. And then your whole family basically lives all in one house. Yeah.

And no running water. I don't know if that's the whole country, but not a lot of running water, at least. At least you got their jersey. Yeah. Well, you know, but Cubans themselves are great people in America. It's like, and they love America because they're like, this is freedom. Freedom. They're like, we love this country. We never want it to be communist, you know? And they're, you know, I hear people saying those things sometimes and I'm like, well,

I've always been against communism, but I finally talked to a guy about Cuba and now I'm definitely against communism. Yeah. You know, it's, I go back and forth with it. Yeah. Yeah. And well, it seems crazy to say, but there are people like around right now that are like, I want to live in a communist utopia. And I'm like, I don't know if that exists. Try that in a small town. Yeah. Yeah.

That sounds like it should be on your podcast, right? All that stuff you just said. I'll go deeper. Yeah. That's just scratching the surface. I'll get into it. Yeah. We let Dusty do previews of his podcast. A little teaser. Then he goes in and you can really find out what it's about. Yeah. I don't even know where I was. Well, I can answer. Oh, I know what we did. Yeah.

We were at the Messi game, Nashville soccer game. We saw two soccer games this week. Yeah, we're all Nashville soccer. We're huge soccer fans now. Yeah. We know everything you need to know. Do you know, do y'all know enough to like understand what's going on in the game at a high level? Oh, yeah. Yeah. It's insulting. Yeah, somewhat. I know yellow cards like a warning, red cards like you're out. I know offsides, but the offside does, it's when the pass happens, not when.

So, like, once he kicks it, then you got to be onside. But once it leaves his foot, you can be offside. Right. I believe. So, it was... There's a little stuff. Derek knows everything. And then... You're getting a nod of approval from the crew back there. You nailed the offside. Well, they all love soccer. In my experience, offside is when something like a thrilling play happens. I just think that's probably offside. It usually is. A lot of times it is. Yeah. But soccer is...

I'm telling you, it's a relaxing sport to watch. It's a fun sport to watch because it's kind of going back and forth. And then it's just the most excitement. And then back to back and forth. And so I've really enjoyed watching it. It's just...

It's easy to follow. The clock just runs. Yeah, like the continuous time. Yeah. I mean, you look at stuff like that with football and all that and basketball. It's so many timeouts and so many. Mm-hmm.

I mean, TV timeouts, TV. You're just like, golly, dude. I mean, golf this weekend is like they're just doing that playing through commercial and they then they do other commercials and you just feel like you're barely watching the sport. Yeah. And so I enjoyed it for that. And then we went Tuesday and then Nashville won. And then obviously with Messi coming to town. So then it was like, well, let's try to go.

So we went, had a big group out and it was pretty special. It was pretty special. Yeah, it was a lot of fun. It is funny because you get so fired up and we don't really know.

I don't even what's going on. So you're learning as you go and still being fired. I'm like, come on. And we don't even know what we're talking about. Who did they play? Miami. We made a train. We took Miami and we gave them. Yeah. Carlos sent me a video of Miami beating Nashville, but it wasn't real clear. He goes, sorry for your loss. And I'm why I watched a minute video. And then I'm like, I don't even know who's playing. Yeah. I don't know who won here. I don't know who's playing. Yeah.

Yeah, so Messi, Lionel Messi. I've heard the name, yeah. So, yeah, he came to enter Miami. So it's the biggest thing in the world. I mean, he's like a megastar, dude. I mean, he's the most famous person. Well, Derek and I were having this argument. Is he the most famous athlete to ever come to Nashville?

And for your actual sport, I guess maybe so. I mentioned that. 483 million followers? Yes. So on Instagram, he has 483 million followers. So just for some context, like LeBron, James. For some context, LeBron has 157 million. What does The Rock have?

Taylor Swift. The Rock has 389, so more than The Rock. Taylor Swift has 270. Wow. 100 million more than all of them. The Rock and Taylor Swift are just scraping box. LeBron's basically not in it. He's an open mic-er. Nobody.

Yeah, that's crazy. I mean, that's – it's – yeah, he's got to be the – Well, the only person I mentioned – now, he's not going to have that many Instagram followers, but Michael Jordan came to play baseball in the 90s in between his – when he was the biggest athlete in the world. And you covered the game, right? Yeah. Yeah. He was a sports journalist. He really was. Well, from my college. Yeah. Yeah. You get questions, and then you go – Michael Jordan goes, right. Yeah.

Little man in the back. I'm working at Middle Tennessee State University. How far can you throw a football, Michael? Well, this was 1994. It's the match we were just at. David Beckham, his Spice Girl wife's there. Nicole Kidman. Reese

all these huge celebrities there in the 1994, when I covered this for MTSU, I pointed out the celebrities that were there. And one of them I pointed out was Jan van Bredecoft, Vanderbilt's basketball coach, because that's the celebrities that, you know, there's country stars, of course, but, but, uh, and then I met him other night. Yeah. It's 80s. And I got to tell him that story. Uh-huh. So that's your Vandy. This is a different level. It feels a different level. Yeah. A little bit different level. It's, uh, yeah,

Yeah, it was, the whole thing was very, it was very special. It was like getting to watch Messi. I mean, Jordan played basketball at Vandy. They did a exhibition game once. The Bulls did? Yeah.

And like maybe early 80s or 80s. Like he was not who he was now. Yeah. His rookie year was 86, I think. Yeah. 85, 86. No, I feel like maybe, I don't know, 85, man. I don't know, 84. Yeah, maybe he was drafted. But it's, he would, but I mean, yeah, Messi is,

To come where Messi's at, Messi, I would say, if you're not into sports, like, Messi is, like, still kind of at his prime. Like, it's, you know, like, I always compare it to, like, Jordan going to the Wizards. But it's way different. I mean, it's the year – Messi won a World Cup this year. And now he's in Nashville. Yeah. And he's playing. And so it was – to get a CM, he scored.

Yeah, for someone like me who doesn't really understand soccer to be able to see – even I could see the difference in his playing style. When he scored, did even Nashville fans cheer? Yeah, everybody did. It seems like the kind of guy that everybody's like, oh, man, he's beating us, but we love it. Yeah, everybody understands what they're going to see, and it's like – and the goal was unbelievable. The game was crazy. It went into all these 10 penalty kicks, went down to the goalies. The kicker.

The keepers. The keepers. I learned that. Yeah, they kicked. Well, I watched the highlights. It feels like there was three scores, and that's what's tough for me about soccer. It's like those feel like the highlights, and it's a long game. Mm-hmm.

Yeah, it was... But I'm telling you what, it goes very quick. It's really not a long game compared to most sports. Yeah. It's 45-minute halves, and then they add a little extra time. So, I mean... And the clock runs. Yeah. So, it's an hour and a half, hour, 40 minutes. Oh, yeah. And then you get halftime, and it's a legit break. And then when it's... I mean, it's...

So I really, really enjoy it. I really enjoy it. The stadium looks awesome. I would like to check that out. It is great in there. It's really a lot of fun. Yeah. And it's the most popular sport in the world, right? Yeah. Yeah. But here's, and here's how good if, I mean, a lot of people might know this, but here's how good Messi is and the difference of him coming to

the major league soccer MLS is Nashville and Miami. They have their team, right? So the MVP of the entire league, uh, is number 10 on our, in Nashville soccer team. He, last year, he was the MVP, the best player, all of major league soccer.

He could not make his own country's World Cup team. Wow. In Germany, I believe. So, and Messi won a World Cup. So that's the difference. And that dude is unsurprising.

Yeah. That guy would have probably he would have started on our major league soccer team, I guess. But it's but like that's the difference of what Messi's playing with to be like that guy can't even they're not even letting him like come dress. And he's like, I was the main guy, the best guy in America. Yeah. And they're like, who did Messi play for before he came here?

Like what's it? Barcelona, right? Yeah. He's from Argentina. That's what he played in the World Cup. PSG. PSG. Yeah. He's from Argentina. PSG. Yeah. I don't know all the – when you get down to that kind of stuff. But, yeah, MLS, I'm telling you, Major League Soccer, MLS is going to be –

It's going to be huge. I really believe that. The fact that he's here, they're trying to get this other guy, Mbappe, who's a giant, giant star, and he's young, and they're trying to get him to come. I mean, MLS, Major League Soccer is going to be a giant thing. Saudi Arabia is obviously doing a lot of stuff. They're spending a lot of money to get stuff over there. We got to be the live golf of soccer and just buy up all the world's greatest talent. Well, Saudi Arabia, who is the live golf? They're doing that with...

They offered Mbappe. I think they took Ronaldo. Yeah. And they're offering these guys...

billion dollars like it's that's how big these guys are wow messy i think they offered him straight up a billion dollars and for him to come to miami i mean he's i believe it's like he's just owner when he retires they're just like you're an owner you got a bunch of like apple stock in his account he got they're rolling out the red carpet for him almost better than a deal just like being like you're set forever yeah yeah i mean he's already set forever right and you're

You're now a priority billionaire. Yeah. I mean, just social media alone. If he just wanted to be an influencer now, he could make a ton of money. Oh, you couldn't even. I mean, it would be like a suit. It'd be like a Super Bowl commercial. Yeah. You'd have to pay him. Like, I don't know if you can even. I don't know if you can even offer him.

A million dollars. We wear this hat tomorrow. Yeah. I don't even, he would probably, I don't think he would do it for a million dollars. Now, wasn't there a viral photo of him at a grocery store in Miami where people didn't recognize him? Yeah. A couple of people did. There's a picture, but it wasn't the mob, but yeah,

He just went out because I mean, because obviously here it's not gonna be as crazy. So he like went out to a Publix and was able to walk around if he's at home or anywhere else in the world. I mean, once they find out too, it doesn't, then everybody comes, but he's just able to go anywhere.

Argentina, he can't leave his home because everybody's just like you. Here, he's in Miami Publix. He goes late at night. It's probably older people in there. There's people that wouldn't recognize him, so he got some peace. But when he goes and walks around, it's bigger than Beatles. It's bigger than anybody. It's a mob. Yeah.

And Abigail's friend is a cop and they escorted him to the hotel and they could, it was so hard to get him in the hotel because that many people are around, like just surround them and they just want to see him and they just want to. And so he can't even walk.

I mean, he can't go anywhere. So you really got to have the money. You're like, I need money to just live a life because I can't even be out here in the world. Yeah, I got to build my own grocery store. Yeah. Yeah, you got to have so many people that are helping you to go get stuff because you just can't leave. And he's at a level that's, yeah, I mean...

you know it's elvis it's i mean it's anybody like yeah there's a thing when he went to miami like uh before he signed this deal he came to miami to go to a restaurant and they show him trying to walk into a restaurant and it's just a sea of people and he's just trying to go i mean just think when he goes to restaurant he has to shut that restaurant down yeah and they have to let him come eat and you just have to do that you have to go like hey you got to close the doors and

Like, and everybody's probably willing, obviously willing to do that. Why would you not? Yeah. Get a little photo op. Yeah. Yeah. I remember eating with, uh, uh, when I opened for Chris Rock, Chris Rock and Tyra Banks, we went in eight.

After they had paparazzi chasing us. But. You open for Tyra Banks? No, she was there. I'm sorry. I opened up for Chris Rock, but she came. Oh, okay. And then, so we went to go eat after. And then there was like paparazzi. But then they, they had to call the restaurant and they let us in. There was, they were closing, but they stayed open. And then we went in there and sat. And there was only one on the table. And then they took pictures with all of them. And then we left.

But it's like, that's, you know.

Yeah, I remember hearing a story about Kevin James wanting to browse around a CD store, and he had them shut down the store so he could walk around in there. And when people were saying it, they were acting like Kevin James was being such a jerk that he had to shut this store down. But I'm like, I imagine the guy just wants to browse around and look at some CDs. He doesn't want to be harassed the entire time. Yeah, and it's not even being harassed like a negative harass.

