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Speaker 1: want to thank Tony Bruno who came on yesterday. Tony
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Speaker 1: why this guy's a legend and a Hall of famer
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Speaker 1: Here the Fifth Hour with Ben Mallory and joined yet
Speaker 1: again by David Gascon who's right over there hanging out
Speaker 1: with us. Hello David, Good good morning or good evening
Speaker 1: to you, Ben, or good night, yeah, good good night,
Speaker 1: wherever you may be. I know you're a good afternoon,
Speaker 1: good evening, and good night. That's the line. I know
Speaker 1: you're not on the beach because it is the fishy
Speaker 1: football season, that's right, man, I gotta I'm sorry. I'm
Speaker 1: done until check back in February. I'll be back around February.
Speaker 1: Have you got to Costco to load up on your
Speaker 1: on your on your dough so you can get the pepperoni,
Speaker 1: the pizza, the well. I like making the homemade pie.
Speaker 1: I make that as I've sent I've sent photos. You've
Speaker 1: been impressed with how good that pizza looks the whole.
Speaker 1: But don't you don't you buy the package doll though
Speaker 1: from No you don't, No, No, I don't. I well,
Speaker 1: I have bought it at a different so I don't
Speaker 1: buy it from Costco, though I buy I bought it
Speaker 1: like Trader Joe's has it. Sometimes I'll make it, which
Speaker 1: is really not that hard to make. It's just gotta
Speaker 1: sit for you know, a few hours or whatever. But yeah,
Speaker 1: I love the pizza and all that. I love the food.
Speaker 1: It's all about football and food and all that wonderful stuff. So, uh,
Speaker 1: coming up and now we're gonna do pop quiz here.
Speaker 1: All right, we're gonna do a few pop quiz but
Speaker 1: coming up a little bit later, we are going to
Speaker 1: do something that's outside of our comfort zone here, yescan. Now,
Speaker 1: normally we have old radio guys that we love or
Speaker 1: you know, people that we work with at Fox On.
Speaker 1: But we're gonna try something different. So I saw a
Speaker 1: video and I think most people have seen this now
Speaker 1: I went viral on the internet from Lincoln, Nebraska, and
Speaker 1: I was watching this and I watched it several times
Speaker 1: and I laughed and I said, no, what, I think
Speaker 1: we should try to get this guy on the podcast.
Speaker 1: I want to know what his story is. I want
Speaker 1: to know what what's going on. And I am referring
Speaker 1: to Ander Christiansen, better known as the Saucy Dugs Man.
Speaker 1: And for those that have not heard, we have the
Speaker 1: audio tape here. So this has gone viral. But if
Speaker 1: somehow you missed it, the audio is just good enough.
Speaker 1: You don't need the video. The video makes it even better.
Speaker 1: But this comes from Lincoln, Nebraska, right, beautiful Lincoln, Nebraska,
Speaker 1: the capital of Lincoln of the Ambraska rather and the
Speaker 1: the home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers and all that. So
Speaker 1: our guy Andrew Christiansen, he he got in front of
Speaker 1: the leaders of that city and he went on a rant.
Speaker 1: And if you missed it, even if you heard it,
Speaker 1: it is amazing. Let's go to the audio tape, as
Speaker 1: Warner Wolfe would say, here's how that went down. Lincoln
Speaker 1: has the opportunity to be a social leader in this country.
Speaker 1: We have been casually ignoring a problem that has gotten
Speaker 1: so out of control that our children are throwing around
Speaker 1: names and words without even understanding their true meaning and
Speaker 1: treating things as though they're normal. I go into nice
Speaker 1: family restaurants and I see people throwing this name around
Speaker 1: and pretending as though everything is just fine. I'm talking
Speaker 1: about boneless chicken wings. I propose that we as a
Speaker 1: city removed and excuse me, I'm trying to excuse me. Come.
Speaker 1: I propose that we as a city remove the name
Speaker 1: boneless wings from our menus and from our hearts. These
Speaker 1: are our reasons why. Number one, nothing about boneless chicken
Speaker 1: wings actually come from the wing of a chicken. We
Speaker 1: would be disgusted if a butcher was mislabeling their cuts
Speaker 1: of meats. But then we go around and pretending as
Speaker 1: though the breast of the chicken is its wing. Number two,
Speaker 1: boneless chicken wings are just chicken tenders which are already boneless.
Speaker 1: I don't go to it and ordered boneless tacos. I
Speaker 1: don't go and order boneless club sandwiches. I don't ask
Speaker 1: for boneless auto repair. It's just what's expected. And then
Speaker 1: number three, we need to raise our children better. Our
Speaker 1: children are raised being afraid of having bones attached to
Speaker 1: their meat. That's where meat comes from. It grows on bones.
Speaker 1: We need to teach them that the wing of a
Speaker 1: chicken is from a chicken and it's delicious. There's the
Speaker 1: best thing is is because there's a mask that most
Speaker 1: of the people in attendants have to wear. There's a
Speaker 1: woman three rows back at him that is just busting
Speaker 1: up and hiding it pretty well because of the mask.
