Jackie's Market

Jackie's Market was originally a barbecue restaurant and convenience store owned and operated by Jackie Broyles. It had a bunker underneath that was notoriously dank and moldy, stocked with old newspapers, and it was in the bunker that the podcast was originally recorded. Dunlap regularly stole beer and complained of the age of the merchandise, observing that the Zero Bars were dated to "three fonts ago" and speaking of having to wipe the dust off the Zero Bars. Jackie typically eschewed movie and television tie-in displays; the last he ever put up was for the television show China Beach.

Crud, owner of Spiffy Uncle Marlin's Haircuts and Handshakes, intended to turn Jackie's Market into a regional franchise but was killed during the Jackie Strangler Saga. The High-Priced Nashville Lawyers for whom Jackie had signed paperwork during his brief business affiliation with Crud later took over his store, renaming it Nashville Lawyers' Market. Jackie was revealed to be working at the Nashville Lawyers' Market in Episode 208. He had been hired on to do what was essentially his old job of cooking barbecue and running the cash register, though he also was required occasionally to make copies for the lawyers (and also wear a tie at work). The lawyers were planning on tearing down the market and building a new place at which customers could receive legal counsel and Nashville hot chicken. Jackie, in a bid to prevent this, had announced his candidacy for mayor, intending, upon his election, to declare the market a historic site on the basis of a beam in the structure dating back to before the American Civil War. Once Jackie was elected, however, he did not put up a fight against the destruction of the store. After he was ousted by Ghost Hurt Bird, he was forced to work at Jockey's Market until the death of Jockey, at which point he inherited the market but was not legally able to change the name. He subsequently entered into a complex legal arrangement with Pinky Piglet Styron in order to secure a change to the name of the businesses but ended up in primarily a subservient role, often unpaid. In the meantime, Dunlap ended up in possession of another business called Jackie's Market, originally created in the likeness of the original but, under Dunlap's management, offered hand jobs in the back. Jackie originally refused to consider working there, but once Dunlap eliminated the hand jobs, Jackie put in the occasional hour there until the death of lawyer Styron, at which point Styron's daughter, Pinky Piglet Styron Jr., hired Jackie to be the public face of a Jackie's Market chain that now includes a lot of branch businesses, including Jackie's for Dogs, and owns Longhorn's Dance Parlor.