It's just... Kevin James is a nice guy. Right. And it's going to be like, yeah, I want to take pictures with everybody and all that stuff. So you just...

are to a point of going like, I just want to like kind of go look at these CDs and be regular. Yeah. I mean, if I see Kevin James, I want to get a picture with him. Of course. So everybody does. And now everybody can take a picture. Yeah. So yeah, you're going to just go get it and you're just trying to walk around and be normal. And if I'm sure...

five, 10, 15 years of this where it's like you just, every time you walk out, you know, you're going to get, I'd imagine. Yes. And then you just go like, instead of being mean, I'm going to just do this. Right. You know, Seinfeld rented a movie theater out, you know, cause instead of being mean, I'm going to just, I'll just pay 500 bucks for,

To those guys. I mean, you know, just like, I'll go see this movie. No one's in there. I can do whatever I want. He yells at the screen. Like they make jokes. Like, you know, he treats it like that. Yeah. Yeah. I also did a show at a church in Mount Juliet. And do you want to show this? Oh, no, no. I did a show at a church in Mount Juliet and saw one of the most despicable displays of going after people.

a kid in the audience that I've ever witnessed. You were there, Nate. I don't know. I don't even know if we want to talk about it, but it's, it was, yeah, it was awful. We, uh, all of Nate land did a little show together. So for you, Dusty, you were gone. Yeah.

They said not to bring you, but we did. Well, I get it. Our friend Johnny W. did a show in Mount Julia. That's what I was. When I called you the other day. Oh, yeah. We kept playing phone tag. Oh, my friend. Well, she's not my friend. I mean, I like her, but she works at a doctor's office that I go to. Well.

I didn't mean to say, I don't hang out. Right. She works at the doctor, but she loves comedy. She wanted to know the definition of y'all's relationship. So I think it's good. I cleared it up. You cleared it up. Not a friend, but we do like, but she loves Johnny W and she, I know she went to that. She was telling me she was going to that show. So that's probably very exciting. She said you were on it. Alex Valuto was on it and she didn't know anyone else. So,

Yeah. That's some real bonus, bonus performances. And I did a couple of spots that night. That was like an old New York days. Cause I went to Greg Warren. Greg Warren is at Zaney's. Oh yeah. So I went down there, uh, and jumped on his show and then just got in the car and drove to, uh, Mount Julia and went to, what's the church? Fellowship. Fellowship. Fellowship.

And then, uh, it was a good show. Yeah, it was a good white hearse. So the only two people she could remember were me and Alex. No, that was what was on. Like, would she fly? I were the only two listed. Oh, I think you meant after the show. She's like, it was a hot show. Brian Bates, Alex. No, I saw her before. She's like, she always talks about wanting to see Johnny W. And she was like, finally, he's doing a show here. Yeah. She was like, I'm going tonight. Yeah. And it would have been that show. Yeah. That's awesome. That's a great show. Uh,

But Aaron, say what happened. Yeah, I had a little crowd work moment. All right. You know, every now and then I like to see what the people are up to. Not really, but I have basically a bit where I talk about Barry Bonds, the baseball player, and about how he was accused of using steroids. And I asked a rhetorical question.

To the audience. Why do y'all know why he wasn't, uh, you know, he's not in the hall of fame and a kid raised his hand and not used to having children in the audience. Yeah. He raised his hand very politely. He's a good kid. So I called on him and I go, do you know? And he goes, yeah, it's because he had different color skin. Oh. And I was like, oh,

Oh dude. He like, you know, he mixed up. It's a kid who's obviously very aware of like the history of America, the history of baseball, but just got the players mixed up. But it just threw me for such a loop that I kind of, I had like an awkward moment with, I got some laughs out of it. I thought, I thought I handled it. And I'll seriously, he handled it as best as you could possibly handle it. I thought, Oh, thank you. Um, I think the, the kid was just kind of embarrassed to be, uh,

you know, involved in that way and to get the answer wrong. So everybody laughed, but I think that he was pretty upset. So that's, that was a first for me to kind of have a kid,

you know, get the upset. Did you have a video of that? Is that what? There is a video of it. Okay. Yeah. Yeah. That's parents asked him to delete it, but no, it's like a happy Gilmore moment. We're going to post the kids address. He said they wouldn't let me compete in the pro tour anymore. And he goes, why? Cause you're black. He goes, no alligator bit my hand. Yeah.

it was uh it was a great show yeah yeah it was fun yeah it was fun where did you go this weekend i was in cleveland ohio oh yeah hilarity's you get a bat no i didn't get a bat and i think you have to sell more tickets than i did but they go they they you get a bat and they you take out your paycheck they go no we got it yeah 215 dollars yeah

Dude, what a perfect club. Yeah. It's great there. Did you see the Seinfeld thing? No, I didn't. I was only in. So the first night I was in the cabaret room, the small room. Yeah. And then Sunday night for one show, I got to do the main room. You didn't do a weekend. That's why you didn't get no bath.

I did a weekend, just only one show in the main room. Well, I don't mean that in a negative way. I know it should be. Yeah, it's like a full, which you will get. You know what? The really good clubs, it's like the little things they do that just make you feel so good. Like the little things that make you think they're excited for you to be there. Like when I showed up at my show in the main room,

The dressing room, they had put they had like a gold star on the door and they printed out one of those pictures of me.

From my childhood basketball team. Oh, yeah. That we did on the podcast last week. And they had that on the door. Oh, that's awesome. Like that stuff. You show up and you're like, oh, they're actually like that stuff means so much. Yeah. It probably took them, you know, five minutes to do. But yeah, that's like that's a good club. That's a great. All the management there's always been Sam. Sam is awesome. It was a really great weekend. So thanks to everybody that came. Yeah, it was fun.

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We don't have to. No, go ahead. I know you were watching soccer. Are you watching the Little League World Series this weekend? I did not. Yeah, I didn't either. But they play a – I saw a little bit of Tennessee's for Nolensville. Oh, yeah. They beat Rhode Island 8-1 in that first game. One thing I love they do now is they play a real Major League Baseball game there. All the kids are the crowd. It's like an awesome thing they do. Bryson Stott on the Phillies.

This was his baseball bat. Did you see this? I saw a picture of that. Yeah, that's so cool. We talked about number two pencils. That's a number one pencil, I think. Number two. You're saying because it's so big? Yeah. You know, it made me then realize why do they not let

Like, I bet that's going to start to happen. I've never even thought of that, that you could do something. I think the argument is it's distracting. You could decorate the bat in a way that it's hard to follow the ball off the bat. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. But for special games like this, they let you do whatever. And it's just a bat that looks like a number two. I'd never seen that before. She's like, you kids are in school, right? You know what these are? Yeah. Yeah.

Imagine like it's a game. These guys are fighting for the playoffs and they go, hey, everybody just heads up. We're going to let people do some pretty goofy stuff out there today. I know this is a big game for you guys, but you know.

Just have fun. Decorate your bats. Always remember, it's entertainment. World Series doesn't matter. Well, I just watched that documentary on Nolan Ryan, and when he was one of his no-hitters, it was the ninth inning, maybe two outs in the ninth for him. And a guy came to bat with a leg of a table just for fun, just basically saying, we can't hit you, so I might as well come up here with this big old, you know. And then the op was like, obviously, it was just a joke. But this is a guy throwing a no-hitter.

And the guy's just goofing around with him. Yeah, it could have taken him out of his game. Yeah. I mean, they wouldn't allow that now. Did he hit after that or did he get struck out? No, he got the no-hitter. He didn't strike out. I think if you're that guy, you got to let the no-hitter happen. Yeah, you did that. You got to on purpose. Not like you take them, but like swing way behind. Or are you like, Nolan Ryan almost had a no-hitter and then I stopped it.

Maybe. But it's like doing it that way is – It's almost cheating. Yeah. If you got a hit with a table leg and broke up the no-hitter, that would be crazy. Yeah. I mean, I just think that for your own personal baseball pride, you're like, yeah, you had a no-hitter going until I came up there. Yeah.

Yeah, I think there's a lot of that. But if you're like, I brought a recliner out. When Michael Strahan broke the record for most sacks in the season, he broke it against Brett Favre. And Brett Favre recognized the moment and basically just gave him the sack. And I think about that a lot with these no-hitters. Dude, these guys are trying. They don't want to be the guy that...

lets the pitcher have a no hitter. But I always think just let him, you know, you've already lost the game. Just let him get it. You know? Well, I mean, sometimes no hitters would be one zero or something like that. You know, I could see in baseball trying to break it. You're like, I don't want a no hitter to happen on us. Yeah. And so you're like, and then that's more of a, in the moment you're like, we're trying to end this because it's a one game thing. Like the Brett Favre and Michael Strayan was like, he's going to get a sack anyway. And it's like, he rolled out and like,

In the moment, it was like, he's about to get me. I want to just go down and just give it to him. And that's an overall, that's a career-wise decision versus a one-game decision. But didn't he get criticized for that? He did. Not the people I hang out with. We like to have fun, but you were probably talking about purity. You might not have been born...

Were you, you, you have e-recollection of it? Yeah. Oh, you switched it. We thought you're going to do an old man joke and you switch it to a young guy. Yeah. Yeah. Do you? Yeah. I remember it. I wasn't watching the game live. I don't think, but I remember the discussion about it. All right. Uh,

Kelly Ripa's co-host? You know what I was going to say? I brought up, you know, like I have DirecTV. Channel 2 right now on DirecTV is saying like they're fighting with Nexstar or something. And they're just not showing stuff. The whole channel, they don't show anything. That's insane to me. Yeah, it happens a lot. Yeah, you're like, why are we involved? And then it's funny because you see, you know, DirecTV's like,

guys, we're trying to, these animals. And you're like, who's, like, why am I, I shouldn't have feelings for these two things. Or they try to jack up the price on those, like this, you know, they'll, I don't know.

I forget what it was. I wanted to watch some football game in a hotel and it was like, it was direct TV or something at the hotel. And they had the guy comes on. He goes, Hey, we want this. We want this program. Yeah. We're in negotiations right now. And it's like, yeah, they try to jack it up on them. So direct TV tries to throw it back at him. I think being like, Hey, it's not us guys. Yeah. But it's, it's, I don't think you're like one of, I don't think either one of them really cares about us.

Oh, no. So it's they they they put it like that. Then you're like, so I can't. I mean, I recorded the the I record Titans games of preseason game. Just don't get to watch it because because DirecTV is like we're not showing it.

And that because they're arguing about whatever. And you're you just sit there and you just get a big message. You're like, you know, let it you know, and they want your like help. And you're like my help. Yeah. It's crazy to be like, I'm paying all this money. Yeah. Give me a little for these. Yeah. You pay for it. I've been with them for 20 some years. And I want you to call and complain, don't they? Yeah. Yeah. I've been 20 years. You're like, I'm paying.

You're not giving me something free. Right. I give you money. You raise prices. I do all that. And now you're like, all right, we need some more help. You're like, you can't even turn on the TV now. I know. That's what they all do. Yeah. They charge you, charge you, charge you, and then they go, help us. Help us. Nate Bates.

I'm pretty sure after watching this episode, Nate knows more about Australia and New Zealand than he does America. That could be true. Nate Bates. I think that's his real name. That's a hot name. Nate Bates. I doubt it. I bet it is. I like the Bates part. I think it's the name. Nate Bates. I guarantee you there's a Nate Bates out there. Well, I'm sure, but that may not listen to this podcast.

I feel like we've had Nate Bates on. I didn't believe him last time either. Yeah, I don't know. Nate Bates, former mayor of Richmond, California. Nat Bates. That's Nat Bates. Well, his name's Nathaniel, but he goes by Nat. Well, that's what we're talking about. This guy is Nate Bates. I was called Nat. You can see the leap we took to get one to the other, huh? I was called Nathaniel.

Nat by my football coach. Nat. He'd always call me Nat. And I remember just being kind of like... I just remember being a kid, just being like, but it's not Nat. I guess it's Nate. And then you're just like, okay. And I never... Nat, get on out there. You're like, why would you...

He wasn't trying to be funny? No, he just called me Nat. No, I think he just was like, all right, I'll call you Nat. Shorter than Nate. If I don't respond, it's because you're not saying my name. Yeah. He's the coach. Nate Bates, the assistant coach of the men's lacrosse team of Messiah University in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. Maybe that's where he's from. I'm mistaking him. My mom was in Mechanicsburg, so they're doing good.

Your mom's one. You're talking about saying that Eleanor was at my mom's this weekend and she's gotten pretty good like in a book, children's book, picking out the animals. Where's the whatever? But my mom is so Southern that it was confusing her. And she was like, where's the line? I don't know. Where's the line at? And she was like so confused.