Speaker 1: So yeah, the whole thing, the full, the full rant
Speaker 1: is outstanding. So we're gonna have this guy on. I've
Speaker 1: been emailing him and communicating with him, and we've traded
Speaker 1: emails up trying to get him on, and um, he's
Speaker 1: got a regular job. I just think it's cool because
Speaker 1: he's just like a regular dude. I believe he's got
Speaker 1: a regular job in Nebraska. And now for you know
Speaker 1: everyone the old mine, everyone gets their fifteen minutes of fame, right,
Speaker 1: And that was that Andy Warhol quote, I think it was.
Speaker 1: And so this is his fifteen minutes of fame. But
Speaker 1: it's a great it's it's great. I mean, it shows
Speaker 1: you the power of the internet. This thing has been
Speaker 1: seeing millions of times. It's gone around the world, and uh,
Speaker 1: it made people laugh in a time where you know,
Speaker 1: there's not a lot to laugh at right now in
Speaker 1: the world. You know, it's amazing too, is because you
Speaker 1: can get the laugh out of this. Part of it
Speaker 1: is because of the way that his presentation, like he's
Speaker 1: wearing a dress shirt tucked in with dress slacks or khakis,
Speaker 1: and he has a tie on and glasses. But he
Speaker 1: has long hair. It's like it's like long rocker hair.
Speaker 1: But imagine if he cut his hair and its parted,
Speaker 1: and he gave that kind of a presentation because most
Speaker 1: people would be fixated on who he is or what
Speaker 1: he looks like, right, as opposed to that in a
Speaker 1: wild Yeah, yeah, it was very good. It was well done,
Speaker 1: and that's hard. No, I am assuming that there's some
Speaker 1: comedy in this that he but maybe he really believes
Speaker 1: that maybe this is really his position. Will find out.
Speaker 1: But being the straight man and not breaking character, that's
Speaker 1: hard to do, right, I mean that's difficult. And people
Speaker 1: are laughing hysterically behind him, and he did not break
Speaker 1: character at all. Now, several people I did not watch
Speaker 1: Parks and Rex. I don't know if did you watch
Speaker 1: the show part they've said this is like an episode
Speaker 1: of Parks and Rex, that this is like right out
Speaker 1: of that show. Um, So I'm gonna ask him whether
Speaker 1: or he was a fan of that show, if that
Speaker 1: was his inspiration, or if this just kind of happened.
Speaker 1: It'll be interesting, but yeah, that he'll be joining us
Speaker 1: in a few minutes. I wanted to get to pop
Speaker 1: Quiz first, but these the saucy nugs Man. If you
Speaker 1: don't care about pop Quiz, just fast forward, right, you
Speaker 1: can fast forward GUESTCN and then get right to Andrew Christiansen,
Speaker 1: the bondless wings guy, the saucy nugs man. Uh, and
Speaker 1: we'll we'll ask him. I just want to know what,
Speaker 1: what how this has changed his life, like, I'm fascinated.
Speaker 1: I want to know that you're How can you monetize this?
Speaker 1: Those are all questions I have. So we'll talk to
Speaker 1: Andrew about this coming up in a in a little bit,
Speaker 1: But first we have pop quiz. Yes, yes, yes, all right,
Speaker 1: here we go pop quiz. These are actual quiz questions
Speaker 1: that I've found from around the internet to ask David
Speaker 1: Gascon and then you as well. So, if this is
Speaker 1: going to happen to you at work, it is most
Speaker 1: likely to happen on a Wednesday. What do you think
Speaker 1: it is? Get fired? No, that's always Friday, so always
Speaker 1: from no, Yeah, yeah, I think so I got fired
Speaker 1: on Friday. The answer is an accident. If you're you're
Speaker 1: gonna have an accident at work, it's gonna happen on
Speaker 1: a Wednesday. I got I got my car accident on Thursday.
Speaker 1: Well that's because you didn't work on Wednesday, right, I
Speaker 1: don't know, maybe yeah that car accident. Had that car
Speaker 1: accident work out for you? I don't know. There's some
Speaker 1: of those texting me while trying to yeah, oh driving.
Speaker 1: I don't know who that would be, but you should
Speaker 1: turn your really if you're driving and have your text
Speaker 1: messaging on that's on the driver. Turn that off, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean there's a feature on the phone there send
Speaker 1: a message. I'm sorry, I'm driving right now. Just disabled
Speaker 1: the text message. Interesting, it's an option. Interesting all right.
Speaker 1: A new survey of adults found this is the number
Speaker 1: one thing, number thing they get nostalgic about when looking
Speaker 1: back on their school days. What is it? I was
Speaker 1: gonna say, lunch pails. You're right, metal lunchbox. So when
Speaker 1: when you had your lunch pail, was it like he
Speaker 1: Man or G I Joe or what you have? I
Speaker 1: had G I Joe. I had The one I liked
Speaker 1: the most was the superheroes. They had all the superheroes
Speaker 1: on there, you know, Superman, Batman, uh, Fighter Man, whatever
Speaker 1: they were. I forget Captain America. It was awesome. I
Speaker 1: loved that one. But I had the G I Joe one.
Speaker 1: I had several because I would throw those things. Man
Speaker 1: I was. I was a rambunctious kid, and I would
Speaker 1: throw it against the wall when I'd get to the
Speaker 1: class and then I've done with lunch and I'd throw it.
