Betsy Phillips

The Aunt B Radio Hour Nashville culture, music, news, history and hilarity with Betsy Phillips and Braden Gall

This week's Aunt B Radio Hour: @bradengall.bsky.social and @betsyphillips.bsky.social learn about T-Bone Tuesdays. Then, the kids talk about Pete Hegseth trying to get Jesus to visit him by starting a war. Available now from the Scene and 440 Media wherever you get your podcasts.

Damn it. That is a perfect cover.

An adorable woman in dark rimmed glasses and a blue hat she probably knit herself stands in front of a sign that reads “shotgun Willie’s T-bone Tuesdays $25 while they last!”

Get you a friend who will show you that the other Shotgun Willie’s also serves food.

The Aunt B Radio Hour Nashville culture, music, news, history and hilarity with Betsy Phillips and Braden Gall

Is this our best episode ever? Probably.

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Jesus was supposed to come back before any of this was an issue.

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The Rand cookie is being retired. You only have next week to get your picture taken with it one last time.

I love this place, but the idea that we have to have a day of mourning for a cookie we like because the place that makes the dough is discontinuing it is so funny to me. Babes, you can just make the cookies yourself!

North Nashville’s getting an anti-ICE billboard.

My god. What if I misunderstood and my dad is prophecizing that I must marry Evander Waffles, distant cousin of beloved Johnny Waffles?!

My brain is still churning on Vanderwaffle. Are they Dutch? Wouldn’t the be Vandervaffle in that case?

Wait. Which one? The boxer or the weirdo Kentuckian?

Which, maybe I could have some sympathy for under other circumstances, since you’re advertising to the world that you’re fundamentally incapable of receiving your God’s teachings.

If you’re just going to church so you can learn how to manipulate God, you are missing the entire point so hard I have to think that you’re incapable of getting it.

Solomon was the wisest dude who ever lived and he only commanded a djinn. But Pete Hegseth, who has cotton for brains, thinks he can command Jesus.

So, it’s wrong to draw a circle of salt on your attic floor and summon a demon to do your bidding, but it’s right to murder a school full of little girls to summon Jesus to do your bidding. Okay.

I am fascinated by this version of Jesus who can be forced to do… well, anything. He’s all-powerful, but if you put a red calf in Israel, he has to go see it?

It only took him 80 years to get here, so if we don’t get past this state, at least we finally arrived at this point.

Okay. The conversation ended with me both feeling proud and like he wishes I’d just get married already so he doesn’t have to worry about me. Poor Vanderwaffle. We haven’t even met and s/he’s already getting pressured by my dad.

I truly love it, but, whew, it gives me whiplash.

Oh, okay, cool. I apparently still have time to marry someone with the last name of Vanderwaffle. So I don’t die alone. I pledge here today that, if your last name is Vanderwaffle and you don’t smell bad, I guess I’ll marry you to make my dad happy.

Like, this is all problematic, but I’m also tearing up a little bit.

What is happening?! I want to laugh, but I also don’t want to discourage this newfound LGBT support.

Oh, now I’m being informed that, if his grandsons are going to claim to be transgender to stay out of Trump’s military, they have to make an effort to dress nicely, because he doesn’t want transgender people to feel like the boys are making fun of them.

I don’t know how to process this. I truly don’t. I know I’ve joked in the past that he’s going to have fought at Stonewall before this is now over, and I truly do love this, but this is not the man I grew up with.

My god. He just said, “Trump only picks on people with transgender because he’s a bully. They weren’t hurting anyone. Them and the immigrants, just living life.”

My dad just said, “It is going to be transgender for everyone, because I’ll be damned if my grandkids are going to die for this idiot.”

It’s the circle, the circle of women’s reproductive health.

I don’t even think I ordinarily have a particularly sweaty butt, but I always do here. I guess they probably keep it warm so you don’t mind sitting in your flimsy paper robe. Which you then sweat through.