And I was like, I mean, I say it like that too, but I was like, Eleanor, where's the lion? And she's like, oh, there it is. But my mom's like, this kid's dumb. Don't even know what a lion is. Just say tiger. Just switch it up. I switch stuff up. You do that because I know if what I'm about to say is not going to, I might've talked about it before. I had my first joke, one of my playing Madden football with Vince, uh,

What's his name? Vince Young. And I would say I don't want to get his emotions. I said emotions because I would say I don't want to get his feelings hurt. Feelings. And the way I say feelings, and I was in New York, I was like, no one knows what I'm saying. Yeah. Sounds like a dentist joke. Yeah. And I don't know how to not say it. So I just changed it to emotions. Just purely just so we can move through the joke without having to. Emotions is kind of funnier in that.

Yeah. Because it's a little surprising. I like saying feelings, feeling, but I can't, you know. I do that too. Like also like my, I have a friend named Will and I have to really keep myself from going wheel. Wheel. You know, like if I just say it, wheel will come out. You got to really be, I got to really focus on it. Will. You know what I mean? Yeah. Who do you think the Southern accent probably gets made fun of the most?

Do you think we're the most made fun of? Because it's considered dumb. It's the best, though. That's why you make fun of it. It's like the Cockney accent. If you were to ask an American to do an impression of a British accent, they'd all do the Cockney. Oh, I'm a chimney sweeper. That kind of whatever. I didn't know what Cockney was. Nice. Yeah. It was all right. Notre Dame. But I watched a bunch of TikTok videos of going around at soccer games in Ireland. And they go, can you do an American accent?

And they all do a southern accent. That's the caricature of an American speaking voice. Because they're the best. That's right. Scott H., right out of the gate, Nate says he met a porcupine. Nope, it was an enchilada. Echinna. Echinna. Yeah, but that's a porcupine to us, though. It was an echinaida. Echinna. Echinna.

Sometimes known as spiny anteaters. I just call them that. How do you say that? How do you say that? Echidna. Echidna, maybe. Echidna. Echidna. Echidna. Let's see. You're right. You're right, Dusty. Echidna. Echidna. What's going on? Man, that's so much different than... Yeah, if I was like, worked at the zoo, I was like, that's an echidna. Right.

Don't say it wrong, you'll hurt his feelings. Echidnas are named after Echidna, a creature from Greek mythology who was half woman, half snake, as the animal was perceived to have qualities of both mammals and reptiles. It's pretty cool. Glad to know. Or it's a porcupine. It's called whatever. Yeah.

That is, I like they evolved between 20 and 50 million years ago. I always do like stuff like that. You're like, it's 30 million years difference. Crazy range. They're like, you know, ballpark it. They figured it out 1974, maybe 50 million years ago. I don't know. Well, they say the universe is 13.7 billion years old. And now some scientists just come out and said, well, actually, I think it's twice that.

And it's now like, now we say it's like 26 billion. Right. Right. Yeah. Yeah. We just don't know. Yeah. I had a joke about that. Oh, the cock, uh, the cockroach. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's a good joke. And it is a good joke. I actually, I saw that joke. That's very good. Thanks for checking out my stuff. Uh, Scott, that's comedy. Yeah. Yeah. How long has they, he pulled them aside outside of me. How long has they been doing comedy? I just saw some stuff. Yeah.

Aaron Ingles. I found an easy way to say good day, mate, and sound like Steve Irwin is to say good eye, mate. Good eye, Mike.

I thought that was a fun way to sound like you're a trill shen. Good eye, mate. Good eye, mate. Good eye, mate. Good eye, mate. Yeah. That's very good. Good eye, mate. Good eye, mate. That's the best Australian accent I've ever done. That's so good that she, how did you figure that out? Good eye, mate. Good eye, mate. Good eye, mate.

I wonder if that's what people do that do impressions. Maybe they find different words. Yeah. Good eye, mate. Aaron Angles is a good. That's like a news anchor name, isn't it? Aaron Angles. It is a good name.

It's someone that's going to go places. I agree. She may own the grocery store chain. And if you told me, you know, if you told me Nate Bates came up with this, I'd be like, get out of here. And then Aaron Angles, you're like, all right. Now, the funny thing is usually when there's the E like in penguin, you emphasize the A. Right. And we emphasize it like an I. But this time you guys did the opposite. You did the I and you did the A. Good eye, Mike.

on her last name. Oh, Bates. Aaron. You said Aaron Ingles. You said Aaron Ingles. Aaron Ingles. Oh, you're right. Ingles. You're absolutely right. That's what I'm here for, guys. We'd like everybody to feel, you know, they could answer two things. Would they turn around? Yeah. She would turn around in both of those. Ash Smith.

It's a bad name. Ash. I like the first name Ash. Yeah. It's perfectly OK for Americans to pronounce it Melbourne or Melbourne. That's just our accent. Saying it Melbourne is fine if you're a local. Americans doing it just sounds weird. Weird that nobody did it with the other cities. Just that one. Perth still had a nice strong R sound in it.

All I'm saying is that people in other English-speaking countries aren't expecting us to nail it while we do our best impressions of them.

I'll tell you what, Ed Smith didn't expect you to be Australian. I appreciate this perspective though, because just being in Miami and you like, they're like, everybody speaks Spanish, right? They also speak English, but they're always pronounced like the G has like a, like a, almost like a W sound in some words, like a guava fruit. Yeah. What I would say like guava. And I'm like, you can't expect me to do that. You can't expect me to suddenly know that my, my letters make different sounds. Yeah.

You know what I mean? I would say that I get this because I never like it when... I always think of it like if someone is Mexican or something and speaks Spanish and you go, hola. I always thought, I don't ever say hola. I'm doing it because of them, so that's dumb. So I don't like doing that. And even though I did that with Melbourne. But I was...

overly told that I had to say this the right way. That's the only reason I did it. I didn't do it because yeah, I'm sure you're fine with it, but I it's, I'm going on stage to do jokes. And the hat, the joke that's happened the most is Melbourne is that we say born. And so it's like, well, I need to start saying Melbourne. So I don't want to,

I don't want that to be a joke. So I'm going to just try to say it so you don't laugh. That's why I did it. Yeah, if you'd been saying Melbourne, they'd be like, oh, idiot, it's Melbourne. Yeah, totally. Yeah, yeah. It's like Louisville. Yeah, it's like, yeah, I say Louisville. Right. I say right. But like, yeah, if someone says Louisville, you're like.

That's fine. I think I do Louisville every time. Yeah. Louisville and Lebanon. And they're, say Lebanon. Yeah. I don't do Lebanon. You refuse. Yeah. It's not that I refuse, but I just, it just, it looks like Lebanon to me. Right. You know, uh, you look, you're going to Lebanon. Yeah, sure. Uh, I'm cultured now. Yeah.

Ryan Solins, the amount of happiness Dusty felt about the air travel in Australia is the most true emotion I've ever heard him exhibit on this podcast. Breakfast was quiet on this one, though. Well, I love my country and I get tired of people bashing it. Whatever. Oh, you mean air travel, like not having to go through TSA? Oh, yeah. It's amazing. I love freedom. I get excited about it.

Yeah. I mean, that's you. Yeah. I get excited. Guy not into communism loves freedom. Yeah, exactly. Uh, hear more of it on. We're having a good time. We're having a good time. Yeah. We're having a good. Hear more of Dusty's rants on. We're having a good time. That's right. Hey, I'm having a good time. You know, I mean, you're having a good time. Uh, yeah, we're all having a good time out here. I agree. What the, uh,

We're on Paul. All right. Hello, folks, to HelloFresh.

Oh, is that good? That was good. With HelloFresh, you get farm fresh. Is that? I thought I was like, I kind of was like, let me do one. Just slip one in? Slip one in. Wasn't a segue, but you slipped it in. Yeah, you slipped in. It's not about the segue. It's about the no one realizes what's happening. It's like an anti-segue. I was very excited about it, so I've already ruined it because I'm talking about it. But I thought, I was like, no one expected that. No. Hello, folks, to HelloFresh.

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She makes it done. It's great. It's easy. I could do it without Laura. You know, I could because it tells you the directions. And I would take some more of the onions out. She sneaks stuff in. Oh, yeah. And I don't care for that. But...

I try to be aware of it. You know, I'm kind of, uh, but I, it's an amazing health fresh app makes it so easy to change your delivery day food preferences and plan size or skip a week whenever you need to. We love HelloFresh saving time is so important. Kids back in school. This is a big help. Uh, it's a huge help for that. Like easy meal to make, uh, go to HelloFresh Australia. Yeah. I mean, it's pretty much all Pacific.

Over there? Oh, Pacific. Oh, okay. You were just asking, is this still Pacific? I don't know. Is it Pacific against the... I think it's like Tasmanian Sea is there. Well, that's all part of the ocean. Yeah. But they're all called different. I get that they're all... Yeah, like the Gulf of Mexico is technically... I don't think when you go to other places, you're like, that's the Pacific Ocean. You think when you go to London, they're like Atlantic Ocean? I mean, if you're on the coast...

I bet there's something else in there. I mean, yeah, there's probably like a straight of something. I bet they call it a few things. Yeah. Yeah. I don't know they call it like Atlantic's like we do. You want to step into Weber's etymology corner real quick? I just looked this up. Dodo. You know where dodo comes from? They say it's unclear, but some ascribe it to the Dutch word dador for sluggard, but it's probably more related to dadars, which literally means fat rear end. Oh, wow. So they're...

Yeah, that bird's like, I got to get out of here. Yeah, that and that. Yeah. I mean, that's a tough life. You just named. He's trying to calm himself. The cool bird now. He's living somewhere. Sunglasses. Yeah. Leave that big chair open. You know, good again.

When Uncle Dodo's coming over, you make three kids get out of a chair. Y'all three get up. He's got to sit right there. Obviously, he's got to sit there. The whole family gets up. JK, I was hoping buttermilk would hit us with more aboriginal facts. Well, okay. It's disputed how long they've been around, but...

They've been around a long time. They invented the answer. That was the answer. The debate. We debated that last week. It's disputed. And they go, well, I go with a long time ago. Good answer. You know, Peggy emailed me that had that had sent that in last week. We settled on that. We would say that they have been here since the beginning of time. Oh, that's a good like, let's not put a number on it. Oh, OK. I like that. Yeah.

Okay. Well, they also invented the boomerang. Yeah. Smart. The boomerang is wild. I've never seen a boomerang work. Well, I learned there's two types of boomerangs. One they use was mostly for hunting where it doesn't come back to you, but it kills the animal you throw it at. Oh, okay. And then there's some for recreational where it would come back to you. Wow.

That was one of the great your mama jokes back in the day. Your mom's so big, she had to put her belt on with a boomerang. I remember as a little kid, that was like the funniest joke I'd ever heard. Just the visual. That's great. Those are the best jokes. Yeah, still fun. Clint Jurgens. Not so fun fact, Australia and New Zealand fall under Australasia.

Oceana includes a lot more areas north of them. Oceana. That's fine. Maybe that's the ocean. Well, you're definitely right about what kind of fact it was. Not so funny right there. I loved it. That's why I put it in. Chelsea Arrington. As a North Carolinian, I love the Dusty mentioned area.

Sherry Berry. Sherry Berry. She is somewhat of a celebrity here, although I just learned her name is pronounced Sherry.

She has since left her job and was replaced by some guy named Tommy. I think she said it was pronounced Cherie. Cherie. But it's not as fun. I like Cherryberry or Cherryberry. That's how I like to think of her. I'm just Tommy's great, but I'll never lift this up like Cherieberry did. Yeah. I mean, yeah, I love it. When you go to North Carolina in the elevator, Cherryberry. I'd never seen this, but here's a picture of her pointing at the certificate. Yeah, she's there.

I guess she's there investigating the elevator right now. Yeah, that is crazy. Now they got a guy named Tommy. Tommy's got to follow in these. Yeah. Now somebody- He's like, Tombo. He just starts writing differently. Tombo. That guy, Josh Dobson replaced her. But I think from what I read, he found somebody else to just handle the elevators. Tommy. Oh, he dealt with it. He dealt with it, huh? Yeah. He would go to the elevators.

Well, her picture, I guess, was in every elevator in North Carolina. Is that what you're saying? There's more elevators or stairs in the world. I'm just kidding. There's a lot of elevators in North Carolina, I'm guessing. There's way more stairs. Yeah, I know. I don't do you. So she sent someone. So it's just her job to be like, is this done? And if something goes bad, they go to her and be like.