Speaker 1: My mom always would give me, like the tuna fish sandwich,
Speaker 1: little bag of chips and stuff I hated. That's why
Speaker 1: I don't need fish anymore. My mom would give me
Speaker 1: so much tuna. And the problem with the tuna fish
Speaker 1: he put an ice pack in the lunch box, but
Speaker 1: it didn't stay cold by the time lunch came around.
Speaker 1: You go to school at seven thirty in the morning,
Speaker 1: and by like noon or twelve thirty, it's not it's
Speaker 1: no longer old. You're eating a warm tuna fish sandwich.
Speaker 1: It's disgusting. Yeah, that's that's that's brutal. I yeah, not right,
Speaker 1: But that's why I like the peanut butter and jelly
Speaker 1: more when she would make that, because that would last. Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's always safer. Or did she ever cut half the banana? No,
Speaker 1: she didn't use your was your mom in half the banana?
Speaker 1: She did that sometimes, and that was the worst part
Speaker 1: because obviously that just goes bad real quick. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: right away instantaneously came over. Yeah alright, Uh, what was
Speaker 1: your favorite lunch pail? Guess I had. I had He
Speaker 1: Man and Transformers. Transformers was my favorite. So yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was more of these superheroes, but I was just
Speaker 1: like my, my, my, My lunch pails were all banged
Speaker 1: up like, oh yeah, sometimes I used them like discuses.
Speaker 1: I would throw them. It was fun, all right. A
Speaker 1: new survey says less than what intent Americans do this
Speaker 1: on a regular basis, even though our parents and grandparents
Speaker 1: did so far more often, or did this so far
Speaker 1: more often. What is yard work? Uh? No? Take a bath?
Speaker 1: Oh yeah? Now, when I we were a house shopping,
Speaker 1: when I got hitched up here we're looking at the house,
Speaker 1: I said, the one thing I want is a big bathtub.
Speaker 1: I want to at the end of the day, I
Speaker 1: would like to go into a nice big bathtub and
Speaker 1: just lay down and just have a bubble bath and
Speaker 1: just think, a boy, that would be great. We don't
Speaker 1: have a bathtub big enough to support the Mallard brand here,
Speaker 1: So did not happen. Do you have Are you a
Speaker 1: bath guy? No? But um, I have a buddy of mine.
Speaker 1: His dad was similar to you in terms of like
Speaker 1: being a big guy. Yeah, And so he had a
Speaker 1: big shower and bathtub. But he also had that those
Speaker 1: like handicap benches that would fold out because he was
Speaker 1: so big. Yeah. So the great thing is is he
Speaker 1: lost all that weight but he still uses it. And
Speaker 1: and my buddy uses it too, and he's just like, man,
Speaker 1: this thing is like like coming on, damn jacuzy because
Speaker 1: it's got like the jets on both sides. That's nice.
Speaker 1: It's got the duel heads, so you get the water
Speaker 1: coming out of the faucet and then you get the
Speaker 1: the top head from the shower that gets the water
Speaker 1: out too, so you get the best of both worlds.
Speaker 1: You get. It must be west of the four or five. Yeah, exactly, yeah,
Speaker 1: I would. I would love that, like a nice baby.
Speaker 1: I have a pretty good shower. It could be a
Speaker 1: little better. Um. The one thing I did do, well,
Speaker 1: maybe I did, maybe I didn't, because it's the illegal
Speaker 1: guest guns I took. I had somebody possibly take the
Speaker 1: filter off the shower head so you get the full
Speaker 1: amount of water. You know, you buy these, You buy
Speaker 1: these shower heads and they put the restrictor in there, right,
Speaker 1: which is bullshit? Look up to California. Yeah, it's California bullshit.
Speaker 1: And so I I maybe maybe I did, Maybe I didn't. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jerry rigged or found someone to do it, so I
Speaker 1: get the full amount of water. And man, is that
Speaker 1: a difference. I wonder, how man do I enjoy the
Speaker 1: shower more with that, I wonder how many laws you
Speaker 1: break inside your house? Yeah, well, much like Blair and Maine.
Speaker 1: I'm a rebel. I am a rebel. Party cable, I
Speaker 1: don't know, pirate cable, cutting the tags off your your mattresses,
Speaker 1: and I do that. I do that. Yeah, I'm I'm
Speaker 1: a badass. Yeah, hidden badass. All right. The average worker
Speaker 1: says this phrase approximately three times per week. What is it,
Speaker 1: I'm getting too old for the ship? No, it's I
Speaker 1: need a vacation. My mom used to say that I
Speaker 1: need a vacation. I do need a vacation. I haven't
Speaker 1: had a vacation a long time. Man. You gotta have
Speaker 1: these many vacations, guest, and you got me and the wife.
Speaker 1: We run out go to in Sequoya National Forest last weekend,
Speaker 1: just before the fires. Just green. It was all green. Man.
Speaker 1: Oh it was beautiful. That's that's one of my favorite places.
Speaker 1: You've been there, right, Yeah, but I haven't been there
Speaker 1: since I was a kid. You guys got to go
Speaker 1: as as adults. Yeah, we went twice. We went on
Speaker 1: a Thursday and loved it so much. And when you
Speaker 1: when you go to Seqoia, they give you, it's like
Speaker 1: thirty five bucks to get in, but you get the
Speaker 1: past for seven days solid and said when you went,
Speaker 1: there was nobody there, right, Well, the first day we went, yeah,
Speaker 1: the day before the holiday weekend, there was nobody there
Speaker 1: and it was awesome. We had the run of the place.
