[Bonus] The Bitter Southerner: Waffle House

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🗓️ 20 March 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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0:00.0	Hey Proof listeners, season 4 of Proof is coming soon.
0:06.0	We've got some awesome stories for you this season and we can't wait to share them with you.
0:10.0	But today we'll be sharing an episode from our friends at the
0:13.6	Bitter Southerner podcast. They cover stories about Southern life and
0:17.5	culture and today they're bringing us a story about the Waffle House. It's
0:22.4	really special but first I sat down with host Chuck Ries to talk about the Better Southerner.
0:32.4	Hi, it's Bridget. Hey Bridget, it's Bridget.
0:33.8	Hey Bridget. It's Chuck.
0:35.3	Mr Reese. How are you?
0:37.5	Madam Lancaster, I am fine. I am fine. How are you today?
0:41.9	I'm all right.
0:43.0	So Chuck, we're talking a little bit about the Bitter Southerner or the
0:46.5	podcast, but tell me about how you were inspired to start the magazine,
0:51.6	the Bitter Southerner.
0:52.6	And why are you so bitter?
0:56.6	Something popped up on my Facebook feed.
0:58.9	This was 2011, I believe. That was a list of the 50 best cocktail bars in the world and it was
1:07.3	published by this magazine out of the UK called Drinks International and
1:12.1	there not only were there no bars in New
1:15.6	Orleans on the list there were no bars in the entire American South and I was just
1:21.4	like that's crap that's wrong.
1:24.0	That's impossible.
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