I like to think that she did the inspecting. Now that she's gone, no one else can handle it. Yeah. It's dangerous in North Carolina. Imagine running for office or whatever you are and you're like, what do I do? They go, climb in that elevator, ma'am. Yeah, you got to start checking the elevator. You got to start checking the elevator. Who's somebody in Tennessee we have that only we would know? Bart Durham? Yeah, for Nashville. That kind of stuff. Yeah. I feel like every city has that lawyer that

I'll do those commercials. I'm John Morgan. I'm Morgan. I'm Morgan. I'm Morgan. That's nationwide. Yeah, that one is. Bart Durham, though, is not looking good these days. And even so much, his ads are now like... When I see him on billboards, they're like cartoons. When they start animating him in the commercials, it's not good. Well, he comes in very...

Like, this is kind of brief. He's in there a lot briefer than... Yeah, he's old. I'm guessing he's not as hands-on as he used to be. He creeps up on people on park benches and stuff. And like, oh,

oh, he's hurt by a tractor trailer. Like, Oh, no. Yeah. Blair, Blair does the heavy lifting. That's right. Blair is running the ship. He does. He sold that. He just uses old. He's like, do you get, uh, did you get hung up in the Ferris wheel in the Nashville fairground? You're like, Bart, that's 55 years ago, but he can't, he doesn't know. Yeah. And he only uses references to old, you know, what's another old thing. No,

Did you get trampled by horses? Yeah. I mean, I guess that could still happen, but I'm sure it was a bigger thing at a time. But there's got to be one in every kind of city, right? Akeem Minastapolo used to do that. They called him the Hammer in Charleston, South Carolina. Akeem Minastapolo. That's a fun name to say. Yeah.

Scott Campbell. Is anyone on this podcast man enough to challenge Dusty to a rousing round of pencil break? I bet you won't. We should do pencil break here one time. I wouldn't do it. Yeah. Dusty seems like a professional. We could try. Well, you know, it's been a long time for me. Yeah. If we have them, then we'll try. I'll bring some number two pencils next week. Okay. Maybe some number ones. Savannah Mercy.

Aaron shouldn't count himself out of sales just yet. When it comes to the quality of ad reads, he's got Nate, Dusty, and Buford beat by a mile. All right. I don't know about a mile. I think I do a pretty good AG1 read. You do. But Aaron is the best. Best ad reader. We'll see. I got one coming up here in a little bit. By a mile, I don't know. That's debatable.

Uh, Danielle, a mile, maybe it's still a long way. Maybe a click or two. Yeah. Daniel Sheehan. Oh, Danielle Sheehan. I'm wondering if Nate tried McDonald's in Australia. And if so, how was it? It was great. It was great. It really was great. It, uh, doors open. So birds were in there. You know, that was kind of tough, but, uh, you know, that's typical.

It's stuff you got to fight through. Did they have Joe love things? Yeah. Do they have different things? Uh, I don't remember seeing anything different. I got a number one, big Mac, no onions. And, uh, I mean, it was really great. It felt, it felt like a place, you know, that it cared, but I think you can go to McDonald's during the day. McDonald's during the day is pretty good.

It's a night when it starts to get, you know. When the ice cream machine stops working. Yeah. It's like when it starts, like the people that work the night shift don't care as much. But I think near the day, like, you know, you're a restaurant and people are going in there. So you've got to legit make stuff. Your A-team is on during the day. I saw McDonald's in Little Havana outside of Miami. And they told me that instead of apple pie, they had like some sort of Cuban dessert.

And the only McDonald's in Miami that did that. Mm-hmm. So. Did we, Justin Smith told me Chicago has a McDonald's that has every McDonald's food. It's like the international tasting McDonald's. Yeah. Yeah. Pretty cool. I've never been, but I, you know, I want to. Did anybody call it Macca's?

No. I didn't talk to a lot of people about it, but no one did. Okay. Just curious. Kind of kept it to myself. So I want to say this. I've taken a lot of flack on the history of this podcast for saying that both malls and gas stations were the last great cross-section of America where all people from different backgrounds come and visit. This study just is a Harvard study. Okay? This isn't Michigan State. This is real stuff. Okay.

A lot of Michigan State people were not happy with that. Yeah, I don't care. This says a new paper finds that big chain restaurants, Applebee's, Olive Garden, Chili's, IHOP's and big chain stores have the largest positive impact on cross class encounters and thus best bridge our current social divides. In other words, Applebee's is the last great cross section of America. Mm hmm.

It's where people are getting together. Yes. People from all different demographics. That's true. More than any other place. Isn't that crazy? The microwaves bring people together. So you were right about one of your numerous claims. No, I don't think I ever said that. I mean, I said gas stations and malls. Oh, okay. But I like the idea of it. Yeah. You seem like you knew this all along. No, no, no. I believe it. No, it makes sense. Dollar stores and dollar generals. What's that? School?

Now, you know, I was thinking about that this weekend. When I grew up here, everyone in Nashville just sent their kids to public school and it was fine. And now everyone sends them to private. And, you know, unfortunately, the kids that are left in public school, you know, they just it's they don't get a lot of resources and it's a struggle.

They addressed that specifically. They said bad news baits. The most socioeconomically diverse places in America are not public institutions like schools and parks, but affordable chain restaurants. It's like they specifically said that about me. I know. I know. Yeah. But I thought it was funny. The dollar general and the dollar store were like, that's the there's the most divide because wealthy people don't go to the dollar general or the dollar store. I go to the dollar general. There's one right by my house.

Anyway. Yeah. I thought this was nice. I like a Dollar General. Yeah. They got everything you need. Yeah. I went to them. Tough to find water in there sometimes. I feel like I go in there looking for water and they're like, there's a lot of sodas they're trying to get me to get. Kind of like those restaurants in Opelika. Yeah. They don't sell water. Are they name brand sodas?

Yeah. Yeah. I mean, they got the good stuff in there. They don't mess around. There's probably some generics. There's probably a general cola, you know, or maybe even general pepper. I bet they have. I wonder if those companies are, do they really do good? Like the, you know, like RC has to be the... Royal Crown Cola. The staple. Like that's the, we went up against the big guns and we're...

You know who RC is. It was at one point the largest cola brand in the world. RC Cola and a moon pie is what people would always talk about. That's right. Yeah. Puts peanuts in the Coke. Yeah. So, yeah, RC was original. Put peanuts in the Coke. It is a great name. In the Coke? Mm-hmm. You never did that? But I thought we were talking about RC. Well, we're talking about RC Coke.

It's a cola. Yeah. It doesn't have to be Coke. He's not getting it. Well, I mean, I guess I'm making the... Yeah. Well, RC hung with them, but then we still say Coke even to reference them. I know. So who wins in the end? Probably Coke. Yeah. RC's a good... RC was around... When I grew up, RC was way more around. I used to drink a lot of RC. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, RC is now 0.3% market share. Let's get it going. Yeah, RC, people would sneak it in, too, where you go, this thing. You ask for a Diet Coke or a Coke, and then you taste it. You're like, come on. There used to be a commercial, Me and My RC. Yeah. Do you remember that? No. Okay. It was in the 80s. Yeah. It was a jingle, Me and My RC. Me and My RC. I like it.

Well, today we're talking about fast food, and Aaron pointed out to me that we've already done an episode on fast food, but that's okay. There's a lot of talk about fast food, and we're going to do another little bracket here. We've got a tournament, and I've got some fast food facts I can throw in. All right. But...

As I pointed out before we started, we know fast food. Right, Dusty? Yeah. At the beginning of this, Brian said, he goes, and we know fast food. People didn't really respond in the room, but it was very stern. He kept a stern look for a while. He held it. Yeah.

I think he's right, though. We do know fast food here. When you said that people in the room didn't respond, and you're talking about us. Yeah. Do you think that's still appropriate to say people in the room? Or would you say none of us responded in the room? Would you not make it more personal? You made it very non-personal. He was being nice. People in the room. You made it sound like you're a studio audience. Yeah, we have. Yeah, there's people like, wow, that's a whole thing. They're going to pull the camera back, and there's like...

Yeah, I like to keep it vague. Yeah, yeah, yeah. They don't know. So it's like, I'm not just targeting the people on the podcast. If you came and tried to attack us, we don't want you to know that it's just us four. Yes. Be like, there could be a lot of security guys. That's right. That's right. Live studio audience every time. We just don't mic the audience. Never show them. Yeah. We never hear them. They leave early. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

They come for the comments and they go, all right, we're getting out of here. We're going to beat the traffic. Six of them. Six people just because that's going to be a zoo out there. So much. I got there and then I got to come in here. We got to move a couple of cars. That's the worst. We have that all the time over here. Trying to find out who's leaving and not leaving. It is where you want to park a car. Sometimes you're like, I'll just park it.

a block away. Yeah. So you don't, cause that's a pretty tough thing to be at a party and being like, who's got the, you know, white Honda course, five cars in front. And you're like, yeah. And you're like, I got to get out early, but then who's fault. Yeah. It's really the person that's like, why would you,

They get there and go, we've got a good little parking spot right up close. And then they want to leave early. You can't. You can't leave early. Nope. Yeah. You got to stay. You got to stay. You got to be your part of it. That's the price you pay for parking close. You can't Harold Holton boat. You got to stay. There you go. Yeah. Call back. Now, little parameters on this tournament.

Do call back old episodes to our topic, which is an old episode. That'll just be the name of this. Yeah. Rehash. Callbacks. Dusty, for the parameters are, we're talking about how good the food is, not about health or how it's killing us. I'm going to pretend like it's the 90s and I'm into it. All right. Yeah. Okay. Jump right in. I mean, that could be a tiebreaker, you know. Wait, so this is if I, like if you were to,

have a meal somewhere? Yeah. Which one you'd prefer to have a meal at? Okay. That's the question we're asking each individual around. Okay. Not which is a more successful company, which has been more innovative, which has been more influential. Better parking. Yeah. Okay. Just straight up food. Yeah. Well, you could say the part. It could be part of it. It could be your reason. But I think so much of what separates

good fast food from bad fast food is the experience you know the the how efficient the drive-thru is i think that should be part of the that's part of it's part of your that's right like it's not it's about your whole total experience yeah your experience so it's personal experience that's what you got to go off of versus you're not going to say well this study shows that mcdonald's gets people through line quicker i think this people get to like you close out these harvard studies i got

pulled up. Yeah, is Harvard studying fast food? Yeah. That was a Harvard study we just looked into about Applebee's. Yeah, but that's not a fast food study. That's a population study. Yeah, I don't think Harvard studies fast food. I think they think they're above that. I think you're probably right. You think they go, like, is the chicken nugget really the... That's a clickbait for them. No, but maybe they frame it as, like, let's see what the plebes are eating. We gotta keep an eye on...

Oh, I think, yeah. And I don't think some could even, I think their studies probably get so, they need to go just figure out something basic. And theirs are so up in the cloud that you're like, I don't even know what you're talking about. Yeah. Told him, man. Now look, we already know who's going to win, but it's going to be fun to find out who's number two. You want to get started? I'll put up a fight. Yeah. I mean, I'll play devil's ass. I don't even think you'll have to for this one. Okay.

I mean, we got a classic one versus 16 right out of the gate here. Yeah, this is brutal. McDonald's versus Long John Silver's. Even I go McDonald's on this. I mean, I don't know if Captain D's has made the list, and I feel like Long John Silver's and Captain D's are about the same thing. I think we were more Captain D's. I like Captain D's. I don't know if it's a Nashville, Southern, but we're more Captain D's. I don't know if I've been to maybe Long John Silver's once. I don't think I've ever been. There's...

568 locations left nationwide. The closest one to us is in Columbia. You say left, like they're fading away big time? Yeah. Long gone, Silver. Yeah. They were lucky to even make it as long as they did. But they are very similar to Captain D's. They got the doors are like two blocks

swords and yeah Captain D's is such a great restaurant they used to have the swinging doors almost you enter and exit Captain D's yeah Captain D's is such a I had a lot of good memories of Captain D's me too the crunchies the little little things yeah you go and wait in the line you get your order and you go sit is Captain D's still doing good

I saw one in Lebanon this weekend. Oh, yeah. So they're still around. Hermitage just built a new one. Oh, yeah. Well, I think this illustrates what was probably a long-running problem for Long John Silver's is that the conversation immediately turned to Captain D's. Yeah. Well, they're based here, though. Yeah, they're like a weird version of a better. But I feel like Long John Silver's is the more popular. I think nationwide Long John Silver's is probably bigger. Really? I think so. They had a good jingle, but I don't remember it. But I feel like they had a good song. Long John...