Speaker 1: But then we went back on Saturday and it was
Speaker 1: a nightmare. We were lucky to we had to go
Speaker 1: to the overflow parking lot. We were lucky to get parking,
Speaker 1: and it was like it was a big debacle. But
Speaker 1: we still had a great time once we finally found parking.
Speaker 1: Just walking around, I I could walk in the Giant
Speaker 1: forest every day of my life and I'd say, man,
Speaker 1: it's the greatest thing. It's those trees, the size of
Speaker 1: those trees, and just the smells and the sounds of
Speaker 1: the birds and all that. It's just I'm becoming a
Speaker 1: environmentalist guest gun. That's good crossing over to the dark side.
Speaker 1: This is just an appetizer. So like when you me
Speaker 1: and and I'm a pilot up on a bird and
Speaker 1: get over to Europe, you can experience nature in a
Speaker 1: different kind of flavor with the EU. Yeah, what's that
Speaker 1: gonna happen? I don't know. We need a COVID vaccine,
Speaker 1: don't we? Is that what we need? I don't know
Speaker 1: we need? Like well, because we're not even allowed in Europe?
Speaker 1: Are we Americans? Like we're not even allowed to be
Speaker 1: I don't know. I don't know. I don't think I'm
Speaker 1: allowed in California and I live in California. I don't
Speaker 1: know what to do. Uh alright, six of us admit
Speaker 1: we have stopped a dinner conversation in order to do this.
Speaker 1: What is it? Take a piss? Well, take something, but
Speaker 1: not a piss. Take a picture of your food? Do
Speaker 1: you do that? Only if I make it? But if
Speaker 1: I'm at a restaurant, I don't do that. But like
Speaker 1: if I make a nice meal, like I made those
Speaker 1: Popeyes chicken sandwiches a couple of weeks ago, rip off,
Speaker 1: I took a picture. I was proud of it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but I don't. And plus it's for the internet. They
Speaker 1: management wants me to post more of that stuff on
Speaker 1: this so I do. I'm fine. Whatever people want to
Speaker 1: look behind the curtain how I live my life. If
Speaker 1: you're interested in that, fine, you can rip what I wear,
Speaker 1: or what I say or whatever I look like in
Speaker 1: the picture and say, how goofy my smile looks, or
Speaker 1: what dumb hat I'm wearing it. It's all part of
Speaker 1: the deal. So that's it. But if I'm like the
Speaker 1: cheesecake factory and I get a plate of food, I'm
Speaker 1: not taking a picture of it. Yeah, unless it's like
Speaker 1: some kind of exotic food or something. You know, you
Speaker 1: do this all the time. You send me food shots
Speaker 1: all the time. Look at me. I'm big man on campus.
Speaker 1: I'm eating vegetables. It's like you're trying to impress me
Speaker 1: with your vegetable eating. Well, I'm I'm a fantastic cook.
Speaker 1: There you go, here you go, and then that of
Speaker 1: the narcissist, and I have a well balanced meal. I
Speaker 1: like to have fruits and vegetables and meats and spices
Speaker 1: and uh do everything, man, you do everything. Look at you,
Speaker 1: you do everything. Look at you. Your machine unbelievable, all right. Uh.
Speaker 1: The average American woman will own a little over one
Speaker 1: hundred of these in her lifetime, is yeah, that's right.
Speaker 1: What do you think the over under on shoes is though,
Speaker 1: like pairs of shoes? Wow, I don't know, But I
Speaker 1: have some guy friends that collect nikes, and stuff. So
Speaker 1: I think it's starting to cross over that there's dudes
Speaker 1: that collect shoes like wait, but it's got to be
Speaker 1: in the around a thousand. Maybe what you say is
Speaker 1: that too many. I don't know, five hundred. I guess
Speaker 1: maybe a thousands too much. Depends how much money those
Speaker 1: shoes are expensive. Yeah, five hundreds probably really good number,
Speaker 1: especially the casually of the business, and you have like
Speaker 1: the nightlife shoes like party in the front, business in
Speaker 1: the back. All right, this is the first thing most
Speaker 1: people think about every single day. What is it? Food?
Speaker 1: No sleep? Oh, you're like, funk, I want to go
Speaker 1: back to sleep here thinking about sleep? No, No, I
Speaker 1: don't usually either because I don't get a lot of it. Actually,
Speaker 1: know I do. Every time you text it, like eleven
Speaker 1: am or twelve, I'm like, go to fucking away. The
Speaker 1: show just ended five hours ago. What the fund are
Speaker 1: you doing? It's brutal, man. I tell you, I gotta
Speaker 1: drug myself with the costco sleepaid or else I don't
Speaker 1: get sleep, and I get like three hours of sleep
Speaker 1: and then I'm up once I wake up. If I
Speaker 1: don't take the sleep aid, I can't I can't go
Speaker 1: back to sleep. I'm up. I'm good for about three
Speaker 1: and a half four hours and then that's it. All right.
Speaker 1: Women spend eleven minutes a day doing this? What is it?
