My “Brown M&M” for Podcast Guest Pitches

You may have heard this famous story from the 1980s. While on tour, the rock band Van Halen included an interesting line item in their rider:

M & M’s (WARNING: ABSOLUTELY NO BROWN ONES)

A rider, if you don’t know, is basically a contract for a stage performance.

It’s not that they hated brown M&Ms, or that they were divas. As David Lee Roth explained in hi…