Yeah, yeah. Silver. It was like a crooner song. It's like the rap pack singer. It was an RC song. I saw it in Vegas. Yeah, Long John. No, RC was me and my RC. Yeah, me and my RC. Was that really it? Yeah. Did they make the cars too? What do you think the best, like RC race cars? Oh. You know what I'm talking about? Race cars?

Like remote control cars. Yeah, because they're called RC. Yes. You need to, you should sit in this. What are you talking about? I was trying to move on to the next point. I know, but then you threw that joke in. I'm just saying, and that joke was tough. Yeah, we didn't even know what kind of car you were talking about. We didn't even know what you were talking about. Well, I tried to move on and just have it as a throwaway. Of course you did, because it was that bad of a joke. I would try to move on from it too. But I'm just saying, I think we should sit in it. It's a smart joke. I think there's probably 40 people listening that laughed at that joke.

I didn't think we were lucky if it was 40 people. If you laugh, please write in. Yeah.

I was going to ask you what you think the best jingle of all time. You were like, you think RC, you think there's a race car? Because Long John Silver, like you did all the one sentence in it because you did it. The joke, you know, when you don't know for sure, you're like, you think RC is the one that made race cars? Long John Silver has been around for a long time. Is that what they got up there? Go on McDonald's? Long John Silver. Like you just, it was all one sentence. Move on, dude. Yeah. Yeah.

Best jingle of all time. Oscar Mayer. Honestly, maybe. Yeah, that's up there. That stood the test of time. I don't mind the Popeye's chicken. Love that chicken from Popeye's. That's a good joke. We'll save that for later in the broadcast. That's nice. We got that coming up.

All right, so we can do McDonald's and move on. Yeah, this one's going to McDonald's. Sorry, Long John. Yeah. We'll see you. We got next round. We got Jack in the Box and Bojangles. I'm going Bojangles all the way. So Bojangles, very regional. Yeah. It's very regional. So I think a lot of listeners will have never eaten at a Bojangles. What's the best way to describe it? It's a fried chicken.

Biscuits. Lees? Was there a Lees or something? There was a Lees. That's the poor man's Bojangles. Is that around? I know. I think that's gone. That's where you go eat all the time. I think there was like three in the world. Two of them were in Nashville. Before you go to school, when you first start driving. Can you see if that still exists? The thing was you go to Lees and get their breakfast. Is it like a Dodgers chicken? I think it's Lees chicken, isn't it? Lees chicken in Tennessee? Yeah.

Well, I mean, it wasn't. There's one in Milan. Lee's famous. Yeah. They had really good biscuits. And everybody was like, I remember. I don't think the comparison. I remember kids would be like, oh, I always go there and get the biscuit in the morning. And they were like, you know, and I was like, man, I wish. Oh, I've had Lee's chicken. Yeah. On the road somewhere. It was rated the number one best fast food fried chicken in the nation.

By USA Today. In what year? 2023. Wow. My apologies. I had never heard of this place. I've had Lee's. I think in North Carolina. Wow. I'd like to apologize to the Lee Company. Man.

I mean, that's better than Bojangles. Bojangles also has great breakfast. They have a good... I used to get a... I like an egg and cheese biscuit from Bojangles. They got little Bo rounds. Their number one item is the Cajun chicken filet biscuit. Yeah, I've had that a lot of times. That's the number one. That's a good one. I would... But Jack in the Box has tacos. That's their number one item. Yeah, their tacos are great. I like... Jack in the Box has got a lot of good stuff. But I don't know if that's necessarily a strength for it. We've got actually two kind of competing philosophies here. Bojangles...

kind of does one thing really well. Chicken biscuits, that kind of stuff. And then Jack in the Box does a million things not that great. Their taco's great. That's what they're saying, but they're like, we're a hamburger place. That's what we, you know, but our taco is...

You don't even know that's even there. You're like, I'll try what I was talking to you. Like, we should have had brought in some of this food. The Bojangles crispy chicken. We didn't have the budget. Yeah. So Jack in the box. That's what people want. Yeah. Watch us eating fried chicken. Yeah. I'll tell you what, I think this is pretty good stuff right here.

Jack in the box almost went bankrupt in 90, 92, 93 when an E. coli outbreak led to four deaths and 700 people sick. Um,

But then they did the character Jack. That was one Jack in the Box. Just one really bad location. Yeah, one location. Oh, that scary looking character? Yeah. Yeah, with the ping pong head. Yeah. That guy's not getting me to go there. No, you don't like him. I kind of like it. He's kind of sarcastic. He knows what he is. That guy's terrifying. He's just a guy with a head. That guy comes to me in my dreams. They now sell Red Bull.

Do they really? Yeah, Red Bull Infusion. Does Red Bull not everywhere? I guess it's not everywhere. Wow. I don't know any other fast food places that have Red Bull. That's a good way to go. Jack in the Box, that's a solid because I think the people going to Jack in the Box, Jack in the Box is a late night place, probably more so. You go there super late. But the people that would go there, the younger people,

Going late, drinking Red Bull all the time. They drink it like it's Coke. I think they're drinking Red Bull late night, though. I think people drink energy drinks. I think they're into energy drinks. Drink them. Regardless of the time of day. Look at a person's coffee. People that are crazy coffee people, they're drinking it after dinner. They get it after dinner. That's true. So it's the same thing. If I go to a Waffle House at 1 a.m., I'll get a cup of coffee. It's all these younger people that are like...

What do y'all want to do today? Like they're just, that's all they did. They're like, I have ADD. It's like, well, maybe I have a less energy drink. They've been caffeinated since they were babies these days. Yeah. These kids and Starbucks and stuff. You're the most caffeine. Yeah. I mean, I've had so much caffeine. I mean, I have it the most, the most. So, I mean, in my whole life. Yeah. Jack in the Box has 2,200 locations. Bojangles has 800 locations.

Well, Bojangles is really fine-tuned. I'll give you Bojangles. Yeah, I'm going to go with Bojangles. I appreciate that. Yeah, it's good. Next one. Now, this is interesting. How many yards is this? Can we get through this today, right? Nah, I don't think so. I mean, if we go really fast. Yeah, let's see where we're at. All right. That's a lot of...

Oh, and Pete, that's like the worst nightmare. If someone listened to this, can we get through this today? They're like, I don't think so. All right. Let's see if we can. We'll speed it up. I got to listen to this again. But I think, hold on. We got to start to balance fast food part three. You get through them fast. But I think unless there's discussion about it, then it's kind of. Well, if it's fun. Yeah, we'll see if we have a good time discussing it. Okay. I'm saying we don't get it. You don't feel like you have to stretch it out. Should end on its own volition.

Yeah. If this were the late 90s and early 2000s. Oh, Dusty, go ahead. Oh, sorry. Well, you guys are like, can we get through it today? And I'm like, well, we could. But, you know. Does that shirt come with shoulder pads? Well, probably. There's probably a feature you could add it. It's like a box. Yeah. I mean, it's really a shirt that is like, we're not showing you what my body looks like underneath. Yeah. You don't know. Where'd you get those?

I got this in Miami. I need to get one. Yeah, we get you one. Let's all get them. What were you saying? We're on the podcast every time. Yeah, I like that. Well, I'm just going back to the bracket here. If this is the late 90s, early 2000s, I say Arby's, but Panda Express is pretty top notch.

Yes. Oh, you've moved on. Yeah, we haven't even announced what this matchup is yet. It's Arby's versus Panda Express. I'm getting right into it. No one even said the announcement. Yeah. So people just heard your description of it. And at the very end of it, you're like, so I'm going to go Panda Express. And they're like, I don't know who you're going with. I'm going to go Arby's. Arby's versus Panda Express.

So a thing I'm going to have with this though, is seeing these other ones, it could make you switch to being like, well, I want a Panda Express in there to make it harder. Like, cause it's a different thing. Bojangles is a jack in the box. It's like, well, we, you know, you've got McDonald's. I know McDonald's is at the top. So I want Bojangles to go up against. And so that I'm just my thinking on this, not saying it should be done that way or not. I,

I like Arby's. I do. I could probably go Arby's. I like the horseradish sauce with the thing. I mean, I get the sauce is good. I get that number one, but I get the bun. No onions. You can do that. You can ask for that. Right. Curly fries. Arby's great. Yeah. Curly fry. We need to give them credit. They do a lot of fries. They do a lot of meat though. Like chicken. Swiss is very good too. Yeah. Yeah. Arby's is very good. Arby's is a solid Arby's a restaurant that you forget about.

and then you go to it and then you go to it for too much straight because you like haven't gone to it in a year and you're like, oh, and then you just see an Arby's just like, because I don't feel like Arby's is ever just, they're not in your face like McDonald's. Arby's is always, they're not rude. They're not rude. Arby's, you'd like turn a corner and they're always like behind a building. They're like, hey, show up here. And you're like, hey, I didn't know. I thought y'all left. Like they're not just in your face.

Arby's is always near other restaurants, but they're like, we'll take the lot back there. We don't need to be jammed in everybody's face. Because they believe in what they do. What we're doing, we have horseradish sauce. That sauce is good. That sauce is good. They have a whole flavor profile that you can't get in any other fast food place. You can't get horseradish sauce. They used to have the 99 cent menu that was, you know.

Oh, you could build your own? Yeah. I mean, yeah. And I would go, you can get two hash. I mean, it's just. I'm like, I'll take a roast beef sandwich. I'll have a chicken sandwich. I'll have a turkey sandwich. Five for $5.95. I mean, they pioneered some deals out here. I think we were five for $5.

Inflation, you know, by the time you got involved, they go, all right, six for six. They just had that defeats the purpose. I know that's like, I think that I went to, I bought a, uh, Dr. Pepper, uh, Harper made the golf team. I don't know if I mentioned that. Oh, congratulations. Awesome. Six. Very, very pumped. Very excited. I've never pushed her to golf, but I love that she's, uh, doing it. And so we're going to watch her and, uh,

I got a Diet Coke. I said two for $2.50, you know, two for $5. And you almost buy two because they're just like, you're like, oh, I guess I got to get two. And then I'm like, well, it's just $2.50. I don't want two. Yeah. I was like, it's just $2.50. I'll just pay $2.50. And if you don't look, I won't look at it like that. But if you got two, you drink both of them.

I mean, I'm not going to drink them both there. But at some point they would. Yeah, but it's going to sit in a car. It's going to be hot. And I already have Diet Dr. Pepper here. Okay. So this is. How much was one? I'm out only. $2.50. And two for $5? Yeah. So there's no deal. Well, I don't know if it was for one. Yeah, I don't think there ever is a deal.

I don't think any place gives a deal. At the most, it'd be like $2.60 for one. Yeah. You know, at the grocery store, when they offer the deal, like it'll be like two for five. It really is just one for $2.50. It's just to trick you into getting more. Yeah, because it makes you want to, it almost, I almost got, it made me think, should I get two?

Because you're like, oh, they're telling me to get two. Oh, yeah, I'll just do that. But I was like, no, I don't want to. And I almost feel like it's going to be weird. Good for you for fighting the system, though. Honestly, part of my head thinks the guy's going to bring it up. You know they're two-two. And then I'm going to be like, all right, I guess I'll get it. And I don't want it. But I feel, you know.

Like, you feel like you're dumb. Yeah. How are you not getting this? Yeah. Yeah. They're playing with you. Messing with your feelings. Mm-hmm. Well, Arby's number one seller is the beef and cheddar sandwich. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Panda Express, number one. Anyone want to guess? Orange chicken. That's right. Yeah.

I like Panda Express. I don't like onions in the fried rice. They only put onions in the fries. They used to not do it, and then they do it. And that was kind of like a point for me that I kind of checked out because you can't get it without. But I swear they used to not do it.

This is what I don't like about Panda Express. I feel like when you used to go to the mall, you would have a Chinese restaurant in the mall that felt like it was run by real Chinese people and it felt like it had some authenticity. And now this is a chain and they're taking over all the malls. That's true. I don't like that. Well, they're standalone now. Yeah. And so when Panda Express probably went standalone, it was like...

It answers, Panda Express is a very, it's, I do think their food's very good. Yeah. If they had no onions in the fried rice, I would go there way more, way more.