Speaker 1: Plucking their eyebrows? No, blow drying their hair? Just eleven minutes? Wow,
Speaker 1: just eleven minutes. Well it seems kind of short. Consider
Speaker 1: the fact that most women have long hair. Well, how
Speaker 1: long do you think you should take for a woman
Speaker 1: to blow dry her hair? Well, they got a style
Speaker 1: it too, so well that's not included. I'm just talking
Speaker 1: about the blow drying part. Yeah, but most women I
Speaker 1: assume like blow dry and you know, brush their hair
Speaker 1: at the same time. I don't know. I'm not a
Speaker 1: woman you live with one. I do, but I don't
Speaker 1: pay attition what she did. Come on, I did my
Speaker 1: own thing. Man, are you talking about out one hair
Speaker 1: to come? She's got a many? All right, let's see here,
Speaker 1: any meny money? Mo? One in three women wish their
Speaker 1: partners would do this more. This is important for the
Speaker 1: guys because this is what women wish their partners would
Speaker 1: do more. Uh, first, guests would be cooking, but I'll
Speaker 1: say give them massages. No hold hands, okay, hold hands,
Speaker 1: you're a handholder. Guy, guess gan, Yeah, but no, that's
Speaker 1: not a. Yes, that's a I mean if I have to,
Speaker 1: if you have and the p d A is fine.
Speaker 1: But I don't know, like sometimes I walk slower than
Speaker 1: the woman, or I walk faster, so I don't want
Speaker 1: to feel like telling her and I don't know. Well,
Speaker 1: normally what happens is the longer you're with someone, the
Speaker 1: less handholding you do. Right, isn't that generally how it goes? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: that's usually how it goes, all right. The average mother
Speaker 1: spends fifty five minutes a week doing this what is it?
Speaker 1: Packing lunches, ironing. Okay, that's for the for the husband
Speaker 1: and herself potentially not a big ironing guy. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: know you're not. You're in the shower in the bathroom
Speaker 1: and just steamed this place up when I showed up
Speaker 1: to do that high school football game, which was eighty
Speaker 1: thousand to nothing. Let me point out, thank you for
Speaker 1: that a lot of garbage time. And you were ripping
Speaker 1: me from my my wardrobe. No, you're no, hold on,
Speaker 1: I was not ripping you for your wardrobe. And I
Speaker 1: said your shirt was protective because you're wearing a blazer
Speaker 1: and you wore a hat. You wore a Bruce Arians
Speaker 1: type of fedora, so it worked and it matched. You
Speaker 1: had a fedor that matched your blazers. So I was
Speaker 1: not ripping your attire, man, I like the hat, Why not?
Speaker 1: I was ripping the fact that your wife was putting
Speaker 1: on makeup in a parking lot for you. Though you
Speaker 1: look good, feel good, dressed for success. Four percent of
Speaker 1: people say you can definitely be too old to do this.
Speaker 1: What is it? Guess you're probably too old right now
Speaker 1: to do this? And go to clubs close, go to
Speaker 1: a concert? Oh no way? Yeah, the fucking musicians are
Speaker 1: like sixteen seventy years old like performing at these. Why
Speaker 1: can't people go in there in their fifties or sixties
Speaker 1: or seven. I didn't make it up, man, don't blame me.
Speaker 1: Don't shoot the messenger. What's wrong with you? A right?
Speaker 1: The first location of this iconic casual restaurant opened for
Speaker 1: the first time on Labor Day. We just had Labor
Speaker 1: Day recently. Um, now this is a restaurant. The first
Speaker 1: time I saw one of these, I took a picture
Speaker 1: in front of it. Oh yeah, man, it is synonymous
Speaker 1: with the South Oh is it waffle house? Yeah, waffle house, man.
Speaker 1: You know, I haven't had waffle house a long time. Well,
Speaker 1: they're not here. I maybe there are some in California,
Speaker 1: but I was I associate them with like Florida, yes,
Speaker 1: you know. And I remember was in Florida with the
Speaker 1: Dodgers for spring training and I've never been to Florida
Speaker 1: before and I had never been to a waffle house.
Speaker 1: And I remember that was in the days before selfies,
Speaker 1: so I had the I had pictures taken of me
Speaker 1: in front of a waffle house in uh, like Jupiter,
Speaker 1: Florida or whatever. What was your go to there? Were
Speaker 1: you like a chicken cutlet type of guy, or you
Speaker 1: like strictly? I only ate there one time, and uh,
Speaker 1: I had the just the traditional waffles. I didn't have
Speaker 1: the anything else, just at the waffles. I should have
Speaker 1: expanded my palette. That job by me, all right, what
Speaker 1: would you liked? What did you like in the waffle
Speaker 1: I did chicken cutlet, eggs and then stack of waffles.
Speaker 1: So yeah, I was fat there. Yeah it was. It
Speaker 1: was pretty good. And that's that's drunk food. That's I
Speaker 1: guess that's everyday food. I don't know, all right, the
Speaker 1: first time this snack item was introduced, it flopped. It
Speaker 1: didn't become popular until thirty years later. Oreo cookies, no pringles,
Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, I love Yeah, think about that that item.
Speaker 1: Thirty years later. It became popular when first debut, and
Speaker 1: people like, I don't need this. It's kind of like
Speaker 1: sliced bread. When slice bread debuted, people didn't like it.
