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Pass The Gravy #635: In Da Club Indiana (with Mo Lunsford)

September 23, 2025·1 hr 52 min·9 clips

Alex banks an emergency podcast episode because his wife is about to have a baby, with special guest Mo Lunsford.

1. Pass The Gravy episode 635 is a pre-banked episode recorded with Houston radio personality Mo Lunsford as an emergency guest while Alex's wife prepares to give birth. 2. Mo Lunsford is identified as the new co-host of Houston's Rod Ryan Show; she grew up in Indiana, worked at pop and country radio in Portland, Oregon, before moving to Houston. 3. The episode's core energy is casual and digressive, functioning as a getting-to-know-you conversation between Mo and the Gravy hosts. 4. Mo opens with Indiana facts: the state hosts Holiday World theme park in Santa Claus, Indiana, with free drinks and free sunscreen, and is the covered bridge capital of the world. 5. She notes Indiana has a significant Amish population, and that someone photographed Amish people in Pennsylvania with Philadelphia Eagles stickers on their horse and buggy, prompting Alex to call them 'ultimate bandwagoners.' 6. Alex reveals his top five athletes he would die for include Eli Manning and Derek Jeter, explaining that dying for the Giants to win a Super Bowl would earn him a heroic tombstone. 7. Alex's plan to meet Eli Manning at the Sam Houston State vs. UT game in Austin is complicated by it falling near his wife's due date; Mo volunteers to serve as a labor proxy so Alex can attend. 8. A McDonald's deep-dive reveals Mo ordered the filet-o-fish as a child instead of a Happy Meal, which Alex calls 'repulsive,' and leads to Alex claiming Indiana is shaped like a McDonald's chicken McNugget. 9. Robert attempts to draw Indiana from memory, producing what is actually the outline of Louisiana or Italy—a boot—while Alex insists it has a slight downward zag like a nugget. 10. The conversation covers 50 Cent's 'In Da Club' (2003) as a potential cultural boost for Indiana given the phonetic similarity of 'Indy Club, Indiana.' 11. A regional fast food survey covers Luby's (Texas-exclusive), Ponderosa (Indiana's equivalent), Ryan's, and Shoney's, with Mo unaware that Luby's doesn't exist in Indiana. 12. Mo declares Waffle House 'the GOAT' of after-church dining for its hash browns, 24-hour service, and the ambient possibility of a fight, while Robert admits he has never been. 13. An RV living tangent surfaces Alex's bucket-list goal of living in an RV for a stretch, with Mo referencing Road Rules as the ideal model. 14. Mo mentions Theo Vaughn was on Road Rules, which leads to a Rizzler tangent—a child internet celebrity who told Theo he can't go to Disney World because people would mob him. 15. Drew Barrymore's overly intimate interviewing style is discussed; Mo and Alex are put off by her sitting too close to guests and touching their legs during questions. 16. Mo explains her path into radio: she got a no-credit freshman internship, the morning show host left for maternity leave and never came back, and Mo got the job. 17. Mo analyzes Lil Nas X's 'Old Town Road' as a deliberate act of genre gaming, noting it sampled Nine Inch Nails (giving Trent Reznor a writing credit) and was produced by Take a Day Trip, who also produced Sheck Wes's 'Mo Bamba.' 18. 'Old Town Road' is cited as the longest-running Billboard Hot 100 number one, with Mo arguing it paved the way for Shaboozey's country-adjacent crossover success. 19. The episode is loose and conversational, recorded as a banked episode with no topical hooks; Mo and the hosts rarely disagree and the tone is warm and celebratory. 20. Listeners who enjoy radio-industry behind-the-scenes stories, regional American culture comparisons, and comedy shows with female guest voices will get the most out of this episode.

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A backup episode that still feels live, loose, and powered by its own nonsense.

Pass The Gravy uses an emergency banked recording to keep the energy moving, and Mo Lunsford fits in fast. The show gets mileage out of small prompts and lets the conversation drift through last names, Indiana rankings, famous Hoosiers, city trivia, and a popcorn detour without…

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You want a guest spot that turns Indiana trivia into a running bit.

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