I hope they hear this. Yeah, I do too. Yeah. Oh, I would go. I would go a lot. Yeah. I got to go with Arby's. You wanted to go Panda Express. So I did want to go Panda Express. I still going to, I'm going to stick by it. I'm sticking. I'm going Arby's. I'm going Arby's. There it is. There it is. I'm sorry about that. Here's probably, this is the, if you're watching this on TV, this next matchup, this is like, you're going to take a break. I don't think anyone cares about this one. Subway versus Dunkin' Donuts.

That's a weird matchup, but I mean, subway for us. Cause Dunkin' Donuts, I don't even like Dunkin' Donuts. I was always a Krispy Kreme guy. I don't hate Dunkin' Donuts. I like all donuts. I like the donuts. I like to get an old fashioned and a glazed at Dunkin' Donuts with a coffee. Delicious. Old fashioned donut with a coffee. So what is an old fashioned donut? It's just like a cake donut. It's almost like a cake donut. Yeah. But it's, it does. It's not quite as sweet as the glaze. I got it. Uh,

I went to an old fashioned donut face. Like I didn't even really know about it. Yeah. And then I found out about it. Then I was like, I was always getting one. Yeah, man. I could go there like a, like a crueler. Yeah. Cruller. How do you say that? Yeah, dude, I have no glaze on it. It's, um, I would look up the Dunkin' Donuts specifically. Yeah. Yeah. See that donut. That's like the one in Kentucky when you're going to Lexington and you get off the interstate and they have the,

A little gas station there that sells donuts and they make them in-house. That's such a specific. It's good though. Off exit 42. Yeah. You know, the place everybody knows. There's some listeners that know about it. Yeah. I guarantee that. They're driving. Yeah. There's a guy. Yeah. There's a guy driving right now getting off that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's good. Every time I'm like, I think I'll stop. And they used to give me a free donut with every fill up. If you got gas, you got a donut. Oh, yeah.

I learned this from my research. That's a good deal. Where is that at? It's in Kentucky. Like, you get off the interstate going to Lexington. Yeah. It's right off to the right as you're. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Dunkin' Donuts recently changed their name to just Dunkin'. Oh, yeah? No more donuts. Oh, wow. America runs on Dunkin'. Yeah. I think they should have kept it, to be honest. I think they wanted people to think we're more than donuts. What are you?

I wish these two restaurants would kill each other. I think their coffee is a big seller. I wish Duncan and Subway would kill themselves in a fight. You don't like either one. And then we'd not have anybody to challenge Arby's. Just not excited about either. And I think Arby's just trounces whoever wins this. Subway, I think, gets trashed unfairly. We eat Subway a lot on the road. I'm a big Firehouse Subs fan.

I like Firehouse. Subway, second most locations of anywhere. Oh, I thought it was more. I mean, it's the most, right? The thing I read, it's at McDonald's. It was the most. Okay. According to this. According to this, McDonald's has 38,000 locations and Subway had like 37,000. Is that worldwide? Yeah. Okay. In America, I think Subway has McDonald's beat. All right. Subway just lost its way.

You know what I mean? I don't think, I think you're, I think somebody's found its way back. Has it? I think the Jared thing was tough to deal with, but it was, but I think they're back now. But then there was a thing about their bread. They were, people were saying their bread had like a rubber from. I think they rebounded from that great. So they, yeah, they fixed everything. Snopes denied that. Yeah. They figured, they figured everything out.

Subway is a solid place. I'm going Subway. All right. Disappointing the big corner of the country there with that one, I'm sure. We got KFC and A&W. Got to be honest with you. I only know A&W as a root beer flavor. I've never eaten at an A&W. I think they're few and far between. I think just by default, I think this has to go to KFC. That's my opinion.

opinion. I think we would do KFC. We just, we don't have the experience of A&W. I'm going late nineties. KFC beats all these restaurants, but they've taken, they've taken a dip, but late nineties KFC was on fire. Yeah. Well, late nineties was Kentucky fried chicken. Yeah. Oh, that's right. Yeah. Then it's changed. Somebody told me one time that they changed it to KFC because they did. The chicken wasn't real. Yeah. So they couldn't call themselves Kentucky fried chicken. I don't think that's true, but I read that too. I heard it was because the word fried.

developed a bad connotation during the health wave of the last few decades. Yeah. A&W is that's a big like

They're on the East Coast, Upper East Coast. Oh, yeah. They're in those toll roads where you have to go in there. That's where I would see them. Yeah, I've never been. I never liked root beer. I'm not a big root beer fan either. I've had a weird root beer. You love root beer? A&W Zero. Yeah. It's tough to beat, dude. Yeah.

It's caffeine free. You know, sometimes you don't want to have a caffeinated drink. Oh, is it? It's caffeine free. Root beer is caffeine free. Really? But it's got like a licorice flavor. I don't like it. Yeah. It's got a root beer flavor, dude. Don't try to compare it to something else. I've never put licorice. I never should have root beer float because I was like, I don't know if I want that. Yeah, I agree with that. It's unbelievable. I want my ice cream. Just don't be bothered. Yeah.

Geez. Yeah. Y'all need to have a little fun out here, dude. There's six locations in Tennessee, by the way. Oh, six. One in Nashville? No. And I got a KFC fun fact here. In Quebec, it's by law, everything has to be in French. So Kentucky Fried Chicken translates to Polay Frit Kentucky.

So, um, PFC, PFK, PFK. Yeah. PFK. Yeah. Kentucky starts at K. Wow. So KFC got the win there. And this looks like we've got an interesting one coming up here. Chick-fil-A versus steak and shakes. They can shake his, uh,

It's a diner, but it's also a fast, you know, it's got a drive through. Yeah. We went to a steak and shake one time on the road, me and you. I forget where we were at, but it was like the slowest service in the world. It like took forever. There's rumors that's happened a lot everywhere. Yeah. I've actually heard that. Yeah. We talk about it on here. I've talked about personally my own life.

I think it's a problem, a big problem. Yeah, with Steak and Shake. Yeah. Specifically Steak and Shake. Oh, yeah. You know where it's not a problem? Chick-fil-A. Yeah. That's where service? No. Oh, dude. Chick-fil-A is the... Yeah, that's the answer, I think, easily with this. But Chick-fil-A is somewhere like... I would like my daughter to have a job there. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. You know. Oh, yeah. Steak and Shake. I will say, to defend the Steak and Shake employees, I don't know if there's another...

where the servers are so mistreated. Oh, probably. In a staking shape because it's open late. It's a teenage hangout spot. These people, they don't tip. They come in, they misbehave, they trash the place, and they leave. Well, I'm never blaming the workers. I know. I know. I'm just saying. I love the workers. So if they're slow service, it's usually one server, and there's 80 people in there. Yeah, communist of you. Well, it's communist in theory. They claim to love the workers, but...

Yeah. You know who else? The shirt looks like a communist. Yeah. Well, it's because, you know, it comes from Cuba. You know what I mean? Like you have some good ideas. Yeah, they have to make a quality shirt. They might not have a lot of shirts. Yeah. Right. Because you can't just go shopping every day in communist countries. All right. And Cuban people, they're- Popeyes versus Domino's. I'm best friends with Cuban people. Yeah, yeah. Popeyes with Domino's. I think Domino's. I mean, it's just-

We've done a lot of chicken, so... But, I mean, Domino's is, I think, better. Love that chicken from Popeye's. You know what I mean? Love that chicken from Popeye's. You were talking about a company that has rebounded as Domino's. I mean, I have no... We're just going to go Domino's? You got... What are you... Where are you weighing in at? I can... I mean, I can click the other one. It's not like it's fine. I thought you just moved right ahead. I haven't picked my hand up off the chess piece just yet. No, I'll go with Domino's. Domino's did redo their thing. They were...

I liked the pizza back in the day. I loved it. It was like more back then than... Have you had it? I haven't had it in a while. It's different. Is it? It's a premium quality chain pizza place. They get rid of that 30 minutes or less. Well, yeah. Quality takes time. Yeah. I'm not knocking. I'm just saying that's how they change. One way they change. Now we got... They couldn't even... I mean, they were 30 minutes. So to get to your house...

I mean, that shrunk the delivery thing. You can't get Domino's delivered to my house.

It's like right outside the thing. That's frustrating. I hate that when a place will do that. I tried to order a place the other day and they go, oh, you're just outside of our delivery range. And I'm like, well, how far? I mean, you can't just kick it on over in there. I mean, how far out of the range? Seinfeld episode, she goes, I'll meet you across the street. They got a draw line somewhere. If I go here, then here, then here. Yeah, I don't know. And I...

But it's like, yeah, where we live, you want to be like, I mean, how far? Like, yeah, we're not in the boot. We're in the thick of it. Yeah. So how far? City limits, maybe? I don't know. Only Papa John's delivers. They get it. That's who I deliver. I guess you got DoorDash now, so everybody delivers technically. Right. Yeah. All right. Domino's.

Next, we've got the low-income battle. We've got the Taco Bell and a Church's Chicken. I mean, I feel like those are together sometimes, right? I think Taco Bell, KFC. I still say Taco Bell. Taco Bell. I don't think it's a low-end. I said low-income. Oh, that's where low-income people go eat? Yeah, I was making a mean joke that I regret right after I said it. Church's Chicken is...

Is known as another country. You hope no one in Harp on it? Yeah. If you live in Louisville. You guys know about RC cars? Yeah. Anyway. Louisville, by the way, is like the fast food capital of the world. Oh, is it? Because that Yum brand is headquartered there. There's a lot of fast food restaurants. KFC Yum Center, yeah. Are based out of Louisville. Church's Chicken in other countries is called Texas Chicken.

All right. That's good. Yeah, that's it. Is that a joke? No. Okay. It's a fact. You laughed in a way that I was like. Well, he got the same response as his RC jokes. I'm like, let's just move on. Yeah. But it's not a joke. It's a true thing. People told me I should let y'all talk more, and I'm letting it happen. And they're seeing the cost. Yeah, well, it feels good. There's a price to be paid. Yeah, it feels good. Who told you that? No one. Okay.

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go back. Look, Burger King, White Castle. That's a legit one. Like I like White Castle. That's worthy of discussion. Yeah. Okay. My grandmother loved Burger King. That was like her favorite spot. We had a, my brother-in-law is from Michigan and he had a,

a bit of a wealthier family. And he said every year for Mother's Day, they would go big. They would go out to a really nice restaurant and get really dressed up. So when he was down here with us, the trailer park people for the first year, we were like going out for Mother's Day and he got really pumped because it was, and my grandmother wanted to go to Burger King.

That's where she liked to go. So for Mother's Day, he's used to these really nice dinners. And we went to Burger King. He said that was the first time I questioned what I was doing in Alabama with this family. Yeah. Yeah. That's great. Yeah. I could see. I mean.

You could get me excited about going fast for as you can go. You can order whatever you want, however meals you want. Like, you know, that's fun. I like Burger King, but I got to go White Castle. Burger King used to have a great plate. Burger King doesn't have great fries. So White Castle has the good shebang. I'm going to say for me, I'm going to say that White Castle has crystals and I'll go with it. I'll go with it. Burger King in Australia is called Hungry Jack's.

Yeah, I noticed that. There's a real reason for that. There was already a Burger King. Yeah. Because they have real kings and stuff there. No. I don't know if...

No, there was already, there's a Burger King. Sorry, Burger King. So they switched to Hungry Jack's. And then later when that, like their patent ran out, the, um, another place, Burger King, they were going to, they switched to Burger King, but by then Hungry Jack had taken over so much. Like that's what they know it as. They just went back to Hungry Jack's. Yeah. Yeah.

What'd I miss over here? I just made a joke that Bob... He said, they have real kings. You go, no. Yeah. He shot it down. Oh, yeah. Yeah. All right. I heard it. I know you did. I mean, after... Yeah. After the...

Third, fourth one, he kind of just becomes immune to it. I just take everything as you're asking a serious question. I took it as serious, actually. That's how I look at Aaron, just goes, oh, serious question. I'm batting 300, I think, this episode. 300? Yeah.