Speaker 1: They liked cutting their own bread. They thought the pieces
Speaker 1: were too small, and it didn't really take off because
Speaker 1: the people are like used to it. I would imagine
Speaker 1: the automobile was probably the same way. People like I
Speaker 1: got my horse. I don't need a car. I'll walk
Speaker 1: or I'll ride the bike. Yeah, alright, last one here
Speaker 1: and then we will welcome in. I'm excited about this.
Speaker 1: We are moments away from the Saucy nugs Man coming
Speaker 1: on here the podcast, which is very exciting. But the
Speaker 1: last one. Compared to women, men are much less likely
Speaker 1: to do this when they are shopping. Here we go
Speaker 1: pop quiz. Last one for the week. Um uh, compare
Speaker 1: compare Compare prices, so price shop just whatever the prices
Speaker 1: you go with. No ask a sales clerk clerk for help? Oh, like,
Speaker 1: where an item is if you're at the grocery store
Speaker 1: and you've not been there before, Like where an item? Man,
Speaker 1: I do that all the time. I just do it
Speaker 1: so I get in and get out. I don't. I
Speaker 1: My move is I will try to find set item.
Speaker 1: I will spend ten minutes trying to find it, and
Speaker 1: then I will then ask for help rather than just
Speaker 1: ask for help. Is that better or worse? Because on
Speaker 1: one side, do it because I want to be time efficient.
Speaker 1: But it's like using the calculatar for math, Like would
Speaker 1: you rather use the calculator for math or would you
Speaker 1: rather computer? In your head? Oh, I'd rather use the calculatory.
Speaker 1: Human beings right, the quickest way to a salute san
Speaker 1: is the way to go. But yet, for some reasons
Speaker 1: my neurosis, I'm like, I gotta find I can figure
Speaker 1: out where this is. I don't need someone to tell
Speaker 1: me where to go. I can find this. I really
Speaker 1: am impressed. When I go to Home Depot or Lows
Speaker 1: and or any groceries or Costco. When you work there,
Speaker 1: you've got to know where every item is. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's an aisle thirty five in the back. Like that's
Speaker 1: not easy, especially for Home Depot because you have those washers,
Speaker 1: you have the bolts, the nuts, the lights, like there's
Speaker 1: a lot of intricate things that you have there that
Speaker 1: is not really common for people like you need to
Speaker 1: know the shapes, the size of the hole and smash.
Speaker 1: All right, well, let's walk him and we we played
Speaker 1: the audio earlier in the podcast and he is on
Speaker 1: the line right now. The breakout celebrity in America over
Speaker 1: the last couple of weeks here Andre Christiansen, better known
Speaker 1: as the Saucy nugs Man. Andrew, welcome to the show.
Speaker 1: It's good to have you on here. How has your
Speaker 1: life changed in the last a couple of weeks or so? Well?
Speaker 1: Such a my in laws are no longer asking to
Speaker 1: cut my hair, so that's good. So so how did
Speaker 1: this this come about? I have you spoken at city
Speaker 1: council meetings before this happened? Or was this your first time? Not?
Speaker 1: Not even once? Um, so I have since I was
Speaker 1: in my in my college days, I'd be going to
Speaker 1: wing joints with my buddies all the time. Especially started
Speaker 1: when all four of us got broken up with within
Speaker 1: a two week period. And so this you know, sad,
Speaker 1: shambling group of guys just wandered from wing joint to
Speaker 1: wing joint for about a month, and it just started
Speaker 1: this huge love that now that's all like, we'll go
Speaker 1: out together get wings all the time. You gotta make
Speaker 1: fun of the guy who gets boneless ones, right, you
Speaker 1: gotta make fun of him. Saucy dougs just aren't aren't wing.
Speaker 1: And then I found out that you can say what
Speaker 1: ever you want at the city council meeting for five minutes,
Speaker 1: and so I, you know, and I got I got
Speaker 1: some uh, I got some some thoughts hour and I
Speaker 1: got some thoughts going. And honestly, this happened towards the
Speaker 1: beginning of the pandemic, and I didn't feel comfortable going
Speaker 1: and saying anything while people were airing genuine grievances. So
Speaker 1: I waited until there was a day with one of
Speaker 1: the most benign schedules on the city council and wrote
Speaker 1: down my thoughts in about five minutes, drove over, practicing
Speaker 1: on the way with my wife, and then did it. Wow,
Speaker 1: So you this wasn't like something you spent two weeks
Speaker 1: writing or what you really nailed it, but that that's
Speaker 1: impressive and are you the delivery was great? How difficult
Speaker 1: was it because the guy in the background was laughing
Speaker 1: his ass off? How difficult was it not to not
Speaker 1: to break character? You know? Uh? The thing too that
Speaker 1: kept me on the right track with In the car
Speaker 1: ride over there, my wife brought up the factor. She said,
Speaker 1: are you gonna what what are you gonna do if
Speaker 1: people start laughing? And I was like, oh, good point,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get upset about it. And so I had
Speaker 1: thought of it ahead of time, so I was able
Speaker 1: to not, you know, break character on it. Yeah. And
Speaker 1: so some people have said, they said, this is like
Speaker 1: an episode of Parks and Rex. Were you a parking
Speaker 1: right Were you a fan of that show? Did you
Speaker 1: watch that show back in the day. You know, I
Speaker 1: watched a couple of episodes of it. I never never
Speaker 1: really caught on for me, but uh, I think I've
Speaker 1: heard it enough times and now I have to go back. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're you gonna go back one. And then at the end,
Speaker 1: when you got done, the guy in the city council said,
Speaker 1: that's my son. By the way, that's not he wasn't
Speaker 1: really your father, right, that was just a guy making
Speaker 1: a joke. Yes, no, no, that was my dad. That
Speaker 1: is really that is really that, that's really your dad.