He's had some good ones. Yeah. A little slap singles. I'd say, man, low average, high slugging. 300 is like a good batting average. 300 is Hall of Fame. Yeah, yeah. And you think you're batting 300? Look, I think you're batting 850. He's saying three out of every 10 jokes have landed. Yeah. Yeah. Focus on this. Seven out of 10 have bombed. Yeah. Not bad when it comes to...

batting, but batting when it comes to jokes. Yeah. I was struggling. I didn't even know what we were talking about mid-statement. Did we decide on a winner here? White Castle. I'm picking White Castle. All right. So, Whataburger and Culver's. I would just say Whataburger. I hate Whataburger. I would say Whataburger. Culver's is new to me. I've never had it. It's Midwest chain. I've only had it once. It's great. Frozen custard and great burgers. If the box was just said dirt on it, I would pick it over Whataburger.

Oh, so you're both going Culver's? You're going Culver's too? I'm going Culver's. I wouldn't go Culver's over a Whataburger. What would you do? I guess I better do Culver's. I don't like how people pronounce it Whataburger. That bothers me. I would have went Whataburger, but... I think Whataburger used to be great. This is what I've heard from people. What happened? It's a Texas chain, and it was really good. And then a company out of Chicago bought it and then franchised it out bigger, and now the quality's gone down. And I had one...

I mean, it was in my hometown, but it was like the worst experience. In Hermitage? No, no. In Opelika. They got a Whataburger there? They do. Wow. We had one in Montgomery too. And I went there and it was not good. How long did you live in Montgomery? Till 2008. Oh. We just got the Whataburger. Oh, but you were, how old were you? 16. Oh.

Yeah. All right. Culver. See, Starbucks, Papa John's. These feel like they're two different families. Yeah. I would say Starbucks. Starbucks. We've already done Domino's, and that influences it. Dairy Queen, Krispy Kreme. I love Krispy Kreme. Interesting one. I don't know. Dairy Queen's got the Blizzard, man. The Blizzard is...

The Blizzard is great. The Blizzard is the Blizzard. I would say Dairy Queen. Krispy Kreme, I love Krispy Kreme. Talk about a place going down. They are... Are they going down? It's not good. Really? A lot of... I mean, the one near us, I mean... I feel like they revolutionized the donut. They did, but I just... They're phoning it in, dude. Like, they want to be...

They want to be done. I mean, every time I go, I'm like, these donuts are going to be awful. Oh, yeah. And they are. And I still eat them. But they're awful. In Charleston, they had one that you could watch the donuts be made. Oh, yeah. And they come around on the conveyor belt. Yeah, a long time ago. And they would just get you one right off there, real hot. Again, they used to do that. Now, these guys are not doing that now. Now, you're...

That they'd have the hot sign. The hot sign is only going to be glazed if it's ever on. Yeah. And these donuts have been sitting there for a while. You're not getting that. You're not getting that kind of stuff. They're like hot, but they're not hot. If they make it when it's hot like that, I don't think anybody can touch Krispy Kreme. Like Krispy Kreme has the potential. Their donuts are so good that, but, but. How many of y'all think y'all could eat? Yeah. Yeah.

We could do 36, 86. When we did that contest. Yeah. How did it, how, who like the most? Who do you think? Yeah. Yeah. But who was, who was the only one to beat the spread?

Brian was the real winner because he did way more than we thought. How many did you eat? I don't think you can't keep living life, setting the bar low and then expecting people to be blown away when you clear the bar. I like that. That's true. That's my whole life. I'm not changing now. Well, how many did you eat? He came into it. I don't think I can eat more than three. And then he adds, you know, four and everybody gave him a standing ovation. Oh yeah. I think I said eight and I ate nine. It might've been seven. I mean, yeah.

13. Yeah. What about you? Uh, I chocolate and that thing I did four and a half. We're not still getting the weeds here. Just, he really took it. Well, I thought I could do chalk. Cause I looked, but it was a lot, it was a lot more than I thought. Uh, yeah. There's a video out there. You can watch. Yeah. Okay. Or best of, or a lot of opportunities. Okay. Yeah.

We're doing the last episode of this podcast. We're doing another Krispy Kreme challenge. I think we have to pick Krispy Kreme just for that reason. How did you feel after eating 13? It didn't feel good. I went to Zany's that night and felt it on stage. Did you do well on stage? No. The only thing, I love Dairy Queen though. Krispy Kreme, I'm telling you, it's just they...

Do you get anything? I don't, I don't think you got to get, I don't think you give it to them to be honest. I don't think they deserve it right now. What do you think? Dairy Queens? Like been, you go make, you go get a blizzard of dairy queen. You're getting a good blizzard. You're not messing, but I don't think Krispy Kreme deserves this right now. They need to get it. Interesting. They need to get it together. And that means a lot because of our story and history with, with Krispy Kreme. The blizzard is the blizzard. I would go dairy queen because of the blizzard. All right. All right. I mean, I agree with you.

We got a next matchup. This is the low-income bracket on the right. We got Sonic versus... Sonic versus Checkers. I don't think that's low-income bracket. Checkers, I think, is nice. Sonic is... I don't think Checkers is nice. I'm thinking your neighborhood. Yeah, you're thinking of chess. No, I think Checkers... I thought Checkers... I thought Checkers was...

Oh, he's betting $350. Hey, dude. I thought Checkers was like a cool spot. I was really laughing at it. He said, maybe in your neighborhoods. Oh, dang. You're laughing at what he said? $250. Yeah. Mine was good, I thought. Hey.

Yeah, the high end. Checkers is also called. Family that goes under name, I'd imagine. It's all pretty. Isn't Checkers also called like a Raleigh's or something? Yeah. Raleigh's. Raleigh's. Oh, yeah. Not Raleigh's. Yeah. I mean, and I love Sonic. I'm a big Sonic fan. But Checkers, I like Checkers. I thought it was a fun. I don't look at it as low income. I thought it was like a cool spot.

They got good fries and they got milkshakes too. Checkers is like, we do some good stuff here. Yeah. But I like Sonic. I love that you go sit there in your car. It's got that old feel to it. They have the Sonic Blast, which is great. I had Sonic recently though. I got through half the hamburger and I was like, I can't do it. Sonic infamously uses a ton of microwaves. Do they? Yeah.

I love it. When I say recently, I mean three years ago. I like it. I'm going Sonic. Are we going Sonic? Sonic, sorry about that. We got Hardee's versus In-N-Out. I've never had In-N-Out, but Hardee's is my favorite of all time. Yeah, I could see Hardee's. Hardee's breakfast is like the real deal. And they got Carl's Jr. What's up with that? Why do they do that?

I think it's just like the one you just said, Riley's, whatever. Yeah. It's the same parent company, just named differently in different parts of the country. In-N-Out, I know everybody goes crazy about In-N-Out. Their burgers are awesome. They're great. I'm not a big fan of their fries. Oh, you like the shoestring? Yeah, I don't either. In-N-Out's born-again Christian. They put Bible verses on there. A bit hardy. I like that, but...

Hardee's, those commercials? Yeah, I found God at a Hardee's before. Well, Hardee's breakfast is biscuits and gravy. They got it all. Yeah. Their breakfast is definitely great. If you want to live in sin, Dusty, that's fine. Oh, I don't eat it now, but I used to. And I used to get a loaded omelet biscuit and a biscuit and gravy, and then I would put gravy on the loaded omelets.

They're the first one who did like a real hamburger. Remember when they did that? Yeah. Thick burger. They had chicken for a while too. They used to have a monster burger. Frisco burger? Yeah. Frisco burger. Their Frisco was good. Yeah. Yeah. This will be

The biggest upset of this entire tournament. I think we're all agreeing that Hardee's is about to take out In-N-Out. But we don't have In-N-Out out here. We don't have In-N-Out like they do. But I think we've all been doing In-N-Out. I think we understand it. I think we get it. Yeah, I don't like DeFrost. In-N-Out's coming to Nashville. Yeah. I saw the announcement from the governor.

The governor popped on and did a video. Yeah. We're going Hardee's. All right. Take that in and out, dude. We're not impressed. We're not impressed. We got Pizza Hut and Little Caesars.

I like Little Caesars because it's an old school thing, but Pizza Hut is a... Pizza Hut, old school. I like Pizza Hut. Oh, had the pizza buffet. You could go in there and eat in that pizza buffet. They had video games. Yeah, I mean, old school. But that's what I mean. So do you punish them like Krispy Kreme where you go, y'all had it, you did it, and then you messed up. And Little Caesars is actually trying now. Keith Robinson's promoting Pizza Hut now, so they're trying.

Is he? Did he do those commercials? Oh, yeah. Yeah. Keith, the comedian? Yeah. Oh, Craig Robinson. Oh, Craig Robinson. Sorry. I was like, I don't know who Craig Robinson. Mary Bonds. Jackie Robinson. Yeah. Craig Robinson. Keith Robinson. I,

I don't know. I've not had any Little Caesars in a while. I think Little Caesars is probably feeding America in a way that a lot of these other places aren't. I'm not trying to affect that. I think Little Caesars is making a push back. And I think Pizza Hut, I think you got to get like pizza. Domino's did some good stuff. Pizza Hut, get it together, man. You had restaurants. You had a pizza restaurant. It was the best. You had salad. They had the pizza buffet. I mean, it was the best.

So we're going to go Little Caesars here. Little Caesars had the great cartoon back in the day, Pizza Pizza. Yeah, Pizza Pizza. Now it's hot and ready. So I think at the very least, this will hopefully motivate Pizza Hut to kick it up. We're trying to do that. That's what we're trying to do. Like get back to being a hut. You're in a lot of strip malls now. Get back to being a hut. Yeah. Interesting. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Wendy's and Zaxby's. The last matchup of the day. I would say close. I would say go Zaxby's. Wendy's messed. They did something to the fries. They messed up. Yeah.

I think sea salt. I don't see when you introduce sea salt. It's not good. When Dave Thomas disappeared, it went downhill. I don't know. He didn't. I think he passed away. Yeah. Well, he disappeared. Big Zaxby's got to him. Yeah. Yeah. He went out there on that fishing boat. Never came back. The dodo birds. He went out there with the jack in the box. Yeah. Never saw him again. Uh, yeah, I'm going, I think Zaxby's is, uh,

I like Zach's piece. I'm going Wendy's. Yeah, I'm going Wendy's too. That's what I'm saying. Zach's piece is a bit. You could talk me into Wendy's though because I don't really go to Zach's piece. I think we've got better chicken places already in this tournament. I don't know. We've been saying that, but I feel like we've been eliminating all the chicken places. Am I trying to box everyone out so Bojangles makes a surprise run? Maybe.

Okay. What if the Wendy's employee has a gun? They might. Yeah. Well, Wendy herself may have a gun. Yeah.

We're going Wendy's here. Okay. That's the first round. How about that? We could just stop. Yeah, we might be stopping for good. That's what I'm saying. Yeah. Just McDonald's won. We've covered every restaurant. Yeah. I just think we could wrap it up real fast here. We're just going to stop for good. Let's wrap up real fast. Let's go real fast. McDonald's over Bojangles. McDonald's. Arby's versus Subway.

Arby's. KFC. Almost like just go with your gut right when I say it out loud. KFC Chick-fil-A. Domino's Taco Bell. Taco Bell. Yeah. White Castle Culver's. White Castle. I'm just ignoring everything Brian said. It's two against one. I get it. Starbucks and Dairy Queen. Starbucks. Not for the food, but it's a better spot though. Okay. We've got Sonic and Hardee's. Hardee's for me. Sonic.

I'm going to go Hardee's. I'm going to go Hardee's too. Little Caesars and Wendy's. Little Caesars. Wendy's. I'll say Little Caesars. I don't even go to Little Caesars anymore. I want to change it if you would have voted differently. All right. It's just Nate says Little Caesars. He says it with the most confidence. Your Starbucks thing has not gone through here. That's okay. I think Starbucks would have lost. I would have went the other way.

I remember who they were against. Dairy Queen. Starbucks food is not good. Yeah, I went Dairy Queen. Let's go Dairy Queen. I went Dairy Queen. Yeah. Okay, we got... Okay, here we go. McDonald's and Arby's. I mean, McDonald's is McDonald's. Yeah, you're right. Chick-fil-A, Taco Bell. Chick-fil-A. I'm going to answer that one. White Castle and Dairy Queen. I still go White Castle. Dairy Queen. It's a little tougher. I'm going Dairy Queen, too.