Speaker 1: I thought he was making a joke. No, no, no,
Speaker 1: so that's my dad. He had no idea I was
Speaker 1: going to be there that day. He had no idea
Speaker 1: what I was going to talk about. Uh. The only
Speaker 1: thing that uh he The only reason I even said
Speaker 1: anything was because everybody in the room I thought I
Speaker 1: was serious. They were just all confused. They were like,
Speaker 1: I don't know if this guy is serious. I don't
Speaker 1: know if this guy is making a joke. And all
Speaker 1: the city council members were wearing their best like I
Speaker 1: care about what you have to say face because they
Speaker 1: were worried about offending me, except for my dad, and
Speaker 1: he was just cracking up laughing, and everybody thought he
Speaker 1: was such a jerk. He felt they need to be
Speaker 1: like guys, No, I was laughing because it's my son.
Speaker 1: And or do you have an idea of what other
Speaker 1: what city is next on your target? Like do you
Speaker 1: have an idea of like where you might go next
Speaker 1: with this? So, um, I'm getting a website ready, asn't
Speaker 1: launched yet. Um, but when I launched it, I'm actually
Speaker 1: going to be having a kickstarter, going to fund me,
Speaker 1: going to Washington. Yeah. Yeah, I'm going on a campaign trail.
Speaker 1: I'm gonna stop at wing joints between here and Lincoln,
Speaker 1: Nebraska and Washington, d C. And people will be able
Speaker 1: to submit ideas of the best places to go, and
Speaker 1: we'll talk to the owners, talk to locals and have
Speaker 1: a good time on the way then and hopefully get
Speaker 1: get Saucy Nugs to be a thing. Hey, hold, you know,
Speaker 1: and er, is there a chance. I don't know the deadline,
Speaker 1: you might probably miss the deadline, but to get your
Speaker 1: name on the ballot as like a at least a
Speaker 1: write in candidate, the Saucy nugs Man Forget Trump, Forget Biden,
Speaker 1: vote Saucy nugs Man for President. You gotta you gotta
Speaker 1: get a website. Go. Yeah, I'm glad you're doing it.
Speaker 1: You gotta get Saucy nugs Man for President t shirts
Speaker 1: and all that. Those things will sell out. Man, you'll
Speaker 1: make a killing. Actually, right now, if you go to
Speaker 1: Saucy nugs dot com, you'll get linked to my Twitter
Speaker 1: account and I've got some Saucy Nugs for President shirts
Speaker 1: and my personal favorite a shirt I made called not
Speaker 1: right wing, not left wing Chicken wing. Oh are you
Speaker 1: Are you a comedian and you should do a comedy man,
Speaker 1: This is great stuff. You gotta get out and hit
Speaker 1: the hit the comedy circle when those things open up.
Speaker 1: This is OUs dandy. No, I'm act interestingly enough, I'm
Speaker 1: a chemical engineer and I work in a research lab
Speaker 1: with introverts, so completely out of out of the wheelhouse
Speaker 1: now and your personal question for it. And I have
Speaker 1: to do this because Ben will not, but I will
Speaker 1: with your with your nugs, do you do you dip them?
Speaker 1: And Ranch? No? Yes, No, that's it. That's harrisy. I
Speaker 1: mean it's like Harrison Ford wearing a baseball cap. Like
Speaker 1: it's still Harrison Ford, but it's not cool anymore. Take that,
Speaker 1: guess you see this is the saucy nuts. Man. These guys,
Speaker 1: the big, the big break guts are now now. And
Speaker 1: how fast did you really eyes or how soon did
Speaker 1: you realize what you had done had become viral? Because
Speaker 1: I guess it was on local TV and Lincoln right,
Speaker 1: and then it got picked up by some some people
Speaker 1: on social media. But at what moment did you realize, Hey,
Speaker 1: my life's gonna be a little different over the next
Speaker 1: you know, however long because of this, how soon did
Speaker 1: you realize, man, this is big? So that night, So
Speaker 1: Monday night, I got home, I asked my wife. I'm like, hey,
Speaker 1: can you, you know, find the clip and cut, cut
Speaker 1: it and make a YouTube video for it because I
Speaker 1: wanted to send it to my family. I want to
Speaker 1: send to my friends. There's a podcast that I listened
Speaker 1: to that they joke about stuff like this all the time,
Speaker 1: so I wanted to send it to them too, because
Speaker 1: they're part of the reason why I even went in
Speaker 1: and did it to begin with. And and I was like,
Speaker 1: send it to them, We'll be good. And then Tuesday
Speaker 1: my co workers told me I was cringe e and awkward.
Speaker 1: And then Wednesday morning, I saw somebody else who uploaded
Speaker 1: this video on a Twitter and had six hundred thousand views,
Speaker 1: And in ten minutes I watched you go to nine
Speaker 1: hundred thousand, and I started pit sweating. It was it
Speaker 1: was disgusting. My shirt became swamp lands. And I had
Speaker 1: to go to my boss and be like, hey, I
Speaker 1: am gonna have to go home. This is something bigger
Speaker 1: than I thought it would ever be. And he didn't understand.
Speaker 1: He was like, this is ridiculous, Like he's a hard
Speaker 1: man of science, and he's like, this makes no sense
Speaker 1: to me why you would want to have to go
Speaker 1: home for this whatever, But fine, just get out of here.
Speaker 1: You know, I had big experiments planned for the day.
Speaker 1: I had to postpone them. That night. He called me
Speaker 1: up and apologized because he saw me in the New
Speaker 1: York Time. No, this is I'm sure you've seen it
Speaker 1: better than me. And it but everywhere I looked you are.
Speaker 1: You are on every major newspaper, website, every comedy website.
Speaker 1: Politicians were talking about you, both Republican and Democrat. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's just been out of I saw you did something
Speaker 1: for the Nebraska football team on Twitter. That's actually how
Speaker 1: I found your Twitter account because you had done a
Speaker 1: video for them, and you live in Lincoln obviously assume
Speaker 1: you're a Cornhuskers guy and all that. So how did
Speaker 1: that go down there? Did you? Did they? How soon
Speaker 1: did they reach out to you? And you did a
Speaker 1: good job on that one as well. Well. They reached
Speaker 1: out to me on Friday, and they reached out to
Speaker 1: me in the morning and they're like, hey, can you
Speaker 1: do this? And at that point I was like, I
Speaker 1: don't know if I'm really interested. I wasn't super interested
Speaker 1: in the idea of doing something that I didn't find humorous,
Speaker 1: and there I told him. I was like, I'll come
Speaker 1: in and talk to you guys, but if I at
Speaker 1: the end, I don't think this is funny, I don't
Speaker 1: want to do it because I wanted to be some
Speaker 1: some cheap thing that's just for you know whatever. And
Speaker 1: that we got in there, I was like, is there
Speaker 1: any way I can interrupt Scott Frost? And they said absolutely,
Speaker 1: And I was like, if I'm we're doing this like
Speaker 1: that is and give your Twitter account out? Uh, you know, Andrew,
Speaker 1: you're the Saucy Nugs man, but how can people follow you?
Speaker 1: And I had to kind of look around to track
Speaker 1: you down? So how can people follow you if they
Speaker 1: want to learn more about your website and what you've
Speaker 1: got coming up and all the projects that will spin
Speaker 1: out of this, how can they find you? Like I said,
Speaker 1: right now, it actually just changed my Twitter handle because
Speaker 1: it made no sense. And uh so, uh, if you
Speaker 1: go to Saucy Nugs dot com, you'll go straight to
Speaker 1: my Twitter. Uh and the next, you know, two days
Speaker 1: or so, you'll see that it will actually go to
Speaker 1: a website and uh, well, we'll keep people posted there.
Speaker 1: So nice I I dot com, Saucy Nugs dot com.
Speaker 1: So you gotta. I'm thinking how Buffalo wild Wing should
Speaker 1: reach out to you. Some other people need to. I mean,
Speaker 1: you should be like the face. You'd be doing commercials
Speaker 1: and er uh. I'm sure you've gotten people contact. I'll
Speaker 1: be your agent or whatever. But I think you can
Speaker 1: monetize this thing and become like a spokesman for one
Speaker 1: of these big chicken wing companies. You know, I would
Speaker 1: love to do a brand ambassadorship. That would be just
Speaker 1: so much fun. Yeah. I Hey, if I ran one
Speaker 1: of those places, I would I would absolutely do it.
Speaker 1: So so this is great. Man, So your life has
Speaker 1: changed and and you're still working though, right, you're still
Speaker 1: working stiff. In fact, I was emailing you trying to
Speaker 1: get you on the podcast here, and you were like,
Speaker 1: I gotta work. I gotta, you know, I get only
Speaker 1: can do it at certain times. And I respect that. Man.
Speaker 1: You have not you know, you've not quit yet. Now
Speaker 1: would you quit your job? And or if you blow
Speaker 1: up here and you become a you know, a big
Speaker 1: star and you can make money, would you leave your
Speaker 1: career to pursue that, you know, I thought, I've been
Speaker 1: thinking about this a lot. I talked to my wife
Speaker 1: about it. We think that would be really fun like that.
Speaker 1: The opportunities are right, you know, take the take for
Speaker 1: more more interesting creative route. I mean, I can always
Speaker 1: go back and become a sales engineer, you know, yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: absolutely listen. I love your story man, Good luck. I'd
Speaker 1: love to have you on a day again down the line.
Speaker 1: I look forward to seeing what you do and again.
Speaker 1: Saucy nugs man dot com. Right, is that correct? Is
Speaker 1: that the web dot com just saucy nugs? All Right,
Speaker 1: Saucy nugs dot com. Andrew, thank you so much for
Speaker 1: your time. I appreciate it. Good luck, continued domination. I
Speaker 1: can't wait to see what you do next. All right,
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