Oh, well then you're out. Oh, okay. Well, no, it'd be tied. It'd be tied, but yeah,

Let's just go Derek Lee. There you go. I would have went White Castle. Hardee's and Little C's. I still order Hardee's. Hardee's. All right, here we go. Last round. We got the final four. McDonald's and Chick-fil-A. McDonald's and Chick-fil-A. I mean, that's a tough one. They should be on opposite sides. I know you love them, so I'm going to guess we're all picking McDonald's. You would pick Chick-fil-A? Yeah. I mean, I still eat at Chick-fil-A. Yeah, I still eat at Chick-fil-A too, but I'd pick McDonald's.

If you don't want to pick McDonald's, don't pick McDonald's. I don't pick McDonald's. I'm picking McDonald's, but it's very tough. I'd probably pick Chick-fil-A, but I eat McDonald's enough that I'm not going to argue it. Because that's going to be a tie if I go Chick-fil-A. It would be a tie. Yeah. So,

So McDonald's just out of respect. Yeah. For what they do. Well, at this point, though, it's not even fair. It's like I pick Hardee's over Dairy Queen, but who's going to get Hardee's over McDonald's? Dairy Queen and Hardee's. We're going Hardee's. Hardee's. And we have McDonald's and Hardee's. And I think it's a surprisingly close game. Oh, yeah, yeah. But I think McDonald's takes it. If I'm going breakfast, I still go Hardee's. It's not as – this is like – wasn't the NCAA tournament – no, the playoffs this year in football.

We're like this. It was Georgia and... Oh, yeah. Ohio State? Georgia and Ohio State. They played, and then Hardee's is the TCU where you're like... You know, it's like this was the game. Yeah, right. This was the tournament. Right. The real national championship was McDonald's. Yeah. McDonald's is all over the world. Hardee's changes their name in different states. Right. They don't even have the conviction. Yeah. They're like, ah, we're Carl's Jr. sometimes. We're whoever you want us to be. Yeah. Have an identity.

Gotta click the box. What's some fun... Is there any more facts? Let's see here. Got a lot of In-N-Out burger facts. Oh, so I guess In-N-Out has a...

Cross palm trees. That's their symbol. Right. And that's from a movie. The founder saw the movie. It's a mad, mad, mad world. And then that they're searching for buried treasure underneath two cross palm trees. And he liked it so much that he made that their symbol. That's cool. All right. Five guys. Shaq owns like 150,000.

Five guys. If five guys was on there, five guys would have made a run. Oh, five guys might be my favorite. I think it's disqualified, though, because there's no drive-thru. It's pretty pricey, too. They almost priced themselves out of fast food, I think. Did every one of those have a drive-thru?

Well, outside of the delivery pizza places, all of them had a drive-thru. Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I'm a giant Five Guys fan. I love Five Guys. The Cajun fries with the sandwiches, I think Five Guys would have made a... Yeah. As far as my...

I like that. You got to put that like, what's the one at the airport now? The shake, shake, shake, shake, shake. Yeah. Those are great. People like shakes. That's that's regional too. I feel like there's one, they got one over here. Those are great too. Yes. Those are really great. You just don't go to them like a five guy. Like, I don't think to go to them like a fast. I thought they were nationwide.

I don't, are there any in Nashville? Shake Shacks? Yeah. There's one. You got one. Green Hills. 10 minutes from here. I've never seen one. There's one here. National Air Force. Yeah. I've never seen one. B&N? I believe y'all.

You never seen it in the airport? I don't hang out at the airport that much. What do you do? How do you get on the flight? You just get there right when you're supposed to. But I'm not... At your own airport, you don't spend a lot of time. You know what I mean? You don't walk around? There's no layover. What do you do? You sit right by the gate? I time it out. You go front row, gate, right? I mean, so when they... This is it.

You know, the people that go and like, right. And they get on, I mean, they're just like, how close can I sit to that counter? Yeah. You would sit as close as possible to the counter to get on the, on the plane. Yeah. Like, would you just go, you would, you'd want to just go to your gate and be as close to the counter as possible. I sit crisscross applesauce by the door. Yeah. I was sitting like right on the, uh, like the line. Yeah. Yeah.

Now, I go to my gate, make sure everything's at the right gate and it's on time, and then I go away from it to get some space. You'll get lost. A more open area. Yeah, that could happen too. I like going to get...

an eyesight on my gate too. I go check it out and make sure, make sure, make sure there's not some switcheroo happening, but you know, I got, uh, I got, I fly American airlines a lot. I got myself into the Admiral's lounge and that that's where it's at. Yeah. You know, I mean, it feels fancy. Anybody can do it. You know what I mean? But it, uh,

it feels nice. Yeah. Congratulations. Yeah. Thank you. I wear this shirt in there and they called me Admiral, you know, no, uh, five guys was started by guys, five sons. He said, you guys, I'll either pay for you to go to college or start a business. I'm like idiots. They started a business, but, um, man, what kind of family is that? Yeah.

Were they- Five guys is expensive. Yeah. Was that guy rich? Apparently. Their dad had to be, right? Yeah. I mean, it says he founded it, but then he told his five sons, I guess you can either go to college or keep the business going. Yeah. I mean, sending five sons to college would be really expensive. What was it called before the five sons took over? It was like, please start a business. Please start a business. I don't know. Five. It wasn't-

I could still call it five guys. One dad. One dad. One older guy. Because you boys can go to college or you can work fast food.

That's basically what he said. And they chose fast food and it worked. That's a more inspirational story. That'd be interesting to see what that whole story is because I don't know if that's... Your take is more inspirational. Like they said, our dad told us, go to college or work fast food and we started a business. Fast food. And now we're thousandaires.

Good food quickly. Yeah. I mean, we're at the two-hour mark. I can keep going. Taco Bell claims they're the first restaurant chain to hire women as managers. Wow. That was a big mistake. They just claim it. Not even true. They're just like, no, no, we were doing it. They also say their Doritos look-

They say their Doritos Locos Nachos was so popular on the menu, they had to add 15,000 additional workers. Yeah, Taco Bell is awesome, dude. They're innovative. Yeah. Taco Bell's great. They're not afraid to mix things up and try some stuff. Yeah. Yeah, they're like, we don't even care about nutrition. We'll give you what you're looking for. They know what they are. You want a taco shell made out of a Dorito? We'll do it. We'll do it. A woman claimed she found a human finger in Wendy's chili. Right. It was a scam.

Belonged to a friend of hers. The finger? It was a real finger? Yes, it belonged to a friend of hers who had lost it in an accident at work. What was it doing in her chili? She put it in her chili. She put it in to sue Chili. Oh, to sue Wendy's. Talk about like just, that's a good improvisational person.

A, that the lady goes, I just lost my finger. Oh my gosh, that's crazy. She goes, hold on. Can I bar that? Don't let it get cold. Don't let it get cold. Listen to me. I know. And she's screaming, blood's shooting out. He goes, hold on. Eat and chill. Yeah, eat and chill. If you give me that finger, I mean, I will. 20%. Yeah.

You want to leave this job? The job that just cut your finger off. Do you want to leave this job? Give me that finger. I'll be right back. They probably could have sewed it back on if they just. If they'd have kept it cold. The doctor goes, if there's too much chili inside the finger. And that's the problem. Maybe that's how they got. You know, we did that one finger thing. Right. She probably has a little chili. She bleeds. She bleeds chili. Yeah. A little chili.

oh yeah oh yeah the five finger things yeah i wonder if it's not a bad one that would a finger chili yeah would have would uh uh what if chili's good chili is good i don't know that i'd want it counts as a liquid though but how does a lady it's a tough one finger come off you know sewing machine yeah but then they just she was just walking around with the finger yeah she probably had a bag or something and

She wouldn't even have to go in there. I guess you could get it to go and put the finger in there and then come back in and say. I think you got to be in there. But I mean, that's also tough to go like someone. I mean, that's a crazy like a band-aids like who's wearing band. Everyone might have a band-aid. But I mean, they just do one. Who's missing a finger? And if everybody at Wendy's is like, we got all 10. You're like. She went to prison for it. They're like, did you bring that finger in?

Because that stained Wendy's reputation. I mean, still does. I just now found out it wasn't a true story. Yeah. And then later... You know what? I might have heard that it wasn't true earlier, but I forgot that. But I remembered that I thought it happened. If it was Taco Bell, I would believe it. Not Wendy's. I don't know. I think it's a bigger thing when you lose a finger. I think it's a pretty big deal. I don't think it just casually just ends up in the chili and then you...

There's not like a, there's a hospital ride. There's a, where it's being talked like it's a bandaid where it like comes off your fingers, a giant thing to lose. What if that lady, what if that lady had headphones on? She was eating the chili. She sat it down for a second. Her friend cut her finger off. It fell into the chili. She had no idea what would happen because she had the headphones on. So she didn't hear the commotion. She's like, baby.

Listen to music. Every morning there's a halo. Yeah, like Jason's behind her, like the Michael Myers. Yeah, and then she picks it up and starts eating it, finds her finger in there. She thinks it was Wendy's. Her friend couldn't be kind enough to be like, no, that's my finger. I just cut it off. They let her run with it. So then her friend...

gushing blood. Yeah. Yeah. A lot. Everybody, the restaurant I imagine is going pretty crazy. Yeah. But this girl's like, can you believe a finger was in this Wendy's? And then everybody, no one connects it. Everybody goes, this is typical Wendy's. Yeah. Typical Wendy's. No one connects that. They go, where are you guys going? We got, uh,

Samantha lost a finger, but I... Sue him. You should sue him. But then there's a guy in the back missing a finger. Yeah. So you're like, well, I don't know. It looks like a female finger. Does he have it? But he is missing a finger. I'd like to see in the court case how they got to the bottom of that. Yeah. You know, they just go, what if... Did everybody at the restaurant have fingers? We probably talked about it in our first best friend episode. I'd love to see the trial lawyer interview people.

Yeah, the depositions. Yeah. She went back to prison later on. She violated probation. She lied about her son being shot. She found a toe in her blizzard. Yeah. Just say he's got a real issue. There you go. All right. What if she does find something in something? Girl who cried finger. Yeah. Yeah.

Yep. Got half a leg in my stew. Let me see it. Does every judge have to go? Let me see it. Yeah, yeah. Show me the picture. They should just go. No. Case dismissed. Yeah. All right. Where are we going to be? Where are you going to be this weekend? Alaska State Fair. That's a big time. Alaska State Fair. Big time. Super fun. That's awesome.

Please come. I'm very, very excited to go. I love a fair, and I feel like they would have one of the better fairs. Yeah. I agree. I think Alaska State Fair, I would think, is...

top top tier fair i would think so because it's not i can't imagine there's a tone going on in most of the places in alaska well and i think alaska it feels like a place that would be still excited i mean we get excited about the fair we have a good fair wilson county i'll be at the wilson county fair this week you walk it around i think tennis that's this week nashville just had one right it's already going it's already going we need to go it in saturday seventh largest in the country i think what's that nashville's fair

It's Wilson County now. Didn't they just move it? It's about the Tennessee State Fair? Yeah. Yeah, it's in Wilson. They combined them. Oh, okay. Yeah. Hannah went there, took my daughter. Yeah, I love the fair. Yeah. Yeah, we go every year.

I will be in Irwin, Pennsylvania this Sunday at Community Church, then September 2nd in Appleton, Wisconsin at Skyline Comedy Club, September 9th at Comedy at the Sparrow in North Charleston, September 23rd at the Astra Theater in Jasper, Indiana.

Nice. That Appleton Club is getting Brian, Dusty, Greg Warren, me all in the next few months. Yeah. Pretty exciting. Keep working, buddy. Yeah, Nate will get there someday. This weekend, very exciting weekend for me. Tomorrow night, Thursday night, I'm in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania at the Pittsburgh Improv. Friday and Saturday, I'm in Boston, Massachusetts at Laugh Boston Comedy Club. Never been there before. Sunday night, I'm in Cape Cod.

at KOTUIT, Massachusetts at the Performing Arts Center there. Good little run there. It's a fun run up in the north. All right. Come see me. I'll also be up in that area. I'll be in Portland, Maine this weekend at part of the Portland Comedy Festival. I don't know the venue, but it's going to be great. I'm pumped to go. I got...

Yeah. I'm going to Portland, Maine sometime. Portland, Maine's awesome. Yeah. Never been. I'm going an extra day just to kind of check it out a little bit. Never been. So pumped. Yeah. It's a very cool town. All right. That's it. As always, we love you. And we will talk to you next week. Good eye, Mike. Nate Land is produced by Nate Land Productions and by me, Nate Bargetti, and my wife, Laura, on the Audioboom platform.

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